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Speaker 1: Oh a good time, Steve Tasper touchdown, touchdown text down time,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to a special edition of one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. No instigator today, No Hockey Talk today. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy is Steve, I should do my Marty barn accent,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think I can this or that? Right. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: no PD, no Ribs, no Marty. We're here. It's us.

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Speaker 1: It's football talk from now until three pm. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: reason is there's a news conference coming up from from

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermot at ten o'clock any minute now, and then

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Speaker 1: eleven o'clock Brandon Bean joins us for a news conference.

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Speaker 1: At noon, Bean joins us live in studio. We got

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Speaker 1: a regular show after that, Coyle Brand at one, Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown at two. But from now until noon, we're covering

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Speaker 1: news conferences. Brandon being the earth, Sean McDermott first, Brandon

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Speaker 1: being second. They'll talk about their recap of the twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen Bill season. What do you think of that, Steve?

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Speaker 1: What do you what do you think? Sean mcdermot's gonna

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Speaker 1: say a couple yea, They'll they'll have to answer for,

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Speaker 1: you know, the game that they just played. Though, because

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Speaker 1: now everybody's got cooler heads, and it was such a

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Speaker 1: fun ride to the end of it. Now the media

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Speaker 1: will get, you know, all the those guys will get

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Speaker 1: all their their questions out and start question why do

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Speaker 1: this on third day? And why did do that on

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Speaker 1: second down? They'll do all that stuff now and then

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Speaker 1: they'll start talking about who you're gonna draft, Do you

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Speaker 1: like your rookie class, are you gonna replace your rookie class?

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Speaker 1: You know how Josh do all that? You know, they'll

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Speaker 1: start to get into nitty gritty's of what the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff thinks about the players. They've gotten trying to get

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Speaker 1: a line on what's going to happen this offseason. Were

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Speaker 1: they looking for their free agent? So you know, we've

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Speaker 1: seen them go through a couple of off seasons now

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Speaker 1: with Brandon being the three off seasons with Sean McDermott,

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Speaker 1: and you know that there's going to be some surprise

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Speaker 1: free agent signing, some guys that you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: are those are gonna be? Are they gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to sign? You know, they're not gonna say anybody. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that those are the questions they're gonna get,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna We're not gonna find anything out because

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Speaker 1: they don't tell us, that's right, I mean basically right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they anything. They won't tell us anything. We're in here

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Speaker 1: two hours early for nothing. Right, Well, they don't say much.

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Speaker 1: That's got nine draft picks. Uh, they have three draft

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Speaker 1: first four rounds. And look, they're not gonna say we're

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Speaker 1: drafting a right wide receiver. We're drafting an offensive lineman. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They may not. They're not likely to say that. But

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Speaker 1: even if they're, they plan on that. I don't even

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Speaker 1: think that plan has been formulated yet. I think this

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Speaker 1: is mostly account Well. First of all, it's required news

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Speaker 1: conference by the coach and general manager, required by the

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Speaker 1: NFL to talk after the season. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: the GM. Yeah, this is all formality, U. Now, certainly

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Speaker 1: you know, and stuff. They may get some specific questions

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Speaker 1: about the game this last week, but like you said,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a requirement by the NFL. Otherwise these guys

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Speaker 1: wouldn't at this time of year. After that game last week,

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Speaker 1: and they you know those guys this, you know, you

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, just take a take a breather.

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Speaker 1: But you know they've got to do all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I think also it's interesting too you get to this

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Speaker 1: look at their rookie class. They drafted Devin Singletary, ed

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Speaker 1: aftermath of the loss this last week, particularly when you

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Speaker 1: always start up front on both sides of the ball, always,

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Speaker 1: always and forever. It starts with a d lineman right

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Speaker 1: And I would not be surprised if they were interested

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Speaker 1: even be open, And it won't come up today. Again,

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Speaker 1: would be open to position position moves. You know, is

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Speaker 1: get an answer, that's for sure. The other question, I

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Speaker 1: anticipate a lot of questions about Josh Allen, the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He's finished two years now. He's been a starter for

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Speaker 1: most of those two years. These made progress, clearly, but

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Speaker 1: there is much more progress to go, and I think

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Speaker 1: there will be and should be questions about what are

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Speaker 1: you gonna do for Josh Allen this offseason? What are

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Speaker 1: you gonna get around him? And what are you gonna

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Speaker 1: don't you? Yeah? I agree. You go back and look

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Speaker 1: know everybody, you're you are, You're a course and in

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Speaker 1: this big time wide receiver. I don't know that that

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Speaker 1: Josh isn't ready to use the guy. He hasn't shown

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Speaker 1: the ability to get the ball consistently to a guy

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Speaker 1: to make the read. There are too many plays right

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Speaker 1: now that he's leaving on the field with the guys

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Speaker 1: telling you he schemed some pretty good things that that

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Speaker 1: we're there to be had and they weren't taken advantage

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Speaker 1: not all Josh. Sometimes, Josh, you know, sometimes the protection

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Speaker 1: And some of us the offense and lost some of

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Speaker 1: us the receivers. I get all that, But I'm telling

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Speaker 1: were good enough at overcoming that. And you want some

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Speaker 1: crazy stat I saw today the number one offense Wildcard weekend.

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Speaker 1: an extra quarter in there as well? Why can't they score?

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Speaker 1: a regular basis. That's the problem. And the quarterback can

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Speaker 1: also be a problem. But I do think another wide

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is go back to last April.

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf was there and he's tearing it up out

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Speaker 1: addition to this Buffalo roster, along with thirty one other

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Speaker 1: be asked about Josh. What he will say, Obviously, he'll

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Speaker 1: he got loss as that game went along. The other day,

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Speaker 1: He was making plays in overtime that he wouldn't think

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Speaker 1: no matter what they say, a lot of us Steve

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Speaker 1: can't be solved without playing time, and that trash gets

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Speaker 1: more playing time, he'll get more settled. Agree with you.

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Speaker 1: think about that is the absolute most pressure pack situation

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Speaker 1: those of us who watch this team closely, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that hits all those buttons, that puts him over

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Speaker 1: the top, right, I mean, he is He's gonna win

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Speaker 1: the game every time the ball is snapped. And that's

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Speaker 1: and that's where he kind of has a tendency to go.

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Speaker 1: That's you know, he's this young emotional kid who was

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Speaker 1: issues to discuss, but we'll see. We'll see. What do

426
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Speaker 1: you think? The first question is, I don't know. We're

427
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,080
Speaker 1: gonna here, wait a minute to find out. Here we go,

428
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,480
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott take a minute here to express my appreciation

429
00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,320
Speaker 1: publicly for a couple of people, and starting with Terry

430
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,040
Speaker 1: and Kim Pagoula. The support that they give us a

431
00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,640
Speaker 1: second to none. Their commitment and you guys have seen

432
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,359
Speaker 1: it to winning is second to none in this league.

433
00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,159
Speaker 1: And so that I'm extremely appreciative to Brandon and and

434
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,479
Speaker 1: and our staffs that daily stand behind both of us

435
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:08,600
Speaker 1: and support us. To our players, UM, there's no group

436
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,640
Speaker 1: of players to me that have stood and worked day

437
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 1: in and day out as hard as these players worked

438
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 1: this past season. UM. And so that for that, I'm

439
00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,959
Speaker 1: extremely appreciative. To our fans, UM, just being here three

440
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,720
Speaker 1: years now, this fan base is as loyal and as

441
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,159
Speaker 1: passionate as I've ever been around. UM to meet us

442
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 1: at the airport at two o'clock in the morning in January,

443
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,320
Speaker 1: and to show their appreciation the way that they do

444
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 1: week in and week out, year in and year out,

445
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,239
Speaker 1: just uh, it's unique and special. And for that I'm

446
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 1: extremely appreciative. And to you guys as well, UM for

447
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 1: writing the stories, uh, the good stories what's good about

448
00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 1: our football team and how we're out in the community

449
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 1: affecting positive change and giving hope. It goes a long way,

450
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 1: and for that I'm extremely appreciative as well. I do

451
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: want to take a moment before we get into the

452
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: football part of it, to also express my appreciation and

453
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 1: respect for Lorenzo Alexander and his family and the job

454
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 1: that he's done as a leader on and off the

455
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 1: field and in our community. Here in Western New York.

456
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,440
Speaker 1: That goes a long way, and he's been a tremendous

457
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 1: asset to me as the head coach and connecting my

458
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 1: message to our locker room, and and so I just

459
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 1: wanted to take a minute to wish him well and

460
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: thank him for everything that he's done over the last

461
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:45,160
Speaker 1: couple of years. So transitioning to the game and football,

462
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,160
Speaker 1: the game certainly did not end the way we wanted

463
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 1: it to end. It did not go the way we

464
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 1: wanted to go, in particular in the second half, and

465
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 1: because of that, it's been a painful couple of days

466
00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,960
Speaker 1: for all of us. And I recognize that My hope

467
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 1: is in time that if it's handled the right way,

468
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: the pain will it'll turn into strength, and that strength

469
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 1: will turn into growth. And I think that's what really

470
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: separates the winning organizations, the winners in our in our

471
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 1: lives and our world, is that that those painful moments

472
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: they turn into that strength, and then the growth that

473
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 1: comes from that is what continues to move us forward

474
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 1: as an organization, as a fan base, and as a

475
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,159
Speaker 1: team overall. Quite frankly, so, um, you know, there's a

476
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 1: lot we can learn from that game. We've got to

477
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 1: keep our team together, UM as many pieces as we can,

478
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,119
Speaker 1: and then and then approach this soft season with a

479
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of urgency as we continue to grow, continue

480
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: to build this football team and this organization into what

481
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: we wanted to become the biggest steps as a team

482
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Speaker 1: organization to reach that next level. Yeah, I would start

483
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,719
Speaker 1: off by by telling you we've got to We've got

484
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,440
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do, right. We have to

485
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 1: number one, UM, start in house right, start internally in

486
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: terms of our roster, and we've got some decisions to make.

487
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: I won't go into all those decisions, you guys know

488
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: some of what those are, but making sure that we

489
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: keep as much of this team intact as possible, intact

490
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: as possible. Your three years offense has not probably been

491
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: where you want them to be. It seems there was

492
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: some priv us this year. What I'd like to know

493
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: is how much kids on game day? Yeah, with what's

494
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: going on, with what Bryan's doing, your call him Hunter

495
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,360
Speaker 1: Gold border that. But in terms of offense, the play

496
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 1: to play stuff, how much of a roll you got well,

497
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 1: you know, I would tell you probably head coaches vary. Right,

498
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: there's there's offensive head coaches, there's labeled defensive head coaches. UM.

499
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: As a head coach, it's my opinion that that you

500
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: have your hand in all parts and all sides of it.

501
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 1: Now that day to day the playing and play out

502
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: play calling obviously resides with prime play. Are you ever

503
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 1: in there we're doing something else? Do you ever have

504
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: to do that? Yeah, there's times when I do that.

505
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: There's times when I make suggestions. There's times when I, um,

506
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,679
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, within series and you try within plays

507
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: to to offer me you don't have so much time,

508
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: so but there is times when that we have quick

509
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: conversations in there play to play, Yes, John, as well

510
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: as Josh Allen, the play who much of the season,

511
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:41,159
Speaker 1: he essentially unraveled in that and near the end of

512
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: the game, Um, and with the turn over that happened

513
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: that let's the field goal? Just how that game? Yeah,

514
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, overall, let's let's start from the From the

515
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: start with Josh is that he's made a tremendous amount

516
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: of progress. Let's start there. Let's recognize the work that

517
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: that this young man has put in and the growth

518
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 1: that he has shown. Um, is there still still work

519
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: to do? Yes, And he'd be the first to tell

520
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: you that that that is in fact the case. Um,

521
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: the game did not end the way we wanted it

522
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: to end. Um. And and the reason is because a, UM,

523
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: we didn't play well enough in the second half. In particular,

524
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: we scored field goals, we needed touchdowns. UM. You look

525
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: back and you say, hey, we're up thirteen. UM, I

526
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: believe it was after half there thirteen, we get a takeaway,

527
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: we have a chance to go up twenty at that point,

528
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: twenty to nothing, twenty to zip and and maybe the

529
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: game changes at that point, maybe it doesn't. Um. And

530
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: So there are certainly things that that he can do better.

531
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: There's certainly things that I can do better in our

532
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: entire football team. And I think if you take if

533
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: you take the right approach, that's being accountable and you

534
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: take ownership. And I know Josh did that. Um, that's

535
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: really where it starts. And so with that, you know

536
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: he'll put the work in and you know he'll be

537
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: better next season. And I think you'll see another another

538
00:25:54,520 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 1: step this this offseason into next season. Career. That yeah,

539
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: I think it all comes back to just for Josh

540
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: trying to do too much. And that's that's been something

541
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: we've talked about. That's been something he has to continue

542
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: to to UM to handle as he moves forward and

543
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: as he continues to grow in his career UM, and

544
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: I'm confident that he'll do that. I think that's the

545
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: next step for Josh. Is that is that awareness, maturity,

546
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 1: however you want to phrase it. It's the understanding that

547
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: that I that don't that I don't have to do

548
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: it all myself. I'm a I'm a tremendous generator and playmaker,

549
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: but I've got pieces around me. And as we continue

550
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: and all honestly to build a roster, that's what we

551
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: have to do, is to continue to give him pieces

552
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: that he trusts UM in addition to the ones that

553
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: he already has. I talk a lot about really, how

554
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: much have you seen Josh row Brian over the last

555
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: two years, and knowing that Brian is interviewed with the Browns,

556
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: how much concern you have Josh doesn't have Bryan back

557
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: next year that you can continue on this. But I

558
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: just think I'm not going to talk about Brian with

559
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: the Cleveland I'm gonna talk about our football team and

560
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: where we're trying to go. UM. At the end of

561
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: the day, we all have to get better and that

562
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: that starts with me, that's and it goes right into

563
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: into our the rest of my coaching staff, and then

564
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 1: into our players. And that that continuity is important, um

565
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 1: with with Josh and our coaching staff, and but it's

566
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,919
Speaker 1: also important other areas of our of our of our

567
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: team as well. So, um, you know, we've we've got

568
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: we've got some thoughts on where we need to improve. Um.

569
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: And certainly continuity is important not just from coach to player,

570
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: but but coach to coach, player to player and so

571
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: and the list goes on. So, um, you know, the

572
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: more we're around each other, the more continuity. That's where

573
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: it talks. We talk about, as I said, keeping this

574
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: team as in tact as possible. That certainly helps you

575
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: timeline evaluating a change that we made. Yeah, well we'll

576
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: u I mean listen, you know we're going to continue

577
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: to evaluate our our whole football team and that's a

578
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: piece of it. Um. So bet for right now, I

579
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: don't I don't plan on any changes at this point

580
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 1: late over there, since since you got here, you've given

581
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: up a lot less points defensively than the major thing

582
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,239
Speaker 1: that we see. But well offensively kind of state right,

583
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: score you on game all the way through. What what

584
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: do you got to do to get better offensively? Your

585
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: homelinear receivers, running back, what do you do execution? I mean,

586
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,239
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter at this regarless of what you do right,

587
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: regardless of what you do or who you have. At

588
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you've got to be able

589
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: to execute better than the defense executes to score points.

590
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: And that's that's a one liner for you on on it.

591
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: And we you know there's more details that go into

592
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: it in variables and everything, but we've got to score

593
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: more points. I think. I think everybody knows that. I

594
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: know that, and we have to find uh answers to

595
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: do that and and that's part of our off season.

596
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: The word the city. How do you do brand going forward? Well,

597
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: I think as you as as you look at it, um,

598
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: you know, you use your five senses as a leader,

599
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: and part of that is awareness of not just what

600
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: you see, but what you hear, what you feel, what

601
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: you smell, I mean, what you touch out there. And

602
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: that's all I think that's real. The change that's happened

603
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: over the last two and a half to three years

604
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: at this point, and now it's about where we go

605
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: from here, and I'm excited about what's ahead of us.

606
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: M as much as we can carry over from the

607
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: foundation that we've built, UM is important to our future success.

608
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: But there's also an understanding of every year year as

609
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: a new year, Chris and every team UM has their

610
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: own their own team, is their own team and has

611
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: their own identities. So UM so UM so we we

612
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: That's where the urgency has to come in. We can't

613
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: sit back, nor will I ever sit back, and or

614
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: Brandon sit back for that matter, and say, hey, you know,

615
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: this is where we are. We're good and we just

616
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: need to take this much more. That's not how this

617
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: league works. You see, and you've seen teams one year

618
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: they're up, next year they're down. Um. I think there

619
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: was a staff the other day about there's only one

620
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: or two remaining teams this year that we're in the

621
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: final eight last year. That's the truth of our league.

622
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: So that's where the urgency comes in and and and

623
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: we have to approach it with a tremendous amount of urgency.

624
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: Fresh Wars. Yeah, I think Jerry, that's just the way

625
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: the game and the play call is trended at that point.

626
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: I know this. It's not good to have one back

627
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: carry carry the ball every time, right, So, um, you

628
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: know you'd like you like to have two backs that

629
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: work work together. Doesn't mean it's exactly how you want

630
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,239
Speaker 1: it to work out, um every week, not exactly. So, Um,

631
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: look at the end of the day, we didn't win

632
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: the game, and uh, and that's my responsibility. Three days later,

633
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: now you look back on it, your defense really played

634
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: well all year. Are you still trying to figure out

635
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: what happened in the last team in the fourth quarter?

636
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: Over time? Be crush you crush you blackdowns on defense,

637
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: which adopted something we really seeing all year. Yeah, I

638
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,959
Speaker 1: mean when you look at it, so it's you know, um,

639
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: the things that you have to do in playoff games

640
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, you've got to be able to

641
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: do the little things and sometimes a little things become

642
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: the big things. And that's where I was going with it,

643
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: is tackling Um in key moments of the game, we

644
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: didn't tackle Will and and so that that showed up fundamentally,

645
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: and I know I talk a lot about it, and

646
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: so this is not anything new. It's you have to

647
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: be able to have high level of execution of your

648
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: fundamentals and key moments of the game. And we didn't,

649
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: and so and then we have to continue as coaches

650
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: to go back and look at and say why schematically, why, um,

651
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: we're we're putting the players in the position all that,

652
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: and that's really just it's really what we have to

653
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: do is evaluate from top to bottom people, what exactly

654
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: why was there such a yap when your guys dropped

655
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: so far back on that and they just they couldn't recover. Yeah,

656
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: we got to well, we got to we got to

657
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 1: um soft in there with underneath coverage UM. And then

658
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: just it's just we've got some we had some young

659
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: players in there that we got too deep in the coverage.

660
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: And you know, we played zone on third and eighteen,

661
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: which is probably what most you know, what we believe

662
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: in to do and keep the ball in front of us,

663
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: but we didn't react fast enough. And then again tackling

664
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: came into play UM and then he knocked us back

665
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: and we didn't knock him back, and and and we

666
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: should have been on the scene a little quicker. And

667
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: so it's it's young players and situation recognizing situational football.

668
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: Taking away the deeper routes that would throw and catching

669
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: without the running, get the first down and then be

670
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: able to being able to react quick runnerneath. So um,

671
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: you know they made a play and we did. I

672
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: ask you about the second half? Yeah that and yeah, yeah,

673
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: I wish I could go and give our fans an explanation. UM,

674
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: but I don't want to get I don't want to

675
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: go there right now. I can't go there right now.

676
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: So the part I will say is it's it's uh,

677
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 1: it's it's um. We had a chance to go up

678
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: twenty to nothing I think, or was it, yeah, twenty

679
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: to nothing at that point. Um, it didn't get it

680
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: did not get ruled. It got ruled that way at first,

681
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: and then it got changed and so UM I have

682
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: to stand by and go with what the ruling got

683
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: changed to. That's the way our league works. And so UM,

684
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: I can tell you we've had I've had a conversation

685
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: with with the league office about it and and the

686
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: explanation they gave me. They supported the call on the

687
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: field and what it got reversed to. So that's what

688
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: we go by. The Yeah, UM again I asked about

689
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: that as well, and UM, and they they felt like

690
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: it was called the right way. Yeah, we didn't. We

691
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: did not talk about that. I mean there's you know

692
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: they they stand by their calls. So and let me

693
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: go back to the calls part. And I want to

694
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: reiterate that's not. Um, we control, we can control, and

695
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: that is not I want to make it clear for us,

696
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: for our team and for our fan base, that is

697
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: not why we lost the game. Right, we take responsibility.

698
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: I take ownership and responsibility as the head coach, and

699
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: we move forward, and we need to play and coach better.

700
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: That should not come in the play Go ahead, very

701
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: good Will and all his accreations who asked yeah, no, no,

702
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: not at all. Duke performed, he produced. I know he

703
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: wanted to have another catch or two, which which would

704
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: have helped us. But um, the people that earned the

705
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: playing when you earned playing time, that's who that's who plays.

706
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: I don't care who it is, went round draft pick,

707
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: what they get paid, and the players know this. Whoever

708
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: earns playing time, that's who plays. I yearned it the

709
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: playoff game, So then why not for the last half

710
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: of the season. No, it was it was it was

711
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: somebody else had earned it to that point, and then

712
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: we made a decision based on what had trended the

713
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks of the season, and then also

714
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: in the Jets game and the week leading up to

715
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: the Jets game. Um. That that that's and that's the

716
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: reason why we went that direction with Duke. So and

717
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: you were this year and over trying to throw out

718
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: a little bit, but how do you how do you

719
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: make this a tougher place to play? Yeah, I mean

720
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: this is a tough place to play. We have to play,

721
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: we have to play better. We had some close, close

722
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: games here. Uh two of the well, let's say, you

723
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: know the one, the one lost in the last Jets game.

724
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: If you take it to three from there, so you say, hey,

725
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: we've got three games, and I think that two of them,

726
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: the New England game and the Baltimore game went down

727
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: to the last drive. And the Philadelphia game obviously was

728
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: a game that we didn't have a chance in the

729
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: fourth quarter at the end. So, um, so we have

730
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: we that's a that's a big BLUs You big thing

731
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: for us is playing well at home. Um, and trying

732
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: to capture the the FC East. The length of time

733
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: a lot of it. Bet the players start this first

734
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: season especially cases Josh Allen where he's talking about working

735
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: with his quarterback guys or Palmer like he's done, and

736
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: in terms of you there's a staff giving him specific

737
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: points to address. Is this offseason going to be like

738
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: significantly different than say the last offseason where you can

739
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: maybe find finally two in her finals points that he

740
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: really needs to address and he's out of your site

741
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: for a while, so you gotta assume he's gonna do that.

742
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: How how have you discussed that with him? Well, some

743
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: of that is driven by league rule and what you

744
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: can and can't do, because you know, I mean, the

745
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: rest of it is I would say that we have

746
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: there's more known pieces now offensively that um, guys communicate

747
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 1: and guys like to get together and work out together.

748
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: So I think that's um, that'll be a big thing

749
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: this offseason and the time between now and the time

750
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: that our players come back different menu. I mean that's

751
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: legal before you from we only do it what's legal

752
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:04,479
Speaker 1: hens versus you can. Yeah, I'm still we're still working

753
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: through the medical um, the final medical report on that John,

754
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: so you know, we'll see how it goes. He wasn't no, yeah,

755
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: it was he was on the injury report. It was

756
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: not in relation to his wrist, it was he was

757
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 1: on the n injury report, I believe at one point

758
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: for his growing and then another time just overall for

759
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: veteran rest. You consider season, these weeks or still of

760
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: the season, Yeah, the playoff games through frankly a couple

761
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: of games. The playoff games, yea ballast Mas game. How

762
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: much tack can you chase during the next year. How

763
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: much does that help team? And having played in really

764
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: pressure situations, Yeah, Josh, that's big, that's big. Being in,

765
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: you know, with our young young team and whether it's

766
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: Josh Tremaine or anybody else, any of the other younger guys.

767
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: I mean, those moments. Look at I can't I can't

768
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: um get those moments out here on the practice field

769
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 1: as much as I want. We can pump the crowd noise,

770
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: we can do this and that, but being in those moments,

771
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: there's something to be something to be said for that. Um.

772
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: I know was mentioned before, the number, the amount of

773
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: experience that I've had in the playoffs, there's there's no

774
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: substitute for those for those games, for two super Bowl games,

775
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: there's no And how you prepare for those and you

776
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: try and like I said, keep the routine, but you

777
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: build up some credits and some some mental and physical

778
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: fortitude if you will, and strength of what those moments

779
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: and what they take and and that's where you know

780
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: it really you know, again my experience, we had some

781
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: opportunities in Philadelphia and four it was four NFC championship games, um,

782
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: a couple of them worked out on a couple of

783
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: did not. And so it's hey, what do you learn

784
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: from that coming off it that helps you the next season?

785
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: There's no guarantee to taking six more inches the next year,

786
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: but how do you start over and use again that

787
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: that payin um to turn into strength and growth for you.

788
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: And so that's what we're trying to do this offseason.

789
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: Sean Um with how important Cold easily became throughout the

790
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: Stars the season, especially when Josh was making jumps in progress,

791
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: why wasn't he more evolved in the playoffs to the

792
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: point where yeah, I mean that was one of our

793
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: one of our goals early on, and they did some

794
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: things um at times to take him away. But overall

795
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: that's as you look again, another area where where we

796
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: could have done we could have done a better job right,

797
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: there's another way. What would you like to see Josh work? Well,

798
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: I mean I just think number one is let's start

799
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: with rests. As you look at the timeline of his

800
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: off season get away, he's a young man that spends

801
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of time in our building as you know,

802
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: and and us get get rest pushed back a little bit.

803
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: And then and I know he's going to do this

804
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: is start working. Start working on his body first, getting

805
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: his body healthy, getting his body ready to go, building strength. UM.

806
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job this year of

807
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: staying healthy, UM, which is which is a number one availability.

808
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: And then you know, working with with um you know

809
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: Jordan in this case, and and making sure that he's

810
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: working on techniques. Obviously the deep ball has been a

811
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: conversation and so he's very aware of that. His his

812
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: his feet. So there's there's plenty for Josh to work on. UM.

813
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: I'll just start there. And Josh is very aware of that.

814
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: And that's that's the greatest part about Josh is is UM.

815
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: You know, he's aware of it, and he's he's self

816
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: critical and UM. And so that's that's a start, and

817
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: he'll take that and combine that with his tremendous work ethic,

818
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: and I think he'll have a great offseason. Elevated himself

819
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: this season into the conversation. He's labletely the best. I

820
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: think he's had a heck of a year. And when

821
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: you look at the work he's put in all the

822
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: way back to last offseason, and then the work he

823
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: did on the field, Um, when you look at making

824
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: plays on the ball this season, taking the ball away, UM, tackling.

825
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: So I mean those are two. When you can combine

826
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: both of those realms of corner play, you've got something

827
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: pretty good right there. Yeah. I mean, you know, you

828
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: look at our team that's out there in the playoff game, Maddie,

829
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: and you're saying, hey, these you got Dawson out there,

830
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: first year player, You got Devin out their first year player,

831
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: and you get some other first year players and second

832
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: year players making big time contributions. And I think this

833
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: rookie class overall probably progressed quicker than the year before

834
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: his class. And that's a credit to them. It's a

835
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: credit to Brennan and his staff, and then also our

836
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: development team and the way that they got these young

837
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: guys and a short amount of time to understand what

838
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: what habits need to look like in the NFL if

839
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: you want to play and you want to perform at

840
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: a high level. And then and the players, um, I

841
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: think took the rest of it upon themselves to contribute

842
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: at a high level, which is which bolds well again

843
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: for the future. At the end of the first half,

844
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: you guys came out of the time out, you were

845
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: nothing and then you're elected to we'll have with Frank

846
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 1: or and that's like for all what went into that decision,

847
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: because it seem like you were playing for the fields

848
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: of all that. Yeah, now we weren't just uh, that's

849
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: that's a series of calls. We went back yea with

850
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: Lorenzo's award, leaving um just the players that but just

851
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: how you feel about the leadership in place in the

852
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 1: room right now with with Lorenzo No, I mean listen,

853
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: this is um. You know. One of the things that happened, UM,

854
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: when we came off the Super Bowl and Carolina was, uh,

855
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: lessons that I learned were we probably let too many

856
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: of the leaders out of the building. And some of

857
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: that happens with retirement and and other reasons um that

858
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: come with age. Um. But overall. That's part of what

859
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: I meant with keeping as much of this team intact

860
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 1: as possible UM each year, as I said, and each

861
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 1: team is different, but you give yourself a better chance

862
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: the more that you keep a team intact anywhere else.

863
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: Proceeding to your team to run back through specifically this year, yeah,

864
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: I would. I would say, just you know, I don't

865
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: think I've been around a guy that's UM pound for

866
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: pound as tough as Frank Gore UM, A professional like

867
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: Frank Gore in his habits day in and day out, UM,

868
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: and then just as big was his you know example

869
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: to Devin UM all on and off the field. So

870
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: that's some of what we're talking about with veteran leaders,

871
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: trying to get a veteran leader in every room UM

872
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: that Brandon and I are trying to do, trying to

873
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: establish that Frank was a great example of that UM

874
00:44:51,920 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: to Devin how long whatever. I don't think you ever,

875
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think you ever get over those memories.

876
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: But again I believe this John, that winners know how

877
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: to turn that pain into into into growth. And that's

878
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: what That's what I've done me personally. As you asked

879
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: about myself. That's what I've done. And as I told

880
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: the team and as I told you guys after the game, um,

881
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: we'll never stop fighting. And that's been my career to

882
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: this point, and I expect the Buffalo Bills to to

883
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: never stop fighting. Thanks guys, there you go ahead. Coach

884
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: John McDermot addressing the media. We'll be back to talking

885
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: about some of those issues when we return. It's One

886
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: Bills Live and Early Fortunate One Bills Drive presented by

887
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: Kalida Health from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo Bills

888
00:45:52,680 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 1: Radio special edition of One Mill's Live, coming to you

889
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: from Marcher Park from One Bill's Drive, where General manager

890
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean will speak after Sean McDermott did for what

891
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: did you go about forty minutes? Twenty five minutes or so?

892
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: It started with twenty five half half hour maybe okay? UM,

893
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: A lot of interesting stuff. They're including the part where

894
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: and I mentioned it yesterday, how the sequence at the

895
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: end of the first half Bill's had the ball, they

896
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:31,879
Speaker 1: had a two yard run by Frank Gore. They called

897
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: a time out, They threw a pass to Duke Williams

898
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: in the end zone. They try to feel well, it

899
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: just didn't seem right yesterday and McDermott admitted that today,

900
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: which two things. Number one, he's right, it was screwed up.

901
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: He said, we'd like to have that back. Number two,

902
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: how about Sean McDermott just saying, yeah, we screwed it up,

903
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: we want that back. Yeah, they get they took the

904
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: time out. It was like what thirty seconds left or something.

905
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: They took the time out, came back and handed it

906
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: off to Gore and then they had to take one

907
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 1: Then they spiked it and had to take one shot

908
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: at the end zone to Duke Williams, which was close

909
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: to getting there, and you know, didn't he didn't bluster,

910
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: He didn't say, now we thought we were doing this

911
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: that he said, yeah, he goes, we we total, he goes,

912
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: we want to We wish we had that back. We

913
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: wish we had that back. And to me, that puts

914
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: him in a better spot. And now they messed it

915
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: up too. But now from our standpoints, like, okay, now

916
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: they realized they messed it up, and they're gonna, you

917
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: know how, they're gonna ask themselves, how do we get

918
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: in that spot? What we do to get ourselves into

919
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 1: a time out? And then hand it to Gore and

920
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: get have to spite you know, what are we doing right?

921
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: And that's so that means they're now they're working on it.

922
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: They're looking at themselves going, man, we messed that up,

923
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: which it means they're in the reparation mode, you know,

924
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: instead of trying to put it away and say, oh,

925
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: I didn't have it. You know, here's what we were thinking,

926
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: trying to justify it or at or maybe you know,

927
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 1: there's a we were yesterday thinking, hey, maybe Josh check

928
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: to it. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe and maybe

929
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: he is covering for that. Either way, it puts him

930
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: in the light there where they're trying to fix it

931
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: and they acknowledge it was blown him. The other thing

932
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 1: pict your question that McDermot addressed, and we'll have to

933
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: get take some time and get into some of this.

934
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: But I thought right at the top of he said

935
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 1: the bills we will grow from the pain of this loss,

936
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: will turn the pain into a strength. That sounds like

937
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: a good philosophy by the coach. Righty, it's painful. We

938
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: are in pain, fans are in pain. Obviously McDermot and

939
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: his players is in pain. And we see we'll turn

940
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: that into strength will grow from that. I thought that

941
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: was really a good way to look at it, a

942
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: healthy way. Yeah, I think so too. I think the

943
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: players will will take respond to that as well. And

944
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot that he said in there about going

945
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 1: forward about it. He I think it's obvious he likes

946
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys on this team. He wants

947
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: to keep this team intact as much as he can

948
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: staff and that's maybe that gives us an inkling of

949
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 1: what their philosophy will be when free agency hits and

950
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: they got, you know, Jordan Phillips, Shack Lawson, Quentin Spain,

951
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, Kevin Johnson. All these guys that are free

952
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: agents are restricted free agents or exclusive rights free agents,

953
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: which guys are gonna grab. You know, they want to

954
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: keep a lot of the guys they can as many

955
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: as they can. We're gonna, We're gonna come back. I'm

956
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: here from Brandon being the general manager of the Bills.

957
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: When we return one Bills Live presented by Kalidah Health

958
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo

959
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Oh, Steve Claspers dos dost all time. Here

960
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Speaker 1: we go. It's our number two of our five hour

961
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,880
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962
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: coming here from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. And

963
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: now we await the appearance of general manager Brandon Bean.

964
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: We heard Sean McDermott last hour, where we'll recap what

965
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: McDermott said, play some excerpts of his comments as the

966
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 1: Dave rolls along. We're here until three today, we'll have

967
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: plenty of time to do that, and we're gonna hear

968
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: from Brandon being the general manager in just a moment. Steve,

969
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 1: I would anticipate that Bean will get mostly questions about

970
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: what's to come, what his plan is. Basically, this is

971
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: his regular season coming up now, as much as uh

972
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: the game Sunday ended, Sean McDermott's regular right, which which

973
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: free agency values most, what position group, all of that

974
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: stuff is going to be on the table. They who

975
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: he wants to sign, Jordan Phillips, see all the list

976
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: of guys we've already put up there, um, the philosophy

977
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: of free agency, all of that, and here he is.

978
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: Now we'll hear from Brandon Bean and his questions from

979
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: media right now this recorder on I'll wait to you. Guys,

980
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: are ready, are made, It's up ten. Everybody good, Okay. UM.

981
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: Obviously I don't talk very much during season, so give

982
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: me a minute to kind of summarize some things and

983
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 1: some thank you's before I turned over to you, guys.

984
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: I first off, I want to thank Sean. Um. What

985
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,439
Speaker 1: a great job and what a great year. I thought

986
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: he had overall, not the finish that he or I wanted,

987
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: and we will obviously get into that, but I thought

988
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: he and his staff did a really good job with

989
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: the players and where we started, even before the draft

990
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: and then developing our rookies. If you don't have good coaches,

991
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: it's hard to win in this league. And UM, kudos

992
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: to Sean and his staff. Are players that game Saturday,

993
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: as painful as it was and still is, I think

994
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 1: you saw the fight. I've been on teams. I've had

995
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: teams that when the especially on the road, when the

996
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: pendulum swayed the way it did, and you know, Josh

997
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: got sacked. They got the ball fourth and one, we

998
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: make a stop. Josh and the guys rallied down and

999
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: not everything was perfect, we know, but they fought to

1000
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 1: the end. We get the field goal, we got a stop,

1001
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: we got the ball. We just unfortunately we just didn't

1002
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: get that one big play to finish it off and

1003
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: come home with the win. And you know, I hate that.

1004
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: But I can't thank our players enough for what they

1005
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: did and how hard they fought all season long. One

1006
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: player in particular I want to talk about is Lorenzo Alexander.

1007
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: Many of you may not know. I was when Lorenzo

1008
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 1: came in the league in two thousand and five. I

1009
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: was in Carolina and he was a three hundred and

1010
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: fifteen pound defensive tackle. And to see this, see him

1011
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: develop into a man and what he became, you know,

1012
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: you talk about reinventing yourself. I don't know anybody that's

1013
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: played in the league that started as a d tackle

1014
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 1: and finished as a linebacker and then off the field,

1015
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: what he did and what his fan we brought to

1016
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 1: this community second to none. And we'll be missed. I

1017
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: know talking to Lorenzo and sent me a great note yesterday.

1018
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: He still wants to be a part of this community.

1019
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: That's how much this community means to him and his family.

1020
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: So I think we'll all be blessed with that. The

1021
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: Bagoula's Terry and Kim, I mean, Sean and I are

1022
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: very fortunate. You see things all over the league with

1023
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: ownership that changes or doesn't fully give the support that

1024
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:31,320
Speaker 1: a coach and a GM need to be successful. You

1025
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 1: guys see it here every day you walk in. You

1026
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: see that that weight room that we got last offseason,

1027
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: the funds to build our staffs, to build our analytics,

1028
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: to build whatever we're trying to build. It's been a

1029
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: big change from three years ago when Sean and I

1030
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: got here. I know we got here at different times,

1031
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: but they have never batted an eyelash yet what we

1032
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: need and I know that won't change going forward. So

1033
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: a big thank you to them. And then I want

1034
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: to finish up with our fans. I'm just blown away

1035
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: by our fans, and I know our players are. I've

1036
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: never heard players talk so positively about their fans because

1037
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: we know with the especially in the social media world,

1038
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: fans can be very passionate and there could be a

1039
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: lot of negative energy. We lose that game the other night,

1040
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: you know, I was just shocked how many people at

1041
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: two or two fifteen, whatever time it was, we're out

1042
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: there with signs cheering. If you just walked up on

1043
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: that scene, you would have thought we won the game.

1044
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: And you know, I get emotional because I felt bad

1045
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: for him and I feel I feel really bad that

1046
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: we didn't win that game. And you know, you go

1047
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: back to Nashville, Miami and Houston, like Nashville, that game

1048
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: that was like a bowl game, like it was their

1049
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: team does something good. You hear that side of the stadium.

1050
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: Our team does something good. I mean, it truly was

1051
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: like a new neutral field. And to have Bills Mafia

1052
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Nation support us that way all season long. It's

1053
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: unmatched and uh, I'm very appreciative. Our players are our

1054
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: our our entire building. And I know Terry and kimr

1055
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: as well. So Apaolo Jose, I got a little bit

1056
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: um emotional, but uh I feel bad that that we

1057
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: didn't get that win. But I promise you our guys

1058
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: are hungry and we'll be back if you're doing the process.

1059
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: Towards the twenty twenty season, a lot of those series

1060
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 1: of need as you see they get this team over

1061
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: the time. Um, well, we have to keep our defense strong.

1062
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: You know, they had a really good year. Um I

1063
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: would say, you've got to be strong in all three phases.

1064
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: We want to. We want to be better on special

1065
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: teams and UM and our special teams I did think

1066
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: improved from a year ago, but we want to We're

1067
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:50,439
Speaker 1: not happy with that. And then offensively, we did show

1068
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: some improvements statistically and obviously you know, we'll talk about Josh,

1069
00:55:56,120 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 1: but Josh, you know, improved UM and we scored more points, UM.

1070
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we didn't score

1071
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: enough points. And a lot of times, if you make

1072
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs your last game, it's kind of emblematic of

1073
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: of if you don't win at all, whether you go

1074
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: to the championship game or you lose like we did,

1075
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,399
Speaker 1: a lot of times, it kind of shows you how

1076
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: your season went and where you're good and where you

1077
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: got to get better. And I thought we saw that

1078
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: on we just didn't score enough points. Is three years

1079
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: and really all three years of offenses, you have bottom

1080
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: quarters of the league in terms of you know, ers

1081
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: of early points. What just league, it's three years? What's

1082
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: been holding the back? Why can't you get over the

1083
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:46,879
Speaker 1: offense at least get two? Yeah? Um, you know, I'm

1084
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: gonna look in the mirror first to be honest with you,

1085
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: and just uh, there's things that there's things like always, um,

1086
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: what can I do better to get our roster better?

1087
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you're talking all three years,

1088
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: the you know, for year we came in and it

1089
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: was our first time around Tyrode, and you know, it

1090
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: was a different offensive coordinator. So I don't think you

1091
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: can totally count that we made a decision at that

1092
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: point that we were gonna draft a young quarterback. So

1093
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: I would really look at it as the last two

1094
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: sal and you know, a rookie quarterback in eighteen. And honestly,

1095
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: I didn't do a very good job in eighteen. Now,

1096
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: part of that was where we were in the salary cap.

1097
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: There were some restrictions I had, but there's things I

1098
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: could have done better to give us better upfront protection.

1099
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: You know. I think we heard Josh a little bit

1100
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: on that, and we honestly didn't plan on him to

1101
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: play as quick as he did. But that was, you know,

1102
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: the best move for us at the time. Last year,

1103
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: I think it paid off, but I think it was

1104
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: painful early on. And then this year, you know, we

1105
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: improved in a lot of areas, but it takes time.

1106
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of you know, we had

1107
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: I think nine new starters. M that's probably not ideal.

1108
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: We talked about it at the beginning of the year.

1109
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: How quick you guys, asked me, how quick you know

1110
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: that old line's gonna jail? How quickly Josh will jail

1111
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: with Cole Beasley and John Brown? And um, I brought

1112
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: in Tyler Croft. Unfortunately he had the injury setback, So

1113
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox is now he's casting the forefront and did

1114
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: a lot of good things for a young player. But um,

1115
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: I know there's some plays he left out there that

1116
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get better. Um I think it's all. I

1117
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: think it's a combination of things. Year two in Brian

1118
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 1: day balls system, I saw improvement, But Brian will be

1119
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: the first one to tell you that there's things he

1120
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: would want to do as well. But I think we

1121
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: at least took a step forward, but we gotta we

1122
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: gotta take a you know, another step. To your point,

1123
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: sou fan base, it's clamoring for receiver offer and the

1124
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: clear thought is Josh will become significantly better offense. The

1125
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: story and will you come to that significantly better if

1126
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: this team gets big time help at receiver. Did you

1127
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: agree with that Prentis stand and is that. If so,

1128
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: do you see this offseason as as that being a

1129
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: critical place to address, Vickim It's a great question. It's

1130
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: one of the many positions that I think we need

1131
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: to try and get better. I don't think we're not

1132
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 1: going to go in and just throw a bunch of

1133
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: money and throw everything and you know, at receivers or

1134
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: anything like that, but we're going to try and find well. Obviously,

1135
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: the first place we'll well, the first place we'll be

1136
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: looking is we'll be going to these All Star games

1137
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: and seeing what's there and free agencies first on the calendar,

1138
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: so we'll take a look. You know, we're we're already

1139
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: looking at that, but sometimes guys resign or get franchised

1140
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: things like that. But, um no, that's a fair question.

1141
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: But we're not just looking at I don't think we're

1142
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: one player away from you know, I never think you are,

1143
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: And I definitely don't think we're one player away. Uh,

1144
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: you lose the first round of the playoffs, that doesn't

1145
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: say to me the Bills are one player away from

1146
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: being exactly where they want to be. Um, but that's

1147
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: definitely a position that we're going to look to see

1148
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: if we can find you know, more talent um. You know,

1149
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: obviously row Uh, he's delivered in some club situations. Maybe

1150
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: there's been a consistency had you know, in the second

1151
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: half of that game Saturday, Um, and how he kind

1152
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: of unrattled in a couple of situations as a talent

1153
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: and valueare what's your view of where he's at right

1154
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: now at the end of the year or two paying

1155
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: into year teams. Yeah, I think Josh is a young

1156
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 1: player and um, overall, I'm very proud thing about Josh.

1157
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: You know, we had our exit meeting with him. He's

1158
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: the first to you don't even have to start going down,

1159
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: you know, areas of improvement. He's got him. He's he's

1160
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: very aware of where he the things he does well

1161
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 1: and in the areas and I think we saw that.

1162
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: If you just take it back before we go to

1163
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 1: what happened Saturday, if you when he walked out of

1164
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 1: here a year ago to when he came back in

1165
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: the spring, you know you all that were at practice

1166
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: and training camp and then obviously it carried over into games.

1167
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: You know, he improved in a lot of areas. Is

1168
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: he perfect? Is he where he wants to be. Is

1169
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: he where we want him to be? No, but he's

1170
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: got the DNA to continue to improve, and I have

1171
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: no doubt he is disgusted like we all are, that

1172
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: we didn't finish that game and come out with a win.

1173
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you can you can talk about playoffs,

1174
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: and you can't simulate it, Adam, until until you play it.

1175
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes Josh he wants it so bad

1176
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: that sometimes he tries to do too much if we're

1177
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: not moving the ball at times. I think, you know,

1178
01:01:58,080 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: that's probably one of the things he's got to work on,

1179
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: is still playing within himself. I think he tried to

1180
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 1: put all, you know, forty five other players on his

1181
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: back and do things that maybe are a little bit

1182
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: out of you know, he shouldn't do. And um, you know,

1183
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson made some great plays. I'm sure he's seeing

1184
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: what's going on with man. He's making some great plays.

1185
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: I gotta go do it. I'm sure it's all in there.

1186
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: He's as you know, he's a fiery competitor and I

1187
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 1: would much rather have those errors than check down Charlie

1188
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: being timid. You know what I'm saying. You know, all

1189
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: those types of things so I'm very proud of Josh.

1190
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that he's going to come back

1191
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 1: Uh an even better version version of himself. Uh in April.

1192
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: How do you keep him? How do you mean, how

1193
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: do you coach that out of him? The hero ball perhaps? Um?

1194
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: And how do you Is it just from the experience

1195
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: or is the real worry that you know this is

1196
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: something zomb he can't get over. Um. I don't think

1197
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: there's a hump that Josh can't get over. I think

1198
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 1: he's he's so determined and he can. You know, people

1199
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: say you can take coaching or criticism. Josh truly takes

1200
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 1: it like he wants it. He wants the feedback. He

1201
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: doesn't get his feelings hurt. Um. He knows every question

1202
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: that you guys are asking about him, he knows like uh,

1203
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: he's very in tune. UM, he knows it when he

1204
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: does he you know, I know he comes off the

1205
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 1: sidelines like I know I can't try and force that ball.

1206
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: I know I've got to protect that ball, you know,

1207
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: if it's a sack, fumble or whatever happened. I think

1208
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's maturity and again

1209
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: it's me doing a better job of increasing the talent

1210
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: around him too, so that he can trust, you know,

1211
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: have more players that can trust and make plays for

1212
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 1: him where he's just got to get the ball out,

1213
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: hand it off, do whatever, and not feel like he's

1214
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: got to do too much. I got your next job.

1215
01:03:55,480 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 1: He want task. I realized that there is you have

1216
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: to make. Yeah, but with that in mind, you feel

1217
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 1: the lift for you to your person held apartment is

1218
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: off these It might be a little bit less than

1219
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 1: what it was last year to bringing a s of

1220
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: offensive and I trying to make lend to working out

1221
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: of this offseason movie left. Yeah, we're going golfing next week. Chris,

1222
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:25,479
Speaker 1: Um No, I don't feel it's less. I really don't,

1223
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: because just because we probably won't be spending at the

1224
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:30,959
Speaker 1: deep end of the pool that that we did last

1225
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 1: year where we were, Um, it's still up to us

1226
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: to find either pieces to compete with what we have

1227
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: or pieces that can upgrade. And you can get guys

1228
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: that are minimum contract guys. You can get guys that

1229
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: are you know, low tier type, you know, kind of

1230
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 1: middle of the road. You know, those sometimes are as

1231
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: important or more important than those big ticket items. So no,

1232
01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:00,040
Speaker 1: we uh, we very much understand. And we'll have a

1233
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: meeting uh this Thursday with our coaches, uh and some

1234
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: of our personnel to truly kind of just uncork everything

1235
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: that happened all season long, from start to finish with

1236
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 1: our players, and we have to have a real assessment

1237
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: of where we see them and how they finished, and

1238
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: what our vision for each player is going forward. Is

1239
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 1: this a guy that's on the decline, Is this a

1240
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: guy that's ascending. Is this a guy we can win with?

1241
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: Or is this a guy we have to upgrade from.

1242
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: We'll have some frank discussions. We won't all agree with

1243
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: each other, but uh, that will kind of lay the

1244
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: groundwork for what our next steps are. People with the

1245
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 1: right over the last few years, you've done that better traditionally.

1246
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 1: Kind of sweet. Yeah, I don't think. I don't think

1247
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 1: we're looking at an overhaul. I think last year offensively

1248
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 1: was an overhaul to your point, Chris, Um, but Uh,

1249
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: we are going to look, you know, under every rock

1250
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: to find uh competition and upgrades where where we can

1251
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: and um, but we're gonna still my philosophy has not changed.

1252
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: We've got a draft, develop and sign our guys, and

1253
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: we're now getting into the area where you know, guys

1254
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: that have been here three years are up for contracts.

1255
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: We have some guys that you know that we claimed

1256
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 1: that are free agents. Um, so all those discussions will

1257
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 1: commence here real soon. As to guys that are potential

1258
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 1: free agents, do we want them back and then can

1259
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 1: we work it out with them and their their agent

1260
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: to come to an agreement on financial terms, trying to

1261
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 1: work out a long term view. Uh. You know, I

1262
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: don't really get into contracts, John, but I'm very proud

1263
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: of trade Avious. Uh. He's a guy we want here

1264
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: for the long term trades. Exactly what I just said.

1265
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 1: Draft developed and he has developed and is still developing.

1266
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: I think he can be better than he even was

1267
01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 1: this year. Um. The thing I was real proud about

1268
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 1: Tredavis this year is, um, most of his play has

1269
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: been steady the whole time. This year, he took the

1270
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: ball away, which was big for our defense. Hold on,

1271
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: let me get a joe real quick, trying to do

1272
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: after the week four year against the Patriots. Since then,

1273
01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: he did a lot better time of it. He came back.

1274
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: Um again, I think you know, the momentum had changed,

1275
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: and I think most of the things that he did,

1276
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: you know, in the second half was when the momentum

1277
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: changed and I've got to make a play for this team.

1278
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: And m again, that's his first time in the playoffs,

1279
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 1: and I think he'll learn from it. I have no

1280
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 1: doubt he'll learn from it. I'm as convinced today as

1281
01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: ever that Um, Josh can be better version of himself

1282
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: next year. It's hard to play quarterback. It's the hardest position.

1283
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 1: And I know everyone here and obviously everyone in this

1284
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: community is focused on our quarterback, Um, but I study

1285
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: quarterbacks from other teams as well and see how they do.

1286
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: And I'm very proud of where Josh is at. You

1287
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: got you've got some issues, or you might do yea

1288
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 1: to Jordan Phillips, you've got juriesph Is that an area

1289
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: that you really have to kind of hit this off

1290
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 1: season in all tap and is an area of really specialty? Is? Yeah?

1291
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: I do think you know That's that was my point

1292
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: to Vic earlier. Is Um. You know when he mentioned receiver,

1293
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,920
Speaker 1: We're a lot of positions away that we've got to

1294
01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 1: clean up or answer, whether it's resigning a free agent.

1295
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: Some of the guys you mentioned, Um, some guys that

1296
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 1: are are aging. We do want to continue to get young.

1297
01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:00,680
Speaker 1: We added some young guys last year, uh in Ed

1298
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 1: Oliver and um, Harrison Phillips will come back as a

1299
01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: young player and everybody probably forgets about him because he

1300
01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: got injured early in the year. And then you know,

1301
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 1: Darryl Johnson, UM, I thought did some really good things.

1302
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,599
Speaker 1: Didn't get as many reps being the fourth guy, but uh,

1303
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:18,639
Speaker 1: you know, showed some promise and I think a year,

1304
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, just him growing and learning, I think he'll

1305
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: he'll offer more next year. Um. But yeah, we do

1306
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: have to pay attention that. We believe in being strong upfront. Sal. So, Um,

1307
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: we'll definitely have to pay attention to you need this year,

1308
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: we're pretty good. You don't have that You one of

1309
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:48,559
Speaker 1: those guys. You'd love to have one, Sal, you really would. Um.

1310
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:51,600
Speaker 1: There's not even thirty two of them though, one for

1311
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: each team. So UM, if you know, I promise you

1312
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 1: we're looking for those guys and would love pressure in

1313
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,880
Speaker 1: the quarter. You know, if the court backs on his backside, Um,

1314
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 1: he can't do too much damage to us. So we

1315
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: want to be strong upfront. We want to stop the run,

1316
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 1: things like that. Um. But at the end, of the day. Uh,

1317
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 1: there's only so many you know, von Miller's and that

1318
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 1: that type of player that you magically yea the ter

1319
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: you see him or yeah. I mean I love Cody's versatility.

1320
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: And Cody got some great experience this year. I think

1321
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:30,680
Speaker 1: if you look at rookie tackles across the league, UM

1322
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 1: over the last few years, very rarely do they go

1323
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 1: out there and just dominate and you don't look to

1324
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:39,560
Speaker 1: help him at all. And I think Cody had some

1325
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 1: really good moments. He had some moments that he learned, UM,

1326
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: you know playing it. Just take his situation playing in Oklahoma,

1327
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: never being in a three point stance. UM, it's a

1328
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: big change to to then do that. He's not facing

1329
01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 1: de Marcus Lawrence von Miller, Uh JJ watt. You just

1330
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 1: you can't replicate that stuff. We can try to tell

1331
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:03,560
Speaker 1: him to practice it all day long, but until you

1332
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 1: go through it and feel that speed and feel that

1333
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 1: speed and on a wate stadium where you're going off

1334
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: silent count and that guy's coming off the ball at

1335
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: the same time you are, you know, home, it's a

1336
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,679
Speaker 1: little bit easier because you can time up your cadence

1337
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: on the road. You can't. You're out here on an island.

1338
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:20,760
Speaker 1: You're trying to look back at the ball, You're trying

1339
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: not to jump. You know. Overall, Cody did some really

1340
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: good things. I would say we love his versatility, and

1341
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:29,759
Speaker 1: you know, we like that with all our ro O lineman.

1342
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,080
Speaker 1: You know, John Feliciana did a great job this year

1343
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: when Mitch went down a couple of times of being

1344
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 1: able to jump in the center. So we just look

1345
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: at him as a versatile piece. I'm not gonna stamp

1346
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 1: him in as tackle or guard. H you know, we'll

1347
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: see how it plays out this offseason that all teams

1348
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: need elite quarterback play and we're win a Super Bowl

1349
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 1: if so, well, did Joshua made you believe that he

1350
01:11:55,600 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: can get Yeah? I mean, we don't win ten games

1351
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: without josh Allen. First off, he did a lot of

1352
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 1: great things. Was everything perfect. No elite quarterback. It's a

1353
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: quarterback league, so if you do have elite quarterback play,

1354
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 1: it definitely ups your odds. I don't want to sit

1355
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:16,639
Speaker 1: here and say you can't win a Super Bowl without

1356
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 1: an elite quarterback. There have been some cases, but generally speaking,

1357
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 1: josh most of the teams that advance in the in

1358
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs year after year, and the teams that are steady,

1359
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: h you know, winning their division have good quarterback plays. Question. Um,

1360
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: there's a general school of thought that I hadn't belong

1361
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 1: and an all personnel people that with young quarterbacks jo

1362
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,720
Speaker 1: from year two, year three, that oftentimes is one of

1363
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 1: the most progress is given what you've seen from Josh,

1364
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 1: is that's your respectation for him and the fact that

1365
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 1: he's had a postseason game under repel punishes that. Yeah,

1366
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:00,080
Speaker 1: I think it does help. I think we were that

1367
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 1: was one of the things that I was excited about

1368
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: making the playoffs. And I mean I wish I wasn't

1369
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 1: up here right now, which we were still preparing for

1370
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 1: another game. But um, that he now has one playoff

1371
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,320
Speaker 1: and a road playoff game under his belt, Um, you

1372
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 1: can't replicate it at him. And so I do think

1373
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that Josh is going to come back.

1374
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: He is so hungry, UM, so determined to He knows

1375
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:27,640
Speaker 1: he has doubters. He knows all the people from the

1376
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: day he was drafted, uh and still today, and he

1377
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: understands that's the world we live in. He could play

1378
01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: three good games, but the first time he has a

1379
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: bad game, all the naysayers are going to jump on him.

1380
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:42,560
Speaker 1: He is self aware, he understands what he has to do.

1381
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:46,639
Speaker 1: And again, Uh, Sean and I, we have no doubt

1382
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 1: that that Josh will come back here an even better

1383
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 1: version in twenty twenty than he was this year. Are

1384
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: you satisfied with some of the satisfied with some of

1385
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: the answers you got from him? The controversial all that?

1386
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 1: You know? Um, we can only control we can control leo. Uh,

1387
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 1: that's the best thing I can say. I don't UM,

1388
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't agree with everything. Uh, but UM, I always

1389
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:22,840
Speaker 1: look at it as what we can control. And you

1390
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: know we do try and learn from it. We do

1391
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:27,680
Speaker 1: reach out to the league to understand why calls are

1392
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 1: made so that we can teach our players and coaching better.

1393
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: If it is a foul that maybe they still say

1394
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: as a fouler is not. But UM, things happen, there's

1395
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 1: human error, UM all the time games. But you know,

1396
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 1: if if we make certain plays, maybe it doesn't come

1397
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: down to a controversial call. Um, that's probably the best

1398
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: way I can do it without losing any money in

1399
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 1: a while stressing continue intact, I know you want to add,

1400
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have positions, but what is the importance and

1401
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:06,479
Speaker 1: how us do you feel this team is in place

1402
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 1: and you need to need that movie or I guess

1403
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:16,640
Speaker 1: continuity issue? Yeah, I do. I do agree with continuity.

1404
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:20,600
Speaker 1: The more cohesive you know you are out there. This

1405
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:23,760
Speaker 1: is the ultimate team sport, John, and I think, UM,

1406
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what Sean said, but I know how

1407
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:29,280
Speaker 1: we think. UM. I would say we want to keep

1408
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: as many intact as we can, but we wouldn't do

1409
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: it in spite of upgrading, a clear upgrade. But if

1410
01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: you're talking about I bringing in a guy who with

1411
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: a similar skill set, Um, why would I do that?

1412
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:44,880
Speaker 1: If if this guy can do it? I'm looking for

1413
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: if they're if we're going to change out guys other

1414
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: than people that leave in free agency that we can't control. Um.

1415
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 1: We do believe in continuity and we want to keep

1416
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,679
Speaker 1: as many of this core, these guys that we've drafted

1417
01:15:56,680 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: and spent time developing and learning our system. We do

1418
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 1: want to keep him and that's our plan here. So

1419
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll just be able to add some pieces uh

1420
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: here and there to help us take the next step. John, Yeah,

1421
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 1: We'll start with Ed I thought Ed, you know, did

1422
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: a really good job. You know, first year, Um, he

1423
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 1: came out and I thought he had a really good camp.

1424
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 1: I think when we got into games, maybe early on,

1425
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 1: it was he was swimming a little bit um. In

1426
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:34,679
Speaker 1: fairness to Ed. At Houston, he played just over the nose.

1427
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: Playing the three tech was different, um, And so I

1428
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:41,560
Speaker 1: think once the game started slowing down, I think the

1429
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: best thing that happened was he had Jordan Phillips here,

1430
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: and Jordan had stepped up his game and so um,

1431
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,479
Speaker 1: you know, we play who who Who's earned it? And

1432
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 1: and Ed could have he could assault, he could have moped. Uh,

1433
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:59,000
Speaker 1: he took it in stride and I was very impressed

1434
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:02,040
Speaker 1: and he picked his game up. And I think he

1435
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 1: ended the season playing well, and you know, I'm hoping

1436
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:07,840
Speaker 1: this will be a very good offseason for him. And

1437
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: entering next year, we talked about Cody. You know, Devin

1438
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 1: was our next pick, and I thought Devin had a

1439
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 1: really good year. Hate he had the hamstring setback. I

1440
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,639
Speaker 1: think that that hurt us a little bit and slowed

1441
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 1: his development. But um, you saw it. As the year

1442
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: went on, he began to get more and more touches

1443
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: in the games, whether it's the pass game, you know,

1444
01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 1: or the run game. Uh Dawson I briefly mentioned earlier.

1445
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 1: I thought he did a nice job being thrown in

1446
01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 1: as a rookie. You know, for him, it's probably blessing.

1447
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: Tyler got hurt, so he got more reps. Not all

1448
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: those reps were came out the way he wanted, but

1449
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: again he got experience. He made some big plays for us.

1450
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: I think we'll a I would remember the Cincinnati play

1451
01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:55,719
Speaker 1: made when we were down in that game and needed

1452
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: a big one. But he you know, I know he'll

1453
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 1: be the first to tell you he left it you

1454
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 1: out there. But like where he's at, and um, you

1455
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: know what a pro Uh, you know, I got to

1456
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: think of who's next. Um, Vashan is out. Jaquan did

1457
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: a really good job on teams, got a chance to

1458
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: play in the Jet game and did some good things.

1459
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:19,400
Speaker 1: Would have that I and T if we didn't have

1460
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: the penalty. Um. And then I mentioned Darryl earlier, and

1461
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 1: then uh, Tommy Sweeney. Um, Tommy had a guy who

1462
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: played early. Tyler comes back. Uh. He played in the

1463
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 1: Jet game against their starters and uh made some big

1464
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: plays for us, and it was a tough decision, you know,

1465
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: whether we would activate him each week and even into

1466
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: last week going into Houston with Honey Way, what he

1467
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 1: brings to the room and what he was brought to

1468
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:51,719
Speaker 1: maybe his leadership with Devin versus. But was some pretty

1469
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: noticeable declinas to just a production of the second half

1470
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, I mean, um, good question, Jay.

1471
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:00,640
Speaker 1: I love Frank Gore. I think I told you we

1472
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: signed him as a fan and um, I was. It's

1473
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 1: funny when I was looking up something on the Lorenzo

1474
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: I was like, this is I think this is almost

1475
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: the same age as Frank May of nineteen eighty three.

1476
01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 1: You're talking about two tough dudes that were born on

1477
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: opposite as of the country. But uh, Lorenzo, I mean,

1478
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 1: Frank was just, Um, he brought so much. And I

1479
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:22,840
Speaker 1: don't think Devin has all the success that he had

1480
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: this year without him. Um to where he goes next,

1481
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. You know, at the end of the year,

1482
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 1: a guy at his age, um, you know, and it

1483
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: was super awesome to watch him climbing the third you know,

1484
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 1: in the rushing stats. But um, we'll let him decide

1485
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: what he's gonna do and and we'll we'll self inventory

1486
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 1: ourself and um and and make a decision. But nothing's

1487
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: been determined from him whether he wants to continue playing,

1488
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 1: and then on the other ide, whether we would have

1489
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: a spot for him back right, those changes from a

1490
01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:03,599
Speaker 1: free agent Stamford, you know, it's funny we had last year.

1491
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:05,400
Speaker 1: I had to defend Buffalo up here. I think then,

1492
01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:10,680
Speaker 1: I think that you know, people understand and see what

1493
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: we're building here. I think people across the league see

1494
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 1: that we have a young quarterback that's developing and growing.

1495
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: I think that those can be attractive pieces. You look

1496
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: at what Green Bay did all those years with Brett

1497
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 1: Farve and Aaron Rodgers in that group. If you have

1498
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:31,599
Speaker 1: a quarterback someone to build around, I think those are

1499
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:35,360
Speaker 1: attractive things. I think people see that we play selfless

1500
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:37,559
Speaker 1: football and we have guys that are going to fight.

1501
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: You know, not everything was pretty the other day, but

1502
01:20:41,479 --> 01:20:43,760
Speaker 1: I felt, you know, it was a good show that

1503
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,679
Speaker 1: this team's going to fight sixty minutes and sixty plus

1504
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:52,360
Speaker 1: minutes on Saturday, and and that we're hopefully considered, you know,

1505
01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 1: a young team on the rise in an attractive place.

1506
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not for me to determine, But that

1507
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: would be the part that I would sell for anyone

1508
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: that was looking at Buffalo. Where about a fan begging

1509
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: too much? Carolina? And then yeah, I actually good question, Jerry.

1510
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 1: I mentioned that I don't talk to the team at

1511
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:17,320
Speaker 1: all except kind of at the end of the year,

1512
01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:20,800
Speaker 1: beginning in the end, and I mentioned that that, um,

1513
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:23,559
Speaker 1: one of the big tests for teams that start making

1514
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:26,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs is other coaches when you play them the

1515
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:28,600
Speaker 1: next year. We'll use that as a measuring stick. This

1516
01:21:28,760 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 1: is a team that won the division or advancing the

1517
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: playoffs or whatever. So, um, you're going to get everyone's

1518
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 1: best next season, and you have to be prepared for it.

1519
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:43,600
Speaker 1: There's no sneaking up on anyone or people underestimating the

1520
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. So that'll be a different test. And we

1521
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:51,680
Speaker 1: didn't always answer that in Carolina, and Sean and I

1522
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 1: talked about that. That will be something that we'll we'll

1523
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: definitely focus on this offseason into training camp. Ency just

1524
01:22:00,080 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 1: how you balance that as you're making roster decisions, you've

1525
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:09,840
Speaker 1: had sent ocation approach seasons, how you annalance that well. Also,

1526
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's fuent some of that or yeah,

1527
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 1: I mean urgency is defined in a lot of different ways.

1528
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 1: I'd say, Matt, Um, you know, I don't think you're

1529
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:24,439
Speaker 1: gonna see us go crazy because again it goes back

1530
01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 1: to that one player away. I don't think we're there.

1531
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 1: We have to continue to build it. And as much

1532
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:32,320
Speaker 1: as I'd like to have three drafts within four months

1533
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:34,599
Speaker 1: apart or something like that and just continue to draft

1534
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of young guys and Adam into our group, UM,

1535
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:39,920
Speaker 1: you have to be patient and you have to still

1536
01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: do it the right way if it's gonna last and

1537
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 1: be sustained success. We want to be urgent in our approach.

1538
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:48,840
Speaker 1: We want to press our guys. We want to turn

1539
01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:52,439
Speaker 1: every you know, switching button that we can to win

1540
01:22:52,560 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 1: as many games and make it much further than we

1541
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:58,240
Speaker 1: did this year. Um, but are you know we're not

1542
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: changing the plan. We're still gonna draft, develop and sign

1543
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: and sprinkling free agents where we need holes. But um,

1544
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect us to make some radical trade all

1545
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: our draft picks or do anything like that. We got

1546
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 1: to get this player to get us over the hume

1547
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 1: how important important From year one, year two, everybody did

1548
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:30,560
Speaker 1: obviously it's not differ. Yeah, no, I think, um, you

1549
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 1: know going forward, Um, you know a lot of our

1550
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 1: guys on offense will be back, and so I think

1551
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 1: that will help. I do think continuity, um, you know,

1552
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: to John's question earlier is important and we've had more

1553
01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:47,880
Speaker 1: of that more stability. Of the three phases, we've had

1554
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:52,560
Speaker 1: the most uh constant on defense, and I think that

1555
01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: showed in the stats. And we've got to build that

1556
01:23:56,200 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 1: continuity on offense. And I think year two, um, well,

1557
01:24:01,360 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 1: and this will now be year three in Brian's system,

1558
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: but to be year two for John Brown, Cole Beasley,

1559
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: a lot of these old linemen that we brought in,

1560
01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:13,639
Speaker 1: so you got to think, um, that we'll be able

1561
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 1: to pick up at a different place in April and

1562
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,680
Speaker 1: May when they get back than where we were a

1563
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: year ago when they were just having to learn to

1564
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 1: play calls and where to line up. If that makes

1565
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 1: sense that that answer. So, yeah, I just wanted from

1566
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 1: Josh specifically from one years two. We see so much

1567
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:32,920
Speaker 1: people with other quarterbacks around the league and new ocs,

1568
01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 1: new quarterbacks coaches that really helped him. He would have

1569
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: had another from one of years two. Yeah, I mean

1570
01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 1: it's hard. You've seen some of these quarterbacks UM over

1571
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: the years. I don't want to mention their names, but

1572
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: you guys know them that you get talked about where

1573
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: this is your rebad, this is the fourth coordinator in

1574
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: five years, the third head coach, or things like that.

1575
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's great about Terry and Kim

1576
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,759
Speaker 1: back to you know, when I came in an interviewed,

1577
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: you know, they talked about stability for this organization was

1578
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 1: probably the thing that it lacked before and that was

1579
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: the thing that needed to get fixed first. And that

1580
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 1: goes for all of us. But uh, it definitely helps

1581
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 1: Josh and hopefully we can continue that, uh you know

1582
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:18,400
Speaker 1: with him and Brian and Ken Dorsey now in year

1583
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 1: two and and and as many players as possible eighty

1584
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: nine billion and sell each other space and that number

1585
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 1: to change base us and moves and decisions you made

1586
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,560
Speaker 1: when you hear that number. Much flexibility does that give you?

1587
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 1: What's your interpretation of that? Yeah, I mean it gives

1588
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: you a lot of flexibility. The more cap space you have. UM.

1589
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: And now obviously we want to begin, you know, resigning

1590
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:46,680
Speaker 1: some of our own guys and putting those funds there.

1591
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:48,360
Speaker 1: So I don't know what it will be by the

1592
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:50,280
Speaker 1: time free agency, and then you got to hold money

1593
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 1: for the draft. But it gives us a lot of flexibility.

1594
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: I love to have money in the bank if we

1595
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 1: need to make a move in August, September, whatever. Sometimes

1596
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 1: when your caps strapped, you can't do that. Um So

1597
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: it's it's currency, just like draft picks. It'll it'll allow

1598
01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:09,720
Speaker 1: us to do what we need to do to get

1599
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: better and what we're not going to not be able

1600
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: to sign a guy or not be able to trade

1601
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:17,799
Speaker 1: for a guy because we don't have the cap space

1602
01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: and we want to be cap strong as long as

1603
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: we can, um you know, hopefully Josh continues to ascend

1604
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:26,200
Speaker 1: and hopefully he makes us pay him some of those

1605
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:30,719
Speaker 1: healthy salaries that um you know at that time, which

1606
01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: we want to be able to be in cap strength

1607
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: to handle that as well, and not all of a

1608
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: sudden sign a quarterback and then have to release three

1609
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,720
Speaker 1: other players just to stay under the cap. Does that

1610
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 1: make sense. So it's not just that eighty nine million

1611
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: that you're refer to this year, it's making sure we're

1612
01:26:48,120 --> 01:27:02,160
Speaker 1: cap strong in twenty one, twenty two and beyond. I'm sorry, yeah, Ji, Yeah,

1613
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:04,280
Speaker 1: I was very proud of both of those guys. Jay.

1614
01:27:04,920 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 1: I'll take Shack first. Um. You know, we didn't pick

1615
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 1: up his option, and that can go uh one or

1616
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:14,240
Speaker 1: two ways. He can sulk and um you know, I'm

1617
01:27:14,439 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 1: I'm out of here or anything like that. You know,

1618
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:18,720
Speaker 1: Shaq took it and stride and we challenged him and

1619
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:22,160
Speaker 1: told him, listen, Shack, let's not picking up your option.

1620
01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with us wanting you here. It's

1621
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,400
Speaker 1: just where we are at this time. We would love

1622
01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: for you to have a great year and sign you

1623
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:31,680
Speaker 1: to a long term. So I was very happy with

1624
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 1: with Shack and and we'll obviously talk to his representatives.

1625
01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 1: Um Jordan, UM. I thought Jordan really stepped his game

1626
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 1: up this year. UM on the field, but also bringing

1627
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 1: some young guys along. I thought he was he was

1628
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: good with Ed and Um and just showing him some

1629
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:52,400
Speaker 1: different things. And UM, I think Jordan still got room

1630
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 1: to grow. Um. Again, he had a career year Sack production.

1631
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:01,600
Speaker 1: So he he's earned the right to see what his

1632
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:04,640
Speaker 1: value is on the market and we'll just have to

1633
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:11,679
Speaker 1: see where that goes. You have the option to actually

1634
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: get into the competitory. We're getting there, you know, Uh,

1635
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:18,560
Speaker 1: you know, I would love to say we're at that

1636
01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 1: point where we're going to get them. I think they

1637
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:24,280
Speaker 1: do help you. We've had to use other avenues, whether

1638
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: it's trading a player you know, at the end of

1639
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: camp or things like that, to add some of those

1640
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:31,000
Speaker 1: picks that you can get. Um, the more we can

1641
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:34,200
Speaker 1: continue to draft and just resign our own and then

1642
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 1: when you lose a few and not have to dig

1643
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 1: into the free agent market, it helps. Um. I think

1644
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 1: we're getting there, Joe. Um. You know, we don't have

1645
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: a lot of free agents this year, so I'm not

1646
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: sure this is the year. But UM, I think in time,

1647
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: as we build this, the teams that have taken advantage

1648
01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:54,479
Speaker 1: of it have been the teams with stability, not having

1649
01:28:54,479 --> 01:28:57,560
Speaker 1: a bunch of changes. Um, we're still early in this,

1650
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 1: you know, going into year four of a total rebuild.

1651
01:29:02,240 --> 01:29:04,640
Speaker 1: So I think Sean and I will get there with that.

1652
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: But I can't say this will not definitely be a

1653
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:11,720
Speaker 1: year that would happen. He told his agents that if

1654
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:14,479
Speaker 1: you guys want to do before free agency, not to

1655
01:29:14,520 --> 01:29:16,639
Speaker 1: get into his specifically, what's your philosophy on that though?

1656
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: Right as far as if you identify one of your

1657
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: own guys, would you like to or do you want

1658
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:22,800
Speaker 1: them to have to work to go and see and

1659
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 1: then ask you Yeah, I mean if if you have

1660
01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:28,639
Speaker 1: a guy that you want, whatever player is, Um, yeah,

1661
01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:31,120
Speaker 1: you'd love to go ahead and get something done before

1662
01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: they get the free agency. But I also respect the

1663
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: business part of it. We have to make business decisions

1664
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,760
Speaker 1: that are sometimes painful, you know, because you get to

1665
01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:42,599
Speaker 1: around these guys and you love them and you appreciate

1666
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:45,559
Speaker 1: what they've done for you. I don't hold it against

1667
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:47,240
Speaker 1: any of them if they say, hey, I really want

1668
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:49,679
Speaker 1: to be here, but I want to wait a little

1669
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 1: closer to free agency and get a feel for my

1670
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:54,680
Speaker 1: market because maybe I don't think where your offer is

1671
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:56,479
Speaker 1: at I think I can get more, or I just

1672
01:29:56,600 --> 01:30:00,479
Speaker 1: want to make sure before I commit. Some guys are like,

1673
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 1: I just want to be here and that's what I

1674
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:05,600
Speaker 1: want to be and that's great for for us or

1675
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 1: whatever team they're like. Um, a lot of guys or

1676
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 1: their agents may say, hey, let us let us see

1677
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 1: what's out there and let's circle back, you know, closer

1678
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:19,599
Speaker 1: to free agency. Um. There's different times you know, these

1679
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: agents feel you know, fill out and find the market.

1680
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:25,639
Speaker 1: So UM, any guy that says, hey, I definitely want

1681
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 1: to be here and we can get on the same

1682
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 1: page of their value that we want. We'd love to

1683
01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:32,040
Speaker 1: go ahead and get them done as soon as possible.

1684
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:38,720
Speaker 1: About this organization where you've got guys say I want

1685
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:41,439
Speaker 1: I want to be here. That's that's what you want, Josh. Uh,

1686
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:45,719
Speaker 1: it's much better than the alternative where they're uh speed

1687
01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:48,400
Speaker 1: nine here believing skid marks. Uh, you know in the

1688
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 1: parking lot. Um So no, I love, I love. I

1689
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 1: didn't know he said that, but uh, that's great to

1690
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:56,080
Speaker 1: hear that that Q said that, and uh we'll see

1691
01:30:56,120 --> 01:31:01,000
Speaker 1: where that goes. Good. Thank y'all. All right, Brandon Bean,

1692
01:31:01,080 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 1: general manager of the Buffalo Bills, meeting the media today.

1693
01:31:03,320 --> 01:31:05,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be back to discuss

1694
01:31:05,080 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 1: what was said when we returned. One Bill's Live, presented

1695
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: by a Lot of Health from the Seneca Studio in

1696
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:22,360
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One

1697
01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:24,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. I'm John Murphy next to Steve Tasker. He

1698
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,080
Speaker 1: got Brandon Bean himself coming into the studio in a

1699
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:30,160
Speaker 1: couple of minutes to we'll fire. We'll find some new

1700
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:32,800
Speaker 1: questions to ask him, but that was a long press

1701
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: cut forty minutes, talk about a lot. Talked about the

1702
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:38,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo offense, said, took a step forward, got another to

1703
01:31:38,800 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 1: take a step, take another step forward. He said, Josh

1704
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,240
Speaker 1: Allen improved in a lot of areas. Is he where

1705
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:46,719
Speaker 1: he wants to be? No, And he's talked about Josh.

1706
01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:50,000
Speaker 1: He said, sometimes he wants it so bad he tries

1707
01:31:50,040 --> 01:31:52,680
Speaker 1: to do too much. I think that's an adequate representation

1708
01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:54,200
Speaker 1: of the way he played on Saturday. I think he

1709
01:31:54,280 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 1: got that from us. I think he's listening to our show.

1710
01:31:58,280 --> 01:32:00,680
Speaker 1: Tell you exactly what we said. That's true. I mean,

1711
01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's what it Josh is. We got

1712
01:32:03,320 --> 01:32:05,719
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to have, We'll have men And really,

1713
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:08,800
Speaker 1: I mean that was a wide ranging Yeah, what are

1714
01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:10,639
Speaker 1: we gonna talk to him about. We're gonna ask him

1715
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 1: the same things. Are you gonna come up with something?

1716
01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:13,960
Speaker 1: We got stuff? I'm like at a loss. Now, here's

1717
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:16,120
Speaker 1: the thing about Brandon's news conference. He dealt a lot

1718
01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 1: with the past and the future, so we talked about

1719
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:21,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of both. He talked about, um, you know,

1720
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 1: people free agents, attracting free agency. He said he thinks

1721
01:32:25,040 --> 01:32:28,000
Speaker 1: people have come to understand what we're building here, and

1722
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback to build around. He said that will benefit

1723
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:34,519
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. And he also admitted to they're not

1724
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:36,720
Speaker 1: one player And we've been talking about how everybody all

1725
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:38,920
Speaker 1: through the US regular season has been saying wide you

1726
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:40,719
Speaker 1: need a big wide receiver, need a big wide receiver.

1727
01:32:40,760 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 1: And I was poop pooing that idea earlier in this show. Yeah,

1728
01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 1: they're not one player away. Now, he said that because

1729
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:47,760
Speaker 1: we're not one player away. We got put bumped in

1730
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs. You're not one player

1731
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:52,680
Speaker 1: away when you do that. And and I agree, I

1732
01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 1: mean we all, I mean, you know, we can all

1733
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:57,560
Speaker 1: see it certainly better. And I here's the surprise that

1734
01:32:57,600 --> 01:33:02,559
Speaker 1: I got. He goes, listen, We're we're everybody's up. I mean,

1735
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna try and get better everywhere. We gotta get

1736
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 1: better everywhere. Offensive line, defensive line. We got changes that

1737
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: are made. Guys are gonna come in, Guys are gonna

1738
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:11,439
Speaker 1: leave at the bottom of the roster as well as

1739
01:33:11,479 --> 01:33:13,720
Speaker 1: the top of the roster. We gotta pick which guys

1740
01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:16,439
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay. We're trying to get they're trying to

1741
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:19,600
Speaker 1: get better everywhere, And certainly there are certain guys that

1742
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:21,879
Speaker 1: are not going to replace you know, Tremaine Edmunds, Tredavious,

1743
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:24,640
Speaker 1: why Josh Allen, all these guys, you know, Devin Singletary.

1744
01:33:24,720 --> 01:33:26,760
Speaker 1: But certainly they're gonna bring guys in to compete with them.

1745
01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: They're trying to get better behind those guys. Um. You

1746
01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: know they just signed you remember Christian Wade. I mean

1747
01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:34,640
Speaker 1: he's still around. He's been practicing all year, trying to

1748
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:37,680
Speaker 1: get on the field. And how much do we all

1749
01:33:37,720 --> 01:33:39,720
Speaker 1: love him in the preseason and now he's eligible to

1750
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 1: be an active player. Is he going to compete for

1751
01:33:41,320 --> 01:33:44,280
Speaker 1: a spot? Who knows? But you know what, I love

1752
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 1: the fact that they listen. He joked about going golfing.

1753
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:50,559
Speaker 1: You're not going golfing. They're grinding it and they're gonna

1754
01:33:50,600 --> 01:33:52,320
Speaker 1: find some guys to make the team better. And yet

1755
01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:54,720
Speaker 1: he said, we're not in the place where we need

1756
01:33:54,760 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 1: a major overhaul on offense, which they have last year.

1757
01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: He said last year they need in an overhaul that

1758
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:03,200
Speaker 1: we don't need one this year. Absolutely. I think that's

1759
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:05,719
Speaker 1: now they can be more judicious and who they sign

1760
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:07,880
Speaker 1: and the type of player in the position they go

1761
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:10,200
Speaker 1: for it. Even yeah, even at the offensive line. I mean,

1762
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:12,599
Speaker 1: Cody Ford gives them some flexibility. And I know he's

1763
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:14,560
Speaker 1: been taking a little bit of a beating since the

1764
01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:17,280
Speaker 1: Houston game, but he can play right tackle, he can

1765
01:34:17,320 --> 01:34:19,439
Speaker 1: play right guard. That gives them the flexibility if they

1766
01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 1: get up in the draft and they got an offensive lineman,

1767
01:34:21,200 --> 01:34:23,599
Speaker 1: they could take a guard or tackle, knowing that Cody

1768
01:34:23,600 --> 01:34:26,120
Speaker 1: could play one or the other. Certainly they may have

1769
01:34:26,600 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 1: an idea. Maybe they like him better at guard, maybe

1770
01:34:28,560 --> 01:34:30,680
Speaker 1: they like him better at tackle. It's irrelevant right now,

1771
01:34:31,120 --> 01:34:33,519
Speaker 1: but at least he gives them some flexibility. Along with

1772
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:37,240
Speaker 1: Spencer Long and Waddle coming back as a free agent,

1773
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 1: they may resign. They got all these guys that had

1774
01:34:40,479 --> 01:34:43,639
Speaker 1: so many more guys who can actually take a snap

1775
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:45,720
Speaker 1: without your ring in your hands that they're gonna blow

1776
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 1: it for you. You got a bunch more guys that

1777
01:34:48,080 --> 01:34:51,920
Speaker 1: can that are you know, NFL guys that can play

1778
01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:54,840
Speaker 1: rather than big question marks, and now they can get

1779
01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:58,679
Speaker 1: better from the bottom up instead of the top down.

1780
01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:02,639
Speaker 1: One thing, and I didn't expect this from either Sean

1781
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:05,639
Speaker 1: McDermott or from Brandon Bean. One thing they've done. Hearing

1782
01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:08,280
Speaker 1: them talk about moving forward, moving into next year. Puts

1783
01:35:08,320 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 1: me in a better frame of mind, you know what

1784
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,120
Speaker 1: I mean. I'm still down coming in here this morning,

1785
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:15,200
Speaker 1: watching the game again yesterday and thinking, oh, why about this?

1786
01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 1: Why didn't they do that? When they do this? And

1787
01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:19,919
Speaker 1: these two certainly they felt the disappointment and the despair

1788
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:22,880
Speaker 1: about losing that playoff game, but they also point to

1789
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:25,599
Speaker 1: the future and as McDermott said, you know, we'll learn

1790
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:28,280
Speaker 1: from the pain of that loss another interesting gain from

1791
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:31,120
Speaker 1: that pain to another interesting thing too. And Sean did

1792
01:35:31,160 --> 01:35:33,599
Speaker 1: it and started Brandon and some people may be down

1793
01:35:33,680 --> 01:35:35,200
Speaker 1: on this and maybe like I don't want to hear

1794
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:37,439
Speaker 1: about that, but they really referred a lot to what

1795
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:39,320
Speaker 1: happened to them in Carolina when they went to the

1796
01:35:39,400 --> 01:35:42,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and then it kind of disintegrated out from

1797
01:35:42,800 --> 01:35:45,400
Speaker 1: underneath them after that. They lost certain players. They didn't

1798
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:48,080
Speaker 1: do that, you know how that team came apart after

1799
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 1: a nice run right there to get to the Super Bowl,

1800
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:56,799
Speaker 1: even though they lost to the Denver Broncos. They learned

1801
01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:58,880
Speaker 1: a lot about keeping a team, what it was going

1802
01:35:58,920 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: to take to keep a team together after they made

1803
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:02,479
Speaker 1: a run like that. So it didn't you know, they

1804
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:06,400
Speaker 1: didn't go five and eleven the next season, and I

1805
01:36:06,479 --> 01:36:08,120
Speaker 1: know a lot of people like that. I don't want

1806
01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:12,439
Speaker 1: to be the Carolina Panthers North, you know. And that's

1807
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:14,760
Speaker 1: not what we're talking about, talking about the things that

1808
01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:18,120
Speaker 1: they learned and the notes they took on the teams

1809
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:21,000
Speaker 1: that they were with, how it went bad and why

1810
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 1: it went bad, and not to let it happen here.

1811
01:36:23,040 --> 01:36:26,400
Speaker 1: And also you know, to get out ahead of it

1812
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:31,120
Speaker 1: and be preemptive and take certain steps to make sure

1813
01:36:31,240 --> 01:36:34,360
Speaker 1: you do take another step forward as a team. Maybe

1814
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:36,320
Speaker 1: you don't get bounced out in the playoffs on the

1815
01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:38,479
Speaker 1: first round next year, maybe you make a deep run.

1816
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 1: That's I think that kind of stuff. It became evident

1817
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:45,599
Speaker 1: in both their press conferences, Brandon Being and Sean McDermott

1818
01:36:45,640 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 1: saying a lot about things they've seen in their experience

1819
01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 1: of how teams keep moving forward rather than take their

1820
01:36:53,160 --> 01:36:55,599
Speaker 1: foot off the gas and regress. In the last hour

1821
01:36:55,720 --> 01:36:58,799
Speaker 1: during the Brandon Being news conference, a couple of notable

1822
01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 1: items happened around the Believe Steve, if I asked you

1823
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:04,760
Speaker 1: forty minutes ago, who's Joe Judge, no idea, No, not

1824
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: me neither. Joe Judge is now the head coach of

1825
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:09,960
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. The Patriots are gonna the Giants

1826
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:12,800
Speaker 1: are gonna hire him. Patriots assistant Joe Judge. He was

1827
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:17,320
Speaker 1: New England's Patriots special teams and wide receivers coach. Joe

1828
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:19,840
Speaker 1: Judge hired by the Giants to be their head coach.

1829
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:24,600
Speaker 1: Kind of a shock. The other move made in the

1830
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:27,920
Speaker 1: last forty five minutes the Panthers have hired Baylor's Matt

1831
01:37:28,040 --> 01:37:30,320
Speaker 1: Rule as their head coach. That's not as much of

1832
01:37:30,360 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 1: a shock. We've heard that name mentioned Carolina finalizing the

1833
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:35,519
Speaker 1: deal for the Baylor head coach to become the franchise

1834
01:37:35,920 --> 01:37:39,120
Speaker 1: fifth head coach in history. That's according to NFL Network.

1835
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: Matt Rule, by the way, was pursued by the Giants

1836
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:43,879
Speaker 1: a little bit and made one more phone call, apparently

1837
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:45,880
Speaker 1: to the Giants. It's been reported do you want me

1838
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: or Matt Rule when he got the offer from the

1839
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:51,720
Speaker 1: Patriots or from the Panthers, called the Giants and said, hey,

1840
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:54,240
Speaker 1: here's my offer. Are you gonna match it or better it?

1841
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:57,960
Speaker 1: And the Giants said no. He said okay, And now

1842
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:00,719
Speaker 1: he's the Panthers head coach. So that you talk about

1843
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:05,840
Speaker 1: a savvy guy, Hey, he's a free agent, and he

1844
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:09,519
Speaker 1: made the call. He'd interviewed with both those clubs, and

1845
01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:11,519
Speaker 1: he said, Okay, I'm getting an offer from these guys.

1846
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:13,080
Speaker 1: Do you guys want in on this deal or not?

1847
01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:16,120
Speaker 1: And and the Giants said no, we've got a different guy.

1848
01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:17,760
Speaker 1: And he said okay, and he signed the deal with

1849
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Sixth year, six year, sixty million bucks. It's

1850
01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:27,560
Speaker 1: a long contract. Sounds like something a Baylor guy would do.

1851
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:33,000
Speaker 1: Shop because I think Baylor is is suspect when it

1852
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,599
Speaker 1: comes to UH ethics, and I think Matt rule fits

1853
01:38:35,680 --> 01:38:38,040
Speaker 1: right in. You know I want this job, Carolina, Yes,

1854
01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:40,080
Speaker 1: I'll take your job. Let me call the change room.

1855
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:44,320
Speaker 1: It just it's I don't know, yeah, And I don't

1856
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:46,880
Speaker 1: know if it's that cutting dry, but certainly here's the thing.

1857
01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:49,800
Speaker 1: They had a point his if he's a smart guy,

1858
01:38:49,840 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 1: which I'm obviously is. They went into the negotiation saying, listen,

1859
01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:56,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna if we're gonna leave Baylor, and the word

1860
01:38:56,920 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: has it that was a similar deal to what he

1861
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:01,960
Speaker 1: already had in place with Baylor. He had a big, long,

1862
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:05,360
Speaker 1: lucrative contract with a big buyout. So it was gonna

1863
01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:07,320
Speaker 1: take a big crowbar to get him out of Baylor,

1864
01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:11,400
Speaker 1: and if he came to the NFL, there's no doubt

1865
01:39:11,479 --> 01:39:12,880
Speaker 1: that you go into that thing. And Okay, if I'm

1866
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:15,080
Speaker 1: gonna go to the NFL and take all the pressure

1867
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 1: and expectations and scrutiny that goes with it, I'm gonna

1868
01:39:18,160 --> 01:39:20,880
Speaker 1: maximize it. And he said, and if we start getting offers,

1869
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:24,680
Speaker 1: his representation is going to make the rounds and leverage it.

1870
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 1: So that doesn't bother me. Like it. I guess it

1871
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:30,920
Speaker 1: bothers you. It doesn't bother me. I don't like that.

1872
01:39:31,080 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 1: That's the way it goes. Yeah, Well, anythink you think

1873
01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:38,720
Speaker 1: he anybody, despite what despite the respect we have for

1874
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 1: the other teams in the NFL, you think anybody's staying

1875
01:39:41,520 --> 01:39:45,679
Speaker 1: awake at night thinking I have always wanted to coach

1876
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,639
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. I know I'm doing that. I brought

1877
01:39:48,680 --> 01:39:50,880
Speaker 1: the Baylor Bears from one to eleven and two and

1878
01:39:50,920 --> 01:39:53,519
Speaker 1: a half years, three years into a championship team. But

1879
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 1: I really want to coach. Now it's a business decision.

1880
01:39:56,320 --> 01:39:58,840
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with him leveraging that that

1881
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 1: I do. I really don't. Now. Maybe maybe he did

1882
01:40:02,479 --> 01:40:03,880
Speaker 1: stay away and say, you know, I'd like to coach

1883
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:06,720
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. You know, maybe I would give

1884
01:40:06,760 --> 01:40:08,960
Speaker 1: me pause about Hydran him to coach Carolina. Now, well,

1885
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:10,800
Speaker 1: do you want this job or not? Why are you?

1886
01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: Why are you shopping this offwa around to the New

1887
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:15,479
Speaker 1: York Giants. I might want the job. Let me check. Yeah,

1888
01:40:15,960 --> 01:40:18,400
Speaker 1: I don't want that guy. All right, Brandon Bead's coming

1889
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:20,160
Speaker 1: to join us in the next hour of the show.

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Speaker 1: We get the real show started in a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 1: Come on back for that One Bill's Side presented by

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Speaker 1: Klaida Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Oh what time by Steve Clasper.

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Speaker 1: The end Bucks do backs down Bucks dollars time like

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Speaker 1: now now the show starts. Now this is a real show.

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Speaker 1: Now what were those last two hours? Welcome back, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Orchard Park, Welcome to One Bill Side. There's you're

1898
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Speaker 1: watching on MSG. You got a look up the stadium.

1899
01:41:10,960 --> 01:41:13,040
Speaker 1: It looks beautiful today. It's a nice stay in Orchard Park.

1900
01:41:13,160 --> 01:41:15,519
Speaker 1: A little chilly, but the sunshine. I know, for all

1901
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Speaker 1: the talk we've got a new stadium. Our stadium still

1902
01:41:17,439 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: looks pretty shoutiful. It looks great. It's really looks great, great, great, great.

1903
01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:25,120
Speaker 1: It looks great empty, it looks great, full, looks great

1904
01:41:25,160 --> 01:41:27,919
Speaker 1: at night as well. It looks great from the outside.

1905
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:30,360
Speaker 1: It looks great. Man. I know, everything can it can

1906
01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:32,120
Speaker 1: all be. Everything can be spruced up a little bit

1907
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:33,920
Speaker 1: here and there. But man, oh man, I'm I don't

1908
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:36,519
Speaker 1: know what that's down the road, the whole that's a

1909
01:41:36,560 --> 01:41:38,880
Speaker 1: Twitter pole for another day. The whole picture around the

1910
01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:41,519
Speaker 1: Bills looks a little bit brighter today than it did yesterday.

1911
01:41:41,600 --> 01:41:44,760
Speaker 1: You agree, Uh, yesterday we were despairing, we were down,

1912
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:48,519
Speaker 1: we were out. We were kind of a little bit

1913
01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:50,280
Speaker 1: like that this morning. And then you heard a little

1914
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:54,120
Speaker 1: bit from Sean McDermott talking about Bills picking themselves up,

1915
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:56,720
Speaker 1: brushing themselves off, getting back to work. You heard from

1916
01:41:57,200 --> 01:41:59,200
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean moments ago. We're gonna hear from Brandon in

1917
01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:02,840
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes essentially the same thing. You know,

1918
01:42:03,040 --> 01:42:04,920
Speaker 1: I knew there was another season to come. I knew

1919
01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:06,760
Speaker 1: there was going to be a tomorrow. I wasn't worried

1920
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:08,640
Speaker 1: about that. But it's good to hear it too. And

1921
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Speaker 1: listen to this. Listen to Sean McDermott from two hours

1922
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:14,680
Speaker 1: ago ten o'clock today, Sear mcturmery talked about what the

1923
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:17,200
Speaker 1: Bills get from the pain, how much it hurts from

1924
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 1: the wild card loss on Saturday. Here's the head coach

1925
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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills today. My hope is in time

1926
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:26,840
Speaker 1: that if it's handled the right way, the pain will

1927
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:31,400
Speaker 1: it'll turn into strength, and that strength will turn into growth.

1928
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:35,920
Speaker 1: And I think that's what really separates the winning organizations,

1929
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:38,840
Speaker 1: the winners in our in our lives and our world,

1930
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:42,880
Speaker 1: is that that those painful moments they turn into that strength,

1931
01:42:42,920 --> 01:42:45,200
Speaker 1: and then the growth that comes from that is what

1932
01:42:45,360 --> 01:42:47,720
Speaker 1: continues to move us forward as an organization, as a

1933
01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:51,800
Speaker 1: fan base, and as a team overall. Quite frankly, so um,

1934
01:42:52,360 --> 01:42:54,320
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot we can learn from that game.

1935
01:42:54,400 --> 01:42:57,559
Speaker 1: We've got to keep our team together as many pieces

1936
01:42:57,640 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: as we can and then and then approach this soft

1937
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:03,960
Speaker 1: season with a tremendous amount of urgency as we continue

1938
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:06,760
Speaker 1: to grow, continue to build this football team, in this

1939
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Speaker 1: organization into what we wanted to become. It was a

1940
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:13,880
Speaker 1: bitter loss Saturday. It was as bitter as it's been.

1941
01:43:13,960 --> 01:43:16,519
Speaker 1: Steve I got thinking about somebody pointed it out on Twitter,

1942
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Speaker 1: how it felt a little bit like the nineteen eighty

1943
01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:21,799
Speaker 1: nine playoff loss, a wildcard loss of the Cleveland Browns.

1944
01:43:22,120 --> 01:43:25,320
Speaker 1: Ronnie Harmon's dropped past Kelly throws the interception very next play.

1945
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 1: Bills lose that game, and how bitter that felt, how

1946
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 1: awful that felt. And yet from that game the next

1947
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Speaker 1: four years for Super Bowl appearances. Now, I'm not predicting that,

1948
01:43:34,479 --> 01:43:37,360
Speaker 1: but I do think you have to look at things

1949
01:43:37,439 --> 01:43:39,920
Speaker 1: like that. And McDermott points it out there. It was

1950
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Speaker 1: a bitter loss, but he says, we will learn and

1951
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 1: we will gain from the pain of that loss. We

1952
01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:47,479
Speaker 1: will get strength from that loss. I think he's I

1953
01:43:47,520 --> 01:43:49,599
Speaker 1: think he makes a pretty good point. It's the pain

1954
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Speaker 1: of a lost opportunity that could have meant. Yeah, everything

1955
01:43:52,680 --> 01:43:55,880
Speaker 1: we'd all hoped for and it's gone. And now you're

1956
01:43:56,280 --> 01:43:58,240
Speaker 1: now you're back to the bottom of the mountain. You

1957
01:43:58,320 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 1: got to start climbing again. You gotta go through think

1958
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:03,800
Speaker 1: about it, the playoffs and all that. You after you

1959
01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:09,439
Speaker 1: go to the Senior Bowl, the draft, the combine, no

1960
01:44:09,720 --> 01:44:22,400
Speaker 1: free agency, OTAs, the draft, training can season week one. Yeah,

1961
01:44:22,680 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 1: the injury, and believe me, I know that they don't

1962
01:44:25,560 --> 01:44:27,880
Speaker 1: start with that. They don't start from where they just

1963
01:44:28,080 --> 01:44:30,200
Speaker 1: ended and they ended in pretty good shape. You know,

1964
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:33,400
Speaker 1: a healthy team playing in a wild card playoff game.

1965
01:44:33,400 --> 01:44:35,040
Speaker 1: You don't start with that, you have to start over.

1966
01:44:35,280 --> 01:44:37,360
Speaker 1: But I just think there's something to be gained, and

1967
01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:40,680
Speaker 1: McDermott pointed it out, there's strength to be obtained from

1968
01:44:40,720 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: the pain and the bitter feeling of that loss on

1969
01:44:43,400 --> 01:44:46,400
Speaker 1: Saturday and yesterday, I could not have said that. Today,

1970
01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:48,240
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little bit more like I get it.

1971
01:44:48,280 --> 01:44:50,920
Speaker 1: I understand what he means. I understand that it's not easy,

1972
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:53,320
Speaker 1: but I understand that it's it's really the only way

1973
01:44:53,360 --> 01:44:55,040
Speaker 1: to look at it now. We had we talked about

1974
01:44:55,040 --> 01:44:57,080
Speaker 1: it yesterdaynight, and I requated it with some of the things.

1975
01:44:57,240 --> 01:44:59,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I was on that team, the Ronnie Harmon drop,

1976
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:01,880
Speaker 1: I was on the wide right team, I was on Debate.

1977
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:04,519
Speaker 1: I was on all of those teams, and you're right, Debate,

1978
01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:10,760
Speaker 1: they did that disappointment. The one I really remember is

1979
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:12,320
Speaker 1: the one you know so many Bills fans do is

1980
01:45:12,360 --> 01:45:17,599
Speaker 1: wide right. That game after going through the first three

1981
01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:19,920
Speaker 1: or four years of eighteen eighty six all the way

1982
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:22,120
Speaker 1: to nineteen ninety and then you know, the nineteen ninety

1983
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Speaker 1: one Super Bowl in February of ninety one January ninety one.

1984
01:45:26,120 --> 01:45:28,000
Speaker 1: You know, I was there for four or five years

1985
01:45:28,040 --> 01:45:30,519
Speaker 1: before that as we climbed that ladder and then to

1986
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:33,840
Speaker 1: see you know, then to miss that opportunity, and it

1987
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:35,320
Speaker 1: wasn't just a k I mean, it was like the

1988
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:37,919
Speaker 1: fifty things like this was like this last game Saturday,

1989
01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:40,640
Speaker 1: there's like twenty plays that could have gone different that

1990
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:43,040
Speaker 1: make that thing. Though, you win a world championship, all right,

1991
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:44,840
Speaker 1: so you have to live with that and that that.

1992
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Speaker 1: I've said it a ton I said it on the

1993
01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:48,920
Speaker 1: thirty for thirty, that four Falls of Buffalo. I've said

1994
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:53,400
Speaker 1: it in interviews for thirty years now. We don't go

1995
01:45:53,520 --> 01:45:56,080
Speaker 1: to four straight Super Bowls without the paying of wide, right,

1996
01:45:57,560 --> 01:46:03,479
Speaker 1: you just don't. Yeah, and plus or minus win or whatever.

1997
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Speaker 1: That's a fact to me. I would I would say that,

1998
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Speaker 1: and I would, and I believe it, and I've said

1999
01:46:07,960 --> 01:46:09,920
Speaker 1: it a thousand times. We don't go to four straight

2000
01:46:09,960 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. If that kick goes through, we might have

2001
01:46:12,400 --> 01:46:13,920
Speaker 1: gone to a couple more, but we wouldn't have gone

2002
01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:19,240
Speaker 1: to four straight. And that's the kind of pain that

2003
01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:21,759
Speaker 1: drives you forward, and it's no fun to think about.

2004
01:46:23,439 --> 01:46:26,400
Speaker 1: But you know it's a reality. So I think maybe

2005
01:46:26,439 --> 01:46:28,360
Speaker 1: that you know that while we still sit here in

2006
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:30,120
Speaker 1: this and the players have to live with it, maybe

2007
01:46:30,160 --> 01:46:32,120
Speaker 1: it will be the thing that springboards them and they

2008
01:46:32,200 --> 01:46:35,400
Speaker 1: bounce into the It's a lot of pain yesterday and

2009
01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:37,560
Speaker 1: even into today, but I do think there might be

2010
01:46:37,640 --> 01:46:40,640
Speaker 1: so good that comes out of it. Right joining us

2011
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Speaker 1: on set right now, the general manager of the Buffalo

2012
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Speaker 1: Bills who can speak to this issue, Brandon Bean. Hi, Brandon,

2013
01:46:45,560 --> 01:46:47,320
Speaker 1: how are you are you doing? John? Are good? Thank you?

2014
01:46:47,439 --> 01:46:49,559
Speaker 1: So we just listened to you for like forty minutes,

2015
01:46:49,960 --> 01:46:51,360
Speaker 1: so we have nothing left. I was waiting on to

2016
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:53,960
Speaker 1: cut me off. Right, that's enough, Brandon, Can you go?

2017
01:46:55,320 --> 01:46:56,800
Speaker 1: Let me start with what we were just talking about it.

2018
01:46:56,800 --> 01:46:58,760
Speaker 1: And I was impressed by what you said a little

2019
01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:01,320
Speaker 1: bit about it and what Chun said about building on

2020
01:47:01,439 --> 01:47:03,360
Speaker 1: the pain that you feel. And that was a painful

2021
01:47:03,400 --> 01:47:05,960
Speaker 1: loss and a bitter loss on Saturday, and yet Sean

2022
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:09,800
Speaker 1: especially mentioned that the Bills can can turn that pain

2023
01:47:09,880 --> 01:47:12,120
Speaker 1: into strength and maybe you turn it around and make

2024
01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:15,360
Speaker 1: it into uh something to grow from. You feel that way, oh,

2025
01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:18,920
Speaker 1: one hundred percent? Like we're that's how we're wired? Is that? Um,

2026
01:47:19,080 --> 01:47:21,599
Speaker 1: We're not down for the count. Um. You know, we're

2027
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:24,400
Speaker 1: as sick as as you can be, just as our

2028
01:47:24,439 --> 01:47:27,120
Speaker 1: fans are, and sick for them and sick for ourselves

2029
01:47:27,200 --> 01:47:30,840
Speaker 1: and um, but we're not stopping. And we got to

2030
01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:33,240
Speaker 1: get off the mat. And I know that'll be Sean's

2031
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:36,080
Speaker 1: term being a wrestler, um, But but we do and

2032
01:47:36,320 --> 01:47:38,120
Speaker 1: we've got to use it. We've got to learn from it.

2033
01:47:38,280 --> 01:47:41,200
Speaker 1: Why you gotta be you gotta be honest and and

2034
01:47:41,920 --> 01:47:43,840
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have some honest discussions. I think I

2035
01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:46,360
Speaker 1: mentioned it and there on Thursday with our coaches and

2036
01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:50,200
Speaker 1: personnel and just you gotta be, you know, very honest.

2037
01:47:50,240 --> 01:47:52,799
Speaker 1: A year ago, we were very honest that our offense

2038
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:57,360
Speaker 1: needed an overhaul, and we did that. So we've got

2039
01:47:57,439 --> 01:47:59,200
Speaker 1: to look at all three sides of the ball and

2040
01:47:59,400 --> 01:48:03,200
Speaker 1: see what we're doing well and what we've got to

2041
01:48:03,200 --> 01:48:06,840
Speaker 1: get better at. And that's how we'll take the next step.

2042
01:48:06,960 --> 01:48:11,559
Speaker 1: So it's very painful, but I can promise you Sean

2043
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:13,400
Speaker 1: and I are going to lead these troops and and

2044
01:48:13,560 --> 01:48:15,719
Speaker 1: we're going to come back stronger in twenty twenty. Interesting

2045
01:48:15,760 --> 01:48:19,000
Speaker 1: thing to me was somebody asked you and it seems logical,

2046
01:48:19,080 --> 01:48:20,880
Speaker 1: but you know this ay, it seems like it's not

2047
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,120
Speaker 1: a big good job this year because you know, you've

2048
01:48:23,160 --> 01:48:26,280
Speaker 1: got some guys in place them and actually, and your

2049
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:28,840
Speaker 1: from your point of view, really becomes more difficult because

2050
01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:32,040
Speaker 1: better players are harder to find. And that's really what

2051
01:48:32,160 --> 01:48:34,519
Speaker 1: I mean. Last ye got nine guys replaced, I mean,

2052
01:48:34,640 --> 01:48:37,479
Speaker 1: and so you didn't have to shake the weeds too

2053
01:48:37,560 --> 01:48:40,960
Speaker 1: much to find upgrade some places. Right, So now you

2054
01:48:41,080 --> 01:48:42,840
Speaker 1: really got to go searching for somebody who's better than

2055
01:48:42,840 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 1: the guy you've already got. But that's your job, and

2056
01:48:44,439 --> 01:48:48,479
Speaker 1: that's really the job where it starts. Yeah, Steve, you know,

2057
01:48:48,600 --> 01:48:51,600
Speaker 1: we we want continuity, but we don't want to just

2058
01:48:51,720 --> 01:48:53,960
Speaker 1: settle for status quo and say, oh, well it was

2059
01:48:54,040 --> 01:48:55,680
Speaker 1: good enough for this or it was good enough for that.

2060
01:48:56,680 --> 01:48:59,120
Speaker 1: We believe in competition and we're going to try to

2061
01:48:59,200 --> 01:49:04,679
Speaker 1: bring it in in every avenue possible, free agents, draft, resign,

2062
01:49:04,760 --> 01:49:07,360
Speaker 1: our own. We want it to be when we get

2063
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:10,439
Speaker 1: to Saint John Fisher, we wanted to be a war

2064
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 1: out there, and guys, knowing, holy cal I've been here

2065
01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:16,519
Speaker 1: for four years. I've never had as many guys in

2066
01:49:16,640 --> 01:49:18,600
Speaker 1: my room that I got to beat out as I

2067
01:49:18,680 --> 01:49:22,200
Speaker 1: do this year, and that's the goal, the ninety that

2068
01:49:22,320 --> 01:49:25,200
Speaker 1: go there, turning into the fifty three that we play

2069
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:28,360
Speaker 1: the season with before we turn our attention to next year.

2070
01:49:28,400 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: A little bit about last year in particular, and there

2071
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,280
Speaker 1: were ten wins last year, four game improvement, four win

2072
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:37,320
Speaker 1: improvement over twenty eighteen. As you look back at it,

2073
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:38,880
Speaker 1: what do you think you guys got done? What was

2074
01:49:38,920 --> 01:49:41,439
Speaker 1: the most impressive and encouraging thing that happened to the

2075
01:49:41,479 --> 01:49:44,479
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Bills. You know, I thought, first of all,

2076
01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:48,120
Speaker 1: we showed resiliency. I thought this was that's probably the

2077
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 1: word that I would put on this team's photo, is resilient.

2078
01:49:53,360 --> 01:49:58,280
Speaker 1: And it started at the Jets and down coincidentally sixteen

2079
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:01,679
Speaker 1: to oz to them and come back and win that game.

2080
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:04,519
Speaker 1: I thought you saw a group and I, huh, you know,

2081
01:50:04,520 --> 01:50:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm not on the sidelines, you know, for the games,

2082
01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:10,360
Speaker 1: but I heard it over and over through from trainers,

2083
01:50:10,600 --> 01:50:15,160
Speaker 1: from strength guys, from other coaches in various games. Hey,

2084
01:50:15,240 --> 01:50:17,040
Speaker 1: our guys never panic the other day, and some of

2085
01:50:17,080 --> 01:50:21,040
Speaker 1: them we lost, like, but there was never any like

2086
01:50:21,240 --> 01:50:24,720
Speaker 1: it's over. And every single game other than the Eagles game,

2087
01:50:25,160 --> 01:50:28,720
Speaker 1: we had a chance to win it late. And if

2088
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:32,280
Speaker 1: you look across the board. That's that's very I think

2089
01:50:32,320 --> 01:50:35,320
Speaker 1: that's very positive for for building. You know, you see

2090
01:50:35,360 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 1: teams that stack eight nine wins, uh ten wins, but

2091
01:50:39,320 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 1: they had three blowouts where they just didn't show up.

2092
01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:45,800
Speaker 1: What happened, um, other than the second half of that

2093
01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:49,439
Speaker 1: Eagles game? Um, And you know, I can't I don't

2094
01:50:49,479 --> 01:50:51,320
Speaker 1: have a great answer for you what happened that day?

2095
01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:54,320
Speaker 1: Um that we just we missed some runfits and some

2096
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:58,240
Speaker 1: other things opened up. But uh, we had chances against Baltimore,

2097
01:50:58,320 --> 01:51:01,040
Speaker 1: against New England, you know, both times we lost. And

2098
01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:04,800
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the Jets game. It is what

2099
01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:09,240
Speaker 1: it is. And then uh, last week, you know, Uh,

2100
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:13,679
Speaker 1: as painful as that was, I was very very proud

2101
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:17,160
Speaker 1: of that group because they could have easily dropped their

2102
01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:19,800
Speaker 1: sword when the you know, when we turned the ball

2103
01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 1: basically took that last sack, took the took the turn

2104
01:51:22,240 --> 01:51:24,960
Speaker 1: the ball over and it's their game to finish out

2105
01:51:25,320 --> 01:51:28,280
Speaker 1: and they didn't quit. When when when you look back

2106
01:51:28,320 --> 01:51:31,439
Speaker 1: at twenty when you thought about going into twenty nineteen season,

2107
01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:33,960
Speaker 1: I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody said, well,

2108
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:35,680
Speaker 1: this season's all about Josh. We need to see more

2109
01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:38,280
Speaker 1: from Josh. And when you look at it big picture,

2110
01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:41,799
Speaker 1: yes he didn't finish the way you had hoped, but seriously,

2111
01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:44,639
Speaker 1: he made progress in twenty nineteen. Josh Allen took steps

2112
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:48,000
Speaker 1: forward in twenty nineteen. You agree he definitely did. You

2113
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:50,400
Speaker 1: don't win ten games, you know, go from six to

2114
01:51:50,560 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: ten without you know, improved quarterback play. It's a quarterback league.

2115
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:56,880
Speaker 1: It'll always be a quarterback league as far as you know.

2116
01:51:57,120 --> 01:51:59,920
Speaker 1: I can see, and I think Josh, we don't win

2117
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:02,200
Speaker 1: ten games without Josh. He did a lot of great things.

2118
01:52:03,080 --> 01:52:04,800
Speaker 1: I think he'll be the first to tell you. After

2119
01:52:04,920 --> 01:52:09,240
Speaker 1: the New England game here he realized that he's got

2120
01:52:09,320 --> 01:52:13,879
Speaker 1: to play more complimentary football and understand that some games,

2121
01:52:14,320 --> 01:52:16,400
Speaker 1: we don't need you to throw for X number of

2122
01:52:16,520 --> 01:52:21,080
Speaker 1: yards or do anything crazy. Just take what they give

2123
01:52:21,160 --> 01:52:24,240
Speaker 1: you and if it's not there this drive, let's punt it.

2124
01:52:24,360 --> 01:52:27,920
Speaker 1: Our defense is playing really well, and you know this,

2125
01:52:28,200 --> 01:52:30,519
Speaker 1: this game might be a thirteen to ten, but next

2126
01:52:30,560 --> 01:52:35,479
Speaker 1: week we gotta score twenty five to win. Understanding the game,

2127
01:52:35,600 --> 01:52:38,640
Speaker 1: the opponent and what you're in. That's part of the

2128
01:52:38,720 --> 01:52:42,439
Speaker 1: maturation that doesn't fit in the stat sheet of you know,

2129
01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:45,200
Speaker 1: completion percentage or touchdowns, things like that. We had to

2130
01:52:45,240 --> 01:52:48,080
Speaker 1: remind ourselves. Even he's twenty three years old, he's played

2131
01:52:48,120 --> 01:52:51,360
Speaker 1: twenty eight NFL games. I mean, you would think there'd

2132
01:52:51,400 --> 01:52:53,479
Speaker 1: still be stuff for him to conquer, for him to

2133
01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:56,760
Speaker 1: learn right. Most definitely. I mean it's I mean, think

2134
01:52:56,840 --> 01:53:03,600
Speaker 1: back to the stun age when you played unt you

2135
01:53:03,680 --> 01:53:06,759
Speaker 1: didn't yea, was that for your whole career? Alm for plastic?

2136
01:53:07,400 --> 01:53:12,439
Speaker 1: They weren't leather. But in all seriousness, when you drafted

2137
01:53:12,520 --> 01:53:16,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks back then, very rarely did they come out and

2138
01:53:16,240 --> 01:53:19,160
Speaker 1: play right. Then they learn and we don't do that anymore.

2139
01:53:19,400 --> 01:53:22,640
Speaker 1: It's just the way our systems set up. And you know,

2140
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:26,320
Speaker 1: through all Josh's trials and tribulations a year ago, I

2141
01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:28,920
Speaker 1: think it was good for his growth because it's how

2142
01:53:28,960 --> 01:53:31,679
Speaker 1: he handles it. It's how he's wired. It'sn't Some people

2143
01:53:31,800 --> 01:53:34,160
Speaker 1: can't handle some of the pain that he went through

2144
01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:38,040
Speaker 1: as a rookie. And sometimes we see guys just never Josh.

2145
01:53:38,080 --> 01:53:40,639
Speaker 1: It doesn't phase him, and it doesn't phase him if

2146
01:53:40,680 --> 01:53:42,760
Speaker 1: he throws for two hundred and fifty yards and three

2147
01:53:42,800 --> 01:53:45,280
Speaker 1: touchdowns and note picks and doesn't phase him. If he

2148
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:47,560
Speaker 1: has that game, they had in New England. He is

2149
01:53:47,680 --> 01:53:49,320
Speaker 1: going to come back and look at what he did

2150
01:53:49,400 --> 01:53:51,920
Speaker 1: well and look at what he's got to do better,

2151
01:53:52,240 --> 01:53:54,280
Speaker 1: and he's going to try and find ways to improve it.

2152
01:53:54,439 --> 01:53:56,120
Speaker 1: And I think you saw that. Let me let me

2153
01:53:56,160 --> 01:53:59,080
Speaker 1: give you a list here of just I think seven names.

2154
01:53:59,120 --> 01:54:02,240
Speaker 1: It's like it's Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmonds, and Harrison Phillips,

2155
01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:04,160
Speaker 1: who didn't play this year because of the ACL but

2156
01:54:04,400 --> 01:54:06,640
Speaker 1: he was on an art to really be a contributor.

2157
01:54:07,400 --> 01:54:12,800
Speaker 1: Then you've got ed Oliver, Devin Singletary, Dawson Knox and

2158
01:54:14,479 --> 01:54:16,360
Speaker 1: who's the other draft pick that I'm trying to think of?

2159
01:54:16,479 --> 01:54:20,920
Speaker 1: In those seven guys in the last two drafts were

2160
01:54:21,040 --> 01:54:23,599
Speaker 1: huge contributors this year, except for Harrison, who who had

2161
01:54:23,600 --> 01:54:27,080
Speaker 1: to sit down going forth. I mean, that's the kind

2162
01:54:27,160 --> 01:54:29,479
Speaker 1: of contribution you want out of your draft class. And

2163
01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:31,519
Speaker 1: those guys look to be hits. I mean, they're not

2164
01:54:31,640 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: just you know, guys that you're playing because they were

2165
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:37,360
Speaker 1: draft picks. I mean, and with Sean's philosophy, they earned

2166
01:54:37,400 --> 01:54:39,640
Speaker 1: their way onto the field. And we saw it throughout

2167
01:54:39,640 --> 01:54:41,720
Speaker 1: the year, the development of those first year guys like

2168
01:54:41,800 --> 01:54:48,120
Speaker 1: Devin and ed Oliver particular, this year were really big assets.

2169
01:54:48,160 --> 01:54:49,880
Speaker 1: I mean I think they were really big high marks

2170
01:54:49,920 --> 01:54:55,400
Speaker 1: for this club and young player development. So coming into

2171
01:54:55,480 --> 01:54:59,120
Speaker 1: this one, yeah, you got another group again, and now

2172
01:54:59,200 --> 01:55:01,040
Speaker 1: you're getting to the point we're on the horizon is

2173
01:55:01,160 --> 01:55:03,640
Speaker 1: somebody's got to get paid, you know. And and you said,

2174
01:55:03,840 --> 01:55:05,560
Speaker 1: I've said this a ton of times. One of the

2175
01:55:05,640 --> 01:55:07,920
Speaker 1: most intriguing things you said was players are gonna watch

2176
01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:09,960
Speaker 1: who we pay. Yeah, so you know, the question is

2177
01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:11,560
Speaker 1: who you're gonna pay? Yeah, you know what I mean.

2178
01:55:11,680 --> 01:55:13,440
Speaker 1: I mean that's a really thing. Start with us. Yeah,

2179
01:55:13,560 --> 01:55:17,440
Speaker 1: start who's up next? Who's up next? Yeah, I mean,

2180
01:55:17,960 --> 01:55:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to get into specific guys

2181
01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:23,640
Speaker 1: with contracts, but um, it is exciting when you can

2182
01:55:23,760 --> 01:55:26,640
Speaker 1: reward your own guys and and and we do want

2183
01:55:26,640 --> 01:55:29,120
Speaker 1: to send that message. You know. We we have you know,

2184
01:55:29,320 --> 01:55:32,040
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes last offseason. You know we got him and

2185
01:55:32,640 --> 01:55:36,000
Speaker 1: and some other guys, and you know, we want to continue.

2186
01:55:36,120 --> 01:55:38,960
Speaker 1: That's what I'd much rather give the money to our

2187
01:55:39,040 --> 01:55:41,800
Speaker 1: guys here that we have worked to develop and grow

2188
01:55:42,400 --> 01:55:45,160
Speaker 1: and show others this is the model, this is what

2189
01:55:45,280 --> 01:55:48,120
Speaker 1: we're looking for. It doesn't always work that way. Um,

2190
01:55:48,240 --> 01:55:50,400
Speaker 1: you're always going to have to pluck here and there,

2191
01:55:50,520 --> 01:55:55,280
Speaker 1: but hopefully going forward, most of the big funds come within,

2192
01:55:55,440 --> 01:55:57,440
Speaker 1: you know, from when the guys that we've drafted and

2193
01:55:57,600 --> 01:56:02,440
Speaker 1: developed and um, obviously, now that twenty seventeen class has

2194
01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:06,280
Speaker 1: finished their third year, they become eligible. So uh, that's

2195
01:56:06,320 --> 01:56:09,280
Speaker 1: a potential for each guy. Again, we're gonna run through

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01:56:09,400 --> 01:56:11,280
Speaker 1: every single one of those guys and any of the

2197
01:56:11,320 --> 01:56:15,280
Speaker 1: other free agents that we have, you know, on Thursday,

2198
01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:17,760
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have very candid conversations and we'll start

2199
01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:20,920
Speaker 1: talking about who who do we need now? Who you know,

2200
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:24,040
Speaker 1: who do we want to see more from, and we'll

2201
01:56:24,280 --> 01:56:26,360
Speaker 1: adjust and you know, as we see fit. When you

2202
01:56:26,480 --> 01:56:29,240
Speaker 1: look back at twenty eighteen, you probably feel pretty good

2203
01:56:29,240 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 1: about the free agents you signed. You got involved in

2204
01:56:31,200 --> 01:56:32,800
Speaker 1: the free agent market and signed a couple of wide

2205
01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:35,560
Speaker 1: receivers who were major contributors this year. Huh yeah, I mean,

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01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:39,520
Speaker 1: I just between my press conference and coming down here

2207
01:56:39,840 --> 01:56:42,000
Speaker 1: a little bit late because John Brown had texted me

2208
01:56:42,120 --> 01:56:44,480
Speaker 1: to if he could see me before he left town,

2209
01:56:44,520 --> 01:56:48,040
Speaker 1: and we just had a great conversation and you know,

2210
01:56:48,080 --> 01:56:49,760
Speaker 1: I'll keep most of it private, but it was just

2211
01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 1: him just saying how happy was he chose here and

2212
01:56:54,280 --> 01:56:56,600
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, well, any good free agents

2213
01:56:56,640 --> 01:56:59,200
Speaker 1: you run into when you're training, you know he's heading

2214
01:56:59,240 --> 01:57:01,720
Speaker 1: back to Florida. Uh, make sure you tell him about

2215
01:57:01,720 --> 01:57:04,520
Speaker 1: your experience. And that's great to hear. Um. You want

2216
01:57:04,520 --> 01:57:06,360
Speaker 1: to hear that. And you know, I can't tell you

2217
01:57:06,440 --> 01:57:09,800
Speaker 1: that every single guy saying that, but for a guy

2218
01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:12,320
Speaker 1: that you know brought us the contribution level that he

2219
01:57:12,480 --> 01:57:16,360
Speaker 1: did and helped our offense improved statistically, he was a

2220
01:57:16,400 --> 01:57:19,320
Speaker 1: big part of that. That's great to hear. With Brandon

2221
01:57:19,360 --> 01:57:21,440
Speaker 1: being the Bills general manager. A couple of minutes after then,

2222
01:57:21,440 --> 01:57:24,120
Speaker 1: we got some questions sent in via Twitter from some

2223
01:57:24,320 --> 01:57:27,080
Speaker 1: Bills fans. Here's one from a Dave and it deals

2224
01:57:27,080 --> 01:57:29,800
Speaker 1: with the wide receiving corps. From David says, what's the

2225
01:57:29,920 --> 01:57:33,600
Speaker 1: thought on drafting wide receivers versus signing free agent wide receivers?

2226
01:57:33,960 --> 01:57:37,040
Speaker 1: Is there a preferred way to do it? Do you think? You? Really?

2227
01:57:37,280 --> 01:57:41,280
Speaker 1: When you're drafting, you got to decide, you just you know,

2228
01:57:41,400 --> 01:57:43,120
Speaker 1: some are like a quarterback, you got to go through

2229
01:57:43,200 --> 01:57:46,080
Speaker 1: and what systems have you been in? H have they?

2230
01:57:46,640 --> 01:57:50,080
Speaker 1: What's the routes he's run? And then maybe you work

2231
01:57:50,120 --> 01:57:52,960
Speaker 1: them out privately. And see at this school, I only

2232
01:57:53,040 --> 01:57:55,400
Speaker 1: ran through routes. But look he can run you know

2233
01:57:55,600 --> 01:57:58,600
Speaker 1: a you know, diversity of routes, and what are his

2234
01:57:58,680 --> 01:58:01,200
Speaker 1: hands like? And how smart is you know, you know

2235
01:58:01,320 --> 01:58:04,640
Speaker 1: Brian's offense, Uh, is not is not easy? And so

2236
01:58:05,320 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 1: um versatility we talk about it at the old line.

2237
01:58:08,680 --> 01:58:11,520
Speaker 1: You know, receivers that can play multiple spots bring value.

2238
01:58:11,560 --> 01:58:14,680
Speaker 1: So there's um you're weighing what you know on a

2239
01:58:14,840 --> 01:58:19,000
Speaker 1: on a pro free agent versus a guy here who's young,

2240
01:58:19,480 --> 01:58:22,120
Speaker 1: if he has enough traits and where do you see

2241
01:58:22,200 --> 01:58:25,360
Speaker 1: his ceiling? Versus is this guy that's a free agent

2242
01:58:25,480 --> 01:58:27,240
Speaker 1: as he already at his ceiling or does he have

2243
01:58:27,480 --> 01:58:30,640
Speaker 1: much room to grow? So you're comparing all those things. Uh,

2244
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:34,680
Speaker 1: it's an inexact science, murph. But um, it's a fair question.

2245
01:58:35,040 --> 01:58:36,720
Speaker 1: We don't just go in and say I'm only gonna

2246
01:58:36,760 --> 01:58:38,280
Speaker 1: draft a guy, I'm only going to sign a guy.

2247
01:58:38,360 --> 01:58:41,240
Speaker 1: We're gonna weigh them all and make the best decisions.

2248
01:58:41,360 --> 01:58:43,880
Speaker 1: And also they've got you've got free agency on the horizon,

2249
01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:45,800
Speaker 1: you've got a ton of cap space again this year

2250
01:58:46,440 --> 01:58:48,440
Speaker 1: to go out and get them. And as your philosophy

2251
01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:52,680
Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing or generalizing, you know, you're not really

2252
01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:54,520
Speaker 1: trying to hit a home running free agent, So you're

2253
01:58:54,560 --> 01:58:56,640
Speaker 1: trying to get a guy who will give you value

2254
01:58:56,640 --> 01:58:58,120
Speaker 1: for what you pay them, which means you know, you're

2255
01:58:58,160 --> 01:59:01,080
Speaker 1: not giving guys the nineteen million dollar contract in your

2256
01:59:01,120 --> 01:59:04,600
Speaker 1: contract with sixty seven million dollars guarantee you're getting like

2257
01:59:04,720 --> 01:59:08,440
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, John Brown. There's a great contracts, but those

2258
01:59:08,480 --> 01:59:12,760
Speaker 1: are not, you know, backbreakers for your CAP. So, I mean,

2259
01:59:12,840 --> 01:59:14,600
Speaker 1: are is that kind of the philosophy you're looking at?

2260
01:59:14,640 --> 01:59:17,160
Speaker 1: And how far down the road are you looking at

2261
01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:19,400
Speaker 1: teams where guys are going to be available and you

2262
01:59:19,560 --> 01:59:22,480
Speaker 1: have you know, do you have your little boards your

2263
01:59:22,480 --> 01:59:24,960
Speaker 1: shortlist set up for different positions. Yeah, we definitely do.

2264
01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:27,280
Speaker 1: And you know, the one of the things that's not

2265
01:59:27,440 --> 01:59:30,080
Speaker 1: talked about as a lot as we have a CAP

2266
01:59:30,200 --> 01:59:33,839
Speaker 1: casually list guys that we're looking what was his production

2267
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:36,520
Speaker 1: based on what he's scheduled to make this year, and

2268
01:59:36,720 --> 01:59:39,760
Speaker 1: start paying attention to those guys because sometimes you have to,

2269
01:59:40,160 --> 01:59:42,720
Speaker 1: you know, kind of feel the waters. Well, let's don't

2270
01:59:42,800 --> 01:59:44,680
Speaker 1: run and try and sign this guy. This guy might

2271
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:47,520
Speaker 1: be a better fit for us that may be released

2272
01:59:47,760 --> 01:59:51,960
Speaker 1: from TAMX. So there's so many different avenues to add players.

2273
01:59:52,040 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 1: And the what our cap where it's at now, it

2274
01:59:55,960 --> 01:59:59,440
Speaker 1: gives us such strength is that we can make trades,

2275
01:59:59,680 --> 02:00:03,320
Speaker 1: we can sign our own We'll have money to make

2276
02:00:03,400 --> 02:00:06,520
Speaker 1: trades in August, September, whatever it is. We want to

2277
02:00:06,560 --> 02:00:08,440
Speaker 1: do that as long as we can. But we also

2278
02:00:08,520 --> 02:00:10,400
Speaker 1: want to keep a bank. You know, we're not just

2279
02:00:10,480 --> 02:00:13,320
Speaker 1: gonna go blow at all because every year we're gonna

2280
02:00:13,320 --> 02:00:15,080
Speaker 1: have more guys. We'll have the twenty you know, we're

2281
02:00:15,080 --> 02:00:17,520
Speaker 1: talking about the twenty seventeen class. I gotta save money

2282
02:00:17,720 --> 02:00:21,120
Speaker 1: for the twenty eighteen class, right, and then the twenty nineteen.

2283
02:00:21,200 --> 02:00:24,040
Speaker 1: So it's trying to stay as cap strong as you can,

2284
02:00:24,200 --> 02:00:28,600
Speaker 1: keeping our core together and then adding those pieces that

2285
02:00:28,680 --> 02:00:30,720
Speaker 1: you were talking about. How I don't know if you

2286
02:00:30,760 --> 02:00:33,360
Speaker 1: have the number how many guys you have after the

2287
02:00:33,480 --> 02:00:35,880
Speaker 1: end of the league here here is February fifteenth or

2288
02:00:35,920 --> 02:00:38,360
Speaker 1: whatever it is, right, how many guys will you have

2289
02:00:38,520 --> 02:00:41,080
Speaker 1: under forget the guys you just signed the futures contracts

2290
02:00:41,320 --> 02:00:43,600
Speaker 1: on this roster, the fifty three, how many guys go

2291
02:00:43,680 --> 02:00:47,160
Speaker 1: away well at the end of the league, so you

2292
02:00:47,240 --> 02:00:52,320
Speaker 1: can never have more than ninety all right, So at

2293
02:00:52,360 --> 02:00:54,600
Speaker 1: any point you can't get over that. We won't get

2294
02:00:54,840 --> 02:00:59,480
Speaker 1: to anywhere near ninety until after the draft. So even

2295
02:00:59,520 --> 02:01:01,880
Speaker 1: signing the reserve futures, I don't I don't know exactly

2296
02:01:01,920 --> 02:01:04,120
Speaker 1: what our number is right now, and nobody accept those

2297
02:01:04,120 --> 02:01:07,840
Speaker 1: guys count against your cap, right, Yeah, everybody unless they're

2298
02:01:07,920 --> 02:01:11,480
Speaker 1: an unrestricted I they're an unrestricted free agent. Obviously they

2299
02:01:11,520 --> 02:01:14,840
Speaker 1: have nothing on the twenty twenty cap for us. But

2300
02:01:15,040 --> 02:01:17,640
Speaker 1: any any of those guys that we just added from

2301
02:01:17,680 --> 02:01:20,160
Speaker 1: our practice squad or anybody that we add beyond as

2302
02:01:20,200 --> 02:01:24,400
Speaker 1: a future UM and then the guys who have years remaining,

2303
02:01:24,560 --> 02:01:27,480
Speaker 1: those all count on our cap now and our total numbers,

2304
02:01:27,520 --> 02:01:30,680
Speaker 1: so we're probably around seventy show, I would guess, but

2305
02:01:30,880 --> 02:01:33,760
Speaker 1: I haven't added enough. Brandon, you said Thursday, right, Yeah,

2306
02:01:33,800 --> 02:01:35,640
Speaker 1: meetings with the coaching staff. Yeah, what are you looking

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Speaker 1: to get out of those? What are you looking for?

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Speaker 1: A wish list from them? Or maybe just a review

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Speaker 1: of what went one down this past year. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a review of um. We'll run through with each position,

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Speaker 1: each side of the ball, each position group, one at

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Speaker 1: a time, player by player, from start of the season,

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02:01:54,560 --> 02:01:56,960
Speaker 1: middle of the year to finish. You know, some guys

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02:01:57,040 --> 02:02:00,520
Speaker 1: start strong. Maybe their age starts showing as the year

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Speaker 1: goes on. Some guys start bad. They were on the bench,

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Speaker 1: but the middle of the year they really turned it on. Um.

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Speaker 1: Every player has their own You know, this guy was

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02:02:11,000 --> 02:02:13,760
Speaker 1: strong from the day we showed up to Saint John

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02:02:13,800 --> 02:02:16,280
Speaker 1: Fisher until we walked off the field at Houston. UM

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Speaker 1: and where we see him trending. We have to be

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Speaker 1: we have to have an honest assessment. Take your friendship

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02:02:22,800 --> 02:02:24,560
Speaker 1: out of the way, because you can get tight with

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02:02:24,640 --> 02:02:27,280
Speaker 1: players and that's gonna be hard. And that's where I'll

2324
02:02:27,360 --> 02:02:30,720
Speaker 1: be in their ear. No, no, no, I know you

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02:02:30,800 --> 02:02:33,080
Speaker 1: and his family go to dinner together every Friday night.

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02:02:33,440 --> 02:02:35,120
Speaker 1: But I need to know as a player because this

2327
02:02:35,240 --> 02:02:39,200
Speaker 1: is still a business and we you know, Shaun him myself.

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02:02:39,520 --> 02:02:42,320
Speaker 1: We have to make the best decisions for the Buffalo Bills.

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02:02:42,760 --> 02:02:45,880
Speaker 1: And sometimes I have to say goodbye to people that

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Speaker 1: you're very you know, friendly with. That's just the nature

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02:02:48,360 --> 02:02:51,520
Speaker 1: of the beast. Um. You know, otherwise you're you're not

2332
02:02:51,640 --> 02:02:54,000
Speaker 1: doing right. Guy about the honesty because coaches get close

2333
02:02:54,160 --> 02:02:56,960
Speaker 1: other coaches, maybe think get rid of that guy right

2334
02:02:59,120 --> 02:03:01,880
Speaker 1: you can get you know, maybe maybe a coach and

2335
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:04,680
Speaker 1: a player just don't mesh well. But the players still

2336
02:03:04,800 --> 02:03:07,760
Speaker 1: very talented and you have to throw that out too.

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02:03:08,080 --> 02:03:11,400
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to hear them. Um. But uh, it's

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02:03:11,440 --> 02:03:15,200
Speaker 1: basically an open dialogue, and you know, I'll be able

2339
02:03:15,280 --> 02:03:18,280
Speaker 1: to ask questions. And at the end of the day,

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02:03:18,400 --> 02:03:21,160
Speaker 1: once it's all done, you know, Sean and I'll sit

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02:03:21,200 --> 02:03:23,560
Speaker 1: down and we'll start looking at it and start mapping

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02:03:23,640 --> 02:03:27,840
Speaker 1: out what's next, from resigning guys to saying we're not

2343
02:03:27,880 --> 02:03:30,920
Speaker 1: going to resign this guy too. We'll be focusing, you know,

2344
02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:33,760
Speaker 1: we'll be at the Combine and Senior Bowl and you know,

2345
02:03:33,880 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 1: all the All Star games and and and start looking

2346
02:03:37,040 --> 02:03:39,320
Speaker 1: for new players to add. There's a couple more interesting

2347
02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:41,240
Speaker 1: questions and we won't keep you much longer, but these

2348
02:03:41,280 --> 02:03:44,240
Speaker 1: come from fans on Twitter, Andrew tweets and Brandon. What's

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02:03:44,240 --> 02:03:46,520
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the rules of the game. Do you

2350
02:03:46,640 --> 02:03:49,320
Speaker 1: think it's helping the sport or hurting it? And if

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02:03:49,360 --> 02:03:51,320
Speaker 1: there was one rule you'd like to see the NFL

2352
02:03:51,440 --> 02:03:53,600
Speaker 1: get rid of, what would it be. What rule do

2353
02:03:53,680 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 1: you think needs to be improved? And you know, yeah,

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02:03:56,400 --> 02:03:58,440
Speaker 1: we're not talking about last Saturday, although there are a

2355
02:03:58,440 --> 02:04:00,440
Speaker 1: couple of issues there, But what do you think what

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02:04:00,560 --> 02:04:02,880
Speaker 1: do you think the state of officiating is in the game. Yeah,

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02:04:02,960 --> 02:04:05,600
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's one that the league is

2358
02:04:05,640 --> 02:04:08,040
Speaker 1: really trying hard to to improve. I know they are

2359
02:04:08,160 --> 02:04:11,600
Speaker 1: just from being that the owners meetings obviously last year

2360
02:04:11,760 --> 02:04:16,360
Speaker 1: was the big pass interference thing. You know, I don't

2361
02:04:16,400 --> 02:04:20,240
Speaker 1: think it. I think it was with good intention, but

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02:04:20,360 --> 02:04:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it was executed, you know, you know,

2363
02:04:23,440 --> 02:04:25,160
Speaker 1: and it was hard. It was all these things were

2364
02:04:25,200 --> 02:04:26,760
Speaker 1: brought up, well what if this happens? How do you

2365
02:04:26,840 --> 02:04:29,640
Speaker 1: do this? And until you I thought the league made

2366
02:04:29,680 --> 02:04:31,760
Speaker 1: a good decision to give it a one year test

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02:04:32,320 --> 02:04:36,920
Speaker 1: and then that'll obviously, as it led last year's owners meetings,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it will lead this year's as to is

2369
02:04:40,280 --> 02:04:42,240
Speaker 1: it going to be totally thrown out? Is it going

2370
02:04:42,280 --> 02:04:45,640
Speaker 1: to be tweaked? Um? You know what will happen. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'll be surprised if we go into twenty twenty with

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02:04:48,320 --> 02:04:50,480
Speaker 1: exactly the way it was in twenty tween. Yeah, and

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02:04:50,680 --> 02:04:52,320
Speaker 1: there's one more question here, and I want to end

2374
02:04:52,760 --> 02:04:55,200
Speaker 1: this with you on this question, because you started your

2375
02:04:55,440 --> 02:04:57,480
Speaker 1: news conference you got a little emotional, you got I

2376
02:04:57,560 --> 02:04:59,160
Speaker 1: thought you almost got teared up a couple of times,

2377
02:04:59,200 --> 02:05:02,600
Speaker 1: and This viewer says this as well, Dick de Groat,

2378
02:05:02,880 --> 02:05:05,280
Speaker 1: I love that being got emotional when talking about wanting

2379
02:05:05,320 --> 02:05:07,760
Speaker 1: to win for the fans. I love what the Beagoula's

2380
02:05:07,960 --> 02:05:10,560
Speaker 1: being and McDermot are doing. I think they genuinely care

2381
02:05:11,120 --> 02:05:13,760
Speaker 1: about the fans. Bill's family, Baby, What what got into

2382
02:05:13,760 --> 02:05:16,560
Speaker 1: you to make you? Yeah? You know? Um, you just

2383
02:05:16,720 --> 02:05:20,760
Speaker 1: feel bad, like empty. You know, there's a Sean and

2384
02:05:20,840 --> 02:05:23,520
Speaker 1: I carry a burden and the Beagoulahs do as well. Um.

2385
02:05:23,840 --> 02:05:26,160
Speaker 1: You know, we live in this community, we love this community,

2386
02:05:26,680 --> 02:05:29,640
Speaker 1: and you know, we get off that plane and I'm like,

2387
02:05:29,800 --> 02:05:32,200
Speaker 1: holy cow, there's all these people there at two in

2388
02:05:32,280 --> 02:05:35,480
Speaker 1: the morning. It's cold, there's snow, and you know, I

2389
02:05:35,560 --> 02:05:37,120
Speaker 1: get in my car and you just feel like, man,

2390
02:05:37,200 --> 02:05:40,040
Speaker 1: I let them down. And so I don't look at

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02:05:40,040 --> 02:05:43,280
Speaker 1: anyone else. That's that and Sean done either. I look

2392
02:05:43,320 --> 02:05:45,640
Speaker 1: at man, what could I have done? Is there a

2393
02:05:45,760 --> 02:05:47,400
Speaker 1: player I could have done that could have got us

2394
02:05:47,440 --> 02:05:48,800
Speaker 1: over the top of that? Or is there a move

2395
02:05:48,840 --> 02:05:51,840
Speaker 1: I could have made? Uh, you're always second guess and

2396
02:05:52,400 --> 02:05:55,760
Speaker 1: anything that doesn't if we're not holding up the Lombardi. Um,

2397
02:05:56,600 --> 02:05:58,760
Speaker 1: you know, there there's one there's one team that's happy

2398
02:05:58,800 --> 02:06:01,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. And you know, I

2399
02:06:01,320 --> 02:06:03,480
Speaker 1: think you know where we were in that game, and

2400
02:06:03,640 --> 02:06:06,000
Speaker 1: knowing we played so well for so much of it,

2401
02:06:06,120 --> 02:06:10,640
Speaker 1: we just didn't quite make enough place to pull it off.

2402
02:06:11,120 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 1: I think that's what hurt. And you again, our guys

2403
02:06:15,440 --> 02:06:17,280
Speaker 1: talk about it, and I mentioned the cities. You know,

2404
02:06:17,400 --> 02:06:20,520
Speaker 1: that game in Nashville, the game in Miami, those those

2405
02:06:20,560 --> 02:06:25,120
Speaker 1: felt like Bowl games for us, neutral site. You got

2406
02:06:25,200 --> 02:06:28,160
Speaker 1: your fans, We got our fans, and to have that

2407
02:06:29,080 --> 02:06:32,800
Speaker 1: is unmatched. I'll put our fans up against anybody and

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02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:36,760
Speaker 1: and just know that we're hurting too, and we're as

2409
02:06:36,840 --> 02:06:39,480
Speaker 1: sorry as we can be that we didn't get it done.

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02:06:39,600 --> 02:06:41,560
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because you bring up a good point.

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02:06:41,600 --> 02:06:45,160
Speaker 1: A Buffalo is a unique market, small market, and the

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02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:47,920
Speaker 1: things that you do here and that you've put together

2413
02:06:48,080 --> 02:06:51,400
Speaker 1: here a lot of it and some of it has

2414
02:06:51,480 --> 02:06:55,920
Speaker 1: been to make this an attractive place for free agency

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02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:58,360
Speaker 1: science not about the beach in Miami, are about the

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02:06:58,560 --> 02:07:02,240
Speaker 1: Bourbon Street or the beach in La the big new

2417
02:07:02,320 --> 02:07:05,640
Speaker 1: stadium or Vegas or It's what this town and this

2418
02:07:05,840 --> 02:07:07,760
Speaker 1: organization have to offer, and a lot of it has

2419
02:07:07,800 --> 02:07:09,920
Speaker 1: to do with what happens inside the walls here, the

2420
02:07:10,040 --> 02:07:12,360
Speaker 1: culture you're trying to build, the facilities and support you

2421
02:07:12,440 --> 02:07:14,680
Speaker 1: get from ownership, the fact that you take care of

2422
02:07:14,720 --> 02:07:20,320
Speaker 1: your players in a way that keeps them shockingly healthy throughout,

2423
02:07:20,720 --> 02:07:22,640
Speaker 1: and that gets around. Word gets around, and I think

2424
02:07:22,880 --> 02:07:26,720
Speaker 1: the people don't realize how small the fraternity of NFL

2425
02:07:26,760 --> 02:07:29,440
Speaker 1: players are. Guys talk about how they're treated in the building.

2426
02:07:29,480 --> 02:07:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean, look what happened in Washington this year with

2427
02:07:31,800 --> 02:07:35,120
Speaker 1: the tackle and I can't remember his name, Trent Williams.

2428
02:07:36,640 --> 02:07:39,200
Speaker 1: He was at odds with their trainings, and none of

2429
02:07:39,240 --> 02:07:41,240
Speaker 1: that goes on here. And all of that works together

2430
02:07:41,400 --> 02:07:43,760
Speaker 1: is to make this a place, and the fans are

2431
02:07:43,840 --> 02:07:46,800
Speaker 1: part of it. Make this a place where you won't

2432
02:07:46,920 --> 02:07:53,959
Speaker 1: have to convince free agents or draft picks or anybody

2433
02:07:54,640 --> 02:07:56,680
Speaker 1: that this is not a place that is committed to

2434
02:07:56,760 --> 02:07:59,240
Speaker 1: winning championships and being competitive all the time and taking

2435
02:07:59,280 --> 02:08:02,960
Speaker 1: care of these guys, no questions. Steve, you you said it, well, Um,

2436
02:08:03,760 --> 02:08:06,440
Speaker 1: you know the bagulas what I said in there, Um

2437
02:08:07,080 --> 02:08:08,800
Speaker 1: you know, Sean and I and we had a committee

2438
02:08:08,840 --> 02:08:12,000
Speaker 1: wasn't just us, but to put together this weight facility

2439
02:08:12,040 --> 02:08:15,160
Speaker 1: and the sports science and UM all of the modalities

2440
02:08:15,240 --> 02:08:18,920
Speaker 1: and um, all the things for player care. We we

2441
02:08:19,160 --> 02:08:22,400
Speaker 1: knew it would be a big hit, and it was

2442
02:08:22,840 --> 02:08:26,520
Speaker 1: and the stats back it up. Um of you know,

2443
02:08:26,600 --> 02:08:28,720
Speaker 1: we do man games, loss and things like that, and

2444
02:08:29,360 --> 02:08:32,840
Speaker 1: you know how many games are missed and the fewest

2445
02:08:32,880 --> 02:08:35,960
Speaker 1: number of guys you use and our guys, uh, you know,

2446
02:08:36,240 --> 02:08:38,480
Speaker 1: all of our people, from our trainers to our strength

2447
02:08:38,520 --> 02:08:41,600
Speaker 1: staff to our sports science, they all deserve a lot

2448
02:08:41,640 --> 02:08:44,840
Speaker 1: of credit, as do our players who take You know,

2449
02:08:45,320 --> 02:08:47,080
Speaker 1: we can offer all these things, but if you don't

2450
02:08:47,240 --> 02:08:49,000
Speaker 1: use it. You can lead a horse to water, but

2451
02:08:49,040 --> 02:08:51,680
Speaker 1: you can't make them drink. And so a testament goes

2452
02:08:51,720 --> 02:08:55,760
Speaker 1: to our players too for buying in and wanting all

2453
02:08:55,840 --> 02:08:58,440
Speaker 1: these things, and we gave them input into what they

2454
02:08:58,520 --> 02:09:01,560
Speaker 1: would use and what would help them be the best

2455
02:09:01,720 --> 02:09:05,520
Speaker 1: versions of themself. And um, you know, I'm so proud

2456
02:09:05,600 --> 02:09:08,200
Speaker 1: of Buffalo and what it brings. And that's why I said,

2457
02:09:08,240 --> 02:09:12,160
Speaker 1: I can't thank our fans enough. Players. Notice our fans.

2458
02:09:12,320 --> 02:09:15,280
Speaker 1: I know it from other teams. I've had people from

2459
02:09:15,360 --> 02:09:17,840
Speaker 1: Carolina just talk about our fans that traveled down to

2460
02:09:17,960 --> 02:09:21,800
Speaker 1: training camp and took over a training camp ninety five

2461
02:09:21,880 --> 02:09:25,720
Speaker 1: degree practice. Man, you saw it, And um, I mean

2462
02:09:25,800 --> 02:09:28,680
Speaker 1: who does that? And I just I'm so proud to

2463
02:09:28,720 --> 02:09:31,240
Speaker 1: be affiliated and live in this community. Were you just

2464
02:09:31,280 --> 02:09:34,720
Speaker 1: getting about playing golf? I don't know about you. I

2465
02:09:34,800 --> 02:09:36,600
Speaker 1: know you love to play. You might get into well,

2466
02:09:36,640 --> 02:09:39,960
Speaker 1: I know. I think Chris was thought I had an

2467
02:09:39,960 --> 02:09:42,640
Speaker 1: easy task at hand. Uh, And so that's why I

2468
02:09:42,720 --> 02:09:44,040
Speaker 1: was wanting to kid with him, say yeah, I'm men,

2469
02:09:44,120 --> 02:09:46,080
Speaker 1: get my sticks out. Now, my sticks are away for

2470
02:09:46,160 --> 02:09:49,040
Speaker 1: a while. Brandon, thanks for this, and good luck. Your

2471
02:09:49,040 --> 02:09:51,320
Speaker 1: sea begins now. Good luck, it does appreciate it. It

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02:09:51,440 --> 02:09:54,200
Speaker 1: never stops though. That's the general manager of the Bills,

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02:09:54,200 --> 02:09:56,440
Speaker 1: Brandon being Steve and I back with more One Bill's Life,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live.

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02:10:14,000 --> 02:10:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm John Murphy with Steve Tasker. Got a couple of

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Speaker 1: quick segments to do here. But before we move any further, Stephen, well,

2478
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Speaker 1: let me do this first. Let me get you going

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02:10:20,960 --> 02:10:25,240
Speaker 1: on our Twitter poll today. It's up and it's available

2480
02:10:25,240 --> 02:10:28,880
Speaker 1: for your comments. We'll take your thoughts on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: We'll take your phone calls on at eighth three fifty

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two. Five

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Speaker 1: fifty A lot to look forward to, obviously, But we

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Speaker 1: wonder what you think is the most encouraging part of

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02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:43,240
Speaker 1: the Bills twenty nineteen season. What was the most encouraging

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02:10:43,320 --> 02:10:47,280
Speaker 1: part of the season. Was it as forty nine percent

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02:10:47,320 --> 02:10:49,800
Speaker 1: of you say, Josh Allen making progress? Half of you

2488
02:10:49,880 --> 02:10:53,520
Speaker 1: say that was the most encouraging part. Was it as

2489
02:10:53,560 --> 02:10:56,040
Speaker 1: twenty three percent of you say the rookie class impressed

2490
02:10:56,120 --> 02:10:58,960
Speaker 1: this year? They certainly did. Was it a top flight

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02:10:59,080 --> 02:11:03,200
Speaker 1: defense against seventeen three point three percent say that? Eleven

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Speaker 1: percent say the free agent signings paid off. What was

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02:11:05,760 --> 02:11:08,280
Speaker 1: the most encouraging part of the twenty nineteen Bill season?

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02:11:08,320 --> 02:11:10,280
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight h three h five fifty

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty phone lines wide open. Can send it a tweet

2497
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Speaker 1: for the tweet cheat. You can vote in the Twitter poll.

2498
02:11:18,520 --> 02:11:19,880
Speaker 1: But I want to go back to one more thing.

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Speaker 1: Um Brandon Bean got choked up again out here today.

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02:11:24,400 --> 02:11:26,600
Speaker 1: I mean he started got a little teared up when

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02:11:26,600 --> 02:11:29,160
Speaker 1: I asked him about his comments in there, uh you know,

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02:11:29,240 --> 02:11:31,240
Speaker 1: in his thank yous at his news conference, he talked

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02:11:31,280 --> 02:11:33,240
Speaker 1: about McDermott and the good job he did and the

2504
02:11:33,600 --> 02:11:37,120
Speaker 1: Pagoulas and the coaching staff and the fans, and look,

2505
02:11:37,200 --> 02:11:39,880
Speaker 1: I think they know they let people down. I mean,

2506
02:11:39,920 --> 02:11:44,160
Speaker 1: we all feel that way, right But his genuine remorse,

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02:11:44,280 --> 02:11:48,800
Speaker 1: I guess. And McDermott's talking about turning the disappointment and

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02:11:48,880 --> 02:11:53,000
Speaker 1: the fact that there there you get strengked out of

2509
02:11:53,040 --> 02:11:55,240
Speaker 1: the pain that you feel, I think is a good

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02:11:55,280 --> 02:11:58,280
Speaker 1: sign for the future. I really do. I don't feel

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02:11:58,320 --> 02:12:00,520
Speaker 1: better yet, but I can see a way forward and

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02:12:00,560 --> 02:12:02,400
Speaker 1: I couldn't see that way yesterday at this time. I

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02:12:02,520 --> 02:12:04,920
Speaker 1: was lost yesterday. Yeah, you know what I mean. And look,

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02:12:04,960 --> 02:12:07,520
Speaker 1: I know we're not supposed to excuse me, but I

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02:12:07,600 --> 02:12:10,720
Speaker 1: do react emotionally, especially when I see grown men getting

2516
02:12:10,760 --> 02:12:13,840
Speaker 1: emotional like that. I feel like, yeah, I know what

2517
02:12:13,880 --> 02:12:16,360
Speaker 1: they're saying, because they feel it much worse than I do,

2518
02:12:16,560 --> 02:12:19,200
Speaker 1: and probably as bad as many of the fans do. Yeah,

2519
02:12:19,240 --> 02:12:25,720
Speaker 1: because rightfully so they you know, the we're all cheering

2520
02:12:25,760 --> 02:12:27,680
Speaker 1: for them, They're not cheering for us. You know, that's

2521
02:12:27,920 --> 02:12:31,480
Speaker 1: that's their job. It's there. It's their living that they

2522
02:12:31,600 --> 02:12:35,000
Speaker 1: do that. I mean, it's their responsibility. Um, that's why

2523
02:12:35,040 --> 02:12:37,080
Speaker 1: they're here, is to do stuff like when and you

2524
02:12:37,160 --> 02:12:39,720
Speaker 1: know he said it thirty one of the teams are

2525
02:12:39,760 --> 02:12:41,240
Speaker 1: going to be sad at the end of the season.

2526
02:12:41,840 --> 02:12:44,520
Speaker 1: And h but this is more than sad. But I

2527
02:12:44,600 --> 02:12:46,720
Speaker 1: think this is a and I and I alluded to

2528
02:12:46,840 --> 02:12:51,240
Speaker 1: and my question, Buffalo is a unique place. Um, we

2529
02:12:51,400 --> 02:12:54,839
Speaker 1: know each other here. You know, this isn't some corporate

2530
02:12:55,480 --> 02:12:59,080
Speaker 1: land where you know, this isn't the Dallas Cowboys, you know.

2531
02:12:59,200 --> 02:13:02,040
Speaker 1: And I think Bills fans are kind of happy. It's not.

2532
02:13:03,240 --> 02:13:07,440
Speaker 1: You know, we're We're a team that is different, We're

2533
02:13:07,440 --> 02:13:10,320
Speaker 1: a market that's different. The relationship between this city and

2534
02:13:10,360 --> 02:13:14,200
Speaker 1: this team is different. It's unique. Certainly, there are pluses

2535
02:13:14,200 --> 02:13:17,400
Speaker 1: and minuses to it. I get it. But this is

2536
02:13:17,760 --> 02:13:21,520
Speaker 1: there was a thing yesterday that there's a ton ton

2537
02:13:21,600 --> 02:13:26,040
Speaker 1: of people watching this team play on television from all

2538
02:13:26,120 --> 02:13:29,640
Speaker 1: over the country. And you know it's all these in it.

2539
02:13:29,800 --> 02:13:31,800
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Western New Yorkers that are you know, you

2540
02:13:31,840 --> 02:13:33,680
Speaker 1: see them travel A bunch of people and a bunch

2541
02:13:33,720 --> 02:13:35,480
Speaker 1: of Western New Yorkers live in Carolina, a bunch of

2542
02:13:35,520 --> 02:13:37,360
Speaker 1: Western New Yorkers live in Florida, a bunch of Western

2543
02:13:37,400 --> 02:13:41,120
Speaker 1: New Yorkers live in California, and they they come out

2544
02:13:41,160 --> 02:13:43,360
Speaker 1: and watch the team, and people from right here in

2545
02:13:43,400 --> 02:13:47,880
Speaker 1: Western New York travel in Houston, they went down there

2546
02:13:47,960 --> 02:13:50,120
Speaker 1: and it was you saw the twitter feeds. I mean

2547
02:13:50,160 --> 02:13:53,120
Speaker 1: there was like fifteen thousand people in a parking lot

2548
02:13:53,640 --> 02:13:58,040
Speaker 1: in Houston, a mile from the stadium they rented for

2549
02:13:58,160 --> 02:14:02,680
Speaker 1: the occasion. Hitting me, it's pretty cool. And when you

2550
02:14:02,840 --> 02:14:08,839
Speaker 1: see people who have no have no means to affect

2551
02:14:08,880 --> 02:14:10,400
Speaker 1: the outcome of the game other than to stand there

2552
02:14:10,440 --> 02:14:12,000
Speaker 1: and cheer and the stands and go down there and

2553
02:14:12,040 --> 02:14:14,760
Speaker 1: do that kind of thing. Go all out and jump

2554
02:14:14,840 --> 02:14:18,480
Speaker 1: in with your club. Uh, you really want it for them.

2555
02:14:19,200 --> 02:14:24,040
Speaker 1: I remember feeling that how badly we've felt for the fans. Uh,

2556
02:14:24,160 --> 02:14:26,320
Speaker 1: certainly we felt it for ourselves and when you know,

2557
02:14:26,360 --> 02:14:29,280
Speaker 1: when we came up short all those times. But man,

2558
02:14:29,360 --> 02:14:32,440
Speaker 1: oh man, you want it for them. And I think

2559
02:14:32,520 --> 02:14:35,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and his and you know, his feelings about

2560
02:14:35,960 --> 02:14:37,640
Speaker 1: it that he made evident. And I think the players

2561
02:14:37,680 --> 02:14:40,360
Speaker 1: feel the same way. They appreciate it more than you

2562
02:14:40,440 --> 02:14:44,920
Speaker 1: can know. And uh, it's it's part of what makes

2563
02:14:45,880 --> 02:14:49,960
Speaker 1: being a Bills fan cool. Yeah, you know, because we

2564
02:14:50,240 --> 02:14:56,200
Speaker 1: feel like I think, and this just occurred to me Dallas,

2565
02:14:56,400 --> 02:14:58,520
Speaker 1: like Dallas fans, Janet fans, all these other teams they're

2566
02:14:58,560 --> 02:15:01,400
Speaker 1: fans of the team. That's greats Great Bills fans are

2567
02:15:01,480 --> 02:15:05,440
Speaker 1: Bills fans together for the team, You know what I mean.

2568
02:15:06,120 --> 02:15:08,720
Speaker 1: Bills fans seem like we are all in this together

2569
02:15:09,040 --> 02:15:11,360
Speaker 1: with our team. We are not fans of that team

2570
02:15:11,440 --> 02:15:15,240
Speaker 1: that we're watching play, we're from a distance. We are fans.

2571
02:15:15,600 --> 02:15:18,880
Speaker 1: It's like Bills fans are together and together we're gonna

2572
02:15:18,960 --> 02:15:21,000
Speaker 1: cheer for our team. Whether you're strangers or not. You

2573
02:15:21,080 --> 02:15:23,480
Speaker 1: go down and see all those people, and it's a

2574
02:15:23,520 --> 02:15:26,640
Speaker 1: different feeling. I don't know if it's if I'm articulating

2575
02:15:26,680 --> 02:15:29,280
Speaker 1: it accurately enough, but it seems like when you're a

2576
02:15:29,320 --> 02:15:33,120
Speaker 1: Bills fan, you're part of two things. You're part of

2577
02:15:33,640 --> 02:15:36,240
Speaker 1: the Bills team and you're part of the fan base

2578
02:15:37,200 --> 02:15:39,800
Speaker 1: that is a team of itself. You know what I'm saying.

2579
02:15:41,080 --> 02:15:43,680
Speaker 1: It's a I don't know if that's accurate, but I

2580
02:15:43,800 --> 02:15:45,640
Speaker 1: think I'm you kind of get where I'm headed with

2581
02:15:45,840 --> 02:15:48,520
Speaker 1: with what I'm trying to say. It's a different kind

2582
02:15:48,640 --> 02:15:52,560
Speaker 1: of atmosphere around this team and this franchise and this

2583
02:15:52,680 --> 02:15:55,920
Speaker 1: fan base and this city and this relationship than other teams.

2584
02:15:56,120 --> 02:15:58,000
Speaker 1: And I think they highlight and they feel it in

2585
02:15:58,080 --> 02:16:01,120
Speaker 1: inside this building, and they highlight it when they bring

2586
02:16:01,200 --> 02:16:02,680
Speaker 1: guys in here to try and sell them on what

2587
02:16:02,760 --> 02:16:05,200
Speaker 1: it is to be here, about the college atmosphere and

2588
02:16:05,320 --> 02:16:08,520
Speaker 1: the different relationship you'll find. I think it plays with

2589
02:16:08,640 --> 02:16:10,400
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. I think that guys a lot

2590
02:16:10,400 --> 02:16:12,280
Speaker 1: of guys respond to that, and I think it's evident

2591
02:16:12,400 --> 02:16:14,160
Speaker 1: in the way they talk about it. We'll talk more

2592
02:16:14,200 --> 02:16:16,200
Speaker 1: about this and more about some of the other things

2593
02:16:16,240 --> 02:16:18,840
Speaker 1: that McDermott and being said today when we return one

2594
02:16:18,920 --> 02:16:21,720
Speaker 1: Bill's I presented by Kalata Health from the Seneca Studio

2595
02:16:21,760 --> 02:16:36,200
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back.

2596
02:16:36,240 --> 02:16:38,000
Speaker 1: If you've just joined us, we've been on since six

2597
02:16:38,080 --> 02:16:40,320
Speaker 1: in the morning, I mean ten in the morning. Talking

2598
02:16:40,360 --> 02:16:44,360
Speaker 1: about listening to it feels like I get Sean mcdermot's

2599
02:16:44,400 --> 02:16:47,160
Speaker 1: news conference, Brandon Bean's news conference. Then Brandon joined us

2600
02:16:47,200 --> 02:16:49,360
Speaker 1: a moment ago. You have reaction to that. We want

2601
02:16:49,400 --> 02:16:51,039
Speaker 1: to know what the most encouraging part of the Bill

2602
02:16:51,120 --> 02:16:53,160
Speaker 1: season is. Let's go to the tweet sheet brought to

2603
02:16:53,200 --> 02:16:56,000
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the

2604
02:16:56,040 --> 02:16:59,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills from Tiffany. The program they are building the

2605
02:16:59,160 --> 02:17:01,360
Speaker 1: quality of the draft to players. Is the biggest reason

2606
02:17:01,440 --> 02:17:04,160
Speaker 1: the team is really ahead of schedule and quite competitive

2607
02:17:04,240 --> 02:17:06,560
Speaker 1: now all and in seasons to come top to bottom.

2608
02:17:06,560 --> 02:17:08,840
Speaker 1: We should all be excited about the future of the franchise.

2609
02:17:08,920 --> 02:17:11,840
Speaker 1: From the guy named Jello, the whole team took steps forward,

2610
02:17:11,879 --> 02:17:15,120
Speaker 1: but I think I'm most satisfied with Josh's progression in

2611
02:17:15,200 --> 02:17:18,880
Speaker 1: year two. He's making better decisions, faster decisions. It's showing

2612
02:17:18,920 --> 02:17:21,439
Speaker 1: in his on field play. I was in the rosencamp

2613
02:17:21,520 --> 02:17:23,960
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, but I must admit I was very

2614
02:17:24,040 --> 02:17:26,560
Speaker 1: wrong about Allen. Good for you, guy named Jello. That's

2615
02:17:26,600 --> 02:17:28,240
Speaker 1: a good one. A lot of people were in the

2616
02:17:28,360 --> 02:17:31,240
Speaker 1: rosencamp going into the draft in twenty eighteen. They chose

2617
02:17:31,360 --> 02:17:34,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen instead. A lot of people were up in

2618
02:17:34,840 --> 02:17:37,000
Speaker 1: arms when they chose Josh Allen instead and used a

2619
02:17:37,040 --> 02:17:39,400
Speaker 1: lot of what happened in twenty eighteen to try to

2620
02:17:39,520 --> 02:17:42,640
Speaker 1: prove their point. But after twenty eight NFL games now,

2621
02:17:42,640 --> 02:17:45,120
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear why they chose Josh Allen.

2622
02:17:45,640 --> 02:17:47,960
Speaker 1: More than anything, I think Josh Allen has demonstrated that

2623
02:17:48,080 --> 02:17:51,520
Speaker 1: he is the right fit and especially compared to Josh Allen.

2624
02:17:51,560 --> 02:17:53,640
Speaker 1: But even more than that, he's the right fit for

2625
02:17:53,720 --> 02:17:57,080
Speaker 1: this Bill's team. See even the competitive, fiery nature of

2626
02:17:57,160 --> 02:17:59,320
Speaker 1: his personality. I think it goes a long way towards

2627
02:17:59,400 --> 02:18:01,800
Speaker 1: that we'll never know what would have, could have, should

2628
02:18:01,840 --> 02:18:04,480
Speaker 1: have might have happened with any of these quarterbacks, whether

2629
02:18:04,560 --> 02:18:07,240
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield goes fourth or fifth, or Lamar Jackson goes

2630
02:18:07,320 --> 02:18:11,000
Speaker 1: number one, Whether Lamar Jackson would be an MVP candidate

2631
02:18:11,000 --> 02:18:13,680
Speaker 1: if he'd gotten picked by Cleveland instead of Baker Mayfield,

2632
02:18:14,440 --> 02:18:16,440
Speaker 1: And if Baker Mayfield would have been a Buffalo Bill

2633
02:18:16,520 --> 02:18:18,720
Speaker 1: and Sam Rosen or Sam Darnol would have been an

2634
02:18:18,720 --> 02:18:21,119
Speaker 1: Arizona car You know who knows all of this stuff?

2635
02:18:22,040 --> 02:18:24,959
Speaker 1: All I know is this, the Bill's got a guy,

2636
02:18:25,400 --> 02:18:27,600
Speaker 1: and they're making the best of him, and he's working

2637
02:18:27,680 --> 02:18:30,040
Speaker 1: hard to get better. And this is a team that

2638
02:18:30,280 --> 02:18:32,760
Speaker 1: is it seems to be on the climb, no question

2639
02:18:32,800 --> 02:18:36,160
Speaker 1: about it. Ahead of schedule, I don't know. They're three

2640
02:18:36,240 --> 02:18:38,680
Speaker 1: years into it. How long should it take? You know?

2641
02:18:38,840 --> 02:18:40,840
Speaker 1: And now certainly they had to climb out of a

2642
02:18:40,920 --> 02:18:43,120
Speaker 1: hold that a lot of teams don't have. When they

2643
02:18:43,160 --> 02:18:46,039
Speaker 1: took over, was Sean McDermott took over, They had bad

2644
02:18:46,160 --> 02:18:50,400
Speaker 1: cat that bad contracts, They had some really talented players

2645
02:18:50,720 --> 02:18:53,119
Speaker 1: who would have really had to struggle to get even

2646
02:18:53,120 --> 02:18:55,200
Speaker 1: if they were talented and had good years, they would

2647
02:18:55,200 --> 02:18:57,440
Speaker 1: have struggled to earn all the money they were getting.

2648
02:18:57,480 --> 02:19:00,080
Speaker 1: They were big contracts and it would have taken at

2649
02:19:00,120 --> 02:19:03,160
Speaker 1: least stellar career stretched by all of them to earn

2650
02:19:03,240 --> 02:19:04,959
Speaker 1: that money. So they got out from underneath them. They

2651
02:19:04,959 --> 02:19:08,520
Speaker 1: said goodbye to some really good players and got their

2652
02:19:08,560 --> 02:19:10,280
Speaker 1: house in order to start to bring in different kinds

2653
02:19:10,320 --> 02:19:13,320
Speaker 1: of players. They traded some really good players. They traded

2654
02:19:13,360 --> 02:19:15,040
Speaker 1: who it could be the defensive player of the year

2655
02:19:15,080 --> 02:19:17,720
Speaker 1: this year to the division rival, or let him go

2656
02:19:17,800 --> 02:19:20,920
Speaker 1: to their division rival, the New England Patriots. They did

2657
02:19:21,000 --> 02:19:22,520
Speaker 1: all this stuff in the lead up to this, but

2658
02:19:22,600 --> 02:19:26,720
Speaker 1: ahead of schedule. I don't know, I don't know. Gilmore,

2659
02:19:27,600 --> 02:19:30,240
Speaker 1: Yeah he was a free agent. Yeah, so he goes

2660
02:19:30,280 --> 02:19:32,880
Speaker 1: to their division rival. They let him walk, and now

2661
02:19:32,959 --> 02:19:35,040
Speaker 1: he could be the defensive player of the year in

2662
02:19:35,120 --> 02:19:39,039
Speaker 1: the in the league, right, but they let him walk.

2663
02:19:39,680 --> 02:19:42,400
Speaker 1: So they made these decisions on some really talented players,

2664
02:19:42,959 --> 02:19:46,720
Speaker 1: and they took a different tack. They were gonna go,

2665
02:19:47,680 --> 02:19:50,680
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get value. They spend less, get more.

2666
02:19:51,600 --> 02:19:54,160
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, certainly they didn't have any splashy free agent

2667
02:19:54,240 --> 02:19:56,080
Speaker 1: guys like that, but they felt like they were keeping

2668
02:19:56,120 --> 02:19:58,400
Speaker 1: up between the lines. And the thing about this regime

2669
02:19:58,440 --> 02:20:01,600
Speaker 1: than anything, they they stayed disciplined. I've said it a

2670
02:20:01,680 --> 02:20:04,000
Speaker 1: couple of times during the offseason and during the regular season.

2671
02:20:04,080 --> 02:20:07,680
Speaker 1: This year, they really stayed discipline. You know, they checked

2672
02:20:07,680 --> 02:20:10,000
Speaker 1: out all these other players. They checked out Levion Bell,

2673
02:20:10,080 --> 02:20:13,120
Speaker 1: they checked out Antonio Brown, they checked Dot Obj, they

2674
02:20:13,200 --> 02:20:14,840
Speaker 1: checked into all of these guys, and whether they wanted

2675
02:20:14,879 --> 02:20:17,680
Speaker 1: to come here or not, at least they were doing

2676
02:20:17,680 --> 02:20:22,119
Speaker 1: their due diligence. And they have gone and gone down

2677
02:20:22,200 --> 02:20:24,400
Speaker 1: this road they're on. They're three years into this. They

2678
02:20:24,520 --> 02:20:26,320
Speaker 1: got bounced in the first round of the playoffs in

2679
02:20:26,360 --> 02:20:27,840
Speaker 1: a game where they could have had a chance to win,

2680
02:20:28,760 --> 02:20:33,320
Speaker 1: and they made themselves into a really difficult football team

2681
02:20:33,360 --> 02:20:38,720
Speaker 1: to beat. But they're still not there yet and they're

2682
02:20:38,840 --> 02:20:41,360
Speaker 1: not and Brandon being said this, and they're not one

2683
02:20:41,440 --> 02:20:46,080
Speaker 1: player away. Certainly everybody says and YouTube murph about you know,

2684
02:20:46,200 --> 02:20:49,199
Speaker 1: they need one big wide receiver. That's not the curole

2685
02:20:49,240 --> 02:20:51,560
Speaker 1: for this team. It's not and that good players make

2686
02:20:51,600 --> 02:20:53,640
Speaker 1: it better. I've always said that, But there is no

2687
02:20:53,760 --> 02:20:55,800
Speaker 1: one player that's going to be a Curoll for this team,

2688
02:20:56,280 --> 02:20:58,400
Speaker 1: and so they got a lot of work to do

2689
02:20:58,480 --> 02:21:00,560
Speaker 1: this offseason. And here's the thing that's kind of sad

2690
02:21:01,240 --> 02:21:02,920
Speaker 1: for me as a former player, because I remember this,

2691
02:21:04,240 --> 02:21:06,840
Speaker 1: and this is what gets kind of gets me emotional.

2692
02:21:08,080 --> 02:21:09,720
Speaker 1: You can look around that locker room and there's a

2693
02:21:09,760 --> 02:21:11,560
Speaker 1: lot of guys in there that we love and respect,

2694
02:21:12,680 --> 02:21:15,440
Speaker 1: and this team's gonna be very different next year. Those

2695
02:21:15,440 --> 02:21:17,720
Speaker 1: guys aren't gonna be there. Lorenzo, Alexander's not going to

2696
02:21:17,800 --> 02:21:20,000
Speaker 1: be there. Maybe some other guys that fans out there

2697
02:21:20,680 --> 02:21:23,119
Speaker 1: love and respect and be and have big high hopes,

2698
02:21:23,120 --> 02:21:25,280
Speaker 1: we aren't going to be there this next year because

2699
02:21:25,400 --> 02:21:28,720
Speaker 1: this team is gone, it's done. There's gonna be some

2700
02:21:28,800 --> 02:21:30,640
Speaker 1: pieces back. Josh will be back and all the guys,

2701
02:21:30,840 --> 02:21:32,400
Speaker 1: a lot of familiar face will be back. But this

2702
02:21:32,560 --> 02:21:35,800
Speaker 1: team this year is now no more. It's a one

2703
02:21:35,920 --> 02:21:39,160
Speaker 1: year thing, and it always is. Even on the minimal teams,

2704
02:21:39,200 --> 02:21:43,600
Speaker 1: that minimal turnover, the turnover ten guys that's at least

2705
02:21:44,200 --> 02:21:46,000
Speaker 1: and you can bet this team's gonna turn over at

2706
02:21:46,080 --> 02:21:48,920
Speaker 1: least that many this year. And that's the sad part

2707
02:21:49,000 --> 02:21:50,240
Speaker 1: for me. And that's why I say, you know, I'm

2708
02:21:50,240 --> 02:21:52,440
Speaker 1: gonna be sad when this season's over, because this team's done,

2709
02:21:53,280 --> 02:21:56,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be completely different next year. There are identity

2710
02:21:56,440 --> 02:21:58,160
Speaker 1: is going to be different, the way they look and

2711
02:21:58,240 --> 02:22:00,720
Speaker 1: feel is going to be different, and they're gonna have

2712
02:22:00,800 --> 02:22:04,520
Speaker 1: different guys. And that's that's the bummer for me because

2713
02:22:04,560 --> 02:22:07,400
Speaker 1: this was a fun team to watch. Trying to pull

2714
02:22:07,600 --> 02:22:09,440
Speaker 1: that behind me now, I'm trying to turn the page,

2715
02:22:09,440 --> 02:22:12,520
Speaker 1: and stakes, man, I know it does. I'm trying to

2716
02:22:12,600 --> 02:22:15,160
Speaker 1: turn the page. I think McDermott and Being did a

2717
02:22:15,200 --> 02:22:17,120
Speaker 1: good job today of showing us the way to go,

2718
02:22:17,280 --> 02:22:19,440
Speaker 1: showing us out the page. I'm not saying we can't

2719
02:22:19,440 --> 02:22:21,040
Speaker 1: get better, and maybe we will be better next year.

2720
02:22:21,040 --> 02:22:22,680
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be even more fun next year. But man,

2721
02:22:22,720 --> 02:22:24,000
Speaker 1: oh man, this was a lot of This was a

2722
02:22:24,360 --> 02:22:26,320
Speaker 1: nice drink of water after a long drought. Thought we

2723
02:22:26,400 --> 02:22:31,480
Speaker 1: were making progress. We're still Murph, you we are. You

2724
02:22:31,640 --> 02:22:34,800
Speaker 1: are still. We are in a bad way, don't I'm

2725
02:22:34,879 --> 02:22:38,640
Speaker 1: looking for a way out. I listened to what McDermott

2726
02:22:38,680 --> 02:22:40,720
Speaker 1: and Being said and said, Okay, that's the way out.

2727
02:22:40,800 --> 02:22:42,840
Speaker 1: That's the way to look at it. It was it's painful.

2728
02:22:43,160 --> 02:22:45,480
Speaker 1: From that pain will come growth from that pain will come,

2729
02:22:46,000 --> 02:22:48,720
Speaker 1: you know. A better team next year, a better job

2730
02:22:48,840 --> 02:22:52,520
Speaker 1: next year. Uh being got emotional again on our set,

2731
02:22:52,920 --> 02:22:55,720
Speaker 1: but I thought, Okay, I see you go out. You

2732
02:22:55,800 --> 02:22:58,160
Speaker 1: gotta cry for it. Man, it's a bit. You gotta

2733
02:22:58,160 --> 02:23:00,560
Speaker 1: say goodbye to a bunch of really good, fun group

2734
02:23:00,600 --> 02:23:02,760
Speaker 1: of guys that we're never gonna see again. Say goodbye

2735
02:23:02,760 --> 02:23:04,960
Speaker 1: to him. Let's go time to look forward. That's what

2736
02:23:05,040 --> 02:23:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We'll take a Kyle brand standing By had

2737
02:23:10,200 --> 02:23:12,480
Speaker 1: joined us next from the NFL Network, Good Morning Football.

2738
02:23:12,480 --> 02:23:14,920
Speaker 1: We would laugh about it because you want to cry

2739
02:23:14,959 --> 02:23:18,360
Speaker 1: about it. One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health Live

2740
02:23:18,440 --> 02:23:22,160
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio, Seneca Resorts and Casino. Nothing comes

2741
02:23:22,200 --> 02:23:37,760
Speaker 1: close Bills Radio Network story date the update from One

2742
02:23:37,800 --> 02:23:40,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Both Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean held the

2743
02:23:40,840 --> 02:23:44,440
Speaker 1: season ending news conferences today. Both that similar messages that

2744
02:23:44,560 --> 02:23:47,480
Speaker 1: McDermott said the Bills will gain from the pain of

2745
02:23:47,560 --> 02:23:49,440
Speaker 1: the loss. He said they'll turn that pain into his

2746
02:23:49,480 --> 02:23:52,279
Speaker 1: strength in the future. That Josh Allen made a tremendous

2747
02:23:52,280 --> 02:23:55,160
Speaker 1: amount of progress this year, still can get better. Brandon

2748
02:23:55,240 --> 02:23:57,360
Speaker 1: Bean said the same thing about Josh Allen improved in

2749
02:23:57,400 --> 02:23:59,720
Speaker 1: a lot of areas. According to the general manager. Is

2750
02:23:59,760 --> 02:24:03,440
Speaker 1: he where he wants to be? Absolutely not. Brandon Mead

2751
02:24:03,480 --> 02:24:05,480
Speaker 1: says the offense took a step forward, still has a

2752
02:24:05,560 --> 02:24:09,160
Speaker 1: ways to go. The Bill's news conferences up on our

2753
02:24:09,200 --> 02:24:11,920
Speaker 1: website right now. You can see what the Brandon Bean

2754
02:24:11,959 --> 02:24:14,440
Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott had to say. New York Giants are

2755
02:24:14,480 --> 02:24:17,800
Speaker 1: finalizing the deal for Patriots wide receivers coach Joe Judge

2756
02:24:18,120 --> 02:24:21,119
Speaker 1: to become the team's next head coach. According to ESPN,

2757
02:24:21,200 --> 02:24:24,000
Speaker 1: Judge the youngest of the seven known candidates being mentioned

2758
02:24:24,240 --> 02:24:26,760
Speaker 1: for the Giants vacancy. He's thirty eight years old. He

2759
02:24:26,840 --> 02:24:29,520
Speaker 1: had been mentored by Alabama coach Nick Saban and Patriots

2760
02:24:29,560 --> 02:24:32,680
Speaker 1: coach Bill Belichick, considered a no nonsense guy, not afraid

2761
02:24:32,720 --> 02:24:37,119
Speaker 1: to ruffle feathers with players if necessary. Meantime, the Carolina

2762
02:24:37,160 --> 02:24:39,640
Speaker 1: Panthers have found their next head coach. They're finalizing the

2763
02:24:39,720 --> 02:24:42,600
Speaker 1: deal for Baylor coach Matt Rule to become the franchise

2764
02:24:42,720 --> 02:24:47,480
Speaker 1: fifth permanent head coach in its history. Rule met with

2765
02:24:47,600 --> 02:24:50,520
Speaker 1: David Tepper and his family in Waco, Texas on Monday.

2766
02:24:51,240 --> 02:24:53,120
Speaker 1: They made sure that the Rule to not board his

2767
02:24:53,200 --> 02:24:55,720
Speaker 1: flight to the Giants to continue his discussions with them.

2768
02:24:56,160 --> 02:25:00,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns have requested to interview Eagles defensive coordinator Jim

2769
02:25:00,240 --> 02:25:03,720
Speaker 1: Schwartz for their head coaching vacancy. Schwartz's interview would be

2770
02:25:03,720 --> 02:25:08,360
Speaker 1: the eighth that Cleveland has conducted since their job became open.

2771
02:25:08,800 --> 02:25:11,280
Speaker 1: Fifty three year old Jim Schwartz was an assistant coach

2772
02:25:11,320 --> 02:25:15,960
Speaker 1: here a defensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills under shot

2773
02:25:16,440 --> 02:25:20,400
Speaker 1: under Doug Marone. The Rams are moving on from Wade

2774
02:25:20,440 --> 02:25:23,960
Speaker 1: Phillips as the defensive coordinator. They're not bringing back the veteran.

2775
02:25:24,000 --> 02:25:26,840
Speaker 1: According to NFL Network, phillips contract expired at the end

2776
02:25:26,879 --> 02:25:30,160
Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen season, and the Buffalo Sabers practice today.

2777
02:25:30,440 --> 02:25:34,800
Speaker 1: Jack Eichel and Kyle Acoso missing practice for a maintenance day.

2778
02:25:34,800 --> 02:25:37,199
Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy,

2779
02:25:37,240 --> 02:25:40,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tansker in or One Buffalo Studio. As you know,

2780
02:25:40,760 --> 02:25:42,960
Speaker 1: usually on Tuesdays at this time, we talked with Kyle

2781
02:25:43,000 --> 02:25:45,280
Speaker 1: Brandt from NFL Network. We thought we'd start with Kyle

2782
02:25:45,360 --> 02:25:47,800
Speaker 1: Brandt and his end of the season rap, his rap

2783
02:25:47,879 --> 02:25:50,200
Speaker 1: on the Bill season with a bit of a rap himself.

2784
02:25:50,400 --> 02:25:55,400
Speaker 1: Listen to this. Let's to Western New York. They definitely

2785
02:25:55,480 --> 02:25:58,920
Speaker 1: know a lot about bars. Hey, I like to jaw

2786
02:25:59,120 --> 02:26:01,760
Speaker 1: from the local when I do these segments. I liked

2787
02:26:01,879 --> 02:26:04,120
Speaker 1: if I'm in talking about lat And I'll do Tupac.

2788
02:26:04,200 --> 02:26:06,440
Speaker 1: If I'm talking Colts, I'm gonna do a little John Cougar.

2789
02:26:06,840 --> 02:26:08,480
Speaker 1: So let me think if I can figure out a

2790
02:26:08,520 --> 02:26:14,240
Speaker 1: little Buffalo artist that can inspire me. A baby's black

2791
02:26:14,280 --> 02:26:16,640
Speaker 1: balloon may make cook cry, but I'm sad that the

2792
02:26:16,760 --> 02:26:18,920
Speaker 1: season ended in the blink of an eye. Yes, I

2793
02:26:19,040 --> 02:26:21,480
Speaker 1: just rapped about Johnny Rez, but the Bills gave it

2794
02:26:21,560 --> 02:26:24,440
Speaker 1: away like the spencing Pez. I like the dude from Wyoming.

2795
02:26:24,520 --> 02:26:27,120
Speaker 1: His mouth started foaming, getting costly, like roaming. Just need

2796
02:26:27,160 --> 02:26:29,920
Speaker 1: to be a little more stable, No more Yolo throws

2797
02:26:30,000 --> 02:26:31,600
Speaker 1: like he's on no dose. And they'll get you, y'

2798
02:26:31,600 --> 02:26:34,080
Speaker 1: all jumping through a table. If you're young and you're strong.

2799
02:26:34,160 --> 02:26:36,760
Speaker 1: Brady's moving along. The Bills want to ring on the hand.

2800
02:26:37,120 --> 02:26:39,120
Speaker 1: But until then, I don't want the world to see

2801
02:26:39,160 --> 02:26:42,360
Speaker 1: you because I don't think that they'd understand. And if

2802
02:26:42,400 --> 02:26:47,640
Speaker 1: you don't know Buffalo. Kyle Brand from NFL Network, the

2803
02:26:47,720 --> 02:26:50,039
Speaker 1: co host of Good Morning Football, Kyle's on the line

2804
02:26:50,080 --> 02:26:51,800
Speaker 1: with us right now. Kyle, good job of that rap.

2805
02:26:52,480 --> 02:26:54,360
Speaker 1: Steve and I old guys that we are trying to

2806
02:26:54,360 --> 02:26:56,400
Speaker 1: figure out exactly what you said there, but I think

2807
02:26:56,440 --> 02:27:00,360
Speaker 1: we get it. Murphy, you're a talented guy, a very

2808
02:27:00,360 --> 02:27:02,520
Speaker 1: good liar. When you said good good job with the raps,

2809
02:27:02,560 --> 02:27:06,240
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Listen, if we're coming off the weekend

2810
02:27:06,280 --> 02:27:09,600
Speaker 1: in which the Bills season ended in a very demoralizing fashion,

2811
02:27:10,200 --> 02:27:13,120
Speaker 1: you gotta last, right, you gotta do a rap somehow

2812
02:27:13,160 --> 02:27:15,720
Speaker 1: about the Google Dalls song from twenty five years ago.

2813
02:27:15,760 --> 02:27:17,920
Speaker 1: That's the best I could do. It's my icebreaker for

2814
02:27:18,040 --> 02:27:21,880
Speaker 1: today because otherwise I'm crestfallen coming off the weekend. But

2815
02:27:22,040 --> 02:27:24,440
Speaker 1: you know what, He's right, I'd give him a credit.

2816
02:27:24,520 --> 02:27:27,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, pretty good job. And that's where Kyle, that's

2817
02:27:27,120 --> 02:27:29,720
Speaker 1: where we lived for seventeen well into the wild card

2818
02:27:29,800 --> 02:27:31,720
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. You lived in those one score

2819
02:27:31,800 --> 02:27:34,080
Speaker 1: games that came down to it. You had one possession

2820
02:27:34,120 --> 02:27:36,080
Speaker 1: to try and win, and it come to and there's

2821
02:27:36,120 --> 02:27:38,560
Speaker 1: a list of like every game, there's a list of

2822
02:27:38,640 --> 02:27:42,440
Speaker 1: five ten plays that if it was different, it would

2823
02:27:42,440 --> 02:27:45,280
Speaker 1: have been different. But you knew going in the Bills

2824
02:27:45,320 --> 02:27:46,879
Speaker 1: are gonna be in a tight one. It was gonna

2825
02:27:46,920 --> 02:27:48,720
Speaker 1: come down to the wire and who was gonna make

2826
02:27:48,720 --> 02:27:50,440
Speaker 1: a play. And you gotta tip your hat to just

2827
02:27:50,760 --> 02:27:53,600
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson for that play he made spinning out of

2828
02:27:53,640 --> 02:27:57,240
Speaker 1: a tackle. I tipped my hat, Steve, you know I do.

2829
02:27:57,360 --> 02:28:01,320
Speaker 1: It was an awesome play. But I have developed an

2830
02:28:01,360 --> 02:28:04,440
Speaker 1: affection for the Buffalo Bills do no small part to

2831
02:28:04,520 --> 02:28:06,880
Speaker 1: talking to you guys every week. I really liked this

2832
02:28:07,080 --> 02:28:09,039
Speaker 1: team a lot, and I think that they were better

2833
02:28:09,160 --> 02:28:11,360
Speaker 1: than the wild card round. And I thought they were

2834
02:28:11,400 --> 02:28:13,160
Speaker 1: the team that we can u an ah about Deshaun

2835
02:28:13,200 --> 02:28:16,320
Speaker 1: Watson spinning out and they should have sacked him and

2836
02:28:16,440 --> 02:28:18,640
Speaker 1: two guys right there. I mean, it's just why is

2837
02:28:18,680 --> 02:28:20,840
Speaker 1: it always that play that way that it goes great

2838
02:28:20,879 --> 02:28:23,119
Speaker 1: for him? He's a great player. It was a great call.

2839
02:28:23,600 --> 02:28:26,080
Speaker 1: The blitz game completely unblocked. It should have been a

2840
02:28:26,160 --> 02:28:28,680
Speaker 1: game change in play. I'm disappointed it wasn't a fumble.

2841
02:28:29,280 --> 02:28:32,680
Speaker 1: So listen. As I said, I've kind of developed an

2842
02:28:32,720 --> 02:28:35,640
Speaker 1: affection for this team. And Saturday night was a wild

2843
02:28:36,240 --> 02:28:39,520
Speaker 1: wild night. I full disclosure, guys, I have never really

2844
02:28:39,640 --> 02:28:42,680
Speaker 1: experimented with drugs. I felt like I did watching that

2845
02:28:42,800 --> 02:28:45,240
Speaker 1: game on Saturday night. I was in some other world

2846
02:28:45,760 --> 02:28:48,119
Speaker 1: because it was the highs and the lows, and that's

2847
02:28:48,160 --> 02:28:50,080
Speaker 1: what people say, it's light. I'm never gonna go down

2848
02:28:50,120 --> 02:28:51,680
Speaker 1: that route, but I feel like that's what I got

2849
02:28:51,720 --> 02:28:55,200
Speaker 1: from Bills Texas. Yeah, and it was. It was a

2850
02:28:55,280 --> 02:28:57,640
Speaker 1: great football weekend. Two of the two of the four

2851
02:28:57,720 --> 02:29:00,520
Speaker 1: games go to overtime. It's everything you on out of it.

2852
02:29:00,640 --> 02:29:03,640
Speaker 1: You get the Minnesota Vikings going down and pulling the

2853
02:29:03,760 --> 02:29:08,120
Speaker 1: upset on another, you know, on these controversial calls. Even

2854
02:29:08,200 --> 02:29:10,160
Speaker 1: in the Bills game, there was refs to get, you know,

2855
02:29:10,200 --> 02:29:12,320
Speaker 1: the refs calls and the tikie tack calls and the

2856
02:29:12,440 --> 02:29:16,560
Speaker 1: non calls, and it was just it was absolutely every game,

2857
02:29:16,800 --> 02:29:20,120
Speaker 1: not let alone. The Bills game was an absolute roller

2858
02:29:20,200 --> 02:29:22,640
Speaker 1: coaster from side to side, top to bottom. It was

2859
02:29:22,720 --> 02:29:25,879
Speaker 1: just a blast to watch. And you know, as Bills fans,

2860
02:29:25,959 --> 02:29:27,760
Speaker 1: you kind of you know, you're puking in your sink

2861
02:29:27,920 --> 02:29:32,080
Speaker 1: over the way it ended. But the NFL's got to

2862
02:29:32,120 --> 02:29:34,400
Speaker 1: be really happy with the teams in the games that

2863
02:29:34,480 --> 02:29:37,080
Speaker 1: they saw. No, it's incredible. I mean, it was in

2864
02:29:37,120 --> 02:29:39,160
Speaker 1: the best weekends ever. And let's not forget it's wild

2865
02:29:39,200 --> 02:29:41,680
Speaker 1: card weekend, which means the four best teams don't even

2866
02:29:41,760 --> 02:29:44,240
Speaker 1: play right there, they're coming out of the dressing room

2867
02:29:44,320 --> 02:29:47,560
Speaker 1: this weekend. It was wild, though, because the first three

2868
02:29:47,640 --> 02:29:51,080
Speaker 1: games were like The Fast and the Furious, just wild

2869
02:29:51,200 --> 02:29:52,960
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. You couldn't even came up with them.

2870
02:29:53,240 --> 02:29:55,480
Speaker 1: And then that fourth game starts, and then ten seconds

2871
02:29:55,520 --> 02:29:57,360
Speaker 1: into the game, Carson Wentz is knocked out of it

2872
02:29:57,480 --> 02:30:00,280
Speaker 1: and you're into this weird La La land purget tory.

2873
02:30:00,760 --> 02:30:03,720
Speaker 1: But I will go back to you, guys. Bill's Texan

2874
02:30:03,800 --> 02:30:06,440
Speaker 1: set the table, and I've been thinking about this game

2875
02:30:06,520 --> 02:30:10,200
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm kind of emotionally hungover from it because

2876
02:30:10,240 --> 02:30:14,480
Speaker 1: you said, Steve, there's five plays, there's ten plays. There's

2877
02:30:14,520 --> 02:30:17,440
Speaker 1: a couple of plays that they may not just be

2878
02:30:17,720 --> 02:30:20,320
Speaker 1: thinking about this week like that for a long time.

2879
02:30:20,400 --> 02:30:23,440
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're not careful years, they're gonna come

2880
02:30:23,520 --> 02:30:25,800
Speaker 1: up like two to come to mind. I'm sure you've

2881
02:30:25,879 --> 02:30:29,400
Speaker 1: dug into it. I still, all these time later, trying

2882
02:30:29,400 --> 02:30:32,240
Speaker 1: to figure out fourth and twenty seven. I'm trying, and

2883
02:30:32,360 --> 02:30:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out why it wouldn't be better

2884
02:30:35,000 --> 02:30:37,640
Speaker 1: to punt and use the timeouts and pin them, Why

2885
02:30:37,720 --> 02:30:40,520
Speaker 1: it wouldn't even be better to attempt a ridiculously long

2886
02:30:40,640 --> 02:30:42,640
Speaker 1: field goal than it would be to go for it

2887
02:30:42,879 --> 02:30:45,199
Speaker 1: and as weird as that fourth and twenty seven plays,

2888
02:30:45,240 --> 02:30:47,440
Speaker 1: and I would love to hear your thoughts. I thought

2889
02:30:47,520 --> 02:30:50,200
Speaker 1: that the third and eighteen to Duke Johnson was the

2890
02:30:50,280 --> 02:30:53,000
Speaker 1: bigger gut punch because the fourth and twenty seven was

2891
02:30:53,120 --> 02:30:54,640
Speaker 1: very strange and I'm not sure what they were thinking.

2892
02:30:55,040 --> 02:30:57,200
Speaker 1: The third and eighteen was just football. They were there

2893
02:30:57,320 --> 02:30:58,840
Speaker 1: and they let the guy check it down and go

2894
02:30:58,959 --> 02:31:02,119
Speaker 1: eighteen yards. This was the one that really really brought

2895
02:31:02,200 --> 02:31:03,880
Speaker 1: me to my knees where I said, oh God, I

2896
02:31:04,000 --> 02:31:05,720
Speaker 1: think they're done. I think they just won the game

2897
02:31:05,760 --> 02:31:08,080
Speaker 1: with this play because they had him backed up. It's tough.

2898
02:31:08,160 --> 02:31:09,720
Speaker 1: I don't know which one to pick. Neither one of

2899
02:31:09,760 --> 02:31:12,040
Speaker 1: them goes down easy. I don't know if I can

2900
02:31:12,120 --> 02:31:15,320
Speaker 1: help Kyle. I will say this. Sean McDermott today was

2901
02:31:15,360 --> 02:31:17,920
Speaker 1: asked about the third and eighteen play, talked about how

2902
02:31:17,959 --> 02:31:20,000
Speaker 1: some of his younger players got a little too deep

2903
02:31:20,080 --> 02:31:21,920
Speaker 1: on the play. They showed have been up a little

2904
02:31:21,920 --> 02:31:23,760
Speaker 1: bit closer to the line of scrimmage, a little bit

2905
02:31:23,760 --> 02:31:27,160
Speaker 1: closer to Duke Johnson to stop him from getting just

2906
02:31:27,400 --> 02:31:29,320
Speaker 1: exactly what he needed to get the first down. I

2907
02:31:29,360 --> 02:31:31,800
Speaker 1: don't know if that helps. And the fourth down the

2908
02:31:32,280 --> 02:31:35,560
Speaker 1: fourth and sense to me, Murph's that's football. The young

2909
02:31:35,640 --> 02:31:39,200
Speaker 1: players messed up. Yeah, what was the decision on fourth

2910
02:31:39,280 --> 02:31:41,480
Speaker 1: and twenty seven? Because it's say what you want about

2911
02:31:41,520 --> 02:31:44,640
Speaker 1: the Bills team. They're well coached. I think they're smart.

2912
02:31:44,840 --> 02:31:47,760
Speaker 1: I think they're tough. I can't make any sense of

2913
02:31:47,840 --> 02:31:50,720
Speaker 1: the decision to say let's go for it, let alone

2914
02:31:51,080 --> 02:31:54,520
Speaker 1: and then taking the sack. Do you have anything, Yeah,

2915
02:31:54,760 --> 02:31:56,000
Speaker 1: I have nothing for him. There was a couple of

2916
02:31:56,040 --> 02:31:59,280
Speaker 1: times even today that he Sean McDermot said at the

2917
02:31:59,360 --> 02:32:01,280
Speaker 1: end of the first time half when they called the

2918
02:32:01,360 --> 02:32:04,240
Speaker 1: time out, handed off to Frank Gore, spiked it and

2919
02:32:04,360 --> 02:32:07,280
Speaker 1: then through for the ends. He said, listen, we weren't

2920
02:32:07,280 --> 02:32:08,880
Speaker 1: trying to play for the field goal, and we wish

2921
02:32:08,920 --> 02:32:11,280
Speaker 1: we had that whole series back to call those plays again.

2922
02:32:11,360 --> 02:32:15,040
Speaker 1: He took complete ownership of it. So and that's the

2923
02:32:15,840 --> 02:32:18,720
Speaker 1: we Listen. It's a good thing that game was on Saturday,

2924
02:32:18,720 --> 02:32:20,920
Speaker 1: because Murf and I were in no shape to do

2925
02:32:21,000 --> 02:32:22,960
Speaker 1: the show on Sunday. We could not have done it

2926
02:32:23,000 --> 02:32:29,640
Speaker 1: if it was a Sunday game. We were absolutely we were.

2927
02:32:29,800 --> 02:32:31,560
Speaker 1: We're in a bad way. We're still, I told Murf

2928
02:32:31,640 --> 02:32:33,280
Speaker 1: just a minute ago we're in a bad way. But

2929
02:32:33,560 --> 02:32:36,640
Speaker 1: but here're thing that game. Both the coaching staff of

2930
02:32:36,680 --> 02:32:39,160
Speaker 1: the Bills and the players for the Bills, and the

2931
02:32:39,240 --> 02:32:43,640
Speaker 1: officials and the Texans and the Texans coaching staff, they

2932
02:32:43,680 --> 02:32:46,080
Speaker 1: were all in the same game, all of those things.

2933
02:32:46,120 --> 02:32:50,280
Speaker 1: They were all brilliant, and they all were stupid, all

2934
02:32:50,360 --> 02:32:52,920
Speaker 1: of them. They all ran the roller coaster and they

2935
02:32:52,959 --> 02:32:55,360
Speaker 1: were at odds all the time. The coaching staff of

2936
02:32:55,440 --> 02:32:58,480
Speaker 1: both teams, the players of both teams, the officials, the

2937
02:32:58,640 --> 02:33:03,959
Speaker 1: review officials, and the announcers. I know for an absolute

2938
02:33:04,879 --> 02:33:08,560
Speaker 1: both brilliant and atrocities in the same game, all of them.

2939
02:33:08,920 --> 02:33:13,080
Speaker 1: And I'm never gonna be the same. I'm not either.

2940
02:33:13,360 --> 02:33:16,440
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. It was like this ridiculous street drug

2941
02:33:16,560 --> 02:33:18,160
Speaker 1: that I still want you. I had no idea that

2942
02:33:18,200 --> 02:33:19,640
Speaker 1: I was ever going to go that direction. I'm still

2943
02:33:19,680 --> 02:33:23,280
Speaker 1: coming down from it. And guys, let's not mix words here.

2944
02:33:23,640 --> 02:33:27,240
Speaker 1: All season, every Tuesday, we do a State of the

2945
02:33:27,320 --> 02:33:29,880
Speaker 1: Nation with Josh Allen, and I feel like I repeat

2946
02:33:29,920 --> 02:33:34,560
Speaker 1: myself over and over. I love him. He's courageous, he's fearless,

2947
02:33:34,720 --> 02:33:37,960
Speaker 1: but he's fearless to a fault. And that was the

2948
02:33:38,080 --> 02:33:40,760
Speaker 1: experience in the first half he's running down field, he's

2949
02:33:40,760 --> 02:33:44,080
Speaker 1: catching touchdown passes, he's gesticulating and dancing, and he's like

2950
02:33:44,480 --> 02:33:47,000
Speaker 1: like a dog that's all worked up. And then fast

2951
02:33:47,000 --> 02:33:50,640
Speaker 1: forward a couple of hours, he's blindly lateraling it's a

2952
02:33:50,760 --> 02:33:52,640
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox in the middle of a play in which

2953
02:33:52,760 --> 02:33:55,600
Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of time watching that lateral play

2954
02:33:55,720 --> 02:33:58,440
Speaker 1: trying to think what he was thinking. And all I

2955
02:33:58,520 --> 02:34:00,400
Speaker 1: got is it's just he was trying to make a

2956
02:34:00,480 --> 02:34:02,520
Speaker 1: play and he got caught up in the emotions of it.

2957
02:34:02,600 --> 02:34:04,959
Speaker 1: And I think part of the challenge from McDermot moving

2958
02:34:05,000 --> 02:34:07,560
Speaker 1: forward with Alan, it's just we love the emotions. You

2959
02:34:07,680 --> 02:34:10,080
Speaker 1: just got to manage those things. Man. You can't spaz

2960
02:34:10,120 --> 02:34:12,400
Speaker 1: out like an excited dog all the time. Yeah, And

2961
02:34:12,480 --> 02:34:14,720
Speaker 1: I think that's true. He's and you got to think

2962
02:34:14,760 --> 02:34:17,320
Speaker 1: to rep after rep, game after games. Certainly he had

2963
02:34:17,760 --> 02:34:20,160
Speaker 1: coming from Wyoming and wherever, you know, the farm boy

2964
02:34:20,200 --> 02:34:22,040
Speaker 1: and the kid. He comes from a small town. He

2965
02:34:22,160 --> 02:34:25,000
Speaker 1: had a further way to go than some quarterbacks do.

2966
02:34:25,160 --> 02:34:27,120
Speaker 1: But I do think this, and I think we all

2967
02:34:27,240 --> 02:34:29,680
Speaker 1: maybe we all agree on this. You can see it

2968
02:34:29,800 --> 02:34:32,000
Speaker 1: coming down the track, and certainly it's further away than

2969
02:34:32,040 --> 02:34:34,240
Speaker 1: we wish it was, but coming down the tracks, the

2970
02:34:34,320 --> 02:34:37,400
Speaker 1: improvement at some point is going to start to take

2971
02:34:37,520 --> 02:34:40,600
Speaker 1: over and he's not gonna have these moments where he regresses.

2972
02:34:40,640 --> 02:34:43,800
Speaker 1: And to his credit, it took over time of a

2973
02:34:43,920 --> 02:34:46,520
Speaker 1: playoff game here in the second half of his second

2974
02:34:46,600 --> 02:34:48,320
Speaker 1: year for that to come out again. We'd seen it

2975
02:34:48,440 --> 02:34:50,240
Speaker 1: go away maybe for a month and a half or

2976
02:34:50,280 --> 02:34:52,600
Speaker 1: two months in the last half of the season, and

2977
02:34:52,680 --> 02:34:55,000
Speaker 1: it took the most pressure pack moment of the entire

2978
02:34:55,040 --> 02:34:58,480
Speaker 1: season for it to regurgitate again. But it's still in there.

2979
02:34:58,959 --> 02:35:01,440
Speaker 1: And you think a more experience he gets, the more

2980
02:35:01,520 --> 02:35:04,720
Speaker 1: reps he gets, the more commonplace these situations will come

2981
02:35:04,800 --> 02:35:07,800
Speaker 1: to him. I have the devil and the Angel on

2982
02:35:07,920 --> 02:35:10,960
Speaker 1: my shoulder. The devil is saying, screw all that. We

2983
02:35:11,040 --> 02:35:12,920
Speaker 1: got to win that game. You guys lost in the

2984
02:35:12,959 --> 02:35:15,240
Speaker 1: wild card on I shouldn't have done it. Is disappointed.

2985
02:35:15,320 --> 02:35:17,800
Speaker 1: But the Angel is saying, if you go back to

2986
02:35:17,920 --> 02:35:20,000
Speaker 1: the draft when they took Josh Allen, if you were

2987
02:35:20,000 --> 02:35:22,560
Speaker 1: to say, guess what, in his second year, he'll be

2988
02:35:22,640 --> 02:35:25,320
Speaker 1: winning a road playoff game and catching a touchdown and

2989
02:35:25,320 --> 02:35:27,240
Speaker 1: it's not gonna work out. You sign me up right now,

2990
02:35:27,360 --> 02:35:29,320
Speaker 1: I'll take it. And he looks better than Baker Mayfield.

2991
02:35:29,400 --> 02:35:31,400
Speaker 1: Right now, I'll give you that. Kyle Brand is with

2992
02:35:31,520 --> 02:35:34,039
Speaker 1: us from NFL never the host of Good Morning Football. Kyle,

2993
02:35:34,520 --> 02:35:37,160
Speaker 1: we're trying to look ahead. I'm trying to be therapeutic

2994
02:35:37,240 --> 02:35:39,320
Speaker 1: for you. Sound like a real classic Bills fan today.

2995
02:35:39,360 --> 02:35:40,760
Speaker 1: And what we've heard the last couple of days, no

2996
02:35:41,120 --> 02:35:44,720
Speaker 1: one of them. What about moving forward? And what would

2997
02:35:44,720 --> 02:35:47,160
Speaker 1: an ideal offseason look like for the Buffalo Bills in

2998
02:35:47,200 --> 02:35:52,200
Speaker 1: your mind? The non sexy part, I'd love to see

2999
02:35:52,200 --> 02:35:54,480
Speaker 1: a better offensive line come out for the team next year.

3000
02:35:55,200 --> 02:35:59,160
Speaker 1: But the sexy part, I'm a real big number one receiver.

3001
02:35:59,480 --> 02:36:02,000
Speaker 1: I like John Brown did this year. I like the

3002
02:36:02,080 --> 02:36:05,200
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley thing underneath, but I still don't think they

3003
02:36:05,400 --> 02:36:09,560
Speaker 1: really have that It's third and eleven guy that they're

3004
02:36:09,600 --> 02:36:12,200
Speaker 1: gonna go to. You know, Dawston Knox is a tight end.

3005
02:36:12,280 --> 02:36:14,080
Speaker 1: Was a nice surprise, and they have good pieces, but

3006
02:36:14,680 --> 02:36:16,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. I looked at what DeAndre Hopkins did,

3007
02:36:17,080 --> 02:36:19,800
Speaker 1: laid in the game. I looked at Michael Thomas all

3008
02:36:19,920 --> 02:36:22,400
Speaker 1: year for the Saints. Some of these guys now, I

3009
02:36:22,600 --> 02:36:25,760
Speaker 1: really think that they're missing the guy. John Brown's really good.

3010
02:36:25,879 --> 02:36:27,840
Speaker 1: I like him, and I know he's got a bright future.

3011
02:36:28,360 --> 02:36:31,800
Speaker 1: Somebody who goes six to two ten, who can bring

3012
02:36:31,879 --> 02:36:33,600
Speaker 1: it in on third and twelve, third and ten. I

3013
02:36:33,720 --> 02:36:36,160
Speaker 1: think they're missing that guy. Yeah, And I think Brandon

3014
02:36:36,200 --> 02:36:37,600
Speaker 1: Bean said it in his and I know you didn't

3015
02:36:37,640 --> 02:36:40,039
Speaker 1: hear this, but he said, listen, if you get bounced

3016
02:36:40,040 --> 02:36:42,400
Speaker 1: in the first round of the playoffs, you're more than

3017
02:36:42,520 --> 02:36:45,520
Speaker 1: just one guy away. And I think having the general

3018
02:36:45,600 --> 02:36:48,680
Speaker 1: manager admitted that admittedly say that is true. I think

3019
02:36:48,720 --> 02:36:50,680
Speaker 1: they've still got some work to do. And you're right.

3020
02:36:50,720 --> 02:36:53,480
Speaker 1: I think it starts up front on both sides of

3021
02:36:53,520 --> 02:36:56,640
Speaker 1: the ball and works out from there, No doubt, man,

3022
02:36:56,959 --> 02:36:59,240
Speaker 1: that big offseason, big Austin, because you can't let up

3023
02:36:59,600 --> 02:37:01,840
Speaker 1: a lot of changes to come in the afcast. As

3024
02:37:01,879 --> 02:37:04,360
Speaker 1: you guys know, we have no clue what's happening with Brady.

3025
02:37:04,840 --> 02:37:07,560
Speaker 1: The Jets may have kind of found their footing, and

3026
02:37:07,680 --> 02:37:10,440
Speaker 1: I still think Brian Flores is an absolute maniac down

3027
02:37:10,440 --> 02:37:13,000
Speaker 1: there in Miami. So this idea that just while bade

3028
02:37:13,040 --> 02:37:15,280
Speaker 1: Brady will leave and the Bills will take over, like, no,

3029
02:37:15,480 --> 02:37:17,840
Speaker 1: this is a really critical offseason. What did you think

3030
02:37:17,879 --> 02:37:20,360
Speaker 1: of the Patriots loss and what is the future hole

3031
02:37:20,440 --> 02:37:23,080
Speaker 1: for the Patriots and the Tennessee Titans for that matter. Cole,

3032
02:37:24,360 --> 02:37:27,240
Speaker 1: It's funny Murph building going up to that Patriots Titans game.

3033
02:37:27,320 --> 02:37:29,840
Speaker 1: The whole time. I just had this really kind of

3034
02:37:30,360 --> 02:37:33,640
Speaker 1: ignorant blind faith. You see, we've fallen into this thing

3035
02:37:33,760 --> 02:37:36,800
Speaker 1: of well, Brady and Belichick are there, so they'll win.

3036
02:37:37,160 --> 02:37:39,800
Speaker 1: There was nothing about that matchup really, if you were

3037
02:37:39,840 --> 02:37:41,240
Speaker 1: going to just get into the facts of it, that

3038
02:37:41,360 --> 02:37:43,080
Speaker 1: said that they were going to blow away the Titans

3039
02:37:43,200 --> 02:37:45,600
Speaker 1: or even beat the Tits. It went exactly like you

3040
02:37:45,720 --> 02:37:49,160
Speaker 1: thought the Titans were a better, hotter team with better players,

3041
02:37:49,240 --> 02:37:51,560
Speaker 1: and they smashed them, and it was like the game

3042
02:37:51,640 --> 02:37:53,320
Speaker 1: wasn't even over yet. No one even wants to talk

3043
02:37:53,320 --> 02:37:56,640
Speaker 1: about the Titans, hell with them. It's immediately about Tom Brady.

3044
02:37:56,959 --> 02:37:59,840
Speaker 1: And I'll say this from a Buffalo angle, this idea

3045
02:38:00,120 --> 02:38:02,880
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady is either going to retire or be

3046
02:38:03,520 --> 02:38:06,480
Speaker 1: leave the Patriots in some fashion. There's a lot of

3047
02:38:06,520 --> 02:38:08,240
Speaker 1: people I'm here in the saying, well, thank God, get

3048
02:38:08,280 --> 02:38:09,760
Speaker 1: out of here, we don't have to play him anymore.

3049
02:38:10,120 --> 02:38:12,560
Speaker 1: I look at it differently. I remember the first time

3050
02:38:12,640 --> 02:38:14,760
Speaker 1: that Michael Jordan retired, the time he went to go

3051
02:38:14,879 --> 02:38:17,120
Speaker 1: play baseball for a couple of years and he had

3052
02:38:17,120 --> 02:38:20,200
Speaker 1: always tortured the Knicks and when he announced his retirement,

3053
02:38:20,640 --> 02:38:23,160
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing went up to him and said, no, you

3054
02:38:23,320 --> 02:38:25,960
Speaker 1: can't retire. I have to beat you. You cannot retire

3055
02:38:26,080 --> 02:38:28,240
Speaker 1: until I beat you. My career will not be complete.

3056
02:38:28,520 --> 02:38:30,840
Speaker 1: If I'm the Bills, I don't want Brady to leave.

3057
02:38:30,959 --> 02:38:32,760
Speaker 1: I want to get over that hump. I want to

3058
02:38:32,920 --> 02:38:35,800
Speaker 1: check that off and saying we took him out, not

3059
02:38:36,000 --> 02:38:37,800
Speaker 1: we lost to him twice and then he left to

3060
02:38:37,840 --> 02:38:39,520
Speaker 1: go play for the Chargers or something. If I'm a

3061
02:38:39,600 --> 02:38:42,480
Speaker 1: Bills fan, I want him back his unfinished business. Yeah,

3062
02:38:42,520 --> 02:38:44,600
Speaker 1: and I kind of agree with that. I see your point.

3063
02:38:44,680 --> 02:38:48,600
Speaker 1: But and I also say this, it really does seem

3064
02:38:48,720 --> 02:38:53,000
Speaker 1: to be a seismic shift in New England. There really

3065
02:38:53,080 --> 02:38:54,840
Speaker 1: does see and we've heard, you know, they always have

3066
02:38:54,920 --> 02:38:58,119
Speaker 1: these countries like Bill Belichick and Tom Brady didn't get along,

3067
02:38:58,200 --> 02:39:00,879
Speaker 1: and Gronk was you know, they're working out with Brady's guy,

3068
02:39:01,000 --> 02:39:03,920
Speaker 1: all this stuff, all those those made up dramas that

3069
02:39:04,000 --> 02:39:06,440
Speaker 1: we always focused on in the offseason. There really does

3070
02:39:06,520 --> 02:39:11,080
Speaker 1: seem to be something fundamentally going on with Tom Brady

3071
02:39:11,360 --> 02:39:14,720
Speaker 1: and his future there, and what that is I don't

3072
02:39:14,720 --> 02:39:18,000
Speaker 1: even know. How soon we're gonna find out. And I

3073
02:39:18,120 --> 02:39:22,320
Speaker 1: think even Bill Belichick now people are saying maybe he's done.

3074
02:39:22,840 --> 02:39:26,840
Speaker 1: I think that's all a pipe dream. But certainly this

3075
02:39:27,040 --> 02:39:29,000
Speaker 1: is a different vibe about the New England Patriots than

3076
02:39:29,040 --> 02:39:34,560
Speaker 1: we've seen in twenty years. It's very strange. The New

3077
02:39:34,640 --> 02:39:37,720
Speaker 1: York Giants just hired the Patriots receivers coach to be

3078
02:39:37,800 --> 02:39:41,000
Speaker 1: their head coach. Who knows, maybe the Browns will hire

3079
02:39:41,040 --> 02:39:45,680
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator. I just know this. Robert Kraft came

3080
02:39:45,680 --> 02:39:47,360
Speaker 1: out after us and he had told Peter King that

3081
02:39:47,800 --> 02:39:51,199
Speaker 1: two wishes that Tommy stays with us or that he retires.

3082
02:39:51,320 --> 02:39:54,760
Speaker 1: I think Robert Kraft his worst nightmare, It really would

3083
02:39:54,760 --> 02:39:56,960
Speaker 1: would be to turn on football next fall and see

3084
02:39:57,040 --> 02:39:59,560
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in a different uniforms, see Tommy as he

3085
02:39:59,640 --> 02:40:01,800
Speaker 1: calls him. I think that they will take it upon

3086
02:40:01,879 --> 02:40:04,920
Speaker 1: themselves in this offseason to bring Tommy back, to get

3087
02:40:05,040 --> 02:40:08,000
Speaker 1: him money, and more importantly, I think the Patriots will

3088
02:40:08,040 --> 02:40:11,440
Speaker 1: be really aggressive in bringing in talent. There are some

3089
02:40:11,680 --> 02:40:16,000
Speaker 1: names out there like Aj Green, Eric Ebron, guys who

3090
02:40:16,280 --> 02:40:18,960
Speaker 1: really really good. Look. Look, Tom Brady's in his forties.

3091
02:40:19,040 --> 02:40:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm in my forties. All guys in their forties want

3092
02:40:21,520 --> 02:40:24,640
Speaker 1: are money and big expensive toys, all right, and that's

3093
02:40:24,680 --> 02:40:27,160
Speaker 1: what Tom Brady needs. You get him that the money's fine,

3094
02:40:27,200 --> 02:40:28,920
Speaker 1: get him a tight end and a receiver. I think

3095
02:40:28,920 --> 02:40:31,440
Speaker 1: they bring him back. They kind of another wild card

3096
02:40:31,520 --> 02:40:34,200
Speaker 1: game this past weekend. The Vikings go to New Orleans

3097
02:40:34,280 --> 02:40:36,520
Speaker 1: and beat the Saints. What do you think of that?

3098
02:40:36,959 --> 02:40:38,840
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins comes up with the wind. Did you like that?

3099
02:40:40,000 --> 02:40:42,440
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you even use the catch break, Murph,

3100
02:40:42,440 --> 02:40:44,880
Speaker 1: and I absolutely love it. Kirk Cousins, I feel like

3101
02:40:45,560 --> 02:40:48,280
Speaker 1: is my brother. He's the guy who drives the minivan

3102
02:40:48,400 --> 02:40:50,840
Speaker 1: and as the car seats and just the baby Bjorn

3103
02:40:50,920 --> 02:40:54,000
Speaker 1: and everything. And you know what he for such a

3104
02:40:54,120 --> 02:40:57,560
Speaker 1: really good father, he turns into one bad mother sometimes

3105
02:40:58,120 --> 02:41:00,720
Speaker 1: going to the Superdome. You can't be some soft guy

3106
02:41:00,800 --> 02:41:03,640
Speaker 1: who eats at the chain restaurant and likes the dad jokes.

3107
02:41:03,879 --> 02:41:06,199
Speaker 1: He made the throw of his life in the Superdome,

3108
02:41:06,520 --> 02:41:08,840
Speaker 1: and I don't think he's done. You know that there's

3109
02:41:08,879 --> 02:41:11,520
Speaker 1: a double edged sword with having by San Francisco has

3110
02:41:11,560 --> 02:41:13,680
Speaker 1: a buy. Sure, you get some time off your rest,

3111
02:41:14,000 --> 02:41:16,280
Speaker 1: but your reward is you play a team that just

3112
02:41:16,480 --> 02:41:20,640
Speaker 1: had a huge momentum building win and is totally fearless.

3113
02:41:21,120 --> 02:41:24,000
Speaker 1: I actually think that the Niners are on upset alert.

3114
02:41:24,080 --> 02:41:26,280
Speaker 1: They have never been there before. Their coach, they're at

3115
02:41:26,320 --> 02:41:29,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback any of them, and the Vikings house money.

3116
02:41:29,400 --> 02:41:31,440
Speaker 1: I love that game this weekend. Yeah, And I like

3117
02:41:31,560 --> 02:41:34,440
Speaker 1: the way you know, Kirk Cousins responded, and you like too.

3118
02:41:34,520 --> 02:41:36,640
Speaker 1: And I remember with Steve Young back in the day

3119
02:41:36,640 --> 02:41:38,280
Speaker 1: when he finally won a Super Bowl after being in

3120
02:41:38,360 --> 02:41:42,119
Speaker 1: Joe Montana's shadow, and Kirk Cousins making all the money

3121
02:41:42,160 --> 02:41:44,680
Speaker 1: in Washington, going to Minnesota and signing the fact contract

3122
02:41:44,720 --> 02:41:46,600
Speaker 1: and never winning on Monday nine and having all this

3123
02:41:46,640 --> 02:41:48,400
Speaker 1: stuff go against him and all of a sudden getting

3124
02:41:48,400 --> 02:41:52,199
Speaker 1: that burden lifted. That kind of gives you a little

3125
02:41:52,200 --> 02:41:54,840
Speaker 1: bit of juice coming into this game in San Francisco.

3126
02:41:55,120 --> 02:41:57,960
Speaker 1: San Francisco is a big time opponent, no question, but

3127
02:41:58,080 --> 02:42:01,160
Speaker 1: man oh man, the Vikings are gonna be sailing in

3128
02:42:01,200 --> 02:42:03,800
Speaker 1: there and their little wooden ship with the little dragonhead

3129
02:42:03,840 --> 02:42:05,760
Speaker 1: on the front. They're gonna feel pretty good about both

3130
02:42:06,040 --> 02:42:08,440
Speaker 1: right when the row listen. I feel the same way

3131
02:42:08,480 --> 02:42:10,960
Speaker 1: you do, task and I feel the same way about

3132
02:42:11,000 --> 02:42:13,879
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. If you think the Vikings and momentum

3133
02:42:14,320 --> 02:42:17,360
Speaker 1: the Titans just stake the vampire. They might have just

3134
02:42:17,600 --> 02:42:20,640
Speaker 1: ended the dynasty, and they have the hottest player in

3135
02:42:20,680 --> 02:42:23,280
Speaker 1: the tournament. We watched the NCAA tournament every year. We

3136
02:42:23,400 --> 02:42:27,200
Speaker 1: remember Mattine Cleaves and Steph Curry and Taius Eddy. Those

3137
02:42:27,200 --> 02:42:29,280
Speaker 1: are the guys that we might have a better team

3138
02:42:29,360 --> 02:42:31,400
Speaker 1: than you. But you have a guy in Derek Henry.

3139
02:42:31,400 --> 02:42:33,000
Speaker 1: You can put forty eight points on us or in

3140
02:42:33,040 --> 02:42:35,560
Speaker 1: this case, two hundred yards Like I really like the

3141
02:42:35,680 --> 02:42:38,160
Speaker 1: Titans this weekend in Baltimore too, because they don't have

3142
02:42:38,200 --> 02:42:40,440
Speaker 1: a lot of experience on that end for their offense

3143
02:42:40,480 --> 02:42:43,080
Speaker 1: and their defense. I like the Vikings and I like

3144
02:42:43,280 --> 02:42:46,160
Speaker 1: the Titans. It's nuts, but I do well. Kyle, My

3145
02:42:46,240 --> 02:42:49,280
Speaker 1: amateur diagnosis is, as an amateur Bills fan, you need

3146
02:42:49,280 --> 02:42:51,040
Speaker 1: a little more time to get over what happened in

3147
02:42:51,600 --> 02:42:53,840
Speaker 1: Houston three four days ago. Is that right? Can we

3148
02:42:53,959 --> 02:42:57,040
Speaker 1: check with you next week? Listen, my amateur. My wife

3149
02:42:57,160 --> 02:42:59,440
Speaker 1: is furious in me. I jumped off the counter under

3150
02:42:59,480 --> 02:43:01,720
Speaker 1: our kitchen table and broke the thing. And that was

3151
02:43:01,800 --> 02:43:03,760
Speaker 1: in the first half. It was lost the game, and

3152
02:43:03,800 --> 02:43:05,920
Speaker 1: then I got to fix the table. It wasn't as

3153
02:43:05,959 --> 02:43:10,640
Speaker 1: long as the table's not on fire. You're still okay. Yeah, Hey, Kyle,

3154
02:43:10,760 --> 02:43:13,080
Speaker 1: thanks for this. We'll talk. Thank you. You guys are

3155
02:43:13,080 --> 02:43:16,000
Speaker 1: the best assure. Kyle Brand, NFL Network co host of

3156
02:43:16,040 --> 02:43:19,480
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football. He's still hurting. You're still hurting. I'm

3157
02:43:19,520 --> 02:43:21,040
Speaker 1: trying to get over it. Come on, man, we need

3158
02:43:21,040 --> 02:43:22,760
Speaker 1: a little we need we need to talk to somebody

3159
02:43:22,760 --> 02:43:25,040
Speaker 1: who's gonna get us over the home. You know what

3160
02:43:25,160 --> 02:43:27,640
Speaker 1: occurred to me in the last break and we talk

3161
02:43:27,680 --> 02:43:29,880
Speaker 1: about how you and how this pain is gonna be

3162
02:43:30,000 --> 02:43:33,040
Speaker 1: turned into growth. Sean mcshan McDermott talking about how the

3163
02:43:33,120 --> 02:43:35,360
Speaker 1: pain needs to you need to focus on it. Someone.

3164
02:43:35,400 --> 02:43:38,080
Speaker 1: I remember, you know what came about to me. I

3165
02:43:38,200 --> 02:43:40,600
Speaker 1: remember walking off the field and all those bad games.

3166
02:43:41,240 --> 02:43:43,520
Speaker 1: And you take that pain and you bawl it up

3167
02:43:43,560 --> 02:43:45,360
Speaker 1: and you swallow it and you let it fester and

3168
02:43:45,480 --> 02:43:48,000
Speaker 1: you turn it into fuel for revenge. And you're gonna

3169
02:43:48,040 --> 02:43:50,280
Speaker 1: take your revenge out on the league and the next

3170
02:43:50,400 --> 02:43:52,280
Speaker 1: person that lines up against you in the next game,

3171
02:43:52,440 --> 02:43:54,680
Speaker 1: and you're gonna carry it through all the way until

3172
02:43:54,720 --> 02:43:58,520
Speaker 1: you get a chance to get revenge, until it feels

3173
02:43:58,560 --> 02:44:01,160
Speaker 1: like you've put that to and it takes a lot.

3174
02:44:01,320 --> 02:44:03,040
Speaker 1: And I think that's what these players are going to

3175
02:44:03,120 --> 02:44:04,680
Speaker 1: do is what you and I don't get to do

3176
02:44:04,760 --> 02:44:07,040
Speaker 1: it because who are we going to take revenge on rights?

3177
02:44:07,160 --> 02:44:10,039
Speaker 1: But the players and the coaches, they're all gonna baul

3178
02:44:10,120 --> 02:44:13,600
Speaker 1: this up. And when you wake up in the morning

3179
02:44:13,640 --> 02:44:16,640
Speaker 1: in the off season, it gets you out of bed,

3180
02:44:17,120 --> 02:44:20,160
Speaker 1: It gets you to the gym and you're sitting there

3181
02:44:20,680 --> 02:44:24,800
Speaker 1: working out and you're just staring into space doing exercises,

3182
02:44:24,959 --> 02:44:29,880
Speaker 1: thinking about taking it out on somebody. You really are,

3183
02:44:30,080 --> 02:44:32,400
Speaker 1: You'd spend months doing it. You just take it out

3184
02:44:32,440 --> 02:44:36,400
Speaker 1: on somebody and you come back better for it, You

3185
02:44:36,480 --> 02:44:38,400
Speaker 1: really do. We'll talk more about that. What's the most

3186
02:44:38,520 --> 02:44:40,959
Speaker 1: encouraging part of the Bills twenty nineteen season. Give us

3187
02:44:41,000 --> 02:44:45,280
Speaker 1: a call eight three fifty to three, eight five fifty two,

3188
02:44:45,320 --> 02:44:48,200
Speaker 1: five fifty one Bills Live, presented by Kalada Health from

3189
02:44:48,240 --> 02:44:51,360
Speaker 1: the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills

3190
02:44:51,440 --> 02:45:07,000
Speaker 1: Radio back John Murphy, Steve Tasker, Chris Brown's going to

3191
02:45:07,120 --> 02:45:09,280
Speaker 1: join us at two o'clock. Let's uh, let's take a

3192
02:45:09,320 --> 02:45:11,040
Speaker 1: few phone calls, see what's on your mind. Let's go

3193
02:45:11,160 --> 02:45:14,000
Speaker 1: to Bill in Batavia. Hello, Bill, go ahead, you're on

3194
02:45:14,040 --> 02:45:21,000
Speaker 1: the air. Bill, How are you doing today. Good. What

3195
02:45:21,120 --> 02:45:24,400
Speaker 1: can we do for you? Bill? Hey? Uh? Yeah, you

3196
02:45:24,480 --> 02:45:26,920
Speaker 1: know what. I'm six years old and I've pretty much

3197
02:45:27,000 --> 02:45:32,080
Speaker 1: been a Bills fan since I could walk. Okay, they talk,

3198
02:45:32,200 --> 02:45:37,760
Speaker 1: but it was definitely since they started walking. This team

3199
02:45:37,840 --> 02:45:41,440
Speaker 1: is special, uh, I mean it really is. But go

3200
02:45:41,600 --> 02:45:45,200
Speaker 1: to go your Twitter poll. Yeah, I truly believe that

3201
02:45:45,440 --> 02:45:49,000
Speaker 1: all of those apply, you know, without a doubt, because

3202
02:45:49,000 --> 02:45:51,840
Speaker 1: I think one works off the other. Yeah. And but

3203
02:45:52,000 --> 02:45:54,680
Speaker 1: of course in my mind, I think Josh made the

3204
02:45:54,760 --> 02:45:58,360
Speaker 1: best strides of anybody. I mean, this kid is amazing. Man.

3205
02:45:58,560 --> 02:46:03,600
Speaker 1: We are absolutely blessed. Haven't on our team? I think, well, okay, um,

3206
02:46:04,840 --> 02:46:08,160
Speaker 1: amazing is a strong word. But look, I think you're right,

3207
02:46:08,280 --> 02:46:10,360
Speaker 1: and I think the best way to look at that

3208
02:46:10,560 --> 02:46:13,840
Speaker 1: and maybe the strongest argument for and by the way,

3209
02:46:13,879 --> 02:46:16,640
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll is what's the most encouraging part of

3210
02:46:16,760 --> 02:46:20,160
Speaker 1: the Bills twenty nineteen season, And we offer Josh Allen's

3211
02:46:20,200 --> 02:46:24,400
Speaker 1: development as maybe the number one most encouraging part. And

3212
02:46:24,520 --> 02:46:27,280
Speaker 1: that's what fans are responding to. Fifty fifty two percent

3213
02:46:27,360 --> 02:46:29,640
Speaker 1: say Josh Allen makes progress. If you think back on it,

3214
02:46:30,480 --> 02:46:32,120
Speaker 1: there are many people who said, look, I don't care

3215
02:46:32,160 --> 02:46:34,240
Speaker 1: how many games they win. Of course they do. I

3216
02:46:34,280 --> 02:46:36,600
Speaker 1: don't care if they win ten games or eight games

3217
02:46:36,680 --> 02:46:38,680
Speaker 1: or seven games. They only won six a year ago.

3218
02:46:39,000 --> 02:46:40,720
Speaker 1: But this year is all about Josh. And if you

3219
02:46:40,800 --> 02:46:43,120
Speaker 1: believe this year is all about Josh, you'd have to say, Okay,

3220
02:46:43,240 --> 02:46:45,920
Speaker 1: Josh took strides, you took steps forward, Steve. Here's a

3221
02:46:45,959 --> 02:46:49,480
Speaker 1: big reason they won ten games, no question about it. Um.

3222
02:46:49,720 --> 02:46:52,200
Speaker 1: But there's another thing here. I want to say, go

3223
02:46:52,240 --> 02:46:55,039
Speaker 1: ahead and go ahead, okay, as far as the game,

3224
02:46:56,040 --> 02:46:57,640
Speaker 1: I'm comment down a little bit. I've been waiting for

3225
02:46:57,680 --> 02:47:00,440
Speaker 1: a while and I'm out front out here. You know,

3226
02:47:00,680 --> 02:47:04,400
Speaker 1: that game was devastating. It was devastating to fans, to

3227
02:47:04,680 --> 02:47:07,480
Speaker 1: you know, imagine the players. God, we love those guys.

3228
02:47:07,560 --> 02:47:10,840
Speaker 1: I wanted them to win for them and us. But

3229
02:47:11,280 --> 02:47:14,359
Speaker 1: you know, the sack, the no sack was huge. Obviously

3230
02:47:14,440 --> 02:47:17,000
Speaker 1: it was overtime, right, could have made a huge difference.

3231
02:47:17,760 --> 02:47:21,760
Speaker 1: But in my mind, you're up sixteen points, sixteen points

3232
02:47:21,840 --> 02:47:26,800
Speaker 1: with six minutes in the third quarter, and there's normally

3233
02:47:26,840 --> 02:47:30,119
Speaker 1: a three score deal right there, right, you need two scores,

3234
02:47:30,280 --> 02:47:34,320
Speaker 1: two touchdowns to two point conversions. Yeah, go ahead, Bill,

3235
02:47:34,600 --> 02:47:38,519
Speaker 1: But because we let them get to two point conversions

3236
02:47:38,640 --> 02:47:41,160
Speaker 1: back to back and let them. They play defense on

3237
02:47:41,240 --> 02:47:43,560
Speaker 1: those conversions. But they but how do you how do

3238
02:47:43,640 --> 02:47:46,240
Speaker 1: you how do you give up those two two pointers?

3239
02:47:46,360 --> 02:47:48,800
Speaker 1: Back saw how they did it. They threw up one

3240
02:47:48,840 --> 02:47:52,360
Speaker 1: pass to DeAndre Hopkins and uh Deshaun Watson ran it

3241
02:47:52,440 --> 02:47:54,920
Speaker 1: in from two yards out. I mean, there's there's no

3242
02:47:55,120 --> 02:47:59,000
Speaker 1: mystery there. Look, two point conversions are They're not automatic,

3243
02:47:59,120 --> 02:48:01,920
Speaker 1: but they're not the possible either, Right, they count. There

3244
02:48:01,959 --> 02:48:06,120
Speaker 1: are two point conversions. You don't have nothing to say, No,

3245
02:48:06,360 --> 02:48:09,480
Speaker 1: I listen, Yeah, that's throw that on the list of

3246
02:48:09,640 --> 02:48:11,640
Speaker 1: plays that would have made a difference. Yeah, you can

3247
02:48:11,840 --> 02:48:13,880
Speaker 1: throw on the last field goal that they kick to

3248
02:48:13,920 --> 02:48:16,640
Speaker 1: win the game in overtime to the list too. If

3249
02:48:16,680 --> 02:48:18,880
Speaker 1: that kick misses, the Bills get it, they're going the

3250
02:48:18,920 --> 02:48:20,720
Speaker 1: other way and here we go. I mean, and all

3251
02:48:20,720 --> 02:48:23,960
Speaker 1: the players up to that point are meaningless. So yeah,

3252
02:48:24,480 --> 02:48:27,280
Speaker 1: that's two more played that both two point conversions could

3253
02:48:27,320 --> 02:48:31,360
Speaker 1: have made an enormous difference in that game. So there

3254
02:48:31,440 --> 02:48:33,560
Speaker 1: you go. Let's go to Dominic in New York City.

3255
02:48:33,600 --> 02:48:38,840
Speaker 1: Hello Dominic? Hello, Hey, how you doing guys? Okay? All right,

3256
02:48:38,879 --> 02:48:41,240
Speaker 1: so yeah, what I was most you know, encouraged about

3257
02:48:41,280 --> 02:48:43,760
Speaker 1: this year is how young our team was Josh Allen's

3258
02:48:43,840 --> 02:48:47,760
Speaker 1: second year from Edmonds, you know, second year and the

3259
02:48:47,840 --> 02:48:50,400
Speaker 1: way they played, you know, it's just so much to

3260
02:48:50,440 --> 02:48:52,440
Speaker 1: look forward to what they're going to grow to in

3261
02:48:52,840 --> 02:48:54,680
Speaker 1: the draft picks. We have, the cap space we have,

3262
02:48:55,120 --> 02:48:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, that's very encourage and to go ten and

3263
02:48:57,160 --> 02:48:58,720
Speaker 1: six with a young team like this and what we

3264
02:48:58,800 --> 02:49:03,160
Speaker 1: have nine news offensive players that appeared to last year. Yep,

3265
02:49:03,280 --> 02:49:05,200
Speaker 1: I have a season like this to make the playoffs.

3266
02:49:05,440 --> 02:49:08,160
Speaker 1: You know, hey, I haven't spent a Christmas since I've

3267
02:49:08,200 --> 02:49:10,200
Speaker 1: been watching where I knew that we were in the playoffs,

3268
02:49:10,200 --> 02:49:13,240
Speaker 1: so that that felt pretty good. So yeah, there's a

3269
02:49:13,280 --> 02:49:14,840
Speaker 1: lot to be happy about and a lot to look

3270
02:49:14,879 --> 02:49:18,080
Speaker 1: forward to, and and that does kind of help you

3271
02:49:18,200 --> 02:49:20,000
Speaker 1: get over the you know, the pain of losing a

3272
02:49:20,040 --> 02:49:23,080
Speaker 1: game where you had a huge opportunity this season, I

3273
02:49:23,200 --> 02:49:26,600
Speaker 1: said it when they made it, you know, don't just

3274
02:49:26,760 --> 02:49:30,480
Speaker 1: be happy, you know, making progress like with a ten

3275
02:49:30,520 --> 02:49:32,440
Speaker 1: win season doing it this is you've got to take

3276
02:49:32,520 --> 02:49:34,840
Speaker 1: every chance. Every year you get an opportunity like this,

3277
02:49:34,879 --> 02:49:37,320
Speaker 1: you got to maximize it. And it feels, you know,

3278
02:49:37,480 --> 02:49:41,720
Speaker 1: still feels like a huge missed chance, blown opportunity at

3279
02:49:41,760 --> 02:49:44,640
Speaker 1: this point, but you know, you've you've put you spent

3280
02:49:44,720 --> 02:49:47,720
Speaker 1: it right. You're right. It's a young team with a

3281
02:49:47,800 --> 02:49:51,520
Speaker 1: lot of assets going forward to get even better, with

3282
02:49:51,680 --> 02:49:53,879
Speaker 1: a general manager and a head coach that have proven

3283
02:49:53,920 --> 02:49:56,120
Speaker 1: that they know how to do that. So it'll be

3284
02:49:56,200 --> 02:49:58,400
Speaker 1: fun to watch them again. Sure will Hey want to

3285
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3293
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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from Seneca Studio on Archard Park. This

3294
02:50:24,800 --> 02:50:39,440
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio One, Bill Side, John Murphy, Steve

3295
02:50:39,480 --> 02:50:41,640
Speaker 1: Tansker here until three o'clock today, we've got Chris brown

3296
02:50:41,720 --> 02:50:43,920
Speaker 1: coming into two. Brownie will talk to us about what

3297
02:50:44,000 --> 02:50:47,119
Speaker 1: we heard today from Sean McDermott and Brandon bean Well.

3298
02:50:47,160 --> 02:50:48,560
Speaker 1: Here from you for a minute or two. The most

3299
02:50:48,640 --> 02:50:52,720
Speaker 1: encouraging part of the season. Let's go to Bob and Cheetawaga. Hello, Bob, welcome,

3300
02:50:52,760 --> 02:50:55,400
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hi guys number one.

3301
02:50:55,440 --> 02:50:57,280
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you Bollith for making my

3302
02:50:57,480 --> 02:51:00,440
Speaker 1: season fun and listening to you. Oh, you're welcome. That's

3303
02:51:00,520 --> 02:51:02,720
Speaker 1: very nice. Thank you, And I also want to say

3304
02:51:03,120 --> 02:51:06,879
Speaker 1: ten wins. That just pumps me up. I'm a season

3305
02:51:07,000 --> 02:51:10,560
Speaker 1: ticket older. I know they've lost the game. It tad

3306
02:51:10,680 --> 02:51:12,440
Speaker 1: fun me. I mean it took a day to get

3307
02:51:12,520 --> 02:51:14,640
Speaker 1: over it, or so much I look at it. You

3308
02:51:14,760 --> 02:51:17,920
Speaker 1: do that again next year, ten wins. You could take

3309
02:51:18,000 --> 02:51:20,360
Speaker 1: the division and then you're playing that game at home,

3310
02:51:21,080 --> 02:51:23,440
Speaker 1: and I'm going to look forward to it that way.

3311
02:51:23,959 --> 02:51:28,000
Speaker 1: And that's just how I feel. That's my positive out

3312
02:51:28,040 --> 02:51:30,800
Speaker 1: of it is this team's gitting better and better. I

3313
02:51:30,959 --> 02:51:33,400
Speaker 1: here you, Bob, that's a good pointed to be the

3314
02:51:33,560 --> 02:51:36,520
Speaker 1: perspective Stephen. Going from six wins to ten wins, that's

3315
02:51:36,560 --> 02:51:39,840
Speaker 1: important to make note of it. It's not enough. Wasn't

3316
02:51:39,920 --> 02:51:42,120
Speaker 1: enough this year ten wins alone in a wild card

3317
02:51:42,160 --> 02:51:45,120
Speaker 1: berth wasn't enough, and clearly everybody's disappointed by that. But

3318
02:51:45,600 --> 02:51:47,520
Speaker 1: take a half step back, take a full step back,

3319
02:51:47,560 --> 02:51:49,600
Speaker 1: and say, wow, the team that won six games last

3320
02:51:49,640 --> 02:51:51,920
Speaker 1: year won ten this year. It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

3321
02:51:52,800 --> 02:51:55,280
Speaker 1: They're much better football team, Yeah, much better, and they

3322
02:51:55,680 --> 02:51:59,080
Speaker 1: seem poised to be even better. That's just gonna take

3323
02:51:59,120 --> 02:52:01,760
Speaker 1: work and sign the right guys and have the right

3324
02:52:01,840 --> 02:52:03,400
Speaker 1: things happen for them. The guys they've got to have,

3325
02:52:03,480 --> 02:52:06,040
Speaker 1: got to continue to improve. But it's certainly a roster

3326
02:52:06,120 --> 02:52:07,640
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to and they're gonna have to

3327
02:52:07,680 --> 02:52:09,119
Speaker 1: fill some holes. I don't think they're gonna be able

3328
02:52:09,120 --> 02:52:14,560
Speaker 1: to resign all these guys. We'll see, yeah, we'll see.

3329
02:52:14,600 --> 02:52:17,640
Speaker 1: It's it's certainly fun to think about, and it's a

3330
02:52:17,720 --> 02:52:19,240
Speaker 1: nice place to be in if you're the Buffalo. But

3331
02:52:19,320 --> 02:52:21,960
Speaker 1: you feel like you're got a solid foundation for a

3332
02:52:22,000 --> 02:52:25,480
Speaker 1: team to take to take another step forward. I mean,

3333
02:52:25,520 --> 02:52:27,280
Speaker 1: what do you think the Jets and Miami Dolphins are

3334
02:52:27,320 --> 02:52:29,480
Speaker 1: looking at Buffalo now? You think they're thinking the Buffalo

3335
02:52:29,520 --> 02:52:31,320
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna be like, Okay, that's a win here

3336
02:52:31,360 --> 02:52:34,000
Speaker 1: and a win there. There's no way you know they

3337
02:52:34,280 --> 02:52:35,960
Speaker 1: now they're also in that looking at him like, oh,

3338
02:52:36,440 --> 02:52:38,600
Speaker 1: we don't have a chance against those guys, right, And

3339
02:52:39,000 --> 02:52:42,320
Speaker 1: plus you know with the Jets, Jets Dolphins. They're looking

3340
02:52:42,360 --> 02:52:44,440
Speaker 1: at the Patriots going to finally you know, those guys

3341
02:52:44,480 --> 02:52:46,040
Speaker 1: are going to be out of the way theoretically, and

3342
02:52:46,120 --> 02:52:49,280
Speaker 1: that everybody, everybody in the conference is thinking that we're

3343
02:52:49,320 --> 02:52:51,520
Speaker 1: waiting to watch the other shoe drop into England. But

3344
02:52:51,920 --> 02:52:56,600
Speaker 1: this is a team that's poised, yeah, not only taking it.

3345
02:52:56,640 --> 02:52:59,560
Speaker 1: And I don't think, well, think about it. I'm not

3346
02:52:59,760 --> 02:53:01,440
Speaker 1: thinking and this team gonna take a baby step four.

3347
02:53:01,440 --> 02:53:03,720
Speaker 1: You know, look, they need to take a step. Yeah,

3348
02:53:03,800 --> 02:53:07,560
Speaker 1: they need to like like jump, you know, yeah, they

3349
02:53:07,640 --> 02:53:10,640
Speaker 1: need to like, yeah, we're we're the team to beat.

3350
02:53:10,920 --> 02:53:12,360
Speaker 1: You know, that's where you want to see him get

3351
02:53:12,400 --> 02:53:15,000
Speaker 1: to next that's the next step. You have a home playoff,

3352
02:53:15,000 --> 02:53:17,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna come through here, you know, to get to

3353
02:53:17,560 --> 02:53:19,080
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. You don't have to beat us in

3354
02:53:19,160 --> 02:53:21,360
Speaker 1: our joint to win the super Bowl. That's the that's

3355
02:53:21,400 --> 02:53:24,480
Speaker 1: a step anything. I mean, ten wins, that's not a step.

3356
02:53:24,600 --> 02:53:28,280
Speaker 1: That's a shuffle sideways from six to ten is not

3357
02:53:28,360 --> 02:53:30,520
Speaker 1: a step. No, I'm talking from this year to next year. Yeah,

3358
02:53:30,560 --> 02:53:32,080
Speaker 1: to get ten wins next year is not a step.

3359
02:53:32,160 --> 02:53:36,200
Speaker 1: That's not a step, right, you know you you come on, man,

3360
02:53:36,480 --> 02:53:39,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hear it. It's got a Chuck in Hamburg, Golo, Chuck,

3361
02:53:39,240 --> 02:53:42,920
Speaker 1: you're on the air, Yeah, Buss, Are you Steve happy

3362
02:53:42,959 --> 02:53:46,960
Speaker 1: new Yeah, Chuck. Yeah. The most encouraging part of the

3363
02:53:47,000 --> 02:53:51,199
Speaker 1: bill season is they maximized what they had to work

3364
02:53:51,280 --> 02:53:56,920
Speaker 1: with two get to the playoffs. They took a schedule

3365
02:53:57,000 --> 02:54:00,960
Speaker 1: at the NFL gave him and they ended up in

3366
02:54:01,000 --> 02:54:05,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs with it. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough coaching

3367
02:54:06,200 --> 02:54:09,160
Speaker 1: or players to take them to the next step. When

3368
02:54:09,200 --> 02:54:11,840
Speaker 1: you lose a sixteen point lead in the third quarter,

3369
02:54:14,240 --> 02:54:17,720
Speaker 1: it's just not encouraging. Yeah. Real encouraging part is the

3370
02:54:17,840 --> 02:54:23,080
Speaker 1: Pagoulas will not have any trouble selling season tickets next year. Yeah.

3371
02:54:23,600 --> 02:54:28,560
Speaker 1: Well that yeah, I mean that's right. Yeah. I mean

3372
02:54:28,560 --> 02:54:31,840
Speaker 1: if that's what you're after, Yeah, you can apply for

3373
02:54:31,879 --> 02:54:33,720
Speaker 1: a ticket office job and you know that when the

3374
02:54:33,760 --> 02:54:36,880
Speaker 1: team's good. Yeah, nobody has trouble selling tickets to a

3375
02:54:36,959 --> 02:54:40,200
Speaker 1: ten win team. Here's a call from Pat in North Town.

3376
02:54:40,240 --> 02:54:44,800
Speaker 1: I wanta hello Pat. Yeah, hello guys. Yeah, it was

3377
02:54:44,879 --> 02:54:48,880
Speaker 1: a super encouraging year. And it's kind of like what

3378
02:54:49,000 --> 02:54:51,800
Speaker 1: their last call and said, we want a long ways

3379
02:54:51,879 --> 02:54:57,760
Speaker 1: with you know, with a short product. I was really encouraged.

3380
02:54:58,600 --> 02:55:02,480
Speaker 1: You know, with Josh and the coaching staff, I just

3381
02:55:02,680 --> 02:55:04,920
Speaker 1: wish right at the end of the game as the

3382
02:55:05,000 --> 02:55:07,160
Speaker 1: two minute warning, I didn't have a chance to call

3383
02:55:07,200 --> 02:55:10,040
Speaker 1: it yesterday was they were asking for the biggest place

3384
02:55:10,640 --> 02:55:14,160
Speaker 1: and when Alan snuck, when he stuck around him, he

3385
02:55:14,200 --> 02:55:16,120
Speaker 1: got the first down. I think we were on the

3386
02:55:16,200 --> 02:55:18,680
Speaker 1: twenty eight yard line or something. We had the field

3387
02:55:18,680 --> 02:55:21,119
Speaker 1: goal pretty much in bad I was hoping they would

3388
02:55:21,120 --> 02:55:23,320
Speaker 1: have ran the ball there and went to the two

3389
02:55:23,400 --> 02:55:26,480
Speaker 1: minute warning and pulled him on the side and been

3390
02:55:26,560 --> 02:55:29,640
Speaker 1: able to talk to Josh because I just think it

3391
02:55:29,800 --> 02:55:32,119
Speaker 1: got too big for him in that moment. And I'm

3392
02:55:32,200 --> 02:55:35,320
Speaker 1: not blaming Josh or I kind of went in the

3393
02:55:35,360 --> 02:55:37,360
Speaker 1: coaching staff from that. I wish they had scored it

3394
02:55:37,440 --> 02:55:40,400
Speaker 1: down a bit, scripted a couple of plays for him

3395
02:55:40,840 --> 02:55:43,320
Speaker 1: and went from there. And I'll hang up and I

3396
02:55:43,440 --> 02:55:45,240
Speaker 1: listen to your comment. Yeah, I mean that seems to

3397
02:55:45,280 --> 02:55:50,600
Speaker 1: be a common thread. We've seen the Bills fans have

3398
02:55:50,680 --> 02:55:53,600
Speaker 1: watched Josh since his first snaps in the second half

3399
02:55:53,640 --> 02:55:56,400
Speaker 1: of Week one in twenty seventeen when he took over

3400
02:55:56,480 --> 02:56:00,600
Speaker 1: for Nathan Peterman and Rainstorm in Baltimore, and we've watched

3401
02:56:00,720 --> 02:56:05,080
Speaker 1: him grow and regress and grow and regress and grow

3402
02:56:05,160 --> 02:56:08,520
Speaker 1: and grow and do all that. And in that moment,

3403
02:56:08,600 --> 02:56:10,320
Speaker 1: we all saw the same thing. In that moment, he

3404
02:56:10,760 --> 02:56:14,240
Speaker 1: went back to his rookie quarterback self and tried to

3405
02:56:14,360 --> 02:56:16,360
Speaker 1: win it every snap and every time he touched the

3406
02:56:16,440 --> 02:56:20,480
Speaker 1: ball with some desperation, outlandish athletic play. He could see

3407
02:56:20,520 --> 02:56:22,880
Speaker 1: his emotions kind of take over in Saturday's games. In

3408
02:56:22,920 --> 02:56:24,800
Speaker 1: Saturday's game, where was it? And the last part of

3409
02:56:24,840 --> 02:56:27,200
Speaker 1: the game, well with the lateral and now I'm talked

3410
02:56:27,240 --> 02:56:29,600
Speaker 1: talking to so much about the quarterback sneak, but they

3411
02:56:29,680 --> 02:56:31,920
Speaker 1: added the kind of thing where he's trying where he

3412
02:56:32,120 --> 02:56:35,080
Speaker 1: takes a nineteen yard sack, when he's trying to stay alive,

3413
02:56:35,120 --> 02:56:37,520
Speaker 1: all the stuff that he hasn't done for a while.

3414
02:56:37,840 --> 02:56:39,560
Speaker 1: We saw him regress a little bit. Yeah, I agree.

3415
02:56:39,600 --> 02:56:41,080
Speaker 1: I told you I watched he would be a common

3416
02:56:41,160 --> 02:56:43,160
Speaker 1: theme for people. I watched the game over again yesterday

3417
02:56:43,160 --> 02:56:45,640
Speaker 1: and and tried to find the point where he regrets

3418
02:56:45,720 --> 02:56:48,720
Speaker 1: and where he went back to making bad decisions. And

3419
02:56:48,959 --> 02:56:50,760
Speaker 1: there's no one point, you know what I mean? There

3420
02:56:50,879 --> 02:56:53,800
Speaker 1: was no one point. There were a couple of questionable decisions,

3421
02:56:53,879 --> 02:56:56,080
Speaker 1: but not really bad decisions. Then it all sort of

3422
02:56:56,120 --> 02:56:58,800
Speaker 1: got bad in the fourth quarter, but in an effort,

3423
02:56:58,840 --> 02:57:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, like the caller, I wanted to talk about

3424
02:57:01,040 --> 02:57:03,080
Speaker 1: a particular time when he rushed for a first down,

3425
02:57:03,120 --> 02:57:04,920
Speaker 1: they should have called a time out there. And I

3426
02:57:05,000 --> 02:57:07,200
Speaker 1: don't know that that was a point. I don't know

3427
02:57:07,240 --> 02:57:08,959
Speaker 1: if there was a point where it was like, oh,

3428
02:57:09,200 --> 02:57:11,560
Speaker 1: Josh is getting off the radar here, we better ring

3429
02:57:11,640 --> 02:57:13,760
Speaker 1: him in, right think and for that reason, and I

3430
02:57:14,240 --> 02:57:16,240
Speaker 1: went through the same thing as a caller did, where

3431
02:57:16,240 --> 02:57:18,280
Speaker 1: you think after the game, and it's all you're kind

3432
02:57:18,280 --> 02:57:20,440
Speaker 1: of trying to digest in your thinking what they should

3433
02:57:20,440 --> 02:57:22,160
Speaker 1: have done, what they could have done, And you always

3434
02:57:22,320 --> 02:57:25,640
Speaker 1: tell yourself at some point you just pull Josh aside,

3435
02:57:25,720 --> 02:57:29,240
Speaker 1: a coaching staff or somebody to pull him aside and say, hey, bro,

3436
02:57:29,680 --> 02:57:31,560
Speaker 1: just take a deep breath and remember you don't have

3437
02:57:31,680 --> 02:57:32,959
Speaker 1: to win it with him, you know. I mean, it's

3438
02:57:32,959 --> 02:57:34,560
Speaker 1: just remind him of all that. And I don't know

3439
02:57:34,640 --> 02:57:37,040
Speaker 1: that they did not do that. Yeah, you know, but

3440
02:57:37,160 --> 02:57:40,040
Speaker 1: you always feel like if there's something that the coach

3441
02:57:40,080 --> 02:57:42,360
Speaker 1: has missed that you just gotta peel Josh off the

3442
02:57:42,440 --> 02:57:44,920
Speaker 1: ceiling once in a while. And you know what else,

3443
02:57:45,000 --> 02:57:46,560
Speaker 1: It just strikes me now that I think of it,

3444
02:57:46,640 --> 02:57:48,240
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying I would do this, but this

3445
02:57:48,440 --> 02:57:50,840
Speaker 1: is what you missed when you send his number one coach,

3446
02:57:51,000 --> 02:57:54,400
Speaker 1: Brian Day Bob upstairs, just that personal, like a guy

3447
02:57:54,440 --> 02:57:56,720
Speaker 1: that said, remember there were times this year, earlier this

3448
02:57:56,840 --> 02:58:00,080
Speaker 1: year when Dabo was sitting on the sidelines and they

3449
02:58:00,080 --> 02:58:03,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't animated. Yeah, yeah, that opportunity has gone when Brian

3450
02:58:03,800 --> 02:58:06,720
Speaker 1: is upstairs thinking about it like that. Maybe it was

3451
02:58:06,760 --> 02:58:09,240
Speaker 1: an asset when he went upstairs, so he didn't do that. Well,

3452
02:58:09,280 --> 02:58:11,520
Speaker 1: maybe that was good. Yeah, and maybe at this point

3453
02:58:11,640 --> 02:58:13,200
Speaker 1: you wish he had somebody and maybe it would be

3454
02:58:13,280 --> 02:58:15,879
Speaker 1: the quarterback coach, you know, Ken Dorsey could come over,

3455
02:58:16,000 --> 02:58:18,280
Speaker 1: was hey, bro, just calm down now, listen, we don't

3456
02:58:18,280 --> 02:58:19,920
Speaker 1: have to win this on every snap. Just stay on

3457
02:58:20,000 --> 02:58:22,080
Speaker 1: the you know whatever, given whatever message we think he

3458
02:58:22,120 --> 02:58:24,760
Speaker 1: should have been given, um and listen, there's a million

3459
02:58:24,800 --> 02:58:26,600
Speaker 1: things going on in that moment and the clock's ticking,

3460
02:58:26,720 --> 02:58:28,480
Speaker 1: so you know, to take a moment to do that.

3461
02:58:29,000 --> 02:58:31,960
Speaker 1: Maybe that's farther down the pole, and maybe it's been

3462
02:58:32,000 --> 02:58:33,640
Speaker 1: gone so long they didn't think about that being an

3463
02:58:33,680 --> 02:58:36,080
Speaker 1: issue anymore, right, But certainly I think that's been a

3464
02:58:36,120 --> 02:58:38,280
Speaker 1: common theme. I guess is what we're saying. And like

3465
02:58:38,360 --> 02:58:42,880
Speaker 1: the caller said, Josh seemed to just you know, get

3466
02:58:43,560 --> 02:58:45,440
Speaker 1: but they can't find the spot where they happened and

3467
02:58:45,480 --> 02:58:47,560
Speaker 1: maybe there was no one exactly and that and maybe

3468
02:58:47,600 --> 02:58:49,960
Speaker 1: that's why they didn't talk to him, because there wasn't

3469
02:58:49,959 --> 02:58:51,600
Speaker 1: a one spot. Like all right, a break. Here, we're

3470
02:58:51,600 --> 02:58:54,520
Speaker 1: back with more one Bill Slide from the Seneca Studio

3471
02:58:54,560 --> 02:59:09,280
Speaker 1: on Orchard Park on Buffalo Bill's Radio under Flave, John Murphy,

3472
02:59:09,360 --> 02:59:11,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here until three o'clive getting another hour to

3473
02:59:12,000 --> 02:59:14,520
Speaker 1: go here around the show, we're talking about Josh Allen

3474
02:59:14,640 --> 02:59:18,240
Speaker 1: and uh caller's issue in their opinions. Sean McDermott met

3475
02:59:18,320 --> 02:59:21,440
Speaker 1: with the media today. He talked about Josh Allen. He

3476
02:59:21,600 --> 02:59:23,400
Speaker 1: was asked what he'd like to see Josh Allen work

3477
02:59:23,520 --> 02:59:27,160
Speaker 1: on this offseason. Here was John mcdermot's response, Well, I mean,

3478
02:59:27,200 --> 02:59:29,080
Speaker 1: I just think number one is let's start with rests.

3479
02:59:29,120 --> 02:59:32,039
Speaker 1: As you look at the timeline of his off season

3480
02:59:32,160 --> 02:59:34,560
Speaker 1: get away. He's a young man that spends a tremendous

3481
02:59:34,560 --> 02:59:36,080
Speaker 1: amount of time in our building, as you know, and

3482
02:59:36,720 --> 02:59:39,560
Speaker 1: and us get get rest pushed back a little bit

3483
02:59:39,640 --> 02:59:41,000
Speaker 1: and then and I know he's going to do this

3484
02:59:41,200 --> 02:59:44,720
Speaker 1: is start working, start working on his body first, getting

3485
02:59:44,760 --> 02:59:46,840
Speaker 1: his body healthy, getting his body ready to go and

3486
02:59:46,959 --> 02:59:49,640
Speaker 1: building strength. UM. I thought he did a good job

3487
02:59:49,720 --> 02:59:52,360
Speaker 1: this year of staying healthy UM, which is which is

3488
02:59:52,360 --> 02:59:56,320
Speaker 1: a number one availability. And then you know, working with

3489
02:59:56,680 --> 03:00:00,160
Speaker 1: with UM you know Jordan in this case, and and

3490
03:00:00,400 --> 03:00:03,240
Speaker 1: making sure that he's working on techniques. Obviously the deep

3491
03:00:03,280 --> 03:00:05,560
Speaker 1: ball has been a conversation and so he's very aware

3492
03:00:05,560 --> 03:00:09,800
Speaker 1: of that. His feet, so there's there's plenty for Josh

3493
03:00:09,879 --> 03:00:13,760
Speaker 1: to work on. I'll just start there. And Josh is

3494
03:00:13,879 --> 03:00:15,640
Speaker 1: very aware of that. And that's that's the greatest part

3495
03:00:15,640 --> 03:00:20,840
Speaker 1: about Josh is is UM. You know, he's aware of it,

3496
03:00:21,000 --> 03:00:25,120
Speaker 1: and he's he's self critical and and so that's that's

3497
03:00:25,160 --> 03:00:27,960
Speaker 1: a start. And he'll take that and combine that with

3498
03:00:28,160 --> 03:00:30,000
Speaker 1: his tremendous work ethic and I think he'll have a

3499
03:00:30,080 --> 03:00:32,959
Speaker 1: great offseason. When Sean McDermott was solid today, he answered

3500
03:00:33,000 --> 03:00:36,480
Speaker 1: that question. He's talking about rest is important, talking about

3501
03:00:36,560 --> 03:00:40,039
Speaker 1: staying strong and obviously their moves to be made there.

3502
03:00:40,280 --> 03:00:42,360
Speaker 1: By the way, Josh didn't miss much time at all today.

3503
03:00:42,360 --> 03:00:43,680
Speaker 1: He got hurt in the New England game and that

3504
03:00:43,840 --> 03:00:46,080
Speaker 1: was it, right in New England was what week four,

3505
03:00:46,200 --> 03:00:49,160
Speaker 1: and he played, He started every all sixteen games in

3506
03:00:49,240 --> 03:00:51,840
Speaker 1: the playoff game. And then he started and McDermot started

3507
03:00:51,840 --> 03:00:53,720
Speaker 1: talking about the deep pass, working on the deep pass.

3508
03:00:54,000 --> 03:00:56,440
Speaker 1: These are all correctable problems. And you happen to think

3509
03:00:56,560 --> 03:00:58,880
Speaker 1: a lot of what Josh needs to do better is

3510
03:00:59,160 --> 03:01:02,600
Speaker 1: up top right in his head as opposed to physical. Certainly,

3511
03:01:02,640 --> 03:01:05,120
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any physical limitations, and certainly he can

3512
03:01:05,200 --> 03:01:07,080
Speaker 1: work on his technique and his footwork and all of

3513
03:01:07,160 --> 03:01:09,000
Speaker 1: that stuff. But when you go back and look at

3514
03:01:09,040 --> 03:01:11,120
Speaker 1: the film and the all twenty twos and watch some

3515
03:01:11,200 --> 03:01:13,480
Speaker 1: of the throws he makes, he can make every throw

3516
03:01:14,440 --> 03:01:16,200
Speaker 1: every book quarterback wants to make. And he can also

3517
03:01:16,240 --> 03:01:17,960
Speaker 1: make a lot of throws some quarter a lot of

3518
03:01:18,040 --> 03:01:21,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks cannot make. But the simple fact that matters this

3519
03:01:21,640 --> 03:01:24,119
Speaker 1: and I said this during the season, and it came

3520
03:01:24,160 --> 03:01:27,960
Speaker 1: to fruition even in this Houston playoff game, this team

3521
03:01:28,120 --> 03:01:32,080
Speaker 1: leaves too many plays on the field. You heard a

3522
03:01:32,160 --> 03:01:36,480
Speaker 1: lot of people just crushing Brian dayball about the having

3523
03:01:36,680 --> 03:01:39,520
Speaker 1: Pat DeMarco going down the field and having John Yeah,

3524
03:01:40,040 --> 03:01:43,680
Speaker 1: that's crazy talk. That's not where the ball was supposed

3525
03:01:43,680 --> 03:01:45,840
Speaker 1: to go. And there were other options on that play

3526
03:01:45,879 --> 03:01:49,280
Speaker 1: that we're supposed to be available to Josh. Now you

3527
03:01:49,320 --> 03:01:51,720
Speaker 1: can say, hey, they're not getting enough separation or whatever,

3528
03:01:51,920 --> 03:01:53,640
Speaker 1: but there's an if you go back and look, man,

3529
03:01:54,680 --> 03:01:58,720
Speaker 1: there's enough there for Josh to be successful as a quarterback.

3530
03:01:58,760 --> 03:02:00,520
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not this guy that jumping up on

3531
03:02:00,520 --> 03:02:02,480
Speaker 1: the table stand. They need a big number one wide receiver.

3532
03:02:02,680 --> 03:02:05,520
Speaker 1: They got guys running open now, and Josh is trying

3533
03:02:05,959 --> 03:02:09,720
Speaker 1: is not getting it to him when he sees it better,

3534
03:02:09,920 --> 03:02:12,680
Speaker 1: when he gets more reps, when he understands the offense

3535
03:02:12,760 --> 03:02:16,200
Speaker 1: even better than he does now, understands and his protections better.

3536
03:02:17,040 --> 03:02:20,080
Speaker 1: Although and you remember this year, he's cut a half

3537
03:02:20,120 --> 03:02:22,560
Speaker 1: a second off his time of holding the football. That's

3538
03:02:22,600 --> 03:02:25,360
Speaker 1: an eternity. He's really gotten better at that. When he

3539
03:02:25,440 --> 03:02:27,360
Speaker 1: gets to a point where all this stuff comes a

3540
03:02:27,400 --> 03:02:29,160
Speaker 1: little easier to him and he starts hitting more of

3541
03:02:29,160 --> 03:02:32,240
Speaker 1: those throws, this offense is going to take a leap forward.

3542
03:02:32,240 --> 03:02:34,000
Speaker 1: I don't not just a step, but a leap forward.

3543
03:02:34,040 --> 03:02:36,440
Speaker 1: But that's that's where it is. It's it's from his

3544
03:02:36,640 --> 03:02:39,440
Speaker 1: neck up and that's where the quarterback spot is played.

3545
03:02:39,480 --> 03:02:41,680
Speaker 1: Don't play great in the game Saturday, and it only

3546
03:02:41,800 --> 03:02:45,160
Speaker 1: struck me. Upon a second review of the game tape yesterday,

3547
03:02:45,400 --> 03:02:49,520
Speaker 1: Devin's singletary was outstanding. If fifty eight yards thirteen carries

3548
03:02:49,560 --> 03:02:51,560
Speaker 1: four and a half yards per carry. He had six

3549
03:02:51,640 --> 03:02:54,680
Speaker 1: catches for seventy six yards. Singletary was just a four

3550
03:02:54,840 --> 03:02:57,760
Speaker 1: sound offense for the Bills and Saturday's game. He really was. Yeah,

3551
03:02:57,800 --> 03:03:00,440
Speaker 1: he was great, and that you think about. On play

3552
03:03:00,520 --> 03:03:03,240
Speaker 1: in particular, he caught the little swing pass from Josh

3553
03:03:03,720 --> 03:03:06,440
Speaker 1: and made two guys. Two guys had their hands on him.

3554
03:03:06,480 --> 03:03:09,080
Speaker 1: He made both of them miss and got in for

3555
03:03:09,160 --> 03:03:10,880
Speaker 1: the first got up the field for the first down.

3556
03:03:11,000 --> 03:03:13,840
Speaker 1: Just an outstanding moved by a guy in a small

3557
03:03:13,920 --> 03:03:17,000
Speaker 1: space with two defenders on him, no help, and he

3558
03:03:17,120 --> 03:03:19,680
Speaker 1: got away from both of them and got up the field.

3559
03:03:20,680 --> 03:03:23,480
Speaker 1: He was just he was everything he needed him to be.

3560
03:03:23,840 --> 03:03:25,800
Speaker 1: He really was. And I agree with you, Murph. And

3561
03:03:25,840 --> 03:03:28,800
Speaker 1: this is the play here the MSG reviewers two dbs

3562
03:03:28,840 --> 03:03:31,720
Speaker 1: one quarter in the safety and he get he ends

3563
03:03:31,800 --> 03:03:33,880
Speaker 1: up running out of bounds past the first down marker.

3564
03:03:34,720 --> 03:03:38,680
Speaker 1: He was great. And you know, Sean McDermott took some

3565
03:03:38,800 --> 03:03:40,440
Speaker 1: heat today and his press convers say, why do you

3566
03:03:40,480 --> 03:03:43,120
Speaker 1: only get thirteen touches? You know, and I get that,

3567
03:03:43,840 --> 03:03:46,480
Speaker 1: and you know, why did Frank Gore get any you

3568
03:03:46,600 --> 03:03:52,280
Speaker 1: know again, hindsight's twenty twenty. You can say all you

3569
03:03:52,360 --> 03:03:55,119
Speaker 1: want after the game is over, and they don't make

3570
03:03:55,200 --> 03:03:58,160
Speaker 1: any of these decisions lightly where they say, I don't

3571
03:03:58,200 --> 03:04:00,760
Speaker 1: want Devin Singletary to be six festival, so I'm gonna

3572
03:04:00,800 --> 03:04:02,840
Speaker 1: give the ball to Frank Gore. I mean, that must

3573
03:04:02,840 --> 03:04:06,520
Speaker 1: be what they're abolluting. It's not the case. So you know,

3574
03:04:07,320 --> 03:04:09,320
Speaker 1: you need you need to stay on the football field.

3575
03:04:09,400 --> 03:04:11,119
Speaker 1: And I think one of the reasons Devin single didn't

3576
03:04:11,120 --> 03:04:13,800
Speaker 1: get more opportunity because they couldn't stay on the fielding

3577
03:04:15,080 --> 03:04:19,760
Speaker 1: make first downs enough. And that's you know, opportunity comes

3578
03:04:19,800 --> 03:04:22,840
Speaker 1: with opportunity. I mean, Devin Singletary can't get the ball

3579
03:04:22,879 --> 03:04:24,440
Speaker 1: at the offense is off the field on third down.

3580
03:04:24,680 --> 03:04:26,560
Speaker 1: One more already go. Chris Brown will join us to

3581
03:04:26,600 --> 03:04:28,480
Speaker 1: get that hour going when we return, Come on back.

3582
03:04:28,640 --> 03:04:31,040
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, coming to you

3583
03:04:31,200 --> 03:04:34,840
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park, Seneca Resorts in Casino.

3584
03:04:35,200 --> 03:04:47,119
Speaker 1: Nothing comes close. Hello, Bill's Radio Network Stories. An update

3585
03:04:47,200 --> 03:04:49,760
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive where Sean McDermott and Brandon being

3586
03:04:49,840 --> 03:04:52,560
Speaker 1: met with the media today to recap the twenty nineteen season.

3587
03:04:52,680 --> 03:04:56,160
Speaker 1: Both admit to being painfully hurt by the loss in

3588
03:04:56,280 --> 03:04:59,160
Speaker 1: the wild card playoff game at Houston. Sean McDermot said

3589
03:04:59,160 --> 03:05:01,480
Speaker 1: the Bills will gain from the will grow from the

3590
03:05:01,520 --> 03:05:03,640
Speaker 1: pain of the loss. They'll turn that pain into his strength.

3591
03:05:04,080 --> 03:05:06,560
Speaker 1: They both think Josh Allen made a tremendous amount of

3592
03:05:06,600 --> 03:05:09,680
Speaker 1: progress this year. Still can do better, According to Sean McDermott,

3593
03:05:09,800 --> 03:05:12,360
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean said Josh Allen improved in a lot of areas.

3594
03:05:12,520 --> 03:05:15,280
Speaker 1: Is he where he wants to be? No. Bean went

3595
03:05:15,320 --> 03:05:17,680
Speaker 1: on to say sometimes Josh wants it's so bad he

3596
03:05:17,840 --> 03:05:20,560
Speaker 1: tries to do too much. Thursday is the day when

3597
03:05:21,640 --> 03:05:23,440
Speaker 1: Bean says he will meet with the coaching staff to

3598
03:05:23,640 --> 03:05:26,640
Speaker 1: get their thoughts on the Bill's personnel as the offseason

3599
03:05:26,760 --> 03:05:30,119
Speaker 1: process continues. At One Bill's Drive, the New York Giants

3600
03:05:30,200 --> 03:05:33,720
Speaker 1: finalizing the deal for Patriots wide receivers special teams coach

3601
03:05:33,800 --> 03:05:36,600
Speaker 1: Joe Judge to become the team's next head coach. Judge

3602
03:05:36,640 --> 03:05:39,560
Speaker 1: the youngest of the seven known candidates mentioned for the

3603
03:05:39,640 --> 03:05:42,920
Speaker 1: Giants vacancy. He has been mentored by Alabama coach Nick

3604
03:05:42,920 --> 03:05:47,039
Speaker 1: Saban and Patriots coach Bill Belichick judge would replace Pat Shermer,

3605
03:05:47,080 --> 03:05:50,320
Speaker 1: fired by the Giants last week. Carolina Panther is finalizing

3606
03:05:50,360 --> 03:05:53,280
Speaker 1: the deal for Baylor coach Matt Rule to become their

3607
03:05:53,360 --> 03:05:57,440
Speaker 1: fifth permanent head coach in history. Rules had success enough

3608
03:05:57,520 --> 03:06:00,120
Speaker 1: to convince Carolina to bring him as a candidate for

3609
03:06:00,240 --> 03:06:02,680
Speaker 1: they're opening. He rose to prominence by taking over the

3610
03:06:02,800 --> 03:06:06,760
Speaker 1: embattled Baylor football team and turning into a contender in

3611
03:06:06,800 --> 03:06:10,199
Speaker 1: a very short time. Jim Schwartz, former Bill's defensive coordinator,

3612
03:06:10,440 --> 03:06:12,840
Speaker 1: it will interview with the Cleveland Browns. They requested an

3613
03:06:12,879 --> 03:06:15,760
Speaker 1: interview with the Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz for their

3614
03:06:15,800 --> 03:06:18,920
Speaker 1: head coaching position. And the Buffalo Sabers had practice today.

3615
03:06:19,040 --> 03:06:22,040
Speaker 1: Jack Eichel and kyleak Poso both missing practice for a

3616
03:06:22,080 --> 03:06:25,720
Speaker 1: maintenance today. Jake McCabe missing practice with an upper body injury.

3617
03:06:25,959 --> 03:06:27,760
Speaker 1: He's listed his day to day. He will not travel

3618
03:06:27,800 --> 03:06:30,320
Speaker 1: to Saint Louis. That's the Sabers next game Thursday in

3619
03:06:30,400 --> 03:06:33,040
Speaker 1: Saint Louis. Michael Frolick had yet to join the team.

3620
03:06:33,280 --> 03:06:36,840
Speaker 1: He will not practice today. Is joining the Buffalo Sabers

3621
03:06:36,920 --> 03:06:39,360
Speaker 1: held up by an immigration process and he is not

3622
03:06:39,480 --> 03:06:41,920
Speaker 1: ready to go yet Sabers in Saint Louis Thursday in

3623
03:06:42,040 --> 03:06:44,960
Speaker 1: Saint Louis at eight o'clock. And that's the update from

3624
03:06:45,000 --> 03:06:47,720
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker, and Chris Brown

3625
03:06:47,800 --> 03:06:49,960
Speaker 1: Bills Insider from Buffalo bills dot com. What are you

3626
03:06:50,040 --> 03:06:52,039
Speaker 1: laughing at? You're looking at everything. There's just a clever

3627
03:06:52,120 --> 03:06:54,160
Speaker 1: line there with Michael Frolick. He's got a whole new

3628
03:06:54,240 --> 03:06:56,840
Speaker 1: meaning of what ice is now because he's held up

3629
03:06:56,879 --> 03:07:01,119
Speaker 1: an immigration has nothing to do with hockey. Steve, Steve

3630
03:07:01,200 --> 03:07:02,800
Speaker 1: thought that was a joke that he was held up

3631
03:07:02,800 --> 03:07:06,440
Speaker 1: by immigration, didn't you, Steve, Steve Mabel mistaken. It is

3632
03:07:06,440 --> 03:07:10,920
Speaker 1: a joke. It is a joke, but it's also very real, right,

3633
03:07:11,560 --> 03:07:15,880
Speaker 1: and I would I would venture to guess why, Yeah,

3634
03:07:16,879 --> 03:07:19,520
Speaker 1: what's the hold up? I know that would possibly be

3635
03:07:19,600 --> 03:07:21,120
Speaker 1: the hold up. I'm going to give you an example.

3636
03:07:21,240 --> 03:07:25,160
Speaker 1: So this is not long after the Patriot Act and

3637
03:07:25,240 --> 03:07:27,959
Speaker 1: all that other stuff went into effect post nine to eleven,

3638
03:07:28,920 --> 03:07:33,480
Speaker 1: there was a person on the no fly list who

3639
03:07:33,600 --> 03:07:36,840
Speaker 1: had the name Christopher Brown with a middle initial of F.

3640
03:07:38,040 --> 03:07:40,880
Speaker 1: Now my middle initial is not F, but I can't

3641
03:07:40,920 --> 03:07:44,840
Speaker 1: tell you how many times I was getting re routed

3642
03:07:44,959 --> 03:07:48,320
Speaker 1: at TSA because I had the same first and last

3643
03:07:48,400 --> 03:07:50,680
Speaker 1: name I had similar to I started half there was

3644
03:07:50,800 --> 03:07:52,320
Speaker 1: like for a year and a half that happened. Do

3645
03:07:52,440 --> 03:07:55,760
Speaker 1: you use your initial? Yes? I do now all the time,

3646
03:07:56,040 --> 03:07:58,640
Speaker 1: because otherwise I'll get held up John Murphy apparently, And

3647
03:07:58,720 --> 03:08:01,080
Speaker 1: I have a choice middle and for that guy whose

3648
03:08:01,120 --> 03:08:06,000
Speaker 1: middle initial is that's been screwing me for like a

3649
03:08:06,120 --> 03:08:12,080
Speaker 1: year and a half. Three names, full documents, Yeah, Jay

3650
03:08:12,320 --> 03:08:18,560
Speaker 1: Jay Jay okay, and that yeah that's and maybe Michael

3651
03:08:18,560 --> 03:08:22,240
Speaker 1: Frolick will have to now. Yeah, come on, he's a

3652
03:08:22,280 --> 03:08:25,480
Speaker 1: hockey hockey player. I knew he's gonna say that. Chris Brown,

3653
03:08:25,560 --> 03:08:28,400
Speaker 1: Welcome Chris. You're at both news conferences. We listen in here.

3654
03:08:28,680 --> 03:08:30,480
Speaker 1: We carried him. We've been on the air for five hours.

3655
03:08:30,720 --> 03:08:32,920
Speaker 1: By the way, congrats on that. Thank you. We carried

3656
03:08:32,920 --> 03:08:36,000
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott at ten and uh, Brandon Bean at eleven

3657
03:08:36,200 --> 03:08:38,200
Speaker 1: and uh, I'll be honest, I went into a thing

3658
03:08:38,240 --> 03:08:39,800
Speaker 1: and we're not gonna get anything out of this. These

3659
03:08:39,840 --> 03:08:42,320
Speaker 1: guys never seen anything. But I was wrong. I thought

3660
03:08:42,360 --> 03:08:44,240
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot had a lot to say, and I thought

3661
03:08:44,280 --> 03:08:46,760
Speaker 1: he started out. Can we just play his opening comment again?

3662
03:08:46,840 --> 03:08:50,160
Speaker 1: Let me just play Sean mcdermot's uh, first things, almost

3663
03:08:50,200 --> 03:08:52,160
Speaker 1: the first thing out of his mouth. He talked about

3664
03:08:52,200 --> 03:08:54,960
Speaker 1: how the Bills will grow from the pain of that

3665
03:08:55,200 --> 03:08:57,720
Speaker 1: terrible loss. The other day. Listen to Sean McDermot what

3666
03:08:57,800 --> 03:09:01,520
Speaker 1: he said about that. My hope is in time that

3667
03:09:01,720 --> 03:09:05,600
Speaker 1: if it's handled the right way, the pain will it'll

3668
03:09:05,640 --> 03:09:08,800
Speaker 1: turn into strength, and that strength will turn into growth.

3669
03:09:09,640 --> 03:09:13,320
Speaker 1: And I think that's what really separates the winning organizations,

3670
03:09:13,400 --> 03:09:16,200
Speaker 1: the winners in our in our lives and our world,

3671
03:09:16,320 --> 03:09:20,240
Speaker 1: is that that those painful moments they turn into that strength,

3672
03:09:20,320 --> 03:09:22,560
Speaker 1: and then the growth that comes from that is what

3673
03:09:22,720 --> 03:09:25,080
Speaker 1: continues to move us forward as an organization, as a

3674
03:09:25,200 --> 03:09:29,160
Speaker 1: fan base, and as a team overall. Quite frankly, so, um,

3675
03:09:29,720 --> 03:09:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot we can learn from that game.

3676
03:09:31,760 --> 03:09:34,960
Speaker 1: We've got to keep our team together as many pieces

3677
03:09:35,000 --> 03:09:37,760
Speaker 1: as we can and then and then approach this soft

3678
03:09:37,800 --> 03:09:41,359
Speaker 1: season with a tremendous amount of urgency as we continue

3679
03:09:41,400 --> 03:09:44,160
Speaker 1: to grow, continue to build this football team and this

3680
03:09:44,640 --> 03:09:47,920
Speaker 1: organization into what we wanted to become. I gotta say,

3681
03:09:48,000 --> 03:09:50,320
Speaker 1: Chris and I normally don't fall for the stuff, but

3682
03:09:50,360 --> 03:09:52,520
Speaker 1: I really thought, all right, there's the path, you know,

3683
03:09:52,640 --> 03:09:54,520
Speaker 1: grow from this pain you know, find a way to

3684
03:09:55,120 --> 03:09:59,000
Speaker 1: grow from the pain that all of us Bills players, coaches,

3685
03:09:59,520 --> 03:10:03,560
Speaker 1: people like radio and outs. We feel kind of painful

3686
03:10:03,600 --> 03:10:06,400
Speaker 1: after that loss. I thought that was almost inspirational. Yeah,

3687
03:10:06,520 --> 03:10:08,840
Speaker 1: I think it was a good way to frame it.

3688
03:10:10,440 --> 03:10:12,760
Speaker 1: I don't think it's all that different from what Steve

3689
03:10:12,840 --> 03:10:14,880
Speaker 1: talked about when I was in here with you guys yesterday.

3690
03:10:15,360 --> 03:10:17,840
Speaker 1: You know, the lessons that you take. You know, there's

3691
03:10:17,840 --> 03:10:19,680
Speaker 1: this old saying and coaches like to use it a lot.

3692
03:10:19,800 --> 03:10:22,119
Speaker 1: You learn more from losing than you do from winning.

3693
03:10:22,840 --> 03:10:25,359
Speaker 1: And I think this is just another way that Sean's

3694
03:10:25,400 --> 03:10:27,959
Speaker 1: trying to frame it for his players and for everybody

3695
03:10:28,000 --> 03:10:32,000
Speaker 1: in the building that you take a loss that hurts,

3696
03:10:32,600 --> 03:10:34,560
Speaker 1: that has a lot, but there's a lot of hard

3697
03:10:34,680 --> 03:10:38,680
Speaker 1: lessons within that painful loss, and you don't just let

3698
03:10:38,800 --> 03:10:42,879
Speaker 1: those things go by the board. You remember, you remember

3699
03:10:43,000 --> 03:10:46,800
Speaker 1: chiefly how it feels. That's number one. Don't ever let

3700
03:10:46,879 --> 03:10:49,480
Speaker 1: go of that feeling, because I think that helps motivate

3701
03:10:49,560 --> 03:10:52,119
Speaker 1: players more than anything, because they don't want to feel

3702
03:10:52,160 --> 03:10:55,400
Speaker 1: like that ever again. And so that's part of turning

3703
03:10:55,480 --> 03:10:59,080
Speaker 1: the pain the pain that you actually feel after all

3704
03:10:59,120 --> 03:11:02,480
Speaker 1: you put in and vested into that season, you take

3705
03:11:02,560 --> 03:11:05,680
Speaker 1: that pain and now you transfer it over to making

3706
03:11:05,720 --> 03:11:08,680
Speaker 1: you a smarter player, making you a player that's more

3707
03:11:08,800 --> 03:11:11,880
Speaker 1: dedicated to the play in playout execution that you need

3708
03:11:12,240 --> 03:11:14,959
Speaker 1: so you don't lose another game like that. And then

3709
03:11:15,040 --> 03:11:18,560
Speaker 1: you and from that you will have growth, whether it's

3710
03:11:18,800 --> 03:11:20,720
Speaker 1: more wins in the regular season to put you in

3711
03:11:20,800 --> 03:11:23,480
Speaker 1: better position when you get to the playoffs, maybe playing

3712
03:11:23,520 --> 03:11:27,160
Speaker 1: at home, and then when you're in that game knowing

3713
03:11:28,440 --> 03:11:32,000
Speaker 1: because you experienced it the hard way that literally every

3714
03:11:32,320 --> 03:11:36,600
Speaker 1: single play counts of the simple way to put it

3715
03:11:36,680 --> 03:11:38,200
Speaker 1: is when you win a game, you don't feel the

3716
03:11:38,240 --> 03:11:41,720
Speaker 1: pain of your mistakes and you don't have a price

3717
03:11:41,800 --> 03:11:44,400
Speaker 1: to pay for them. And when you lose, that pain

3718
03:11:44,640 --> 03:11:46,760
Speaker 1: and discomfort that we kind of all feel about this,

3719
03:11:47,520 --> 03:11:50,400
Speaker 1: that's the thing that forces you to do things differently

3720
03:11:50,520 --> 03:11:52,520
Speaker 1: and to grow. You're not going to grow by not

3721
03:11:52,680 --> 03:11:55,920
Speaker 1: doing things differently. And the discomfort you feel when you

3722
03:11:56,000 --> 03:12:01,080
Speaker 1: get beat is what forces you into changing or to improving. Yeah,

3723
03:12:01,280 --> 03:12:05,359
Speaker 1: that's what you That's why you learn more from losing

3724
03:12:05,440 --> 03:12:08,720
Speaker 1: than you do from winning, because losing the pain of

3725
03:12:08,800 --> 03:12:11,680
Speaker 1: it forces you to do things differently and that's how

3726
03:12:11,720 --> 03:12:14,879
Speaker 1: you And a perfect example is you've got two young

3727
03:12:15,000 --> 03:12:19,240
Speaker 1: players in tremade Edmonds and Matt Milano, who dropped way

3728
03:12:19,320 --> 03:12:21,920
Speaker 1: too deep on third and eighteen, three yards behind the sticks,

3729
03:12:22,240 --> 03:12:24,880
Speaker 1: and they took themselves out of position to make a

3730
03:12:25,000 --> 03:12:28,000
Speaker 1: play in terms of recognizing time and score and what

3731
03:12:28,160 --> 03:12:31,400
Speaker 1: Houston needed on that play, and they did not put

3732
03:12:31,480 --> 03:12:34,400
Speaker 1: themselves in position to properly execute and hold a guy

3733
03:12:34,520 --> 03:12:37,400
Speaker 1: short of the sticks on a third and eighteen. They

3734
03:12:37,520 --> 03:12:41,160
Speaker 1: have to It sucks because they gave up the first down,

3735
03:12:41,800 --> 03:12:43,840
Speaker 1: but they've got to learn from that and then when

3736
03:12:43,840 --> 03:12:48,040
Speaker 1: they're in that situation again, execute more effectively so they

3737
03:12:48,120 --> 03:12:50,400
Speaker 1: don't go down that same path again, and they are

3738
03:12:50,480 --> 03:12:53,680
Speaker 1: successful on that play and they're off the field, you know,

3739
03:12:53,840 --> 03:12:56,039
Speaker 1: and you know their offense is back on the field

3740
03:12:56,040 --> 03:12:57,440
Speaker 1: and they have a chance to win a game. Perhaps

3741
03:12:57,760 --> 03:13:00,520
Speaker 1: those are the lessons that they have to take going

3742
03:13:00,600 --> 03:13:03,800
Speaker 1: into the future. Chris Brown Bills inside at Buffalo Bills

3743
03:13:03,800 --> 03:13:06,879
Speaker 1: dot com. Joining us After Brandon Bean and Sean mcdermot's

3744
03:13:06,920 --> 03:13:10,400
Speaker 1: year end press conferences today, there did not appear to

3745
03:13:10,480 --> 03:13:13,800
Speaker 1: be much concern, at least not expressed concern about Brian

3746
03:13:13,879 --> 03:13:16,040
Speaker 1: Dabele's interview with the Clevedon Browns or the fact that

3747
03:13:16,080 --> 03:13:18,200
Speaker 1: he could leave. I didn't. I didn't get the sense

3748
03:13:18,280 --> 03:13:20,160
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott is worried too much about that. I

3749
03:13:20,560 --> 03:13:24,040
Speaker 1: don't think he wants to discuss somebody else's job opportunities.

3750
03:13:24,080 --> 03:13:26,080
Speaker 1: I think that's where the main crux of that lies,

3751
03:13:26,600 --> 03:13:28,560
Speaker 1: because he's a guy that was in the same boat

3752
03:13:28,560 --> 03:13:31,960
Speaker 1: at one time, So that's not for him to discuss.

3753
03:13:32,440 --> 03:13:34,600
Speaker 1: That's for Brian Dable to discuss. And I don't think

3754
03:13:34,640 --> 03:13:36,480
Speaker 1: he wants to put any kind of comment out there

3755
03:13:36,879 --> 03:13:40,320
Speaker 1: for fear that it would influence Brian. He has respect

3756
03:13:40,400 --> 03:13:42,680
Speaker 1: for the opportunity that's sitting in front of Brian Dable,

3757
03:13:42,879 --> 03:13:45,160
Speaker 1: and I think he wants to let it lie. Whatever

3758
03:13:45,280 --> 03:13:49,160
Speaker 1: happens happens. He has no control over what the decision

3759
03:13:49,240 --> 03:13:52,680
Speaker 1: is going to be by the Browns or, quite frankly,

3760
03:13:52,720 --> 03:13:55,240
Speaker 1: by Brian Dable, So there's no sense in him talking

3761
03:13:55,280 --> 03:13:58,320
Speaker 1: about it because it while it does, while it could

3762
03:13:58,360 --> 03:14:03,240
Speaker 1: impact his coaching, he's not in a position to say

3763
03:14:03,360 --> 03:14:06,120
Speaker 1: which way it should or should not go. So he's

3764
03:14:06,160 --> 03:14:08,040
Speaker 1: just trying to be a professional about that. I think,

3765
03:14:08,160 --> 03:14:13,120
Speaker 1: more than anything else, is he worried about it. I

3766
03:14:13,240 --> 03:14:15,720
Speaker 1: think he. I mean, I think if he had his

3767
03:14:15,800 --> 03:14:18,800
Speaker 1: druthers He wants Brian Dable back, to continue the growth

3768
03:14:18,840 --> 03:14:21,440
Speaker 1: and maturity of Josh Allen as a quarterback, and to

3769
03:14:21,560 --> 03:14:24,240
Speaker 1: have continuity with his offense that just underwent a nine

3770
03:14:24,520 --> 03:14:27,760
Speaker 1: starter overhaul in twenty nineteen. He doesn't want to have

3771
03:14:27,879 --> 03:14:29,879
Speaker 1: to throw a new playbook at that group next year

3772
03:14:30,160 --> 03:14:34,600
Speaker 1: with a new coordinator. But in the end, he has

3773
03:14:34,640 --> 03:14:36,720
Speaker 1: no control over what the Browns decide they want to do,

3774
03:14:36,800 --> 03:14:38,520
Speaker 1: and does anybody have any idea what the hell the

3775
03:14:38,560 --> 03:14:40,120
Speaker 1: Browns are going to do? Well? They're the last team

3776
03:14:40,200 --> 03:14:43,360
Speaker 1: standing in the coaching sweepstakes. The Giants, the Carolina Panthers,

3777
03:14:43,400 --> 03:14:49,440
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins, and the other team that I can't Giants,

3778
03:14:49,520 --> 03:14:53,280
Speaker 1: the Giants, Cowboys, Cowboys, the Cowboys, They've all they've all

3779
03:14:53,320 --> 03:14:55,600
Speaker 1: hired their head coaching. The Cleveland Browns are the only

3780
03:14:55,680 --> 03:14:59,640
Speaker 1: vacant spot now. And I just heard somebody, Hey the

3781
03:14:59,720 --> 03:15:01,320
Speaker 1: brown he heard a perfect spot. Now they get to

3782
03:15:01,400 --> 03:15:04,280
Speaker 1: choose whoever they want. After the first four guys have

3783
03:15:04,360 --> 03:15:10,160
Speaker 1: been picked, right RIVERA, Uh, you know, Mike McCarthy, Joe Judge,

3784
03:15:10,240 --> 03:15:13,480
Speaker 1: and Matt Rule have all been hired. Yeah, I've all

3785
03:15:13,520 --> 03:15:15,800
Speaker 1: been hired. And now you know, the Browns are standing

3786
03:15:15,840 --> 03:15:19,320
Speaker 1: there It's true. They've got Josh McDaniels, they got Brian Dable,

3787
03:15:19,360 --> 03:15:21,039
Speaker 1: they got a whole list of guys that they could

3788
03:15:21,080 --> 03:15:23,000
Speaker 1: go down. There's another guy interviewing today, who the heck

3789
03:15:23,120 --> 03:15:28,480
Speaker 1: was it? Joe Schwartz. Uh, all of them, So we'll

3790
03:15:28,520 --> 03:15:33,000
Speaker 1: see uh until he's not. You got to know that

3791
03:15:33,040 --> 03:15:35,680
Speaker 1: there's a risk that you might lose Brian Dable, and uh,

3792
03:15:37,040 --> 03:15:38,480
Speaker 1: you gotta have a plan. I don't know what that

3793
03:15:38,520 --> 03:15:42,120
Speaker 1: plan with. Hey, Chris, another issue, and it's a big one,

3794
03:15:42,200 --> 03:15:44,440
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. And you made a point yesterday of how

3795
03:15:45,320 --> 03:15:47,840
Speaker 1: as you reviewed the game, you didn't you didn't put

3796
03:15:47,840 --> 03:15:49,720
Speaker 1: a whole lot of blames not the right word, but

3797
03:15:49,720 --> 03:15:51,640
Speaker 1: you didn't put a whole lot of emphasis on Josh

3798
03:15:52,200 --> 03:15:54,320
Speaker 1: as the reason why the Bill's lost. I watched the

3799
03:15:54,400 --> 03:15:57,039
Speaker 1: game over again now, a second viewing in the game

3800
03:15:57,120 --> 03:16:00,240
Speaker 1: yesterday and putting myself through that pain yesterday, and I

3801
03:16:00,320 --> 03:16:02,360
Speaker 1: do see what you're talking about. Josh had some very

3802
03:16:02,400 --> 03:16:04,840
Speaker 1: good throws and it's a very good plays made, and

3803
03:16:04,920 --> 03:16:06,520
Speaker 1: he didn't get a whole lot of help up front

3804
03:16:06,560 --> 03:16:08,680
Speaker 1: as now season game went along, he had some protection.

3805
03:16:08,840 --> 03:16:10,880
Speaker 1: Protection at the end of the game was just flat

3806
03:16:10,920 --> 03:16:13,360
Speaker 1: out not good enough, and I think any lineman on

3807
03:16:13,440 --> 03:16:16,720
Speaker 1: that line, knowing the professionals they are, would probably say

3808
03:16:16,800 --> 03:16:22,120
Speaker 1: the same thing, and it probably hurts them that a

3809
03:16:22,320 --> 03:16:26,400
Speaker 1: large part of the blame has been shouldered by Josh. Now, Josh,

3810
03:16:26,440 --> 03:16:29,920
Speaker 1: to his credit, does what professional quarterbacks do. We saw

3811
03:16:30,040 --> 03:16:31,600
Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe do it when he was here and he

3812
03:16:31,680 --> 03:16:34,320
Speaker 1: had no offensive line to speak of. He took the shoal.

3813
03:16:34,520 --> 03:16:37,039
Speaker 1: He shouldered most of the blame, and Josh did that too.

3814
03:16:37,120 --> 03:16:39,440
Speaker 1: Now that's not to say that Josh's actions in that

3815
03:16:39,520 --> 03:16:41,560
Speaker 1: game aren't blameless. He missed on some throws. I don't

3816
03:16:41,560 --> 03:16:43,600
Speaker 1: think there's any question about that. He made a couple

3817
03:16:43,640 --> 03:16:46,440
Speaker 1: of poor decisions. There's no debating that, you know, chucking

3818
03:16:46,440 --> 03:16:49,160
Speaker 1: it deep when he's got a guy underneath, you know,

3819
03:16:49,240 --> 03:16:52,760
Speaker 1: the lateral play. Those are not good decisions. So he's

3820
03:16:52,800 --> 03:16:55,760
Speaker 1: not completely blameless in any sense of the word. But

3821
03:16:56,800 --> 03:17:00,240
Speaker 1: I will take this to my grave. From start to

3822
03:17:00,280 --> 03:17:02,720
Speaker 1: finish in that game, he made more plays than Deshaun

3823
03:17:02,800 --> 03:17:05,320
Speaker 1: Watson did. Watson just made more of them when the

3824
03:17:05,400 --> 03:17:07,960
Speaker 1: game was on the line, and in the end that

3825
03:17:08,120 --> 03:17:14,480
Speaker 1: gave them the victory. I think Watson has more had

3826
03:17:14,560 --> 03:17:19,680
Speaker 1: more elite talent, to tap into than Josh did, chiefly

3827
03:17:19,760 --> 03:17:22,800
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. And then you know, they had an elite

3828
03:17:22,840 --> 03:17:26,320
Speaker 1: player on defense in j. J. Watt, with Whitney Merciless

3829
03:17:26,400 --> 03:17:29,040
Speaker 1: not all that far off from that level either, so

3830
03:17:30,240 --> 03:17:31,880
Speaker 1: you know, you say, well, why did they lose that

3831
03:17:32,000 --> 03:17:34,200
Speaker 1: game in the end? Some of the elite players made

3832
03:17:34,280 --> 03:17:37,120
Speaker 1: some critical plays at the most important time in the

3833
03:17:37,160 --> 03:17:39,840
Speaker 1: football game, and the Bills just flat aren't there yet

3834
03:17:40,120 --> 03:17:44,240
Speaker 1: and they only have probably one truly elite player on

3835
03:17:44,360 --> 03:17:46,840
Speaker 1: defense in Trudevious White. They have a lot of above average,

3836
03:17:47,440 --> 03:17:50,920
Speaker 1: borderline Pro Bowl players, but they don't have truly elite

3837
03:17:51,000 --> 03:17:54,240
Speaker 1: players on defense. And yet still they're a top five

3838
03:17:54,320 --> 03:17:58,520
Speaker 1: defense the last two years. That's why I thought one

3839
03:17:58,560 --> 03:18:01,960
Speaker 1: of the most interesting things that Brandon Bean said was

3840
03:18:02,840 --> 03:18:04,840
Speaker 1: despite the fact that they have a top five defense

3841
03:18:04,879 --> 03:18:07,800
Speaker 1: the last two years, they're still looking for upgrades from

3842
03:18:07,840 --> 03:18:11,360
Speaker 1: what they already have. That's admirable, and I think that's

3843
03:18:11,600 --> 03:18:14,800
Speaker 1: what is going to keep this team a perennial contender

3844
03:18:14,959 --> 03:18:18,480
Speaker 1: going forward, because that's the attitude they are not going

3845
03:18:18,600 --> 03:18:21,200
Speaker 1: to be satisfied with. Hey, we had the number three

3846
03:18:21,280 --> 03:18:24,000
Speaker 1: defense in football, the number two scoring defense in football,

3847
03:18:24,080 --> 03:18:27,640
Speaker 1: the number four passing defense, in football. We're good. Let's

3848
03:18:27,680 --> 03:18:30,080
Speaker 1: just you know, do a little tweak here, a little

3849
03:18:30,080 --> 03:18:34,560
Speaker 1: tweak there. They're looking to upgrade anywhere possible, provided that

3850
03:18:34,640 --> 03:18:37,840
Speaker 1: it fits into the cap structure that they plan to

3851
03:18:38,680 --> 03:18:40,959
Speaker 1: take into this offseason with the room they have. Yeah,

3852
03:18:41,120 --> 03:18:44,480
Speaker 1: I think too that you got to remember, there's no

3853
03:18:44,600 --> 03:18:49,000
Speaker 1: guarantee that Jordan Phillips and Shack Laws are going to

3854
03:18:49,040 --> 03:18:50,560
Speaker 1: be back or any of the other you know, there's

3855
03:18:50,600 --> 03:18:54,080
Speaker 1: certainly and Kevin Johnson, all those guys that they have

3856
03:18:54,240 --> 03:18:55,920
Speaker 1: on that list that are going to be back in

3857
03:18:56,000 --> 03:18:58,480
Speaker 1: the in the fold, they've got to make sure they've

3858
03:18:58,560 --> 03:19:04,240
Speaker 1: got quality guys step into it, and not only cauality guys,

3859
03:19:04,280 --> 03:19:06,320
Speaker 1: but maybe trying to get better guys, you know, I

3860
03:19:06,400 --> 03:19:08,600
Speaker 1: mean even more gifted guy physically gifted guys, Guys that

3861
03:19:08,720 --> 03:19:11,440
Speaker 1: fit the culture, even more guys that that are on,

3862
03:19:11,760 --> 03:19:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, on that track that they like to see

3863
03:19:15,000 --> 03:19:17,000
Speaker 1: in their free agents, and they want to do it

3864
03:19:17,080 --> 03:19:22,480
Speaker 1: in a way that won't have them overpaying. And that

3865
03:19:22,600 --> 03:19:24,320
Speaker 1: was the other thing that I took away, if you

3866
03:19:24,400 --> 03:19:26,640
Speaker 1: wanted to try to read between the lines a little bit,

3867
03:19:27,800 --> 03:19:31,360
Speaker 1: when Brandon Bean said we are not one player away,

3868
03:19:31,920 --> 03:19:34,840
Speaker 1: that to me was the signal that there will because

3869
03:19:34,879 --> 03:19:37,640
Speaker 1: I know some fans have wondered if this should be

3870
03:19:37,720 --> 03:19:41,920
Speaker 1: the approach in this offseason. It said to me they

3871
03:19:41,959 --> 03:19:44,480
Speaker 1: are not going to swing for the fences for some

3872
03:19:44,760 --> 03:19:49,960
Speaker 1: high price, big ticket, you know, superstar player, feeling that

3873
03:19:50,120 --> 03:19:52,240
Speaker 1: that will make the difference and put them over the top.

3874
03:19:52,320 --> 03:19:55,840
Speaker 1: I think it would certainly help. But knowing their says

3875
03:19:56,000 --> 03:19:59,199
Speaker 1: not their style, I know. But to me, that says

3876
03:19:59,560 --> 03:20:01,640
Speaker 1: we're not break in the bank for Amari Cooper, who's

3877
03:20:01,680 --> 03:20:03,880
Speaker 1: probably the only free agent wide receiver who's going to

3878
03:20:03,920 --> 03:20:07,760
Speaker 1: be worth giant money and can help the team dramatically.

3879
03:20:08,800 --> 03:20:11,240
Speaker 1: So that means they're probably going to tap into what

3880
03:20:11,480 --> 03:20:13,760
Speaker 1: is considered to be one of the deepest wide receiver

3881
03:20:13,920 --> 03:20:16,960
Speaker 1: classes to come in the draft since I don't know,

3882
03:20:17,200 --> 03:20:20,920
Speaker 1: maybe ninety six, you know, maybe twenty fourteen when that

3883
03:20:21,040 --> 03:20:24,480
Speaker 1: class came out. So that's probably the route they go

3884
03:20:24,560 --> 03:20:27,320
Speaker 1: to address wide receiver outside of a trade. I would think.

3885
03:20:27,360 --> 03:20:29,040
Speaker 1: In fact, I got the sense from Brandon mean that

3886
03:20:29,120 --> 03:20:31,840
Speaker 1: he's much more interested in the draft than he is

3887
03:20:32,000 --> 03:20:34,640
Speaker 1: an adding free agencies stuff season. Well, yeah, and like

3888
03:20:34,760 --> 03:20:37,400
Speaker 1: I said, it's a poor free agent class at wide receiver. Now,

3889
03:20:37,520 --> 03:20:41,360
Speaker 1: some player or two could shake loose based on cap casualties,

3890
03:20:41,400 --> 03:20:43,640
Speaker 1: but there are fewer of those than there ever have

3891
03:20:43,840 --> 03:20:46,000
Speaker 1: been because the cap keeps going up every year ten

3892
03:20:46,040 --> 03:20:49,160
Speaker 1: to twelve million dollars, So there's less of those, you know,

3893
03:20:49,640 --> 03:20:53,600
Speaker 1: cap casualties that we see around free agency time. So yeah,

3894
03:20:53,800 --> 03:20:55,840
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have to look at the draft with

3895
03:20:56,240 --> 03:20:59,560
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position specifically short of getting in a

3896
03:20:59,640 --> 03:21:01,760
Speaker 1: bidding or for Amari Cooper. And as Steve said, this

3897
03:21:01,920 --> 03:21:04,120
Speaker 1: is not a front office that subscribes to that kind

3898
03:21:04,160 --> 03:21:08,360
Speaker 1: of dealing and you know, signing right. We're with Chris

3899
03:21:08,440 --> 03:21:10,520
Speaker 1: Brown a couple of minutes left. If you have comments

3900
03:21:10,600 --> 03:21:12,560
Speaker 1: or questions, give us a call. Eight O three five

3901
03:21:12,680 --> 03:21:16,160
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

3902
03:21:16,280 --> 03:21:19,800
Speaker 1: five fifty. I thought it was interesting we talked about

3903
03:21:19,840 --> 03:21:22,039
Speaker 1: the defense and what they need to do better defensively,

3904
03:21:22,360 --> 03:21:25,280
Speaker 1: and even McDermott acknowledged that the defense let down on

3905
03:21:25,320 --> 03:21:28,320
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and an overtime against against Houston the

3906
03:21:28,400 --> 03:21:30,240
Speaker 1: other day, and not just to focus on that game,

3907
03:21:30,320 --> 03:21:33,960
Speaker 1: but there are areas of improvement this defense can make, right, Yeah,

3908
03:21:34,200 --> 03:21:39,560
Speaker 1: I think I don't want to just make a blanket

3909
03:21:39,680 --> 03:21:42,640
Speaker 1: generalization and say they let down I think that's kind

3910
03:21:42,680 --> 03:21:47,960
Speaker 1: of strong. I thought on the whole, they played pretty

3911
03:21:48,120 --> 03:21:52,600
Speaker 1: darn well in that game. I think for the most part,

3912
03:21:53,320 --> 03:21:56,560
Speaker 1: their play was good. There were some key moments where

3913
03:21:56,560 --> 03:22:00,320
Speaker 1: they're tackling wasn't good enough. And if you're referring to that, yes,

3914
03:22:00,520 --> 03:22:03,080
Speaker 1: that is something that has come up from time to time.

3915
03:22:03,440 --> 03:22:06,000
Speaker 1: It was poor in the Philadelphia game, it was poor

3916
03:22:06,120 --> 03:22:09,400
Speaker 1: in the second Patriots game. So yes, if you're referring

3917
03:22:09,440 --> 03:22:11,280
Speaker 1: to stuff like that, yeah, I would agree with you.

3918
03:22:11,800 --> 03:22:13,879
Speaker 1: I just think let down is kind of a strong term.

3919
03:22:14,040 --> 03:22:16,920
Speaker 1: They had a dominant first half. They even played well

3920
03:22:16,959 --> 03:22:19,760
Speaker 1: in the third quarter as I saw it, They just

3921
03:22:19,879 --> 03:22:24,760
Speaker 1: had some key misques at key times. I think sometimes,

3922
03:22:24,920 --> 03:22:29,160
Speaker 1: and unfairly so, the defense, because of how good they

3923
03:22:29,240 --> 03:22:32,120
Speaker 1: have played over the last two years, is held to

3924
03:22:32,280 --> 03:22:35,600
Speaker 1: a higher standard than the offense, and because of that,

3925
03:22:35,800 --> 03:22:40,000
Speaker 1: they're expected to play perfect. And I don't think that's

3926
03:22:40,120 --> 03:22:44,040
Speaker 1: possible in the NFL with as much parody as you

3927
03:22:44,160 --> 03:22:47,880
Speaker 1: see in this league. So I am willing to a

3928
03:22:48,000 --> 03:22:52,560
Speaker 1: certain extent. I guess it's kind of like having a kid.

3929
03:22:52,720 --> 03:22:54,680
Speaker 1: And they got a ninety two on the test. It

3930
03:22:54,800 --> 03:22:57,720
Speaker 1: wasn't perfect, but ninety two is a good great, you know,

3931
03:22:57,920 --> 03:22:59,840
Speaker 1: and maybe if you get a little bit more support

3932
03:23:00,320 --> 03:23:04,000
Speaker 1: from your offense that ninety two nine out of ten

3933
03:23:04,080 --> 03:23:06,560
Speaker 1: times it's holding up. Yeah for a victory. Yeah, I'm

3934
03:23:06,600 --> 03:23:09,360
Speaker 1: not I'm not too keen on dragging the defense through

3935
03:23:09,360 --> 03:23:10,959
Speaker 1: the mud. I mean, they've held them to twenty two

3936
03:23:10,959 --> 03:23:14,040
Speaker 1: points in a playoff game. And it's just what where

3937
03:23:14,040 --> 03:23:16,320
Speaker 1: you get you find yourself into and you go down

3938
03:23:16,400 --> 03:23:18,440
Speaker 1: that rabbit hole every single time you talk about this

3939
03:23:18,520 --> 03:23:20,360
Speaker 1: game in any way, shape or form. You go to

3940
03:23:20,440 --> 03:23:22,080
Speaker 1: start going down the list of plays that got away

3941
03:23:22,120 --> 03:23:23,720
Speaker 1: from it, and there's a couple of defensive plays that

3942
03:23:23,800 --> 03:23:26,080
Speaker 1: they made third and eighteen and all that. But you know,

3943
03:23:26,160 --> 03:23:28,160
Speaker 1: you can just flip it around. It's the offensive side

3944
03:23:28,200 --> 03:23:29,520
Speaker 1: there too, and then and then you go back and

3945
03:23:29,560 --> 03:23:32,400
Speaker 1: you flip it to the to the officials too, and

3946
03:23:32,480 --> 03:23:35,280
Speaker 1: the special team all that stuff. And that's just the

3947
03:23:35,400 --> 03:23:38,760
Speaker 1: kind of team you are. And to me, it boils

3948
03:23:38,800 --> 03:23:41,039
Speaker 1: down to the fact that you had trouble scoring points

3949
03:23:41,080 --> 03:23:44,440
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis that put pressure on that defense. Yeah,

3950
03:23:44,959 --> 03:23:47,120
Speaker 1: it's the kind of game you were in all year.

3951
03:23:47,879 --> 03:23:51,160
Speaker 1: It's your recipe for winning, and the recipe came up

3952
03:23:51,200 --> 03:23:54,000
Speaker 1: short against a really good team. A playoff team, right,

3953
03:23:54,040 --> 03:23:57,520
Speaker 1: and because you're playing in one score of games, your

3954
03:23:57,600 --> 03:24:01,800
Speaker 1: defense now has a slim or margin for error. So

3955
03:24:01,959 --> 03:24:05,040
Speaker 1: when they make those one or two poor plays or

3956
03:24:05,200 --> 03:24:08,800
Speaker 1: poor decisions, which are inevitably going to happen, because it's

3957
03:24:08,959 --> 03:24:12,400
Speaker 1: very hard in any sport at the pro level to

3958
03:24:12,600 --> 03:24:16,360
Speaker 1: play a perfect game. So when you can't and your

3959
03:24:16,440 --> 03:24:22,000
Speaker 1: offense is devoid of points scoring capability, that truthfully, to

3960
03:24:22,120 --> 03:24:23,960
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs, you need to be averaging at

3961
03:24:24,000 --> 03:24:26,840
Speaker 1: least twenty four a game. Over the last ten years, Historically,

3962
03:24:27,080 --> 03:24:29,600
Speaker 1: playoff teams average twenty four points a game. The Bills

3963
03:24:29,840 --> 03:24:33,600
Speaker 1: were the lowest scoring team to make the playoffs since

3964
03:24:33,640 --> 03:24:38,080
Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen Bills. Hey Sean was asked. I thought

3965
03:24:38,240 --> 03:24:39,720
Speaker 1: it was good that he was asked this about the

3966
03:24:40,400 --> 03:24:43,600
Speaker 1: sequence last thirty seconds first half, the first down, the

3967
03:24:44,040 --> 03:24:47,520
Speaker 1: handoff to Frank Gore, the spike, the passing complete to

3968
03:24:47,560 --> 03:24:51,120
Speaker 1: Duke Williams, the field goal try, and basically McDermot admitted,

3969
03:24:51,200 --> 03:24:53,440
Speaker 1: we should have done better. That we looked at that

3970
03:24:53,480 --> 03:24:55,240
Speaker 1: we could write much better. So they weren't playing for

3971
03:24:55,280 --> 03:24:58,040
Speaker 1: the field goal, but they wish they had those plays back.

3972
03:24:58,400 --> 03:25:01,320
Speaker 1: And I know that, I said yesterday that I wasn't

3973
03:25:01,360 --> 03:25:03,600
Speaker 1: too bothered by it because I because they did take

3974
03:25:03,640 --> 03:25:05,800
Speaker 1: a shot at the end zone. And maybe I've just

3975
03:25:05,920 --> 03:25:09,440
Speaker 1: been desensitized to this offense not being aggressive at the

3976
03:25:09,520 --> 03:25:12,879
Speaker 1: end of halves, and I was satisfied seeing that they

3977
03:25:12,920 --> 03:25:17,280
Speaker 1: actually took a shot at the end zone. Yeah, and

3978
03:25:17,400 --> 03:25:19,320
Speaker 1: the play was there to be made, and Duke just

3979
03:25:19,400 --> 03:25:21,960
Speaker 1: doesn't come up with the ball because I think that's

3980
03:25:21,959 --> 03:25:25,040
Speaker 1: an absolutely catchable ball, especially for a player of his

3981
03:25:25,200 --> 03:25:29,000
Speaker 1: stature and reach. Uh. And it was a great ball

3982
03:25:29,120 --> 03:25:34,160
Speaker 1: from Josh in my estimation. But yeah, other shots, yeah,

3983
03:25:34,160 --> 03:25:35,720
Speaker 1: you could if you manage the clock. And I guess

3984
03:25:35,760 --> 03:25:38,320
Speaker 1: that's probably where I turned a blind eye to that

3985
03:25:39,000 --> 03:25:41,400
Speaker 1: um And maybe, like I said, I'm just a little

3986
03:25:41,400 --> 03:25:44,480
Speaker 1: bit more conditioned to this team being as conservative as

3987
03:25:44,520 --> 03:25:47,800
Speaker 1: they are on offense. Whether it's because we don't want

3988
03:25:47,920 --> 03:25:51,520
Speaker 1: Josh to take too many risks in a series, or

3989
03:25:51,640 --> 03:25:53,879
Speaker 1: whether it's let's just take one shot at the end

3990
03:25:53,920 --> 03:25:55,960
Speaker 1: zone and be satisfied with a field goal. Whatever the

3991
03:25:56,120 --> 03:26:00,520
Speaker 1: thinking is, it's it's good and I think it's admirable

3992
03:26:01,040 --> 03:26:04,160
Speaker 1: that coach McDermott can stand up there and say we

3993
03:26:04,280 --> 03:26:06,880
Speaker 1: can do better. Yeah, you got two pages full of

3994
03:26:06,959 --> 03:26:09,240
Speaker 1: notes there carefully cribbed out and what do we miss?

3995
03:26:09,480 --> 03:26:11,480
Speaker 1: What else were the highlights of me? Well, I mean,

3996
03:26:11,520 --> 03:26:13,840
Speaker 1: I think the biggest takeaway that I took from coach

3997
03:26:13,959 --> 03:26:17,800
Speaker 1: McDermott's comments was, and he said it three times, was

3998
03:26:17,879 --> 03:26:22,039
Speaker 1: the desire to keep the roster as intact as possible.

3999
03:26:22,320 --> 03:26:25,560
Speaker 1: It's clear to me that he feels, in terms of

4000
03:26:25,720 --> 03:26:28,320
Speaker 1: the player DNA that he and Brandon being talked about

4001
03:26:28,760 --> 03:26:32,280
Speaker 1: that I believe they feel that probably ninety five of

4002
03:26:32,320 --> 03:26:35,040
Speaker 1: this roster are people that he wants on the bus,

4003
03:26:35,879 --> 03:26:40,360
Speaker 1: and so he feels from a character makeup standpoint, this

4004
03:26:40,520 --> 03:26:43,360
Speaker 1: team is largely where he wants it to be. Now

4005
03:26:44,080 --> 03:26:46,960
Speaker 1: they just have to find more of those character makeup

4006
03:26:47,040 --> 03:26:50,960
Speaker 1: people that play an even stronger brand of football. And

4007
03:26:51,200 --> 03:26:54,560
Speaker 1: that's the difference. You've got more than enough grinders on

4008
03:26:54,640 --> 03:26:57,960
Speaker 1: this roster. Now you need to find the guys with

4009
03:26:58,240 --> 03:27:04,040
Speaker 1: that kind of DNA, with either extraordinary athletic ability or

4010
03:27:04,360 --> 03:27:09,960
Speaker 1: extraordinary mental acuity for football. And so whether you're looking

4011
03:27:10,160 --> 03:27:13,120
Speaker 1: and examples of this as they currently exist on the

4012
03:27:13,240 --> 03:27:18,360
Speaker 1: roster are Tremaine Edmunds, freak of an athlete and ridiculous

4013
03:27:18,400 --> 03:27:21,440
Speaker 1: work ethic who wants to be great Okay, Josh Allen.

4014
03:27:21,920 --> 03:27:24,240
Speaker 1: I mean there might be two other quarterbacks in the

4015
03:27:24,320 --> 03:27:28,440
Speaker 1: league that can do what he does athletically. Do they

4016
03:27:28,560 --> 03:27:31,440
Speaker 1: have the work ethic to match like Josh does. I

4017
03:27:31,520 --> 03:27:34,240
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know those people. Um, but those

4018
03:27:34,320 --> 03:27:40,840
Speaker 1: are the kinds of players white then, you know, and

4019
03:27:41,800 --> 03:27:46,000
Speaker 1: anybody else. Yeah, that's not at that. Maybe Devin Singletary,

4020
03:27:46,200 --> 03:27:50,520
Speaker 1: he's on the way, he's on the way there, I think. Yeah,

4021
03:27:50,959 --> 03:27:53,520
Speaker 1: John Brown, you know that's a guy that is as

4022
03:27:53,600 --> 03:27:57,840
Speaker 1: selfless a wide receiver, you know, the number one DIVA position, sorry, Steve,

4023
03:27:58,120 --> 03:28:01,800
Speaker 1: the number one DIVA position out there for a guy

4024
03:28:02,040 --> 03:28:04,960
Speaker 1: that can accomplish as much as he can on the

4025
03:28:05,000 --> 03:28:11,520
Speaker 1: football field athletically. Um, it's astounding to me how selfless

4026
03:28:11,560 --> 03:28:13,720
Speaker 1: he is as a person and a teammate. So that's

4027
03:28:13,760 --> 03:28:16,920
Speaker 1: probably another person, highly skilled player who also has the

4028
03:28:17,040 --> 03:28:19,200
Speaker 1: right DNA. Those guys are gonna be hard to find.

4029
03:28:19,240 --> 03:28:20,880
Speaker 1: They are hard. It's not very many of them, and

4030
03:28:20,959 --> 03:28:23,080
Speaker 1: there's not very many of them. The good news is

4031
03:28:23,360 --> 03:28:26,080
Speaker 1: the Bills don't need fifteen of them. They probably only

4032
03:28:26,120 --> 03:28:29,080
Speaker 1: need four or five of them. Yeah, four or five

4033
03:28:29,160 --> 03:28:31,240
Speaker 1: I would say put you over the top. Three probably

4034
03:28:31,280 --> 03:28:34,320
Speaker 1: puts you right there um, and it's on Brandon being

4035
03:28:34,360 --> 03:28:36,800
Speaker 1: in his personnel staff to find those kinds of players.

4036
03:28:37,080 --> 03:28:39,720
Speaker 1: I think they've done an extraordinary job so far in

4037
03:28:39,840 --> 03:28:42,960
Speaker 1: finding those players. They're just they're just not enough of

4038
03:28:43,000 --> 03:28:48,280
Speaker 1: those elite talent guys to have the DNA to go

4039
03:28:48,400 --> 03:28:49,880
Speaker 1: with it. And you think about it too. And he

4040
03:28:50,000 --> 03:28:51,760
Speaker 1: was asked, is it gonna be easier? I don't know

4041
03:28:51,800 --> 03:28:54,160
Speaker 1: who was somebody asking is it easier this offseason? Because

4042
03:28:54,200 --> 03:28:56,560
Speaker 1: you know that it was my question. He said, no,

4043
03:28:56,959 --> 03:28:59,760
Speaker 1: it's I think it's even harder this year because last

4044
03:28:59,840 --> 03:29:02,360
Speaker 1: year he had nine positions in offense. You would kick

4045
03:29:02,440 --> 03:29:04,320
Speaker 1: all those guys in the current you can pick it.

4046
03:29:04,480 --> 03:29:06,880
Speaker 1: You can pick you know, Charlie six pack off the

4047
03:29:06,920 --> 03:29:09,880
Speaker 1: street and it's an upgrade. Now it's not. You got

4048
03:29:09,959 --> 03:29:11,640
Speaker 1: to go find a guy that can really play, that

4049
03:29:11,720 --> 03:29:14,400
Speaker 1: can upgrade. It's not just anybody, and you got to

4050
03:29:14,440 --> 03:29:16,120
Speaker 1: find a guy. And that's why I followed up on

4051
03:29:16,200 --> 03:29:19,000
Speaker 1: that question because I didn't think I asked it properly initially,

4052
03:29:19,240 --> 03:29:22,160
Speaker 1: because Brandon looks at the offseason and he's like, it

4053
03:29:22,280 --> 03:29:24,920
Speaker 1: might be harder because the holes I have to fill

4054
03:29:25,760 --> 03:29:28,120
Speaker 1: might be lesser, which is why I saw it as

4055
03:29:28,200 --> 03:29:31,920
Speaker 1: less of a to do list, right, fewer holes to fill.

4056
03:29:31,959 --> 03:29:34,680
Speaker 1: Those guys are even harder to find. But the type

4057
03:29:34,720 --> 03:29:36,680
Speaker 1: of talent that he needs to add to the roster

4058
03:29:36,800 --> 03:29:39,880
Speaker 1: to get it over the top will be harder to find.

4059
03:29:39,920 --> 03:29:42,439
Speaker 1: And so that's why I think he sees this offseason

4060
03:29:42,920 --> 03:29:46,560
Speaker 1: as more challenging for him because and that's why on

4061
03:29:46,720 --> 03:29:49,800
Speaker 1: my follow up question, he did say, yes, last year

4062
03:29:49,920 --> 03:29:52,400
Speaker 1: we had to overhaul. We don't have to overhaul the

4063
03:29:52,480 --> 03:29:54,840
Speaker 1: offense this year, but we do have to find the

4064
03:29:55,000 --> 03:29:58,440
Speaker 1: right pieces to help push the offense to a level

4065
03:29:58,520 --> 03:30:01,920
Speaker 1: where they're points scoring a bill is such that we're

4066
03:30:02,000 --> 03:30:04,400
Speaker 1: not leaning on our defense in a one score game

4067
03:30:04,640 --> 03:30:08,120
Speaker 1: to be perfect. Right, Let's hear them talk about that

4068
03:30:08,320 --> 03:30:10,880
Speaker 1: very issue right here, Brandon Bean says they don't need

4069
03:30:10,920 --> 03:30:18,039
Speaker 1: a major overhaul on offense. Here it is I think

4070
03:30:18,160 --> 03:30:23,280
Speaker 1: last year offensively was an overhaul to your point, Chris, Um,

4071
03:30:23,520 --> 03:30:27,160
Speaker 1: but uh, we are going to look, you know, under

4072
03:30:27,200 --> 03:30:33,080
Speaker 1: every rock to find competition and upgrades where where we

4073
03:30:33,200 --> 03:30:37,680
Speaker 1: can and um, but we're gonna still my philosophy has

4074
03:30:37,720 --> 03:30:41,680
Speaker 1: not changed. We've got a draft, develop and sign our guys,

4075
03:30:42,080 --> 03:30:45,520
Speaker 1: and we're now getting into the area where you know,

4076
03:30:45,879 --> 03:30:48,760
Speaker 1: guys that have been here three years are up for contracts.

4077
03:30:48,840 --> 03:30:51,680
Speaker 1: We have some guys that you know that we claimed

4078
03:30:51,800 --> 03:30:56,199
Speaker 1: that our free agents. Um, so all those discussions will

4079
03:30:56,560 --> 03:31:00,440
Speaker 1: commence here real soon. As to guys that are potential agents,

4080
03:31:01,240 --> 03:31:04,360
Speaker 1: do we want him back and then can we work

4081
03:31:04,440 --> 03:31:07,480
Speaker 1: it out with them and their agent to come to

4082
03:31:07,600 --> 03:31:11,520
Speaker 1: an agreement on financial terms? And that was his answer,

4083
03:31:11,600 --> 03:31:14,680
Speaker 1: and he gets into how difficult that'll be in regard

4084
03:31:14,720 --> 03:31:17,039
Speaker 1: to the cap. Once again, there's always a salary cap.

4085
03:31:17,120 --> 03:31:19,879
Speaker 1: It's not gone, and at least they have some flexibility

4086
03:31:19,920 --> 03:31:21,640
Speaker 1: now to deal with the cap. Right, there's a couple

4087
03:31:21,760 --> 03:31:26,000
Speaker 1: issues at work here. Number One, you've got players from

4088
03:31:26,040 --> 03:31:27,960
Speaker 1: your first draft class who are all going to be

4089
03:31:28,120 --> 03:31:30,600
Speaker 1: entering the final year of their current rookie contracts in

4090
03:31:30,720 --> 03:31:35,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Talking about Milano, Dawkins White, three players who

4091
03:31:35,440 --> 03:31:38,640
Speaker 1: I think most of us would agree the team probably

4092
03:31:38,680 --> 03:31:42,960
Speaker 1: would like to hold onto going forward. But you're talking

4093
03:31:43,000 --> 03:31:45,360
Speaker 1: about a high price position a left tackle, and you're

4094
03:31:45,360 --> 03:31:48,800
Speaker 1: talking about a high price position of cornerback. Then right

4095
03:31:48,920 --> 03:31:54,360
Speaker 1: after that, if Josh comes along like they expect, you're

4096
03:31:54,400 --> 03:31:57,000
Speaker 1: gonna have to probably pay him at that point in

4097
03:31:57,120 --> 03:32:00,480
Speaker 1: time a contract that gives him thirty million dollars a year,

4098
03:32:00,920 --> 03:32:04,520
Speaker 1: which completely changes the dynamic of your cap structure. So

4099
03:32:05,480 --> 03:32:08,160
Speaker 1: while it's all great to say, yeah, we gotta sign

4100
03:32:08,240 --> 03:32:10,200
Speaker 1: Trey White to this giant contract, and we got to

4101
03:32:10,240 --> 03:32:12,800
Speaker 1: resign Matt Milano, when we got to resign Dion Dawkins

4102
03:32:12,879 --> 03:32:15,560
Speaker 1: and whoever else, you know, Jordan Poyer is going to

4103
03:32:15,600 --> 03:32:17,200
Speaker 1: be coming up on the last year or his deal.

4104
03:32:17,240 --> 03:32:20,879
Speaker 1: We need, oh, we need him back to Even though

4105
03:32:20,920 --> 03:32:22,720
Speaker 1: the cap goes up ten to twelve million a year,

4106
03:32:23,040 --> 03:32:27,960
Speaker 1: these are going to be hard fiscal puzzle pieces to

4107
03:32:28,200 --> 03:32:32,000
Speaker 1: fit all together to keep the entire thing intact. Now,

4108
03:32:32,120 --> 03:32:35,200
Speaker 1: I was encouraged by the fact that being said, we

4109
03:32:35,400 --> 03:32:38,920
Speaker 1: have the cap room right now to do the things

4110
03:32:39,000 --> 03:32:42,520
Speaker 1: we need to do to get better. Is he going

4111
03:32:42,600 --> 03:32:45,240
Speaker 1: to be able to say that same thing two years

4112
03:32:45,320 --> 03:32:47,840
Speaker 1: down the road when it may come time to pay

4113
03:32:47,920 --> 03:32:51,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback, you know, the big second contract that we

4114
03:32:51,240 --> 03:32:54,560
Speaker 1: see with so many other teams, and how it changes

4115
03:32:54,600 --> 03:32:57,800
Speaker 1: the dynamic of who they can and cannot resign or

4116
03:32:57,920 --> 03:32:59,840
Speaker 1: go out insigne, It would be a totally different question.

4117
03:33:00,080 --> 03:33:03,640
Speaker 1: Two years it will be. So So here's the window, guys,

4118
03:33:03,959 --> 03:33:07,240
Speaker 1: the windows here. Now, you gotta hope Josh makes another

4119
03:33:07,320 --> 03:33:09,880
Speaker 1: big step next year, and that they can put the

4120
03:33:09,920 --> 03:33:13,160
Speaker 1: pieces around him because the cap dollars are there to

4121
03:33:13,480 --> 03:33:18,240
Speaker 1: go for it this year next year and then hope

4122
03:33:18,280 --> 03:33:21,480
Speaker 1: you get there, sign your quarterback to his big money

4123
03:33:21,560 --> 03:33:24,040
Speaker 1: contract and then filling enough pieces around him. Chris, what

4124
03:33:24,120 --> 03:33:26,080
Speaker 1: are you writing about right right now? What's next step?

4125
03:33:26,160 --> 03:33:29,000
Speaker 1: So really, what we've got is we've got our staff,

4126
03:33:29,160 --> 03:33:31,440
Speaker 1: you know, Maddie and a couple of our other people

4127
03:33:31,600 --> 03:33:35,200
Speaker 1: putting together right ups on, you know, the drive through

4128
03:33:35,240 --> 03:33:37,440
Speaker 1: window of the high points that we're hit by Brandon

4129
03:33:37,480 --> 03:33:39,840
Speaker 1: Being and Sean McDermott. Today. The Sean McDermott piece is

4130
03:33:39,840 --> 03:33:42,720
Speaker 1: already up, Maddie put that together already. And then later

4131
03:33:42,840 --> 03:33:44,440
Speaker 1: in the week, I'm going to kind of just take

4132
03:33:44,480 --> 03:33:48,520
Speaker 1: a whole encompassing assessment of how the team has positioned

4133
03:33:48,520 --> 03:33:53,320
Speaker 1: itself for twenty twenty while we take maybe some educated

4134
03:33:53,400 --> 03:33:56,440
Speaker 1: guesses as to how the roster is shaped going forward

4135
03:33:56,520 --> 03:33:58,480
Speaker 1: in the off season. All right, Chris Brown, Thank you?

4136
03:33:59,240 --> 03:34:01,680
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4140
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4141
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Speaker 1: we're autopilot. A couple of things here. Let's get to

4142
03:34:28,000 --> 03:34:29,920
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet for a moment. The tweet sheet brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of

4144
03:34:32,720 --> 03:34:34,959
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. What'd you throw your tweet sheet out? Ala?

4145
03:34:35,800 --> 03:34:37,400
Speaker 1: There was one at the bottom here, which I thought

4146
03:34:37,440 --> 03:34:40,800
Speaker 1: was pretty good, r ND Bills Fan. But the question is,

4147
03:34:41,040 --> 03:34:44,120
Speaker 1: what's the most encouraging part of the Bills twenty nineteen season.

4148
03:34:44,240 --> 03:34:47,120
Speaker 1: R ND Bills Fan. While Allen's progression was great, it

4149
03:34:47,280 --> 03:34:50,320
Speaker 1: was expected in year two. What I wasn't expecting was

4150
03:34:50,360 --> 03:34:52,800
Speaker 1: the rookie class to perform the way it did. I

4151
03:34:52,920 --> 03:34:57,320
Speaker 1: can't see us making the playoffs without contributions from Knox, Singletary, Ford,

4152
03:34:57,360 --> 03:34:59,240
Speaker 1: and Oliver. Can't wait to see them in year two.

4153
03:34:59,560 --> 03:35:01,879
Speaker 1: Year year two. I think there's there's some truth there.

4154
03:35:01,920 --> 03:35:04,000
Speaker 1: I think that's a good point. We kind of take

4155
03:35:04,080 --> 03:35:08,160
Speaker 1: for granted that that that you know, Dawson, Knox and

4156
03:35:08,320 --> 03:35:11,600
Speaker 1: Singletary and and Ford and Oliver were big kind of

4157
03:35:11,720 --> 03:35:14,080
Speaker 1: contributors this year. And I don't know, if you can

4158
03:35:14,560 --> 03:35:17,080
Speaker 1: go into any year after a draft and you're expect

4159
03:35:17,120 --> 03:35:19,280
Speaker 1: to get that much contribution from one class like that,

4160
03:35:21,080 --> 03:35:25,160
Speaker 1: virtually like four starters. Yeah, if you count at Oliver

4161
03:35:25,240 --> 03:35:27,880
Speaker 1: as a starter, certainly Cody Ford, Dawson Knox, and Devin

4162
03:35:27,959 --> 03:35:32,200
Speaker 1: Singletary would be considered starters on that offense. Uh. And

4163
03:35:32,840 --> 03:35:35,120
Speaker 1: at Oliver at the end, he was they needed him

4164
03:35:35,160 --> 03:35:38,720
Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah, And so I'm, uh, that's big.

4165
03:35:39,200 --> 03:35:41,040
Speaker 1: It's really big. And you go back and look at

4166
03:35:41,280 --> 03:35:43,280
Speaker 1: teams that have been successful and I'm not for nothing.

4167
03:35:43,640 --> 03:35:45,920
Speaker 1: You read all this stuff back when the Seahawks back

4168
03:35:45,920 --> 03:35:49,119
Speaker 1: in the in the mid teens in twenty twelve thirteen,

4169
03:35:49,200 --> 03:35:50,680
Speaker 1: or when they were going to these two Super Bowls

4170
03:35:50,720 --> 03:35:53,160
Speaker 1: in a row. They had two classes where they got

4171
03:35:53,240 --> 03:35:56,560
Speaker 1: four starters out of each class, just two four start

4172
03:35:56,680 --> 03:35:59,920
Speaker 1: not seven starters, but that eight starters over two years

4173
03:36:00,040 --> 03:36:04,480
Speaker 1: in their draft classes. And that propelled them to the

4174
03:36:04,600 --> 03:36:06,720
Speaker 1: playoffs and the Super Bowl run and all that. And

4175
03:36:07,320 --> 03:36:09,400
Speaker 1: you know, and expectedly one of them was a franchise

4176
03:36:09,560 --> 03:36:13,520
Speaker 1: quarterback in Russell Wilson. But you know the other guys

4177
03:36:13,560 --> 03:36:16,080
Speaker 1: that they turned into that legion of boom franchise and

4178
03:36:16,160 --> 03:36:17,600
Speaker 1: that was you know it was a team that did it,

4179
03:36:17,680 --> 03:36:20,879
Speaker 1: and this these kind of contributions, these Lions share contributions

4180
03:36:20,920 --> 03:36:23,360
Speaker 1: from the top half of the draft class. I've been

4181
03:36:23,520 --> 03:36:26,840
Speaker 1: huge for this team's progress. Take a phone call or too.

4182
03:36:26,920 --> 03:36:28,640
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jake. Jake, are you there, you're on

4183
03:36:28,680 --> 03:36:33,040
Speaker 1: the air still right? Go ahead? I just got three

4184
03:36:33,120 --> 03:36:35,600
Speaker 1: quick points. You guys can counting on him. First of all,

4185
03:36:35,760 --> 03:36:39,560
Speaker 1: the second half when they kicked off. The referee on

4186
03:36:39,600 --> 03:36:41,920
Speaker 1: the field had that call white. I think I was

4187
03:36:41,959 --> 03:36:43,840
Speaker 1: supposed to down the ball. All he did would stick

4188
03:36:43,920 --> 03:36:45,800
Speaker 1: his arms off. You do that when the fog goes

4189
03:36:45,879 --> 03:36:48,640
Speaker 1: over your head. But that's one thing. The other thing

4190
03:36:48,760 --> 03:36:51,840
Speaker 1: Duke Williams doesn't plane all year because if he had

4191
03:36:51,920 --> 03:36:53,680
Speaker 1: that touchdown he had in the end zone, he might

4192
03:36:53,760 --> 03:36:56,440
Speaker 1: have caught. You just judged it right in his hand.

4193
03:36:57,200 --> 03:37:01,680
Speaker 1: Go ahead. What's your third point? Certain point is Josh Allen?

4194
03:37:02,480 --> 03:37:05,160
Speaker 1: It's doing pretty good. Everybody started for this that Jim

4195
03:37:05,240 --> 03:37:07,760
Speaker 1: Kelly's played two years and the usfut before he even

4196
03:37:07,840 --> 03:37:11,120
Speaker 1: got here. Yeah, let me get to your second point

4197
03:37:11,120 --> 03:37:13,080
Speaker 1: for a second. We're almost out of time too. Um.

4198
03:37:13,520 --> 03:37:15,360
Speaker 1: That's one argument. Duke Quaens would have caught it if

4199
03:37:15,360 --> 03:37:17,240
Speaker 1: he had played more of the Other argument is maybe

4200
03:37:17,280 --> 03:37:19,320
Speaker 1: that's why Duke Queens wasn't playing, because he doesn't catch

4201
03:37:19,360 --> 03:37:21,840
Speaker 1: passes like that. No, yeah, why do you think he

4202
03:37:21,920 --> 03:37:24,280
Speaker 1: wasn't playing until the last week or two of the season.

4203
03:37:25,920 --> 03:37:27,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know why. I know. All

4204
03:37:27,800 --> 03:37:30,560
Speaker 1: I know is this A big target for a quarterback

4205
03:37:30,800 --> 03:37:33,440
Speaker 1: is a huge advantage. I don't care what anybody says,

4206
03:37:33,879 --> 03:37:35,680
Speaker 1: because when you got little guys to throw too, you

4207
03:37:35,760 --> 03:37:38,320
Speaker 1: got to throw a pinpoint accuracy. A big guy really

4208
03:37:38,360 --> 03:37:41,240
Speaker 1: gives you a lot of room to throw. Well, yeah,

4209
03:37:41,320 --> 03:37:45,800
Speaker 1: every guy's different. Um was it McDermott or McBean or

4210
03:37:45,920 --> 03:37:48,440
Speaker 1: was it McDermot or bean who was asked about that today?

4211
03:37:48,520 --> 03:37:51,280
Speaker 1: One of them was asked and basically said, we had

4212
03:37:51,320 --> 03:37:53,959
Speaker 1: other guys who earned the play talk about earning playing time,

4213
03:37:54,320 --> 03:37:57,040
Speaker 1: and I think you're referring to Robert Foster, who up

4214
03:37:57,120 --> 03:37:59,720
Speaker 1: until Week six seventeen against the Jets had earned the

4215
03:37:59,720 --> 03:38:02,160
Speaker 1: play time. So I don't know. It's what you can.

4216
03:38:02,360 --> 03:38:04,320
Speaker 1: You can have that opinion if you want. I respect that,

4217
03:38:04,400 --> 03:38:06,800
Speaker 1: but I think the Bills coaches should tell you something

4218
03:38:06,840 --> 03:38:09,320
Speaker 1: else about Duke Williams. You have not earned the right

4219
03:38:09,400 --> 03:38:12,400
Speaker 1: to play at that point. There's no nothing nefarious about it.

4220
03:38:12,480 --> 03:38:14,880
Speaker 1: There is no conspiracy against Duke Williams. It's just the

4221
03:38:14,879 --> 03:38:18,160
Speaker 1: way it played out. Your thoughts, just one thing, go ahead, funny.

4222
03:38:18,600 --> 03:38:23,360
Speaker 1: He was targeted the most in that game. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

4223
03:38:23,879 --> 03:38:26,520
Speaker 1: they should tell you something right there. I think it

4224
03:38:26,600 --> 03:38:29,080
Speaker 1: tell us you. Josh trusts him. I think that's for sure.

4225
03:38:29,440 --> 03:38:31,160
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that we saw, you know,

4226
03:38:31,240 --> 03:38:34,280
Speaker 1: saw the twenty yard pass he caught. Um. He I

4227
03:38:34,440 --> 03:38:36,560
Speaker 1: like Duke allot. I was lobby. I wanted him to

4228
03:38:36,600 --> 03:38:39,120
Speaker 1: play early, just like everybody else. But I also respect

4229
03:38:39,160 --> 03:38:42,080
Speaker 1: the fact that the guys who's because I've experienced it,

4230
03:38:42,200 --> 03:38:44,760
Speaker 1: Guys who see these guys every day, who watch him practice,

4231
03:38:44,800 --> 03:38:47,480
Speaker 1: who listened to the coaches, who listened to the sports

4232
03:38:47,560 --> 03:38:51,200
Speaker 1: science people, the strength and conditioning coaches, the position coaches,

4233
03:38:51,320 --> 03:38:55,320
Speaker 1: everybody who interacts with Duke Williams, Robert Foster, Isaiah McKenzie,

4234
03:38:55,720 --> 03:38:58,360
Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley. You get down the list. They're

4235
03:38:58,400 --> 03:39:00,560
Speaker 1: in the room, and they talk of these guys and

4236
03:39:00,680 --> 03:39:04,120
Speaker 1: work with him every day. All have input as to

4237
03:39:04,240 --> 03:39:07,720
Speaker 1: who plays and who doesn't, and they all and all

4238
03:39:07,800 --> 03:39:09,960
Speaker 1: that information goes into the hopper, and if Duke Williams

4239
03:39:10,000 --> 03:39:11,800
Speaker 1: isn't checking all the boxes, he's not going to get

4240
03:39:11,840 --> 03:39:15,080
Speaker 1: on the field. And if Robert Foster stops checking boxes,

4241
03:39:15,240 --> 03:39:17,600
Speaker 1: somebody else will get on the field. Same with Isaiah

4242
03:39:17,640 --> 03:39:20,400
Speaker 1: McKenzie's saying, with Cole Beasley, same with John Brown. It

4243
03:39:20,600 --> 03:39:24,240
Speaker 1: is a constant day to day evaluation process in the

4244
03:39:24,280 --> 03:39:26,680
Speaker 1: building as to who plays and who doesn't and what

4245
03:39:26,840 --> 03:39:29,680
Speaker 1: they need from these guys. So there's no great conspiracy

4246
03:39:29,720 --> 03:39:31,879
Speaker 1: as to why Duke Williams wasn't on the field, except

4247
03:39:32,000 --> 03:39:34,640
Speaker 1: that they didn't feel like in those days when he

4248
03:39:34,720 --> 03:39:36,080
Speaker 1: wasn't playing, that he was going to give him the

4249
03:39:36,120 --> 03:39:38,640
Speaker 1: best chance to win. They thought somebody else was. That

4250
03:39:38,879 --> 03:39:43,360
Speaker 1: is it, and it doesn't go beyond that, right, Okay,

4251
03:39:43,840 --> 03:39:46,520
Speaker 1: thank you. Let's take one more quick called Jim and Albion.

4252
03:39:46,520 --> 03:39:50,160
Speaker 1: You're on the air, Jim, go ahead, Well, good afternoon, gentleman.

4253
03:39:50,280 --> 03:39:54,760
Speaker 1: Great show is always, thank you, mister tester at Anna

4254
03:39:54,800 --> 03:39:58,160
Speaker 1: when Joe Delamolure went in and he should be there. Also,

4255
03:39:59,200 --> 03:40:02,720
Speaker 1: from my point of attention is this Baltimore has a

4256
03:40:02,840 --> 03:40:06,720
Speaker 1: great defense, and I understand the percentages or fifty some

4257
03:40:06,879 --> 03:40:10,520
Speaker 1: percent of the time they blitz and Buffalo has a

4258
03:40:10,560 --> 03:40:12,760
Speaker 1: heck of a defense, but we've all blits very much

4259
03:40:12,840 --> 03:40:14,760
Speaker 1: in the mid so it seems to me we got

4260
03:40:14,920 --> 03:40:18,440
Speaker 1: seven four guys rushing the seven guys to do coverage

4261
03:40:18,680 --> 03:40:21,800
Speaker 1: and we're still not covering. I think more pressures should

4262
03:40:21,800 --> 03:40:27,320
Speaker 1: have been put on the quarterback. Your thoughts, It'd be

4263
03:40:27,400 --> 03:40:29,240
Speaker 1: great to have more pressure on the quarterback. The Bills

4264
03:40:29,280 --> 03:40:32,400
Speaker 1: were a top ten team in terms of the number

4265
03:40:32,440 --> 03:40:35,880
Speaker 1: of sacks per passing play, so they were getting heat

4266
03:40:35,920 --> 03:40:38,960
Speaker 1: on quarterbacks all season long. That's just the way they

4267
03:40:39,000 --> 03:40:40,440
Speaker 1: play it. They don't want to blitz as much. You

4268
03:40:41,200 --> 03:40:44,360
Speaker 1: create deficits on the back end. When you're blitzing, you

4269
03:40:44,480 --> 03:40:47,400
Speaker 1: give up open receivers downfield, and that's not the way

4270
03:40:47,440 --> 03:40:49,680
Speaker 1: they wanted to play it. They were the one of

4271
03:40:49,720 --> 03:40:52,080
Speaker 1: the top passing defenses in the league all year, have

4272
03:40:52,200 --> 03:40:54,720
Speaker 1: been for two years. They're one of the top defenses

4273
03:40:54,720 --> 03:40:56,600
Speaker 1: in the league all year, have been for two years.

4274
03:40:57,200 --> 03:40:59,000
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with the way they decided

4275
03:40:59,040 --> 03:41:02,760
Speaker 1: to play defense. Yeah, if if Buffalo scored as many

4276
03:41:02,800 --> 03:41:07,000
Speaker 1: points as the Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo's defense would be best

4277
03:41:07,480 --> 03:41:09,440
Speaker 1: not to Ravens and you'd be wishing and the Ravens

4278
03:41:09,480 --> 03:41:12,120
Speaker 1: would have to blitz because they can't get pressure without it,

4279
03:41:12,400 --> 03:41:15,640
Speaker 1: and the Bills would be better. It has that those

4280
03:41:15,680 --> 03:41:19,240
Speaker 1: teams have those defenses and teams or if you flip

4281
03:41:19,360 --> 03:41:22,280
Speaker 1: those offenses around, Buffalo would be the one seed, not

4282
03:41:22,440 --> 03:41:25,320
Speaker 1: Baltimore if they scored thirty points a game. Take a break.

4283
03:41:25,360 --> 03:41:27,440
Speaker 1: We're back in a moment. One Bills Live presented by

4284
03:41:27,520 --> 03:41:29,880
Speaker 1: Kalata Health from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. This

4285
03:41:30,040 --> 03:41:46,600
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. So what have we learned from

4286
03:41:46,640 --> 03:41:49,720
Speaker 1: today's show? It is brought to you by Skyworks, the

4287
03:41:49,840 --> 03:41:53,720
Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. What

4288
03:41:53,800 --> 03:41:56,280
Speaker 1: have we learned? We have We had Random being on

4289
03:41:56,360 --> 03:41:58,640
Speaker 1: the show with us Live today. Random being talked a

4290
03:41:58,680 --> 03:42:01,400
Speaker 1: lot about the season that passed and of course what's

4291
03:42:01,400 --> 03:42:03,640
Speaker 1: to come in the future, and Brandon being also talked

4292
03:42:03,680 --> 03:42:07,800
Speaker 1: about the disappointment, the bitter disappointment from Saturday's loss to

4293
03:42:07,920 --> 03:42:11,400
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. Brandon being talked about getting emotional about

4294
03:42:11,440 --> 03:42:14,520
Speaker 1: the fans at the airport after wild Card loss this weekend.

4295
03:42:16,440 --> 03:42:20,080
Speaker 1: You just feel bad, like empty. You know, there's a

4296
03:42:20,520 --> 03:42:23,040
Speaker 1: Sean and I carry a burden. The Bagoulas do as well.

4297
03:42:23,959 --> 03:42:26,240
Speaker 1: You know, we live in this community. We love this community.

4298
03:42:26,760 --> 03:42:29,720
Speaker 1: And you know, we get off that plane and I'm like,

4299
03:42:29,920 --> 03:42:32,280
Speaker 1: holy cow, there's all these people there at two in

4300
03:42:32,360 --> 03:42:35,600
Speaker 1: the morning. It's cold as snow, and you know, I

4301
03:42:35,680 --> 03:42:37,240
Speaker 1: get in my car and you just feel like, man,

4302
03:42:37,280 --> 03:42:40,120
Speaker 1: I let them down. And so I don't look at

4303
03:42:40,120 --> 03:42:43,720
Speaker 1: anyone else and Sean done either. I look at man,

4304
03:42:44,360 --> 03:42:46,200
Speaker 1: what could I have done? Is there a player I

4305
03:42:46,240 --> 03:42:47,720
Speaker 1: could have done that could have got us over the

4306
03:42:47,800 --> 03:42:49,240
Speaker 1: top of that? Or is there a move I could

4307
03:42:49,280 --> 03:42:53,120
Speaker 1: have made? You're always second guess and you got to

4308
03:42:53,160 --> 03:42:55,080
Speaker 1: get beyond it, Steve. We have to get beyond it.

4309
03:42:55,200 --> 03:42:57,320
Speaker 1: Today's the last day we will worry about what happened

4310
03:42:57,320 --> 03:43:00,840
Speaker 1: in Saturdays. Speak for yourself. Gotta move on. I'm gonna

4311
03:43:00,879 --> 03:43:03,920
Speaker 1: let it fester. Oh, I'm gonna move on. All right,

4312
03:43:03,959 --> 03:43:06,080
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. We will try to move on tomorrow.

4313
03:43:06,240 --> 03:43:09,800
Speaker 1: Our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Coltnick Thomas, honald Or,

4314
03:43:09,840 --> 03:43:13,279
Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, jj Urto, Kevin Cargi, James Roebel, our producer

4315
03:43:13,400 --> 03:43:15,680
Speaker 1: Jay Harris has been a great five hours with you. Everybody,

4316
03:43:16,280 --> 03:43:18,080
Speaker 1: make sure you join us tomorrow. Hopefully it's only a

4317
03:43:18,160 --> 03:43:20,720
Speaker 1: three hour show Tomorrow starts at noon. One Bill's Live,

4318
03:43:20,800 --> 03:43:23,880
Speaker 1: presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard

4319
03:43:23,959 --> 03:43:25,920
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