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Speaker 1: in the straded beer of normalcy here, all right. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to a post Labor Day edition of one. Bills Live

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Speaker 1: You probably if you tuned in around twelve and you're

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Speaker 1: Tuesday edition. Bills are on the practice field as we speak.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I were out there, oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: Team's pretty healthy going into the start of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: Team also has named captains for the twenty twenty one season.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that and several national pundit Steve choosing

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Speaker 1: I know that means a hill of beans to you,

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Speaker 1: But what do you what do you think it means

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Speaker 1: over heres. You know, everything changes week to week. It's

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Speaker 1: out eighteen weeks and say this is what's going to

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Speaker 1: about it anyway, well, and it's easy to get there.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how far it's come from where we were

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Speaker 1: We've come a long way in a year's time where

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Speaker 1: We're riding the Josh pony all the way to the

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Speaker 1: We've already seen number one, how injuries can strike a

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Speaker 1: we've been there. I mean, good grief, Bills fans know

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Speaker 1: what that's like, right, And people are like, well, Witherspoon's

427
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Speaker 1: a good player. He was a draft to it, Yeah

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Speaker 1: he was. But the word out of Seattle was he

429
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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna make the team. So Pittsburgh said, well, let's

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Speaker 1: scoop him up and see if he can help us.

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Speaker 1: At least he's got measurable so let's give him a

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Speaker 1: fifth round pick and just just so we can ensure

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Speaker 1: that we get him. And there's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: this too. I mean, I don't I don't know anythink

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Speaker 1: about the Witherspoon's sitch situation. But you get a guy

436
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: like the Seattle. Way that Seattle plays defense is different

437
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: than the way Pittsburgh plays defense, and Pittsburgh say, you

438
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: know what, I'll bet he'll fit better in our system.

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Speaker 1: Let's pass. That's why they got him, and not a

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Speaker 1: guy in La or a guy in Chicago or a

441
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Speaker 1: guy in Arizona. Pick somebody who plays has whose skill

442
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Speaker 1: set we thought would fit us pre draft, and who

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Speaker 1: got taken by a team that we didn't think he

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Speaker 1: would fit. That's there's a little bit of that in

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Speaker 1: there as well. So that's why it's specifically a guy

446
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Speaker 1: like Witherspoon in Seattle rather than Pittsburgh, and then it

447
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Speaker 1: just go on Pittsburgh. You could have knocked me over

448
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Speaker 1: with a feather with this one. There's a former Patriots

449
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Speaker 1: linebacker who did not make the roster before final cuts

450
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Speaker 1: who basically revealed that mac Jones was helping Cam Newton

451
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Speaker 1: learn the Patriots offensive playbook. Yeah it doesn't really Yeah,

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Speaker 1: where was Cam all last year? Well, he's got an

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Speaker 1: extra year in the system. I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: was running that system. No thanks for play calls, you know,

455
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Speaker 1: he's certainly how about this, he's been in the league

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Speaker 1: ten years. That is an issue. You got your rookie

457
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Speaker 1: first round pick teaching this guy plays Holy mackerel. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, whoa, that's you know at that position, man,

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Speaker 1: it's you gotta have it between the years. You've got

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Speaker 1: to have that play retention. If you don't, you're not

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Speaker 1: going to be able to function, which I will say

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Speaker 1: last year there were times where I'm like, man, this

463
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Speaker 1: offense can't even function with Cam at quarterback. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: might be starting to learn why. You know. The amazing

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Speaker 1: part about it is they hung onto the guy, and

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Speaker 1: I realized this is one guy's account. Could it be corroborated?

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Speaker 1: Probably not nobody. Nobody's that, nobody's gonna throw Just hearing that,

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Speaker 1: it's just like, how do you? How do you if

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Speaker 1: you're the Patriots? Like get around that if if that

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Speaker 1: is indeed the case, And that's why I cast I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, he might have seen him doing

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Speaker 1: some stuff with the guy, say hey, here's what you

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Speaker 1: and maybe like once on a play or whatever, you know,

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Speaker 1: and he says, no, it's like this like this, and

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Speaker 1: Camp was, oh, yeah, yeah whatever. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: it's it's they're sitting down at night and mac Jones

477
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Speaker 1: is tutoring him, like, oh, I don't think it's exactly.

478
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. It's all of that. The reason

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Speaker 1: I doubt it that it's as exaggerated as we're making

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Speaker 1: it is because the Patriots hung onto the guy. They

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Speaker 1: started him all sixteen seventeen games last year. They were

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Speaker 1: late to the party of picking him up, and they

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Speaker 1: and he gave him something that they liked. So I'm

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Speaker 1: not I don't know if i'd by the fact that

485
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Speaker 1: Cam Newton had no idea what was going on the play,

486
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Speaker 1: not no idea, but was so out of it in

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Speaker 1: the playbook and the play calls and all that that

488
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: he had to be tutored by a rookie. Certainly, yep,

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks of all ILKs, when they're in the same room,

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Speaker 1: they have conversations to go back and forth and one

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Speaker 1: guy gets it better than the other guy, whether he's

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Speaker 1: a rookie or a veteran or a free agent or

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Speaker 1: a draft pick or whoever. Those conversations are between friends

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Speaker 1: and you always do that. So I doubt that Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton was out to lunch. Now. I don't think he

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Speaker 1: was out till on the offensive system of the Patriots

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Speaker 1: and needed to be tutored by Mac Jones. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: initially saw it. I was like what, And then you know,

499
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Speaker 1: it could be something as simple as this linebacker who's

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Speaker 1: no longer on the roster, was standing fifteen yards behind

501
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: the play during team listening to the conversation. You know,

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00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyers in a quarterback and Mac Jones is talking

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Speaker 1: to Cam about the nuances of a play and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna say, well, when you do that, you want to

505
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Speaker 1: do this. I try to do this and widen the

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Speaker 1: safety and get them out of there by doing a

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Speaker 1: B and C. And then linebackers like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: Max's teaching Cam. Jeez, you know what I mean. I

509
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Speaker 1: think that's an overblown account. And certainly the kid probably

510
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: heard something, and you know, Cam's not there to defend

511
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Speaker 1: himself and is probably doesn't care, so yeah, he probably doesn't.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think it seems to me Cam

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Speaker 1: and Mac Jones had a pretty good relationship while they

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Speaker 1: were there, And good for Cam for making sure that

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Speaker 1: was a that was the case, because you know it's

516
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Speaker 1: not always we are up against the break here. But

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Speaker 1: we do want to set the table for you in

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Speaker 1: terms of our Twitter conversation today, or you can call

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Speaker 1: us on the phones they do three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: if you have a phone handy and you want to

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00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: give us a jingle. Uh, what part of Sunday are

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Speaker 1: you anticipating the most? It is for you to fill

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Speaker 1: in with your anticipatory item of choice. Maybe it's finally

524
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Speaker 1: being back the stadium after being marooned for over a

525
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: year on your couch at home watching games. You know,

526
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: maybe it's seeing the team that went all the way

527
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: to the AFC title last year in a fun season

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00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: that you didn't get to witness in person. Maybe it's tailgating.

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Speaker 1: Haven't done that for a while, right, Yeah, And maybe

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Speaker 1: it is just flat out the atmosphere of the home opener,

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Speaker 1: which is tough to beat here on a September Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So you let us know what part of Sunday are

533
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Speaker 1: you anticipating the most eighth three fifty five fifty two

534
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Speaker 1: five fifty or hit us up at the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: at one Bills Live. Steve and I back in a

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Speaker 1: second here on one Bills Live presented by Colloid to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, So we promised in

538
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Speaker 1: the first segment we'd have an injury update concerning the Bills,

539
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, looking very healthy going into the opener.

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00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott provided an update on some players that had

541
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Speaker 1: been nicked up through the course of training camp in

542
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Speaker 1: the preseason. He said Star Latoula is trending in the

543
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Speaker 1: right direction, but would not give a status for Sunday

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Speaker 1: just yet. He said he would not practice today. Isaiah McKenzie, coach,

545
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Speaker 1: said would practice today and expects him to be full

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Speaker 1: go for Sunday, so that's certainly good news. And then

547
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Speaker 1: Taren Johnson who had the hand injury, he expected him

548
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Speaker 1: to be okay for Sunday's game as well. He said,

549
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: it's my anticipation that he will play, So good news

550
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: on the injury front there. And obviously the official injury

551
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: report will come out tomorrow and then their final status

552
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: for the game will be coming your way Friday afternoon.

553
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: So we'll try to keep you up to date on

554
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: all of that as we are literally a hundred yards

555
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: from the practice field. We try to keep you up

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00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: to speed on everything as we approach each and every

557
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Speaker 1: game day Sunday or Sunday night, or Monday or Thursday,

558
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: depending on when they are playing. We want to get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet. As we were asking you what

560
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: part of Sunday are you anticipating the most. Tiffany leads

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00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: us off on the tweet sheet, which is brought to

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

563
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills and She says, there is no

564
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: better experience than the home opener. The stadium will be

565
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: on fire, especially coming off a deep playoff run and

566
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: expectations running high for a Super Bowl championship. Sunday can't

567
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: come fast enough for me. Go builds Steve about six

568
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: months ago. I believe you stated that week one home opener,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be here because it's going to be off

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00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: the chain. Yeah. Even I drove in today and you

571
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: can see the neighborhood and you know, we all know

572
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: an orchard park they can have built. There's neighborhoods around,

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00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: you know, and stuff. It's changed over the decades, but

574
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: there's still homes and people parking their private lots there

575
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: over on twenty a and I was driving in and

576
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: you could see the locals starting to gear up again.

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Speaker 1: Ready got there. The yards are roped off the park,

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00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: the signs are coming out. You could just and if

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Speaker 1: arvs'll be here on Thursday. Yeah, I gotta tell you,

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00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: it gives you a little flutter, you know, coming in

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Speaker 1: because you and also one of the things too, And

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Speaker 1: we can talk about this because I was talking to uh,

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00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: the Bill's staffer's been here a long time. Mike adamac

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00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: who was a good friend of yours. In mind, he's

585
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Speaker 1: in charge of the game day presentation in all the

586
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Speaker 1: video stuff that you see on the boards and all that,

587
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: and he's the ramrod of the scheduling down to the minute.

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00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: And I was talking like, I think, you know, isn't

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Speaker 1: it don't they have to introduce the offense right with

590
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: Josh coming out right? So and he goes, well, yeah,

591
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: except the NFL is is running a three. It's twenty

592
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: year anniversary of nine to eleven, as we all know.

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00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: So the league is going to commemorate that with a

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Speaker 1: league wide video that runs in all the stadium So,

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Speaker 1: so you got that, Then you've got the anthem, then

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Speaker 1: you've got the you know, the um player introductions and

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00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: all that. You all, it's all condensed also in the

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Speaker 1: league mandated time when the players have to leave the

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Speaker 1: state this the field after warm ups and the and

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Speaker 1: the point where they come back on. It is all

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Speaker 1: very very scheduled, as tightly scheduled because I don't and

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00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: and Mike didn't know if they were gonna have enough

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Speaker 1: time to like pull off the player interview, not player interviews,

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Speaker 1: player introductions. Yeah, so it's all there's a lot going

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Speaker 1: on now. It's and just for those of you who

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Speaker 1: come to the game, get here early, Get here early.

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00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,479
Speaker 1: Right now, it's eleven and you better. And it like

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00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: for the preseason game with all the stuff that they're doing,

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00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: people were were, you know, shut out of kickoff and

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00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: that was only with what five thousand, So they struggle

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Speaker 1: with getting people in to the stadium on time for kickoff.

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Speaker 1: So be ready for that. And because you gotta get

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Speaker 1: there early, man, you cannot be stuck in line when

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Speaker 1: they're making those introductions. You gotta get in early. Hydrate.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be hot. What is the weather. I haven't

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00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: checked yet. It's gonna be I hurt. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: one sixty two in the stadium, one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: two degrees in the stadium, and it's gonna be bright

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Speaker 1: and sunny. Yeah, day seventy five. Oh my gosh, are

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Speaker 1: you kidding me? Yeah, it's you can't East September. The

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Speaker 1: Elite season, West New York. Man, the Elite season has begun.

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Speaker 1: That's uh, that's great. Steve on the tweet sheet says,

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Speaker 1: I look forward to the new players from the last

624
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Speaker 1: two years being in a full house of Bill's Mafia,

625
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: witnessing total domination. All taps exclamation point. I gotta say season,

626
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: there is an element of that that we've even heard

627
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Speaker 1: the veteran players mentioned to the new players who haven't

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Speaker 1: experienced it yet. There was some of it in the

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Speaker 1: preseason game against Green Bay where some of the new

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Speaker 1: players on the roster from last year that didn't see

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Speaker 1: home fans and this year Emmanuel Sanders said, oh, yeah,

632
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Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. I got a taste of it,

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00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: and Dion Doggs is like, no you didn't, No, no,

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Speaker 1: you didn't. He's like, wait till week one. Then it'll

635
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:41,919
Speaker 1: be turned his words, not mine. Yeah it's yeah, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be unbelievable, the difference that it makes tangible

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Speaker 1: or not. For those fans who this is part of

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00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 1: their heritage, you know, you grow up here in Buffalo,

639
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: you can, and even for those who come back to

640
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: the you know as a ritual be in there, finally

641
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: being able to be there, it's going to be really special,

642
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: no question. I you know, I h w people tearing up.

643
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty it's gonna be pretty wild. I'm

644
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: gonna say this. We know that Steelers fans travel well

645
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: on the whole, no matter where a game is in

646
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: the country. They travel especially well here because of the

647
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: close proximity. Three three and a half hour drive in

648
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: the car, and counting on where you are in West,

649
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: they could be home the same night. I am going

650
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: to put forth a theory, Steve, and you tell me

651
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: if you agree with me. Knowing that ninety eight percent

652
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: of Bills fans I'm excluding the two percent that got

653
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: to attend the two playoff games here last year, ninety

654
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: eight percent of Bills fans have not been in this

655
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: building for well over a calendar year. Okay, yeah, how

656
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: much less likely do you believe it is that those

657
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,959
Speaker 1: fans who have been away for over a year part

658
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: with their tickets for this game and give them to

659
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: a Steelers fan. I think this. I think it is

660
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: far less likely. But here's the problem. Though. The footprint

661
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 1: of the Bills is big, and it extends over the border. Well, yeah,

662
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: Canadian Southern Ontario fans may not be able to get

663
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: in to go to the game. Oh, that's a good point.

664
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Speaker 1: So that is a good point. There may be blocks

665
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: of tickets available that those fans up there and and

666
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: for the price they're going for they could they could

667
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: buy the whole season ticket for what Steeler fan might

668
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: pay for those tickets to get in. So I think

669
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: it might come down to the fact that this might

670
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: be one of the easier tickets for steater. You just

671
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: ruined my theory. But damn, there's also a lot of

672
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: Bills fans that if they're going to go to a game,

673
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: they're looking for those tickets too, right, anything you don't

674
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: know what you don't know what that that that buyers fandom?

675
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: Is that right over an online sale? Unfortunately? I mean

676
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 1: you can guess if they're if you know the Pittsburgh

677
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: the Seedler fans are great, They're they're they're great, They're

678
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 1: wonderful people. They're gonna they travel extremely well. They always

679
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: have tip your hat to them, um, but they're you know,

680
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna be there. They there will be Steeler fans

681
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: in the building, no question about it. But I'll say this,

682
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: it's it's not gonna be an away game, but it's

683
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: gonna be a home right. And the funny thing is,

684
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: like you think about this, Stefan Diggs, who had the

685
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 1: best year of his career, did it in front of nobody,

686
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like he still is not. Yeah,

687
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: felt the energy that exists here on a game day

688
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: Sunday at one pm, I think he's gonna lose his mind.

689
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: It's just I know, it gets loud up in Minnesota

690
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: and it's an enclosed building and it gets super loud.

691
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I just think it's different here.

692
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: It's more college like here. I just the enthusiasm, the energy.

693
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: I just think it's more like a college atmas. You know,

694
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: you think there's always things that happened too that you

695
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: can count on as a Bills fan. The shout song

696
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: of course, the pre kick that the train, the train horn,

697
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: all that stuff that you missed, and they used to

698
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: actually played it in the empty stadium for home game

699
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: and they did play the train horn. Yeah, right, So

700
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: and I was doing I was doing the game, so

701
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: I was kind of there. We were there watching, But

702
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, what are you gonna do? It's gonna be

703
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to be back there, plus just

704
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: getting in going through the tailgate and doing all of

705
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: that and seeing all the Bills fans and hob nobbing

706
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: with the people that you you know, it's been eighteen

707
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: twenty four months since you've seen. Yeah, I mean there

708
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: are there are not only people with season tickets that

709
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: are used to sitting with certain people that they've been

710
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: sitting next to for fifteen years. There are people that

711
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: have tailgate neighbors. They make a point of meeting in

712
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: a certain area of one of the parking lots. I

713
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: got one. Yeah, I have a tailgate that I frequent.

714
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: It's what's my golfing buddy. He's it's a good friend.

715
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: So he pulls off a great tailgate. It's countless how

716
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: many things that seventy two thousand people that are going

717
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: to be in that building, um remember and want to

718
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 1: get back to. I mean, it's just sitting in that

719
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: building on opening day this year is going to be special.

720
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: And it's five days away and we're sitting here talking

721
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: about the fans, and we've got our tweet sheet up here,

722
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: and it's seeing people back in the in the building

723
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: is just gonna be awesome. Absolutely one of the I

724
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be one of And I've said this

725
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: over the last and I'll say this, since Kim and

726
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: Terry took over, there have been about three or four

727
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: moments that were historic, that were just like way better

728
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: than the stuff that I even got to go through

729
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: as a player. Some of it that breaking the drought right,

730
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: the way that transpired was absolutely phenomenal. It was one

731
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: of the great all time moments that Terren Johnson picked

732
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: six last year was historic, absolutely historic. Josh you know,

733
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: Josh jumping the guy in Minnesota to like begin his career, right.

734
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: All of that stuff you look back on and it's

735
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: just little things like that, but they're moments that are

736
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: just as important to the people of this age as

737
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, the comeback game as the fifty one to

738
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: three game, as the first Super Bowl, as wide right

739
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: as the Don Beebe play on the Leon. Let you know,

740
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: I go down. You know, I got a ton of those,

741
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, the Bruce Smick, Bruce Smith four sacks against

742
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: this chat some Monday night football, you know, stuff like that.

743
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: It has happened over these lasts and certainly during the

744
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott era, where you've got all this stuff, and

745
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: this is a whole new generation of people that are

746
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: experiencing it. And this Sunday and it's the only time

747
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: I can you can ever say, you pre call it,

748
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: this Sunday is gonna be one of those moments. Yeah,

749
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: because of the layoff, because of the absence of fans

750
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: for over COVID, the layoff, Josh, the team, Steph, Sean McDermott,

751
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, the whole thing, The whole thing is gonna

752
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: be an explosion of you know whatever you want to

753
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: call it fandom, and it's it's the only time you

754
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: can really kind of say, I know what's going to happen. Yeah,

755
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: you get the whole enchilada on Sunday. Yeah, because we

756
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: didn't know the drought was going to be broken. That's

757
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: why it was so cool. I didn't know any of

758
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: that other stuff. You know, I didn't know Josh was

759
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: gonna hurdle the guy. I didn't know Tarn Johnson was

760
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: going to pick that ball off, you know, all that stuff.

761
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: This one, now, this one. You can write this on

762
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: the white board in the control. Okay, Week one, twenty

763
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: twenty one pretty special. Yeah, that's a given. We have

764
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: to take a break here. When we come back, more

765
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,399
Speaker 1: of your comments on the tweet sheet. We also want

766
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: to remind you when practice wraps up during the second

767
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: hour of the show here, we are going to get

768
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: some players. Sound We're hopeful that we'll hear from Josh

769
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: Allen along with a couple other players off the practice field,

770
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: hoping to have that for you in the second hour

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00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,000
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784
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Speaker 1: I'm probably do Steve. The last time I did it

785
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: was like May And I gotta tell you, if you're

786
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: worried about the whole COVID thing, they've got that thing

787
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: but that operation buttoned up. I went in and May

788
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: had my mask. Everybody in there had all their masks

789
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: on in out done, you know what I mean. Like

790
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: you gotta remember these medical professionals, they've been wearing masks

791
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: their whole career. This is like another day at the office,

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Speaker 1: What is it again? Let me get it right. I

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799
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Speaker 1: I also wanted to mention this great story in the

800
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: La Times Today by Sam Farmer, who chronicled the twenty

801
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: twenty season at the league level and how they navigated

802
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: this COVID pandemic to get all two hundred and fifty

803
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: six regular season games, every single playoff game, and the

804
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: Super Bowl done amidst a global pandemic and probably did

805
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: it better than any other league out there. Granted they

806
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: had more of a runup than the NBA, which had

807
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: happened in middle of the season, better run up than

808
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, etc. But the way they navigated that

809
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,280
Speaker 1: whole thing, it was a really good piece put together

810
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: where they kind of got the opinions of a bunch

811
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: of people all the way from the decision to do

812
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: a virtual draft to the run up to the season

813
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: and what happened there. Just really well done by an

814
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: award winning columnist. You know, Sam Farmer has been around

815
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: forever as an NFL columnist out there in LA really

816
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: did a bang up job. The most fascinating part, Steve

817
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: was Goodell, who he interviewed for the story, basically revealed

818
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: their drop dead you know, Defcon five contingency plan was

819
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: a ten week season with playoffs and the Super Bowl

820
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: moved back about three to four weeks into March, and

821
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 1: he no, he didn't so Farmer, Antham, what nobody heard

822
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: about this? Why didn't you tell anybody? Goes, If I

823
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: told the owners, that would be all they're thinking about,

824
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: and they would probably more strongly consider it as an option.

825
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: If the stuff hit the fan, Yeah, it wouldn't have

826
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 1: been a Deacon five move. It would have been another

827
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: option instead of like the total fallback. He was smart

828
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: not to do it. Those guys, you know, those you know,

829
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: the owners, they don't have anything to worry about. They'll

830
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: talk about it, and then it becomes a thing. Then

831
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: you got to deal with it. It becomes more real

832
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: almost right, then you gotta Yeah, it's like it's like

833
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: locker room talking. You gotta do when somebody says in

834
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: the media, now you everybody's got to deal with them.

835
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: That's what would have happened to that. And that's getting

836
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: we said it. We've talked about it at length after

837
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 1: the season. Finally got over. Getting two hundred and fifty

838
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: six games in regular season and the playoffs and the

839
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,479
Speaker 1: Super It's a modern miracle. It is unbelievable they pulled

840
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: that off. It is absolutely unbelieved, first of all, to

841
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: be for all those guys to be willing to take

842
00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: a bath to get it done, to take smaller bath

843
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: than not playing at all, because that would have been

844
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: the quintessential. Right, we're in the red, right they finished

845
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: in the black last year, unbelievably, and think about the

846
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: operating costs, how they skyrocketed, paid one hundred and fifty

847
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: million for testing, no ticket revenue coming for tickets. Yeah, unbelievable,

848
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 1: and they got them all in that It that same Farmer.

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Speaker 1: That's a it was a good write up. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: read the whole thing this morning. It's fantastic. And the

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Speaker 1: other thing that I kind of chuckled at this one,

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00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: not really, but kind of the Broncos. If you remember

853
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: from last season, they had to start a practice squad

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00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: receiver at quarterback for one of their games last year,

855
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: and I remember you and I were talking about it

856
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: on the show. Oh man, you really feel bad for

857
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 1: those guys. Tough break for them, this, that and the other.

858
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Speaker 1: Well the reason why, so they lose all four of

859
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Speaker 1: their quarterbacks in the quarterback room because of close contacts

860
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: and one guy tested positive and all of that. So

861
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: their whole quarterback room is one piped out and John Elway,

862
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: according to Sam Farmer's story, was on the phone to

863
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: Goodell saying, you got to cancel the game. You gotta

864
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: move the game. You gotta help us out here. Well,

865
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: the league, which as we know, was getting sent footage

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Speaker 1: monitoring surveillance video from all thirty two teams, they took

867
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Speaker 1: a look at the quarterback room through the course of

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Speaker 1: the week. Steve, what did they see and what did

869
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: they find? They found all four quarterbacks on the Broncos

870
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: roster take their domino size contact tracers that they had

871
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: to wear to work every day keep on their person

872
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: because that is what determines close contacts. They took them

873
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: out of their pockets and they put them in all

874
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 1: four corners of the quarterback room. Then proceeded to sit

875
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: right next to each other and watch and study tape

876
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: for the game that week. And so Elway calls Goodell

877
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: and he's saying, hey, give us a break, man, you

878
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: gotta move this game. We gotta have a quarterback to play.

879
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 1: This isn't fair, And Goodell said, yeah, sorry your surveillance video.

880
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: You have four quarterbacks that didn't obey the social distancing protocols,

881
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: and not only that, they absconded with their contact traces

882
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: and chose not to wear them for the better part

883
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Speaker 1: of three hours. You're playing on Sunday. See good luck.

884
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: See you on Sunday. Good luck with your practice squad

885
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: wide receiver at quarterback that say what you want And

886
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell goes, I gets booed at the draft. That

887
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: guy's money. That is a money move right there. Yeah.

888
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: The other thing that I thought Hall of Famer and

889
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: the president of a club, John Elway Pound salt, you're playing. Yeah.

890
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: And the other thing too, was the whole the whole

891
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: decision tis I know, the whole. That's why I said

892
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: I chuckled a little bit, Tis because it's not us

893
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: well right, yeah, that's right. The other thing that I

894
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: found interesting. They talked about the decision, and Goodell really

895
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: pushed this. He wanted to go to an all virtual draft.

896
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: He just didn't like the idea of a conventional draft,

897
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Speaker 1: not only for the college prospects. You know, even though

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Speaker 1: it was kind of dampening. What is a special night

899
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: for them to be in person for the draft, hear

900
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Speaker 1: your name walk across the stage, that whole thing, you know,

901
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: they didn't get to do that. They did an all

902
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Speaker 1: virtual draft. It was they were getting greater pushback from

903
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: NFL front offices who were used to doing a draft

904
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Speaker 1: a certain way for a long period of time. I mean,

905
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Speaker 1: we can't forget Brandon Bean was by himself in his

906
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Speaker 1: basement with our it guy, Dan Evans. That was it. Yeah,

907
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: nobody else And some teams pushed back said, how are

908
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: you you expect us to run a draft like this?

909
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: And the GM of the Chargers, Tom Talasco, was quoted

910
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Speaker 1: in the story from Sam Farmer, he said, yeah, I

911
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: pushed back. I thought he was nuts. How are we

912
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: supposed to do this? He goes. After we pulled it off,

913
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Speaker 1: I wrote, I wrote commission a Goodell a letter. I

914
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Speaker 1: said I was wrong, you were right, and I'm glad

915
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: we followed your leadership. And I know Roger Goodell's a

916
00:50:55,880 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: western New York guy, and but he never gains some

917
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: pretty boiling waters sometimes and he to me he's done

918
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: an outstanding John hess Caldron dozens of times a year.

919
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: So I'm I know he gets booed and people don't

920
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: like it when he disciplines players in the league's slow

921
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: to act sometimes I get all that, but I'm I

922
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: got nothing but love and respect for the guy. I

923
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,959
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's money and some keeping thirty

924
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: two billionaires happy in some of these stories that you're

925
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: hearing about. Let you know why. Yeah, great time for

926
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Speaker 1: us here. We hope to have some comments from Josh Allen,

927
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, Jordan Poyer here in the second hour of

928
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Speaker 1: the program. We hope to bring it to you at

929
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Speaker 1: some point, but otherwise we'll be hitting up your thoughts

930
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, as we've been asking you what

931
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 1: part of Sunday are you anticipating the most? I don't

932
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: even have to say, Bill Steelers, I just have to say,

933
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: what part of Sunday are you anticipating the most? So

934
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: chiming with that on the tweet sheet or give us

935
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Speaker 1: a call at eight oh three, five fifty back with

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Speaker 1: our number two Here of one Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the field. Kind of unique.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you.

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Speaker 1: St Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated

941
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Speaker 1: sphere of normalcy. Ah, we're number two. And look at

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Speaker 1: that beautiful sun splash field. Our MSG viewers are looking

943
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: at the grass practice field where the Bills were a

944
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: short time ago. Practice is over already, so we're hoping

945
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: and anticipating that we will be hearing from Josh Allen's

946
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: to find Diggs Jordan Poyer, who are scheduled to address

947
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Speaker 1: the media after practice today. So we'll cross our fingers

948
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: that we can bring some of those comments to you

949
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 1: before the show is over. At three, And speaking of anticipating.

950
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Speaker 1: That is our Twitter conversation today. What part of Sunday

951
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: are you anticipating the most? And we've heard from a

952
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: lot of the people obviously who will be or anticipate

953
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: being at the game on Sunday, and that is going

954
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 1: to be one hell of an atmosphere. Other one other

955
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Speaker 1: note that we failed to mention today, the Bills did

956
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: name they're eight captains for the twenty one season. Eight

957
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Speaker 1: captains is the highest number of captains ever in the

958
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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott era. They had seven last year. The previous

959
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: three seasons they had six. They have eight captains this year. Steve,

960
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: can you ever remember having that many captains on your team? No? Right, No,

961
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: that's a lot. I'll say this though, and not just

962
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,919
Speaker 1: because it's me. Three of the captains are special team

963
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: core guys. That's right. Three of them are Reid Ferguson,

964
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: Tyler Matakavich and Taiwan Jones are the captains for the

965
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Speaker 1: special teams units. And then and really, when you think

966
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: about it, Steve, you said free captains for social team.

967
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: You got more players on special teams than you do

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00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: anywhere else on your football team. Because you're pulling from everywhere. Yeah,

969
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: I know, I'm not telling you anything you don't know.

970
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: On the defense, it's Micah Hyde, Jordan Poyer, and Tremaine Edmonds.

971
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Speaker 1: For Edmonds, this is his third consecutive year as a captain.

972
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Speaker 1: For Poyer, it's his second straight year. Micah Hyde serving

973
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: as captain for the first time in his career, so

974
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Speaker 1: nice for him. And then on offense, it's Josh Allen

975
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Speaker 1: and Stefan Diggs Alan much like Edmonds. Third time as

976
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: a team captain, first time for Stefan Diggs, obviously with

977
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Speaker 1: this being only his second year in Buffalo, and our

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Speaker 1: MSG viewers are looking at the photo, what do you

979
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: think of the expression on Stefan Digg's face here, Steve,

980
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: are you getting a good look at that? Yeah, he's

981
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: a it's a knowing smirk. It's a cheshire Cat smirk,

982
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: isn't it is? Yes, it is like he's up to

983
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: something very much, so, like he knows something that we don't. Yeah,

984
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: like I got three new one on one moves you've

985
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 1: never seen before, something something along those lines. So those

986
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: are your eight captains for the twenty twenty one season.

987
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: Micah Hi, Jordan Poyer, Tremaine Edmund, Stefon Diggs, Josh Allen, Reid, Ferguson,

988
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Speaker 1: Tyler Medakavic and Taiwan Jones. Want to get back though

989
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: to the Twitter conversation, which you can also chime in

990
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: on the phone lines eight oh three, five fifty one

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00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two, five fifty What part

992
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: of Sunday are you anticipating the most? And we go

993
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet and Veto says being together

994
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: with other Bills fans and sharing the experience. When you

995
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: think about this, Steve, outside of your own family. Last season,

996
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: much of the much of the enjoyment of the Bills

997
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: had to be shared via social media or you know,

998
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: on a phone call with your fellow fans that are

999
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: friends of yours. You didn't see anybody else. Yeah, I've

1000
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Speaker 1: said this too. One of the things that during this

1001
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Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia surgeons in the Sean McDermott Brandon Bean area

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Speaker 1: and under the Pagoulas and how it's kind of become

1003
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Speaker 1: a mushroom cloud. One of the things I've noticed that's

1004
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Speaker 1: really kind of cool, and I I kind of trumpet

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Speaker 1: this to people I talk to who aren't part of

1006
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Speaker 1: the Bill's fan base. Is that there seems to be

1007
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 1: and this isn't universal, but it's something I notice more

1008
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Speaker 1: with this fan base, and I don't think it's just

1009
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: because I spend more time with it, is that there

1010
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: seems to be something in the Bills fan base that

1011
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: there is a sense of affection for each other, not

1012
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: just for the team. Certainly, the team and the logo

1013
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: unites everybody and they're all for one team, but there

1014
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: seems to be this community spirit that is separate from

1015
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: the team that lends itself to being kind of special.

1016
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Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the things that really

1017
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Speaker 1: grabbed me and grabbed my notice about this this Bill's

1018
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: fan base in its current state, is the fact that

1019
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: you know, people like you know, veto say, you know,

1020
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: I want to be I want to share it, I

1021
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: want to be there with believers, you know, I want

1022
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: to be there with together with them, you know. And

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Speaker 1: that's it's it's a community. It's a community thing. It's

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00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: not just going to the game and cheering your team on.

1025
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: It's about being together and cheering our team on. Yeah,

1026
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Speaker 1: I think that is kind of neat. I've noticed it,

1027
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Speaker 1: and it resonates with yeah for a while. With the fans.

1028
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Speaker 1: You can tell just by the comments we're getting here

1029
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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, we are getting word that Josh

1030
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Speaker 1: Allen has made his way to the microphone to address

1031
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo media here after practice today. So let's go

1032
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Speaker 1: to Josh Allen. Now, Josh, a couple of years ago,

1033
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: you played this team's division team. How much can you

1034
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: draw on that familiarity with the defense? I mean, we

1035
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: know that it's gonna be a it's gonna be a

1036
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: tight game the last couple of years. Obviously they've been

1037
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a boxing matches, taking a couple

1038
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: of hits here, they're giving them out. Um, they're extremely

1039
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Speaker 1: well coached. They're a very talented group on defense. Um.

1040
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Speaker 1: You know, they got a hall Offing quarterback over there.

1041
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: So we gotta be, you know, on top of our

1042
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Speaker 1: game and go out there and try to execute to

1043
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Speaker 1: the best of our abilities. Um, but we know that

1044
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Speaker 1: they're gonna bring it, you know, game one. Um, you know,

1045
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: they they were extremely good last year. They're gonna be

1046
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: extremely good this year. So we know that, and again

1047
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta go out their next cute that

1048
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: last year, would you would you admit, um that you

1049
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: know at times, you guys did struggle to run the ball,

1050
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Speaker 1: you know, in situations where you really had your won

1051
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: the ball. Do you think that that's gonna be better

1052
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: this year? Do you What have you seen so far

1053
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: to make you think it could be better this year? Yeah,

1054
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean we're we're a group that's gonna do it

1055
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to try to win a football game.

1056
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Speaker 1: I don't see that, you know, being a problem. And um,

1057
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: you know it's hard to know. It's hard to run

1058
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: the ball when a team knows you're to run the ball.

1059
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 1: So obviously we can improve in a lot of different

1060
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: areas in the passing game as well. Um. But again,

1061
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: whatever's asked upon our guys, they're gonna go out there

1062
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: and do it. And we're gonna try to go at

1063
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: execute and um again that's my job as a quarterback

1064
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: to not really put us in the right position every play,

1065
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: but get us out of the bad situation. So, um,

1066
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: you know, well we'll see you on Sunday. We're excited again.

1067
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:21,919
Speaker 1: It's gonna be h it's gonna be a slug fest,

1068
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:23,919
Speaker 1: and we know that we're going into a game again.

1069
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: The last few games at half time, I think it's

1070
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: like six seven, tenth seven something like that in the

1071
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: last t two games, so that we played against them,

1072
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: and um, we don't expect it to be anything else.

1073
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: To listen the past at your expectations for yourself are

1074
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: higher than anybody else's. But as a team, you have

1075
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: as high expectations as anybody else. So how do you

1076
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: manage that, especially as the guy who leads this team? Well,

1077
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: I mean it all starts week one, you know, it's

1078
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: one week at a time approach, and coach talks about

1079
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: our our standard, which is playoff caliber, and um, you know,

1080
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: in order to win the whole thing, you got to

1081
00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: you gotta get into the playoffs. And in order to

1082
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: get into a playoffs you had to win probably ten

1083
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: eleven games and um, you know the most important ones

1084
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: the next one. Um, and again it's it's a team

1085
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: that's that's that's Dan good and uh we know that.

1086
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: Um so again it's it's all focused on Pittsburgh Steelers.

1087
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I couldn't tell you who he

1088
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: played next. It's been um, you know all of them

1089
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: for the last few weeks. Now much how very difficult

1090
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: is it to to prepare for Meca Fitzpatrick whatever been

1091
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: making he can do in the defensive back. Yeah, I

1092
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: mean he's a ballhawk, Um, one of the best safeties

1093
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: in the league. You know, he just switches up his style.

1094
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: You know, every couple of plays. You don't know if

1095
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: he's dropping into the box or if he's trying to

1096
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 1: play over the top on something. But he just he's

1097
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: always around the ball. Um, whether it's a fumble that's

1098
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: forced by one of the other guys, it just seems

1099
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: like it's popping up right into his chest and uh,

1100
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, and when the ball's in the air, you know,

1101
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: he's got his good ball skills as anybody in the league.

1102
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 1: So uh, making sure that we're focused on where he's at,

1103
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: you know, his depth from the line of scrimmage. Um.

1104
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: But he's one of those guys that can that can

1105
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: wreck a game plan. So uh, we gotta figure it

1106
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: out and figured it out early, um, you know, come

1107
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 1: game time. But UM, you know, it's always fun playing

1108
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: against guys with that with that type of caliber. And

1109
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm putting yourself against that test about uh bad news.

1110
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: It just wasn't It looks like what might be uh

1111
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: might be able to play this weekend Uh, with this

1112
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: contract situation, according to what I believe Tad on that

1113
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: to say today's I had no idea. Yea, yeah, yeah,

1114
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: he's he's he's an unbelievable player. Um, they got they

1115
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: got a ton of guys on that on that defense

1116
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: man that are just so good. So um, you know

1117
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 1: we expected it to be that. But uh, you know

1118
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: we we know that that matchup is not going to

1119
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: be easy for us, and we gotta figure out ways

1120
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: to to try to limit his uh you know, his

1121
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 1: impact on the game the preseason, at the playoffs last year,

1122
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: but just the atmosphere or something, it's gonna be awesome.

1123
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: You know, I gotta probably drive in a little early

1124
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: and try to beat the traffic. But to have builds

1125
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: the moffet here with this this year, you know, I

1126
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 1: know they're excited, but you know, as players were equally

1127
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: ascited as excited to get them back in the stands,

1128
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: and you know they'll they'll have an impact on the game,

1129
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: whether they think think so, we're not. Um, you know

1130
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: those third downs, if you can force one false start

1131
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: or one delay of game or one you know, one penalty, Um,

1132
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: you know that can change the course of the game.

1133
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: And especially with the game that we expect to go

1134
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: into with these guys, which is, like I said, the

1135
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: last few times we've played them, it's been a close,

1136
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 1: tough battle. And um, do you do you find yourself

1137
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 1: looking at it? And if you do, how do you

1138
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: how do you rein it in a little bit? Yeah,

1139
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: I don't don't. I couldn't tell you who's said anything

1140
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: about us. Um, I'm focused on, like I said week

1141
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: one against the Steelers and trying to be the best

1142
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 1: quarterback and the best teammate that I can be for

1143
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: this team. Um. But again, you know we've got lofty goals. Um,

1144
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,760
Speaker 1: it don't matter what anybody else says about us or

1145
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: what we're what we're going to accomplish, Like it's it's

1146
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: ultimately up to us and what we do on the field,

1147
01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: and we're excited to get get out there on Sunday.

1148
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: The more difficult to shut that stuff out, say again,

1149
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: we're difficult to show that stuff out when it's so positive.

1150
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: When I'm sure everybody you always saying, hey, look at

1151
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: what this person said about how great you are, how

1152
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: far this team is going to go. Is it harder

1153
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: to shut that out when it's so positive. Wrong, not really. Um. Again,

1154
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: we got guys that are the professionals that care about

1155
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 1: their craft, that come into work every day and they

1156
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: just put their heart hats on and go to work.

1157
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: And UM, it's a it's a cool environment that we

1158
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: got here and the locker room that we got is

1159
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: really unbelievable. I think it's one of the tightest NIT

1160
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: groups in the league, if not the tightest knit group

1161
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: in the entire league. Um. But it's just fun to

1162
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: get out here and win work with the guys, and

1163
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: we got the best jobs in the world, so we

1164
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 1: come out here, we have fun. Um. At the end

1165
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 1: of the day, we want to win. We want to

1166
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: win games, and um, you know, we're like I said,

1167
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,439
Speaker 1: we're excited to get out there on Sunday and show

1168
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 1: up on an underdogter mentality. It's fair to say, though,

1169
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: that you can't really draw on that because you're no

1170
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: longer underdogs, You're you're you're you're now respected, you're no

1171
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: longer disrespucting. How do you alter that is? Is there

1172
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: an altar the altering of a mindset? Are approached there?

1173
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: Now that you are known as happening, it's hard to

1174
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: get fun that. Yeah, I mean we didn't. We didn't

1175
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: win the whole thing last year, so we know that

1176
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: there's more work to do. And you know, to hear stories, um,

1177
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: you know from guys like Dave's and even like a

1178
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: guy like Emmanuel, guys that have won it. Um, the

1179
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,919
Speaker 1: feeling that they get and it's something that I dream

1180
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: about having that type of feeling. So, um, that's what

1181
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 1: drives us every day. You or seven. I think when

1182
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 1: Ben was drafted guy that you were kind of compared

1183
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: to a little bit when you were coming out, vigor body,

1184
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,439
Speaker 1: tough to bring down. What do you remember about growing

1185
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: up and watching him? Well, I mean you just see

1186
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: the physical ability that he has, whether it's driving the

1187
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: ball downfield or being able to throw three techs off

1188
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: of them. Um. But actually one of my coaches was

1189
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: a teammate of his in college at Miami of Ohio,

1190
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 1: and um, you know the similarities small school, big frame

1191
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: guys that can throw it a little bit. And uh,

1192
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: you know, I've gotten the chance to meet him a

1193
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: couple of times and he's awesome. You know it just

1194
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: the way that he carries himself. Um, you know, he's

1195
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: he's a my opinion, first at Hall of Famer. Um.

1196
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: You know, I know he's got a lot of respect

1197
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 1: from a lot of guys around the league, but uh,

1198
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, watching his game back in the day, he

1199
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: was just like the play was never over. It's never

1200
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: over with him, and he's he's able to find ways

1201
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 1: and escape and kind of get the ball out in

1202
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: some some um just funky ways, and they just he's

1203
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: never never had a play just given up on him,

1204
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:23,240
Speaker 1: and he's never given him on a play. So, uh,

1205
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: he was super fun to watch. He's still is super

1206
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 1: fun to watch, and you know, it's always a blessing

1207
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: going and gets like I said, a guy, uh, these

1208
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 1: types of calibers of player um and especially with the

1209
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: Steelers got tea no, never, never, He hasn't impacted one

1210
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: play all camp. From a quarterback is about trem and

1211
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 1: that makes him so difficult to throw against. When he's

1212
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 1: dropping back, he's just you see his length, he's he's unbelievable.

1213
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: Like you see him stand there and he's like, okay,

1214
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: that that dude's big. But then he moves around. His

1215
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 1: limbs are so much longer than you think, and he's

1216
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: able to jump and move and he's super fast. And

1217
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: you know, he's all over the field, and you know

1218
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 1: it's going into year four. You know, we were drafted

1219
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 1: a few spots away from each other, and to have

1220
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: a guy you know like him, you know, it's fun

1221
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 1: to play against him, you know, And but I can

1222
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: see why it wouldn't be fun to play against him

1223
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 1: as well for the other teams, because he's just he's

1224
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 1: getting smarter and like like, coach has done an unbelievable

1225
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 1: job of bringing guys this offseason. He's been learning from

1226
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: him and been asking the right questions, and it's gonna

1227
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: be fun to watch him continue to take steps and

1228
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: grow even more as a player this year. His attributes.

1229
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: Has it ever dissuaded you from making throw? Oh? Absolutely, absolutely,

1230
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: especially down the red zone. I mean, he covers so

1231
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: much ground, Um, And I can't again understate or overstate.

1232
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what I should use there, But how

1233
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: fast he is, He's he's fast. The third year in

1234
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: a round, you're a team captain. How have you changed

1235
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: your leadership style since maybe that first year you captain? Um?

1236
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 1: I mean just being I guess more vocal, having more

1237
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: knowledge and just learning from the guys in front of me. Um,

1238
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: you know in the past, and coach Table and Coach Dorsey,

1239
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: just understanding you know, people and relationships too, just being

1240
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: able to dive in and be one of the guys

1241
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: to continue to be that. And again, I have so

1242
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 1: much fun when I'm here. I think it, you know,

1243
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: I hope it rubs off on guys, um, you know,

1244
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,920
Speaker 1: and they enjoy this game as much as I do, because,

1245
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:27,959
Speaker 1: like I said, it's it's the best job in the world.

1246
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: But um, I feel like I've stayed pretty true to

1247
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: who I am so far in the first few years,

1248
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: and I try to try to keep it light, but

1249
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: I also like to put my head down and work.

1250
01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: How much can you talk to Matt Barkley this summer?

1251
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: And how many times this week will you guys play

1252
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 1: that little video clip of him against Pittsburgh the Renegade. Yeah,

1253
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 1: I know that was that was a cool moment. But

1254
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:49,919
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I talked to him. It's probably a couple

1255
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I know he's back in California

1256
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: this last weekend. But um, I love that guy. I

1257
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: missed him, but I know he's a he's a Tennessee

1258
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: now and I'm sure we'll see him later down the

1259
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: road too, knowing the expectations that you have for yourself

1260
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: and this teas in general. Do you feel any pressure?

1261
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. You know, it's the goal hasn't changed,

1262
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, from the first day I stepped here, And UM,

1263
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 1: it's not going to change, you know, until I'm gone. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we want to win, win the whole thing.

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01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: And again we understand what it takes to get there,

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01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 1: and um, you know, the front office has done a

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01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:24,560
Speaker 1: great job of bringing the right guys to try to

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Speaker 1: accomplish that goal. Ultimately, it's it's up to us to

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01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: go and do it. And um, and we're sorry, We're

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01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:33,680
Speaker 1: excited to get this journey started. Cash. I'm sure for

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01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: any offense there's a talent, so you want to build

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01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 1: off what worked well, but also you want to throw

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01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: in two things for the opposing defense. Does that feel

1274
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: any different this year when a lot worked well last year?

1275
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 1: But teams might be watching more and more of that. Yeah, Um,

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01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 1: I mean it's just Coach Dabel does such a good

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01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:54,639
Speaker 1: job of incorporating different types of concepts and ideas. Um,

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01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, and if it's something that we don't like,

1279
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 1: and I tell him, we don't like it, it's thrown

1280
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: out and we don't have to use it, you know.

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01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: So he's very game playing oriented and every week it's

1282
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,400
Speaker 1: a new challenge and it's a different opponent and it

1283
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:07,560
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who we're playing. You know, we got to

1284
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,200
Speaker 1: find ways to move the ball and score points and

1285
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: that's the ultimately the job of the offense that scored

1286
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 1: as many points as possible. So, um, you know, he

1287
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: does a really great job with that. And uh, he's

1288
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 1: super open and um down to listen to some to

1289
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: what some of the players have to say about different

1290
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 1: concepts and routes and ideas and stuff like that. And

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01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: I think that's why guys love him so much, is

1292
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: that he just he wants to find new ways to

1293
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:31,639
Speaker 1: get the ball to teaching every guy on the field.

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01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: I don't like it. No, it's extremely comfortable now. Yeah,

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01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, actually I'm kind of a people pleaser, and

1296
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 1: early in my my career, i'd be like, or whatever,

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01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 1: coach running and we'll make it right, even though I

1298
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: didn't feel comfortable with the play. But now if it's

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01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: like I don't love it, we're not running it. Describing

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01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 1: Ben's game, I'm sure it's not lost on a lot

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01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 1: of people that it's similar to yours and in some

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01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: ways that the players number all over, you make them funk.

1303
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: He throws that work. I mean, how much of how

1304
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: much did you draw from him in having those similar

1305
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: attributes that he that you just described him? Now, Yeah,

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01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's more than I even realized

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01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: as a kid just watching. Like I said, I watched

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01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: a lot of football when I was a kid, and

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01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 1: you know, he was one of the biggest names out

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01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: there and still is. But um, the way that he

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01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 1: plays the game. I mean again, like I see the

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01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: comparisons of um, you know where we're at physically, But

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01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: again that's that's a Hall of Fame quarterback and I

1314
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: got I got some time to go before we get

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01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:35,280
Speaker 1: into that conversation of comparing me to you know, one

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01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 1: of the greatest of all times. So I guess all right,

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01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 1: that's Josh Allen addressing the media after practice today. You

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01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 1: can tell he's amped up and ready to go for

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01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: Sunday already. Um, I think we got Bills fans ready

1320
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: to jump out of their skin here on Tuesday. He

1321
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: seems a little more composed than that as he should be.

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01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: I think the thing that I kind of took away from.

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01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you can tell he's like a veteran player now,

1324
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,600
Speaker 1: you know, he knows what the to do list is

1325
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: for this week and every week that comes after that,

1326
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: and you know correctly. I mean sometimes you forget he's

1327
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 1: only twenty five years old, but he's been around this

1328
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: league long enough to know what the process has to

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01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 1: be each and every week if you're going to perform

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01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: at your best come Sunday. And I like the answer

1331
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 1: that he gave for the question, Hey, what about all

1332
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: this hype people have you in the Super Bowl? How

1333
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: do you ignore that? How do you move? And you know,

1334
01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:33,800
Speaker 1: he basically just said, well, it's nice that people have

1335
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,720
Speaker 1: confidence in us, but what really matters is what we

1336
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 1: accomplish on the field every week. That's the only thing

1337
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: that's going to make a difference in the wind column. Yeah,

1338
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:43,519
Speaker 1: it's I mean, I get if somebody asked him today,

1339
01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 1: it was a pretty stute question. They said, listen, how

1340
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 1: I know that it's easy to shut out the noise

1341
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 1: when people are down on you and you're and they're

1342
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:51,880
Speaker 1: crushing you know, you can't play and it's us against

1343
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 1: the world. Kind of mentality. It's just the opposite when

1344
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: they start, when they're pumping you up right full of

1345
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: air and you guys have no roll your helmets out

1346
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: and walk away with the win kind of thing. And

1347
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 1: it's right. It's harder to shut that stuff out than

1348
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: it is the negative stuff. And for a player, I

1349
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:10,800
Speaker 1: remember this, Yeah, you'd hear all that stuff and you

1350
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: did it. But then you know, you go roll the

1351
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: tape of the Steelers, it's like, oh man, pretty good.

1352
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:20,639
Speaker 1: You know that brings you down to earth pretty quick.

1353
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 1: You don't play in a vacuum. And the Steelers have

1354
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: enough good players and enough talented players, and enough history

1355
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:28,639
Speaker 1: and the games that you've played them in the recent

1356
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: past to tell you is it not going to be

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01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: a cakewalk. They're a really good team. They're winning franchise,

1358
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 1: and they got a great coach and a Hall of

1359
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: Fame quarterback. Buckle it up. And as Josh pointed out,

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01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: you know the last two games that I have to

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01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: go check this to make sure he's right on it,

1362
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming he's watched a ton of film and

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01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: the last two times they played them already, and he said, hey,

1364
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:51,639
Speaker 1: the last two games were dog fights. Yeah, the first

1365
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: one it's seven to six and a half time, finished

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01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:57,560
Speaker 1: seventeen ten, and the other one it was ten to

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01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 1: seven and a half time, So he's expecting a tight game.

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01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 1: It means this is a veteran football team that people

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01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:08,679
Speaker 1: forget ripped off eleven wins to start their season last year, randed.

1370
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: They faded after that, But eleven wins in a row

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01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: is nothing to sneeze at, especially amid a pandemic. A

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01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: pandemic in which they had to have a game or

1373
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 1: reschedule because of the Ravens. Yeah, where they got. They

1374
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: got no bye week and they wore down late. You

1375
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: can say it was a bye way, you know, I'm whatever, okay,

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01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: But you know they were up against it, like like

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01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: a lot of teams were. They were put in a

1378
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 1: disadvantage probably for a week or two where it didn't

1379
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: probably took them a while to get their win back,

1380
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,640
Speaker 1: but they put they strung eleven wins together in a

1381
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: league that's tough to win in without the ability to

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01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 1: run the football. Yeah, that's hard to do. It's really

1383
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: hard to do. Do not expect this to be a pushover.

1384
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 1: We have to take a break when we come back.

1385
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 1: More of your thoughts on the tweet sheet as we

1386
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,880
Speaker 1: are asking you what are you anticipating the most with

1387
01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: respect to Sunday? You've waited long enough, it's now five

1388
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: days away. What has already given you the chicken skin?

1389
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: We want to know when we come back here on

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01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: All welcome back to One Bills Live, our number two

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01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: of the show. And as promised, we've got some player commentary.

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01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,439
Speaker 1: As they addressed the media after practice, you already heard

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01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:33,640
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen. Now it's Jordan Poyer stepping up to

1395
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 1: the microphone. So let's tune in now to the veteran safety.

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01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:41,679
Speaker 1: What makes it so difficult to place leave by Wallace

1397
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 1: from the starting job? What is it about him? U?

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01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 1: First of all, he's an extremely smart, smart football player.

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01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's played a lot of football for us,

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01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,599
Speaker 1: He's been in the system a while. He's a guy

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01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: that I personally trust out there on the football field. Um,

1402
01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 1: and I know Micael does too. Uh. You know, guys,

1403
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: we've just been the trust, you know, not just in

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01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: the back end within our defense over the past couple

1405
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: of years. And so um, you have guys out there

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01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:07,639
Speaker 1: that that you can trust, not that you can't trust

1407
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: the other guys, but um, but more so, you know

1408
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: Levi being out there with him a lot of football games,

1409
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: same as trudevious. Um, just guys that guys I'm sure

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01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: that our coaches obviously trust too. He said he felt

1411
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: intimidate you and Michael. He tells me the story all

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01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:26,599
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, I guess apparently when he first came

1413
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 1: in here, he thought, Mike and Hours based off of

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01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: what we based off of what we look like. And

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01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that's I don't know that's that's fair enough.

1416
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, he said Bobby. The first thing

1417
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: Bobby Bobby stold him when he came into the team

1418
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 1: meeting room as a rookie, it was, this is Jordan

1419
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: and MICA's meeting room. You shut up and you sitting

1420
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: out right here. So, um, I guess that played a

1421
01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: little part. But now Levi has been good. He tells

1422
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: us that, yeah, he still can't beat me in basketball.

1423
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:58,760
Speaker 1: Though I don't know if he said that the other day,

1424
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: but um, he definitely straight led here when he said that.

1425
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 1: You look back at at last year. You watched the

1426
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: film and everything. Did you feel that as a whole,

1427
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 1: this defense could have been better? I mean you can

1428
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 1: always say, yeah, we could always be but when you

1429
01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 1: really looked at it, were you at all disappointed with

1430
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:20,280
Speaker 1: some of the results you guys put up last year? Yeah?

1431
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: Of course. I mean you look back at the AC

1432
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: Championship game, Um, didn't play our best. I mean you

1433
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: can look, but you can go back to a couple

1434
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: of games. Actually we didn't next day player best. And

1435
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: I'm pointing at the a SC Championship game in particular

1436
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 1: because that was the lasketball game that we played, and

1437
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 1: we still got that taste in our mouth and understand

1438
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: that in order for us to get to where we

1439
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 1: want to go, you know, we got to play better.

1440
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: And you know it starts this week with Pittsburgh. What

1441
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:45,280
Speaker 1: changes have you seen in this defense? As apoetments most

1442
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: of the same guys, But is there anything different? Yeah?

1443
01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: I think, you know, just the camaraderie of the guys.

1444
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:52,320
Speaker 1: You know, this is our Like I was telling them earlier,

1445
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, this is some of our fourth fifth year

1446
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:56,960
Speaker 1: together in this system. Just the trust that we have

1447
01:16:57,080 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: within our coaches, within the defense, and and you know,

1448
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: I think that's a big factor. It's just the trust

1449
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:04,799
Speaker 1: that we have within within our guys and the confidence

1450
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,040
Speaker 1: that we play with. And so we're gonna bring that

1451
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: out Sunday against the Steelers and and you know, looking

1452
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:12,840
Speaker 1: looking to play well, george Ousaid, are you to have

1453
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: the full throat of Bills mafia behind you, a full

1454
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: stated for the first time. Yeah, we were talking about

1455
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: that actually earlier. I mean the stadium might be packed

1456
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 1: by ten am. You know, I don't even know if

1457
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,559
Speaker 1: they let the fans in there by then, but um,

1458
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 1: you know, I think by the time the gates open,

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01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: I think that the fans will start flowing in, and

1460
01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: you know, probably within an hour before the game starts,

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Speaker 1: it will probably be pretty packed. I'm so excited, man, Uh,

1462
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, having seen Bills Mount you know, obviously the

1463
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:41,799
Speaker 1: playoff game last year, I think of sixty five hundred,

1464
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: I mean, just just absolutely rocking the stadium. Um, So,

1465
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: I definitely cannot imagine what it's gonna be like on Sunday.

1466
01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: But I'm extremely excited, extremely excited for the team, extremely

1467
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:55,639
Speaker 1: excited for the city. George. What makes the Steelers receiving

1468
01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 1: courts so killing? Yeah, just the athletic ability that all

1469
01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: of them have. Um, you know with Claypool obviously being

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01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: a big, big receiver who can run, making testing catches.

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01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:08,000
Speaker 1: You know, Johnson very elusive with the football in his hands.

1472
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 1: Um obviously you know with Juju Bet. You know, just

1473
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 1: just a really talented group. Core group. Got our receiving group, UM,

1474
01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: guys that make plays with the football in their hands, um,

1475
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:20,560
Speaker 1: and guys that are able to be elusive out in

1476
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 1: open space and so you know those plays happened, we

1477
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 1: got to make tackles. So, um, just a very talented group.

1478
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:28,799
Speaker 1: Do you even think having a new coordinator will impact

1479
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,680
Speaker 1: what you're gonna see? You know, I'm not sure. H.

1480
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: You know, obviously they drafted a first round pick and

1481
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: Harris and so you know obviously coming in to to

1482
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: run the football. So uh, you know, but you know,

1483
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:42,600
Speaker 1: every game is the same. You gotta be able to

1484
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:44,840
Speaker 1: stop the run, um, and then and then kind of

1485
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:47,240
Speaker 1: go after that. But uh, you never know what to

1486
01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:49,639
Speaker 1: expect the first game, even without a new coordinator. There's

1487
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 1: always gonna be new wrinkles and stuff that you hadn't seen.

1488
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 1: So just just go back on our technique and fundamentals

1489
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: and our communication and um, you know the rest to

1490
01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 1: take care of yourself. Week one, maybe even I mean

1491
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 1: every week you have to adjust because teams are gonna

1492
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 1: do solt little wrinkle different every week eighteen seventeens. You're

1493
01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 1: gonna do something, but we want it. You're gonna have

1494
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 1: to adjust with a point of course. Yeah, of course.

1495
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: And that's I mean, like you said, that's weekly. You know,

1496
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be something the team throws out a

1497
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:19,760
Speaker 1: wrinkle you're gonna have to figure out a way to

1498
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: adjust to on the sideline, and um, you know that's

1499
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 1: that's what we're probably gonna have to do. What mental

1500
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 1: note do you take when there is another great safety

1501
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 1: on the on the other side of the field, even

1502
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: though you're not preparing, but the pride of being the

1503
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:41,840
Speaker 1: best of your position, knowing that you probably want to

1504
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: take a glance at what he's up to. You know,

1505
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 1: I actually didn't actually didn't think about that, but you know,

1506
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:49,640
Speaker 1: you uh, As a defense, we know our defense has

1507
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 1: to play better than their defense. Obviously, we know they

1508
01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 1: got a really solid defense over there, and so um,

1509
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: in order for us to win this game, we gotta

1510
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: our defense has to play better. I mean, do you

1511
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:01,640
Speaker 1: do you catch yourself why other players play. You know,

1512
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily say I catch myself watching other players play. Um,

1513
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: obviously they make a big play, they make a big play.

1514
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:10,040
Speaker 1: But I think we just you know, focusing on ourselves

1515
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: and what we can do better because most of the

1516
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 1: time in the offense is on the sideline. We're on

1517
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,560
Speaker 1: the are on the on the field, we're on the

1518
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 1: sideline making adjustments, and so um, it's kind of hard

1519
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 1: to you know, we're obviously watching our offense play, but uh,

1520
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:24,719
Speaker 1: you know, we're still making adjustments on the sideline. Forgot.

1521
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get into that, obviously, remember, but you know,

1522
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get into that. Though we talked a

1523
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 1: lot about you and Lake being together results how you

1524
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 1: can play off each other, about having terror and intrivious

1525
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: and everybody's kind of knowing you know, what you guys

1526
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: can do to mix things up, but to not trip

1527
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: each other up, you know what I mean. It all

1528
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:52,280
Speaker 1: ties in And that's why I said that, the confidence

1529
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 1: in the trust that we've built over the years. You know, Um,

1530
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:57,640
Speaker 1: we have a call, say we have a call, and

1531
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 1: you know, and and Mike and I see he's tearing disguising,

1532
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:03,560
Speaker 1: and you know, he didn't communicate with us what he

1533
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: was disguising, but we know what the call is and

1534
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: we can disguise based off of what he's doing. Just

1535
01:21:08,680 --> 01:21:10,680
Speaker 1: you know he's whether he's showing or whether he's off.

1536
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,360
Speaker 1: We can just know, hey, Terens doing this, we can

1537
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:15,200
Speaker 1: do this, you know what I mean. And so it's

1538
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:17,400
Speaker 1: a lot of s lot of communications, a lot really communicating.

1539
01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 1: Its a lot of just playing off of each other

1540
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 1: as well. You know, Michael and I half the time

1541
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:22,560
Speaker 1: we played just playing off of each other, like you know,

1542
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna call and you know, I'm not gonna put

1543
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: all our seekers out there, but you know, we play

1544
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: a lot off of each other and so um and

1545
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:31,599
Speaker 1: that's with everyone within our system, all the back seven.

1546
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:33,800
Speaker 1: You know you talked about even even Tremaine and Matt,

1547
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what you know, we're connecting so well.

1548
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 1: You know, we want to go out there and show

1549
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:42,920
Speaker 1: that on Sunday how much it last the stadium. You know,

1550
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: being with the packers and stuff helped for you to guys,

1551
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:47,160
Speaker 1: get ready for that nonverbal communication you're gonna need in

1552
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:49,000
Speaker 1: a loud stadium. Yeah, and we had a little bit

1553
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 1: of that in practice today. Uh, it's gonna be loud

1554
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 1: and you know that's what we want. And so, um,

1555
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: I don't think last week really uh, you know, it

1556
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: was a little test, but I mean it's gonna be rocking.

1557
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: You know, it's going to be to the point where

1558
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 1: we probably can't have a conversation from here to you know,

1559
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 1: me to you. Um. So yeah, hand signals is going

1560
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: to be huge, um, and just communicate in you know,

1561
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: pre m, post snap. It's always it's always huge and

1562
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: every in every game. You know, we we talk all

1563
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: the time, Steve about the offense dealing with crowd noise

1564
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,160
Speaker 1: on the road. Everybody forgets the defense has to deal

1565
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:21,560
Speaker 1: with it at home and they've got to communicate with

1566
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: hand signals or whatever they decide to use, you know, uh,

1567
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,639
Speaker 1: to kind of communicate a certain way to make sure

1568
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:32,040
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page back there. Now, with this group,

1569
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 1: it's obviously easier. They've been together for so dang along.

1570
01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:37,479
Speaker 1: I mean, as Jordan even said, I mean even Tremaine

1571
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 1: and Matt have been with them four or five years together.

1572
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: But then most of the back seven has been together

1573
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: for the better part of the last four years, but

1574
01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: still it's it's it's something you gotta have down knowing

1575
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:52,840
Speaker 1: how loud it's going to be out and it's He's right,

1576
01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:55,640
Speaker 1: he said he couldn't have. I remember most of my

1577
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 1: career being on the sidelines and home games and you know,

1578
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:03,799
Speaker 1: Jim Thurman, Andrea or somebody or Bruce, somebody doing something

1579
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: biscuit picking a pass off or whatever, and the lid

1580
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: just coming off the place and you you know, we're

1581
01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:12,120
Speaker 1: getting ready to go in for a kickoff or something

1582
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: like that. You I would be standing as close as

1583
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 1: I am to reach out and touch you, and we

1584
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 1: would be screaming about specifics of what we're gonna do,

1585
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, like which return we're gonna use, which kickoff

1586
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: and where's he kicking the ball or whatever. You know, Um,

1587
01:23:25,080 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 1: it's so loud, Yeah, and it's yeah, it's amazing. And

1588
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:33,439
Speaker 1: but those guys and when the crowd wants to it

1589
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: makes it pretty hard to communicate, impossible to communicate out there.

1590
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:38,599
Speaker 1: They did it with sixty sixty five hundred people there

1591
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 1: last year. Baltimore is taking playoff penalties down down to

1592
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 1: the Bill's end. We saw it in the preseason game here,

1593
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, delay of game and a false start. It's

1594
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 1: a force. It's a force. Yeah, Josh was campaigning for

1595
01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: it already today and talking to the meet today. One

1596
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,920
Speaker 1: third down, you know that gets a delay a game.

1597
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 1: One false start can change the game. So, yeah, you're

1598
01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 1: you're on notice, bills, fans, not that I'm worried about.

1599
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:07,280
Speaker 1: You're performing on Sunday. I'm sure you'll do it. And

1600
01:24:07,320 --> 01:24:09,560
Speaker 1: then the current situation. We talked about this earlier in

1601
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: the show about how to get there early, and this

1602
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: isn't just words. You know, you need to get there.

1603
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:16,800
Speaker 1: The real thing. They're opening the gates a half hour early.

1604
01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: They're staffing problems. They're short, Yeah, they're short. They don't

1605
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:23,360
Speaker 1: have enough people to take tickets, so it's going to

1606
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:25,600
Speaker 1: take longer from them to corral people through. So make

1607
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: sure you take that into account. All these gates may

1608
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 1: not be able to be used because they don't even

1609
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: have people demand them. M you know, we've we've all

1610
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:34,439
Speaker 1: kind of seen that around, you know, the country, with

1611
01:24:34,840 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 1: staffing problems. So that's the thing here this weekend for Pittsburgh.

1612
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:41,639
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to go to the game, they don't want

1613
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 1: to work the game as well, But so it's a thing.

1614
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: Gates are opening eleven. Make sure you get there early. Yeah,

1615
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 1: make sure you get there early. And I'm talking about

1616
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 1: in the stadium, not just in the parking lot. Having fun. Yeah,

1617
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: we want to mention it is ad Pro Coach of

1618
01:24:57,400 --> 01:25:00,080
Speaker 1: the Week time and the Buffalo Bills an add Pro

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01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: Sports Prout to once again partner to recognize some of

1620
01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: the best coaches that Western New York has to offer

1621
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:07,320
Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty one high school football Coach of

1622
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: the Week program and for Section six, the Buffalo Region

1623
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: Coach of the Week is Frontier head coach Rich Gray,

1624
01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:17,320
Speaker 1: who's been named the Buffalo Region coach for Week one.

1625
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: Gray led Frontier to a thirty four seven win over

1626
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: will South in the season opening game. Made his return

1627
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: to the sideline after coaching Frontier from two thousand and

1628
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: five to two thousand and ten. Section five Rochester Region

1629
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:34,480
Speaker 1: Coach of the Week is Attica head coach Jeff Kuzmano.

1630
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 1: Led his team to a thirty six nothing shutout win

1631
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 1: over Minders and their season opener. He was just named

1632
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:43,720
Speaker 1: the head coach in July. Came back to the sidelines

1633
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 1: as he entered his second stint with Attica previously coached

1634
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: the Blue Devils from two thousand and five to two thirteen,

1635
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: So congrats to those coaches and their players for getting

1636
01:25:53,120 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 1: their season off on the right foot. Each Coach of

1637
01:25:56,280 --> 01:25:58,639
Speaker 1: the Week winner will receive a one thousand dollars grant

1638
01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:00,679
Speaker 1: from The Bills and ad pro Sport. It's the respective

1639
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:02,879
Speaker 1: Coach of the year winners. We're also receive an additional

1640
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for their respective programs. Break time for Steve

1641
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 1: and I here will close it up when we return

1642
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health.

1643
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio Steve this week's game sponsor. It's

1644
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: high Mark. Nice. It's pretty apropos considering that's the name

1645
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: on the stadium, high Mark Blue Cross, Blue Shield of

1646
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: Western New York, the official health plan. I gotta say,

1647
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 1: I like the Buffalo Bills. I like him. Mark is

1648
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:43,439
Speaker 1: a stadium name. Yeah, you'd like that. It appeals to you. Yeah, okay,

1649
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,560
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why. Yeah, just

1650
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 1: saying it just kind of does. It's not the Pool

1651
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:52,240
Speaker 1: and wheed Eater stadiums, right, Poland isn't Poland? Well, I

1652
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 1: didn't want to actually name that in any of that

1653
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 1: who played there. They used to have a bowl game

1654
01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: in college Poland Wheed Eater bull. I'm thinking you and

1655
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:05,720
Speaker 1: I could have a bowl game. I don't you might.

1656
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 1: You might have enough money for that. I can't have

1657
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,519
Speaker 1: money for that. You got a pony up a lot

1658
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 1: of money, do you like? Yes? Seven digits at least

1659
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 1: probably eight. Let's let's step it back. What could we

1660
01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:23,560
Speaker 1: could We'll do a local flag football we got we

1661
01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:26,799
Speaker 1: got JJ here. We could do our fantasy football draft

1662
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:29,320
Speaker 1: and call it that's right, Yeah, we could call it

1663
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 1: coming up. Steve unfortunately forgot that. He participated and remind

1664
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 1: me of my football to remind me of my team

1665
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 1: name last night. I am still a good team name.

1666
01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: I gotta give a field the Verne. Yeah that was

1667
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: a name name for my bulldog. That's right. Yeah, that's

1668
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: a good team name. Yeah. Well I liked it. Yeah.

1669
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: I plenty more to talk about this tomorrow. But yes,

1670
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:51,600
Speaker 1: over the weekend I was at a farmer's market and

1671
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: I met Marty Barron's dog. Oh okay, Austin, all right,

1672
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 1: great looking dog to another bulldog. Those are real popular

1673
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 1: these days. Yeah, you know why? You know why? They're great,

1674
01:28:03,560 --> 01:28:05,800
Speaker 1: don't need much exercise, so I don't really have to

1675
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 1: get him out, which means you don't like to exercise exactly.

1676
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:10,760
Speaker 1: It's not like a Bischler or greyhound or something where

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Speaker 1: you gotta, you know, run the thing beside the card

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Speaker 1: of where. Yeah right, These these don't get it. You

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Speaker 1: run them around the house once and they're overheated. Man

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Speaker 1: laid down, Take a nap. Big show tomorrow, much more

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Speaker 1: game related than which dogs Steve caught up with over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. We anticipate hearing from Mike Tomlin, head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Steelers, who was supposed to address the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: media tomorrow, so we hope to have some of his

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Speaker 1: more poignant sound bites for you here on the show.

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Speaker 1: And the man calling the game on NFL for the

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Speaker 1: NFL on CBS, it is the Birdman. I an Eagle

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Speaker 1: will be joining us on the show tomorrow. He's awesome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's absolutely awesome. That's rights are so uh so we

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Speaker 1: look forward to talking to him about the game tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's neck deep in his prep work for

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Speaker 1: the season opener. He was real excited about coming back

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo. He's up here a lot, so we look

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Speaker 1: forward to having him on the show tomorrow. So that'll

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Speaker 1: do it for a Tuesday edition. Wednesday will be just

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Speaker 1: as chock full of Bill's Nuggets, news and notes to

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Speaker 1: get you ready for Sunday's season opener. Steve and I

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Speaker 1: will see you then.