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Speaker 1: He's the best wide receiver in the Canadian All right,

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Speaker 1: all right, Luke Tasker's gonna join us. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: to him about the handling Tiger Cats, the CFL, also

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks on their roster. Jeremiamaz Olan, some guy named

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Speaker 1: joins us from Arizona, where he's been working out and

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Speaker 1: getting ready for camp, which just a couple of weeks away. Also,

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Speaker 1: camp is just two weeks away, so we want to

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Speaker 1: hear from you what Buffalo Bill has the most at

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Speaker 1: stake in this year's training camp. You can call us

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Speaker 1: or just tweet it. All right, get ready. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live starts right now. Oh, good time, Steve Tasker, much down,

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Speaker 1: much downtime. Here we go. We're handing out the week,

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Speaker 1: which is a one way of saying, this is our

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Speaker 1: but we're hang in there with us. The whole place

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Speaker 1: than the others. I think he's got to show that

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Speaker 1: he belongs in this league as a productive NFL receiver,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna be the case. One of

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Speaker 1: the things that and I don't I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: disparage what the Bills did last year in their passing game,

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Speaker 1: but they were thirty or thirty first gig in passing.

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Speaker 1: One of the things too, is they're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: adjust to the ball coming out of the pocket on

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Speaker 1: time and in the right spot, you know that kind

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Speaker 1: of they're gonna if the offense is gonna look at

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Speaker 1: they're in a new offense. They got a new different

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Speaker 1: type of quarterback, quarterback who's gonna let it go on

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Speaker 1: time and let it go with some timing. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be adjustment for them as well in that regard,

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Speaker 1: particularly guys that were here last year like um, you know,

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Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin and Zay Jones. They're gonna, I think in

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Speaker 1: some regards they're gonna think, wow, yeah, okay, now I

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Speaker 1: get this what we're trying to do here. And I

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Speaker 1: think there's gonna be a particularly maybe they've already gone

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Speaker 1: through that in mini camp where they've gone some seven

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Speaker 1: on seven, some nine some you know, some nine on

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Speaker 1: seven some live not live team drill, but at least

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Speaker 1: you know team drills where they've gotten a chance to

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Speaker 1: go against a defense and had the quarterback throw it

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Speaker 1: in on time. But because remember last year and he

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Speaker 1: took a lot of heat for it's Tyrod, you had

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Speaker 1: to be out front in the clear and then he

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Speaker 1: would throw it. They're gonna have to pick the ball

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Speaker 1: up a little quicker. And I think there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: some of that adjusting going on in training camp two.

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Speaker 1: So not only are you competing for a job and

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Speaker 1: there's all this pressure, a lot of things are going

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Speaker 1: to look different about the offense. Our conversation today on

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Speaker 1: Twitter on the phone, which Bill's player has the most

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Speaker 1: at stake in this year's training camp? And Bills go

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Speaker 1: to camp in two weeks. Love to hear a few

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Speaker 1: your voice on the phone. Eight three five fifty the

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Speaker 1: number outside Buffalo toll free. McGuire's coming on the show'st

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Speaker 1: like ten minutes. You're excited. I haven't seen him for

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Speaker 1: a while. I haven't seen him in a while, right yourself.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to it. Yeah, he's been He was

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Speaker 1: a fixture for the young guys at for Young with

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Speaker 1: the millennials. He U he is a fixture in Buffalo broadcast.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's been around. Here's a player here in

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Speaker 1: the sixties of the championship teams he was on. Had

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Speaker 1: a cable show here for years and years and years.

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Speaker 1: It was really successful. It was the longest running sports

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Speaker 1: talk show in television at a time. And yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was his tagline. And of course he was on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football, Sunday Night Football. Um, he's a renowned podcaster,

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Speaker 1: and I think maybe I'll ask him. Maybe he's done now,

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Speaker 1: but he's he still does some college games. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: so he's been in broadcasting for you know, way longer

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Speaker 1: than he was a football player. And I probably he's

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Speaker 1: probably more successful to broadcast than he wasn't football. Even

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Speaker 1: though I'm gonna ask him he might see the same

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Speaker 1: thing he considers if he consider yeah, what if he

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Speaker 1: comes back, well he can, He's fine, we're friends. I've

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Speaker 1: had word, I've had worst things said to me. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna ask interesting if he's got to

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Speaker 1: consider himself a much more successful broadcaster than he was

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Speaker 1: a football player. You can ask him. I'm gonna ask

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Speaker 1: him that. Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna ask him that. Paumguire's

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Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of minutes here he is

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Speaker 1: in town in our studio. What Bill's player has the

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Speaker 1: most at stake during which Biell's players the most stake

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Speaker 1: during training game. Can I throw this out there too?

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Speaker 1: We didn't think about it initially. I think Chris Ivory

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Speaker 1: has now because of the uncertainty as to what's going

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Speaker 1: on with la Shawn McCoy, Chris Ivory has a certain

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Speaker 1: amount at stake. Maybe a bigger role in play for

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Speaker 1: Chris Ivory, the backup running back the free agencyney this year,

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Speaker 1: who didn't get a lot of action when he played

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Speaker 1: with Jacksonville last year. Yeah, I think he might be

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Speaker 1: looking at a bigger role, right, I mean you have

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Speaker 1: to acknowledge that we don't know how. There's no news

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Speaker 1: by the way today I'm McCoy, But Chris Ivory might

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Speaker 1: have a bigger role to play, might have a more

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Speaker 1: prominent role to play. He's got something I think a

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Speaker 1: little bit more at stake today than he had a

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Speaker 1: week ago. Today. As far as this year's training camp,

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Speaker 1: I believe yeah, And I think also there's no question

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Speaker 1: that the club is I don't know. We haven't talked

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Speaker 1: to anybody on nobody's here from the football side of

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Speaker 1: the mean there it's a ghost town. So when this

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Speaker 1: shady thing hit. I mean you automatically it's their job

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Speaker 1: to start saying, okay, well, we got to start having

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Speaker 1: some contingency plans in case there's a suspension or if

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Speaker 1: he could no longer be a part of our organization.

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Speaker 1: You got to start talking like that because you know

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Speaker 1: it's on the table and it's your job to do this.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean's job is Sean mcdermot's to think about that.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you started looking and the guys you

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Speaker 1: got on the roster, but it falls right on Chris

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Speaker 1: Ivory and the Rent and Cadet. I mean, those guys

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Speaker 1: have got to be like shrugging their shoulders going on.

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Speaker 1: I got you know, I gotta get really ready now

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Speaker 1: for it's great for training camp because we don't know

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen there. Now there's a big uncertainty

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Speaker 1: at a position where the Bills felt that they were set.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think who's got the most at stake?

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Speaker 1: What about defense? I right when we were talking about

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Speaker 1: this topic in our office about a couple hours ago,

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Speaker 1: right off the bat, I thought, Shack Lawson. Look, his

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Speaker 1: springtime progress has been well documented many people. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's funny how it works in the court of public perception.

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Speaker 1: When the spring workouts began, people thought Shack Lawson potential bust.

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Speaker 1: By the end of the spring workouts, people thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: Shack Lawson is a new man. Looks like a new man,

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Speaker 1: different body, Gonna have a big role to play. Somewhere

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Speaker 1: in the middle of that, I think is the truth

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Speaker 1: about Shack Lawson, and I think he's got a lot

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Speaker 1: to prove and a lot at stake during training camp

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Speaker 1: starting in two weeks, to demonstrate that he is more mature,

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Speaker 1: that he is more conditioned, and that he is ready

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Speaker 1: to take a regular turn on the defensive line rotation

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Speaker 1: for the Bills. I think it's an important camp for him, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and we're getting tweets on as well. Shack Lawson has

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Speaker 1: to elevate his game to the level of his draft status,

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Speaker 1: or his time as a Bill could come to an end.

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Speaker 1: This regime is not shy from moving on from players

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Speaker 1: they have not drafted now. I don't know if they've

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Speaker 1: drafted roun I don't think there's shy from moving on

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Speaker 1: from anybody, including Shack Lawson. But that's the point that's

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Speaker 1: being made right here. Shack Lawson. It's time, it really is.

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Speaker 1: And this training camp, I think is I don't know,

553
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Speaker 1: we're looking for an analogy. That's the fulcrum of his

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Speaker 1: career right now. He's got to use this camp as

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Speaker 1: leverage to get himself, make himself a career here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: It'd be, I guess wise to say that Tremaine Edmonds,

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Speaker 1: the rookie, the first rounder, has a lot at stake.

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Speaker 1: But the problem with that is if he's not playing well,

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Speaker 1: they have no alternative. They're going to have to stay

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Speaker 1: with him. So it's not as if Tremaine Edmunds, unless

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Speaker 1: he totally bottoms out, will lose his job in the

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Speaker 1: starting lineup. I think he is not just penciled in.

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Speaker 1: He is inked into the starting lineup at middle Linebackers

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Speaker 1: coming up on September night, they might have gotten the

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Speaker 1: chisel and chip that out in stone that he's starting

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Speaker 1: middle line forget ink he's got something at stake for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he does. Yeah he does. And he's not the

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Speaker 1: only one. I mean, we've got I think White. Another

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Speaker 1: tweet from the tweet sheet, I think wide receivers Andre

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Speaker 1: Holmes and Rod Street or have a lot to prove

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Speaker 1: during training camp. With a lot of young talent in

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver room, they'll have to have an impressive

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Speaker 1: camp to make the roster, and that depends on the

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Speaker 1: philosophy that team takes. If they let's let's face it,

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Speaker 1: if all these wide receivers you throw them in, there's

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Speaker 1: five or six of them, you got three spots at

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster that you're trying at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the active roster, and you stir them up

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Speaker 1: and they all come out even do you go with

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Speaker 1: the young guys who have maybe a higher potential? Do

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Speaker 1: you go with the guys who have proven that they're

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Speaker 1: going to be available in week fourteen sixteen? There you

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Speaker 1: know they can contribute in every way you want them to.

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Speaker 1: M You know, that's going to be a philosophical question,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to be up to how they compare

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Speaker 1: to the young guys. Um. I don't know if economics

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Speaker 1: would ever enter into it at that level, because none

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Speaker 1: of those guys are are gonna be a you know,

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Speaker 1: they're not even gonna be a blip on the on

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Speaker 1: the radar with their salary cap numbers. So UM, it

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Speaker 1: will be interesting whether the Bills feel a need to

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Speaker 1: keep veterans to back up guys like Kelvin Benjamin and

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Speaker 1: Zay Jones Um and uh Jeremy Curley. Are there going

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Speaker 1: to be veterans behind those guys that are dependable and

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Speaker 1: you know they're gonna be there week to week, or

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Speaker 1: you're gonna take a chance on maybe some more talented,

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Speaker 1: physically talented young guys that are going to have a

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Speaker 1: better upside. That's we'll have to wait and see. But

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Speaker 1: that's that's a question. Let's hear from you. Which Bills

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Speaker 1: player has the most at stake when the Bills had

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Speaker 1: to training camp two weeks from today, first training camp

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Speaker 1: practice two weeks away. Give us a call. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to your phone calls as the show moves along numbers.

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Speaker 1: The lines are open eight oh three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: and toll free from outside Buffalo one eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. We are excited to welcome in

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Speaker 1: a guest in our next segment, and he is a

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Speaker 1: one of the all time Buffalo Bills, longtime Bills punter,

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Speaker 1: a three time AFL champion, and a long time successful

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Speaker 1: broadcaster football broadcaster, the Great Paul McGuire is gonna step

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Speaker 1: into our studio when we return. Stick around for that.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker here, just getting rolling. One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio back. We're on the air, One Bills Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker and a very

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Speaker 1: special guest. Now, this guy's been out on the show before,

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Speaker 1: but never in studio with us on the show, and

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Speaker 1: we are delighted that he is here today, a surprise

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Speaker 1: guest for us. Happy to have longtime Bills punter, three

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Speaker 1: time AFL champion, longtime broadcaster Paul McGuire and studio with us. Paul,

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Speaker 1: great to see you. How are you going to see you? Guys?

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Steve, thank you very much. And right off

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Speaker 1: the bat we were talking just before we found out

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Speaker 1: you're gonna come on with us. It was awesome and

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Speaker 1: and I said, you know, you helped. It was twenty

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Speaker 1: over twenty years ago when I came to your house

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Speaker 1: and you had me in and you showed me some

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Speaker 1: stuff and give me some points when I first started

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Speaker 1: at CBS, and I was thinking, you said, forty six

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Speaker 1: years just finished, forty six just finished you and you're

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Speaker 1: done you're not gonna do any college, no nothing, You're done, no,

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Speaker 1: no more. After forty six years, you're hanging it up. None.

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Speaker 1: You do you consider I can't see what? Yeah? And

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Speaker 1: was that John Oman? The blue shirt is? Um? Do

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Speaker 1: you consider yourself a better broadcaster, more successful broadcaster than

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Speaker 1: professional football player? Forty six year careers? Yeah? I know,

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Speaker 1: But the only problem is, and I know you you

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Speaker 1: face it every time you go to a game. And

639
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: I think marve Leievey said it. Where else would you

640
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: rather be? Seriously, you're sitting in a booth, see and

641
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: you're watching it down there? You'd rather be down there? Yeah?

642
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: And yeah, you do it. I get you, because yeah,

643
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: but are you wed? Yeah? But up in booth you don't.

644
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: The scoreboard can be whatever it is and you're not.

645
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: You're not gonna puke in your sink because you may play.

646
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: You know, you never worked with thisman either, so you know,

647
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: let's not get carried away with you. Joe, it all,

648
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: it all. The only guy I know. When he goes

649
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: to better than I he wraps his arms around himself. Now,

650
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: he's a great guy. Don't please, don't get me wrong.

651
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: Said that to him before, but not on their right. Hey, Paula,

652
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: there was a great piece of vic grudge you wrote

653
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: in the Buffalo News last Sunday detailing your career where

654
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: you're at right now in your life, and and it

655
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: struck me. Uh. Steve said, you were known by many

656
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: for your broadcasting career, but you did some things in

657
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: the AFL. I mean three AFL championships year, three straight years.

658
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: You're one of what ten or twelve players have played

659
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: ten or more years in the entire existence of the

660
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: American Football League, Right, you accomplish some things. Well, yeah,

661
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that until about two months ago. A

662
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: guy from San Diego called me and he said, you know,

663
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,719
Speaker 1: you're the only player that's ever played in three winning

664
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: championship games in a row. Wow, Because the sixty three

665
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: I was with the Chargers and I got cut and

666
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: I came here. Saban brought me here in sixty four

667
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: to sixty five. Jack came the year before he came

668
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: here in sixty three he missed down on the San

669
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,479
Speaker 1: Diego Yeah, he did it, and I never thought about it.

670
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, you're the only guy that's

671
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: ever done in history. I said, wait a minute, I

672
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: got to be someone, Yeah, there are you know the guys.

673
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: It's not I'm not allowed to bring this upright. Our

674
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: girls went four years and you were party shot at

675
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: four of it. We didn't win it. I don't know

676
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: if you heard about it. We didn't win any either.

677
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: There's there's a note on my forehead that says you

678
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: didn't win them all and we won two. So that's no.

679
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: But uh, I love the booth I learned. I learned

680
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: from a guy right right here in Buffalo. The first

681
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: guy I ever worked with was Done Cricky, and I

682
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: was with him for six years. He's the first guy

683
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: that taught me and he really helped me. Just two

684
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: things that I wrote on the board, our scouting board

685
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: for every game was one talk when you have something

686
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: to say, because you're on television, they can already see it,

687
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: so you don't you already have to, you know, be

688
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: rad him with all this crap. And he said, and

689
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: when you do a replay, tell him why it worked.

690
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: Don't tell him what they just saw again they already

691
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 1: saw it, but tell him why. And normally for forty

692
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: six years, I rather, I'd rather talk about the good

693
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: block the guy made than you do it quite you

694
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: do it ninety nine percent of time you talk about

695
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: the good play. And because the guy that well, you know,

696
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: the guy, the guy that's uh, you're you'll be rating

697
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: on the air about the bad play made. He already

698
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: he's going to find that out on Monday morning when

699
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: he sits in they look in the meeting rooms. You

700
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: know they're gonna rip him aneue. Right, Yeah, that's and

701
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: that's interesting you say that because you're right. I mean,

702
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: and plus the first thing I remember when, and I've

703
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: said this before, my first game in the booth, you

704
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: know that ball gets kicked on opening kickoff. I finally

705
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: realized that for the first time. I every don't have

706
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: a scoreboard. You know, I just hope it's a good game.

707
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't hope. I don't want to have one team

708
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: runaway or I wanted to be a good game. Yes,

709
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter who's playing. Yeah, I don't care

710
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: who's playing. I just wanted to be a good game

711
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: because I got you know, we've got a broadcast to

712
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: do in it, and we don't have any skin in

713
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: the game in the booth. And that's people don't believe that.

714
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: They think we're rooting for They always get expressonally with

715
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: social media. You want us to lose or you're a

716
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: whole are on our team And I could not care less. Well,

717
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: Mike Patrick and I for years we did the Sunday

718
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: Night for nine years, and Mike, Mike and I had

719
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: a bet, which yeah, as a dollar per game, and

720
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: we knew on all those sixteen games that we did.

721
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: We knew all the players John, We knew who was hurt,

722
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: who's not going to play, who's got a quarterback, and

723
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: who isn't. And we bet a dollar and we could

724
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: pick a team. Each guy had a different week to

725
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: pick a team. Sixteen games. Now, you gotta remember I

726
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: knew everything. Maybe I didn't retain it at all, but

727
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: I knew everything. Right, do you know how many games

728
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: that one one? And he was He wasn't a player,

729
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: He was never a player. I'm totally with you because

730
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: you can't. You don't know. We go in and we

731
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: sit down and we'll talk like we were just doing

732
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: my schedule. I got the first four weeks of the

733
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: schedule of the schedule when I got with CBS, and

734
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: we're going, we'll sit down like for the Buffalo Bill,

735
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: I'll do all the preseason games for the Bills. I'll

736
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: watch them all. I'll go to training camp and then

737
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: I'll go over and I'll talk to you know, John

738
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: Harbaugh and all the guys from Baltimore and week one

739
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to them, see how their guys are going.

740
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: We'll talk to their players, We'll talk to the head

741
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: coaches on both sides. Sit down, we'll know who's injured,

742
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: who's what the active guys are, even the question marks,

743
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: and then you know, you'll get on that and I

744
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: have no clue who's gonna win that game? Well, you

745
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: know clue. The amazing part about it, though, how much

746
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: do we have time. The amazing part about it is

747
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: that I never looked at film in forty six years.

748
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: Because if you look at a game, every game that

749
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: you look at, and this is God's on the truth,

750
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: there's only three guys on offense and three guys on

751
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: defense that really you were doing anything, and the course

752
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: of the ballgame, the rest of those guys make a

753
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: play once in a while, but you really don't have

754
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: to worry too much about those guys. And the funny

755
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: part about it is when when you're doing a game

756
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: and it all happens now. You can't look at last

757
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: week's game. And I hate it when I hear an

758
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: announcer say, you know, last year they beat this team

759
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: by seventeen points. Well, last year they had eighteen all

760
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: Americans on their team. Yet sixteen different guys on it

761
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you did last week and the week

762
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter. And especially now Steve, with you guys,

763
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: you go, you can. People can watch it on every

764
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: network in the every game. They want to watch coach's

765
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: film too. And the only reason that they're watching you

766
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: do a game. And I can assure you one thing,

767
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: my friend, even though I love you, they don't really

768
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: give a damn about you. They'd watch it if it

769
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: was they wanted. They want to know what these two

770
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: teams are doing. That's what you got to tell him.

771
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: What these two teams they're doing, and not what they

772
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: did last week, what they're doing now, Why they're doing

773
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: this thing now. It's a very simple process. Bab McGuire's

774
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: in studio with this long time Bills Punder, long time

775
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: NFL broadcaster ESPN, NBC. I was thinking about some of

776
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 1: the great guys you've worked with in broadcast. Paul including

777
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: as you mentioned Mike Patrick dick Enberg. You worked with him, right,

778
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: Marv Albert. But you know, I want to get your

779
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: thoughts on a guy who you did Bill's preseason with,

780
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: and that is the great Rick aysar I was part

781
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: a small part of some of those broadcasts, but what

782
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: a broadcast and what a great companion he was on

783
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 1: those broadcasts coming back in. Is he the Buffalo? Yeah,

784
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: he's gonna move back here? Is he really? Yeah? Good?

785
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: I did not know that. Not doing real well, but

786
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: he's doing Rick Aysarum, John, I swear to God when

787
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: I you know I told you this, you got the

788
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: same kind of heart he has. He just he loved

789
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: every moment of what he did, and he worked his

790
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: buns off to make sure that what he did was right.

791
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: And he actually taught me about names. Now. I know, Steve,

792
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: when you're doing games and you you you've seen a

793
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: couple of guys, you're thinking, whoa wait, Yeah, there's no

794
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: there's not that many letters in the alphabet to have

795
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: this name and not be able to pronounce it. But

796
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: he told me before I did. He says, you owe

797
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: it to that player to pronounce his name correctly. He's right, right,

798
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: you ought to. You don't pass it off on. I

799
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: still hear guys saying, well, you you got this guy's

800
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: name wrong. You're the you gotta learn it. You got

801
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: to know this guy's name, and it's important to your broadcast,

802
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: but it's also important to the fans out there and

803
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: his family at him. Yeah, yeah, you're right. And that's

804
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: and I Rick was the guy interned with when I

805
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: first I was here as a player in nineteen eighty

806
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: seven and I walked in and he's like, yeah, So

807
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: I went in to Channel seven back then a couple

808
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: of times a week, and I was I mean, I

809
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: was literally I was getting coffee running back and then

810
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: they had paper scripts, nothing was digital. I was running

811
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: scripts around and then he let me. He actually helped

812
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: me write a couple of stories for his eleven o'clock

813
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: sports cast, you know, kind of that. Again. He was great.

814
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: He was really great. I saw him a little while back.

815
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: It was just wonderful to see him again. It's good.

816
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: Good that he's coming back up. And the best part

817
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: about him see two. As you know, it was never

818
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: about him, right, it was never about Rick Hazar. It

819
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: was always you got me worried about name. I just

820
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: went to the bill's roster. We got a defense him in. Oh,

821
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: Dicky Zoa's the guy's name. So I gotta get that

822
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: name right. You got, you do. And you can't make

823
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: a mistake because I'll say something. Somebody about it from

824
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: whatever country is from is gonna be calling you. Yeah,

825
00:37:54,920 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: they might be sitting how right, it's exactly right. Not

826
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: only great broadcasters though you look. You mentioned Louise Sabman

827
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: brought you here to Buffalo. You played for Sid Gilman

828
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: right at the Chargers. These are some of the all

829
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: time great coaches in pro football history. Well, the one

830
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: most important guy that got me, really it was Al

831
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: Davis and I met him in nineteen fifty five. I

832
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: came home from practice and he's sitting in the college

833
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: right he was recruiting. He was recruiting me the Citadel

834
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: and he was sitting in the limiting with my mother

835
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: and father, and he said, I've been here talking to

836
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: your mother and father, and tell him what a great

837
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: place of Citadoism. What could happen? And my father just

838
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: looked at him. She said, he said, if you're going

839
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: to talk to somebody, talk to him. He's going to college.

840
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: I only went to the third grade. So and again

841
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: that's true that my father, after I decided, because there

842
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: are a number of places I could have gone, he said, no,

843
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: matter where you go, you promised me you'll stay for

844
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: four years. That's the only thing he ever requested. And

845
00:38:58,480 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: there were a number of times I was ready to

846
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: get the hell out of military school. And right, yeah,

847
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: he left. The we played the first year after. He

848
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 1: actually is the guy that taught me the run patterns,

849
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: because in nineteen fifty nine I ended up leading the

850
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: nation and touchdowns receiving eleven led the nation. But anyway,

851
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: he taught me how to catch him, how to run moves. Uh.

852
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: And then after that first year, al left and he

853
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: went to Southern cal and he took four guys Albi

854
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: ben Sevy's, Jack Wilkins, Angelo Koya who played a couple

855
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: three years for the Chicago Bears, and Uh. And he

856
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: wanted me to go with him, and I said, no,

857
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: I already promised my father. But I'll tell you every

858
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: one of those guys when they got out, they all

859
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: went to work for the Oakland Raiders. Al Day was hired.

860
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: I mean he was loyal man, that guy was. Did

861
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: you get have a chance to sit down to talk. Yeah,

862
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: I've met him a couple of times. Brief conversation. He

863
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: could have been He couldn't have been nicer, you know,

864
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: he was great to me. I had very brief interactions

865
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: with him. Well, the first time I interviewed him when

866
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: he was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders were

867
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: up there in Oakland and I'm down on the field

868
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: talking to him and he, uh, he always had a

869
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: guy with him. How cool that was? And the wind's blown.

870
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: He was the first guy with an entourage, really was

871
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: And he said, uh McGuire. I said, yes, sir. He said, uh,

872
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: you got a couple of guys with the camera guy Now,

873
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: he said, any of your guys have a comb? And

874
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: all the guys are you know I never had a comb,

875
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 1: had hany here, don't have any now and put my hands,

876
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: he said, excuse me, comb plays the guy comes up

877
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: with the comma. He said, my people are always prepared.

878
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: You have to use a comb. The dude he could

879
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: do it, man, he really could do it. But he

880
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: was a hell of a coach. Yeah. One more broadcast

881
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: piece asked you about He brought it up when he

882
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: realized you were on the show, and that was the

883
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: Budweiser Sports Line. Oh how many years for me too?

884
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: Twenty two? I think I think it was more, yeah,

885
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: twenty two more. Seemed like that was a unique piece

886
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 1: of Buffalo broadcasting, you know what I mean? It was

887
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: different than anything else on TV then or now. Well,

888
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: you know the neat part about it, John is we

889
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: uh we there there's a couple of neat parts about it. Yeah,

890
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: well there are a couple. Can't say, go ahead, But

891
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: the thing it was it was live with no delay. Yeah,

892
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: And I had the telephone right here and I could

893
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: hit so I didn't have anybody look at the name

894
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: or number or whatever it is, and I would go,

895
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: um boom, you're on the Budweiser sports Line. Can I

896
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: tell a story? But mcagney, sure, please. Let me just

897
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: say this, and I'm not offending anyone. I hit the

898
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: thing and I had mccagney on and I said, you're

899
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: on a Budweiser sports line with Tony mccagney. And they said, yeah, mckegney,

900
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: you're the only N word in hockey. And I hit

901
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: the button and I said Tony, please, and I said,

902
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: I apologize. I said, because we don't have a delay,

903
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: And I'm telling him we don't have a delay, and

904
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna get You're gonna get cut up. And I said,

905
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: I want to apologize. He said, don't apologize. He said,

906
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: learned something a long time ago. It's obvious that this

907
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 1: guy who called is calling from a pay phone, because

908
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: I don't think he's smart enough to get a home phone.

909
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: And I just dropped it and let it go. We

910
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: went on to the next callar It was just you know,

911
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: one lady. One guy called. He said, yeah, I'd like

912
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: to order a pizza. I said, this isn't a pizza

913
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: and I hung up. And about twenty years later, his

914
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: wife calls. He goes, his my pizza, don't. We don't

915
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: have a delay on this show either. But you know,

916
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: things here just gonna happen. You can't take offense to

917
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. You asked you for two memories.

918
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 1: One what's your fondest memory as a player on the field,

919
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 1: like what game do you remember? And also as a

920
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: broadcast what was your favorite game? Do you remember the broadcast?

921
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: I ironically, really when I when I went to Buffalo

922
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: after San Diego, not the first year sixty four we've been.

923
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: When we went to San Diego to play in sixty five,

924
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: we were seventeen point underdog, and I told I was

925
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: it ended up in the Sports Illustrated the guys we

926
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: landed in San Diego and guy, I said, what do

927
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: you feel about the game? I said, Jesus, I said, well,

928
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,439
Speaker 1: I said, we're seventeen and a half point underdog. I said,

929
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna be lucky to come in third. And the

930
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: guy went third. He didn't get it for a while,

931
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: but it didn't even matter. That was to me because

932
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: we shot him out. We shot San Diego out. And

933
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: they had all Worth and Lincoln and Low and Mix

934
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: and all these guys that played, all of them all stars,

935
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: and we just came to the bench. Was in the

936
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter, in the middle of the

937
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: fourth quarter in Sestech and Don Away McDole and Tracy

938
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: Chippy Day, they all sat in the same spot, and

939
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: I'm just pumped up because of all the things that

940
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: are happening in the game. And I said one of guys,

941
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: I said, we got to beat these guys. I said,

942
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: you know, we bid did it last year. We got

943
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: to do it again. Because I live here I was

944
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: still living in San Diego. Sestech never said much. He

945
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: just lifted up his head and looked at me and

946
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: he said, they're not even going to score. It's over.

947
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm good. That was That was the best one ever

948
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: as a player. What about as a broadcaster? Two Super Bowls?

949
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: Which one? What numbers were they? Thirty five and thirty

950
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: seven I think or thirty four and thirty six. One

951
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: one was in the last one at NBC when they

952
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: did the NFL when they dropped out, when ever saw said, Okay,

953
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 1: we're not gonna do it anymore. We did that one

954
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: in San Diego, going into one in Arizona. Was Pittsburgh

955
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: and Dallas. Uh. I remember that game because Pittsburgh they

956
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 1: ran an on site kick against Dallas, and I just

957
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: never I've never seen it done again even before at

958
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: that time. So those were just so exciting. But the

959
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: hype is crazy, you know, it's nuts. Everybody's out there

960
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: this fifteen hundred sports writers are more trying to get

961
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: a story. The real challenge with the Super Bowl. The

962
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: other team's really good, but the challenge he's getting to

963
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: the game. It's true, you can't even get to you know,

964
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: I mean you're done. Like on Tuesday of Super Bowl week,

965
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: you're like, oh man, where's the game? And it's like

966
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: seven days it six days away, and everybody's trying to

967
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: find the story. And I kept saying, what you know

968
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: the story is? I said, it's the game, yeah, and

969
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: it's not going to be played until six o'clock on

970
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Right, Well, great memories were We love having

971
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: you on the show doing off and you're here. You

972
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: spend the summers here, right then you to Carolina down

973
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: to Charleston. Oh yeah, yeah, you must have liked that

974
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: time at Citadel because now you lived down there. A

975
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: we yeah, we actually, uh really whenever Whenever went down

976
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: and we're on our way back from from Buffalo to

977
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: Los Angeles to San Diego and we stopped over and

978
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: it was New Year's. We finished in the game here.

979
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 1: It was New Year's and Beverly had never been down there,

980
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: and so they asked me to stay over and we

981
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: stayed on the island to speak at a sports the

982
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: Old and I did and Beverly said, boy, this is beautiful.

983
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 1: And a friend of mine who was in real estate,

984
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: he knew him when I was at the Citadel and

985
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: he was then doing real estate. I said, can you

986
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: you know, praised me like a two bedroom condo on

987
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: the Ata Palms. He did. We bought it thirteen homes later. Yeah, right,

988
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: you've you've you've home hopped down there a lot, right. Yeah.

989
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: And it was one you build him, sell them, sell them,

990
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: build them. We built for three and and did h

991
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: ten other ones that we you know, connovated or whatever. Yeah,

992
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: it was fun. No, no, excuse me. You're married too,

993
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: your man. She did it, Yeah, I didn't, right, she

994
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: did it. It's a way to do it. You can

995
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: survive that. Otherwise, if you try and get involved, you're

996
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 1: you're headed down his ass. I know, I know the word.

997
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,479
Speaker 1: When I talked to my wife and she asked the question,

998
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: the answer is yes. Yeah. One last thing. Do you

999
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: like the change they made to Wanica? No, you don't know.

1000
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: That's too much sand, Sandy. I can't get out of

1001
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: the lips on the thing that can't You can't get

1002
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: out of sand. You're back in Buffalo and that's where, Yes,

1003
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: your your spot, right, you go out. I've never seen

1004
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: our pro planet, so I think something's wrong with it.

1005
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Paul, great great Senior. Man, Thank you

1006
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: very much. Paul McGuire, a long time Bills punder, long

1007
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: time broadcaster, joining us in studio back in the morning

1008
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: moment One Bill's Life, presented by Kalida Hell from One

1009
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

1010
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live. John Murphy's Steve Tasker here until

1011
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 1: three o'clock today. Man, it was great having Paul McGuire

1012
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: in here. That guy I'd see if I had a

1013
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: great opportunity when I was the first couple of years

1014
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: I worked at Channel seven. So this is late eighties

1015
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: early nineties Bills preseason games. Rick Azar. We do play

1016
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: by play. Paul McGuire was a caller, and they threw

1017
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: me in there to add whatever I could. But to

1018
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: watch those two work was really an education for me.

1019
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: Paul's right about Rick Hazar. He had a knack for

1020
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: just knowing that the right thing, saying the right thing

1021
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: at the right time. And McGuire, of course was wildly entertaining.

1022
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: It was a great broadcast. Yeah, Paul is one of

1023
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: the few people who really were Taylor made for the broadcast,

1024
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,919
Speaker 1: but he came out of he was a football player

1025
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: for the Bills, and he had the right personality, the

1026
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: right vibe, the right techniques on the air for the

1027
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: time the air in which he came out and started broadcasting.

1028
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: He's had a standard and he was as as big

1029
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: in pro football broadcasting scene, but he was at the time.

1030
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: And now you know, he's told him he's finally stepping

1031
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,919
Speaker 1: away from it. He's has had enough. He was, Yeah,

1032
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: he can't see the numbers and uh it turns eighty. Yeah,

1033
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: this year, a couple of months, forty six years he

1034
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: was doing the broadcasting. That's that's a that's a great

1035
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: for us to him, It wasn't treat that was great.

1036
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: Thanks to Paul McGuire. Thanks for tuning in. We got

1037
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: a couple of good hours coming up. Lorenzo Alex Jander

1038
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 1: is going to join us at two o'clock Bills Linebacker

1039
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,959
Speaker 1: Alive via Skype from his gym in Arizona, and coming

1040
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: up next after the top of the hour, your son, Luke, Yeah,

1041
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: Luke task Tasker, come on to be on the line

1042
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: during his bio week. He's got time to fit in

1043
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: an hour show into his busy schedule. That's coming up next.

1044
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 1: We'll talk about CFL football when we return stick around.

1045
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: There's more to come. One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

1046
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 1: We're coming here from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

1047
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Stories update. The update from

1048
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Nothing really new on Lashawn McCoy's situation

1049
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: of Bill's running back. There's hired a prominent Atlanta defense

1050
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: attorney amid a police investigation into a home invasion that

1051
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: sent his former girlfriend to the hospital earlier this week.

1052
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: She was allegedly beaten and robbed of jewelry. The Office

1053
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: of Defense Attorney Don Samuel confirmed to ESPN and ABC

1054
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: that it is representing us McCoy. Samuel has represented several

1055
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: high profile clients, including being part of the defense team

1056
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Speaker 1: for former Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis when he returned for

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Speaker 1: murder back in two thousand. Jaguar's defensive tackle Marcel Darius,

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00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: a former Bill, is being sued for damages by a

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00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: woman who alleges he assaulted her and gave her a

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00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: sexually transmitted disease. The civil complaint filed last week in

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00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: Duval County, Florida. The woman accuses Darius of having sex

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00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: with her while she was unconscious, she's seeking damages and

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00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: excess of fifteen thousand dollars. Savers announced today they've signed

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00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: forward Shawn Malone to a one year two way contract

1065
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: at the NHL level. He made his NHL debut in

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00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: the last game of twenty sixteen seventeen, before completing his

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00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: first professional season last year with a Rochester Americans twenty

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Speaker 1: two points in seventy three games and Wimbledon Serena Williams

1069
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: reaches the finals. He did not play Wimbledon last year,

1070
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,439
Speaker 1: taking a leave of absence to have her first child,

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00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: but she gets to a Grand Slam final for the

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Speaker 1: twelfth season, beating Julia Georgia's today six two sixty four.

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00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: She will buy for her eighth Wimbledon title against German

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Speaker 1: Angelie Kerber on Saturday, in a repeat of the twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen Wimbledon final, which Williams won in straight sets. And

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Speaker 1: It's a World Cup final that few would have predicted

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00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: at the start of the tournament, but France will face

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00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: Croatia in Moscow's Sunday with a chance to become World

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00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: champions at stake for both teams. France goes into the

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00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: final as a strong favorite to win, but Croatia has

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00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: beaten Denmark, RuSHA and England all after extra time to

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00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: get to their first ever final. The World Cup Final

1083
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: is Sunday at eleven A. Yeah, that's the update from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, John Murphy and Steve Tasker in our

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00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 1: one Buffalo Studio. Got a special guest on the line

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00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 1: right now, Steve Tasker. Yeah. Number seventeen, Hamilton Tiger Cats,

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00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,439
Speaker 1: Luke Tasker out of Cornell University. Hey, Luke, how you doing?

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00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: Hey Dad? How it going? Edge? Hey? How you doing? Luke?

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00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: Really good? It's weird to hear your Dan introduce you

1090
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,760
Speaker 1: like daddy. Sounds like he's just another PA announcer. Number seventeen,

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00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: Luke Tasker, Hey, what tell everybody? You guys are on

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00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: a bye weeek. Now you've had four games and you know,

1093
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: give us a little rundown the little synopsis of the

1094
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: tie cast for people who are listening. Yeah, it's been

1095
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: a good start. Great, Luke, your phone? Oh there you go?

1096
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 1: Try again? Your phone cut out on us? Go ahead?

1097
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: Hey you guys hear me now? Yeah, go ahead. So

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00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: the CFL season starts around the first of June. Up there,

1099
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: so we've were four games into the regular season already

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00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: and it's an eighteen game season, so we're well on

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00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: our way. We're actually on our first bye week right now. Um,

1102
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: and we the time with the tie cast. We started

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00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: off two and two this year, and uh, we're right

1104
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: in the mix of things. Uh, it's a it's a

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00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: nineteen league up there, you know, so every everything is

1106
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: a little bit different. Uh. There's a saying in the

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00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: CFL that the really the season doesn't start till Labor Day,

1108
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: and there's truth to that, because it's always seems to

1109
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: be the teams that are finishing up the regular season

1110
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 1: the hottest that that end up in the playoffs. Oftentimes

1111
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: that you can even clinch first in year division just

1112
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: buy some really good play towards the end of the season.

1113
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, what two and two we actually started. We

1114
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: went to Calgary for Week one and stayed out there

1115
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: for eight days until our game in Edgington out in Alberta.

1116
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: And with that tip one and one and we've done

1117
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: one and one since. Um, it's it's been great. You know,

1118
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: I've actually we've made the playoffs most of the years

1119
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: i've been up there. This is my sixth season with Hamilton.

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Speaker 1: But you know, what It's been such a story for us.

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00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: It seems like a were just a repeating scenario that

1122
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: we're always you know, clawing and scratching our way into

1123
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs. This year the two and two start, We're

1124
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: we're in a we're in a good spot right now,

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Speaker 1: and uh and I've been loving it. It's been a

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00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: fun set this season, and I've loved all my years

1127
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: up there so far. Look, it's quite different from last season, right,

1128
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,439
Speaker 1: didn't the tie Cats? You and the tie Cats start

1129
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 1: like O and eight last year to start the season

1130
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: we started, And so from when we were told last

1131
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: year that I believe there's been the beefy lines one

1132
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: year won the Great Cup after going oh and six, um,

1133
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, we were still we missed

1134
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: the player. We ended up missing the playoffs last year

1135
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: two and seventeen, but at O and eight we still

1136
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: had we were still fighting, you know, and in fact

1137
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 1: we only had. It was just well, Absoluke, we lost

1138
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: you again. Check your phone, try and step back into

1139
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: the signals for us. Are you there, Luke? Luke, You're

1140
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: still there. We're gonna hang out, ye, Luke, start that again.

1141
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: Your your phone opped out again? Go ahead. Yeah, I

1142
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: think we can hear you. Now start again from where

1143
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: you guys, you almost made the playoffs last year. You're

1144
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: fighting back into it. Yeah. So last year we started

1145
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: off the game the season o and eight, and I

1146
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: think you heard me say we there's been a team

1147
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: to win the Great Cups starting their season at six. Actually, yeah,

1148
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: that's right. You know. So we even at O and eight,

1149
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: we still had a chance at the playoffs. And as

1150
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: it turned out, we we missed the playoffs, but we

1151
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: even to our fifteenth game of the season, I want

1152
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: to say it was late into the season, we were

1153
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: still we still had a fighting chance. So it's an

1154
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: interesting league, you know, And it's an interesting season, and uh,

1155
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: this year we're certainly off to a much better start

1156
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: than that. One of the things that's been a kind

1157
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: of an attention grabbing component of your season is the

1158
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: fact you guys signed Johnny Manzel. He came up and

1159
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: was competing and starting to learn the Canadian game. He's

1160
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: trying to get it and make his way back down

1161
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: to the States in the National Football League. Talk a

1162
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: little bit about you know, obviously, and you you've told

1163
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: me it's been a little bit of a distraction because

1164
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: he has gotten a lot of attention for the club.

1165
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: But also, uh you found out, you know, what kind

1166
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: of guy is, what kind of teammate has he been.

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00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,839
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. It's just been. It's been telling

1168
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: it at each at each turn all through camp. It

1169
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: was a surprise he in fact, Johnny signed a date

1170
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: that we reported a camp, So it was not you know,

1171
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: none of us were prepped for this meanings of players,

1172
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: even the coaches and the you know art you can

1173
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: imagine the media department with the tie cats and what

1174
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 1: and the you know, the job that you know, change

1175
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 1: in their job this season since compared to last year's. Uh,

1176
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: it's the story has been about about Johnny for sure.

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00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:35,280
Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you he's he's been an excellent

1178
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: teammate and an excellent uh, you know, football player thus far.

1179
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: And it's clear it was clear very early on, you know,

1180
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: his football intelligence. He has a very natural and uh

1181
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 1: authentic football intelligence in terms of the way he uh

1182
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: you know, the way he dissects defenses and the way

1183
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: he's picking up concepts and for when people put on

1184
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: the game, when they cease the CFL game, uh, you know,

1185
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: every every now and again you catched on ESPN and

1186
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 1: in the States, and it does look different and the

1187
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: field's bigger. And what that does for what for quarterbacks

1188
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: when they have to come from America and learn the

1189
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: game up there is the ball time, the flight time

1190
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: in the air is different, and that changes the way

1191
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: that free safeties and corners can play, can play his

1192
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: own coverage, can play man coverage. In fact, you can

1193
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: see man across the board and everyone's eleven yards off

1194
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: the ball up there still because you only have three

1195
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: downs to get it. And you, like I said, that

1196
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: ball time allows defenders to really play space and dominate

1197
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: a third of the field in a different way than

1198
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: they can. So quarterbacks have trouble at first getting that.

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00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: So that's what Johnny's learning right now, right But I,

1200
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: like I said, as from a teammate perspective, he's been

1201
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: he's been at a stand up guy, and it's been

1202
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: good having him in the meetings and on the field.

1203
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: On the other hand, Luke, you're you're starting quarterback, you're

1204
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: amiam a solely another American right from University of Mississippi.

1205
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: He's he's lightening it up, and maybe that's the difference

1206
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: he's I think he's in his what fifth sixth year

1207
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: in the in the CFAL. He knows a little bit

1208
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: about that game, about that field though. Jeremiah has been

1209
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: up there for a long time and has had and

1210
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: has been through adversity in a lot of different ways

1211
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: in his career in the CFL, and now it's his team.

1212
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: And that's a funny thing. And that's what we're all.

1213
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: We're always teasing Johnny about it because you know, it's

1214
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: like Jeremiah just tied the CFL record for the most

1215
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: three hundred yard passing games, uh consecutively. But we go

1216
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: out for a drink after the game and Johnny's faces

1217
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: on the day, like CSN is talking about Johnny. So

1218
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: it's just it's been funny in that in that way

1219
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: and uh for for Jeremiah, and that's just another it's

1220
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: just another you know thing for for him to overcome

1221
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: in his career, like he's done with with a number

1222
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: of uh of things, and he is just he's playing

1223
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: the lights out right now, you know. So he it's

1224
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: it's all it's all about Jeremiah. And but I will

1225
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: say an eighteen game season, you never know, I mean,

1226
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: even even the healthiest quarterbacks. You know, there's a week

1227
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: or two where they might be banged up, right, So

1228
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: you gotta it's not impossible that Johnny sees the field

1229
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: even if Jeremiah Um continues on on the course he's

1230
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,919
Speaker 1: on Um. But like the dynamic in the quarterback room

1231
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: and the way that June Jones, our head coach runs

1232
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: runs our our offense is we're all together quarterbacks and receivers.

1233
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: So the dynamic in our room has been productive with

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00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: the two of those guys. Yeah, talked a little bit

1235
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: about June Jones. Now, he's he had a lot of

1236
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: success in the National Football League and when he got

1237
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: brought to Hamilton in the middle of last year, you know,

1238
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: he kind of took over after your oh and eight start.

1239
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: Talk a bit about about the coaching, uh, you know,

1240
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: the attitude that he brings, his philosophy and uh and

1241
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: what kind of guy June Jones has been for the

1242
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: Canadian League. Yeah, he Uh. He came in halfway through

1243
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: the season last year, right at that mark in our

1244
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: season that I referred to earlier, and he, uh, he

1245
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: came in and we had we happened to have a

1246
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: long week. You know, we had like five practice days

1247
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: in a row. It was just a strange week. Sometimes

1248
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: in the CFL we'll play anywhere from a Thursday night

1249
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: to a Monday night. So we just had a long week.

1250
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: And he came in and we really had like a

1251
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: mini camp, you know, in the middle of the season,

1252
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 1: and he installed his old offense, his running shoot offense,

1253
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: and and he he he himself was even learning to

1254
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: learning to kind of put a CFL spin on that

1255
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: offense that he's ran for so many years successfully in

1256
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: NFL and NT double A and so he was he

1257
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: was designing it in a new way, and he was

1258
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: teaching it to the guys who was just meeting and

1259
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: we and we all bought in, you know. And and

1260
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: he's it's kind of his Uh it's a credit to

1261
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: him because he has a demeanor and a confidence and uh,

1262
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: you know kind of it's all about it's all about

1263
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: us attitude that that is easy to buy into. And

1264
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: I think he did a great job. And this year

1265
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: having a full training camp, you know, it was just

1266
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: all we we we picked it up even quicker and

1267
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: got back on it for the season. He uh, June,

1268
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: I imagine it's been this way since. I mean I've

1269
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: even he can he can find on YouTube, you know

1270
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: these like old you know, interviews of him even when

1271
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: he was at the Falcons as a player and and

1272
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: all this time, and you know, he just you can

1273
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: see the same attitude and confidence that I imagine he's

1274
01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:00,120
Speaker 1: had throughout his coaching career. Um and I think it

1275
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: has a big part of the success that he's had.

1276
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: I mean he has he's had a true football life

1277
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: and it's been it's been really great for us to

1278
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: have him and the coaches that he's brought in with him.

1279
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: Uh here, I mean they're just guys who don't know

1280
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: anything but winning, and uh two and two where we

1281
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: are right now, I told you that's not that's maybe

1282
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: one of the best starts we've had to a season

1283
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: since I've been up here. But it's just not good

1284
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: enough for us, you know, with this with this attitude,

1285
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: with June Jones philosophy, and it's uh, we all feel

1286
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: like we're we're a great Cup team already. We're with

1287
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: Luke Tasker, Eastran native Steve Son, who is in his

1288
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: six year playing in the Canadian Football League with the

1289
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 1: Hamilton Dagger Cats. You talked about the coaching staff. He

1290
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: brought Jerry Glanville with him to be his defensive coordinator

1291
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: this year. Again, this is a big name in recent

1292
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: NFL history, and I imagine it's a big personality when

1293
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: you guys get in the meeting room. Huh, well, you

1294
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: can imagine the last that that Dad and I had

1295
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: when we heard that Jerry Glanville coming up here. Because,

1296
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: like Dad maybe has mentioned before, Jerry Glanville was the

1297
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: head coach for the Houston Oilers when my dad was

1298
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: drafted in the eighties. That I saw. It's just a

1299
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: circle of life in the football world. Like it's just

1300
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: an unbelievable Uh, it's unbelievable situation for me to be

1301
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: out there with a guy who I you know, seeing

1302
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: pictures of and remember and remember my dad, you know,

1303
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: hearing his name and my dad, you know, football life,

1304
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: and it's just uh, Jerry and June together and they've

1305
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: worked with each other. I mean, it's so funny. We

1306
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: have this coaching staff up there and there's a couple

1307
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: of them and all of them have fired each other

1308
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: like two times in their career, right, So it's like

1309
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 1: it's a really strange thing and they're all just like

1310
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: old boys, you know, all old buddies together up there.

1311
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: And I the way I heard it told that June

1312
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: text Jerry, you know last season or this office, and

1313
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 1: he said, hey, do you want to come to be

1314
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: our defensive coordinator up here? And that was the extent

1315
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: of it. And then like you know, a week later Jerry,

1316
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: June gets a text from Jerry saying, Hey, I'm at

1317
01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Airport, come pick me up. I'm gonna come

1318
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: coach for you guys. They just gotta they have a

1319
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: real friendly, real laid back way of doing it. And

1320
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: and that you can attest to Jerry Golanzelo's philosophy that

1321
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: if and it's true even now and had it's been

1322
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: some throughout his career that if you're not if you're

1323
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 1: not gonna have fun playing football, you might as well

1324
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 1: just quit. And if you're not gonna have fun, I

1325
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: might as well just cut you, you know. I mean,

1326
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to. He doesn't

1327
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: want to grind and struggle his way through a life

1328
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: of football. No like he he wants to enjoy it.

1329
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 1: And he's got there on the practice field up and

1330
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: in southern Ontario, he's got his white steps and had

1331
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: on the on the football field, and I I've gone

1332
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: up to him each before the games and I tell

1333
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: him how sweet is cowboy boots look? And I went

1334
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 1: and me and some me and some uh buddies went

1335
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: and bought bought a you know, some brand new Alberta

1336
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: boot company. Uh, you know, nice cowbo the boots. When

1337
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 1: we're out there West, Jerry's got his own uh, his

1338
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: own culture that that that uh kind of surrounds him.

1339
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 1: And I can tell, I mean, I know that our

1340
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: guys on defense have been have been enjoying his uh

1341
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: you know, just play free and have fun mentality. Um,

1342
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: and just the connection with with Dad and you and

1343
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: I and Jerry. I mean, it's just it blows my mind.

1344
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: Some day I'm walking out of practice and I just

1345
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: can't believe that Jerry and I are out there together,

1346
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 1: my sons, my sons. Steele is six months old, and

1347
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,439
Speaker 1: Jerry's uh, Jerry's you know, hell bent on staying around

1348
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: long enough to coach him from a football team too.

1349
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: That would be great, that it would be great, And

1350
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: it's funny too. And Lucas right, Jerry is a really

1351
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: good defensive coordinator. Wasn't the NFL for a long time.

1352
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: He's a good head coach, got the orders of the playoffs,

1353
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: got the falcons of the playoffs, and he is a

1354
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: fun loving guy and it's fun to play for a

1355
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: guy like that. But as a defensive coordinator, his style

1356
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: is listen. If if we ain't getting the quarterback, we're

1357
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: sending more guys. And if we're still not getting around

1358
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 1: us in another guy. And if he's you know, we're

1359
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 1: gonna get there and get there fast. And there's been

1360
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 1: a couple of times in your season thus far. And

1361
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if your defensive teammates are telling you,

1362
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: but man oh Man looked like, you know, out of

1363
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: the twelve guys on the field in the Canadian Football League,

1364
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: he sent eleven of them. I mean, I mean, it's

1365
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: a do the do the defenders Are they responding to

1366
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: Jerry like the offensive guys are responding to June? Yeah

1367
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: they are, and they they they You know, you can

1368
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: just feed off that kind of attitude towards the game.

1369
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 1: You know, if somebody, if somebody who's coaching you and

1370
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 1: telling you what to do is sincerely enjoying what he's

1371
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: doing and sincerely wants to win a championship, because that's

1372
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: why these guys are here, right. I mean they certainly

1373
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: none of certainly none of these names that we're talking

1374
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: about are are working for money still, you know, if

1375
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 1: they certainly don't need the uh you know, the pride

1376
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: or another notch in their built in a career sense

1377
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: what they want to win and they want championships and

1378
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 1: it's fun doing that. And so as a player, it's

1379
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: not hard to it's not hard to jump on the

1380
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: wagon with that. Hey, Luke, um, tell me about your career.

1381
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: I think Steve told me that you just recently before

1382
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 1: this season signed the new contract extension right going into

1383
01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: your six year now, Um, and you've had trist from

1384
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: the NFL over the years, even coming out of Cornell.

1385
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 1: Have you closed off that part of your football future

1386
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 1: and are you fully committed? Do you think for the

1387
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: rest of your playing days is stay with the CFL,

1388
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: maybe even stay in Hamilton's You know, I have no

1389
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 1: I have no reason to to ever say never, right,

1390
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: but but I but honestly, I've just been really happy here.

1391
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: And I was in camp with the Chargers in thirteen

1392
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 1: and when I got cut there that was the first

1393
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 1: debts when I went up to Hamilton, uh, and I

1394
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: signed a rookie contract there. I played through fourteen and

1395
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: did work out with the Packers and the reality of

1396
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 1: that was I they they the Packers offered a you know,

1397
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 1: a futures contract generica, you know. They I was I

1398
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 1: was going to be able to go to camp with

1399
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: them if I wanted to, and we tried. I tried

1400
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: to go back to Hamilton then too. I signed another

1401
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: contract there and I loved that and finished up that

1402
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 1: contract and then that ended last year, that second contract there.

1403
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: I had to work out with the Jets this offseason.

1404
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 1: That didn't didn't They didn't offer any futures or anything.

1405
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: But I thought I had a good workout. They said

1406
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, and we didn't hear from them until

1407
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: I had, uh, you know, until right before CFL f

1408
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: agence free agency was about to begin. And to be honest,

1409
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: I you know, and like I said, you never say

1410
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 1: never either if it's something a chance down here or

1411
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: a chance somewhere else in Canada. But for the time being,

1412
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: I did. I did not hit CFL free agency before

1413
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: this contract that I just figned either. I was happy

1414
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,160
Speaker 1: with the agreement that we got to with the tie Cats,

1415
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: and and that's where we wanted to go. And uh,

1416
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 1: I've really been enjoying it. Luke, I gotta ask you.

1417
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: Steve mentioned that you you banged up a little bit.

1418
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 1: You may not play in the game. A game is

1419
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: a week. Your next game is next week, a week

1420
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: from today, right home against this Catchewan. Yeah, we're on

1421
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:39,400
Speaker 1: a bye week right now, and we have our second

1422
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: home game of the season coming up. And uh, you

1423
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,520
Speaker 1: know what I'm not I'm definitely not ruled out this week.

1424
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: I uh I. You know, it's an eighteen game season

1425
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 1: and after training camp, there's I don't think I'll ever

1426
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: play a football a football season healthy, you know. And

1427
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: I played all eighteen game last year and I was

1428
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: lucky enough to make it through. But but you're always

1429
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: carrying a list of injuries that you're that you're trying

1430
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: to stay on top of. Um, I there's nothing serious

1431
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:05,479
Speaker 1: going on with me. I just have a little lower

1432
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: body strain going on, and I'm just gonna we'll see,

1433
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,440
Speaker 1: you know. I'm really hoping to be out there this week.

1434
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: But there's uh, I can't couldn't say either way right now.

1435
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 1: I was looking Saskatchewan has another Western New York and

1436
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 1: naming Roosevelt playing receiver, right, yeah, you know, naming proudly right.

1437
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: I've I've trained his naming for five years and in

1438
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: fact I was I we reminisced every year that as

1439
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 1: a freshman at Saint Francis, I was inches away from

1440
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 1: intercepting naming as a senior, I think for Saint Joe's

1441
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: so I wish that, I wish, I wish I could

1442
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: tell that story as I did intercept it. But he's

1443
01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: naming's great. He obviously had his years with the bills.

1444
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 1: He's doing, he's doing very very well out in Saskatchewan

1445
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 1: with my song quarterback Zac Claros from Cincinnati. He uh

1446
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: naming and I train a sta over on in Elma

1447
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:53,960
Speaker 1: with at the Sailing Sports comp Complex. We've been doing

1448
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: that for five seasons and he's found a home in

1449
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 1: sask We when we were just out in sask this

1450
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: last week and he's he's kind of a guy who

1451
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: faces all over the you know, the ads is all

1452
01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 1: of the stadium and Jersey's everywhere, and he's he's made

1453
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 1: a home there. Didn't you have didn't you throw a

1454
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: little bit with Nathan Peterman this past off season two. Yeah, Uh,

1455
01:09:12,400 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman was stayed in the area and Buffalo and

1456
01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 1: him and his wife and he uh was looking for

1457
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,680
Speaker 1: a couple of guys to throw to naming myself, uh

1458
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: and Nate through for a while. It was great. We

1459
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: were over at salings when it was cold and windy

1460
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 1: outside and nobody else was a nobody else was throwing

1461
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 1: a running anywhere in West New York. But we had

1462
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: a we had a couple of really good weeks of

1463
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: of throwing. And I can I can attest the hint

1464
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 1: to him as a player too. He uh, you know,

1465
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: he came out, he came into a dark, you know,

1466
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: pitch black soccer field where we were go as to

1467
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 1: turn the lights on every day. And then and me

1468
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 1: me uh, naming and Nathan had really like an excellent

1469
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks of excellent offseason throwing. I mean,

1470
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: you know, you can imagine how it goes. Sometimes some

1471
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 1: weeks he kind of just you kind of just get

1472
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:58,599
Speaker 1: some striders in and call it call it a day.

1473
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: But we really got to work out there. He was

1474
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 1: throwing and kind of operating a really nice practice for us,

1475
01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, I enjoyed that I'm sure it'll pay off.

1476
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:09,599
Speaker 1: We hope you stay healthy and have more success this season,

1477
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: and we appreciate coming on with us today. Hey, thanks guys,

1478
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,000
Speaker 1: so great. Thanks all right, Luke, Thanks, talk to you later.

1479
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,719
Speaker 1: Luke Tasker Steve Sun plays in the CFL with Hamilton.

1480
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 1: They play next Thursday night, seven thirty at Tim Horton's

1481
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: Field and Hamilton against Saskatchew and the Rough Riders with

1482
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: naming Roosevelt. Yeah, you're go into that game? Would you go?

1483
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: If Ye's playing, if it's a home Even if he's not,

1484
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:29,640
Speaker 1: there's a chance be he might go up just to

1485
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, see my grandson too. Yeah, touch base. But yeah,

1486
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: I mean, if Luke's playing, there's no question the whole

1487
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 1: the whole family here in Western UK will be up there.

1488
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 1: You know. Um. It struck me and Luke is a

1489
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:45,640
Speaker 1: good storyteller, probably the same you got on you. But

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01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: he gets it when he talks about those coaches, those

1491
01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 1: veteran coaches. One of them, Frank ANNs Junior, who does

1492
01:10:52,320 --> 01:10:54,640
Speaker 1: special team. Frank Hanns Junior came up there heat. I

1493
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: don't know if he's there now. He was there to

1494
01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: just start training camp as a consultant because they's on

1495
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 1: the website and I talked to him for a long

1496
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 1: time at training camp, talk to Jerry Glanville, who obviously

1497
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 1: I got. I mean I go way back with Jerry

1498
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 1: and and also one of the assistant coaches, the assistant

1499
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: linebacker coach is a guy named Robert Lyles, who was

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01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo with the Bills for a minute as

1501
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:19,760
Speaker 1: a as a coach to three years ago and then

1502
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: now he's with them as a linebacker coach. He was

1503
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 1: a teammate of mine when I was drafted with the

1504
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 1: Houston Oithers thirty thirty five years or whatever. I don't

1505
01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: know how in nineteen eighty six, thirty three years ago.

1506
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 1: This is what Luke gets. And when he says, you know,

1507
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 1: these guys, they're not up there in Hamilton's now for

1508
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 1: the money. Some of these old veteran coaches, they just

1509
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:37,720
Speaker 1: want to win championships. They want to continue to do

1510
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: what they've done. And when I hear Luke talk about

1511
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:42,719
Speaker 1: his relationship with Naming, you almost get the same sense

1512
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,280
Speaker 1: that in a different generation they're there as well. You know, play,

1513
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: they want to play, they want to play, and it's

1514
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 1: fun to play. Fun to be on a team. And

1515
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,240
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, It's really true. And I've said

1516
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 1: this before about you know, everybody always asks me, hey,

1517
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 1: or you know, ever think you ever considered coaching I'm

1518
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 1: getting a special team's job somewhere, And I always said no,

1519
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:02,560
Speaker 1: because listen, coach is like June Jones, like like Sean McDermott,

1520
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: like all the guys you point to in the National

1521
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: Football Leaue, Frank Reich even and all my friends Pete

1522
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: mets Laars, Don Beebe, all these guys who are coaches.

1523
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:13,320
Speaker 1: It's it's not a job for them, and it's not

1524
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: a career for them. It is a lifestyle. It's kind

1525
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: of who they are. It's what they want to do.

1526
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 1: They don't, you know, it's not that it's whatever job

1527
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 1: it is, whether it's at Northern Illinois or or at

1528
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,839
Speaker 1: a high school in Louisiana or Dallas or whatever, or Chicago,

1529
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: wherever have you. They want to coach. That's what they

1530
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: want to do. And that's the same thing when you

1531
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: get to these guys. June Jones is sixty five, Jerry

1532
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: Gladville seventy five, that's how old they are and they're

1533
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:42,599
Speaker 1: still coaching it's what they do. It's it's who they are,

1534
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 1: it's what they love to do, and they're really really

1535
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 1: good at it, and that's you know. So they're up

1536
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: there because it's it's who they are and what they do,

1537
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: and it's fun for young guys like Luke and Namon

1538
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,759
Speaker 1: Roosevelt to rub up against those guys and get mentored

1539
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 1: by them and learn some life lessons. I think it's

1540
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 1: cool that Luke has an appreciation of who those guys are,

1541
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,839
Speaker 1: where they've been, what they've done in professional football. They're

1542
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 1: playing the game. I'm sure though those players not just

1543
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:07,639
Speaker 1: appreciate those guys, but a guy like Luke, your son

1544
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 1: knows that these are real people who've accomplished real things,

1545
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:13,320
Speaker 1: that they're in it for the love of the game. Absolutely,

1546
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: it's and it's uh. I think it speaks to you know,

1547
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 1: your own guys who make their own life decisions when

1548
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 1: they're finishing. You know, Luke's not going to play professional

1549
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 1: football forever, and you got to make decisions about what

1550
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna do with the rest of your life and

1551
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: how you want to feel about what you do. And

1552
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 1: that's what those guys really personified. June Jones Jerry Glanville,

1553
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:32,439
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott and the guys that all those guys I mentioned,

1554
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's there's something to be learned there,

1555
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: and I think it's one of the great great lessons

1556
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 1: of sports can teach. You know, it was good I learned.

1557
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of that. Do you remember when

1558
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: Sam Weish was here and I think Mike Malarkey's staff,

1559
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 1: he was like that, he just wanted to coach. He'd

1560
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: been a head coach, right, was Cincinnati Coach of the Year. Yeah,

1561
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,680
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, Yep, a lot of success, came here

1562
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 1: to coach quarterbacks and all he wanted to do was

1563
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: coach quarterbacks. All he wanted to do was it was

1564
01:13:54,520 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: talk ball all day with and he was great with me.

1565
01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just a great guy to have around.

1566
01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: I think about him a lot. It's more complicent. Yeah,

1567
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: it's no more complicated than that. They got a chance

1568
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: to do whatever they want to do. They want to coach.

1569
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:08,720
Speaker 1: They want to coach young guys and watch them and see,

1570
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, their teaching process come through on the field

1571
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: with young guys in their lives. It's pretty It is

1572
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:15,800
Speaker 1: a you can see the allure of it when you

1573
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 1: talk about it like that. We thank Luke Tasker for

1574
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: joining us on the show. His Hamilton Tiger Cats home

1575
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 1: next Thursday night again Saskatchewan at seven thirty at Tim

1576
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 1: Hortons Field. A fun place to watch a game. You've

1577
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,679
Speaker 1: told us it's great. This is a great fan experience,

1578
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: very wide open, airy place. Nice. It's brand new. It's

1579
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: it's like five years old, four years old, and it's

1580
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: They got a nice little fan experience up there on

1581
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:38,719
Speaker 1: game day. Nice, nice setup. Can you get a beers

1582
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: at all? Just coffee? You know it's Canada, so they

1583
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:45,679
Speaker 1: don't really they you know that yet? And I bet yeah, yeah, yeah,

1584
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: plenty Yeah. Thanks Luke for joining us. He was on

1585
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: the Subway Fresh Dake Hotline, Subway Eat Fresh, Steve and

1586
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 1: I back with more in a moment. One Bill's Live

1587
01:14:53,720 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

1588
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live so far today. If you've

1589
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 1: just joined us, You miss Paul McGuire, a longtime Bill's punter,

1590
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 1: a longtime NFL broadcaster, and you can pick that up

1591
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: later on our website Buffalo Bills dot com. You miss

1592
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: Luke Tasker, a moment ago Steve sun Hamilton, Tiger Cats

1593
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver, talking about his team on this bye week

1594
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: coming up with two Lorenzo Alexander will join us. You know,

1595
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 1: I asked Luke about his place in the pro football

1596
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 1: world and his future plans, and I know you and

1597
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 1: I have talked about this. We're both kind of excited

1598
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 1: about Bill Poullian's league. We call it the Alliance of

1599
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 1: American Football, which is coming out next spring. The league

1600
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: this is a money part, but I think this is significant.

1601
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:46,880
Speaker 1: This came out on ESPN today. Steve Poullian says the

1602
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: league is going to give players three year non guaranteed

1603
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 1: contracts were two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each. The

1604
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 1: league starts February ninth. They can leave, they can get

1605
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: out of the contract to go to the NFL. They're

1606
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 1: not sure what they do. Then grand a year or

1607
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 1: two to fifty grand for the three years. Think for

1608
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:08,599
Speaker 1: the three years, Okay, every seventy five per season. Seventy

1609
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:12,760
Speaker 1: five grand a season, Yeah, not bad. We'll pay some bills, yeah,

1610
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 1: you know, and but you know, you think how bad

1611
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 1: some of these guys want to play, and it's you know,

1612
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: it's the market. The market sets the money. I mean,

1613
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 1: it's all there is to it, you know. Yeah, if

1614
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: you want to play, you're gonna have to You're gonna

1615
01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 1: have to take what they give you. Um. And then

1616
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 1: you've got you know, the NFL, uh, the Players Association

1617
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:35,560
Speaker 1: yesterday kind of coming out and making a stir the

1618
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, some of the players saying, listen, we need

1619
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: guaranteed contracts and it's us so. And then now you

1620
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: hear guys that are willing to play for a for

1621
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: a what is an eight or nine game season, ten

1622
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: game season for seventy five grand. You know, it puts

1623
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:53,400
Speaker 1: it in perspective. You know, it's just it's what you

1624
01:16:53,439 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: want to It's like coaches, you know, you coach where

1625
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: you want to coach. Paul And says, I have health

1626
01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:59,719
Speaker 1: insurance and this is kind of cool. And education stipend

1627
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 1: to any player who finishes one year in the league.

1628
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:03,599
Speaker 1: You get money to go to school, go back to college.

1629
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty COOLSS nice players who do not

1630
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: make the NFL and CFL will be scouted allocated to

1631
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: rosters based on where they played college football. Yeah, they're

1632
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:17,839
Speaker 1: getting it together. It's gonna work. I think teams in Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Orlando, Phoenix,

1633
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, San Antonio. In San Diego, they've got

1634
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:24,799
Speaker 1: some name coaches, Steve Spurrier in Orlando, Brand Childress in Atlanta,

1635
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: like Singletary in Memphis. You had our friend Phil Savage

1636
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 1: on the show a couple of weeks ago, right, he's

1637
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:33,440
Speaker 1: a a GM at one of the general manager of Arizona,

1638
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: I believe, Okay, But the interesting thing is that, you know,

1639
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 1: we've seen different remember all the way back in the USFL,

1640
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: the World Football League before that, NFL Europe, and of

1641
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 1: course there's always been the Canadian Football League, but there's

1642
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: always been issues with how they related to the timing

1643
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:53,639
Speaker 1: of the National Football League, the relationship with the National

1644
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 1: Football League, and ultimately a lot of the young players,

1645
01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: the guys who go to these other leagues where you know,

1646
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 1: they're ultimately wanted to get to the NFL and some way,

1647
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:05,720
Speaker 1: shape or fashion. And this league is really starting from

1648
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:11,600
Speaker 1: the idea of being a farm system developmental league, perfectly

1649
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: tailored to help the NFL groom players to be on

1650
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 1: their roster for training camp and in the preseason. So

1651
01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: the timeline is from February, right after the Super Bowl,

1652
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 1: all the way through to just before the NFL Draft,

1653
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: so that these players can be scouted fully at the

1654
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,719
Speaker 1: same time the college players are doing their pro days

1655
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: and the combines going, this other league is going to

1656
01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:36,680
Speaker 1: be up and running. So you're gonna have all this

1657
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 1: stuff going on at just at the time in the

1658
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:43,400
Speaker 1: NFL calendar when they need to evaluate these guys, give

1659
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 1: them a chance to be looked at in live game action,

1660
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: and then all these like you said, the contracts and

1661
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:50,400
Speaker 1: all the legalities of it are going to be hand

1662
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 1: in hand with the football with the NFL, so that

1663
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 1: if I want to play in this league and if

1664
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:55,839
Speaker 1: I want to get out of it, See in the CFL,

1665
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 1: we're just talking to my son, Luke Tasker. You can't

1666
01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 1: get out of those contracts. You're legally bound to the CFL.

1667
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,200
Speaker 1: Even if an NFL team wants to pay you a

1668
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 1: gazillion dollars, you can't get out of your CFL contract.

1669
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 1: That's not the way it's gonna be with this new

1670
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:14,920
Speaker 1: AFL league. So it's it's they're they're addressing every issue

1671
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 1: that the NFL has had with these other leagues and

1672
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:19,560
Speaker 1: putting it incorporating it into this new league, and I

1673
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: think it's going to be really, really fun to see

1674
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,040
Speaker 1: you talked to it. We've both talked to Bill when

1675
01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:26,160
Speaker 1: he was in town early June for Jim Kelly's golf tournament,

1676
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:28,760
Speaker 1: and after my conversation with him that weekend, I have

1677
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: no doubt the Alliance of American Football is gonna work.

1678
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a I would say a

1679
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: monumental success, but it's gonna be. It's gonna work. It's

1680
01:19:36,080 --> 01:19:38,680
Speaker 1: gonna be the developmental league that many NFL people have

1681
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:40,640
Speaker 1: been waiting for. It. It's really nice because it's run

1682
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: by NFL people, Yeah, all of it, from the top down,

1683
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: all people. Everybody's in, and they're doing it knowing exactly

1684
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:49,680
Speaker 1: what the NFL was missing in every other league. And

1685
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 1: that's why I think whatever other league it is the

1686
01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: XFL that was gonna start maybe in twenty I think

1687
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 1: it'll blow it out of the water. I don't think

1688
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna have a niche after after February when this

1689
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: league kicks off and starts moving through its paces. So

1690
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 1: thank you very much to Luke Tasker for talking to

1691
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 1: us about that. We're talking about training camp two weeks away,

1692
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: five thirty PM. Two weeks from today, Thursday, July twenty six,

1693
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: first Bill's practice at training camp two weeks away. I

1694
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: don't know from your which Bill's player as the most

1695
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:22,560
Speaker 1: at stake during training camp this year. And why do

1696
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 1: you say that? Give us a call. We've got phone

1697
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,719
Speaker 1: lines open eight oh three five fifty the number outside Buffalo.

1698
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 1: It's a toll free call at one eight eight eight

1699
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Love to hear from you

1700
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:34,679
Speaker 1: your thoughts on who's got the most at stake. There's

1701
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:36,840
Speaker 1: a number of candidates, I believe, and look, they all

1702
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 1: have something at stake, but some more than others. Or

1703
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,439
Speaker 1: you can tweet us at one Bill's tribe. You got

1704
01:20:41,439 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: something from the tweet sheet thirsty. Yeah, there's a couple

1705
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:45,719
Speaker 1: of them. And Chris Rowland brings in a different twist

1706
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:47,560
Speaker 1: to it. He goes, I wouldn't consider him to have

1707
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: the most at stake, But I think Trey White has

1708
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 1: a decent amount of pressure to have the same level

1709
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 1: of players last season, doesn't want to fall into a

1710
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:56,519
Speaker 1: sophomore slump. And let's face it, if there's one guy

1711
01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 1: that has expectations for having a good year. It is

1712
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 1: Tradavious White, but he expects him to come in, pick

1713
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,760
Speaker 1: up where he left off and maybe even improve from there.

1714
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,599
Speaker 1: So you talk about a guy who you know, kind

1715
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:09,600
Speaker 1: of set the bar high for himself. Nobody said it

1716
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:13,200
Speaker 1: higher than Tredavious White is a rookie cornerback in the NFL. Yeah,

1717
01:21:13,240 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that's a bit of a stretch, right,

1718
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna start, he's gonna play. I think he's gonna

1719
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: play well. I think he might even have a Pro Bowl,

1720
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:23,840
Speaker 1: you know, end of the end the season in the

1721
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. I don't know. It's a sophomore slump, real Steve,

1722
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 1: I don't really like to acknowledge it. Is there such

1723
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 1: a thing? Do you think? Well, it's they call it

1724
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:33,680
Speaker 1: that for a reason. So yeah, I mean there's some

1725
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:37,320
Speaker 1: guys struggle with They don't struggle with a football part

1726
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 1: of They struggle with the offseason, all the free time

1727
01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 1: and all this. All of a sudden, they don't have

1728
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:42,560
Speaker 1: to go to school in college, they don't have to

1729
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: hold a second job. All they gotta do is sit

1730
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 1: around and work out and get ready to play pro football.

1731
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 1: And some of them think, well, I've always done it

1732
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:52,560
Speaker 1: on I did it last year on my abilities. I

1733
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: didn't do anything special. I'm fine. And so they don't

1734
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 1: prepare to play well again. You know, you'd have a

1735
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: hard time thinking Tredavious White is gonna come back without

1736
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,559
Speaker 1: motivation to play well. So he's gonna be in there.

1737
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:06,679
Speaker 1: You know, some days like today, you know these guys

1738
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:09,400
Speaker 1: are in there, hitting it, grinding it away, lifting, running,

1739
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 1: getting ready to play. Some guys who had a great

1740
01:22:12,240 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: year as a rookie don't do that. They think they've

1741
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: made it. And there's been guys in Bill's recent recent

1742
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:21,760
Speaker 1: Bill's history who've done that. So m yeah, I mean yeah,

1743
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: sophomore slump is a real thing. There's no question I

1744
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: think it is. I've seen I've seen it too many times. Okay,

1745
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: remember Carlos Williams. Yeah, yeah, you tell me he didn't

1746
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 1: he's still on his sophomore slump years later later. Yeah,

1747
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 1: and you're right, that was an offseason thing. That was

1748
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 1: an offseason thing. That's what happens. A tweet from Chazz

1749
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,680
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, he says, Lashawn McCoy has the

1750
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:45,960
Speaker 1: most at stake if he doesn't play the season, I

1751
01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 1: think we'll have a detrimental impact on the Bill's offense.

1752
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 1: He accounts for what sixty percent of their offense last year.

1753
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:52,840
Speaker 1: I think our defit's gonna be back where it was

1754
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: before Rex messed it up. Well, I know, I don't

1755
01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: think Lashawn is the most at stake. McCoy has the

1756
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 1: most astake you know, off the field right now, if

1757
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 1: you want to look at it that way. But when

1758
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:05,519
Speaker 1: you get the training camp, you know who Shady is

1759
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: and you know what he'll be able to do, and

1760
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:09,360
Speaker 1: if he gets there, then you would assume that he'll

1761
01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:11,080
Speaker 1: be able to do that. I don't I wouldn't say

1762
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: that he is a most at stake. Yeah, that's as

1763
01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:15,880
Speaker 1: you know. I understand the take. But here's the thing too,

1764
01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: and this is one of that we've been getting a

1765
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 1: lot of. He goes it's the obvious answer would be Lawson,

1766
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 1: but I'm going with Peterman. At least Shaq could carve

1767
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: out a role even if he doesn't live up to

1768
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:27,759
Speaker 1: his potential. With Peterman is fending off the highest drafted

1769
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:31,000
Speaker 1: quarterback in Bill's history, and unlike a d lineman, there's

1770
01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: really only one quarterback on the field at a time,

1771
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: and he's got a point Nathan Peterman is, you know,

1772
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: he's got a lot to prove. Can he make this club?

1773
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: They're paying They signed AJ McCarron to come in and

1774
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 1: be the starter and hoping that he can't beat Josh

1775
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: Mcjosh Allan out. So if if AJ McCarron indeed doesn't

1776
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,559
Speaker 1: beat Josh Allen out, the last guy standing is Nathan Peterman.

1777
01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's the next guy that you know,

1778
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 1: to get He could off the island. And that's that's

1779
01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 1: why he We've had conversations today about is it aj

1780
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: aj mccaren or Nate Peterman who has the most to

1781
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 1: worry about being expendable at the end of training camp

1782
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 1: depending on the play at Josh Allen And that's that's

1783
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:19,200
Speaker 1: that is one way to look at it. Nathan Peterman

1784
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: has a lot more to prove and a lot more

1785
01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 1: pressure on him than AJ mccaren does. There's a tweet

1786
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:26,839
Speaker 1: from Brian Rossignal. He says, Ryan Davis and Eddie Yarbrough

1787
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: they barely made the team after a flash in the

1788
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: pan season a year ago, and the front seven got

1789
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:34,720
Speaker 1: an influx of respected talent, including a defensive end. I'm

1790
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 1: afraid that you may end up being numbers victims this year.

1791
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:40,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Davis is gone, right, he is not even on

1792
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 1: the roster. So Eddie Arborrough, Yeah, he'll have He'll have

1793
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:45,960
Speaker 1: to h They'll have to step up, as they say, Hey, Yarborough.

1794
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:48,240
Speaker 1: I think he showed enough last year that the Bills

1795
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: look at him as a high energy, um low salaried

1796
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: guy who can be part of their rotation upfront? Can

1797
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:58,840
Speaker 1: he be more than that? That would be a plus

1798
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 1: if he can, Eddie Yarborough I'm talking about. I think

1799
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: he was asked to do a lot more than they

1800
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 1: anticipated having to ask him to do last year because

1801
01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson wasn't there. Yeah, you know, and I think

1802
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: I think that's I think Lawson has a lot to

1803
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: say about Eddie Yarbro. You know, I think how he plays,

1804
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:15,519
Speaker 1: maybe he may be the number. And you talk about

1805
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 1: a numbers game and maybe the fact a guy like

1806
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson may be the guy who causes Eddie Yarboro

1807
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 1: to be gone or vice versa. You know, you look

1808
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:28,000
Speaker 1: at those guys and how they're gonna play. Those two

1809
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 1: guys there might not be room for both of them,

1810
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:34,040
Speaker 1: You're right, And one more from the uh tweet sheet

1811
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:37,080
Speaker 1: from a Postman pilot pilot. I'm not as focused on

1812
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 1: a single player as I am the whole team. Every

1813
01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: man in the roster needs to play like their career

1814
01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:43,840
Speaker 1: as at stake. Competition is healthy. Nobody's job is safe,

1815
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:45,920
Speaker 1: whether behind the desk, in the or in the NFL.

1816
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: Blink of an eye and it's over. Wow, that's a

1817
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:54,040
Speaker 1: that's philosophers, pretty cynical Postman a lot. But yeah, I

1818
01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 1: mean you're right, and it is and yeah, everybody knows that.

1819
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: And training camp and what all the fun we've had

1820
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,559
Speaker 1: with it with me have an emotional scar tissue tissue

1821
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:04,600
Speaker 1: and as saying, it's stinks. And but we are for

1822
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:06,600
Speaker 1: us broadcast, We're gonna do radio show. It makes our

1823
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:08,600
Speaker 1: show easy. We can stand out there and watch. And

1824
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of topics, subjects, guys, people, situations that

1825
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: we can talk about all day on the radio. But

1826
01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 1: when you get out on it and you strap a

1827
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: helmet on, everything changes and you realize that you know,

1828
01:26:22,240 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 1: each passing day you become closer or further away from

1829
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: achieving a dream that you've had since you were a kid.

1830
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 1: So it's there's there's a lot of pressure on these guys,

1831
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 1: and some of them are in pretty good situations to

1832
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:34,600
Speaker 1: take advantage of it, and others I think I have

1833
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:36,680
Speaker 1: an uphill battle for a player, and you went through

1834
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 1: this for several years in the league. How does that

1835
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,320
Speaker 1: pressure manifest itself? I mean, what do you do? Do

1836
01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: you barely be able to choke down dinner every night?

1837
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 1: Or do you toss and turn in the dorm room bad?

1838
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: Or or do you just get over there at chorewood

1839
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:52,640
Speaker 1: and play nine holes and forget about that pressure. The

1840
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 1: pressure is a little bit of the vetting process. You

1841
01:26:56,439 --> 01:27:00,240
Speaker 1: need guys who can handle it and who thrive in it,

1842
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 1: and who accepted and embrace it and want that pressure.

1843
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: They want to work with it. They want the ball,

1844
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: you know, they want the ball when the game's on

1845
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 1: the line. I want to be on the field when

1846
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 1: they need a play to be made. I want to

1847
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:14,240
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to be a difference maker. You know,

1848
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:16,760
Speaker 1: you don't want a guy who is man, I'm just

1849
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 1: so happy to be here. I hope they don't put

1850
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:20,559
Speaker 1: me in a spot where I can blow my whole

1851
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: career in one play. You know, you don't want guys

1852
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 1: playing in fear of their jobs. You want guys who

1853
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:28,720
Speaker 1: realize this is where they've always wanted to be, This

1854
01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:30,880
Speaker 1: is the spot where they've worked so hard to get.

1855
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:33,719
Speaker 1: This is you know, that's the mentality and the pressure

1856
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:36,360
Speaker 1: that comes with all of that. You know, you want

1857
01:27:36,360 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 1: to see him handle it. You want to see him

1858
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: thrive in it. You want to see him rise up

1859
01:27:39,479 --> 01:27:42,840
Speaker 1: to it. That's part of the evaluation process, and it's

1860
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,640
Speaker 1: also part of the and it's also the ingredient that

1861
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:49,040
Speaker 1: makes you successful or unsuccessful. All right, Training camp starts

1862
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:50,560
Speaker 1: in two weeks, which Bill's playing where I have the

1863
01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: most at stake. We'll talk more about that as the

1864
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:55,640
Speaker 1: show moves along. We got Lorenzo Alexander coming up with us,

1865
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:59,839
Speaker 1: say two o'clock today. Tony Romo, NFL analyst for CBS,

1866
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:03,519
Speaker 1: got some Super Bowl predictions already, may surprise you. We'll

1867
01:28:03,600 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 1: hear that when we come back. Steve and I here

1868
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 1: till three o'clock. One Bill's Live, presented by Colada Health.

1869
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:10,680
Speaker 1: We are coming here from One Bill's Drive and this

1870
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. We're here till three today, John

1871
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:29,679
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker. We got tomorrow off. We're pretty

1872
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:32,440
Speaker 1: dog on happy about it, Steven, I'm not gonna apologize

1873
01:28:32,479 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: for it. It's Friday, eight summer. Everybody wants Friday off,

1874
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:38,200
Speaker 1: so some people get it and other people don't. We

1875
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: were lucky enough to get it. No, you can't apologize

1876
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:43,479
Speaker 1: if everybody got it. You gotta understand me. Take it

1877
01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 1: what you can get. And yeah, it's not like we

1878
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:47,720
Speaker 1: asked for it. Even I didn't ask. Why are we

1879
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: getting it off? Do you know? I think the whole

1880
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,639
Speaker 1: building's off. They just kicked everybody out. They got something

1881
01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:56,680
Speaker 1: somebody exterminating or something. No, no, no, well no, I

1882
01:28:56,880 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 1: just think we're two weeks away from camp and people

1883
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 1: but work six seven day weeks coming up in a

1884
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Somebody just sitting around a meeting just said,

1885
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 1: you know what, forget it, let's just leave Friday. I'm done.

1886
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:09,320
Speaker 1: Like to shake that man's hand like he else. You

1887
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 1: put a little something in his paytrick. No show tomorrow,

1888
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,559
Speaker 1: we're back on Monday, and no insigator tomorrow as well.

1889
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:17,200
Speaker 1: Even the hockey guys get off whatever, see another you

1890
01:29:17,320 --> 01:29:22,040
Speaker 1: go the hockey guys. I can see why it's hockeys.

1891
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:24,920
Speaker 1: There is nothing going on hockey, not take a look around,

1892
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:28,000
Speaker 1: there's nothing. I've said it four times. This is a

1893
01:29:28,160 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: ghost town here. I mean there's like echoes in here.

1894
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:34,599
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of bad. Hey. Um, So we await

1895
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 1: the start of the season and people are starting to

1896
01:29:36,439 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 1: make predictions for the season. And Tony Romo the lead analysts, right,

1897
01:29:40,080 --> 01:29:42,799
Speaker 1: that's fair to say for the number one analyst for CBS.

1898
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 1: Him and Jim Nace do the top games for our

1899
01:29:45,479 --> 01:29:47,880
Speaker 1: for our network. Tony Romo was asked about his Super

1900
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 1: Bowl picks just yesterday on NFL Total Access yesterday. During

1901
01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 1: that show, I believe he's at that golf tournament in

1902
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:57,679
Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe. His picks may surprise you. Tony Romo thinks

1903
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,160
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl next game, worry, it'll be the

1904
01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:04,519
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers from the NFC and the Jacksonville Jaguars

1905
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:06,360
Speaker 1: from the AFC. Let's hear what you have to say.

1906
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:11,840
Speaker 1: I think you'll see a couple of things that I

1907
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:16,799
Speaker 1: think are key. And you know, the Jimmy Graham addition

1908
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 1: is going to be very big. A lot of the

1909
01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 1: field goals are going to turn into touchdowns because of

1910
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:23,880
Speaker 1: that and having him as a weapon. And then I

1911
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 1: think their secondary which I think has been a weakness

1912
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:28,560
Speaker 1: for a few years and cost them some games. I

1913
01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:31,840
Speaker 1: think that's gonna improve this year. And then having a

1914
01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:34,400
Speaker 1: new system, it always gives people within your division trouble

1915
01:30:34,920 --> 01:30:38,040
Speaker 1: just because they don't have a lot of data and

1916
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 1: and situational calls against you. So that'll help them, and

1917
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:47,439
Speaker 1: and and then as far as Jacksonville, I just think

1918
01:30:47,479 --> 01:30:53,400
Speaker 1: they're strong everywhere as a football team. And you know,

1919
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 1: you can never count out in New England. As long

1920
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:57,479
Speaker 1: as Tom Brady and Bill belichicker breathing, you know, the

1921
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 1: easy pick is them. But you know, I think that

1922
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville had him on the rope last year. It's close

1923
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:07,160
Speaker 1: Jacksonville on the Super Bowl. I don't see. It's Steve

1924
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:09,800
Speaker 1: do you. I don't know, And I see what he sees.

1925
01:31:09,840 --> 01:31:11,960
Speaker 1: They were. It's gonna be hard for them to repeat

1926
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:13,960
Speaker 1: what they were able to do a year ago. Now,

1927
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,320
Speaker 1: they're still gonna have some talent on defense, They're still

1928
01:31:16,360 --> 01:31:18,360
Speaker 1: gonna be very difficult to score points on. But I

1929
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 1: think um with what they have in Blake Bortles and

1930
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 1: the limited nature of their offense, and certainly Leonard Fournette

1931
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,559
Speaker 1: is a force. I and I did and I've said

1932
01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 1: this on the show before as well. Leonard Fournette is

1933
01:31:32,280 --> 01:31:34,760
Speaker 1: a man child playing. I mean, he is a man

1934
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 1: amongst boys on the end, even on an NFL field,

1935
01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 1: he is a big time running back who's gonna be

1936
01:31:40,080 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 1: there for a while now. And him coming into his

1937
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:44,760
Speaker 1: second year, I think them knowing what they've got from

1938
01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:47,000
Speaker 1: him as opposed to just being a rookie, and I

1939
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:49,720
Speaker 1: hope he hope, hope he can play. He's gonna be

1940
01:31:49,840 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 1: their workhorse. And uh, they're gonna be hard. They're gonna

1941
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:54,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna win a lot of close games. I don't

1942
01:31:54,920 --> 01:31:57,200
Speaker 1: you can't. I can't see him scorn, you know, twenty

1943
01:31:57,280 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: points a game. But with their defense, I don't think

1944
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:01,960
Speaker 1: they'll have to. But I don't even think they're gonna

1945
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 1: win that division this year. Do you think Indianapolis will?

1946
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 1: If Luck comes back healthy and with the first year

1947
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,800
Speaker 1: head coach in Frank Reich, you think they're gonna. I mean,

1948
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:14,040
Speaker 1: I love Sweetness, I mean, he's great, and I wish

1949
01:32:14,080 --> 01:32:16,320
Speaker 1: the best for him. That'll be that'll be a great

1950
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:20,439
Speaker 1: That'll be listen, that'll be something else. If a rookie

1951
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:22,040
Speaker 1: head coach can come in to win that division right

1952
01:32:22,040 --> 01:32:25,599
Speaker 1: out of the gate um Andrew luck or not. But yeah,

1953
01:32:25,840 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see. But Jacksonville is too good,

1954
01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: like they're too solid, and that's and you know that

1955
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:36,000
Speaker 1: that type of performance murph by Jacksonville, it's easy to duplicate.

1956
01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:39,120
Speaker 1: It's not like you need somebody come in and have

1957
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:41,240
Speaker 1: a guy's haven't played out of their mind. And Blake

1958
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:43,799
Speaker 1: Bortles didn't play out of his mind. He played okay,

1959
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:46,280
Speaker 1: and everybody else just played really good. They were really

1960
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 1: talented on that side of the football. That's kind of

1961
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:51,479
Speaker 1: easy to replicate, don't you think. I guess it's easier

1962
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:54,080
Speaker 1: than some. I just don't have very little faith in

1963
01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:56,200
Speaker 1: what Doug Maron can do with that team. I have

1964
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:59,280
Speaker 1: absolutely no faith in Blake Bortles. I know what you're

1965
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:01,040
Speaker 1: saying about for that, and I agree with you on that.

1966
01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:04,240
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't think they'll have an easy

1967
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:05,760
Speaker 1: run like they had a year ago. They won't get

1968
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:09,320
Speaker 1: the free pass right division. Ask you about the Packers

1969
01:33:09,760 --> 01:33:13,600
Speaker 1: um as Romo mentioned, they have a new offensive coordinator, right,

1970
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:16,839
Speaker 1: they have Joe Philbin going to be their offensive coordinator.

1971
01:33:17,080 --> 01:33:19,599
Speaker 1: It's still Mike McCarthy's offense. When Romo says, all they'll

1972
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:22,519
Speaker 1: have a new offense that'll throw some people off early on. No,

1973
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:24,120
Speaker 1: they won't. Don't you think it'll be it'll look like

1974
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy has had that offense do for decades. Yeah,

1975
01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:28,599
Speaker 1: I mean, I get what he's saying. They may Joe

1976
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:31,640
Speaker 1: Philbin will add something. He came from Green Bay. He

1977
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:33,120
Speaker 1: had been there a long time ago and went to

1978
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:36,720
Speaker 1: Miami as the head coach from Green Bay and now

1979
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 1: he's back. So yeah, I'm with you. I don't know

1980
01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:43,519
Speaker 1: how different or transformative it'll be. And I I just

1981
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:45,160
Speaker 1: don't think Green Bay is good enough other than the

1982
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:46,880
Speaker 1: guy pulling the trigger. And you can say, well, at

1983
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:48,920
Speaker 1: least they got the best guy in the league who's tarning. Yeah,

1984
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:52,920
Speaker 1: they do that is that hasn't been enough. Green Bay

1985
01:33:53,040 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 1: is another team that may not win its division, right,

1986
01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:57,439
Speaker 1: I mean you have the same all of a sudden.

1987
01:33:57,479 --> 01:34:00,559
Speaker 1: That's a tough division. Yeah, Bears are getting better, Minnesota

1988
01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:03,519
Speaker 1: is good, and I don't know. I don't like more

1989
01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:05,840
Speaker 1: almost prediction either one of them, especially the Jaguars. I

1990
01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:07,719
Speaker 1: can see it though, I mean, if you can always

1991
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:09,720
Speaker 1: go with the obvious ones, but I think Green Bays

1992
01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:11,599
Speaker 1: a little obvious. In the NFC, you can say, yeah,

1993
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 1: they're okay, I get it, and you know, you also

1994
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:16,639
Speaker 1: go back to the Eagles and say, yeah, the Eagles

1995
01:34:16,720 --> 01:34:18,640
Speaker 1: may repeat, but although we know how hard that is.

1996
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:20,680
Speaker 1: But in the AFC, I think there's no question he

1997
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:22,839
Speaker 1: went out on a limb with Jacksonville. I mean, anytime

1998
01:34:22,840 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 1: you got Aaron Rodgers, it's an easy pick. But Blake

1999
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:27,400
Speaker 1: Bortles not so much. So we'll yeah, I ask you

2000
01:34:27,479 --> 01:34:30,880
Speaker 1: this about predictions, and it is July. I'm just gonna say,

2001
01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 1: when do predictions become real? When do you take season

2002
01:34:35,000 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 1: predictions as meaningful? I like to wait until, in fact,

2003
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:41,040
Speaker 1: on this show, I'd like to wait until the Friday

2004
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:43,960
Speaker 1: before the regular season opener before I definitively say what

2005
01:34:44,080 --> 01:34:46,840
Speaker 1: I think the Bill's record will be. To me, that's

2006
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:50,200
Speaker 1: the optimum time, because the preseason's over, you see what

2007
01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:53,200
Speaker 1: the injury situation looks like, you know what the schedule

2008
01:34:53,280 --> 01:34:55,320
Speaker 1: is going to be. But a prediction made in late

2009
01:34:55,439 --> 01:34:58,040
Speaker 1: July does it have less impact than a prediction made

2010
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:01,400
Speaker 1: you know I'm September or six before the season begins.

2011
01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:05,640
Speaker 1: What do you think I think a prediction becomes important

2012
01:35:05,880 --> 01:35:11,280
Speaker 1: the moment after the game's over that you predicted that

2013
01:35:11,560 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 1: I was right or that's exactly right. That's the only

2014
01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 1: time it's important. Other than that, nobody cares except you. Yeah,

2015
01:35:19,040 --> 01:35:22,679
Speaker 1: well except the person who predicted yes, person who asked

2016
01:35:22,680 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 1: the question. Try exactly get to the part where the

2017
01:35:25,320 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 1: games matter, that's right, which is where we're at. All right.

2018
01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:29,120
Speaker 1: We break. Coming up here for the top of the hour,

2019
01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander with the lowdown from Arizona from his gym

2020
01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:35,360
Speaker 1: in Arizona. Where else would he be? Right in Scottsdale,

2021
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 1: Arizona working out in the gym. We got Lorenzo Alexander

2022
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:40,240
Speaker 1: coming up live by a skype. When we come back

2023
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 1: for the third and final hour of One Bills Live

2024
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:55,160
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive, this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello,

2025
01:35:55,280 --> 01:36:00,200
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network. Stories date from One Bills. I have

2026
01:36:00,280 --> 01:36:02,760
Speaker 1: no news today on Lashawn McCoy the Bills running back

2027
01:36:02,880 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: last night hired a prominent Atlanta defense attorney amid the

2028
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:09,240
Speaker 1: police investigation into a home invasion that sent his former

2029
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:12,200
Speaker 1: girlfriend to the hospital after she was allegedly beaten and

2030
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:16,479
Speaker 1: robbed of jewelry. Don Samuel, the attorney, confirmed to ESPN

2031
01:36:16,600 --> 01:36:19,280
Speaker 1: last night or yesterday, rather that he was representing McCoy.

2032
01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:23,679
Speaker 1: Samley was represented several high profile clients. No other details

2033
01:36:23,720 --> 01:36:26,719
Speaker 1: coming out today at all about the Lashawn McCoy incident.

2034
01:36:27,400 --> 01:36:31,000
Speaker 1: Jaguar's defensive tackle Marcel Darius, the former Bills defensive alignement,

2035
01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:33,040
Speaker 1: is being sued for damages by a woman who alleges

2036
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 1: he assaulted her and gave her a sexually transmitted disease.

2037
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 1: She's seeking damages his excess of fifteen thousand dollars, and

2038
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:43,240
Speaker 1: she has requested a jury trial. Buffalo Sabers announcing the

2039
01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:45,280
Speaker 1: team has signed forward Shawn Malone to a one year,

2040
01:36:45,560 --> 01:36:48,200
Speaker 1: two way contract where seven hundred and eighty seven thousand

2041
01:36:48,240 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: dollars at the NHL level. Malone made his NHL debut

2042
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 1: in the last game of twenty six seventeen twenty sixteen seventeen,

2043
01:36:55,400 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 1: before playing a full season of professional hockey last year

2044
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:02,720
Speaker 1: with the Rochester Americans. He played seventy three games from

2045
01:37:02,760 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 1: the Amricks last year, twelve goals, ten assists, and two

2046
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 1: assist in three playoff games. He is a native of Buffalo.

2047
01:37:09,680 --> 01:37:12,400
Speaker 1: Wimbledon thirty six year old Serena Williams, who did not

2048
01:37:12,479 --> 01:37:15,840
Speaker 1: play Wimbledon last year advances to the finals, she took

2049
01:37:15,880 --> 01:37:18,200
Speaker 1: a leave of absence to have her first child and

2050
01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: reaches a Grand Slam final with the victory over Julia

2051
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:23,840
Speaker 1: Georgia six two sixty four earlier today at the All

2052
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:28,400
Speaker 1: England Club. Williams will ye for her eighth Wimbledon title

2053
01:37:28,439 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: against German Angelie Kerber on Saturday. It is a repeat

2054
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:34,360
Speaker 1: of the twenty sixteen Wimbledon final, which Williams won in

2055
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:38,040
Speaker 1: straight sets. Kerber, the eleventh seed, beat Jelena Austin Penko

2056
01:37:38,439 --> 01:37:41,479
Speaker 1: six three, six three in the other semifinal on Center

2057
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,160
Speaker 1: Court earlier today, and the World Cup final coming up

2058
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:46,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday, a final that few would have predicted. It

2059
01:37:46,880 --> 01:37:50,559
Speaker 1: is France against Croatia and Moscow's Sunday, with the each

2060
01:37:50,600 --> 01:37:53,600
Speaker 1: team having a chance to become world champions for the

2061
01:37:53,680 --> 01:37:56,559
Speaker 1: first time. It's eleven am Sunday. That's the update from

2062
01:37:56,560 --> 01:37:58,240
Speaker 1: one whilst drive. You're gonna watch the World Cup seed

2063
01:37:58,240 --> 01:38:00,599
Speaker 1: elemin am on Sunday. I probably will, well, you really,

2064
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:03,680
Speaker 1: I probably will. If I find myself in position too,

2065
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:06,280
Speaker 1: I probably will as well. But eleven am on something

2066
01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:09,800
Speaker 1: you know why I'm watching? Why tell me I only

2067
01:38:09,880 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 1: watch World Cup soccer. I don't watch any other kind

2068
01:38:12,360 --> 01:38:15,920
Speaker 1: of soccer unless unless I have a family member, plan

2069
01:38:16,080 --> 01:38:20,439
Speaker 1: or something. You're right, I really enjoy it, just like everybody.

2070
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 1: I love the countries and the watch parties that you

2071
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:29,360
Speaker 1: see when they score a goal and how excited they

2072
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:31,880
Speaker 1: are and the fan reaction and how much then the

2073
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:35,200
Speaker 1: people in the stands and the celebrations and over the

2074
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:36,880
Speaker 1: goals that are scored in the World Cup. I just

2075
01:38:37,439 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm compelled by that. I think it's a lot

2076
01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:42,960
Speaker 1: of fun. Yeah, and you always picture yourself having you know,

2077
01:38:43,040 --> 01:38:44,680
Speaker 1: you're a team. That's what the Bills went through in

2078
01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:47,680
Speaker 1: January last year. You know, there's so much that I

2079
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:50,360
Speaker 1: do not understand about soccer, World Cup or any other

2080
01:38:50,479 --> 01:38:52,519
Speaker 1: level that I find it hard to watch. I'm not

2081
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:56,360
Speaker 1: anti soccer, um, I haven't watched much. I will watch

2082
01:38:56,439 --> 01:38:58,920
Speaker 1: occasional minutes of games from time to time during this

2083
01:38:59,240 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: World Cup turn in time. But I cannot say, with

2084
01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: all sincerity, Steve, I can't say that I'm drawn to

2085
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: it or compelled to watch. Right. It's fine, Yeah, it's

2086
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:11,320
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's exciting. Listen, I'll tell you the

2087
01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:14,360
Speaker 1: World Cup soccer I know and I'm I could not

2088
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:18,920
Speaker 1: possibly know less about soccer, but I sense a higher

2089
01:39:19,040 --> 01:39:20,880
Speaker 1: level of and I can't even tap point to what

2090
01:39:20,920 --> 01:39:22,880
Speaker 1: it is. I sense a higher level of play in

2091
01:39:22,960 --> 01:39:27,639
Speaker 1: the World Cup guys. The I can sense the pressure,

2092
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 1: I can sense the attention. I can sense um how

2093
01:39:31,040 --> 01:39:32,920
Speaker 1: important it is to the players on the field. And

2094
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:35,799
Speaker 1: it's something I don't and maybe it's just me projecting

2095
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:38,720
Speaker 1: it onto them in my own emotional state, but you know,

2096
01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:41,760
Speaker 1: this World Cup thing, it adds a level of importance

2097
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 1: to these games that, yeah, it does interest me. That's

2098
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:47,400
Speaker 1: that's kind of maybe where it stops for me. But

2099
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:50,560
Speaker 1: I have always enjoyed watching World Cup games, even in

2100
01:39:50,840 --> 01:39:52,880
Speaker 1: World Cup's past. That I can remember. Will you have

2101
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:56,439
Speaker 1: a rooting interest Sunday morning, France or Croatia. I will

2102
01:39:56,520 --> 01:39:59,719
Speaker 1: not normalize. No, I will not. I could not possible.

2103
01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:06,719
Speaker 1: I will. I was hoping England would get in because

2104
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: they because they were such underdogs, they weren't supposed to

2105
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:11,720
Speaker 1: do anything right. And in fact, one of the one

2106
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 1: of the things I read, and I told you about

2107
01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:16,599
Speaker 1: this yesterday, there was an article that came out about

2108
01:40:16,640 --> 01:40:19,320
Speaker 1: all the teams who converged onto Russia in the different

2109
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:21,479
Speaker 1: cities for the World Cup, and there was a story

2110
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:24,760
Speaker 1: that the English team, who was not expected to be

2111
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:27,840
Speaker 1: very competitive in the World Cup this year, arrived in

2112
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,240
Speaker 1: Russia and they went to as a team, went to

2113
01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:35,280
Speaker 1: visit a Russian orphanage and there was a quote coming

2114
01:40:35,320 --> 01:40:37,799
Speaker 1: out saying that, you know, the hopelessness on their faces

2115
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:42,840
Speaker 1: was just sad to see, said Vladimir age six, right,

2116
01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:44,840
Speaker 1: So one of the orphans was saying, you know, this

2117
01:40:44,920 --> 01:40:47,400
Speaker 1: English team has no hope, you know, so they were

2118
01:40:47,479 --> 01:40:49,040
Speaker 1: really down. And then to see him get to the

2119
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:51,400
Speaker 1: semifinals and almost make it to the final and actually

2120
01:40:51,520 --> 01:40:53,800
Speaker 1: lead that game for a large part of the game,

2121
01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:55,840
Speaker 1: I thought, Wow, what a what a cool thing to

2122
01:40:55,920 --> 01:40:57,600
Speaker 1: happen for a team that was being made fun of

2123
01:40:57,760 --> 01:40:59,320
Speaker 1: before they got to the World Cup, to almost get

2124
01:40:59,320 --> 01:41:01,680
Speaker 1: to the final, I was, That's why, that's really the

2125
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:04,000
Speaker 1: only thing I had going for me in that in

2126
01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:06,840
Speaker 1: rooting for England to make it, but they didn't. We're

2127
01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:09,479
Speaker 1: gonna connect with Lorenzo Alexander in a moment, the Bill's

2128
01:41:10,560 --> 01:41:13,320
Speaker 1: defensive the linebacker Lorenzo Alexander going to join us in

2129
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:15,640
Speaker 1: a moment from his gym in Arizona. I want to

2130
01:41:16,600 --> 01:41:19,519
Speaker 1: I keep this up because I feel passionate about this.

2131
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:22,880
Speaker 1: This year, Terrell Owens snubbing the Pro Football Hall of

2132
01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:26,400
Speaker 1: Fame doing his own ceremony at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

2133
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:29,040
Speaker 1: the same day, August fourth, as the real Hall of

2134
01:41:29,120 --> 01:41:32,800
Speaker 1: famers are going in. This came up to Steve and

2135
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:35,519
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Executive director Joe Hargan, who I know

2136
01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:38,240
Speaker 1: pretty well. You know try He appeared on Talk of

2137
01:41:38,320 --> 01:41:41,960
Speaker 1: Fame Network, talked to Clark Judge yesterday. He says, so

2138
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 1: Tio's doing his own ceremony. The Hall of Fame will

2139
01:41:44,800 --> 01:41:48,800
Speaker 1: ostensibly ignore TiO during the ceremony. They will concentrate on

2140
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:53,280
Speaker 1: the seven other inductees participating Bobby Bethard, Robert Brazil, Brian Dawkins,

2141
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:56,280
Speaker 1: Jerry Kramer, Ray Lewis, Randy Moss, Brian or Lacker. The

2142
01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame will mail Terrell Owens his gold jacket

2143
01:41:59,560 --> 01:42:03,720
Speaker 1: on Saturday morning, not earlier, so he won't have it

2144
01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 1: for his Saturday ceremony. That's good. UM. They will mail

2145
01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 1: him his jacket. He will not be individually mentioned with

2146
01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:14,880
Speaker 1: the other inductees during Friday's gold jacket dinner or Saturday ceremony. UM.

2147
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:17,000
Speaker 1: Joe Horgan, our buddy, says it's kind of like a

2148
01:42:17,080 --> 01:42:20,240
Speaker 1: senior who decides to not attend his high school graduation

2149
01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:22,840
Speaker 1: and the student's name is not mentioned, the diploma is

2150
01:42:22,880 --> 01:42:25,439
Speaker 1: not awarded on site. Horgan says, there's no reason to

2151
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:28,840
Speaker 1: bring him up as an individual. He's not here. I

2152
01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:31,599
Speaker 1: like what they're doing. I think it's a it's it's

2153
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 1: a snub, but it's a subtle snub. We're gonna mail

2154
01:42:35,200 --> 01:42:40,519
Speaker 1: you your jacket. Snub came from. Yeah, that's how you're

2155
01:42:40,560 --> 01:42:43,320
Speaker 1: supposed to handle it. When the guy politely declines in it,

2156
01:42:43,840 --> 01:42:46,000
Speaker 1: you're yeah, he's not there. He's not and we don't

2157
01:42:46,040 --> 01:42:49,680
Speaker 1: expect him. Um, so he's not included. I mean that's

2158
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:51,479
Speaker 1: the way it works. That's the way it works at

2159
01:42:51,479 --> 01:42:54,920
Speaker 1: any function. Um, he decide not to show up sick

2160
01:42:55,120 --> 01:42:58,680
Speaker 1: or you know, there's some trash TiO snubbed them. They

2161
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,200
Speaker 1: snub they're just they're just I love, they're just moving

2162
01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:04,200
Speaker 1: on with it. They say, fine, you know, they've they've

2163
01:43:04,240 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: got other things to do, and they got certainly have

2164
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:08,200
Speaker 1: seven guys who are more than willing to be there

2165
01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:11,120
Speaker 1: and take part. So yeah, I'm I'm totally with you.

2166
01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:15,720
Speaker 1: I just strike his name from the list. He's in

2167
01:43:15,800 --> 01:43:18,160
Speaker 1: the hall. Yeah, he's in. He'll get his jacket. Good

2168
01:43:18,200 --> 01:43:20,000
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, you know, and he just man, he

2169
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:24,240
Speaker 1: deserves it. He deserves his jacket. He also deserves he

2170
01:43:24,360 --> 01:43:26,160
Speaker 1: also deserves to be there with them too. I mean

2171
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:27,920
Speaker 1: that's I think it's a privilege. I think you should

2172
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:32,040
Speaker 1: count as a privilege. I don't I don't get I

2173
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:33,920
Speaker 1: don't understand why he's doing it the way he's doing it.

2174
01:43:34,360 --> 01:43:37,760
Speaker 1: It's selfish. Hey, Lorenzo Alexander ready to join us from

2175
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:49,920
Speaker 1: his offseason home in Arizona. Play Smart, Fast, Physical, and

2176
01:43:50,080 --> 01:43:52,719
Speaker 1: Lorenzo joins us right now in the subway fresh take Hotline,

2177
01:43:52,760 --> 01:43:55,639
Speaker 1: Ready to play smart and Physical. I Lorenzo, John Murphy,

2178
01:43:55,640 --> 01:43:57,439
Speaker 1: and Steeve Tasker in Buffalo. How you doing out there

2179
01:43:57,439 --> 01:44:01,599
Speaker 1: in Scott's Dale. I'm feel pretty good, fan warm, working out, grinding.

2180
01:44:01,920 --> 01:44:03,559
Speaker 1: He's got a chance to kind of hear the end

2181
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:07,439
Speaker 1: of these Uh, sound like he's talking about Teo. Sounds

2182
01:44:07,479 --> 01:44:09,400
Speaker 1: like he's worked through his anger phase and the Hollace

2183
01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 1: kind trying to figure it out now. So yeah, I'm

2184
01:44:13,400 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 1: kind of taking a deep breath and I you know,

2185
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:16,640
Speaker 1: I kind of flew you know that's me. I mean

2186
01:44:16,680 --> 01:44:18,479
Speaker 1: I flew off the handle reacting when he decided to

2187
01:44:18,520 --> 01:44:19,920
Speaker 1: do it this way. And then I you know, I've

2188
01:44:19,960 --> 01:44:21,800
Speaker 1: gone through all I think, I don't know how many

2189
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:25,960
Speaker 1: phases there would through the denial phase, the anger phase,

2190
01:44:26,640 --> 01:44:31,120
Speaker 1: the the resignation, and you know, I'm into the pity

2191
01:44:31,240 --> 01:44:33,439
Speaker 1: stage now. I think I do pity. Yeah, I mean,

2192
01:44:33,479 --> 01:44:35,360
Speaker 1: I don't know why he's doing this to himself, but

2193
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:37,680
Speaker 1: there you go. What do you think, Keller and I

2194
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:39,679
Speaker 1: know we talked you about this a couple of weeks ago,

2195
01:44:39,760 --> 01:44:42,000
Speaker 1: But now it comes out that the Hall of Fame,

2196
01:44:42,040 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're not gonna they're gonna mail him

2197
01:44:43,960 --> 01:44:46,920
Speaker 1: his jacket Saturday morning. Uh, they're not gonna mention him

2198
01:44:46,920 --> 01:44:49,479
Speaker 1: in any of the ceremonies. I guess that's the appropriate

2199
01:44:49,560 --> 01:44:52,000
Speaker 1: way to respond when Lorenzo has such a you know,

2200
01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:54,600
Speaker 1: gigantic snub in the pointed in the direction of the

2201
01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:57,800
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame. What do you think as

2202
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:00,760
Speaker 1: far as po I mean, it is what it is.

2203
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:02,479
Speaker 1: I mean I'm kind of over it as well. Um,

2204
01:45:02,479 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: obviously I don't agree with it, but he's deciding to

2205
01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:07,040
Speaker 1: do it the way he wants to and go about

2206
01:45:07,080 --> 01:45:09,960
Speaker 1: it and at the end of that, Um, the biggest

2207
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:12,479
Speaker 1: thing is not making sure business distract from the other

2208
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:14,400
Speaker 1: guys that are there, and I think they're doing the

2209
01:45:14,439 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 1: best way they can as far as responding to Teo

2210
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:19,160
Speaker 1: and his wishes and the way he wants to go in. Yeah,

2211
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:20,840
Speaker 1: the last time you were with us, you know, we

2212
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 1: were talking about your Races foundation. Give us a little

2213
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,519
Speaker 1: recap as how your football camp went and what and

2214
01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:28,360
Speaker 1: what the latest was and how it turned out. Yeah,

2215
01:45:28,360 --> 01:45:31,120
Speaker 1: everything went great. We had a great time. I don't

2216
01:45:31,120 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 1: think in Oakland, California. Partners actually with a group called

2217
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 1: the Various Seminoles so teams that one of the guys

2218
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:40,080
Speaker 1: that favor with high school started and we had a

2219
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:42,679
Speaker 1: great time. We had about one hundred kids out there.

2220
01:45:43,160 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: Um went through drills. Obviously he was able to talk

2221
01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:48,880
Speaker 1: to him at A couple of teammates come out as well,

2222
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:51,640
Speaker 1: or Taiwi Jones, So it was it was just a

2223
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:55,040
Speaker 1: great time to be back in the Bay giving back

2224
01:45:55,080 --> 01:45:57,040
Speaker 1: and you know, serving the community and really having a

2225
01:45:57,080 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 1: lot of my friends I grew up with come out supporters.

2226
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 1: Will speaking of the Bay Area, Laurento, we gotta get

2227
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:05,920
Speaker 1: this important thing Steve wondered if you might change your

2228
01:46:06,080 --> 01:46:10,320
Speaker 1: NBA affiliation to the Lakers now with with the additions

2229
01:46:10,360 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 1: they made. You don't even let me finish. You give

2230
01:46:17,880 --> 01:46:19,800
Speaker 1: us your thoughts on you know, Lebron and how that's

2231
01:46:19,840 --> 01:46:21,880
Speaker 1: gonna change in the West, and you know what you

2232
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:24,920
Speaker 1: think the pulse of the you know, Western Conference fans,

2233
01:46:25,280 --> 01:46:28,960
Speaker 1: what's going to happen? How good are the Lakers gonna be? Um? Well,

2234
01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:31,280
Speaker 1: unless he signed some more guys. Since I've done a

2235
01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:33,880
Speaker 1: politic this morning, I think he's probably only the third

2236
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:36,000
Speaker 1: best team in the West. And uh, he doesn't have

2237
01:46:36,080 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: a shot with the guys around him as of right now.

2238
01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:40,840
Speaker 1: So he still has some recruiting to do, some building

2239
01:46:40,840 --> 01:46:43,200
Speaker 1: to do, and I don't really think it's gonna change anything,

2240
01:46:43,479 --> 01:46:47,840
Speaker 1: especially this next year, unless you know, somebody comes out

2241
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:50,200
Speaker 1: of the woolworks and from where the sounds like Kawhi

2242
01:46:50,240 --> 01:46:53,040
Speaker 1: doesn't want to play with him, so you know, without

2243
01:46:53,120 --> 01:46:55,840
Speaker 1: that piece or something significant like that, Uh, he's gonna

2244
01:46:55,840 --> 01:46:59,080
Speaker 1: find himself out, probably right before the semi finals, whether

2245
01:46:59,120 --> 01:47:01,600
Speaker 1: he's facing the Warrior or Houston. What are you gonna do?

2246
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:04,679
Speaker 1: What will happen in Uh, in the land of the Bay.

2247
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:08,040
Speaker 1: If Kevin Durant at the end of this year when

2248
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:09,880
Speaker 1: his contracts up and he has a chance to walk

2249
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:13,519
Speaker 1: walks to la Um, Well, I mean, we'll be fine.

2250
01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:15,400
Speaker 1: We've got what we need to drive me. I'd be

2251
01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:18,560
Speaker 1: what two or three championships. Um, he's not a He

2252
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 1: wasn't a Verier room guy. We didn't draft you. So

2253
01:47:21,280 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 1: it's not like, uh, you know, Clay Staff or Draymond

2254
01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:27,680
Speaker 1: Jumping Ship. Um, he's kind of been a hired a

2255
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:29,599
Speaker 1: stands before. As obviously we love what he's been able

2256
01:47:29,640 --> 01:47:31,920
Speaker 1: to bring to our team and as obviously gotten us

2257
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:33,679
Speaker 1: over the Humph as far as able to beat Lebron

2258
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:36,519
Speaker 1: and the Houston team. But you know, it's different when

2259
01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:38,519
Speaker 1: a guy that's comes in for a couple of years. Um.

2260
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 1: I know the fans probably be sad to see him go,

2261
01:47:40,920 --> 01:47:42,439
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's gonna be like an up war,

2262
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:44,800
Speaker 1: like a Lebron who was drafted to his home team

2263
01:47:44,920 --> 01:47:47,679
Speaker 1: and loving him and waiting for a championship. We've won,

2264
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:50,800
Speaker 1: and so I think people who will feel gratified and

2265
01:47:50,960 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 1: be Okay, Katie, we'll see you later, do you you

2266
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:56,720
Speaker 1: kind of say that like you're ready for that. Era

2267
01:47:56,840 --> 01:47:59,520
Speaker 1: will end, like yo, okay, you want a couple three championship,

2268
01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:03,160
Speaker 1: couple two three championships, and when kad leaves hey was

2269
01:48:03,200 --> 01:48:05,160
Speaker 1: a great run, you would you be right? You think

2270
01:48:05,200 --> 01:48:07,720
Speaker 1: you'd be you think you'd say goodbye to any more championships.

2271
01:48:09,040 --> 01:48:11,240
Speaker 1: We probably could still maybe getting one depending on where

2272
01:48:11,240 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 1: he went and as he goes and teams up with Lebron.

2273
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:14,519
Speaker 1: I mean, that's gonna be an odd thing to see,

2274
01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:17,759
Speaker 1: even though we still have our Duclist and Clay Steps

2275
01:48:17,880 --> 01:48:20,840
Speaker 1: and Drey mind. I mean when you put those superstars together,

2276
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:24,120
Speaker 1: and I mean that's you know, just taking the third

2277
01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:26,200
Speaker 1: best player and put him with the best player you know,

2278
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:28,439
Speaker 1: or however you want to look at Ivash, the shuffle

2279
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:32,439
Speaker 1: is UM. That definitely would change the power in the West.

2280
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:36,080
Speaker 1: I think there will be some great games. But you know,

2281
01:48:36,240 --> 01:48:38,200
Speaker 1: Katie and Lebron Man, we could really have him a

2282
01:48:38,280 --> 01:48:40,479
Speaker 1: Lebron when he's by himself, so you add another peace

2283
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:43,519
Speaker 1: like Kadie, just a felific score nobody can match up

2284
01:48:43,520 --> 01:48:47,040
Speaker 1: against the Um. They would win. I would say some

2285
01:48:47,200 --> 01:48:50,040
Speaker 1: championships out of that, But like I said, I mean,

2286
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:51,560
Speaker 1: all things come to an end, and I think in

2287
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 1: the damn Angels the NBA, especially when the pocket, when

2288
01:48:55,040 --> 01:48:56,760
Speaker 1: the players have so much power as far as how

2289
01:48:56,800 --> 01:48:59,960
Speaker 1: they move the deals they're signing, you have to prepare

2290
01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:03,800
Speaker 1: here yourself as a fan that this is not gonna

2291
01:49:03,880 --> 01:49:06,960
Speaker 1: last forever. Even when you have a guy like Lebron

2292
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:08,920
Speaker 1: who's draft to buy a team places years. You just

2293
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:10,519
Speaker 1: never know what guys want to do and where their

2294
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:13,599
Speaker 1: heart really is. Lorenzo Alexander on the line with us

2295
01:49:13,680 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 1: from Scottsdale, Arizona Bill's linebacker, getting ready to come back

2296
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 1: to camp two weeks away. Two weeks from today, you'll

2297
01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:22,760
Speaker 1: be on your in your first practice at Saint John

2298
01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:26,040
Speaker 1: Fisher College for the preseason. Lorenzo, is that I mean,

2299
01:49:26,080 --> 01:49:28,519
Speaker 1: do you feel these deadlines? Is that like a red

2300
01:49:28,600 --> 01:49:30,920
Speaker 1: letter day coming up? You think about that a lot?

2301
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:32,560
Speaker 1: Oh man, two weeks left, I'm gonna be there in

2302
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: two weeks. No, I don't really think about it. I mean,

2303
01:49:35,160 --> 01:49:37,760
Speaker 1: at this point, I'm into my groove, and obviously I

2304
01:49:37,920 --> 01:49:39,560
Speaker 1: know that day, I know when I'm coming back, but

2305
01:49:39,680 --> 01:49:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm not going to focus on that. It'll be here

2306
01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:44,439
Speaker 1: soon enough, and I'm not going to stress myself focus

2307
01:49:44,479 --> 01:49:46,040
Speaker 1: because I thought I'm prepared. I know I'm going to

2308
01:49:46,080 --> 01:49:48,960
Speaker 1: be in shape. Really just enjoying this time with the

2309
01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:51,960
Speaker 1: kids and the family, renovating the house out in the

2310
01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:54,320
Speaker 1: Arizona and doing some of those things. Just really saying

2311
01:49:54,320 --> 01:49:56,200
Speaker 1: at the moment, because I'll be in the thicket of

2312
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 1: the things before I know it, and then won't you know,

2313
01:50:00,120 --> 01:50:03,320
Speaker 1: have no other choice but to focus on football, football, football.

2314
01:50:03,400 --> 01:50:05,360
Speaker 1: So I'm really enjoying these last couple of weeks and

2315
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:08,080
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get back, but just really enjoying

2316
01:50:08,120 --> 01:50:10,320
Speaker 1: this time. We got my niece in from Utah, just

2317
01:50:10,439 --> 01:50:13,040
Speaker 1: kind of hanging out, having a great time. One of

2318
01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:14,680
Speaker 1: the things I wanted to ask you about. You've done

2319
01:50:14,720 --> 01:50:17,560
Speaker 1: some radio work with our boy Ron Wolfley out in Arizona,

2320
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:21,800
Speaker 1: and you've also and wolf is neck deep in and

2321
01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:24,200
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, And of course we've got Josh Allen here

2322
01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 1: and one of the other quarterbacks that we were you know,

2323
01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:28,880
Speaker 1: everybody was talking about here was was Josh Rosen. And

2324
01:50:28,920 --> 01:50:31,040
Speaker 1: he's got Larry Fitzgerald out there in the Cardinals. Give

2325
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:34,040
Speaker 1: us the vibe of what's coming out of out of

2326
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:37,720
Speaker 1: Arizona and the Cardinals camp. Yeah, I think there's a

2327
01:50:37,720 --> 01:50:40,880
Speaker 1: lot of optimism. I mean, obviously there's some reservants. Well,

2328
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:43,519
Speaker 1: when you lose a coach like Bose Aliens. You know,

2329
01:50:43,640 --> 01:50:47,519
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer retired, and there's been a lot of turtles.

2330
01:50:47,520 --> 01:50:51,000
Speaker 1: I played here in two thousand fourteen fifteen pre season

2331
01:50:51,080 --> 01:50:53,920
Speaker 1: before I got released, and there may be two or

2332
01:50:53,960 --> 01:50:56,360
Speaker 1: three guys on the team that were there when I

2333
01:50:56,479 --> 01:50:58,080
Speaker 1: was there. So they're dealing with a lot of turnover,

2334
01:50:58,160 --> 01:51:01,560
Speaker 1: obviously a head coach. But the bright spot out of it,

2335
01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:03,760
Speaker 1: they still half fit. They still have Sat Pete and

2336
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 1: from talking to listen to what Pat Pete said about

2337
01:51:06,680 --> 01:51:10,720
Speaker 1: Josh rosen Um, they love him, think he has the

2338
01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:13,400
Speaker 1: ability to play the high level. I don't quite sure

2339
01:51:13,479 --> 01:51:15,439
Speaker 1: enough if they think he's going to get the job initially,

2340
01:51:15,760 --> 01:51:17,600
Speaker 1: but allowing the growth kind of a similar thing that

2341
01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:23,160
Speaker 1: we have with R. Josh m So it's going to

2342
01:51:23,200 --> 01:51:25,160
Speaker 1: be interesting. But I think all young quarterbacks kind of

2343
01:51:25,200 --> 01:51:27,439
Speaker 1: need that masterlation period. I think he's gonna get that.

2344
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:29,720
Speaker 1: But so far, I hear great things coming out of

2345
01:51:29,800 --> 01:51:33,360
Speaker 1: camp about him, to his command of the offense, the

2346
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:36,600
Speaker 1: commander of a huddle, which was really I guess the

2347
01:51:36,680 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 1: splay during their ota during the two minutes real, you know,

2348
01:51:39,400 --> 01:51:41,240
Speaker 1: really be able to execute that at a higher level

2349
01:51:41,240 --> 01:51:43,040
Speaker 1: of march down the field. Obviously he's got just hit

2350
01:51:43,120 --> 01:51:46,040
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but just to see that command

2351
01:51:46,160 --> 01:51:47,840
Speaker 1: and being able to get the bar out of his hands,

2352
01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:50,920
Speaker 1: you know, Pat Pete was really impressed by what he

2353
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:53,080
Speaker 1: was able to show day in and day out in

2354
01:51:53,200 --> 01:51:55,600
Speaker 1: the growth over that period. And I want to know,

2355
01:51:55,800 --> 01:51:57,960
Speaker 1: if you like Steve and I yesterday were doing Ron

2356
01:51:58,000 --> 01:52:00,920
Speaker 1: Wolfley imitations here on the show, do you do you

2357
01:52:00,960 --> 01:52:03,920
Speaker 1: know how he is? Oh, they're they're really what was

2358
01:52:03,960 --> 01:52:08,479
Speaker 1: the quote voice? Yeah? And he's got Yeah, he does.

2359
01:52:08,560 --> 01:52:11,160
Speaker 1: He does a great job. Does mccau I was steel

2360
01:52:11,200 --> 01:52:13,479
Speaker 1: bad talking about him. It's like he's talking about bad

2361
01:52:13,479 --> 01:52:17,360
Speaker 1: about Steven, giving Steve a hard time. Those guys alas

2362
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:20,280
Speaker 1: in my mind can't I can't bring myself to do it. Yeah,

2363
01:52:20,520 --> 01:52:23,560
Speaker 1: he's he's got one of the great WWE voices of

2364
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:25,639
Speaker 1: all time and he plays at the hill. But yeah,

2365
01:52:25,960 --> 01:52:27,840
Speaker 1: that you're right, he's one of the great all time

2366
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:29,800
Speaker 1: great guys as well, you know, and a lot of

2367
01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:31,679
Speaker 1: people and I don't know if you can even speak

2368
01:52:31,720 --> 01:52:34,400
Speaker 1: to it. Steve Wilkes was hired as Arizona's head coach,

2369
01:52:34,439 --> 01:52:36,439
Speaker 1: and a lot of people have no idea who Steve

2370
01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:39,640
Speaker 1: Wilkes is. Um, what's the what's you know, what's the

2371
01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:42,040
Speaker 1: vibe coming out of there about how he's handled his

2372
01:52:42,160 --> 01:52:45,400
Speaker 1: first few months on the job. Um, I think it's

2373
01:52:45,479 --> 01:52:47,639
Speaker 1: much different than than Bruce arians then. I mean he's

2374
01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 1: coaching UH to who he is and not what DA

2375
01:52:51,080 --> 01:52:53,599
Speaker 1: had created. And I think that's kid. If we can

2376
01:52:53,680 --> 01:52:55,560
Speaker 1: look at, you know, our own head coach, you know,

2377
01:52:55,640 --> 01:52:58,559
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, though obviously you can't from Carolina as well,

2378
01:52:58,600 --> 01:53:00,960
Speaker 1: and that same type of culture. And I'm looking at

2379
01:53:01,040 --> 01:53:04,120
Speaker 1: some of the hires that Wilson has made here, m

2380
01:53:04,640 --> 01:53:06,559
Speaker 1: Ray Brown being one of them, a guy that played

2381
01:53:06,600 --> 01:53:10,200
Speaker 1: the league for twenty years, coach as well. I played

2382
01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:12,439
Speaker 1: for him in Washington. One of the best old linemenes

2383
01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:14,160
Speaker 1: that I've ever faced. Just you know, he's just a

2384
01:53:14,240 --> 01:53:17,320
Speaker 1: vetting I was a little hook out and tossed me around.

2385
01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:24,600
Speaker 1: Because that personality, the faith components, accountability, the fundamentals and

2386
01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:27,639
Speaker 1: being accountable, all those things I think that we see

2387
01:53:27,840 --> 01:53:30,560
Speaker 1: with Sean and what he embraces. Coach Wilson do it.

2388
01:53:30,600 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 1: It's going to implement that same tox of mentality here

2389
01:53:33,479 --> 01:53:35,040
Speaker 1: and doing in his own way and I can see

2390
01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:37,040
Speaker 1: that just by him hiring you know, Ray Brown and

2391
01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:39,160
Speaker 1: being around him and understand who he is. It's one

2392
01:53:39,200 --> 01:53:40,800
Speaker 1: of some of the other coaches that he has on

2393
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 1: staff and kept on staff, like Larry's Foot, another guy

2394
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:46,120
Speaker 1: I actually played with and was coached by him for

2395
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:48,720
Speaker 1: an off season. So they're gonna be good. Um. I

2396
01:53:48,760 --> 01:53:50,880
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be better than what people expect. Obviously

2397
01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:53,120
Speaker 1: to get David Johnson back, and then they have guys

2398
01:53:53,200 --> 01:53:58,600
Speaker 1: like Patrick Peterson and Laris Fitsgerild to help re emphasize

2399
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 1: or spread that coach much like you know what Kyle

2400
01:54:01,240 --> 01:54:04,040
Speaker 1: William does for our team. So we have veteran leadership

2401
01:54:04,120 --> 01:54:05,760
Speaker 1: like that, a coach that knows who he is and

2402
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:08,040
Speaker 1: what he wants to do and has coaches also doing that.

2403
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:11,000
Speaker 1: As will have some great players in place, you're gonna

2404
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:12,680
Speaker 1: make a little bit of noise and you can kind

2405
01:54:12,720 --> 01:54:16,240
Speaker 1: of hide that quarterback, you know, uncertainty because of a

2406
01:54:16,320 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 1: great run game, and because they have a good defense

2407
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:20,840
Speaker 1: out here as well. So I think they're going to

2408
01:54:20,920 --> 01:54:22,799
Speaker 1: do a lot better and be a lot more competitive

2409
01:54:22,840 --> 01:54:25,599
Speaker 1: than what may what some people may think abroad from

2410
01:54:25,600 --> 01:54:29,040
Speaker 1: the Subway Fresh date kindline with Bill's linebacker Lorenzo Alexander.

2411
01:54:29,160 --> 01:54:31,639
Speaker 1: He is at his home in Arizona for the last

2412
01:54:31,720 --> 01:54:35,240
Speaker 1: month or so, right, Lorenzo, since the Mini camp in

2413
01:54:35,400 --> 01:54:38,400
Speaker 1: a year, right, Yeah, since we've been out. It's in

2414
01:54:38,560 --> 01:54:40,600
Speaker 1: joining this time. And you know, like I said this,

2415
01:54:40,720 --> 01:54:42,280
Speaker 1: in joining, this great weather out here right now, you

2416
01:54:42,440 --> 01:54:44,320
Speaker 1: know what's hot, I'm soaking it all up because I

2417
01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:46,200
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be the flip side would come decem

2418
01:54:46,280 --> 01:54:47,880
Speaker 1: vir January. What are we talking about? One hundred and

2419
01:54:47,920 --> 01:54:51,760
Speaker 1: five hundred ten degrees in Scottsail. Yeah, probably, Well right

2420
01:54:51,800 --> 01:54:53,320
Speaker 1: now it was actually cool. We've been having a couple

2421
01:54:53,360 --> 01:54:55,520
Speaker 1: of months soon, so it was actually sitting about nineties

2422
01:54:55,560 --> 01:54:59,520
Speaker 1: five degrees right now. It's cool. Yeah, so that's perfect. Hey,

2423
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:03,960
Speaker 1: how is your You know, you are not notable because

2424
01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:06,680
Speaker 1: of your workout regiment and your nutrition regiment even in

2425
01:55:06,720 --> 01:55:08,920
Speaker 1: the off season. How did any of that change in

2426
01:55:09,000 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 1: this last month since you left Buffalo and went out

2427
01:55:11,280 --> 01:55:14,720
Speaker 1: back west of Scott Tell Yeah, I think the biggest thing, Uh,

2428
01:55:15,400 --> 01:55:17,560
Speaker 1: it's probably I'm just kind of tightened up on my

2429
01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:20,520
Speaker 1: diet um something that I wanted to play with this year.

2430
01:55:20,640 --> 01:55:23,760
Speaker 1: You know. Oftentimes you know, for me, at least raped

2431
01:55:23,800 --> 01:55:26,520
Speaker 1: off the season's over, I kind of go into strigit

2432
01:55:26,600 --> 01:55:29,600
Speaker 1: more and and I found it the last couple of years,

2433
01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:31,960
Speaker 1: especially when you get to those months of you know,

2434
01:55:32,120 --> 01:55:35,120
Speaker 1: November December, and you may be a little banged up,

2435
01:55:35,160 --> 01:55:37,240
Speaker 1: the weather's cold, you got wings in front of you,

2436
01:55:37,600 --> 01:55:39,960
Speaker 1: your more at least for me, I was more ready

2437
01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:42,560
Speaker 1: to eat those things. So I said, let me change

2438
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:44,040
Speaker 1: it up, be a little bit more loose, and I

2439
01:55:44,160 --> 01:55:46,400
Speaker 1: go crazy in the off season. But you know, Ralph's

2440
01:55:46,440 --> 01:55:49,320
Speaker 1: friend Ota times eat well. But you know, if we

2441
01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:51,760
Speaker 1: do something, I'll eat. But since I've came out here,

2442
01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:54,400
Speaker 1: you know, just really start to tighten up so mentally,

2443
01:55:54,880 --> 01:55:57,520
Speaker 1: especially when you started getting banged up, having bruises, you know,

2444
01:55:57,600 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 1: feel bad in the morning, maybe you have a loss,

2445
01:56:00,080 --> 01:56:02,680
Speaker 1: You're you're still more mentally engaged and mentally tough to

2446
01:56:02,800 --> 01:56:05,200
Speaker 1: kind of fight through that to stay eating right because

2447
01:56:05,240 --> 01:56:07,400
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be more productive for you as

2448
01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,400
Speaker 1: the season wear it's on when people start doing what

2449
01:56:09,520 --> 01:56:11,200
Speaker 1: I was doing. I was starting to eat that even

2450
01:56:11,360 --> 01:56:14,400
Speaker 1: bad things and maybe put on a pound or two

2451
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:16,400
Speaker 1: and not being as deficient. So I just that's one

2452
01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:18,840
Speaker 1: of the small tweets that I kind of put into

2453
01:56:18,920 --> 01:56:21,200
Speaker 1: my regiment this year that, um, I think it's going

2454
01:56:21,240 --> 01:56:24,640
Speaker 1: to pay off big dividends for me as the season

2455
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:29,120
Speaker 1: um um carries on and we getting later in the season. Yeah,

2456
01:56:29,120 --> 01:56:31,680
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I appreciate you coming on Lorenz right. One

2457
01:56:31,720 --> 01:56:33,120
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to ask you is camp gets it

2458
01:56:33,160 --> 01:56:36,040
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks away. I know when I played,

2459
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:38,160
Speaker 1: we had stuff as a family we did and wanted

2460
01:56:38,200 --> 01:56:40,040
Speaker 1: to get in right before training camp. What are some

2461
01:56:40,120 --> 01:56:42,400
Speaker 1: of the last minute things you gotta do before you

2462
01:56:42,480 --> 01:56:44,640
Speaker 1: report to training camp and start putting your foot on

2463
01:56:44,720 --> 01:56:46,680
Speaker 1: the on the floor of the season and you know,

2464
01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:49,000
Speaker 1: kind of get your those digression without looking up. What

2465
01:56:49,280 --> 01:56:51,760
Speaker 1: are some of the last things you gotta squeeze in? Well,

2466
01:56:51,800 --> 01:56:53,600
Speaker 1: normally we get a chest and when you know, we

2467
01:56:53,760 --> 01:56:55,720
Speaker 1: lived in Virginia, we will go to Smith Mountain Lake

2468
01:56:55,760 --> 01:56:57,560
Speaker 1: every year, go up there for a week and kind

2469
01:56:57,560 --> 01:56:59,840
Speaker 1: of hit that last get away jests and this kind

2470
01:56:59,880 --> 01:57:01,920
Speaker 1: of get it from that h for a little bit

2471
01:57:01,920 --> 01:57:04,160
Speaker 1: because obviously Seale reception is bad up there with one

2472
01:57:04,200 --> 01:57:07,360
Speaker 1: of my buddies characters ghosting. Since we've kind of shifted

2473
01:57:07,520 --> 01:57:10,360
Speaker 1: from Virgins for Arizona, I mean, our focus is good

2474
01:57:10,360 --> 01:57:13,240
Speaker 1: at just trying to get this house together out here

2475
01:57:13,440 --> 01:57:15,840
Speaker 1: and stay around this area. But for us and just

2476
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, doing the little things, doing a little stacations,

2477
01:57:18,040 --> 01:57:20,960
Speaker 1: taking the kids to baseball games, going to water parks,

2478
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:22,760
Speaker 1: supposed to go to the a quarter amount here, So

2479
01:57:22,920 --> 01:57:24,920
Speaker 1: just trying to do as much as bad as possible

2480
01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:28,120
Speaker 1: because once I hit you know, training camp, you know,

2481
01:57:28,200 --> 01:57:30,320
Speaker 1: I get to see my kids as much as my

2482
01:57:30,360 --> 01:57:32,360
Speaker 1: wife will get up to Rochester, you know, so that

2483
01:57:32,480 --> 01:57:35,320
Speaker 1: maybe every other day, maybe every couple of days. So

2484
01:57:35,400 --> 01:57:38,800
Speaker 1: it's really maximized at that time because um, you just

2485
01:57:38,880 --> 01:57:40,360
Speaker 1: don't be to see him as much as you want

2486
01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:43,240
Speaker 1: to and interact, especially when training camp hits. But they

2487
01:57:43,280 --> 01:57:44,720
Speaker 1: are geting to go to Disney, where I get I

2488
01:57:44,800 --> 01:57:47,600
Speaker 1: missed that trip this year. But uh that's kind of

2489
01:57:47,760 --> 01:57:50,000
Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse in a little bit that

2490
01:57:50,040 --> 01:57:51,760
Speaker 1: I mentioned it because Disney wants to get a little

2491
01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:53,880
Speaker 1: heccky when you got three kids and a big group

2492
01:57:54,640 --> 01:57:58,640
Speaker 1: roaming around the park. A little business thing I want

2493
01:57:58,640 --> 01:58:01,800
Speaker 1: to ask you about it. It's the discussion about guaranteed contracts.

2494
01:58:01,880 --> 01:58:06,960
Speaker 1: Russell okung I thought pretty involved a discussion on Twitter anyway,

2495
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:09,400
Speaker 1: as much as you get into it there about how

2496
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:12,520
Speaker 1: guaranteed contracts should be part of the NFL, and you

2497
01:58:12,720 --> 01:58:15,360
Speaker 1: you having to agree with that, I guess right, Yeah,

2498
01:58:15,400 --> 01:58:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean I think we're always going to try to

2499
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:20,040
Speaker 1: fight to get guaranteed money. Obviously what bonuses, whatever it

2500
01:58:20,080 --> 01:58:23,240
Speaker 1: may be, but trying to get our entire contract guarantee. Yeah.

2501
01:58:23,240 --> 01:58:25,880
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't want to be an agreement of knowing how

2502
01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:28,880
Speaker 1: much money you're gonna make, regardless if you know, something

2503
01:58:28,960 --> 01:58:30,920
Speaker 1: happens or you know, they decide they don't want to

2504
01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:33,920
Speaker 1: use that year, and it could be sometimes you know,

2505
01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:36,760
Speaker 1: it's that no, nothing that you've done, You've played well,

2506
01:58:36,880 --> 01:58:39,520
Speaker 1: doing everything right, but you had a coaching change, or

2507
01:58:39,640 --> 01:58:41,800
Speaker 1: they decided they like this younger guy better, you know.

2508
01:58:41,880 --> 01:58:44,640
Speaker 1: And for guys and who have families, especially since there's

2509
01:58:44,680 --> 01:58:46,440
Speaker 1: such a finite time that we can make this type

2510
01:58:46,480 --> 01:58:48,800
Speaker 1: of money, it's hard to plan instead of your life.

2511
01:58:48,840 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 1: You know, for many of my first couple of years,

2512
01:58:50,960 --> 01:58:53,040
Speaker 1: I almost have to live like I was in constant

2513
01:58:53,080 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 1: retirement just because you don't have anything. You don't know

2514
01:58:56,160 --> 01:58:58,360
Speaker 1: what's going to happen from weeks to weeks. And obviously,

2515
01:58:58,440 --> 01:59:01,160
Speaker 1: guys that make bold time means a dollars and you know,

2516
01:59:01,240 --> 01:59:03,920
Speaker 1: I've kind of drifted towards that now and later in

2517
01:59:04,000 --> 01:59:07,560
Speaker 1: my career. It's not a huge issue, but the majority

2518
01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:09,480
Speaker 1: of the league of guys that are bouncing from team

2519
01:59:09,520 --> 01:59:13,840
Speaker 1: of teams, you know, lower draft picks maybe here, today's

2520
01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:16,760
Speaker 1: on tomorrow, and it's just because GM's want to just

2521
01:59:16,960 --> 01:59:18,920
Speaker 1: turn the rosters. They might have done a great job,

2522
01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:20,760
Speaker 1: but all nothing. Now we want to turn the roster,

2523
01:59:20,880 --> 01:59:23,000
Speaker 1: and guys like that have a hard time. And we

2524
01:59:23,120 --> 01:59:25,800
Speaker 1: talk about why guys you know, have an issue to

2525
01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:28,640
Speaker 1: transition away from the game and don't have money saved up,

2526
01:59:28,680 --> 01:59:30,760
Speaker 1: and a lot of that is it's constituted to that

2527
01:59:30,880 --> 01:59:34,200
Speaker 1: because they're living in a world where I don't really

2528
01:59:34,240 --> 01:59:36,920
Speaker 1: know what I'm going to get, and so it's hard.

2529
01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:39,560
Speaker 1: It's hard to live like that and to provide for

2530
01:59:39,600 --> 01:59:42,200
Speaker 1: your family and to set up future goals and dreams

2531
01:59:42,240 --> 01:59:45,160
Speaker 1: and saved and do all those things when your money's

2532
01:59:45,160 --> 01:59:48,000
Speaker 1: not guaranteed. So and and I haven't even mentioned that

2533
01:59:49,080 --> 01:59:50,760
Speaker 1: what we put on the line, you know, going out

2534
01:59:50,800 --> 01:59:52,960
Speaker 1: here and running into cats, and I know I'm signing

2535
01:59:53,040 --> 01:59:54,960
Speaker 1: up for that, but at the same time, I think

2536
01:59:55,040 --> 01:59:59,280
Speaker 1: there's um some validity and giving my guaranteed money because

2537
01:59:59,320 --> 02:00:03,120
Speaker 1: I am playing very uh you know, a physical contact game.

2538
02:00:03,320 --> 02:00:05,640
Speaker 1: And obviously the owners what is going to argue to

2539
02:00:05,680 --> 02:00:08,520
Speaker 1: complete opposite. But I'm a player and that's what I'm saying,

2540
02:00:08,560 --> 02:00:10,080
Speaker 1: and that's what I believe in. And I think most

2541
02:00:10,080 --> 02:00:12,160
Speaker 1: people would understand that, because when you get a job,

2542
02:00:12,720 --> 02:00:14,640
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna make that year. Yeah, you know,

2543
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:17,400
Speaker 1: even if they release, you get some type of a

2544
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:19,560
Speaker 1: packaged bonus. Not not with us. I mean you could

2545
02:00:19,600 --> 02:00:21,560
Speaker 1: cut off right then and there and now unless you

2546
02:00:21,640 --> 02:00:24,400
Speaker 1: got to make it until you get another opportunity. I

2547
02:00:24,520 --> 02:00:26,560
Speaker 1: know the Cousins contract has a lot of people thinking

2548
02:00:26,600 --> 02:00:30,600
Speaker 1: about the guaranteed nature of NFL contracts. But I would

2549
02:00:30,640 --> 02:00:33,440
Speaker 1: just think owners would go to the wall to fight that, right.

2550
02:00:33,520 --> 02:00:36,200
Speaker 1: I mean they they would want no part of that

2551
02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:39,560
Speaker 1: right because it's all about power and control. If you

2552
02:00:39,680 --> 02:00:42,640
Speaker 1: give us guaranteed money when we have these labors, I

2553
02:00:42,800 --> 02:00:44,160
Speaker 1: know how much money I have in the bank, I

2554
02:00:44,240 --> 02:00:45,600
Speaker 1: know what I need to do. I mean, so it

2555
02:00:45,720 --> 02:00:47,880
Speaker 1: does give them a lagged up when you come to

2556
02:00:48,680 --> 02:00:52,680
Speaker 1: ideas of CBA negotiations. Um, and who wants to pay

2557
02:00:53,920 --> 02:00:55,640
Speaker 1: all their money as an owner if I don't have to,

2558
02:00:55,800 --> 02:00:57,520
Speaker 1: If I could you know, maybe cut a guy and

2559
02:00:57,600 --> 02:01:00,960
Speaker 1: save some money. Yeah, for them, it makes sense for them.

2560
02:01:01,480 --> 02:01:04,120
Speaker 1: So that's where why it's always collected in a bargain

2561
02:01:04,200 --> 02:01:06,800
Speaker 1: because some some things makes sense for them, somethings makes

2562
02:01:06,800 --> 02:01:10,040
Speaker 1: sense for us. Sometimes makes sense for both party book

2563
02:01:10,040 --> 02:01:12,560
Speaker 1: because you're given up some power control and by doing

2564
02:01:12,640 --> 02:01:15,560
Speaker 1: it you necessarily don't get it done. So it's crazy.

2565
02:01:16,200 --> 02:01:17,880
Speaker 1: But the league can do it. You know. They always

2566
02:01:17,880 --> 02:01:20,280
Speaker 1: stand behind the funding rules because it say guarantee so

2567
02:01:20,400 --> 02:01:21,960
Speaker 1: much money, they have to send that money to the

2568
02:01:22,360 --> 02:01:24,680
Speaker 1: league and owners don't want to do that. But that

2569
02:01:24,840 --> 02:01:26,680
Speaker 1: rule was set up back in the day when the

2570
02:01:26,960 --> 02:01:29,120
Speaker 1: league was in its infancy and couldn't sustain and he

2571
02:01:29,240 --> 02:01:32,200
Speaker 1: thought teams may go better up. Yeah, not one team

2572
02:01:32,240 --> 02:01:35,280
Speaker 1: that will go fatter up right now. I agree with you, Lorenzo.

2573
02:01:35,320 --> 02:01:36,720
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that needs to change,

2574
02:01:36,760 --> 02:01:39,560
Speaker 1: even if the policies or if they don't get guaranteed money,

2575
02:01:39,680 --> 02:01:43,560
Speaker 1: certainly the accounting techniques that the league uses are antiquated.

2576
02:01:43,640 --> 02:01:45,240
Speaker 1: It is a league that's still set up in a

2577
02:01:45,320 --> 02:01:48,160
Speaker 1: lot of ways, and the collective bargaining is set up

2578
02:01:48,560 --> 02:01:52,360
Speaker 1: because back in the day when tickets were a huge

2579
02:01:52,440 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: part of the revenue, stream, you know, and now tickets

2580
02:01:55,760 --> 02:01:57,720
Speaker 1: are just a you know, a small piece of the

2581
02:01:57,800 --> 02:02:03,440
Speaker 1: piets television revenues. It's advertising, it's it's sweet sales, it's signage,

2582
02:02:03,480 --> 02:02:06,920
Speaker 1: it's corporate sponsors, it's corporate partners. I mean, there's so

2583
02:02:07,000 --> 02:02:09,320
Speaker 1: many other revenue streams that come into it that that

2584
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:12,880
Speaker 1: that the account and Russell Okung made a great uh

2585
02:02:13,160 --> 02:02:15,920
Speaker 1: point about this, the accounting techniques that they use to

2586
02:02:16,040 --> 02:02:18,920
Speaker 1: quantify what the league actually makes and what's available for

2587
02:02:19,040 --> 02:02:22,240
Speaker 1: the salary cap or antiquated and and if if nothing else,

2588
02:02:22,960 --> 02:02:25,720
Speaker 1: they should be modernized for what the economy of the

2589
02:02:26,000 --> 02:02:28,760
Speaker 1: league looks like now. Um And I think that would

2590
02:02:29,000 --> 02:02:31,200
Speaker 1: that would change a great deal. It makes a lot

2591
02:02:31,240 --> 02:02:33,680
Speaker 1: of sense. But like you said, we're at this point

2592
02:02:34,320 --> 02:02:37,440
Speaker 1: where it hasn't been updated. Um And I think it's

2593
02:02:37,440 --> 02:02:39,600
Speaker 1: a lot of the reason why because it benefits the

2594
02:02:39,680 --> 02:02:42,280
Speaker 1: owners and so to get them to move is all

2595
02:02:42,280 --> 02:02:44,200
Speaker 1: about where you were to the UBU. You know, so

2596
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:48,400
Speaker 1: as negotiations doing more and you have to figure out,

2597
02:02:48,520 --> 02:02:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, as as a collective body as players, which

2598
02:02:51,640 --> 02:02:54,360
Speaker 1: really works it? Um? You know, what are you willing

2599
02:02:54,400 --> 02:02:56,840
Speaker 1: to do to get it changed? And and can we

2600
02:02:56,960 --> 02:03:00,480
Speaker 1: sustain that? You know um that movement and that thought

2601
02:03:00,520 --> 02:03:03,320
Speaker 1: process together. So that's our challenge. So because we could

2602
02:03:03,320 --> 02:03:05,520
Speaker 1: talk about until we blew in the face, but until

2603
02:03:05,560 --> 02:03:07,920
Speaker 1: we put some actions behind these and actually come together

2604
02:03:08,000 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 1: and say these are the things we want and we're

2605
02:03:09,600 --> 02:03:12,000
Speaker 1: about to do this and get the owners to change

2606
02:03:12,040 --> 02:03:14,000
Speaker 1: their mind or make them feel like they need to

2607
02:03:14,120 --> 02:03:16,280
Speaker 1: shift in order to get games played, or whatever that

2608
02:03:16,400 --> 02:03:19,400
Speaker 1: may be. It's going to stay the same because that's

2609
02:03:19,400 --> 02:03:21,160
Speaker 1: something that they're gonna fight tooth and nail over and

2610
02:03:21,200 --> 02:03:23,240
Speaker 1: the runs. One more question for you, and this deals

2611
02:03:23,240 --> 02:03:27,760
Speaker 1: with your involvement with the NFL Players Association Executive Committee

2612
02:03:27,760 --> 02:03:30,760
Speaker 1: and the two days ago the PA announced that they

2613
02:03:31,120 --> 02:03:34,800
Speaker 1: foil the grievance about the new national anthem policy. Do

2614
02:03:34,800 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on that? And in particular, I

2615
02:03:37,160 --> 02:03:39,440
Speaker 1: have to tell you I was heartened to see that

2616
02:03:39,600 --> 02:03:44,360
Speaker 1: the Players Association said that they're going to have talks

2617
02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:46,720
Speaker 1: with the league about this, So they fily grievance, but

2618
02:03:46,760 --> 02:03:49,000
Speaker 1: they also want to talk about it. To me, that's

2619
02:03:49,040 --> 02:03:51,640
Speaker 1: indicative of maybe trying to find a way to sort

2620
02:03:51,720 --> 02:03:55,080
Speaker 1: through this pretty complicated issue as we head to the season.

2621
02:03:55,160 --> 02:03:57,480
Speaker 1: The one that you know is gonna it's gonna happen, right,

2622
02:03:57,560 --> 02:04:01,160
Speaker 1: There's gonna be protest, there's gonna be invective flying back

2623
02:04:01,200 --> 02:04:03,240
Speaker 1: and forth. And I like the fact that maybe they

2624
02:04:03,280 --> 02:04:05,040
Speaker 1: can head it off with the pass and stop it

2625
02:04:05,120 --> 02:04:08,040
Speaker 1: before it gets too far away from either side exactly.

2626
02:04:08,080 --> 02:04:09,840
Speaker 1: And there's something that we reached out to the league

2627
02:04:09,840 --> 02:04:11,480
Speaker 1: about and told what we're going to do, because we

2628
02:04:11,640 --> 02:04:17,200
Speaker 1: do want this to be something that is productive and

2629
02:04:17,840 --> 02:04:21,200
Speaker 1: that is fixed, and not just because we wanted a

2630
02:04:21,240 --> 02:04:22,840
Speaker 1: certain way. We want to be able to do things

2631
02:04:22,880 --> 02:04:25,040
Speaker 1: so that we can help our communities and allow guys

2632
02:04:25,120 --> 02:04:29,040
Speaker 1: their freedoms. And I've been having a positive conversation about it,

2633
02:04:29,120 --> 02:04:32,480
Speaker 1: and being included in that conversation because it doesn't impact

2634
02:04:32,640 --> 02:04:34,920
Speaker 1: us as well as players. I think would have been

2635
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:37,280
Speaker 1: the more beneficial way if I going about before, you,

2636
02:04:37,520 --> 02:04:40,720
Speaker 1: you know, implement a policy that even a lot of

2637
02:04:40,760 --> 02:04:43,600
Speaker 1: the owners themselves don't agree upon. I mean, because you

2638
02:04:43,640 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 1: hear a lot of owners coming out saying I ain't

2639
02:04:45,120 --> 02:04:47,640
Speaker 1: finding my players or you know, our gems or whoever

2640
02:04:47,640 --> 02:04:50,600
Speaker 1: it may be. So again, it was a policy that way,

2641
02:04:50,600 --> 02:04:52,280
Speaker 1: I think that was just sold out there just to

2642
02:04:52,360 --> 02:04:54,720
Speaker 1: see what kind of traction would get. And honestly, we're

2643
02:04:54,760 --> 02:04:58,280
Speaker 1: going to do our best job as a union to

2644
02:04:58,680 --> 02:05:02,720
Speaker 1: represent our players and and get them fixed and going

2645
02:05:02,800 --> 02:05:08,160
Speaker 1: in a more positive, productive, collaborative direction. All right, Lorenzo. Thanks,

2646
02:05:08,200 --> 02:05:09,480
Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you a couple of weeks

2647
02:05:09,520 --> 02:05:11,960
Speaker 1: on a Rochester. Have a great rest of your vacation

2648
02:05:12,040 --> 02:05:13,400
Speaker 1: and hope to see you in a couple of weeks.

2649
02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:16,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't wait see you. Got Lorenzo Alexander

2650
02:05:16,560 --> 02:05:18,320
Speaker 1: Bill's linebacker on the line with us from his home

2651
02:05:18,360 --> 02:05:20,960
Speaker 1: in Scottsdale. Lorenzo joins us on the Subway Fresh Day

2652
02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:23,080
Speaker 1: hot Line Subway eat fresh Yeah. He sets, He says,

2653
02:05:23,120 --> 02:05:26,040
Speaker 1: he can't wait to see you. Get Yeah, don't think none.

2654
02:05:26,080 --> 02:05:31,360
Speaker 1: He can wait. There's no hurry to get there, I'm

2655
02:05:31,440 --> 02:05:37,320
Speaker 1: telling you. He is. His description of his nutrition regiment,

2656
02:05:37,600 --> 02:05:40,520
Speaker 1: how he tweaks it now. Now he's on vacation, and

2657
02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, Mini camp ended four weeks ago. I think

2658
02:05:42,880 --> 02:05:44,440
Speaker 1: it was four weeks ago today when they had their

2659
02:05:44,520 --> 02:05:48,600
Speaker 1: last Mini camp session. For some the temptation might be, Okay,

2660
02:05:48,640 --> 02:05:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna relax now nutritionally, conditioningwise, I've got a month,

2661
02:05:53,360 --> 02:05:54,960
Speaker 1: four and a half, five weeks where I have to

2662
02:05:55,000 --> 02:05:57,680
Speaker 1: be ready now for Lorenzo. He finds a new crank

2663
02:05:57,720 --> 02:06:00,320
Speaker 1: it up, and he's going into his fourteen season. That's why.

2664
02:06:00,440 --> 02:06:03,520
Speaker 1: Really he's going into fourteen season, right, That's that's the

2665
02:06:03,600 --> 02:06:06,640
Speaker 1: reason it's and and he's right. And I remember thinking

2666
02:06:06,720 --> 02:06:10,720
Speaker 1: the same thing. You get the real the time you're resting.

2667
02:06:10,720 --> 02:06:13,040
Speaker 1: And it's crazy to talk like this now, but really

2668
02:06:13,080 --> 02:06:15,520
Speaker 1: the time when you take off is during the mini

2669
02:06:15,600 --> 02:06:17,960
Speaker 1: camps and the and the OTAs because you're in there,

2670
02:06:18,000 --> 02:06:20,000
Speaker 1: you're kind of standing around watching, you're getting coached. You

2671
02:06:20,120 --> 02:06:22,000
Speaker 1: really don't work as hard in a practice as you

2672
02:06:22,000 --> 02:06:24,240
Speaker 1: would in a normal workout because in a workout you're

2673
02:06:24,240 --> 02:06:26,720
Speaker 1: not playing football. You're just running. There's no you know,

2674
02:06:26,840 --> 02:06:29,000
Speaker 1: real risk of injury unless you pull a muscle or something.

2675
02:06:29,000 --> 02:06:31,320
Speaker 1: But you're out there running, you're sprinting, and you're pushing

2676
02:06:31,360 --> 02:06:34,240
Speaker 1: yourself as hard as you can go. In in OTAs

2677
02:06:34,240 --> 02:06:37,720
Speaker 1: and training and not training camp, but OTA's and mini camps,

2678
02:06:37,920 --> 02:06:40,160
Speaker 1: you're getting coached up. So you're standing around and getting

2679
02:06:40,200 --> 02:06:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, doing going through techniques. You're being it's a

2680
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:47,080
Speaker 1: teaching on the mimisphere exactly. Uh So, really, in the

2681
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:50,240
Speaker 1: last month toward getting up to training camp, maybe now

2682
02:06:50,440 --> 02:06:53,040
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, you'll start to taper off.

2683
02:06:53,160 --> 02:06:54,920
Speaker 1: You'll start to cut back on your workouts, but you

2684
02:06:55,000 --> 02:06:57,240
Speaker 1: still eat right so you can can maintain your weight,

2685
02:06:57,560 --> 02:07:01,040
Speaker 1: but you'll start to get freshened up. When training camp hits,

2686
02:07:01,080 --> 02:07:03,600
Speaker 1: you can hit it with fresh legs and hit take

2687
02:07:03,640 --> 02:07:05,520
Speaker 1: off from there. But yeah, and this and the run

2688
02:07:05,600 --> 02:07:09,200
Speaker 1: up to it, you know, only in the last literally

2689
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:12,440
Speaker 1: like like starting now or maybe next week, you kind

2690
02:07:12,440 --> 02:07:15,160
Speaker 1: of take some time off from your workouts because you've

2691
02:07:15,200 --> 02:07:18,240
Speaker 1: been going so hard for so long. Just a few

2692
02:07:18,360 --> 02:07:21,360
Speaker 1: days off just invigorates you. Because wow, it's like it

2693
02:07:21,520 --> 02:07:23,640
Speaker 1: is like a mini vacation physically, and that's I think

2694
02:07:23,720 --> 02:07:26,120
Speaker 1: most guys adhere to that. You get into this schedule

2695
02:07:26,240 --> 02:07:29,320
Speaker 1: where you literally get the calendar out and you look

2696
02:07:29,320 --> 02:07:31,120
Speaker 1: and say, listen, right around here, I gotta be hitting

2697
02:07:31,160 --> 02:07:32,960
Speaker 1: it hard here, I gotta be in great shape right

2698
02:07:33,000 --> 02:07:35,920
Speaker 1: about here, and then peak right before training camp starts

2699
02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:38,880
Speaker 1: and come in fresh. And that's I mean. They get

2700
02:07:38,920 --> 02:07:41,480
Speaker 1: the calendar, you look through it, you decide, you know,

2701
02:07:41,640 --> 02:07:43,560
Speaker 1: mileposts and the calendar of where you want to be.

2702
02:07:44,120 --> 02:07:46,640
Speaker 1: It's a year round job. There's no question about Lorenzo's

2703
02:07:46,920 --> 02:07:49,320
Speaker 1: commitment and his fourteen year career speaks for itself. I

2704
02:07:49,400 --> 02:07:52,200
Speaker 1: haven't ever seen anybody with that much attention to detail

2705
02:07:52,720 --> 02:07:55,839
Speaker 1: for his offseason work, his condition. You don't see fourteen

2706
02:07:55,920 --> 02:07:58,320
Speaker 1: year veterans very often. You don't, You really don't. And

2707
02:07:58,360 --> 02:08:00,200
Speaker 1: he's worked for it. He's worked at it all. Right,

2708
02:08:00,240 --> 02:08:02,720
Speaker 1: a breakcare We're back with more including NFL True and Falls.

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02:08:03,000 --> 02:08:05,360
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2710
02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:08,520
Speaker 1: here from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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02:08:20,560 --> 02:08:22,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Goes Live Time or if he

2712
02:08:22,280 --> 02:08:25,160
Speaker 1: Steve Tasher. We're here until three o'clock on Twitter today

2713
02:08:25,200 --> 02:08:26,880
Speaker 1: and I'm the tom phone Lines. We're trying to engage

2714
02:08:26,920 --> 02:08:29,760
Speaker 1: with you on this question with you heard Lorenzo Alexander

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Speaker 1: two weeks away from training camp, with just two weeks

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Speaker 1: away from the Bill's first practice, It'll be five to

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Speaker 1: thirty pm on Thursday, July twenty six, two weeks from today.

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Speaker 1: Question which player has the most at stake during this

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02:08:40,880 --> 02:08:43,520
Speaker 1: year's camp and why? Who? Do you think? We've had

2720
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Speaker 1: a couple of responses to this. Some people think it's

2721
02:08:45,440 --> 02:08:47,160
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks. I happen to think it's all three of

2722
02:08:47,200 --> 02:08:49,920
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. I think they have the most at stake.

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02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:53,400
Speaker 1: But there are others, you know, the guard situation, Bodin

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02:08:53,600 --> 02:08:57,440
Speaker 1: and Groy at center, Zay Jones has a lot at stake,

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02:08:57,720 --> 02:09:00,440
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson has a lot at stake. This training camp

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02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:03,520
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, you know, especially Steve and I. No,

2727
02:09:03,600 --> 02:09:05,640
Speaker 1: preseason is really where, you know, the rubber meets the

2728
02:09:05,760 --> 02:09:08,800
Speaker 1: road in the training camp time, but especially those first

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02:09:08,840 --> 02:09:11,520
Speaker 1: few weeks. I mean, there have been times when guys

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02:09:11,720 --> 02:09:14,000
Speaker 1: you mentioned Carlos Williams, you know, came to camp a

2731
02:09:14,040 --> 02:09:16,280
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Immediately it was apparent that he

2732
02:09:16,400 --> 02:09:18,560
Speaker 1: was not ready and probably not ever gonna be ready.

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02:09:18,920 --> 02:09:21,680
Speaker 1: Guys can lose jobs, I think in the first week

2734
02:09:21,760 --> 02:09:23,400
Speaker 1: or two a training camp before you even step on

2735
02:09:23,440 --> 02:09:25,480
Speaker 1: the field. And I wonder which Bills player, I wonder

2736
02:09:25,520 --> 02:09:29,080
Speaker 1: what folks think, listeners think which Bills player has the

2737
02:09:29,160 --> 02:09:31,480
Speaker 1: most at stake? Cannot afford to show up out of shape,

2738
02:09:31,600 --> 02:09:34,400
Speaker 1: or cannot afford to show up not familiar with this playbook.

2739
02:09:35,200 --> 02:09:37,200
Speaker 1: You know, who's got a lot riding on this training camp?

2740
02:09:37,320 --> 02:09:40,360
Speaker 1: Some guys don't, right, not a lot, but some guys don't.

2741
02:09:40,400 --> 02:09:41,880
Speaker 1: Some guys know they're gonna be on the team. They're

2742
02:09:41,880 --> 02:09:43,800
Speaker 1: gonna be in the roster, they're gonna play a lot.

2743
02:09:44,480 --> 02:09:46,480
Speaker 1: Others and maybe in the case of the Bills. Many

2744
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:48,320
Speaker 1: have a lot of writing done in this Who want

2745
02:09:48,320 --> 02:09:49,400
Speaker 1: to hear you? Who do you think it is? And

2746
02:09:49,480 --> 02:09:51,600
Speaker 1: it's interesting too because the guys you think about, who

2747
02:09:51,680 --> 02:09:54,000
Speaker 1: guys who are not going anywhere, got a lot riding,

2748
02:09:54,040 --> 02:09:55,480
Speaker 1: you know, and they know they're gonna play, and they're

2749
02:09:55,480 --> 02:09:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna play a lot. These are guys that have earned

2750
02:09:57,080 --> 02:09:58,960
Speaker 1: that right for us to kind of overlook them. We

2751
02:09:59,040 --> 02:10:01,240
Speaker 1: know that. You know, Kyle Williams, you think he's going

2752
02:10:01,280 --> 02:10:03,680
Speaker 1: to show up not ready to play. You know, the

2753
02:10:03,760 --> 02:10:06,240
Speaker 1: guy has proven his ability and his desire to that

2754
02:10:06,520 --> 02:10:08,440
Speaker 1: Runso Alexander, we just got off the phone with him.

2755
02:10:08,480 --> 02:10:13,880
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's working hard. You know, we interrupt

2756
02:10:14,000 --> 02:10:16,080
Speaker 1: his workout so he can come talk to us on

2757
02:10:16,120 --> 02:10:19,960
Speaker 1: the radio. I mean, guys like that, you shrug your

2758
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:21,600
Speaker 1: shoulders and say that guy's gonna be ready. You know.

2759
02:10:21,680 --> 02:10:23,720
Speaker 1: The coaching staff as a tendency to do that too.

2760
02:10:23,840 --> 02:10:26,400
Speaker 1: They start guys start to earn the benefit of that out.

2761
02:10:26,440 --> 02:10:28,440
Speaker 1: But there's some guys who have not done that. A

2762
02:10:28,480 --> 02:10:31,480
Speaker 1: couple of them that keep getting mentioned on our Twitter feed.

2763
02:10:31,520 --> 02:10:34,640
Speaker 1: It's AJ McCarron. His whole future is writing on this camp.

2764
02:10:34,720 --> 02:10:38,240
Speaker 1: That from Steph Goo Bills another tweet. You know, people think,

2765
02:10:39,160 --> 02:10:42,080
Speaker 1: and let's kind of it's a little bit of hyperbole

2766
02:10:42,240 --> 02:10:45,560
Speaker 1: because I'm sure AJ McCarron is gonna be fine if

2767
02:10:45,560 --> 02:10:47,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't make the Buffalo Bills. But the question is

2768
02:10:47,520 --> 02:10:50,960
Speaker 1: football career is on the line, his football future and

2769
02:10:51,040 --> 02:10:53,480
Speaker 1: your career is and this and not only is it

2770
02:10:53,560 --> 02:10:57,200
Speaker 1: on the line, this is the best opportunity in the

2771
02:10:57,320 --> 02:10:59,840
Speaker 1: prime of what could should be the prime of his career,

2772
02:11:00,080 --> 02:11:02,280
Speaker 1: going into a spot where he should really take off

2773
02:11:02,400 --> 02:11:05,040
Speaker 1: or career should take off. This is his opportunity that

2774
02:11:05,240 --> 02:11:08,480
Speaker 1: AJ McCarron is in the driver's seat for his future

2775
02:11:08,600 --> 02:11:10,600
Speaker 1: right now. He's in a great spot to earn the

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02:11:10,720 --> 02:11:14,640
Speaker 1: job too. And let's face it, we all the organization

2777
02:11:14,760 --> 02:11:17,080
Speaker 1: Bills fans, they have all these hopes for Josh Allen.

2778
02:11:17,160 --> 02:11:19,600
Speaker 1: And even if all those hopes and dreams come true,

2779
02:11:19,880 --> 02:11:24,280
Speaker 1: if AJ McCarron plays really well, somebody will move heaven

2780
02:11:24,320 --> 02:11:27,800
Speaker 1: and earth to get him on their team. That's how

2781
02:11:27,920 --> 02:11:30,240
Speaker 1: that's how important this training camp is for him. Yeah,

2782
02:11:30,360 --> 02:11:32,640
Speaker 1: I agree, let us know what you think. Lines are

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02:11:32,680 --> 02:11:35,120
Speaker 1: open eight oh three fifty and till three one eight

2784
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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Time Now for

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02:11:38,760 --> 02:11:42,880
Speaker 1: NFL True and False. It is presented by Yancey's Fancy

2786
02:11:43,040 --> 02:11:45,680
Speaker 1: New York's artists in cheese. A couple of NFL notes

2787
02:11:45,720 --> 02:11:48,400
Speaker 1: that we've come across that we like to discuss. We

2788
02:11:48,520 --> 02:11:50,800
Speaker 1: like to ban around a little bit and determine whether

2789
02:11:50,840 --> 02:11:53,720
Speaker 1: they we believe they are true or they are false.

2790
02:11:53,920 --> 02:11:56,400
Speaker 1: What do you think, lue or false? Let's go, let's go,

2791
02:11:56,600 --> 02:11:58,720
Speaker 1: let's start. We'll start with this one. It deals with

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02:11:58,880 --> 02:12:02,800
Speaker 1: the three of them, right, yep? I believe right, yep.

2793
02:12:04,320 --> 02:12:07,520
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Giants quarterback Eli Manning will prove the Giants

2794
02:12:07,680 --> 02:12:10,280
Speaker 1: right for not drafting a quarterback. You know, the Giants

2795
02:12:10,320 --> 02:12:12,160
Speaker 1: had a chance to grab one of those quarterbacks. They

2796
02:12:12,240 --> 02:12:14,600
Speaker 1: elected not to. They stayed with Eli. Eli was on

2797
02:12:14,720 --> 02:12:18,800
Speaker 1: Serious Sex M NFL Radio yesterday and quote his quote was,

2798
02:12:18,880 --> 02:12:20,440
Speaker 1: it was kind of a vote of confidence and they

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02:12:20,520 --> 02:12:22,000
Speaker 1: trusted in me. I can play at a high level,

2800
02:12:22,040 --> 02:12:24,440
Speaker 1: can win games, can take as deep in the playoffs

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02:12:24,760 --> 02:12:28,800
Speaker 1: and win championships, and still win championships. Eli says he

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02:12:28,920 --> 02:12:31,839
Speaker 1: wants to prove them right. Giants did not draft a quarterback.

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02:12:31,920 --> 02:12:34,280
Speaker 1: So Eli Manning will prove the Giants right for not

2804
02:12:34,440 --> 02:12:37,520
Speaker 1: drafting a quarterback. True, falls I'm gonna go first, I

2805
02:12:37,680 --> 02:12:40,240
Speaker 1: say true. Look, I've always been an Eli guy. I

2806
02:12:40,360 --> 02:12:43,160
Speaker 1: think he is very talented. He's not perfect, but he's

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02:12:43,280 --> 02:12:46,760
Speaker 1: very talented. And I think now that the surrounding cast

2808
02:12:47,360 --> 02:12:49,440
Speaker 1: is going to be better, now that there will be healthier,

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02:12:49,800 --> 02:12:52,440
Speaker 1: including number thirteen, I think that Eli is going to

2810
02:12:52,480 --> 02:12:54,000
Speaker 1: be all right and the Giants are gonna be all right.

2811
02:12:54,000 --> 02:12:58,200
Speaker 1: I think they are going to be division title contenders

2812
02:12:58,280 --> 02:13:00,920
Speaker 1: in the NFC. You've kind of thought they're your your

2813
02:13:00,960 --> 02:13:04,480
Speaker 1: favorite team to be to win the Super Bowl champion. Yes,

2814
02:13:05,920 --> 02:13:07,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say false. And I don't want to get

2815
02:13:07,760 --> 02:13:09,680
Speaker 1: into semantics about you know, how this is draft. I

2816
02:13:09,720 --> 02:13:12,080
Speaker 1: don't think Eli is gonna prove him right for not

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02:13:12,200 --> 02:13:14,520
Speaker 1: drafting a quarterback. I think one of those quarterbacks that

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02:13:14,520 --> 02:13:16,520
Speaker 1: the Giants passed up is going to prove them wrong.

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02:13:17,680 --> 02:13:20,640
Speaker 1: I think one of those quarterbacks that got particularly Josh

2820
02:13:20,680 --> 02:13:28,080
Speaker 1: Allen Uh, Darnold Rosen Uh, one of those guys is

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02:13:28,120 --> 02:13:30,840
Speaker 1: going to prove and be playing at a high level.

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02:13:30,920 --> 02:13:32,640
Speaker 1: And I think more than one of them probably is

2823
02:13:32,640 --> 02:13:34,680
Speaker 1: going to be playing it off ivery high level, long

2824
02:13:34,840 --> 02:13:38,320
Speaker 1: after Eli Manning is has gone, uh the way of

2825
02:13:38,360 --> 02:13:41,560
Speaker 1: the dinosaurs. I mean, I think he's so. I don't

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02:13:41,600 --> 02:13:44,680
Speaker 1: think it's up to Eli. They're stuck with Eli whether

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02:13:44,720 --> 02:13:47,040
Speaker 1: he proves him right or wrong these other quarters, because

2828
02:13:47,040 --> 02:13:49,839
Speaker 1: if all these other quarterbacks are busts, they were perfectly

2829
02:13:49,920 --> 02:13:52,800
Speaker 1: correct whether Eli plays well or not, in not drafting

2830
02:13:52,840 --> 02:13:55,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback and going for se Quon Barkley. So I

2831
02:13:55,920 --> 02:13:58,040
Speaker 1: don't think it's up to Eli Manning to prove him wrong.

2832
02:13:58,560 --> 02:14:00,680
Speaker 1: I think one of these other young quarterbacks may or

2833
02:14:00,760 --> 02:14:04,480
Speaker 1: may not do. That's interesting thought. Okay, NFL true or false?

2834
02:14:04,680 --> 02:14:06,440
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if Heli plays well. If none of

2835
02:14:06,440 --> 02:14:08,560
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks end up being able to play, they did

2836
02:14:08,600 --> 02:14:10,200
Speaker 1: the right thing by not taking any of them. Anyway,

2837
02:14:10,280 --> 02:14:12,320
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a long term answer as opposed to this

2838
02:14:12,440 --> 02:14:14,960
Speaker 1: year answers. Correct. I get you though, too. I think

2839
02:14:15,040 --> 02:14:17,400
Speaker 1: he lies got enough in him to make at least

2840
02:14:17,440 --> 02:14:19,720
Speaker 1: competitive this year. How about this one? True or false?

2841
02:14:19,840 --> 02:14:23,040
Speaker 1: This one is intriguing, especially given our conversation yesterday with

2842
02:14:23,120 --> 02:14:26,200
Speaker 1: Fred Jackson just came off of his performance in the

2843
02:14:26,240 --> 02:14:29,760
Speaker 1: Flag Football League. Flag football is the future of the

2844
02:14:29,880 --> 02:14:32,760
Speaker 1: game of football. Now I'm not saying that, but a

2845
02:14:32,800 --> 02:14:35,720
Speaker 1: couple of people are. Bucky Brooks, former Bill's wide receiver

2846
02:14:35,920 --> 02:14:39,160
Speaker 1: now a analyst on NFL dot Com says he tweeted

2847
02:14:39,160 --> 02:14:40,960
Speaker 1: this out and I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty entertaining

2848
02:14:41,000 --> 02:14:43,760
Speaker 1: to watch flag football as a former flag football coach.

2849
02:14:43,840 --> 02:14:46,160
Speaker 1: I'm digging the blitzes and other rules an enhance the game.

2850
02:14:46,480 --> 02:14:50,080
Speaker 1: And then Benjamin Watson, Saints Titan Benjamin Watson, who won

2851
02:14:50,120 --> 02:14:53,080
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, tweeted this out, we are quite possibly

2852
02:14:53,160 --> 02:14:56,720
Speaker 1: watching the future of pro football. And then Bucky Brooks

2853
02:14:56,760 --> 02:14:59,120
Speaker 1: went on to say flag football will become a more

2854
02:14:59,200 --> 02:15:02,200
Speaker 1: popular game at the lower levels of football. Flag football

2855
02:15:02,240 --> 02:15:03,960
Speaker 1: the future of the game. True false, Steve, you can

2856
02:15:04,000 --> 02:15:06,680
Speaker 1: go first. I think it will grow. I do. I

2857
02:15:06,720 --> 02:15:08,720
Speaker 1: think that, particularly at the lower levels. Like he said,

2858
02:15:09,120 --> 02:15:12,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it will ever supplant the NFL absolutely. Now.

2859
02:15:12,360 --> 02:15:13,960
Speaker 1: I think that's ridiculous to think about it. I think

2860
02:15:13,960 --> 02:15:17,720
Speaker 1: they're playing on the jokes that people make about how

2861
02:15:17,880 --> 02:15:20,920
Speaker 1: the game of NFL has evolved into a less vicious

2862
02:15:21,040 --> 02:15:23,440
Speaker 1: and brutal game than it was in the nineteen seventies

2863
02:15:23,480 --> 02:15:25,960
Speaker 1: and eighties. I think they're playing to that sentiment. There's

2864
02:15:26,040 --> 02:15:30,560
Speaker 1: no way people are gonna rather watch flag football on

2865
02:15:30,680 --> 02:15:33,520
Speaker 1: a Sunday afternoon than the NFL. And I do not

2866
02:15:33,760 --> 02:15:37,720
Speaker 1: think the NFL will devolve into a flag And you

2867
02:15:37,800 --> 02:15:39,880
Speaker 1: can make all the jokes you want about Hey, listen,

2868
02:15:40,760 --> 02:15:42,560
Speaker 1: you go down there and stand on the sidelines. It's

2869
02:15:42,560 --> 02:15:45,920
Speaker 1: anything but flag football at this point. So I say

2870
02:15:45,960 --> 02:15:48,200
Speaker 1: that's I say it's false. I say it's false as well.

2871
02:15:48,480 --> 02:15:51,480
Speaker 1: And look, I'm not saying that flag football can't be entertained.

2872
02:15:51,480 --> 02:15:53,760
Speaker 1: It's fine. I think you watch flag football and you

2873
02:15:53,840 --> 02:15:57,080
Speaker 1: think something's missing, and you know it's missing contact hits.

2874
02:15:57,600 --> 02:15:59,880
Speaker 1: You know what's missing. And it's not a popular thing

2875
02:16:00,000 --> 02:16:02,600
Speaker 1: to say now, but violence, right, People want to see

2876
02:16:02,640 --> 02:16:04,920
Speaker 1: the hits. People want to see tackles, big tackles and

2877
02:16:05,520 --> 02:16:07,880
Speaker 1: big hits. That's part of the attraction of football on TV.

2878
02:16:08,360 --> 02:16:11,000
Speaker 1: I think it is so false. Finally, and this is

2879
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:13,280
Speaker 1: an interesting one too. This is kind of a big

2880
02:16:13,400 --> 02:16:18,360
Speaker 1: picture football question, part three of Yancy's Fancy New York's

2881
02:16:18,680 --> 02:16:21,360
Speaker 1: Artist and Cheese Tour. Or false. The NFL is setting

2882
02:16:21,440 --> 02:16:24,520
Speaker 1: itself up for a disaster this year. That is the

2883
02:16:24,600 --> 02:16:27,320
Speaker 1: topic of a column written by Brad Ganyon, who I

2884
02:16:27,360 --> 02:16:29,240
Speaker 1: believe we just had on the show a week ago,

2885
02:16:29,360 --> 02:16:32,120
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, he went through a variety of issues

2886
02:16:32,160 --> 02:16:35,080
Speaker 1: around the NFL, and you know the issues, the anthem controversy,

2887
02:16:36,160 --> 02:16:39,760
Speaker 1: rookie referees, the rule book, you know, the new rules

2888
02:16:39,800 --> 02:16:43,200
Speaker 1: on helmet hits and what constitutes a catch. He thinks

2889
02:16:43,280 --> 02:16:45,200
Speaker 1: it's going to be a disaster this year in the NFL.

2890
02:16:45,400 --> 02:16:48,120
Speaker 1: The NFL is setting itself up for a disaster this season.

2891
02:16:48,440 --> 02:16:51,920
Speaker 1: True false? I say false. No, No, there are issues.

2892
02:16:52,040 --> 02:16:55,200
Speaker 1: There are problems to fix. As Steve has pointed out

2893
02:16:55,280 --> 02:16:58,320
Speaker 1: over the months that he's been around our show, NFL

2894
02:16:58,440 --> 02:17:00,840
Speaker 1: usually gets it right after a while, you know, sometimes

2895
02:17:00,879 --> 02:17:02,880
Speaker 1: it takes a little longer than others. But no, not

2896
02:17:03,000 --> 02:17:05,959
Speaker 1: gonna be a disaster this season. Yeah, I agree, even

2897
02:17:06,320 --> 02:17:08,440
Speaker 1: I mean, he goes down the list. He's the anthem,

2898
02:17:08,720 --> 02:17:12,320
Speaker 1: the anthem controversy, the referees, you know, all the solid referees.

2899
02:17:12,320 --> 02:17:16,160
Speaker 1: There's eighty five years of white hats that have retired people.

2900
02:17:16,360 --> 02:17:19,120
Speaker 1: Great name. They might be right, they think. He thinks

2901
02:17:19,120 --> 02:17:21,360
Speaker 1: that's going to be disastrous. He thinks the rule book

2902
02:17:21,400 --> 02:17:24,280
Speaker 1: and the catch rule and all the stuff that the

2903
02:17:24,400 --> 02:17:26,920
Speaker 1: rules a little bit convoluted. It's a complicated game. He

2904
02:17:26,959 --> 02:17:29,600
Speaker 1: thinks that's headed for disaster. Uh and you know he

2905
02:17:29,600 --> 02:17:31,880
Speaker 1: even goes so far as you know, talking about how

2906
02:17:32,200 --> 02:17:34,560
Speaker 1: President Trump has been down on the league and uses

2907
02:17:34,600 --> 02:17:36,959
Speaker 1: as an easy target for himself. Listen, even a two

2908
02:17:37,080 --> 02:17:40,680
Speaker 1: term president doesn't stay president forever. There's only one two

2909
02:17:40,760 --> 02:17:44,040
Speaker 1: years by the way, right, so this, you know, I

2910
02:17:44,080 --> 02:17:45,880
Speaker 1: don't like to think of him as a two term preson. Well,

2911
02:17:46,080 --> 02:17:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm just saying even if even if he is the lead,

2912
02:17:49,080 --> 02:17:50,960
Speaker 1: is still gonna be around, you know, the NFL is

2913
02:17:51,000 --> 02:17:52,360
Speaker 1: still gonna be around at the end of it. And

2914
02:17:52,520 --> 02:17:55,240
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, this is not going to be a

2915
02:17:55,280 --> 02:17:58,360
Speaker 1: disastrous season for National Football League, not at all. And

2916
02:17:58,480 --> 02:18:01,200
Speaker 1: you know I get in the NFL is the big

2917
02:18:01,200 --> 02:18:05,360
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier, right, most popular sport by a wide margin. Yes,

2918
02:18:05,440 --> 02:18:07,800
Speaker 1: TV ratings we talked about it the other day, down

2919
02:18:07,920 --> 02:18:10,000
Speaker 1: nine percent last year, but still by far the most

2920
02:18:10,040 --> 02:18:13,480
Speaker 1: popular televised sport and down less than any other major sport.

2921
02:18:13,720 --> 02:18:16,359
Speaker 1: So it's an aircraft carrier that attracts attention, that attracts

2922
02:18:16,400 --> 02:18:19,400
Speaker 1: people taking shots at it. And that's why a column

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Speaker 1: like this from bred Gen Young comes out. But no,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be a disaster. Will the ratings

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02:18:24,080 --> 02:18:26,160
Speaker 1: go down? Again, they might. We'll see how that happens.

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Speaker 1: Will there be issues with officiating, There may be the

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Speaker 1: new catch rule. It's an effort to make it better.

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Speaker 1: Going back to Steve's point about how the league usually

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Speaker 1: gets it right. No, not a disaster, not at all.

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Speaker 1: I agree. True or False NFL True or False brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artist in chief,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I back with more in a moment. One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. That's how we wrap

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Speaker 1: up the show by a recap of what we have

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02:19:07,400 --> 02:19:10,119
Speaker 1: learned from today's show. It's presented by Advanced Alarm, providing

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Speaker 1: Western New York's homes and businesses with the finest and

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We had a great surprise guests who

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Speaker 1: walked in on the show at twelve thirty today. Paul McGuire,

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02:19:21,680 --> 02:19:25,280
Speaker 1: longtime Bills punner, longtime broadcaster who has retired from both.

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02:19:25,640 --> 02:19:28,000
Speaker 1: Paul McGuire lives here part of the year in the summertime,

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02:19:28,040 --> 02:19:30,200
Speaker 1: and he joined us on the first hour of the show.

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Speaker 1: He talked about his broadcasting career, but also talked about

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02:19:33,400 --> 02:19:36,480
Speaker 1: his playing career with the Bills and with the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Paul McGuire was a three time American Football League champion

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Speaker 1: and he talked about that. I didn't realize it until

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Speaker 1: about two months ago. A guy from San Diego called

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Speaker 1: me and he said, you know, you're the only player

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02:19:48,920 --> 02:19:52,680
Speaker 1: that's ever played in three winning championship games in a row. Wow,

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02:19:53,400 --> 02:19:55,640
Speaker 1: because of sixty three. I was with the Chargers and

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02:19:55,840 --> 02:19:58,640
Speaker 1: I got cut and I came here. Saving brought me

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Speaker 1: here in sixty four. Sixty five. Jack came the year

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Speaker 1: before he came here. In sixty three he missed out

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Speaker 1: on the San Diego Yeah, he did it, and I

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02:20:07,560 --> 02:20:09,480
Speaker 1: never thought about it. And he said, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: the only guy that's ever done in history. Paul McGuire

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Speaker 1: was delightful to talk to you today. Reminisce with him

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Speaker 1: about some Bills games and about some broadcast issues. Love

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Speaker 1: to happen him on the show. We thank him for that.

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Speaker 1: Also today, Steve's son Luke Tasker joined us on the

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Speaker 1: telephone line. Hamilton Tiger Kats wide receiver in the Canadian

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Speaker 1: Football League. Steve Taskers or Luke Tasker's teammate is Johnny Manzel,

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Speaker 1: the former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel and Tasker talked

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Speaker 1: about Manzel, who's on the bench not playing yet for Hamilton's,

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Speaker 1: but he had good things to say about Manzel. I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell he's been an excellent teammate and an excellent,

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Speaker 1: you know, football player thus far. It's clear, it was

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02:20:49,200 --> 02:20:51,640
Speaker 1: clear very early on and helance football intelligence. He has

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02:20:51,840 --> 02:20:55,280
Speaker 1: a very natural and authentic football intelligence in terms of

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02:20:55,320 --> 02:20:58,279
Speaker 1: the way he h you know, the way he dissects

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Speaker 1: defenses and the way he picked up concepts, and like

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Speaker 1: I said, as as from a teammate perspective, he's been

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Speaker 1: he's been a stand up guy and it's been good

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Speaker 1: having him in the leadings and on the field. Luke Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Steve Sun happy to have him on the show and

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Speaker 1: we wish him well. Steve. As we said on the calendar,

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Speaker 1: we are off tomorrow, no show tomorrow, back on Monday,

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Speaker 1: four days next week and then it's it's a training

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Speaker 1: camp time and it's also your favorite time of the year.

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02:21:24,440 --> 02:21:25,800
Speaker 1: And when we get into August, yeah, you know, I

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02:21:25,920 --> 02:21:29,280
Speaker 1: was thinking we should just take a hiatus from training

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02:21:29,320 --> 02:21:31,040
Speaker 1: camp just for a couple and do a bunch of

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Speaker 1: shows from Erie County Fair. Why I love the fair.

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's my love. Why man, I don't

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02:21:39,400 --> 02:21:42,120
Speaker 1: mind it. I just kind of grown. You can like

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Speaker 1: wear jim shorts, flip flops and a tank top and

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Speaker 1: just go. Man, it's just so hot. Yes, everybody's there.

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Speaker 1: Is the food that you like. It's the food. It's

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Speaker 1: the junk that you can buy. You can buy bushel

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Speaker 1: baskets a junk that you don't need, and it's just

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Speaker 1: awesome stuff that you've never seen before. The rides, the

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Speaker 1: Midway ride. Now, I don't ever do on the rides,

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Speaker 1: really no. And I don't even go over and try

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Speaker 1: and win stuff games do. I don't do that. I

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Speaker 1: go in and I shop. I shop. I do lots

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Speaker 1: of serious shopping there through that, you know, the International Building,

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Speaker 1: all those booths where the people have traveled the whole country,

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Speaker 1: all their whole lives are dedicated to, like selling pots

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Speaker 1: and pans, or selling t shirts, or selling wallets or hats.

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Speaker 1: Now you're talking about household items or draft all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and all you know, I'll take a

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Speaker 1: quick run through the livestock. But I don't really you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm don't really spend much time in the in the

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Speaker 1: in the in the animals. But I do go and

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Speaker 1: I buy stuff. I spend money. What do you you

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Speaker 1: buy like barker loungers, lazy boy chairs, what do you

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Speaker 1: what do you buy? I have? But you know, like

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Speaker 1: you know what I what I really like. I'll buy

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Speaker 1: kitchen stuff, I'll buy pans and yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all of that. You stand there and watch like the

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Speaker 1: guys I have before, Yeah, I have the third third

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Speaker 1: real performers. Yeah, those guys have a knack man. There's

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Speaker 1: there's they're gifted. But yeah, we should do a couple

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Speaker 1: of shows from from come on look into it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've got train, You've got your dad, I roll go.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I have no cham mother. I'm yeah, I

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Speaker 1: have no chance of going to the prom d My

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Speaker 1: dad thinks as our producers, I'm not anti fair. I

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Speaker 1: think if you said I love going on the rides,

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Speaker 1: or I love playing games, I love throwing the little

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Speaker 1: I can buy stuff and here, Kenney, you can't get

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Speaker 1: anywhere else on Earth roll ball number one you play,

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Speaker 1: I got it. You do that. See I have done

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02:23:33,840 --> 02:23:36,160
Speaker 1: that too. I just wanted to be there. I got

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Speaker 1: the ball. Number two. Yeah. Production assistance George Blast, Jeff Colton, Thomasignodo,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, j j Rito, Kevin Carr. Just a couple

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Speaker 1: of shows. Our producer Jay Harris, no show to them.

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Speaker 1: We're back on Monday, One Bill's Live, presented by one

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Speaker 1: of our Fridays back. No, we'll see him Monday. From

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio, The Paint