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Speaker 1: of normalcy. Welcome into this Thursday edition of One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Mattie Glab here filling in for Chris Brown alongside my

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Speaker 1: We are as well, and as we go on the show,

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Speaker 1: some breaking news for the Buffalo Bills today. A couple

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Speaker 1: items of breaking news. Earlier this morning, we heard that

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Speaker 1: news of course for him, but all of Bill's mafia

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Speaker 1: This has to be the most shifting that we've seen

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Speaker 1: the defensive quality control coach. Kyle Schermer, a name that

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Speaker 1: guys last year that resigned with the Buffalo Bills that

431
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Speaker 1: took a pay cut that they wanted to stay in

432
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Speaker 1: Buffalo because they knew something special was being built here.

433
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Speaker 1: We could hear much of the same this year from

434
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Speaker 1: guys that could take more elsewhere but just choose to

435
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Speaker 1: stay here because they know there's an unfinished business and

436
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: they know that this team has a lot of potential here.

437
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Speaker 1: As we go into the twenty twenty two season, and

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, like we hear him say every year, he

439
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Speaker 1: wants to let those free agents test the markets, see

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Speaker 1: what they're worth, see maybe what they can get out there,

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Speaker 1: And then Bean is willing to have conversations with a

442
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Speaker 1: lot of those guys to see what it would take

443
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Speaker 1: to keep the guys in Buffalo that he wants to

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Speaker 1: keep in Buffalo, to help guys out to see what

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00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: they can do. So I'm always anxious as we approach

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Speaker 1: this time of the year to see who's gonna stay,

447
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Speaker 1: who's gonna go, what the team's gonna look like. In

448
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, it's it's the beginning because then the

449
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Speaker 1: draft is right around the corner at the end of April,

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Speaker 1: so that's when this team really starts to look a

451
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Speaker 1: lot newer. But later in the show, we are going

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Speaker 1: to have Chris Lillis on with us. His the Olympic

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Speaker 1: gold medalist from Rochester that I'm sure you have heard of.

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Speaker 1: Really excited to have him on the show. He is

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Speaker 1: pretty much a superstar after going to the Olympics and

456
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Speaker 1: winning the gold medal for the mixed team aerials and

457
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Speaker 1: freestyle skiing, something that I could never do and many

458
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Speaker 1: of us could never do. So the Rochester guy too,

459
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. Yeah, So we'll have him on

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Speaker 1: at two o'clock. Stray Neil will join us at one

461
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Speaker 1: thirty and we have a Twitter conversation going on today.

462
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Speaker 1: The question is fun, it's an off season question, and

463
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Speaker 1: that's okay. Which Bills player would you want to see

464
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Speaker 1: compete in the Olympics and in which sport? Kind of

465
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Speaker 1: going along with our guests that we're going to have

466
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Speaker 1: on today at two o'clock. So tweet us, let us

467
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Speaker 1: know who you want to see compete in the Olympics

468
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Speaker 1: and which sport, or give us a call at eight

469
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Speaker 1: oh three, five fifty. The phone lines are open. You

470
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Speaker 1: can call us to talk about anything as well. Free agency,

471
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Speaker 1: the NFL combine the draft upcoming. The Buffalo Bills have

472
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Speaker 1: nine picks in this NFL draft, including the twenty fifth

473
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Speaker 1: overall in the first round. Do you want to answer

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Speaker 1: that question? Do you do you know who you'd want

475
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Speaker 1: to see in the Olympics in which sport? What besides

476
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Speaker 1: Trey White being the goalie for the US given right,

477
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Speaker 1: that's a given right. Uh. You know, there's some guys

478
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Speaker 1: who could really do it. I mean guys like Seran

479
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: Neil who are great athletes. But you also want some

480
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Speaker 1: explosion like that got You know, there's a bunch of

481
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Speaker 1: guys you could see in the men's bob sled team

482
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Speaker 1: that could explode out of there, you know not and

483
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Speaker 1: push it fast and get a good start that and

484
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Speaker 1: then just go along for the ride with the driver. Um,

485
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Speaker 1: there's a ton of guy that's you know, that's kind

486
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Speaker 1: of one of those things where if you can do that,

487
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Speaker 1: you could be a part of it. Um. I could

488
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: see like guys like even the free agents like John Feliciano,

489
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, all those guys. Those guys be like good

490
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: ice curlers, you know, just slide it down there, they can.

491
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Speaker 1: You know, you could hold a beer in one hand

492
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Speaker 1: slide the rock with the other. Um, that would be cool. Speed.

493
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Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's speech gig maybe maybe speedskater

494
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Speaker 1: all of that. Um, yeah, all it's pretty fun to

495
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Speaker 1: think about skiing. I don't know. I wouldn't condemn anybody

496
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Speaker 1: to be an aerial skier. That's to me is dangerous

497
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: but fun to watch. I would want to see Jake

498
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Speaker 1: Kumereau with snowboarding, right, he is a snowboarder, so I

499
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: think he could crush that. I could see Meta Kevich

500
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: in the downhill, you know downhill. Any ski jumping, any

501
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: ski jumpers are on the roster. Special teamers have the

502
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: ability to kind of do those things. They're the mentality

503
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Speaker 1: for it. But yeah, you know, what are some of

504
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Speaker 1: the other would like If you're talking, what would Josh

505
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: Allen be good at honey? Right, he'd be a big

506
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: he'd be a big stay at home defenseman. I don't know,

507
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: but I know this, Yeah, right, I've I've also said this.

508
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Speaker 1: The NFL is so full of really really big, strong, fast,

509
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,239
Speaker 1: coordinated athletes. If you catch these guys, most of these

510
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Speaker 1: guys at the right time of their life, young enough

511
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Speaker 1: in their life, and start training them, just about all

512
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: of them could be up, you know, world class athletes

513
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: and some other sport um. So, yeah, it's fun to

514
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: think about. When you see him as a full fledged,

515
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Speaker 1: you know, own men playing football, you realize how big

516
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: and strong and athletic they are and how committed they are.

517
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Speaker 1: If they were committed to another sport, it would be

518
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Speaker 1: fun to see. Yeah, it definitely would be. And I

519
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Speaker 1: would imagine some of these olympians too, could could be

520
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Speaker 1: a part of some professional sports links because it's always

521
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Speaker 1: interesting to hear how people pick what sport and then

522
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Speaker 1: they end up dedicating all their time to that sport.

523
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Speaker 1: And we'll hear from Chris later on in the show,

524
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: but he took up skiing when he was like seven

525
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Speaker 1: years old, and it just becomes a hobby that you

526
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Speaker 1: go to. He went to Bristol Mountain. You just go

527
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: there every single weekend, and you work at it. You

528
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: work at it, You work at it a little bit

529
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Speaker 1: different than going to football practice every day. Oh yeah,

530
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Speaker 1: But it's true. A lot of these, particularly the winter sport,

531
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Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics. You know, it's a seasonal sport usually.

532
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Speaker 1: That's why Sean White was actually so good for so long.

533
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Speaker 1: His summertime sports mirrored his Olympic sport of snowboarding, you know,

534
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: and the aerials and stuff, because he would skateboard in

535
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Speaker 1: the Officeason and they would he would stay fit and

536
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: do all that stuff, and he would do year round

537
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Speaker 1: what everybody else did for like three months, and he

538
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: became elite doing it and stayed elite for you know,

539
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: wasn't four decades or four Olympics something like that. Five

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Speaker 1: Olympics is amazing. So that because it's the winter Olympics

541
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: are so specialized. Um it's it's hard to see a

542
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: guy cross over into and you know, the opportunity to

543
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,479
Speaker 1: do it year round really is rare. So they you know,

544
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Speaker 1: some of these guys probably did dabble in some of

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Speaker 1: these you know, skiing or whatever, but hockey of course

546
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: for some of the guys. But um, it's It's fun

547
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Speaker 1: to think about the abilities some of these guys, and

548
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Speaker 1: plus some of the Olympic athletes that would cross over

549
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: into another sport. That that's more you know, main I

550
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: guess mainstream outside not an Olympic sport, you know. Um,

551
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: but now some of the Olympic sports are I mean,

552
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Speaker 1: I'm we're are they gonna do the NFL in the Olympics? Right?

553
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, right, I mean they got basketball hockey

554
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: that would be fun to watch. There's baseball is not

555
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: an Olympic sport either, and I'm surprised by that a

556
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, it's not a world wide enough sport.

557
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: Certainly American football is. Yeah, it's got a long way

558
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, I would say. So we're gonna take

559
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Speaker 1: a break here, but a lot more coming up in

560
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Speaker 1: the show, so stick with us here on One Bills Live,

561
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Speaker 1: we are presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

562
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Speaker 1: Welcome back into One Bills Live. Mattie Glave alongside Steve Tasker,

563
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: and we are joined by Defensive Back and Special Teams

564
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Speaker 1: Ace Saran Neil. Some exciting news as the offseason is

565
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 1: in full swing, Suran disagreed to terms to remain in

566
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo on a three year contract. I think this is

567
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: a huge get for the Buffalo Bills. You are such

568
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: a big part of the special teams unit and have

569
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: been since you've came in, and are a solid piece

570
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: to the defensive backs group as well. I remember going

571
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Speaker 1: back to the off season and just watching you in

572
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Speaker 1: training camp and so many of your teammates, including defensive

573
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: coordinator Leslie Frasier. Last year, the word about you, Surrand

574
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: was you are just a different type of athlete, and

575
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: I think we saw that this past season with how

576
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: you were able to contribute to this team. So knowing

577
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Speaker 1: that you're going to be in Buffalo for three more years,

578
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: what excites you most about that? Oh? Coming back home,

579
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Speaker 1: knowing everybody in the building and most of all, you know,

580
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: playing on my bugs on this team. Honestly, I didn't

581
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: want to go to Wales because I love it here,

582
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: you know, and I love the fan base and you know,

583
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: I know everybody around. I mean, I didn't want to

584
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: go anywhere and new, Well, we're gonna have to learn

585
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: a new environment, and you know, just coming back here,

586
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like it's a lot of love

587
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: here and it's more than just teammates. It's more like

588
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: a family here, you know, from Golden Staff media, you know,

589
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: fan basing down to the players. You know, we stick

590
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: together and I feel like we got some special going

591
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: on here and still on that mission. Know we kind

592
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: of fell short, but you know, I think we got

593
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: it a lot of It's got to be that kind

594
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: of vibe in the locker room where you think, you

595
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: know you're you've been You've been good enough to win

596
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: the super Bowl last two years, you know, despite losing

597
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: on the FC Championship game, you know, gets the Chiefs

598
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: and then getting down the divisional round, you are as

599
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: good as anybody on in the NFL. And you guys

600
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: really have to feel like no matter what happens, you're

601
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: gonna be there at the end and it's just a

602
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: matter of putting it together at the right time. And

603
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: that's got to be pretty enticing for guys in your position.

604
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: You could have one someplace else and played. There's probably

605
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: some other teams that were probably gonna call you or whatever.

606
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: And there's other guys too. There's like a list of

607
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen guys. You got to know that they know

608
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: what they're gonna walk away from if they signed someplaces. Yeah,

609
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: and I think that's the biggest thing here, and it's

610
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: not much to talk about, you know when you look

611
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: at your team's odds here, like you know the mentality

612
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: that this team passed, and you know the hunger and

613
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: you know the brotherhood that we have to go back out,

614
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: you know, even this next season and still continue to

615
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: tax that it moves on. Like, yeah, we feel short.

616
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,239
Speaker 1: I feel like that fat us right now because we

617
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: know we know what we have to do, right. You

618
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: guys have a very exciting group for next season. I mean,

619
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: so many players return. We'll get new players through free

620
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: agency and through the NFL Draft. But like I said,

621
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Speaker 1: you have been an important piece to special teams in

622
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: the in the defensive backs unit, the secondary as a whole.

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Speaker 1: You guys had the number one pass defense this past season,

624
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: the number one overall defense, and number one scoring defense,

625
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: and are always pretty great on special teams. I knew

626
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: you had a career high twelve tackles on special teams

627
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: this past season, which ranked second amongst the rest of

628
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: the special teamers for the Bills. What do you think

629
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: you can bring to the team as a whole. Why

630
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: do you think you are so important to how the

631
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: defense operates, into how special teams operates. I feel like

632
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Speaker 1: with me, I think it's with me it is being unselfish,

633
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: you know, being being able to you know, stick my

634
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: neck in any situation, no matter what the situation is. Like,

635
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: I know what I do on this team, you know,

636
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: I know, you know that special team guy. They got

637
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: to go down there, you know, get the ball, for

638
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: get the offense, or you know, do for the defense.

639
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: But whenever they need me, no matter what position it is,

640
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ball to the wall for it and

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00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: for my teammates. So you know we can do we

642
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: gotta do you also, I mean, I don't know what

643
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Speaker 1: you've had, probably not much at the present time. But

644
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: he far was gonna move on. Yeah, now Matt Smiley

645
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: is coming in. It's gonna be a little bit of

646
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: different voice in the room. Uh gonna be you know,

647
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: some things may change. What what does that mean to you? Guys?

648
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: Have you spoken to guys like Matta cavic and and

649
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: Taiwan and those guys you got your core group? What

650
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: conversations have you had about the changes that may be coming.

651
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: There's no change, right Uh? Congratulations to Heath right down

652
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: there in Jacksonville or whatever. You know, he congratulated me

653
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: here on this or whatever. You know. He was a

654
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: good guy. Um. But Smiley man, Smiley been here since

655
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: I right I got drafted. He's one of the guys.

656
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: He's one of the guys. He was here, you know

657
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: with the last you know, guy that was here before Heath,

658
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 1: and uh, I feel like he can he can pick

659
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: it up, and they know he can pick it up.

660
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: And you know, for Taiwan and Mattacavig, I mean, Matta

661
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: Caven just got here with Heath, but Taiwan no Heath,

662
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: you know. I mean t tay Wan to know Smiley,

663
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: you know, and Smiley know us. And that's one thing

664
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: I can say about Smiley. Smiley. Smiley knows his players.

665
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: He just don't treat his players like they're players. He

666
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: teach them the game and he you know, he actually

667
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: keeps me on the weather when I'm actually hot in

668
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: the game, you know, something happening or you know, situation

669
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: like you know, like we talked about earlier in the season,

670
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: when you know, you got to beat a lot of

671
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, blocks or whatever. He keeps my temper down

672
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: you know, he keeps me under under weather or whatever,

673
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: and you tell me how the thing's gonna go and

674
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: just take it one player at a time. So Smiley

675
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: does a great job. There's a lot in that. When

676
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: you gotta have a voice on the sideline that can

677
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: bring you, you know, compeel you off the ceiling when

678
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: you get a cheap shot, or somebody gets a better

679
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: of you, or somebody gives you something extra or whatever. UM,

680
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: give us a little field. Also, Um, you have played

681
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: some on defense. What have they told you anything or

682
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: let you know anything if it needs going to change

683
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: about your role playing defense and regular down a distances

684
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: to special teams. Um, I really don't know. Uh, it's

685
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: always something new, you know, And that's what I'm bid for,

686
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: you know, not knowing what's coming, but being prepared when

687
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: it's come. It's all about preparation or whatever. But with

688
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: this new this new deal, I feel like I just

689
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,919
Speaker 1: feel like it was more of what I can bring

690
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: to the table for the upcoming years. You know, it's

691
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: not about what I've done in the past years. And

692
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: I have to still earn it. You know, it's not

693
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: the end here. Once I signed that sign it but

694
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: you know, I have to still earn this contract and

695
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: show them that this contract could to come contribute to

696
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: the team and help them in any phase or whatever.

697
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: So I mean, I really can't give you that answer

698
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: or whatever. All I know is that you have to

699
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: be prepared for what's at stake and what I need

700
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: to do when the number is called. You've always been

701
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: that plugging play type of defensive player. Though, when your

702
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: name is called, we need we need Suran at Nickel,

703
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: Go play Nickel. We need Suran at corner, go player.

704
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: We need Surran at safety, Go play safety. And I

705
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: think that versatility shows how much worth you have within

706
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: this team and how valuable you are within this team.

707
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you get drafted by the Bills in the

708
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: fifth round in twenty eighteen. You've been with Buffalo for

709
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: four seasons. Now, how do you think you've grown since

710
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: you came in this building on day one? How to

711
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: handle my business, how to go about my business, how

712
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: to train and how to work, you know, actually coming

713
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: in here, I asked you, like I was telling them

714
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 1: guys when I was in camp, you know, in Rochester.

715
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: I told myself in the dorm room, I like, I

716
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: don't know if this, you know, this is it for me,

717
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: Like we just talked about, you know, like I didn't

718
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 1: know how to handle it. I didn't know what came

719
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: with it, but I know now. It's just like it's

720
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: minimizing your life, making everything simple or whatever. I actually

721
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: learned a lot, you know, how to be a professional,

722
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: and that's one thing that this team got here, a

723
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: lot of professionals that teach you the game and walk

724
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: you through the whole thing. Yeah, it's interesting you say that.

725
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: I think back to when I was playing. My wife

726
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: and I had five children while I was playing, four

727
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: children while I was playing. One right after. And you

728
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: have to have somebody in your life like you have

729
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: your twins. Certainly you need somebody to share all this

730
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: with no question about it. But you also need somebody

731
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: to support you so you can go play football and

732
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: not think about too much else away from the field,

733
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: where you're simple. Like you say, you simplify everything so

734
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: that you can focus on being the best teammate, best player,

735
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: best best everything you can be. It's interesting you say

736
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: that if you simplify it, it becomes more clear and

737
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: you become better. Yeah, you have to simplify it because

738
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: if you don't, it's gonna be too much for you.

739
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: It's gonna be too much. You can't. You can't think

740
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: about the whatabouts and the outcomes and the what else

741
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: or whatever like when stuff happens or you got to

742
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: just focus on your job, you know what I'm saying.

743
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: Focus on what you got you gotta do, like right

744
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: now or whatever. And that's one thing I can tell

745
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: you know, guys coming into this thing, like, don't think

746
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: too much about it. You know that actually here to

747
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: see you, so you know, be you or whatever. So sorry,

748
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: And you've got a couple months here in the off

749
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: season before you guys report for workouts in April. Where

750
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: are you training? What have you been up to? What

751
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: do you want to work on this off season? Oh?

752
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: What I've been doing? I hope you I hope you

753
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: took some time to relax. I definitely took some time,

754
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: And yeah, I haven't. You know, I got a little

755
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: treadmill in my house. I take a run on it

756
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: every now and then. But I've really been relaxing. I

757
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 1: got away from the game. And you got to get

758
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: away from it mentally to come back strong, you know,

759
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: like this game can wear you down. You can break

760
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: you down mentally physically. You know, people don't look at

761
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: that on the ousehide people think of look at your

762
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: contract and all that stuff and your money, and they

763
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: don't even know what it is. So you time like this,

764
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: you really got to separate your mind from and spend

765
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: time with your family loved ones and really get away. Well,

766
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: surand congratulations on a fantastic contract. And I say to

767
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: this too, I'm kind of warm with my heart that

768
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: they signed a special teams guys. I love it. Offseason

769
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: involved the list of guys and also the highest page

770
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: special teams playing in the league. Man, that's there's something

771
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: in that. You're the first guy in line they took

772
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 1: care of and they and they gave you some stature

773
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: around the national football Yeah, I'm really I'm happy for you. Yep,

774
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: welcome you, pushed ups. I'm trying to get there. You're

775
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: way ahead of Red Sand. Congratulations three more years in Buffalo.

776
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: We are excited to see us stay here. We love

777
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: familiar faces around this building and we know how much

778
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: you mean to this team. We're gonna take a break here,

779
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: but don't go anywhere. One Bill's live will be right back.

780
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: We're back on one Bills Live. We've got a fun

781
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: Twitter question for today. Which Bills players would you want

782
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,280
Speaker 1: to see compete in the Olympics and in which sport

783
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: would you want to see them competing. We've got a

784
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 1: caller on the line who has an idea of who

785
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: he would want to see compete in Olympics and in

786
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: a pretty cool sport, I think, Kevin, welcome on. You

787
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: are from Hamburg calling in which player would you like

788
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: to see compete in the Olympics and which sport do

789
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: you think they would do well in? Well, it probably

790
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: makes sense to have Josh Allen in the quarterback at

791
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: one of the throwing events, whether it be the javelin.

792
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: I think he could throw that sucker far, the discus

793
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: or the shot putball, because I want to see that.

794
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:52,479
Speaker 1: I want to see those babies fly. What do you think, Steve, Well, Yeah,

795
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: the javelin, I could see he's big enough. And yeah,

796
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: I think you've learned the technique. Yah, I could see

797
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: him throw the javelin. He's probably significantly larger in stature

798
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: than most of the javelin throwers. It's a technique driven

799
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: sport though. Yeah, that's a pretty good call. Quarterbacks the

800
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 1: technique driven position. Yeah, as big as he is and

801
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: as fast as he is on the football field, that's

802
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, he's not a world class sprint or anything

803
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: like that, but his size and his arm give him something.

804
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: The discus and the shot put probably not as much,

805
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: but the javelin, I think he's got a chance. Yeah,

806
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: I agree, Kevin. Thank you so much for the call.

807
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: You're welcome, all right. So one thing that's funny about

808
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: the javelin throw that I wanted to mention or just

809
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: bringing it up. So after practice or during practice, I

810
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: should say almost every day, there are these basically polls

811
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: that go on the ground that the wide receivers run

812
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: around when they are in their individual drills during the

813
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: beginning of the practice, and they basically look like a

814
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: javelin that you would put in the ground and it

815
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: just stands up. And once they move on from the

816
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,240
Speaker 1: indie drill portion of practice, Chad Hall, the wide receivers coach,

817
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: would take what looked like the javelin and just chuck

818
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: it in the air and we would all be looking like,

819
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: do we need to move out of the way? This

820
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: is coming near the track where we all stand, and

821
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: the goal would be to get it to stand right

822
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: in the right in the grass and the ground straight up,

823
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: and sometimes he would get it and it would go

824
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: right in the ground, stand straight up, and the whole

825
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: wide receiver group would go wild. So that's what I

826
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: think of when we talk about tossing in the javelin

827
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: and seeing some of our players doing it. But let's

828
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 1: get to the tweet sheet. Our tweet sheet is sponsored

829
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: by the Corgan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

830
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. We've got a couple answers here

831
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: that we want to read off. I'll go first from Nick.

832
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: He agrees, Josh Allen javelin throw right. Yeah, that's that's

833
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: a good one. I hadn't thought of that. I hadn't

834
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: thought of that. That's seem it makes sense now, though.

835
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: What can I say another one? Trey White Curling Academy. Yeah,

836
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: I think the big guys. I think the curling thing.

837
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: It's not an athletic skill, but it's something you have

838
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: to do over and over and over and learn how

839
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: to do. But I think all those you know you

840
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: could do it if you had the time and they

841
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: and put the effort forth to do it. I always

842
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: picture a big dude doing that. Yeah, you know, hilarious.

843
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: And the women's curling is every bit as captivating as man.

844
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, I am shocked at myself

845
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: at how when the Olympic coverage was on, I if

846
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: curling was on, it almost trumped every other event. I know,

847
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: it trumped every other I was like, oh, I'm not

848
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: that curling ice skating. Now I'm going back to curling. Uh. Downhill, Uh,

849
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: I'll watch it, but I'm going back to curling. Curlings

850
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: might go to right. You know, it's like the I

851
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: spent more time watching curling than any other event in

852
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: the Olympics. Yeah, bar none. Jeffrey just tweeted at us.

853
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Speaker 1: He said, I think you're missing the obvious one for Josh,

854
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:05,760
Speaker 1: either high jump or hurdles. True, good point, good point,

855
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: and something that just goes hand in hand at Oliver equestrian.

856
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's t. Yeah, he would kick button that.

857
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: Yeah he's a good horse rider. Oh yeah, Isaiah in track,

858
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: JT says, Isaiah in track because he can scoot Josh,

859
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: and swimming because he's got a strong arm, which reminds

860
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: me of the good old salmon arm. Extravagan so you

861
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: guys have That was so funny. I remember watching that

862
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: and dying laughing. Also, I know it's not an Olympic sport,

863
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: but I'd enter Ed Oliver into a bull riding competition,

864
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: seeing as he owns a horse. Yeah, the bull riding

865
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: I don't think is an Olympic event, is it? No?

866
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: He said it's not, but it would be fun to watch.

867
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 1: And then Jack says, Horrible Harry in wrestling for Summer Olympics.

868
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 1: He was a wrestler, has a great strength and good

869
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: low center of gravity ethic to be great the super

870
00:46:55,080 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: heavyweight division. You've got some guys Starlotulale Harrison certainly can

871
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: do that. And I know this, Uh in my day,

872
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: Ted Washington was a national champion in wrestler, and so

873
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: was Jimmy Richard offensive guard and yeah, those guys were

874
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: freakishly strong. Sean McDermott in wrestling, Yeah, there you go.

875
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: Sean would be at least there on the on the mat.

876
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: I definitely think Horrible Harry could be in there. He

877
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: would be a good candidate for that. All right, fun

878
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: little segment with our Twitter question. Last one you missed

879
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: the last one from Christy She goes she wants McKenzie, Digs, Sanders,

880
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: and Davis all for wide receivers. As the Bob Bob

881
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: slow speed combined, there's no way they lose. Hide and

882
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: poorer can be the alternatives. I like that one. I

883
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: think that's my favorite answer so far. Yeah, the thing

884
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,280
Speaker 1: is that stinking bob sled weighs a couple hundred pounds,

885
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: so they gotta push the couple hundred pounds. But man,

886
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: those guys could scare strong. Yeah. Who's gonna be the

887
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,959
Speaker 1: driver though? Is it gonna be Digs, Mackenzie, Sanders or Davis.

888
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: They gonna flip a coin. Who do you who do

889
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: you see as the driver? There? I think Diggs maybe?

890
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: Who do you see as the driver? I could see

891
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: any one of them being the driver for different reasons.

892
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: Sanders is the salty veteran, you know, the older guy.

893
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: He'd hop in. He'd hop in first, you know what

894
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: I mean. Mackenzie might be the last guy and so

895
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: he'd keep running fastest. But then again, he strikes me

896
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: as the one that would have the most you know,

897
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: go for it mentality. McKenzie wood Digs smart enough to

898
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: do the job, and Gabe Davis just seems to have

899
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: the wisdom of a good driver. You know what I'm saying.

900
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want wisdom or you want

901
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, go for it now in the so there

902
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: you go there. I don't know all four of them

903
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: could drive. Thinking about which Bills player could be a

904
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: part of the Bob Flood team out of the wide receivers.

905
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: I love it to go Thursday Afternoon conversation here on

906
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. But it's great time for us when

907
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: we come back. We're gonna have Olympic gold medalist in

908
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: Rochester native Chris Lillis on with us to talk about

909
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 1: winning gold at the Olympics and starting at all in Rochester.

910
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: So don't go anywhere here One Bills. I've presented by

911
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: Kalida Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker

912
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: who has been all all over the fields unique he

913
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

914
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the credit Fear

915
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: of Normalcy. We are in the final hour of our

916
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: show this Thursday afternoon. Mattie glab here with Steve Tasker.

917
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:56,479
Speaker 1: I'm in for Chris Brown and in our two o'clock hour.

918
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: We have a fun guest we would like to bring

919
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: onto the show. We've been talking about which Bills player

920
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: we think should be in the Olympics and what sport

921
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: they would compete in. Well, we've got an actual Olympian

922
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 1: on with us. It's Olympic gold medalist and Rochester native

923
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: Chris Lillis, who is joining us on one Bills Live

924
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: right now. Chris, thanks for taking the time to be

925
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: on with us. I absolutely love your background and I

926
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: think I love your zip up even more so. Cool

927
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: that you got to be a part of the Olympics

928
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: this year and come home with some hardware. Gold medalist

929
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: in the mixed team aerials in freestyle skiing at the

930
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Winter Olympics. So number one, what was

931
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 1: the best part of the whole experience for you? I

932
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: just wanted to say, thanks so much for having me

933
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: on here. Guys, so fun, biggest Bills fan you'll ever meet,

934
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: you know, I know that's that says a lot, So

935
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just so fun for me. I

936
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: gotta say the best part about the Olympic experience for

937
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: me was definitely taken home the gold and winning that

938
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: medal that moment when I knew that me and my

939
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: team we're gonna be gold medalist. That was, you know,

940
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: surreal and so cool and definitely the coolest part of

941
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: the trip. It had to be because certainly, I mean,

942
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna be known as a Olympic gold medalist for

943
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. It goes right on your bio.

944
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the first thing anybody's gonna say about you.

945
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 1: And does that how does that make you feel about doing?

946
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: Make having an accomplishment so young in life, it's gonna

947
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: follow you for as long as you live. Honestly, I'd

948
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: say that I'm still kind of growing into it. You know.

949
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: Some of my family members and my brother they're kind

950
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: of like, you know, giving me a little bit of

951
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: a hard time because I you know, I don't think

952
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: myself as like an Olympic gold medalist or anything like that.

953
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm just Chris and just this gear and I've been

954
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: doing this my whole life. But to actually achieve it,

955
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: I think I'm still growing into the role a little bit.

956
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: I mean, it's definitely a part of your family. Now

957
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: you get to be a gold medalist, and we know

958
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: that you started off skiing at Bristol Mountains. So I mean,

959
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 1: when do you know that you know I'm gonna pursue

960
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: this and hopefully make the Olympics. As a young kid,

961
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: when was there a realization that You're like, Okay, I

962
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: could be enough, I could be good enough here to

963
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: compete in the Olympics. Or was it something that your

964
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: parents kind of helped you see? I would say that,

965
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, there was really never that moment that I

966
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: thought that I was going to be an Olympian or

967
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: go to the Olympics. You know, you're when you're a kid,

968
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: you kind of always live in fantasyland, right, so you're

969
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: always looking around and be like, oh, I'm gonna go

970
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: compete in the Olympics. I'm gonna win the goal. And

971
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: so I've been saying stuff like that since I was

972
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: six or seven years old, cruthfully believing it then and

973
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 1: then just kind of as time goes on and as

974
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: you train, it starts to become more reality. But it's

975
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: more confirming, you know, for me, at least, what I

976
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: always felt like I was going to achieve. And I

977
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: think that that, you know, it kind of speaks to

978
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: anybody who's an Olympic athlete you really can't meet that

979
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: goal unless you actually believe that it's going to happen.

980
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: You know, maybe the whole way through I don't know.

981
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: You've been, you know, competing in the world and these

982
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 1: huge events, you know, for a long time now, and

983
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: certainly the Olympics is you know, maybe the culmination of

984
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 1: a lot of that. You've already said you're going to

985
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: try and go for the Northern for the Olympics in

986
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: northern Italy coming up in twenty twenty six. Awesome. I

987
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,280
Speaker 1: would love to hear it. Give us a sense because

988
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: we live, you know, we're here in western New York

989
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: and we kind of pile around the snowsfallen and all that.

990
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: What was it like in China? Completely different culture, all

991
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: the way around the world, and you know, we want

992
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: to know what it was like just be a person

993
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: over there when you're not competing, or when you had

994
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: any downtime, maybe after you competed or whatever. Give us

995
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: a sense of what the human side of it was like,

996
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: just being there and competing and hanging out. Well, you know,

997
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting. I got a little bit of

998
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,399
Speaker 1: perspective from the twenty eighteen Olympics, even though I wasn't

999
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: able to compete in it. I went as a spectator

1000
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: and my older brother competed and he told me all

1001
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: about it, and I had to say this Chinese Olympics

1002
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: in Beijing was a little bit different than maybe Olympics

1003
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: in the past, mostly because of the whole COVID pandemic

1004
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: thing and the omicroon variants king so much right before

1005
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 1: the Olympics started, So it was, you know, I got

1006
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: to give a lot of credit to China for even

1007
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,720
Speaker 1: being able to host the Olympics without it being delayed

1008
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: or anything like that, because that's obviously a really difficult

1009
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: thing for an athlete to deal with, is any sort

1010
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: of delay. So I was really happy about that. But

1011
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: I will say it was very It was in the village.

1012
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: We weren't allowed to leave or travel around, or go

1013
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: out to dinner or go do anything like that. So

1014
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: it's all in the village, not even hanging out with

1015
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 1: other Olympians or other teams. For the most part. Really

1016
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: the only shared contact we would have would be in

1017
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: the cafeteria, and so it was just honestly, it was

1018
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: a very stressful time period leading up to the Games

1019
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: because that's all you're doing is just kind of thinking

1020
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: about it, getting ready. There's not a lot of like

1021
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: extracurriculus that we're doing to take on mind off things,

1022
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 1: So it was just kind of all focus right before

1023
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 1: and then yeah, I had like a day of celebration

1024
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: and hanging out after I was done competing, and then

1025
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: heading straight back to the US to celebrate with my family.

1026
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: But it was a definitely a different experience than I

1027
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: think in Olympics past, you know, at the way athletes

1028
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: kind of enjoyed themselves in their free time. So in

1029
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: the Olympics there are several different sports that you can

1030
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: be a skier in and compete in. How did you

1031
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: fall into the mixed team aerials and freestyle skiing? And

1032
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: to anybody who doesn't know what that is, could you

1033
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: kind of explain what you do? Well, there's several disciplines

1034
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,919
Speaker 1: of freestyle skiing moguls if you've ever seen that, where

1035
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: you're you're going from bump to bump, and then there's

1036
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: a couple jumps. Then there's free skiing, which is kind

1037
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: of in the train park, and then aerial skiing, which

1038
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:35,240
Speaker 1: is what I compete in. Um I competed and jumped

1039
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: and trained and on the freestyle team of Bristol Mountain

1040
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 1: and all those different disciplines when I was younger, and

1041
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: then at a certain point, I just really loved getting

1042
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 1: as high in the air as I possibly could, and

1043
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: I think that's what aerials achieved, and that's what kind

1044
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: of sets it apart from the other freestyle skiing sports

1045
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 1: as we go very high, you know, up to fifty

1046
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: five or sixty feet in the air, straight up, and

1047
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: just do as many flips and twists as I can.

1048
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,919
Speaker 1: And I'm not exactly sure how to say it other

1049
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 1: than you know, it's kind of a family sport for me.

1050
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: My older brother compete in the twenty eighteen Olympics, my

1051
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: younger brother was on the US development team. We all

1052
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: found the sport at a really young age and just

1053
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: kind of grew into it together. And I've been doing it,

1054
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: you know, my entire life. I know, you lost a

1055
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: brother in twenty seventeen, and I want to ask you,

1056
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: did any of your family members were they able to

1057
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: come and see you in person, or did they have

1058
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: to have a watch party here in Western New York. Well,

1059
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: you know that was a big you know, that was

1060
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: a big question leading up to the games, and unfortunately

1061
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: they weren't able to make the trip out to Beijing

1062
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: just due to the COVID protocols and no spectators international

1063
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Speaker 1: spectators being allowed, but they had a big watch party

1064
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: in Rochester, New York and at Bristol Mountain at the

1065
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: difference times that it was played. I was able to

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00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: face time and talk to my parents and especially my

1067
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: older brother leading up to the games and getting you know,

1068
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: and making sure I had a lot of contact with them.

1069
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: But you know, it was a bummer that I wasn't

1070
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: able to have them there with me, like I was

1071
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: able to travel in twenty eighteen and watch my older

1072
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 1: brother competes. You know, that's a that's a fun part

1073
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: of it that you know, unfortunately we weren't able to experience.

1074
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: But hopefully four years Northern Italy and what we'll be

1075
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: able to do it, you know, hopefully no pandemic and

1076
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,320
Speaker 1: I'll have them there for that. Yeah, most definitely. We

1077
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: got to ask you about what you have behind you.

1078
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: We know you are big Bills fan. What was it

1079
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: like watching the Bills team this season? I know that

1080
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: they ended the season two early and we're still trying

1081
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: to get over that last game. And that loss, but

1082
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: hopefully good things are ahead for the team next season.

1083
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: But how long have you been a Bills fan for

1084
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: you got a favorite player, any favorite moments from being

1085
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: a fan? Well, I would say that I'm biggest Bills

1086
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: fan that you'll meet. My whole family is so my

1087
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: dad wanted me to say before I came on here

1088
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: is Steve Tasker, big fan in the eighties, watching you

1089
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: know in the late eighties early nineties, had a lot

1090
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: of fun watching you, and he said, if you ever

1091
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: want to be best friends, he's available. Outside of that,

1092
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: my favorite player is you know, it's got to be

1093
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I was big Josh Allen believer from the

1094
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: money was drafted. But that Josh Allen Stefon Diggs hookup,

1095
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: that's a lot of fun to watch. And it's just

1096
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: been so fun watching the team over the last couple

1097
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: of years. I've been a Bills fan all my life

1098
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: twenty three years old now. So the first twenty years

1099
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: were a little bit you know, we're off to watch.

1100
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: I didn't get any of those glory years, and then

1101
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: I ed so watching them excel and watching how well

1102
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: this team has been built over the last couple of

1103
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: years and also getting to wake up at three or

1104
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: four o'clock in the morning while I'm overseas competing and

1105
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: watch the Bills of the postseason. You know, that's been

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00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And I would say my favorite

1107
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: memory as a Bills fan, I mean, I think it's

1108
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: a lot of Bills fans. My age favorite memory was

1109
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton pass against the Baltimore Ravens that sent

1110
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: them to the playoffs for the first time in my lifetime.

1111
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: I was watching that, and I mean, I have never

1112
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: been so just extremely excited because it was my favorite

1113
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: team and they've never been to the postseason before. I'd

1114
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: also just injured my leg and I needed some good

1115
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: news at that moment, and I was able to just

1116
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: enjoy that with my brothers and my and my mom. Well,

1117
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: give me an idea. I mean, growing up in Rochester,

1118
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: you had to have come to a game in person.

1119
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: How often do you show up? I mean, what's your

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00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: Do you have seats? I mean, do your family have seats?

1121
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: If your dad's that big a fan, I mean, give

1122
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: us an idea of what your seats. My parents are

1123
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: season ticket holders of Buffalo Bills. That is something that

1124
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: they decided to do. Unfortunately after the kids moved away.

1125
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's coincidence or not, but there

1126
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,479
Speaker 1: are season ticket holders. They've been to every home game

1127
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,439
Speaker 1: this year. They're going to be season ticket holders again

1128
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: next year. I try and make it back for a

1129
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: game once a year if I can't, so you know

1130
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: that time of the year, it sometimes gets a little

1131
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: tight with training. But I wasn't able to come this No,

1132
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: I was able to go to a game this year.

1133
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: I'm the Christmas I was at the Carolina Panthers game,

1134
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: which was awesome because they blew them out. Very fun

1135
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: game to go too. And yeah, I try and make

1136
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: it back at least once a year, usually around Christmas

1137
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: time for a home game. All right, Well, we've got

1138
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: one last question for you. We have a Twitter question

1139
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: today and it's kind of a kind of about you

1140
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: about the Olympics. Which Bills player would you want to

1141
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: see compete in the Olympics and in which sport Do

1142
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 1: you have a player that you think could be in

1143
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 1: the Olympics on the Bill's roster and what sport do

1144
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: you think they would be. Keeton NFL players are extremely

1145
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: talented athletic individuals, so I'm sure that there's many Olympic

1146
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: sports that they would excel in. I think that if

1147
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: I was going to pick a Bills player to compete

1148
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: in the in the Winter Olympics that we're asking, or

1149
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: is in any Olympics, it could be any you could

1150
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: do winter or you could do summer. Well, I think

1151
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 1: it'd be fun to do the Winter Olympics because it's

1152
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, maybe outside of what you

1153
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: normally think of your NFL players do it. So I'm

1154
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: gonna go. I would like to see Stefon Diggs, Gabriel Davis,

1155
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,959
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and Dawson Knox compete in the four man

1156
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: bob sled in the Olympics. That would be fun, all right.

1157
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: So you know, you gotta be fast, you gotta be strong,

1158
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: They gotta get that thing going. And then I'm not

1159
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: sure who's going to be the driver. They'd have to

1160
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: decide that amongst themselves. But I'd like to see that.

1161
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: Don't you need to wait in the back of it

1162
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: so it's heavier on the back end. I don't know

1163
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: what that is. Yeah, yeah, you know, maybe Dawson in

1164
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,479
Speaker 1: the back. I don't know that. Dawson and Josh would fit.

1165
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: You'd be surprised. Those guys are pretty big box letters.

1166
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: But I would watch that any day. I already called

1167
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen out after I won my gold to try

1168
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: aerial skiing. They said, pick a favorite you know, celebrity

1169
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: to try aerial skiing. I was, you know, responded to

1170
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: you by his agent saying, most definitely not. That will

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01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: not happen. I think that there's a little bit too

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01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 1: much injury prone for that to be going down. So

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01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: I have seen I've obviously have watched the aerial ski

1174
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 1: jumping before, and yet that is a hard no for

1175
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: it just about every That's what I meant. It is

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01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: it is, I get it. It's awesome to see, but

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01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: it is absolutely frightening when you think about the distance.

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Speaker 1: You guys, you're going up like four or five stories

1179
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Speaker 1: in the air and you're never facing the ground. I

1180
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: know that. I mean, you're just you're It's an absolutely

1181
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: amazing sport and I gotta tip my hat to you

1182
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: for the you know, the courageous nature of what you do.

1183
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: I'd like to know what your parents. I'm scared every

1184
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 1: day I do it. So yeah, natural reaction and that

1185
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: aerial skiers deal with awesome. I was gonna say, what

1186
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: about your phone? There's not no fear? Yeah, out all

1187
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: the time. I know. I don't want to say that

1188
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: they're used to it, because I don't think that that's

1189
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: exactly right. I will say, after, you know, watching fifteen

1190
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: years of freestyle skiing, they know what they're looking at.

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01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 1: They kind of they have a pretty good gauge of,

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01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: you know, the certain factors that may or may not

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Speaker 1: lead to a bad crash, and also what a bad

1194
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 1: crash really looks like. So um, you know, some of

1195
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: them don't hurt nearly as bad as they you know,

1196
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: as they look. Some of them do, and so they're

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01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: they're kind of just pros to the game. I'd say

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Speaker 1: at this point, well, good for them, Good for them. Chris,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for spending some time with this man.

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01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: It's awesome to get I hope we get to see

1201
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: you in person at some point. Yeah, I hope. So

1202
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: I'll be back in the Rochester Buffalo area pretty regularly,

1203
01:02:58,120 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: so maybe we'll make it happen. Ye, thanks so much

1204
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:01,959
Speaker 1: for you. Bet and tell your dad he can claim

1205
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: me as a best friend. That's fine, all right, even

1206
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: though we haven't met. Watching right now, right, you might

1207
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: regret those, so he's going to be right, even though

1208
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: even though we haven't ever met. You can tell him

1209
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: just claim it's all right. Others other people do it,

1210
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: so all right, it's all good. All right, Thank you, Chris,

1211
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, guys, talk to you later, all right.

1212
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Speaker 1: That was Chris Lillis. He was an Olympic medalist in

1213
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two Winter Olympics for basically getting really

1214
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: high in the air and doing some really cool things

1215
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 1: that a small group of population in the entire world

1216
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: to do. Yes, I have seen it. It is insane.

1217
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: Those are those are athletes credit to NBC or whoever

1218
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: happens to be televising whatever event you're watching, where they're

1219
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Speaker 1: doing aerial jumps. It is startling. I would I would lose.

1220
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: So I snowboard. I have snowboarded since I was a

1221
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Speaker 1: little kid. Like first I started skiing, switched over to snowboarding,

1222
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 1: so I've been snowboarding for like fifteen years now. I

1223
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: go out West every year to snowboard. I think I'm

1224
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: a decent snowboarder. When I was younger, I would hang

1225
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 1: out in the terrain parks and think I was cool

1226
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: doing jumps and rails and boxes, and I don't even

1227
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: touch those anymore because I'm scared of falling and hurting myself.

1228
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: I would I would lose it. I would die in

1229
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: the air if I had to do something like that.

1230
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: I can't tell you. It is really really unbelievable what

1231
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 1: those they do in the air, and how high and

1232
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 1: how dynamic it is. I mean it is. It's not

1233
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 1: like the old time where you go like the thrill

1234
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: of victory, the agony of defeat where the guy comes first.

1235
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 1: It's not like that where you jump off and go

1236
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 1: down the hill. They go straight up in the air,

1237
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: and like I said, they go four or five stories

1238
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: in the air. They build the facility so that when

1239
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: they come down they're landing on an incline. But it is,

1240
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: it is absolutely amazing. It's one of the most fun

1241
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 1: winter sports you can watch because of that, because of

1242
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: how dangerous it looks. Uh. And of course then you

1243
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: had Chris Lillis, who's a gold medalist there in the

1244
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: in the combined disciplines there. Oh my gosh, so unbelievable

1245
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: and so interesting how people find their way to something

1246
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 1: that specific, right, like you're a good skier, but how

1247
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: do you find your way too? I just want to

1248
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 1: go super high in the air and like twists around way.

1249
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: It's a long way from coming down the bunny hill

1250
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 1: and ended up with your feet up at the fireplace

1251
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 1: with a hot time. That sounds like my type of

1252
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: about skied these days. Right coming down. It's just, you know,

1253
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: just gently gliding down and ended up at the warming house.

1254
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: Do you ski? Oh? Yeah? Have you skied this year? No? No? Yeah,

1255
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: who's got time? I mean it's the off season time,

1256
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: I know, But I got stuff I gotta do. I

1257
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: got I get invited. I got friends who have stuffed

1258
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: places in Elicantville and all that I have been down

1259
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 1: yet this year. We used to go all of my

1260
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,919
Speaker 1: children grew up on Holiday Valley skiing at Holiday Valley

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01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: and it ended bridge. It's Kissing Bridge. We used to

1262
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: go out every Friday night, my kids. My youngest who's

1263
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: now he's you know, he's six inches taller than I am.

1264
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: Now I was. We took him out before he was

1265
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: on skis, well before his third birthday. Wow, he was

1266
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: on and I think he was very little, and we

1267
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 1: had him tooling around with you know, I mean without

1268
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:25,919
Speaker 1: a harness or anything. And I always thought, well, there's

1269
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: other kids out, and there were. There's always kids out.

1270
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:29,880
Speaker 1: There's a family. It's a great family activity. When we

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Speaker 1: went down there with him and I look at other kids,

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Speaker 1: they go, oh, there's one that's about his size and

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01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 1: they'd ski next to each other and my guy he

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01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 1: was still a head shorter than the smallest ones. Like

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Speaker 1: there's a little one and he goes, no, my guy's leaping.

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Speaker 1: So I was really they were out early. We went

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Speaker 1: out early, and some of our some of our most

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01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: fun family times was on the ski slopes, some of

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Speaker 1: the most magical moments we've ever had. So it was, yeah,

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01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: it was part of their kids growing up and you

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01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: you've done it your whole life. It's it's a great sport.

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01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: I love living somewhere where you can do it. Um

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01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,959
Speaker 1: growing up in Chicago, I would say that we would

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01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: like see on a pile of trash, basically because it

1285
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: was the smallest hill ever. It was like ten minutes

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01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: from my house, but it was good enough to go

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Speaker 1: to after school. You get a couple runs in. There

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01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: were only the tow ropes. There were no chairlifts and

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01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: so going out to Holiday Valley here for the first

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Speaker 1: time last year, I kind of have a picture in

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01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 1: my mind of, h this isn't going to be anything special.

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01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 1: Like I grew up going to really small mountain not

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01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: mountains hills in Illinois and then in Wisconsin they had

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01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 1: bigger hills, but still small, and they were never anything

1295
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: compared to going out to Colorado, which once you go

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01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: out there once you are totally ruined when it comes

1297
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: to going to any other mountain people from there. But

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Speaker 1: I was really surprised by Holiday Valley. It's a nice,

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01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 1: big hill. I thought the runs were a lot longer

1300
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: than that I expected them to be. They're challenging enough too,

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01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: so I do not mind spending a day out there.

1302
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: And the thing to their credit all these plays is

1303
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: here locally in this western New York. They've all got

1304
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 1: it dialed in pretty well, so you can have a

1305
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: lot of fun up there, and you can get a

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01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: lot of enough runs in. They got enough and they

1307
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 1: got enough amenities, so you can, you know, have some

1308
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: fun up and you don't have to break your bank.

1309
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you go out to Colorado and you get

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01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 1: a burger and it's like fifty dollars at the top

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Speaker 1: of the mountain. I hope this, you know, because I

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01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: I've said this before when I go out and speak

1313
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:23,560
Speaker 1: around the county. When I was with CBS, we go

1314
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: around the country, and people found out that we had

1315
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 1: made our home here in Buffalo, stayed here after I

1316
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: finished playing, And I even around the country now when

1317
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 1: I go to different events and stuff and people say,

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01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:34,720
Speaker 1: you're still in Buffalo. Were I kind of always like,

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01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: I always make fun of Buffalo, like everybody else who

1320
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,600
Speaker 1: doesn't live here makes fun of it because you know,

1321
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:41,959
Speaker 1: like you and I talking, there's stuff going on in Buffalo.

1322
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: I just soon nobody knew about because then there'd be

1323
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: three million people living here. Yeah, we've been. We love

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01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: I love it here. My family loves it here. We

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01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: get four spectacularly great seasons, four of them. There's a

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01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 1: little bit of bad that goes along with each season.

1327
01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 1: Right there's the heat of the summer, in the humidity

1328
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: once in it on. It's not like it is in Florida.

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01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,600
Speaker 1: The fall is, like they always say, the fall is

1330
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,679
Speaker 1: an elite here in western New York. It is people

1331
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 1: travel to this part of the country for the fall

1332
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: uh and and of course, the winner is what we talk.

1333
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 1: You got to get out in it and we have

1334
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: blasting so we you know, it's awesome to be here.

1335
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 1: So I'm talking about what we do in the winter. Yeah,

1336
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: people people don't know Buffalo is is a gem. A

1337
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know about it. When I got

1338
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 1: the job here, everybody was like, you're going to Buffalo.

1339
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: You're moving to Buffalo. Why would you want to go there?

1340
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: I was like, there's an NFL team that's doing pretty good.

1341
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 1: I want to work for that team. And then I

1342
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 1: move here and I quickly realize how cool Buffalo is

1343
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: and how much I enjoy where I live, and how

1344
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: much I enjoy the people, and how much I enjoy

1345
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 1: everything around it. You're, yeah, well, I don't want to

1346
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: put everything on it. But when you showed up, all

1347
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: of a sudden things got good for the Bills. Be

1348
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 1: a good luck chun Maddie glabbed the Rabbits Flo. No,

1349
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: it's not me, it's the coaching staff and Brandon Bean. Yeah,

1350
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: that's what it is. The thing. Nevertheless, I'm with you.

1351
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 1: You start talking to a guy like Chris Lewis the

1352
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 1: Olympic and we just did gold medalist we just had

1353
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: on and you know that he can live pretty good

1354
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: life here in Western New York. My family's found that out.

1355
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 1: I love people coming from Western Europe because the fact

1356
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: completely connected. Oh yeah, you're my friend, You're from Rochester.

1357
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:34,600
Speaker 1: His dad wants to be best friends with you. I

1358
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:36,720
Speaker 1: love it. Where was I was somewhere? I would think

1359
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: it was in Florida over Super Bowl weekend and I

1360
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: was in like the West Palm airport and I had

1361
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:47,799
Speaker 1: I don't know what I had. I had a Sabers

1362
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 1: hat on. Nice. That's my that's my way of going incognito.

1363
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: So I got a Sabers had. Nobody recognized me outside

1364
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 1: of Bufalo anyway, so I'm cool. But I had a

1365
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 1: Sabers head on. And a guy come by and he

1366
01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 1: had a Bill's logo on, and he goes, hey, hey,

1367
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: you know, and I go go Bills and he was like, yeah,

1368
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: go Bills. And Probaly did triple take after that, and

1369
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, that was Steve. I

1370
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 1: don't get that very much. I do not get well.

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01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: We had masks on was in the airport. I guess, yeah,

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01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 1: the masks help. The masks help. And I wasn't like

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01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 1: going doing that, So all right, we're gonna take a break.

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01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna dip into our next

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01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 1: mock draft watch. It hasn't been released yet, but I'm

1376
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: gonna tell you guys a little bit about our next

1377
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 1: mock draft watch, which should come out in the next

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01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 1: couple of days. So you're gonna get a sneak sneak

1379
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 1: preview at what you're gonna see on that mock draft watch.

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01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 1: We're also going to look at a couple of prospects

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01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: who have been mocked to the Buffalo Bills, So don't

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01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:43,200
Speaker 1: go anywhere. One Bill's Live is presented by Colyde Health

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01:11:43,200 --> 01:12:00,519
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back into One Bill Live,

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01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: and we're talking about mock drafts. So we do a

1385
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 1: yearly mock draft watch. Where do I do it? Do

1386
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: the work? You can find out on Buffalo bills dot com.

1387
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 1: We've had one released already. I put the second one

1388
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: in yesterday, so that should come out in the coming days,

1389
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow or into the weekend, but you should be

1390
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: able to expect it soon on Buffalo bills dot com.

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Speaker 1: This one is comprised of twenty one mock drafts that

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01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: we tracked or I tracked over the last ten days.

1393
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: I want to say, and out of those twenty one

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Speaker 1: mock drafts, guess what the number one position is? Oh,

1395
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 1: I know it's got no corner ding naming. You are right.

1396
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: Eleven people mocked a corner going to the Buffalo Bills

1397
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 1: with the twenty fifth overall pick in the first round

1398
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Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft. Number two maybe a little bit interesting.

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Speaker 1: Number two on our first mocked Draft watch was defensive

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01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 1: linemen was the second favorite. Not the case in mock

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01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,240
Speaker 1: Draft Watch two point zero. So guess who's the second

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01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 1: favorite next to cornerback. Yes, you are right. There were

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01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 1: four wide receivers mocked to the Buffalo Bills with a

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01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: twenty fifth overall pick. And since it's not out yet,

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01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: we thought we would tell you about a couple prospects

1406
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:27,639
Speaker 1: that are going to be a part of this next

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01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: mock Draft watch that you guys see. So we'll talk

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01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 1: about three guys here that I wanted you all to

1409
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: know about. A corner and two wide receivers. Several different

1410
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: corners are being mocked to the Buffalo Bills, So we'll

1411
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: get through each corner that's mocked to the Bills kind

1412
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 1: of weekly here as we start to break down some

1413
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 1: of these prospects, some of these players who who could

1414
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,679
Speaker 1: be a part of the Bills roster next season. And Steve,

1415
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: it was funny we were talking about this before the

1416
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: show started and you said, you know, there's so many

1417
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: different players, but we really have no idea what's going

1418
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: to happen here. Oh my gosh. It's it's fun because

1419
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: you start to get to know these guys and once

1420
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 1: in a while, like last year, we started looking at

1421
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:13,439
Speaker 1: at Greg Russou like we got there like a week

1422
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: before the draft. I think somebody picked him. In the

1423
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:21,400
Speaker 1: first mock draft watch that we released, one person had

1424
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: Greg Russeau right, and then you didn't see him a lot.

1425
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: And then towards the end a lot of people started

1426
01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: like mocking Greg Russo to the Buffalo Bills. So I

1427
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 1: always think it's super interesting how it fun. But man,

1428
01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: it takes a long time to get there because you

1429
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: don't get really we don't get any feedback or anything

1430
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: about what the Bills are thinking about. No, you know,

1431
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 1: we don't know, Yeah, we don't. We don't talk to

1432
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott or Brandon Mean although We're gonna talk to

1433
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 1: him next week at the draft, at the at the combine.

1434
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:50,439
Speaker 1: But it's so early, I mean even they you know,

1435
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:52,840
Speaker 1: they even got their board set. Yeah, so we don't

1436
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen until then. And then finally

1437
01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: at late in the in the in the process towards

1438
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:01,599
Speaker 1: the draft, real cloth the draft, you start to get

1439
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:05,400
Speaker 1: an inkling of guys. Mostly it comes from players representations.

1440
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: So well, I've we've heard like six times from Brandon

1441
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermot. We've talked to them like six times.

1442
01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 1: They keep talking to us and stuff or you know, whatever,

1443
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 1: whatever team you name, and then you start to hone

1444
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:18,080
Speaker 1: in on if that guy's available, they'll probably grab it. Yeah.

1445
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 1: And one thing that Brandon has said the last couple

1446
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,920
Speaker 1: of years is the Bills have kind of fallen farther

1447
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: and farther in the first round, which is a good

1448
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 1: problem to have because then you know you are a

1449
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: talented football team who doesn't need to draft within the

1450
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: first ten picks. But one thing that he said is

1451
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 1: usually in the first ten, first fifteen, you can kind

1452
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:40,920
Speaker 1: of you know what's happening, and you can kind of

1453
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: guess who will be still on the board when it

1454
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: comes to your pick, but he said, he is, you

1455
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: go further down in the first round, it's really hard

1456
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 1: to predict what happens leading up to number twenty five

1457
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: and later on. There can be trades, Guys can fall

1458
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:58,920
Speaker 1: off the board or come off the board earlier than

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01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:01,679
Speaker 1: you expected to. So I know, he said, it gets

1460
01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: tougher and tougher to kind of predict who might be

1461
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: around still at number twenty five and beyond, just because

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01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: you're waiting so long and you really don't know what's

1463
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: going to happen. And like we've said, like I've said

1464
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:17,920
Speaker 1: multiple times already, since this year is not quarterback heavy,

1465
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: you're going to have prospects that come off the board

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Speaker 1: earlier than they would if there were a bunch of

1467
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this draft class. So we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: But we want to talk about three prospects today. Number

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01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:34,920
Speaker 1: one is a cornerback out of Flora, Florida. His name

1470
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Speaker 1: is Kaier Elam, So he's a junior. He's a bigger

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Speaker 1: corner six two one ninety six, and you see that

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01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:44,599
Speaker 1: and immediately in his makeup on film. He played in

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01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 1: thirty five games. He started in twenty six games in

1474
01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 1: his career, he had six interceptions and twenty six passes defenced.

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01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,160
Speaker 1: He was a one thousand yard receiver in high school

1476
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: and I think this shows up two when you turn

1477
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:02,679
Speaker 1: on the tape. He has nice hands when he grabs

1478
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:05,799
Speaker 1: those interceptions. He looks and plays like a bigger corner.

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Speaker 1: He has some speed to him, some good vision, has

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Speaker 1: hands like a wide receiver. An overall athletic guy who

1481
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:15,640
Speaker 1: can make some impressive plays. The Draft Network says he

1482
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,840
Speaker 1: has suited well for a defense that plays mostly zone.

1483
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:23,599
Speaker 1: Also a press corner guy, press coverage corner. His dad

1484
01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: was a first round pick in the NFL as well,

1485
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: so he kind of has those bloodlines in him. Right.

1486
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 1: He's got some game and I think one of the

1487
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,320
Speaker 1: things that makes him intriguing for a lot of teams.

1488
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 1: And the old adage is kind of a joke. The

1489
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: players and coaches come up with the reason the guy

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01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: plays dbs because he can't catch. I think elm plays

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01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:47,839
Speaker 1: got moved to defensive back because he's physical. He strikes

1492
01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 1: me as a guy who seeks contact. He doesn't. He's

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01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:53,919
Speaker 1: not afraid to mix it up with the receivers. He's

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01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:57,639
Speaker 1: a very willing tackler, good run supporter. He's too good

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01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:01,640
Speaker 1: an athlete and athletes, you know, he's too good an

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01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 1: athlete to put on the on the on the offensive

1497
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:05,560
Speaker 1: side of the ball because you can feed him the

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01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: ball enough. Kind of kind of guy. Uh, he's got

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01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:13,639
Speaker 1: better instincts, I think to be a defender, better mentality

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01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,800
Speaker 1: to be a defender than a than an offensive guy. Um,

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01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 1: he plays at a high level. I know that he

1502
01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 1: can test a lot of balls when they're in the air.

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01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: I think he's hard to catch catch the ball against,

1504
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,559
Speaker 1: because even if you go up for it and you're free,

1505
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 1: he's closing on you. He has really good catch up speed.

1506
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: And the highlights that I have seen, um, he's impressive.

1507
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: He's impressive. He's around the ball all the time, hard

1508
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: to get away from, pretty sticky in coverage. And he's

1509
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: got good movement, good you know, loose hips where he

1510
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 1: if they if he needs to change direction, it doesn't

1511
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: take him like nineteen steps to do that. It takes

1512
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:53,679
Speaker 1: he's like footing the ground. He's back the other direction

1513
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 1: and he's turning his hips. And so yeah, he's he's

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01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna gonna be if he's there at

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Speaker 1: twenty five, he certainly wouldn't be a reach. Yeah, a

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01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 1: natural athlete. And when you say he was, if he's

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01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 1: there at twenty five, I just go back to last

1518
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 1: year's draft when the run on corner started really early,

1519
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: and we heard from Brandon being he said, if there

1520
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 1: was a corner that was there that we liked, we

1521
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 1: would have taken a corner, But there was nobody there

1522
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: that still had the first round value that we needed

1523
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 1: to draft a corner at the position that we were at.

1524
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:28,960
Speaker 1: So that could be the case too. There's a lot

1525
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:31,759
Speaker 1: of decent corners. There's a good depth for that corner

1526
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 1: position in this year's draft, but you never know when

1527
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: a run on a position is going to start. Yeah,

1528
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: he has he has the ability to you know he

1529
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 1: it seems to like when you watch him, he loves

1530
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: to get up and get right on the guy scrimmage.

1531
01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: He wants to get right in the guy's face and say,

1532
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: let's go look and look the guy in the eye.

1533
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: You know, that's a nice trait for a pro. Definitely.

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01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:57,439
Speaker 1: All right. I want to tell you about two wide

1535
01:19:57,479 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: receivers as well. The first one you've probably heard of,

1536
01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:03,680
Speaker 1: his name already. He's been mocked to the Bills a

1537
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: couple of times. I want to say from mock drafts

1538
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 1: that we've been following, it's Jamison Williams. He comes out

1539
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 1: of Alabama. He's a junior six two, one hundred and

1540
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: eighty nine pounds. He's an Ohio State transfer. He had

1541
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:21,440
Speaker 1: a single season record of four touchdowns of at least

1542
01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:25,919
Speaker 1: seventy yards and eleven touchdowns of at least thirty yards,

1543
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:28,559
Speaker 1: which led the nation. Last season. He was a first

1544
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: team All America in twenty twenty one by AP in

1545
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:36,639
Speaker 1: Sporting News, and last season he had over fifteen hundred

1546
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:40,760
Speaker 1: receiving yards averaged almost twenty yards per reception, had over

1547
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: one hundred receiving yards per game. He also returned kicks

1548
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:48,040
Speaker 1: had two touchdowns last season. Returning kicks average thirty five

1549
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 1: yards per kick return. He's played in thirty seven games.

1550
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:55,480
Speaker 1: He is a speedy wide receiver. He gets great separation

1551
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:58,719
Speaker 1: because of his speed. This is your deep ball target

1552
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:01,720
Speaker 1: type of player who plays in the slot. He has

1553
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:04,720
Speaker 1: good hands, good vision, and can track the ball. When

1554
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 1: you have somebody that's running those deep routes, you need

1555
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: somebody who has the ability to track the ball when

1556
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 1: you have a defender on them, and I think he

1557
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:14,560
Speaker 1: does a good job of that. I think he is

1558
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,720
Speaker 1: a good deep ball route runner. He didn't see much

1559
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:20,640
Speaker 1: action at Ohio State because the wide receiver room was

1560
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 1: too loaded when he was there, so he went to

1561
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:26,240
Speaker 1: Alabama and really had a great season last year. He's

1562
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 1: definitely going to be in a slot receiver role in

1563
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's how he's projected be inside. And if

1564
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:34,800
Speaker 1: there any doubts about Cole Beasley's availability or whatever, this

1565
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: is a guy that comes in and we'll give you

1566
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 1: a dimension that Cole doesn't. I mean, Cole catches everything

1567
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:44,599
Speaker 1: and he's a real true pro. But Jamison Williams will

1568
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:46,559
Speaker 1: be a little bit different. He'll bring a speed element

1569
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:50,800
Speaker 1: to it and also with quickness and stuff inside. It

1570
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:53,639
Speaker 1: remains to be seen whether he has the understanding of

1571
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:56,680
Speaker 1: you know that can do what Cole Beasley has done

1572
01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:58,640
Speaker 1: for so long in the pros. But he is a

1573
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: guy who has a skill set at poletically to do that.

1574
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: He's down. He's an He's projected as a as a

1575
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:09,639
Speaker 1: pro to be inside, and a guy inside who has

1576
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: his kind of speed is also a big headache for

1577
01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 1: um for defense as well. So yeah, he's it does

1578
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: a lot of things really well. Uh and I think

1579
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: this is a guy that you know when you when

1580
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:26,559
Speaker 1: you watch when what's being said about him, Um, really

1581
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 1: impressive route runner. He's got to change his directions without

1582
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:33,640
Speaker 1: losing speed. Um. He can climb vertically really quick and

1583
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: put put safeties in a problem when they see him

1584
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,720
Speaker 1: on real quick whether to turn their hips or jump

1585
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: on the underneath route a little faster in the route

1586
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: progression than they normally would. And that's a good thing

1587
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 1: for a for an offense to have the ability to do.

1588
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: If the safety thinks he can jump that route, a

1589
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: guy like Jameson Williams will be past him and it's

1590
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:54,760
Speaker 1: a deep shot down the field. So um, he can

1591
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:57,439
Speaker 1: pluck the air out of the ball. He's confident in

1592
01:22:57,439 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: his hands. Um, and he's going to be a good player.

1593
01:22:59,920 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: He's ranked actually compared to the corner we just talked

1594
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:08,040
Speaker 1: about kier Elam, Jamison Williams is ranked significantly higher as

1595
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: a prospect in the pros than as a wide receiver

1596
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: than Elam was as a corner. Yeah. Fun guy to watch, Tafon.

1597
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: I think he is going to have success wherever he goes.

1598
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: Think he could be a great fit for the Bills too,

1599
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: if they decide to go wide receiver. There in saying

1600
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: what I said, here's the thing. Elam would be a

1601
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: guy to say, Okay, he took him twenty five. Okay,

1602
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 1: I like that. If you take Jamison Williams at twenty five,

1603
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 1: they're saying, Wow, good value. How did you get him

1604
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:37,280
Speaker 1: at that pick? That's that's a little bit of the

1605
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 1: attitude right now in this early going of where are

1606
01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: those two guys fall? Yeah, so Jamison Williams has been

1607
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 1: mocked to the Bills at that number twenty five spot.

1608
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: It's not like they've traded up for him in these

1609
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: mock drafts a couple of times. Will he be there

1610
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: at twenty five? Who knows? We've got one more wide receiver.

1611
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: Johan Dotson. He comes out of Penn State as a senior,

1612
01:23:56,360 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: a little bit smaller five eleven one eighty four. Ranks

1613
01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:03,799
Speaker 1: third all time at Penn State in receiving touchdowns, fourth

1614
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: in receiving yards, and fourth in receptions. Last season, he

1615
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,800
Speaker 1: had over a thousand receiving yards, twelve receiving touchdowns, and

1616
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: averaged over sixty five receiving yards per game, and in

1617
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:18,400
Speaker 1: his career he had almost three set three thousand receiving

1618
01:24:18,479 --> 01:24:22,599
Speaker 1: yards and twenty five touchdowns. He has good hands, is quick,

1619
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: has quick hands. His route running ability I think stands

1620
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 1: out when you watch highlights on him. The Draft Network

1621
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: says he's only dropped two passes last season. I think

1622
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 1: he has some highlight reel catches in the back of

1623
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: the end zone where he really shows off his vertical

1624
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: ability to get up in the air. I think he's

1625
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 1: could be a very talented receiver at that next level.

1626
01:24:46,320 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 1: But size five eleven, one eighty four, what type of

1627
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: receiver do you want on your team, especially with today's

1628
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 1: offenses and what today's defenses are trying to do in

1629
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's got good hands, he's project as a

1630
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:03,839
Speaker 1: boundary receiver, not not a field guy, a boundary receiver

1631
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:09,919
Speaker 1: and um, I'll say this, um aside from his football

1632
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 1: and I don't even get into his skill set. He

1633
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 1: doesn't drop the ball. I know that he's team captain. Yeah,

1634
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: so this is your leader. Yeah, that's one of those guys.

1635
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 1: He's a Gabriel Davis type of guy. Right, He's a

1636
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:24,720
Speaker 1: he's a tradavious White kind of guy. He's a guy

1637
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: that stands up in the room says, hey, guys, this

1638
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:29,960
Speaker 1: house is gonna be m You talk about being a

1639
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 1: forget about its all right. If he's a foot fit

1640
01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: on the field as a football player in a skill set,

1641
01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:39,080
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna fit it culturally. Yeah, that's big

1642
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 1: for him, not only for the Bills, but other teams

1643
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:46,679
Speaker 1: as well. Johan Dotson is a guy that's gonna get

1644
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: looked at strictly because he is a quality guy that

1645
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: other players gravitate towards and and he inspires to play better. Yeah.

1646
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: So he's been marked to the Buffalo Bills at that

1647
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,799
Speaker 1: number twenty five spot a couple of times. Johan Dotson

1648
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:03,880
Speaker 1: and Jamison Williams are two names that have been mocked

1649
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills more than once going off the

1650
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: board in the first round. So those are three prospects

1651
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,520
Speaker 1: that you know a little bit more about now. Cornerback

1652
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:19,160
Speaker 1: kier Elam, wide receiver Jameson Williams, and wide receiver Johan Dotson.

1653
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:21,920
Speaker 1: Make sure you keep an eye out for Mock Draft

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01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:24,799
Speaker 1: Watch two point zero. You can find it on Buffalo

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01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 1: Bills dot com. Within the next couple of days, taking

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01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: a break here, stay with us as we close out

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Next we're back on One Bills Live

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01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:52,440
Speaker 1: or final segment of this Thursday afternoon show. You survived

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01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:55,439
Speaker 1: with me, Steve and I did good. They had an

1660
01:26:55,479 --> 01:26:58,360
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medalist. Not every day do you get to

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01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 1: have an Olympic gold medalist on your show. Has Siran

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01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,919
Speaker 1: Neil on highest page special teams player in NAH Football

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Speaker 1: League for how long? How long does this stand? Usually

1664
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:09,320
Speaker 1: when that stuff happens, it's like the next day somebody

1665
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 1: else gets five minutes. Good for him though, Happy to

1666
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: do that. And we got the coaching staff settled in.

1667
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 1: They're going to start probably doing some team building with

1668
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,599
Speaker 1: those guys with the coaching staff here pretty quick. Ten

1669
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:23,160
Speaker 1: different moves, yeah, I think around five new faces added

1670
01:27:23,200 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: to the coaching staff. And then you know, all the

1671
01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:27,960
Speaker 1: other stuff is going on around the league, which is

1672
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: not much at the current time. People are still talking

1673
01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers. We'll probably talk about that a little

1674
01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:35,360
Speaker 1: bit tomorrow. Aaron Rodgers have the decisions, Rust Wilson and

1675
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:37,559
Speaker 1: all the guys that kind of think are making some

1676
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 1: waves to maybe get out of their current situation and

1677
01:27:41,240 --> 01:27:43,960
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks will be interesting. Yeah. Yeah, it's

1678
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:45,720
Speaker 1: so nice not to be in that conversation as a

1679
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:48,719
Speaker 1: fan base. Sit back and relax, watch it all unfold.

1680
01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 1: Get some popcorn because we know who our quarterback is.

1681
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:57,680
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah. Free agency right around the corner. The

1682
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: NFL Scouting Combine the beginning of March here next week

1683
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:03,960
Speaker 1: will be there. You guys will be doing the show

1684
01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:06,599
Speaker 1: from there. I'll be there writing a bunch of articles

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01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 1: that will get released that week. One fun article that

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Speaker 1: I've already started to work on is about a you

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Speaker 1: and I connection. One of Spencer Brown's teammates, Trevor Penning,

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Speaker 1: is going to be a part of the scouting combine

1689
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:21,679
Speaker 1: this year. He's projected to go in the first round,

1690
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle who played alongside him in twenty nineteen.

1691
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 1: So I talked to Spencer Brown a couple days ago

1692
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 1: about him, had some fun stuff to say, and said

1693
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:33,840
Speaker 1: that he's out in California training with Joe Staley again

1694
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 1: this offseason. Said he's already ready to get back to

1695
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:40,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo and misses his teammates. Yeah, it's fun, it's great.

1696
01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 1: The off season is fun. While it lasts and it

1697
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: is good. You get it, you start getting you know,

1698
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:48,479
Speaker 1: you heal up. Once you start feeling better physically, you

1699
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: start training again and you get in here, and then

1700
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:52,840
Speaker 1: you start doing stuff in the off season, like where

1701
01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: you can compete. We used to play some racquetball, and

1702
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 1: of course we played golf as well. But anytime you

1703
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:01,479
Speaker 1: start competing and getting back into shape, like give me

1704
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 1: back here, your soul starts to itch. It's it's great,

1705
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:10,519
Speaker 1: that's why it's goodbye. Right, yeah, well I believe it

1706
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,160
Speaker 1: all right. Tomorrow The Instigators is going to be onto

1707
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 1: one thirty and Kevin Connors from Sports Center will be

1708
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:20,519
Speaker 1: co hosting with Steve task Are. I'll be in studio,

1709
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:22,920
Speaker 1: Kevin will be on with us zoom and we're gonna

1710
01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:24,840
Speaker 1: come on to like one thirty tomorrow instead of the

1711
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 1: regular one o'clock. Alrighty, we will see you guys on

1712
01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. Have a good rest of your Thursday. See tomorrow, guys.

1713
01:29:32,640 --> 01:29:40,560
Speaker 1: Have a good one.