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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Live, Steve Tasker along with Maddie

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Speaker 1: Glab broadcasting from our homes and we are stoked, thrilled

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Speaker 1: to have our next guests on with us. Head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott, Sewan, Steve Tasker and

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Speaker 1: Maddie Glab. Thanks for coming on with us hard now.

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Speaker 1: I know you're busy today. Thanks for taking time. Oh

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Speaker 1: thanks for almost you guys, And congrats to Maddie on

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Speaker 1: her first week on the job here. Very nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah, how's this day going for you? I

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Speaker 1: know you you did a big zoom meeting with the

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Speaker 1: local media and Maddie was on for just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Uh what you know that? How tough is it to

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Speaker 1: show leadership to a bunch of guys who were scattered

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Speaker 1: zoom meeting. I mean, a lot of us have had

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Speaker 1: to work remotely, but it's it's got to be doubly

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Speaker 1: important and doubly difficult for you as the guy who

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Speaker 1: all these guys are looking to from across the country.

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Speaker 1: Well it is. It's a challenge and I'm sure I'm

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Speaker 1: not uh in any Uh, you know, unique situation as

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Speaker 1: as in terms of the coaches in the league going

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Speaker 1: through we're all going through the same situation, and so

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Speaker 1: it's it's a leaders a challenge, uh, Steve and um,

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Speaker 1: you know. But at the same time, there's you kind

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Speaker 1: of from a leadership standpoint, you kind of expect the

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Speaker 1: unexpected from year year in the NFL, and and this one,

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Speaker 1: I would say is not one that I expected in

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Speaker 1: terms of the COVID situation. UM. But at the same time, uh,

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Speaker 1: certainly with my staff and our players finding a way

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Speaker 1: through this, UM and with the hope so in the

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Speaker 1: goal of uh, you know, us coming back together at

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Speaker 1: some point and uh and uh putting a good a

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Speaker 1: good team on the field. Coach. This past week has

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Speaker 1: been a pretty eye opening week for all of us

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Speaker 1: in America with the racial injustice going on, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the protests that we've seen, UM from George Floyd

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Speaker 1: being murdered as well as a lot of other people

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Speaker 1: and racial inequality has no place in Buffalo or in America.

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Speaker 1: So what's your reaction to what's been going on and

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Speaker 1: how have you had some of those conversations with your players.

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Speaker 1: I know when you spoke to the media you said

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Speaker 1: make sure that that you were able to listen to

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Speaker 1: what your players had to say, right, And so if

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Speaker 1: you you know, Number one I'm disappointed is uh as

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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier on the earlier call, Maddie that you

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Speaker 1: were on and UM, you know, I wanted our players

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Speaker 1: to know, UM, you know that we UH support them

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Speaker 1: and we understand that this hits very close to home.

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Speaker 1: Listen to HiT's close to home for for the entire world,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, and it's certainly um you know, a national

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Speaker 1: UM you know that the point of the players was that,

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Speaker 1: and and UH and certainly be here to listen. UH.

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Speaker 1: And I think our our staff, UM you know is

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Speaker 1: is showing that and displaying that as well, not just

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Speaker 1: UH take take that information and look to lead with it.

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Speaker 1: And UM and then making sure that we always love

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Speaker 1: what I believe in, and that's uh. You know a

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Speaker 1: country should look like. Yeah, and as we've all been

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Speaker 1: there is a loosening of the grip were here now.

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Speaker 1: The NBA has got a plan to get back onto

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Speaker 1: supplement that with with things when we're back home here

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Speaker 1: It's again, we're thankful that we have the facility we

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Speaker 1: But bonding with the Zoom meetings. Now that you've had

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Speaker 1: in a virtual setting. Well, Maddie, that's been the challenge.

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning jumped on a zoom meeting. What was what

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Speaker 1: So UM, but we've had others as well, and and UH,

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Speaker 1: it's a real credit to UH, to our players, to

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Speaker 1: find a way your players were able to do just that.

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Speaker 1: social distancing going on, Maddie. Yeah. But having said that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: from a leadership standpoint, that's a critical step UM. And

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's important. As a team, UM, you know

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Speaker 1: so in this case, those guys have taken great ownership

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Speaker 1: and and I certainly appreciate that. Coach. We've been talking

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Speaker 1: do that as well. Sean, thanks so much. I know

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Speaker 1: We wish you all the best. Awesome guys. Awesome to

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