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Speaker 1: So I think it will. I think you know he'll

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Speaker 1: play some left and he'll play some right as well,

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Speaker 1: but primarily left. But yeah, I mean that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things that Bond gives us, that ability to be

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Speaker 1: to move people around and find matchups, and that's what

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Speaker 1: we want to be able to take advantage of this season,

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Speaker 1: all right. So that's most of Leslie Frasier from today.

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Speaker 1: He did say also with respect to the defensive line,

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Speaker 1: specifically that the rotational system will continue due in part

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Speaker 1: to wanting to keep von Miller fresh for the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: So when you need a play, he can give you

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Speaker 1: a play. And you heard him talking there about how

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Speaker 1: Vaughan who when he was with the Rams and even

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Speaker 1: with the Broncos, would flip back and forth between right

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Speaker 1: end and left end. Actually in Denver he was an

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker, but that's another story. He would flip sides,

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Speaker 1: and coach Frasier said he is open to flipping him

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00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: on either side depending on whoever the opponent is that week,

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00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: the given one on one matchup, and what that looks

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Speaker 1: like in terms of the game plan. So I think

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Speaker 1: he will be moving around, which then means, well, what

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Speaker 1: happens with Greg Rousseau and coach Frasier. You heard right

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Speaker 1: there say Rousseau will play mainly on the left side,

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Speaker 1: but they do not rule out moving him around. Now,

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Speaker 1: the interesting thing about that answer that I found was

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Speaker 1: he didn't say left end or right end. He said

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Speaker 1: he'll move around. So I'm wondering if there is a

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Speaker 1: consideration now that Greg Russo looks a little bigger and stronger,

458
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: does he kick inside on obvious passing situations, which is

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Speaker 1: an area where the University of Miami Miami coaching staff

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Speaker 1: utilized him. They would kick him down inside where his

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Speaker 1: length was a major problem for shorter, stockier and not

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Speaker 1: as long interior players. So is that a part of

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Speaker 1: the equation going into this season. It's something that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to keep an eye on when we get

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Speaker 1: to training camp. For sure. Players out on the field today,

466
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Speaker 1: it was an open practice for the media, so we

467
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Speaker 1: were taking all of that in and obviously the new

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Speaker 1: addition was seen for the first time by the media.

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Speaker 1: Tavon Austin, the wide receiver slash return man who just

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Speaker 1: signed with the club late last week. Happy to say

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Speaker 1: that we will have Tavon Austin here in studio with

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Speaker 1: me in the second half of our number one. I

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Speaker 1: also want to pass along to you our Twitter conversation

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Speaker 1: today and it deals with a decision about Buffalo's top

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Speaker 1: two draft choices. Which Bill's rookie will have a bigger

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Speaker 1: impact this coming season in twenty twenty two. Is it

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Speaker 1: Kayer Elam or is it James Cook? And right now,

478
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Speaker 1: and this is a little surprising to me, I have

479
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Speaker 1: to say, the early voting at one Bills Live on

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Speaker 1: Twitter has Kaier Elam leading by a two thirds to

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Speaker 1: one third vote, sixty six percent to thirty three percent.

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Speaker 1: That surprises me a little bit, primarily because most people

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00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: gravitate to the offensive to the ball, and the other

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Speaker 1: reason is even though Kaye Elam has a very good

485
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Speaker 1: chance to be a Day one starter right from the

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Speaker 1: jump in his rookie season, James Cook has a skill

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00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: set that Devin Singletary and Zach Moss simply do not have.

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Speaker 1: Duke Johnson has some similar skills to that of James Cook,

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Speaker 1: but James Cook is faster than all three of them,

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Speaker 1: and he has a pass catching acumen that cannot be ignored.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's as cut and dry as

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Speaker 1: some people might think because they're expecting Kaye Elam to start,

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Speaker 1: and they're anticipating that Buffalo is going to have a

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Speaker 1: committee backfield. Don't factor playing time into impact here. I

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Speaker 1: know Elam probably is going to have more total snaps

496
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Speaker 1: on the year, but it's not going to take James

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Speaker 1: Cook eight hundred snaps to score six or seven touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: if you get what I'm saying. So think about this

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Speaker 1: one a little bit and then let me know what

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Speaker 1: you think, whether it's on the phones at eight O

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty or on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: which Bills rookie will have the biggest impact in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. We will take a break here but be

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Speaker 1: back with more, including a conversation with Tavon Austin here

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Speaker 1: in studio that's coming up in just a little bit

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown here with you on a Tuesday, OTA Week three.

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00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: This is the final week of OTA practices, which will

511
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Speaker 1: be followed by mandatory minicamp next week and then that's it.

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Speaker 1: Before everybody meets up at Saint John Fisher for training

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Speaker 1: camp in Rochester at the end of July. Will be

514
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Speaker 1: expecting to speak with newest Bills wide receiver slash return

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Speaker 1: man Tavon Austin. Will be in here sometime before the

516
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Speaker 1: top of the hour. But there's one thing that I

517
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Speaker 1: had to get to. And when I see rankings lists

518
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: like this, I often wonder are we dealing with clickbait?

519
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: Is this just to raise the ire of certain fan

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Speaker 1: bases in the NFL? And the latest iteration comes courtesy

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Speaker 1: of Pro Football Focus. This is not the first time

522
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Speaker 1: that they've had a list like this that has rankled

523
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Speaker 1: Bills fans. They put together a head coach ranking list

524
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two top ten head coaches in the league,

525
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Speaker 1: and nowhere in the time ten is Sean McDermott, who

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Speaker 1: has made the playoffs in four of the last five

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Speaker 1: years and advanced to one AFC title game. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go down the list here. Okay, At number one,

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Speaker 1: they had Bill Belichick. Okay, fine, you know, can't deny

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowls. Maybe the most successful, probably the most

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Speaker 1: successful coach short of Vince Lombardi. Basically in terms of championships.

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Speaker 1: So Belichick number one, Fine, you can have it. John

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Speaker 1: Harbaugh number two, good pick, solid coach, has won a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Fine. And then Andy Reid third, Okay, you know,

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Speaker 1: has won the Big One as well, has been very

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Speaker 1: successful head coach, done it for a long time. Cliff

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Speaker 1: Kingsbury at four. What are we doing here? Somebody's got

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Speaker 1: to help me out with this. Cliff Kingsbury as the

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Speaker 1: fourth best head coach in the NFL going into twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, you got to be out of your mind.

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Speaker 1: The guy has not taken his team to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the background here is to put

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Speaker 1: him in that spot. Then you've got Pete Carroll fifth. Okay,

544
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: has had good success in Seattle, won a Super Bowl,

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00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: went to a second two NFC titles. Fine, I can

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Speaker 1: get on board with that. But the trajectory of that

547
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: team doesn't seem to be going in the right direction here.

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Speaker 1: So how you can rank him as fifth? I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that washes with me. Then it's Matt Laflour sixth.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't been able to get out of the NFC and

551
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Speaker 1: pass the NFC title game with one of the best

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks the back to back MVP Kyle Shanahan seven, Vrabel eighth,

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Speaker 1: Frank Wright a ninth, and Mike McCarthy tenth. Where the

554
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: heck is Sean McDermott on this list, I do not

555
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Speaker 1: understand it. So if you want to fire off a

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00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: salvo at the folks at Pro Football Focus, you have

557
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Speaker 1: my permission, because how you don't have coach McDermot in

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Speaker 1: the top ten is beyond me. We are now, though,

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Speaker 1: to welcome in the newest addition to the Bill's roster.

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Speaker 1: It's wide receiver slash return man Tavon Austin sliding in

561
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Speaker 1: stage left. Here, look at this. You got like the

562
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: old Chris Collins where it's slide on Monday Night football.

563
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: You know he does that with the chair. He just

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Speaker 1: did the same thing. Welcome in, man, congrats, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Buffalo man. Yeah, I know it's you know, it's only

566
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: been a couple of days. You're getting your feet wet

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, I know you've jumped in with

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00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: other teams, you know, as a new addition before. What's

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Speaker 1: this one been like, you know for the last forty

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Speaker 1: eight seventy two hours. Honestly, they just opened They opened

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Speaker 1: the arms up to me. I go onto the second

572
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Speaker 1: start with the receiving call and the coach like they

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00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: already made me feel like family. You know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the places that I've been it'd be a little

575
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: different for the most part, but him, it made me

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Speaker 1: feel all family from the first day, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. So they helped me out a lot already.

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Speaker 1: I had a good first day, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So that's why I'm looking forward. Two, How are how

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Speaker 1: are the cram sessions going, because that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: You're playing catchup right now. So I mean, I'm sure

582
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: you're putting in a lot of extra hours with Coach Hall, yeah,

583
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: and getting up to speed. But again that's something that

584
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: you've done before too, right, right, So I've been I've

585
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: been playing catch up for three years, you know what

586
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: I mean. So every team, every team that I went on,

587
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: kind I got to elite. But the good thing I've

588
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: been like about this situation, they gave me a chance

589
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: to come in early, right in the middle of OTAs

590
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: usually I go in in the middle of camp and

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00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: still come out victorious. That's tough, you know what I mean.

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00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: So it is, but you know this offense is tough too. Yeah,

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00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: it's like you said, it's a lot of cram and

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00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: it's a lot of things going on. But no, that's

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Speaker 1: I slow it down. One thing I like about them

596
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: they take their time with me. If I mess up,

597
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: they don't get mad because I'm gonna go one hundred,

598
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that's the main thing

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Speaker 1: why I like it over him. Now. I know Coach

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Speaker 1: Hall eventually gets his receivers to the point where they

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Speaker 1: can line up anywhere in the formation. But I would

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00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: imagine they're starting you one spot first and then we'll

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00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: we'll expand from there. Am I right about that? Their approach?

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Speaker 1: You know what? They didn't And they never really talked

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00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: to me about Okay, they just wanted me to come

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00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: in and I just wanted an opportunity. So right now,

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00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: Why you am playing one position right now and said

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00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: right now and uh trying to master that? When I

609
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: mastered that at first and didn't go from there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Hopefully they use some of

611
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: my skills set and I can get going. You've got

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00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: a bit of a weird connection to Buffalo, and I'm

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00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: sure someone's already told you. Yeah, yeah, like you were

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00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: the you were the swapped pick. They helped make you

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00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: a top ten in the trade with Saint Louis. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you never even gave that a second thought.

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Speaker 1: You're just excited to be picked. Yeah, you know I'm

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00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: going I'm starting my NFL career. Um. What do you

619
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Speaker 1: remember about draft night in twenty thirteen? How wild was that?

620
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Speaker 1: Because all of a sudden there's a trade up and

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Speaker 1: bang you're getting a phone call. Yeah from the one

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Speaker 1: thought friend. The first thing, I wasn't going to go.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was an undersized guy. You know, they

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00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: don't take my size guys in first round, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean? So you didn't go attend the draft,

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Speaker 1: Go attended draft first, Go attended draft first. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: even going to go, you know what I mean. More

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Speaker 1: I just say't be honest. I don't want to really

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Speaker 1: be im burst, you know what I mean. I know

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Speaker 1: I had the talent. I know I was when I

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00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: am right now. But when day was a five nine,

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Speaker 1: receive a go first round in the top ten, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? So that was number one, you

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Speaker 1: feel I'm standing And after that it was more like

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be what it's gonna be, you know what

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00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: I mean? And they pickyback when your question questions did

637
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: you just ask me that just the whole draft? Yeah?

638
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: So that night, honestly, I was sweating the whole time.

639
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: My mother. My mother tell my mother telling me, like

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00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: boys times, what you're shaking for, you know what I mean.

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00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: But then you start seeing them cameras get rushed. I

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00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: start feeling something in my body. Next thing you know,

643
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Speaker 1: they rushed the table, and uh, they trade it up. Yeah,

644
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: they trade it up. I didn't even know the Bills

645
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: did that, you know what I mean. So you know,

646
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: me and Bills always had some type of love in

647
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: the first place, so we're here that. Yeah. Um, the

648
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: return game has been an area where you have made

649
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: an impact on games, you know, in your college days

650
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: in West Virginia. Do you when it comes to punt

651
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: or a kick return, do you prefer one over the other?

652
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: Do you think you're better at one or the other.

653
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: So honestly, um, uh, I haven't did pump return about

654
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: a year and a half. Okay, I'm gonna start getting

655
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: back on it and start practicing seeing that ball in

656
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: air with the kickers, But no pump return is definitely

657
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: my thing. That's what I feel like. I got rolled

658
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: up twice for the Pro Bowl twice, okay, Now, I

659
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: mean I didn't have about three or four touchdowns, five touchdowns,

660
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: and maybe one or two of them called back. But

661
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: nobody you speak on that. They don't speak on that.

662
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: If you go back and look back and see how

663
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: many touchdowns take on us and gotta call it back

664
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: us a lot, you know what I mean? But I

665
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: love punt return better. Yeah, kickoff return, that's a dangerous

666
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: home well it is less so now. And the other

667
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: thing too, is ever since they moved the kickoff up

668
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: to the thirty five, it's harder for guys like you

669
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: to make an impact on kick return because they're just

670
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: kicking it through the back of the end zone. Now.

671
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: At least on punt return, you got a chance. And

672
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: my best friend's fair catch, and I got my best

673
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: friend is fair catch. And I know, and I'm sure

674
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: Isaiah will probably talk to you about this in the

675
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: weeks and months to come. But you know, the wind

676
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: gets pretty crazy here. I got a dose of it

677
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: already here. He did outside the other day, even in

678
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: the summertime. Yeah, yeah, so it's definitely tough. My thing is,

679
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna come in man. Man, I'm gonna fight

680
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: every single day. If I feel as the I can

681
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: catch it, I would get it underneath of it. If

682
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: I feel like it's any doubt, I would try to

683
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: get my guys away from him. If I'm that starting guy.

684
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: Speaking of fight, it's been a fight for you to

685
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 1: get regular time on offense. What do you think has

686
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: been like the biggest thing that keeps getting in the way.

687
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: So for you, I never asked crazy, that's crazy you

688
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: asked that. That's kind of an emotional question for me. Um.

689
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: I believe when I was over there at the RAMS,

690
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: when I got my wrist hurt, I took a pretty

691
00:38:54,600 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: hard injury, and my position kind of change just from

692
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: a receiver to they try to name me it's some

693
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: type of web back. I don't even know. I don't

694
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: even know if that's it, you know, I mean, that's

695
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: just not me. I'm a versatile. I didn't did this

696
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: if you look at my college, my high school, everything

697
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: I didn't did even in the league. I didn't did

698
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: all this already. But since I got hurt on my wrist,

699
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: that's why I've been hard for me, for Tayan and

700
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: Auston to be t Austin. You know what I mean.

701
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: It hurt me every day. You can see how I

702
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: get emotional about it. You know. I see all other

703
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: guys that run the league and they're successful, and I

704
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: take my hats off the hall when I dude, you

705
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But this is a competitive sport

706
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: and I honestly believe that. And I'm one of the

707
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: most competitive guys in this in this in this profession

708
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: right now, I wouldn't be here if I wouldn't. I'm

709
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: still fighting. I've been hurt for three and a half years,

710
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: and I'm finally healthy, you know what I mean. So

711
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: I feel the best version of myself right now. I'm smarter. Um,

712
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm mentally there now. You know, it ain't really too

713
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: much you can breaking, you know what I mean. I

714
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: got cut, I got some money taking away from me.

715
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: You got injured, like you know what I mean. I

716
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: didn't lost games, I didn't drop the punt, you know

717
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: what I mean? So how big is that chip right now?

718
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: Is the size of a Car's super big? You know

719
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: what I mean? Because you know I say it's a

720
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 1: competitive next to like I say, it's a competitive nature,

721
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: you know what I'm but every day I will pump

722
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: them boys up every day. Yeah, and I don't even

723
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: know him yet, but but I like them boys. I think, Yeah,

724
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: I think you are gonna like this group Number one,

725
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: number two. How encouraging is it for you to see

726
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: guys your size on this roster have roles? Yeah, Like

727
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, Isaiah McKenzie had a role on this offense

728
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: last year. He wasn't just you know, well earn you know,

729
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: and a guy that when he was given the opportunity

730
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: kind of came through. When you see other guys on

731
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: the roster with similar skill sets, that's got to be encouraging, right,

732
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: Like there's a place for me here, yeah, for one

733
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: for one for one to still let me know that

734
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: Tavon you was one of the first ones that made

735
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: this head, you know what I mean? So I like that.

736
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: So when I see Lord mackenzie and I and he

737
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: listened to me, and I liked that about him, you know,

738
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I say stuff, I don't even know him

739
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: for two days, but you've already I'm already in him

740
00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: and tell them certain things he need to do to

741
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: be up. You know what I mean, because it's all

742
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: one guy can't win the game, right, One guy cannot

743
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: win this game. You need a whole army, you know

744
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: what I mean. So we were shopping each other up

745
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: all around and hopefully that you know, God bless me

746
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 1: and I'm here, hopefully we get down. Yeah, well, listen,

747
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: good luck the rest of the way here in OTA's

748
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: mandatory minicamp next week, and then look forward to seeing

749
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: you out there in training camp. And thank you shopping

750
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,959
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, I appreciate you. I appreciate the Bills

751
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: Nation and the head coach man for giving me this

752
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: opportunity early instead of elite. Yeah, you'll see it from

753
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia. It's all of all the up. Glad to

754
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: meet you and we look forward to seeing you. Appreciate you.

755
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin joining us here on one Bill's Live. We'll

756
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 1: take a break, be back in a flash. We'll see

757
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. All right, good conversation there

758
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: with Tavon Austin, one of the newest Bills on the

759
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo roster. And man, I gotta tell you, just sitting

760
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: next to him here in the studio, I don't know

761
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: if he came across on the air. Guy is intense,

762
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: and that's why I asked him, how big is this

763
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder? Because he obviously feels the second

764
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: half of his career has gone wrong based on a

765
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: risk injury that he felt was unfairly held against him

766
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: going forward with each of the next two teams he

767
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: was with because he has bounced around the last few years.

768
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, basically, he's been with Dallas, Green Bay and

769
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville the last three seasons and really hasn't had an

770
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: opportunity to make much of an impact on any one

771
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: of those rosters. And this is not an easy roster

772
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: to make. I think we can all agree on that.

773
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 1: But I think he feels like these guys are giving

774
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: him a chance to blend in provided he does all

775
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 1: the right things on his behalf. And he made it

776
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: sound like he's got full intention of doing that. I

777
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: think he knows. Two. He's been the league long enough

778
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: to know the opportunities are not infinite. There is a

779
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: finite number of opportunities at this level, and at age

780
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: thirty one, I think he knows he can probably count

781
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: those opportunities on one hand, maybe just a few fingers

782
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: in terms of how many he has left, so it

783
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: sounds as though he's pretty interested in making the most

784
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: of this one here with the Bills. Wanted to touch

785
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: on this subject a little bit as uncomfortable as it

786
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: makes me, But another civil suit has been filed against

787
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, the Browns quarterback, that now makes twenty four total,

788
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: and some of the details in this latest suit are cringeworthy,

789
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: and I think that's being conservative. So in the last

790
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: two weeks now, two more women have come forward to

791
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: file suits against the Browns quarterback, who we should remind

792
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: everyone signed to two hundred and thirty million dollars fully

793
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: garanteed contract with the Browns. I think we all have

794
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: our take on what's right and what's wrong here with

795
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: this and the decisions the Browns made. Their hope is

796
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: undoubtedly as soon as Deshaun Watson starts throwing touchdowns and

797
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: winning games, fans of the Browns and the league at large,

798
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: we'll forget all about the lawsuits. I really don't know

799
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 1: if that plan is going to work. Is there any

800
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: reason to think, because this is the thought I had

801
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: after a lawsuit twenty four came down yesterday, is there

802
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: any reason to think that there aren't more female massage

803
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: therapists who will come forward in the future. I mean,

804
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: with twenty four already, it's difficult to imagine that Watson

805
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: wasn't getting massages at least twice a week. Obviously, he

806
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: frequented a number of different massage therapists because if what

807
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: he is alleged to have done, it's not like you're

808
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go back to that same massage

809
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: therapist a second time. So it makes you wonder how

810
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 1: many of these women are out there? Are there hundreds

811
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: of female massage therapists out there who can allege the

812
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: same thing as the other twenty four who have formally

813
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: filed a civil suit. I mean, like, I'm thousand miles

814
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: away from this whole thing, and I feel like I

815
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: need to take a shower with how sorted this whole

816
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: thing is. The Browns decision making process on this is

817
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: already being called into question. If this doesn't end well,

818
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: they are going to be vilified, primarily by their own

819
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: fan base. And for me and the way I look

820
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: at it, my viewpoint is it's becoming more and more

821
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: challenging to see this working out in a good way

822
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: for the Browns who made their bed and now have

823
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 1: to lie in it. It's yuck. And we know that

824
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: the league was conducting their investigation. There was even reports

825
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 1: that they were fast tracking it to levy some kind

826
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: of suspension this year, presumably at the start of the

827
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: season in a way to facilitate the Browns plans, so

828
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: they know what they're looking at and how long they

829
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: will be without Deshaun Watson for however long a suspension

830
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 1: might be. But man, the more and more of these

831
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: lawsuits that are filed, it's going to keep it in

832
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: the news. It's going to continue to be bad publicity

833
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: for the Browns, and I think it's going to put

834
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: more and more pressure on the league to make an

835
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: example of Watson. And I just don't know how in

836
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: this day and age you can justify And I know

837
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: it's only allegations right now, I know he wasn't found

838
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: of any criminal wrongdoing, but we're at a point now

839
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: I would like to think in this day and age

840
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 1: where when there are this many people accusing one person

841
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 1: of the same thing, that we actually listen to the accusers.

842
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 1: I understand it's innocent until proven guilty, but the fact

843
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: that they already tossed out any criminal charges, and a

844
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: grand grand jury wouldn't even indict him on that. It

845
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: gives me some concern as to what's going to be

846
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: truly heard from these women with respect to the civil

847
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: litigation now pending. So that's that we should reset the table. Though,

848
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll, as we are asking you having

849
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: a little fun with the top of the Bill's draft

850
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: class here today, which Bill's rookie will have the biggest

851
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: impact in twenty twenty two? Is it going to be

852
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: Kii Elam or is it going to be James Cook?

853
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: I suppose if you think it could be somebody else

854
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: in Buffalo's draft class, you're welcome to bring that to

855
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Speaker 1: the table. But our primary candidates, Kyrie Elam or James Cook,

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Speaker 1: which bills rookie will have the biggest impact in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. James Cook has closed ground slightly on Elam,

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Speaker 1: but it's been a two thirds to one thirds lead

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Speaker 1: in the voting for Kayer Elam, And I think it's

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Speaker 1: probably rooted in the fact that most people believe he

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Speaker 1: is going to be a starter from day one. So

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Speaker 1: I get that line of thinking. I do. If he's

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Speaker 1: on the field more a chance to make more of

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Speaker 1: an impact and all that sure, I would submit this though.

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Speaker 1: I think even in a committee role in Buffalo's offensive backfield,

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Speaker 1: James Cook has the potential to diversify this offense in

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Speaker 1: a way that we have not yet witnessed. Food for thought,

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Speaker 1: So give some thought to that. If I have an answer,

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Speaker 1: you're already on the tweet sheet, or you can give

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Speaker 1: us a call. Eight oh three oh five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty the number to

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Speaker 1: get on board. Have an open line for you to

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Speaker 1: weigh in on which Bill's rookie you believe will make

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Speaker 1: a bigger impact in the twenty twenty two season, Kyer

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Speaker 1: Elam or James Cook your phone calls coming up next. Also,

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Speaker 1: an hour number two will have Special Teams Coordinator Matthew

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Speaker 1: Smiley addressing the media for the first time in his

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00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: new role on Buffalo's coaching staff. All of that coming

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Speaker 1: your way next. You're on one Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

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Speaker 1: of normalcy here, all right, welcome to our number two.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown here with you, flying solo on a Tuesday

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live plenty to get to here. In our

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Speaker 1: number two, we'll be hearing from new Special Teams coordinator

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Speaker 1: Matthew Smiley for the first time as he addressed the

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Speaker 1: media earlier today. We'll rerack that for you in just

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Speaker 1: a little bit. We also have a couple of other

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Speaker 1: comments that Leslie Frasier made that I wanted to pass

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Speaker 1: along to you as well, that I jotted down during

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Speaker 1: his press conference today that I think will be of

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Speaker 1: interest to you as a Bills fan. So I will

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Speaker 1: get to that as well. But we want to begin

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Speaker 1: with your answers to our Twitter poll here in our

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Speaker 1: number two, which Bill's rookie will have the biggest impact

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. We did it as a poll

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Speaker 1: with the two choices being the top two picks, Kyer

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Speaker 1: Elam and James Cook. So in the early voting, Kayer

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Speaker 1: Elam has been a runaway with almost two thirds to

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Speaker 1: the vote, to James Cook only getting about thirty three

903
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Speaker 1: percent of the vote. It's it's shifted here and there somewhat,

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Speaker 1: but more often than not, it's been about two thirds

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Speaker 1: to one third for the most part. But let's go

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet to see what you have to say.

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Speaker 1: If you want to chime in on this, you can

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Speaker 1: give us a call. E three five fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty tweet sheet brought

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. Anthony leads us off today

912
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: and he says Cook should bring a different element coming

913
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. He should beat linebackers all day,

914
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Speaker 1: a potential touchdown every game from him, Go Bills. I

915
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Speaker 1: will say this. I really was split on where to

916
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Speaker 1: vote here, but I think you can make a good

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Speaker 1: argument for both of these guys. And I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: right now, if any defensive coordinator in this league puts

919
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Speaker 1: a linebacker on James Cook, They're gonna get embarrassed. You

920
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: can put a linebacker on James Cook. Kid runs a

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Speaker 1: four four two, He's a polished route runner, and he's

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Speaker 1: great after the catch. He averaged almost twelve yards a

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Speaker 1: reception over his final two years at Georgia. In the

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Speaker 1: most competitive conference in college football where there are athletes

925
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: all over the place. So the step up to the

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Speaker 1: NFL not going to be a giant leap for him

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Speaker 1: by any means, So you cannot put a linebacker on him.

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Speaker 1: So now your approach as a defense may have to

929
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Speaker 1: be going with a three safety look, which more and

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Speaker 1: more teams are doing of late, Dolphins being one of them,

931
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Speaker 1: Patriots being another team that employs a three safety look.

932
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Speaker 1: So that might be the way you have to go.

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Speaker 1: And that safety better be a cover guy, not a

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Speaker 1: box safety guy. You need a cover safety the caliber

935
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Speaker 1: of like a player or a hide to hang with

936
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Speaker 1: James Cook. So best of luck with that rest of

937
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Bro on the tweet sheet. What's up, bro?

938
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Speaker 1: He goes with Elam because he'll be on the field more.

939
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: Our offense is already a powerhouse that Cook will undoubtedly

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Speaker 1: contribute to, but Elam can be a big difference maker

941
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Speaker 1: on defense. Now. I know a lot of us are

942
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: under the assumption that kayre Elam is going to be

943
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Speaker 1: a day one starter recorner in this defense. And while

944
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Speaker 1: I believe in what kayre Elam has to offer as

945
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Speaker 1: much as the next person, I am going to say this.

946
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Speaker 1: This is year three for Dane Jackson, who played damn

947
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: well down the stretch last year after Tradavious White got

948
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Speaker 1: hurt and he had to go into the starting lineup

949
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Speaker 1: opposite Levi Wallace. Coach Frasier today essentially said he believes

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Speaker 1: Dane Jackson is one of the best up and coming

951
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Speaker 1: corners in the entire league. So to think that kayre

952
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Speaker 1: Elam is just going to be plug in play, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't guarantee that at all. I think what will help

954
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: Elam through the course of mandatory mini camp and training

955
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Speaker 1: camp is the fact that let's just say Tredevious White

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Speaker 1: is ready to participate in some capacity in training camp.

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Speaker 1: In practice, he's undoubtedly going to be put on a

958
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Speaker 1: pitch count. So that means more quality first team reps

959
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: for kai Elam with the first team against the first

960
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Speaker 1: team offense in the practice setting, because presumably if Tradevius

961
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Speaker 1: is not on the field, gains on one side and

962
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: Kaira is on the other and off they go. How

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00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: long that stretches into training camp in the preseason, I

964
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: think we'll go a long way in determining how soon

965
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Speaker 1: kai Erielam is not only on the field, but starting

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00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: as well. I almost feel like Dane Jackson's play on

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00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: the field and training camp in the preseason will have

968
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 1: as much impact as Tredavious White's availability on the field

969
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: coming back from his ACL injury as it pertains to

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00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 1: Kaye Eelam's immediate future in twenty twenty two. Jeremy on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, definitely Cook. He upgrades a position

972
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Speaker 1: that has been highly underutilized, whether that's the Josh effect

973
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: or lack of playmaker ability in the backfield. But that's

974
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Speaker 1: my vote, and really that's why you vote for Cook

975
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: in this poll if you want to, right, because he

976
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Speaker 1: has a skill set that has been absent from Buffalo's

977
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: offensive backfield. They tried to capture it with Matt Brida.

978
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,240
Speaker 1: It didn't work last year due mainly to ball security issues.

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Speaker 1: And they did sign Duke Johnson, who is a pass

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00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: catching back and he's had some very productive seasons earlier

981
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: in his career. I just don't know that he brings

982
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:09,959
Speaker 1: the same level of pure juice and speed that Cook

983
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: does with that four four two forty times. So I

984
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: think Cook does bring a unique skill set to the

985
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Speaker 1: offensive backfield for the Bills. There's nobody else on the

986
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: roster like him, and so to a certain extent, I

987
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 1: do agree with Jeremy. I think he brings something to

988
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:33,439
Speaker 1: the offense at a position where I'm not saying they're

989
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: lacking in talent, they're just lacking in a game breaking

990
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:43,439
Speaker 1: pass receiving back. And Cook can obviously provide that. We'll

991
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Speaker 1: take a break from the tweet sheet here because we

992
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: do want to pass along to you the comments made

993
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Speaker 1: by Bill's new Special teams coordinator, Matthew Smiley, who addressed

994
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: the media for the first time today, And an interesting thing.

995
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: You're always interested as a media member or reporter the

996
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,919
Speaker 1: first time you talk to a coach or a player

997
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: for that matter, in a new role. And Matthew Smiley

998
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,919
Speaker 1: has been here since day one on Coach McDermott's staff,

999
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,800
Speaker 1: primarily as a special team's assistant, and after five years

1000
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: he was promoted to special teams coordinator. He's been instrumental

1001
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: in the special teams units being as productive as they

1002
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: have been the last several years. Coach Smiley comes out

1003
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: into the media room today and proceeds to introduce himself

1004
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: and shake hands with every single media member in the room,

1005
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: and then he joked that I'm doing this so I

1006
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: don't have to talk as long to you guys. Uh So,

1007
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: an interesting debut performance from Special teams coordinator Matthew Smiley.

1008
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: Let's listen to him now, how obviously, how much do

1009
00:57:53,440 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: you see this you're hiring as hopefully good things that

1010
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: have been going on, or you see a lot of

1011
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: them changes. Um, I definitely hope it's a continuation of

1012
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: good things, for sure. But Heath and I worked very

1013
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: closely with one another, and so a majority of the

1014
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: philosophy will be very similar. Obviously potentially some some personality

1015
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: changes on the field and in the classroom, but schematically

1016
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: probably more similar than differentially. You've had a lot of

1017
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: continuity the build you McDermott had not as ure, and

1018
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, I mean you have a pretty

1019
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: bettered unit. What do you how do you see that?

1020
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Speaker 1: You're four guys? Yeah, guys, let's say you know, I

1021
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: mean a lot of them clue e medentially back, Yeah,

1022
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Speaker 1: A lot of success on special teams after your kicker,

1023
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: punter and snapper is the continuity of the core. And

1024
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: we've been very fortunate to have not only real good

1025
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: players but players that have been here multiple years, a

1026
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: lot of those core guys, so that's a big benefit. Well,

1027
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Speaker 1: let's see how the roster shapes up this year, every

1028
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: year being different, but that is a that is a

1029
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: plus to have that continuity cult special teams like somebody

1030
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: like Tyler Manage is the bodies and culture and you

1031
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: want anything, right, you have a bunch of those guys.

1032
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: So now you bring along, let's just say, somebody like

1033
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: Jackline Johnson who has developed that who how do you

1034
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: keep that going? Because not every most of the young

1035
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: players you bring in, they don't have them that. You know,

1036
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Speaker 1: they weren't expating teams bras college, but they were starting immunity. Yeah, good,

1037
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: good players on special teams definitely have a mindset, There's

1038
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. And part of it is cultivating

1039
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,439
Speaker 1: that mindset. Whether it's a rookie coming in that maybe

1040
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: didn't get a lot of reps, but I would say

1041
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: more than anything, it's that competitive nature and that's true

1042
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: throughout the building. So it doesn't matter if I'm a

1043
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: rookie and I got to learn how to play guard

1044
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: on punt or I'm a vet and I get moved

1045
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: to a new spot on kickoff return. It's that culture

1046
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: of competition really that helps those guys reach that level

1047
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: that some of the vets have rose to coach, I

1048
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: wants to fastening with how it works between you and

1049
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: the coach and the other coaches about the guys you

1050
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: need to share, right, I mean you're, yeah, Taylan and

1051
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: Joe and maybe a course special teamer, but you know

1052
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: you might have another guy who gets more reps maybe

1053
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,919
Speaker 1: at his position. I need this guy from the question

1054
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Speaker 1: teams will he easily working over here? How does that

1055
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: work between you and Sean and listen. I think one

1056
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Speaker 1: of the neatest things that I've I think one of

1057
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Speaker 1: the neatest things I've learned in my time in the

1058
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Speaker 1: NFL is the management of not only the fifty three

1059
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Speaker 1: man roster, but the game day actives. That is a

1060
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: big deal to special teams because it is a lot

1061
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:54,919
Speaker 1: of times it'll come down to one or two guys

1062
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Speaker 1: that maybe up, maybe down because of offense, defense, or

1063
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Speaker 1: because of special teams. And I think the real good

1064
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Speaker 1: teams are the teams that find a way to share

1065
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Speaker 1: the guys you're talking about where they say I think

1066
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Speaker 1: he can do this for us on defense. I know

1067
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: he can do that for you on special teams or

1068
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 1: vice versa. Hey, I can use him this way on

1069
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 1: special teams. I know he helps you like that on offense.

1070
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 1: So it's that coordination I think is a is a

1071
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: there's hidden yards in that for sure. This competition right now,

1072
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: Matt and Matt are getting even reps. Uh, they are

1073
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: both doing a great job, and it's it's it's I

1074
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: try to remind the guys, whether it's punter or any position,

1075
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 1: even if you're the only guy at your position, that

1076
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: doesn't mean there's not competition at that position. There are

1077
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: obviously thirty one other teams that may have doubles at spots,

1078
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: and as rosters start to get paired down, as different

1079
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: guys free up, there may be a guy on the

1080
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: street that you're competing with that you don't know about.

1081
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: So that's an obvious competition right now having two punters

1082
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: on the roster, but there is there is a need

1083
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: to feel that type of competition at every spot if

1084
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,479
Speaker 1: you have a reason. What did you like about about

1085
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: qualities that he scout. I got a chance to watch

1086
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: Matt rise a couple of times, um and I got

1087
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: to talk with him during the process. He does not

1088
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 1: have as much experience in college as a punter, but

1089
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: he has a natural gift with a strong left leg.

1090
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: The thing that was most um, I would say interesting

1091
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: to me, most encouraging to me was his mindset of

1092
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 1: that constant improvement. So what I did in the season,

1093
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: how I saw him change that into going into the

1094
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: combine at Indy, How I even saw that get better

1095
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,720
Speaker 1: before he did his pro days out West. It was

1096
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:54,840
Speaker 1: that that constant improvement, that mindset that was very attractive.

1097
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: But how much of him being a former fieldfual kicker

1098
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 1: is that going to help him with the holiday which

1099
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: is obviously something that everybody's been talking about because that's

1100
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: only that Matt Hawk has done so well. Sure, how

1101
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: much will being a good field goal kicker help you holding?

1102
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: Not as much as I'd like to pretend it would.

1103
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: For sure. He definitely has an awareness of the operation.

1104
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 1: But he came in right away, started working even in

1105
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: rookie Minicamp, both on the jugs and with the live

1106
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: snapper we brought in for rookie Minicamp. He is a

1107
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 1: natural athlete and he's he's that same attitude of what

1108
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: he needs to improve as a punter. He's worked as

1109
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: a holder too, to try to make sure that he

1110
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: can be as good as as possible as a holder.

1111
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: It's difficult to put to rest how the season ended.

1112
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: And now that you are special what was those are

1113
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: the beat over special teams? And what to do with

1114
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: routine seconds? Love it? Now that you're in charge, what recommendation?

1115
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: What you have made you know in that situation. Sure,

1116
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 1: I think I could have your start your your question

1117
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: started out. It's not easy to put that to rest.

1118
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 1: Or it's difficult to put that to rest. It seems

1119
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: to be later. Yeah, here's that was last season and

1120
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: we'll take care of this season now. I was just

1121
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: demonstrating that you could, we could put it to rest

1122
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 1: if you wanted to. Okay, Um no, I think I

1123
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:23,919
Speaker 1: think that. Uh. I think that there are a lot

1124
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: of intricacies in the game of football that um it's

1125
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: not as much as it is um comforting to say

1126
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 1: it's your fault, it's his fault. This is exactly what happened.

1127
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: It's that overall communication that whether it's thirteen seconds to

1128
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 1: go in a playoff game or whether it is a

1129
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: Tuesday practice, And what drill is gonna go where it's

1130
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: that improving communication that uh, that I think is very important. Um.

1131
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,840
Speaker 1: I spent four years in the Air Force and was

1132
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: deployed a lot, and and we would always work through

1133
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: what we called the fog of war, and it was

1134
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 1: that Wait, whose fault was it? No? No, No, that's

1135
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 1: not the right question. The right question is what can

1136
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 1: each individual do better in their specific area? And that's

1137
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 1: what I'm going to make sure that I tried to encourage,

1138
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:14,439
Speaker 1: both from myself and the guys in the room. Put

1139
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: words in about but just based on your answer and

1140
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: I respect, was there a communication issue? Um, that feels

1141
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: like an attempt to put words in my mouth. No,

1142
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: I would say, we did not execute exactly the way

1143
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: we wanted to execute. So anytime that's a that's the

1144
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: issue that there's a lack of communication, when there's a

1145
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: lack of execution, I think they go hand in hand. Oh.

1146
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's so to do pressure on careers or punders

1147
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,919
Speaker 1: that can get drafted because they put that pressure because

1148
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 1: not at all about there a lot of them go

1149
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 1: on drafting and share a career youself, how do you

1150
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: manage that pressure? Because I did it with typo, but

1151
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: now if you have man to kind of yeah, that's

1152
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 1: a great question for me. It's reminding matt Ariza, this

1153
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: punt is not make the team or get cut from

1154
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:13,800
Speaker 1: the team. It's a series of good punts in a row.

1155
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 1: It's a series of good days in a row. It

1156
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 1: weeks sixteen. He's gonna look and feel if he gets

1157
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: to that point different than he does during OTAs. But

1158
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: it is. It is a marathon, not a sprint, and

1159
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: it's a matter of stacking up good punts, stacking up

1160
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 1: good holds, stacking up good practices. But that's that's one

1161
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 1: attempt to manage those expectations, all right. That's Special Teams

1162
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 1: coach Matthew Smiley and most of his comments from today's

1163
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 1: press conference, the first as Special Teams coordinator for him.

1164
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 1: And I know that a lot of Bills fans are

1165
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: going to be interested in the punting competition and that

1166
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: will continue into training camp. But as it stands right now,

1167
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 1: they're being given equal reps, and I think that'll continue

1168
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: until somebody's set rates themselves from the other in terms

1169
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: of performance, chief of which will be as you heard

1170
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 1: Coach Smiley just say, consistency. And that was the challenge

1171
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: for Matt Hawk late last year where there was some

1172
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 1: inconsistency creeping into his game, and Matt Areisa, as the

1173
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: young rookie, is going to have to commit and capture

1174
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:27,720
Speaker 1: consistency from a punting perspective as well, I thought. Coach

1175
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: Smiley has stutely pointed out Matt Ariza was a place

1176
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: kicker and a punter, and he came to San Diego

1177
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: State primarily as a place kicker. He was just such

1178
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: a natural athlete that he could also punt as well,

1179
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 1: and then as it got further and further into his

1180
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 1: college career, punting was something that he truly excelled at

1181
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: and that's what got him on NFL radar. So that

1182
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: is why he is in the role he is in

1183
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 1: now as an NFL punt prospect. And you heard him

1184
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 1: say that Arisa is working on holding because he was

1185
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 1: a place kicker and a punter. He wasn't holding. He

1186
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 1: was too busy doing the kicking in both facets. Now,

1187
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 1: We've had Steve talk about this on the show before,

1188
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:21,000
Speaker 1: because Steve was a holder here in Buffalo for a

1189
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: period of time, and he said, it's all about repetition.

1190
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 1: It's not all that difficult to pick up and it

1191
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: can be mastered in a relatively short period of time.

1192
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:34,720
Speaker 1: So hopefully Ariza will be given enough time to do that,

1193
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: takes the time, the extra time, and takes it upon

1194
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: himself to master it as well, knowing it will completely

1195
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:46,639
Speaker 1: help his chances of making this roster and beating out

1196
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 1: the veteran Matt Hawk for the role. Both Leslie Fraser

1197
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: and Matthew Smiley were asked about the final thirteen seconds

1198
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, since today was the first time they

1199
01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:59,759
Speaker 1: had addressed the media since the end of the season.

1200
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier cited communication, much like coach McDermott did so

1201
01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 1: too did coach Smiley, as you just heard there and

1202
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: he said the problem was execution, and anytime you have

1203
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: a problem with execution, it's usually rooted in a lack

1204
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 1: of communication, which kind of runs parallel to what coach

1205
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 1: McDermott had said about the end of that game right

1206
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 1: after in the postgame press conference. And it's clear to

1207
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:31,600
Speaker 1: me that this coaching staff is not about pointing the

1208
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 1: figure in any one individual. It's about looking inward at

1209
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,600
Speaker 1: what everybody could do better to prevent something like that

1210
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: from happening again, and I will say that, Coach Frasier said, definitively,

1211
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:47,639
Speaker 1: the next time a situation like that surfaces, we will

1212
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 1: be better for it having gone through what they went

1213
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: through at the end of last season. There were a

1214
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:57,479
Speaker 1: couple of other comments from coach Frasier that I wanted

1215
01:09:57,520 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 1: to pass along to you that we did not have

1216
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,320
Speaker 1: time to play for you in the first hour, and

1217
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:06,839
Speaker 1: one of them dealt with Tremaine Edmonds. And for Edmonds,

1218
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: as we know, he's entering this season playing under the

1219
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: fifth year option, so short of a contract extension between

1220
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:17,200
Speaker 1: the now and the end of the season, he is

1221
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: a pending free agent at the end of the year.

1222
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: So coach Fraser was asked, with respect to Tremaine Edmonds,

1223
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: what does he need to do and how have you

1224
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: kept his mind off of the fact that he's entering

1225
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: the final year of his contract and not being distracted

1226
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 1: by that, And so Coach Frasier said, we talked about it.

1227
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 1: He understands he should only worry about what he can control,

1228
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: which is basically playing at a high level every single week,

1229
01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:52,479
Speaker 1: and he believes that if Tremaine can do that, the

1230
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: contract will take care of itself, whether it's here or

1231
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 1: somewhere else. The thing that I heard from coach Frasier

1232
01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 1: that I thought was right on the money is a

1233
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:05,679
Speaker 1: lot of the problem that some portion of the Bill's

1234
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: fan base has with Tremaine Edmonds. He's a supreme athlete,

1235
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 1: he calls the defense, but when it comes to making

1236
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: the big play to turn the game on its head,

1237
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 1: it's been difficult for Edmonds to provide those. So when

1238
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: coach Fraser was asked today what's the next step for

1239
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds, Frasier said it plain and simple. He's looking

1240
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 1: for more splash plays from Tremaine Edmonds this year, and

1241
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: he believes if Tremaine Edmonds can deliver on that, that

1242
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 1: this defense is going to reach even greater heights than

1243
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: they did last year, when they were not only number

1244
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 1: one in total defense, they were number one in scoring defense,

1245
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:52,200
Speaker 1: number one in past defense, number one in third down defense.

1246
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: So think about that for a second. You get Edmonds

1247
01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:01,800
Speaker 1: to start delivering game changing type plays, I don't even

1248
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 1: know if we can fathom what this defense is going

1249
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 1: to look like if that happens. The other comment that

1250
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: coach Frasier made that perked my ears up concerns the

1251
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 1: future of Greg Rousseau, Boogie Basham and aj Epinessa. The

1252
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 1: deck has been cleared for these guys. Yes, they signed

1253
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: von Miller, but Jerry Hughes and Mario Addison are gone. Yes,

1254
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 1: Shack laws in his back, but I think Shack more

1255
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 1: often than not is going to be a run down

1256
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: defender because he is so good at setting the edge

1257
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: in the run front from the defensive end position. So

1258
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:40,519
Speaker 1: that means the pass rushing opportunities should still very much

1259
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: be there for the taking for the likes of epines A,

1260
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 1: Basham and Rousseau. So when coach Frasier was asked what

1261
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: he is looking for from that young trio with pass rushers,

1262
01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: he was very direct. Again, he said consistency. Now, Coach

1263
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: Frasier is a pretty diplomatic coach. He doesn't take guys

1264
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,600
Speaker 1: behind the wood ched. He doesn't embarrass them publicly. You know,

1265
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 1: he might pull a guy aside and talk to him

1266
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: privately when it comes to the media. He's pretty fair,

1267
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 1: I would say, with his players on the whole. But

1268
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 1: what he said today when asked for that, what's the

1269
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: next step he needs to see from Rousseau, Basham and Epanessa.

1270
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 1: He said, consistency. We are past the point of ups

1271
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 1: and downs. We shouldn't as coaches be wondering what we're

1272
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,599
Speaker 1: going to get out of these guys every single Sunday.

1273
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 1: And he's right now. For Basham and Rousseau, you can

1274
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:39,759
Speaker 1: understand it. They're rookies. They're feeling their way. But Rousseau

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Speaker 1: got off to a very fast start. Our MSG viewers

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Speaker 1: are watching the interception he made in the Week six

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Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs when he bade the pass up

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Speaker 1: in the air and then caught it and picked it

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Speaker 1: off for a takeaway. After that game, there weren't a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of times in games where he said, oh,

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Speaker 1: Rousseau is having a day to day. He kind of

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Speaker 1: lost his impact potential, if you will, Bash him flashed

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Speaker 1: at times, but had trouble fine enough playing time to

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Speaker 1: get on the field to make an impact. And aj Epanessa,

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Speaker 1: he knocks out two a tongue of Ioloa in week

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Speaker 1: two and never duplicates that performance the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: So it's put up time. According to coach Frasier, for

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Speaker 1: those three young pass rushers, we shouldn't as coaches be

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Speaker 1: wondering what we're going to get we need consistent performances

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Speaker 1: from those three players each and every week. I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a very telling comment from coach Frasier today.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break when we come back.

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Speaker 1: More of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and your

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01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: phone calls. At eighth three, five fifty. Which of Buffalo's

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01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: top two draft choice is gonna have a bigger impact

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Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty two season. Is a kaye Elam

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Speaker 1: on defense or James Cook on fence? Let us know

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Speaker 1: at eighth three, five fifty, open line for you. There

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Speaker 1: your tweet cheek comments as well, all coming your way

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Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live, presented by Klaida Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: A couple of news items just crossed, so I figured

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01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,679
Speaker 1: I would pass those along to you from around the league.

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01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: Cold Star linebacker Darius Leonard. He had ankle surgery in

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01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,680
Speaker 1: the offseason. There were reports that he might need a

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Speaker 1: second surgery. That is not the case, but now he

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Speaker 1: is having back issues and he will undergo back surgery.

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Speaker 1: That operation is today. He's expected to miss some of

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Speaker 1: training camp, but the team's expectation is he will be

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Speaker 1: ready for the regular season. So one of the best

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Speaker 1: linebackers in football going to be sidelined for the Colts

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Speaker 1: at least at the outset of training camp. The other

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Speaker 1: news update is Seahawks star wide receiver DK Metcalf is

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Speaker 1: not present from mandatory minicamp. Contract talks have not resulted

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Speaker 1: in a new contract extension yet this according to NFL Networks,

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Speaker 1: he in Rappaport, he continues to rehab his injury in

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Speaker 1: LA so perhaps he and the team have worked out

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Speaker 1: in agreement say hey, we don't have a long term contract,

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Speaker 1: I can't participate anyway. Let me continue to do my

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Speaker 1: rehabilitation here in Los Angeles and I'll see you when

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Speaker 1: I see him. So that's just a couple of news

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Speaker 1: and notes updates from around the NFL today. Wanted to

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Speaker 1: get back to the tweet sheet where we were asking

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Speaker 1: you today which Bills rookie will have the biggest impact

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. Is it the top pick Kayer

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Speaker 1: Elam or their second round draft choice James Cook. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's somebody else you will let us know, But kayre

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01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 1: Elam has been leading all the way today in the

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Speaker 1: voting with almost two thirds of the vote, although James

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Speaker 1: Cook has made up some ground on him, and I

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Speaker 1: really think this is somewhat of a toss up for

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Speaker 1: some reasons that I explained earlier. But let's go back

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet and Brian says Cook is joining

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Speaker 1: a high powered offense that would likely still lead the

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Speaker 1: league without him. Elam will likely start as a starting

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Speaker 1: corner until White comes in and has to at least

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Speaker 1: replace Levi and hopefully be an upgrade. Biggest impact, positive

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Speaker 1: or negative is Elam. So here's the other thing that

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Speaker 1: I think we have to add to this argument. Which

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Speaker 1: is a harder position to play in the NFL, running

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Speaker 1: back or corner. I would argue it's corner for a

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Speaker 1: multitude of reasons. Number one, you're going against some of

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01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:58,840
Speaker 1: the best athletes that play the game. Number two, you

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01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 1: play most of your position in reverse, and number three,

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01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: you have to play off of other members of your

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Speaker 1: secondary with a myriad of coverages, adjustments, and pre snap checks.

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Speaker 1: For the running backs, yes, there are reads, there are audibles,

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01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:26,600
Speaker 1: pre snap and changes, but really the position is to

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01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 1: a great degree reactive. You react to where the hole

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01:18:31,160 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 1: opens up, You react to the angle the defense might

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01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,599
Speaker 1: be taking to you, and your natural ability very quickly

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01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: takes over. I think that is far less the case

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Speaker 1: at the cornerback position, which is why very often you

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Speaker 1: see rookie running backs excel in this league, because it's

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01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 1: an easier position at which to excel. So maybe you

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Speaker 1: should take that into account too when trying to ascertain

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Speaker 1: whether kyer Elam or James Cook will have the bigger

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Speaker 1: impact for the Bill in twenty twenty two, Josh on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, I'm going off the choices and

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Speaker 1: taking Khalil Shakir. He's got experience playing the slot outside

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Speaker 1: and taking handoffs. I can see a Deebo Samuel like

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Speaker 1: package for him. They have almost identical measurables, and we

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Speaker 1: know this is a copycat league. He plays like a

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01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: polite Steve Smith on tape. He can also return kicks. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to deny for a second that Khalil

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Speaker 1: Shakir has the potential to be a very versatile player,

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Speaker 1: But to say he could be a Deebo Samuel right

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Speaker 1: out of the blocks, that is a lofty comparison. And

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Speaker 1: that's number one. Number two. Khalil Shakir is not of

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Speaker 1: the same physical stature that Deebo Samuel is. He may

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Speaker 1: measure as tall, but he's not built as broad shouldered

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Speaker 1: as Deebo Samuel is. They are not the same player.

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Speaker 1: From that perspective, I don't know that Khalil Shakir can

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Speaker 1: play with the same physical playing style that Deebo Samuel

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Speaker 1: plays with. And then third, you're assuming that Khalil Shakiir

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Speaker 1: is going to get on the field a lot if

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Speaker 1: you're picking him to be the biggest impact on this offense.

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Speaker 1: And I would say with the pecking order of the

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Speaker 1: receiving corps and the quality of the top two tight

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Speaker 1: ends on this roster, I think Khalil Shakiir is going

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Speaker 1: to be very hard pressed to crack the lineup number

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Speaker 1: one and then number two get enough targets and opportunities

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Speaker 1: to make something happen. Now, look, I like Khalil Shakir

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Speaker 1: as much as the next guy. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a great pick in the fifth round, but this is

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Speaker 1: a tough roster to crack on the offensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball at the skill position. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I'd go Shakier as a rookie to be the

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Speaker 1: guy to make the most impact of the entire draft class.

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Speaker 1: Patrick on the tweet sheet says, Kaye Elam because he

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Speaker 1: will be a significant upgrade over Levi Wallace. Levi must

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Speaker 1: have led the league in almost making an interception. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's fair. Levi was a solid

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Speaker 1: player here. He wasn't necessarily a game breaker, but he

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Speaker 1: was a steady player on the outside for them. And

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Speaker 1: I would argue that you already have an upgrade in

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Speaker 1: Dane Jackson entering year three, and Dane Jackson is going

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Speaker 1: to be Kayer Elam's stiffest competition, depending, of course, how

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Speaker 1: quickly Trudevious White is back in the fold and practicing

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Speaker 1: on a regular basis with a full compliment of reps.

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Speaker 1: But Elam, let's wait and see. I think yes, he

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Speaker 1: will be a superior player to that of Levi Wallace

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01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 1: in due time as a rookie. Will have to wait

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Speaker 1: and see. Christopher on the tweet sheet says, I chose Cook.

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Speaker 1: The versatility that will open up for the entire offense

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Speaker 1: is immeasurable. Yeah, I mean he does diversify the offense

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Speaker 1: in a major way. There is no debating that. For

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Speaker 1: the reasons we've already mentioned juice in terms of speed

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Speaker 1: that he brings to the field, polished route running skills

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Speaker 1: from the running back position. Those two things alone give

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey a myriad of extra options when dealing with

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Speaker 1: who he's lining up in his offensive backfield. Whether it's

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Speaker 1: just Cook, whether it's Singletary, where it's singletary end Cook.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a multitude of options there because of

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Speaker 1: the diverse skill set that James Cook brings to the table.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I think he should be a consideration

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Speaker 1: for most impact in twenty twenty two among the rookie class.

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01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:39,560
Speaker 1: Jack on the tweet sheet says, I hope both have

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Speaker 1: a massive impact. Ela may be called on early if

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01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: Trey isn't ready to go out of the gate, so

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01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:46,920
Speaker 1: it could be a baptism by fire. He better be

1422
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: up to the task. Could be dynamic as a weapon,

1423
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,479
Speaker 1: the kind of pass catcher we haven't had since Spiller.

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01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 1: I hope they use him wisely. I think they will

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01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:57,919
Speaker 1: use him wisely. I think they will use him primarily

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Speaker 1: as a pass catcher. And as for Elm, the tray

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Speaker 1: part of this equation is an interesting one. You don't

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01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 1: want to rush Tredevious White back. I think most people

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01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: would agree there's no sense in rushing him back if

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Speaker 1: he's not ready. Wait until he's completely ready, and hope

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01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 1: that kaye Elam and Dane Jackson can kind of hold

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Speaker 1: the fort at the starting cornerback spots. The problem is

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Speaker 1: Week one kickoff game, You've got the Rams who are

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Speaker 1: gonna be throwing Cooper Cup and Alan Robinson at those

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01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:34,679
Speaker 1: two guys on the outside. That's a heavy lift, especially

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Speaker 1: for one guy who would be making his first NFL start.

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01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: So we'll know more about Tredevious White's timeline. Brandon Bean

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01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: was asked about it today and he said, everything's still

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01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 1: on schedule. But it's not like Tredevious is ahead of

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01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:52,879
Speaker 1: schedule and what that timetable is. Nobody outside the athletic

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01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:56,640
Speaker 1: training office really knows that. So we're gonna have to

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01:23:56,720 --> 01:24:00,720
Speaker 1: see how it goes and where it goes. But if

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01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: kyer Eelam is starting Week one, I hope it's because

1444
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:07,599
Speaker 1: he's lit the lit training camp in the preseason up

1445
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: with his play and ability, and not because Tradevious White

1446
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: isn't ready. If you know what I'm saying, I want

1447
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 1: to believe that he's proven he's ready to handle it,

1448
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: rather than well, we're going with Kaier until Tradevious is

1449
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 1: fully healthy and Dan Jackson's going to play on the

1450
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,680
Speaker 1: other side. That's the point I'm trying to make with that.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have to turn now to a guy

1452
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:31,599
Speaker 1: we just mentioned in the last segment who Leslie Frasier

1453
01:24:31,760 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: is looking for him to step up in terms of

1454
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 1: down to down, series to series and week to week consistency.

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01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,679
Speaker 1: It's Boogie Basham who addressed the media after practice today.

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01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 1: I actually learned a lot from him, just not really

1457
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: just giving too much nihilis, but he's just more like

1458
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 1: a helping hand for us on and off the field

1459
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: as well, just giving life skills also football. This tellesn't

1460
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:56,639
Speaker 1: go out there and it's pretty much half fun. While

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01:24:56,640 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 1: you have to know what you love. I would definitely

1462
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:14,679
Speaker 1: say for me and Greg, you know, we're coming in together.

1463
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:16,679
Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time together off the field

1464
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 1: and on the field, so it's more of us, you know,

1465
01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 1: just feeding off one another. We had okay seasons last year,

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01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:23,600
Speaker 1: so it's like for building off of that, so we

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01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:25,840
Speaker 1: have a great season and you know, adding Aja into

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01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: the equations as well. We're all three young guys, so

1469
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:30,680
Speaker 1: that competition between all three of us I finally helped

1470
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:33,640
Speaker 1: us in the long run. What's the biggest thing you

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Speaker 1: burn from last season? Maybe taking a step more of

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01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: a step back than you maybe would have liked. I'll

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Speaker 1: probably say from last year, I'll probably say, you gotta

1474
01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 1: bring it every week. You know, rookie coming in, he

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01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:46,280
Speaker 1: probably thinks you won't think. I wanna say, you think

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01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:47,640
Speaker 1: it's easy, but you ain't thinking it as hard as

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01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: it was. But you know it's going out there that

1478
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: first game I played in it's way harder what most

1479
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: people think it is. So I'll probably say, looking back,

1480
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:55,280
Speaker 1: I definitely should have brought it pretty much every week

1481
01:25:57,360 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL conditioning program for a full year. Now

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Speaker 1: in this offseason, what if you know, what has has

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Speaker 1: there been any change? You're focused on getting your body

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Speaker 1: ready for this second season? Obviously I mainly focused on

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Speaker 1: getting my body right down, especially you know, last year

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Speaker 1: playing around twenty five. This year, you know, me and

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Speaker 1: Siano talked a lot about you know, getting down to

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Speaker 1: the two seventies. You know, I'm in the low two

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Speaker 1: seventies right now, so I feel like this will be

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Speaker 1: a big jump from last year to this year, so

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Speaker 1: you will. Let year, I think you're listed at two

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Speaker 1: seventy seven, but you've played in the two eighties, like

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Speaker 1: twenty five. I would say, I'm way more uncomfortable now,

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Speaker 1: you know, just learning to play, but also you know,

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Speaker 1: knowing all the guys coming in rookie you ain't know nobody,

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Speaker 1: maybe like two or three guys, but now you know,

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Speaker 1: comfortable with the guys around the locker room, everybody in

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Speaker 1: the facility. So I felt way more comfortable I was

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Speaker 1: last year. I already say, you know, playing d line,

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Speaker 1: you always gonna have that bond with somebody, even if

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Speaker 1: you don't know him. Uh. We're a bunch of big kids,

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Speaker 1: you know. We like to have fun on and off

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Speaker 1: the field. So you know, just of having that bond

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Speaker 1: with each other, it makes a lot easier for new

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Speaker 1: guys to come in and just click right away with us.

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Speaker 1: I say, shout, that's my dog, you know, man, shout.

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Speaker 1: We clicked the first day we met. Knew him from

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Speaker 1: college from some guys I went to school with. She know,

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Speaker 1: I heard about him a lot. You know, they're just

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Speaker 1: meeting the first hand. You know, here's a character let

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Speaker 1: somebody you gotta love and somebody needed a team like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, to always get your energy up and be

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Speaker 1: ready to play college around high to sixty five, little

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Speaker 1: two seventies. A lot of characters, but it's a screen standouts.

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Speaker 1: I always definitely say, yeah, we got some guys were required,

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Speaker 1: We got guys who were out. So you know, if

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Speaker 1: like having that balance is good, you know for any

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Speaker 1: position across the field. All right, that's Boogie Basham, addressing

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Speaker 1: the media today, said his weight is down and his

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Speaker 1: body composition does look different from what it was last

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Speaker 1: year when he was a little bulkier through the shoulders

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Speaker 1: in the chest. He said he played at two eighty

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Speaker 1: five last year. He is down to the low two seventies.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully we see a faster, more explosive Bookie bash

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Speaker 1: him off the snap this coming season. Break time for

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Speaker 1: us back in a second to close things up Here

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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right back here on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Ready to wrap up a Tuesday, another day

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Speaker 1: of OTAs as OTAs wrap up this week, Mandatory minicamp

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Speaker 1: next week. Things are much different in the Mile High City,

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Speaker 1: where there are already reports that the Broncos could be

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Speaker 1: having a new and very famous owner, Rob Walton, the

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Speaker 1: heir to the Walmart fortune, reportedly going to pay four

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Speaker 1: point five billion dollars for the Broncos. Not official yet,

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Speaker 1: but it looks like it's trending that way. We'll keep

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Speaker 1: you updated. More to come tomorrow in a Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of One Bills Live. We'll see it one