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Speaker 1: the straded beer of normalcy. All right, Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I was part of teams that were

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Speaker 1: had Nick Kasmer, who writes for The Athletic and covers

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Speaker 1: So you basically got four guys doing new jobs at

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Speaker 1: three five fifty one fifty two five fifty or on

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Speaker 1: those sentiments in terms of he's earned nothing, he's got

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Speaker 1: right mindset here. So it just seems like maybe you

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Speaker 1: know comment yeah that and then you know he had

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Speaker 1: a couple of tweaks here and there just being available

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Speaker 1: and but true pro uh when he was out there,

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Speaker 1: he played with great effort, great intensity. He loves the game,

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Speaker 1: you could see that, and highly decorated players. So um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just I wish he was out there

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Speaker 1: a little bit more for us, and I thought he

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Speaker 1: had a good day this past Saturday. Here is perhaps

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Speaker 1: part of the decision here, maybe what did you see?

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Speaker 1: How does she hears de Ponzis used to be making

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Speaker 1: the right decisions there? Well, I think you're probably looking

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Speaker 1: too far into some of these. I mean, if we

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Speaker 1: could keep everyone, we would. It's not things that they

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Speaker 1: didn't do or things that we've done all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's just numbers, right, So same with Tavon as it

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Speaker 1: was with Matt. It's it's numbers. What do you think

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Speaker 1: of cam Lewis and safety and the snaps that he

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Speaker 1: had here. Yeah, I thought he looked looked good for

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Speaker 1: a player that hadn't taken a lot of reps there

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Speaker 1: in training camp to this point. Will continue to look

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Speaker 1: at him at that position moving forward, and as well

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Speaker 1: as Corner and Nicols his job Holman, it was something

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Speaker 1: you guys were gonna look at closely. He's had a

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Speaker 1: lot of opportunities here in the first two preseason games.

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Speaker 1: Where where do you feel that he's at in his

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Speaker 1: development with that right um progressing? Um. He hadn't done

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Speaker 1: it much, if at all, in college, So it was

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Speaker 1: a it was a big question that we did have,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's gotten off to a good start.

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Speaker 1: The relationship he's built with with Tyler and Reid has

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Speaker 1: been impressive to this point, and but again much work

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Speaker 1: remains in that regard as well. In regards to that

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Speaker 1: work remaining, you know, the everybody knows he has the

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Speaker 1: big black and he showed that in the first preseason

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Speaker 1: game of the nuanced funds and the touch punds stop

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Speaker 1: by the goal line of hang time and those things

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Speaker 1: are all things that you wanted to see him work

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Speaker 1: on how is he developed in the practice setting, because

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen in two much in the three season

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Speaker 1: game and I was developed in the practice sat there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's I'd say he's you know, he's working.

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Speaker 1: He's a work in progress like we all are. J

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Speaker 1: It's you know, would have loved to have gotten him

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Speaker 1: some more work in that game Saturday. Um, Um didn't

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Speaker 1: work out that way. You know, he practices those situations.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's all. It's one thing to punt the

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Speaker 1: ball eighty some yards. It's another thing to can you

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Speaker 1: fine tune your game in those areas where it's got

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Speaker 1: to be polished the pooch punts, backed up situations. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, being in being being aware of certain type

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Speaker 1: of other situations that come up. As a punter. It's

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Speaker 1: not just punting the ball or punting it as far

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Speaker 1: as you can punt it. So all of that is

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Speaker 1: a work in progress, just like it is for our team.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned that certain player ranted and retardments of this week.

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Speaker 1: Uh not at this point, We're not quite there yet,

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Speaker 1: but he is improving. He's put a lot of work

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Speaker 1: in with our training staff, and uh, we'll continue to

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Speaker 1: take it one day at a time. Here, what do

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Speaker 1: you see more much like you're giving them, what are

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Speaker 1: you about? Well, he's athletic. Uh. You know when you

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Speaker 1: when you turn the film on, you see he's able

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Speaker 1: to bend. Um, you can block inline, he can you know,

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Speaker 1: flex out do some things as a as a receiver

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Speaker 1: as you saw this past weekend as well. Um, but

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Speaker 1: again I thought he blocked well at times. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know got the penalty there down in the red

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Speaker 1: zone before I think it was before half that that

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Speaker 1: costs us a little bit there. But um, he'll learn

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Speaker 1: from that. And um, you know he continues to come

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Speaker 1: every day and and and prepared to work and and

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Speaker 1: with a good attitude. You would coach Dorsey reached a

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Speaker 1: decision on his game day location or are you going

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Speaker 1: to push it to this final precis? Um, probably a

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Speaker 1: better question for him. I'm comfortable where he is. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think he's you know, I noticed again just experienced

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Speaker 1: from game one to game two, and I think he's comfortable.

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Speaker 1: But probably a better direct question for him at this

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Speaker 1: point as far as I as far as I go,

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Speaker 1: he can use another game that to come down if

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Speaker 1: he wants. But I think that's all what we do

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Speaker 1: in the preseason and getting him comfortable as possible there.

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Speaker 1: And well he's smart. Um, he's got a really good

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Speaker 1: head on his shoulders, just in terms of it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like any job is too small and yet no

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Speaker 1: job is too big at this point. And um, that's

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Speaker 1: that's not an easy challenge where he can play inside,

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Speaker 1: play outside, especially for a first year player in this system. Um,

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Speaker 1: and he's handled it well to this point. Injury updates

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Speaker 1: out of new injuries or guys possibly, Uh, tell me

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Speaker 1: who you have in mind and I'll give you Jay Yeah, Settle.

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Speaker 1: Um will be out there, um an individual a little

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Speaker 1: bit today, do some running more so, do some running

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Speaker 1: and then see if we can get him into individual

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Speaker 1: hoping to progress him through the week. Here. I don't know, Michael. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got some next soreness still um so UM he'll

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Speaker 1: be out there. Um, but we got to continue to

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Speaker 1: monitor it here. Awesome yeah, um right now it appears tomorrow. UM,

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Speaker 1: so we'll just take it one day at a time here. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think he's like most of our rookies. He's he

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Speaker 1: has some good plays and he's got some plays. Um

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Speaker 1: that he can learn from. And it's all that. It's

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Speaker 1: what you go through as a as a rookie, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes some of the the plays you want to learn

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Speaker 1: from outweigh the good ones and and that's okay. That's

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Speaker 1: if you're taking the right approach to it and you're

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Speaker 1: learning and you're growing. Um, you know that serves as

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Speaker 1: a great educator for him. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely think so.

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Speaker 1: Gosh is so, I apologize to being redund in uma

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Speaker 1: in terms of the amount of practice time that you

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Speaker 1: feel he wouldn't need coming off an injury like he

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Speaker 1: is to feel comfortable and on Bergham to actually returned

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Speaker 1: to game ash And do you have a gauge i'd

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Speaker 1: had that sort of a timeline that you'd be a

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Speaker 1: timeline in terms of number of practices practices, amount of

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Speaker 1: times practice he needs to get Yeah too, I mean

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Speaker 1: I have something in my mind, but it's it's a

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Speaker 1: little bit different maybe for every player, because each one

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Speaker 1: of them is different experience wise, and how quickly they

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Speaker 1: get them back themselves back up to speed. So I

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Speaker 1: won't go there, but you do need to practice to

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Speaker 1: get yourself ready to go and get yourself game ready.

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Speaker 1: All right, That's head coach Sean McDermott addressing the media

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Speaker 1: prior to practice to day, we'll get through his news

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Speaker 1: and notes on the other side of the break. We

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Speaker 1: are taking your phone calls eight oh three, oh five,

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

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Speaker 1: biggest takeaways from preseason game number two. I know there's

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Speaker 1: probably not a lot of gripes people are gonna have

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Speaker 1: with it, but we want to know anyway, so feel

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Speaker 1: free to fire them off or hit us up on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet at one Bill's Live. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: your thoughts next. We'll see in two minutes. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to one Bills Live. And we just heard comments

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Speaker 1: from coach McDermott, who, among other things, said that the

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Speaker 1: anticipation is Dawson Knox is scheduled to rejoin the team tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So coach said, we're not guaranteeing anything because they're gonna

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Speaker 1: let him take as much time as he needs. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: with the tragic passing of his younger brother last week,

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Speaker 1: he was with his family over the weekend, missed the

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Speaker 1: preseason game, but he is scheduled to return to the

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Speaker 1: team tomorrow. You might have heard me asked coach McDermott

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Speaker 1: about whether or not offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey has finalized

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Speaker 1: his game day localian for the regular season. For the

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Speaker 1: Blue and Red practice back here in the stadium, he

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Speaker 1: was calling plays up in the coaches booth. Preseason game

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Speaker 1: number one, calling plays up in the coaches booth, preseason

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Speaker 1: game number two, calling plays up in the coaches booth.

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Speaker 1: As you heard coach McDermott say he's comfortable with where

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Speaker 1: he wants to be on game day, it's it would

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Speaker 1: appear that he's probably going to be upstairs during the season.

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Speaker 1: He has spent most of his coaching career down on

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Speaker 1: the sideline, so it is a change. So I would

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Speaker 1: imagine Initially I was thinking, well, he's upstairs because he

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Speaker 1: wants to get a feel for that. He knows what

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Speaker 1: it's like to be downstairs, and wouldn't shock me if

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Speaker 1: he stays up there. Though, your vantage point is so different.

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Speaker 1: You're in a controlled atmosphere. You can lay everything out

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Speaker 1: in front of you. You know, you got a desk,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It just it seems like

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Speaker 1: a better working environment. Well, certainly you can. You've got

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Speaker 1: some room to spread out and have some things in

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Speaker 1: front of you to look at. But my thought was

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Speaker 1: always this coaches. The one thing I know about NFL coaches,

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Speaker 1: quality control coaches, all of those guys on the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: they watch an absolute absurd amount of film, absurd and

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Speaker 1: when they do that, they get the high view. So

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Speaker 1: when you watch so much film, it seems to me

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Speaker 1: it would be natural to see it like they do

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Speaker 1: from consistent consistent. He's looking at the exact same thing

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Speaker 1: he looks at all day every day reading up to

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Speaker 1: the game. They watch so much film, and you'll see

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Speaker 1: analysts get there too, where they see something on that

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Speaker 1: happen on the field, and it's just like watching on film.

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Speaker 1: You something catches you right and think, oh okay, here's

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Speaker 1: look at this, and they go back and they'll just

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Speaker 1: be able to tell you what happened on the play

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Speaker 1: from one run through live because they've seen it happen

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Speaker 1: on film so much so I think as a coordinator

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Speaker 1: they do so much of that film study they see

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Speaker 1: it again on the field, it's easy for them to say,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah and think ahead. When you're sitting on the sidelines, man,

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Speaker 1: you can't see the other side of the field. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can't see where the safety's lined exactly which hash

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Speaker 1: you know, you don't have a sense of the scale

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Speaker 1: of where their splits are and stuff like that. So

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Speaker 1: to me, it makes an awful lot of sense for

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Speaker 1: these coaches to be up in the box. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. And you know, maybe it's not

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Speaker 1: for everybody, but I always thought, logically speaking, that's what

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Speaker 1: them always being up there. Yeah, so it looks like

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Speaker 1: fast one on us and be down on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: on Friday and then decides, ah, you know what, I

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Speaker 1: like it better down here one more try or something. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But it's the way coach McDermot made it sound almost

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Speaker 1: almost as if the decisions somewhat of a foregone conclusion.

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Speaker 1: He's been up there every opportunity he's had for games

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Speaker 1: and game like practices, and now you know, with one

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Speaker 1: Coach Dorsey's court, so he'll let him make the decision.

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Speaker 1: But it's clear that coach mc germ. It's pretty comfortable

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Speaker 1: with how things have worked in each of the first

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Speaker 1: two preseason games with coach Dorsey upstairs. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to get to your thoughts on the tweet sheet? What

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Speaker 1: were your biggest takeaways from Saturday's preseason game against the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Nick

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Speaker 1: leads us off and he says, I don't know where

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Speaker 1: we're what we're going to do with running back. Every

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Speaker 1: back has played well enough to earn a roster spot,

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Speaker 1: but we can't keep them all. Since Moss is our

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Speaker 1: power option. It appears Johnson and black Sheer are the

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Speaker 1: odd men out, but I don't think they'll last on

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Speaker 1: the practice squad. Yeah, I mean I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: think while Raheem black Sheer certainly has some juice and

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Speaker 1: has caught the eyes of a lot of people, including myself,

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Speaker 1: I kind of see him as the new Antonio Williams.

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Speaker 1: Remember Antonio Williams was an undrafted prospect out of North

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Speaker 1: Carolina that the Bills had here for a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: He was on the practice squad, got an opportunity against

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins in that week seventeen game back in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: and scored a couple of touchdowns and everybody was all

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Speaker 1: excited about him. Couldn't crack the roster. Now, I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying black Shear can't, but with veterans or guys that

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Speaker 1: have been here and know the offense intimately ahead of him,

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Speaker 1: I think he's probably on the practice squad, probably Duke Johnson.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Do you keep that guy on the

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Speaker 1: practice squad? You have six veteran exemptions that you can

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Speaker 1: put on the sixteen man practice squad. He would obviously

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Speaker 1: be one of them since he's been in the league

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Speaker 1: for a while, so or do you just cut him

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Speaker 1: out right and say, hey, look, we want to give

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Speaker 1: you a chance to play somewhere else. I don't have

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Speaker 1: any names I can give you. I just have a feeling.

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Speaker 1: And from what we've seen in Bills uniforms and around

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Speaker 1: the National Football leagu every team has a Raheem Black year,

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Speaker 1: a running a young running back or a new running

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Speaker 1: back that's like hey, hey look at this guy, Hey,

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Speaker 1: hey what and there's just not a spot for him.

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Speaker 1: That's why the position has been devalued. Let alone the

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Speaker 1: fact that everybody throws it all over the yard and

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Speaker 1: teams don't hand it off like they did in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies nineteen eighties. Different They just don't need those guys.

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing with linebackers. The run game has

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00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: been devalued, so run stuffers don't exist. If you can't

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Speaker 1: play in space as a linebacker and run and cover,

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Speaker 1: you can't play. It used to be if you didn't

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Speaker 1: hit and wear those big square shoulder pads and you know,

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Speaker 1: flow and fill to the hole. You know, yeah, you couldn't.

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Speaker 1: You know that was what it needed. Now you got

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Speaker 1: Matt Malano playing out there at two twenty five, two thirty,

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Speaker 1: running all over the place, covering tight ends and the

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Speaker 1: running game. Okay, comes up and makes a tackle, but

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Speaker 1: they ain't gonna hand it off that much. So the

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Speaker 1: same way with Raheem Black. You're coming in flashing here

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Speaker 1: for Buffalo. There's a dozen other guys around the league

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Speaker 1: who flash for their team who probably aren't gonna make it.

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Speaker 1: I hate to say that, but that's why the league

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Speaker 1: is so good. It's hard to make a team. It's

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Speaker 1: really hard to get on a roster. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: you got to. You gotta hit a home run, man.

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Speaker 1: And while Blackshear has done that thing about the preseason

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Speaker 1: Christian Wade had two years ago. Every time he touched

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Speaker 1: the ball he was going with the distance. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: the spot for him. There was no spot for him.

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Speaker 1: So it's hard. And you know, Raheem Blackshar the bill.

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Speaker 1: He may make the bills and happy if he does,

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Speaker 1: bless his heart. But if he doesn't, don't expect him

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Speaker 1: to be snatched up right away by somebody else because

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Speaker 1: they got guys of their own that they're like, no,

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Speaker 1: I like this guy. Yeah. Nobody took Antonio Williams off

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Is practice squad until last year this or actually

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Speaker 1: this past offseason when the Giants scooped him up after

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Speaker 1: Joe Shane and Brian Dable had gone to New York.

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Speaker 1: That's the first time he got plucked off the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. Jack on the tweet sheet says,

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Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway is that the GM and coach have

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Speaker 1: their work cut out for him when it comes to

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Speaker 1: roster decisions. There are some really good players that they're

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Speaker 1: just simply isn't room for running back D line wide receiver, dB,

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Speaker 1: tight end. All have guys who can and will play

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Speaker 1: in the NFL in twenty two, just maybe not in

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Speaker 1: the seven, one six. You're right, Jack, there will be

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Speaker 1: guys on this roster today who will be playing on

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Speaker 1: NFL rosters elsewhere and getting on the field on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: It's going to happen because the roster is extraordinarily deep.

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Speaker 1: Whether you talk to local reporters or national reporters, they

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Speaker 1: all say the same thing. The bill's rosters stacked, and

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Speaker 1: it's like two and three deep in some places. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing too, and I'll say, this is something and

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Speaker 1: this is just a side effect of what we're talking

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Speaker 1: about when you get into this and just to give

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Speaker 1: an inner into the mind of how players think and

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Speaker 1: their agents and stuff happening. It's really critical for guys. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's say raheem blackshear he needs to go to a club,

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Speaker 1: and certainly if you only have one offer, hey take it.

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Speaker 1: But some of these guys, some guys are particularly in

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Speaker 1: free agency where you got two different teams vying for

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Speaker 1: your services. It's the only information you want to know

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Speaker 1: is this, do I fit this system? Better than I

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Speaker 1: fit that system? Is this am I? Am I an

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker going to a four three team? Or am

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Speaker 1: I or am I? You know a pass rushing edge

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Speaker 1: guy on a four to three who you know they

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Speaker 1: want to stand up like the Miami Dolphins did with

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Speaker 1: that kid Jalen Phillips last year. Yeah, I mean what

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Speaker 1: would they do? You know, stuff like that where you

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Speaker 1: get a guy who, yeah, I'll take the deal, and

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Speaker 1: then you go in there and he's You're like, still

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Speaker 1: a running back, but now you're playing what amounts to

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Speaker 1: a completely different position even though you're labeled to say thing.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see. And that's always

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Speaker 1: the challenge because when you get cut from an NFL team,

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Speaker 1: you really feel some desperation. You're unemployed, you want to

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Speaker 1: take a job. But if you have just a little

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Speaker 1: patience and you pick the right spot, some of these

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Speaker 1: guys will have better careers than others just because they fit.

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't always go that this running back, you're

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Speaker 1: running back, that's good for you. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: good over here. It just doesn't work that way. Break

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Speaker 1: time for us here when we come back. More of

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the tweet sheet, and remember here on

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Speaker 1: Mondays after these preseason games, we have senior producer from

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Speaker 1: NFL Films, Greg Cosell, joining us in the second hour

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Speaker 1: to break down the game film, so be sure to

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Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. But more of your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: know it. We got to get back to the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet to get more of your thoughts on your main

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Speaker 1: takeaways from Saturday's preseason contest against the Denver Broncos, which

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Speaker 1: was well, for a while, you were wondering just how

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Speaker 1: bad it was gonna get. Denver was only able to

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Speaker 1: kick field goals until the late going, and it was

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Speaker 1: a runaway from the jump TJ. On the tweet cheats,

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Speaker 1: Steve says, Shakir must be the wide receiver who comes

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Speaker 1: in to give a breather to either Digs, Davis and Mackenzie.

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Speaker 1: He needs to get snaps. He is the yards after

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Speaker 1: catch daddy we've been dreaming of, and Josh will showcase him.

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Speaker 1: Get ready for four star wide receivers to go off

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Speaker 1: on the same team this year. What do you think

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Speaker 1: is a realistic projection for Shakier? I was thinking he's

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Speaker 1: probably going to be what Gabe Davis was his rookie

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Speaker 1: Here is that is that seemed to be on track

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Speaker 1: to happen. That's what I would He's not unseating the

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Speaker 1: top three guys. I don't think no, I would say.

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Speaker 1: I would say Gabe Davis's numbers from his rookie season

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Speaker 1: thirty five catches, seven touchdown, seventy with any remember he

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Speaker 1: had three called back or he had four hundred something

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Speaker 1: yards that's that's Shakir, right, that's his numbers. And as TJ.

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Speaker 1: You know, as much as I want t J to

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Speaker 1: be right that they'll have four star receivers going off

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Speaker 1: we can't forget that Dawson Knox is in this passing offense. Also,

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Speaker 1: guy had nine touchdowns last year in almost fifty catches. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's easy enough to say all this stuff too,

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Speaker 1: but the simple fact of the matter is too, Ken

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Speaker 1: Dorsey's going to be the offensive coordinator, not Brian day

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Speaker 1: Ball as well, So that Mayskew. You know, it may

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Speaker 1: mean that Dawson Knox gets more targets, or the running

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Speaker 1: backs to get more targets, all of that stuff, you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it's it's hard to say,

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Speaker 1: but you know, all things being equal, that's exactly the

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Speaker 1: role that I think you and I could easily see

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Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir fill in for this. Bill's saying just Gabe

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Speaker 1: Davis's role two years ago. Gary on the tweet sheet says,

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Speaker 1: I know it is only preseason and Denver didn't play starters.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo having only three third downs the whole game is

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Speaker 1: an amazing stat. It is an amazing stat. Especially when

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Speaker 1: you consider, as I pointed out at the top of

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Speaker 1: the show, Steve Bills roll up five hundred and ten

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Speaker 1: yards of total net yards and they only have five

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Speaker 1: plays of twenty yards or more. It's not like they

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Speaker 1: had some eighty five yard play, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: Like you have some play that gobbles up a ton

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Speaker 1: of yard and somebody falls down, the guy runs sixty

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Speaker 1: something yards. They have five plays at twenty yards or more.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was ten to twenty yards. They were chunking

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Speaker 1: them to death. They absolutely beat the stew out of

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. They manhandled them top to bottom. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you'd think about if if you know, you can always

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Speaker 1: say if this, and if that and all that, if

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Speaker 1: Josh plays the whole game, he's gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: more plays like the one to Gabe Davis for the touchdown,

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Speaker 1: and they got probably a fifty spot or more on

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Speaker 1: the board. Oh oh kit, Yeah, well they only punted

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Speaker 1: once anyway, so and scored forty two right, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I get it. And that's the way it was.

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Speaker 1: That's that was the Broncos way of playing in the preseason.

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Speaker 1: Put those guys put their twos and threes out there

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Speaker 1: and let them get their heads caved in? Fine, you

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Speaker 1: think that was a fun day for Russ Wilson and

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Speaker 1: Judy and those guys they want. It's no fun to

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Speaker 1: be on a team like that. Yeah, people pooh pooh that.

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Speaker 1: I that's a bad flight home. There's no slice in that.

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Speaker 1: Like God, it didn't matter right hey if it matters, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because they going it's setting our culture enough. Our culture stinks.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be good enough? Yeah? It's like one

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Speaker 1: of those if anybody gets hurt, we're gonna have that

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Speaker 1: guy on the field, or we just got our head

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Speaker 1: caved in. We got crushed. We got crushed by case

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Speaker 1: Keenum and Matt Barkley. Case Keenan was sixteen eighteen for

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Speaker 1: one hundred ninety two yards and a touchdown. The three

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks were twenty six of twenty nine. They took the Bills,

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Speaker 1: took play Josh for one series, and they started subbing

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Speaker 1: people out, I mean and Steve. They did that. They

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Speaker 1: didn't even try to stretch the field. The longest pass

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Speaker 1: play was the touchdown to Davis for twenty eight yards.

851
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: Broncos are gonna be horrible. They're gonna be putting that

852
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: on the whiteboard. I might drive Yes, I might write

853
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: that on the white whiteboard. I might stand by that.

854
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: By horrible, we gotta what's an over under for a

855
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: horrible team? Five and twelve? That's horrible. Yeah, I don't

856
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: know if they'll be that bad. I think they could

857
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: win seven or any games. Oh, I think the over

858
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: unders five and a half. Wow, that bad. Listen. I

859
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: like Russ, but that that philosophy they got over there

860
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Whatever, who's calling shots over there, Nathaniel Haggett.

861
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: You can pooh poo it as preseason stuff. You don't.

862
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: You don't change your culture by getting your head caped

863
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: in forty two to whatever it was fifteen and scoring

864
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: the last touchdown. That's not changing the culture, at least

865
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: not in the right way. Yeah, you think they're gonna

866
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: You think that there is no gear big enough to

867
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: switch that game around. No, there's no gear that Broncos

868
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: have that can make it forty two fifteen. I don't

869
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 1: care Russ Wilson, Johnny U, Ninus, Earl Campbell, Bante Willie,

870
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: you can name John Elway. You can go down an.

871
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: I don't care who it is. There ain't no gear

872
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: you can shift if you're the Denver Broncos to go

873
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,439
Speaker 1: from fifteen up to forty two where the Bills were. Yeah,

874
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: there isn't one, so you can say what you want

875
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: right now. You hope that the Broncos get out of

876
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: the West and come to the playoffs because you're gonna

877
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: you'll kick him again. Yeah, they're not good enough. They

878
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: are could get better as the season goes on, but

879
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: I'm not terribly optimistic. Not with a brand new head coach,

880
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: brand new OC, brand new defensive coordinator who've never done

881
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: it before at the NFL level. It's gonna be some

882
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: growing pains there for sure. We have to step aside here.

883
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: When we come back, though, we're gonna be joined by

884
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: the Man, the Myth, the Legend. Senior producer from NFL Films,

885
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: Greg co Sell, who has broke down the film from

886
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: Saturday's preseason game. What did he think about some of

887
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: the players on Buffalo's roster. We'll find out next. You're

888
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Colloid to Health. It's

889
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve tester who has been

890
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: all over the field. Kind of unique. He was kind

891
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

892
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: We're not even in the stratoire of normalcy. Our number

893
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: two breaking things down here on a Monday after Bill's

894
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: preseason game number two. And who else better to help

895
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: us out with dad than the senior producer from NFL Films.

896
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: You also see him on the ESPN NFL Matchup show

897
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: during the regular season. It is our good Frank, Greg Hostale.

898
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: Are we doing, Greg Brownie? What's happening? I guess you

899
00:50:54,000 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: got a big quarterback controversy now, huh after Case Kingdom's performance. Yeah, amazingly, No,

900
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: it's gone somewhat under the radar. Yeah, but uh, well,

901
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,359
Speaker 1: you know, I think we should discuss that. I think

902
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: we should make some news here. What do you think?

903
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was pretty happy with that, I

904
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: will say I will say this, Greg Um, that game

905
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: for a while was looking awfully, awfully similar to the

906
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: to the postseason game against the Patriots. No punting, touchdowns

907
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: every time they touched the ball, And the most amazing

908
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: thing to me was you look at the end of

909
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 1: the game, Greg, they only had five plays of twenty

910
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,760
Speaker 1: yards or more and they still had over five hundred

911
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: total net yards and three total third downs. That's what's

912
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: truly remarkable. But uh no, it was. It was a

913
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Look. The point is that preseason, you obviously

914
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: would rather see good execution than poor execution. It doesn't

915
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,240
Speaker 1: matter who you're playing against. You'd rather see the players

916
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,760
Speaker 1: execute what they're being taught and coached every day in practice.

917
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: You know this, Steve, I mean, that's what you want

918
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 1: to have happened. No one is suggesting that this performance

919
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: means that they're in the Super Bowl, um, although they

920
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: clearly are a Super Bowl type contender with the talent

921
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: on the roster and the quality of the quarterback. M

922
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,439
Speaker 1: Speaking of which they're gonna have, I think you guys

923
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,319
Speaker 1: are there. I'm not there, but I think they're gonna

924
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: have some tough cuts to make it at certain positions.

925
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: They got a lot of talent on this roster at

926
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: certain positions like what name them D line, Right, Yeah,

927
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: there's a there's a couple of guys that's gonna it's

928
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to get rid of. I mean, if

929
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: the most they could probably keep would be what nine,

930
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: maybe even if they pushed it to ten with a

931
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: practice squad guy on as a tenth Well, the thing

932
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: is too is, as you know Steve way better than

933
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, you want you want guys to

934
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: be able to play special teams if they're going to

935
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: be bottom and players on your roster, and usually d

936
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: lineman don't. I mean, I guess, I guess ends can know,

937
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: but you know, usually three hundred pound tackles, defensive tackles

938
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: don't play special teams. Yeah. The way they've worked around

939
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: that to still carry a large number of defensive linemen

940
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: is they play nickels so much that they'll sometimes go

941
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: a little lighter at linebacker with the fifty three, and

942
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: that affords them the opportunity to take an extra defensive

943
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: lineman for example. Now I would I would argue, and

944
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: again I'm not there, so take it for it. Maybe

945
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: I'm totally off base, but I would say offensive line,

946
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: there'll be some tough cuts as well. After you get

947
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 1: through the who are basically the starters. Oh, absolutely, Yeah,

948
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: We've talked about that a lot. I mean, it's gonna

949
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: be you get through you know, Dawkins, Saffled Morse Bates,

950
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, and Dan Kessonberry they're six and then yeah,

951
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: so and those are the first probably the first sixth end.

952
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: Then you've got two or three guys like Cody Ford

953
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 1: is still hanging in there. Greg Mans has been a

954
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: really good guard guy. Alex you know who's been good

955
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: as Alec Anderson, the rookie free agent guard out of UCLA.

956
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: He's played really well. Um, yeah, it's and you want

957
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: you want guys at that point who can play multiple positions.

958
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's the key because you know, look,

959
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: you don't know how the season is going to play out,

960
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: but you know you want guys who can play guard

961
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: and center. You know, the one guy who can do that.

962
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: They generally look for guys that offer a position flex.

963
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: But let's get te keenum Greg. Because this was a

964
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: bounce back performance. Even coach McDermott referenced it afterwards that

965
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: case was locked in after a subpart performance in preseason

966
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: game one, and he got a series with the Ones

967
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 1: after Josh visited and really kind of button things up

968
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: as far as his personal game was concerned. Yeah, and

969
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: they came out and they helped him with his first

970
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,720
Speaker 1: two throws, which came on what I call conventional play action,

971
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: meaning he was under center. And you know that that

972
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: helps to find the reads and the throws. Um. I

973
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: guess the second one was a really it was a

974
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: great route by Stefan Diggs and a really good ball

975
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: by Keenum. Um. But no, he was comfortable right away.

976
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: People may forget that he's had success in this league

977
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,919
Speaker 1: as a starter. You know, obviously we know what Case

978
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: Keenum is. Everybody in the league, does you know, everybody

979
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 1: knows he's not the guy you want to be your

980
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: seventeen game starter. But if you had to line up

981
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: with Case Keenum, he certainly can do that. I mean,

982
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: he got to an NFC championship game, wasn't that long ago,

983
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: So he can play quarterback in this league. And he

984
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,919
Speaker 1: was really sharp. I saw it. I thought he saw

985
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: things really clearly. Obviously does not have a big gun

986
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: um and and it's funny when you saw him throw

987
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 1: the ball right after Josh, It's like, wow, what a difference.

988
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 1: But but Alan may have the strongest, pure purely strongest

989
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: arm in the league. But you know, I think, to me,

990
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that stood out offensively and I don't

991
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: know how you guys fell, but I thought the run

992
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: game really stood out to me. Well I did too,

993
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: except that they were running against you know, the junior

994
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: varsity at best, no question, And they were supposed to.

995
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: If they're going to play their starters and do that,

996
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 1: they're supposed to dominate a team like that. Yeah, but

997
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: it continued out with the second team and thirteen that's

998
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: exactly right. I mean, even down into the deep end

999
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: of the offensive line rotation for the Bills, they were

1000
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: still pushing the Broncos all over the football field. But

1001
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 1: here's what I will say to that. I would say

1002
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: that one of the things that definitely stood out though

1003
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: was how much they ran with the quarterback under center. Now,

1004
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, obviously, Josh only played the first series,

1005
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: so we don't know what's going to happen. Obviously, the

1006
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 1: third play of the game was outside zone with Alan

1007
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: under center. I think this is where Roger Staffold is

1008
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: a big, big factor because Roger Staffold has a ton

1009
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: of experience guys, as you know, as a zone run blocker.

1010
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: He did that with the Titans, he did that with

1011
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: the Rams, and I think that that pickup is a

1012
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,439
Speaker 1: really good one if they'd like to run the ball

1013
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: a little more. And I'm talking about a conventional run game.

1014
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 1: I mean, we know Josh Allen in critical situations, they're

1015
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: still going to ask him to run if it's third

1016
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 1: and three. We know all that, but at some point,

1017
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: and we saw this towards the end of last season,

1018
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: you do need to line up and run the ball conventionally.

1019
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's the way it goes in this league.

1020
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 1: You can't as great as Josh it is and with

1021
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: the weapons that they have on the outside, and I

1022
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: want to get to Shakier again because he's one of

1023
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: my favorites, but you know, you still have to line

1024
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: up and run the ball. And you know, look last year,

1025
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: the games they won, they won by big margins, but

1026
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: they also lost close games and you need it. There

1027
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,439
Speaker 1: are times in games, and I think Steve you would

1028
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: agree with this, even from the days of the K

1029
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: Gun where you were so explosive offensively, there are kind

1030
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: of times where you just need to reset your offense

1031
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: and get some continuity and stability. And that happens more

1032
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: with the run game than throwing it all over the yard. Right.

1033
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: It also gives you a chance the Bills to close

1034
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: out some games or get to halftime or get out

1035
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: of a series, and to having the ability to get

1036
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: a grind out a first down also makes it possible

1037
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: sometimes that you don't and it sounds crazy. And we

1038
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: did this with a k gun as well, and I've

1039
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: seen it happen with the Bills. Even if you don't score,

1040
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: you get down, get a three, get a three point

1041
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: field goal or whatever, or he miss a field goal.

1042
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: The defense is back out there after four plays because

1043
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: you're you're carving this other defense up. And unless you

1044
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: keep scoring like they did against the New England Patriots,

1045
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: your defense starts to wear out and it starts to

1046
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: give life to the other offense just for the sheer

1047
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: fact that they're out there so much. Yeah, you don't

1048
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: want your defense playing seventy five snaps a game, right,

1049
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: You just don't, No matter how good your offense is,

1050
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: you just don't want that to be the case every week.

1051
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:53,439
Speaker 1: All right. So let's get to shakier now. He said

1052
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: he's quickly becoming one of your favorites. Do you like

1053
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: him better than your favorite George Pickens about two months ago,

1054
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: as he has unseated him yet? Her? No, no, No,

1055
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: they're they're different, Brownie, they're different. Um, But Shaquira, you know, look,

1056
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: we talked about him. I think briefly last week as well.

1057
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: I really liked his tape coming out. I'm not the

1058
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 1: least bit surprised that he's performed well. You know, I

1059
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: don't know what he's been doing every day in camp obviously,

1060
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: but you know, in the games, it's evident that this

1061
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: guy has a feel. He knows how to get open.

1062
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: He's very smooth, he's very comfortable. I mean when he

1063
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 1: caught that first ball, which was not that when we're

1064
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: looking at but he caught a twenty two yard or

1065
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: and uh, it's actually on a seven stop. It might

1066
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: be this one we're looking at right now. Yeah, well,

1067
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: see to me, something very subtle and Steve, you'll appreciate this.

1068
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: Just his run after catch there. It wasn't a long run,

1069
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't a thirty yard run. But he's

1070
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: just smooth. He's an easy mover. He has an awareness,

1071
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: a savvy to him, a feel. I'm really curious how this.

1072
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: You know, we know that you have Diggs, one of

1073
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: the best in the league, Davis who could join that category.

1074
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: You know, with continued growth, we know that McKenzie is

1075
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: going to get meaningful snaps. They brought in Crowder. I

1076
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: think Shakier is going to find a place in this

1077
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: receiving corps, and I think he's one of those guys

1078
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: that they're going to have to find snaps for. What

1079
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: about the Bill's defense, We've talked a lot about how

1080
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,479
Speaker 1: they've upgraded and rotated the guys up front that We've

1081
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: been talking a lot about how many safeties they may keep,

1082
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:35,479
Speaker 1: whether it's five or six. Cam Lewis has been taking

1083
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: snaps at safety so he can play Nickel outside corner

1084
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: and safety, so that gives him some flexibility to maybe

1085
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: to sneak another roster spot at another position, linebacker. They're

1086
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: getting a lot of good play from Specter and Bernard,

1087
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: also from Edmonds and Milano. Of course, you know, just

1088
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on how the defense is coming

1089
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: together and who's stood out to you particularly out of

1090
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: the young guys. Well, I'll tell you a kid who

1091
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: always shows up on film always, And obviously he's not

1092
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: going to be a starter because they have too the

1093
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: best safeties in the league. But I think Johnson always

1094
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: shows up on film despite his lack of desire and

1095
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: ideal size. He's aggressive, he's competitive as a box player.

1096
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: He did miss one tackle this week, but that's rare

1097
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: for him. I think he's savvy on the back end.

1098
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: We talked about that last week with the interception. He

1099
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: shows up, you know, don't you guys agree? I mean, again,

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01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: you're there, but I think this kid shows up all

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01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: the time on film. He just you know, you hate

1102
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 1: to be cliched, but you know, you guys will know

1103
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: what I mean. He just looks like a football player,

1104
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: you know, he just he's aware of everything that's going on. Yeah,

1105
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: big time. We both agree with you, and I think

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01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: it's really been a juggling act and I think we

1107
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: spoke to Brandon Bean about it in our production being

1108
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: last week. They the Bills have made a concerted effort

1109
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: to keep him happy while he's not starting, because they

1110
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: know he would love to get on the field, and

1111
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: they've done some things with his contract to make sure

1112
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: he's happy because they don't want to lose him. And

1113
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: that's a great you know, I'm really happy to hear that,

1114
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: because you never know how a season is going to

1115
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: play out. You know, no one wants to see any injuries. No, obviously,

1116
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: but that's the nature of the game. And if either

1117
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: Payer or Hide had to miss some time, you know,

1118
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: just me, and it sounds like the Bills brass feels

1119
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 1: the same way. I sense that they'd be pretty comfortable

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01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: putting Johnson out there, you know. And I think he

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01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: can play both on the back end and he could

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01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: play in the In other words, he could do he

1123
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: could do at least tactically what Payer and Hide can do,

1124
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,919
Speaker 1: even though he's obviously not quite at that level, because

1125
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: there are two of the best. But you don't have

1126
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 1: to change your defense if you had to put Johnson

1127
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 1: out there. The Bills pass rush didn't get a ton

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01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: of sacks in this game. The first one came with

1129
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: like the last few minutes of the game, and it

1130
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: was Elianku doing it. But some of the guys that

1131
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: got in early were moving Josh Johnson off this spot

1132
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: with some measure of consistency, hands in his face, etc.

1133
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: And Leslie Frasier is happy with that. He said, it

1134
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: is not all about SAX. If you're moving guys off

1135
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: the spot and hurry and throws, he's pretty happy. It

1136
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: looked like Shack Lawson and aj Epinessa where the guy's

1137
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: doing that early. Yeah, And I think I agree with Leslie.

1138
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: I think it's about speeding up the quarterback and disrupting

1139
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: the timing of the past game. You know that that's critical.

1140
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Dick Lebou years ago and he said,

1141
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: look sas they come and they go, but you want

1142
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: to make sure you get the quarterback to play fast.

1143
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's probably what you're talking about here.

1144
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: Epinessa is he looks quicker to me, certainly quicker than

1145
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: when he came into the league. He's probably still more

1146
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: of a speed to power guy. He's got strong hands,

1147
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: he knows how to use them, he knows how to

1148
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: playoff contact. But he certainly has gotten quicker with a

1149
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: change of direction and his short area burst. And I'm

1150
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: real curious to see his season, you know, Lawson, to me,

1151
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: I would say he's never really been a true edge

1152
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 1: pass rusher. I think he's at his best as a

1153
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: strong side run defender. He's got really good point of

1154
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 1: attack strength, he uses his hands really well. This is

1155
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 1: not to say he can never rush the quarterback, but

1156
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that the strength of his game

1157
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: is as an edge pass rusher. But I think those

1158
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: kinds of players are players you need on your defensive line.

1159
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: What are some of the other defensive line qualities you've seen,

1160
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: because there's some guy like Daquan Jones, shack of course,

1161
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: Joan Phillips back in the fold, Tim Settle, although he

1162
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: didn't play this last week. They are really deep. Steve

1163
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: at D tackle. I mean that's another people. You know,

1164
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: we were talking about their D line. I mean Jones

1165
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: started obviously with Oliver. I don't know if you know,

1166
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: if that's we know Oliver as a staughter, you know,

1167
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: does it to pure? Jones would be the starter when

1168
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: the season starts, next to Oliver because Jones is a good,

1169
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: solid pro. I mean he's certainly, look, Oliver is a

1170
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 1: through three technique with that with that gap ability, that

1171
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: one gap ability, So Jones would be more of the

1172
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: one technique the nose kind of player. But no team

1173
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: lines up, you know, in the same front on every snap. Obviously,

1174
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: Um Jones has always been a really solid player. And

1175
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 1: then you got Phillips, and I know I'm missing someone

1176
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: who's Tim Settle. What's at Tim Settle? Yeah, he was

1177
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: phenomenal last week. And I remember when he got drafted.

1178
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 1: I knew some coaches on the staff at Washington and

1179
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: they said that if he, you know, could keep his

1180
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 1: weight down and stay in shave that he had dominant traits.

1181
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 1: So you know, they've got four guys right there that

1182
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: you can feel really good about lining up and playing with.

1183
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 1: And you know, this is a really deep group, and

1184
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: you really want to have that in this league with

1185
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 1: so many teams throwing the ball out of the gun.

1186
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: Team's going more up tempo and and you know that

1187
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So you know, you want to be

1188
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: in a position. It's hard for three hundred pound guys

1189
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 1: to play seventy five snaps a game. That's just are ye. Now.

1190
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: Obviously Oliver is not three hundred pounds, but most d

1191
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: tackles are closer to that, and it's just hard for

1192
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: them to play seventy snaps a game. So you need

1193
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: that kind of rotational strength. Yeah, and it looks like

1194
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: they'll have it. The last one for me, this guy

1195
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: has been somewhat of an enigma through training camp for them.

1196
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 1: Flashed on Saturday. Oj Howard, Yeah, has been trying to

1197
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: acclimate himself to this system. Finally flashed and made a play,

1198
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: you know, in the end zone on one of the drives.

1199
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Speaker 1: But what did you see from him? Overall on tape

1200
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: besides just the touchdown. Well, again, you know, we know

1201
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: that Knox is a really good receiver and a really

1202
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 1: good athlete, and he can detach from the formation, and

1203
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: we you know, we know that. So the question becomes,

1204
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: what are they looking for as a second tight end?

1205
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: Because Howard obviously caught the touchdown, but I really took

1206
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 1: a close look at him at his snaps. He had

1207
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 1: some really good one on one blocks versus defensive ends.

1208
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: In the run game. Was a six yard run by

1209
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: Cook that I took note of. There was an eleven

1210
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: yard run by Moss that I also made note of.

1211
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: Howard's always been a really solid inline blocker, and he

1212
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 1: was a really athletic guy. I know he's had some

1213
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: lower body injuries, so I'm not sure where he stands

1214
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 1: in that regard. But when he came out of Alabama,

1215
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: people spoke about his his his intermediate vertical route running ability. Now,

1216
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: Knox is not a great inline blocker. That's not the

1217
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: strength of his game, and obviously the Bills are not

1218
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:32,959
Speaker 1: necessarily they haven't been you know, one of those teams

1219
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 1: that lines up with tight formations and says, here we come,

1220
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: We're going to run the ball, so you know he's

1221
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: battling against Sweeney, I would assume, right, is it is

1222
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 1: for the number two spot? Yeah, yeah, Quintin Morris is

1223
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 1: actually got a lot of snaps this week. Yeah, and

1224
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: he has played well during training. Can we were out

1225
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: he one handed one in the back of the end

1226
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: zone this morning, did Quintin Morris? I mean he's a

1227
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: converted receiver for I know he's and he's a smaller,

1228
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: he's a receiver. You're right, yeah, he is. He has

1229
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 1: been one of those guys and true to the Bill's

1230
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: culture over here, he's gotten better and better and better

1231
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: and better. So we'll see if his better is now

1232
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: good enough to get sure you saw it on tape too, Greg.

1233
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 1: They moved him around a little bit. He was almost

1234
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: serving in a similar role in which they utilize Reggie Gilliam.

1235
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 1: They were lining them up in the backfield a little bit,

1236
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: pretty snap and moving them around. So those kinds of guys,

1237
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 1: as you know, Brownie, Then it comes down to how

1238
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 1: they see them in the context of their offense. You know,

1239
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:34,479
Speaker 1: they might like Howard, but if they decide that that position,

1240
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: you know, the movement like that is more valuable than

1241
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 1: sometimes that that's the way it works with given teams.

1242
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: But I was impressed with Howard's run blocking ability this week.

1243
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 1: I thought that stood out. Greg things. It's always great

1244
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: talking to you. It's the first chance I've had to

1245
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:53,240
Speaker 1: get now in your new stand. I've been gone and off,

1246
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: and I'm it's nice to see him. I know you

1247
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: had to golf tourn him at last week. I know, Well,

1248
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, first things first obviously, so good. Good to

1249
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:02,800
Speaker 1: have you back. How was your off season? I didn't

1250
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: get a chance. Did you do anything fun? Well, no,

1251
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 1: because we moved, so what we didn't go anywhere? So

1252
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: you know, I was telling Brownie that basically what I did, Steve,

1253
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 1: and I know you'll crack up with this is I

1254
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,640
Speaker 1: basically came into work during my vacation and just like

1255
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,160
Speaker 1: leisurely watched tape all summer and ran through a whole

1256
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, NFL stuff, college stuff. So but yeah,

1257
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: you already normal little nuts when it comes to that. Yeah,

1258
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: you use your vacation do certified here for sure. Yeah,

1259
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 1: that's why we love you. So we'll catch up with

1260
01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 1: you next week. Thanks for joining us, Greg, We'll see

1261
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: you soon. Thanks Greg. All right, guys, appreciate it. Thanks

1262
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: all right. That senior producer from NFL Films, Great co Sell,

1263
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,679
Speaker 1: breaking down some of the game tape from Saturday's game

1264
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: with us, And yeah, I mean O. J. Howard is

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01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 1: is going to be a very interesting case here as

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Speaker 1: far as the Bills decision makers are concerned. And I

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Speaker 1: thought Greg pointed out a very a stew point there

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Speaker 1: at the very end, because as we've seen, Quinn Morris

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Speaker 1: has been used more in the backfield in a role

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Speaker 1: similar to Reggie Gilliam. You know, when they go eye

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Speaker 1: formation or they're down in the red zone and they're

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Speaker 1: going heavy because they ran like twenty three personnel a

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Speaker 1: couple of times down on the goal line and there's

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Speaker 1: Quinn Morris in the backfield. I mean they used OJ

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Speaker 1: Howard also, but OJ is more of an inline, true

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Speaker 1: why tight end, and I think Quinn Morris may offer

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Speaker 1: you a little bit more versatility. So does that tip

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Speaker 1: the scales in his favor as opposed to Howard Or

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Speaker 1: is Howard's blocking in the run game so good that

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Speaker 1: you say, hey, he might not be as versatile as Morris,

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Speaker 1: but he is dominant here and we need him on

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Speaker 1: the field. That's the decisions they're going through, right, And

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Speaker 1: it comes down to Ken Dorsey saying, how often are

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Speaker 1: we gonna need to power run and have that be

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Speaker 1: like so crucial to our game plan? Maybe? And it's

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Speaker 1: all important at some point, right, I mean, all of

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Speaker 1: these things we're talking about are crucial at some point.

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Speaker 1: But how often are you gonna need to line up

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Speaker 1: and run, you know, a four minute drill to get

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Speaker 1: out of the game and dominate? And if you do

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Speaker 1: run a four minute drill, do you really need Oj

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Speaker 1: Howard in there? Can you put into offensive tackle or

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Speaker 1: or somebody else? Or or will Quintin Morris be good

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Speaker 1: enough to get you out of a game on the

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Speaker 1: four minute drill? And in the meantime, is Oj good

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Speaker 1: enough in the passing game still to overshadow Quintin Morris.

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Speaker 1: Quentin Morris has played really well in that respect. And

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Speaker 1: it'll be what they what do they want their offense

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Speaker 1: to look like, who's gonna get used the most and

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Speaker 1: be the most effective? And plus they don't want to

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Speaker 1: get predictable either. It's a real question mark because there's

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Speaker 1: so much we don't know about how good Quinton Morris

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Speaker 1: is in the run game. How good OJ Howard has

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Speaker 1: been in the passing game, certainly cut the touchdown pass

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Speaker 1: this last weekend. But he's right. It comes down to

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01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:56,639
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey and Sean McDermott and Tom and Joe Brady

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01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: sitting down and saying, you know, here's here's what we

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Speaker 1: get out of these guys, and I think this combination

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Speaker 1: gives us the most. And whether OJ Howard's a part

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Speaker 1: of that, or Quentin Morse is a part of that,

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Speaker 1: or neither one of them are, or it involves somebody else,

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01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: they got to figure that out. And it's not unlike

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Speaker 1: the other situation at Corner and Safety where you have

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Speaker 1: Nick McLeod who's been playing two positions, but now all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden in the eleventh hour you've got Cam

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Speaker 1: Lewis doing the same thing. Are both of those guys

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Speaker 1: on the roster? Probably not. So what's your flavor there?

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Speaker 1: Unless you put both those guys on the roster and

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Speaker 1: then release two other dbs that you that are singular

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Speaker 1: positions that are specialized, That's that's tough, man. That's a

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Speaker 1: hard call, a lot of tough decisions for the front

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Speaker 1: office to make when they have to get the roster

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Speaker 1: down to fifty three a week from tomorrow. We have

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Speaker 1: to take a break here. When we come back, more

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Speaker 1: of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and maybe a

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Speaker 1: little NFL true false. We'll take a break here and

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Speaker 1: be back with more on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Callid of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back,

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Speaker 1: one Build. Why does the show Chris Round Steve task

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Speaker 1: with you. Practice is over out on the practice field

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Speaker 1: and addressing the media now post practice is quarterback Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: Let's go there. Now where you're app right now is

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Speaker 1: offense and what well we're playing football and Buffalo Heck, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy. But in terms of that, we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of work to do. Um just still learning. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: this last preseason game giving us a glimpse of what

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Speaker 1: we can do on a football field, and regardless of

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Speaker 1: who you're playing, if you look at, you know, statistically,

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Speaker 1: what we did, you know it was a good day

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Speaker 1: for us. UM. So in order to keep moving on,

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01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 1: we got to build on that, learn from our mistakes

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Speaker 1: and just try to apply to the practice field and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully it works out in lives up as well.

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Speaker 1: Comfortable to you, would you say you are now? I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously you've known n for a long time, but with

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Speaker 1: him in this new role, I mean, that's that's a

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Speaker 1: big storyline going into the season. It's just what he's

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Speaker 1: going to bring to this offense, how he's gonna put

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Speaker 1: a stamp on it. Just where do you assess things

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Speaker 1: as the preseason here is almost over. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: doing a really good job. You know, his call sheet,

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Speaker 1: you know, how he's talking to us before games and

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Speaker 1: in preparation for games, making sure that you know the

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Speaker 1: call sheet that he has for whatever quarterback is out

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Speaker 1: there is the plays that we are comfortable with. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I really appreciate how he's doing that, and I

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Speaker 1: know Case and Matt appreciate it the same way. UM.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of just operation, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the game, we were getting getting plays in

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Speaker 1: really quickly in order to are unable to go to

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and make checks and make different calls. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, And I think that's sometimes a growing pain

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Speaker 1: that some offensive coordinators don't don't see. And obviously you've

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Speaker 1: only been around now too, um, But that that play

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Speaker 1: clock once it gets to fifteen, all community Haitians shut off.

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Speaker 1: So you've got to get that play calling quick and

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Speaker 1: you gotta know your next call. Uh really just based

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Speaker 1: on what you feel is going to happen during that

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Speaker 1: play and you gotta be quick on your feet. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I think he's done a really good job

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Speaker 1: in preseason so far. No, not at all. I think

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Speaker 1: Joe stepping down to um, you know, being on the

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Speaker 1: sideline with us, just trying to relay with Dorsey's talking

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Speaker 1: to with the coaches, and I think that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Like when when noses are up in the box, I

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Speaker 1: think they see things a little bit better. Um, you know.

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Speaker 1: Coach mcdermmot said there was quite a hefty fine for

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Speaker 1: any any flags from the refs from the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: so I think that also entices Dorsey to go up

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Speaker 1: in the box. He gets, he gets fiery man. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's doing a great job. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: Joe and having case in Matt downstairs too, or on

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Speaker 1: the field, going overlooks on the on the iPads, um

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Speaker 1: and just kind of talking through things. It's very comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Feel what were there smoker's fire right now that you've

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Speaker 1: had a chance to go through training camp Oka, a

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Speaker 1: couple of three season games on yourself six place, how

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Speaker 1: much remove? How much does this remove you from last

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Speaker 1: season in subways where you can put to rest last

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Speaker 1: season or does it work then? Um, in my mind

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Speaker 1: it does. You know, it didn't matter what we did

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Speaker 1: last year, nothing carries over. You know, every team that

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Speaker 1: we play, you know at the start of the season

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Speaker 1: zero zero and everybody's got the same hopes were winning

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. So um, you know, it's just our

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Speaker 1: job again to come out here, be the best versions

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Speaker 1: of ourselves, practice hard, try to get better and then

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Speaker 1: go go one and know each week that's our mindsets.

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Speaker 1: Take it week by week. And obviously we know who

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Speaker 1: we've got opening night Thursday night in LA against the

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Speaker 1: you know, the super Bowl, the super Bowl champs, So

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Speaker 1: you know, we know there are backs against the wall

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Speaker 1: in that aspect and we just gotta put our best

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Speaker 1: at Ford. Taking a peek at the rams um, you

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Speaker 1: and Ken and maybe the offense is a whole um

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Speaker 1: not not too much. Um. Obviously, I think this week

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Speaker 1: is when we'll start to get started on them. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to put too much preparation into something again,

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Speaker 1: things change and and you see different different stuff on

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Speaker 1: game day and who knows how how they're gonna play us,

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna play us any differently, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game, you have to make

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Speaker 1: adjustments and that's what we'll do. Seeing from more So,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that's us really different. More No existed

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Speaker 1: too much, Um, but he's getting to start last week

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Speaker 1: with Dawson out there, Just what have you seen from him?

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean he's for for his size, he's

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Speaker 1: extremely athletic. Again, a guy that just works hard and

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Speaker 1: it's coming too this organization and everybody loves him based

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Speaker 1: on how he you know, how he carries himself, how

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Speaker 1: he practices him in the locker room, he's a he's

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Speaker 1: just a vibrant guy to be around. Um. And when

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Speaker 1: you do that and then you continue to make plays

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Speaker 1: in practice and then the game typically good things happen.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know he's he's fighting really hard right now. He's,

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Speaker 1: like I said, he bust his tell twenty four seven

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Speaker 1: in practice. So happy to see him getting some of

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Speaker 1: these reps and making some place for us and to

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Speaker 1: see what he can do for us. Tommy Sweeney seems

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Speaker 1: like he's had his struck camp. He's always seemed to

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Speaker 1: be a favorite in the locker room. What have you

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Speaker 1: seen from him, obviously, is he's come back and you know,

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Speaker 1: tried to put the Myo karditis in the low season

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Speaker 1: behind him. Yeah, I think, like you said, it's the

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Speaker 1: strongest camp I've been around. You know what he's what

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Speaker 1: he's been able to do making contested catches. Obviously, Tommy,

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Speaker 1: he's he's one of the smartest guys in the room.

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Speaker 1: He knows the playbook inside and out, knows where he

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Speaker 1: needs to be. Um, and like you said, in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, everybody loves him. And um, you know, when

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Speaker 1: you have a locker room like this, guys guys gravitate

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Speaker 1: towards each other and guys root for each other. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know these competitions, you know they're competitive, um by

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Speaker 1: all means, but everybody kind of still pushes for you.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's what I love about this locker room.

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Speaker 1: Guys are out here busting their tails and just trying

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Speaker 1: to just trying to find a way to have a

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Speaker 1: role on this team. Often do you have to deal

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Speaker 1: with dead home and and I guess the second part

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Speaker 1: of the question, what do you think he brings the

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Speaker 1: wide receivers you're obviously ja Yeah, one, Chad, he played

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Speaker 1: the game. He knows he's been in these situations with

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Speaker 1: these receivers, so he's not just asking them to do

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Speaker 1: something he hasn't done. Guys love him. I love him.

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Speaker 1: He's he's infectious on the sidelines on the few guys

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Speaker 1: have ever seen him. He's jumping up and down every

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Speaker 1: time the balls in the air. It's our ball or

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Speaker 1: no ball, you know. And he's he's very vocal, he's loud,

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Speaker 1: but again, he just he's got so much respect from

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Speaker 1: so many other guys on the team because he roots

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Speaker 1: so hard for us and he's trying to teach these

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Speaker 1: guys the right things. And I've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: faith and trust in him, and I know all those

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Speaker 1: receivers in that room do as well. Who address the

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Speaker 1: expectations for this team amongst your teammates, if you have

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Speaker 1: at all, because they're out there and they're lofty, you know,

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl favorite, preseason super Bowl favorite, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Is that a conversation that you have with any of

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Speaker 1: your teammates, And if it is what do you tell them.

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Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, we know

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Speaker 1: what we want to accomplish. And it's no secret. I

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Speaker 1: think there's thirty one other teams that you know, say

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Speaker 1: they want to win the Super Bowl and if they

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01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 1: don't say it, they're lying. You know, that's our goal.

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01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: You know everything that we do is towards that goal.

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01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 1: And you know, coach McDermott preaches playoff caliber and in

1477
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: order to win the Super Bowl, you've got to make

1478
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:26,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So everything that we do inside and outside

1479
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 1: of the building should be focused towards that goal of

1480
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: making the playoffs and giving ourselves a chance to win

1481
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Earlier that you feel like the page

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01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: has officially been turned to this season from what happened

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01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:41,160
Speaker 1: last year. Along with that, then, does that alleviate any

1484
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:43,640
Speaker 1: concerns about a quote unquote hangover from the way that

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01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 1: last yea or is that not anything that you're worried

1486
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 1: about that that dragging into this year? No, definitely not.

1487
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:53,200
Speaker 1: Guys are hungry. You know, we know the taste that

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01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: was left with us, and you know we want to

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01:20:56,040 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: get rid of that. But again, was zero zero start

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01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 1: Week one against the Rams, who again they won Super

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01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:06,879
Speaker 1: Bowl last year, so uh, going into a hostile environment

1492
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:09,080
Speaker 1: and again just trying to put our best foot forward.

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01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: I watched you ever, you know, sitting watching that kind

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01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 1: of uncorps the movies and bombs punch out there. Yeah,

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01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:20,839
Speaker 1: it's pretty it's pretty fun. Um you know his nickname

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01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: in college. I think everybody knows what it is. Um.

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01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 1: I saw something on Twitter though, you know, try to

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01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:28,400
Speaker 1: keep him off the field, and he's he'll be the

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01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: old God, not the punk god, the old God. So

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01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: I saw that on Twitter though. That's pretty funny. Don't

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01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: tell him I said that. But no, he's again what

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01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: he did in college and what he's gonna do for

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01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 1: us this year. And we saw what he could do

1504
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: in the preseason game, and I'm happy for him. He's

1505
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: a he's a great guy to be around. Guys love him,

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01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:47,560
Speaker 1: and um, you know he'll be able to do some

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01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: good things for this team. No, I think I think

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01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: he's got me beat. He's got a strong leg. Now

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01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: the punters that received that type of attention, nor how

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01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: does he pretty well? Um? Yeah, he's he's a football player. Man.

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01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 1: When I'd consider him and Tyler Bass even like they're

1512
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 1: football players. First, they love the game and they're very

1513
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: good at what they do. So to have those two

1514
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 1: guys solidified and being able to like learn from each

1515
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:19,599
Speaker 1: other and feed off each other, you know, that whole

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01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:23,559
Speaker 1: special team's unit um between you know, Matt t Bass

1517
01:22:23,640 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: and Reid and he's throwing you know, Taiwan Jones and

1518
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: Matta Kievich Um. You know, just really good core guys

1519
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: that are just great people. And then on the field,

1520
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,960
Speaker 1: you see what they do and they're monsters. Questions you've

1521
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:40,720
Speaker 1: ever been asking, absolutely absolutely keep them coming. That's fine. Now,

1522
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: then a little bit more time has passed and kind

1523
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,920
Speaker 1: of off the field stuff, what impact is having Like

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01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:47,639
Speaker 1: what's it like kind of having him around the stuff

1525
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: we don't get to see. Yeah, I mean his his

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01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 1: personality one um inside the building, he's completely business and

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01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: like I said, the playoff caliber mindset. He really embodies that.

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01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: Like everything that he does in this bill is structured

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01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 1: towards helping this team win a Super Bowl. And guys

1530
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:10,080
Speaker 1: see that. Guys, guys respect that, and it forces guys

1531
01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:11,599
Speaker 1: to be like that. You know, some of these young

1532
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: guys that we have on the edge and Greg and

1533
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,760
Speaker 1: AJ and Boogie and be able to able to learn

1534
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,240
Speaker 1: from him on the field and off the field. Really,

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01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: you know, I think those are invaluable lessons that are

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01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:25,720
Speaker 1: going to push these guys and help them become the

1537
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,160
Speaker 1: best that they can be. All Right. That's Josh Allen

1538
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 1: addressing the media after practice today. Ain't happy to be

1539
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:35,320
Speaker 1: playing football and Buffalo, as he said, and wants to

1540
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: change the punk God's name to the punt God hold God,

1541
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: sorry punk God to hold God. Okay, I get it,

1542
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 1: because that means if he's not punting them, means the

1543
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 1: offense is putting points on the board every time they

1544
01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 1: get the football. So I get the connection. Yeah, I

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01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, that's I've been underwhelmed by the holding

1546
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: facet of this contest from the beginning, so I'm yeah,

1547
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Okay. He's done great thus far holding

1548
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:10,720
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's going to continue to do that.

1549
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: So it's it's all about the pressure and he's he's

1550
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 1: he's a fine holder, and I hope that's all he

1551
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: ever does for the Bills. He never, you know, maybe

1552
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,759
Speaker 1: laid in a game on a fourth and a foot

1553
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: from midfield. Sean McDermott wants to give him one punt

1554
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:33,679
Speaker 1: for the day you mean like Saturday. Yeah, that's fine.

1555
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna live with that, all right. I'll sign up

1556
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,799
Speaker 1: for this cheaper sure, cheap labor, that's for sure. I remember.

1557
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 1: I don't think it was no, it was not. It

1558
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: was not last year. It was the year before where

1559
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:50,719
Speaker 1: the Bills, I think we're leading the league in fewest

1560
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 1: punts taken. Yeah, and then finished second in twenty twenty.

1561
01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: I think it was last year they because it was

1562
01:24:57,080 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: before kiss. Yeah, he only punted like thirty eight times.

1563
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:01,960
Speaker 1: It's talk last year. So it was two years ago.

1564
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 1: And last year they were low as well. In the forties. Yeah, somewhere.

1565
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 1: It's it's a thing. It may continue to go down

1566
01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 1: with more and more coaches going forward on fourth down,

1567
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:13,599
Speaker 1: and if you have a powerhouse offense like the Bills.

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01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:17,240
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Tyler Bass is a weapon. I think

1569
01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 1: he's really good. He's you could try. I mean they

1570
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 1: don't really like to try field goals from like fifty

1571
01:25:22,200 --> 01:25:24,640
Speaker 1: seven or sixty because if you miss it, which is

1572
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: hard to make, the ball turns over right there, right,

1573
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 1: so they get the ball at the fifty rather than

1574
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 1: punting it down having them start inside their ten if

1575
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 1: if it's a good punt. So sometimes even having a

1576
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 1: long field goal kicker doesn't preclude the fact that you

1577
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 1: might punt it instead. But Bass gives you an extra

1578
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: ten yards of leeway just go out and try for

1579
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:48,519
Speaker 1: the field goal instead of punting it down close. You know,

1580
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:50,879
Speaker 1: I think Bass is a real weapon that's been underrated

1581
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:54,200
Speaker 1: and you know kind of forget about him. But the

1582
01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 1: dude's money. He's really good. Yeah. I mean, if a

1583
01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: drive stall is just inside a midfield, you may think

1584
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:03,920
Speaker 1: about it. Well, it's just because of his If if

1585
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 1: you each the forty yard line, you gotta feel like

1586
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and they can go for the field goal,

1587
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, the it'd be a fifty eight yard or

1588
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, so kick it. Yeah, we gotta take a

1589
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:21,960
Speaker 1: break here. When we come back, some final thoughts on

1590
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:24,639
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, and we'll bring in a quick update

1591
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:27,760
Speaker 1: from practice that coming up next here on One Bill's Live,

1592
01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

1593
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:44,840
Speaker 1: Before we get back to the tweet sheet, just wanted

1594
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:48,439
Speaker 1: to let you know that practice today. Greg Mann's the

1595
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:52,920
Speaker 1: veteran offensive lineman plays center and guard unfortunately suffered an

1596
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 1: injury and had to go to the locker room after practice.

1597
01:26:56,880 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 1: According to our reporters at Buffalo dot com, he had

1598
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 1: to go to the locker room. He was sitting on

1599
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 1: a cart and had one of his feet up on

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01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: the cart there. But we'll have to see what becomes

1601
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:14,080
Speaker 1: of that. But yeah, unfortunately Greg Man's injury to practice.

1602
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 1: It's the it's it's the realization that, Yeah, everybody's worried

1603
01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:19,679
Speaker 1: about getting hurt in the preseason game and happens in practice,

1604
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 1: it does happen. T Yeah, I got tangled up I

1605
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:27,400
Speaker 1: think with who wasn't with Bobby Hart and the defense.

1606
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:30,880
Speaker 1: It was Daquan Jones or somebody, I'm sure. But Man's

1607
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 1: goes down with the foot injury and had to be

1608
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 1: carted off. That's not good. Um, but I'm sure we'll

1609
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 1: get an update tomorrow. Absolutely see where it goes. Uh.

1610
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: Some final thoughts on the tweet sheet though, this one

1611
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,360
Speaker 1: from Gary, who says, I know it's only preseason and

1612
01:27:47,439 --> 01:27:50,160
Speaker 1: Denver didn't play starters, but Buffalo having only three third

1613
01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:53,160
Speaker 1: downs the whole game is amazing. Rachel says ninety nine

1614
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,720
Speaker 1: percent of the game was perfect, but I thought our

1615
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 1: tackling was bad at times, and even the starting defensive

1616
01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:01,000
Speaker 1: lineman didn't win as much aginst the Broncoes back up

1617
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:02,559
Speaker 1: whole line as I would have hoped. I hope our

1618
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 1: young d linemen show more consistency by the regular season. Wow, yeah,

1619
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: I thought that. I thought the tackling and I set

1620
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:10,800
Speaker 1: it on the air on the broadcast. It's one of

1621
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: the things you can't tack You don't practice enough of

1622
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 1: in preseason in this day and age. They just because

1623
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:18,679
Speaker 1: of player safety, because you got guys like Greg mansking

1624
01:28:18,720 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 1: off the field when they're not tackling. You know, guys

1625
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:23,759
Speaker 1: getting nicked when you get tackled. So they don't practice

1626
01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 1: it as much, particularly not live and full go, and

1627
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: guys are need work on it. They do bring out

1628
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: those big, giant rolling donuts and they wrap those up,

1629
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:35,439
Speaker 1: but even those they don't tackle to the ground. Those

1630
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 1: don't fight back, and they don't fight back either. You're right,

1631
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:41,479
Speaker 1: so you can form tackle as much as you want,

1632
01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: but the opportunities to practice it in practice are few

1633
01:28:44,920 --> 01:28:46,760
Speaker 1: and far. But it's hard to which is why you

1634
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:50,760
Speaker 1: need preseason snaps right. It's hard to remember to disengage

1635
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: your self preservation mode when you're playing foot, you know

1636
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:57,160
Speaker 1: you got to flip it off, and you know, you

1637
01:28:57,320 --> 01:28:59,679
Speaker 1: flip that switch off and you know, not care whether

1638
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 1: you get hurt or not, and go in and tackle

1639
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: guys you don't usually get hurt, but it's hard to

1640
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:06,760
Speaker 1: do sometimes. That'll do it for a Monday edition of

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01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:09,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, Steve and I will be right back

1642
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:13,879
Speaker 1: here tomorrow for another day of Bill's talk and coverage

1643
01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:17,839
Speaker 1: from the practice field. We'll see at one pm Tuesday,