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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 strated here of normalcy. Happy Friday Bills fans,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as we bring you

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Speaker 1: the Friday edition of one Bills Live here from the

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Speaker 1: full of stuff, Steve, because because in about what are

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Speaker 1: we saying here, twenty eight hours from now, NFL clubs

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Speaker 1: know you played with Cody a little bit last year.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you guys get going and leave Williams in reserve?

430
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Speaker 1: Or do they like what they see from you know,

431
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Speaker 1: any other combination, be it Ford and Williams or whoever else,

432
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Speaker 1: and say we're gonna go that way. That's the decision

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Speaker 1: to be made. But I think I think with Feliciano

434
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Speaker 1: out of the line up, forward is your guard. That's

435
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Speaker 1: that's how I envisioned them going. And you don't. It

436
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like Brian Winters has cracked into the into

437
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Speaker 1: the rotation at all. And yeah, you know that's got

438
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Speaker 1: Evan Bam there as well. Yeah, more of a center guard.

439
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Speaker 1: But yes, I understand what you're saying. Um, yeah, I

440
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 1: think Winners was a great insurance policy to get with

441
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Speaker 1: the Feliciano injury and what it turned out to be. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think Winters I would anticipate that Winters is is

443
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Speaker 1: a guy that you keep for depth purposes. Um is

444
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Speaker 1: he in the starting lineup? Man? I don't know. It's

445
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Speaker 1: a hard five to get into. Yeah, I don't know.

446
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that happens. So well, well, we'll

447
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Speaker 1: see where it goes and we'll know. We'll certainly know

448
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Speaker 1: by this time next week how it's all shaping up

449
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Speaker 1: and who's in reserves. Still may not who's among the

450
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Speaker 1: starting five. They still may not put out a depth

451
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Speaker 1: chart until they absolutely have to. Well, maybe maybe Saturday

452
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Speaker 1: right of next week might be there, and it'll be

453
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Speaker 1: listed as unofficial too, it won't even be official. Number

454
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Speaker 1: two one Bills Live mail Bag Fan mail bag from

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Speaker 1: Jose He says, I'm really pulling for Duke Williams and

456
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Speaker 1: Robert Foster. Do you think they have a shot to

457
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Speaker 1: make the roster? I think Duke Williams has a shot.

458
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's better than thirty forty to

459
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Speaker 1: make the roster. I think the emergence of Gabriel Davis

460
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Speaker 1: and even Isaiah Hodgins has has compromised his likelihood of

461
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Speaker 1: making the fifty man roster. How do you feel Andre

462
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Speaker 1: Roberts is in so there's Yae Special, Gabriel Davis and

463
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Roberts behind Digs, Colbasley and John Brown. Then you've

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Speaker 1: got Isaiah Andre Roberts and Gabriel Davis. There's five. So

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Speaker 1: now you're down to Hodgens, Robert Foster, Duke Williams, Isaiah McKenzie.

466
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Speaker 1: Those are your other four. Basically, who are you plugging

467
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Speaker 1: into that sixth spot? Isaiah McKenzie gives them some speed, Hodgens,

468
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Hodgins gives them side side contested catchability. Uh, It's

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Speaker 1: it's really a question of is it Duke Williams or

470
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Hodgins for skill set? You know which one do

471
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Speaker 1: you like better? They know who Duke Williams is no

472
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Speaker 1: question about it. He played for them last year and

473
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Speaker 1: had some moments, and Isaiah Hodgins is brand new. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But do you know what I think it comes down

475
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Speaker 1: to with those guys with the similar skill sets consistency.

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Speaker 1: You know who is making the plays consistently day in

477
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Speaker 1: and day out on the practice field. You didn't have

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Speaker 1: preseason games to judge them by, so you're going strictly

479
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Speaker 1: on consistency in the practice setting. And you know, Hodgens

480
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Speaker 1: has had a good camp Dukes had a good camp,

481
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Speaker 1: who do they feel was the more consistent performer. It

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Speaker 1: might come down to something like that. If you're if

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Speaker 1: you're weighing Isaiah McKenzie against one of those guys, then

484
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Speaker 1: it's a matter of what do you want on your

485
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: roster because they are in stark contrast in terms of

486
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Speaker 1: what they offer. Even if both of them are playing

487
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Speaker 1: their best, they're completely different football players, almost to the

488
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Speaker 1: point where they play different positions, you know what I mean.

489
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Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, Isaiah McKenzie is going

490
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Speaker 1: to do a bunch of stuff that Duke Williams will

491
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Speaker 1: never be able to do, and vice versa. So that's

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Speaker 1: what it comes down to. Can either of them contribute

493
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Speaker 1: enough or more than the other to make them more valuable?

494
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Speaker 1: But I think the question comes down to Isaiah Hodgins,

495
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Speaker 1: can you get him onto your practice squad? Or can

496
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Speaker 1: you get Duke Williams onto your practice squad? To me,

497
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 1: probably Duke Williams. Isaiah Hodgins comes out in a year

498
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: where it's your neck deep and really quality wide receivers.

499
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 1: He's a big target. So and Duke Williams, you know

500
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: everybody's got film on him. So is how confident are

501
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: you that you can sneak him through. It's a good question,

502
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: but and that's a really a kind of a role

503
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Speaker 1: in Foster. I'm worried about Foster too. I don't while

504
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: he has deep speed and has special team's ability, Remember

505
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Speaker 1: he was a gunner for them last year. Not that

506
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: he would be a starting gunner this year with people

507
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: like Taiwan Jones and Siran Neil on the roster, but

508
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 1: there is special team's ability to be had there. I

509
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: think his problem is consistency. There is talent there. I

510
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: just don't know if that talent is manifested in playmaking

511
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: ability on enough of a consistent basis to justify taking

512
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: him over some of these other candidates. For me, he

513
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: had the kind of the breakout years rookie season when

514
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: he was kind of their only option and they found

515
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 1: trying to figure out ways to get him the ball

516
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: deep and it worked a lot. They hit him deep

517
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 1: a lot. His rookie season last year disappeared. Did he

518
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: take a step forward? Well? No, And the caliber of

519
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: the talent at the wide receiver position certainly was enhanced

520
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: with Cole Beasley and John Brown being added, and that

521
00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: compromised his opportunities on the field, and I think, yeah,

522
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Speaker 1: he didn't like make a niche for himself. Well right,

523
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: he didn't. Even though the even though the competition is

524
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: going to inevitably be upgraded at your position in the NFL,

525
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. Teams are looking to

526
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: do that every single day, So to expect it to

527
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: remain status quo is foolhardy. So when the level of

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00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: competition rose in the room, you have to believe the

529
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Speaker 1: coaching staff is saying, all right, let's see if Robert

530
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Speaker 1: can rise to that. Absolutely, And that did not happen

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Speaker 1: last year. And then he's in concussion protocol for more

532
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 1: than half of training camp this year. That didn't help.

533
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: And so where does it go. I don't know that

534
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: there's a good ending here for him exactly. It's and

535
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: there's too much uncertainty. When you have uncertainty at this

536
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: point of the season, it's it's usually never in your favor.

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Speaker 1: All right. We'll continue with your questions from the obl

538
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: mail bag throughout the show today as we're answering what's

539
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: on your mind with respect to the Bill's roster and

540
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: what it's going to look like when the final fifty

541
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Speaker 1: three are assembled tomorrow at four pm. Steve Tasker Chris

542
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: Brown here with you until three. It's One Bill's Live,

543
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: presented by Collot of Health, and this is Buffalo Bill's

544
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: Radio One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

545
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: as we are motoring through a Friday edition to the show.

546
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Speaker 1: And just over twenty four hours from the roster cutdown deadline,

547
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: I get down to fifty three and I remember some

548
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: of the toughest decisions. What do you remember from my

549
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: first year doing that I didn't could down in Houston. Yeah,

550
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: I didn't even know if I was you know, I

551
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: had no idea because I'd never even never crossed my

552
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: mind that i would actually tell let me ask you this.

553
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: So you're you know, you know, you're in a boat

554
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: where you may not make the roster. They drafted three

555
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: guys at my position, right, So my question is this, though,

556
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: do you kind of you kind of birds of a

557
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: feather kind of thing, you kind of hang out with

558
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: some of the other guys who are major question marks

559
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: to make the roster too and kind of like a

560
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: little bit of solidarity there, or you just kind of

561
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: sit just in your in your apartment by yourself and

562
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,239
Speaker 1: watch TV and try to pass the time or what

563
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: we like, what were you doing a hotel room? Oh

564
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Speaker 1: that's right, yeah, the Shamrock Hotel, I believe in Houston texts,

565
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: which she sounds like, Okay, it's no. It was like

566
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Speaker 1: an iconic twenty nine story huge brick structure in Houston.

567
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: Everything it was. It was from the nineteen thirties or

568
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 1: forties when oil you know what I mean. It's one

569
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: of those it's it's torn down now. But it was

570
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: so big it looked like a hospital. It was the

571
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Speaker 1: building in Houston. It was unbelievable and it's been torn out.

572
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Speaker 1: It had the largest in the largest ground pool they

573
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Speaker 1: could they put in it. What the water skied in

574
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: the pool as get out of here? Oh yeah, oh yeah.

575
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: How'd they get the boat in the hotel? It was

576
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: it was inside, it was outside, it was Texas, So yeah,

577
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: it was out and they just back it up and

578
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: they had like, you know, I got a boat latch

579
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: at the deep end. So I was I was like,

580
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: I was like, I hadn't like, so you're at the

581
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: hotel loading in the pool or what are you doing right?

582
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: Not even doing that? I was hanging around waiting for

583
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: I was hanging by the phone. Oh yeah, yeah, no

584
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: cell phones out of yeah right, no self down to

585
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: the pool like and uh and for me. And I

586
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: had a little bit of a maybe I wasn't a

587
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: self aware as maybe I should have been, but I was.

588
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: I didn't know enough to know. When I looked in

589
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: the mirror in the morning, I looked like a ten

590
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: year old sixth grader, you know, right, Well, I don't know,

591
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what you looked like a little skinny,

592
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: you know, white kid who didn't really fit the look

593
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: of the of the steroid areas, the steroid area in

594
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: the NFL. It wasn't me, right, you didn't That was

595
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: not my you know, I did not see myself on

596
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: that list. So I just thought, you know, let's just

597
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: you know, how long is it gonna take to get

598
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: my to my name on the list? Right? So, well,

599
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: you're in the tease so exactly. So I finally got

600
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: fed up. It was late in the day. I was

601
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: find a fed up. It's like four o'clock in the afternoon,

602
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's the deadline, what's going on?

603
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: I call up? I'd call him, I said, do I,

604
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: you know, did I have to come over there or

605
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: you know house It's gonna work when you release me

606
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: kind of thing, right, And you know I told you this,

607
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: But the secretary goes, what, No, I saw the list, Steve,

608
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: You're okay, I go so I can get a place

609
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: to live and everything. He says, Oh, yeah, don't you

610
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: love how that's it? Don't you love how matter of

611
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: fact the admins are. They're answering the what were you

612
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: so worried about? Yeah, your name was on the list.

613
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: You're fine, So that's it. So it's a let me

614
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: try to say, rocked myself down from these heart pelps.

615
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: It's a rough day. Plus these guys, man, the coaches

616
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: got to sit them down and talking. Now you've seen

617
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: if anybody's seen parts, you get it. Some of these

618
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: guys don't take it well. And some of them don't

619
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Speaker 1: and and a lot of them don't have a sense

620
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: of self awareness where they think, not only are they

621
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Speaker 1: gonna make this team, they're starting on open day. Yeah,

622
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna start an opening day and they're

623
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: gonna be the MVP. That's what they think coming out

624
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: of training camp, even though they were taking thirteen reps

625
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: and you know, got in like three plays in a

626
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: preseat in the fourth preseason game or whatever, they didn't play,

627
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: you know, So yeah, it's it can be rough. It

628
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: can be rough. Let's go back to the obl fan

629
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Speaker 1: mailbag and we'll see what Kate has for us. Says,

630
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: I'm super stoked. We finally have a team where we

631
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: are going to have to cut guys that will start

632
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: on other teams. With that being said, how's the wide

633
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: receiver battle going? Seems solid with the first three maybe four,

634
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: but they seem to like to slow play rookies, so

635
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: maybe not love to hear your thoughts. That is true.

636
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: That is true. That you know, coach McDermott is all

637
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: about earning it, and players who have been in this

638
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: league and have earned their stripes tend to get more

639
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: of the benefit of the doubt, especially in the early

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Speaker 1: going of camp. With this culture, it's more about doing

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Speaker 1: it here. Well, yes, that's true. I mean they brought

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Speaker 1: in who was it they brought they brought in, well,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson last year, former first round draft pick. He

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00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: came in and came to unseat Levi. He had to

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Speaker 1: rotate in with Levi Wally, but it didn't happen until

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00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: the second half of the year, right Levi Wallace didn't

647
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: lose anything to him. They started working him in. But

648
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: that was it. So even if you're a veteran guy,

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00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to earn it on this roster and

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Speaker 1: in this culture. But it is it is true that

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Speaker 1: they don't in most cases throw their rookies in the

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Speaker 1: deep end to the pool at the start of a season.

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Speaker 1: We didn't see that with that Oliver last year. We

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Speaker 1: certainly didn't see it with I mean, Devin Singletary got

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Speaker 1: some time early, but he was spring piled in. Um,

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00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: there's only been you can name him on one. There's

657
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: been a couple of guys, even even Matt Milano didn't

658
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: didn't really get tossed in basically Tremaine Josh by default.

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Speaker 1: And that's about it. Um Cody Ford and Cody Cody

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00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: Ford did last year. You know, it's offensive lineman. So

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00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: that so so yeah, they and and when you have

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Speaker 1: and when you have the veteran depth that they have

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Speaker 1: at the receiver position, logic would say that while Gabriel

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Speaker 1: Davis and Isaiah Hodgens may have done enough to be

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Speaker 1: on this fifty three man roster. To think that they

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Speaker 1: would have contribution type roles early in the season, right,

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Speaker 1: might be a little premature. I don't think Gabriel Davis

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Speaker 1: is going to get fifty percent of the snaps on offense,

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Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. I don't think he will.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about over the course of the

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Speaker 1: no of the course of the first week, first game,

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Speaker 1: first month of the season. I don't everything's possible. If

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Speaker 1: he's on the roster. He's gonna play, because everybody does.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much of an opportunity he's going

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Speaker 1: to get to go in and rotate in with, you know,

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Speaker 1: on offense on regular down a distance as a wide

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Speaker 1: receiver rookie with those three guys ahead of him. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you know, even though the Bills might be slow

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Speaker 1: to thrust young rookie receivers into major role, especially apps

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Speaker 1: in a preseason where I mean, they haven't really seen

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Speaker 1: these guys in a game. So I think what Kate

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Speaker 1: brings up has some real legs to it, because you

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Speaker 1: can do as much as you want in practice, but

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Speaker 1: this coaching staff wants to wants to see you do

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Speaker 1: it in games when the real bullets are flying. Can

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Speaker 1: you execute in the same fashion? And maybe they can.

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Speaker 1: And if that's the case, well then off you go.

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00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: But their opportunities I think are going to be sprinkled

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Speaker 1: in if they're on this fifty three man roster, and

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Speaker 1: I expect Gabriel Davis to be I think Hodgens is

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Speaker 1: a little bit more of a question mark. But if, if,

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Speaker 1: and when they are on this roster, I think they

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Speaker 1: get sprinkled in to be given you a handful of

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Speaker 1: opportunities here and there to prove that they can execute

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Speaker 1: with the same consistency in a game setting. And you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe the Bills are up on a team, you know,

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00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: and in the second half, you know, they give the

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Speaker 1: young guys a lot of reps in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Another one from the mail bag that is along these lines,

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Speaker 1: Brownie from Lartie. He says, can we expect to see

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Speaker 1: a lot of three and four wide receiver sets with

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Speaker 1: Josh making adjustments of the line again this year? This

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00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 1: strategy and tempo seemed to fit Josh well last year.

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Speaker 1: It's a good question, and I would say yes to

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Speaker 1: the three receiver sets because that was their most popular

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00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: formation last be four receiver sets. I don't know, they

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Speaker 1: could sprinkle them in depending on the opponent, depending on

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Speaker 1: the matchup, depending on the other team's cornerback contingent. Look

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Speaker 1: at the Jets here in Week one, they're starting corners

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00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: or Pierre de Seer and Arthur Malet. Their best is

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00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: their slack guy, Brian Poole, who they have after that.

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Speaker 1: So that's the thing that I think, like last year

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Speaker 1: in Week one against the Jets and Week two against

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00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: the Giants, the Bills throw out every conceivable personnel combination,

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00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: had Pat de Mark play after play after play after play,

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00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: plus de Marco out there, and they went empty backfield.

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00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: They split them out right, plus they went shifts and motions,

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00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: they put different people out there, then moved them around

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00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: pre snap, and they just wanted to get what is

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Speaker 1: the defense doing? What are we looking at here? And

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Speaker 1: remember early on in the Jet game last year, it

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00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: wasn't pretty. I mean, they moved the ball, but they

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Speaker 1: couldn't get on the board. Yeah, so we'll see, but

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Speaker 1: I think you'll see some experimentation with three four wide

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Speaker 1: receiver sets and whatever they're gonna do with the running

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00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: backs with DeMarco and Moss and singletary. Who knows, But

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Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of it in the

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Speaker 1: a lot of different stuff early on. Yes, I think

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Speaker 1: just as an experiment, you know, with day ball and

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Speaker 1: the test tubes and pouring them back and forth between. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how much ten personnel they

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Speaker 1: go to, which is one back, no tight ends, and

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Speaker 1: four wides. I'm I'm of the belief that in time

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Speaker 1: we may see more of that. I'm not convinced we'll

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Speaker 1: see it right away. Again, you know, we know what

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable is as a play caller. He is primarily

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Speaker 1: focused on matchup advantages. So if they're going to play

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Speaker 1: a team, and the Jets may very well fall into

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Speaker 1: this category, if they're going to play a team that

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Speaker 1: doesn't go past three deep at their corner, where they

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Speaker 1: have corners that are worth their salt, well, then yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna put four wide receivers on the field and

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Speaker 1: and say, let me see if your four guys are

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Speaker 1: better than my four. Right, let's see if you're third

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00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: and fourth corner better than our third and fourth. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know that the Jets can say that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like that, I might see that happen in those instances.

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Speaker 1: Then it comes down to, particularly with Greg Williams as

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00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: your defensive coordinator for the Jets, can the ball come

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Speaker 1: out on time because he's gonna send pressure. Well, he's

751
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 1: because he's got to make up for that. He's got

752
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: to make up for that in the back end, so

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00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: he'll send more guys up front. And if you gotta,

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00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 1: if you can block it up, yeah, then you've got to.

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00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: Then they've got a problem. If you cannot, then your

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Speaker 1: quarterback has got a problem. Yeah. So then that's and

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00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: that's the issue, and that's that's what it comes down to.

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Speaker 1: See will come down to Feel free to hit us

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00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: up on the obl mail bag at One Bills Live.

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00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: Send us your roster questions and queries. Will be sure

761
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: to take them all. And we've got an interesting one

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Speaker 1: that will get you after the break, as Steve and

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Speaker 1: I will be asked who is your surprise player to

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Speaker 1: make the roster. We'll get to that on the other side.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bill's Radio One Bills Live. Steve Tasker

767
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: Chris Brown with you as we are closing up the

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Speaker 1: first hour of the program, and as we mentioned right

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Speaker 1: before the break, the latest question from ed from the

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Speaker 1: OBL mail bag is who's your surprise player to make

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Speaker 1: Saturday's roster? And Steve, You've got an interesting one man, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mike Guy, I think it's gonna be Reggie Gilliam. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think they changed his number from forty one to

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Speaker 1: eighty two, No, eighty six, forty one to six. You know,

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Speaker 1: why would you? You're not changing guy's number because you

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00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: know you're cutting him, or maybe you do. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but I think Pat DeMarco's injury uh has kept him

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Speaker 1: out and given them a chance to find out who

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Speaker 1: Reggie is. Moving him to tight end isn't that's just immaterial, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's im material. I think his fact that he has

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00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: built like a fullback. He can be a tight end

782
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: in name only and be a fullback who moves around

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00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: in the backfield and performs the same function x's and

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00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: knows wise that DeMarco did. Plus he can learn the

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00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: tight end spot as well. So I that's who I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be. They like to have a

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00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: guy in there that can do that, and Pat DeMarco

788
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: hasn't taken a snap in a long time. They need

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Speaker 1: somebody like that, and Reggie Gilliams the last guy standing,

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Speaker 1: so I'm thinking he's from where we were three weeks ago.

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00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a surprise guy that

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Speaker 1: makes the roster. My guy is Brian Cox Junior. I mean,

793
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: all indications are this guy has been tearing it up

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00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: and has been a menace in the offensive backfield from

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Speaker 1: a pass rush perspective, and I think that he's kind

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00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: of flown completely under the radar with all the big

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Speaker 1: names that were added on that defensive line, whether it

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Speaker 1: was free agency, top of the draft with a j

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Speaker 1: F Panessa, and I think this guy has done nothing

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Speaker 1: but bring his lunch pail to work every day and

801
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: made things happen on the practice field to the point

802
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: where I think he might very well push one of

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Speaker 1: those younger defensive ends right off the roster because of

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00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: what he's been able to show. So he would be

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Speaker 1: my pick. I think two other guys that could be

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00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: surprise roster makes are the guy they just picked up

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Speaker 1: from Carolina, Andre Smith. I know they've made investments in

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00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: special teams already in the form of Tyler Madakavic and

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00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones. Andre Smith is someone that they they told Carolina, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: wait before you put the waiver, before you put this

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Speaker 1: guy on waivers officially at four pm, what do you

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Speaker 1: say you take a conditional pick from us? I mean

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Speaker 1: to me, that kind of action leads me to believe

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Speaker 1: that he's got a pretty good chance, even though he's

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Speaker 1: a late arrival, to stick on this roster. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's a guarantee by any means, but I think

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Speaker 1: when a team goes to those lengths to acquire you,

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Speaker 1: I think it says something. And then the other guy

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Speaker 1: that I think could be a surprise make is cam Lewis.

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Speaker 1: I think the ub products has done a nice job

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Speaker 1: here in his second year in camp, and you can

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Speaker 1: play inside and out, and I think is a valuable

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00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: depth corner to have on this roster. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: if those guys do pan out as surprise makes for

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Speaker 1: the fifty three when it's all decided tomorrow at four pm.

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Speaker 1: One other question from the OBL mail bag, more likely

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Speaker 1: chance at the practice squad Trey Adams or Reggie Gilliam

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Speaker 1: And question two does trading a conditional pick for Andre

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Speaker 1: Smith spell the end for Vashon Joseph, So first one,

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Speaker 1: Trey Adams are Reggie Gilliam. I think Steve has already

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Speaker 1: stated his opinion on Gilliam. He thinks he's making the

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Speaker 1: roster outright. I do believe that that could be entirely

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Speaker 1: predicated on Pat DeMarco's health. You know, he's missed all

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Speaker 1: of camp with the neck injury, and that might be

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Speaker 1: the biggest reason for him being a roster make. Trey Adams,

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Speaker 1: by all indications, has had a tough go of it,

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Speaker 1: especially with speed rushers around the edge, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's up to the Bills coaching staff in personnel department

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Speaker 1: to decide, is this a guy that we can work

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Speaker 1: with and make better. Can we develop him where he

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00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: can handle those speed rushers off the edge better in time?

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00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: If they believe they that he can, then I think

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Speaker 1: he is a consideration for the practice squad. If they

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Speaker 1: don't think, if they just don't think he's got the

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Speaker 1: goods and can't be developed, then he's not even here,

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Speaker 1: right And I think those are the only two options

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00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: right now as far as Trey adams playing future is

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Speaker 1: concerned in Buffalo. As for trading a conditional pick for

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Speaker 1: Andre Smith, As I was just saying, when you go

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Speaker 1: to those lengths to pick up a special teamer, it

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Speaker 1: means something they think. They may say, they may see

852
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: something that Carolina doesn't think is there. They practiced against

853
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: this team last year. Now, this is a guy that

854
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: from you know, I know it's the Panthers are all

855
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: coming to Buffalo, but this is a guy that did

856
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: not play for Sean McDermott. Down. No, this is third year,

857
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: so it's not like Sean McDermott has a history with

858
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: Andre Smith. But they do have the benefit of watching

859
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: the kid practice against them last year in uh Spartan Spartansburg, Spartanville,

860
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: Spartan Spartanburg, Spartanburg, So that may have shown him something. Certainly,

861
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: like you said, given up a conditional pickform thinks, you

862
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: know what, this is the kind of guy. There's something

863
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: there that we want to look at. And and I

864
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: don't know that it special teams or how much, or

865
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: whether they think I would think it's primarily special teams.

866
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: But the question is does it spell the end for

867
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: Vashan Joseph Because you would think if you're acquiring an

868
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: extra linebacker, what's the reason behind that, are you disappointed

869
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: in somebody else? Possibly it could be an injury related thing. Also,

870
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: we know Vashan Joseph got nicked up just a few

871
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: days ago. I think he's back in. I think he's Yeah,

872
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: he's back in the practice setting already. So it wasn't

873
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: anything serious, so it's not injury. It's also common for

874
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: NFL teams to churn the bottom of their roster. Now

875
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 1: in the COVID situation, the pandemic, that's not as easy

876
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,240
Speaker 1: to do. Most people don't realize that every NFL team

877
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: is constantly churning through workout guys, guys from other teams,

878
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: rookie free agents, guys who are in a current training

879
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: camp this year and who are out or who got cut,

880
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: who are with a team or on the practice squad,

881
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: and up and down. They'll bring guys in constantly because

882
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: they're trying to get better at the bottom of their roster,

883
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: just like you said, for special teams. And if they

884
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: can bring a guy in and he's a better athlete, faster,

885
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: or has a better skill set for what they need

886
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: on special teams, he gets plugged in. It doesn't necessarily

887
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: mean he gets activated right away or any of that.

888
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: But if if this is a an adjustment to churning

889
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster that most NFL club and

890
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: to eventually make your special teams better, right, and to

891
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: a guy that they can develop, and all of a

892
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: sudden he comes in and he clicks all right, now

893
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: he can in a pinch, he can play both or

894
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: all three linebacker spots. Or if you or if you

895
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: develop him over the course of the time, or if

896
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: Heath Farwells has no, no, this all of a sudden,

897
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: I love this guy. He's given me something I really

898
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: need we don't have. Then you know that changes things.

899
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: But they bring guys in like that for those reasons,

900
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: not that they expect him to take Tremaine Edmund's job,

901
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: but that they do expect maybe to take Vashon Joseph's job.

902
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: Or he's an upgrade athletically, he's this guy was significantly

903
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: faster at the combine when he came out. That kind

904
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: of thing. They're always trying to churn the bottom four

905
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: or five spots on their roster to get better athletically

906
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 1: with like that proverbi roll of the dice. This guy

907
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: wasn't you know he got cut by a couple of teams,

908
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he clicked here and now

909
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: we've got a Lorenzo Alexander kind of guy. All right,

910
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: So we will take a break from the obl mail

911
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: bag because it's time to take a break here at

912
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. But when we return, we'll

913
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: answer more of these questions. So keep firing them off

914
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: at one Bills Live on Twitter for us, we'll be

915
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: happy to answer any and all of them. As roster

916
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: cutdown day is less than well a little more than

917
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: twenty four hours away and coming up in the next hour.

918
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: It is the eighth installment of Taskers teammates. After the break,

919
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: we'll see we'll see if we can stump Steve this

920
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: time and really make him sweat. We'll do all that

921
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bills Live presented by

922
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: Kalida Health, this is Buffalo Bill's Radio Flow Bills Radio

923
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: Network Sports Date. You're a sports update from One Bill's Drive.

924
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 1: The Bills not practicing today as roster cut down deadline

925
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: and is set for Saturday at four pm. Practice squads

926
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: will now be sixteen players in total due to the

927
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: new COVID amendments and could be finalized by the end

928
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: of the weekend. The Indianapolis Colts have locked up center

929
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly to a long term contract extension. The two

930
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: sides agreed to a four year, fifty million dollar deal.

931
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: The deal makes Kelly the highest paid center in the NFL,

932
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 1: surpassing the deal to Bills signed Mitch Morse to last offseason.

933
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: Kelly made his first Pro Bowl last year. If Adrian

934
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,439
Speaker 1: Peterson wants to play another four or five seasons, he'll

935
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: have to find a new home to continue his Hall

936
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: of Fame career. The Washington football team released the running

937
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: back he rushed for a thousand yards in twenty eighteen

938
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: and just under nine hundred yards last Deshaun Watson could

939
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: be getting a new contract soon, but it might not

940
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: be in line with what fellow fourth year quarterback Pat

941
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 1: Mahomes signed four in July. Reports are that Watson's new

942
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: deal is more in line with the ones belonging to

943
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers, those who earned about thirty

944
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: five million per season after signing four year extensions worth

945
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: roughly one hundred and forty million. Holy cow. The New

946
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: England Patriots have named Cam Newton their starting quarterback for

947
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: Week one when they take on the Dolphins. Newton was

948
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: also named a team captain. Newton is going to be

949
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 1: the first quarterback to start for the Patriots not drafted

950
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: by them since nineteen ninety three. While the majority of

951
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 1: NFL games will kick off next weekend stadiums without fans,

952
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: the league is doing its best to mimic the sound

953
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: of a venue filled with spectators. The league will provide

954
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: a loop of prerecorded crowd noise specific to each stadium's team,

955
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: each team stadium that must be played over the PA

956
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,439
Speaker 1: system and partially filled stadiums or empty stadiums, it doesn't matter,

957
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: and it's going to be at seventy decibels starting at kickoff.

958
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: And finally, Jesse Pagoula has made the furthest ever in

959
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: her Grand Slam tennis career. It continues tonight when she

960
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: faces six seed Petrick Kvitova of the Czech Republic in

961
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 1: the US Open. This is only the second time Pagoula

962
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: has advanced beyond the first round in a Grand Slam.

963
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: It's the seventh time she has played in one of

964
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: tennis's four major tournaments. Tonight's match is set for nine pm,

965
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: so good luck to her that is your sports update

966
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: from one Bill's Drive and Steve Tasker Chris Brown with you,

967
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 1: and it is that time in the show. We usually

968
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: try to do this once a week. It is the

969
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:34,280
Speaker 1: eighth installment of Tasker's Teammate, where we try to see

970
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 1: if Steve can guess based on a series of clues

971
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: which former teammate of his. We are describing Steve, you

972
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 1: are coming off a record setting performance in the last

973
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: installment when you got Mike Lodish in two guesses after

974
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: two clues. It was impressive. Are you ready for this edition? Yes? Okay,

975
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: so here we go. Clue number one. I was a

976
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 1: teammate of Steve's for four seasons, joining the Bills roster

977
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: not long after Steve did four seasons not long after me.

978
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 1: I don't know, okay, so we'll move on, John Feenau

979
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: Clue number two. I played in fifty seven career games

980
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: for Buffalo, making thirty eight starts over that span. But

981
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: much like Steve, I was also a contributor on special teams.

982
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: Carwell Gardner it is not car Well Gardener. Not a

983
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: bad guest, though, Can I can I try to get

984
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: a different guests? Can I? Well? Sure? Mark Maddox. It

985
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: is not Mark Maddox. I gave you two for one clue.

986
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: Marvcus Patton. No again, try to just keep going here

987
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: to give you another clue. I was a former third

988
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: round draft choice of the Bills. So let's pull this

989
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: all together here. Steve, teammate for four seasons, got on

990
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: the roster not long after you arrived, thirty eight starts

991
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: in a fifty seven game career, contributed on special teams,

992
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: and a former third round draft choice, Jamie Mueller. There

993
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: it is, he got it. Jamie Mueller is the correct answer. Himie,

994
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 1: I'm so mad that I didn't get to my favorite clue,

995
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: which was which was going to be. I was one

996
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: of the few Bills at the time who played with

997
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:41,760
Speaker 1: a crew cut and a killer mustache. I really wanted

998
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: to get to that clue, but it was a dead giveaway,

999
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: so I had to leave it for the end that

1000
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: I think. Do we have Jamie on the line. Here

1001
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,439
Speaker 1: we do, and it's still practically a crew cut. Look

1002
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: at that, Jamie Mule. How are you man? I'm doing good, Himie,

1003
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: you look great. How's the family? Everybody good? Yea every

1004
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: base gay came, he said, Ah, that's great. That's all

1005
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: good for you. You got into Did you do a

1006
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: little coaching after you finished playing? You know, I did.

1007
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of coaching, um, probably a

1008
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: little bit too soon after surgery and the travel was

1009
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: really bothering my spine. I opted out that and got

1010
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: into a business. That's great. And where are you living now?

1011
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: In Kansas City? Oh? Okay, yeah, So that was another

1012
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: clue that I was going to stick in there and

1013
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: be kind of benedict Well, I wasn't going to give

1014
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: you benedictine because that would have given it away also.

1015
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: But what I was gonna say was, you know, I'm

1016
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: a Cleveland, Ohio native, but I played college ball in

1017
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: Steve's Steve's home state of time. That would have been

1018
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: a dead giving Okay. Well that's why that was also

1019
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: a later clue because I didn't want to make it

1020
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: easy for you. So how are you doing during the pandemic?

1021
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,720
Speaker 1: Him me, You're all right, everything going into family, okay,

1022
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: you stay clean and everything, staying clear of it. You know,

1023
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: my son, my son contracted the virus um probably six

1024
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Oh. He had very mild symptoms, as most

1025
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: young people do. He's in good shape, so the underlying conditions.

1026
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: But nope, knock on wood. So far everybody's healthy and um,

1027
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 1: you know, outside of uh trying to keep the mental

1028
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: decline from from going down, right, um doing, I'm doing

1029
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: a ton of exercise. I'm actually in the best shape

1030
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: of my life since, um since leaving the bills. Oh

1031
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: that's awesome, that's awesome. Yeah, you look good man. Yeah

1032
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: you know him on Skype here for MSG viewers have

1033
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: to change. Let me just let me just tell you this.

1034
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I could not be in worse shape. I

1035
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: could not possibly be in less physical condition shape. I

1036
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: can walk a golf course. But if I broke, if

1037
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: I broke into a trot going up the stairs or

1038
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: even down the stairs, I would my every muscle in

1039
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: my leg would jank, would jerk. It would be so bad.

1040
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a wreck. The good the good news is

1041
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: there's nowhere to go but up from there. Right. Well, yeah,

1042
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: if if I decided to take that step, all I

1043
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 1: will agree with it. Now, Jamie and kind of reading

1044
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: up on you and stuff to try to get clues

1045
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: together for Steve, are you still doing the sports performance

1046
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: athletic long trainers or is that a pass business now, No,

1047
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 1: you know that's that's a developing business as we speak.

1048
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: I've got I can't. I couldn't. I could mention that

1049
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: the teams that are are trialing the product I have

1050
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: nhl UM some military elite. Let's just say, the most

1051
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: elite special forces in the in the world are trialing

1052
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: my product right now. And I'll tell you that I

1053
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: just I just got to work out. UM, I gotta

1054
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: get a little props here. But this this product, I'm

1055
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:50,280
Speaker 1: telling you is gonna it's gonna revolutionize how athletes trained,

1056
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: because I can tell you I've I've used this prototype

1057
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: UM consistently for for almost six weeks now. My lactate

1058
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 1: threshold is through the roof my VO two levels elite

1059
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 1: and I've never had I've never had a VO two

1060
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: level that's been elite and not even when I played.

1061
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: And so I'm super excited about the product. And that's

1062
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: when I've pretty much been working on full time outside

1063
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: of some part time consulting. So it's all tied into

1064
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: your sports performing athletic lung trainer business that you founded, right,

1065
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: I mean that's I don't watch it, don't give anything away.

1066
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: If you still got patent pending here, I understand. But yeah,

1067
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: if you want to share a little more, I mean

1068
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: that's fine. Yeah, No, I mean there's there's a website

1069
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: out there. It's Athletic Lung Trainer dot com. Okay, uh,

1070
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: you know people are interested. The product's not available yet

1071
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: because we're really trying to perfect it and get as

1072
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: much feedback from the elite athletes as we can so

1073
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: we can tell people how to properly use it. But

1074
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: I mean, there there's you know, there's so many uses

1075
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: for this product outside of the elite athletes. And what

1076
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: are you talking like, for medical, for medical rehab and

1077
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: accident reheah kind of thing. Yeah, exactly, Steve ceopd asthma.

1078
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: You know, some some patients shouldn't get it. And mean,

1079
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: I spent twenty three years in the biotech healthcare space,

1080
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: so I've learned a lot in a lot of disease states.

1081
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 1: Who would have guessed that Jamie Miller actually, who's just

1082
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: you know, basically a meathead playing for the bills, you know,

1083
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: went on in the biotech right, I'm kind of but

1084
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: I've always felt like I've been a human experiment anyway.

1085
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: So what a great place to be here. I would

1086
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:27,920
Speaker 1: say you're more of a side effect than a real experiment.

1087
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, that's that's that's nice, Steve. I appreciate

1088
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: I had like a little gay Yeah, that's right. Crush

1089
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: your man. Oh boy. I will say this though, you're

1090
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: you're right in the technology that is now coming out

1091
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: and like Bluetooth and and the ability to connect to

1092
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: the Internet in real time has really transformed the entire

1093
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: industry as an not as that and that's kind of

1094
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: what you're taking advantage of. I would assume, Yeah, because

1095
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot. I'm actually working with Chuck Morris as well.

1096
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: He's he's got a he's dialed in with the NFL

1097
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: alumni and he's you may have seen this performance lab.

1098
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: Super bright guy. He's a PhD in exercise physiology, and um,

1099
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's just so much application for this type

1100
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: of I mean, my focus is athletics right now, but

1101
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: you know there's obviously opportunity for for even for just

1102
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: breathing exercises. Most people don't understand, but breathing has a

1103
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: high degree of impact on your stress cordisal levels and

1104
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: how you handle stress. And um, you know, so that

1105
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: that's that's another potential application. It's there's just so much

1106
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: to learn, and most athletes, frankly don't don't even understand

1107
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: how to breathe appropriately. I know, I never did. Nobody

1108
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: ever taught you how to breathe as an athlete, and um,

1109
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, it really has an impact on on how

1110
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: you play the game, how you function. Um, you know,

1111
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 1: how how long your body can can last. You know,

1112
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: whether it's VO two or lactate threat should it all

1113
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: comes into play in large part to breathing. Jamie, I'm

1114
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: just thinking off the top of my head here, And

1115
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: they may not be an application for this, but with

1116
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: with knowing that COVID is a respiratory disease chiefly, do

1117
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: you envision any possible application there? Uh, you know with

1118
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: this pandemic, is that even a thing? Or Am I

1119
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 1: just talking out of school here? No? No, I think

1120
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: there's there's a fair amount of interest in they call

1121
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: them RMT devices in general. I mean that's kind of

1122
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: the terminology that the medical devices use. Um, there's a

1123
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: lot of discussion about that, you know, to help people

1124
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: have as stronger lungs as they possibly can have in

1125
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: case they do get the virus. You know, this application

1126
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: is very different from the medical applications. The medical applications

1127
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: you have to use separately from daily living, so you

1128
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 1: can't like use it while you're walking down the street,

1129
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: or while you're vacuumating, doing dishes, cleaning the garage, whatever

1130
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: it is. You can't use those devices in that regard.

1131
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: You can use this device in that regard. You can

1132
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: use it all day, every day, and you can have

1133
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: a very low level of resistance, or you can ratch

1134
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: it up to seventy percent resistance. So it's really up

1135
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: to user dependent. But it would really be the first

1136
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: of its kind to be a device that you could

1137
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 1: actually wear during daily, daily use in daily living. Well,

1138
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: that's it's awesome to hear him, and it's obvious that

1139
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: you're you're deep into it, and I wish you to

1140
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: bet that's awesome to hear. I know the technology is

1141
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: going to be great and perhaps it'll enhance my uh sorry,

1142
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: stay physical. You may want to send this guy one

1143
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: he could use it. Don't do it, because I will

1144
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:38,919
Speaker 1: do it. Because I watched seven. He was so far

1145
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: ahead of his time when he was wearing those strengths that, oh,

1146
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew he wore the Strength

1147
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: shoes back in the day. I still got it. He

1148
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: did it. He did it covertly. He never told anybody.

1149
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: The only the only way we knew is because we

1150
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: saw him in his locker. One of them fell out

1151
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: of his gym bag and he said, oh, yeah, I'm

1152
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 1: not using that. I'm not using that. Yeah, man, That's

1153
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: that's how he was able to dunk Smith say. Now,

1154
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: this might this might be the best part of Tasker's Teammate.

1155
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: That the dirt that gets dug up on Steve. This

1156
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: is the best part of the entire segment. Every week,

1157
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: somebody's got some dirt on Steve. It's fantastic. Let me

1158
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: just tell you that the Strength shoes are probably the

1159
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,439
Speaker 1: cleanest dirt. Jamie could probably throw up in my face.

1160
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate him choosing the Strength shoes, but that, yeah, Jamie,

1161
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: you look great, man. I really appreciate. It's great touching

1162
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: base with you, and and I hope your family's well.

1163
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 1: And give our best to the whole crew. If you

1164
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: ever passing through it in Theodau stop by man gives

1165
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 1: give us a ring, all right, we might have to

1166
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: do that. I didn't know you were in Kansas City.

1167
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: I will do that now. Thanks man, thank you very

1168
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: much for the time. Good luck with that prototype that

1169
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: you got. That's a fascinating conversation there, he's Isn't it

1170
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 1: interesting how many guys from those teams are doing like

1171
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 1: real work, Like you know, they're talking to Mike Lotus

1172
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, we got him before he's

1173
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: going into some big time board meeting. I mean, and

1174
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: now here's Jamie who's developing this prototype for lung training.

1175
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: And that the thing about those guys like Michaelojian, certainly

1176
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: Jamie Mueller. Jamie was one of those guys who was

1177
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he was working out three times a day,

1178
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 1: literally three times a day early in the morning, midday,

1179
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 1: and then later in the afternoon. And they know that

1180
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 1: there are guys like them out there who will put

1181
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 1: in the work even if you know they're away from it.

1182
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: You know, when they're sitting on their couch, they're doing

1183
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,919
Speaker 1: breathing exercises, they're stretching, and they want to work out.

1184
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things like Trent Murphy's

1185
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 1: one of those guys here. You know, they Um and

1186
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: Jim if you give them something that will help them

1187
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: with technology with all the other stuff that goes with it. There,

1188
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: they'll use it and it'll it'll help them, and uh,

1189
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 1: that's what they want to do. They want to give

1190
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: guys some tools and weapons and some technologies and some

1191
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: techniques that will help them in a way that they

1192
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: wish they would have been helped as I was. And

1193
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 1: you know, things kind of get lost as the years

1194
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: go by. But there was a claim there that when

1195
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: he was at two hundred and twenty pounds in college,

1196
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: he ran a four to four. Did you say that's

1197
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 1: legit or that is legit? Okay? And he got faster

1198
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: when he got to the NFL. Okay, he got really fat.

1199
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: And then because you look at that body type, you say, really,

1200
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 1: here's the thing he was. He was one of those guys.

1201
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 1: He was a Lorenzo Alexander guy. He came in very

1202
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: raw from Bededicting College. It was it was a running back.

1203
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: It was hand the ball to Jamie and let's go play,

1204
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: and that was it. He didn't have to catch it.

1205
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 1: He didn't have to think about him to death to

1206
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: pick up Blitz. He was very raw when he came

1207
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: in and over the you know, he made the team

1208
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: played some special teams and then the Bills went to

1209
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: that tupe. They went to a two back for a minute,

1210
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: So Carwell Garden was on the team, Jamie was on

1211
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: the team, or Jamie maybe have been just before Carwell

1212
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: or I can't remember exactly how that worked, but Jamie

1213
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: got up to like two thirty seven as a fullback. Yeah,

1214
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 1: then they go to that single backset. He comes back

1215
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: the next year, he's two twenty and he he can't

1216
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: he couldn't catch his own behind with both hands. So

1217
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: and you know, so then they go to one bag

1218
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:08,919
Speaker 1: and they said, hey, you're gonna have to run route.

1219
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: And so he goes out. And you can ask Bud

1220
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: Carpenter and Woody and all the Hojo and a those

1221
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: guys wore those guys out throwing balls at him through

1222
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 1: the jugs machine. He was catching three hundred balls a day,

1223
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: footballs a day out of the jugs machine. So he

1224
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 1: comes back to training camp, He's running a sub four

1225
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: four forty, weighs two twenty instead of two thirty seven,

1226
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 1: and could and caught every single ball thrown to him

1227
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: through the entire camp. Totally a different player. Through an

1228
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: offseason self made through work, through his work ethic. So

1229
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: that's and you know, and I covered kicks with him

1230
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: through his you know, all fifty eight games he was here,

1231
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 1: I was, I was kind of along beside him, um,

1232
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 1: and he kind of got worn down because of the

1233
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 1: ney injury and that kind of that kind of did

1234
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: it for him. And that that's too bad, because he

1235
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 1: was one of those guys, like a Lorenzo Alexander. If

1236
01:05:57,840 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 1: you told him he needed to do something, it was

1237
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: gonna get death. Yeah, I mean, he just he looked

1238
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: like a football player when he took his helmet off,

1239
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, the brush cut in. I mean, he looked

1240
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 1: like something from the old end of the l days.

1241
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: You know, expect him lining up with Nicheke or sergeant.

1242
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: He was sergeant. He was sergeant Slaughter, Yeah, doubt. And

1243
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 1: that mustache was killer man, that thing was killer. I

1244
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: wanted to get to that night. Steve. Steve is on

1245
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 1: a roll here. He came up training camp in Fredonia

1246
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: and it's it's nine thousand degrees out and it's hot,

1247
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's just one of those times it's gonna

1248
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: be one of the bad ones. And he's and I

1249
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: was kind of established this was, you know, after he

1250
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 1: joined the club and I was we kind of had

1251
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: our thing going maybe my third training camp or fourth

1252
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: train whatever it was with him. And so I got

1253
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: the window air conditioner in my dorm room. Yeah, with

1254
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 1: you know, it was in their setting. It was great.

1255
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 1: And the room was black out black. The window was

1256
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: completely blacked out. So you go in there, you turn

1257
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,560
Speaker 1: the greenhouse effect. Right, it's it's a total refrigerator in

1258
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: my room with no light. Right. So I'm in there

1259
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: and and he's at and you guys are there for

1260
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,160
Speaker 1: the first couple of days and they're walking, Hey, where

1261
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: are you at? How's your Let me see your room?

1262
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: I was cool, all right, okay. Jamee comes in my room.

1263
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: Was wow this and it's like you can see your breath, right,

1264
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: He's like, all right cool. He comes back like ten

1265
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: minutes later. I opened the door and he's like he

1266
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 1: just like pushes in. He's got his mattress. Oh, he's

1267
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Speaker 1: coming in, right. So I got a roommate for trying

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01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: to control, right, I got a roommate for training. He's

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01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 1: on he just throws it down because I'm staying with you.

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01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: He was in We're gonna tell me he hijacked your

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01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: AC unit. No, he just moved in. Yeah, the whole

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01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: thing moved in. So that was kind of cool. That

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01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,440
Speaker 1: is cool, all right. Well, Steve is on a roll people,

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01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: because in the last three Taskers teammates, he's gotten in

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01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: three clues or less. I'm gonna have to be more cryptic.

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01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 1: Maybe that was the one that helped me get it

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01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 1: this time. Um, hold on, I just closed my clue

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01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: thing I went. So the first one was he was

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01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 1: a teammate for war seasons fifty eight games, thirty eight

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01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: starts and joined the roster not long after you right.

1281
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: And then the second clue was fifty eight seven career games,

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01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 1: thirty eight starts, but much like Steve, I was a

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01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: contributor on special teams. And then I went former third

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01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: roundraft pick. You got it right there. So the next

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01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:17,719
Speaker 1: one was going to be it was a unique athlete,

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01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, reportedly four four speed coming out of school,

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01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 1: but was also considered one of the all time strongest players,

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01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: capable of squatting and deadlifting seven hundred pounds. Did you

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01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: ever see him in the weight room? Yeah, yeah, he could.

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01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 1: He could put up the weight. Yeah yeah, I mean

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01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: seven hundred pounds squat. That's that's that's some doing. You

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01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: want to know why it back got hurt? Well, you

1293
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:42,680
Speaker 1: know that, Yeah, tease me about it. That's it. Man.

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01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:44,720
Speaker 1: Those guys you'd you'd work out, and I remember doing

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01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 1: it too. I mean, and I thought Rusty he wasn't

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01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: big on that. You'd work out until your body broke down,

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01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and uh and Rusty that was more

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01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: about backing off the weight, right. That was the time

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01:08:56,400 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 1: when Rusty started to elevate the thinking of everybody. Yeah,

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01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:02,479
Speaker 1: and it transformed a lot of guys and gave him.

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01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: But but you know, some of those guys Jamie and

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01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 1: didn't come into Joe d and those good they didn't

1303
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: listen to that stuff. They're gonna lift and they're gonna

1304
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 1: do with the old way. They're gonna do the old ways.

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01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: So all right, Well, that was a great addition to

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01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 1: ask your teammate. And he was a fantastic interview, Jamie.

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01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that was very informative and he's doing some

1308
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 1: some cool things. So it was good to talk to

1309
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 1: him and catch up with Jamie Mueller, former running back

1310
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:27,639
Speaker 1: slash fullback for the Bills from eighty seven to ninety. Yeah,

1311
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: he's got to be in his ear he's got to

1312
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: be in his early fifties as well. And I think

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01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:33,759
Speaker 1: elite FO two. I think he's a sixty four birthday

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01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty fifty six. Then, so it's um, yeah, he's

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01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 1: uh working, I says in the Great Show. Hey, he

1316
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 1: popped a big double by he's in shape, he's ripped up.

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01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 1: So he was throwing the pythons up there for sure,

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01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 1: no question about it. All right. We do want to

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01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 1: get back to the One Bills Live fan mail bag,

1320
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 1: as you guys have been sending in questions at one

1321
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: Bills Live on Twitter, and we do want to get

1322
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: to more of those. So we take a look at Dean,

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01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: who sends in this more likely chance. Oh no, sorry,

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01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,479
Speaker 1: we did that one already from Ultrasonic Beast. Who is

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01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: going to shock us that they keep and who is

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01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: going to shock us that they let go? Also, will

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01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: there be a trade to get something back for a player?

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01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna answer the second one first. I think there

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01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: will be attempts maid to trade some of these players

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01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,639
Speaker 1: on their roster to try to get something in return, because,

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01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: as we said in the last hour, Steve, this roster

1332
01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: is so deep you can make the argument that upwards

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01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: of ten to maybe a dozen players are going to

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01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: find jobs on fifty three man rosters somewhere else. Maybe

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01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: a dozen guys, maybe ten. I would say ten's probably

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01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: a safe number. Twelve might be stretching a little bit,

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01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: but ten, I think is the number they could hit

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01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 1: with players playing somewhere else. So logic would say, hey,

1339
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:54,799
Speaker 1: if you're going to part with all that NFL caliber

1340
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: regular roster talent, see if you can find a willing

1341
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 1: trade pardon to at least get something in return. I

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01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: think Brandon, being in his personnel staff, are too astute

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01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: to avoid that opportunity. They're going to be working the phones,

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01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 1: for sure. I think there's a lot of people in

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01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:09,639
Speaker 1: the media, a lot of guys in the media who've

1346
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: been putting out. You can go up on the internet

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01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 1: and look at all the local media guys who I'm

1348
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 1: sure you're all familiar with that they you know, they're

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01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 1: having they're all they're projecting their fifty three A lot

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01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,760
Speaker 1: of them or a handful of them. Have you know,

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01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy being one of those guys that's released. I

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01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 1: don't see that happening for this reason, I think if

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01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: the Bills were in the mood or of the inclined

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01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: to release him because of his contract, they would give

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01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: him a chance to redo his contract first, and then

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01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: that would be a release. So I don't think that's

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01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: gonna happen, because I can't think Trent Murphy sees the

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01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 1: riding on the wall and knows that that's how kind

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01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,679
Speaker 1: of the wind is gonna blow. Now, he may say,

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01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: now you know what, I'm not gonna do it and

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01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 1: say no, you can release me. I'm gonna get what

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01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: I can get on the open market. But I think

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01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: more I think with a team like this, knowing what

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01:11:57,320 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: he's been through here and the atmosphere here, I think

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01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: probably like it here. I think he probably knows this

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01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: is going to be a special team and probably wants

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01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 1: to be a part of it. Well. And he's he's

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01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: the quintessential representation of what a Sean McDermott player is.

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01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 1: Just a hardcore grinder, overachieving process guy. Yeahs is making

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01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 1: himself better. Yeah, And that's yeah, you're right, and he's

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01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: and he's. Sean McDermott has alluded to the fact he's

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Speaker 1: got a strong voice in the locker room, good leadership qualities,

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01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, So you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think they'll release Trent Murphy. I think

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01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 1: if they don't, just in fact, if he doesn't make

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Speaker 1: the team out right like he is, I think they'll

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01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: give him an opportunity to red do his deal to stay. Okay,

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01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: So shocker to make and shocker to miss the roster here?

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01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: Do you I guess this is your guy or no, no,

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01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 1: make the roster I've already said Reggie Gilliam. Yeah. I

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01:12:53,880 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: think to miss the roster might be Tiansecki. Really okay,

1382
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 1: might be would be surprising. He may just because of

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01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 1: the fact that he's been too fragile during his career

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01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: here and they want to go with a guy and

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01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: I think, I don't know. I would say there's probably

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01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,760
Speaker 1: They've probably got a guy who's a swing tackle on

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01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:17,600
Speaker 1: the roster, one of the guys that we don't know

1388
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:21,680
Speaker 1: about or have Daryll Williams or right Darryl Williams or

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01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: Winners or somebody who is good enough to swing at

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01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:29,600
Speaker 1: a tackle spot in place of Tie and Secki for

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01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: probably for less money. Okay, so fair, I mean, I

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01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: said Brian Cox junior, you know earlier prize make that's

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01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:39,840
Speaker 1: a good call too. I don't know if there's a

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01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 1: surprise miss here. I'm trying. I'm looking up and down

1395
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: this roster and saying, well, would that be shocking? Well,

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01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 1: would that be shocking? And I don't know that they

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01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:48,719
Speaker 1: would be all that shocking, you know, I'm thinking about

1398
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 1: and these guys that I think missed the roster end

1399
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: up on the practice squad anyway, whether you're talking about

1400
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 1: maybe a Dane Jackson because cam Lewis sneaks in and

1401
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: gets the last corner spot, you know, maybe they take

1402
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: cam Lewis over Dane Jackson and try to slide Dane

1403
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:05,559
Speaker 1: Jackson on the practice could be a guy like like

1404
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: even a Lee Smith where they shocked everybody, but getting that,

1405
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 1: they'll bring him back on as a practice squad guy

1406
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: back onto the roster. The only difference, the only difference

1407
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 1: there with Lee Smith is he's the only guy on

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01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 1: this roster at the tight end position that can really

1409
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 1: do what he does. Do you know what I mean

1410
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 1: to the level that he does it. I guess he's

1411
01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle playing tight end. Yeah, And I think

1412
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 1: because of his unique skill set that no one else

1413
01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 1: at the position currently, in my eyes, can offer. I

1414
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 1: think he makes the roster because of that end. His

1415
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: leadership ability is vastly underrated. I mean, this is a

1416
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:47,760
Speaker 1: unquestioned leader in the locker room. The only reason I

1417
01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: would say he might go is because that would be

1418
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 1: a guy they could play the percentage game with a

1419
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 1: roster spot. You know, Lee, You've kind of think maybe

1420
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 1: Lee Smith is a guy. If you're cutting him as

1421
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: a big time veteran like he is is, you've got

1422
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: every chance to bring him back, put him on the

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01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 1: fifty three, and then put one of your other guys

1424
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:07,720
Speaker 1: on the IR You know what I'm saying, Maybe like

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01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: a guy like who's been like Sweeney or somebody, you

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01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Um, you could you could put Sweeney.

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01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: You could put Sweeney on your fifty three wave. Yeah,

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01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: I think that, you know what I'm saying. I don't

1429
01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: know if Sweeney's the best example, but I understand what

1430
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: you're saying. But I think there's a good could be

1431
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 1: a corner for all. I'm yeah, but I'm it could

1432
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: be you know, one of the other guys. But what

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01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 1: I'm saying is you release Lee Smith on Tuesday. Next week.

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01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: He's still gonna you know, he's still gonna be there.

1435
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 1: You can bring him back, that's my that's my thought

1436
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 1: because I don't think there's a big market for Smith

1437
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:45,680
Speaker 1: as much as as there would be for maybe one

1438
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: of these other guys. That's my point. Okay, I see

1439
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:49,679
Speaker 1: what you're saying. All Right, we gotta take a break,

1440
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll continue to hit the

1441
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: One Bills Live mail bag. So keep firing those questions off.

1442
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: We're happy to answer any and all of them. With

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01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:01,720
Speaker 1: the Roster Cutdown Day Fast approaching tomorrow at four pm,

1444
01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 1: and don't forget coming up at two o'clock, we have

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01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:08,840
Speaker 1: one Neil Reynolds from Sky Sports and nfl UK. You

1446
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:12,719
Speaker 1: got to interview the commissioner on his show, and Christian

1447
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 1: Wade as well, so maybe he can shed some light

1448
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: on what Christians thinking as this big Roster Cutdown Gay

1449
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: Fast approaches. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you One Bill's

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01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,719
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health, and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1451
01:16:34,439 --> 01:16:38,760
Speaker 1: Brown Steve Tasker here on One Bills Live, motoring through

1452
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: a Friday edition of the program. And I completely forgot Steve,

1453
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,919
Speaker 1: this one's on me that we did have some comments

1454
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: from Harrison Phillips that we wanted to pass along to

1455
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: you the fans some of his more interesting comments as

1456
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: he was made available to the media late yesterday after

1457
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: the final padded practice of training camp. They'll start back

1458
01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,560
Speaker 1: on the practice field again on Monday as their reparations

1459
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,200
Speaker 1: for the Jets continue and really get rolling at that

1460
01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 1: point as the regular season practice schedule begins. And as

1461
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:12,639
Speaker 1: we all know, Phillips is coming off of ACL knee

1462
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:16,520
Speaker 1: surgery after tearing the ACL in Week three again Cincinnati

1463
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:20,599
Speaker 1: last season. Had surgery about a month later, so like

1464
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: early November, and he's been asked every time he's been

1465
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: on about his rehabilitation, how's his knee? Where is he at?

1466
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:31,679
Speaker 1: Do you feel all the way back? As we're almost

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01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,439
Speaker 1: a full calendar year from the time that he suffered

1468
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: the injury, And he's a guy that had an ACL

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01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:41,040
Speaker 1: injury in college on his other knee at Stanford, So

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 1: I think that's why there have been so many questions.

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01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 1: So Harrison, who always gives very complete answers when he's

1472
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 1: in an interview setting, revealed that he not only had

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01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: one knee surgery this offseason, he had two. I'll let

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01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 1: him explain. So I feel great. Um, you know, we

1475
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:05,720
Speaker 1: just kind of finished training camp, and it's such a

1476
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: blessing to say that I'm healthy and was able to

1477
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:10,080
Speaker 1: put in you know, the last thirty five days or

1478
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 1: whatever we had of training camp. So obviously my rehab

1479
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:15,559
Speaker 1: team did a fantastic job getting me here because I

1480
01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:18,160
Speaker 1: was able to push through all those practices and be

1481
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: able to be available for every practice that I needed

1482
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 1: to beat. The rehab specifically was It's scruciating, long and

1483
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:28,559
Speaker 1: a crazy process. You know, a lot of guys have

1484
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 1: to go through it. My situation was just a little

1485
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:32,479
Speaker 1: more unique because I had to have surgery on both

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01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: of my knees, so I was, you know, however many

1487
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 1: sets and reps you have to do for a normal knee,

1488
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 1: I was having to do double to make sure I

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01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:44,640
Speaker 1: did both of the knees. So, uh, you know, that

1490
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:50,280
Speaker 1: process was long, and I appreciate it so much because

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01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:52,160
Speaker 1: when you go through like an exodus like that, it's

1492
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 1: such a crucial point because you learned so much about yourself.

1493
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 1: And now when any you know, anything that I go

1494
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 1: through where or as training camp the thick of the

1495
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:05,799
Speaker 1: thick or not getting this play, not getting that play. However,

1496
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 1: the production looks like there's always perspective that I'm still

1497
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: healthy and I can I can still play, so how

1498
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 1: bad can it be? I know sometimes you know if

1499
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 1: I had a bad practice or you know, some maybe

1500
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 1: a coach or a player and be like, hey, how

1501
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 1: are you feeling today? Like, well, I'm feeling pretty good.

1502
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 1: I'm not hurt. You know that, there's always that perspective.

1503
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: So it was a long rehab. But obviously the team

1504
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: here that the Bills provided with our trainers and Joe

1505
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 1: and Mackenzie and Will, the guys in the building and

1506
01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:34,640
Speaker 1: the other Joe's they all did a great job to

1507
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: getting healthy. So I mean, I'm listening to that yesterday

1508
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:42,759
Speaker 1: going WHOA right? I mean, you think about all because

1509
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: in previous interviews he's talked about how through this rehab

1510
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: process he had, he was in a lot of dark

1511
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:53,160
Speaker 1: places because through a rehab like that, just from one

1512
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 1: ACL there's a lot of dark days in there. I

1513
01:19:56,680 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: mean you're talking about seven to nine month rehabilitation period

1514
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: and there are some days where you're testing it and

1515
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 1: it's just not working and you're like, oh, what the heck,

1516
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:08,799
Speaker 1: I've made all this progress, and then there's a setback

1517
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: where maybe you don't have a good day, and then

1518
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:12,560
Speaker 1: you come back and the next day might be a

1519
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: little better, and then you know, you make progress again,

1520
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: and then there's a setback, and those things can kind

1521
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: of crush people sometimes when football means this much. To

1522
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 1: think that he had two surgeries and was doing it

1523
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:29,759
Speaker 1: for both knees, I mean, holy crow man. Yeah, that's

1524
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:34,000
Speaker 1: that's why pro football players get the big money, you know.

1525
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's good Greek. Not only do you have

1526
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:40,719
Speaker 1: to risk injury, you've got to endure injuries and everything

1527
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: that goes with it and returnfjuries and you've got now

1528
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: you've got to come back and play just as good

1529
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 1: as you did before the injury to make the team

1530
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 1: a team like this, a talented team like this. That's

1531
01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:53,719
Speaker 1: why they get big money. And that's why the sport

1532
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,679
Speaker 1: is so compelling to watch, because there is some great

1533
01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:00,560
Speaker 1: physical combat going on out there, if you want to

1534
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: call it combat. It's you know, you've got big, strong,

1535
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:07,799
Speaker 1: fast bodies moving around hard and they and they're playing

1536
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: for keeps. So it's compelling to watch. That's part of

1537
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:13,719
Speaker 1: the risk that goes with it. But that's why these

1538
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:17,599
Speaker 1: guys you ask them, you know, they feel like they

1539
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 1: earn it, there's no question about it. And it's also

1540
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:23,800
Speaker 1: one of the reasons they don't last too long right there.

1541
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: Your careers aren't like well, especially down in there where

1542
01:21:27,560 --> 01:21:30,880
Speaker 1: you're grinding on each other, you know, body on body,

1543
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: three hundred pound men leaning on each other like that.

1544
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: This every still play. Yeah, this isn't one of those

1545
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 1: careers where you sign up with a multinational company and

1546
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 1: you work for the next thirty five years for him,

1547
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, or thinks forty years right out of college.

1548
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen like that. You get your time and

1549
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 1: it's as much as your body can take, and then

1550
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:50,479
Speaker 1: you got to go do something else. And Harrison was asked,

1551
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, with the rehab going so well, do you

1552
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 1: feel you know, you step out onto the field week

1553
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: one and you can give this team thirty five forty snaps.

1554
01:21:56,960 --> 01:21:58,639
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, yeah, that's not even an issue.

1555
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:00,400
Speaker 1: He goes, we get more than that in practice, right,

1556
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 1: He's like, so that's not even an issue for us now. Harrison,

1557
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: like a lot of defensive players of late, has been

1558
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,679
Speaker 1: asked by the media what they think of Josh Allen's

1559
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: progress entering year three here and Harrison was asked that

1560
01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:15,719
Speaker 1: question and he commented on the growth that he's seen

1561
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 1: from his starting quarterback. Josh has had a phenomenal training camp.

1562
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's the headline, that's the bulletpoint.

1563
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:30,439
Speaker 1: He's done a fantastic job. I've seen almost again we

1564
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 1: have a game planned then I'm not sitting watching them

1565
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 1: when I'm watching film, but just to be out of practice,

1566
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 1: to see how he commands their huddle, to see the

1567
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: plays that he makes, the smart decisions he makes, the

1568
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 1: way that he can get himself out of trouble with

1569
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 1: his legs if he needs to. He is he was

1570
01:22:47,240 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: a phenomenal football player last year, a very underrated player

1571
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:52,120
Speaker 1: amongst the league in my opinion in terms of the

1572
01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: media and things like that. He's a better player this year.

1573
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 1: And so to see the growth in him from year

1574
01:22:58,320 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: two to year three just makes so optimistic about him

1575
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 1: being my quarterback. And you know, it's great when you

1576
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:07,600
Speaker 1: you can trust that guy, you know, and uh, we

1577
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: don't have to worry um that he's going to make

1578
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: the right decision and trust himself. At the end of day.

1579
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,799
Speaker 1: He's a playmaker himself, so, um, he can trust himself

1580
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: and we've got his back no matter what. So the

1581
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:18,920
Speaker 1: biggest thing I take out of that one Steve, is

1582
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:23,880
Speaker 1: one word trust. They trust that guy now going into

1583
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:28,839
Speaker 1: year three. That that makes a huge difference in rallying

1584
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:30,920
Speaker 1: a football team, doesn't it. Like, Yeah, when you can

1585
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:35,679
Speaker 1: trust the quarterback. Sure, I think they've always they've always

1586
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: liked him, They've always rallied around him. I think when

1587
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: he says trust, it's also goes along with what they

1588
01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: expect from him. You know, they they're going to get

1589
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 1: a certain level of play. Well, yeah, but I think

1590
01:23:45,479 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 1: in year one and year two they hoped they could

1591
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 1: get that from him now like they expect to get

1592
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:54,720
Speaker 1: that from That's exactly right. The expectations different and and

1593
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 1: they trust that he's going to be able to fulfill it.

1594
01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 1: It's not like that, Okay, I hope you know what,

1595
01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 1: have you got a how are you going to play? Day?

1596
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:03,200
Speaker 1: I think you can expect at least these players on

1597
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:05,759
Speaker 1: this roster and Harrison Phillips seems to me it says

1598
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:09,639
Speaker 1: that there's going to be less roller coaster rides, But Josh,

1599
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 1: it's going to be a little bit more even keel

1600
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,840
Speaker 1: and a little bit higher level on average than you

1601
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 1: got a year ago with fewer downs, and yeah, that

1602
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And while this weekend will be nail

1603
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: biting time for a lot of guys that are currently

1604
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 1: on this roster, it shouldn't be for Harrison, who won't be,

1605
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, wondering if he's gonna make this roster. I

1606
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,559
Speaker 1: think everybody fully believes he's got a spot here with

1607
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:34,640
Speaker 1: the way he's come back from those knee rehabilitations. But

1608
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 1: he did address the emotions that are tied to roster

1609
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:42,120
Speaker 1: cutdown day. Here's what he said. Yeah, you know, it's

1610
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 1: a job that I would never want. I don't know

1611
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: how they do it. It's so difficult, especially i've been

1612
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: I haven't been anywhere else. But here's a true family.

1613
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: So guys are you know, we know one another, we

1614
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:56,240
Speaker 1: love one another in this building, and so to be

1615
01:24:56,320 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 1: able to put that relationship you have with individual aside

1616
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 1: and just strictly be able to make a decision based

1617
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 1: on the player they are, that's got to be extremely difficult.

1618
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 1: And I agree. You know, my my rookie year, it

1619
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:13,840
Speaker 1: was awful. I had no idea what I was getting

1620
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 1: into Um, when I walked in the building and like, oh,

1621
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 1: what's what are y'all doing? Grab like what's going on,

1622
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, no, we're we're all in line because

1623
01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 1: we just got cut and your friends are in there.

1624
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 1: You were just eating with that person, and so it's

1625
01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: it's a cutthrow business. And that's the saddest part. Without question,

1626
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: I would second that for Josh whatever he said, Um,

1627
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, for our defensive line specifically, you know, we

1628
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:41,639
Speaker 1: rotate so much that every guy has put amazing things

1629
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: on tape against amazing players, you know what the media

1630
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:48,720
Speaker 1: or whatever would call our threes and fours have gone

1631
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 1: against our ones and twos and vice versa, and everyone

1632
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 1: has made plays and shown um that they can play

1633
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 1: in this in this league. And um, I think the

1634
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,560
Speaker 1: only caveat that it is a blessing this year is

1635
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:03,840
Speaker 1: the I think seventeen practice squad spots that we have available.

1636
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:08,160
Speaker 1: So you hope that, you know, do the math, fifty

1637
01:26:08,200 --> 01:26:10,599
Speaker 1: three plus seventeen, we only got to cut x amount

1638
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:13,880
Speaker 1: of people who actually won't be here, and so as

1639
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: detrimental that is to someone's career and future of getting cut,

1640
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 1: you would hope that we're able to retain a lot

1641
01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 1: of those guys and they'll still be a part of

1642
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: this because they poured so much into this training camp

1643
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 1: and helped build the identity of this team. We want

1644
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:29,919
Speaker 1: them around. And that is an example of a complete

1645
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,160
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips answer. I mean that was like a minute

1646
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: in forty five second answer from that guy. I mean,

1647
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 1: that guy should be running for political office when he's

1648
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 1: done playing football. And we'll comment on that when we

1649
01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: come back, because we are up against a break. But

1650
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: Steve and I will comment on his political campaign. No,

1651
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,519
Speaker 1: not his political campaign, but just his thoughts on roster

1652
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 1: cut down and what it means for the guys on

1653
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 1: this roster. Back in a moment here on One Bill's Live,

1654
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio,

1655
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:09,400
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you, and

1656
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:13,600
Speaker 1: back into the obl mailbag we go, and from Scottie,

1657
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 1: he says, do you think the Bills will keep two

1658
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: qbs or will they go ahead this year and put

1659
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:21,600
Speaker 1: three on the active roster? And who would be the

1660
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: third after Alan and Barkley Webb or from now? Steve

1661
01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:30,880
Speaker 1: isn't he's interesting one here because of COVID and the

1662
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: potential for an outbreak. I'm just gonna say this. I

1663
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 1: think you keep two on the active roster and you

1664
01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: put the other two on the practice squad. What do

1665
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:44,599
Speaker 1: you think of that? You can't go into the season

1666
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:47,360
Speaker 1: with just two guys on you in your building the

1667
01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:50,839
Speaker 1: play quarterback. Well, that's why I'm saying you put Josh

1668
01:27:50,920 --> 01:27:54,759
Speaker 1: and Barkley on your active roster. You put Davis Webb

1669
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 1: and Jake From on your practice squad. And if the

1670
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 1: unthinkable happens and you've got Josh Allen and Matt Barkley

1671
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 1: test and positive, you've got Davis Webb, it would be

1672
01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 1: Davis Webb I would say that would get called up

1673
01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:14,559
Speaker 1: and plugged into the lineup, and From would be number two.

1674
01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 1: From would have to get pulled up and be the

1675
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:19,720
Speaker 1: number two guy. But I think that's why you have

1676
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 1: to keep all four here, right, I mean, all you

1677
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: need is the slight the one part I mean, And

1678
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 1: that's why a couple of weeks ago, I asked, coach,

1679
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: are you still considering the quarantine approach? If not at

1680
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:36,280
Speaker 1: every position with one or two players at the very

1681
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:38,760
Speaker 1: least quarterback, I mean, you need to have a guy

1682
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:41,040
Speaker 1: that knows the offense, so you better have all of

1683
01:28:41,040 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: them in tow here in some way, shape or form

1684
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 1: on your roster. That's yeah, That's the only thing you

1685
01:28:47,439 --> 01:28:50,439
Speaker 1: can see that would be a positional emergency is the quarterback.

1686
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:53,639
Speaker 1: Everything many guys here that know the system is possible,

1687
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: so you can run the death. Everything else you can

1688
01:28:55,520 --> 01:29:00,160
Speaker 1: live with except losing all of those guys. Yeah, So

1689
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:01,800
Speaker 1: that's why I think you got to keep all four

1690
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:03,840
Speaker 1: I mean again, two on the roster, two on the

1691
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:06,479
Speaker 1: practice squad. Would you want to keep more than that

1692
01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:11,200
Speaker 1: on the roster. That's enough, That's plenty, But you've got

1693
01:29:11,200 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 1: to find a way to do it. And I don't

1694
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:15,680
Speaker 1: know how you work with the protecting and not protecting

1695
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:20,400
Speaker 1: the guys. I think you know Jake from I think

1696
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 1: I think also if Webb is the third guy, he's

1697
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:27,640
Speaker 1: got to be on the four protected list, two for

1698
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:30,880
Speaker 1: the practice squad, right, which you can't have him getting

1699
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:34,880
Speaker 1: poached right Well, for those that don't know, so among

1700
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 1: the rules with this new expanded practice squad amid COVID,

1701
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 1: it's sixteen total players. Six of those players can have

1702
01:29:42,840 --> 01:29:45,519
Speaker 1: as much experience in the league. It doesn't matter you

1703
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:47,639
Speaker 1: could have a ten year veteran on your practice squad

1704
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:50,240
Speaker 1: this year, which was never the case before. So you

1705
01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:52,400
Speaker 1: can have as many as six players that are vested

1706
01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:56,599
Speaker 1: veterans on your practice squad. And then every week during

1707
01:29:56,640 --> 01:30:00,439
Speaker 1: the season, you have the ability to protect four of

1708
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:04,120
Speaker 1: those sixteen practice squad players from being signed off of

1709
01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:08,320
Speaker 1: your practice squad onto another team's active roster. The catches.

1710
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:13,960
Speaker 1: They're only protected from Tuesday to Sunday. Once you get

1711
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:17,799
Speaker 1: through the games on the weekend, everybody on your sixteen

1712
01:30:17,840 --> 01:30:21,519
Speaker 1: player practice squad is exposed for approximately thirty six hours

1713
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:25,400
Speaker 1: and anybody can get signed to an active roster elsewhere,

1714
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:29,360
Speaker 1: like from Sunday night till Tuesday night, basically Monday to

1715
01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:35,639
Speaker 1: halfway through Tuesday. And after that deadline passes, you submit

1716
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:37,639
Speaker 1: your new list for the week of the four guys

1717
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 1: that you're protecting on your practice squad that week. And yes,

1718
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:44,720
Speaker 1: I would assume that every week Davis Webb is, you know,

1719
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:46,640
Speaker 1: if he's on the practice squad, would be one of

1720
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:52,000
Speaker 1: those four every single week. Also, I think this year

1721
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:59,559
Speaker 1: they're gonna travel probably more than the fifty three. Well, yeah,

1722
01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:02,880
Speaker 1: for like you you gotta you gotta, you gotta play

1723
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:05,080
Speaker 1: games out on the West Coast. You're playing at San

1724
01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:08,479
Speaker 1: fran on a Monday night, you know, you gotta you

1725
01:31:08,560 --> 01:31:10,559
Speaker 1: gotta fly out there. You're not gonna fly out there

1726
01:31:10,600 --> 01:31:12,880
Speaker 1: without extra guys in toe because what happens if somebody

1727
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:14,800
Speaker 1: tests positive and be able to fly somebody out there

1728
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:17,680
Speaker 1: in time? Yeah, usually you go with fifty three guys, right,

1729
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: because that's what you're gonna play with, and you do

1730
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:22,920
Speaker 1: you activate your forty five on game day. But just

1731
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 1: in case, aren't you gonna take your entire practice squad?

1732
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 1: You might, I think some teams might. Now I could

1733
01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:35,679
Speaker 1: see your point. Maybe half you're going to if we're

1734
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:40,240
Speaker 1: if the Bills are going to the Jets like everybody, right,

1735
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:43,599
Speaker 1: you can get guys down there in fifty minutes, right, Um,

1736
01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:48,320
Speaker 1: same thing with New England Pittsburgh. You know, although think

1737
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:50,519
Speaker 1: about this though, if you have, if you're pressed into

1738
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:52,360
Speaker 1: that sort of action, you're gonna stick a player on

1739
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 1: a commercial flight and expose them. You may have to

1740
01:31:57,040 --> 01:31:59,000
Speaker 1: bring them all even for the short road, right, so

1741
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:04,439
Speaker 1: they're all in the contain environment. It's gonna be different. Steve,

1742
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:07,160
Speaker 1: who's sitting You don't have to go back and look

1743
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:11,719
Speaker 1: at who are you sitting with on the plane coming in. Yeah,

1744
01:32:11,880 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 1: a lot of extra layers. Man, it's not one onion,

1745
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:17,519
Speaker 1: it's two. Now they're also taking the layers here, they're

1746
01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:20,719
Speaker 1: also taking They've made it clear. I think I heard

1747
01:32:21,320 --> 01:32:23,439
Speaker 1: a conversation about the every team is going to be

1748
01:32:23,439 --> 01:32:27,320
Speaker 1: required to take two planes instead of one. Big you know,

1749
01:32:27,479 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: used to be well, I know they have been working

1750
01:32:29,520 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 1: very hard to reduce the travel party size, which is

1751
01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: unquestionably happening absolutely. I mean, but you kill socially distanced

1752
01:32:40,040 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 1: with on one plane with one hundred and fifty guys on,

1753
01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 1: which is what it's going to be. It's usually what

1754
01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:49,160
Speaker 1: how much how many they travel? Usually one hundred and

1755
01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:54,519
Speaker 1: ten on a plane? Talking players staff, everybody supports staff.

1756
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:58,800
Speaker 1: So you're telling me on a plane that seats well,

1757
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 1: it's usually seats two thirty, two fifty. Yeah, that's sixty

1758
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 1: five percent competent means you got me empty seat you

1759
01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 1: that ain't far enough. Plus usually when you're socially distancing,

1760
01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 1: you go every other row is empty as well. You know,

1761
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 1: I can like checkerboard you in right, two planes? Bro?

1762
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, all right, we gotta take a

1763
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:28,400
Speaker 1: break because when we come back after the top of

1764
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:34,920
Speaker 1: the hour, we have NFL UK and Sky Sports. Neil

1765
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 1: Reynolds is the host of the Neil Reynolds and the

1766
01:33:38,160 --> 01:33:41,960
Speaker 1: Inside the Huddle podcast. We're gonna talk to him about

1767
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 1: his conversation with the Commissioner Roger Goodell, as well as

1768
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 1: his recent interview with Christian Wade and see if he

1769
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 1: can get his finger on the pulse of what the

1770
01:33:49,800 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 1: international player designation for the Bills is thinking about his

1771
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:56,200
Speaker 1: chances this weekend. It's all coming up next on One

1772
01:33:56,240 --> 01:33:59,000
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo

1773
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:12,760
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network. Sports Update. There are

1774
01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:15,560
Speaker 1: a sports update from One Bill's Drive. Bills not practicing

1775
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: today as roster cut down deadline will come your way

1776
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:21,679
Speaker 1: on Saturday at four pm. Practice squads will be at

1777
01:34:21,720 --> 01:34:25,240
Speaker 1: a total of sixteen and could be finalized by the

1778
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 1: end of the weekend. The Indianapolis Colts have locked up

1779
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,280
Speaker 1: center Ryan Kelly to a long term contract extension. The

1780
01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:34,639
Speaker 1: two sides agree to a four year, fifty million dollar deal.

1781
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:37,400
Speaker 1: It makes Kelly the highest paid center in the NFL,

1782
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 1: who passing the Bills Mitch Morris. Kelly made his first

1783
01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl last season If Adrian Peterson wants to play

1784
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 1: another four or five seasons, he'll have to find a

1785
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:47,519
Speaker 1: new home to continue his Hall of Fame career. The

1786
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: Washington football team released the running back. He rushed for

1787
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:53,320
Speaker 1: just over a thousand yards in twenty eighteen and just

1788
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:57,000
Speaker 1: under nine hundred yards last season. Deshaun Watson could be

1789
01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:59,000
Speaker 1: getting a new contract soon, but it might not be

1790
01:34:59,040 --> 01:35:01,919
Speaker 1: in line with what fell fourth year quarterback Pat Mahomes

1791
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:05,160
Speaker 1: signed four in July. Reports are that Watson's new deal

1792
01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:06,880
Speaker 1: is likely to be more in line with the ones

1793
01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:09,800
Speaker 1: signed by Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers. Those two earned

1794
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: about thirty five million per season after signing four year

1795
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:16,720
Speaker 1: extensions worth roughly one hundred and forty million dollars. New

1796
01:35:16,720 --> 01:35:19,240
Speaker 1: England Patriots if named Cam Newton, they're starting quarterback for

1797
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:21,400
Speaker 1: a Week one when they take on the Dolphins. Newton

1798
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:23,920
Speaker 1: will be the first quarterback to start for the Patriots

1799
01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: not drafted by them since nineteen ninety three. And Jesse

1800
01:35:28,400 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 1: Bagoula has made it the furthest she ever has in

1801
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:35,120
Speaker 1: a Grand Slam tennis event continues tonight when she faces

1802
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:38,200
Speaker 1: six seed Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the

1803
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 1: US Open. It's only the second time Pagoula has advanced

1804
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:42,880
Speaker 1: beyond the first round in a Grand Slam. It's the

1805
01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:46,120
Speaker 1: seventh time she has played in tennis's four major tournaments.

1806
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 1: The night's match is set for nine pm. Finally, double

1807
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:52,320
Speaker 1: game sevens tonight in the Stanley Cup playoff Stars and

1808
01:35:52,360 --> 01:35:55,280
Speaker 1: Avalanche nodded at three, and then tonight it's the Canucks

1809
01:35:55,280 --> 01:35:57,880
Speaker 1: and Golden Knights faceoff in That game is set for

1810
01:35:57,960 --> 01:36:00,320
Speaker 1: nine pm. And that is your sports update from one

1811
01:36:00,360 --> 01:36:03,600
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Joining us on the line right now on

1812
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:06,360
Speaker 1: the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is the man

1813
01:36:06,960 --> 01:36:11,080
Speaker 1: who's known as nfl Uk also does work for Sky Sports,

1814
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 1: the host of the Neil Reynolds podcast and the Inside

1815
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:17,559
Speaker 1: the Huddle podcast. He's juggling two podcasts at once. Steve,

1816
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:20,679
Speaker 1: it's Neil Reynolds joining us once again, a good friend

1817
01:36:20,680 --> 01:36:22,639
Speaker 1: of the program. Neil, great to have you. Good evening

1818
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:25,679
Speaker 1: to you over there. How are you doing. I'm good, Chris.

1819
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:28,200
Speaker 1: Good to speak to you and to see you against Steve.

1820
01:36:28,280 --> 01:36:29,880
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on. It's always always a

1821
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:31,680
Speaker 1: pleasure to come on a tool. Yeah, I think I think,

1822
01:36:32,439 --> 01:36:35,599
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna call the NFL office and pretend

1823
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 1: I'm you because you're booking Roger Goodell, the commissioner of

1824
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:40,599
Speaker 1: the league. I'm just gonna call up and say, hey,

1825
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:42,439
Speaker 1: it's Neil Reynolds. You think I could get rage on

1826
01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:47,240
Speaker 1: again because you're pulling down some heavy hitters here, Neil. Yeah.

1827
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 1: We last night on sky Sports we launched our sky

1828
01:36:50,320 --> 01:36:52,920
Speaker 1: Sports NFL channel. So it's the first it's a historic

1829
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:56,519
Speaker 1: night for us in the UK, first ever NFL channel

1830
01:36:56,640 --> 01:37:00,879
Speaker 1: walk to wall NFL coverage. So we had a our marathon.

1831
01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 1: I interviewed the commissioner into Rob Gronkowski. We spoke to

1832
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:11,120
Speaker 1: players from all thirty one teams. We tried to get

1833
01:37:11,120 --> 01:37:14,639
Speaker 1: somebody from all thirty two teams. We had Evan Ingram

1834
01:37:14,640 --> 01:37:16,800
Speaker 1: on the line for the New York Giants. The technology

1835
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:19,680
Speaker 1: fell down. We even stayed on the show for an

1836
01:37:19,720 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 1: extra twenty minutes into when Total Access would have been broadcasting.

1837
01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 1: We went almost five and a half hours, but we

1838
01:37:26,240 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: ticked off thirty one teams, couldn't quite manage thirty two.

1839
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: Best good so try to shoot for next year. Yeah. Well,

1840
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:34,479
Speaker 1: so a congratulations, A great way to open your network.

1841
01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:36,760
Speaker 1: We're going to give our guy, Jay Harris, a little

1842
01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:39,560
Speaker 1: trouble for not getting Roger Goodell for us once in

1843
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: a while. You guys, the congratulations that is a big

1844
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: step and give us give us a thumbnail or perhaps

1845
01:37:44,920 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 1: the synopsis of how the NFL plays over there and

1846
01:37:48,120 --> 01:37:51,520
Speaker 1: what's it's the thoughts are no games in London this year? Obviously,

1847
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:55,120
Speaker 1: how does that affect the fan base in London? And

1848
01:37:55,479 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 1: how's the appetite for the NFL across the pond? Yeah, Steve,

1849
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:03,719
Speaker 1: I think it's it's just growing even even more each

1850
01:38:03,720 --> 01:38:07,160
Speaker 1: each year, to the point where I'll give you a context.

1851
01:38:07,200 --> 01:38:09,479
Speaker 1: Back in the day, when I first started covering the sport,

1852
01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:13,160
Speaker 1: we would get one hour highlights on on terrestrial TV

1853
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:16,720
Speaker 1: one week after the games were played, and then of

1854
01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:20,519
Speaker 1: course we started to see live stuff, you know, coming

1855
01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: in the early nineties of Buffalo Bills were a big

1856
01:38:22,840 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 1: part of That's why they're one of the most popular

1857
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:27,640
Speaker 1: teams over in the UK. But ever since we've been

1858
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 1: playing the games, um, you know, the interests sawed and

1859
01:38:31,840 --> 01:38:35,160
Speaker 1: it's it's across all levels TV viewership. We've got the

1860
01:38:35,240 --> 01:38:38,960
Speaker 1: NFL Academy of course, where they're sending players now to

1861
01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:43,160
Speaker 1: to American colleges, there's a real kind of groundswell for

1862
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:45,880
Speaker 1: the sport, and yeah, I think the channel is just

1863
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:48,519
Speaker 1: a you know, an indication of that, and the fact

1864
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:50,640
Speaker 1: that we reach out to thirty two teams and we

1865
01:38:50,680 --> 01:38:54,200
Speaker 1: get the likes of Ron Rivera, Doug Marrone, we get

1866
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:57,280
Speaker 1: we get Gronk, we get John lynch Um, you know,

1867
01:38:57,280 --> 01:39:00,800
Speaker 1: we get Sam Donald, We were we were fortunate to

1868
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: have some good people on last night, and I think

1869
01:39:02,720 --> 01:39:05,360
Speaker 1: it's because they recognize the UK as a kind of

1870
01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:08,719
Speaker 1: serious player. And Neil, just paint the picture, if you will,

1871
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:12,519
Speaker 1: because I know sometimes international coverage of sports for us

1872
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 1: here domestically doesn't run quite the same way that we're

1873
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:18,840
Speaker 1: accustomed to over here. So just maybe spell out for

1874
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:22,080
Speaker 1: us how this NFL channel is going to look week

1875
01:39:22,120 --> 01:39:23,880
Speaker 1: to week. Are you only going to get a select

1876
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:27,160
Speaker 1: few games? Do you get wall to wall opportunities to

1877
01:39:27,200 --> 01:39:29,280
Speaker 1: pick and choose? Just maybe kind of spell out how

1878
01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:32,439
Speaker 1: it's going to work over there. So we get Thursday

1879
01:39:32,479 --> 01:39:35,160
Speaker 1: Night Football Live, then our big studio show is on

1880
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:37,719
Speaker 1: a Sunday, so then we get our pick of the games.

1881
01:39:37,800 --> 01:39:39,920
Speaker 1: We can pick whichever games we want to have piped

1882
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: into Sky Sports will show a one pm Eastern game,

1883
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: will show a four twenty five Eastern game. Then we'll

1884
01:39:46,280 --> 01:39:49,160
Speaker 1: show Sunday Night Football. Then we have Monday Night Football

1885
01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:52,080
Speaker 1: as well. Then we have a lot of magazine programs

1886
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:56,000
Speaker 1: from NBC, so we get Pro Football Talk, we get

1887
01:39:56,320 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football from NFL Network, we get Total Access,

1888
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:02,840
Speaker 1: we get Knox. We make our own magazine shows myself

1889
01:40:02,840 --> 01:40:05,240
Speaker 1: and Jeff Ryan Bold of course, you know Jeff. We

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Speaker 1: host Inside the Huddle that's now a TV show as

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Speaker 1: well every week during the season, So there's lots of

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Speaker 1: stuff that fans can see from from the US, but

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Speaker 1: also we put our own local slant on it as well.

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Speaker 1: And especially our kind of flagship show is our Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night show, where yeah, we have we have three games

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Speaker 1: live on a Sunday. What are the what are the

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Speaker 1: stories are you talking about of late as training camp

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Speaker 1: winds down and the rosters are going to be said,

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Speaker 1: what is the what are the topic of the day

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Speaker 1: there for you guys. So I think the big one,

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Speaker 1: Steve is that this is a game. The two things

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Speaker 1: this is a season set that's going to be played

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Speaker 1: in mid a global pandemic. We've never had that before.

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Speaker 1: There's that kind of uncertainty against the backdrop for quite

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Speaker 1: rightly all these calls for social justice. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's where the sport has broken out of just you know,

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Speaker 1: your NFL fan cares about those things deeply, of course,

1908
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Speaker 1: but they also care about how their team is going

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Speaker 1: to do on Sunday. But this is this is resonating

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Speaker 1: across across the UK, and I think people are paying

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Speaker 1: attention to the NFL because of that. So it's kind

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Speaker 1: of it's breaking out from just your your average NFL fan.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think if we're gonna talk football,

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Speaker 1: which is good to talk football as well as those

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Speaker 1: social issues, Brady Gronk, the Bucks getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: play right, right, and the owners are familiar faces over

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Speaker 1: there as well because the Glaziers own English Premier League clubs, correct,

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Speaker 1: they own um which one is the Man United, right,

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Speaker 1: So I mean they're a familiar ownership group. On top

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Speaker 1: of that, talking with Neil Rounds from NFL UK and

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Speaker 1: you know, speaking of people from the other side of

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Speaker 1: the Atlantic, Christian Wade here is going to be sitting

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Speaker 1: and waiting with bated breath to see what his future

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Speaker 1: holds with this club, whether he's made again an international

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Speaker 1: player designee on the practice squad, or maybe he's made

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Speaker 1: a regular practice wild player, which would make him eligible

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Speaker 1: for elevation to the active roster, or if he has

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Speaker 1: an outside chance at an active roster spot. I know

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Speaker 1: you spoke with him recently. We're where do you think

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Speaker 1: his head is? At? Neil Um? That was one of

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Speaker 1: the ones that I actually passed off. Yesterday we did

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Speaker 1: Christian Wade for the NFL thirty two. I couldn't do

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Speaker 1: all of him because we were alive, so I went

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Speaker 1: to one of our reporters. But yeah, we talked about

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Speaker 1: last year. I think the thing with Christian where it's

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Speaker 1: where he's really missed is that is the preseason games.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think that was that was that's

1938
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Speaker 1: probably quite damaging. I think he's learned a lot more

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Speaker 1: about the sport. Obviously was very new to it. I

1940
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Speaker 1: was in the studio last night with Rob Bryan, and

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Speaker 1: Rob was one of the first ones to get Christian

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Speaker 1: on a on a chalkboard before he even came out

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo and sort of talked him through what to

1944
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Speaker 1: see in defensive fronts, where to find holes in a defense.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm really rooting for Christian I I like

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Speaker 1: him a lot as a He's super intelligent. I think

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Speaker 1: that's where he's got a shot picking up a brand

1948
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Speaker 1: new sport, you know, to actually make it just natural

1949
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Speaker 1: rather than thinking, you just go out and do it

1950
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Speaker 1: rather than think it and then do it. So he's

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Speaker 1: super intelligent. A lot of the transferable skills we've talked

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Speaker 1: about in the past, you know, some of the things

1953
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Speaker 1: you do once you've got a ball in your hand

1954
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Speaker 1: in in rugby are very similar to um, you know,

1955
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Speaker 1: to the NFL, and we see that he can can

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Speaker 1: change direction. I was going to cheat, actually because I

1957
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Speaker 1: haven't been able to get out to training camps this

1958
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Speaker 1: year and I would have loved to have come to

1959
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Speaker 1: Buffalo and seen Christians. So I was actually going to

1960
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Speaker 1: cheat and turn the tables and ask you guys how

1961
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Speaker 1: he's looked. Yeah, nobody knows. We're not allowed to watch

1962
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Speaker 1: the practice either. Everything's closed down over here, and for

1963
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Speaker 1: competitive reasons, I think every team in the league has

1964
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Speaker 1: kind of taken that tack of doing all their preparation,

1965
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Speaker 1: all their practices behind closed doors. They've put a clamp

1966
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Speaker 1: on the media as well because they don't they all

1967
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Speaker 1: allow them to talk about certain aspects of training camp,

1968
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Speaker 1: so it's all done behind closed doors. I think for

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Speaker 1: that reason, I've said it a lot number of times

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Speaker 1: on our show here that there's going to be a

1971
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Speaker 1: lot of apprehension on week one on both sidelines for

1972
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Speaker 1: each game because nobody knew of the unknown. Yeah, nobody

1973
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Speaker 1: knows what the other team will look like at all.

1974
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Speaker 1: Game plans are going to be all about your own

1975
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Speaker 1: team and have nothing to do about the strengths and

1976
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Speaker 1: weaknesses of your opponent. And I think that's very strange

1977
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Speaker 1: territory for coaching staffs in the NFL. Yeah, I hope

1978
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Speaker 1: we go. So when we saw the draft, obviously the

1979
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Speaker 1: draft opened up, didn't it. We were in the commissioner's

1980
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Speaker 1: man cave, we were in Bill Belichick's kitchen. That was

1981
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Speaker 1: the reverse of what we've seen in training camp. So

1982
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Speaker 1: I hope the draft stays kind of open and accessible.

1983
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Speaker 1: But I don't want to see training camps like this again,

1984
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Speaker 1: because first of all, I missed going to training camp.

1985
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Speaker 1: With a travel ban, I've not been able to get

1986
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Speaker 1: around and see the teams. But also training camps just

1987
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Speaker 1: a it's a quintessential part of your build up to

1988
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Speaker 1: NFL football, isn't it that? That's just I almost get

1989
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Speaker 1: romantic about it when I think about training camps. Yeah

1990
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Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. Yeah, you're in the right job,

1991
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Speaker 1: but you're a veteran player, Steve. I only had to

1992
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Speaker 1: watch them, right, I didn't have to do them difference,

1993
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Speaker 1: that's right, right? And Neil, I know you you put

1994
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Speaker 1: together a lot of write ups leading up to the season,

1995
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Speaker 1: and I know you took a look at your you

1996
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Speaker 1: kind of put together your top ten defenses heading into

1997
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Speaker 1: this fall. And the Bills, who have been a top

1998
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Speaker 1: five defense each the last two years, not only major

1999
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Speaker 1: top ten lists, they creeped into the top five again. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think, I think. And when I wrote my preview

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Speaker 1: magazine as well, I give a star rating to every

2002
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Speaker 1: every unit offense defense. You know, it's a five star

2003
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Speaker 1: unit for me. You know, I think when you look

2004
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Speaker 1: at the active linebackers and that's not normally where you

2005
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Speaker 1: start with the defense. Is just I'm just thinking about

2006
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Speaker 1: thinking out loud. But obviously the second area is where

2007
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Speaker 1: it feels like it's built back to front. So it's

2008
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Speaker 1: the second Darry that's so strong. Um, you know, incredible

2009
01:46:02,760 --> 01:46:05,799
Speaker 1: news that Tradevious White is playing this year as well.

2010
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Speaker 1: What a difference maker, um he is. And I think,

2011
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Speaker 1: you know, I think I think there's still um I

2012
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Speaker 1: think there's as a pass rush share as well, but

2013
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Speaker 1: I think White's White White is one of those guys

2014
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Speaker 1: where you know, it's that classic. I go back to Steve.

2015
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Speaker 1: I'm a bit of history and I love that. So

2016
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Speaker 1: I think about Darryl Green when he played and he

2017
01:46:25,920 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 1: had only had like three or four interceptions a year

2018
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Speaker 1: for the Washington Redskins. Do you think why did Daryl Green,

2019
01:46:30,600 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 1: the Great Daryl Green only get three or four picks?

2020
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Speaker 1: And it was because no one wanted to throw to

2021
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Speaker 1: his side of the field. And I think Tradevious shuts

2022
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Speaker 1: down his side of the field in the same way. Yeah,

2023
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Speaker 1: he still led the NFL with six interceptions, So that

2024
01:46:43,479 --> 01:46:46,200
Speaker 1: is really really special. So you know, I think this

2025
01:46:46,320 --> 01:46:49,760
Speaker 1: is a um, you know, well coached unit. I mean,

2026
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Speaker 1: I was doing my research last night when we were

2027
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Speaker 1: talking about the Bills, and so they didn't they didn't

2028
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Speaker 1: give up a deep passing touchdown all seasons last year. Yeah,

2029
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Speaker 1: and TuS why didn't give up touchdown at all last year?

2030
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Speaker 1: And his coverage responsibility so Yeah, there is every reasonable

2031
01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:08,599
Speaker 1: even We've been very optimistic about the Buffalo Bills defense

2032
01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:10,599
Speaker 1: and how it's going to come as well. They did

2033
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Speaker 1: make some decisions in their specialists. They've got Corey b

2034
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Speaker 1: Orkes is going to come back, at least it looks

2035
01:47:14,880 --> 01:47:17,839
Speaker 1: that way now, and also a rookie kicker in Tyler

2036
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Speaker 1: Bass who Stephen Haushke is no longer with the club.

2037
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Speaker 1: They released him. Made the decision very early, and a

2038
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Speaker 1: lot of people are apprehensive about that decision about having

2039
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Speaker 1: a young player come into a team with such high expectations,

2040
01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:36,880
Speaker 1: knowing that any given week youngster may make or break

2041
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:39,360
Speaker 1: what is a very small window to win championships in

2042
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah, because you're gonna have even if you're

2043
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Speaker 1: an elite team, you're gonna have three or four of

2044
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Speaker 1: those games every year. Right, They come down to it

2045
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Speaker 1: a kick here. You think about the Charges two years ago,

2046
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Speaker 1: how many close games they had and they won all

2047
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Speaker 1: those close games. Last year they had a lot of

2048
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Speaker 1: close games and they lost them. So, yeah, I would

2049
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Speaker 1: imagine as a veteran player, and I'm sure Steve you've

2050
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Speaker 1: been that, you know, there's only one thing that makes

2051
01:48:03,200 --> 01:48:05,080
Speaker 1: one of the other fifty two players on the rosters

2052
01:48:05,080 --> 01:48:06,960
Speaker 1: are more nervous than a regular kicker, and that's a

2053
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 1: rookie kicker. Right. Buffalo's Week one opponent, Neil is obviously

2054
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:17,040
Speaker 1: the Jets, And I know you had two members of

2055
01:48:17,080 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: that Jets franchise as a tandem in terms of facing

2056
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,960
Speaker 1: a make or break season, that being Adam Gayson Sam Darnold.

2057
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Speaker 1: Now they've tried to assemble some better talent around Sam

2058
01:48:28,400 --> 01:48:31,360
Speaker 1: Darnold on the offensive side of the ball, but the

2059
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:34,200
Speaker 1: reports out of New York or that, at least here

2060
01:48:34,200 --> 01:48:36,519
Speaker 1: at the outset, it doesn't look to be materializing with

2061
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:40,240
Speaker 1: any appreciative fashion. So make or break, I mean, these

2062
01:48:40,320 --> 01:48:42,519
Speaker 1: two guys really have to get it done and at

2063
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Speaker 1: least show definitive signs of progress in the win lost column, Right, Yeah,

2064
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Speaker 1: Because you know, I feel sorry for Sam Donald because

2065
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:52,960
Speaker 1: I think there's not a huge amount around him, and

2066
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Speaker 1: I applaud Buffalo when you look at what they've put

2067
01:48:56,200 --> 01:48:59,400
Speaker 1: around Josh Allen, you know, with Singletary in the backfield

2068
01:48:59,439 --> 01:49:02,680
Speaker 1: and John Brown and Cole Beasley and Stefan Dix. If

2069
01:49:02,680 --> 01:49:04,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the quarterback, if you're going to draft

2070
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Speaker 1: the quarterback, put the players around him. Sam Donald doesn't

2071
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Speaker 1: have that. I'm not in the building, so I don't know.

2072
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Speaker 1: I'm just speculating as a member of the media. But

2073
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Speaker 1: how many star players is Adam Gays going to trade away? Yeah,

2074
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Speaker 1: it happened in Miami, It's happened in New York. I mean,

2075
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Speaker 1: I get the whole team over talent argument, but at

2076
01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:27,120
Speaker 1: some point you need some talent as well. So yeah,

2077
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Speaker 1: I'm probably not in the predictions business, but I think

2078
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Speaker 1: that I think the Bills will be good in Week

2079
01:49:31,520 --> 01:49:33,840
Speaker 1: one for sure. What I talk about the rest of

2080
01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 1: the AFC East is it? You know, Cam Newton was

2081
01:49:37,280 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 1: just named the starter in New England yesterday afternoon, so

2082
01:49:40,880 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: it looks like he's gonna It's gonna happen for them there.

2083
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:44,960
Speaker 1: Miami seems to be on the uptick. They seem to

2084
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:49,200
Speaker 1: have bottomed out finally and now on the climb. Brian

2085
01:49:49,240 --> 01:49:51,360
Speaker 1: Flores has got a lot of credit for the games

2086
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:53,680
Speaker 1: that they won as that season progressed last year in

2087
01:49:53,680 --> 01:49:55,320
Speaker 1: the second half of the season where they actually had

2088
01:49:55,320 --> 01:49:58,280
Speaker 1: a winning record over the last nine games. So Miami

2089
01:49:58,360 --> 01:50:03,439
Speaker 1: is on the bound. Talk about the division, what are

2090
01:50:03,439 --> 01:50:07,920
Speaker 1: your thoughts? So I'm not playing to the home crowd.

2091
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Speaker 1: I promise I'm not. But of course Buffalo last won

2092
01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:14,599
Speaker 1: the division in nineteen ninety five, and those the Bills

2093
01:50:14,600 --> 01:50:16,519
Speaker 1: are the team that are positioned to do it, you know.

2094
01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: I think they're the ones that are going to take

2095
01:50:18,400 --> 01:50:20,760
Speaker 1: the crown away from New England. I don't think the

2096
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:23,320
Speaker 1: Jets or the Dolphins are ready. I think I think

2097
01:50:23,360 --> 01:50:27,120
Speaker 1: Miami have upgraded on their on their defense, you know,

2098
01:50:27,280 --> 01:50:29,640
Speaker 1: And I think Fits is going to give them what

2099
01:50:29,800 --> 01:50:32,479
Speaker 1: Fits always. Fans are going to love him. He's gonna

2100
01:50:32,479 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 1: win some, He's going to lose some, you know. I

2101
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:38,240
Speaker 1: think he's he's got to be better protected. I think

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins are just going to take strides. I don't

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01:50:40,040 --> 01:50:41,559
Speaker 1: know where the Jets got to. Feel like the Jets

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01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:43,679
Speaker 1: are lost right now, and I feel like the Jets

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01:50:43,760 --> 01:50:45,439
Speaker 1: might have a do over again. But I think there's

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01:50:45,439 --> 01:50:48,000
Speaker 1: a plan in Miami. I think Brian Flores is the

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01:50:48,040 --> 01:50:50,720
Speaker 1: man to lead that plan. But it's a plan for

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01:50:50,720 --> 01:50:52,800
Speaker 1: two or three years from now, and I think Buffalo's

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01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:57,000
Speaker 1: window is open now. Yeah, the Bills went three and

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01:50:57,080 --> 01:51:01,080
Speaker 1: thirty two against Tom Brady. Brady hint there any yeah time,

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01:51:01,400 --> 01:51:04,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's time the opportunity is now, and I

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01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:06,400
Speaker 1: think the pieces are in place, so you know, I

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01:51:06,439 --> 01:51:09,200
Speaker 1: think I think Cam Newton is going to discover what

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01:51:09,280 --> 01:51:12,439
Speaker 1: Tom Brady discovered, that there are very few pieces to

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01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:16,200
Speaker 1: work with around him in New England. I think Belichick

2116
01:51:16,320 --> 01:51:18,840
Speaker 1: is going to scheme up wins. Of course. I think

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01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:21,040
Speaker 1: they're going to miss Dante Hi Tao who opted out.

2118
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 1: That they're going to miss Patrick Chung who opted out.

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01:51:23,880 --> 01:51:28,679
Speaker 1: That the most talented team in this division, the team

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01:51:28,680 --> 01:51:31,800
Speaker 1: most ready to take the division is the Buffalo Bills.

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01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:34,120
Speaker 1: Talking with Neil Rounds from nfl UK, one last one

2122
01:51:34,120 --> 01:51:35,519
Speaker 1: for you, Neil, because I know you do have to

2123
01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:37,840
Speaker 1: run on us because you've got a busy schedule. Gay,

2124
01:51:38,160 --> 01:51:41,320
Speaker 1: but the piece that you put together on the NFL's

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01:51:41,320 --> 01:51:44,400
Speaker 1: toughest divisions, two of your top four on this list

2126
01:51:44,439 --> 01:51:47,040
Speaker 1: are the divisions that the Bills have to face this season.

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01:51:47,280 --> 01:51:49,679
Speaker 1: The NFC West, which was at the top of your list,

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01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:52,439
Speaker 1: and the AFC West, which was number four. It's a

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01:51:52,479 --> 01:51:56,400
Speaker 1: tricky schedule for the Bills this year. It is. Yeah.

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01:51:56,439 --> 01:51:58,800
Speaker 1: I mean you look at the West with the Arizona

2131
01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:02,720
Speaker 1: Cardinals and the Seahawks are always there or thereabouts. John

2132
01:52:02,800 --> 01:52:06,720
Speaker 1: Lynch talked to us last night on Sky Sports about continuity.

2133
01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:08,799
Speaker 1: They have that with the fourteen nine ers, with himself,

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01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:11,800
Speaker 1: with with Kyle Shanahan there and that, you know, and

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01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:14,760
Speaker 1: I think in the AFC West just generally, it's like

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01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 1: it's like there's an arms race going on because the

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01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:21,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs have this track meat of an offensive lineup, and

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01:52:21,520 --> 01:52:23,880
Speaker 1: rather than the other teams in the division going out

2139
01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:27,960
Speaker 1: and thinking about defensive players to slow them down, the

2140
01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:30,679
Speaker 1: Raiders went and got Henry Ruggs, you know, the Broncos

2141
01:52:30,720 --> 01:52:33,800
Speaker 1: went and got Jerry Judy and kJ Hamler and the

2142
01:52:33,880 --> 01:52:37,240
Speaker 1: tight ender who was a big player for for Drew Lock.

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01:52:37,400 --> 01:52:39,120
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's like it's going to be

2144
01:52:39,120 --> 01:52:43,200
Speaker 1: a points fest in the AFC West. So yeah, those

2145
01:52:43,200 --> 01:52:46,640
Speaker 1: are those are two kind of tough divisions to have,

2146
01:52:46,840 --> 01:52:49,679
Speaker 1: and of course that all plays a part in any

2147
01:52:49,680 --> 01:52:52,479
Speaker 1: playoff chase. But you know, like I said, I'm really

2148
01:52:52,560 --> 01:52:54,559
Speaker 1: strong on the Bills. I'm high on the Bills this year.

2149
01:52:55,560 --> 01:52:57,839
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see where they go because the defense

2150
01:52:57,960 --> 01:53:02,280
Speaker 1: was always there. I think Josh Allen progresses again. I'm

2151
01:53:02,280 --> 01:53:04,479
Speaker 1: just hyping there's a Suddain brit on the Rosta next

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01:53:04,520 --> 01:53:07,960
Speaker 1: time we talk. Yeah, we'll see. Thanks Neil, thanks for

2153
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:09,800
Speaker 1: the time as always. We know you're a busy man,

2154
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:14,000
Speaker 1: but exciting times over there with the Sky Sports NFL package.

2155
01:53:14,360 --> 01:53:17,120
Speaker 1: Enjoy it this fall. We're glad that your fans over

2156
01:53:17,160 --> 01:53:20,280
Speaker 1: there in the UK will have plenty to watch this fall. Well,

2157
01:53:20,320 --> 01:53:22,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys having me and Steve. I've got

2158
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:25,120
Speaker 1: your number. I'm still calling you for the Neil Reynolds podcast.

2159
01:53:25,200 --> 01:53:28,240
Speaker 1: There you go. Oh you've been put onto Yeah, I

2160
01:53:28,280 --> 01:53:30,559
Speaker 1: mean squeezed it in at the end. I probably do it.

2161
01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:32,719
Speaker 1: I promise, I'd love to do it. I'd be honored.

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01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:35,920
Speaker 1: All right, consider him book, Neil, thanks for your time.

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01:53:35,960 --> 01:53:38,920
Speaker 1: All right, Neil Reynolds from NFL UK. Always happy to

2164
01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:42,080
Speaker 1: join us. So Steve's just been guilted into joining him.

2165
01:53:44,760 --> 01:53:46,760
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know where you go from there. Well,

2166
01:53:46,800 --> 01:53:49,439
Speaker 1: once you go down far enough down the list, yeah

2167
01:53:49,640 --> 01:53:54,519
Speaker 1: you finally get down to my name, Okay, yeah, right,

2168
01:53:54,720 --> 01:53:57,200
Speaker 1: But I was looking at that and I was reminded,

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01:53:57,280 --> 01:53:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, I was looking at his his write up

2170
01:53:59,160 --> 01:54:02,519
Speaker 1: where he kind of assess the NFL's toughest divisions in

2171
01:54:02,640 --> 01:54:05,479
Speaker 1: terms of how competitive they are, and I was expecting

2172
01:54:05,479 --> 01:54:07,960
Speaker 1: the NFC West to be up there. I mean, you know,

2173
01:54:08,040 --> 01:54:11,040
Speaker 1: Seattle and San Francisco kind of lead the way. But

2174
01:54:11,240 --> 01:54:12,960
Speaker 1: we can't forget the fact that the Rams are in

2175
01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:15,479
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl two years ago and Arizona is a

2176
01:54:15,520 --> 01:54:18,680
Speaker 1: team on the rise, and the Bills have to play

2177
01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:22,000
Speaker 1: all those teams this year. And then you look at

2178
01:54:22,040 --> 01:54:24,800
Speaker 1: the AFC West and that's the other division that they

2179
01:54:24,800 --> 01:54:27,760
Speaker 1: got to play in that ranks four on Neil's list.

2180
01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:30,280
Speaker 1: And we don't have to say anything about Kansas City.

2181
01:54:30,280 --> 01:54:35,120
Speaker 1: It's self explanatory. But he's absolutely right. Those teams did

2182
01:54:35,120 --> 01:54:36,880
Speaker 1: not say, oh my gosh, we gotta figure out a

2183
01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:38,640
Speaker 1: way to stop the Chiefs so we can beat them

2184
01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:40,440
Speaker 1: because we got to play him twice a year. They're like,

2185
01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:42,720
Speaker 1: screw that, We're gonna chee if we can run with them.

2186
01:54:43,280 --> 01:54:46,080
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we're not trying. We're gonna trying to Broncos.

2187
01:54:46,200 --> 01:54:49,200
Speaker 1: The Broncos have a defensive head coach in Vic Fangio,

2188
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:51,800
Speaker 1: and he says, screw it, give me two wide receivers.

2189
01:54:52,040 --> 01:54:53,960
Speaker 1: Let me throw them out there with Courtland sut. So

2190
01:54:54,000 --> 01:54:56,960
Speaker 1: now you've got Courtland Sutton, Jerry Judy kJ Hamler in

2191
01:54:57,000 --> 01:55:00,760
Speaker 1: the slot and Noah fan to tight end for that offense.

2192
01:55:00,920 --> 01:55:03,400
Speaker 1: I mean they're trying. It is an arms race out there.

2193
01:55:03,440 --> 01:55:05,640
Speaker 1: They're trying to match wits with them. Yeah, it is.

2194
01:55:05,640 --> 01:55:08,560
Speaker 1: They're trying to match them score for score. And the

2195
01:55:08,640 --> 01:55:15,960
Speaker 1: Raiders too. Raiders are doing the same rugs. So it's uh, yeah,

2196
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:19,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be AFC West is really competitive. Now the Chiefs.

2197
01:55:19,640 --> 01:55:21,800
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are far and away the best

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01:55:21,840 --> 01:55:25,240
Speaker 1: team in that division. But there's reason to be optimistic

2199
01:55:25,240 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 1: about any pick one of the other three teams. Well,

2200
01:55:27,120 --> 01:55:29,280
Speaker 1: if Drew Locke comes along, right, if Drew Locke takes

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01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:31,640
Speaker 1: a step forward to it, they're gonna be significantly better.

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01:55:32,480 --> 01:55:36,040
Speaker 1: San Diego they've got Tyrod Taylor and Justin they're a

2203
01:55:36,040 --> 01:55:38,960
Speaker 1: little bit of a tough spot, right, and we've here

2204
01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:40,960
Speaker 1: in Buffalo feel like we have some insights to what

2205
01:55:41,040 --> 01:55:44,360
Speaker 1: makes Tyrod Taylor tick. It's gonna be frustrating even at

2206
01:55:44,360 --> 01:55:47,160
Speaker 1: his best. Won't turn it over, but it may not

2207
01:55:47,240 --> 01:55:49,200
Speaker 1: make enough place for you to winning exactly. It's gonna

2208
01:55:49,200 --> 01:55:52,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna be You're subjected to sixteen games of a

2209
01:55:52,400 --> 01:55:56,960
Speaker 1: regular season that are all stressful even when you win.

2210
01:55:57,400 --> 01:56:01,800
Speaker 1: So that's that's tough to live through. Their defense will

2211
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:03,800
Speaker 1: be good. Bosa's still there. They've still got some guys

2212
01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:06,200
Speaker 1: there that can play defense, and they'll be They'll be competitive,

2213
01:56:06,280 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 1: no question, and those division games are always close. The Raiders,

2214
01:56:11,240 --> 01:56:13,240
Speaker 1: we'll see if Derek Carr and John Gruden can make

2215
01:56:13,240 --> 01:56:15,920
Speaker 1: it work another year. I think Derek Carr was pretty

2216
01:56:15,920 --> 01:56:18,000
Speaker 1: good last year. He needs to be way better than

2217
01:56:18,040 --> 01:56:20,920
Speaker 1: pretty good. He does. But there is some talent to

2218
01:56:20,960 --> 01:56:23,920
Speaker 1: throw to there. They got the athletic hit a tight end.

2219
01:56:24,360 --> 01:56:27,400
Speaker 1: Now you have Rugs on the outside. Josh Jacobs is

2220
01:56:27,880 --> 01:56:31,600
Speaker 1: a feature back, you know. So they have weapons there

2221
01:56:32,200 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 1: for Derek Carr to utilize. It's just a matter of

2222
01:56:35,640 --> 01:56:37,840
Speaker 1: tightening up their defense where they're not giving up twenty

2223
01:56:37,840 --> 01:56:40,200
Speaker 1: eight points a week. That's going to be the key

2224
01:56:40,240 --> 01:56:42,800
Speaker 1: for them. And that's why it was so peculiar to

2225
01:56:42,880 --> 01:56:45,200
Speaker 1: see everybody like, Wow, the Chiefs are winning that way,

2226
01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:47,400
Speaker 1: Let's try to win the same way. Can't beat him,

2227
01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:49,520
Speaker 1: join them, you know what I mean? That was kind

2228
01:56:49,560 --> 01:56:51,520
Speaker 1: of the whole approach by every other team in the

2229
01:56:51,520 --> 01:56:57,200
Speaker 1: AFC West this offseason. But it's hard to be have

2230
01:56:57,280 --> 01:56:59,680
Speaker 1: a really fast team in a league that's full of

2231
01:56:59,720 --> 01:57:03,160
Speaker 1: fast teams. Yeah, but the Chiefs have done it and

2232
01:57:03,560 --> 01:57:11,440
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is unbelievable. Sammy Watkinsmy Watkins, Nicole Hardman, Sammy

2233
01:57:11,480 --> 01:57:13,800
Speaker 1: Watkins just know the guy in that offense. Yeah, and

2234
01:57:13,880 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: he was I mean, Hardman is legit four three five

2235
01:57:17,680 --> 01:57:20,880
Speaker 1: and he looks slow next to Hill, right. So they

2236
01:57:20,880 --> 01:57:25,440
Speaker 1: are fast, really fast in a really fast league. So

2237
01:57:26,400 --> 01:57:28,680
Speaker 1: teams are just saying, listen, we gotta keep up, let's go.

2238
01:57:29,160 --> 01:57:32,720
Speaker 1: That's the way it's going to work. Um and off

2239
01:57:32,720 --> 01:57:35,640
Speaker 1: away goes. All I'm gonna say is, thank god the

2240
01:57:35,640 --> 01:57:38,200
Speaker 1: Bills have a top five defense because no one they're

2241
01:57:38,240 --> 01:57:41,880
Speaker 1: facing that division and the NFC West, there's gonna be

2242
01:57:42,280 --> 01:57:45,440
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some tough weeks where the Bills defense

2243
01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:47,640
Speaker 1: is gonna have to be on it and be the

2244
01:57:47,680 --> 01:57:49,840
Speaker 1: top five defense that they are to kind of keep

2245
01:57:49,880 --> 01:57:52,440
Speaker 1: them in games and then hope the offense is clicking.

2246
01:57:52,600 --> 01:57:54,720
Speaker 1: Yeah we'll especially on the road. Yeah, we'll see you.

2247
01:57:54,720 --> 01:57:58,600
Speaker 1: And I think that because defense travels, defense goes, yes,

2248
01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:01,800
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be one of those seasons where guys

2249
01:58:01,920 --> 01:58:07,200
Speaker 1: like Russell Wilson, Pat mahomes Kyler Murray, those type of players.

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01:58:08,280 --> 01:58:10,720
Speaker 1: You could see those games going against the Bills because

2251
01:58:10,760 --> 01:58:14,120
Speaker 1: the defense plays great, but they do they do a

2252
01:58:14,200 --> 01:58:16,760
Speaker 1: no look pass or are behind the back, flip in

2253
01:58:16,800 --> 01:58:18,960
Speaker 1: the backfield to get away from a sack that turns

2254
01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:20,720
Speaker 1: into a first down, and all of a sudden, now

2255
01:58:20,840 --> 01:58:23,120
Speaker 1: they got that kind of thing. Those are the kind

2256
01:58:23,120 --> 01:58:26,760
Speaker 1: of plays that turn games. In the league. The margin

2257
01:58:26,880 --> 01:58:29,760
Speaker 1: of difference is so narrow now seventy five percent of

2258
01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:31,840
Speaker 1: the games are decided by seven points or less. It

2259
01:58:31,920 --> 01:58:35,600
Speaker 1: comes down to a play you know, one or two

2260
01:58:35,640 --> 01:58:39,120
Speaker 1: moments and sometimes you know and hopefully you got a

2261
01:58:39,200 --> 01:58:41,760
Speaker 1: chance late in the game. But like the Bills playoff game,

2262
01:58:41,760 --> 01:58:44,480
Speaker 1: you're down in the you're down in the in ot

2263
01:58:44,760 --> 01:58:49,240
Speaker 1: and overtime on the road, Leslie Frasier dials up the defense.

2264
01:58:49,280 --> 01:58:55,640
Speaker 1: You got two unblocked defenders whack their quarterbacks simultaneously knock

2265
01:58:55,720 --> 01:59:00,480
Speaker 1: each other off. You lose. Yeah, that's hard to swallow.

2266
01:59:01,160 --> 01:59:03,800
Speaker 1: That's hard to swallow. Well, that's why Josh Allen said

2267
01:59:03,800 --> 01:59:05,440
Speaker 1: he still hasn't gotten over it, and said he won't

2268
01:59:05,480 --> 01:59:08,520
Speaker 1: until he's playing regular season games again. That's that's the difference.

2269
01:59:08,560 --> 01:59:10,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's that much you get, you do the

2270
01:59:10,480 --> 01:59:14,040
Speaker 1: right thing on the play. You a guy gets lucky,

2271
01:59:14,320 --> 01:59:16,280
Speaker 1: makes the most of it and you lose, and that's

2272
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:19,240
Speaker 1: that's an overtime playoff loss. All right, we have to

2273
01:59:19,240 --> 01:59:21,200
Speaker 1: take a break, but when we come back, we'll be

2274
01:59:21,280 --> 01:59:23,760
Speaker 1: hitting up some NFL true false and we'll also get

2275
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:26,080
Speaker 1: back to the O b L mail bag. You guys

2276
01:59:26,080 --> 01:59:28,400
Speaker 1: have been bringing it today. Thanks for your participation. We'll

2277
01:59:28,440 --> 01:59:30,839
Speaker 1: be answering some more of your questions when we return

2278
01:59:30,920 --> 01:59:33,320
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This

2279
01:59:33,440 --> 01:59:48,680
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio on One Bills Live. It's time

2280
01:59:48,720 --> 01:59:52,600
Speaker 1: for the OBL mail Bag, and thanks to you, the fans,

2281
01:59:52,640 --> 01:59:56,000
Speaker 1: the listeners, the viewers for sending in your question. Steve

2282
01:59:56,040 --> 01:59:57,680
Speaker 1: and I happy to answer those for you. And the

2283
01:59:57,760 --> 02:00:00,760
Speaker 1: latest comes from Adam says, how many running backs make

2284
02:00:00,760 --> 02:00:03,320
Speaker 1: it on the fifty three? Obviously there's Motor and Moss.

2285
02:00:03,760 --> 02:00:06,520
Speaker 1: I know Heath Farwell heaped praise on Taiwan Jones for

2286
02:00:06,560 --> 02:00:08,760
Speaker 1: his special team's ability. Does he make the roster as

2287
02:00:08,800 --> 02:00:11,480
Speaker 1: the third running back or does question Way'd have a

2288
02:00:11,480 --> 02:00:17,320
Speaker 1: shot to make it. He's also forgetting about TJ. Yeldon right,

2289
02:00:17,880 --> 02:00:23,160
Speaker 1: who I think fits the physical style of running that

2290
02:00:23,520 --> 02:00:25,920
Speaker 1: I think coach McDermott wants to at least have in

2291
02:00:26,040 --> 02:00:28,440
Speaker 1: his Arsenal. Taiwan Jones will be on the roster as

2292
02:00:28,480 --> 02:00:31,800
Speaker 1: a special team's contributor primarily, but he will be on

2293
02:00:31,840 --> 02:00:34,040
Speaker 1: the roster technically as a running back. Zach Moss and

2294
02:00:34,080 --> 02:00:38,280
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary are givens. We don't know what the situation

2295
02:00:38,360 --> 02:00:40,360
Speaker 1: is with Patrick DeMarco and his neck injury. Is he

2296
02:00:40,440 --> 02:00:44,040
Speaker 1: a guy that ends up on you know, a non

2297
02:00:44,080 --> 02:00:47,080
Speaker 1: football injury list or some type of reserve list because

2298
02:00:47,120 --> 02:00:49,000
Speaker 1: of the neck injury. Maybe he's not a part of

2299
02:00:49,000 --> 02:00:51,600
Speaker 1: this equation because of that injury. We'll have to wait

2300
02:00:51,600 --> 02:00:55,680
Speaker 1: and see, but I think people sell TJ. Yeldon a

2301
02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:59,960
Speaker 1: little bit short. Whether he did enough in this camp

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02:01:00,120 --> 02:01:02,640
Speaker 1: to solidify his spot on the roster, I guess remains

2303
02:01:02,680 --> 02:01:04,920
Speaker 1: to be seen. And if it's not him, then yes,

2304
02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:08,440
Speaker 1: maybe Christian Wade does have an opportunity. But I agree

2305
02:01:08,480 --> 02:01:10,680
Speaker 1: with Neil Reynolds, who was our guest earlier this hour.

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02:01:11,200 --> 02:01:14,280
Speaker 1: I think the absence of preseason games really hurt Christian Wade.

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02:01:14,280 --> 02:01:17,320
Speaker 1: I mean, think about this, Steve, would anybody even be

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Speaker 1: talking about Christian Wade if we didn't have preseason games

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Speaker 1: last year? No, that's right, because what he did in

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Speaker 1: preseason games put him on the map. For fans, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: not for the coaching staff, for his teammates, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they know what the guy is because they see him

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Speaker 1: every day. But for us, yeah, and none of these guys,

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Speaker 1: we don't. We don't know if any of them have

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Speaker 1: gotten better or worse. We don't know if t. J.

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02:01:37,240 --> 02:01:39,760
Speaker 1: Yelden has put on weight or lost weight, or has

2317
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Speaker 1: changed his game, or start to catch the ball or

2318
02:01:41,800 --> 02:01:43,200
Speaker 1: what catch the ball better than the year you go.

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02:01:43,280 --> 02:01:46,440
Speaker 1: We don't any of these guys, So it's all base

2320
02:01:46,560 --> 02:01:48,920
Speaker 1: We're all basing it on what we have seen in

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02:01:48,960 --> 02:01:52,560
Speaker 1: the past. Certainly, Christian Wade needed preseason games. We all

2322
02:01:52,600 --> 02:01:55,760
Speaker 1: wanted him to see him play, and that's the only

2323
02:01:55,800 --> 02:01:57,760
Speaker 1: place you really get an idea of whether he can

2324
02:01:57,880 --> 02:02:00,600
Speaker 1: do the work of a running back than just half

2325
02:02:00,640 --> 02:02:03,280
Speaker 1: of the ball in his hands, which is significant. I

2326
02:02:03,320 --> 02:02:06,080
Speaker 1: think Pat DeMarco is a question mark for the roster

2327
02:02:07,760 --> 02:02:10,800
Speaker 1: because of his injury. His lack of ability to participate.

2328
02:02:11,480 --> 02:02:17,080
Speaker 1: Availability is critical to this team's success. If you're gonna

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02:02:17,120 --> 02:02:18,720
Speaker 1: be on the roster, they need to know you're gonna

2330
02:02:18,720 --> 02:02:20,200
Speaker 1: be there, need to be able to depend on you

2331
02:02:20,280 --> 02:02:23,920
Speaker 1: being yeah, being there. It's it's I mean, we don't

2332
02:02:23,960 --> 02:02:26,000
Speaker 1: know the severity of the injury. We don't know the

2333
02:02:26,080 --> 02:02:28,920
Speaker 1: nature of the injury. I mean DeMarco and he's missed

2334
02:02:28,920 --> 02:02:33,800
Speaker 1: almost the entire camp. DeMarco, guys like Tyni Ski, guys

2335
02:02:33,800 --> 02:02:36,160
Speaker 1: like that who have been up and down off the

2336
02:02:36,280 --> 02:02:44,720
Speaker 1: roster with injuries, Tyler Croft, guys like that. You know,

2337
02:02:45,280 --> 02:02:49,480
Speaker 1: availability is the best ability for a lot of I mean,

2338
02:02:49,560 --> 02:02:52,080
Speaker 1: we're talking about a guy who was a captain, you know,

2339
02:02:52,160 --> 02:02:56,280
Speaker 1: in DeMarco, and I think he's a glue guy on

2340
02:02:56,320 --> 02:02:58,920
Speaker 1: this roster. But I mean when you missed the entire

2341
02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:01,680
Speaker 1: camp with a neck injury and you play a high

2342
02:03:01,680 --> 02:03:06,960
Speaker 1: impact position like fullback, I'm wondering if he's going to

2343
02:03:07,080 --> 02:03:09,680
Speaker 1: end up on a reserve list here when the final

2344
02:03:09,760 --> 02:03:13,600
Speaker 1: roster decisions are made because of that injury. That is

2345
02:03:13,600 --> 02:03:15,360
Speaker 1: not an easy one for a fullback to come back

2346
02:03:15,360 --> 02:03:17,280
Speaker 1: from it. Were just talking to Jamie Mueller earlier in

2347
02:03:17,280 --> 02:03:20,760
Speaker 1: the show. Neck injury ended his career after four seasons. Yeah,

2348
02:03:21,920 --> 02:03:25,240
Speaker 1: it's a tough injury to have in a contact sport

2349
02:03:25,280 --> 02:03:28,760
Speaker 1: like football because you're dealing with a whole different set

2350
02:03:28,760 --> 02:03:31,560
Speaker 1: of circumstances at that point. So we hope he's fine

2351
02:03:31,560 --> 02:03:34,320
Speaker 1: and we'll be fine in due time, but at this

2352
02:03:34,360 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 1: current moment, it's something that could land him on a

2353
02:03:37,040 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: reserve list of some kind and not on this roster.

2354
02:03:41,400 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: From Jack on defense, does cam Lewis have a chance

2355
02:03:43,960 --> 02:03:46,000
Speaker 1: to make the final fifty three? They have some injuries

2356
02:03:46,000 --> 02:03:48,200
Speaker 1: at cornerback, and from reports, he's looked good this camp

2357
02:03:48,200 --> 02:03:50,680
Speaker 1: and spent an entire season on the practice squad and

2358
02:03:50,800 --> 02:03:53,360
Speaker 1: in the system in twenty nineteen. I think he does

2359
02:03:53,440 --> 02:03:56,160
Speaker 1: have a legitimate chance to make this roster when you

2360
02:03:56,200 --> 02:03:58,960
Speaker 1: consider the fact that he has put together a good camp,

2361
02:03:59,160 --> 02:04:02,320
Speaker 1: has shown an ability to play inside and out, and

2362
02:04:02,920 --> 02:04:04,960
Speaker 1: is familiar with the system having been into all last

2363
02:04:05,040 --> 02:04:06,880
Speaker 1: year on the practice squad. I think all of those

2364
02:04:06,880 --> 02:04:09,320
Speaker 1: things bode well for him. Then you throw on top

2365
02:04:09,360 --> 02:04:12,560
Speaker 1: of that the fact that you have Josh Norman coming

2366
02:04:12,600 --> 02:04:16,160
Speaker 1: off a hamstring injury, Levi Wallace with a hamstring injury,

2367
02:04:16,560 --> 02:04:19,840
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson with a hamstring injury. I mean that's three

2368
02:04:20,520 --> 02:04:24,760
Speaker 1: of the seven corners you have on your roster. Now,

2369
02:04:24,760 --> 02:04:26,760
Speaker 1: I know we can throw Siran Neil in there because

2370
02:04:26,760 --> 02:04:29,200
Speaker 1: he was added. He was changed on the roster today

2371
02:04:29,240 --> 02:04:33,000
Speaker 1: as now listed as a cornerback. So it's clear that

2372
02:04:33,080 --> 02:04:35,480
Speaker 1: they feel he's capable, And coach McDermott said this on

2373
02:04:35,520 --> 02:04:38,040
Speaker 1: the conference call when he was asked just the other day,

2374
02:04:38,080 --> 02:04:40,720
Speaker 1: do you think siran Neil is capable of playing cornerback?

2375
02:04:40,960 --> 02:04:42,800
Speaker 1: And he said, yes, he has the skill set to

2376
02:04:42,840 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 1: do it. So it looks like he's going to factor

2377
02:04:45,160 --> 02:04:49,880
Speaker 1: into this equation now going forward. But Jackson's got an injury,

2378
02:04:49,960 --> 02:04:52,080
Speaker 1: Norman's got an injury, and Wallace has got an injury.

2379
02:04:52,120 --> 02:04:54,360
Speaker 1: I think that helps cam Lewis's chances all the more.

2380
02:04:54,520 --> 02:04:57,600
Speaker 1: It does, But it's hard to envision cam Lewis as

2381
02:04:57,640 --> 02:05:01,320
Speaker 1: an outside corner right. He's dominion him because he's five

2382
02:05:01,440 --> 02:05:05,120
Speaker 1: nine a buck eighty three. Yeah, and that's in today's NFL.

2383
02:05:05,200 --> 02:05:07,320
Speaker 1: It'd be hard to do now down inside where you're

2384
02:05:07,320 --> 02:05:10,520
Speaker 1: gonna get guys the size of Cole Beasley and you

2385
02:05:10,560 --> 02:05:13,240
Speaker 1: know Julian Edelman and that that's a little different, and

2386
02:05:13,280 --> 02:05:15,240
Speaker 1: you put smaller guys down in there because they have

2387
02:05:15,280 --> 02:05:17,760
Speaker 1: the ability to change directions so quickly. You know, going

2388
02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:19,560
Speaker 1: against those two way goes to the slot cast. So

2389
02:05:19,600 --> 02:05:21,680
Speaker 1: that's cam Lewis's ticket and if he if he's got

2390
02:05:21,680 --> 02:05:24,280
Speaker 1: a skill set, certainly he can play um and he

2391
02:05:24,360 --> 02:05:26,400
Speaker 1: lines up on special teams a lot out there, So

2392
02:05:27,120 --> 02:05:30,520
Speaker 1: there's that. Uh, certainly, if they keep cam Lewis, I

2393
02:05:30,560 --> 02:05:32,680
Speaker 1: think you're right, it is a nod to the fact

2394
02:05:32,720 --> 02:05:37,000
Speaker 1: that Um Levi, Josh, all those Zane Jack, all those

2395
02:05:37,000 --> 02:05:39,320
Speaker 1: guys are hurt and they need a fresh, healthy body.

2396
02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:42,000
Speaker 1: Now there is is the system. And also there is

2397
02:05:42,040 --> 02:05:44,240
Speaker 1: a little something too, the fact too that all these

2398
02:05:44,240 --> 02:05:47,040
Speaker 1: guys are being held out because of these knicks and bruises.

2399
02:05:47,040 --> 02:05:49,240
Speaker 1: They're gonna be back full go on Monday, ready to

2400
02:05:49,280 --> 02:05:53,000
Speaker 1: get ready for the game week one. We don't know that,

2401
02:05:53,160 --> 02:05:59,520
Speaker 1: so we're worth you know, you know, we're spitballing, Yes, exactly,

2402
02:05:59,880 --> 02:06:03,680
Speaker 1: and it's all conjecture. So but that makes some sense

2403
02:06:03,720 --> 02:06:06,240
Speaker 1: at one level, given the fact of what we know

2404
02:06:06,440 --> 02:06:08,000
Speaker 1: and what we don't know. But I had him as

2405
02:06:08,000 --> 02:06:10,440
Speaker 1: one of my surprise makes for this roster. So yes,

2406
02:06:10,480 --> 02:06:12,840
Speaker 1: I do think he has a chance to make it.

2407
02:06:12,880 --> 02:06:15,760
Speaker 1: And at the absolute worst, he's on the practice squad.

2408
02:06:15,760 --> 02:06:18,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the worst case scenario for cam Lewis. Yeah,

2409
02:06:19,200 --> 02:06:21,720
Speaker 1: they'll keep, they'll keep, and I'm not saying he's gonna

2410
02:06:21,720 --> 02:06:23,920
Speaker 1: get rolled out there to start, but if he's on

2411
02:06:23,960 --> 02:06:26,080
Speaker 1: the active roster, he will be a reserve corner and

2412
02:06:26,160 --> 02:06:28,520
Speaker 1: probably play a role on special team. They're gonna stay

2413
02:06:28,600 --> 02:06:31,400
Speaker 1: deep at cornerback. They're gonna stay deep at defensive line,

2414
02:06:31,440 --> 02:06:35,360
Speaker 1: and they're gonna stay deep at offensive line. They'll probably

2415
02:06:35,440 --> 02:06:38,080
Speaker 1: keeps and from there down it'll be guys who have

2416
02:06:38,120 --> 02:06:42,200
Speaker 1: an actual chance, to actual opportunity to contribute in some

2417
02:06:42,240 --> 02:06:45,120
Speaker 1: way whatever position they are. I mean, I have a

2418
02:06:45,120 --> 02:06:47,320
Speaker 1: hard time thinking they'll keep any more than maybe one

2419
02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:51,120
Speaker 1: safety on the practice squad out of the sixteen that

2420
02:06:51,160 --> 02:06:54,000
Speaker 1: are there. They may keep two or three offensive lineman,

2421
02:06:54,040 --> 02:06:57,120
Speaker 1: two or three defensive linemen. They may keep two wide

2422
02:06:57,120 --> 02:07:00,240
Speaker 1: outs or three wide outs, so I know, I mean,

2423
02:07:01,480 --> 02:07:04,520
Speaker 1: those are position groups that are vital to the success

2424
02:07:04,560 --> 02:07:07,440
Speaker 1: of the team, and everybody else will just be how

2425
02:07:07,480 --> 02:07:10,480
Speaker 1: good they are at what they do and they'll go

2426
02:07:10,520 --> 02:07:12,680
Speaker 1: from there. But I think those positions I mentioned are

2427
02:07:12,680 --> 02:07:15,000
Speaker 1: going to be the ones that they can make sure

2428
02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:16,600
Speaker 1: they have enough of. All right, you ready for some

2429
02:07:16,680 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 1: NFL true false? All right, NFL True False brought to

2430
02:07:19,480 --> 02:07:22,120
Speaker 1: you by Yancy's Fancy, Yancy's Fancy, New York's artists and

2431
02:07:22,200 --> 02:07:26,520
Speaker 1: Cheese and Steve. We lead off with the Chicago Bears.

2432
02:07:27,520 --> 02:07:30,160
Speaker 1: The Bears not signing Cam Newton will go down as

2433
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:33,400
Speaker 1: the most bewildering move of the offseason. True or false?

2434
02:07:33,440 --> 02:07:37,040
Speaker 1: What say you? I say the Bears were like a

2435
02:07:37,080 --> 02:07:42,040
Speaker 1: lot of people. They did not have the patience to

2436
02:07:42,280 --> 02:07:47,200
Speaker 1: wait until all the chairs were filled and picks Cam

2437
02:07:47,200 --> 02:07:50,040
Speaker 1: Newton up for a song. I think at the time

2438
02:07:50,080 --> 02:07:53,160
Speaker 1: when they wanted to make their move at quarterback, they didn't.

2439
02:07:53,600 --> 02:07:57,560
Speaker 1: I don't think Cam. When they signed Nick Foles, I

2440
02:07:57,600 --> 02:08:03,200
Speaker 1: don't think Cam Newton was on the table even then. Well,

2441
02:08:03,200 --> 02:08:05,760
Speaker 1: no nobody knew what his health status was, which was

2442
02:08:05,800 --> 02:08:08,760
Speaker 1: obviously compromised by the COVID pandemic. Let's not make any

2443
02:08:08,840 --> 02:08:11,800
Speaker 1: mistake about that. Nobody had access to Cam because Cam

2444
02:08:11,840 --> 02:08:14,280
Speaker 1: couldn't get a physical anywhere. At that point in time,

2445
02:08:14,320 --> 02:08:16,680
Speaker 1: all the hospitals were jam packed. They didn't want to

2446
02:08:16,680 --> 02:08:20,200
Speaker 1: pull doctors away from hospitals that needed to help to

2447
02:08:20,240 --> 02:08:24,240
Speaker 1: give Cam Newton a physical. It wasn't exactly an urgent situation. League.

2448
02:08:24,440 --> 02:08:27,040
Speaker 1: The league was not allowing guys to go do that either, right,

2449
02:08:27,080 --> 02:08:29,680
Speaker 1: they put the clamps on everything, and I and for that,

2450
02:08:29,760 --> 02:08:33,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say bewildering. Bewildering like that, yeah, and like

2451
02:08:33,840 --> 02:08:36,240
Speaker 1: why didn't you sign him. I think it was more

2452
02:08:36,280 --> 02:08:40,240
Speaker 1: like you should have but you didn't. But I get it,

2453
02:08:40,560 --> 02:08:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, there's a lot of reasons here.

2454
02:08:43,160 --> 02:08:46,640
Speaker 1: Let's look at let's look at the Patriots quarterback situation

2455
02:08:47,560 --> 02:08:51,880
Speaker 1: and the Bears quarterback situation. Pre Foals and Pre Newton. Okay,

2456
02:08:52,440 --> 02:08:57,200
Speaker 1: they're identical. They're identical. They're identical, two completely unproven young

2457
02:08:57,240 --> 02:08:59,680
Speaker 1: guys who you don't know if they have the goods

2458
02:08:59,720 --> 02:09:04,839
Speaker 1: you don't think they do. Right from weeks Jared Stidham,

2459
02:09:05,240 --> 02:09:07,600
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham's a guy Mann. You know, you heard that

2460
02:09:07,640 --> 02:09:10,040
Speaker 1: coming out of New England and everybody's like, here's okay,

2461
02:09:10,680 --> 02:09:14,600
Speaker 1: you're it turned out to be bogus. It was completely false.

2462
02:09:14,960 --> 02:09:19,880
Speaker 1: And here's the coup de gras. Okay, the Bears trade

2463
02:09:19,880 --> 02:09:24,400
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick to get Nick Foles and pay

2464
02:09:24,560 --> 02:09:29,320
Speaker 1: him basically the same amount of money if Cam wins

2465
02:09:29,360 --> 02:09:31,600
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year with the Patriots right in

2466
02:09:31,640 --> 02:09:37,640
Speaker 1: his incentive laden contract. Huh what that's that's bad football, man.

2467
02:09:37,880 --> 02:09:40,600
Speaker 1: And and let's not forget this either. Everybody's talking about

2468
02:09:40,600 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: the health of Cam Newton. Nick Foles hasn't been the

2469
02:09:43,360 --> 02:09:47,080
Speaker 1: picture of durability either. I mean, let's not let's not

2470
02:09:47,120 --> 02:09:51,040
Speaker 1: forget that. I mean, you run down the list and

2471
02:09:51,080 --> 02:09:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pull up his career stats real quick.

2472
02:09:53,160 --> 02:09:56,440
Speaker 1: But you know, um, well, I know he missed a

2473
02:09:56,480 --> 02:09:59,800
Speaker 1: lot of games. Uh a year or two ago. It's

2474
02:09:59,800 --> 02:10:01,720
Speaker 1: what I and we were sitting last year. He was

2475
02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:03,560
Speaker 1: supposed to be the starter in Jacksonville and he what

2476
02:10:03,600 --> 02:10:06,840
Speaker 1: did he dislocate his gardner or something? Gardner? Minshew, he

2477
02:10:06,840 --> 02:10:12,000
Speaker 1: broke his clavical um uh, Nick Foles broke his clavical gardner? Minshew,

2478
02:10:12,040 --> 02:10:14,640
Speaker 1: comes in, here's the thing, and we have we have listen,

2479
02:10:14,680 --> 02:10:16,840
Speaker 1: we're in playing for in Buffalo here. We're in western

2480
02:10:16,840 --> 02:10:19,280
Speaker 1: New York here, so we can we can throw darts

2481
02:10:19,280 --> 02:10:21,440
Speaker 1: in Chicago Bears if we want, because it's our it's

2482
02:10:21,440 --> 02:10:27,120
Speaker 1: the league. But look where the Bears are sitting. They've

2483
02:10:27,160 --> 02:10:32,320
Speaker 1: got a quarterback competition and the best case scenario is

2484
02:10:32,360 --> 02:10:40,320
Speaker 1: either Mitch Drobiski or Nick FOLESH yeah, that I think

2485
02:10:40,320 --> 02:10:42,600
Speaker 1: we can sum it up. When you know, so the

2486
02:10:42,640 --> 02:10:45,760
Speaker 1: guy who mentioned that to a Bears fan and you're

2487
02:10:45,800 --> 02:10:49,000
Speaker 1: met with an eye roll the yeah, that's the winner

2488
02:10:51,280 --> 02:10:55,520
Speaker 1: of the competition. That's as good as you're gonna be Wolf.

2489
02:10:56,440 --> 02:10:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm not liking. That's a big wolf. I'm not liking

2490
02:10:58,720 --> 02:11:00,560
Speaker 1: it all right. We gotta take a break. When we

2491
02:11:00,600 --> 02:11:02,520
Speaker 1: come back, we have to find out what we have

2492
02:11:02,640 --> 02:11:05,160
Speaker 1: learned from today's show, and we have a couple of

2493
02:11:05,200 --> 02:11:06,720
Speaker 1: things we learned, so we'll get to that in a

2494
02:11:06,800 --> 02:11:08,800
Speaker 1: moment as we close up another week of one Bills

2495
02:11:08,840 --> 02:11:13,000
Speaker 1: Live here on Buffalo Bills Radio. Back in a moment,

2496
02:11:26,960 --> 02:11:30,080
Speaker 1: time for what have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks,

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Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills,

2498
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Speaker 1: And as we have done in seven previous editions, we

2499
02:11:37,800 --> 02:11:41,120
Speaker 1: had the eighth installment of Tasker's teammate, and once again,

2500
02:11:41,480 --> 02:11:44,280
Speaker 1: Steve was not to be denied. Got it on the

2501
02:11:44,320 --> 02:11:51,200
Speaker 1: third clue. Teammate for four seasons, got on the roster

2502
02:11:51,320 --> 02:11:56,280
Speaker 1: not long after you arrived, thirty eight starts in a

2503
02:11:56,360 --> 02:12:02,920
Speaker 1: fifty seven game career, contributed on special teams, and a

2504
02:12:02,920 --> 02:12:07,960
Speaker 1: former third round draft choice, Jamie Mueller. There it is,

2505
02:12:08,280 --> 02:12:13,320
Speaker 1: he got it. Jamie Mueller is the correct answer Himie.

2506
02:12:13,400 --> 02:12:16,160
Speaker 1: I'm so mad that I didn't get to my favorite clue,

2507
02:12:16,360 --> 02:12:19,560
Speaker 1: which was which was going to be? I was one

2508
02:12:19,600 --> 02:12:21,520
Speaker 1: of the few Bills at the time who played with

2509
02:12:21,520 --> 02:12:24,600
Speaker 1: a crew cut and a killer mustache. I really wanted

2510
02:12:24,600 --> 02:12:26,760
Speaker 1: to get to that clue, but it was a dead giveaway,

2511
02:12:26,800 --> 02:12:28,160
Speaker 1: so I had to leave it for the end. And

2512
02:12:28,240 --> 02:12:30,200
Speaker 1: I think, do we have Jamie on the line here?

2513
02:12:30,440 --> 02:12:33,240
Speaker 1: We do, and it's still practically a crew cut. Look

2514
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Speaker 1: at that, Jamie Mule. How are you man, dude? How

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Speaker 1: are you doing buddy? So Jamie Mueller the eighth correct

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Speaker 1: answer in this latest installment of Tasker's Teammate, And that

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Speaker 1: was a pretty fun conversation with him. He had a

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Speaker 1: lot more going on than we thought. Yeah, he's doing great,

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Speaker 1: and he looks he's still working out. He was a

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Speaker 1: fiend when he worked out, and he he got the

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Speaker 1: most out of it, that's for sure. He was a

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Speaker 1: great teammatee fun guy to have on the on the

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Speaker 1: crew and he knows we cover a lot of kicks

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Speaker 1: together those four years. Those are the kind of lepers

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Speaker 1: that don't change their spot. But that'll be another rap

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Speaker 1: on another week of One Bills Live. When we come

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Speaker 1: back on Tuesday, because we do not have a show

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Speaker 1: on Labor Day Monday, we are off on Monday. We

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Speaker 1: will be back with you on Tuesday, where we will

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Speaker 1: have plenty to discuss with regard week well, it'll be

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Speaker 1: game weekend and we'll have a much different looking roster

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Speaker 1: and a very fat practice squad to discuss with you

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Speaker 1: when we return on Tuesday. Here on One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: for Jay Harris, Jeff Colton At, Kelly Rude, and Thomas Hollander.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to them. On the other side of the wall

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Speaker 1: for Steve Tasker. I'm Chris Brown. This has been One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Collid to Health on Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Have a good weekend.