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Speaker 1: Oh, Steve Tasperg touchdown, touchdown, touchdown time. Welcome to One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Steve Tasker here at one Bills Drive along

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Speaker 1: with Chris Brown and we're looking live. Here are listeners.

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Speaker 1: We are one of Bill's driving our viewers. Brett Musburger,

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Speaker 1: you're looking live at a picture of the stadium all

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Speaker 1: our viewers on MSG the they're putting the lettering down

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Speaker 1: on the field. The numbers are going down to field.

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Speaker 1: The logo in the center of the field. It looks spectacled.

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Speaker 1: And that's really the only difference from the old turf

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Speaker 1: to the new turf. I talked to some of our

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Speaker 1: operations guys, I said, what's the deal with the end zones?

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Speaker 1: Same blue white letters? He said, the letters for the

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Speaker 1: Bills might be a little larger than they were previously,

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Speaker 1: and the logo in the middle of the field bigger, larger,

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Speaker 1: And those are really the only differences with the new turf,

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Speaker 1: like the fact that it's newer and I like it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you looked down than those guys. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know how they were doing it yesterday because I had

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Speaker 1: the numbers dance laying I guess they were just laying there.

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Speaker 1: Those were the templates right for paint. And so now

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Speaker 1: they're up there and there you can see they're closer

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Speaker 1: to the middle of the field. They're getting them on.

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Speaker 1: They're not painted. They cut them out and they were

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Speaker 1: gonna sew those in like like white turf in. So

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Speaker 1: it's actually, you know, one part of the field is

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Speaker 1: just like the old part. You know, remember back in

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Speaker 1: the day when I first got here in the late eighties,

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Speaker 1: they used to have a bill's helmet in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the field, remember that, right, It was just a helmet,

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Speaker 1: and it was the old the old red helmet, the

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Speaker 1: red helmet, and the red helmet was painted. That's how

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Speaker 1: they got the turf to be that color. They painted

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Speaker 1: it like you know, you know out there with you

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Speaker 1: know Sherman. That was slicker than the green parts. Right.

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Speaker 1: Game plan, completely game plan. I'm there's a ton of

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Speaker 1: stories about that. We used to have an offensive line call.

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Speaker 1: The guys come up on the field, if they were

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Speaker 1: on the middle of the field or whatever. They would

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Speaker 1: make a line call said paint and guys would know,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, because you couldn't stand on it. You'd start

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Speaker 1: to try and plant or whatever. It would be slippery

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Speaker 1: that paint was slippery, especially back in the day when

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Speaker 1: I first got here, the field still had a crown

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Speaker 1: on it, and the over the years, the turf that

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Speaker 1: they had used had a grain that ran one way

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Speaker 1: and one direction, little these small little hairs that used

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Speaker 1: to be the turf. It's not like it is now.

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Speaker 1: It had really very short right picture indoor outdoor carpeting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: except with not the loops. It was. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: like felt. It's like running on felt. So it ran

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Speaker 1: one direction. It all laid down in one direction. So

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Speaker 1: if you were running to the sideline with the direction

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Speaker 1: and started to plant to go back the other way,

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Speaker 1: you would on the grain right. But if you were

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Speaker 1: going the other direct, excellent trash. You could stick your

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Speaker 1: foot in the ground and head up the field. They

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Speaker 1: and it was part of the game plane. You could

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Speaker 1: not run the football on a short yardage or a

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Speaker 1: crucial down where the back was going to have to

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Speaker 1: put his foot in the grain like that cut and cut.

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Speaker 1: So you'd always run your short yardage place to that

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Speaker 1: side of the field either direction you're going right. We

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Speaker 1: also had it where in the way and people will

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Speaker 1: recognize this. People on the shady side on the home

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Speaker 1: side of the field during the late part of the year,

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Speaker 1: if the sun is out, you can't throw a ball

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Speaker 1: down one side of the field because the sun gets

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Speaker 1: you know, the sun is at the wrong angle. I

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Speaker 1: think it's I think it's I think it's at the

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Speaker 1: tunnel end far side from the home side. You look

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Speaker 1: back right into the sun at certain parts of the day.

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Speaker 1: Also the prevailing wind the scoreboard end to the visitor's side.

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Speaker 1: If you throw a pass into that, or kick or

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Speaker 1: kick a hit a kickoff into that, forget it. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's incomplete it or it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: turn over. We used to kick it ind over there

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Speaker 1: intentionally and get some turnovers. Gilette Stadium has that same

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Speaker 1: thing for receivers with the sun in their eyes. Brady

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Speaker 1: actually takes his receivers out there and deliberately throws to them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: with the sun in their eyes. Yeah yeah. It's all

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Speaker 1: if not everybody gets a chance to go down and

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Speaker 1: want to lay down on it and kind of snuggle.

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Speaker 1: It's like a dog. Yeah, you feel like it's it's

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Speaker 1: basket out, give me a sandwich. All is so nice.

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Speaker 1: The turf they have now is so nice. And I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that in the years it's going to get even better.

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Speaker 1: But I will say this though, Yeah, that logo is great. Man.

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Speaker 1: It's it's almost it's almost twenty yards. Law, it's sixteen

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Speaker 1: yards long now. It's it's not centered. They're not. They

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Speaker 1: don't have it in there yet. It's not. I mean

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Speaker 1: they'll they'll slide it around a little bit, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's about eighteen yards. I mean, it's a law. It's well,

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Speaker 1: you can see the tail of the event. It's wider

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Speaker 1: than the hat goes to the goes to the forty two,

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Speaker 1: but the head is at the forty one the other way,

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Speaker 1: so it's going to be forty one from the forty

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go over fifteen yards of the center of

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Speaker 1: the field. I always thought that was a great move.

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Speaker 1: Just make that thing as big as you can make it,

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Speaker 1: you know, make it a twenty five yard logo. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's jad planes. When the jet planes

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Speaker 1: flying over, you can look down and say, hey, look

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Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, I guess awesome, it looks great. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be great. That it's a great stadium. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's great, a great venue, great as

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Speaker 1: a great it's great great great great great great great.

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Speaker 1: Everybody on the everybody also on the on the um.

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Speaker 1: You know the social media that everybody remembers the red

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Speaker 1: end zones. I played when the thing was had red insight,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of fans that hit me up

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Steve. Yeah, they would want the red zone,

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Speaker 1: red end zones back. I don't know. I like it blue,

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Speaker 1: I'll admit it. I don't have a problem with it

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Speaker 1: because it looks. It looks better when the place is

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Speaker 1: empty with the blue seats right, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It just looks great. Coordination, color, great, blue. It looks great,

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Speaker 1: great great great. Yeah, just say great. I like that place. Man.

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Speaker 1: Anybody that took me over under on how many times

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Speaker 1: Steve was gonna say a lot of money, five so

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Speaker 1: I got like six to go of the everywhere I

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Speaker 1: go in that on the floor of that stadium. There

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Speaker 1: are memories of guys and plays and moments in the

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Speaker 1: There's just so much, so many memories flood back. There's

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Speaker 1: baby touchdown who we had on the show yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: you're like leaping eight feet in the air. No back

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Speaker 1: is to the camera. No, Beebs is in that picture. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's in that Relentless book. Beebs is in the picture

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Speaker 1: bumping your fish, jumping in the airs. That was when

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Speaker 1: I think it was when Leonard Smith caught the deflected

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Speaker 1: John Elway touchdown. It was like the third down in

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Speaker 1: seventy seven seconds, when we came back from being down

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Speaker 1: So you were like, you look like you're ten feet

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Speaker 1: that your vertical was very impressive. Yeah, you're doing like that.

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Speaker 1: when you get to a certain game, a flutter of

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Speaker 1: like Steve, you get to a certain age, You get

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Speaker 1: to a certain age and level of wisdom that tells you,

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Speaker 1: in no uncertain terms, do not put your butt over

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Speaker 1: your head in any circumstance whatsoever. I'm way ahead of

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Speaker 1: you in the year's game. I know that I have

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Speaker 1: lived through those years, and I'm onto the next stage

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Speaker 1: it's the right ones, so right, it's uh yeah. So

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Speaker 1: it's the stadium looks awesome. It's gonna be done and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna look great. I don't know if many people

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Speaker 1: of the things that the real field connoisseurs will notice

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Speaker 1: a trevory red track. Now it's gonna be pale gray

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Speaker 1: You won't notice it very much. Right, That's gonna be

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Speaker 1: there was an announcement by the team today regarding training

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Speaker 1: camp tickets for the training camp practices that require a

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Speaker 1: case you didn't see this on your Twitter feed or

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Speaker 1: on your text alert service from the Bills, but their

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Speaker 1: mobile tickets are now available for the practices on Saturday

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Speaker 1: July twenty seventh, Sunday July twenty eighth, and Sunday August fourth.

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Speaker 1: Now that the twenty seventh and the twenty eighth are

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Speaker 1: both morning practices nine forty five am on Saturday and Sunday,

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Speaker 1: the first full weekend of training camp, and then Sunday,

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Speaker 1: August fourth is a two forty five practice. All of

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Speaker 1: limited to four tickets a person. Mobile tickets, you just

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Speaker 1: go online to get these Buffalo Bills dot com. Backslash

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Speaker 1: camp um backslash or forward slash. I think that's a backslash, right,

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Speaker 1: the shift button. In case you're looking at that right,

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Speaker 1: So it's that slash slash, So there's they no longer

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Speaker 1: all mobile down. Um, well, fans that require accessible seating

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Speaker 1: Purchase just grab the venue. Yeah you know that's riot,

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Speaker 1: the game because I sat here through the end last week,

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Speaker 1: and then we want, you know that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna know, I'm gonna take the field.

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Speaker 1: I think they're taking the fans. Yeah, I'm taking the fans.

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Speaker 1: I'm because I'm just gonna warn your Steve I accounting

428
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Speaker 1: on the Bills Nation to absolutely blow. I have uncovered

429
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Speaker 1: some pretty unusual stuff on the part of some professional athletes,

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Speaker 1: and I've gone I've reached far and wide to various

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Speaker 1: sports around the globe. So this can get pretty interesting.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we've and and fortunately South America has come

433
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Speaker 1: up big for me. I'm happy to say. I see that.

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Speaker 1: You know people down there, you know, they're kind of

435
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Speaker 1: into the superstiti stitious stuff they believe, you know, in uh,

436
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Speaker 1: evil spirits and things like that. So I've got some

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Speaker 1: good stuff in store for us here on the list

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Speaker 1: that may trump anything that a Bills fan or a

439
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Speaker 1: Western New York fan of Buffalo Sports has for us.

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Speaker 1: But hey, if you've got something good, bring it at

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Speaker 1: eight o three fifty one, eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. I think I think we know some of

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Speaker 1: the fans already have some pretty popular ones that many

444
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Speaker 1: of you know, the members of Bill's Nation are aware of.

445
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Speaker 1: I mean, we all know Pinto Ron or Kenny he

446
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Speaker 1: gets covered in ketchup before the game, right in the tailgates.

447
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 1: I still don't know the genesis of that and why

448
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Speaker 1: that is done and why someone would endure that, especially

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Speaker 1: when it's not getting hit with sticks. I mean, well,

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Speaker 1: I know, but like you still got to go into

451
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Speaker 1: the game. He's got to go find someplace to shower,

452
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 1: doesn't he hose It's like, what is it like twenty

453
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Speaker 1: five degrees out in December, like I'm not signing up

454
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Speaker 1: for that game day conditions mean something. He's better than

455
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Speaker 1: I am. I'm just alarmed that ketchup is wasted to

456
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Speaker 1: that degree because it is my favorite condiment and it

457
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Speaker 1: almost pains me to see Kenny covered in that stuff

458
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Speaker 1: from head to toe every week. Got now, so we've

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Speaker 1: got people already chiming in because it's been out on

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Speaker 1: Twitter for about maybe an hour, maybe a little less

461
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Speaker 1: than an hour, so you know, people are, you know,

462
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Speaker 1: sending in some stuff, and some of them have pictures

463
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Speaker 1: along with him. I don't know any of the pictures.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna this on the Twitter. The Twitter sheet

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Speaker 1: doesn't show the picture tweet sheet, Yes, presented by presented

466
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Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo

467
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Speaker 1: Bills from the tweet sheet and what it just apropos

468
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Speaker 1: that the first tweet would be from Bill's fanatic one. Hey,

469
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Speaker 1: that's me in the picture. I love it for me.

470
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Speaker 1: Always have to have Bills blue nail polish on for

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Speaker 1: the season and of course where the exact same outfit

472
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Speaker 1: as I was wearing in the prior win. Can't wait

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Speaker 1: till the season and She's pictured in the tweet and

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Speaker 1: it shows her blue nail polish, and you know there

475
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Speaker 1: she's standing in the front row looks like front row

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Speaker 1: of the stadium. They're good fear standing next next to

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Speaker 1: a Jim Kelly jersey. There you go. That's a good one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, blue nail all right, we can that's good.

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Speaker 1: That's not out out there. That's n no, No, that's

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Speaker 1: totally reasonable. It's a nice softball and one to begin

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Speaker 1: This shows a good leadoff hitter. There step from from Jack?

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Speaker 1: What is your most important pregame ritual or superstition? From Jack?

483
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Speaker 1: Because I have to wear the same Bill's outfit as

484
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Speaker 1: the week before if they won, if they lost, I

485
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Speaker 1: make a whole new ensemble for next week. Thankfully, I've

486
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Speaker 1: got a lot of Bills gear. Favorite is the Steve

487
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Speaker 1: task I bought when I was twelve, nineteen ninety four.

488
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Speaker 1: It still fits, or my signed Fred Smerless jersey. So

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Speaker 1: I guess the steep. I guess you can loop around

490
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Speaker 1: after you've lost, you gotta you can put the same

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Speaker 1: jersey on with different stuff around it, I guess, yeah,

492
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Speaker 1: or just swap out to jersey all together and then

493
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Speaker 1: wait for the next and then keep back going for

494
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Speaker 1: whatever is working. You just stick with that for the

495
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Speaker 1: next week and the next week. Yeah, that's nice to

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Speaker 1: be a part of somebody else's craziness. One I we'll go,

497
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Speaker 1: we'll go. We'll go for three in a row. From

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Speaker 1: the most important pregame ritual or superstition from Carly, she says,

499
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Speaker 1: my husband wears the same fedora to every game, but

500
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Speaker 1: I bought him a new one for Christmas this past year.

501
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm hoping it'll start a new tradition of winning. Going

502
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Speaker 1: Tom Landry there, yea, yeah, you know that's the thing too.

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Speaker 1: How safe is it to start a new tradition season

504
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Speaker 1: to season? Do you feel comfortable starting? Yeah, you've turned

505
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Speaker 1: the page. Yeah, you know. It's a new year, new team.

506
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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of turnover with the with the

507
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: personnel and the players. So I think it's fine to

508
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Speaker 1: turn over your your pregame ritual or change an article

509
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: that's part of your pregame ritual. I think that's totally

510
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Speaker 1: fair game. And I'm gonna go just before we take

511
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: a break here after was just getting started. Here's my

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Speaker 1: take on changing from year to year. There has got

513
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Speaker 1: to be the right type of motivation or reason for

514
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Speaker 1: beginning a new tradition, starting an old you know, changing

515
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Speaker 1: an old tradition or whatever. The motivation for doing that

516
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 1: has got to be right. You can't just be doing

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Speaker 1: it since I'm change. Most of the time, it's to

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Speaker 1: get the team winning, don't you think? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's what That's what I'm saying. Isn't that what Carly

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Speaker 1: just said? Here? I'm hoping it will start a new

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Speaker 1: tradition of wearing new fedora. There has to be a

522
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Speaker 1: rationale for why this change is gonna help. That's the cruise,

523
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Well, now you're digging down

524
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Speaker 1: a little bit deeper. Well, that's yeah, it's gonna mean something.

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Speaker 1: That's got to mean something, right, and that that's the

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Speaker 1: logic that is That is the logic that people wait

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Speaker 1: for when they listen to this show. It's gonna mean,

528
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Speaker 1: it's gonna mean something. It's gotta meant it's got to mean,

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Speaker 1: it's got to mean something. I mean, I don't think

530
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Speaker 1: it could be any better. You've got to go deep

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Speaker 1: down inside to find the exact reason you're gonna change

532
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Speaker 1: a tradition. We to have a new tradition. We encourage

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Speaker 1: going down the rabbit hole, so go for it. We're halfway.

534
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Speaker 1: There were thirty minutes. We're here till three o'clock. Steve Tasker,

535
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. We're gonna come back with more of your tweets.

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Speaker 1: What is your most important pregame ritual or superstition. We'll

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Speaker 1: take your calls at at five fifty two five fifty

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Speaker 1: or one eighty eight two fifty eight three fifty eight

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Speaker 1: to three oh five fifty or one eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. You can do that without even

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Speaker 1: looking at it, and I still struggle with it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be back. This is Buffalo, This is One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live from One Bills Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio

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Speaker 1: right now. Okay, there we go. Welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live Steep Tasker along with Chris Brown. It's kind

546
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Speaker 1: of funny. We're getting in out of it. I was

547
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Speaker 1: I couldn't even throw us to break. We got I

548
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: finally sputtered out. I sputtered out One Bills Live for

549
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and got off the mic. But we're

550
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Speaker 1: getting We had this topic that we started with. It

551
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Speaker 1: was just for fun. It's you know it's June. It's

552
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Speaker 1: June twenty seventh, Thursday, and here we go. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and what's the most important pregame ritual or superstition you have?

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Speaker 1: And the feedback is just a little bit overwhelming. Well,

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Speaker 1: may we not. We may not get to talk about

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Speaker 1: anything else today this And that's fine because I think

557
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a lot of fun with this. And

558
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: I think everybody. I think that most Bills fans, and

559
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 1: I mentioned to this to you in the break, I

560
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: think most Bills fans are aware that Jim Kelly more

561
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: often than not or every week, would need to throw

562
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: up before the game. It was just something that he did.

563
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: But then you kind of shared with me that that

564
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Speaker 1: wasn't the only thing this guy did before games. I mean,

565
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: it just said it started on Friday. Oh, he started

566
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: doing stuff Friday. Everybody. He also, you know, he'd go

567
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: to lunch with Frank on Saturday. He'd all this kind

568
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: of routine that would go through every week, every week,

569
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Speaker 1: and it was always this guy. He did this with

570
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Speaker 1: this guy at this time of day on game weekend

571
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: and this way with this time a guy and he

572
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: did something. Me and him had a little thing we did,

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Speaker 1: we'd walk out. He never wanted to walk out on

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Speaker 1: the field by himself, so you guys go down the tunnel.

575
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Speaker 1: So for a lot of years it was Frank. He

576
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Speaker 1: and Frank would go down the tunnel by themselves, right. Well,

577
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: then Frank started holding for the place kickers, and he

578
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: did go out earlier. So Jim was looking for somebody

579
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Speaker 1: to do it with. And and I don't know whether

580
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Speaker 1: he asked me or I volunteered, or was I got

581
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: the short straw or whatever it was. I ended up going, Hey,

582
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be walking out with me. He goes, what

583
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: time you're going? I go, oh yeah, He goes, will

584
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: you go out with me? I go, yeah, yeah, I

585
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: think that's how it happened. So as it happened, So

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00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: it started happening, and then we started, you know, we

587
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: we said something on the first time, and you know,

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00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: he said, uh, I don't even I can't remember what

589
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: he said. He'd tell you what he's and I can't

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00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: even fifth month in and I'd say, hey, just keep

591
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: slinging it, Jim, you know, as in, no matter what happens,

592
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: just keep throwing it. And we'd left. So we did

593
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: that one game and you know, I don't know what

594
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: it was, Lady lights up the Steelers for six touchdowns

595
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: or whether we win. I don't know even what game

596
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: will I don't even know what year that was. Whenever

597
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: it was, we had this game. And so the next

598
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: week you're doing, we're parroting the same thing, and then

599
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: it goes from there until through four Super Bowls and

600
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: all that you could react. So but when I first

601
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: got here, I was week ten of nineteen eighty six.

602
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: He got here week minus one, right Monday of opening Day, right,

603
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Speaker 1: and so he's been there ten weeks, and you can

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00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: understand the pressure that he was under right, I mean,

605
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: and I say this time and time a parade for

606
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: not a single player in NFL history ever throughout the ages,

607
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: has come into a franchise with more expectation and pressure

608
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: than Jim Kelly came to Flow with none. Nobody. I

609
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: defy you to name one player who was ever drafted

610
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: or signed that came in with more expectation than Jim Kelly.

611
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,959
Speaker 1: Came to Buffalo more fanfare and attached to it more pressure.

612
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: So he was feeling it. Yeah, So by the time

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Speaker 1: I get here, like week ten, it's like November eighth

614
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Speaker 1: or something. When I finally got here off Waivers, I'm

615
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: in the locker room. It's the Marv Levy's first game

616
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Speaker 1: as head coach. I'm sitting over there in my game

617
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Speaker 1: pants or you know, I'll get kind of ready. It's

618
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: like right before we go out, after warm ups and

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Speaker 1: all that, where it's time, right, and I hear this

620
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Speaker 1: puking noise up in the in the bathroom. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's just unmistakable, like and you know you can hear

622
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Speaker 1: the impact everything, right, so so you could. It was

623
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Speaker 1: like I was looking around, I go, I'll go, Wow,

624
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Speaker 1: somebody's gonna play when they're sick, you know. I was like,

625
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: and I was kind I look around. I look over

626
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: my buddy, like John Kid or whatever. He goes. He goes, No, Bro,

627
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Speaker 1: that's that's Jim Kelly. He's that's Kelly. He's he pukes

628
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: before every game. I go, what he goes? Yeah? He

629
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Speaker 1: goes in an ain't on purpose, you know, right? So

630
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: that was that wasn't that wasn't a voluntary thing that

631
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: he had to do. So he felt like he could

632
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: go play. It would just kind of well up inside

633
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Speaker 1: him every week and then here it comes. I got

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Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom. He was real and uh

635
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: and so he didn't will that to happen. It just

636
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: that's why it went away. After time. Yeah, after a time,

637
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: it went away. When the team started to get good,

638
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: he started to exert himself. Then he said, you know,

639
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: the pressure wasn't as great on him, and he knew,

640
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, he had some comp so it kind of

641
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: went away over over time. But man, oh man, for

642
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: a long time it was like and then you know,

643
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: guys like Wagger, they'd just stand over there, but they'd

644
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: leaned against the doorway of the bathroom wait for it.

645
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: Oh so then o game time and it was there

646
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: ever a week where that didn't happen, and people are like, yo,

647
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: no in this season to season really maybe six and

648
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: eighty seven he stopped doing it, you know, or something

649
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: somewhere along there. But it was kind of cool because

650
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: once it happened, we'd all look out to start like,

651
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: now we're ready to play, let's go, And it was

652
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: it was kind of a you know, a light switch.

653
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: It was great. It was great. Yeah, you had, you know,

654
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: i know, a very good team. I know. There was

655
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: an interesting cast of characters through the years that kind

656
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: of came through that locker room, so you had there

657
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: was some other guys with some whacking. I don't mention

658
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: the names, but we're he'd be sitting there at breakfast

659
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: and we'd be having you know, pregame, yeah, pregame meal,

660
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: spaghetti or pancakes, whatever whoever it was. It was usually both,

661
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: you know, if you whatever carbing up, yeah, whatever carb

662
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: you could, you could swill down. And uh, it's over

663
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: here sitting He's got his hands like he's got a

664
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: like he's got an egg in his hands, a soft

665
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: baby bird, baby bird. Like he's got one hand over

666
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: the top of the other their cupped right, like a

667
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: round ball inside his hands, and he's and he's shaking

668
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: it like he's got dice in it, right, And you're like, hey,

669
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: what is and you and you like, you know, what

670
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: do you do? And he's got chicken bones yeah, in

671
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: his hands. He's saying anything and it's like some sort

672
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: of of thing. Yeah, I don't know what it was.

673
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: I was like, chicken are you? That wasn't from it

674
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: for me? That was around the band. I was like,

675
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: it wasn't a freshly eaten like drumstick. It wasn't like

676
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: off the buffet. No, this was like these were like

677
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: you're from home special, yeah whatever, you know, these are

678
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 1: like from a catalog order, right. They could have been

679
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: Voodoo magazine. It could have been Pigeon Bones or mouse

680
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: Bones or something too. I don't what do I know?

681
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm like, man, you are gone. You're

682
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: a goner. Did they did that unnamed person ever explain

683
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: why that was necessary? I was not interested in finding

684
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: I was not interested much like I wass like, I

685
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: wasn't interested in checking out what Jim had for breakfast.

686
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: You know, I'm that held about as much an intrigue

687
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: as me him over there shaking that thing, okay. And

688
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: and then uh, let's see there was Leonard Smith would

689
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: come around in high five every guy in the locker room, staff, coaches, players, equipment,

690
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: ball boy had to get everybody, had to get everybody.

691
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you what he he slapped everybody hard

692
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: as hard as he could. Every it was and guys

693
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: would avoid it. Yeah, guys, Marv avoided it. Marv would

694
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: go put on a glove, literally a big I'm telling you,

695
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: Marv would go put on a big winter glove, all right,

696
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: and then he would come on and he need to

697
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: ask for us. Yeah, I give it to you, right,

698
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: So like he was in on it, but he but

699
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: he would like turntail and run if he saw Leonard

700
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: coming and had making the round bruising right. And now

701
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: there's a ton of guys and a lot of guys.

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00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta get one ankle tape before the other.

703
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: You gotta get taped in the road stuff. Listen, I

704
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: had got taped after you last year, last week and

705
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: I recovered the fumble I got after you go, I'm

706
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: gonna go right after you. You know that kind of thing.

707
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: And but there's as you can sell. As the season

708
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: rolls on, every team's new and as the season rolls along,

709
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: and particularly back then you're having success and doing stuff,

710
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: guys start to get into those rhythms and those they

711
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: start feeling it and they don't want to change too much.

712
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: And the and the routine, whatever superstition or routine or

713
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: habit you got into, nobody wanted to change or mess

714
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: with it. All right, So eight oh three five fifty

715
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: the number to call in with your pregame ritual as

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00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: a fan. We're talking about a lot of player ones

717
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: and we'll get into some of the more unusual ones

718
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: through the course of time. And I've already told Steve

719
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: I've uncovered some wacky stuff, like really wacky stuff. So

720
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: bring your best because this this is if there ever

721
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: was a show where one upsmanship was encouraged. This is it?

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00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: All right? Well, let's start. We'll take one call off

723
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: the top here Charlie from Buffalo. Charlie, you've got a

724
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 1: pregame ritual. What tell us about it? Well, I remember

725
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: years ago, back in the day, I saw him on

726
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,479
Speaker 1: TV do This was Jim Hexaul Reynolds when he played

727
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: with the Los Angeles Rams in San Francisco forty nine ers.

728
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: He was the only player I can name on my

729
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: hand that he used to show him. They showed him

730
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: on CBS a few times. He lead the whole towel first,

731
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: one out of the whole towel. Early in the morning,

732
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: he would wear his whole well you uniform, jump in

733
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: a cab and go to the stadium. Have you ever

734
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: heard of anybody else doing that? To shide him? That's

735
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 1: all I got to say, guys, and have a good afternoon.

736
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: Thanks Charlie. That's a good one. Yeah, I heard one guy,

737
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: say do that, But it was I think it was

738
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: Lester Hayes, and he did it only on the day

739
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: the year the Super Bowl Sunday. Okay, he got up

740
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: put all this stuff out of those You didn't want

741
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: to wait to get out a bus and everything. You

742
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: got to talk to your equipment manager to do that

743
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 1: because all that stuff's usually set up at the stadium

744
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: the day before the Game's not. It's not that big

745
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: a deal because if you're gonna do it, you're gonna

746
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: do it. But yeah, that's yeah, everybody else. I mean,

747
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: you're asking your guy, hey, putting my stuff in my

748
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: room right because I'm wearing it Sunday morning. We're getting

749
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: up and I'm putting it on and getting on the bus. Yeah,

750
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: in full year, I remember what it was like to

751
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: do that. You get up in the morning and you

752
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: it's you just cannot wait for the game to start.

753
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: You've got so much invested in it. You've got so

754
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,919
Speaker 1: much in it. You know it's gonna be a physical bottle.

755
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: You know, it's like getting ready for a fight. You

756
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: know where you're gonna say. Oh, you get yourself up

757
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: board and you start doing it. Sleep it takes you

758
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: forever to get to sleep at night. You wake up

759
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: and I remember too, you wake up in the morning.

760
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: He's like, you're just like your eyes snap open. It's like, oh,

761
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, and you get out of bed and you

762
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: start You're just on edge. And the guys just they

763
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: cope in a lot of different ways. You've seen You've

764
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: seen guys go off the rails before big games, do

765
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. You know, guys get arrested, and you know,

766
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: you know, on Super Bowl Sunday, that's the pressure. It's

767
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: a coping mechanism because everybody feels the heat and they

768
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: start doing crazy stuff or weird stuff and off the

769
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: deep end, go off the deep end. And some guys

770
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: just said, listen, let's just let me get dressed. If

771
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: I can get in my uniform, I can get to

772
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 1: the stadium, I can just do my I'll be ready

773
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: to play and it'll be closer. You know. So so

774
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: in much the same vein that you started off the

775
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: tweet sheet of responses for you know, most important pregame

776
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: rituals or superstitions, I too, will start our professional athlete

777
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 1: list off with a relatively tame okay ritual. Serena Williams

778
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: arguably one of the best female tennis players of all time,

779
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: maybe one of the best tennis players regardless of gender ever. Um, yeah,

780
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: when the greatest tennis player of her generation, well I

781
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: would say yeah, and maybe the best female tennis player ever.

782
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: Maybe in any event, She's got what is not considered

783
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: one of the best rituals as far as hygiene goes.

784
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: Because when she's in a tournament, so like Wimbledon, for example,

785
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: starts next week, Okay, she gets into Wimbled, she advances,

786
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: usually very far in these tournaments, semifinals, finals, wins, brand slams. Yeah.

787
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: After every match, if she wins the match and advances,

788
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: the socks stay the same, doesn't wash him, takes those

789
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: same socks, wears him in the next match, wins again,

790
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: same socks, next match, wins again, same socks, next match.

791
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, with all the finals she's been to,

792
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: there's some worn out socks. Ye. Well, after the finals

793
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: are over, she could probably take them off. Those those

794
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: socks would probably walk home by themselves. I mean, when

795
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: you think about because matches for for I mean it's

796
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: three sets, it's three If it goes to three sets

797
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: for women, you're talking upwards two hours. Yeah, I mean

798
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: all the sweat from her body's just draining into those

799
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: socks the whole game. Uh, you know, the torque on

800
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: the feet the whole time. What is so you you're

801
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: talking six seven matches in a row. That's pretty tame.

802
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: Though she could take them off shower they dry out

803
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: before the next But women are just naturally more conscious

804
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: about hygiene than men. I mean, that's just that's just

805
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: a that's a part for the course type of thing.

806
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. If you want to win, you got to

807
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: do what it takes. Man. So that's that's a small,

808
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: small example we've got. We've got some ditties coming up here. Yeah,

809
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: I bet you do. All right, we're gonna get to

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00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: those right after the break. One Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: kalidah Health. What's your most important pregame ritual or superstition

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00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: on game day? This is Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live,

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00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: presented by Khalid to Health. We're talking about the most

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Speaker 1: important pregame ritual or superstition you might do on game

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00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: day a Buffalo Bills game. Uh, we're getting some obviously

817
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: getting some pretty good responses, most of which we can

818
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: use from the tweet sheet. From number four from tim

819
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: uh oh this, this has nothing to do with it.

820
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: You gotta put this on the tweet sheet. I saw

821
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: Tasker dunk a basketball at Lake Shore High School years

822
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: ago in a charity game. My dad was playing against

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00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: the Bills players. There you go, Brownie, there's proof positive.

824
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: There we go an eyewitness. Twitter said it. Twitter said it.

825
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: It is so eyewitness account, all right, and Tiffany, the

826
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: most important pregame ritual or superstition, I have to enter

827
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: through gate three as soon as the gates open. I

828
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: cannot miss warm ups to see how our players interact

829
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: with the opposition. I make sure I'm available to boo

830
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: the Patriots. They seem to feel it necessary to run

831
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: down our sidelines. Pregame absolutely aggravates me. There you go.

832
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yeah. And I was unaware of that.

833
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: I'm usually out of the stadium doing pregame radio by

834
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,959
Speaker 1: that time, when the players are, you know, in full

835
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: gear getting ready for the game, and then I come

836
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: back around twelve thirty because I'm out in the parking lot. Um.

837
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: I didn't know the Patriots run down our sideline over there?

838
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: Do you have, um a tailgate or some routine fans

839
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: that you interact with on the way? You No, No,

840
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: I usually got to get here by like nine thirty.

841
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: So I mean when you come back into the game

842
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: after pregame radio, because yeah, where do you go for

843
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: pregame radio? What do you do? They usually have a

844
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: set up right outside the fieldhouse here, right, so you

845
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: gotta walk across the park across. So don't you don't

846
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: have any regular fans that you interact with? Question? Oh?

847
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes people say hi, and I'll just be like, hey,

848
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: enjoy the game, you know whatever? Oh yeah, try to hey,

849
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: what do you think? Brown? Any what do you think? He?

850
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of get that a little bit.

851
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: You just say, hey, let's let's hope for the best man. Um,

852
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: Well that's not very positive. Well, you know, you gotta

853
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not promising anything. I'm not playing

854
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: the game. If I'm playing the game, I'll say yeah,

855
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna win today. But I'm not playing. I mean,

856
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: I want to believe we're gonna win. Sure. Wow, you

857
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: gotta jump on board, bro. I am on board. But

858
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 1: my God, like your half, your one foot's on board.

859
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: You gotta jump on. You're like, yeah, we're doing it today.

860
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: Today is the day. It's gonna be historic. We're gonna

861
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: score ninety two points and they're gonna owe us. They're

862
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: gonna owe us points eight. All right, that's what you see.

863
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: That's the attitude people want. So are you are you

864
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: familiar with the Wade Boggs rituals? So Wade Bogs one

865
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: of the better hitters in the second half of the

866
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: twentieth century in baseball history. You're gonna take us down

867
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: a dark path, are you? No, It's not that bad, okay.

868
00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: So the well known pregame ritual for him was chicken.

869
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: Had to eat chicken before every game. Now, football that's

870
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: once a week, Baseball that's one hundred and sixty two times. Right,

871
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: If you're playing every day, you know, and you don't

872
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: know if you're in the lineup until you get to

873
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: the stadium. So this guy's eating chicken. This guy's well, right,

874
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: but you're eating chicken every game day. So his wife

875
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: would scour cookbooks to find different ways, different ways to

876
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: prepare chickens so it would taste at least a little

877
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: bit different from one hundred and sixty two days a

878
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: chicken Steve like for six months span, where it's almost

879
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: every day like wolf to that. I mean, I like

880
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: chicken as much as the next guy, but I don't

881
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: like it that much, so chicken every day. And then

882
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: the other thing that is a far less known thing

883
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: that he would do is he would write. He would

884
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: either draw in the dirt with his bat in the

885
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: batter's box as he was stepping up to the plate,

886
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 1: he would write the word him, which is the Jewish

887
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: word for life, or he would draw the Hebrew symbol

888
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: for him, which is everything. Are you kidding me? I

889
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 1: don't know that. But here's the thing, everything that I've

890
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: looked for here under way, Bogs, I cannot find any

891
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: Jewish heritage in his family. And there's no explanation as

892
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: to why he chose that. I mean, obviously, you know

893
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: it's a it's a positive symbol, and you know, I

894
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: don't know, bring life to my bat, you know, but

895
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 1: bring life to my batting average. Not that that was

896
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: ever really an issue for him because he's over a

897
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: career's three hundred hitter, but uh yeah, So you know,

898
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: a couple of things there, and baseball players are really quirky.

899
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of you think, there's a

900
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 1: lot of weird stuff out there, and there's some funny

901
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: stuff that we'll get into too, but yeah, wave bogs, uh,

902
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: the chicken Man. Basically, for lack of a better term,

903
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,280
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a weird guy, John Henderson.

904
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: Remember the defensive tackles for the Jaguars. There's film footage

905
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: of this, the head athletic train. Can you imagine you're that,

906
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: you're that trainer guy and you got six six three

907
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: ten pound John Henderson coming up to you and saying, hey, man,

908
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: before the game, I need you to slap me across

909
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: the face as hard as you possibly can. Are you

910
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: buying that? I'm worried this guy's gonna say, Man, that

911
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 1: was harder than I needed it to be. And then

912
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: he hauls off and slugs you. You're on the floor.

913
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: You're on the floor, r MS chief viewers are watching

914
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: it right now. He just gets slapped. He turns and

915
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,959
Speaker 1: follows through and goes right out the door. I gotta

916
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: believe that that's and you tell me if I'm wrong.

917
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: I gotta believe that's probably probably the equivalent of like

918
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: a smelling salt right before you go out on the field,

919
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: Wake you up, right, I mean, most people wouldn't choose

920
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: getting slapped across the face. But it's like a smelling salt.

921
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: It's only one guy in the entire organization that's allowed

922
00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: to do it, though. He's got the same and he's

923
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: got ring beans for arms, right, yeah, right, Plus nobody

924
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: else wants any part. If anybody else tries to slap

925
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 1: him across the face, you know, you get stuffed into

926
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: a trash can. But he said that would get him

927
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: revved up and ready to play. Yeah, okay, I never

928
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: even did that smelling salt stuff either. I never did that.

929
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: And you go to some of the NFL games when

930
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: I was doing it on sidelines, some guys take a

931
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: big whiff, man. I'd watch. I'd stand next to the

932
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: kickoff huddle. They'd go out there and they'd run off,

933
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: and there'd be like three or four of those ammonia

934
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: tablets snapped right there on the field. I don't have

935
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: to get close to those things to smell him. No, no,

936
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: And then you know they're there. Man, It's like burning

937
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: the inside of your lungs and you're Oh my god.

938
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: What I can't imagine what it does to you know,

939
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: is it don't take it big a big whiff. Then

940
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: I'm telling you guys, guys still use them today. That's

941
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: and I don't know why because they're just running a

942
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: sixty yard sprint. Ain't nobody covering kicks anymore. You never

943
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: end up hitting anybody. Well, just in case he talking

944
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,439
Speaker 1: to talk about Wade Box and his chicken. You saw

945
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 1: Luke Keikley. He has to eat chicken at the same

946
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: restaurant every game, right because the year that they went

947
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: fifteen and one and went to the Super Bowl. The

948
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: week the week they lost, they're only lost, he didn't

949
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: gone there yet. He didn't go so he's like, oh, dang,

950
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: I gotta get his back on the winning streak. I

951
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: gotta go back to what I think it was the

952
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: Roasters or something, one of those other rostains it's called

953
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: it's called the called the Roasting Company. Yeah, Brian R.

954
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: Locker had to pound chocolate chip cookies, Yeah, made by

955
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: the trainer, homemade chocolate chip before every game. Yeah. Um,

956
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders had to play a Madden game, a Madden

957
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: Digital game, you know, against the opponent that they were playing, Yeah,

958
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: against the opponent and beat the opponent on the game

959
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: before they played him. And then one of these we

960
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: mentioned Jim Kelly, who had to you know, toss his

961
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: cookies before every game, at least until a certain portion

962
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: of his career where he was kind of well established

963
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: and entrenched as you know, the franchise quarterback, which didn't

964
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: take very long. He's not the first person to do

965
00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 1: that though, so former Detroit Red Wings goaltender Glenn Hall

966
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: would get sick before every game as a necessity. And

967
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: when he was asked why, and this was after long

968
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: after he had played, he had retired. During an interview

969
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, when asked why he had to vomit

970
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: before every game, he said he felt as if he

971
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: wasn't giving everything he had to the team if he

972
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: didn't throw up before the game. Now, this is also

973
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: this is also a guy who was a little half

974
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: cracked because he used to have to skate around the

975
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: net a certain number of times before the game in

976
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: different directions. He had to test the net with his stick.

977
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: He used to do all these different things before the game.

978
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: So throwing up before is just a small example and

979
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: one last one. Patrick Waugh, as we remember, who certainly

980
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: could go off at any moment, hair trigger type guy.

981
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: This is a guy who when he stepped on the ice,

982
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,479
Speaker 1: he would go out to the red line and would

983
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: skate backwards towards the net he was defending in the

984
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 1: first period, and then right before he got to the crease,

985
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,240
Speaker 1: he would turn around face the net at the last second.

986
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: He claims the reason he did that was to shrink

987
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: the goal. Would it would shrink the goal for him

988
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: and give him a new perspective. Now, he never skated

989
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: over any line on the ice in his career. He

990
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: would have to step over the lines kind of like

991
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: you see baseball players do at the end of an

992
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: inning on the way of the dugout. Nobody steps on

993
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: the foul line. He would do that with every line

994
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: on the ice. He also would never you know how goaltenders,

995
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: you know, they cut up the ice in front of

996
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: their net for better traction and everything that will that

997
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: creates snow, and a lot of the goal tenders would

998
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: just sweep the snow into the net. Nawa nothing was

999
00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: allowed in his net, including ice shavings. Nothing goes in

1000
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: there because that's a that's like bad karma. He also

1001
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: has been reported by other players who played against him,

1002
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, before faceoffs on the red dot there in

1003
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: the on end talking to his posts. He would talk

1004
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: to the pipes. Wow, I guess, I guess he gets

1005
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: lonely name there. I suppose it does talking to his pipes.

1006
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: We're gonna say, what's the most important pregame ritual or

1007
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: superstition you have on game day? You can call us

1008
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,319
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1009
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1010
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:44,880
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1011
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1012
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,279
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1013
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,560
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1014
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1015
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1016
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1017
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Speaker 1: third winning is goalie in league history, announced his retirement

1018
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: yesterday after playing nineteen seasons in the NHL. Luongo has

1019
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,840
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1020
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1024
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,640
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1028
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,520
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00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: take place at Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.

1030
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill completed his meeting with NFL

1031
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: investigators in Kansas City yesterday regarding recent child abuse allegations

1032
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: towards his three year old son. This was Hill's first

1033
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: interview with the league and opportunity to answer the allegations,

1034
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: and was expected to be asked about audio released where

1035
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: he was heard administering threats to his fiance and discussing

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00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: disciplinary actions for his son. There is no timetable for

1037
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: a ruling on Hill's case, but he is expected to

1038
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,320
Speaker 1: report to the Chiefs for training camp on July twenty sixth,

1039
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: barring a significant development in the case. That is your

1040
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 1: sports update. Welcome back to one Bill's Live Steve Task

1041
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: along with Chris Brown here at One Bill's Drive, we're

1042
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: talking about your most important pregame ritual or superstition that

1043
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: you do on Bill's game day. We're getting a lot

1044
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 1: of responses. We're also going around the league and we're

1045
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: around the athletic world getting some of what these athletes

1046
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 1: do and some of the things that they went through

1047
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 1: in their careers. You've got a couple we heard about

1048
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: hockey goalies Patrick Wall last are You've also got one

1049
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: Less Miles, the former head coach of Louisiana. Yeah. Yeah,

1050
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: So on many occasions the cameras have caught, at least

1051
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: when he was coaching less Miles taking pieces of grass

1052
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: right off the field and eating them, and it got

1053
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: covered to a point where he was asked about it

1054
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: in an interview, like taking blades of grass and just

1055
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: throwing him his mouth and chowinged out like several times

1056
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: a game, and he claims it's a little tradition of mine.

1057
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: That humbles me as a man, lets me know that

1058
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm part of the field, a part of the game.

1059
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: And it's the very bottom as well as the very top.

1060
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: And it could be all over the internet. But you

1061
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: know what, you should have seen some games before this.

1062
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing. The grass at Tiger Stadium

1063
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: tastes best. Kind of like an Eastern philosophy when you

1064
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: think about it, one with the universe. Kind of a

1065
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: little bit of a Yin Yang thing. Now, I got

1066
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: I got one. I promised you some South American entries. Okay,

1067
00:53:55,560 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: So the national soccer team for Ecuador. Okay, Ecuadorian national team. Yes,

1068
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: so this is one of the weirder ones. This has

1069
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: happened through several generations of this team. So this is

1070
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: more traditions. Well, you're gonna say it's one of the

1071
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: same here pretty soon. The Ecuadorian national team uses a

1072
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: witch doctor before matches. So what happens is the witch

1073
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: doctor helps them fight off supernatural spirits and he even

1074
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: makes visits to the stadiums. They did this during the

1075
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 1: two thousand and six World Cup in Germany. They went,

1076
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: he went to the stadium. He's got this giant spear

1077
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: with like a stuffed rooster on it. It's I mean,

1078
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,439
Speaker 1: the guy looks legitimately like a witch doctor. I'll show

1079
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: you the picture. He is. He is straight out of

1080
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: the jungles of Ecuador. I mean he is. And uh

1081
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: so he would go to the field for the team

1082
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: and ward off any evil spirits before the game. I

1083
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: mean the guy. I'm just gonna say. It's only one picture,

1084
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: but boy, he looks all movie. He looks authentic. He's

1085
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: a movie character. I mean, right down right down to

1086
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: the leopard onesie that he's got on. Because and are

1087
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: there le No, there's jaguars in Ecuador, not leopards. Maybe

1088
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: it's a jaguar skin. Okay, that's my guest. We can

1089
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: only guess. Yeah, so there you go. What's more to come?

1090
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know. What's the most important game day

1091
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: superstition or ritual we've got? All right, let's try it,

1092
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: let's try let's take it. Finally, you gotta take a

1093
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: phone call, okay, rich Nick from Ken Moore, thanks for waiting.

1094
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: You're with Chris and Steve on one Bill's Live. What's

1095
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: your most important game day superstition or ritual? Nick? All right,

1096
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: Nick's one one superstition is not answering the phone. I guess, okay,

1097
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 1: so I've I've got another one here and this we're

1098
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,800
Speaker 1: going to the world a hockey for this, okay. Former

1099
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: NHL forward Bruce Gardner. I think he last played for

1100
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: the Ottawa Senators, so he didn't really have a great career,

1101
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:05,439
Speaker 1: you know, an average player for the most part. Also

1102
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: played for Columbus, but he had a pregame stick ritual

1103
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 1: as you know, you know, hockey players in their sticks,

1104
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: they're like right thick as thieves. So he's in a

1105
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:20,320
Speaker 1: slump back in ninety six when he was playing, So

1106
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: he asked one of his teammates for advice, and his

1107
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: teammate Tom Chorski tells him teach the stick whose boss

1108
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: give the wood a swirlie. So he takes his stick,

1109
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: he goes to the bathroom, he sticks his stick in

1110
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: the toilet and flushes the toilet. He goes out. The

1111
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: next game, he has two goals and an assist. So

1112
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: after that every game he'd stick his stick in the

1113
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: toilet and hit the flush, hit the flusher. So he said,

1114
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: this is my approach. You tape it, you dunk it,

1115
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,320
Speaker 1: and you don't touch it. But I'd do anything for

1116
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: a couple of goals. Toilet stick. You tape it, dun

1117
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: dunk and then don't don't touch it the rest of

1118
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: the game. That that's the ritual. You got to use

1119
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: that stick hockey player. Well, yeah, before the game, but

1120
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 1: he but noticing, so he tapes the blade beforehand obviously,

1121
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: then he dunks it. Oh, then you don't touch it.

1122
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: Don't touch it after? Well, I would say, would you

1123
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: touch it in a hockey locker room? After that? After not?

1124
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: After s Is that is a good movie? Yeah? Most

1125
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: important game based superstition or ritual on the tweet sheet

1126
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: brought to us by Corgan Moving Systems, the official movers

1127
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills from Shannon, I buy my beer

1128
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: the night before so I don't miss any pregame shows.

1129
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: And I buy the jersey of our highest draft pick

1130
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: every year. All right, so she's a good one. So

1131
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: she's getting ninety one this year for d Yeah, there

1132
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: you go. You get edge jersey, get the beer all

1133
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: set the night before so you can just wake up

1134
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: and crack it. Right, So I guess I guess what

1135
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: she's saying is she's not running to the store and

1136
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: so she's missing stuff on TV. I'm guessing this is

1137
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: a home thing, right, Like, she's at home, so she

1138
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: gets her beer the night before or so the fridge

1139
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: is stocked and ready to roll. She's not going to

1140
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: the game, yea. Or it could be all the away games.

1141
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: Also a most important game day superstition from Donald. I

1142
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: always make sure we're a bill's jersey of a retired

1143
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: player when I go to a home game. I had

1144
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: a good streak of any player that was currently playing

1145
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: and was wearing his jersey and they got hurt in

1146
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, so he stopped doing that, So he

1147
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: wears retired players. Takes the injury factor out of the equation.

1148
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: See now we got into how do you change or

1149
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: establish a new tradition? That would be a good one

1150
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: if and I'll tell you this, if I was wearing

1151
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: a guy's jersey who was playing in the game and

1152
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: he got hurt, that would be the last time I

1153
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: wore that jersey ever. Oh really, Oh yeah, I would

1154
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: never go back to that jersey. Okay, that's that is

1155
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: So how do you do that? You just asked for

1156
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: a new one, or you go buy one? What are

1157
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: you talking about? Oh? You know, me. No, I'm talking

1158
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: about as off as a fall. I wore my jersey.

1159
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: Yeah no, No, I mean, like I thought you meant

1160
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: that eighty nine that you were wearing that week, you

1161
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: can't wear it the next week. Like I'm thinking you

1162
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: were a player and like you and then and then

1163
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: you're going to say, yeah, I need a new one

1164
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: next week the night That's what I was surprised when

1165
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 1: jerseys understood that somebody was wearing my jersey was just

1166
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: a different name plate on the back. They didn't get

1167
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: new jerseys for that guy. Who so Jason Terry former

1168
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: NBA player Steve so before the night before he would

1169
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: play an opponent. So let's say he's playing for the

1170
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks, who he did play for it at one

1171
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: point in time. Let's say the Hawks are playing the

1172
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: Sixers the next day. The night before the game, for pajamas,

1173
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: he would wear authentic game shorts of the opponent to

1174
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: get ready for the game. So he's wearing seventy sixers

1175
00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: authentic game shorts for his pajamas. Then I before, now

1176
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: he wears the opponents game shot. Yes, uh so they

1177
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: said the shorts were not ones that were bought off

1178
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: the shelf authentic game shorts worn by his rivals. So

1179
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: I'm wondering how he's getting his hands on that, Like

1180
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: does he know every equipment manager in the NBA. I

1181
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: mean he did play for six or seven teams, um,

1182
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: But this guy is superstitious. Because he also had had

1183
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: the tattoo of the Larry O'Brian trophy, which is the

1184
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 1: NBA championship trophy. He had it on his arm. He

1185
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: had it removed. That's a bad move if you don't

1186
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: if you don't win it, Yeah, you don't put it

1187
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:45,959
Speaker 1: on your arm. Had that he had that lasered off. Yeah,

1188
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: So that was another thing that he did. But it's

1189
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 1: a huge mental He was worried there. Yeah. Steve Finley,

1190
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: who was known as a little bit of a wacky

1191
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: baseball player, he would carry around a pouch of what

1192
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:03,439
Speaker 1: he called mineral, which basically was a box of rocks. Steve,

1193
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: it's like a little bag of rocks, you know what

1194
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: I mean. Oh, there's topaz in there and healing crystals

1195
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: and other stuff. So he used to carry around this

1196
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: little draw string satchel of rocks, and he claimed that

1197
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: the minerals were a layer of protection against many harmful

1198
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: external energy intruders that attack our bodies on daily basis,

1199
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: claimed it kept him healthy for almost his entire little

1200
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: bag of minerals. How do they get to how does

1201
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: that happen? Maybe he did play for the Arizona Diamondbacks,

1202
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: like later in his career. Maybe he went up to Sedona,

1203
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: which is that you know, that whole vortex thing with

1204
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: the healing crystals that they have up there. Maybe went

1205
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: up there, bought a little satchel of minerals and felt

1206
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: great the next day. I don't around the bend and

1207
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: down the hill guy named Jello. I live in Cleveland,

1208
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: So my usual ritual is trying to find an internet

1209
01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 1: stream to watch the game. Then I make wings or

1210
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: pizza about thirty minutes before the game, and the family

1211
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: knows the TV's mind for the duration of the game. Yeah,

1212
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: that's a little ritual. Uh, not so much a superstition,

1213
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean that everybody. Oh, there's a timing

1214
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 1: element there. He said, wings and pizza thirty minutes before

1215
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: the games or pizza about thirty minutes before the game.

1216
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: So I mean there's there's a timing element there. For him,

1217
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: it's gotta be about twelve thirty gotta be having pregame

1218
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: meal for hiss from John. This is a good one.

1219
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: He he he read this last week. We had this on.

1220
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: John says, my TV volume has to be on an

1221
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: even love that. That's a good one. I'm an even

1222
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 1: guy too. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm an even guy too,

1223
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 1: Like just with a lot of things. I don't like

1224
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: odd numbers. Like I'm an even guy, like all the way,

1225
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: just with anything. Like, um, I'm trying to give you

1226
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 1: some examples. Don't turn crazy on me now, no, No,

1227
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: like perfect example, like if I'm let's say, I'm just

1228
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 1: shooting baskets in the driveway, you know with my son,

1229
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: We're just we're just shooting. I gotta hit two in

1230
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: a row, you know I can't. Yeah, Like it can't

1231
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 1: be three. It's gotta be four, you know what I mean.

1232
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: Like that kind of thing. Yeah, that's why I like

1233
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: basketball so much, because you know, the baskets were two points.

1234
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: It was perfect, and then the three pointer came in

1235
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: and screwed the whole thing up. And it's also we're

1236
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: getting pictures from our listeners and viewers as well. From

1237
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: t Wass Now he has a we have a picture

1238
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: of him in the Bills Mafia suit. Yeah, the Bills

1239
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 1: were five and one when the guy wore this suit

1240
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: last year. Nice and it's so yeah, that's a that's

1241
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: a good looking say he's trying to look like a mobster.

1242
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 1: He's got there, there's a there's another Fedora. Look at that.

1243
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: Two Fedoras in one show. Steve. Yeah, I remember the guy.

1244
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: That woman that tweeted and she got her, she got

1245
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: her husband and new fedora for the season, a new

1246
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: tradition for this season and new fedora. Yeah, so that's good. Yeah,

1247
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's the thing too, kind of

1248
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: like I'm yeah, kids, Fitzpatrick, Jersey, I'm or Frank right

1249
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 1: Jersey was I'm thinking, you know, everybody's got favorite clothes

1250
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: they want to And I got a man. I was

1251
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 1: never superstitious as a player. I wasn't I really wasn't.

1252
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 1: Um And now I got a kid playing in Canada.

1253
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: Now I'm doing all kinds of stupid stuff. Yeah, I

1254
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: mean I got I bought. Maybe there are sometimes if

1255
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: it's a bad game or something, the next time up there,

1256
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: I'm buying a new Tiger Cat hat or a Hamilton.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've got I've got a stack of him now.

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01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. I wore that hat until it runs out,

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01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: and then I get a new one immediately. Michael Jordan

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01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 1: always wore his college shorts under his North Carolina bull shorts.

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01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,600
Speaker 1: Carolina Carolina tarhiel shorts. I don't know how you do that.

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01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be bulky? They weren't. They weren't like short short.

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Speaker 1: They were like they were like, uh, like bike shorts,

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Speaker 1: you know, like where they Yeah, I was like, okay,

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01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: I was thinking, like his regular game, wasn't It wasn't

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Speaker 1: the shorts too. It is more of the color. You

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01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: had to have his Carolina blue underneath the Chicago stuff. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Baseball player Richie Ashburn Okay, played for the Phillies, I

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01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 1: believe for a long time, and uh good hitter. But

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01:04:56,200 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: whenever he was on a hot streak, dude would not

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01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: only take his bat out of the clubhouse after the

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01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: game up to the hotel room, sleeping with the bat.

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01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 1: He would get worried that because you know, baseball players

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01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: have half a dozen bats that they're bringing with him

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01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 1: on a road trip. Miss he'd worried and get mixed

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01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 1: in with the other ones by the bat boy, and

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01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: then he forget which one he was hitting so well with.

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01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: So this one's going home with me. I'm not losing

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01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: sight of this bat. It's not going anywhere that I

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01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: can get, you know that kind of thing. So I'm

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01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: hitting good. I'm sticking with this bat. All right. Let

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01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: me let's take one. We got time from another call here,

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01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: Sean from Buffalo. You've got a ritual and it lasts

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01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: a couple of days. I guess for your game day

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01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 1: superstition or ritual? Sean, go ahead. Yeah, I actually spoke

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01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:49,480
Speaker 1: with you guys last week about me and the wife

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01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 1: watching the game. I just want to say real quick, Chris,

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01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: thanks for calling me an old guy. By the way,

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01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 1: Hey we're all old man. Got that? Got that? What

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01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: do you do? Like when's it start? Like day? Does

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01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 1: your ritual start Friday? Okay? And what do you do

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01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 1: literally Friday? Is that's when you kind of compile all

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01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: the information throughout the week for each team. U see

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01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: what really happens throughout the practices. You know who got hurt,

1295
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: you know who's looking good, you know who's just having

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01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: a rough week. That Saturday is one of those. Now

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01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: you're starting to compare is this guy, well, starting to think,

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01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 1: is this guy you know, who's gonna have to breakout

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01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 1: week this week? Um? You know our guys are there

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01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 1: guys obviously you know you're looking at your team a

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01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: little heavier. Um. So now you're just compared about you know,

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01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: who's gonna you know what wide receivers are gonna play,

1303
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 1: you know, you know, do what during the game or

1304
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 1: what you know, you start comparing or looking at a

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01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: little different things. Um. And then Sunday it's one of

1306
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: those obviously watch the game and then it's one of

1307
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: those like oh I called that one. Yep, called that one.

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01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 1: It's just funny how it happens because it's a three

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01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: day you know, little three day ritual. But it's one

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01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: of those where by the end of the game, it's like, damn,

1311
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: I should become a coach or something, because by the

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01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: end of it, you feel that you did you know,

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01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: the right job by you know, the right way throughout

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01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: that weekend. Yeah, the same thing the week after. But

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01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: then if it's a bad game for us, it's like, ah, yeah,

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01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't do that this week. Yeah exactly, Sean,

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01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: that's a good call, and he's right. A lot of

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01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: people do that. I mean, they just leave it. You

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01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: and I are here every day, and Murph and I

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01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 1: are here every day, and we talk about them. You

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01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 1: watch practice, we get and we kind of a compile

1322
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: information we give to people over the air waves and

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01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: through the website and all your writing and all your

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01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 1: work that you do, and you come on the guests

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01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: with us. All we do is talk about it, right,

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01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 1: And most people kind of they catch it when they

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01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: can during the week, but when they're in You're right,

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01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: this Saturday gets there and they start really like, okay,

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01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 1: right here we go, what's going on this week? I

1330
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: knew this guy was hurt? How's he doing? And this stuffy?

1331
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 1: And then they start thinking about, you know, how's Josh

1332
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: gonna look against this defense? Or how's Shady gonna do?

1333
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: Or how's our defense? You know, what are we gonna

1334
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: do with this guy? What are we gonna do with

1335
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 1: aj Green? What we're gonna do these guys? Right, and

1336
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: then on the and you kind of figure out what

1337
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,240
Speaker 1: you think is going to happen, and on Sunday you

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01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: just kind of see if it does. You know, that's

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01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: the way everybody digests the game right right to a

1340
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: certain extent. That's that's a good call, Sean. I appreciate

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01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: that takes all weekend, all right, So here we go.

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01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: Just prepare yourself, okay, now see now we're in the

1343
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 1: deep dark trenches here. Argentinian goalkeeper Sergio Goykochea, he was

1344
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: known for making one of the most amazing penalty kick

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01:08:18,320 --> 01:08:25,559
Speaker 1: saves in World Cup history. So he revealed an odd

1346
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 1: secret to his success. Because you get to penalty kicks

1347
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: in a game, I mean, that is the height of pressure,

1348
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: especially for a goalkeeper or whoever's taken the penalty kick.

1349
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: So he was so nervous before making this save. The

1350
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 1: dude peat himself on the field right before the kick,

1351
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: but then made the save and won the game, so

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01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: he's celebrating it. He decided from that point on, whenever

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01:08:56,680 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: there was a penalty kick shootout, he would very subtly

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01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 1: pee himself because it said he claims that it he

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01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,600
Speaker 1: was not only relieving himself, but he was relieving the

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01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 1: pressure that he was feeling to make a save for

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01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: his team. He says, quote, it was my lucky charm,

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01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 1: and I went before every shootout. I was very subtle.

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01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: Nobody complained, So there it is just you know that

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01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 1: wins the price so far, just wet himself before I

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01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 1: want to change subjects. Just I'm gonna let it go

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01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: right here. I'm yeah, that's I don't know how you're

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01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 1: not now, I'm you know, most goalkeepers in soccer have

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01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: what are called slider shorts, so it's like biker shorts

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01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,120
Speaker 1: with pads on the hips because when you dive a lot,

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01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, you land on your hips a lot, so

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01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: you've got those on. So I suppose it's not readily

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01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: visible that someone is relieving themselves right in front of you.

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01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean, eighty thousand people in a stadium, no one

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01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 1: can really tell, and they're probably not focused on that

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01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 1: area of his body. They're watching the guy shooting the

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01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:15,560
Speaker 1: penalty kick. But I'd be unusually uncomfortable if I was

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01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 1: doing that at that moment. How is that? How is

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01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: that getting rid of the pressure. I understand the pressure

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01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: on your bladder. I think that once you're Once you

1376
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: do that, you're kind of embarrassed beyond repair anyway. So

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01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: what else was the worry about? This needs nothing. I've

1378
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 1: just humiliated myself in a World Cup soccer match. Yeah,

1379
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 1: that's that. That one takes the cake so far, I

1380
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:44,840
Speaker 1: think we got. You can call in at eight three,

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01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 1: five fifty to tell us about your most important game

1382
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:52,599
Speaker 1: day superstition or ritual. You can call us. We're gonna

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01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:54,800
Speaker 1: take a break. One Bill's Live were presented by Kalid

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01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: to Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Lives. Teach Asher Chris Brown

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01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: at One Bill's Drive. We're talking about the most important

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01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:15,639
Speaker 1: game day superstition or ritual of your game week watching

1388
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill, watching the Buffalo Bills play, or we're also

1389
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: going around the world and getting some really off the

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01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: wall stuff. That's some of the acts got into the

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01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 1: best one soccer we've got and we got we got

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01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,640
Speaker 1: calls back there. Let's well, let's pause here, We'll take

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01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 1: a couple of calls here. Uh, Nick, go ahead. What's

1394
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 1: your tradition says after a Bill's game? What do you got? Okay, guys,

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01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 1: you could hear me. I'm outside, I'm yeah, we got you.

1396
01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Nick? All right, this is bizarre. So all right,

1397
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: so I'm getting ruddy and it's right before the Vikings

1398
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,639
Speaker 1: game that we won last year with when Josh jumped

1399
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: over the guy three. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's really

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01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:59,240
Speaker 1: early in the season and it's like six thirty in

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01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: the morning, and I'm getting drusted and it's dark, and

1402
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: I accidentally put on my wife's underwear. All right, So

1403
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: I'm having a couple of pops and meanwhile, the game

1404
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: starts one o'clock and you know, I relieved myself just

1405
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: like the soccer player. I'm not in my pants, but

1406
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:24,599
Speaker 1: I noticed that I got on her underwear, and so dude, dude,

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01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 1: ever since then, and we won that game, I remember,

1408
01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 1: and it was and it was a stunner. Yeah, and

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01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 1: so ever since then. It's gonna sound crazy and weird,

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01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm gonna do it, uh, you know, just

1411
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: because I mean what I'm you don't have to give

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01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: us a reader just because that's great. I agree, keep

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01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,519
Speaker 1: doing it, Nick, I appreciate that's an I'm just I'm

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01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:54,759
Speaker 1: just thinking. I'm not a tradition. I'm not an expert

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01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: on undergarments at all. But feel it, don't doesn't, don't

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01:12:58,320 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 1: you gotta believe just knowing the material that is more

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01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 1: commonly used for female undergarments, you know, it's it's usually

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01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: sat and they like you know, they like the soft til.

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01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 1: I mean, just give me a pair of cotton give

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01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 1: me a pair of cotton box or briefs, and I'm good.

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01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna judge. I'm just thinking you're sly. I mean,

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01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 1: even if it's dark, then it just feel different going on?

1423
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 1: Or is that just me? I have not met nick wife.

1424
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:30,639
Speaker 1: I do not know it. I would anticipate it would

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01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 1: be different. All right, we'll we'll take another called Darren

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01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 1: in West Seneca. You're a hockey goal tradition, go ahead,

1427
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 1: Well this is nice about Gary Smith, the goalie from

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01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 1: like the late sixties, seventies and eighties. Okay, yeah, I

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01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 1: read a book and I'm not sure about the number

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01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,759
Speaker 1: of socks, but he used to wear upwards of seven

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01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: ten pair of socks underny his skates, and then in

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01:13:57,479 --> 01:14:01,960
Speaker 1: between periods he would get totally undressed, take a shower,

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01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: get dressed again, putting no socks back on. Period. Oh boy,

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01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 1: that's OCD stuff right there. Yeah, that's craziness. Yeah, seventeen

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01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 1: pairs of size seven to ten pairs, oh seven to ten? Yeah, yeah,

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01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 1: still that's a lot. That's what you're wearing. What you're

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01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: wearing a skate that's two sizes bigger. If you do,

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01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:24,680
Speaker 1: you at least right seven hockey socks are thick him.

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01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: This is what my thought is that maybe when he

1440
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 1: was growing up he never had the right size skates.

1441
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 1: They were always bigger. Yeah, I get maybe, and it

1442
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:35,800
Speaker 1: just went right through because goalies are crazy. I'm one

1443
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 1: of them, so I know exactly what he's talking. Like

1444
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: that theory. You do with what you go with, what

1445
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: you you go with, what you're used to. Man, every

1446
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,680
Speaker 1: good you're taking a shower. That's a tight turnaround in

1447
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: between periods. Yeah, that is, especially if you're a goaltender.

1448
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: All the crap you gotta take off, shower and then

1449
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 1: throw it all back on. You know, we used to

1450
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:56,160
Speaker 1: have some And there's difference between a ritual and a superstition,

1451
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:59,759
Speaker 1: right you know. Ritual is just something you do because

1452
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 1: it's it gets it's comfortable, right, smart as something like

1453
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, like I gotta do this, things are going

1454
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:11,519
Speaker 1: to happen. Bryce pop former Defensive Player of the Year,

1455
01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:13,600
Speaker 1: from when he first got him, he came in and

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01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: he had to he was he would shower before the

1457
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: game in the locker room. Okay, you go and not unusual,

1458
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:24,599
Speaker 1: not terribly unusual sometimes and nobody else did. I remember

1459
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: some guys do that to warm up their body, you know,

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01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 1: take a hot shower, get warm kind of thing. I've

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01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 1: heard of that before. Okay, then he had another one.

1462
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:35,639
Speaker 1: He did as well, because you come in at halftime

1463
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: and everybody, you know, you go to the bathroom, you

1464
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:38,600
Speaker 1: have to you kind of whatever, do your stuff, and

1465
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: you well it's twelve minute, well back then it was

1466
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: fifteen and uh, then you come back out. Well, for

1467
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: some reason he would either forget or not go to

1468
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: the bathroom, or would go to the bathroom anywhere somewhere

1469
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: deep in the early in the fourth quarter, he's got

1470
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: to go. Oh, like one of the garbage can deals.

1471
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: Hold up the towels. Well, here's how well, here's the

1472
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: technique that you use. You take a knee behind something

1473
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 1: and where the fans can't see. You take a knee,

1474
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 1: and you have a towel that goes from your belt

1475
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:11,720
Speaker 1: all the way down to the ground and you just

1476
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:14,839
Speaker 1: kind of stand there and then you relieve yourself outside

1477
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: your pants. And you can do that without anybody seeing anything,

1478
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:20,759
Speaker 1: but you're you know, you're in full view of whoever

1479
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: I've seen guys do the garbage too, And there are

1480
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:25,639
Speaker 1: guys and we had a we had we had ant.

1481
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,799
Speaker 1: Why is there not a facility out on the sideline?

1482
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 1: Why is that still an issue? It's twenty nineteen. We

1483
01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: can't put like a little water closet out there somewhere. No,

1484
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:38,160
Speaker 1: why can't you do that? I don't know? So that

1485
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:39,920
Speaker 1: does that just make too much sense to me? Am

1486
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: I crazy? Saying that the new stadiums do have the

1487
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 1: bench entrance or the locker room intrans right behind the

1488
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 1: bench right so you go down, there's one right there.

1489
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: It's like a clubhouse, like a baseball clubhouse, right at

1490
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,160
Speaker 1: the bottom. Some of those have it. But the old stadiums,

1491
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody ever thought about that. So I've saw

1492
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:56,559
Speaker 1: I've told one time where we were doing a game

1493
01:16:56,640 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: for CBS and they were looking. They were thinking, Hey,

1494
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: this is gonna come down to a kick, you know,

1495
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:02,679
Speaker 1: and they find the kicker on the sidelines. Is gonna

1496
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 1: show the kicker on the sidelines he's kneeling down with

1497
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: a towel from his belt to the ground, okay, And

1498
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:10,760
Speaker 1: I said, you needed to get the camera off him.

1499
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: Why he's taking it? I go he's not taking a knee,

1500
01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:17,760
Speaker 1: he's urinating. You need to get the camera off him.

1501
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 1: And you know they're like, what does that happen? Oh,

1502
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:24,479
Speaker 1: get the camera off it, because you know, all you

1503
01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 1: need to do is have the guy stand up and

1504
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 1: lose the towel. But that's a thing because in like

1505
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 1: I like you noticed in football stadiums there is no

1506
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: place to go. Yeah, I just I don't know, like

1507
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 1: especially nowadays with all of the promotion of hydration, and

1508
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 1: I mean, guys are pounding fluids all week and that

1509
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: doesn't stop on game day, right, if anything, it intensifies.

1510
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 1: You're right, I mean, just the way the body works,

1511
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to expel some of that stuff at

1512
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:56,760
Speaker 1: some point in the course of a three hour game.

1513
01:17:57,280 --> 01:17:59,800
Speaker 1: And it's halftime. And that's it. That's what you're telling me.

1514
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 1: That's it. That's crazy. It's hard to some guys find

1515
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 1: it hard to do, all right, what I've gone to

1516
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: another far corner of the globe. Ok where from we've

1517
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: gone to the world of swimming. Okay, Okay. Santo Conderelli,

1518
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 1: Canadian swimmer Okay, became an international sensation when competing at

1519
01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen Rio Olympics for his very unique pregame,

1520
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 1: which ritual that television cameras did not want to catch.

1521
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: Condarelli gets up on the blocks okay for his race.

1522
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: This is right before the race. He does this, looks

1523
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: at his father in the stands and flips him the

1524
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 1: bird before the race. His dad, Yeah, gives his dad

1525
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: the middle finger. Why does he do that? Is? How

1526
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:57,520
Speaker 1: did that get started? The tradition reportedly began. It reportedly

1527
01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: began when Condarelli was younger, and it was a way

1528
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:03,680
Speaker 1: for him to get pumped up. I can get my

1529
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:07,720
Speaker 1: dad the finger. Now I'm ready to race. Remember the

1530
01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:09,840
Speaker 1: hard time, like the strangest thing. I'm having a hard

1531
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: time following the logic, you know, because sometimes you how

1532
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 1: does that? I can see you know all I know,

1533
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,599
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm just speaking for myself here, Steve. If

1534
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm the dad, that's ending right quick, that ain't gonna fly,

1535
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 1: find something else to do. It started when he was

1536
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:31,240
Speaker 1: six years old, and I mean, really, that's what we're

1537
01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: gonna go with. And you're gonna now, what's the dad?

1538
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 1: Does he return the favor or I don't know, Well,

1539
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 1: a typical Canadian knowing how nice they are. He would

1540
01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 1: probably be like, oh yeah, go get him sonet give

1541
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 1: him the salution. I mean, that is not something I

1542
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 1: would expect from a Canadian Olympian. I mean, they're just

1543
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: they're very polite up there to say so to hear

1544
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 1: that tradition, maybe find his dad in the stad Can

1545
01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: you believe that I would be nipping that in the

1546
01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: bud right quick? That would not go more than a race.

1547
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: I don't care if you feel you need to do that,

1548
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: You're not doing it to me, not in front of

1549
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: all these people. Have a little more respect totally. You know,

1550
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for me

1551
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: driving you all those swim practices. You know what I mean.

1552
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: I can't believe that. It's crazy talk. You know. Family. Well,

1553
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:19,800
Speaker 1: you know what, though, it's better than It's better to

1554
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 1: do that with, you know, with somebody who knows you're

1555
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: You're still gonna like you after I'll give you one more.

1556
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: Baseball pitcher Turk Wendell played for the Mets a bunch

1557
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: of other teams, So the dude would in between innings,

1558
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: you know, when he was pitching and in the game,

1559
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 1: go into the dugout in between innings, he'd eat four

1560
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 1: or five sticks of black liquorice, chew them all up.

1561
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: Now you know what black liquorice does to your teeth, right,

1562
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean you look like a witch, right, you look

1563
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: like a walking dead. Yeah, so brushing the teeth every

1564
01:20:55,520 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 1: inning after that, so liquorice, brush the teeth, and then

1565
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: back out for the next inning. Now, this guy also

1566
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: had an obsession with the number nine. He was jersey

1567
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: number ninety nine. Signed a contract for nine million, nine

1568
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:16,519
Speaker 1: hunin nine ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents because he

1569
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: was obsessed with nines. Also had a weird superstition with

1570
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:28,880
Speaker 1: the center fielder. Okay, he'd come out and before the inning,

1571
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, get on the mound, you know, grab the

1572
01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 1: rosin bag a little bit, waved to the center fielder.

1573
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 1: He would continue waving until that center fielder waved back.

1574
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 1: Had to do it every inning. No explanation as to

1575
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:46,360
Speaker 1: why another guy that would not step on the foul lines,

1576
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 1: you know, on and off the field, just a little

1577
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:54,640
Speaker 1: bit out there. Yeah, that's tell all right. Go to

1578
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:56,560
Speaker 1: the one that we stuck talking about right after the

1579
01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:00,120
Speaker 1: and the break last time where the guy was the

1580
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:05,599
Speaker 1: touch me okay, So Brett Romberg is the major League

1581
01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 1: baseball player just tickles, no, hey, no pun intend to

1582
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:14,719
Speaker 1: touch me? Right, So Brett Romberg ocd okay baseball player.

1583
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: For about three or four years in the majors, played

1584
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: with the Indians, maybe one or two other teams. He

1585
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 1: had this situation where if any teammate made contact with

1586
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: him in any way, like slapped him on the butt,

1587
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:29,280
Speaker 1: said hey, have a good game today, you know, you know,

1588
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: go get him, punch him on the arm and say hey,

1589
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:33,320
Speaker 1: way to go, man, he would have to touch him

1590
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:36,599
Speaker 1: back and be the last person to touch the person

1591
01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: that touched him. So very quickly Steve caught onto this

1592
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 1: very quickly, having been a guy in a in a

1593
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 1: professional locker room for a long time. Delicious so his player,

1594
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 1: so his teammates. Brett Romberg's teammates would have a field

1595
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: day with him playing the whole gotcha last thing bad enough.

1596
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,559
Speaker 1: They gave him the nickname of touch Me, which certainly

1597
01:22:56,640 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 1: isn't one you want to have. H so that one

1598
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:02,439
Speaker 1: of his teammates at one point saw him standing near

1599
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:05,679
Speaker 1: the doorway of the clubhouse and saw an easy exit,

1600
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,800
Speaker 1: so he touched Brett Romberg and exited before he could

1601
01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:14,559
Speaker 1: touch him back, and was hiding everywhere in the stadium,

1602
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,600
Speaker 1: in the shower, in the bathroom, under a desk, and

1603
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 1: the Romberg. He said, Romberg was looking for me for

1604
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 1: two hours, trying to touch me back, going absolutely insane.

1605
01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: But I mean you would you guys would have had

1606
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:31,560
Speaker 1: a field day bright Well, yeah, and we would have.

1607
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:33,640
Speaker 1: We would have done a number. I can just off

1608
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 1: the top of my head how we could make this

1609
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,320
Speaker 1: guy want to jump off a cliff. Is I'd have

1610
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: gotten twenty five guys. Yeah, who touched you, lass, who

1611
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:45,280
Speaker 1: you don't even know? You best of luck touching everybody back,

1612
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: and then we'd all run, yes, everybody scattered. Only he

1613
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 1: would even be able to know who it all. It

1614
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,840
Speaker 1: was right. It would be like guys, you know, oh

1615
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: we at first we would and we get him, hold him,

1616
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 1: we'd get the big guys to hold him, put a

1617
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 1: bag over his head, and then touch him like everybody

1618
01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:06,760
Speaker 1: touch him, and then leave. We touch him like thirty times,

1619
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 1: not fifty three times, not everybody in the roster. It'll

1620
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: only be like fifteen times. So we have to guess

1621
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:15,719
Speaker 1: which ones did and didn't. Oh my gosh, we had

1622
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:22,240
Speaker 1: that would be so fun. We had the Argentinian goalkeeper

1623
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: who would relieve himself before penalty kicks just as a

1624
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,679
Speaker 1: way to relieve the pressure and in addition to his bladder.

1625
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 1: Baseball players also taking part in the urine. So you

1626
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: have batters who don't wear batting gloves. You know, very

1627
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 1: often over the course of the season, if you don't

1628
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:45,759
Speaker 1: wear batting gloves, you'll get blisters. Pitchers oftentimes deal with blisters,

1629
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:52,519
Speaker 1: so a lot of the Hispanic baseball players pee on

1630
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 1: their hands, claiming it is a cure for blisters, preventative cure,

1631
01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: and a way to treat them when they do show up.

1632
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:07,680
Speaker 1: Moises A. Loop never wore batting gloves. He claims his

1633
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:10,320
Speaker 1: secret was to urinate on his hands to toughen up

1634
01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: the skin on his hands. Former Yankees catcher Jorge Posada

1635
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:17,679
Speaker 1: would often say, you don't want to shake my hand

1636
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: during spring training because he would often take part in

1637
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: the same practice. Pitcher Carrie Wood, who pitched for the

1638
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: Yankees in the Cubs, even used to use his urine

1639
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 1: to heal aching blisters. I pass. Yeah, Apparently this is

1640
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 1: something that is not uncommon in Major League Baseball for

1641
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: for curing blisters. So I just I don't think I

1642
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 1: could bring myself to do that. There's something inherently wrong

1643
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:55,639
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, right, Like how do you find out? Well? Yeah, hey,

1644
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: look it's working. I've been working on this for a

1645
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. That this works. This is great. What works? Well, yeah,

1646
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: I can tell you about la what Oh my gosh,

1647
01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:10,559
Speaker 1: that's crazy. All right. I on that happy note, We're

1648
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: gonna move on. This is where we're gonna continue to

1649
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 1: talk about this. We also have an article I want

1650
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:16,640
Speaker 1: to talk about it maybe at the top of the hour.

1651
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:18,720
Speaker 1: Or the Bill's defense ranked really good last year. We're

1652
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:20,840
Speaker 1: gonna see five ways of the Bills defense may get

1653
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:24,680
Speaker 1: even better this offseason and this upcoming season. This is

1654
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:26,680
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Khalid to Health from One

1655
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive its Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One

1656
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. We're talking about the

1657
01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:47,639
Speaker 1: most important game day superstition you have or what ritual

1658
01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:50,000
Speaker 1: you need to go through for your game day comfort

1659
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: while watching your favorite Buffalo Bills team, or or whatever

1660
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: team you happen to be a fan of. We're trying,

1661
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to keep up with the calls here,

1662
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:01,920
Speaker 1: let's let's take one of those. Randy. Randy from Denver

1663
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 1: is chiming in, Randy, you've got a important game day

1664
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:10,600
Speaker 1: superstition or ritual share with us. It's a superstition and

1665
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: that do not attend the Bills game. It also works

1666
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 1: for Savers games. It's going to be a number retired

1667
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: or a Hall of Fame thing. They're going to lose

1668
01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 1: that game. And I had a I had a Leon

1669
01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:30,160
Speaker 1: Don BBC taster memory. If I could, Steven, Okay, go ahead.

1670
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:34,680
Speaker 1: I'm living in Denver about eight years. I hate the Broncos,

1671
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:37,640
Speaker 1: so me and my brother attend the game. We get

1672
01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: our tickets out of a Dallas affiliate. When you blocked

1673
01:27:41,479 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: the punt in the first quarter, it becomes readily apparent

1674
01:27:45,479 --> 01:27:47,680
Speaker 1: that we're the only bill fans in a sea of

1675
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:51,879
Speaker 1: Dallas fans. So anyway, you always say, how people mistake

1676
01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:54,519
Speaker 1: you being the one who did the Leon left thing.

1677
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 1: So late in the game, when Don does that, I

1678
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 1: stand up and just go eight craft crazy and my

1679
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:05,800
Speaker 1: brothers wondering what's going on. I hope the Dallas fans

1680
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 1: wondering what's going on. And it was because it would

1681
01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: have put the Bills at giving up the most points

1682
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:14,800
Speaker 1: ever in the Super Bowl, more than Denver. And also

1683
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 1: we would have been in peril of having the largest

1684
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:22,280
Speaker 1: Super Bowl loss also over Denver. So just that my

1685
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 1: memory have had all these years I've wanted. So he

1686
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 1: gave you a little bit of redemption sitting in a

1687
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 1: bunch of Bronco fans playing the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, that counts, Randy,

1688
01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Thank you. And tell me again

1689
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: about if you're still there, tell me about your ritual.

1690
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:38,200
Speaker 1: You can't you can't go to certain Bills games and

1691
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:42,719
Speaker 1: you can't go to Sabers games. Why Well, because anytime

1692
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 1: the Bills or the Sabers retire a number or put

1693
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:47,639
Speaker 1: someone on the Wall of the Fame, you can set

1694
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: dollars the donuts. They are losing that game, like when

1695
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 1: Thurman last year, Bruce Smith I attended it for a

1696
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 1: few years prior every Sabers anytime there's an enshrinement, the

1697
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:01,640
Speaker 1: Bills lose that game. When there's a halftime ceremony for

1698
01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: some reason honoring an old you know, glory player. So

1699
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 1: we were talking about that Steve going up on the wall. Yeah,

1700
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:11,840
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately it was the Kevin Everett injury game.

1701
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 1: But the Bills lost that game on a last second play. Yeah.

1702
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:17,840
Speaker 1: I think they lost fifteen to fourteen or something like that.

1703
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: That's to the Broncos of all teams. Yeah, that ranny.

1704
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 1: That is a keen observation. Yeah, well yeah, thanks, so

1705
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:27,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. That's a that's interesting. I ever, we

1706
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:29,360
Speaker 1: should go back and redo a little research on that.

1707
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:32,000
Speaker 1: We put our crack staff on that to find out

1708
01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:34,479
Speaker 1: what games were, what the record Bills record is for

1709
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 1: games where they've been trying to Wall of Famer or

1710
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 1: a rough stretch the Hall of Film back to two thousand.

1711
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:44,479
Speaker 1: It's been bad two decades, but you know it's gotten

1712
01:29:44,520 --> 01:29:47,320
Speaker 1: better though. It's gonna turn gotten better. Yeah, it is.

1713
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:49,640
Speaker 1: Do you do you need? I need one from the

1714
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 1: archives here, Steve? All right, what's this? What sport? Is it?

1715
01:29:52,400 --> 01:30:00,360
Speaker 1: From baseball? Called the slump buster? Okay? Jason Giambi okay, Uh,

1716
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: power hitter played for the Yankees in the Ace. Uh.

1717
01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:07,840
Speaker 1: You know, guys, when they're in a hitting slump, they'll

1718
01:30:07,880 --> 01:30:10,479
Speaker 1: try just about anything to get out of a slump.

1719
01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:13,760
Speaker 1: Jason Giambi's way of getting out of a slump might

1720
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:18,960
Speaker 1: have been the most unique, maybe a little bizarre. He would, uh,

1721
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 1: where a tiger striped gold thong under his uniform when

1722
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 1: he was in a hitting slump. And uh, this is

1723
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:34,519
Speaker 1: another This is a launch raid, an item of lunch.

1724
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:38,679
Speaker 1: So much like one of our callers who mistakenly slipped

1725
01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:40,640
Speaker 1: on his wife's underwear in the dark the morning of

1726
01:30:40,680 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: a game. Now now wears them because this guy wears

1727
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 1: him to break a slump. So he wore it to

1728
01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:51,519
Speaker 1: broke break a slump um and it turned his slump

1729
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:54,160
Speaker 1: into a hitting streak. So he's got to keep it on.

1730
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:56,400
Speaker 1: And he kept it on until he got his average

1731
01:30:56,439 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 1: back up to three hundred, and then the thong went

1732
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:02,360
Speaker 1: back in the locker until you know, the next slump

1733
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:06,479
Speaker 1: would arrive. But he claimed he was thinking so much

1734
01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 1: about the thing he had on under his uniform that

1735
01:31:10,479 --> 01:31:15,439
Speaker 1: his head, his mind was clear to just drill, drill

1736
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:19,200
Speaker 1: pitches into the outfield again, and he was. His hitting

1737
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:23,759
Speaker 1: streak was so successful that some of his Yankees teammates,

1738
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:27,280
Speaker 1: when they got into slump, did the same thing, rocking

1739
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:30,960
Speaker 1: gold thong. I'm really hoping it wasn't Jason's. That's what

1740
01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:36,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying that it wasn't the thong itself? It slump buster?

1741
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:38,600
Speaker 1: There you go that I would rather be in a

1742
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:45,320
Speaker 1: slump um maybe, Yeah, that's athletes are nuts. They I

1743
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:47,760
Speaker 1: can't believe that. Yeah, who would have thought? I'm just

1744
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:52,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have any experience with a thong.

1745
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:55,600
Speaker 1: How does that? Does anybody? Can anybody chime in with

1746
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:57,960
Speaker 1: how that feels? When you're running like you're in a

1747
01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: batter's box. You gotta take off and run, isn't. I mean,

1748
01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:02,839
Speaker 1: there's gotta be a lot of chafing. I am totally

1749
01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: with you, totally once you know what, I get the

1750
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 1: idea that it's got to change your mindset when you're

1751
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:11,200
Speaker 1: doing something focused, like you know, swinging a golf club,

1752
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 1: swinging a baseball, trying to do something right where you

1753
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:15,800
Speaker 1: got to you gotta change where your mind's at because

1754
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:17,360
Speaker 1: you start you have a half My mind is like,

1755
01:32:17,520 --> 01:32:19,720
Speaker 1: why is this thing splitting my butt? Checks? Right? When

1756
01:32:19,720 --> 01:32:21,640
Speaker 1: you get into not get this As an athlete, you

1757
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 1: get into a place and you start to get into habits.

1758
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:25,800
Speaker 1: It's about routine, and you get into this spot where

1759
01:32:26,280 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: occasionally you get into a spot where you're feeling the pressure.

1760
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:31,719
Speaker 1: You got to find a way in your own mind

1761
01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 1: to get your mindset change. You got to get into

1762
01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:36,960
Speaker 1: a better mindset. You got to get to a point

1763
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:40,519
Speaker 1: where you're where you welcome the pressure rather than you're

1764
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:43,799
Speaker 1: worried about the consequences of not living up to the pressure.

1765
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:45,360
Speaker 1: So you've got to get on the other side of

1766
01:32:45,400 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 1: it somehow, someway. So doing this stuff like that of

1767
01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:51,080
Speaker 1: some sort of something you wear that makes your that

1768
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:53,800
Speaker 1: takes your mind off this thing is riding up on

1769
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:56,640
Speaker 1: me right now. You're not thinking about that's coming in,

1770
01:32:56,840 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 1: or the or the soccer goal. You're talking about it

1771
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:01,640
Speaker 1: in the first segment where he would would urinate on

1772
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:06,240
Speaker 1: himself before the penalty kick because they would clear all

1773
01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:10,280
Speaker 1: this stuff. It's all about your mindset and that's you know,

1774
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:14,200
Speaker 1: you can see the logic there. Rys, It's gotta be

1775
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,240
Speaker 1: a better way if you kind of realize what we're

1776
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:18,559
Speaker 1: talking about right now, like that, if you could articulate

1777
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:21,120
Speaker 1: what I just articulated, couldn't you get there some other

1778
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,640
Speaker 1: way without doing think so right like without can you

1779
01:33:24,720 --> 01:33:28,599
Speaker 1: imagine in the clubhouse of a lot of baseball and Jason,

1780
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:31,559
Speaker 1: what are you doing there? What what are you putting

1781
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:35,120
Speaker 1: on there? Slumpbuster, right, you got you gotta come up

1782
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: with something. I had, slumpbusteruster, I have. I have a

1783
01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 1: hidden sixth game. I dropped my averages down twenty points.

1784
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:44,080
Speaker 1: I gotta do something. You know. They're like, when you're

1785
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 1: gonna do that, you know not it's not more BP,

1786
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 1: it's that okay, you know right, that's where the logic

1787
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:56,599
Speaker 1: falls apart right there. That's crazy. All right, We're gonna

1788
01:33:57,240 --> 01:33:58,320
Speaker 1: at the end of the top of the eye, after

1789
01:33:58,400 --> 01:34:00,800
Speaker 1: the break, we're gonna talk about that. We're we're gonna

1790
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 1: take a break from this. We're gonna, yeah, I can't

1791
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:06,720
Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna take a break. We're not off

1792
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:09,720
Speaker 1: this topic. I got the you can champion here coming up?

1793
01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:11,800
Speaker 1: All right, you can. You can continue to call and

1794
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:13,680
Speaker 1: tweet us. At eight to three oh five fifty one

1795
01:34:13,760 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty we're gonna talk

1796
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 1: about five ways the Buffalo Bills defense may have gotten

1797
01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:22,000
Speaker 1: better this last offseason. This is One Bills Live presented

1798
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:23,840
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01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:37,679
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Speaker 1: Sabers Development Camp continues today through tomorrow camp includes both

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Speaker 1: off ice and on ice sessions. On ice sessions are

1802
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:46,400
Speaker 1: free and open to the public at Harbor Center. The

1803
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: French Connection Tournament will highlight the final day of camp

1804
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:52,120
Speaker 1: on Saturday, June twenty ninth, beginning at ten forty five am,

1805
01:34:52,439 --> 01:34:54,760
Speaker 1: and that will also take place at the Harbor Center.

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01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:57,920
Speaker 1: Tickets for the tournament are available exclusively for two thousand,

1807
01:34:58,040 --> 01:35:01,760
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty twenty Sabers season ticket holders. Tickets are free

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Speaker 1: to and distributed distributed on a first come, first serve basis.

1810
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 1: The tournament will also stream live on Sabers dot com

1811
01:35:11,560 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 1: and on the team's social media platforms. Roberto Luongo, the

1812
01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:18,240
Speaker 1: third winning is goalie in NHL history, announced his retirement

1813
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 1: yesterday after playing nineteen seasons in the NHL. Luongo has

1814
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty nine wins and seventy seven shutouts

1815
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: in one thousand and forty four NHL games with the Islanders, Panthers,

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01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:34,600
Speaker 1: and Canucks. Buffalo Bill's training camp mobile tickets are now

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01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:38,760
Speaker 1: available for the following three practices, Saturday and Sundays July

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01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:42,519
Speaker 1: twenty seventh and twenty eight, and Sunday August fourth. Fans

1819
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Speaker 1: are limited to four tickets per person, and mobile tickets

1820
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Speaker 1: are available immediately at Buffalo bills dot com slash camp.

1821
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:52,680
Speaker 1: There is no longer an option for physical tickets only

1822
01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:55,559
Speaker 1: the mobile tickets. Training camp will take place at Saint

1823
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 1: John Fisher College in Rochester. Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill

1824
01:35:59,360 --> 01:36:02,880
Speaker 1: completed his meeting with the NFL investigators in Kansas City

1825
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:06,080
Speaker 1: yesterday regarding recent child abuse allegations toward his three year

1826
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:08,800
Speaker 1: old son. This was Hill's first interview with the league

1827
01:36:08,840 --> 01:36:13,080
Speaker 1: and opportunity to answer to the allegations, and was expected

1828
01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:15,439
Speaker 1: to be asked about the audio released where he is

1829
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 1: heard administering threats to his fiance and discussing disciplinary actions

1830
01:36:19,479 --> 01:36:22,800
Speaker 1: for his son. There's no timetable for ruling on Hill's case,

1831
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:25,120
Speaker 1: but he is expected to report to the Chiefs for

1832
01:36:25,240 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 1: training camp on July twenty sixth, barring a significant development

1833
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 1: in the case. The Bison seven game win streak ended

1834
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:34,439
Speaker 1: last night in at ten to one loss against the

1835
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:37,639
Speaker 1: rail Raider rail Riders. The Herd will be in Scranton

1836
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:40,160
Speaker 1: Wilkes Barry tonight at five o five pm. That is

1837
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 1: your sports update. Welcome back to one Bill's Live Steve

1838
01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:45,840
Speaker 1: Tasker along with Chris Brown, we've been discussing your most

1839
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:49,160
Speaker 1: important game day superstition or ritual. We want to take

1840
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:50,840
Speaker 1: a break from that. We'll get to the calls in

1841
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:53,360
Speaker 1: a minute or after a bit, maybe we wanted to

1842
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:55,679
Speaker 1: talk a little bit of something about the Bill's defense.

1843
01:36:55,720 --> 01:36:58,960
Speaker 1: There's an article on Buffalo bills dot com and it's

1844
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:02,360
Speaker 1: about the five main reasons that the Bill's defense, as

1845
01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 1: good as it was last year, it was more solid

1846
01:37:05,120 --> 01:37:07,920
Speaker 1: than it was spectacular. They didn't get the turnovers they

1847
01:37:07,960 --> 01:37:09,960
Speaker 1: did two years ago in their playoff run, but they

1848
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:14,360
Speaker 1: were very tough to run against, really good defense, hard

1849
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:17,280
Speaker 1: to move the football against. They gave their offense every

1850
01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 1: opportunity to win games, you know, and they just, you know,

1851
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:21,360
Speaker 1: couldn't get it done enough times. But there are a

1852
01:37:21,479 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 1: couple of reasons mentioned in this article about why they

1853
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:26,320
Speaker 1: may be even better this year, and it has a

1854
01:37:26,360 --> 01:37:29,280
Speaker 1: lot to do with being a second year in the system. Well. Yeah,

1855
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 1: and the biggest guy who's in his second year in

1856
01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:33,720
Speaker 1: that system is Tremaine Edmonds, Right. I mean, that's the

1857
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 1: guy that's running your defense. He knows he knows the defense.

1858
01:37:37,520 --> 01:37:42,360
Speaker 1: On a more nuanced basis. I think he feels completely

1859
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 1: comfortable in directing guys pre snap, making checks before the snap,

1860
01:37:48,720 --> 01:37:52,840
Speaker 1: all of those things. And Lorenzo Alexander, to his credit,

1861
01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:57,320
Speaker 1: has seeded some of the leadership responsibilities of the defensive

1862
01:37:57,439 --> 01:37:59,439
Speaker 1: unit to Tremaine, so we can really take it and

1863
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:02,120
Speaker 1: run with it. And we saw signs of that last year,

1864
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, with Kyle Williams moving him into you know,

1865
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:07,320
Speaker 1: taking a lead role in the meetings on Thursday, you know,

1866
01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 1: kind of leading everybody through the meetings and that kind

1867
01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:12,360
Speaker 1: of stuff. And you know, the coaches see it. They

1868
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:14,639
Speaker 1: see a different Tremaine Edmonds out there on the field,

1869
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,479
Speaker 1: just in terms of his command to the defense, his

1870
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:22,320
Speaker 1: leadership and getting guys lined up, and in his anticipation skills.

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01:38:22,360 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 1: I mean, there were a lot of times the first

1872
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:27,519
Speaker 1: half of last season over pursuing a play, you know,

1873
01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:30,639
Speaker 1: biting on a play, fake too hard, those kinds of things.

1874
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 1: We get to the back half of the season, Steve,

1875
01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:34,920
Speaker 1: this guy's taken over. I mean, he was Defensive Rookie

1876
01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:36,840
Speaker 1: of the Month in December. I mean it was all

1877
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:38,720
Speaker 1: it was almost a shame the season ended for him

1878
01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:41,559
Speaker 1: because he was just starting to you know what I mean,

1879
01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:44,960
Speaker 1: start to take off. You could see him improving every

1880
01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:49,120
Speaker 1: single week. And now going into year two, twenty twenty

1881
01:38:49,160 --> 01:38:52,680
Speaker 1: one years old, state twenty one. That's the thing. I

1882
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:55,840
Speaker 1: was gonna say, Brownie, last half of last year, and

1883
01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 1: you said it. Once he got to the second half

1884
01:38:57,479 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 1: of the season, he seemed to really really send. As

1885
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:03,599
Speaker 1: you said, he was Defensive Rookie of the Month for December.

1886
01:39:03,840 --> 01:39:06,679
Speaker 1: Now you forget too, the Indianapolis Colts had a rookie

1887
01:39:06,720 --> 01:39:10,240
Speaker 1: linebacker named Darius Leonard. He ran off, Yeah, he ran

1888
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:12,160
Speaker 1: off with the defensive Rookie of the Year honors or

1889
01:39:12,200 --> 01:39:16,880
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Tremaine Edmunds, you know, got into that.

1890
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:18,519
Speaker 1: If it would have been a half a season, the

1891
01:39:18,560 --> 01:39:20,000
Speaker 1: second half of last season, he would have been in

1892
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: the conversation with him as good as Darius Leonard was,

1893
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:25,920
Speaker 1: and believe me, he was very good. Tremaine Edmonds was

1894
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:28,240
Speaker 1: playing really well at the end of the last season,

1895
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:31,280
Speaker 1: and it was evident not only in the way he played,

1896
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:33,600
Speaker 1: but in the way the team played around him. And

1897
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:37,040
Speaker 1: it's just gives you a lot of a lot of

1898
01:39:37,520 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 1: confidence that as this season begins and transfers through, he

1899
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:44,000
Speaker 1: just going to continue to get better and better and

1900
01:39:44,160 --> 01:39:48,080
Speaker 1: do more things intelligently, things that make a difference. Maybe

1901
01:39:48,880 --> 01:39:52,320
Speaker 1: that it are hard to quantify, but the entire defense

1902
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 1: may get better as a result of it. And I

1903
01:39:54,439 --> 01:39:58,400
Speaker 1: think you're right. The absence of Kyle Williams and Lorenzo

1904
01:39:58,400 --> 01:40:03,840
Speaker 1: Alexander doing things to promote his confidence in his ability

1905
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:05,320
Speaker 1: to lead the defense, he's going to make a big

1906
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:09,320
Speaker 1: difference for him this year. Well, yeah, and you know,

1907
01:40:09,479 --> 01:40:13,599
Speaker 1: I expect him to take a giant leap. Like I'm

1908
01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 1: talking about being in a Pro Bowl conversation. I think

1909
01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:18,559
Speaker 1: Edmonds can get there. I mean, I think that's how

1910
01:40:18,600 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: far he can. I don't think he's going to take

1911
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: a step up in performance. I think he's going to

1912
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:26,120
Speaker 1: take a giant leap in performance because now he kind

1913
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:28,120
Speaker 1: of knows what to expect and that just goes such

1914
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 1: a long way for a guy like that, right, And

1915
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:32,040
Speaker 1: that's that would be first reason. It's be the middle

1916
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:35,360
Speaker 1: linebacker Tremaine Edmunds stepping up, being second year in the system,

1917
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:37,800
Speaker 1: taking picking up from where he left off at the

1918
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:41,400
Speaker 1: second half of last season where he was playing so well,

1919
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: and moving forward as a defense second year in the system.

1920
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:47,880
Speaker 1: The second reason why they may have gotten better this

1921
01:40:48,120 --> 01:40:51,640
Speaker 1: last offseason was that they found an immediate replacement for

1922
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams, not so much in his vocal leadership, but

1923
01:40:55,160 --> 01:40:58,439
Speaker 1: somebody to play what we've been talking about all offseason,

1924
01:40:58,479 --> 01:41:02,640
Speaker 1: the three technique outside the right guard over there at

1925
01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:04,400
Speaker 1: a spot where he can get into the backfield. And

1926
01:41:04,439 --> 01:41:07,639
Speaker 1: of course we're talking about Ed Oliver taking number nine

1927
01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:10,080
Speaker 1: in the in the twenty nineteen draft, and he hasn't

1928
01:41:10,680 --> 01:41:14,360
Speaker 1: earned it yet. I mean, but training camp will will

1929
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:19,479
Speaker 1: tell the tale that may be as big a find

1930
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:23,240
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills as anything we're gonna mention. He's

1931
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:25,960
Speaker 1: flashed already in these spring practices, and this is a

1932
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:28,360
Speaker 1: guy that still doesn't know all the ins and outs

1933
01:41:28,400 --> 01:41:32,840
Speaker 1: of what his responsibilities are defensively. And I think knowing

1934
01:41:32,960 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: that seeing him flash already and knowing that he's still

1935
01:41:38,400 --> 01:41:41,200
Speaker 1: doing a little bit of thinking instead of just playing,

1936
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:45,639
Speaker 1: he's only going to get better. So as he gets

1937
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:49,679
Speaker 1: a firmer grasp of his defensive responsibilities within the scheme,

1938
01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:53,840
Speaker 1: I think his athleticism is going to show even more. Yeah,

1939
01:41:53,880 --> 01:41:56,479
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying he's gonna be Kyle Williams in

1940
01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: the leadership role or the presence and all doesn't have

1941
01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:01,320
Speaker 1: to be right, but I'll tell you this, He's gonna

1942
01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:04,680
Speaker 1: be faster, quicker, or more explosive than Kyle was at

1943
01:42:04,680 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 1: the end of his career. This is a guy that's

1944
01:42:07,160 --> 01:42:10,920
Speaker 1: got the explosiveness and the burst to get across the

1945
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:13,640
Speaker 1: line of his crimmage and get penetration a lot like

1946
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:16,840
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams was able to do. Kyle did it very

1947
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 1: well for a long time. Here, Ed Oliver is going

1948
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:22,000
Speaker 1: to come in probably obviously he's a younger kid. He's

1949
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:24,120
Speaker 1: going to be fresher legged, He's gonna have, you know,

1950
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:27,920
Speaker 1: more snap and energy and all of that stuff that

1951
01:42:27,960 --> 01:42:31,200
Speaker 1: goes with when you're a young player. He will lack

1952
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:34,080
Speaker 1: the experience. He's gonna lack the nuances perhaps that Kyle

1953
01:42:34,120 --> 01:42:36,120
Speaker 1: Williams took for granted at the end of his career.

1954
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:38,160
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's any question at Oliver could

1955
01:42:38,200 --> 01:42:43,200
Speaker 1: make up with that with strength, explosion, speed that Kyle

1956
01:42:43,320 --> 01:42:46,799
Speaker 1: may be left behind a few years ago. At Oliver's

1957
01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:51,960
Speaker 1: going to have that in bucketfuls. And like defensive coordinator

1958
01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:54,360
Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier said, you know, he did a really good

1959
01:42:54,439 --> 01:42:57,920
Speaker 1: job and we're just trying to watch his matturation over

1960
01:42:57,960 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 1: the next few months sef he can get there. You know,

1961
01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:02,719
Speaker 1: as much as people talk about having bookend pass rushers

1962
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:05,760
Speaker 1: and that's the ideal situation. More and more a lot

1963
01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:08,280
Speaker 1: of these NFL teams are trying to find that penetrating

1964
01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:11,800
Speaker 1: three technique defensive tackle that can help your primary pass

1965
01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 1: rusher on the edge, because disrupting the pocket in the

1966
01:43:14,439 --> 01:43:17,600
Speaker 1: middle will keep quarterbacks from stepping up because there is

1967
01:43:17,680 --> 01:43:20,080
Speaker 1: no pocket to step into, and that allows your guys

1968
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:22,160
Speaker 1: on the outside to loop around and get the sacks.

1969
01:43:22,200 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 1: And I mean, Jerry Hughes has got to be over

1970
01:43:24,360 --> 01:43:26,600
Speaker 1: the moon to see a player like Ed Oliver, you know,

1971
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:28,960
Speaker 1: on this defensive line now knowing what he's going to

1972
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 1: do to push the pocket and keep a quarterback at

1973
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 1: the top of his drop. Yeah, it's got to be

1974
01:43:33,560 --> 01:43:35,559
Speaker 1: really frustrating for Jerry Hughes to go through a year

1975
01:43:35,640 --> 01:43:38,400
Speaker 1: like last year where he had so much consistent pressure.

1976
01:43:38,400 --> 01:43:40,479
Speaker 1: And he talked to all the analytics websites and all

1977
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:44,040
Speaker 1: the guys that study the film. Jerry Hughes was an

1978
01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:48,000
Speaker 1: effective pass rusher, but because he was kind of on

1979
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:50,400
Speaker 1: an island by himself because of the state of the defense,

1980
01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:52,720
Speaker 1: and the fact that they were facing offenses that really

1981
01:43:52,760 --> 01:43:57,040
Speaker 1: weren't under any pressure to score every possession. He never

1982
01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:01,200
Speaker 1: really had the production last year. Would say, Wow, Jerry

1983
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:03,120
Speaker 1: Hughes had an awesome year. But there's a lot of

1984
01:44:03,120 --> 01:44:05,640
Speaker 1: people who think Jerry Hughes was pretty much elite last year.

1985
01:44:05,680 --> 01:44:07,200
Speaker 1: Even though he didn't have a big sack year. He

1986
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:09,640
Speaker 1: had the highest pressure rate in the league all right,

1987
01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:12,679
Speaker 1: didn't have the highest number of sacks, had an awful

1988
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:16,040
Speaker 1: lot of QB hits led this team, and tackles for

1989
01:44:16,200 --> 01:44:21,320
Speaker 1: loss led this team, enforced fumbles, so he was productive

1990
01:44:21,360 --> 01:44:24,200
Speaker 1: in a lot of other ways outside of the sack category.

1991
01:44:24,360 --> 01:44:27,439
Speaker 1: And Pro Football Focus does have a metric where they

1992
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:31,679
Speaker 1: measure measure pressure rate which takes in hurry quarterback hurries,

1993
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:36,639
Speaker 1: quarterback hits, and sacks, and his percentage of snaps where

1994
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 1: he had pressure was the highest in the National Football League.

1995
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:43,360
Speaker 1: So we're talking about five ways that the Buffalo Bills

1996
01:44:43,479 --> 01:44:47,479
Speaker 1: defense for a defensive end, I should quantify that. Qualify

1997
01:44:47,560 --> 01:44:49,400
Speaker 1: that because the only guy with a higher pressure rate

1998
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:52,439
Speaker 1: number than him was Aaron Donald. So we're talking about

1999
01:44:52,479 --> 01:44:54,519
Speaker 1: five ways the Bills defense might have gotten better this

2000
01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:58,480
Speaker 1: last offseason. Tremaine Edmonds another year in this system, replacing

2001
01:44:59,640 --> 01:45:04,679
Speaker 1: Kayle Williams so seamlessly, at least seemingly with Ed Oliver

2002
01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:07,920
Speaker 1: and number three. The third reason might be the secondary

2003
01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:13,160
Speaker 1: they got with Tremaine Tradevius White, with Micah Hyde, with

2004
01:45:13,320 --> 01:45:15,519
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer in the secondary it was kind of like, Wow,

2005
01:45:15,560 --> 01:45:17,080
Speaker 1: who's gonna be over there? But you know what, they

2006
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:20,240
Speaker 1: might have gotten deeper in the secondary though they were yesterday,

2007
01:45:20,479 --> 01:45:22,960
Speaker 1: and they may be a really tough secondary to three,

2008
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:25,280
Speaker 1: because I mean, Levi Wallace to this point has been

2009
01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:27,240
Speaker 1: able to hold on to the number two cornerback roll

2010
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:32,280
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup. The two guys behind him, Yeah, EJ.

2011
01:45:32,520 --> 01:45:35,840
Speaker 1: Gaines and Kevin Johnson have been starters in this league

2012
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:40,479
Speaker 1: for multiple seasons, and they might be backups here. If

2013
01:45:40,560 --> 01:45:43,200
Speaker 1: that doesn't say depth, I don't know what does I mean?

2014
01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:45,680
Speaker 1: Two short years ago EJ. Gaines was a starter here.

2015
01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:49,160
Speaker 1: He comes back two years later, now he's not. He

2016
01:45:49,560 --> 01:45:51,479
Speaker 1: may not start. They were eight and three with EJ.

2017
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:53,560
Speaker 1: Gaines as a starter. They were very good when he

2018
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 1: was on the field, right and that We've talked to

2019
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:58,000
Speaker 1: analytics people and I know people who regularly listen to

2020
01:45:58,080 --> 01:45:59,600
Speaker 1: the show will get tired to hear me say it.

2021
01:45:59,680 --> 01:46:02,240
Speaker 1: I'm I've got this new, huge new bee in my

2022
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:05,599
Speaker 1: bonnet that the analytics guys said. It's a real toss

2023
01:46:05,720 --> 01:46:07,880
Speaker 1: up and a real debate as to what's more important

2024
01:46:08,160 --> 01:46:10,880
Speaker 1: the pressure guys or the corner guys. You know, the

2025
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:13,920
Speaker 1: pressure in the bastard or the corners, and the analytics

2026
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:15,840
Speaker 1: guys will tell you it's the corners that are the

2027
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:20,679
Speaker 1: most important, because if a guy sidesteps a good pass rusher,

2028
01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 1: he can still make a play. But if you've got

2029
01:46:24,120 --> 01:46:26,680
Speaker 1: corners on the outside who can cover up plaster, it

2030
01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:28,439
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he gets away. They got no place

2031
01:46:28,479 --> 01:46:30,559
Speaker 1: to throw too anyway, So the corners and locker, having

2032
01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:33,840
Speaker 1: lockdown corners on the outside are much more beneficial to

2033
01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:36,280
Speaker 1: your total defense and your ability to stop the pass.

2034
01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:40,160
Speaker 1: Then the pass rushers are up front, the Bills seem

2035
01:46:40,280 --> 01:46:43,680
Speaker 1: to be in a great spot to be able to

2036
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:46,560
Speaker 1: lock got people down on the outside, both on the

2037
01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:50,439
Speaker 1: outside of both sides and the slot that could spell

2038
01:46:50,680 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 1: that could spell some really good things for this defense.

2039
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 1: Now you have a fully healthy Terran Johnson who's not

2040
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:59,679
Speaker 1: playing with a bad wing at slot corner right, Kevin

2041
01:46:59,760 --> 01:47:02,439
Speaker 1: john some former first round pick, which which means basically,

2042
01:47:02,600 --> 01:47:05,000
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of measurables that really add up. Yeah,

2043
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 1: he's big, long, he was, and he can run. And

2044
01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:10,760
Speaker 1: his problem has been he couldn't stay healthy. And you

2045
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:14,200
Speaker 1: know what the Bills program that they tell so they

2046
01:47:14,280 --> 01:47:16,920
Speaker 1: pride themselves on keeping guys healthy. Right, So we'll see

2047
01:47:17,160 --> 01:47:19,880
Speaker 1: that's that's the third reason why the Bill's defense may

2048
01:47:19,920 --> 01:47:21,960
Speaker 1: have gotten a little bit better this last offseason. The

2049
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:25,840
Speaker 1: fourth reason is continuity of personnel. And we talked about

2050
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:27,479
Speaker 1: the champe We just now talked about the change at

2051
01:47:27,560 --> 01:47:29,280
Speaker 1: corner on this opposite side. But you know what, there

2052
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:31,200
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys lining up in this defense

2053
01:47:31,479 --> 01:47:33,360
Speaker 1: that know what they're doing in this system. And if

2054
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:36,679
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace holds on to his starting cornerback spot opposite

2055
01:47:36,720 --> 01:47:38,680
Speaker 1: Trdavious White when we get out of training camp in

2056
01:47:38,720 --> 01:47:41,920
Speaker 1: the preseason, that will mean going into twenty nineteen, ten

2057
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:44,680
Speaker 1: of the eleven players on the defensive side of the

2058
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:48,559
Speaker 1: ball will be coming back as starters in twenty nineteen

2059
01:47:48,760 --> 01:47:53,040
Speaker 1: from last year's squad. That's pretty damn good continuity. That's

2060
01:47:53,080 --> 01:47:55,599
Speaker 1: pretty good. That's really good. Hide and Poor you are

2061
01:47:55,600 --> 01:47:58,080
Speaker 1: obviously locked down the secondary long with your Davious, you

2062
01:47:58,160 --> 01:47:59,760
Speaker 1: got three of those guys, they're not going anywhere. You

2063
01:47:59,800 --> 01:48:02,720
Speaker 1: got the slot corner and Tarn Johnson and the off

2064
01:48:02,760 --> 01:48:06,679
Speaker 1: corner which maybe somebody knew if unless Levi Wallace hangs

2065
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:08,919
Speaker 1: onto it, and then you got all the entire secondary

2066
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:12,160
Speaker 1: returns with better depth behind them. The only guy who

2067
01:48:12,240 --> 01:48:14,479
Speaker 1: switch out, Yeah, the only guy who switch out is

2068
01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:20,800
Speaker 1: at Oliver. Up front, the linebacking court might us coming

2069
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:24,400
Speaker 1: back Melby and Alexander, you know, and even in the backups,

2070
01:48:24,439 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 1: you know you're talking about Julian Stanford, Dion Lacy. I mean,

2071
01:48:27,040 --> 01:48:29,320
Speaker 1: these guys are all at Corey Thompson. These guys are

2072
01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:32,080
Speaker 1: all on the roster last year. So even you your

2073
01:48:32,120 --> 01:48:35,040
Speaker 1: second you know you're too deep. Even guys in your

2074
01:48:35,080 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 1: second string, we're here last year. So you know, logic

2075
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:40,880
Speaker 1: would say an extra year in the system for them

2076
01:48:41,040 --> 01:48:43,280
Speaker 1: if they're called upon to perform, they're going to be

2077
01:48:43,360 --> 01:48:46,160
Speaker 1: more familiar in the system too. And also for guys

2078
01:48:46,200 --> 01:48:48,640
Speaker 1: like Harrison Phillips, who's going to be a second year pro,

2079
01:48:48,880 --> 01:48:51,760
Speaker 1: George Phillips, Jordan Phillips, all these guys, Jordan Phillips coming

2080
01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:53,960
Speaker 1: back in the system after he came in parachuting getting

2081
01:48:54,240 --> 01:48:57,800
Speaker 1: way through. Yeah, so yeah, that would be as well.

2082
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:01,800
Speaker 1: Another reason that the person the continuity of the personnel three,

2083
01:49:01,880 --> 01:49:05,960
Speaker 1: the depth in the secondary two would be replacing the

2084
01:49:06,080 --> 01:49:09,719
Speaker 1: three technique with ed Oliver and the first one Tremaine Edmonds.

2085
01:49:09,840 --> 01:49:11,880
Speaker 1: Now the fifth one, the last one. This is an

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Speaker 1: interesting one that that's in the article on Buffalo bills

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Speaker 1: dot com mindset. That's an interesting one I could I

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Speaker 1: would not have gone to well. I think it's it's

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01:49:22,439 --> 01:49:25,040
Speaker 1: largely because coach McDermott has talked about it. You know,

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01:49:25,240 --> 01:49:27,800
Speaker 1: he was asked that question and we asked him when

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01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:30,479
Speaker 1: he was on set here to elaborate on it. He

2092
01:49:30,720 --> 01:49:32,760
Speaker 1: was asked the question, you know, your defense was number

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01:49:32,800 --> 01:49:35,080
Speaker 1: two in the league last year, number one against the pass.

2094
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:38,320
Speaker 1: Where does it have to be better? Where do you

2095
01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:41,400
Speaker 1: need it to improve in twenty nineteen? And he said everywhere.

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01:49:42,400 --> 01:49:44,479
Speaker 1: And he said the reason I say that is because

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01:49:44,760 --> 01:49:47,000
Speaker 1: this is a new year. It's twenty nineteen. We can't

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01:49:47,080 --> 01:49:49,280
Speaker 1: rest on the laurels of the accomplishments of the twenty

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01:49:49,320 --> 01:49:52,320
Speaker 1: eighteen defense we have. This is a new defense with

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01:49:52,439 --> 01:49:54,560
Speaker 1: new people in it, and we've got to make a

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01:49:54,640 --> 01:49:58,000
Speaker 1: difference in a lot of different areas and blend all

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Speaker 1: of those new pieces together. And then on top of that,

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01:50:02,600 --> 01:50:07,120
Speaker 1: there is an attitude and a nastiness and a physical

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01:50:07,280 --> 01:50:12,240
Speaker 1: nature to this Buffalo defense that I think coach McDermott

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01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:16,160
Speaker 1: does not believe the unit has reached yet, and so

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01:50:16,479 --> 01:50:22,640
Speaker 1: there has been an emphasis on being more physical, nastier.

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01:50:23,720 --> 01:50:27,120
Speaker 1: Just he wants a defense that people don't want to

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01:50:27,160 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: come here, come in here and play against, right, I mean,

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01:50:30,280 --> 01:50:33,400
Speaker 1: he wants a defense that's going to wear you out.

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01:50:34,479 --> 01:50:36,960
Speaker 1: That's what he wants. And maybe you know it was

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01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:39,920
Speaker 1: too early in the build to ask for those things.

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01:50:39,960 --> 01:50:41,800
Speaker 1: In year one and year two, you're just getting guys

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01:50:42,080 --> 01:50:45,080
Speaker 1: trying to line up right, play off each other, properly,

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01:50:45,600 --> 01:50:49,000
Speaker 1: play consistent to the scheme. I think he feels he

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01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:53,200
Speaker 1: has that now in spades, especially with the lack of

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01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:55,360
Speaker 1: turnover in the starting lineup that we just touched on.

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01:50:56,120 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 1: So now entering year three, we know we're doing we

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01:51:01,320 --> 01:51:03,600
Speaker 1: know the nuances of the scheme. Most of us know

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01:51:03,680 --> 01:51:05,599
Speaker 1: how to play off each other. Now let's just get

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01:51:05,640 --> 01:51:09,040
Speaker 1: angry right now. It's about attitude. Yeah, you've got they've

2121
01:51:09,040 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 1: got to find a way to turn out turnovers. It's

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01:51:11,880 --> 01:51:15,920
Speaker 1: the one thing that evaporated from seventeen, yeah, from when

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01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:18,439
Speaker 1: they went to the playoffs and when they didn't. And

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01:51:18,600 --> 01:51:21,120
Speaker 1: that does have a lot to do with mindset. And

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01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 1: he also said to knowing this system, what it'll do

2126
01:51:24,280 --> 01:51:27,560
Speaker 1: is And we had to Micah Hyde on the on

2127
01:51:27,640 --> 01:51:29,760
Speaker 1: the program earlier and he said, what about your defense?

2128
01:51:29,800 --> 01:51:31,200
Speaker 1: How can you improve? And the thing that he went

2129
01:51:31,280 --> 01:51:34,400
Speaker 1: to right away with situational football and particularly the red zone.

2130
01:51:34,760 --> 01:51:37,639
Speaker 1: He said, our red zone defense last year, we're slept horrible.

2131
01:51:38,320 --> 01:51:40,680
Speaker 1: He even used the way he was we sucked, you know.

2132
01:51:40,800 --> 01:51:42,639
Speaker 1: He said, we just were not good in the red zone.

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01:51:42,680 --> 01:51:45,200
Speaker 1: We've got to get better. It's about communication and that

2134
01:51:45,400 --> 01:51:49,240
Speaker 1: is it's a mindset and McDermott alluded to it as well.

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01:51:49,320 --> 01:51:51,920
Speaker 1: He said, you've got to get into these situations where

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01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:54,920
Speaker 1: you can win early in the in the series so

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01:51:55,080 --> 01:51:57,639
Speaker 1: that you can start to get them behind the down

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01:51:57,720 --> 01:52:00,759
Speaker 1: and distance markers and then you can anticipate Peyton dictate

2139
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:04,240
Speaker 1: as a defense and anticipate what they're going to do offensively,

2140
01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:07,720
Speaker 1: and when they become predictable, then you can light them

2141
01:52:07,800 --> 01:52:11,240
Speaker 1: up defensively. And it does all start with a mindset

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01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:15,080
Speaker 1: of getting the ball away, knowing the situation down in

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01:52:15,160 --> 01:52:17,200
Speaker 1: distance and winning on that down. And if you can

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01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:20,840
Speaker 1: do that, this defense will be able to Yeah, they

2145
01:52:20,880 --> 01:52:22,360
Speaker 1: got to stop him on the run. They gotta stop

2146
01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:25,960
Speaker 1: They gotta churn out turnovers. Those are game changing plays,

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01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:28,400
Speaker 1: and those are the ones that you only get when

2148
01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:31,679
Speaker 1: you're playing an offense that's trying a little too hard

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01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:35,360
Speaker 1: to make something happen because they're under pressure, because they're

2150
01:52:35,400 --> 01:52:38,280
Speaker 1: behind the sticks is third and long, or they're trailing

2151
01:52:38,320 --> 01:52:40,799
Speaker 1: in the game. Your offense has played some complimentary football

2152
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:42,840
Speaker 1: and now they're down by eight points or ten points.

2153
01:52:42,920 --> 01:52:45,200
Speaker 1: And the only guy that really up their takeaway total

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01:52:45,320 --> 01:52:48,040
Speaker 1: from seventeen to eighteen was Milano, who was among the

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01:52:48,160 --> 01:52:51,320
Speaker 1: league leaders at the time. He busted his leg late

2156
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:54,600
Speaker 1: in the year. But Trudevious White went from five takeaways

2157
01:52:54,640 --> 01:52:58,240
Speaker 1: to one, Micah Hyde went from five takeaways I think,

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01:52:58,320 --> 01:53:01,360
Speaker 1: down to three, and Pour went down from five to

2159
01:53:02,040 --> 01:53:04,880
Speaker 1: two or three, I can't remember exactly. But you know,

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01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:08,320
Speaker 1: the guys that were making those giant plays in seventeen

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01:53:08,439 --> 01:53:11,479
Speaker 1: and racking up numbers that were Pro Bowl worthy, they

2162
01:53:11,560 --> 01:53:13,320
Speaker 1: all fell off a little bit. And that was due

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01:53:13,360 --> 01:53:15,760
Speaker 1: in part to the fact that the pass rush wasn't

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01:53:15,760 --> 01:53:19,439
Speaker 1: as effective either. You know, this team finished with thirty

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01:53:19,479 --> 01:53:21,920
Speaker 1: six sacks last year. I think that was twenty sixth

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01:53:21,960 --> 01:53:24,840
Speaker 1: in the league. That's just not going to get it done. So,

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01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:28,280
Speaker 1: you know, it's that all that whole hand in hand

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01:53:28,320 --> 01:53:30,120
Speaker 1: thing that we hear so much about between the front

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01:53:30,200 --> 01:53:32,919
Speaker 1: end and the back end. But yeah, you're right, they've

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01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:35,560
Speaker 1: got to They got to flip the script on the takeaways,

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01:53:35,600 --> 01:53:37,439
Speaker 1: for sure. I've said this to a bunch of times

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01:53:37,439 --> 01:53:40,640
Speaker 1: in a bunch of different ways. I do think the

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01:53:40,880 --> 01:53:46,640
Speaker 1: upgraded offense is going to have an unexpected benefit for

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01:53:46,680 --> 01:53:48,760
Speaker 1: the guys playing on that side of the ball. I

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01:53:48,800 --> 01:53:50,920
Speaker 1: didn't add up all the numbers, but I just know

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01:53:51,160 --> 01:53:53,720
Speaker 1: from watching every game last year and watching every game

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01:53:53,800 --> 01:53:57,479
Speaker 1: from seventeen, they were a whole lot more short fields

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01:53:58,040 --> 01:54:02,160
Speaker 1: in eighteen for this defense to defend then there were

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01:54:02,240 --> 01:54:05,479
Speaker 1: in seventeen. And when that offense only has to drive

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01:54:06,439 --> 01:54:10,160
Speaker 1: fifty five yards for a touchdown or twenty yards for

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01:54:10,240 --> 01:54:12,800
Speaker 1: a field goal, you're largely talking about a drive that's

2182
01:54:12,800 --> 01:54:15,960
Speaker 1: gonna last five or six plays instead of nine or ten.

2183
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:19,160
Speaker 1: And you say, well, what the hell's the difference. It's

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01:54:19,200 --> 01:54:21,000
Speaker 1: three or four more plays for the defense to make

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01:54:21,080 --> 01:54:24,080
Speaker 1: something happen, or maybe get the offense in a long,

2186
01:54:24,160 --> 01:54:26,439
Speaker 1: down and distant situation where now you have the advantage,

2187
01:54:26,439 --> 01:54:29,400
Speaker 1: you can get aggressive. Yeah, and that's the way it's

2188
01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:32,080
Speaker 1: supposed to work. Your offense is supposed to score when

2189
01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:35,200
Speaker 1: it gets the ball. Get them, get them behind, get

2190
01:54:35,280 --> 01:54:38,680
Speaker 1: them trailing by ten points, maybe fourteen points or twelve points,

2191
01:54:38,760 --> 01:54:42,120
Speaker 1: whatever you have, what have you. And that offense is

2192
01:54:42,160 --> 01:54:44,920
Speaker 1: going to press a little bit. They're gonna have to

2193
01:54:45,680 --> 01:54:48,840
Speaker 1: play their entire offense in order to keep up with you.

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01:54:49,200 --> 01:54:51,640
Speaker 1: You're gonna put them under some pressure. They're gonna feel

2195
01:54:51,680 --> 01:54:53,000
Speaker 1: like they have to keep up. I don't and this

2196
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:56,000
Speaker 1: offense last year they led the league in three and outs.

2197
01:54:56,080 --> 01:54:58,760
Speaker 1: You can't do that and help your defense. You know,

2198
01:54:58,880 --> 01:55:00,600
Speaker 1: even if you don't turn it over and you do

2199
01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:04,040
Speaker 1: punt it away all the time, Listen, it's it's easy

2200
01:55:04,160 --> 01:55:07,080
Speaker 1: enough to you know, hand it off on a third

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01:55:07,160 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 1: and two when you're opponent. You know your opponent's not

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01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:10,960
Speaker 1: going to take that. If you have to punt it,

2203
01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:12,280
Speaker 1: they're not going to take the ball the length of

2204
01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:14,240
Speaker 1: the field and score on you. All Right, we'll just

2205
01:55:14,480 --> 01:55:16,800
Speaker 1: hand it off. If they make a mistake, we'll take

2206
01:55:16,800 --> 01:55:18,960
Speaker 1: advantage of it. Get three points, we'll win by three.

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01:55:19,400 --> 01:55:21,960
Speaker 1: You know, there was that kind of mentality and Bill's

2208
01:55:21,960 --> 01:55:24,400
Speaker 1: opponents where they didn't feel like they had to score

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01:55:24,440 --> 01:55:27,640
Speaker 1: thirty five points to beat this team. And you know,

2210
01:55:27,720 --> 01:55:30,480
Speaker 1: you look back at the at the Jacksonville game they

2211
01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:33,880
Speaker 1: won by three points. Of the Tennessee game they won

2212
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:36,760
Speaker 1: by a point. There's another game they won by a point.

2213
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:39,920
Speaker 1: You know, some of these games, that's the way they

2214
01:55:39,960 --> 01:55:41,160
Speaker 1: had to do it. The Bill's team had to do it.

2215
01:55:41,160 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: They had to grind it out and get that last

2216
01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:46,640
Speaker 1: play where these teams, because these other teams, they weren't

2217
01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:49,160
Speaker 1: forced to go up and light it up exactly, you know,

2218
01:55:49,240 --> 01:55:51,720
Speaker 1: and that's that's a hard place to be for a

2219
01:55:51,800 --> 01:55:55,480
Speaker 1: team defensive and that defense still finished number two. Now, yeah,

2220
01:55:55,880 --> 01:55:57,880
Speaker 1: you say total yards, you can cut it both ways.

2221
01:55:57,920 --> 01:56:00,240
Speaker 1: You can say, well a lot of short fields given

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01:56:00,320 --> 01:56:02,560
Speaker 1: up points, of course they're going to be low on

2223
01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:05,760
Speaker 1: yardage and they're d and they're self Admittedly, their red

2224
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:07,920
Speaker 1: zone defense stunk and they were in the red zone

2225
01:56:08,160 --> 01:56:12,360
Speaker 1: too much, too quickly, too easily, because the posing offense

2226
01:56:12,400 --> 01:56:15,320
Speaker 1: didn't have to work that hard. I don't know, it's

2227
01:56:15,320 --> 01:56:16,960
Speaker 1: a lot to think about But I do think this

2228
01:56:18,960 --> 01:56:22,280
Speaker 1: their defense should be at least as good as it

2229
01:56:22,440 --> 01:56:24,920
Speaker 1: was a year ago, right, I hopefully better in some

2230
01:56:25,080 --> 01:56:27,680
Speaker 1: of those key areas that you talked about, situation, red zone,

2231
01:56:27,880 --> 01:56:30,840
Speaker 1: red zone, internal pass rush, turnovers here. Right. So if

2232
01:56:30,920 --> 01:56:33,600
Speaker 1: that's the case, that's gonna be a big step forward.

2233
01:56:33,640 --> 01:56:36,320
Speaker 1: And and I think they're gonna be benefited by an

2234
01:56:36,400 --> 01:56:39,520
Speaker 1: offense that should be upgraded at all levels. We're gonna

2235
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:41,920
Speaker 1: come back talk about a little bit more about your

2236
01:56:41,960 --> 01:56:44,680
Speaker 1: most important game day superstition or ritual. We talked about

2237
01:56:44,720 --> 01:56:46,880
Speaker 1: the five things that we think the defense is going

2238
01:56:46,920 --> 01:56:49,680
Speaker 1: to get better at. And I'll have my pro athlete champion,

2239
01:56:49,800 --> 01:56:53,000
Speaker 1: your champion free game rituals. All right, we're gonna come pretty.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back and talk about that. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalidah Health from One Bill's Drive. This

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01:56:57,280 --> 01:57:11,800
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Lives.

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01:57:11,880 --> 01:57:14,400
Speaker 1: Jeeves Tasker, Chris Brown. We're in just until three o'clock.

2244
01:57:14,440 --> 01:57:17,839
Speaker 1: We're talking about your most important game day superstition or ritual.

2245
01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:20,880
Speaker 1: We also talked about five ways that we thought the

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01:57:20,920 --> 01:57:25,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills defense has probably gotten better this offseason and

2247
01:57:25,400 --> 01:57:28,280
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be fun because at this point, you know,

2248
01:57:28,360 --> 01:57:32,560
Speaker 1: everybody's everybody's oh and oh, you know, and there's nothing

2249
01:57:32,600 --> 01:57:34,640
Speaker 1: but hope all around the National Football League. And I

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01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:37,080
Speaker 1: get that, but I really do think there are some

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01:57:37,160 --> 01:57:40,560
Speaker 1: reasons why Buffalo Bills fans continue to be optimistic. We

2252
01:57:40,640 --> 01:57:43,560
Speaker 1: said at the outset of this offseason, Murph and I said,

2253
01:57:43,600 --> 01:57:46,240
Speaker 1: there may be. I don't know if there's a more

2254
01:57:46,280 --> 01:57:49,520
Speaker 1: optimistic fan base in the NFL than than Buffalo. Certainly

2255
01:57:49,560 --> 01:57:52,360
Speaker 1: there's no more optimistic team that had only six wins

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01:57:52,400 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 1: a year before that's more optimistic than Buffalo. Yeah, I'm

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01:57:55,840 --> 01:57:57,920
Speaker 1: taking the over. I mean, Vegas hasn't at six and

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01:57:57,960 --> 01:58:00,480
Speaker 1: a half wins. Yeah, I mean I agree, I'm taking

2259
01:58:00,520 --> 01:58:02,800
Speaker 1: the over. I'm all over that. And I just think

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01:58:04,600 --> 01:58:07,000
Speaker 1: with what we saw, the glimpses of what we saw,

2261
01:58:08,240 --> 01:58:11,560
Speaker 1: the reasons for optimism, not only on the field, but

2262
01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 1: also what they've done off the field in the draft,

2263
01:58:14,720 --> 01:58:17,120
Speaker 1: with the continuity of the defense that's coming back that

2264
01:58:17,240 --> 01:58:19,960
Speaker 1: has been so successful the last couple of years, and

2265
01:58:20,080 --> 01:58:22,120
Speaker 1: every reason to think that defense may take a leap

2266
01:58:22,160 --> 01:58:25,960
Speaker 1: forward or mix those two years they've just had up

2267
01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:28,200
Speaker 1: a little bit where you can get their red zone

2268
01:58:28,280 --> 01:58:30,560
Speaker 1: defense fixed up, get them a few more turnovers, and

2269
01:58:30,560 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's a defense that teams just

2270
01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:36,160
Speaker 1: really have too much trouble to beat, let alone the

2271
01:58:36,200 --> 01:58:37,920
Speaker 1: fact that what they did on the offensive side of

2272
01:58:37,960 --> 01:58:39,440
Speaker 1: the ball is going to help everything out as well.

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01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:41,240
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of reasons to really be

2274
01:58:41,320 --> 01:58:44,880
Speaker 1: intrigued by this season in Buffalo. We shall see how

2275
01:58:44,960 --> 01:58:48,040
Speaker 1: it all unfolds. First two or roadies as we know,

2276
01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:52,840
Speaker 1: both in the same place strangely enough, but I like

2277
01:58:52,960 --> 01:58:55,560
Speaker 1: the first two matchups Jets, Giants, and then you get

2278
01:58:55,560 --> 01:58:59,760
Speaker 1: the Bengals here under a new head coach with a

2279
01:59:00,040 --> 01:59:04,760
Speaker 1: quarterback situation that might be somewhat tenuous, right. Um, you know,

2280
01:59:04,920 --> 01:59:09,160
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is kind of fighting things right now, and

2281
01:59:09,280 --> 01:59:13,120
Speaker 1: with a new coach there might be new preferences, new favorites.

2282
01:59:13,280 --> 01:59:16,680
Speaker 1: You never know, so a lot of his PFF metrics

2283
01:59:16,760 --> 01:59:21,160
Speaker 1: are not good Andy Dalton. So it's right interesting to

2284
01:59:21,240 --> 01:59:23,200
Speaker 1: see where that goes. I get it, and it'll it'll

2285
01:59:23,240 --> 01:59:28,200
Speaker 1: be interesting to see because, um, I don't know that

2286
01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:31,440
Speaker 1: you think about Andy Dalton all that they got Zach

2287
01:59:31,480 --> 01:59:34,720
Speaker 1: Taylor's their head coach. Who is this guy who once

2288
01:59:34,800 --> 01:59:40,840
Speaker 1: had lunch with Sean Sean McVeigh, you know, right, which

2289
01:59:40,920 --> 01:59:43,280
Speaker 1: is you know, I think what was the other quarterbacks coach? Right,

2290
01:59:43,640 --> 01:59:46,200
Speaker 1: I think it was the quarterbacks. So we'll see and

2291
01:59:46,760 --> 01:59:48,480
Speaker 1: and I get it. There's no reason to think he's

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01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:51,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be really good except the fact that he's

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Speaker 1: never done it before. And I've seen we've seen a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys struggle with that. So we have We've

2295
01:59:55,400 --> 01:59:58,200
Speaker 1: been talking about that every all day, the reasons we're

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01:59:58,240 --> 02:00:01,400
Speaker 1: optimistic the step for defense might take. We've also been

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Speaker 1: talking about most important game day superstition. We've taken some

2298
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Speaker 1: calls from and taking some tweets from you the listeners.

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Speaker 1: But Browna, you've been doing the research. Who is the

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Speaker 1: grand champion, yes, of all game day superstitions or ritual

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02:00:15,320 --> 02:00:18,280
Speaker 1: some pro athletes somewhere, who does something crazier than everybody else?

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Speaker 1: Former champion, former light heavyweight UFC champion Leoto Macheetah tops

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Speaker 1: our list. He tops the list. We've seen. The Brazilian

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Speaker 1: born UFC fighter dominated UFC, combining his elusive fighting style

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Speaker 1: with accurate counter striking ability to a respectable twenty three

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Speaker 1: and eight career record. But the real secret to his

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Speaker 1: success is the drinking of his own urine every morning.

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Speaker 1: What he does it every morning every morning. He said,

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Speaker 1: my father did it for a long time and he

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02:00:56,760 --> 02:01:00,960
Speaker 1: introduced it to us. People think it's a joke. I

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02:01:01,120 --> 02:01:03,200
Speaker 1: never talked about it in the United States because I

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02:01:03,200 --> 02:01:05,920
Speaker 1: didn't know how people would react. But he said he

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Speaker 1: drinks it like a natural medicine. They claim that the minerals,

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Speaker 1: the hormones, and the nutrients in it helps with muscle

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Speaker 1: production and recovery. There's apparently another fighter UFC fighter who

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Speaker 1: used to do this as well, named Luke Kumo, with

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Speaker 1: the same claims. But I'll say this, that's just not happening.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this. You can claim anything you want. You

2319
02:01:39,920 --> 02:01:42,920
Speaker 1: can you can make any claim you want. I want

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Speaker 1: to see the science. All I know is this, Steve.

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02:01:47,600 --> 02:01:51,480
Speaker 1: I know very often my body's not wrong. When I

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02:01:51,600 --> 02:01:55,120
Speaker 1: eat something it doesn't like, it's coming back up and

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02:01:55,280 --> 02:01:59,760
Speaker 1: it's helping me. Okay, when my body and my kidneys

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02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:03,880
Speaker 1: alter out stuff and say this is to be expelled,

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02:02:04,640 --> 02:02:07,360
Speaker 1: that's the end of it. Put back, that's the end

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Speaker 1: of it. That's its not coming back. Brownie. That is

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02:02:11,840 --> 02:02:14,920
Speaker 1: as solid a point as you have met. Thank you. Yes.

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02:02:15,200 --> 02:02:18,040
Speaker 1: If your body says no, don't try and make it

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02:02:18,120 --> 02:02:20,600
Speaker 1: say yes, yes exactly. I am all about it. I

2330
02:02:20,720 --> 02:02:22,520
Speaker 1: just I don't know how you don't even care. That is,

2331
02:02:22,760 --> 02:02:24,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't gag doing that. That

2332
02:02:24,800 --> 02:02:31,160
Speaker 1: is the absolute winner at Yoto Machada UFC fighter moving

2333
02:02:31,480 --> 02:02:35,680
Speaker 1: right along, he wins by the way. That is the winner.

2334
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Speaker 1: Let's go to. Let's go to. Are you ready for NFL?

2335
02:02:37,680 --> 02:02:40,080
Speaker 1: True false? Yes, I am more than ready all right

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Speaker 1: NFL true false. Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New

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Speaker 1: York's artist and Cheese. NFL true false. Number one. Patrick

2338
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Speaker 1: Mahomes has become the greatest show in all of sports. Yeah,

2339
02:02:52,160 --> 02:02:56,760
Speaker 1: I was. I was really racking my brain to find

2340
02:02:57,680 --> 02:03:05,440
Speaker 1: a more entertaining talent that has just turned their league

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02:03:05,640 --> 02:03:08,480
Speaker 1: on its ear, you know what I mean? And I was,

2342
02:03:08,720 --> 02:03:11,200
Speaker 1: I was really kind of trying to work my way

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02:03:11,280 --> 02:03:16,000
Speaker 1: through other guys that you could say, you know, took

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02:03:16,080 --> 02:03:19,880
Speaker 1: their respective league by storm the way Mahomes did last

2345
02:03:19,960 --> 02:03:22,960
Speaker 1: year in the NFL. And and I'll say this too,

2346
02:03:23,160 --> 02:03:26,040
Speaker 1: I don't expect him to put up the same kind

2347
02:03:26,080 --> 02:03:30,320
Speaker 1: of numbers this year. There's fifty touchdowns, five thousand yards,

2348
02:03:30,440 --> 02:03:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, there is absolutely no way he doesn't. History

2349
02:03:33,280 --> 02:03:36,360
Speaker 1: says there will be a drop off to what degree

2350
02:03:36,520 --> 02:03:41,000
Speaker 1: nobody knows, but history says those are very difficult seasons

2351
02:03:41,080 --> 02:03:45,440
Speaker 1: to string together in any capacity. So h And a

2352
02:03:45,520 --> 02:03:49,080
Speaker 1: perfect example is there have only been like five or

2353
02:03:49,200 --> 02:03:53,440
Speaker 1: six five thousand yard passers and Drew Brees has three

2354
02:03:53,480 --> 02:03:55,800
Speaker 1: of those, I think, or four of those. No, No,

2355
02:03:55,880 --> 02:03:59,120
Speaker 1: there's been eleven now of recent there's been more. At

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02:03:59,200 --> 02:04:01,400
Speaker 1: one point there were seven and he had had five

2357
02:04:01,480 --> 02:04:03,360
Speaker 1: of them, five of me. Now there's been like eleven,

2358
02:04:03,440 --> 02:04:05,360
Speaker 1: and he's got six of them or seven of them,

2359
02:04:05,400 --> 02:04:07,520
Speaker 1: you know, everybody and nobody, so it's rare. Nobody else

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02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:10,160
Speaker 1: has two. Right, So that's that kind of proves our

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02:04:10,200 --> 02:04:12,160
Speaker 1: point true that he's going to come back down to

2362
02:04:12,240 --> 02:04:16,520
Speaker 1: earth a little bit. So is there somebody else out

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02:04:16,600 --> 02:04:19,240
Speaker 1: there like him? That's the greatest show in all of sports.

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02:04:19,880 --> 02:04:23,880
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really having trouble finding somebody else that has

2365
02:04:23,960 --> 02:04:28,560
Speaker 1: done this, you know, in recent memory, that's just taken

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02:04:28,600 --> 02:04:32,080
Speaker 1: over their league and say try to stop me. I mean,

2367
02:04:32,240 --> 02:04:36,160
Speaker 1: maybe maybe James Harden, with the way he was unstoppable

2368
02:04:36,240 --> 02:04:38,240
Speaker 1: this past year. I think he would be a candidate.

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02:04:39,000 --> 02:04:42,640
Speaker 1: But I think what Mahomes did is harder, so I

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02:04:42,760 --> 02:04:45,880
Speaker 1: will say true. For now, I'm gonna say false just

2371
02:04:46,080 --> 02:04:49,360
Speaker 1: because I watched the NBA Playoffs and I saw a

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02:04:50,040 --> 02:04:54,040
Speaker 1: player after player. Dude, I'm gonna say, now, certainly one guy,

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02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:58,000
Speaker 1: But he's not the greatest show. I mean, Mahomes is great,

2374
02:04:58,360 --> 02:05:01,160
Speaker 1: and he's the most intrigued player in the NFL. Right,

2375
02:05:01,200 --> 02:05:04,160
Speaker 1: he must watch TV? Yeah, he is. He is pretty

2376
02:05:04,200 --> 02:05:06,280
Speaker 1: cool to watch him, particularly with Andy Reid being his

2377
02:05:06,360 --> 02:05:08,280
Speaker 1: head coach and being the play caller. I mean, that'll

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02:05:08,280 --> 02:05:11,200
Speaker 1: be like the innovation and all of that. But I

2379
02:05:11,280 --> 02:05:15,800
Speaker 1: think for me, I had more fun watching uh, the

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02:05:15,920 --> 02:05:20,360
Speaker 1: Warriors Raptors series and the NBA Playoffs in general than

2381
02:05:20,400 --> 02:05:22,520
Speaker 1: I did watching Pad Mahomes. It was fun. I watched

2382
02:05:22,520 --> 02:05:24,840
Speaker 1: a lot of that. I thought it was I thought

2383
02:05:24,880 --> 02:05:27,560
Speaker 1: it was an exquise. Son's a big Trailblazers fan, right,

2384
02:05:27,840 --> 02:05:30,800
Speaker 1: I mean Lillard with that last second shot against the Thunder,

2385
02:05:30,960 --> 02:05:33,960
Speaker 1: it was awesome. And I and the four the four

2386
02:05:34,120 --> 02:05:38,680
Speaker 1: bounce buzzer beater the Beast the Sixers. The Raptors beat

2387
02:05:38,720 --> 02:05:41,240
Speaker 1: the Sixers in seven, game seven on a bat high

2388
02:05:41,280 --> 02:05:44,000
Speaker 1: drama there. It was unbelievable that I don't know if

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02:05:44,040 --> 02:05:46,080
Speaker 1: there was one guy that was. That's a good point

2390
02:05:46,160 --> 02:05:49,680
Speaker 1: and the one guy maybe not. But I think you're

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02:05:49,720 --> 02:05:51,720
Speaker 1: talking about the greatest show in all of sports man.

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02:05:51,760 --> 02:05:55,640
Speaker 1: The NBA Playoffs hit it out on particularly interpreted it differently. Yes,

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02:05:55,920 --> 02:06:01,200
Speaker 1: particularly since, particularly since when you talk about the way

2394
02:06:01,280 --> 02:06:04,000
Speaker 1: it ended with a team that's never won it winning

2395
02:06:04,040 --> 02:06:06,520
Speaker 1: it against an all time great team, I thought it

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02:06:06,600 --> 02:06:08,960
Speaker 1: was an extra special touch to it. And so I'm

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02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:13,960
Speaker 1: gonna say false. Although Patrick Mahomes, you're talking about the NFL, Yeah,

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02:06:14,080 --> 02:06:16,200
Speaker 1: he's the most intriguing and most exciting player I think

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Speaker 1: at the current time. All Right, there's two or false.

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Speaker 1: Number one. You say true, I'll say false number NFL

2401
02:06:21,640 --> 02:06:25,400
Speaker 1: true false. Number two. Teddy Bridgewater's best chance to grow

2402
02:06:25,480 --> 02:06:29,760
Speaker 1: as a quarterback is to stay in New Orleans, New Orleans. Okay,

2403
02:06:29,840 --> 02:06:34,640
Speaker 1: So here's here's the thing. These two years removed from

2404
02:06:34,720 --> 02:06:38,760
Speaker 1: what many people thought was a career ending knee injury.

2405
02:06:39,480 --> 02:06:42,760
Speaker 1: You know, So he gets signed by the Jets, they

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02:06:42,840 --> 02:06:46,680
Speaker 1: trade him to the Saints, and he essentially holds a

2407
02:06:46,720 --> 02:06:51,040
Speaker 1: clipboard for much of the year. Mind clip behind Drew Brees. Right,

2408
02:06:51,520 --> 02:06:54,600
Speaker 1: He gets it, turns learns a ton about an innovative

2409
02:06:54,640 --> 02:06:58,680
Speaker 1: offense in New Orleans knows that Breeze is near the end,

2410
02:07:00,240 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 1: you know, gets his body completely right for another year.

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02:07:05,080 --> 02:07:08,520
Speaker 1: And now is you know, the number two there, Uh

2412
02:07:09,320 --> 02:07:10,600
Speaker 1: isn't going to be asked to do a lot of

2413
02:07:10,680 --> 02:07:14,280
Speaker 1: dangerous stuff. They got Taysom Hill to do that, you know,

2414
02:07:14,400 --> 02:07:18,320
Speaker 1: running the football and such. I I look at this

2415
02:07:18,480 --> 02:07:22,520
Speaker 1: situation and I'm not I'm not saying that Teddy Bridgewater

2416
02:07:22,720 --> 02:07:25,640
Speaker 1: is this guy, but I see a similar situation where

2417
02:07:26,320 --> 02:07:30,240
Speaker 1: biding his time may prove to be the best thing

2418
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Speaker 1: to do. Here, I'm reminded of the Joe Montana Steve

2419
02:07:34,400 --> 02:07:37,720
Speaker 1: Young situation in San Francisco. You got Drew Brees and

2420
02:07:37,800 --> 02:07:42,400
Speaker 1: all world quarterback who's near the end you have an

2421
02:07:42,400 --> 02:07:51,320
Speaker 1: opportunity to Montana is like Montana, and you got Bridgewater

2422
02:07:51,520 --> 02:07:53,920
Speaker 1: sitting there waiting in the wings. You're pretty sure he

2423
02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:56,600
Speaker 1: can play, maybe not quite to that level, but pretty

2424
02:07:56,680 --> 02:07:59,680
Speaker 1: damn good and and he's just got to wait his

2425
02:07:59,760 --> 02:08:05,919
Speaker 1: turn to Inherit a very good operation, like a stocked

2426
02:08:06,520 --> 02:08:10,040
Speaker 1: roster of offense. I mean Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas.

2427
02:08:10,400 --> 02:08:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean those are two top five guys at their positions.

2428
02:08:13,320 --> 02:08:15,680
Speaker 1: He's got a chance to take a good line, a

2429
02:08:15,880 --> 02:08:20,440
Speaker 1: better defense that's gonna help him. That's a nice thing

2430
02:08:20,520 --> 02:08:23,320
Speaker 1: to walk into with a coach who's not going anywhere.

2431
02:08:24,040 --> 02:08:27,080
Speaker 1: We think, right, you're saying true, So I'm saying true.

2432
02:08:27,560 --> 02:08:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say true as well. You look around the league.

2433
02:08:30,160 --> 02:08:31,880
Speaker 1: What other opportunities are they? Is he gonna go to

2434
02:08:31,960 --> 02:08:35,040
Speaker 1: San Diego and wait, La Rivers he's gonna go. You know,

2435
02:08:35,120 --> 02:08:38,280
Speaker 1: he's not gonna break into the lineup in LA at

2436
02:08:38,360 --> 02:08:41,680
Speaker 1: either one of those teams He's and I'm talking about

2437
02:08:41,680 --> 02:08:44,920
Speaker 1: the Rams either, you know, So there's where else would

2438
02:08:44,960 --> 02:08:48,360
Speaker 1: he go? Where there is a place where they can

2439
02:08:48,720 --> 02:08:50,560
Speaker 1: just kind of hand over the keys to the pro

2440
02:08:50,720 --> 02:08:53,080
Speaker 1: and forget about the offense. It's like the keys to

2441
02:08:53,160 --> 02:08:56,000
Speaker 1: a program. They got a head coach established, they got

2442
02:08:56,040 --> 02:08:58,480
Speaker 1: personnel established, they got a GM established, they got a

2443
02:08:58,680 --> 02:09:02,680
Speaker 1: system established, they got a entrenched program that is working.

2444
02:09:03,240 --> 02:09:04,960
Speaker 1: You want to be that guy, And I think if

2445
02:09:05,320 --> 02:09:08,440
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater has any sense, he's going to stay there

2446
02:09:08,920 --> 02:09:11,320
Speaker 1: and make sure that he's the guy that's the starting

2447
02:09:11,400 --> 02:09:13,360
Speaker 1: quarterback once Drew Breese Hanks. It's a heck of a

2448
02:09:13,560 --> 02:09:15,640
Speaker 1: it's a heck of an inheritance plan. It is, and

2449
02:09:15,800 --> 02:09:18,440
Speaker 1: I know that you can bristle. I guess where you're

2450
02:09:18,440 --> 02:09:20,640
Speaker 1: sitting there, thinking, Man, I could really do this if

2451
02:09:20,680 --> 02:09:23,480
Speaker 1: I give me a chilling twenty six. I mean, if

2452
02:09:23,520 --> 02:09:25,840
Speaker 1: Breeze retires after this year, you get the keys to

2453
02:09:25,920 --> 02:09:29,080
Speaker 1: the car at twenty seven, could play for ten years exactly.

2454
02:09:29,280 --> 02:09:31,040
Speaker 1: So I think I think it's true. I think Teddy

2455
02:09:31,080 --> 02:09:34,280
Speaker 1: Bridgewater's best chance to develop as a QB and be

2456
02:09:34,360 --> 02:09:36,640
Speaker 1: a starter is in New Orleans, right where he's at

2457
02:09:37,520 --> 02:09:41,360
Speaker 1: NFL True. False. Number three Mitch Trubisky is a sneaky

2458
02:09:41,680 --> 02:09:45,760
Speaker 1: MVP candidate in two nineteen. I'll go first, as as

2459
02:09:45,800 --> 02:09:48,760
Speaker 1: I usually do, I'm gonna say false. I don't think

2460
02:09:48,840 --> 02:09:51,200
Speaker 1: Mitch Trubisky is good enough to be an MVP candidate.

2461
02:09:51,240 --> 02:09:52,680
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got the talent to do it.

2462
02:09:52,920 --> 02:09:54,960
Speaker 1: And I think Chicago is going to take a step

2463
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:56,760
Speaker 1: backward this year from where they were a year ago.

2464
02:09:57,280 --> 02:09:59,280
Speaker 1: They're thinking, like, well, the kickers the only problem we

2465
02:09:59,320 --> 02:10:02,560
Speaker 1: have that It's fine, but you know what you got

2466
02:10:02,680 --> 02:10:06,280
Speaker 1: to target on your back now you're you're not gonna

2467
02:10:06,640 --> 02:10:08,640
Speaker 1: it is not gonna go well for you. If you're

2468
02:10:08,760 --> 02:10:11,200
Speaker 1: trying to sit, sit past stand pat with the way

2469
02:10:11,240 --> 02:10:13,280
Speaker 1: you did last year and healthy Aaron Rodgers, And you

2470
02:10:13,560 --> 02:10:16,160
Speaker 1: look at that franchise over the course of the years

2471
02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:20,720
Speaker 1: and the decades, they consistently stay at mediocrity or below.

2472
02:10:21,120 --> 02:10:23,640
Speaker 1: Once in a while, they'll throw a game of season

2473
02:10:23,680 --> 02:10:26,000
Speaker 1: out there, like they did last year twelve and four

2474
02:10:26,160 --> 02:10:28,280
Speaker 1: and very nice, and they did a lot of great things.

2475
02:10:29,360 --> 02:10:32,400
Speaker 1: That's a hard city to sustain success in. And I

2476
02:10:32,480 --> 02:10:34,280
Speaker 1: think they're gonna take a step back. You're much like

2477
02:10:34,360 --> 02:10:36,520
Speaker 1: we're calling for Pat Mahomes to take a step back

2478
02:10:36,520 --> 02:10:38,640
Speaker 1: from the stellar year he had. I think that whole

2479
02:10:38,720 --> 02:10:41,320
Speaker 1: organization is going to do that this year. So I think, no,

2480
02:10:41,440 --> 02:10:44,560
Speaker 1: Trubisky's got no shot at an MVP year. Yeah. And

2481
02:10:44,880 --> 02:10:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, when you think about the shot in the

2482
02:10:48,000 --> 02:10:50,880
Speaker 1: arm that the Khalil Mack trade was for that team

2483
02:10:51,040 --> 02:10:53,400
Speaker 1: right before the season, I mean, you want to you

2484
02:10:53,480 --> 02:10:57,520
Speaker 1: want to put an energy shot, you know, into your team.

2485
02:10:57,960 --> 02:11:01,280
Speaker 1: Holy cows and who that's an adrenaline we're getting who?

2486
02:11:02,080 --> 02:11:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be like you guys after you got Bennett.

2487
02:11:05,240 --> 02:11:07,280
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you guys were off and running after

2488
02:11:07,320 --> 02:11:09,920
Speaker 1: the holy crap we got Bruce and Bennett coming off

2489
02:11:09,960 --> 02:11:12,840
Speaker 1: of the opposite sides. Are you kidding me, you know

2490
02:11:12,880 --> 02:11:14,360
Speaker 1: what I mean. So I think that was kind of

2491
02:11:14,400 --> 02:11:16,160
Speaker 1: the shot in the arm where they just kind of

2492
02:11:16,240 --> 02:11:20,360
Speaker 1: rolled this wave of adrenaline last year and didn't think

2493
02:11:20,400 --> 02:11:23,160
Speaker 1: they could lose. I don't know how you manufacture that

2494
02:11:23,240 --> 02:11:26,120
Speaker 1: again this time around, especially with some of the changes

2495
02:11:26,120 --> 02:11:27,840
Speaker 1: they made on both sides of the ball. And I

2496
02:11:27,920 --> 02:11:31,360
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think Trubisky at his best can

2497
02:11:31,440 --> 02:11:34,320
Speaker 1: be an above average quarterback, but in no way is

2498
02:11:34,360 --> 02:11:37,040
Speaker 1: he a top ten talent at his position in this league.

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Speaker 1: I think he's like an Andy Dalton, a great guy,

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Speaker 1: really good quarterback, and he's going to sustain that success

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Speaker 1: for a long time. But that's the level he's going

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Speaker 1: to reach, about the middle of the pack statistically, and

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Speaker 1: we'll see where they go from there. All right, One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. We'll be back to finish at the top

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Speaker 1: of the hour. This is presented by Kalida Health. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to one of those Lives.

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Speaker 1: Steve Task along with Chris Browns. We're finishing up here

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Speaker 1: just before three o'clock. We've been talking all day about

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Speaker 1: your most important game day superstition or ritual, most of

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Speaker 1: which we could use on the air, most of which

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Speaker 1: was disgusting when you go around the world and started

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Speaker 1: talking way too many involved here. Yeah, exactly, it's unbelievable

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Speaker 1: that that does that. We got to also, let's see

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Speaker 1: what do we got to see tomorrow on the show.

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Speaker 1: We've got Mike Tanier from The Bleacher Report. He's coming

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Speaker 1: on and he's also The Ringers. Josh Reid from w

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Speaker 1: IVB Sports is gonna be my co host. You're taking

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Speaker 1: day off Cappy anniversary to me, Yes, thank you. The

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Speaker 1: actually yesterday, but we marked out Friday to kind of well,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you some stuff. I appreciate her sacrifice. Yes,

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Speaker 1: a number of a lot of them, on a number

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Speaker 1: of different levels, at least exactly exactly, congratulations you and

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Speaker 1: the missus. M So, Josh Reed will be in tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have him on. Mike Tanner from Bleacher Reports

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Speaker 1: and The Ringers is going to be on as well,

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Speaker 1: and Robert May's is coming on as well tomorrow. So Brownie,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the week. It was great, enjoy it. A

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. We did topics this week. We had

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Speaker 1: as much fun as Murph did as he's taking his vacation. Man,

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Speaker 1: maybe not that might be It depends if he's catching

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Speaker 1: fish or not. That's that'll depend on how well the vacation. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the fishing gets usually it gets in the way of

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Speaker 1: me drinking. So right, Thanks for thanks, our production assistant

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Speaker 1: George Bloss, Jeff coltonek Thomas Hollander, Kelly Rude, jj Urto,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Karges, James Roebel, and producer Jay Harris. Thanks everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow as Josh Reid will be my

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Speaker 1: co host. Thanks everybody, we'll talk to you next time.

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Speaker 1: This has been One Bill's Live from presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's

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