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Speaker 1: a hump day edition of One Bills Live. As the

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Speaker 1: So there that all is as far as the Bills

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Speaker 1: be other starters missing. This is a deep roster that's

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Speaker 1: going to be really good, and you're playing the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions in the preseason. So I would be shocked if

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Speaker 1: Trubisky doesn't look I'd be disappointed if he doesn't look

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Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, I would not expect Stefon Diggs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're just guessing here. We didn't get any other names

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Speaker 1: from coach McDermott. He just said some starters will not play.

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Speaker 1: In addition to he only named Josh specifically. I would

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Speaker 1: say it's a good chance Zach Moss doesn't play because

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Speaker 1: he missed practice today, left practice early yesterday with the hamstring.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to test that, so he's probably sitting down.

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Speaker 1: I would not expect Stefon Diggs to play. He's missed

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Speaker 1: some time with a knee ailment. I would not expect

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Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins to play if even if he gets cleared

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Speaker 1: off of the COVID reserve list because he hasn't suited

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Speaker 1: up for a single practice to this point, and I

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Speaker 1: think there's a good chance someone like Cole Beasley, even

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders will not be out there, which really, now

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Speaker 1: that in a weird way, kind of excites me because

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Speaker 1: it means we have an opportunity to get a really

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Speaker 1: long look at receivers four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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Speaker 1: ten in this game on Friday night with some with

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Speaker 1: some guys around him. It's not like, you know, well,

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Speaker 1: you know Jake from is going to be throwing them

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Speaker 1: the ball all night. You're gonna get it from trabisky

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Speaker 1: Um and a lot of reps too. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna go deep and they're gonna stay there

452
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Speaker 1: and find out about all of these guys. I'm really

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Speaker 1: intrigued by that. I'm also intrigued by the rotation of

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Speaker 1: the offensive line the defensive line. I want to see

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Speaker 1: the young guys get a lot of reps on the

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Speaker 1: defensive line. The draft picks ed Oliver aj Panessa along

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Speaker 1: with Rousseau and basham Um. I wonder how much Starlo

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Speaker 1: Tulele will play, if any. Right now that see now

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Speaker 1: that might be one where the scenario is a little

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Speaker 1: bit different. Right, guy has not played in anything remotely

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Speaker 1: close to a game in its eighteen months. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: see twenty months. So January playoff game in Houston was

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Speaker 1: his last game played. So yeah, we're looking at eighteen months. Um,

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Speaker 1: I know he's a veteran. I know he's done it

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Speaker 1: for a long time. At some point it's he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have to get on the field. Some of it may

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Speaker 1: be how he has practiced in thus far in training camp,

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Speaker 1: you know what, you know what to look at me,

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Speaker 1: he's goods grenna hold him out that kind of thing,

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Speaker 1: or it might be that, and it could be this

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Speaker 1: as well. Starr might say, hey, listen, I'd like to

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Speaker 1: play a little bit at least give me a couple

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Speaker 1: of series and that they all right, you know, and

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Speaker 1: then then when they do that, they's like, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: let me just knock the rust off, right, and then

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Speaker 1: uh so there may be a little bit of that.

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Speaker 1: But that's an interesting guy to look at. Harrison Phillips

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Speaker 1: and his you know, transformed body, Justin Zimmer, all of

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Speaker 1: those guys, you know, Vernon Butler. You know, he may

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Speaker 1: not play well, I don't think he will because he's

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Speaker 1: he was sidelined by a concussion a couple of days

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Speaker 1: ago and has not practiced, and there's no need to

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Speaker 1: rush a guy like that back into the situation, so

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Speaker 1: he will be down. I would not expect Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: to play. He just got back to practice this week.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, it's a little different for some of

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Speaker 1: the guys on the defensive side of the ball. They

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Speaker 1: it's it's safer to be the guy hitting than the

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Speaker 1: guy that's getting hit. And I was thinking, right, what

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Speaker 1: do you do with Hide and Poyer? And I think

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Speaker 1: you know, my first inclination is no sham those guys are,

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Speaker 1: even though that yeah they've got is probably and I

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Speaker 1: think Serrand Neil and Cam lewis to get down the lid.

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Speaker 1: There's a huge Dane Jackson, Nick McLeod isn't gonna play

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Speaker 1: Wild Goose, you know. I mean, I think you have

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Speaker 1: plenty of people to choose from. I think you can

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Speaker 1: for me, Arn Johnson, Dane Jackson, Wild Goose, Serrand Neil,

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Speaker 1: Elijah Griffin, Nick McLeod get used to those guys. I

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Speaker 1: that those guys are. That's a lot of them. That's

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Speaker 1: your roster right there, find out about it. Probably we'll

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Speaker 1: see a lot of them eight oh three fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. With Josh Allen not playing on Friday night

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Speaker 1: against the Lions, what do you want to see from

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Speaker 1: Mitchie Biscuits? You let us know at eight o three

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Speaker 1: five fifty or on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Break time for us here when we come back, we'll

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Speaker 1: play some of the comments from head coach Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: this morning when he addressed the media. That's coming your

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Speaker 1: way next here on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, So, as we told you,

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Speaker 1: we were going to play some of coach mcdermot's more

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Speaker 1: notable comments from this morning, and we already told you

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Speaker 1: that he said some starters will not even suit up

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Speaker 1: and play on Friday night. Josh Allen is among those players.

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Speaker 1: We can probably surmise some of the other more high

516
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Speaker 1: profile players will also be sitting on Friday night for

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Speaker 1: the game against the Lions. But in the next breath,

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott did address the importance of having preseason games

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Speaker 1: after not having any last summer. One of the big

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Speaker 1: things is communication. I'd say communication, how it flows, you know,

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Speaker 1: from the from the booth down to the field. Just

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Speaker 1: knocking the rust off of some of that. We did

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Speaker 1: that in the practice this past weekend to get the

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Speaker 1: first go around of it, and it's only going to improve,

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Speaker 1: and so that's important. Some of the game situations are

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Speaker 1: you know, when we didn't have preseason games, it was

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Speaker 1: a little bit easier because I could put a menu

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Speaker 1: together of I want to get through, you know, ten

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Speaker 1: situations if you will, And preseason games are great, but

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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't get that chance because they have to

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Speaker 1: come up within the course of the game, and if

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Speaker 1: they don't, then you've got to find another place in

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Speaker 1: practice to get them in. So it's just like I

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Speaker 1: alluded to earlier, it's a little bit of a juggling act,

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Speaker 1: but we figure it out and you know, I got

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Speaker 1: a great staff around me to help me with that.

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Speaker 1: I would say the biggest juggling acts on special teams

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Speaker 1: in the preseason. Man, Oh yeah, Keith Farwell has got

539
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Speaker 1: to be dealing with about sixty guys instead of twenty

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Speaker 1: or twenty five and a regular season, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's like he's got almost triple the guys he's putting

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Speaker 1: on different units, and then the McDermot may come over

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, we got to give another look to

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Speaker 1: this guy, this guy, and this guy leave them out

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Speaker 1: there for the next kickoff, when he was probably trying

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Speaker 1: to rotate somebody else through. Perhaps Yeah, that's those kind

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00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: of things happened kind of before the game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you say, listen, we want this guy to get all

549
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Speaker 1: the reps tonight because we're looking to see if he

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Speaker 1: can do it. But you're right, a special teams coordinator

551
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: has to be They have to be special guys because

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Speaker 1: they're working with everybody on the roster, not just the

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Speaker 1: defensive guys, not just the offensive guys, not just the receivers,

554
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Speaker 1: not just the dB. They're worked with every single position group.

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Speaker 1: And they've got to recruit, not recruit, but you know,

556
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Speaker 1: they've got to put their they've got to point to

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Speaker 1: every guy on the club who can help him on

558
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Speaker 1: special teams. But the biggest selling job is getting young

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Speaker 1: players who have never done it to buy in and

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Speaker 1: give it a good effort, and and a lot of

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Speaker 1: times just having somebody said yeah, I want to try it,

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Speaker 1: I want to do it, just that much of an attitude,

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Speaker 1: good attitude about it is like I want him because

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Speaker 1: the coach will say, I can fix it. If he

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Speaker 1: wants to do it, I get him to do it,

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Speaker 1: Give me him up, goll coach him up. But this

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Speaker 1: guy over here is like, what do you want me

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Speaker 1: to do? What? I ain't never done that? No, I

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Speaker 1: never done that before. You know, it's a death sentence

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Speaker 1: if you can't take that approach right. And these guys

571
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Speaker 1: are under the illusion or the belief that no, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a running back, or no, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be a linebacker. No no, I'm gonna be a

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Speaker 1: corner or whatever it is. You know, I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: a wide out. I got I'm busy trying to keep

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Speaker 1: my head above water in my position. Let alone do that.

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Speaker 1: And it's astounding that they don't say, yes, absolutely, how

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Speaker 1: do I do it? And do it well? You know,

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Speaker 1: But that's what the special team's coordinator's job is. Get

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Speaker 1: those guys, recruit him up. And that's why so many

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Speaker 1: of them, like John Harbaugh, like Marv Levy, who have

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Speaker 1: been so good as head coaches. He gives you that

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Speaker 1: you got to go out and get guys to buy in.

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Speaker 1: And that's what a good head coach does, and certainly

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Speaker 1: it starts with a good special teams Coordinator's got to

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Speaker 1: talk to the whole roster. One player who has been

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Speaker 1: an enormous beneficiary of Dion Dawkins's absence from the practice

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Speaker 1: setting due to being on the COVID reserve list is

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Speaker 1: rookie third round pick Spencer Brown. He has seen an

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Speaker 1: enormous amount of snaps through the first two plus weeks

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Speaker 1: two and a half weeks of training camp practices, and

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Speaker 1: knowing that Deon Dawkins is still not off the COVID

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Speaker 1: reserve list officially, he's in good position to see an

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Speaker 1: enormous number of snaps in the game Friday night. So

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Speaker 1: here is coach McDermott on just how Spencer Brown has

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Speaker 1: done through the first two plus weeks of camp. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: that's what happens when unfortunately guys are out, it's an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for someone else to step in and show us

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Speaker 1: what they what they can do. And I think Spencer's

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Speaker 1: off to a great start. He's he's held his own

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Speaker 1: in there against some good competition and now with Jerry

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Speaker 1: back it's it's given him another look at what a

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Speaker 1: veteran defensive end looks like from that side in particular.

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Speaker 1: And it's been good for him to get the reps

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Speaker 1: he's gotten. And I'll tell you Brown has not looked

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Speaker 1: out of place at all. He looks like he belongs.

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Speaker 1: You know, is every rep perfect, No, But I think

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Speaker 1: for a rookie coming in the door getting the reps

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Speaker 1: that he's getting right now, he's certainly held his own

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Speaker 1: on more than his fair share of the snaps he's

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Speaker 1: gotten through the first two and a half weeks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's probably a pretty good way to say. It's it's

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Speaker 1: not too big for him. Yeah, he's not hasn't been

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Speaker 1: dominant or anything like that. But that guy's yeah, solid, solid,

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Speaker 1: And you know what if if he was like first round,

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Speaker 1: if he was if he and Rousseau were switched and

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Speaker 1: Spencer Brown was the first round pick and Dion Dawkins

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Speaker 1: for some reason wasn't here, whatever, you'd be like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he gives you know what, he gives us a chance.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's a guy that you know is

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Speaker 1: going to get better as time goes on. But right now,

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Speaker 1: because of his physical traits. He's not gonna flounder at

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Speaker 1: left tackle or right tackle or even you know, one

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Speaker 1: of the guards, or anywhere else they put him. He's

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00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: athletically gifted enough to plug into all those spots. Brandon

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Speaker 1: being said as soon as they drafted him, he's our

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Speaker 1: swing tackle right now, which means he can play right

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Speaker 1: or left, So you know right away they had some

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Speaker 1: confidence in him, and he is not disappointed. Another player

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Speaker 1: who's demonstrated a good level of progress here in the

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Speaker 1: training camp setting and has quickly become a media darling

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Speaker 1: after his very entertaining press conference the other day is

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Speaker 1: Fa Obada, and coach McDermott was asked about his journey

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Speaker 1: to becoming an NFL player, knowing he just picked the

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Speaker 1: game up as an English national at age twenty two. Well,

636
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Speaker 1: we're fortunate, John to have Eric Washington on our staff

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00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: and a couple other Carolina Panthers or x Carolina Panthers

638
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: that that played alongside of Fa and um know his history,

639
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: know his story. Um, he's got a great story, and

640
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: my hat goes off to him. You know, to be

641
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: able to play at this level, it's hard to do

642
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: for anyone, um, let alone a person, with his with

643
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: his background. So, um, you know, I saw what he

644
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: said about he just wants to be known for his

645
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: play and how he can help this team. And I

646
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: think that's a great approach. I think it's a great

647
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: mindset and and that's what he's here to do. And so, um,

648
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: I think he's off to a great start. Um, he's

649
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: shown that he can play outside and inside and and

650
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: so I think his best football is ahead of him.

651
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: It's his versatility that's gonna get him on the field

652
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. I think he's making the roster already.

653
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: We haven't played a preseason game. I think he's on

654
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: the roster. He's he's an incredible athlete and that gives

655
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: him flexibility. And he's got size, so he's got all

656
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff going for him. Length Yeah, I mean,

657
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: he's got everything except experience in football itself. Forget about

658
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: being a Buffalo Bill or forget about being in the NFL.

659
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: He hasn't that much experience playing ball, so he has

660
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: to learn everything. Nothing comes instinctual for him, at least

661
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: not yet. And that's you know, that's only that's the

662
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: biggest drawback. He has smart, great personality, works hard at it,

663
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: and when he've got that, along with the elite traits

664
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: he's got, you know, how do you not want that

665
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: guy on your team? And I think that's what the

666
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: Bill saw in him, along with Eric Washington having coached

667
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: him early in his career. Yeah, there's a familiarity there.

668
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: So even though this is a new environment for him,

669
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: he's familiar with his position coach, who was his position

670
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: coach in Carolina and also his defensive coordinator at one time.

671
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: And then he's familiar with some of his teammates at

672
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: the very position that he plays. Star and Vernon Butler

673
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: were former teammates of his Addison as well. Right, Yes,

674
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: Addison too in Carolina. You're right, so, and he actually

675
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: credits Mario Addison as for lack of a better term, mentor,

676
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend to know what their relationship

677
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: was in Carolina, but I know that Obada would watch

678
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: Mario Addison intently on the practice field and then again

679
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: off of tape to try to mimic some of the

680
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: techniques that Mario uses on the field, because I think

681
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: he feels his body type is somewhat comparable. He's taller

682
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: and longer, but Essentially, I think he feels that they

683
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 1: share a lot of the same physical traits and he's

684
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: tried to pattern his game or mimic some of the

685
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: things that Addison does and incorporated into his game. Final

686
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: comment from coach McDermott that we wanted to bring to

687
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: you deals with one. Dawson not one of a handful

688
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: of players along with ed Oliver Devin Singletary who are

689
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: entering big third seasons with the Bills. We already know

690
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: who the primary playmakers are on this team. If third

691
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: year players like ed Oliver, Devin Singletary and Dawson Knox

692
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: can have big third years, it could really help this

693
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: team go all the way. So here is coach McDermott

694
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: on Dawson Knox's pivotal third year with the Bills. You're

695
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: seeing the production right He's I think he was off

696
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: to a really good start, had a little bit of

697
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 1: a hiccup one day, and then came back the next

698
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: day and got right back on it in terms of

699
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: picking up where he left off two days prior. And

700
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: I think that says a lot about his mental strength

701
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: and his mental toughness. And I think he's having a

702
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: really good camp so I've been proud of what he's been,

703
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: what he's done to this point. And and maybe some

704
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: of it does come from being around at that tight

705
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: end camp, if you will, And so you know confidence

706
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: comes from that as well, just knowing you, you know,

707
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: rub some elbows with some guys who have been there

708
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:06,959
Speaker 1: and done it and done it at a high level.

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Speaker 1: Coach mcdermot's referencing the tight end you that was held

710
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: by some veteran tight ends in the league, most notably

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00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, even some retired guys. They held a tight

712
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: end you. It was like a summit for tight ends

713
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: in the league to come get some work in on

714
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: the field, talk about technique, watch some film together. And

715
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox was a sponge and he said the main

716
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: thing that he took from it where he feels he

717
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: is better is released technique. He said he learned a

718
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: lot of little tips and tricks about releases off the

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00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: line that he feels is going to help him get

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00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: quicker separation from his defender. Yeah, and it Dawson Knox

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00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: could come out and have a breakout year this year.

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Speaker 1: But even even if he does, I don't know what

723
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: that'll look like in this offense. When you've got Steph

724
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: Diggs at the top of the food chain along with

725
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: along with Cole Beasley, you got Emmanuel Sanders, the tight

726
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: end really isn't asked to do much. And I've heard,

727
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: you know, some people in the media are asking, you know,

728
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: they're asking questions like, you know, you know, could would

729
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: you use Dawson Knox? You know, could he be like Gronkowski?

730
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: Would your you know, does your offense call for a

731
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: tight end? And the answer is NFL offense. And I

732
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: don't media, I don't know some of the media don't

733
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: get it. But NFL offenses look like what your talent

734
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: makes them look like. You're this is long gone or

735
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: the days where you say we're gonna come in and

736
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: run the run, the you know power bob oh. Yeah.

737
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: You go out and pick the best players available, find

738
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: out what they do, and you let them do that.

739
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: You put plays in that exploit their best traits, their

740
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: best skill sets. You put plays in that make your

741
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: talent look good. That's what an NFL offense is. That's

742
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: why Kansas City has a ton of plays that go

743
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: to the tight end. They have a ton of plays

744
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: for Tyreek Hill. That's why the Tennessee Titans do what

745
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: they do is because they've got Derrick Henry and Ryan Tannehill.

746
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: It's not like Mike Vrabel came in and said, all

747
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: these other coaches are missing it. Here's how you run

748
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:32,959
Speaker 1: an NFL offense, and he does it. No, you run

749
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: the plays and you use the concepts that have been

750
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: proven over history to utilize this kind of talent. And

751
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: if you've got that talent, use it and you put

752
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: plays in for it. So if Dawson Knox comes in

753
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: and shows a pension for getting matchups, because Steph Diggs

754
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: is getting a matchup, Cold Bezi's getting a matchup, Emmanuel

755
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: Sanders is getting a matchup, and Devin Singletary or Moss

756
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: or Breeder or somebody is getting some attention. Whatever those

757
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: guys is matched up, and all of a sudden, you

758
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 1: got Dawson Knox on somebody who can't cover him. Then

759
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: you've got twenty five, thirty, forty fifty plays in your

760
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: playbook and you run those at a high rate, and

761
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Dawson Knox catches eighty balls for

762
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: the season. But unless that all of that stuff happens,

763
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox will end up catching another thirty five balls

764
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: this year, kept be a red zone target, and away

765
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: they go, and they still win a lot of games

766
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: because their skill sets or something else. It's not an

767
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: end alp all scenario, you know, sink or swim for

768
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: the team. Based on Dawson Knox's production, He's just a

769
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,720
Speaker 1: little further down in the pecking order with the receiver

770
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: talent you have here. That's just the fact. I'll say this,

771
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 1: though we've said it. If he plays better, they'll he'll

772
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: get more opportunities. Yes, absolutely, that's the way that works.

773
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: Break time for us here. But when we come back,

774
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, a college football roster of names that

775
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: defies any and all logic. Not quite sure what some

776
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: of these parents were thinking when they named their kids,

777
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: but there is a list of college football players that

778
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: has been put together and it is special. Some names

779
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: that are as rare as you'll find. We're gonna give

780
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: you some of them next here on One Bill's Live,

781
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

782
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: we told you we had some names for you. I

783
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: have to give credit where it is due at Jim M.

784
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: Weber on Twitter. He came up with the scoured rosters

785
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: across the country for the upcoming college football season and

786
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: came up with his twenty twenty one college football All

787
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 1: Named Team. And I gotta tell you, we look for

788
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: unusual names all the time when the Senior Bowl rosters

789
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: come out or when the NFL Combine rundown of players

790
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: comes out, and you can always find some really interesting names.

791
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 1: But this guy did position by position in all of

792
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: college football and he has hit a grand slam with this.

793
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: So we'll start on offense. Here where leading this team

794
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 1: out at quarterback from Tyler Junior College. It's General Booty.

795
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: General is his first name and Booty is his second.

796
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: That's right. But there are some real keepers here. This

797
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: is a great name if you are an offensive lineman.

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00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: Bear Hunter. Now he does spell his first name b

799
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: a er, but bear hunter is the guy's name. And

800
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: even better, he's from Appalachian State, a bear hunter up

801
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: in the Appalachian Mountains. I mean, look out if you're

802
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: the best black bear up there. There's a couple of

803
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: running back in a wide receiver that is just perfect.

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00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: The running back's name is Tank Biggsby. Yeah, that is

805
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: a good name. That's like a big tank, right Tank

806
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: Biggsby is the Auburn running back. And then the wide receiver,

807
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: Fat Watts spelled with a pH fat yeah, Fat Watts.

808
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,919
Speaker 1: That is awesome. That that is solid. I will say

809
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: that this is a name you don't want if you're

810
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. Gentle Williams go I Obviously his mom

811
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: looked at his face and said, oh what a you know,

812
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: what a cute little gentle soul. It will name him

813
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: Gentle Williams, not to be outdone from Iowa State Dodge

814
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: Saucer straight from the auto show in Detroit. Dodge. It's

815
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: Dodge Sauces that really like the two thousand and twenty two.

816
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: That's what I think for a drive. Dodge Saucer. That

817
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 1: is awesome, Dodge Saucer and spelled s a U SCR

818
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: Dodge Saucer. I just want to make it clear because

819
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: some of these names were so unbelievable. I was like,

820
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: that can't be real. I got to look up and

821
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 1: see if this person really exists, and these are there

822
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: given first and these are not nicknames like Fish McWilliams,

823
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman for UAB. His first name is legitimately Fish.

824
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: Now some of them are just formal names, like another

825
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: D lineman, Octavius Oxendine, the double O. Now that guy's

826
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: got to wear double zero for a number, doesn't He's

827
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: got to Scott. Your initials are Oh oh it's perfect. No,

828
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: his nickname would be Buckshot, right, Octavius Oxendine, love it,

829
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: big Cat Bryant. Yeah, that's that's a D line name. Yeah. Uh,

830
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: the one that I liked, Perfect for your man. Cave,

831
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: the linebacker out of Arkansas, Bumper Pool. His first name

832
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: is Bumper, his last name is Pool. We are not

833
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: making these up. There's then the other linebackers, Chief. His

834
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: first name is Chief, his last name Borders. Chief Borders

835
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: from Florida, and like and his running mate Power Echoes. Yeah,

836
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: the defensive backs take the cake THOUGHH my gosh, these

837
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: are these are absolute goals. This guy should have been

838
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 1: a meteorologist instead of a defensive back. Storm Duck I

839
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: picture I don't know why, but I'm picturing like a

840
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: cartoon character in like a Night's you know, a suit

841
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: of armor. Storm Duck. I just I can see him

842
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: with a sword under his wing. It's like Daffy Duck,

843
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 1: Super Duck. Yeah, Storm duck. And then the next one

844
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: his opposite on the other side is smoke Monday. Now

845
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: this sounds like a special you'd have at a barbecue joint.

846
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: Hey if hey, everybody right, it's smoke Monday, you know,

847
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: come down to the cigar shop and get your get

848
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: your h at it or an advertisement. But I think

849
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: the one that wins it here is the defensive back

850
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: from San Diego State, New Zealand, Williams. Now, this was

851
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: the one that made me start looking up names. Right,

852
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: It's like, there's no way somebody named their kid New Zealand.

853
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: But I, in some ways I regret to inform you that, yes,

854
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,280
Speaker 1: there is a defensive back in San Diego State whose

855
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: name is New Zealand Williamses. Did their parents go on

856
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: a vacation and they were just so taken with the

857
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: country New Zealand they decided to name their kid after

858
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 1: the island nation. I don't this this should spawn a

859
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: a desire to secure interviews with the parents of some

860
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: of these kids, because I've got to believe some of

861
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: these stories on how they how they landed on the

862
00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: New Zealand's fascinating. Gotta be a bad twenty twenty has

863
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: got to get on this one. The Latin for special

864
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: teams as well. The punterre awesome name George George Appolis.

865
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: And I was saying with George Georgeopolis, all redundant. But

866
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: I was like, John Paul Ringo and George George Appolis,

867
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: John Paul Ringo and George Opolis. Yeah, George Georgeopolis. That's it. Yeah.

868
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: I mean if you like the name George, Okay, I

869
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: mean George Foreman named all of his five sons George

870
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: George the second, third, fourth, and fifth. Um, there you go. So,

871
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 1: I guess if you're that big a fan, but it's

872
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: already in your I don't know. It's hard to even

873
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: pick a favorite because everyone is better than Fish McWilliams,

874
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 1: Dodge Saucers. You got a fish, a bear, and a

875
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: buck and a duck. And the quarterbacks list all quarterbacked

876
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: by General Booty. Pull on the trigger, pull on the

877
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: triggers for the bear catch this week, General Booty. That

878
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: is some of this. I just Dylan death Ridge. We

879
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 1: didn't even get to him. That was the other offensive lineman.

880
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,760
Speaker 1: You want to see that guy coming at you. Dylan

881
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: death Ridge from Great Michigan Great List by Jim Twitter

882
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: good on him for putting it together and scouring the

883
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: lists of rosters across the country. That is a heck

884
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: of an all name team, topped by New Zealand Williams.

885
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here. When we come back,

886
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: we'll hear from some of the players, including Tommy Sweeney,

887
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: Taryn Johnson among them. We'll get to those guys next here.

888
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: On One Bill's Live presented by Collida Health, It's Buffalo.

889
00:51:39,040 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio had a Steve Tasker who has been all

890
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: over the field, kind of unique. He was kind of

891
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you. Steve a blimp. We're

892
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: not even in the straded beer of normalcy. Our number

893
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: two on a Wednesday One Bills Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker,

894
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: and there is an update on the NFL vaccination rate

895
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: courtesy of a friend of the show, Judy Batista. Ninety

896
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: one point seven percent of all players have at least

897
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: one dose of the vaccine. Now fifteen teams have more

898
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: than ninety five percent of players vaccinated. Lots of focus

899
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 1: on the hesitant and resistant, but these numbers are considered high,

900
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: so they're certainly doing a lot better than society at large.

901
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: We know that well, there's I don't know, what do

902
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: you say more financial incentive to get it done that

903
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: I would say that's fair. I would say that's a

904
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: fair argument. We wanted to get some of the player

905
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: comments to you from those who addressed the media after

906
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: practice today. One of those players was someone we already

907
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: talked about. Who figures to get a boatload of playing

908
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: time on Friday night against the Lions. It is one

909
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown. So here is the rookie offensive tackle. Addressing

910
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: the media following today's practice, The beneficiary are of dam

911
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: not being here for two weeks. Can you maybe quantify

912
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: what it's been like to get so many reps with

913
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: the first team especially, Yeah, it's it's awesome, especially coming

914
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: in to camp not expecting that situation. Adon going down,

915
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: but it's more best sink or swim, and I don't

916
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: plan on drowning. So it's just getting with the older

917
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: guys and learning from them because they've been playing together

918
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: for a while, So just getting the rhythm with them

919
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: and learning their calls and expect and coachesn't take them

920
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: up right lean just however that might come on bunches,

921
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: but it's uh, it's all right, Yeah, Yeah, learning is

922
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: the best um always not playing in a while. So

923
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: just come out here and see what you're made, learning

924
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: from your mistakes and as well as your as your wins,

925
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: and see what works and see what doesn't work. So

926
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: it's just every day coming out here and putting the

927
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: work in. That's what's great about football. Is just okay,

928
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: So you can't just it's gonna be an easy day.

929
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: It's just uh, every single day. How many times said,

930
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: holy cow, you're it's been It's been mentioned a few times,

931
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 1: especially by like Isaiah m Easy a little bit, but

932
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 1: I've I've been getting out a while, so they might

933
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: think it's it's a big guy, but it feels normal

934
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: to me. I guess it normal for you to face

935
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: other big guys such as Greg Rousseau. How often have

936
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: you ever faced someone of that stature? That's almost as

937
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 1: much of a speak. H Ellerson Smith, who I went

938
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: to the college with. He's with the Giants now, so

939
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: he's he's six seven, but he wouldn't weigh as much. UM.

940
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: But but Greg and Boogie and Fa and those bigger

941
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: guys that come off the edge, it's a it's a

942
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: learning experience for sure, because I didn't see that at

943
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: the FCS level. But um, it's fun. It's funny, away

944
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: gets high competition. It's that's what makes uh it's a

945
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: good time. What do you think the biggest period, I

946
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 1: think the schematics everything, Like everything has a little tweak

947
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 1: to it, Like you might put a plan and then

948
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: the next day has like five different variations to it.

949
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: So I'm just getting the playbook. That's a lot bigger

950
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: and more advanced than it was in college. So I

951
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: think the playbook and just a little tweaks here and there,

952
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: like he might have a play call and there's one

953
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: thing at the end that changes it for you personally.

954
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: So I just listened to it all and getting in

955
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:49,439
Speaker 1: the playbook is a is a big thing, exciting level

956
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: of he said, you hadn't played in a while to

957
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: know that you're actually gonna help it somebody else. That

958
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: is your teammate feeling. It's it's pretty calm right now.

959
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: I don't get too riled up games, but once all right,

960
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: four kickoff is kind of where I get going. And uh,

961
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: I don't I have to remember my game to your team.

962
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: It's been a while, so I'll try to figure it out.

963
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: But excitement level is it was pretty high right now yet,

964
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: whether it was training again, I know we said a

965
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,359
Speaker 1: lot of teams, I got OTA's and VID camp. Has

966
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: there been one of those moments here as you're getting

967
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: you know, first team reps with it's in the book

968
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: and I'm learning from them, and just the speed and

969
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: power that comes off the edge. Um, it's it's something

970
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: that uh that was my welcome to the rookie. Are

971
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: you gonna talk trash with uh No, not too much,

972
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 1: just like friendly stuff here and there, Like in the

973
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: locker room. You might give me a little jab here

974
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: and there, but it's it's all good fun. That's that's

975
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: that's what makes it fun, all right. So that Spencer

976
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: Brown Bills third round draft Joyce who's getting a ton

977
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: of time in the practice setting, and I'm sorry about

978
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: that skipping around a little. Yeah, I don't know what's

979
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 1: going on the gaps in our hiccups in the audio,

980
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: but he didn't stop talking. We just jumped around like whatever. Yeah,

981
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: But I think the general gist of what he was

982
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: getting at is was readily understood for the most part

983
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: after the hiccups went away. And it's basically he knows

984
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,760
Speaker 1: how fortunately is to be getting the reps that he's getting,

985
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,879
Speaker 1: because it's putting him on a faster track to being

986
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: more ready in the event he's needed for contributions at

987
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: some point this season. And as you pointed out last hour,

988
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: Steve Spencer Brown got drafted five minutes later, Brandon Bean's

989
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: calling him their swing tackle coming in the door. So

990
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: to get this amount of work against top flight competition

991
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, not to mention

992
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: Friday night against the Lions, I think can only serve

993
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: him well. Yeah, and these reps he's been getting, it

994
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: will probably serve him well in this game Friday night. Right,

995
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna come in like having gotten a lot of

996
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: really good reps against some really good players, having him

997
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: be able to line up out there not having it instead,

998
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, think about taking half the reps or less

999
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: than half the reps that you've gotten so far and

1000
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: then going into playing a game like that. And he

1001
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: said it as well, one of the big adjustments he

1002
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: has had to make being a professional is the complexity

1003
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: of the playbook. You install a play and the next

1004
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: day there are five mutations of that play that you

1005
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: have to be ready for, depending on the defensive front,

1006
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: and your offensive personnel and the offensive shift and whatever

1007
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: motions they put with it. Your assignments and keys have

1008
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: to change, and you gotta stay on top of that.

1009
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: Those complexities don't, you know, necessarily show up at the

1010
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: lower levels of football, but you know, obviously they're part

1011
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: of what's going on here and he's had to adjust

1012
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: to that. I thought it was interesting as well, and

1013
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: I guess it's right for a guy with him, who's

1014
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: as tall and big as he is, you kind of

1015
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: go through life like that, right particularly, you know, when

1016
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: you're not hanging around NFL locker rooms, you don't see

1017
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: guys that are as big as you ever. He said

1018
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,040
Speaker 1: he had one guy who was as tall but not

1019
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: as thick as you know, as an NFL player who's

1020
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: now with the Giants, and that's the only guy he

1021
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: saw in his career. So now he's lining up against

1022
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: guys like Greg Rousseau and all the way from Greg Roussel,

1023
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: all the way to Jerry Hughes to Mario Addison to

1024
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: fa Obada. You got all these guys rotating around, You're

1025
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: getting to look at every body type who are adding

1026
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: a high athletic ability he's going to get ready in

1027
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: a hurry. And I think these reps are really going

1028
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: to serve him well, particularly in the games like this

1029
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: one in Detroit Friday. Yeah, and as we said, I

1030
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: mean he figures to see a whole a lot of

1031
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: playing time because I think it's unlikely that Dawkins suits

1032
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: up knowing he hasn't been on the practice field yet,

1033
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: including today. He was doing some running on the side,

1034
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: but he's not practicing yet, hasn't practiced since the start

1035
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: of camp. You're not gonna throw, you know, your top

1036
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: left tackle into a preseason game when he hasn't practiced yet.

1037
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:56,919
Speaker 1: That's just irresponsible. So I wouldn't anticipate he plays, which

1038
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: means that Spencer Brown is probably going to be one

1039
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 1: of the beneficiaries again and get a good deal of time.

1040
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: And you say, okay, well, who are we looking at? Like,

1041
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the the Lions depth chart,

1042
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: which I'm trying to pull up right now, and of

1043
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: course my computer is slower than molasses flowing downhill, but

1044
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: I'll get that for you. Just looking for the defensive

1045
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: lineman that Spencer Brown could be facing off the edge there,

1046
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: yea for the Lions it's just taken forever to load.

1047
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: So we'll get it to you when we get it

1048
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: to you, because I know they made some changes there

1049
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: in Detroit, so we'll get it to you in due course.

1050
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: But I just think that he's had good practice reps

1051
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: against quality ends here, as you pointed out in camp

1052
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: through the first two and a half weeks. Now he's

1053
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: going to get a look at somebody that's got a

1054
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: different skill set or different arsenal of pass rush moves,

1055
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: and now you have to adjust to that. I also

1056
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting Steve that he talked about how

1057
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: volumin the Bills playbook was and how many variations come

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01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: off of a single play which you would anticipate would

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01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: impact maybe receivers or running backs based on route concepts

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01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: or whatever else, but he said it impacts him too,

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01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: which I found very interesting. Yeah, the guys on the

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01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: defensive lineman on Detroit, they start with Michael Brocker's Alan McNeil,

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01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: Nick Williams, Jason Cornell, John Penissi, Pensini, Deshaun Hand. Then

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01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: you get down into the guy's mind. They run a

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Speaker 1: three four as well do the lines, So that's gonna

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01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: be a different kind of um look as well. And

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01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: if Aquara is their number one pass Rushia Romeo Acqua

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01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: Romeo Aquara, then you the other outside linebackers Trey Flowers,

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Speaker 1: and you got Charles Harris behind him, you got Julian o'kawara, Oquara,

1070
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: Robert McCray, Austin Bryant. So they've got some guys um

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be interesting too, because they didn't practice

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01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: against a three four. They haven't practice against the three

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01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: four all camp. Maybe they will in the next day

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01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: or so, get a walk through or whatever, but that's different.

1075
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: It's different than the run blocking, different in the pass

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01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: blocking as well. Where your guys are, they're not as

1077
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: defined as they are in a four to three, and

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01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: so that'll be one more degree of difficulty to the

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01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: Bill's offensive line, and in particular, Spencer Brown are gonna

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01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: have to deal with. We wanted to take a peek

1081
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: at the tweet sheet where we were asking you, if

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01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: Josh Allen not playing Friday night against the Lions, what

1083
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: do you want to see from quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, who

1084
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 1: will get his first action as a Bills quarterback. And

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01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet is always brought to you by Corrigan

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01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official at Triman Movement Company of the

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01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and Tiffany says, I'm honestly excited to see

1088
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 1: him play. He was drafted second overall for a reason,

1089
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: at a winning record for an average Bears team. I'd

1090
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: like to see him take command to the offense and

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01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: move him down the field. A couple of tds would

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01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: be nice to build his confidence. I was taken with

1093
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: how self effacing he was when he spoke to the

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01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 1: media yesterday, just saying he could feel then the Browns,

1095
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: he could feel the Bears believing in him less and less.

1096
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: That has just got to be an awful, awful thing

1097
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 1: to come to work to every single day when you're like, man,

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01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: these guys are given up on me, and you've got

1099
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 1: to still come out and do your job to the

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01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: best of your ability. That's tough. Yeah, it's yeah, it is.

1101
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 1: And not even guys who have played their most, notably

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01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: Jim McMahon, who want a Super Bowl for Chicago, they're

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01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: only super Bowl as their quarterback, will acknowledge that Chicago

1104
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: is a place where quarterbacks go to die. That they

1105
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 1: have never been able to cultivate or develop a franchise quarterback,

1106
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: and it has it has been to their detriment there.

1107
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 1: They have been a mediocre wins and lost team for ever.

1108
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: And once in a while you'll see him catch lightning

1109
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: in a bottle one season, as they did with Trubisky,

1110
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 1: went twelve and four that year before they got the

1111
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 1: double doink and out of the playoffs in their own

1112
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: building in Mattnege's first year as head coach, and they

1113
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: haven't been able to duplicate it since. And you can

1114
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 1: say what you want, but I think you know, certainly

1115
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 1: Mitch could have played better. But if you're gonna place

1116
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: all of that on the shoulders of a number two

1117
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: overall pick who got you to twelve and four, yeah,

1118
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,919
Speaker 1: I think that's misplaced. Matt on the tweet sheet says,

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Speaker 1: the number one thing I'm looking for is consistency. He

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01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: does not need to be a gun slinger. I'm hoping

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01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: he displays a competence in our offense should we need

1122
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: him to fill in at some point, Yeah, I mean consistency.

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01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: I get it, you're looking for a guy to just

1124
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 1: hold down the fort, but Trubisky can be more than

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01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: that for you. This isn't a game manager right, it's

1126
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: a guy that can make some plays. I mean, I

1127
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: think people forget Yeah, he's gifted. Completed like sixty six

1128
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: percent of his passes last year. I think he was

1129
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 1: two to one touchdown interception ratio. Yeah, I mean, I

1130
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: think it can be more than a game manager to

1131
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 1: just carry you through a void. If God forbid, Josh

1132
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: Allen miss is a game or two. This guy can

1133
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: help you win. That's why they signed him. He's He's

1134
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 1: a clear upgrade, and I think you can make the

1135
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: argument he's probably one of the best backup quarterbacks in

1136
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: the entire league. For instance, How does Denver not take

1137
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 1: a stab at that guy? I don't know. I mean,

1138
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: Steve and I have joked about it. The Bills don't

1139
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: have the best quarterback in the division. They have the

1140
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 1: best two quarterbacks in the division. In my opinion, I

1141
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 1: don't think Cam Newton's where he used to be. It's

1142
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: something to be It's it's an argument. And the other

1143
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: ones are young and inexperienced, right, they may develop into

1144
01:05:55,800 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: something an now they're not there yet. Now, Yeah, that's

1145
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see. And Trubisky said, you know, we

1146
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: all thought, wow, you know there are people trying to

1147
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: get him. The offer to come in and compete for

1148
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback never came up for him. He never

1149
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 1: got that shot. So whatever people are seeing with him

1150
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 1: on film and whatever word they're getting about him or

1151
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: whatever it has, it has not been to his benefit.

1152
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 1: So to have him come to Buffalo knowing he's the

1153
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,959
Speaker 1: backup and get himself a chance to take a deep breath,

1154
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: put some things under his belt, and put the Chicago

1155
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: experience to bed. He'll he'll reset it next year. Yeah,

1156
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn now to a tight end whose twenty

1157
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: twenty season was completely washed away by a COVID diagnosis

1158
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: followed by complications even after he recovered, as he was

1159
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,600
Speaker 1: suffering from myocarditis and had to be put on injured

1160
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 1: reserve for the remainder of the twenty twenty season. But

1161
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: he is back now, fully healthy and ready to roll.

1162
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: It is Tommy Sweeney who addressed the media after practice today.

1163
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 1: Here he is talking about what he dealt with in

1164
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and what he's looking forward to. Now, what's

1165
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: the process been like getting back out here after what

1166
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: you dealt with last season? Good? Thanks, it's uh OTAs

1167
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: is real good to kind of get my feet wet,

1168
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: start moving again, I say here all offseason and the

1169
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: strength of condition staff was great, so you know, it

1170
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:32,080
Speaker 1: was three months off, but it was kind of like

1171
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 1: grinding bike. It took a little bit obviously, but once

1172
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 1: you get back into it, your back end and thankfully

1173
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: again we had that OTAs and I was able to

1174
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: get you know, get rolling then and then hit the

1175
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: ground running here for camp. Okay, well, Twine, were you

1176
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: able to start conditioning again like in the off season

1177
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: or were you able to get a little bit and

1178
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: during the season? Um? Nothing during the season. I think

1179
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: literally the week after the last the Kansas City game

1180
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: was when I was cleared to start again. So yeah,

1181
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: so nothing during the season. It was started, you know

1182
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: February whenever. That was early's really did you hear her

1183
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 1: condition or things like that? Did the alarms go off?

1184
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: You know, what was your instant reaction and and did

1185
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,639
Speaker 1: you try to figure out what it all actually meant? Yeah?

1186
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, heart's obviously a pretty serious thing

1187
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 1: for for US human banks. Um, yeah, you know, it's alarming. Uh,

1188
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: it was a lot at once. You know, as you're

1189
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: talking about that, you're talking about real life. You know,

1190
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 1: seasons over talking about the career. UM, So it's kind

1191
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:36,680
Speaker 1: of a lot at once obviously definitely alarming. UM, but

1192
01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: you know, the doctors that I talked with and worked

1193
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 1: with and everybody here was great about it, and you know,

1194
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: obviously it wasn't a good thing, but they're pretty confident

1195
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: we'd be able to get back after you know, got

1196
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: through that three month period. So it was alarming at first,

1197
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,719
Speaker 1: but you know, we were optimistic throughout. UM think helps

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01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 1: once I got back and you know, at least put

1199
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: in the rear view and keep rolling. You know, persidual

1200
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: still hanging related to that, uh hope, not h you know,

1201
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: it's it's every this is new with everybody. UM. Obviously

1202
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: the whole the whole COVID thing so UM and obviously

1203
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: COVID related to mincardiis is the same thing. So hopefully, UM,

1204
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 1: we'll keep tabs on it. Um. Again, the doctors has

1205
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:17,560
Speaker 1: been great, UM, keep it and then we'll keep to

1206
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 1: keep tabs on it um and then keep rolling. But

1207
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: for the most part, it felt really good through camp.

1208
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: For a point, Tommy last year, when you really did

1209
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: wonder if if your career might be derailed by this,

1210
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: you know, there was you know, at first when kind

1211
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:36,479
Speaker 1: of found out, you know, and all the emotions are

1212
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: kind of running, there was a you know, a thought,

1213
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: but um, you know, I tried to stay as positive

1214
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: as possible, and the doctors that I talked to were,

1215
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:46,760
Speaker 1: you know, pretty confident that we'd be able to get back.

1216
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,560
Speaker 1: And then a couple I think a guy in the

1217
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: major leagues had it and he was back. So seeing

1218
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 1: somebody else have it and come back was a good thing.

1219
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 1: So it was a point. But it wasn't like a

1220
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 1: long you know thought where I thought it would happen,

1221
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: you know, I And then you know, you gotta keep

1222
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 1: a positive mindset through it all. So you know, worked

1223
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: too hard on doing that and uh, you know, stay

1224
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: above water. Than having to miss time affected your development

1225
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: still here early in your career as a young player, Yeah,

1226
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 1: it it didn't help, you know, especially because I pretty

1227
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: much missed all last year. I came out foot surgery

1228
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: and then when I come came back from that was

1229
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: right off of this, so I really missed a full year.

1230
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 1: Um it's never good. So I didn't didn't help, But

1231
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: I like to think that I feel pretty good now,

1232
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 1: you know. It was almost good. He's been playing football

1233
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: since I was seven years old and all the other sports,

1234
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 1: you know, try to put a silver lining on it,

1235
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:39,600
Speaker 1: take a little time off and let the rest of

1236
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: the body heal. Um. At least that's what I told

1237
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: myself mentally. So it felt good coming back. Don't feel

1238
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: like I took a step backwards at all. Um. I

1239
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 1: feel like I didn't play for a year, but you know,

1240
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,640
Speaker 1: I still feel pretty good. And you know, it was

1241
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: definitely a year. Um you never get back, but I

1242
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,479
Speaker 1: think for the most part, it didn't lose too much,

1243
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, athletically or football wise. Did you learn about

1244
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:04,960
Speaker 1: yourself in that year off? That's a good question, Um,

1245
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:08,799
Speaker 1: kind of a lot. You know, it was something completely

1246
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: random and something that really nobody would have first saw. Um.

1247
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: You know, I learned a lot about myself, thankfully had

1248
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 1: you know, everybody here was great, and my family, you know,

1249
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 1: trusting God and really just you know, learned to really

1250
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: just stay positive through it all and you know, find

1251
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: different ways to get better. You know, I worked with

1252
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: the U with everybody here for the mental side of things,

1253
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 1: for a lot of other stuff, to try and stand

1254
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: on top of it and just you know, keep the

1255
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: nose down and trusting God and and come back stronger

1256
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 1: than before. Was really it And uh, it's a long

1257
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 1: time three months, but you know, learned a lot again

1258
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 1: about myself and to keep keep fighting. You know, COVID

1259
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 1: hasn't gone away. Teammates have any teammates sort of asked

1260
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:57,759
Speaker 1: you about your experience as you guys are still figuring

1261
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: out how to navigate it this year. Yeah, well they

1262
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: were everybody. I was here the whole time. I never

1263
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 1: really left um stuck right. Everybody with the organization was great.

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Speaker 1: And you know, all my teammates were around me the

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Speaker 1: whole time, which I really appreciated. And you know, they

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Speaker 1: know what I what happened and what I went there,

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Speaker 1: and they were with me and and they were all great.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, they were there, they know, and they're real

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Speaker 1: supportive throughout. And then still are you get a sense

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Speaker 1: as how trying that year was for Tommy Sweeney as

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Speaker 1: he dealt with coming off a foot surgery, then got COVID,

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Speaker 1: then had complications after with myocarditis, and pretty much his

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01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 1: whole twenty twenty season got flushed in a year where

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Speaker 1: the team had extraordinary success. He admitted it was a

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Speaker 1: challenge mentally, So we'll talk more about that later in

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Speaker 1: the show. We have to break now because coming up

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Speaker 1: next is one Charles Davis, who took in Bill's training camp.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with him when we return, you know, on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Life presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio, all right, second half of the show, and

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Speaker 1: here we go. A quick comment about Tommy Sweeney. It's

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Speaker 1: gotta I mean, when you're out of it for a

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Speaker 1: year through no fault to your own, really, and then

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Speaker 1: you get a chance to come back. I mean, I

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01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: guess I would liken it to a season ending injury.

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01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,360
Speaker 1: It's because it was similar in nature. It was an illness,

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01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 1: a season ending illness and complication. But man, I mean,

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01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: when you're like twenty four years old, you're rare and

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01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 1: to go that's rough. That's really rough. Who knows, you

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01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:48,639
Speaker 1: know what ripple effect it will have on the rest

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01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 1: of his career, whether it put him in a better

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01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: spot with the Bills or because of this year as

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01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: opposed to last year, or whether it's worse. Um. Certainly

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01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 1: the tight end room that he left a year ago

1295
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,719
Speaker 1: is completely different than the one he walked back into.

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01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: This year, Dawson Knox is the only guy that's still standing.

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01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam was new last year, Sweeney never got a

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01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: chance to really play with him on the lineup, So

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01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: it's it's a vastly different place in that tight end

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01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 1: room than it was two years ago when Tommy Sweeney

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Speaker 1: was actually a part of it as a rookie. So

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Speaker 1: I imagine it feels pretty strange to him when we're

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01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: talking about what we're looking forward to Friday night and

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01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 1: knowing a good number of the starters are not going

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01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 1: to suit up. I'm looking at the depth behind Dawson Knox,

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01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: who's going to step forward there, who's going to kind

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Speaker 1: of put a stamp on the number two role, etc.

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01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:44,280
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be an interesting one. Going

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Speaker 1: in here to talk Bill's training camp with us is

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01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 1: a guy who took in practice today, fresh into town

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01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:52,800
Speaker 1: and soon to be right back out of town to

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Speaker 1: his next assignment. It's the very busy Charles Davis, NFL

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01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 1: on CBS analyst, also does some NFL Network with draft stuff. Charles,

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Speaker 1: thanks for getting us in time and your busy schedule.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me as always

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Speaker 1: always great to talk with you, guys, see you and

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Speaker 1: actually see you, because last year everything was like this

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01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: if we did it at all. Right, So I'm really

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this. Always great, great to be

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Speaker 1: back here in Western New York. Always great to be

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01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 1: a Buffalo. And I gotta tell you it's a great

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01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: vibe around this place. Fantastic vibe. And I'm really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to this season. Yeah, actually it's we. Actually, you

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Speaker 1: and I got a chance to talk for about ten

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Speaker 1: minutes before Sean McDermott did hist As media conference today,

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Speaker 1: and You're right, it is nice to be able to

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Speaker 1: shake hands and sit there and talk face to face

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Speaker 1: instead of over a zoom like this. However, absolutely, what

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Speaker 1: were you what were your what are your impressions? I

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01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: know we spoke about the culture that's been built here

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Speaker 1: and all that. What about the nuts and bolts? What'd

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Speaker 1: you see on the field that struck you about this

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01:15:55,479 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: particular edition of the bills? Very efficient practice And when

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Speaker 1: I go around to different places, people do things a

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Speaker 1: little bit differently everywhere, but you can always feel like

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Speaker 1: teams you expect to be good by how they go

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Speaker 1: about their business and practice, you know, Steven Jay one

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Speaker 1: of the things that I did not hear any of today,

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Speaker 1: which to me is always a telltale indicator. I didn't

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Speaker 1: hear back in the huddle. Back in the huddle, okay,

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01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 1: meaning the call didn't come in right, the wrong personnel

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Speaker 1: was in the game. You know all those things. I

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Speaker 1: didn't hear. Run it on the line of screen, put it,

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Speaker 1: put it on the last kars, run it again. I

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01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: didn't hear that. You know, there's not a lot of

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01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 1: bumbling and stumbling through its. Very efficient players were called,

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01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:47,640
Speaker 1: there were snapped dispatch, and these guys know how to practice.

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Speaker 1: I think we all know now the story in Carolina

1349
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: with the young safety trying to make the team went

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01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:58,360
Speaker 1: right through the receiver in a drill and was cut

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01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: before they got back to the locker room because he

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01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,160
Speaker 1: didn't understand how to practice and protect his teammates in

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01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 1: a practice situation. We had none of that today. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just talking about the basics. But the basics are

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01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 1: a big bank because they tell you a lot about

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Speaker 1: a program, a team and what Sean McDermott as a

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Speaker 1: head coach and has stafford demanding and coaching and speaking

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Speaker 1: of that coaching staff, I think it kind of has

1359
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Speaker 1: quietly gone by the board, Charles. I mean, everybody's talking

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Speaker 1: about the talent on this roster, and understandably so. But

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Speaker 1: you had two guys that were coordinators on this staff

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Speaker 1: who were up for head coaching jobs, did not land them,

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Speaker 1: and they're back here. I mean, this is Brian Dables

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Speaker 1: fourth straight season, It's Leslie Fraser's fifth straight season with

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Speaker 1: this club. Even Heath Farwell, the special team's coordinator, is

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Speaker 1: entering his third season. Can you just speak to the

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Speaker 1: value of that for a team that is a contender

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Speaker 1: like the Bills. Oh, the value is here, just immense.

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Speaker 1: And just think about if you're talking about this is

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Speaker 1: Debrian Dables fourth the year year is it for the

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback Josh Allen? Yeah? Four four? Okay, see there

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Speaker 1: they're hand in hand, can't lock step whatever you want

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Speaker 1: to call it. It's no accident that as Josh makes

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Speaker 1: his jumps, Brian day Bole is right there for every step.

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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta give Josh all of his credit

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01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:21,360
Speaker 1: for taking the coaching, for putting in the extra work,

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Speaker 1: for becoming a more accurate thrower, developing as a player, leader,

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Speaker 1: all those things. But at the same time, now he

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Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, he speaks Brian day

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01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 1: Ball very well, okay, and it doesn't have to be

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01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 1: full form sentences. Now. I bet they speak shorthand to

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Speaker 1: each other now, meaning they understand what the other one

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01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,479
Speaker 1: is thinking, what you're trying to get to, what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: and they can do it in a very short order.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a huge part of what's going

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Speaker 1: on now. When the play call comes in from buying

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Speaker 1: day Ball, I will bet you more times than not,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen has that play call in his head already

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Speaker 1: and expects it to come in. So you're right about

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Speaker 1: the continuity all sides, offense, defense and special teams. And

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Speaker 1: that's what makes good teams good programs. Now, you can't

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Speaker 1: understand because they have that, they have that continuity, but

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Speaker 1: they have it because they've had success. They've had it.

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Speaker 1: They have it because these people are very good at

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01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:18,080
Speaker 1: what they do. You're not going to have a lot

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Speaker 1: of continuity if you go on too and two and whatever,

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Speaker 1: because it'll be new people in there. What are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on, you know, the Josh Josh Allen extension with

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Speaker 1: you know, the way in the landscape of the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: He's the second highest paid guy behind h Paton Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got that twenty eighteen quarterback class, they're all

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Speaker 1: kind of standing in line, Lamar Jackson, Yeah, and uh

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, you know, I mean, so what are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on how the rest of this is going to

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01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: play out for these other quarterbacks? Because the top two guys,

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Speaker 1: while they did make a ton of money, did lay

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Speaker 1: out their contract in a way that the team is

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Speaker 1: going to be able to put some pieces around them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Tom Brady gets a lot of

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Speaker 1: credit for a lot of things. Do we dare say

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Speaker 1: tom Brady effect here with these guys right talking about Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: talk about Josh Allen, meaning they saw what Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: did where he did, you know how famously for how

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Speaker 1: many years helped restructure contracts by taking less money or

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Speaker 1: moving his money around or whatever. I noticed that there's

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Speaker 1: an article that moved today about Russell Wilson saying that

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Speaker 1: he was willing to do that to help out Dwayne

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Speaker 1: Brown as left tackle and maybe even kJ Right the defender.

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Speaker 1: So these players understand, Yeah, making the money's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Taking care of my family is a huge deal, and

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Speaker 1: they're not leaving a ton of money on the table

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Speaker 1: quote unquote, but they're making enough for themselves at the

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Speaker 1: same time, how can I help my team? Mahomes did

1424
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Speaker 1: it with the way he structured his contract. Josh Allen

1425
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: followed suit, Nat Lamar, Jackson, Kyler Murray, right, Daniel Jones,

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield next in line. If they indeed get this,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised to hear about similar type of

1428
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Speaker 1: contracts in order to do this, because once these guys

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01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 1: get a taste of winning in this league, they want

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Speaker 1: to keep going. And how can I continue to do that?

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01:21:10,360 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: Brady Russell Wilson, those guys had a great example because

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Speaker 1: they gave up money quote unquote, but what did it

1433
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Speaker 1: pay off? With playoff appearances, Super Bowls, the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's the right way to go about

1435
01:21:21,400 --> 01:21:24,599
Speaker 1: looking at it. But like John Houseman used to say

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Speaker 1: on the old Smith Barney commercials, you have to earn it.

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Speaker 1: And these young quarterbacks who are next in line, how

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Speaker 1: do they earn it? Josh Allen got to an NFC

1439
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:37,759
Speaker 1: Championship game, Patcher Mahome has been back to back Super Bowls.

1440
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Speaker 1: Can Lamar Jackson get the breakthrough. Can Kyler Murray make

1441
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Could Daniel Jones have his Giants team have

1442
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: a winning record if not the playoffs? Baker Mayfield, can

1443
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:50,680
Speaker 1: they advance in the playoffs. That's how you earn it

1444
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 1: by leading your team to took greater heights. Speaking of

1445
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: earning it, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with Charles Davis here,

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Speaker 1: you being a defensive back, I wanted to get your

1447
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:03,320
Speaker 1: thoughts on this a former defensive back, because Levi Wallace,

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Speaker 1: as an undrafted guy, has come in and basically has

1449
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Speaker 1: earned a starting job opposite Trudevius White for the better

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01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,320
Speaker 1: part of the last three years. Has taken on all

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Speaker 1: comers in competition every single training camp and has come

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01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: out on the right side of it. He is in

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Speaker 1: that again, although he seems to have a stranglehold on

1454
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Speaker 1: the starting job yet again. As his fiercest challengers Dane Jackson,

1455
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Speaker 1: the former seventh round pick from last season, but he's

1456
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: really not made a dent in trying to challenge Levi

1457
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,240
Speaker 1: for that role. Steve and I look at Levi as

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Speaker 1: that perfect steady eddie player. He may not make the

1459
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Speaker 1: spectacular game breaking play, but he's gonna make good, solid

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Speaker 1: decisions out there on the field, and it's clear that

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff trusts him. Can you maybe just quantify

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Speaker 1: the value of that kind of player and how he

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01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 1: fits on a roster that maybe still has some high

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01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: end talent back they're with him like a Micah Hyde

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Speaker 1: or a Jordan Poy or trudevious wife. Oh that's a

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Speaker 1: great question, Chris. And look, bottom line with all of

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Speaker 1: that is you have to have an organization that is

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Speaker 1: willing to say, maybe we drafted guys higher, or we

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01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 1: signed a free agent we thought was better, but guess what,

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Speaker 1: the guy we didn't expect is actually the best player.

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Speaker 1: You have to be willing to eat. I wouldn't call

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Speaker 1: it necessarily in this case, but a lot of organizations

1473
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:34,600
Speaker 1: have trouble saying, Okay, the undrafted guy beat out the

1474
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 1: guy drafted. Oops, Okay, if that's the case, my team's better.

1475
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 1: But a lot of people say, oh, no, no, no, no,

1476
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 1: I can't do that because then I look like a

1477
01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 1: lousy evaluat. You don't have that kind of ego here.

1478
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 1: With Brandon Bean and Sean McDermot and the rest of

1479
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: that great PR personnel staff, they're going to play the

1480
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:57,920
Speaker 1: best player for the spot, and you noted how how

1481
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: does that fit in? Well, guess what if you have

1482
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: a lima leave by Wallace win the job before the

1483
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: big money kicks in, it allows you to do things

1484
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 1: in other spots as well. But I give the Bills

1485
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,840
Speaker 1: organization a ton of credit because coaches will stand up

1486
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:14,960
Speaker 1: in front of their teams all the time. Steve knows

1487
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,880
Speaker 1: this really well, Hey, the best player is gonna play.

1488
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: But if you don't put the best players out there,

1489
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 1: the team knows it pretty quickly. If you put the

1490
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: guy out there who shouldn't be after you told them, hey,

1491
01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:28,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the best players, you'll lose confidence in

1492
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. You don't have that issue here at all.

1493
01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 1: And give Levy Wallace a ton of credit because it

1494
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 1: wasn't just here. As you guys now get to walk

1495
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 1: on at Alabama too, give this guy a ton of

1496
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:43,919
Speaker 1: credit for who he is. Well, as this season gets underway,

1497
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little different in a couple of ways. One,

1498
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,600
Speaker 1: there's an extra regular season game seventeen game schedule, and

1499
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:53,760
Speaker 1: there's only three preseason games. Do you sense any seismic

1500
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,720
Speaker 1: shift as to how teams will approach their preseason and

1501
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:58,840
Speaker 1: how they're gonna play these guys, when the starters will

1502
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 1: get sharp, when they'll sit down that kind of thing.

1503
01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:02,920
Speaker 1: Is they're gonna be a seismic shift or it's just

1504
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: just forget it. We're just skipping one preseason game. That's

1505
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: a great question, Steven, And my gut tells me no

1506
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: seismic shift this year. But I feel like this year

1507
01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:17,080
Speaker 1: would be a shakedown year for because we're going from

1508
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: four to three. But it's not just the four to

1509
01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 1: three because remember we had none last year, so that

1510
01:25:21,240 --> 01:25:23,160
Speaker 1: was a whole different ball game. But it's not just

1511
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 1: the four to three. It's when the third game's being played. Yeah,

1512
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: remember when we did the third game before, it was

1513
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: rough unless you were in the Thursday night opener, right,

1514
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 1: it was roughly ten days before you play. Now we're

1515
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 1: talking about a full two weeks. Some coaches may have

1516
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:45,680
Speaker 1: some trepidation about sharpness right last time they played, but

1517
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: I think most people are gonna air on the side

1518
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 1: of keeping my guys healthy and we'll deal with, you know,

1519
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:53,599
Speaker 1: some rustiness out of the start, but we'll find out

1520
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: because look, let's be honest about it. Are any of

1521
01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: us betting that this three will become too sooner rather

1522
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 1: than later in the preseason. Absolutely, you know what's gonna happen. Yeah,

1523
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen. Charles. As always, we thank

1524
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:08,240
Speaker 1: you for the time. We know you've got a busy schedule,

1525
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 1: so thanks for carving out ten minutes for us. We

1526
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And I know you got your fingers crossed

1527
01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: that you and your broadcast team are up here week

1528
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,519
Speaker 1: one for Bill Steelers. We'll keep our fingers crossed too,

1529
01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:20,680
Speaker 1: and hopefully we cross pass. Then. Well, you guys are

1530
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 1: the best. Thanks for having me on, Christy. If you

1531
01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 1: take care of yourselves, keep kicking butt like you always do,

1532
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:28,559
Speaker 1: and make sure if you're playing golf with Steve Tasker,

1533
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:32,639
Speaker 1: either have your wallet loaded because it will be lighter

1534
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: at the end of the round, or just be as

1535
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 1: caddy because that way you can actually make a little

1536
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 1: bit on the route, because if you're playing him, you're

1537
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 1: losing everything you got in your pocket. Love, man's got

1538
01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 1: a serious stay Charles, you're killing me. Thanks Man, talk

1539
01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: to you to you guys, be good, all right. That's

1540
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 1: Charles Davis, NFL on CBS analyst And yeah, I know

1541
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:53,799
Speaker 1: you got a chance to talk to him before practice.

1542
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 1: I did as well, and he told me he's like, man,

1543
01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:58,599
Speaker 1: I am really hoping our crew gets the opener up here.

1544
01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:01,880
Speaker 1: I really want to do the Bills Steelers. I mean,

1545
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: the Bills come in with huge expectations. The Steelers are

1546
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:06,240
Speaker 1: one of those national franchises that have been you know,

1547
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:08,439
Speaker 1: they're always in the mix. And they got a head

1548
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: coach who's never had a losing record. So you got

1549
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:13,760
Speaker 1: two teams that, Yeah, it's a it's a big game

1550
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 1: I think to open the season. It's an attractive one

1551
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:19,280
Speaker 1: that even the broadcasters want to do. So hopefully he's

1552
01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 1: lucky and he and I think it's him and I

1553
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 1: an eagle, right those that's the pairing there, those two guys.

1554
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll be up here. Four Bills Steelers Week one.

1555
01:27:28,080 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but when we return,

1556
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: more of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and third

1557
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 1: hour of the show. We've got the preseason broadcast team

1558
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 1: coming your way, the cat Man, Cynthia Freelim and the

1559
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: man to my left. We'll chat with them about their

1560
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: upcoming preseason opener on Friday. That's coming up in the

1561
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: third hour of the show here on one Bill's Live,

1562
01:27:48,160 --> 01:28:04,600
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Well, we

1563
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 1: have heard that Sean McVay does not intend to play

1564
01:28:08,120 --> 01:28:13,599
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford at all in the entire preseason. Matt Lafleur

1565
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:17,000
Speaker 1: has said something similar regarding Aaron Rodgers. We know that

1566
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:20,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen will not play in the preseason opener on Friday,

1567
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 1: and now we hear the Browns have ruled out Baker

1568
01:28:24,439 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 1: Mayfield for their preseason game against the Jaguars. They are

1569
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: not playing him in the preseason opener. I'm sensing a

1570
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 1: trend here. Yeah, Charles Davis was right. We just spoke

1571
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: to him the last segments. It's headed towards two preseason

1572
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 1: games and eighteen regular season games, and that's enough, particularly

1573
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 1: if they have an uninterrupted OTA offseason mini camp thing going,

1574
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: training camp, training camp, OTA's mini camp, training camp. Two

1575
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: season games, that's plenty, let's go, and it'll go eighteen

1576
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 1: regular season games. So that to me is a no brainer.

1577
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:14,000
Speaker 1: It's going to happen. And I think that, and I

1578
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 1: remember thinking this as a player. I can't remember, you know,

1579
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 1: what brought me to this, But we always two preseason

1580
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:23,519
Speaker 1: games plenty, that's plenty. One game for the Veterans to

1581
01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: get one half a game at least just past half

1582
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:28,080
Speaker 1: time for the Veterans to get their rust off. And

1583
01:29:28,160 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 1: then the rest of it is evaluation for the guys

1584
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,000
Speaker 1: who may or made for the bottom half of the roster,

1585
01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: and let's go and let's go and give them a

1586
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:37,360
Speaker 1: chance to evaluate and make their choices and get to

1587
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 1: the regular season. I can't disagree with it. I understand it.

1588
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:44,639
Speaker 1: You don't have your quarterback, it makes it hard to win.

1589
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,120
Speaker 1: So now that from where we sit, now, all these

1590
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:49,080
Speaker 1: guys sit down for a week and then they'll they'll

1591
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 1: play a little bit or they'll maybe they'll play a

1592
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 1: lot in the second game or just a little bit

1593
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:55,040
Speaker 1: in the second game to get the little bit of

1594
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 1: rust off and then get everything off, get them acclimated

1595
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 1: in the third preseason game, and then have two weeks

1596
01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: to get ready for the opener. That makes a lot

1597
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:06,000
Speaker 1: of sense to me. That's a plan that will probably

1598
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:09,479
Speaker 1: be undertaken by a lot of teams. I will say this,

1599
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 1: I don't think Sean mcdermot's going to be one of

1600
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:15,840
Speaker 1: those guys that says Josh Allen's plays zero preseason. No,

1601
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:18,200
Speaker 1: I do not pay. That's the culture here. And then

1602
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 1: I think Week seventeen last year is a perfect example.

1603
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 1: He played way of the approach they intend to take.

1604
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:26,400
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of those starters played almost the

1605
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: entire first half. Yeah, and they and Lineman played into

1606
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:32,400
Speaker 1: a third quarter. That's right, so did and Josh almost

1607
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:37,000
Speaker 1: did so. I think I think Josh got in. He

1608
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:40,040
Speaker 1: played the last possession before halftime because they got a

1609
01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:43,519
Speaker 1: chance to do a two minute right and he scorched him.

1610
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:46,679
Speaker 1: So it was good work. It was a perfect scenario

1611
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:49,240
Speaker 1: to have him go to the halftime after just scoring

1612
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:51,960
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Then he sat down, Matt Barkley took over

1613
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:55,760
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. I thought that was I thought

1614
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:57,960
Speaker 1: it was well handled. Certainly we got away with it.

1615
01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want a finger quotes, nobody hurt.

1616
01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 1: There's a risk. But I would say that Sean McDermot

1617
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: is not going to shy away from giving his starters,

1618
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 1: no matter who they are, a chance to get accommitted

1619
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:14,599
Speaker 1: a game, speed, game reps and contact. So Josh you're

1620
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 1: gonna play, and I imagine he'll play probably the past

1621
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: halftime of the third preseason game. That's my call. That's

1622
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:26,400
Speaker 1: that's my opinion, my gut feeling, right, Yeah, I mean

1623
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:30,760
Speaker 1: that's that's probably where it's headed. I don't think the

1624
01:31:30,840 --> 01:31:32,840
Speaker 1: third preseason game is going to change. I think it

1625
01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: will remain the dress rehearsal, even though it's the last

1626
01:31:35,520 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: preseason game, due primarily to what I brought up and

1627
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:41,000
Speaker 1: then Charles Davis echoed it here on the show today.

1628
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:44,400
Speaker 1: It's a full two weeks before the regular season opener.

1629
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 1: You don't play your starters in that third preseason game.

1630
01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:51,519
Speaker 1: You're going upwards of three weeks before playing anything at

1631
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 1: game speed. You gotta worry about rust and how sharp

1632
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:58,400
Speaker 1: your group's gonna look rolling out three weeks of inactivity

1633
01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: in a game type setting. Yeah, there is that. Yeah,

1634
01:32:03,120 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: I think it's a consideration. Um, I don't know how

1635
01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:10,599
Speaker 1: big that risk is given the veteran nature of the club. Yeah,

1636
01:32:10,760 --> 01:32:14,479
Speaker 1: but I think if you go, if you go, if

1637
01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:17,040
Speaker 1: you let him play and play well and play hard

1638
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:19,960
Speaker 1: past halftime of the third preseas, the second preseason game

1639
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:24,320
Speaker 1: or whichever, the third preseason game, you're you're and you're

1640
01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 1: right during your football season, even just coming out of

1641
01:32:27,320 --> 01:32:31,080
Speaker 1: training camp two weeks without a game is an eternity.

1642
01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:33,360
Speaker 1: I mean, and again, I mean, right now, these guys

1643
01:32:33,400 --> 01:32:35,040
Speaker 1: are looking like, when are we getting to Detroit? I

1644
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:37,439
Speaker 1: want to play somebody. Yeah, but I go back to

1645
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:41,120
Speaker 1: Week seventeen again last year, nothing to gain in the

1646
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:45,640
Speaker 1: playoff seatings right, and it was clear coach McDermott did

1647
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:51,920
Speaker 1: not want starters getting rusty by not playing at all

1648
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,040
Speaker 1: that week and then having to tune it up to

1649
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:57,519
Speaker 1: a playoff level the very next week. I'll say this,

1650
01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:00,599
Speaker 1: you're right. The very next week they a game, they

1651
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:05,000
Speaker 1: had a win. Yeah. It's interesting to think about because

1652
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 1: if you know, you got these guys out there, and

1653
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:10,439
Speaker 1: I would. I haven't heard anything about this, although I

1654
01:33:10,479 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 1: think maybe he was asked about it right after the

1655
01:33:12,200 --> 01:33:14,879
Speaker 1: factor before the fact, right around that that Week seventeen

1656
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 1: game against Miami here in Buffalo. Maybe Sean McDermott acquiesced

1657
01:33:20,040 --> 01:33:22,040
Speaker 1: to the wishes of the players because I know this,

1658
01:33:22,120 --> 01:33:23,800
Speaker 1: some of those players are like, man, you know, I

1659
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:28,320
Speaker 1: want to play Josh Allen and Josh Allen sitting there

1660
01:33:28,360 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 1: going I'm I'm like in the MVP conversation, I want

1661
01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:35,560
Speaker 1: to play well. Steph Digg is a competitor because I

1662
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:37,320
Speaker 1: got a chance to set the club record or set

1663
01:33:37,400 --> 01:33:39,719
Speaker 1: the inn and lead the NFL and yards and receiving.

1664
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 1: I want to play, and I don't you know all

1665
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:44,719
Speaker 1: of whatever you say about it. Who whatever the real conversation,

1666
01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:47,040
Speaker 1: real thoughts of those guys are. I know I'm going conjecturing,

1667
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 1: but you know, Jean McDermott was probably listening to that well.

1668
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:52,840
Speaker 1: And I think also there is an overarching philosophy here

1669
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:55,439
Speaker 1: on the part of coach McDermott. Every time we take

1670
01:33:55,479 --> 01:33:59,800
Speaker 1: the field, we played a win, right, And how do

1671
01:33:59,880 --> 01:34:04,439
Speaker 1: you convince your team we're playing to win in week

1672
01:34:04,520 --> 01:34:08,479
Speaker 1: seventeen when you've got a bunch of backups on the

1673
01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:11,519
Speaker 1: field and I'm talking about games that matter. The preseasons different.

1674
01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:13,240
Speaker 1: That's the thing still at all, that's the thing too.

1675
01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:16,960
Speaker 1: You have to tell your team, do we really do

1676
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 1: we take a break from our win at all costs

1677
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:21,360
Speaker 1: mentality in a game that's not going to help us.

1678
01:34:22,120 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 1: It's like a preseason game. Yeah, how you know, how

1679
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:29,120
Speaker 1: much can we change our philosophy without selling out? You know,

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01:34:31,439 --> 01:34:33,599
Speaker 1: certainly you know you don't want to say, hey, well,

1681
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:35,160
Speaker 1: we only want to we want to win every game

1682
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:37,320
Speaker 1: as long as the game can help us kind of thing.

1683
01:34:39,120 --> 01:34:40,920
Speaker 1: There is that in there so and I think the

1684
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:43,840
Speaker 1: players are smart enough to know that. Yeah, break time

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01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:47,000
Speaker 1: for us here when we come back. It's the unvalid

1686
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Speaker 1: of the preseason broadcast team for the Buffalo Bills preseason

1687
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:57,759
Speaker 1: games on television. It's Andrew Catalan, Steve Tasker, and Cynthia

1688
01:34:57,880 --> 01:35:03,040
Speaker 1: Freeland all together here on One Bills Live. Next, we'll

1689
01:35:03,080 --> 01:35:22,040
Speaker 1: see in a second down at a Steve Tasker who

1690
01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:24,600
Speaker 1: has been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He

1691
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:26,800
Speaker 1: was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

1692
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the straded behere

1693
01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:39,280
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Our number three here on One Bills Live,

1694
01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and please to be

1695
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:47,200
Speaker 1: joined at this time by the entire broadcast team for

1696
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 1: Bills preseason football, which we'll be airing on our television

1697
01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:57,679
Speaker 1: partners w IVBTV this Friday night, when the Bills travel

1698
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:00,880
Speaker 1: to Detroit to take on the Lions. So joining us now,

1699
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:03,720
Speaker 1: we have Steve Tasker on the show already, as we

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01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:06,760
Speaker 1: do every Monday to Friday. But now joining us is

1701
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 1: CBS play by play man for the NFL on CBS

1702
01:36:10,640 --> 01:36:15,799
Speaker 1: Andrew Catalan and the newest edition Bill's TV sideline reporter.

1703
01:36:15,880 --> 01:36:18,919
Speaker 1: But you know we're from NFL Network as an analytic analyst.

1704
01:36:19,040 --> 01:36:25,760
Speaker 1: It is Cynthia Freeland. Welcome team to be here. It's

1705
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:28,920
Speaker 1: so fun. Yeah, yeah, you'll see great, the band is

1706
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 1: back together, Han, Cynthia is all excited to be here.

1707
01:36:31,360 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: That'll last about ten minutes once we actually start working together,

1708
01:36:36,320 --> 01:36:40,840
Speaker 1: she'll be colororation going what did you do to me? Yeah? Yeah, well,

1709
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:43,479
Speaker 1: you know, you guys have your moments. We all know that.

1710
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: And Andrew, this is your sixth year with un I

1711
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:47,559
Speaker 1: didn't realize it'd been that's about right, six years. Does

1712
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: it feel like it's been six years? I guess it should. Yeah,

1713
01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:55,080
Speaker 1: first preseason year with you was twenty and fifteen, so

1714
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:56,840
Speaker 1: this is the sixth one because we didn't have one

1715
01:36:56,920 --> 01:36:59,320
Speaker 1: last year. But what's even crazier, Steve, is that it

1716
01:36:59,439 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 1: dawned on me that my first ever NFL game on

1717
01:37:02,320 --> 01:37:06,559
Speaker 1: CBS was with you in two thousand eleven, right, which

1718
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:11,040
Speaker 1: makes that ten years ago? Now? Wow, Yeah, Andrew looked

1719
01:37:11,040 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: like he was six years old ten years ago. Now, Cynthia,

1720
01:37:15,360 --> 01:37:18,280
Speaker 1: have you had have you're obviously you're on the air

1721
01:37:18,400 --> 01:37:21,280
Speaker 1: you're smooth, You're a pro. Yet what about the sideline thing?

1722
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:24,519
Speaker 1: Is this? Are you looking forward to this? Oh? First

1723
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:27,320
Speaker 1: of all, I'm like super excited to be able to

1724
01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:31,000
Speaker 1: experience any form of Bill's Mafia in person. I've been

1725
01:37:31,200 --> 01:37:34,040
Speaker 1: kind of like watching all of this mayhem from afar.

1726
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 1: I've never been to a game in Buffaloes. I'm very

1727
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:39,720
Speaker 1: excited to come Tortured Park because I need to see

1728
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: these fans up close in personal. I hear from them

1729
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:44,800
Speaker 1: in my mentions on Twitter and they're really being really

1730
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:47,360
Speaker 1: sweet about that. You know, this this opportunity for me.

1731
01:37:47,439 --> 01:37:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm I feel very very lucky to have this opportunity

1732
01:37:50,160 --> 01:37:53,000
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to meet the fans. I'm stoked. Yeah,

1733
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:56,120
Speaker 1: I'm kind of wondering because we know Cynthia is and

1734
01:37:56,280 --> 01:37:59,320
Speaker 1: she's a self admitted numbers nerd, so I'm not afraid

1735
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:02,760
Speaker 1: in calling that. So I'm wondering, you know, when you

1736
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:05,719
Speaker 1: guys go down to her, I mean, is the slide

1737
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:07,080
Speaker 1: rule going to be out? Are we going to be

1738
01:38:07,160 --> 01:38:09,479
Speaker 1: coming up with algorithms on the fly here? Like? What

1739
01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:11,600
Speaker 1: are we what are we going to expect? Because you

1740
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:15,880
Speaker 1: kind of bring a different dimension to sideline reporting. I think, yeah,

1741
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,320
Speaker 1: the whole point is to try to be a little different.

1742
01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:21,280
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason why that I'm you know,

1743
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 1: that this opportunity was given to you know, when I

1744
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:26,920
Speaker 1: was able to talk to Brandon Bean and I was

1745
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 1: talking to everyone, and you're at Pagoula, like, we're trying

1746
01:38:30,160 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 1: to bring a different element. So we are going to

1747
01:38:32,280 --> 01:38:34,600
Speaker 1: do some real time sort of. I looked at a

1748
01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:36,880
Speaker 1: lot of the next gent stats to prepare for kind

1749
01:38:36,920 --> 01:38:38,960
Speaker 1: of what we could be seeing. A lot of rookies.

1750
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:41,120
Speaker 1: Obviously we don't know a ton about them yet, but

1751
01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 1: as a game's unfolding, we're actually doing like real time analytics,

1752
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:47,920
Speaker 1: which is extra nerdy because it's gonna be fun because Bills,

1753
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:50,559
Speaker 1: fans and Bills everyone here already knows so much about

1754
01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:53,800
Speaker 1: football that even to like to super serve them, you

1755
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:56,040
Speaker 1: gotta bring your a games. So I'm bringing my glasses.

1756
01:38:56,120 --> 01:38:58,479
Speaker 1: There's going to be you know, real time analytics being

1757
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:01,479
Speaker 1: done or algorithm being know all the nerdy words, all

1758
01:39:01,560 --> 01:39:03,600
Speaker 1: of them all at once, awesome and one of the

1759
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:06,439
Speaker 1: things about it. And to start out with the Detroit

1760
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:08,120
Speaker 1: game in the preseason, you may not you may not

1761
01:39:08,240 --> 01:39:09,559
Speaker 1: know this. You can go back and do a deep

1762
01:39:09,640 --> 01:39:12,080
Speaker 1: dive if on I hate mathematics, so we're gonna be

1763
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:15,920
Speaker 1: perfect couple. But if you low back, this may be

1764
01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:20,760
Speaker 1: the most repeated preseason matchup ever in the history of

1765
01:39:20,760 --> 01:39:23,559
Speaker 1: the NFL. The team because of Ralph Wison, the former owners.

1766
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:29,200
Speaker 1: He lived in Detroit, he lived there forever and grew

1767
01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:31,519
Speaker 1: up being a Detroit Lions fan, and that's what gave

1768
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:34,120
Speaker 1: him the inspiration to buy the Bills and get this started.

1769
01:39:34,439 --> 01:39:37,520
Speaker 1: The Bills and the Detroit Lions play in the preseason

1770
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:42,720
Speaker 1: every single year without fail. And there might be some

1771
01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 1: deep dives into some pretty interesting numbers there. I don't

1772
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:48,360
Speaker 1: know if that, of course it's preseason numbers. I don't

1773
01:39:48,400 --> 01:39:51,840
Speaker 1: know how interesting it'll be. And we've got our we've

1774
01:39:51,840 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 1: got our excitement level up because football's back, but it

1775
01:39:54,520 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 1: is the preseason. What kind of what kind of analytics

1776
01:39:57,000 --> 01:39:59,720
Speaker 1: are we talking about on like real time? What can

1777
01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:04,240
Speaker 1: you do well the parts of the team that actually

1778
01:40:04,280 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: do play, Typically the O line will play most of

1779
01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:09,519
Speaker 1: the game, So that's an interesting kind of thing to

1780
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:12,200
Speaker 1: what it sounds not super sexy at all, but the

1781
01:40:12,280 --> 01:40:14,640
Speaker 1: O line's a huge factor and what will happen and

1782
01:40:14,720 --> 01:40:16,600
Speaker 1: then seeing kind of rhythm and flow. So one of

1783
01:40:16,640 --> 01:40:18,760
Speaker 1: the things that I've been looking at this offseason is like,

1784
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:21,640
Speaker 1: how much confusion there is pre snap Now I think

1785
01:40:21,640 --> 01:40:24,679
Speaker 1: you're going to see. I am actually admittedly from Michigan

1786
01:40:24,840 --> 01:40:27,920
Speaker 1: and I grew up watching these preseason games. You might

1787
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:29,720
Speaker 1: see a bit more confusion on that side of the

1788
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:32,599
Speaker 1: line with a new quarterback, a new opportunity, a new

1789
01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:35,360
Speaker 1: system there. But you might not see as much confusion,

1790
01:40:35,400 --> 01:40:37,160
Speaker 1: hopefully from the Bills, right, so you kind of can

1791
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:39,599
Speaker 1: measure what are the rookies doing, are they in place,

1792
01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:42,439
Speaker 1: where are their hips? All these different dynamics of kind

1793
01:40:42,479 --> 01:40:44,360
Speaker 1: of what can we see. I'm really looking at the

1794
01:40:44,400 --> 01:40:47,080
Speaker 1: defensive front to see how the additions, the first one,

1795
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:49,800
Speaker 1: second round additions, maybe like where they're lining up and

1796
01:40:50,240 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 1: what we could potentially deduce from that. Andrew, we're seeing

1797
01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:57,599
Speaker 1: the trend growing in the preseason. Sean McVeigh has come

1798
01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:01,240
Speaker 1: out said no Matthew Stafford for the entire season, Matt

1799
01:41:01,360 --> 01:41:03,800
Speaker 1: Laflour saying Aaron Rodgers probably not going to see much

1800
01:41:03,800 --> 01:41:07,680
Speaker 1: preseason action. Sean McDermott this morning saying Josh will not

1801
01:41:07,800 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: play on Friday. I think the Browns just said no

1802
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:14,320
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield against the Jags and they're opener. Where do

1803
01:41:14,439 --> 01:41:18,120
Speaker 1: you think this goes ultimately, maybe not necessarily this year

1804
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:21,240
Speaker 1: per se, but here and beyond with playing time in

1805
01:41:21,280 --> 01:41:25,040
Speaker 1: the preseason now that it's down to three games. Well,

1806
01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:26,479
Speaker 1: first of all, I just want to say that I

1807
01:41:26,560 --> 01:41:29,519
Speaker 1: think the booth has about a third grade math level.

1808
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:31,800
Speaker 1: So it's very nice that Cynthia is now part of

1809
01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:33,680
Speaker 1: the team because Steve and I need all the help

1810
01:41:33,760 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 1: we can get. And second to your question, Chris, I'm

1811
01:41:37,960 --> 01:41:40,240
Speaker 1: fascinated to see how this will play out because now

1812
01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: you've got three games instead of four, you've got some

1813
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:46,280
Speaker 1: extra time before Week one. I really want to see

1814
01:41:46,400 --> 01:41:48,760
Speaker 1: how the coaches attacked this. I mean, he kind of

1815
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:50,439
Speaker 1: knew what was going to happen in the past, like

1816
01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:52,920
Speaker 1: the first game was a quarter for the starters, then

1817
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:55,840
Speaker 1: the second game maybe into the second quarter, then a half,

1818
01:41:55,920 --> 01:41:58,559
Speaker 1: and then nobody played in the fourth game. So what's

1819
01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:01,840
Speaker 1: that form are going to be this year in the preseason?

1820
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: And I think we're finding out early that a lot

1821
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:07,320
Speaker 1: of these guys don't feel that they need the time

1822
01:42:07,479 --> 01:42:09,960
Speaker 1: in the preseason to get ready. I mean, after all,

1823
01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:13,360
Speaker 1: there was no preseason last year. And everything you know,

1824
01:42:13,520 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 1: seemed to go just fine once the season got underway

1825
01:42:16,320 --> 01:42:19,400
Speaker 1: in terms of timing and rhythm and getting everyone on

1826
01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:21,719
Speaker 1: the same page. So I think that these coaches probably

1827
01:42:21,800 --> 01:42:25,200
Speaker 1: learned a lot last year without the preseason, and also

1828
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:28,880
Speaker 1: to the Bills point, they have so much continuity. I mean,

1829
01:42:29,280 --> 01:42:33,560
Speaker 1: does Josh Allen need extra reps with Stefon Diggs this preseason.

1830
01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:36,040
Speaker 1: I mean, sure they need to have a few, but

1831
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: I don't think they need as much as maybe you

1832
01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:41,839
Speaker 1: do in the past because so many players are returning

1833
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:45,000
Speaker 1: from last year with Buffalo. Yeah, you speak about last year.

1834
01:42:45,040 --> 01:42:47,240
Speaker 1: The Bills came out of the blocks and had another

1835
01:42:47,280 --> 01:42:50,800
Speaker 1: strong year and got to the AC Conference championship. They're

1836
01:42:51,200 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: at the top of everybody's preseason power rankings there. They've

1837
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:57,320
Speaker 1: got a deep roster, a talented roster. They just signed

1838
01:42:57,320 --> 01:42:59,880
Speaker 1: their quarterback to an extension. They are a team that

1839
01:43:00,120 --> 01:43:02,479
Speaker 1: has got a lot of momentum going into this season

1840
01:43:02,560 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: and this and Sean McDermott said his day prepractice that

1841
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:08,240
Speaker 1: this is about the bottom half of their roster. And

1842
01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:11,479
Speaker 1: we've had the conversations as well that this roster it's

1843
01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:14,880
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to make even for good football players,

1844
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 1: and I wonder, and this goes back the analytics maybe,

1845
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:21,640
Speaker 1: but I think there are a lot of teams that

1846
01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:24,439
Speaker 1: are looking at the bottom half of Buffalo's roster and

1847
01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:26,640
Speaker 1: a little bit like circling vultures. You know, there's some

1848
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:28,960
Speaker 1: guys that are going to make a name for themselves,

1849
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:31,840
Speaker 1: who may make a name for themselves on a team

1850
01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:35,600
Speaker 1: other than the Buffalo Bills. It might be interesting to

1851
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:38,840
Speaker 1: keep track of this, maybe as an ongoing study to

1852
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:42,720
Speaker 1: find out do good teams get Pilford more in the

1853
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,960
Speaker 1: preseason than you know, teams that aren't that way. And

1854
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:48,000
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna get a chance to see that

1855
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:50,200
Speaker 1: with the bottom half of this roster and Buffalo play

1856
01:43:50,240 --> 01:43:53,240
Speaker 1: out and play most of this preseason. Let me tell

1857
01:43:53,280 --> 01:43:55,800
Speaker 1: you a secret. Yesterday when that tweet hit went out,

1858
01:43:55,880 --> 01:43:58,599
Speaker 1: I had some coaches text me and ask me coaches

1859
01:43:58,640 --> 01:44:00,720
Speaker 1: from other teams and say, can you keep an eye

1860
01:44:00,760 --> 01:44:03,320
Speaker 1: on certain numbers, which is exactly what you're speaking to

1861
01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:05,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of the bottom half of the roster,

1862
01:44:05,560 --> 01:44:08,080
Speaker 1: because they're like, let me know if this person. I'm like,

1863
01:44:08,280 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 1: by the way, we're going to see the same game.

1864
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:13,200
Speaker 1: So there's no like cheap sheep. But yes, of course

1865
01:44:14,120 --> 01:44:17,040
Speaker 1: he'll be looking. And then I also feel that that'll

1866
01:44:17,120 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 1: make the preseason games even more competitive because I feel

1867
01:44:21,400 --> 01:44:23,600
Speaker 1: like you're going to have guys in that third and

1868
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:26,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter that know they have to make plays in

1869
01:44:26,080 --> 01:44:27,680
Speaker 1: order to make this team. And you could say, well,

1870
01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:29,800
Speaker 1: that's the case every year, but I feel like, to

1871
01:44:29,960 --> 01:44:32,799
Speaker 1: your points, Steve, it's so hard to make this Buffalo

1872
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: roster this year that guys are really going to have

1873
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 1: to ball out in all three of these preseason games,

1874
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:41,960
Speaker 1: which hopefully makes for exciting television for us. And then

1875
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:44,640
Speaker 1: I know, Cynthia that you know this Bills team was

1876
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:47,320
Speaker 1: a team that threw more on first down than any

1877
01:44:47,360 --> 01:44:50,360
Speaker 1: other in football. Last year. I think they were the

1878
01:44:50,479 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 1: second ranked second in terms of using four wide ten personnel.

1879
01:44:57,479 --> 01:44:59,920
Speaker 1: I think only to Tampa or Arizona. Somebody was ahead

1880
01:44:59,920 --> 01:45:03,519
Speaker 1: of them. But these are yeah, so this is I mean,

1881
01:45:03,600 --> 01:45:07,639
Speaker 1: there are some very intriguing trends that I think Bills

1882
01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:11,280
Speaker 1: fans are wondering will they continue. I don't know if

1883
01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:13,720
Speaker 1: we're necessarily going to see them in the preseason, knowing

1884
01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 1: how coaches like to keep things close to the vest,

1885
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,240
Speaker 1: but I'm guessing that those are things that you'll be

1886
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:23,400
Speaker 1: kind of tracking as well from the sidelines. Yeah, packages

1887
01:45:23,439 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 1: where people line up alignments are really interesting. Even though

1888
01:45:26,640 --> 01:45:28,439
Speaker 1: like we said, we won't see ton of the starters

1889
01:45:28,479 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 1: and the quarterback situation. Well it's not We're not going

1890
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 1: to know what josh Own's gonna do. Maybe tell Chicago, right,

1891
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:36,720
Speaker 1: So ultimately it's going to be what what kind of

1892
01:45:37,160 --> 01:45:40,040
Speaker 1: who's kind of out there with who? What are the parents? Right?

1893
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: Those are the things to look at and see to

1894
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:44,080
Speaker 1: see kind of for success for the for the season.

1895
01:45:44,680 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 1: Andrew no one you like I do. I know you've

1896
01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,760
Speaker 1: probably done some extensive work already getting ready for this game,

1897
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:52,400
Speaker 1: and you know, starting to put your boards together just

1898
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 1: like I am. What are some of the stories that

1899
01:45:55,880 --> 01:45:57,639
Speaker 1: jump at you that you know we're going to talk

1900
01:45:57,680 --> 01:46:01,120
Speaker 1: about on the air. You know obviously last year's success

1901
01:46:01,160 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 1: and how it's translated, But what are some of the

1902
01:46:03,640 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: things that you think you kind of got to talk

1903
01:46:06,240 --> 01:46:08,760
Speaker 1: about when you talk about these bills even in the preseason.

1904
01:46:10,240 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 1: I think you gotta look at the offensive guards and

1905
01:46:12,439 --> 01:46:14,120
Speaker 1: how that's going to shake out. I know that's a

1906
01:46:14,200 --> 01:46:16,840
Speaker 1: hot topic. I'm excited to watch a couple of guys

1907
01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:20,080
Speaker 1: on defense fa Obada has made some headlines this summer,

1908
01:46:20,160 --> 01:46:22,920
Speaker 1: along with Justin Zimmer who we saw, you know, makes

1909
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:25,360
Speaker 1: some plays last year. But he's having another good camp.

1910
01:46:26,120 --> 01:46:28,599
Speaker 1: And you know, I always like to hutch Christian Wade.

1911
01:46:28,760 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 1: I always think about his first ever carry in the

1912
01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:33,840
Speaker 1: preseason against the Colts a couple of years ago, when

1913
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:36,839
Speaker 1: he ran, you know, sixty five yards for a touchdown.

1914
01:46:36,920 --> 01:46:40,000
Speaker 1: He's part of that International Pathway program, the same program

1915
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 1: that Obada went through. I want to see what this

1916
01:46:42,400 --> 01:46:44,879
Speaker 1: guy's got. It's now been his third season in Buffalo.

1917
01:46:45,280 --> 01:46:47,320
Speaker 1: Obviously this is the only time we really get to

1918
01:46:47,360 --> 01:46:49,760
Speaker 1: see him because he's a practice squad guy. But you

1919
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:52,240
Speaker 1: know those types of guy. I mean, is he ready

1920
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:54,120
Speaker 1: to take the next step? Can he makes some more

1921
01:46:54,200 --> 01:46:56,639
Speaker 1: plays in the preseason? You know? I think that there's

1922
01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:59,040
Speaker 1: a lot of compelling storylines, and I think the quarterbacks

1923
01:46:59,080 --> 01:47:01,840
Speaker 1: will be in focus only on Friday night in Detroit. Yeah,

1924
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:05,280
Speaker 1: speaking of those quarterbacks, Innthia Mitchell Trubisky is no stranger

1925
01:47:05,320 --> 01:47:07,080
Speaker 1: to starting, and it looks like he's going to on

1926
01:47:07,200 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 1: Friday with Josh not playing. What do we think is

1927
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 1: fair to expect from him? I mean, anybody who comes

1928
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:19,160
Speaker 1: out of Chicago with a winning record as a starting quarterback.

1929
01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:20,680
Speaker 1: Is doing a pretty damn good job, and he was

1930
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:24,920
Speaker 1: twenty nine to twenty one in fifty starts. So what

1931
01:47:25,479 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 1: is I guess, what's fair to expect in his debut

1932
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:33,200
Speaker 1: with the Bills in a new offensive system. I think

1933
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:35,880
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be an unsexy answer, but first down,

1934
01:47:36,120 --> 01:47:39,400
Speaker 1: so however they get there, it's about creating the opportunity

1935
01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:42,439
Speaker 1: to keep the possession on the offensive side of the ball.

1936
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:44,800
Speaker 1: We see in Trubisky have some turnover issues, and I

1937
01:47:44,920 --> 01:47:48,639
Speaker 1: think it's about potentially like just getting that nice slow start,

1938
01:47:49,160 --> 01:47:52,519
Speaker 1: you know, potentially figuring out his version of play action

1939
01:47:52,600 --> 01:47:56,599
Speaker 1: on this team, what he could potentially offer for deep passes. Right,

1940
01:47:56,640 --> 01:47:58,760
Speaker 1: this is a team that spreads out. There's a lot

1941
01:47:58,840 --> 01:48:01,360
Speaker 1: of you talked about that ten personnel. There's a lot

1942
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:04,479
Speaker 1: more field to work with for a guy like Mitchell

1943
01:48:04,479 --> 01:48:06,680
Speaker 1: Trubisky than he had with the Bears. The Bears had

1944
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:09,160
Speaker 1: a more compressed field. They didn't throw the ball down

1945
01:48:09,280 --> 01:48:11,720
Speaker 1: field as often, they didn't run as many routes down

1946
01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:14,760
Speaker 1: field as often. So it's working with more space and

1947
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:17,280
Speaker 1: seeing if he can create and see the see the

1948
01:48:17,400 --> 01:48:19,360
Speaker 1: field in a way to use all of the space

1949
01:48:19,439 --> 01:48:21,599
Speaker 1: that they're creating for him. Yeah, one of the other

1950
01:48:21,680 --> 01:48:24,400
Speaker 1: things changes that happened. Not only Mitche Trubisky came over

1951
01:48:24,439 --> 01:48:26,920
Speaker 1: and signed with the Bill, so did Emmanuel Sanders, who

1952
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:30,000
Speaker 1: and for Bills fans, they kind of just swapped out

1953
01:48:30,160 --> 01:48:34,080
Speaker 1: John Brown for Emmanuel Sanders. But they're they're both productive

1954
01:48:34,840 --> 01:48:39,200
Speaker 1: veteran players, but they're different. How do you find out

1955
01:48:39,240 --> 01:48:41,439
Speaker 1: what Emmanuel Sanders can do for this offense when you're

1956
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:44,280
Speaker 1: really not trying to show you know, formations and that

1957
01:48:44,400 --> 01:48:46,679
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You're going to see him maybe play

1958
01:48:46,800 --> 01:48:50,760
Speaker 1: some but maybe in in twelve personnel or you know,

1959
01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:54,439
Speaker 1: or eleven personnel more so than you know, ten personnel,

1960
01:48:54,560 --> 01:48:57,160
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. You know, what are your thoughts

1961
01:48:57,240 --> 01:48:59,760
Speaker 1: on the teams of Billy just switched two guys out

1962
01:48:59,800 --> 01:49:01,719
Speaker 1: and just think, well, we may look a little different,

1963
01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 1: but we're gonna be just as high powered as we

1964
01:49:03,560 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 1: were a year ago. John Brown's faster, but Emmanuel Sanders

1965
01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 1: creates more separation. That's what I've noticed from him from

1966
01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 1: his entire career. You're not going to see anything super

1967
01:49:14,120 --> 01:49:17,479
Speaker 1: interesting or super compelling. I don't think you know, in

1968
01:49:18,120 --> 01:49:20,960
Speaker 1: in this particular game. And this is a secondary that

1969
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:22,720
Speaker 1: you could see a nice touchdown from him, though more

1970
01:49:22,720 --> 01:49:25,320
Speaker 1: of a catch and run situation than using the precision

1971
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:27,599
Speaker 1: of the route to create the separation to give himself

1972
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:30,559
Speaker 1: the opportunity for that. But you know, look, Emmanuel Sanders

1973
01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:33,680
Speaker 1: during the season, watched how he draws defenders towards him.

1974
01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:36,000
Speaker 1: He's like a little magnet, and so the other guys

1975
01:49:36,160 --> 01:49:38,760
Speaker 1: get more opportunities because they have to account for him

1976
01:49:38,800 --> 01:49:41,479
Speaker 1: on every down. And then Andrew the return game, it's

1977
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:45,679
Speaker 1: a competition area with the departure of Andre robertson free agency,

1978
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 1: and he farwell. The special team's coordinator has already said,

1979
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:52,679
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie is in the driver's seat, so it sounds

1980
01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:57,920
Speaker 1: like his job to lose. But still there's there's guys

1981
01:49:57,960 --> 01:50:00,280
Speaker 1: behind him. I mean, Marquez Stevenson at a a good

1982
01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 1: college career as a returner. What do you intrigue? What

1983
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:08,320
Speaker 1: intrigues you there? Now? I think that mackenzie needs to

1984
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:10,839
Speaker 1: kind of establish that he can be in that driver's

1985
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:12,640
Speaker 1: seat and take hold of the job. I mean, I

1986
01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:14,160
Speaker 1: feel like we all know he's going to be a

1987
01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:15,800
Speaker 1: guy on this team, so it would be great to

1988
01:50:15,840 --> 01:50:18,639
Speaker 1: have him also excel in that role and take Andre

1989
01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:20,920
Speaker 1: Robert's spot. But you're right, there's a couple of young

1990
01:50:21,000 --> 01:50:23,080
Speaker 1: guys that are going to be hungry to make a

1991
01:50:23,160 --> 01:50:25,680
Speaker 1: play on special teams. And I think special teams is

1992
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:28,799
Speaker 1: an important part of the preseason. I mean, Steve obviously

1993
01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:30,920
Speaker 1: can tell you that more than better than anybody. But

1994
01:50:31,240 --> 01:50:35,360
Speaker 1: you know, when you're competing for a roster spot, especially

1995
01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:38,879
Speaker 1: this year on this Buffalo team, you know those special

1996
01:50:38,960 --> 01:50:41,439
Speaker 1: teams plays at the end can really make or break

1997
01:50:41,479 --> 01:50:43,760
Speaker 1: your spot. I mean, you know that's where Heat's gonna

1998
01:50:43,800 --> 01:50:46,040
Speaker 1: get involved and say I really want this guy, and

1999
01:50:46,360 --> 01:50:48,560
Speaker 1: that's going to carry a lot of weight. So you know,

2000
01:50:48,680 --> 01:50:52,599
Speaker 1: the special teams plays this preseason, I know, as Cynthia said,

2001
01:50:52,600 --> 01:50:55,599
Speaker 1: it's not maybe the most exciting thing other than watching

2002
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:58,519
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker on special teams, but but they are going

2003
01:50:58,600 --> 01:51:01,280
Speaker 1: to be very important play is this summer one of

2004
01:51:01,320 --> 01:51:04,479
Speaker 1: the things that's hard about preseason. I'll I'll just remind

2005
01:51:04,560 --> 01:51:06,200
Speaker 1: you because it's been a while for all of us,

2006
01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:10,760
Speaker 1: but after watching the Dallas Pittsburgh game, the Hall of

2007
01:51:10,840 --> 01:51:14,519
Speaker 1: Fame game, I gotta remind us all it's hard to

2008
01:51:14,680 --> 01:51:17,479
Speaker 1: kind of sometimes stay engaged in the preseason. But I

2009
01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:20,000
Speaker 1: remember this as a player, and also as a broadcaster

2010
01:51:20,160 --> 01:51:23,080
Speaker 1: and a guy who was an established veteran as well

2011
01:51:23,120 --> 01:51:26,040
Speaker 1: as a young guy trying to prove himself. The fourth

2012
01:51:26,160 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 1: quarter of a preseason game is the most important football

2013
01:51:32,479 --> 01:51:35,280
Speaker 1: some of those guys have ever played in their entire life,

2014
01:51:35,360 --> 01:51:37,599
Speaker 1: bar nut, no matter where they came from in college,

2015
01:51:37,920 --> 01:51:41,000
Speaker 1: it is the absolute most important reps they're ever taken

2016
01:51:41,040 --> 01:51:44,280
Speaker 1: on a football field. And sometimes it's hard from even

2017
01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:47,120
Speaker 1: me as a broadcaster, and certainly it was as even

2018
01:51:47,200 --> 01:51:50,679
Speaker 1: a player watching some young guys out there, I forgot.

2019
01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:56,600
Speaker 1: Sometimes the fourth quarter of a bad preseason game is

2020
01:51:56,760 --> 01:51:59,479
Speaker 1: like a life changing moment for some of these guys,

2021
01:51:59,560 --> 01:52:02,800
Speaker 1: both good and bad. And I think if you want

2022
01:52:02,840 --> 01:52:05,000
Speaker 1: to take something into this game that you got, that'll

2023
01:52:05,080 --> 01:52:06,599
Speaker 1: help you get to the end of it and maybe

2024
01:52:06,680 --> 01:52:08,599
Speaker 1: have some interest, because some of these things get boring.

2025
01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:13,000
Speaker 1: You got to remember, seriously, for the offensive guard in

2026
01:52:13,080 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, in the last series of a game,

2027
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:17,800
Speaker 1: in a two minute, when nobody's watching and they're down

2028
01:52:17,880 --> 01:52:21,559
Speaker 1: by fifteen, they are playing as hard as they can

2029
01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:23,960
Speaker 1: possibly play. To me, when you talk about it like that,

2030
01:52:24,080 --> 01:52:27,719
Speaker 1: it kind of adds an element of fun and drama

2031
01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:31,280
Speaker 1: to a game that we may forget six days from now.

2032
01:52:35,320 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 1: I completely agree Steven into that the quarterbacks too, because

2033
01:52:39,280 --> 01:52:42,200
Speaker 1: a lot you'll see Traubisky if everything goes included into plan,

2034
01:52:42,280 --> 01:52:44,840
Speaker 1: but we haven't really seen Jake from Davis Webb has

2035
01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:47,320
Speaker 1: been a guy who's been around for a while. This

2036
01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:51,280
Speaker 1: is their opportunity to put something on tape, to either

2037
01:52:51,400 --> 01:52:54,000
Speaker 1: stick around on the practice squad or goes somewhere else.

2038
01:52:54,040 --> 01:52:56,479
Speaker 1: So Cynthia said, other people will be watching in these games,

2039
01:52:56,520 --> 01:52:59,280
Speaker 1: other teams to see who could who could help them out,

2040
01:52:59,360 --> 01:53:02,200
Speaker 1: So you know, they're not just playing for Buffalo, They're

2041
01:53:02,240 --> 01:53:04,920
Speaker 1: also playing for themselves. And I think that because of that,

2042
01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,760
Speaker 1: you see guys that go all out in that fourth quarter.

2043
01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:11,160
Speaker 1: And this is about opportunity. I mean, you know, how

2044
01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:13,160
Speaker 1: fortunate are some of these guys to be able to

2045
01:53:13,240 --> 01:53:16,080
Speaker 1: play in the NFL even though it is a preseason game.

2046
01:53:16,160 --> 01:53:18,200
Speaker 1: And I think that won't be lost on a lot

2047
01:53:18,240 --> 01:53:20,040
Speaker 1: of people and certainly won't be lost on us in

2048
01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:23,599
Speaker 1: the broadcast booth. Yeah great, Well, listen, guys, we thank

2049
01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:26,040
Speaker 1: you for teaming up and joining us here. We look

2050
01:53:26,080 --> 01:53:29,719
Speaker 1: forward to your debut as a broadcast team on Friday,

2051
01:53:30,280 --> 01:53:34,960
Speaker 1: seven pm Eastern time. W I VB Television here in Buffalo,

2052
01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:41,040
Speaker 1: Channel four in Detroit. Can't wait. It'll be fun. Thanks guys,

2053
01:53:41,400 --> 01:53:45,120
Speaker 1: take care now. That's Cynthia Freeland and Andrew Catalan, Steve's

2054
01:53:45,160 --> 01:53:49,799
Speaker 1: broadcast partners for the game Friday night, the preseason opener

2055
01:53:50,160 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 1: for the Bills, Friday the thirteenth, Steve, did you realize

2056
01:53:53,200 --> 01:53:59,200
Speaker 1: that I'm glad Josh ain't playing. Oh, They're add another layer,

2057
01:53:59,360 --> 01:54:05,560
Speaker 1: Steve and another layout, the supernatural that's right. Wanted to

2058
01:54:06,760 --> 01:54:11,759
Speaker 1: bring this to everyone's attention. This was tweeted out earlier today.

2059
01:54:12,600 --> 01:54:15,760
Speaker 1: As you know, we wonder what's coming down the pike.

2060
01:54:16,160 --> 01:54:18,320
Speaker 1: We know that the delta variant is an issue in

2061
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:22,360
Speaker 1: some states to a greater degree than others. And so

2062
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:25,639
Speaker 1: just in the interest, I know the Bills aren't playing

2063
01:54:26,040 --> 01:54:30,160
Speaker 1: the Ravens in the regular season this year, but in

2064
01:54:30,240 --> 01:54:36,000
Speaker 1: the interest of keeping Bills fans aware, you may want

2065
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:37,640
Speaker 1: to keep your ear to the ground if you're going

2066
01:54:37,680 --> 01:54:40,600
Speaker 1: to some of these road games this season. With the

2067
01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:44,879
Speaker 1: mask policies and how they may be different from stadium

2068
01:54:44,920 --> 01:54:49,440
Speaker 1: to stadium, the Ravens announced today their mask policy is

2069
01:54:49,520 --> 01:54:54,640
Speaker 1: going to require fans wearing masks at all times when

2070
01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:58,120
Speaker 1: they are in indoor areas of M and T Bank

2071
01:54:58,160 --> 01:55:02,920
Speaker 1: Stadium regardless of their vaccination status in Baltimore unless they

2072
01:55:02,960 --> 01:55:06,760
Speaker 1: are actively eating or drinking. So that's what the Bisons

2073
01:55:06,760 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 1: have said here in Buffalo. The door part, like the boxes,

2074
01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 1: the suite you're talking about, retail stores, restrooms, their club

2075
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:20,480
Speaker 1: level concourse there, elevators, corridors, suites, first aid rooms, guest

2076
01:55:20,520 --> 01:55:25,720
Speaker 1: service locations, and the press level masks. That's what Baltimore

2077
01:55:25,840 --> 01:55:28,800
Speaker 1: is doing for their football season. So just something to

2078
01:55:28,880 --> 01:55:31,480
Speaker 1: keep in mind if you're going to the game in Nashville,

2079
01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:34,360
Speaker 1: you know later this season, or you know you're you're

2080
01:55:34,400 --> 01:55:36,760
Speaker 1: going to be out at one other down in Miami,

2081
01:55:36,880 --> 01:55:39,480
Speaker 1: just keep an eye on things if you're traveling to

2082
01:55:39,560 --> 01:55:43,240
Speaker 1: Bill's road games, because it looks as though mass policies

2083
01:55:43,240 --> 01:55:45,840
Speaker 1: are coming down the pike here, So just so you're

2084
01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:49,280
Speaker 1: prepared if you're going to one of those road venues,

2085
01:55:50,400 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 1: because as we know, Florida isn't in the best shape

2086
01:55:53,720 --> 01:55:59,680
Speaker 1: with their COVID rates. I would anticipate some similar guidelines

2087
01:55:59,720 --> 01:56:02,680
Speaker 1: coming down from the Miami Dolphins in the not too

2088
01:56:02,760 --> 01:56:05,440
Speaker 1: distant future as well. And that's Week two, I mean,

2089
01:56:05,520 --> 01:56:08,440
Speaker 1: that's Buffalo's first road game. Of the season. So just

2090
01:56:09,120 --> 01:56:11,600
Speaker 1: a heads up, keep your ear to the ground on

2091
01:56:11,800 --> 01:56:13,960
Speaker 1: the guidelines coming down the pike here on the Bills

2092
01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:18,120
Speaker 1: schedule for those road games in particular, I mean the Bills.

2093
01:56:18,560 --> 01:56:21,000
Speaker 1: The Bills have three road games in the state of Florida,

2094
01:56:21,400 --> 01:56:26,040
Speaker 1: so yeah, they're all gonna have guidelines down there. Presumably

2095
01:56:26,320 --> 01:56:30,000
Speaker 1: we'll see at Dolphins, at Jacksonville, at Tampa. Yeah, yeah,

2096
01:56:30,840 --> 01:56:35,880
Speaker 1: doing the full Sunshine State tour. Right, They've got three

2097
01:56:35,960 --> 01:56:41,160
Speaker 1: of their first four at home, which is a good

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Speaker 1: way to start the season. I think it'll give Bills

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Speaker 1: fans some warm weather and hopefully some wins. But well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tampa in December, that'll be nice that that's a nice

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Speaker 1: respite for Western New Yorkers, you know, get out of

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Speaker 1: the weather a little bit, and yeah, enjoy some sunshine.

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01:56:55,880 --> 01:56:57,720
Speaker 1: Day after Christmas, they're in New England. That'll be a

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01:56:57,800 --> 01:57:00,160
Speaker 1: cold one. That will not be a warm and you

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Speaker 1: are correct, So there's that break time for us here

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Speaker 1: when we come back. We'll get some of your final

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet as we are asking you,

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Speaker 1: knowing Josh Allen is taking a seat for the preseason opener,

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01:57:13,920 --> 01:57:17,280
Speaker 1: what do you need to see from one Mitchell Trubisky.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to those comments next. Here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collat of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. We're

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Speaker 1: welcome back another team as handed. Just as I said,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens put out stadium guidelines with a mask policy

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01:57:41,440 --> 01:57:46,040
Speaker 1: for all indoor areas and corridors. The Eagles have done

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Speaker 1: the same in advance of their preseason game coming up

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01:57:48,840 --> 01:57:52,400
Speaker 1: this week at Lincoln Financial Field. Masks must be worn

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Speaker 1: regardless of vaccination status at all indoor spaces. So this

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Speaker 1: looks like it's just a matter of becoming a domino

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Speaker 1: effect with various cities enacting policies and stadiums in those

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Speaker 1: cities following suit. So we'll keep trying to update you

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01:58:12,040 --> 01:58:16,080
Speaker 1: as they come down. I neglected to mention that one.

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01:58:16,280 --> 01:58:20,880
Speaker 1: Teren Johnson addressed the media after practice today. He of

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Speaker 1: two very important interception returns for touchdowns last season against

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01:58:26,160 --> 01:58:30,680
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh on Sunday night and in the divisional playoff against

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01:58:30,720 --> 01:58:34,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens, which essentially blew the game open and hell

2126
01:58:34,520 --> 01:58:38,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo to a necessary victory to advance to the AFC

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01:58:39,280 --> 01:58:42,960
Speaker 1: Title Game. So here is one Terran Johnson addressing the

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Speaker 1: media today. How much more Obviously last year was the

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01:58:47,640 --> 01:58:50,520
Speaker 1: childre a weird year, but coming in, you know, the

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01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:53,000
Speaker 1: second half the season, the way he played, how much

2131
01:58:53,360 --> 01:58:56,080
Speaker 1: more confident do you feel coming into this training camp

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01:58:56,160 --> 01:58:57,960
Speaker 1: and how it has shown itself in the first couple

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01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:01,760
Speaker 1: of weeks. Really just just keeping that the same mindset,

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01:59:01,880 --> 01:59:04,320
Speaker 1: you know. Um, that's that's really what I try to

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01:59:04,400 --> 01:59:07,480
Speaker 1: do every time. Um, just do my best and make

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01:59:07,480 --> 01:59:09,680
Speaker 1: sure my mind is right and everything else is gonna follow.

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Speaker 1: So that's the approach I take every single day. How

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01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:25,280
Speaker 1: do you view now to play against the Ravens pick six? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Really just I really can't explain it. I mean, it

2140
01:59:30,400 --> 01:59:33,200
Speaker 1: was just, Uh, it was a great play and and

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01:59:34,240 --> 01:59:38,960
Speaker 1: hopefully we could uh eclipse that with going further than

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01:59:39,040 --> 01:59:41,040
Speaker 1: that this year, you know what I'm saying. So it

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01:59:41,640 --> 01:59:44,600
Speaker 1: was a great play and and definitely a career play.

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01:59:44,880 --> 01:59:54,440
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. Uh, probably over five hundred times.

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01:59:56,040 --> 01:59:57,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've watched it a lot, though, I've

2146
01:59:57,560 --> 02:00:02,760
Speaker 1: watched it a lot. Challenge of embracing a career defining

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Speaker 1: play like that, but also turning the page. Justin Zimmer

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02:00:07,760 --> 02:00:10,360
Speaker 1: mentioned his strip of Cam Newton as a play he

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Speaker 1: doesn't want one play to define his career. How do

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Speaker 1: you juggle that embracing one of the biggest moments in

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Speaker 1: this franchise's history and moving on. Uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just take it one day at a time. Last year

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Speaker 1: I just kind of have the mindset last year is

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Speaker 1: last year. I gotta prove to myself everybody what I

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Speaker 1: can do this year. You know, I'm just taking like

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02:00:33,120 --> 02:00:35,800
Speaker 1: a like it's a whole new year and really not

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Speaker 1: even think about that play much anymore. What of your

2158
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Speaker 1: impressions been up some of the younger going backs in

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Speaker 1: the room. I mean good. You know you could see

2160
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Speaker 1: the talent when you watch the film for sure. They

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Speaker 1: got speed and athleticism. So I mean, I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna help us this year. Where you drafted Stars back

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02:00:55,560 --> 02:01:01,640
Speaker 1: and everything, you see a difference itself. Yeah, yeah, most definitely.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think Stars is definitely gonna help us

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Speaker 1: with our run game. Uh our, our new additions to

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Speaker 1: the d nd UM are gonna help us with a

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Speaker 1: pass rush. So I just feel like, uh, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: put it together, you know, contract here. How much do

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Speaker 1: you think of that? Honestly, I try not to think

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Speaker 1: about it too much. Because I know I still gotta

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02:01:22,880 --> 02:01:25,400
Speaker 1: do my job on a field, and UH really just

2172
02:01:25,480 --> 02:01:27,640
Speaker 1: want to keep getting better every day, So not too

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Speaker 1: too worried about that right now. Mindset for a preseason

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Speaker 1: game a lot different than a regular season game with

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Speaker 1: the things you guys are trying to accomplish. Maybe for

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Speaker 1: the coaches, but as a player, I go into every

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Speaker 1: game same mentality. I gotta win my matchup. I gotta

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Speaker 1: do my job. Preseason, regular season, playoffs pretty much have

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Speaker 1: the same mindset every time practice too. I need to

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Speaker 1: work out this season to get better. Um, I would

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Speaker 1: just say finishing place. Um, when I have a chance

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02:02:04,440 --> 02:02:06,600
Speaker 1: to get my ball, my hands on the ball, just

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Speaker 1: making that play, whether that's an interception, whether that's a

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Speaker 1: sack or stripping the ball out. Manual Sanders his his

2185
02:02:16,920 --> 02:02:18,960
Speaker 1: his leadership. I mean he's been in the league very

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02:02:19,000 --> 02:02:22,240
Speaker 1: long time and he knows the ins and outs of

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Speaker 1: a lot of defenses. So just him bringing that and

2188
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Speaker 1: his swagger and his speed, I think that's going to

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Speaker 1: really help us. Do you talk to any other dvs

2190
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Speaker 1: in the league about, you know, their experience in practice

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Speaker 1: during training camp and yours going against I don't, but

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Speaker 1: I know I feel like it's a cheap coat that

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Speaker 1: I get to go against him, you know what I'm saying,

2194
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Speaker 1: because he's just making me better every day. He's I

2195
02:02:45,400 --> 02:02:47,280
Speaker 1: think the best slot in the league, you know, and

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02:02:47,600 --> 02:02:49,080
Speaker 1: that's what I'm trying to be as a nickel. So

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Speaker 1: just having him to go against every every day, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's amazing the little things that he does. And

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Speaker 1: maybe you wouldn't see watching off the side, but that

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02:02:58,200 --> 02:03:00,880
Speaker 1: make it so tough to deal with him. I think

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Speaker 1: he's the quickest guy in the league like that. That's

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Speaker 1: definitely like and his mind. His mind when he's at

2203
02:03:07,400 --> 02:03:09,840
Speaker 1: the line, he's looking at what the safeties are doing,

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Speaker 1: what the linebackers are doing. He knows defenses, so he's

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Speaker 1: gonna try if we're in zone, he's gonna try try

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Speaker 1: and find that whole. And I feel like that's one

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Speaker 1: of his best attributes. You said you made changes going

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Speaker 1: in the last offseason or last season health, diet because

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Speaker 1: you dealt with injuries. Yeah, did you continue that evolution?

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Speaker 1: Did more things change in your routine or diet or

2211
02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:35,360
Speaker 1: plan and do you feel the injury part of things

2212
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Speaker 1: is behind you as much as you could foresee? I'd

2213
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Speaker 1: like to say. So, you know, I can't see the future,

2214
02:03:42,640 --> 02:03:44,640
Speaker 1: but as far as me doing everything I can to

2215
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Speaker 1: prevent injuries, I'm definitely doing that, whether that's diet or

2216
02:03:48,920 --> 02:03:52,840
Speaker 1: just spend an extra time in the training room. How

2217
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Speaker 1: important is it for the young guys on the roster

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Speaker 1: to get some good reps out there on Friday? That's

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Speaker 1: extremely important, you know. I mean we're all trying to

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Speaker 1: make the team, you know, so they're gonna have to

2221
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Speaker 1: go out there and perform out of high, high expectations.

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Speaker 1: Excited to play against someone that's not your teammates, Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I am. I am excited to play against someone that's

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Speaker 1: not my teammates, being at who I mainly go against

2225
02:04:14,840 --> 02:04:17,800
Speaker 1: his Cole, just excited to see what else is out there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The biggest difference between Cole and Isaiah mcgennity, Uh, Cole

2227
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Speaker 1: is his his his brain is just different as far

2228
02:04:28,960 --> 02:04:32,240
Speaker 1: as when he's on the field and he understands leverage

2229
02:04:32,360 --> 02:04:34,880
Speaker 1: and how quick he is is also very very hard.

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02:04:35,200 --> 02:04:38,280
Speaker 1: Isaiah's very quick as well. His main thing is is speed.

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Speaker 1: He's he's very fast. So it's just just different kind

2232
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Speaker 1: of players. No, he doesn't. I mean I talk to

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Speaker 1: him in the locker room a lot about what he

2234
02:04:49,840 --> 02:04:51,520
Speaker 1: sees and what I'm trying to do and what he's

2235
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Speaker 1: trying to do. But other than that, he's not really

2236
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Speaker 1: talking that much. On the field, Isaiah talks extremely alive. Yes,

2237
02:04:58,920 --> 02:05:02,760
Speaker 1: Isaiah talks extreme a lot. Yeah, or maybe even more

2238
02:05:02,800 --> 02:05:06,760
Speaker 1: than that. But yes, he is a talker. There's no question.

2239
02:05:07,440 --> 02:05:11,280
Speaker 1: He said. He watched that pick six against Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: the Ravens in the playoffs. I watched it over five

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Speaker 1: hundred times. I've watched I've watched a thousand times. It

2242
02:05:17,880 --> 02:05:23,400
Speaker 1: was everybody's watched it a lot. It was a historic

2243
02:05:24,600 --> 02:05:29,200
Speaker 1: play in the Buffalo Bill's franchise history. Oh yeah, one

2244
02:05:29,240 --> 02:05:33,120
Speaker 1: of the all times three all time iconic plays ever

2245
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Speaker 1: in the history of the franchise. And it happened last

2246
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Speaker 1: year in the playoffs. Um, yeah, why wouldn't you watch

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02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:41,480
Speaker 1: it five hundred times if you're the guy in the

2248
02:05:41,560 --> 02:05:45,960
Speaker 1: middle of it. Yeah, the low angle shot, I've watched

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Speaker 1: a lot only because my wife and my son are

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Speaker 1: in the background in the stands somewhere, jumping up and

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Speaker 1: down like a couple of maniacs as he's running down

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Speaker 1: to the end zone. Because they're on that sideline. They're

2253
02:05:58,240 --> 02:06:00,640
Speaker 1: on the Bills sideline somewhere up there. I'm on the

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02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:03,280
Speaker 1: sixte in attendance. What if they're going to have that.

2255
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Speaker 1: Can't that television screen in the stadium again this year

2256
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Speaker 1: because they had that, so the guys can you know,

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02:06:10,480 --> 02:06:13,560
Speaker 1: celebrate in front of the camera. Yeah, and they can

2258
02:06:13,600 --> 02:06:16,560
Speaker 1: see themselves. I think it was well received by the players.

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02:06:18,480 --> 02:06:21,080
Speaker 1: The fans probably liked it, so yeah, I wouldn't be

2260
02:06:21,120 --> 02:06:23,680
Speaker 1: shocked if it comes back. Yeah, it kind of takes

2261
02:06:23,760 --> 02:06:25,600
Speaker 1: They can't celebrate with the fans though, you know. And

2262
02:06:25,680 --> 02:06:27,760
Speaker 1: I got to jump in the jump in the stands.

2263
02:06:27,800 --> 02:06:29,160
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, what a play it was. And

2264
02:06:29,280 --> 02:06:32,040
Speaker 1: he's right, and there's so many things. And he alluded

2265
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Speaker 1: to it at the end there when they started asking

2266
02:06:33,840 --> 02:06:37,600
Speaker 1: him about playing against practicing against guys Cole Beasley, Isaia McKenzie,

2267
02:06:38,360 --> 02:06:44,200
Speaker 1: And you get a glimpse into how well you start

2268
02:06:44,280 --> 02:06:46,320
Speaker 1: to know your own players on your own team. Why,

2269
02:06:46,480 --> 02:06:49,320
Speaker 1: what characteristics they have, the good things they do, the

2270
02:06:49,480 --> 02:06:51,600
Speaker 1: things that are impossible to defend, and the things you

2271
02:06:51,640 --> 02:06:54,680
Speaker 1: can really get them on. That knowledge is why you

2272
02:06:54,760 --> 02:06:57,560
Speaker 1: got to play somebody else in the preseason to really

2273
02:06:57,600 --> 02:06:59,640
Speaker 1: get ready to play football. And they get a chance

2274
02:06:59,680 --> 02:07:01,920
Speaker 1: to do that Friday night. The stuff he said about

2275
02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, the stuff he said about Isaaih McKenzie. He'll

2276
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Speaker 1: give you an idea as to how well they know

2277
02:07:06,360 --> 02:07:10,040
Speaker 1: each other well, and he said getting the opportunity to

2278
02:07:10,120 --> 02:07:12,320
Speaker 1: go against Beasley every week is like having a chieved

2279
02:07:12,360 --> 02:07:14,720
Speaker 1: code because he thinks he's the best slot receiver in

2280
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:16,280
Speaker 1: the league. And when you go against the best, you

2281
02:07:16,400 --> 02:07:20,080
Speaker 1: can't help but get better. Otherwise you can get left behind.

2282
02:07:20,080 --> 02:07:23,120
Speaker 1: It's easier to go against everybody else. Yeah, it makes Yeah,

2283
02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:27,120
Speaker 1: it makes Sunday's lot easier for him, for sure. I

2284
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:29,000
Speaker 1: wanted to get to some of your final thoughts on

2285
02:07:29,040 --> 02:07:31,000
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet as we were asking it. With Josh

2286
02:07:31,040 --> 02:07:33,040
Speaker 1: Allen not playing Friday night against the Lions, what do

2287
02:07:33,080 --> 02:07:36,520
Speaker 1: you want to see from Mitchell Trubisky, Rusty says, I

2288
02:07:36,600 --> 02:07:39,440
Speaker 1: want to see his athleticism, to see if he really

2289
02:07:39,720 --> 02:07:42,120
Speaker 1: is close to Allan in that regard. I know he

2290
02:07:42,160 --> 02:07:44,560
Speaker 1: doesn't have the arm, but I'd like to see if

2291
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Speaker 1: he has poised under pressure and control in the huddle,

2292
02:07:46,880 --> 02:07:50,280
Speaker 1: can run the offense competently. Should the unspeakable occur in

2293
02:07:50,360 --> 02:07:52,520
Speaker 1: the season, let me ask you this Brownie. You're a

2294
02:07:52,640 --> 02:07:56,880
Speaker 1: historian about the Bills. You've been here for decades. Can

2295
02:07:56,960 --> 02:08:02,880
Speaker 1: you think of a more qualified guy who's been a

2296
02:08:03,040 --> 02:08:07,480
Speaker 1: backup for the Bills? No, in your tenure here? No,

2297
02:08:07,760 --> 02:08:10,920
Speaker 1: I mean the closest you get is Ryan Fitzpatrick. And

2298
02:08:11,040 --> 02:08:14,200
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick wasn't the wily veteran then that he is

2299
02:08:15,480 --> 02:08:17,840
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, he was like three years out

2300
02:08:17,880 --> 02:08:20,880
Speaker 1: of college or four years out of college when he

2301
02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:22,720
Speaker 1: got here. He was an Oh. Five draft pick, I

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Speaker 1: want to say, and he got here in OH nine,

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Speaker 1: So I mean he wasn't what Trubisky is now by

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02:08:31,640 --> 02:08:33,680
Speaker 1: any stretch. He was a seventh round pick. He was

2305
02:08:33,720 --> 02:08:38,480
Speaker 1: a third quarterback and then a backup behind Dalton before

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Speaker 1: he came here, And and he was a backup here

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Speaker 1: who you know ended up landing the job because Trent

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Speaker 1: Edwards just fizzled away from being anything remotely competitive. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I got I'd have a hard time

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Speaker 1: coming up with one. It's basically frank, Yeah, that far Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's how far back he got to go though. It's frank. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Alex Van flute pretty good, but he didn't mean a

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Speaker 1: flute would probably be there Flutie would probably be the

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Speaker 1: guy who comes in with more credentials as a backup

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Speaker 1: in a pre MVPs north of the Border, right, So,

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Speaker 1: and he had on what weight you put on that,

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Speaker 1: I would put weight on that, oh yeah, and he

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02:09:22,200 --> 02:09:24,839
Speaker 1: played well, so it kind served him well that experience

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Speaker 1: up there. So yeah, it's Trubisky is the first quarterback

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Speaker 1: in a long long time to come in with the

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Speaker 1: credentials that he does and with the experience, and it's

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Speaker 1: recent experience. So even by that standard, Flutie would not

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Speaker 1: have been in that vein because he was, you know,

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Speaker 1: north of the Border, didn't mister Bisky was starting for

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears for the last three years or two years,

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Speaker 1: not to mention Flutie came here as a thirty six

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02:09:52,680 --> 02:09:57,400
Speaker 1: year old, thirty four year old, right, I mean, Trubisky's

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Speaker 1: entering the prime of his career. He's what wenting six Yeah, ah,

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Speaker 1: so it's a it's a luxury. It is really going

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Speaker 1: to be interesting to watch him working because, let's face it,

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Speaker 1: this is the preseason game, and if he were in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't be playing, you know what I mean? Well,

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Speaker 1: and that game is next week, so you want to

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Speaker 1: talk about storylines. Hello. He was asked about it yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He said, Look, we got Detroit this week. That's where

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Speaker 1: we're focused on. But that one will be fun. Wait,

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Speaker 1: if you're Sean McDermott, given what we know about him,

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Speaker 1: like you know, given Kyle Williams a carry at the

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Speaker 1: goal line, give him a touchdown's letting him catch a

2340
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Speaker 1: football as out of the backfield in his last game?

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02:10:38,360 --> 02:10:44,520
Speaker 1: You know? So does he tell Mitch said, all right here, Mitch,

2342
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Speaker 1: go ahead and go and he throws out number one

2343
02:10:47,040 --> 02:10:51,919
Speaker 1: offensive line, all four wide Steph Diggs, all those Beasley

2344
02:10:54,320 --> 02:10:58,360
Speaker 1: and Brian Dable says, let's go, and we're gonna hang.

2345
02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:00,880
Speaker 1: You're gonna play for the first half, and if you

2346
02:11:00,960 --> 02:11:04,200
Speaker 1: don't score thirty five points, you're going to be kicking yourself.

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Speaker 1: Let's go right. Oh boy, that would just be Oh,

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about that. Be delicious. I'd be happy

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Speaker 1: for man. That'll be a conversation somewhere on this show

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Speaker 1: sometime next week. For sure. We have to take a

2351
02:11:21,160 --> 02:11:23,400
Speaker 1: break here though, Steve and I have close things up

2352
02:11:23,640 --> 02:11:26,200
Speaker 1: with what have we learned? Next? Here? On One Bill's Lives,

2353
02:11:26,240 --> 02:11:40,760
Speaker 1: Stay where you are? It is that time. What if

2354
02:11:40,800 --> 02:11:44,640
Speaker 1: we learned brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

2355
02:11:45,160 --> 02:11:49,280
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. The biggest thing

2356
02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:52,360
Speaker 1: we learned today is that Josh Allen and some other

2357
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Speaker 1: starters for the Bills will not be playing in the

2358
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Speaker 1: preseason opener on Friday against the Lions in Detroit, which

2359
02:11:59,320 --> 02:12:04,160
Speaker 1: I don't think is a major surprise, but it is

2360
02:12:04,240 --> 02:12:09,560
Speaker 1: a shift to some degree from the way Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: has handled preseasons of the past. Yeah, it's not a surprise,

2362
02:12:16,320 --> 02:12:19,080
Speaker 1: but think about it, how far Josh Allen's coming in

2363
02:12:19,320 --> 02:12:21,160
Speaker 1: four years? You know this now the guy you know

2364
02:12:21,160 --> 02:12:23,120
Speaker 1: they want to wrap him in bubble bubble rap because

2365
02:12:23,120 --> 02:12:25,400
Speaker 1: he's become so valuable and we're so hard to get better.

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02:12:25,960 --> 02:12:28,760
Speaker 1: And not only that, think about this, it's not just

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Speaker 1: that you know, he's the guy who's gonna start and

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02:12:30,680 --> 02:12:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, okay, we might not have a

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Speaker 1: guy that we can depend on. Want to find out

2370
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Speaker 1: about these other guys. It's this if he hadn't played

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Speaker 1: so much, improven so much to the coaching staff, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there might be some things that they say, listen, we'd

2373
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Speaker 1: like to get some reps in on this and see

2374
02:12:44,120 --> 02:12:47,080
Speaker 1: about this, and let's find out about that. There's none

2375
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Speaker 1: of that. There's nothing that Josh Allen has to prove

2376
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Speaker 1: or gain from this coaching staff in this preseason other

2377
02:12:55,760 --> 02:12:59,520
Speaker 1: than getting himself comfortable taking snaps and going live game reps.

2378
02:13:00,000 --> 02:13:04,680
Speaker 1: So it's the trust that he's earned and the situation

2379
02:13:04,720 --> 02:13:07,280
Speaker 1: the Bills find themselves in with a quarterback that not

2380
02:13:07,480 --> 02:13:10,480
Speaker 1: only is a great player, but also a player that

2381
02:13:10,560 --> 02:13:12,760
Speaker 1: they are fully confident in that he's going to be

2382
02:13:12,840 --> 02:13:16,720
Speaker 1: ready on opening weekend. Right, and there's still preseason games

2383
02:13:16,800 --> 02:13:20,040
Speaker 1: left to play where I'm sure he will get some action.

2384
02:13:20,120 --> 02:13:23,919
Speaker 1: Along with the other starters who won't dress for Friday

2385
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Speaker 1: Night's game, we should mention tomorrow's show. Mattie glab will

2386
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Speaker 1: be my co host as Steve hits the road to

2387
02:13:31,360 --> 02:13:35,040
Speaker 1: travel to Detroit for his television broadcast with Andrew Catalan

2388
02:13:35,120 --> 02:13:38,080
Speaker 1: and Cynthia Freeland for Friday Night's game. We'll also as

2389
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Speaker 1: CBS Sports Salary cap expert Joel Corey joining us as

2390
02:13:42,400 --> 02:13:45,160
Speaker 1: he breaks down that Josh Allen contract extension and what

2391
02:13:45,280 --> 02:13:48,720
Speaker 1: could be in store for the other twenty eighteen quarterback

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Speaker 1: class members. I'll see you tomorrow, Steve Safe travels, One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live