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Speaker 1: Happy Friday to you. You made it to the end

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Speaker 1: football preseason football. That is on Saturday afternoon, Mattie Glab

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Obviously, if you're watching on MSG, if you're

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Speaker 1: training camp, we're going to do this thing again this

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Speaker 1: year where we bring Maddie in every Monday on the

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Speaker 1: show and she's gonna give out her Maddie Awards after

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Speaker 1: Bills wins. So since we're broke camp. And then last

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes here before we go to break, let's

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Speaker 1: let's talk about your your Maddie Awards for training camp,

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Speaker 1: because they're here. We gotta look at that one. Bills

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Speaker 1: Live Present. We're bringing it back nice for twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: The Maddie Award, presented by Energy Mark, the official energy

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Speaker 1: supplier to the Buffalo Bills. All right, Steve, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start first with most Improved. I gave an offensive and

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Speaker 1: defensive award to most Improved, and for offense, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say Isaiah McKenzie is our most improved player. I think

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Speaker 1: he's going to have an uptick in his role this season.

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Speaker 1: It's something that the coaching staff talked about in the

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Speaker 1: offseason that Isaiah McKenzie did have an opportunity to step

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Speaker 1: into more of a full time role, of a bigger

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Speaker 1: role from the season's past, whatever you want to call it.

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Speaker 1: Because Cole Beasley is not on the team anymore, so

447
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 1: that left a void at slot receiver. Jamison Crowder's also

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Speaker 1: on the roster, but Isaiah McKenzie, I think is somebody

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Speaker 1: that a lot of eyes turned to throughout practices. Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen was asked yesterday when the media talked to him

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Speaker 1: if somebody impressed him through training camp or if somebody

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Speaker 1: stepped up, and he said, Isaiah McKenzie because of the

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Speaker 1: way that he was able to kind of take on

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Speaker 1: this role in training camp and also the understanding that

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Speaker 1: he now has for the offense as a whole. You

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Speaker 1: think about a player maybe who's who's not getting all

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Speaker 1: the snaps, not getting all the reps, not a starting

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Speaker 1: wide receiver, and then transferring into an opportunity to be

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Speaker 1: somebody like that. The knowledge that you have to have

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Speaker 1: in this offense, I think takes the next step and

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Speaker 1: I think he was able to do that based on

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Speaker 1: what Josh Allen said, based on how he's looked at camp,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah did not drop a lot of a lot of passes, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You're exactly right. The routes that he was running, I

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Speaker 1: think we were an improvement from last season the season before,

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Speaker 1: how he was able to get his hands on the

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Speaker 1: ball in tight coverage, in double coverage and situations and

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Speaker 1: the red zone. Yeah, Josh Allen loves a security blanket.

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Speaker 1: We had the production being this morning with Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 1: We asked him, you know about the slot position and stuff.

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Speaker 1: He said, one of the things about Isaiah that it

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Speaker 1: happened he's been here for a while now. When he

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Speaker 1: came he to Buffalo, he was a straight line kind

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Speaker 1: of speed guy. And now since he sat behind Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasley and watched him and talked with him, his game

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Speaker 1: has took taken leaps and bounce over. His instinctual ability

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Speaker 1: to just to find the area and the short area

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Speaker 1: quickness and to have a great instinct for what Josh

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Speaker 1: wants him to do and where he wants to be.

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Speaker 1: Totally a different player than he was four years ago

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Speaker 1: when he got her, five years ago when he got here,

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Speaker 1: and now you know, you're seeing the benefits of it

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Speaker 1: of having a guy who hung around and then learned

484
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Speaker 1: and got better and now he's stepping onto the field.

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Speaker 1: He ran a route the other day in practice. I

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Speaker 1: was like, I have never seen this before out of

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Speaker 1: Isaam McKenzie. The way that he was able to get

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Speaker 1: in and out of his breaks. It reminded me of

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Speaker 1: somebody like Cole Beasley, who, yes, he has learned so

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Speaker 1: much from during his time with the Buffalo Bills for

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Speaker 1: defensive and most improved. I'm gonna say the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: I kind of talked about this already, but I think

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Speaker 1: they're going to take a big step forward here in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season. Not because guys aren't on

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Speaker 1: the roster anymore, Jerry Hughes other players who are not

496
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Speaker 1: a part of this team played a big part, played

497
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Speaker 1: a big role on this team for so many seasons

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Speaker 1: and gave a lot to this team. But I think

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Speaker 1: we got to new faces in there. Von Miller, of course.

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Speaker 1: I love the tandem of von Miller and at Oliver.

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Speaker 1: Those two have talked each other up so much during

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Speaker 1: training camp. At Oliver looks like he's playing a lot

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Speaker 1: more confidently because he has von Miller on his defensive line.

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Speaker 1: The defensive line kind of agrees that a player like

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Speaker 1: von Miller really ups your confidence when you go out

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Speaker 1: there every single snap, every single play. You feel more

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Speaker 1: confident when you're playing next to a proven guy like him,

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Speaker 1: somebody who's already won a couple of Super Bowls. So

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Speaker 1: that's why the defensive line is going to get my

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Speaker 1: Most Improved award as we move on. Biggest shock was

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Speaker 1: somebody else another award that I wanted to do, and

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Speaker 1: I think Christian Benford was my biggest shock. I look

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Speaker 1: at some of the rookies, the people that we drafted,

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Speaker 1: you know, first round, second round, third round. You expect

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Speaker 1: those players to show up in training camp and to

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Speaker 1: make some plays, makes some highlight reel catches, pass breakups,

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Speaker 1: whatever the position may be for what that player needs

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Speaker 1: to do. Christian Benford is a six was a sixth

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Speaker 1: round pick for the Buffalo Bills. Sixth and seventh rounders.

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Speaker 1: You're not thinking are going to do the same thing

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Speaker 1: as first, second and third rounders, just based on their

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Speaker 1: draft stock what they did in college football. Now, Christian

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Speaker 1: Benford did have seven interceptions in twenty twenty one, so

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Speaker 1: he did a lot at Villanova, which is where he

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Speaker 1: played college football. Coach McDermott says he loves those smaller

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Speaker 1: school guys because they have that chip on their shoulder.

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Speaker 1: They've had to work for everything they've gotten. Christian Benford

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Speaker 1: had pass breakups here. They're everywhere during training camp and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't just against younger players. It was against Gay Davis,

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. That is why he is my biggest shock

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Speaker 1: for a training camp because he was competing at a

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Speaker 1: high level with some of the players who are going

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Speaker 1: to be starters on this roster this season. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: too big for him in practices. Now we'll see if

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Speaker 1: this will transfer over into preseason games because the lights

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Speaker 1: are going to be on, the fans are going to

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Speaker 1: be in the stands. Let's see what this rookie can do.

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Speaker 1: But to see him play fast so quickly in this

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Speaker 1: defense is a big shock to me. Yeah, it has

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Speaker 1: been a pleasant surprise, and we've got we've got more

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Speaker 1: Maddie Awards. We're kind of up against the break, but

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Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, he's been the most well the

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Speaker 1: most pleasant surprise of training camp, no question. Certainly they

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Speaker 1: drafted him and we got a chance to ask Brandon

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Speaker 1: Being about him today as well. It's got a great story.

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Speaker 1: It's very both Brandon Being and Sean McDermott described in

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Speaker 1: the same way. He's very quiet. So we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that plays out on the football field. But no question,

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Speaker 1: Christian Benford has been a really, really pleasant surprise for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Has just surprised everybody because you don't

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Speaker 1: and we've talked about how deep the draft class has been,

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Speaker 1: all these guys have played extremely well here in trainee camp.

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Speaker 1: They've they've all played like they belong, which is unusual

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Speaker 1: for any draft class. But for having to have a

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Speaker 1: full draft class like the Bills, I hadn't have every

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Speaker 1: single based on the roster that we already have. You're thinking,

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Speaker 1: by the time you get into the six and seventh round,

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Speaker 1: which we've done the last couple of years, not because

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00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: of the player, just because of the situation on this team.

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Speaker 1: Is the sixth rounder or seventh rounder even going to

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Speaker 1: make this team? And then a guy like Christian Benford

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Speaker 1: proves himself on the field and you're thinking, huh, he

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00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: could be valuable to this team. All Right, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take our first break of the show. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll finish up this Mattie Awards and get into

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Speaker 1: the fan mailbag. It's Friday afternoon. Stick with this here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live. We're presented by Kalida Health. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. We're back here on One Bills

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Speaker 1: by Maddie Glab alongside Steve Tasker, and we were doing

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Speaker 1: our Maddie Awards that's going to be back for this season.

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Speaker 1: So after every win on mondays, I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: giving out awards. Excited to do it for I think

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Speaker 1: it's season number three. So we thought we would do

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Speaker 1: some Maddie Awards for heading into the pre season, some

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Speaker 1: training camp awards, the Maddie's. We got through a couple

576
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: of them, so let's pick up where we left off.

577
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Speaker 1: We just did the We did the most improved offense

578
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: and defense. Isaiah McKenzie on offense and the defensive line

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Speaker 1: was the most improved for on the defensive side. And

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Speaker 1: then we did the biggest shock of training camp was

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Speaker 1: Christian Benford. Now we're up to most excited about. Who

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Speaker 1: is am I most excited about when these games start

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Speaker 1: to count. It is one of the drive picks from

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Speaker 1: this twenty twenty two draft class, running back James Cook.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a shock to really anybody either, Um,

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Speaker 1: but it was really fun to watch him throughout training camp. UM.

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Speaker 1: I described him as after we saw him in a

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Speaker 1: first his first couple of practices, I said, this running

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Speaker 1: back looks like he just floats out there. Um. He

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00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: is speedy. Uh, he's got good vision, a good twitch

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00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: about him. Um, good hands. He was involved in a

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Speaker 1: lot of the passing game end of things and practices.

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Speaker 1: Um caught a lot of passes from Josh Allen, Case, Keena,

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Speaker 1: Matt Barkley. Um was involved in a lot of practices

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Speaker 1: from from first team to second team to third team.

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Speaker 1: He was getting a lot of reps, as he should,

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Speaker 1: as a rookie should, especially somebody as diverse of a

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Speaker 1: player as James Cook is trying to figure out, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how can he work in is in this offense? How

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Speaker 1: can he shine the most? How can he throw defenses off?

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Speaker 1: So we got to see a lot of James Cook

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Speaker 1: in Rochester. So I'm most excited about him just because

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Speaker 1: of what he offers. This is a pass catching running back.

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Speaker 1: This is a player that definitely fits in this type

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Speaker 1: of offense. When you're looking at weapons, when you're looking

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Speaker 1: at how to diversify the offense, when you're looking at

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen taking another step in his fifth year a

608
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Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator, it all kind of just makes sense.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy to get a player like this on

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Speaker 1: your team. Is that is an elite player. Will wait

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Speaker 1: to see if James Cook turns into that. We know

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Speaker 1: his brother is very elite, Dalvin Cook. But you think

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Speaker 1: about a pass catching running back as somebody who is

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Speaker 1: really able to throw off and confuse defenses in Okay,

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Speaker 1: who's lining up against this guy? Are we putting a

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Speaker 1: linebacker on him? If he's lining out wide? Are we

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Speaker 1: are we putting a corner on him? How is this

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Speaker 1: going to work out? A slot corner? And I think

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Speaker 1: he's just going to be another another tool, another another

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Speaker 1: weapon that you can plug in play and place here

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Speaker 1: and there, whether it's in twenty two personnel or twelve

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Speaker 1: personnel or eleven, whatever you want to do. I think

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Speaker 1: he's somebody that's going to up your auntie when you're

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Speaker 1: playing against some really good teams. One of the things

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Speaker 1: about him is that as good as this offense has gotten,

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Speaker 1: with Josh erupt erupting and climbing into the upper echelon

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Speaker 1: of quarterbacks in the NFL, the one thing they've done

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Speaker 1: the two running backs in the third round, Devin Singletary

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Speaker 1: and of course then Zach Moss, and they've had other

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Speaker 1: guys come through and try and help out, you know,

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Speaker 1: last year is Matt Brita. Duke Johnson is also hired

632
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Speaker 1: this year. One of the things they've had that they've

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Speaker 1: never had during this ascension of their offense is a

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Speaker 1: guy like James Cook, a guy a running back who

635
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Speaker 1: can split. Now, they've done it with guys, but when

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Speaker 1: you split out James Cook, they can't put a linebacker

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Speaker 1: on him and man up on him. Yeah, so it's

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Speaker 1: a different personnel. Said, they've never had that in this

639
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Speaker 1: ascension of this offense, and now it's one. They're up there,

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Speaker 1: this upper echelon of quarterback. They got this elite quarterback

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Speaker 1: in Josh Allen. They got Steph Diggs, they got Gabe Davis,

642
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 1: they've got a slot receiver, they got all these weapons.

643
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: Now they've got this running back who gives them the

644
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: ability to both run the football and throw it really

645
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: effectively with this guy's skill set. So you're right, that's

646
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 1: the one thing I'm most excited about, not only because

647
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: of the kind of player he is, but how what

648
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: it allows their offense to do. They become They become

649
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: much more versatile if he's on the field, split out

650
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: wide and they gotta they gotta say, well, you know what,

651
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: we gotta gotta bring it deep. How are you going

652
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: to match up on defense? That's the thing, and that's

653
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: the and here's to simplify it. If James Cook's on

654
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: the field and they bring in, they say, well, if

655
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: he's a running back, so we're gonna bring a runner,

656
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring a third linebacker. Run, we're gonna go

657
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: and and then he lines up out wide and the

658
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: bill start throwing it over the yard. You got this big,

659
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: heavy linebacker guarding him, or even if it's not a

660
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: heavy even if it's like guy like Matt Milano, he's

661
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: gonna struggle. So that gives him a problem. So if

662
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: they come out and put a corner on him, now

663
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's split out. Why and you

664
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: put the cornerback out on him. Okay, so now he

665
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: motions in. Now he lines up behind Josh and you

666
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: tighten it up, and all of a sudden they're running

667
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: at this guy. And you got a cornerback trying to

668
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: take on a pulling guard. You win that matchup too.

669
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Speaker 1: So that's to simplify why he's so intriguing. That's it

670
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: right there, and it's gonna be fun to watch. And

671
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is of course doing things to make himself

672
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: a better quarterback in his fifth year, but players like

673
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: James Cook helped Josh also improve as as the years

674
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: go on. Players like this different types of skill sets

675
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: that you can add that just mesh with what you

676
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: already have. So that's why I'm most excited about James

677
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: offensive MVP. For me, we already know Josh Allen is

678
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: a great player. We know Stefan Diggs is a great player.

679
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: This is somebody who really impressed me in training camp.

680
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: It's Gabe Davis. This kid was all over the field

681
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: making plays in practices. The connection, the chemistry that he

682
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: has with Josh Allen, I think is out of this world.

683
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: What he was able to do in that playoff game

684
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. The standards, the expectations for Gabe Davis this

685
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: season are really high. He's going to have a bigger

686
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: role in this offense. It is a lot to live

687
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: up to. But Gabe is such a hard worker. He's

688
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: somebody who said, I didn't take any vacations because I

689
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: wanted to put an extra work this offseason because this

690
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: season means a lot to me, it means a lot

691
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: to the team. I know what our expectations are of ourselves.

692
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: Where we want to go, what games we want to win,

693
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: how we want to make it all the way and

694
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: to be able to do that, I had to I

695
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: had to put more work in and I couldn't take vacations.

696
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: This is somebody who really doesn't take time off. And

697
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 1: you could see that in practices. He was winning one

698
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:15,240
Speaker 1: on one matchups. He was catching deep balls from Josh Allen,

699
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: he was running different routes. He was somebody who learned

700
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: a lot of different positions wide receiver positions in his

701
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: rookie season and it's showing up now as as he's

702
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: getting older in this offense and older as an NFL player.

703
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: He's interesting because he got on. He made the club

704
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: as a rookie when they were when they totally revamped

705
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: their wide receiver corps. He came in in twenty twenty

706
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: and you know Steph Diggs was here and that you know,

707
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: they totally upgraded that spot, and he made the team

708
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: because he knew all the spots. He was a smart guy,

709
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 1: learned how to do it. And the thing that I

710
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: and which is great and he you know, he had

711
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: the four touchdown catch game. Okay, you know, we're all

712
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: he even he's sick of hearing about that, right, So,

713
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: but the thing about him that I don't think he

714
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: gets enough credit for is his ability. And it sounds

715
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: crazy and basic when I say it, but he gets open.

716
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: He's like a magnet to the ball he gets when

717
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: Josh throws him the ball, they ain't nobody around him.

718
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 1: He really has separation wherever he is and I think

719
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: that's been his biggest asset for a quarterback like Josh,

720
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: when Gabe Davis gets the ball thrown to him, he's open.

721
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: He gets open. And that's and while he said, well, yeah,

722
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: of course it's not easy, but he does it. And

723
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: as he's a big target, he's a big dude. He's

724
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: as big a wide receiver as the Bills have on

725
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: their roster. And his ability to get separation. Not only

726
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: is he a big target, there's a lot of space

727
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: around him to throw at. That's a great combination when

728
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: you're dropping back and you got a pass rush coming,

729
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: he Josh just throws it at him. It's he is

730
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: really I think has been underrated in his wide receiver

731
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: skills because of the fact that he's been playing behind

732
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: guys like Emmanuel Sanders and John Brown Steph Diggs. And

733
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 1: here's why space matters in this offense and in the NFL.

734
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: And why you want space, Josh Allen said, when the

735
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: guys came back from offseason workouts, offseason break, whatever you

736
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: want to call it. In April, I want to work

737
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: on my yards after catch, on throwing receivers open. To

738
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: be able to do that, you need space to get

739
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. Gabe Davis is able to get

740
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: separation from his defenders. That allows you more space, That

741
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: allows you the opportunity to get yards after catch. After

742
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: your quarterback, Josh Allen is throwing you open. It's going

743
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: to help the offense as a whole. It's going to

744
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: help this offense get more yards, move the ball down

745
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: the field, and in turn, hopefully score more touchdowns. He's

746
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: going to have a bigger role on this offense this season,

747
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: in this offense this season. He deserves it. He's definitely

748
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: worked into having a bigger role. MVP for defense. Von

749
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: Miller he was all over the quarterback. He couldn't really

750
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: do anything about it because it was training camp. He

751
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: can't tackle in training camp. There's really no live periods.

752
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: But he was able to win a lot of matchups

753
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: against the offensive line. You watch him come flying off

754
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: the edge and he is right at Josh Allen in

755
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: seconds and the whistle blows and that's when you know

756
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: it counts as a sack. Obviously, Von Miller is old

757
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: enough to know I'm not knocking down a quarterback like

758
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I'm gonna get myself in trouble if I

759
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 1: do that. But he he was flying around the field,

760
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: so he's my defensive MVP for training camp. And then

761
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,280
Speaker 1: quickly before we had to break best off the field moment,

762
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: all the autographs signed. It was so fun walking into

763
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: practice every day, walking out of practice every day, people

764
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: hanging shoes from the rafters signed my Air Force ones,

765
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: sign this painting that I have of Josh Allen or

766
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins or just cool people with stories. Players were

767
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: able to connect with and meet so many of our

768
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: amazing fans that belonged to Bill's Mafia. So that was

769
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: my best off the field moment. Yeah, and it was.

770
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: It was tons and tons of people showed up. I

771
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: think it was probably given the fact that the team

772
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: had been away from Saint John Fisher for so many

773
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: years for a couple of years, and now that they

774
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: were back, there was a kind of a refreshing field

775
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: to camp that it like it was fun to be back.

776
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: The expectations associated with the team. Coupled with that and

777
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,479
Speaker 1: the enormous crowds that were there. Every ticket was used

778
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 1: for every training camp practice that was open to the public.

779
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: It was it was fantastic. Tasker was even signing all

780
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: the last day. Three people wanted my autograms three times

781
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: ten Tasker. So there they were, and I told her

782
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: we were laughing because I was sitting there signing for

783
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: these people and one kid off to my right. They

784
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: were you know, people yell at you and they talk.

785
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: They feel like and it's great. You talk to him

786
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: and it's like, Hi, how are you doing. While you're signing,

787
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: you're saying, yeah, you know, how old are you? And

788
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: whatever on the and there's one kid down to my right,

789
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 1: and he brilliant kid because he's I'm signing for everybody,

790
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: and you know, everyone wants you to come down to

791
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: their end where there's you know, there's a whole line

792
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: of people along that railing. So you know, I'm twenty

793
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: feet away from him, and you know, I'm it's gonna

794
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,479
Speaker 1: take me forever to get there. So the kid kid,

795
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: he yells out, Steve Jasker, you still look like you're twenty.

796
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm coming over there

797
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: right now and signing for you. I went down and

798
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: signed for that kid, but I signed for everybody who

799
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: I It took me like three minutes to sign for

800
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: everybody who wanted my autograph. So it was not a

801
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:49,959
Speaker 1: big deal out of my day, but it was fun.

802
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: Fans were everywhere. It was a great atmosphere from day

803
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: one all the way through day whatever it was, twenty

804
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: one or whatever it was. It was a fantastic time

805
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: at Saint John Fisher. I was telling people around the

806
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: production meeting table today what a great job Fisher did

807
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: for it. For the bills. They really rolled out the

808
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: red carpet. Their staff is fantastic staff, the cafeteria, pear,

809
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: everybody was great. So it was fun and it looks

810
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: like they're going to continue to go back there year

811
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: after years. They want to go back there. Brandon Bean,

812
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, Josh Allen. They're not just saying it. They

813
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: really believe it. Even behind closed doors, are saying, yeah,

814
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: it's important for us. Hey, you can build that team chemistry.

815
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: You can. It's a fast track to building that chemistry

816
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: that you want to build in the beginning of the season.

817
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we will dip into

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00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: the fan mailbag. Tweet us if you have any questions,

819
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: any last pressing questions before Saturday's first preseason game against

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Speaker 1: we've got our Friday fan mailbag this afternoon. People have

836
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,279
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go first from Steve. He wants to know

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00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: why didn't the Bills bring in a rookie quarterback, try

839
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: to find a late round or free agent jem not

840
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: to replace Allan, but for a premier backup or trade base.

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00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: They probably would have done that, except they got a

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00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: chance to sign case Keenum and case Keenum has started

843
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: games in the league and played well. He's the guy

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00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,479
Speaker 1: that is responsible for the miracle of Minneapolis. To Steph

845
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: Diggs probably got a resounding endorsement from their number one

846
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: wide receiver about the kind of guy he is, the

847
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: kind of person he is they're gonna get. They wanted

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00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: to get a guy who could back Josh up, and

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00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: he didn't have to be like Mitch Trubisky was last year,

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Speaker 1: where he's kind of like Josh, a big, strong athlete,

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00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: but a guy who had some experience who they felt

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Speaker 1: like with the players around him, they could win games with.

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00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: They don't want to cash in the season if something

854
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: happens to Josh for a month. Yeah, you want to

855
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: proven guy back there who can back you up, who's

856
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: who's been in games. And I think Case Keenum and

857
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: then Matt Barkley too out a different type of presence

858
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: to that room. Matt Barkley has been a backup before

859
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen when Josh Allen was younger. He knows

860
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: this offense. Um. Case Keenum has played on different teams,

861
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: He's played in big games. Um. He has a more

862
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback for now, which is awesome to see this.

863
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: This is not a club who has time for a

864
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. They he's not going to see the field.

865
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: This rookie quarterback class was not good. The quarterback room

866
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: is supporting Josh Allen. They don't need that in their room. Yeah,

867
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: they and this class coming out of college this year

868
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: was not NFL caliber at this point and they don't.

869
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: They're not gonna waste time drafting a guy to trade him.

870
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: They want guys to come in and help them win now.

871
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: So they didn't need that rookie quarterback thing that. Certainly

872
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: there's times when they could, but this is not one

873
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: of the years when they did it, particularly when they

874
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: got a guy like case Keenum and a guy like

875
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley who they knew very well. So that room

876
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: is set up to support number seventeen, not for any individual,

877
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: not for seventeen to support somebody else. Yeah, it's all

878
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen, and these guys are definitely helping him

879
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 1: grow when it comes to the offense, when it comes

880
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: to what he would do on the field, when it

881
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: comes to seeing things from other teams, Case Keenum and

882
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley are those guys? All right, We're gonna take

883
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we're gonna hear from

884
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: Andrew Catalan and Cynthia Freeland. They're gonna join us live

885
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: on set to break down what we need to know

886
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: for Saturday's game against the Colts and what they think

887
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: about this Bills team here in twenty twenty two, stick

888
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 1: with this here on one Bills Live were presented by

889
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: Clyde to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio had a

890
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,320
Speaker 1: shoe tasker who has heard all over fields. He was

891
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for all save a blimp.

892
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: We're not even in the threaded fear of normalcy here,

893
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: all right, Welcome in two one Bills Alive, Mattie Glabs,

894
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, joined by Andrew Cavalon and Cynthia Freeland. As promised,

895
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: these two are going to be part of the preseason

896
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: broadcast tomorrow afternoon as the Buffalo Bills take on the

897
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts at four o'clock. Andrew's entering his seventh season

898
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: as the Bill's pre season TV play by play man,

899
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: and Cynthia Freeland is entering her second preseason as second

900
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Speaker 1: year as a preseason reporter for the Bills on the

901
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: sideline CIA. It used to be my claim to fame,

902
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: you should be, you know, football player appropriate all that.

903
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: Now my claim to fame is that I did I

904
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: was the analyst for Andrew Catalan's first NFL game. It's

905
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: like ten years you're still a former football player. You

906
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: can still see. But that's not my claim to fame. Member.

907
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 1: Now I'm famous for having worked with you for all

908
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 1: those years. So you guys are in here a day

909
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 1: before the game. You've gotten to have your production meeting,

910
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: gotten to sit down with Sean McDermott, Brandon Bean. Steve

911
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: told us a little bit about what he heard or

912
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: what he took away from the conversation. So, Andrew, I'll

913
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Speaker 1: start with you first. As you begin to study this team,

914
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: you begin to hear from Sean and Brandon see things

915
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: that have come out of training camp. What's one thing

916
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 1: that's sticking out in your mind here as we're a

917
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: day away from the first preseason game. Well, I like

918
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 1: what they said in our meeting today if we just

919
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 1: start with the meeting in the sense that guys could

920
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 1: have had really good practices so far in training camp,

921
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: but how does that translate when the lights come on

922
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 1: when they're on the field against another team. And conversely,

923
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: somebody who may have struggled so far this summer, do

924
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: they flip a switch when the lights come on? So

925
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,720
Speaker 1: I think that was an interesting take that both Brandon

926
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Speaker 1: and Sean made, and I think tomorrow, for me, I

927
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 1: want to see these young cornerbacks play. I think that's

928
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 1: obviously been a big storyline throughout camp, and now how

929
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: they do against the Colts something I'm looking out for.

930
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,439
Speaker 1: And Cynthia, how about for you your analytics. You've seen

931
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: this team at practice. You were in Rochester a couple

932
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: days ago, so you're a part of the NFL Network

933
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Speaker 1: broadcast that day. What's something that's that's at the top

934
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: of your mind here is the Bills are going to

935
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Speaker 1: host the Indianapolis Colts tomorrow. I'm kind of excited because

936
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Speaker 1: I think this storyline going out of last season was that,

937
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: you know, with Trdavious White not being there, and then

938
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Speaker 1: of course the kind of ending of the game that

939
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: we all, you know, thirteen seconds whatever, we need to

940
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: get into that. But the without Trudavious White there, how

941
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Speaker 1: those defensive backs play. And also Leslie Fraser has been

942
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: so masterful using more than four defensive backs more like

943
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: he kind of set the trend. He started doing it

944
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: far more often than other teams did earlier than other

945
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: teams too, and now you see all of these teams

946
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,959
Speaker 1: copycatting that. So I like this especially. I'm just gonna

947
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 1: put a button on what you said, because we get

948
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: to see Matt Ryan. It's not like he's going to

949
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: be playing against their backup quarterback or a lot of

950
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: non starters. This is against their one. So this could

951
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: be something, especially in the AFC, which is a gauntlet

952
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks, top quarterbacks. You know, look at the number

953
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: of great quarterbacks in the a FC just in general,

954
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: and then look at the number of great quarterbacks that

955
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: the Bills have to face. Yeah, we're in any of

956
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: the defensive backs to really like help out, especially that

957
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: the front has already been good, so let's add now

958
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: to the back. So I'm excited for that. You mentioned

959
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 1: it too, and I'll ask I'll put this to you

960
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: because you're the analytics person the Bills. We talked to

961
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier in the preseason in the training camp and

962
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: I said, we had them on the show and I said,

963
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: you guys play five dbs? Oh, like constantly, I go,

964
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,720
Speaker 1: what do teams do or do they try to pry

965
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Speaker 1: you out of that personnel combination because you're you know,

966
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: they want to get a matchup and the only matchup

967
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,919
Speaker 1: you give them is what they get. And he goes, yeah,

968
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: they try it, and we get a lot of feedback

969
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: from guys like why do you play it again? You know,

970
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: and sometimes it is a tough a tough matchup for

971
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: the Bills, let alone, but they stick with it. What

972
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: do you sense in that trend of five dbs matching

973
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,879
Speaker 1: three wide outs? Obviously, but the trend in the league

974
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: about personnel usage, particularly defensively, well, starting off like really

975
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: really macro there, we're seeing a lot more just the

976
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: volume of passes in the league. It's just gone up.

977
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 1: That's the first thing. And then the second thing. If

978
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: you look at college where some of these younger players

979
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: they're coming from, right, they don't see and diagnosed two

980
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: safety shells in college very well at all. They can't

981
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: pick up zone on pass easily at all. So that's

982
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: why you're starting to see motion with running backs to

983
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: see to try to tip off which defensive players are

984
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: assigned what. But in general, that kind of like the

985
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: chess game of the offenses US defenses. You have to

986
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: kind of take what's coming out of college like you

987
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: could hear it with the like you see it with

988
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: the Joe Burrows, you see it with the Patrick Mahomes,

989
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 1: you see it with the Josh Downs. Those two safety shells.

990
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: You can see the splits in their data. It's harder

991
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: for them. But the caveat there, and this is a

992
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: big one. You have to have two good safeties, so

993
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: it can't just throw it out with anyone. You're saying, like,

994
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,879
Speaker 1: if a team can't play those double safeties with these

995
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: quarterbacks because they're too vulnerable, yeah, or if they if

996
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 1: they if the quarterbacks, they can't pre snap. They can

997
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: they understand man coverages coming out of college, because it's

998
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: just like you and I. The more reps we take together,

999
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: the better our broadcast is. In college, they play a

1000
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: lot of man and they man on man, and they've

1001
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: seen it so they know what those looks are, but

1002
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: confusing them a bit with zones, especially tricky zones, and

1003
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: especially how Leslie Fraser keeps evolving linebacker play and then

1004
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: the safety play like where's this guy lining up? Whose

1005
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: assignment is who? So those types of things, as long

1006
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: as you stay ahead of it, it's a big advantage

1007
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: for defense. Cynthia, you talked about the chess pieces that

1008
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: go into this game, Andrew. When you look at the

1009
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: roster that the Buffalo Bills have and guys that you

1010
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: think are going to play some snaps here tomorrow afternoon,

1011
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: what are some who are some chess pieces that you're

1012
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing out on the field. I think

1013
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: that you look at that rookie draft class, you know,

1014
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: there's so many guys you can go up and down

1015
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: and make a case you want to see all of

1016
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: them play. Certainly Benford at corner, I'm excited to see

1017
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: him He've heard so much about him and you've seen

1018
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: him make plays throughout the summer. I think the punter

1019
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: competition is something that might get sorted out, and well

1020
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,720
Speaker 1: has to get sort out in this preseason, so you'll see,

1021
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, a matter rise not only punting, but holding

1022
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: is a big part of this as we all know.

1023
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: So I think that the draft class, and we spoke

1024
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: about this this morning and our meeting, Steve brought it

1025
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 1: up on paper, has a chance to be fantastic. But

1026
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: now you want to see those guys in a game situation,

1027
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: and that's what we'll get tomorrow. Is there anybody at

1028
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: the top of your list that James Cook? Your girl

1029
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: loves fantasy football a lot. I need to be able

1030
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: to go back to the NFL network and tell everyone

1031
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: where exactly they should be drafting James Cook because this

1032
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: pass catching back has so much potential. And the way

1033
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: he looked in practice on Monday when he's I mean

1034
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: he I love the hands drills and they were having

1035
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of fun, maybe messing around a little

1036
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: bit on the sideline. They seem to be having a

1037
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: good time. There's something special in the air here and

1038
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: I think that could be a really interesting one to watch,

1039
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 1: right right, give us about this game, in particular playing

1040
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: the Colts Matt Ryan. This is the first time in

1041
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: the big picture people around the country going, all right,

1042
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,760
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is not wearing you know, the Falcon's uniform.

1043
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 1: Let's see what he looks like. And this is a

1044
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:22,719
Speaker 1: cult team that could not have been more disappointed at

1045
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: the end of the year. I mean, they we were

1046
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: talking here in Buffalo the one team we don't want

1047
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: to face in the playoffs is Indianapolis, right, and then

1048
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: they didn't even make it. They got beat by jack

1049
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: Bill's got beat by Jacksonville as well. But that to

1050
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: win an ind against the worst team in the league

1051
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: and lose, they've got to be bitter. But now they

1052
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,479
Speaker 1: gott House is going to play out with Matt Ryan

1053
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:47,439
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. They're a good football team and is Matt

1054
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:48,959
Speaker 1: Ryan going to be the missing piece? And we're gonna

1055
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: be a a chance to find out tomorrow, right, Yeah. So

1056
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 1: the biggest piece for me that the Colts provide any

1057
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: quarterback that's standing behind that old line with that running

1058
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: back in this position in his career, so John at

1059
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:03,360
Speaker 1: the Taylor just coming off being the rushing leader and

1060
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: also doesn't look like he has knock on wood a

1061
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: lot of tread on the tires. I know he did

1062
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: coming out of Wisconsin, but he's still young in the league.

1063
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: So with those two things, you know what can happen

1064
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 1: play action passing, and you know what happens when Matt

1065
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: Ryan has a good play action pass game going, they

1066
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: end up in the super Bowl. Now he was an MVP,

1067
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: and we will talk about how that Super Bowl ended,

1068
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: because probably not how he wants to remember it. But ultimately,

1069
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they were up on the Patriots a little while,

1070
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: but ultimately the play action pass is going to be

1071
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: so key. They do have some question marks in terms

1072
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 1: of who's going to catch those passes, but you know,

1073
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: Michael Pittmans has allegedly stepped up. We don't know yet.

1074
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow, I bet. And then you know, Alec Pierce,

1075
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: who's their rookie that they drafted. I think that that

1076
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: will be an interesting too. The Wilstincinnati bearcat action there,

1077
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,760
Speaker 1: so it'll be it'll be good to see. And Paris

1078
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: Campbell is fast. If nothing else, he is speedy. The

1079
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: Bill's defense was really good against play action passes last

1080
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,439
Speaker 1: year in terms of quarterback rating passer rating. So we'll

1081
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 1: see what that looks like if they decide to go

1082
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: into that play action here on Saturday. Now, Andrew, what

1083
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:10,439
Speaker 1: question marks do the Indianapolis Colts need to answer here

1084
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: in the preseason? So fans, so coaches, So the scouting

1085
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: department feels better heading into Week one. Yeah, I've always

1086
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: been really high and the Colts since Frank Reich took over. I,

1087
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: like Steve said him shocked that they lost that last

1088
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: game of the season. I mean, you saw them in

1089
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: hard knocks mid season last year. Just the culture that

1090
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: Frank has put in place, I think he's done a

1091
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: tremendous job. They have great pieces. Now they have a

1092
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: new quarterback again. I mean that's been the thing. They

1093
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: have a new quarterback every year, and I'm not surprised.

1094
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: I think it's smart. They're playing their ones tomorrow. I mean,

1095
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: you got to get out and just kind of run

1096
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: through something. So I think that Matt Ryan will love,

1097
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: if he doesn't already love Frank Reich. I mean, if

1098
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: you're a quarterback, you'd want to play for Frank Reich.

1099
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: But as Cynthia pointed out, who's going to catch the ball.

1100
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: I'm big on Pittman a thousand yards last year, but

1101
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of new pieces now they

1102
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: have to kind of put together, and I think it

1103
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: starts for them tomorrow. Give us an idea about your

1104
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 1: thoughts coming out the bills with such high expectations, the

1105
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: highest in years and years. Well, that's not true. They

1106
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 1: had high expectations last year. It was just regional. It

1107
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 1: wasn't national. Now it's national. Uh, the bills come is

1108
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: more than regional. Last year it was more than regional. Right, yeah,

1109
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: so they are but there and Sean McDermot alluded that,

1110
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: they said, what are you gonna do with these expectations?

1111
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: And this is where we live now? And he's right.

1112
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: You come into a preseason like this way different than

1113
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: they were five years ago when they took over. How

1114
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: do you think the philosophy of Sean McDermot and Brandon

1115
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: Bean has changed or how would you change it from

1116
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: then to now? I mean the biggest change obviously this

1117
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: year it's going to be what's going on with offensive coordinator.

1118
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: You know, you lose the guy like Brian Dable who

1119
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: has been really the you know, the counterpart to Josh

1120
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: Allen as Josh Allen has been growing, But I actually

1121
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 1: think it's the perfect time to make the switch because

1122
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: now you have Josh Allen's already leading. He's you know,

1123
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: the most combined, you know, rushing and passing yards. He's

1124
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,959
Speaker 1: really already starting to get some like historical numbers going.

1125
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: And he's just a baby in the league in terms

1126
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: of how long he's been here. But ultimately it's the

1127
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: time he doesn't need Brian able to teach him anymore.

1128
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: Now it can be more of a collaborative effect. So

1129
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:30,439
Speaker 1: now it's like, what do you like to do? How

1130
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: do you want the slot to evolve? That's a spice

1131
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: where you're asking a lot of questions today. How do

1132
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: you want the run game to support what we're trying

1133
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: to execute here? You know this is he's a first

1134
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history with at least six rushing touchdowns

1135
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 1: in each of his first four seasons. So this is

1136
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: like a you know, he's got these numbers right, So

1137
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: ultimately now you can grow. He doesn't he doesn't need

1138
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: the newbie stuff anymore. I'd say this too, Steve, and

1139
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: you know this, but I think Sean McDermott is in

1140
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: a great situation in the sense that you're teams went

1141
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl year after year, and it seems

1142
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: to me that Sean taps into that. He'll go to

1143
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: a Jim Kelly. I remember last year when I did

1144
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: a game here with CBS and James Lofton, he asked, James,

1145
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: how did Marv keep you guys going to get back

1146
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: year after year? I really feel that Sean is so

1147
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: curious and he's got the right people around like you

1148
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: to say, how do you do this? How do you

1149
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: do that? And I think that works to his advantage

1150
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: in this team's advantage this year interesting too, and we'll

1151
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: talk about this on the broadcast to more. You said

1152
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: something interesting in our production meeting about when to play,

1153
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: because now this is a new territory in Sean McDermott

1154
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: alluded to a three preseason games instead of four, and

1155
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: you know back in the Stone Age it was six, right,

1156
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:47,919
Speaker 1: So it's less and less games, and strategically you want

1157
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: to play your guys to get them ready the ones

1158
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: balancing the injury thing, of course, but also I mean

1159
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: if nobody, if you knew, even if you knew they

1160
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: weren't going to get hurt, I don't think you still

1161
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: play them four quarters in a preseason game if you

1162
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: knew they were invincible. You had a nice observation and

1163
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: an interesting point about how to choose when you play

1164
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: your ones. I do think it's kind of to answer

1165
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: the specific question that you would like to know about

1166
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 1: your ones or your depth charts. So as you see

1167
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: some of these, I mean, Frank Reich is playing Matt Wren.

1168
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: That is his starter. There is there's no no bones

1169
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 1: about it. There's no quarterback number one defense from a

1170
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: year ago. But they're playing going through it. It's the

1171
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 1: number twos of the number one to get right. So

1172
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: but they've picked strategically. I think they should pick strategically

1173
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: when they kind of give their reps end to whom

1174
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: because as you're seeing, there's always not only is it

1175
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: just getting your ones the right sort of reps. So

1176
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: it's smart for we like and I get to say

1177
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: a week work for the Bills for the next season,

1178
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: we get to see the Bills go against you know,

1179
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: the young guys are going against Matt Ryan. That's wonderful

1180
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 1: for the development of which defensive backs to pick, and

1181
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: even the front with the rotation and who's going to

1182
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: be around there. So that's cool. But some of these

1183
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: other teams it doesn't. It doesn't make sense too. For example,

1184
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: it was smart of Josh McDaniel not to play against

1185
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: the Jags his ones with at first the Hall of

1186
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: Fame game. That made a lot of sense. Why would

1187
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: you put them out there? Same thing for the Jags,

1188
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: why would you put You don't need that. The Raiders

1189
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: have the number one pressure front last season. You don't

1190
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: need you know what, Let's get Trevor Lawrence like some upright,

1191
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: you know reps. Next year's supposed to just starting with

1192
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: being on his back. You say, pick your opponent. Pick

1193
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,959
Speaker 1: your opponent so that you answer the question that you'd

1194
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: like to know about your team. Don't worry about it's

1195
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: the third game. We get to play one half. Steve,

1196
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: you said, you just play six preseason games. Now you

1197
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: can do these controlled scrimmages. Sure, and that is putting

1198
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: in good work and you're going through the mechanics of

1199
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: your offense and defense. I think things have really changed.

1200
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 1: One of the things too, that Sean McDermot said in

1201
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: our production meeting was he it's the coaching staff is new,

1202
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: particularly the offensive side of the ball. For the bills,

1203
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: new voices, new collaboration, and he has spent the entire

1204
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,680
Speaker 1: training camp for the last three weeks being the lead official. Like,

1205
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: he has to blow the play dead. He has to protect,

1206
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: he has to be the one to protect the quarterback.

1207
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: He has to be the one to call the player.

1208
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: He has to spot the ball, says, I want third

1209
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: and ten here, I wanted to. Now he gets to

1210
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: be an actual head coach on the sidelines. That's a

1211
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: that's kind of a big deal given given the one

1212
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: side of his football team, the offensive side, has a

1213
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: lot of new moving parts. Um have you seen so

1214
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: obviously Week one is against the Rams. You see, like,

1215
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, Sean McVay has a guy that like to coach,

1216
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: And I think that's going to be funny. I wonder

1217
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 1: if Sean McDermott he needs a get back coach just

1218
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: for the one game to get back into his normal groove. Yeah,

1219
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 1: it was interesting. He said, Ken Dorsey is gonna sit upstairs,

1220
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: and I think I need to know more about Kenrick.

1221
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: I think I need to like hang out. He sounds

1222
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: really fun. The story goes that he's a little bit

1223
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: of aired an official abuser. He yells at officials, so

1224
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: and he's and now he's like he's up in prominent.

1225
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: He's got to be the guy standing there at you

1226
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: know they're putting him upstairs because they don't want a

1227
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: penalty and I don't want to get fined. Maybe right,

1228
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: so he sounds fun, right, sounds like you want like

1229
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: a man after my own heart, because I know there

1230
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: may not be I'm definitely any old time top ten

1231
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: for the worst possible player at abusing as Josh Ellen.

1232
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 1: Josh Allen said, he never lets me forget his college record.

1233
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: Josh will be like, what was it, Ken, thirty six

1234
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 1: and four, thirty thirty two and eight, And Ken's always

1235
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: like thirty eight and two. That's that was my record

1236
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: in college at Miami Andrew. When it comes to preparing

1237
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: for a game like this, for preseason games, it's not

1238
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:47,040
Speaker 1: a fifty three man roster on each side of the ball.

1239
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 1: It is fifty three plus forty on each team basically,

1240
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 1: so when you're you're making your your chart, when you're deciding, okay,

1241
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: here's the storylines we want to talk about. Here's everything

1242
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: I need to know about these almost one hundred man rosters.

1243
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: What is the difference here for a preseason to regular

1244
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 1: season in the volume that you have to prepare for.

1245
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: I have a giant poster board that like wouldn't even

1246
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: be good for a ten year old class project because

1247
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: it's too big for them. Um. You know, Look, it's

1248
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: different than a regular season game because I'm wearing a

1249
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: Bill's shirt with a Bills microphone and this broadcast is

1250
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 1: for the Bills. Right, even though it's on NFL Network tomorrow,

1251
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: if you're a Colts fan in California, you're probably not

1252
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 1: gonna like the broadcast you're gonna hear because we're all

1253
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: about them. Sorry, not sorry, Les Away it goes yeah,

1254
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: and they have their own announcers in Indianapolis, And that's

1255
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: that's the difference between it's one of the few times

1256
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 1: and it's one of the few times you can be

1257
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: and I said this before, you can be an unapologetic homer.

1258
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: Every it's all Bills, all the time, and you'll get

1259
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: a name and number of a guy from the Colts

1260
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 1: who tackled a player and then we're moving on to

1261
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: the back to the other side of the field. So

1262
01:05:56,360 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 1: it that's different. Speaking of being an unapologis apologetic homer

1263
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: from each of you guys, maybe is there a player

1264
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: that you've studied, that you've watched that maybe won't see

1265
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: the field a lot in this first preseason game, but

1266
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: somebody that you're really excited about, whether it's his story

1267
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 1: or whether it's what he did in training camp. Andrew'll

1268
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: start with you. Well, I mentioned Benford earlier and at

1269
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 1: our production meeting today asked Brandon being how they went

1270
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 1: about finding him. Obviously a smaller school at Villanova, how

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Speaker 1: do you get to know a guy like that? He

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Speaker 1: shared the whole backstory of that, which will definitely tell

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Speaker 1: on the broadcast tomorrow. But it's those types of things

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01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,919
Speaker 1: when you talk about the difference between a regular season

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01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: and preseason game, you also have more time to dive

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Speaker 1: into these stories because people want to hear more about

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Speaker 1: these guys they might not know about. And I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to do that as well. Cynthia, who's the player for you? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, I really want to know what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen in the slot for the seat for

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Speaker 1: this team. I think it's a really important part of

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01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 1: the roster that they paid a lot of attention to

1283
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:58,520
Speaker 1: you bringing in Jamison Crowder of course, and then Caleer

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01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: secured you got to draft the right people and put

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01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: them in the wrist. And then of course I've been

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01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:05,440
Speaker 1: hearing all these great things about the camp that Isaiah

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01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: McKenzie's been having, and he just got such a great personality.

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01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 1: And I don't know if nashally people know like that.

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01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 1: He's just like full of joy and fun and like happiness,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm really happy to kind of figure out

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Speaker 1: Probably we'll probably see more of that in a different game.

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01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if this will be the game where

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Speaker 1: we where we really see a ton of that, But

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01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: those are some people who I have my eye on

1295
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: in terms of how interesting is this going to get this?

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, I have like a like

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01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 1: a love affair at this a lot there because you

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01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: know that's when you first saw Josh Allen position for

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01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 1: Josh all he loves that security blanket that dumped off target.

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01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 1: One of the other things too. One of the guys

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at is Christian Benford, and you think down

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01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: the big picture and I don't want to go down

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01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 1: a rabbit hole here, but Tremaine Edmonds is in the

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01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 1: last year of his contract. He plays in a position

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01:07:52,960 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: that has been under Trell Yes, no ch Christian Benford,

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Speaker 1: we all left. Let me look at my board. Yeah,

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01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 1: Terrell Bernard, he's in a spot they draft him. Tremaine

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Speaker 1: Edmonds is in the last year of his contract at

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01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: a position that has been kind of devalued in the NFL.

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01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 1: So if Tremaine Edmonds as good as he has played,

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01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 1: as big a part of this team as he has

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01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 1: been since day one, do you go down that road

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Speaker 1: of starting to pay a guy the top of the

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Speaker 1: market money at a position that has been undervalued? Or

1315
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 1: do you draft a guy like Benford the year before

1316
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:31,639
Speaker 1: that and get him acclimated, and all of a sudden

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01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:34,639
Speaker 1: you can let Tremaine Edmonds make a ton of money

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Speaker 1: for somebody else and at a position that you've devalued

1319
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 1: or don't hold in that highest team. And then you

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01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 1: got this young player. And the interesting part for me is,

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Speaker 1: and the reason I bring it up is Benford could

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01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 1: not be more different than Tremaine Edmonds. Tremaine Edmonds is

1323
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 1: an enormous physical specimen, a condor like guy who is

1324
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:58,640
Speaker 1: very he's smart player. Very A equals B, B equals C.

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01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 1: Therefore all see right, he is he isn't like, okay,

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01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 1: if this is the defense, could I go here? Benford

1327
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: is like, I'm just gonna react. I'm gonna have play.

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01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:13,680
Speaker 1: He's completely instinctual and he's a small line Say you

1329
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:16,000
Speaker 1: look at this linebacker. You look at where the Bills

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01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:19,559
Speaker 1: drafted and if drafted him, and you go on Twitter,

1331
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:23,120
Speaker 1: you listen to networks and they're saying, maybe this guy

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01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 1: got drafted a little bit too high. But the scouting

1333
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: department has proved time and time again that they know

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. And you see it show up in

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01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 1: training camp practices when Trel Bernard is is breaking up passes,

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01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: when Treill Bernard is forcing fumbles and is playing with

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01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 1: who you would think would be projected starters. How did

1338
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 1: we get this fire without bringing up you know, DJ

1339
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: von Juan don the sauce, because I mean think about

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01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: that right, Like, So now you have, in addition to

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01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:53,120
Speaker 1: kind of who's gonna play the will and there's Mike,

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01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: and how's that all gonna net out with these two

1343
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 1: different body types. Now you bring in good old von Miller,

1344
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: who will not not stop dancing. And if you don't

1345
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 1: know that DJ reference, you have to google it because

1346
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 1: he that's his DJ name, and yeah, he I know

1347
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: that you go to a lot of club live parties

1348
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,879
Speaker 1: in Miami Super Bowl, but he was he was djaying

1349
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:15,800
Speaker 1: down for quite interesting. But it's going to change the

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01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 1: shape of the defensive front. And so there, you know,

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01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: you already saw a lot of rotations. Now you can

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01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,760
Speaker 1: add even more folds because I mean to see Von

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01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:25,600
Speaker 1: Miller in person. I was lucky I live. You know

1354
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:27,640
Speaker 1: in last age. I saw the rams up close and

1355
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,879
Speaker 1: personal at the back end of that season. Holy smokes,

1356
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:33,759
Speaker 1: like that is something very different. And this is already

1357
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: the team that had the second highest pressure rate in

1358
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:38,400
Speaker 1: the NFL last season. Of course you're sack leader now

1359
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: on a different team. But ultimately you bring in Von

1360
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 1: Miller and it's gonna the shape's different at Oliver good luck,

1361
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 1: good luck stopping him. Good good luck. Have fun with that,

1362
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: and those that interior situations just gonna be so much

1363
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:53,839
Speaker 1: better for I don't want to be a guard facing

1364
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 1: like anyone. Kwon Jones, Tim Settled, Jordan Phillips Jordan Phillips

1365
01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: career high numbers when he was playing defensive tackle here.

1366
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: He was our leader in sacks one of the seasons

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01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: that he played here, and one thing that I've loved

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01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:09,720
Speaker 1: to watch this defensive line is you have seen the

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01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: confidence level just shoot through the roof now that von

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01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,360
Speaker 1: Miller is on the defensive line with them. They're having fun.

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01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 1: They're having fun, they're happy. They were dominating in practices. Yes,

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01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:22,880
Speaker 1: you could say it was because the offensive line has

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01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: dealt with some injuries in training camp. They are now healthier.

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01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 1: But boy, oh boy, do they look like they're ready

1375
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 1: to know who's Oh line isn't healthy, isn't going to

1376
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: be good this year, isn't going to be as good

1377
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: as it last year? The Rams. I think that should

1378
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: be that's Andrew. You get rid of Andrew, you don't

1379
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 1: get better? Oh okay, got it. Like I'm telling you,

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01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: I think that people are low key not looking at

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01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: that as at first. I know we're projecting forward now

1382
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:48,560
Speaker 1: about a month, but you know that's going to be

1383
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,560
Speaker 1: a really that is a huge matchup. That is a

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01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: that's that should be a postseason game. I mean goodness, like,

1385
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:56,559
Speaker 1: that's just going to be so much fun to watch.

1386
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 1: And I think a very big key to that game

1387
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: is the fact that you got a new left tackle,

1388
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's banged up and now you got go on

1389
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: record that I think ed Oliver is going to have

1390
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,680
Speaker 1: a huge I do till I do till you'd be

1391
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: better write that on the white better in August twelfth.

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01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: August twelve, And how many sacks? What I had four

1393
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 1: last year? So what are we going to last year?

1394
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 1: Where you going another eight? Okay? I think I think

1395
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:28,679
Speaker 1: that you have two guys getting multiple in double disgits.

1396
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: Because remember, this is a team that's going to be

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01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: facing a lot of passes late in games. Right, I

1398
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 1: think this is a better team even than last year.

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: So are going to play catch A're gonna have to

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01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 1: play catch up. And the more passes you face, the

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01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 1: more chances you get to rush the past certainly, And

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01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: it's interesting even if the offense does sputter, their defensive

1403
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 1: line is much bigger and more athletic than it was

1404
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 1: a year ago. De Kwon Jones, Tim Settle, and Jordan

1405
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: Phillips are all bigger and more effective players than the

1406
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: guys they had in there. You know, we all love

1407
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 1: that you stand next to them, and how do you

1408
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,759
Speaker 1: feel when you stand next to them? Listen? Jordan Phillips,

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01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 1: yo is it? He's a giant had. We had Tim

1410
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:08,639
Speaker 1: Settle next to us in the on the show during

1411
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 1: the week. He was when we were at Saint John

1412
01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: Fisher and it felt like you were sitting three feet

1413
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 1: from him. But he's touching you, right, So that's how

1414
01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 1: wide he is, right, it's unbelievable. So they're going to

1415
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: be better against the run. So even if the offense

1416
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: doesn't force them to throw, they're gonna force offenses throw

1417
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:25,679
Speaker 1: because there's not gonna be any more games where teams

1418
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: can throw the ball three times and still win the game.

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01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 1: So I think they're gonna be there. Really hadn't been

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Speaker 1: many before that either. Yeah, that's that's maybe one of them. Yeah,

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01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: all right, Cynthia Andrew, thank you so much for taking

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Speaker 1: the time to be on with us here on Friday afternoon.

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01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:44,640
Speaker 1: You guys can catch them a part of the preseason

1424
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: broadcast tomorrow Saturday at four PM as the Bills take

1425
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: on the Indianapolis Colts. Our guys, Steve Tasker also going

1426
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: to be a part of that broadcast too. We we

1427
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: could say we we take on the Colts. We are

1428
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: taking on the Coals. Preseason game one out of three,

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01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: coming to you live Saturday afternoon, all right, don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: We will be right back after this break. One Bills Live.

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01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:12,120
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01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: We're back here on One Bills Live at Summer and

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Speaker 1: Bill's head coach, Sean McDermott wants us all thinking about

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01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: sun defense. Coach's passion about skin cancer prevention as it

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01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:38,759
Speaker 1: runs in his family and he takes sun protection very seriously.

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01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 1: Most importantly, of course, is wearing sunscreen. Right now, you

1437
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:44,800
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Speaker 1: sun protection needs. Wegmans will donate one dollar for every

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Speaker 1: Rochester and Syracuse stores. It's a great way to protect

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Speaker 1: your family and help the fight against skin cancer and

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01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: think sun defense. Bill's head coach, Sean McDermott. We've got

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01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:05,120
Speaker 1: a couple of callers hanging on the line here, so

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01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: we are going to go to the phones. First off,

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01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: Doug from Rochester, you're on with us. Doug, Oh, thanks

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01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:16,719
Speaker 1: for you having me on. I just a quick question.

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01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: The wide receiver room is full of talent. Do you

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01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: think they're keeping seven whiteouts or what do you think

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01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: of That's a good question. That's a good question, Doug,

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01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:30,240
Speaker 1: and we've talked about it. I think they will keep seven.

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01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:32,840
Speaker 1: There's eleven right now, there's eleven. I think there will

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01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 1: keep seven on the active roster. They'll activate six on

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01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: game day. That's my guess. They go three wide all

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01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: the time, and I think seven's the number because of

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01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 1: the fact that they need a guy in case somebody

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01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: goes down. They want to have the right guy. Plus

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01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: they want to fill all the rules. Kumro is gonna

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01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 1: be active. He's going to be on special teams. Maybe somebody.

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01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:00,639
Speaker 1: If they keep Khalil Shakir active, maybe he turns punts

1460
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 1: or kicks. Maybe Isaiah McKenzie can do it in a pinch.

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01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:09,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think seven is the number. But that's

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01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 1: just me. They'll keep at least six, but I think

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01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 1: there's a chance they keep seven and only activate six

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01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:17,560
Speaker 1: on game day. I can't remember last year if it

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01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 1: was six or seven. I want to say six. I

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01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: think I think it was both. I think at one

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01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:25,280
Speaker 1: point they they had injuries or whatever. Yeah, that's how

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01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:28,360
Speaker 1: that's how Marques Stevenson got on the field. Late in

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01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:30,840
Speaker 1: the year. They activated us. Yeah, because he was out

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Speaker 1: for those six weeks with that injury that he had

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01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,960
Speaker 1: and then he got activated. Um, it'll be interesting to

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01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: see if one of the wide receivers ends up as

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01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: our our punt and kick returner two. Um, that's going

1474
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 1: to be a fun battle to watch here in preseason games.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call, Doug, thank you. All right,

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01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 1: let's move on to Brennan. Brennan, you are now on

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01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 1: with us. Let's see man. And I was wondering if

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01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 1: you really is thickly see the forty nine and Bills

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01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 1: playing in the Super Bowl this season. Do I predict

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01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:08,200
Speaker 1: the Bills forty nine ers? I'd be hard, but hard

1481
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 1: to predict it. It certainly could happen, But I don't

1482
01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: know if Trey Lance is going to be able to

1483
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: in his first year as a starter, go to the

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01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:18,759
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and beat and win. In the NFC, although

1485
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 1: we've spoken about that, the AFC is a much more

1486
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:26,439
Speaker 1: quarterback rich conference than the NFC. In the NFC, you

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01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: got to get by Rogers Brady, which is no small feat.

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01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 1: Rogers and Brady, who Kyler, Murray, Stafford, Stafford, Yes, and

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01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: those and two of those three or three of those

1490
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 1: they're all in the same division. So if you can

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01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: win that division, if San Francisco, then yes that that

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01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: could happen. And of course, yeah, if you if you

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01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: give the Bills the benefit of the doubt and say, yeah,

1494
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: sure they're they're they're the betting favorite, they're going to

1495
01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 1: get there. Sure, So yeah, you can see the Bills

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01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 1: forty nine ers in the Super Bowl after all these years,

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01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 1: Chris Burman's prediction would come true. There you go. Thanks, really, Quan.

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01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what the forty nine ers

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01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 1: can do with this season with some of their pieces back.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Dennis is on the line with us, Dennis

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01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 1: from Grand Island. What question do you have for us? Dennis?

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01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 1: Come on call, screener. There we go. Hello Dennis, Hi,

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01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: how are you guys today? Good? What's up? I'm curious

1504
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: about the kickers and stuff like that. Like we went

1505
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:33,799
Speaker 1: to the Steelers game last year and saw a horrible

1506
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: punning game. You know what I'm saying, Um, how do

1507
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: you predict? Is just kicker accurate and on we can

1508
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: kick long? You know what I'm saying? Um? I was

1509
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 1: wondering about the tunny game more than anything, And how

1510
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 1: do you think the place kicker is going to be

1511
01:18:50,360 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: this year. Well, here, let's just I'll just read you

1512
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass's numbers from from last year. He was overall,

1513
01:18:57,800 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 1: he was twenty eight to thirty two at an eighty

1514
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: seven and a half percent make. He was fifteen or

1515
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 1: fifteen from twenty nine yards an end, seven of eight

1516
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: from thirty to thirty nine yards, four or five from

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01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,439
Speaker 1: forty to forty nine, and two of two of four

1518
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: from fifty plus. And he was good on all fifty

1519
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:17,639
Speaker 1: one of his pats. So Tyler Bass had a really

1520
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,040
Speaker 1: really good year last year, no question about it. He's

1521
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: pushing ninety percent, so he's a solid, solid player, no

1522
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:27,080
Speaker 1: question about it. And I'll and I'll say this too.

1523
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: I wasn't thrilled with the way Matt Hawk was holding

1524
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: for him last year. I don't know who he was,

1525
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 1: so I think maybe maybe that maybe that was what

1526
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 1: led to the only four misses he had that plus

1527
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,599
Speaker 1: kicking in fifty mile an hour winds in horrible weather conditions.

1528
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: So I think Tyler Bass had a great year. Matt

1529
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 1: oriza him, No, I don't care either one. I think

1530
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: if whoever it's going to be, whether it's Hawk again,

1531
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:58,599
Speaker 1: or whether it's a risa. I've said it publicly, it's

1532
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: it's not a hard skilled to learn, and all you

1533
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: need to do is practice it and practice hard and

1534
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 1: make it important. So I think whichever one of those

1535
01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 1: guys does hold that ability, particularly if they're very close

1536
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:16,720
Speaker 1: in their punting prowess, if the club doesn't. If the

1537
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:18,720
Speaker 1: club knows that both of them can put in the

1538
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:20,680
Speaker 1: league and there they'd be happy to have either one,

1539
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:24,559
Speaker 1: then it may come down to Tyler Bass telling Matt Smiley,

1540
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 1: I want I want this guy to do it. I

1541
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 1: want that guy to do it, And that might be

1542
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 1: the deciding factor if if Tyler Bass has a favorite holder,

1543
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 1: but Matt Arizon famously has been working on it because

1544
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:38,680
Speaker 1: he didn't have to do it in college and has

1545
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,599
Speaker 1: not done it before, that doesn't really scare me too

1546
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:46,599
Speaker 1: much because it's not a hard thing to learn, particularly

1547
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:49,280
Speaker 1: for an NFL athlete. And in training camp practices they

1548
01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:53,000
Speaker 1: were taking, they were switching off every day, so Matt

1549
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 1: Arizo would have a day where he would hold, and

1550
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 1: then Matt Hawk would have a day where he would hold.

1551
01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:00,600
Speaker 1: They do have special teams peer is where we do

1552
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 1: get to see the punters punt some balls. I would

1553
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 1: say that wasn't a huge volume at all of training camps,

1554
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 1: so I think we're really going to get a good

1555
01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: sample size here in the preseason games. I'm looking forward

1556
01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 1: to seeing how the punter competition evolves now that we're

1557
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:20,240
Speaker 1: finally playing some some live preseason games. I would expect

1558
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,080
Speaker 1: both of those to both of those players to be

1559
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 1: on and off the field getting equal amounts of reps

1560
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 1: as they decide who's going to be the punter and

1561
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:32,599
Speaker 1: the holder on this team. Right, Thanks for the call, Dennis.

1562
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, And one thing that matt Smiley did say

1563
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 1: is is he was asked, you know, if Tyler Bass

1564
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: has a preference and who's holding the ball, how will

1565
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 1: that affect who you guys choose is going to be

1566
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:49,720
Speaker 1: the punter? And Matthew Smiley, the Special team's coordinator, said,

1567
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: you know, we will take into account what Tyler says,

1568
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:55,080
Speaker 1: but it's not Tyler's job to choose who's going to

1569
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:57,200
Speaker 1: be the punter or the holder on this team. It's

1570
01:21:57,439 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 1: it's my job and Sean's job to help make decision.

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01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: We've got a couple more fan mailbag questions that we

1572
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:08,400
Speaker 1: want to get to um Jonathan will move on to

1573
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: our second one. He says, how is Jordan Poyer doing?

1574
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: Is he recovering? Well? Poyer has been on the sideline

1575
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: of about just every practice after he went down with

1576
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: that elbow injury. He did come out with not a sling,

1577
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: but but some not hardware, but it wasn't a sleeve,

1578
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 1: it was it was something that he had on his elbow.

1579
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:33,040
Speaker 1: And in the last couple of practices, I think the

1580
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:35,599
Speaker 1: last one he was down to just wearing a sleeve

1581
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:39,280
Speaker 1: on his elbow. He would say, points in the right direction. Yes,

1582
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 1: he hasn't hit the field at all for practice. Originally

1583
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:45,720
Speaker 1: when he got hurt, Sean McDermot said it was going

1584
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 1: to be a few weeks. They're hoping before this season starts,

1585
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: so we'll see how he's progressing. But in the last

1586
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:56,679
Speaker 1: practice he was down to just a sleeve on his elbow,

1587
01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 1: which I think would mean something good. Yeah, I don't

1588
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: think it's going to be an issue with him being

1589
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:03,800
Speaker 1: ready to go on opening Day or maybe even at

1590
01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: the second or third preseason game. But and but he's

1591
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: in good spirits. He's and it's just one of those

1592
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 1: things where you got to kind of wait for it

1593
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:14,639
Speaker 1: to get better. There's nothing you can You can obviously

1594
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,720
Speaker 1: rehabit if if there is some of that. But I

1595
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 1: would also say this, it was a hyper extended elbow.

1596
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: And you've seen guys, particularly most notably a guy like

1597
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: JJ Watt, who wears an elbow brace that goes from

1598
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: just above his wrist all the way up to just

1599
01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: below his shoulder. They can They've got braces and supports

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01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: where poor Yer could play if the thought was that

1601
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: you didn't want to straighten it out or lock it out,

1602
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:43,960
Speaker 1: you know straight, or if he could lock it out

1603
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 1: straight but maybe there was a little bit of pain,

1604
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: they could give him a range of motion that he

1605
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: could go to the limit and then it would stop.

1606
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: It's just what I'm saying is it doesn't have to

1607
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: be a hundred percent for him to get on the

1608
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 1: field because of these braces and supports they could put on.

1609
01:23:58,479 --> 01:23:59,880
Speaker 1: I would say it's just like what guys put on

1610
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: their knees after an ACL tear when they're first coming

1611
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:04,280
Speaker 1: back to the field. You see a big knee brace.

1612
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: You can choose the movement the extension that you need

1613
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 1: in your need in that limb, so you could probably

1614
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:13,519
Speaker 1: and I haven't asked him this, but you could say

1615
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 1: to Jordan, if if it was a regular season, you

1616
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:17,719
Speaker 1: know kind of thing, if it was a regular season,

1617
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:19,639
Speaker 1: would you go and he you know, there's a chance

1618
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: he might say, yeah, I'd be going, I'd be playing

1619
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 1: if it was. Most of those guys want to get

1620
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: back to the field as soon as possible and don't

1621
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:28,839
Speaker 1: want to miss anytime. I don't think it was threatening

1622
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:32,760
Speaker 1: his long term health or his chance to play on

1623
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:35,680
Speaker 1: the field this season, not even even in this preseason.

1624
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 1: So while he didn't stay out of the reps, I

1625
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 1: don't think the team is that interested in making sure

1626
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: he takes reps in preseason. I think he's okay. All right,

1627
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 1: one more quick one before we go to break Jonathan

1628
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 1: the question that everybody has right now, are the Bills

1629
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: pursuing O B J or not asking for a friend?

1630
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: What do you think about the situation? Steve, Here's what

1631
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 1: I I think we've heard that some more so with

1632
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 1: Brandon Being than maybe any general manager we've had in

1633
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 1: recent memory over the last decade and a half. We

1634
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: hear more from Brandon being about what goes on behind

1635
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: the scenes, how he made this deal, who he called

1636
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 1: the sequence of events, and so extrapolating what we know

1637
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 1: about what happened in all these other events where he

1638
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: got von Miller and they made the trades for you know,

1639
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:30,759
Speaker 1: for Steph Diggs and all this stuff. It seems obvious

1640
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 1: to me that they know the situation with OBJ. They've

1641
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: talked to his people and say, oh, what's the deal,

1642
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:40,400
Speaker 1: how's he feeling, what's going on, what's he thinking about?

1643
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: How badly does he want to play? When's he gonna

1644
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:45,599
Speaker 1: be ready? When does he think he's gonna be ready

1645
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:48,200
Speaker 1: to play? Would he be willing to wait and sign? Then?

1646
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: Is he going to wait and to sign with the

1647
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 1: team when he's one hundred percent? So they would. They

1648
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:58,599
Speaker 1: are asking questions and getting feedback from obj's representation, maybe

1649
01:25:58,640 --> 01:26:01,120
Speaker 1: from the guy himself about what he's thinking and what

1650
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:04,280
Speaker 1: his plans are for this season. Whether they're interested or

1651
01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: not may be irrelevant because the first question might have

1652
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:10,600
Speaker 1: been a negative nonstarter, but they'll ask those questions to

1653
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: find out what he's thinking, what he wants, how he's doing.

1654
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: That's what Brandon Bean does because that's his job. So

1655
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: whether that means they're closer to signing him or not,

1656
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:24,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. We have no idea. We don't we

1657
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: have no they're not saying anything. I'm sorry, but I'll

1658
01:26:27,479 --> 01:26:30,439
Speaker 1: say this. I'm sure I would be shocked if they

1659
01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: haven't kicked the tires. I will say this. Brandon Bean

1660
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 1: always says, the puzzle is never finished. To this team.

1661
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: We are always trying to get better as a football team.

1662
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: So if somebody is out there that we can work

1663
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: a deal out with that we can afford that will

1664
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: help us get better, they will entertain it. They will

1665
01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: pick up the phone, they will talk. They're not a

1666
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 1: scouting department. He's not a general manager that just shoots

1667
01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:59,719
Speaker 1: things down before learning about it, before answering the phone

1668
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 1: before we're talking through some things. The thing too, the

1669
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: Bills have got some leverage with guys like this one.

1670
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 1: They're a contender. It gives OBJ a chance to come

1671
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:12,640
Speaker 1: to a second half of the season, get ready to

1672
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 1: be a free agent at the end of the year.

1673
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:16,599
Speaker 1: It gives the Bills a boost. Good players make you better,

1674
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 1: and he's a good player. So if they can get

1675
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of OBJ just for like me, six

1676
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:24,400
Speaker 1: games even won't cost him that much, and it'll give

1677
01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:26,360
Speaker 1: him a chance to showcase his skills to sign a

1678
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:29,800
Speaker 1: contract with the team going forward after the season. So's

1679
01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 1: there's a lot in there for OBJ to be happy about,

1680
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:34,599
Speaker 1: plus playing with a really good question. We will see,

1681
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:37,680
Speaker 1: We will see. We're closing things out here and when

1682
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:39,880
Speaker 1: we come back from the break, One Bills Live. We're

1683
01:27:39,920 --> 01:28:00,400
Speaker 1: presented by Clyde Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio back

1684
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 1: into one Bills Live. We're closing up shop here on

1685
01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 1: a Friday afternoon. Steve's doing his stretches, he's yawning, he's

1686
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 1: he's had it sleep tonight. It's gonna be a long

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Speaker 1: day tomorrow. You've got it. We don't do we don't

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01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:20,639
Speaker 1: do Bills Live after the game tomorrow or Bills tonight.

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Speaker 1: This duo is going to be back this We are

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Speaker 1: going to be doing that postgame show, the postgame shows live.

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01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: We'll do the live live show live right right after.

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01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:31,840
Speaker 1: We get all the live sound bites from all the

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01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: players and code it and then we'll package that up

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01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 1: for Bills tonight and put it out there and you'll

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Speaker 1: be able to watch it throughout the week. All right,

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Speaker 1: what are you most excited about tomorrow? Now that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna see some live football. I want to see guys

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01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: play real games and Tach get tackled to the ground,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I want to see the

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Speaker 1: former player is ready to sea. I want to see

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Speaker 1: somebody go to the ground and in anger. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: we'll see all right, Thanks for listening here on Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: On Monday, it's gonna be Chris Brown and Josh Reed

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01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 1: on the show. Steve Tasker is going to be out

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Speaker 1: and I will be doing some work. You guys have

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Speaker 1: a great weekend. We'll see back here on Monday. But

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Speaker 1: the Bills game, everybody enjoy it. Bills against Indianapolis Colts.