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Speaker 1: Oh time, Steve Taspers down down Dot time. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Orchard Park, Welcome to the new air Field.

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Speaker 1: We're in the ad Pro Sports Training Center, right next

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Speaker 1: door to the beautiful new air of Field Stadium. We're

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Speaker 1: in the One Buffalo Studio, which is right next door

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Speaker 1: to the practice field, which is where the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: are getting set right now. Their Thursday practice is underway

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Speaker 1: as they get set to play the Minnesota Vikings. Good afternoon, everybody,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker in our One Buffalo Studio. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Steve Burf It's late in the week. I'm still drinking

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Speaker 1: coffee at the start of the show, so I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have to give you the heads up right away. And

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Speaker 1: when do we switch into the Doctor Peppers, the lethal

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Speaker 1: dosage of Doctor Pepper that you come down one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I haven't. It's they the cooler

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Speaker 1: is out of diet Doctor Peppers. Lately. I've had to

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Speaker 1: be switch over to I hope they heard that in

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Speaker 1: the other room. It's a big day for Steve. The

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Speaker 1: turns on it. It's a big day for Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: for one simple reason. He now has his own printer

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Speaker 1: by his desk. I get a seat at the big table.

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Speaker 1: After weeks of listening to him whine about having to

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Speaker 1: share a printer with me. Steve has whined so hard

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Speaker 1: and so long and so effectively that they installed a

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Speaker 1: printer right next to night. Absolutely wasted. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: the higher ream of paper. Just trying that thing out

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Speaker 1: and getting everything I wanted. Oh so good. It's so

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Speaker 1: good to be treated like an adult just once in

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Speaker 1: a while. The problem is now without the response, I

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Speaker 1: have to print to the printer on his desk. So

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Speaker 1: I spend all day reaching over to Steve, said, Hammy

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Speaker 1: that please hand me that please? And then but I

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Speaker 1: got him trained. He's now trained to coal eated asking

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Speaker 1: me to autograph. That's the thing. But he is. He's

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Speaker 1: good at he's good at coal eating. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what coal leading is. I said, Steve, will you

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Speaker 1: collate that and state it prints out collated? But then

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Speaker 1: I have to separate all the six articles that you

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Speaker 1: got me pulling off there for you. Steve has a printer.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to run out of state. I know that

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Speaker 1: Steve has a printer. We have practice going out across

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Speaker 1: the way and We're gonna go to a Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: Bills Inside or a Buffalo Bills dot Com in a

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Speaker 1: moment as practice gets started. Seeing before we get to that, though,

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Speaker 1: I gotta say, I don't care about betting lines. I

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Speaker 1: don't care about point spreads. I'm not a gambler. I

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Speaker 1: don't bet. I don't bet on football for sure, because

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Speaker 1: that would be a problem. But seventeen point underdogs. The

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Speaker 1: Bills are sixteen and a half. Seventeen point underdogs. That

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Speaker 1: is outrageous. I'm with you. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 1: anything about anything on with about betting or wagering or whatever.

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Speaker 1: I know this, though, And you can look back at

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Speaker 1: the you can look back at the Chiefs game against Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: and you look back at the Bills game against La

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Speaker 1: Chargers this last weekend, and a munch of a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other games across the league. When a team jumps

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Speaker 1: out into a big league like the Chargers did against

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Speaker 1: the Bills, like the Chiefs did against the Steelers, like

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Speaker 1: other teams have done, the game demands so much of

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Speaker 1: the players, you know, Murph, I mean, you really got

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Speaker 1: to pour yourself into it. I mean, we said that's

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Speaker 1: why it was so such an egregious thing what happened

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Speaker 1: to Vante Davis. And that's how you kind of get

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Speaker 1: to that. You know, you got to pour it in,

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Speaker 1: to pour your emotions into when you're on the field

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Speaker 1: and you know what it demands of you and when

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Speaker 1: you get a chance, particularly the stress. So that's why

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Speaker 1: everybody always wants to get off to a fast start,

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Speaker 1: because it's once in the week when you've got a

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Speaker 1: like whatever, a ten point or fourteen point lead, or

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Speaker 1: you can go, we got a little breathing room, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you are really into it emotionally, and when these

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Speaker 1: teams like the Chargers last week, like the Chiefs last week,

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Speaker 1: the tendency is always to take a step back and

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Speaker 1: take a deep breath because the stress is so great

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Speaker 1: because you're in a physical confrontation. I mean it, it's

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Speaker 1: like and it's not verbalized, right, nobody says there's nothing

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Speaker 1: That's why when you get into the last half of

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Speaker 1: let's just realize, keep them in. Let's keep this thing

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Speaker 1: worst teams you've ever seen on the I remember back

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Speaker 1: they'd still lose by ten, right, But the pointspread, the points, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they the team, the game gets close, and just because

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Speaker 1: that's all it takes in this league. And that's why

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Speaker 1: it fly like the You look at that first half

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Speaker 1: they're going to get close to that team, and they

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Speaker 1: end up being eleven points down. I've got a few

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Speaker 1: more thoughts on this, and we'll talk about it as

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills insider from Buffalo Bills dot com, standing

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Speaker 1: by outside on the grass practice field outside the End

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Speaker 1: Pro Sports Training Center. Chris Brown. Good afternoon, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. A gun, Chris, Good to have you with us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, guys, A nice sunny day out here. Ye're

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Speaker 1: just going to break out into individual position drills. There

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Speaker 1: you go. Hey, tell me about Lashawn McCoy a limited

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Speaker 1: at work yesterday. What's it looked like today. What's his

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Speaker 1: early practice status from what you can tell, still in

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Speaker 1: a red non contact jersey, so obviously hands off of

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Speaker 1: him today. I thought probably his most interesting comments from

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Speaker 1: the fact that he said, I want to make sure

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Speaker 1: saying that you're more concerned about the you know, jostling

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Speaker 1: than actually taking a hit. And his response to that was, well,

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Speaker 1: taking it hits no problem. I can deal with that

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Speaker 1: test it. No later than Friday. That's when he's really

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Speaker 1: see it. May wait until tomorrow, Brownie. Is there any

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Speaker 1: Basically what I'm saying is he could he take the

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Speaker 1: him and go. Yeah, he wasn't asked that specifically. He

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Speaker 1: ask him you know, do you intend to wear a

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think Steve knows probably as good

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Speaker 1: jacket he has on today out there, I would say, Chris, huh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's got well, he usually wears something around

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Speaker 1: his lower rib cage area. I don't know if this

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Speaker 1: he definitely has that on today. Yeah, actually does look

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Speaker 1: a little bulkier. John, You're right, yeah, And that's one

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Speaker 1: think the other thing that often gets overlooked guys is

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Speaker 1: two or three extra inches around your midsection that can

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Speaker 1: There's no question about that. He's a dynamic performer. He

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Speaker 1: running back. If McCoy can't go with Chris Ivory and

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Speaker 1: I mean they have answers, certainly not as as good answers,

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Speaker 1: I will say this, I thought Chris Ivory and the

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Speaker 1: very hard. Obviously, that's his trademark, you know. And if

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Speaker 1: you're having trouble establishing the line of scrimmage, which has

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Speaker 1: been an issue for the offensive line each of the

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Speaker 1: first two weeks at times, why not go with the

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Speaker 1: guy that can get yards all by himself. Mix him

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Speaker 1: into the same problem this week with a defensive front

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, that's pretty dark to it, right. Is there

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Speaker 1: any any other things going on in practice regarding lineups

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Speaker 1: defensive play calls like we've been discussing all week as

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott given any tip as to what he might

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Speaker 1: do later on, If it sounds like they're going to

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Speaker 1: collaborate a little bit on their defensive calls, maybe they'll

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Speaker 1: have two call sheets. I don't know. But what about

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Speaker 1: other lineup changes too, offensive line? In the secondary? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think if we see it anywhere, it'll

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Speaker 1: probably be on the offensive line, because you know, coach

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Speaker 1: last week at this time said no, I'm going with

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Speaker 1: for somebody to step through it. So then you say, well,

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Speaker 1: to be up against it this week against a very

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Speaker 1: strong Minnesota defense, right, and you add on the extra

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Speaker 1: layers of playing in a road atmosphere, having a deal

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Speaker 1: with silent count potentially hands signals. You know, that's just

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Speaker 1: another layer that you're adding on to all that he's

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Speaker 1: also expected to know with respect to game plan, site adjustments,

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Speaker 1: checks at the line, RPOs, all of that. Now you

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Speaker 1: add on silent count, ridiculous crowd noise and the like,

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Speaker 1: and there's a few extra things on his plate this

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Speaker 1: week and it's only start number two. So you know,

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Speaker 1: echoing what Lashawn McCoy said last week, everybody around him

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the defense kind of keeping the score

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Speaker 1: down on the board to give the offense and Allen

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Speaker 1: time to get up to speed feel out what that

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Speaker 1: Minnesota defense is throwing at them. And then special teams

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Speaker 1: virtue of a turnover. These are all thing everybody's got

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Speaker 1: a rally around Allen. Yes, he's the focal point because

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Speaker 1: of the position that he plays, and all the responsibility

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Speaker 1: things I want to ask you about, and maybe you

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Speaker 1: can give us an opinion or maybe you know and

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Speaker 1: maybe you don't. But what about the Minnesota Vikings. There

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Speaker 1: it's always it's almost become, you know, almost trite to

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Speaker 1: say that they're going to try and confuse a young

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Speaker 1: quarterback like Josh Allen? Is there? Is it their propensity

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Speaker 1: into coverage, bring guys from the secondary. Are they gonna

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Speaker 1: I know, that's probably in their playbook, But what's their

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Speaker 1: personality defensively besides being a really solid group. Do they

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Speaker 1: they just gonna play what they play and relax, not

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Speaker 1: really relax, but you know, just play their game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: their front four is pretty darn good. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: don't have to send extra people all that often now

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Speaker 1: against Green Bay and a quarterback. You know, the caliber

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Speaker 1: did blitz him a handful of times. Last week. It

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Speaker 1: seemed as though second and Long was when they chose

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Speaker 1: they sent five. There was another one where they sent six,

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Speaker 1: just to try to mix it up, I think, more

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Speaker 1: look because with his experience in this league, he'll slice

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Speaker 1: and dice youa um. Will they have to do that

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Speaker 1: they would. Maybe they feel they can have more success

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Speaker 1: blitzing him more often. I think it's a game's a

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Speaker 1: game plan specific type thing more than anything else as

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Speaker 1: to what you know, this Minnesota defense is going to

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Speaker 1: try to dial up and throw at them, so you know,

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Speaker 1: but really, when you think about a talent wise alone, uh,

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Speaker 1: they can just line up and play and be a

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Speaker 1: pretty effective defense. Yeah. And even though they can line

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Speaker 1: up and play, I think one of the things about

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Speaker 1: it is it's it's a chance for them to get turnovers.

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Speaker 1: And that's if you can confuse him to get him

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Speaker 1: to release the football or get pressure and knock it

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Speaker 1: out of his hands. I think that's that's the ultimate

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Speaker 1: goal for those defenders, and and that's what the game

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Speaker 1: plan is going to center around, not only just confusing

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, but get him to throw it someplace where

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Speaker 1: he's not supposed to throw it. Chris Staton, Harrison Smith

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Speaker 1: is a Pro Bowl safety that's gonna get turnovers. He's tough,

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Speaker 1: they're good. We're up against it again. Thanks Chris. All Right, guys,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills Inside or Buffalo Bills dot Com. Right

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Speaker 1: outside the door. The delay there makes you think he's

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the earth, doesn't it. Some

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Speaker 1: days the delay is more pronounced than others, and today

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Speaker 1: was pronounced. I mean, you could literally open up a

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Speaker 1: eat hear me. Yeah that's right, we can. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: surprised we can hear that. A Welcome to the show,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker here until three o'clock today. We

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Speaker 1: got a good show. This might be one of the

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Speaker 1: all time great shows. At the start Steven Bonus is

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Speaker 1: not screwing it up on you and I right, and

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Speaker 1: because we got a great line if Chris was great.

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Speaker 1: Good to get the update from practice. Coming up in

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Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes. Thurman Thomas joins us from Mexico.

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Speaker 1: Why Mexico. We'll find out why. Coming up at one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Tracy Wolfson, premiere sideline reporter for the NFL on CBS.

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Speaker 1: She's their lead sideline reporter and she'll be doing the

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Speaker 1: game this Sunday up there at the US Bank Stadium

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. She's on the Bills broadcast. Coming up after practice,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen will join us in studio, the starting quarterback now,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen coming up around two thirty or so. John Randall,

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl defensive lineman, Hall of Famer defensive lineman. He

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Speaker 1: spends a lot of time here. He comes to Kelly's

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Speaker 1: tournament almost every game. Right. Yeah, he's gotten to be

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Speaker 1: really good friends with Bruce, Jim Thurman, James lofton all

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Speaker 1: those Hall of famers. John Randall will join us today.

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Speaker 1: So that's the line. We got a lot and a

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Speaker 1: lot to discuss, including our Twitter poll, and we like

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Speaker 1: to get you involved in that looking at this game

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Speaker 1: and where the Bills are at after two weeks, and

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Speaker 1: we know it's only two weeks, but we're trying to

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Speaker 1: find out what you think about the Bills where they

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Speaker 1: stand and on Twitter. We asked this question as soon

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Speaker 1: as I get to it, what do you think on

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Speaker 1: Twitter as far as the Bills through the first two games?

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Speaker 1: And the question is de spike EO and to start

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Speaker 1: to the season. Who has shown the most promise for

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Speaker 1: younger player, guy who's played a lot of the first

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Speaker 1: two games. We got it up as a Twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: You can vote, you can tweet, you can respond by

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Speaker 1: a Twitter you can vote on Twitter, or you can

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Speaker 1: call us up. We'll use your comments on the air

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty until free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five two games in Who's shown

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Speaker 1: the most promise? We offer these options on Twitter. Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen the quarterback, is he's shown the most promise after

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Speaker 1: two games? Fifty eight percent of you say yes, he's

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Speaker 1: the man. Tremaine Edmunds twenty eight percent of you say

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Speaker 1: he has shown the most promise. I forced this one

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Speaker 1: in there Robert Foster. Only four percent of you say,

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Speaker 1: I got to tell you that's who I voted for. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you and I we're gonna talk more about that, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why I believe that ten percent

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Speaker 1: have somebody else in mind. Phone lines are gonna be

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Speaker 1: fifteen toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two.

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Speaker 1: Are we gonna have our daily debate about the quality

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Speaker 1: of our Twitter poll? Because no, because I kind of

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Speaker 1: why what do you think are you going to that?

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Speaker 1: We shouldn't have put the choices on. We should have

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Speaker 1: said who's shown the most proble? Like the poll? I

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Speaker 1: like like numbers. I like elections. I like numbers, early returns. Right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we get the early returns in from some of the

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Speaker 1: previous All right, Okay, I didn't. I didn't put up

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Speaker 1: a fight over this one. It because I was like

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Speaker 1: right there with you. But we should have just left

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Speaker 1: it open. Yeah, Well, who who's gonna vote for anybody

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Speaker 1: but Harrison Phillips. We still that's the way Harrison Phillips. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: could be. Maybe it doesn't have to be a rookie,

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Speaker 1: by the way, right, somebody else who's showing the most

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Speaker 1: promise We'll never know now will wait? Well? No, well,

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Speaker 1: we do have the other follow up. This may be

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Speaker 1: the first time when other has been ahead of one

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Speaker 1: of the other choices. I like the Foster pick though,

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Speaker 1: any we'll talk about that. Who's showing the most promise

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Speaker 1: in the Bills? Oh and two starts. Give us a

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Speaker 1: call or use Twitter to let us know what you think.

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Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas schedule to join us when we returned. Steve

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Speaker 1: and I just getting started here until three o'clock today

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Speaker 1: with a jam pack show. This is the ones we like.

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Speaker 1: It is One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health Company

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: It is the Thursday edition of One Bills five or

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Speaker 1: the lot coming up today. Tracy Wolfson from the NFL

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Speaker 1: on CBS, Josh Allen, the Bills quarterback John Randall Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer, and oh, by the way, the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame around the line with us right now on the subway.

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Speaker 1: Fresh take Colne. Happy to have Bills Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: running back Thurman Thomas with us. Thurman, John Murphy and

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here in Orchard Parking. I thought you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be way down in Mexico. You're not. No, I am not.

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Speaker 1: I got back late Lake Lake last night. You couldn't

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. Now. We gotta know. Now we're gonna

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Speaker 1: find no unbelievable man. I'm glad you're home safe anyway.

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Speaker 1: Are you fully clothed? Let's start with that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: I am malievable. All right, First thing I gotta ask

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Speaker 1: you is what's up with your boy Bruce and the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famers asking to get paid? And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: actually talked to Dickson last night, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: actually think things through. Sometimes we just kind of yeah,

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Speaker 1: of Fame, guys that are really not doing well and

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Speaker 1: and it's most of these guys that you know that

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Speaker 1: also had to get a job after they finished playing,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I think those are the guys that

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Speaker 1: Eric was really talking about. But I think he just

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, and you're all of you're a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer, but you know what, you're part of the league,

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Speaker 1: and the league is the players Association, and he should

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Speaker 1: are they going to rewrite that letter and send it again? Yeah,

641
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: they need to, right, They needed to have somebody go

642
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: over before they even set the letter out, right. I

643
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: think that was probably the mistake. But yeah, I think

644
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: they have to go. And now you're gonna have Eric Dickerson,

645
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: who was kind of the threshold, the front guy of

646
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: this name. You know, he's going to be out now

647
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: talking about the letter and how it wasn't how it

648
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. But I do think he made

649
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: a mistake by, um, you know, by by saying just

650
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: the NFL Hall of Famers and it should be the

651
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: NFL period. Well, dem thanks for clearing that. One more

652
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: thing about that letter that troubled me though, and that's

653
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: the threat not to attend the Hall of Fame ceremonies

654
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: unless their demands are man. I thought that was a

655
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,479
Speaker 1: little heavy handed, don't you, especially in light of what

656
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: Terall Owens did this past year. Exactly right, And like

657
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: I said, I had the conversation with Eric and I

658
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: told him right out, I say, look, the Hall of

659
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: Famous special to me, and there's some of the greatest

660
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: players that ever played the game there. But there are

661
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: also some of my idols that I look at every

662
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: year that I want to meet, that I want to see,

663
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: Jim Brown, Earl Campbell, you know. And now I've become

664
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: really good trands with you every Kramer now and so

665
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: we've been to a couple of events together. So yeah,

666
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: I do think it was a mistake of doing that,

667
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're some of us, you know. I mean,

668
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner came around and say, hey, look, I didn't

669
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: see this letter. I didn't see this letter, and my

670
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: name is ordered, and I think you have a lot

671
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: of other players you know that Dickerson probably didn't talk

672
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: to but probably had a conversation about it, but just

673
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: didn't know that their name was going to be put

674
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: out there like it was. Yeah, there's one other thing

675
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: in the news. And as we move on from the

676
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame letter and all of the stuff that's

677
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: going on there, there was a guy who played for

678
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills last year and Jordan Matthews who came

679
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: out and said he's gonna be He's gonna be a

680
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: father because of his year in Buffalo. Did you read that? Yeah,

681
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: Well I had kids, So I mean, listen, I would like, yeah,

682
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk bad about it. We had five

683
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: kids while we were here, so we're still here. Yeah,

684
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: we're yeah exactly, We're still here. So yeah. And you know,

685
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: I kind of tweeted out afterwards like who yeah. Yeah. So,

686
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: I mean I think it was something you know, guys

687
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: say stuff. Man, I mean, if you don't get out

688
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: in the community, you don't go anywhere. Yeah, you're probably

689
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: going to say that, But you have to get out

690
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: to the community, man, and see what type of people

691
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: are here in Buffalo. And I think it's just all

692
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: all around great people that are here in Buffalo. Man.

693
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: That no, he took a shot at and it's not

694
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: the first time that Buffalo has been taking a shot at.

695
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, I gotta say I didn't find a defensive Thurman.

696
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,239
Speaker 1: And Jordan Matthews told a reporter in Philadelphia they had

697
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: a baby with his wife because there's quote nothing else

698
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: to do in Buffalo. I talked to myself, that's good, right,

699
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo is a good place. People want to come

700
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: here and with their wives and had babies. What's that's

701
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: not an insult? That's not a slam is it's not

702
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: a slam at all, you know, I mean, I don't

703
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: mind being sucking tow with my wife for five days

704
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: in a plicit. I really don't. You know, Wait a minute, now,

705
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: there you go. Listen. Unfortunately, probably the three of us

706
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: have all been there. Yeah, and we got the kids

707
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: to prove it. So, yeah, exactly, you were stuck in

708
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: Mexico with your wife for a couple of days. Right.

709
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: What was that an NFL event or was just vacation

710
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: or what do you have going on down there? No,

711
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: it was it was from an event that we did

712
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: for the Summer Thomas Family Foundation back in December last year.

713
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: And it was just in an auction event that that

714
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: we auctioned off and it just happened to you know,

715
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: we didn't know the schedule, what was going to be

716
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: like that, and that's why I missed the first home game.

717
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: And uh, it was just about man, about six or

718
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: seven couples, man spending five days in Mexico, you know,

719
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: playing golf, going to the piece. It was it was

720
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 1: all part of my foundation. Excellent. And at any point

721
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: Sunday did you look at the score coming from Buffalo

722
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: and think, Man, I'm glad I missed that first game. No,

723
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: you know what. I actually when we got there, Um,

724
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: you know, we had about twenty some people. We've been

725
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: padd and nine deciety. You know, we're just gonna we're

726
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: gonna buy the NFL package, We're gonna buy the NFL ticket.

727
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: And we did, and we had everybody in the room. So, um,

728
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 1: you know, not the way that we wanted to turn out.

729
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: But there were some good things and there were some

730
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: bad things, and uh, I wish I would have been there,

731
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, it's they're going too searching for

732
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: answers right now. I'm getting ready to play a tough

733
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: Minnesota team. But hey, there's still sixteen fourteen more games

734
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: to play and hopefully these guys can turn it around.

735
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: One of the things I want to ask you about

736
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: that game Shady went down. Did you ever have to

737
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: play with hurt ribs like Shady's thinking he might be

738
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: able to do Oh yeah, kind of. It's one of

739
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: the most painful things, um, that you ever want to

740
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: go through. I mean, you can barely breathe after time.

741
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: Um yeah, And so I did actually play with it,

742
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: but um, I think during like the mid second quarter,

743
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: you know, you have this big old flask on, like

744
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks you usually weary. And I was just like,

745
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: you know what, hey, give me some MELACEI and I

746
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: because I can't wear this. I feel uncomfortable. But uh,

747
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: it's very very painful, as you know, I know on

748
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: a lot of running backs. You know, when you get

749
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: that real injury, man, it's uh, it's not good for you.

750
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: I asked this of Chris Brown, who's out of practice.

751
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: I haven't nobody's asked Shady this yet. If did you?

752
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: Did you take a needle to play for that? With that? No? No,

753
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: I've never took needles, you know, and not me. I've

754
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: never took meeds. I just took medicine, right, you just

755
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: took bills, right, Yeah, I got you. Yeah, yeah, I was.

756
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: I'm scared of needles today. And I was never, never,

757
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: ever going to do that. And uh and I just

758
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: didn't want to just put all this stuff in my

759
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: body and with needles and all that stuff. So no,

760
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: I just kind of you know, your football player, you're

761
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: supposed to be tough. You played through the pains. If

762
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 1: you can play. If you can't, you can't, you're a sissy.

763
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: All right, Um, talk a little about talking about this.

764
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: This is you you said it. I mean, this is

765
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: a good team. The Bills are going to play in

766
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 1: the Vikings and but yeah, you know, you think back

767
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: just you know this time last year when they you

768
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: know they're gonna go into Kansas City, they're gonna go

769
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: into Atlanta. That got the Raiders coming home that they've

770
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: won games like this before. But the key for them

771
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: was always turnovers. And really this year the turnovers are

772
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: kind of dried up, and that's been the difference. Do

773
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 1: you think I think that has totally been the difference.

774
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: I've been talking about bus and on the way back

775
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: here from Mexico and and just told them, you know,

776
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: we haven't had any turnovers that have given our opportunity

777
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: offense a little bit more opportunities and uh, and that's

778
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: what we're missing now. I mean, but after the second

779
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: or third game last year, we had a four or

780
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: five interceptions, we had fumble recovers, we had it all.

781
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: And we haven't had that this year. And I think

782
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: that's kind of been And when you look at the

783
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: Bills this past year coming up, their defense was what

784
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: was their strong point. And you know, they went in

785
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: the draft and got Tremaine Etman's Harrison Phillips note to

786
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: Bills and get stronger on their defense, and it just

787
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: not hasn't happened for them right now. What do you

788
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: think of Josh Allen's starting debut? Thurman? What? You know

789
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: what when you look at all the quarterbacks that have

790
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: ever played this game, I mean that first game, John

791
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: always first game wasn't good. Pete Mans wouldn't. But you

792
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: know what, I like the fire that he has in

793
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: his belly and uh and I think that's what he needs.

794
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: You know, after we scored a touchdown, you know, he

795
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: was talking to the defense and you know, that's what

796
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: we need. And I thought it was great and I

797
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: can I could, I can see him getting better as

798
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: the season goes on. Talk a little bit about you

799
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: know there. We talked to Brian dabol offensive coordinator, head coach,

800
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: and even the players like Josh all and the offensive line.

801
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: They're talking about the offensive line. You know, some of

802
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: the sacks are there, farm but maybe half of them

803
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: because some of the sacks and the heat that the

804
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: offensive line has taken has been you know, because of

805
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: the quarterback, because of a tight end or a running

806
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: back with it on a block, something like that. The

807
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: offensive line is playing a little bit better, and even

808
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 1: Murphy quoted Pro Football Focus has got the offensive line

809
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 1: playing much better than than the average fan would think. Yeah,

810
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: I think so. I think that game. I mean, going

811
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 1: against those guys, what the Chargers gave them a little

812
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: bit of hope of you know, they can play better

813
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: and they have to play better, especially this week. I

814
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: just been Nsota. I mean, they have probably the top

815
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: defense in the National Football League and they're gonna be

816
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: bringing it. They're gonna be blitzing. Uh, Deverment is gonna

817
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: be blitzing and me throwing everything at Josh Allen. But

818
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: actually I did. I did think the guys did a

819
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: better job this past him, but just charged it up

820
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: with checking a little bit more determined. Uh. We have

821
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: a guest coming up later in the show in the

822
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: two o'clock hour, John Randall, former Minnesota Viking defensive linement.

823
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: You're close with him, right, you know him pretty well

824
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: very well. Uh. You know, you look at a lot

825
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: of guys, you know that in the Hall of Fame

826
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: or not in the Hall of Fame, and you try

827
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: to pick out a couple of them that you like, Oh,

828
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: this guy could have fit in with us. John Randa

829
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: is like at the top of the list. He should

830
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: have definitely fit in with the Buffalo Bills and doing

831
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: I Hayday back in you know, in the nineties and

832
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: early nineties. Yeah, he's a guy that he has a

833
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: motor on every single point and uh you have that man,

834
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, okay, and so he's from me, from

835
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: Texas anyway, so you know our Texas guys though, we

836
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: we stay together and we hang together, and uh, definitely

837
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: John Ramda is one of those guys who would definitely

838
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: who would have passed, would have made our defense better

839
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: than it was that he played with the Busball Bills.

840
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: Going to talk to him. I don't know if there's

841
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: any defense anywhere at any time that wouldn't be made

842
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: better by that guy coming on board. Yeah, exactly, Thurman,

843
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: thanks for this, good to talk to you. Maybe we

844
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: get you in the studio next week. We appreciate it.

845
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely be in the studio next week. Okay,

846
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: thanks man. All right, guys, you have a great thing.

847
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: Thanks all the famer Thurman. Thomas, who apparently walked outside

848
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: into the wind as the interview went probably walking his

849
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: dogs or something, good to tell us what he was doing. Yeah,

850
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: he get you get the idea, this their Hall of

851
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: Fame lives or all this glamorous stuff, and it sounds great.

852
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: He's in Mexico and just decides, hey, we got these people,

853
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: let's just buy the ticket. I'm like, dude, he's something.

854
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Speaker 1: Thurman joined us out on the Subway Fresh Take Hidline

855
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: presented by Subway Restaurants Proud to be locally owned and operated.

856
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: Steve and I getting rolling through a pretty busy show today,

857
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: So come on back from more One Bill's Live from

858
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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. We're

859
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: flying through this show. Doesn't feel like it, Yes we are.

860
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: What happens when you got this many guests we got

861
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: live gives you wings. Tracy Wolson coming up at it

862
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: sounds like a promotional thing. Tracy Wilson coming up after

863
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: the top of the hour from the NFL on CBS.

864
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen going to join us after practice. John Randall,

865
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Famer schedule to join us. Former

866
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: Minnesota Viking. We want you to join this. We want

867
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: to get your take on our topic of the day,

868
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll. I find it interesting. I'd like to

869
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 1: know what you think. You can give us a call

870
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: at eight O three five fifty or toll free one

871
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty, or on Twitter

872
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: at one Bills Live. You can respond that way your

873
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: vote on the Twitter poll so far, despite the only

874
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: two start for the Bills, who has shown the most

875
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: promise so far doesn't have to be a rookie. Who

876
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: do you think is shown the most promise? Now? Fifty

877
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: seven percent of you say his quarterback Josh Allen, Twenty

878
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: eight percent of you say it is a first round pick,

879
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: Tree mean, Edmonds, ten percent, have somebody else in mind

880
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: that we didn't list, five percent Robert Foster what he

881
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: got on the tweet cheat the yeah dukey Briggs comes in. Truly,

882
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: haven't seen all that promise just yet, but I'm praying

883
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: it will come. I know it will. Off the list,

884
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 1: I'd say Allan, with Edmonds close behind. With that being said,

885
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: Edmonds has just as much, if not more, on his plate.

886
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: I respect both guys great, and he asked me. I

887
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: think he's asking me, Steve, what do you think great?

888
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: I don't know who. I don't know what's great. I

889
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: don't know. That's unclear to me the way he wrote it,

890
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: what can I say? I'm going with what I got.

891
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: He doesn't know if it's I don't know. He likes

892
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: both guys. He thinks they're both going to be great,

893
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: or he's questioning when they both will be great one

894
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: of the two from JW socks. In my mind it's

895
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. But like most Bills fans, I wanted to

896
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: be the next Jim Kelly. The whole team needs help.

897
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: Edmund looks like he can be a game chain, but

898
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: he got schooled last week in the first half, and

899
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna yeah, there's a lot of people who are thinking,

900
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: you know, the Vikings are not the Vikings. The Chargers

901
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: saw something in Tremaine Edmonds and I sowed him a

902
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: little bit on those crossing routs. He got caught looking

903
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: and I think when when Sean McDermott was questioned about

904
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 1: that early in the week, I don't think he questioned

905
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: Tremaine's ability to stay with those guys. He questioned his

906
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: technique and where his eyes were. Tremaine was getting caught

907
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: up in the backfield and would he was trying to

908
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: do two things at once, watch the run and then

909
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: catch up with his receiving, his receiving or coverage responsibilities

910
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: after that, and he's got to stay more discipline. Once

911
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: you stayed discipline with your eyes, and that's what Sean

912
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: McDermott was referring to. He's got to be more disciplined

913
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: with his eyes. Then you kept you stay ahead of

914
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: where the receiver's going. And then when a linebackers covering

915
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: it and he's and he's not looking at you, you

916
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: got a chance, you know. And that's what happened to Tremaine.

917
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 1: He got caught when the receiver had a head start

918
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: before his eyes came to him, and that put him

919
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: in a bad spot a couple of times. And to

920
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: their credit, the Chargers did that perfectly right. One step

921
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: for Melvin Gordon or Ekeler in the one direction, Tremaine

922
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: follows him with his eyes and then he's a step

923
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,439
Speaker 1: and a half behind that comes out and catches a pass.

924
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: Let's work on a quick phone call here, Al on

925
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: the line from Clarence solo. Al, go ahead, you're on

926
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,959
Speaker 1: the air. Hey guys, how are you doing today? Great

927
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: and good? I think after the trade timeline and I

928
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: think is October thirtieth. I think at that point, if

929
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: we're still losing games by double digits, I think that's

930
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: the time that maybe that they're going to emote Shady

931
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: because the character concerns. I think Missus Blagoula has a

932
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: very short fuse for that after the Russ Brandon incident.

933
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: And I really think, you know, if you know, even

934
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: though these allegations haven't been proven or anything, but the

935
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: more and more allegations to come against this guy, I

936
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Speaker 1: think she's just going to have enough of it and

937
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: try and get something. If we're in the rebuild at

938
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Speaker 1: that time, well, I don't know, because if you wait

939
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Speaker 1: till the trade didn't I mean, I get that, but

940
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Speaker 1: I think there's different reasons for that. I mean, if

941
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Speaker 1: you're going to do that, I think they're the contract

942
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: you want to probably unleash is probably Charles Clay LaShaun

943
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: McCoy is still your best offensive player. And I listen,

944
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Speaker 1: if they were gonna make a move of that nature,

945
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 1: I don't think anything would have stopped it from happening already.

946
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 1: If they're gonna make it for those reasons, it's getting

947
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: less of an issue. It's going to be less of

948
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: an issue, not more of an issue now so I

949
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: think the longer it passes into the path, gets into

950
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: the past, it's going to be less and less of

951
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: an issue. I think it's less and less likely. That's

952
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: the reason you'd moved, Leshaun McCoy. I don't think they're

953
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: gonna do that. I think they're gonna keep him here.

954
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: I think he's they're gonna lean on him offensively, and

955
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: you know this rib injury aside. I don't think that's

956
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Speaker 1: likely because I think it's more if they're gonna make

957
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: a move like that, it's gonna be economic and it's

958
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: probably going to be a contract. Like Charles Clay, this

959
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: is team has got more dead cap space I read

960
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: it today than eight team in NFL cap history, and

961
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: now obviously it's getting bigger bigger all the time. But

962
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: the Bills have over fifty million dollars in dead money.

963
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: That's more than anybody's ever had before. That's gonna come

964
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,720
Speaker 1: back to him after this season, So they're they're primed

965
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: to take a big step forward, but it's going to

966
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: be a few months economically. So if you're gonna get

967
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: there and trade somebody because of the economics of it,

968
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: and which is really to me at this point. The

969
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: only reason you're gonna do that. It's not gonna be shady.

970
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be shady. All right, to break here.

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Speaker 1: When we come back next hour, Tracy Woolson from the

972
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: NFL on CBS will join us on the line. She's

973
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: on the sidelines this Sunday for the Bill's Vikings game.

974
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to her about that and a lot more.

975
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Speaker 1: She's coming up next. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive,

976
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bill's Radiofalo Bill's Radio Network Sports Update.

977
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: The Update from One Bill's Drive a long list of

978
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: injuries to keep an eye on for the Buffalo Bills

979
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,720
Speaker 1: as to practice week moves along, most notably the status

980
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: of running back Lashawan McCoy. He was limited yesterday with

981
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: the ripped ribbed cartilage he suffered last Sunday in the

982
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: Chargers game. McCoy said yesterday he hopes he's available. He

983
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: is limited again today. The Bills have issues at cornerback. Also,

984
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: both Philip Gaines and Terren Johnson limited yesterday with injuries.

985
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson, who did not practice or play last week,

986
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: looks like he's out of today's practice as well. According

987
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: to Chris Brown, The official injury report for today comes

988
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 1: out later today. Bills heavy underdogs for a Sunday's game

989
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: in Minnesota the Vikings with one win and one tie

990
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: in their first two games. Bill's first game in Minnesota

991
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: in eight years. In their first ever game at the

992
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: new US Bank Stadium, Bills Vikings one o'clock Sunday kickoff.

993
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: You can catch the game right here in the Bills

994
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: Radio network and on our flagship here in Buffalo, WGR

995
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: Sports Radio five fifty. Around the NFL, the Dolphins signed

996
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: Nico Leary to their practice squad. The former Buffalo Bills

997
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: tight end and FS HUE standout. O'Leary, as a Florida native,

998
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: was cut on the final cutdown for the Bills. The

999
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: Dolphins in need of some tight end help and Nicole

1000
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: Leary is now on their practice squad. The NFL Week

1001
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: at started today Thursday Night Football, the Jets at one

1002
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: on one and the Cleveland Browns oh one and one

1003
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: of the Browns favorites in this game, maybe getting their

1004
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: first win in a couple of years, Tyrod Taylor at

1005
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Browns and rookie Sam Darnold, the youngest

1006
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: player in NFL history, to pass for a three hundred

1007
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: yards in the game. Gets to start for the Jets,

1008
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: kickoff eight twenty tonight at First Energy Stadium in Cleveland.

1009
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: The Browns at home against the Jets. Steelers coach Mike

1010
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: Tomlin as discipline All Pro wide receiver Antonio Brown for

1011
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: missing work on Monday. Brown was on no show to

1012
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: Steelers headquarters. The same day he treated trade me. Let's

1013
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: find out. Brown got into a confrontation least Sunday with

1014
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: coordinator Randy Fickner on the sideline during their loss to

1015
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Aaron Rodgers says he's concerned that

1016
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: his injured nee will get worse throughout the season. Rogers

1017
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 1: made it through all the Sunday's game against Minnesota. Of course,

1018
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: the Packers have the Bills next week, and the Sabers

1019
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: practice today on the road in Toronto. On the road

1020
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: in Toronto to play the Maple Leafs tomorrow night. That's

1021
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy and Steve

1022
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: Tasker here in our One Buffalo studio as the Bills

1023
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: get set to play the Minnesota Vikings. The game of

1024
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: course on the NFL on CBS with the Number one

1025
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Speaker 1: crew including our next guest. She is the lead a

1026
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Speaker 1: sideline reporter for the NFL on CBS. She'll be on

1027
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Speaker 1: the call Sunday when the Bills take on the Vikings.

1028
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Speaker 1: Happy to have Tracy Wolfson on the line with us. Tracy,

1029
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: if you're the lead sideline reporter, where does that put

1030
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: my partner, Steve Taskers somewhere way down on the depth chart?

1031
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: Then right? No way, He's right alongside me. Hi, Tracy

1032
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: helped me out whenever I ask him. He's great. Hi, Steve,

1033
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: how are you? And let me just put it this way.

1034
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: I asked Tracy for help more than she asks me,

1035
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Stop. It has the season been good

1036
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: so far for you? Steve? Yeah, yeah, it's been great.

1037
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: What are you? What about this week? For you? Got

1038
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: to go to Minnesota's. Have you been to this stadium before? No? No,

1039
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: actually really looking forward to it. I haven't done a

1040
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: game inside this stadium, And of course I always like

1041
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: when we're inside in a dome and you don't have

1042
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: to worry about the weather and the element. Not that

1043
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be an issue at all,

1044
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: but I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, nobody. Week one,

1045
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: we were in Baltimore and I had a driving rainstorm

1046
00:49:57,920 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: for three and a half hours. And a week two

1047
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: I was in Life Stadium. It was two thousand degrees

1048
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 1: on the field. So I'm coming off the New England

1049
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 1: Jacksonville game, which is like one hundred five. Yeah. Yeah,

1050
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: nobody understands our problems, Murph, No, I get it. I

1051
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: want to know how you guys prepare as sideline reporters,

1052
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: and Tracy, let's ask you what you know. I know

1053
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: how I do play by play, I know how to

1054
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: get ready for a game. But what does the sideline

1055
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: reporter do to get ready for an NFL game? What

1056
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: do you look at? What do you think about during

1057
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Speaker 1: the week. Yeah, so I mean for me, first of all,

1058
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Speaker 1: I was a researcher at CBS and so that never

1059
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: leaves you. So you're just kind of digging deep for

1060
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: whatever you can find that's unique or different or stories

1061
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: that are a little out of the box but also

1062
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: relevant to the game. And I always say, as a

1063
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: sideline reporter, you're the eyes and the ears down on

1064
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: the field, and you're an extension of the booth with

1065
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: the guys in the booth, the analyst, you know, he

1066
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: handles the xs the nose, and Jim is a great storyteller.

1067
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: I don't need to do that kind of stuff. So

1068
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: what I can get from the field is really, you

1069
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: know what they can't get, and so I prepare in

1070
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: terms of that obviously are a big deal. Little notes

1071
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: from any conversations you may have with one of the coaches,

1072
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: and it could be a running backs coach, or it

1073
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: could just be a player on the side that you

1074
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: talk to and things that you get that you know

1075
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: Jim and Tony for me don't get. And so that's

1076
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: kind of how I prepare. I don't you know, people

1077
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: are like you memorize every single player's numbers and this,

1078
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: and we have a flip card. I'm not going to

1079
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: waste my time memorizing every single player's number. You know

1080
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: the name, you know the two deeps, you know each

1081
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: of them individually, what they bring to the table, and

1082
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: what their stories are. What are some of the job

1083
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: to tell that? What are some of the stories this week?

1084
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:38,439
Speaker 1: I mean, You're going to go in with a team

1085
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: that's O and two and then I'm minn sort of

1086
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: vikings on the other side of that that are I guess,

1087
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: oh one and one. I guess technically, but they're also

1088
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: a team in Minnesota with Super Bowl aspirations and not

1089
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: only aspirations but expectations, and the Buffalo Bills coming in

1090
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 1: just trying to get their first win. What are some

1091
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: of the stories off the field that you're looking at? Yeah,

1092
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: I mean, well, first off, I mean, you can't overlook

1093
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: a team, you know, it's week story. So I think

1094
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: Minnesota and the driving you know, force or the driving

1095
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: conversation will probably we can't overlook these guys, right, But

1096
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: I think the big thing is really for Buffalo right

1097
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: now and how can they kind of snap out of

1098
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: this and they're dealing with a lot of injury and

1099
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: distractions with the Sea McCoy injury and distraction, They are

1100
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: really banged up in the secondary. It seems like a

1101
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: lot of my storylines going into this game happen to

1102
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: deal with injuries. If you take the other side of

1103
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: the ball with Minnesota as well, and then it's of

1104
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: course Dalvin Cook, so you're going to deal with that,

1105
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: and then you're going to have, you know, what's happening

1106
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: with the defensive play calling. Will McDermott be the one

1107
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: to call the plays or will it be Leslie Fraser.

1108
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: I think that's a conversation when we get a chance

1109
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: to speak with Josh Allen, what more can we bring

1110
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: to the kit table about him that hasn't already been

1111
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,479
Speaker 1: discussed regarding him as well. So those are a few

1112
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,959
Speaker 1: of the you know, the stories that you know stick

1113
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: out to me right away, and when you start digging

1114
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: deeper and you start, you know, having these conversations with

1115
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: the players and the coaches, you know, you obviously unveil

1116
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: so much more. Tracy wolflin our guest. She's on the sidelines,

1117
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: the league signed and reporter for the NFL on CBS,

1118
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: will be in the sideline Sunday up in Minnesota when

1119
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: the Bills play up there. Tracy, I hear you say this,

1120
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: and I believe it that you cannot overlook anyone. But

1121
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: the Vikings have this game against Buffalo, then they go

1122
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: to the Rams, and then they play they have a

1123
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: rematch of the NFC championship game. If they were ever

1124
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: in a position to maybe overlook an opponent and maybe

1125
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,439
Speaker 1: looking ahead to what's left under schedule the next couple

1126
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,439
Speaker 1: of weeks, this might be the week for them, wouldn't it. Yeah,

1127
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: I agree you know, and we see that all too

1128
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: often happen. And of course the Bills are going to

1129
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: come in try and to prove something as well, because

1130
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: you know they don't have an easy slate either, and

1131
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: so you know this is their time to turn it around.

1132
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: We saw a little glimpse of some good stuff that

1133
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: they did in the second half of that game last week,

1134
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: and they're going to look to feed off of that

1135
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,240
Speaker 1: and take advantage of maybe a Minnesota's team that's sleeping.

1136
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: But I think, to be honest, let's be realistic. You know,

1137
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: they're in their home, you know, Dome, They've got the

1138
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: crowd behind them, and maybe they do come out a

1139
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 1: little slow, and I think very quickly. You know, we

1140
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: know the coach that Mike Zimmer is, and you know

1141
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: they're not going to because they know, you know how

1142
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: important each and every one of those games is. But

1143
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't be surprised if they come out and

1144
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: start out slow. How difficult is it for you? I

1145
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: know that the CBS off the AFC package, and you

1146
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: guys tend to cross over a little more than most

1147
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: crews do and get a lot of NFC games. You

1148
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: don't do the vikings. I would say very often. Is

1149
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: that something you think about too much going in or

1150
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: do you you kind of just expect it to be,

1151
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: like just there's so much similarities between these teams. Does

1152
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: that bother you that you go in for a team

1153
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: that you really don't cover that much. I think it

1154
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: just takes a little extra work because you know, we

1155
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: know New England very well. We're going to see Jacksonville

1156
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: probably the next you know, two weeks after this, or

1157
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: it's not after this, but two in the next three

1158
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: weeks potentially, and we just had them, and you start

1159
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: seeing these teams over and over again. We did Bills

1160
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: a bunch last year. But I like it, you know,

1161
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: I like seeing these new new faces and new teams

1162
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: and new coaches and dealing with them. And I think

1163
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: it's a good opportunity for us to cross over. And

1164
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: I hope we get a chance to do it more.

1165
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: And I think with the Super Bowl this year, we're

1166
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: going to see him and of the game in the

1167
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and if very well, could be the Minnesota Vikings.

1168
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: So you know, let's get ahead, start here, get to

1169
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:19,919
Speaker 1: know them and do one of their games. It trace

1170
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: you when you look at the Vikings, what how much

1171
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: of a boost have they received from Kirk Cousins at

1172
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: quarterback for first two games anyway, compared to where they

1173
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: were a year ago, it looks as though they've they've

1174
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: gotten a great boost from him. And I think he's

1175
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: in a really good place right now, and I think

1176
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: he feels comfortable. It feels like he's on a team

1177
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: that can win and that supports him and he doesn't

1178
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:41,919
Speaker 1: have to worry and look over his shoulder or what's

1179
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: the next step. And I think he's you know, we

1180
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: saw last week and I think he's only going to

1181
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 1: build on that. And I think that helps obviously the Vikings.

1182
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: You know, we know the defense they have, and so

1183
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 1: if they can put this together, if Dalvin Cook could

1184
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: stay healthy, and then you have that one to punch

1185
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: with the running game and the passing game where there

1186
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: were two wide receivers out there as well, this is

1187
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: a very tough team to be well. Speaking of you

1188
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: gonna be You're gonna be on the sidelines of the

1189
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 1: Super Bowl this year, on the sidelines in Atlanta. Talk

1190
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: a little bit. Did you did they force you or

1191
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,879
Speaker 1: did you get a chance to predict who you think's

1192
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: going to be there? You know what, you never want

1193
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: to make predictions, especially over the radio, you know, everyone

1194
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: listening because they're going to hold you to it. And

1195
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 1: then you go and cover a team that potentially you

1196
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,439
Speaker 1: didn't pick to go into Super Bowl and who knows.

1197
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: So you know, look, it's so early to predict. You

1198
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: could predict, go them into the season, and all the

1199
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: sudden stuff changes. So I mean, I think New Orleans

1200
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: was one of those teams. I went in being like, oh,

1201
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: I could see them in the super Bowl, and I

1202
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 1: still can see them as the Super Bowl. But just

1203
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, the way they've started, You're like, huh, what's

1204
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: going on with this team? But then again, you know

1205
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 1: they didn't start out so great last year either, so

1206
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. And you see jackson Vilty,

1207
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen New England. I've seen Jacksonville. I

1208
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: can see Jacksonville right now. They continue to play the

1209
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: way they played against New England. You could see that.

1210
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: I'm there too. Pittsburgh's a question mark right now, but

1211
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: that was a team everyone talked about going into the season.

1212
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: So there's so many storylines and things change from week

1213
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: to week. So I'm looking forward to it. Love being

1214
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Can't wait to do another Super Bowl. I

1215
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: get the one thing I do want to ask you

1216
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: about for the Super Bowl? Are you a big Maroon

1217
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: five fan? You know, I just read that I like

1218
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: Maroon five. So I heard that they were getting some

1219
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: criticism about it, but I like Maroon five. I saw

1220
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: that Cardi b might be one of the guests. That

1221
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: would be cool. You know, I'm looking forward to I

1222
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: laugh though, because I spend and Steve you know this,

1223
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: I spend my whole entire halftime backstage by the locker

1224
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: room talking to coaches, so you don't have to get no.

1225
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: I'm watching it off a monitor if I'm lucky, exactly. Patricy,

1226
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: you were there on the sidelines for the Jags and

1227
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots the other day. You know, we're always looking

1228
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: to bury the Patriots up here in Buffalo. Did the

1229
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: Jaguars do us a favor? I mean, what are we

1230
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: talking about there? How much trouble at the Patriots in

1231
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: after that lass? Yeah? I think this is a point. Yeah,

1232
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: I think this is a point for them. Well, look again,

1233
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: they started also slow last year, and we know what happened,

1234
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: So I think this is a chance for them to

1235
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: go back and regroup. It is a very different team

1236
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: as we know out on the field for Tom Brady.

1237
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: This offense with a lot of moving parts, and it

1238
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: continues to move. They will get Julian Edelman back. I

1239
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: think that will solidify them after a suspension and the

1240
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,439
Speaker 1: defense has to take another step. There's a change there

1241
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: obviously in match Patrician out there. But Jacksonville was a

1242
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: better team, and to be honest, I felt like Jacksonville

1243
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: was a better team in the AFC Championship too. And

1244
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: you know a few whether it was the Miles jack

1245
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: wasn't down call, or was it whether it was what

1246
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: happened going in to half, or whether it was this

1247
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: Devon Gilmore, I mean, whether it was a catch at

1248
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: the end, whatever it was, you allow New England to

1249
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: get to have that last drive, and as Doug Moron

1250
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: told me, is that we can't let them have a

1251
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: drive going to half and a drive going into the

1252
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And they didn't allow it. And that was

1253
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: a weird game. Let me tell you. You felt that

1254
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 1: momentum shift after the turnovers. You're like, oh my god,

1255
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: this is you know, Brady's going to do it again.

1256
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: You know New England's going to do it again. And

1257
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 1: they didn't bet and they bent, but they didn't break,

1258
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 1: And that was impressive by Jacksonville. If you can have

1259
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles playing the way he did to compliment that defense,

1260
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: they are really a tough, tough team and their coaching

1261
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: is top notch and it's very underrated. So I really

1262
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars. I agree, and I think when you

1263
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: talk about the Patriots, the one thing you don't do

1264
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: is get away with anything against them. You never get

1265
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: that extra you know, you never get the extra possession,

1266
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: you never get that bad call, or you never get

1267
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Speaker 1: them to waste a time out. You never catch him

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00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: without a timeout left to give. And it's just something

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00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: that they just seem to win at every level of

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00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: the game, even if they don't have the most talented

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00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: team like we saw in that and that championship game

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00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: last January. Yeah, to beat New England, you have to

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00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: play perfect because they are you know, That's how they

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01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: don't overlook anything. And I kind of feel like Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Certainly they had their turnovers that let New England back in,

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01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: but they kind of played a pretty perfect game and

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Speaker 1: they called a perfect game as well, and a meeting

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Speaker 1: with Jacksonville before going into that game, you kind of

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01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: felt it. You heard from the coordinators and you said, oh,

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01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing, like they really have this

1281
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: game planed down, and I think that's what it takes.

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Speaker 1: But it'll be interesting. I mean, look, New England is

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Speaker 1: New England, right and so and then Brady is Brady

1284
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: and they're finding their pieces and you know what if

1285
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon could turn things around and be a weapon

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01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: for them, well that's a pretty good weapon to have

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Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. Now, Well, Tracy, this

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01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: week you got the Bills and the Vikings, and like

1289
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: most announcers, I'm sure you root for close competitive games.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I were shaking our heads at the Bills

1291
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: being seventeen point underdogs going into this game. Are you

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01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: worried about this one? That it might it might get

1293
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: away from Buffalo early and you won't have much of

1294
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: a game to look at. You're always worried about that.

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01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: But for me, I just have to come up with

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01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: more stories, right, So if it does turn into a

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Speaker 1: blow out, just inform the fans or get creative a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But um, I hope, I hope it is

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Speaker 1: a closer game than everyone's saying, you too. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: one last thing before we go. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you knew this, Tracy, but my partner here and John

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01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 1: Murphy's real good friends with Jim Baylin. John Belin's why

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01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that Michigan basketball coach. And I know

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01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: you're a big Michigan Michigan fan supporter. And my my

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01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:24,919
Speaker 1: buddy you are sitting next to me. Is has known

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01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,439
Speaker 1: the guy all his life. I guess. Yeah, so, oh

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01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: my god, he's a great guy. How do you know him?

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01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: High school? He went to my high school. You were

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01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: up around here in Buffalo, Yeah, Buffalo. He's a Lockport guy. Yeah, yep,

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Speaker 1: he is. He is. No, he's he's one of the best.

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01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,959
Speaker 1: I mean, he is tremendous and he just underwent a

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Speaker 1: heart surgery and uh he said he's doing well. I

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01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: actually texted with him recently, and I look forward to

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Speaker 1: covering them again because he's one of one of the

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Speaker 1: real good guys in this business. Yeah. Thanks great, Tracy,

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Speaker 1: thanks for this. You're you're great. By the way, I'm

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Speaker 1: basketball as well as NFL. We thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for spending a few minutes with us here today. Thanks

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01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: for having me, Okay. Tracy Wilson the lead sideline reporter

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Speaker 1: for the NFL on CBS. She's on the call Sunday

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01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: when the Bills play the Minnesota Vikings. Tracy joined us

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01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: on the Subway Fresh Stake Hotline, presented by Subway Restaurant's

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Speaker 1: proud to be locally owned and operated. She's right as

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Speaker 1: a broadcaster about if if it's going to be a blowout,

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01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready for that too. I had that

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01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: thought last week. I told you in the middle of

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01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: the game, I thought, all right, I gotta do a

1328
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: little bit more prep work. You know, these games might

1329
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: not be always competitive. If that's the way we're going,

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01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: if that's a path we're headed down. It's the old

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01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: it's the old adage that you hear in them in

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01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 1: the booth. You gotta empty the bucket. You come with

1333
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: all the stuff that you've prepared and you bring in

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01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 1: a big bucket, and on games like that, you gotta

1335
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: dump the bucket out. You gotta tell every story, you

1336
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: gotta tell every side note, you gotta tell every statistic,

1337
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 1: every historical fact and tidbit and get it into the

1338
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:50,959
Speaker 1: game because you just you just can't stand talking about

1339
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: a game like that. You can't tap out. You can't

1340
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: tap out. You got any time and retire and um

1341
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: and that's it. And there you go. So, yeah, you

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01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: got to come in ready, you got to come in ready. Hey,

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01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: we're ready to take your comments. Now. We got a

1344
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: few minutes here in this hour to do it. We

1345
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: still have a Josh Allen coming up after practice and

1346
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: John Randall, former Minnesota Vikings defensive line in the Hall

1347
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: of Famer, coming up on the show. I want to

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01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: know from you about two games in your take on

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01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and where they stand. There are owing

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01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: two We know that who's shown the most promise not

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01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: necessarily a rookie. That's our Twitter poll. And on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: fifty seven percent of you say it's quarterback Josh Allen

1353
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: who is shown the most promise so far? Twenty eight

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Speaker 1: percent of you say it is Tremaine Edmonds, ten percent

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Speaker 1: of somebody else in mind, five percent say Robert Foster.

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Speaker 1: Got phone lines open, give us a call eight oh

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty and toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty, or you can tweet

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Speaker 1: in your response. You can vote on Twitter and tweet

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01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 1: in your response at one Bill's Live Steve, I would

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Speaker 1: you said, I think you said you did too. I

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Speaker 1: would vote for Robert Foster. Look, Josh is done well.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen has done pretty well. Look forward to watching

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Speaker 1: him hopefully take another step forward. This Sunday, Tremaine Edmonds,

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01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: I maintain gets better almost on a week to week basis.

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Speaker 1: I thought he did have some struggles last week, but

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Speaker 1: he's flying around making place Robert Foster. Maybe I'm just

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01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: looking at the novelty here an undrafted rookie free agent

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Speaker 1: Robert Foster from Alabama, who I think has shown that

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Speaker 1: he might be a factor in the struggling Buffalo offense,

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Speaker 1: like by the end of the year, by November, maybe

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Speaker 1: Robert Foster may play a major role in whatever they're

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Speaker 1: doing offensively because of his youth, because of his size,

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Speaker 1: which I guess I confess when he walked in here

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Speaker 1: on was it Monday or Tuesday? It was Tuesday. This week,

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Speaker 1: I forgot how tall he is, how rangy he is,

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Speaker 1: because and because obviously it was great speed. This is

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Speaker 1: a guy who might have an important role to play

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Speaker 1: in this season. So I have been impressed by him.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing more from him, and he

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01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: is the one to me who's shown the most promise

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01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: so far in the very very difficult oh and two start.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you completely. That's the guy I voted

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01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: for as well, because it's difficult enough to make a roster.

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Speaker 1: But here's the guy. Robert Foster came in. He was

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01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: a rookie, undrafted free agent may Ada roster, hung in

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01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: there through the fourteen wide receivers they had in training camp,

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01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: got on the active roster, got active it and now

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01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: he's starting to get the ball in his hands in games.

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01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 1: That says a lot about how far he's come and

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01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,479
Speaker 1: the fact that it doesn't seem to be stopping he gets.

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01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: It's more and more and more he's growing, and I

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01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 1: think that's the most exciting thing for me in the

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01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks of the season, is how he's done.

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01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 1: We've got some other people that chiming in on our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll from Justin and it says it has to

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Speaker 1: be horrible Harry ninety nine. I means Harrison Phillips, he

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01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 1: had a nice game and blew up a few plays

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Speaker 1: in the backfield. And there's another one from pasta Joe,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Murphy, he may be McCoy's replacement. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of names out there for some guys who we didn't

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Speaker 1: know coming into this season. You know, you and I

1403
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:46,960
Speaker 1: spent weeks leading up to the draft talking about all

1404
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: these guys, and these guys we didn't know who they were.

1405
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: And now Marcus Murphy, Robert Foster coming and shown up

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01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 1: and contributing in a big way and albeit to a

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01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: slow start, being really surprising. I think that's one of

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01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: the fun things about that you know about football, is

1409
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:07,959
Speaker 1: finding out about guys like that. From the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: from Tim g Allen, Josh Allen is my choice, starting

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01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:13,479
Speaker 1: very early in his career, and the game doesn't seem

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01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: too big for him. One of these games things will

1413
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: come together and he's really gonna look good. I agree

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Speaker 1: with that the game does not look too big for him.

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01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 1: And I was doing a quick radio interview this morning

1416
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: with the play by play guy from Minnesota, and obviously

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01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: he asked about Josh Allen, and I tried to tell

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Speaker 1: him that, and I believe this. You know, Josh Ellen

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01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: does not look out of place out there, which many

1420
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks can do. Even a highly regarded early draft picks.

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01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 1: He looks like he belongs. It's not perfect by any means,

1422
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: and he's certainly has a lot of room for improvement,

1423
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 1: but it's not as if he's out there with his

1424
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 1: head spinning around saying what's next. I get the sense

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01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 1: that he, you know, and he went to Wyoming. By

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Speaker 1: the way he played at Wyoming, he didn't play in

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Speaker 1: a big SEC school. The game does not look too

1428
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: big for him, and I think that's a good sign. Yeah,

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01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 1: I think so too. I really was impressed because we've

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Speaker 1: seen a lot of young quarterbacks, not only here in Buffalo,

1431
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:05,439
Speaker 1: but I've seen them all over the league come out

1432
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 1: and just look out of place. And let's face it,

1433
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 1: josh Alan is on a team that has struggled in

1434
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks of the season. Both in

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01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: the second half of the Baltimore game and in the

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01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: entire game against the Chargers. He never looked like that

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01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 1: to me. No, he never looked out of place. He

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01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 1: didn't look like it was too big. It didn't look

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01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 1: like he was overwhelmed. Now he might have been, and

1440
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: his own mind, he might have said, Wow, I don't

1441
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 1: know what's going on here or what you know. He

1442
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: might have panicked a couple of times, but he never

1443
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: showed that his demeanor was everything he wanted it to be.

1444
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 1: And late in the game when they scored that touchdown,

1445
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: he came off the field and was looking out and

1446
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 1: was thinking about his teammates, his defense going out on

1447
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: the field. There's a lot has been said about that.

1448
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 1: I think that shows you that he realizes he has

1449
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 1: a bigger role to play than just sticking his head

1450
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: in the huddle and calling the play. He's got to

1451
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: be bigger than just on the offensive side of the

1452
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: foot ball as a starting quarterback. And that's something we

1453
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: never got a glimpse of. For a number of quarterbacks

1454
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: who have come through here, they never seem to even

1455
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: get to that level to where they thought about even

1456
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 1: being a factor in the locker room outside of just

1457
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,719
Speaker 1: calling play. So to do that in his first start,

1458
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: I thought, was it was really really promising. Josh gonna

1459
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: be with us on the show here when practice end sometime,

1460
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: I would think in the next hour or so, we

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01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,200
Speaker 1: got a call on the line, Clarence on the line

1462
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 1: from Buffalo Hi. Clarence, go ahead, You're on the air

1463
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:35,720
Speaker 1: with us afternoon, good afternoon, good, thank you, good things.

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01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: I think that Alan and Edmonds both have been impressive

1465
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: to me because they both have to learn the speed

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01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: of the game and also they have to learn exactly

1467
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, like his like Alan's calls on the thesefinnesses

1468
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 1: and all that. So I think if they both look good.

1469
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: But I have will also have a question in regards

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01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: to I saw the tweet, but I would late seeing

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01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: it in regards to h what Matthew said, And this

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01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: goes to Steve, can you possibly tell me, with you

1473
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: being in the national media, what are the perception of

1474
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:20,520
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills? Not as far as free agents are concerned.

1475
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 1: When when they offer free agency, I know that they

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Speaker 1: don't want to sometimes they don't want to sign with

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Speaker 1: the Weather, But what are the other things that you

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Speaker 1: might That's a really good question, Clarence, and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you this, there's no pat answer for that. Every free

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Speaker 1: agent is different, every player is different of what he's

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Speaker 1: looking for. And Clarence is asking, you know, is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: a destination or a franchise that is desirable for players

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Speaker 1: to come and play for. I don't think there's any

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Speaker 1: question when it comes down to it. The number one

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Speaker 1: factor for most free agents is money. There's no way

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Speaker 1: to get around that. But I'll tell you this. Another

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Speaker 1: thing is then it's when they come in and meet

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Speaker 1: with the head coaching the coaching staff, and every player

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01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:04,640
Speaker 1: will have an idea of what the situation is in

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Speaker 1: any city. For instance, A J. McCarron knew that Tyrod

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Speaker 1: Taylor wasn't here, they were going to draft a quarterback. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he had a chance to compete for a starting job.

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Speaker 1: That's what a lot of players will look for as well.

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Speaker 1: Facilities are another thing and the vibe. What's the building

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01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 1: looked like? What are their facilities like? Are do they

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01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: look like an NFL city? Does it doesn't feel like

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Speaker 1: an NFL franchise? Is the are the is the locker room,

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01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: the practice feels doesn't have a big time feel to it.

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Speaker 1: And uh and then of course the city does come

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Speaker 1: into play. If that is a big that is a

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Speaker 1: big factor. But I think when you get to the

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01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,640
Speaker 1: point where you're a free agent, you're looking for the

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01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,479
Speaker 1: best spot for you and I don't and I think

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01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: winning is a factor in that. But I think when

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01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: all those other things add up, I think it comes

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01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 1: down to money your role because individually, if you go

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01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 1: to a team where you can be the guy and

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01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 1: and make a name for yourself and be one of

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01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 1: those let's take an example, be a top five Fantasy

1510
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: pick at your position, that leads to things off the

1511
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: field that you may have aspirations to do. So, yeah,

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01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: winning is a is a part of it. I know

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01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:16,919
Speaker 1: New England spends that to their advantage. They're a perennial

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01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 1: playoff team at least, and a lot of players look

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01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 1: for that, particularly players at a certain point of their career.

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01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 1: So I don't know, clarenon and answer you the question,

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01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a pad answer for whether

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01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo is a great destination for a lot of players.

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01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: I know this though, No players are alike, and I

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01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 1: know a lot of players once they get here are

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01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 1: very pleasantly surprised. And plus you talk about and I'm

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01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: not kidding about the facilities. They're putting another ton of

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01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 1: another ton of money into this building. They're expanding and

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01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: getting this building renovated as well. They've done that four

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01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: or five, maybe a half a dozen times since I've

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01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,600
Speaker 1: been here. The stadium has been made over three or

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01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:02,480
Speaker 1: four time times. This building has been built and renovated

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01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: once or twice, and now it's being added onto. So

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01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: all that is a factor. But I don't think the

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01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 1: same question. I don't think Buffalo fans have to worry.

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01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: I know, back in the seventies and eighties when free

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01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:14,719
Speaker 1: agency was on the on the agenda and said nobody

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01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,719
Speaker 1: will want to play in Buffalo. That's not really true.

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Speaker 1: That's not really true. All right, Hey, we're gonna talk

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01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: more about the bills. Oh and two start, and who's

1536
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: shown the most promise in this disappointing oh and two start?

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01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: Got phone lines open when we come back eight three

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01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 1: five fifty and toll free from outside Buffalo one eight

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01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty wanted to join us,

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01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 1: let us. Don't you think about that or anything else

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01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: regarding the Bills of the NFL. One Bill's Live presented

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01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: by KLADA Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

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01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:55,479
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Life, John Murphy, Steve

1544
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:57,880
Speaker 1: Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. The Bills on the

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01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: practice field as we speak, and after practice. John Shannen

1546
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: will join us also after practice sometime in the two

1547
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 1: o'clock hour, John Randall Hall of Famer. Do you know,

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01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 1: John Rail, did you believe what Thurman said? And he said,

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01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: Randall is the one guy who could have fit right

1550
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 1: in on these Buffalo Bills teams, the teams you were on.

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01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: You But yeah, you know he's he comes, he's been.

1552
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: When he got in the Hall of Fame, he started,

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01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: you know, being in that group, and Jim invited him

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01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:23,519
Speaker 1: to immediately started inviting him to his golf tournaments. He's

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01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 1: a Jim So I've gotten a chance to speak with

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01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 1: him and stuff, and yeah, he's he's a great guy

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01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 1: and he's I had a conversation with him after when

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01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:33,439
Speaker 1: he got in the Hall of Fame. And I can't

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01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 1: remember who what class of guys he went in the

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01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame with, but he's one of the few

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Speaker 1: guys I think in NFL history there may be one

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01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: or two that made it to the Hall of Fame

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01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,799
Speaker 1: after not being drafted. He was a rookie free agent

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Speaker 1: and ended up going to the Hall of Fame after

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01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 1: a fourteen year career. It's pretty amazing. And he's that

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01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 1: kind of guy. You see him. We've got some stuff

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01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 1: on him from miked up that will play when he

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01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: comes on the show maybe and just you talk about

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01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 1: they you know they had they call guys with fast motor.

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01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: I think guy has a high motor, like I say

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01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: that I got Kyle, Kyle Williams. John Randall's motor was

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01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:16,559
Speaker 1: wide open all the time he was on. He was

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01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: on one hundred percent all the time, and he played

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01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: like that. And I think that's why, you know, he

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01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: ended up with one hundred and thirty seven some odd

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01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:27,599
Speaker 1: sacks in his career after fourteen years. He had nine

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01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,759
Speaker 1: years where he had ten or more sacks, double digit sacks,

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01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 1: so it was he was a phenomenal player. But really

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01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 1: was one of those guys that when when I got

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01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 1: a chance to meet him for the first time in

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01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 1: a person, I really was impressed. I'm pleasantly surprised. Well,

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Speaker 1: on here a list, I look it up, the undrafted

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Speaker 1: guys in the profile all the fame. Are you ready? Yeah,

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01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:50,760
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, Oh yeah, okay, all right, John Randall's list

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Speaker 1: of his number two on this list of ranking him,

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01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 1: Warren Moon, Oh yeah, well yeah, that's yeah, how about that?

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Speaker 1: But you know what's interesting then you get into older

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01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:02,639
Speaker 1: not older, but you know, old time guys even Jim

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01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,600
Speaker 1: Langer played center out of South Dakota State. Played with

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, two time Super Bowl champ. Larry Little former

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01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: Dolphin offensive lineman. He's in a Fall of Fame A

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01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: defensive back. Emmet Thomas sixty nineteen sixties player. Willie Brown

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01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:20,559
Speaker 1: defensive back, also played with the Oakland Raiders and Hall

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01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: of Fame Mick Tengelhoff, undrafted out in Nebraska, played center

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01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings. Willie Wood from green Bay two

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01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Championships. Signed with Green Bay undrafted Dick Knight

1597
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 1: Tryon Lane undrafted in the Hall of Fame. So you

1598
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're older guys. Here's an interesting

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01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: name familiar to many in Western New York. Jack Butler,

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01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: undrafted out of Saint Bontoventure played college football and Saint

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01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:47,680
Speaker 1: Bontomenter went to the Steelers. He just went in the

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01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame a couple of years ago,

1603
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:54,120
Speaker 1: and he just deceased. He died about six years ago.

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01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:56,599
Speaker 1: Many friends here in Western New York. He was undrafted

1605
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:58,519
Speaker 1: out of Bottomentuer went to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:03,560
Speaker 1: He's on the Steelers All time team. Emlyn Tunnel Um

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01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:06,679
Speaker 1: Joe Perry's you gotta go way back in the nineteen forties,

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01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 1: Willis who else? A bunch of others, Adam vine Terry

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01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:11,920
Speaker 1: not in all of Fame. He's gonna be an All

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01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 1: of Fame, don't you think? Yeah? I would think with

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01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 1: John stoner Rude and uh Morton Anderson in he's in

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01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: his twenty third year now, he's going in Allive Fame

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01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 1: and he was undrafted. But you're right, Um, it's a

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01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:27,519
Speaker 1: very rare company. And John Randall's in there, and I

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01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: thought there was a pretty high compliment Thurman paid him

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01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 1: that he would fit in with the group you had here, right,

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01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 1: that was an interesting group you had here. Well even today.

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01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys will tell you know, say when

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01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: when they're out there and we're talking about you know,

1620
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 1: we bring up conversations about these you know, they all

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01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:44,240
Speaker 1: do stuff together. They get asked, you know, a bunch

1622
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: of Hall of Fames will be asked to be at

1623
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: different events and that's where they see a lot of

1624
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 1: these guys. I mean we talked to uh Thurman when

1625
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:52,200
Speaker 1: he was at at the Field of Dreams event where

1626
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 1: you get invited to do this stuff, and that our guys,

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01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 1: I say, our guys, the guys I played with there

1628
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,680
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame really get a approached by

1629
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 1: other players from other teams, other hall are famous from

1630
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:04,479
Speaker 1: other teams and saying, you know, why are you guys?

1631
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 1: You know, why are you so close? You know, they

1632
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: get noted for how close friends Thurman and Bruce and

1633
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: Jim and Andre and James Lofton, Marv Leevy, all those guys,

1634
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 1: how close friends they are, and how close they remain

1635
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 1: even after they've finished playing for so long, and it

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01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be that way with other franchises, and

1637
01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: they get they get called out for in a positive

1638
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:24,640
Speaker 1: way for that. It's kind of nice. We'll talk to

1639
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Speaker 1: John Randall coming up next hour. We want to talk

1640
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 1: to you. We got phone lines open the eighth three

1641
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:31,759
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

1642
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 1: two five fifty despite the oh and two start. Who

1643
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: do you think is off to a good start for

1644
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills? Who have you been impressed with? Give

1645
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 1: us a call on that or any other Bills or

1646
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:42,880
Speaker 1: NFL topic. Bert on the line from Alleghany, Hello, Bert,

1647
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Actually, this is Spob.

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01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: Bob I'm sorry. I wanted to for common and which

1649
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: everyone has. I think Tremaine, that's what he has done

1650
01:17:56,400 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: since the starts, and the way he can use to

1651
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 1: improve week to week. I think it's marvelous for a

1652
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:08,560
Speaker 1: person of his age and obviously as a rookie, to

1653
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:11,679
Speaker 1: be doing the job. He's joy. That's a good point,

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01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 1: you know what, Bob, I'm really and Steve, I'm really

1655
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,720
Speaker 1: eager to see how Tremaine Edmonds plays this week. And

1656
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: I'm not say he didn't embarrass himself last Sunday, but

1657
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 1: he did have a couple of moments when the Chargers

1658
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 1: took advantage. I think of his inexperience and ran misdirection

1659
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: plays and sent it back coming out of the backfield

1660
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Speaker 1: who Tremaine didn't seem to get over there in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: And I'm interested to see how he handles it after

1662
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 1: the adversity. Not you know, we talked about quarterbacks who

1663
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: have to go back to the go back in the

1664
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: lineup after they throw for interceptions, not to that extent,

1665
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: but clearly Tremaine got you know, he got taken to

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Speaker 1: the wood shed a little bit last Sunday, right, I

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01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 1: want to see how he responds this week, I think

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01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna be good. Yeah, no question. When he was

1669
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: on the field and you see a team game plan

1670
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: and they get you isso and they throw to your guy,

1671
01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: that's a hard lesson. Yeah, it's a hard lesson to learn.

1672
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:00,080
Speaker 1: And you got to sit there and you got to

1673
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:03,679
Speaker 1: watch film of yourself knowing that you were the focal

1674
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 1: point of their attack, and it's it's hard to sit

1675
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,720
Speaker 1: there and do that. But I think having done that,

1676
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 1: I think we've seen the kind of young player he

1677
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 1: is and the young man that he is. I'm with you, Murph.

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01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be very interesting to see

1679
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: him bounce back from that and come back and be

1680
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:23,400
Speaker 1: better for it, because you know, hard lessons are great,

1681
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 1: particularly when you get some benefit from him down the road.

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Speaker 1: I'm eager to see how he plays this week. Here's

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Speaker 1: a call from Mark in Buffalo. Hello, Mark, you're on

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01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 1: the air. Hi John, Hi Steve, how are you good? Mary? Hey?

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01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: You guys just had a call. Somebody called in and

1686
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 1: was talking about a free agents and what brings them

1687
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: and attracts them. And I've heard you guys mentioned the

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01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:47,000
Speaker 1: expansion of the facilities out there. But I haven't really

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01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:49,879
Speaker 1: heard any details about it, And I have a question

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01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 1: for you guys. Are they going down the roll where

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01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 1: they're actually going to start building athletics centers in a

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01:19:56,439 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: way that they're going to have basketball courts, swimming pool

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01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: maybe batting, so many batting cages. They have so many

1694
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: athletes that are multi sport athletes where they could end

1695
01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 1: up building a facility where these guys could be there

1696
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 1: pretty much all the summer, training, having fun, doing what

1697
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: they want multi sport things. And are there any teams

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01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL that have a facilities such well, here's

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01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: the thing that you probably won't see batting cages in

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01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:26,960
Speaker 1: there or but certainly basketball courts are a thing that

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01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 1: used to be pretty common in these facilities. I think

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01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 1: now they've got guys doing more instead of playing sports

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01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 1: to train, they're doing actually exercise, and they've got a

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01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 1: coach right there giving them exercise. They're running through their

1705
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: paces that way, they don't get they don't let them

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01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: go out and compete, because once you put these guys

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01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: in a place where they're starting to compete, somebody's gonna

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01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 1: get injured. It's that simple. You start turning on and

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01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 1: putting a scoreboard on the wall or a scoreboard even

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01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: in their head, and they start turning up the intensity

1711
01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 1: and somebody comes down with a blown knee because you know,

1712
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 1: they're playing hoops, and believe me, it could be a

1713
01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 1: nerf hoop in the locker room and somebody will blow

1714
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: a knee out over it. That's how they compete. So

1715
01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:15,080
Speaker 1: they really keep these guys away from competing and against

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01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: anything other than just they don't physically confront each other.

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01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 1: They can either race, they'll do that, that's the only

1718
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 1: or they'll do it by a clock, or they'll do

1719
01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: it by numbers. But they won't let these guys. They

1720
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 1: don't want these in my opinion, they don't let these

1721
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:32,679
Speaker 1: guys compete head to head, like on a basketball court

1722
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 1: or something like that, because they start turning it up

1723
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:40,160
Speaker 1: and you get a guy on notoriously Nate Odams blew

1724
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: his knee out playing hoops. We used to have a

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01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: charity basketball team that used to go around Western New

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01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: York with real play like me and Jim Kelly and

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01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: Will Wolford and Pete Metzlars and Andre Reid would go

1728
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:55,160
Speaker 1: out and play hoops against people for charity. And that's

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01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: not happening anymore now. They usually now they weren't real games,

1730
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: but never the less. So when they're talking about expanding

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01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: the building, they're not gonna have spots like that, you

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01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 1: know where. They're not gonna have a hoops court out there,

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01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 1: or tennis courts or batting cages or anything like that.

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01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:14,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna be for guys going in there and going

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01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: through things, a hard workout that is supervised closely by

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01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:25,200
Speaker 1: a coach and by a by a training professional. So yeah,

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01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: they don't. You don't want these guys playing one on

1738
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: one at anything unless it's ping pong, and let you know,

1739
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: they just can't do it because they start turning it

1740
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 1: up and it starts to get into serious competition. So

1741
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: you know that they don't do that very much. Construction

1742
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: on the new training center is underwigh. In fact, it's

1743
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:49,759
Speaker 1: right next door to us, right over there, right behind

1744
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 1: that Jim Kelly Jersey or no, no no, it's Rover here.

1745
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 1: So here, it's here, it's it might be the whole thing.

1746
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,559
Speaker 1: It's there. It's big, it's right over there. You can

1747
01:22:57,600 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 1: hear anywhere. If you listen to the show real close,

1748
01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:02,200
Speaker 1: you can hear him. The Jackhammers going today. They're taking

1749
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 1: they're pulling out the some of the parking lot right now,

1750
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: a little excavation so it should be ready for next

1751
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 1: day spring when they are rageously we have to park

1752
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 1: someplace else now for the next talk to me about that.

1753
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: I had a spot for you. Tell you yeah, but

1754
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 1: don't tell anybody because it's probably not where they want

1755
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 1: to spark. We're gonna break here. We're back with more.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive, and this is

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01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, One Bill's Live from One

1758
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Taser. We're gonna get Josh

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01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 1: Allen here in studio, the Bill starting quarterback in a

1760
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: couple of minutes. We're gonna talk with all of famer

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01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 1: John Randall today as well as we got a lot

1762
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: of ground to cover Steve Thursday Night Football Tonight, Jets

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01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 1: and brown Some people, I'm not one of them. Some

1764
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: people think this is the day that the Cleveland Browns

1765
01:23:56,479 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 1: get off the proverbial schneide. I love that and get

1766
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. But some people think

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01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: this is the Browns chance to win. They are favored

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01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 1: against the one and one Jets. I don't see comment.

1769
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: What about you? Maybe maybe I watched the Jets last

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01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: week against the Dolphins, and the Jets head moments where

1771
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,679
Speaker 1: they looked really good. Sam Darnold is very steady, even

1772
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 1: at this point in his career. It's a little bit

1773
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:23,759
Speaker 1: like Josh Allen, although he doesn't run or move around

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01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 1: as well as Josh does. He don't have the strongest arm,

1775
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:28,200
Speaker 1: but he does seem to keep his eyes down the field.

1776
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: He's got He's got pretty good receivers around him, particularly

1777
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 1: in Quincy and now Quincy and Noonwall is a heck

1778
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: of a player, but yeah, he's He's still threw some

1779
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 1: picks last week. The Jets do seem to be gettable defensively. Yeah,

1780
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 1: I mean Tyrod Taylor's played a lot against the Jets

1781
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 1: and played pretty well against him. You're picking the Jets

1782
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 1: or the Browns to win a game? I have to say, yes,

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01:24:57,880 --> 01:24:59,760
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Browns. I will pick the Jets. We'll

1784
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:02,200
Speaker 1: see will compare notes tomorrow. I have to pick. I

1785
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: have to let me just I'm just let me just

1786
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:08,479
Speaker 1: double check here. I'm I'm gonna kind have done it.

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01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 1: Give me here's the thing more y, Yeah, I'll take thee.

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01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:20,360
Speaker 1: I will take the browns. Okay, I will I will

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01:25:20,360 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: take the brown. Here's a game coming up Sunday. The

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01:25:22,160 --> 01:25:24,559
Speaker 1: Dolphins team that you saw last week their home at

1791
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: two and oh against the oh and two Oakland Raiders.

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01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:30,799
Speaker 1: Raiders lost at Denver last week and this week John Gruden,

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01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:33,519
Speaker 1: who I think you have pointed out several times you

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01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: believe John Gruden's in over his head. Well, it was

1795
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: asked this week what he needs and what they lack

1796
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: and how it's gone. This is just a couple of

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01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 1: weeks after the Gruden and the Raiders traded Khalil Mack

1798
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:46,760
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bears. Let's do this. John Gruden talking

1799
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 1: about the need for a pass rush in the NFL,

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01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:53,680
Speaker 1: the head coach to the Oakland Raiders. It's hard to

1801
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: find a great one. It's hard to find a good one.

1802
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:59,400
Speaker 1: It's hard to find one. You just said it. And

1803
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:03,160
Speaker 1: you know, college football now they're they're not really dropping

1804
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:06,679
Speaker 1: back to pass and throwing footballs anymore. They're throwing ladder

1805
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:09,879
Speaker 1: roles and they're throwing bubble screens and they're running read options.

1806
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 1: So you got to train these guys. It takes a

1807
01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 1: little bit of time to to learn how to rush

1808
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:19,479
Speaker 1: the passer. And we've got some guys that are in

1809
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:23,679
Speaker 1: that process right now. It's hard to find a good rush.

1810
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 1: John Bruden said, he's getting crushed for that. He should

1811
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,719
Speaker 1: he's getting crushed. And for those of you who don't

1812
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 1: or don't watch football or keep tracking this stuff, he

1813
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, John Gruden, that guy right there who

1814
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,479
Speaker 1: was just saying how tough it is to find those guys,

1815
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: traded the best one in the league away, And granted

1816
01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: he got a couple of first round picks, but Khalil

1817
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:52,680
Speaker 1: Mack is absolutely killing it in Chicago. I mean he

1818
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 1: is dominating every game they take the field with. He

1819
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 1: did it once in his first week and he had

1820
01:26:58,360 --> 01:27:01,599
Speaker 1: like three days there. And he comes in and he's

1821
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:06,000
Speaker 1: getting sack, strip fumbles. He's picking passes off and running

1822
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:09,440
Speaker 1: him back for touchdowns. He's making tackles in the backfield.

1823
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,640
Speaker 1: He's going through two guys to get to the quarterback.

1824
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 1: He gets off a tight end, goes through a deep

1825
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 1: offensive tackle and strips the football away from Russell Wilson.

1826
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: It's just one thing after another. And his old coach,

1827
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: John Gruden, who traded him away, he says, Yeah, those

1828
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: guys are hard to find. He had Why did you

1829
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 1: trade at He had the best pass rusher in the

1830
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:33,760
Speaker 1: game at or near his prime and he shipped him off. Yeah,

1831
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:35,680
Speaker 1: it's hard to find him. Now now you're gonna have

1832
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,240
Speaker 1: to try to find him. He's playing like a Hall

1833
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: of Fame caliber player period and he got traded. Do

1834
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 1: you think Gruden forgot? Do you think he was making

1835
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: a joke. I mean, he's a pretty funny guy. He

1836
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: pretty I mean, why don't he say that knowing what

1837
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: he just did a couple of weeks ago? Or do

1838
01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:54,160
Speaker 1: you think maybe in the last maybe in the interim

1839
01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 1: the two weeks he's realized it. That's like, you know

1840
01:27:56,880 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 1: what those guys are. Maybe I shouldn't have traded that guy?

1841
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:03,360
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Crazy? Amazing? All right, when we

1842
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:05,640
Speaker 1: come back, Josh Allen Bill starting quarterback, you're gonna join

1843
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 1: us here in studio. Come on back for that One

1844
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's

1845
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 1: Radio on right time on KEI Tasper into the d

1846
01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: such down, touch down text touch donstur time. We'll come back.

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Speaker 1: Hour three The show One Bills Live presented by coll

1848
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:43,800
Speaker 1: Out of hell from one Bills Drive hour three and

1849
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:45,680
Speaker 1: we start right off with the guests right off the

1850
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:48,320
Speaker 1: practice field, I mean right off the practice field. Happy

1851
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:51,000
Speaker 1: to have Bill's quarterback Josh Allen in studio with us.

1852
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:53,320
Speaker 1: How to practice go today? Josh, practice went well, you know,

1853
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:56,400
Speaker 1: it's uh Thursday, so we got a lot of stuff

1854
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 1: going in in the game plan and just trying to

1855
01:28:57,960 --> 01:28:59,680
Speaker 1: figure out what we want in what we don't. So

1856
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: we're preparing for a good Minnesota Vikings defense. It's your

1857
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:05,800
Speaker 1: second week as the starter, is there's got to be

1858
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:07,720
Speaker 1: a routine that you start to see and build up

1859
01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 1: right as the starter. What you do Wednesday, what you

1860
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:12,160
Speaker 1: do Thursday, etc. For sure, Um, that's you know, one

1861
01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 1: of the fun parts of becoming a professional football player,

1862
01:29:15,160 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, developing a routine that you can you know,

1863
01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 1: turn into every week and just try to stay on track.

1864
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 1: So it's definitely been a grind, you know, waking up

1865
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 1: super early and staying here super late. But you know

1866
01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:26,080
Speaker 1: this is uh what I love to do to get

1867
01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: here in the morning right around five forty five. So

1868
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:32,479
Speaker 1: Plus it's football. You don't have to go to biology class.

1869
01:29:32,520 --> 01:29:35,559
Speaker 1: That's true, very true. Plus yeah, why do you gotta

1870
01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:37,680
Speaker 1: get here so early. What are you doing? I mean

1871
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:40,320
Speaker 1: literally just staying on track, so working out, watching some

1872
01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 1: film and um, you know, whether it's meeting with coaches

1873
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:45,640
Speaker 1: or other players and stuff like that. You know, just uh,

1874
01:29:46,160 --> 01:29:48,559
Speaker 1: something that was you know, presented in front of me.

1875
01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 1: Obviously Davel has been around it a long time. Um,

1876
01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 1: just something taking some of his ideas and just trying

1877
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 1: to run with them a little bit. Talk a little

1878
01:29:55,160 --> 01:29:58,760
Speaker 1: bit about you know, you you've been praised for what

1879
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: you did during the game last week, after you put

1880
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:03,160
Speaker 1: that scoring drive together. You can overhe you talk to

1881
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:05,800
Speaker 1: the defense. How much did that say about your You know,

1882
01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:07,360
Speaker 1: what do you think it is? Your? Well, I guess

1883
01:30:07,360 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 1: you do agree that as a starting quarterback you're more

1884
01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:12,200
Speaker 1: than just about your side of the football. You had

1885
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:13,840
Speaker 1: some things to say to the defense, you know, it's

1886
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:16,280
Speaker 1: a whole full team game. To share with us about

1887
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 1: what your motivations were for that and maybe how you

1888
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:21,320
Speaker 1: see that evolving over the course of the season, not

1889
01:30:21,360 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 1: just on game day, but maybe throughout the week. Well,

1890
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I was at the game and I

1891
01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:28,080
Speaker 1: watched and I saw how well our defense played in

1892
01:30:28,120 --> 01:30:30,800
Speaker 1: the second half and on the offensive side of the ball.

1893
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:32,759
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't do good enough job of protecting

1894
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 1: the football and putting us in positions where we could score.

1895
01:30:35,520 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to go up to them and

1896
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: let them know that I appreciate what they did for us.

1897
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:43,400
Speaker 1: You know, I just wanted them to know that I'm

1898
01:30:43,479 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 1: here for them. You know, I want to be part

1899
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:46,840
Speaker 1: of this team, and the only thing that I want

1900
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:48,519
Speaker 1: to do is win. I can care about anything else.

1901
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:51,360
Speaker 1: Would you see games like last week and even to

1902
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:55,600
Speaker 1: a certain extent that the Baltimore game, the the the

1903
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:59,519
Speaker 1: dependence of offense and defense becomes clear. Right Bill's defense

1904
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 1: gives up early points all of a sudden. That's a

1905
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 1: different game that you're playing that offense, isn't it. You

1906
01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:05,640
Speaker 1: gotta play catch up, it is. And the thing is

1907
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL, it's such a big thing to play

1908
01:31:08,240 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 1: together and you know, play complimentary football. And that's staying

1909
01:31:11,120 --> 01:31:13,360
Speaker 1: on the field, you know, moving the chains on third

1910
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:16,599
Speaker 1: down when we're on defense, forcing three and outs, getting

1911
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: the ball back to the offense. You know, it really

1912
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,719
Speaker 1: plays hand in hand and uh, you know, time possession,

1913
01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, ball security and things like that that really

1914
01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:27,400
Speaker 1: dictates the game. So as much as we can be

1915
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:30,560
Speaker 1: good on both sides of the football in those aspects,

1916
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:32,719
Speaker 1: you know, the more success we're gonna have through training

1917
01:31:32,760 --> 01:31:35,400
Speaker 1: camp and the OTAs you were rotating through with Aj

1918
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 1: and Nate and you were thrown with all the receiver

1919
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:40,600
Speaker 1: had like fourteen receivers in training camp. Now for a

1920
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 1: couple of weeks now it's been you and the ones

1921
01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:49,040
Speaker 1: with Kelvin Benjamin and Zay Jones and the and you know,

1922
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:51,599
Speaker 1: talk to us about how that's growing, how that helps

1923
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 1: you know more and more reps with those guys. And

1924
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:55,760
Speaker 1: also we've been talking about Robert Foster a lot. He's

1925
01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:58,000
Speaker 1: been starting to emerge and start to get the ball

1926
01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:00,759
Speaker 1: in his hands as well. Is that about the evolution

1927
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,080
Speaker 1: of your relationship with your receiving corps. Well, for sure,

1928
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 1: you get to throw them more. It's weird though, I

1929
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:09,400
Speaker 1: always had this weird notion that you know, practices are

1930
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:11,120
Speaker 1: going to be easier in the NFL. Well, you get

1931
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:14,280
Speaker 1: out here and you know, we have five receivers active

1932
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:16,960
Speaker 1: on the active roster, so they're working extremely hard. You know,

1933
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:20,320
Speaker 1: they are busting their towels. So whether it was in

1934
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:22,880
Speaker 1: the preseason or training camp and stuff like that I

1935
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 1: was staying after and making sure I was throwing with

1936
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:26,800
Speaker 1: all these guys. Now it's just like, man, he ran

1937
01:32:27,040 --> 01:32:30,200
Speaker 1: five go routes today, Like he's pretty tired. He's pushing it,

1938
01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 1: so maybe not throwing after practice, but it's still just

1939
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 1: trying to find one or two or three routes with

1940
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:38,479
Speaker 1: these guys that you know, maybe we didn't hit in practice,

1941
01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:40,160
Speaker 1: or I feel like we needed to work on the

1942
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:43,559
Speaker 1: timing and this one. But it's crazy how hard you know,

1943
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:45,519
Speaker 1: our guys work. You know, we got to really talented

1944
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:48,280
Speaker 1: and a really hard working group. It's amazing too because

1945
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:50,720
Speaker 1: people laugh, but it really is true because of this

1946
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:53,920
Speaker 1: the strenuous nature of the game and how hard you practice.

1947
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,439
Speaker 1: I mean, guys go, they run hard in practice, they

1948
01:32:56,479 --> 01:33:01,080
Speaker 1: just don't tackle. Rest becomes as in horton as the

1949
01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:04,000
Speaker 1: workouts themselves, because you've got to be fresh on Sunday.

1950
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:07,479
Speaker 1: If you started to integrate that into your into your routine,

1951
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: because like you say, these receivers or so they got

1952
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 1: to get off their feet for the rest of the day. Yeah,

1953
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean, fortunately I don't run run too much, but

1954
01:33:14,160 --> 01:33:15,639
Speaker 1: that's you know, one of the reasons I get here

1955
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:17,720
Speaker 1: early in the morning, you know, getting in the hot

1956
01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:21,120
Speaker 1: tub and asana, staying off my feet in a training

1957
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:23,759
Speaker 1: room and things like that. Just trying to implement things

1958
01:33:23,880 --> 01:33:25,920
Speaker 1: in my day that are going to help me prepare

1959
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:28,120
Speaker 1: and play better on Sunday. And you see that with

1960
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:29,800
Speaker 1: the vets. You see that with guys who run a lot,

1961
01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:32,280
Speaker 1: especially in the receiver position. You know, they're always in

1962
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:34,640
Speaker 1: there getting treatment and work done to make sure that

1963
01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:37,479
Speaker 1: they're physically ready to go. With Bill's quarterback Josh Allen

1964
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 1: and studio with us for the next couple of minutes.

1965
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm curious about the mental aspect of the meeting time

1966
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:45,320
Speaker 1: and even the one on one meeting time or maybe

1967
01:33:45,360 --> 01:33:48,640
Speaker 1: you and the quarterbacks and the coaches. How much of

1968
01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:50,640
Speaker 1: that is there? And when do you get together in

1969
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 1: a week to start talking about the next week. Is

1970
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:54,800
Speaker 1: there a Tuesday meeting Tuesday, late Tuesday you can get together.

1971
01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean we meet a lot. It's kind of hard

1972
01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: to break it down into what we do. Really after

1973
01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:03,280
Speaker 1: the games Sunday, we're starting to think about our next opponent.

1974
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:06,559
Speaker 1: It's that fast if a transition, I know, you know,

1975
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:09,080
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators have a tough job in this league to

1976
01:34:09,240 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 1: game plan for one team, and the next week we

1977
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:14,240
Speaker 1: see something completely different, and it's you know, implementing new

1978
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 1: plays and trying to run them with the limited times

1979
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 1: and reps you get in practice. You know, it is

1980
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: a tough position. But that's what makes this league so

1981
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:24,840
Speaker 1: special and so cool, is that any given week is

1982
01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:27,720
Speaker 1: something different. I was wondering and thinking about early in

1983
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:30,760
Speaker 1: the season, especially teams like the Chargers, maybe even the

1984
01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 1: Vikings this Sunday can throw something at you that's just

1985
01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:35,439
Speaker 1: not on tape yet, right, so you haven't seen Did

1986
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:37,160
Speaker 1: you find that to be the case last week? I mean,

1987
01:34:37,280 --> 01:34:38,960
Speaker 1: they showed a couple of things that maybe we didn't

1988
01:34:38,960 --> 01:34:42,760
Speaker 1: see or weren't expecting. With the rookie quarterback. I think

1989
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:44,360
Speaker 1: that a lot of de coordinators are going to try

1990
01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:46,559
Speaker 1: to try to do something like that. So we're just

1991
01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:49,599
Speaker 1: trying to prepare um, trying to trying to use our

1992
01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:51,800
Speaker 1: base rules and whatever they throw at us, We're just

1993
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:53,679
Speaker 1: gonna be try to be, like I said, as base

1994
01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 1: and as rules as we can be. Talk you talk

1995
01:34:56,439 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 1: a little bit. Now you've got a game coming up

1996
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 1: Sunday and it's a Minnesota Vikings. What are you guys

1997
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:03,040
Speaker 1: thinking about their defense? There? I mean this is a

1998
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:05,760
Speaker 1: team that has Super Bowl expectations for sure. I mean

1999
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 1: they got statistically one of the best defenses in the

2000
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 1: last couple of years. You know their D D lines,

2001
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 1: you know force, the linebacking, cruise, um filled with veterans.

2002
01:35:15,479 --> 01:35:16,840
Speaker 1: They know what they're doing. And you look at their

2003
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:19,160
Speaker 1: safeties in their corners and Xavier Rhode is one of

2004
01:35:19,200 --> 01:35:22,120
Speaker 1: the best corners in this game. So, um, you know,

2005
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:25,559
Speaker 1: it's definitely hard to prepare for, but you know we're

2006
01:35:25,800 --> 01:35:27,680
Speaker 1: up for the challenge and we're trying to put it

2007
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:29,640
Speaker 1: together a really good game than coming in Sunday. What

2008
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,320
Speaker 1: do you think on the back end? Harrison Smith, the safety,

2009
01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:33,559
Speaker 1: what do you think about him? I mean, he's all

2010
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:35,759
Speaker 1: over the place. He's a he's a quick guy, he's smart,

2011
01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:40,360
Speaker 1: he's instinctual. Um, you know, he knows what the offense

2012
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:42,680
Speaker 1: is doing. So it's gonna be cool to kind of

2013
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:45,840
Speaker 1: match against someone with his caliber, just trying to whether

2014
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:47,720
Speaker 1: it's playing with my eyes or just trying to find

2015
01:35:47,760 --> 01:35:49,800
Speaker 1: out where he's gonna be or if he's messing around

2016
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and stuff like that. Just small

2017
01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 1: things that he does that not a lot of safeties

2018
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 1: do yet, Um, just because of his experience in league.

2019
01:35:56,520 --> 01:35:58,880
Speaker 1: So your parents were in the in the stands here

2020
01:35:58,880 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Did you get as to ask them or

2021
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:04,040
Speaker 1: what they thought about a home game? And they loved it? Yeah,

2022
01:36:04,080 --> 01:36:06,920
Speaker 1: they loved it. It was fun for them. They enjoyed

2023
01:36:06,960 --> 01:36:09,920
Speaker 1: the moment. I'm sure my parents cried quite a bit. Um,

2024
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: why are they crying? They're always crying too, I'm telling

2025
01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:16,439
Speaker 1: you my dad. My dad's a softy. Now, you won't

2026
01:36:16,439 --> 01:36:19,840
Speaker 1: to admit that they were emotional though, right, No, Yeah,

2027
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:21,800
Speaker 1: that's a big move to see and starting the NFL

2028
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:23,680
Speaker 1: like that for sure. I mean as much as this

2029
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:26,040
Speaker 1: was my dream like on the screen now, I mean

2030
01:36:26,040 --> 01:36:27,840
Speaker 1: they're they're enjoying this as much as I am, and

2031
01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:30,000
Speaker 1: maybe even more. You know, they get to reap all

2032
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:32,559
Speaker 1: the benefits of everything. But there's nobody trying to beat

2033
01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 1: them exactly there. But I mean no, I mean, they're

2034
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:38,720
Speaker 1: the greatest support system in the world in my opinion. Um,

2035
01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:40,720
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't miss one game at Wyoming where

2036
01:36:40,720 --> 01:36:43,000
Speaker 1: I was playing in So they're awesome. You know what

2037
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:46,439
Speaker 1: they like They not secluded sequestered in a suite somewhere,

2038
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:48,240
Speaker 1: which they probably could if they wanted to. They're right

2039
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:49,840
Speaker 1: out there in the open with all the other fans.

2040
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:51,640
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool for sure. They want and my

2041
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 1: mom's big on that. She likes the whole experience. So

2042
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:58,200
Speaker 1: she loves, uh the rowdy fans around around her. Um.

2043
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:01,400
Speaker 1: Sometimes they can beat a bit too much in her experiences,

2044
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:03,360
Speaker 1: but now, but they love it. They do what's her

2045
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:08,360
Speaker 1: short say, mafia mom, Mafia mama, their feet first into

2046
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:10,880
Speaker 1: the culture. Huh they awesome. Now I got a road

2047
01:37:10,920 --> 01:37:14,040
Speaker 1: game with noise and uh, you know, a pretty active

2048
01:37:14,240 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 1: energized crowd there in Minnesota. They do that skull that

2049
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: stupid school cheered. You ever seen that? Now, don't say stupid.

2050
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:22,400
Speaker 1: You know what, everybody's got their fans. Yeah, you know,

2051
01:37:22,439 --> 01:37:23,880
Speaker 1: what do you think about playing on the road, dealing

2052
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,479
Speaker 1: with noise, dealing with that. It's gonna be a cool environment.

2053
01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:29,559
Speaker 1: You know, it's a newer stadium. Their fans are obviously

2054
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:32,400
Speaker 1: hyped up and super excited for the season. They're playing

2055
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:35,400
Speaker 1: well right now. Um. You know, in my experiences, I

2056
01:37:35,439 --> 01:37:38,160
Speaker 1: really haven't played in that many super loud environments, so

2057
01:37:38,240 --> 01:37:42,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be um a bit of an adjustment for me. Um.

2058
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 1: But like I said, We're gonna stick to our base

2059
01:37:44,120 --> 01:37:47,040
Speaker 1: rules and and try to focus on what we're doing.

2060
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:49,240
Speaker 1: What are the adjustments that you're thinking about already and

2061
01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:51,519
Speaker 1: how do you prepare? Um, I mean just practicing silent

2062
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:56,240
Speaker 1: counts UM and doing things like that, whether it's trying

2063
01:37:56,240 --> 01:38:00,160
Speaker 1: to time up a snap count or um third down.

2064
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 1: You know a lot of the teams do it there.

2065
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 1: So just trying to learn from what I see on tape. Josh,

2066
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:08,799
Speaker 1: we did a Twitter poll on this show yesterday, right, yeah, yesterday.

2067
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:10,840
Speaker 1: What's the most important thing Josh Allen needs to do

2068
01:38:10,920 --> 01:38:13,479
Speaker 1: in a second career? Start? Can I read you the

2069
01:38:13,479 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: results and sure it was all good? Okay? Forty five percent?

2070
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,360
Speaker 1: Say get the ball out quicker forty percent, which this

2071
01:38:20,439 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 1: is the part that I think could say continue the

2072
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,639
Speaker 1: progress that you've already started to make. Ten percent they

2073
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:26,400
Speaker 1: use more short passes. What do you think of those

2074
01:38:26,439 --> 01:38:29,000
Speaker 1: three options? What would you like to do better? What

2075
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:30,839
Speaker 1: do you think of, first of all, the fan responsive

2076
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:32,920
Speaker 1: what I'd like to win? Yeah, there's a good point. Yeah,

2077
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:36,400
Speaker 1: we should have put that, you know. I mean, I

2078
01:38:36,439 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 1: can really care less about all these statistical measures and

2079
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:41,920
Speaker 1: things like that as long as I'm getting to the

2080
01:38:41,920 --> 01:38:43,960
Speaker 1: ball into our playmakers and we're moving the chains on

2081
01:38:44,080 --> 01:38:47,880
Speaker 1: third down and ultimately scoring points. That's all I care about, um,

2082
01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:50,240
Speaker 1: and whatever this team needs me to do is what

2083
01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:52,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to do. Talk a little bit about

2084
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:54,400
Speaker 1: the team in the locker room. What do they think?

2085
01:38:54,439 --> 01:38:56,680
Speaker 1: And then you slow start, Oh and two, what are

2086
01:38:56,720 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 1: the what are the guys in the locker room telling

2087
01:38:58,280 --> 01:39:00,439
Speaker 1: each other? There's no panic right now, there's none. And

2088
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:02,760
Speaker 1: it's actually a really good vibe in the locker room

2089
01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:06,040
Speaker 1: right now. Um, we're still just trying to you know,

2090
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:08,280
Speaker 1: trust the process that Coach McDermott has in front of

2091
01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: us and trusting one each other. Um. You know, we're

2092
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:14,400
Speaker 1: developing stronger relationships and bonds in the locker room every day.

2093
01:39:14,479 --> 01:39:16,599
Speaker 1: So it's it's a really good environment. We got some

2094
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,240
Speaker 1: really great leaders on this team. Um, you know, I'm

2095
01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 1: super blessed to be on this team and to have

2096
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 1: the guys that I do here. And it's early right

2097
01:39:23,439 --> 01:39:24,920
Speaker 1: and we say that to a lot of the player

2098
01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:26,840
Speaker 1: guests we get on and you know, some of the

2099
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: fans builds. Fans have kind of fast forward it to like, uh,

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Speaker 1: what do we need next year or where we gonna draft,

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Speaker 1: and man, there's we got two games here. There's a

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Speaker 1: ton of season left here. I mean we live in

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Speaker 1: the day of we want it now, right, so I

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01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:43,479
Speaker 1: mean people are bound to do that. I think there's

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Speaker 1: um but I saw there's a statistics says eleven percent

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Speaker 1: of ow and two teams make the playoffs. But you

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Speaker 1: know that's that's still eleven percent. So UM, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: try to find the way to get on the right track.

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna trust the process and trust what coach

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Speaker 1: mcdermots trying to do for us. And I'm gonna trust

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Speaker 1: Coach Dabele and what he calls and go out there

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Speaker 1: and try to execute the best I can. Good for you,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. Continued success. We hope to get

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Speaker 1: you in here again soon. Thanks you, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Appreciates Shall and joining us. Steve and I back with more.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, it is one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: We had a caller earlier asked about construction of the

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Speaker 1: uh the new training center, the addition to the training

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Speaker 1: center right next door. Listen to everybody, just be quiet.

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Speaker 1: Let's see can you hear I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: can hear it? Can you hear it? They're right outside

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Speaker 1: the door. I'm afraid that that big front loader is

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01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:49,479
Speaker 1: gonna come crashing through the wall, knock overall a great

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Speaker 1: memory bili on the wall, including the shady jersey and

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01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:53,800
Speaker 1: all that stuff on the walls through, crash through those

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Speaker 1: bricks behind us. I'm here, They're bucket will come through. Unbelieving.

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Speaker 1: That does sound like they're getting like once in a

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Speaker 1: while they get that jackhammer going and it's like, man,

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Speaker 1: it is underway. Hey. We talked with Josh Allen a

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Speaker 1: moment ago about his game, his start against the Chargers

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Speaker 1: the other day, and about his interaction with the Buffalo defense.

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01:41:15,320 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 1: It was pretty significant and it caught the attention to

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Speaker 1: many players on defense, including Jerry Hughes. Here's what he

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Speaker 1: said in the locker room the other day about Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen kind of pushing on the defense in the game

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers. Listening, it's inspiring because we wanted to

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Speaker 1: get him the ball back so we can put up

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01:41:33,080 --> 01:41:36,519
Speaker 1: points and score. So for our quarterback, you know, challenging

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Speaker 1: some of that fire, you know, getting us ready to

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01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:42,080
Speaker 1: go that's great for Rob Morale. I mean, we understand

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Speaker 1: that you know we're down, but we're not out at

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01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:46,160
Speaker 1: that point in the game, and so for him to

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01:41:46,240 --> 01:41:48,559
Speaker 1: kind of have that fire where he wants to battle hill,

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01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:51,839
Speaker 1: he can continue to make plays as a defensive linement.

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01:41:52,080 --> 01:41:54,360
Speaker 1: You love that. You love him when your offensive guys

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01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,559
Speaker 1: have that juice and they're ready to to go out

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Speaker 1: there and just make plays. It wasn't a big thing, see,

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Speaker 1: but it got a lot of attention, a lot of it,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's a good, tiny, small step in

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Speaker 1: the right direction for Josh Allen. Like I think it's

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01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:11,479
Speaker 1: good to see people see how much he cares. I

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01:42:11,520 --> 01:42:13,720
Speaker 1: think it's a positive symptom of where he's at and

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Speaker 1: where he's headed. Yeah, I think it can't be construed

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01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:22,280
Speaker 1: as anything but that this is a culture and a

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01:42:22,320 --> 01:42:25,559
Speaker 1: team that illustrated last year how important it is, and

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01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:28,000
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen to grab hold of it at such

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01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:30,960
Speaker 1: an important position as a number seven overall pick, a

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback, and for him to get that into his

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01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:38,920
Speaker 1: game and his very first start is really a good thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can look at it as anything else.

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01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:43,200
Speaker 1: It's really a positive step. I think it's something that

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Speaker 1: needs to be that way. I know the quarterback that

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Speaker 1: I played with back in the day was that way

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Speaker 1: and it helped. It helped on a number of different levels,

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Speaker 1: both in the locker room, away from the field, and

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Speaker 1: of course on game day on Sunday. It helps. So

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Speaker 1: I talk about progress, there's some right there looking in

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Speaker 1: the face. It seem more. It's pretty pretty nice to see,

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Speaker 1: I think, and it spells good things for the future.

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Speaker 1: Here's our question of the day. Who's shown the most

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Speaker 1: promise despite the fact that the bills are owen two?

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Speaker 1: Who do you got? On Twitter? Fifty seven percent of

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Speaker 1: you say it's Josh Allen, Twenty seven percent of you

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Speaker 1: say three me ain't Edmunds, five percent say Robert Foster,

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Speaker 1: ten percent have somebody else in mind. Let's discuss. Shoot

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Speaker 1: us in a tweet, give us a call. The phone

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Speaker 1: lines open eight oh three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty, or on Twitter?

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Speaker 1: Who's shown the most promise in the O and two

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Speaker 1: start Let's hear your voice on the air. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about it. Jerry on the line from Tanawana. Go ahead, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey guys, good to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm a huge Viking fans in sixty three and in

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01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:50,000
Speaker 1: fact I invited by granted my wedding. But did he show. No,

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01:43:50,120 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 1: he didn't reply, though he did replying in my My

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01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:57,599
Speaker 1: ex wife's mother asked me who he was, and I said,

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Speaker 1: he's a coach of the Vikings since he goes to

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Speaker 1: juno him and I go, no, what are you doing

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01:44:02,400 --> 01:44:06,559
Speaker 1: viting somebody going, well, yeah, I'm a Viking fan. But Jerry,

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Speaker 1: how did you become a Vikings fan? Way back? When

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Speaker 1: did the Vikings start? That was sixty one sixty two, right,

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Speaker 1: not sixty three sixty three? Yeah, weren't the Vikings created

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01:44:15,600 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 1: in response to the American Football League? Right? They thought

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01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:20,000
Speaker 1: the AFL might put a team up there, So the

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01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:22,519
Speaker 1: NFL beat him to the punch put an expansion team.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was out. Went, uh, no, you're right,

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Speaker 1: and how did you? I don't want not to get

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Speaker 1: off the trapping, but well, but i'd like to see

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Speaker 1: I'm from Wyoming and I moved here from Wyomi and

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Speaker 1: I followed Josh Allen, and I would love to see

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Speaker 1: them bring a tight end in motion to the side

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01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: You will have him roll out more so he can

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Speaker 1: see the field. Not not all the time, but on

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01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:46,080
Speaker 1: like third and seven or what if they're in ten,

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01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:49,080
Speaker 1: roll him out, he can see the field. He's got

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Speaker 1: guarded to make any throw, you know, regardless where it

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Speaker 1: is on the field, And I think it just gives

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Speaker 1: him another two seconds to adapt and see what he

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Speaker 1: can see. Yeah, I mean that it's one thing you

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Speaker 1: can do. Yeah, it's a roll the quarterback out and

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01:45:04,200 --> 01:45:06,120
Speaker 1: let him. It opens the field up. It gets him

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Speaker 1: away from the pocket and gets out, gets the defensive

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Speaker 1: lineman and the offensive lineman out of his way, so

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Speaker 1: we can see down the field and concentrate on the

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Speaker 1: linebackers and defensive backs. But you know, steady diet of that,

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01:45:19,720 --> 01:45:22,000
Speaker 1: if there was one way to do something, everybody in

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01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:26,440
Speaker 1: the league would be doing it because you can counteract

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01:45:26,479 --> 01:45:29,360
Speaker 1: that as well. And if you do that once too often,

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01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna get thrown for an eight yard loss, and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna it's gonna happen every time you do it

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Speaker 1: from then on. So you can do that once in

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Speaker 1: a while. Absolutely, it's a great technique, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't make that a steady diet. He can't give

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Speaker 1: your team a steady diet of that because defense is

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01:45:44,600 --> 01:45:46,920
Speaker 1: a dapt pretty quickly, and it could turn into a

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01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:49,719
Speaker 1: disaster pretty quickly. I have yet to get the sense

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Speaker 1: that Josh was having trouble seeing the field. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, six five. He can look over the

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Speaker 1: group up front and he was just in here, and

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01:45:57,760 --> 01:46:02,200
Speaker 1: he's big, he's big to see over the rush. But ye,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I don't know that that has been an issue.

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Speaker 1: And even so we said that, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: there were times last Sunday and the things that one

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Speaker 1: of the positives I saw last Sunday when he was

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Speaker 1: starting was there were times when the offensive line did

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Speaker 1: give him time and he used it. He stepped up

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Speaker 1: in the pocket. And quarterback I played with Jim Kelly,

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Speaker 1: they used to tease him once in a while when

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Speaker 1: he had the time, he stood back there and used it.

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Speaker 1: Every good quarterback does it. That's what you do now. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: if the ball comes out on time to an open guy. Yeah,

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01:46:34,560 --> 01:46:37,320
Speaker 1: but when you've got the time and it's not exactly

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01:46:37,320 --> 01:46:39,880
Speaker 1: what you want to see, the quarterback's kind of hang

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01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:41,640
Speaker 1: on too it because he won't feel the pressure and

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01:46:41,640 --> 01:46:43,040
Speaker 1: there's no need to get rid of it. As long

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01:46:43,080 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 1: as you got time, there's no reason not to hold

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01:46:45,120 --> 01:46:47,200
Speaker 1: onto it unless you've got an open guy. And I

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01:46:47,240 --> 01:46:50,559
Speaker 1: think you can see what I'm getting at. You know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get separation on the outside. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: somebody that gives him a window someplace he's looking, that

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01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,719
Speaker 1: gives him a target. And that's part of the equation

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01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:01,880
Speaker 1: as well. So I'm I'm not I'm with you, Murphy,

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01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:05,280
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this. I'm not ready to throw

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Speaker 1: a bucket of water on this offensive line and take

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Speaker 1: them off the field. I mean they're they're getting They

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01:47:10,240 --> 01:47:13,080
Speaker 1: got significantly better from week one to week two, and

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01:47:13,240 --> 01:47:15,400
Speaker 1: I would think that that progress is going to continue.

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01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:17,920
Speaker 1: It's the tough assignment, though, Steve. I mean, that's a

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01:47:17,960 --> 01:47:22,679
Speaker 1: great defensive group up front every level. Really, Daniel Hunter

2261
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:25,519
Speaker 1: is outstanding, Sheldon Richardson, the former first round pick of

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Speaker 1: the Jets. He's in addition to their roster this year,

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Speaker 1: Everson Griffin a couple of times in the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a great defensive front. Somebody asked earlier

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Speaker 1: about Blitz is I think, um, well, no, you were

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01:47:36,040 --> 01:47:38,000
Speaker 1: talking to Brownie about blitzes. I don't think they have

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01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:40,200
Speaker 1: to blitz. They getting pressure, At least I didn't see it.

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Speaker 1: I've watched both games they played. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: have to blitz. Great defense is particularly in this day

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Speaker 1: and age. It's always been this way, but I think

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01:47:46,240 --> 01:47:48,479
Speaker 1: now so more than ever. If you get pressure with

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Speaker 1: that front four and force the quarterback to throw it

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01:47:51,200 --> 01:47:53,320
Speaker 1: on time, and if he doesn't throw it on time,

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01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:56,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna go down, you've got a chance because the

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01:47:56,080 --> 01:48:01,320
Speaker 1: mental clock becomes very, very predictable, and defensive backs can

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01:48:01,320 --> 01:48:03,800
Speaker 1: start feeling that clock just like everybody else, and they're

2277
01:48:03,800 --> 01:48:05,760
Speaker 1: gonna start knowing when that ball is going to come

2278
01:48:05,760 --> 01:48:09,400
Speaker 1: out because their front four forces it out right. Then

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01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:12,519
Speaker 1: they keep the quarterback in the pocket, and when he

2280
01:48:12,600 --> 01:48:15,120
Speaker 1: stays in the pocket, he's gonna go down. After a

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01:48:15,120 --> 01:48:19,679
Speaker 1: certain point. When that happens consistently, down after down, throw

2282
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:24,160
Speaker 1: after throw, the defense hones in on that clock, and

2283
01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:26,880
Speaker 1: those dbs are gonna start tipping the ball up into

2284
01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 1: the air, catching it, intercepting it, breaking it up everything

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01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:33,200
Speaker 1: you're got. They're just gonna know when the ball is

2286
01:48:33,240 --> 01:48:34,719
Speaker 1: going to be in the air. They'll feel it, they'll

2287
01:48:34,720 --> 01:48:39,559
Speaker 1: anticipate the throw and turnovers happen really, you know, one

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01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:42,280
Speaker 1: after the other. That's what this Minnesota defense can do.

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01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:45,080
Speaker 1: When they pressure with that front four, the other seven

2290
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 1: guys get that mental clock going and they know the

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01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 1: balls out and they're gonna look for it, and that

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01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:53,360
Speaker 1: spills disaster for offensive. Ask him Bills fans a question today,

2293
01:48:53,400 --> 01:48:55,479
Speaker 1: even with the on two start, who has shown the

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01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:58,120
Speaker 1: most promise for the Buffalo Bills at O and two

2295
01:48:58,200 --> 01:49:00,320
Speaker 1: so far? Give us a call lines up at eight

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Speaker 1: O three fifty and toll free one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty On the tweet sheet from

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Speaker 1: Kevin Scott says Murph and Steve. Despite his age, I

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Speaker 1: think Lorenzo Alexander has shown the most promise for this

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Speaker 1: season and hopefully a few more. His leadership is evident

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01:49:15,080 --> 01:49:17,320
Speaker 1: on the field and in the locker room. His interviews

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01:49:17,320 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 1: has hustled on the field and consistently give the Bill's

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01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:21,960
Speaker 1: defense hope for the future. I like that tweet a lot,

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01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:24,200
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be a rookie showing promise.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good point. Look, Lorenzo is what

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01:49:26,960 --> 01:49:29,080
Speaker 1: thirty five years old? Yeah, he'll be in with us tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five year old guys pretty special exactly. I mean

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01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:33,679
Speaker 1: you begin to look at the thirty five year old

2309
01:49:33,720 --> 01:49:36,800
Speaker 1: right with certain I like, Okay, when's it gonna end?

2310
01:49:36,800 --> 01:49:38,679
Speaker 1: When's it gonna end? If you watch the Bill's first

2311
01:49:38,720 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 1: two games, you would not think that Lorenzo is approaching

2312
01:49:41,360 --> 01:49:44,760
Speaker 1: anything like that. Especially last week, especially second half last

2313
01:49:44,760 --> 01:49:47,240
Speaker 1: week against the Chargers. He was all over the field.

2314
01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: It almost doesn't matter how old he is or how

2315
01:49:50,040 --> 01:49:52,120
Speaker 1: many years he has in the league. Maybe it's because

2316
01:49:52,120 --> 01:49:55,599
Speaker 1: he's played so many different positions, maybe because he didn't

2317
01:49:55,600 --> 01:49:57,599
Speaker 1: play a whole lot in his early years in the league.

2318
01:49:57,600 --> 01:49:59,960
Speaker 1: But he doesn't look his age. He doesn't play his age.

2319
01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:02,400
Speaker 1: He has shown promise. I think that if they get

2320
01:50:02,439 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: that kind of production out of Lorenzo Alexander like they

2321
01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: got in the second half last week, the Bills are

2322
01:50:08,200 --> 01:50:10,479
Speaker 1: going to reap some benefits from that. Without question. Yeah,

2323
01:50:10,520 --> 01:50:12,720
Speaker 1: he turned it up a notch in the second half

2324
01:50:12,720 --> 01:50:15,040
Speaker 1: of last week's game, Absolutely no question about it. He

2325
01:50:15,040 --> 01:50:18,040
Speaker 1: wasn't alone either, The entire defense did not only did

2326
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:22,080
Speaker 1: it things change because Sean McDermott was calling the signals,

2327
01:50:22,080 --> 01:50:23,760
Speaker 1: maybe or maybe not. But I'll tell you what they

2328
01:50:23,800 --> 01:50:28,200
Speaker 1: played with a little higher level of intensity and it showed. Um,

2329
01:50:29,680 --> 01:50:31,360
Speaker 1: we got another one from the tweet sheet. Tim g

2330
01:50:31,600 --> 01:50:33,920
Speaker 1: Allen is my choice, starting very early in his career

2331
01:50:33,920 --> 01:50:35,439
Speaker 1: and the game doesn't seem too big for him. One

2332
01:50:35,479 --> 01:50:37,720
Speaker 1: of these things that will come together, he's gonna we

2333
01:50:37,720 --> 01:50:40,559
Speaker 1: already read that one. That's you already read that one.

2334
01:50:40,560 --> 01:50:42,400
Speaker 1: Why is that one still on my tweet sheet? I

2335
01:50:42,439 --> 01:50:47,439
Speaker 1: don't know anyway. So anyway, but speaking speaking back about

2336
01:50:47,479 --> 01:50:51,680
Speaker 1: the guys who turned it up, and this is I'll

2337
01:50:51,720 --> 01:50:54,200
Speaker 1: try it. It may be another repeat for me. It's

2338
01:50:54,240 --> 01:50:56,640
Speaker 1: too early to judge. I want the whole team to

2339
01:50:56,720 --> 01:50:59,519
Speaker 1: be great. But if I had to pick one, I

2340
01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:03,320
Speaker 1: think Ivory that's a good one too. It's interesting Ivory.

2341
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:06,720
Speaker 1: And I was gonna say, Murphy, you think And this

2342
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:08,920
Speaker 1: is a big question that you and I have talked about.

2343
01:51:09,920 --> 01:51:12,479
Speaker 1: What was the different How many things were come together

2344
01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:14,320
Speaker 1: in the second half of this last week's game for

2345
01:51:14,360 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 1: the Bill's defense that made them play so significantly better.

2346
01:51:17,120 --> 01:51:19,519
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of things that change. One their intensity

2347
01:51:19,560 --> 01:51:22,120
Speaker 1: that I just mentioned. Two Sean McDermott was called in

2348
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:24,720
Speaker 1: the signal, and three did the Chargers just take their

2349
01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:27,519
Speaker 1: foot off? The gas and say, oh, you know, this

2350
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:29,880
Speaker 1: game's one, We're not gonna we're gonna stop pushing. We're

2351
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:32,200
Speaker 1: not gonna We're gonna make ourselves ready for the next game.

2352
01:51:32,600 --> 01:51:36,760
Speaker 1: And it could have been all three of those things. Maybe, yeah,

2353
01:51:36,880 --> 01:51:39,040
Speaker 1: can that rank them for you? Sure? Number one would

2354
01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:41,600
Speaker 1: be the Bill's intensity on defense, that change that was

2355
01:51:41,680 --> 01:51:43,760
Speaker 1: amped up. Number two, in my book, would be the

2356
01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:46,679
Speaker 1: Chargers approach. We talked about it earlier about and think,

2357
01:51:46,960 --> 01:51:49,400
Speaker 1: you know, heavy favorites, when they have a when you're

2358
01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:51,280
Speaker 1: a seventeen point favorite, or when you're up twenty eight

2359
01:51:51,360 --> 01:51:52,720
Speaker 1: six and a half time, it's hard to keep your

2360
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:54,719
Speaker 1: foot on the gas. Yeah, and I think the Chargers

2361
01:51:54,760 --> 01:51:57,160
Speaker 1: demonstrated that. Plus they wanted to They wanted to get

2362
01:51:57,200 --> 01:51:58,479
Speaker 1: out of the game. They wanted to run the ball

2363
01:51:58,520 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 1: and get out of the game. I don't know how

2364
01:52:00,280 --> 01:52:03,000
Speaker 1: to measure McDermot calling the place. I don't know how

2365
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:05,080
Speaker 1: to measure that. I don't know what difference that made.

2366
01:52:05,120 --> 01:52:07,000
Speaker 1: When you hear players telling you we didn't know who

2367
01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:09,559
Speaker 1: was calling on the plays, that indicates to me that

2368
01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:11,479
Speaker 1: it's not as if the sound of his voice was

2369
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:15,760
Speaker 1: inspiring or anything. He did he call it differently a

2370
01:52:15,760 --> 01:52:18,400
Speaker 1: little bit. I think, although you have a hard time

2371
01:52:18,920 --> 01:52:21,000
Speaker 1: working around that locker room to have somebody tell you

2372
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 1: exactly what went different defensively, even number one, they don't

2373
01:52:23,160 --> 01:52:25,120
Speaker 1: want to give away secrets. Number two, maybe there wasn't

2374
01:52:25,320 --> 01:52:27,759
Speaker 1: that much different they were calling the defenses they play

2375
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:29,880
Speaker 1: Sean was so it's not like he pulled out a

2376
01:52:29,880 --> 01:52:34,479
Speaker 1: different playbook, right. That's a real question. That's a real question,

2377
01:52:34,560 --> 01:52:38,240
Speaker 1: And I think some of it goes to Sean McDermott though,

2378
01:52:38,400 --> 01:52:41,240
Speaker 1: seeing something that he wanted to do different than Leslie

2379
01:52:41,280 --> 01:52:43,519
Speaker 1: Frasier was doing. And like I said earlier in the week,

2380
01:52:43,520 --> 01:52:45,400
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of an art form calling plays.

2381
01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:49,479
Speaker 1: You gotta know your defense, you know your scheme, and

2382
01:52:49,640 --> 01:52:53,320
Speaker 1: know your players, and think about the matchups that the

2383
01:52:53,439 --> 01:52:56,760
Speaker 1: specific team you're playing presents. And it's so all that

2384
01:52:56,800 --> 01:52:59,760
Speaker 1: stuff mixed together. Looking at the playsheet and with a

2385
01:52:59,760 --> 01:53:02,519
Speaker 1: different set of eyes on it gives you a different outcome.

2386
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:07,080
Speaker 1: And I don't know that's I think it's really going

2387
01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:11,120
Speaker 1: to be interesting to watch this game this week. Number

2388
01:53:11,120 --> 01:53:13,559
Speaker 1: one for who's got the playsheet in their hand. Maybe

2389
01:53:13,640 --> 01:53:19,080
Speaker 1: McDermott and Leslie Fraser both have one and two. How

2390
01:53:19,080 --> 01:53:21,479
Speaker 1: it's gonna go. I mean, what the players are gonna think,

2391
01:53:21,479 --> 01:53:23,479
Speaker 1: how they're gonna play. Are they gonna match the intensity

2392
01:53:23,479 --> 01:53:26,759
Speaker 1: they had in the second half you'd like to think so. Yeah. Look,

2393
01:53:27,040 --> 01:53:28,840
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to give a score on this game

2394
01:53:28,920 --> 01:53:30,920
Speaker 1: or anything, but I think it's the Bills are gonna

2395
01:53:30,920 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 1: have a heck of a time putting up a lot

2396
01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:36,479
Speaker 1: of points, even twenty points against this Minnesota defense. So

2397
01:53:36,920 --> 01:53:39,200
Speaker 1: it would behoove them if they have a chance to win.

2398
01:53:39,240 --> 01:53:43,040
Speaker 1: And I think they have a chance to be productive defensively, right,

2399
01:53:43,360 --> 01:53:45,920
Speaker 1: I mean, keep the Vikings somewhere under twenty points. Yeah,

2400
01:53:45,920 --> 01:53:48,080
Speaker 1: it's got to me is a realistic goal for them. Yeah,

2401
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:49,559
Speaker 1: you almost got to think it's going to be one

2402
01:53:49,560 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 1: of those thirteen to ten games. I like that. That's

2403
01:53:52,120 --> 01:53:54,280
Speaker 1: kind of scored. The Bills need ten to seven games.

2404
01:53:54,400 --> 01:53:57,240
Speaker 1: That's that's the crucial element. Yeah, that's kind of a

2405
01:53:57,479 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 1: score I think they need. All Right, Um, we go

2406
01:54:01,360 --> 01:54:03,320
Speaker 1: to break careater, we continue on and I'm not sure,

2407
01:54:03,880 --> 01:54:06,559
Speaker 1: oh we stay right here. Okay, the Bills and the

2408
01:54:06,640 --> 01:54:09,720
Speaker 1: Vikings coming up on Sunday, John Murphy, Steve Tasker here

2409
01:54:09,720 --> 01:54:11,840
Speaker 1: to talk about that. There's a lot to talk about

2410
01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:13,240
Speaker 1: the game and a lot to talk about with the

2411
01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:15,559
Speaker 1: Vikings in one of the all time Minnesota Vikings is

2412
01:54:15,800 --> 01:54:18,360
Speaker 1: on the Subway Fresh Take Hotline with us right now.

2413
01:54:18,360 --> 01:54:20,479
Speaker 1: He's a Pro Football Hall of Famer. We're happy to

2414
01:54:20,520 --> 01:54:22,320
Speaker 1: have John Randall on the line with us. John, it's

2415
01:54:22,360 --> 01:54:24,680
Speaker 1: a John Murphy and Steve Tasker here in Buffalo. Thank

2416
01:54:24,680 --> 01:54:27,800
Speaker 1: you for joining us. There's not pleasure to be you

2417
01:54:27,920 --> 01:54:30,120
Speaker 1: got paid. I think a really good compliment on our

2418
01:54:30,120 --> 01:54:33,040
Speaker 1: show earlier today from another Hall of Famer, Thurman Thomas,

2419
01:54:33,040 --> 01:54:35,360
Speaker 1: who said John Randall is a guy who would fit

2420
01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:37,120
Speaker 1: right in with our group if he would have played

2421
01:54:37,120 --> 01:54:38,720
Speaker 1: with us back in the nineties. What do you think

2422
01:54:38,760 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 1: of that, John, What does that say to you? That's awesome, man,

2423
01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 1: You know what. I have so much fron hanging out

2424
01:54:44,800 --> 01:54:49,560
Speaker 1: with Arma Thomas, Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Biscuit and Daryl

2425
01:54:49,640 --> 01:54:55,040
Speaker 1: Kelly's it's just a pleasure to just to know those

2426
01:54:55,080 --> 01:54:58,880
Speaker 1: guys because, you know, watching him play and watching how

2427
01:54:58,920 --> 01:55:02,640
Speaker 1: they played together, it seemed so much like a family.

2428
01:55:02,680 --> 01:55:05,560
Speaker 1: And to be included with those guys, man, it's just

2429
01:55:05,640 --> 01:55:08,400
Speaker 1: unbelievable for those people in Buffalo who earned as familiar

2430
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:10,600
Speaker 1: with John Randall as people in the NFL are He

2431
01:55:10,640 --> 01:55:12,880
Speaker 1: had one hundred and thirty seven and a half sacks

2432
01:55:12,960 --> 01:55:15,080
Speaker 1: during a fourteen year career. He's one of the few

2433
01:55:15,080 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 1: Hall of famers to make it. And we went over

2434
01:55:17,320 --> 01:55:19,120
Speaker 1: this earlier in the show. A guy who wasn't even

2435
01:55:19,200 --> 01:55:21,440
Speaker 1: drafted and who had a fourteen year career and was

2436
01:55:22,200 --> 01:55:27,200
Speaker 1: really an ultimately respected player for the guys who played

2437
01:55:27,200 --> 01:55:30,920
Speaker 1: against him, a guy who really was a handful every Sunday,

2438
01:55:30,960 --> 01:55:33,640
Speaker 1: and it's really widely respected around the league. And John,

2439
01:55:33,680 --> 01:55:35,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you this. You also had a chance.

2440
01:55:35,720 --> 01:55:38,160
Speaker 1: I believe this is correct. You played for Dennis green

2441
01:55:38,240 --> 01:55:40,720
Speaker 1: did you not? Yes? I sure did talk to us

2442
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:42,280
Speaker 1: a little bit about him going on the Wall of

2443
01:55:42,320 --> 01:55:45,320
Speaker 1: Fame in this new stadium in Minnesota. What's that mean

2444
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:46,960
Speaker 1: to you? And can you give us some memories about

2445
01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:50,280
Speaker 1: Denny green Man. First of all, it's just an honor

2446
01:55:50,440 --> 01:55:54,520
Speaker 1: to have played for Denny. He was a coach who

2447
01:55:54,880 --> 01:55:59,120
Speaker 1: believed in giving guys who a lot of teams thought

2448
01:55:59,160 --> 01:56:02,240
Speaker 1: they want right guys or guys that she just normally

2449
01:56:02,320 --> 01:56:05,280
Speaker 1: would just look over. He gave this guy a chance

2450
01:56:05,320 --> 01:56:10,560
Speaker 1: to play and to have Denny go in tells me

2451
01:56:10,800 --> 01:56:13,520
Speaker 1: and I think it tells the league that you know,

2452
01:56:13,600 --> 01:56:16,680
Speaker 1: those guys, those small guys, the guys that the two schools,

2453
01:56:16,760 --> 01:56:20,200
Speaker 1: or the guys that you just don't think belonging the

2454
01:56:20,280 --> 01:56:23,840
Speaker 1: National Football League, that Denny was right and the half

2455
01:56:23,880 --> 01:56:27,840
Speaker 1: Denny go upon a ring of honor. Man, it's just uh,

2456
01:56:28,240 --> 01:56:31,720
Speaker 1: it's just a touch a blast because you know, to

2457
01:56:31,800 --> 01:56:34,240
Speaker 1: be there to see him and see the things that

2458
01:56:34,280 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 1: he was doing, and there's just to be a part

2459
01:56:36,160 --> 01:56:40,040
Speaker 1: of it. Uh, just just great, man, just unbelievable feelings. Yeah,

2460
01:56:40,080 --> 01:56:42,200
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, John, I was one of those guys.

2461
01:56:42,200 --> 01:56:44,320
Speaker 1: I you probably didn't know this. I played for Denny

2462
01:56:44,520 --> 01:56:47,960
Speaker 1: at Northwestern University way back in nineteen eighty two through

2463
01:56:48,040 --> 01:56:51,280
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, and he recruited me. And I was

2464
01:56:51,320 --> 01:56:53,320
Speaker 1: one of those guys that didn't pass the eye test either.

2465
01:56:53,360 --> 01:56:55,560
Speaker 1: I didn't look like I could play. And when I

2466
01:56:55,600 --> 01:57:00,560
Speaker 1: got to Northwestern even then way back, he he picked

2467
01:57:00,640 --> 01:57:03,120
Speaker 1: guys because they could play. He didn't care what they

2468
01:57:03,160 --> 01:57:04,880
Speaker 1: looked like or what they were. And you were one

2469
01:57:04,880 --> 01:57:07,640
Speaker 1: of those guys. Yeah, I you know, I was one

2470
01:57:07,680 --> 01:57:10,720
Speaker 1: of them. There were several guys we had on our team. Um,

2471
01:57:11,200 --> 01:57:14,280
Speaker 1: Chris Walsh was another guy who ran it was the

2472
01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:18,280
Speaker 1: same way. And uh, I mean you look at Brandy Moss,

2473
01:57:18,320 --> 01:57:20,720
Speaker 1: another guy that the Dallas Cowboy said, you know what,

2474
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:24,840
Speaker 1: we don't think he belonged and overlooked Randy because of

2475
01:57:24,880 --> 01:57:28,040
Speaker 1: his problems or problem they said he had in college.

2476
01:57:28,080 --> 01:57:30,840
Speaker 1: And I mean it was just so many different guys

2477
01:57:30,880 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 1: that we had on our team that you just looked

2478
01:57:33,480 --> 01:57:35,760
Speaker 1: around you going, but yeah, nobody thought you could play.

2479
01:57:35,800 --> 01:57:39,560
Speaker 1: Somebody thought. But thenny Man, he gave guys sucking chances.

2480
01:57:39,640 --> 01:57:42,160
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean it was a pleasure to play

2481
01:57:42,160 --> 01:57:44,440
Speaker 1: for him because then he was a guy who come

2482
01:57:44,480 --> 01:57:47,360
Speaker 1: in to locker room, get you pumped up till you

2483
01:57:47,400 --> 01:57:49,640
Speaker 1: go out there and just to prove to the to

2484
01:57:49,760 --> 01:57:52,680
Speaker 1: the teams and to the league that you belonged. And

2485
01:57:53,000 --> 01:57:59,080
Speaker 1: you know, John Randolard, guess he's a Pro Football Hall

2486
01:57:59,120 --> 01:58:02,360
Speaker 1: of Famer, having pro bowled appearances during this fourteen seasons

2487
01:58:02,360 --> 01:58:04,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Dennis Screen was not the head coach

2488
01:58:04,720 --> 01:58:07,320
Speaker 1: when you got there, though, right John, it was Jerry Burns.

2489
01:58:07,520 --> 01:58:10,040
Speaker 1: What did you have to show Coach Burns when you

2490
01:58:10,120 --> 01:58:11,920
Speaker 1: got there to let you know, to earn a spot

2491
01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:14,760
Speaker 1: on the team coming out of Texas and I undrafted,

2492
01:58:14,800 --> 01:58:16,640
Speaker 1: what do you think was it that clinch your spot

2493
01:58:16,640 --> 01:58:20,120
Speaker 1: on that roster back in nineteen ninety I was hard headed.

2494
01:58:20,240 --> 01:58:25,280
Speaker 1: And what I mean by hard headed, you know, Steve

2495
01:58:25,320 --> 01:58:27,240
Speaker 1: can tell you this. I was the guy in practice

2496
01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:29,920
Speaker 1: who had to be the Bruce Smith one week, then

2497
01:58:29,960 --> 01:58:32,240
Speaker 1: the following week I had to be to Derek Thomas.

2498
01:58:32,640 --> 01:58:34,840
Speaker 1: So I was a guy got the offensive lineman would

2499
01:58:34,840 --> 01:58:38,320
Speaker 1: tell you slow down, stop running, stop coming through. But

2500
01:58:38,560 --> 01:58:42,600
Speaker 1: me being me, I went full speed every week and

2501
01:58:42,680 --> 01:58:47,040
Speaker 1: just didn't mean And for Burnsley, he told me, he goes,

2502
01:58:47,080 --> 01:58:50,360
Speaker 1: you know what, don't stop doing what you're doing, keep going,

2503
01:58:50,520 --> 01:58:54,000
Speaker 1: keep keep playing hard, and one day it'll it'll show.

2504
01:58:54,080 --> 01:58:57,720
Speaker 1: And you know, that's when Denny came in. Denny basically

2505
01:58:57,760 --> 01:59:00,600
Speaker 1: gave me the chance to start. And so thanks to

2506
01:59:00,680 --> 01:59:03,520
Speaker 1: Jerry Burns, thanks to Dennis Green who really believed in

2507
01:59:03,560 --> 01:59:05,920
Speaker 1: me and just keep a small guy from a small

2508
01:59:05,960 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: school in Texas a chance to play. Talk a little

2509
01:59:08,600 --> 01:59:11,400
Speaker 1: bit about this team. Now, you got to keep tabs

2510
01:59:11,440 --> 01:59:13,680
Speaker 1: on your Minnesota vikings throughout. This is the team that

2511
01:59:13,760 --> 01:59:17,600
Speaker 1: came into this season. H It's fans kind of had

2512
01:59:17,680 --> 01:59:21,280
Speaker 1: high expectations for this team to get to the super Bowl.

2513
01:59:21,360 --> 01:59:23,520
Speaker 1: They were very close last year, put together a great

2514
01:59:23,520 --> 01:59:27,360
Speaker 1: season and then surprisingly switched quarterbacks. And yet though here

2515
01:59:27,400 --> 01:59:31,080
Speaker 1: they are, they looked like they're prime for another run. Yeah,

2516
01:59:31,160 --> 01:59:34,280
Speaker 1: you know, if you started Kirk Cousins and come in

2517
01:59:35,240 --> 01:59:38,120
Speaker 1: and he's looting on offer. But you know, for me,

2518
01:59:38,160 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 1: I'm a defensive guy. You know, grew up watching my

2519
01:59:42,120 --> 01:59:44,960
Speaker 1: favorite player, Bruce Smith, and so for me, I'm all

2520
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:48,000
Speaker 1: about to defense. So oh my god. We started with

2521
01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:52,680
Speaker 1: with Everson, who's I think, who's very played the same style,

2522
01:59:52,800 --> 01:59:56,680
Speaker 1: like that, very vocal, very high strong guy. And then

2523
01:59:56,760 --> 02:00:00,240
Speaker 1: you've got my manor Danielle Hunters, who was on the

2524
02:00:00,280 --> 02:00:03,400
Speaker 1: other side. And I mean our defensive line is just

2525
02:00:03,720 --> 02:00:06,480
Speaker 1: I think probably one of the best defensive lines out there.

2526
02:00:06,760 --> 02:00:10,040
Speaker 1: Last year, we have the number one ranked defense, and

2527
02:00:10,080 --> 02:00:12,560
Speaker 1: we've been added on some more more pieces to it.

2528
02:00:12,640 --> 02:00:14,880
Speaker 1: I think if you look at our defense, we have

2529
02:00:14,960 --> 02:00:17,400
Speaker 1: a we have a really good first team defense, and

2530
02:00:17,440 --> 02:00:21,520
Speaker 1: then we have a rotation for our second defensive line.

2531
02:00:22,080 --> 02:00:24,800
Speaker 1: And I'll give those keep side guys fresh, and I

2532
02:00:24,920 --> 02:00:27,320
Speaker 1: look for our guys to stay fresh the whole season,

2533
02:00:27,440 --> 02:00:30,880
Speaker 1: I think through the long season, and for our guys

2534
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 1: keeping fresh, it really will help us down the road. John,

2535
02:00:35,680 --> 02:00:38,879
Speaker 1: I've heard you were quoted as saying that the Vikings

2536
02:00:38,920 --> 02:00:43,280
Speaker 1: defensive end Everson Griffin reminds you of yourself. What do

2537
02:00:43,320 --> 02:00:44,640
Speaker 1: you see there? What do you see from him that

2538
02:00:44,640 --> 02:00:47,040
Speaker 1: reminds you of the way you play? You gotta be

2539
02:00:47,080 --> 02:00:50,800
Speaker 1: around Everson and around him. I got to know him.

2540
02:00:51,760 --> 02:00:54,960
Speaker 1: I'm kind of laughing because he doesn't mind talking to

2541
02:00:55,000 --> 02:00:57,880
Speaker 1: smack and you know, that's what I was known for.

2542
02:00:58,480 --> 02:01:01,800
Speaker 1: I think he's carried on that Minnesota Viking tradition, which

2543
02:01:01,920 --> 02:01:04,480
Speaker 1: has always been about our defensive line, and you know,

2544
02:01:04,480 --> 02:01:07,400
Speaker 1: it's great to see somebody else who's doing it and

2545
02:01:07,480 --> 02:01:10,760
Speaker 1: doing it his style. And I mean when Everson was

2546
02:01:10,880 --> 02:01:14,160
Speaker 1: first coming here, he was playing behind Jared Allen, and

2547
02:01:14,240 --> 02:01:16,800
Speaker 1: he always said if it gave him a chance to

2548
02:01:16,800 --> 02:01:19,680
Speaker 1: play the things, he would show the people that he

2549
02:01:19,760 --> 02:01:23,400
Speaker 1: can do. And for myself, I had to play behind

2550
02:01:23,520 --> 02:01:25,880
Speaker 1: Chris Doleman, and I always said the same thing, man,

2551
02:01:25,880 --> 02:01:28,080
Speaker 1: if you ever got a chance to play, I just

2552
02:01:28,080 --> 02:01:30,440
Speaker 1: just wanted to show people what I could do. And

2553
02:01:30,480 --> 02:01:32,840
Speaker 1: I think for ever he's come out here or he

2554
02:01:32,880 --> 02:01:35,720
Speaker 1: come out in the field, he's leading our defense. And

2555
02:01:35,760 --> 02:01:38,600
Speaker 1: when you if you're listening to him and you're watch him,

2556
02:01:38,880 --> 02:01:41,880
Speaker 1: man he's just he's just a thoroughly energy but he's

2557
02:01:41,920 --> 02:01:44,720
Speaker 1: bringing it and he's out there playing hard and he's

2558
02:01:44,720 --> 02:01:47,520
Speaker 1: representing our Minnesota Viking very well. One of the all

2559
02:01:47,600 --> 02:01:50,800
Speaker 1: time great listens is when the NFL films crew miked

2560
02:01:50,840 --> 02:01:52,720
Speaker 1: you up, and if if people ever want to get

2561
02:01:52,720 --> 02:01:54,800
Speaker 1: a chance to have some fun for a guy who's

2562
02:01:54,800 --> 02:01:56,280
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to listen to while he plays

2563
02:01:56,280 --> 02:01:58,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It was you during your heyday, and

2564
02:01:58,920 --> 02:02:02,880
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you though about something that happened

2565
02:02:02,880 --> 02:02:05,560
Speaker 1: to pass rushers in the last couple of weeks. You

2566
02:02:05,600 --> 02:02:08,320
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to find pass rushers, and

2567
02:02:08,400 --> 02:02:10,760
Speaker 1: yet you've got a guy like Khalil Mack, who may

2568
02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:12,880
Speaker 1: be as good a pass rusher as the league's seen

2569
02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:16,440
Speaker 1: in ten years, get traded and do all the things

2570
02:02:16,560 --> 02:02:19,400
Speaker 1: he's done for the Chicago Bears in such a short time,

2571
02:02:19,680 --> 02:02:21,640
Speaker 1: and then to have his head coach John Gruten come

2572
02:02:21,640 --> 02:02:23,200
Speaker 1: out and say, you know, hey, those guys are hard

2573
02:02:23,240 --> 02:02:27,000
Speaker 1: to find when he's the guy that traded him. Yeah, Well,

2574
02:02:27,040 --> 02:02:29,440
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of a funny thing people, kind

2575
02:02:29,480 --> 02:02:35,560
Speaker 1: of it's like one person's junk is another person's treasure.

2576
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:39,640
Speaker 1: And I don't know if John Ruten really just didn't

2577
02:02:39,640 --> 02:02:43,600
Speaker 1: think of what he's gonna lose. But yeah, pass rushers

2578
02:02:43,600 --> 02:02:45,920
Speaker 1: are hard to find because for a lot of guys

2579
02:02:45,960 --> 02:02:48,200
Speaker 1: rushing the pass, you know, you tell him, the guy

2580
02:02:48,600 --> 02:02:51,160
Speaker 1: you expect him to get to the quarterback maybe once

2581
02:02:51,240 --> 02:02:53,960
Speaker 1: or twice, and then you tell him you're gonna rush

2582
02:02:54,160 --> 02:02:58,000
Speaker 1: this quarterback many times, and you're only gonna get there twice.

2583
02:02:58,280 --> 02:03:00,120
Speaker 1: But joy the times the guy is gonna say, you

2584
02:03:00,160 --> 02:03:03,440
Speaker 1: know what, I don't like those for pass rusher, he

2585
02:03:03,680 --> 02:03:07,600
Speaker 1: loves those odds. And for for Khalil, I mean, he's

2586
02:03:07,600 --> 02:03:09,680
Speaker 1: the guy that when you watch him, he's able to

2587
02:03:09,720 --> 02:03:12,160
Speaker 1: bull rush the guy. He's able to rush outside with

2588
02:03:12,200 --> 02:03:14,960
Speaker 1: a speed rush, he's able to rush inside. He's also

2589
02:03:15,120 --> 02:03:19,640
Speaker 1: a linebacker style rusher. That's a unique quality. And I

2590
02:03:19,760 --> 02:03:22,280
Speaker 1: know for myself and like Bruce, we were always a

2591
02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:25,280
Speaker 1: three point stands guy. And this guy can do it

2592
02:03:25,880 --> 02:03:28,400
Speaker 1: in a two point standing. That's just the rush the

2593
02:03:28,480 --> 02:03:30,960
Speaker 1: quarterback that goes back to like a Lawrence Taylor style.

2594
02:03:31,040 --> 02:03:34,760
Speaker 1: But he's just a he's a guy who changes the

2595
02:03:34,840 --> 02:03:37,720
Speaker 1: outcome of the game. And I think, you know, maybe

2596
02:03:37,760 --> 02:03:40,720
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but for the for the Raiders lose such

2597
02:03:40,760 --> 02:03:44,200
Speaker 1: a commodity man. That's something that's going to take him

2598
02:03:44,240 --> 02:03:46,920
Speaker 1: a long time to replace. And uh, you know, in

2599
02:03:47,040 --> 02:03:49,040
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, he made a gage to current

2600
02:03:49,920 --> 02:03:54,120
Speaker 1: East getting the playoffs. He's a potentially to Super Bowl

2601
02:03:54,480 --> 02:03:57,080
Speaker 1: with having him on their team. Around the line with

2602
02:03:57,160 --> 02:03:59,400
Speaker 1: John Randall broke up a Hall of Fame defensive end

2603
02:03:59,400 --> 02:04:01,680
Speaker 1: from the Minnesota the Vikings. Hey, John, I understand you

2604
02:04:01,680 --> 02:04:06,200
Speaker 1: have a close relationship with the Bill's current offensive line coach.

2605
02:04:06,480 --> 02:04:09,320
Speaker 1: Can you talk to us about that. Your your relationship,

2606
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:13,920
Speaker 1: go ahead, your relation Yeah, with Wine Castille ste coach

2607
02:04:13,960 --> 02:04:16,320
Speaker 1: to Steal, He and I went to the same college.

2608
02:04:16,840 --> 02:04:18,720
Speaker 1: That's who I came. Yeah, so when I who I

2609
02:04:18,760 --> 02:04:21,520
Speaker 1: came out into the pros, uh, coach still worked me

2610
02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 1: out and he kind of telling me this is what

2611
02:04:24,240 --> 02:04:26,760
Speaker 1: you have to expect. And we're we're at this high

2612
02:04:26,760 --> 02:04:29,680
Speaker 1: school going through the little drill and I had a

2613
02:04:29,720 --> 02:04:31,840
Speaker 1: fresh new T shirt on and I'm going through this

2614
02:04:31,960 --> 02:04:35,800
Speaker 1: drill with with coach is Steal and he basically just

2615
02:04:35,800 --> 02:04:39,040
Speaker 1: just t shirt off me. And and so every time

2616
02:04:39,200 --> 02:04:42,400
Speaker 1: I seeing we always kind of go back to that story.

2617
02:04:42,640 --> 02:04:45,440
Speaker 1: And you know, being from a small school Texas and

2618
02:04:45,600 --> 02:04:47,880
Speaker 1: I you know, we always say we don't even let

2619
02:04:47,880 --> 02:04:50,560
Speaker 1: the great ones come out of our school. And uh

2620
02:04:50,640 --> 02:04:55,400
Speaker 1: so coach Castile myself filled behind Gene Upshaw and Daryl Green,

2621
02:04:56,000 --> 02:04:58,680
Speaker 1: and uh you know, he's a great friend, a guy

2622
02:04:58,920 --> 02:05:02,160
Speaker 1: really respect, especially his story of how he got his

2623
02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:06,400
Speaker 1: job working for the Philadelphia Eagles by sleeping in his

2624
02:05:06,520 --> 02:05:09,680
Speaker 1: car until Andy Reid allowed to give him a job.

2625
02:05:10,120 --> 02:05:12,600
Speaker 1: But if you think about it, well, I always say

2626
02:05:12,640 --> 02:05:17,280
Speaker 1: that that's a Texas and I have alnas, have alas man.

2627
02:05:17,560 --> 02:05:19,240
Speaker 1: We'll do what it takes to get in the National

2628
02:05:19,280 --> 02:05:22,400
Speaker 1: Football League, whatever we have to do. That's a pretty

2629
02:05:22,440 --> 02:05:24,640
Speaker 1: amazing story. I like that. Hey, John, how do you

2630
02:05:24,680 --> 02:05:26,800
Speaker 1: keep busy these days as a Hall of Famer? And

2631
02:05:26,840 --> 02:05:29,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure you got plenty of opportunities to make appearance.

2632
02:05:29,400 --> 02:05:31,800
Speaker 1: You live still in the Minnesota, in the Minneapolis area,

2633
02:05:31,880 --> 02:05:36,960
Speaker 1: right I should do. I work with the NFL Legends community,

2634
02:05:37,120 --> 02:05:40,080
Speaker 1: which helps young players come into the league, and we

2635
02:05:40,160 --> 02:05:43,400
Speaker 1: obviously helped transition guys out of the league. So doing

2636
02:05:43,480 --> 02:05:47,080
Speaker 1: that and also working on my golf game, because when

2637
02:05:47,080 --> 02:05:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm playing golf against Bruce Smiths, you know we're not

2638
02:05:51,120 --> 02:05:53,400
Speaker 1: as we're not as good as a pass versus all

2639
02:05:53,440 --> 02:05:55,920
Speaker 1: we are on the golf course. But when we're out there, man,

2640
02:05:55,960 --> 02:05:58,320
Speaker 1: we're competitive, and I always got to make sure to

2641
02:05:58,400 --> 02:06:00,600
Speaker 1: keep my game up because when I come out to

2642
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:03,520
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly's golf tournament, the guy's always taking me down

2643
02:06:03,600 --> 02:06:05,320
Speaker 1: to get from Buffalo when you're trying to get me

2644
02:06:05,880 --> 02:06:08,200
Speaker 1: fat and overweight, so I don't have a good golfeling.

2645
02:06:09,040 --> 02:06:11,200
Speaker 1: Always make sure my golfeling is up the park. My

2646
02:06:12,360 --> 02:06:14,520
Speaker 1: advice to you, John is you can win. You can

2647
02:06:14,520 --> 02:06:16,360
Speaker 1: beat Bruce on the golf course, but you have to

2648
02:06:16,400 --> 02:06:19,080
Speaker 1: do it in negotiations on the first tea before you swing.

2649
02:06:19,800 --> 02:06:22,240
Speaker 1: That's how you beat Yeah. Yeah, I always tell them

2650
02:06:22,240 --> 02:06:25,000
Speaker 1: about that. My underclap is like a twenty. I need

2651
02:06:25,080 --> 02:06:28,440
Speaker 1: to leave stops. It's still socide and by that time

2652
02:06:28,680 --> 02:06:32,000
Speaker 1: I've got him. Yeah you go, I got Speaking of Bruce,

2653
02:06:32,280 --> 02:06:34,160
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famers came out the other day with

2654
02:06:34,200 --> 02:06:38,520
Speaker 1: the letter about being compensated and also getting medical benefits.

2655
02:06:38,560 --> 02:06:41,760
Speaker 1: What's your take on the I guess i'd call it

2656
02:06:41,800 --> 02:06:43,840
Speaker 1: a dust up about the way they worded it and

2657
02:06:43,840 --> 02:06:47,120
Speaker 1: how they handled that petition to the NFL and the

2658
02:06:47,240 --> 02:06:50,640
Speaker 1: NFL Players Association. You know, my thing is, I'm all

2659
02:06:50,680 --> 02:06:53,520
Speaker 1: about the brotherhood. I'm all about the guys who built

2660
02:06:53,560 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 1: his game, and because from the from the guys who

2661
02:06:56,680 --> 02:06:59,040
Speaker 1: built his game as camp from camp, from their blood,

2662
02:06:59,040 --> 02:07:02,600
Speaker 1: sweating tears, And for myself, I'm all about that, but

2663
02:07:02,760 --> 02:07:07,000
Speaker 1: that letter, I wasn't in an agreeance with that because

2664
02:07:07,960 --> 02:07:10,960
Speaker 1: as for me personally, I don't believe that I need

2665
02:07:11,000 --> 02:07:14,600
Speaker 1: a paycheck, but I always think about the guys come

2666
02:07:14,640 --> 02:07:17,720
Speaker 1: before us, and so if we can find better health

2667
02:07:17,760 --> 02:07:20,800
Speaker 1: care for those guys, And because that's one of the

2668
02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:22,840
Speaker 1: other one of the reasons why I work in the

2669
02:07:22,920 --> 02:07:27,280
Speaker 1: NFL's Legends community, which we're all about trying to help

2670
02:07:27,320 --> 02:07:31,120
Speaker 1: out our former players, the guys who came before us,

2671
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:34,040
Speaker 1: to make life better for those guys, because this game

2672
02:07:34,080 --> 02:07:36,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't be what it is today without those guys who

2673
02:07:36,520 --> 02:07:40,600
Speaker 1: came before us. Because the guys who came in, I say,

2674
02:07:40,760 --> 02:07:43,760
Speaker 1: even in the sixties and seventies, those guys play for

2675
02:07:43,800 --> 02:07:47,000
Speaker 1: little as nothing, They received little as nothing. So I

2676
02:07:47,160 --> 02:07:49,920
Speaker 1: tried to as one of the guys in the Legends community,

2677
02:07:50,080 --> 02:07:52,640
Speaker 1: as one of these directors, I try to go out

2678
02:07:53,040 --> 02:07:55,160
Speaker 1: and try to find those guys who played in the

2679
02:07:55,240 --> 02:07:58,440
Speaker 1: National Football League who in some way some ways don't

2680
02:07:58,480 --> 02:08:01,480
Speaker 1: want to be found because they're still mad at the league.

2681
02:08:01,640 --> 02:08:04,000
Speaker 1: But so I go out there and I talked to him,

2682
02:08:04,000 --> 02:08:06,960
Speaker 1: and I try to tell them what's available. For instance,

2683
02:08:06,960 --> 02:08:10,600
Speaker 1: we've started a program that's had free dental and free

2684
02:08:10,640 --> 02:08:12,640
Speaker 1: eye care for all the former players who played in

2685
02:08:12,640 --> 02:08:15,560
Speaker 1: the National Football League, And that's for all the former players.

2686
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:17,840
Speaker 1: And so that's one of the ways how I try

2687
02:08:17,880 --> 02:08:20,800
Speaker 1: to help with the brotherhood. But that's for that letter.

2688
02:08:21,080 --> 02:08:24,600
Speaker 1: I wasn't in agreeance for it because it didn't talk

2689
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:27,760
Speaker 1: about all the players. Because for me, the guys come

2690
02:08:27,920 --> 02:08:31,520
Speaker 1: came before me deserve it before I do. And you know,

2691
02:08:31,760 --> 02:08:33,760
Speaker 1: it's an honor and a privilege to play in the

2692
02:08:33,840 --> 02:08:37,080
Speaker 1: National Football League, and it's an honor of the privilege

2693
02:08:37,160 --> 02:08:40,400
Speaker 1: to be part of that brotherhood. And I'll never disrespect it.

2694
02:08:40,760 --> 02:08:44,680
Speaker 1: And that's why being in part of the the Legends

2695
02:08:44,720 --> 02:08:47,760
Speaker 1: community is one of my ways of giving back to

2696
02:08:48,360 --> 02:08:51,480
Speaker 1: those guys who gave and gave a game to me

2697
02:08:52,160 --> 02:08:55,000
Speaker 1: to carry on the tradition and to keep the carry

2698
02:08:55,000 --> 02:08:57,680
Speaker 1: on that tradition for the guys that come after me.

2699
02:08:58,280 --> 02:08:59,560
Speaker 1: That's great. Do you hear, John, Do you go to

2700
02:08:59,600 --> 02:09:01,240
Speaker 1: home games where we see you there in the stadium

2701
02:09:01,240 --> 02:09:03,960
Speaker 1: on Sunday dude. I'll be there. I'll be there early

2702
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:06,760
Speaker 1: because I gotta go see Coach Walker Steel because you

2703
02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:09,320
Speaker 1: know those Halina we all got to stick. I'll be

2704
02:09:09,480 --> 02:09:11,920
Speaker 1: there early. I'm hoping he's bringing me some of those

2705
02:09:12,160 --> 02:09:15,280
Speaker 1: some of those wings from Buffalo, dude, because every time

2706
02:09:15,320 --> 02:09:17,520
Speaker 1: I come to Buffalo, I gotta try. And because for me,

2707
02:09:18,000 --> 02:09:20,560
Speaker 1: besides the Minnesota Vike and the next best team for me,

2708
02:09:20,920 --> 02:09:23,280
Speaker 1: it's a Buffalo Bills because, like I said, will Hey,

2709
02:09:23,320 --> 02:09:26,440
Speaker 1: the guys seek me out there and because of Jim

2710
02:09:26,520 --> 02:09:30,880
Speaker 1: Kelly come up more than just a friend and a

2711
02:09:30,880 --> 02:09:33,600
Speaker 1: guy really and duly care about. And I love playing

2712
02:09:33,600 --> 02:09:35,920
Speaker 1: this golf tournament and I hope they invite me back

2713
02:09:35,920 --> 02:09:38,200
Speaker 1: for another year. Great Hey, John, will you hope to

2714
02:09:38,200 --> 02:09:40,520
Speaker 1: see you there Sunday. Thank you for this. Congratulations to

2715
02:09:40,600 --> 02:09:42,520
Speaker 1: you and thanks for being on the show with the sity.

2716
02:09:42,520 --> 02:09:47,720
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Go Vike, Wait wait wait. John Randall

2717
02:09:47,840 --> 02:09:50,480
Speaker 1: joining us on the Subway Fresh Stake huntline presented by

2718
02:09:50,480 --> 02:09:53,640
Speaker 1: Subway Restaurants Proud to me locally owned and operated. Steve.

2719
02:09:53,640 --> 02:09:55,920
Speaker 1: We've talked to two Hall of famers today, Thurman and

2720
02:09:55,960 --> 02:09:59,040
Speaker 1: John Randall. Both of them said they were not in

2721
02:09:59,080 --> 02:10:01,120
Speaker 1: support of that letter, I went out, I wonder who

2722
02:10:01,280 --> 02:10:05,280
Speaker 1: was who was ended that les exactly. I don't know

2723
02:10:05,280 --> 02:10:06,760
Speaker 1: if we'll ever have the answer to that. Steve and

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Speaker 1: I back with more of a moment One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: from one Bills Dribe in This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: What do we learned from today's show? We learned that

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of guests today. What else do

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Speaker 1: we learned? It's presented by Advanced Alarm providing Western New

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's Thurman Thomas, joined US Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: earlier around the show. We asked him, how difficult will

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Speaker 1: it be for Lashaw McCoy to play with a rib injury?

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Speaker 1: What's that like for a running back? Here's what Thurman said, Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of It's one of the most painful things, Um,

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Speaker 1: that you ever want to go through. I mean you

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Speaker 1: can barely breathe after time, UM. Yeah. And so I

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Speaker 1: did actually play with it, but I think during like

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Speaker 1: the mid second quarter, so you have this big old

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Speaker 1: flat on like the quarterbacks you usually wear yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I was just like, you know what, Hey, give me

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Speaker 1: some melicar man, because I can't wear this. I feel uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: But it's very very plainful as you know. I know,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of running backs. You know, when you

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Speaker 1: get that real injury, man, it's it's not good for you.

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Speaker 1: Not good for you. That's a therm and says Josh.

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Speaker 1: Allen was on the show of the Spill starting quarterback

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, first road start coming up on Sunday, and

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Speaker 1: he asked him about playing in Minnesota in his first

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Speaker 1: road game experience. Here's what he had to say. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a cool environment. You know, it's a newer stadium.

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Speaker 1: Their fans are obviously hyped up and super excited for

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Speaker 1: the season. They're playing well right now. You know, in

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Speaker 1: my experiences, I really haven't played in that many super

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Speaker 1: loud environments. So it's gonna be a bit of an

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Speaker 1: adjustment for me. But like I said, we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: car base rules and and try to focus on what

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Speaker 1: we're doing. Probably the best approach for Josh Allen. Hey,

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Speaker 1: the Bills practice participation report is out as far as

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Speaker 1: practice today, the only one not practicing was Shack Lawson

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Speaker 1: with his hamstring working on two weeks now without Jack Lawson.

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Speaker 1: That's not good. Steve did not practice today with his hamstring.

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Speaker 1: Hammys are takes a while and if you come back

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Speaker 1: too quick, then you're out for a month, you know,

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Speaker 1: instead of just two and a half weeks. Full practice

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Speaker 1: today for wide receiver Calvin Benjamin, who was limited yesterday

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Speaker 1: and limited work for the rest of them, including Lashawn

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Speaker 1: McCoy with his ribs. Kyle Williams and Lorenzo Alexander were back.

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Speaker 1: The cornerbacks of Philip Gaines and Terren Johnson both limited,

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Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones Limited, and Ray Ray McLoud Limited. That's the

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Speaker 1: Bill's practice report from today. Tomorrow show will be a

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Speaker 1: classic Friday Steve, Mark Kelso, Greg Cosl, Lorenzo Alexander will

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Speaker 1: see what else comes down the pike for tomorrow show.

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Speaker 1: It's down top of it. We Jay Harris burning the

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Speaker 1: midnight oil making sure nothing crazy happens. Well do that

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Speaker 1: for us. Jay burned that midnight make sure enough good show.

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Speaker 1: That gosh, we're busy. We had a lot. Yeah, really,

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Speaker 1: Wilson was John John Randall, Josh Allen, Josh Allen popped

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Speaker 1: in drop by Good Show. Thanks for tuning in. We

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Speaker 1: are back tomorrow. Our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Colton,

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Speaker 1: That Thomas honold Or, Kelly Rude, JJ Turito, Kevin cart

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Speaker 1: Just James Roebel, and our producer is Jay Harris. So

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Speaker 1: tomorrow we get ready. Do you want to make picks

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Speaker 1: on the game? I don't feel good about making a

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Speaker 1: pick for this game. I just don't have a good

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Speaker 1: feeling about this. You're really you're really afraid of the

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Speaker 1: skull chant, are you? I'm not looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not looking forward to that. I think it's awkward.

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Speaker 1: Get used to it. I hope we don't hear it much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. We'll see tomorrow at twelve noon,

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid of Health from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive and This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.