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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and bunch of stuff

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Speaker 1: media this morning, had a lot to discuss, and among

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Speaker 1: them the fact that competitions remain open in a couple

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Speaker 1: it does say something about UM their roster management, their

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Speaker 1: Steve Boogie Basham is playing two to three positions and

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Speaker 1: special teams because some people, I don't want to say habitually,

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Speaker 1: but are just making the natural comparison because there are

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Speaker 1: two draft picks in the same draft, they largely play

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Speaker 1: the same position, and so people are like, oh, you know,

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Speaker 1: Greg Russo is really ahead of the game here. He

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Speaker 1: looks like he's ready to go make an impact, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Boogie Basham's even with him or

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Speaker 1: up to speed as much as he is. And Coach

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Speaker 1: McDermott laid it out for everybody today, Boogie Basham is

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Speaker 1: basically learning three different positions on defense, and he's also

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Speaker 1: playing on special teams. So Greg Russeau, by comparison, is

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Speaker 1: just being told to line up at left defensive end.

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Speaker 1: And I know you can speak to this far better

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Speaker 1: than I can. That is a wide swath of a

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Speaker 1: difference in terms of responsibilities, what you're learning in the

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Speaker 1: meeting rooms every day and executing on the field. It's huge.

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Speaker 1: It's really huge to have of him. It's a little

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Speaker 1: bit like Gabe Davis last year. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you come out on opening day and I'll hey, you

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Speaker 1: look at this guy. He's out here, you know, with

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Speaker 1: the with the one he catches the first pass of

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Speaker 1: the year. That's what Boogie Basham is in the in

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood of doing all of a sudden, He's going

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Speaker 1: to be on the field all the time. If you

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Speaker 1: want to make an impact this just in you need

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Speaker 1: to be on the field. Boogie Basham is gonna be

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Speaker 1: out there. But as you mentioned Gabriel Davis, that's a

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Speaker 1: guy that was essentially a backup receiver across the board.

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Speaker 1: He was the backup X, he was the backup why,

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Speaker 1: he was the backup Z. So he had to know

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Speaker 1: all three positions and he was the starting H when

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Speaker 1: they went four one. Yeah, so so there you go.

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Speaker 1: I mean so so you so here's a guy that

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Speaker 1: had multiple roles, got on the field right away. Now

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Speaker 1: Boogie Basham, coach McDermott admitted, with all of that responsibility,

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Speaker 1: he's still out there on the field thinking a little

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Speaker 1: bit instead of just playing. And this is a natural

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Speaker 1: progression that we see with young players, particularly rookies, where

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Speaker 1: you know they got their assignment running through their head

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Speaker 1: pre snap and maybe because of that, they're not reading

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Speaker 1: their keys or all of their keys. Maybe their alignment

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Speaker 1: is something they forgot to pay attention to, or they're

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Speaker 1: you know, they're split or whatever because they're worried about

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Speaker 1: reading their key in the backfield. So there are different

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Speaker 1: things that start running through the head of a rookie

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Speaker 1: that has so many responsibilities. But it's clear that they

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Speaker 1: believe that Basham's football i Q is such that in

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Speaker 1: time he will be able to handle all of those

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Speaker 1: responsibilities defensively as well as his special team's responsibility, and

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Speaker 1: he'll hit his stride and get to a point where

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Speaker 1: he is just playing. My curiosity lies in who what's

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Speaker 1: all the stuff they're gonna have him do? Right. One

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Speaker 1: of the things, too, is when it's that environment during

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Speaker 1: training camp. The better part of it is when you

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Speaker 1: get into the regular season, you get into a game preparation.

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Speaker 1: You can put boogie bash to say boogie this week,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna stay in this spot the entire game, or

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Speaker 1: you maybe in these two spots. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: learn all three. They do this, so we're gonna do that,

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Speaker 1: and that's what you have to concentrate on, so he'll

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Speaker 1: be able to hone in week to week on what

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Speaker 1: his specific role is going to be. Now on game day,

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Speaker 1: somebody tweaks an ankle or shoulder or something. Now he

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Speaker 1: has to go in as a reserve and play that

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Speaker 1: spot a lot more snaps than he thought he was

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Speaker 1: going to. Then you get into a maybe he's not

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Speaker 1: playing his best because he's behind the eight ball. But

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Speaker 1: as the season wears on, and yeah, you want to

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Speaker 1: put him in all these positions in the preseason to

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Speaker 1: see if he can do it and give him some

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Speaker 1: you know, an evaluation. But now that the seasons here,

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Speaker 1: all that's gone, you want him to play a spot

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Speaker 1: on Sunday or two spots on Sunday, and that vastly

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Speaker 1: helps him getting mentally prepared to be better on game day,

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Speaker 1: so that it's a better environment today than it was

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Speaker 1: last Thursday because he knows more about what they're going

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Speaker 1: to ask him to do this week. And I'll say

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Speaker 1: better with each preseason outing. Like in Detroit he made

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Speaker 1: a play late in the game, but he was kind

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Speaker 1: of feeling his way. You can kind of if you

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Speaker 1: were watching him, he was kind of feeling his way

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Speaker 1: through the game Chicago flashed a little bit more, and

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Speaker 1: then in Green Bay, I thought he was a more

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Speaker 1: consistent player. So I think the coach if I can

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Speaker 1: see that, you have to believe the trained eye of

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Speaker 1: the coaches when they're reviewing the game tape can see

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Speaker 1: that as well. And that's got to be encouraging because

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Speaker 1: it's like, hey, look, we put a ton on this

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Speaker 1: kid's plate, and he's steadily getting to a point where

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Speaker 1: he's going to be able to contribute for us, not

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Speaker 1: maybe just in a singular role, but in multiple roles.

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Speaker 1: I am just really interested to see where he fits

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Speaker 1: in the puzzle up front. On the defense too, because

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Speaker 1: I got so many guys. It's not like he has

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Speaker 1: to play for positions they got guy, They got a

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Speaker 1: plenty of guys. It'll be interesting to say okay if

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Speaker 1: they wanted to see okay. Because we knew Basham could

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Speaker 1: play outside, defensive end, inside over the tackle, and probably

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Speaker 1: on both sides as well, they probably are giving him

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Speaker 1: to find out what he does best, try and evaluate

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Speaker 1: him and what he does best, and give him a

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Speaker 1: That's on the coaches as well, because you gotta figure

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Speaker 1: with his abilities, he's gonna be on the team, and

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Speaker 1: the rest of it is like, Okay, what can we

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Speaker 1: learn about him during this preseason so we can right

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Speaker 1: and how can we use it to win games? So

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Speaker 1: I think going forward, while he's shown the willingness to

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Speaker 1: play three different spots, I think when he finds a

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Speaker 1: spot that he's really really good at, you can bet

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Speaker 1: he's going to get a lot more snaps there. Whose

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Speaker 1: role are you most curious about come the regular season?

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Speaker 1: Your choices are there on the tweet sheet at one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, so respond there if you wish or give

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Speaker 1: us a call. Eight oh three five fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty Whose role are you

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Speaker 1: most curious about come the regular season in terms of

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Speaker 1: what they're going to be doing for this Bill's team

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Steve and I'm back in a

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Speaker 1: moment here on One Bill's Line presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio and welcome back. Just a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a practice update as our MSG viewers are

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Speaker 1: watching Josh Allen throw the football out on the practice field.

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Speaker 1: They're the team's pretty healthy right now. Micah Hyde was

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Speaker 1: excused yesterday for personal reasons. He is not at practice

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Speaker 1: again today. Reid Ferguson is on the side, not participating,

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Speaker 1: but he is there. I believe he was dealing with

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Speaker 1: a back issue which came which forced him out of

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Speaker 1: the game last week against the Packers, so probably still

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Speaker 1: dealing with that. Star Latoulay also not in attendance, listed

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Speaker 1: with a calf injury yesterday, so presumably that is what

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Speaker 1: is still keeping him out. And then a few players

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Speaker 1: in red non contact jerseys Dane Jackson, Isaiah McKenzie and

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Speaker 1: practice squad running back Antonio Williams. So that brings you

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Speaker 1: up to date on the practice situation for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the tweet sheet brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Whose role are you most curious about come

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Speaker 1: the regular season? And the player choices are Reggie Gilliam,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie, Boogie bash him or somebody else. And Steve

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Speaker 1: checked in on the voting during the break, and I

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Speaker 1: believe Reggie Gilliam was out in front right. Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: I from the latest is he's got thirty three and

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Speaker 1: a third percent boogie bash him tight and Isaiah McKenzie

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Speaker 1: twenty eight percent. It's a very nice pole. I'm very

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Speaker 1: impressed ten all time. Steve gets very excited when it's

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Speaker 1: a very balanced poll race there. So, yeah, that's that's interesting.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to know why you make the choice that

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Speaker 1: you mine. Is because we never we haven't seen Reggie

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Speaker 1: Gilliam play a role or a player like Reggie play

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Speaker 1: a role that's big, particularly when they don't have enough

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Speaker 1: guys to run a regular offense the way you'd see

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Speaker 1: it run. What the coaches are like this. If we

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Speaker 1: saw Reggie in the game against Chicago and did a

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Speaker 1: lot of things, ran out of the backfield, rans fullback,

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Speaker 1: ran as the tailback, finished the game as a tailback,

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Speaker 1: played tight end a year ago. But this is not

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Speaker 1: a team that you know uses that kind of thing

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Speaker 1: a lot, and coaches don't like to go into a

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Speaker 1: game without a backup for a package of players or plays.

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Speaker 1: So you can't go three tight ends. You can't do

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Speaker 1: a three tight end formation without a backup tight end.

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Speaker 1: You got three tight ends period. What happens if somebody

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Speaker 1: tweaks a hamstring on the opening kickoff. Yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: change your goal line package, your goal line package, in

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Speaker 1: your play selection, change, everything changes. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: have to do that on something you know that could happen,

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Speaker 1: not even on the play, I mean, not even on

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Speaker 1: a player you're talking about. That says to me, they're

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Speaker 1: probably not using that a whole lot. So because of that,

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Speaker 1: do you think that means that Reggie gilliam is a

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Speaker 1: little more than a package player this year? Well, here's one.

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Speaker 1: Let's not forget they did not have a fullback on

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Speaker 1: this roster last season. No, but that four tight ends, right.

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Speaker 1: But I guess what I mean by that is they

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Speaker 1: got through an entire season without a fullback. Are they

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Speaker 1: really gonna use one? I think when we expect the

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Speaker 1: offense to a great to a great degree to be

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Speaker 1: pretty similar to last year, you know what I think

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Speaker 1: it means. One thing it means is that when you

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Speaker 1: get into short yardage like a fourth and half a

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Speaker 1: yard or one fourth and a yard and a half

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna go for gotta go for it or whatever,

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Speaker 1: third and one short yardage and goal line. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a nod to the fact that you got a

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Speaker 1: quarterback that's as good as short yardage running back as

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Speaker 1: anybody in the league, and he's got the ball in

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Speaker 1: his hands and he can throw it or run it.

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Speaker 1: I think that precludes your the necessity of having the

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Speaker 1: ability to line up with two backs in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to because your quarterback's one of them.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can put Reggie Gillen back there as

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Speaker 1: a tailback and now he's automatically a full back because

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Speaker 1: your quarterback can run right behind him. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's on pistol. I think that is probably one of

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Speaker 1: the considerations when you're putting up and and you know

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Speaker 1: that's a luxury when you've got a quarterback like Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Cam Newton. Yeah, those kind of runners, you know,

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Speaker 1: Lamar In, Deshaun Watson, those kind of guys. So you

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Speaker 1: voted for Gilliam. I voted for Basham just because what

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Speaker 1: I heard from coach today and we'll hear those comments

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Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes on the show here in their entirety,

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Speaker 1: saying that Boogie Basham is playing two to three roles.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen him line up at end, we've

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Speaker 1: seen him kick down inside and obvious passing situations. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's got three positional roles is it's

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Speaker 1: pretty fascinating to me. Not to mention the fact that

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Speaker 1: he is on special teams. You know, it wouldn't surprise me,

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Speaker 1: Steve if what made Darryl Johnson expendable is Boogie Basham's

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Speaker 1: ability to play special teams. You know, another big guy,

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Speaker 1: maybe certainly not as long, but runs just as well.

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Speaker 1: So I think that might have made Darryl Johnson, Bam

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Speaker 1: Johnson a little expendable and available for training. You think

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Speaker 1: about this too, that lost Lee Smith from last year's

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Speaker 1: roster and got a tweet from Football Buffalo Football Team

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Speaker 1: says he says, Spencer Brown is probably a better tight

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Speaker 1: end three than Lee Smith is at this point of

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Speaker 1: his career. Yeah, that's and that's a good way to

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Speaker 1: put it, because that's where you're thinking about. You know,

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Speaker 1: Spencer Brown being a backup tackle who's six eight, played

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Speaker 1: played tight end as a kid. All that stuff, well

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Speaker 1: we talked about. But with Eric Wood yesterday, right, he's

651
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Speaker 1: certainly capable of line and so is everybody else. Ryan

652
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Speaker 1: Bates is capable of lining up as a third type.

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Speaker 1: You can line anybody up there and the defense doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what they're capable of. So there's always that question mark.

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Speaker 1: But when you get a guy like Spencer Brown, who's

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Speaker 1: a tree enormous, he can certainly set the edge and

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00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: get the edge of the offense to the corner, but

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Speaker 1: he can also get to the back of the end zone,

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Speaker 1: jump up, go up for one. So it's a good

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Speaker 1: point because if you lose a tight end like Lee

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Speaker 1: Smith and through a trade like the Bills did to Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: and Spencer Brown comes walking in the door, you know

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Speaker 1: he's going to be active on game day. Throw the

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Speaker 1: guy in there and give him a chance to catch

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Speaker 1: a pass, and you're not gonna have him catch the

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Speaker 1: pass and goes, you know, bust a tackle and goes

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Speaker 1: sixty five yards for a touchdown. But a first down

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Speaker 1: is pretty cool, right Yeah, So I get that, and

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Speaker 1: that's and that's you know, Reggie gilliam is to me

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Speaker 1: if he's a safety net. Okay, I mean when he's

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Speaker 1: in there, you don't get predictable, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: because start got various when you start lineing offensive lines,

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Speaker 1: lineman up his tight ends and all that, and fullbacks,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like they know what's coming. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: could you tend to get a little predictable. Eli on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, tweeting in from Puerto Rico, thanks

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Speaker 1: for doing that, Mutus gross. Yes, I picked Gilliam. I

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Speaker 1: am intrigued that he can be used is a tight

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Speaker 1: end and fullback slash running back. Those tough, hard yards

680
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Speaker 1: seem to be his specialty. And if what he showed

681
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Speaker 1: in the preseason is who he is, I want to

682
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Speaker 1: see it a lot from the one yard line to

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Speaker 1: the end zone. Go Bills. Let's not forget. I mean

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Speaker 1: the first catch he made was for a touchdown in

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Speaker 1: Week two against Miami last year. That's right as a

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Speaker 1: tight end. Yeah, got him started on the way to

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00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: thirteen different players catching a touchdown last year. Yeah. Versatility

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Speaker 1: is great. We've talked a lot about it about how

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of guys like Boogie Basham and Reggie

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Speaker 1: Gilliam who are very versatile. Isam McKenzie's a one who

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Speaker 1: who has been showed some versatility. But you don't want

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Speaker 1: a ton of those guys because you really need some

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Speaker 1: guys that are elite at what they and even if

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Speaker 1: it is only one thing, but giving having these guys

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Speaker 1: that are multiple We've talked about a lot at this

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Speaker 1: time of year because it helps you make the roster.

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Speaker 1: And even though they may not be the guys drive

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Speaker 1: this team to the super Bowl, they certainly make it

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Speaker 1: so that the Bills can keep and find guys who

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Speaker 1: will get them to a super Bowl theoretically. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: have to take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: more of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and head

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Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott coming up in about fifteen minutes. As

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Speaker 1: he addressed the media today prior to practice, we'll bring

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Speaker 1: his comments to you in full. Coming up in a

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Speaker 1: little bit here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. One Bills Live is

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Speaker 1: the show you're listening to. Steve Tasker and Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: are the people speaking to you now, and we will

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Speaker 1: get back to the tweet sheet here in short order.

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Speaker 1: As we are asking you who are you most curious

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00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: to see come the regular season in terms of their

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00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 1: role choices we gave you were Reggie Gilliam, Isaiah McKenzie,

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Speaker 1: who now has Special Teams duties full time, and one

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Speaker 1: Boogie Bashom, who we have come to learn has two

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Speaker 1: to three roles defensively and will also play on Special Teams,

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Speaker 1: possibly in the role previously manned by Bam Johnson. So

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Speaker 1: there's that the hurricane ITAs Steve has obviously wreaked havoc,

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Speaker 1: not only down in the Mississippi Delta, but also across

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Speaker 1: New York. I don't know if you saw some of

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Speaker 1: the subway footage last night, but it was basically a

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Speaker 1: waterfall down some subway staircases to the subway. Like waterfall, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like get out, yeah, Like whitewater rafting type stuff. Yea,

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Speaker 1: this was the most interesting story that I found. Thus,

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Speaker 1: are we obviously heard the unfortunate story about the man

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Speaker 1: who was the victim of an alligator attacked down in

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Speaker 1: Louisiana in the flooding, because they got alligators down there,

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Speaker 1: and they've got far more areas to roam when you

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Speaker 1: have floodwaters where they are. But yesterday there was a

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Speaker 1: cow rescued from a tree after a hurricane ida a tree.

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Speaker 1: So essentially, yeah, you're saying, how the hell do you

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Speaker 1: get a cow in a tree with floodwaters? So the water,

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Speaker 1: the floodwaters rose so high that they were carrying a

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Speaker 1: cow downstream wherever the heck they were, and then the

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Speaker 1: waters slowly subsided and the cow. He's ten feet in

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Speaker 1: the air, up in a tree branch, and he's like

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Speaker 1: the branch is literally between his front two legs. That

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Speaker 1: are his front two legs are kind of draped over

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Speaker 1: this branch, so he's like a cat. Well he's with

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Speaker 1: his front legs. Well, he's the middle of his body

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Speaker 1: is what's hung up on the tree, So half of

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Speaker 1: him is hanging over the front of this large limb.

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Speaker 1: And he's pain He's look at these look at our

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00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: cracked staff. Is this unbelievable. He's stuck in a tree.

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Speaker 1: He's looking around at these guys saying like hey, little help,

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Speaker 1: guys like he the you know, the bulvine is so

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Speaker 1: heavy here. He can't pry himself loose from the branch,

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Speaker 1: and his weight is evenly distributed on either side. He

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Speaker 1: ain't moving. You gotta bust out the chainsaw for this one.

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Speaker 1: And if you're not careful, you'll have a porterhouse to

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00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: go with the branch. So you gotta. So, from what

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00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: we understand, um, they were able to free the wedged

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Speaker 1: cow from the tree. The crew used chainsaws to cut

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Speaker 1: branches from the tree and bring the cow back down

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Speaker 1: to ground level. Now, this probably can't be very good

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Speaker 1: for the cow's innards, knowing that his full weight is

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Speaker 1: being pressed down on his rib cage and his four stomachs. Right,

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Speaker 1: cows have four stomachs, Yeah, they do. I think they

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Speaker 1: do sixth grade science. That's right, man, we gotta pull

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Speaker 1: that out. Whatever it's I'm telling you. My science teacher,

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00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:24,240
Speaker 1: she's clapping right now. They Yeah, the hurricane has swept

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Speaker 1: all the way across the Eastern seaboard, right, I mean

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Speaker 1: from bottom to top on the map and diagonal swath

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Speaker 1: New York is the city itself. They got three inches

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Speaker 1: of water. Yeah, in like two hours. My son and

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Speaker 1: his wife live on the island Manhattan, and they he's like,

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00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 1: it's nuts, it's nuts. They there's pictures on social media

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Speaker 1: guys floating on air mattresses in the alley. Yeah. Right,

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Speaker 1: So the mayor called a state of emergency last night. Now,

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Speaker 1: from what I understand, it's sunny and dry there this morning.

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00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: Fortunately raining it's not dry, Yeah, not dry, right, no precipitation.

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00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: It was probably the better way to put that. Um.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it was pretty wild last night. They had

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Speaker 1: to shut the subway system down in certain areas in

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Speaker 1: New York last night. UM so yeah, fortunately wiser people

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Speaker 1: stayed indoors. But you have people that have to get places,

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Speaker 1: you know, your first responders, your hospital workers, they still

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Speaker 1: have to get to work for their shifts. And if

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Speaker 1: you don't have public transportation in New York, that's a

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Speaker 1: big problem. Yeah, because there's a lot of people and

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Speaker 1: a lot of hospitals and a lot of people that

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Speaker 1: need care. So it was a little bit of a

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00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 1: mess there last night. Yeah, it's yeah, but no cows

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Speaker 1: in trees in New York probably not only in Louisiana apparently,

785
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty bad. I couldn't believe it. Like

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Speaker 1: it's like it's like one of those freak shows at

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Speaker 1: the circus. Cow in a tree what, Like, it's just nuts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the first time I've ever seen a

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Speaker 1: cow in a tree. So I had to bring that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: exact to everybody's stream of conscience. We get this, We

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Speaker 1: come down three and we're finally into Wow, we're not

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Speaker 1: quite I guess it feels like game week because there's

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Speaker 1: no more games until days out ten days a pregnant

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Speaker 1: game three. The fifty three man roster has been said. Okay, brownie,

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Speaker 1: here we go. So there's one. There's seven rounds in

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Speaker 1: the NFL draft, right, yes, and so how obviously there

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Speaker 1: are more first rounders in the NFL that made the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man rosters than any other round right, and

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Speaker 1: it's actually it goes in sequential order from first, second, third, fourth,

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Speaker 1: fifty six, seventh, eighth, and then the undrafted. How many

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Speaker 1: undrafted players do you think made There were two hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty three first rounders. Yeah, how many undrafted guys

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00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: made it? I have to be honest here, I think

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Speaker 1: I saw this tweet. Yeah, it's over four hundred, right,

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Speaker 1: yeah the bulk, I mean almost forty percent. More guys

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Speaker 1: that were undrafted made the FL fifty three men rosters

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Speaker 1: than first rounders. There are more undrafted guys making the

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Speaker 1: NFL than than drafted guys. Right there weren't there weren't

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Speaker 1: any round not more. There's more drafted guys that made

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Speaker 1: it into the seventh rounds, but the biggest number of

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Speaker 1: guys are the undrafted right Mike Butcker is an undrafted

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Speaker 1: player on this current roster, and Jake Kumeroau is an

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Speaker 1: undrafted player who was on this roster. Reggie Gilliam is

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Speaker 1: an undrafted player who was on this roster, and there

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Speaker 1: are others we can run down the list, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: there is that presence on almost every roster. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're long snapper in many cases is an undrafted player,

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Speaker 1: you know, so read for kicks an undrafted guy. Kickers

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Speaker 1: usually don't get drafted, right in this case, Tyler Bass

820
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: was a sixth round pick for the Bills, respectively. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of undrafted kids that find their way

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Speaker 1: onto rosters. Levi Wallace another undrafted player on Buffalo's roster,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, Tyrell Dodson another guy. There's a tunnel. Andre Smith,

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Speaker 1: I believe was undrafted. So I just yeah, it's they're

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Speaker 1: more guys. They're they're in all all in all, they're

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Speaker 1: way more guys that got drafted in the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: no round first through the seventh has more guys in

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Speaker 1: it than the undrafted ranks. By it's a larger pool

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Speaker 1: by far. Still got to make the roster. It's like

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Speaker 1: taking you know, tire woods in a golf tournament against

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Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, you know. And that's that's why there's

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Speaker 1: and and that's and I it's inspiring at they should

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Speaker 1: be inspiring. It's particularly young football players, college kids. I

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Speaker 1: never expected to get drafted, and I did. But there's

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Speaker 1: so as there's a lot of guys who kind of

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Speaker 1: thought they were gonna get drafted and did not, and

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Speaker 1: it's discouraging for him. And there's a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: go to Collie whatever college you go to and think,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, doesn't matter, just get us, Just get

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Speaker 1: an opportunity. You gotta just that's all it takes. And

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Speaker 1: some and these, you know, four hundred and sixties some

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Speaker 1: odd guys are proof of that. Four hundred and fifteen

843
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Speaker 1: undrafted players and there's only seven hundred in the top

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Speaker 1: three rounds of the draft. Seven hundred and some in

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Speaker 1: the top three rounds of the draft. Faobat is another one,

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Speaker 1: albeit by different means, but undrafted less international pool undrafted. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: break time for us here when we come back, we

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Speaker 1: are going to be bringing you. Head coach Sean McDermott,

849
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: who addressed the media prior to practice today. We're going

850
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Speaker 1: to bring you his comments front to back. Coming up

851
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Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live presented body collid to health.

852
00:50:50,800 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Had a Steve Taster who

853
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: has been all over the field, kind of unique. He

854
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve

855
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strated fere of normalcy.

856
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: Our number two of a Thursday edition of One Bills Live,

857
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: and time now for us to turn to head coach

858
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, who addressed the media prior to practice today.

859
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:40,720
Speaker 1: Here's coach Taster wishes he's on the golf course right now.

860
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: We all did all right. Time's yours. Charlotte comes to

861
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: the roster construction. And you know Brandon was about the

862
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: testuy that you know, for example, Jacob, you know, was

863
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: caught up not assarly a tight end thing, but he

864
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: kept so many defensive linemen. How much of that in general,

865
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: not maybe speciically, this season happens organically, and how much

866
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: of that is you know, looking at the draft and

867
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: the thing else. I mean, I guess the question I'm

868
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: asking is is it's kind of a roster you arrived

869
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: at more after looking at how everything fit together and

870
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: training camp than anything else. Yeah, I mean, I think

871
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: that's always a large part of how you arrive where

872
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: you're at at the end of training camp. It's just

873
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: seeing how it fits together, and then philosophically, you know,

874
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: watching how we've evolved every year, where you're at offensively,

875
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 1: defensively special teams and then obviously as an overall as

876
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: an overall team, so and trying to stay as balanced

877
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: as we can. It's never exactly how you want it

878
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: to be, you know, but you're trying to stay as

879
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: balanced as you can throw all three phases as well. Well,

880
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: where do you thinks stand at that cornerback competition between

881
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: me Buy and Dame. Yeah, so they continue to battle,

882
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: and that's that's true for all positions. The competition continues,

883
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: and that's a good thing. We've got extremely competitive guys

884
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: out here that want to compete. That's the environment we

885
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 1: we foster and facilitate every day out here. And and

886
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: yet it's it's putting the team first and taking care

887
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: of one another. So um, you know, currently you'll see

888
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: Levi out there. You also see see Dane at times.

889
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: Can you um talk about the decision to keep or

890
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: bring back both uh Davis Webbing and Jake from and

891
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: what what what was behind that? Uh? Yeah again, Um,

892
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 1: you know, good additions for us. Always good to have

893
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: as many guys as we were able to get back

894
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: back under our roof here. And um, those guys are

895
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: going to continue to grow and develop, and in particular

896
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: that position, Um, you know those are those are hard

897
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 1: hard guys to find in this league, good quarterbacks and

898
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: we think the world of those two. And and thankful

899
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: to having back under our roof. Like I said, partly

900
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: because of the situation we're still in with this with

901
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: this virus, having for to protect yourself to Yeah, it

902
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt. Um, I can tell you that wasn't the

903
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,760
Speaker 1: driving force, but it doesn't hurt because of the environment

904
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: we're in. The decision to release Jacob Hollister was your

905
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: trust in what you've seen from Dawson Dods this year.

906
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: I think you know at every position that goes into

907
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,359
Speaker 1: being able to release. Although it's never easy being able

908
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: to release someone, it's because you have trust in the

909
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: people that you keep, and in this case in Dawson,

910
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: we've seen improved play through really the spring and now

911
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: and through training camp and whether it be the run

912
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:36,399
Speaker 1: game or the past game. And I think Josh would

913
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: say the same. So you've seen an increased level of

914
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: trust from from Josh and in the tight end passing game. So, um,

915
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: you know, I believe Dawson's best ball is ahead of him.

916
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: What does a guy like Taiwan Jones bring to your team?

917
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: Fans don't see him carrying the ball or catching the

918
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: ball because of his role. Why is he so important

919
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: to you? Yeah? Well, you know, he does something that

920
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: not a lot of people do, and that's embraced the

921
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 1: special teams role, and he takes a lot of pride

922
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: in that. And um, there's another good guy that played

923
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,720
Speaker 1: with the Bills a couple years ago that did that also,

924
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 1: Um should be in the Hall of Fame. Um, just

925
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: bias Boat, but yeah, I mean he takes a lot

926
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: of pride in that in that role, and he's also

927
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: leader for our football team, UM, and plays at a

928
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: high level every week he's out there. John, how are

929
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: you treating this brand new week, this preseason by the week?

930
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: Is it's really just simply the same as a regular

931
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: season by the week. Yeah, it's interesting, you know, Um,

932
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: We'll see if this is the case next year again.

933
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: But I'm a routine guy and you guys know that.

934
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get kind of my my handle

935
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: on this week and making sure I'm in the right

936
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: spot and what we're working on I'm supposed to be

937
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: working on and uh, serving our team the best way

938
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: that I can. So I'm figuring it out just like

939
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: everybody else here. Is probably the most he would keep

940
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: that defensive line. He said he would have loved to

941
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: keep twelve if Darryl Johnson sole part of the roster,

942
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: But coming from a defensive minded um approach, when you

943
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: see eleven guys a part of that group, I mean,

944
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: how does your brain start to churn with what you

945
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: can do with with that amount? Yeah, Um, it's great

946
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: that we have those options, Maddie. Um, now they got

947
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: to play and uh, you know, it's time to buckle

948
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: down and produce. And that's what I'm looking for from

949
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,240
Speaker 1: That's what we have to have from from that unit. Um,

950
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: we got to have it as an overall team for sure,

951
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: but they're going to be a big factor in that.

952
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: And um and so enough enough has been written about them,

953
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: No more writing about the d line. Now it's time

954
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: for them to produce, and uh, that's why we're here.

955
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 1: So are we Are you at a point now where

956
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: you begin work on Pittsburgh or are you still fine

957
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 1: tuning yourselves at this point? Yeah? Both, Chris Um, That's

958
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: what I was referring to, a little bit of trying

959
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: to find my way this week and how much we

960
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: work on how much I work on Pittsburgh, and how

961
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: much is again focusing on getting our roster right, getting

962
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: the practice squad right, getting things just from an administrative

963
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: standpoint across to the team that we need to cross

964
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: off our list this week. So it's been a little

965
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: bit of both and and it'll continue to be that

966
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: on until probably Monday. At this point, you've got a

967
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: lot of things. It's early, it's the season has begun.

968
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: What perspective did you draw from the three preseason games

969
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: and training camp with the three preseason games especially, and

970
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: how the team competed, how Mitch you know, how you

971
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: ran the ball against Detroit, how Mitch produced in the

972
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: first half against Chicago, and how just everything seemed to

973
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: work offensively against Lean Bay last week. Uh, you know,

974
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: it's it's it's never as good as you wanted to

975
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: be and it's never as bad as that you think

976
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: it is. So that's just saying and coaching. I think

977
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: I think perspective is important. Um. We know the toughest

978
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: tests are ahead, and that's that's a healthy mindset this

979
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: time of year, and that starts with Pittsburgh. UM. So

980
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 1: not to get ahead of ourselves. We got to practice

981
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: in front of us here. UM, So I think we

982
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: have to. You know, winning winning looks um. Winning comes

983
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,919
Speaker 1: in different forms, and winning looks different to some people

984
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: than others. One of my favorite drives from the or

985
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: moments from the game the other day the Green Bay

986
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: game was when we didn't have the success that we

987
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: wanted to have, um, because there's growth in there if

988
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: we handled the right way and uh and so certainly

989
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: great to move the ball like we did that first series,

990
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: but I think it was the second series we were

991
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: backed up on the one yard line. We're able to

992
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: get it out, but then the drive stalled, and so

993
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of of opportunity for growth there.

994
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: Sure we've seen great step forward and some reps with

995
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: the first team defense during the preseason games. Where would

996
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: you categorize where yeah, I think he's competing. Um, I

997
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: think again, his best football is ahead of him. He's

998
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: working in two or three different positions. He's also contributing

999
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: on special teams. So, um, you know, it's really interesting

1000
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: to look at it from that perspective because Joe, you know,

1001
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: Greg is a little bit more in one position, if

1002
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: you will, where Boogie's having to balance two or three

1003
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: or four positions, which early on is going to force

1004
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: him to process and think a little bit more. And

1005
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: once he gets through that, he'll play faster. And so

1006
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: I think he's he's getting better every day. Sean. Now

1007
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: that the you know, training camps over in the preseason,

1008
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: it's over positions that you had, you know, heavy competition at.

1009
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: Let's just say at that number two corner spot between

1010
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: Dane and LEVI are you still evaluating that competition or

1011
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: do you have a at this point have a pretty

1012
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: good idea of who is going to start there? Well? No,

1013
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I have a pretty good feel in

1014
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 1: my mind. But at the same time, we always compete

1015
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: every day. Um, these guys know, there's same for my job.

1016
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: There's a million people outside that that gate waiting to

1017
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: take my job, and I know they feel the same.

1018
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: So that's a healthy that's a healthy mentality that you

1019
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: can continue to grow every day and stay competitive and

1020
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: and know that these spots are earned daily. Um yeah,

1021
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: I mean that's the that's the business of the NFL.

1022
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: As they say, just strainingcamp. Um. I think in a

1023
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 1: lot of ways, Jay, it's been both on and off

1024
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: the field. Um. You just see a young man that's

1025
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm watching him now, he's out here early going through

1026
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:49,439
Speaker 1: his prepractice routine. I can tell you that it wasn't

1027
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: always the case. Um. You know, he's he's connecting himself

1028
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: to the situations that come up through the course of

1029
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: the game, which is a which is a challenge for

1030
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 1: young players coming from college to the NFL. UM. So,

1031
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: I think he's improving in a lot of a lot

1032
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: of different Areasations for him are always going to be

1033
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: a thing based on where he was drafted, whether that's

1034
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: amongst us or the fans. Um, how do you do

1035
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: you do? You do you discuss that with him, maybe

1036
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: not try to put too much on him, or how

1037
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: do you approach that? No, we I mean, listen, these

1038
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: guys are so aware of media expectations and things anymore

1039
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: due to these phones that are around me here and UM,

1040
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: I don't think that needs to be brought to someone's attention.

1041
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: If it does, we'll have to that's a question for

1042
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: Brandon why we drafted the guy. Um, But no, it's

1043
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: these guys know they know, UM that that's out there.

1044
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing is when you play

1045
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: that position. UM, there's a lot of unselfish traits that

1046
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: go with that position, and you're not always on the

1047
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: stat sheet, you're not always noticed on television or on

1048
01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 1: the news or on Sports center. But it's it's what happened,

1049
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: you know, kind of between the hedges, if you will.

1050
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: That that really factors into a game with your first

1051
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: team most of the day yesterday what that means who

1052
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: those But do you feel like you've got to handle

1053
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:16,439
Speaker 1: on the starting five on the offensive line and where

1054
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: are you in terms of how that fives came through

1055
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: because it was a revolving door last year. Yeah, No,

1056
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: it's that you know, continuity is important in all areas, UM.

1057
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: But again, I think it speaks to the trust that

1058
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: we have, in the depth that we have that there's

1059
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 1: still competition at that position along the front. UM. I

1060
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: thought Dion. You know, down if you go player by

1061
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: player across the front, Dion had a setback early and

1062
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: came back and he's he's coming back and he's playing

1063
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: better and better every day. And then you go to

1064
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: left guard with John, and John had a few days

1065
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: where he missed in there too, and UM, I think

1066
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: he's playing better every day. And then UM, go right

1067
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 1: on down the line. Right. But but we all have

1068
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: our own challenges and things that these guys are working on,

1069
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: So the competition continues there as well, and and UM

1070
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: and those guys know that. So we try and do

1071
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: our best to communicate, UM to everyone what the situation is,

1072
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: making the most of your opportunity. Dead and singletary not

1073
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: a ton of touches this preseason, but we made the

1074
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: most of thought looked explosive. What what were your takeaways

1075
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,439
Speaker 1: from not only his preseason? But he's springing up, Yeah,

1076
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 1: you know, I see the same thing. He's uh, he

1077
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 1: looks uh, I don't know if you want to say,

1078
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 1: in better shape, but he looks like he really worked

1079
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: this offseason. Not that he didn't work last offseason. I

1080
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:36,919
Speaker 1: know he did. He's just he's just cut that way.

1081
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: And uh, he's got, he's got burst to him this year,

1082
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 1: and when he's touched the ball, he's made he's made

1083
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: things happen and uh and then his past protection has

1084
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: been on point as well. So, um, he's caught the

1085
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: ball well out of the backfield, so he looks like

1086
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 1: he's in a good spot and ready to go. I'm

1087
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: not gonna say easier more efficient? Does it make everyone's job?

1088
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: Having kind of roster that Brandon and Joey built that

1089
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: he really all these guys and then you get a

1090
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: break back on the practice squab because they're your guys.

1091
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: You know, you're not getting gush from other organizations. You

1092
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: didn't even put any waiver claims in from a Brandon said,

1093
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: how much better does that get one's job? Guy? What's

1094
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 1: he doing? I know he was here, he said, he

1095
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 1: was here late the other night doing that stuff. Yeah. Yeah,

1096
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: years in the roster turnover versus basically what you have now.

1097
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: And that's yeah, yeah, I mean it's Um, I can

1098
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: tell you from a head coach, You're always like, hey man,

1099
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 1: what about this? What about this? What about this? And

1100
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure he gets tired of me knocking on his door. Um,

1101
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: but I think it shows confidence in the guys that

1102
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: we have and trust in the players that we have,

1103
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 1: and and that's what you want. Um. But I also

1104
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: know I have confidence and trust in Brandon and his

1105
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: staff that I know we joke about it, but I

1106
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: don't I know when when they're here, what they're doing,

1107
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:55,959
Speaker 1: and they're always on the hunt for improving our football team.

1108
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: And I think that that doesn't always happen everywhere. That

1109
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: that relationship between the head coach and the GM and

1110
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 1: his staff and my staff. So there's mutual respect and

1111
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: mutual trust, which I think helps us all do our

1112
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: jobs at a higher level. If you're not but you're

1113
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: guess familiar in Pittsworth that you who you've played the

1114
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: past two seasons, he is there. I don't want to

1115
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: say comfort, but at least you know who who who

1116
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 1: who that team is to a certain extent. Um. Well,

1117
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: I think if you're in the league long enough, you

1118
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 1: have a pretty good feel for who people are. And

1119
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 1: I feel like twenty some years now for myself, Um,

1120
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,560
Speaker 1: it's amazing how fast it goes. But yeah, I think

1121
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: there's people probably feel the same way about about me

1122
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: and about us that they feel like they know who

1123
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: we are. UM. So that's what makes it um special,

1124
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: that's what makes the competition levels so high. And uh,

1125
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: and we look forward to that. They're they're a good

1126
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: football team and uh we expect a very tough, tough

1127
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: game expect Uh no, you know we we probably stay

1128
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 1: in touch a couple of times a year. UM. I

1129
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 1: know he's going to have his football team ready to go.

1130
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: He's in the preseason game where Ben played. Um, I

1131
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 1: think it was Detroit. Um, I mean they looked really good.

1132
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, Gabe such a special person. Uh,

1133
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:27,439
Speaker 1: he's unique. Um, very mature for a young man. Even

1134
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: last year when he first got here, he saw the

1135
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: production on the field obviously, UM, he's really a He

1136
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: does a lot of things for this offense. He does

1137
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 1: a lot of things for this football team. He's one

1138
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: of the first guys in the weight room this morning.

1139
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: I mean, for again, for a young player to have

1140
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 1: those that DNA and those character traits, UM just says

1141
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: a lot about how he was raised by his mom

1142
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 1: and in the family he was brought up by perspective

1143
01:06:56,760 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: with Isam Johnson, Harrison Phillips relation to want, Yeah, it's

1144
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 1: it's still a projection at this point, Joe. So we'll

1145
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: see all three of those guys out here today in

1146
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: some in some capacity, you know. So we'll just take

1147
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 1: it one day at a time at this point. I

1148
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: don't know yet for sure. Yeah. So that's head coach

1149
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott addressing the media today. Covered a number of topics,

1150
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 1: and as I said earlier in the show, the one

1151
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: that interested me the most was the fact that Boogie

1152
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: Basham is handling a couple of roles defensively, position wise,

1153
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: assignment wise, and is also manning special teams. And I

1154
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised to see him in a similar role

1155
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: that was previously manned by Bam Johnson on special teams,

1156
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: being the same position type player who can run as

1157
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 1: well as Darryl Johnson. Wouldn't be surprised to see him

1158
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: on some kickoff and some other stuff. But he touched

1159
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: on a number of topics there. He's they're getting to

1160
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: work on Pittsburgh here, and they should. The percentages, however,

1161
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: are going to shift and change with each passing day

1162
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: as you get closer and closer to Tuesday. Knowing this

1163
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: team as the weekend off, you know, that's when the

1164
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: balance shifts to full blown game preparation mode on Tuesday, presumably,

1165
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:15,439
Speaker 1: if not Monday, and he had a lot of nice

1166
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 1: things to say about not only this, we've been talking

1167
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 1: about the defensive line and you know the trade with

1168
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: Bam Johnson and Boogie Basham, and he's he made it

1169
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: clear they got a play now. All that talk has

1170
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 1: been leading up to how great they are. Let's see

1171
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: it us a good transition for that. He also had

1172
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 1: nice things to say about Devin Singletary said he's done everything.

1173
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: He went down the list of skill sets that you know,

1174
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: it was about every skill set of running back needs

1175
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: to have, running with a football, toughness, balance, catching the

1176
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 1: ball out of the backfield, his where how he's been

1177
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: off the field, and his work ethic, the way he's

1178
01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 1: transformed his body and his offseason has really shown up

1179
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 1: this year. And also his pass protection is on point.

1180
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: So he had a lot of nice things to say

1181
01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: about a lot of guys on the roster. Um. It's

1182
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see, you know, if that

1183
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: translates into an enlarged role for Motor Singletary, or more

1184
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 1: snaps or a larger percentage of the snaps for Motor

1185
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 1: but a lot of good things to say about about

1186
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: his club and where they're at. Um. He kind of

1187
01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: joked about the fact that the Bills didn't put any

1188
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: claims in on anybody. Yeah, and he and he feigned

1189
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:32,800
Speaker 1: discussed with Brandon Bean about not being it, but your

1190
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 1: thirtieth in the claim can anybody he can put his

1191
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: make claims as you want. You're getting zero And we

1192
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 1: said yesterday across the league there were twenty seven guys

1193
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: claimed claimed twenty seven. It's less than one per team, obviously,

1194
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 1: although Jacksonville scooped up a couple of people right because

1195
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 1: they're number one of their first in the order, first

1196
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: in the order. That says a lot to me that

1197
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:03,439
Speaker 1: across the league, I think everybody kind of sees things

1198
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:05,680
Speaker 1: the same way. They got a pretty good handle on

1199
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: what these guys can and cannot do. Colly Warring, the

1200
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: Bill's newest practice squad member, has been through four teams

1201
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 1: in the last ten days. Yeah, So it'll let you

1202
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,679
Speaker 1: know that something. If you're out there in your commodity

1203
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: and you have some measurables you're gonna get, you're gonna

1204
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:25,639
Speaker 1: get checked out. But being signed and kept is another thing.

1205
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: There is some NFL news to discuss, and it concerns

1206
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. We had heard rumors that the Cowboys were

1207
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: considering Cam Newton after his release from the New England Patriots.

1208
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: But NFL Network Scene and Rappaport is reporting that the

1209
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 1: Cowboys have declared they are out on Cam Newton and

1210
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: the general consensus is it appears unlikely that he will

1211
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: sign with a club before the start of the regular season.

1212
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 1: Then there's this Steve we're all familiar with the Pat

1213
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 1: McAfee podcast, apparently in an interview that he had with

1214
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: NFL Networks and Rappaport, the Saints in considering where to

1215
01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:16,560
Speaker 1: play their displaced game Week one, which was supposed to

1216
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: be home in New Orleans against the Packers that has

1217
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:23,800
Speaker 1: been moved because of Hurricane Ida, the league kind of Jacksonville. Yeah,

1218
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 1: it's moved to Jacksonville. The league asked them, you know

1219
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,280
Speaker 1: where do you want to play this game? Here are

1220
01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: some options. The Saints said, we'll get back to you,

1221
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: and then proceeded to investigate not only Aaron Rodgers record

1222
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:41,679
Speaker 1: in the state of Florida, Texas and other places, they

1223
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: also investigated what plane flight would cost the most money

1224
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:50,880
Speaker 1: for Packers fans in the regions. They were examining where

1225
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: they would play this game. They found that Jacksonville would

1226
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: be the most expensive flight for Green Bay Packers fans,

1227
01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: and it went into the consideration and choosing jackson Just

1228
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: say this reportedly good for them. Leave no stone unturned.

1229
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 1: I could see Sean Payton doing that, couldn't you? I

1230
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:13,679
Speaker 1: could see any team doing that. That is a step

1231
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:16,760
Speaker 1: beyond because you are losing home field advantage, yes, no

1232
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: question by not playing in the Superdome. Well for instance,

1233
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: First of all, because trying to make a new nobody

1234
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 1: in New Orleans after getting crushed by another hurricane to

1235
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: a game two weeks later, it's going to spend the

1236
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: money to go to a game in another state, let

1237
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: alone Jacksonville, which has got to be at least a

1238
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 1: ten hour drive, right, So you knew home field was

1239
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 1: going away. Why not make it as tough as you

1240
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 1: can on the other team too. So there you have

1241
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 1: it that that does not surprise me at all. You know,

1242
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: you put stuff and we do it here at One

1243
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive of course as well, and on our show

1244
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: we put stuff out about our team team all the time.

1245
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: On the website, both written and video video, all of

1246
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 1: that stuff. You know this, every team on your schedule

1247
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 1: is going to go is going to review all of that.

1248
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 1: The Bills will review everything. The Jets put out, the

1249
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 1: Bills will review everything, and Patriots, the Dolphins put out

1250
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. They monitor all that website they want. They

1251
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 1: look at the background of guys doing shots at practice,

1252
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 1: they watch what's going on in practice. So it does

1253
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,559
Speaker 1: not surprise me that you find out how good does

1254
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:32,880
Speaker 1: your team play in Jacksonville, that's your opponent. How good

1255
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:36,280
Speaker 1: does your opponent play in Jacksonville? And if they if

1256
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: they stink, let's play it there. Yeah, because you've, like

1257
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 1: I was saying, you've lost home field advantage. At best,

1258
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:47,280
Speaker 1: it's a neutral site game. You know, as Steve pointed out,

1259
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: none of your fans. By the way, I looked at

1260
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: up at eight hours and fifteen minutes to drive from

1261
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:54,680
Speaker 1: New Orleans to Jacksonville. There's very few people doing that.

1262
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 1: They're trying to bail out their homes right from water.

1263
01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 1: If you can bail your car out in order to

1264
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,519
Speaker 1: it in it to drive, well, yeah, that's the other thing.

1265
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: Their cars are probably mostly underwater, so you're trying to

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01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:11,800
Speaker 1: avoid it becoming an away game. So yeah, make it

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01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: cost prohibitive for Green Bay fans to travel, although they

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01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: do tend to travel pretty well on the whole. In

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01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: a trip to Florida for anybody in Wisconsin is probably

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01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 1: an attractive thing. So it'll be interesting to see what

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01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: that atmosphere is like week one in Jacksonville. We have

1272
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:29,679
Speaker 1: to take a break, but when we come back, we

1273
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 1: hope to have some comments from a couple of players

1274
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 1: who spoke after practice today, among them Gabriel Davis. Will

1275
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:39,840
Speaker 1: get those out to you as soon as we can.

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01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: Coming up here in a bit on One Bill's Live

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01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back here

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01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live and as we mentioned to you,

1279
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,839
Speaker 1: a couple of players taking to the media after practice,

1280
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis and Levi Wallace. We have Gabriel Davis ready

1281
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:09,679
Speaker 1: to go now. So here is the second year wide receiver.

1282
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:13,639
Speaker 1: The offense was clicking out your Josh was talking about

1283
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 1: a chance to see this preseason. How much can you

1284
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: take away from that as momentum or confidence knowing that

1285
01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: you know things look good? Oh yeah, I mean we

1286
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 1: do a lot of work out here on the days

1287
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 1: that nobody's watching, and um, you all of a sudden

1288
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 1: you get to see him put together on those saturdays

1289
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: when we played our preseason games, and you know, we're ready,

1290
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 1: ready to play, ready to compete. We've got a lot

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01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: of great guys around us. Um seventeen is obviously the

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01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:40,400
Speaker 1: big guy that you know he's being QP. We got

1293
01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: the old line and the receiver is also that are

1294
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 1: helping out and doing everything they can to be successful.

1295
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: Candida Curiel, Oh yeah, on hundred percent of would carry.

1296
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: We have a standard and the expectation that we want

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01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: to reach every single weekend. I know we'll reach it here.

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01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:01,719
Speaker 1: About how much has it helped that when you're better

1299
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: here with three you know, talented maybe not three talented

1300
01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 1: experience veterans. Not for the point of view that why

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01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,280
Speaker 1: you need to learn from you which is obviously great,

1302
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: but that you're not asked to be a large producer

1303
01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: in this offense right away, that you can kind of

1304
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 1: do a little more learning and make it maybe progress

1305
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: a little slows out the right word, but at least

1306
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to learn before you have to do

1307
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:23,559
Speaker 1: with out the field. Oh yeah, like you said, being

1308
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 1: able to learn for those big three guys. Um, but

1309
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:28,360
Speaker 1: the best thing I know that I did this year

1310
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 1: was I was able to learn from him then take

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01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: it to the off season and put it together and

1312
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: figure out ways I could. I could bring all of

1313
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: their ideas together and their strengths and try to put

1314
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 1: them into my game. Um. You know, any anything can happen.

1315
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: You know, it can come from a small role to

1316
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:44,640
Speaker 1: a big role. Um. I feel like everybody role is

1317
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 1: important and I try to play mind the best ability

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01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 1: that I can. But um, blessed to have the guys

1319
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 1: that I have to be able to watch and learn

1320
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: from to become, you know, a better receiver. Here we

1321
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: get a little anty that all these things you learn

1322
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 1: and use the off season that you like to have

1323
01:16:57,760 --> 01:16:59,679
Speaker 1: more chances to show it on the field game day. Yeah,

1324
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: of course, I know a lot of guys just they

1325
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 1: had a lot more chances out there. But again, you

1326
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 1: got to know your role and execute the best way. Um.

1327
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:07,479
Speaker 1: I'm happy with the team that I'm part of. Couldn't

1328
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 1: ask for anything better right now, and you know, just

1329
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 1: happy to be here after the last ye. Same, what's

1330
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,599
Speaker 1: that to you? Just being such a young guy already

1331
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 1: in two years game trust. Yeah. No, it definitely means

1332
01:17:22,439 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 1: a lot, especially from a high caliber QB like Josh. Um.

1333
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 1: You come here being the new guy and you try to,

1334
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 1: um show these guys that you can compete and that

1335
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: you can perform to their level. And I feel like

1336
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: I did just that and was able to execute on

1337
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 1: every single opportunity was given to me and to be

1338
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: able to have his trust as everything last year and

1339
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: kind of implements. How are you feeling now? Yeah, of

1340
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 1: course there's definitely less nerves going out there every single day. UM,

1341
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 1: learning so much to be able to put it into

1342
01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: my game and be able to you know, um be

1343
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: an expert of it and come out here and be

1344
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:02,720
Speaker 1: able to do a lot of things different and do

1345
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 1: it well. No. Yeah, no, I like to uh, I

1346
01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:12,639
Speaker 1: like to have fun um you know again, especially when

1347
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,880
Speaker 1: it comes to scoring test sounds and being around the guys.

1348
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:17,559
Speaker 1: You put a lot of work in during the week,

1349
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,320
Speaker 1: and then you have to go out there and celebrate

1350
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:22,640
Speaker 1: when when it's uh put together. Catch I mean the

1351
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 1: route that you ran talked about how you guys have

1352
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 1: to be good practice that this training camp. Where did

1353
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: that all? How did that all come together. You just

1354
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:35,400
Speaker 1: saw something and Josh saw Yeah. Just basically yeah, just

1355
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 1: depending on turn on what the defense is given us. Um,

1356
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 1: we know a route to run based off of that,

1357
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 1: and you know, at the end of the day, maybe

1358
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: we haven't completed a pass like that, but at the

1359
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 1: end day, we know when we see that type of

1360
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 1: defense out there, we know where people are supposed to

1361
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: be and where the ball is supposed to be thrown.

1362
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:51,640
Speaker 1: How much did you know you had an egling that

1363
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 1: ball was coming. No, Yeah, as soon as I've seen

1364
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 1: the way the defense was set up and as long

1365
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: as everybody did their job the right way. Um, obviously

1366
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: the old line was able to keep Josh protective for

1367
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: a long time. I mean that was a deep route. Um,

1368
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 1: Dawson was able to get his guy to come down

1369
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:05,840
Speaker 1: and I was able to break it up over top

1370
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: and be able to get in the end zone. So

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01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: it was It felt great though. Yeah, is this these

1372
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 1: people talk to talk about how you're so knowledgeable of

1373
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 1: the playbook and this goes back to your rookie season

1374
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 1: when you had digs asking you where to line up.

1375
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:25,600
Speaker 1: I mean, is this part of that study? Is this

1376
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 1: part of that the thing that you've developed over the

1377
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:30,719
Speaker 1: course of you're you know when you started playing football

1378
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: that you've always talked about. Yeah, I know. Um, I

1379
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 1: knew again, like guys have each role, and I knew

1380
01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:39,880
Speaker 1: that I had to be a backup to Bees or

1381
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 1: E or it was Smoke at the time last year,

1382
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: or a Digs, and I knew I had to be

1383
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 1: able to go in and execute what they do every

1384
01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:48,680
Speaker 1: single day, um, and know every single position and every

1385
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: single play in that position. So it was just a

1386
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:53,799
Speaker 1: constant grind for me to be going home studying the playbook,

1387
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 1: coming here and getting with Chad, going over the plays

1388
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: before practice, um, and this constantly doing flash cards and

1389
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 1: just everything really helped me understand what's going on in

1390
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:03,599
Speaker 1: the place. So when I go out there, it's just

1391
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: I'm more worried about what to do with what the

1392
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: defense is giving me, then worried about what route I have.

1393
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 1: I've never played the receivers, so but I'm curious flash cards. Yeah,

1394
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:14,559
Speaker 1: what do you mean by flash cards? Oh, you write

1395
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: the play on the front and then you put the

1396
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 1: play on you. I mean you write the word of

1397
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:19,600
Speaker 1: the play on the front and then you write you

1398
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: draw the pictures on the back and you try to

1399
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: be able to say it obviously before you look at

1400
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:25,799
Speaker 1: it and be able to guess all the right stuff.

1401
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 1: How you scored all that. Oh, I've been doing it

1402
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 1: since I've been been in the NFL, for sure. It's

1403
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 1: helped me a whole month to learn every single position,

1404
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:35,480
Speaker 1: every single way. I feel like it's, you know, automatically

1405
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 1: the best way to do it. Also taking a whiteboard

1406
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 1: and drawn up to play every single time too as well.

1407
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 1: He was there one thing that you think you're better

1408
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: at this year than last year? I mean, one thing

1409
01:20:44,120 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 1: you want to be better at this year than last year. Um,

1410
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 1: just add adding some crafts from my routes, not keeping it,

1411
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: you know how the picture is, and kind of adding

1412
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 1: some new things to it to make it to disguise

1413
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 1: it a little bit more. Feel like I'm doing better

1414
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: in that way. And then also just being more comfortable

1415
01:20:58,080 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: on the field. What do you think your mentor, Um,

1416
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 1: that's hard. I mean, I got I got a lot

1417
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: of good guys ahead of me. Um Smoke took me

1418
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 1: in from the beginning, helped me get real comfortable with

1419
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:10,280
Speaker 1: the team, and I was really and you know, happy

1420
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: with that. You know, being able to have digs and

1421
01:21:13,240 --> 01:21:16,519
Speaker 1: bees and uh now e in front of me watching them,

1422
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:19,479
Speaker 1: you know, perform at the love they perform and it's

1423
01:21:19,479 --> 01:21:21,679
Speaker 1: just it's been a but again, there's so many guys

1424
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: that's helped me, um in the NFL, and you know,

1425
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 1: I just can't name the one, uh because I give

1426
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:39,160
Speaker 1: props to all of them. Where does that from? Um?

1427
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 1: You know, this is always a dream of mine? UM?

1428
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 1: And I remember, you know, my mom always told me, um,

1429
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, hard work, discipline and dedication. And I watched

1430
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 1: her get up early mornings and and and go to

1431
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:50,680
Speaker 1: work and be able to take care of us. And

1432
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:52,040
Speaker 1: I know I want to do the same thing for

1433
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: her and for my brothers and my sisters. So I

1434
01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 1: try to implement that into you know, my football regimen

1435
01:21:57,040 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 1: when it comes to doing things. Get up early, um

1436
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:02,400
Speaker 1: in the weight room, get my plays done, like I said,

1437
01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:04,679
Speaker 1: go look over the plays, Take care of my body,

1438
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 1: be able to be ready for Sunday. What did what

1439
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 1: did you do? She worked at a lot of different places,

1440
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:13,160
Speaker 1: you know, insurance comes to electric companies, but she'd be

1441
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 1: gone from you know, seven am to eleven pm something like,

1442
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 1: you know, just constantly working to be able to provide

1443
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 1: for us. What do you think about Connor McGregor shouting

1444
01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 1: you out? That's the best thinger, that's the king right there,

1445
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 1: Connor Gregors. UM. I love his story. UM, you know,

1446
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 1: the discipline and dedication he had to to his sport

1447
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: to love the craft. And he was definitely different um

1448
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:36,840
Speaker 1: in his time than anybody. And I still feel he's

1449
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 1: the best to this day and I give number love

1450
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:44,200
Speaker 1: and props to him. M yeah, exactly had to had you.

1451
01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: That's my favorite all time. You know UFC fighter, he's

1452
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: the best. UM. Just his attitude towards the game, how

1453
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:52,719
Speaker 1: confident he is, UM, how he speaks things into existance.

1454
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean it really shows you. You You know, when a

1455
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:57,400
Speaker 1: person believes into into themselves, you know how far I

1456
01:22:57,439 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 1: can take them? All right. That's Gabriel Davis addressing the

1457
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 1: media after practice today, Steve, how did you learn the

1458
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: plays in your playbook most effectively? We heard Gabriel Davis

1459
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: there say he uses flashcards, name of the play on

1460
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: the front, the diagram of the play on the back.

1461
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,040
Speaker 1: Did you have a similar means cards? What worked for

1462
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: you the best? What worked for me is walking through it.

1463
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 1: So you're a physical learning. Yeah, I'm gonna walk through guy. Also,

1464
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 1: film study helped some as well for some of the

1465
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: particularly when you're going against a defense. We can see

1466
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 1: what the defense did, so you'd know the proper adjustment.

1467
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:41,320
Speaker 1: If the defense does this, you do that. If they

1468
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:42,720
Speaker 1: if if you do this and they do that, you

1469
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:44,840
Speaker 1: do something else, that kind of thing. But yeah, for me,

1470
01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 1: it was a walkthrough thing that that really said it

1471
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: in my mind. That's interesting because scouts always talk when

1472
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: they are describing player prospects, They do that kind of

1473
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 1: homework to ascertain is this guy a visual learner who

1474
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:01,599
Speaker 1: can look at it on the board and take it

1475
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,599
Speaker 1: right to the field or are they a physical learner

1476
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: someone who has to rep it on the field to

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01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: get it to sink in, so to speak. Yeah, and

1478
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 1: there's different there's no one best way but right, but

1479
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 1: the understand you know, how to coach them. Yeah, coaching

1480
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:19,679
Speaker 1: coaches having the right understanding help guys pick it up faster.

1481
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: I know that there are times, and I've I've said

1482
01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 1: it on the show where these young players who are

1483
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,439
Speaker 1: down the roster, you know, the rookie free agents or

1484
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 1: whatever who you know, it's if they can go out there,

1485
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:32,360
Speaker 1: if they're smart enough to watch what's going on ahead

1486
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:34,800
Speaker 1: of them, watch the number ones and the number two's go,

1487
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:37,759
Speaker 1: watch them run through the play. Hear the play called,

1488
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,600
Speaker 1: watch them run through it. You get coached up and

1489
01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:44,880
Speaker 1: it's like taking a rep yourself. And because it happened

1490
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:46,920
Speaker 1: to me multiple times during my career where I'd get

1491
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,840
Speaker 1: in a game, in a preseason game running a play

1492
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:54,679
Speaker 1: that I'd never run through before myself physically, you gotta

1493
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 1: be ready for that. That's that's how hard it is

1494
01:24:56,560 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 1: to do, right. So your first rep is live against

1495
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: somebody else in a game that really matters a lot

1496
01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:05,639
Speaker 1: to you if it doesn't matter in the stand in

1497
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: the preseason game. Now, we also heard him mention the

1498
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:12,720
Speaker 1: fact that the touchdown play against the Packers was a

1499
01:25:12,840 --> 01:25:18,519
Speaker 1: choice route essentially. So maybe for the layman explain or

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01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 1: the casual fan explain what a choice route is for

1501
01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: a receiver, Well, the choice comes after the play is snapped.

1502
01:25:24,320 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 1: So you're running up the field and when you see

1503
01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 1: the either corner or the safety or whatever your key is,

1504
01:25:28,439 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: whatever you player you're going off of in this case

1505
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: is probably the safety. Gabe Davis goes up the field.

1506
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 1: If the safety comes over the top or meaning meaning

1507
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 1: out over to keep him from going deep, he'll he'll

1508
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:41,639
Speaker 1: break it to the inside of the field, away from

1509
01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: the safety, away from you, break away from the safety. Basically,

1510
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 1: if the safety comes towards you, you go away from him.

1511
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,400
Speaker 1: If he goes outside, you go inside. If he stays inside,

1512
01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: you go outside. That kind of thing. It's that simple.

1513
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: Those are also called option routes. Yeah, usually they if

1514
01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:01,800
Speaker 1: there's two words that mean the same thing, they'll give

1515
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: him to different players. The slot receiver, it will be

1516
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 1: called a choice, an option route. The outside guy will

1517
01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 1: be called a choice route. That kind of thing. So

1518
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:12,759
Speaker 1: you know that when that thing comes up, it's a choice.

1519
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:15,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's not your choice, it's your Your route

1520
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,120
Speaker 1: would be an option route. The other guys is called

1521
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 1: a choice. So that's and that's part of the thing

1522
01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: about loot learning a different position. Yeah, so I always

1523
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:31,160
Speaker 1: found the choice route description interesting because it's it's not

1524
01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 1: a choice. You're reacting based on what the safety does.

1525
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:37,559
Speaker 1: You're not choosing anything. The safety is choosing where he

1526
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 1: wants to go. You just go in the opposite direction

1527
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: because of the choice that guy made. Well maybe that's

1528
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 1: why they call it a choice route. The safety made

1529
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 1: that choice. You're doing this maybe, but what a lot

1530
01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:49,120
Speaker 1: of it, what it was fascinated by? The origin is

1531
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: what is what you said about verbiage. When you use

1532
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 1: a word, it's everybody has to know what it means

1533
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 1: or it has to be irrelevant to everybody else in

1534
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:00,920
Speaker 1: the huddle. So if you say why choice or Z

1535
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:05,679
Speaker 1: choice or H choice or Z option, those are different.

1536
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: A Z option and a Z choice are two different things.

1537
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: Sounds kind of the same, but it's different and it

1538
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:15,639
Speaker 1: means different things. So if you know, if you're coming

1539
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: out of the huddle, there's only certain word keywords that

1540
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: you catch on the in the play call because everything

1541
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 1: else is talking to the other ten guys in the huddle.

1542
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 1: So having words like choice an option and makes it

1543
01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 1: clear or more clear exactly what they're talking about. Even

1544
01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 1: though the words choice and option mean kind of the

1545
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: same thing, they're completely different and they mean different things

1546
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 1: to different guys in the huddle. And so yeah, choice

1547
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:47,679
Speaker 1: route mean that in the case of this route means

1548
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 1: he gets to choose whether he's going in or out.

1549
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:57,920
Speaker 1: And if it's an option route, it's different, something different.

1550
01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: I think now we're learning why people have to studies

1551
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 1: so much at that position. So it's because you have

1552
01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 1: to you have to recog I mean, it's one thing

1553
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: to be told you have a choice. Now you have

1554
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:09,880
Speaker 1: to make the right choice based on what you're seeing

1555
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: in the snap of a finger. And then hope your

1556
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 1: quarterback see he's the same thing when your choice it means.

1557
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:16,600
Speaker 1: And then there's a choice and an option route, and

1558
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 1: then there's a read route. You know, the same thing.

1559
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:21,679
Speaker 1: You read what the defense does, and the choice route,

1560
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 1: same thing. It's all the same thing, except it applies differently,

1561
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,479
Speaker 1: so that yeah, and so it's not an absolutely yeah

1562
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 1: a read You read the defense and here's the thing

1563
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:36,120
Speaker 1: and the quarterback and you are looking at the same

1564
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 1: guy when he does this, we're both going to do that.

1565
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: The quarterbacks is gonna throw it over here. That's because

1566
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:41,799
Speaker 1: you're going to go to the same place the quarterback

1567
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:45,000
Speaker 1: sees it. So when when you read it differently than

1568
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 1: the quarterback does, you got some problems. And that's when

1569
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: the broadcaster says, oh, there was a miscommunication on that play. Yes, yeah,

1570
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: he broke off his route and the quarterback through it

1571
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 1: long that kind of stuff, right, Um, yeah, the verbic.

1572
01:28:57,840 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 1: And it's interesting. You don't just go out there and say, hey,

1573
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:03,639
Speaker 1: go over there and do that thing. You know, right,

1574
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:08,600
Speaker 1: so it used to be and you'll get this sometimes

1575
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:12,120
Speaker 1: like you got this, you got this big time receiver.

1576
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 1: Um Like I heard. I heard a play call from

1577
01:29:15,439 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: Steve Young to Jerry Rice one time NFL films and

1578
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 1: he Steve Young calls the route and it's obviously going

1579
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:24,320
Speaker 1: to the other side of the formation from Jerry Rice.

1580
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:28,679
Speaker 1: But on the way out, Young tells Jerry, Jerry, give

1581
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 1: me something creative over there against cloud coverage, so meaning

1582
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:35,599
Speaker 1: if they get cloud coverage, which is kind of an

1583
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:40,000
Speaker 1: off corner, this route over here may be stymied a

1584
01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 1: little bit. So he's given Jerry Rice, Hall of Famer

1585
01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:47,040
Speaker 1: best receiver ever, say give me something creative freedom, Yes,

1586
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 1: get open basically just do basically saying just do that thing,

1587
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:54,960
Speaker 1: that thing that you do and and if everything and

1588
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:59,880
Speaker 1: if everything hits the fan to do, I'll find you.

1589
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:04,600
Speaker 1: And that's kind of you know, because on mostly the

1590
01:30:04,640 --> 01:30:06,680
Speaker 1: play goes as playing Jerry's an afterthought, which for a

1591
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 1: number one receiver is not in place you want to be.

1592
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:10,920
Speaker 1: So Steve Young throws him a bone and says, hey,

1593
01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 1: do give me something creative. Just keep him interested so

1594
01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:18,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't just stand over there and watch. So it's

1595
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:23,120
Speaker 1: it's a complex group, right, So you know a quarter

1596
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: that's why quarterbacks are Paul of famers and not and

1597
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:29,880
Speaker 1: a rarity. Steve Young, in a play that doesn't involve

1598
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:33,640
Speaker 1: his number one receiver, massages his number one receiver, saying, hey,

1599
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 1: I'm not forgetting about you, which keeps him interested in

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01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:39,800
Speaker 1: a play where he's not involved so he doesn't get

1601
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:42,800
Speaker 1: his teeth knocked out if everything hits the fan, right,

1602
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: there's incentive. There's that too, there's incentive to keep his

1603
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 1: number one receiver interested. Oh boy, the most scripted game

1604
01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:58,360
Speaker 1: in the world can somehow be loose and free flowing

1605
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:01,719
Speaker 1: as well. In some instances, say it only becomes interesting

1606
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:04,960
Speaker 1: when everything hits the fan's right. Break time for us.

1607
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:06,720
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get to more of your

1608
01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:09,840
Speaker 1: comments on the tweet. Cheetahs. We want to know which

1609
01:31:09,880 --> 01:31:13,280
Speaker 1: player's role are you most curious about going into the

1610
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 1: regular season, because there's a handful of players on this

1611
01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 1: roster whose roles we may not know completely just yet.

1612
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:24,000
Speaker 1: Some are multifaceted. Which one are you most interested in

1613
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:26,679
Speaker 1: seeing Come week one, we'll get some of your comments.

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Speaker 1: to do so. Wanted to get back to the tweet

1633
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 1: sheet as we were asking you find folks whose role

1634
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 1: on the bills are you most curious about come the

1635
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 1: regular season. We've got some players filling some multifaceted roles.

1636
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 1: We've got some newcomers, and we are interested in seeing

1637
01:32:58,479 --> 01:33:02,120
Speaker 1: what those role ares. Those roles are Emmanuel Sanders, for example,

1638
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: Steve which you mentioned before we even got on the air.

1639
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:08,240
Speaker 1: After seeing what he did in the Green Bay Packers game,

1640
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:10,240
Speaker 1: you have to be excited about what his role is

1641
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:12,519
Speaker 1: going to look like going forward in the scope of

1642
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: this offense. So there are plenty of choices to choose

1643
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 1: from people. Brandt, however, is saying it's Gilliam for me.

1644
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 1: With his position flexibility, It'll be interesting how Dabel will

1645
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:27,160
Speaker 1: use him and where he will line up during games,

1646
01:33:27,160 --> 01:33:30,760
Speaker 1: how much motion he will have with him starting him

1647
01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 1: in a fullback spot, then putting him in motion to

1648
01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:34,519
Speaker 1: the end of the line to block or go out

1649
01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:40,040
Speaker 1: for a pass. It intrigues me. Yes, I can get along.

1650
01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:42,439
Speaker 1: I can get on board with that. I think that

1651
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:48,360
Speaker 1: maybe worth overthinking it a little bit because there's only

1652
01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:51,000
Speaker 1: two real tight ends on the field. He's one of

1653
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:53,559
Speaker 1: the four running backs that they'll probably have active. Maybe

1654
01:33:53,680 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 1: maybe all five will be active. I kind of doubt that,

1655
01:33:56,840 --> 01:33:58,600
Speaker 1: or maybe that maybe they will be because of the

1656
01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:03,160
Speaker 1: tight end situation. But it it's intriguing as to what

1657
01:34:03,320 --> 01:34:06,599
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like. And I think more so in

1658
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:09,519
Speaker 1: the percentage of plays that the ball is going to

1659
01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 1: be thrown and the percentage it's gonna be run. I

1660
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:16,479
Speaker 1: think it's an maybe. And I'm feeling it this knee

1661
01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:18,640
Speaker 1: jerk reaction I'm having. It's like, maybe it's gonna go

1662
01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 1: to sixty five thirty five this year pass to run

1663
01:34:22,560 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 1: good it was sixty forty or sixty nine. That's very heavy.

1664
01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:32,320
Speaker 1: I keep thinking back to the to the nineties and

1665
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:36,640
Speaker 1: the eighties early nineties when the Houston Oilers made that

1666
01:34:36,760 --> 01:34:42,880
Speaker 1: full blown commitment to go run and shoot Davis and

1667
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:45,120
Speaker 1: they scored. They got to the playoffs and they were

1668
01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 1: scoring a ton of points on people, and they were

1669
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:51,400
Speaker 1: tough to beat. But when it came time back then,

1670
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 1: you still had to it came time in games where

1671
01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 1: you had to line up and run the ball, and

1672
01:34:56,560 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 1: they didn't have any tight ends. Yeah, so it was

1673
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:05,719
Speaker 1: an issue for them. They couldn't overcome, so um, it'll

1674
01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:08,519
Speaker 1: be interesting. I you know, if that same thing is

1675
01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 1: happening is going to happen to the Bills, if they

1676
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:13,840
Speaker 1: do go that high and their ratios run to pass,

1677
01:35:14,120 --> 01:35:18,559
Speaker 1: pass to run. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna see if I

1678
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,639
Speaker 1: have time to look up who had the highest passing

1679
01:35:21,720 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 1: percentage based on play calls. You probably get one off

1680
01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 1: a one off. I know the Bills were sixty one

1681
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:31,360
Speaker 1: thirty nine last year passed to run. I think the

1682
01:35:31,439 --> 01:35:34,040
Speaker 1: Chiefs were up there, which you know wouldn't surprise you,

1683
01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:37,240
Speaker 1: along with some other teams like Arizona. I'd like to see,

1684
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: like all time, if there was a team that, oh

1685
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:43,400
Speaker 1: chucked it that much, that chucked it a lot, and

1686
01:35:43,439 --> 01:35:45,840
Speaker 1: I think the Oilers would owners would be up there. Yeah,

1687
01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:49,800
Speaker 1: they would maybe, no question, greatest show on turf team. Yeah,

1688
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:53,040
Speaker 1: you but they had Marshall Falk as well. Yeah. They

1689
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:54,880
Speaker 1: threw to him a lot though out of the backfield. Yeah,

1690
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:58,720
Speaker 1: he was, he was an all timer. Oh that that's

1691
01:35:58,760 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: interesting to me and I yeah, I don't word it.

1692
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:02,880
Speaker 1: Maybe you know where to look for that. Yeah, I'll

1693
01:36:02,880 --> 01:36:04,439
Speaker 1: see if I can dig it up here. Nick on

1694
01:36:04,479 --> 01:36:06,240
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, I want to see what we

1695
01:36:06,360 --> 01:36:09,679
Speaker 1: do with Rousseau. I came into this season thinking he'd

1696
01:36:09,680 --> 01:36:13,680
Speaker 1: be a developing player who'd we grad who we'd gradually

1697
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:16,120
Speaker 1: introduce into the lineup. But after the preseason he looks

1698
01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 1: like he's ready to start and rush the passer every day. Yeah,

1699
01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:22,559
Speaker 1: I mean we If the starting lineup against the Packers

1700
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:26,400
Speaker 1: is any indication, Steve, I mean Rousseau started at a

1701
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:29,720
Speaker 1: left defensive end against them, with Jerry on the other

1702
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:32,240
Speaker 1: side and Ed Oliver and Star Latoula in the middle,

1703
01:36:32,920 --> 01:36:36,600
Speaker 1: that could be your starting front four on September twelfth.

1704
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:39,400
Speaker 1: I mean, not that it's a big deal, because you

1705
01:36:39,439 --> 01:36:44,599
Speaker 1: know they rotate a lot, they rotatem, But I still

1706
01:36:44,640 --> 01:36:46,920
Speaker 1: I think that's I think it's interesting to think about

1707
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:51,280
Speaker 1: if how is he going to play a ton? Is he?

1708
01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:53,639
Speaker 1: They are they that impressed with him. I think he's

1709
01:36:53,640 --> 01:36:56,679
Speaker 1: gonna play a good amount. I really do. I think

1710
01:36:56,760 --> 01:37:00,360
Speaker 1: once he can convince them he was cape bull of

1711
01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:03,840
Speaker 1: setting the edge and playing the run effectively with his length.

1712
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 1: That gave them the green light to say, oh, we

1713
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 1: don't just have to bring him out on the field

1714
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:10,760
Speaker 1: when it's third, eight, nine or ten. Think about it.

1715
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:13,680
Speaker 1: They're not gonna They wouldn't be think what they did

1716
01:37:13,680 --> 01:37:17,800
Speaker 1: with aj Epessa last year. He didn't play. He didn't

1717
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:20,040
Speaker 1: even suit up for the first two games. Yeah, So

1718
01:37:20,080 --> 01:37:25,000
Speaker 1: it's not like they feel obligated. No, they don't care

1719
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:27,880
Speaker 1: what it looks like. And if he comes out there

1720
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:33,679
Speaker 1: and steps on the field week one, then and even

1721
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:37,519
Speaker 1: as much progress as we've seen from aj Epanessa, what's

1722
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: that say? How far Russeau's come and how much better

1723
01:37:42,320 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: and Epanessa's gotten and Russa's ahead of him already, He

1724
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:49,960
Speaker 1: can't feel like he's reached full potential in week one

1725
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:54,400
Speaker 1: of his rookie season. So the upside on Rousseau goes

1726
01:37:54,439 --> 01:37:56,800
Speaker 1: through the roof, much like it did for Josh Allen.

1727
01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:58,160
Speaker 1: If you could hang in there with him for the

1728
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:03,240
Speaker 1: first couple of years, it's really fun to think about. Yeah,

1729
01:38:03,240 --> 01:38:05,040
Speaker 1: because I think he's gonna play a lot more than

1730
01:38:05,080 --> 01:38:07,600
Speaker 1: Ajpiness it did as a rookie. I really do. I

1731
01:38:07,720 --> 01:38:09,640
Speaker 1: do too, Yeah, I do too, And I think a

1732
01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:13,400
Speaker 1: Japiness is gonna he's gonna play a lot too. Yeah.

1733
01:38:13,439 --> 01:38:17,880
Speaker 1: They got some horses, man, they got some horses. All Right,

1734
01:38:17,880 --> 01:38:20,400
Speaker 1: we have to take a break here, But when we return,

1735
01:38:20,680 --> 01:38:24,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Bill's cornerback Levi Wallace, who will

1736
01:38:24,120 --> 01:38:27,800
Speaker 1: undoubtedly be asked for his thoughts on the CB two competition,

1737
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:30,680
Speaker 1: which is still ongoing according to head coach Sean McDermott.

1738
01:38:31,040 --> 01:38:33,439
Speaker 1: And we also have coming up at the bottom of

1739
01:38:33,439 --> 01:38:38,240
Speaker 1: the hour, the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate. We'll see

1740
01:38:38,280 --> 01:38:40,720
Speaker 1: if Steve can guess which teammate we're describing with the

1741
01:38:40,760 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 1: cryptic clues that we provide every single week. It's all

1742
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:46,840
Speaker 1: coming up later here on one Bill's Live, presented by

1743
01:38:46,880 --> 01:39:06,599
Speaker 1: Kalia Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker

1744
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:09,360
Speaker 1: who has been all all the fields. Kind of unique.

1745
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:11,040
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role of pleasure for you,

1746
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:17,920
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated bear

1747
01:39:18,280 --> 01:39:25,280
Speaker 1: of normalcy here, all right, our number three and it's

1748
01:39:25,320 --> 01:39:28,680
Speaker 1: time to go back out to the sidelines, where Levi

1749
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:33,479
Speaker 1: Wallace addressed the media after practice, still in the throes

1750
01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:36,080
Speaker 1: of a competition for the CB two spot. According to

1751
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:39,960
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott, so here is the fourth year

1752
01:39:40,160 --> 01:39:48,280
Speaker 1: cornerback Levi Wallace addressing the media. My head old A Thomason, no,

1753
01:39:48,400 --> 01:39:52,160
Speaker 1: just messing. I feel better though. I feel better. Um,

1754
01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:54,920
Speaker 1: it was a I don't know the medical term, but

1755
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:57,760
Speaker 1: it needs a heal and um, it feels better, a

1756
01:39:57,760 --> 01:39:59,960
Speaker 1: lot better. I mean, the training stops done a great job.

1757
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:03,120
Speaker 1: So I'm moving back high was before. Still a little sore,

1758
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:06,760
Speaker 1: but like I said, I'm not eighteen anymore. Not like

1759
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:10,120
Speaker 1: I used to just get up and I'm feeling it now.

1760
01:40:10,160 --> 01:40:13,559
Speaker 1: You used to get up and run. Um, But yeah,

1761
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:16,360
Speaker 1: I feel a lot better. Thanks for asking. The competition, Um,

1762
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:19,439
Speaker 1: you know it's been a healthy one. How do you

1763
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:21,320
Speaker 1: feel about it? As you go into the Steelers game?

1764
01:40:21,400 --> 01:40:23,479
Speaker 1: You feel like you've got to lock down at least

1765
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:25,840
Speaker 1: for now, and that's I'm out there's just trying to

1766
01:40:25,880 --> 01:40:28,920
Speaker 1: make plays. I don't know anything about competition. That it's

1767
01:40:29,080 --> 01:40:31,920
Speaker 1: question for Leslie and Sean. I'm just out there trying

1768
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:34,000
Speaker 1: to do the best I can for my team. What

1769
01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:37,920
Speaker 1: We've asked you a million times, the same questions for years.

1770
01:40:38,040 --> 01:40:40,800
Speaker 1: I know you're tired of him, but you just seem

1771
01:40:40,840 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 1: so comfortable with competition. How does one and how do

1772
01:40:45,600 --> 01:40:52,080
Speaker 1: you become comfortable in that setting? I think just in

1773
01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:55,240
Speaker 1: in in this league, that's that's just comes with a job.

1774
01:40:55,479 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 1: I mean, football is competing, so if you don't want

1775
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 1: to compete, you shouldn't be in the league. And that's

1776
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:04,680
Speaker 1: just my mindset. I want to be the best, um.

1777
01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:06,839
Speaker 1: I want to be better than t White, to be honest.

1778
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:09,559
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's, like I said once once before

1779
01:41:09,640 --> 01:41:11,839
Speaker 1: that he's one of the best corners I've ever seen play,

1780
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 1: and he pushes me each and every day. So that's

1781
01:41:15,040 --> 01:41:17,720
Speaker 1: my goal. You know, that might be the league. But

1782
01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:20,679
Speaker 1: you go off on the side every day with Trey

1783
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:24,200
Speaker 1: and George and Bank. No one's ever asking them questions

1784
01:41:24,200 --> 01:41:25,840
Speaker 1: about how you're going to fight off the rookie that's

1785
01:41:25,880 --> 01:41:27,960
Speaker 1: in this year or this new guy they signed. Like

1786
01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 1: John said, the question we've been asking you every year,

1787
01:41:30,560 --> 01:41:32,640
Speaker 1: do you ever sit there and wonder, you know what

1788
01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 1: it would be like to be that guy? Did not

1789
01:41:34,320 --> 01:41:36,680
Speaker 1: have to do this and answer this question every year.

1790
01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:38,800
Speaker 1: I think you guys are gonna ask the questions you

1791
01:41:38,800 --> 01:41:41,840
Speaker 1: want to ask regardless, so it doesn't really bother me.

1792
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:43,280
Speaker 1: I don't have any control of your the questions you

1793
01:41:43,320 --> 01:41:45,160
Speaker 1: guys ask. I just answered them as best as I can.

1794
01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:49,559
Speaker 1: You know, to be the position where you know no

1795
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 1: one's questioning you're starting a position. No one's questioning the job,

1796
01:41:52,720 --> 01:41:54,280
Speaker 1: no one. No one's looking at Tree and White. That

1797
01:41:54,280 --> 01:41:57,040
Speaker 1: guy might lose the job. You know, that's your progative.

1798
01:41:57,360 --> 01:41:59,439
Speaker 1: I don't think that. You know, and like I said,

1799
01:41:59,439 --> 01:42:01,880
Speaker 1: go back to the petition. They might not think that

1800
01:42:01,960 --> 01:42:04,160
Speaker 1: they have to compete for their jobs, but they have

1801
01:42:04,200 --> 01:42:09,479
Speaker 1: to compete against me and everything. I mean, that's in basketball, golf, hockey.

1802
01:42:09,520 --> 01:42:11,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just a competitive regardless, and I think

1803
01:42:11,920 --> 01:42:13,920
Speaker 1: if you ask this guy's the same question. I mean,

1804
01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:16,240
Speaker 1: I think we've all been through trials at some point

1805
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:18,320
Speaker 1: of our lives. Maybe now they're not getting those questions,

1806
01:42:18,320 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 1: but I guarantee maybe once before they're getting those questions.

1807
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:24,479
Speaker 1: So that's that's just comes with the job. With the territory.

1808
01:42:24,640 --> 01:42:27,360
Speaker 1: Do you think this defense needs to be better than

1809
01:42:27,400 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: it was last year? I mean probably maybe in several ways.

1810
01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:32,240
Speaker 1: EI think it needs to be better this year than

1811
01:42:32,320 --> 01:42:35,280
Speaker 1: last year. I think I think we just need to execute,

1812
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit better. I think it comes

1813
01:42:37,720 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 1: down to players making place. And I think me personally,

1814
01:42:41,160 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 1: I didn't make enough place um and I can speak

1815
01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:45,840
Speaker 1: for myself, So that's what I've focused on this this

1816
01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:47,960
Speaker 1: training camp. Just being the best version that I can

1817
01:42:48,040 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 1: for myself, for my team, and just allowing myself to

1818
01:42:51,160 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 1: play a little bit more freer. So it's not about

1819
01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:56,599
Speaker 1: the defense as a whole. I can't answer that question.

1820
01:42:56,640 --> 01:42:58,880
Speaker 1: I'm not the whole defense. I'm just talking from my

1821
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,799
Speaker 1: perspective moment. Difficult last year for you guys. After twenty nineteen,

1822
01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:05,680
Speaker 1: you guys were really good, especially in pass defense. Was

1823
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:08,000
Speaker 1: it tough the first half of the year. I mean,

1824
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:09,840
Speaker 1: this offense was putting up a lot of points, so

1825
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 1: the other team was always in past mode, but you

1826
01:43:12,360 --> 01:43:14,600
Speaker 1: guys were giving up a lot of points in a

1827
01:43:14,600 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 1: lot of yards the first half. Was that difficult to

1828
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:19,880
Speaker 1: go through? I think it was just an adjustment, Like

1829
01:43:19,880 --> 01:43:22,920
Speaker 1: like you said, UM, years past, I don't think we've

1830
01:43:22,920 --> 01:43:25,680
Speaker 1: ever put up that many points that fast before, UM,

1831
01:43:26,120 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 1: And so we had to adjust our mindset and our playset. UM,

1832
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:33,160
Speaker 1: just going up on teams making them throw the ball

1833
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:36,360
Speaker 1: as fast as they did. UM. Where before we had

1834
01:43:36,400 --> 01:43:38,240
Speaker 1: a lot of going against a lot offices that were

1835
01:43:38,320 --> 01:43:41,040
Speaker 1: much more balanced were running and passing. So UM, we

1836
01:43:41,040 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 1: had to adjust for sure, UM. But I think I

1837
01:43:44,439 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 1: think that's just building on to this year. UM. So

1838
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:50,880
Speaker 1: we can be back balanced again next knowing you've had

1839
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:53,439
Speaker 1: some success against the Steelers and knowing that that's the

1840
01:43:53,439 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 1: team you get to open against. I think, you know,

1841
01:43:57,040 --> 01:44:00,280
Speaker 1: you can't really body yourself on who you've played in

1842
01:44:00,280 --> 01:44:03,000
Speaker 1: the past. You know, they're different coordinators, different players on

1843
01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:05,240
Speaker 1: the team. UM. To be honest, I haven't even looked

1844
01:44:05,240 --> 01:44:06,960
Speaker 1: at the Stealers yet, so I have to go back

1845
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 1: and look at the the preseason games and see how

1846
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:13,679
Speaker 1: they're attacking defenses so far. But year to year things change.

1847
01:44:13,880 --> 01:44:15,479
Speaker 1: And I think just as well as I have a

1848
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:17,439
Speaker 1: book on them and what I think they would like

1849
01:44:17,439 --> 01:44:19,880
Speaker 1: to do, I'm sure they have some plays that they

1850
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 1: want to beat on the defense as well. So um

1851
01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:25,639
Speaker 1: and make it for the mistakes that they made last year. UM,

1852
01:44:25,880 --> 01:44:27,720
Speaker 1: and we want to correct the mistakes you made as well.

1853
01:44:29,360 --> 01:44:31,519
Speaker 1: How many is it and special do you think it

1854
01:44:31,600 --> 01:44:34,920
Speaker 1: is to be back again with Trey and with Micah

1855
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,040
Speaker 1: and Jordan. That group really hasn't changed over the last

1856
01:44:38,120 --> 01:44:41,679
Speaker 1: few years. I mean, as as a corner, who's who's

1857
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:44,679
Speaker 1: been around here for a few seasons. I mean, how

1858
01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:49,799
Speaker 1: nice is it to know that group doesn't change frequently? Yeah?

1859
01:44:49,840 --> 01:44:53,720
Speaker 1: I think Maddie it's a it's specials. It's unheard of,

1860
01:44:54,040 --> 01:44:56,519
Speaker 1: I think for a group of dbs to be together

1861
01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 1: this long. Um. You know, those guys are my brothers,

1862
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:02,400
Speaker 1: and we've been through just outside of football, just life

1863
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:05,760
Speaker 1: to going together and so that's been real special to me. UM.

1864
01:45:05,840 --> 01:45:09,200
Speaker 1: And you know Mica and employer year nine now UM,

1865
01:45:09,240 --> 01:45:11,880
Speaker 1: and they've seen so much UM. And I think just

1866
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:14,680
Speaker 1: the chemistry that we all have together has been just

1867
01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:17,400
Speaker 1: tremendous on and off, on and off the field. And

1868
01:45:17,400 --> 01:45:19,200
Speaker 1: I think that just go ties back into what I

1869
01:45:19,280 --> 01:45:21,840
Speaker 1: was saying, Like we're brothers, but we also compete in

1870
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:25,719
Speaker 1: cornhole and golf and basketball. And I told Mica he'd

1871
01:45:25,720 --> 01:45:27,880
Speaker 1: never beat me again in anything. It doesn't matter of paper,

1872
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:30,439
Speaker 1: rock scissors. That's just who we are. We're like brothers

1873
01:45:30,439 --> 01:45:32,719
Speaker 1: who like family. We pick on each other and laugh

1874
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:36,360
Speaker 1: and joke and cry and share each other's pain. So UM.

1875
01:45:36,479 --> 01:45:38,559
Speaker 1: Even when Terreen, me and him came came in together

1876
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:41,040
Speaker 1: and I met him at the Senior Bowl and it's

1877
01:45:41,080 --> 01:45:42,559
Speaker 1: just been great just getting to know him and his

1878
01:45:42,640 --> 01:45:44,600
Speaker 1: family as well. So it's real special and I've a

1879
01:45:44,600 --> 01:45:47,639
Speaker 1: real special boad with those guys. Just gotten the point

1880
01:45:47,720 --> 01:45:50,679
Speaker 1: where you try to know. I mean, you know where

1881
01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:53,719
Speaker 1: Mike is gonna be, where you know where everybody's gonna

1882
01:45:53,760 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 1: be in the defensive backfield. And I don't sho like

1883
01:45:56,560 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 1: given out familiar to you. Guys are with each other. Yeah, absolutely,

1884
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:02,679
Speaker 1: I think that's what makes it easy. Um, And it's

1885
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 1: just gotten easier and easier each and every year. Just

1886
01:46:05,280 --> 01:46:07,160
Speaker 1: knowing that those guys are gonna be where they say

1887
01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:10,040
Speaker 1: they're at, um vice versa. They can trust me where

1888
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:12,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be where I sat at. And it's easy

1889
01:46:12,080 --> 01:46:14,400
Speaker 1: just to talk to those guys and go on, go

1890
01:46:14,439 --> 01:46:17,439
Speaker 1: on the sideline and make adjustments that some guys it

1891
01:46:17,479 --> 01:46:20,760
Speaker 1: takes five minutes, ten minutes to get things going with us.

1892
01:46:20,760 --> 01:46:23,400
Speaker 1: There's so much trust. We say what we see and

1893
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:26,080
Speaker 1: then we keep it moving. I make those adjustments so fast.

1894
01:46:26,160 --> 01:46:28,400
Speaker 1: So it's been great being being a part of the

1895
01:46:28,439 --> 01:46:31,400
Speaker 1: second Dary. How different is that when you first stepped

1896
01:46:31,439 --> 01:46:33,679
Speaker 1: into that role? I mean House, you know he would

1897
01:46:33,720 --> 01:46:35,960
Speaker 1: call back, you know a few years back, Like I

1898
01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:40,120
Speaker 1: like I said, it's it's it's developed over time, and uh,

1899
01:46:40,720 --> 01:46:42,800
Speaker 1: it's just gotten stronger each and every year. I mean

1900
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:46,800
Speaker 1: I came in rookie year, maybe week nine week ten maybe,

1901
01:46:47,400 --> 01:46:52,000
Speaker 1: And I when I first met Jordan and Mica, I

1902
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:53,880
Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect, you know. I'd come in

1903
01:46:53,880 --> 01:46:55,920
Speaker 1: and seeing their pictures all over the place, and I

1904
01:46:55,960 --> 01:46:58,360
Speaker 1: was like, man, he's got some bullies, like they're not

1905
01:46:58,400 --> 01:47:01,759
Speaker 1: even gonna like me. And there's such such nice, great

1906
01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:05,120
Speaker 1: men um on and off, on and off the field.

1907
01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:09,840
Speaker 1: So uh, it's kind of like a brother brother relationship.

1908
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,439
Speaker 1: Leaf I as an undrafted free agent, I don't talk

1909
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:15,280
Speaker 1: to guys before. It's kind of like a club. You're

1910
01:47:15,320 --> 01:47:16,640
Speaker 1: end and once you kind of make it with that

1911
01:47:16,760 --> 01:47:20,479
Speaker 1: spotted kind of two things for you every year to

1912
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:23,599
Speaker 1: make a roster. We sure sense of pride about being

1913
01:47:23,640 --> 01:47:25,880
Speaker 1: that guy in overcoming whatever odds that come with that

1914
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:29,680
Speaker 1: to continue that successlessly. Yeah, I think I think we

1915
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:32,920
Speaker 1: do a great job. Uh. We just never take anything

1916
01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: for granted. Um. I think just as a as a

1917
01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:39,360
Speaker 1: whole group, not just the undrafted guys. But it's impressive

1918
01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:41,280
Speaker 1: just to make a roster no matter what round. You know,

1919
01:47:41,320 --> 01:47:44,519
Speaker 1: you got guys who have been cut second, third round

1920
01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:46,680
Speaker 1: all the way to undrafted. You know, you never know

1921
01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:49,040
Speaker 1: and you never take it for granted. Um. The opportunities

1922
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:51,760
Speaker 1: that you have to make a roster, and each and

1923
01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:53,439
Speaker 1: every day I wake up grateful and I try to

1924
01:47:53,520 --> 01:47:58,720
Speaker 1: leave everything I can on the field. I'm joking here,

1925
01:47:58,760 --> 01:48:01,120
Speaker 1: but you talked about how you fought these guys were

1926
01:48:01,120 --> 01:48:03,080
Speaker 1: fully stall You're fully get back when it comes to

1927
01:48:03,120 --> 01:48:09,679
Speaker 1: your comics whatever. Yeah, oh for sure four years ago. Yeah,

1928
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:13,080
Speaker 1: to be honest, I didn't even know. It was just

1929
01:48:13,120 --> 01:48:16,120
Speaker 1: the pre like you know what I mean, Like I'm

1930
01:48:16,160 --> 01:48:18,680
Speaker 1: just walking in. I'm like, Dann, they might be buttholes.

1931
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:20,800
Speaker 1: You know, I don't even know Michael and Jordan, and

1932
01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:23,040
Speaker 1: they kind of felt disrespect because I didn't know him

1933
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: when I kind of came in. And uh, but now

1934
01:48:26,160 --> 01:48:28,639
Speaker 1: I think back and I remember Payler had a star

1935
01:48:29,200 --> 01:48:32,400
Speaker 1: under himself and NCA way back when, and as I

1936
01:48:32,439 --> 01:48:34,800
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, that was you. But you know,

1937
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:37,600
Speaker 1: those their their compleat opposite of that, you have to

1938
01:48:37,600 --> 01:48:39,439
Speaker 1: talk to him. I mean, they're some of the best

1939
01:48:39,439 --> 01:48:42,800
Speaker 1: men that I know on this planet. So but it

1940
01:48:42,840 --> 01:48:45,240
Speaker 1: also doesn't change the fact that they can't beat me

1941
01:48:45,280 --> 01:48:49,800
Speaker 1: at basketball. So all right, So that to Levi I

1942
01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:53,320
Speaker 1: Wallace kind of sharing a little bit behind the curtain

1943
01:48:53,800 --> 01:48:55,920
Speaker 1: inside the locker room of what the relationship is like

1944
01:48:56,040 --> 01:48:59,559
Speaker 1: between that secondary which is now going on it's fourth

1945
01:48:59,600 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 1: year of being together as a primary quartet, or actually

1946
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:06,839
Speaker 1: a quintet if you think about it, because Tarren Johnson

1947
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:10,240
Speaker 1: and Levi came in the same year in eighteen, and

1948
01:49:10,400 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 1: this group has been together for each of the last

1949
01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:17,080
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen twenty four seasons. So the fifth season, Holy cow,

1950
01:49:19,640 --> 01:49:24,719
Speaker 1: that's crazy. That kind of continuity is very rare. And

1951
01:49:25,160 --> 01:49:28,360
Speaker 1: you know, could it change, yes, because Tarren Johnson and

1952
01:49:28,479 --> 01:49:31,280
Speaker 1: Lee v Wallace both in the final years of their

1953
01:49:31,280 --> 01:49:34,479
Speaker 1: respective contracts, so come twenty two it could change, who knows.

1954
01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:40,040
Speaker 1: But right now, it's keep on keeping on with the

1955
01:49:40,080 --> 01:49:43,320
Speaker 1: group that they've had, and Poyer and Hide both signed

1956
01:49:43,360 --> 01:49:47,759
Speaker 1: extensions over the last calendar year, as did Tradavious White,

1957
01:49:47,800 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 1: so at least sixty percent of that quintet is going

1958
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:54,559
Speaker 1: to stay here beyond this season, and then we'll see

1959
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:56,800
Speaker 1: how Levi and Tarren play and see if they play

1960
01:49:56,840 --> 01:49:59,559
Speaker 1: themselves into a new contract to stay here, or if

1961
01:49:59,600 --> 01:50:02,320
Speaker 1: they play so well they get a lucrative contract somewhere else.

1962
01:50:02,520 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 1: Right And one of the reasons too, and it's raised

1963
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:08,040
Speaker 1: my eyebrows. We've talked about it before. They've got four

1964
01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:11,960
Speaker 1: guys on the practice squad that are coming up. You

1965
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:14,080
Speaker 1: gotta be ready for that. You can't have forty percent

1966
01:50:14,080 --> 01:50:17,120
Speaker 1: of your secondary depart after this season, no matter how

1967
01:50:17,160 --> 01:50:19,759
Speaker 1: good or bad this season is, and not have somebody

1968
01:50:20,080 --> 01:50:24,280
Speaker 1: in the stable, you know, ready to go. Steelers have

1969
01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:27,680
Speaker 1: been very good with that model. You know, they'll have

1970
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: young guys that are either a on the roster but

1971
01:50:30,479 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 1: in active most weeks for their first year, maybe even

1972
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,320
Speaker 1: their second year, but by their third year they're ready

1973
01:50:35,320 --> 01:50:37,400
Speaker 1: to step into a role. I mean, how many times

1974
01:50:37,400 --> 01:50:40,080
Speaker 1: have we seen them do that at the receiver position, right?

1975
01:50:40,200 --> 01:50:42,720
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like Plaxico Burris goes out

1976
01:50:42,760 --> 01:50:46,000
Speaker 1: the door, signs a big lucrative contract extension. Oh, who's

1977
01:50:46,000 --> 01:50:50,120
Speaker 1: this Antonio Brown guy? You know, Santonio Holmes right, Super

1978
01:50:50,160 --> 01:50:52,960
Speaker 1: Bowl MVP signs a big contract somewhere else. He's out

1979
01:50:53,000 --> 01:50:55,960
Speaker 1: the door. You know, Mike Wallace come, Mike Wallace comes in,

1980
01:50:56,040 --> 01:50:58,920
Speaker 1: and Mike Wallace signs somewhere else, and then somebody, you know,

1981
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:02,320
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster walks and it's like they just have

1982
01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:05,479
Speaker 1: another guy in the pipeline. Yeah, he's ready to step

1983
01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:08,679
Speaker 1: into I'll say this though, and I know that they're

1984
01:51:08,960 --> 01:51:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, Bills. Fans have no plus or minus feelings

1985
01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:15,920
Speaker 1: about Ben Roethlisberger, but that guy makes good receivers. Well,

1986
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:20,040
Speaker 1: Josh might be entering that category as well. Yeah, I've

1987
01:51:20,080 --> 01:51:22,280
Speaker 1: said it, and a lot of this stuff says, hey,

1988
01:51:22,400 --> 01:51:27,519
Speaker 1: you know, Steph Diggs made Josh Allen what. Certainly it's

1989
01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:30,160
Speaker 1: a symbiotic relationship where both guys helped the other. But

1990
01:51:30,200 --> 01:51:32,880
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what, the guy pulling the trigger is

1991
01:51:32,920 --> 01:51:35,880
Speaker 1: the hard guy to find. And you can say whatever

1992
01:51:35,880 --> 01:51:37,599
Speaker 1: you want about it, building around him and giving him

1993
01:51:37,600 --> 01:51:39,479
Speaker 1: a chance to be successful once the guy gets on

1994
01:51:39,520 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 1: his feet. Receivers clamor to play for guys like that. Yeah,

1995
01:51:44,200 --> 01:51:47,280
Speaker 1: it's not vice versa. Quarterbacks will say, yeah, like this

1996
01:51:47,320 --> 01:51:50,479
Speaker 1: guy like that guy like but there's a there's a

1997
01:51:50,479 --> 01:51:52,840
Speaker 1: whole range of even on this team. There's three or

1998
01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:55,800
Speaker 1: four guys a quarterback i'd love to play with. There's

1999
01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:57,559
Speaker 1: not too many guys like the one you know, like

2000
01:51:57,560 --> 01:52:00,639
Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers, Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen's running around.

2001
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:04,240
Speaker 1: But Ben Roethlisberger was like that and he and maybe

2002
01:52:04,240 --> 01:52:07,559
Speaker 1: not so much now that he's you know, thirty nine.

2003
01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:11,439
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, that guy could throw it

2004
01:52:11,520 --> 01:52:13,759
Speaker 1: and guys wanted to play there, and guys who played

2005
01:52:13,800 --> 01:52:16,559
Speaker 1: there were very, very good, and the Bills have that

2006
01:52:16,680 --> 01:52:20,639
Speaker 1: here now. Emmanuel Sanders, who played with Ben Roethlisberger, played

2007
01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:25,080
Speaker 1: with Peyton Manning, played with Drew brees chose to sign

2008
01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:30,160
Speaker 1: here and was talking that's not an endorsement. I don't

2009
01:52:30,200 --> 01:52:34,960
Speaker 1: talking this guy up too. So yeah, it's it's true.

2010
01:52:35,040 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: And so I don't. I don't. I get and I

2011
01:52:37,880 --> 01:52:40,920
Speaker 1: get it too. There's a little of it where Steph

2012
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:43,200
Speaker 1: Diggs helped Josh Allen take a step forward, no question

2013
01:52:43,200 --> 01:52:46,360
Speaker 1: he did. I'm telling him what. Josh Allen's taking a

2014
01:52:46,360 --> 01:52:49,560
Speaker 1: big step forward last year with or without Steph. Yeah,

2015
01:52:49,640 --> 01:52:51,519
Speaker 1: I mean Steph helped him and it was great. And

2016
01:52:51,680 --> 01:52:54,240
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, you think Steph Diggs would have

2017
01:52:54,240 --> 01:52:58,720
Speaker 1: had that year with Kirk Cousins. He was good, he

2018
01:52:58,760 --> 01:53:01,479
Speaker 1: was okay with Kirk Cousins, but he wasn't He wasn't

2019
01:53:01,560 --> 01:53:03,759
Speaker 1: number one, He wasn't one hundred and twenty seven receptions

2020
01:53:03,840 --> 01:53:07,200
Speaker 1: fifty fifteen hundred yards. He wasn't number one in the

2021
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:14,120
Speaker 1: league in both those categories with Kirk Cousins. Right, Yeah,

2022
01:53:14,200 --> 01:53:16,040
Speaker 1: there's another endorsement, a little bit of a chicken and

2023
01:53:16,080 --> 01:53:20,160
Speaker 1: egg kind of thing there, But yeah, I'm the quarterback

2024
01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:23,560
Speaker 1: is the hard guy to find. We have a programming

2025
01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: reminder we wanted to pass along to you in case

2026
01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:28,840
Speaker 1: you hadn't heard the news. The show is off for

2027
01:53:28,880 --> 01:53:31,400
Speaker 1: the Labor Day holiday on Monday, and then when we

2028
01:53:31,439 --> 01:53:35,040
Speaker 1: come back on Tuesday, September seventh, one, Bills Live will

2029
01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:38,479
Speaker 1: move to a one pm to three pm time slot,

2030
01:53:38,520 --> 01:53:43,360
Speaker 1: airing live on WGR five fifty MSG and the Bills App.

2031
01:53:43,840 --> 01:53:48,120
Speaker 1: It's part of a new agreement with Odyssey and WGR,

2032
01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:50,960
Speaker 1: so be sure to make a note of that on

2033
01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:54,639
Speaker 1: your calendars. We should tell you though, after Bills games

2034
01:53:54,680 --> 01:53:58,000
Speaker 1: on Sunday, we will have a full three hour show

2035
01:53:58,400 --> 01:54:01,800
Speaker 1: noon to three as the instigators who are moving from

2036
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:04,439
Speaker 1: noon to one will have the day off on Bill's

2037
01:54:04,479 --> 01:54:08,080
Speaker 1: game Day Mondays, so still three hours the day after

2038
01:54:08,160 --> 01:54:12,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Sunday games, but starting on Tuesday, September seventh, we

2039
01:54:12,520 --> 01:54:16,599
Speaker 1: moved from one to three pm a two hour program.

2040
01:54:16,680 --> 01:54:19,559
Speaker 1: But we can still be found in all the same places.

2041
01:54:19,960 --> 01:54:22,200
Speaker 1: So that's that. We want to get back to the

2042
01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:26,000
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

2043
01:54:26,040 --> 01:54:30,599
Speaker 1: and I believe we were up to let me see

2044
01:54:30,720 --> 01:54:35,680
Speaker 1: here Bill's Chick and she voted other in terms of

2045
01:54:36,440 --> 01:54:39,800
Speaker 1: what role are you most curious about come the regular season?

2046
01:54:39,840 --> 01:54:43,480
Speaker 1: In terms of players, and she voted other. The choices

2047
01:54:43,480 --> 01:54:47,680
Speaker 1: were Reggie Gilliam, I believe it was Isaiah McKenzie and

2048
01:54:47,920 --> 01:54:51,240
Speaker 1: Boogie Basham and Bill's Chick voted other. I am curious

2049
01:54:51,400 --> 01:54:55,560
Speaker 1: how many targets Emmanuel Sanders will get, and he's a

2050
01:54:55,560 --> 01:54:58,720
Speaker 1: good choice for the other category. He's the newest. He's

2051
01:54:58,760 --> 01:55:01,680
Speaker 1: the new addition to one offense that has largely stayed

2052
01:55:01,720 --> 01:55:04,640
Speaker 1: the same in terms of the people manning the roster.

2053
01:55:05,080 --> 01:55:09,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, Emmanuel Sanders is probably the newest X factor

2054
01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:12,520
Speaker 1: to the passing it. If there's one thing that may

2055
01:55:12,560 --> 01:55:15,200
Speaker 1: be missing from this offense, it is a guy on

2056
01:55:15,240 --> 01:55:19,080
Speaker 1: the outside who can scoot fast. All these guys are

2057
01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:21,440
Speaker 1: pro speed and they're all you know, they're all yea

2058
01:55:21,840 --> 01:55:26,440
Speaker 1: faster than anybody you'll ever meet today in your daily Yeah,

2059
01:55:26,440 --> 01:55:28,720
Speaker 1: they're they're way faster than anybody you're gonna cross paths

2060
01:55:28,760 --> 01:55:32,240
Speaker 1: with a personal relationship with you saying bold, right, But

2061
01:55:32,400 --> 01:55:34,120
Speaker 1: at the NFL level, they don't have any of those

2062
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:37,080
Speaker 1: guys like a Tyreek Hill or even to John Brown

2063
01:55:37,120 --> 01:55:42,200
Speaker 1: that they had last year, but what they do have

2064
01:55:42,320 --> 01:55:44,280
Speaker 1: are guys that know how to get open and a

2065
01:55:44,360 --> 01:55:46,880
Speaker 1: quarterback that can deliver it. Um. I don't think that'll

2066
01:55:46,880 --> 01:55:49,040
Speaker 1: mean fewer big plays. I think it might mean more

2067
01:55:49,120 --> 01:55:53,800
Speaker 1: big plays. Um. This is this club is gonna air

2068
01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:57,840
Speaker 1: it out, no question. But it's gonna be because the

2069
01:55:57,880 --> 01:56:02,520
Speaker 1: defense doesn't know who to guard. Yeah, Seth says on

2070
01:56:02,560 --> 01:56:05,680
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, I'm curious about fa Obada. Will we

2071
01:56:05,680 --> 01:56:08,080
Speaker 1: see him rush from the interior with Ed or boogie

2072
01:56:08,120 --> 01:56:11,280
Speaker 1: on obvious passing downs. I wonder how much he will

2073
01:56:11,320 --> 01:56:14,520
Speaker 1: be used as an outside rusher. Something tells me not

2074
01:56:14,640 --> 01:56:20,280
Speaker 1: a whole lot special teams too, question Mark, I will

2075
01:56:20,320 --> 01:56:23,280
Speaker 1: say this, Steve. I know I've commented on this. He

2076
01:56:24,160 --> 01:56:29,280
Speaker 1: is not an explosive burst player off the ball, which

2077
01:56:29,360 --> 01:56:34,800
Speaker 1: to me, going along Seth's line of questioning, makes me

2078
01:56:34,880 --> 01:56:38,040
Speaker 1: think he might be a guy that kicks inside more

2079
01:56:38,080 --> 01:56:41,640
Speaker 1: than some of the others. He's big enough for it

2080
01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:45,480
Speaker 1: and long enough. He's really big. I think it'll depend

2081
01:56:45,560 --> 01:56:50,080
Speaker 1: on whether he can act assimilate the techniques inside that

2082
01:56:50,120 --> 01:56:52,920
Speaker 1: are very different from outside. He's big enough to he's

2083
01:56:52,960 --> 01:56:54,680
Speaker 1: gonna have to hold his ground. You know, when you

2084
01:56:54,760 --> 01:56:56,320
Speaker 1: come off and there's two guys that come in and

2085
01:56:56,360 --> 01:56:59,680
Speaker 1: try and push you. If you're if you have the

2086
01:56:59,680 --> 01:57:06,000
Speaker 1: ability not to be pushed, that's basically a prerequisite for

2087
01:57:06,120 --> 01:57:12,680
Speaker 1: doing that job. He's athlete enough, we'll see, but it

2088
01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:14,879
Speaker 1: comes down to how his ability to play the techniques

2089
01:57:14,920 --> 01:57:17,160
Speaker 1: down inside that are different than outside correct. And we

2090
01:57:17,200 --> 01:57:22,560
Speaker 1: saw him line up in both places. I just don't

2091
01:57:22,560 --> 01:57:27,760
Speaker 1: know if he offers the same juice, suddenness, burst off

2092
01:57:27,800 --> 01:57:29,600
Speaker 1: the edge as some of the other guys that are

2093
01:57:29,640 --> 01:57:32,840
Speaker 1: manning the defensive end position right now. So you say, okay, well,

2094
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:35,520
Speaker 1: then what should his role be? And maybe kicking down

2095
01:57:35,560 --> 01:57:39,920
Speaker 1: inside in a situational role might be what's best for

2096
01:57:40,040 --> 01:57:46,040
Speaker 1: him this fall. Robert chose other. I hope Dawson Knox

2097
01:57:46,120 --> 01:57:49,360
Speaker 1: can have a more consistent year and quiet all the

2098
01:57:49,440 --> 01:57:53,320
Speaker 1: naysayers out there who say he's no good. And on

2099
01:57:53,360 --> 01:57:55,880
Speaker 1: social media there is a fair number of naysayers. Steve,

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01:57:57,200 --> 01:58:01,400
Speaker 1: every player's got him. Yeah, they're all obsessed with his

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01:58:01,560 --> 01:58:04,880
Speaker 1: catch right and all those analytic numbers and everything. He

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01:58:04,920 --> 01:58:07,280
Speaker 1: earned his reputation too. I mean, just like he's gonna

2103
01:58:07,280 --> 01:58:10,360
Speaker 1: have to earn his way out of it. So and

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01:58:10,400 --> 01:58:12,400
Speaker 1: I've said that, I think this is gonna be his year. Yeah,

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01:58:12,400 --> 01:58:15,160
Speaker 1: you've been high on him since the spring, and I

2106
01:58:15,200 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 1: think too. Sweeney is the other tight end on the roster.

2107
01:58:20,440 --> 01:58:22,240
Speaker 1: There's a guy that we don't know really what he's

2108
01:58:22,280 --> 01:58:25,800
Speaker 1: capable of doing because he's had a hard time staying healthy.

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01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:32,080
Speaker 1: He does a little bit of everything, Sweeney. Sweeney's big.

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01:58:32,160 --> 01:58:36,080
Speaker 1: We just don't know to what degree he can excel

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01:58:36,120 --> 01:58:38,240
Speaker 1: at all of those things because we haven't seen enough

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01:58:38,360 --> 01:58:40,880
Speaker 1: of him. Sweeney's got those traits that the Bills have

2113
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:44,040
Speaker 1: drafted over the last couple of years. Six six, really tall,

2114
01:58:44,240 --> 01:58:50,640
Speaker 1: really heavy, you know, and I think he would probably

2115
01:58:50,720 --> 01:58:53,880
Speaker 1: have been a much bigger contributor had he not been

2116
01:58:54,480 --> 01:58:59,080
Speaker 1: COVID injured, all that stuff. It's just been it's been

2117
01:58:59,320 --> 01:59:03,240
Speaker 1: the hallmark of his career thus far. In his first

2118
01:59:03,240 --> 01:59:06,320
Speaker 1: three years. The guy just can't get on the field healthwise.

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01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:10,440
Speaker 1: If he does, he's got some physical traits, no question

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01:59:10,480 --> 01:59:14,880
Speaker 1: about it. But I think this year, for the experience

2121
01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:19,160
Speaker 1: he has and the timing of it, of where he

2122
01:59:19,240 --> 01:59:21,600
Speaker 1: is in his career, I think Knox is poised for

2123
01:59:21,640 --> 01:59:25,560
Speaker 1: a breakout. He may not, he may continue to struggle well,

2124
01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:27,720
Speaker 1: I think excel, but I don't think he will. I

2125
01:59:27,720 --> 01:59:29,480
Speaker 1: think it will get better. Yeah. I think one of

2126
01:59:29,520 --> 01:59:31,840
Speaker 1: the reasons people are wondering if he's ever going to

2127
01:59:31,920 --> 01:59:34,800
Speaker 1: break out is because it seems like, at least in

2128
01:59:34,840 --> 01:59:38,880
Speaker 1: the passing game, the tight end isn't quite an afterthought,

2129
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:42,600
Speaker 1: but not far from that. Now, if he can prove

2130
01:59:42,840 --> 01:59:45,680
Speaker 1: he can make more plays, maybe he comes a more

2131
01:59:46,360 --> 01:59:49,200
Speaker 1: crucial component of the passing game. If you're the guy

2132
01:59:49,240 --> 01:59:50,960
Speaker 1: making the plays, they're going to keep coming to you.

2133
01:59:51,120 --> 01:59:53,560
Speaker 1: It's rare that in this offense the last year that

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01:59:53,600 --> 01:59:58,600
Speaker 1: we see the tight end being the one option, sometimes

2135
01:59:58,640 --> 02:00:02,640
Speaker 1: the two option, more usually the third or fourth option.

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02:00:03,720 --> 02:00:06,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just not calling a play where the

2137
02:00:06,040 --> 02:00:08,440
Speaker 1: tight end is the guy you got. Steph Diggs. Think

2138
02:00:08,440 --> 02:00:10,800
Speaker 1: you only had thirty something targets last year, so and

2139
02:00:10,880 --> 02:00:16,160
Speaker 1: he caught you know, yeah, so I think he caught

2140
02:00:16,880 --> 02:00:21,040
Speaker 1: average two and a half catches for every four targets

2141
02:00:21,040 --> 02:00:23,160
Speaker 1: he got, which is what he was per game. So

2142
02:00:24,280 --> 02:00:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, I I think he's got to improve on that,

2143
02:00:27,160 --> 02:00:30,360
Speaker 1: no question. And I think you got to catch, you know,

2144
02:00:31,840 --> 02:00:33,920
Speaker 1: you gotta get be good enough to catch five out

2145
02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:36,760
Speaker 1: of six, not two and a half out of four.

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Speaker 1: We'll see it's a big wheel. See break time for

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Speaker 1: us here when we come back the latest installment of

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Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate, We'll see if Steve, from a series of

2149
02:00:49,600 --> 02:00:53,440
Speaker 1: cryptic and vague clues, can guess which former teammate of

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02:00:53,520 --> 02:00:56,440
Speaker 1: his we are describing. We'll do that next here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. All right, ladies in germs, it is that

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02:01:13,880 --> 02:01:18,600
Speaker 1: time of the show. It's time for another installment of

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Speaker 1: Delicious Meals Delivered. Download the Wegman's After Growth. You got

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Speaker 1: your tinfoil hat on Steam? Okay? Clue number one. Born

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02:01:33,520 --> 02:01:36,280
Speaker 1: in Troy, Ohio. I was a standout high school player

2158
02:01:36,280 --> 02:01:39,440
Speaker 1: on a Covington High School team that won the state

2159
02:01:39,480 --> 02:01:43,640
Speaker 1: title in nineteen seventy three, allowing just twenty four points

2160
02:01:43,640 --> 02:01:46,920
Speaker 1: the entire season. My exploits would earn me in a

2161
02:01:47,000 --> 02:01:50,360
Speaker 1: scholarship opportunity at Ohio State, where I played my college

2162
02:01:50,360 --> 02:01:57,800
Speaker 1: ball with my brother Terry. Wow, I should know this.

2163
02:01:58,720 --> 02:02:01,520
Speaker 1: It's a lot of clues. In the first clip tried

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02:02:01,520 --> 02:02:06,040
Speaker 1: to I was gifting in Ohio played with his brother Terry,

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Speaker 1: who I should probably know Ohio State Marlon Kerner. It

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Speaker 1: is not Marlon Kerner. Clue number two. Wait. I enjoyed

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02:02:26,640 --> 02:02:28,480
Speaker 1: a good deal of success with the Buck guys, a

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Speaker 1: team captain my senior season, and a center on our

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02:02:32,680 --> 02:02:35,440
Speaker 1: offensive line. We finished seven and four. Appeared in the

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Speaker 1: Gator Bowl against Clemson, where head coach Woody Hayes infamously

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02:02:38,960 --> 02:02:43,520
Speaker 1: punched a Clemson player ending his career. Oh gee, Minnie

2172
02:02:43,560 --> 02:02:49,400
Speaker 1: crickets Tim Vogler, Bam, bam, Thank you man, Steve Tasker

2173
02:02:50,040 --> 02:02:53,960
Speaker 1: nailing Tim Vogler down. Well done, Steve. We don't have

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Speaker 1: Tim with us. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a hold of

2175
02:02:55,920 --> 02:02:57,880
Speaker 1: the wire. I remember that because I remember hearing Tim

2176
02:02:57,960 --> 02:03:02,200
Speaker 1: tell the story about Woody Jack and the guy sack

2177
02:03:02,240 --> 02:03:04,600
Speaker 1: and I saw it. Yeah, I mean everybody saw it. Yeah.

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02:03:04,640 --> 02:03:07,000
Speaker 1: Socked him well, he grabbed him and then he punched

2179
02:03:07,040 --> 02:03:09,520
Speaker 1: him right We grab him, punched him up, pulled him

2180
02:03:09,560 --> 02:03:12,400
Speaker 1: right off, and to his credit, after the game, the

2181
02:03:12,480 --> 02:03:14,120
Speaker 1: kids said, I didn't feel anything. I was you know

2182
02:03:14,120 --> 02:03:15,560
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? I got an equipment on.

2183
02:03:15,600 --> 02:03:17,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know what are you talking about? He tried

2184
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:21,240
Speaker 1: to blow it over, not knowing that it was seen

2185
02:03:21,360 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 1: by thirty seven million Americans on live television. And Keith

2186
02:03:25,280 --> 02:03:28,560
Speaker 1: Jackson was in the booth. Oh, he punched him right

2187
02:03:28,600 --> 02:03:31,760
Speaker 1: on the sideline. Actually he didn't see Keith Jackson didn't

2188
02:03:31,760 --> 02:03:34,960
Speaker 1: see it either. I think it was Keith Jackson, but

2189
02:03:35,000 --> 02:03:36,920
Speaker 1: he didn't. Probably was. He didn't see it because you

2190
02:03:36,960 --> 02:03:38,680
Speaker 1: know what, you're call him played by playing. You're making

2191
02:03:38,680 --> 02:03:40,200
Speaker 1: the thing. You're looking at your next thing you're gonna

2192
02:03:40,200 --> 02:03:42,920
Speaker 1: talk about. He's down looking at his boards, gonna talk

2193
02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:48,320
Speaker 1: about whatever. He just missed the punch, and uh, Stevie,

2194
02:03:48,400 --> 02:03:53,480
Speaker 1: we're talking about the number of undrafted players on NFL rosters.

2195
02:03:53,640 --> 02:03:58,200
Speaker 1: Tim Vogler two, an undrafted player signed by the Bills,

2196
02:03:58,280 --> 02:04:01,080
Speaker 1: played a reserve role on the offensive line for his

2197
02:04:01,200 --> 02:04:06,560
Speaker 1: first six seasons brother before becoming a full time starter

2198
02:04:06,600 --> 02:04:10,280
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five. Yeah, his brother was a linebacker

2199
02:04:10,320 --> 02:04:16,560
Speaker 1: for Ohio State. UM, but yeah, played center in college.

2200
02:04:16,560 --> 02:04:18,920
Speaker 1: But his primary position here with the Bills was guard.

2201
02:04:20,120 --> 02:04:23,480
Speaker 1: Four year starter and then he got a He tore

2202
02:04:23,520 --> 02:04:28,160
Speaker 1: his ACL trying to cover an interception of all things. Um,

2203
02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:32,160
Speaker 1: it just got twisted up and I was in New England. Yeah,

2204
02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:34,400
Speaker 1: it came down on it got twisted up in the pile.

2205
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:37,120
Speaker 1: Suffered an ACL knee injury in the eighty eight season

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02:04:37,200 --> 02:04:39,560
Speaker 1: cost him a chance to be a part of the

2207
02:04:39,560 --> 02:04:43,080
Speaker 1: playoff run. So the AFC title game against the Bengals

2208
02:04:43,080 --> 02:04:48,000
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, which was his hometown. That sucks. Yeah, that sucks.

2209
02:04:48,800 --> 02:04:51,440
Speaker 1: Um then won the ED the Team's ed Block Courage

2210
02:04:51,440 --> 02:04:55,080
Speaker 1: Award coming back from the knee injury, but just was

2211
02:04:55,160 --> 02:04:57,920
Speaker 1: not the same player and the team put him on

2212
02:04:57,960 --> 02:05:02,240
Speaker 1: pup and eighty nine never played down in the NFL again.

2213
02:05:03,200 --> 02:05:05,720
Speaker 1: Tough way to end. Yeah, your career, it's never good.

2214
02:05:05,720 --> 02:05:07,520
Speaker 1: And you hear you hear a bad guys going through

2215
02:05:07,520 --> 02:05:09,480
Speaker 1: that and not wanting to end their career like that,

2216
02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:13,960
Speaker 1: and sometimes you have no choice. Yeah. Jersey number sixty

2217
02:05:13,960 --> 02:05:17,200
Speaker 1: five also won the Ralph C. Wilston Distinguished Service Award.

2218
02:05:17,400 --> 02:05:19,720
Speaker 1: Was a member of the nineteen ninety game day crew.

2219
02:05:19,760 --> 02:05:22,360
Speaker 1: After he retired, he was in charge. The league hired

2220
02:05:22,440 --> 02:05:25,400
Speaker 1: him to come in on game days. You'd see him

2221
02:05:25,440 --> 02:05:27,360
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and he had a clipboard. He'd be

2222
02:05:27,400 --> 02:05:30,880
Speaker 1: walking up and down the pregame. He was the uniform police. Yeah,

2223
02:05:31,000 --> 02:05:33,000
Speaker 1: he would make sure you're his socks are down. His

2224
02:05:33,040 --> 02:05:34,640
Speaker 1: socks are down, He's got to tuck that shirt in,

2225
02:05:34,680 --> 02:05:37,720
Speaker 1: he's got the wrong colored bands, wearing illegal shoes, illegal shoes,

2226
02:05:37,760 --> 02:05:40,160
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Now, it's weird now because guys will

2227
02:05:40,160 --> 02:05:43,520
Speaker 1: do that during the warm ups and then for the

2228
02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:48,080
Speaker 1: games they'll put their stuff on like they're supposed properly. Properly, yes,

2229
02:05:48,480 --> 02:05:50,680
Speaker 1: in the league's eyes, properly. So how do you remember

2230
02:05:51,280 --> 02:05:54,920
Speaker 1: Tim telling the Woody Hayes punch story? Like? Is there anything?

2231
02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:58,080
Speaker 1: Are there any extra layers to it that are unknown

2232
02:05:58,120 --> 02:06:00,280
Speaker 1: to people that just watched it on TV? I would

2233
02:06:00,280 --> 02:06:02,720
Speaker 1: do you not remember the details of it? Oh? We know?

2234
02:06:02,960 --> 02:06:06,480
Speaker 1: You know though it was his final game? Correct turned

2235
02:06:06,520 --> 02:06:08,640
Speaker 1: into his final game? Yes, whether he knew it or

2236
02:06:08,640 --> 02:06:11,200
Speaker 1: not at the moment. Right then then he became he

2237
02:06:11,320 --> 02:06:13,880
Speaker 1: was the ad and all that. I mean, he he

2238
02:06:13,960 --> 02:06:17,600
Speaker 1: was there for years longer than that. But it's an

2239
02:06:17,680 --> 02:06:20,960
Speaker 1: unfortunate way to yeah, to go. So Tim Bogler, the

2240
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Speaker 1: latest Tasker's teammates Steve got it in two clues, although

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02:06:24,400 --> 02:06:27,560
Speaker 1: I kind of layered in multiple clues within a clue. Um,

2242
02:06:28,040 --> 02:06:30,520
Speaker 1: yeah for you, I was gifting you that one that

2243
02:06:30,720 --> 02:06:34,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate that so votron Yeah, oh is that was

2244
02:06:34,120 --> 02:06:36,400
Speaker 1: that his nickname. That's what I called him, Votron. I

2245
02:06:36,400 --> 02:06:38,880
Speaker 1: don't think he Why did you call him because it

2246
02:06:39,000 --> 02:06:43,800
Speaker 1: was like kind of like Megatron Votron kind of. Yeah,

2247
02:06:43,880 --> 02:06:45,920
Speaker 1: there was a there was a cartoon character I believe

2248
02:06:45,960 --> 02:06:49,800
Speaker 1: called Voltron Voltron, but you called him Votron because it

2249
02:06:49,840 --> 02:06:52,560
Speaker 1: was his last name. It's kind of clever. Were you

2250
02:06:52,680 --> 02:06:55,280
Speaker 1: the only one that used that? Yeah? Probably it didn't

2251
02:06:55,280 --> 02:06:57,160
Speaker 1: take with everybody else in the locker room. Every thought

2252
02:06:57,160 --> 02:06:59,400
Speaker 1: probably thought I was an idiot. No, he listened to

2253
02:06:59,400 --> 02:07:01,800
Speaker 1: me anyway, like a voice in the wilderness. Well, you

2254
02:07:01,840 --> 02:07:04,360
Speaker 1: were still a young player on the team at that time,

2255
02:07:04,440 --> 02:07:06,280
Speaker 1: because his career was kind of coming to an end

2256
02:07:06,320 --> 02:07:08,360
Speaker 1: and yours was just getting started. Eighty eight was a

2257
02:07:08,400 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 1: twelve and four year and when i'd been to went

2258
02:07:13,080 --> 02:07:16,880
Speaker 1: to our first Pro Bowl the year before that. So yeah, yeah,

2259
02:07:16,920 --> 02:07:19,240
Speaker 1: So anyway, good job on that. That is the latest

2260
02:07:19,240 --> 02:07:21,920
Speaker 1: installment of Tasker's Teammate. We want to wrap things up

2261
02:07:21,960 --> 02:07:25,040
Speaker 1: with the tweet sheet here, as we've been asking you

2262
02:07:25,080 --> 02:07:27,040
Speaker 1: all day today, whose role are you're most curious about

2263
02:07:27,080 --> 02:07:31,040
Speaker 1: come the regular season? And Robert said, I don't know

2264
02:07:31,040 --> 02:07:33,520
Speaker 1: when you did Robert already, JT says I'm going with

2265
02:07:33,560 --> 02:07:35,640
Speaker 1: Reggie gilliam. I think they're going to play him in

2266
02:07:35,640 --> 02:07:38,360
Speaker 1: flex positions. They'll play tight end and fullback, and I'm

2267
02:07:38,360 --> 02:07:42,600
Speaker 1: glad we kept him. Also interested in Breeda's role. I

2268
02:07:42,640 --> 02:07:45,600
Speaker 1: think he will be catching screens and getting outside runs.

2269
02:07:46,000 --> 02:07:50,520
Speaker 1: Also interested in seeing what downs and situations they play Kumero. Now,

2270
02:07:51,040 --> 02:07:54,960
Speaker 1: Breed is an interesting one, Steve, because with Mackenzie out

2271
02:07:55,000 --> 02:07:57,400
Speaker 1: of the lineup this past week against the Packers, we

2272
02:07:57,440 --> 02:08:01,240
Speaker 1: saw him running jet sweep much the way Mackenzie does,

2273
02:08:02,160 --> 02:08:05,560
Speaker 1: and talking to some of the players, the general consensus

2274
02:08:05,720 --> 02:08:08,920
Speaker 1: is Brita is the fastest athlete on the entire roster,

2275
02:08:10,040 --> 02:08:12,800
Speaker 1: and that if that's coming from the defensive guys, which

2276
02:08:12,960 --> 02:08:16,360
Speaker 1: it is, that's that says something because that he's speed

2277
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:19,080
Speaker 1: is a fear factor for defenders. They got they gotta

2278
02:08:19,240 --> 02:08:23,240
Speaker 1: get in position and outman him really then outrun the guy.

2279
02:08:23,320 --> 02:08:25,480
Speaker 1: So if they're saying that, yeah, and believe me, if

2280
02:08:25,520 --> 02:08:27,920
Speaker 1: they're saying that, the coaches are saying it too. So

2281
02:08:28,400 --> 02:08:31,040
Speaker 1: I did find it interesting, Steve, that we saw a

2282
02:08:31,160 --> 02:08:36,240
Speaker 1: number of different screenplays in the Packers game, some working

2283
02:08:36,280 --> 02:08:41,880
Speaker 1: with greater efficiency than others. There were some screenplays that

2284
02:08:42,560 --> 02:08:46,360
Speaker 1: looked promising. There were some other screenplays that it's at

2285
02:08:46,440 --> 02:08:48,720
Speaker 1: least it was evident to me that it needs some

2286
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:53,320
Speaker 1: work with the timing, execution, Some took too long to develop,

2287
02:08:54,200 --> 02:08:57,120
Speaker 1: Some were capably sniffed out by the Packers defense. But

2288
02:08:58,160 --> 02:09:01,520
Speaker 1: there are some there that that need repping. Shall we say,

2289
02:09:01,600 --> 02:09:05,960
Speaker 1: if they're gonna turn to them during the regular season, yeah,

2290
02:09:06,080 --> 02:09:10,200
Speaker 1: they have never or say never, but then they don't

2291
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:14,440
Speaker 1: run screen passes that a great deal of success with those.

2292
02:09:14,880 --> 02:09:18,560
Speaker 1: And what is the culprit behind that? Usually mobility of

2293
02:09:18,560 --> 02:09:21,240
Speaker 1: your lineman. Yes, yeah, that's what I was just gonna say.

2294
02:09:21,280 --> 02:09:24,240
Speaker 1: It's the it's the their ability of the guards and

2295
02:09:24,280 --> 02:09:25,839
Speaker 1: tackles will get out in front of them, and tackles

2296
02:09:25,880 --> 02:09:27,440
Speaker 1: not so much. It's got to be your guards. I

2297
02:09:27,440 --> 02:09:29,920
Speaker 1: think Morse does a good job of getting out in front. Yes,

2298
02:09:29,960 --> 02:09:36,000
Speaker 1: the two, it's Ford, Feliciano, Bait or Butcher Brian Winters

2299
02:09:36,120 --> 02:09:39,480
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, it'll be Jack Anderson and company this

2300
02:09:39,560 --> 02:09:42,640
Speaker 1: year behind those guys and whoever you know, the three

2301
02:09:43,120 --> 02:09:45,320
Speaker 1: m Those guys had to be able to get out

2302
02:09:45,360 --> 02:09:50,040
Speaker 1: and run and fast. And then what about Kumero? Where

2303
02:09:50,080 --> 02:09:52,640
Speaker 1: does he fit here? He's deep on the depth chart

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Speaker 1: at receiver. Yeah, you may not see him catching balls.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna see him covering kicks ye special teams, and

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Speaker 1: then they'll probably give him shots here and there when

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02:10:01,280 --> 02:10:03,320
Speaker 1: they're in a driver if they go, if they do

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Speaker 1: go a lot of four wide, Yeah, you'll see him

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Speaker 1: rotate in zone package. Maybe maybe, although when you get

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Speaker 1: to the red zone, if you're gonna go with size,

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Speaker 1: you can bet Knox and Sweeney you'll be in there. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's my argument for Kumarro in the red zone, not

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Speaker 1: only because of his height and you can throw him

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Speaker 1: a jump ball, but also for blocking. If Josh runs

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02:10:25,040 --> 02:10:28,280
Speaker 1: the ball, you could speak Kumaro out wide and then

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02:10:28,320 --> 02:10:30,720
Speaker 1: you run some read option playing if Josh is running.

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Speaker 1: I kind of like having Kumaro out on the edge

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Speaker 1: blocking for him more so than Diggs, Yeah, or Mackenzie

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02:10:35,880 --> 02:10:39,120
Speaker 1: or Cole Beasley too. So yeah, you're right, that's a

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Speaker 1: plus as well. But you can't do that a lot

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Speaker 1: of because predictable, right U Kumaro earned his way onto

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02:10:48,320 --> 02:10:51,000
Speaker 1: the roster by being good enough or better than the

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02:10:51,040 --> 02:10:53,840
Speaker 1: guys they that aren't there. I don't know that he's

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02:10:53,880 --> 02:10:59,600
Speaker 1: better than Gabe Davis, Emmanuel Sanders, cold best Diggs and

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Speaker 1: if he's active, he's up and he's ready, and they've

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Speaker 1: got to drive going and they're going two men, or

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02:11:04,800 --> 02:11:06,320
Speaker 1: they go no huddle and they mess with the pace

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02:11:06,360 --> 02:11:07,720
Speaker 1: of the thing and they want to run guys in

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02:11:07,760 --> 02:11:09,880
Speaker 1: and out. Kumro's on the field, and you can bet

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Speaker 1: he'll get an opportunity because Josh'll see him so and

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02:11:13,760 --> 02:11:15,480
Speaker 1: they may call his number just for the fact that

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02:11:15,520 --> 02:11:18,760
Speaker 1: he's fresh. So yeah, I think that's his role. His

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Speaker 1: role is a backup to the top four guys and

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02:11:21,920 --> 02:11:24,520
Speaker 1: a play special teams and if they have a package

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Speaker 1: or situation where they think he's a better matchup yet,

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Speaker 1: that's when they'll get in them in the game. All right,

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Speaker 1: good discussion on these impending roster roles for some multifaceted

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Speaker 1: players and others that you guys found interesting. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: all your participation on the tweet sheet. Today, we take

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Speaker 1: a break here and come back with what we have

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Speaker 1: learned from today's show. That's next here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Time to close up a thirday edition of One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live with what we have learned from today's show, and

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Speaker 1: I think we learned there are some intriguing players on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's roster whose roles have yet to be determined, but

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Speaker 1: are clearly piquing the curiosity of Bills fans. Chief among

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Speaker 1: them Reggie Gilliam Steve Yeah, I think it's exacerbated the

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02:12:23,200 --> 02:12:25,960
Speaker 1: interest because of the fact there's no tight ends in

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Speaker 1: front of him to you know, to cushion his need

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02:12:29,840 --> 02:12:32,080
Speaker 1: to be used in a different way than a fullback

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02:12:32,120 --> 02:12:34,000
Speaker 1: would be used. People are openly wondering, what the heck

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Speaker 1: is this gonna look. I think it's kind of fun

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Speaker 1: now because if you know, you and I sit here,

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02:12:38,440 --> 02:12:40,240
Speaker 1: and I've said it a million times, we chew this

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02:12:40,280 --> 02:12:43,560
Speaker 1: stuff up every day in every which situation. We don't

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02:12:43,560 --> 02:12:46,200
Speaker 1: know people who watch our show us we do this

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Speaker 1: every day, Bills fans who watch no other team except

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Speaker 1: this one. What's this going to look like? And you

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Speaker 1: know who's the happiest about that? Brian Dable exactly exactly.

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02:12:57,920 --> 02:13:01,520
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying yeah, but you don't know, I'm

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02:13:01,520 --> 02:13:04,600
Speaker 1: not saying very happy about that. And this doesn't even

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Speaker 1: have you know, I'm not even saying everybody's got you know,

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02:13:06,800 --> 02:13:10,120
Speaker 1: ten foil hats on. It's probably all contrived. They don't

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Speaker 1: want anybody, you know. I think it, and like I say,

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Speaker 1: it comes into hot question because of the fact they

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Speaker 1: only got two tight ends and Gilliam was a tight

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Speaker 1: end last year, but now he's not. He's a forty one,

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Speaker 1: he's number forty one, he's in, he's this is a fullback,

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Speaker 1: he's a chameleons. It's like, what do you like? What

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Speaker 1: does this mean? You know? What does it mean? What

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Speaker 1: does it all mean? I think it's fascinating. Reggie the

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Speaker 1: chameleon and two. Last year the Bills were ahead of

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Speaker 1: the curve going four wide. I think more teams are

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02:13:42,200 --> 02:13:44,600
Speaker 1: going to do that this year. We've seen too many

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02:13:44,680 --> 02:13:47,200
Speaker 1: good wide receivers flooded in the league over the last

2377
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Speaker 1: three drafts not to see it start to take shape.

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02:13:49,600 --> 02:13:51,320
Speaker 1: I think the Bills were ahead of the curve. Maybe

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02:13:51,360 --> 02:13:52,960
Speaker 1: they're ahead of the curve in this respect, going in

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Speaker 1: a different direction. Maybe Steve is off tomorrow, filling in

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Speaker 1: for him from ESPN Sports Center with me is certified.

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Speaker 1: Bill's pan. Kevin Connors will join me on the show.

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Speaker 1: Drew Sars and the Wing King and NFL Network analyst

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02:14:06,800 --> 02:14:10,040
Speaker 1: Danielle Jeremiah full show on Friday. We'll see you at

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Speaker 1: noon tomorrow