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Speaker 1: On July sixteenth, we're asking for your support to help

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Speaker 1: what you do best. Welcome everybody to a Friday edition

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Speaker 1: of one Bills Live here on seven one six day.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here as usual, and I'm joined today by

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Speaker 1: Sal Capaccio. Sal, thanks for coming in on seven one

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Speaker 1: this this cross you know, promotion and section of the

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Speaker 1: athletes and the people who work within the organizations. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's really obviously helped to bond the city

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Speaker 1: together for their sports teams as well. But that said,

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Speaker 1: that has happened. Now you see Bills players at Sabers games.

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Speaker 1: Sabers players at Bills games are taking part in events

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Speaker 1: with one another. So I have a question for both

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Speaker 1: of you. All Right, you've you've seen each other play,

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Speaker 1: You've been to games. I know you've been to Sabers games, Lorenzo,

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Speaker 1: I was that one with you. I know you've been

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Speaker 1: to Bills games, Marty. So Lorenzo, if you were to

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Speaker 1: play hockey, what position would you play? And? Uh, Murty,

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Speaker 1: same thing question if you were a football player. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we'll start with Lorenzo. If you were to play hockey,

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Speaker 1: what position would you Well? First of all, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I have the utmost expect for hockey players. They I

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Speaker 1: mean they do what I do, run through cats, and

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Speaker 1: obviously have great steals on skates. I can't skate, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know what position I would play. Maybe goalie

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Speaker 1: and I would have to just kind of stand it.

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Speaker 1: But you have to be athletic, a goal and be

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Speaker 1: able to skate. But I can't skate, so I don't

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Speaker 1: know who position. Yeah, you don't have to be an

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Speaker 1: athlete to play goal right already left movement yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: amount of movement throwing some Shae Lorenzo is her. Is

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Speaker 1: your son still trying to play goalie? I know when

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Speaker 1: you're in Buffalo he tried out one day. Is he's

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Speaker 1: still trying to be a goalie? Yeah. We actually got

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Speaker 1: him into a hockey league out here. Obviously is real

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Speaker 1: being out here too with the yolks and stuff and

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Speaker 1: having the number one player a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: But then COVID actually shut down the ice cream that

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Speaker 1: we're going to and so we got to get back

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Speaker 1: into the to the swing of things and kind of

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Speaker 1: put it back in our mix. But it is something

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Speaker 1: that they brought up um here of late about playing hockey.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get him back out there soon. What position

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Speaker 1: about you, Steve? Just because yeah, I see, just because

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Speaker 1: you said you don't have to be an athlete to

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Speaker 1: play goalie, I would say I'd be a wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: a hard can it be right down the field route

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Speaker 1: and catch them ball like you're right, Like you know

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Speaker 1: you can avoid all the tackles. Maybe you take a

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Speaker 1: few routes off here and there. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: work too hard. So that's what I do. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: you should be. You should be a special teams player.

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Speaker 1: You gonna stand on the sidelines most of the day. Now,

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Speaker 1: I probably would be the the kickoff holder, you know

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Speaker 1: when there's win on kickoff and you gotta just put

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Speaker 1: your finger on top of the ball. That's that would

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Speaker 1: be my job. And then I run off the field. Ye,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's what I did. You know, Lorenzo, I'm

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Speaker 1: already was involved in a pretty famous fight here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: We've we've talked about and run back with the late

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Speaker 1: Ray Emery. He went at it. So even playing goal,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to you have to you have to

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Speaker 1: get it going with the fist once in a while.

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Speaker 1: I think, are you okay with that? Playing hockey? You're

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Speaker 1: gonna be okay to handle yourself, you know. You know

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Speaker 1: I came up in opening now in the city, I

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Speaker 1: can I get thrown them bangs a little bit now

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Speaker 1: if I can defend myself. So if it comes to that,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do. We've got to do it a couple

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Speaker 1: of times in Buffalo. You think about that Jaguars game.

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Speaker 1: Be tough, uh, you know when we're neat and shock

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Speaker 1: we had to get it there and mix it up.

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Speaker 1: It happens, you know, from time to time, so I

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Speaker 1: would uh definitely be able to protect my guys in

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Speaker 1: that aspect. Martin Braun, let me ask you this. With fighting,

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Speaker 1: do guys like talk about it, Like if you play

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Speaker 1: a team and it's really intense, and then the next

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Speaker 1: year you play them again and the guys are still

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Speaker 1: on the sideline, do you do you talk about it beforehand,

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Speaker 1: like if I can take a shot, I'm going after

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Speaker 1: seventy two over there, I'm gonna take a shot at

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Speaker 1: him because of what he did last year. There are

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Speaker 1: certain guys where that occurs, um you know, some more

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Speaker 1: than others. One in particularly I actually got to play

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Speaker 1: with it. I love now was Richie in Carnito. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know you used to always have to be ready

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Speaker 1: to go with him because you know what was gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, most of the time it was

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Speaker 1: left there unless it was like a rival or somebody

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Speaker 1: idea something repeatedly that you had to be aware about

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Speaker 1: it and you tell all the guys, hey be ready

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Speaker 1: because it might go down right now, and hockey you

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Speaker 1: cannot remember it for probably ten years people still talk

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Speaker 1: about how when Milan Lucci took a run at Ryan Miller,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, they're they're not even on the teams

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Speaker 1: anymore so in hockey, the memory is a little bit longer,

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Speaker 1: I think, and those type of things happen more so,

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Speaker 1: which is which is great. That's why that's why I

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Speaker 1: dropped the gloves, and that's why people still talk about it.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. Yeah, well they're hopefully people are gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking about seven one six day for a long time

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Speaker 1: to come. Lorenzo Marty, guys, thanks for coming on with us.

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Speaker 1: We've been streaming line for the last half hour. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to all our online listeners, the streamers who have been

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Speaker 1: listening to us. Thanks for taking part. All Bills fans

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Speaker 1: out there, We're gonna be silent. I will be here

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Speaker 1: for the next two and a half hours as well.

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Marty, thanks so much for joining us. Guys. This

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Speaker 1: is one Bills Live. We'll be back guys, take care,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, appreciate, thank you. Welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Steve Tasker joined by Sal Capaccio in for

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. Sal thanks for coming in today. It's good

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Speaker 1: to see we've got also got Scott hollenback of USA Football.

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Speaker 1: He's the CEO and executive director for USA Football. USA

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Speaker 1: Football Summer Blitz wraps up here with a stopping buffalo

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Speaker 1: here this weekend at high Mark Stadium. It's all free

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Speaker 1: and it's for coaches and executives for youth football and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. It's a nice program. Also at two

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Speaker 1: thirty sal Man, we got Levi Wallace coming on today.

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Speaker 1: That'll be nice. We just had Lorenzo and Mardion as well.

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Speaker 1: That was great Levi. Every time we talked to Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott and or Leslie Frazier, they say the same thing

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Speaker 1: about Levi that he's always taking on competition, right, there's

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Speaker 1: always new competition coming in and he always winds up

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Speaker 1: winning the job and maintaining this starting role. And that's right.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think for fans, you know, Levi

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Speaker 1: has been the source of frustration at times, but that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen when you play opposite Tredevious White, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: give up your share because you're getting picked on a lot.

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Speaker 1: But Levi has also come up with some big plays.

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Speaker 1: He had a huge interception in the Rams game. I

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Speaker 1: believe it was last year when here in Buffalo. He's

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Speaker 1: made a he's made plays over his career and you

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Speaker 1: know what, he's a good player to have and a

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Speaker 1: good player to know that you can kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: good role with him in a lot of different situations

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Speaker 1: what the Bills do. And they do have a competition

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Speaker 1: right now between him and Dane Jackson. I know Levi's

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Speaker 1: looking forward to that competition. Yeah, we're getting ready to

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Speaker 1: start training camp in about twelve days. And also this morning,

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Speaker 1: we talked about this yesterday. Yesterday, season ticket holders can

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Speaker 1: call in and get tickets to the three practices that

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Speaker 1: are going to be open for the public today at

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock this morning, you could start the general public.

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Speaker 1: If you want tickets, call and grab some six tickets

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Speaker 1: per per caller. You can get the tickets. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: July thirty, first, August seventh, and September first at ten

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Speaker 1: am on the on the two Saturdays, and then the

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Speaker 1: first is on a Wednesday and that's at twelve pm.

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Speaker 1: But you can come in and get tickets. You need

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Speaker 1: a ticket to get in, but the tickets are free.

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Speaker 1: It's online only, So yeah, go ahead and do that.

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Speaker 1: If you want if you feel so inclined. Tickets are

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Speaker 1: available and you said you your family got them. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's this morning. It's great. I mean, hey, it's free.

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Speaker 1: It's me. It's six you know, and get some free

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Speaker 1: tickets to come to practice. I think, I think I'm

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Speaker 1: good though. I got my Bill's credential. Shout, get me

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Speaker 1: in right, I mean I should be. He'll be okay,

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Speaker 1: what's the same thing. And I have to cover practices.

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Speaker 1: I'll be working. And you know, I said, I said

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Speaker 1: to my wife and O, maxwe to go. And that's

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Speaker 1: a great time for him. And my son is not

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Speaker 1: at the age yet where he's gonna go to regular

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Speaker 1: season games, right and we're just not going to bring

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Speaker 1: him to those things, but he can go to preseason

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Speaker 1: games and these are the perfect opportunities for him to

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Speaker 1: see the Buffalo Bills. So I said to my wife, like,

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Speaker 1: do you want to take Max? Do you want to go?

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Speaker 1: And she said, yeah, you'll get tickets for a couple

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Speaker 1: So while she was working today, I jumped on at

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock. It's Buffalo Bills dot com slash training camp.

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Speaker 1: That's where you gotta go. And it's right there. And

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Speaker 1: it's through the ticketmaster's site. You'll be putt in a

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Speaker 1: waiting room and then boom, you just go and tell

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Speaker 1: say exactly how many you want to make sure you

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Speaker 1: have your ticketmaster credentials, you know, a log in name

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Speaker 1: and all of that already set up. But it's really easy.

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Speaker 1: It's a great process. And yeah, we're locked and loaded.

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Speaker 1: So I know Max is going to be going to

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Speaker 1: a couple of those practices out of three, there are

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Speaker 1: three dates where you're gonna see practice inside Haimark Stadium

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Speaker 1: open to the public, so you can go on and

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Speaker 1: you can get tickets. Tickets are required, they are free,

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Speaker 1: but they are required, right and today we're also gonna

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Speaker 1: have you, so we're gonna have Levi Wallace song, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have Scott hollenback of USA Football on. Sal's going

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Speaker 1: to be with us here for the next couple of

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Speaker 1: two and a half hours or so. I got a

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about. We've got a mail bag open

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Speaker 1: as well, So we threw out the question on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: If you have questions for Sal or me or anything

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Speaker 1: else that you want to you know, want us to

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Speaker 1: talk about on the air, go ahead and tweet at

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Speaker 1: us at one Bills Live and we'll get to it.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that tweet sheet later on in the

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Speaker 1: show as well. You know, training camp twelve days away.

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Speaker 1: We're a month from tonight is the first training is

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Speaker 1: the first preseason game Detroit in Detroit, and it seems

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Speaker 1: like it's been a long time coming. I mean because

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Speaker 1: think about we've watched the Bills play on TV, but man,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't until the playoffs last year that some people

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Speaker 1: actually got a chance to come in and watch that

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Speaker 1: team play. So how you were here with us and

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Speaker 1: you watched all these games in person. They were so

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Speaker 1: good last year and they've earned all the high expectations

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Speaker 1: they get this year. And you know, I just can't

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Speaker 1: wait for the fans to come in. I've said it

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Speaker 1: time and time again. You everybody who in the remotest

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Speaker 1: part of their lives follow this team, they want to

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Speaker 1: be here on the day this year against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a really special day.

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Speaker 1: I agree. Earlier today I tweeted out, hey, four weeks

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Speaker 1: from tonight is that first preseason game, And the response

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Speaker 1: is coming in on my Twitter feed are like, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, that's like way sooner than I thought. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait. It's right here. Football seasons around the corner.

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Speaker 1: But it is interesting, Steve, because it's the Detroit Lions

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Speaker 1: and it's the first game. Remember Detroit used to be

639
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: always the traditional last game. They went away from that

640
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: a few years ago, didn't even play them for a

641
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: year or two. Now it's the first game. It's at

642
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: Detroit September thirteenth on a Friday night at seven o'clock.

643
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: But it's one of only three games. You got the Bear,

644
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: you get the Bears. After that you got the Packers

645
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: for the only home game. Remember now, the league didn't

646
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: have any preseason last year because of COVID, always four

647
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: preseason games. Now going forward it will be three at

648
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: least for the next what nine ten years because of

649
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: the seventeen game schedule, it's going to be three preseason

650
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: games going forward. What do you think about the four

651
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: versus two versus three? And what did you need? What

652
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,479
Speaker 1: did you need personally to get ready for a season? Oh?

653
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: All I need? You need like one game, But you

654
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: need to play the game. You don't get four snaps

655
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: here and then call it a game. You need to play.

656
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: You know, a half or three quarters or a full

657
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: game to get ready, and you add that all up

658
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: so you really do show up. I always felt like

659
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: I was ready to play on opening day. I always

660
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: feel like it emotionally. And I don't know about skill

661
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: wise or rusty wise or whatever, you know, being rusty,

662
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: but I you know, if if you were, the problem

663
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: is you've got so many guys you're trying to evaluate,

664
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,239
Speaker 1: and you just want to get the guys who you're

665
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: pretty sure going to be on the team, get them,

666
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: get their feet wet, let them show. But I think

667
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: the bottom half of the roster is what what who

668
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: really needs it? But I like two games is plenty.

669
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: And I've had head coaches tell me that they were

670
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,239
Speaker 1: giving me two games, two good games that we can

671
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: manage and give us the rights, Like give us two

672
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: games and then give us like two weeks to get

673
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: ready for the real game and we're good. And that's

674
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: what this is going to look like. This year. They

675
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: took the fourth preseason game out of the mix. There's like,

676
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: and it's a bye week right before opening day, which

677
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: day Weekend's good? Yeah, you can hell, that's the football

678
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: side of the business. Call them that shot. That's right,

679
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: and there is there's college football that weekend people can

680
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: enjoy and you get ready for your NFL season. But

681
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, Steve, if there is a coach an organization

682
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: that says, you know what, I need that extra game

683
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: or I want the extra the extra practice time, that's

684
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: what these practices are for. That's how you can structure

685
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: your practice. You can pretty you can simulate a game

686
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: on the field if you want to. You can do

687
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: that at training cap It's not the exact same, but

688
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,239
Speaker 1: you can do something like that if you feel your

689
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: guys need that extra time, if you feel you need

690
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: a little more value. And here's the thing. If if

691
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: you want to do that, that's on you. That's right,

692
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: it's your risk. You can risk your top guy, you

693
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: can risk your top quarterback, you can risk your top receivers,

694
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: your top defensive linement if they If you want to

695
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: go into game type atmosphere and play that have all

696
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: that extra contact, you do it with your own guys

697
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: only you don't have to risk ours, you know, in

698
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: a game. So that's on you, and you know some

699
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: guys will do that. You know there's still guys out there,

700
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: like you know, and I say, old guys like Tom Coughlin.

701
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: He was a very difficult, very difficult coach to play for. Emotionally,

702
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: he was he was a grinder and he kept the

703
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: pressure on I covered the Jacksonville Jaguars. This is before

704
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: he was with the Giants. I covered the Jacksonville jack

705
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: Jaguars and we would go down to Jacksonville and went

706
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: on a Friday and watch practice and talk to the players,

707
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: talk to the media relations people, everybody in that office.

708
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: You felt the tension in the entire organization constantly, and

709
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: it was Tom Coughlin. Wow, tension there was, and it

710
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: almost seemed in the players in the locker room. It

711
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: almost seemed like mutiny was bubbling at the surface constantly

712
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: in that building. With Tom Coughlin and his head coach.

713
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: They got the AFC Championship game in their second year

714
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: of existence. They were a very good football team. He

715
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: kept the pressure on them, and quite frankly, it was okay.

716
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: Then when they didn't do it, you know, guys just

717
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: had enough. He went to New York and he was

718
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: gonna lose his job for running a business like that,

719
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: and the players said he's either out or that's it.

720
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: We ain't putting up with that. He was giving them

721
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: trouble for showing up on time to meetings when they're

722
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: supposed to be fifteen minutes early to meetings, all this,

723
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, this other stuff that was just the tip

724
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: of the iceberg. But the tension that the crew that's

725
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: created in the building by that was palpable. There are

726
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: guys like that in the league now, you know, there

727
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: would be guys who would teeter towards you know, hey,

728
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna be here from in January. We're gonna be going,

729
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna live scrimmage once every three weeks

730
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: there in the offseason, and we're gonna get ready and

731
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna be physical team. We're gonna and guys are like,

732
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: forget it, you know, and the league has to pull

733
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: the reins in on those guys. They no, no no, no,

734
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: you don't need that. So you're always fighting that battle

735
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: of the risk of going hard and intense in practice

736
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: in a game like football and going too soft and

737
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: showing up like the entire league did last year where

738
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: every offense is scoring thirty points and on the field,

739
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,959
Speaker 1: and the league has made changes to its own CBA

740
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: because of this. There are certain you know, ways you

741
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: have to go about practice. They can't even have a

742
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: certain amount of like there's a threshold of padded practices

743
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: as the season goes on that you can even have

744
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: because this has been negotiated with the CBA and the

745
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: NFL Players Association and things like that. What's interesting to

746
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: me is when you say that, you know, I think

747
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: about the program Sean McDermott runs, which is he knows

748
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: it's a marathon, not a sprint, right his guys. I

749
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: think about that Arizona game last year. That Arizona game

750
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: when the Bills lost on the hail Mary right, was

751
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: really interesting. Dean Dawkins wrote something I think it was

752
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: the players tribute after that, and it was just really

753
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: a great piece about a lot of things. But something

754
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: that stood out to me and that piece Steve, was

755
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: he said, you know, this was a really low moment,

756
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: but we didn't treat it like oh my god, we

757
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: just our seasons over, like we knew there were still

758
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: a lot more to play for it. I think that's

759
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: where the opposite mentality, like you're not always on pins

760
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: and needles every moment. It's hey, don't get too high,

761
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: don't get too low. We gotta finish this thing out,

762
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: and we got to be playing every single week at

763
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: a certain standard. And if we go too high and

764
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: too low, we're gonna lose that. And there's there's a

765
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: lot of sharp guys. You know. You look around, you know,

766
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: you can see really smart guys like guys like Sean

767
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: McDermot and Mike Tomlin and Bill Belichick and Kyle Shannon,

768
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: you know, and go down the list. Pay all these

769
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: guys are really bright and they apply a lot of

770
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: critical thinking to how they do business. Particularly you know

771
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott does I mean, they're they're self critical all

772
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: the time. They're self examining. This used to be self scout.

773
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: Now it's analytics, right, So you can call it whatever

774
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: you want, but they've been doing it for a long

775
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: long time and now a lot of coaches like Sean

776
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: McDermot and I think you can I'll give you tangible

777
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: evidence of it. This building we're sitting in right next

778
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: to this training facility. That doesn't happen by accident. It's

779
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: not just a recruiting tool. Sports science has really gotten

780
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: its hooks into this, into football, and I think more

781
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: so than any other sport as much as any other sport,

782
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: and it needed it because no other sport do you

783
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: need to recover from what you've just gone through in

784
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: a game like football. And now they've got sciences to

785
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: come in and say, listen, if we got these kind

786
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: of take aches and pains, we're gonna do this. If

787
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: we've got those kind of aches and pains, we're gonna

788
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: do that, this kind of, this kind of treatment to

789
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: get these guys back on the field. And the Bills

790
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: have been extremely healthy the last two years because of

791
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: things like this, attacking it with science and their ability

792
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: to recover. And I've said this last year, it's not

793
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: just about getting them ready to play on Sunday. It's

794
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: about getting them ready to prepare to play on Sunday.

795
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Thursday, which is a heavy work days of

796
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: an NFL week. They come in, go heavy on Wednesday,

797
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: heavy on Thursday, lighter on Friday. And now they're getting

798
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: a little Now the science is telling them they need

799
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: to break a hard sweat on Saturday, right right, So

800
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: now they've they've pushed it further. They're going to even

801
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: their schedule is mapped out. They want those guys to

802
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: be able to participate in that this recovery. The building

803
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: like this that looks so great and it is it's

804
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: pretty add you've been in there, I mean right, it's unbelievable.

805
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: And the staff that goes with it is just as impact.

806
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: The technology that's in that building is a technology and

807
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: the people who know how to use it that has

808
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,919
Speaker 1: kept this team healthier than others. It's easy to say

809
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: that now that it seems that way. Now they may

810
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: have a rash of injuries this year that you know

811
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: that's out of their control and recoveries one thing. Healing

812
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: is different and you can't do anything of by a

813
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: guy rolling up on your leg, right, I mean that

814
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: just happens. You can try to, but you can the

815
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: soft tissue injuries, things like that. You're trying to. It's

816
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: it's it's um being proactive to try and make sure

817
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: you maintain as much as possible, but injuries are gonna happen, right.

818
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: But that kind of scientific approach has gotten into the

819
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: football end of it. So now they know that they

820
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: can say, okay, you know what, we can give these

821
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: guys off and the rest of February where the season

822
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: happens through February whereever long the regular season and the playoffs,

823
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: last through the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl and all that.

824
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: We can give them there from there, all the way

825
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: until April first, give them March. Give them March completely off.

826
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: Coming in, don't do anything. Just come in and sit

827
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: at a desk, sit in a meeting room, just say hello.

828
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: In April for a week, come out, work out, don't

829
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: do anything. Not no football at all. Just how about

830
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: a recheck physical, you know that kind of thing. And

831
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: give them all the way till May first, before you

832
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: do anything where you start thinking about the coming season.

833
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: That time off has been is beneficial or they're they're

834
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: finding out how much time him off the players need.

835
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: And I get it, but that's they have to negotiate

836
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 1: that in yep, that's right, because you got coaches who

837
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: will grind these guys to a pulp. They won't care.

838
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: You know, if we're paying you, if we're paying you

839
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: seven figures, we're not gonna let you go to Hawaii

840
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: for two weeks and whenever you want you come in

841
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: here and do what we tell you to do. And

842
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: there's some justification for that. I get it. That's a

843
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: lot of money to be paying guys, and if you're

844
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: a professional athlete, it's a year round thing, no question.

845
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: But that's you know, this body that you run around

846
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: in needs to be handled like a more like a

847
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: prized cow rather than a rented mule. And the OTAs

848
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 1: they have now the volunteer sessions. Yeah, of course, every

849
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: single coach wants one hundred percent attendance, but if a

850
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: guy's not there, you're also expected he's doing the right things.

851
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: He's he's maintaining, he's going to be in shape, because

852
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: if not, he's only losing himself. He's gonna maybe have

853
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: less of a chance to keep his job or to

854
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: earn a job. But everybody wants that. But you're right,

855
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: there has been a lot of different ways that kind

856
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: of we've learned, we've been educated, but the players have

857
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: had much more of a say and how these things

858
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: have happened in going forward, and you bring it back to,

859
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: you know, the original discussion about preseason. I'm interested to

860
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: see how this works. I'm interested to see about how

861
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: three preseason games, a bye week and then week one

862
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: happens and how each team handles it. Because the biggest

863
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: question I have steve from a kind of from a

864
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: covering the team standpoint a B reporter is what becomes

865
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: Do teams play most of their starters week in that

866
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: second game? Do they do it in the third game

867
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: because you still have two weeks off. I think that's fascinating.

868
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: We could have thirty two different teams doing it in

869
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: thirty two different ways. Yeah, that everything is the same,

870
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: but everybody can do the same thing differently. And yes,

871
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: that's what you want to see with how it works.

872
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: And I'm interested to be interesting. Yeah, I'll have to

873
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: wait and see. Steve task sal Capaccio here. We're gonna

874
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: take a break, come back with you. Scott Hallenbeck is

875
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 1: coming on and one thirty today about forty five minutes

876
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: from now, Levi Wallace at two thirty. We're gonna take

877
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 1: your open up the mail bag and find out what

878
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: you want to talk about as well. If you want

879
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: to call as you Canaday to three h five fifty

880
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: or one eighty eight fifty two five fifty. You can

881
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: call us if you want. Steve Tasker sal Capacco here

882
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. This is One Bills Live presented

883
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. We'll talk to you after the break.

884
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: Welcome back, to One Bill's Lives Steve Task along with

885
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: Sal Cappaccio. We're gonna start taking your mail bag questions

886
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: here at the top of the hour. We got Scott

887
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: Hollenback USA Football CEO and executive director coming on in

888
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: about thirty five minutes, Levi Wallace at the bottom of

889
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: the next hour at two thirty pm. Sal, We've been

890
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: talking about this seven one sixth day. It's been going

891
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: on and since we came on the air at noon,

892
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: they're like over fifty grand. I'm not taking credit for it.

893
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's going fast. Oh my gosh. People

894
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 1: are jumping on board. You've got a bunch of companies

895
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: that are matching donation, you got all that going on.

896
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: It's it's really it's amazing. People are close to three

897
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: quarters of a million dollars already, I know, since last incredible.

898
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: It really is. And there's and it's great too because

899
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: you think about it, it's there's over four hundred of

900
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: these charities that are involved in this, a couple of

901
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: them that I'm I'm one or two of them at

902
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: least I know one real big one that I'm really

903
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: involved with. UM is benefiting from this as well, and

904
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: I think all of us owe it to ourselves to

905
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: go out and if you have a passion about something,

906
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: to get involved and be a part of it. You

907
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: and I were talking to Marty and Lorenzo. They were

908
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: two guys who were you know. Lorenzo was you know particular,

909
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: was really involved in everything, every facet of this community

910
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: when he was here. I mean not just the football team,

911
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: but also out in it out and amongst us all

912
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: and doing good things. And I think that kind of

913
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: mentality is a great example for a lot of people.

914
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: Just get out and find something you're passionate about and

915
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: get involved. There's always somebody who needs help. And that's

916
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: what seven one six day is all about. It's amazing too.

917
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: You know this too, Sell. This all came about because

918
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: of the Bills mafia and the Bills fans. Four years ago,

919
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton throws a touchdown pass that puts the Bills

920
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Boom, people start making seventeen dollars donations

921
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: to his charity and like it's like a couple hundred

922
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. It might have been a half million there.

923
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: Then they also did it to Tyler Boy, the guy

924
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: who caught the pass right, and then josh Allen loses

925
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: a family member and Oshie Children's Hospital gets hundreds of

926
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: thousand dollars dollars donated to it. And then Lamar Jackson

927
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 1: in a playoff game division around the playoff game, goes down,

928
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: bangs his head, gets a concussion, he can't finish the game,

929
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: and the Bills fans like, you know what we can

930
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: Bills fans, imagine what Baltimore fans must be going through

931
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: when their best player goes down like that in a

932
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 1: game that's significant, and they feel bad and they start

933
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: donating to his backpack. That's where seven one sixth Day

934
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: comes from. That's right, the heart of this fan base

935
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: being a part of what goes on nationwide. And it's

936
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: a great example. And I love the seven one six.

937
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 1: You know, it's July sixteenth, seven one six our area code.

938
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: All of our phone numbers start with that, And it's

939
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: awesome idea. And I'm glad that the Sabers and Bills

940
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: and we had Marty on He's right, And there's never

941
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: been a time and obviously it's because of Kim and Terry,

942
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: but there's never been a time when the Sabers and

943
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: bills have been able to you know, co Mingo and

944
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: Cross Paul and Ain't and do stuff together like they

945
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: have under their leadership. It's been it's been a blast.

946
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: It's been really cool to see as well. And what's

947
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 1: really obviously been a really great vehicle of social media.

948
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: And that's how a lot of this is happening. Right.

949
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: You can hashtag give seven one six, by the way,

950
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 1: use the hashtag give seven one six. You could see

951
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: all the different people talking about it, tweeting about it

952
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: different various social platforms and of course online gives seven

953
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,720
Speaker 1: one six dot org. But you know, Buffalo has always

954
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: been a special place like this and people giving back

955
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: and people showing up. I will tell you, Steve, when

956
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: I was playing cheek the Woggle little loop ball when

957
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: I was in like fourth and fifth grade, right, and

958
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: this is the mid eighties, and I can I remember

959
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: Jim Haslett and fred Smerlas and Lucius Sandford coming to

960
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: our banquet and talking to kids, right. I mean, these

961
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: are the guys that maybe some of your teammates, you

962
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: played with them where they were right here before you

963
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: got here, right, But these are the guys that did

964
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: and you did things like that but I remember being

965
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: a little kid and like wow, like these guys are

966
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 1: at our banquet and then thinking back and you know,

967
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: for them to just donate their time to you know,

968
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: I'm assuming donate, but whatever, show up and be a

969
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: part of that. But now we know more about it,

970
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: and we have the vehicle here with social media to

971
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: really kind of transform and propel all of this into

972
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,919
Speaker 1: the stratosphere where we're sitting right now, and I'm looking

973
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,319
Speaker 1: if you're on the if you're looking on the TV

974
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: side of things right now, I know we're on radio

975
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: and TV. On the bottom right, we have that that logo,

976
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: the one builds Live logo, and then the amount seven

977
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: hundred and ten thousand dollars right now, right, and Steve

978
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: and I were just talking about let's get to a million, right,

979
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: let's get to a million. We can do this, we

980
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: can do this. We know we can raise that money.

981
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: But it's incredible what Buffalo can do. Yeah, and it's

982
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: it's fun to seem it's fun to think about it

983
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: as nice as see. And you know, obviously there's gonna

984
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: be a ton of you know, it's a huge number

985
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: of donors get into that number, and they had sold

986
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: they gave. They were giving out these T shirts that

987
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: Sal and I are wearing for those of you on

988
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 1: MSG looking at us. They're giving these out, like the

989
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: first two thousand people that gave seventy one dollars and

990
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: sixty cents last night, after after seven to sixteen PM

991
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: when it started, they were given a couple of thousands

992
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: of these T shirts and they were out real quick,

993
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: so they ordered another thousand of them. I don't know

994
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: how they're giving them out or who gets them, but

995
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: they had, you know, as you'd imagine, they had to

996
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: get more of them. It's a great incentive. And I

997
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: you know, I've I just think it's it's if you're

998
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: gonna take if you're gonna be proud of your city

999
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: for something, This is better than being proud of them

1000
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: for the wings, you know. I mean, I like wings,

1001
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: and I'm proud of my city, and I've and I

1002
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: talk about the wings all the time. But this is

1003
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: a better reason. You know, it might not it might

1004
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: go a little more unnoticed and people want to talk

1005
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: about chicken wings all the time. But I will tell you,

1006
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: look at you. In my job, I get asked a lot,

1007
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: as you do, to go around on radio stations around

1008
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: the country, right, you like somebody from arizonabal caller, Tennessee,

1009
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: excuse me, Nashville or Boston or whatever. And one of

1010
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: the things that these radio stations have really started to

1011
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: talk about more and more is exactly this. It's true.

1012
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: I'll get asked a lot Steve about Hey, tell us

1013
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: about like the how what you guys donated to you know,

1014
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: Dandy Dalton or Lamar Jack. What's this all about in

1015
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 1: this bills mafia thing? And I have found myself increasingly,

1016
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: way more over the last couple of years having conversations

1017
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,919
Speaker 1: with people around the country about it. Unprompted by me,

1018
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: prompted by them. Yeah, they bring it up and say,

1019
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,439
Speaker 1: tell us about Buffalo and what all this means, because

1020
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: you guys are always raising all this money over there

1021
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: for people, right, and it's and it's something that goes wow,

1022
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: you know, and they feel like and they like the

1023
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: rest of us, they say that you say that, you

1024
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 1: tell them what happened, tell them why, and you tell

1025
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: them what people did and how they did it. With

1026
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: the seventeen dollars increments for Andy Dalton came up to

1027
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars and you can see them

1028
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: sit back and try and get their mind around what

1029
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 1: it would take for their franchise or their fan base

1030
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: of whatever team they like to do that. And to

1031
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: see the light that it puts on the attitude of

1032
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia and the Bills fan base. Wow, it's it.

1033
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: It gives the entire city a different identity in those

1034
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: people's minds. We're not We're not a you know, we're

1035
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,240
Speaker 1: not a Blizzard Sight anymore. We're something different and something better. Um,

1036
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: this is just one more example of it. I mean

1037
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: we came on the air, it was like six hundred

1038
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: and fifty nine thousand raising Now like you and I've

1039
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: been sitting here talking at seven hundred and ten. Um.

1040
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: It's a It's an amazing thing to watch happen. It's

1041
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: really cool to be a part of. I'm really it

1042
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: makes you really proud of our city. And let's let's

1043
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: take a break right now. We'll come back. We've got

1044
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: your mail bag, your your questions to answer. If you

1045
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: want to call us, you candidate three five fifty one

1046
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty I can almost

1047
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: guarantee you we can take your call right after the

1048
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: break at the top of the air hour right if

1049
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: we come back, if you want to call right now,

1050
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: we've got lines open, Salth Capaccio, Steve Tasker here. This

1051
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio, presented by Kalid to Health. This

1052
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: is One Bill's Live at a Steve Tasker who has

1053
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

1054
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

1055
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stragg here of normalcy.

1056
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker along with

1057
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: Salth Capaccio, who is in for Chris Brown, who's VACA

1058
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: on vacation. Salth thanks for coming in. We've got a

1059
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 1: Friday's We put the mail bag out and we ask

1060
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Speaker 1: people to just you know, call in ask whatever questions

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00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: they want of me or you and um we've got

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00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of people who've got some question questions and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get to those now. Coming up at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, we're gonna talk to Scott Hallenbeck

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00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: of USA Football. He's the CEO and executive director. They've

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Speaker 1: got a big ten stop two or going through the country.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo is number nine in that stop and it's this

1068
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: weekend at High March Stadium. Uh, stay tuned for that.

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Speaker 1: So Sal, We've got a question from Rick and he's

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00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: asking me. He says, during my time Steve Taskers, during

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Speaker 1: your time with the Bills, what was your favorite and

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00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: the least favorite places to play outside of Buffalo? And why? Interesting? Interesting? Uh?

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00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: I didn't really have a play well the places I

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00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: hated to play And this is this may surprise a

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00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: lot of people. You know, the places that players hate

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00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: to play, or the or the bad facilities. You know,

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00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: Old Cleveland Brown Stadium, Philadelphia Vet, the Vet in Philly.

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00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: That place was a barn. It was horrible, and you

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00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: know I hated that that turf it was. It was bad.

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Speaker 1: Chicago's Soldier Field wasn't it was bad. The locker rooms

1081
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: were bad. So for you, it was more about conditions. Yeah,

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00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: that that was really what it came. And I mean

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00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: conditions meaning not the weather, who can correct and the

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Speaker 1: state of the facility, locker room matter at all, any

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00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, it's all part of it. The Cleveland

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00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: Brown's old facility, it was. I mean I was in

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00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: high schools who were better than that. I mean I

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00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: was I'd been in high and my high school was

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00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: better than that that locker room. Oakland moved to LA

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Speaker 1: before you started playing, right the LA Coliseum, Yeah, yeah,

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00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: they but but but the Oakland where they play as

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00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: a broadcaster, I don't know if you experienced this, because

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00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: I did too. It's just awful. Absolutely, the entire stadium

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00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: was incredibly The Oakland Immediate Stadium was pretty bad. Yes,

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00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: it was really awful. Um, those are the kind of

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00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: places that you stay away from. The didn't like very much.

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00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: Just you know, bad turf, bad surface, bad facilities, bad

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Speaker 1: locker room. You know. Usually you know, the hotels were fine.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's great, but the stadium itself is really

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Speaker 1: what you didn't want to go to. That favorite places away. Um,

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00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: I love going to Miami. Uh, that's a great spot.

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00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: I always liked playing there because I played there so often.

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00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: Other places guys, you know what, Yeah, they're all the

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00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: same to me. The favorite place because we had some

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00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: success in Miami. That kind of thing, Uh, I didn't

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00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: really have. You know, there's no place like playing at home.

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Speaker 1: Did you like going back to Houston? It was where

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00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: you started your career? No, it was the Astrodome, isn't

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00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: no one of those facilities. It was just didn't make

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00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: me anything to you though that you started, because there

1111
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 1: were always some there's some friends of mine who played

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00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: for them, and that kind of thing. And that was

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00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: back when the league was like you don't talk to us,

1114
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 1: we don't talk to you kind of league instead of like, hey, guys,

1115
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: what's going on kind of league? Right, So, um, but

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00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't like that because of the state

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00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: and the Astrodome was like you know that street curve

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00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: bread and through the forty five yard line. I mean

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00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: it was bad. So that kind of it was that

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Speaker 1: that falls into the category of bad facilities. You know,

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Speaker 1: I have one here if you don't mine, I want

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00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: to get to these. I want to talk to you

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Speaker 1: about it. Robert tweets in sal what is your favorite

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00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo sports memory? And this is an easy one for me, Steve,

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00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: and I get chills thinking about it, but you probably

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Speaker 1: even more so. And it's fifty one to three. Man,

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00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: It's fifty one to three. That's what it is. It is.

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you why. Okay, I'm a senior

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00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: in high school. When you guys play that game, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is is this is I'm in my years here.

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00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: I'm enjoyed. I go to the game, I camp out

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00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: for tickets. We didn't know Bo Jackson was playing going

1133
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,879
Speaker 1: into the end of the week. I remember the champ

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00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: bo don't know snow, boone don't know snow, and we

1135
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: were camping out for tickets out here at the stadium

1136
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: back then, that's how you did it. Okay, get tickets.

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00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: Me and my high school buddies go. I'm in like

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Speaker 1: the first row of the upper deck. It's not the

1139
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: greatest weather, but it's not horrible either. It's okay, it's

1140
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: a little chilly, it's a little snow and whatever. It's

1141
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,439
Speaker 1: perfect Buffalo weather. They've never gone to a super Bowl.

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00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: Forty one to three. At halftime, you guys are going

1143
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. Everybody knows it now. I know

1144
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: the backdrop is go four, right, I mean Desert Shield

1145
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: at the time, you're going to the super Bowl. I remember, Steve,

1146
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: the entire second half was literally a party inside then

1147
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: Rich stadium. Two chants rang out the whole game. Thank

1148
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 1: you Bills, Thank you Bills, three actually super Bowl, super Bowl.

1149
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: And then thank you Ralph, thank you Ralph, because this

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00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: was Ralph's team that he put money into got to

1151
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: this point. He had a reputation maybe not spending earlier

1152
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: on in his tenure as ownership, but he put it together.

1153
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: They did it, and of course in John Butler and

1154
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: Bill Polly and everybody, but you get the point. This

1155
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: this was right here. We're watching some clips right now.

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Speaker 1: This is my favorite memory as a Buffalo sports fan

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00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: growing up, and I grew up in this city as

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00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: a fan of all the teams. Yeah, that was probably

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00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: one of mine as well. I've got like I was

1160
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: quickly writing it down while you said that. I wrote

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00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: down three. Two of them were Bills things, and one

1162
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,879
Speaker 1: of them was Sabers things, all right. The Sabers one

1163
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: was Game seven against Ottawa, and I think it was

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00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: Derek Plant did a slapper from the blue line in

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00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: overtime and it went through tug Knut's glove. And it's

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00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: one of those things where you know, in hockey sometimes

1167
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: there's a scrum around the net and the people behind

1168
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: the net seat go in before anybody else does, and

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00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: they stand up so everybody else cheers. This one. Tug

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00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: Knut was out above the above the blue paint and

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00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: the and the crease puck goes through and trickles through.

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00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: Nobody was around him because they were like making a

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00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: line change almost right, it goes through, and everybody in

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00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: the whole stadium saw it go across the line at once.

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00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: And I was there with myself off everything, my son Luke,

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Speaker 1: and we finally want a playoff series, you know, when

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00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: I was there and I was a fan, right, so

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00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: the place went crazy. I've never heard. It was just awesome, right,

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Speaker 1: So that was that was one of them. The second

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Speaker 1: one was probably fifty one to three. That was a

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00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: that was a blast to be a part of. The

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00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 1: third one was and I'll say this for Bill's van

1183
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not just saying this to me,

1184
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I've told Kim and Terry this as well. I think

1185
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: one of the top moments for this franchise ever was

1186
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: breaking the drought. That would be right there, and I

1187
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: did that. I'll tell you the other two I debate it,

1188
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: but you tell me, tell me what about that because

1189
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: you were playing. The reason is that we all felt it,

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00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: and it was it was a burden on all Bills

1191
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: fans and the team and the organization, and Kim and

1192
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: Terry too, I'm sure felt that burden you know, and

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00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: then to do it in a way that they did

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00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: what they had to do on that last weekend, and

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00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: then they had to wait, and we all waited together.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's best when we all find out

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00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: at the same time, right, And that's what happened. You know,

1198
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: Dalton hits him and he said, yeah, I could catch,

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Speaker 1: and then he turns it up the field and gets

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Speaker 1: into the end zone and it's all over, and Bills

1201
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,720
Speaker 1: fans across the globe found out the exact same awesome

1202
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: news that we'd all been waiting for for so long

1203
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: at the exact same time. And the fact that social

1204
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 1: media captured it and then we saw the team experience

1205
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:53,720
Speaker 1: it with us. You can't duplicate that. That's a once

1206
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,919
Speaker 1: in a lifetime moment for all of it and it's

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Speaker 1: I thought it was awesome, and I the next week,

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Speaker 1: we're in Jacksonville on the sidelines. I was doing the

1209
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: game and I told Kim then I said, that was

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest moments in the franchise's history. I

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00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: was obviously on the field on the sidelines for the game,

1212
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: and everybody was Bills fans were screaming to the players

1213
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: updates on the Bengals game during the game from the

1214
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: Bills fans behind the bench right and after the game

1215
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 1: we all go in. And here's why it was special

1216
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: for me is because we had all the Beat reporters

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00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 1: and other media watching on our phones the game because

1218
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 1: we couldn't get in the locker room because the Bills

1219
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: players were in the locker room watching and they didn't

1220
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,800
Speaker 1: let us in yet. It took a long time. And

1221
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: then when it happened and you realize what was going on,

1222
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: and then we couldn't wait to get in the locker room.

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00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this, Steve, I still it's

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Speaker 1: still one of the greatest videos I have on my

1225
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: phone I have. I took my phone out and I

1226
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 1: started shooting video of me walking into the locker room

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00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: and what it was like in the scene, and I'll

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00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: still play it for people. This was what it was

1229
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,280
Speaker 1: like after the drought and the dancing and the hugging

1230
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 1: and the crying from Kyle Williams, just emotional. And then

1231
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,280
Speaker 1: I also put up there one of my greatest memories.

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Speaker 1: Still I'd say fifty one of three is number one,

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00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: but close to it is that. And also Terran Johnson's

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00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: pick six last year. Man being in that stadium for that,

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00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: it is the only time in my life people say this,

1236
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: People say this, and you never you never really think

1237
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: it's true until you experience it. That something went in

1238
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: slow motion. Tarn Johnson on the pick six last year

1239
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: against Lamar Jackson. I was at the goal line because

1240
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: that's why I can't myself when they get in the

1241
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: red that's right. As he's running down the field, I

1242
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: can see the crowd, Taren, I can see Tredevious White

1243
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: blocking Lamar Jackson. I can see the sideline and it

1244
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: was like in slow motion. I've never experienced. It was

1245
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: like an out of body experience watching him running too

1246
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: the end zone. It was. It was surreal. Yeah, I

1247
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: will agree with that. I there was a historic play,

1248
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: and a absolutely historic play is it was right up

1249
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: there with wide right for bills. Wide right is obviously

1250
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: a negative. That was an enormous, enormously huge positive. It

1251
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: was an unbelievable moment that And I keep telling people

1252
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,479
Speaker 1: because I was doing the radio, you know, the radio

1253
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: game the games on radio last year because of COVID

1254
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: and for no other reason, and it was all I

1255
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: could do to be quiet while Murph made the play

1256
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: by play and I could see and I'm like you,

1257
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: I'm all of us. When he caught that in the

1258
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: end zone, every resinse just go down, just go down,

1259
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,920
Speaker 1: and he didn't, and it's like, oh, you know, he

1260
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: didn't and then he broke the outside's like, okay, that's

1261
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: gonna be fine, all right, see how he goes. And

1262
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it dawn on either they

1263
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: ain't nobody there, and then tar and then Turdavius was

1264
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: coming up on the outside. I said, oh, he needs

1265
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: to do and they did it exactly the way they

1266
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: should have. Turnavius came in front of him, they didn't

1267
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: trip each other, they didn't get each other. Turdavis got

1268
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: in the way, and then Taran used Tredavius the imperfect

1269
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: synchronization to get Lamar off him. Lamar was gonna catch

1270
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: him middle Lamar outrun both those guys and he couldn't.

1271
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: He couldn't get there because of Tredavious being in front

1272
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: of him and have him go across the end zone.

1273
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: And I've been looking back and there's no flags. Everything,

1274
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: I mean, there's everything happened all at once, and it

1275
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: happened like in slow motion. The only thing missing was

1276
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: a full stadium, right, I mean really, it's the only

1277
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: thing missing from that entire sequence of events. Well, that

1278
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: that was missing the whole season two. That's one of

1279
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: the that's one of the moments when you're just your

1280
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 1: heartbreaks a little bit, right, that we couldn't everybody couldn't

1281
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: be there together. You know, there's there's a few fans

1282
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: that were there, But that pick six was, Yeah, that

1283
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: was that was right up there with in lore, with

1284
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 1: wide right, with all of the whatever other play you

1285
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: can think, I don't even know. Yeah, the Don Baby play, Yeah,

1286
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: it is twenty eight It is arguably the greatest single

1287
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: play in Buffalo sports history. Not moment, but play like

1288
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: a play on the field, on the court, whatever. Maybe

1289
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: we'll have a maybe we'll have a moment where we'll

1290
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: have a Twitter poll, like, is it's tarn Johnson's pick six,

1291
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: Don Baby's running down Leon leg in Super Bowl twenty

1292
00:59:54,600 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: eight or twenty seven? Um, Chris Drewry's goal, right, Uh,

1293
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: wide right is a memorable play for you know, wider

1294
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: than bigger than Buffalo. Um, what what other plays are

1295
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: there's been Well before that's right, how about before my

1296
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: time would be um, the hit heard around the world.

1297
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: Keith Lincoln K. Yeah, right, yeah, that's right. Um. I

1298
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: think Murph has spoken so fondly of that like play,

1299
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: like how that was huge and you know him growing

1300
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: up a Bills fan remembering that play. I've asked him

1301
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: about this before too, There's no doubt. But those are

1302
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: the moments that you know, they they stick with you,

1303
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: they resonate for a long time. There certain plays and

1304
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: things like that. And when someone asked me, what's my

1305
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: greatest Bills memory, what's my no, what's my greatest Buffalo

1306
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 1: sports memory? That is it for me? And I grew

1307
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: up a Bills fan, and I hey, I also I

1308
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: remember eighty eight friends, Merla's blocking the kick to and

1309
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: then the goalpost coming down right again, and Pat Lahey

1310
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: coming out for the New York Jets and all that.

1311
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: There's been so many of them. I remember all of

1312
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 1: those things that happened. But those are the ones that

1313
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 1: just stick with you forever and ever and ever. And

1314
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: then I'll also remember this though, Steve, on the way

1315
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: out of that stadium. Out of the stadium right here,

1316
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: I had my varsity jack and I'm a senior in

1317
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: high school, Cleveland Hill High School, and I remember was

1318
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: kind of muddy and we were all having fun. I

1319
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: slid down a big muddy hill and I get up

1320
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 1: and I got my varsity jack and I'm going crazy

1321
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:12,919
Speaker 1: and I look and there's my head coach, Hey sal

1322
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: now should make to the games day, Mike. I'm just

1323
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 1: he was fine with it was fine. But I remember

1324
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: those kinds of things because those are the memories that

1325
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 1: stick with you. Yeah. Absolutely, So there's and it's interesting

1326
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 1: too because there'll be guys who you know, we're you know,

1327
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 1: go back to the rock pile and all that. They'll

1328
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: have memories of Cookie Gilchrist and Jack Kemp and the guy.

1329
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: They'll probably there's some plays that happened like Keith Lincoln

1330
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: play no Question and Mike Stratton's hit on Keith Lincoln.

1331
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: Um but Mike Stratton, thank you. Yeah, and and all

1332
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: of the you know, the Drury stuff. And I'm and

1333
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: I was there all the way through all of that,

1334
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: the Drury and and uh um, you know Lafontaine years

1335
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: and well, may Day to me is a great incredible memory.

1336
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: Mayday goal, you know, and in Brad May scoring for

1337
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: to break that was it. That was their own kind

1338
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: of playoff trout. They had advanced past the first round

1339
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: in ten years and that had gone. So, yeah, that's

1340
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: that's a great one. That's great. It's a great question. Um,

1341
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: let's get another one from Tiffany. She says this, if

1342
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: you're a Brandon Bean and as the roster starts to

1343
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: take shape, knowing you're gonna have to let talented players go,

1344
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: do you keep your younger drafted players with upside and

1345
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: a lower salary over an established starter. And there's only

1346
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: one way to answer that. You have to be financially

1347
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: ready and strong enough to do either or and you

1348
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: have to be able to make And this is Sean

1349
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,919
Speaker 1: McDermott his coaching staff. This isn't then up to Brandon

1350
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: This is up to Brandon Bean because usually, and this

1351
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 1: is for those of you who don't know, in the NFL,

1352
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:38,960
Speaker 1: part of being a GM is that you get to

1353
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,919
Speaker 1: say who's on the fifty three man roster the GM does. Now,

1354
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 1: who's he get that advice from? I mean, who's whose

1355
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: evaluations he listened to? The coach and the coaching staff.

1356
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: But Brandon Bean has Usually the GM has final say

1357
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: over the fifty three but he's gonna listen to what

1358
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot says, and they'll say this, and there's there's

1359
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 1: a She's right, Tiffany's right in her question, there's some

1360
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: gray area. Who's going to help us this year the most?

1361
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: And he'll say, well, this veteran here, he's pretty good.

1362
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: He's really has a he's got a high salary, but

1363
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be the guy through the first half

1364
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: of the year that gives us the best chance. If

1365
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: we let this rookie go. He may be a bit

1366
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 1: picked up by somebody or whatever, but for the first

1367
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: half of the season, at least, the veteran's going to

1368
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 1: give us a better chance to win. And as the

1369
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: season progresses that reverses, or it may reverse even sooner

1370
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: that or later than that. But we think sometime this

1371
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 1: rookie's going to be a better option for us soon.

1372
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: Which guy do you keep if you have to an

1373
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 1: either or well? I also think because of the financials,

1374
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 1: and she's right, like when Tiffany asks this question, keep

1375
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: your younger draft the players with upside and a lower salary.

1376
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: I think that's a very big part of it, those

1377
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: two words, because I think what's happened Steve Is and

1378
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: you can see this thing. The Chiefs are like this

1379
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: right now with their building where they are, and of

1380
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: course and they've gone to two straight Super Bowls, and

1381
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: the Bills are now here because of paying their players

1382
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: they drafted, as you see Dion and Trey and now

1383
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: Josh you're gonna come up. You have to kind of

1384
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,959
Speaker 1: almost construct your team now where you have the high guys,

1385
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: the higher paying guys, and then the rookie contracts. It's

1386
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 1: almost like it eliminates the middle class, so to speak.

1387
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: There is to have to do that. Yeah, sure, it's hard.

1388
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 1: It's harder to keep the middle guys who are let's

1389
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: say eight to ten year veteran minimum salaries over a

1390
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: million dollars. And you're like, well, it's hard for me

1391
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: to justify when I can get a rookie salary here

1392
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: and I can keep a later round pick. But at

1393
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: the same time, the catch twenty two is, but can

1394
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: that guy help me as much? Yeah? That The cap

1395
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: in the NFL is not a hard cap, but the

1396
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: way that you get around it forces the team to gamble. Yes,

1397
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna say, all right, we're gonna we're

1398
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: gonna extend this guy, whether it's any you name it,

1399
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: Josh or or Charlie six pack, whoever it is, you know,

1400
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 1: Charlie bag of donuts, whoever it is. If you're gonna

1401
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: extend a guy, the way to do it you can

1402
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 1: structure the contracts so it's going to be easy to

1403
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 1: carry going forward, which means you give him his money now.

1404
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: That's a roll of the dice. You give him the

1405
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: money now, and he stinks when you take the field,

1406
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: Well then what do you do? You got an owner

1407
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: breathing now your next day, what are you doing? Give

1408
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: him my money away too? Guy can't play, What are

1409
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: you gonna now? What are we gonna do? Right? You know,

1410
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get if you can't play, we're getting

1411
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: rid of him. Well, we can't get rid of him

1412
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: because if we get rid of him, we can't you know,

1413
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: we're out twenty million bucks on the cap this next

1414
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 1: year because well, you can't play. So while there is

1415
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: a way to get around the salary cap, it forces

1416
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 1: the team to have perfect projections on what a player

1417
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: is gonna do down the line. So yeah, and I

1418
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: see this team is gonna have to make some of

1419
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 1: those hard decisions. This year, there's no doubt, and they're

1420
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: gonna there's gonna be some good There is every year,

1421
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:48,200
Speaker 1: but this year, and I've I said this, I don't

1422
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: know yesterday or during this week, Um, this is gonna

1423
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,040
Speaker 1: be a team that you're gonna say goodbye to some

1424
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: pretty some players that a lot of people love and respect.

1425
01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna they're gonna be some friends you

1426
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: kind of see say goodbye. Maybe because and I said,

1427
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: I've said this, a bunch has always been a guy

1428
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 1: like like, well, I can't believe that guy got cut.

1429
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: There's going to be one or two of those around

1430
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: the league, maybe on your team. But I think this

1431
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 1: roster like the Cleveland Browns roster, like the San Francisco

1432
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 1: forty nine, or roster like the Chiefs roster. I mean,

1433
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: are those are the rosters that other teams who are

1434
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 1: not as talented circle like vultures waiting for him to

1435
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: cut good players. Nick tweets in writes in in our

1436
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: mail back here, if you had to guess right now, guys,

1437
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: do you think Mitch Drubiski will be a starting QB

1438
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 1: again in twenty twenty two. This is fascinating to me

1439
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: because it's almost like he has to get a shot

1440
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: and you don't want him. You don't want Josh Allen

1441
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 1: obviously to get hurt for him to have to go

1442
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 1: in there and show what he can do. But at

1443
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: the same time, that might be his only way to

1444
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: kind of show, you know, maybe mop up duty he

1445
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: can do that. I think what will happen though, what

1446
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 1: is obviously in favor for Mitch here is he's going

1447
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 1: to be with a really good organization that now has

1448
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 1: a reputation for developing, and he's gonna be a really

1449
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 1: good offensive coordinator Brian Dable, and I think people will

1450
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: look at that and they'll he will get a shot.

1451
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer for me is here. I

1452
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 1: don't know if he'll start opening day in twenty twenty two.

1453
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: I will predict, however, right now that Mitchell Trubisky will

1454
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,440
Speaker 1: be competing for a starting job in I think too.

1455
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: Who knows if there's somebody would just bestow that up

1456
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: on him, not after what happened in Chicago, probably, but

1457
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: it will be interesting think about this, What if Mitch

1458
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: Drubisky is a free agent after this season, Brian Dable,

1459
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 1: they have another phenomenally they go to and win the

1460
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Okay, so Brian Dable is now going to

1461
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 1: be the head coach of the Houston Texans. He takes

1462
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: that job, he's gonna revamp and build it from the

1463
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: ground up, and he takes Mitch Trubisky with him. Very plausible.

1464
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 1: And he takes Ken Dorsey with him a passing game coordinator.

1465
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: We can talk about Ken Dorsey's promotion a minute. You know,

1466
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: then you gotta think, oh, yeah, he probably will be

1467
01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: at a starting quarterback for a guy who saw him

1468
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: for an entire year, evaluated him and knows what he

1469
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 1: can get out of him, and knows that's what he's

1470
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: gonna need, or at least he can win to a

1471
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 1: certain extent with that in the short term at his

1472
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:15,439
Speaker 1: next stop. You could certainly construe a scenario where that happens. Certainly, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it would really depend on obviously who the

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Speaker 1: quarterback is in that situation. But if you're talking about

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01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:23,719
Speaker 1: a team that has who knows what Desaun Deshaun Watson's

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01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: future is. But if you go to the Houston for example,

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Speaker 1: or a team that needs a quarterback, that's certainly plausible.

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01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: But let's say this pasture a lot of people thought,

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01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: myself included Dabele, was getting the charger's job that has

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01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 1: a ready made quarterback, right, he walks into a spot where,

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01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: now you don't have that opportunity necessarily. But I don't

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01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,600
Speaker 1: think that's at all out of the realm of possibility

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01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 1: that mister Bisky hooks on with Brian Dable and if

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Speaker 1: he happens to get a job somewhere, maybe that's his

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01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: next landing spot. But I think mister Bisky, to me,

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01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: first of all, the Bills upcreated at backup quarterback. That

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01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 1: is not an offense to Matt Barkley. It is tough

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01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 1: to be you do not have all pros sitting on

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01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: the bench at quarterback in the National Football League. But

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: the Bills have a guy here who's young. He's won,

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01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: he's been to the playoffs, he's been a he was

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01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: a high draft picture. It did not work out in Chicago.

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01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 1: We all understand that. But I will tell you right now, Steve,

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01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,640
Speaker 1: as I sit here, if something were to happen to

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01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen for four games, I'm pretty comfortable with knowing

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01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: who their backup is compared to who most teams have

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01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,200
Speaker 1: here in this league. Oh yeah, oh yeah, because he's

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01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 1: the guy checks a lot of physical boxes. And we've

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01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: said this too, and I said this yesterday. I'd like

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01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:24,640
Speaker 1: to hear what you have to say about it. This

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01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: is coaching staff with Sean McDermott, they squeeze potential out

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01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: of this, out of their roster, whatever potential's there. That's

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01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: why they get these guys with elite We talked about

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01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: this yesterday. You're talking about their draft picks, their top

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01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,839
Speaker 1: four draft picks. Those guys have got physically elite traits.

1506
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: Boogie Basham and Greg Rousseau and Tommy Doyle and Spencer Brown,

1507
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: those guys are like, look at these guys. They check

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01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: a lot of boxes. That's what Trubisky does. And if

1509
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: you get a coaching staff that can squeeze out that

1510
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: kind of potential, you gotta think an NFL coach like

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01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 1: Brian Tables say, you know what, watch me coach him.

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01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 1: I'll get watch how he looks when I coach him.

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01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. But you're looking at and if

1514
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:04,280
Speaker 1: for no other reason than we're just talking about it,

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01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:09,280
Speaker 1: Houston Texans they got Jeff Driscoll, Davis Mills, Tyrod and

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01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, who has said he ain't never gonna play

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01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 1: for them again. That's right on top of the legal

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01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:17,600
Speaker 1: issues that he has. Right now. I think Tyrod right

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01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: now is I guess the favorite to win that job,

1520
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: but who knows where that's going to plan. I'll say this,

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01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: Mitch Drubisky, through Mitch Drubisky in there, he has shot. Yeah,

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01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: no doubt. So here's what I think about what you

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01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: just said. First of all, you're absolutely right. But let

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01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: me tell you a story here when they when the

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01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:37,599
Speaker 1: Bills signed Miss Drubisky, I had a Chicago media friend

1526
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:41,600
Speaker 1: of mine text me and say, hey, you guys in

1527
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo will get more out of him in one year.

1528
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: Then the Bears got out of him in four. Because

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01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: that's so much respect the media friend of mine in

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01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: Chicago has for the Bills organization that said, you guys

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01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: are gonna do more with him in one year because

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01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:58,240
Speaker 1: of who they have. He said, they just basically ruined

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01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: him and know how to handle or develop them. I

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01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 1: think that's an amazing that's a speaks volumes to how

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01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: people view this organization from the outside. Stick It's true,

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:09,640
Speaker 1: it really is, and I think that's one of the

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01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: best things that Sean McDermott has done here is get

1538
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: guys to play better than they did when they showed up.

1539
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: The best version of yourself, right, be the best version

1540
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:19,600
Speaker 1: of yourself. And the way they run their roster, the

1541
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,719
Speaker 1: way they even rotate players, the way they bring guys

1542
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:24,680
Speaker 1: off the practice squad and give them some snaps in

1543
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: the game, the reward for hard work goes a long

1544
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:32,839
Speaker 1: way in the locker room. And I said this yesterday

1545
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: as well. You know, sal You're sitting there as a player,

1546
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: you're working hard and stuff, and you look over and

1547
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 1: you think, oh my gosh, look at that Duke Williams

1548
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 1: is active this week and he caught he caught like

1549
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 1: he caught the winning touchdown passing, and I've he's been

1550
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: working hard and they let him. Then you why I

1551
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 1: Why am I not? Why am I not? Why am

1552
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 1: I not getting reward? And you gotta thinking, well, okay,

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01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: I think I know. You know, it becomes painfully obvious

1554
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: what this coaching staff is willing to do for players

1555
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: who are working hard. And if you're not getting rewarded,

1556
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 1: it's because you're not, and it's you can't deny it

1557
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: because if they see it, they'll make sure you know

1558
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: it and get rewarded for it. That player development aspect

1559
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:18,679
Speaker 1: of this coaching staff is what has set them apart

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01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 1: and what has driven them to a new nat It's

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01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: the best I've ever seen. It's the best. It's the

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01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: best I've ever seen. No. Back in your day when

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01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: you played, you know, you guys had a bunch of

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01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: Hall of famers on the roster. I mean, yes, there's

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01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:31,000
Speaker 1: development that goes, but you guys were super talented. This

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01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 1: is the best I've ever seen this organization developed talent.

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01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 1: There's no doubt there are guys here coming into mid

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01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: round picks, late round picks who are developing into really solid,

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01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,200
Speaker 1: contributing football players. Yeah, we can come talk about more

1570
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: about this later in the show. Be this fascinating stuff.

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01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 1: I can go all the way back to Ted Marcha

1572
01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: Brod and Nick nick Alow and those guys on that

1573
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 1: staff in them early nineties about how the great players

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01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: spoke about them, you know, Ted Catrell and those guys.

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01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: But we're gonna take a break right now. We're gonna

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01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 1: come back right after the break with USA Football CEO

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01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: and Executive Director Scott Hollenback is going to join US

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01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio presented by Kalida Health. This is One

1579
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 1: Bill's Live Stay with us. Welcome back to One Bill's Life.

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01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:20,640
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, sal Capaccio here for the next hour and

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01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: a half or so. We're at the halfway point of

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01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,479
Speaker 1: the show and we're pleased to be joined on a

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01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 1: zoom call by Scott Hallenback. He's the USA Football CEO

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01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 1: and the executive director. They've got a big event here

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01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 1: at Himark Stadium this weekend called Summer Blitz. There's a

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01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: series of ten cities across the country. This is stop

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Speaker 1: number nine. First of all, Scott, thanks so much for

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01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: joining us, appreciate it. How are you doing during the pandemic?

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01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:50,160
Speaker 1: How how has this helped or hurt USA Football? We're

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01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 1: doing well. Thank you for asking. You know, the obviously

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01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty was a bit of a challenge for everybody

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01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: involved in really sport and football in our society. But actually,

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01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, the strength football just continues to impress the

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01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 1: communities across the country. We're very resilient and all all

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01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 1: I think coming back really strong. How does this event

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01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 1: in high Mark this week in this Summer Blitz, how

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01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 1: does it mesh and how does it highlight what USA

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01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: football is all about. And how are the Bills involved? Yeah,

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01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: great question. So first of all, this Summer Blitz is

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Speaker 1: sort of an amalgamation of all the things that USA

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01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 1: Football represents, starting with setting best practices and standards. We

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01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 1: have a program called the Football Development Model, which is

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01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:37,560
Speaker 1: all about teaching the proper progression at an age and

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01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: skill level through non contact, a limited contact, a full

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01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: contact progression. So it's a really a whole new way

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01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,559
Speaker 1: to look at how we teach and develop football players.

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01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:50,840
Speaker 1: It also encourages leagues to expand what we call entry

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01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:53,560
Speaker 1: points and options, So you're giving parents more opportunity to

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01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,719
Speaker 1: get kids in quote unquote football and then when they're ready,

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01:14:56,840 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 1: progress up that pipeline and up that pathway. So the

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Speaker 1: good news is your backyard. First of all, the Bills,

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01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: I got to thank the Bugoulas and Pressutigue and just

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01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: the team at large, and then your your Western New

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01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:13,680
Speaker 1: York football communities just you know, second to none, the

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,719
Speaker 1: leagues there are just fabulous and they're embracing this vision

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01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 1: of helping to grow the sport and give parents options.

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01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: And then ultimately, the Summer Blitz has three sort of

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01:15:24,439 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: major components to it. It's got a fan fest. So

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01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: we start by just engaging parents and players and bringing

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01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: back really fun, exciting, experiential football for them. And then

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01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:37,759
Speaker 1: of course you've got a component where we work closely

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01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 1: with the commissioners again talking about these high level issues

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01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:45,439
Speaker 1: and opportunities return to football in the most appropriate way,

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01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: safety measures, etc. And then last, not at least our friends,

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01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: the coaches and just making sure that they're as prepared

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01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: as they can be to teach the game this you know,

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01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:57,560
Speaker 1: this summer and fall, so really exciting opportunities ahead, you know.

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01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 1: And I know obviously Steve played at the highest of levels.

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01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 1: I have experienced coaching high school football and I'll tell

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01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 1: you and that was even you know, ten fifteen years ago.

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01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:07,679
Speaker 1: A lot of things have changed since then. We've learned

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Speaker 1: a lot a lot of education that's out there, Scott,

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01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: so kind of just tell us a little bit about how,

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01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: you know, the education and the science has really come

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01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:16,919
Speaker 1: into play to really kind of spear you know, spearhead

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01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: and steer you guys towards certain programs in the way

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01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:22,760
Speaker 1: of doing things. Well, that's exactly right. It really is

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01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 1: the medical community and to your point, the science. You know,

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01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: we paid very close attention to that. We created something

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01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 1: called the Football Football Development Model Council, which was made

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01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 1: up of physical literacy experts and you know a variety

1642
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 1: of medical experts and football experts all working together on

1643
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 1: every level from youth all the way to the professional level.

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01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:43,640
Speaker 1: And we've we built out this new approach which is

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01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 1: really based on the notion of the whole child and

1646
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: meeting a child where they are under the under the

1647
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: banner of football. So look, you guys know this, not

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01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: every eight year old is the same, not every ten

1649
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: year olds the same. We want to again broaden the

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: scope and so we literally are about teach skills and

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01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: doing it at the right age level and working with

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01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:07,000
Speaker 1: coaches to understand that again, not every eight year old,

1653
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: not every ten year old is ready for maybe eleven

1654
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: aside full field tackle. So rather than potentially have them

1655
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 1: go do something else, we want to keep them in

1656
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: the amazing pipeline of football experience that and then when

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01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:23,639
Speaker 1: they're ready, advance up that pathway. So again we're really excited.

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01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: We have a very robust coaching education program. Things like

1659
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 1: of course, tackling and blocking and a series of other

1660
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 1: things are all naturally part of that, including things like

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01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 1: any abuse, training, mental health background checks. All of these

1662
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:43,400
Speaker 1: are issues today, especially coming out of the pandemic. Frankly

1663
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: that our concerns across our you know, for parents and

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01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 1: our society at large. So we're really working closely with

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01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 1: leagues to make sure we're providing as robust and comprehensive

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01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 1: education platforms as possible. We're talking to Scott hollandback USA

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01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: Football CEO and executive director. You know, it really has

1668
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 1: been maybe I would say, I'm just gonna take a guess,

1669
01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 1: maybe the last decade where where youth football in America

1670
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:09,080
Speaker 1: has come under the microscope and for all the right reasons,

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01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: and people like yourself the CEO and executive director, you're

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01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: you're taking this methodically, step by step to get kids

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01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 1: acclimated to the sport. Interesting. You know, everybody's interested in

1674
01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:21,439
Speaker 1: the sport when they see it on TV and they

1675
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:23,640
Speaker 1: watch these guys play, but to do it in the

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01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: right way, and certainly Salcolm is probably laughing to himself

1677
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 1: as I do. I remember what it was like when

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01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and you get you just get

1679
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 1: dads who want to help, and they they remember Vince

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01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: Lombardi and they want to go out and do you know,

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma drills and bang these kids around it, you know,

1682
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: and that's all you know, I get it. They're trying

1683
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: to help. But nobody knew any better then. But man,

1684
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 1: it's constantly evolving now into a much better and safer sport.

1685
01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:54,920
Speaker 1: In fact, there's there's an eight point eight recommendations that

1686
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 1: you've made, eight new recommendations for smarter, safer youth football

1687
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: play scamp all game type. Right, I mean, you're every

1688
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: year you're honing it down to make it safer and

1689
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: more enjoyable, safe, more fun, more accessible for all skill levels. Right,

1690
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: You're one hundred percent right, and thank you for sharing that, Steve.

1691
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:19,920
Speaker 1: You're exactly right. I mean, and look, look I'm I've

1692
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 1: got you know, my son started in seventh, seven years old,

1693
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 1: and as I reflect on how I taught him as

1694
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:27,680
Speaker 1: a dad, to your very point, like I you know,

1695
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 1: my most precious resource, right, your kid. I thought I

1696
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 1: was doing it right, you know now or whatever? That

1697
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: is almost eighteen years ago. Seventeen years ago, I probably

1698
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:39,880
Speaker 1: wasn't doing as good a job as I could. Again,

1699
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: I certainly didn't have the insight and the expertise that

1700
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 1: we now have today. And the other thing I would

1701
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: share is even over your your both coaching time and

1702
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 1: playing times, this game has always evolved. This isn't new

1703
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: to football, it's not really new to sports. So you know,

1704
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: we were very much appreciating respect to your point, the

1705
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,960
Speaker 1: volunteers at the youth level, the professionals at the high school,

1706
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,720
Speaker 1: college and professional levels, coaches, but we all have to

1707
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 1: embrace the reality that everything evolves constantly and we need

1708
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:11,080
Speaker 1: just to embrace that opportunity and do it for all

1709
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: the right reasons. Because we care deeply about our football communities,

1710
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: our parents, our players in those communities. That's what it's

1711
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 1: all about. One other, just quick sidebar, which is really exciting,

1712
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: is within this football development model, we now have an

1713
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:27,919
Speaker 1: opportunity to actually create a girls pathway, a female pathway.

1714
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 1: We've never had that before, right, It's always been the

1715
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 1: guy sport, the boys sport, and you have you know

1716
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: a girl that might play that kicked the ball or

1717
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:37,639
Speaker 1: would have you that's wonderful. But literally, because it's non

1718
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: contact to limited contact to full contact like soccer, like basketball,

1719
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: like hockey, like lacrosse, we can create a distinct girls

1720
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: pathway which is going to bring more people to our sport.

1721
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 1: And I can tell you one thing, the girls are

1722
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: about as rapid and excited about the sport as the

1723
01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:57,680
Speaker 1: guys have ever been. It's really amazing to see how

1724
01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 1: enthusiastic they are. Scott Hallen joining us USA Football CEO

1725
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:03,800
Speaker 1: and executive director. We wouldn't be doing this show if

1726
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: we didn't obviously love football, or it's been such a

1727
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: big part of what You wouldn't be doing what you're

1728
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:09,599
Speaker 1: doing if you didn't love football. We all it's such

1729
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 1: a great part of our lives in so many ways.

1730
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: It teaches us so many incredible lessons. But of course

1731
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:15,519
Speaker 1: you do have people that bring up, you know, the

1732
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: injuries and things like that have happened, which is where

1733
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:20,600
Speaker 1: you guys come into kind of teach us all about that.

1734
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 1: So I would say I think what football needs is

1735
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,640
Speaker 1: more advocates, right things like this, people that speak so

1736
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: highly of the game and the lessons that it can

1737
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 1: teach about playing with people from all different platforms, whether

1738
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,599
Speaker 1: that's social, economic backgrounds and genders as you're pointing out,

1739
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: being taught by so many different kinds of people and

1740
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:39,640
Speaker 1: understanding how to use different muscles for different things. So

1741
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: we want people to know why football is so great.

1742
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: So what resources are there for people to go to

1743
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: through your organization to make sure people know how they

1744
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:49,519
Speaker 1: can get either involved with USA football or learn more

1745
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 1: about football through USA Football. Yeah, thank you. Certainly go

1746
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 1: to the website usafootball dot com. There's amazing resources there.

1747
01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: Usfootball dot com backslash FDR with a football development Model.

1748
01:22:02,160 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: We also as you have on your screen your backslash

1749
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 1: Summer Blitz to learn about this weekend where you can

1750
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,559
Speaker 1: learn a lot more about what we're doing. We don't

1751
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:11,719
Speaker 1: run youth football leagues. I should say that we work

1752
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:14,040
Speaker 1: with like the great leagues you have in your backyard

1753
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: and leagues across the country. We certify over one hundred

1754
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 1: thousand coaches, So I think, to your earlier points, stee

1755
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:24,640
Speaker 1: like we are, and you know, we believe strongly that

1756
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: no coach should walk on the field without being certified.

1757
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:30,560
Speaker 1: It's just that that's an opportunity. You should embrace that

1758
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 1: because again all of us, God bless the volunteers that

1759
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: are stepping in with full time jobs in full time

1760
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: life to do this, to give those amazing life lessons

1761
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 1: you're speaking to but you know what, again, for the

1762
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,639
Speaker 1: guy who runs the organization is telling you I could

1763
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:47,599
Speaker 1: have been better, no question about it, and so embrace

1764
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: the idea of getting better. That's what you know many

1765
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,519
Speaker 1: respects life's all about, right, We're always constantly learning. So

1766
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 1: so hopefully people see that as an opportunity and embrace it.

1767
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:58,640
Speaker 1: So come to the site your league. Leagues across the

1768
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: country are already embracing this or asking their coaches to

1769
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: get certified, or again looking at the Football Development Model

1770
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,519
Speaker 1: to expand injury points and options. So it's a great

1771
01:23:08,560 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 1: resource to go to USA football dot com broadly and

1772
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 1: then specifically the Football Development Model. I'll leave you with

1773
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 1: one other key point. We've even learned that you know, look,

1774
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:22,479
Speaker 1: not every league operates the same way right in life.

1775
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 1: There's some that do it really well. There's some that

1776
01:23:24,280 --> 01:23:26,439
Speaker 1: sort of in the middle. So we credit something called

1777
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: the League Excellence Program, where we now are the good

1778
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,479
Speaker 1: housekeeping Seal and we have a Bronze, silver and Gold

1779
01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: program where those leagues that really do it well, we're

1780
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: going to celebrate the heck at them. We're going to

1781
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:39,480
Speaker 1: work with NFL teams or work with college community advocates

1782
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: like yourselves. We want to be able to say, look,

1783
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,599
Speaker 1: parents at these leagues that are committed to doing things

1784
01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: the right way, we want to celebrate them. We want

1785
01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: to recognize them. That's where you put your most precious

1786
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 1: resource and hopefully pull the rest up. We're not going

1787
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:55,479
Speaker 1: to shame anybody, but we're going to certainly try to

1788
01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 1: pull the rest up and just elevate the overall quality

1789
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 1: of this incredible sport. Scott hand hallenback USA Football CEO

1790
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: and executive director, Thanks for sharing this with us. Good

1791
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:07,439
Speaker 1: luck with the huge event, the Summer Blitz at high

1792
01:24:07,439 --> 01:24:11,160
Speaker 1: Mark Stadium this weekend. It's free, it's for kids and

1793
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: their families. It's also for it's got food trucks, it's

1794
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: got Combine Corner where they're gonna mimic NFL Combined Experience, tailgate,

1795
01:24:18,439 --> 01:24:22,759
Speaker 1: yard games, football themed inflatables, giveaways. It's also for coaches

1796
01:24:22,760 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: and commissioners that they're gonna hear keynote addresses from former

1797
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl wide receiver Eric Mould is going

1798
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: to show up. So good luck with the event at

1799
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:34,679
Speaker 1: high Mark this weekend. Congratulations and thanks for being with us. Yeah,

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01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: Fit Steve I couldn't have done any better. Thank you

1801
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: very much. That's great, appreciate it. Take care all right,

1802
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 1: thank you, Salakopaccio, Steve Tasker. Here on One Bills Live.

1803
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:43,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We're coming back with more

1804
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 1: of your mail bags and maybe NFL true false. As

1805
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,799
Speaker 1: we get back underway here on One Bill's Live, presented

1806
01:24:48,800 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

1807
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Life, Steep Tasker, salth Capaccio. So

1808
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:07,560
Speaker 1: we were talking before the breaking and our thanks to

1809
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:10,479
Speaker 1: Scott Holland back the CEO and executive director of USA Football.

1810
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 1: He was on with us just last last segment. But

1811
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 1: before that we were talking about, you know, player development,

1812
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: coaching staffs, and this coaching staff with Sean McDermott and

1813
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,880
Speaker 1: the guys he's assembled, really get the most out of

1814
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: the talent they got on a roster. They really maximized

1815
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 1: the guys on their roster. And I was telling you

1816
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 1: I got stories I could tell you about the teams

1817
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 1: I was on in the early nine the same thing.

1818
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:36,599
Speaker 1: We had coaches, particularly my coach, not Bruce de Haven

1819
01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: so much the special team's coordinator, although he was a

1820
01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:42,680
Speaker 1: really good. He was in the same vein. He got

1821
01:25:42,760 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: the most out of the guys on it because he

1822
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 1: could communicate with him and tell him what he wanted

1823
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 1: from and tell him whine to, you know, and just

1824
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: get more out of him. Nick Nickolau was maybe one

1825
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:54,599
Speaker 1: of the great teachers I ever was SIS coach. Yes,

1826
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 1: one of the great teachers I've ever been around, really

1827
01:25:57,120 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 1: at any in college, in college professors, head coaches, whoever

1828
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Nick Nikola may have been the greatest

1829
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 1: teacher I've ever known. So let me ask you this

1830
01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: because I'll say from a from so many people, thousands

1831
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: of people listening right now, I've never played professional football

1832
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:16,480
Speaker 1: like you did. I think there's a there's a perception,

1833
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 1: and myself included, and I coach high school football, and

1834
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: I will tell you I think I always say teaching

1835
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,679
Speaker 1: when you're at the high school level, the Pop Warner level,

1836
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 1: even the college level, it's teaching teaching. When you get

1837
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 1: the professional level, how much teaching is there? What you're

1838
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: saying is there's still a lot of teaching you can do,

1839
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: and the good ones know how to do it. That's

1840
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 1: all coaching is, is teaching um coaching. They say coaching

1841
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:37,559
Speaker 1: because they they call you coach because you do things physical.

1842
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 1: They teach a skills, they teach out on the field,

1843
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 1: they teach where to run and go and act and

1844
01:26:41,680 --> 01:26:44,760
Speaker 1: be an athlete. Teaching that everybody thinks it's mind, it's

1845
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:47,519
Speaker 1: in your mind, But coaching is your mind and your

1846
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:51,719
Speaker 1: body together. What what what can what can a wide

1847
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 1: receivers coach at the NFL level? Really? Why was he

1848
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 1: so good? I guess why? What did he his communication

1849
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:00,160
Speaker 1: skills and the things that he you know, force you

1850
01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: to do the things he did. I mean, he give

1851
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:04,840
Speaker 1: us tests every week on the offense, and he would

1852
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: expect us to you know, ace the test um. He

1853
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:12,600
Speaker 1: you know, just a motivator, a no nonsense guy, and

1854
01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:14,760
Speaker 1: he would you know you really had felt like he

1855
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:18,160
Speaker 1: had to work to earn his respect. I like that.

1856
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 1: And but when you did, when you did, it was

1857
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:23,920
Speaker 1: an accomplishment and you and you wanted to stay stay there. Um.

1858
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:26,240
Speaker 1: I'll say this to Jim, a first ballot Hall of

1859
01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: Fame quarterback maybe maybe to this point, probably the greatest

1860
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 1: career in Bill's history, no question. Uh, in totality. Uh.

1861
01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 1: He told me. I heard him say it when when

1862
01:27:36,360 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 1: he was playing when Teddy marcher Broda got here in

1863
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:43,639
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. He got better under ted marcher Broda.

1864
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: Every year Teddy helped him get better as a quarterback,

1865
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 1: showed him things, asked him to do things, gave him

1866
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: things to think about, techniques to work on, concepts to

1867
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: think about and how to read them, and where to

1868
01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: go and where to take his everything, all the nuances

1869
01:27:57,479 --> 01:27:59,559
Speaker 1: of playing quarterback. Teddy marcher Brod gave him that When

1870
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: Teddy left and the guys that came in behind Teddy,

1871
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 1: Jim said, I kind of felt like I stopped getting better, right,

1872
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: you know. And I'd been to him, you know, went

1873
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 1: to sore Super Bowls, but he just felt like he

1874
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 1: had started to stagnate a little bit in his skill

1875
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:13,560
Speaker 1: set because he didn't have a coach, nobody on that

1876
01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:16,479
Speaker 1: staff that was like that that would get more out

1877
01:28:16,479 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 1: of him and continue to build on what they had done.

1878
01:28:18,439 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 1: I don't know this, I should look it up where

1879
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:23,080
Speaker 1: Nick and ted on the same staff. Yeah, okay, so yeah,

1880
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:25,120
Speaker 1: Nick and ted and then when Nick and when Teddy

1881
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 1: got the head coaching job in Indianapolis, Nick was his OCA,

1882
01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:30,680
Speaker 1: that's right, he went with him. So this tells me

1883
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:33,880
Speaker 1: that Marv put an emphasis on hiring people who were teachers.

1884
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:37,240
Speaker 1: He wanted people around who were teachers, absolutely, and and

1885
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: Marv was a great thinker like that as well. Marv

1886
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: had that ability as a head coach without getting into

1887
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:43,760
Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts of each position correct. He was

1888
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:46,720
Speaker 1: great at getting an entire group of guys in the room,

1889
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:49,840
Speaker 1: coaches and players alike, in the same train, on the

1890
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 1: same on the same frame of mind, on the same

1891
01:28:53,439 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 1: page mentally, well, he can concentrate on that if he

1892
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:58,000
Speaker 1: has these teachers at every room, and he's a great delegate.

1893
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: It's like how Sean mct Brandon Bean have always said

1894
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:02,800
Speaker 1: when they started their build back in twenty seventeen. I

1895
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: thought it was really interesting. Something that always stuck with

1896
01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:07,799
Speaker 1: me is they said, we want to have a veteran

1897
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 1: in each room. We want to have a veteran at

1898
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 1: every position room who guys can lean on and learn from, right,

1899
01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:14,680
Speaker 1: And I mean, that's that's by design, that's something that

1900
01:29:14,720 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: they say, we got to have that exactly. I'll give

1901
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: you an example too that this was. You know, back

1902
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 1: when I first came into the league, when I got

1903
01:29:20,360 --> 01:29:23,479
Speaker 1: here to Buffalo, not every team even had special teams coaches.

1904
01:29:24,400 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 1: They would divvy up the responsibilities between like the linebackers coach,

1905
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna do the punt return, and the running backs coach,

1906
01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:32,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna do the punt team and you know that

1907
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:35,479
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Now, then they started having coordinators. Marv

1908
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: did that immediately when he got the got to Buffalo.

1909
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:40,720
Speaker 1: He you know, when he first he took over Hank

1910
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 1: Bullis staff, and then when he put his together, he

1911
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:44,760
Speaker 1: had Bruce to Haven as a special teams coordinator. So

1912
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,840
Speaker 1: I'll say this talking about a guy who was forward thinking.

1913
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 1: When I every special teams meeting I was ever in

1914
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: as a Buffalo bill, it was first thing in the morning.

1915
01:29:56,280 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 1: You guys come in and we'd have like twenty five

1916
01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: thirty guys on the team on in the meeting and

1917
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:04,839
Speaker 1: sitting in the meeting and the front row right beside

1918
01:30:05,120 --> 01:30:08,880
Speaker 1: the projector was the head coach. He was in the

1919
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: meeting for special teams watching that, you know, watching Bruce

1920
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:15,639
Speaker 1: do his thing and every swap heed chime in and stuff.

1921
01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:18,280
Speaker 1: But it sends a message when the head coach is

1922
01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:21,400
Speaker 1: in the meeting in the front row watching the film

1923
01:30:21,479 --> 01:30:24,879
Speaker 1: with you. I don't think a lot of head coaches

1924
01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:26,960
Speaker 1: are the guy sitting in the front and center of

1925
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:30,240
Speaker 1: the special teams meeting. I could be wrong, but I

1926
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 1: think Marv was one of the first, like real like

1927
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:35,240
Speaker 1: I know he had a head coaching experience with the Chiefs,

1928
01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: but he was a special teams guy that got a

1929
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 1: head coach and after that his success, Bill Cower was

1930
01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:41,479
Speaker 1: a special team's coach that gets a head coaching job.

1931
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:44,320
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh now is a special teams guy. I think

1932
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:47,040
Speaker 1: that Dick Vermier was a special team's coacher so and

1933
01:30:47,080 --> 01:30:49,439
Speaker 1: before mars So, I think I think teams have realized

1934
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:51,160
Speaker 1: and one of the things that's always said, it's a

1935
01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 1: great point special teams coaches have to have their tentacles

1936
01:30:55,439 --> 01:30:58,000
Speaker 1: on the entire roster. They have to know the offensive guys,

1937
01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:00,519
Speaker 1: and they know the wide receivers and the it's a

1938
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:04,960
Speaker 1: great resource because you know, and say Leslie Fraser, Brian Dable,

1939
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 1: if you cut the roster in half, it's fifty guys

1940
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 1: three specialists, punter, kicker, long snapper, and then fifty other

1941
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:15,360
Speaker 1: guys twenty five offense, twenty five defense. Theoretically, it's it

1942
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 1: goes back and forth two or three numbers, depending on

1943
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:21,599
Speaker 1: the roster makeup a defensive cornery has twenty five guys.

1944
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:23,839
Speaker 1: He's got to get ready to play, like fifteen spots.

1945
01:31:24,680 --> 01:31:27,120
Speaker 1: Like he's got to get twenty five guys ready to

1946
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:31,679
Speaker 1: play like regular down to distance, nickel dime, short yardage,

1947
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:34,280
Speaker 1: goal line. But he gets twenty five guys to do that.

1948
01:31:34,560 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's the same twenty five guys all the

1949
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:41,680
Speaker 1: DB's linebackers and defensive lineman. Same thing on offense. You

1950
01:31:41,760 --> 01:31:44,760
Speaker 1: get your offensive line, your tight ends, and your wide house,

1951
01:31:44,800 --> 01:31:47,080
Speaker 1: and you get you get a run. You know, you're

1952
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 1: three wide, you're two wide, you're twelve, you're twenty one,

1953
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:53,120
Speaker 1: you're personnel. You get those guys ready. Special teams coach

1954
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:55,800
Speaker 1: has fifty three guys. He's got to get ready, not

1955
01:31:55,920 --> 01:31:58,960
Speaker 1: to play, not to play just that, but sixty six

1956
01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:04,759
Speaker 1: spots for sure, and maybe more than that. Punt punt

1957
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:09,360
Speaker 1: return is twenty two guys. Kickoff kickoff return is forty

1958
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 1: four guys, and field goal and field goal defense is

1959
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:16,400
Speaker 1: sixty six spots. And now what happens if you go

1960
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:20,360
Speaker 1: hands team and free kick teams, right, it's not just

1961
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:23,280
Speaker 1: the same eleven guys all the time. So he's got

1962
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: to have guys from all over the roster in and

1963
01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 1: that's why you know John Harbaugh he learned his leadership

1964
01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 1: skills by getting in, getting to be able to communicate

1965
01:32:32,240 --> 01:32:34,080
Speaker 1: with both sides of the football, getting those guys out

1966
01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:36,439
Speaker 1: on special teams. Frank Ganz was a great at that.

1967
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 1: He became a head coach because he was a great

1968
01:32:38,400 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: leader off the field and could get guys to rally

1969
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:46,040
Speaker 1: around him as a special teams coach. Yet, leadership is,

1970
01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:48,240
Speaker 1: you know, is where you find it. And when you

1971
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:50,759
Speaker 1: got a guy who need you know, has leadership skills,

1972
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 1: special teams is a great spot for him to have

1973
01:32:52,880 --> 01:32:54,960
Speaker 1: his hand on every guy on the roster. So we

1974
01:32:55,040 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: saw a lot of that and we've seen a lot

1975
01:32:56,960 --> 01:32:58,840
Speaker 1: of it over the decades in the NFL. Yeah, and

1976
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:01,479
Speaker 1: there have been some great There have been some great

1977
01:33:01,720 --> 01:33:04,120
Speaker 1: coaches who's got their start and special teams. There's also

1978
01:33:04,160 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 1: been career special teams coaches like Bruce Bruce to Haven

1979
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:08,680
Speaker 1: was a special team's coach his whole career and that's

1980
01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: what he was known for. He was great at it.

1981
01:33:10,080 --> 01:33:12,640
Speaker 1: There was April that's right, That's exactly right. So you

1982
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:14,280
Speaker 1: know some of these guys they carve out that niche

1983
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:17,120
Speaker 1: and that's and whether they want to have a different

1984
01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 1: role or not. They become great at what they do

1985
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 1: and guess what, they'll never be without a job when

1986
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,280
Speaker 1: they get that reputation right. Steve Tasker Salkpaci, you're gonna

1987
01:33:24,280 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 1: come back, get back to your mail bags. We also

1988
01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:28,360
Speaker 1: might have a little bit of go back to the

1989
01:33:28,479 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 1: website and get a you know, camp countdown. We're counting

1990
01:33:32,240 --> 01:33:33,920
Speaker 1: down the days till camp. I think there's twelve days

1991
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:37,760
Speaker 1: until camp opens up on the eighteenth of July or

1992
01:33:37,840 --> 01:33:40,719
Speaker 1: twenty eighth of July. And we're gonna talk a little

1993
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:43,080
Speaker 1: bit about some things that are coming up, maybe which

1994
01:33:43,160 --> 01:33:45,400
Speaker 1: free agent acquisition is going to have the biggest impact.

1995
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:48,720
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker sal Capacho on Buffalo Bill's Radio, presented by

1996
01:33:48,760 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is One Bills Live at a

1997
01:34:07,160 --> 01:34:11,040
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all the fields. Kind of unique.

1998
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:13,320
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

1999
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:19,599
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the straded fear

2000
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Welcome back to One Bill's Life. Steve Tasker

2001
01:34:26,479 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: Salcapacho here for another hour or so. Um, we're gonna

2002
01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 1: do a couple of things. In this half hour, we're

2003
01:34:31,920 --> 01:34:34,759
Speaker 1: gonna talk to take some questions from you our listeners,

2004
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:36,960
Speaker 1: uh in our mail bag, and then we're also going

2005
01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 1: to go back and we're gonna ask ourselves the question

2006
01:34:39,479 --> 01:34:42,439
Speaker 1: that is on Bills Drop one bills or Buffalo Bills

2007
01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:46,720
Speaker 1: dot com um about camp countdown, and the questions in

2008
01:34:46,840 --> 01:34:56,439
Speaker 1: the camp countdown m are these days are which rookie

2009
01:34:56,479 --> 01:34:59,760
Speaker 1: will make the most immediate impact and or And we're

2010
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:01,600
Speaker 1: gonna ask that question. And we can also ask can

2011
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:04,599
Speaker 1: the Bill's wide receiver group be even better or more

2012
01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:07,160
Speaker 1: successful this year than last? So which rookie will help

2013
01:35:07,360 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: make the biggest impact? Or which can the wide receivers

2014
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:13,599
Speaker 1: on this team be better than they were a year ago?

2015
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:15,559
Speaker 1: We'll ask those but for right now, let's go back

2016
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:18,800
Speaker 1: and since since you our listeners are listening, we'll take

2017
01:35:18,840 --> 01:35:22,120
Speaker 1: some of your questions right now. Sal from from Rusty.

2018
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:24,880
Speaker 1: He says this, even with the strong rotation, who at

2019
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:27,599
Speaker 1: defensive tackle will the Bill's keep Will they keep four

2020
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:29,760
Speaker 1: or five? I'm really hoping they find a way to

2021
01:35:29,840 --> 01:35:33,920
Speaker 1: keep Zimmer as a fifth defensive tackle slash fullback. But

2022
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:35,479
Speaker 1: I'm worried that this team is so deep as so

2023
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 1: many positions, guys like Zimmer, Butler, Phillips, etc. Are firmly

2024
01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:42,080
Speaker 1: on the roster bubble, So maybe those guys are all

2025
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 1: in danger of not making the team. And I think

2026
01:35:43,880 --> 01:35:47,519
Speaker 1: it's a it's a fair question. Without Star Lotulele on

2027
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:49,679
Speaker 1: the on the roster last year because he opted out,

2028
01:35:49,920 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 1: there was space for a guy like Zimmer on the roster,

2029
01:35:52,200 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 1: and Harrison Phillips was entrenched as a as a player

2030
01:35:55,400 --> 01:35:59,200
Speaker 1: obviously at Oliver Vernon, Butler made his presence. Felt they

2031
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:01,560
Speaker 1: had some guys. Who's the odd man out? That's the

2032
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 1: real question. And I'm kind of with him. I've said

2033
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:07,400
Speaker 1: this laughingly, but I kind of have serious I think

2034
01:36:07,560 --> 01:36:09,759
Speaker 1: Justin Zimmer has a chance to be a slash fullback.

2035
01:36:10,400 --> 01:36:14,120
Speaker 1: He runs the guy runs people down. We talked as

2036
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, we talked about that play that Arren Johnson

2037
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:18,800
Speaker 1: pick six, that one of the things people notice was

2038
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 1: him running down the field and you know, helping out

2039
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:22,439
Speaker 1: and trying to work for a block, and how quick

2040
01:36:22,479 --> 01:36:24,200
Speaker 1: he got down the field. I look at this defensive

2041
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:27,519
Speaker 1: tackle group, it's nine deep right now, and what strikes

2042
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:31,519
Speaker 1: me is Steve Because of this conversation in question over

2043
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 1: the last several weeks they've added to it, so clearly

2044
01:36:34,680 --> 01:36:38,080
Speaker 1: they're still looking for something that maybe they feel like

2045
01:36:38,160 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 1: they gotta get a little extra here or there, that

2046
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:42,120
Speaker 1: maybe they can add a little bit to the group

2047
01:36:42,120 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 1: because Treyvon Hester, Eli Ankou and Nazier Jones. Now I'm

2048
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: not saying any of these guys are going to start

2049
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,599
Speaker 1: playing anybody in the roster, but clearly the Bills field,

2050
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:52,240
Speaker 1: we need a little more competition here to see what

2051
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:54,640
Speaker 1: we can get. Well, here's in this group. Here's the thing,

2052
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:57,280
Speaker 1: and it has been in the past. You see other

2053
01:36:57,360 --> 01:36:59,679
Speaker 1: teams doing this. You don't see the Bills doing this anymore.

2054
01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:02,360
Speaker 1: Where they get their roster sitting here and I think,

2055
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 1: you know what I think defensive I think I like

2056
01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:07,439
Speaker 1: our defensive tackle. They never say that if they've got

2057
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:09,479
Speaker 1: to if they see a guy out particularly at this

2058
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 1: time of year where camp hasn't even started yet, and

2059
01:37:11,920 --> 01:37:13,400
Speaker 1: they see people out there going, you know what, I

2060
01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:16,200
Speaker 1: like that guy. We liked him, and he might give

2061
01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:20,599
Speaker 1: us something that that Phillips and Zimmer and Hester or Butler,

2062
01:37:20,720 --> 01:37:22,760
Speaker 1: Brian or any of these he gives us something that

2063
01:37:22,800 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 1: they don't. We should bring him in because I think

2064
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 1: he could press. These guys they bring in competition for

2065
01:37:29,160 --> 01:37:32,880
Speaker 1: training camp like no other franchise they do. They never

2066
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:37,200
Speaker 1: sit pat, they never stand pat at any position group.

2067
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean, they probably the number two overall pick in

2068
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 1: the draft behind their MVP runner up at quarterback. They're

2069
01:37:47,280 --> 01:37:49,519
Speaker 1: bringing people in all the time. So I don't even

2070
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:52,200
Speaker 1: know that it says it's not doesn't say anything about

2071
01:37:52,240 --> 01:37:54,479
Speaker 1: the guys they've got. What it does say is like,

2072
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:56,519
Speaker 1: you know what, we're trying to get better all the time,

2073
01:37:56,920 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 1: and you better play well during training camp. We're going

2074
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:03,040
Speaker 1: to replace you. Yeah, that's right. They always want competition,

2075
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:05,760
Speaker 1: more and more competition. You look at this roster, this

2076
01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 1: is um this position group. It's not only deep there,

2077
01:38:08,280 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 1: it's of course deep at defensive end as well. Seventeen

2078
01:38:11,479 --> 01:38:14,240
Speaker 1: total active defensive linemen right now, when you clue include

2079
01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:16,599
Speaker 1: ends and tackles, it would be eighteen, but Brian Cox

2080
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:21,479
Speaker 1: Junior was placed on injured reserve uh during the mini camp,

2081
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 1: So now you're looking at nine defensive tackles, eight defensive ends,

2082
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:28,760
Speaker 1: and yeah, I wonder there are good players who are

2083
01:38:28,840 --> 01:38:31,000
Speaker 1: not going to be able to make this roster. Typically

2084
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:33,479
Speaker 1: people always say how many do they keep? Typically you

2085
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:37,120
Speaker 1: keep nine total because you're gonna keep four defensive ends,

2086
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:40,280
Speaker 1: four defensive tackles, and maybe one guy because of the

2087
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:42,760
Speaker 1: special teams play or something else because you just don't

2088
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:45,680
Speaker 1: want you want the extra rotation. You think he's got

2089
01:38:45,720 --> 01:38:49,000
Speaker 1: an upside. So nine to me is the max you're

2090
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:51,600
Speaker 1: keeping out of the seventeen. And you look at some

2091
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:53,479
Speaker 1: of the names that we just had on that graphic

2092
01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:56,040
Speaker 1: a moment ago, there are going to be some tough

2093
01:38:56,120 --> 01:38:58,479
Speaker 1: decisions that are made down the roster, and I agree,

2094
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:00,479
Speaker 1: I think Justin Zimmer has a really good shot to

2095
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 1: make this team. You know, he's not a free agent

2096
01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:04,680
Speaker 1: because he's he's not a guy they just went out

2097
01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:09,080
Speaker 1: and signed. But Star Latula suddenly is like inserted into

2098
01:39:09,120 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 1: this roster when he wasn't on the team last year,

2099
01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 1: which is included right, and he plays. He plays at

2100
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Speaker 1: a high level, even though he doesn't show up on

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Speaker 1: the stats sheet. He plays one of those unheralded positions.

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Speaker 1: But you're you're looking at guys like Elion Ku, Brandon Bryant,

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Speaker 1: Vernon Butler, Trevon Hester, Nazer Jones, Starlotulle, Ed Oliver, Harrison

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Speaker 1: Phillips and Justin Zimmer it's a lot of names, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of those names Bill's fans will recognize. Now.

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Speaker 1: Nazier Jones came over from I think Seattle. Yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: Treyvon Hester from I believe rams Elionko has been around.

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Speaker 1: He's he's played it differently. But you know what's he's huge.

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Speaker 1: He's like six three three one hundred three twenty something

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Speaker 1: like that. But these guys are they're big, they're you

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Speaker 1: know what it is some of these guys, these late

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Speaker 1: guys on Ko and Jones, they're one techniques right, and

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Speaker 1: you six three three right. I mean you're looking at

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Speaker 1: guys who are six two three oh five right, Come on,

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Speaker 1: hern And Butler six four three thirty. He's a big dude.

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Speaker 1: You know. Star is six two three fifteen. Steve, I

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Speaker 1: think when you played, there was like two three hundred

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Speaker 1: pounders like on every right. I said that yesterday. There's

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Speaker 1: a stat that I threw out just before we went

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Speaker 1: to break the first Super Bowl year, we went to

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Speaker 1: seven guys in the entire National Football League were listed

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Speaker 1: at three hundred pounds were heavier. We had three. We

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Speaker 1: had three starting on our offensive line. There are only

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Speaker 1: four other guys in the entire league. LIS League listed

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Speaker 1: at three hundred. We had we had three of them.

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Speaker 1: Now every team's got seven or eight alone. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: every They got all their all their interior offensive and defense,

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Speaker 1: all their offensive linemen and most of their defensive linemen

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Speaker 1: and the interior three hundred plus. It's just a fact

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Speaker 1: of life. Now, that's gonna be a really good position

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01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:48,599
Speaker 1: group to watch during training camp. But the other part

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Speaker 1: is course, of course, it is training camp, and you

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Speaker 1: want to make sure these guys have breathers and they

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01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:54,600
Speaker 1: there's other people to take reps, and yes, it is competition.

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Speaker 1: It's also making sure guys don't have to run out

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Speaker 1: there every single play and take every single rap. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling me though, two He's right, those Zimmer, Phillips and

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Speaker 1: the new guys hester on Coup. Those guys. Those are

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Speaker 1: the guys that we don't know about. Now. Some of

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01:41:09,120 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 1: these guys we don't know about cold could come in

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01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:13,200
Speaker 1: and flash big time in the preseason. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: It's like, how do we ever how that guy? How

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01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:16,479
Speaker 1: is he available? You know, how do we get him?

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Speaker 1: He's awesome, But that means somebody like Harrison Phillips or

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Speaker 1: Justin Zimmer gone. You know, let's remember too, let's rewind

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Speaker 1: back to October last year. I believe it was there

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01:41:27,800 --> 01:41:30,160
Speaker 1: was a report not Justin Zimmer had come on. He

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Speaker 1: was on the practice squad, the Bills elevated him, and

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Speaker 1: then he was signed to the active roster, to actual

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Speaker 1: roster spot. And one of the reports that came out

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01:41:37,479 --> 01:41:39,720
Speaker 1: was that the reason that happened was there were other

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01:41:39,760 --> 01:41:41,400
Speaker 1: teams interested in the Bill say hey, we gotta keep

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01:41:41,400 --> 01:41:43,360
Speaker 1: this guy around because he could get signed by another

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01:41:43,400 --> 01:41:45,599
Speaker 1: team from the practice squad. That shows you right there,

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01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:48,080
Speaker 1: how they bring this guy in and suddenly boom, he

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01:41:48,200 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 1: flashes and they're like, he can help us, and then

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01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:53,280
Speaker 1: what does he do? Punches the ball out from Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: As you just mentioned a little while ago, there's Dean

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Speaker 1: Marlow Johnny on the spot to fall on the fumble.

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Speaker 1: Huge play in the entire Buffalo Bill season. But that

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01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:04,519
Speaker 1: just shows you, guys, they can come from anywhere and suddenly, hey,

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Speaker 1: what do we have here. We can't lose that guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's six three, three hundred pounds. But here's what happens

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01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:13,200
Speaker 1: when when you get the guy, when the guys plays

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Speaker 1: and he gets on film and other teams know that

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Speaker 1: he's on in the rotation, but he's not a real

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Speaker 1: heavy part of it. They say, okay, right, and then

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Speaker 1: when he's from the practice, what you start to know

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Speaker 1: that people are seeing something in his play that the

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Speaker 1: Bills are seeing. I mean, they're recognized, right. The guy

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Speaker 1: gets looked at in there and I look at this,

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01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:33,240
Speaker 1: look at this, you know, look at the Bills in

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Speaker 1: Miami game. Look what Zimmer's doing down inside. I love that.

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Speaker 1: Let's get him, you know, we need That's exactly what

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Speaker 1: we're missing. We don't have a guy that can do that,

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Speaker 1: or we don't have a guy with that kind of motor,

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Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. That guy can play.

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Speaker 1: Let's get him. That's what happens. If the guy starts play,

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Speaker 1: it plays for you. You run the risk. People are

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01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:53,760
Speaker 1: gonna see what he does and they want him. Here's

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Speaker 1: the story about do you know. I think it was

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01:42:55,680 --> 01:42:57,920
Speaker 1: Darren Waller how they how the Raiders got him. He

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Speaker 1: was on a practice squad, maybe the Browns, I believe

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Speaker 1: it was, and something happened where I believe the story

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Speaker 1: was that one of their coach, coach, one of their

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Speaker 1: scouts was at a game and he happened to be

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Speaker 1: on the field just kind of throwing the football around,

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01:43:10,320 --> 01:43:12,800
Speaker 1: working out on game day and depending on how they

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Speaker 1: have those guys work out. Who on the practice squad

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Nobody saw him. They're like, who's this guy?

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Speaker 1: Did a little research on him, looked and said, we

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Speaker 1: gotta go. We gotta sign this guy. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: at the traits he has. You never know who's watching,

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Speaker 1: you never know who's taking notes. You're every single time

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Speaker 1: you do anything, it's an audition. I remember going to

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Speaker 1: the owners meetings two years ago. I'm sorry, it was

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl two years ago, and I was told

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Speaker 1: by one of the Buffalo Bill's personnel who was there.

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Speaker 1: They said, sal, we watch everything they do. We watch

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Speaker 1: how they interact with people. We pay attention, even when

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to have meetings. Are they if they're gonna

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Speaker 1: running later? They texting us right, how they carry themselves

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Speaker 1: walking through the hotel. Everything you do is an audition. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They they watch you on the field when you're standing

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Speaker 1: in line waiting to do your taking. It's amazing to

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Speaker 1: watch what you're doing. Yeah, it's true. And tell you

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Speaker 1: a lot too about what the guys like you know,

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Speaker 1: I do. I'll give an example. You're standing you got

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a line of at the combine. There's

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Speaker 1: a line of twenty guys up there, and I'll just

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Speaker 1: give an example. There's this player a who's standing there waiting,

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Speaker 1: and there's you know, eight or nine guys standing there waiting,

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Speaker 1: and six five or six of the eight guys standing

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Speaker 1: around each come up and talk to that guy. They

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Speaker 1: all come up and say something to him, you know,

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Speaker 1: talking to him. So it tells you about that guy's presence.

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Speaker 1: That's group. I agree, you know, that's amazing, and those

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Speaker 1: are things you notice. It's right. What did Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: say about Josh Allen when he went to watch him

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Speaker 1: at Wyoming. That was one of the things that Josh.

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Speaker 1: He was always engaged with his teammates on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: He didn't go in, Saul, he didn't just go and

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Speaker 1: stand alone, even even looking at the play sheets or

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01:44:46,479 --> 01:44:49,160
Speaker 1: whatever they do. He's talking with somebody. He's engaged with somebody.

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Speaker 1: When somebody might have made a play where they were

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Speaker 1: not proud of, Josh would go up and talk to him.

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Speaker 1: That mattered to the Buffalo Bills as far as the franchise,

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01:44:56,800 --> 01:44:59,400
Speaker 1: quarter anything. You can you interpret this stuff all, you know,

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01:44:59,479 --> 01:45:01,800
Speaker 1: kinds of different ways. That scenario I said, where guys

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Speaker 1: come up and talk to him. Some guy will say, well,

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01:45:03,600 --> 01:45:05,040
Speaker 1: all he did was talk to all the other guys

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01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:06,840
Speaker 1: and think, well, you know, it wasn't it wasn't that

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01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: it was them coming up and talking to him. You

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01:45:09,520 --> 01:45:11,880
Speaker 1: got to interpret that stuff the right way because you

2235
01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:14,000
Speaker 1: can get the an impression of a guy, but you've

2236
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:17,680
Speaker 1: got to like double check, triple check, quadruple check, and

2237
01:45:17,720 --> 01:45:19,360
Speaker 1: then you gotta find a different way to find out

2238
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:21,160
Speaker 1: the same thing. You gotta you gotta check him out

2239
01:45:21,160 --> 01:45:27,400
Speaker 1: because you know it's complicated. You know, everybody's complicated. So

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Speaker 1: Lee Smith last a couple of years ago, Lee Smith,

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Speaker 1: there was a miked up that I think the Bills

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01:45:35,320 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 1: might have done. And it was somewhere there was Mike.

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01:45:37,120 --> 01:45:40,120
Speaker 1: Lee Smith was miked up and Josh Allen had an

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01:45:40,200 --> 01:45:43,280
Speaker 1: interception and he comes off to the sidelines and Lee

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Speaker 1: Smith says to him, and he's miked up and you

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01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:46,960
Speaker 1: can hear him, he says, And Josh was down on

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01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:50,400
Speaker 1: himself and Lee says, listen, listen to me. He says,

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01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:52,880
Speaker 1: you don't take you don't take all the credit when

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01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:55,160
Speaker 1: you do great things like that's not you, So don't

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Speaker 1: be hanging your head thinking you're costing us. This is

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01:45:57,080 --> 01:45:59,120
Speaker 1: a team game. And he and he the message to

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01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:01,680
Speaker 1: him was, Hey, don't be so hard on yourself when

2253
01:46:01,720 --> 01:46:03,240
Speaker 1: you're down, because you're not the one taking all the

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01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:05,240
Speaker 1: credit when you're great. We got you. We got your

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Speaker 1: back either way. And that was such a great moment

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01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:09,320
Speaker 1: to see Lee Smith. And I'll tell you that's why

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01:46:09,439 --> 01:46:12,320
Speaker 1: Lee Smith has survived in this league for a long time. Steve, Yes,

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01:46:12,439 --> 01:46:14,360
Speaker 1: he's a great blocker, we understand you know what. Elsie

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01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:19,400
Speaker 1: is a great teammate. Yeah, And that's that's what elevates

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01:46:19,479 --> 01:46:21,840
Speaker 1: guys around you. I mean, it elevates the bottoms of

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01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,080
Speaker 1: the roster to be like the top of the roster.

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01:46:24,280 --> 01:46:25,880
Speaker 1: You know, you got guys who are pulling for you,

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01:46:26,040 --> 01:46:27,479
Speaker 1: that's right, and you want to come through for them

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01:46:27,520 --> 01:46:29,560
Speaker 1: as much as you do for yourself. You're room reciping it.

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01:46:29,680 --> 01:46:30,960
Speaker 1: You want to come through for the guys in the room,

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01:46:31,000 --> 01:46:32,639
Speaker 1: all right. So we go to Camp coumpt Down twelve

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Speaker 1: days away from training camp starting July twenty eight, counting

2268
01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:38,560
Speaker 1: down which which rookie do you think is going to

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01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 1: make the most immediate impact? What do you think, sal

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Speaker 1: Which Okay, So the Buffo Bills dot Com. We've got

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Speaker 1: little videos that you can look at and and Chris

2272
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:51,360
Speaker 1: Brown and Maddie Glab or me and Maddie Glab will

2273
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:54,040
Speaker 1: talk about this in at one or two minute video

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Camp Camp Countdown on Buffalo Bills dot Com

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01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:03,000
Speaker 1: Slash video Slash Camp Countdown. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: want to listen to those, go ahead, But Salma are

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01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:09,120
Speaker 1: going to do it right here, all right. So I

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Speaker 1: think the guy that when you say the most immediate impact,

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Carlos Boogie Basham. And I'll

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01:47:15,400 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 1: tell you because I think he's a This is a

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01:47:17,080 --> 01:47:20,439
Speaker 1: five year college player. He's not coming in. Greg Russo

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01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 1: has it to me a higher ceiling, but he's not

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01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:26,280
Speaker 1: ready yet to play in the NFL necessarily as much

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01:47:26,320 --> 01:47:28,680
Speaker 1: as Boogie Basham would be. So when someone asks who

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01:47:28,680 --> 01:47:32,559
Speaker 1: would make the most immediate impact, I think Carlos Boogie

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01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:35,920
Speaker 1: Basham to me, plays earlier and more often than Greg

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01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: Russo does. Now does he have the career greg or

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01:47:38,120 --> 01:47:39,639
Speaker 1: So does? I don't know. Does he have the same

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01:47:39,640 --> 01:47:41,360
Speaker 1: amount of snapcout even by the end of the season.

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01:47:41,439 --> 01:47:43,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think from this particular it's

2291
01:47:43,960 --> 01:47:45,960
Speaker 1: so hard to crack this lineup, it's so hard to play.

2292
01:47:46,479 --> 01:47:47,800
Speaker 1: If I had to pick another guy, it might be

2293
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:49,960
Speaker 1: to mar Hamlin simply because they need dbs and you

2294
01:47:50,200 --> 01:47:51,720
Speaker 1: know he might be on the field. But I think

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01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:55,760
Speaker 1: Carlos Boogie Basham makes from this draft class the most immediate,

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01:47:55,880 --> 01:47:59,800
Speaker 1: meaning right away impact because he has the pedigree to

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01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:02,000
Speaker 1: walk onto an NFL field and probably fit right in

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01:48:02,080 --> 01:48:04,439
Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit sooner than the others. Well,

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01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:08,000
Speaker 1: I think for me and I get that too. Boogie

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01:48:08,120 --> 01:48:12,720
Speaker 1: is supposedly finger quotes more polished than Greg Rousseau. I'll

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01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:16,760
Speaker 1: say this, I think Greg Rousseau by the end of

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01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:18,640
Speaker 1: the season is going to be the guy people are

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01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:21,080
Speaker 1: looking forward to have be a truly great player. Now.

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01:48:21,120 --> 01:48:23,679
Speaker 1: He's got elite traits all the way around. He checks

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01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:30,120
Speaker 1: absolutely every box size, physicality, strength, speed, athleticism, coordination, and

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that you can't really put in a

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01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:36,519
Speaker 1: defined box, like character, being a teammate, being a leader,

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Speaker 1: being a positive influence. When he finds his rhythm in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, and I think he will rather quickly, maybe

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01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:46,760
Speaker 1: not as quick as Boogie. I think he is going

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01:48:46,880 --> 01:48:51,320
Speaker 1: to be a force, and I think the Bills will

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01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:55,040
Speaker 1: find a way to use him to his greatest potential early.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm with you. I think Boogie is going to

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01:48:58,000 --> 01:48:59,439
Speaker 1: be a great player. I think he's really got a

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01:48:59,520 --> 01:49:01,519
Speaker 1: chance to be A guy who puts in a twelve

2316
01:49:01,600 --> 01:49:04,479
Speaker 1: year career a defensive end and does that. I think.

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01:49:04,880 --> 01:49:10,080
Speaker 1: I think Rousseau is the same way. Willie Basham has

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01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:12,839
Speaker 1: played four year I said five four years college football

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01:49:12,840 --> 01:49:15,200
Speaker 1: at week for US. He played eleven games as freshman year, twelve,

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01:49:15,240 --> 01:49:17,439
Speaker 1: then thirteen, then he played six last year. But I

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01:49:17,479 --> 01:49:19,400
Speaker 1: mean he has a ton of college experience. I think,

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01:49:19,439 --> 01:49:21,640
Speaker 1: to me, when you're talking about a roster as good

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01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:23,240
Speaker 1: as the Bills has said as the Bills, it's gonna

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01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:25,360
Speaker 1: be hard unless you're up to speed and you know,

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01:49:25,439 --> 01:49:27,000
Speaker 1: and you can adjust a little bit more to the

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Speaker 1: speed of the game. But who knows. I'll tell you

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01:49:29,400 --> 01:49:31,920
Speaker 1: the reason why I think Hamlin could be Look, they

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01:49:31,960 --> 01:49:35,200
Speaker 1: had a really nice backup safety in Dean Marlow last year.

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01:49:35,439 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: He's gone that spot. To me, that number three safety

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01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:40,439
Speaker 1: spot Steve is up for grabs, right. I could see

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01:49:40,840 --> 01:49:44,519
Speaker 1: tomorrow Hamlin Grabb in that spot. Yeah. Now, granted, the

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01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:47,080
Speaker 1: two guys they have there who are terrific are hide employer.

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01:49:47,160 --> 01:49:49,200
Speaker 1: They don't come off the field. But if something were

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01:49:49,240 --> 01:49:51,040
Speaker 1: to happen like it did a couple of times last

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01:49:51,120 --> 01:49:53,760
Speaker 1: year when you saw Dean Marlow come on the field

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01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:55,800
Speaker 1: and he goes again, he has a sack and an

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01:49:55,960 --> 01:49:58,320
Speaker 1: interception against the Patriots, he has the fumble recovery, and

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01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: the other game against the Patriots, I think you're looking

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01:50:01,479 --> 01:50:03,600
Speaker 1: for a guy that can walk it can really just

2340
01:50:03,760 --> 01:50:07,920
Speaker 1: be a nice player, a chess piece to have at

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01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:11,160
Speaker 1: either safety, goes out and he has to spend time

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01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:13,000
Speaker 1: on the bench or miss a game, I think tomorrow Hamlin.

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01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:14,400
Speaker 1: And by the way, he could be a really good

2344
01:50:14,400 --> 01:50:16,599
Speaker 1: special teams player and that could get him on the field. Yeah,

2345
01:50:16,720 --> 01:50:19,719
Speaker 1: and I'll say this too. It I could even construe

2346
01:50:19,760 --> 01:50:22,599
Speaker 1: a scenario where one of the rookie offensive tackles gets

2347
01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:26,160
Speaker 1: on the field. A guy like Spencer Brown could end

2348
01:50:26,240 --> 01:50:29,599
Speaker 1: up playing right tackle for the Bills. If Daryl Williams

2349
01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:33,080
Speaker 1: comes back and he took up an offseason off because

2350
01:50:33,240 --> 01:50:35,080
Speaker 1: he signed a big deal, and he says, you know what,

2351
01:50:35,200 --> 01:50:36,920
Speaker 1: I came in. I killed it last year. I'm gonna come.

2352
01:50:36,920 --> 01:50:38,559
Speaker 1: I'm gonna coast on in here and get this done.

2353
01:50:39,160 --> 01:50:43,800
Speaker 1: It may not happen. Like I said, the top four

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01:50:43,920 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: draft picks of the Bills in Russo bash him, Brown

2355
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:52,840
Speaker 1: and Doyle. I keep saying it because maybe that's because

2356
01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: I never was able to do it. When those guys

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01:50:55,040 --> 01:50:58,400
Speaker 1: get off the bus, it's gonna be a hole. I

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01:50:58,479 --> 01:51:05,160
Speaker 1: mean there they are enormous physical specimens and that goes

2359
01:51:05,800 --> 01:51:10,439
Speaker 1: in a league where you gotta be pretty physical to

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01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:14,840
Speaker 1: get there. These guys all are off the charts in

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01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:19,640
Speaker 1: their gifts, physical gifts, just in just you know, a

2362
01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:21,680
Speaker 1: lot of meat on the hook, I mean on the

2363
01:51:21,760 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 1: hoof Those guys standing in the paddock looked like the

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01:51:24,200 --> 01:51:26,000
Speaker 1: race horses did you want to ride? When I went

2365
01:51:26,080 --> 01:51:29,439
Speaker 1: to those guys are thoroughbreds, all of them. They Spencer

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01:51:29,479 --> 01:51:33,280
Speaker 1: Brown to your point, he just stood out like I'm like,

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01:51:33,960 --> 01:51:36,720
Speaker 1: that is just different. Like how big he is. It's incredible.

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01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:39,000
Speaker 1: He just stood out because he is so big and

2369
01:51:39,120 --> 01:51:41,200
Speaker 1: he can move for a big and it's interesting. And

2370
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:43,519
Speaker 1: we've talked about this at Lincoln. I'm I'm it's gonna

2371
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:47,280
Speaker 1: be a story for me up until something else takes

2372
01:51:47,320 --> 01:51:51,200
Speaker 1: it away. This is the story of this team. Spencer Brown,

2373
01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:57,360
Speaker 1: Greg Russou, Tommy Doyle boogie bash him, and then fa

2374
01:51:57,439 --> 01:52:01,400
Speaker 1: Obada and Starlotle come back. The fact that they kept

2375
01:52:01,479 --> 01:52:04,200
Speaker 1: Vernon Butler who's six four three twenty five and big dude.

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01:52:05,080 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 1: This is a This is a team that falls in

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01:52:08,520 --> 01:52:11,960
Speaker 1: love with physical traite, elite physical traits. They get guys

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01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 1: who are like that because I think they have total

2379
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:15,680
Speaker 1: confidence and what we've been talking about all day, they're

2380
01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:17,000
Speaker 1: going to get the most out of those guys. And

2381
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:18,640
Speaker 1: if you guys have got have you got guys who

2382
01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:21,560
Speaker 1: have the biggest high end. This coaching staff believes and

2383
01:52:21,680 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 1: has proven, watch us get that potential out of it

2384
01:52:24,960 --> 01:52:28,559
Speaker 1: because we've all seen great gifted players just like, yeah,

2385
01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:30,760
Speaker 1: he never seems to work hard. What's wrong with this guy?

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01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:32,920
Speaker 1: He looks so awesome and he's just you know, he's

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01:52:32,920 --> 01:52:35,240
Speaker 1: just there. It's a great point. That's a great point

2388
01:52:35,240 --> 01:52:37,200
Speaker 1: because you get guys like that. You go back to

2389
01:52:37,240 --> 01:52:39,040
Speaker 1: the draft and all the mock drafters and who they

2390
01:52:39,080 --> 01:52:41,360
Speaker 1: want and things like that, and we all should have

2391
01:52:41,360 --> 01:52:43,160
Speaker 1: saw it coming. We all should have saw it, Like, Hey,

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01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:45,120
Speaker 1: the kind of guys they want are the guys that

2393
01:52:45,360 --> 01:52:47,479
Speaker 1: they test off the charts. They have these elite physical

2394
01:52:47,560 --> 01:52:50,280
Speaker 1: traits because they have so much confidence in their own development.

2395
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:52,559
Speaker 1: Goes back to what we talked about, the development. They're

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01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:54,280
Speaker 1: so good at it, and by the way, they should be.

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01:52:54,400 --> 01:52:56,960
Speaker 1: I mean they should. They've been right, they've They've done

2398
01:52:56,960 --> 01:53:00,479
Speaker 1: a great job of developing players. They certainly. I think

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01:53:00,520 --> 01:53:04,599
Speaker 1: the thing that stands out is their ability to discern

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01:53:04,920 --> 01:53:07,960
Speaker 1: who's motivated for the right reasons. You know, who wants

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01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:10,320
Speaker 1: to be great, who's and that's really what you want.

2402
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:11,720
Speaker 1: You want guys that just want to be as good

2403
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:13,559
Speaker 1: as they can possibly. But Josh said that, he goes,

2404
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:14,639
Speaker 1: I want just want to be one of the great

2405
01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:17,160
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the league. I want to be the

2406
01:53:17,240 --> 01:53:18,840
Speaker 1: guys that are playing out. I want to be one

2407
01:53:18,840 --> 01:53:21,200
Speaker 1: of the best ones out there. You love a guy

2408
01:53:21,320 --> 01:53:24,720
Speaker 1: like that because that takes some motivation. That takes It's

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01:53:24,760 --> 01:53:29,120
Speaker 1: a it's an ongoing process, right like the process, it's

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01:53:29,400 --> 01:53:31,640
Speaker 1: a never ending goal. You never reach the end of that.

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01:53:32,360 --> 01:53:34,760
Speaker 1: So you're gonna be continually motivated throughout your career. If

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01:53:34,760 --> 01:53:35,960
Speaker 1: you want to be one of the best guys out there,

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01:53:35,960 --> 01:53:38,200
Speaker 1: you gotta do what that takes. When the young guys

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01:53:38,280 --> 01:53:39,880
Speaker 1: come in and they're all fired up and they're out

2415
01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:42,280
Speaker 1: there interrogect it, you gotta match it as a ten

2416
01:53:42,360 --> 01:53:43,800
Speaker 1: year vet. You gotta go out there and do all

2417
01:53:43,840 --> 01:53:46,720
Speaker 1: that in the offseason. It never ends. When you get

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01:53:46,760 --> 01:53:48,320
Speaker 1: a guys that come in the league's actually, you know,

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01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:50,120
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to play in the league. I want

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01:53:50,120 --> 01:53:52,439
Speaker 1: to be an NFL player, and you know that's my

2421
01:53:52,520 --> 01:53:54,479
Speaker 1: goal and everything like that. That's great. So they are

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01:53:54,600 --> 01:53:56,160
Speaker 1: they make your team one. You what are they going

2423
01:53:56,200 --> 01:54:00,160
Speaker 1: to do next year? There's nothing for them, and you

2424
01:54:00,240 --> 01:54:05,840
Speaker 1: think that's crazy sounding. We've seen guys disappear after flashing

2425
01:54:07,120 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 1: as a rookie. As happens league, a guy just disappears

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01:54:11,160 --> 01:54:13,840
Speaker 1: because he made his he accomplished his goal. He has

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01:54:13,920 --> 01:54:15,920
Speaker 1: no more motivation to go on. It's hard to get

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01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:17,960
Speaker 1: out of bed and go out and put yourself through

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01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:21,040
Speaker 1: an NFL workout or a practice or an offseason. That's

2430
01:54:21,120 --> 01:54:26,040
Speaker 1: grueling when you've already accomplished your goal. That happens a ton.

2431
01:54:26,240 --> 01:54:28,360
Speaker 1: So that's why they get deep down in these guys

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01:54:28,400 --> 01:54:31,000
Speaker 1: and do deep dives into what makes him dick. Yeah,

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01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I look at this draft class and it's

2434
01:54:32,640 --> 01:54:35,160
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for these guys to make the roster,

2435
01:54:35,960 --> 01:54:38,520
Speaker 1: so hard in fact that even Brandon Bean said, that's

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01:54:38,520 --> 01:54:40,280
Speaker 1: why they added the extra pick because it would have

2437
01:54:40,280 --> 01:54:42,160
Speaker 1: been the udfas, where like, we don't know if we

2438
01:54:42,200 --> 01:54:43,720
Speaker 1: can get them. Because they know it's gonna be hard

2439
01:54:43,920 --> 01:54:45,320
Speaker 1: to come here and make the roster. That's why they

2440
01:54:45,360 --> 01:54:47,000
Speaker 1: traded for the extra pick. And then one other thing,

2441
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:49,080
Speaker 1: Brandon Being said, to your point, which you're right about

2442
01:54:49,120 --> 01:54:51,720
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, Brandon Being told us in the media when

2443
01:54:51,720 --> 01:54:53,360
Speaker 1: we did a zoom call after the draft, he said,

2444
01:54:53,640 --> 01:54:55,960
Speaker 1: he goes in to camp right now, is our backup

2445
01:54:56,040 --> 01:54:57,600
Speaker 1: right tackle. That's what he is. That's what he does.

2446
01:54:58,320 --> 01:55:01,120
Speaker 1: He might even said swing tackle it, but he basically said, yeah,

2447
01:55:01,360 --> 01:55:04,240
Speaker 1: he's he's he said, he's one guy one injury away

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01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:06,600
Speaker 1: from playing. He's one injury away from playing. That's what

2449
01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:09,160
Speaker 1: he is. That's where he's at. He's got that athletic ability,

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01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:12,760
Speaker 1: he's got that size. Um, he's got that pedigree and resume,

2451
01:55:12,840 --> 01:55:15,200
Speaker 1: and you know, the athleticism and the and the size

2452
01:55:15,320 --> 01:55:17,840
Speaker 1: is really what you're looking at. And he's proven the

2453
01:55:17,880 --> 01:55:20,000
Speaker 1: ability to do both sides, one hand on the ground

2454
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:22,880
Speaker 1: as opposed to the other hand on the ground. Um, yeah,

2455
01:55:23,520 --> 01:55:25,920
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And when you're that swing tackle

2456
01:55:25,960 --> 01:55:28,560
Speaker 1: and you want to get on the field, it's not

2457
01:55:28,680 --> 01:55:30,880
Speaker 1: that it's not that far of a trip to go

2458
01:55:31,080 --> 01:55:33,800
Speaker 1: from behind the guy on the depth chart to flipp

2459
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:36,960
Speaker 1: and switch switching places. Let's look what happened last year.

2460
01:55:37,040 --> 01:55:39,920
Speaker 1: This team did not have what they perceived to be

2461
01:55:40,040 --> 01:55:42,120
Speaker 1: their starting offensive line. Like when you go to camp,

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01:55:42,160 --> 01:55:45,480
Speaker 1: you think who's your starting offensive line. I think they

2463
01:55:45,600 --> 01:55:47,760
Speaker 1: played together for one or two snaps the entire year.

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01:55:47,840 --> 01:55:49,640
Speaker 1: Three snaps. I think that was the Patriots game. The

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01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:54,000
Speaker 1: third snap was when much more hurt. That's right, so

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01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:57,160
Speaker 1: to what you were saying that that's what happens. You

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01:55:57,240 --> 01:55:59,640
Speaker 1: have injuries all the time on the offensive line. We're

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01:55:59,680 --> 01:56:01,480
Speaker 1: coming back. Levi by Wallace is gonna join us at

2469
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:02,960
Speaker 1: bottom of the air. We're gonna get hold of him

2470
01:56:02,960 --> 01:56:05,200
Speaker 1: and he's gonna come back and hopefully we can get

2471
01:56:05,200 --> 01:56:06,840
Speaker 1: a hold of him. It's been a long time sound

2472
01:56:06,840 --> 01:56:10,680
Speaker 1: since we've had a player on the on the on

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01:56:10,760 --> 01:56:12,600
Speaker 1: the show. It's gonna be good. Levi by Wallace coming

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01:56:12,640 --> 01:56:14,840
Speaker 1: up after the break. This is Buffalo Bill's radio presenter

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Speaker 1: It'll go till eleven fifty nine tonight and joining us

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Speaker 1: now on the line. Buffalo Bills player entering his fourth

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Speaker 1: season with the Buffalo Bills. Undrafted free agent out of

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Speaker 1: Alabama in twenty eighteen, he's a cornerback twenty eighteen to

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Speaker 1: the present, pleased to be joined by Levi Wallace, Levi,

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01:57:42,160 --> 01:57:45,200
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Sal Capacco. You told us during the break

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01:57:45,240 --> 01:57:50,000
Speaker 1: you're in Buffalo again, Hunt. Is it nice to be back, sir? Yeah,

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01:57:50,240 --> 01:57:53,200
Speaker 1: it's super nice, you know, coming back from like that

2499
01:57:53,320 --> 01:57:56,400
Speaker 1: Arizona heat. You know, it's like one ten, one eleven

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01:57:56,520 --> 01:57:59,640
Speaker 1: up there, so you know, anything out here in Buffalo

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01:57:59,840 --> 01:58:02,440
Speaker 1: time best summers. So I'm glad to be back. Yeah.

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01:58:02,480 --> 01:58:04,680
Speaker 1: And you've you've heard that you've been through this before.

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01:58:04,680 --> 01:58:06,120
Speaker 1: You're old. I like you said, you're going into your

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01:58:06,160 --> 01:58:08,960
Speaker 1: fourth season. You came in as an undrafted rookie free agent,

2505
01:58:09,200 --> 01:58:13,280
Speaker 1: zero expectations. You've been on the field ever since. Despite

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01:58:13,320 --> 01:58:16,200
Speaker 1: the team and everybody says, well, they brought in they

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01:58:16,240 --> 01:58:18,560
Speaker 1: brought in all these guys to replace Levi and all that.

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01:58:18,640 --> 01:58:20,560
Speaker 1: It's not like they haven't been trying to replace everybody

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01:58:20,600 --> 01:58:24,080
Speaker 1: else either. I mean, there's real competitive juices going around

2510
01:58:24,120 --> 01:58:26,440
Speaker 1: this roster, but you've been kind of at the forefront

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01:58:26,480 --> 01:58:30,560
Speaker 1: of that, and yet you're always the last guy standing.

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01:58:30,600 --> 01:58:34,920
Speaker 1: You take a measure of pride in that. To be honest,

2513
01:58:34,920 --> 01:58:36,800
Speaker 1: I never really think about it. You know it's I

2514
01:58:36,880 --> 01:58:39,120
Speaker 1: think it's just it's just football, you know. I just

2515
01:58:39,160 --> 01:58:40,320
Speaker 1: go out there and try to do the best that

2516
01:58:40,360 --> 01:58:43,560
Speaker 1: I can and compete with the guys and try to

2517
01:58:43,600 --> 01:58:46,480
Speaker 1: do the best I can for the city. So, yeah,

2518
01:58:46,560 --> 01:58:50,440
Speaker 1: you heard us do the seven one sixth day promo

2519
01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:52,520
Speaker 1: right before we came on the year. Last year you

2520
01:58:52,760 --> 01:58:55,920
Speaker 1: did all something like this where you had Gamers versus

2521
01:58:56,000 --> 01:58:59,680
Speaker 1: Cancer where you've streamed Fortnite with some guys to raise

2522
01:58:59,720 --> 01:59:02,640
Speaker 1: money for cancer and awareness for cancer. Uh, tell us

2523
01:59:02,680 --> 01:59:08,800
Speaker 1: about that that initiative and what it meant to you. Yeah. So, um,

2524
01:59:09,840 --> 01:59:12,040
Speaker 1: it came from one of my good friends back in

2525
01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:14,720
Speaker 1: Arizona and she just kind of had the idea, and

2526
01:59:15,120 --> 01:59:16,680
Speaker 1: you know, I was all on board with it. I

2527
01:59:16,800 --> 01:59:19,200
Speaker 1: was playing it, you know during COVID, so I was like, yeah,

2528
01:59:19,280 --> 01:59:21,320
Speaker 1: let's do it. And my unpassed away from breast cancer

2529
01:59:21,640 --> 01:59:23,960
Speaker 1: when I was back in high school, so it was

2530
01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:25,880
Speaker 1: true and dear to my heart, and I just wanted

2531
01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:27,520
Speaker 1: to be able to I was happy to be able

2532
01:59:27,560 --> 01:59:29,840
Speaker 1: to be a part of that and race. Um, I

2533
01:59:29,920 --> 01:59:34,640
Speaker 1: think five thousand dollars for those for cancer. So it

2534
01:59:34,800 --> 01:59:37,840
Speaker 1: excited me. And you know, seven one six I worked

2535
01:59:37,840 --> 01:59:40,960
Speaker 1: a lot with the Upstate New York m als, you know,

2536
01:59:41,040 --> 01:59:43,880
Speaker 1: as my dad passed away from als and um, I

2537
01:59:43,880 --> 01:59:47,680
Speaker 1: actually have a calendar right behind me. Um. But yeah,

2538
01:59:47,760 --> 01:59:50,680
Speaker 1: the just just the amount of love that I get

2539
01:59:51,200 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo and the support that that I give

2540
01:59:53,520 --> 01:59:55,600
Speaker 1: to them and that they get back, it's just unbelievable.

2541
01:59:55,680 --> 01:59:57,720
Speaker 1: So just to do everything in my power to help

2542
01:59:58,080 --> 02:00:00,280
Speaker 1: and leave. I'm trying to do it and leave. You've

2543
02:00:00,320 --> 02:00:02,040
Speaker 1: seen now you've been here long enough to know what

2544
02:00:02,280 --> 02:00:03,840
Speaker 1: it means to be a part of this community and

2545
02:00:04,160 --> 02:00:06,360
Speaker 1: how people rally around one another and things like that.

2546
02:00:06,400 --> 02:00:08,480
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo has a certain reputation from people on

2547
02:00:08,520 --> 02:00:10,800
Speaker 1: the outside, maybe even for younger people like you grew

2548
02:00:10,880 --> 02:00:12,920
Speaker 1: up in Tucson, Arizona. You go to Alabama, you don't

2549
02:00:12,920 --> 02:00:14,920
Speaker 1: know anything about Buffalo. You come here in twenty eighteen,

2550
02:00:15,120 --> 02:00:17,240
Speaker 1: you'll learn about the fiber of this city and what

2551
02:00:17,400 --> 02:00:19,920
Speaker 1: makes people and what makes this city so special. And

2552
02:00:19,960 --> 02:00:22,000
Speaker 1: I think now something like this we we're looking on

2553
02:00:22,040 --> 02:00:23,960
Speaker 1: the screen right now, leave by eight hundred and thirteen

2554
02:00:24,040 --> 02:00:26,920
Speaker 1: thousand dollars raised just today through seven one six give

2555
02:00:26,960 --> 02:00:29,000
Speaker 1: seven six. It's pretty incredible here and you've seen this

2556
02:00:29,040 --> 02:00:32,320
Speaker 1: as part of the community. You've grown with it now. Yeah,

2557
02:00:32,400 --> 02:00:34,760
Speaker 1: I mean, like it's it's amazing. It's amazing to see

2558
02:00:34,760 --> 02:00:37,800
Speaker 1: the support that we all get, players and coaches in

2559
02:00:37,920 --> 02:00:40,840
Speaker 1: every initiative. I mean, Josh had something last year with

2560
02:00:41,200 --> 02:00:43,720
Speaker 1: the hospital and all that money that they raise. I mean,

2561
02:00:43,800 --> 02:00:47,000
Speaker 1: this city's second to none. It's by far one of

2562
02:00:47,040 --> 02:00:49,200
Speaker 1: the best cities that has the best support systems. You

2563
02:00:49,760 --> 02:00:52,720
Speaker 1: could have signed elsewhere this offseason, you chose to come

2564
02:00:52,760 --> 02:00:55,640
Speaker 1: back to Buffalo. You know, why, why did you want

2565
02:00:55,680 --> 02:00:57,480
Speaker 1: to stay here? What was what was it about this

2566
02:00:58,000 --> 02:00:59,840
Speaker 1: on off the field, whatever it was that said, Hey,

2567
02:01:00,200 --> 02:01:04,560
Speaker 1: I want to stay here with the guys, you know,

2568
02:01:04,880 --> 02:01:08,200
Speaker 1: trying to be back and win another championship with the

2569
02:01:08,280 --> 02:01:10,160
Speaker 1: guys and hopefully go on to win a Supooer ball.

2570
02:01:10,960 --> 02:01:13,840
Speaker 1: Just the camaraderie it's built different here, but also for

2571
02:01:13,920 --> 02:01:16,240
Speaker 1: the fans in the city. You know, last year was

2572
02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:19,440
Speaker 1: hard and even in the playoffs, just the atmosphere that

2573
02:01:19,520 --> 02:01:23,000
Speaker 1: they had it was unbelievable. And so just to be

2574
02:01:23,080 --> 02:01:25,560
Speaker 1: a part of that for another year, to try to

2575
02:01:25,640 --> 02:01:28,080
Speaker 1: go and do the best we can this year with

2576
02:01:28,200 --> 02:01:30,240
Speaker 1: the fans that we have, and I guess the stadiums

2577
02:01:30,240 --> 02:01:32,880
Speaker 1: already sold out. It's It's unbelievable and I can't wait

2578
02:01:32,880 --> 02:01:34,720
Speaker 1: to be back in the stadium playing in front of everyone.

2579
02:01:34,800 --> 02:01:38,120
Speaker 1: We're talking to Levi Wallace, Bield's cornerback front since twenty eighteen,

2580
02:01:38,200 --> 02:01:41,360
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent out of Alabama. You guys last year

2581
02:01:41,480 --> 02:01:45,400
Speaker 1: earned the right to come into this year with sky

2582
02:01:45,560 --> 02:01:48,520
Speaker 1: high expectations, not just from the fans here in Buffalo,

2583
02:01:48,840 --> 02:01:51,440
Speaker 1: but around the country. National media is now picking you

2584
02:01:51,520 --> 02:01:54,280
Speaker 1: guys to win the division, go deep in the playoffs sometime,

2585
02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:57,960
Speaker 1: or even predicting a Super Bowl championship. You've been here

2586
02:01:58,040 --> 02:02:00,680
Speaker 1: for OTAs You've talked to your teammate. It's what is

2587
02:02:00,800 --> 02:02:03,600
Speaker 1: the attitude of the guys inside the locker room about

2588
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:08,320
Speaker 1: this coming season. I think for us, it's last year

2589
02:02:08,400 --> 02:02:10,520
Speaker 1: was great, but that was last year's season. You know,

2590
02:02:10,600 --> 02:02:12,400
Speaker 1: we have to move on and look forward to this

2591
02:02:12,560 --> 02:02:15,680
Speaker 1: year and we have different opponents, um, and we're not

2592
02:02:15,800 --> 02:02:17,920
Speaker 1: We're not surprising any team this year, you know, with

2593
02:02:18,480 --> 02:02:20,880
Speaker 1: us jumping out into any leagues like that, everyone knows.

2594
02:02:21,360 --> 02:02:23,560
Speaker 1: You know, Buffalo is here and we're here to play

2595
02:02:23,600 --> 02:02:26,120
Speaker 1: hard and we work hard. So it's just more of

2596
02:02:26,160 --> 02:02:28,760
Speaker 1: a challenge and see how we can take that next

2597
02:02:28,760 --> 02:02:32,280
Speaker 1: step to getting pass just the AFC Championship, you know,

2598
02:02:32,440 --> 02:02:34,720
Speaker 1: and and trying to win as many game as we

2599
02:02:34,760 --> 02:02:37,120
Speaker 1: can this year to repeat the success that we had

2600
02:02:37,200 --> 02:02:39,200
Speaker 1: last year. Leave. Let's be honest. Is it getting a

2601
02:02:39,240 --> 02:02:41,840
Speaker 1: little old being the guy from Alabama who just gets

2602
02:02:41,920 --> 02:02:43,680
Speaker 1: bragging rights all the time in the locker room. I mean,

2603
02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:46,000
Speaker 1: you know, all these other schools and teams keep trying

2604
02:02:46,040 --> 02:02:48,600
Speaker 1: to challenge you guys, but it's got to be getting

2605
02:02:48,640 --> 02:02:50,160
Speaker 1: old for you just to be like, yeah, whatever, like

2606
02:02:50,240 --> 02:02:53,640
Speaker 1: we just win it every year. You know, I don't

2607
02:02:53,680 --> 02:02:56,560
Speaker 1: even say anything. It's funny now because I just I

2608
02:02:56,680 --> 02:02:58,440
Speaker 1: just give him the look and feel like I leave.

2609
02:02:58,480 --> 02:03:00,240
Speaker 1: But you can't say. You can't say what you want

2610
02:03:00,240 --> 02:03:01,600
Speaker 1: to say. I know you're not allowed to be in

2611
02:03:01,680 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: this conversation, you know when they bring up college football,

2612
02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:06,680
Speaker 1: But uh, it's always fun. You know. I think I'm

2613
02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:08,600
Speaker 1: the only Alabama guy now that TJ is not on

2614
02:03:08,680 --> 02:03:10,920
Speaker 1: the team, So you know, I got no backup in

2615
02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:12,720
Speaker 1: that locker room, so I just keep to myself. From

2616
02:03:12,760 --> 02:03:15,920
Speaker 1: that long you came in. You came in as a

2617
02:03:16,920 --> 02:03:19,200
Speaker 1: nobody here in Buffalo knew who you were, your undrafted

2618
02:03:19,240 --> 02:03:21,280
Speaker 1: free agent. Now you're you're coming into your fourth year.

2619
02:03:21,320 --> 02:03:24,080
Speaker 1: You've been a three year starter. How has How is

2620
02:03:24,080 --> 02:03:27,640
Speaker 1: your attitude or your your your you know, your sense

2621
02:03:27,680 --> 02:03:30,760
Speaker 1: of self awareness? How have you changed over the course

2622
02:03:30,800 --> 02:03:33,240
Speaker 1: of your time here in Buffalo? You said you've Yeah,

2623
02:03:33,440 --> 02:03:36,440
Speaker 1: there's no question you've flourished here with Sean McDermott and

2624
02:03:36,760 --> 02:03:41,080
Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier's defense, you've played extremely well. M How has

2625
02:03:41,120 --> 02:03:43,680
Speaker 1: your perspective changed about football and your place in it?

2626
02:03:45,920 --> 02:03:49,480
Speaker 1: It hasn't, hasn't Really, I kind of stay the same. Um.

2627
02:03:50,280 --> 02:03:52,280
Speaker 1: You know, I think, like you said, Sean and coach

2628
02:03:52,320 --> 02:03:54,960
Speaker 1: Fraser to do a great job of just keeping the

2629
02:03:55,040 --> 02:03:58,320
Speaker 1: team together. And I think their leadership just it just

2630
02:03:58,480 --> 02:04:01,960
Speaker 1: molds me just to stay consistent say the same. Um.

2631
02:04:02,280 --> 02:04:05,560
Speaker 1: I mean, they've definitely taught me a lot about football,

2632
02:04:05,640 --> 02:04:07,560
Speaker 1: but also off the field too, just being a good man.

2633
02:04:07,680 --> 02:04:10,200
Speaker 1: So UM, I can never thank them enough for just

2634
02:04:11,160 --> 02:04:13,120
Speaker 1: signing me. Um, let me be a part of this

2635
02:04:13,280 --> 02:04:16,360
Speaker 1: organization like I happened. Steve, if you go to Levi's

2636
02:04:16,400 --> 02:04:19,680
Speaker 1: bio at the Buffalo Bill's website, says his hidden talent

2637
02:04:19,880 --> 02:04:21,560
Speaker 1: is singing in the car. I mean, come on, know,

2638
02:04:21,640 --> 02:04:23,320
Speaker 1: we all think we're really good singers in the car.

2639
02:04:23,400 --> 02:04:25,320
Speaker 1: What's your go to tunes, though, LEVI, what do you

2640
02:04:25,400 --> 02:04:27,440
Speaker 1: sing when you're driving around in a nice summer day?

2641
02:04:27,680 --> 02:04:31,560
Speaker 1: Window is down? What are you singing? Man? So yesterday

2642
02:04:31,920 --> 02:04:34,440
Speaker 1: you just missed it. Yesterday I was singing. I think

2643
02:04:34,440 --> 02:04:37,760
Speaker 1: a little bit of Al Green and Luther vandros Wow, nice,

2644
02:04:38,240 --> 02:04:41,280
Speaker 1: very nice. Lu is my favorite. Yeah, those are just

2645
02:04:41,360 --> 02:04:43,720
Speaker 1: my favorite, greatest of all time. So well, we can't wait.

2646
02:04:43,760 --> 02:04:45,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna have you on the show during the season.

2647
02:04:45,440 --> 02:04:46,880
Speaker 1: We'll get you in studio and you can give us

2648
02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:48,560
Speaker 1: a sample. Well I, we'll put We'll get a steering

2649
02:04:48,560 --> 02:04:51,120
Speaker 1: wheel in front of you, and we'll let you We'll

2650
02:04:51,200 --> 02:04:52,920
Speaker 1: let you belt it out, Levi. Thanks for coming on

2651
02:04:53,040 --> 02:04:54,800
Speaker 1: with this man, congratulators. Can't wait to see you on

2652
02:04:54,840 --> 02:04:58,240
Speaker 1: the field this fall. Thank you, guys for having Levi

2653
02:04:59,120 --> 02:05:02,480
Speaker 1: cornerback Buffalo Bills undrafted free agent out of Alabama twenty eighteen.

2654
02:05:02,480 --> 02:05:06,320
Speaker 1: And he has been an absolute fixture at CB two

2655
02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:09,680
Speaker 1: for the Bills for three years. And they've and I've

2656
02:05:09,720 --> 02:05:11,760
Speaker 1: say I say it all the time, they have constantly

2657
02:05:11,800 --> 02:05:14,680
Speaker 1: tried to replace him and they can't get it done. No,

2658
02:05:14,920 --> 02:05:16,680
Speaker 1: And the Bills have pretty much said that too, not

2659
02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:18,720
Speaker 1: in a negative way like they're just they always bringing

2660
02:05:18,760 --> 02:05:20,840
Speaker 1: in competition and he always holds them off. And Leslie

2661
02:05:20,840 --> 02:05:23,040
Speaker 1: Fraser says it, and Sean McDermott says it, and that's

2662
02:05:23,040 --> 02:05:25,680
Speaker 1: absolutely right. And again I'll go back to it doesn't

2663
02:05:25,800 --> 02:05:28,360
Speaker 1: matter who is playing opposite Tredevious White, that person is

2664
02:05:28,360 --> 02:05:31,000
Speaker 1: going to be picked on because they are not Tradevious White.

2665
02:05:31,000 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 1: So they're they're gonna give up plays. And by the way,

2666
02:05:33,800 --> 02:05:36,680
Speaker 1: teams are gonna scheme to get matchups against that player.

2667
02:05:36,760 --> 02:05:39,120
Speaker 1: So you're always gonna have a segment of fans or

2668
02:05:39,200 --> 02:05:41,280
Speaker 1: media who kind of you know, are a little bit

2669
02:05:41,360 --> 02:05:43,320
Speaker 1: down on that player, and Levi has had that share.

2670
02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:45,640
Speaker 1: But you know what, man, every time you think the

2671
02:05:45,720 --> 02:05:47,840
Speaker 1: guy is down, he comes back and he bounces back

2672
02:05:47,880 --> 02:05:49,280
Speaker 1: and he has a big play. We're looking at one

2673
02:05:49,400 --> 02:05:51,040
Speaker 1: right now that he had in the Sunday night game

2674
02:05:51,080 --> 02:05:53,560
Speaker 1: here against the Steelers. Yeah, that's great. So yeah, thanks

2675
02:05:53,600 --> 02:05:55,600
Speaker 1: to Levi for coming on. We'll be watching him during

2676
02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:57,720
Speaker 1: training camp starts in twelve days. You can get tickets

2677
02:05:57,760 --> 02:06:00,000
Speaker 1: to the three open practices you're starting at ten o'clock

2678
02:06:00,160 --> 02:06:03,320
Speaker 1: this morning. Just go to Buffalo Bill's Ticks Forward Slash

2679
02:06:03,360 --> 02:06:06,840
Speaker 1: Training Camp online only. They're free but you only get

2680
02:06:06,880 --> 02:06:09,920
Speaker 1: six at a time, six for every order that you get. So,

2681
02:06:10,480 --> 02:06:11,920
Speaker 1: but you do need a ticket to get in, even

2682
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:14,080
Speaker 1: though they are free. Sorry, you just do a little

2683
02:06:14,240 --> 02:06:17,080
Speaker 1: Let's push this a little bit and go NFL true false.

2684
02:06:18,040 --> 02:06:20,040
Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to these true falses today. All right,

2685
02:06:20,080 --> 02:06:22,120
Speaker 1: here we go NFL true false, brought to you by

2686
02:06:22,200 --> 02:06:26,760
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy Yancey's Fancy New York's artisan Cheese. Here we

2687
02:06:26,840 --> 02:06:32,640
Speaker 1: go South, NFL true false. Number one the Colts true

2688
02:06:32,680 --> 02:06:34,600
Speaker 1: or false. The Colts will win the AFC South in

2689
02:06:34,640 --> 02:06:37,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. So this comes down to two teams.

2690
02:06:37,280 --> 02:06:39,000
Speaker 1: For me, Steve, it's either the Colts are the Titans.

2691
02:06:39,040 --> 02:06:41,160
Speaker 1: Because I look, I have notes I wrote here, knowing

2692
02:06:41,200 --> 02:06:45,680
Speaker 1: I was gonna have this question. I wrote Texans, I wrote, nah, no, yikes,

2693
02:06:46,080 --> 02:06:48,520
Speaker 1: Jacksonville rebuilds, right, that's what they're doing. This is rookie

2694
02:06:48,560 --> 02:06:51,680
Speaker 1: head coach ki quarterback Tennessee or Indie, And to me,

2695
02:06:52,360 --> 02:06:54,600
Speaker 1: Tennessee's defense, I'm just not sure about them. I think

2696
02:06:54,640 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 1: Indie is well coached. I think their roster does not

2697
02:06:57,520 --> 02:07:00,680
Speaker 1: have the top end talent necessarily that Tennessee's has. They

2698
02:07:00,680 --> 02:07:02,960
Speaker 1: do have good player's top end, but I think they're

2699
02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:04,880
Speaker 1: solid everywhere else. I think the bottom end of their

2700
02:07:04,920 --> 02:07:08,160
Speaker 1: roster is much better than Tennessee's bottom end. I think

2701
02:07:08,240 --> 02:07:11,080
Speaker 1: Indianapolis is going to be in the in the final four. Wow.

2702
02:07:11,200 --> 02:07:12,840
Speaker 1: I think they they're gonna be in the final four,

2703
02:07:12,880 --> 02:07:15,880
Speaker 1: particularly the conference. It's about their quarterback though to me now,

2704
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:17,680
Speaker 1: because with Carson Wentz, I think he's gonna have a

2705
02:07:17,720 --> 02:07:19,360
Speaker 1: bounce back here. If they could do with Philip Rivers

2706
02:07:19,440 --> 02:07:21,280
Speaker 1: last year, they're gonna do with Carson Wentz this year.

2707
02:07:21,280 --> 02:07:24,360
Speaker 1: I think they are. I think they are a dark

2708
02:07:24,400 --> 02:07:28,280
Speaker 1: horse to go deep. Very interested playoffs. Of course, you

2709
02:07:28,320 --> 02:07:30,480
Speaker 1: know me, I got a lot of faith, Yeah, of course,

2710
02:07:30,560 --> 02:07:32,560
Speaker 1: But I think, yeah, there's no doubt they're gonna win

2711
02:07:32,680 --> 02:07:35,920
Speaker 1: that division and they're gonna be They're going to become

2712
02:07:36,040 --> 02:07:38,440
Speaker 1: what people think is the flavor of the month to

2713
02:07:38,560 --> 02:07:40,440
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl here pretty soon. I think. So

2714
02:07:40,600 --> 02:07:42,960
Speaker 1: we will say true and they'll say true NFL true

2715
02:07:43,000 --> 02:07:47,000
Speaker 1: false Number two and it is se Quon Barkley will

2716
02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:49,600
Speaker 1: be the player returning from injury to have the biggest impact.

2717
02:07:49,640 --> 02:07:51,920
Speaker 1: True or false? This is false. How can it be

2718
02:07:51,960 --> 02:07:54,160
Speaker 1: a running back when you have Dak Prescott a quarterback

2719
02:07:54,280 --> 02:07:56,880
Speaker 1: returning from injury, he will absolutely have the biggest impas

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Speaker 1: I'll say this too, I'll say is false, even though

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02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:00,640
Speaker 1: because of this, I think Christian McCaffrey will be a

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02:08:00,720 --> 02:08:02,880
Speaker 1: running back that has even been bigger. How about how

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02:08:02,880 --> 02:08:05,600
Speaker 1: about Drwin James on that Chargers defense? How about how

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02:08:05,600 --> 02:08:08,120
Speaker 1: about Nick Bosa? How about Von Miller? I mean he

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02:08:08,200 --> 02:08:11,280
Speaker 1: was an opt out, so you know, I yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: with you. Dak Prescott's going to be the guy that

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02:08:13,160 --> 02:08:15,080
Speaker 1: has the biggest impact as a player coming back from

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Speaker 1: an injury, particularly and listen, are we just going to

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02:08:18,920 --> 02:08:20,920
Speaker 1: give him the Comeback Player of the Year award? Now?

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02:08:21,640 --> 02:08:24,920
Speaker 1: I think it's his to lose. There's no doubt. Dallas Cowboys,

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02:08:24,920 --> 02:08:27,360
Speaker 1: and he was leading the NFL in passing yards when

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02:08:27,400 --> 02:08:29,200
Speaker 1: he got hurt, and I'm they were they might not

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02:08:29,280 --> 02:08:31,520
Speaker 1: even make the playoffs, but you know, and good for him.

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02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:32,720
Speaker 1: If he gets on the field and is able to

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02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:35,280
Speaker 1: perform like that again, that would be great to see. Obviously. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think both of us think that as false. Okay,

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02:08:37,520 --> 02:08:41,040
Speaker 1: NFL true false number My favorite word, Steve, this is

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02:08:41,080 --> 02:08:43,640
Speaker 1: my favorite one to talk about here. Isaac Bruce and

2739
02:08:43,800 --> 02:08:48,520
Speaker 1: Tory Holt are the NFL's best wide receiver duo of

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02:08:48,760 --> 02:08:53,000
Speaker 1: all time. Okay, let me say first of all, this

2741
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:55,640
Speaker 1: is no disrespect to them. I could actually understand an

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02:08:55,760 --> 02:08:57,920
Speaker 1: argument for them, but the answer here is false. And

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02:08:58,000 --> 02:09:01,080
Speaker 1: in fact, I'll say, Steve I could put them fifth

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02:09:01,320 --> 02:09:03,400
Speaker 1: or six down the list. Let me run through some

2745
02:09:03,520 --> 02:09:05,320
Speaker 1: of the ones off the top of my head. All right,

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02:09:06,520 --> 02:09:09,200
Speaker 1: Lynn Swan and John Stalwarth, Jerry Rice and John Taylor,

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02:09:09,320 --> 02:09:11,520
Speaker 1: Mark Duper and Mark Clayton, how about Andre Reid and

2748
02:09:11,600 --> 02:09:14,760
Speaker 1: James lofton your teammates, how about Chris Carter Randy Moss. Yes,

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02:09:14,840 --> 02:09:17,160
Speaker 1: they never won anything. Those two guys are both gonna

2750
02:09:17,200 --> 02:09:19,400
Speaker 1: be in the home. Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne, I mean,

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02:09:20,000 --> 02:09:22,240
Speaker 1: I mean, we got a great pair here right now.

2752
02:09:22,320 --> 02:09:24,760
Speaker 1: And Stepan Tigs and Cole Beasley obviously, but no, no,

2753
02:09:24,920 --> 02:09:27,480
Speaker 1: they're not. They haven't elevated to that level in their career.

2754
02:09:27,800 --> 02:09:30,120
Speaker 1: But Steve is good as they won a Super Bowl,

2755
02:09:30,200 --> 02:09:33,960
Speaker 1: no question. Yes, those guys are fantastic and they may

2756
02:09:34,040 --> 02:09:38,040
Speaker 1: both get into the Hall of Fame. Right, Lynn Swan

2757
02:09:38,120 --> 02:09:39,960
Speaker 1: and John Stalworth are both in the Hall of Fame

2758
02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:42,920
Speaker 1: and they had four Super Bowl victories. You're telling me

2759
02:09:42,960 --> 02:09:45,120
Speaker 1: they weren't as good. You tell me those two guys

2760
02:09:45,120 --> 02:09:48,520
Speaker 1: are better than these guys. You know, you're telling me,

2761
02:09:48,640 --> 02:09:51,360
Speaker 1: you know, Bruce and Holt are better than those two guys. No,

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02:09:51,760 --> 02:09:54,320
Speaker 1: there's no way I can't see it. They they were

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02:09:54,360 --> 02:09:56,320
Speaker 1: on a fabulous, the greatest show on turf, right, They

2764
02:09:56,440 --> 02:09:58,520
Speaker 1: Marshall Falk in the backfield, Kurt Warner throwing it. They

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02:09:58,640 --> 02:10:01,040
Speaker 1: they kind of reading, They kind of redefined football rid

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02:10:01,120 --> 02:10:03,480
Speaker 1: in that absolutely or late nineties, early two thousand era,

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02:10:03,720 --> 02:10:05,560
Speaker 1: and the rules were starting to change a little, not

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02:10:05,880 --> 02:10:08,920
Speaker 1: so much what they are today. Things were going, you know,

2769
02:10:09,120 --> 02:10:11,960
Speaker 1: and it was Um, that was Um, that was Um

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02:10:12,320 --> 02:10:14,000
Speaker 1: the kid the Bills drafted his son a couple of

2771
02:10:14,080 --> 02:10:16,600
Speaker 1: years ago, Proul. Proul. There you go. He was part

2772
02:10:16,640 --> 02:10:19,520
Speaker 1: of that. So look, all the respect of the world,

2773
02:10:19,560 --> 02:10:22,040
Speaker 1: I love both those players, but when you're putting them

2774
02:10:22,120 --> 02:10:24,440
Speaker 1: up against Rice and Taylor, Swan and Stalwarth, or even

2775
02:10:24,520 --> 02:10:26,720
Speaker 1: Duper and Clayton or Read and Loft, and I cannot

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02:10:27,240 --> 02:10:29,960
Speaker 1: say they are. So that was was NFL True false,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and Cheese.

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Speaker 1: You're right, we both said, uh, we both said, we

2779
02:10:35,800 --> 02:10:37,800
Speaker 1: went true false false, both of us. We agreed on

2780
02:10:38,040 --> 02:10:39,360
Speaker 1: all three of those, and you're right that was a

2781
02:10:39,440 --> 02:10:42,840
Speaker 1: fun true false. That they the best wide receiver duo

2782
02:10:42,880 --> 02:10:45,560
Speaker 1: of all time. Yeah, that's and Carter and Moss might be.

2783
02:10:46,520 --> 02:10:50,080
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a legit. I never want anything. They

2784
02:10:50,160 --> 02:10:52,480
Speaker 1: never won anything. They got beaten in an NFC championship game.

2785
02:10:52,480 --> 02:10:54,800
Speaker 1: That was as far as they got. So there you go.

2786
02:10:54,920 --> 02:10:56,880
Speaker 1: Steve task or Sal Kapaca will be capt back to

2787
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Speaker 1: wrap things up here. On seven one sixty eight hundred

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Speaker 1: eighteen thousand dollars and counting until eleven fifty fifty nine

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Speaker 1: PM tonight, jump on Board Bills Mafia. Steve Tasker, Sal Capaccio.

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Speaker 1: This is one Bills live on Buffalo Bills Radio. What

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Speaker 1: have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official

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Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Learned a

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Speaker 1: lot today. Buffalo Bills Mafia still continuing to wow people

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Speaker 1: around the country with eight hundred and twenty five thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars so far. On seven one, sixth day, we had

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander Marty Barrun on a live stream zoom. We

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Speaker 1: started the first half hour of the show live on

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Speaker 1: every social media platform on for the Buffalo Bills and

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Speaker 1: the Sabers. Today, you can go back and listen to that.

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Speaker 1: On podcast, we had Scott Hallenback's CEO and executive director

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Speaker 1: of USA Football. Levi Wallace, was on the show. Sal

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Speaker 1: and I were we're chopping. We had a great question

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Speaker 1: from one of our listeners in the mail bank section

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Speaker 1: about what was our favorite Buffalo sports memory we had

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Speaker 1: There are some good ones in that one that was

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Speaker 1: that was an you know what else? I got a

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Speaker 1: I said fifty one to three and someone Buddy tweeted

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02:12:12,200 --> 02:12:13,240
Speaker 1: in it and he was not I don't think he

2809
02:12:13,280 --> 02:12:15,880
Speaker 1: was meaning any malice by this at all. He said, boy,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo needs a championship over one hundred years of NHL,

2811
02:12:18,760 --> 02:12:21,760
Speaker 1: NHL and NFL sports combined, and the greatest memory is

2812
02:12:21,800 --> 02:12:23,880
Speaker 1: a semi final win. But here's the thing, Buddy, that

2813
02:12:24,040 --> 02:12:26,160
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how old you are. For me, though,

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Speaker 1: the reason I chose this is it is much more

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02:12:28,800 --> 02:12:31,000
Speaker 1: than just a conference championship win. Though, as Steve would

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02:12:31,000 --> 02:12:33,680
Speaker 1: attest to the significance of that day in game first

2817
02:12:33,720 --> 02:12:35,880
Speaker 1: ever Super Bowl backdrop a desert shield, the way the

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02:12:35,920 --> 02:12:38,560
Speaker 1: game unfolded, the party throughout the entire second half, No,

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Speaker 1: when you were going to the Bowl, right, That's that's

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Speaker 1: what made it so Yeah, and for me it was

2821
02:12:42,640 --> 02:12:46,360
Speaker 1: it was the drought breaking, yep, after so many years.

2822
02:12:46,400 --> 02:12:50,040
Speaker 1: And what franchise can't you know, relate to that. I mean,

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02:12:50,080 --> 02:12:52,680
Speaker 1: there's a whole generation of Patriots fans who never went

2824
02:12:52,760 --> 02:12:56,400
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, let alone once. When six World Championship

2825
02:12:56,400 --> 02:12:57,840
Speaker 1: and all that things that have happened over the last

2826
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Speaker 1: twenty years, every franchise clear Eveland, Cincinnati, all these franchises

2827
02:13:01,960 --> 02:13:04,960
Speaker 1: that stunk for so long, and the Bills mired in

2828
02:13:05,160 --> 02:13:08,720
Speaker 1: just you know, barely being competitive for seventeen years, and

2829
02:13:08,800 --> 02:13:11,960
Speaker 1: then all of us, the players, the coaches, the owners,

2830
02:13:12,640 --> 02:13:15,200
Speaker 1: every fan around the globe got to see that break

2831
02:13:15,200 --> 02:13:17,680
Speaker 1: at the exact same moment in the exact same way.

2832
02:13:18,040 --> 02:13:20,960
Speaker 1: Pretty cool experience and for me, I'll never forget that

2833
02:13:21,040 --> 02:13:23,480
Speaker 1: that was. That was pretty awesome. Even the five presidents

2834
02:13:23,520 --> 02:13:25,520
Speaker 1: might tech loop with all the Hall of Famers, those

2835
02:13:25,600 --> 02:13:27,360
Speaker 1: guys were going crazy over it too, So that's a

2836
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Speaker 1: lot of fun as well. That's awesome. Thanks for having

2837
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Speaker 1: me today, absolutely, sal thanks for coming in Mane. You

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02:13:32,360 --> 02:13:34,040
Speaker 1: have a great weekend for you out there. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back Mondays, Chris Brown will be back in the saddle.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back, getting ready to wind up for training camp.

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Speaker 1: a great week. We'll see a Monday. Steve Tasker Sal

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