1 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all all over 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of a 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: dual role player for you. Stout Steve a blimp. We're 4 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: not even in the stragedyre of normalcy. Welcome to a 5 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: midweek edition of One Bills Live from the Seneca studio. 6 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: Here at One Bill's Drive on a nice sunny day, 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: sunny August summer day. As the players got done with 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: their morning work out, I think they're in the classroom 9 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: now for the better part of the next couple of hours, 10 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: and we inch ever closer to real football. Yeah, they're 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: doing you know, they're a little, by little upping the 12 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: andy with training camp. It's starting to pick up the 13 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: pace a little bit. And I think by now, Brownie, 14 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: and not for nothing, but I've been watching Hard Knocks. 15 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: That's talking about the Rams, and the Chargers just got 16 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: back up and running hard knocks right in case anybody 17 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: didn't notice, right, So they profiling the Chargers in the Rams, 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: Chargers in the Rams. So it's a two team deal. 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,559 Speaker 1: This it gives you an idea of how much effort 20 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: they're putting the league, league, why they're doing all the 21 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: some of the stuff for most of the stuff, if 22 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: not all or more of it. They're doing right here 23 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: in Buffalo the exact same way they're doing it in 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: LA with both of those teams, and it gives you 25 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: a little bit of optimism about Wow. They they're committed. 26 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: They're committed to being socially distant, keeping these guys apart 27 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: and doing it. And I think it's really going to 28 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: be difficult for these players to not adhere to that 29 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: when they're away from the building. I think it's really 30 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: going to stick with them. It's going to become a 31 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: kind of a lifestyle for this seasons. Oh yes, has 32 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: to it. You're gonna derail your whole teams once is 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: of making a run at anything. And the interactions I 34 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: saw between the players and what I when I know 35 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: about guys in locker rooms, I think it'll really it's 36 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: really got a good chance of working at this level 37 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: with a group of guys they've got, and with the 38 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: atmosphere that these teams are promoting inside their buildings. So 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: it's pretty It gives me some optimism that we may 40 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 1: see a season. Now. I could all blow up in 41 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: our face after one week, but could I'm pretty confident 42 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: they're gonna get to the regular season. It's gonna kick off. Well, yeah, 43 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: because you're not traveling. There's no preseason games to you know, 44 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: travel four, so you've you've kind of closed the circle, 45 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: so to speak. If they can get through each of 46 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: the thirty two teams, if they can get through the 47 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: first four weeks, brownie of the regular season, right with 48 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: the regular season, just that first four week, because the 49 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 1: first week, you know this, they're gonna be like, Okay, 50 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: we're traveling, We're gonna you know, who tested positive because 51 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: we traveled, who tested positive because we're in a hotel 52 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: or whatever, didn't get back. Can we get our team 53 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: back together during the week. Can we get guys back 54 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: on the list or off the list? Can we activate guys? 55 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: Can we keep our team going for and also can 56 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: we get by with a win at home and not 57 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: have these guys go out and cut it, cut loose, right, 58 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: Let's go out and dance on the bar and swing 59 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: our shirt in the air. Right. If you can get 60 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: past that little level of giddiness over having a really 61 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: good team, you got a chance. But every team's got 62 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: to go through that point where they get a win, 63 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: come back, and they got to stifle the desire to 64 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: go out and roll around in the mud. You know, yeah, 65 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: so if we and maybe the biggest note that came 66 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: out of that first episode was Anthony Lynn was the 67 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: third documented coach to have contracted COVID. He says it 68 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: right in a zoom meeting to his entire team and 69 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: kind of goes. He's talking with one of his assistant coaches, 70 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: I believe, and he's going through how he was feeling. 71 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: And it was really interesting because he basically said, you know, 72 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: I woke up, I had trouble sleeping that night before. 73 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: I was achy and I couldn't get any rest. And 74 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: I got up the next day and I was watching 75 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: golf and the broad casters talked about this one golfer 76 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: on the tour who pulled out because he tested positive 77 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: for COVID. He was feeling really achy. You know. It 78 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: didn't have tremendous symptoms, but I was feeling aky all over. 79 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: It didn't feel quite right. Got tested tested positive for COVID. 80 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: Light bulb for Anthony Lynn. He basically said, if I 81 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: wasn't watching that golf program, right, I wouldn't have gotten tested. 82 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: I would have just you know what I mean, I 83 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: would have just said, oh, I'm just a little aky, 84 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: you know this, that, and I'll be fine in a 85 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: couple of days. He wouldn't have gotten tested. Imagine how 86 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: many people he could have I mean, he wouldn't have 87 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: gotten in building. He would have had to get tested 88 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: before he got in the building. But he was like, yeah, 89 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have even thought to get tested for that. 90 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: I went through an entire diet tribe last night to 91 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: myself when I was driving my vehicle about what we're 92 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: really talking about when we do talk about these sports, 93 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: all these you know, big ten Pac twelves canceling their schedule, 94 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: they give it a shot in the spring, they're no 95 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: fall for nothing before January one, no sports. And I 96 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: was thinking to myself, what the you know what the 97 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: real thing behind is, what's the bare bones of it 98 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: and what? And to me, it's about the risk. Football 99 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: is different. Let's face it. For me, you're canceling the 100 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: college football season. It's becout because you're afraid somebody's gonna 101 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: die from COVID nineteen. That's the only liability that That's 102 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: the only thing this rests on, because everything else you 103 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: say that it's about is hypocritical. You can't say, well, 104 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: what if they have long term lung damage, what if 105 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 1: they have what if somebody gets it and they you 106 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: know whatever, Right, the only thing is the death sentence, 107 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: because you can't sit there and say, well, the kids 108 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: never signed up for COVID. You know, well nobody did. 109 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: You can't go into your football season saying nobody knew 110 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: you might catch COVID. Of course, that's a that's the 111 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: same assumed risk, you say. Now, And here's my thing. 112 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: It's the same reason that the NBA shut it down 113 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: after one case. That's right. So here's the thing, brownie, 114 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: And here's always been has this to me, has always 115 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: set football apart from every other professional sport that we've 116 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: been talking about in this pandemic. You're telling me if 117 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: it's not about the death sentence or the chance of death, 118 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: whatever that is. And we don't know because we don't 119 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: know how many people have had it and didn't show 120 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: symptoms and got rid of it and never got tested 121 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: and aren't in the numbers, you know what I'm saying. 122 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: So the statistics are what we know, they're incomplete. So 123 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: what you're saying is because we still don't it's the 124 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: risk of it's it's the risk of death for these athletes, 125 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: because you can't say it's because of cardio, myoth, what 126 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: isocard Because you know what, nobody's really raising an eyebrow 127 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: when these guys signed up to play football and blow 128 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: their knees out or blow their shoulder out, or have 129 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: to get their hips replaced when they're thirty five, or 130 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: have CTE and are drinking their meals through a straw. 131 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: Nobody cares about that. So now you're gonna care about 132 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: the virus. The only way you can care is if 133 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: it might kill you, right, That's the only thing. That's 134 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: the difference. That's the difference. So what you have with 135 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: you know, when we announced that right before I think 136 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: it was about an hour before we went off the 137 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: air yesterday, the Big Ten Conference formally announced that no 138 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: fall sports, and then about an hour after we got 139 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: off the air, the PAC twelve followed up. As anticipated 140 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: because the Big Ten and PAC twelve have had a 141 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: long standing relationship, the Rose Bowl the whole thing, and 142 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: they followed suit and scrapped everything for the fall as well. 143 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: And you look at the SEC, which is trying to 144 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: influence the ACC to stick with them. The Big twelve 145 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: wants to play fall sports, including football, And all I 146 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: can say is you're headed down a path that could 147 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: lead to a litigation nightmare. Like you can say all 148 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: you want, Well, you know, we may only have one 149 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: or two percent of our players suffer horrible consequences from 150 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: contracting this. Well, if you got one hundred and ten 151 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: guys on your roster and two of them suffer the unthinkable, 152 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: all that revenue you generated by plowing ahead and playing 153 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: football may evaporate pretty quickly in legal bills and settlements. 154 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: Because that is that is not a good outcomes and 155 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: it's the worst optics you could ask for. And to 156 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: take it a step further, it could compromise college athletics 157 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: as we know it. It may never be the same 158 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: again if they go forward with that. Now we're all speculating. 159 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: No one can say definitively that that is a scenario 160 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: that will play out, but it's a scenario that could 161 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: play out. And it was enough to convince two major 162 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: conferences and two other conferences because Mountain West and Mid 163 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: American Conference are out too, and so as the IVY League. 164 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: So there was enough concern about the lives of student 165 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: athletes for them to scrap it. The only reason you're 166 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: pressing forward now if one of these conferences stays the 167 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: course and decides to wedge a football schedule into a 168 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: global pandemic and throw caution to the wind. It's for 169 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: the money. It's for the revenue. That is the only reason. 170 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: And you know, we don't want to get political on 171 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: this show. We're more about sports than anything else. But 172 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: there is an economy that's struggling right now, and there 173 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: are there are elements of our government that would like 174 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: to see football played just for the economic driving force 175 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: that it is, particularly in the South, you know, the 176 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 1: SEC and the ACC that is an engine that drives 177 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: economic models down there. It's an industry, no question. So 178 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: there is pressure there from political places to say, hey, 179 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: you gotta make this season happen. We need to get 180 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: this economy going again. But you know at what cost, 181 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: You know at what cost, And you'd like to think that, 182 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: however small the risk is deemed to be by the 183 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: medical experts, that we'd kind of put a little more 184 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: value on human life. Yeah, and here's the problem too, 185 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: because there's a lot of voices in the air, particularly 186 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: on social media. Everybody's got an opinion about it, and 187 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: none of them are exactly alike, it seems. But as 188 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: a general rule, college football players want to play football. Yeah, 189 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: so there's they're not going to have any shortage of 190 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: having guys willing to take that risk on their own 191 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: because they're like, they're kind of the mindset I just 192 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: said a few minutes ago, you know, I'll take my 193 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: one one thousandth of our chance risk. But you think 194 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: about it, even if it's one in a hundred people 195 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: who pass away from the virus you're talking, you're talking 196 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: about one death on every college football team in America, 197 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: if they all get the virn one per team, that's 198 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: a bad option. If it's one percent, well, if it's 199 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: a tenth, and if it's one tenth of one over 200 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand deaths in this country, right, 201 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: that's not good either. Right. So if you're so, if 202 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: you're talking one, I mean, what if you're talking one 203 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: in a thousand. You've got five million cases in this country. 204 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: That's one out of every four in the world. Right, 205 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 1: So you're talking about if it's one in a thousand 206 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: that die from the you're talking about two or three 207 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 1: deaths in the SEC and in and in the Pac 208 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: ten and in a big twelve. You're talking you're talking 209 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: a dozen or more deaths in just the Power five conferences. 210 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: Forget about Division two, Division three and all that. So 211 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: and then you know it goes up from there. So 212 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: the stats are with that. There's so many people who 213 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: play this game, and the kids want to play. That's 214 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: just what they are to me. And I said this 215 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: to myself and when I was driving around the car's 216 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: got to be an adult in the room, say, you know, 217 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna You're not gonna do that. 218 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna goss. I know there's a 219 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: playground over there, but you're not crossing a four lane 220 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: highway to get there, right, You're gonna stay in our 221 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: yard and you're not gonna go out. And that's, you know, 222 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: you got to be the adult in the room. And 223 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: that's it's hard to hear, and it stinks in a 224 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: lot of ways. And I know we might sound to 225 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: a certain extent like we're talking out of both sides 226 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: of our mouth because we're here doing an NFL based 227 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: show on the bills and the NFL is plowing ahead. 228 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: But I think the main difference here is the construct 229 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: in which college football operates and the way the NFL operates. 230 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: It's a far smaller scale. You only have thirty two teams. 231 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: You have professionals, you have owners and employees, you have 232 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: contract agreements, you have millions of dollars in which to 233 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: enact a comprehensive and canvas like testing system. There are 234 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: just vehicles here at the NFL level that simply cannot 235 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: be put into place at college level due to cost 236 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: and due to expanse the expansive landscape that is college sports. Well, plus, 237 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: you don't have to ask your players to mingle with 238 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: the student body. That may or may may not be 239 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: a good idea. So um, it's not a good idea obviously, 240 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: but you can't. NFL players you can expect to stay 241 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: isolated when they're away from the from the dorm. They don't. 242 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: They're not they're not required to go to biology class, 243 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: they're not required to go to you know what other class. 244 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: But their livelihood is largely based on doing the right thing. 245 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: And that's right. They've got they've got some skin in 246 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: the game, no question about it. And I think both 247 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: sides its different legalities of it are vastly different, obviously, 248 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: and that's what gives it a chance for the clubs 249 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: to say, we're gonna try and go ahead with this 250 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: because we've got an agreement from our employees the players 251 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: that we're all going to take this risk together, and 252 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: we're going to do our part to keep them safe, 253 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: and they're going to do their part not to get 254 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: contaminated away from the building, and we're gonna make this 255 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: season go. The difference between that the NCAA and college 256 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: football players is obvious, and this will obviously have an 257 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: NFL trickle down effect whether they play in the spring 258 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: or not. The NFL Draft is unquestionably going to be compromised, 259 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: not only from where it takes place on the calendar, 260 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: but the all the preparation and ramp up and study 261 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:29,479 Speaker 1: time and vetting and investigating that pro college scouting departments 262 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: go through essentially from August until December is wiped off 263 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: the map. So now what you're going to have, and 264 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: some national reporters were already tweeting about this yesterday, Steve, 265 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: you are going to have college players whose seasons have 266 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: been wiped out, you know, graduating class of twenty twenty 267 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: one or maybe intended to come out after what would 268 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: be their junior year. This year, they're gonna just say 269 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: I'm out, thanks for the college education. I'm out. I'm 270 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: getting an agent, and I'm going to start working out 271 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: and I'm going to conduct workouts for NFL clubs that 272 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: might be interested in me, so they can see what 273 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: I should do on tape, in person, on film, whatever 274 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: it is. They're going to do that because now it's 275 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: a race to get you. It's like it's like you're 276 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: a high school athlete all over again. Hey, dad, tape 277 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: the game so we can put a highlight tape together, 278 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: so I can send it to fifty different colleges and 279 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: see if I can get a scholarship. That's what That's 280 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: what college players are reduced to now to try to 281 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: get a shot in the NFL. What they'll do is 282 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: to get an accurate revaluation. Here's the thing too, here's 283 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: what you gotta know. Um, So, first thing you do, 284 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: if it's if that's me, if I know I got 285 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: a shot at the believe I got a shot at 286 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: the NFL, no matter how realistic it is or not. 287 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: The first thing they do is sign with an agent. Yeah, 288 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: that's it. They're not a college athlete anymore. That their 289 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: eligibility is given up. It is gone, and it'll never 290 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: be they'll never get it back. Ask herschel Ask herschel 291 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: Walker about that. Ask Bo Jackson about out that. Ask 292 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: all these athletes who have come out and had a 293 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: bad scrape with the NCAA over eligibility at the end 294 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: of their college career. If you sign with representation or 295 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: accept money from an agent, or you're done so, whether 296 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: they decide to opt out or not of the season, 297 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: once they sign with an agent or representation, they're done 298 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: in college. They are absolutely done so. But if if 299 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: it's me and knowing what I know, that's the first 300 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: thing I do. Because the agent will start, he's got contacts, 301 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: he'll send your film around, he'll tell you what you do. 302 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: He'll and an agent can. If they're a big he'll 303 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: pay for your training. They'll pay for your training, They 304 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: got a spot for you. They'll take care of you 305 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: until you're until you pay them back out of your 306 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: first contract. All of that stuff happens. And one but 307 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: that is a you know, that's a seemingly a small step, 308 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: but it's that's the point of no return. You can't 309 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: go backwards. If the season magically happens in the spring 310 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: and the NFL bends its whole schedule to help college 311 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: athletes find a way to get in, you're excluded from 312 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: that because of your representation, And you know the way 313 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: it is. Some other news and notes around the sports world. First, 314 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 1: with the NFL, they have now lifted the ban on 315 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: player tryouts, with health related limits still intact. So essentially, 316 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: what has happened. You know, if you listen to this 317 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: show frequently, you may recall me running down the list 318 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: of all the hoops that Brandon being and his pro 319 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: personnel staff would have to jump through to bring a 320 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: player to town for a tryout. Normally, you have a 321 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: rash of injuries, You bring in three guys that are 322 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: at the top of your on call list at a 323 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: certain position. You bring them in, You work him out, 324 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: you pick the guy you like the best, you pass 325 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 1: him on a physical, sign him done. He's in the 326 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: building the next day and getting schooled up on the 327 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: scheme that night. He's in the building right with COVID 328 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,239 Speaker 1: and all the protocols and restrictions. The way it was was, 329 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: if you wanted to bring a player in for a workout. 330 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: You had to have a hole on your roster or 331 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: create one before you could bring the guy to town. 332 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: Then when you brought the guy to town, he had 333 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: to have a negative test, two negative tests, then take 334 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: a physical all off site, not on site. And then 335 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: if that all went to form, he had a third 336 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: test he had to pass, and then he could come 337 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: to the facility, You could school him up, he could 338 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: sign a contract done. That's what the Bills did with 339 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: Brian Winters. Took for a week and a half ago. 340 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: It's at least five days, right, at least, you got 341 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: to believe, and that's five days too long. You've got 342 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: to believe. The gms were on the phone after one 343 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: week of this going. You gotta be kidding me. We 344 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: got to fix this. Yeah, so it's been fixed. So 345 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: essentially what happens now is Number one, NFL clubs do 346 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: not need to open a roster spot prior to bringing 347 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: a player in for a tryout. They can bring a 348 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: player in at any point in time, they do not 349 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: need to create a roster hole for said person. That player, 350 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: when they come to town needs to test negative twice 351 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 1: before they take a physical. So you're talking at least 352 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: twenty four hours still, and then they can bring the 353 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: player to the facility to take the physical. Then they 354 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: have to take a third test at the facility, and 355 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: then at that point they can put them on the 356 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: field for a workout. And that workout has to take 357 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: place when the players who are already on the roster 358 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: and the team are not at the facility, right, So 359 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: it has to be like an off hours kind of situation. 360 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: So it's it's a little bit better, but it is 361 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 1: still going to have extra steps because of COVID, right, 362 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: And to me, most teams, I don't know if most teams, 363 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: if if they want to come in and have a 364 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: guy come in and workout, I get it, But I 365 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: don't want my coaching staff out there for the workout 366 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: for this guy. Yeah. I mean they could be out there, 367 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: I guess, but stand thirty feet away, forty feet away, 368 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: fifty feet away, you know, or up in the balcony 369 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: of the fieldhouse, whatever and watch it from a distance. 370 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: But it would be more me. You'd have somebody on 371 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: your scouting staff, one of your assistant coaches, your quality 372 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: control guys who could or somebody outside the coaching staff 373 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: on you know, in the building, stay away and be 374 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,919 Speaker 1: in charge of getting guys working them out. Here's what 375 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: I saw, here's what we filmed. Not even do it 376 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: on site. It may be able to doing it that way. 377 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 1: You may be able to skip one of the steps. Yeah, 378 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: you're also allowed to hold a virtual tryout, like you 379 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: may have a pro personnel representative outside the building on 380 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: a zoom call watching the player, his agents, probably on 381 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: the other end of the zoom call going Okay, I'm 382 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: gonna turn the laptop to the field now so you 383 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: can watch him. There's gonna be some of that. Yeah, 384 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean that sounds crazy, but listen, they'll 385 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: just get a they'll get a real camera and they'll 386 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: have it. They'll hire a stringer crew and they'll come 387 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: out and film it properly. But my point is, why 388 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't you have the bills have people here in assistant coach, 389 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: which is from other STAPs who are out of work. Hey, 390 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: go down and work this guy out for us. See 391 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: what you think. I'll trust you, I trust you're my boy, 392 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: I trust your evaluation. Go down there and work him 393 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: out for us. If you hire him as an independent 394 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: contract or, go down to do that for us um. 395 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: You know scouts who are who There's a ton of 396 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: scouts who don't live in Buffalo who worked for the 397 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Those guys can be bring him to town, 398 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: set him off and have him go over to Orchard 399 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: Park High School or Saint Francis High School or one 400 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: of the other run the guy through the through his paces. 401 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,360 Speaker 1: You could skip one of those steps and maybe gain 402 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: twenty four hours on your on your they still got 403 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: a test negative when he gets here, that's right, But 404 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: that's all he has to do. Yeah, because you could 405 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: work him out negatives, take a physical. You could work 406 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: him out first and then decide to get him give 407 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: him the tests. You know what I'm saying, right, because 408 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: then you know that that could be a way you 409 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: could skip the steps. Leave it to Steve to find 410 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: an end around to this. Also, you're trying to beat 411 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: the system. We're gonna trying to beat her. Where you 412 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 1: shall work with it or just beat it. Also, as 413 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: far as Buffalo is concerned, for the first time in 414 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,439 Speaker 1: thirty three years, a professional baseball game was played in 415 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: Buffalo and the Blue Jays won and walk off fashion 416 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: last night. So congrats to them. Five four victory, so 417 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: that was good. Uh yeah, and you know, I don't 418 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: know that too many people saw it. It's funny because 419 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: I actually had to drive down town last night with 420 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 1: my wife because she forgot something at work, so we 421 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: had to go back to her office and we're on 422 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: the one nineties, so you can see the stadium and 423 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: the Seneca Tower building. I can't tell you how many 424 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: lights were on in there. So there were people up 425 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: there on the upper floors trying to get a bird's 426 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: eye view of what was down on the street out 427 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: on out on the exit off ninety on the Elm Street. 428 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: I just laughed at myself when I saw that, because 429 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: because I told you, my son was asking me, hey, 430 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:50,719 Speaker 1: can we can get up on the top of that 431 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: parking garage and then closed it off. There's no chance. 432 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: He's like, well, what if we pretend our cars broke 433 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: down on the one ninety. I'm like, yeah, that's not 434 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: really there's but out there anyway, he's out there. Don't 435 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 1: want to be sitting in a parked car the highway. 436 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 1: People will do that, and I get it to you. 437 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: It's like, you see these pictures of people in Florida, 438 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: what are they doing? Well, I think he answers your 439 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: own question there as soon as you uttered the word Florida. 440 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: It's like they think they think the cure for COVID 441 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: is French kissing a stranger. I mean, what are you doing? 442 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: It's like you can't do it? Right? Yeah, It's like 443 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,679 Speaker 1: and probably I don't. I'm feeling all right, I'm thinking, nah, 444 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,959 Speaker 1: there's no way I'll get it. Let's go. Yeah, you know, 445 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: I mean, that's all the thought they put into it. 446 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 1: It's a little tonsil hockey and off we go. Yeah, 447 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: I mean, what could happen? Um. Also, we'll be hearing 448 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: from Bill's new linebacker A. J. Klein a little bit 449 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: later in the show, as he met with the media 450 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: via zoom call after their morning workout today and had 451 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: some interesting comments on coach McDermott, the scheme and his 452 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: familiarity with it having played in it in Carolina when 453 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: McDermott was the defensive coordinator down there. And he's also 454 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about his initial impressions 455 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: of one Tremaine Edmonds. I don't know if you heard this, 456 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: but Jerry Hughes, did you hear this? When we played 457 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: his sound yesterday? He said that it looked like Tremaine 458 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: grew a couple of inches, which, you know, being only 459 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: twenty one years old, you're not completely out of the 460 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: realm of a growth spurts. It's rare. If it's rare, 461 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: he doesn't need it. But Jerry thinks he's taller. He's 462 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 1: a space alien. If he's taller than he was, he's yeah, 463 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: I mean he's freakishly tall already. I mean that would 464 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: make him like six six six seven. He looks six 465 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: six already well, because he's got vines for arms, right, 466 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: and he comes in here. He comes in to do 467 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: our show once in a while, you know, a couple 468 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: of times a season, and he comes in a lot 469 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: of times. They come around of the field. He's on, 470 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: he's cleats, so he's got that guy and the helmet 471 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: gives you an extra couple. One of my good friends 472 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: and my team was always Pete Metslars. He was six days, 473 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: he was six to eight. He's pretty close. Yeah, he's close. 474 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 1: He's not. I was like, yeah, he looks like Pete. 475 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if Pete would say he 476 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: looks like him, no, but you know what I mean. 477 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: They got that frame and uh yeah, he's if he could, 478 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you. So it's Tremaine's rookie year. It's 479 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: a preseason game. Bill's Panthers, and I'm down on the 480 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: field before the game. I can't remember I had to 481 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: do some broadcasting stuff or whatever. And I am within 482 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: earshot because there's nobody in the stands yet, you know, 483 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: it's empty. They're not blaring anything on the on the 484 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: big screen on the scoreboard, so I can hear conversations 485 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: ambiently while I'm standing there. That's that's a great and 486 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: it's a great time. And Luke Keikley is standing there 487 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 1: and coach mcderreman, who knows him very well, out goes 488 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 1: up to say hello. And the first thing that Luke 489 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 1: Yackley says, two the coaches, who is that freakazoid forty 490 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: nine you guys, because he's a phrase of physical freak. 491 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 1: They don't build them like that in too many places. 492 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I got yeah, I did you know? 493 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: I did sidelines and I you know, this is like 494 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: it's a story time now. But I'm on the sidelines 495 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: doing NFL games and there are and I tell people 496 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 1: even now, my buddies I play golf with and stuff. 497 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: They go, you know what about that game? You know, 498 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: because I did a lot of cool games, a lot 499 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: of playoff games on the sidelines, both for Jim Nance 500 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: and Phil Sims and all those guys and all of that, 501 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: and also for Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon. And so 502 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: I'm doing and I tell people, you know, stories about 503 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: being on the sidelines, and I tell them, I said, 504 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: you can't watch games from the sidelines. You don't ever 505 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: do it, because if you do, nothing else will substitute. 506 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: It's don't there's no substitute for standing on the downmark 507 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: of an NFL game, particularly a really good one, a 508 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 1: meaningful one, like I did a lot of those playoff 509 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: playoffs games, And I'm telling you what it is, um, 510 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: it's it's way beyond watching a car wreck every play. 511 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:17,120 Speaker 1: It is. It's road rage every play. And it's like 512 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: the doors are off the vehicles right. Delisions make you win? 513 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: Oh dude, you can. You literally can feel the ground 514 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: vibrate when it comes towards you. It's similar to watching 515 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: boxing on TV. Yeah, they're right. It's similar to watching 516 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 1: boxing on TV and then actually going to a boxing 517 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 1: match and being ringside, I did that, and it's just like, 518 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: how are these guys doing this for this long? Because 519 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,199 Speaker 1: the force that these guys are hitting each other with 520 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: the emotions. I don't care that they got gloves on. 521 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like you're swinging hammers at each 522 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: other and I'm just like, holy cow, Like the impact 523 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: of the of the punches just it doesn't translate through 524 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: the television. It's not. And when you're there, it's just 525 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: like it's the force. It's the force of it and 526 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: the emotional content. One last thing, my last story about 527 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: the sidelines, and we can go on to fun or 528 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: stuff and to break I'm right. I'm watching Cincinnati play 529 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and we're in I believe we're in Cincinnati. Yes, 530 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: we're in Cincinnati, and Ben hits this is way back 531 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: in the days, like Mike Wallace. He hits Mike Wallace 532 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: on a little slant. And I'm at the far end 533 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh bench or the I'm sorry, the Cincinnati 534 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: bench in I think it's in Paul Brown, but I 535 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: can't remember. So I'm in one of the two cities 536 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: where the game is and and it happens at the 537 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: far end on the far side of the field, but 538 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: the slant's coming towards my side of the field. He 539 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: catches it and turns it up and starts running right 540 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: at me. But I'm fifty five sixty yards away. I'm 541 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: at the far end of the bench. All of a sudden, 542 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: it hit me that twenty and I mean it wasn't 543 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: just like three dbs in an It was like twenty 544 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: two guys sprinting and they're all coming right at me, 545 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 1: chasing the guy who's coming at the angle. He came 546 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: Mike Wallace, and they're coming at me. And I was 547 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: startled because they were fifty five yards away. And by 548 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: the time I realized what was going on on topic, 549 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, so I stepped back and they 550 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: tackled him literally right in front of me, and I 551 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: was like horrified, horrified. I was like, somebody is broken, right. 552 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: That was because you could feel the ground, you know, 553 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: you can feel and hear it, and they's got so 554 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Okay, somebody's gonna stay down because there's like 555 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: three Cincinnati defenders and Mike Wallace and and his running 556 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: mate right and they were all so I'm sitting look 557 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: I go oh man, somebody's gonna stay down. That was 558 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: that was really bad. Not only do they all get up, 559 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: they hop up and start pointing fingers and laughing and saying, 560 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: now I ran you down. No you ain't. I was like, 561 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: and I was like, I was like having heart pains. 562 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: It's not normal. I was like, oh, it's not normal. 563 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: I was like, I am not familiar with the special 564 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: Special brand, not familiar with the game that they play. 565 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: Before we get to break quickly, our Twitter poll today 566 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: deals with the debut of Hard Knocks with the Rams 567 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: and the Chargers. But on a Bill's tip, if you will, 568 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: what would be the most compelling storyline if the Bills 569 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 1: were featured on Hard Knocks this season? Among your choices, 570 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: seeing COVID protocols in action, watching McDermott up close and 571 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: personal with players, we're seeing position battles play out, or 572 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: something else you can hit us up on the tweet sheet, 573 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: which we'll get to in the next segment. We're also 574 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: going to hear from one Aj Klein, Bill's newest linebacker, 575 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: with his thoughts on Tremaine Edmonds, the scheme and being 576 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: back with head coach Sean McDermott. That and more coming 577 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: your way here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. 578 00:30:51,480 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. 579 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you. We have a busy 580 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: show today. Also coming up at two o'clock will be 581 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: SI dot Com column is Jimmy Trainer, who follows just 582 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: about everything on the sporting landscape, from hard Knocks as 583 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: we've mentioned already, to some fun columns that he puts together. 584 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: He's got a podcast. It's real popular. He's gonna he 585 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: went over recently in a write up on SI dot 586 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: com his favorite his five favorite play by play calls 587 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: in sports history, one of which I'd liked very much, 588 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: which we can get into later. But Steve and I 589 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: have also put our lists together, so we'll have fun 590 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: going over those a little bit later on in the show. 591 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: But for now, we are addressing two things here in 592 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: this segment. Coming up one new Bills linebacker aj Klein, 593 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: who spoke with the media earlier today, you know about 594 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: rejoining coach McDermott, his initial impressions of Tremaine Edmonds, which 595 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: we'll hear in a second, along with some other feelings 596 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 1: about being back in this scheme, a scheme that he 597 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: knows very well, having played in Carolina before moving on 598 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: to New Orleans in a free agent deal. We also 599 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: have the Twitter poll with the debut of Hard Knocks, 600 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: which is covering two teams, the Rams and the Chargers 601 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: simultaneously to add a different spin to that franchise. Bless you, 602 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: Steve mask. I appreciate you doing that. I don't know 603 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: if you'll be able to wear that mask right now 604 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: after that. But also we're covering on the Twitter poll 605 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: what would be the most compelling storyline if the Bills 606 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: were featured on Hard Knocks this season? A seeing COVID 607 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: protocols in action, be watching McDermott up close and personal 608 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: with players, or see seeing the position battles play out 609 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: on television. Bless you, Steve so right now commanding lead 610 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: for coach McDermott in wanting to watch him up close 611 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: and personal with players, and Steve this is not surprising 612 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: to me because I think people are intrigued by the 613 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: culture that coach McDermott has built here now entering his 614 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: fourth season at the Helm. Take care of what you 615 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 1: gotta take care of him about to sneeze again, yeah, 616 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: that's fine. You know, in his three plus years at 617 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: the Helm, I think people are genuinely intrigued by how 618 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: he has rebuilt and cultivated a culture here that probably 619 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: hasn't existed maybe since the time that you were playing 620 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: under Marv. And I think they want to see the 621 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 1: inner workings of how that manifested itself, how it works, 622 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 1: how he interacts with players and builds that sense of trust, love, 623 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: commitment to the daily process. I think people really do 624 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: want to see that up close and personal. Here's the thing, 625 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: and I'll give you a little leadership seminar here. Marv 626 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: said it, and I've it's been proven true to me 627 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: a thousand times over. My old coach, Marv Levy said, Listen, 628 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: Leadership is not getting people to follow you. Leadership is 629 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: getting people to join you. And I think even the 630 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,720 Speaker 1: results of this Twitter poll that you mentioned, everybody, everybody 631 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: wants to be a part of this guy's team. His 632 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: players want to The players who left here have told 633 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: other players say, man, that is a guy I love 634 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: playing for. People have noticed when they watch this team 635 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: play that these players, you know they do that they 636 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 1: will run through a brick wall for him. People want 637 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: to know, why, why does he why does he got 638 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: such a strong grip on his roster, and why do 639 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: these guys love him so much? And Coach has said 640 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: it too in sharing some of his coaching philosophy. Players 641 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: don't care what you have to say until they know 642 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,959 Speaker 1: how much you care about them. And that is why 643 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: one big thing that coach incorporates into his culture building 644 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,760 Speaker 1: is love. I mean, it might sound a little hokey 645 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 1: when you think about, you know, barbaric football players talking 646 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: about loving up on each other, but they do it here. 647 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,399 Speaker 1: And that's part of the reason why guys share their 648 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 1: stories when they're in team meetings. You know, this is 649 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: why I play this game. You know, I played for 650 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: my family. I played for my you know son who's 651 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: got medical issues, you know, or cystic fibrosis or something. 652 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: He's my inspiration. Sharing those kinds of stories pulls the 653 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: group closer together because now you're like, well, dang, I 654 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 1: don't want to let this guy down. I know this 655 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: is play seventy five for me in this game and 656 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: we're down ten, But I don't want to let this 657 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: guy down because he's playing for his five year old kid, 658 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: who's you know, fighting for his life. You know this 659 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: then the other those kinds of things and elements that 660 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: get weaved into the team culture, and guys play harder 661 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 1: they just do, no question about it. It's it's a 662 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: real thing. And when you know that the guy at 663 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 1: the top cares about you, knows your your story and 664 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,239 Speaker 1: as a person, and believe me, it's not it's no 665 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: small thing. We talk about it at the first segment 666 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,800 Speaker 1: of the show when I went off about the college 667 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: kids and how we care about them risking COVID, but 668 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 1: we don't care about them risking orthopedic injury. Let him 669 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 1: have a concussion, just don't let them get COVID kind 670 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,799 Speaker 1: of thing. I'm exaggerating to make a point, but that 671 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: kind of mentality. But it don't ever forget that in 672 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 1: football it is. It's a profound and deliberate sacrifice to 673 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: go out and play football, particularly in the regular season 674 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: of an NFL year, because you never feel one hundred 675 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,760 Speaker 1: percent you're hurting, and to go out there and hurt 676 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: on behalf of somebody you don't like or respect doesn't 677 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,359 Speaker 1: happen is a big ask and you'll and you can tell, 678 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: and that's when they say, well, that guy's lost the 679 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,560 Speaker 1: locker room. They don't play for him because they don't care. 680 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,439 Speaker 1: He doesn't care about them, and they could care less 681 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 1: if he is standing there or someplace else. That's when 682 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:59,440 Speaker 1: your football team is noticeably without passion and without emotion 683 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: and without a joy when they play, when you've got 684 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: a guy when when they're not playing for somebody they 685 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 1: don't care about. That's why McDermott seems to have the 686 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,359 Speaker 1: keys to this, this whole thing kind of figured out 687 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: and held in his hand, because these guys do all 688 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: that for him. He's genuinely engaged with everybody I know. 689 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: I've had a number of conversations with him, and even 690 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,920 Speaker 1: there was one time this offseason where we crossed paths 691 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: but he was on the phone or doing something and 692 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: I just kind of gave him one of these and 693 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: he was, you know, just gave me this while he 694 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 1: was on the phone. You know. I mean, we're in 695 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,080 Speaker 1: the middle of COVID pandemic. He's got like nine thousand 696 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: things on his plate, and we just it wasn't like 697 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: we planned to beat again. I just walked by and 698 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: waved at him. He texted me later and said, hey, 699 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to say, hey, yeah, 700 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,840 Speaker 1: I was in the middle of something. I'm sorry you 701 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,759 Speaker 1: had to you know whatever. I was like, I was like, bro, yeah, 702 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: no worries. But that's the kind of you know, attention 703 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: to detail in relationships that goes a long way when 704 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,520 Speaker 1: you got a guy who you're asking to play hurt 705 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: or play uncomfortable or just play hard, you know. So 706 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,920 Speaker 1: it's I'm not surprised by the results of this Twitter poll. Man, 707 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 1: that's something you got. That's the guy you want to 708 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 1: hang around with and find out what makes him tick. 709 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: So we will get to your comments on the tweet 710 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 1: sheet about where your answer was in terms of what 711 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,200 Speaker 1: you think the most compelling storyline for the Bills in 712 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,759 Speaker 1: twenty twenty would be if they were the subject of 713 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,920 Speaker 1: the HBO series Hard Knocks. It's dealing with the Rams 714 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: and Chargers this year, but we did want to get 715 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: to some comments from one aj Klein. Bill signed him 716 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,640 Speaker 1: to a three year free agent deal this offseason. He's 717 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,279 Speaker 1: entering his eighth NFL season, played the last three years 718 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,840 Speaker 1: for the Saints. Prior to that, his first four years 719 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,160 Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers under Sean McDermott, who was the 720 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 1: defensive coordinator at the time. So first and foremost, aj 721 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,760 Speaker 1: Klein addressed why he chose the Bills in free agency 722 00:38:54,840 --> 00:39:00,839 Speaker 1: this offseason. First and foremost, like you said, NELI knowing 723 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: being and knowing coach McDermott, and obviously some of the 724 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,479 Speaker 1: guys that I've played with over the years are starting 725 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,120 Speaker 1: to come here as well. And this is a young 726 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,360 Speaker 1: team that's that's ear to win, and um, I'm the 727 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 1: cusp of something great. I've been very fortunate in my 728 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,920 Speaker 1: career thus far to be a part of Carolina and 729 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 1: the Saints of being in winning programs, um and around 730 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 1: winning organizations, and um, I see that here, and I 731 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,520 Speaker 1: see the potential for a championship, and I definitely want 732 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,320 Speaker 1: to cap off my career with the championship before I retire. So, 733 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: you know, he's he's now in his eighth NFL season. 734 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 1: It's a three year contract. I think he's probably hoping 735 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: he gets to the end of that, and he may 736 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:40,960 Speaker 1: very well be done at that point, you know, eleven 737 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,319 Speaker 1: years in by that's by that stage. I hope he 738 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 1: retires after the first year with the championship. Well, you know, 739 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 1: I mean for his sake, and you know, yeah, but yeah, 740 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,279 Speaker 1: it's easy particularly to and for him, I think that 741 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,719 Speaker 1: was a no brainer. Uh when you look at all 742 00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 1: the guys he's played with and had some success with 743 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,680 Speaker 1: guys from Caroline who came up here and then he 744 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 1: went to he played the last year or two or 745 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 1: three years in New Orleans. But you know, he knows 746 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,279 Speaker 1: all these guys from Caroline up here, Brandon being Sean 747 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,879 Speaker 1: McDermott of course, and for him and to see what's 748 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,839 Speaker 1: going on here with him in the playoffs last year 749 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: and then you know, signing Diggs, he's got to be thinking, Wow, 750 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,920 Speaker 1: this is yeah, I'm jumping on board with that. I 751 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 1: think that was a no brainer for him. And I 752 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 1: think the fact that he comes in with those expectations 753 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,560 Speaker 1: saying listen, I'm I'm thinking championship, I think that's pretty big. 754 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: And he has an opportunity to not only win a 755 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: starting job. I think a lot of people see him 756 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: as the strong side backer in the bass set, and 757 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,440 Speaker 1: probably he can also be a primary backup to Tremaine Edmonds. 758 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,799 Speaker 1: I mean a J. Kleine has played all three linebacker 759 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,279 Speaker 1: spots in this scheme because when he was with the 760 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, he was buried on the depth chart behind 761 00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:00,160 Speaker 1: Luke Keakley, Thomas Davis, and I think I think Jack 762 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 1: Thompson was there if memory serves, might have been a 763 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 1: little early, but I think that lines up. So he 764 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,040 Speaker 1: was a backup and coach McDermott had him back up 765 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,759 Speaker 1: all three spots. I want you to know all three. 766 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,000 Speaker 1: And so there were times where Luke Keakley went down 767 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 1: because he had concussion issues, as you know, which is 768 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 1: why he retired at age twenty eight, and he filled 769 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 1: in a middle linebacker. There were times where Thomas Davis 770 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: had an ac L injury, missed most of a season, 771 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,960 Speaker 1: filled in at the at the strong side, and then 772 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 1: there were other times he played the week side linebacker 773 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 1: position two. I foresee him more as a strong side 774 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 1: mike backup option. But position versatility, position flexibility, it's going 775 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,640 Speaker 1: to mean more in this era of COVID right now 776 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,279 Speaker 1: than ever before. And so a J. Klein is a 777 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,600 Speaker 1: valuable piece to have in your toolbox. Not for nothing, 778 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:52,120 Speaker 1: but it seems to me all the free ages the 779 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,080 Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott sign and you can say 780 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: what you want about Carolina and this the Bills are 781 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,560 Speaker 1: Carolina North or whatever. The Swiss Army Knife, they're Swiss 782 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,440 Speaker 1: Army Knife. But they and because of that, because those 783 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,719 Speaker 1: guys are versatile, they seem to be they're all that. 784 00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,560 Speaker 1: That's a perfect guy for the AJ Klein is a 785 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,480 Speaker 1: perfect guy to bring in when you lose Lorenzo Alexander. 786 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,080 Speaker 1: Same thing with you know, Quentin Quentin, Jeffers Jefferson, same 787 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,920 Speaker 1: thing with Mario Addison. Oh my gosh, those are that's perfect. 788 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:24,840 Speaker 1: You know, Vernon but Vernon Butler, Oh man, that's perfect. 789 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,799 Speaker 1: I mean, it's all these free agentes that these guys 790 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,960 Speaker 1: have brought in, no matter the circumstances, just seemed to 791 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,480 Speaker 1: fit perfectly. And not only that, they're not just paying 792 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 1: a gazillion dollars for all of them and got them 793 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,840 Speaker 1: lined up for ten years. Where you're gonna throwing a 794 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,200 Speaker 1: lot of darts at at a cheap dartboard, they cast 795 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,840 Speaker 1: a wide, shallow net. And if two out of the 796 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,640 Speaker 1: eight that's right, like really hit, you're in great shape. 797 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,799 Speaker 1: If three, three, or four are at least productive and 798 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,120 Speaker 1: can help you out in a spot, you're even better off. 799 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,720 Speaker 1: And you know, none of them are gonna be total 800 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,839 Speaker 1: go belly up. Unless they have an injury or something 801 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,439 Speaker 1: like that, but they're never all of them can play. 802 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 1: You've got four years of film on most of them 803 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 1: right there. So really it's really impressive when you get 804 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,920 Speaker 1: to then you start looking at this roster the way 805 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,840 Speaker 1: it is, it's like, wow, that guy sit fits perfect 806 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,640 Speaker 1: right there, and you know it's like and then were they? 807 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,840 Speaker 1: You know, how do these guys come available when the 808 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,799 Speaker 1: Bills seem to need them? And it has happened time 809 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,200 Speaker 1: and time again. You really got to tip your hat 810 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,880 Speaker 1: to Brandon Dean and their philosophy of not only getting 811 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,239 Speaker 1: them signed, but signing them for the right number and 812 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:33,200 Speaker 1: the right length. It's that's why, that's why optimism is 813 00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,200 Speaker 1: really high. Well it really is. We have to take 814 00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,040 Speaker 1: a break, but when we come back, we will get 815 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,760 Speaker 1: to your thoughts on the tweet sheet. As the Twitter 816 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,879 Speaker 1: poll is, what would be the most compelling storing line 817 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,280 Speaker 1: if the Bills were featured on Hard Knocks this season? 818 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,600 Speaker 1: Take a look at your choices there at one Bills 819 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,200 Speaker 1: Live on Twitter and weigh in on the tweet sheet. 820 00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:51,960 Speaker 1: We'll get to your answers when we come back here 821 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,080 Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kellid of Health. This 822 00:43:54,120 --> 00:44:10,520 Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio back on One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, 823 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,800 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Time for your tweet sheet comments 824 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,560 Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment 825 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,120 Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. First one comes from 826 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,120 Speaker 1: Jack on what would be the most compelling storyline if 827 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,959 Speaker 1: the Bills were featured on Hard Knocks this season. Jack says, 828 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,040 Speaker 1: I'm most curious to get an inner look at how 829 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,200 Speaker 1: coach interacts with individual players, how he is in meetings 830 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,680 Speaker 1: with his staff, how he oversees installs, how he makes 831 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,480 Speaker 1: roster decisions, and how he works with Brandon Bean. On 832 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 1: the surface, it seems to run like a clock, but 833 00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:45,680 Speaker 1: it's naive to think there are never conflicts. And that 834 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,920 Speaker 1: is the runaway winner right now in the poll, it's 835 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,239 Speaker 1: about almost sixty percent of the vote here. People want 836 00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:55,239 Speaker 1: to see the inner workings of coach runs this ship. 837 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,200 Speaker 1: For lack of a better term, Yeah, yeah, and a 838 00:44:58,239 --> 00:44:59,799 Speaker 1: lot of people like it. In fact, I just kind 839 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,799 Speaker 1: of interesting email from on high here at PSC. So 840 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,680 Speaker 1: that announcement will be coming out later about Sean McDermot. 841 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,839 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say anything now, but so there you go. Yeah, 842 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people like his leadership of Jeremy. Also, 843 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,040 Speaker 1: I'm reminded about COVID twenty seven times a day. I 844 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,560 Speaker 1: don't need to see it around my favorite team. I 845 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,080 Speaker 1: want to see how coach is behind closed doors. For 846 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,480 Speaker 1: how well players talk about him. I'd like to see 847 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:25,560 Speaker 1: him more than justin interviews and on the sidelines. It 848 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 1: it's amazing to me. One of the things that happened 849 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,839 Speaker 1: to me in my career after I quit. A year 850 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,120 Speaker 1: or so after I retired, I brought my kids to 851 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,680 Speaker 1: a game and I, you know, I'm you drive into 852 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,040 Speaker 1: the tunnel, walk in right. You don't get a chance 853 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,480 Speaker 1: to see the apocalyptic nature of what is tailgating around 854 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:51,840 Speaker 1: one wheels, drive right, And so it amazed me how 855 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,239 Speaker 1: far what you know most people out there, they end, 856 00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,120 Speaker 1: they come out and they tailgating is great, and you 857 00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,800 Speaker 1: go in and watch the game and you go them. 858 00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,960 Speaker 1: It to me as a player, being so close to 859 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,480 Speaker 1: Marv and Jim and throwing all those guys, it's amazing 860 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:08,080 Speaker 1: how far away those people always are from the inner 861 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,040 Speaker 1: circle of the team. And I and this you know, 862 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,879 Speaker 1: Twitter poll kind of reflects that that people really would 863 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,000 Speaker 1: like to know what it's like to have a real 864 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,759 Speaker 1: serious conversation with him about something important about why these 865 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,919 Speaker 1: guys love him so much, and it's it's it would 866 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:24,879 Speaker 1: be worth it. I think we will get to more 867 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:26,879 Speaker 1: comments on your tweet sheet, but we had a short 868 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,160 Speaker 1: segment here because we went long on the previous one, 869 00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 1: and when we come back, we will get more of 870 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,480 Speaker 1: your tweet sheet comments on what you think the most 871 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,320 Speaker 1: compelling storyline would be if the Bills were the subject 872 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,920 Speaker 1: of the Hard Knocks HBO series. It's currently the Rams 873 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,400 Speaker 1: and the Chargers. Will also hear more from aj Klein 874 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,840 Speaker 1: and from one Cody Ford, who also made himself available 875 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,080 Speaker 1: to the media today via the Zoom Call, So we'll 876 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,960 Speaker 1: get to all of that, along with Jimmy Traina coming 877 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,759 Speaker 1: up at two pm. The SI dot Com columnist had 878 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,120 Speaker 1: some of his best play by play calls in his 879 00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,719 Speaker 1: sports history. Steve and I will have ours as well. 880 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,560 Speaker 1: All of that coming your way here on One Bill's Live, 881 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:17,000 Speaker 1: presented by Kalota Health Here on Buffalo Bill's Radio, Hello 882 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:22,080 Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network, Sports Update. Your sports update from One 883 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,120 Speaker 1: Bill's Drive includes some breaking news. The Bills have signed 884 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,680 Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott, to a multi year contract extension. 885 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,680 Speaker 1: The Bills have made the playoffs in two of his 886 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,360 Speaker 1: first three seasons at the Helm, making him the first 887 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:38,080 Speaker 1: coach since Wade Phillips to accomplish that feat. In a statement, 888 00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,680 Speaker 1: Bills owner Kim Pagoula said the following Shawn's leadership on 889 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,239 Speaker 1: and off the field has been nothing but genuine and 890 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:48,479 Speaker 1: transparent qualities we appreciate as owners. He is the same 891 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,319 Speaker 1: great person to us, the players, and everyone across all 892 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,719 Speaker 1: our organizations. We will never forget how impressed we were 893 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,120 Speaker 1: during his first interview. Shawn's attention to detail was apparent 894 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,120 Speaker 1: back then, and his process driven approach has brought great 895 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,920 Speaker 1: stability to our organization. We are happy to extend his 896 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,640 Speaker 1: contract and keep him in Western New York for many 897 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,879 Speaker 1: years to come. Entering his fourth season as Bill's coach, 898 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:15,040 Speaker 1: McDermott currently has a record of twenty five and twenty three, 899 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:19,080 Speaker 1: which already ranked fifth in franchise history and coaching wins, 900 00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,520 Speaker 1: trailing only Marv Levy, Loo Sabe and Chuck Knox and 901 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,760 Speaker 1: Wade Phillips. Hard Knox premiered last night. Chargers coach Anthony 902 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:31,000 Speaker 1: Lynn said he contracted COVID nineteen and explained it to 903 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,719 Speaker 1: his players via zoom call on the program. In the 904 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:38,200 Speaker 1: opening scene on hard Knox LA was on Tuesday night, 905 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:42,720 Speaker 1: LA Chargers coach Anthony Lynn revealed that news to his players. 906 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,440 Speaker 1: There will be no fans in the stands to watch 907 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,040 Speaker 1: the Washington football team this season. The club, noting the 908 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,560 Speaker 1: health and safety of its fans and employees as the 909 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,160 Speaker 1: primary reason, announced Wednesday that NFL games at FedEx Field 910 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,600 Speaker 1: would be played without fans for the duration of the 911 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,480 Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. The Big Ten Conference announced its postponing 912 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:05,320 Speaker 1: their fall sports season, which of course is headlined by football, 913 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,960 Speaker 1: and they'll evaluate options going forward, including the potential to 914 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,440 Speaker 1: compete in the spring. Not long after that announcement, the 915 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,920 Speaker 1: PAC twelve conference followed up taking a similar course of action, 916 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,880 Speaker 1: saying there will be nothing through the calendar year. And 917 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,319 Speaker 1: that is your sports update from one Bill's Drive and 918 00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:25,040 Speaker 1: a big one, Steve with Sean McDermott now signed to 919 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,400 Speaker 1: a multi year contract extension. When he first signed with 920 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,280 Speaker 1: Buffalo as head coach back in twenty seventeen, I believe 921 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,840 Speaker 1: it was a five year deal, so now three years 922 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:38,000 Speaker 1: into that, the Bills have extended him for presumably at 923 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,279 Speaker 1: least a few more years beyond the two left on 924 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,319 Speaker 1: his current contract that's only listed as a multi year deal, 925 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,560 Speaker 1: so we can only speculate, but certainly good news for 926 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,640 Speaker 1: the franchise going forward. And most people saw it coming. 927 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,080 Speaker 1: We didn't know when it would come. We thought maybe 928 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,439 Speaker 1: that COVID would hold it up. We just and I'd 929 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,439 Speaker 1: mentioned we were talking about, you know, leadership, and people 930 00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 1: wanted to get to know him, and we got a 931 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:03,520 Speaker 1: quick email just before that news broke about from Kim Um, 932 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,640 Speaker 1: you know, letting everybody know that, you know, they did 933 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,319 Speaker 1: it and got it done, and you know, you got 934 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,640 Speaker 1: to think that they were on this for a while. Uh, 935 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:16,120 Speaker 1: there's no question after making the playoffs again this last year. Uh, 936 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,080 Speaker 1: and something no coach had done since ninety nine, with 937 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:23,239 Speaker 1: the development of the young players that they've picked, with 938 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,959 Speaker 1: the way that they've handled off the field issues, most 939 00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:32,360 Speaker 1: notably recently COVID and all the player developed. Player development 940 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,279 Speaker 1: is amazing here. Player acquisition and player development is the 941 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:41,080 Speaker 1: best it's been arguably since Polian and Levy. I mean, 942 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,759 Speaker 1: you could make the argument that it is at its 943 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,440 Speaker 1: best since that time. I mean, you look at the 944 00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,000 Speaker 1: guys who and this and this is for all of them. 945 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,600 Speaker 1: I think Jordan Phillips and Shack Lawson owe a debt 946 00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:57,000 Speaker 1: of gratitude to these guys, as do you know, Tredavious White, 947 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,560 Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds, Josh Allen, most notably, who has developed steadily 948 00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,520 Speaker 1: throughout his first two years and now coming into his 949 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,760 Speaker 1: third year, it seems poised to if he takes another 950 00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,480 Speaker 1: step that he like he took the first two years. 951 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,160 Speaker 1: This is a team that's going to be competitive for 952 00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,719 Speaker 1: a decade and a half to come. It's going to 953 00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:22,839 Speaker 1: be pretty amazing. And as coach has said before, we 954 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,840 Speaker 1: want to build a place here where players can come 955 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:31,520 Speaker 1: and be the best version of themselves. And you look 956 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,919 Speaker 1: at the caliber of people that are willing to come 957 00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:39,240 Speaker 1: here to be that, or players that maybe the first 958 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,280 Speaker 1: four years of their career didn't go how they hoped. 959 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,880 Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson last year perfect example, a guy whose career 960 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,560 Speaker 1: had been riddled by injuries, was a first round pick 961 00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,759 Speaker 1: who didn't live up to the hype. He signed with 962 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:57,320 Speaker 1: this team last year chiefly to kind of redeem himself, 963 00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:02,080 Speaker 1: stay on the field, stay healthy, finish the season. Um, 964 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,920 Speaker 1: you know, he didn't come back in the offseason he 965 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,799 Speaker 1: signed with Cleveland. But that's just a small example of 966 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,560 Speaker 1: the players that are now attracted to this program because 967 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,719 Speaker 1: of what it's become, and it's largely been built by 968 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,719 Speaker 1: the efforts of coach and his assistance. At this point, 969 00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,200 Speaker 1: it's not just he's we're not here in wild Wilderness 970 00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,360 Speaker 1: players talk. I know that Jordan Phillips and Shack Lawson 971 00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,720 Speaker 1: and the guys that we spoke to. When when Josh 972 00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,759 Speaker 1: Gordon we had him on on the program, not Josh 973 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,160 Speaker 1: John M Norman on the program last week, he said 974 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,280 Speaker 1: he spoke to a ton of players who had played 975 00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,759 Speaker 1: here over the last two years under Sean McDermott, Kurt 976 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,760 Speaker 1: Coleman on a three years lawyer, all of those guys, 977 00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,520 Speaker 1: he spoke to all of those guys and all of 978 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,919 Speaker 1: them said, man, that that's the guy. And that goes 979 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,440 Speaker 1: a long way in player circles when you've got former 980 00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,799 Speaker 1: players who played for the guy saying, yeah, I like 981 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,520 Speaker 1: that guy, wish I was playing for him still. So uh, 982 00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,719 Speaker 1: that in and of itself is enough to make you 983 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,480 Speaker 1: want to keep Sean McDermot around for a long long time. 984 00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,120 Speaker 1: And uh uh, you know, bless their hearts. The Pagoula 985 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:08,640 Speaker 1: stepped up the play and did the right thing. Man. 986 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,279 Speaker 1: They you knew it was coming. But it's nice to 987 00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:16,040 Speaker 1: see it done well. Anyway. This franchise has stability that 988 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,480 Speaker 1: it has not seen for the better part of the 989 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,400 Speaker 1: last twenty years. I hope that they get some of 990 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,360 Speaker 1: the film crew gets in there, because they'llill announce this 991 00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,320 Speaker 1: the players. Yeah, they'll announce it in the team meeting. 992 00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,280 Speaker 1: Somebody will do it. Brandon will do it, and the 993 00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:34,839 Speaker 1: players will erupt erupted um. They That's awesome for him 994 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,680 Speaker 1: and his family as well. Well deserved, and it's it's 995 00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,680 Speaker 1: good that unfortunately COVID may keep cameras out of the rooms. 996 00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,600 Speaker 1: But do you you think, Okay, so now we have 997 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,920 Speaker 1: this Twitter poll he's gonna run off with Now, well, 998 00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,880 Speaker 1: it's it's a good day for coach. I mean, not 999 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,000 Speaker 1: only does he get a contract extension, Steve, He's but 1000 00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:56,520 Speaker 1: he's dominating the one bills live Twitter poll, which may 1001 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,719 Speaker 1: it may supersede the contract ext I mean I don't 1002 00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,400 Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to puff it up too 1003 00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,919 Speaker 1: much and make too much of what we do here days. 1004 00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:09,600 Speaker 1: I mean dollars to donuts blowing away and winning like 1005 00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,399 Speaker 1: Secretariat in the Twitter poll here on one Bill's Live 1006 00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,319 Speaker 1: man that carries a lot of weight too, and the 1007 00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,920 Speaker 1: Twitter poll is what would be the most compelling storyline 1008 00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,200 Speaker 1: if the Bills were featured on Hard Knocks this season? 1009 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,200 Speaker 1: A seeing COVID protocols and action, be watching McDermott up 1010 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,520 Speaker 1: close and personal with players, or see seeing position battles 1011 00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,640 Speaker 1: play out. And the last week checked, I think coach 1012 00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:31,759 Speaker 1: McDermott had about sixty percent of the vote and that 1013 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,200 Speaker 1: really is the allure here with this team. What is 1014 00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,880 Speaker 1: this coach doing That's got these guys playing so hard, 1015 00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,640 Speaker 1: playing so well, playing so consistently, and you see it there. 1016 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,720 Speaker 1: I mean, it's close to sixty percent of the vote. 1017 00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,520 Speaker 1: Although seeing the position battles play out is still something 1018 00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,000 Speaker 1: that always intrigues fans, and when you can get even 1019 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,560 Speaker 1: closer to the action via the Hard Knocks series on HBO, 1020 00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,520 Speaker 1: you want to take advantage of it. How long? And 1021 00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,120 Speaker 1: we're all on this bandwagon, app we're sitting at the 1022 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,680 Speaker 1: precipice of a season twenty twenty, no matter what it 1023 00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,760 Speaker 1: looks like with COVID, of the expectations being so high 1024 00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:11,080 Speaker 1: and if they if they meet expectators, say, for instance 1025 00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:12,960 Speaker 1: a minute m getting into PLAYFFS, having a home playoff 1026 00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:14,920 Speaker 1: game and winning a playoff game and getting into the 1027 00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,200 Speaker 1: division or the championship round of the conference in the 1028 00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,319 Speaker 1: playoffs this year, where they go to the super Bowl 1029 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,879 Speaker 1: or not, but they take that next logical step. How 1030 00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,360 Speaker 1: far down the line is it. Maybe it's today, or 1031 00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:32,319 Speaker 1: maybe it's already happened, where Sean McDermott becomes one of 1032 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:37,000 Speaker 1: those iconic Buffalo guys that forever he is associated with 1033 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,160 Speaker 1: this town, no matter whatever else happens to him. Like 1034 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,400 Speaker 1: Bill Polian, I mean, there's no quite Bill's face claim him. 1035 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,040 Speaker 1: I think you're of Levy, same thing. I think right 1036 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:51,520 Speaker 1: now you probably put coach McDermott on a level with 1037 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,239 Speaker 1: Wade Phillips and Chuck Knox. Right he's accomplished the same 1038 00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:58,000 Speaker 1: amount of stuff that they have multiple I believe Knox 1039 00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:01,920 Speaker 1: had multiple playoff berths. Yeah, eighty and eighty one, so 1040 00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,840 Speaker 1: he had two playoff berths. Wade Phillips had two playoff 1041 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,839 Speaker 1: berths in three seasons. That's what coach McDermott's done here. 1042 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:12,759 Speaker 1: And you know, you could say that the lift for 1043 00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,799 Speaker 1: Chuck Chuck Knox and coach McDermott was heavier than that 1044 00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,880 Speaker 1: of Wade Phillips because Wade, although it was a team 1045 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,960 Speaker 1: that had had clearly been passed its prime of what 1046 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,120 Speaker 1: it was as an AFC powerhouse, there were still enough 1047 00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,560 Speaker 1: elements still on the roster to be a very competitive team. 1048 00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,480 Speaker 1: He inherited that from Marv and got some help by 1049 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,680 Speaker 1: way of free agent acquisitions by GM, John Butler, Bryce 1050 00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,080 Speaker 1: Pop Ted Washington. I mean, he helped make that the 1051 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:46,560 Speaker 1: number one defense in football. Along with Phillips, Chuck Knox 1052 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,600 Speaker 1: had a heavier lift. I would argue that coach McDermott 1053 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,640 Speaker 1: had a significantly heavier lift because of what had plagued 1054 00:56:53,640 --> 00:57:00,719 Speaker 1: this franchise for almost two decades, which was zero team culture, 1055 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:07,359 Speaker 1: too often divided locker rooms, no coaching stability, um, no 1056 00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:12,120 Speaker 1: no answer at the quarterback position, bad contracts, putting money 1057 00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,839 Speaker 1: in the wrong places. It was just, you know, time 1058 00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:20,120 Speaker 1: and again, the same mistakes were repeated, and he had 1059 00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:24,000 Speaker 1: to he had to shovel this franchise out of all 1060 00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:27,520 Speaker 1: of that. But yes, that's where I would put him 1061 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:30,560 Speaker 1: right now with the chance to exceed those two guys, 1062 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,800 Speaker 1: because both of those coaches I mean Wade was already 1063 00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:40,440 Speaker 1: gone by this point in his tenure. Wade was already 1064 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,080 Speaker 1: gone because two playoff years followed by an eight and 1065 00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,520 Speaker 1: eighth season and then disastrous results on special teams which 1066 00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:53,439 Speaker 1: he refused to fix. Thanks for coming, Wade, We'll see later. Um. Yeah, 1067 00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:56,080 Speaker 1: you know. So, Coach McDermott has already exceeded the tenure 1068 00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:58,840 Speaker 1: that Wade Phillips had here now entering his fourth season. 1069 00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,560 Speaker 1: And I think Chuck Knox was what seventy nine to 1070 00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:05,400 Speaker 1: eighty one maybe, and then eighty two was the strike year. 1071 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:07,720 Speaker 1: I'll have to go back and look it up, but 1072 00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,360 Speaker 1: I would put him on a par with those two 1073 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,640 Speaker 1: guys right now. And if he has another good season 1074 00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:15,360 Speaker 1: this year and they go to the playoffs again, which 1075 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,320 Speaker 1: I think everybody for the most part anticipates, well then 1076 00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,800 Speaker 1: he's leap frog those two guys. And now you're just 1077 00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,880 Speaker 1: essentially talking Marv and loose Aban. That's all that's ahead 1078 00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,800 Speaker 1: of him at that point, right and those and that 1079 00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:29,920 Speaker 1: to me, if he sees the end of whatever multi 1080 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,720 Speaker 1: year thing this is, say usually it's at least a 1081 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,600 Speaker 1: three year, Say it's a three year, he's got five 1082 00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,040 Speaker 1: more years if he sees the end of that. That's 1083 00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,200 Speaker 1: a long ten year for a head coaching NFL by 1084 00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,000 Speaker 1: any standard, So I'd be happy to see it because 1085 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:43,280 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, selfishly, as a guy who's covered 1086 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,600 Speaker 1: this team every offseason, that I don't have a head 1087 00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,600 Speaker 1: coaching search is a good offseason for me because it's 1088 00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:54,240 Speaker 1: a lot less on my plate, selfishly, And I've been 1089 00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,480 Speaker 1: on that carousel as we know several times. Not to 1090 00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:01,640 Speaker 1: make it about me, but I love stability. Well, I 1091 00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:05,120 Speaker 1: love franchise stability. Let me just think stabilities like it's 1092 00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:06,720 Speaker 1: a little bit like the chicken and the egg. Are 1093 00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,520 Speaker 1: you good because you're stable? Or are you stable because 1094 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:12,200 Speaker 1: those guys are productive and you're good? Ye? Who cares? 1095 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,240 Speaker 1: But I know this. When the year Sean McDermott showed up, 1096 00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:19,760 Speaker 1: they broke a seventeen year drought where the team that 1097 00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,200 Speaker 1: was not with the team that was accused of tanking 1098 00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,800 Speaker 1: right a week before the season starts, they were accused 1099 00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:26,680 Speaker 1: of tanking for making a couple extra moves right at 1100 00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,600 Speaker 1: the deadline. They traded Sammy Watkins, They traded Ronald Darby, 1101 00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:33,200 Speaker 1: two of their last two of their last three first 1102 00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:38,160 Speaker 1: round draft choices, and you know they're tanking. They're tanking, 1103 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,240 Speaker 1: then you go to the playoffs. That's that to me? 1104 00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,560 Speaker 1: Was that to me right there set his tenure here 1105 00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,240 Speaker 1: in Stone. He's gonna last, he's gonna get it done. 1106 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,120 Speaker 1: And and I think that was you know as well 1107 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,720 Speaker 1: obvious it's the right thing to do. Back to the 1108 00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:57,560 Speaker 1: tweet sheet presented by Corrigan moving systems and Robert says, well, 1109 00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,320 Speaker 1: he's with the majority. I picked b I think people 1110 01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,960 Speaker 1: saw what McDermott does behind closed doors. He would get 1111 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,160 Speaker 1: more recognition and more respect from the national media and 1112 01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,840 Speaker 1: fans who still aren't one hundred percent on board. I 1113 01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,640 Speaker 1: think you'd be surprised. There is a fair amount of 1114 01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:17,280 Speaker 1: national respect for what coach McDermott has done. Whether it's 1115 01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,280 Speaker 1: the people on Good Morning Football on NFL Network, whether 1116 01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,200 Speaker 1: it's some of the national reporters who have come to 1117 01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:28,840 Speaker 1: recognize how coach McDermott has kind of pulled this franchise 1118 01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:35,080 Speaker 1: from the ashes, or at the very least from perpetual mediocrity. 1119 01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:37,520 Speaker 1: They're seeing it. Their eyes are wide open now. If 1120 01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:39,880 Speaker 1: they weren't after year one or even after year two, 1121 01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:41,440 Speaker 1: when this team went six and ten and took a 1122 01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:47,200 Speaker 1: step back. They're they're very aware of coach McDermott and 1123 01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:49,800 Speaker 1: his staff and what they've done here. Yeah, I agree, 1124 01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:56,000 Speaker 1: and it's it's become the Bills are once again out 1125 01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:00,840 Speaker 1: of that in that level of pro sports where it's like, well, yeah, 1126 01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,000 Speaker 1: there's all that team's also in the league, you know 1127 01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,680 Speaker 1: that kind of also ran. Yeah, now they are. Not 1128 01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:12,320 Speaker 1: only are they a good football team because of the 1129 01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:14,640 Speaker 1: way their players interact with each other on the field 1130 01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,640 Speaker 1: with it because of their head coach. They're fun to 1131 01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,960 Speaker 1: watch and they're an easy team to root for, and 1132 01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:22,200 Speaker 1: it's a It's a team that even casual fans can't 1133 01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,640 Speaker 1: get on board with by the way they comport themselves 1134 01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,440 Speaker 1: on game day and the way they interact on the field, 1135 01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:29,680 Speaker 1: where they celebrate, the way they the way they handle 1136 01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:32,560 Speaker 1: their interviews, and all the public appearances that they have. 1137 01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,840 Speaker 1: It's something that I think Buffalo fans are obviously really 1138 01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,520 Speaker 1: proud of, but I think the rest of the country 1139 01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,080 Speaker 1: is starting to wake up to the fact that it 1140 01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,080 Speaker 1: is a little bit different here in Buffalo than it 1141 01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:44,600 Speaker 1: has been and the way it is in a lot 1142 01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,400 Speaker 1: of other places. Also on the tweet sheet from a 1143 01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:52,160 Speaker 1: regular Tiffany she says. In regards to the Twitter poll 1144 01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,040 Speaker 1: of what would be the most compelling storyline if the 1145 01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,160 Speaker 1: Bills were featured on Hard Knox this season, Tiffany says this, 1146 01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,160 Speaker 1: I would have a dedicated group of staffers from NFL 1147 01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:05,520 Speaker 1: Films exclusively followed Trey White around for twenty four hours 1148 01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:10,640 Speaker 1: a day. His personality alone warrants full time coverage. He's hilarious, intelligent, hardworking, 1149 01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,200 Speaker 1: and watching him over his career, I think most most 1150 01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:17,959 Speaker 1: fans would be all in. Yeah he so she picked 1151 01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:21,360 Speaker 1: other technical Yes, yeah, um yeah, I think people would 1152 01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:23,440 Speaker 1: be on board for that. I mean, whether it's his, 1153 01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:27,640 Speaker 1: you would be featured Trey White Goldie Academy, whether it's him. 1154 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,360 Speaker 1: You remember when when the play sheets were blown across 1155 01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,000 Speaker 1: the field and he picked him up and he's kind 1156 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,600 Speaker 1: of looking at him on the field, you know, the 1157 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,240 Speaker 1: ref's like, give me that, what are you doing? What 1158 01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:41,440 Speaker 1: are you doing? Yeah, he's uh, he's he's an entertainer. 1159 01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:44,280 Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt about that. He's he's 1160 01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:48,080 Speaker 1: very playful and I appreciate that the attitude of the team, 1161 01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:50,880 Speaker 1: you know, picking up the playbook sheets and flip them 1162 01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:55,080 Speaker 1: through him. He's having He always has fans the snow uh, 1163 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:59,920 Speaker 1: celebrating with his teammates, um, celebrating after an interception, all 1164 01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:04,760 Speaker 1: that stuff, and he's so seems so joyful all the time. 1165 01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:09,680 Speaker 1: He's just one more guy that when it comes down 1166 01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,360 Speaker 1: to it, you're just so glad he's on your team. 1167 01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,000 Speaker 1: You're so glad he plays for your squad. All right. 1168 01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,720 Speaker 1: From seth, I gotta go with ce. People love a 1169 01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,600 Speaker 1: good undrafted success story almost as much as they love 1170 01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:22,640 Speaker 1: a comeback story. The Wallace Norman battle would be pure gold. 1171 01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,640 Speaker 1: Shoot Norman could star in his own show. That and 1172 01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:27,720 Speaker 1: the battle for the four or five, six and maybe 1173 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:32,360 Speaker 1: seventh wide receiver spot would be primetime entertainment. And yeah, 1174 01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,640 Speaker 1: I mean position battles is second in this poll, and 1175 01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:37,400 Speaker 1: I think for good reason. I think that is one 1176 01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,560 Speaker 1: of the main draws every year for fans that come 1177 01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:44,480 Speaker 1: out to training camp when it's possible, or tune in 1178 01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:46,880 Speaker 1: to our coverage of training camp to see what's going 1179 01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:48,920 Speaker 1: on on the field. Right, that's the main crux of 1180 01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,720 Speaker 1: the deal. That's Yeah, that in a normal year, Yeah, 1181 01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,800 Speaker 1: that's the only thing. You know, we're not talking about 1182 01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,040 Speaker 1: Sean mcderma's leadership. We want to see those guys play, 1183 01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,240 Speaker 1: and most people do get a chance if they want 1184 01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,000 Speaker 1: to go over there. Anybody can go over there and 1185 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,160 Speaker 1: watch him play and watch him practice and get a 1186 01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,200 Speaker 1: look at what they you know, get a size him up. 1187 01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:09,760 Speaker 1: I saw him what they were walking through today. I 1188 01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,960 Speaker 1: walked in and I saw the guys out there in 1189 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,200 Speaker 1: their in their jerseys and stuff, and I go out there, 1190 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:16,920 Speaker 1: you know, and I told you this. You know what 1191 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,600 Speaker 1: struck me about it. Gabe Davis is a big dude. 1192 01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:26,080 Speaker 1: He's like he's a size. He's like, yeah, he's Duke 1193 01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:30,520 Speaker 1: Williams big, bigger and he was. I was like, wow, 1194 01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:34,439 Speaker 1: look who's that guy. Oh yeah, that's number thirteen. He's 1195 01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:38,040 Speaker 1: a big dude. I was shocked. Hodgens is big two. 1196 01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:41,800 Speaker 1: He's not as broad shouldered, but he's about sixty three. 1197 01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:44,560 Speaker 1: He had two seven. I told you this, Gabe. Gabe 1198 01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:48,440 Speaker 1: Davis reminds me. He's built like a Quincy and noon Ona, big, thick, heavy. 1199 01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:50,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like a like a running back in 1200 01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,160 Speaker 1: the slot. I mean he's really athletic. Look and I 1201 01:04:53,200 --> 01:05:00,120 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, yeah, I'm sweet. Go for wide looks. Go. 1202 01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,360 Speaker 1: We did want to get back to some of the 1203 01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,480 Speaker 1: comments from Bill's new linebacker A J. Klein, who was 1204 01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:09,600 Speaker 1: on a Zoom media call with the media today. We 1205 01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:12,480 Speaker 1: already heard from him on the decision to sign with Buffalo. 1206 01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,600 Speaker 1: Obviously it had a lot to do with familiarity with 1207 01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,720 Speaker 1: coach McDermott and the defensive scheme which he's played in 1208 01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:22,400 Speaker 1: earlier in his career. He also had a comment on 1209 01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:28,560 Speaker 1: playing alongside one of his newest teammates, Tremaine Edmonds. Takes 1210 01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,080 Speaker 1: a command of the defense and obviously that's been put 1211 01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,320 Speaker 1: on his shoulders as a mic linebacker, and that's I mean, 1212 01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:37,200 Speaker 1: that's that's amazing to see. It's awesome to see a 1213 01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,600 Speaker 1: guy like him be able to control the room. The 1214 01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,840 Speaker 1: guys respect him. And obviously you touched on his size, 1215 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:46,360 Speaker 1: his speed, his athleticism. It's it's crazy when you line 1216 01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:49,320 Speaker 1: up to a guy, it makes you feel small. But 1217 01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:52,960 Speaker 1: he also is he's just a student of the game. 1218 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:57,120 Speaker 1: He's soaking up everything. He's soaking asking me questions and 1219 01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,600 Speaker 1: I know he's always asking coach questions, and he's soaking 1220 01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:03,360 Speaker 1: up Oldie, all the stuff he can from the people 1221 01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,120 Speaker 1: around him to become a better player. And he's really 1222 01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:08,320 Speaker 1: a student of the game and it's excited to watch now. 1223 01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:13,080 Speaker 1: He also, it's weird. Can you imagine football players Like 1224 01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,640 Speaker 1: it's not very often they got to look up at anybody, 1225 01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:19,880 Speaker 1: but this guy, this guy stands next to Tremaine, He's like, oh, hey, 1226 01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,440 Speaker 1: how you doing up there? What's the weather? Like? It 1227 01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:26,120 Speaker 1: is hard to stand out physically in the league full 1228 01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,920 Speaker 1: of guys who have always stood out physically wherever they go, 1229 01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:32,680 Speaker 1: and Tremaine stands out physically. Guys even in this league, 1230 01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,680 Speaker 1: even in this league, Josh stands out physically. Mean, he's 1231 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,600 Speaker 1: like a helmet taller than everybody in the huddle. Yeah, 1232 01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:39,320 Speaker 1: it's like a Cam Newton kind of guy, like a 1233 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,520 Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson. Got These guys are like, who who's that? 1234 01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:47,440 Speaker 1: They grow him, they feed them, right? Can I get 1235 01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:49,400 Speaker 1: some of that? Right? I mean you know what was 1236 01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, like, sorry, buddy, you're not from that end 1237 01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:56,120 Speaker 1: of the gene pool. It's unbelievable. Yeah. And so it's 1238 01:06:56,160 --> 01:07:00,640 Speaker 1: like it's and it's I said that I've said about 1239 01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:02,320 Speaker 1: you know if you've heard me talk about Ted Washington, 1240 01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:04,920 Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, there's certain guys all through your 1241 01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:06,720 Speaker 1: career and all my guy, all my buddies all my 1242 01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,320 Speaker 1: friends are all six five and they're all you know, 1243 01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,760 Speaker 1: they were all big dudes, and you know, you kind 1244 01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,080 Speaker 1: of get immune to it. I never got immune to 1245 01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,080 Speaker 1: Ted Washington the size he was. It's the same thing 1246 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,200 Speaker 1: with Tremaine. He was a massive human being, right and 1247 01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:19,880 Speaker 1: he still is. But Tremaine's the same thing. He walks 1248 01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:21,880 Speaker 1: in it's like, wow, he is that Look how big 1249 01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:23,880 Speaker 1: that guy? Every time you see him, it's like why 1250 01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:27,080 Speaker 1: you never get used to it? Even his teammates are like, dude, 1251 01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:33,160 Speaker 1: you look taller. That's what Jerry said. Yes, I think 1252 01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,720 Speaker 1: I think he grew a couple of inches. You forget 1253 01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:40,200 Speaker 1: how how big that dude is. So with the news 1254 01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:43,479 Speaker 1: coming down earlier this hour, the breaking news that coach 1255 01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:46,280 Speaker 1: McDermott has been signed to a multi year contract extension. 1256 01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:47,800 Speaker 1: If you want details on that, you can go to 1257 01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:50,160 Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com right now. There's a story there 1258 01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,120 Speaker 1: for you to chew on. But we thought it interesting 1259 01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,880 Speaker 1: to get A. J. Klein's comments on coach McDermott, obviously 1260 01:07:56,920 --> 01:07:59,880 Speaker 1: a guy for whom he has already played. When he 1261 01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:05,080 Speaker 1: was Carolina's defensive coordinator, A J. Klein spend four seasons 1262 01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:08,600 Speaker 1: as a linebacker with the Panthers, albeit in a backup capacity, 1263 01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,840 Speaker 1: but was working under coach McDermott. So here's what he 1264 01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:17,080 Speaker 1: had to say about coach Well. First and foremost, it's 1265 01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:20,240 Speaker 1: not it's not just about putting guys in the right 1266 01:08:20,280 --> 01:08:22,960 Speaker 1: position to win. It's it's the character the guys that 1267 01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,639 Speaker 1: they have playing on this on this team. Um, they 1268 01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:28,000 Speaker 1: go out and find guys in free agency through the draft, 1269 01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:32,840 Speaker 1: guys that are have high character and high standards for themselves. 1270 01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:35,360 Speaker 1: And I think that's that's part of the groundwork that's 1271 01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:38,120 Speaker 1: laid here, with hard work and effort and having the 1272 01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:41,280 Speaker 1: correct attitude and being able to trust one another. UM, 1273 01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,640 Speaker 1: and most of all, I think respect, mutual respect for 1274 01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:50,000 Speaker 1: coaches players. UM, that's what creates a winning culture. You 1275 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,720 Speaker 1: can have the best eleven players in the league on 1276 01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,439 Speaker 1: the team at the same time, pick any eleven that 1277 01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:57,920 Speaker 1: you want. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna have 1278 01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,519 Speaker 1: a successful team. I think it's it's deeper than just 1279 01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,439 Speaker 1: the excess and owns. Is deeper than just finding the 1280 01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,080 Speaker 1: best players at each position. It's it's coming together as 1281 01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:09,240 Speaker 1: a team. But UM, to touch on as well, putting 1282 01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:13,280 Speaker 1: guys in the correct position. UM. I think being and 1283 01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:17,120 Speaker 1: and Sean and all the all the coaches together, UM, 1284 01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:21,360 Speaker 1: they understand in no football and their process of going 1285 01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:23,519 Speaker 1: out finding guys in free agency, going out finding guys 1286 01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,680 Speaker 1: in the draft, they're looking for the correct pieces. And 1287 01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:28,880 Speaker 1: I think we do have those correct pieces here, UM 1288 01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,800 Speaker 1: that will allow us to be successful. But facting guys 1289 01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:33,680 Speaker 1: like yourself think that guys that have played in this 1290 01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:37,120 Speaker 1: defense before, you feel like you guys are real eager 1291 01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,720 Speaker 1: to come back and play once again in this system. Yeah. 1292 01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:44,240 Speaker 1: I think because we know how successful it can be. UM. 1293 01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,040 Speaker 1: And I've been a part of that success when I 1294 01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:50,800 Speaker 1: was in Carolina. UM. It's it's a system that once 1295 01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:54,680 Speaker 1: you learn it, it allows you to play fast and free. UM. 1296 01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,519 Speaker 1: And it I mean I I just think it allows 1297 01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,720 Speaker 1: great communication from the back st into the D line 1298 01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:03,479 Speaker 1: to the linebackers. It allows everybody to play fast together 1299 01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,840 Speaker 1: and it works. It works. It's tried, it's tried and tested, 1300 01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:12,160 Speaker 1: and it works. The proof's in the pudding man. Yeah. 1301 01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,880 Speaker 1: Top three defense the last two years, and no signs 1302 01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:19,519 Speaker 1: are slowing down this year. Although the schedule will be 1303 01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:25,599 Speaker 1: more challenging, You're you're facing better offenses, so it will 1304 01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:28,880 Speaker 1: be tested a little bit more, but I think this 1305 01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:34,080 Speaker 1: defense is at a place where it just operates like 1306 01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,360 Speaker 1: a well oiled machine. You've got a lot of these 1307 01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:39,679 Speaker 1: guys in their third and fourth year of playing together, 1308 01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:44,960 Speaker 1: and it just all clicks, you know. Even even some 1309 01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:47,599 Speaker 1: of these new players, they're coming from Carolina, they played 1310 01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:52,799 Speaker 1: in almost exactly the same system. A. J. Klein, Mario Addison, 1311 01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,240 Speaker 1: Vernon Butler, they've been in the system. Josh Norman. They 1312 01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,320 Speaker 1: might be yeah, Josh Norman, they might be new on 1313 01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:00,240 Speaker 1: the scene, but they're not new to the scheme. They'll 1314 01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:02,160 Speaker 1: bounce back, They'll bounce back quick, and they'll soak it 1315 01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:03,960 Speaker 1: right back up and get back to where they were. 1316 01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,799 Speaker 1: And and let's not forget to you know, Josh Norman 1317 01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:09,599 Speaker 1: had his best years as a pro in this defense. 1318 01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,479 Speaker 1: He can't wait to get into it. It's one of 1319 01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:14,320 Speaker 1: the things that's always been an earmark on a hallmark 1320 01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:18,120 Speaker 1: of of what you know, the atmosphere they bring in, 1321 01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:23,000 Speaker 1: the guys they bring in always seem to be motivated 1322 01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:26,000 Speaker 1: to have their best season. Josh Norman is a perfect example. 1323 01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:29,519 Speaker 1: And I can't speak for Mario Addison or Vernon Butler, 1324 01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,760 Speaker 1: but certainly, you know, they're coming in wanting to play well, 1325 01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,519 Speaker 1: but knowing the defense, they're gonna hit the ground running. 1326 01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,559 Speaker 1: But a guy like Josh Norman and most of these 1327 01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:42,160 Speaker 1: other guys on short term deals where if they want 1328 01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:45,120 Speaker 1: one more swing at the at the Apple, you know, 1329 01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:46,640 Speaker 1: if they want to go one more time at the 1330 01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,280 Speaker 1: brass Ring, they want to play as well as they 1331 01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,200 Speaker 1: can on these short deals they've got. Most of them 1332 01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,479 Speaker 1: are on a one year, two year deal that just 1333 01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:59,760 Speaker 1: keeps the fire, the pilot light lit. Yeah, and it's 1334 01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:04,439 Speaker 1: just it makes for a productive, high intensity, you know, 1335 01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:07,639 Speaker 1: we're all in this together kind of attitude that really 1336 01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:09,479 Speaker 1: seems to be productive, and it's one of the reasons 1337 01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:11,360 Speaker 1: they get so much out of the whatever roster they 1338 01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:15,599 Speaker 1: put together. Your latest COVID NFL update, Do Do Do 1339 01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:18,840 Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do This from Boston Globe NFL 1340 01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,320 Speaker 1: reporter Ben Voland, who we actually had on the show 1341 01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:25,240 Speaker 1: last week. He said that the NFLPA has announced that 1342 01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:30,679 Speaker 1: daily COVID testing for players will continue through September fifth. 1343 01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:34,599 Speaker 1: The testing was going to change to every other day 1344 01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:37,759 Speaker 1: after the first two weeks of players being on site, 1345 01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:41,519 Speaker 1: but now it has been agreed upon that daily testing 1346 01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:45,240 Speaker 1: will run through September fifth, which is basically a week 1347 01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:47,639 Speaker 1: before the regular season starts, and then moved to every 1348 01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:50,920 Speaker 1: other day at that point. So it looks like the 1349 01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,719 Speaker 1: league and its players would prefer to have daily testing 1350 01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:57,559 Speaker 1: continue to keep the players as safe as possible through 1351 01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:00,679 Speaker 1: this training camp period, and then once they get formally 1352 01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,840 Speaker 1: to regular season football, it will go to every other day. 1353 01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,840 Speaker 1: So just a little development there on the COVID front 1354 01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,400 Speaker 1: as it pertains to the NFL and its players. We 1355 01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:11,320 Speaker 1: are going to step aside and take a break here, 1356 01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,080 Speaker 1: but we do still have some comments to get to 1357 01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:17,040 Speaker 1: from one Cody Ford. We also have Jimmy Train of 1358 01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,759 Speaker 1: the SI dot com columnists coming up at two pm 1359 01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:21,760 Speaker 1: as we go over some of the best play by 1360 01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:25,920 Speaker 1: play calls for all of us personally Steve myself and 1361 01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:28,400 Speaker 1: Jimmy who put together a column on that very subject. 1362 01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:30,439 Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that later on in the 1363 01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:32,840 Speaker 1: show coming up here on One Bill's Live, presented by 1364 01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:48,840 Speaker 1: Kalida Health, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio back on One 1365 01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:53,040 Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and we 1366 01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:57,479 Speaker 1: are sharing the news, the breaking news that happened at 1367 01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:00,599 Speaker 1: the top of the hour with Sean McDermott now signed 1368 01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:04,720 Speaker 1: to a multi year contract extension, Kim Pegoula releasing a 1369 01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:08,720 Speaker 1: statement about that, saying they're just about They're pretty much 1370 01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:13,200 Speaker 1: happy with everything that Sean's done and how who he 1371 01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,240 Speaker 1: is doesn't change no matter who he is dealing with 1372 01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:19,280 Speaker 1: in the building. I think that really resonates with Kim 1373 01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:23,679 Speaker 1: and Terry Pegoula. They like genuine people who are genuine 1374 01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:27,040 Speaker 1: with everybody, and that is coach McDermott through and through 1375 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,720 Speaker 1: without questions. So a tremendous example in the building and 1376 01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:33,760 Speaker 1: tremendous results on the field. And here to share his 1377 01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:37,800 Speaker 1: thoughts on the multi year contract extension signed by coach McDermott. 1378 01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:40,640 Speaker 1: As a person who played under coach McDermott in the 1379 01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:44,639 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen season. Also the color commentator on the Bills 1380 01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,679 Speaker 1: Radio network for the games along with one John Murphy. 1381 01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:49,800 Speaker 1: It's Eric Wood joining us on the line. Eric, thanks 1382 01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:51,280 Speaker 1: for carving out some time for us. How are you 1383 01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:53,880 Speaker 1: doing man in this offseason? It's almost football time, buddy, 1384 01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:57,479 Speaker 1: it is. It's gear enough for football time. And you 1385 01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:01,680 Speaker 1: know I'm I'm watching headlines on if the ACC and 1386 01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:03,920 Speaker 1: college football is gonna play See if I'm working double 1387 01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:06,519 Speaker 1: duty again this year. But um, I love the direction 1388 01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:09,720 Speaker 1: the NFL's taken right now and to jump right into it. 1389 01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:11,960 Speaker 1: I love the direction that the Buffalo Bills are having 1390 01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:15,479 Speaker 1: locking up Sean McDermott long term and uh, just I've 1391 01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:19,160 Speaker 1: one I've made my thoughts on Sean McDermott made known 1392 01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:22,639 Speaker 1: over the years. I have an absolute a ton of 1393 01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:26,120 Speaker 1: respect for Sean McDermott and the fact that his family 1394 01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:29,679 Speaker 1: will be able to be assured that they'll be here 1395 01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,559 Speaker 1: for even longer. And you know, one of the one 1396 01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:34,840 Speaker 1: of the hardest things about the coaching business is that 1397 01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:37,840 Speaker 1: it can just be so sudden, the change and the 1398 01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:39,840 Speaker 1: turnover in the business and what's city you're in and 1399 01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:41,800 Speaker 1: all that, and just to be locked up and get 1400 01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:44,640 Speaker 1: some security is just it's it's an incredible honor for 1401 01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:47,519 Speaker 1: him and his family, but it's but it's well deserved. 1402 01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:50,240 Speaker 1: He is. You mentioned it in the opening of this segment. 1403 01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:52,160 Speaker 1: He's one of them. I've always said, this is one 1404 01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:54,160 Speaker 1: of the most consistent people I've ever been around in 1405 01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:56,200 Speaker 1: my life. And that was from a player's perspective, and 1406 01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,799 Speaker 1: then you hear it from the ownership perspective, and how 1407 01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:01,920 Speaker 1: consistent he is on a day basis, how he treats people, 1408 01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:05,320 Speaker 1: and then the results on the field, besides the crazy 1409 01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:08,000 Speaker 1: year which was twenty eighteen where the salary cap situation 1410 01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:10,920 Speaker 1: had to be rectified, that he has one down year 1411 01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:12,680 Speaker 1: with the Bills takes him the playoffs two out of 1412 01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,280 Speaker 1: three years. And in the position that the Bills are 1413 01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,479 Speaker 1: out with so much young talent on the team, so 1414 01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:20,800 Speaker 1: much continuity, they're just in a tremendous spot right now. 1415 01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:22,759 Speaker 1: And when you're in that kind of spot, you reward 1416 01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:25,880 Speaker 1: the head coach who's put in so much time and effort. Yeah, 1417 01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:28,080 Speaker 1: it's been reported now by Ian Rappaport that it's a 1418 01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:31,200 Speaker 1: six year extension that goes to twenty twenty five. It's 1419 01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:34,400 Speaker 1: four years onto the next on the year, four years 1420 01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,320 Speaker 1: the two that every left on this deal. So he's 1421 01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:40,840 Speaker 1: signed through Buffalo for twenty twenty five. And you mentioned 1422 01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:43,679 Speaker 1: too and not that nothing. But the thing that gets 1423 01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:47,080 Speaker 1: me about this is now, Sean McDermott's kids are gonna 1424 01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:50,519 Speaker 1: be Buffalo kids. And I know they were born other places, 1425 01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:52,559 Speaker 1: but they're gonna go through their formative years with their 1426 01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:54,680 Speaker 1: dad coaching the Buffalo Bills. They're gonna he's gonna be 1427 01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,120 Speaker 1: a Buffalo guy. Their kids are gonna be Buffalo kids, 1428 01:16:57,120 --> 01:16:59,639 Speaker 1: are gonna be Western New Yorkers. They're gonna be part 1429 01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:02,720 Speaker 1: of the fly here in Western New York until, you know, 1430 01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:06,479 Speaker 1: until they head off to college, probably, And it's it's 1431 01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,799 Speaker 1: kind of fun to think about that kind of stretch 1432 01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:13,920 Speaker 1: coming ahead for Sean McDermott and this team. And how 1433 01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:16,960 Speaker 1: do you think now, Eric can ask you this. It 1434 01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:20,000 Speaker 1: seems to me they really have this thing exactly where 1435 01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:23,280 Speaker 1: they wanted at the present time. And the question is 1436 01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,960 Speaker 1: can they stay competitive year in year out standing right 1437 01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:30,479 Speaker 1: where they're at now? It seems the answer would be yes, Yeah, 1438 01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:33,360 Speaker 1: I absolutely think you're correct with what they have on defense. 1439 01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:36,559 Speaker 1: I mean, you saw last year how dominant that defense 1440 01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:38,760 Speaker 1: could be. You have so much continuity coming back on 1441 01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:41,880 Speaker 1: the offside of offensive side of the football too. Yes, 1442 01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:45,960 Speaker 1: they can absolutely be competitive. Do you need development from 1443 01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:50,040 Speaker 1: Josh Allen to be a Super Bowl contender a Super 1444 01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:53,160 Speaker 1: Bowl favorite to start the year? Yeah, maybe, But where 1445 01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:56,599 Speaker 1: they're at right now is so much further ahead than 1446 01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:59,960 Speaker 1: pretty much my entire Bill's career there, the nine years 1447 01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,640 Speaker 1: I spent up there, and many years prior the stability 1448 01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,400 Speaker 1: the organization has to compete year in and year out 1449 01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:08,840 Speaker 1: is just a testament to the people they've brought in, 1450 01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:12,639 Speaker 1: the coaching staff, they've built, the scouting department, the whole 1451 01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:16,320 Speaker 1: front office is just tremendous. The leadership from the top 1452 01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:19,519 Speaker 1: with the Bugulas down through Brandon Being and his staff 1453 01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:22,160 Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott and his staff. The Bills are just 1454 01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:25,080 Speaker 1: in an incredible situation. And you had on top of that, 1455 01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:29,000 Speaker 1: how well they've drafted as an organization since Sean mcdermot's 1456 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:30,680 Speaker 1: been there. He's a big part of that. You know, 1457 01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:32,840 Speaker 1: He's him and Brandon Being worked hand in hand on 1458 01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:35,760 Speaker 1: those things, and it's they're just in a tremendous spot 1459 01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:38,360 Speaker 1: right now. So, Eric, the one thing that I wanted 1460 01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:39,920 Speaker 1: to get from you, because you're one of the few 1461 01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:42,840 Speaker 1: people that can speak to this and you're nine years here. 1462 01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:46,639 Speaker 1: You had four head coaches. You had Darn for a year, 1463 01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:50,040 Speaker 1: then you had Chan, you had Moron, and then you 1464 01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:53,120 Speaker 1: had one year with coach McDermott before you were forced 1465 01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:56,080 Speaker 1: into early retirement. The first day in the room with 1466 01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:59,680 Speaker 1: coach McDermott, how and what ways? Oh and you had 1467 01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,240 Speaker 1: Rex too. Sorry, I conveniently left him out and I 1468 01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:05,519 Speaker 1: actually had seven because there was two interim coach head coaches, right, 1469 01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:11,840 Speaker 1: So irrespective of that, what was different about the first 1470 01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:14,519 Speaker 1: day in the room with coach McDermott. That gave you 1471 01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:17,400 Speaker 1: the sense that things are going to be different, and 1472 01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:20,640 Speaker 1: different in a good way. I'll be honest, not a 1473 01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:23,240 Speaker 1: ton on day one. You know. Coach McDermott came in 1474 01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:27,120 Speaker 1: and with each coaching staff, they have certain core values 1475 01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:29,800 Speaker 1: that they that they'll preach to, they have certain things 1476 01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:32,040 Speaker 1: that they say they're going to bring in that builds confidence. 1477 01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,479 Speaker 1: What what got me with coach McDermott was how he 1478 01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:37,760 Speaker 1: approached every single day and a lot of it's just 1479 01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:40,760 Speaker 1: his attention to detail, which is well known around the 1480 01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:44,120 Speaker 1: entire National Football League. How detailed he is day in 1481 01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:47,080 Speaker 1: and day out. He comes into every single meeting with 1482 01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:51,240 Speaker 1: an absolute a plan of a motivation, tactic, whatever it 1483 01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:55,559 Speaker 1: may be. Just he leads at all times and he's 1484 01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:57,600 Speaker 1: just so intentional with all of his actions, all of 1485 01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:01,000 Speaker 1: his words. So there wasn't some craz easy, raw rosspiece. 1486 01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:03,439 Speaker 1: There wasn't, you know, as he sits in front of 1487 01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,960 Speaker 1: the room, it wasn't the brave heart speech. You know, 1488 01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,080 Speaker 1: it was just, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna lead by example, 1489 01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:12,280 Speaker 1: consistency day in a day out. That's what I expect 1490 01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:14,240 Speaker 1: from you, or else you won't be here. You know 1491 01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,519 Speaker 1: some of the things they did early with getting rid 1492 01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:19,240 Speaker 1: of guys that didn't fit what they have identified as 1493 01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:22,320 Speaker 1: their DNA. You know that spoke volumes because you're gonna 1494 01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:24,960 Speaker 1: take You're gonna take lumps in the national media. You're 1495 01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:27,320 Speaker 1: gonna take lumps from the community when you get rid 1496 01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:29,880 Speaker 1: of high draft picks like they did, when you get 1497 01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:32,240 Speaker 1: rid of guys who have been given long term extension. 1498 01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:34,720 Speaker 1: Would you do those types of things? It's risk, But 1499 01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:36,640 Speaker 1: he had a plan and he stuck to it, and 1500 01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:39,879 Speaker 1: it's fade off for him. What are your thoughts about 1501 01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:43,760 Speaker 1: how likely it is or are you optimistic or pessimistic 1502 01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:48,559 Speaker 1: about the NFL's ability to get a sixteen game regular 1503 01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,759 Speaker 1: season in I know that when you watch hard Knocks, 1504 01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:53,360 Speaker 1: and I did that, and I've been around the building 1505 01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:57,040 Speaker 1: here one Bill's drive. Every team seems to really be 1506 01:20:57,120 --> 01:21:01,679 Speaker 1: putting an enormous amount of effort towards staying virus free, 1507 01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:04,000 Speaker 1: and it seems as though it gives me a lot 1508 01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:05,960 Speaker 1: of optimism that they may pull it off. What are 1509 01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,800 Speaker 1: your thoughts about the likelihood of getting a season in 1510 01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,879 Speaker 1: without a hitch, And I think it's highly likely, honestly, 1511 01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:14,080 Speaker 1: if you get to the point where it comes September 1512 01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:16,679 Speaker 1: twelfth and you're ready to kick this season off and 1513 01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:19,799 Speaker 1: that's the Bill's first game, I guess two days prior 1514 01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:22,479 Speaker 1: three days prior would be the season opener. If you 1515 01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:24,320 Speaker 1: get to that point and we're ready to kick this 1516 01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:27,280 Speaker 1: sucker off and everyone takes it as serious as they 1517 01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:29,720 Speaker 1: are right now, and no one gets lax and in 1518 01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:31,400 Speaker 1: a lot of it's going to be people's families and 1519 01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:34,040 Speaker 1: whoever they interact with as well. If no one gets 1520 01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,759 Speaker 1: lax on this thing, you could get a full NFL 1521 01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:38,960 Speaker 1: season this year. You should get a full NFL season, 1522 01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:42,880 Speaker 1: which would be it would be absolutely phenomenal for all 1523 01:21:42,880 --> 01:21:45,479 Speaker 1: the individual communities people around the country that are just 1524 01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:49,240 Speaker 1: looking for some bit of normalcy, some form of entertainment, 1525 01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:54,200 Speaker 1: and what is America's favorite pastime, Everyone's favorite form of entertainment. 1526 01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:57,759 Speaker 1: NFL football should be back to this fall. We'd be remiss, 1527 01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:00,599 Speaker 1: Eric if we didn't mention, you know, the other half 1528 01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:04,639 Speaker 1: of your job, which is acc football, and that seems 1529 01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:07,280 Speaker 1: to be hanging in the balance a little bit in 1530 01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:09,920 Speaker 1: the wake of the decisions by the Big Ten and 1531 01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:12,880 Speaker 1: the Pack twelve and the Mountain West and the Mid 1532 01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:16,920 Speaker 1: American Conferences and even the IVY League to say no 1533 01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:22,120 Speaker 1: fall sports will revisit a January one. I don't know 1534 01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:24,439 Speaker 1: if you've heard any rumblings, but we know there are 1535 01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:28,000 Speaker 1: supposed to be meetings today for some of these conferences, 1536 01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:32,360 Speaker 1: the Big Twelve, the SEC, the ACC. Do you have 1537 01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,639 Speaker 1: any gut feeling as to how things will come down 1538 01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:40,760 Speaker 1: with those respective conferences, including the one you cover, the ACC. Yeah. 1539 01:22:40,800 --> 01:22:43,759 Speaker 1: All I know is that a lot of the ACC schools, 1540 01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:46,000 Speaker 1: the people that I've talked to from those schools are 1541 01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:48,519 Speaker 1: all in on a season being played. They honestly and 1542 01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:53,280 Speaker 1: genuinely feel that it's better and safer for those i'll 1543 01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:55,400 Speaker 1: call them kids eighteen to twenty two year old young 1544 01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:58,240 Speaker 1: men on these teams to be within the building and 1545 01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,160 Speaker 1: you get to see it on hard all the protocols, 1546 01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:03,200 Speaker 1: all the measures that NFL teams are doing well, the 1547 01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:05,559 Speaker 1: colleges are doing the same thing. Now some colleges can't 1548 01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:07,720 Speaker 1: afford to do it, while those MAX schools they don't 1549 01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:11,600 Speaker 1: have the enormous TV contracts that the Big twelve, the 1550 01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:14,280 Speaker 1: a SEC, the SEC have. They don't have those big 1551 01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,160 Speaker 1: contracts to be able to even do the amount of 1552 01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:19,120 Speaker 1: testing that needs to happen. But the University of Louisville, 1553 01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:23,800 Speaker 1: for instance, where I live in the offseason, they have 1554 01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:26,800 Speaker 1: gone through so many measures to that they're at zero 1555 01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:28,800 Speaker 1: positive tests now and they've been that way for a 1556 01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:30,920 Speaker 1: number of weeks. Now, when you have guys reporting back, 1557 01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:33,040 Speaker 1: as you've seen with the number of NFL teams, you 1558 01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:35,679 Speaker 1: get guys that will show up positive and now those 1559 01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,599 Speaker 1: numbers are going down dramatically as they're on campus. I 1560 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:41,080 Speaker 1: think you have to allow it all to play out 1561 01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:43,360 Speaker 1: a few more weeks with this college deal, make sure 1562 01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:45,160 Speaker 1: that they can even go through their own training camps 1563 01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:47,439 Speaker 1: and everything without there being a number of positive tests. 1564 01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,880 Speaker 1: But I truly believe, you know, Coach Sadderfield, to coach 1565 01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:52,639 Speaker 1: for the University of Louisville, was on the Today Show 1566 01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:56,720 Speaker 1: yesterday after speaking out really harshly on Monday against some 1567 01:23:56,760 --> 01:23:59,200 Speaker 1: of the leadership in college football that has let these 1568 01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:02,559 Speaker 1: young men and down, and he was adamant that he 1569 01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:05,080 Speaker 1: truly feels that they're safer on campus. And I'll tell 1570 01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:08,120 Speaker 1: you what from my experience, I would have wanted to 1571 01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,559 Speaker 1: play if I was if I was in college right now. 1572 01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:12,719 Speaker 1: You know, I moved off to college and my little 1573 01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:14,479 Speaker 1: brother took over my room. So you got a lot 1574 01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:17,559 Speaker 1: of these guys that go home and you know they're 1575 01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:19,879 Speaker 1: they're living in places that they're not getting the nutrition 1576 01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:22,240 Speaker 1: that they're getting getting at school. You're you're getting the 1577 01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,720 Speaker 1: test and everything else that you're getting at school, and 1578 01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:27,160 Speaker 1: you're also taking a lot of decisions off These young 1579 01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:30,519 Speaker 1: men's played where they don't really have the option to 1580 01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:33,080 Speaker 1: go to parties. I keep referencing the University of Wilbe 1581 01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:34,680 Speaker 1: because that's where I lived. There was a there was 1582 01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:37,479 Speaker 1: a party on campus held by three soccer players. They've 1583 01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:40,440 Speaker 1: kicked all them off the team. So they are extremely 1584 01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:43,280 Speaker 1: serious about trying to get fall sports off in the 1585 01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,439 Speaker 1: acc That seems to be the real elephant in the 1586 01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:49,160 Speaker 1: room when you've get these guys in football, certainly during 1587 01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,320 Speaker 1: in the football practice, in the meeting rooms and the 1588 01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,720 Speaker 1: facilities around the h you know Vanderbilt football, you know 1589 01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:58,479 Speaker 1: LSU football, Alabama football. Certainly, it's it's safer because it's 1590 01:24:58,479 --> 01:25:01,679 Speaker 1: a closed community. What happens when the general student body 1591 01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:03,960 Speaker 1: gets on campus and these guys have to go to 1592 01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:08,160 Speaker 1: class or if you know, and have to intermingle with 1593 01:25:08,240 --> 01:25:12,200 Speaker 1: students who could not possibly care less about the football season. No, 1594 01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:16,599 Speaker 1: and that's that's an extremely valid point. If I'm an 1595 01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:19,519 Speaker 1: academic advisor, if I'm advising these players, I'm trying to 1596 01:25:19,520 --> 01:25:22,639 Speaker 1: get them into as many online classes as possible, if 1597 01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,800 Speaker 1: not all online classes for the fall, maybe even this 1598 01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,519 Speaker 1: entire school year, because that is an option at many 1599 01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:31,280 Speaker 1: universities now, and I'm getting them as many of those. 1600 01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:32,960 Speaker 1: And if you have to go to school, you practice 1601 01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:36,280 Speaker 1: social distancing techniques with your mask, you keep your six 1602 01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:39,680 Speaker 1: feet apart, and honestly, if you're if you're using the 1603 01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:43,880 Speaker 1: appropriate measures, that's that's no, you know, it's it's not 1604 01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:47,000 Speaker 1: fair to say that those kids would be sitting in 1605 01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:50,559 Speaker 1: their rooms their entire time at home. I would even 1606 01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:52,559 Speaker 1: argue them going to class with a mask on where 1607 01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:55,760 Speaker 1: everything's being monitored, would be much safer than sending these 1608 01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:59,639 Speaker 1: kids all across the country back to their houses. Radio 1609 01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:02,559 Speaker 1: keller Man, Eric would for the Buffalo Bills Radio Network. 1610 01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:04,679 Speaker 1: Thank you for the time, Eric. We appreciate you jumping 1611 01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,400 Speaker 1: on on short notice here and hopefully we see you 1612 01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:10,439 Speaker 1: sooner rather than later. Yeah, I'm hoping so too. Thanks 1613 01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:12,120 Speaker 1: for having me on, guys. Always a pleasure, all right. 1614 01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:15,519 Speaker 1: He would take care. Eric would the Bills radio color man, 1615 01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:19,920 Speaker 1: former center of the Bills for nine seasons. You know, 1616 01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:22,439 Speaker 1: had to retire early as we know, with that neck injury, 1617 01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:27,880 Speaker 1: but still really heavily invested in this team, still roots 1618 01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:30,080 Speaker 1: for this team, and you can hear it in him. 1619 01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:34,559 Speaker 1: He's fired up the coach has always had. And this 1620 01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:37,840 Speaker 1: is a guy that only played for one season under 1621 01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:41,680 Speaker 1: coach McDermott, and I mean he just oozes praise for 1622 01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:44,680 Speaker 1: him as a coach and what he represents as a 1623 01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,680 Speaker 1: leader of men. So that's why we wanted to get 1624 01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:49,360 Speaker 1: him on and get his take on. You know, this 1625 01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:52,559 Speaker 1: extension being given to coach McDermot, a multi year extension 1626 01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:54,920 Speaker 1: which is now being reported as Steve mentioned by Ian 1627 01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:58,960 Speaker 1: Rappaport as being a six year extension basically the last 1628 01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:01,439 Speaker 1: two years of his first plus four more on top 1629 01:27:01,439 --> 01:27:04,439 Speaker 1: of that, which means he's pretty much signed through twenty 1630 01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:07,920 Speaker 1: twenty five for Buffalo. We do have to take a break, 1631 01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:09,360 Speaker 1: but when we come back we'll get more of your 1632 01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:12,120 Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet in terms of what you 1633 01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:14,400 Speaker 1: feel would be the most compelling storyline for the Bills 1634 01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:16,720 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty if they were the subject of the 1635 01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:20,880 Speaker 1: HBO series Hard Knocks was just debuted the other night 1636 01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:24,400 Speaker 1: with the Rams and the Chargers. There's some choices there 1637 01:27:24,439 --> 01:27:26,320 Speaker 1: for you. Chew on those at One Bills Live on 1638 01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:28,759 Speaker 1: Twitter and send us your comments. We also have Jimmy 1639 01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:31,120 Speaker 1: Traina coming up at the top of the hour, SI 1640 01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:34,439 Speaker 1: dot com columnist plenty more coming your way here on 1641 01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:36,600 Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. This is 1642 01:27:36,640 --> 01:27:52,439 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio One Bills Live. Steve Tasker Chris Brown 1643 01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:56,080 Speaker 1: with you, and just heard from Eric Wood his thoughts 1644 01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:59,439 Speaker 1: on the contract extension for one Sean McDermott just announced 1645 01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:04,080 Speaker 1: earlier this hour, and according to reports, it'll run through 1646 01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:09,639 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Six year extension. Yeah, essentially they tacked 1647 01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:13,000 Speaker 1: four years on to his existing deal, So good for 1648 01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:16,960 Speaker 1: coach man. Bravo on that one. Absolutely, what do you 1649 01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:21,479 Speaker 1: do during COVID to celebrate what sport coach gonna do tonight? 1650 01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:28,080 Speaker 1: You know, order in order, Order in That's right, that's 1651 01:28:28,120 --> 01:28:31,080 Speaker 1: what you do. You know what, let me go take 1652 01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:34,120 Speaker 1: a little look. I guess that's what you're doing, Barbell takeout. 1653 01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:39,040 Speaker 1: I guess right, you gotta do something because yeah, I mean, 1654 01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:41,439 Speaker 1: he unquestionably arned. He's one of those guys too, goes 1655 01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:44,479 Speaker 1: through Buffalo. He'll never buy a drink, you know, I 1656 01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:47,120 Speaker 1: mean not now, not that he drinks much, but not 1657 01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:51,040 Speaker 1: that he can't afford it. But yeah, right, funny how 1658 01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:54,360 Speaker 1: that works. Yeah. Still good for him, man, that's awesome, 1659 01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:56,479 Speaker 1: and I'm glad. I'm happy for him and his family, 1660 01:28:56,720 --> 01:28:59,400 Speaker 1: and I'm happy for the Buffalo Bills organization as well, 1661 01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:04,599 Speaker 1: because that stabilizes them eiven further and in a point 1662 01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:06,880 Speaker 1: where they seem as stable as they need as they 1663 01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:08,880 Speaker 1: need to be for another decade and a half. So 1664 01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:12,880 Speaker 1: it's going to be awesome. That's great. So the Twitter poll, 1665 01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:15,000 Speaker 1: as we mentioned, what would be the most compelling storing 1666 01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:17,719 Speaker 1: line if the Bills were featured on Hard Knocks this season? 1667 01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:20,880 Speaker 1: Seeing COVID protocols in action, watching McDermott up close and 1668 01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:24,200 Speaker 1: personal with players, seeing position battles play out or something else, 1669 01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:26,880 Speaker 1: and coach mcdermot's running away with it. He's winning on 1670 01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:30,880 Speaker 1: all fronts today. Fifty eight point six percent of the vote, 1671 01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:35,599 Speaker 1: and then second is seeing the position battles play out, 1672 01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:38,759 Speaker 1: getting almost a quarter of the votes, and then third 1673 01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:43,160 Speaker 1: is seeing COVID protocols and action, followed by d which 1674 01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:49,320 Speaker 1: was other some interesting choices there. And you know, I 1675 01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:52,760 Speaker 1: can see why people want to see coach and how 1676 01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:55,120 Speaker 1: he works on a daily basis. You heard Eric would 1677 01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:57,559 Speaker 1: say it in the last segment, just a guy that 1678 01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:02,880 Speaker 1: is so consistent every single day. And people may say, well, 1679 01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:05,240 Speaker 1: what does a coach kind of being the same person 1680 01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:08,280 Speaker 1: every day have to do with anything, Well, it kind 1681 01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:12,080 Speaker 1: of compels players to be just as consistent every day. 1682 01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:14,559 Speaker 1: It's like, man, the coaches really grinding here. It's like 1683 01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:21,120 Speaker 1: it's week fourteen, it's Thursday. I'm tired that this guy's grinding. Man, 1684 01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:24,040 Speaker 1: the process is the process and doesn't stop. And when 1685 01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:26,400 Speaker 1: your head coach is towing the line. And I've said 1686 01:30:26,400 --> 01:30:30,040 Speaker 1: this a ton another little leadership seminar here. One of 1687 01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:32,080 Speaker 1: the reasons the teams that I was on were so 1688 01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:33,960 Speaker 1: good was, you know, obviously they're full of Hall of 1689 01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:38,800 Speaker 1: Fame players. Well, interestingly enough, they elevated everybody around them 1690 01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,840 Speaker 1: because those Hall of Fame players were the hardest working 1691 01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:47,120 Speaker 1: guys on the roster, Bruce, Jim Thurman, Andre, James Lofton, 1692 01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:51,719 Speaker 1: Kent Hal, Darryl Talley, Cornelius Bennett. They were all really 1693 01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:58,479 Speaker 1: hard workers and really prepared guys. What do you think 1694 01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:01,840 Speaker 1: us get Schmozo. We're on special Team's journal. Yeah, you 1695 01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:03,840 Speaker 1: know what, we better? We better be ready. You know 1696 01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:05,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, I gotta match it. I'm in 1697 01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:07,599 Speaker 1: the meeting. You know, we're all in meetings with these guys. 1698 01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:09,880 Speaker 1: And you watch these guys probably in practice and work. 1699 01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:13,760 Speaker 1: It's like we all got to do that. They're not 1700 01:31:13,840 --> 01:31:18,240 Speaker 1: cutting Bruce or Jim, or Thurman or Andre, so everybody 1701 01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:21,800 Speaker 1: else is expendable, right, so you better match what those 1702 01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:24,439 Speaker 1: guys do and that that elevates everybody. And it starts 1703 01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:27,240 Speaker 1: with a head coach. You know, Sean McDermott is prepared 1704 01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:30,120 Speaker 1: and ready for everything, and he never changes. The players 1705 01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:32,320 Speaker 1: are prepared and ready and they don't change. They just 1706 01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:34,880 Speaker 1: keep going. And before we go to break, as this 1707 01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:37,479 Speaker 1: news makes its way around the National Football League. At 1708 01:31:37,560 --> 01:31:39,800 Speaker 1: him Shine a good friend of this show and a 1709 01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:43,760 Speaker 1: CBS Sports Network show host. He's also on Mad Dog 1710 01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:46,880 Speaker 1: Sports Radio hosts the show there he's a self proclaimed 1711 01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:49,720 Speaker 1: lover of all things Bills under coach McDermott, so he 1712 01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:53,160 Speaker 1: tweeted after hearing the news. Love it can't wait until 1713 01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:57,000 Speaker 1: McDermott delivers a championship over the length of his contract 1714 01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:00,400 Speaker 1: to Buffalo and I'm jumping through a table. That's my 1715 01:32:00,479 --> 01:32:02,559 Speaker 1: Adam SCHEI is that pretty good? It's pretty good? Not bad. 1716 01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:04,400 Speaker 1: I would have gotten it. Just figure we throw that 1717 01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:07,040 Speaker 1: one out there. He's always been a strong supporter of 1718 01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:09,680 Speaker 1: coach McDermott, so figure we give him some props there. 1719 01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:11,400 Speaker 1: But we gotta take a break because coming up next 1720 01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:14,000 Speaker 1: is SI dot Com column is Jimmy Trainer, who put 1721 01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:19,439 Speaker 1: together a fun list of his favorite all time sports calls, 1722 01:32:19,720 --> 01:32:23,280 Speaker 1: whether it's play by play or action that unfolded in 1723 01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:26,360 Speaker 1: a giant game that he remembers fondly. Steve and I 1724 01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:28,599 Speaker 1: put our list together as well. We'll talk to Jimmy 1725 01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:30,680 Speaker 1: about that and Moore on the other side, It's One 1726 01:32:30,720 --> 01:32:34,040 Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's 1727 01:32:34,120 --> 01:32:48,120 Speaker 1: Radio Balo Bills Radio Network Sports Update. Your sports update 1728 01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:50,559 Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The breaking news of the day. 1729 01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:53,080 Speaker 1: The Bills have signed head coach Sean McDermott to a 1730 01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:56,680 Speaker 1: multi year contract extension. According to National Reports, it's a 1731 01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:00,360 Speaker 1: six year deal that runs through twenty twenty five. The 1732 01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:02,360 Speaker 1: Bills have made the playoffs two of the last three 1733 01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:05,759 Speaker 1: seasons under McDermott, making him the first coach since Wade 1734 01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:08,679 Speaker 1: Phillips to accomplish the feat. In a statement, Bill's owner 1735 01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:11,760 Speaker 1: Kim Pogoula said the following Shawn's leadership on and off 1736 01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:15,480 Speaker 1: the field has been nothing but genuine and transparent qualities 1737 01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:18,679 Speaker 1: we appreciate as owners. He is the same great person 1738 01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:22,360 Speaker 1: to us, the players, and everyone across all our organizations. 1739 01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:24,640 Speaker 1: We will never forget how impressed we were during his 1740 01:33:24,680 --> 01:33:27,840 Speaker 1: first interview. Shawn's attention to detail was apparent back then, 1741 01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:31,800 Speaker 1: and his process driven approach has brought great stability to 1742 01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:34,960 Speaker 1: our organization. We are happy to extend his contract and 1743 01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:37,840 Speaker 1: keep him in Western New York for many years to come. 1744 01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:41,519 Speaker 1: Entering his fourth season as Bill's coach, McDermott currently has 1745 01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:44,000 Speaker 1: a record of twenty five and twenty three and already 1746 01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:48,200 Speaker 1: ranks fifth in franchise history and coaching wins, trailing only 1747 01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:53,439 Speaker 1: Marv Levy, Lou Saban, Chuck Knox and Wade Phillips. The 1748 01:33:53,479 --> 01:33:56,719 Speaker 1: Big Ten Conference announced that it will postpone fall sports 1749 01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:59,559 Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty twenty one season, which of course 1750 01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:03,759 Speaker 1: is headline by Football, and will evaluate options going forward, 1751 01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:09,240 Speaker 1: including possibly competing in the spring. PAC twelve Conference Join 1752 01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:12,200 Speaker 1: them a short time later yesterday, as they will take 1753 01:34:12,240 --> 01:34:16,479 Speaker 1: a similar course of action, postponing all athletic events until 1754 01:34:16,600 --> 01:34:20,560 Speaker 1: January first, at the earliest. The other Power five conferences, 1755 01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:24,439 Speaker 1: the ACC, Big twelve, and SEC, are in a tough spot, 1756 01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,519 Speaker 1: but they are leaning, according to some reports, towards playing 1757 01:34:27,560 --> 01:34:31,160 Speaker 1: out some kind of a schedule. We will see when 1758 01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:35,200 Speaker 1: decision is made official. After six hours, five overtimes, and 1759 01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:37,960 Speaker 1: a combined one hundred and fifty one shots on goal, 1760 01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:40,360 Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning won an epic Game one against 1761 01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:43,400 Speaker 1: the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night, great in point 1762 01:34:43,439 --> 01:34:45,920 Speaker 1: with the game winner to give Tampa Bay a three 1763 01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:49,720 Speaker 1: to win. That is your sports update as we continue 1764 01:34:49,760 --> 01:34:52,519 Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live Hour number three, Steve Tasker 1765 01:34:52,600 --> 01:34:55,000 Speaker 1: Chris Brown with you and joining us on the line 1766 01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:58,640 Speaker 1: right now is SI dot Com. Column is Jimmy Traina 1767 01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:01,680 Speaker 1: who put together a real interesting column on some of 1768 01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:04,479 Speaker 1: his favorite all time sports calls. And it kind of 1769 01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,880 Speaker 1: prompted Steve and I to jot down some of our own. 1770 01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:10,880 Speaker 1: But Jimmy joins us on the line right now as 1771 01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,599 Speaker 1: we broadcast you in our Seneca studio. Jimmy, it's Steve 1772 01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:15,559 Speaker 1: Tasker and Chris Brown with you. Thanks for spending some 1773 01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:19,360 Speaker 1: time with us. We appreciate it, my pleasure. Thanks for 1774 01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:22,120 Speaker 1: having me. And let me apologize in advance. We're having 1775 01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:24,439 Speaker 1: like a massive thunderstorm, so if you hear anything, just 1776 01:35:24,680 --> 01:35:26,800 Speaker 1: keep rolling. It's just some thunder all right, just a 1777 01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:29,320 Speaker 1: little booming in the background. We can get it. So 1778 01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:31,360 Speaker 1: first and foremost, you mean, I want to know what 1779 01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:33,559 Speaker 1: the genesis was for the idea to kind of put 1780 01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:37,000 Speaker 1: this column together in the first place, where you're just 1781 01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:38,960 Speaker 1: getting nostalgic one day and said, you know what, I'm 1782 01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:43,360 Speaker 1: putting this list together and I'm gonna show everybody. Yeah, 1783 01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:46,760 Speaker 1: you know, in this pandemic here, sports content was hard 1784 01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:49,000 Speaker 1: to come by for a few months. And yeah, I 1785 01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:53,519 Speaker 1: had done something a couple of months ago when the 1786 01:35:53,520 --> 01:35:59,880 Speaker 1: pandemic first started, where I asked broadcasters what's one call 1787 01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:02,840 Speaker 1: all they wish they could have done. So this was 1788 01:36:02,920 --> 01:36:05,320 Speaker 1: just sort of a flip on that and I thought 1789 01:36:05,320 --> 01:36:10,400 Speaker 1: it was interesting. It would be interesting to hear what 1790 01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,479 Speaker 1: broadcasters play by play men would say their favorite call 1791 01:36:13,640 --> 01:36:16,559 Speaker 1: was that wasn't their own, basically just as a fun 1792 01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:21,240 Speaker 1: side project to do here while sports is still a mess. Yeah, 1793 01:36:21,280 --> 01:36:23,320 Speaker 1: and what kind of student is there? I know that 1794 01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:26,360 Speaker 1: there's some that you know, as a national consciousness, we 1795 01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:28,800 Speaker 1: all kind of have our moments where, you know, the 1796 01:36:28,840 --> 01:36:31,559 Speaker 1: miracle on ice in nineteen eighty and things like that 1797 01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:34,559 Speaker 1: where it seems like even people who aren't sports fans 1798 01:36:34,800 --> 01:36:37,639 Speaker 1: kind of remember those moments where there can you give 1799 01:36:37,720 --> 01:36:39,760 Speaker 1: us a short list of maybe those and maybe some 1800 01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:43,680 Speaker 1: that are a little more under the radar. Well, yeah, 1801 01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:46,800 Speaker 1: the two that got the most if you want to 1802 01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:48,400 Speaker 1: call it votes, you know that it wasn't really voting, 1803 01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:52,400 Speaker 1: Like you said, the miracle on ice al Michaels and 1804 01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:55,639 Speaker 1: supposedly enough, you know, the Kirk Gibson home run against 1805 01:36:55,680 --> 01:36:57,639 Speaker 1: the A's and the eighty World Series is an all 1806 01:36:57,720 --> 01:37:02,920 Speaker 1: time play right there, And most people immediately think of 1807 01:37:03,240 --> 01:37:07,880 Speaker 1: Vince Scully's call from television in a season with the 1808 01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:11,040 Speaker 1: impossible is that the improbable has happened or something like that. 1809 01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:14,639 Speaker 1: But most people who mentioned the Gibson home run went 1810 01:37:14,640 --> 01:37:18,519 Speaker 1: with the Jack Buck radio call, I don't believe what 1811 01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:21,240 Speaker 1: I just saw it. Jack Buck got a lot of 1812 01:37:21,240 --> 01:37:23,479 Speaker 1: love on the list because there are a couple of 1813 01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:26,880 Speaker 1: people who mentioned his call of Kirby Puckets home run 1814 01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:31,160 Speaker 1: in the World Series. We'll see you tomorrow, knight, so 1815 01:37:31,320 --> 01:37:33,960 Speaker 1: you know we'll see you tomorrow and night. I don't believe. 1816 01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:36,599 Speaker 1: We just have in miracles. Do you believe in miracles? 1817 01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:38,920 Speaker 1: You know? Not traditional calls that you hear, you know, 1818 01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:42,120 Speaker 1: not Addie here and that's gone. You know, a spin 1819 01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:45,880 Speaker 1: that you that's extremely unique is what sort of hit 1820 01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,840 Speaker 1: with most people. Yeah, And I always marvel it the 1821 01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:54,120 Speaker 1: way some announcers go with simplicity and make that work. 1822 01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:58,000 Speaker 1: Like you referenced Vern Lunquists call on the Latner shot 1823 01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:01,040 Speaker 1: in the Duke Kentucky. I believe was an Elite eight game. 1824 01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:03,040 Speaker 1: You know who's going to the final four in this one? 1825 01:38:03,080 --> 01:38:06,360 Speaker 1: That game went to overtime, right, it didn't go to overtime, 1826 01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:08,880 Speaker 1: I think I can't remember. But in any event, later 1827 01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:11,920 Speaker 1: hits that dramatic shot at the end, and you know, 1828 01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:14,479 Speaker 1: all he says is Latner puts it up, yes, you know, 1829 01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:17,280 Speaker 1: with emphasis, but that's all he said, and then it's 1830 01:38:17,280 --> 01:38:19,719 Speaker 1: just people mobbing the court. And you know, in television 1831 01:38:19,760 --> 01:38:21,920 Speaker 1: you can be simplistic because you have video to back 1832 01:38:21,920 --> 01:38:26,400 Speaker 1: you up, but sometimes less is more. Yeah, I thought, 1833 01:38:26,479 --> 01:38:29,760 Speaker 1: and I thought, I this didn't make that list, But 1834 01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:32,160 Speaker 1: the next day I sort of made my own list. 1835 01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:37,160 Speaker 1: Was just a handful of my personal favorites. And Joe 1836 01:38:37,240 --> 01:38:42,000 Speaker 1: Bucks call of the Stefan Digg's touchdown in that playoff 1837 01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:44,360 Speaker 1: game against the Saints of the Minneapolis Miracle, I thought 1838 01:38:44,479 --> 01:38:47,880 Speaker 1: was really again, like you said, he kept it short 1839 01:38:47,920 --> 01:38:52,559 Speaker 1: of simple, but hit all the right notes, right inflection, right, 1840 01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:55,720 Speaker 1: everything on it. And that's if you go by recent years, 1841 01:38:55,760 --> 01:38:57,639 Speaker 1: I think that's one of the best calls you'll hear. 1842 01:38:57,680 --> 01:38:59,679 Speaker 1: One of the things that I always look for, Jimmy, 1843 01:38:59,840 --> 01:39:03,080 Speaker 1: is I always tend to lean towards the homer. I 1844 01:39:03,160 --> 01:39:05,760 Speaker 1: want the local guy. I want the guy that's got 1845 01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:08,040 Speaker 1: some skin in the game. And that's always the thing 1846 01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:10,320 Speaker 1: that brings it to another level is the guy that 1847 01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:13,720 Speaker 1: did every single game during the season and then that 1848 01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:16,880 Speaker 1: moment finally happens and he's the guy there that always 1849 01:39:16,920 --> 01:39:20,680 Speaker 1: adds something for me. Yeah. No, I mean, listen, you're 1850 01:39:20,720 --> 01:39:23,920 Speaker 1: talking to a diehard Yankee fan who loves every John 1851 01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:26,200 Speaker 1: Sterling home run calls. So I can relate to that 1852 01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:30,360 Speaker 1: I mentally there. Yeah, you know sports, you know, it's 1853 01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:32,840 Speaker 1: one of the weirdest things in sports that doesn't really 1854 01:39:32,840 --> 01:39:36,640 Speaker 1: get talked about, is you know, you have baseball announcers 1855 01:39:36,640 --> 01:39:39,200 Speaker 1: doing one hundred and fifty games a year. The NBA. 1856 01:39:39,320 --> 01:39:42,800 Speaker 1: Local NBA announcers are doing you know, seventy games a year, 1857 01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:46,519 Speaker 1: and then the playoffs come and they don't get to 1858 01:39:46,520 --> 01:39:48,760 Speaker 1: do the national games. They're just doing you know, they 1859 01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:52,240 Speaker 1: get booted for national telecasts. So it's you know, it's 1860 01:39:52,280 --> 01:39:55,080 Speaker 1: really tough thing there for local broadcasters, so they don't 1861 01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:58,400 Speaker 1: get the spotlight on those big national calls. Yeah. And 1862 01:39:58,479 --> 01:40:00,080 Speaker 1: let me just say, as a Long Island nat if, 1863 01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,000 Speaker 1: I grew up a giant Yankees fan also, so I 1864 01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:05,880 Speaker 1: kind of share your affinity for John. Although he's he's 1865 01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:08,080 Speaker 1: really taken it to another level and almost too far 1866 01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:11,479 Speaker 1: in some cases. I loved burn Baby Burn, but after 1867 01:40:11,520 --> 01:40:13,840 Speaker 1: that we got some he's got some crazy ones. Now 1868 01:40:13,880 --> 01:40:17,599 Speaker 1: he's like out of Stanton has sort of taken him 1869 01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:21,559 Speaker 1: to another level. Yeah. Yes, the the simpler John Sterling 1870 01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:24,240 Speaker 1: calls are always the better ones. You know, like you said, 1871 01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:27,400 Speaker 1: the burn, baby burn, and um, you know he's had 1872 01:40:27,479 --> 01:40:34,360 Speaker 1: so many Georgie juice. Yeah yeah, yeah, but now he's 1873 01:40:34,400 --> 01:40:36,640 Speaker 1: got to really come up with something special. Right, it 1874 01:40:36,720 --> 01:40:38,599 Speaker 1: gets a little crazy. He almost set the bar too 1875 01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:40,960 Speaker 1: high for himself. Uh. The one thing we did want 1876 01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:42,920 Speaker 1: to do is we did want you know, we we've 1877 01:40:42,960 --> 01:40:45,799 Speaker 1: got fans that are going gaga for Stefan Diggs already, 1878 01:40:45,800 --> 01:40:48,200 Speaker 1: so we wanted to queue up the Joe Buck call 1879 01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:51,560 Speaker 1: that you referenced of Stefan Diggs with the miracle in Minneapolis. 1880 01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:53,320 Speaker 1: So let's just listen to that real quick for our 1881 01:40:53,360 --> 01:41:14,800 Speaker 1: listening audience. I can't have to step into it. And 1882 01:41:14,960 --> 01:41:17,479 Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. Vikings win it. And when you 1883 01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:19,960 Speaker 1: have the benefit of television, yeah, you can just kind 1884 01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:21,640 Speaker 1: of let the image tell the story. I mean a 1885 01:41:21,720 --> 01:41:24,120 Speaker 1: picture says a thousand words. And that was it right there, 1886 01:41:24,240 --> 01:41:28,920 Speaker 1: Digs Sideline touchdown the Vikings. That's all you gotta do. 1887 01:41:29,080 --> 01:41:31,599 Speaker 1: And that's you know, Jimmy, I'm sure you're you're old 1888 01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:33,280 Speaker 1: enough to remember. Pat some are all. I mean, that 1889 01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:38,920 Speaker 1: guy was super simplistic. I mean Montana Rice touchdown and 1890 01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:43,360 Speaker 1: that was it. Yeah yeah, yeah, uh yeah, that that 1891 01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:45,479 Speaker 1: buck Hall on Diggs, I think is phenomenal. And I 1892 01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:47,080 Speaker 1: have to say I was not smart enough to put 1893 01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:49,120 Speaker 1: two and two together and realize Diggs was on the 1894 01:41:49,160 --> 01:41:50,599 Speaker 1: bills and that would be a good name to bring 1895 01:41:50,680 --> 01:41:53,960 Speaker 1: up him. So out of the dis I was like, oh, yes, 1896 01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:56,160 Speaker 1: that's right, he's on the bills. So hard to get 1897 01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:59,160 Speaker 1: back into it after this insanity, but yeah, some are 1898 01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:02,400 Speaker 1: all you know, if you YouTube hat, some are all 1899 01:42:02,479 --> 01:42:06,160 Speaker 1: calls that are just it's it's crazy. He just no 1900 01:42:06,200 --> 01:42:08,600 Speaker 1: one gives you a more simple call or gave you 1901 01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:10,679 Speaker 1: a more simple call than pad, and they always seem 1902 01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:13,639 Speaker 1: to work. It was. It was great. And then why 1903 01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:16,360 Speaker 1: don't you while you have the opportunity here just share 1904 01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:18,559 Speaker 1: with our listening audience because there is a fair number 1905 01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:21,160 Speaker 1: of Yankee fans up here in Western New York, believe 1906 01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:24,360 Speaker 1: it or not, that might appreciate it. One in particular 1907 01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:26,040 Speaker 1: that's on your list. But why don't you kind of 1908 01:42:26,080 --> 01:42:28,080 Speaker 1: just share your list with the listening and viewing audience 1909 01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:32,559 Speaker 1: we have here. Yeah, so again, like I said, you know, 1910 01:42:32,720 --> 01:42:35,360 Speaker 1: you guys mentioned it there. You know, the things that 1911 01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:37,680 Speaker 1: happened locally sort of stick with you. You know, I 1912 01:42:37,720 --> 01:42:39,960 Speaker 1: gave you the digs one, which was a national but locally, 1913 01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:44,320 Speaker 1: in ninety five, the Yankees made the playoffs. After you know, 1914 01:42:44,360 --> 01:42:46,479 Speaker 1: most people think the Yankees are in the playoffs every year, 1915 01:42:46,520 --> 01:42:48,600 Speaker 1: like they've been, but ninety five they got back in 1916 01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:52,040 Speaker 1: the playoffs after a really long drought. Don Mattingly was 1917 01:42:52,080 --> 01:42:54,120 Speaker 1: an icon in New York that if you're not at 1918 01:42:54,160 --> 01:42:56,280 Speaker 1: a certain age, you don't understand it. But he really 1919 01:42:56,479 --> 01:43:00,639 Speaker 1: was an enormous icon in New York. But his career 1920 01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:03,280 Speaker 1: at that point was shot. In ninety five, back injury 1921 01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:05,840 Speaker 1: sidelined him. He had a Hall of Fame career going, 1922 01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:08,519 Speaker 1: and then the back went and he couldn't hit anymore. 1923 01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:11,680 Speaker 1: And in ninety five, his last season, he managed in 1924 01:43:11,720 --> 01:43:14,240 Speaker 1: the playoffs to actually put a little run together and 1925 01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:16,759 Speaker 1: he had a home run against the Mariners where Gary Thorne, 1926 01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:23,520 Speaker 1: I thought captured it perfectly. Gary perfectly sort of encapsulated 1927 01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:25,800 Speaker 1: what Mattingly meant to the fans because when the ball 1928 01:43:25,880 --> 01:43:29,080 Speaker 1: was in the air, Gary said, hold on to the roof, 1929 01:43:29,479 --> 01:43:31,840 Speaker 1: even though there was no roof on Yankee Stadium, but 1930 01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:34,880 Speaker 1: if there was, it would have blown off. And that's 1931 01:43:35,040 --> 01:43:37,800 Speaker 1: my all time favorite call from a personal step and 1932 01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:39,840 Speaker 1: I think our guys in the control when we have 1933 01:43:39,920 --> 01:43:43,160 Speaker 1: that Mattingly SoundBite here, So why don't we play that 1934 01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:45,240 Speaker 1: play guys if we've got it, because I don't mind 1935 01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:48,400 Speaker 1: hearing that again. Three of them by right handers, five 1936 01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:53,120 Speaker 1: by left handers, this one by matting Like. Oh the 1937 01:43:53,280 --> 01:44:09,000 Speaker 1: roof so like? And Steve, I know you know you 1938 01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:11,160 Speaker 1: grew up in Kansas and were you like a big 1939 01:44:11,560 --> 01:44:14,439 Speaker 1: Cardinals fan of Royal Royals? Yeah, so for you, it's 1940 01:44:14,439 --> 01:44:18,439 Speaker 1: probably like you know, George getting the third deck off Goose. Yeah, yeah, 1941 01:44:18,479 --> 01:44:21,519 Speaker 1: well thanks, thanks for throwing that one in. Okay, you're 1942 01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:23,160 Speaker 1: gonna give me the pine Tar game, that's what you're 1943 01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:25,120 Speaker 1: gonna do. No, no, no, I I was. I'm not 1944 01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:29,240 Speaker 1: a Jimmy. I'm not a baseball guy by a long stretch. 1945 01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:32,640 Speaker 1: But yeah, and I gotta tell you this as a 1946 01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:36,800 Speaker 1: former athlete, some of the hometown plays play by plays 1947 01:44:37,360 --> 01:44:39,280 Speaker 1: literally bring tears to my eyes because I know what 1948 01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:40,560 Speaker 1: it's like to be in the middle of in a 1949 01:44:40,640 --> 01:44:43,400 Speaker 1: moment like that. You never know what it sounds like 1950 01:44:43,479 --> 01:44:46,120 Speaker 1: on the call. Uh. In fact, one of my favorite 1951 01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:48,639 Speaker 1: old time play by plays, it's been lost to history. 1952 01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:53,920 Speaker 1: M Alexander Mulgilney, the Great hockey player defected in nineteen 1953 01:44:54,120 --> 01:44:57,439 Speaker 1: eighty eight or eighty nine. Yeah, and it was a 1954 01:44:57,479 --> 01:44:59,840 Speaker 1: big deal back then. The Cold War was still going 1955 01:44:59,880 --> 01:45:04,040 Speaker 1: on and twenty seconds onto the ice and his first 1956 01:45:04,080 --> 01:45:05,840 Speaker 1: game as a Saber, I was in the stadium and 1957 01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:09,080 Speaker 1: he scored, and Rick Jennerette's call on the local radio 1958 01:45:10,040 --> 01:45:13,320 Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Yeah, and you know, those kind of things 1959 01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:15,519 Speaker 1: bring me back to a moment that where sports is 1960 01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:17,679 Speaker 1: bigger than that, you know, and it's and it brings 1961 01:45:17,720 --> 01:45:19,439 Speaker 1: a lot of emotion up to the surface for me 1962 01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:22,519 Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. I love local guys who 1963 01:45:22,680 --> 01:45:24,320 Speaker 1: love their team and show it. I don't have a 1964 01:45:24,320 --> 01:45:29,080 Speaker 1: problem with it. Yeah, yeah, I think most people I don't, 1965 01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:33,519 Speaker 1: you know, I know, you know, most people maybe years ago, 1966 01:45:33,600 --> 01:45:35,639 Speaker 1: expected everyone to be down the middle. But I think 1967 01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:38,000 Speaker 1: it's sort of if you're a local broadcaster, there's no 1968 01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:40,360 Speaker 1: down the middle. You're rooting for those teams. I'm just curious, Steve, 1969 01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:42,320 Speaker 1: when you played, it was a little different back then 1970 01:45:42,360 --> 01:45:44,040 Speaker 1: because you didn't have YouTube wee. You can find everything, 1971 01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:46,519 Speaker 1: but would you or other players, would you try to 1972 01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:48,400 Speaker 1: find calls if you made a big play or had 1973 01:45:48,439 --> 01:45:51,120 Speaker 1: a you know, great kickoff return touchdown or something. Would 1974 01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:52,960 Speaker 1: you try to listen to the call after the game? No, 1975 01:45:53,040 --> 01:45:57,360 Speaker 1: not really. You find out later and the guys will 1976 01:45:57,400 --> 01:45:58,720 Speaker 1: give you most of the guys at the time. You 1977 01:45:58,840 --> 01:46:01,040 Speaker 1: come into the locker room the next day and it's like, gay, 1978 01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:05,719 Speaker 1: did you hear what you know Van Miller said about 1979 01:46:05,720 --> 01:46:07,879 Speaker 1: you on the call? You know when you made this touchdown? 1980 01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:09,479 Speaker 1: Or did you hear what happened? Or that you hear 1981 01:46:09,520 --> 01:46:12,000 Speaker 1: what dick Enberg? You know, I've got dick Enberg And 1982 01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:13,920 Speaker 1: even in the open to our show, I mean, Marv 1983 01:46:13,960 --> 01:46:16,040 Speaker 1: Albert's using my name on the air a couple of times. 1984 01:46:16,040 --> 01:46:18,120 Speaker 1: So you get all these guys and you don't really 1985 01:46:18,160 --> 01:46:21,800 Speaker 1: think about it because you're always caught up. You always 1986 01:46:21,800 --> 01:46:24,280 Speaker 1: not another game to play, and you can't go back, 1987 01:46:24,280 --> 01:46:26,240 Speaker 1: and you know, you don't relive it. But you know, 1988 01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:28,800 Speaker 1: when it's a good one, you find out about it 1989 01:46:28,840 --> 01:46:30,840 Speaker 1: one way or another, no question about it. It's always 1990 01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:35,320 Speaker 1: fun to hear it's. Yeah, it's it's a blast to 1991 01:46:35,680 --> 01:46:37,519 Speaker 1: hear it like that, no question about it. But it's 1992 01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:39,880 Speaker 1: not something you think about very much. Jimmy, I do 1993 01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:42,080 Speaker 1: want to thank you for kind of stoking up some 1994 01:46:42,160 --> 01:46:45,320 Speaker 1: really fun memories on our parts. Because your list kind 1995 01:46:45,320 --> 01:46:46,840 Speaker 1: of sparked us to kind of come up with our 1996 01:46:46,840 --> 01:46:49,479 Speaker 1: own list. So a really cool column and that's why 1997 01:46:49,520 --> 01:46:50,920 Speaker 1: we did want to get you on. So we really 1998 01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:54,000 Speaker 1: appreciate the time today and keep thinking of these great 1999 01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:56,599 Speaker 1: ideas during this pandemic because we could all use them. 2000 01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:59,760 Speaker 1: Thanks very much for your time and for your creativity. 2001 01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:02,559 Speaker 1: My pleasure, Thanks for reading, and I appreciate you having 2002 01:47:02,600 --> 01:47:04,760 Speaker 1: me on all right. Jimmy train at SI dot com 2003 01:47:04,760 --> 01:47:09,280 Speaker 1: columnist sharing some really fun lists about play by play 2004 01:47:09,400 --> 01:47:15,240 Speaker 1: calls that famous broadcasters wish they could have called. And 2005 01:47:15,280 --> 01:47:17,759 Speaker 1: then he did his own list, which included Donnie Baseball 2006 01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:19,880 Speaker 1: and anybody who's gonna put Donnie Baseball on their list 2007 01:47:20,200 --> 01:47:24,559 Speaker 1: I'm a fan of. And that that one, you know, 2008 01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:26,840 Speaker 1: you talked Steve about bringing a tear to your eye, 2009 01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:29,800 Speaker 1: That one brought a tear to my eye because of 2010 01:47:29,920 --> 01:47:32,360 Speaker 1: what he was to that franchise. He was the face 2011 01:47:32,400 --> 01:47:35,719 Speaker 1: of that franchise for about fifteen years during a time 2012 01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:38,360 Speaker 1: where that team could not get to the playoffs, and 2013 01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:40,360 Speaker 1: then they finally get to the playoffs right at the 2014 01:47:40,439 --> 01:47:43,280 Speaker 1: end of his career in ninety four, they're poised to 2015 01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:45,960 Speaker 1: go to the World Series. They have a really really 2016 01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:48,960 Speaker 1: good team and the strike happens. There's no World Series 2017 01:47:48,960 --> 01:47:51,760 Speaker 1: in ninety four, so he comes back for one more year, 2018 01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:54,720 Speaker 1: his backs failing him due primarily to the fact that 2019 01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:57,519 Speaker 1: nobody spent more time in a batting cage than Don Manningley. 2020 01:47:57,600 --> 01:48:00,080 Speaker 1: He just had so many swings in that back and 2021 01:48:00,120 --> 01:48:03,080 Speaker 1: he was running out of him and it was clear 2022 01:48:03,200 --> 01:48:04,800 Speaker 1: ninety five was going to be his last year. So 2023 01:48:04,840 --> 01:48:07,120 Speaker 1: for him to get into the playoffs and then hit 2024 01:48:07,160 --> 01:48:09,720 Speaker 1: a meaningful home run in a playoff game, it was 2025 01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:13,320 Speaker 1: just like, there's your payback, man, thanks for everything, Like 2026 01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:15,280 Speaker 1: it was kind of one of those deals. Yeah, Like 2027 01:48:15,600 --> 01:48:18,479 Speaker 1: there were people in the stands like sobbing because of 2028 01:48:18,920 --> 01:48:21,360 Speaker 1: how much they loved him as a player, just a 2029 01:48:21,439 --> 01:48:25,439 Speaker 1: model professional, the al MVP and eighty five just a 2030 01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:28,960 Speaker 1: special moment. Now, Steve, I know you have some of 2031 01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:33,360 Speaker 1: your calls. I did a little more extensive homework than you, 2032 01:48:33,439 --> 01:48:35,840 Speaker 1: and I got the people on the other side of 2033 01:48:35,880 --> 01:48:37,920 Speaker 1: the door here to queue up some of mine. But 2034 01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:41,679 Speaker 1: let's run through some of yours first and then they'll 2035 01:48:41,720 --> 01:48:43,439 Speaker 1: play some of mine, because I don't know that they 2036 01:48:43,439 --> 01:48:47,400 Speaker 1: have yours ready and available. Mine. But the m'gilly's first 2037 01:48:47,439 --> 01:48:49,800 Speaker 1: goal as a Sabers is my all time favorite with 2038 01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:54,560 Speaker 1: Rick Jennerett. Somehow or some way, they lost the recordings 2039 01:48:54,560 --> 01:48:58,200 Speaker 1: of the radio broadcast to that night when m'gilney debuted 2040 01:48:58,200 --> 01:49:00,920 Speaker 1: for the Sabers after defecting from the beat Union and 2041 01:49:01,080 --> 01:49:03,000 Speaker 1: coming in and scoring a goal in the first twenty 2042 01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:05,320 Speaker 1: seconds of that his first game. That was one miracle 2043 01:49:05,360 --> 01:49:08,879 Speaker 1: on ice with Al Michael's number two. Then the Buffalo 2044 01:49:08,960 --> 01:49:12,320 Speaker 1: Bills in nineteen ninety I think it was week three 2045 01:49:12,400 --> 01:49:14,280 Speaker 1: or four, maybe it was earlier than that. We're playing 2046 01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:17,719 Speaker 1: the Raiders on TNT Thursday Night or Sunday Night football. 2047 01:49:18,160 --> 01:49:20,080 Speaker 1: It was back when T and T carried it, Chip 2048 01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:24,160 Speaker 1: carry his play by play of us. We were getting 2049 01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:26,760 Speaker 1: pushed around by the Raiders and then I blocked the punt. 2050 01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:28,360 Speaker 1: We took the lead, and we went on. We went 2051 01:49:28,400 --> 01:49:31,400 Speaker 1: off and ran off to the dattle work that because 2052 01:49:31,400 --> 01:49:34,559 Speaker 1: that was Mike Lay. Then it was Verne Lundquist eighty six, 2053 01:49:34,680 --> 01:49:37,759 Speaker 1: Jack Nicholas Sink in the Putty Masters in eighty six 2054 01:49:37,840 --> 01:49:41,120 Speaker 1: and he was like forty seven years old or forty six, Yeah, yeah, 2055 01:49:41,160 --> 01:49:43,160 Speaker 1: he was. I mean that was unheard of. Winning the 2056 01:49:43,160 --> 01:49:45,479 Speaker 1: Masters at forty six. Yeah, that doesn't really happen. And 2057 01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:49,519 Speaker 1: then then another one with me dick Enberg Week two 2058 01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:56,439 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, or maybe it was ninety three. We 2059 01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:59,400 Speaker 1: had just gone to our third Super Bowl. Dallas beat us. 2060 01:49:59,400 --> 01:50:01,320 Speaker 1: We played him in week two of the next season. 2061 01:50:01,400 --> 01:50:04,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that was a low scoring game, wasn't it. Yes, 2062 01:50:04,200 --> 01:50:06,880 Speaker 1: we beat him in Dallas in thirteen ten. I want 2063 01:50:06,880 --> 01:50:09,080 Speaker 1: to say Texas Stadium and Matt Darby have a big 2064 01:50:09,120 --> 01:50:11,600 Speaker 1: interception of something. Matt Darby had a later interception to 2065 01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:13,880 Speaker 1: seal the win, and I downed a punt on the 2066 01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:15,720 Speaker 1: two yard line. I picked it out of the air 2067 01:50:15,760 --> 01:50:17,120 Speaker 1: in the end zone and threw it back into the 2068 01:50:17,120 --> 01:50:21,960 Speaker 1: field of play, and dick Enberg lost his money. That's awesome. 2069 01:50:22,520 --> 01:50:24,840 Speaker 1: That's oh man, Now I want to hear that. Um, 2070 01:50:24,960 --> 01:50:27,880 Speaker 1: we'll see if we can cure it. But yeah, so 2071 01:50:28,040 --> 01:50:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go in chronological order here, and 2072 01:50:30,720 --> 01:50:34,360 Speaker 1: these these are I made this list based on two things, 2073 01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:40,679 Speaker 1: personal impact on me or um respect for the actual 2074 01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:43,759 Speaker 1: broadcaster and the job they did in the moment. Okay, 2075 01:50:43,800 --> 01:50:46,960 Speaker 1: so the first one for me is the shot heard 2076 01:50:46,960 --> 01:50:49,880 Speaker 1: around the world nineteen fifty one Giants win the Pennant. 2077 01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:51,920 Speaker 1: Now you say, well, there's no way you were alive then, 2078 01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:55,400 Speaker 1: and I was not um. But this is a moment 2079 01:50:55,479 --> 01:50:58,320 Speaker 1: in sports history that has been retold to me a 2080 01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:00,840 Speaker 1: countless number of times by my dad. So he grew 2081 01:51:00,920 --> 01:51:03,160 Speaker 1: up a New York Giants fan because his dad was. 2082 01:51:03,560 --> 01:51:08,519 Speaker 1: But he grew up in Queens, which is prime Brooklyn 2083 01:51:08,600 --> 01:51:11,320 Speaker 1: Dodgers territory. So this poor guy's going to school every 2084 01:51:11,400 --> 01:51:13,760 Speaker 1: day wearing a Giant's hat and getting made fun of 2085 01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:16,639 Speaker 1: by all his buddies who are Dodgers fans. And so 2086 01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:20,240 Speaker 1: it's mid August and the Giants are thirteen and a 2087 01:51:20,280 --> 01:51:23,760 Speaker 1: half games out of first place. They're basically left for dead. 2088 01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:27,000 Speaker 1: The Dodgers are running away with a division. The Giants 2089 01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:30,400 Speaker 1: proceed to win sixteen games in a row thirty seven 2090 01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:33,320 Speaker 1: of their last forty four. They tie the Dodgers on 2091 01:51:33,360 --> 01:51:35,559 Speaker 1: the last day of the regular season to force a 2092 01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:38,920 Speaker 1: one game playoff for the National League Pennant. Okay, so 2093 01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:40,960 Speaker 1: this is the drama that's been built up over the 2094 01:51:41,040 --> 01:51:43,519 Speaker 1: last month and a half, and Dodger fans are biting 2095 01:51:43,520 --> 01:51:47,960 Speaker 1: their fingernails. So it's already October. It's October third. The 2096 01:51:48,040 --> 01:51:51,160 Speaker 1: kids are back in school. My dad's six years old. Okay, 2097 01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:55,599 Speaker 1: he takes his dad's transistor radio to school because they 2098 01:51:55,600 --> 01:51:59,519 Speaker 1: were day games back then. Oh yeah, So picture this. 2099 01:51:59,640 --> 01:52:03,120 Speaker 1: You got one hundred and fifty kids in a cafeteria 2100 01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:07,960 Speaker 1: huddled around transistor radios listening to the game. Okay, and 2101 01:52:08,280 --> 01:52:11,439 Speaker 1: the Giants one game one, and or it was a 2102 01:52:11,439 --> 01:52:14,920 Speaker 1: three game playoff. Sorry, my bed. So they win game one, 2103 01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:18,840 Speaker 1: they lose Game two ten nothing to the Dodgers. Game three, 2104 01:52:18,880 --> 01:52:22,080 Speaker 1: they're down four to one. They they get a run back, 2105 01:52:22,120 --> 01:52:25,120 Speaker 1: it's four to two, and then bottom of the ninth 2106 01:52:25,120 --> 01:52:27,639 Speaker 1: they get two runners on, they get a double. Now 2107 01:52:27,680 --> 01:52:31,360 Speaker 1: it's four to three. So they're down one and so 2108 01:52:32,360 --> 01:52:35,200 Speaker 1: they call in the relief pitcher. Bobby Thompson, the third 2109 01:52:35,200 --> 01:52:38,880 Speaker 1: baseman's on deck, getting ready to bat, waiting for the 2110 01:52:38,920 --> 01:52:42,360 Speaker 1: relief pitcher to get warmed up. Ralph Branca Willie Mays 2111 01:52:42,520 --> 01:52:45,400 Speaker 1: is in the hole. The rookie he's gonna bat. So 2112 01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:48,880 Speaker 1: they're thinking, we're gonna walk Bobby Thompson. We got first base, 2113 01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:51,519 Speaker 1: open runners on second and third. We're just gonna walk Thompson. 2114 01:52:51,760 --> 01:52:54,160 Speaker 1: Let's pitch to the rookie in a big spot here 2115 01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:56,840 Speaker 1: and see if he's got the stones. No, they decide 2116 01:52:56,840 --> 01:52:59,920 Speaker 1: they're gonna pitch to Thompson, and so here we are, 2117 01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:05,320 Speaker 1: bottom of the ninth, down, you know, down on the scoreboard, 2118 01:53:05,360 --> 01:53:09,000 Speaker 1: and Bobby Thompson up to bat, not begging out a 2119 01:53:09,080 --> 01:53:12,240 Speaker 1: cat block them a second, but really run a lock 2120 01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:37,160 Speaker 1: to win of Doctor one. I mean that is that 2121 01:53:37,240 --> 01:53:39,559 Speaker 1: was baseball in New York in the nineteen fifties. You 2122 01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:42,080 Speaker 1: had the Yankees, the Dodgers, and the Giants who dominated 2123 01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:44,599 Speaker 1: the baseball landscape in the country. But in New York 2124 01:53:45,000 --> 01:53:49,479 Speaker 1: it was baseball and nothing else. Nothing came close to it. 2125 01:53:49,680 --> 01:53:52,519 Speaker 1: And it's still a baseball city first and foremost more 2126 01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:55,040 Speaker 1: than anything else. You go on any sports radio station 2127 01:53:55,040 --> 01:53:58,880 Speaker 1: in New York January February, they're talking Hot Stove League. 2128 01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:01,559 Speaker 1: Even now as popular as the NFL is, they still 2129 01:54:01,560 --> 01:54:04,720 Speaker 1: talk a lot of baseball down there. But that's like 2130 01:54:04,720 --> 01:54:07,000 Speaker 1: one of the happiest days of my dad's life. Now, 2131 01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:09,000 Speaker 1: the Giants did not win the World Series, they lost 2132 01:54:09,040 --> 01:54:12,800 Speaker 1: to the Yankees, but beating the hated Dodgers after that 2133 01:54:12,920 --> 01:54:16,360 Speaker 1: comeback and then doing that, my dad was running around 2134 01:54:16,360 --> 01:54:20,719 Speaker 1: the cafeteria and his friends were just in a horrible funk. 2135 01:54:21,160 --> 01:54:24,799 Speaker 1: So to be rewarded for being a Giants fan in Brooklyn. 2136 01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:27,280 Speaker 1: Dodgers territory is something that just still sticks with me. 2137 01:54:27,360 --> 01:54:29,559 Speaker 1: For him, and it just paints a picture of what 2138 01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:33,160 Speaker 1: baseball meant in New York at that time. The biggest 2139 01:54:33,160 --> 01:54:37,520 Speaker 1: one for me is nineteen seventy seven, Reggie Jackson three 2140 01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:42,240 Speaker 1: home runs, Game six, win the World Series. Five years old. 2141 01:54:42,280 --> 01:54:45,280 Speaker 1: So I'm five, and I am all in on the 2142 01:54:45,320 --> 01:54:47,560 Speaker 1: Yankees because the previous year they went to the World Series, 2143 01:54:47,560 --> 01:54:51,480 Speaker 1: lost to the lost to the Reds, the big red Machine, Dick. 2144 01:54:51,520 --> 01:54:54,640 Speaker 1: Come back in seventy seven, they have Reggie Jackson, and 2145 01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:56,480 Speaker 1: it was a it was a mess the whole year, 2146 01:54:56,520 --> 01:55:00,000 Speaker 1: Billy Martin Reggie Jackson at each other's throats quite literally, 2147 01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:03,560 Speaker 1: and seventy eight the next year, which got Billy Martin fired. 2148 01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:08,280 Speaker 1: But Reggie Jackson calls himself the straw that stirs the drink. 2149 01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:10,160 Speaker 1: It causes a whole bunch of problems. I mean, this 2150 01:55:10,240 --> 01:55:13,840 Speaker 1: is unheard of in the seventies, you know. Um So 2151 01:55:14,040 --> 01:55:16,160 Speaker 1: I want to watch Game six of the World Series. 2152 01:55:16,200 --> 01:55:18,760 Speaker 1: But I'm five and it's a night game. My mom's 2153 01:55:18,840 --> 01:55:20,959 Speaker 1: yelling at me, You're going to bed at eight thirty 2154 01:55:21,440 --> 01:55:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, that's like the third inning. Are you kidding me? 2155 01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:26,800 Speaker 1: We could win this thing tonight. I'm going bananas. My 2156 01:55:26,920 --> 01:55:30,400 Speaker 1: dad works the nightshift. He's not home. I'm in a bathtub, 2157 01:55:30,440 --> 01:55:33,960 Speaker 1: taking my nighttime bath, getting ready to watch the game. 2158 01:55:34,680 --> 01:55:39,960 Speaker 1: I'm five. Okay, my mom's nine months pregnant. Her water breas. 2159 01:55:41,040 --> 01:55:43,320 Speaker 1: Get out of the tub. You gotta go across the 2160 01:55:43,360 --> 01:55:45,440 Speaker 1: street to the neighbor's house. Mom's got to go to 2161 01:55:45,480 --> 01:55:51,360 Speaker 1: the hospital. What so, I'm it's my sister. Yeah, so 2162 01:55:51,560 --> 01:55:54,560 Speaker 1: she's your favorite personal exactly. So here's so, here's the deal. 2163 01:55:55,400 --> 01:55:58,040 Speaker 1: I'm jumping out of the tub. I'm jumping out of 2164 01:55:58,080 --> 01:56:00,160 Speaker 1: the tub. I'm yanking on my pajamas, I'm putting my 2165 01:56:00,160 --> 01:56:02,480 Speaker 1: code on. I'm going across the street to my neighbor's house. 2166 01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:04,280 Speaker 1: They got the game on, They got the game on. 2167 01:56:04,560 --> 01:56:07,960 Speaker 1: I'm watching the whole game because my mom's delivering my 2168 01:56:08,040 --> 01:56:11,400 Speaker 1: sister at the hospital, so I get to watch all 2169 01:56:11,440 --> 01:56:14,360 Speaker 1: the way through. So now it's seventh inning. Reggie Jackson 2170 01:56:14,360 --> 01:56:17,680 Speaker 1: has hit two home runs already, all both on first pitches. 2171 01:56:18,160 --> 01:56:20,320 Speaker 1: Comes up in the seventh The game's already in hand, 2172 01:56:20,360 --> 01:56:22,720 Speaker 1: it's seven to three, but he comes up in the 2173 01:56:22,760 --> 01:56:28,000 Speaker 1: seventh inning and does this Reggy Jack couldn't have been 2174 01:56:28,080 --> 01:56:30,960 Speaker 1: two kit dudes with the fact, but I do that 2175 01:56:31,120 --> 01:56:56,080 Speaker 1: he's got a boat in the seat, a good player 2176 01:56:56,120 --> 01:57:07,839 Speaker 1: in the world, Serry fun. He's that the whole world 2177 01:57:11,640 --> 01:57:19,840 Speaker 1: latent series. So just unbelievable. And after that, he came 2178 01:57:19,880 --> 01:57:25,200 Speaker 1: out for a curtain call, which again never happened, like 2179 01:57:25,520 --> 01:57:28,680 Speaker 1: they didn't even have that phrase curtain call in baseball. 2180 01:57:28,920 --> 01:57:31,760 Speaker 1: And he does it after this because three home runs 2181 01:57:31,760 --> 01:57:35,480 Speaker 1: in a World Series game pitches on three first pitches. 2182 01:57:35,760 --> 01:57:38,120 Speaker 1: The only other guy to do that Babe Ruth, who 2183 01:57:38,160 --> 01:57:42,400 Speaker 1: did it twice in nineteen twenty two or nineteen twenty 2184 01:57:42,400 --> 01:57:44,600 Speaker 1: two and nineteen twenty eight. I want to say, but 2185 01:57:44,760 --> 01:57:47,480 Speaker 1: just unbelievable. And as a five year old, I mean, 2186 01:57:47,520 --> 01:57:50,240 Speaker 1: I almost hit the ceiling um. I didn't know I 2187 01:57:50,240 --> 01:57:52,560 Speaker 1: could jump that high, but the charge that it puts 2188 01:57:52,560 --> 01:57:55,240 Speaker 1: in you. Now, I also had the miracle on ice. 2189 01:57:55,400 --> 01:57:57,440 Speaker 1: Now I'm eight years old, and I have no idea 2190 01:57:57,480 --> 01:57:59,600 Speaker 1: We're watching this game on tape delay because the game 2191 01:57:59,680 --> 01:58:01,960 Speaker 1: was on tape delay on ABC, but they already knew 2192 01:58:01,960 --> 01:58:05,040 Speaker 1: the results. I ran out in the street. I'm running 2193 01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:06,840 Speaker 1: out in the street with an American flag going. We 2194 01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:09,480 Speaker 1: beat the Ruskins. We beat I was nuts as a kid, 2195 01:58:09,640 --> 01:58:12,960 Speaker 1: I was. I was ridiculous. Um. Now the other the 2196 01:58:13,040 --> 01:58:14,640 Speaker 1: last two I put on here real quick because I 2197 01:58:14,680 --> 01:58:17,320 Speaker 1: want to get to these before the break. Nineteen eighty 2198 01:58:17,320 --> 01:58:21,160 Speaker 1: seven Eastern Conference Finals, NBA Celtics Pistons. Pistons look like 2199 01:58:21,160 --> 01:58:25,280 Speaker 1: they're finally gonna knox the Celtics off. There's a ball 2200 01:58:25,320 --> 01:58:29,360 Speaker 1: out of bounds. They controversially call it against the Celtics, 2201 01:58:29,360 --> 01:58:33,360 Speaker 1: so it's Pistons ball. There's five seconds left, Celtics down 2202 01:58:33,400 --> 01:58:37,080 Speaker 1: by one, and Celtics announcer Johnny Most, who sounds like 2203 01:58:37,120 --> 01:58:40,640 Speaker 1: he smoked four packs a day. Havelicek stole the ball. 2204 01:58:40,680 --> 01:58:54,520 Speaker 1: That's Johnny Most here he is again got a knockout. 2205 01:58:54,600 --> 01:59:20,320 Speaker 1: Quickly go crazy, I got He's just he's unbelievable. It's 2206 01:59:20,320 --> 01:59:23,360 Speaker 1: the greatest voice. Um. But yeah, but all right, at 2207 01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:27,880 Speaker 1: day right, I'll just gargling like God knows what in 2208 01:59:27,960 --> 01:59:30,160 Speaker 1: the back of his throat from all the cigarettes he smoked, 2209 01:59:30,760 --> 01:59:33,200 Speaker 1: you know. But just that's just a great call. And 2210 01:59:33,400 --> 01:59:36,400 Speaker 1: and he was a total homer. Um. But you can 2211 01:59:36,480 --> 01:59:40,040 Speaker 1: still appreciate it because he loved it so much. Last one, Uh, 2212 01:59:40,240 --> 01:59:42,880 Speaker 1: this is an example of a true pro. Here, okay, 2213 01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:47,160 Speaker 1: Tom Cheek, the long time broadcaster of the Blue Jays, 2214 01:59:47,760 --> 01:59:51,200 Speaker 1: um World Series ninety three, the Blue Jay's one in 2215 01:59:51,400 --> 01:59:54,840 Speaker 1: ninety two. So here we are, Game six, I want 2216 01:59:54,840 --> 01:59:57,160 Speaker 1: to say it was they didn't want Game seven and 2217 01:59:57,240 --> 02:00:01,080 Speaker 1: going back to Philadelphia, so it's games. I want to say. Here, 2218 02:00:01,840 --> 02:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Joe Carter up to bat with a chance to win 2219 02:00:04,600 --> 02:00:06,240 Speaker 1: the game in the bottom of the night, Tom Cheek, 2220 02:00:06,280 --> 02:00:10,200 Speaker 1: take it away. Two balls and two strikes on it. 2221 02:00:11,760 --> 02:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Here's a pitch on the way of swinging a belt. 2222 02:00:14,240 --> 02:00:18,720 Speaker 1: O pheel way back, Blue Jays Winter, the Blue Jays, 2223 02:00:18,760 --> 02:00:23,160 Speaker 1: the World Series Champions. That's Joe Carter tips up three 2224 02:00:23,280 --> 02:00:26,160 Speaker 1: rub home run in the night, cutting in the Blue 2225 02:00:26,200 --> 02:00:31,080 Speaker 1: Jays Eefrey pt S World Series Champions. Touch them all, Joe, 2226 02:00:31,480 --> 02:00:33,880 Speaker 1: You'll never hit a bigger home run in your life. 2227 02:00:34,800 --> 02:00:38,120 Speaker 1: That's the thing right there. Touch them all, Joe, You'll 2228 02:00:38,240 --> 02:00:41,920 Speaker 1: never hit a bigger one in your life. Game seven, 2229 02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:45,840 Speaker 1: walk off home run, back to back World Series. That 2230 02:00:46,080 --> 02:00:48,240 Speaker 1: is a pro. Yeah, that is a pro because you 2231 02:00:48,320 --> 02:00:51,880 Speaker 1: can't rehearse that. That stuff just happens vision and you 2232 02:00:52,040 --> 02:00:54,680 Speaker 1: gotta nail it. And he nailed it. I mean, Tom 2233 02:00:54,800 --> 02:00:57,200 Speaker 1: Cheek one of the great ones, So kudos to him 2234 02:00:57,240 --> 02:00:59,120 Speaker 1: on that. I am not a Dodgers, I am not 2235 02:00:59,240 --> 02:01:01,600 Speaker 1: a Blue Jays man in any sense of the word. 2236 02:01:02,160 --> 02:01:04,400 Speaker 1: But I am a Tom Cheek fan because that is 2237 02:01:04,920 --> 02:01:07,520 Speaker 1: that is like that is a prof After doing this 2238 02:01:07,640 --> 02:01:09,440 Speaker 1: for all these years, being on the radio and in 2239 02:01:09,600 --> 02:01:12,320 Speaker 1: television and all that, you really appreciate how difficult it 2240 02:01:12,480 --> 02:01:15,520 Speaker 1: is to hit it. And I you know, but yeah, 2241 02:01:15,520 --> 02:01:17,560 Speaker 1: because we've both We've had our moment, You've had your moment. 2242 02:01:17,680 --> 02:01:19,440 Speaker 1: He's a broadcaster, know how tough it is to be 2243 02:01:19,520 --> 02:01:22,040 Speaker 1: ready for that stuff. And when it happens and you 2244 02:01:22,160 --> 02:01:24,320 Speaker 1: do hit it just right, even if you don't feel 2245 02:01:24,360 --> 02:01:28,000 Speaker 1: like it's perfect, it comes out right and it's and 2246 02:01:28,120 --> 02:01:29,800 Speaker 1: it's it's a great moment. And there's a lot of 2247 02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:32,320 Speaker 1: a lot of great broadcasters to do that, but man 2248 02:01:32,480 --> 02:01:35,040 Speaker 1: like there are some that are just they strike the 2249 02:01:35,160 --> 02:01:37,400 Speaker 1: right tone. And Gus Johnson, I know, is a good 2250 02:01:37,440 --> 02:01:40,280 Speaker 1: friend of yours, is fantastic. I was trying to find 2251 02:01:40,360 --> 02:01:43,360 Speaker 1: it last night on YouTube and I could not find it. 2252 02:01:43,480 --> 02:01:47,560 Speaker 1: But he was going absolutely nuts during a March Madness game. 2253 02:01:48,000 --> 02:01:51,120 Speaker 1: And uh, he's like from the parking lot, Like this 2254 02:01:51,280 --> 02:01:54,400 Speaker 1: kid was on still is. Gus is a star. He's 2255 02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:56,080 Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. I love the guy to death, 2256 02:01:56,120 --> 02:01:57,800 Speaker 1: and he is a real star. He's got a real 2257 02:01:57,880 --> 02:02:01,280 Speaker 1: talent for it. And you know, I miss him doing 2258 02:02:01,400 --> 02:02:03,120 Speaker 1: college games. I wish you could do more of them. 2259 02:02:03,520 --> 02:02:05,800 Speaker 1: And he's doing Pack twelve now, and he does do 2260 02:02:05,880 --> 02:02:08,000 Speaker 1: some Pack twelve games that we're usually asleep when those 2261 02:02:08,040 --> 02:02:09,920 Speaker 1: games are on. So it's unfortunate we don't get to 2262 02:02:09,960 --> 02:02:11,640 Speaker 1: hear Gus as much as we used to. All Right, 2263 02:02:11,640 --> 02:02:14,120 Speaker 1: we gotta take a break. We're past the break. More 2264 02:02:14,200 --> 02:02:16,200 Speaker 1: coming your way on the other side. Here from One 2265 02:02:16,280 --> 02:02:19,040 Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo 2266 02:02:19,120 --> 02:02:34,280 Speaker 1: Bills Radio back on One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve 2267 02:02:34,360 --> 02:02:37,800 Speaker 1: Tasker with you. That's a fun playing Gus Johnson highlights 2268 02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:41,440 Speaker 1: during the break, and it's also the front that's fun. 2269 02:02:41,680 --> 02:02:43,920 Speaker 1: The fun of it is in the day and age 2270 02:02:43,960 --> 02:02:46,000 Speaker 1: in which we live. When you and I were kids, 2271 02:02:46,280 --> 02:02:49,040 Speaker 1: you can't pull this stuff gone from history. It was gone. 2272 02:02:49,120 --> 02:02:51,160 Speaker 1: You can't pull up. Now you can go. We've got 2273 02:02:51,200 --> 02:02:53,840 Speaker 1: people Texan, you know, they were calling the Tyler board. 2274 02:02:53,920 --> 02:02:57,560 Speaker 1: Fourth and twelve from Andy Dalton against the Bengals against 2275 02:02:57,560 --> 02:02:59,160 Speaker 1: the Ravens to put the Bills in the playoffs two 2276 02:02:59,240 --> 02:03:04,520 Speaker 1: three years ago. And it's and it's the best. It 2277 02:03:04,640 --> 02:03:08,080 Speaker 1: is the absolute bird. You can get those guys on 2278 02:03:08,200 --> 02:03:10,000 Speaker 1: the air and you can get them up. You can 2279 02:03:10,040 --> 02:03:12,360 Speaker 1: get that thing queued up in seconds. It's just so 2280 02:03:12,520 --> 02:03:14,360 Speaker 1: fun to see. So, in case you've been under a 2281 02:03:14,440 --> 02:03:16,320 Speaker 1: rock for the last hour and a half, the Bills 2282 02:03:16,360 --> 02:03:19,680 Speaker 1: have signed head coach Sean McDermott to a multi year 2283 02:03:19,760 --> 02:03:24,880 Speaker 1: contract extension. He's reportedly had his contract extended through the 2284 02:03:24,960 --> 02:03:28,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season, so that's great news for the team, 2285 02:03:28,480 --> 02:03:32,000 Speaker 1: great news for the franchise. So good news there all 2286 02:03:32,040 --> 02:03:34,600 Speaker 1: the way around. We heard from Eric Would on that 2287 02:03:34,760 --> 02:03:37,720 Speaker 1: very topic, so if you missed Eric Would last hour, 2288 02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:43,000 Speaker 1: you can find that as one. Bills Live is also 2289 02:03:43,280 --> 02:03:46,840 Speaker 1: streamed on the Buffalo Bills App. We also have it 2290 02:03:46,960 --> 02:03:50,879 Speaker 1: in podcast forum on Buffalo bills dot com, the Bills App, Spotify, 2291 02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:53,360 Speaker 1: Google Play, an Apple podcast, so keep an eye out 2292 02:03:53,400 --> 02:03:55,920 Speaker 1: for it there if you missed it here on the 2293 02:03:56,000 --> 02:03:59,520 Speaker 1: show today, Steve, we've taken a little bit of a 2294 02:03:59,600 --> 02:04:02,880 Speaker 1: high eight from this, but it is time for NFL 2295 02:04:03,000 --> 02:04:06,480 Speaker 1: True False brought to you by Yancy's fancy new York's 2296 02:04:06,520 --> 02:04:08,200 Speaker 1: artists in chief. He's one of these in a week 2297 02:04:08,240 --> 02:04:10,080 Speaker 1: at least, right, Yeah, we gotta we haven't done this 2298 02:04:10,160 --> 02:04:12,120 Speaker 1: in a little bit here, so they want to blow 2299 02:04:12,160 --> 02:04:16,160 Speaker 1: it off again. So number one on NFL true false? 2300 02:04:16,920 --> 02:04:19,800 Speaker 1: If he does not play again in the NFL, Antonio 2301 02:04:19,960 --> 02:04:23,720 Speaker 1: Brown is a Hall of Famer, true or false. And 2302 02:04:23,840 --> 02:04:26,000 Speaker 1: I'll give you some of his numbers right now. Eight 2303 02:04:26,120 --> 02:04:29,640 Speaker 1: hundred forty one career receptions, eleven thousand, two hundred and 2304 02:04:29,640 --> 02:04:35,880 Speaker 1: sixty three yards, and seventy five touchdowns right only doesn't 2305 02:04:35,960 --> 02:04:40,600 Speaker 1: play again, he's a Hall of Famer. Yeah, I mean, 2306 02:04:40,680 --> 02:04:42,920 Speaker 1: there's the only guys that have better stats than him 2307 02:04:42,960 --> 02:04:44,600 Speaker 1: is in a career. They're all in the Hall of 2308 02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:46,560 Speaker 1: Famer and all in the Hall of Fame, and a 2309 02:04:46,640 --> 02:04:48,920 Speaker 1: lot of guys who are behind him in statistics are 2310 02:04:48,960 --> 02:04:51,640 Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. So yeah, So there 2311 02:04:51,680 --> 02:04:55,200 Speaker 1: are only currently ten Hall of Fame receivers who have 2312 02:04:55,400 --> 02:04:58,760 Speaker 1: more yards or have scored more touchdowns. Nine of them 2313 02:04:58,920 --> 02:05:02,560 Speaker 1: have more receptions. He also has more All Pro Team 2314 02:05:02,720 --> 02:05:06,840 Speaker 1: namings than Marvin Harrison, more Pro Bowl selections than Randy 2315 02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:10,120 Speaker 1: Moss and Terrell Owens, and all three of those receivers 2316 02:05:10,160 --> 02:05:12,920 Speaker 1: as we know and enshrined in camp. Whether he's a 2317 02:05:13,080 --> 02:05:15,440 Speaker 1: whether he's a nut job or a clown or whatever 2318 02:05:15,720 --> 02:05:18,000 Speaker 1: you want to label him as. The guy is a 2319 02:05:18,080 --> 02:05:19,720 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame wide receiver. And I think he's going 2320 02:05:19,760 --> 02:05:21,760 Speaker 1: to get in now. It may not be a first 2321 02:05:21,840 --> 02:05:25,160 Speaker 1: ballot type of thing, Terrell Owens, wait and see, or 2322 02:05:25,280 --> 02:05:27,600 Speaker 1: maybe he'll get it. He'll get there when people kind 2323 02:05:27,640 --> 02:05:31,560 Speaker 1: of calm down about his personal life, but he's in. Yeah. 2324 02:05:31,800 --> 02:05:35,640 Speaker 1: I as much as I think he is a nut job, 2325 02:05:36,120 --> 02:05:38,000 Speaker 1: he is a Hall of Famer, so I will say 2326 02:05:38,040 --> 02:05:42,320 Speaker 1: true as well. Yeah, next up, it still amazes me 2327 02:05:42,400 --> 02:05:44,640 Speaker 1: that the Pittsburgh Steelers were able to keep him in 2328 02:05:44,720 --> 02:05:46,880 Speaker 1: check for eight years. It's it's it might be their 2329 02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:50,200 Speaker 1: most stunning accomplishment. Forget all of the forget the six 2330 02:05:50,280 --> 02:05:53,520 Speaker 1: Super Bowls. You kept that guy in check for eight seasons. 2331 02:05:53,600 --> 02:05:56,480 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins. It's a big tip of the hat because Wow, 2332 02:05:56,600 --> 02:05:58,720 Speaker 1: once he was out from under Mike Tomlin, he might 2333 02:05:58,720 --> 02:06:01,480 Speaker 1: as well be a psychotherapist the right. I mean, how 2334 02:06:01,520 --> 02:06:04,120 Speaker 1: does he do? Believable? So kudos to the Steelers for 2335 02:06:04,280 --> 02:06:07,320 Speaker 1: being able to do that. True False Number two Adrian 2336 02:06:07,440 --> 02:06:11,600 Speaker 1: Peterson will catch Emmett Smith as the all time leading 2337 02:06:11,680 --> 02:06:14,200 Speaker 1: rusher now Adrian Peterson recently said he wants to keep 2338 02:06:14,240 --> 02:06:17,040 Speaker 1: playing because he wants to chase Smith down and become 2339 02:06:17,120 --> 02:06:19,879 Speaker 1: the all time leading rusher. He's going into his fourteenth 2340 02:06:20,080 --> 02:06:25,000 Speaker 1: NFL season. Okay, no, give him the numbers. He's got 2341 02:06:25,080 --> 02:06:28,440 Speaker 1: fourteen thousand yards. He needs eighteen thousand yards, and he's 2342 02:06:28,480 --> 02:06:32,560 Speaker 1: got to get almost four thousand more yards to get 2343 02:06:32,560 --> 02:06:34,280 Speaker 1: after the age of thirty five. I don't see it 2344 02:06:34,480 --> 02:06:39,000 Speaker 1: ain't happening. No, Father Time is undefeated, and he is 2345 02:06:39,080 --> 02:06:42,480 Speaker 1: even for freaks like yes A d So and Tom Brady. 2346 02:06:42,680 --> 02:06:45,440 Speaker 1: I mean, it's he's gonna catch up to him, and 2347 02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:47,400 Speaker 1: it's gonna and when it happens, it's gonna be fast. 2348 02:06:47,560 --> 02:06:51,480 Speaker 1: And he's in a great spot in Washington because he's 2349 02:06:51,520 --> 02:06:53,640 Speaker 1: with a franchise with an owner who likes to do 2350 02:06:53,800 --> 02:06:57,440 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So I and they and they 2351 02:06:57,520 --> 02:06:59,600 Speaker 1: just got rid of Darius guys who got brought up 2352 02:06:59,640 --> 02:07:04,000 Speaker 1: on domestic violence charges. Um, so there's one less young 2353 02:07:04,360 --> 02:07:06,840 Speaker 1: young buck to deal with for carries. I gotta say, no, 2354 02:07:07,080 --> 02:07:09,040 Speaker 1: he's not gonna make it. That is just too too 2355 02:07:09,120 --> 02:07:12,600 Speaker 1: far and the hill to climb. U. So yeah, I 2356 02:07:12,640 --> 02:07:14,640 Speaker 1: would say false as well. I don't think he's gonna 2357 02:07:14,680 --> 02:07:18,560 Speaker 1: make it there. Um. I mean it's admirable that he's 2358 02:07:18,680 --> 02:07:22,120 Speaker 1: that he's gunning for it, but he's just not the 2359 02:07:22,200 --> 02:07:25,200 Speaker 1: same guys. Too many hits on the body. Uh number 2360 02:07:25,320 --> 02:07:30,520 Speaker 1: three NFL true false. The NFL should use virtual fans 2361 02:07:31,120 --> 02:07:34,760 Speaker 1: for games this season. We've seen this already with the NBA, 2362 02:07:35,000 --> 02:07:38,920 Speaker 1: where they take fans live online and stick him in 2363 02:07:38,960 --> 02:07:42,800 Speaker 1: a seat, which I still marvel at how they do that. 2364 02:07:43,080 --> 02:07:46,160 Speaker 1: That's that takes a lot of doing. I mean cardboard cutouts. 2365 02:07:46,200 --> 02:07:48,000 Speaker 1: You just drop a piece of cardboard in the seat 2366 02:07:48,000 --> 02:07:51,200 Speaker 1: and you're done, which is what baseball has done. And 2367 02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:54,920 Speaker 1: trying to remember if MLS did it. I know some 2368 02:07:55,040 --> 02:07:57,800 Speaker 1: of the European soccer leagues did it. And then you 2369 02:07:57,880 --> 02:08:02,120 Speaker 1: had Korean Baseball with stuffed animals stands, which was kind 2370 02:08:02,160 --> 02:08:04,760 Speaker 1: of funny. I give I give them points for creativity. 2371 02:08:05,280 --> 02:08:07,600 Speaker 1: I'd like to see, and I'm sure they will. I'd 2372 02:08:07,640 --> 02:08:10,320 Speaker 1: like to see what it looks like. Yeah, I don't 2373 02:08:10,360 --> 02:08:12,320 Speaker 1: have them problem putting stuff in the stands, but they're 2374 02:08:12,320 --> 02:08:14,880 Speaker 1: gonna have them covered up with tarps anyway for advertising 2375 02:08:14,920 --> 02:08:17,680 Speaker 1: for trying to make him for lost revenue here, don't 2376 02:08:17,760 --> 02:08:21,040 Speaker 1: let you know, don't let you know, fans get in 2377 02:08:21,080 --> 02:08:25,320 Speaker 1: the way of making a buck. But I don't know 2378 02:08:25,440 --> 02:08:27,400 Speaker 1: what's it gonna look like. And there's really for an 2379 02:08:27,480 --> 02:08:29,720 Speaker 1: NFL game, It's not like baseball where every pitch you 2380 02:08:30,120 --> 02:08:32,440 Speaker 1: every pitch this thrown. You see the stands back there. 2381 02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:36,560 Speaker 1: The NFL, you see edges and pieces and little slivers 2382 02:08:36,600 --> 02:08:40,360 Speaker 1: off from the action, you know, breaking the action and 2383 02:08:40,480 --> 02:08:43,280 Speaker 1: take a shot of the stand. That not for virtual fans. 2384 02:08:43,640 --> 02:08:47,120 Speaker 1: Although I will say that the NFL used virtual fans 2385 02:08:47,240 --> 02:08:49,800 Speaker 1: during the draft, but that was a different thing completely. 2386 02:08:50,360 --> 02:08:52,240 Speaker 1: Um yeah, and it didn't I didn't like it. I 2387 02:08:52,320 --> 02:08:55,360 Speaker 1: didn't like that at all. Yeah, how forced was it? 2388 02:08:55,520 --> 02:08:57,920 Speaker 1: Roger was trying to get every team's fans up. Hey, 2389 02:08:57,960 --> 02:08:59,480 Speaker 1: come on, we gotta hear you. There's like a hand 2390 02:08:59,520 --> 02:09:01,320 Speaker 1: of them. There's like nine little screens that are like, 2391 02:09:01,440 --> 02:09:04,240 Speaker 1: come on. So I'm yeah, I'm I'm saying, no, don't 2392 02:09:04,240 --> 02:09:06,360 Speaker 1: worry about it. Let it, Let it stand like it is. 2393 02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:09,160 Speaker 1: It will be different, but it will be all the 2394 02:09:09,200 --> 02:09:11,400 Speaker 1: sweeter when it comes back that way. I think the 2395 02:09:11,520 --> 02:09:15,760 Speaker 1: Washington football team the latest to announce today there will 2396 02:09:15,760 --> 02:09:19,600 Speaker 1: be no fans at their games this season. Jerry Jones, 2397 02:09:19,640 --> 02:09:22,000 Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys owner is still holding out hope that 2398 02:09:22,080 --> 02:09:25,879 Speaker 1: he can cram small pods of people into his luxury 2399 02:09:25,960 --> 02:09:29,560 Speaker 1: suites and separate and social distance that way, which I 2400 02:09:29,600 --> 02:09:32,040 Speaker 1: would expect some teams may undertake. You could do it 2401 02:09:32,160 --> 02:09:35,360 Speaker 1: here at one Bill's Drive in this stadium, being you know, 2402 02:09:35,440 --> 02:09:38,080 Speaker 1: the suits are segregating, and you could put us in 2403 02:09:38,160 --> 02:09:40,280 Speaker 1: no more than so many people or whatever the limit 2404 02:09:40,440 --> 02:09:42,520 Speaker 1: is now, what is it thirty or twenty or fifty 2405 02:09:42,680 --> 02:09:46,000 Speaker 1: or yeah, it's where they're hoping for anywhere between thirty 2406 02:09:46,000 --> 02:09:48,000 Speaker 1: three and forty percent capacity. If you've got a pot 2407 02:09:48,040 --> 02:09:50,440 Speaker 1: of people that are okay with being there together, throw 2408 02:09:50,520 --> 02:09:52,440 Speaker 1: them in the suitets and you could sell those and 2409 02:09:53,120 --> 02:09:56,520 Speaker 1: have the ushers run people traffic so people are properly distant. 2410 02:09:56,600 --> 02:09:58,840 Speaker 1: Most of the suits have a little bathroom in them, yep, 2411 02:09:59,760 --> 02:10:01,920 Speaker 1: so you know there's none of that traffic going around. 2412 02:10:02,200 --> 02:10:07,040 Speaker 1: Concessions become an issue if you're gonna have concessions available. Yeah, 2413 02:10:07,960 --> 02:10:11,440 Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't see a problem with that. 2414 02:10:11,920 --> 02:10:13,960 Speaker 1: You know, let them let them use the A lot 2415 02:10:13,960 --> 02:10:16,320 Speaker 1: of stuff's made to order in the suites, so it's delivered, 2416 02:10:16,760 --> 02:10:19,400 Speaker 1: you know, so you're not going to concession stands, they'd 2417 02:10:19,440 --> 02:10:21,600 Speaker 1: have people that would drop it off. Yeah, shouldn't. That's 2418 02:10:21,600 --> 02:10:23,400 Speaker 1: maybe that's possible, But I think it's a great idea. 2419 02:10:23,520 --> 02:10:26,400 Speaker 1: Go ahead and let them do it because charge what 2420 02:10:26,480 --> 02:10:28,640 Speaker 1: the market will bear. Yeah, put them up for auction. 2421 02:10:28,800 --> 02:10:31,600 Speaker 1: I am just for the sake of closing this up, 2422 02:10:31,600 --> 02:10:33,800 Speaker 1: I'm going false on the virtual fans. I think the 2423 02:10:34,200 --> 02:10:36,560 Speaker 1: signage and the advertising that they're going to stick in 2424 02:10:36,600 --> 02:10:38,120 Speaker 1: the stands is going to be a make good for 2425 02:10:38,840 --> 02:10:42,000 Speaker 1: you know, their sponsors that aren't gonna get the benefit 2426 02:10:42,080 --> 02:10:45,080 Speaker 1: of in stadium signage because there's no eyeballs to look 2427 02:10:45,120 --> 02:10:46,560 Speaker 1: at their stuff. So I think they're gonna try to 2428 02:10:46,600 --> 02:10:48,120 Speaker 1: make up for that with the tarps and such. So 2429 02:10:48,160 --> 02:10:50,400 Speaker 1: I don't think virtual fans are going to be a 2430 02:10:50,440 --> 02:10:53,560 Speaker 1: part of it for the NFL. Yeah, all right, So 2431 02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:55,960 Speaker 1: that is NFL true false. Brought to you by Yancy's 2432 02:10:55,960 --> 02:10:58,680 Speaker 1: Fancy New York's Artists and Cheese. One more break and 2433 02:10:58,720 --> 02:11:00,520 Speaker 1: then Steve and I will be back to find out 2434 02:11:00,600 --> 02:11:04,080 Speaker 1: what we have learned from today's show. It's One Bill's 2435 02:11:04,120 --> 02:11:06,880 Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health here on Buffalo Bill's Radio 2436 02:11:22,080 --> 02:11:25,160 Speaker 1: Time for what have we learned from today's show? Brought 2437 02:11:25,200 --> 02:11:28,839 Speaker 1: to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company 2438 02:11:29,360 --> 02:11:32,520 Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Man, that is a mouthful in 2439 02:11:32,640 --> 02:11:35,600 Speaker 1: any event. I mean, we love the people at Skyworks 2440 02:11:35,640 --> 02:11:38,440 Speaker 1: and oh yeah, and it's a real thing. We use 2441 02:11:38,480 --> 02:11:41,160 Speaker 1: their equipment. Oh I know. Yeah, It's just that's a lot, 2442 02:11:41,480 --> 02:11:46,000 Speaker 1: but we got through it. We're okay. Sean McDermott. Multi 2443 02:11:46,080 --> 02:11:48,800 Speaker 1: year contract extension for the head Han Show get him 2444 02:11:48,840 --> 02:11:51,000 Speaker 1: on tomorrow and yeah, so we'll talk about that in 2445 02:11:51,080 --> 02:11:53,960 Speaker 1: a second, but first here's Eric Woods take on the 2446 02:11:54,040 --> 02:11:58,000 Speaker 1: contract extension for his former head coach just to be 2447 02:11:58,120 --> 02:12:01,120 Speaker 1: locked up and get some security. It's just it's an 2448 02:12:01,120 --> 02:12:04,200 Speaker 1: incredible honor for him in his family. But but it's 2449 02:12:04,240 --> 02:12:07,000 Speaker 1: well deserved. He is you mentioned it in the opening 2450 02:12:07,040 --> 02:12:09,200 Speaker 1: of this segment. He's one of the I've always said 2451 02:12:09,240 --> 02:12:11,080 Speaker 1: that's one of the most consistent people I've ever been 2452 02:12:11,120 --> 02:12:13,520 Speaker 1: around in my life. And that was from a player's perspective, 2453 02:12:13,520 --> 02:12:15,920 Speaker 1: and then you hear from the ownership perspective and how 2454 02:12:16,320 --> 02:12:18,320 Speaker 1: consistent he is on a day to day best basis, 2455 02:12:18,360 --> 02:12:20,720 Speaker 1: how he treats people, and then the results on the field. 2456 02:12:21,080 --> 02:12:24,200 Speaker 1: Besides the crazy year which was twenty eighteen where the 2457 02:12:24,240 --> 02:12:27,640 Speaker 1: salary cap situation had to be rectified. That he has 2458 02:12:27,680 --> 02:12:29,600 Speaker 1: one down year with the Bills, takes in the playoffs 2459 02:12:29,640 --> 02:12:32,120 Speaker 1: two out of three years, and in the position that 2460 02:12:32,200 --> 02:12:33,960 Speaker 1: the Bills are out with so much young talent on 2461 02:12:34,040 --> 02:12:37,480 Speaker 1: the team, so much continuity, They're just in a tremendous 2462 02:12:37,480 --> 02:12:39,320 Speaker 1: spot right now. And when you're in that kind of spot, 2463 02:12:39,600 --> 02:12:41,880 Speaker 1: you reward the head coach who's put in so much 2464 02:12:42,040 --> 02:12:46,560 Speaker 1: time and effort. So that's Eric Wood on Coach McDermott's extension. 2465 02:12:46,600 --> 02:12:50,160 Speaker 1: Congrats the coach obviously, and we will have coach on 2466 02:12:50,280 --> 02:12:52,360 Speaker 1: the show here tomorrow, so be sure to tune right 2467 02:12:52,400 --> 02:12:54,880 Speaker 1: back to us between noon and three. Yeah, and all 2468 02:12:56,640 --> 02:12:58,800 Speaker 1: also gonna have Bill Barnwell on as well. Yes, the 2469 02:12:59,040 --> 02:13:02,560 Speaker 1: ESPN columnists, who is getting probably just as creative as 2470 02:13:02,600 --> 02:13:04,720 Speaker 1: Jimmy Train of these days, you know, yeah right. Isn't 2471 02:13:04,760 --> 02:13:06,640 Speaker 1: it funny how these writers really have to kind of 2472 02:13:07,040 --> 02:13:10,040 Speaker 1: uncover some stuff. And I'll tell you what, not for nothing, 2473 02:13:10,120 --> 02:13:14,360 Speaker 1: Brownie Monday, they start in pads. Football is actually gonna 2474 02:13:14,400 --> 02:13:17,280 Speaker 1: look like football. We are ever closer, sort of a 2475 02:13:17,360 --> 02:13:21,640 Speaker 1: medical exercise for real football. Yeah, it's we're like two 2476 02:13:22,040 --> 02:13:25,720 Speaker 1: what what are we three weeks away? Four, four weeks away. 2477 02:13:26,080 --> 02:13:29,120 Speaker 1: It's like this weekend September thirteenth, is this weekend, today's 2478 02:13:29,160 --> 02:13:32,080 Speaker 1: August twelfth, So like the weekend after the after the 2479 02:13:32,440 --> 02:13:36,160 Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend, right, So we're it can't come soon enough. 2480 02:13:36,240 --> 02:13:40,720 Speaker 1: Come on, baby, So a good show today, great news today, 2481 02:13:40,880 --> 02:13:45,360 Speaker 1: as coach McDermott signed through twenty twenty five as head 2482 02:13:45,400 --> 02:13:47,640 Speaker 1: coach of the Buffalo Bills. That'll do it for Steve 2483 02:13:47,720 --> 02:13:50,200 Speaker 1: Tasker and myself Chris Brown here on this edition of 2484 02:13:50,240 --> 02:13:52,840 Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Tune in tomorrow as we will have 2485 02:13:53,400 --> 02:13:56,920 Speaker 1: Sean McDermott maybe even here from Josh Allen and as 2486 02:13:57,000 --> 02:13:59,720 Speaker 1: you mentioned, Bill Barnwell for Steve Tasker on Chris Brown. 2487 02:13:59,800 --> 02:14:02,400 Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This 2488 02:14:02,560 --> 02:14:03,600 Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio.