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Speaker 1: straded beer of normalcy. Welcome to a Thursday edition of

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live a sun Splash Day out here in

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park as we're broadcasting in our Seneca studios at

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Look at the roles practice day four.

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Speaker 1: It was like a painting. That's cause, like Bob ross clouds,

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Speaker 1: about a guy that basically stole money, Bob ross Man,

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Speaker 1: you don't do it, you're not in any event Um,

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Speaker 1: another you know, painting that he's putting together some landscape

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Speaker 1: He did that for like twenty years. I still remember

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Speaker 1: about this, Brownie. I wonder if those artwork, the artwork

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Speaker 1: Right that? It seems like artist's work is always more

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Speaker 1: It's hard to think of an artist, but the paintings

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Speaker 1: I gotta go to work. I gotta gotta paint some

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Speaker 1: I get paid doing it. God bless the man. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: a digression right off the top there, But welcome to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live brought on by the beautiful Clouds. That's

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Speaker 1: right Bill Stadium, yes where we had another padded practice today.

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Speaker 1: They went light yesterday knowing they were gonna be padded up.

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Speaker 1: Today's quite a day, I asked my first time scene. Right,

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Speaker 1: you got a glimpse of things you and Maddie did

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Speaker 1: your tight ends there. That's right, so backup tackle. I

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Speaker 1: really feel like it's it's going to be a different

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Speaker 1: year for this Bill's offense. I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: means it's gonna be you know, what statistics or what

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Speaker 1: it's gonna look like, or how it's gonna evolve, But

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Speaker 1: I think and I think the coaching staff. I think

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Speaker 1: we're in the early stages of just finding out which

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Speaker 1: guys can do what Right now, they gotta and I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's a question Zach Moss, Gabe Davis aj Epenezza.

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Speaker 1: You go down the list to these young players and

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Speaker 1: first first year players like Quentin Jefferson and Mario Addison

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Speaker 1: and all these guys, they're they're still trying to find

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Speaker 1: out what these guys bring to the table and how

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Speaker 1: it messes with the guys that they're counting on the

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Speaker 1: other guys that are already here that they're counting on

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Speaker 1: and know what they can do. I just think the

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Speaker 1: thing that's good getting buying a lot of fans is

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Speaker 1: because you kind of focus on your own team. But

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Speaker 1: for me, I think Week one of this regular season

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Speaker 1: coming up is going to be an absolute shocker for

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Speaker 1: a lot of fans and a lot of colleges across

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Speaker 1: the league. Across the league, there is so much uncertainty

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Speaker 1: and lack of knowledge about what other teams are doing

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Speaker 1: or what they're gonna look like that you don't know anything.

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Speaker 1: There's no scouting reports, there's no film, there's nothing. Every

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Speaker 1: team in the league has put fetters on the local

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Speaker 1: media not to talk about depth charts and rotations and

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Speaker 1: all of that. They're not allowed to port on any

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. And so there's coach and Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: has said he's listen. There's always really a huge amount

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Speaker 1: of uncertainty on Week one anyway. This year, Oh, it's

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Speaker 1: through the roof. You don't even know. You have no

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Speaker 1: idea what that other team is going to line up in.

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Speaker 1: That isn't that's extremely unusual for NFL teams. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: happens in college quite a bit. While you get a

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Speaker 1: team that comes out and beat Beach of fifty one

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Speaker 1: to nothing on opening Day, you have no idea what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna look like. You have no idea what they're good.

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Speaker 1: They're good players are who you have to worry about.

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Speaker 1: I think that Week one in the NFL is gonna

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Speaker 1: be an absolute shocker for everybody across the league in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways. So let us know what your

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Speaker 1: definition of creativity is on offense for the Bills for

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season. Your choices are there on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at one Bills Live. You can give us a call

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Speaker 1: at eight oh three fifty eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty or hit us up on the tweet sheet, and

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Speaker 1: we should also mention coming up on today's show, we

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Speaker 1: will have the seventh installment of Tasker's Teammate coming your

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Speaker 1: way at one thirty, where Steve will try to guess

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Speaker 1: the former teammate that we are giving clues about, and

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Speaker 1: we'll have that player, former player, former teammate on the

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Speaker 1: line as well. No pressure, Steve. And then at two

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Speaker 1: o'clock we'll have NFL Networks Mike Gardi. He covers the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: but covers the league at large as well, so we'll

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Speaker 1: check in with him and talk some Patriots as well

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Speaker 1: as some Bills with him, as he keeps his ear

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Speaker 1: to the ground pretty closely with respect to the AFC East.

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Speaker 1: So we will take a break now, but when we return,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into some of your comments on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet in terms of your definition of what creativity on

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Speaker 1: offense for the Bills might be. Cole Beasley said, they

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Speaker 1: can be more creative on offense, but what is that

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Speaker 1: to you? Let us know. Eight oh three, five fifty

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker coming back in a moment. It's

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio back on one of Bills Live. Chris Browns,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and we're taking your phone calls

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Speaker 1: at eight oh three h five fifty and two five

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Speaker 1: fifty along with your comments on the tweet sheet as

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Speaker 1: we ask you, what is the definition of creativity in

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Speaker 1: the Bills offense for twenty twenty? Cole Beasley was saying

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Speaker 1: the other day that he thinks this offense can be

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Speaker 1: more creative for a multitude of reasons, including the additions

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Speaker 1: that they've made to the roster. But what does that

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Speaker 1: mean to you? What is the definition of creativity for

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Speaker 1: the Bills offense in twenty twenty? And for that we

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Speaker 1: begin on the phone lines. We've got Brian in Buffalo, So, Brian,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. What do you have for us

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Speaker 1: with respect to Bill's offensive creativity? Sir? It's I was

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Speaker 1: just saying, we get some good tight ends, and if

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Speaker 1: you look at the playoff teams that are always in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, there's always, oh, you got Gronkowski, you got Kelsey, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a ton of tight ends. If you use your tight end,

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Speaker 1: it seems like you can make the playoffs a lot

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Speaker 1: more than teams that don't use it. Well, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: certainly helps when you have an elite one um, which

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Speaker 1: is which is what Gronk is and what Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: is and what George Kittle is. So when you have

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Speaker 1: that person on your roster, you're gonna utilize them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it's it's a good point. It does seem to

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Speaker 1: be a characteristic of the elite playoff teams. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know whether it's a little bit like does do

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Speaker 1: you have a good team because you have good culture

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Speaker 1: or do you have a good culture because you have

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Speaker 1: a good team. Are you good team playoff team because

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Speaker 1: you have a good tight end, or do you have

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Speaker 1: a good tight end because the rest of your team's

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Speaker 1: a playoff team? Uh, there's no question those guys are

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Speaker 1: difference makers. Kelsey, Ertz, Kittle, Kittle though, and Gronkowski is

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Speaker 1: a great example and I and I said it for

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Speaker 1: a long time when I was in the booth that

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Speaker 1: you don't once you get a great to either have

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Speaker 1: a great tight end or you're looking to steal somebody's

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Speaker 1: great tight end. They're a matchup problem. And Kittle is

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Speaker 1: a great example. Out in San Francisco, because he's he

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Speaker 1: blocks as well as an offensive lineman. Certainly they don't

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Speaker 1: put him down on defensive tackle, but on linebackers, on

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Speaker 1: defensive backs, and in the run game. The guy's a beast.

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Speaker 1: That's a huge advantage when he can also take your

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Speaker 1: safeties deep and get and beat him and ball and

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Speaker 1: ball up in fifty fifty ball scenarios. So tight end

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Speaker 1: are great matchups because if you're big enough to tackle him,

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Speaker 1: you're not fast enough to run with him. And if

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Speaker 1: you're fast enough to run with him, you're not big

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Speaker 1: enough to tackle him, and he'll win the fifty fifty

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Speaker 1: ball over your head. They're all matchup nightmare. Good teams

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Speaker 1: use their tight ends, and great tight ends really help

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Speaker 1: their teams, there's no question about it. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that the only teams that go to the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: are the ones that have good tight ends. But the

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Speaker 1: last last year, both of them had elite tight ends

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Speaker 1: who signed big deals this offseason. Right, and even Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: which was fourteen and two, used three with great frequency,

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Speaker 1: but Andrews was the primary target there. So you can

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Speaker 1: skin the cat a bunch of different ways, because Baltimore

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Speaker 1: did it in a far different way than most teams

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Speaker 1: typically do. And that's also predicated on the fact that

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Speaker 1: they run the ball in awful lot and use those

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Speaker 1: three tight ends. But the fact that those three tight

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Speaker 1: ends can get in line and block and then also

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Speaker 1: detach and make plays in the passing game makes them

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Speaker 1: very unpredictable and creative. And that's that's a tip of

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Speaker 1: the hat to Greg Roman on that, the offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens. I think the Bills do hope

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Speaker 1: that Dawson Knox can develop into a pre eminent tight

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Speaker 1: end type of talent. I mean, he's six foot five,

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Speaker 1: he's two hundred and fifty pounds, runs like a deer,

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Speaker 1: can run people over, has a great stiff arm. I

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Speaker 1: think he just has to be a little bit more

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Speaker 1: consistent pulling the ball in, that's all. Yeah, he can't

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Speaker 1: cough it up, and he has to make all the

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Speaker 1: catches that are there, right and but but I think

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Speaker 1: they see potential in him as a playmaker at that spot.

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Speaker 1: And you still have not for nothing, you still have

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Speaker 1: Tyler Croft there, who you know, I'd be the first

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Speaker 1: to admit, probably isn't quite the athlete, you know, the

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Speaker 1: pure physical athlete that Knox is, but he is capable

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Speaker 1: of making plays in the passing game. And so again

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Speaker 1: you want to talk about being creative, you could use

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Speaker 1: both those guys on the field at the same time. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and one guy could be in line, one guy could

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Speaker 1: be detached, and you know you still got your receivers

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Speaker 1: outside and off you go. Yeah, there's no question I

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Speaker 1: think Dawson Knox has showed a lot of promise last year.

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Speaker 1: And I you know, the angry runs that you see,

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Speaker 1: the stiff arm that he's got, he would have contributed

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Speaker 1: to a much greater degree if he wouldn't have, you know,

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Speaker 1: led the team in drops two. And I'm saying he

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Speaker 1: led the team in drops. I'm not absolutely sure I

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Speaker 1: think he did, but any any umbled at a couple

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Speaker 1: of times as well. Ball security's got to be job

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Speaker 1: one for him. He's got all the physical attributes, there's

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Speaker 1: no question about it. He's got the speed, he's got

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Speaker 1: all those things. But there's a reason there aren't a

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Speaker 1: ton of phenomenal tight ends around. It's a hard position

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Speaker 1: and a hard position to play. Yeah. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: hard position to play because you gotta be, like we said,

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Speaker 1: down and dirty, down inside with the offensive lineman. You

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Speaker 1: gotta be physical and you got to do that, and

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Speaker 1: then you gotta be athletic enough to get down the field.

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Speaker 1: Usually players have one or the other. Kelsey is not

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Speaker 1: known as a real devastating blocker. Kittle is, Yeah, kills

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Speaker 1: the total package to a certain extent. Bronk is also

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Speaker 1: that way. But Gronk is a you know, he's a

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Speaker 1: physical difference guy. He's a big six five plus guy,

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Speaker 1: and he's he runs well enough. He runs well enough. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even with his uh, with his litany of injuries that

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Speaker 1: he's had over the course of a long career. But

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Speaker 1: this is tight ends have always been kind of the

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Speaker 1: holy grail, right um. And I had a conversation with

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Speaker 1: all people Mike Ditka years ago who play who's a

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame tight end? I asked him, I go,

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Speaker 1: what about he goes tight ends? He goes as a

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Speaker 1: head coach, he goes because I played it, I know

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Speaker 1: how to use him. And his assertion was, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys they don't know what to do with

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Speaker 1: a tight end. They don't know what to do it. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm I don't know that that's as prevalent now as

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Speaker 1: it has been because they throw the football so much.

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Speaker 1: But his assertion was, and this was fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: that a lot of teams just don't know what to

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Speaker 1: do with the guy. They don't know how to use him,

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Speaker 1: they don't know how to integrate him. Plus there's always

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Speaker 1: that thing too where tight ends don't have this reputation.

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Speaker 1: But if you're gonna throw the ball at the tight

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Speaker 1: end all the time, there's a bunch of wide receivers

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Speaker 1: a they're gonna be bummed and you're gonna start being

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Speaker 1: the squeaky wheel. I mean, you got it. There's only

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Speaker 1: one football to go around, and it's hard for a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver to see a tight end lumbering down to

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Speaker 1: them lumbering down the field and say, why don't you

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Speaker 1: give me that throw and I'll instead of getting tackled

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Speaker 1: from behind, I'll score a touchdown. A lot of coaching

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Speaker 1: staffs hear that kind of thing, and I still think

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Speaker 1: gets prevalent in the NFL. A lot of teams don't

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Speaker 1: know what to do with the guy. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: gotta you gotta put him in the middle of the offense.

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Speaker 1: You gotta call a number of plays that have him involved.

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Speaker 1: You gotta look for ways to get him the ball.

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Speaker 1: Most teams are just worried about getting a first down.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to you know, they got a quarterback, they're

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Speaker 1: worried about they got a running game. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out. They don't want to make a tight end

641
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Speaker 1: the middle of their offense. Some teams are willing to

642
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: do it more than others. So what is your definition

643
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: of creativity in the Bills offense? We go to the

644
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

645
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and

646
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 1: the first one comes from Tiffany who says, in my opinion,

647
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: they have formation flexibility with the additions of digs and

648
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: moss in the development of knocks. If Dave Davis can

649
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: land the number four receiver role, the offense can deploy

650
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: a fierce four wide receiver set. I wouldn't want to

651
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: be the decoordinator that had to devise a scheme to

652
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: slow them down. And I know I've been a proponent

653
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: and have mentioned that, you know, if some of these

654
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: young receivers come along, you shouldn't be shy about deploying

655
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: a four wide set here and there. Maybe you have

656
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: a package of plays in your game plan to do that,

657
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of NFL teams are hard

658
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: pressed to put four really good corners on the field.

659
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: So why not test that and see if they can

660
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: handle it and if they can't, stay in it right

661
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: and and go fast? Yeah you know, I mean, but

662
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: here's the thing as well. I mean, you want to

663
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: do all that, and you want to be proficient at it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard to get that stuff up and

665
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 1: running and feel good about it without ever having seen

666
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: it in live action on a field. A lot of

667
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: the I go back to a lot of this first

668
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: week or two, the first month of the season is

669
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: going to be they're gonna call it and they say, okay,

670
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: well it look good in practice, don't mess this up.

671
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,479
Speaker 1: You know, how's this gonna go? You never know, you've

672
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: never seen it and you've got you know, particularly if

673
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: you put a guy like Gabe Davison who's never you know,

674
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: played in the NFL yet, and you've never tried to

675
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: run it against whoever the heck you're playing. You don't know,

676
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: and you have no idea who their defenders are going

677
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: to be, where they're gonna go nickel, whether they're gonna

678
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: go dime, whether they're gonna put a corner out there

679
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: or a safety or where they're gonna slit the lineback around,

680
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: or you know how they're going to adjust to it.

681
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: You have no idea. So among the choices on the

682
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: Twitter poll, you know, we talked about it, more personnel groupings,

683
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: more of the DePaul, more trick plays. I think you

684
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Speaker 1: can make the argument that trick plays are an example

685
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Speaker 1: of creativity. But how often do you go to the

686
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: well on that is the question. I mean, if you're

687
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: good at certain stuff, you don't really need trick plays. Now.

688
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: There's a time and a place for them, for sure,

689
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: and they certainly represent a means of creativity, but how

690
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: much is too much? Yeah, you're not gonna make a

691
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: game plan out, No, it's just we're talking maybe one

692
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: or two plays in your game plan a week at most, right, right,

693
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: you got one probably one year. You've got your game

694
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: plan every week that you work on maybe once or

695
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: once every week. You run through it once a week

696
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: and you keep it in until you use it and

697
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: then it's out. You can't go back to it, right,

698
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: and you look for an opportunity to do it. Maybe

699
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes you get a chance to use it. But

700
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: you're right, trick plays are. It's fun, but you can't

701
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: build an offense around. I mean, it's certainly not even

702
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: an aspect of your offense as you're leaning on. It's

703
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: a it's a once off. Like they show us this look, Well,

704
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: we'll try it in this situation at this part of

705
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: the field on this you know, in the in the

706
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 1: second quarter of some game, if they give us this

707
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: look on the field where we're at, we'll give this

708
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: a shot. Other than that, we'll never You're never gonna

709
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 1: see it. And we're seeing pictures now. The throwback to

710
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen for the touchdown and against Houston. Uh from

711
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: John Brown? Right? Who threw it? Yeah, John Brown throw?

712
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: So John Brown had two touchdown passes last year. I'm

713
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 1: just sad. Well, there you go go. You got enough

714
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: of that from jack A. On the tweet sheet, I

715
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: voted other because it's all of them. Allows variety and

716
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: personnel and formation so they aren't only using eleven personnel.

717
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: It allows for more play action jet sweeps and deep shots. Also,

718
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: let's not forget motion and trickery. These tactics work. Hopefully

719
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: we can run all of them with more success. Maybe maybe,

720
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I know. And here's the other thing too,

721
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: Steve with in terms of offensive diversity and creativity and whatnot.

722
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: I know, you and I have talked about how the

723
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: screenplay was rarely used by this offense last season, and

724
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: it was due in part to the fact that the

725
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: players that they had a guard were more of the

726
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: road greater type than they get out and pull type,

727
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: which isn't an issue, which isn't a problem if you

728
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: use those guys properly, and they did by trying to

729
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: run between the tackles a little bit more instead of

730
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: utilizing screenplays. Even on long down and distance, you know,

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00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: second and ten, sometimes that's a play that's Taylor made

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00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: for a screenplay, and we wouldn't see that all that

733
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Speaker 1: often from the Bills because they had trouble getting their

734
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: people out in front as a convoy for you know,

735
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: the back that's catching the football. So does that change

736
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: this year? Do they have more mobile guards in the equation? Well,

737
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain is still the same at left guard, but

738
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: the right guard position could spark some interest in maybe

739
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Speaker 1: resuscitating the screen game for this team. I think Brian

740
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: Winters is a pretty nimble guard who can get out

741
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: and move. He's known as a more mobile type interior lineman.

742
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: We know Mitch Morris can get out because he did

743
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: every time they ran a screenplay. He was one of

744
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: the guys out in front, so we know he's capable

745
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: of doing that. And who are the other candidates, I mean,

746
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 1: are we talking about Evan Bame? Is he a guy

747
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: that could possibly get out and execute a screenplay? Darryl Williams.

748
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can. He's kind of more

749
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 1: of an anchor guy. So it's it's gonna be interesting

750
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: to see if that element of their game is intense,

751
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: not intensified. What's the word I'm looking for, increased in frequency.

752
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: I don't know that it will be necessarily, but that's

753
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: a wait and see obviously right. One more from the

754
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Nick. He says creativity he's going to

755
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: come from having more options on offense. Alan played well

756
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: last year, but defense is still loaded the box and

757
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: made Alan beat them by passing. Now, with our improved offense,

758
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: we should be a legit threat on the ground and

759
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: in the air, which will keep defenses guessing. We made

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00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: a lot of conjecture about the creativity it gives you

761
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: when the defense can't load up. UH. Defenses last year

762
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: did their best to dictate that Alan was going to

763
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: drop back and throw it U. They packed the box,

764
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,439
Speaker 1: particularly when Frank Gore was in there. They'd throw people

765
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: in the box and say, listen, if you're gonna hand

766
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: it off, let's see it. M they're not gonna get

767
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: it done. They they wanted the Bills to throw the

768
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: football last year. That's all. It's that simple. And you

769
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: can bet this season's gonna start out they're gonna do

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00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: the exact same thing. Yeah, they pay for that. Yeah

771
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: you got you got Steph Diggs. Well we'll see what

772
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,439
Speaker 1: you can do. You still got there and there they're

773
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: gonna say, you still got the same quarterback? We don't

774
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: Still we still think you're the same team. We're gonna go. Um,

775
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: you can expect teams will say that about this offense.

776
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: Is gonna be able to to Josh Allen, Steph Diggs,

777
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley all and the rest to change

778
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: their mind on film and on the scoreboard. Yeah, make

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00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: them pay for it. Playing and simple. If you're going

780
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: to play us that way. The conversations, the conversation is

781
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: going to be different this year. That's how it can

782
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: play us that way, and that's how it's gonna go. Yeah,

783
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 1: and here's the proof proof. We'll be in the pudding.

784
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Speaker 1: All right. We gotta take a break, but when we

785
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: come back, we'll hit some NFL news and notes. We

786
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 1: also anticipate that we will be hearing from the Bill's

787
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: newest punter, Lochlan Edwards, who was made available to the

788
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: media today, also rookie running back Zach Moss, So we'll

789
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 1: have some soundbites from those two guys, and maybe even

790
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: from one Darryl Williams, who's also being made available to

791
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: the media. So we hope to get that sound over

792
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: to you sooner rather than later. But some NFL news

793
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: notes coming your way next, including the possibility of a

794
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,439
Speaker 1: playoff bubble for the NFL. That's coming up next. Here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back on One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

797
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and the injury update from practice

798
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: was just released a short time ago. Josh Norman has

799
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Speaker 1: a leg injury suffered that in practice today's still being evaluated,

800
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: not participating today, where Ed Oliver with the hip, Pat

801
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,959
Speaker 1: de Marco with the next soreness, Robert Foster is still

802
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: in concussion protocol, and then John Feliciano and Tommy Sweeney

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00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: still sideline with their respective injuries. So that's the rundown there. So, yeah,

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00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: I saw that. I saw the injury to Josh Norman.

805
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: It was on an interestception, but I don't know that

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00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: he's the one that intercepted it. They kind of came

807
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 1: together at the end of the play he might have

808
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: been so it was like a tangle up kind of

809
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: thing exactly. So we'll wait for updates on that. Presumably

810
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: we'll get one tomorrow from head coach Sean McDermott, who's

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00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: scheduled to address the meeting in the morning tomorrow prior

812
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: to Friday's practice, so we'll get an update on that.

813
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: We are talking to you about the Bills and their

814
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: ability to be more creative on offense and what the

815
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: definition of creativity for the Bills offense is for you,

816
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: So be sure to hit us up on the tweet

817
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: sheet with your comments on that, or call us at

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00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty or one, eight eight eight,

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Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty. We did want to get

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Speaker 1: to some NFL news and notes here in this short segment,

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Speaker 1: and the NFL Troy Vincent, one of their executive vice presidents,

822
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: was on a conference call yesterday and did share that

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00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: they have considered the concept of a playoff bubble. Obviously,

824
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: the playoff games are the most important on the NFL schedule,

825
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: and if there's any way to reduce the risk of

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00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,919
Speaker 1: the competitive balance of the playoff matchups getting compromised due

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Speaker 1: to COVID, I think that the NFL at least has

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Speaker 1: to do their due diligence in exploring the options. They

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Speaker 1: may not land on saying, yeah, let's bubble up for

830
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but if there are still no fans in

831
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: the stands, there really is no difference. There's no home

832
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: field advantage that anybody's necessarily losing. You could set up

833
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: set up some bubble sights for the What do you

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00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: gain is my point? What would you gain by bubbling

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00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: up if the season's gone off without a hitch, What

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00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: do you change? Well, that's the assumption you're that is

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00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: not I don't know that they're assuming that. I don't

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00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: know that they're ready to assume that right now, because

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00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 1: the other thing that they were discussing is the protocols

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00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: to undertake and the chain of command with respect to

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00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: what if we have a COVID outbreak and we need

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00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: to postpone a game or cancel a game or what

843
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: have you. They were also going over the items too,

844
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's any false pretense here on

845
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: the part of the league that they're going to get

846
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: through this season scott free. Once they start traveling, they

847
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:14,439
Speaker 1: got teams sitting in hotels and whatnot. So I think

848
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: they're they're they're being cautiously optimistic, and I think that's

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00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: the right way to approach this. And I think they're

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Speaker 1: they're trying to consider any and all situations that could

851
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: arise that may prompt them to take more more concerted

852
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: action in protecting the players and coaches to keep the

853
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: games as competitive as possible, and you do that by

854
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: avoiding these COVID outbreaks. So they have raised the idea

855
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: of a playoff bubble. Saints head coach Sean Payton was

856
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: the one that brought it up in a competition committee

857
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: conference call, so you know, Troy Vincent pretty much said yeah,

858
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: we've We've raised it. It will be a consideration. It's

859
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: something that deserves more conversation before any decisions made, But

860
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's at least a possibility that is

861
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: sitting out there. If they deem it necessary, it would

862
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: probably be. It wouldn't be because of fans or home

863
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: field advantage. It's got to be because of the virus.

864
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: That's the only reason. No, I know that. What I'm

865
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: saying is if you do bubble up, you're not taking

866
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: away home field advantage from any playoff team. If you

867
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: don't have fans in the stands. I mean you essentially

868
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: week one. I mean maybe with the exception as the Chiefs,

869
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: they're all gonna be neutral site games because there's no

870
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: fans exactly. And the simple fact is you would have

871
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: all three wildcard games on the weekend in one stadium. Yeah, right,

872
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: that's that's what they're talking about, right, So well, yeah, yeah,

873
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: because you have seven playoff teams in each conference, the

874
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: top seed gets the buys, so they're not even playing.

875
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: They're not there. Yeah, well not yet, probably not yet.

876
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: And then you just have a triple header and we

877
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: decide whether you play two games on Saturday and one

878
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday, you know, at one site, and you know,

879
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: for the NFC, you play one game on Saturday and

880
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: two games on Sunday, and so you have triple headers

881
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: both days of the weekend, and off you go, right exactly.

882
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: And then you got to play on turf fields though

883
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: you're you're not that field won't hold up. And I'll

884
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: tell you this, you don't get there unless there's been

885
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: huge issues with how things are going in the regular season.

886
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: If if it's going on like it it's you know,

887
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: like they anticipated going there's no need to bubble up.

888
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: They won't change it if it's not broken. But having

889
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,959
Speaker 1: said and there's no anticipation that it is. But here's

890
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: the problem, and I get why they're having these conversations.

891
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: If they do decide they're gonna go to a bubble

892
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: format for the playoffs, they got to start getting that

893
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: revved up now. I mean, they don't even know who

894
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: might be or what location or what city it might

895
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: be in, but they've got to start getting the bubble

896
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: atmosphere set up now. They can't wait until like week

897
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: ten to say, Okay, now we got this gonna We've

898
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: had a couple of issues. Yeah, let's make sure. Let's start.

899
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: But they can't do that. They don't and I don't

900
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: know where it would be. They'd have what an AFC bubble,

901
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: an NFC bubble, I would assume. So, yeah, because those

902
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,479
Speaker 1: are the teams, they're gonna be facing each other until

903
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: you get to Tampa. Right, So you go an AFC bubble,

904
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: NFC bubble, and then you got a Super Bowl bubble

905
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: for those two teams in Tampa. Where are they gonna be?

906
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be in New York? Is it gonna

907
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: be in LA? This bubble thing? Is it gonna go to?

908
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: Since there's no maybe they'll go to what they might

909
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: go indoors, although they may not want to do that.

910
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: They go to Yeah, where's it gonna be? Jerry World

911
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: and Dallas? Yeah, you could pick you could pick that

912
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: that could work. You could do that. You could go

913
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 1: to a dome stadium in LA and Dallas. You could

914
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: go to I mean Houston's and go to Minnesota. Yeah,

915
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: you go to Minnesota, Minnesota, Detroit. Yeah, I mean you

916
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: got all those options. You know, turf fields that are

917
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: not gonna buckle under the wear and tear of you know,

918
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 1: three games in one weekend, so that would have to

919
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: be the thought there. And in Detroit you know, that's

920
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,479
Speaker 1: one of those stadiums as well, Brownie, they could set

921
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: it up so they'd have you know, spectators could get

922
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: into all those boxes, um to watch those games. It's

923
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: a turf field. Um. Yeah. There's just not that many places,

924
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 1: and those are cities big enough with hotels or whatever.

925
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: You could commandeer six hotels and and go from there,

926
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: although you know you'd be you'd probably be far flung

927
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, you could you could have

928
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: people drive over to ann Arbor a couple hours over there.

929
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: You could stay the weekend. D I just think that

930
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: how this season goes will largely decide how much more

931
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: consideration this playoff bubble idea gets. If the season is

932
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: moving along steadily, and you know, the COVID infection rate

933
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: is relatively low, then it probably doesn't get consideration. But

934
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: I think we also realize that it has been raised

935
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: by medical experts that once you get deeper into the fall,

936
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: the risk of infection and goes up, you know, in

937
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: the colder weather months and people are inside more, you know,

938
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 1: especially in the northern cities, and so the infection rate

939
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: could go up as a tendency to go up in

940
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 1: the colder weather months, and so I think the NFL

941
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: is trying to stay ahead of the curve and try

942
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: to anticipate that. So they're saying, Okay, well, this is

943
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: a possibility come November December of our regular season, and

944
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: if we have COVID outbreaks and we have to postpone

945
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: games or cancel games in November and December, when playoff

946
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: races are heating up, we have to give more consideration

947
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: to the concept of a playoff bubble to avoid having

948
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: to wipe out playoff games, which is where the money

949
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: and the revenue is made with the television networks ultimately.

950
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, because it's it's bearing down on us. We're

951
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: four weekends away from opening weekend. It's this weekend, another one,

952
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,919
Speaker 1: another one, and then it's opening day. Times running out.

953
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: They seem to have a lid on it. I don't

954
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: know what the COVID list is today for the NFL.

955
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: I know the Jaxonville just activated two guys off their

956
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: COVID list yesterday or last night. I think it's down

957
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: to single digits. Yeah, it's down to less than you know,

958
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,479
Speaker 1: two handfuls of guys or less that are. So it's

959
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: working so far, but they got to get to the

960
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: season and then kick it off and see how it goes,

961
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: and then that will I think that's the only thing

962
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: that dictates whether they bubble up. The whole twenty twenty

963
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: season is going to be a wait and see. I mean,

964
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: it really is, no matter how effective you are in

965
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: keeping the infection rate down. I think we've all seen

966
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,959
Speaker 1: how this virus operates. All it takes is one little opportunity,

967
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: and this virus seems to make the most of it

968
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 1: at every turn. But I'll say this, the bottom line

969
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: for this is there's no question they are now putting

970
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 1: out feelers and making some inquiries as to what they

971
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: already know about what cities would work. I'll bet you

972
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: that's sure already in the work. Sure they're probably like

973
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: to know that what that looks like. Yeah, undoubtedly these are.

974
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: And major League Baseball is trying to do the same

975
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: thing they've already shocked about New York in LA as

976
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: to playoff bubble cities because they have two Major League

977
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: Baseball parks in those respective cities. So yeah, I mean

978
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: it's they might watch Baseball do it first and then

979
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,720
Speaker 1: have time to think about it themselves. But the wheels

980
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: are already turning in that regard. All right, We've got

981
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: to take a break. But when we come back, we

982
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,959
Speaker 1: hope to hear a little bit from the newest punter

983
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: on the roster, Lachlan Edwards, who was made available to

984
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: the media. Maybe Zach Moss as well. We'll get him

985
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: on at some point during the show and at the

986
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. Coming up next is the seventh

987
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 1: installment of Tasker's Teammates. Stay tuned for that. We'll see

988
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: how Steve does this week. That's all coming your way

989
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: next Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

990
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bill's Radio Bills Radio Network Sports Update.

991
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: You're a sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills

992
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,879
Speaker 1: back at it in the stadium this morning for a

993
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: padded practice. There was a new injury note today, Josh

994
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: Norman sustained a leg injury and is still being evaluated.

995
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: More likely to be known on the condition of that

996
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: injury tomorrow. Not practicing at Oliver Pat DeMarco, Robert Foster,

997
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: John Feliciano, and Tommy Sweeney. The Bills did signed former

998
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: Jets punter Lachlan Edwards yesterday to make room on the

999
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 1: roster forum they released hunter Kari Vedvik. One more note,

1000
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: the Bills released a statement this morning regarding the naming

1001
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: of the stadium. Bill's Stadium has been pegged as the

1002
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: temporary name for the team's home here in Orchard Park

1003
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 1: while they seek a new naming rights sponsor. The NFL

1004
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: could have a bubble after all, but not until January.

1005
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: During a conference call with reporters, NFL Vice President and

1006
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: Football Operations Troy Vincent said Saints coach Sean Payton suggested

1007
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: instituting a postseason bubble during the latest Competition committee call.

1008
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: Per Vincent, the NFL isn't ruling out the possibility of

1009
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: using a playoff bubble, noting all things are being considered,

1010
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: the NFL sideline will look very different in twenty twenty.

1011
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: The game day protocol for Pro Football in a pandemic

1012
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: does indeed hibit cheerleaders and mascots. It's also going to

1013
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: prohibit all sideline reporters, including television network, national radio, and

1014
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: team flagship radio. Pregame TV reporters also prohibited from the sidelines.

1015
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: Only two games in the NHL. Tonight is the Stanley

1016
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: Cup Playoffs roll on at eight o'clock. It's Game five

1017
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: between the Islanders and Capitals as New York looks to

1018
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: close out that series up three games to one. And

1019
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: then it's the Stars and Flames Calgary looking to force

1020
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: a game seven as Dallas leads that series three games

1021
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: to two. And finally, the Toronto Blue Jay's return to

1022
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo and salin Field as they kick off a four

1023
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: game set with the Philadelphia Phillies. That game just about

1024
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: to get underway downtown. And that is your sports update

1025
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1026
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live as we're broadcasting from our

1027
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: Seneca studios here in Orchard Park at One Bill's Drive.

1028
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get a chance to listen to some

1029
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: of the players following today's practice, and chief among them

1030
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: is the new OLC pund Yeah, I'm not good with

1031
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: my Australian acse. I'm better with an English accent than

1032
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: an Australian one, which I find is tougher to do

1033
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,399
Speaker 1: because they kind of hang on their words a little

1034
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 1: bit more, you know what I mean, Like, get to

1035
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: the sound bite other than you know, putting another shrimp

1036
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,479
Speaker 1: on the barbie or something. Bite, what else are we doing?

1037
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: Everybody thought they could do an Australian accent after the

1038
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: Crocodile Done D movie. I've never really tried it, and

1039
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: that was a horrible attempt. So I apologize to our

1040
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: listening audience for that. But Lachlan Edwards does come from Australia,

1041
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: played Australian rules football before he came to the US,

1042
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: played college ball at sam Houston State, and then you know,

1043
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: got got draft. He was the seventh round draft choice

1044
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: of the Jets, played there the last four seasons and

1045
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: is coming off a year where he had the highest

1046
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: net punting average of his career in twenty nineteen at

1047
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: forty one point nine net punting average. But he talked

1048
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 1: today with the media about coming from Australia and making

1049
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: the transition to American football. Let's hear what he had

1050
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: to say about that. I was going to college in

1051
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: Australia originally, and we got board one one summer and

1052
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: found in American football at my buddy's house and we

1053
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: went down to the field and started throwing it. And

1054
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: back then I couldn't really throw so we just started

1055
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: punting it because I played a strange football and that's

1056
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: how we moved the ball around the field as we punted.

1057
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: So I started punting it. And one of my professors

1058
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: from university, he was driving by. He's a native from Connecticut,

1059
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: and he pulled over and came and had a chat

1060
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,360
Speaker 1: to me and asked if I played at one of

1061
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: the local teams, and you know, I kind of laughed

1062
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: at him and then said no, no, I don't do that. Anyway,

1063
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 1: he put me in the right direction and I started

1064
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: making some YouTube clips, sending it around to some colleges.

1065
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:47,479
Speaker 1: And this was around December twenty twelve, and by July

1066
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,879
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, I was landing in Houston, going to sam

1067
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: Houston State. Did you when you were growing up, was

1068
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: it your plan to come to America to go to

1069
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: college or did this just happen because you started punting

1070
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: the football. Yeah, just because I started playing the football.

1071
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: You know, I was gonna I was going to school

1072
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: for it to BP and out there education teacher. Um,

1073
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: you know that's what I was going to do. I

1074
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: was playing semi professionals tran football at the time. Um,

1075
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: And you know I wasn't going to make it to

1076
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: the professional level. So um, I said, why not. You

1077
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: know what, the West can happen. I can just I don't.

1078
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: If I don't like it, I'll come home. Um ended

1079
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: up loving it, and you know, I have turned it

1080
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: into a career. So if this guy and his friends

1081
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: don't pick up an American football and walk outside, he's

1082
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: not here. He's not in athletes. How about that athletes

1083
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 1: are worldwide. Man, there's no there's no monopoly on great

1084
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: athleticism and your skill sets in the United States. Yeah. Um,

1085
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: and they're out there. The league is you know, Christian

1086
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: Christian Way is a perfect example. Uh. Well, the previous

1087
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,280
Speaker 1: punter I believe for the Jets is it was Australian Weatherford,

1088
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: I want to say, is an Australian punter. And and

1089
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: I think that you know, Edwards was obviously helped by

1090
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: the fact that there has been somewhat of a pipeline

1091
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: coming from Australia to the NFL with respect to punters,

1092
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: punters more than kickers ever since Darren Bennett back in

1093
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 1: the eighties nineties. He was the first kind of Australian

1094
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: rules guy to come over. And he was a big

1095
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: dude he was like six five sixty four or sixty five,

1096
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: big two hundred and fifty pounder. He was a good

1097
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: player at Australian rules and and you heard Lachland say it.

1098
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how they moved the ball in Australian

1099
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: rules football. They punt it and that was that's where

1100
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: the Aussie kick came into being was Darren Bennett started

1101
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: doing it. And that's where the punter kicks it in

1102
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: it tumbles instead of spirals. Yeah, they almost drop it

1103
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: point down to their foot. That's how they do it

1104
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: in Australian rules because that's how they can't they do

1105
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: that on the run. So it's a really athletic game

1106
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: and your foot's really on the ball a lot in

1107
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: Australian rules. And it started with Darren Bennett. Guys have

1108
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: been starting and trying to come over and do it

1109
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: ever since. They're good at it. And you know, like

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00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: I said, there's no monopoly in the United States on athleticism.

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00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: There's great athletes everywhere in the world, and some of

1112
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: these other sports that we've never heard of or don't

1113
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: see too much, like Australian reals football, do have skill

1114
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,919
Speaker 1: sets that transfer to the National Football League. Christian Wade

1115
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: can run with the football in his hands. That's what

1116
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: they do in rugby. Lachlan Edwards can can punt it,

1117
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: and that same thing with soccer. Morton Anderson is in

1118
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame as a soccer player. Jan Stennery's

1119
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame as a kicker in a

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00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: soccer styles kicker. So there's no monopoly on athleticism to

1121
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: the unit to the unit in the United States as

1122
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: far as football skills are concerned. So it's kind of

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00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: fun to think about, guys. It's a pretty romanticized story.

1124
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: Think about Lachland Edwards with his buddies and think about

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00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: getting a college scholarship with a YouTube video, which I

1126
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: guess is done now, but you know, send the clips

1127
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: and now. And now he's played for the Jets for

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00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: four years. He's a vested member of the NFL PA union.

1129
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: He's in a union. He's getting a pension now as well.

1130
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: And now he's kicking on his second NFL team, or

1131
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: looks got a chance to kick for the Buffalo Bills.

1132
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing some of the stories that you'd get through.

1133
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: Some of them are tragic and others are laughably happenstance.

1134
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: And for those people wondering, well, why did the Jets

1135
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: get rid of him? If he was any good? You know,

1136
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: he spent the last four years there, you know, and

1137
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: he was a seventh round draft choice. The reason they

1138
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: got rid of him was because they drafted a punter

1139
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 1: out of Texas A and M Braden Man, who was

1140
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: widely considered the best punter in the draft this year.

1141
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: He was a sixth round pick, pick one ninety one overall.

1142
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: So they're right, they're riding with that guy, and that's

1143
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: why Edwards became expendable for them. So it's not because

1144
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: he had a bad season. He was coming off a

1145
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: career best season, to which you asked me, well, then

1146
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: why did they get rid of him? I said, Steve,

1147
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: it's the Jets, right, right, I mean that's what the

1148
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: Jets do. Maybe the Jets maybe the just feel like

1149
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: they're I don't want to kind of want to pile

1150
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: on I don't Maybe the Jets feel like their windows

1151
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: when they got their rookie, their punter on a rookie contract,

1152
00:59:55,240 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: that's their window. Right, Oh yeah, wow, Jets. Okay, Yeah,

1153
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean it's too easy to see.

1154
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: It was twelfth in the league and net punting average,

1155
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: um they were, And they had to fix the kicker position.

1156
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: That's they had to fix for years that When I

1157
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: was covering kicks the for years, nobody had a net

1158
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: punt better than forty yards. Now that's they everybody does.

1159
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: If you had a net punting average of forty yards

1160
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: even ten years ago, you were at the top of

1161
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: the league, that was big time. Now you need it

1162
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,439
Speaker 1: to be in the top fifteen in the league. That's

1163
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: how that's how far it's come, and how how specialized

1164
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: and how much better the coverage and the schemes and

1165
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: everything is um and and no doubt that the structure

1166
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: of the game, the rules of the game have made

1167
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: it a little bit better because of the stuff that

1168
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: surrounds a return man. But oh, I'm telling you that

1169
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: having a net punt of over forty yards for the

1170
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: season used to be a holy grail. I mean, Ray

1171
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: guy never did that. Yeah, as far as I know,

1172
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: it was a it was an impossibility. Everybody thought it

1173
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 1: was an impossibility to have that happen. Now it's commonplace.

1174
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: That's the skill level of these guys at the lower

1175
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: levels of getting better and better there and they're transferring

1176
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: it to the NFL. Another player on the Bill's roster

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01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: who also spoke with the media today was a third

1178
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 1: round pick, running back Zach Moss. And you know, he

1179
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: was talking about basically trying to find his place in

1180
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 1: a true off season. You know, I mean, this is

1181
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 1: a pandemic, and he probably had a routine in mind,

1182
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: probably thought he was going to be here at you know, well,

1183
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: by the time the draft came, the pandemic had already hit,

1184
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: so he really didn't know what to expect. And then

1185
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: it became readily apparent that there were not going to

1186
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: be any practices on the field in the spring with

1187
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: rookie Mini caamp or OTAs or even June Mini caamp.

1188
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: So he commented first on the challenge of not having

1189
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: a true off season due to the pandemic. Honestly, I

1190
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 1: think impacts not just rookies, but everybody on the team,

1191
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: from you know, from the players to the coaching staff

1192
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: to just everybody around just trying to coordinate and you know,

1193
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: figure out how to do this thing throughout this pandemic

1194
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. It has definitely been tough trying

1195
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: to learn everything through virtue and things like that. But now,

1196
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, getting back out here and we've been repping

1197
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: so many times and we've just been doing a lot

1198
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: of stuff to get everybody trying to caught back up

1199
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: from that lost time. I think we've been doing a

1200
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: good job, from the rookies to everybody on the team.

1201
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: So right now is looking very good and we're doing

1202
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: a lot of good things. So I mean, yeah, everybody's

1203
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: dealing with it, so just kind of falls right back

1204
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: into the bucket where you know, coaching German says, find

1205
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: a way, So that's what they're trying to do. And

1206
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: it was interesting that he said they're repping things an

1207
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: awful lot in practice, which you know, you've got a

1208
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: finite number of practices before the regular season begins, no preseason,

1209
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: And I found it interesting that he said we're repping

1210
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 1: things a lot, so that's got to be happening Steve

1211
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: to a certain extent. The individual position drills as well.

1212
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 1: I mean individual position drills typically deal with sharpening technique

1213
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: and you know, things like footwork or blocking or reads.

1214
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: You know, like the linebackers have the cans out there

1215
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: and they work on their reads, you know, in the

1216
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: run game with their position coach. Running backs might work

1217
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: through bags, you know, and and you know, those big

1218
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 1: heavy bags to hit them on the side to make

1219
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 1: sure they have proper ball security. And you know, linemen

1220
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 1: work on blocking techniques. So it sounds as though they're

1221
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: working a little bit more in terms of they're working

1222
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 1: more reps into practice somewhere, and they're not practicing any

1223
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: longer than they usually do. So where's it coming from.

1224
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, well, yeah, but mental reps, film reps, individual reps,

1225
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:57,919
Speaker 1: and I think there's probably less. I would say there's

1226
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: probably more warm ups and things that you're doing on

1227
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: your feet and you know as warm up that you

1228
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: know is also learning instead of going through back to

1229
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: the basics, like you're taking handoffs and you're doing you know,

1230
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: catching balls over your shoulder. They're probably using those times

1231
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: to catch balls and take handoffs. Also while running through

1232
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: formations and plays, you've got to incorporate and start to

1233
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 1: you know, you got time somewhere. Yeah, you've got a

1234
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 1: dual purpose stuff. I imagine they are running through a

1235
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: thousand reps a day, you know, as much as they can.

1236
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating. They're running through as many reps as they

1237
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: can manufacture. During every segment of practice warm ups, individuals stretch,

1238
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: you know, all that stuff. And I'm certainly in team

1239
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,480
Speaker 1: and seven on seven and nine on seven they're doing

1240
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: it as often as they possibly can to get these

1241
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: guys acclimated to the verbiage and getting it to be

1242
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 1: second nature, because you can't get better until you understand

1243
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 1: what's going on, because then you can work on your

1244
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: skill set. Other than that, it's just trying to find

1245
01:04:57,880 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 1: out how to use and where to use your skill set.

1246
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: You don't know where it's going to be if you

1247
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: don't understand where you're lining up and what the play is.

1248
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: And that's a very good segue, Steve, because the next

1249
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 1: step for Zach Moss is about finding his role in

1250
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: this offense. It seems pretty pretty well established that Devin

1251
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:16,919
Speaker 1: Singletary is going to be the lead back in terms

1252
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: of the pecking order in that offensive backfield. So here

1253
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 1: is Zach commenting on how he's trying to find his

1254
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: role within the scope of this offense. Definitely enjoyed being

1255
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: in his offense trying to, you know, find my rhythm,

1256
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: you know, find my role in his offense and ways

1257
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: I could help the team. It's an upcoming season, you know,

1258
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 1: just getting this live work and you know, now finally

1259
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 1: getting able to put on pass and go full speed

1260
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: and things like that. It's helped me out a lot

1261
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 1: to try and find this speed of this you know

1262
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,480
Speaker 1: in the league now and things like that. I think

1263
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: the speed is going to be an adjustment for a

1264
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: lot of these rookies because they're not getting the preseason

1265
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: game benefit of getting adjusted to it. Because you hear

1266
01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 1: the vets say it all the time to the rookies, Hey,

1267
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: you know, we practice pretty hard, but when we get

1268
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: to the preseason game, that's gonna be a different level.

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Speaker 1: And then after the preseason we get to the regular season,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be even faster. And when we get to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, it's gonna be really fast. And they don't

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Speaker 1: have that preseason game speed adjustment to make. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they can, they can go as hard as they want

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01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: out here at practice, but when you're going against another

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01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 1: opponent who aren't your guys, it picks up a little

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Speaker 1: bit and they don't have that to utilize to get

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Speaker 1: them ready for regular season football. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: there's a reason that during practice and training camp and

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Speaker 1: during regular season, even in the playoffs. You don't finish

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01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:40,800
Speaker 1: plays in practice. They finish them in real games. And

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01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 1: that is always a little bit of a shock when

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Speaker 1: you've gone through a preseason where you know, for a

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01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: guy like me, I've covered kicks and stuff and maybe

1284
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 1: had like four or five plays to even be a

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Speaker 1: part of same with a lot of the starters, you know,

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Speaker 1: during a regular preseason. But you get to a regular

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01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 1: season or a preseason game where you're in there finally

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01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 1: and you're running the ball and they're finishing you off

1289
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: with the ball in your hands, and they're giving you

1290
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: the extra stuff at the bottom of the pile, and

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01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 1: they're and they're giving you the extra attitude and the

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01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 1: finish when you tackle you it's like, oh man, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I remember this now. It's it's pretty startling because as

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01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: fast as they can go and practice, they're not going

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01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: to finish the play. They're not going to finish a block.

1296
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 1: They're gonna take you to the ground. And and you

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01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 1: know he's not playing, but John Feliciano, he finishes blocks.

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01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: He's on top of you, right. That doesn't happen in practice.

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01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen in in scrimmages. Even so all are off.

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01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 1: Then when when the when the lid comes off and

1301
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: they kick it off for real, there's gonna be some

1302
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 1: apprehension there for these young players until they until they

1303
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 1: get in there and say, okay, all right, I'm ready

1304
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: for it, and uh, it doesn't take long, but it

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01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 1: will be an adjustment. Yeah, I don't. I don't see

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01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 1: how as hard as the team might practice that they

1307
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: can truly ready rookies for the speed of regular season football.

1308
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: It's they're gonna just have to adjust on the fly

1309
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 1: and do the best they can with it. In terms

1310
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: of execution. It's almost trite because it happens every year.

1311
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:11,439
Speaker 1: But these rookies are gonna go on. They're gonna take

1312
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: the field with eleven guys who are better than any

1313
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:19,679
Speaker 1: of the guys they played with in college against eleven

1314
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 1: guys who are better than any of the guys they

1315
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 1: played with in college, if if not relative relatively speight. Yeah,

1316
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: every player is going to bring a lot to the table.

1317
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: And when you raise it to that level and that

1318
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: consistently across the board, that kind of athleticism, Yeah, take

1319
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 1: your vision gets a little blurry. Yeah, you gotta get

1320
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,799
Speaker 1: your mind around it. Yeah, it's it's a different flashes

1321
01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 1: of color. It is. It's different. It's different. And plus

1322
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: you flip it up and match to the athleticism with

1323
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: the intensity of it, and uh yeah, some guy's heads

1324
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:57,719
Speaker 1: will be swimming right, all right. So that's that's basically

1325
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: the size of it. From Zach Moss and from Lachlan Edwards.

1326
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 1: We will hear from Daryl Williams a little bit later

1327
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 1: on in the show and we will get to him.

1328
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:08,760
Speaker 1: We are also asking you at eight O three oh

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01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:11,640
Speaker 1: five fifty one eight five fifty two five fifty, as

1330
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: well as on the tweet sheet, what is your definition

1331
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:18,879
Speaker 1: of creativity in the Bills offense. We heard Cole Beasley

1332
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,679
Speaker 1: the other day say he believes with the weapons added

1333
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 1: to this offense and the fact that it is year

1334
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,680
Speaker 1: three of the scheme, that they can be more creative

1335
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. But what does

1336
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: that mean to you? What is being more creative? Well,

1337
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: how what is the best way for the Bills to

1338
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: manifest that self? Manifest that as you see it? So

1339
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: you can give us a call at eight O three

1340
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 1: oh five fifty or hit us up on the tweet

1341
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,920
Speaker 1: sheet at one Bills live because your choices there are

1342
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:49,000
Speaker 1: more of the deep ball, different personnel groupings, more trick

1343
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: plays or something else, and the personnel groupings are way

1344
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 1: out in front right now with more than fifty six

1345
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 1: percent of the vote, although there is a healthy amount

1346
01:09:58,520 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: of people steve they want to see more of the

1347
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 1: deep ball this season, knowing the struggles that that element

1348
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 1: of Buffalo's offense had last year in terms of connecting

1349
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 1: on a relatively consistent basis. And I'd be all for

1350
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: that too, because if you have that part nailed down

1351
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 1: or at least happening enough of the time where it

1352
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 1: represents a credible threat to opponents, I mean, that just

1353
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,560
Speaker 1: helps everything else within your offensive arsenal, whether it's the

1354
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: underneath game or the running game. You're not seeing eight

1355
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: man boxes as much, yea, so it would be a help.

1356
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if it falls under the category of

1357
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: creative though, So yeah, it's a player's game, and that's

1358
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: why you know, different personnel the guys you've got, give

1359
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: the coaches the ability to use you in more different

1360
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 1: ways and they'll figure it out and other teams will

1361
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: give us more. Give us, I say, give the Bills

1362
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 1: more opportunities to do that with their strengths and weaknesses.

1363
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's all about the players. And if you've

1364
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 1: gotten better players, your coaches are free or do more things.

1365
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 1: It's that simple. So that's where it is. So hit

1366
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet if you get a chance.

1367
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: We are going to take a break. But when we return,

1368
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: it is that time in the show where we conduct

1369
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 1: the quiz for Steve. It's called Tasker's Teammate, where we

1370
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: are going to give him a series of clues and

1371
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 1: he's going to have to try to guess which one

1372
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: of his former teammates over his thirteen year career that

1373
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 1: we're describing. And these clues ain't easy, folks. So we'll

1374
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 1: see how Steve does this time around. And that's coming

1375
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: up next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid

1376
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 1: to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back it on

1377
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and

1378
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 1: it's that time in the program where once a week

1379
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:57,800
Speaker 1: we test Steve's memory as we play the game that

1380
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 1: we finally call Tasker's Teammate of Steve a series of

1381
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: clues about a former teammate of his and he tries

1382
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: to guess among the hundreds, maybe thousands of teammates that

1383
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: he's had over the course of his NFL career to

1384
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:16,080
Speaker 1: try to guess the player I am describing. This is

1385
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: installment number seven. And you did really well last week, Steve.

1386
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 1: That's right, Derek Burrows. You pulled Derek Burrows out of

1387
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 1: the ether and got that one. And even Derek, who

1388
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 1: was on the line, was very impressed that you were

1389
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 1: able to guess him because I guess you guys hadn't

1390
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:36,680
Speaker 1: talked for the better part of twenty five years long

1391
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 1: since Yeah, yeah, long time. So good on you. But

1392
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 1: it is now time to re stack the deck and

1393
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: we begin with addition number seven of one Taskers teammate, Steve,

1394
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I like music? Yes? Go all right,

1395
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: So here is clue number one. I was a teammate

1396
01:12:56,960 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: of Steve's for five seasons and enjoyed an eleven year

1397
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:11,679
Speaker 1: playing career in the NFL. Okay it's not John Fena. Okay,

1398
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 1: clue number two for Taskers teammate. I was born in Detroit, Michigan.

1399
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,640
Speaker 1: Went to Brother Rice High School, where I was a

1400
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:24,679
Speaker 1: parade All American and won a state title. My junior year,

1401
01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:28,639
Speaker 1: I earned a scholarship to a then Pac ten school

1402
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: for football. Mike Lodish, Steve, you just nailed it, no

1403
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:43,440
Speaker 1: way Milish on the second clue, Wow, thank you. Wow.

1404
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 1: That is a new record for Steve. And we got

1405
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: Mike on the line, say Hi, Steve, Mike, what's going on? Man?

1406
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:56,600
Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm honored. I'm I'm honored. You pegged me

1407
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: in the second clue. That's right. I got when he

1408
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 1: said who grew up in Detroit went to LA to college?

1409
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: That I do because you told us that we had

1410
01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 1: you on the program. We're where, we're in Detroit for

1411
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 1: what were we there fors for preseason game? Right? That's right? Yeah,

1412
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: a year ago you told us the story about how

1413
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: you know Boschim Beckler was in your house and you

1414
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 1: had to tell him no. That is great. He was

1415
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 1: not happy with that one. But that's awesome. That's awesome.

1416
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: It all worked out. And you know, I had a

1417
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:35,800
Speaker 1: bunch of other clues I didn't even get to. I

1418
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: put all this work in, Steve, and you just blew

1419
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 1: it up. For some of the other clues. For for

1420
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 1: Michael Lodus. We made it to the NFL as a

1421
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 1: tenth round draft choice. Was never really a full time

1422
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 1: starter with the Bills, but you know it was a

1423
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 1: high motor player. Um not only did he appear in

1424
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:52,560
Speaker 1: four straight Super Bowls with the Bills, but had a

1425
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: chance to play in two war before his NFL career

1426
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: was over. I didn't want to tell you back to back,

1427
01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 1: I knew that automatic six super Bowl. You have known

1428
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: that in a heartbeat. Yeah, I would have got that,

1429
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: no problem. Yeah, that's an absolute no brainer. Yeah, because

1430
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:07,320
Speaker 1: for a while Mike had the record, you know for

1431
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: most super Bowl appearances and then you know Tom Brady

1432
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:13,280
Speaker 1: came along and blew that up. So right, another reason

1433
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 1: to hate Tom Brady. So that's right. Yeah, are you

1434
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: still Are you still in the Detroit area? You're still

1435
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: in Michigan. I am. I'm actually about to get ready

1436
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:23,360
Speaker 1: to go into a meeting with Gallagher Kaiser at work

1437
01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 1: here at General Motors uh am Trammic plant where there

1438
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: reef the reefab and this whole plant all the What

1439
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: I do is I moved from the Midland tool when

1440
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,559
Speaker 1: you guys met me and at the hotel that day

1441
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:39,639
Speaker 1: the year or so ago, and I started I'd start

1442
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm selling and renting heavy equipment now, which is a

1443
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 1: significant I'm making the same amount of money I did

1444
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:46,760
Speaker 1: when I was in my second year in the league

1445
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:49,840
Speaker 1: or third year in the league, including bonus. So it's

1446
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:51,559
Speaker 1: a it's a lot, it's a lot better, and it's

1447
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:54,640
Speaker 1: a it's just it's just it's nicer. But you know,

1448
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,000
Speaker 1: dealing with GM and getting out here with COVID is

1449
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 1: really kind of a hard thing. But essentially I rent

1450
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 1: area lifts, like man lifts, like straight boom man lifts,

1451
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 1: or articulating ones, or cranes, large cranes, eighty ton cranes

1452
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: are smaller and if you know what that those are,

1453
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 1: and then we rent like forklifts and stuff. How how

1454
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: has the pandemic affected all these like the lines, you know,

1455
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: the assembly line there. Auto weren't here in Buffalo. We

1456
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 1: don't know anything about what's going on in Detroit. I mean,

1457
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,640
Speaker 1: how's this pandemic affected all of that stuff? Well, I

1458
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:31,560
Speaker 1: think you know, as far as our business is concerned,

1459
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:35,639
Speaker 1: we made money during COVID. We made we profited about

1460
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,360
Speaker 1: one hundred grands, So it's not I mean, we're a

1461
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollar company. But to make money, right

1462
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: on any money you spend is good, especially in a

1463
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:49,759
Speaker 1: situation like the COVID nineteen pandemic. But work has been steady,

1464
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:54,559
Speaker 1: work has been steady. And I'm sorry my friend Meat

1465
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 1: interrupt you. Are you still doing the peanut riddle stuff

1466
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 1: with your mom's recipe or no? No, that's just Christmas time.

1467
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:03,680
Speaker 1: I'm dovetop. That's good, God, just perfect. Keep it that way,

1468
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 1: it's more fun. So hey, listen. So I don't mean

1469
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:08,559
Speaker 1: to cut you off, but I got a big deal

1470
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 1: waiting for me. H. Yeah, I want to do this interview.

1471
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:13,360
Speaker 1: I savy it's always a pleasure to talk to you

1472
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: and Jay. Thanks for putting me on. And guys, if

1473
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 1: you ever need anything for me, you got a phone

1474
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 1: call away. Yeah, good luck in the meeke We'll be good.

1475
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 1: But I appreciate being on. I appreciate you having me on,

1476
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:30,600
Speaker 1: and Savya you really uh you know you don't have

1477
01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 1: any issues with the brain matter. I can tell you

1478
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: that I appreciate. That's great. All right, thanks for the time. Well,

1479
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm glad it was a short interview. Yeah, so glad

1480
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 1: you got him on a second clue you helped him

1481
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:45,600
Speaker 1: out it, Yeah exactly. Yeah, how about it? See the

1482
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:47,640
Speaker 1: thing about it. The thing that was interesting about it.

1483
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: He grew up in Detroit and the Detroit area and

1484
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:54,120
Speaker 1: went to the PAC twelve ULA I think U c

1485
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: l A. And he was getting he got recruited by

1486
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Obviously Michigan was off him. He

1487
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: had bo Schembecker sitting in his house on his chair. Uh,

1488
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. Yeah, And you know he said, coach,

1489
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:09,600
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna go to UCLA. I'm going to the

1490
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: nice weather so that, you know, can you imagine telling

1491
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:16,599
Speaker 1: growing up in Detroit and getting out of that state

1492
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:19,400
Speaker 1: and going to California to play. Now we should also

1493
01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 1: mention like right after he retired, he also spent some

1494
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 1: time as a player agent. Yes, he did. Um and

1495
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: then he started his own peanut brittle company using his

1496
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:30,600
Speaker 1: mom's recipe. Uh. And that went for a while. But

1497
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: as he as he just said, that's that's just a

1498
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: homemade recipe now, so he's not doing that, not masked

1499
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 1: distributing that kind of stuff anymore. And I mean he's

1500
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: into the heavy lift equipment business. So good for him. Man,

1501
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 1: that's him now, and that's that's Mike Lodish now putting

1502
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 1: on a mask and and uh, getting his chef stuff

1503
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:50,719
Speaker 1: on so we can make peanut prittle. But oh yeah,

1504
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,800
Speaker 1: it's uh, he's a guy that has gone on one

1505
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: of the most one of the sharper guys you'd be around. Obviously,

1506
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: he may went to six Super Bowls and he brought

1507
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 1: something to the table. He was a very high motor guy.

1508
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just trying to hang in there with

1509
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith and stuff, so he had to be a

1510
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: high motor guy to you know, compete with a guy

1511
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: who's gifted as Bruce. But Mike was a sharp, really

1512
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: sharp and articulate guy, which is why he was able

1513
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,080
Speaker 1: to play in the NFL for eleven years and be

1514
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 1: so successful doing it. It's so strange because our MSG

1515
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: viewers are watching footage of his peanut brittle business and

1516
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: he's got a hairnet. Dude doesn't have any hair, but

1517
01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 1: he's got a hairnet on anyway, and he's wearing a mask,

1518
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, he's putting the mask on. And

1519
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: for COVID, it's got a whole different meaning. Yeah, he's

1520
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: got a mask on just to keep maintaining the integrity

1521
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:38,479
Speaker 1: of the peanut brittle. I mean this footage is obviously

1522
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 1: from before COVID back. Yeah, it's just weird seeing him

1523
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: in a mask, and that was the first thing I

1524
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: thought of, not oh, we got to maintain the integrity

1525
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: of the peanut brittle. So it's just, uh, it's different times, dude,

1526
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: different times. Amazing how it works. But he yeah, he

1527
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: had a he had a real good peanut Brital business

1528
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:55,760
Speaker 1: going for a while, at least from what I read.

1529
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 1: And he uh yeah, he said that he told us

1530
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 1: about a year ago that he he sold it and

1531
01:20:01,240 --> 01:20:03,639
Speaker 1: uh or got out of it and he sacked doubled

1532
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 1: his money and then good for him. And it was

1533
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 1: a you know, it wasn't a big kind of a big,

1534
01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: huge business, but you know, he was fine with it

1535
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:11,680
Speaker 1: and was ready to shut it down and kind of

1536
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 1: do something else. He's kind of one of those guys that, well,

1537
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:16,360
Speaker 1: you can tell he's doing something different than he was

1538
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: a year ago, and he's doing something a year ago,

1539
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: moving right. He just like when he was a player,

1540
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: he never stops moving. He's he really needs a always

1541
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:25,600
Speaker 1: be challenged. He always wants a new challenge. He was

1542
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:27,599
Speaker 1: that way as a player, and he's that way now

1543
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: in his business career. He's jump he's jumping around, wanting

1544
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: to be challenged and do new things all the time.

1545
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 1: So for him sets a record in the seventh it

1546
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: did Lucky number seven, the seventh edition of Tasker's Teammates.

1547
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 1: Steve gets it in two clues. I probably should have

1548
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 1: chopped that clue up a little bit. I gave too

1549
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:45,840
Speaker 1: much in one clue. Yeah, I gotta see. I gotta

1550
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 1: go to school on this now for the next time,

1551
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: because that was too easy two clues and Steve guess

1552
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:53,320
Speaker 1: is Mike Lodish, Now you were also helped by the

1553
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:54,680
Speaker 1: fact that you kind of had a little bit of

1554
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 1: a refresher. Yeah, Mike Lodish's career last year, he touches,

1555
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 1: We touched base once in a while. He'll come back

1556
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: to some bills stuff. He also goes back to a

1557
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: bunch of Bronchos stuff too. As you can imagine, he

1558
01:21:04,520 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: was in two Super Bowls rings. He won two wing

1559
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:09,600
Speaker 1: rings with those guys and and and that was a

1560
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:12,600
Speaker 1: close knit group out there as well. So, um, you know,

1561
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: it's kind of one of the characteristics of those teams

1562
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: that go to the Super Bowl, and certainly those teams

1563
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:20,639
Speaker 1: that win it uh that that you know, you kind

1564
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:23,960
Speaker 1: of bond over that. Uh, Lodish will tell you he's

1565
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:26,679
Speaker 1: he's gone to a bunch of Denver Broncos stuff. That's

1566
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 1: he's been too. So six super Bowls. Uh And were

1567
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 1: they consecutive? No, no, no, they weren't. He was out

1568
01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: of it for a couple of years and then went

1569
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:39,200
Speaker 1: they were there ninety eight ninety nine, right when they

1570
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: went right. I was actually at that Super Bowl when

1571
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: they won against the with the Packers. I was. It

1572
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:50,519
Speaker 1: was my well, it might have been after the ninety

1573
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: seven season or the ninety ninety seven as your last year. Yeah,

1574
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't reme. It seems like I was.

1575
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:00,160
Speaker 1: It seems like I was still in the league when

1576
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:01,680
Speaker 1: that happened. But I'm not sure. I have to go

1577
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: nine so much for so much for my mental faculties.

1578
01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: A loaded complimented me on. But great dude, um love

1579
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:13,880
Speaker 1: playing with him. Is a great asset to the team.

1580
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:16,040
Speaker 1: Is a great locker room guy like he was. You know,

1581
01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:19,840
Speaker 1: like a lot of times you can imagine there's a

1582
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: lot of alpha males in the locker room. A guy

1583
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:24,680
Speaker 1: who would fit in really well with the crew, not

1584
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:28,640
Speaker 1: a starter, but a glue guy in every respect of

1585
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: the world, both personality and work ethic wise, and his

1586
01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: play on the field as well. He was a guy

1587
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: that wanted to help in any way he could even

1588
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 1: and no matter what it was, whether it was taking

1589
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: zero reps or taking all the reps, he was he

1590
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: was all one hundred percent in so um ready to

1591
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:46,000
Speaker 1: do anything to help him win. And then you see

1592
01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:48,680
Speaker 1: him picking up scooping up a fumble and taking it in.

1593
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:50,800
Speaker 1: I thought he had a big play in a playoff game.

1594
01:22:50,800 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: I don't know why that's sticking in my head. I

1595
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you what the hell the play was, whether

1596
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 1: it was a forced fumble or something. And I was

1597
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: trying to look it up online. I couldn't find anything either,

1598
01:22:58,439 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 1: because you know nothing. But you know, if I'm looking

1599
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:03,560
Speaker 1: up something on Bruce Smith, I'm gonna find it a

1600
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: lot easier than finding something on Mike No No offense.

1601
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:10,680
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, man, I remember him. He was a

1602
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:12,599
Speaker 1: motor guy. Man. He was one hundred miles an hour

1603
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: every single play and he was nuts. He yeah, he

1604
01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 1: showered one hundred miles an hour. I mean, he's just

1605
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:20,320
Speaker 1: like he was wired all the time and you see

1606
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:25,000
Speaker 1: him a shot of him, uh sacking Dan Marino. Productive

1607
01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 1: career man. That's a guy that got every ounce out

1608
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 1: of what what he had in the tank. And yeah,

1609
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:33,640
Speaker 1: good for him. Six super Bowls and a couple of championships.

1610
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 1: All right, so it all has a good That was

1611
01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: a good yeah. So good on you for getting him

1612
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:42,160
Speaker 1: in two guesses too. So we'll have to increase the

1613
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:45,759
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty next time. You can't do that, Taskers Teammate,

1614
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 1: because I ste here's the thing he was over in

1615
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:50,719
Speaker 1: the drop of a hat. You can't have these guys

1616
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:52,320
Speaker 1: come on and then have me not be able to

1617
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: get him as that's a well, no, I know, I'm

1618
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:56,240
Speaker 1: not gonna make it that hard, but that's a bad

1619
01:23:56,479 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: two clues. I mean, that's a bad look for me. Um.

1620
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 1: But all right, So that's so that's the latest edition

1621
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 1: of Tasker's Teammate. Put that one to bed. We are

1622
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: still asking for your comments on the Twitter poll. The

1623
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:10,599
Speaker 1: Bills say they have the ability to be more creative

1624
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:12,559
Speaker 1: on offense. At least that's what COLEB. Beasley said the

1625
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:14,960
Speaker 1: other day based on the weapons they've added in the

1626
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:17,960
Speaker 1: third year in the scheme. So what does creativity on

1627
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: offense for the Bills. Mean to you, does it mean

1628
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 1: more deep ball, different personnel groupings, or more trick plays,

1629
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 1: or maybe it's something else. Now Jeremy on the tweet

1630
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:31,599
Speaker 1: sheet went with a more deep balls is the obvious answer.

1631
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: But teams will see that Josh has the biggest arm

1632
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 1: in the league. I feel different personnel groupings might be

1633
01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:39,400
Speaker 1: the way to go. Put Trey out there on offense,

1634
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: or any defensive burner to change it up a bit.

1635
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: What do you think about tradevious White on offense? They're

1636
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:47,000
Speaker 1: just trying to get there, Thank God God. That's why

1637
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: they went on got you know Steph Diggs, That's why

1638
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 1: they drafted Zach Moss. That's why you know Dawson Knox

1639
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: burst onto the scene as a rookie tight end. They

1640
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: got guys and they've been getting in there, accumulating even

1641
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: more as they go along. So it's uh they are

1642
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: on that. They don't they don't need Trey White to

1643
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 1: come over this side. They've got enough guys over there

1644
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:10,760
Speaker 1: to get it done now. That's yeah, It's it's up

1645
01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 1: to the players now. It's up to the players now

1646
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 1: to get it done. This season, I'm thinking they've got

1647
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 1: enough weapons, they've got enough guys. If they can execute,

1648
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 1: there's there's no excuses for them not to be really

1649
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 1: good this year. All right, Steve and I will step aside,

1650
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll hit more of the

1651
01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,560
Speaker 1: answers up on the tweet sheet that you guys have provided.

1652
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:34,200
Speaker 1: And coming up at two o'clock is NFL Networks Mike Gardi,

1653
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,600
Speaker 1: who covers the Patriots as well as the rest of

1654
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:40,919
Speaker 1: the league, so we'll get some AFC East flavor from him.

1655
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 1: At the top of the hour, Steve Tasker Chris Brown

1656
01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 1: with you. It's One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

1657
01:25:45,400 --> 01:26:02,599
Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bill's radio Thursday edition. If One

1658
01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. As we were about to close up shop

1659
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 1: on the second hour of the program, and there is

1660
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 1: some news in the NFL that just came down. Jaguars

1661
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:16,680
Speaker 1: GM David Caldwell has just shot down the reports of

1662
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: a trade being imminent between the Jaguars and an unnamed

1663
01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 1: team for their franchise player, Yannick and Goackway. They're disgruntled

1664
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: franchise player Yannick and Goackway. To my knowledge, I don't

1665
01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:32,719
Speaker 1: believe he's even signed the franchise tender yet, and so

1666
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 1: what we have here is a report was made yesterday

1667
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:41,080
Speaker 1: by the Athletic I believe it was Mike Lombardi who

1668
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: said a trade is imminent for Jaguars defensive en Yannicking Goaqway,

1669
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 1: and he said it's down to like two teams. He

1670
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 1: even reported that the Jets were one of those teams.

1671
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 1: But then there were Jets beat reporters that said there's

1672
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 1: no merit to that, and now today Jaguars GM David

1673
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 1: Caldwell appeared on a radio interview with Alex Marvez and

1674
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:09,839
Speaker 1: Charles Davis on NFL Radio and basically said the report

1675
01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:14,559
Speaker 1: about Jacksonville being extremely close to trading Yannick and Goquay

1676
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 1: is erroneous and that nothing is imminent. So yeah, that's

1677
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 1: where it is. We were all texting about this last

1678
01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: night when all this was happening. It's going to happen,

1679
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: Yea and Goquay has been a He signed his tender

1680
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,600
Speaker 1: right as franchise tender, so he's going to go in

1681
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:33,720
Speaker 1: and play on the franchise tender. But they can't been

1682
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 1: able to get a long term deal done, so that

1683
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 1: is prime. Even though if he signed it. I gotta

1684
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:40,679
Speaker 1: check because he was not happy. Yeah, so they so,

1685
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:43,120
Speaker 1: so he's gonna go in and play, gonna go in

1686
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:48,360
Speaker 1: and practice and play, and then so he's prime trade

1687
01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: candidate to be to be traded, prime candidate to be traded.

1688
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: The problem is, if you're gonna trade for him, you

1689
01:27:53,920 --> 01:27:56,599
Speaker 1: gotta get permission from the club for you to go

1690
01:27:56,840 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 1: and negotiate a long term deal with him before you

1691
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 1: trade for him. Yeah, he did not sign his tender.

1692
01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:04,760
Speaker 1: He's the only guy that didn't. So he didn't sign

1693
01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:06,759
Speaker 1: his tender. So he is he doesn't have to report.

1694
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:09,679
Speaker 1: He is an unhappy camper, right is he? Is he in? Though?

1695
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: Isn't he? I thought he was practicing. I don't think

1696
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 1: you can if you don't sign the tender. Wow, okay,

1697
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:16,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's crazy. He can So I don't

1698
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: so this anyway, It's been highly conjectured for months that

1699
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: in Goquay is gonna go someplace. Last night this comes

1700
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: down and it sounds like, Okay, it's finally gonna happen.

1701
01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 1: He's gonna be with a new team. And I and

1702
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: I always think when when stories like this start coming out,

1703
01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:39,320
Speaker 1: and I texted it to you, guys last night he's

1704
01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 1: gonna be somewhere because it was it was said, Hey,

1705
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 1: the Jets are close to getting this guy. The Jets

1706
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: are gonna get in Goquay. Yeah, he's a holdout and

1707
01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 1: he's not a camp right, so the Jets sign the thing, right,

1708
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:50,640
Speaker 1: so Jets are gonna get him, jests gonna say. And

1709
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 1: whenever you start hearing stuff like that, even if it's

1710
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 1: not the Jets and the jet and it comes out

1711
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 1: as well as Jets are now not gonna get him

1712
01:28:55,800 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 1: and edit, something's going on because what happens they start

1713
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:03,559
Speaker 1: talking to the agents and these reporters you know, Albert

1714
01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 1: Breer and Schefter and you name it. They all talk

1715
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 1: to the agents, and the agents are getting word from

1716
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,439
Speaker 1: the club. But sometimes it's the agent trying to fan

1717
01:29:12,520 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 1: the flames too and drum up interest. I mean sometimes

1718
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:19,879
Speaker 1: they put that stuff out there, you know, for national

1719
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 1: reporters to blom onto you and use. And you know

1720
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 1: that's sometimes the give and take if you say national

1721
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: reporters and agents like, hey, if you say there's interest

1722
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 1: in my guy for a trade, you know, the next

1723
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:33,439
Speaker 1: time I got a story with one of my clients,

1724
01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 1: I'll get it to you first, that kind of right

1725
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: and that and the thought is that if you say

1726
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:42,880
Speaker 1: it enough, something will happen. Right, And teams will say, hey,

1727
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:45,640
Speaker 1: are you really gonna called Dave Caldwell say hey, are

1728
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:47,519
Speaker 1: you really gonna trade in goak Way to the Jets,

1729
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:49,559
Speaker 1: and the cald will say wait again, they it's no,

1730
01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:53,880
Speaker 1: it hasn't and the number, the price is still the same,

1731
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 1: or we're thinking about moving in, but we're not, you know,

1732
01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 1: we haven't got any interest or whatever. And you just

1733
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 1: to open those spur those conversation to get going again.

1734
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: And Goquay's probably antsy for something to happen to either

1735
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:08,720
Speaker 1: get into place to get going or he's gonna sit

1736
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 1: it out. And I can't believe these guys who don't

1737
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:16,879
Speaker 1: sign those tenders are crazy to me. It seems crazy

1738
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 1: to me. Oh yeah, because as soon as you sign it,

1739
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:23,639
Speaker 1: you're guaranteed. And it was seventeen point eight million dollars.

1740
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,200
Speaker 1: So how disappointed that I have to be to say

1741
01:30:26,240 --> 01:30:28,560
Speaker 1: no to seventeen point eight million. That's like winning the

1742
01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:31,720
Speaker 1: lottery that lottery. People win the lotto and they don't

1743
01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:35,560
Speaker 1: win seventeen million, seventeen point eight million During a pandemic

1744
01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:40,680
Speaker 1: when the unemployment rate is over twelve percent. Still, I believe, right,

1745
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:44,240
Speaker 1: So you know that they got their own agenda. I

1746
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: get it, just like Levion Bell. Did you know just

1747
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:53,599
Speaker 1: all these guys the reason that franchise tag exists because

1748
01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 1: the union would even say, listen, if you're if you

1749
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: don't get a long term deal done, you get paid

1750
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:01,600
Speaker 1: like one of the top five the average of the

1751
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 1: top five guys at your position around the National Football

1752
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 1: League period. Well, he's said no to that. Yeah, in

1753
01:31:09,840 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: Jacksonville anyway, So we'll have to see where it goes.

1754
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:16,639
Speaker 1: It's not going away. I mean, he's holding out. He's

1755
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: not a camp He's not benefiting your roster in any way,

1756
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:21,760
Speaker 1: shape or form. So something's got to be done there.

1757
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 1: I agree that, you know, Caldwell is not dealing from

1758
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:28,680
Speaker 1: a position of strength. He's got a player that is

1759
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:32,679
Speaker 1: a value player that should command a lot in return.

1760
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 1: But he's made the situation such that Jacksonville is not

1761
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:40,479
Speaker 1: going to be able to get true market value for

1762
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:43,519
Speaker 1: him because every other team in the league knows they

1763
01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 1: have to move on from him. They need to move

1764
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:49,040
Speaker 1: him off the roster because he's a headache. He's a headache.

1765
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:53,000
Speaker 1: Now he's a problem for them. That's going to reduce

1766
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 1: what you would normally get in a trade for this guy.

1767
01:31:55,920 --> 01:31:59,760
Speaker 1: And so David Caldwell is going to get to a

1768
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:01,920
Speaker 1: point in time where he's going to have to make

1769
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:05,240
Speaker 1: a difficult decision. You know what's ultimately going to benefit

1770
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:08,599
Speaker 1: our team me taking a little bit less and getting

1771
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: some draft choices, or you know, at least a player

1772
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,479
Speaker 1: that can help us at defensive end. Or am I

1773
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: going to wait and wait and wait and wait and

1774
01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: maybe get a whole lot less than what I should

1775
01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 1: get for this guy. It's it's tough when you're in

1776
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:25,800
Speaker 1: the when you're in a situation that is not a

1777
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:29,680
Speaker 1: seller's market, which is what he's trying to do. You

1778
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: got an issue, Yeah, it's it's it's gonna get ugly

1779
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:35,640
Speaker 1: if it's not already ugly down there and in Goquay's

1780
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:39,960
Speaker 1: not gonna budge it's and but nobody wants to. You're

1781
01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: not gonna trade for the guy, even if you're gonna

1782
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:43,240
Speaker 1: give a seven they're und draft pick you get for

1783
01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 1: one year if he shows up well for seven times.

1784
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:49,360
Speaker 1: I would assume that any trade would be predicated on

1785
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:52,560
Speaker 1: signing a long term deal. I don't see any team

1786
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:56,000
Speaker 1: undertaking that without signing him to a long term deal.

1787
01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:59,320
Speaker 1: And let's not forget the fact that there is some

1788
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:01,400
Speaker 1: talk out about him being a little bit of a

1789
01:33:01,400 --> 01:33:04,639
Speaker 1: loose cannon. He's a little bit of a hothead. Remember

1790
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:06,400
Speaker 1: the run in he had with Richie Incognito in the

1791
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:11,599
Speaker 1: playoff game, right, So that was more him accusing Richie

1792
01:33:11,640 --> 01:33:14,559
Speaker 1: of using racial slurs and whether it was it really

1793
01:33:14,640 --> 01:33:17,320
Speaker 1: was never proven. But either way, I mean, this is

1794
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:20,280
Speaker 1: a guy that he runs hot a little sometimes and

1795
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:24,720
Speaker 1: can be a little unpredictable. Some teams like that, like

1796
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:29,280
Speaker 1: that edge or that intensity. Some teams are like it

1797
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:30,640
Speaker 1: might be a headache. I don't know if I want

1798
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 1: to deal with it, especially the way he's handled this

1799
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:34,679
Speaker 1: situation with the Jaguars. So we'll see where it goes.

1800
01:33:34,880 --> 01:33:36,519
Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but when we come back,

1801
01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:39,360
Speaker 1: it's NFL Networks Mike Giardi who will be joining us

1802
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:42,200
Speaker 1: as we'll talk Patriots with him in the AFC easton

1803
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:44,880
Speaker 1: get his take on the Bills as well, along with

1804
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:48,120
Speaker 1: a host of other NFL topics. Mike Giardi coming up

1805
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,479
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by collid to health.

1806
01:33:50,479 --> 01:34:05,760
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Callow Bills Suadio Network Sports Date.

1807
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 1: You're a sports update from one Bill's Drive. The Bills

1808
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 1: back at it in the stadium this morning for another

1809
01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 1: padded practice. There was a new injury note today Josh

1810
01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:16,520
Speaker 1: Norman as a leg injury and is still being evaluated.

1811
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:19,639
Speaker 1: More likely known on his status tomorrow morning when head

1812
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:22,639
Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott addresses the media. Not practicing at Oliver

1813
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:26,760
Speaker 1: Pat DeMarco, Robert Foster, John Feliciano, and Tommy Sweeney. The

1814
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:29,880
Speaker 1: team also released a statement this morning regarding the naming

1815
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:32,880
Speaker 1: of the stadium. Bill's Stadium has been pegged as the

1816
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 1: temporary name for the team's home here in Orchard Park

1817
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 1: while they seek a new naming rights sponsor Jaguar's GM.

1818
01:34:39,280 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: David Caldwell, in a radio interview today dismissed a report

1819
01:34:42,120 --> 01:34:44,800
Speaker 1: by the Athletics Mike Lombardi that a trade for franchise

1820
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:49,080
Speaker 1: player Yannick and Gockway is imminent. Caldwell called the report

1821
01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:53,320
Speaker 1: quote erroneous and that nothing is imminent concerning the training

1822
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 1: camp holdout in Gockway was the only franchise tag player

1823
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,000
Speaker 1: in the league who did not sign his franchise tender.

1824
01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:01,160
Speaker 1: The NFL could have a bubble after all, but not

1825
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:04,920
Speaker 1: until January. During a conference call with reporters, NFL Vice

1826
01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:07,960
Speaker 1: President of Football Operations Troy Vincent said New Orleans Saints

1827
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:11,640
Speaker 1: coach Sean Payton suggested instituting a postseason bubble during the

1828
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:15,400
Speaker 1: latest competition committee call. Per Vincent, the NFL isn't ruling

1829
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:18,559
Speaker 1: out the possibility of using a playoff bubble, noting all

1830
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:22,639
Speaker 1: things are on the table. Only two games in the NHL.

1831
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:25,160
Speaker 1: Tonight is the Stanley Cup playoffs roll on at eight pm.

1832
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:27,880
Speaker 1: It's Game five between the Islanders and Capitals as New

1833
01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:30,120
Speaker 1: York looks to close out that series up three games

1834
01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: to one. Then it's the Stars and Flames Calgary looking

1835
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:35,559
Speaker 1: to force a game seven as Dallas leads the series

1836
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:38,280
Speaker 1: three games to two. And finally, the Toronto Blue Jays

1837
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:41,040
Speaker 1: are downtown at Salem Field squaring off against the Phillies

1838
01:35:41,040 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 1: the first of a four game set. But the Phills

1839
01:35:43,200 --> 01:35:45,840
Speaker 1: have the early lead up to nothing in the third inning.

1840
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:48,479
Speaker 1: And that is your sports update from One Bill's Drive

1841
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:51,840
Speaker 1: and joining us on the line right now for our

1842
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:56,320
Speaker 1: number three of the program is NFL Networks Mike Gardi,

1843
01:35:56,520 --> 01:35:59,320
Speaker 1: who's been with us a few times before, but we're

1844
01:35:59,320 --> 01:36:01,320
Speaker 1: always happy to get him on talk a little AFC

1845
01:36:01,439 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 1: East among the rest of the NFL landscape. So Mike,

1846
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:06,800
Speaker 1: thanks again for joining us. Chris Brown, Steve Task, you're

1847
01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:09,280
Speaker 1: here with you? How you doing? Um? Well, how are

1848
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:12,360
Speaker 1: you guys? We're doing all right? So, um, you know,

1849
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:16,200
Speaker 1: our eyes were casting a wary eye now and then

1850
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: up at Patriots training camp to kind of see what's

1851
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 1: going on up there with the whole quarterback situation, and

1852
01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:25,400
Speaker 1: we saw that Belichick is certainly not giving any inkling

1853
01:36:25,439 --> 01:36:27,080
Speaker 1: as to which way he might be leaning. And I

1854
01:36:27,120 --> 01:36:31,880
Speaker 1: know it's early, but Stidhams had some interceptions. Sounds like

1855
01:36:31,920 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: that defense is ahead of the offense, which you expect

1856
01:36:34,240 --> 01:36:36,439
Speaker 1: early on in camp. But what are you what are

1857
01:36:36,439 --> 01:36:39,960
Speaker 1: your early impressions or what are the early leakouts that

1858
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:43,280
Speaker 1: you're hearing about the quarterback situation up there. Yeah, I

1859
01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:48,240
Speaker 1: would say none of the three guys has been all

1860
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,280
Speaker 1: that impressive to this point. I would say that they

1861
01:36:51,280 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 1: all have moments, they've all strung together. You know, two

1862
01:36:56,120 --> 01:36:58,280
Speaker 1: days ago, Hoyer had the best practice. I didn't even

1863
01:36:58,280 --> 01:37:01,320
Speaker 1: think it's closest compared to the other two guys. Today,

1864
01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:03,960
Speaker 1: I thought Newton had the best practice Day one, I

1865
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:06,960
Speaker 1: thought Stidham had the best practice. So you're just sort

1866
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:09,760
Speaker 1: of seeing these guys don't want us quite taken the

1867
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:13,280
Speaker 1: range yet. And I think in a situation like that

1868
01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:16,679
Speaker 1: that makes me think that even more than I did before,

1869
01:37:16,760 --> 01:37:18,360
Speaker 1: that it will be Cam at the end of the

1870
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:21,439
Speaker 1: day as the starter, because I just think you look

1871
01:37:21,439 --> 01:37:23,559
Speaker 1: at the resume and say, all right, well, these guys

1872
01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 1: are all planned just about the same. You know, we

1873
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,599
Speaker 1: know what Cam is, you know able to do when

1874
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 1: he's right. Let's take the shot and hope that he's

1875
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:34,840
Speaker 1: right for for week one? Do you do you give

1876
01:37:34,880 --> 01:37:38,439
Speaker 1: any credence to the thought and the speculation that Bill

1877
01:37:38,479 --> 01:37:41,839
Speaker 1: Belichick might be might do something completely unexpected like platoon

1878
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:44,240
Speaker 1: these guys, or put a package in for if he

1879
01:37:44,280 --> 01:37:46,640
Speaker 1: starts Cam Newton, have a package for Stidham, have a

1880
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:49,120
Speaker 1: package for Horror or whoever the case might be. Or

1881
01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:50,880
Speaker 1: if Stidham is the guy that wins it, have a

1882
01:37:50,920 --> 01:37:54,120
Speaker 1: package for Cam Newton's athleticism. Um, do you give that

1883
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:57,040
Speaker 1: any credence? We've seen Bill Belichick do a lot of

1884
01:37:57,040 --> 01:38:00,639
Speaker 1: innovative stuff. Do you think that's in the cards. Possibly.

1885
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, like any coach, he wants someone

1886
01:38:05,439 --> 01:38:07,800
Speaker 1: to win the job, so I would think in his

1887
01:38:07,880 --> 01:38:10,479
Speaker 1: heart of hearts, he'd rather just have one guy. But

1888
01:38:10,680 --> 01:38:13,040
Speaker 1: like I said, if, and it's a fair point, if

1889
01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:15,599
Speaker 1: if guys are playing equally right now and no one's

1890
01:38:15,600 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 1: separating one from the other, that maybe you go into

1891
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:21,040
Speaker 1: this thing and say, all right, well, you're you're just

1892
01:38:21,120 --> 01:38:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna get opportunities because we obviously no preseason games, no

1893
01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:27,880
Speaker 1: joint practices, so the only competition you're able to do

1894
01:38:28,479 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: is sort of in the controlled environment versus your own defense,

1895
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:33,600
Speaker 1: and let's see what happens when you get to the

1896
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:36,679
Speaker 1: real games. I guess my flip side of that would

1897
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:40,599
Speaker 1: be I don't know, and I don't know Cam well

1898
01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 1: enough to to to speak for him or anything like that.

1899
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:46,680
Speaker 1: I just I don't know that a player with his

1900
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:51,320
Speaker 1: resume and still at the age of thirty one would say, yeah,

1901
01:38:51,320 --> 01:38:55,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm cool with I'm cool with alternating series with

1902
01:38:55,320 --> 01:38:58,679
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham, who's unproven in this league, or with Brian Hoyer,

1903
01:38:58,720 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: who's a journeyman. I don't I'm curious if it came

1904
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 1: to that, What would can response be to that sort

1905
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:08,320
Speaker 1: of notion? And not a lot of Auburn University kinship

1906
01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:13,040
Speaker 1: there apparently, So flipping it over to the other side

1907
01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 1: of the ball for them, they got a lot of

1908
01:39:14,479 --> 01:39:16,639
Speaker 1: holes to fill on the defensive side of the ball

1909
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:19,559
Speaker 1: due to free agent departures and opt outs. Is that

1910
01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 1: look like it's coming together? Does it look disjointed here

1911
01:39:23,400 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: at the outset? What are the observations with respect to that?

1912
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:30,760
Speaker 1: I think the secondary looks as you know, it looks

1913
01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:32,680
Speaker 1: very good. I mean, I think once again, that'll be

1914
01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:34,800
Speaker 1: a strength of the team and be one of the

1915
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 1: better ones in the league. I think when I look

1916
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: at their front Evan in particular that linebacker level, that's

1917
01:39:41,360 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: where I have the most questions. You lose High Towers

1918
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:47,560
Speaker 1: to the opt out. Collins be a free agency's and

1919
01:39:47,720 --> 01:39:49,840
Speaker 1: Noisy a free agency. Those guys made a ton of

1920
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: place for them last year, and High Towers made a

1921
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:56,800
Speaker 1: ton of place for them over many years. So that's

1922
01:39:56,840 --> 01:39:58,920
Speaker 1: a that's an area of concern. They've got some young

1923
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:02,439
Speaker 1: guys around right there. Garsh Uche he's their their second

1924
01:40:02,520 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 1: round pick from Michigan who was more of an edge guy.

1925
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:08,920
Speaker 1: Um in college has been playing more in the middle

1926
01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:12,760
Speaker 1: of the defense here, which is an interesting look. Um.

1927
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:15,559
Speaker 1: He has terrific quickness. I mean you can see it

1928
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:17,720
Speaker 1: in some of his drops, but again it's a bit

1929
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: of a different position for him, I think than he

1930
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:24,320
Speaker 1: played Michigan and Joan Bentley is a key guy for them.

1931
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Joan sort of is assuming it's his year three,

1932
01:40:27,360 --> 01:40:30,679
Speaker 1: but last year he was hurt. Um two years ago

1933
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:33,000
Speaker 1: as a rookie, he looked really impressive and it just

1934
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:35,879
Speaker 1: didn't you know, they got hurt again. I would say

1935
01:40:36,160 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 1: he sort of needs to be that quarterback of that

1936
01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:41,559
Speaker 1: of that linebacker group, because he's the one with the

1937
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:44,639
Speaker 1: most experience in the system, and you know, when he's

1938
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 1: been healthy, he's played pretty well. So I think that's

1939
01:40:48,680 --> 01:40:51,759
Speaker 1: that's the spot where I'm gonna be watching very very closely,

1940
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 1: not just the next couple of weeks, but obviously when

1941
01:40:53,479 --> 01:40:56,120
Speaker 1: they when they finally start playing games for real. There's

1942
01:40:56,120 --> 01:40:58,360
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff that's different about this preseason. It's

1943
01:40:58,439 --> 01:41:00,720
Speaker 1: vastly different than anything any of us are used to.

1944
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:03,479
Speaker 1: No preseason games at all, which sets us up for

1945
01:41:03,520 --> 01:41:08,360
Speaker 1: an opening weekend when a lot of uncertainty is going

1946
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:11,680
Speaker 1: to be the understatement of the of the year. Nobody's

1947
01:41:11,720 --> 01:41:15,400
Speaker 1: gonna know who's gonna feel what, who's going to have

1948
01:41:15,479 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 1: good players, what these players look like. I mean, there's

1949
01:41:18,040 --> 01:41:20,960
Speaker 1: going to be an enormous amount of unknowns on opening

1950
01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:22,559
Speaker 1: day in the NFL. How do you think that's going

1951
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:24,240
Speaker 1: to play out? And what do you think it means

1952
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:27,320
Speaker 1: for the first month of the season. Yeah, I think

1953
01:41:27,360 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 1: the best thing that I've sort of heard about this

1954
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:33,559
Speaker 1: and the approach that some people are taking, is that

1955
01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:38,599
Speaker 1: the teams that have that continuity, especially when you're talking

1956
01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:43,439
Speaker 1: offensively with the head coach, offensive coordinator, quarterback, and maybe

1957
01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:46,599
Speaker 1: some of the key skill guys as well, your receivers, whatever,

1958
01:41:46,920 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 1: that that team might be in an advantage because they

1959
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:51,960
Speaker 1: can go into this thing and say, hey, look, we've

1960
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:54,200
Speaker 1: had these guys, this is our same group. We can

1961
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:56,599
Speaker 1: we can still do the we can still dial up

1962
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:58,040
Speaker 1: some of the things that we did when we were

1963
01:41:58,120 --> 01:42:02,040
Speaker 1: more advanced in previous years because of obviously going through

1964
01:42:02,600 --> 01:42:05,720
Speaker 1: a real off season program and real training camp as

1965
01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:08,000
Speaker 1: opposed to what they're doing now. So like a team

1966
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:10,800
Speaker 1: like Buffalo jumps out to me, is a team that

1967
01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:15,040
Speaker 1: has a lot of continuity certainly head coach, quarterback, offensive coordinator,

1968
01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:18,400
Speaker 1: a couple of receivers back from last year, tight end

1969
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:21,240
Speaker 1: back from last year. Then you had someone as dynamic

1970
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:24,479
Speaker 1: as Stefon Diggs. To me, that seems like a good

1971
01:42:24,520 --> 01:42:27,160
Speaker 1: place and a good position to be in because I

1972
01:42:27,200 --> 01:42:29,600
Speaker 1: think you'll be able to do more. You know, I've

1973
01:42:29,640 --> 01:42:32,280
Speaker 1: been covering Atlanta too during the during the off season.

1974
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:35,160
Speaker 1: That's another team that to me that sort of jumps

1975
01:42:35,160 --> 01:42:37,240
Speaker 1: out at you. They didn't have a lot of changes,

1976
01:42:37,400 --> 01:42:40,240
Speaker 1: It's it's basically the same group. So I could see

1977
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:43,000
Speaker 1: those teams getting off the fast starts. And as we know,

1978
01:42:43,120 --> 01:42:45,880
Speaker 1: like I think, all these games matter. There aren't any

1979
01:42:45,880 --> 01:42:49,519
Speaker 1: throwaway games you can't afford to screw around, especially coming

1980
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:51,360
Speaker 1: off of what we're coming off of, coming out of

1981
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:53,400
Speaker 1: what we're coming out of in terms of the way

1982
01:42:53,760 --> 01:42:56,439
Speaker 1: the program has worked here in the off season. So

1983
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 1: I think teams with that that sort of continuity or

1984
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:02,800
Speaker 1: or a during a good spot. So as advantageous as

1985
01:43:02,840 --> 01:43:08,160
Speaker 1: that situation might be, do you anticipate that they'll they'll

1986
01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:11,880
Speaker 1: be more free wheeling and creative because they know what

1987
01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:15,400
Speaker 1: they have and they may want to, you know, expand

1988
01:43:15,439 --> 01:43:18,799
Speaker 1: things a little bit because they can, knowing other teams

1989
01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: probably can't. Yeah, I think that that's also a very

1990
01:43:23,360 --> 01:43:25,519
Speaker 1: valid point. I mean, just look at some of the

1991
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:29,240
Speaker 1: things that we saw, you guys saw in Buffalo. I

1992
01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:32,680
Speaker 1: saw it with Atlanta on Tampa with Brady, like some

1993
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:34,800
Speaker 1: of these workouts that these guys had, but then bringing

1994
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:37,479
Speaker 1: it a whole group in and calling plays and running

1995
01:43:37,520 --> 01:43:39,880
Speaker 1: plays as if there was an actual practice. I think

1996
01:43:39,920 --> 01:43:44,519
Speaker 1: that that's sort of, um, well, well I'm struggling for

1997
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:46,680
Speaker 1: the work here, just sort of taking that sort of

1998
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:49,200
Speaker 1: role and pushing it like that in the offseason when

1999
01:43:49,200 --> 01:43:51,080
Speaker 1: there was so much uncertainty. Again, it is going to

2000
01:43:51,160 --> 01:43:54,680
Speaker 1: help teams like that in situations like that. And I

2001
01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:56,719
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if you guys have noticed,

2002
01:43:56,760 --> 01:44:00,280
Speaker 1: but they're across the league. There have been some comples

2003
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:03,720
Speaker 1: from the Pro Football Writers Association of America about some

2004
01:44:03,760 --> 01:44:06,040
Speaker 1: of the restrictions that have been placed on their reporting

2005
01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:09,600
Speaker 1: this year from training camp. And we've dealt with a

2006
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:12,519
Speaker 1: few different things in New England as well, and they've

2007
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:16,839
Speaker 1: never been super open out there. There's stuff anyway, But

2008
01:44:16,840 --> 01:44:19,120
Speaker 1: but part of me wonders too, because there are no

2009
01:44:19,160 --> 01:44:21,559
Speaker 1: fans in the stands to watch these things. So you know,

2010
01:44:21,640 --> 01:44:24,599
Speaker 1: Joe Schmo can't get on his phone and sweet out that, Hey,

2011
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:27,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots ran a double reverse path to Cam Newton.

2012
01:44:27,200 --> 01:44:31,000
Speaker 1: That's stuff that we as reporters can't report because that's

2013
01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:34,479
Speaker 1: giving away strategy or or personnel groupings. And I think

2014
01:44:34,479 --> 01:44:36,360
Speaker 1: you're seeing that a little bit more across the league.

2015
01:44:36,439 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 1: And I wonder if that too, is you know, the

2016
01:44:39,439 --> 01:44:42,880
Speaker 1: information is being guarded really really closely, and you know,

2017
01:44:42,960 --> 01:44:45,559
Speaker 1: we might spring something on you that we've been working

2018
01:44:45,560 --> 01:44:47,680
Speaker 1: on for the last three weeks, but you don't. You

2019
01:44:47,680 --> 01:44:49,920
Speaker 1: didn't get to see it in training camp because there

2020
01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:51,280
Speaker 1: were no fans there. You didn't get to see it

2021
01:44:51,320 --> 01:44:54,360
Speaker 1: in preseason games because obviously there are no preseason games.

2022
01:44:54,560 --> 01:44:56,960
Speaker 1: But here week one, you know, we're running out some

2023
01:44:57,400 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 1: whatever read option stuff, you know, quarterback design runs with

2024
01:45:01,320 --> 01:45:05,400
Speaker 1: someone like Cam that maybe teams haven't seen before. Yeah,

2025
01:45:05,400 --> 01:45:09,000
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the uncertainties that gets

2026
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:12,760
Speaker 1: particularly defensive coordinators about what could they could face. Uh,

2027
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 1: you know, you know, with a triple option quarterback with

2028
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:18,640
Speaker 1: a you know, a wing te coming back or you

2029
01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:20,000
Speaker 1: know that kind of you know, kind of off the

2030
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:23,360
Speaker 1: wall stuff that uh, teams just can't prepare for because

2031
01:45:23,400 --> 01:45:26,880
Speaker 1: there's no way of anticipating it. Uh, and maybe there

2032
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 1: will be a stretch where teams will do something unexpected,

2033
01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:33,719
Speaker 1: but to play an entire game out of that kind

2034
01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:38,960
Speaker 1: of offensive, quirky spot it, I don't think it's gonna

2035
01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:43,120
Speaker 1: fly in the NFL. I think they're too good at adjustment. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

2036
01:45:43,120 --> 01:45:45,240
Speaker 1: I would agree with the completely. The athletes are too good.

2037
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:48,000
Speaker 1: They'll they'll eventually they'll make the adjustments and maybe you

2038
01:45:48,080 --> 01:45:50,160
Speaker 1: get for a couple of two three series, but I

2039
01:45:50,240 --> 01:45:54,160
Speaker 1: will you know, just again in recent memory, uh, when

2040
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:56,599
Speaker 1: Tom Brady had the four game suspension for the Fleet date.

2041
01:45:57,600 --> 01:46:00,360
Speaker 1: You know, Jimmy garfil started the first two, he got

2042
01:46:00,439 --> 01:46:02,920
Speaker 1: hurt and they had a short week. They put a

2043
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:06,799
Speaker 1: third night game against the Texans, and they debuted Jacoby Brissette,

2044
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:09,200
Speaker 1: who are they addrafted that year, and they kind of

2045
01:46:09,280 --> 01:46:14,439
Speaker 1: ran a wing tea and the Texans were not prepared

2046
01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:16,519
Speaker 1: for it and didn't do a very good job of

2047
01:46:16,560 --> 01:46:20,559
Speaker 1: stopping it. And that's a Texans team that JJ and

2048
01:46:21,080 --> 01:46:25,760
Speaker 1: merciless Jadavian Clowney. So you know, I suppose that's how

2049
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:28,559
Speaker 1: it's coached up and how quickly the other side can

2050
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:31,439
Speaker 1: can make adjustments on it, but it's certainly gonna add

2051
01:46:31,439 --> 01:46:34,120
Speaker 1: a little wrinkle to this that, you know, maybe a

2052
01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:36,120
Speaker 1: little bit more than we've seen in the past. I

2053
01:46:36,160 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 1: know you also kind of keep a watchful eye on

2054
01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:42,479
Speaker 1: the college football scene, Mike, Um. And you know, it

2055
01:46:42,520 --> 01:46:44,400
Speaker 1: looks like a lot of these conferences are going to

2056
01:46:44,439 --> 01:46:48,120
Speaker 1: try to make it work in the spring. But there's

2057
01:46:48,160 --> 01:46:51,439
Speaker 1: already players around the country that are saying, well, hold

2058
01:46:51,479 --> 01:46:53,320
Speaker 1: on a second, if we're gonna play in the spring,

2059
01:46:53,720 --> 01:46:55,760
Speaker 1: does that mean we're gonna play the following fall too,

2060
01:46:55,800 --> 01:47:00,559
Speaker 1: How's that gonna work? Yeah, it's a look, if you're

2061
01:47:00,640 --> 01:47:04,320
Speaker 1: a if you're someone who's being talked about already as

2062
01:47:04,360 --> 01:47:07,559
Speaker 1: a you know, a first second round pick, um, heck,

2063
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:10,719
Speaker 1: even a third round pick, I wonder about the wisdom

2064
01:47:10,760 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 1: of even playing college football. And I know it's it's

2065
01:47:14,280 --> 01:47:16,759
Speaker 1: it's got to be kind of cutwrenching for them because

2066
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:19,080
Speaker 1: you you've invested so much time and do it, and

2067
01:47:19,120 --> 01:47:22,080
Speaker 1: you represent your school and a lot of guys, you know,

2068
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:24,920
Speaker 1: they love that part of it. And but I just

2069
01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 1: think from a you know, if you're just being smart,

2070
01:47:28,400 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 1: you can't really afford to put yourself at risk like

2071
01:47:31,280 --> 01:47:34,920
Speaker 1: that just before you know, it'll be um we're you know,

2072
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:37,920
Speaker 1: or assuming if there's a spring spring football season and

2073
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:41,320
Speaker 1: we're looking at a draft at June. I mean, I

2074
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:45,040
Speaker 1: just don't see how what benefit guys that are already

2075
01:47:45,120 --> 01:47:47,840
Speaker 1: highly considered get out of playing. I mean, does it

2076
01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: show you love the game more? Yeah, I guess, but

2077
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 1: it also says you're just being smart, Like why risk

2078
01:47:53,880 --> 01:47:57,360
Speaker 1: your body, uh and and screw up a potential you know,

2079
01:47:57,520 --> 01:48:00,160
Speaker 1: first or second round draft pick by by playing in

2080
01:48:00,160 --> 01:48:01,960
Speaker 1: the spring and then getting hurt. I just it just

2081
01:48:01,960 --> 01:48:05,160
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like I think you're gonna see. We're already

2082
01:48:05,160 --> 01:48:07,519
Speaker 1: seeing some opt outs and on the college level, and

2083
01:48:07,560 --> 01:48:09,640
Speaker 1: they wouldn't surprise me if we see a heck of

2084
01:48:09,640 --> 01:48:12,400
Speaker 1: a lot more assuming that we're having that sort of

2085
01:48:12,600 --> 01:48:16,280
Speaker 1: spring season. Yea, in his NFL training camps roll along

2086
01:48:16,320 --> 01:48:19,479
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo were kind of hitched to the fact

2087
01:48:19,479 --> 01:48:21,919
Speaker 1: that this is an offense that needed to make some improvements,

2088
01:48:21,920 --> 01:48:24,120
Speaker 1: and they've taken great strides in doing as. Steph Diggs

2089
01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:27,120
Speaker 1: comes into the fold here in Buffalo along with John Brown,

2090
01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:31,640
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, Zach Moss a great draft pick, and you know,

2091
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:34,120
Speaker 1: along with Devin Singletary. This is an offense that's trying

2092
01:48:34,120 --> 01:48:37,960
Speaker 1: to score more points. But you've watched and probably when

2093
01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: you're covering that the Patriots, you know Brian Dable as

2094
01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:45,679
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator. How much more creative do better players

2095
01:48:45,720 --> 01:48:48,640
Speaker 1: allow offensive coordinators to be. What's your general rule of

2096
01:48:48,640 --> 01:48:50,920
Speaker 1: thumb about how creative a guy will be if he's

2097
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:53,720
Speaker 1: got better players? Oh yeah, I think I think it

2098
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:56,519
Speaker 1: makes a huge difference. And I think no, I think

2099
01:48:56,600 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 1: just again another year, Josh, and the system is they're

2100
01:49:00,240 --> 01:49:03,760
Speaker 1: gonna help, uh the confidence and what that cannot do

2101
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Speaker 1: when you add a playmaker like Steph and I think

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Speaker 1: it's you know, to add him to the to the

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01:49:11,320 --> 01:49:13,800
Speaker 1: to the guys that you already have, just gonna make

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Speaker 1: that whole group so much better. And you know, all

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01:49:16,400 --> 01:49:18,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, John Brown's gonna be looking

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Speaker 1: at single coverage at times and with his speed and

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Speaker 1: ability and we've seen, you know, ask Steph Skilmore a

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01:49:24,600 --> 01:49:26,599
Speaker 1: lot some of this route running and the deep all

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Speaker 1: he caught on him and in H Gillette late in December.

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01:49:30,640 --> 01:49:35,240
Speaker 1: I mean, their their ability to do more um with

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Speaker 1: the maturation of the quarterback and more pieces, uh should

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Speaker 1: be really the official I really do think that if

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Speaker 1: Josh can take that next step, we're looking at an

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Speaker 1: offense that's going to make a massive leap forward this year.

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Speaker 1: Last one I've got for you, Mike, we're talking to Mike.

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Speaker 1: You already NFL network reporter, Uh covers a lot of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots stuff. Um, Last one I have for you

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Speaker 1: is which quarterback situation do you think is the most

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Speaker 1: compelling here in the division? Is it, you know, whether

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01:50:03,439 --> 01:50:06,479
Speaker 1: Darnold or Alan can can take another step in year

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Speaker 1: three with their respective teams. Is it the two of

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01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:11,400
Speaker 1: fits thing going on in Miami? Or is it is

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01:50:11,439 --> 01:50:14,320
Speaker 1: Cam going to be able to transition into this Patriots offense?

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Speaker 1: Which one would you pick there? Yeah? I almost think

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Speaker 1: it's Cam just because of what we've seen Cam doing

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Speaker 1: the past, and even as recent as twenty eighteen when he,

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01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:25,080
Speaker 1: you know, North Turner came in there and they ran

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01:50:25,160 --> 01:50:27,559
Speaker 1: the North offense and he completed sixty eight percent of

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01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:30,680
Speaker 1: his passes before he heard his shoulder, So and that

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01:50:30,800 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 1: was by far and away the highest number of his career.

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01:50:33,240 --> 01:50:37,120
Speaker 1: So can he sort of make that adjustment again in

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01:50:37,160 --> 01:50:40,760
Speaker 1: this offense? To me is a huge story because then

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01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:42,840
Speaker 1: I think it buys them more time with Stidham, and

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Speaker 1: I think we're seeing here again as I was talking

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Speaker 1: about earlier. It's Stidham. You know, there's still there's definite

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01:50:48,400 --> 01:50:49,960
Speaker 1: signs there that you believe that he could be a

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Speaker 1: good quarterback in this league. But he's got to be

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01:50:51,800 --> 01:50:54,120
Speaker 1: more consistent than he's been in This sort of allows

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01:50:54,160 --> 01:50:58,160
Speaker 1: you more time to do that, and I believe in

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01:50:58,280 --> 01:51:00,640
Speaker 1: Josh is going to take that next up. And I

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01:51:00,680 --> 01:51:02,320
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with the Jets and

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01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:04,679
Speaker 1: Arnold because I just I feel like they've been treading

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01:51:04,720 --> 01:51:06,800
Speaker 1: water for a while and now that you've improved their

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Speaker 1: offensive line, but they didn't they didn't really do anything

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01:51:09,080 --> 01:51:12,400
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, So who's basically the same cast of

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01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:15,559
Speaker 1: characters he was last year swapping out Robbie and Henderson

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01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:19,040
Speaker 1: for Shod Ferryman. So I don't know that that's either

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01:51:19,360 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 1: much of an upgrade or any upgrade at all. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would point to Cam and how that situation is

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Speaker 1: going to play out, because look, if Cam is something

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Speaker 1: close to the cam of the pass, then the division

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01:51:30,160 --> 01:51:32,800
Speaker 1: gets a lot more complicated. I think, Well, last one

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Speaker 1: from me, Mike, we've seen the Patriots, you know, more

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01:51:36,400 --> 01:51:39,400
Speaker 1: from a run first team to a pass first team

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01:51:39,479 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: from week to week. They really are the only team

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01:51:41,880 --> 01:51:45,240
Speaker 1: you've ever seen who can change their identity both offensively

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01:51:45,240 --> 01:51:49,719
Speaker 1: and defensively any any given week. What's your best guess

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01:51:49,720 --> 01:51:51,760
Speaker 1: as to what they're gonna look like on opening day?

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01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:53,880
Speaker 1: If Cam Newton is the guy, if he is healthy

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01:51:54,200 --> 01:51:57,559
Speaker 1: and he's got this full array of athletic abilities that

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Speaker 1: we've seen him possess, it gives it would seem that

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01:52:02,640 --> 01:52:05,560
Speaker 1: the Patriots are going to have to change their personality

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01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:07,720
Speaker 1: from what they were a year ago. They were the

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01:52:07,800 --> 01:52:10,639
Speaker 1: number one defense and they kind of scored just enough

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Speaker 1: points to win. That seems to be that it's going

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01:52:14,400 --> 01:52:16,040
Speaker 1: to have to be different for them this year, is

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01:52:16,080 --> 01:52:19,600
Speaker 1: it not? Yeah? I mean I see them sort of

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Speaker 1: adopting some of the things that that Carolina did so

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01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:26,800
Speaker 1: successfully with the camon and the ability to you know, look,

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Speaker 1: he is he's the same runner that he was. I

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01:52:28,439 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 1: don't know that we know that yet, and we're not

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01:52:30,240 --> 01:52:32,400
Speaker 1: going to know that until the games start, because obviously

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01:52:32,840 --> 01:52:34,760
Speaker 1: no one's trying to tee off on the quarterback here

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Speaker 1: and we're you know, he looks great and strong and

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Speaker 1: all that physically in shape. But you know, no one

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01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:41,759
Speaker 1: wants to jump on his back and have him shrug

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Speaker 1: him off and you know, and get run off the

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Speaker 1: practice field for doing that. So we're not going to

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Speaker 1: see if he still has that same sort of explosion

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Speaker 1: as a runner that he did in that power that

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01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:53,679
Speaker 1: he did in Carolina. But I would assume that that's

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Speaker 1: what they're looking at, and that's one of the things

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Speaker 1: that attracted them to Cam in the offseason and can

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Speaker 1: If he can do that, you're gonna see some power

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01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: run stuff. You're gonna see a lot of you know,

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Speaker 1: readoption stuff, which they I think probably dude next to

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01:53:08,880 --> 01:53:11,200
Speaker 1: none of last year or in any year with com

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Speaker 1: Brady as a quarterback, because you weren't really worried about that.

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01:53:13,760 --> 01:53:15,519
Speaker 1: With Cam, it's a it's a different story, and it's

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01:53:15,520 --> 01:53:18,639
Speaker 1: a you know, Belichick loves to talk about the math

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01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:21,000
Speaker 1: and the numbers game. If Cam, if you have to

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Speaker 1: account for cameras a runner, that changes the numbers game upfront,

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01:53:24,280 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 1: which then it helps you in the passing game as well.

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01:53:26,240 --> 01:53:29,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would think you're looking at power run,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at quarterback runs, and you're looking at the

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Speaker 1: readoption stuff where you know, he's pulling it out of

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Speaker 1: someone's belly and hitting Edelman or Sanu or Till Harry

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01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:40,040
Speaker 1: if you can ever get on the field for slants

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Speaker 1: and you know, run after catch, Mike, we appreciate the

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01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:45,759
Speaker 1: insight and painting the picture up there in New England

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01:53:45,800 --> 01:53:47,880
Speaker 1: for us is we're all getting ready for a twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty season. It looks like it's going to get started,

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Speaker 1: so we appreciate the time. Mike. Anytime, guys, anytime be well,

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01:53:53,400 --> 01:53:55,920
Speaker 1: all right, my NFL network reporter, Mike, you're already joining

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01:53:56,040 --> 01:53:59,720
Speaker 1: us and he covers the Patriots mostly, but he'll cover

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01:53:59,760 --> 01:54:02,479
Speaker 1: other parts of the league as well as the season

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01:54:02,520 --> 01:54:06,200
Speaker 1: gets going. But usually he's in residence up there in

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Speaker 1: New England. And some interesting things that he had to

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Speaker 1: offer there. Maybe the most interesting is, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: one of their top draft choices, Josh Josh Uche, who

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01:54:15,320 --> 01:54:19,800
Speaker 1: was really like an edge rusher at Michigan, an undersized

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Speaker 1: edge rusher at about six one and two forty. When

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Speaker 1: he got drafted by the Patriots, I was very surprised

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01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:31,280
Speaker 1: because that guy is not the definition of a fit

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01:54:31,400 --> 01:54:33,960
Speaker 1: for a three four scheme because if you want to

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01:54:33,960 --> 01:54:36,880
Speaker 1: play usually the outside linebackers and a three four scheme

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01:54:36,920 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 1: are long, tall, you know, six three six four, you know,

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Speaker 1: arms like vines, you know, and that is not Josh Uche.

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting to hear they're playing him as an

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Speaker 1: inside linebacker and that three knew that the versatility is

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Speaker 1: what got him. They like his athleticism and he is

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01:54:55,320 --> 01:54:57,680
Speaker 1: not an edge rusher in the NFL. He as good

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01:54:57,680 --> 01:55:01,360
Speaker 1: as he might have been in college. They probably had

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01:55:01,400 --> 01:55:03,720
Speaker 1: this on their mind from the get go, and they

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01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:06,080
Speaker 1: probably knew too. And I remember hearing this about Uche

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01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 1: on the on draft days that you know, he reeks

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Speaker 1: of a New England type of guy. Very heady, very

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01:55:12,200 --> 01:55:15,680
Speaker 1: intelligent player, wins with technique, always in the right spot

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Speaker 1: kind of guy. So their ability to foresee him and

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01:55:20,600 --> 01:55:23,680
Speaker 1: envision him in a different spot than where he played

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01:55:23,680 --> 01:55:25,760
Speaker 1: in college is probably why he's going to be another

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01:55:25,760 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 1: one of those names that we hear in New England

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01:55:27,720 --> 01:55:30,680
Speaker 1: for the next half dozen ten years of a guy

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01:55:30,720 --> 01:55:32,760
Speaker 1: that's like, is he's still you know, still playing over there.

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01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:38,200
Speaker 1: It's just that kind of DNA versatile, has a wealth

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01:55:38,200 --> 01:55:41,480
Speaker 1: of of capability. You know, as an edge rusher off

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01:55:41,480 --> 01:55:43,040
Speaker 1: the college, you come with a skill set and then

2238
01:55:43,080 --> 01:55:46,040
Speaker 1: to spend time inside on a defense, a year or

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01:55:46,040 --> 01:55:48,160
Speaker 1: two inside of the defense, and you're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: guy that's got a wealth of knowledge about the front

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01:55:51,560 --> 01:55:53,960
Speaker 1: and the back end of the defense. So it's uh,

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01:55:54,640 --> 01:55:56,680
Speaker 1: they'll work on developing him, and he's probably got a

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01:55:56,680 --> 01:55:58,680
Speaker 1: long way to go, no question, moving inside. It's a

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01:55:58,720 --> 01:56:01,640
Speaker 1: different world inside than it is outside. But if he

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01:56:01,680 --> 01:56:04,280
Speaker 1: can make that transition, he's exactly the kind of guy

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01:56:04,280 --> 01:56:07,960
Speaker 1: that New England has won super Bowls with on defense

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01:56:08,000 --> 01:56:11,800
Speaker 1: for twenty years. Mike Giardi also said that because of

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01:56:11,840 --> 01:56:14,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo's continuity on the offensive side of the ball, that

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01:56:14,760 --> 01:56:16,839
Speaker 1: they should be able to hit the ground running despite

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Speaker 1: the pandemic and be even more creative, which is what

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01:56:20,320 --> 01:56:23,000
Speaker 1: we're asking you on the tweet sheet and at eight

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01:56:23,040 --> 01:56:26,520
Speaker 1: oh three, five fifty, what is your definition of creativity

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01:56:26,560 --> 01:56:28,640
Speaker 1: for the Bill's offense? Is it more the deep ball,

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01:56:28,720 --> 01:56:35,120
Speaker 1: more personnel groupings, is it something else? So we're asking

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Speaker 1: you and we go back to the tweet sheet real quick.

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Speaker 1: Here presented by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills, and from Steve he says,

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01:56:45,040 --> 01:56:49,240
Speaker 1: I voted other with Diggs Beasley Brown Knox, Singletary, Moss

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01:56:49,240 --> 01:56:52,120
Speaker 1: and the other wide receivers as weapons. Dabel can really

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01:56:52,120 --> 01:56:54,560
Speaker 1: do some creative route designs and set teams up for

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01:56:54,680 --> 01:56:57,200
Speaker 1: chunk plays. It may be a different guy every week

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01:56:57,280 --> 01:56:59,600
Speaker 1: that has a big game, but that arsenal is tough

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01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:03,440
Speaker 1: to play, and for yeah, it's if they can bring

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01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:05,360
Speaker 1: it all together and if they can connect on deep

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01:57:05,440 --> 01:57:07,880
Speaker 1: routes the way they could not do a year ago.

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01:57:08,720 --> 01:57:13,360
Speaker 1: But we're better at two years ago. They are going

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01:57:13,400 --> 01:57:15,760
Speaker 1: to be a different team. And that everything that you

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01:57:15,800 --> 01:57:19,320
Speaker 1: can do well is a huge burden on the on

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01:57:19,360 --> 01:57:21,920
Speaker 1: the defenders who are trying to stop you. If you

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01:57:21,960 --> 01:57:26,800
Speaker 1: can do more things, well, they got too much there there.

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01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:29,640
Speaker 1: In fact, what happens is they don't get more complicated.

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01:57:29,720 --> 01:57:31,840
Speaker 1: Usually as a general rule, they get less complicated as

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01:57:31,880 --> 01:57:34,280
Speaker 1: a defense because they have to watch everything. They have

2274
01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:37,240
Speaker 1: to play it honest, you know, and they can't throw

2275
01:57:37,360 --> 01:57:39,920
Speaker 1: nine guys at the box. They can't drop nine guys

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01:57:39,960 --> 01:57:43,280
Speaker 1: into the into the secondary. They've got to play it honest,

2277
01:57:43,440 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 1: both run and pass both, you know, screen pass everything.

2278
01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:49,280
Speaker 1: And it really puts a burden on the defense when

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01:57:49,320 --> 01:57:51,480
Speaker 1: you can do a lot of different things well offensively.

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01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:54,320
Speaker 1: Now here's a different take from Urkel because he says,

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01:57:54,480 --> 01:57:57,000
Speaker 1: I say other I think our eleven personnel will be

2282
01:57:57,040 --> 01:58:00,000
Speaker 1: nearly impossible to stop, much less figure out what type

2283
01:58:00,160 --> 01:58:02,160
Speaker 1: of play is coming. Trick plays are fun, but not

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01:58:02,240 --> 01:58:04,560
Speaker 1: something you rely on. Deep balls are nice, but that's

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01:58:04,600 --> 01:58:07,760
Speaker 1: to keep defense, is honest, Steve. When you think about

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01:58:08,080 --> 01:58:11,960
Speaker 1: what we anticipate this team's eleven personnel package to be,

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01:58:12,400 --> 01:58:19,000
Speaker 1: which is basically Diggs, Brown and Beasley, Knox and Singletary, Yeah,

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01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 1: Singletary or moment, those are five guys you're gonna want

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01:58:21,040 --> 01:58:24,480
Speaker 1: on the field almost all the time, right, like so

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01:58:24,720 --> 01:58:27,960
Speaker 1: if you can, and as we said more than once

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01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:30,760
Speaker 1: on this show, seventy percent of their plays on offense,

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01:58:30,760 --> 01:58:33,000
Speaker 1: we're run out of eleven personnel last year. Now you

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01:58:33,040 --> 01:58:35,640
Speaker 1: add Digs to the equation and Knox and Singletary of

2294
01:58:35,640 --> 01:58:38,880
Speaker 1: an extra year of experience. I gotta believe those five

2295
01:58:38,920 --> 01:58:41,480
Speaker 1: guys are going to be on the field probably seventy

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01:58:41,480 --> 01:58:44,000
Speaker 1: to eighty percent of the time every week. And so

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01:58:44,160 --> 01:58:46,400
Speaker 1: eleven personnel just might be your bread and butter, and

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01:58:46,400 --> 01:58:48,160
Speaker 1: it might be working, so damn well, you don't need

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01:58:48,240 --> 01:58:52,080
Speaker 1: to get creative, right And here's the thing as well,

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01:58:52,120 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 1: And I said this a little bit on the live

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01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:57,520
Speaker 1: stream today practice. If they are not on the field,

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01:58:57,520 --> 01:59:00,320
Speaker 1: this and I was talking about the corner opposite Tredavious White,

2303
01:59:00,360 --> 01:59:03,320
Speaker 1: but this is the same. The same thought process goes

2304
01:59:03,320 --> 01:59:07,520
Speaker 1: along with this. If those guys are not on the field,

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01:59:08,080 --> 01:59:12,360
Speaker 1: it is because a you're in a bad down and

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01:59:12,400 --> 01:59:14,640
Speaker 1: distance for it, either in short yardage or goal line

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01:59:15,640 --> 01:59:20,320
Speaker 1: or b some other matchup. You've got four wides, two tight,

2308
01:59:20,440 --> 01:59:23,800
Speaker 1: whatever you name. It is crushing them. And you don't

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01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:25,560
Speaker 1: need to go to your bread and butter format because

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden you've got a formation or personnel

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01:59:28,000 --> 01:59:31,680
Speaker 1: combination that's working even better in a given week, in

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01:59:31,720 --> 01:59:34,480
Speaker 1: a given week, or in a given situation. That's right,

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01:59:34,600 --> 01:59:37,920
Speaker 1: because what happens is and Teddy Marcher Brody tell us

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01:59:37,920 --> 01:59:40,360
Speaker 1: this all the time. Is still true. For instance, the

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01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:43,880
Speaker 1: Bills will run seventy percent eleven perconnel. Right, you got

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01:59:43,880 --> 01:59:46,320
Speaker 1: three wides, a tight end of running back. Then in

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01:59:46,400 --> 01:59:51,200
Speaker 1: one game they'll only run it the opposite way. They'll

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01:59:51,240 --> 01:59:53,040
Speaker 1: run it thirty percent of the time and the other

2319
01:59:53,080 --> 01:59:55,400
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the time they're run at the other

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01:59:55,640 --> 02:00:00,040
Speaker 1: they're running twenty two or four wide whatever. And the

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02:00:00,120 --> 02:00:02,880
Speaker 1: reason is because you'll you'll see that seventy percent of

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02:00:02,920 --> 02:00:04,800
Speaker 1: the offense is going to be eleven personnel. But the

2323
02:00:04,840 --> 02:00:07,520
Speaker 1: other times that they don't run it, it's all gonna

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Speaker 1: happen in one or two games where they've got the

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Speaker 1: matchups that dictate. Listen, this week, it's four wide all day.

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Speaker 1: Let's go their defensive backfield that you know, they had

2327
02:00:16,600 --> 02:00:19,560
Speaker 1: three guys are out with COVID that they got. We're

2328
02:00:19,600 --> 02:00:21,920
Speaker 1: down to their guy off the street at corner. We're

2329
02:00:21,920 --> 02:00:24,920
Speaker 1: gonna that kind of thing undrafted, right, and somebody else

2330
02:00:25,360 --> 02:00:29,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna run eleven percent. Yeah, seventy percent of the

2331
02:00:29,360 --> 02:00:31,760
Speaker 1: time you're run eleven personnel and the other thirty percent

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02:00:31,760 --> 02:00:36,920
Speaker 1: of the time, Uh, is gonna happen in less than

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02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:40,640
Speaker 1: five games. Yeah, so yeah, it'll that's that's hopefully that's

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Speaker 1: the way it works. That's the way it usually works.

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Speaker 1: But if it if it's anything else, it's because of

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Speaker 1: the productivity of that other group. All right, a break here,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll continue with your comments

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02:00:49,560 --> 02:00:52,320
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, and we will also get to

2339
02:00:52,360 --> 02:00:56,360
Speaker 1: a little NFL true false. Who might be the Bill's

2340
02:00:56,400 --> 02:01:00,520
Speaker 1: biggest X factor in twenty twenty that's untapped for NFL

2341
02:01:00,560 --> 02:01:02,800
Speaker 1: True Fall. Stay tuned for that. It's One Bill's Live,

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02:01:02,920 --> 02:01:05,760
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2343
02:01:19,320 --> 02:01:22,360
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you motoring home on a

2344
02:01:22,600 --> 02:01:26,680
Speaker 1: Thursday edition of the show. And we've been taking your

2345
02:01:26,800 --> 02:01:31,320
Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet about what your definition of

2346
02:01:31,320 --> 02:01:34,640
Speaker 1: creativity for the Bills offense would be this season, and

2347
02:01:34,640 --> 02:01:37,560
Speaker 1: we've got a wide range of responses. Even though the

2348
02:01:37,640 --> 02:01:40,879
Speaker 1: voting was very one sided in terms of more personnel groupings,

2349
02:01:40,880 --> 02:01:43,680
Speaker 1: I think the responses have been a little bit more balanced.

2350
02:01:43,720 --> 02:01:45,800
Speaker 1: That's what's most interesting to me about what we've heard

2351
02:01:45,840 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 1: from the fans today. Yeah, it's true that you can

2352
02:01:49,920 --> 02:01:53,120
Speaker 1: tell they're they're up to speed on what's going on

2353
02:01:53,200 --> 02:01:54,840
Speaker 1: with the team in their offense and how things are

2354
02:01:54,880 --> 02:01:57,640
Speaker 1: going to change, and the work that's been going in

2355
02:01:57,640 --> 02:01:59,600
Speaker 1: and the reports that have been coming out of training

2356
02:01:59,640 --> 02:02:03,320
Speaker 1: camp and the positive vibe that it always accompanies any

2357
02:02:03,320 --> 02:02:06,040
Speaker 1: team at this time of year when we haven't seen

2358
02:02:06,080 --> 02:02:08,480
Speaker 1: them play, but we've been hearing how much improved the

2359
02:02:08,480 --> 02:02:11,560
Speaker 1: players that we know are, so I'm it doesn't surprise

2360
02:02:11,640 --> 02:02:15,000
Speaker 1: me that, but also too, I think people also remember

2361
02:02:17,120 --> 02:02:19,280
Speaker 1: every year is different, and last year I think the

2362
02:02:19,360 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 1: most the only time I ever heard the Bills fans

2363
02:02:21,960 --> 02:02:24,760
Speaker 1: get frustrated was when the offense couldn't score enough points.

2364
02:02:24,880 --> 02:02:27,720
Speaker 1: You know, when they not that they weren't fun to watch,

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02:02:27,840 --> 02:02:30,760
Speaker 1: or even if they didn't win a game, but that

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02:02:30,840 --> 02:02:33,320
Speaker 1: they just it seemed like they just weren't hitting on

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02:02:33,360 --> 02:02:35,560
Speaker 1: all cylinders. So I think when you talk about how

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02:02:35,600 --> 02:02:39,160
Speaker 1: creative they can be, some they invariably blame the offensive

2369
02:02:39,160 --> 02:02:40,960
Speaker 1: coordinator for this, or blame them for that, or the

2370
02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:42,800
Speaker 1: play selection or why did you do this and didn't

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02:02:42,800 --> 02:02:44,880
Speaker 1: do that? Why'd you run and not pass? Why'd you

2372
02:02:44,880 --> 02:02:47,240
Speaker 1: pass and not run? And I think when you get

2373
02:02:47,280 --> 02:02:49,320
Speaker 1: into ask them specific questions about what do they think

2374
02:02:49,320 --> 02:02:53,080
Speaker 1: creativity means or how do you think they should change

2375
02:02:53,080 --> 02:02:56,040
Speaker 1: the offense fundamentally with personnel or with formations or with

2376
02:02:56,800 --> 02:03:01,400
Speaker 1: play selection, I think can get a really wide variety

2377
02:03:01,440 --> 02:03:05,000
Speaker 1: of responses. We should also mention that this morning the

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02:03:05,040 --> 02:03:09,400
Speaker 1: team released a statement saying for now the stadium is

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02:03:09,440 --> 02:03:12,960
Speaker 1: going to be called Bill Stadium as they look to

2380
02:03:13,040 --> 02:03:17,800
Speaker 1: seek a naming rights sponsor, presumably after you know, they

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02:03:17,840 --> 02:03:20,080
Speaker 1: had to New Era had to pull out of the

2382
02:03:20,080 --> 02:03:23,879
Speaker 1: deal with the Bills, so now it's just Bill's stadium,

2383
02:03:24,200 --> 02:03:29,960
Speaker 1: But on Twitter, the head of barstool Sports is tweeting

2384
02:03:29,960 --> 02:03:34,800
Speaker 1: about this, and an hour ago, Dave Portnoy, who you

2385
02:03:34,840 --> 02:03:37,560
Speaker 1: know is the head of barstool Sports, set after a

2386
02:03:37,640 --> 02:03:41,280
Speaker 1: brief conversation with those who matter, I am here to

2387
02:03:41,360 --> 02:03:44,520
Speaker 1: say we are very serious about buying the naming rights

2388
02:03:44,560 --> 02:03:49,280
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills stadium and will enter the process.

2389
02:03:49,600 --> 02:03:51,680
Speaker 1: So it looks like they're at least throwing their hat

2390
02:03:51,720 --> 02:03:54,600
Speaker 1: in the ring as a candidate. So I don't know

2391
02:03:54,640 --> 02:03:56,600
Speaker 1: if that means they're going to be called Barstool Sports

2392
02:03:56,680 --> 02:04:00,520
Speaker 1: or something else, or what their plans are, but be

2393
02:04:00,600 --> 02:04:03,720
Speaker 1: interesting to see where that goes, because I do know

2394
02:04:03,760 --> 02:04:07,520
Speaker 1: there's a lot of NFL fans who do follow the

2395
02:04:07,520 --> 02:04:11,760
Speaker 1: things that they do around sports, So that'll be interesting

2396
02:04:11,800 --> 02:04:13,680
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on as we move forward, because

2397
02:04:13,680 --> 02:04:15,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're not going to be the only people

2398
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Speaker 1: that may have an interest. I'll say naming rights if

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Speaker 1: it comes to that. I'll say this too. If you

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02:04:22,840 --> 02:04:24,440
Speaker 1: want to get a stadium that's going to be on

2401
02:04:24,680 --> 02:04:27,480
Speaker 1: primetime television for a few years, this would be the one.

2402
02:04:28,360 --> 02:04:31,120
Speaker 1: I mean you got. The team has four primetime games

2403
02:04:31,160 --> 02:04:35,880
Speaker 1: this year, and that's I mean, that's where your money's going.

2404
02:04:36,000 --> 02:04:38,360
Speaker 1: It's advertising, right, And this is going to be a

2405
02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:39,600
Speaker 1: good team, and it looks like it's going to be

2406
02:04:39,640 --> 02:04:41,600
Speaker 1: a good team for the foreseeable future. This is the

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Speaker 1: time to jump on right. Um. I'm just wondering how

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02:04:45,040 --> 02:04:47,880
Speaker 1: steep the pockets are because this is not this is

2409
02:04:47,920 --> 02:04:49,840
Speaker 1: not something you nail down. Yeah, this isn't for a

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02:04:49,880 --> 02:04:53,040
Speaker 1: few million dollars. This isn't a luxury suite with sideline passes.

2411
02:04:53,160 --> 02:04:56,160
Speaker 1: This is it's big. Yeah, I mean it was a

2412
02:04:56,240 --> 02:04:59,600
Speaker 1: multimillion dollars a year deal with West with New Era,

2413
02:05:00,720 --> 02:05:04,919
Speaker 1: So yeah, it'll be interesting to say the least. Yeah.

2414
02:05:05,760 --> 02:05:08,040
Speaker 1: We also have some NFL true false which we'll get

2415
02:05:08,040 --> 02:05:11,800
Speaker 1: to in a second. One more from the tweet sheet,

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02:05:11,960 --> 02:05:15,360
Speaker 1: and this one was from Burnsey, and he says when

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02:05:15,400 --> 02:05:18,680
Speaker 1: the when the same personnel can effectively run a variety

2418
02:05:18,680 --> 02:05:22,920
Speaker 1: of plays, a variety of ways, interchanging roles, etc. The

2419
02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:25,600
Speaker 1: offense can avoid repetition that makes them easy to game

2420
02:05:25,640 --> 02:05:29,000
Speaker 1: plan for, which is to say, three down players that

2421
02:05:29,040 --> 02:05:31,440
Speaker 1: can make that can all make plays as we saw

2422
02:05:31,440 --> 02:05:36,120
Speaker 1: in the nineties. So he voted other um basically saying

2423
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:38,760
Speaker 1: keep the same people on the field, but just move

2424
02:05:38,840 --> 02:05:41,200
Speaker 1: them around, move your chest pieces around a little bit. Yeah,

2425
02:05:41,200 --> 02:05:43,120
Speaker 1: that offense that everybody always talks about it, there will

2426
02:05:43,200 --> 02:05:48,600
Speaker 1: the k gun offense with Jim Kelly, Thurman, Thomas Keith mckeller,

2427
02:05:49,520 --> 02:05:53,800
Speaker 1: Andre Reid, James Lofton, Don Beebe. Those were the principal

2428
02:05:53,840 --> 02:05:56,720
Speaker 1: guys who ran it, three of whom are in the

2429
02:05:56,720 --> 02:06:00,600
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, by the way, Yeah, that helps the

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02:06:01,480 --> 02:06:04,120
Speaker 1: Basically speaking, the reason that offense worked real well was

2431
02:06:04,160 --> 02:06:08,160
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. One, it prevented the defense from

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02:06:08,160 --> 02:06:12,320
Speaker 1: making substitutions. All of the five of those guys were

2433
02:06:12,360 --> 02:06:15,440
Speaker 1: good enough to win their matchup if they were if

2434
02:06:15,440 --> 02:06:17,520
Speaker 1: their defender was the weak link, or even if he was,

2435
02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:20,960
Speaker 1: the wasn't the weak link. And they and one other

2436
02:06:21,000 --> 02:06:24,560
Speaker 1: thing that always gets overlooked. They could run with one

2437
02:06:24,680 --> 02:06:27,960
Speaker 1: back and one tight end as much as they threw

2438
02:06:28,160 --> 02:06:31,040
Speaker 1: to three wides. It was a It was a fifty

2439
02:06:31,080 --> 02:06:35,000
Speaker 1: fifty split run pass. It goes. It goes to the

2440
02:06:35,000 --> 02:06:36,720
Speaker 1: heart of why Jim Kelly's in the Hall of Fame,

2441
02:06:36,760 --> 02:06:40,480
Speaker 1: because he wanted to win. And you get down to

2442
02:06:40,560 --> 02:06:43,200
Speaker 1: Miami and during that time their quarterback didn't like handing

2443
02:06:43,240 --> 02:06:46,200
Speaker 1: it off. You go to San Diego Chargers with dan fouls.

2444
02:06:46,240 --> 02:06:48,240
Speaker 1: He didn't like handing it off. There's a lot of

2445
02:06:48,320 --> 02:06:51,000
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are really good and for good reason. I mean,

2446
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:53,440
Speaker 1: they thought they could win it. They didn't like handing

2447
02:06:53,520 --> 02:06:56,800
Speaker 1: it off, and Jim knew, the guy here in Buffalo

2448
02:06:56,880 --> 02:07:00,160
Speaker 1: knew he'd hand it off to Thurman, and they were

2449
02:07:00,160 --> 02:07:02,800
Speaker 1: gonna They're gonna win games that way. And going fast

2450
02:07:02,880 --> 02:07:07,520
Speaker 1: and picking the right matchups. That was it. You had

2451
02:07:08,560 --> 02:07:11,080
Speaker 1: that personnel grouping was on the field. You went fast,

2452
02:07:11,120 --> 02:07:14,800
Speaker 1: so the defense stayed static and you could pick your

2453
02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:17,600
Speaker 1: matchup and go after it quick, or you could run

2454
02:07:17,720 --> 02:07:21,520
Speaker 1: and you could pass. Both those things. All those things

2455
02:07:21,520 --> 02:07:24,400
Speaker 1: were in place, and that's why that offense worked. You

2456
02:07:24,440 --> 02:07:28,640
Speaker 1: could do the same thing today under the same situation.

2457
02:07:28,680 --> 02:07:31,960
Speaker 1: If you've got five guys, one of which is always

2458
02:07:32,040 --> 02:07:36,040
Speaker 1: gonna win or mostly gonna win, and if they back

2459
02:07:36,080 --> 02:07:37,920
Speaker 1: out to guard the pass, you can run, turn it

2460
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:39,800
Speaker 1: around and hand it off and make six yards a

2461
02:07:39,840 --> 02:07:42,240
Speaker 1: pop or get a first down. And you got a

2462
02:07:42,320 --> 02:07:44,800
Speaker 1: running back that's also in the passing play and you

2463
02:07:44,840 --> 02:07:49,680
Speaker 1: can protect the passer. Yeah, you don't need to change

2464
02:07:49,320 --> 02:07:52,280
Speaker 1: go get them turn it loose. But that's those are

2465
02:07:52,360 --> 02:07:54,880
Speaker 1: big asks for all those things as a big if

2466
02:07:55,200 --> 02:07:57,560
Speaker 1: it's not easy to do. That's why. You know, three

2467
02:07:57,600 --> 02:07:59,320
Speaker 1: of those guys on that that group I just said

2468
02:07:59,320 --> 02:08:01,880
Speaker 1: are in the Hall of Fame, you know. So that's

2469
02:08:01,880 --> 02:08:03,760
Speaker 1: the you know, that's the kind of guys you're talent

2470
02:08:03,840 --> 02:08:05,600
Speaker 1: in here. Yeah, that's the kind of guys you're talking about.

2471
02:08:05,760 --> 02:08:07,880
Speaker 1: And there's a couple and a lot of guys up front.

2472
02:08:08,440 --> 02:08:10,640
Speaker 1: They had the best, the biggest offensive line in the

2473
02:08:10,720 --> 02:08:15,560
Speaker 1: league in nineteen ninety. So that's a lot of things

2474
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:17,400
Speaker 1: that got to come together before you can just go

2475
02:08:17,440 --> 02:08:20,920
Speaker 1: out there, turn it loose and say let's go week

2476
02:08:20,960 --> 02:08:24,200
Speaker 1: after week after week. Fair enough. I mean, it's still

2477
02:08:24,240 --> 02:08:26,640
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what what pans out there,

2478
02:08:26,680 --> 02:08:29,880
Speaker 1: all right, quickly to NFL true false, because we did

2479
02:08:29,880 --> 02:08:32,400
Speaker 1: have a Bills related one right off the top NFL

2480
02:08:32,440 --> 02:08:35,240
Speaker 1: true false is oh is brought to you by Yancey's

2481
02:08:35,280 --> 02:08:39,360
Speaker 1: Fancy New York's artists and Cheese. So true false Number

2482
02:08:39,360 --> 02:08:42,000
Speaker 1: one Steve the Bills biggest X factor is tight end

2483
02:08:42,080 --> 02:08:47,480
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox True or false? What does X factor define?

2484
02:08:47,640 --> 02:08:50,720
Speaker 1: X doctor? I mean, the claim here is that so

2485
02:08:50,800 --> 02:08:53,200
Speaker 1: much attention has been placed on the wide receiving corps

2486
02:08:53,200 --> 02:08:56,520
Speaker 1: with Diggs, Brown and Beasley and how that much that's

2487
02:08:56,560 --> 02:08:59,520
Speaker 1: going to raise the level of this offensive performance. But

2488
02:08:59,600 --> 02:09:02,520
Speaker 1: the paying offense, you know, could become even more dangerous

2489
02:09:02,520 --> 02:09:06,520
Speaker 1: depending on Dawson Knox matchuration. So is he the biggest

2490
02:09:06,640 --> 02:09:08,640
Speaker 1: X factor on that side of the ball, He's the

2491
02:09:08,640 --> 02:09:13,520
Speaker 1: biggest unknown. You think that, I would say yes, right equivocally,

2492
02:09:13,640 --> 02:09:15,800
Speaker 1: So i'd yeah, I would go with it. He's in

2493
02:09:15,840 --> 02:09:17,960
Speaker 1: that conversation. I'd here, I'd give that to him. I

2494
02:09:18,000 --> 02:09:19,600
Speaker 1: think you know what you're gonna get from those runs,

2495
02:09:19,600 --> 02:09:21,600
Speaker 1: even Zach Moss. I think you know you're gonna get

2496
02:09:21,920 --> 02:09:25,240
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get from him. So you're gonna go true, Okay,

2497
02:09:25,240 --> 02:09:27,520
Speaker 1: I say true. I'll say true. Yes, I'm gonna kind

2498
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:30,560
Speaker 1: of say false only because I think Josh is the

2499
02:09:30,720 --> 02:09:32,640
Speaker 1: X factor here. He's the guy that's got to raise

2500
02:09:32,680 --> 02:09:34,840
Speaker 1: his game to another level, and if he does, the

2501
02:09:34,840 --> 02:09:37,080
Speaker 1: trickle down effect is everybody else is going to be better.

2502
02:09:38,160 --> 02:09:40,640
Speaker 1: So just by virtue of Josh's impact on everybody else,

2503
02:09:40,640 --> 02:09:44,400
Speaker 1: I'll say he's the X factor. And that is probably

2504
02:09:44,440 --> 02:09:46,760
Speaker 1: the shortest edition of NFL true falls you've ever had,

2505
02:09:46,800 --> 02:09:49,680
Speaker 1: because we are up against the break, So we will

2506
02:09:50,040 --> 02:09:52,480
Speaker 1: take one more break here and then be back with

2507
02:09:52,520 --> 02:09:56,320
Speaker 1: what have we learned from today's show? Stay tuned, Chris Brown,

2508
02:09:56,360 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. It's One Bill's Live presented by

2509
02:09:58,800 --> 02:10:16,680
Speaker 1: Kalida Health and this is buff Bills Radio time for

2510
02:10:17,040 --> 02:10:20,360
Speaker 1: what have we learned from today's show? Presented by Skyworks,

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Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: And we had an interesting and very brief addition of

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02:10:30,880 --> 02:10:36,120
Speaker 1: Tasker's teammate today as Steve broke his own record and

2514
02:10:36,320 --> 02:10:39,560
Speaker 1: got it in a mirror two clues and I'm talking

2515
02:10:39,560 --> 02:10:44,840
Speaker 1: about blue number two for Tasker's teammate. I was born

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02:10:44,880 --> 02:10:48,920
Speaker 1: in Detroit, Michigan. Went to Brother Rice High School, where

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Speaker 1: I was a parade All American and won a state title.

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Speaker 1: My junior year, I earned a scholarship to a then

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Speaker 1: pack ten school for football. Mike Lodish, Steve, you just

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Speaker 1: nailed it way Mildish on the second clue. Wow, thank you. Wow.

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Speaker 1: That is a new record for Steve. And we got

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Speaker 1: Mike on the line, Say Hi, Steve, Mike, let's gold.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Man? Hey man, I'm honored, I'm I'm honored.

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Speaker 1: You pegged me in the second clue. So that was

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Speaker 1: a shorter than anticipated edition of Tasker's Teammate. But good

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Speaker 1: on you man participate me knowing the lower Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: was back in the beginnings of their career. That was

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Speaker 1: good of my teammates. Yeah, that was good. We did

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Speaker 1: have a We did have it the conversation though. Lodi

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Speaker 1: was on our show like a year ago and when

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Speaker 1: we're in the preseason in Detroit, so we had him

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Speaker 1: on and he gave us that story about both Shim Blacker,

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Speaker 1: so I knew that clicked for me, So that there

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Speaker 1: you go. We also had NFL Network reporter Mike Girardi

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Speaker 1: on the show, and he talked about the quarterback competition

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Speaker 1: in New England and how that's shaping up. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would say none of the three guys has been all

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Speaker 1: that impressive to this point. I would say that they

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Speaker 1: all have moments, they've all strung together. You know, two

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Speaker 1: days ago, Hoyer had the best practice. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: think it was closest compared to the other two guys. Today,

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Speaker 1: I thought Newton had the best practice. Day one, I

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Speaker 1: thought Stidham had the best practice. So you're just sort

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Speaker 1: of seeing these guys don't want to quite taken the

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02:12:29,200 --> 02:12:32,520
Speaker 1: range yet. And I think in a situation like that,

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Speaker 1: that makes me think that even more than I did before,

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Speaker 1: that it will be Cam at the end of the

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Speaker 1: day as the starter, because I just think you look

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Speaker 1: at the resume and you say, all right, well, these

2550
02:12:42,560 --> 02:12:45,560
Speaker 1: guys are all planned just about the same. You know,

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Speaker 1: we know what Cam is. You know able to do

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Speaker 1: when he's right. You know. I'm just gonna say this, Steve,

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Speaker 1: having covered training camps here for the better part of

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Speaker 1: the last twenty something years, I can't tell you how

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Speaker 1: happy I am that there is not a quarterback competition here.

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Speaker 1: I do not miss that at all. Oh you're consumed.

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Speaker 1: I am so happy. Oh that Josh Allen is the

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02:13:11,760 --> 02:13:14,000
Speaker 1: entrenched starter. Oh my gosh. I can't even tell you

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Speaker 1: if you don't if it's a quarterback competition, you are

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Speaker 1: consumed with every nothing else absolutely day. And I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you it doesn't surprise me that you got quarterbacks that

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Speaker 1: don't look that good. That offenses around me. You're always

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Speaker 1: trailing these defenses because defense just redreact and go, and

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Speaker 1: that it's easier for them to look good and an

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02:13:33,280 --> 02:13:36,200
Speaker 1: offense so much has to go right, for you to

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Speaker 1: look good. So it's not a surprising that around the

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Speaker 1: league you hear stories like that where guys are throwing

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Speaker 1: interceptions or whatever. We heard that about my homes last year.

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Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for today's show. We are

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Speaker 1: up against it. But on tomorrow's show, Steve is off,

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Speaker 1: Maddie will be alongside me and here to do the program,

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Speaker 1: and we'll have Drew Bledsoe and one Eric Allen, the

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Speaker 1: Jets beat reporter from New York Jets dot Com. It's

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