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Speaker 1: to figure out their best combination. So Trent Murphy also

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Speaker 1: last year and the last year of his deal with

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Speaker 1: the Bills, was deactive in favor of aj Epanezza at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, second half of the season

433
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Speaker 1: in a season where in a stretch of the season

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Speaker 1: where they were this team was unbeatable at the end

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Speaker 1: of the regular season, they were unbelievably well oiled at

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Speaker 1: the end of that season. So even in that case,

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Speaker 1: you know, high paid players set you get what you

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Speaker 1: earn in in this culture here and contrary to what

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Speaker 1: people might think, players thrive on it. They thrive on that.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about getting somebody motivated. If all

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Speaker 1: I want to do, if I want to play, if

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Speaker 1: I want to be somebody, if I want to be

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Speaker 1: on Sports Center, if I want to have my family

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Speaker 1: see me play in a Monday night football game, if

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Speaker 1: I want to get him do something, all I gotta

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Speaker 1: do is work for it. And working hard is what

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Speaker 1: these guys do best. It's it's really a special culture

448
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 1: that Chumma Gimmers put together because he has stayed true

449
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Speaker 1: to it. He stayed true to it. What unproven player

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Speaker 1: on the Bill's roster must answer the bell this season.

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Speaker 1: You pick any player under the sun and let us

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Speaker 1: know why you feel they have to answer the bell

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Speaker 1: to help this team get over the AFC Championship Game hump,

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Speaker 1: to get to the big game. So eight three, five

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty two, five fifty to number two, call to

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Speaker 1: get on board or hit us up on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet at one Bill's Live. And there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of choices. I mean, you can pick. There's a slew

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Speaker 1: of people you could pick because there has been an

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Speaker 1: influx of youth over the last two years, and young

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Speaker 1: players have contributed more in supporting type roles. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you look just last season alone, the contributions of Tyler

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Speaker 1: Bass setting a single season scoring record as a rookie

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Speaker 1: and the games he helped them win. And you look

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Speaker 1: at Gabriel Davis seven touchdowns on thirty five receptions, I

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Speaker 1: mean one out of every seven catches five catches went

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Speaker 1: for a touchdown, right, And you know you can go

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Speaker 1: down the line in terms of rookie contributions. You still

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Speaker 1: have young players in their first, second, or third year

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Speaker 1: on this roster where if you look up and down,

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Speaker 1: you say, man, if this guy takes another step and

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Speaker 1: this guy takes another step. That might be all they need, right,

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Speaker 1: and it could be that they get a bunch And

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Speaker 1: we've seen it, Brownie, you've said it. I'll give you

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Speaker 1: credit for this. Since the inception of this whole thing,

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Speaker 1: when Sean McDermott got on board and we watched them

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Speaker 1: play through that first season, you've been on this player

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Speaker 1: development bandwagon about this staff and what Sean McDermott does.

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Speaker 1: How they I don't know how they I don't know

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Speaker 1: how they do it well, but they just we hadn't

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Speaker 1: seen it for the seventeen years prior, right, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how they do it, but they do it. It's

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Speaker 1: a real thing, and you're the first guy to kind

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Speaker 1: of pound this drum. You get a guy like aj

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Speaker 1: Panessa in and he was inactive for the first two

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Speaker 1: games of the season I think at East last season,

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Speaker 1: and at the end of the season, he's a constant

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Speaker 1: on the he is in the regular rotation. That guy's

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Speaker 1: in there and Trent Murphy's out. The same thing with you.

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Speaker 1: Name Levi Wallace, for goodness sake, Reggie Gilliam. You go

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Speaker 1: down the list of these guys, Cody Ford, they just

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Speaker 1: they get better Dawson, Knox, Devin Singletary. Go down the

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Speaker 1: list of guys, and of course you know Tremaine Edmonds, Tredavius.

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Speaker 1: Every player that comes in the door plays Matt Milano,

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Speaker 1: fifth round, draph pick, Matt Malona. Every guy that comes

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Speaker 1: in the door of this building. For whatever reason, I

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Speaker 1: get it. Some of them are. They try and find

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Speaker 1: guys that are wired that way to begin with. But

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Speaker 1: they've got it. Their staff has been here for a while.

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Speaker 1: And Sean McDermott was asked about that continuity today. I

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Speaker 1: think Marcel Louis Jacques asked him about it, about the

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Speaker 1: benefits of having continuity with their coaching staff and all

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Speaker 1: that it is, and chun acknowledge it's a real thing.

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00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: The challenge for us is to keep it fresh with

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Speaker 1: all the same faces in the staff room, the same

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Speaker 1: message to our players. How to make that fresh for

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Speaker 1: the not just for the new guys, but for the

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Speaker 1: guys who have heard it before. That's the challenge for

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Speaker 1: them now is to further their culture by doing the

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Speaker 1: same thing all the time and hat not having that

511
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: same thing be stale. Otherwise your growth stagnates. Right. The

512
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Speaker 1: guys are guys tune you out and complacency. It has been.

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Speaker 1: It has been something to see. So I'm i gotta

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Speaker 1: tip my hat to you. If if those guys are

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Speaker 1: some of the guys that people who like Dawson Knox,

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Speaker 1: like Devin Singletary, like ed Oliver, Cody Ford, you you

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Speaker 1: take your pick of the young players or any other player.

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Speaker 1: If those guys, if they all elevate, there's no stopping them.

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00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: There's absolutely no stop in them. But you know, they

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Speaker 1: all have a lot of work to do and a

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Speaker 1: lot of things to prove before we can say that

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Speaker 1: they've done well, and you you don't know what's going

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00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: to crop up and compromise their growth. We saw it

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Speaker 1: last year. Cody Ford has a season ending injury. Dawson

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Speaker 1: Knox gets COVID and then as a calf injury and

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Speaker 1: he's out of the lineup, and that stunts your growth.

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Speaker 1: There's no question about it. With the daily growth mindset

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Speaker 1: approach of this operation on a day to day basis,

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Speaker 1: if you're taken out of that mix for an extended

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Speaker 1: period of time, it hurts you andy and and in

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Speaker 1: turn it hurts the team. And so health is a

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Speaker 1: huge component of this. But that's why we're asking, you know,

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Speaker 1: what's that, what's that unproven guy on this roster whereof

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Speaker 1: he takes a step? This team's on its way to

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Speaker 1: the big game, So we want to know that from you.

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Speaker 1: At eight oh three, five fifty. We're gonna take a

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Speaker 1: break here because when we come back, we do want

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Speaker 1: to play you some of the more notable comments that

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott made in his address to the media answering

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Speaker 1: questions from the media here in Western New York. Will

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Speaker 1: get to those when we return here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by collot to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you here on day two of OTAs out on the

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Speaker 1: grass practice field about fifty yards from where we currently

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Speaker 1: sit and Steve and I saw him stretching out there,

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00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: counting some numbers up and good showing out there. And

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00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: then there's this Steve. You know, we know the football

549
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: players make a lot of money, but my god, why

550
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Speaker 1: did we not go to culinary school? I should have

551
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: been a foodie guy. Fierie just signed a three year

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Speaker 1: contract extension with the Food Network. You know, good on him.

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Speaker 1: I like Guy Diners, Drive Ins and Dives. I'm a

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00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: big fan of that show. But Holy Crow, three years,

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Speaker 1: eighty million dollars, twenty six and a half a year,

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Speaker 1: that is a lot of bread man. Good for you,

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00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: Bruce Leavage. I mean, yeah, don't get it. Congrats that

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Speaker 1: Holy Cow for cooking. If I had known culinary school man,

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00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: that's where it's at. Just yeah, be a Michelle, you know,

560
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: reach Michell and star status and you're set for life.

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Speaker 1: Someone will sign you up for a food show. Well

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Speaker 1: they gotta. And apparently if you anybody who lives in

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Speaker 1: Alaska can have a show to a reality show, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of those on there. Well okay, sure, and

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00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 1: what else if you want to chase Bigfoot you can

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Speaker 1: get a show. Oh my gosh, don't even get me started. Right,

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00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: there's like, literally there's like three of them. I'm all right,

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Speaker 1: I know of at least two. There's two, I know,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a third one. All I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: is this the ultimate coup in reality television is turning

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Speaker 1: an urban myth into a show, into a living into

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Speaker 1: a living. These guys, these guys are basically real life ghostbusters.

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Speaker 1: They've turned the movie into reality and they're getting paid

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Speaker 1: to do it. It is all right, let me just see,

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Speaker 1: all right. I don't want to get up from a

576
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: big foot here, but I kind of do. Tell me

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00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: there isn't somebody on the other end of the woods

578
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: making ridiculous sounds and they're standing there in the dark

579
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: like the Blair Witch Project going exactly was exactly had

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00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: like they had like six Oh, that's that's what they

581
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: sound like. That's what they sound like. We just heard it, right,

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00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: and it got a yetti in our myths. And the

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00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: climax of the entire show is them running around. But

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Speaker 1: did you see I heard and the camera swaving all

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00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: over the dark same thing? Did you see it? Did

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Speaker 1: you see it? Wow? So anyway, it took about two

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Speaker 1: episodes and I bailed. I'm for anybody's ever walked, for

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Speaker 1: anybody bruise anybody who's a dog person, right, If you're

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00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: a dog person, just about everybody. Right. If you're a

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Speaker 1: dog person and you've ever walked through the woods, you

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Speaker 1: tell me how impossible it would be for any creature

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Speaker 1: to go walk within a hundred yards of you and

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Speaker 1: not have a dog be on them. Yeah? Right, So

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Speaker 1: that to me. Dogs are the reason there is no bigfoot. Yeah,

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00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: because anybody who goes in the woods with a dog man,

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Speaker 1: there is no creature within a hundred yards that that

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00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: your dog doesn't know there. It's crazy. So I mean nobody,

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Speaker 1: Yeah you thought it. I mean, come on, it's and

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00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: I and you've got another your hat too. And now

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Speaker 1: that you say that, it's dawned on me now that

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Speaker 1: I don't believe I've ever seen one of those bigfoot

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00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: search episodes where a dog is present. We're a blood bloodhound. Yeah,

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00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: I wonder why you heard it here first. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a point for that. I'm on board

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Speaker 1: with that. It's true. I'm not true. I guess it's

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Speaker 1: it's in my opinion. It's the opinions expressed here on

607
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: my own. Yeah, so I'm but listen, you're right. You

608
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: gotta tip your hat to these people who they are,

609
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Speaker 1: producers whatever, who can put together a show and not

610
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Speaker 1: only a show, this is like a this like a series,

611
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: like ongoing doing stuff that most of us are like.

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Speaker 1: But this guy Fieri thing twenty six and a half

613
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Speaker 1: a year, I mean, the only person's blowing him out

614
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Speaker 1: of the water in television is Judge Judy. She makes

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Speaker 1: like forty seven million a year. That's yeah, that's but

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Speaker 1: that's because she's a she's syndication. She's a syndication animal too.

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Speaker 1: And she's a personality too. I mean, she's a beast

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Speaker 1: in syndication. She's just crushing it. Yeah she's great. I'm

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Speaker 1: not great, but ye, well she is great. Yeah. Can

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Speaker 1: I say she's forty seven million dollars great? Unique personality?

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Speaker 1: You're not expecting that personality from a tiny waif of

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Speaker 1: a person. There is, and she's got I love the spot.

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Speaker 1: And there is a demographic Let's say, who has maybe

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Speaker 1: a little bit of experience with a judge or a

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00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: little bit of a beef, or has a neighbor they'd

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Speaker 1: like to take to court, or this, that and the

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Speaker 1: other take to court, or they have friends who've been there,

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Speaker 1: or you know what I mean, and they go in

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Speaker 1: there and see this judge do it. People I think

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00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: like to see well, first of all, they like to

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Speaker 1: see justice, and they like to be able to sniff

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00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: out the justice as well as, or if not better than,

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Speaker 1: the judge does the thing about So that's judge. The

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00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: thing Getting back to this guy fiery thing. You know

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Speaker 1: what's missing from that? You never get to taste the food. Yeah,

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00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 1: that is true. I don't know having watched you consume

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Speaker 1: lunch here and knowing how I eat, because I eat

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Speaker 1: fast and you might be the only person that eats

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Speaker 1: faster than me that I know of. I have a

640
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Speaker 1: genuine appreciation for the way guy fiery dives into whatever

641
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: he is tasting, like if he's got a big slobby

642
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: burger or something. He doesn't hold back, He's all in,

643
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: and then he takes a second bite, just to make sure.

644
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: I have a genuine appreciation for that, because I consider

645
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: myself I am not a food connoisseur, but I am

646
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: a food eat and I think, whether you know it

647
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: or not, you are also well Yeah, I am stamping

648
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: you as such. Right, I love. I love to eat.

649
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: I enjoy it, and I don't really like I I don't.

650
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. I'm married to the girl I'm

651
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: married to. She's a She mixes in the salad for me,

652
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, all of that stuff, and she cooks good

653
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: for me. She's a great cook. She's a phenomenal cook.

654
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: But if it wasn't for her, you'd be eating all

655
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: the wrong stuff all the time. Yeah, I'm I enjoy

656
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: I think eating is a meditative and healing experience. Why

657
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: are you laughing? I've never heard it described that way.

658
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: Why is she meditative and healing? Why are you laughing

659
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: at that? Am I the only is that a unique

660
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: meditative like you go off somewhere when you're eating. Yes,

661
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: but it's not about the I don't meditate on the food.

662
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: This is okay. I'm just saying, I'm it's yea. That

663
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: is not a description from you? Is that? Jay? Is

664
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: that just me? Meditative and healing? Those were not the

665
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: first two adjective? What are you saying, Jay, Jay Harris?

666
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: I asked jayf that was Jay Harris? He says, you're

667
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: asking the biggest guy in the room with it, because

668
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: of course it is. I see meditative and it's two

669
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: one okay, it is eating? Is I just think to me,

670
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: says basic human relationship builder as you possibly can when

671
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 1: you share food with somebody out of the same pot

672
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: or the same deal, there is something innately human about

673
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: that that is absolutely transcendent. I guess I wasn't thinking

674
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: about those descriptive words that you used in that way.

675
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about it individually, it is like

676
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: when you said meditative and healing. I'm picturing you picking

677
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: something up, taking a bite out of getting in the

678
00:36:55,520 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: cross legged, elbows on the knees, you know, thumb and

679
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: middle finger, touching each other and owning it out as

680
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: you choose fair fair enough. That's that's where I that's

681
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: where you took me with those. I think it's very

682
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: healing though. Yeah, and I'm just thinking to myself all

683
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: My only anticipation is how damn good this thing is

684
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: gonna taste once I stuff it in my piehole. I

685
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: you can't. I'm chucking it down here. It's gonna taste

686
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 1: Here's and you see this on this these we're way

687
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: into the weeds here. But you see this in in

688
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: the TV shows when you know Guy Fieri and all

689
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: these people eat it and they describe, you know, why

690
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: is your mom's food better than anybody's or why is

691
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: your wife's food? Because you've developed an abbreviation for it's

692
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: an acquired taste, But yeah, there is, but you can't

693
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: even describe why that's the here. I'm a professional radio

694
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: guy and been a broadcast for twenty years. I'm a

695
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: pretty good communicator, and it's hard for me to relate

696
00:37:55,640 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: verbally how a certain meal or experience affects me in

697
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: something other than just filling my stomach. It's because that

698
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: isn't we're getting philosophical. Because it's an acquired taste. You know,

699
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: even the first time you try, the first time you drank.

700
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. The first time I drank beer,

701
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, oh, what is that? I get it.

702
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: It's an acquired taste. And I think that you grow

703
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: up with. But you but it's not the food you

704
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: grow up with. Yeah, but it doesn't have to be

705
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: just the food that you grow up with. Say you're

706
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: out in a meal or whatever, and somebody comes brings

707
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: you something and for some reason it's wow. It's like

708
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: it's it's not just a good meal, it's something deeper

709
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 1: than that food. Is it's an experience. Yes, it's really

710
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: something unbelievable. I think it's awesome. And like my wife

711
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: and I still talk about a meal we had in

712
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: I think it's in Maine or someplace up there, in

713
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 1: this little restaurant we went to. It's only open like

714
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: for six months a year, and it's all seas and

715
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: They brought us out like six different things, one at

716
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: a time, you know, and everything we ate was the

717
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: best thing we'd ever had, and we still talk about it.

718
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: I cann't even name one of the things that we had,

719
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: but that it was the experience of being there with

720
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: her and that in a little place, and that did

721
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: something about eating is and it was a flavor festival

722
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: by the right. It was a It was a meditative

723
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: and healing experience. What can I A full circle? Full circle?

724
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: We want to get to one of the comments. We'll

725
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: get to some more in due course here because we're

726
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: up against the break. But Coach McDermott obviously did not

727
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to hold OTAs at this time last year.

728
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: Everything was fully virtual as we were in the grips

729
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: of the pandemic at that time, the first wave, and

730
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: now a year later, having the opportunity to hold voluntary OTAs,

731
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: meet with players actually be on the field, it's made

732
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: a huge difference. Here's Coach McDermott on the advantage of

733
00:39:55,120 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: having those OTAs this time around as opposed to twenty twenty. Yeah,

734
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: it seems it seems like it's been a while since

735
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: we've done it. And sometimes, honestly, I even get you know,

736
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: you do it so many years and all of a

737
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: sudden it's gone, and then it's back and you're like, okay,

738
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: did we do this last year? And you have those

739
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: moments in a busy day. But um, it's really good

740
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: to be to have the players here. I really appreciate

741
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: the participation in numbers that have shown up for us.

742
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: I know it's you know, obviously buried around the league,

743
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: but we're certainly encouraged by the guys that we have here.

744
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: And I think it really speaks to the guys that

745
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: we have, you know, the types of people we have,

746
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: and um, and so they want to get better and

747
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: they know they get better by being here. And it's

748
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: a time to build our team, right when you can

749
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: be around each other, build, build the team, build the

750
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: chemistry that's so important to good teams. So there's I mean,

751
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: the value is it doesn't need to be said, even

752
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: though coach addressed it there, but there is value in that.

753
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: And I think coach last year at this time and

754
00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: probably all the coaches around the league that value building

755
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: and how close knit the roster is. They were concerned

756
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: at this time last year that they weren't going to

757
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: be able to duplicate what they get during regular OTA's

758
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: in person with the virtual setting. There was a genuine

759
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: concern there they were not going to be able to

760
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: replicate it effectively enough. Well, not only did they replicate it,

761
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: they hit it out of the park. They did. They did.

762
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: But at this time last year, there were a lot

763
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: of coaches in this league and probably coaching Codermot was

764
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: in that bucket right that they weren't sure that they

765
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: were going to be able to make it work. We've done,

766
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: you know what, you know, a hundred of these with

767
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: Sean now over the last year, the zooms and stuff,

768
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: and you could tell just by talking to him and

769
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: seeing his face in his body language for those of

770
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: you watching MSG, how invigorating happy he was to be

771
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: back with his team. And I remember that distinctly. You've

772
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: been you know, you go through, particularly a year like

773
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: they had last year, and of course I went through

774
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl years with this club, and how close

775
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: knit you get after suffering and you know, and celebrating

776
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: and commiserating and you know, jumping up and down and

777
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: being joyful and sad and experiencing all that with that

778
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: group of guys and then have the end of the

779
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: season come and it's gone. I mean it's like a

780
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: light switch. And then to come back and be in

781
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: this situation, to have everybody all of a sudden you're

782
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: back together after being a part, it's really invigorating and

783
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: it's and it's pretty cool to see. You can see

784
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: it on his face and make no mistake about it.

785
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: What obviously, at least to me, helped them navigate that

786
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: fully virtual offseason was the three years of team building

787
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 1: that preceded it, that helped carry them through a lot

788
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: of what they had to deal with last year in

789
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: a fully virtual setting. And so without that, I'm not

790
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure it would have been as successful

791
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: as it was for them, And there are some other

792
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,280
Speaker 1: teams that's ruggled with it. You can look at and see.

793
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: You can give Sean McDermott all kinds of credit for

794
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 1: doing that, but also the credit some of his credit

795
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: goes to the people he put in like n Sean,

796
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the Josh Allens and the Tremaine Edmonds, the

797
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: kind of guys those guys are that brought that put

798
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: their arms around the new guys. Step Steph Diggs felt

799
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: completely comfortable when he got here. Gabe Davis, the kind

800
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: of player he was and the contribution he made as

801
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: a rookie, but he was a really mature kid coming in.

802
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: Those type of players who and the leadership that is

803
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: on the roster really showed itself last year in a

804
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: year where they leaped leapt forward and other teams struggled

805
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: to get back to where they were and to compete

806
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,919
Speaker 1: and do that until later in the season. I think

807
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: you got to give Sean McDermott and the leaders on

808
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: this team and his coaching staff a lot of credit

809
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: for how they handled it. Time for us to step

810
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: aside here, but when come back. More of coach McDermott's

811
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: comments from his press conference this morning, as his team

812
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: is wrapping up day two of on field work. Here

813
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 1: at OTA's on One Bill's Live, presented by Collida Help.

814
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

815
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Chasker here with you. Coming up after

816
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: our next break will be Bills undrafted rookie tight end

817
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: Quentin Morris as we get a hold of him and

818
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: see what's going on as he's experiencing his first few

819
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: days as a professional. But we want to get one

820
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: more common end from coach McDermott before we go to break.

821
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: This was his He was asked about Stefan Diggs and

822
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and whether or not they are one hundred

823
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: percent healthy coming out of their injuries at the close

824
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: of last season. As we know, cold Beasley playing on

825
00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:00,040
Speaker 1: a cracked fibulous through the playoffs, while Stefan d he

826
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: was playing through a torn oblique muscle. So here is

827
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: coach on those two players. Yeah, Steph isn't here, so, um,

828
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: you know, as far as we know, he's all good

829
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: to go. He's he's a tough guy and heck of

830
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: a competitor. And Cole, I mean, listen, you go, you get,

831
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: you get banged up going through a season, right and

832
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: those guys play, those two you mentioned in particular, play

833
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,959
Speaker 1: extremely hard. So the great part about it being here

834
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: for Cole is you know he comes in, he gets

835
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: the treatment, and he's working on getting himself right to

836
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: where he can go back out there and performing a

837
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: high level get for us. So you know, all signs

838
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: sound good there. Um, you know Dig's not here right now,

839
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: but these are voluntary, so make of it what you will. Yeah,

840
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: there's seventy plus players, and from what I've seen and heard,

841
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: it's about standard around the league. There may be some

842
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: with a few teams with some fewer players, but seventy

843
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: plus about all you can hope to get. I mean,

844
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: I think they've got what eighty something guys on the roster. Yeah,

845
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: I haven't. They're not maxed out on the roster. Yeah,

846
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, and other teams are probably in the

847
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: same boat. So, and the guys who don't show up

848
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: are guys like Steph Diggs, guys like Starlo tu Lele

849
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: is not here this week. Um, Jerry Hughes. I don't

850
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: think I saw him out there as well. These are

851
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: guys that are a sta. You don't have to worry

852
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: that they're not gonna show up ready to go. Um.

853
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: They have everything under their belt that they're going to

854
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: install or put in or have exposed the players too

855
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: this week. So it's it's pretty easy to see the

856
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: type of player that's gonna be like, you know what,

857
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna stay at home and not travel.

858
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: So it's the bills are right there in the in

859
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: the thick of where everybody else is, and and I

860
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: know this too as a young player, and as a

861
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: player that of the kind of caliber that I was,

862
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: I really didn't have a choice. I kind of needed

863
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: to be there right um, But certainly that does not

864
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: apply and did not apply even in my day to everybody.

865
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: We will take a break here because when we return,

866
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: we are expecting to get undrafted rookie tight end Quintin

867
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: Morris coming off the practice field. He will join us,

868
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: tell us how his first couple of days are going

869
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: in a Bill's uniform and the transition that he made

870
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: from wide receiver to tight end as he joins a

871
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: very interesting position group here in Buffalo. Quintin Moore is

872
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: coming up next here on one Bill's Line, presented by

873
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

874
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all all the fields. Kind of unique.

875
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you,

876
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 1: st Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strategyre

877
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:05,720
Speaker 1: of nor welcome to our number two if one Bill's

878
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: live here on a Tuesday, Chris Brown saved Tasker with you,

879
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: and very soon we'll be joined by Bill's rookie undrafted

880
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: tight end Quentin Morris at a bowling Green made the

881
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: transition from wide receiver to tight end. Still young at

882
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: the position, but learning on the job, so to speak.

883
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: So be interesting to talk to him. He's got an

884
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: interesting story, so converted him wide receiver. Yeah, it'll be

885
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: joining us momentarily here on the show, so we look

886
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: forward to speaking to him. And we've also been playing

887
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: you some of the more notable comments from head coach

888
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot who addressed the media this morning prior to

889
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: today's on field OTA session, and you know, among the

890
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: things that he addressed, he was asked about Stefan Diggs

891
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: and Cole Beasley in their rehab after their injuries at

892
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: the end of last season. He said both of them,

893
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: for the most part, are good to go, although Stefan

894
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: Diggs is not in attendance at this time. Um. He

895
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: also confirmed that Star was not here either at the

896
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: voluntary OTAs. And then there was the discussion regarding training

897
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: camp and where training camp might be. Will the COVID

898
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: protocols and guidelines be relaxed to the point where having

899
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: training camp at Saint John Fisher is feasible, So coach

900
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: was asked about that specifically, and here's what he had

901
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: to offer on the subject. Yeah. I mean there's a

902
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: lot of layers on that, as you'd expect, Josh, right

903
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,879
Speaker 1: with with the COVID situation um and all the protocols

904
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: more more than anything that are that are on on

905
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,399
Speaker 1: our situation at this point. So we are we are

906
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: in communication, uh with Saint John Fisher and trying to

907
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: see what can be worked out. Um. I know our

908
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,720
Speaker 1: operations staff is hard at work and trying to figure

909
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: all that good stuff out. So I'm sure we'll have

910
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: an answer here sometime in the near future. So it's

911
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: safe to say it is a possibility. It is a possibility. Right,

912
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: didn't like anything. I mean, I just think overall, just

913
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: to add Josh that you know, we wouldn't be going

914
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,720
Speaker 1: about it the right way if we didn't we didn't

915
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: look into it. And so from that standpoint, it's a possibility.

916
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: Is it going to be a heavy lift? Probably so,

917
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: But if it's we're doing our due diligence to explore

918
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: to explore it, all right. So that's coach on the

919
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: subject of training camp. So a decision forthcoming. Does that

920
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,919
Speaker 1: make you feel about the possibility of training campus Saint

921
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 1: John Fisher. They're trying to see if it can work,

922
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: but it's not a lock by any stretch of imagination,

923
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: and I think a lot would have to happen with

924
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 1: state guidelines, COVID protocols. Not to mention, you know, vaccination,

925
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: there's the vaccination thing. I mean, the reason they go

926
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: over there is because of the fans and again to

927
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 1: get away a little bit, a little bit of bonding

928
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: that happens when you're sequestered away. But it'll be interesting.

929
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: I don't think that kind of discouraged me on the

930
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: possibility of it being over there. I don't know, but

931
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: he may say something later that will encourage me. Yeah,

932
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that more in a little bit, But

933
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: right now we are happy to be joined by the

934
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: pride of Bowling Green on the Bills roster, first team

935
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: All Mid American Conference tight end and rookie of the

936
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. It is one Quentin Morris joining us here

937
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: on the show. Quentin, how you doing, man? Two days in?

938
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: What's it like being a professional? Hey, how's it going?

939
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: I mean it's great, I mean, just taking it, you know,

940
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: day by day, adjusting to the playbook, adjusting to the

941
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills way. But it's been exciting now. As a kid,

942
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: you always dreamed of being here, and just to be here,

943
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: it's just surreal. I know. You started out, you grew

944
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 1: up in Texas, you had a high school state championship

945
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: as a high school senior in the state of Texas.

946
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: You went to Bowling Green and then you started to

947
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: get on the radar. You switch positions from wide receiver

948
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: to tighten and a lot of people point to the

949
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl as a place where you really got onto

950
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: the radar of the NFL. What was that experience, like,

951
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it was great. Um, we started at five

952
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: am in the morning, you know, of course doing COVID

953
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: testing and things like that. Getting to be in front

954
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: of the scouts was you know the biggest thing for me,

955
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 1: just coming from a small school and you know, having

956
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: those doubts and so really just going into the Senior

957
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: Bowl with the mindset to you know, show these coaches

958
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm able to compete, you know with

959
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: the best athletes in college football. So that's what I

960
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 1: was trying to do when I went out there, and

961
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: at the same time learn from other guys and learn

962
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: from coaches. There wasn't a lot of face to face

963
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: time with NFL teams and scouts and whatnot because of

964
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: all the COVID stuff that was, you know, criss crossing

965
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: the country and keeping people on zoom and at arm's length.

966
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: Did the Bills get an opportunity to get in front

967
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: of you at the Senior Bowl at all? That was

968
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: one of the few opportunities where teams had a chance

969
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: to see it down with players properly socially distanced. Of course, yes, sir, so, yeah,

970
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: we did the social distancing though we were able to

971
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: get in front of I was able to get in

972
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: front of the Bills and uh got to talk with

973
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: them and it was great. Um, you know, they gave

974
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: me some feedback and ultimately I ended up in the Bills.

975
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: So how has this experience gone with you the last

976
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: couple of days? You say, it's been exciting getting your

977
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: used to what it's like being a prou What about

978
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: the vibe in the locker room. Not everybody's there inside,

979
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: you know, in the locker room, but certainly, and it's

980
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: a little bit closer to normal than it was last year.

981
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: What's it been like so far? What's been the thing

982
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: that has struck you the most? Um really, just you know,

983
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: seeing as some of the veterans have came back, really

984
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: seeing some of these guys and like I said, just

985
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: growing up seeing a lot of these guys, watching them

986
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: on TV, and just you know, you're in the same

987
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 1: you know, room with these guys and you know, getting

988
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: to learn from them. And now I feel like the

989
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: Bills have a really good the locker room and you know,

990
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: guys are willing to help and bring you along. So

991
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: I've really been enjoying it. Is that a little bit

992
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: of a switch of mindset for you because I know

993
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: you you played on a very young bowling Green team

994
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: last year. You were one of the few veterans on

995
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: that roster. So you know, like eight nine months ago,

996
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: you're you're showing guys the ropes, and now that thing's

997
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: completely flipped. Is it a little strange here at first? Oh? Yeah,

998
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: it's definitely strange. I mean, like I say, it's switching roles.

999
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: Is kind of like the transition going from high school

1000
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: to college, so you know you're starting all over. I

1001
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,399
Speaker 1: saw him a young guy again, and I'm just looking

1002
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: to learn from the ves and do whatever I can

1003
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: to help them. How much does it help Quinton that,

1004
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: you know, I mean undrafted guys, they're looked at in

1005
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: many respects as long shots. But how encouraging is it

1006
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: for you that you've got a guy in your own

1007
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: position group who played in the same conference as you,

1008
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: and Reggie Gilliam who proved that it is possible he

1009
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: made this roster last year. Yes, sir, it was. It

1010
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: was definitely a comforting seeing because I saw that they

1011
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: had both they were both from the Macah actually Reggie

1012
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: being you know, from our rival skill to the leader.

1013
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: So he actually told me as I came out there, Um,

1014
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, we can be cool here. So it's

1015
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 1: definitely been good to see that. You know, they got

1016
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: some Matt guys in the room already, so I know

1017
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,919
Speaker 1: the coach has faith in him in the mac Yeah.

1018
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 1: I remember as a young player myself, when you come

1019
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 1: into the locker room. You you grew up in Texas, right,

1020
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: so you had to have grown up watching Cole Beasley.

1021
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: What was it, I mean, did you come in the

1022
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: locker room and say, there's a kid, there's a guy

1023
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: grew up watching the last couple of years in my

1024
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: high school career playing for the Cowboys, and now I'm

1025
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: in the same locker room and the same team with him.

1026
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: How does that strike you? Um, it was definitely crazy

1027
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: seeing them walk in and I'm just like, no, wow, like,

1028
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: you know, that's Cole Beasley. And I mean, like I said,

1029
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: just seeing them on TV and then you know, meeting

1030
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: him in person, and you know, I went over and

1031
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: talk to him and you know, shook his hand and everything,

1032
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 1: trying not to do too much. Didn't want to look

1033
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:05,879
Speaker 1: like too you know, too much of a fan of stuff.

1034
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: But I was definitely excited to meet him. And then

1035
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure you've played with your share of

1036
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks over the years, but you know, in drills, I'm

1037
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,879
Speaker 1: sure through these first couple of days, maybe you caught

1038
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: a pass or two from Josh just your initial impressions

1039
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: of you know, being around him and maybe catching a

1040
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: pass or two from him. Oh yeah, Josh is great.

1041
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 1: I mean he's really uh, you know, laser focused. At

1042
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: the same time, he's a googball and I've been enjoying him.

1043
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: He's actually he's already picking on me and stuff. So

1044
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: you know, I guess that's good. You know, seeing a

1045
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: little love from him. You what has been the most

1046
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 1: difficult part of your transition from tight end to wide

1047
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: receiver the other way around? I'm sorry, from a wide

1048
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: receiver to tight end. What's been If you look at

1049
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: yourself in the mirror and you're brutally honest, you know

1050
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,959
Speaker 1: what's tough about being a tight end and what's better

1051
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: about being a tight end? And vice? First of what

1052
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: was great about being a wide receiver and stinks about

1053
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: being a tight end? Um, I really, I really don't

1054
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: think anything spinked about either either one of the positions.

1055
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: I really enjoy, you know, being a wide out at

1056
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: the end of the day. Um, I've always known that

1057
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: I was a bigger body receiver and I wasn't afraid

1058
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: to you know, be physical as well. So I knew

1059
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: that that was a transition that I could make and

1060
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: you know, benefit from it. Um. But probably the biggest

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00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: transition has been, like from the tight end perspective, it's

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00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: it's almost like you're a quarterback. I mean, you gotta

1063
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: know what to do inline, you gotta know what to

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00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: also do out outside. You've got to know how to protect,

1065
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, run block and get out there and still

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00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: be able to run the route. So it's definitely feels

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00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: like I'm learning a lot more stuff from like a

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00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: quarterback perspective, because you got to know the whole concept.

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00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: Last one we last one we got for your Quintin. Uh,

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00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 1: you know you mentioned that Josh is a goofball. Guys,

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00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: you're messing around with you already. Do you have have

1072
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: you been given a nickname already? I know Q dog

1073
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: is something that you used to go buy. Do you

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00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: have it? Do you have a nickname there in the

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00:57:55,680 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: locker room already? Um? No, not yet. I mean just guys,

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00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: you know, and I introduced myself. I tell him, you know,

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00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: I go by q qte Dog. I mean, at the

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00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm just looking forward to, you know,

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00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: continuing throughout OTAs and continuing throughout training and eventually I

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00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: earned the name and whatever they want to give me,

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00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna take it and run with it.

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00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna hear rook a lot, that's for sure. Yeah. Yeah, Quintin,

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00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: thanks man. Congratulations, go ahead, as coach said right now,

1084
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: nobody you hope you get and that's perfect. Yeah, Quintin,

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00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: thanks man, We appreciate you. Good luck, to you with

1086
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,959
Speaker 1: luck preseason, stay healthy and uh and play your best

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00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: bro Yes, Sarah, thank you guys. All right, that's Quinn Morris,

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00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: Bills undrafted rookie tight end joining us here on one

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00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 1: Bill is Live and uh, you know, typical rookie, just

1090
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: trying to soak it all up, be the best sponge

1091
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: you can be and make it happen out there on

1092
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: the field so you know you can earn some more opportunity.

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00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm sure that he saw some things for me. When

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00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: I got to the NFL, I was I didn't know

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00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: if athletically I could hang in there because I was

1096
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: a smaller guy and all that. Well, you're wondering. Probably

1097
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: you got a lot of questions about yourself and about

1098
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: what it's like and are you're gonna be able to

1099
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: adjust and what adjustments are though you don't even know

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00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: what you don't know and you know, So for him

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00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: coming in, I'm sure there was some moments for him going,

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00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: oh no, I got that, I got this, and I

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00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: got yeah that what about that? You know? Then then

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00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: you kind of comes it starts to come sharper and

1105
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: sharp as each passing day becomes sharper and sharper focus

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00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: where your deficiencies are and where your strengths are. And

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00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: I think that's being able to look at yourself and

1108
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: see yourself in that light start with with no varnish on.

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00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: It is one of the things that makes guys better.

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00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this then, how what boost

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00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: of confidence does it give you when you realize that

1112
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: maybe your to do list is shorter than you had

1113
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: initially anticipated because some of your skills allow you to

1114
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: hang at this level and compete. For me, it was

1115
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: never you know, it was a short It wasn't a

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00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: shorter it was a it was a short list, no question. Athletically,

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01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: I mean after my first minute, I am fast enough,

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01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: I am quick enough. I was, yeah, I was in

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01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: a meeting for me to camp like this and it

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01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: wasn't even this long. It was like three days or

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01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: two days, I don't know what it was. And after that,

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01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 1: I was like, athletically, I'm good, which surprised me. Okay,

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01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: football wise, I don't know, I don't know if I

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01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: can even get that. So the list becomes shorter. But

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Speaker 1: the things on that to do list are big, seem impossible,

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01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: seem at the present moment impossible. They seem like, I

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01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: don't know. So the list is shorter, but the things

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Speaker 1: on it are you know, like akin to all right,

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01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: first thing you had to do is go to the moon,

1130
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: you know. The second thing to do is explore Mars.

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01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 1: You know, they seem like what are you kidding me?

1132
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 1: So it's they seem otherworldly. Yes, they seem other worldly.

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01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: So the list is short, but the things on it

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01:00:56,080 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: are they're in bold ink. Yeah, we are going to

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01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: step aside here and take a break, but we'll be

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01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: back with more of coach mcdermot's comments from today. We

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01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: will also in due course get some comments from one

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01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen as well as Tremaine Edmonds who are speaking

1139
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: with the media today as well. We'll bring you some

1140
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: of their more notable comments here soon. On One Bills

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01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 1: Live presented by Colloid of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio

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01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: Comack to One Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you.

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01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: Wanted to pass along one more comment from Coach McDermott

1144
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: that he made today, and he was asked about, you know,

1145
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: the vaccinations and the disadvantages of not being at a

1146
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: vaccination threshold where you can conduct business as usual at

1147
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: your various NFL facilities, the rules were saying, I believe

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01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: it's eighty five percent vaccination and the bills and I

1149
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,439
Speaker 1: don't think there's any other team in the league that's

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01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: anywhere near that threshold right now. So here was coaches

1151
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: thoughts on that and not being at the vaccination threshold

1152
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: and if it puts them at a disadvantage. I'm concerned

1153
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: about it. Being very upfront, I'm concerned about that as

1154
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: well as a lot of other things right now for

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01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 1: our football team. And you know, I think so you know,

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01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 1: it's timing is I think coming into play a little

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01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: bit right now where the season's not upon us right

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01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: right now, but it will be at some point. And

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01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: as we all know how these vaccines go, unless you

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01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: get the single shot, the other the other double shots,

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01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: if you will take some time you know, to go

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01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: through the time after the first shot and into the

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01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: second until you're fully vaccinated. So so we always have

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01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: to keep that in mind, right with you know, the

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01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: length of time it takes to become fully vaccinated if

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01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: you're going with a two shot approach and not you

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01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a doctor here, but um,

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01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: you know, I think that that that time element comes

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01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: into play a little bit right now, and and I

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01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: think a little bit it's working maybe against us or

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01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: against maybe more players getting it. I don't know, that's

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01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: a question maybe for them, but it is something that

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01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: we've talked about. And again, I don't think the right

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01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: word is to is to try and convince. I don't

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01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,439
Speaker 1: think that's the right word. I think the right word

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01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: is to educate and build awareness and uh, and then

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Speaker 1: let people decide. So it's it's going to be a

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01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 1: very interesting development to see where it goes between now

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01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: and training camp or even the start of the regular season.

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01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: The question is if it go if as far as

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01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, like going to Saint John Fisher all, they

1182
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: gotta have some lead time, they gotta have If well,

1183
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 1: you can always say well by that time it will

1184
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: be a different you know, in May, but you need

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01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: to know what's going to be there before you can

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01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 1: make plan. And this isn't just like packing a bag

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01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: for the weekend. Well, and if you don't have your

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01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: players at the vaccination threshold that the league requires and

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01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 1: you can't conduct business as usual, does that take something

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01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: like training camp being away from your facility off the table,

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01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: Because now You're not only concerned about fans at training camp,

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01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: but the players themselves who are not vaccinated. And I

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01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: mean we've seen how they were kept at arms length

1194
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,600
Speaker 1: from the media, from play, from fans. We're still even

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01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: be allowed in the stands of stadiums. So you know,

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01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: if that prospect is still there and viable, yeah, it's

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01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: gonna make for some very tough decisions going forward, and

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna have to wait and see where it

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Speaker 1: all ends up. Well, and I think too everybody and

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Speaker 1: the media was all on this all over McDermott today

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01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 1: about who's vaccinated, who's not, How, what are your feelings

1202
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: about it? What are you gonna tell those players who

1203
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: aren't what you like? Do you handle Josh Allen the

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01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: same way you do like our last guests Quintin Morris.

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01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 1: I mean, of course not. But here's the it's just

1206
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: going on and on and on about who's gonna get vaccine,

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01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: And the simple fact of the matter is, you know,

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01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: you can't you can't tell what the future is going

1209
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: to be. And certainly you can talk these guys into it,

1210
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: or try and get them to or whatever, but there

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01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: are going to be some hard conversations had between coach McDermott,

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01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allen or Steph Diggs or Cole Beasley or you

1213
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: name the guy, or even one of his assistant coaches

1214
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: or even some staff members. You're gonna have some hard

1215
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 1: conversations about we really need you to get vaccinated. We

1216
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: hope you can do this. We can't force you to,

1217
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: and it's not going to cost you your job, but

1218
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna make it tough, and you're gonna have to

1219
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: have conversations like that, and the players are gonna have

1220
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 1: to make a decision as to you know, the importance

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Speaker 1: of all of this is to them in whichever way

1222
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 1: pro vaccination or or anti. There are gonna be some

1223
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: hard conversations, but I've been a part of hard conversations

1224
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: before in this kind of not for this specific thing, obviously,

1225
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,919
Speaker 1: but for other things. They get over it. They handle

1226
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Speaker 1: it like adults, more so than most people on social

1227
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: media do. They live together, they work together, they love

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01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 1: and reason, and this stuff that Sean McDermot says about

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01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: loving and respect them and trusting them goes deep and

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Speaker 1: it's real. So whatever these conversations are about vaccination or

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01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 1: not vaccination, they'll have conversations about it, and some of

1232
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: them may be uncomfortable, but you can trust that those

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01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: relationships are going to be intact because of the conversations,

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01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 1: not in spite of those conversations. No matter how what

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01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: decisions are made afterwards, whether they get faxed or they

1236
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: don't get faxed, there's guys are still gonna love and

1237
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 1: respect each other and they're still gonna be in it together.

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01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: So this social media world we live in, where you're

1239
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: gonna you've gotta be over here, you gotta be over there,

1240
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 1: and there is no middle ground doesn't fly in reality.

1241
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: It just not in a locker room, it does not fly.

1242
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: It does not fly, and it won't. And you can

1243
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 1: say that, oh, they're really gonna disagree, and they might,

1244
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 1: but it will not stop them from being friends. It

1245
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: will not stop them from being teammates, because the reality

1246
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: of it is the goal or the guys in the

1247
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:22,760
Speaker 1: locker room is different than facts are unvaxed, you know,

1248
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: mask or no mask, or socially distanced or not socially distance,

1249
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: they're all they're way beyond this in their relationships. So

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01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: we can make a bigger deal out of as we

1251
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 1: want in the media and ask them about it and

1252
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: find out about it, And what did you tell Sean

1253
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: McDermott when you had that hard conversation, or what did

1254
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: he say to you? All that stuff. You can chew

1255
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 1: on it and spit it out all you want. The

1256
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: simple fact that matters. These guys are gonna go out

1257
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 1: and they're gonna play, and they're gonna play hard. They're

1258
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: gonna work for each other. They're gonna work hard for

1259
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: each other, and they're gonna they're gonna forgive it and

1260
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: forget it, and it's they're gonna move on and no

1261
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 1: matter what it means, no matter how much more difficult

1262
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 1: it is because of it or or of it. So

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01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: we make a big deal out of this, I guarantee

1264
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 1: you they'll have some conversations about him, maybe some joking conversations,

1265
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 1: maybe some serious ones, but it is not going to

1266
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 1: be a bump in the road the way it was

1267
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 1: a year ago. Well, and I thought Coach struck the

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01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: right tone and how he addressed the subject when he

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Speaker 1: was asked about it repeatedly by the media. I mean,

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01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: he didn't deny it. There's a lot of debate, and

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01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 1: he said, all I can say is I know what

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01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 1: I chose to do, and he said, for me, it

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01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 1: starts with respect, and I thought it was the right

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01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: thing to do by the people that I have to

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Speaker 1: work with every day. So he got vaccinated and that's

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01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: fine that you know, that's his personal choice. And I

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01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: thought he also struck the right tone and how to

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01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 1: address his team because he said, yeah, we have head conversations.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to keep him private right now because it's

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Speaker 1: between me and my players. And I thought he was

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01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: right in saying that he feels it's more important to

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Speaker 1: educate his players on the vaccinations than it is to

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01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 1: convince people what to do, right, because he knows it's

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01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: not his place to tell people what to do. It's

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01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: his responsibility, however, as the head coach, to educate his

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Speaker 1: team and build awareness as to why vaccinations might be

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01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:18,600
Speaker 1: deemed as an important thing for the better overall development

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01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: of this football team so they're ready for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one season. And that's and that's where he kind

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01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: of came down on it, and I think that is

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01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 1: the right tone to strike with what is and has

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01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,880
Speaker 1: been across this country a very touchy subject. Of course,

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01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: he would he keeps them private because there probably are

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01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: some disagreements, so they don't want to be blown up.

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Speaker 1: Like I just said. They can disagree vehemently about the

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01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:44,719
Speaker 1: vacs or anything they can. They can disagree violently about

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01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: how to play a certain coverage. That stuff happens, but

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01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:54,559
Speaker 1: it's it's okay. It's okay, and they're gonna be fine

1299
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 1: through this. If if they could navigate what they navigated

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01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,760
Speaker 1: last year and do it the way they did it,

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01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 1: this is a day at the beach. We're gonna move

1302
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 1: over to the tweet sheet now because we have been

1303
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 1: asking you on the Twitter poll today what unproven player

1304
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:13,799
Speaker 1: on the Bill's roster must answer the bell this season

1305
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 1: to help get them to the big game this year

1306
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 1: and get over that AFC Championship Game hump. So we

1307
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: go to the tweet sheet, which is always is brought

1308
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

1309
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:30,639
Speaker 1: provider of the Buffalo Bills, and Tiffany leads us off saying,

1310
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: in my opinion, Dawson Knox has to build upon his

1311
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: strong finish from last season. He has a high ceiling

1312
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: with the potential to become a complete tight end. He's

1313
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: a solid threat in the red zone, big and physical.

1314
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: He just has to work on catching the ball more consistently.

1315
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: I know this is a guy that you have high

1316
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: hopes for entering his third season. Steve Ard guest at

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01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 1: two o'clock. Matt Bone did a list of a long

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01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 1: list of plays that he dissected, and he's talking about

1319
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 1: Brian Daybole mostly with concepts that the Bills ran in

1320
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: the passing game end in the running game, and a

1321
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 1: couple of those plays are. One of them in particular,

1322
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox jumped off the screen at me as a

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01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:09,600
Speaker 1: guy who and it was a run block. It was

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01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 1: a run play where he did an outstanding job in

1325
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 1: the physicality department of the tight end position, in his

1326
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 1: blocking and the way he ran the scheme that they

1327
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,719
Speaker 1: called he did an outstanding job. It turned into explosive play.

1328
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 1: The Bills were number two in the National Football League.

1329
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 1: They had eighty nine explosive pass plays last year. It

1330
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: was number two in the National Football League. And you

1331
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: know Dawson was a part of that. But they also

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01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 1: were in the top of the league, not at the

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01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: top two or three, but the top four. I think

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01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: in explosive running plays they were way up there. So

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Speaker 1: all of that huh, number nine, They were number nine

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01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 1: three explosive rushing play. Think about that, because with as

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01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 1: much as the run game was last year, I was

1338
01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: really surprised that. I was really surprised by that the

1339
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: Bills were in the top ten in eplosive runs last year.

1340
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: And he put a couple of those runs on there. Obviously,

1341
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: in one of him, Dawson Knox jumped off the screen

1342
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 1: at me, and that's, you know, gives me further hope

1343
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,680
Speaker 1: that he's coming into his own he's I think we

1344
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 1: all agree injuries are huge, but last year it was

1345
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 1: injury and covid if he so Dawson Knox was off

1346
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: the field set him back twice. So yeah, it took

1347
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: a chunk out of his time on the field, and

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01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: I think it took a chunk out of his development.

1349
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: But when he was on the field, he was a

1350
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 1: red zone problem for defenses, a real problem, and Josh

1351
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 1: saw him and used him a lot, So it was

1352
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see and I agree with Tiffany

1353
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: Eli says Devin ed Knox Sweeney, but I know he

1354
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 1: was hurt and been through a rough one, but he

1355
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: was a promising player. Harrison Phillips as this is his

1356
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: contract year. He should be healed from his knee surgery.

1357
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 1: Maybe Moss he should be better this season. That's my list.

1358
01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 1: That's a long list. All those guys take a step

1359
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: forward with their respective individual games. I agree with you, Steve,

1360
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 1: this team could be unstoppable. Yeah. And when I said

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Speaker 1: you're the one that's been on it, and I said

1362
01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: it earlier in the show, you see it better than

1363
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 1: anybody about how the Bills get their young players to

1364
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: play better week after week after week, and they build

1365
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: on what they did and now they're better, and now

1366
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:21,040
Speaker 1: they're better, even better, and they get better and better

1367
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 1: until at the end of the season. Their solid NFL

1368
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 1: starters were they were inactive in the earlier in the season.

1369
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:32,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, Devin Singletary, Ed Oliver Dawson Knox, Tommy Sweeney,

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01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 1: Zack Moss. Yet a handful of players who elevate to

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01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 1: that level, the level we're talking about, if they have

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01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: elevate like Josh did last year in his third year,

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01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: Oh that would be Jack. Yeah, then yeah, you're you're

1374
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 1: steamrolling people right from the from the jump, Nick says,

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01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 1: I really think we need to start seeing real production

1376
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 1: from Ed Oliver. He showed potential in his first year

1377
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: and I know he got decent pressure on QB's last year,

1378
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,120
Speaker 1: but as a top ten pick, at some point we

1379
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 1: need to start seeing actual sex. Yeah, and I'd say this,

1380
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 1: it's unfair and I think it's wrong for all of us.

1381
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: And we've done it. Say say that, you know, because

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01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 1: Star Lutil's back, Ed's going to be this great player.

1383
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 1: Ed should not need Star to be great in his

1384
01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 1: own He's been good now, he's been on the field

1385
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: a lot. It will help him, it may help, but

1386
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 1: he shouldn't need that. I mean, the you know, better

1387
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: players around you make you better, no question. But Ed

1388
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: needs to be good on his own and he started

1389
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: making strides toward that last year. This is a team

1390
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:38,679
Speaker 1: that they got a lot of win rates last year.

1391
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: They didn't get a lot of sacks for him. We

1392
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 1: are going to go now live to Josh Allen, who

1393
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:47,839
Speaker 1: is set to address the media after today's OTA practice.

1394
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: Here's Josh. You had been outspoken about you're unsure whether

1395
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,600
Speaker 1: or not you are going to be vaccinated. If I

1396
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 1: can ask, have you been vaccinated or have you made

1397
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,479
Speaker 1: a decision on that? Yeah, I mean with with respect

1398
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: to that question, U, I know vaccines are going to

1399
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: be a hot topic. Um, you know really throughout the

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01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 1: remainder of the season, and you know, we're having conversations

1401
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:12,120
Speaker 1: this team as as a team, and UM, I'm gonna

1402
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:16,640
Speaker 1: keep those conversations and choices of myself and my teammates

1403
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 1: in house. So, Hey, Josh, it's Kim Jones. How are

1404
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:23,559
Speaker 1: you doing good? Kim? How are you doing good? To see?

1405
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: It's great to see you. I'm just wondering, as you

1406
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 1: put to rest last season, did you do some self

1407
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 1: evaluation and did you come into this spring and knowing

1408
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:36,680
Speaker 1: you you were back at it pretty soon after the

1409
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: season ended, But did you come into this season with

1410
01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: some specific goals saying I can still do this, this

1411
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 1: and this better. Yeah, And I think that's a good question.

1412
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: You know, a couple couple of things that BO was

1413
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: down to still still in the decision making end as

1414
01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: far as where the ball should go in any given

1415
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 1: situation based on what the defense is doing, understanding and

1416
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 1: being better in situational foot ball, BOS security in the

1417
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 1: pocket and while I take off and running. Um, you know,

1418
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: a couple couple types of concepts that I need to

1419
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:10,640
Speaker 1: continue to work on route routes as well, I e.

1420
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: The incut um you know, throws to my left, you know,

1421
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 1: just trying to be more concise, better with my footwork,

1422
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 1: and better with the ball placement. So, you know, as

1423
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 1: many good things as we did last year, and there

1424
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: were still a lot of stuff on tape where I

1425
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:24,960
Speaker 1: look back and it's like why why did I do this?

1426
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: And I think that's the common theme every year, And

1427
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:29,760
Speaker 1: that's really cool that you get to look back and

1428
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:33,400
Speaker 1: like I said, even even though the winds, the numbers,

1429
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 1: all that stuff, it looked good on paper, there's still

1430
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:37,879
Speaker 1: so much room to improve, you know, excited for that process.

1431
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: And if I made Josh, you've become kind of a

1432
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: poster guy for the improvement that a quarterback can make,

1433
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 1: whether people were talking about Trey Lance or whether they're

1434
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 1: talking about Daniel Jones. Do you embrace that at all? Like, like,

1435
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:53,800
Speaker 1: for all the people that may or may not have

1436
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:56,320
Speaker 1: counted you out back then, they're now so saying, like,

1437
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: look at Josh Allen, he's the example. Yeah, it's a

1438
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:03,760
Speaker 1: it's a different situation to be And I guess since

1439
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 1: the first couple of years I've been in the league,

1440
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 1: but um, you know, I'm not really looking to be

1441
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 1: that poster child or whatever whatever you may say. I'm

1442
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 1: just trying to be the best quarterback for the Bills

1443
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: I can be in the best version of myself every

1444
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: time I stepped in this facility. Um. And like I

1445
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: said when I got drafted, proved just team right, Nathan

1446
01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 1: looked like they need the right the right decision always.

1447
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: Thank you, Josh appreciated it, Josh. Sean Morrow, how are

1448
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: you doing it? Good to see you, John, see you, Um.

1449
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 1: Without getting into your personal decisions and whatever, but just

1450
01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: if you can, I mean, how much as as much

1451
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: as we all know that this is a personal choice

1452
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:47,759
Speaker 1: in regards to vaccinations, how much two players and especially

1453
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: the leadership group have to take into account needs of

1454
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,960
Speaker 1: the team. And as you know, Sean just told us,

1455
01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: he said, health and safety. It's a two problem thing,

1456
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:03,520
Speaker 1: health and safety, and you also got to do um.

1457
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you've also got to do um something

1458
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 1: the effect of I'm sorry, I'm blowing this quote, um

1459
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 1: right now. UM. And there's also what you've got to

1460
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:22,559
Speaker 1: do to do your job. So how much pardon me

1461
01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: for for for goofing up that question, but how much

1462
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 1: do you have to do the team leaders have to

1463
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:31,919
Speaker 1: take those two things into account in making this decision

1464
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 1: or making your own personal decisions. UM. I mean, like

1465
01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: I said, we're having internal discussions about that as a

1466
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 1: team and as far as the leadership council goes as well, Um,

1467
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:46,040
Speaker 1: you know what the right answer is and how to

1468
01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: go about it. We're not sharing, We're trying to get

1469
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: to a conclusion. Um. At the same time, we're we're

1470
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 1: letting everybody make their own personal decision on this matter.

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01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 1: And UM, that's really I have to say about that

1472
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: is and just just as a follow up, because Sean

1473
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: talked about the fact that he's concerned that time is

1474
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 1: running out and that the time frame, especially for the

1475
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 1: two shot vaccine is six weeks and could bump into

1476
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 1: um uh, you know the start of training camp is

1477
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: time frame. But I mean, are these discussions to a

1478
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 1: certain extent time sensitive. Knowing that you've got that some

1479
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 1: kind of a consensus or whatever you want to say

1480
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: needs to be reached sooner than later. Um, I mean,

1481
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure sooner is better than later. Um. But again,

1482
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 1: whether it's masking up or getting tested every day and

1483
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:38,559
Speaker 1: making sure we're doing the right things of facility. Whatever

1484
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 1: happens happens. Um, you know, that's the decision that we

1485
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 1: have to live with as a team. Um. So again, yeah,

1486
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,880
Speaker 1: that's I really don't have much to say on that

1487
01:19:47,920 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 1: topic of other than that I respect that. Thank you, Josh.

1488
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm all right. Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Josh, George Radney,

1489
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:01,839
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Josh, George Radney, challenging community. Good to see you, George,

1490
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: all right, good to see you too. Can't believe it's

1491
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 1: time for football already. And with the start of these OTAs,

1492
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: have you guys started already working on crowd noise for

1493
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: the upcoming season, because now the crowds are got most

1494
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: likely got to come back this year. Are You're gonna

1495
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 1: have to dedicate a lot of time to crowd noise.

1496
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 1: Have you guys started with that this week? You know,

1497
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: the first the first drill we did as a team,

1498
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: there was crowd noise, so it was it was good

1499
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 1: to get out there and fill that again. Um. Honestly,

1500
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,200
Speaker 1: last year, the luxury of being able to go into

1501
01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 1: an away game and not have to deal with the

1502
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: crowd noise and being able to make checks the line

1503
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:39,719
Speaker 1: and deal with your snap count in an easier fashion.

1504
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:43,320
Speaker 1: You know, it was, it was awesome, but we understand

1505
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:45,040
Speaker 1: that that's probably not what it's gonna be like this year,

1506
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: and we've got to practice everything that we can and

1507
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,719
Speaker 1: coach with dam It's extremely extremely good and detail oriented

1508
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: when it comes to practice and trying to focus on

1509
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 1: the little things that matter M And that's just one

1510
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: of those little things that makes a huge impact on

1511
01:20:56,960 --> 01:20:59,200
Speaker 1: a game. So you know, we're gonna try to get

1512
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:04,120
Speaker 1: as many opportunities that we can with with the crowd noise,

1513
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm excited again for that and being

1514
01:21:06,479 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: able to try to be the best team um at

1515
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:12,960
Speaker 1: operating at a waste stadium, whether it's communication or checks

1516
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: or signals, making sure that we're getting to line um.

1517
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 1: But starting that process now is what's going to help

1518
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: us during the regular season. Yeah, And one last question

1519
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: on that point, how much what percentage would you think

1520
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: that is affects the team in any given game? Uh,

1521
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 1: pull more away with crowd noise. I mean, I definitely

1522
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:34,799
Speaker 1: think it matters where you play. There are certain stadiums

1523
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: that are m I mean, you can't even hear your

1524
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: own thoughts, you know, going back to that the game

1525
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: in Kansas City last year, It's Arrowheads known as one

1526
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 1: of the loudest stadiums. Um. But even with whatever was

1527
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: I think seventeen thousand people in the stands, I mean

1528
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:51,840
Speaker 1: making calls and checks the line and trying to do

1529
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:54,880
Speaker 1: that before the play clock is over. Um, you know

1530
01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: that it presents a challenge. So um you know, like

1531
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,000
Speaker 1: I said, that practice that we and start getting now

1532
01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna play dividends in the season. Excellent, Thank you

1533
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 1: very much. Have a great day as well, George. Director

1534
01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: Josh Lukie Harkins Golf Sports to Nadye, how's it going,

1535
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 1: big guy? And good mook, how you doing good to

1536
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 1: see you. I'm doing good man. Hey, happy belated birthday.

1537
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:18,720
Speaker 1: And those ones you had on. Those ones you had

1538
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:21,679
Speaker 1: on was pretty crispy, by the way. How you like those? Yeah?

1539
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: I like those. I like those. But one thing I

1540
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 1: do like is this year's roster and guys you have

1541
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 1: rapport with like tannerd Gentry, Jacob Hollister out of line

1542
01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: omen and practically being with the same guys for you know,

1543
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: these three years. How much comfortability does that give your

1544
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 1: confidence a boost? Year four? I mean it creates a

1545
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:43,599
Speaker 1: very good space. Just being able to talk with guys

1546
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: in a very comfortable fashion, you know, being in the

1547
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:49,640
Speaker 1: same system now for going on the fourth year, and

1548
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: having that report that I have with Dabele and Coach

1549
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 1: Dorsey and understanding really our offense in and out and

1550
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 1: being able to really relay that to my to my teammates.

1551
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: And you know, I've always said that the job of

1552
01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:02,479
Speaker 1: the quarterback is to be an extension of the offensive

1553
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 1: coordinator and have to understand what he wants in certain situations. UM.

1554
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:09,400
Speaker 1: And by by me knowing that, I get to relay

1555
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 1: that to my teammates and allow us to try to

1556
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 1: have better success on the field. So it's, uh, it's

1557
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 1: a blessing to be you know, in this situation. Not

1558
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: many people have that luxury being in the same system

1559
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:23,759
Speaker 1: and understanding and knowing that guys UM on a personal level,

1560
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: UM for as long as I have. So U definitely

1561
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 1: blessed here, absolutely man. And speaking on that, you know,

1562
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 1: this offseason, I know, with the with the great season

1563
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:36,679
Speaker 1: that you have last year, what specifically did you focus

1564
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: on after putting it all together last year? Yeah, I

1565
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 1: mean again, every year presents a new challenge. UM, So

1566
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 1: getting in and getting back with the guys, and UM,

1567
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:49,599
Speaker 1: learning our playbook even better, Understanding defense is even better. UM,

1568
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:52,800
Speaker 1: trying to find ways I can and be better and

1569
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 1: more concise and delivering the football, especially on certain routes

1570
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,679
Speaker 1: like I alluded to earlier. UM, but you you always

1571
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 1: have to find a way to get better, because if

1572
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 1: you're not getting better, you're getting worse. And we understand

1573
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:05,719
Speaker 1: that as a team. And you know, we're not guaranteed

1574
01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: anything this next season. You know, just because we played

1575
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship game doesn't mean that we're gonna

1576
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 1: you know, win win into games next year. So we

1577
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 1: got to put the work in now so it pays

1578
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: off later. Absolutely, Man, welcome back to football and enjoy camp. Thanks.

1579
01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 1: Let see you, Hey, Josh, other pers back here. Good

1580
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:26,599
Speaker 1: to see you. Thanks for taking the time to do this. UM.

1581
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: Just how beneficial you mentioned continuity with your receivers, But

1582
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,720
Speaker 1: how about on the offensive line, with the way that

1583
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 1: Brandon was able to bring back those key pieces to

1584
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: the old line and to have that continuity intact there

1585
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: on the line. No, Yeah, being able to have guys

1586
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 1: that again know the system, that communicate well, that know

1587
01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 1: each other and know what to expect from each other.

1588
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,759
Speaker 1: I think that's huge, especially in the old line, because

1589
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 1: if you can have that trust in the guides to

1590
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,559
Speaker 1: the left or right of you or both, um, it

1591
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,839
Speaker 1: makes your job a lot easier Understan inning certain blocking

1592
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:04,960
Speaker 1: schemes and having that trust that you're gonna get the

1593
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: double team, uh and the in the calls wherever you're

1594
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 1: going to get them. So um, you know, I don't

1595
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how he did it, but he did.

1596
01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: And I'm glad to have the guys that we have back.

1597
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: And I love those guys and um, you know, they're

1598
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 1: the heartbeat of this team, you know, and they don't

1599
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: get enough credit for what they do and what they

1600
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: did last year. So um, you know, I'm excited to

1601
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 1: have them back. And again we got we gotta continue

1602
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 1: to find ways to work and get better. And I

1603
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: got no doubt that the guys that we have we're

1604
01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Obviously, you don't have John Brown this year,

1605
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 1: but a new addition is Emmanuel Sanders. We haven't been

1606
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: able to talk to you just kind of your thoughts

1607
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:39,599
Speaker 1: on the addition of bringing a guy like that in.

1608
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:42,799
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at what he did last year, um,

1609
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: you know, and just kind of switching through a couple

1610
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: of different quarterbacks, but had a lot of success last

1611
01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: year and obviously throughout his career he's been you know,

1612
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers in the game. Um. And

1613
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 1: you know, watched him on film was fun. He's still

1614
01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: got a lot of juice left. And the way that

1615
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: he gets in and out of breaks, um, the way

1616
01:25:58,360 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 1: that he breaks down um, and just his ability to

1617
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 1: route run. And then you throw that in with the

1618
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 1: continuity that he has with Beasley of being college teammates

1619
01:26:06,360 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: and being able to find concepts that he likes and

1620
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 1: be able to incorporate them into what we're doing here. Um.

1621
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna have, uh, you know, a really

1622
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:17,880
Speaker 1: good year and we're excited to have him so, um,

1623
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna help us out a lot. Cool. Thanks, Josh,

1624
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:25,879
Speaker 1: appreciate think other it. Jo's good to see you. Um. Obviously,

1625
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 1: the team picked up your fifth year option, and now

1626
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:31,800
Speaker 1: the next step is working on an extension and how

1627
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:34,599
Speaker 1: much do you focus on it, especially knowing that there's

1628
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 1: still years left on your contract. Yeah, I'm I'm just

1629
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: trying to be the best quarterback that I can be

1630
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: for the Bills, And that's that's why his players most

1631
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: of us, not all of us, but most of us

1632
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 1: have agents to take care of that side of things.

1633
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 1: And um, you know again, that's that's That's the least

1634
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 1: most thing I'm worrying about right now. I'm just trying

1635
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 1: to find ways that I can get better and be

1636
01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: better for this team and help us accomplished to go

1637
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: that we want accomplish. So is there a preference to

1638
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: maybe put it to get it done sooner rather than

1639
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:07,040
Speaker 1: later so the conversation stops, or or you it's that

1640
01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:10,639
Speaker 1: far out of your mind that it doesn't matter. I mean, one,

1641
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, but I think I think on your

1642
01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 1: guys's end, getting it done quick would kill all these

1643
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: questions that you have about it. But again, I'm focused on,

1644
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 1: like I said, being the best version of myself, being

1645
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:24,360
Speaker 1: the best quarterback, the best leader that I can be

1646
01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:28,760
Speaker 1: for this team. Um, day in and day out. Thanks Josh,

1647
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: thank you, Hey, Josh, Josh Reid here, How are you.

1648
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm good, Josh. You to see you. Good, Good to

1649
01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:38,759
Speaker 1: see you as well. Um. I know in the past

1650
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 1: you've had certain games that you've kind of filed away

1651
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:44,679
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind that kind of driven

1652
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:48,799
Speaker 1: you to excel. Is Kansas City one of those games

1653
01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: now that you've kind of put in the back of

1654
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:52,599
Speaker 1: your mind where it pushes you kind of to get

1655
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: to the next level. Absolutely, you know, there's a lot

1656
01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 1: of opportunities in that game. And we understood, you know,

1657
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 1: as an offense they were they're really good. They got

1658
01:28:03,320 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: one of the best quarterbacks that not the best quarterback

1659
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 1: in the league. Um, some really good skilled players. So

1660
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 1: we understood as an offense that we had to do

1661
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 1: our job, and you know, it came down to that

1662
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:14,920
Speaker 1: we we didn't do a good enough job of that,

1663
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,960
Speaker 1: putting up enough points and helping our defense out on

1664
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:21,920
Speaker 1: third downs. So again we got to find a way

1665
01:28:21,960 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 1: to get over that home there. But um, as crazy

1666
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: as it seems, you know, we're we're not focused on

1667
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:31,040
Speaker 1: what they're doing right now or really, for for that matter,

1668
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 1: any team other than Game one, and I think we

1669
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: don't know who that is. That's that's the Steelers at

1670
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:39,640
Speaker 1: home and um, now that's the biggest focus that we

1671
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 1: have on right now is getting to that point and

1672
01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 1: across that bridge when we get there. One last one

1673
01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 1: for you, Sean said that things inside the building and

1674
01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: around the facility are about sixty to seventy percent back

1675
01:28:52,200 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: to normal. Do you see that a little bit? And

1676
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 1: you know, does it give you a little bit, you know,

1677
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:01,360
Speaker 1: just hope for maybe the near future things being one

1678
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 1: hundred percent back to normal, Yeah, for sure, and being

1679
01:29:04,479 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 1: able to hang outside of the study with guys and

1680
01:29:08,600 --> 01:29:11,920
Speaker 1: not have to social distance. But again, we're taking those

1681
01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 1: precautions and masking up here, and you know, we want

1682
01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: to be in the building, we want to be around

1683
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:18,560
Speaker 1: each other. We want to be able to develop that

1684
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:22,000
Speaker 1: camaraderie with the guys. We're getting a taste of it,

1685
01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:26,760
Speaker 1: but again we're we're longing for that day. All right.

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01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: That's Josh Allen addressing questions from the media, and not surprisingly,

1687
01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 1: most of them dealt with vaccination decisions, which he said

1688
01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:37,400
Speaker 1: he will keep private for him and for his teammates

1689
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:39,559
Speaker 1: for that matter. So they're keeping all of that in

1690
01:29:39,680 --> 01:29:42,800
Speaker 1: house and you know, private decision for everybody. So there

1691
01:29:42,840 --> 01:29:48,760
Speaker 1: it is, yeah, like okay, and he said, you know,

1692
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:52,400
Speaker 1: coach termed at sixty to sixty five percent normal with

1693
01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:55,000
Speaker 1: some of the relaxed guy lines that are now taking place.

1694
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:57,760
Speaker 1: You know, you heard Josh. They're saying, he hopes it

1695
01:29:57,800 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 1: gets back to normal sooner rather than later. And really

1696
01:30:01,160 --> 01:30:02,880
Speaker 1: you're kind of at the mercy of what the state

1697
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:05,519
Speaker 1: and the CDC are saying more than anything else, in

1698
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 1: addition to the league who has their own doctor and

1699
01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 1: doctor Sills kind of directing traffic there. So we will

1700
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 1: take a break here, come back with more of your

1701
01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet in terms of the unproven

1702
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:20,719
Speaker 1: player on the Bill's roster that you think needs to

1703
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:23,200
Speaker 1: answer the bell if the Bills are to get over

1704
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 1: that AFC Championship game. Hump back with your comments next

1705
01:30:26,880 --> 01:30:28,720
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Klaud of Health,

1706
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:42,680
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

1707
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:45,719
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you closing up our number

1708
01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:50,720
Speaker 1: two here and next hour we'll be joined by ESPN's

1709
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:54,839
Speaker 1: Matt Bowen. You can see him on the NFL Matchup

1710
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:57,240
Speaker 1: show during the regular season with our good friend Greg

1711
01:30:57,320 --> 01:30:59,280
Speaker 1: co Seals, who we'll be talking to him about ten minutes.

1712
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: That's some interesting stuff on the Bills that he uncovered

1713
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:04,360
Speaker 1: with some of his film study. But as far as

1714
01:31:04,360 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 1: your comments go on the tweet sheet in terms of

1715
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: what unproven player on the Bills roster must answer the

1716
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:13,360
Speaker 1: bell this season, we go to Jordan, who says, I

1717
01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:15,160
Speaker 1: think a JP and s it will need to step

1718
01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:17,640
Speaker 1: it up in the twenty twenty two season. With two

1719
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:20,599
Speaker 1: new rookies, improving veteran talent on the roster at defensive end,

1720
01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:23,479
Speaker 1: plus high expectations for the coming season, a spot on

1721
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: the game day roster will not be easy to come by.

1722
01:31:28,040 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 1: I think AJ's on this roster. They made an investment

1723
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:34,080
Speaker 1: in this player, and by the sound of it, based

1724
01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 1: on coach mcdermot's assessment, he's very encouraged by the way

1725
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 1: AJ looks coming back here in terms of the shape

1726
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 1: that he's in and the movement skills out on the

1727
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:46,240
Speaker 1: practice field, even if it is and just helmets and shorts, right,

1728
01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:50,200
Speaker 1: I think the development you saw in him last year,

1729
01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:53,240
Speaker 1: at least by even if it was only by way

1730
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 1: of actually getting on the field and taking a lot

1731
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:59,080
Speaker 1: of reps, said a lot about how far he came.

1732
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:02,400
Speaker 1: And no question, I think and all of us can

1733
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: relate to this. He came out of Iowa. When they

1734
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:09,439
Speaker 1: drafted him, he was two eighty and he was thick.

1735
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:11,559
Speaker 1: He was a big dude, and people are like going, wow,

1736
01:32:11,560 --> 01:32:14,400
Speaker 1: he can move down inside because of his weight, you know,

1737
01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:16,800
Speaker 1: because he was big. He gets to train after he

1738
01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 1: goes to mini camp like these last year or the

1739
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 1: ones they didn't have, and they said, we like you

1740
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:23,280
Speaker 1: better at a different way. And so he comes back

1741
01:32:23,439 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 1: and immediately when you saw him, he was like, Wow,

1742
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:35,479
Speaker 1: he's changed his body. He's changed. That to me gives

1743
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: you an inkling is what his work ethic is. That's

1744
01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:40,679
Speaker 1: hard to do. Like he came back too, liked. Yeah.

1745
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:42,679
Speaker 1: I actually told him to put more weight back on, right.

1746
01:32:42,720 --> 01:32:45,400
Speaker 1: So it so his ability and willingness to do that

1747
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:47,360
Speaker 1: and to get it done so fast, I think. I

1748
01:32:47,360 --> 01:32:48,840
Speaker 1: think it was a shock to his system, I think,

1749
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 1: and however it affected him, they wanted to put some

1750
01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 1: weight on or whatever, But his willingness and ability to

1751
01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:58,280
Speaker 1: do that says a lot about where he's at and

1752
01:32:58,400 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 1: how fast he'll develop and how in the work he's

1753
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 1: going to put in on toward getting better. So yeah,

1754
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 1: I agree, I have high hopes for aj season. We're

1755
01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:09,080
Speaker 1: gonna take a break here because we are up against

1756
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 1: the clock again, but when we come back, we've got

1757
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 1: ESPN's Matt Bowing on with us. Did a lot of

1758
01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:17,240
Speaker 1: film study over the last several weeks, and some of

1759
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 1: his findings were very interesting, and they include the Buffalo Bills.

1760
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 1: So we'll be talking with Matt about that and more

1761
01:33:23,120 --> 01:33:25,600
Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented by

1762
01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:45,799
Speaker 1: Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve tester

1763
01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:48,719
Speaker 1: who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

1764
01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:50,960
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for Steve.

1765
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:57,720
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratgyre of

1766
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 1: normalcy here. It is Yah. We're number three of One

1767
01:34:03,439 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 1: Bill's Live Here on a Tuesday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1768
01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:09,919
Speaker 1: with you day. Two of OTA's players off the field already.

1769
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: They're in the classroom doing their studies. And uh, here's

1770
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:16,400
Speaker 1: a guy that's done his share of studying. As a

1771
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,559
Speaker 1: matter of fact, he's still doing film study. It's ESPN's

1772
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 1: Matt Bowen joining us. You can see him with our

1773
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:23,639
Speaker 1: good friend Great co Sell in the NFL Matchup show

1774
01:34:23,680 --> 01:34:26,679
Speaker 1: during the regular season. Matt, we're back at it already,

1775
01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:29,880
Speaker 1: but something tells me you've never stopped. Still reviewing film

1776
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:33,720
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty. How you doing doing great? Yeah? I

1777
01:34:33,720 --> 01:34:36,800
Speaker 1: remember those days doing OTA's up in Buffalo. Oh yeah,

1778
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:39,720
Speaker 1: it's coach turn and I loved it. I loved it.

1779
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:41,559
Speaker 1: I we ushould go practicing the game field a lot,

1780
01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 1: which I thought was outstanding, and go down there and

1781
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: Pete during OTAs. And now, see that was a difference CBA.

1782
01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:49,439
Speaker 1: We were in the building much earlier. Back then, we

1783
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:52,679
Speaker 1: were I remember coming up Torcher Park in early March,

1784
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:55,280
Speaker 1: you know, in the weight room, then on the field,

1785
01:34:55,360 --> 01:34:57,599
Speaker 1: you know, middle of March and the March a lot

1786
01:34:57,640 --> 01:34:59,639
Speaker 1: of practice time. Yeah. Now, now that you're an old

1787
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 1: guy like the rest of us, what do you think

1788
01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:05,240
Speaker 1: about the benefits of what happened last offseason when they

1789
01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:08,599
Speaker 1: were forced to keep their hands off. These guys didn't

1790
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: have any really social setting, no in house stuff. And

1791
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:15,840
Speaker 1: the field work, the field, the football, you know, the

1792
01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:19,160
Speaker 1: games look pretty darn good last season in the regular season.

1793
01:35:19,960 --> 01:35:21,519
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about that because you went through

1794
01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:24,799
Speaker 1: just like I did. You know, the padded mini camps

1795
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:26,800
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff, and you know, what do

1796
01:35:26,840 --> 01:35:28,760
Speaker 1: you think about the changes and how much should be

1797
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:32,400
Speaker 1: kept and shouldn't be kept. That's a great question. See,

1798
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:34,400
Speaker 1: I think it should be a balance. I don't think

1799
01:35:34,400 --> 01:35:37,479
Speaker 1: we need to go back toward the schedule you and

1800
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:40,360
Speaker 1: I had where you had, you know, multiple mini camps,

1801
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 1: and I remember we would just make up names. Paul

1802
01:35:43,280 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: quarterback school coach. It's just another reason going field right

1803
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:49,680
Speaker 1: all off season. Then we had to it. You know,

1804
01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 1: you had long training camps. Where are you hit pretty

1805
01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:54,880
Speaker 1: consistently twice a day? So I think there needs to

1806
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:56,479
Speaker 1: be a balance. You don't want to go back to that,

1807
01:35:57,040 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: but you have to find somewhere in the middle where

1808
01:35:59,400 --> 01:36:02,080
Speaker 1: the coaches have enough time to teach you work on

1809
01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:05,919
Speaker 1: fundamentals and technique, especially for positions like the offensive line

1810
01:36:06,280 --> 01:36:10,120
Speaker 1: in the secondary. Why I think communication is vital to

1811
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:13,479
Speaker 1: those units. You need time on the field to work together. Again,

1812
01:36:13,560 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be full speed with pads that we

1813
01:36:15,439 --> 01:36:18,080
Speaker 1: need time on the field of practice to drill those

1814
01:36:18,080 --> 01:36:21,120
Speaker 1: fundamentals and techniques that are part of your offensive defensive scheme.

1815
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:23,519
Speaker 1: And it gets from the special teams work as well.

1816
01:36:24,160 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 1: You know, Steve, you and I both did it. Covering

1817
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,599
Speaker 1: kicks is not easy. You need reps at that and

1818
01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:30,840
Speaker 1: you can find ways to do that. Or it's not

1819
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:35,680
Speaker 1: full speed, it's not totally physical. So Matt, I know

1820
01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:38,639
Speaker 1: you're you're grinded on the tape all the time, and

1821
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:43,360
Speaker 1: you had a recent tweet that even caught me by surprise.

1822
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:47,240
Speaker 1: You're going over explosive plays for the Bills in twenty twenty,

1823
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:49,599
Speaker 1: and I don't think the fact that they ranked high

1824
01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:52,320
Speaker 1: and explosive plays is any surprise. But the exploits to

1825
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:56,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen last season, but then the last one there

1826
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:59,880
Speaker 1: twenty three explosive plays in the run game, which ranked

1827
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 1: ninth in the league all all season last year, Matt,

1828
01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:07,960
Speaker 1: we heard tons of complaints about the ineffectiveness of Buffalo's

1829
01:37:08,040 --> 01:37:12,040
Speaker 1: run game, and all up to the draft, we're hearing

1830
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:14,599
Speaker 1: how the Bills need a home run hitter for their

1831
01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:16,759
Speaker 1: running game if they're going to take the next step.

1832
01:37:16,800 --> 01:37:19,840
Speaker 1: And here it is number nine in the league in

1833
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:25,679
Speaker 1: explosive play rushes. What did you pull out of your

1834
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:29,200
Speaker 1: film study on those explosive run plays that you felt

1835
01:37:29,479 --> 01:37:34,240
Speaker 1: that made them so successful with that area of their game. Well,

1836
01:37:34,280 --> 01:37:36,599
Speaker 1: I think when you look at the tape, press Buffalo's

1837
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:38,680
Speaker 1: two quality running backs that fit exactly what they want

1838
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:41,439
Speaker 1: to do. Now there's zone heavy team, zone running team,

1839
01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:44,800
Speaker 1: and with both Singletary Moss guys that can press the

1840
01:37:44,840 --> 01:37:47,800
Speaker 1: edge of the formation. Run with good vision, have good

1841
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:49,759
Speaker 1: north south burst. You know the thing at the running

1842
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:54,040
Speaker 1: back position, forty times are great. What you're really looking

1843
01:37:54,040 --> 01:37:55,840
Speaker 1: at there is zero to ten. How fashion you get

1844
01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:57,960
Speaker 1: from zero to ten? So that's how the NFL games played.

1845
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:00,320
Speaker 1: Can you get through that second level? Get to that

1846
01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: second level? Now you're talking about a fifteen plus year run,

1847
01:38:03,240 --> 01:38:05,040
Speaker 1: and those are hard to get in the NFL. They're

1848
01:38:05,160 --> 01:38:07,400
Speaker 1: very hard to get. But I'm with you. If I

1849
01:38:07,560 --> 01:38:10,719
Speaker 1: was in that Bill's draft room last year, I understand

1850
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:13,679
Speaker 1: this past April. I understand exactly what they do. Even

1851
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:16,040
Speaker 1: if let's say Harris and ETN were on the board,

1852
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:18,640
Speaker 1: I still think they made the proper call because if

1853
01:38:18,640 --> 01:38:22,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna win the AFC, you have to beat Patrick

1854
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the Chiefs. You need pass frushure to do that.

1855
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:26,760
Speaker 1: And don't getting a little off topic here, but since

1856
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:30,639
Speaker 1: we're talking about the running back position, no Secletary Moss

1857
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:33,960
Speaker 1: and that system can be efficient runners that have explosive

1858
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:37,760
Speaker 1: playability because of how it's blocked up front, how they

1859
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:40,000
Speaker 1: set up the run game. And also you have to

1860
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:43,360
Speaker 1: add in there, Josh All, because seven of those twenty

1861
01:38:43,400 --> 01:38:45,800
Speaker 1: three runners came from jobs. You know, four of the

1862
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:49,000
Speaker 1: run screamble attempts and then three of them run quarterback

1863
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:51,160
Speaker 1: design runs, so you have quarterback draw mix in there.

1864
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: We know they will run some z own read and

1865
01:38:53,080 --> 01:38:55,360
Speaker 1: also run some naked boot You remember that Monday night

1866
01:38:55,400 --> 01:38:57,400
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots and a fourth to one call

1867
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:00,919
Speaker 1: and Josh booted to the outside basically almost like quarterbacks.

1868
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 1: Basically quarterback Pole gets the outside. He brings another element

1869
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:07,880
Speaker 1: to that run game because he can scheme ment a runner.

1870
01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:09,960
Speaker 1: You know what can do with his second reaction, going

1871
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:12,920
Speaker 1: to pull the ball down and get into open space

1872
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:14,960
Speaker 1: and pick up first downs as a runner as well.

1873
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:17,519
Speaker 1: So we've been watching this Bill's offense in the offseason.

1874
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:19,120
Speaker 1: I've been going back and looking at the old games,

1875
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:21,519
Speaker 1: like like you did you study this film, And you

1876
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:23,320
Speaker 1: know they're talking about while the running game's got to

1877
01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:25,080
Speaker 1: get better and all this, but you know they don't

1878
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:26,920
Speaker 1: really want I don't think they want to run the

1879
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:31,599
Speaker 1: ball more. Maybe better, yeah, okay, but when you're talking

1880
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:33,800
Speaker 1: about a team that scored over five hundred points in

1881
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:38,800
Speaker 1: the season, you know, improvement is a subjective thing. How

1882
01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:41,080
Speaker 1: you improve this offense in the league, what like you

1883
01:39:41,120 --> 01:39:43,480
Speaker 1: said there were number two in the league in explosive

1884
01:39:43,520 --> 01:39:47,160
Speaker 1: pass plays. They were, They were a phenomenal offense. If

1885
01:39:47,160 --> 01:39:49,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna and just looking at the offense, how do

1886
01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:53,320
Speaker 1: you improve on that? And is it realistic to think

1887
01:39:53,360 --> 01:39:57,200
Speaker 1: that you can? I agree with to Steven In terms

1888
01:39:57,240 --> 01:40:00,320
Speaker 1: of run game volume, I've always said this run the

1889
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:03,679
Speaker 1: ball fisherman. That matters. It doesn't matter how many carries

1890
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:06,760
Speaker 1: you have. Because Buffalo is never gonna with this style

1891
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:08,400
Speaker 1: of office. They're not going to be a top ten

1892
01:40:08,439 --> 01:40:10,240
Speaker 1: team in terms of Russian fans. I don't see that

1893
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:13,200
Speaker 1: happening anytime soon with Brian Dable. But can you be

1894
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:16,000
Speaker 1: more efficient running football? Yes, you can be. We understand that.

1895
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:18,160
Speaker 1: One thing. I would say, what's the next step? Can

1896
01:40:18,200 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: you be a little bit more horizontal? You know they

1897
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: can stress teams vertical. You understand that's all over the

1898
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:26,799
Speaker 1: tape and deep fade balls, deep crossers, deepall versus Stefan Diggs.

1899
01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 1: How they scheme up Cole Beasley, what they can do

1900
01:40:29,960 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 1: with Davis in the vertical pass game? And now can

1901
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:34,840
Speaker 1: they stretch you more vertically? That'd be another element I

1902
01:40:34,880 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 1: would think they would discuss this offseason. Can we get

1903
01:40:38,160 --> 01:40:40,760
Speaker 1: more jet sweeps than fly sweeps. Can we create more

1904
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:43,600
Speaker 1: misdirection because that's the leading the more efficiency for your

1905
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:46,800
Speaker 1: run game, and also create more play action opportunities for

1906
01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:49,360
Speaker 1: josh Young because they are excellent in the play action passengers.

1907
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:51,599
Speaker 1: We always talk about the heavy play action pass teams,

1908
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: obviously Kyle Shanahan in San Francisco, Sean McVay with the Rams,

1909
01:40:56,400 --> 01:40:59,960
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers offense, obviously Cleveland and Minnesota as well,

1910
01:41:00,080 --> 01:41:03,479
Speaker 1: heavy plash in passing team. Buffalow also led the NFL

1911
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 1: exposed to play throws off of play action last year.

1912
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:09,160
Speaker 1: So that doesn't isn't discussed all the time, but when

1913
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:11,639
Speaker 1: you really watched the tape, then we'll use the play

1914
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:14,960
Speaker 1: action passing, especially against man coverage. The reason they do that, guys,

1915
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: they're trying to pull those linebackers down. Those linebackers take

1916
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:20,719
Speaker 1: two false steps, it's over. You can't recover in time

1917
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:23,880
Speaker 1: when you have Beasley and Diggs running crossing rods behind him.

1918
01:41:24,120 --> 01:41:26,040
Speaker 1: So now what that does? It give Joshua one on

1919
01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:29,439
Speaker 1: one an open window throw to put it on a

1920
01:41:29,479 --> 01:41:31,640
Speaker 1: guy like the Diggs or a Beasley who also have

1921
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:35,800
Speaker 1: outstanding ability after the catch to produce in the open field,

1922
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:40,160
Speaker 1: So Matt to take that a step further. Emmanuel Sanders

1923
01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 1: was in that San Francisco heavy play action offense two

1924
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:45,840
Speaker 1: years ago. Now he's here in Buffalo. I know he's

1925
01:41:45,880 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 1: not the same receiver as John Brown. How does he

1926
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:52,200
Speaker 1: fit what the Bills like to do here? What should

1927
01:41:52,240 --> 01:41:55,120
Speaker 1: we expect from him within the scope of this offense?

1928
01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:59,400
Speaker 1: Bill Sanders is a veteran. He's a very nuanced, detailed gropier.

1929
01:41:59,439 --> 01:42:02,080
Speaker 1: He can create separation. That's the first thing you look at.

1930
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:04,760
Speaker 1: He can create separation. So how do we scheme him open?

1931
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:07,519
Speaker 1: Do we use him more on second level throws? Can

1932
01:42:07,560 --> 01:42:09,439
Speaker 1: we get the third level throws? Like a washing right

1933
01:42:09,479 --> 01:42:11,759
Speaker 1: here where he's playing with Drew Bredes in New Orleans.

1934
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,160
Speaker 1: He has the ability to stretch you vertically. I think

1935
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:15,680
Speaker 1: he has a scheme of more at this point of

1936
01:42:15,680 --> 01:42:18,760
Speaker 1: his career. But more importantly, I would use him as

1937
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:22,720
Speaker 1: a guy that is a buying target in critical downardistance situations.

1938
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:26,439
Speaker 1: Another option for Josh in third and two to six,

1939
01:42:26,720 --> 01:42:30,439
Speaker 1: we can create separation immediately underneath third and seven to ten.

1940
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:33,599
Speaker 1: We can run the intermediate inbreaker, create that separation at

1941
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:36,760
Speaker 1: the top of the break and Brian David will scheme

1942
01:42:36,800 --> 01:42:39,120
Speaker 1: it too. He will occupy the backside safety. And this

1943
01:42:39,200 --> 01:42:41,439
Speaker 1: is one thing I noticed guys with Washington to take

1944
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 1: on the Bills. Just the explosive plays. Now, Josh Allen's

1945
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:47,960
Speaker 1: development in the pocket in terms of his eyes, his

1946
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:51,320
Speaker 1: ability to move and hold and manipulate safeties and create

1947
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:53,760
Speaker 1: his own throwing winnows. Now you pair that with a

1948
01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:55,960
Speaker 1: route winner like a Manuel Standards, it gives you more

1949
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:59,439
Speaker 1: opportunities to pick up first allands. I've always said this,

1950
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:01,960
Speaker 1: we don't talk. First downs are hard to get. They're hard.

1951
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 1: You get first downs, you win football games. You get

1952
01:43:04,920 --> 01:43:06,880
Speaker 1: first downs. Just four points A guy like the manage

1953
01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:10,120
Speaker 1: Stators can elevate that offense is a middleval field target

1954
01:43:10,360 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: on those second level throws. Yeah, so this is I mean,

1955
01:43:13,200 --> 01:43:14,880
Speaker 1: this is a team. There's already number one and third

1956
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:18,000
Speaker 1: down conversion rate last year. So do you envision because

1957
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:19,680
Speaker 1: I know I don't have to tell you this, but

1958
01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:21,880
Speaker 1: I think Arizona was the only team that ran ten

1959
01:43:21,920 --> 01:43:25,160
Speaker 1: personnel more than the Bills last season and now you

1960
01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:28,679
Speaker 1: have Sanders here, So are you envisioning that to continue

1961
01:43:28,720 --> 01:43:30,400
Speaker 1: a lot more? You know, not a lot of ten

1962
01:43:30,439 --> 01:43:33,639
Speaker 1: personnel but somewhere between fifteen and twenty percent. Ten personnel

1963
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:36,080
Speaker 1: on the field for these guys with Beasley and Sanders

1964
01:43:36,120 --> 01:43:39,640
Speaker 1: has double slots, you know, Davison and digs outside. Is

1965
01:43:39,640 --> 01:43:42,240
Speaker 1: that what we're probably looking at. I think you can

1966
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:43,720
Speaker 1: do that in the one game I go back to

1967
01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:46,280
Speaker 1: last year, guys, was because I saw this yester year

1968
01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:49,600
Speaker 1: when Watchington explus to playing runs first meeting against the

1969
01:43:49,600 --> 01:43:51,920
Speaker 1: wingland and what if Brian dabele doo. I thought it

1970
01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:54,519
Speaker 1: was excellent because he had ten personnel on the field

1971
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:56,200
Speaker 1: quite a bit in that game, ten or eleven personnel,

1972
01:43:56,200 --> 01:43:59,479
Speaker 1: but especially ten personnel. And Bill Belichick responded, what we

1973
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:03,240
Speaker 1: call it a dollar at seven defensive backs and he

1974
01:44:03,360 --> 01:44:05,920
Speaker 1: ran it against run the ball. You got seven defensive

1975
01:44:05,920 --> 01:44:07,679
Speaker 1: backs in the field, you got one of them playing lineback,

1976
01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:10,479
Speaker 1: run right at the run zone, right at That's what

1977
01:44:10,520 --> 01:44:13,200
Speaker 1: they did. I think it gives you options because now

1978
01:44:13,200 --> 01:44:15,360
Speaker 1: we're talking about one of the best football coaches of

1979
01:44:15,400 --> 01:44:17,719
Speaker 1: all the time, Bill Belichick. His response or his counter,

1980
01:44:17,800 --> 01:44:19,760
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna get seven dbs in the field because

1981
01:44:19,760 --> 01:44:22,280
Speaker 1: I gonna played many coverage. Now there's more opportunity for

1982
01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:26,519
Speaker 1: mediu brackets or dedicated doubles and the slots inside. Davill said,

1983
01:44:26,520 --> 01:44:28,600
Speaker 1: if you're gonna bring seven on the field and we

1984
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:30,639
Speaker 1: go eleven, you'll bring six dbs in the field. We're

1985
01:44:30,640 --> 01:44:32,479
Speaker 1: gonna find a way to run the football against you.

1986
01:44:32,640 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 1: But there was excellent coaching, and that's what scheams all about.

1987
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 1: The counter. You show me one thing, I'm gonna show

1988
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:40,160
Speaker 1: you another thing. But we know what they could do

1989
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:41,880
Speaker 1: in the past. Team out of ten, there's no question.

1990
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:43,880
Speaker 1: But I also think it elevates your run game in

1991
01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:47,680
Speaker 1: certain situations. One of the things that happened in this offseason,

1992
01:44:47,680 --> 01:44:50,240
Speaker 1: and we saw it very early on when the Rams

1993
01:44:50,280 --> 01:44:53,280
Speaker 1: and the Detroit Lions swapped quarterbacks and draft picks and

1994
01:44:53,880 --> 01:44:58,479
Speaker 1: salaries and contracts, and it began the quarterback movement. Eleven

1995
01:44:58,520 --> 01:45:02,840
Speaker 1: new quarterbacks with you know, rookies and veterans who've switched teams.

1996
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:05,400
Speaker 1: How do you see that shaking out? And that's something

1997
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:08,400
Speaker 1: that's happened over the last two or three years in

1998
01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:12,599
Speaker 1: the NFL that has actually become a trend. I think

1999
01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 1: that has been unprecedented in the history of the league.

2000
01:45:15,040 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 1: You never saw quarterbacks ever move, even in the free

2001
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:22,360
Speaker 1: agency period, and now it's a lot more commonplace. Why

2002
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:23,840
Speaker 1: do you think that is and how do you think

2003
01:45:23,880 --> 01:45:27,880
Speaker 1: this year's movement is going to affect the season? Well?

2004
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 1: I think that is is because teams are looking for

2005
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:33,680
Speaker 1: more schemes, specific players. I think Los Angeles is a

2006
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:37,080
Speaker 1: perfect example. Jared Goffin. It can be schemed in that offense.

2007
01:45:37,160 --> 01:45:39,000
Speaker 1: We understand that. You look at the Super Bowl year,

2008
01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:41,080
Speaker 1: the tape you put together, this is what you fell

2009
01:45:41,120 --> 01:45:44,400
Speaker 1: at timmy rhythms and system. I think Los Angeles also

2010
01:45:44,920 --> 01:45:48,160
Speaker 1: wants to be more vertical. They signed to Sean Jackson,

2011
01:45:48,800 --> 01:45:50,960
Speaker 1: they drafted two too at while out of Louisville, didn't

2012
01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:52,960
Speaker 1: get down the field, and they traded for Matthew staff

2013
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:55,679
Speaker 1: Thank Stafford gives them a little bit more in terms

2014
01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:59,000
Speaker 1: of vertical abuilding, explosive playability down the field. Stafford has

2015
01:45:59,040 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 1: better movement traits inside the pocket. Look at Indianapolis made

2016
01:46:02,520 --> 01:46:05,120
Speaker 1: the trade for Carson Wentz. There obviously there's familiarity there

2017
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 1: with Frank Wright and Carson Wentz and how they can

2018
01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: scheme him up because you know, Carson Wentz his top

2019
01:46:10,280 --> 01:46:13,479
Speaker 1: five traits in terms of where he was drafted. That's

2020
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,400
Speaker 1: why it was the top five picks because he has

2021
01:46:15,439 --> 01:46:17,920
Speaker 1: the physical tools and traits. We've seen him have pass

2022
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:21,040
Speaker 1: production in the NFL. Ryan Fitzpatrick going to Washington, I

2023
01:46:21,080 --> 01:46:23,479
Speaker 1: think it's a really good fit for Washington. They need

2024
01:46:23,560 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: to be more explosive in the past game they do

2025
01:46:25,280 --> 01:46:29,000
Speaker 1: not have that last season with Scott Turner's offense. You'll

2026
01:46:29,040 --> 01:46:31,760
Speaker 1: put Fits in a position where you can throw those

2027
01:46:31,800 --> 01:46:34,760
Speaker 1: deep end breakers, the skinny posts, throw on rhythm, and

2028
01:46:34,880 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: with Fits also you get that aggressive throwing style. Plus

2029
01:46:38,760 --> 01:46:41,120
Speaker 1: we know what he can do as a runner. Now

2030
01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 1: Fits can pull the ball down to move as well.

2031
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:45,920
Speaker 1: So you're looking at the quarterback movement here, and obviously

2032
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:48,519
Speaker 1: the drafts I think the draftsman continues to answer your question.

2033
01:46:49,439 --> 01:46:51,920
Speaker 1: I think we're going to see quarterbacks drafted high each

2034
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:54,160
Speaker 1: and every year, and like we did this year with

2035
01:46:54,320 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 1: five going in the first round. I think that's becoming

2036
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:59,439
Speaker 1: more commonplace, especially when you're telling about young players on

2037
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:04,040
Speaker 1: rookie there is not as much patience anymore, right, They're

2038
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:06,720
Speaker 1: simply not as much patience. Look at Chicago, you know

2039
01:47:06,760 --> 01:47:08,479
Speaker 1: they trade up from mister Trabisity a couple you know

2040
01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:10,840
Speaker 1: three or four years ago that didn't work out for him,

2041
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:13,800
Speaker 1: and bringing Andy Dalton, and they also go draft justin

2042
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 1: fields out of Ohio State. I think everyone's trying to

2043
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:19,360
Speaker 1: find that solution at the quarterback position, like Buffalo has

2044
01:47:19,439 --> 01:47:22,240
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, like Los Angeles has with Josh Herbert.

2045
01:47:22,479 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 1: Early success at the position with guys have the traits

2046
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:28,920
Speaker 1: to be productive in today's heavily scheme passengers. And another

2047
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:32,280
Speaker 1: example of that is Zach Wilson with the Jets. Because

2048
01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:35,880
Speaker 1: they jettison Darnold and threw him overboard to Carolina, it

2049
01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: looks as though the Jets are taking the so called

2050
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:43,160
Speaker 1: Josh Allen approach with him, though in terms of how

2051
01:47:43,200 --> 01:47:45,479
Speaker 1: they're scheming that up. With Lafleura out there, Matt, so

2052
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:48,840
Speaker 1: maybe just kind of share with us how they're going

2053
01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:52,519
Speaker 1: to use pre snap motion to kind of facilitate the

2054
01:47:52,640 --> 01:47:55,719
Speaker 1: reads for him. They well, it'll be a more heavily

2055
01:47:55,760 --> 01:48:00,160
Speaker 1: defined opense, and just talking about movation and obviously Matt

2056
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:01,960
Speaker 1: with Thorp in Green Bay as well, what they do

2057
01:48:02,160 --> 01:48:04,600
Speaker 1: from a pre snap perspective, a lot of movement, a

2058
01:48:04,720 --> 01:48:06,880
Speaker 1: lot of jet a lot of outside zone play action,

2059
01:48:07,520 --> 01:48:09,720
Speaker 1: and you're giving your quarterback board to fine reefs to

2060
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:12,080
Speaker 1: make a level or layered throws in the middle field

2061
01:48:12,080 --> 01:48:14,160
Speaker 1: to read, hide to low, get the ball out in time.

2062
01:48:14,240 --> 01:48:16,760
Speaker 1: And with Zach wils Is gonna do, He's got a

2063
01:48:16,880 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 1: national armtown very quick release. He will get the ball

2064
01:48:20,320 --> 01:48:22,920
Speaker 1: out of speed. There'll be RPOs in there as well

2065
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:25,519
Speaker 1: because he'll read it out and throw it fearlessly. That's

2066
01:48:25,560 --> 01:48:27,800
Speaker 1: all over his college. The thing he gives you, the

2067
01:48:27,920 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 1: added element is his off schedule or second reaction the building.

2068
01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:34,920
Speaker 1: He can create escape books and get outside the pocket

2069
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:37,880
Speaker 1: throwing the move. Throw it from multiple platforms also gives

2070
01:48:37,880 --> 01:48:39,800
Speaker 1: you something as a runner. I don't think he's a

2071
01:48:39,920 --> 01:48:41,920
Speaker 1: heavy volume runner. He doesn't have a frame of a

2072
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:46,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen or Justin Herbert's or you know, justin fields

2073
01:48:47,080 --> 01:48:49,880
Speaker 1: now in Chicago. But he can be schemes as a

2074
01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:53,120
Speaker 1: situational runner for you. But it's really the pass game,

2075
01:48:53,360 --> 01:48:55,280
Speaker 1: and I think that's where again, where the league is

2076
01:48:55,320 --> 01:48:57,920
Speaker 1: going with these outside zone play acts and offense is

2077
01:48:58,120 --> 01:49:01,920
Speaker 1: here giving the quarterback more of those defining throws where

2078
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,160
Speaker 1: he can get his back foot off the play action

2079
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:07,840
Speaker 1: and deliver the ball on time. And plus with that

2080
01:49:07,960 --> 01:49:10,040
Speaker 1: comes your scheme vertical shot plays down the field to

2081
01:49:10,080 --> 01:49:13,040
Speaker 1: see him in Buffalo consistently, Brian Dale, you will see

2082
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:15,559
Speaker 1: them in New York as well well. They will use

2083
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:18,880
Speaker 1: play action and max protection and put Wilson in a

2084
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,280
Speaker 1: spot where he can push the ball vertically or the

2085
01:49:21,320 --> 01:49:25,400
Speaker 1: top of the defense. As most NFL drafts go, everybody,

2086
01:49:25,479 --> 01:49:28,519
Speaker 1: or at least most football fans know the top five,

2087
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: top six, top ten names that are going to be

2088
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 1: taken in the draft. They certainly know the top prospects

2089
01:49:34,200 --> 01:49:36,360
Speaker 1: that their team may be in a position to draft.

2090
01:49:36,760 --> 01:49:39,000
Speaker 1: But at the end of this regular season coming up,

2091
01:49:39,360 --> 01:49:41,879
Speaker 1: who do you think in this draft class that nobody

2092
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:44,960
Speaker 1: knows about now that people are gonna know about, who

2093
01:49:45,640 --> 01:49:48,479
Speaker 1: is gonna jump off the page for their team that

2094
01:49:48,640 --> 01:49:51,040
Speaker 1: landed in the perfect spot with the perfect team that

2095
01:49:51,439 --> 01:49:54,040
Speaker 1: maybe not every football fan knows about now, but most

2096
01:49:54,120 --> 01:49:56,400
Speaker 1: of us will at the end of the season. Now.

2097
01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:58,880
Speaker 1: One player that comes to mind for me is Elijah Molden.

2098
01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:03,080
Speaker 1: The defensive background versus in Washington ended up going to

2099
01:50:03,360 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 1: I believe the third round of Tennessee. And every year

2100
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:07,920
Speaker 1: when I write a piece in my favorite scheme, fits

2101
01:50:07,960 --> 01:50:12,320
Speaker 1: also have one sectary Steve, I have the player I love,

2102
01:50:12,400 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 1: the coach and then this is just based off his tape.

2103
01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:18,080
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't met him I've interviewed him, Elijah Molden.

2104
01:50:18,600 --> 01:50:21,439
Speaker 1: He's a tempo setter. He's a tone center in your secondary.

2105
01:50:21,479 --> 01:50:24,360
Speaker 1: You're reminded of Buddha Baker, the safety from Arizona, because

2106
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:26,400
Speaker 1: he can do so many different things. And that goes

2107
01:50:26,439 --> 01:50:28,400
Speaker 1: back to where the league is going a lot of

2108
01:50:28,479 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 1: late moving into Scotts. He saw it this year when

2109
01:50:30,960 --> 01:50:34,120
Speaker 1: Josh played against Tennessee and how they rotated that secondary

2110
01:50:34,240 --> 01:50:36,600
Speaker 1: late to make him work postmat. That's you used to

2111
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,240
Speaker 1: do against the league quarterbacks. You have to make them

2112
01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:42,040
Speaker 1: work to try to gain his strammatical advantage. With Molden,

2113
01:50:42,080 --> 01:50:44,040
Speaker 1: I think he'd be schemed as a blitzer. He can

2114
01:50:44,080 --> 01:50:46,479
Speaker 1: play in the slot, he can play as a quarter safety,

2115
01:50:46,840 --> 01:50:48,599
Speaker 1: he can play as your dying seat. So a lot

2116
01:50:48,680 --> 01:50:51,320
Speaker 1: of different things. Most we use a term of match

2117
01:50:51,360 --> 01:50:55,080
Speaker 1: of multidimensional traits in the secondary. Elijah Bolden has it now.

2118
01:50:55,200 --> 01:50:57,679
Speaker 1: Not everyone might not know him because's the third round pick.

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01:50:58,240 --> 01:51:00,840
Speaker 1: That's a guy I will look at and say, I'm

2120
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:03,560
Speaker 1: really excited to watch him play as a rookie. So

2121
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:07,240
Speaker 1: Matt taking that one more step here. You know, Steve

2122
01:51:07,320 --> 01:51:09,920
Speaker 1: and I have talked about with guests like you and

2123
01:51:10,040 --> 01:51:12,479
Speaker 1: others about how it seems like the league is moving

2124
01:51:12,560 --> 01:51:17,759
Speaker 1: more and more toward positionless football, and maybe the defensive

2125
01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:19,439
Speaker 1: side of the ball is even ahead of the offensive

2126
01:51:19,479 --> 01:51:22,559
Speaker 1: side with that respect, although we see etn almost lining

2127
01:51:22,640 --> 01:51:25,519
Speaker 1: up exclusively as a receiver and OTAs and we see

2128
01:51:25,560 --> 01:51:29,200
Speaker 1: Naji Harris doing that similarly in Pittsburgh. But my question

2129
01:51:29,240 --> 01:51:31,160
Speaker 1: to you is, if that is in fact the case,

2130
01:51:31,280 --> 01:51:34,360
Speaker 1: why did we see Jeremiah Ustu Coromoa slide so far

2131
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:37,479
Speaker 1: in the draft when he is exactly that he's the

2132
01:51:37,600 --> 01:51:40,800
Speaker 1: positionless player that people are talking about. Is it a

2133
01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:45,000
Speaker 1: matter of DC's not convinced that they can find a

2134
01:51:45,080 --> 01:51:47,519
Speaker 1: true role for him, or is there something else at

2135
01:51:47,600 --> 01:51:49,479
Speaker 1: work there that that kind of flies in the face

2136
01:51:49,560 --> 01:51:53,000
Speaker 1: of the positionless football that we're hearing so much about. Well,

2137
01:51:53,320 --> 01:51:55,360
Speaker 1: you know the reason he slid, I don't know for

2138
01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:57,559
Speaker 1: a fact. I mean, you have to look at other things,

2139
01:51:58,000 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 1: and in terms of evaluating total player, I can really

2140
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:02,880
Speaker 1: look at the tape. Yeah, but I can tell you

2141
01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:06,080
Speaker 1: he is probably a will linebacker. But I could see

2142
01:52:06,200 --> 01:52:09,599
Speaker 1: some teams looking at him as a strong safety if

2143
01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:12,120
Speaker 1: you're playing a Cover three system, where he can set

2144
01:52:12,160 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 1: the edge of the run game, drop to the curl,

2145
01:52:13,960 --> 01:52:16,560
Speaker 1: match to wheel routes, match your man coverage versus the

2146
01:52:16,600 --> 01:52:18,519
Speaker 1: tight end. He can do that for you as well.

2147
01:52:18,840 --> 01:52:20,880
Speaker 1: I think the ultimate thing of position with players that

2148
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:23,360
Speaker 1: we have to remember, and Steve and I both know this.

2149
01:52:23,439 --> 01:52:25,000
Speaker 1: You got to go to There has to be a

2150
01:52:25,080 --> 01:52:28,080
Speaker 1: meeting room and bach. You can't just say why I

2151
01:52:28,240 --> 01:52:31,479
Speaker 1: play linebacker, safety and edge. You have to you have

2152
01:52:31,560 --> 01:52:33,599
Speaker 1: to be in a meeting room. You have to be coached,

2153
01:52:33,640 --> 01:52:35,960
Speaker 1: you have to be developed. And I think with the Wooster,

2154
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:39,400
Speaker 1: Cormala and Cleveland would probably start out that linebacker meeting

2155
01:52:40,080 --> 01:52:43,439
Speaker 1: where he can be a will linebacker for you, scrape

2156
01:52:43,520 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 1: to the football, uses sideline, the sideline speed, he will

2157
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:47,920
Speaker 1: scheme him as a blitzer. And now when you get

2158
01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:50,280
Speaker 1: to your sub packages. Now I'll start to expand a

2159
01:52:50,280 --> 01:52:53,160
Speaker 1: little bit. We're talk about position with players. Can he

2160
01:52:53,320 --> 01:52:56,479
Speaker 1: be that hybrid safety linebacker where he can do multiple

2161
01:52:56,560 --> 01:52:59,240
Speaker 1: things for you now as a blitzer, as a coverage guy,

2162
01:52:59,479 --> 01:53:01,680
Speaker 1: and also as a run to fin I think that's

2163
01:53:01,840 --> 01:53:04,560
Speaker 1: very important from a coaching and teaching perspective because you

2164
01:53:04,680 --> 01:53:06,920
Speaker 1: have to start someone that first day of OOT. It's

2165
01:53:06,920 --> 01:53:08,519
Speaker 1: like you guys are going through right now in Buffalo,

2166
01:53:09,240 --> 01:53:11,120
Speaker 1: where do the young players line up, because that's what

2167
01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:13,559
Speaker 1: they're gonna be coached, that's what we're gonna be developed.

2168
01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:16,080
Speaker 1: And once they start to matter that position as a pro,

2169
01:53:16,600 --> 01:53:18,439
Speaker 1: now you expand a little bit more. And when you

2170
01:53:18,520 --> 01:53:21,679
Speaker 1: do expand, you can put it in a situation where

2171
01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 1: it's not ultra complex. So these young players can read

2172
01:53:24,479 --> 01:53:26,960
Speaker 1: and react with their eyes or key and diagnosed and

2173
01:53:27,160 --> 01:53:29,920
Speaker 1: play fast. So that's the most important thing. Yeah, and

2174
01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:32,400
Speaker 1: I don't alignment. An assignment is creeping into your head

2175
01:53:32,439 --> 01:53:34,519
Speaker 1: before the snap of the football, you're not going to

2176
01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:36,519
Speaker 1: play fast. Yeah. And I don't know if this is

2177
01:53:36,520 --> 01:53:40,080
Speaker 1: a tell of any kind, but they gave Jok number

2178
01:53:40,160 --> 01:53:43,639
Speaker 1: twenty eight as a jersey number, so he might start

2179
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:45,800
Speaker 1: off as a dB more than even a linebacker. We'll

2180
01:53:45,800 --> 01:53:47,120
Speaker 1: have to wait and see it. I know the numbers

2181
01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:48,439
Speaker 1: don't mean quite as much as they used to do

2182
01:53:48,479 --> 01:53:50,439
Speaker 1: in the NFL with all the relaxing of the rules,

2183
01:53:50,479 --> 01:53:53,200
Speaker 1: But I thought number twenty eight was very telling with

2184
01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:55,960
Speaker 1: him getting that number. One last one for me, Matt,

2185
01:53:56,960 --> 01:53:59,559
Speaker 1: the draft is completed, and you know it's all about

2186
01:53:59,600 --> 01:54:02,920
Speaker 1: predict now. And I know that there are certain teams

2187
01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:07,000
Speaker 1: like Jacksonville, and you know and the Jets are in

2188
01:54:07,080 --> 01:54:09,320
Speaker 1: a much different place than the Chiefs and the Bills

2189
01:54:09,400 --> 01:54:13,520
Speaker 1: and the Packers. Which of these rookie classes draft classes

2190
01:54:13,720 --> 01:54:16,880
Speaker 1: are going to help their team? However, it may be

2191
01:54:17,080 --> 01:54:19,240
Speaker 1: whether they're going to win more games or whatever or

2192
01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:22,800
Speaker 1: that you can pick the criteria. But which rookie draft

2193
01:54:22,880 --> 01:54:28,840
Speaker 1: class means the most to their club this season? Well,

2194
01:54:28,880 --> 01:54:31,040
Speaker 1: I think if we're talking to the AFC, like I

2195
01:54:31,080 --> 01:54:33,839
Speaker 1: said earlier in the show with Gregor Soa and Baston,

2196
01:54:34,800 --> 01:54:36,800
Speaker 1: you're looking at guys that buy. If this is all

2197
01:54:36,800 --> 01:54:40,280
Speaker 1: all I would say. Remember this is the draft, it's

2198
01:54:40,360 --> 01:54:43,640
Speaker 1: not immediate results. You are drafting for years two, three,

2199
01:54:43,680 --> 01:54:46,560
Speaker 1: and four as well. But with the two defense event

2200
01:54:46,560 --> 01:54:49,720
Speaker 1: as they draft, they were a versatile and can play inside.

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01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:53,000
Speaker 1: In my opinion, now it gives Buffalo a situation where

2202
01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:55,760
Speaker 1: when these young players start to figure it out, starts

2203
01:54:55,800 --> 01:54:58,840
Speaker 1: to play at the high end speed that's necessary. We're

2204
01:54:58,840 --> 01:55:00,960
Speaker 1: talking to the second half of this season. Now you

2205
01:55:01,080 --> 01:55:03,840
Speaker 1: have depth on the defensive line. Now you can scheme

2206
01:55:03,920 --> 01:55:06,880
Speaker 1: more fronts. Now you can use more stunts and twists

2207
01:55:06,920 --> 01:55:09,600
Speaker 1: and loops to get guy free. And that's what this

2208
01:55:09,880 --> 01:55:11,960
Speaker 1: draft class, in my opinion, the top two picks in

2209
01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:15,160
Speaker 1: buff clod gives you is ultimately, like we talked about,

2210
01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:18,040
Speaker 1: you are drafting. You are building a defensive rosters that

2211
01:55:18,080 --> 01:55:21,200
Speaker 1: can not only compete, they can beat Patrick Mahomes and

2212
01:55:21,280 --> 01:55:23,320
Speaker 1: Andy Reid because they're going to be their year in

2213
01:55:23,480 --> 01:55:26,320
Speaker 1: and year out. Because of Mahomes' talent. There's that offensive

2214
01:55:26,320 --> 01:55:29,240
Speaker 1: structure in Kansas City. You have to put together a

2215
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:34,120
Speaker 1: defense that can rush the pasture and be disruptive to

2216
01:55:34,280 --> 01:55:37,240
Speaker 1: eliminate Patrick Mahomes's ability to throw on timing and rhythm,

2217
01:55:37,280 --> 01:55:39,800
Speaker 1: because that's what we saw Tampa do in the Super

2218
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:42,480
Speaker 1: Bowl and the Buffalo Draft. That tells me they're on

2219
01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:45,160
Speaker 1: the same page. Yeah, and it seems like Kansas City

2220
01:55:45,280 --> 01:55:46,960
Speaker 1: is wise to that with all the money they threw

2221
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:49,400
Speaker 1: at their offensive line, which may arguably be even better

2222
01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:53,200
Speaker 1: than it was last year. Crazy, that was good. I mean,

2223
01:55:53,240 --> 01:55:56,800
Speaker 1: it's a good quick rebuild for them, obviously. Yeah, they

2224
01:55:56,880 --> 01:55:59,160
Speaker 1: did a very good job of putting that offensive line

2225
01:55:59,200 --> 01:56:01,200
Speaker 1: back together. And he said that might be a little

2226
01:56:01,240 --> 01:56:03,800
Speaker 1: bit more talented on the edge. Right, all right, Matt,

2227
01:56:03,960 --> 01:56:06,360
Speaker 1: thanks as always, man. We appreciate you dicing it up

2228
01:56:06,400 --> 01:56:09,080
Speaker 1: for us. Keep keep grinding in the film room. We'll

2229
01:56:09,160 --> 01:56:10,800
Speaker 1: hit you up again down the line. We appreciate it,

2230
01:56:11,600 --> 01:56:13,760
Speaker 1: all right, guys, thank you. All right. That's Matt Bowen

2231
01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:15,880
Speaker 1: joining us former Buffalo Bill in two thousand and six.

2232
01:56:15,960 --> 01:56:18,280
Speaker 1: People kind of forget that. He was all through camp

2233
01:56:18,360 --> 01:56:20,160
Speaker 1: there and had a nice seven year career and then

2234
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:22,280
Speaker 1: he got injured and I think he only played in

2235
01:56:22,360 --> 01:56:24,960
Speaker 1: a handful of games for the Bills and then he

2236
01:56:25,040 --> 01:56:27,960
Speaker 1: was gone the next year, so people kind of forget that.

2237
01:56:28,040 --> 01:56:29,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, he was here. He and I had a

2238
01:56:29,400 --> 01:56:32,080
Speaker 1: lot of fun conversations when I was covering the team

2239
01:56:32,120 --> 01:56:36,840
Speaker 1: and stuff, and big Iowa guy. He loves aj Epenesa,

2240
01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:40,160
Speaker 1: loves Micah Hide, especially since he played the same position

2241
01:56:40,240 --> 01:56:42,960
Speaker 1: as Matt did at safety. So yeah, good to get

2242
01:56:43,040 --> 01:56:45,240
Speaker 1: him on and chat with him about stuff because he

2243
01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:47,040
Speaker 1: puts the time in on the scheme side of things.

2244
01:56:47,080 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 1: So always a good conversation with him, and I like that.

2245
01:56:50,880 --> 01:56:54,720
Speaker 1: He said, Yeah, I could see Beasley and Sanders as

2246
01:56:54,800 --> 01:56:59,480
Speaker 1: double slots in a four wide looks so it's so tasty.

2247
01:56:59,560 --> 01:57:01,520
Speaker 1: I just I want to see it with Diggs and

2248
01:57:01,600 --> 01:57:04,240
Speaker 1: Davis on the outside. Yeah, that's it's a it's a

2249
01:57:04,360 --> 01:57:06,720
Speaker 1: nice thought and it all sounds all honky, Dorry, but

2250
01:57:06,800 --> 01:57:08,640
Speaker 1: you gotta you know, there's a lot of work. You've

2251
01:57:08,640 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: got a lot of work to be done, and teams

2252
01:57:11,040 --> 01:57:14,120
Speaker 1: are gonna have an answer for it. But like we

2253
01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: saw last year, teams were not ready. A lot of

2254
01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:21,160
Speaker 1: teams weren't really ready or willing to go four deep

2255
01:57:21,240 --> 01:57:26,360
Speaker 1: at cornerback. And if they aren't, that means you're gonna

2256
01:57:26,400 --> 01:57:29,000
Speaker 1: put that ten personnel out there. They're gonna go zone.

2257
01:57:30,240 --> 01:57:33,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna zone it all and Belichick went seven dbs.

2258
01:57:33,160 --> 01:57:35,040
Speaker 1: As you heard Matt say in week six, How well

2259
01:57:35,080 --> 01:57:37,240
Speaker 1: did that work. They're gonna put some They're gonna put some. Yeah,

2260
01:57:37,440 --> 01:57:41,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna put some athletes out there, and but those

2261
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:43,400
Speaker 1: athletes aren't They're not gonna be able to match up

2262
01:57:43,440 --> 01:57:45,120
Speaker 1: man a man. So if they're going zone, you know

2263
01:57:45,280 --> 01:57:46,880
Speaker 1: certain things are going to be true and you're gonna

2264
01:57:46,880 --> 01:57:48,800
Speaker 1: be able to take advantage of it. The most exciting

2265
01:57:48,920 --> 01:57:51,560
Speaker 1: thing for me, though, with the addition of Sanders is this,

2266
01:57:51,880 --> 01:57:55,480
Speaker 1: you know that with defensive coordinators pouring over Bill's offensive

2267
01:57:55,520 --> 01:57:58,240
Speaker 1: tape from last year, they're saying, Okay, we just have

2268
01:57:58,360 --> 01:58:01,560
Speaker 1: to find a way to get Beasley covered up and

2269
01:58:01,680 --> 01:58:04,280
Speaker 1: take away the passing lanes for him. Since he separates

2270
01:58:04,320 --> 01:58:08,280
Speaker 1: so quickly, and if you shut that off, that could

2271
01:58:08,320 --> 01:58:11,160
Speaker 1: be a concern for the Bills effectiveness, particularly on third

2272
01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:17,600
Speaker 1: and two to six if you double Beasley and he's gone, yeah,

2273
01:58:17,600 --> 01:58:21,400
Speaker 1: as the starting point. But I think it's completely I

2274
01:58:21,480 --> 01:58:24,960
Speaker 1: think it's completely negated because Sanders does the same exact thing.

2275
01:58:25,240 --> 01:58:27,840
Speaker 1: He's a quick separator. Now you're putting two of them

2276
01:58:27,880 --> 01:58:30,360
Speaker 1: on the field, and now the defensive coordinators are back

2277
01:58:30,400 --> 01:58:32,240
Speaker 1: to square one as I see it, I think those

2278
01:58:32,480 --> 01:58:35,200
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators certainly what Matt said is true. It makes

2279
01:58:35,240 --> 01:58:38,720
Speaker 1: you really really effective on third down as an offense

2280
01:58:38,760 --> 01:58:41,000
Speaker 1: when you got two of those guys there. But here's

2281
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:45,720
Speaker 1: the thing as well. If you're gonna go to Beasley

2282
01:58:45,880 --> 01:58:50,720
Speaker 1: and Sanders Sanders, at least they're not going deep to digs, right,

2283
01:58:50,920 --> 01:58:52,560
Speaker 1: at least they're not going over the top, right. But

2284
01:58:52,640 --> 01:58:54,800
Speaker 1: you're still moving the football, and you're still on the field,

2285
01:58:54,840 --> 01:58:57,560
Speaker 1: and you're playing another set of downs, and it's forced,

2286
01:58:57,680 --> 01:58:59,480
Speaker 1: but it forces the Bills to go the long way.

2287
01:58:59,520 --> 01:59:02,400
Speaker 1: He takes a twelve play drive instead of a six

2288
01:59:02,520 --> 01:59:06,560
Speaker 1: play drive, right, and there's more opportunities for mistakes turnovers

2289
01:59:06,600 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: that you gotta play that game. If you don't have

2290
01:59:09,680 --> 01:59:13,800
Speaker 1: the personnel to match up. You gotta slow him. Yeah,

2291
01:59:13,920 --> 01:59:15,920
Speaker 1: you gotta slow him down anyway, and hope they make

2292
01:59:15,960 --> 01:59:19,040
Speaker 1: a mistake and you're one of your guys makes a play.

2293
01:59:19,520 --> 01:59:23,680
Speaker 1: And that's what defenses, defenses do. The Bills are a

2294
01:59:23,760 --> 01:59:26,879
Speaker 1: load though, let's not making let's not make any excuses

2295
01:59:26,920 --> 01:59:30,400
Speaker 1: and like couch you but any the Bills are bad

2296
01:59:30,480 --> 01:59:33,960
Speaker 1: to the bone. Offensively, they are good. They're a migraine heading.

2297
01:59:34,120 --> 01:59:38,520
Speaker 1: They are a load baby, and defensive coordinators know it.

2298
01:59:39,480 --> 01:59:41,560
Speaker 1: They were. They were possible to get off the field

2299
01:59:41,560 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 1: at times last year because there was a the guy

2300
01:59:45,120 --> 01:59:47,320
Speaker 1: pulled the tweet, I was the shot I was looking

2301
01:59:47,360 --> 01:59:50,120
Speaker 1: for Robert sala for the San Francisco forty nine ers

2302
01:59:50,200 --> 01:59:51,880
Speaker 1: last year. He's got to look on his face like

2303
01:59:52,040 --> 01:59:53,440
Speaker 1: I'm out of bullets. I don't know what to do.

2304
01:59:53,640 --> 01:59:56,520
Speaker 1: And it was because Josh Allen was killing him. And

2305
01:59:56,640 --> 02:00:00,600
Speaker 1: that's also why San Francisco drafted Trey Lance. That's they said,

2306
02:00:00,720 --> 02:00:02,680
Speaker 1: we need a guy like that, get me one of

2307
02:00:02,720 --> 02:00:09,240
Speaker 1: those guys. And Robert Salas probably telling Shanahan, going, bro,

2308
02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:11,720
Speaker 1: there's nothing we can do because every time we get pressure,

2309
02:00:11,880 --> 02:00:13,880
Speaker 1: he's running up with the back of our dbs getting

2310
02:00:13,880 --> 02:00:16,560
Speaker 1: a first down or touch down, and if we if

2311
02:00:16,600 --> 02:00:19,240
Speaker 1: we cover him up, you know, and if we don't

2312
02:00:19,320 --> 02:00:20,920
Speaker 1: do that and put it in there and put pressure

2313
02:00:21,000 --> 02:00:23,320
Speaker 1: on him, they're slicing us up in the back of

2314
02:00:23,360 --> 02:00:27,240
Speaker 1: he's throwing. He's throwing it through keyholes, through three defenders.

2315
02:00:27,600 --> 02:00:29,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a highlight of the year for Josh

2316
02:00:29,480 --> 02:00:32,640
Speaker 1: Allen over the top of an all Pro linebacker in

2317
02:00:32,840 --> 02:00:38,440
Speaker 1: between three defensive backs to get to a rookie wide receiver. Like,

2318
02:00:38,560 --> 02:00:40,240
Speaker 1: what else you want us to do? He's looking at

2319
02:00:40,720 --> 02:00:45,600
Speaker 1: And then in Denver, Josh fakes pump, fakes that and

2320
02:00:45,680 --> 02:00:47,800
Speaker 1: he just walks into the corner of the end zone.

2321
02:00:47,800 --> 02:00:50,880
Speaker 1: This isn't even the nineteen to twenty one yard touchdown run.

2322
02:00:51,400 --> 02:00:52,920
Speaker 1: This is later in the game when he walks off

2323
02:00:52,960 --> 02:00:54,400
Speaker 1: the end and just walks into the corner of the

2324
02:00:54,440 --> 02:00:59,040
Speaker 1: end zone. Vick fonshow's over there? He's literally throwing his

2325
02:00:59,200 --> 02:01:02,280
Speaker 1: arms up. He throws his arms up and turns around,

2326
02:01:02,360 --> 02:01:08,400
Speaker 1: walks back to the bench. They've got answers everywhere. They

2327
02:01:08,480 --> 02:01:11,640
Speaker 1: might have more this year with Sanders everywhere. And that's

2328
02:01:12,120 --> 02:01:16,080
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a real problem, and that's gonna

2329
02:01:16,080 --> 02:01:18,600
Speaker 1: be a big reason why they're they're going to continue

2330
02:01:18,600 --> 02:01:20,440
Speaker 1: to be pretty good offense. I'll bet you these score

2331
02:01:20,800 --> 02:01:22,800
Speaker 1: I know why. I said, like, the best case scenario

2332
02:01:22,880 --> 02:01:24,760
Speaker 1: for a lot of defenses in this league against this

2333
02:01:24,840 --> 02:01:26,920
Speaker 1: offense is going to be dying a slow death instead

2334
02:01:26,920 --> 02:01:29,080
Speaker 1: of a direct stake to the heart. Throw it. We'll

2335
02:01:29,080 --> 02:01:31,520
Speaker 1: give you the short pass, and we're gonna come up

2336
02:01:31,520 --> 02:01:34,680
Speaker 1: and make your receivers pay a physical price if we can,

2337
02:01:35,400 --> 02:01:37,680
Speaker 1: and get the ball out if we can. That's it.

2338
02:01:38,160 --> 02:01:42,320
Speaker 1: That's your game plan. Throw it short, give you the completion,

2339
02:01:42,400 --> 02:01:43,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna try and get the ball out or

2340
02:01:44,240 --> 02:01:46,760
Speaker 1: make your guys not want to take a hit because

2341
02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:50,720
Speaker 1: we'ren't trying to be right there and that that's because

2342
02:01:51,080 --> 02:01:53,680
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? You could do the thing

2343
02:01:53,760 --> 02:02:00,000
Speaker 1: that the Patriots did eight dbs. Let him run the

2344
02:02:00,120 --> 02:02:02,600
Speaker 1: ball thirty five times. That way, they only they score

2345
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:07,960
Speaker 1: on seven of eight possessions instead of seven of twelve possessions. Yeah,

2346
02:02:08,120 --> 02:02:10,360
Speaker 1: Miami did some of that too. That's the Bills. They

2347
02:02:10,400 --> 02:02:13,440
Speaker 1: played seven and a dbs, which isn't surprising since Flora's

2348
02:02:13,440 --> 02:02:17,360
Speaker 1: comes from the Belichick school of defense. Didn't work all

2349
02:02:17,400 --> 02:02:19,240
Speaker 1: that well down there either. I mean they hung thirty

2350
02:02:19,320 --> 02:02:21,000
Speaker 1: burghers on both of those things. I'll go back to

2351
02:02:21,080 --> 02:02:23,120
Speaker 1: it again. Do you want to know how the good

2352
02:02:23,200 --> 02:02:25,400
Speaker 1: this team was, Go back and watch Week seventeen, the

2353
02:02:25,600 --> 02:02:28,200
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins coming in with two and that and their

2354
02:02:28,280 --> 02:02:30,920
Speaker 1: number that was the number one scoring defense in the

2355
02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:33,480
Speaker 1: National Football League. In the game they had to have

2356
02:02:34,120 --> 02:02:37,280
Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs. You can't get more important

2357
02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:39,960
Speaker 1: in the regular season. It's the last one and all.

2358
02:02:40,040 --> 02:02:44,160
Speaker 1: You got to beat the Bills to get in the playoffs,

2359
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:50,600
Speaker 1: and their number one defense gave up fifty six the

2360
02:02:50,720 --> 02:02:57,120
Speaker 1: last second half was Matt Barkley fifty six. That's a

2361
02:02:57,200 --> 02:03:01,160
Speaker 1: quiet flight home, bro. All right, we got a break.

2362
02:03:01,760 --> 02:03:03,360
Speaker 1: When we come back, more of your thoughts on the

2363
02:03:03,400 --> 02:03:06,920
Speaker 1: tweet sheet about which Bills unproven player on the roster

2364
02:03:07,520 --> 02:03:09,520
Speaker 1: needs to answer the bell this season to help the

2365
02:03:09,560 --> 02:03:12,800
Speaker 1: Bills get over that AFC Championship game hump. We're back

2366
02:03:12,840 --> 02:03:15,440
Speaker 1: with more. You're on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Help.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

2368
02:03:30,360 --> 02:03:33,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you final half hour of

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02:03:33,120 --> 02:03:34,560
Speaker 1: the show. Here. I wanted to get back to your

2370
02:03:34,560 --> 02:03:37,120
Speaker 1: tweet sheet comments. What unproven player on the Bill's roster

2371
02:03:37,320 --> 02:03:42,200
Speaker 1: must answer the bell this season. We've been busy, we

2372
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:43,840
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to read too many of these.

2373
02:03:45,360 --> 02:03:48,520
Speaker 1: Rachel says, we need one of our young pass rushers

2374
02:03:48,600 --> 02:03:51,000
Speaker 1: to step up. Oliver or Epinessa or one of our

2375
02:03:51,080 --> 02:03:53,280
Speaker 1: rookie defensive ends really needs to have a breakout year.

2376
02:03:53,320 --> 02:03:55,720
Speaker 1: Our pass rush was not good enough last year, and

2377
02:03:55,800 --> 02:03:58,280
Speaker 1: I think it held us back from the super Bowl.

2378
02:03:58,360 --> 02:04:00,640
Speaker 1: You could see Bam Johnson do that. He's a third

2379
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:05,080
Speaker 1: year player, he is. Yeah, that's a good point. I'm

2380
02:04:05,120 --> 02:04:08,600
Speaker 1: telling it at third years. I went to my first

2381
02:04:08,640 --> 02:04:12,680
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl my third year, and I was a different

2382
02:04:12,760 --> 02:04:15,320
Speaker 1: player that year than I had been before that. Now,

2383
02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:17,200
Speaker 1: certainly my first year I was trying to learn and

2384
02:04:17,240 --> 02:04:19,800
Speaker 1: I was doing something different than than midway. My second year,

2385
02:04:19,840 --> 02:04:25,600
Speaker 1: I actually came to Buffalo, you know, and was you know,

2386
02:04:26,080 --> 02:04:28,360
Speaker 1: brand new. I came in week ten and stuff. So

2387
02:04:28,640 --> 02:04:30,240
Speaker 1: my third year was like the first time I was

2388
02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:32,120
Speaker 1: at this new team. I'd been through a full offseason

2389
02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:33,920
Speaker 1: and done all that, and here I was and I

2390
02:04:34,040 --> 02:04:36,760
Speaker 1: had I think one of the things that helped me

2391
02:04:36,920 --> 02:04:40,440
Speaker 1: as a third year player, not that it applies to

2392
02:04:40,480 --> 02:04:43,760
Speaker 1: all of these guys but I knew my roles, what

2393
02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:46,560
Speaker 1: I had to do. I knew it. And when you

2394
02:04:46,800 --> 02:04:49,480
Speaker 1: really know exactly what you're supposed to do and what

2395
02:04:49,560 --> 02:04:51,000
Speaker 1: you got to get ready to do and what you're

2396
02:04:51,040 --> 02:04:54,160
Speaker 1: going to be asked to do, you can attack it

2397
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:59,120
Speaker 1: and you know, really focus on it and work hard

2398
02:04:59,200 --> 02:05:01,520
Speaker 1: at it without doing stuff that doesn't mean anything and

2399
02:05:01,600 --> 02:05:04,040
Speaker 1: getting distracted and all that. And I think that's one

2400
02:05:04,120 --> 02:05:07,840
Speaker 1: of the reasons for me that my third year was

2401
02:05:07,840 --> 02:05:10,400
Speaker 1: also a step forward, like we saw Josh's last year.

2402
02:05:11,440 --> 02:05:13,280
Speaker 1: I think Josh spread his wings in a lot of

2403
02:05:13,320 --> 02:05:16,080
Speaker 1: ways last year that obviously showed on the field, but

2404
02:05:16,160 --> 02:05:18,560
Speaker 1: also I think off the field as well. The ownership

2405
02:05:18,600 --> 02:05:20,920
Speaker 1: he took of the offense, the depth of knowledge he

2406
02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:23,760
Speaker 1: had about it, the conversations with day Ball or at

2407
02:05:23,800 --> 02:05:28,400
Speaker 1: another level, his likes and dislikes, and his acknowledgements about

2408
02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:31,480
Speaker 1: his own limitations. You know, I don't like the way

2409
02:05:31,520 --> 02:05:33,200
Speaker 1: that looks when I get back there and I'm supposed

2410
02:05:33,240 --> 02:05:34,640
Speaker 1: to read this, I don't like the way that looks

2411
02:05:34,680 --> 02:05:35,840
Speaker 1: over there. I can't pick it out, you know, that

2412
02:05:35,920 --> 02:05:38,400
Speaker 1: kind of conversation and day Ball say, well, what about

2413
02:05:38,400 --> 02:05:39,880
Speaker 1: if we did this? And he looked and they run

2414
02:05:39,920 --> 02:05:41,000
Speaker 1: through it and he says, yeah, I like that a

2415
02:05:41,040 --> 02:05:43,400
Speaker 1: lot better. Boom, there you go, and now you go

2416
02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:45,680
Speaker 1: from an uncertain quarterback in the pocket to a guy

2417
02:05:45,720 --> 02:05:48,120
Speaker 1: that's like, yeah, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Those

2418
02:05:48,200 --> 02:05:50,760
Speaker 1: kind of conversations happen in your third year and as

2419
02:05:50,800 --> 02:05:54,680
Speaker 1: you get deeper into it. So I'm we've said it.

2420
02:05:54,800 --> 02:05:56,960
Speaker 1: There's a ton of young guys on this list. Yeah,

2421
02:05:57,320 --> 02:06:00,200
Speaker 1: and if it doesn't have to be that, only one

2422
02:06:00,240 --> 02:06:03,240
Speaker 1: of them is a breakout player. And I think that's

2423
02:06:03,280 --> 02:06:05,680
Speaker 1: pretty exciting to think about for Bill's fans. Speaking of

2424
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:09,160
Speaker 1: third year players, Matthew says knocks catching of football is

2425
02:06:09,200 --> 02:06:11,760
Speaker 1: the number one priority. I'd love to see mister sticky

2426
02:06:11,800 --> 02:06:15,280
Speaker 1: hands himself. Isaiah Hodgens make this roster. Ed needs to

2427
02:06:15,360 --> 02:06:17,560
Speaker 1: do something since he was drafted and everyone said he

2428
02:06:17,600 --> 02:06:19,760
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the second coming of Aaron Donald.

2429
02:06:20,280 --> 02:06:24,440
Speaker 1: Wallace needs to stop getting burned. So some criticism in

2430
02:06:24,480 --> 02:06:28,640
Speaker 1: there from matth I don't know. I don't know. I've

2431
02:06:28,680 --> 02:06:31,880
Speaker 1: never thought about Levi Wallace as a guy that gets burnt. Yeah.

2432
02:06:32,480 --> 02:06:36,200
Speaker 1: If anything, he's a conservative cover man. He keeps everything

2433
02:06:36,240 --> 02:06:39,040
Speaker 1: in front of which all, by the way, is the

2434
02:06:39,160 --> 02:06:42,240
Speaker 1: number one rule of this defense. Yeah, they keep everything

2435
02:06:42,320 --> 02:06:45,200
Speaker 1: in front of them. Yeah, I get it. I think

2436
02:06:45,200 --> 02:06:47,240
Speaker 1: they were second in the league and forty plus yard

2437
02:06:47,280 --> 02:06:52,200
Speaker 1: pass plays allout, and I think ed uist ed Oliver

2438
02:06:52,560 --> 02:06:54,360
Speaker 1: is one of the kind of the most obvious because

2439
02:06:54,360 --> 02:06:56,960
Speaker 1: he's really drafting a top ten and he's a defensive

2440
02:06:57,040 --> 02:06:58,400
Speaker 1: got to break in and you want to break him.

2441
02:06:58,440 --> 02:07:01,040
Speaker 1: You want him to that's a that's a high value

2442
02:07:01,120 --> 02:07:06,040
Speaker 1: draft pick. Visible difference. But he has shown flashes and

2443
02:07:06,240 --> 02:07:08,600
Speaker 1: some consistently good play in the past rush even though

2444
02:07:08,640 --> 02:07:11,600
Speaker 1: he doesn't get a lot of sacks. He has shown

2445
02:07:11,680 --> 02:07:15,080
Speaker 1: flashes of being everything we thought he might be, but

2446
02:07:15,320 --> 02:07:20,360
Speaker 1: consistency has not been there. And you know, you want

2447
02:07:20,360 --> 02:07:22,040
Speaker 1: to see more of all the good stuff you see

2448
02:07:22,040 --> 02:07:24,320
Speaker 1: from him once in a while. So it's it's gonna

2449
02:07:24,360 --> 02:07:29,400
Speaker 1: be interesting to see these guys become, you know, a

2450
02:07:29,720 --> 02:07:33,800
Speaker 1: veteran with one more year under their belt. Isaiah Hodgins

2451
02:07:33,880 --> 02:07:37,640
Speaker 1: is an intriguing guy to me. He's still in a

2452
02:07:37,680 --> 02:07:40,680
Speaker 1: red jersey, non contact so he has yet to even

2453
02:07:41,240 --> 02:07:45,400
Speaker 1: hit the field full speed, and so's he's a real

2454
02:07:45,520 --> 02:07:49,440
Speaker 1: unknown commodity that really has a chance to be very good. Yeah.

2455
02:07:49,480 --> 02:07:52,000
Speaker 1: I liked this college tape a lot. He's a big guy,

2456
02:07:52,200 --> 02:07:56,280
Speaker 1: but I think he's probably a slot guy just because

2457
02:07:56,320 --> 02:07:58,880
Speaker 1: of his double moveability. He won on double moves more

2458
02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:01,440
Speaker 1: than any other college receiver I saw in the twenty

2459
02:08:01,560 --> 02:08:04,640
Speaker 1: twenty draft class, right, So I'm intrigued to see how

2460
02:08:04,720 --> 02:08:08,640
Speaker 1: well that translates to the NFL game. I still think

2461
02:08:08,680 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 1: that from what I saw from Dawson Knox last year,

2462
02:08:10,720 --> 02:08:12,120
Speaker 1: in the time that he was on the field between

2463
02:08:12,200 --> 02:08:15,680
Speaker 1: COVID and a calf injury, he was a much better player.

2464
02:08:16,720 --> 02:08:21,720
Speaker 1: And I think he's got a chance. I don't know

2465
02:08:21,760 --> 02:08:23,840
Speaker 1: if he'll get all that many opportunities. I mean, you're

2466
02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:27,040
Speaker 1: you're talking about Emmanuel Sanders, Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley, and

2467
02:08:27,200 --> 02:08:29,360
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis, along with the two running backs back there.

2468
02:08:29,440 --> 02:08:32,160
Speaker 1: He may be way down the pecking order, but we've

2469
02:08:32,520 --> 02:08:35,920
Speaker 1: we've talked about it a ton. If it's on film,

2470
02:08:36,040 --> 02:08:38,120
Speaker 1: in practice and all that word, this guy, look at him,

2471
02:08:38,160 --> 02:08:39,560
Speaker 1: Look how open he is even if he does not

2472
02:08:39,600 --> 02:08:41,440
Speaker 1: getting thrown the ball. And that's one of the beauty

2473
02:08:41,520 --> 02:08:45,480
Speaker 1: things about having every practice filmed and every angle. They

2474
02:08:45,600 --> 02:08:48,200
Speaker 1: know who's getting open, and Josh sees it. Jim was,

2475
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:51,840
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly was notorious for this. He's a guy he'd

2476
02:08:51,880 --> 02:08:54,000
Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, look at that, and he's like,

2477
02:08:54,320 --> 02:08:57,160
Speaker 1: how did I miss him being that open? And from

2478
02:08:57,200 --> 02:09:00,640
Speaker 1: that moment on, he's looking for that guy. Yeah, and

2479
02:09:00,800 --> 02:09:02,920
Speaker 1: that's how I got a lot of catches. And you know,

2480
02:09:03,480 --> 02:09:06,760
Speaker 1: in the moments when I played quarterbacks noticed that on film.

2481
02:09:06,840 --> 02:09:09,240
Speaker 1: It's what they get paid to do. And they think

2482
02:09:09,240 --> 02:09:11,760
Speaker 1: about why they missed him, why they weren't looking for him,

2483
02:09:11,800 --> 02:09:14,840
Speaker 1: and that problem starts to get solved, and all of

2484
02:09:14,880 --> 02:09:17,680
Speaker 1: a sudden, the guy like Dawson Knox goes from whatever

2485
02:09:17,720 --> 02:09:19,960
Speaker 1: it was thirty eight catches or whatever. I don't know,

2486
02:09:20,080 --> 02:09:24,360
Speaker 1: I'm guessing to you know, seventy catches and he becomes

2487
02:09:24,400 --> 02:09:27,440
Speaker 1: one of these guys like Kelsey and Kittle and Ertz

2488
02:09:27,480 --> 02:09:28,960
Speaker 1: and all these guys that are like, wow, where did

2489
02:09:28,960 --> 02:09:32,120
Speaker 1: they find that guy? He's pretty good, but it's it's

2490
02:09:32,160 --> 02:09:34,800
Speaker 1: a mindset and it's and I just I've seen so

2491
02:09:35,000 --> 02:09:37,800
Speaker 1: much from him and so much promise from him. But yeah,

2492
02:09:38,000 --> 02:09:42,240
Speaker 1: and I think this is his year. Jeremiah says AJ.

2493
02:09:42,720 --> 02:09:44,440
Speaker 1: If he can make a big jump and live up

2494
02:09:44,440 --> 02:09:47,200
Speaker 1: to his physical abilities, it can make a huge difference

2495
02:09:47,600 --> 02:09:49,680
Speaker 1: for the defense. As a whole and make everyone better

2496
02:09:49,800 --> 02:09:53,040
Speaker 1: on the line. Yeah, And I really think this is

2497
02:09:53,080 --> 02:09:55,440
Speaker 1: going to be something to keep an eye on through

2498
02:09:55,520 --> 02:09:59,200
Speaker 1: the course of this season because I think Mario Addison

2499
02:09:59,280 --> 02:10:03,360
Speaker 1: and Jerry Hugh are probably your starters week one, and

2500
02:10:03,480 --> 02:10:05,280
Speaker 1: the other guys are going to rotate in. But as

2501
02:10:05,360 --> 02:10:07,560
Speaker 1: we move through the season, it is going to be

2502
02:10:07,720 --> 02:10:13,720
Speaker 1: very telling. Number One, based on how position flexible Russou

2503
02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:16,560
Speaker 1: and Basham are. Can they truly be effective kicking down

2504
02:10:16,600 --> 02:10:19,960
Speaker 1: inside on obvious passing downs? Where does Aj Epinessa fit

2505
02:10:20,080 --> 02:10:23,800
Speaker 1: into that mix? Is he a guy kicking inside? So

2506
02:10:25,200 --> 02:10:28,520
Speaker 1: as the season wears on, do the roles of Rousseau,

2507
02:10:29,040 --> 02:10:33,600
Speaker 1: Basham and aj increase? Do they suddenly take the bulk

2508
02:10:33,960 --> 02:10:37,800
Speaker 1: of the reps where now Addison and Hughes are playing

2509
02:10:37,880 --> 02:10:40,240
Speaker 1: more of a role than maybe getting the bulk of

2510
02:10:40,280 --> 02:10:42,120
Speaker 1: the work. I don't know if that's going to happen.

2511
02:10:42,200 --> 02:10:45,600
Speaker 1: For Hughes, I think he's probably still the most talented

2512
02:10:46,400 --> 02:10:49,280
Speaker 1: edge bender of the group. These other guys are more

2513
02:10:49,800 --> 02:10:55,200
Speaker 1: power rushers speed to power AJ, Basham and Rousseau, So

2514
02:10:55,400 --> 02:10:58,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna need an edge speed element and that's Jerry.

2515
02:10:59,760 --> 02:11:02,600
Speaker 1: What happens with Addison, you know, does somebody take over

2516
02:11:02,720 --> 02:11:05,280
Speaker 1: the bulk of his work. It's gonna be really interesting

2517
02:11:05,320 --> 02:11:07,440
Speaker 1: to see how would all unfold us the season wears on.

2518
02:11:07,640 --> 02:11:09,480
Speaker 1: There's a lot of names out there that I want

2519
02:11:09,480 --> 02:11:10,880
Speaker 1: to see, and I wish you'd give them all on

2520
02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:12,600
Speaker 1: the field because I really want to see them all play.

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Speaker 1: But you know they're gonna gonna play two ends at

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Speaker 1: a time and two tackles at a time, or maybe

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Speaker 1: a combination thereof. It's gonna be a fun preseason to

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Speaker 1: watch these guys get on the field and battle it out.

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Speaker 1: Break time for us. Steve and I will close it

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Speaker 1: up when we return with what have we learned? Plenty

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Speaker 1: of lessons today back in a flash here on one

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Speaker 1: Learned a bunch of stuff today. Got over seventy players

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Speaker 1: and attendance here at OTA's voluntary OTAs, so that's a

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Speaker 1: good showing there. Work on the field is moving along.

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Speaker 1: Coaches pretty happy with where his players are at right now,

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Speaker 1: with a lot more work to be done. Here we are,

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Speaker 1: and they also learned that as far as Josh Allen said,

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Speaker 1: and what Sean McDermot says, things are about sixty to

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Speaker 1: seventy percent back to normal where there were two years ago,

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Speaker 1: and that bodes well here in May as we head

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Speaker 1: towards July, August and July and August, where you know,

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Speaker 1: things need to be back to normal and they're well

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Speaker 1: on their way. And we also learned today that a

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Speaker 1: decision on where training camp will be is still t

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Speaker 1: b D coach McDermott did confirm that some staff people

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Speaker 1: did go up to Saint John Fisher. They've talked to

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Speaker 1: those representatives, they've done an assessment up there, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend to know when that decision

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Speaker 1: is going to be made. I would like to think

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Speaker 1: they're going to try to give it as much time

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Speaker 1: as they possibly can to see if state and CDC

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Speaker 1: guidelines can tinue to be relaxed, or if things change

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Speaker 1: at the league level. But it's very much await and see.

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Speaker 1: If it's worth it, they'll do it. If it's not,

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Speaker 1: they won't. Yeah, and they've already proven they can do

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Speaker 1: a pretty good job here. Particularly if they get here

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Speaker 1: and they can't do it, make the decision in time

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Speaker 1: to make it happen to Saint John Fisher. It'll be

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Speaker 1: even better this year if they do it here because

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Speaker 1: they won't be doing the social distancing as much and

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Speaker 1: all of that. It'll be a much more normal setting

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Speaker 1: like it is in a regular season. I think that's

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Speaker 1: pretty enticing for a coaching staff. Well, and it's like

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Speaker 1: you always say, if there's too many fiery hoops to

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Speaker 1: jump through to make it work, you know, let's just

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Speaker 1: keep getting ready for the regular season has enough of

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Speaker 1: its own challenges all by itself. Adding any more onto

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Speaker 1: the pile may prove to be counterproductive, as unfortunate as

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Speaker 1: that might be to say, because I know the fans

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Speaker 1: are eager to get back out to training camp and

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Speaker 1: experience it as they usually do, so we'll cross our

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Speaker 1: fingers and toes and see what happens. Good stuff. We

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Speaker 1: do want to thank our crew on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the door today, Jeff Blast, Harris, Jeff Coltonett and

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Speaker 1: Thomas Hollander. They were juggling a lot of balls today

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Speaker 1: and made it all worse. Effects to those guys. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow more OTA coverage and more Bill's Talk

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Speaker 1: as usual. It's one Bill's Live Man. We'll see you tomorrow.