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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the stragedyre of normalcy. Hello, Buffalo, Welcome to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Steve Tasker here again with you today for

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Speaker 1: the next couple of hours. Brownie's got the day off,

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Speaker 1: to be joined by the guy who got the short straw.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Conner's ESPN host, Sports Center host, studio host Kevin.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. It's gonna be a fun couple

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Speaker 1: How you doing today, I'm great. Hey, listen. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a great day. I mean that. And man, is

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Speaker 1: there no offseason in the NFL or what? We go

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Speaker 1: this it's really getting to be a thing where the

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Speaker 1: I don't whatever that's next. Probably it's a massive flex

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Speaker 1: a massive flex by the NFL start expanding their season.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think it's incredible? You know, look, we're not

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Speaker 1: the year. Where I thought you were going with this

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Speaker 1: I mean, the schedule release is an event. I mean, Steve,

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Speaker 1: It's three days of three nights of primetime TV. It's unbelievable, Steve,

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Speaker 1: to uniform Like what's the biggest change from Steve Tasker

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00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,959
Speaker 1: at rookie Mini caamp to today? A ton of a

429
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:33,359
Speaker 1: ton of differences Mini campum. The food was there was

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Speaker 1: no food that I remember. Plus it's funny too. These days,

431
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: the money is so big. Players are getting in here

432
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 1: seven thirty or eight in the morning. They're showing up

433
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 1: and they're getting out here at five or six o'clock

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00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 1: at night. When I came in, you get in there

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Speaker 1: about nine thirty ten, you'd be out of there at

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Speaker 1: three thirty. Because they just didn't do it. And that

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00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: that was for mini camp um. They didn't feed the guy.

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00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 1: They bring. What they used to do during the regular season,

439
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 1: the kicker and the punter would ask you the first

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Speaker 1: thing in the morning, what you want what they were

441
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: going to this place for lunch. Everybody give the kicker

442
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: punter their order, and the kicker punter would those two

443
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: guys go out and get everything and bring it back

444
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: and just have bags and hand them to people or

445
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: a box of sandwiches, and everybody's got a sandwich. That's

446
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: the way it was. Nobody was feeding anybody at that time.

447
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: Now there's a high class, hide level nutrition center that

448
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 1: is a it's a cafeteria with high end nutritious food

449
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: set aside by by a nutritionist with chefs up there

450
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: right so they you know that these guys walk up

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00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: there and getting and eatum. So that's that's a big difference.

452
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: Plus there was two trainers on staff, and probably why

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00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, twelve head twelve coaches, a head coach,

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Speaker 1: two coordinators, and three guys on each side of the

455
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: the ball or five, four or five guys on each

456
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Speaker 1: side of the ball. Now there's you know, there's twenty

457
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Speaker 1: plus a sit full of distant coaches in addition to

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00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: the you know, with the coordinators and the head coach,

459
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: there's twenty plus full assistant coaches. You've probably got double

460
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Speaker 1: digit athletic trainers on staff. Massus's you know, uh, occupational

461
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: or you know, physical therapists on staff. Strength you know,

462
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: eight strength conditioning coaches on staff. I mean it's it's

463
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: a traveling circus. I mean there's it's the staffing and

464
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: the sports science end of it about how to take

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00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: care of that. They now instead of treating the players

466
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 1: like when I came in, instead of treating them like um,

467
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: like rented mules. Uh, they treat them now like they're

468
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: the prize cow. I mean, they eat well, they get

469
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,239
Speaker 1: the best of everything, and they're taking a lot more

470
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 1: care of You can you can make a case. Guys

471
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 1: used to say that about our generation back from back

472
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Speaker 1: in the sixties. But now it really is the truth.

473
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: These guys are businesses in and them to themselves, each

474
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: individual guy, and they have you know, they have their

475
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: own individual workout routine, workout schedule, and it's and it's

476
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: all crafted around them and their body type, the way

477
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: they learn, the way they recover a lot, everything, everything

478
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: is individualized in the in the context of a team,

479
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: and it's pretty amazing. I mean that that in and

480
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: of itself, the care that the league and the teams

481
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:33,120
Speaker 1: take with their players health is far and away, far

482
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: and away better than it was when I played. I'm

483
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Speaker 1: imagining that all of these amenities are extended to you

484
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Speaker 1: now on One Bill's Five right, Oh absolutely. In fact,

485
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: I got a massage right at three thirty coming up now, No,

486
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Speaker 1: Kevin Connor, Steve Tasker, where to come back. If you

487
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: want to call and talk about and react to the

488
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,959
Speaker 1: to the schedule, we will do that, Tom and Buffalo.

489
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Speaker 1: I'll get to you right after the break. Steve Tasker

490
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Speaker 1: Kevin Connor from ESPN joining us and he's got the

491
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Speaker 1: day off. We're gonna be back right after the break.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live, brought to you by Buffalo

493
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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live See task.

494
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Speaker 1: Along with Kevin Connor, we are talking about the schedule,

495
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: and in a minute, we're gonna run the some rerack

496
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: some sound bites from Sean McDermott's visit with the media

497
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Speaker 1: that had started writing about noon today. We're gonna rerun

498
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Speaker 1: some of that sound for you live right after this.

499
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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a call first, and I hope this

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Speaker 1: works because I'm I'm the novice here. This is Tom

501
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: and Buffalo Tom. You're on One Bill's Live with Steve

502
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: and Kevin. What's on your mind? He Steve Aycov, you

503
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: got me? Go ahead, let's ta a couple of things.

504
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm a little dismayed at the schedule because supposedly we

505
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: have the most rabid fans on the NFL, and the

506
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: NFL always likes to celebrate the fans and the stands.

507
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: We only got two home games this year out of six,

508
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: and for prime time, and that's not counting to be

509
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: determined dates in the future because even that might not

510
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: be prime time. But yeah, if they want to showcase

511
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: the fans, I think we should get more home games.

512
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: We should have gotten three or four. Yeah, you're not

513
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: gonna get that. Man. You probably won't get that many

514
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: home games prime time, Tom, because other teams will say, listen,

515
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: don't do that. Don't because they know that's like putting.

516
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: That's like giving Kansas City three home prime time games

517
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: or four home prime time games. They're gonna win those games,

518
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: so they don't want to give you too many. They'll

519
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: put you on prime time, but some of them are

520
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: gonna have to be on the road. But I get it,

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Tom. And the other thing is I always

522
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: appreciated it when we were the underdog because then you

523
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: go in with law expetation, and it made the win

524
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: that much sweeter. So how many games do you think

525
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna be the underdog this year? I'm gonna hang

526
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: up and let you guys talk. It's a good question,

527
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: m stef. I have the answer. Go ahead. It is

528
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: a great point by Tom. Here's here's the answer. One Vegas.

529
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: The odds are already out right. The only game the

530
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: Bills are not the favorite in to no one's surprise,

531
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: is the season opener. And last I saw the spread

532
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: with Rams minus one, which, as most of us know,

533
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: when you're the road team and you're giving up a

534
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: couple of points to begin with. So what the league

535
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: is in effects saying on a neutral field, the Bills

536
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: are the favorite in every single game. Yeah, that's right.

537
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: Certainly we're a long way from anybody kicking it off,

538
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: but you knew that was going to be a close game,

539
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: and you kind of give the Rams and edge right there,

540
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: you know, before you you know, before the season and

541
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: all that there they were defending world champions. Of course

542
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: they did lose some guy Robert Wood and obviously Von

543
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: Miller who's now on the Bills, so he kind of

544
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: figured they wouldn't be quite the favorite that they were,

545
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: but certainly the favorite by one in their own building

546
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: opening day. Yeah, okay, but Tom's right, you'd be hard

547
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: pressed to look down the list at those games and

548
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: not pick the Bills in every one of them as

549
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Speaker 1: the favorite. That they're not going to go seventeen and

550
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: oz probably, but they are going to be favored in

551
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: a lot of those games, if not all of them,

552
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: and that could change too as we get closer. And

553
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think what Tom's last point

554
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: was about. You know, we've been the underdog forever and

555
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: as sweeter or the underdog in a way. That's what

556
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: I was trying to say off the top, which was,

557
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Speaker 1: you know, we've been conditioned to think it's it's an

558
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: uphill climb, it's us against the world. I'm I'm here

559
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: to say, if for no other reason today, Steve Tasker,

560
00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: it's okay to embrace being in this spot. You know.

561
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: I mean, like, we've done things the right way. Things

562
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: have worked out for us. We've we've made decisions, We've

563
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: maneuvered into positions to get elite players through the draft

564
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: and through trades and free agency. We're here. It's okay

565
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: to accept that the Bills are a favorite, the favorite.

566
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Speaker 1: They're the betting favorite to win the Super Bowl. Right now,

567
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: let's embrace that. I'm fine with that. Yeah, that's you're right.

568
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: It's okay to be the big guy on the block.

569
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Speaker 1: We'll see it's but it's an interesting point. It's a

570
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: place that's unfamiliar to Bills fans. We've gotten used to

571
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: it over the past couple of years, but now it

572
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: even seems exaggerated almost that the Bills expectations are so high.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Kevin Connor, we're what we're gonna do, right,

574
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: now is we're gonna reract some sound from Sean McDermott

575
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: talking to the Bills to the Buffalo media today just

576
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: before or right around the rookies went out to practice

577
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: for the first time as in the rookie Mini camp.

578
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Speaker 1: So here's Sean McDermott speaking to the Buffalo media. Yeah,

579
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Speaker 1: so we'll just see today's the first It's good to

580
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: have everyone here. Everyone signed to give credit to Jim

581
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,479
Speaker 1: and Jim overdoorf Kevin Bigang for getting that done. So

582
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: guys can just focus on playing football, learning the systems,

583
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: getting you know, down how we do things here. And

584
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: I think that's really the the the emphasis this weekend

585
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: is on boarding these young guys the right way so

586
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: they can they can develop as quickly as possible, but

587
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: at all weird adjustment, kind of going back to a

588
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: traditional offseason because we haven't had this in a while yet. Yeah,

589
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,239
Speaker 1: it's new, um, and you know, you kind of go

590
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: back to your notes on and how we did things

591
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen and what we liked, what we didn't like,

592
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: and so our staff helps me a lot with those

593
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: those notes and what worked, what didn't work, and then

594
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: how you want to improve things and you go back

595
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: and you sometimes you forget some of the even the

596
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: staff wasn't here when we last did certain things, the

597
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: way we do things this time of year, with when

598
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: the players are around like they've been this year as

599
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: opposed to the last couple. So it's it's been it's

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00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: been good. We've had good energy, I think, good participation overall,

601
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: not not one hundred percent participation, but hopefully we're getting

602
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Speaker 1: some of those guys back in the coming weeks here.

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00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: How are you in seeing Matt Raisa Hunt? Um, you

604
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: know see how that ball probably get to see him

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Speaker 1: up close, even what the reputation he comes in with. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think just like anyone and John, it's

607
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, getting a feel for for who

608
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: they are as people, getting a feel for what they

609
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: can do at this level. Um, what's going to happen

610
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: out there today is not at this level, but it

611
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: is a start, and everyone needs needs a first a

612
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: first step in that direct, in the positive direction. So

613
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Speaker 1: it's good to meet It was good to meet Matt

614
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: this morning and be around him a little bit, just

615
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: for a small instance and window of time. But um,

616
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: you know, again it's just really onboarding these players the

617
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: right way. Our development staff does a great job with

618
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: that and getting to know them, getting to know, um,

619
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Speaker 1: kind of their strengths and weaknesses along in this case

620
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Speaker 1: with Matt in that sense. I mean, all of them

621
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: have their unique talents and and you want to keep

622
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: your eyes on them. But I mean, I'm I think

623
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people looking forward to just how

624
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: this ball comes off his foot. I mean, um, you've

625
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: seen it on tape, I guess, just um, just the

626
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: hype thing that he enters, you know for a punter

627
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 1: entering you know, a rookie camp. Just what your thoughts

628
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: are about that, and just to see what what he

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Speaker 1: can do with the ball. Yeah, well he's he's here

630
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: to punt the ball, um right, Um, So yeah, I

631
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: mean it's it's just one day at a time. I

632
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: appreciate where you're trying to go with at John and

633
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: build these big expectations and um, you know, so we'll

634
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: get a hot air balloon out there for him and

635
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: for the guy to catch it. You know, that'll be

636
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: the next trick, right, So we'll just once one day

637
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: at a time. Um, he hasn't even punted yet at all,

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Speaker 1: So it's just I hope he gets out there and

639
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Speaker 1: gets his shoes tied righting, and which I'm sure he will,

640
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Speaker 1: and he has a good, good first practice here to

641
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: these guys, and you need the biggest opportunity undrafted guys,

642
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: and expectations for those rafted is that the message to

643
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: them is one day at a time. Let's not try

644
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: to win a Rockets file or anything here or any

645
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: here too. Yeah, no one's I told him this morning,

646
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: no one's gonna make the team based off of this practice,

647
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: um alone. So let's just get out there, no what

648
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: you're know, where you're supposed to be when you're supposed

649
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: to be there, and um, you know, put one foot

650
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: in front of the other. Let's just crawl before we

651
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: walk and kind of get the boulders of what of

652
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: what this system is is supposed to look like, and

653
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: what their job is in the system. Impressions of the

654
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: draft process, um, and your evaluation of them. Yeah, you know,

655
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: I was impressed with uh with his approach. Um. I

656
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: know it's been out there with a combine and the

657
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: notebook and that's probably overblown a little bit, to be

658
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: honest with you, but just the way he had led

659
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: himself as as a professional in that uh, in that

660
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: process around the combine and then his thirty visit got

661
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: to know him a little bit better. So I thought

662
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: off the field, the way he handled himself, um was

663
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: first class. And then um, you know, the tape spoke

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Speaker 1: for itself. Certainly can do things on the field there

665
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: and we you know, we think in our system, Uh,

666
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Speaker 1: you know, it'll be Um, it'll be good and he'll

667
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: be able to play well and a mutually beneficial approach

668
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: to you know, press off, changing some things up and um,

669
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: and he's got a great support system behind him. Has

670
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: talked about the guys who were repecting the first round.

671
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: There's an expectation that they come in and at least

672
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: compete first starting up, I know you'd like to downplay expectations,

673
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: especially for young players, and your answer, how do you

674
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: do that? Um, you know, knowing that there's going to

675
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: be a lot of expected of him. Yeah, again, I think, Um,

676
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: you know, we've got a veteran team in terms of

677
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: guys who have come in here before and and and

678
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 1: uh earned their way, and that's no different with Kaire.

679
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: You've got to come in and and um, you know,

680
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: just focus on what you can control, what's right in

681
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: front of you every day. UM, and then um, you know,

682
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: put your put your put one foot in front of

683
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: the other so that you can become the best version

684
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Speaker 1: of yourself. There's no uh, you know, preconceived expectations. Uh.

685
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: That's for people outside of these walls. UM, and I

686
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: respect that. But at the end of the day, the

687
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: best way to go about it is just focus on

688
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: what you're here to do and your job and and

689
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: develop every day. How you like this, so you get

690
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: with your uh your how you to make sure that

691
00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: you're not expecting. Yeah, there's different levels to your point.

692
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a wide range of conditioning levels. And

693
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: part of it, quite honestly, is because a lot of

694
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: these players have been on the banquet circuit or pro

695
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 1: day circuit and they're not really working to get ready

696
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: for football. And now we expect them to go out

697
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: here and play football. So, you know, we made it

698
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: as a point as coaches too after the draft was over,

699
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: make sure that in the last two weeks these players

700
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: are putting themselves through football drills even the rest in between,

701
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: you know, kind of simulating a huddle back out, you know,

702
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: going through another drill another rep. So a lot of

703
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: guys pull in camps because of that and then they

704
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: miss the entire spring. So, you know, just being very

705
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: open with you, one of the goals is to just

706
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: get through the camp healthy so that we can really

707
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,720
Speaker 1: start to get the guys in our in our stream

708
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: and our current, our flow, get them more in shape

709
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: and get them acclimated with the system, and they continue

710
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: to grow from there. Yeah, this is different than a

711
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Master's changed how much? Yeah, I

712
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: don't know. It's it's really taking it one game at

713
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: a time, taking it one day at a time. UM.

714
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: What we've worked in the way we've worked to build

715
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: this to where it's at. UM. You know, I think

716
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: says a lot about the people in our building, says

717
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: a lot about our players, UM. And I'm happy for

718
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: their fans that they have a chance to experience, UM.

719
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: You know, that level of football, and it's been a

720
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: while since they've been able to do that, since the

721
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: early nineties, and we've built it to that. But I've

722
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: been around it before, UM, been at successful programs, and

723
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: this is what you want. You want to you want

724
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: to field a team that can compete every year that

725
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: has a chance. And that's really all you can say

726
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: this time of year, and that's really I think all

727
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: any team can say. And so we got to put

728
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: put the work in. And as I mentioned a few

729
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 1: weeks ago, UM, you know, there's a certain commitment level

730
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: that comes with in a certain focus and a certain

731
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: dedication that comes with teams that are able to get

732
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: to where we're where we're trying to get to. And

733
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Speaker 1: so that's what I'm looking forward to, uh, seeing if

734
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: this team will do that, and how how it's going

735
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: to come come together at the end of the day.

736
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: How how much more prepared might you think this week?

737
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Speaker 1: But might you think this team b four of these

738
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: prime time games for a season open or Sunday night

739
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: football on Monday night football games? How much how do

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00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: you play in those games in the past two years? Well,

741
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: I think you start with Josh. Josh has been in

742
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: those games and as a leader of the team, UM,

743
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: the face of the of the franchise. UM. You know,

744
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: he's been through that before and the prep leading into

745
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: those games he's been. He's come out on the other

746
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: end of those games, UM, and a lot of those

747
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: games in a winning manner. Right, So um. At the

748
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: end of the day, there's no there's no substitute for experience. Uh.

749
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 1: And then as coaches, we've been through those and so

750
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, you've got to

751
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: go back to your process, and each team is different,

752
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: each game is different to some extent um. So we're

753
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: just gonna take him on one game at a time.

754
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: That's Sean McDermott talking to the Buffalo media today just

755
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: ahead of the rookies taking the practice field for the

756
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: first time. There's a lot in there and he's certainly

757
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: has to deal with a lot of these questions that

758
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear probably from now until throughout until if,

759
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: if and when this team goes to the Super Bowl

760
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: about expectations. The Bills are on primetime a ton, they're

761
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: in standalone gains a ton and Sean mcdermot's gonna have

762
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: to deal with those expectations, so will his team. Steve

763
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: Tasker along with Kevin Connor, we're gonna come back right

764
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Speaker 1: now with more on One Bill's Live presenter by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back in One Bill's Lives.

766
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Speaker 1: Task along with Kevin Connor, Brownie's on a little bit

767
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: of a day off here, Kevin and we just listened

768
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 1: to Sean McDermott and one of the first things he

769
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, you got these rookies coming in

770
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: and you're I don't know if you're old enough to

771
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: remember this like I am, but I've talked about it

772
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: a ton on the show. But every every draft pick

773
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills is signed. They're like, they're now

774
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 1: on the payroll. It's so unbelievable to think about that

775
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: in the in the decades past, where these guys would

776
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: hold out through training camp or hold out all the

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00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: way through the preseason, and they would you know, in

778
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: some in some cases, like the guy I played with,

779
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 1: Cornelius Bennett, held out till Week eight of the regular season.

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00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: That's how Buffalo got him. Um, it's amazing to think

781
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: now these guys are already well on their way. They're

782
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: all cash and checks, uh and in camp, even at

783
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: minip rookie mini camp. It's it's just a whole different world.

784
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: In man o man, the league's better for it, there's

785
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: no doubt. Look, you know, there's nothing more unrelatable for

786
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: the fan than someone who hasn't done anything in his

787
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: career at the professional level holding out for more money. Now,

788
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: what you have to understand, obviously, is that it's a

789
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: business and this is how these things go and all that.

790
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: I think Steve, you can speak to this better than I.

791
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: It seems to be the collective bargaining agreement, the tier

792
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: system for the way players are paid when they're drafted

793
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: and committed. The league has changed a lot of that

794
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: so that guys are signed and buttoned up. In our case,

795
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: I think it's a great front office. I think it's

796
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: clearly the agenda is to get guys in here. Let's

797
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: not have any of these distractions, especially for players at

798
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: this level just yet. But it is refreshing that we're

799
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: not talking about when is so and so going to

800
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: sign right And it's it's nice too because they get

801
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: a chance to be successful right away. They get a

802
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 1: chance to start their careers and you know, jump right in,

803
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: you think, and Turdavious White was a great fan of that.

804
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 1: He came in, he was plugged in, He was CB

805
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: one right from the get go of his rookie year.

806
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: Other players around the league have had that same benefit

807
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: of being able to acclimate and get started on their careers,

808
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: and he don't waste an important draft pick waiting for

809
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: the guy to develop, to even get up to know

810
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: where to line up. Like we've been talking about anything else,

811
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Speaker 1: grab you about any some of the remarks that Sean

812
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: McDermott made to the local media. I talked right before

813
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: we went to the break about man expectations are going

814
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: to be a constant, a constant topic of discussion, and

815
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 1: that's where we are, and as we've talked about, we're

816
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: okay with that. I think the point he made, you know,

817
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,760
Speaker 1: listen a lot of primetime games, a lot of expectations,

818
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: big spot light on this team and its points A

819
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: great one. Look, it starts with the face of the franchise,

820
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen has played in these games and he

821
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: has that experience. And you know, the one game that

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00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: keeps jumping out to me from last year, Steve, is

823
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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game, the nine to six game, where you say,

824
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: wait a minute, how does that happen? I mean, that's

825
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: a win. That's a win before we get on the plane,

826
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: before we leave the tarmac in Buffalo. That's a way.

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00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 1: And I think I could be wrong. I think games

828
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: like that experiences like that are going to be a

829
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: difference maker for this team this year. You know, there

830
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 1: were expectations last year, but it's still in some ways

831
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: a team that hadn't been there, done that. Now we've

832
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: been there, done that. I mean, we've played in major

833
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: playoff games, and we've played in stinkers like that Jacksonville game.

834
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: So I think Sean talking about about that experience and

835
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: the fact that Josh has been in those spots. And

836
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Speaker 1: then you know, listen, this is media, and I don't

837
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 1: know who the local media member was who asked the question,

838
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 1: So this is no indictment on them, but I gotta

839
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: kick out of sea the question about Matta rise and

840
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: where Sean said, hey, look, he's here to punt, you know,

841
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: but the question was something like how excited are you

842
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: to watch him send these balls in the air, And

843
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: I think Sean was sort of saying, hey, listen, let's

844
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: take it easy. He's going to punt the ball exactly.

845
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: I mean there, yeah, I mean, I'm a special teams

846
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: guy and I'm yeah, okay, that's fine, they got a punt.

847
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,919
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Steve Tasker and Kevin Connor, I will

848
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: I listen, I'm gonna watch the guy. Now, I'm not

849
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Speaker 1: saying that I'm gonna be watching. I want to have

850
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Speaker 1: a big leg and all that, but I hope the

851
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: guy punts once a game. Uh Brits in track in

852
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Speaker 1: garbage time, right, So UM, I hope that's what happens.

853
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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Kevin Connor. We're gonna take a break here,

854
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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back. We may um. What we might

855
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Speaker 1: do is Mattie and I did a reaction show to

856
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Speaker 1: the draft last night. We talked to one of the

857
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Speaker 1: schedule makers, Blake Jones. We may rerack that for you

858
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Speaker 1: guys to listen to about what went into the from

859
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Speaker 1: the league's perspective in into this scheduling process. We'll reac

860
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Speaker 1: BacT may have some more soundbites. We'll take your phone

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Speaker 1: calls at eight O three oh five fifty eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty Steve Tasker Kevin Connor on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live, brought to you by Kalidah Health. This

864
00:46:44,120 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Had a Steve Tasker who has

865
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Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

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Speaker 1: kind of a dual role of pleasure for you. Steve,

867
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Speaker 1: Steve a blimp we're not even in the straded sphere

868
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Speaker 1: of normalcy. Here. Welcome back to One Bill's Live Steve

869
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Speaker 1: Tasker one with Kevin Connor. If you didn't catch it

870
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Speaker 1: last night, we had a chance, and we're gonna start talking.

871
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Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to talk about the schedule, not just

872
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: the Bills, but around the National Football League. Some uh,

873
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Speaker 1: some things that make this year unusual, just like every

874
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: year's unusual and unique. But last night we had a

875
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Speaker 1: reaction show, Maddi Glabin myself. We had a chance to

876
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Speaker 1: sit down. We caught up with NFL Senior Director of

877
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Speaker 1: Broadcasting Blake Jones. He took us behind the scenes of

878
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Speaker 1: what putting together the twenty twenty two NFL schedule was

879
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Speaker 1: all about. Here is that interview we want you to to

880
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: listen to. All right, Blake, thank you so much for

881
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: taking the time to kind of digest the schedule with us. Man.

882
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: When it first came out, we were excited to see

883
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have five primetime games. I mean, it

884
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: makes sense too. There's there's some great opponents that the

885
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Speaker 1: Bills are going to get to play against throughout the

886
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: entire season. But I've got to hit you first with

887
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Speaker 1: the opening game of the NFL season against the Super

888
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: Bowl defending champs, the LA Rams. Why did you think

889
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo was a good fit for that Week one game

890
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: to open up the twenty twenty two season. Well, as

891
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: everybody knows, that first game of the season is a

892
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: huge deal for obviously that Super Bowl champion coming off

893
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 1: a great year, but for the NFL overall, we want

894
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 1: to start things off on a great moment, great matchup,

895
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,919
Speaker 1: and we want the whole country to be excited about

896
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: the NFL season starting up. As we looked at it,

897
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: they're a handful of opponents that we considered, but it

898
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: was pretty clear as we got further down the line

899
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Speaker 1: that we were going to be really excited to see

900
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Speaker 1: the Bills in that matchup kick everything off for the

901
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: entire league coming off of a great year last year.

902
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Speaker 1: How difficult has it been to add the extra regular

903
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Speaker 1: season game in. It's interesting, for sure. It adds another

904
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Speaker 1: set of matchups that are based off of where every

905
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Speaker 1: team ended up last season, So in one sense, it

906
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Speaker 1: gives us more inventory to work with, more games, more matchups,

907
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: and it's exciting to see how those ones versus ones

908
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: kind of play out and where they can get placed

909
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Speaker 1: and where we can really showcase some of those great

910
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 1: matchups this year. So you are one of six people

911
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Speaker 1: who gets to decide what the NFL schedule is going

912
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Speaker 1: to look like, one of the great minds behind trying

913
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Speaker 1: to schedule two hundred and seventy two games across eighteen weeks.

914
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Speaker 1: Are you guys making changes or making decisions really leading

915
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Speaker 1: up to that eight o'clock time, or do you guys

916
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Speaker 1: kind of have it set a day before. How much

917
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: of the BA back and forth you have really until

918
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Speaker 1: you're like, all right, it's got to be final because

919
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 1: this goes live at eight o'clock on Thursday nine. Well,

920
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: there's actually a lot that goes into being done and

921
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Speaker 1: ready to share this out. There's the process of notifying

922
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Speaker 1: all the teams obviously, so they're prepared for that announcement,

923
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Speaker 1: notifying our network partners. But really it was up until

924
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Speaker 1: the middle of this week where our team was meeting

925
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Speaker 1: with the Commissioner, reviewing what we were ready to present

926
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Speaker 1: as our final schedule, making sure everybody was ready to

927
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Speaker 1: lock everything in and be ready to move forward with

928
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Speaker 1: sharing that information out to the teams and our partners

929
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Speaker 1: to be ready for tonight's announcement, So a lot of

930
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Speaker 1: work since that decision was made in a very short

931
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Speaker 1: amount of time, getting everything ready, double checking, triple checking

932
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Speaker 1: all of our paperwork so that we've got everything right.

933
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Speaker 1: But we were considering some last minute adjustments all the

934
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Speaker 1: way up through Monday and Tuesday of this week. Well,

935
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Speaker 1: blake last one for me. I know that the clubs

936
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Speaker 1: are not shy about making requests about certain scheduling quirks.

937
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: They and they run the gamut. What okay, So what

938
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Speaker 1: is the most unreasonable request you've ever gotten that you

939
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: just said get away from us. We can't do that. Well,

940
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Speaker 1: you know, there aren't any specific ones that necessarily stick out,

941
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: but one that we do get a lot. When teams

942
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Speaker 1: have multiple games against teams in say Florida, they don't

943
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Speaker 1: normally play Florida teams as an opponent, they'll say, well,

944
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Speaker 1: we really think those games should be at the end

945
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Speaker 1: of the season. December would work. Well, it just wouldn't

946
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Speaker 1: really fit well for us in September, when we all

947
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Speaker 1: know it can easily be you know, painfully hot in

948
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Speaker 1: Florida for some of those northern teams to come in

949
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 1: there early in the year, and it can be a

950
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Speaker 1: nice little break in December. You get some of those

951
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: those requests, or you get certain requests around other things

952
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: that are going on in some cities that have nothing

953
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: to do with football. Some of them are legitimate, where

954
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: you have a baseball team that shares not only a stadium,

955
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: which we don't really have anymore, but a lot of

956
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: them will share parking areas, tailgating areas, strains on the

957
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: local parking and law enforcement and public health and safety.

958
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: Those are legit and those are realistic. It's some of

959
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: the other ones that we kind of say, okay, thanks

960
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: for letting us know, and you kind of move on. Yeah,

961
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: a lot more to decide than just what that NFL

962
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Speaker 1: team wants. There's a lot of the behind the scenes

963
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Speaker 1: things that you guys probably have to organize and figure out.

964
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: But five primetime games where the Buffalo Bills they'll be

965
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Speaker 1: playing on Christmas Eve and on Thanksgiving. When you were

966
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Speaker 1: deciding who was going to get however many primetime games,

967
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Speaker 1: or who would be here and there, whether it be

968
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Speaker 1: week two, week one, week eight, how did you decide

969
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: on on five primetime games for the Buffalo Bills. Well,

970
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: it starts by identifying who those teams are that we

971
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 1: think the fans are really going to want to see.

972
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: The Bills, obviously, are one of those teams this season,

973
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: having grown year after year over the past several years

974
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: as far as appeal not only in the New York

975
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Speaker 1: area in the Northeast or in other parts of the country,

976
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: like really they've become a national draw. Part of it

977
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Speaker 1: is that amazing playoff game unfortunately ended their season last year,

978
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: but it was one of those that people are saying

979
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: is arguably the greatest playoff game of all time. So

980
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: you've got that as sort of the final feeling that

981
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: we have for the Bills coming out of last season.

982
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: We want to see one how they're going to respond

983
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: to that. We do think they are a great team

984
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: that's going to be one of the top teams across

985
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: the league this year, and we know that fans are

986
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: going to want to see them and want to see

987
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: how they're going to be this year. And so you

988
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: take that and you understand how many times they can

989
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 1: be on prime time across how many partners Similarly, two

990
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: teams wanting their preferences around when games are played. We

991
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,800
Speaker 1: have partners that say, man, we'd really love to get

992
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: some Bills games this year. We really want to bring

993
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: them to our audience, and so we try to identify

994
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: ways that we can evenly distribute great teams across our

995
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: partners in order to maximize what the fans are looking

996
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: for and ultimately provide a great lineup of NFL games

997
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: across the entire season. Blake, we are fans of it.

998
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: We like how everything's placed and slated. Excited about the

999
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: first game and the second game. It'll be a tough

1000
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: stretch there for Buffalo in the first six weeks of

1001
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 1: the season, but I think they're up for the test.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you coming on the show and helping us

1003
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: kind of run through the schedule and talk about a

1004
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: little bit of the behind the scenes as to what

1005
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: goes into creating such a big schedule that spans across

1006
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 1: eighteen weeks. So, Blake, thank you so much. You deserve

1007
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: a break now to the next project. Thanks so much

1008
00:54:56,160 --> 00:55:01,240
Speaker 1: for having me. Yeah, thank you. That was uh. Maddie

1009
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: glab and I entered interviewing um Blake Jones from the

1010
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Speaker 1: NFL about this the UH, about the process of putting

1011
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: this schedule together. We also have in a in a

1012
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: chance and Kevin, we're gonna talk about this in a minute. Um.

1013
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: First of all, it's always interesting to talk to the

1014
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: people who actually make decisions in the NFL because you

1015
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: kind of realize that there's a lot that goes into it. Um,

1016
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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about you know how Well, first

1017
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: of all, how difficult a task it is, but certainly

1018
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: every year you're gonna have certain teams well, like like

1019
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: Dallas has the easiest schedule in the NFL this year

1020
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: with win loss records from a year ago, and then

1021
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: the way you project it forward, Dallas, Philly, New York Giants,

1022
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: and Washington Commanders all have the easiest schedules. Now, I

1023
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: don't want to smirk, but you know why they're the

1024
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: easiest schedules because they play each other and they're and

1025
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: they're you know, a down division right at the moment.

1026
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,879
Speaker 1: But some of the considerations that they have to put

1027
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: in in I didn't know about, and you only find

1028
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: out through stories and interviews like the one we did

1029
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: with him with Blake. You know, it was a it

1030
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: was an enlightening interview. How about Blake revealing that Networks

1031
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: approached the league and said, we want Bills games on

1032
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: our air. I mean, now, you know, boy, we've come

1033
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: a long way. Steve huh, I mean, yeah, you know,

1034
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Speaker 1: do it. I used to remember saying, will we get

1035
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: a primetime game? Right? Yeah? It's a star driven league,

1036
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's interesting too because it takes

1037
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: a lot. It doesn't take so much for a quarterback

1038
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,359
Speaker 1: to become a star. I mean it does. I mean

1039
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: he's got to play well, right, I mean, that's that's

1040
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: basically it. But for other players and coaches, your team's

1041
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: got to be on the screen. I mean, Sean McDermott

1042
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: slowly but surely gets more screen time on these primetime

1043
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: games that people are going to get used to hearing

1044
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: from him. You know, Bills fans are I mean, they're

1045
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: always drinking in whatever sound bite he spews out right,

1046
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: like the one like us just a minute ago. We

1047
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,720
Speaker 1: had him on for ten minutes in our last segment.

1048
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: Bills fans are all about it. They know the guy

1049
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 1: and they kind of feel like they know him, right,

1050
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: He's part of the family. Other fan bases only get

1051
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: that with other head coaches because they see him on

1052
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: primetime and they watch him work and they and they

1053
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 1: get a chance to hear about what the analyst has

1054
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: talked to that guy about, and they get a chance

1055
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: to hear their soundbites leading up to the game, and

1056
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: there's bigger interest in those games. Five primetime games, a

1057
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: Christmas game, a Thanksgiving game, and a couple of two

1058
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: and a couple of four o'clock games. Yeah, people are

1059
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: going to become very familiar with not only Josh Allen,

1060
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: but Sean McDermott, Leslie Frazier, Ken Dorsey, just like Brian

1061
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: dave Ball was a big thing, Steph Diggs, all of

1062
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: those guys are going to get a lot of screen

1063
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:50,919
Speaker 1: time and a lot of other fan bases are gonna

1064
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: become very familiar with the Buffalo Bill's roster. In a world, Steve,

1065
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: in a world where listen, you've got to have the

1066
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: team's got to be good, you gotta have Star Pala.

1067
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: But let's not forget from someone speaking from the TV

1068
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: side of things here. You know, it's about getting teams

1069
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: who are gonna bring bring ratings, and the ratings are

1070
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: gonna come from populous cities. New York is going to

1071
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: get some games. Dallas is a national team. Green Bay

1072
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: ironically is a is a big market brand, though at

1073
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: a very small market here, LA is going to get

1074
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: games because they know these networks know that with that

1075
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: comes a built in fan base here. So boy, a

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00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: team in tiny old quote unquote Buffalo, New York getting

1077
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: these these primetime games. As meat Steve, Here's one other

1078
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: thing about the schedule. And we're sort of jumping around here,

1079
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: but if I just said to you, off the top,

1080
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: off the top of your head, give me the five

1081
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the NFL not named Josh Allen, don't

1082
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: even think about it. Who give me the five? Who

1083
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: are they? Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Joe Burrow. And they'll

1084
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: say Matt Stafford and and Patrick Mahomes and Mahomes Yeah,

1085
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: gosh yeah, Pat Mahomes. Okay, guess what the Bills played

1086
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: every one of those guys Rafford, Lamar Jackson the MVP

1087
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Mahomes, Rogers, Kirk Cousins who

1088
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: had big time play, and Joe Burrow. I mean, think

1089
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: about the the one guy who I guess we're who

1090
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: is probably the biggest name that we're not getting is Brady. Right.

1091
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: Think about that. I mean, look, I think of the

1092
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: quarterbacks the Bills are playing this year. Yeah, you're exactly right. Uh,

1093
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be and they're gonna do it in

1094
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: front of the entire country. All those matchups, you know,

1095
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: Brady and Allen I mean sorry Alan, Yeah, Brady, not

1096
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: Brady and Allen Rogers and Allen m Lamar, Jackson, Mahomes,

1097
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: all of those matchups with quarterbacks are gonna be seen

1098
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: by almost the entire country. La is going to get

1099
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: a chance to see Josh, Allen all of that, and

1100
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun and people are gonna get to

1101
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: know the Bill's roster. Like I said, one of the

1102
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: other things has happened, happening this week, and I'm glad

1103
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: you're here today because for the first time on our

1104
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: air waves, the rookies had a practice to day, and

1105
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 1: right after practice it's customary for them to bring the

1106
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: rookies up to a podium and have the media discuss

1107
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: things with him. So second round pick James Cook is

1108
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: at the podium right now. We're gonna toss it to

1109
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: him and catch the Bills second round draft pick James

1110
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: Cook out of Georgia, and what he had to say

1111
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: to the Bills media right now kind of like a

1112
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: moment where you're like, hey, I'm on an NFL field,

1113
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: in an NFL helmet as a professionals or a moment

1114
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: that that happens with me. Yeah, a little bit, you

1115
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: know a little bit. It's just yeah, I mean, it's

1116
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: just feel good. I mean, just get back out there

1117
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: planning again and just competing with my teammates, like the

1118
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: beginning process of digesting the playbold, being around the coaching

1119
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: staff and turning that page to a new a completely

1120
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: new experience. Um. Actually, it really kind of came easy

1121
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 1: a little bit to me, because you know, I got it.

1122
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: It's like kind of kind of the same time and

1123
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: I judge you, but a little different. So I mean

1124
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: I kind of picked up on it easy. So I

1125
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: kind of just study all night every day once I

1126
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: got to playbook, so I could play fast. The German said,

1127
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: his message was to everyone, you're not gonna make the roster.

1128
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,919
Speaker 1: You're not gonna move the needle by doing too much

1129
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: out here these next couple of days. How hard is

1130
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: it though from a competitive standpoint, and for you to

1131
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: to keep things in perspective and though this is just

1132
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: the beginning of a long road. Um. But me, I

1133
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: mean I just keep that in my mind, just keep

1134
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: competing and just keep working and then everything gonna play

1135
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: it out itself. What was it like working with Ken

1136
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: Doorcy today the first time but offensive pointer, Um, it

1137
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: actually was good. I mean I enjoyed it every moment

1138
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: out there, just my first time putting on the NFL helmet,

1139
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it great. Some of the things

1140
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: that you learned about yourself today that I still got

1141
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: that touch now. I see every play, every rep that

1142
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: you did. You you went all the way back to

1143
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 1: the ends on every time, and that's something you was taught,

1144
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean as youngsters or that just

1145
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: that just running back ball for you just to go

1146
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: to the ends on every time you touch the ball. Um,

1147
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: that's just kind of my thing, you know. Um, I

1148
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: just kind of like getting in shape and then you

1149
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 1: know it like once you're going it's going to ends

1150
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: on and practice. I mean it translates to the game,

1151
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 1: so all of come together once you put it together.

1152
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: You know a little bit about Coach Skipper when you

1153
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: were drafted once it's been like working with him and

1154
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: just getting out there on the field and I mean

1155
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: actually been smooth. You know, Um, just learning and you

1156
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: know coach Skipper a great coach and great teacher, teacher,

1157
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: and I mean, I like, I mean, I enjoy being

1158
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: around him. You know, obviously Devin the last couple of years,

1159
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: but yeah, Lashama boy a couple of years ago. Is

1160
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: it cool to get obviously get to this level, but

1161
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: to work with somebody that has obviously coaching really good backs?

1162
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt. I mean he coached some good backs,

1163
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 1: um in the past, pad before the Shawn, so you know,

1164
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 1: kind of know what he's doing. His background kind of

1165
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 1: got a good resume. Did you take a look at

1166
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: the schedule when it came out and see that the

1167
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: Bills were the very first game on the NFL schedule

1168
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: Thursday night against the Super Bowl champs, what kind of

1169
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: what were your thoughts on that he's trying to play

1170
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: football at this point? You know, um, all this stuff

1171
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 1: that you practice for train over to the summer the fall.

1172
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: I just wanted to come out on Sundays, you know,

1173
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: any extra maybe juice getting a chance of play in

1174
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: Hollywood under the lights for your very first NFL regular

1175
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: season game, Yeah that too, you know, I mean, that's

1176
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 1: that's gonna be pretty special. Did you look for that

1177
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 1: first for the Minnesota again. First on the side, I

1178
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 1: thought you'll finish that, but I really look for the

1179
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: Minnesota way. Yeah, have these last couple of months been

1180
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,439
Speaker 1: for it? Because you go through like draft problem, then

1181
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: the draft, and then you got to get out to Buffalo,

1182
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 1: Like how different is this compared to what you're used

1183
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: to and how do you kind of just get back

1184
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: into a routine. Um. I mean I'm a football player.

1185
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 1: I mean all that draft stuff is over now, so

1186
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: you know, kind of back playing football and so I

1187
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: mean I'm good now. I'm madjested and ready to go

1188
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: for something. You'd want people to know about you, those

1189
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 1: fans that they might not know wait for Sunday, I

1190
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: guess if I ain't. Hell, you know, what are some

1191
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: of the things that you're looking for to get out

1192
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: of this menichacter um? Just get better and getting a

1193
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: better shape, you know, um, and just learning them as

1194
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 1: much as I can. Thank you, Thank you guys. That

1195
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: was James Cook, second round draft pick, running back out

1196
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 1: of Georgia. And what do you you see that it's

1197
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 1: the first time you get a chance to see him

1198
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: sit down and you could tell even he did some

1199
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 1: preseason or some post draft pre camp interviews didn't one

1200
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: with Maddy glab and he's he's a not you know,

1201
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: he's not a guy who's gonna go out there and

1202
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:18,959
Speaker 1: just keep talking. I mean they had to. The media

1203
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: is funny because you can always see those guys with

1204
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: their crowbars out trying to pry some answer out of him,

1205
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: and he just won't have it. He's just like, yeah,

1206
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm just here to get better. He's a real low

1207
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 1: key guy. But when you get him on the field,

1208
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 1: man he is And I like him as a draft pick.

1209
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: What do you think he's gonna do? And how do

1210
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:38,160
Speaker 1: you think he's gonna fit in with this offense? And

1211
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:40,840
Speaker 1: it's almost, uh, it's almost, you know, too fun to

1212
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: think about. I mean, first of all, Steve did did

1213
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: Thurman did his arms look like that? I mean, I'm

1214
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 1: looking at James Cook's arms and I'm thinking of myself,

1215
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: is that our starting linebacker or a running back? I

1216
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:59,479
Speaker 1: loved what he said, um. I loved how he talked

1217
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 1: about in practice he'll take every run to the end

1218
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: zone because you know, you get used to that for games.

1219
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: That's the kind of mindset that I love it. Look, obviously,

1220
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: his brother is going to the elite running backs in

1221
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's that's got to there have to be

1222
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: some uh some things for him within the family, tips

1223
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: that his brothers going to have passed along to help

1224
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: and be ready. And let's be honest, Steve, I mean,

1225
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: this guy played up against the thirty third NFL defense

1226
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: last year at Georgia. I mean, you had a jersey

1227
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: you got drafted off of that George's defense last year.

1228
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:36,919
Speaker 1: So there is a lot to like before this dude

1229
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: even steps on the field. About James Cook, yeah, I agree,

1230
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: And I didn't know that much about him until I

1231
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe the last week before the draft, because

1232
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 1: you know, he was a second round pick, and you

1233
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: know in mock drafts, even in mock drafts, nobody's really

1234
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: mocking running backs to anybody, let alone the Buffalo Bills,

1235
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 1: although you know it happened once in a while. And

1236
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 1: then as we got closer to it, he was on

1237
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 1: the board and people started hearing about him. I said,

1238
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: let me go look at him, and he's exactly the

1239
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:09,400
Speaker 1: kind of player the Bills need. And you see other

1240
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: team you know, it's one of those He's one of

1241
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: those players that it's hard to draft him. He's like

1242
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: you know, Alvin Kamara or you know, whoever, whoever you

1243
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 1: want to you think like the you know, Marshall Falk

1244
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 1: kind of guys who can do everything. It's hard. You

1245
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: almost don't draft him. You almost kind of have to

1246
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: steal him. And you think, man, give us that guy, right.

1247
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you see him with everybody else and they're rare,

1248
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 1: but I think James Cook is one of those guys.

1249
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: He's got a chance to be one of those guys

1250
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 1: who and you know, back in the old days, I

1251
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:43,959
Speaker 1: think when the NFL is a little different, James Cook

1252
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 1: is one of those guys you think, man, he's a

1253
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: first round guy because he's so versatile. Certainly he's not

1254
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: an enormous guy, but he's got a chance to be

1255
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 1: really good at this level. And I love what you listen.

1256
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: He's a guy that can catch the football out of

1257
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: the backfield. You know, I don't think I need to

1258
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: explain to people what we have at quarterback and what

1259
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 1: today's NFL is all about guys who have to be

1260
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: able to do that. And you know, and look see

1261
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 1: the other thing is like there's you know, I'm not

1262
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: equating the SEC to the NFL. But if you know,

1263
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: if anyone knows anything about college football, they know that

1264
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 1: many of the elite players in the game come out

1265
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: of that conference. And this is a guy who played

1266
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 1: in big games against the best. You know, Alabama. He

1267
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: played well in the games against Alabama. He played well

1268
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: in the National semi final and championship game. So now

1269
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 1: that doesn't always translate, but boy, give give me the

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01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:44,680
Speaker 1: guy who's done done well in those games, and I'll

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01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:47,799
Speaker 1: take those chances. A guy who plays against the best,

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01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: theoretically the best players you know per capita in college football,

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01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 1: who's played in the big spotlight games, and you know,

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01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: we're watching this video of him just running away from

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01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys. You know, all of those

1276
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 1: things are awfully excited. Yeah, it is. And that's the thing.

1277
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 1: You never know how these guys are going to take

1278
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: the next step, because everybody on the field is as

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01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 1: good as anybody he played against last year. But it

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01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 1: is exciting. I think it's got to be exciting for

1281
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 1: Bills fans to see a guy like James Cook not

1282
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: only play in the National semifinal and the final game

1283
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: and play well. But it's the fact that he played

1284
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 1: in those games, and they were given him the football

1285
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: in big spots. In every spot is a big spot

1286
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 1: in those kind of games, but he got the ball.

1287
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: He's a guy where he was the focal point of

1288
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 1: the game plan in those moments. That's hard to get to.

1289
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: And when you're talking about what it takes to evaluate

1290
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: the lower levels of football and how to elevate those

1291
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:48,559
Speaker 1: skill sets to the upper level, the heart of the

1292
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,880
Speaker 1: competition and the and the way you evaluate all these

1293
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: guys is, listen, this guy was the best against the

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01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: best guys we can find that he played against that

1295
01:09:57,120 --> 01:10:00,599
Speaker 1: anybody could play against. He was really playing well. That's

1296
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 1: a good thing to do. And that's why you know,

1297
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: guys like him come out and sometimes you know they're

1298
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: sneaky good draft picks who all of a sudden it's like, wow,

1299
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 1: how bad guy get into the second round? Why wasn't

1300
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: he a first round draft pick? And it's not just

1301
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: James Cook, It's it's guys all over the league. I mean,

1302
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: they just come out and because of stuff you can't

1303
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 1: really tell until you get him, they turn out to

1304
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: be really good players. I mean it's and it's fun

1305
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: to think about it, and it's nice to have him

1306
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:26,800
Speaker 1: in the fold. Listen, We're gonna we also have him.

1307
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna wait till after the break. But Kayer Elam

1308
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 1: just finished his first practice as a Buffalo Bill. He's

1309
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: gonna go to the podium. We're gonna carry his sound

1310
01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 1: with us as well. Steve Tasker Kevin Connor on One

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01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:40,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, brought to you by Kalida Health. This is

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01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. We'll be right back with Kayer Elam

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01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve

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01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 1: Tasker and Kevin Connors. He spn joining us as a

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01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: co host today. I really appreciate it. We're gonna cut

1316
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: away right now. As we said, rookie started their training

1317
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 1: or mini camp today, just came off the practice field

1318
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: and one of the guys that we got a chance

1319
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: to stop. We heard from James Cook a moment ago.

1320
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna hear from Kayer Elam, and we're gonna

1321
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 1: take as much as this as we can. We're off

1322
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 1: the air at the top of the hour. We're gonna

1323
01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: take as much of Kayer Elam as we can if

1324
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: we have time. We're gonna get Khalil Shaker as well.

1325
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,720
Speaker 1: So here's Kayer Elam, first round draft pick of the

1326
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills from Florida. What was it like being out

1327
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 1: there for the first time? It was awesome, first step

1328
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 1: of becoming a pro. I'm excited to be out there

1329
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 1: with some of my teammates, my new teammates, and just

1330
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more hungry for a moment like

1331
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: Bill's gear all in front of you. So you've seen

1332
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: it with the strap it off and things like that,

1333
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 1: even without the pads. Was that a moment that you

1334
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 1: had anticipated or what were the emotions like even even

1335
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:00,839
Speaker 1: in a setting like this, I mean, football is football.

1336
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 1: I mean I was just so excited to be out

1337
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 1: there because if I was in college, I probably have

1338
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: been doing spring already. But um, you know, I was

1339
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: super excited to be out there trying to fly around,

1340
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 1: have fun and just motivate my teammates, to push my

1341
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 1: teammates and just keep continue to get better. It was

1342
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 1: fun though. Difference between our rookie mini camptin, like you said,

1343
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 1: a spring training camper in college, Um, same thing. It's

1344
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,600
Speaker 1: just all evaluation all Just like I felt like a

1345
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: freshman out there, you know, just new environment. But at

1346
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:33,680
Speaker 1: the end of the day. Football is football, you know,

1347
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:35,760
Speaker 1: still got to continue to keep getting better, still got

1348
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 1: a grind, still have to earn everything. So I mean

1349
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:40,600
Speaker 1: it kind of felt the same honestly. Just I'm a

1350
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: pro now. You know some of the things that you

1351
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: learned today that you didn't know about. You know in college. Um,

1352
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 1: different NFL hashes, numbers are tighter, Um, just different terms

1353
01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: from college. Football is all the same, honestly. It's just

1354
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 1: I was just so happy to be out. I was

1355
01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:02,560
Speaker 1: just trying to fly around, like off the field, the meetings,

1356
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: knowing where to be, when to be, learning all that

1357
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 1: right now as a profession. Yeah, I mean that. I

1358
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 1: mean that part of it. I mean I enjoy I

1359
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: can talk football all day, you know. Um, it's awesome. Honestly.

1360
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 1: I just trying to embrace it all, trying to learn

1361
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: as much as I can. But it's I mean, that's

1362
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 1: what I expected. Though it's probably um a little bit

1363
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 1: more than college I would say, just detail wise, But

1364
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: like I said, football is football at the end of

1365
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: the day. It's been like getting to know Leslie and

1366
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:32,679
Speaker 1: Coach Bottler awesome. Um, I learned so much my first day,

1367
01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:36,280
Speaker 1: not even on the team with them, and you know,

1368
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to continue to learn. And you know

1369
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:41,599
Speaker 1: that awesome people Like they're the same people that that

1370
01:13:41,640 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 1: were off the field as on the field. They coached

1371
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 1: me the same, talking to me the same. So you

1372
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 1: know that's something I appreciate it because you know a

1373
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 1: lot of people they change on and off the field,

1374
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 1: they all do. They just constantly consistently the same people.

1375
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that. You feel the pressure as the

1376
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: first round pick of this team, Yeah, there's no pressure

1377
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,519
Speaker 1: and no pressure football. Like I said, football and football.

1378
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: I go out there, listen to my coaches make plays

1379
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 1: and you know how fun at the end of the day.

1380
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:10,320
Speaker 1: Help this team win. That's the most important. Help this

1381
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: team win and stay available about to go get treatment

1382
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: right now? That's life kind of I know it hasn't

1383
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: been that long yet. What's the life kind of been

1384
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: like since you got drafted? Like it just chaos and business?

1385
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: Where's it kind of? You got a little time to

1386
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: enjoy it before you got out here again. Um, the

1387
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: night of I enjoyed it, you know, with my family,

1388
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:31,400
Speaker 1: but I felt the same same person, you know, just

1389
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 1: striving to get better. Um, a little bit different than

1390
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: college I'm a lot more healthier now and fresh, but

1391
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 1: honestly I feel the same, just still striving, still trying

1392
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: to learn. It's same. The reaction to the video of

1393
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: you with the combined interview with your bills and how bills.

1394
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: Fans are so impressed with how prepared you were and

1395
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 1: how you brought out your notebook. Right. I don't know

1396
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: if you've noticed that, but it's been a big thing.

1397
01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: Like how does that come a surprise to you that

1398
01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: or just just natural? Obviously you're prepared. People are like, wow,

1399
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: look at this kid, I prepared as an interview, Like right,

1400
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:06,640
Speaker 1: I mean I just sawing I picked up as a

1401
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: freshman and I wasn't trying to be outside the box

1402
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:11,960
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I just something I always did,

1403
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:15,200
Speaker 1: and you know, I thought that was something that um,

1404
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, I was just I always just want to

1405
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 1: show off that I was prepared, Like I didn't try

1406
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: to not be myself, you know, at the end of

1407
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 1: the day, you know, I try to prepare better than

1408
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 1: anybody else, but I also try to learn as far

1409
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 1: as I can. So when I that's just me, you know,

1410
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not in here for likes and follows.

1411
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm here because I love

1412
01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: football and I don't want to help this tell you

1413
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 1: win and you take notes on all the guys you

1414
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 1: go against and things that went wrong. I was watching

1415
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 1: that you saved those for now too, in case you

1416
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: faced those same receivers maybe at the NFL level. Oh yeah,

1417
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: brought I mean, I brought that notebook with me. You know,

1418
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep that for the rest of my life,

1419
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 1: you know, Um, if I have to go back to

1420
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 1: it and prepare um like I did in college. You know,

1421
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 1: I keep that with me just just in case. It's

1422
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: just like I don't know, like a like a map

1423
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:01,639
Speaker 1: almost like just I feel like a lot of people

1424
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: they get better or they might get worse as you know,

1425
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 1: as they grow. But I still have my constant notes that,

1426
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: you know, help me dominate, like I want to. Any

1427
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 1: thoughts on your first regular season NFL game being in

1428
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 1: LA in the first game of the NFL season against

1429
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: the defendive Super Bowl champs. Nah, I'm just focused on tomorrow. Honestly,

1430
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: you know, I got done with practice. I'm just focusing

1431
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: on the next meeting. I mean that, I mean that'll come, um,

1432
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,240
Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm just it's football is football.

1433
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to focus on the next with my

1434
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 1: next step. Well, I got meeting after this, so I'm

1435
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: trying to focus on that. So like just you know,

1436
01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 1: learning from new teammates like Christrid Bennerford's playing out of society.

1437
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Like I said, I'm trying to motivate you know,

1438
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: the guys um right next to me. And also I'm

1439
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: trying to you know, learn from them as well because

1440
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:54,640
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm not perfect, they're not perfect, but

1441
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 1: we can all learn from each other. And you know,

1442
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: he he's a heck of a player. Today he did well,

1443
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,760
Speaker 1: you know, and I mean it's awesome, like just being

1444
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: a pro, you know what I'm saying the other man,

1445
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:08,439
Speaker 1: just seeing everybody how they work and what they do

1446
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 1: well and things I see that they could could that

1447
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,880
Speaker 1: they could take. I mean it just we just thriving

1448
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: off each other, you know, trying to push each other.

1449
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 1: That's all. You guys were on the same play here

1450
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: and he said, you guys kind of hit it off.

1451
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:22,559
Speaker 1: Ever since that moment, huh yeah, he said, yeah, we did.

1452
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: You know, I was just trying to be myself, you

1453
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, trying to, um, be a leader,

1454
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 1: not trying to step on our way toes, you know,

1455
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:30,800
Speaker 1: not trying to push no buttons. Just I was just

1456
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 1: trying to be myself, trying, like I said, trying to

1457
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 1: pick his brain, trying to trying to see what I

1458
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:39,640
Speaker 1: what I think helped me just pick off each other soon.

1459
01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:43,680
Speaker 1: Like I said, he did well today, you know, um,

1460
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: really good. Um. I didn't really watch too much film

1461
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: of them, but today he looked great. So what was

1462
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: it like going to the Savers game, being in that

1463
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 1: suite on the video board with Josh and the reaction

1464
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: from the fans? I was awesome. Man, That's something I

1465
01:17:57,160 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: never dreamed of before. You know, Um, it just honestly

1466
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:02,400
Speaker 1: just made me a little bit more hungryer just to

1467
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: see how much they accepted me, and um, I just

1468
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,679
Speaker 1: want to go out there improve, not even prove to them,

1469
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:09,680
Speaker 1: but prove it to myself that I can help this

1470
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: team win and execute. You know, I think that just

1471
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: made me a lot more hungry, honestly than I appreciate

1472
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:20,759
Speaker 1: that from Happy to Be a Bill that was ker

1473
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:24,680
Speaker 1: Elam and Kevin. What jumped out at you first? And

1474
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: foremost about the interview with the first ever interview with

1475
01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:29,600
Speaker 1: kayre elam as a as a Bills player, signed and

1476
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:34,680
Speaker 1: sealed and in practice. Um Stevie's he's a mature kid.

1477
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 1: You could you can you can hear? What a bright

1478
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 1: in every in every sense of that word. I mean,

1479
01:18:40,400 --> 01:18:44,320
Speaker 1: by the way, bright, intelligent kid. He is, young man,

1480
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: he is, he's good looking, uh, confident young man. I

1481
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: loved how he talked about having the notebook with him, right,

1482
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:55,720
Speaker 1: he's got this notebook, this this as he called it,

1483
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,759
Speaker 1: Matt about what to do against some of the players

1484
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: that he's played against. And you just you just sense Steve.

1485
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do too, and I want to get

1486
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: your thoughts on it too. I mean, here's a guy

1487
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: who dad played in the NFL. Family members have and

1488
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: the learning curve, of course there is one, but I

1489
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 1: get the sense that he is going to hit the

1490
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: ground running. Yeah. I kind of sense that as well.

1491
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 1: And they asked him if did he feel any pressure

1492
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:24,000
Speaker 1: as a first round back drafting. It was like as

1493
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 1: if like he was like, now, not at all. Guys

1494
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 1: like that kind of when they get into spots where

1495
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: all of us would crumble, they kind of embrace it.

1496
01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: You know, they look for that. They they're the kind

1497
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: of guy like in basketball, they want that last shot.

1498
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 1: Give me the ball. I'll take that shot. Throw the

1499
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:43,679
Speaker 1: ball at me. If you're a if you're a wide receiver,

1500
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: throw the ball to my guy. If you're a defensive back,

1501
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 1: h yeah, give me a chance to sack the quarterback

1502
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 1: in the last moments of that game to close it out.

1503
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 1: Those are guys that you want and for him to,

1504
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 1: you know, say, I don't feel any pressure. Man, I'm

1505
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 1: just gonna go out and try and get better and

1506
01:19:56,439 --> 01:19:58,680
Speaker 1: play and it's gonna be and you know, just embrace it.

1507
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,800
Speaker 1: That's rare and it's it's certainly something that not everybody has.

1508
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:05,840
Speaker 1: So I think that's the thing that struck me when

1509
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:08,200
Speaker 1: somebody asked if he felt pressure as a first round

1510
01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: draft pick of the Bills. You know, with all these

1511
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: expectations of this team and then being a guy that

1512
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: they expect to come in and do something. He's like, Nah,

1513
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: not at all. I'm ready. You know, he ready. He's

1514
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: ready for it in every sense of the word you

1515
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,679
Speaker 1: said it. He's mature, he's ready for this. The spotlight.

1516
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: He doesn't shy away from it. Uh, he looks at him,

1517
01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 1: looks at the media with the clear eyes, and and

1518
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:31,080
Speaker 1: he's got an answer for him. Just a really impressive,

1519
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:35,800
Speaker 1: impressive young guy. Um, that's Shakir Shakir elam first round

1520
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 1: draft pick from Florida. Now we've got Khalil Shakir. Who

1521
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:41,679
Speaker 1: was he was taking forty eight I'm sorry, one forty

1522
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:44,120
Speaker 1: eighth overall. I think we have one forty eight overall.

1523
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 1: Um and Um, he's also a guy that just got

1524
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:51,799
Speaker 1: off the practice field his first time as a Buffalo.

1525
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: Bill Shakir, Um, Khalil Shakir from Boise State. Here's the

1526
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: wide receiver. I felt good, Um, you know, to get

1527
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 1: out there and play ball again. You know, just been

1528
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 1: doing a whole bunch of training for the past what

1529
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 1: two'sh months or whatever it is. So to get out

1530
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 1: here with the team and get out there and just

1531
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: work with those guys, it was amazing. It was a

1532
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: good day. Since you were drafted, I think I've heard

1533
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,400
Speaker 1: maybe your name more than anybody about how boy Bill's

1534
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 1: got a good value they got to steal something like

1535
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:20,800
Speaker 1: why do you think maybe you were overlooked a little

1536
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:22,479
Speaker 1: bit in the draft process, If that is the case

1537
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:25,640
Speaker 1: from some teams, I wouldn't saying, you know, overlooked. I

1538
01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:28,599
Speaker 1: didn't really view it as like I'm gonna go day one.

1539
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:30,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go day two or day three. My thing

1540
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: will just give me an opportunity. So, you know, when

1541
01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:35,120
Speaker 1: people get to talking about a steal or overlooked and

1542
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: stuff like that, for me, it's like, I got my

1543
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:38,720
Speaker 1: shot and it's up to me what I'm gonna do

1544
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:40,439
Speaker 1: with it. So just come here, keep my head down

1545
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 1: and work hard every single day. There's anything that you

1546
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 1: looked at during that time during the you know, as

1547
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 1: a draft was going, even though you said you weren't

1548
01:21:47,520 --> 01:21:49,519
Speaker 1: paying attention to Yeah, you know that we're kind of

1549
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:52,599
Speaker 1: outside talk. My agent told me like once in the beginning,

1550
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,160
Speaker 1: and I was like, don't well, I'm good. You know.

1551
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: Then I think told me one more time, and I

1552
01:21:57,320 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: was like, just block it out because for me, like

1553
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 1: I said, it don't matter. You know, at the end

1554
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:02,200
Speaker 1: of the day, if you get an opportunity, that's all

1555
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 1: you need. Like I said, so mention getting an opportunity

1556
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:07,280
Speaker 1: to getting a shot. How much is it healthy you're

1557
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: getting his shot, Josh challenge your quarter back? Oh, it's amazing.

1558
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:14,120
Speaker 1: Um played for Wyoming, so that's pretty cool. Um. I

1559
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:17,560
Speaker 1: think I was a freshman he was. When was his

1560
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: last year across twenty eighteen? Was it twenty eighteen? Um,

1561
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: he was a senior and I didn't play much, so

1562
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:27,439
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's a baller. He's always been a baller. Um.

1563
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: You know, I remember back then he was a ball

1564
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: A game plan was all about him. And you know,

1565
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 1: coming in now, all I've been hearing about him and

1566
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:34,760
Speaker 1: seeing what he's doing in the league, it's just great things.

1567
01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: He's an elite dude, amazing player. Obviously, his leadership is

1568
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:40,280
Speaker 1: what stands out the most to me, and I'm just

1569
01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: excited to learn from him. How much how much time

1570
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: with Um, Christian and Kayer? What was the dynamic out there,

1571
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: like obviously you guys are all probably competitive, Dude, once

1572
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:52,439
Speaker 1: you got to start playing up against each other, Oh

1573
01:22:52,479 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 1: that was that was fun. Um Kier trained down at

1574
01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: XPE and Fort Lauderdale for the whole Um pre jaft

1575
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 1: process were both there, so I didn't really talk too

1576
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: much then. Then you know, now we teammates and to

1577
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: see the way he works. One of the hardest working

1578
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 1: dudes I've ever seen. You know, he up in the

1579
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: training room twenty four seven getting his body right. So

1580
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:13,360
Speaker 1: to get out here and see him work on the

1581
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:16,000
Speaker 1: field due delete, you know, so just you know, all

1582
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: those guys, it was fun to get out here and

1583
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:20,000
Speaker 1: just see them all work. Challenging is it to not

1584
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:22,040
Speaker 1: try to do too much? Obviously you said you've been

1585
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: doing a lot of training, not a lot of football stuff.

1586
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: Your first time out there, first impression in front of

1587
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:29,719
Speaker 1: the new team, and how hard is it to stay

1588
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: within yourself and not try to do too much. It's

1589
01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 1: just going out there and just working hard. I mean,

1590
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:37,280
Speaker 1: I think when you're working hard, and you know you're

1591
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 1: working hard, you know, it's not really doing too much.

1592
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: You know, when I think of doing too much, it's

1593
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, being an extra going out there, putting guys

1594
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: at jeopardy things like that. But if you go out there,

1595
01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: keep your head down and just work hard, you know

1596
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:50,920
Speaker 1: you can be wrong when you do that. So my

1597
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:54,759
Speaker 1: mentality today was, you know, first the mental preparation going intoday,

1598
01:23:54,800 --> 01:23:56,800
Speaker 1: making sure that I knew the playbook, everything, and I

1599
01:23:56,800 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 1: want to went out there. It's like, you know, cheer

1600
01:23:58,280 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 1: my teammates on, you know, get them ready, to go

1601
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: make sure that everybody good and go out there and

1602
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: just bat out to have fun, speed and moving to

1603
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:09,280
Speaker 1: the NFL about technique and coaching technique. You see it

1604
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: out there in the field. Did you sense it today?

1605
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:14,519
Speaker 1: Like right away they're looking for little things to help

1606
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 1: improve each of you guys and adjusting to the NFL game.

1607
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:20,599
Speaker 1: Oh definitely, you know, from the way you get out

1608
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:23,760
Speaker 1: in your stance to the way you break down all

1609
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:25,640
Speaker 1: that type of stuff. And for me, you know, it

1610
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: was just play fast before, you know. So uh, coming

1611
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: here and learning from coach chat Hall and the way

1612
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:34,520
Speaker 1: he's teaching me. Um, it's you know, um, this terminology

1613
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 1: and everything's a lot different, but it's stuff that I'm

1614
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: like happy he's pointing out because it's only gonna make

1615
01:24:38,400 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: me a better player. So, um, I definitely noticed it

1616
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: right away, and I'm blessed to be able to learn

1617
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:45,960
Speaker 1: that way so and edge at all. To just be

1618
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:48,040
Speaker 1: out here with the rookies in a small group at

1619
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 1: least a few days before the Vets get out on

1620
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 1: the field, Yeah, I mean, just to get going. Um.

1621
01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:54,800
Speaker 1: Like I said, I think everybody's hyped up, you know,

1622
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: excited to be here to get out here, you know,

1623
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: with the rookies and you know, get into it again

1624
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 1: before you know, the big dogs come in and show

1625
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: us how it's done. Um. But at the end of

1626
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 1: the day when they when they do get here and

1627
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:07,439
Speaker 1: we start working with them. Um, for me, it's just learning.

1628
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 1: You know. I got some amazing guys I get to

1629
01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:11,400
Speaker 1: learn from, and I'm just excited for that opportunity. I've

1630
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 1: been able to talk to any of the guys that

1631
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:14,439
Speaker 1: you're going to learn from, you know, the big dogs

1632
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 1: that you're referring to. I talk a little bit to m.

1633
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: Gay Davis, just a little bit, um, and you know,

1634
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 1: he's a cool dude. Just told me if I need

1635
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 1: anything and need any help or anything like that, just

1636
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 1: to let them know. Um. But other than that, I'm

1637
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 1: just I'm excited to see all them and meet everybody

1638
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: face to face. Like I said, I've been watching those

1639
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 1: dudes for a while. You know, guys like Stefan Diggs, Like,

1640
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:35,640
Speaker 1: to me, that's just mind blowing, you know. By the way,

1641
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm not the type to sit here and try and

1642
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,760
Speaker 1: be cool and act like like I'm Stefen Diggs, you know.

1643
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to learn from them. Though, to one

1644
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: of the writers who coverage your boys, you stayed. I apologize.

1645
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, but he said that one

1646
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:48,840
Speaker 1: thing that stood out was how much of a leader

1647
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: you were, even in losses. You'd be the first one

1648
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: to stand up, take accountability for the team. Things like that.

1649
01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:56,880
Speaker 1: What where does that come from? You know that that

1650
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,160
Speaker 1: DNA and here, I think it comes from, you know,

1651
01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 1: being a military base. My dad was a run for

1652
01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: twenty four years, so the way he ran his household

1653
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: growing up was a very discipline making sure that I

1654
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: always looked out from my you know, my blood brothers,

1655
01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:11,280
Speaker 1: my older brother, little brother, taking care of my older

1656
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: sister even though she was older. Things like that. Just

1657
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: the stuff I learned when I was younger than the

1658
01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:16,720
Speaker 1: stuff that he instilled in me, as far as the

1659
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:23,160
Speaker 1: discipline aspect of life just carried over to football. Um,

1660
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 1: it's fun and it's challenging, but I think it's a

1661
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,719
Speaker 1: fun challenge because, like I said, I've been just training

1662
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:32,000
Speaker 1: for the past two to three months for Run forty

1663
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 1: and do all that type of stuff. Um, and you

1664
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 1: actually get to learn football again, you know. So it's exciting.

1665
01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:38,640
Speaker 1: It's hard, but it's exciting. At the same time to

1666
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, learn everything, and when you

1667
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 1: go out there and you run it right, it's like

1668
01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: a big accomplishment. But it's like, all right, let me

1669
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 1: lock back in because now I gotta do the next

1670
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:48,280
Speaker 1: play right again. So you know, once you keep doing

1671
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:50,280
Speaker 1: stuff right, Um, you gotta make sure you don't get

1672
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:52,080
Speaker 1: you know, too high on that because you gotta stay

1673
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: level headed and move on to the next play and

1674
01:26:54,240 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: continue to do things right. That was Khalil Shakier Fifthy

1675
01:26:58,160 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 1: on Draft Pick of the Buffalo Bills, how a Boys

1676
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: East wide receiver after his first practice as a Buffalo Bill. Um,

1677
01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to go straight to break. I want

1678
01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 1: to catch you. We're gonna come up back and react

1679
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:09,960
Speaker 1: to that. Kevin Connor Steve Tasker on One Bill's Live.

1680
01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back to One Bill's Live.

1681
01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: Just as we wrap up the show, let's react to

1682
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 1: a little bit to what Khalil Shakier said. We've had

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Speaker 1: heard from James Cook, we heard from Kayer Elam. What

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Speaker 1: did you think about Khalil Shakier and what he had

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Speaker 1: to say. He's pretty forthright about being a fan about

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01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:38,640
Speaker 1: the guys having lockers around him, right, I mean, what

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01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,719
Speaker 1: an honest answer? Right? Hey, Holy cal there's stuff on dates,

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01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:44,519
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, listen, that's part of it. I

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Speaker 1: I love the way that he said, you know, Louis,

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01:27:47,600 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: he was asked where you overlooked, and he said, I

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01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 1: don't do it that way. You know what, I got

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01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 1: a shot now and now it's up to me to

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01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 1: prove it. I thought that was really I don't care

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01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 1: where I got drafted, you know now that I have

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01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:00,839
Speaker 1: a shot as school Steve, he's a guy that nearly

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Speaker 1: two hundred balls for over twenty five hundred yards in college. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and there are a lot of people that think he

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Speaker 1: was a steal. So yeah, I'm excited about him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean too. And it's hard for these guys to

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Speaker 1: come in after being the big fish in a small

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01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 1: pond to display that kind of humility as well. And

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01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:17,880
Speaker 1: it's good to see all three of the guys we

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01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 1: heard from, Cook, Elam and Shakier pretty mature in front

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Speaker 1: of the mic, in front of a strange group of

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Speaker 1: media people. They handle it all very well. I must

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01:28:25,280 --> 01:28:28,320
Speaker 1: say now last before we go, as we're winding down

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Speaker 1: the show, give me your win. Loss prediction for the

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01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:33,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. He got about a minute left right. So look,

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Speaker 1: every year I do this on social media, and never

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01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:40,440
Speaker 1: before have I felt as us strongly in my convictions

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Speaker 1: with the seventeen and old prediction as I do this year.

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Speaker 1: But for the exercises of this show, I think, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I think that, let's say the Rams game is a loss.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a possibility we start four and three

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Speaker 1: and then run the table the rest of the way.

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Speaker 1: I'm going fourteen and three. Yeah, And I was thirteen

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Speaker 1: and four, and I think you're right. Last year I

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Speaker 1: had them between twelve and fourteen wins. They came up

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Speaker 1: with twelve. I'm I'm right there with you. I'm thirteen

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Speaker 1: and four and myself, and you gotta know that somewhere

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01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:11,639
Speaker 1: along the line, they're gonna they're gonna some team's gonna

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Speaker 1: play well against them, and they're gonna lose, probably on

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Speaker 1: the road or maybe not. But I'm right there with you.

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Speaker 1: Fourteen and three, I've got thirteen and four. Who knows

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Speaker 1: how it's gonna turn out. But Kevin, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for being here with us. Appreciate you anytime. We

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Speaker 1: will skip always a pleasure Manam we'll be back on Monday,

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Speaker 1: one of those live