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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live, presented by Kalia Health.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Mandatory Mini Camp Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Everybody, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful sun splash day here at Orchard Park at One

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Speaker 2: Bill's Drive and first day of Mandatory Mini Camp and

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Speaker 2: the players out on the field almost in totality. We'll

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Speaker 2: get to that in just a second, but before we do,

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Speaker 2: we did want to share that our good friend and colleague,

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Speaker 2: one John Murphy was on the sidelines taking in practice today.

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Speaker 2: Very good to see him, seeing good spirits in great shape.

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Speaker 2: So nice to see Murph out here at practice. Steve

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Speaker 2: and I were chatting with him for a little while.

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Speaker 2: And uh also Steve, the other Steve that was your teammate,

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Speaker 2: one Steve Christy.

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Speaker 3: Out here working with Tyler Bess.

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Speaker 2: It's how cool is that the team's all time leading

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Speaker 2: scorer out here working with Tyler be That's just cool.

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Speaker 4: So, oh, we walk in. We were over doing the

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Speaker 4: Sean McDermott thing. It's a press compressor.

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Speaker 1: We walked back through the field house and I see

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Speaker 1: the guy in the middle of the field and I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was one of the security guys.

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Speaker 4: That it's here you know, because he was an older dude.

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Speaker 4: Forget that's that's where we're at.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he appreciates that, right.

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Speaker 4: So then I go over and I turned around to

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Speaker 4: look at and we were walking out to practice, and

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Speaker 4: I walked by him at a different angle, so.

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Speaker 1: I go, oh, my gosh. And you know what, he

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Speaker 1: didn't recognize me either. Oh. We had this nice little

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Speaker 1: reunion Hagis and I. Haggis. It was Steve Christie Is

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Speaker 1: that's his nickname. His nickname is Haggis.

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Speaker 4: So Haggis and I had a little and we were

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Speaker 4: talking about the new rule changes and all the stuff,

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Speaker 4: and it was great to see him. He is he's

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Speaker 4: as a little bit taken aback by the new rule

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Speaker 4: changes as we are. We're wondering how the strategy is

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Speaker 4: gonna go. Sean McDermott had to address that today.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was asking him, well, you know, what do you

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Speaker 1: think about these new You know, Tyler Bass, how are

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Speaker 1: you gonna kick off the fair catch on? Nobody knows.

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Speaker 4: So we were talking about talking to Steve Christy about

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Speaker 4: stuff like that, and it was great to touch base

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Speaker 4: with him. You're right, Steve Christie in the house, Uh,

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Speaker 4: talking about Tyler Bass had nice things to say about

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Speaker 4: the Bill's young kicker who just signed the extension and

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Speaker 4: all that.

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Speaker 3: So see, he said, this guy's got his stuff together.

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Speaker 1: He's got it together. Yeah, and certainly I would agree

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Speaker 1: with that. Uh.

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Speaker 2: This just coming in from ESPN's Adam Schefter, just to

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Speaker 2: bring everybody up to speed. Head coach Sean McDermott spoke

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Speaker 2: a little over an hour ago and said that Stefan

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Speaker 2: Diggs is not at mandatory mini camp and that he

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Speaker 2: is quote very concerned about that now. An hour later,

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Speaker 2: Adam Schefter from ESPN is reporting that Stefan Diggs's agent,

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Speaker 2: Adisa Bakari, said his client is in Buffalo, has been

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Speaker 2: in Buffalo since yesterday morning, took his physical, met with

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Speaker 2: the head coach NGM the past two days, and the

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Speaker 2: Pro Bowl wide receiver quote will be there for the

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Speaker 2: entirety of the mini camp. He is not on the

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Speaker 2: practice field at least when we were out there. So

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Speaker 2: take that for what it's worth. As we said, coach

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Speaker 2: McDermott addressed this subject right at the top of his

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Speaker 2: press conference, So let's let head coach Sean McDermott spell

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Speaker 2: out his thoughts on this subject for you.

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Speaker 1: Steph is not here.

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Speaker 5: Everybody else is here at the current time.

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Speaker 6: I'll con that.

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Speaker 5: Oh, very concerned, Yeah, very concerned.

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Speaker 7: So it's not a disease.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to get into and listen, I respect

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Speaker 5: everyone's everyone's questions and what they want to know about

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Speaker 5: our team. Right now, I'm just I'm not going to

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Speaker 5: get into into that anymore. So we'll talk about practice,

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Speaker 5: happy to do that, Happy to answer those questions, and

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Speaker 5: we'll move forward from there.

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of where he left it. And there

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Speaker 2: was a follow up question late in the press conference.

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Speaker 2: You know that, as you know, you're looking to kind

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Speaker 2: of gel the offense together, you know, and your number

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Speaker 2: one wide receiver isn't on the practice field. How much

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Speaker 2: does that hurt making progress in that area? And he said, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you don't if you don't work with

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Speaker 2: your teammates, it does make it more difficult. I think

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Speaker 2: in the end, we're talking about three days of practice.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what's the level of difference that it makes.

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Speaker 2: I I'm not going to pretend to know, but we

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Speaker 2: know that Sean McDermott is a is a man of principle,

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Speaker 2: This manly camp is mandatory. Now there are there's a

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Speaker 2: conflicting statement on Stefan Diggs and his level of participation here.

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Speaker 2: He's not on the practice field, but according to his agent,

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Speaker 2: he is here and did his entry physical yesterday.

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Speaker 3: So what's a foot here. There's no way for us

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Speaker 1: It seems to me and you and I are throwing darts.

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Speaker 4: We don't know anything more than anybody else does, except

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Speaker 4: that the experience being in the building would give us.

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Speaker 1: Sean mcdermot's being a leader.

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Speaker 4: He's not telling the guys who are out here working

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Speaker 4: hard that it doesn't matter that Stefan Diggs is not here.

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Speaker 4: In so doing so, it would not matter if they

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Speaker 4: weren't here either, So he's being a leader in that sense.

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Speaker 4: He's not gonna like downplay this because it's Steph Diggs.

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Speaker 4: He expects everybody to do it and pull their weight.

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Speaker 4: Steph Diggs has been reported by his day. He's in town,

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Speaker 4: was here yesterday in the building. We didn't see him,

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Speaker 4: but okay, that would mean you know something else, certainly

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Speaker 4: we saw so but he's.

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Speaker 2: Not practicing and probably not an injury because I would

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Speaker 2: think if there was an injury keeping him from practice,

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Speaker 2: coach McDermot would have said as much, right, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: So now I'll say this too. I mean, let's be real.

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Speaker 4: I've said it yesterday and all continue to say it.

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Speaker 4: I don't care. Steph Diggs is not gonna make or

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Speaker 4: break the season for the Bills in February because he

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Speaker 4: practiced these three days. So I'm I don't want to

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Speaker 4: say nonchalant about this because I don't have any skin

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Speaker 1: Those guys know what they're doing.

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Speaker 4: And I don't think Sean McDermott is really losing sleep

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Speaker 4: over it, but he wishes he didn't have to deal

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Speaker 4: with it, and he wishes Steph would come out in practice.

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Speaker 4: For whatever reason, Steph ain't practicing. I don't think it's

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Speaker 4: a serious reason. I don't think it says anything. I

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Speaker 1: A non story for me.

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Speaker 4: But that's me, right, I'm not every I'm not anybody

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Speaker 4: who matters. Well, I wouldn't go that far, right, So

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Speaker 4: that's that's where I'm at. He's in town and he

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Speaker 4: has and it's been reported he met and talked with

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Speaker 4: it means to me. That means as much as anything

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Speaker 4: I I texted you today. I said he might be

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Speaker 3: What do you think he's talking to him about?

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Speaker 4: That's the question, telling him where he's at he's I don't,

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Speaker 4: probably telling him I don't want to practice, I don't

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Speaker 4: want to be here. I got the stuff I want

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Speaker 4: to do, you know, whatever it is, or here's you know,

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Speaker 4: here's what happened last year. Maybe he there's maybe he's

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Speaker 4: still hashing out what how the season ended, maybe all

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Speaker 4: of that stuff. Maybe he's talking to him the offense

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Speaker 4: is going to change. I'm sure that if he met

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Speaker 4: in the door at Ken Dorsey's office as well, and

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Speaker 4: his receivers coach, finding out how they're doing, what's going

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Speaker 4: on with them, what their thoughts are, how they've been doing,

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Speaker 4: what they're you know, you know, give them some foresight

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Speaker 4: going to change. Where they see it evolving. Why kN

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Speaker 4: K you know, kN Kid's going to make a difference.

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Speaker 4: Why these new receivers are going to make a difference,

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Speaker 4: all of that, and that's it. I mean, that's basically

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Speaker 4: the three days of mini camp right there. And I

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Speaker 4: all the reps as a number one guy, right, which

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Speaker 4: means somebody else is not.

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Speaker 2: I get it. To me, this is a bigger story

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Speaker 2: for social media right than anybody else. So it's you know,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be amplified there because people are going

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Speaker 2: to be weighing in with their opinions and speculation as

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Speaker 2: to what the issues are. And there's no way for

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Speaker 2: not those things come to light in the coming days,

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Speaker 2: it remains to be seen. Yeah, and maybe he's right

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Speaker 2: out on the practice field tomorrow, like you know, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't strike me, I guess because of the guys

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Speaker 4: I played with, it doesn't strike me as odd that

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Speaker 3: I think I have an idea who you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: That does not surprise me that there is a really,

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Speaker 3: In guine right, I'd rather sit out, but I would.

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Speaker 4: I want to go out there and stand on his

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Speaker 4: feet for three hours either. So you know all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: So I'm I, yes, it is, it's a thing, but

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Speaker 4: it's until it becomes a big thing.

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Speaker 2: This is not a big thing, okay, So leave it

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Speaker 2: to one Steve Taster to calm the waters of the

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Speaker 2: fan base.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I calmed anybody down, because, like

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Speaker 4: I said, I don't know. I mean, I haven't talked

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Speaker 4: to Steph Diggs. But man, I'm I don't you know.

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Speaker 4: It's it's June thirteenth. It's fun for us because it's

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Speaker 4: something's happening in the building. Right, we get a good

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Speaker 4: watch these guys run around instead of just looking at

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Speaker 4: each other.

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Speaker 1: In our office.

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Speaker 4: And you saw Murph today too, that's right. So we

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Speaker 4: got to do that. So we got a chance to

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Speaker 4: touch base with some people.

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Speaker 3: But all right, we shall see.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's not a thing. Now it may

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Speaker 4: become a thing. Maybe it is a thing. We don't

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Speaker 4: know about it. I don't know that it indicates anything

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Speaker 4: except it's June thirteenth, and man, I don't want to

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Speaker 4: go out and practice until it's something else. I'm not

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Speaker 4: gonna worry about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go around the NFL. In the meantime, presented

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Speaker 2: by Kalida Healthy, official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 2: the DeAndre Hopkins Watch continues and he is scheduled to

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Speaker 2: visit the Patriots on Wednesday and Thursday this week. On

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Speaker 2: the heels of his visit with the Tennessee Titans, he

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Speaker 2: said that he and the Titans will continue to keep

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Speaker 2: in touch, so.

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Speaker 3: The door is not closed there.

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Speaker 2: But he did leave Tennessee without a contract signed, let

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Speaker 2: alone a contract in hand, So there's that.

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Speaker 3: Where it goes from here.

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Speaker 2: I think he's just going to take his tour and

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Speaker 2: this is shaping up to be a signing that's going

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Speaker 4: What do you make of the fact that nobody has,

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Speaker 2: Nobody's bowled him over, that's for sure. With a contract offer.

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Speaker 1: Or is in the process of being because.

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Speaker 4: And I you think, and I think he's probably gonna

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Speaker 4: I think that's an agent's job. So he's got to

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Speaker 2: There is an absence at another NFL mini camp. Patriots

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Speaker 3: They don't. They don't buckle to anybody.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they exactly. If I'll say this, if he's adamant

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Speaker 4: They don't care who it is, right, they do not

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Speaker 3: And you can and you can run down the list.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thy law lawyer malloy like Pro Bowl level guys.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for coming.

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame level guys.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I think when you that's why you rarely

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Speaker 2: Right, So it'll be interesting to see how that one

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Speaker 2: Let's get right to the phones because some people have

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Speaker 3: What do you got for Steve?

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, how's it going good? I got a different

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Speaker 9: take on that, Steve. I'm not like going crazy right now,

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Speaker 9: but I think most of the Bills fans are a

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Speaker 9: kind of put out these weird texts or messages during

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Speaker 9: to make a big deal about it now during this

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Speaker 9: But if he doesn't practice for the next two days

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Speaker 9: after today and things don't get straightened out, then what

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Speaker 9: do you have here? You just said the Patriots don't

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Speaker 9: So my point is, hey, you're a leader, you're a

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Speaker 9: it is concerning and this needs to be taken care of.

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Speaker 9: So it's we don't turn this into a circus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, you got something else?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so I agree with you, Steve, You're right.

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Speaker 4: If he's unhappy, sure, let it be known. And I'm

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Speaker 4: not saying that the Bills are any different than the Patriots.

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Speaker 4: I guess about, you know, getting rid of guys who

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Speaker 1: To say the least.

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Speaker 4: But if you're Steph Diggs and you're sitting in your

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Speaker 4: It's a bad Cincinnati game, and you got it. You're

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Speaker 1: What are your options? You really think, Steph.

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Speaker 4: I think Steph Diggs wants to win as badly as

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Speaker 4: without any doubt, lie with the Buffalo Bills, the Grass Hills.

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Speaker 4: There's no way you're going to convince him that the

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Speaker 4: They have, they have done everything they can that he

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Speaker 4: What could possibly be.

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Speaker 4: I know as well as anybody how tough it is

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Speaker 1: He was made for this team.

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Speaker 4: This roster, this quarterback, this town, and this is a

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Speaker 4: I think he knows that. But that doesn't mean he

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Speaker 1: So it's all in there.

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Speaker 4: Maybe he's still trying to cope with what happened at

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Speaker 4: and that's hard to live with. And you only get

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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones and we go to

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Speaker 2: Rick in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for us? Rick here on One

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Speaker 7: Hey guys, thanks for taking that call. Sure a billion

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Speaker 7: about what he's saying. I totally agree. You're probably right.

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Speaker 9: To do it.

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Speaker 7: Biggs is putting Biggs first, and Diggs isn't putting the

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Speaker 7: and his teammates just might not remember that, that might

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Speaker 7: not have any effect at all. That you know that

437
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Speaker 7: it won't, I don't know about that, because there's a

438
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Speaker 7: difference between somebody who's on the team who you know

439
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 7: will do will never put themselves first, and someone you

440
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Speaker 7: know who has themselves first. So I don't think you

441
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Speaker 7: should keep watering it down. I understand you're a former player,

442
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Speaker 7: so that's probably where that comes from a little bit.

443
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Speaker 7: But let's not act maybe this is nothing, and you're right,

444
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Speaker 7: but let's not act like this does this could have

445
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Speaker 7: no effect. Actor, this doesn't have any effect, because it does.

446
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Speaker 7: And uh, I think you're you're firing the firing the

447
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Speaker 7: fands up. But thank you guys so much for taking

448
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Speaker 7: my call. And you guys are great, and I appreciate it,

449
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Speaker 7: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: That's a good call. That's a good call, Rick, It's

451
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Speaker 1: a really good call.

452
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Speaker 4: And I and I'll and I'll tell you why you

453
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Speaker 4: because you said it exactly the way it is. You're right,

454
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Speaker 4: he Steph, Because I played I played with a bunch

455
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Speaker 4: with selfish guys off and on during my career as well.

456
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Speaker 4: Every NFL team has guys like that. You got to

457
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Speaker 4: live with that. If you're in a in a roster

458
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Speaker 4: as big as an NFL roster, you're gonna have guys,

459
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Speaker 4: even guys you've never heard of. They're gonna think they're

460
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Speaker 4: a little better than they are, or it's about them,

461
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Speaker 4: or or they're bitter because it's not about them.

462
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Speaker 1: Uh, Steph.

463
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Speaker 4: Digg certainly is in a place where most of us

464
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Speaker 4: have never been. I mean, we've never been the A

465
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Speaker 4: one receiver on a top contender in the NFL. I'll

466
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Speaker 4: say this about my experience, and you're right. I'm I

467
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Speaker 4: speak from my own experience of having played with guys

468
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Speaker 4: like that, hopefully never having been one of those guys.

469
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Speaker 4: I mean, I never want to be a selfish guy.

470
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Speaker 4: But you're right, every roster has guys like that on it.

471
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Speaker 4: I think maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's a couple who

472
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Speaker 4: don't have anybody else.

473
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Speaker 2: There's no perfect roster in the NFL, right, it's almost impossible.

474
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Speaker 4: Here's the difference that fans can't get and they shouldn't

475
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Speaker 4: because they're not in the room. They like Steph. Everybody's

476
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 4: they're a fan of Steph. They love Steph these great

477
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Speaker 4: Yet the guys in the locker room on the team

478
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Speaker 4: are not out there on the field. And maybe the

479
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Speaker 4: young guys here are the new guys they don't know

480
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 4: Steph that met him, maybe even right. But the guys

481
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Speaker 4: who played with Steph for the last year, the last

482
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Speaker 4: two years, last three years, last four years, they love

483
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Speaker 4: him no matter what, because it is like a family.

484
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Speaker 4: It's like and Rick, you said it, like when you

485
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Speaker 4: got my family members who are selfish or whatever, it

486
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Speaker 4: doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: You're still in your family.

488
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Speaker 4: You learn to work with what you got with them.

489
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Speaker 4: You learn to understand them, and even if they are selfish,

490
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Speaker 4: you learn to understand their selfishness and what it's gonna

491
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Speaker 4: take for us as a great to use his selfishness

492
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Speaker 4: or work with his selfishness enough to win. You can

493
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Speaker 4: say what you want about. And none of these guys

494
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 4: are perfect. They're all human beings. They all have problems.

495
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 4: They all have stuff that they're not good at, stuff

496
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 4: that they're really good at. Stuff that's a problem in

497
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 4: the locker room, stuff that's great in the locker room.

498
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Speaker 4: That's human nature.

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Speaker 1: So this stuff with Steph, Diggs and Ricky said it right,

500
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Speaker 1: It seems like he's being selfish because he didn't want

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Speaker 1: to come in and practice.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't like didn't like that or whatever it's about him.

503
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Speaker 1: Most of the guys in the locker room who know

504
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 1: and love him don't care.

505
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Speaker 4: They really don't because part of what his selfishness does

506
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 4: is makes him a great player, and they want him

507
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 4: to be as great as he can be. And the

508
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 4: greater he is, maybe the more selfish he becomes. Nobody

509
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 4: cares because we're gonna help us. He's gonna help us

510
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 4: win games, and if that means it, once in a

511
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 4: while he's gonna yell at Josh on the sideline. No

512
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 4: matter what he yelled at him or spout off or

513
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 4: do stuff on social media, guys are like, Eh, that's Steph,

514
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 4: the stuff being step Yeah, they really do love him

515
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 4: far beyond being a fan who just likes the way

516
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Speaker 4: he plays.

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Speaker 2: He does make a good point from the standpoint of

518
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: there is a coaching culture here that talks about daily

519
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 2: self improvement. You know, one percent, be one percent better

520
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 2: the next day than you were today, and all of

521
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: that stuff, and you have to earn it, and this

522
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, minor though it may be, does chip

523
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: away at that.

524
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Speaker 3: Now.

525
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 2: Do I think it's going to dramatically impact the culture

526
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 2: in this locker room. No, it's it's very it's on

527
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 2: very firm ground. It has a strong foundation and strong

528
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 2: men to uphold it. But I think that's part of

529
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Speaker 2: the reason why coach McDermott says very concerned.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because it chips away.

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Speaker 2: At some of that culture that's been cultivated here and

532
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Speaker 2: made as strong as it's been, and that's what makes

533
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Speaker 2: this team mentally tough, and that's what keeps his team together.

534
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Speaker 3: I think that's the concern.

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Speaker 4: I think Sean mcdermom's right to say, Hey, no, I'm

536
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 4: not okay with this, I'm concerned about it. He's got

537
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 4: to be that. He has to be because that's his

538
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 4: job as head coach. He's not gonna because by him

539
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 4: saying Hey, that's just Steph being Steph. That's him saying, well,

540
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 4: Steph can do what he wants and be and I'm

541
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Speaker 4: okay with it, but you can't do that, you know,

542
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 4: I expect you to. Sean mcdermot's got to be strong

543
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 4: in the face of this, and he's gonna and he'll

544
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 4: be on and we knew and I know he's not

545
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 4: gonna pull any punches with Steph. He'll say, listen, I

546
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 4: want you to be here, and I don't want you

547
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 4: you know, I don't have to deal with this. Whatever

548
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 4: he says to him, it's going to be like, this

549
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 4: is not okay. And he's going to continue with that

550
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 4: message throughout this mini camp and into the regular season.

551
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Speaker 4: And because it'll be not just Steph, it'll be anybody

552
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 4: else who pulls a selfish stunt. If you if indeed

553
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 4: you're saying this is selfish and it's me, whatever it is,

554
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 4: Sean is gonna nip it in the butt because that's

555
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Speaker 4: the culture he's moting and by not doing that, it's undermine.

556
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 4: Just like you said, I'll tell you the players you

557
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 4: know are okay with it. Sean McDermott can't be it.

558
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 4: Neither can Brandon.

559
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Speaker 1: You know, they they've got to be like above this,

560
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: say listen, hey, we need you here. This is important.

561
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Speaker 4: Let's go because they've got to make sure everybody knows

562
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 4: they believe it's important.

563
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: In June thirteenth.

564
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Speaker 4: For all you guys to be here, whether it is

565
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 4: or not is beside the point. They needs you to

566
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Speaker 4: be all in. So Sean McDermot will never let this go.

567
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Speaker 4: I mean, that guy's a bulldog, right.

568
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 3: We have to take a break here.

569
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Speaker 2: But if you're holding at eight oh three zero five

570
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Speaker 2: fifty or one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty,

571
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Speaker 2: stay where you are because we've got more of your

572
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Speaker 2: phone calls coming up when we return here on One

573
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Speaker 2: Bill's Live, presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

574
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

575
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Speaker 2: with you. Pro Football Talk has now put out a

576
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Speaker 2: report concerning Stefan Diggs. They reached out to the team

577
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Speaker 2: and they did confirm that Stefan Diggs was present on

578
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Speaker 2: Monday here. He was present this morning, but he left

579
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Speaker 2: before the start of practice. No reason given as to why,

580
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: but it's all but been confirmed by the team through

581
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Speaker 2: Pro Football talk.

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Speaker 4: I wonder like, is there a time limit that you

583
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 4: have to, like, do you have to practice not to

584
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 4: get fined, or do you have to just have to

585
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 4: be on the premises or you know, because you can

586
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 4: hold in, come in, stand around, not do anything. I

587
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 4: need to know these things as a former player.

588
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I I never had the guts to do it.

589
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 2: I think you got to be on the practice field.

590
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Speaker 2: But because he's here, maybe the team says.

591
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Speaker 4: Well, you know whatever, but sixteen grand Yeah, oh it's tomorrow.

592
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 3: I'm not sayings in at that.

593
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 4: Tomorrow tomorrow is double and then the day after that

594
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Speaker 4: it's almost fifty. It's yet, it's almost fifty grands. So

595
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 4: it's it's just shy of a hundo.

596
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go back to the phones, though, see what

597
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 2: you have to think.

598
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Speaker 3: We go to Marie and Amherst next. What you got, Chris, Marie.

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Speaker 10: Hey, guys, So I don't think Diggs at faith in

600
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 10: Dorsey or as play calling. But the Bills organization, like

601
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 10: you said, this is a culture. They they you know,

602
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 10: worked hard to rebuild and they come too far to

603
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 10: let one man who's emotional capsize this ship. I understand.

604
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 10: Trading him is not an option. But they really need

605
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 10: to explain to him that if you blow off our run,

606
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 10: we're gonna blow up your plans. Because no disrespect to

607
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 10: these other guys, but gave Davis is pretty much fearless price.

608
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 10: I mean, he need a formidable wide receiver I Number

609
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Speaker 10: one to get off and if do somehow happened to

610
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 10: leave and Nax and King Ka, they gonna have to

611
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 10: be Jordan Pippens and Josh is gonna have to bring

612
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 10: out a Mamba mentality because it's only pretty much three

613
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 10: teams Carolina and Chicago and Arizona with cap space and

614
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 10: draft picks that we could pretty much work with, you know,

615
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 10: without giving him what he wants. I know he always

616
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 10: said he wanted to play with his brother, but you

617
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 10: know something's got to give. You know, you work too

618
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 10: high seventeen years of a drought of bad GM and

619
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Speaker 10: you know it was just it was awful. So we

620
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 10: can't let this go back. You know, if it don't

621
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Speaker 10: work out with stuff, we can't afford another receever, it's

622
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Speaker 10: gonna have to be Kink the Knox team. They're gonna

623
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Speaker 10: have to get us here with Damian Harris and James

624
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 10: Cook and our defense. But I mean, we can't keep

625
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 10: letting one man who's so emotional. I know that, you know,

626
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 10: things that happened in Cincinnati last year, he wanted to

627
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Speaker 10: keep playing. The team react did the right way, they

628
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 10: stopped the gang. I'm sure he felt like an outcast

629
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Speaker 10: after that. You know, he going through a lot of emotions.

630
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Speaker 10: And just you know, when when Damar woke up to

631
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Speaker 10: say did we win? I'm sure that helped him get

632
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 10: a little bit of that confidence back, Like, Okay, maybe

633
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Speaker 10: I wasn't, you know, wrong in a sense, but it's

634
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Speaker 10: just I don't know, He's.

635
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Speaker 8: We got to figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, got it, Marie, thanks very much. I mean I'll

637
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: say this, I don't none of us know what is

638
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: afoot here. I mean, we're all just guessing. As Steve

639
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: said earlier, we're throwing darts. We can all speculate all

640
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 2: we want. The most important thing is that they get

641
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 2: it figured out. Whatever it is. Unhappy with Dorsey and

642
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 2: the offense. I find that hard to believe. I mean,

643
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Speaker 2: he's the highest targeted player on the team by a

644
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 2: wide margin. I mean, he's the number one option in

645
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 2: the offense. I don't know how he would be unhappy.

646
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: I know he was unhappy at the end of the

647
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 2: Cincinnati game because they're on that drive at the end

648
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: of the game. It's their only chance to climb back

649
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: into the game because there's about four minutes left and

650
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Speaker 2: it's a fourth down play and he's not targeted in

651
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: a one on one situation. And that was that's when

652
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 2: he spouted off on the sidelines on the turnover on

653
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: downs and everybody's been speculating since then as to what

654
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: it means. So this is only going to amplify that.

655
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 2: But what it's truly about, none of us really know.

656
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 2: I mean, we could keep speculating, but.

657
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 3: The only thing we should hope for is that it

658
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 3: gets ironed out whatever it is.

659
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would be shocked if Steph Diggs had any

660
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 4: kind of heated words for anybody over the.

661
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: Last two days.

662
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

663
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 4: I think we're all projecting our impatience and our lack

664
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,919
Speaker 4: of understanding onto Steph Diggs and the Bills and saying

665
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 4: they're like, were they gonna have to just.

666
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: Move on with it? You We're just gonna move on way.

667
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: We don't you know that guy. We don't need a

668
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: guy who doesn't want whoa whoa WHOA, It's all right.

669
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 4: Just Steph Diggs is not throwing them now until I

670
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,479
Speaker 4: see it and hear it, I don't even I don't

671
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 4: think he's throwing a fit over what happened. I certainly disappointed,

672
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 4: discres all those guys are. I don't think this is

673
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 4: a spot where you have to worry about Steph Diggs

674
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 4: doing his best to sabotage the Bills opportunity or doing,

675
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 4: you know, all of a sudden just changing who he

676
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 4: has been over.

677
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: The last four years.

678
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 4: Steph Diggs is the guy that we've all grown to

679
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 4: really love and respect over his time in Buffalo. I

680
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 4: don't think that's changed because of a disappointing into a season.

681
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: That's basically where I said, I.

682
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 4: Don't let's not don't project our disdain or disgust or

683
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 4: our own impatient emotions onto this situation where we think

684
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 4: the Bills are arguing with Steph, and Steph's arguing with

685
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 4: the Bills, and there's some sort of animosity he wants

686
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 4: to change, he wants to calm down. I don't think

687
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 4: that's what's happening. It may I mean, I could be

688
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 4: I might be out to lunch. I just think Steph

689
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 4: is like, man, I am just how about you know,

690
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 4: I don't know what he's at, where he's at, but.

691
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: I know this. I didn't want to practice in June either.

692
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 4: He's in town. It's not like he didn't want to

693
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 4: be around. But man, oh man, I'm I'm just not

694
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 4: to the point where I'm gonna make this into something

695
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 4: that it's not. Let's try not to impose our own

696
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 4: emotions and our own contense, you know, contention, our own

697
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 4: tension into the relationship between Steph and the Bills, because

698
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 4: I don't know that it's there. I think Steph, this

699
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 4: is something Steph's trying to cope with about, you know,

700
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 4: the way the season ended, or maybe the way.

701
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: He's maybe the way his off season is gone.

702
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 4: Maybe he's got some stuff that we don't even know

703
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 4: about that's bothering him.

704
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: I mean, this is all on the table. We don't know.

705
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 4: So until we find out, I would caution you just say, Okay,

706
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 4: let's just see what he.

707
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 3: Just let's see where it goes from here.

708
00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: When we get a chance to talk to him in

709
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: the media, we'll find out.

710
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 3: To Bill an old forge next, what do you got

711
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 3: for us?

712
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: Bill?

713
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 3: Hey?

714
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 8: Man, I know, we don't know exactly what happened, but man,

715
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 8: it just sounds like a whole bunch of excuses is

716
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 8: being made for this guy since the season ended. I'm

717
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 8: over him, man, Like whatever, I'm not surprised that's happened.

718
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 8: He pushed his way out of Minnesota when we signed him.

719
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 8: That was the thing concerned me from the get go,

720
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 8: was like, I don't like the guys like that. Beckham's

721
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 8: done it, Too's done it, Antonio Brown's done it. He

722
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 8: could be a great receiver, but you could still try

723
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 8: to push your way off a team if it doesn't

724
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 8: go the way you exactly like it after three years.

725
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 8: And he did that in Minnesota. Nobody should be surprised

726
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 8: by this because he did that in Minnesota and they

727
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 8: had a pretty decent team when he was there. He

728
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 8: was getting the ball. Adam Fiend was getting the ball too.

729
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 8: But I mean, I just don't like my star receivers

730
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 8: acting like this, and the whole thing of it's just

731
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 8: disrespectful to the team. Whether they care or not, I

732
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 8: don't know, but it's still disrespectful a team. It's disrespectful

733
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 8: to McDermott. This team McDermott has brought us from the

734
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 8: basement man up to we're in the playoffs every year,

735
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 8: and like, I don't want to see one guy spoiling it.

736
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 8: And just the way he's acting now, like you said,

737
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 8: plenty of time to recover from that loss. You know,

738
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 8: two teams to go to super Bowl. It's not easy

739
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 8: to get there.

740
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 10: Who else?

741
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 8: What are you rather to be playing with? Maybe Mahomes,

742
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 8: maybe Burrow? Who else? I mean, Allen's great man, Like,

743
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 8: you can't be playing with Allen? And it's just he's

744
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 8: got his contract, he's got his money. It's just I

745
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 8: don't like the optics of it. If they I've been

746
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 8: saying from the get go, if they don't go to

747
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 8: the super Bowl this year, he is definitely pushing his

748
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 8: way out of Buffalo. I know people say he can't

749
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 8: get out of here. He'll make it so bad he

750
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 8: will push his way out. I guarantee it. That's my opinion.

751
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 4: Well, here's the things Bill, Bill, and I get you're

752
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 4: you're angry.

753
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: Okay, here's the thing.

754
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 4: If Steph Diggs and you know the culture here as

755
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 4: well as I do, it sounds like if he wanted

756
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 4: to leave, he'd already be gone. The bills wouldn't force

757
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: him to put up this kind of drama or whatever.

758
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: This would have happened way back.

759
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 4: I don't think there's I haven't seen any evidence at all.

760
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: That Steph Diggs wants off this team. Now.

761
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 4: He may say, hey, I want you to, I want

762
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 4: you to, I want you to hire my brother. You know,

763
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 4: I may want to play with my brother, But I

764
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 4: think you know, this is a guy who and I'm

765
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 4: surprised by a lot of people.

766
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: Who have.

767
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 4: You know, but you know, either in their mind or

768
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 4: their are bailed on what he has brought to this

769
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 4: team already, Like they're all ready like they're so mad

770
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 4: at him because he didn't show up to a mandatory

771
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 4: mini camp in June that they're ready to kick him

772
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:41,720
Speaker 4: to the curb.

773
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised by that. I'm a little surprised

774
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: by that.

775
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,439
Speaker 3: Moving is not an option at this.

776
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: Point going anywhere.

777
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 3: He can't unless they can't.

778
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 2: He right, he's got a dead cap hit at thirteen

779
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,240
Speaker 2: million this year. They can't incur that right now without

780
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 2: lopping eight guys off the roster. To not to have

781
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 2: a guy not play for you and his dead cap

782
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 2: hitting twenty four is thirty one million. He's not movable,

783
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 2: end of story right now, right, so he's just not

784
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 2: we're past June for it doesn't work.

785
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 4: Uh, maybe he does have a beef of some sort,

786
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 4: some way, shape or form, or maybe just has quite

787
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 4: whatever it is, this club ain't gonna shy away from

788
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 4: telling him how it's gonna be.

789
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's go back to the phone.

790
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 3: See what Carol and Buffalo has to say. What do

791
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 3: you got for us?

792
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: Carol?

793
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 11: Yeah?

794
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 12: Thanks. You know what I want to say is let's

795
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 12: realize that, you know, the Bills to have a young team,

796
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 12: the players are relatively young, and what happened to damorrow

797
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 12: was very traumatic. It's traumatic to anyone, and I certainly

798
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 12: hope that they were receiving some type of support therapy

799
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 12: and learned some coping mechanisms. But you know, if we

800
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 12: could find any beauty out of that whole situation, they

801
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 12: got the front back, and not everybody does, as far

802
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 12: as DeMar goes, unless it's a family emergency, a medical

803
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 12: situation really needs to be at that practice. I don't

804
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 12: know it's because the Bills were looking at Dehap or

805
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 12: he wants a different type of contract. That's his business.

806
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 12: But you know, this may be the proper and perfect

807
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 12: opportunity and situation if he's not showing up to practice

808
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 12: to have these conversations to get him there to resolve

809
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 12: whatever may be fustering. In my opinion, he should have

810
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 12: been there at the voluntary practice. If we want a

811
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 12: Super Bowl team and to be contenders, he needs to

812
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 12: assume that leadership role and have those characteristics to work

813
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 12: with the new recruits, the new draft individuals to build

814
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 12: a very strong and cohesive offense. You know, attitudes now,

815
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 12: attitudes layer do not fly, and those need to be

816
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 12: addressed and rectified. You know, you have so many support situations,

817
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 12: so many fans, and we all need to be cohesive.

818
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 12: And it starts with the players. You know, they're professionals,

819
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 12: and are you looking at it as a profession or

820
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 12: are you looking at as a job. And if you

821
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 12: want to be a super Bowl contender, then get there

822
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 12: and act like a leader that you're supposed to be.

823
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 12: So thank you very much.

824
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 2: Thanks, Carol Well said, I don't think there's any debate

825
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 2: that Stefan Diggs respects his craft.

826
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 3: I would say it borders on obsession for him.

827
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 2: I mean, he sweats the details when he's on his

828
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 2: own and away from this facility every day. That's how

829
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 2: he's become the dominant player that he is as the

830
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 2: you know, wide receiver one here in Buffalo. So you

831
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 2: want to argue leadership, Okay, I'll listen to that, because

832
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 2: because leaders are put in those positions because they do

833
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 2: things the right way all the time. And this kind

834
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: of flies in the face of that. And I remember

835
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 2: a few years ago, Lashawn McCoy was named a captain

836
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: and then he missed a bus to a road game

837
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 2: against the Patriots. He got benched in the first half

838
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 2: of the game, didn't start. Now he was closer to

839
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 2: the end of his career, wasn't on the team next year.

840
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 3: Just putting it out there. Leadership roles here.

841
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: It's an interesting count.

842
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an interesting tweet from a front of the show,

843
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 4: Warren Sharp, I say, a friend of the show. I

844
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 4: think he's been a guest once. He tweeted this out

845
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 4: some stuff about Stefan Diggs and how it happened. In

846
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, Buffalo traded a first, fourth, fifth, and sixth

847
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 4: to get him. They paid him as the sixth most

848
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 4: expensive wide receiver in the NFL, and last year they

849
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 4: signed him to an even larger ninety six million dollar deal.

850
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 4: From twenty to twenty three, the Bills paid him seventy

851
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 4: eight million dollars almost seventy nine million dollars in cash.

852
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 4: That's the third most for any wide receiver in the

853
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 4: National Football League. In this spring, they paid him over

854
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 4: sixteen million in bonus money. Now he still has the

855
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 4: fifth largest wide receiver contract in the National Football League

856
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 4: in total value and an average value. So and you

857
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 4: can say, wow, what an ungrateful stuff. He's not even

858
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 4: here at mini camp and not all this stuff. And

859
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 4: let me just say it is not lost on Stefan

860
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 4: Diggs how well it has gone for him here in Buffalo.

861
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 4: But I'll say this, it seems to me Steph has

862
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 4: some things he wants to talk about with Sean McDermott

863
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 4: and Brandon Bean and he wants some assurances that stuff

864
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 4: that he thinks needs to be done to put them

865
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 4: over this proverbial hump that everybody talks about. He wants

866
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 4: to hear him reassure him that they're gonna do it. Yeah,

867
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 4: and for a great player who has some sway of

868
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 4: that kind of financial sway, that you get in the

869
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Speaker 4: national football leage when you have a contract like that.

870
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Speaker 4: This is exactly how you get your voice heard. You

871
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 4: have to sit down with the head coach and the

872
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Speaker 4: GM and you put it out there publicly and they

873
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Speaker 4: and they're gonna sit down and have a conversation with you.

874
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Speaker 4: And we've already been reported that they've had those conversations over.

875
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Speaker 1: The last couple of days.

876
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Speaker 4: But that's how that's how it's done in pro sports

877
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Speaker 4: for great players who make a ton of money, who

878
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 4: want to see have some reassurances that they're not the

879
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Speaker 4: only one out there risking their legs getting busted, so

880
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 4: that you know, and the guys who are calling the

881
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Speaker 4: shots in the front office hand of the coaching staff

882
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 4: are on board as much as he is forced to

883
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Speaker 4: be on the board, on board with it out there playing.

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Speaker 1: So that's how it works.

885
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, if he has some stuff he wants to

886
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Speaker 4: air out and talk about this, how's done and.

887
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: How serious that stuff is.

888
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I don't have a I've seen

889
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 4: it too many times to think this means Steph Diggs

890
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 4: hates Buffalo wants to be off the team. I don't

891
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 4: think that's the case at all, because there's too much

892
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 4: good here. It's gone too well for him here in Buffalo,

893
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Speaker 4: and it's going to keep going well for him here

894
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Speaker 4: in Buffalo on the field when the game start. So

895
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Speaker 4: this is about the conversations that have taken place over

896
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Speaker 4: the last couple of days in my opinion, until I

897
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 4: hear different, and we may. I'm not saying I know everything,

898
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Speaker 4: and I know we've had some callers in here has

899
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Speaker 4: had some really good thoughts on it, but we've also

900
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Speaker 4: got our I would caution again, yeah, keep your emotions

901
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 4: out of it, because you don't know how these people

902
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 4: feel about each other. And I think Brownie and I

903
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 4: have at least a fair idea that there's a lot

904
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Speaker 4: of affection there.

905
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Speaker 1: So we'll see.

906
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Speaker 4: But Steph, it has gone really well here for Steph

907
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Speaker 4: in Buffalo, and because of Steph, it's gone really well

908
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 4: here in Buffalo for everybody else too, So it's both

909
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 4: sides of that coin. I think everybody realizes it. So, yeah, let's.

910
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Speaker 2: Take a break here, But when we come back, Mark

911
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Speaker 2: and West Seneca David Clarence will lead us off.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to the others.

913
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Speaker 2: Holding in eight h three zero five fifty as well

914
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Speaker 2: as we have more of your phone calls coming your way.

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Speaker 2: Next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collide Health,

916
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Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

917
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Speaker 3: All right. Back here on One Bill's Live, Chris Brown,

918
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Speaker 3: Steve Tasker with you talking about Stefan Diggs.

919
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Speaker 2: The Bills have confirmed media members that are out here

920
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Speaker 2: at practice that Stefan Diggs was in fact here at

921
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Speaker 2: the facility yesterday and today, but left before practice. So

922
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Speaker 2: that's kind of where it stands right now. Back to

923
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Speaker 2: the phones we go, and to Mark in West Seneca.

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Speaker 2: What do you got for us?

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Speaker 3: Mark?

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Speaker 13: Hey, guys, all I can say is I am frustrated

927
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Speaker 13: and I hate these kind of ridiculous conversations. Ninety nine

928
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Speaker 13: percent of every conversation that goes on about step Digs

929
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Speaker 13: right now is based on assumptions, no facts, and I'm

930
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 13: hearing fans using words like cancer, selfish. He's alienated from

931
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 13: the locker room because he wanted to play in the

932
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Speaker 13: since the game yet and things of this nature. He's

933
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 13: working his way out of Buffalo, and let's revisit what

934
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 13: the facts are about what Steff Diggs did and what

935
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 13: he's done. He was very upset and disappointed in the

936
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Speaker 13: thirteen second game, kept his mouth shut. He is very

937
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 13: angry and upset about the Cincinnati game. Oh, by the way,

938
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Speaker 13: as the rest of us were losing a playoff game

939
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Speaker 13: at home in front of your own fans, the way

940
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 13: we did totally acceptable. He went on through the summer,

941
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Speaker 13: he expressed someday he'd like to play with his brother.

942
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Speaker 13: That's unusual. And what crypto messages on social media, which

943
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Speaker 13: is the worst place to ever go for any information

944
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Speaker 13: or facts. It's all it's littered with just ridiculous opinions.

945
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Speaker 13: And now he comes into Buffalo, and I did exactly

946
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Speaker 13: My thought went right to where Steve talked about when

947
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Speaker 13: he said he came into Buffalo, he took his physical

948
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Speaker 13: and he met with the brain rest of the team.

949
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Speaker 13: And to me that said, and I admit I'm prejudice here,

950
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Speaker 13: and I'm making an assumption he has problems with the

951
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 13: way the offense. And I've expressed this in the past,

952
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 13: evolved last year it went from the top of the

953
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 13: hill down that hill all season to the end of

954
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 13: the Cincinnati game for various reasons. Okay, And did he

955
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:24,760
Speaker 13: meet with Bean McDermott and Dorsey and maybe even Josh

956
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 13: Allen Again, now I'm making assumptions on the positive side

957
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 13: because he has concerns and he does not like the

958
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 13: way that the offense evolved. You could say he had

959
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 13: he had the most targets, but there were times and games,

960
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 13: critical times and games where his number wasn't called. And

961
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 13: he's the number one guy on that team where the

962
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 13: balls should go in critical moments. It'd be like in

963
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 13: critical moments not going to Kelsey for mahomes when everybody

964
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 13: in the whole building in the stands those that's where

965
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 13: they're going, and then they don't throw the ball there.

966
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Speaker 13: They do it. Every great team does it, every team

967
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Speaker 13: that has a great number one receiver. They don't care

968
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 13: that other teams knowed where the ball is going. And

969
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Speaker 13: step can make that argument. There were games where he

970
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Speaker 13: was not targeted in a whole half of a game,

971
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Speaker 13: and he's your number one guy. Come on, people, was

972
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 13: he selfish when Gabe Davis received four touchdown passes on

973
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 13: national TV and did nothing more than a plaud and

974
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Speaker 13: yell and screamed for the guy and was happy for him.

975
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 13: Has he ever complained about how the offense has run

976
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 13: during the season when he has gripes, and I'm just

977
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 13: a fan who's watching from the surface. How many things

978
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,720
Speaker 13: go on behind the scenes that he probably could gripe about,

979
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 13: but he keeps internal and keeps his mouth shut. Okay,

980
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 13: he is a great player. He has a huge desire

981
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 13: to win, and as far as I'm concerned, you line

982
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Speaker 13: me up fifty three guys that has his work atic

983
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 13: and his desire to win, and we will have a championship.

984
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 13: And now all he's doing in my eyes, and I'm

985
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 13: assuming he's pulling everybody along and saying, you know what, guys,

986
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 13: there's too much talent here, there's too much work we

987
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 13: put into it. We've created something great, but we need

988
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 13: to finish the job. So follow me and make sure

989
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 13: everybody knows. I'm not happy and we got to take

990
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 13: another step higher. That's my opinion. Thanks for letting me

991
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 13: go on like I did.

992
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 3: Guys all thanks Martin.

993
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna say that's all well and good

994
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 2: if that's his approach, But I don't know how you

995
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 2: how you square that and say the best way of

996
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 2: demonstrating that is by not going to mini caamp, like

997
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 2: if you're all in it together, you know what I mean? Like,

998
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,839
Speaker 2: I know where you're coming from, Mark, and I respect it,

999
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 2: and there's probably some validity to some of what you're assuming,

1000
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: as dangerous as that might be. But if you're all

1001
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 2: in it together, be together, I don't know that's that's

1002
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 2: where I come down on it.

1003
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I would agree.

1004
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 2: I mean, we just talked to Micah Hyde last last

1005
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 2: week week before that addressing the me and he's been

1006
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 2: here for the duration longer than Steph, and he's had

1007
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 2: his share of disappointments here in this uniform also, and

1008
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 2: he said, we all got to ramp it up. And

1009
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 2: he's here with the rest of his teammates ramping it up.

1010
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: Like It's not like the other guys on the roster

1011
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 2: don't know that they got to push a little bit

1012
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 2: harder to get over the hump.

1013
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 3: They know that.

1014
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,399
Speaker 2: And I don't think Steph feels he needs to tell

1015
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 2: them that, because he knows these guys well enough to

1016
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 2: know what they're made of, just like they know what

1017
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,760
Speaker 2: he's made of. So I really don't think that's what's

1018
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 2: going on.

1019
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, And if he was in and you know too

1020
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 4: that if he was in the building getting his physical

1021
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 4: and all that, he's talked with the players. I mean,

1022
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 4: you know they You don't show up in a small

1023
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 4: waiting room and you know he's in the locker room.

1024
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 4: You go in for your turn of the in the

1025
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 4: physical and stuff. So I'm sure that all these guys

1026
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 4: have had conversations about it. It would be of course,

1027
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 4: the more we know, the more we know, and the

1028
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 4: more we don't have to speculate. I don't think at

1029
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 4: any point Steph Diggs has alienated himself from the Bill's

1030
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 4: locker room. That is, I don't think that is a

1031
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 4: possibility at all. So that having said that, you know,

1032
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 4: we'll see. But yeah, and it's right, I'm Mark, You're right.

1033
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 4: I know you're frustrated with these conversations. All of us

1034
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 4: are kind of frustrated with it because there's so much

1035
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 4: we don't know, and until we do, we can work

1036
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 4: ourselves into a frenzy over perhaps nothing tied in.

1037
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 3: To knots about this.

1038
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta take a break, but we do want

1039
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 2: to hear more from you, so we'll get to your

1040
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 2: phone calls when we return. Here On one Bill's Live

1041
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 2: for Hour number two, presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo

1042
00:53:43,840 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 2: Bills Radio.

1043
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: This the One Bill's Live presented by Callida Health.

1044
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 2: All right, here we are One Bill's Live Hour number

1045
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 2: two on a Tuesday, mandatory mini camp Tuesday. Players still

1046
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 2: out on the practice field, should be wrapping up soon.

1047
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 2: We'll get posts practice sound out to you as they

1048
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 2: address the media coming off the practice field.

1049
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 3: But we want to get back to the phones.

1050
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 2: At eight oh three five point fifty one eight eight

1051
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 2: eight five point fifty two, five point fifty and to

1052
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 2: a man who's been waiting patiently, Dave and Clarence, we go,

1053
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 2: what do you got for us?

1054
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 14: Dave, Hey, guys, A great question. First of all, let

1055
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 14: me say I'm a Stepdigs fan and obviously a Buffalo

1056
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 14: Bills fan, and see many of your suppositions I agree with,

1057
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 14: but here's where I diverge. I really believe both sides

1058
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,760
Speaker 14: are wrong from the fans point of view. And here's

1059
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 14: why we've had six months from the end of the

1060
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 14: Cincinnati game in January until June to resolve whatever problems exists.

1061
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 14: And I don't pretend to know what they are, but

1062
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 14: that was tweeting out on social media some problem areas

1063
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 14: that I think needed to be addressed and for the

1064
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 14: team not to pay attention to them, but wait until

1065
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 14: June to trying to figure out this problem I think

1066
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 14: is wrong.

1067
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 15: Now.

1068
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 14: Listen, we have been as a team fan base on

1069
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 14: an emotional high, elevating upward because from the draft and

1070
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:04,879
Speaker 14: the free agency acquisition that being big ball of shot

1071
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 14: Color has made it with one of them, We've fund

1072
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 14: higher and higher, and all of a sudden in June,

1073
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 14: almost at the start of the season, we run into

1074
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 14: a wall, bam, and we're not going out behind now.

1075
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:23,280
Speaker 14: If this situation is not resolved by tomorrow by both

1076
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 14: Digs and the team, because McDermott has said he's concerned,

1077
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 14: then by tomorrow I think we really got a problem here.

1078
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 14: And so my solution is that down today, resolve it

1079
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 14: and move on. If it goes into the Marow look out,

1080
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 14: let me hear your.

1081
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Speaker 1: Points, guys, all right, thanks Dave, Dave David Claire is

1082
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 1: a good call, and I would agree if they can't

1083
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: resolve this or at least put his mind at ease,

1084
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: that it's they're trying to resolve it, or both parties

1085
00:56:56,239 --> 00:57:00,439
Speaker 1: are saying yeah, okay, we got you. I agree.

1086
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 4: It doesn't take twenty conversations, you know, Uh yeah, I

1087
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 4: think that's a great way to look at it. If

1088
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 4: if this lingers and he misses more than one day or.

1089
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with that.

1090
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that there's a deadline, like the saying listen,

1091
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 4: if it's not dissolved by tomorrow, then it's blah blah

1092
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 4: blah blah. Yeah, but I would agree with you. This

1093
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 4: should not be some ongoing relationship problem that they're gonna

1094
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 4: have to talk about for weeks and weeks and finally

1095
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 4: get Steph to a point where he feels like he

1096
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 4: can come in and practice. I would agree with you.

1097
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 4: I think Steph had some things to say, probably said him.

1098
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 4: McDermott and Bean probably answered him, So did Josh, so

1099
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 4: did Ken Dorsey. Anybody who he talked to probably had

1100
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 4: had a conversation with him.

1101
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: I know that there's no way he came in here.

1102
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 4: And went through the physical process and didn't talk to

1103
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 4: all the players, meet all those guys, So all those

1104
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 4: conversations had to take place. So how long does it

1105
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 4: take to resolve a problem of whatever problem there is

1106
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 4: which we have no idea about what it is. Yeah,

1107
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 4: I would agree with you, and that's a good way

1108
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 4: to look at it.

1109
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: Dave, I'm yeah, how long is he gonna? Is there

1110
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: a resolution to be had?

1111
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 4: If that's when you really had a problem, If there

1112
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 4: is just absolutely no way, then it's something different than

1113
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 4: any of us have realized. And I have a hard

1114
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 4: time getting my mind around that, because goodness gracious, hey,

1115
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 4: they're a wrecking crew, and I don't know who wants

1116
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 4: to who would want to jump off this boat right now?

1117
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 2: To the phones and to Michael innn Williamsville, let's punch

1118
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 2: him up.

1119
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 3: What do you got for us? Michael?

1120
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Speaker 16: Yeah, So I'm on stuff side for all this. You know,

1121
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 16: after watching the Cincinnati game, him and Milano really seemed

1122
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 16: like the only people who cared and were giving it

1123
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 16: one hundred percent the whole game Josh has had he

1124
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 16: was elsewhere worried about that.

1125
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 17: Girl or grit or whatever's going on there. And look,

1126
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 17: I know he's being a diva about all this, but

1127
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 17: he's been a great teammate for three years, and at

1128
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 17: some point you got the right to be upset about

1129
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 17: losing every year.

1130
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 16: And I don't know. McDermott and everyone just seems to

1131
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 16: do the trust the process, and it doesn't really seem

1132
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 16: like they care and just kind of oh, we'll get

1133
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 16: better next year and everything like that. But he's our

1134
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 16: best offensive player and him and Dorsey or I'm sorry,

1135
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 16: Dorsey can't even get the ball, get him the ball,

1136
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 16: and like crucial moments and just I don't know. It's

1137
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 16: not really the best way to go about this for Diggs,

1138
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 16: but he's making headlines and it's kind of working. I

1139
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 16: think this is what he wants. So yeah, I'm on

1140
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 16: his side for all this.

1141
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 4: All right, fair again, You're right, I'm gonna disagree about it, Yeah,

1142
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 4: some of it. Most I'll say this, You're right about this.

1143
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 4: This is a good way to get your voice heard,

1144
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 4: no question. They gotta they gotta sit down with you.

1145
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 4: If you're gonna throw a fit like this publicly, I

1146
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 4: would be shocked that this is the best way to

1147
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,959
Speaker 4: handle it. If your staff and you know, he hasn't

1148
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 4: been doing this, he hasn't been doing this leadership captain

1149
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 4: thing for that long. And I'm kind of with you,

1150
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 4: this is not the best way to handle it. But

1151
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 4: if it's the way he handles it, and it fits

1152
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 4: in with his personality in that locker room, and they

1153
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 4: kind of understand where he's coming from. And he's doing it.

1154
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 4: I think I think the players kind of get it.

1155
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 4: I'm kind of with you on that, but we'll see.

1156
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 2: The only distraction in the Bengals game was tomorrow Hamlin situation.

1157
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 2: And you want to you want to chalk it up

1158
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 2: to other things, I'd say you're off the mark, just

1159
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 2: because we talked to the players after games, before games,

1160
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 2: leading up to games. This team was messed up mentally

1161
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 2: from that situation. It was traumatic and playing the same

1162
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 2: team three weeks later that the incident happened against emotional fumes.

1163
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 2: There was nothing left in the tank for them to give.

1164
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 2: There were people working hard, doing their best, but with

1165
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 2: the with the emotional and physical constitution you have to

1166
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 2: come to every game with in this league, where the

1167
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 2: margins a razor thin in a playoff game, that's the

1168
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 2: distraction there. So don't insinuate anything else. It's an insult

1169
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 2: to the players. That's one second thing is Ken Dorsey.

1170
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 2: I'll bet dollars to donuts dials up Stefan Diggs as

1171
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 2: his number one option ninety eight percent of the time.

1172
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 2: He doesn't decide where the ball goes, what happens on

1173
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 2: the field, and Josh Allen's decision making are the major.

1174
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 3: Factors in that equation.

1175
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 2: And so Josh makes the best decision he can on

1176
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 2: every single play, and that guy cares about one thing

1177
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 2: winning and sometimes it might leave the number one receiver

1178
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 2: unhappy based on the decision he makes. And I'm not

1179
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 2: here to say every decision that Josh makes is the

1180
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 2: right decision, But you can't pin it on Dorsey because

1181
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 2: you don't know what he's drawing up on each and

1182
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 2: every play and what he's calling. And as I said,

1183
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 2: he's not deciding how the play unfolds and how eleven

1184
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 2: men are executing against eleven other men and then the

1185
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 2: decision being made by the guy pulling the trigger. So

1186
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 2: I think he went a little too far off the

1187
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 2: deep end on the assumptions you were making, and I

1188
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 2: realized we're all making those right now based on the

1189
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 2: subject matter we're trying to figure out here, but just

1190
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 2: don't go too far.

1191
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm right on board with Brownie. It's the

1192
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 4: last guy who would have complained how that game turned

1193
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 4: out would be Steph Diggs. If Gabe Davis was the

1194
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 4: number one target and they made the play. Were the

1195
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 4: plays that we're talking about Steph Diggs, the last guy

1196
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 4: is going to complain about not getting the ball when

1197
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 4: the play is successful. It's human nature to be upset

1198
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 4: when he didn't get a chance to help and we failed,

1199
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 4: right and well on a certain play I'm talking about. Certainly,

1200
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 4: Steph helped in every game and he was a vital

1201
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 4: contributor and he's gonna do that.

1202
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: But on a play, on.

1203
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 4: A fourth and fourth and all or nothing play and

1204
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 4: the ball doesn't come your way and it doesn't work,

1205
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 4: you think, man, just give me a chance to do that.

1206
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 4: And that's that's a player's mentality, a great player particular,

1207
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 4: that's their mentality. They want the ball in moments like that.

1208
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 4: That's why he's a great player. So moments like that,

1209
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 4: this isn't the last one you're gonna have. I mean,

1210
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 4: you're not gonna win all these games. And there's gonna

1211
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 4: be moments when Steph wants the ball and wants to

1212
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 4: help and the ball goes somewhere else.

1213
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. That's football.

1214
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 4: But I think when push comes to shove and you

1215
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 4: realize how good this team and this roster are and

1216
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 4: all of that going forward, you know, if you ought

1217
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 4: to say something, say something, but that doesn't mean you're

1218
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 4: ready to jump ship and burn.

1219
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: The thing to the ground.

1220
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1221
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's in that spot.

1222
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 3: Let's go to Jerry in Buffalo next. What do you

1223
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 3: got for is Jerry?

1224
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 6: I got a question for you, is Steve, When was

1225
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 6: the last time we had a running game that our

1226
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 6: defensive coordinators had the game planned for?

1227
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 3: Well?

1228
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 2: They were number one in rushing in twenty fifteen and

1229
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen with Leshawn McCoy.

1230
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 6: Okay, well, don't you think that created it? We've always

1231
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 6: had a Teeter tarter where we had Leshan McCoy, we

1232
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 6: had Josh, we had no receivers, we had we lose

1233
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 6: a legitimate running back and we never replaced him. We

1234
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 6: get the receivers, And I think that what it has done,

1235
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 6: it has it has made us one dimensional. If you

1236
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 6: look at every season during the playoffs, teams have taken

1237
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 6: defensive backs and put them all in the backfield because

1238
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 6: they know we can't run the ball. Right, But the

1239
01:04:55,160 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 6: deleites our opportunity to be multi dimensional because we have

1240
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 6: not had a class A running back since.

1241
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 2: Right, And I respect what you're saying Jerry, I do,

1242
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 2: but are you not encouraged by what they've done this

1243
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 2: offseason to fix that? I mean, you're talking about Damian Harris,

1244
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 2: who was a fifteen touchdown back two years ago.

1245
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 3: And okay, I have three.

1246
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 2: New offensive guards in the former Connor McGovern David Edwards,

1247
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 2: both of whom are multi year starters, in a second

1248
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 2: round draft choice in Osiris Torrance to fortify the middle

1249
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 2: of the line to run more effectively between the tackles.

1250
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 2: I'm not Look, the proof will be in the pudding.

1251
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 2: I'll be the first to admit it.

1252
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 12: That's true.

1253
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 6: That's true. But you're talking about a running back that

1254
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 6: if he gets injured, we have a small back and

1255
01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 6: we're right back to where we started at.

1256
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 2: You also have Latavius Murray. You also have Latavius Murray

1257
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 2: on the roster.

1258
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 6: I think you got some other talent out there that

1259
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 6: we need to address or we're going to be back

1260
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:57,920
Speaker 6: in the same situation this year. We're going to be

1261
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:00,919
Speaker 6: dropping our hands because we're one Dyet wanted to mention them,

1262
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 6: and they're gonna drop corners back in the backfield and

1263
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 6: make it difficult for Josh to be a Well.

1264
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's the other reason why Dalton Kincaid is here, Jerry,

1265
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 2: and I appreciate the call, but Dalton Kincaid is here

1266
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 2: to work the middle of the field to pull those

1267
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 2: defensive backs out of that kind of a look. So

1268
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 2: I think the Bills have taken major steps to diversify

1269
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 2: their offense. Nobody's talking about it because it's not sexy

1270
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 2: and splashy and giant names. You know, they didn't acquire

1271
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 2: Dereck Henry as a running back, but they got a

1272
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 2: twenty four year old and Damian Harris who was a

1273
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 2: fifteen touchdown back and nine and thirteen of his twenty

1274
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 2: career touchdowns have come from the five yard line in

1275
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 2: because the guy's a short yarded player that can move

1276
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 2: the pile, but can also rip off a sixty four

1277
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 2: yard touchdown like he did against the Bills in the

1278
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 2: wind swept game two years ago.

1279
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 3: So they've taken steps to improve what.

1280
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 2: They perceived and what you clearly perceived as deficiencies in

1281
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 2: their offense. And now we'll just have to see if

1282
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 2: they work out. If they do, great, they're a multi

1283
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 2: dimensional offense. If they don't, then you're right, Jerry, I mean,

1284
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you.

1285
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: I get it, but I'm just not there. I'm not

1286
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 1: where Jerry is at all.

1287
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,040
Speaker 4: Run it back like you did last year, and just

1288
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 4: do what you did and do it better. Don't drop

1289
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 4: the ball and don't turn it over. If you do that,

1290
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 4: nobody can touch you. Nobody can touch you. You've upgraded

1291
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 4: your offensive line, you've upgraded your receivers, you've upgraded your

1292
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,919
Speaker 4: tight end position. If you just don't drop the ball

1293
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,360
Speaker 4: and don't turn it over, nobody in the NFL is

1294
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Speaker 4: going to be able to touch you. And there was

1295
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with your offense last year.

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01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: Nothing.

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01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 4: You were number two in scoring, and yeah, it looked

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01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 4: like a heavy lift. This just it's a hard league

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01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 4: to win in. This offense was an absolute wrecking crew.

1300
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 4: Don't complain, Certainly, you can hone it and dial it

1301
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 4: in and evolve. And there's moments. There's moments in the

1302
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 4: season like fourth and sixth and it didn't come through

1303
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 4: and Steph's Maddie didn't get the ball. Okay, there's a

1304
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 4: moment and they're saying, and it comes into game and

1305
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 4: you gotta win. Listen, they make that fourth and sixth,

1306
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 4: they still not winning that game. This is a team

1307
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 4: that lost three three games by three plays, three games

1308
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 4: by three plays.

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01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 1: Period.

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01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 4: They're a w recon crew offensively, and they're gonna be

1311
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:24,640
Speaker 4: another recond crew this year. They're good. And you can say, oh,

1312
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 4: they didn't run the balls, shut up, they hand the ball, fine, nobody.

1313
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 3: You were seventh and rushing.

1314
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:37,559
Speaker 4: They were killing people. They don't have to apologize for

1315
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 4: the way they played offense. They don't have to apologize

1316
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,879
Speaker 4: for their philosophy. They don't have to apologize for teams

1317
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 4: doing absolutely everything they could possibly do, putting nine dbs

1318
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 4: on the field, all of that stuff you're talking about,

1319
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 4: because they didn't fear our running. They teams were like

1320
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 4: crazy to try and stop this offense and they couldn't.

1321
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 2: And I'm just gonna say one more thing. James Cook

1322
01:08:58,800 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 2: was pretty damn good this year.

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01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: Just let me tell you something.

1324
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 3: All these guys ready to roll.

1325
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,799
Speaker 4: The teams were crazy to stop this offense and they couldn't.

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01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 4: The only the only thing to stopped this offense was

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01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 4: this offense. They dropped the ball or turn it over

1328
01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 4: in the red zone.

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01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 3: Second in the league in turnovers.

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01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 4: They they second in the league in turnovers and second league

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01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 4: and drops.

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Speaker 1: That's it, folks, all you gotta do.

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01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 4: And I and I remember Tony Dungee said this a

1334
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 4: year or two before they won their Super Bowl.

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01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: And by the way, Peyton Manning was eight.

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01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,559
Speaker 4: Years into his career before he won his first Super Bowl,

1337
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 4: or his six years eight years. It was deep into

1338
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 4: his career before they got one. It was eight year, right.

1339
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 3: It was eight to six and he came in ninety eight.

1340
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 4: They were eight years into Peyton Man's career before they

1341
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,519
Speaker 4: won a Super Bowl. And Tony Dungee, bless his heart,

1342
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 4: was sitting there every year. Listen, we just need to

1343
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 4: do what we do, but we got to do it better.

1344
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 4: And I've been saying it. This team has been good

1345
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 4: enough to win the Super Bowl for three years. Tell

1346
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:01,679
Speaker 4: me I'm wrong for three years, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one,

1347
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:05,639
Speaker 4: and last year before the Demorrow Hamlin thing, they've been

1348
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 4: good enough for three Just do what we've been doing,

1349
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 4: and just do it better. On a game that's an

1350
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:15,680
Speaker 4: elimination game, there's no magic wand you don't have to

1351
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 4: We gotta run the back. They were thirteen and three

1352
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 4: by eight points and from being sixteen and oho. Just

1353
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,000
Speaker 4: relax they're good and they're gonna be good again. And

1354
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 4: Steph is gonna carry the team offense. He's gonna be

1355
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 4: a huge part of this. He's gonna have one hundred

1356
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 4: plus targets. The guy's gonna have a thousand plus receiving yards.

1357
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 4: He's gonna have a touchdown. I mean, it's June thirteenth.

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01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I get it. We're all trying to

1359
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,640
Speaker 4: fix it. It wasn't broken, it was not even close to

1360
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:56,599
Speaker 4: being broken. So take a deep breath and take solace

1361
01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 4: in the fact that we all lived through that drought thing.

1362
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,719
Speaker 4: And I know we led the league in rushing fifteen

1363
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 4: and sixteen, twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen.

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01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:09,759
Speaker 1: We stunk. We stunk. We do not stink.

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01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 2: Now, I gotta get Steve a hat that says that

1366
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:16,120
Speaker 2: just play your best on that day. I don't know

1367
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 2: if I can fit that on a hat, but if

1368
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 2: I can, I'm getting it for you.

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01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we got to let me.

1370
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:21,720
Speaker 4: Let me work on it, and I'll come up with

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01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 4: a bumper more of a bumper stick, okay for you.

1372
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 3: Let's go to Sue in cheek to wagan X, what

1373
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 3: do you got for us?

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01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 15: Sue Hi Thanks for taking my call. I'm the Steph

1375
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 15: Diggs matter. You know, I'm thinking to myself that with

1376
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:39,680
Speaker 15: all the new offensive weapons we've brought in and the

1377
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:42,759
Speaker 15: fact that there's so much talk about kind of changing

1378
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 15: our offensive philosophy this year, that perhaps he's concerned that

1379
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 15: he's not going to be the number one guy. For years,

1380
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 15: it was the Allen Tadig Show, and that's what got

1381
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 15: us all the wins. Sure, but perhaps he's concerned about

1382
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:02,720
Speaker 15: that and he just needs some time to adjust in

1383
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 15: his mind that he may not be the number one

1384
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 15: guy anymore, but spreading the ball around that's going to

1385
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 15: get us a win, and he's so concerned about always

1386
01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 15: winning that it's just something he's going to have to

1387
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 15: accept along the way. That's just my thought. I'll hang

1388
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 15: up and I listen to what you have to say.

1389
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, Sue, appreciate the call. It could be

1390
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 2: any number of things. We don't really know. We're all

1391
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 2: just making suppositions and doing guesswork here as to what

1392
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 2: is it, what the issue is at hand. And look,

1393
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 2: these things come up from time to time, and you know,

1394
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 2: the front office, the coaching staff, the players have to

1395
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 2: iron these things out. Will they be able to I'm

1396
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 2: confident they will. Whatever it is, it's it's an interesting theory, Sue,

1397
01:12:57,680 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 2: you know, with Dalton kin Kaid here, But I'm going

1398
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 2: to tell right now, Steph Diggs knows as well as

1399
01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 2: anybody else that the offense at times last year looked

1400
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 2: like a heavier lift in the second half of the season.

1401
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 2: Now injuries had had an issue and contributed to that,

1402
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 2: among other things. Getting help for the offense helps Steph

1403
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:20,479
Speaker 2: Diggs because it takes more double teams away from him.

1404
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:24,600
Speaker 2: So I don't think Dalton Kincaid and maybe the possible

1405
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:28,839
Speaker 2: increase in twelve personnel personnel groupings is going to impact

1406
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:30,840
Speaker 2: Steph Diggs all that much at all, because he's still

1407
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:32,479
Speaker 2: going to be one of the two receivers lining up

1408
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 2: on the field with those two tight ends.

1409
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 4: I've been We've been having this conversation all day, and

1410
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 4: I've been going around around and you know, I've ranted

1411
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:43,479
Speaker 4: my share of times, and when push comes to show,

1412
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 4: I'm just not that concerned that Steph Diggs is going

1413
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 4: to do anything to jeopardize his chance to line up

1414
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 4: at that at wide receiver one spot for the Bills

1415
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 4: this year. He is not going to do anything that

1416
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 4: he believes will sabotage this team's chance to win June thirteenth.

1417
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 4: That would be really hard to do anyway. I just

1418
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 4: don't see that guy, who's as competitive as he is,

1419
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 4: as good as he is, and as important as he

1420
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 4: is and has been, that he's gonna do anything to

1421
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 4: jeopardize what he and Josh and the coaching staff and

1422
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 4: everybody's built here.

1423
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:21,640
Speaker 1: I just can't see it.

1424
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are at a break again, but we will

1425
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,280
Speaker 2: continue pounding the phones with you. So if you're holding

1426
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 2: at ATO three oh five fifty, we'll get right to

1427
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 2: you as quick as we can. Here on one Bill's

1428
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 2: Live presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1429
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 3: All right, right back to the phones we go.

1430
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 2: Where we have people holding at ATO three oh five

1431
01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 2: fifty and leading us off here is Margaret and Ton.

1432
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 3: What do you got for his Margaret?

1433
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 18: Hi, guys, I'd like to make a couple points as

1434
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 18: a grandparent. First, I think back on when things were

1435
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 18: going STEP's way. Josh was his brother. He kept calling

1436
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:18,600
Speaker 18: him his brother. Now I know fight brothers will argue,

1437
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:23,320
Speaker 18: but this has gone too far. Secondly, he's a captain

1438
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 18: his teammates voted him captain. A captain leads his men.

1439
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 18: He doesn't have to like the situation, but he's a

1440
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 18: leader of his men. And thirdly, and most important, I

1441
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:41,679
Speaker 18: have a grandson who wears number fourteen, and I don't

1442
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:45,080
Speaker 18: want that example for him. I'll hang up and listen

1443
01:15:45,080 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 18: to what you have to say.

1444
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, you amigo. First, sure, Yeah, brother's gonna fight.

1445
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: I don't think this this I.

1446
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 4: Would be shocked, Margaret if this had anything to do

1447
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 4: with Josh and Steph's relationship at all. I don't think

1448
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 4: it has anything to do with that. I know people

1449
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 4: have really been busting it about Steph yelling on the

1450
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:14,599
Speaker 4: sidelines on the Cincinnati game. That is, to me, that's

1451
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 4: not even a blip on either of their radar right now,

1452
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 4: except that people probably ask him about it.

1453
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: That's nothing.

1454
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 4: That's like fighting over a candy bar with your brother

1455
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:27,920
Speaker 4: and then the next day, I mean, you're both eating

1456
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 4: a different candy bar.

1457
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 1: Anyway, I mean, nobody, that's that is nothing. Team captain. Yeah.

1458
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 4: Whether Steph's handling this the exact right, if there's anything

1459
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 4: here to handle, I don't know what If there is

1460
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 4: or not. It's being reported that Steph was in town,

1461
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,200
Speaker 4: he was gonna practice, and now he didn't.

1462
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 2: So there's more on this now from NFL Networks Tom Pelasero,

1463
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 2: who spoke to Digg's agent, a Dca Bakari, who put

1464
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,639
Speaker 2: a statement out earlier where he said, you know, Steph

1465
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 2: was here on Monday and in the building today, he's

1466
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:04,480
Speaker 2: just not practicing.

1467
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:06,000
Speaker 3: So when.

1468
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 2: Spoken to by Tom Pellisero, he said he did not

1469
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,200
Speaker 2: know why. Coach McDermott said what he said today. That's

1470
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:17,840
Speaker 2: a direct quote from Adisa Bacari, and then he said

1471
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 2: the following, there are things being worked out on the

1472
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 2: way to being worked out. Stefan has been there Sunday night,

1473
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 2: he was in the building this morning. So what it

1474
01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 2: is we don't know. But NFL Networks Tom Pellisero, taking

1475
01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 2: direct quotes from Adisa Bacari, Digg's agent, says things are

1476
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,719
Speaker 2: being worked out as we speak.

1477
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:42,680
Speaker 3: How long those take to be worked out? Who knows?

1478
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 1: Whatever that is.

1479
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 4: It sounds like from the agent that this has nothing

1480
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 4: to do with Steph being unhappy with the team or

1481
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:52,799
Speaker 4: the whatever.

1482
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 1: What Sam sounds contractual.

1483
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 3: Right, It might be.

1484
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have no idea.

1485
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 3: We're all guessed.

1486
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 4: But my point is, and getting back to Margaret, and

1487
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 4: he is a team captain, whether he's handling this the

1488
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 4: right way or not. Yeah, you're right, he is a

1489
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 4: team captain. And as far as him be an example

1490
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 4: for your grandson, you're right. You expect the best from

1491
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:20,600
Speaker 4: those guys's and I would say at this point, I

1492
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:23,799
Speaker 4: would not make the assumption that you haven't chosen wisely

1493
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:25,719
Speaker 4: in having your grandson were number fourteen.

1494
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's still that's a pretty good move for us.

1495
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 1: So we'll see.

1496
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 2: We're going to step away from the phone calls here

1497
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:35,759
Speaker 2: because we have Josh Allen at the podium who's undoubtedly

1498
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 2: going to be asked about this. So let's go to

1499
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:39,680
Speaker 2: Josh Allen addressing the media right now.

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01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 19: You know what the storyline is. We're not going to

1501
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 19: ask you to speak for stef What can you tell us.

1502
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 6: About what you know about that situe?

1503
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 11: Oh? I know internally we're working on some things not

1504
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 11: football related. But you know, Steph, he's my guy. I

1505
01:18:57,360 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 11: excuse my, I love him. He's a brother of mine.

1506
01:19:01,479 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 11: You know this does not work what we're doing here

1507
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 11: without him. You know, we we wish he was in

1508
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 11: here today and was out there on the field with us,

1509
01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 11: and that's that's not the case. But I've got his

1510
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 11: back no matter what. And again I I I've got

1511
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:18,360
Speaker 11: no doubt that that we will figure out what's going on.

1512
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 11: And freaking love him. I I can't stress that enough.

1513
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 11: You know, there's things that I could I could do better,

1514
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:29,320
Speaker 11: and you know, to help out with this process and

1515
01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 11: try to get him back here and and you know,

1516
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 11: be the buffal abilities that he's meant to.

1517
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:35,879
Speaker 1: Be fall related.

1518
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 19: Everyone saw what happened on the field and the loss

1519
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 19: of Cincinnati and what happened him leave in the locker

1520
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 19: room early. Does this stem from any of that? And

1521
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:47,640
Speaker 19: has it evolved to something else? I mean, can you

1522
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 19: at least characterize well? And I can't speak for him

1523
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 19: on that.

1524
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,800
Speaker 11: Whether it does or doesn't I think is besides the fact.

1525
01:19:56,120 --> 01:19:58,680
Speaker 11: But again, uh, I'm I'm up here.

1526
01:19:58,800 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: I love him.

1527
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 11: I just want to know I've got his back, and

1528
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 11: I'm gonna do everything in my power to to make

1529
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 11: sure that we can we can get him back because

1530
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 11: we are a much much better team with him on

1531
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 11: the field, and you know, in order to accomplish the

1532
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 11: goals that we want to accomplish we need him, and

1533
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 11: he's he's an all the way in dude. And once

1534
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:18,479
Speaker 11: he's once he's all the way in. Uh, he's gonna

1535
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:20,799
Speaker 11: be all the way in. And that's why guys gravitate

1536
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,640
Speaker 11: towards him. He's a he's a fiery competitor and at

1537
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 11: the end of the day, he wants to win. This

1538
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 11: team wants to win. And you know he he's made

1539
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 11: Noe said it, but he's a buffalo bill and you

1540
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 11: know we're we're gonna work it out.

1541
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 3: A personality conflict between you and he? Again, is this

1542
01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 3: a personality conflict between you and he? Simply put me

1543
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 3: and him? Is it a thing between Is it a

1544
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 3: personality thing between you and him?

1545
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:44,120
Speaker 20: No?

1546
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:44,720
Speaker 6: I don't think so.

1547
01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 11: I think that there is some some things that could

1548
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:50,680
Speaker 11: have gone better last year and didn't. And just you know,

1549
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 11: I think we're just as a as an organization maybe

1550
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 11: not communicating the right way with with everything. So again,

1551
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 11: just trying to talk and listen at the same time

1552
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:03,360
Speaker 11: and hear him out and like I said, just try

1553
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:06,800
Speaker 11: to move this forward is as quickly and as respectfully

1554
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 11: as you know as possible.

1555
01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 21: Yeah, dissipate that he'll be here at all during this

1556
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 21: many camp I would hope.

1557
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:15,840
Speaker 11: So again I I I want to I want to

1558
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:18,760
Speaker 11: get back on the same page with him. And again

1559
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 11: he makes me a better quarterback and I feel like

1560
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 11: I make him a better receiver. And you know, we've

1561
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:25,720
Speaker 11: done this for for three years together, and you know,

1562
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 11: I you know, there's a lot more out there for

1563
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:28,720
Speaker 11: us to be had.

1564
01:21:28,760 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: And you know, in terms of.

1565
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,759
Speaker 11: You know, being ranked upon, you know, you talk about

1566
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 11: history in statistically all these different categories. But at the

1567
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:40,479
Speaker 11: end of the day, we both want to win, you know,

1568
01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:43,080
Speaker 11: and I got I got no doubt in my mind

1569
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 11: that we can get back to that spot.

1570
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:45,479
Speaker 1: And that's what we're gonna do.

1571
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:47,680
Speaker 21: The last time that you personally spoke with him, and

1572
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:49,839
Speaker 21: can you characterize that conversation in any.

1573
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 11: Way again, I talked to him today and I'm sure

1574
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 11: we're gonna have some more conversations moving forward. And you know,

1575
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 11: as an organization, as QB receiver, as an offensive court,

1576
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 11: everything goes goes in again. He he's such a special

1577
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 11: player that you know, we don't want this to be

1578
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 11: a distraction. He doesn't want this to be a distraction.

1579
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 11: It is what it is, and and the positive thing

1580
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 11: is We're not playing a game tomorrow. We got tom

1581
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,400
Speaker 11: this is mini camp. We got a lot of time

1582
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 11: to to figure this this out. And again I'm gonna

1583
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:21,439
Speaker 11: do everything I can to to you know, get him

1584
01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 11: back in our locker room and and vibing with the guys.

1585
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:25,560
Speaker 3: And you know, I got no doubt that that we

1586
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 3: will or to today.

1587
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 17: How much contact did you have with him throughout the offseason.

1588
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 11: I mean, I would consider it pretty regular for how

1589
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,040
Speaker 11: we've been. Maybe maybe a little bit less, but uh,

1590
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 11: in terms of scheduling and stuff like that. He he was,

1591
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 11: he was all over the world and being a fashion model,

1592
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 11: and you know there's things that that go on. Uh,

1593
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 11: you know, I got to go to his charity event

1594
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 11: there in Maryland. So again, you know this, this is

1595
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 11: what it is right now. I'm not sweating it. I

1596
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 11: love him, and uh, that's my brother right there.

1597
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:00,920
Speaker 1: Said these things to you because you could do better,

1598
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: and you know you can talk to him and that

1599
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 1: kind of thing.

1600
01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:04,479
Speaker 21: What are those things that you can do better and

1601
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 21: kind to make this situation not be a situation?

1602
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 11: Well, I mean I think I think we'll keep that

1603
01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 11: internal right now and I'll leave it at that.

1604
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 22: Gosh, why is this has this been hanging over for

1605
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,000
Speaker 22: an extended period of time. Why is this seeming to

1606
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 22: come to a head now where these conversations are being

1607
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 22: had and hadn't in the past.

1608
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 11: I mean, think just being together in the same room

1609
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:32,599
Speaker 11: with with people. You know, he's he's like I said,

1610
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:34,679
Speaker 11: he's a special player, and he makes our team better.

1611
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 11: And there's like I said, there's certain things we can

1612
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 11: do to to help help that out and figure out

1613
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 11: different ways to whether it's getting in the ball or

1614
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 11: getting more involved in the game plan. Again, like I said,

1615
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:48,840
Speaker 11: I know that you guys are gonna hype this up

1616
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 11: and make this a big story. Right now, We're not

1617
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 11: playing a game tomorrow. This is mini camp. I know

1618
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 11: everybody in our locker room loves him, and I don't

1619
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:58,760
Speaker 11: think we're gonna see this as anything different other than

1620
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 11: guy that wants to win and and somebody that we

1621
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 11: need to, you know, incorporate a little bit better in

1622
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 11: what we're doing here. And I got no doubt that

1623
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 11: we will. And you know, at the at the at

1624
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:12,479
Speaker 11: the moment though, like you know, we're still practicing. We've

1625
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 11: still got guys coming out here and working hard, and

1626
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:16,560
Speaker 11: you know, he's been working hard on his own and

1627
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:19,639
Speaker 11: like I said, the positive thing is we're not playing

1628
01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 11: again tomorrow or.

1629
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 22: We you're talking about the organization not or is it

1630
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 22: just you and him, or is there conversations and things

1631
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:30,280
Speaker 22: that need to be worked out beyond your relationship with him.

1632
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:32,920
Speaker 11: I think a little bit of everything you know he's

1633
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 11: he wants to win, and that's that's what it boils

1634
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:36,479
Speaker 11: down to.

1635
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 3: We want to win. He wants to win.

1636
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:38,320
Speaker 6: I want to win.

1637
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 11: And once we get back on the same track and

1638
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:43,600
Speaker 11: on the same page, that's what we're gonna try to do.

1639
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 2: On the.

1640
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: To be here.

1641
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 21: Yes, I'm on the surface. It's hard, maybe a bit

1642
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 21: hard to understand. And he got a new contract last year.

1643
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 21: Since coming to Buffalo, he's second in the league and targets,

1644
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,200
Speaker 21: so I mean, he's a huge part of what you

1645
01:24:57,240 --> 01:25:00,760
Speaker 21: guys do offensively. So I think making sense of maybe

1646
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 21: his frustrations are maybe hard for a lot of people

1647
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:05,840
Speaker 21: on the outside. Do his frustrations make sense to you

1648
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 21: what you've been communicated, Do you understand them?

1649
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 11: Again, whether it makes sense to anybody on the outside

1650
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:12,719
Speaker 11: or not, that's how he feels, and that's how.

1651
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 7: I mean.

1652
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 11: You can't take take that lightly. If someone feels a

1653
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 11: certain way, you can't just bubble over it. You got

1654
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 11: to hear what they're saying and try to understand it

1655
01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 11: and try to work on it. And that's that's what

1656
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 11: we're doing.

1657
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: That's just to be clear.

1658
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 21: You you mentioned at the start that you said it

1659
01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 21: was non football related, So okay, I guess can you

1660
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:34,679
Speaker 21: elaborate on that in any sense?

1661
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:37,200
Speaker 11: I mean, I think it has more to do than

1662
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 11: just football, is what I am basically saying. I think

1663
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 11: there's the football piece one, and then the stuff that

1664
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 11: happens due to football, you know, And I'll just kind

1665
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 11: of keep it at that.

1666
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what will happen from here?

1667
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: Do you think you'll talk to him tonight?

1668
01:25:52,439 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 3: Maybe it's about like, how does that work from.

1669
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:56,000
Speaker 1: Here till the rest of the week.

1670
01:25:56,040 --> 01:25:59,000
Speaker 11: Maybe Yeah, I'm not quite sure how it's all gonna

1671
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 11: pan out. But again, we're not we're not in training camp.

1672
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 11: We're not in in a game week.

1673
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 20: This.

1674
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:09,519
Speaker 11: I know you guys love mini camp and it's a

1675
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 11: chance to come out here and see some of the

1676
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 11: new players. This has no impact on what we're gonna

1677
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:16,559
Speaker 11: be and how we're gonna be going forward as a team,

1678
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:20,840
Speaker 11: and that's why, you know, again this is i'd say,

1679
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:23,160
Speaker 11: obviously we want him here.

1680
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:23,840
Speaker 3: I want him here.

1681
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:24,920
Speaker 11: I want to be throwing to him right now. I

1682
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 11: want to get in that time and down. But at

1683
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 11: the same time, there's a lot of time left.

1684
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 19: I'm not I'm not trying to press you on this.

1685
01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 19: I'm more trying to understand you. But I'm listening. If

1686
01:26:35,320 --> 01:26:37,720
Speaker 19: you say, get him the ball more, get them incorporated.

1687
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 19: And then if Jade has non football related that here.

1688
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 19: So is is it fair to assume or read into

1689
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 19: it that maybe things have become strained and evolved out

1690
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 19: of football situation into stuff that doesn't have to do

1691
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 19: with football. Is that in a sect and without going

1692
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 19: into detail and essence.

1693
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 11: What you're saying, you know, I think I think for

1694
01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 11: the most part it has to do with more more

1695
01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:01,640
Speaker 11: teamwork than anything. And I know that's you can call

1696
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,600
Speaker 11: that football, you can call that non football. But I

1697
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:07,320
Speaker 11: gotta be better and I will be. And like I said,

1698
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 11: well we'll figure this out and move on. And you know,

1699
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:11,720
Speaker 11: look at this as a as a blimp in the road.

1700
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:14,680
Speaker 20: We rewind back to last year and the way it

1701
01:27:14,760 --> 01:27:18,639
Speaker 20: all ended and you and stuff on on the sideline everything.

1702
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 20: Do you wish maybe immediately after things would have went

1703
01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 20: a little differently, and maybe even even after a little

1704
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 20: bit time passed, that you would have reached out to

1705
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:31,799
Speaker 20: him If you didn't immediately after the season ended.

1706
01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 11: Well, I mean I think I wish we would have

1707
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 11: kept winning, and that's you know, winning solves all problems, and.

1708
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:43,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, should you expect him? All right?

1709
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:48,280
Speaker 2: That's Josh Allen addressing the media chiefly and solely about

1710
01:27:48,320 --> 01:27:52,560
Speaker 2: the Stefan Diggs situation. Just to briefly sum up what

1711
01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:58,600
Speaker 2: some of what he addressed. He initially said that I

1712
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:01,360
Speaker 2: know what's going on with Steph. If it's not football related,

1713
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 2: I explative love him.

1714
01:28:03,280 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 3: I've got his back.

1715
01:28:04,080 --> 01:28:06,120
Speaker 2: I'm doing everything in my power to get Steph back

1716
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:07,640
Speaker 2: on the field. We're a better team with him. At

1717
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 2: the end of the day.

1718
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 3: He wants to win and we want to win.

1719
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 2: He's a Buffalo Bill will work it out Later. He

1720
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 2: talked about how it's teamwork related more than anything. I've

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Speaker 2: got to be better and I will be. We'll look

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Speaker 2: back at this as a blip on the radar. We

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Speaker 2: have to take a break here, but Steve and I

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Speaker 2: will wrap it up with some final thoughts when we

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Speaker 2: return here on one Bill's Live Stay tuned. Just only

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Speaker 2: have about a minute and a half left here, so

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Speaker 2: sorry to our callers we were not able to get to.

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Speaker 2: Josh basically said, we won't see this as anything different

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Speaker 2: than wanting to win, and Steph as always wanted to win.

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Speaker 2: We just have to incorporate him a little bit better,

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Speaker 2: and we will. So that lends some to believe that

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Speaker 2: this has to do with his involvement in the offense,

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Speaker 2: but he's been the second most targeted receiver in the

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Speaker 2: league the last two years, so I don't know how

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Speaker 2: much it might.

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Speaker 4: And it might be more about maybe he wants maybe

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Speaker 4: he doesn't like the process or getting too the game

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Speaker 4: plans with maybe he wants to be more involved in

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Speaker 4: that I get.

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Speaker 3: It incorporated into the planning and oh yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some of that. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: We're guessing, but it certainly doesn't seem like this is

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Speaker 4: something that's insurmountable. So yeah, like I said, I'm let's

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Speaker 4: just wait. It's gonna this thing's gonna blow over and

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Speaker 4: they're gonna come back in training camp and here we go.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Uh, So we will check in tomorrow at one pm

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Speaker 2: with another edition of One Bill's Live and we'll have

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Speaker 2: everything you need to know from the practice field again

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Speaker 2: as it's day two of Mini Camp, so stay close

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Speaker 2: to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 3: We'll see tomorrow