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Speaker 1: in the straded here of normalcy. Here Tuesday edition of

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. The A team is back together. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as our MSG viewers are getting

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Speaker 1: a look at the Bills Stadium on a somewhere between

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Speaker 1: end of summer beginning of fall type day here broadcasting

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Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studios at One Bill's Drive in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: Glad you're joining us here on a Tuesday. Got a

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Speaker 1: jam pack show for you, Ash and we will dissect

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Speaker 1: that in just a moment. But Steve, how'd you hit?

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Speaker 1: Did you hit straight? Yesterday? We're at a charity golf tournament.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was like every Monday, like clog. Now

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Speaker 1: there and and there might be another one coming up

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Speaker 1: next Tuesday, but I got I don't know, I'm sea Listen,

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Speaker 1: you know how it is most the season kicks off.

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Speaker 1: And I think what's adding to it? And you can

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna know who they what're They don't even know

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Speaker 1: what their own team's gonna look like enough well enough

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Speaker 1: It's the unknowns are the thing for me because this year,

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: Carolina as a reserve player. So you could make the

427
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: argument this is his fourth, maybe fifth season in this defense.

428
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 1: So I mean, if anybody knows it, he knows it

429
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 1: as well as anyone. And he's worked well with Micah

430
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: Hyde and Jordan Poyer and even though he's rarely on

431
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: the field with them, at the same time, there's a

432
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: rapport there. And he actually talked about that rapport that

433
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: he has with Poyer and Hyde. You've got the two

434
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 1: best sects in the lead right there. And I practice

435
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 1: with him every day. I meet with him every day.

436
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: I hanging with him off the field all the time.

437
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 1: And UM, you know, just for me to be behind

438
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: them and learn from them every day, and you know,

439
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: I keep them accountable, they keep me accountable. UM, It's

440
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: it's awesome, man. All I do is, you know, I

441
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: pushed every day like I'm a starter because I have

442
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: the ability to do that. Um. I can play you know,

443
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 1: Buffalo Nickel, I can play you know, special teams. I

444
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,679
Speaker 1: can play safety free safety, strong safety. So like, you know,

445
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: just being you, you want to have somebody like me

446
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: on the team because I feel like, you know, I

447
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: can provide a lot of versatility and I actually know

448
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: what the hell's going on and not what the hell's

449
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, after five years in the defense, you

450
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 1: should right, highly underrated talent knowing what the hell's going on. Yeah,

451
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: highly underrated. He's right, and he does give him value

452
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: problem because he knows the defense so well. In a

453
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: pinch like Week seventeen this past season, you don't have

454
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: to put a corner in, you know, you have to

455
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: put a wide receiver into play. Yeah, he'd plug him

456
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: into any one of those defensive spots and he'll know

457
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: exactly what he's responsible, whether he can do it or not,

458
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 1: at least he'll know what he's supposed to be doing.

459
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 1: And that's a big step. Yes, and you know you

460
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: have you look at it. Last year he mentioned it,

461
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Nickel package. You know, based on personnel groupings,

462
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: the Bills would deploy a different player in that nickel role.

463
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: Last year. You know whether when Taron Johnson got hurt,

464
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: they started diversifying that role a little bit with Serran

465
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,199
Speaker 1: Neil and Dean Marlowe. And when the other team, you know,

466
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: it was going twenty one personnel, Dean would come on

467
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: the field. When they were going twelve personnel, Sarran would

468
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: be on the field. So they had answers for the

469
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: different personnel groupings coming at them while still staying in

470
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: a quote unquote Nickel package. So they were trying to

471
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: find ways to get Marlow on the field. So we'll

472
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: see if that happens again this year. It might be

473
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: a little bit different. Obviously, Tarn Johnson, as far as

474
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: we know, is healthy and ready to go, and he's

475
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, the Nickel corner of full time when he's healthy.

476
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: But we'll see what kind of diversity they choose to

477
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 1: employ this year at the Nickels, if at all. M

478
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: Dean also was asked about the defense and why it

479
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: poses such a problem for opposing quarterbacks. Obviously, Poor and

480
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: Hide have gotten praise around the league for how well

481
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: they disguised coverage is literally lining up out of position

482
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: pre snap and then getting to where they need to

483
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: be on a given play call. Uh So, Marlow addressed

484
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: why Buffalo's defense does make life so difficult for quarterbacks.

485
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,239
Speaker 1: We just have a lot of leverage and uh, you

486
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: know we get to play free, um, you know, and

487
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: it's just we have so many variations of you know,

488
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: cover three, Cover one, you know, Cover two, just hope

489
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: an a whole bunch of things, and um, you know,

490
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: coach gives us us safeties. We call our quarter where

491
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks of the defense, so as the middle linebacker,

492
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: which Tremaine and aj Klein. It's just you know, as

493
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: we were a zone we're a zone quarters. You know,

494
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: man team. We do everything, and it's just like you

495
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: got to be able to do everything, and when you

496
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: understand the scheme, you can play so much more, so

497
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: much more faster, and knowing what to do and how

498
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: to react and just playing with vision out the quarterback

499
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 1: as a safety in and when you're in man coverage,

500
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: just you know, doing year one eleven. And that's you know,

501
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: I think it's seamless for them back there now. With

502
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: as much time as most of these guys have had

503
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: in this system, it just kind of it's like osmosis

504
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: now in terms of execution and in terms of playing

505
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: off one another. There's just this familiarity having been on

506
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: the field with one another for so many snaps in

507
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: the same scheme. And that's why I think this year

508
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: there is a really good chance that while they stick

509
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: to their core principles and rely on the things that

510
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: they know, they do well, especially in a season of

511
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: unknowns as we've discussed eve, at the same time, I

512
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: get the sense that coach Frasier is going to be

513
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: sprinkling in a little bit more diversity with this defense

514
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: this year too, don't you think, Like just by all

515
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: the everything we've heard from the players and the coaches,

516
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: I kind of just get that sense. I think they're

517
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot under their hood philosophically speaking, and

518
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: you know, on any given call third down, you know,

519
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,439
Speaker 1: for against first formations, I think they're gonna have a

520
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: lot of funky stuff going on that there that's at

521
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: there is. But I don't know if they're gonna that's

522
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: not gonna be their identity. No, you're gonna have to

523
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: beat them straight up first before they're gonna which is

524
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: hard enough to do already exactly. So yeah, so they

525
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: don't have to turn to that stuff all that often.

526
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: But let's just say they have like one of those

527
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: hiccup games, like like the Philly game last year, Right,

528
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,239
Speaker 1: they just kind of just it's a bad day. They

529
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: just kind of get they getting run over a little bit.

530
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: This is where coach Frasier can maybe go into the

531
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: bag and say, let's just throw this at him and

532
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: see if we can get some better traction doing this

533
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: just for this series. Let's see what happens. And they

534
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: can do that because you have so many guys that

535
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: are so well versed in this system that you can say,

536
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,239
Speaker 1: you know what, yeah, all right, let's switch to this

537
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: for this series. See if it if it helps us

538
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: out any more effectively than what we've been doing, because

539
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: what we've been doing is not working today. Right, That's

540
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: that's the best case scenario. Plus having a handle on

541
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: you know, who can do that kind of stuff and

542
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: who's better at it. But also, I really think this

543
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: defense is going to be helped. I said this this

544
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: morning on with Howard Simon. I think this defense is

545
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: going to be so good, so good that and for

546
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: one a couple of reason. One, they're they're gonna better

547
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: on their own. Secondly, I think this offense is going

548
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: to help them out more than they did, like say,

549
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: the first half of last season, when the offense struggle

550
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: a little bit. This defense is going to get some

551
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: help from those guys quicker in games they're gonna be

552
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: They're gonna be playing with a lead a little bit

553
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: as a defense, which they didn't get to do a

554
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: lot last year. Visual teams may help them too, because

555
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: you've got a kid that can put it through the

556
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: back of the end zone every time. That's seventy five

557
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: yards a field to defend every single kickoff or eighty

558
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 1: percent of your kickoffs potentially, right, So all of that

559
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: is going to help this defense to be even better. Plus,

560
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: a defense put in a more advantageous position as a

561
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: defense down in distance wise, field position wise, scoreboard wise,

562
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot more opportunity for this defense

563
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: to kind of play from in front, which I think

564
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: is going to add another exponential step onto how good

565
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. I just they may give up more

566
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: points than they did last year, but I think they're

567
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: gonna generate a ton more turnovers. And the reason they're

568
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: gonna give up more points because they're gonna face desperate

569
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: offenses that have to keep up. I'm not saying that

570
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: that we're going to force teams to score thirty points

571
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: a game. I don't think the Bills are gonna be

572
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: that good. They may, they may. They didn't break thirty

573
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: points what at all last year. Yeah, I think they'll

574
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: do that at time or two this year. And if

575
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: you know, in that can in those scenarios, the defense may,

576
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: you know, the offense offense is going to get some

577
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: things done against him, particularly when their backs are against

578
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: the wall and they got to do it on a

579
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: regular basis. But I think this defense is going to

580
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: benefit from the better guys, the better play of their

581
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: offense as well as I think they're just gonna be

582
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: better because of the people on the field as well. Yeah,

583
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm just I just think the defense is going to

584
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: continue to be the engine to this team, and I'm

585
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: I'm for it. I listen, if Sam Darnold's offensive line

586
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: doesn't get it together in Week one, it's gonna be ugly,

587
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: I think, because I think they really are vastly better

588
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 1: than they were a year ago. Rushing the past. Yeah. Uh.

589
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: Dean Marlowe has also seeing a lot of Josh Allen,

590
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: especially knowing you know, the times when the offense goes

591
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: against the defense. I mean the scrimmage out there last week.

592
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: He had some opportunities against Josh. So you know, you

593
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: look at that and you say, okay, he's had a

594
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: good look at him just about every day in practice.

595
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: So he was asked, what do you think of Josh

596
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: Allen's growth heading into season three? This is a defensive

597
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: perspective which you don't always get a lot of people

598
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: ask the offensive teammates, Oh, what do you think of Josh? This,

599
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: that and the other. Here's the defensive perspective on what

600
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: year three Josh Allen looks like. Josh I think this

601
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: training camp is has has turned it up a notch

602
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: and he's he's graduated to that year three to where

603
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: you want to see a quarterback, especially at our starting

604
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,239
Speaker 1: quarterback grow, And he's just his decisiveness, he's just he

605
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: knows where he wants to go with the ball. He's

606
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: not sitting there waiting and padding. He's he has a

607
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: whole bunch of threats now in the wide receiving corps

608
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: also are running backs who can catch the ball from

609
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: the backfield. And just to watch Josh, I mean, it's

610
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: amazing that how he makes our defense better. Like Less said,

611
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: it's just you know, we got we have to be

612
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: decisive with our decision making on defense. Just how fast

613
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: he's getting rid of the ball, and it's great to

614
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: see him grow because he's just he's just going to

615
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: make our defense way better. You know. The more I

616
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: hear about Josh's decision making and how quick it is,

617
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: the more I'm thinking it's more likely that we see

618
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: more checkdowns out of this guy than deep balls, because

619
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: and I believe me, people will be like, well, no doubt,

620
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: it's a higher percentage player than throwing the ball down.

621
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: You know, I get all that, But the whole conversation

622
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: throughout most of the off season was, Oh, he's got

623
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: to be more accurate on the deep ball. He's got

624
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: to be more accurate on the deep ball, and to

625
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: his credit, he's worked on that. He even such much.

626
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think there's this level

627
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: of maturation in his decision making where he's finally gotten

628
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: to the point where he's not trying to get it

629
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: all in one play, you know what I mean. A

630
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: four yard game is a good play In the NFL,

631
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: yards are hard to come by, and so I think

632
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: he's going to be more apt to take the checkdowns

633
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: this season than maybe we've ever seen him before. I

634
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: don't think he's a guy inherently who likes to settle

635
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: or feel like he's settling for something. He'd rather try

636
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: to make the big play. And I think there's a

637
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: time and a place for that. But more often than not,

638
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: your bread and butter is going to be the short,

639
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Speaker 1: intermediate stuff, not only because it's high percentage, but also

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Speaker 1: because it's going to keep you on schedule more often

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Speaker 1: with the down and distance. And so it seems as

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Speaker 1: though his thinking has kind of transition to that more.

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Speaker 1: I don't you know. And Josh has said maybe the

644
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Speaker 1: most telling comment, and I mentioned this yesterday, the most

645
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Speaker 1: telling comment I think he's made the entire preseason here

646
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Speaker 1: is that he believes he needs to get the ball

647
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Speaker 1: in his playmaker's hands all the more. And the translation

648
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: for me there is I don't have to do it all,

649
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Speaker 1: or I don't have to carry the load. I just

650
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Speaker 1: have to be a facilitator, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I just I get it. It's hard for a guy

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Speaker 1: like Josh, with his physical attributes and the way he

653
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: played football all the way through college into the pros,

654
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: this you know, the hero ball, they call it hard

655
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Speaker 1: to get weaned off that and say Okay, I don't

656
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: need to and I and I think you can. I

657
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: would say to me, that translates into reading the defense

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00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: a little faster, knowing if it's not there, checking it

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Speaker 1: down faster, because the faster you check it down, or

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00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: the earlier in the down you check it down to

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00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: the guy who's open the defense sees the same thing

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00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: he is, except from the other side, and they say, wait,

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Speaker 1: this check down here, we gotta covered up. By the

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Speaker 1: time the balls there, they're kind of rallying to it,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You get you catch it

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00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: and the guy's gotta make a guy miss right away,

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00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: But were completions happening. You just got to hope you

668
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: can close the space and time right And the thing

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Speaker 1: about this, what I'm saying is when Josh checks it down,

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Speaker 1: if he checks it down on time, but the ball's

671
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: coming out on time, the guy he checks it down to,

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00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna have more space, he's gonna have more a

673
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: chance to catch it, turn up the field and then

674
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: you know, gather some information before he has to, you know,

675
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: take one of the chops or stop completely to make

676
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: a guy sidestepe of guy Throwing the ball on time

677
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: always to me means the guy you're throwing it to.

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00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: Guy it's getting there when he's the most open, not

679
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: because he was open and then he got to him late,

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00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: and then by the time he gets there, it's a

681
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: fifty fifty ball kind of thing. So I think by

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00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: the quarterback getting through his progression quicker, making those reads

683
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,479
Speaker 1: faster plus halfing, guy's getting more separation this year down

684
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: the field, he may check it down quicker. But if

685
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: the ball's coming out on time, like Dean Marlow's saying,

686
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: somebody's open right now, somebody's there when they're supposed to

687
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: be there, and the ball is out and he's seeing

688
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: it and he's seeing it and deliver. See all that's

689
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: that's Those are good characteristics and pretty pretty nice phrases

690
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: to hear out of a safety's mouth. Taking that perspective

691
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: a step further with respect to the Bill's offense, Dean

692
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: Marlowe also had some bouquets to throw at won Cole Beasley,

693
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: so let's hear what he had to say about the

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Speaker 1: Bills slot receiver. Honestly, I think Cola is unguardable and

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Speaker 1: and I say that, I mean you can. You can

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00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: be there and you can be in right position. You

697
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: can get beat off the line. Like for me yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I got beat off the line by Cole perfect move.

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00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: Took a guest, was the wrong guest, you know, And

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Speaker 1: that's that's why we practice in I just I think

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Speaker 1: Cola is a phenomenal you know, uh slot receiver um

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Speaker 1: And like I said, I think he's unguardable and he's

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00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: gonna be great for our offense. He's gonna have a

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00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: ton of one on ones too this year, isn't he.

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00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: I mean, what they're lining up outside, he's gonna have

706
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: more morning you did last year. I mean, with what

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00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: they're lining up outside, I don't see how. I mean.

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Speaker 1: There are ways you can scheme help to be here

709
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: or there on the field, especially in zone concepts. But

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00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: my god, like, here's what I him with a two

711
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: way go against one dude, here's what I anticipate happening.

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00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: Certainly you can't double team everybody, and you can you

713
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: could double team two guys, and it's up to an

714
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Speaker 1: offense and a defensive coordinator. Say okay, and this situate

715
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: down in distance again, I'm feeling we're doubling Steph Diggs

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Speaker 1: and on this play, we're gonna double Beasley, and then

717
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: you know, the next play, it's like, you know what,

718
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Speaker 1: not this time, I think it's gonna be Beasley and Singletary.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna leave our guy undone on Diggs on this

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Speaker 1: down a distance they kind of call those you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, You're gonna get that a lot more

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Speaker 1: this year. They're gonna have to be switching it around

723
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: because if Josh Allen is able to hit the guy,

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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator is gonna start spending his entire game

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00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 1: plan trying to fool Josh Allen to wondering who's getting doubled.

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Speaker 1: Because if the guy who's singled is getting open every

727
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: single time, that becomes the competition because if Josh sees it,

728
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 1: hits it, the defensive coordinator is gonna have to decide

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00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: who he's gonna you know, double. If all three guys

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Speaker 1: can win one on one matchups, which in this give

731
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Speaker 1: what we know about these guys, you think grab that's

732
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: gotta be what it's gonna be. Yeah, somebody's gonna get singled,

733
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Speaker 1: and any one of those three guys, Cole Beasley, John

734
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Speaker 1: Brown and certainly Steph Diggs. If they're gonna single any

735
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Speaker 1: one of those guys, they're gonna win. And it's up

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Speaker 1: to us to not let Josh Allen figure out who

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Speaker 1: it actually is. And I think that's the that's the

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00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: big challenge for this offense going against most defensive coordinators

739
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: on most Sundays, it's your matchups against their doubles and

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00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: double teams. It really is the you know, the proverbial

741
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: pick your poison scenario, because there are no great answers.

742
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: You might have some good answers based on the personnel

743
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: you have at your disposal, but I don't know that

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00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: there are any great answers against what this Bill's offense

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00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: can put on the field and deploy offensively. So that's

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00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 1: Dean Marlowe in a nutshell from his media conference call

747
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: with the local media, and we'll get to some of

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Speaker 1: the comments from Levi Wallace a little bit later in

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Speaker 1: the show. We do want to get to the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet here, as we've asked you on the Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: today to give us your top three players that you're

752
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Speaker 1: rooting for to make the twenty twenty Bill's roster. We

753
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: obviously have the shoe in players you know, Steph Diggs,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, you know, Micah Hi, Jordan Porter. You know

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00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: those guys are going to be on the team, But

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00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: who are some of those guys where it's not a

757
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: sure thing. Who are you rooting for to make this

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00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 1: roster eight oh three oh five fifty one eight eight

759
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty if you want to

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Speaker 1: call us and give us some answers. But we go

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, which is brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Framp Framp and from Nick, he says Jason

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00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: Croom and Vashon Joseph because they both flashed potential Croom

765
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen and Joseph and Camp last year, but

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00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: neither have been given a full opportunity due to injuries.

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00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: I'd also like to see Isaiah McKenzie back, as he

768
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 1: gives us versatility and his sweeps are always exciting. That's

769
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: from Nick, So good choices. There some names that we've

770
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: heard before. Krum, you know, is an interesting player. He

771
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Speaker 1: was a guy that was getting some real playing time

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. Charles Clay was kind of on the outs.

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Speaker 1: He was really struggling with his game. His knee wasn't right,

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Speaker 1: and so Jason Krum got more of an opportunity in

775
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 1: that playmaking, pass catching type role. And there were games

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00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: where he flashed in twenty eighteen, and then the injury

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00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: crops up in twenty nineteen. He can't be on the roster.

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Speaker 1: He's on IR for most of the year and and

779
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: just a lost season for all intents and purposes. But

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Speaker 1: I was telling Madnie this yesterday. I mean, next to

781
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, that's your next most athletic tight end on

782
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: the roster. Yeah, he's an athlete, he's he's a converted receiver. Yeah,

783
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: he's an athlete. That guy goes out there, he can

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00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: he can do some things. And his the book was

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00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: or the you know, evaluation from all of us were

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00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: you know, outside the team were like, that guy needs

787
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: to work on the nitty grid. He's getting down inside.

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00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: You know, I'm playing right off the tackle and pushing

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00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: off in the run game, guys, Yeah, in line blocking

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00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: and the run game stuff. Because the athletics sism, particularly

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Speaker 1: when the guy gets the ball in his hands, is

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00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: absolutely there's a he's a handful he can run with it,

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Speaker 1: and he's fast enough and he's big, so it's he

794
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: was He was a perfect candidate to be one of

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00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: those athletic titis. She's kind of split out and get

796
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: give the ball in space. And Vashon Joseph is another

797
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: player that we'll talk about more after the break here,

798
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: but a guy that really lost his rookie season due

799
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: to injury wound up on ir as well, and I

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00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: think he's still a player that a lot of fans

801
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: are wondering about because outside of the people that attend

802
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: a training camp last year, nobody really saw him up

803
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: close and personal in terms of what he had to offer.

804
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: So I think he's a player of intrigue, you know,

805
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: just by virtue of the fact that he was a

806
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: draft choice, and also because they're saying, well, what's this kid? God,

807
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't think everybody really knows yet, and so I

808
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: think some people are like Nick, are hoping he makes

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00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: the rosters so they can see more of what he

810
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: has to offer. But Steve and I do need to

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Speaker 1: take a break when we come back more from the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, so be sure to hit us up there

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00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: at one Bills Live. Give us your top three players

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00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 1: you're rooting for to make the Bills twenty twenty roster.

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Speaker 1: Back in a moment here on One Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, This is Buffalo Bill's radio back on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Ground Steve Tasker with you, motoring

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Speaker 1: through a Tuesday edition of the show as we broadcast

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Speaker 1: from the Seneca studios here at One Bills Live practice

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Speaker 1: going about on about fifty yards away from us, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll get some updates on that or we're

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Speaker 1: going to continue our conversation the break. Are we gonna

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Speaker 1: do my had? We had a very in depth conversation

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Speaker 1: on cheese and maybe we can address that at some

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00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: point later in the show. Favorite cheeses and yeah, much

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Speaker 1: like that, well and pretty extensive conversation was pretty someone

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Speaker 1: was pretty quick with a favorite in the control room.

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Speaker 1: So nobody was devoid of an opinion, that is for sure.

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Speaker 1: So maybe we can make that a part of the show.

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Speaker 1: We'll get We could get to some cheese talk at

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Speaker 1: some point, But I do want to get back to

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, you know, where we're asking people to

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Speaker 1: give us their top top three players they're rooting for

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Speaker 1: to make the roster for the bills here in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: You know the guys that you're not quite sure they're

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00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: gonna make it? Are They're not gonna make it. Tough

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Speaker 1: roster to make this year. So we want to know

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Speaker 1: who you're rooting for. Who are you pulling for? Who

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00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: are you hoping makes this roster? And from Jack on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, he says, rooting for Christian Wade. He's

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Speaker 1: a talented athlete with some unique potential. Cam Lewis the

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00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: dB is a UB guy who flashed some skills as

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Speaker 1: a cover guy last preseason. And Isaiah McKenzie. I love

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Speaker 1: Isaiah's speed and skill set as a specialist, and I

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Speaker 1: think he's a better wide receiver than he gets credit for. Now,

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Speaker 1: those are some names that I quite frankly was expecting.

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Speaker 1: I was expecting the Christian Wade contingent to come out

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Speaker 1: in full force, and I was expecting mackenzie. Now, cam

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Speaker 1: Lewis is player because of the UBI connection, I thought,

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Speaker 1: well that and the other thing is he has clearly

851
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: developed as a player. I mean he was on the

852
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: practice squad here last year and it was kind of

853
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: trial by fire for him. There was just part of

854
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: the there were parts of this game that were tough

855
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 1: for him to grasp as a rookie. You could see

856
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: there was athletic potential there. And he spent a lot

857
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: of time last year in the nickel playing inside because

858
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: he is a little bit smaller in stature, and that's

859
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: ten that tends to be where the smaller statured corners

860
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: tend to reside on defense. But he's been playing, you know,

861
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: not only there, but he's played outside too, so you know,

862
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: he all indication are he's had a pretty good camp.

863
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: So you know, I think he's in good shape u

864
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: to get a spot on this roster. And you know

865
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: he is he going to be a reserve? Yes, um,

866
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: you know, because that secondary's a tough one to crack.

867
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,479
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, But I think he's got a real, really,

868
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: really good chance to make this roster because of the

869
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: fact that they've been picking up and looking at special

870
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: teams contributors a lot. Cam Lewis seems to be right

871
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: in that vein he also being as smaller in stature.

872
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: The reason those guys kind of gravitate down inside is

873
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: because it's all about change of direction. It's easier to

874
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: change direction when you're small because you got less weightloaded

875
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: the ground. Yeah, and you put put your foot in

876
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: the ground. You don't have to push two hundred and

877
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 1: twenty pounds off, you had to push a buck eighty.

878
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: That makes a difference when you're trying to change direction

879
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: guys like that, particularly when you're trying to guard a

880
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: guy like Cole Beasley. The problem is if you can

881
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: start getting smaller and smaller at the slot, you know, dB,

882
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden, offense just start running

883
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: at him. You know, let you let your one hundred

884
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: and sixty pound cornerback make a tackle on our two

885
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty pound running back kind of thing. And

886
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: the other big debate that that's going to be had

887
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: here in the coming days by the coaching staff is

888
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: what do you want at wide receiver? Because Isaiah McKenzie

889
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: I think has proven to be a capable bowl weapon

890
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: for Brian dable to deploy with the jet sweeps and

891
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: some of the other plays that he I mean, there

892
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: were clearly a package of plays for Isaiah McKenzie within

893
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: the scope of this offense last year. He's also a

894
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: backup return man to Andre Roberts, so there's special team's

895
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: value there should Andre Roberts go down with injury, and

896
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: he did miss a couple of games last year, So

897
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: you look at that and you say, Okay, he's played

898
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: a role here and he's been effective in that role.

899
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 1: But now we have an opportunity to add considerably more

900
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: size to the receiving corps in the form of Gabriel Davis,

901
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: in the form of Isaiah Hodgens. Duke Williams is still

902
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: here as a size candidate. So which way does this

903
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: offensive staff lean in terms of those decisions, because all

904
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: of those players are kind of in the mix for

905
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: you know, the five and six spot on this receiving corps.

906
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: So which way do they lean and is it influenced

907
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: Steve by what they have at tight end. If you

908
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: keep an athlete like Jason Kroum at tight end, there's

909
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: your size to go along with Dawson Knox. So maybe

910
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: you can afford to keep a speedsterre like Isaiah McKenzie,

911
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: who's far more diminutive in stature. The only thing for

912
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: Isaih McKenzie to make the team. He needs to show

913
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: growth in the areas of the game that he doesn't

914
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: do well in. For instance, I mean, you see him

915
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: and all those highlights you see of him are obviously

916
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: those jet sweeps. You don't ever see anything else. When

917
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: you get a guy who's limited in his skill set

918
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: and you give him a package of plays, you become predictable.

919
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 1: And when you put him out there on plays when

920
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: he's not doing those kind of things, he's either a

921
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: decoy or you're limited in the other things you can

922
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: call because you're not going to use him in the pattern.

923
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: That's a problem, and I think that's the only problem

924
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: when it comes to Isaiah McKenzie. It's not so much.

925
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of small wide receivers. We've seen

926
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: guys who can do that. He runs with the ball

927
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: really well. The problem is can you use him running

928
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: a deep dig route. Can he beat bump coverage? Can

929
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: he play against a bigger, more physical cornerback man on man?

930
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: Can he get it done? All that stuff you got

931
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: to be able to do in order to stay on

932
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: the field for more downs and distances rather than a

933
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: third or a second and one when you give it

934
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: to him on a jet sweep. That's the problem with

935
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: keeping him. If he now, we don't know how much

936
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: he's grown in those other areas. But if he's going

937
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: to stay on the team, he certainly has an elite

938
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: skill set, but it's limited. Yeah, and that's where you

939
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,479
Speaker 1: get into the problem. And so then you go back

940
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: to what does this coaching staff covet, maybe more than

941
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: anything else, position, flexibility, right, versatility within the scope of

942
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: one player's skill set. And as you said, as as

943
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: effective as Mackenzie has been in that small package of

944
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 1: plays that have helped this offense over the past year plus,

945
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: it is a limited sample of what you can turn

946
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: to him to get done for you. And if they

947
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: think for a second that Isaiah Hodgens or Duke Williams

948
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: or Gabriel Davis, who all intents and purposes, is going

949
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: to be on this roster, I think people will be

950
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 1: shocked if he's not. But if those kinds of players

951
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: can offer more to this offense and in turn keep

952
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: it more unpredictable, they're probably leaning that way. As good

953
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: as Mackenzie is at what he does, as Steve said,

954
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: it's finite, it's you know what I mean. The options

955
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: are not infinite or varied, So that ultimately is what

956
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: could hurt him when the decision is made at the

957
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: end of the week. We have to take a break.

958
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: We're near the top of the hour, but when we

959
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 1: come back, we will have one Mike Sandos, senior NFL

960
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: writer from the Athletic. He'll be talking to us about

961
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 1: a piece he did on the comeback game, and we've

962
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: also got to talk to him about the schedule wull

963
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: Strength that he put together based on the quarterbacks each

964
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: NFL team is facing this coming season. We'll talk to

965
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: Mike about all that and more coming up next here

966
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is

967
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, Bufalo Bills Radio Network, storing soft date

968
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: their sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills have

969
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: added linebacker Andre Smith to their roster via trade. Buffalo

970
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: offered up a conditional draft pick in twenty twenty three

971
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: in exchange for Smith, who spent the last two seasons

972
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: in Carolina. Former seventh round pick, Smith played in sixteen

973
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: games for the Panthers last season played a large role

974
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: on special teams. The Chiefs are finalizing new six year

975
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 1: contracts with head coach Andy Reid and general manager Bret Beach.

976
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: The deal's tie Read and Beach to Kansas City through

977
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season. It continues a successful twenty

978
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 1: twenty for the defending Super Bowl champs. They also signed

979
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes to a ten year extension Chris Jones to

980
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 1: a four year contract. They also extended Travis Kelsey's contract

981
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:12,280
Speaker 1: by four years. Chargers All Star defense. In fact, Derwin

982
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: James will need meniscus surgery and will miss the twenty

983
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: twenty season. It's reported it'll be out six to eight months.

984
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,919
Speaker 1: The Chargers drafted James seventeenth overall at a Florida state

985
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen and watched him immediately blossom into

986
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: an All Pro safety. Then he missed the first eleven

987
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: games last year with a fracture in his right foot

988
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: to the ice just two games on tonight's Stanley Cup

989
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 1: playoff slate, the Islanders looking to close out their series

990
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: with the Flyers as they lead that series three games

991
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: to one, and then later on tonight it's the Canucks

992
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: and Golden Knights, Vancouver on the brink of elimination as

993
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: they trail that series three games to one, and finally

994
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,280
Speaker 1: two games on the NBA playoff docket. First, the Celtics

995
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: and Raptors in Game two of that series, and the

996
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: nightcap a Game seven, as the Jazz and Nuggets do

997
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: battle to see who advances in their best of seven series.

998
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: Tip off there is set for eight thirty and that

999
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

1000
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as we bring you our number

1001
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: two of one Bills live here from the Seneca Studios

1002
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: at One Bill's Drive in Orchard Park, and joining us

1003
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: on the line right now is the senior NFL writer

1004
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: for the Athletic One, Mike Sando, kind enough to join

1005
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: us on the program. Mike, how you doing. It's Chris

1006
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: and Steve glad to have you with us to be here. So, Mike,

1007
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: I know you've been busy, as most NFL writers are

1008
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: this time of year, and I wanted to start off

1009
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: with the piece you just recently put together about the

1010
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: strength of schedule for each NFL team based on the

1011
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks they'll be facing on their schedule this year.

1012
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: And I know the Bills, at least as we see it,

1013
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: fortunately are not facing a high high ranking group. They

1014
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: probably have they don't have to face Brady twice a

1015
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: year anymore, but that notwithstanding, you look at their slate

1016
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: and while I think there are competitive teams, and in

1017
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,959
Speaker 1: terms of regular strength of schedule, I think the Bills

1018
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: are in the top eight or nine in terms of

1019
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: opponents winning percentage from the previous year. You took a

1020
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: different look at it based on quarterback, but looking at

1021
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: it that way, it seems pretty favorable. Yeah, And you know,

1022
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: I think quarterback is one of those things that's pretty stable,

1023
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: right unless you have a guy who's a total unknown.

1024
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: We pretty much know that you know, Russell Wilson's going

1025
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: to be good, or we kind of know how to

1026
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: feel what Jared Goff probably is right, or Derek Carr.

1027
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: So I did plug in my results from my annual

1028
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: Quarterback Tier survey where I talked to fifty people in

1029
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: the league that are coaches and executives, and we basically

1030
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: end up getting a ranking of all the starting quarterbacks.

1031
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 1: And you know, a team like Minnesota or Chicago, some

1032
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: of that's in their own division, just plays a slew

1033
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: of top quarterbacks. And when you look at Buffalo, there's

1034
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: two guys who made it into Tier one, and Russell

1035
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: Wilson and Pat Mahomes they're the two unanimous guys. So

1036
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: you get the two toughest guys. But then you know,

1037
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: what are we expecting from men Roethlisberger this year? Does

1038
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 1: he have a great bounce back? Right? I mean Kyler

1039
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: Murray people really excited about. But does do people now

1040
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: have a little bit better read on him? Does he

1041
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: you know, not take a huge step in his second year?

1042
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: And we'd certainly say if Kyler Murray is your fourth

1043
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: toughest quarterback you're playing when you pull everyone in the league,

1044
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: I mean maybe you take that he doesn't have a

1045
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: lot of you know, skins on the wall yet? Yeah,

1046
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: why why are's? And you can go round and round

1047
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: about how these guys get ranked where they are. Jimmy

1048
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: Garoppolo is a third tier quarterback, and you know Cam

1049
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: Newton is a third tier. Ryan Tannehill's a third tier

1050
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: you know. And do you give us a quick synopsis

1051
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: of where you got these rankings, how many guys you

1052
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,240
Speaker 1: spoke to and and what your ranking is on your article?

1053
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: Is where they average with all those in you know,

1054
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 1: all those voices? Yeah, so you know I've been really

1055
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: I mean, quarterback riddle has always been a tough one

1056
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:00,919
Speaker 1: to solve in the end L But over the last

1057
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: ten years, I've really dived in and spoken with people

1058
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 1: in the league about how do we how do we

1059
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: really evaluate them after we've seen him in the league. Right,

1060
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,399
Speaker 1: it's really hard out of college. But basically, if you're

1061
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,479
Speaker 1: in Tier one, you need less help than the other guys.

1062
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: And you know this steve from being on football teams.

1063
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: If you have that guy when you're behind by ten

1064
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter, you know, kind of like

1065
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: Mahomes was in the super Bowl, or or Brady was

1066
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:30,720
Speaker 1: when he was down twenty five points, the other team's worried,

1067
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, because now we're going to throw it all

1068
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,439
Speaker 1: the time. Right, So that's a that's a true Tier

1069
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: one where it's like, hey, if we have to throw

1070
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: it every down, the defense is almost more worried than

1071
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 1: we are. Right. You get to the third tier and

1072
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: you're kind of like, hey, we can win with this guy,

1073
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: but but maybe we don't want to have just the

1074
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: pure drop back game featured all the time. And if

1075
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:54,280
Speaker 1: we're behind, go we're almost more afraid than the defense

1076
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: is because our guys probably gonna you know, eventually, he's

1077
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna foul up. It's gonna be hard to do.

1078
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: So you can still be a good quarterback in Tier

1079
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: three and win, and some of those guys have one.

1080
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: But it just means you're gonna probably need a little

1081
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: bit better defense, you know, maybe a little more reliance

1082
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: on your run game to be a competitive team with

1083
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: some questions ultimately of can you win it all with

1084
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: this guy? Right? And fortunately for the Bills, they have

1085
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 1: that defense to lean on. Having a Tier three quarterback

1086
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: is how you've rated Josh. Obviously, now I'm also trying

1087
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: to take a look at the defense is that the

1088
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 1: Bills are going to face. And obviously, defensive rankings change

1089
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: from one year to the next due to the turnover

1090
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 1: that we see in the league. But the bottom line

1091
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: is this. They're going to face the Jets defense that

1092
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 1: admittedly has subtracted some pretty important pieces, but they finished

1093
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:41,720
Speaker 1: seventh last year, and they got to face the Patriots,

1094
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: who are the best defense in the league. But my god,

1095
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: they've had subtractions due to opt outs and free agency departures,

1096
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: at least in the front seven, even though they were

1097
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league. And then they've

1098
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,760
Speaker 1: got the Charger San fran in Pittsburgh, all top five.

1099
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 1: You know, granted, the Chargers finished sixth last year, but

1100
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: they just lost Derwin James. So looking at the defenses

1101
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: and the fact that they've got nine games against quarterbacks

1102
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: who are also in Tier three along with Josh Allen,

1103
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: I'm banking on the Bills defense here, And I don't

1104
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: know how you feel about him, Mike, but let me know, yeah,

1105
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: I do too. And also the thing about Josh is

1106
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: so Josh was one of the biggest risers from last

1107
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: tier too. So a lot of the times, you know,

1108
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: Tier four is sort of like, hey, we've seen enough,

1109
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: but we don't think you're good, or Tier four is

1110
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: we don't have enough information. That's kind of where Josh

1111
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: was before. It just hadn't played a lot. You know,

1112
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: people had their opinions, they didn't like him, or they

1113
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: liked him, whatever. But he made a big move into

1114
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 1: the third tiers. So now what you're hoping is, hey,

1115
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: you got you got Diggs right, You've made some moves.

1116
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: He makes the little growth. No one's expecting him to

1117
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: just suddenly be Mahomes, but be better than some of

1118
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: those other guys in Tier three that you're going against, right,

1119
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: and at least some of the time be the best

1120
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: guy of those guys, and then you take that defense

1121
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: that we know we can rely on. It's been built,

1122
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: it's legitimate, it's like it's more than some of those

1123
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: other ones. It's a known quantity. Now New England just

1124
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, stood on a bunch of bad quarterbacks last

1125
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: year into some extent. I'm sure Buffalo did too in

1126
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 1: the division, but we know Buffalo's defense is good. It's

1127
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: probably better and more reliable than some of those other

1128
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: ones you mentioned that subtracted players or you know, aren't

1129
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: that great. I think Pittsburgh is probably the best defense

1130
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: that they're going to face next year. You also have

1131
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff going on here with not only

1132
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks, but also with comeback games and with

1133
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: this new season coming on. We've talked about, you know,

1134
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: they just played the no punt game from nineteen ninety

1135
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: two with the Bills in the forty nine ers. You

1136
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,439
Speaker 1: had a nice article about the comeback and you talked,

1137
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: I guess to my old coach Marv Levy, who I'm

1138
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: sure that would I'm sure that was a treat to

1139
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: get a chance to interact with Marv. But yeah, what

1140
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: are some of that you we looked back? Are there

1141
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: some of those historic games that maybe you could see

1142
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: maybe a game happening this year or whatever. What would

1143
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: it take for have one of those games, these top

1144
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: ten games, like the greatest comeback in NFL history? What

1145
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: would it take for a team to do that in

1146
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: this regular season? I mean that is that even a

1147
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: possibility that could happen this year? Well, I mean I

1148
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: think we have to look, you know, almost no further,

1149
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: we forget that Mahomes in Kansas City were down twenty

1150
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: four nothing in the playoffs last year. So you probably

1151
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: look for first off, those teams that have the quarterbacks

1152
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: to do it. I think that's what's so remarka about

1153
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: the Bill Bills come back nothing against Frank Reich, but

1154
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: he's not a Hall of Fame quarterback, right. Usually, like

1155
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: there was a great comeback maybe about nineteen eighties. I

1156
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: think it was the forty nine ers against the Saints.

1157
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: Well it is Joe Montana. You know, you might see

1158
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 1: a Dan Fouts throw at fifty times and do it,

1159
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: But I think I start with those teams that have

1160
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that can do it, and then you know,

1161
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: you just need some you need some luck to go

1162
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: your way, and you need a resourceful team that doesn't

1163
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: give up in all those things. But Kansas City, to me,

1164
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: last year, I think they trailed by double digits six

1165
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: times counting playoffs, and they were five and one. So

1166
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: maybe that's the team we look at that you know,

1167
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: can get behind because they're not an all time great defense,

1168
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: but get out of it because their quarterbacks unusual, right,

1169
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: I know. The one play in particular that you highlighted

1170
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: from that game was the fourth and five at the

1171
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: Houston eighteen yard line. So you you guys have already

1172
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: staged the comeback Steve, and it's on because you're only

1173
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: down eleven. It's thirty five, twenty four, and it's fourth

1174
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: and five at the eighteen. No two point conversion still

1175
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Two is early. Yeah, she left

1176
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 1: third quarter. No two point conversion though in the game

1177
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: at this time. So obviously a field goal only does

1178
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: so much for you. Seventeen minutes left in the game

1179
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: and you know, there it is, it's fourth and five. So, Mike,

1180
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: what did you kind of glean from you know, talking

1181
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: to Marvin from and to Frank, Yeah, yeah, I sort

1182
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 1: of almost get a field that, like, you know, these

1183
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: are really smart people, but there's a field to football, too, right,

1184
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: I mean you can kind of feel what you need

1185
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: and what to do. Even Steve Christie, who I spoke with,

1186
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: who's the kicker. You'd think he'd want a chance to

1187
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: kick it. He was like, I kind of felt like

1188
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: that wasn't enough. That we were really pushing it at

1189
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: this point. Andrew Reid said, hey, you get that, you

1190
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: get that team sort of on the run. You got

1191
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: to kind of go for the juggeter, right, And I

1192
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: think Marv was playing off of that, and you know,

1193
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: Frank Reich described kind of looking over at Marv and

1194
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 1: they both you know, hey, I want to go and Marv,

1195
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, just having a great sense for his team,

1196
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: a great feel for his team, and probably knowing too that, hey,

1197
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: you played Houston in weeks seventeen and had trouble with

1198
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 1: their offense, and then Warred Moon throws four touchdowns in

1199
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: the first half. You're probably thinking Warren Moon is gonna

1200
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: score again, too, you know, so you're gonna need all

1201
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: the points you can get at this point. You've come

1202
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: this far, go for it, right, I mean, what are

1203
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: you gonna do lose the game? I mean you already

1204
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: lost the game. At that point. So yeah, it was

1205
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: really fun and interesting too, and no question that once

1206
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: you get there was no doubt that they were going

1207
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: to go for that fourth and five. They were gonna

1208
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: go for it. I know they called a time out

1209
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the article Marv wasn't happy about it.

1210
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: But here's the other thing, the other aspect of it.

1211
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: You talk about having a feel for the game. The

1212
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: Oilers were again us to kick a field goal. They

1213
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: did not. They were they were totally they needed a breath,

1214
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, they were like, man, who ho ho. You know,

1215
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: they just gave up three scores fast, and they were

1216
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: like when we need a breath, you know, just let

1217
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: it hold them to a field goal and we win.

1218
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: Kind of thing. And in that situation I've seen it

1219
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: before in my broadcasting career as well as you know,

1220
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: as a player in this instance where for instance, in

1221
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl forty I think seven of the Saints against

1222
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 1: the Colts or yeah, the Saints against the Colts with

1223
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning when the Saints won, they come out with

1224
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: a surprise on side kick. It's a momentum, it's it's

1225
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: going for it. It's all even when you've got the

1226
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: upper hand to go for it, and the Bills in

1227
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 1: that situation, after scoring three quick touchdowns, they had it.

1228
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: They were going, so let's don't just take a little success,

1229
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: go for it, and that situation marv did, And you're right,

1230
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: the analytics people will give you as a coin flip

1231
01:02:55,960 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: on a fourth and five, not just a fourth and one. Yeah. Yeah,

1232
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: I do like to look at decision making in general

1233
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: from what would the other team want us to do?

1234
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: And I think that's sort of a good way to

1235
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: cut through it. Are they certainly they would be hoping

1236
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: he kicks a field goal and maybe he misses it,

1237
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: but best case scenario is it's still a two score

1238
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: game because it's eight points and there's no two point play,

1239
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: So the owners would love that to still be up

1240
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: by eight, right exactly. And not only that, I think

1241
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: the good thing the thing that Marvos did in terms

1242
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: of end game decision making was he was not only

1243
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 1: looking at his team. He would always look at the

1244
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: opponent and the momentum that they had. And to that

1245
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: point in the game, I mean, Warren Moon was almost perfect.

1246
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 1: I think he was like nineteen to twenty two passing

1247
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 1: or something, and they were just yeah, go I mean,

1248
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: they were just running up and down the field. How

1249
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 1: much is a field goal going to help you when

1250
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: you're trying to climb back into a game where Warren Moon,

1251
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: you know, looks like the best he's ever looked, I mean,

1252
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: where he's a Hall of Famer already. I mean, my god,

1253
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: So I got to be thinking too, like three points

1254
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 1: isn't going to help us out a whole here. I'd

1255
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: like to get seven, I mean, and that I think

1256
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: that was what was good about Marv two, not only

1257
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: recognizing how his team was performing, but how that opponent

1258
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 1: was looking right right yea, and no one in the

1259
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: matchup too. I mean, I think that Houston really struggled

1260
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 1: against the three wide receiver thing that Buffalo was so

1261
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:16,919
Speaker 1: known for. You've got a Hall of Famer and Andre

1262
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: Reid in the slot, and so those good corners of

1263
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: Houston that they had with Jerry Gray, Chris Tishman, those

1264
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,479
Speaker 1: guys are sort of outside, and here's Andre Reid working

1265
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 1: against the nickel guy, and the safety's cheating over to

1266
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: Andrea Lofton, who or James Lofton, who'd had a good

1267
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: week the week before. So maybe they knew that, Hey,

1268
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: you know, Frank probably had eyes like saucers. Right, I

1269
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: want to go go after this guy, and if not,

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Speaker 1: we'll just dump it off to Kenneth Davison, take the

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Speaker 1: first down and keep going right. Right, this is uh

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Speaker 1: We're talking with Mike Sando. We've also you've also wrote

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Speaker 1: something I thought was really really interesting about the youngest

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01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: players in the league who were going to be good

1275
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: and kind of you know, these young players in the

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01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: NFL that are you know, on the you know all

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Speaker 1: under twenty five team, I guess you'd call it. And

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01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: course Pat Mahomes kind of heads the list. And I've

1279
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 1: heard a lot of people say this in our business

1280
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: about how cool it is these young stars are coming

1281
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: up through the ranks. You've got young quarterbacks like Deshaun Watson,

1282
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson in our Josh Allen here and

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01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: then and there was a couple of bills on this

1284
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: all under twenty five team. Tremaine Edmonds was on the list.

1285
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: And also you got to mention about Devin Singletary as well,

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01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: a lot of fun young players to look forward to

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01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: for NFL fans. Yeah, you know, the shocking thing to

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01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: me and looking up on Tremaine Edmonds was he's so

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01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: young that he could set the NFL record for most

1290
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 1: games played before twenty five. He could be like seventy

1291
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,919
Speaker 1: nine to eighty one games somewhere in there. That's unbelievable.

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01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: I mean, this could be a real seasoned veteran who's

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01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 1: still extremely young. With Will maleson adapter, I'm I'm actually

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01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 1: excited about Singletary too. I mean, I think just the

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01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 1: makeup of that position in Buffalo now going younger, having

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01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: a couple of guys you like that you've taken to

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01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 1: the third round, letting him compete just sort of see.

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01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: You know, that's sort of a hot hand position, right,

1299
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if one guy gets going, we're not married

1300
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: to it the same way we are with a quarterback,

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01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: where you don't want to screw up your locker room. Right.

1302
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: So you've got two young guys and can push each other,

1303
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 1: and yet you've you've been able to learn from Frank Gore,

1304
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: who's probably the best guy to learn from almost at

1305
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 1: any position in the league. So, Yeah, the the youth

1306
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: is going to be served at that position in Buffalo,

1307
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: and I think it'll be fun to watch. Yeah, and

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01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 1: even taking it a step further with Ed Oliver, who

1309
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: also got an honorable mention in that Right up, Mike,

1310
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: you know, you look at him, and he was a

1311
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: guy where it seemed to click once he got to

1312
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. He kind of got

1313
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: a feel for what the what the game's like at

1314
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 1: this level and then started to make more of an impact.

1315
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: And you know, we know those three technique players tend

1316
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: to get you know, the most pressed because they make

1317
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: the most plays. And we know that Aaron Donald is

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01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: the standard bearer, you know, among the nive tackles in

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01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: this league. But there's also a group of defensive tackles

1320
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: that are kind of aging out now and we're kind

1321
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: of looking for this influx of new young defensive tackles,

1322
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: penetrator types, and Oliver has got to unquestionably be in

1323
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 1: that mix, right yep, yep. And you mentioned like the

1324
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: you know, the older guy's phasing out. So Gerald mcfoy

1325
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: had the unfortunate injury and he's in his thirties, So yeah,

1326
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: you are looking to these guys. I always felt too that, uh,

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01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 1: you know, when Sean McDermott was in Carolina, I always

1328
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: felt like their defensive players developed, you know, and sometimes

1329
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 1: that it would look real bad for the first five

1330
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: games or whatever, and they'd have some no names secondary

1331
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: and I know his his Forte as a secondary, but

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01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: they would always sort of develop. And I think we've

1333
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 1: seen that, you know, to some extended buffalo too, the

1334
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 1: teaching aspect of it, and for some of these guys

1335
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: is just getting used to the rigors of the pro game.

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01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 1: It's different and it's a hard game at that position,

1337
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 1: you know, upfront defensively. So yeah, another good one to

1338
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: watch who's young on a good defense. Mike Listen, thanks

1339
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: very much for the time. We appreciate all the insight

1340
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: and we'll be sure to steer some people towards this

1341
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: strength of schedule piece. It's kind of an interesting way

1342
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:07,000
Speaker 1: to look at it, So thanks for the time and

1343
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: your creativity. Thank you, all right. Thanks Say Mayando, senior

1344
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: NFL writer for The Athletic, joining us here on one

1345
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, and yeah, if you get a chance, you

1346
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: should check that story out. It's just a different way

1347
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: to look at the schedule and knowing how much roster's

1348
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 1: changed from one from the end of one season to

1349
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 1: the beginning of the next. He's right, one of the

1350
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 1: few constants for most teams is the quarterback position, especially

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01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 1: once you found your starter, and so it was an

1352
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 1: interesting way to kind of gauge a team's strength of

1353
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 1: schedule based on the quarterbacks they will face. And yes,

1354
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 1: the Bills are going to face two of the best

1355
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:43,640
Speaker 1: in the league and Russell Wilson and Pat Mahomes, but

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01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: beyond that it's relatively manageable. From an opposing quarterback standpoint,

1357
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 1: we really don't know what to expect from Roethlisberger. I

1358
01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: think most people are expecting him to bounce back and

1359
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 1: be the way he always was, but you just never know.

1360
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: And in these closed training camps, who's to say, because

1361
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: no one's really had a look at him in a

1362
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: game situation with no preseason. But after that, according to

1363
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: his rite up, you know you got nine games against

1364
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: Tier three quarterback opponents, whether it's David Carr, Sam Darnold,

1365
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Ryan Tannehill, Cam Newton, and Cam is another

1366
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: question mark. He could very quickly move up into Tier

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01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 1: two if he's back on and healthy and can stay

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01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: that way and his shoulders completely recovered, where he can

1369
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 1: throw every ball to every point of the field, and

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01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 1: then you have Kyler Murray, who's another guy who I

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01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,759
Speaker 1: think could climb into Tier two if he puts together

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01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 1: a good season this season. And then you have Jimmy Garoppolo.

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01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 1: If with Josh Allen and his quarterback rating in this

1374
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 1: is three point zero four, that's his that's his tier

1375
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: tier Tier three. The other guys are, you know, scattered

1376
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: about us. So if you if with the Bill's defense,

1377
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 1: the only guy that could you could look at and say, well,

1378
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: he's a Tier three guy, but he also has a

1379
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: good defense would probably be Jimmy Garoppolo for San Francisco.

1380
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 1: And if he give that to defense in the league

1381
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: right exactly, so the Bills. If the Bills go with

1382
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: against all the Tier three guys that he has, that's

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01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: seven wins. That includes a win against Jimmy Garoppolo and

1384
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:15,880
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and then they beat the three Tier four teams,

1385
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: or even if they do beat that, they could still

1386
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: lose to Garoppolo and beat Ryan Fitzpatrick twice. That's still

1387
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:26,680
Speaker 1: ten wins. Yeah, that's still ten wins. After seeing this

1388
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 1: and then because I saw this the way that Mike

1389
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 1: kind of shape this story, I said, Okay, that's interesting.

1390
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: You know, if you're playing really good quarterbacks, it can

1391
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: be hard to win in this league. And seeing that

1392
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 1: the Bills are only facing two true elite ones in

1393
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Pat Mahomes, and then nine that are okay,

1394
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: you know, but are probably on a plane with Josh

1395
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: Allen in terms of ability, and then you know, you

1396
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: have one more game against the tier two quarterback like

1397
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, who's got an outstanding defense on the other

1398
01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: side of him. My hopes were buoyed that they could

1399
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 1: get to ten wins this year, and people are saying, wow,

1400
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: how could you say only ten wins? They're going to

1401
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: get some good defenses this year. I mean the Jets

1402
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: very quietly were the seventh ranked defense in football, number

1403
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: two against the run. And yes, they lost their best

1404
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: linebacker to an opt out they trade and they traded

1405
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: away Jamal Adams. That is going to be tough, but

1406
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 1: Quinn and Williams looks healthy. All indications from down there

1407
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:30,600
Speaker 1: is their top pick from the twenty nineteen draft is

1408
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:33,280
Speaker 1: loaded for Bear and wants to redeem himself after a

1409
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: very down rookie season. So that front is going to

1410
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:39,559
Speaker 1: be pretty good, and they've tried to fill some holes

1411
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: in the secondary. It's going to be a work in progress,

1412
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:44,040
Speaker 1: but somehow, some way, Greg Williams seems to be able

1413
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: to make an effective defense. So you have the Jets

1414
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 1: right off the bat. The Patriots are they're going to

1415
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:49,679
Speaker 1: be number one in the league this year. I highly

1416
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 1: doubt it. But the secondary is still pretty damn good.

1417
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: They'll still be top ten, and they'll still be top ten.

1418
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 1: And if there's and if there's something that Bill Belichick

1419
01:11:57,520 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: is always able to do, even when his defensive unity

1420
01:11:59,920 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: is devoid of top end talent from front to back,

1421
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:04,679
Speaker 1: they're able to keep people out of the end zone

1422
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. They're in the top ten

1423
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 1: and points allowed, and that ultimately is what means wins

1424
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: or losses. So they're gonna still be relatively good. The

1425
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 1: Charges are a surprising sixth in total defense last year.

1426
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: I had no idea they were that good. I don't

1427
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 1: know how that went by the board on me, but

1428
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 1: they were fifth against the past last year. Now that's

1429
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: gonna suffer with Derwin James out for the season, so

1430
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:27,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna be top five against

1431
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 1: the pass. And you have to believe with what they

1432
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:32,680
Speaker 1: have at quarterback. Their defense is going to be on

1433
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:34,640
Speaker 1: the field a whole lot more this year than they

1434
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 1: were last year with Philip Rivers. So I don't know

1435
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: if they're going to repeat as a top ten defense

1436
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: this year. San fran They're gonna probably still be right

1437
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: where they are. That's gonna be a tough game. They're

1438
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: gonna be good. That's a road game. It's on Monday night, right,

1439
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 1: It's yeah, that's listen. You you stroll in to San

1440
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 1: Francisco December seventh and beat that team. Things have gone

1441
01:12:57,400 --> 01:12:58,920
Speaker 1: really well for you up to that point. I mean,

1442
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna be sitting the best case scenari even

1443
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: if you lose. If you go in that game and

1444
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:06,439
Speaker 1: it's a it's a big game. At that point, you

1445
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 1: want to see that like precursores. That's when you're that's

1446
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,759
Speaker 1: when you think that the Bills have arrived and no question.

1447
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: And I thought it was interesting that Mike thought the

1448
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 1: best defense that the Bills are going to face this

1449
01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 1: year is Pittsburgh, which I think you can make an

1450
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 1: argument for that because think about this, Steve. The Steelers

1451
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 1: last year were the number five defense in football. They

1452
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: were third against the pass, and they did it with

1453
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: people named Duck Hodges right at quarterback. I mean, their

1454
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: offense was riddled with injuries. No James Connor, Juju Smith

1455
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: Schuster missed almost half the year, and Ben missed almost

1456
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: the entire year. I mean, they had nothing on offense,

1457
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 1: and they still had the number five defense in football

1458
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,680
Speaker 1: and the number three pass defense in football. And now

1459
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,600
Speaker 1: you've got Ben back. Yeah, Ben's a difference maker. I

1460
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: don't I know that he's off the radar because he's

1461
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,519
Speaker 1: gone and people have all their you know, ideas about

1462
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 1: all these guys quarterbacks we've seen played for so many years.

1463
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 1: That's going to be a guy that guy can sling it.

1464
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:07,599
Speaker 1: That's he can still get it done, and that's that's

1465
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: gonna be the difference for Pittsburgh this year. Shockingly, I

1466
01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 1: think it is still a defense that doesn't get enough

1467
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: respect around the league. I think because of the fact

1468
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: that they missed the playoffs last year. But you think

1469
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: about that, the way that defense hung in last year

1470
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 1: in the game against the Bills, which oh, by the way,

1471
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: no Roethlisberger, no James Connor, no Joeju Smith Schuster in

1472
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: that game. And I mean they're in it till the end.

1473
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 1: I mean, until the Bills make a big play coming

1474
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 1: out of the renegade break and then you know, Tyler

1475
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: Croft with a touchdown catch which proved to be the

1476
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 1: game winning points seventeen tens of your final I mean,

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01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 1: it's a nip and tuck game all the way with

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01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: Duck Hodges a quarterback. For that. I would say this though,

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01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 1: even with that, they're they're in that stadium on the road. Yeah, um, yeah,

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01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 1: the game's here this year, so that's good. It will

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01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 1: make it well, yeah, Sunday night game forget it. Yeah,

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01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: you were gonna say it, and you remember, I don't

1483
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 1: want and speaking of that talking because we do it. Yeah,

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01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 1: I know. Well, hey, maybe it's different by that. It

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01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: might be, and if that's late in the year, it's

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01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: still better to be It's still better to be in

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01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: your joint than than traveling on the road. I think

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01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:15,919
Speaker 1: it should because because listen, I've I've had this conversation

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01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: with myself, and myself answered me that you think about yes,

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01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:24,680
Speaker 1: think about this as a as a professional guy on

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01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: a professional athlete, football player. It's particularly in the year

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01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:30,400
Speaker 1: like this, it's kind of about the team these guys

1493
01:15:30,439 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 1: are sequestered from everybody. I mean they can't even they

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01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: can't even talk to the seven eleven clerk, right, I mean,

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01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:38,679
Speaker 1: they can't go out. So it's all about the team

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01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:43,640
Speaker 1: going on the road and being on the plane and

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01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:45,599
Speaker 1: being in the hotel and having meetings in a new

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01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: place and being with the guys. It'll be kind of

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01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:52,600
Speaker 1: it'll be like a break. It'll be refreshing to go

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01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: on the road and get out and get out new surroundings.

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01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 1: I'm thinking teams may be better on the road the

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01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: year then at home, m I know, because they're not

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01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:05,560
Speaker 1: gonna have the crowd to deal with. I know the

1504
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: Seahawks were. They were six and two or six and

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01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:09,719
Speaker 1: two or seven and one on the road. Good teams

1506
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 1: were always good everywhere they weren't. They weren't good at home,

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01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 1: but they were good on the road. But you know

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01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: what I mean, can you get my idea? And how

1509
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 1: we because think about this Brown, We've all everybody out

1510
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 1: there has done this. You're you're in March, you're in April,

1511
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 1: and the pandemic is just hammering it right, So we're

1512
01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: you're sitting and then finally something breaks all of a sudden,

1513
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 1: like the weather gets good and you get a chance

1514
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 1: to go out and we can go play golf or something.

1515
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: We go out and play golf on the first nice day.

1516
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 1: It's packed. Everybody's socially distance on the mask and stuff.

1517
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 1: But it's like, wow, this is great. Let's not forget

1518
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 1: May twentieth. It was still snowing here, right, but you

1519
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: get my point. The first time you get a chance

1520
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:49,719
Speaker 1: to bust loose, it was like, pooh, this is really cool.

1521
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:51,599
Speaker 1: That's what it's gonna be like on the road early

1522
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 1: in the season that players are gonna actually look forward

1523
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 1: to the break of going on the road and doing

1524
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 1: something different. Speaking of a break, we have to take

1525
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,600
Speaker 1: teams road teams. All right, I'm gonna hold you to that.

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01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:07,759
Speaker 1: What's today's date? Today is uh September one, Steve Tasker says, teams,

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01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: watch out. Okay, I'm writing that down. We'll make a

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01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:12,760
Speaker 1: note of that, and we'll have our people in the

1529
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: control room also record this so we have it for

1530
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,120
Speaker 1: the archives. Play this back. We'll play this. We'll play

1531
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 1: this back and see how Steve does. We do have

1532
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 1: to step aside, but when we do return, we will

1533
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 1: also be talking about your latest NFL COVID update as

1534
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: JC Tretter, the president of the NFL Players Association, is

1535
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 1: pushing for daily testing to continue beyond Saturday's deadline of

1536
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 1: September fifth. We'll have more on that when we return

1537
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

1538
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One

1539
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 1: Bills Live cow many of from the Seneca Studios at

1540
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:03,600
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive in Orchard Park, and we wanted to

1541
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:10,439
Speaker 1: provide the latest NFL COVID update and the intrepid reporting

1542
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 1: work of NFL Networks. Tom Pella Sero is assisting in this.

1543
01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:17,720
Speaker 1: But one JC Tredder, who is an offensive lineman for

1544
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:21,439
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, is also the NFLPA president, and he

1545
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:24,680
Speaker 1: put together acrom New York native that is true, and

1546
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:30,560
Speaker 1: he put together a long letter out on the NFLPA

1547
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:37,560
Speaker 1: site where he basically advocated for daily testing, which is

1548
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: going on now, for players and coaches to continue beyond

1549
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 1: the September fifth date when the daily testing is scheduled

1550
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:50,360
Speaker 1: to end. And he's listed a bunch of reasons to

1551
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 1: do that, but he essentially was saying we must remain

1552
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 1: vigilant to avoid getting lax with protocol enforcement, and he

1553
01:18:57,120 --> 01:18:59,599
Speaker 1: believes that the key to that is to continue daily

1554
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 1: test going forward. It does not sound as though there

1555
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 1: is a whole lot of pushback from the NFL on that.

1556
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: I think ultimately what they want are they want games.

1557
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,120
Speaker 1: So if they feel that the extra investment needs to

1558
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: be made to pay for daily testing, they're going to

1559
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 1: do it. We already know the wheels are turning for

1560
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: this point of care testing. In the event that a

1561
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 1: false positive shows up on a Friday, they want point

1562
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 1: of care testing available where they can get that first negative,

1563
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:31,639
Speaker 1: then take another regular COVID test which hopefully comes back

1564
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: by Saturday and thereby clear as a players so they

1565
01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: can get on the field Sunday in the event of

1566
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: a late in the week positive tests false positive. I

1567
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: should say, like we saw a couple of weeks ago

1568
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:43,560
Speaker 1: when players like Josh Allen and even some of the

1569
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: Bill's staff members got false positives and couldn't show up

1570
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: for practice one day. So those wheels are already turning.

1571
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 1: But Tom Palaceero from NFL Network was tweeting earlier today

1572
01:19:53,479 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: he said the NFL send clubs updated COVID nineteen protocols

1573
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:00,719
Speaker 1: that allow players and other team personnel with a preliminary

1574
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: positive test to return to club facilities the same day

1575
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 1: if a rerun and a point of point of care

1576
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:13,680
Speaker 1: test both come back negative, streamlining the protocols with the

1577
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 1: season ten days away, he said, Previously, anyone with a

1578
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: preliminary positive test needed to wait at least twenty four

1579
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 1: hours for another PCR test to come back negative as well.

1580
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:26,680
Speaker 1: The change is important because it accelerates the process of

1581
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:31,840
Speaker 1: identifying the false positives in season testing. Cadence is still

1582
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: being finalized, but it's it's hard to argue with daily testing, Steve.

1583
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:41,680
Speaker 1: It's it's more effective in getting players back on the

1584
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: field in the event of a false positive or to

1585
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 1: rule out the possibility of a false It's not the

1586
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: testing that's the issue. It's how fast they can get

1587
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:56,519
Speaker 1: the results right. It is the turnaround. Yeah, that's what

1588
01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: they want to get their guys. They don't want to

1589
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 1: lose important players to a positive that's not legitimate. That nobody. Yeah,

1590
01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:08,000
Speaker 1: if they had this point of care test and the

1591
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: new tests that are coming out that I've heard about,

1592
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:14,559
Speaker 1: you know, these these fifteen minute tests that come back quickly,

1593
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:17,280
Speaker 1: or this test that he comes back and the results

1594
01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:21,960
Speaker 1: are fifteen minutes that and given the efficacy of that,

1595
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: if it if it is indeed a ninety nine percent

1596
01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 1: or ninety seven percent correct return, that's what you're looking for,

1597
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 1: and that is the critical thing. And nobody cares how often,

1598
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 1: if particularly if it's a cheap test, test them twice

1599
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: a day. Nobody cares. Yeah, but it's the fact that

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01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,200
Speaker 1: you've got to get it turned around, and that's the

1601
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 1: that's the big issue. So if so, if the point

1602
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:49,720
Speaker 1: of care test is positive, it's treated as a new

1603
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:53,639
Speaker 1: confirmed positive case, which is then subject to a whole

1604
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:57,479
Speaker 1: bunch of additional protocols. So if the rerun is positive

1605
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: but the point of care test is negative, then the

1606
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,599
Speaker 1: person still stays away until at least the next day,

1607
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: pending the results of that second COVID test, which takes

1608
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: twenty four hours to come back. So there are still

1609
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 1: ways that a player with a positive can still be detained,

1610
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:20,000
Speaker 1: and it is going to take some time, but they're

1611
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: trying to create as many avenues as possible to get

1612
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: the player back with the team as soon as possible.

1613
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 1: In the event that there's a false positive, which we've

1614
01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 1: already seen happen with a contaminated lab in New Jersey

1615
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: leading to false positive tests down there. I do give

1616
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 1: JC treddor credit. This is not just a one sided Hey, NFL,

1617
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:43,719
Speaker 1: get your act together. We have to continue daily testing

1618
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: after September fifth. He was also trying to police his

1619
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:52,639
Speaker 1: own his own rank and file union members by telling them, hey,

1620
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 1: we all got to make some small sacrifices here. We know,

1621
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: going out to dinner is a lot more fun than

1622
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 1: ordering in, but it's all all sacrifice that we have

1623
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 1: to make if we all want to collect game checks

1624
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:06,640
Speaker 1: on Mondays for sixteen weeks or seventeen weeks. We've had

1625
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:10,440
Speaker 1: this conversation as well. This this coming week, the deadline

1626
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:12,599
Speaker 1: for the cuts in the National Football League. They're going

1627
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: down from seven to bills seventy eight, seventy nine guys

1628
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:20,280
Speaker 1: down to fifty three. That's gonna be a real issue

1629
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 1: because the teams will talk to these guys and they'll say, listen,

1630
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 1: we're the typically goes like this, and we'll be interested

1631
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: in bringing you back if we need it, or we're

1632
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: going to be interested in signing you to our practice roster,

1633
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:37,720
Speaker 1: practice squad, you know, on Sunday or Monday, whenever the

1634
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: window is that they can sign guys back onto their

1635
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: practice squad will be interested in doing that in twenty

1636
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 1: four hours when that happens, So don't. And then they

1637
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: got to say this kid that no longer works for them.

1638
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 1: Continue to socially distanced because you're gonna be back in

1639
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 1: the building if you test me, So don't do it. Well,

1640
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: that's great unless it's seventy two hours before you need

1641
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,600
Speaker 1: that guy back and it's been three days and he

1642
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: gets the ideas like, Okay, I'm done, I'm gonna go out.

1643
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know what. I'm going to Chippewa, I'm

1644
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 1: you know, I'm or you know whatever. I'm going to

1645
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: Bourbon Street, I'm going to you know, Park Having, I'm

1646
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:16,560
Speaker 1: going wherever I want, you know, west, I'm going to

1647
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: West End in Kansas. Whatever they're cutting loose. Then I'm done.

1648
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: I've been sequestered for four weeks doing this thing and

1649
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:25,160
Speaker 1: they cut me. I'm done. Though, then they do that,

1650
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: then they do contract it. He gotta get them back

1651
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 1: in the build. Right, it's a problem, and it could happen.

1652
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen, right, I think it's less likely to

1653
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 1: happen in places that are pretty buttoned up Buffalo as

1654
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: an example, because you better believe every player that's trimmed

1655
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: off this roster, they're gonna implore them to keep doing right,

1656
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, by COVID standards here, because hey, we could

1657
01:24:55,439 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: call you up because we may need you in three

1658
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:01,599
Speaker 1: days or reading tend to put you on the practice squad.

1659
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 1: And if we have an outbreak here during the season

1660
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:07,599
Speaker 1: because somebody caught something in you know, on the road

1661
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 1: when we were traveling, you're gonna be up. You're gonna

1662
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:13,639
Speaker 1: be called up to the active roster in week three

1663
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: or four. Right Like, anything is possible here. So if

1664
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:21,720
Speaker 1: that's important to you, keep doing right by yourself and

1665
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:25,840
Speaker 1: your own chance at an NFL livelihood for a few

1666
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 1: extra days, that's how it will be presented. I'm pretty

1667
01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 1: confident by this coaching staff two players that are trimmed

1668
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:34,320
Speaker 1: off this roster don't think this is the end of

1669
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: the road here. This could just be the beginning based

1670
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 1: on how unpredictable this season is going to be. That's right,

1671
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 1: and that's where it's going to be difficult for young

1672
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 1: players to stay button without the constant you know, accountability

1673
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 1: of being in the building, accountability of seeing everybody wearing masks,

1674
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: the accountability of being a part of it and being contributor,

1675
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 1: and going out to practice and talking to the guys,

1676
01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,240
Speaker 1: and when you're you're sitting home in your apartment or

1677
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: your hotel room or wherever it is, you're you know

1678
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:04,519
Speaker 1: how hard that is? Well, you do know how I mean,

1679
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 1: everybody can relate to how hard that is to feel

1680
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 1: like you're part of the team when you ain't part

1681
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:11,320
Speaker 1: of the team. To act like you're part of the

1682
01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 1: team when you're not part of the team. You're you're like,

1683
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:17,640
Speaker 1: you know, you don't count. You know, it's hard to

1684
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 1: do that. So it's like, you know what, I Am

1685
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 1: going to go out for pizza. I don't care, you know.

1686
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:24,720
Speaker 1: So it's that's the real test for some of these

1687
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:26,800
Speaker 1: young guys who if they really want to give it

1688
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:29,000
Speaker 1: every shot they want to, it's going to be difficult

1689
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:32,759
Speaker 1: for them to think about this too. Staying in shape,

1690
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:38,680
Speaker 1: working out, and stay in socially distanced with no guarantee

1691
01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: that you're going to get called back up. Yeah, that's

1692
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 1: that's a big ask. All Right, we have to take

1693
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 1: a break, but we will get your thoughts on the

1694
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: tweet sheet as we are asking you for your top

1695
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 1: three players that you're rooting for to make the Bills

1696
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:53,640
Speaker 1: roster here in twenty twenty. We'll get to some of

1697
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 1: your thoughts next here on one Bills Live, presented by

1698
01:26:56,360 --> 01:27:11,639
Speaker 1: Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Chris Brown

1699
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:14,120
Speaker 1: Steve taking with you here on one Bills Live, motoring

1700
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:17,040
Speaker 1: through a Tuesday edition of the program. And we want

1701
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 1: to get back to your thoughts as we've been asking

1702
01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 1: you for your top three players that you're rooting for

1703
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 1: to make the twenty twenty Bills roster. And we go

1704
01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:27,680
Speaker 1: right to the tweet sheet, which is brought to you

1705
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

1706
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:35,479
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and from Steve, he says, initially my

1707
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 1: top favorite was Tyler Bass, but he already won the

1708
01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:43,280
Speaker 1: job beyond Bass Reggie gilliam because he can play tight end, fullback,

1709
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:46,679
Speaker 1: and special teams. His versatility helps keep my second favorite,

1710
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: Duke Williams as the seventh receiver. I don't know if

1711
01:27:50,920 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: this team's keeping seven wide outs, they might. I think

1712
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 1: they could do it. They gotta you gotta Rob from

1713
01:27:56,760 --> 01:27:58,599
Speaker 1: Peter to pay Paul though you're gonna have to cut

1714
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:01,840
Speaker 1: somewhere else, you know, trim the numbers somewhere else. Yeah,

1715
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:07,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Maybe, man, maybe it's

1716
01:28:07,240 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 1: really hard and versus when you get down into the

1717
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:15,600
Speaker 1: the backups. So like the back three receivers from the

1718
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:23,800
Speaker 1: first three receivers, versatility becomes crucial. So you've got but

1719
01:28:24,080 --> 01:28:27,479
Speaker 1: in our in our estimation, you got Robert Foster, who's

1720
01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: a deep ball guy, Duke Williams, who is a big, physical,

1721
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: fifty fifty ball guy, and Isaiah McKenzie who is a

1722
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: jitter sweet guy. None of them, I don't know. Now

1723
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: McKenzie is also a slash return man. Uh so that

1724
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: gives you some stuff, but the other but it starts

1725
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 1: to the skill sets start to get smaller as you

1726
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:55,400
Speaker 1: go down that list. Same thing with you know, offensive

1727
01:28:55,439 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 1: lineman and you know the backups behind the offensive line,

1728
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 1: us position, flexibility to play guard and tackle. You got

1729
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:03,560
Speaker 1: to play guard and center. You know, you got to

1730
01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 1: play you know that kind of thing. So we don't

1731
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:12,360
Speaker 1: know any that about these guys, particularly these young rookie

1732
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: free agents. I mean, we were going down this list

1733
01:29:14,240 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: and there's guys, well he mentioned Reggie Gilliam, who he

1734
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 1: likes at the freeback position, and obviously he's got He's

1735
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:21,960
Speaker 1: had a tremendous opportunity just by virtue of the fact

1736
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:24,560
Speaker 1: that Pat de Marco has missed almost the balance of

1737
01:29:24,640 --> 01:29:27,799
Speaker 1: camp with his neck injury. And you hope it's not serious,

1738
01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:31,920
Speaker 1: but he's missed a considerable amount of time here. And

1739
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:34,280
Speaker 1: I know they think a lot of Pat de Marco.

1740
01:29:34,479 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 1: As we were saying on the show yesterday, he's a

1741
01:29:36,439 --> 01:29:40,160
Speaker 1: glue guy in this locker room, you know, much the

1742
01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: same way Trent Murphy is, you know, but Trent Murphy

1743
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:45,840
Speaker 1: has a fat cat number cap number, and he's at

1744
01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 1: a deep position they are going for this year. I

1745
01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 1: think there's no question about that. Do you keep the

1746
01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:53,240
Speaker 1: veteran knowing you're probably gonna be in the playoffs and

1747
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:55,960
Speaker 1: you want that experience, or do you turn the page

1748
01:29:56,520 --> 01:29:59,720
Speaker 1: to try to help yourself with a sharply reduced cap

1749
01:29:59,840 --> 01:30:02,120
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. I think it also comes down

1750
01:30:02,200 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: to total contribution, not just on the field position, on

1751
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 1: the not just on the field play, but also meeting experience,

1752
01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 1: communicative skills, the mentoring aspect of this player development thing

1753
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:18,040
Speaker 1: that the bills have had gone for the last three years.

1754
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 1: Do they give you something, something anything? On special teams?

1755
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 1: Are they flexible in their position? So it's not all

1756
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:28,880
Speaker 1: not all, you know, for a guy like Trent Williams,

1757
01:30:28,880 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 1: it's not all about you know the fact that he plays,

1758
01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: you know, left defensive end in a four to three.

1759
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:38,120
Speaker 1: It's also about canny. How's he helping ed Oliver, How's

1760
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 1: he helping a Japaneza, How's he helping Mario Addison all

1761
01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:42,640
Speaker 1: these other guys? How is he in the meetings? Is

1762
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:44,400
Speaker 1: he helping out? You know? That kind of stuff? Is it?

1763
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 1: Does he speak up in the locker room? Do guys

1764
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:50,120
Speaker 1: look to him for advice that when he speaks, how

1765
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 1: many guys are stopping what they're doing. I'm making sure

1766
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:56,679
Speaker 1: they hear it. That's all that goes into every guy's bucket.

1767
01:30:57,680 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 1: Veterans certainly are in a better position to be those

1768
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 1: kind of guys. And that speaks to Trent Murphy speaks

1769
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 1: to Starlo tu Lela speaks to Now, it's speaking to

1770
01:31:06,240 --> 01:31:08,640
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds and he's like, what now he's in his

1771
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:13,320
Speaker 1: twenty early twenties. But that's all the bucket that goes

1772
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 1: into and then the coaches look for and if they

1773
01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:18,360
Speaker 1: get well, if if we lose Paton DeMarco as a fullback,

1774
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: do we gain it over here with you know whoever?

1775
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: You know Aja Panezza or is Ed Oliver going to

1776
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 1: take a step forward. We have designs on guys who

1777
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 1: can step up and be that guy. That's a decision

1778
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 1: only the coaches can make. From Tiffany, my top three

1779
01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:39,560
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie speedy, versatile wide receiver that opens up a

1780
01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:42,439
Speaker 1: ton of offensive formations. Trent Murphy, I feel his best

1781
01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 1: football is yet to come. Can never have too many

1782
01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 1: pass rushers and Vashon Joseph injuries sidelined him last year.

1783
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 1: In my opinion, he had potential to fit this defense.

1784
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:53,679
Speaker 1: They did like what Vashon Joseph brought to the table.

1785
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:56,360
Speaker 1: I know Leslie Fraser last week in his conference call

1786
01:31:56,439 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 1: with the media was talking about how he could play

1787
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 1: multiple positions across the linebacker front there at the second

1788
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,880
Speaker 1: level of the defense. And so the unfortunate thing for

1789
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:09,000
Speaker 1: him is he just went down with an injury a

1790
01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:11,080
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. I think they're expecting to get

1791
01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:13,680
Speaker 1: him back sooner rather than later. But we'll just have

1792
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:16,120
Speaker 1: to wait and see and time off the field is

1793
01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 1: not going to help him, knowing he missed his entire

1794
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:23,559
Speaker 1: rookie season. Because what Leslie Frazier said was what Vashan

1795
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: needs his reps. Yeah, because he got almost none last

1796
01:32:27,320 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 1: year after he went down with the injury that landed

1797
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:31,960
Speaker 1: him on injury reserve. So it's a guy that needs

1798
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 1: reps and is essentially he's still a rookie if you

1799
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:36,720
Speaker 1: think about it, he's twenty two and he's in his

1800
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: second year and he's twenty two out of floor to

1801
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 1: six one, two thirty, I mean the guys. But he

1802
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 1: got no time on the field in this scheme. He

1803
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 1: had a torn peck? Did he it was a shoulder

1804
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:47,800
Speaker 1: or a chest? I can't remember. It was an upper

1805
01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:51,240
Speaker 1: body injury NHL injury. It's an upper body injury. But yeah,

1806
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:53,960
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. He they drafted him last

1807
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:56,320
Speaker 1: year and they said, well, he already got Tremaine Edmonds.

1808
01:32:56,400 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 1: Why you know, why the Sean Joseph. What's he gonna do?

1809
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:02,559
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's he's got some athletic ability. They like him.

1810
01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: And but like you said, I your second year, you

1811
01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:10,760
Speaker 1: get injured after you're losing most of your first year.

1812
01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:15,040
Speaker 1: It's like, that's a hard pill to swallow, really hard

1813
01:33:15,120 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 1: pill to swallow. That happened to me. That's how I

1814
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:20,040
Speaker 1: became a Bill. So the team just gets like a

1815
01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:23,760
Speaker 1: little bit impatient with you, and they're like, you know,

1816
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:27,200
Speaker 1: that's where it goes. Hey, they're not all great decisions,

1817
01:33:27,280 --> 01:33:29,560
Speaker 1: but sometimes you have to make them anyway, right, And

1818
01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna have to part with some good

1819
01:33:32,240 --> 01:33:34,760
Speaker 1: players just because they can't keep all of them, because

1820
01:33:34,760 --> 01:33:37,280
Speaker 1: it's just a simple matter of mathematics. They got to

1821
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 1: make the decisions that are best for them in the

1822
01:33:39,439 --> 01:33:42,559
Speaker 1: here and now because in the future, you know, nineteen

1823
01:33:42,640 --> 01:33:45,840
Speaker 1: guys may leave, or you might lose four guys. Whatever

1824
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 1: you can't gonna happen. So do what's best for the

1825
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 1: here and now with this team, with this roster, and

1826
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 1: then you know, just live with it. That's what you

1827
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 1: got to do. And it's that's why these decisions are

1828
01:33:55,400 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 1: so difficult, because you're cutting or he sing things that, man,

1829
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:06,120
Speaker 1: if it all spun positive, wow, you'd be better. You know,

1830
01:34:06,240 --> 01:34:09,280
Speaker 1: the potential is there for these guys to really skyrock

1831
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:12,519
Speaker 1: and all estuf, but you can't. You can't pin your

1832
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:14,360
Speaker 1: wagons to that you've got to go with the here

1833
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:16,200
Speaker 1: and now and the guys that have actually done it

1834
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:18,000
Speaker 1: this year in this camp and are ready to go

1835
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 1: right now. We will get to more of your thoughts

1836
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet when we come back from break.

1837
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:27,240
Speaker 1: We're also going to hear from one Levi Wallace, who

1838
01:34:27,360 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 1: was made available to the media, and among the other

1839
01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:34,360
Speaker 1: things he talked about was the increased competition he's facing

1840
01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:37,640
Speaker 1: every day at that wide receiver position that we've been

1841
01:34:37,680 --> 01:34:42,200
Speaker 1: talking about. He also has some advice for undrafted free agents,

1842
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:45,640
Speaker 1: being one himself. So we'll get to those comments from

1843
01:34:45,720 --> 01:34:48,439
Speaker 1: Levi when we return here on One Bills Live, presented

1844
01:34:48,479 --> 01:35:03,360
Speaker 1: by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Hills

1845
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:08,639
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Update, Your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1846
01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:11,920
Speaker 1: The Bills added linebacker Andre Smith to their roster via

1847
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 1: trade late yesterday. Buffalo traded away a conditional draft choice

1848
01:35:14,960 --> 01:35:18,240
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three in exchange for the linebacker who

1849
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:21,360
Speaker 1: spent the last two seasons in Carolina. A former seventh

1850
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 1: round pick, Smith played in sixteen games for the Panthers

1851
01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:27,880
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen and played a large role on special teams.

1852
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:31,439
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are finalizing new six year contracts for head

1853
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:35,040
Speaker 1: coach Andy Reid and general manager Brett Beach. The deal's

1854
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:37,679
Speaker 1: tie Read and Beach to Kansas City through the twenty

1855
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:42,000
Speaker 1: twenty five campaign. It continues a successful offseason for the

1856
01:35:42,080 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl Chats. They signed Patrick Mahomes to a

1857
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:48,280
Speaker 1: ten year extension, Chris Jones to a four year contract,

1858
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:53,080
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey's contract was extended an additional four seasons.

1859
01:35:53,520 --> 01:35:56,839
Speaker 1: Chargers All star DV Derwin James will need meniscus surgery

1860
01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 1: and will now miss the twenty twenty season. It's report

1861
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 1: it will be out six to eight months. The Chargers

1862
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:05,600
Speaker 1: drafted James seventeenth overall in the twenty eighteen draft and

1863
01:36:05,960 --> 01:36:09,479
Speaker 1: washed him immediately blossom into an All pro safety. Then

1864
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:12,840
Speaker 1: he missed the first eleven games last year where a

1865
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:15,680
Speaker 1: fracture in his right foot to the ice. Just two

1866
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:18,800
Speaker 1: games on Tonight's Stanley Cup Playoffs slate, the Islanders looking

1867
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:21,400
Speaker 1: to close out their series with the Flyers as they

1868
01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:23,840
Speaker 1: leave that series three games to one. Tonight, it's the

1869
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:27,520
Speaker 1: Canucks and Golden Knights Vancouver on the brink of elimination

1870
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:31,240
Speaker 1: as they trail that series three games to one. And

1871
01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:33,760
Speaker 1: some Sabers news. The team announced this afternoon that the

1872
01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:36,639
Speaker 1: team is named Matt Ellis Director of player Development. Ellis,

1873
01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: who played with the Sabers from two thousand and nine

1874
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:41,280
Speaker 1: to twenty fifteen over his nine seasons in the league,

1875
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:44,240
Speaker 1: has spent the past four years working for the Academy

1876
01:36:44,280 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 1: of Hockey at Lake Com Harbor Center. He started as

1877
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 1: a development coach and was named director just last September.

1878
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:54,000
Speaker 1: And that is your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1879
01:36:54,360 --> 01:36:56,760
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as we begin our

1880
01:36:56,880 --> 01:37:00,400
Speaker 1: number three of the program, and we will be getting

1881
01:37:00,439 --> 01:37:02,439
Speaker 1: back to your thoughts on the tweet sheet as we're

1882
01:37:02,479 --> 01:37:05,439
Speaker 1: asking you for your top three players that you're rooting

1883
01:37:05,479 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 1: for to make the Bill's roster here in twenty twenty,

1884
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: so be sure to chime in at One Bill's Drive

1885
01:37:10,280 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 1: with that. But we also wanted to get to some

1886
01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:18,160
Speaker 1: comments made by one Levi Wallace. Levi Wallace was supposed

1887
01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 1: to be part of what was anticipated to be a

1888
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:24,920
Speaker 1: pretty intense competition for the starting right cornerback job, but

1889
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:27,720
Speaker 1: Josh Norman went down with a hamstring injury the first

1890
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:30,120
Speaker 1: week of camp and has not been back on the

1891
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 1: field in full capacity. Yet, although we did see that

1892
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:36,680
Speaker 1: he is closing in on or return. Some of the

1893
01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:39,479
Speaker 1: local news media outlets were filming him doing some work

1894
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 1: on the side, going through the cones and through some

1895
01:37:44,160 --> 01:37:47,080
Speaker 1: of those step over things that are just about four

1896
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 1: or five inches off the ground. How specific were they

1897
01:37:49,439 --> 01:37:52,160
Speaker 1: about his injury was a They said it was a

1898
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:54,360
Speaker 1: hamstring hamster. They didn't say the nature of it, whether

1899
01:37:54,400 --> 01:37:56,639
Speaker 1: it was a strain or a pull. But we're going

1900
01:37:56,680 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 1: on two plus weeks now that he's been out of

1901
01:37:58,320 --> 01:38:00,040
Speaker 1: the lineup, and you know, I mentioned this on the

1902
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:04,400
Speaker 1: show yesterday. Hamstring injuries are tough to begin with to

1903
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 1: come back from, just knowing the explosive nature of this sport.

1904
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:11,400
Speaker 1: Your hamstring can feel good enough to jog on and

1905
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:14,680
Speaker 1: to slowly build up even to a sprint on. But

1906
01:38:15,040 --> 01:38:18,639
Speaker 1: this game, especially at a cornerback position, is all about

1907
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:23,040
Speaker 1: burst and sudden movements, and it's a high impact position

1908
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:27,080
Speaker 1: on the joints end on the soft tissue to play cornerback,

1909
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:30,280
Speaker 1: and it might feel good, and then that first moment

1910
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:32,599
Speaker 1: you got to really burst and go bang, it goes

1911
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:34,800
Speaker 1: on you again if you come back too soon. Hamstrings

1912
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:38,559
Speaker 1: are strange because they're what you of course you use

1913
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:43,160
Speaker 1: them when you run, but they are the stopping mechanism.

1914
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:46,920
Speaker 1: They're text when you're stopping. It's because you're trying to

1915
01:38:47,080 --> 01:38:50,240
Speaker 1: keep your your lower leg from moving forward and taking

1916
01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:52,560
Speaker 1: another stride. So when you put that flex on it,

1917
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:54,840
Speaker 1: the legs going forward and you're trying to stop it

1918
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:58,560
Speaker 1: with your hamstring, it takes forever to heal from that,

1919
01:38:58,720 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 1: and that's that's what the problem is. You can imagine

1920
01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:04,760
Speaker 1: how many times you stop and start on the football field.

1921
01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:07,640
Speaker 1: That's the mechanism that crushes you. And that's why you

1922
01:39:07,720 --> 01:39:10,080
Speaker 1: know for a dB it's I mean, even when corners

1923
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:15,320
Speaker 1: have to hit, flip and go, that burst can compromise

1924
01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:18,240
Speaker 1: a hamstring if it's not fully healed, so it's better

1925
01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:20,200
Speaker 1: to air on the side of caution. Take the time

1926
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 1: you need, get it completely right number one, get it

1927
01:39:22,360 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 1: completely healed, number one, and then make it strong and

1928
01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:28,200
Speaker 1: build the endurance back into the muscle as well. So

1929
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:31,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna take some doing, but it looks like he's

1930
01:39:31,160 --> 01:39:33,679
Speaker 1: getting close. There. Will probably get an update from coach

1931
01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:37,599
Speaker 1: McDermott tomorrow's when he's next scheduled to speak with the media.

1932
01:39:37,800 --> 01:39:40,439
Speaker 1: It's always someone as you and I'm not saying this

1933
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:42,960
Speaker 1: because like Josh Norman wasn't ready to play. I'm sure

1934
01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:44,840
Speaker 1: he was in great shape to come into this training camp,

1935
01:39:44,880 --> 01:39:47,320
Speaker 1: but it's all different and the routines guys used to

1936
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:50,679
Speaker 1: keep themselves healthy or compromised as well as everything else.

1937
01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:54,280
Speaker 1: But it is an issue sometimes you get older players.

1938
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 1: Josh Norman is a guy who's been around for a

1939
01:39:57,080 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 1: long time. It's hard to stay healthy. It's hard to

1940
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,720
Speaker 1: get healthy when you're an older player trying to jump back.

1941
01:40:02,720 --> 01:40:04,400
Speaker 1: You don't bounce back like he once did. So I

1942
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:07,759
Speaker 1: hopefully this is a one time aberration for Josh Norman

1943
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:09,760
Speaker 1: this season, but I mean it kind of makes you think.

1944
01:40:10,120 --> 01:40:12,040
Speaker 1: It kind of makes some sons a guy with his

1945
01:40:12,640 --> 01:40:15,040
Speaker 1: tenure in the league having trouble and staying healthy. And

1946
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:17,840
Speaker 1: at this point, I mean, you're twelve days out from

1947
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: the opener. At this point, your goal is to have

1948
01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:22,439
Speaker 1: him ready by the regular season, right, I mean, whether

1949
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:26,920
Speaker 1: he practices this week is relatively immaterial because it's a

1950
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:29,040
Speaker 1: veteran player who knows how to play in this defense.

1951
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:31,320
Speaker 1: You have a pretty good sense as to the kind

1952
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:33,960
Speaker 1: of player he is. It's not like you need him

1953
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:36,480
Speaker 1: back on the field this week to make some final evaluations.

1954
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:38,880
Speaker 1: That's who he is as a player. So the goal

1955
01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:41,479
Speaker 1: now is to have him ready for week one. That's

1956
01:40:41,560 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: the goal. And think about it. Most of what he

1957
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:46,920
Speaker 1: does in he may take. If there's for instance, twenty

1958
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:49,840
Speaker 1: five plays in practice or twenty five reps to go

1959
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:53,240
Speaker 1: around in practice, he'll probably take. I don't know, even

1960
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: if he was a number one guy, he'd take twelve

1961
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: right or at this stage of the preseason, probably set,

1962
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, because they're splitting it between everybody. So that's

1963
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:06,640
Speaker 1: all he's missing out on now. It's not like when

1964
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:09,559
Speaker 1: you're injured that you don't get to watch practice. You're there.

1965
01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:12,200
Speaker 1: He's in the meetings, he's in the film room, he's

1966
01:41:12,240 --> 01:41:15,320
Speaker 1: in the he's on the practice field watching these guys practice,

1967
01:41:15,400 --> 01:41:17,840
Speaker 1: or he's taken every rep. Mentally, he's getting back into

1968
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:22,120
Speaker 1: the terminology, he's getting back into the into the techniques.

1969
01:41:22,479 --> 01:41:25,479
Speaker 1: He's watching Levi Wallace play, he's watching whoever else is

1970
01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:27,800
Speaker 1: playing out there as well, and he's saying, okay, yeah,

1971
01:41:27,800 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 1: I remember this now that. And he's also he's learning

1972
01:41:30,320 --> 01:41:32,320
Speaker 1: and as he's getting more familiar and more familiar and

1973
01:41:32,320 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: more famili even though he's not in the practice field.

1974
01:41:34,400 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 1: So don't think that he's totally falling light years behind

1975
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:41,600
Speaker 1: the group because he's not practicing. At this stage of

1976
01:41:41,720 --> 01:41:47,120
Speaker 1: his career, this hamstring for him, it's a favor that

1977
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to practice, you know what I mean.

1978
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:51,080
Speaker 1: He just get him to the regular season and he'll

1979
01:41:51,120 --> 01:41:54,840
Speaker 1: give you three hours on a Sunday. So with Josh

1980
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:57,479
Speaker 1: Norman out of the lineup at practice for the better

1981
01:41:57,560 --> 01:42:00,679
Speaker 1: part of the last two weeks, it's left Levi Wallace

1982
01:42:00,800 --> 01:42:04,560
Speaker 1: with no direct competition for that starting job at the

1983
01:42:04,640 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 1: right cornerback spot, and it looks as though he will

1984
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:10,120
Speaker 1: be the guy unless Josh Norman makes a quick recovering

1985
01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:12,240
Speaker 1: his back on the field and can make a run

1986
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 1: at the spot. So Levi, who was made available to

1987
01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:20,120
Speaker 1: the media, instead of talking about his own competition, talked

1988
01:42:20,120 --> 01:42:22,840
Speaker 1: about the competition he's facing across the line from him

1989
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:25,800
Speaker 1: every single day at the wide receiver position. There is

1990
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:30,599
Speaker 1: better depth of talent there now between the two rookies

1991
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:33,840
Speaker 1: and Gabriel Davis and Isaiah Hodgens, who are both who

1992
01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:35,640
Speaker 1: have both proven to be a handful in one on

1993
01:42:35,720 --> 01:42:39,200
Speaker 1: one situations, and then obviously Stefon Diggs. So Here is

1994
01:42:39,280 --> 01:42:42,760
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace commenting on the increased competition he's facing every

1995
01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:47,280
Speaker 1: day at the wide receiver position. Stefan is a great

1996
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:50,679
Speaker 1: route runner first and foremost, and then you got John

1997
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 1: and Beasley out there. You know, it's a lot of

1998
01:42:54,240 --> 01:42:56,640
Speaker 1: great receivers that it's just hard to cover. You have

1999
01:42:56,720 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 1: to play him all differently because there are all three

2000
01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:02,640
Speaker 1: different receivers, and then you have Gabe who comes in

2001
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:06,759
Speaker 1: and he's just a strong physical presence. You got Isaiah

2002
01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:10,519
Speaker 1: McKenzie and Big Isaiah, and they're both fathers, you know

2003
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,840
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, it's the whole receiving corps as

2004
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: a whole is difficult, and you have to approach them

2005
01:43:16,520 --> 01:43:20,519
Speaker 1: all differently because John he threatens you with speed, you know,

2006
01:43:20,600 --> 01:43:22,400
Speaker 1: he's one of the best guys on the team. And

2007
01:43:22,560 --> 01:43:25,519
Speaker 1: Cole is so shifty and and Diggs has just a

2008
01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:29,360
Speaker 1: route craft that I've never you know, experienced outside of

2009
01:43:29,400 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 1: like Amari Cooper back in college. So, um, it's great

2010
01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:35,559
Speaker 1: to have those guys and it shows you different looks

2011
01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:37,960
Speaker 1: to get ready for the season, you know, to face

2012
01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:41,080
Speaker 1: other opponents that have some of the same you know,

2013
01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:44,720
Speaker 1: attributes to these guys have. So it's been great. Don't

2014
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:46,479
Speaker 1: it make you better going again? As guys like that,

2015
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:49,439
Speaker 1: It'll have you more prepared for whoever the heck you're facing. Yeah,

2016
01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:52,080
Speaker 1: And you know Levi Wallace, to his credit, I mean,

2017
01:43:52,120 --> 01:43:54,760
Speaker 1: he's always the guy that has exceeded all expectations at

2018
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 1: every level football he's ever played. And he's he was

2019
01:43:57,240 --> 01:43:59,479
Speaker 1: a walk on an Alabama turned into a two year starter.

2020
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:02,040
Speaker 1: He was a undrafted rookie free agent, turned into a

2021
01:44:02,080 --> 01:44:04,040
Speaker 1: starter here in Buffalo, and now he's They brought in

2022
01:44:04,120 --> 01:44:07,000
Speaker 1: a veteran guy like Josh Normal to take his job,

2023
01:44:07,439 --> 01:44:11,320
Speaker 1: and he has continued to impress. He's plays better and

2024
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:13,519
Speaker 1: I think a guy like and you could tell in

2025
01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:15,719
Speaker 1: his talk there and that, you know, kind of reading

2026
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:17,519
Speaker 1: between the lines of his attitude and what he was

2027
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:20,880
Speaker 1: looking at. He's kind of loving it. You know, he

2028
01:44:21,040 --> 01:44:23,840
Speaker 1: loves the competition, he likes trying, he likes getting better.

2029
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 1: And that's exactly the mindset you have to have as

2030
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:29,479
Speaker 1: a pro athlete. You have to you have to enjoy

2031
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 1: the challenge and embrace the difficulties of growth. And that's

2032
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:37,519
Speaker 1: what he's That's what has carried him to what his

2033
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:40,160
Speaker 1: third year in the National Football League, he replaced Philip

2034
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 1: Gaines in the lineup as an undrafted rookie. Two years ago,

2035
01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:46,360
Speaker 1: he held off Kevin Johnson and won the starting job.

2036
01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 1: The former first round held onto the starting job against

2037
01:44:50,120 --> 01:44:52,559
Speaker 1: the former first round picking Kevin Johnson, although they did

2038
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:55,639
Speaker 1: platoon late in the year last year, and now he's

2039
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:57,559
Speaker 1: got a guy who was a former first team All

2040
01:44:57,640 --> 01:45:02,840
Speaker 1: Pro and former franchise player designy and do partially to

2041
01:45:03,040 --> 01:45:05,160
Speaker 1: do mostly to injury more than anything else. It looks

2042
01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:06,920
Speaker 1: like he's going to at least go into the season

2043
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:10,599
Speaker 1: as the starter at the right cornerback again, unless Josh

2044
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:12,519
Speaker 1: Norman has something to say about it and can make

2045
01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:14,640
Speaker 1: a very quick return to the field and get a

2046
01:45:14,680 --> 01:45:19,080
Speaker 1: good six or seven practices in. So somehow, some way,

2047
01:45:19,479 --> 01:45:21,760
Speaker 1: he seems to find a way to get it done.

2048
01:45:21,880 --> 01:45:24,639
Speaker 1: I don't know where they stood at the time when

2049
01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:28,120
Speaker 1: Josh Norman got injured. You know, we'll never know where,

2050
01:45:28,840 --> 01:45:30,920
Speaker 1: how much where they were repping against each other, whether

2051
01:45:31,040 --> 01:45:32,960
Speaker 1: Josh Norman was kind of catching him or whatever. I

2052
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:34,960
Speaker 1: would have to pass him, or I would have a

2053
01:45:35,040 --> 01:45:37,960
Speaker 1: hard time thinking Josh Norman came in and automatically got plugged.

2054
01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:40,240
Speaker 1: He certainly probably didn't get plugged in ahead of him,

2055
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:44,280
Speaker 1: as I wouldn't be surprised to say, we're kind of

2056
01:45:44,439 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 1: doing like a platoon kind of thing. All right, you know,

2057
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:50,040
Speaker 1: you go, let's see how you do, you know, with

2058
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 1: the starters today. Let's see how you do with the

2059
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:53,640
Speaker 1: starters today. I mean, I'm not going to pretend to

2060
01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 1: know how it went, but it wouldn't surprise me if

2061
01:45:56,920 --> 01:46:00,360
Speaker 1: they tried to give equal reps with equal caliber players

2062
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:02,200
Speaker 1: around them. That would seem to be the fair way

2063
01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:04,800
Speaker 1: to conduct it. And that's the way they've conducted competitions

2064
01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:06,320
Speaker 1: in the past. That's what I was going to say that.

2065
01:46:06,439 --> 01:46:07,560
Speaker 1: The thing is, the way they've done it in the

2066
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:11,880
Speaker 1: past is if you've earned that starting job by whatever means,

2067
01:46:13,320 --> 01:46:15,920
Speaker 1: it's yours until you lose it. So I don't know

2068
01:46:15,960 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 1: what Josh Norman would have done in the in the

2069
01:46:18,560 --> 01:46:21,200
Speaker 1: you know, in the short time training camp was going

2070
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: on to have unseated a starter in this defense. Certainly

2071
01:46:24,280 --> 01:46:27,000
Speaker 1: he's got a history with Sean McDermott, but Sean McDermott's

2072
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:29,640
Speaker 1: got a more recent history with Levi Wallace and that

2073
01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:33,280
Speaker 1: doesn't go unnoticed either, and it doesn't that's that carries

2074
01:46:33,320 --> 01:46:35,760
Speaker 1: some weight as well. So We saw that last year

2075
01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:38,679
Speaker 1: with the way it worked with Kevin Johnson. We've seen

2076
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:41,720
Speaker 1: it work that way at other positions. And you know,

2077
01:46:41,800 --> 01:46:44,120
Speaker 1: you just you don't just get to come in and

2078
01:46:44,200 --> 01:46:46,760
Speaker 1: play for this team, yea. Even the guys who have

2079
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:50,080
Speaker 1: some you know what a quote skins on the wall,

2080
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:52,720
Speaker 1: Even guys that have a veteran background and a and

2081
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:55,599
Speaker 1: a you know some accomplishments in this league, they don't

2082
01:46:55,840 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: just come in and just pressto chango get the job.

2083
01:46:58,600 --> 01:47:00,640
Speaker 1: They got to earn it. And and not only that,

2084
01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:03,800
Speaker 1: when you come from where Levi Wallace has come from

2085
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:07,160
Speaker 1: in terms of rising through the ranks to earn a

2086
01:47:07,280 --> 01:47:10,120
Speaker 1: starter's job at Alabama his last year there as a senior,

2087
01:47:10,600 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 1: or to make the roster here as a rookie, or

2088
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:17,360
Speaker 1: to win the starting job here, or to hold on

2089
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:21,040
Speaker 1: to the starting job. You're fighting tooth and nail every

2090
01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:23,559
Speaker 1: step of the way just to stay where you're at.

2091
01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:27,720
Speaker 1: It's a built in chip on your shoulder, it really is.

2092
01:47:27,880 --> 01:47:30,519
Speaker 1: And that is something that Levi Wallace addressed as well.

2093
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:34,880
Speaker 1: When they ask me my honest opinion, I tell them

2094
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:36,800
Speaker 1: take what I said earlier. It's just one day at

2095
01:47:36,840 --> 01:47:39,400
Speaker 1: a time and maximize reps. You know, this is the

2096
01:47:39,520 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 1: last week, last time to press coaches. You know, there's

2097
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 1: not in preseason where all these other teams are looking

2098
01:47:45,560 --> 01:47:48,639
Speaker 1: at you and getting film on you. It sort brings

2099
01:47:48,680 --> 01:47:52,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a challenge. But take every

2100
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:55,280
Speaker 1: advantage an opportunity of every rep. You know, I know

2101
01:47:55,400 --> 01:47:58,160
Speaker 1: I had to and just come with that mind secation

2102
01:47:58,200 --> 01:48:01,360
Speaker 1: every day. Then that you at the end of the day,

2103
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:04,640
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, you tried your best. And I

2104
01:48:04,720 --> 01:48:08,439
Speaker 1: think for me, my faith is big, so I'm really

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01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:12,120
Speaker 1: never affected by outcomes or me getting cut or let

2106
01:48:12,240 --> 01:48:14,719
Speaker 1: go because I know life is a lot bigger than football.

2107
01:48:14,760 --> 01:48:18,439
Speaker 1: So that's my perspective. But for other guys it could

2108
01:48:18,439 --> 01:48:20,519
Speaker 1: be something different. So I just try to keep him

2109
01:48:20,560 --> 01:48:24,439
Speaker 1: positive and encouraging as best as I can. So that's

2110
01:48:24,479 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 1: his advice for undrafted rookies coming in this year, And

2111
01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Thomas is an undrafted rookie at app

2112
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:32,720
Speaker 1: State who's trying to make his way at this at

2113
01:48:32,720 --> 01:48:35,080
Speaker 1: a very competitive position. To safety in that second or

2114
01:48:35,200 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 1: you have to believe that Levi has you know, been

2115
01:48:38,200 --> 01:48:40,080
Speaker 1: in his ear a little bit. Hey, Garrett Taylor as

2116
01:48:40,120 --> 01:48:42,840
Speaker 1: well as a safety from Penn state, right, I think

2117
01:48:43,040 --> 01:48:45,560
Speaker 1: I don't think he's on the roster anymore. Yeah, But

2118
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:48,120
Speaker 1: the point is, and when he started talking, I could

2119
01:48:48,160 --> 01:48:49,800
Speaker 1: really relate to what he was saying. And that's kind

2120
01:48:49,800 --> 01:48:53,519
Speaker 1: of the way I approached my career as well. Particularly

2121
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:56,400
Speaker 1: on special teams. You really get one play at a time.

2122
01:48:56,479 --> 01:48:57,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like he went there for a

2123
01:48:57,840 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 1: series and it's great to go out and just you know,

2124
01:49:00,600 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 1: just win that moment and then when Anton's over, wait

2125
01:49:05,520 --> 01:49:08,280
Speaker 1: for the next one. Even if that next one is

2126
01:49:08,320 --> 01:49:14,080
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds away or fifteen minutes away, get ready for

2127
01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:17,679
Speaker 1: that moment. And that's you know, you got to stay

2128
01:49:17,720 --> 01:49:19,680
Speaker 1: in such in the present mind because if you let

2129
01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 1: if you if you drag all the stuff that the

2130
01:49:21,960 --> 01:49:24,360
Speaker 1: mistake you made yesterday, if you're still dragging that two

2131
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:28,280
Speaker 1: days later, you're not gonna you're not gonna keep pace

2132
01:49:28,439 --> 01:49:32,200
Speaker 1: with where you could be. So I'm I applaud Levi Wallace.

2133
01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:34,800
Speaker 1: It's a great mentality to have just take it one

2134
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:37,400
Speaker 1: play at a time. Win this play, forget about it,

2135
01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:40,080
Speaker 1: learn from it, and then go on with what you've learned.

2136
01:49:40,160 --> 01:49:42,400
Speaker 1: And while you're just moving from play to play, there

2137
01:49:42,520 --> 01:49:44,680
Speaker 1: is a chip on his shoulder that stays there, and

2138
01:49:44,760 --> 01:49:46,840
Speaker 1: he makes sure to keep it there despite what he

2139
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:49,800
Speaker 1: has achieved. You know, I mean, people say, oh, wow,

2140
01:49:49,840 --> 01:49:52,120
Speaker 1: he's only a one year starter at Alabama. You go

2141
01:49:52,240 --> 01:49:54,439
Speaker 1: try to go start for the Alabama football team as

2142
01:49:54,479 --> 01:49:57,280
Speaker 1: a walk. Go try that with all the five stars

2143
01:49:57,360 --> 01:49:59,200
Speaker 1: that they have there. Are you kidding me? You go

2144
01:49:59,360 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: try to start it Alabama for a year. So he

2145
01:50:01,479 --> 01:50:04,559
Speaker 1: did that. Great accomplishment on your resume, comes in here

2146
01:50:04,680 --> 01:50:07,800
Speaker 1: wins the starting job here on a defense that's a

2147
01:50:07,880 --> 01:50:10,560
Speaker 1: top five defense in the league. Go be an undrafted

2148
01:50:10,600 --> 01:50:13,240
Speaker 1: player and go make a top five defense in the

2149
01:50:13,400 --> 01:50:16,360
Speaker 1: NFL and start a cornerback. You go try that. So

2150
01:50:17,720 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 1: most people would be satisfied with that and just kind

2151
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 1: of roll along with it as they go. But the

2152
01:50:24,200 --> 01:50:26,880
Speaker 1: reason Levi is where he is is because of the

2153
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:29,519
Speaker 1: effort that he puts in every single day despite what

2154
01:50:29,680 --> 01:50:31,479
Speaker 1: he has accomplished. And he talked about the chip that

2155
01:50:31,520 --> 01:50:35,599
Speaker 1: he still carries on his shoulder every day. Man, Look,

2156
01:50:35,840 --> 01:50:38,559
Speaker 1: I played with the chip on my shoulder since when

2157
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:40,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't on varsity my freshman year in high school.

2158
01:50:40,880 --> 01:50:43,160
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying, Like, that's just how I played,

2159
01:50:43,479 --> 01:50:46,479
Speaker 1: That's who I am. And I've carried that same trip

2160
01:50:46,520 --> 01:50:50,519
Speaker 1: each and efter day, so high school, college, even the NFL,

2161
01:50:51,479 --> 01:50:56,559
Speaker 1: and I I love it. That's just me. So even

2162
01:50:56,640 --> 01:50:59,080
Speaker 1: now I guess I'm established. I guess a little bit.

2163
01:50:59,160 --> 01:51:03,280
Speaker 1: That's what she said. Um, I still get nervous. You know,

2164
01:51:04,160 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 1: anything can happen. I never check any up or any

2165
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:09,639
Speaker 1: practice for granted, and thank the Lord each and every

2166
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:10,840
Speaker 1: day that I get to do what I love. So

2167
01:51:12,200 --> 01:51:14,320
Speaker 1: And that's Levi Wallace in a nutshell. I mean, that's

2168
01:51:14,360 --> 01:51:16,400
Speaker 1: just who he is, playing and simple, and that's why

2169
01:51:16,439 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 1: he's here too. That's part of why he's here is

2170
01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:22,600
Speaker 1: the right kind of DNA character, has the right attitude.

2171
01:51:22,680 --> 01:51:26,120
Speaker 1: He's a team first guy, very humble about what he's doing,

2172
01:51:26,240 --> 01:51:31,880
Speaker 1: but also pretty confident in his abilities to perform his responsibilities.

2173
01:51:32,040 --> 01:51:34,800
Speaker 1: And hard working, dependable. That's what they look for in

2174
01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:39,120
Speaker 1: draft choices and undrafted players. He's he has just done

2175
01:51:39,880 --> 01:51:43,200
Speaker 1: so many good things, and it's always surprising for a

2176
01:51:43,280 --> 01:51:45,640
Speaker 1: lot of people to see a guy who doesn't have

2177
01:51:47,160 --> 01:51:50,240
Speaker 1: whatever credentials. A lot of guys have to be a

2178
01:51:50,360 --> 01:51:53,479
Speaker 1: kind of guy that just hangs in there. You can't

2179
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:55,519
Speaker 1: get him out of the lineup and and believe me,

2180
01:51:57,000 --> 01:52:02,000
Speaker 1: the Bill's coaching staff is a about getting better and

2181
01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:09,560
Speaker 1: they don't have any duty to put any player on

2182
01:52:09,640 --> 01:52:13,040
Speaker 1: the field that hasn't earned it. And that's one have

2183
01:52:13,120 --> 01:52:15,760
Speaker 1: been one of the things that has really stuck by

2184
01:52:16,120 --> 01:52:19,800
Speaker 1: stuck with me. They if you want on this field

2185
01:52:19,840 --> 01:52:22,240
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, it's because you have done everything

2186
01:52:22,360 --> 01:52:25,160
Speaker 1: you can to be a better option than a guy

2187
01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:28,320
Speaker 1: that was out there before you, unless it was injury

2188
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:30,680
Speaker 1: or something like that. If you've earned your way into

2189
01:52:30,720 --> 01:52:34,160
Speaker 1: the starting role, you really should you really take a

2190
01:52:34,240 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: sense of ownership because they've given you the chance to

2191
01:52:37,920 --> 01:52:43,200
Speaker 1: earn it, and it's it's it's something else, it's it's

2192
01:52:43,280 --> 01:52:45,559
Speaker 1: really something else. They have really done a nice job

2193
01:52:45,640 --> 01:52:47,360
Speaker 1: of that, a better job than I've seen a lot

2194
01:52:47,400 --> 01:52:52,439
Speaker 1: of teams do in evaluating dispassionately the guys that are

2195
01:52:52,479 --> 01:52:55,360
Speaker 1: going to go out there and start, particularly on the defense,

2196
01:52:55,960 --> 01:52:58,040
Speaker 1: where they've got a ton of guys who can really go.

2197
01:52:58,760 --> 01:53:01,680
Speaker 1: I just I can't I shake my head as to

2198
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:04,600
Speaker 1: how discipline Masha McDermott his coaching staff have been of

2199
01:53:04,720 --> 01:53:07,680
Speaker 1: not just saying, you know, let's plug this guy and

2200
01:53:07,720 --> 01:53:09,880
Speaker 1: see what he can do. He's got to earn it first,

2201
01:53:09,960 --> 01:53:13,240
Speaker 1: and that's that's hard to do, but I think it

2202
01:53:13,360 --> 01:53:17,400
Speaker 1: served them well obviously, So Steve, we need to shift

2203
01:53:17,479 --> 01:53:19,880
Speaker 1: gears and get to a much more important topic now

2204
01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:22,760
Speaker 1: that we've heard from Levi Wallace and that and that

2205
01:53:23,040 --> 01:53:26,519
Speaker 1: is what the name of your fantasy football team is

2206
01:53:26,560 --> 01:53:29,439
Speaker 1: going to be for twenty twenty because we were formally

2207
01:53:29,520 --> 01:53:34,920
Speaker 1: invited today participate mercial break by the Instigators, to participate

2208
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:38,880
Speaker 1: in a not for profit fantasy football league with the Instigators,

2209
01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:45,120
Speaker 1: as we were invited formally by one Marty barn Initially

2210
01:53:45,160 --> 01:53:48,880
Speaker 1: you turned down that offer, expressing zero interest, but they

2211
01:53:48,920 --> 01:53:52,680
Speaker 1: eventually convinced you. And I'm assuming I'm part of this

2212
01:53:52,800 --> 01:53:55,280
Speaker 1: as well, but I might not be. Who knows um

2213
01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:59,679
Speaker 1: to participate in their not for profit fantasy football gig.

2214
01:54:00,320 --> 01:54:02,800
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit like Craig Rove, though, are you?

2215
01:54:03,040 --> 01:54:06,360
Speaker 1: And that I can see it that if the thing

2216
01:54:06,479 --> 01:54:09,880
Speaker 1: gets into me, I'll start obsessing over it and it'll

2217
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:11,479
Speaker 1: kind of take it, you know what I mean. If

2218
01:54:11,520 --> 01:54:15,160
Speaker 1: it's a competition and I feel like I can and

2219
01:54:15,280 --> 01:54:18,200
Speaker 1: it's interesting to me because I haven't. I've done it

2220
01:54:18,280 --> 01:54:20,599
Speaker 1: like once and it was one of those autopilot leagues,

2221
01:54:20,720 --> 01:54:23,560
Speaker 1: right I just you know, I forgot about it. But

2222
01:54:23,640 --> 01:54:25,479
Speaker 1: if I get into this and it turns into something,

2223
01:54:25,560 --> 01:54:28,439
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun and I'm liking. I'm we might

2224
01:54:28,520 --> 01:54:30,120
Speaker 1: have to have a segment on the show every day

2225
01:54:30,120 --> 01:54:31,800
Speaker 1: about my fantasy football team. But I don't know what

2226
01:54:31,840 --> 01:54:34,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name. And I've heard some pretty good, pretty

2227
01:54:34,960 --> 01:54:36,560
Speaker 1: good team name. I gotta have come up with a name,

2228
01:54:36,600 --> 01:54:39,120
Speaker 1: and I can't, you know, like J J. Gurito was

2229
01:54:39,160 --> 01:54:42,960
Speaker 1: like the special team, Special Team. Yeah, no, I'm gonna no,

2230
01:54:43,400 --> 01:54:50,360
Speaker 1: that's dumb. I'm just so obvious. I completely off the grid. Yeah, yeah,

2231
01:54:50,400 --> 01:54:51,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to have my name in it or

2232
01:54:51,720 --> 01:54:53,960
Speaker 1: anythough anything about special teams. I just gotta be something,

2233
01:54:54,040 --> 01:54:55,800
Speaker 1: you know, a little sparky. You know, it can't be

2234
01:54:55,880 --> 01:55:01,640
Speaker 1: just like Team A looking for something clever or yeah,

2235
01:55:02,160 --> 01:55:05,000
Speaker 1: but also you know, you can play on words or

2236
01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. What we should do is just make

2237
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:08,800
Speaker 1: a Twitter poll out of it. I don't know, we've

2238
01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:10,960
Speaker 1: had time, you know, just say what's what's it gonna be?

2239
01:55:11,640 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 1: Have the Twitter tomorrow, I put I should put it out,

2240
01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:16,640
Speaker 1: tweet it out, I say, what's you know? I'm taking

2241
01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:20,480
Speaker 1: all submissions for my Special Tools forms for my fantasy

2242
01:55:20,560 --> 01:55:23,280
Speaker 1: football team name. You know, I mean, I got it

2243
01:55:23,320 --> 01:55:26,040
Speaker 1: would be interesting, right, And we've you know, back and forth,

2244
01:55:26,080 --> 01:55:30,280
Speaker 1: we've been chattering here on the off off screen about

2245
01:55:30,320 --> 01:55:32,800
Speaker 1: what should be I've had some fun ones. Yeah, Jay

2246
01:55:32,840 --> 01:55:35,440
Speaker 1: Harris is offering to retweet my request that I put

2247
01:55:35,480 --> 01:55:38,640
Speaker 1: out on Twitter. Okay, so maybe you what I throw

2248
01:55:38,720 --> 01:55:40,240
Speaker 1: it out there? What what do you got to lose?

2249
01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: Maybe that's it. You don't have to accept anything. It

2250
01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:45,800
Speaker 1: could be like this right here. Josh Allen's growth, that's

2251
01:55:45,920 --> 01:55:49,560
Speaker 1: my that's my sounds like he needs something exactly right.

2252
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:51,920
Speaker 1: That's you know, like the double and andre that kind

2253
01:55:51,960 --> 01:55:54,600
Speaker 1: of you. Right, So you just got a goal somewhere

2254
01:55:54,680 --> 01:55:57,360
Speaker 1: that to get taken care of great or working with

2255
01:55:57,520 --> 01:55:59,720
Speaker 1: teammates something like that. So you know what I mean.

2256
01:56:00,560 --> 01:56:04,160
Speaker 1: Unguardable Cole Beasley today? Right there you go, It could

2257
01:56:04,160 --> 01:56:06,120
Speaker 1: be all that. So I'm looking down the rundown. Different

2258
01:56:06,160 --> 01:56:11,280
Speaker 1: phrases on this thing. Thumb injury like something you'd like

2259
01:56:11,400 --> 01:56:16,880
Speaker 1: to avoid with the players on your roster. Thumb injury revealed, right,

2260
01:56:17,200 --> 01:56:19,960
Speaker 1: that's this was from Tom Brady's twenty eighteen playoff run

2261
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:23,640
Speaker 1: when they thumb injury revealed. Finally, three years later, he

2262
01:56:23,720 --> 01:56:27,120
Speaker 1: had stitches in his hand. Nobody cares, right, right, So

2263
01:56:27,240 --> 01:56:30,640
Speaker 1: all that's it's all whatever. I'm like, I think you

2264
01:56:30,680 --> 01:56:33,000
Speaker 1: can have some fun with that. Maybe we'll maybe we'll

2265
01:56:33,040 --> 01:56:34,920
Speaker 1: work with that and see if it becomes part of

2266
01:56:34,960 --> 01:56:39,720
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll tomorrow. Name Steve fantasy team for one

2267
01:56:39,800 --> 01:56:42,040
Speaker 1: Bills Live, you know, or something like that. I don't know,

2268
01:56:42,600 --> 01:56:46,480
Speaker 1: that's that's kind one that's kind of obvious too. Yeah,

2269
01:56:46,600 --> 01:56:49,080
Speaker 1: So we'll see what comes of that and how creative

2270
01:56:49,880 --> 01:56:51,560
Speaker 1: the fans of the show can get with that. I'm

2271
01:56:51,720 --> 01:56:55,520
Speaker 1: I'm anticipating good creativity there, so yeah, I may even

2272
01:56:55,680 --> 01:56:59,000
Speaker 1: who knows, And this might be the one time when

2273
01:56:59,000 --> 01:57:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm ready to put up with a little bit of

2274
01:57:00,560 --> 01:57:04,920
Speaker 1: Twitter snark because you know, that's what does best and

2275
01:57:05,080 --> 01:57:07,360
Speaker 1: that's kind of what fantasy football is too, just busting

2276
01:57:07,400 --> 01:57:09,800
Speaker 1: on your buckets all the time, right right, like you know,

2277
01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:13,080
Speaker 1: so that's where snark is perfectly acceptable. Yeah, Your your

2278
01:57:13,200 --> 01:57:17,160
Speaker 1: roster is you know horrible, you know find why don't

2279
01:57:17,200 --> 01:57:19,680
Speaker 1: you find a receiver? You know, your team is you

2280
01:57:19,760 --> 01:57:22,720
Speaker 1: know terrible. You got a mass unit for running backs

2281
01:57:22,960 --> 01:57:24,960
Speaker 1: like back in the years. That why you hate me?

2282
01:57:25,280 --> 01:57:31,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he hate me? Okay, an update NFL COVID

2283
01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:35,400
Speaker 1: nineteen update. Uh, the NFL Communications Department just released the

2284
01:57:35,640 --> 01:57:37,880
Speaker 1: testing results for the week of August twenty first to

2285
01:57:37,960 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, which is the week that just passed obviously,

2286
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:44,320
Speaker 1: and there were four new confirmed positive tests among players,

2287
01:57:44,880 --> 01:57:49,480
Speaker 1: six new confirmed positives among team personnel across the league.

2288
01:57:49,520 --> 01:57:52,840
Speaker 1: So the numbers still very low. Um, that's out of

2289
01:57:52,960 --> 01:57:55,080
Speaker 1: how many thousands got to be fifty eight thousand, six

2290
01:57:55,240 --> 01:57:58,800
Speaker 1: hundred twenty one tests administered because people are being tested

2291
01:57:58,840 --> 01:58:01,920
Speaker 1: every day, a total of eighty seven hundred thirty nine

2292
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:07,880
Speaker 1: players and team personnel. How many eighty seven hundred thirty

2293
01:58:07,920 --> 01:58:11,920
Speaker 1: nine players and team personnel? Yeah, so that's how many

2294
01:58:12,320 --> 01:58:15,200
Speaker 1: people are in the pool. Those people were tested over

2295
01:58:15,320 --> 01:58:19,640
Speaker 1: fifty eight thousand times, and you've got four positives for players,

2296
01:58:20,080 --> 01:58:24,880
Speaker 1: six positives for personnel. So that's like point o something

2297
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:29,240
Speaker 1: eight percent. Yeah, it's less than a one percent and

2298
01:58:29,360 --> 01:58:33,360
Speaker 1: going down. Yeah, So that's very good. It's very good.

2299
01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:37,840
Speaker 1: And so the hope is obviously that that continues once

2300
01:58:37,920 --> 01:58:42,240
Speaker 1: teams start traveling. But I have a I have a

2301
01:58:42,320 --> 01:58:45,720
Speaker 1: suspicion that that number will will go up just because

2302
01:58:45,880 --> 01:58:48,560
Speaker 1: the variables are increased once you start putting players and

2303
01:58:48,960 --> 01:58:53,520
Speaker 1: coaches on planes and in hotels and buses to get

2304
01:58:53,560 --> 01:58:55,680
Speaker 1: to game. I mean, it's just, yeah, the season's gonna

2305
01:58:55,720 --> 01:58:57,920
Speaker 1: be rough. The season's gonna be rough. I think you've

2306
01:58:57,960 --> 01:58:59,400
Speaker 1: just got to work as hard as you can to

2307
01:58:59,600 --> 01:59:02,360
Speaker 1: mitigate the number and keep it low, right, because that's

2308
01:59:02,640 --> 01:59:05,160
Speaker 1: that's the whole Thing's it's still the risk of the virus.

2309
01:59:05,200 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 1: And you think about what's happening, and here's why. And

2310
01:59:07,360 --> 01:59:09,280
Speaker 1: we don't talk too much about college football, but this

2311
01:59:09,360 --> 01:59:12,400
Speaker 1: is what they're facing as well, these tests. And but

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Speaker 1: here's why anybody's college football. Let these kids go to school,

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01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:19,960
Speaker 1: that's fine. But here's this here from Texas. University of Texas,

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01:59:20,240 --> 01:59:22,320
Speaker 1: thirty five staff members are going to be laid off.

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01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:25,200
Speaker 1: Thirty five vacant positions are never going to be They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be eliminated completely. Salary reductions for others, Michigan is

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Speaker 1: going to eliminate twenty one positions and impost salary reductions.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of jobs being lost, and that's just

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01:59:36,120 --> 01:59:39,040
Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg. Jobs are being lost and

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01:59:39,200 --> 01:59:41,880
Speaker 1: lives are being really put into upheaval because you don't

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Speaker 1: have these huge pieces of our entertainment dollars, these college football,

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Speaker 1: pro football, all the stuff. It's an industry. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people make their livelihoods from it. And it's the

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01:59:53,080 --> 01:59:55,400
Speaker 1: ripple effects I think are you know seen as how

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Speaker 1: it's football and it's only now getting underway, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a bad fall, a bad fall for a lot

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Speaker 1: of people. And it's it's too bad about but you know,

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Speaker 1: whether right or wrong, but it's uh, that's that's why

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of people are fighting to get to

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Speaker 1: college football on the on the field, it's not it is.

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Speaker 1: It's an economic driving force, certainly in the Sun Belt.

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Speaker 1: I mean from Texas all the way across the south

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02:00:22,240 --> 02:00:26,480
Speaker 1: to the coastline, you know, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: You know, you start there and you go all the

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Speaker 1: way west to Texas and Oklahoma. It is an economic

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Speaker 1: engine college sports, particularly football. And with that out of

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Speaker 1: the mix, at least for the for the time being,

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02:00:39,200 --> 02:00:42,080
Speaker 1: although the acc SEC and you know, they said they're

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02:00:42,080 --> 02:00:45,760
Speaker 1: gonna get things going here, um, they need it, they

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02:00:45,880 --> 02:00:49,280
Speaker 1: need it to kind of revitalize the economy. So that's

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Speaker 1: just the fact of the matter. From a business standpoint,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I have to take a break when we

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02:00:53,320 --> 02:00:55,000
Speaker 1: come back, more of your thoughts on the tweet sheet.

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02:00:55,000 --> 02:00:56,880
Speaker 1: As we've been asking you for your top three players

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Speaker 1: you're rooting for it to make the Bills twenty twenty

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02:00:58,960 --> 02:01:01,200
Speaker 1: roster got some answers that we're gonna be getting too

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02:01:01,280 --> 02:01:03,960
Speaker 1: coming up and a little NFL true falls. Both of

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Speaker 1: those things come in your way when we return. Here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live,

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02:01:23,520 --> 02:01:26,440
Speaker 1: motoring home here on a Tuesday, final half hour the show.

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Speaker 1: We do want to remind you that if you missed

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Speaker 1: portions of today's show, you can always catch them as

2354
02:01:33,560 --> 02:01:35,640
Speaker 1: we stream the show live on the Bills App, so

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02:01:35,720 --> 02:01:37,520
Speaker 1: if you're nowhere near a radio or a television, that

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02:01:37,680 --> 02:01:40,120
Speaker 1: is one place you can get it. Portions of our

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Speaker 1: show are also podcasted on Buffalo bills dot Com, the

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Speaker 1: Bills App, Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts, and we

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Speaker 1: also have video portions of the show showing up on

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Speaker 1: the Bills YouTube channel and the One Bills Live playlist.

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Speaker 1: Time to get back to the tweet sheet, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment move company

2363
02:02:00,640 --> 02:02:03,680
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. And back on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: where we left off was with one piping four UA

2365
02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:12,520
Speaker 1: who said Gabriel Davis is a lock us just stood

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02:02:12,520 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 1: all around. Isaiah Hodgins is a monster, big red zone weapon.

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02:02:15,920 --> 02:02:18,879
Speaker 1: But the guy I'm really pulling for is Duke Williams.

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02:02:18,960 --> 02:02:22,040
Speaker 1: I think year two, he understands the game more breaks

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02:02:22,040 --> 02:02:24,200
Speaker 1: out for a nice role in the offense, big strong

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02:02:24,320 --> 02:02:29,480
Speaker 1: rep weapon with some speed. Well speed might be an overstatement, right,

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Speaker 1: because he's not that's not his thing. He's a body

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Speaker 1: up guy. He's a body up fifty fifty ball guy.

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02:02:35,160 --> 02:02:38,320
Speaker 1: You think back to last year, he had an important

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02:02:38,880 --> 02:02:41,160
Speaker 1: fifty fifty ball in the playoff game that he couldn't get,

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02:02:41,560 --> 02:02:43,680
Speaker 1: He couldn't pull it in and that was in the

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02:02:43,800 --> 02:02:46,480
Speaker 1: end zone. And yeah, and there's one on the sidelines

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02:02:46,480 --> 02:02:49,280
Speaker 1: for a first down as well. So he had ten

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02:02:49,400 --> 02:02:52,120
Speaker 1: targets in the playoff game when we caught what four balls.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be better. Well that's what Houston said. That

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02:02:56,560 --> 02:02:58,880
Speaker 1: Houston said, we're gonna lock down John Brown. Sure, you're

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02:02:58,880 --> 02:03:01,280
Speaker 1: gonna lock down Colby. See if he can beat us

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02:03:01,280 --> 02:03:03,600
Speaker 1: with somebody else. And that was the opportunity in the

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02:03:03,680 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 1: end zone that he had that he couldn't pull down.

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02:03:06,320 --> 02:03:08,360
Speaker 1: Our MSG viewers are watching it right there, that's a

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02:03:08,400 --> 02:03:10,680
Speaker 1: touchdown and now you're going into the locker room at

2386
02:03:10,720 --> 02:03:14,200
Speaker 1: twenty three nothing right. If that's that's a different But

2387
02:03:14,320 --> 02:03:18,200
Speaker 1: he did make some catches and he's I like him.

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02:03:18,240 --> 02:03:21,240
Speaker 1: There's ability there. He's an NFL. He's an NFL type receiver.

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02:03:21,360 --> 02:03:23,000
Speaker 1: Certainly he's a role player because he didn't have the

2390
02:03:23,040 --> 02:03:28,880
Speaker 1: breakaway speed that piping for us alluded to. But the

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02:03:28,960 --> 02:03:30,920
Speaker 1: guy does catch a lot of a lot of ball.

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02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:33,920
Speaker 1: He's got strong, strong abilities, and he's a big dude.

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02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:37,680
Speaker 1: He's a matchup problem. Bills found some places to use

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02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:41,400
Speaker 1: him last year and he did. He hung around in

2395
02:03:41,480 --> 02:03:43,720
Speaker 1: a time and for the first time in his career

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02:03:43,800 --> 02:03:45,760
Speaker 1: after spending some time in the CFL, and all that

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02:03:46,960 --> 02:03:49,640
Speaker 1: good for him for being a part of what the

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02:03:49,720 --> 02:03:51,800
Speaker 1: Bills did last year in the playoffs. He got on

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02:03:51,840 --> 02:03:55,120
Speaker 1: the field in the biggest moment from Jeremiah Hodgens Foster

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02:03:55,280 --> 02:03:58,120
Speaker 1: croom because I believe Gabriel Davis is a sure thing

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02:03:58,160 --> 02:03:59,880
Speaker 1: for the roster, and I fear they may keep Duke

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02:04:00,040 --> 02:04:02,720
Speaker 1: and Lee Smith and I'm not in agreement with that.

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02:04:02,840 --> 02:04:07,600
Speaker 1: That's from Jeremiah, so he's pulling for the other rookie receiver,

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02:04:07,760 --> 02:04:14,280
Speaker 1: Hodgens Foster. I mean, here's another guy that's assuming they're

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Speaker 1: keeping seven receivers on the roster, I just don't know

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Speaker 1: if the numbers are going to be able to allow

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Speaker 1: for that. We've seen a list on MSG right now.

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Speaker 1: The guys there's nine guys on that list. Those are

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Speaker 1: the nine on the roster right now. At least three

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Speaker 1: of them gotta go. Yeah. I don't see a way

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Speaker 1: that you can keep seven because there are too many

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Speaker 1: other roster demands at other positions, especially when you consider

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02:04:39,160 --> 02:04:41,800
Speaker 1: the fact that they keep a fullback. Especially when you

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Speaker 1: consider this too, Steve, there's a very good chance here

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Speaker 1: that only one of the six receivers they keep has

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Speaker 1: special Team's ability, and that's being that's Andre Roberts. Obviously.

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02:04:56,400 --> 02:04:59,000
Speaker 1: If you keep Isaiah Mackenzie, now you have a backup

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02:04:59,080 --> 02:05:01,440
Speaker 1: return man with speci team's ability, but he really can't

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02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:04,480
Speaker 1: help you on any of the other units. Duke Williams

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02:05:04,560 --> 02:05:07,600
Speaker 1: played on I want to say punt team last year,

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02:05:08,080 --> 02:05:12,320
Speaker 1: so there's special Team's ability there. Isaiah Hodgins, I really

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Speaker 1: don't know I don't know. Robert Foster was a gunner,

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02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:18,600
Speaker 1: so he has that working in his favor. But you

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02:05:18,680 --> 02:05:21,120
Speaker 1: have Taiwan Jones back, now, do you need him to

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Speaker 1: be a gunner. I don't know that you do. It's

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Speaker 1: basically you know what I mean. Like, here's the thing

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Speaker 1: that most of the time on your roster, most of

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Speaker 1: the defensive backs, particularly at this level, and the young guys,

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Speaker 1: the defensive backs, the wide receivers, all those guys with

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Speaker 1: some skills like Isaiah McKenzie and Andre Roberts, but also

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02:05:39,680 --> 02:05:42,919
Speaker 1: the other guys. They've all had time at kick returners.

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02:05:43,720 --> 02:05:46,040
Speaker 1: You know. Kick returning is something that you have those

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02:05:46,080 --> 02:05:48,280
Speaker 1: guys do, particularly the good guys at the lower levels,

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Speaker 1: which all these guys were, so most of them, particularly

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Speaker 1: the defensive backs, they all catch punts and stuff. So

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Speaker 1: it's not like you're gonna be completely bereft of anybody

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Speaker 1: to catch kicks. If Andre Roberts isn't on the team,

2438
02:06:01,400 --> 02:06:04,360
Speaker 1: but the guy went to the Pro Bowl two years ago.

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02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:08,480
Speaker 1: He's a good one, and a lot about being that

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02:06:08,680 --> 02:06:11,760
Speaker 1: isn't It is a little a lot about your ability

2441
02:06:11,800 --> 02:06:13,360
Speaker 1: to run with it obviously after you catch it. But

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02:06:13,400 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 1: it's all about making the right decisions when you're down

2443
02:06:15,360 --> 02:06:17,720
Speaker 1: there catching a punt down in that no man's land,

2444
02:06:17,760 --> 02:06:19,600
Speaker 1: when you're inside the ten or around the tent and

2445
02:06:19,680 --> 02:06:21,720
Speaker 1: going to the sidelines, do you fair catch it, do

2446
02:06:21,760 --> 02:06:23,080
Speaker 1: you fake the fair catch? Do you let it go

2447
02:06:23,120 --> 02:06:24,960
Speaker 1: over your head? Do you call for a poison? Do

2448
02:06:25,040 --> 02:06:26,920
Speaker 1: you do all the stuff that helps your teammates come

2449
02:06:26,960 --> 02:06:29,080
Speaker 1: out with the better end of it? And more importantly,

2450
02:06:29,120 --> 02:06:31,080
Speaker 1: at the end of the play, your team has the ball,

2451
02:06:31,840 --> 02:06:35,200
Speaker 1: so you don't turn it over. Making those kind of

2452
02:06:35,280 --> 02:06:38,440
Speaker 1: decisions is hard to do when you've got no time

2453
02:06:38,520 --> 02:06:41,400
Speaker 1: to know in a fast flowing that you can't look

2454
02:06:41,480 --> 02:06:44,120
Speaker 1: at what's going on down here without losing track of

2455
02:06:44,200 --> 02:06:46,720
Speaker 1: what's coming out of the sky that you're supposed to catch.

2456
02:06:47,080 --> 02:06:48,920
Speaker 1: And if you look at the ball coming out of

2457
02:06:48,960 --> 02:06:52,000
Speaker 1: the sky, you don't know how close somebody is, whether

2458
02:06:52,000 --> 02:06:54,440
Speaker 1: you should return it, or whether you should fair catch it,

2459
02:06:54,680 --> 02:06:56,200
Speaker 1: or whether you should let it go over your head,

2460
02:06:56,520 --> 02:07:00,560
Speaker 1: or all of that stuff. So having a pro Bowl

2461
02:07:00,640 --> 02:07:03,320
Speaker 1: type player, a lot of that is about the guy

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02:07:03,400 --> 02:07:05,880
Speaker 1: never makes the wrong decision. There's a lot to be

2463
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:09,120
Speaker 1: said for that. It means feel position, it means possession,

2464
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:11,120
Speaker 1: and it means the ability to get a big play

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02:07:11,160 --> 02:07:14,680
Speaker 1: when it's there to be made. Those guys don't grow

2466
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:17,440
Speaker 1: on trees. Now, everybody back there's athlete enough to catch

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02:07:17,480 --> 02:07:18,920
Speaker 1: a punt and run with it, or try and make

2468
02:07:18,960 --> 02:07:20,600
Speaker 1: a guy miss or that kind of thing, and he

2469
02:07:20,680 --> 02:07:21,960
Speaker 1: might get a good play out of that once in

2470
02:07:22,000 --> 02:07:24,960
Speaker 1: a while. But making those decisions is the balls popping

2471
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:27,040
Speaker 1: out of the coming out of the air with guys

2472
02:07:27,080 --> 02:07:30,840
Speaker 1: blowing snot bubbles out, trying to separate you from your helmet.

2473
02:07:31,840 --> 02:07:36,640
Speaker 1: That's that's hard. So Andre Roberts bringing something to the

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02:07:36,720 --> 02:07:43,200
Speaker 1: table at a high level that isn't always you know,

2475
02:07:43,400 --> 02:07:48,520
Speaker 1: always available. So yeah, he's important. Even he's eleven year

2476
02:07:48,600 --> 02:07:50,800
Speaker 1: vets so I'm sure he's not running a four three

2477
02:07:50,880 --> 02:07:54,480
Speaker 1: forty anymore. But the fact that he can make the

2478
02:07:54,560 --> 02:07:57,160
Speaker 1: right decision, has experienced doing it, is confident doing it,

2479
02:07:57,360 --> 02:07:59,720
Speaker 1: is a big step from Urkel. He says, I would

2480
02:07:59,760 --> 02:08:02,440
Speaker 1: like to see Mike Love, Duke Williams, and Dean Marlow.

2481
02:08:02,480 --> 02:08:04,880
Speaker 1: Those are hard positional groups to break into, but I

2482
02:08:05,040 --> 02:08:07,879
Speaker 1: love to see hard work payoff, and they're all hard workers.

2483
02:08:08,200 --> 02:08:10,640
Speaker 1: I think Marlow's on this team. I think he's had

2484
02:08:11,360 --> 02:08:13,600
Speaker 1: a great camp, arguably the best camp that he's had

2485
02:08:13,640 --> 02:08:15,480
Speaker 1: in a Bill's uniform, so I think he is on

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02:08:15,600 --> 02:08:18,320
Speaker 1: the roster. He's probably the safest of those three that

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02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:21,400
Speaker 1: you mentioned, RCLE. Mike Love is at a position of

2488
02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:24,720
Speaker 1: tremendous depth. I think if they can keep him on

2489
02:08:24,760 --> 02:08:27,720
Speaker 1: the practice squad, they will if they don't have room

2490
02:08:27,760 --> 02:08:31,760
Speaker 1: for him on the roster. But the advantage here with

2491
02:08:32,320 --> 02:08:35,600
Speaker 1: and here are the assessments that coaches and the personnel

2492
02:08:35,640 --> 02:08:38,480
Speaker 1: department have to make two when putting this roster together, Steve.

2493
02:08:39,640 --> 02:08:44,400
Speaker 1: Not only do they have to be concerned with risking

2494
02:08:44,520 --> 02:08:47,360
Speaker 1: exposing players on the practice squad to getting poached by

2495
02:08:47,400 --> 02:08:51,040
Speaker 1: another team for their active roster, they can here's another

2496
02:08:51,080 --> 02:08:58,000
Speaker 1: advantage of no preseason and no real open training camp

2497
02:08:58,080 --> 02:09:02,560
Speaker 1: per se. You know, with no fans attention, right, you

2498
02:09:02,720 --> 02:09:05,720
Speaker 1: have a player like Mike Love that you think a

2499
02:09:05,800 --> 02:09:10,080
Speaker 1: lot of you want to continue to develop, but he

2500
02:09:10,120 --> 02:09:11,960
Speaker 1: hasn't had a chance to show anything yet, so you

2501
02:09:12,040 --> 02:09:15,280
Speaker 1: assess your concerns with him being poached off your practice squad.

2502
02:09:16,560 --> 02:09:18,440
Speaker 1: Teams that might be interested in him have to go

2503
02:09:18,560 --> 02:09:22,320
Speaker 1: all the way back to early preseason tape twenty nineteen,

2504
02:09:23,640 --> 02:09:26,040
Speaker 1: and then they know he was on ir all last year.

2505
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:30,840
Speaker 1: They haven't seen this guy, right, So I would tend

2506
02:09:30,920 --> 02:09:35,480
Speaker 1: to believe that the risk is somewhat low that another

2507
02:09:35,600 --> 02:09:38,160
Speaker 1: team says, I got to have that guy on my

2508
02:09:38,280 --> 02:09:42,880
Speaker 1: fifty three, right, So I think when they're making these

2509
02:09:43,040 --> 02:09:47,160
Speaker 1: kinds of decisions, they probably say to themselves, how great

2510
02:09:47,280 --> 02:09:48,880
Speaker 1: is the risk if we put Mike Love on the

2511
02:09:48,920 --> 02:09:52,040
Speaker 1: practice squad. We think a lot of him, but nobody

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02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:55,040
Speaker 1: else has seen him in over a year's persona. There's

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02:09:55,080 --> 02:09:57,640
Speaker 1: no way, there's no way to have an accurate assessment

2514
02:09:57,680 --> 02:09:59,200
Speaker 1: of what he can do because nobody's seen him on

2515
02:09:59,200 --> 02:10:02,400
Speaker 1: a preseason playing field. You haven't done any joint practices.

2516
02:10:02,520 --> 02:10:05,680
Speaker 1: There's always some gamesmanship about who they think. Like, for instance,

2517
02:10:05,720 --> 02:10:07,920
Speaker 1: you could say, you know, you might be able to

2518
02:10:07,960 --> 02:10:10,040
Speaker 1: sneak him on that for instance. And I'm not saying this,

2519
02:10:10,200 --> 02:10:11,880
Speaker 1: this is this is a for instance, you get a

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Speaker 1: guy like Trey Adams, the offensive tackle out of Washington,

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Speaker 1: is a rookie free age, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: he wows you in training camp six eight three thirty,

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Speaker 1: got a big body, but there is any bit peep

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Speaker 1: about him. Your offensive line is set, nobody think and

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Speaker 1: he's just like, you know what, thanks you could but

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Speaker 1: you love him, So you could put a guy in

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Speaker 1: your fifty three cut, like a guy like Trey Adams.

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Speaker 1: Two days later, bring him back, put him on your

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Speaker 1: fifty three and you know what I mean, and trade

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Speaker 1: that guy out and get an extra slot by on

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Speaker 1: your practice squad because now you could protect a guy,

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Speaker 1: move him to your protected practice squad. Now you got

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Speaker 1: the guy. He was on the fifty three nights on

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Speaker 1: your protected practice squad. But you got Trey Adams on

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Speaker 1: the roster. You see what I'm saying. You get those

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Speaker 1: guys that are the unknowns. Those are the guy even

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Speaker 1: if you like him, those are the guys you kind

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Speaker 1: of think nobody else knows about him. Either. Let's throw

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Speaker 1: him out there. He's just another name in the hopper,

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Speaker 1: and they'll say, I don't know if I want to

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Speaker 1: get fifty three. You can make the argument that NFL

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Speaker 1: teams know more about Trey Adams than they do about

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Speaker 1: Mike Love because nobody's seen Mike Love and over a year,

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02:11:14,600 --> 02:11:17,160
Speaker 1: they've watched Trey Adams play college football for the better

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Speaker 1: part of four months. So those are those are the

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Speaker 1: factors that go into these decisions. All right, we gotta

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Speaker 1: take a break but when we come back, it's what

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Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show. We'll get to that

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Speaker 1: and wrap this puppy up here on a Tuesday, It's

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health and this

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio time for What have we Learned?

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02:11:47,720 --> 02:11:51,240
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. We had one Mike Sando

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Speaker 1: on the senior NFL writer for the Athletic and talk

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02:11:58,880 --> 02:12:01,360
Speaker 1: to him about a number of tops, including his piece

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02:12:01,520 --> 02:12:03,880
Speaker 1: on his all under twenty five squad, and we talked

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Speaker 1: to him about the Bills players on that squad, including

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Speaker 1: one Tremaine Edmonds. The shocking thing to me and looking

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Speaker 1: up on Tremaine Edmonds, was he's so young that he

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Speaker 1: could set the NFL record for most games played before

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Speaker 1: twenty five. He could be like seventy nine to eighty

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Speaker 1: one game somewhere in there. That's unbelievable. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: could be a real seasoned veteran who's still extremely young

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Speaker 1: with low modles an adapter. I'm I'm actually excited about

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Speaker 1: single Jarry too. I mean, I think just the makeup

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Speaker 1: of that position in Buffalo now going younger, having a

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Speaker 1: couple of guys you like that you're taking in the

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Speaker 1: third round, letting him compete, just sort of see. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's sort of a hot hand position, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if one guy gets going, we're not married to it

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Speaker 1: the same way we are with a quarterback, where you

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Speaker 1: don't want to screw up your locker room. Right. So

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Speaker 1: you've got two young guys and can push each other,

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Speaker 1: and yet you've you've been able to learn from Frank Gore,

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Speaker 1: who's probably the best guy to learn from almost at

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Speaker 1: any position in the league. So yeah, the youth is

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Speaker 1: going to be served at that position in Buffalo, and

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be fun to watch. And Ed Oliver

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Speaker 1: was another guy on there on a role mentioned list,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see Ed Oliver played this year.

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to come back with a vengeance

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Speaker 1: and I think he's I look forward to seeing people

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Speaker 1: around him. He's gonna get some one on ones. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna tear some people up, you would like to think.

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Speaker 1: So I want to see how a j Epenezza looks.

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Speaker 1: Certainly he looks like he fits out there, no question

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Speaker 1: about he's at learning on the job learning on. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna we're gonna see him get an

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Speaker 1: enormous percentage of snap counts, but we're gonna look for him.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna show up. We'll see. I think

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna roll people through there like crazy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if they keep eid Lineman, nine Lineman, they're just gonna

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Speaker 1: roll people because everybody can play. Everybody's got talent. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you, I think this Bill's defense is going to

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Speaker 1: be worth the price of admission. If there were admission

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Speaker 1: to be had, that's gonna do it. For the Tuesday

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Speaker 1: edition of One Bill's Live, We'll be back tomorrow. Mark

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Speaker 1: Sessler from NFL dot Com will join us on the

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of the program. Our thanks to j Harris,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Colton At, Kelly Rude, and Tom Hollander. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow. H