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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday after noon. Mattie Glab here alongside Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: team with yak so yards after catch is what he's

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Speaker 1: meaning by that, That's what that term means, and he

433
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: says last season he didn't do enough, do a good

434
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: enough job of throwing guys open. I saw that yesterday

435
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: on a pass that Josh threw to Gabe Davis. Beautiful

436
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: ball placement by Josh to throw Gabe Davis open, who

437
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: was being guarded by Dane Jackson. Gabe had a couple

438
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: steps on Dane Jackson and kind of left Dane in

439
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: his dust. So that was a perfect example of how

440
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: I have seen Josh already hitting on the things that

441
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 1: he wants to work on here during OTAs and training camp. Yeah,

442
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 1: it's a It is interesting because there's so much that

443
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: needs to be done and there's there are so many

444
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: new faces. This is really the only time that McDermott

445
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott has made and I'll put finger quotes up

446
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: involuntary coaching changes where Brian Dabole left as a head

447
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: coach to become the head coach of the New York Giants,

448
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: and he took some guys with him and gave him

449
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: promotions and the Bills were forced to, you know, make

450
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: some moves and bringing some new coach, which is to

451
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 1: fill that void. Um, it is interesting to see this

452
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: take place, and I it's it is interesting because this

453
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: is at this point he always wondered, Wow, how how

454
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: how's it gonna go with Josh? Is he gonna be

455
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: all right as he you know, you know the stability

456
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: and all that we're you know, we're always thinking how

457
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: good it's gonna be for Josh. You know that he's

458
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: gonna be stable. Now it's like Josh's gonna be fine.

459
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna be fine. He's gonna play well. Ken Dorse's

460
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: gonna gonna call new plays. It's gonna be a different

461
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: kind of field. But Josh Allen's gonna play as well

462
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: as he can play, and you can kind of count

463
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: on it. He's kind of a given now at this

464
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: point of his career. Steph Diggs, same thing. Um. Some

465
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: of the new faces up front for the defense and

466
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: for the offense is gonna be interesting to see how

467
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Speaker 1: they come together. Uh, some of the guys we've come

468
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: to know and love, you know, Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milana,

469
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: we're gonna be right back into their spots, ready to

470
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: go again. Jordan Phillips and Shack Loss in her back.

471
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Speaker 1: Um says a lot about what they've built here in Buffalo,

472
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: the way they've built it and how they intend to

473
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: maintain it. So some of the changeovers, particularly with Phillips

474
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: and Lawson, that is a huge plus because it's it's like,

475
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I get I've been here before. Here

476
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: we go, let's you know, let's do it. Those guys

477
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: are not so new, you know, so that isn't an

478
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic to this group of guys up front on

479
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: the defense as well. So all this stuff taking place

480
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: at this time of year, I still think this club

481
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: is light years ahead of where a lot of football

482
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 1: teams are, particularly like the Miami Dolphins with their new

483
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: head coach Robert Sala, with all the new players there

484
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: that are really they got those new players for the

485
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: Jets the draft picks, and they did they nailed it

486
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: in the draft. But those guys have to come through

487
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: for that team. If they're going to take a big

488
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: step forward, those new players have to step up. It's

489
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: a lot to ask for a rookie, uh, you know,

490
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: New York Jets um in Buffalo. These guys, we feel

491
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: like there's no way they can't contribute. They're going to

492
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna be asked to like carry anything. Yeah,

493
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: just do this when we ask you too, and that'll

494
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: be enough. It's a much different vibe for the Bills

495
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: draft picks than it is for like the New York

496
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: Jets draft picks. So it's fun to think about. It's

497
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: fun to to start to wrap our minds around it.

498
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: And you know, we're gonna be over We're gonna be

499
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: over in Rochester before we know it. Yeah, we're probably

500
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: shows from Rochester. We thought about, are we doing the

501
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: show from r We don't know. Maybe we can break

502
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: that news on here, I would think. So we have

503
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: had meetings about it, yet somebody says we are doing

504
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: the show from We're being told now, of course we are.

505
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: Attention staff, we're being we're doing the show. I figured

506
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: we were, but I didn't, you know, I'm I'm so

507
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: far down the pecking order. I didn't know if I

508
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: should can I like that we're going to do that.

509
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: I figured we were, but you know, we haven't had

510
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: serious talks about it except to say that'll be great

511
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: to go over there. Note all that. So we just

512
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: kind of took it for granted that we were. And

513
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: as we started talking about it, I go, I don't

514
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: know I who we are, but we are because you

515
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: gotta be there. Stuff Scar tissue from COVID, like, we

516
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: didn't get to do everything we needed to do right now.

517
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's nice. It'll be it'll be normal. We

518
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Speaker 1: abvious see a hid of fans and everything. I'm really

519
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: excited to go down to Rochester and and to be

520
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: able to watch training camp from Saint John Fisher and

521
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: live that dorm life. I will be coming back from

522
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: my honeymoon and I think I'll have two days and

523
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Speaker 1: we'll move to Rochester. So I'll be like, all right,

524
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: see it, high new husband, buy new husband. I'm going

525
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: to Rochester for a month. You're probably sick and tired

526
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: of me already, so I'm just gonna take a little

527
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: break to Rochester. Your new husband's reaction to you going

528
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: to Rochester, we'll tell us a lot. We're gonna he's

529
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna say, can you give me tickets to

530
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: watch practice? I want to go to practice. If he's

531
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: very happy to see you going off to do your thing,

532
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: something's going wrong. Oh yeah, he won't be. He won't be.

533
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: At first, I was worried that he liked me because

534
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: I worked for the Buffalo Bills. But I think he

535
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: likes me because of me and because I work for

536
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo bus. So we figure that out now as

537
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: we're engaged getting married, soon. Oh yeah, Bills, Bills think

538
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: better be a bonus. But you talked about Josh Allen

539
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: and really nobody being worried about where he's going to

540
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: pick off here, the pick up here this season, or

541
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: what he's going to do, and knowing that he's going

542
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: to be able to take a step forward and at

543
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: least one area of his game as we head into

544
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season. I think another reason for

545
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: that is because of the system that he plays in. Yes,

546
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: he's going to be with a new offensive coordinator that

547
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: he's familiar with, but one thing that I don't think

548
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: is going to change with this offense is the ability

549
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: for players to have a say in it. And I

550
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: think that's what makes great NFL teams great NFL teams

551
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: is because they have offensive and defensive coordinators who who

552
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: choose to put an offense around player strengths or put

553
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: a defense around players strength instead of saying this is

554
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: how we're going to run it, and this is how

555
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm going to plug you into the system that I

556
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: already designed without even thinking about what strengths our players have.

557
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: Um and I think you're going to see the same

558
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: with the Bill's offense. Under Ken Dorsey is is Josh

559
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: is going to have a say, Steph is going to

560
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: have a say, Gabe's gonna have a say, Jamison's going

561
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,239
Speaker 1: to have a say. Isaiah is going to have a say. Um,

562
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: They're going to craft an offense that that works with

563
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: what the players can do and what they've shown. Um

564
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: makes them elite, makes them different, makes them separate from

565
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: from their opponents. So I think that's another reason while

566
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: why we are just going to see Josh Allen in

567
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: this offense hopefully take another step enter another level, because

568
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: why not there there's some great coaches here on this team,

569
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: from offense to defense. And when you're looking at the defense,

570
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips batted a asked down yesterday. I think Boogie

571
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: Basham did as well. Jameson Crowder had some nice catches.

572
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: The defensive line is going to be a lot of

573
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: fun to watch this season, and I think we're already

574
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: seeing that early in OTAs here. And it's hard to

575
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: dissect and and pick everything apart here as we sit

576
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: just watching one OTA practice because if you're watching on MSG,

577
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: these guys don't have pads on. We're not really playing

578
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: football here yet. We're running through things. The younger guys

579
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: and the new players, they're learning the playbook right now

580
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: so that they can feel comfortable by the time they

581
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: get into training camp where where they do put the

582
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: pads on and they are playing real football right now.

583
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: Like coach said Coach McDermott yesterday, is about chemistry, is

584
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: about feeling comfortable with things, getting acclimated to being in

585
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: a new facility. Where do I go here, how do

586
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: these meetings run, how do we say this play? What

587
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: cadence are we using here? So it's really about getting

588
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: comfortable here as we're in OTAs and as we enter

589
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp. But Jordan Phillips said yesterday, you know,

590
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: it's crazy to think about what our defensive line can

591
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: do this season because of the type of players that

592
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: we have on it. He spoke highly of Ed, he

593
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: spoke highly of Vaughan and even of our younger defensive linemen.

594
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: And that's something that Sean McDermott said was, you know,

595
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna need some of these younger guys to step

596
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: up and in year three and in year two, for

597
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: some of these younger guys, it is time they get

598
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: to learn from von Miller how cool is that I was.

599
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: I feel like I was fangirling on the sideline getting

600
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,479
Speaker 1: to watch von and Greg Russou interact because I'm so

601
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: excited for Greg and for Boogie to get to learn

602
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: from a player like von Miller, for a j Epenessa

603
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,720
Speaker 1: to get to learn from a player like von Miller.

604
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: And I say this all the time in the same sentence.

605
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes and Mario Addison played a really big role

606
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: in helping those younger guys for their first couple of seasons,

607
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: and Von Miller is going to be able to do

608
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: the same. So I'm I'm really excited to see how

609
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: some of these guys grow and flourish, the younger guys

610
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: because of a coach like von Miller or a player

611
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: like von Miller who is a coach on the field

612
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: to these younger guys. Yeah, we've we've got some Actually,

613
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,439
Speaker 1: we have some sound from Jordan Phillips and also Greg

614
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: Rousseau we're gonna share with you maybe later in this show.

615
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: We uh. It was interesting because Sean McDermot was asked

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Speaker 1: yesterday hearing his press conference about the young guys aj

617
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: Epinessa von aj Epanessa, Greg Russo boogie basham these younger

618
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: guys and you know the kind of contribution he was expecting,

619
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: and he he was not shy about saying, listen, we

620
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: need those guys to step up and be primary contributors,

621
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Speaker 1: not just guys who are filling in a rotation. And

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, um, we'll get a chance to

623
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: hear what Jordan Phillips and what Greg Rousseau have to

624
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: say about that, you know, when in their sound bite

625
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: that we've got for him. But uh, it's really interesting too.

626
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: We've talked about this a lot because every year Sean

627
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: McDermot has been here, this team has evolved, both with

628
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 1: their roster and with the players that they've really depended on. Certainly,

629
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: there were were guys that we were all new and

630
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: depended on, you know, the Matt Milanos and the Jerry

631
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: Hughes of the world. On the defensive side, a hide

632
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: and poor Yer. There's always been some guys there, but

633
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: there have been other players who have emerged who have

634
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: done extremely well, players like Taryn Johnson that came out

635
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: of nowhere, Levi Wallace who was here and has now gone.

636
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: And I think one thing that's fun every year is

637
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: that each team is a little bit different in its identity,

638
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: and looking forward to finding out what the identity of

639
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 1: this team is in twenty twenty two is going to

640
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: be part of the fun of watching them in the

641
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: OTAs and of course in training camp in the preseason. Yeah,

642
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: there's several guys that are on my list of people

643
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: that I need to watch during OTAs, that I need

644
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: to watch during mini camp, that I need to watch

645
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: during training camp. So many new players, so many young players,

646
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: so many guys who I think all of us are

647
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: expecting to take that next step, whether it's in their second, third,

648
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: or fourth season, that I am just excited to see

649
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 1: them in a Bill's uniform. As practices begin for the

650
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: upcoming season. I can't believe we're already in the end

651
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: of May and that mandatory mini camp is just a

652
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: couple weeks away, and training camp will be right after

653
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: that as well. So a lot to look forward to,

654
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 1: a lot happening. There's fun team building activities going on too.

655
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: After practices, in between practices on what they were doing today,

656
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 1: it was it was absolutely out of control. They had

657
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: dodgeball going on today. They had like they set up

658
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: these pens, these these little I don't know. There must

659
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: be twenty yard by ten yard or whatever all over

660
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: the indoor field, right all over the indoor field with

661
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: little temporary railings around them, right, and they divide up

662
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: into random teams. I'm sure there's some thought that goes

663
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: into who's onto We can't tell who's on who's team, right,

664
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 1: But there's everybody, coaches, players, They're all thrown into one

665
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: hopper and they bust down into like groups and like

666
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: teams of like eight guys and they go and you

667
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: can imagine the competitiveness that boils like it's just boiling

668
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: at the surface all the time in the building. I mean,

669
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: these guys, you can't do anything without somebody saying they

670
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: can do it better, like from throwing trash in the

671
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: trash can to getting tape to let alone playing football. Right,

672
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: So they put these guys in dodgeball teams and you

673
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: need noise canceling headphones to go out there. It is

674
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: so loud. There's like six paddocks they're all going at

675
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: the same time, and every guy and girl on the

676
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 1: field is screaming at the top of their lungs, cheering

677
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: four or against what's going on. Plus you know, dodgeball.

678
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: They've got their own rules. If you hit the guy,

679
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: they're out. And if and if they have a ball

680
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: in their hands and they and they deflect the ball

681
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: with the ball, they're safe that it doesn't count. And

682
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: the nuance and the rules that are following, they're they're

683
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: complaining about the rules. This guy cheated, he didn't cheat.

684
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: This guy's not cheating. This guy did it. I mean,

685
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. It is, it's so entertaining, and I you know,

686
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: I couldn't play dodgeball now for anything in this group,

687
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, the building was shaking. The building

688
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: was shaking, and you got, like Chad Hall on a

689
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: team with all these you know, the linebackers or whatever,

690
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: the wide receivers coaching with it is unbelievable and it,

691
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: you know, it works. It absolutely works. These guys get

692
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: to know each other and compete with each other on

693
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: the same team in these little, meaningless little games that

694
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: they that they take way too seriously. And again, it

695
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: grows a bond this early in the season, and it

696
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: starts to pay dividends as they roll out through the

697
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: regular season. It's a lot of fun to watch him do.

698
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: As Sean mcdermot's been a master at it. That was

699
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 1: one of the gifts he brought I think with him.

700
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: Certainly he knows, and he'll tell you. He alluded to

701
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:04,479
Speaker 1: it is sound bite yesterday about how far they've come,

702
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 1: and he says he looks back at five years ago

703
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: because I can't believe we did things like that, and

704
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: you know we were being successful doing that. We you

705
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: know we're so they're so much different, so much better.

706
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: They have such a better reasoning and the line of

707
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: logic as to why they do things because I can't

708
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: believe we were doing it that way just five years ago.

709
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: So he's gotten better. But one of the things he

710
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: brought here that he didn't change. That guy can build

711
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: a team. Yeah, the team building that goes on within

712
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: the hallways and the walls of one Bill's drive during

713
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: the offseason to try and get these guys to know

714
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: each other a little bit better. Whether it's sharing your

715
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,959
Speaker 1: story in front of the team, or whether it's playing

716
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: a dodgeball game, or whether it's um a weightlifting obstacle

717
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: course for whoever competes it the fastest is the winner.

718
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they're always thinking of something to get these

719
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: guys to compete because they are also competitive, and it's

720
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: ways to bond each other together. It's not just to

721
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, stuff like we're talking about. You've also heard

722
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: countless stories of man. Oh Man. We were sitting in

723
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: a team meeting and he had this random guy on

724
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: our team, but I didn't know. He stood up and

725
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: he told his whole story, where he came from, why

726
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: he plays football, why it was hard for him, why

727
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: it was easy for him, where he got you know,

728
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: where he got his leg up, you know where he

729
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 1: got his big at break, where he got his big advantage,

730
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: where he didn't what happened to him injuries, he's had,

731
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: the things that he's been through in his life. Who's

732
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: important in his life, what happened to him, Why he

733
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 1: had struggles in his life? Why he didn't You get

734
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: to know the guy and you didn't know he was

735
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: even on your team because of the position he played

736
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: or whatever, and you and all of a sudden, you

737
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: find yourself as a teammate cheering for him, doing going

738
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: out of your way to help him, and everybody's doing

739
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 1: the same for you. Yeah, it's an atmosphere that is cultivated,

740
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: and I think that's the gift that Sean McDermott brought

741
00:41:56,160 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills, and it has paid unfathomable dividends

742
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: for this club. Yeah, it's a really special thing. We

743
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: are blessed with an awesome coaching staff and some really

744
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: awesome guys that are on this roster that will be

745
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: competing to make it all the way to a Super

746
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: Bowl this season. Everybody's oh no right now, but the

747
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills have a lot to be pumped about, knowing

748
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 1: this roster, knowing this coaching staff. We're going to take

749
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we may dip into

750
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: some of the sound that we were talking about, so

751
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: stick with us here. One Bills Live is presented by

752
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. All Right, welcome back

753
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: into One Bills Live. Mattie Glab alongside Steve Tasker, and

754
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: we've been talking about OTAs about what this team has

755
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: looked like in just a little time, any sample size

756
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: that we've gotten so far. They're not even in pads yet,

757
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: not really even doing football yet, but we got to

758
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: see a little little slice of what these guys may

759
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 1: look like this upcoming season, and it's it's something to

760
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,919
Speaker 1: be excited about because, Um, josh An looked good, Gabe

761
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: Davis looked good. Steph Diggs had some nice catches, so

762
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: to Jameson Crowder. Um, But we want to talk about

763
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,720
Speaker 1: the defense we heard from Greg Russou yesterday and Jordan Phillips.

764
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: We want to play a little bit of Greg Russeau

765
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: sound for you here right now. So here's Gregg and

766
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: what he had to say after OTA practice number two. Like,

767
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: learning from that was fun for sure. You know, a

768
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: player like the caliber of Vaughan, you know the numbers

769
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: he's put up over the years, two times super Bowl champion,

770
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: like you know, y'all know his resume. But yeah, that

771
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: was great. You know he's really helping us out already

772
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: his first day out with with us in OTAs and

773
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: I already learned some good nuggets from a good bigger

774
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 1: Yeah a few pou yeah, probably like five five seven pounds. Yeah, yeah,

775
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: appreciate What was what was the thinking behind that? You know,

776
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: just you gotta just keep on getting stronger. I feel like,

777
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: you know, a year and a year out and you

778
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 1: know your body kind of like just naturally feels out

779
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: and you you kind of get a feel for like

780
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: where you move the best and where you're the most

781
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: comfortable when it comes to like the weight you have

782
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: on and how fast and moving like that ratio. So yeah,

783
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: did you feel like you hit a rocky wall at

784
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 1: any point you know during your ricky season. I wouldn't

785
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: call it a wall. I just feel like sometimes with

786
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: the numbers, things might go, things might not go your

787
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: way for a certain stretching games. So I don't feel

788
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: like I hit a wall because I feel like I was.

789
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: I was going hard at all times. Was it just

790
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: was it diet change? I mean, what what lengths did

791
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: you go to change? Mmm, I'd say diet. I definitely

792
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: focus more on my diet this past off season. You know,

793
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: it was eating more healthy, not that I was eating

794
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: healthy before, but definitely just being more attended to the

795
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: details when times about I die, and also of course lifting, running,

796
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: you know, the whole nine, the artists going hard. So yeah,

797
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,479
Speaker 1: you decided to do with a conversation with the team,

798
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: the staff or something I decided to do in the year,

799
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:19,439
Speaker 1: second year, this week, last year. Yeah, it's been cool

800
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: just to like no, no the place, you know, know

801
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: how everything goes, No one how to practice at this

802
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: level and really now instead of like focusing on learning

803
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: and defense, I can focus on is bettering myself and

804
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: becoming a better player for the upcoming season. Feel knowing,

805
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, being through this again the ass's early on,

806
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: but obviously emotions going an eye out there. What's it

807
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: like being a part in the middle of all that? Yeah,

808
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: and your manage point what happened? Yeah, it's fun And

809
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what, um, that's a really good

810
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: teams do when they're out there. You know, they compete

811
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: thing in the day out. You gotta have a competitive team.

812
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: So and when you're competing, you know, it's growing minute there.

813
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: So obviously people are gonna things are gonna get a

814
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: little bit chippy, and I feel like it's normal for

815
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: for good teams. But some of the steps you've taken

816
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: in terms of the preparation, and we're talking about coaches

817
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: where he mentioned you know the young your position that

818
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: you being one of them, this seem really needs you

819
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: to step up and make a really impactful contribution in

820
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: a primary rule this year talk about killing with those expectations,

821
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: I guess heading into this, I'm ready for it, i'd say,

822
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: and I feel like when it comes to expectations. You

823
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: can't look like, all right, we gotta win this many

824
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: games or I gotta get this many sections. I feel

825
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: like you just got to come to work every day

826
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 1: and know that your best is needed and you gotta

827
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: put your best foot forward and just keep on chipping away,

828
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: keep on working, and you'll be successful. Going back to

829
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: von Miller, just the asset that he is, all the

830
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: knowledge that he has. What is that like? Knowing you're

831
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: learning from the guy that his career is just announced.

832
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: It's a blessing, you know. I feel like we're gonna

833
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: learn a lot from him. We already have been learning

834
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: from him. So I'm just I'm excited to go out

835
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: there each and every day and practice with a Hall

836
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: of famer. So we're at all. I think it ens

837
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: in pretty well. We're all like, uh thinking jokes with

838
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: about it because obviously Jerry had it so or calling

839
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: him like Jerry and stuff. But it looks good on him.

840
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: I like it pretty vol today, I'll communicating what he wants. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

841
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: He's telling us all little things he sees, the big

842
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: things that he uh sees, and he's already helping us out.

843
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm fine, Like, is that something where he

844
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: approaches you and kind of starts that conversation when he

845
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: does see something, or are you actively like asking him,

846
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: you know, every now and then for that advice. I'd

847
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: say both. I already asked him a few questions out there,

848
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: and also he'll come to whether it's me, Boogie AJ

849
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: whoever and tell them what he sees as well. So

850
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: it's been both. It's really just natural. We're just blowing

851
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: out there, and you know, he's one of our brothers.

852
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: He don't one of us now, so I feel like

853
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: he's fitting in great communication that you have with him

854
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: prior to getting yours. Like after he signed that window

855
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: of time, did you reach out to him that he

856
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: reach out to you, which what sort of relationship build? Yeah,

857
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean I reached out, but we just kind of

858
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: step what's up to each other because you know, obviously

859
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: it's like when you sign, it's like a whirlwind of

860
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: like things going on. So it's been it's been better

861
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 1: to get to know him hearing the building in person actually,

862
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: like talk to him, pick his brains and one on one. Yeah, yeah,

863
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: you just gotta be you gotta be ready for the opportunity.

864
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: So you gotta slides going to bone, you gotta have

865
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: your best stuff playing, and you know be ready to

866
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: me to play. Do you remember like how you heard

867
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: about that? When what happened when the team like getting

868
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: Do you remember, like, um, I think I think one

869
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: of my friends called me. One of my friends who

870
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: I went to college Wood called me and told me,

871
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 1: and I was like, dangn no way, Like that's crazy,

872
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: Like it's it's wild. You know played a ton last year,

873
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: but you talked about me for a second. There A

874
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: lot of people are wondering if he's gonna have a

875
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: huge jumping what did you see from him opposed you

876
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: guys work together in the options, and what are your expectations.

877
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: I already know. I already know book he's gonna bring

878
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: to the table and have a huge year. So I'm

879
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: excited for him. You know, he looks he looks good.

880
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: He's moving moving around there, looks faster, stronger than whole

881
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: ninet yards. So I'm excited for I'm excited to watch

882
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: poor I'm excited to watch all of us work. What

883
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: are some of the things that you want to put

884
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: on this play this year that you didn't do last year?

885
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: Some of the things. Uh, I'd say, I can't tell

886
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: you guys too much because I don't want to air

887
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: myself out. But I would say, like counters, you know,

888
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: just secondary moves. And I feel like I already I

889
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: already have a good mindset. I feel like with the

890
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: effort and stuff, but just having more and more moves

891
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: to a li on and more moves to work towards

892
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: in like later in games, so being able to set

893
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: stuff up early in the game, being able to come

894
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 1: back to it like in crunch time, third fourth quarter.

895
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: How is your relationship with Eric Washington's grown premiere one,

896
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: two year two. I feel like it definitely has grown.

897
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a rookie anymore, so you know

898
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: there's that with a rookie, like every little thing they're

899
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: on you. But now I feel like it's a little

900
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: bit more on me, not to it's more on me

901
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: to know what's right and know what's wrong. And I

902
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: know what's needed from me. I know what I know

903
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: what the standard is. So I feel like in that way,

904
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: he's grown, all right, Greg Russo saying he has grown

905
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: since his rookie season, understanding the defense more, knowing what's

906
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 1: expected of him. We'll see how that translates to the

907
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: field and practices to come. When we come back. We

908
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: have the Athletic senior NFL writer Stephen Holder on with us,

909
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: so don't go anywhere. This is One Bill's Live presented

910
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Had a chop

911
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,480
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912
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:06,320
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913
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strategy of normalcy. Welcome into

914
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: One Bills Live on this Wednesday afternoon. Mattie Glab here

915
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: alongside Steve Tasker, and now we would like to turn

916
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: it to our guest of today's show. It's Stephen Holder

917
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: from the Athletic. He's a senior NFL writer with them

918
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: all right, we're now joined by Stephen Holder. He's a

919
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: senior NFL writer for the Athletic, has covered the NFL

920
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: since two thousand and five and is a former Ravens

921
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: Colds and a Ravens and Colds beat reporter. Stephen, Thank

922
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us here. It's the offseason

923
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 1: right now, so there's time to kind of dissect whether

924
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: it's a team, whether it's a certain position group among

925
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: the NFL, and you had an article that you released

926
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: that I think is really interesting that kind of looks

927
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: into the quarterbacks of today, the quarterbacks of yesterday, and

928
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: what the current situation is for how the quarterbacks look nowadays,

929
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: and what signs we're seeing of, hey, is this going

930
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: to continue? Are we going to continue to see some

931
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: of these gun slingers out there like Josh Allen? So

932
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: what was the basis of wanting to write that article

933
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,760
Speaker 1: that that kind of dove into some of those topics,

934
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: Because it's something that's been talked about the last couple

935
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: of years, you know, the new quarterbacks coming in, kind

936
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: of guys handing over their torches, some of the older

937
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: guys handing over their torches to some of the younger guys. Now, yeah,

938
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: we've been in this period of quarterback turnover for the

939
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: last few years, and I thought it was I mean,

940
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: it's obviously striking, But the thing that I kind of

941
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: thought about was how do we sort of represent that,

942
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: how do we display that in a really simple way?

943
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: And you know, the idea that came to mind was

944
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: let's us go back a few years and we picked

945
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and went through all the starting quarterbacks in

946
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: the NFL, and then transposed that contrasted that against this

947
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: year's projected starting quarterbacks, and it was just really striking

948
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: to look at it. So conservatively, twenty two of the

949
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: thirty two teams in the NFL are going to have

950
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: a different starting quarterback this year than they did just

951
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 1: three years ago, I guess four seasons ago. It's certainly

952
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: four years is a long time in the NFL, but

953
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: generally you'd expect at least a little more consistency at

954
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,879
Speaker 1: the most important position, and yet we're not seeing that.

955
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: So the turnover you see on NFL rosters, at least

956
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:47,800
Speaker 1: in this particular period, is comparable to or the turnover quarterbacks,

957
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,280
Speaker 1: should say, is comparable to the turnover you see everywhere

958
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: else in the NFL. And that's just I think that

959
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: is a product really of just how essential the quarterback

960
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: position has become and just how how much the league

961
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: now is driven by the success or failure of the

962
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: player at that position. Yeah, and it's and you cover

963
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,879
Speaker 1: a lot of the AFC South, and interestingly enough, one

964
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: of the teams in the AFC South, this is gonna

965
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: be the fifth year in a row. Well, they've got

966
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: a new opening day starter. And it's not just start,

967
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:26,280
Speaker 1: it's not just guys. It's you know, Andrew Luck, Philip Rivers,

968
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,839
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, Matt Ryan, and Jacoby Brissette as well, who

969
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 1: has been in the league for for quite some time

970
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: as well. Those aren't just names. I mean, those are

971
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: guys who have had real success in the league, and

972
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 1: they've been one after the other at one team in

973
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: the AFC South, and of course we've seen other changes

974
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: across that division as well. I mean, I know that,

975
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, they're the you know, kind of the poster

976
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: child for running guys through there. But man, oh man,

977
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan, I mean, Carson Wentz, Jacoby Brissette,

978
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. Why can't they hang on to a guy?

979
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,760
Speaker 1: So some of this is bad luck, There's no question

980
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: about that. It does. You know, listen, you have good

981
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: and bad luck in the NFL. They haven't had a

982
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: lot of luck at quarterback at least, so there's that.

983
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: There is. If you go back to twenty seventeen when

984
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 1: this streak started, this infamous streak, I guess of quarterback changes,

985
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,439
Speaker 1: they had Jacobe Pricette playing because Andrew Luck was hurt.

986
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: So Angrew Luck comes back. It's twenty eighteen, and everybody

987
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: thinks super Bowl. Here we come within a few years,

988
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: and he decides in the summer, late summer of twenty

989
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: nineteen to retire. As you know, Japle percents back that year,

990
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: Philip rivers play. He decides to retire two retirements in

991
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: three years, which is amazing. And then they had, certainly

992
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz last year. That experiment didn't go as well

993
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: as they wanted it too. And so here now welcome

994
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: to town, Matt Ryan. So I think what I'm saying

995
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 1: is it's been really a series of unrelated events that

996
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: have led them to this point. It wasn't by design,

997
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: It wasn't I don't think necessarily a failure per se.

998
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: The only thing they could have done differently was to

999
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: identify young quarterback in the draft and perhaps draft that

1000
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: player and developed him. Now, they didn't really have the

1001
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: draft capital in most years to do that, so that

1002
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: was a little prohibitive, and this year they didn't really

1003
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: like the available quarterbacks anyway to begin with. So there

1004
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: have been a number of reasons why this has happened.

1005
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: But I will say this for Frank Reich, You're good friend.

1006
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: It is it definitely I think is On the one hand,

1007
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: it's certainly not a great representation of the franchise that

1008
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: they have had to go through that. On the other hand,

1009
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: it reflects pretty well on Frank Rereich that he's been

1010
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: able to through five different quarterbacks continuously. I think the

1011
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 1: last four years have a very productive offense that is

1012
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 1: top ten and efficiency so times out how you look

1013
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: at it, I guess, but this is not how they

1014
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: drew it up, that's for sure. Right Well, the numbers

1015
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 1: that you have in this article are are pretty crazy.

1016
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 1: At least twenty two of the NFL's thirty two teams

1017
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: are expected to have a different starting quarterback in twenty

1018
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: twenty two than in twenty nineteen. And you mentioned for

1019
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: the Colts not drafting necessarily a quarterback, and you wrote

1020
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: only ten of the new starters are players drafted since

1021
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The others are veterans acquired from elsewhere. And

1022
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: speaking of those veterans, one guy who kind of changed

1023
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: the game is Tom Brady. So how do you see

1024
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: his decision of moving to another team. How do you

1025
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: think that's going to affect the NFL. Yes, we've seen

1026
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: how it's affected the NFL in the last couple of seasons,

1027
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: but affect it for the years to come and possibly

1028
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: impact what other players decide to do, what other veteran

1029
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks decide to do. I think his move it kind

1030
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: of gave other veteran quarterbacks, for a lack of a

1031
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: better word, the permission, if you will, to make that

1032
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: dramatic move. I mean, I would suggest that had Tom

1033
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: Brady not taken that liberty and gone out in his

1034
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: own freegancy and made a really big change, maybe Russell

1035
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: Wilson doesn't push for a trade and exercise you know,

1036
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: his juice if you will, and get the result that

1037
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: he wanted. You know, perhaps that doesn't happen Matthew Stafford

1038
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:29,479
Speaker 1: last year. Maybe he doesn't make the move or push

1039
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: for the move to the Rams, and that certainly ended

1040
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: up with the Super Bowl championship. So I think it

1041
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: could ultimately really change the shape of the NFL because

1042
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: I think one of the things you're seeing in this,

1043
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: in this little exercise we did here, is that so

1044
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: many of these quarterbacks are still playing, but they're playing

1045
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: in other places, and a lot of them, or some

1046
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: of them at least, are doing that by their choice.

1047
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: Others have been moved on from by their team, and

1048
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: so they've moved somewhere else through free agency. But there

1049
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: are a handful of these guys who have, through their

1050
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: own volition, made these moves. And I don't think we've

1051
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: seen the end of this yet. I mean, you know,

1052
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: who knows what'll happen a year from now, Aaron Rodgers, right,

1053
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows. But I think that you're going

1054
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: to continuously see this now it's no longer, it's no

1055
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: longer taboo or a quarterback to say, you know what,

1056
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: maybe there is a second act for me somewhere else.

1057
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan admitted to being influenced by the move of

1058
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford the last couple of years,

1059
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: two good friends of his, and he certainly was assertive

1060
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: in getting the Falcons to trade him to Indianapolis. So

1061
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a trend, and I

1062
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: don't know that it's a trend that well, let's put

1063
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: it this way. It may not be a trend much longer.

1064
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: It may just be the norm. Absolutely, and he go

1065
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: analystic quickly, Listen, this is over. Of course, he's need

1066
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: to start with Peyton Manning, who left Indianapolis after being

1067
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: good enough to build have them build a new stadium

1068
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: with his statue out front, and he left. You know,

1069
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Matt Stafford, Russ Wilson, Matt Ryan, and then

1070
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and Cam Newton. You kind of forget about

1071
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: those two guys, Peyton Manning. Alex Smith was a number

1072
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: one overall pick who jumped around the league and was

1073
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: productive wherever he went. Kirk Cousins, who's a fourth round

1074
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: pick from Washington win it. I mean, all these guys

1075
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: have moved and we've just become callous to it. And

1076
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: I know this, and I'm an old guy. When I

1077
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: grew up, teams would absolutely never, ever, under any circumstances

1078
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 1: let a guy leave. And now because of the I

1079
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 1: guess it's a little bit no question that the salary

1080
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: cap has something to do with it, but also it

1081
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: also has and this year is a perfect example. The

1082
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: guy's coming out in the draft just don't reach a

1083
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: bar physically to where the league turns its head at

1084
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,439
Speaker 1: these guys. And I think it's just important that these

1085
01:00:56,480 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: teams won't turn won't won't look a guy if he

1086
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: doesn't fit and they'll find a guy on the market

1087
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: who does more readily. And I think that's been one

1088
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: of the things that has been a fundamental change in

1089
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: the way the league treats these guys. Yeah, I think

1090
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 1: you're exactly right, and I think there's a reason for

1091
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: that too that we can dig even deeper into. Is

1092
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: First of all, there's a lot of pressure on these

1093
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: general managers and coaches and you know, look, years ago,

1094
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: you would get a little more rope when you're breaking

1095
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: in a rookie quarterback. We're not necessarily seeing that anymore.

1096
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: I think that the rope is certainly shorter. It's shorter

1097
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: for the quarterback and it's shorter for the coach. There's

1098
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: no question about that. So if depending on where you

1099
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 1: are in your team building process, that may not be

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Speaker 1: the route you want to go, which is also a

1101
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: factor I alluded I shouldn't have alluded to. With the Colts,

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01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 1: that's the other thing I mean, going to a young

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01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, there are so many growing pains that come

1104
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: with that. The rest of their roster is ready to

1105
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: roll though, and they were concerned earned about whether that

1106
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: would be a setback. So that's the thing that a

1107
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: team likes, for example, Denver. You know, I don't know

1108
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 1: how good they'll be this year, but I mean, was

1109
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: Denver really a team that was interested in going and

1110
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: starting with a young quarterback and building that from scratch?

1111
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: Or or do you want to maybe mortgage quite a

1112
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 1: few resources and go get a guy who's been to

1113
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls at Russell Wilson. I mean, that's much

1114
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: more appealing, for sure, if you can pull it off.

1115
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: So I just think that it's such a hard position

1116
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: and the flame out rate for young quarterbacks is so

1117
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: high that if you can get a proven commodity at

1118
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 1: that position, it's not like drafting a wide receiver or

1119
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: in defensive end. You know, look, if you strike out there,

1120
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 1: the music keeps playing. You just keep moving. If you

1121
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: strike a at quarterback, it's a game changer for all

1122
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: the wrong reasons, and it sets you back years. And

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Speaker 1: I think teager their larry of that. If they have

1124
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: other options, they will avail themselves of them. Yeah, it's

1125
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: kind of like a choose your own adventure. Are you

1126
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: going to find somebody in the draft or you going

1127
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: to go with a veteran And if you go with

1128
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: the veteran, you may move on from that veteran a

1129
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: little bit quicker than you would a rookie quarterback. Thankfully,

1130
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: it's worked out for the Buffalo Bills. But when you

1131
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: were writing your article, was there a team that you

1132
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: kind of dove into that maybe has had more quarterback

1133
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: turnover in the last few years other than the Colts

1134
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: than you would have expected to. Maybe that's because of

1135
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: general manager and owner and coaching staffer. Maybe that's just

1136
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 1: because of bad luck. Like you said, well less about

1137
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: I think one specific team. The one thing I did

1138
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: find was, and when we talk about these young quarterbacks,

1139
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks drafted since I believe two seventeen or eighteen

1140
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: if there I forget the number, but the quarterbacks drafted

1141
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: in that span, in the first say, top ten picks,

1142
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: it's amazing how few of those have gotten to the

1143
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 1: second contract on that particular team. And so it's speak

1144
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 1: to the fact that those young speaks to the bus

1145
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: rate that I was talking about earlier. And even even

1146
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: if we don't want to use the word bust, I

1147
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: think it speaks to just the difficulty and those guys

1148
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 1: becoming a fortified franchise quarterback. I mean Baker Mayfield is

1149
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: a perfect example, the number one picking the draft and

1150
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: here he is now he is basically the third quarterback

1151
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: on that team as of now. In Cleveland's I presume

1152
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: not going to be there if they can find some solution.

1153
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: But I mean, where is his career right now? It's

1154
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 1: at a complete crossroads. I mean, in a span of

1155
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 1: four seasons, five seasons, he's he's basically spare parts. I mean,

1156
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: is that where we are in the NFL. I'm not

1157
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 1: criticizing the Browns. I'm just saying these are pretty hard

1158
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 1: realities that we have to kind of acknowledge. And I

1159
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: just think that nowadays the pressure is so much that

1160
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: they're ready to move on. Okay, they're ready to move on.

1161
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 1: I mean Sam Darnel in Carolina, he got three or

1162
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: four seasons in New York and then they moved on

1163
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: and they made a decision then and there. And this

1164
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: is now under the renewed or the revise you know,

1165
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 1: salary cat or rookie salary scale, not even under the

1166
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: old one. You know that we've dealt with ten years ago,

1167
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: and still these guys have so little rope. So it's

1168
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: just it's really fascinating, both a good and batter reasons,

1169
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: but I just think it's a different quarterback era and generation.

1170
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 1: The other thing real quickly to factor in here is

1171
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: that we are seeing sort of a transition because there

1172
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 1: are there is a group of bettering, very very elite

1173
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: bettering quarterbacks that are reaching the end of their careers,

1174
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: and that's when these moves tend to happen as well,

1175
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: the Bradys, the Matt Ryan's, etc. So whether that happened

1176
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: in the next generation, I guess we'll have to wait

1177
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: and see. One interesting thing that has happened is we've

1178
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: seen teams with vastly different tactics and strategies and philosophies.

1179
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: Look at the lay they hate drafts. They don't care

1180
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 1: about draft picks there. They would rather because as you said,

1181
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: the hit rate on important players at the top of

1182
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: the draft is a coin flip at best. Why not

1183
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,439
Speaker 1: trade those picks for something, you know, a guy who

1184
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: has proven this level, Matt Stafford being the latest, the

1185
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: latest example of that. Jalen Ramsey another example of that.

1186
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 1: Guys that you get in that are truly elite players

1187
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: that are going to continue to be elite in your building,

1188
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: and you can give up a coin flip for those guys,

1189
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 1: and are you do you anticipate maybe more teams adopting

1190
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: that philosophy. I think we're seeing it on some level already.

1191
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the Tyree Hill trade, for example,

1192
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: Davante Adams. I mean, they're giving up first round picks

1193
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: for these players. Those first round picks are are certainly

1194
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: really valuable commodities, and what those teams are saying is,

1195
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 1: you can't find a guy like this in the draft,

1196
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go get him and we're gonna pay

1197
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: him top dollar. Now, not every team is willing to

1198
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: make those deals, so it really does come down to philosophies.

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01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 1: The other thing that I would say for the Rams,

1200
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 1: that's really interesting, and we forget this sometimes be included.

1201
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: They have certainly given up a lot of premium picks,

1202
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 1: but what they have done is collect a lot of

1203
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 1: middle and late round picks, and they've hit on a

1204
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: lot of those two. Now that's certainly harder, but I

1205
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,919
Speaker 1: think there is a there is an opportunity to fill

1206
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: out the rest of your roster with those middle round

1207
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 1: picks if you really do a good job there and

1208
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 1: you find good fits for your team. That's how you

1209
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: make that work because maybe you can't find Tyreek Hill

1210
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 1: or a Matthew Stafford in this year's draft or recent drafts,

1211
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:52,920
Speaker 1: but you certainly can find a productive middle linebacker or

1212
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: certainly a safety, or you can still out Yeah, that's

1213
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: that's really the core of your team anyway. The core

1214
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: of your team is going to be those those middle

1215
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 1: and late round picks. If you hit on those, then

1216
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: you can make those sacrifices. But you're better hit We're

1217
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:12,560
Speaker 1: talking about these quarterbacks as if and it's true. I mean,

1218
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 1: there's not enough to go around for every team. There's

1219
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: thirty two teams in the NFL. You're not going to

1220
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: have thirty two amazing quarterbacks. Some teams have hit on

1221
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: them through the drafts, some teams have hit on veterans

1222
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:27,599
Speaker 1: through trades and acquiring guys through through free agency. And

1223
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:30,680
Speaker 1: so when you think about, okay, there's not enough to

1224
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: spread the wealth among every single team. And you you

1225
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 1: talked about the strategy there a little bit, Steve, do

1226
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: you see the NFL then changing back into what it

1227
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:43,559
Speaker 1: used to be? And I'm talking about right now we

1228
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,799
Speaker 1: are in a league where passing and throwing the football

1229
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: is an all time high and you want a quarterback

1230
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 1: who can also take it on his own and who

1231
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 1: has legs. But if you can't find that quarterback because

1232
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 1: there aren't enough of them and there won't ever be

1233
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,560
Speaker 1: enough of them, is the NFL then going to transition

1234
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 1: back into maybe looking more of like the Colts you

1235
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: have a Jonathan Taylor who can carry your team, or

1236
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 1: or a Tennessee Titans you have a Derrick Henry who

1237
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:13,680
Speaker 1: can carry your team. Do you see that kind of

1238
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 1: if we take a step further with this article, do

1239
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 1: you see anything changing more into that if if we're

1240
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: not going to get these types of Josh Allen's or

1241
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:30,160
Speaker 1: Lamar's out there. I do think that there definitely are

1242
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: pendulum swings, There's no question about that. We definitely see

1243
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: pendulum swings in all sports, you know, between styles and

1244
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: methods and all of that. So so it's possible, but

1245
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:42,919
Speaker 1: I don't think we're there yet. And here's why, because

1246
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 1: there's a couple of reasons. Number One, the players who

1247
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: are coming up or ascending to the NFL these days,

1248
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: this is all they know, It's all they've ever experienced.

1249
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: You know. I've talked to people in the league about

1250
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,479
Speaker 1: this and it's really fascinating. You know. They talk about

1251
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,600
Speaker 1: how look at all the wide receivers, for example, that

1252
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: have come into the NFL in recent years and just

1253
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,640
Speaker 1: exploded right away. There's a reason for that, and the

1254
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: reason they believe is that they've been playing these seven

1255
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 1: on seven sandlot styles since they were ten years old

1256
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 1: and throwing and catching. They've been running these routes since

1257
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: they were kids, so they're very advanced when they get

1258
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:25,719
Speaker 1: to the NFL. So the NFL really is is built

1259
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:28,760
Speaker 1: for that because the players have been groomed to do that.

1260
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 1: So I think what's going to have to happen for

1261
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: that swing to maybe start going the other way is

1262
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 1: some team's gonna have to go win a Super Bowl

1263
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: or at least be dominant using a different style. If

1264
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: that happens, then that gives people something to think about,

1265
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 1: because we know this is a copycat league. We've seen

1266
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 1: this year after year after years, So if someone can

1267
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: pull it off, I think then maybe it gives people

1268
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: food for thought. And then you know, certainly the teams

1269
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: are also built a very specific way too, so that

1270
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: would have to change over time, you know, for the

1271
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: trend to go the other direction as well. So we'll see.

1272
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean, the rules, everything has really brought us to

1273
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: this place where there's a certain brand of football being played.

1274
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: It would take a lot, I think, at this point

1275
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: for it to shift the other direction. Yeah, And I

1276
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 1: think one of the things that might happen is we've

1277
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 1: seen this happen before. We're all aware that every year

1278
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 1: around training camp, around this time in the league meetings

1279
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: and things like that that are going on, the league

1280
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 1: tinkers with the rules. There's always subtle rule changes. They're

1281
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 1: trying to polish the game up, get it to either

1282
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: play faster and the win all kinds of stuff. Is

1283
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 1: it gonna take something fundamental like that to allow teams

1284
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: and let's face it, you look at that Chiefs Bills

1285
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 1: game of in the Divisional round line, it's almost impossible

1286
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 1: to play defense against these guys, be what, not just

1287
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: because they're good, but because the game is structured so

1288
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 1: that these guys can have success. You know, you can't

1289
01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: touch the receivers, but you can't touch the quarter back.

1290
01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 1: You can't affect him unless you get him on the ground.

1291
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: Even then you have to you have to pull him down.

1292
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:08,160
Speaker 1: You can't really hit him, you know, So when if

1293
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: they allow the teams to really play defense the way

1294
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: we've seen in decades past, more physically, more free on

1295
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: the pass rusher, more free in the secondary defensively, is

1296
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 1: that what it's going to take to maybe make the

1297
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 1: pendulum swing the other way? And how likely is that

1298
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 1: it would certainly accelerate things if there were rules rule

1299
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,799
Speaker 1: changes to that effect. So the thing is, the reality

1300
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 1: is that all the rules changes we've seen have gone

1301
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 1: the other direction, right right, And I think here's there's

1302
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: a reality here that we have to recognize. The league

1303
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: sees it as as in their best interest, as in

1304
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 1: its best interest for this style of game to be played.

1305
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: The one thing that we really cannot underestimate is fantasy

1306
01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:03,679
Speaker 1: And look, fantasy football us so much of the viewership, certainly,

1307
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 1: the red zone package and all these sorts of things,

1308
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 1: those things exist largely because of fantasy football, or at

1309
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: least they're driven largely by fantasy football. And I know

1310
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 1: it may sound, it may sound silly on the surface,

1311
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:21,759
Speaker 1: but look, a lot of the viewership is really based

1312
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:25,720
Speaker 1: upon fantasy interest. And I don't love that part of

1313
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 1: it because I think if you love the game, you

1314
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: love it for the game, right, and I just think

1315
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: if you're a sort of a purist and you've been

1316
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 1: watching football a long time like I have, because I'm

1317
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 1: getting wicked right here now. But look, I just think

1318
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 1: I have a different view of it. But be that

1319
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: as it may, I don't get a vote. So I

1320
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:44,559
Speaker 1: just think the league understands that you know, they're going

1321
01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:48,480
Speaker 1: to these streaming platforms now, they see revenue, other potential

1322
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: revenue streams there. All the fantasy interest is going to

1323
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: drive a lot of that. And really I think sports

1324
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: betting to a lesser extent, certainly there are these you know,

1325
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 1: prop bets and all those kinds of things. Those things,

1326
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: I think generally are are driven by a lot of

1327
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: offensive production. So I just I don't see it happening.

1328
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 1: I don't see it because I don't think the league

1329
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 1: believes it's in its best interest and they're just they're

1330
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: not interested in doing that. This is they're getting what

1331
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: they're wanting, what they want, and it's very profitable for

1332
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: the league right now. Thank you Stephens so much for

1333
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 1: being with us. We really appreciate your time. Yeah, thank you, Stephen,

1334
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 1: you got it good. Big thanks to Stephen Holder there

1335
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:34,640
Speaker 1: from joining us for talking about the quarterbacks article that

1336
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: he wrote. Interesting thing to think about there with with

1337
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 1: what these quarterbacks look like today and how movement is

1338
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 1: happening starting quarterbacks in twenty nineteen versus how they look

1339
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. A lot of teams have new

1340
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: quarterbacks on their roster. Should be make for some interesting

1341
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: games ahead as we approach the twenty twenty two season.

1342
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break. Don't go anywhere, because

1343
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: when we come back, we may hit you with some

1344
01:14:56,600 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: more players. Sound all right. We're back here on One

1345
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: Bill's Live by glab alongside Steve Tasker on Wednesday afternoon

1346
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: as we begin to close out the show. We're going

1347
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: on till three o'clock today, so still some time left.

1348
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 1: We heard from Greg Rousseau already after OTAs yesterday. We

1349
01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: also want to play some Dion Dawkins sound. He was

1350
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:34,720
Speaker 1: also one of the players who spoke yesterday after the

1351
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: second OTAs practice, and he was asked first about how

1352
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 1: he attended the birthday party of one of the victim's

1353
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: sons who was killed at the Top Supermarket after the

1354
01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: racist attack took place less than two weeks ago. Dion

1355
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 1: had a connection to that family and they asked him

1356
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: to attend the son's birthday party. And like Dion Dawkins

1357
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 1: always does, he showed up. So I have a connection

1358
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 1: with um with a teacher that knew the family. Um.

1359
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 1: Andre is uh a son of one of the people

1360
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 1: that that was killed in a and at the tops.

1361
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:18,160
Speaker 1: And uh when she mentioned that he was a big

1362
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:20,800
Speaker 1: and Bills fan, you know, I actually met him, like

1363
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: like for the first time when we were out there

1364
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: as a team. Um. Actually no, I met him the

1365
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:28,080
Speaker 1: first time the second day that I was out there,

1366
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 1: um On Jefferson and Uh, I met the mother and

1367
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:34,760
Speaker 1: I met Andre. The kid's name was Andre, and then

1368
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: they were saying that they had a birthday party and uh, Andre,

1369
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 1: you know he wanted me me there, so I pulled

1370
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 1: up on. Um Yeah yeah, yeah he was he. I

1371
01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: mean like he's a kid, so so uh a three

1372
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 1: year old kid. Like he was excited but I don't

1373
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: really know if he understood, but he was excited, like

1374
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: he was just happy to have like but like people there, Um,

1375
01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:00,200
Speaker 1: we sent the some bills get to him. I gave

1376
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: him a helmet, gave him a bunch of bills. Uh

1377
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:05,440
Speaker 1: merch and uh and I'm getting them tickets to the

1378
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: home opener game. So, um, just doing a little bit.

1379
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:12,479
Speaker 1: I really didn't even do it for for questions like

1380
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm even as surprised that, like, you know, because I

1381
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: like I was there and quick. But hey, but yeah, Andre,

1382
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,640
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna treat him like family now, you know,

1383
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 1: whether it's a big brother or whatever I could be

1384
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: for that and a little kid. I'm gonna do that

1385
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 1: because I have no idea like what it is, and

1386
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 1: I have a father I'm blessed to still have mine,

1387
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:34,880
Speaker 1: and I want him to know that people are thinking

1388
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: about it and people love them even in that family,

1389
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 1: like people love those people. And we're gonna do everything

1390
01:17:40,320 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: to you know, help him smile because Jerry Jerry like

1391
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:16,760
Speaker 1: that and that enjoy Yeah. Um, it just shows how

1392
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 1: much influence having this logo and being a Buffalo Bill

1393
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: truly means, like to this community, truly that Um, it's

1394
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 1: an honor to be a part of this or like organization.

1395
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: It's an honor to be an NFL athlete. And uh,

1396
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,639
Speaker 1: with being an NFL athlete, it comes with a lot

1397
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 1: of responsibility and a lot of doing truly and uh,

1398
01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: everything that an individual does, it has a backing of

1399
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:45,599
Speaker 1: an organization now, like myself, like anything that I do,

1400
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna like the Bills are are going to be

1401
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 1: attached and the NFL like will be attached. So um,

1402
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 1: it's an honor to really, you know, just shine light

1403
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: and just be a little bit of hope to whoever

1404
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 1: wants that hope. I'm just a nah and I'm far

1405
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 1: from from just a football player. But with being a

1406
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:09,839
Speaker 1: football player, it comes with a lot, and I'm thankful

1407
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:13,919
Speaker 1: that whatever comes with it shines bright to this community

1408
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 1: and to this area. So many of you guys turned

1409
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 1: out last week and so it's all of you can

1410
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:21,640
Speaker 1: come together for OTAs and there's some new pieces on

1411
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:23,639
Speaker 1: the field and that sort of thing. How much does

1412
01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: that maybe bring a team together and maybe inspire and

1413
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 1: to make a difference obviously, right, Yeah, Well, with otia's

1414
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:37,760
Speaker 1: being about any time that you're around your teammates, that

1415
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:41,759
Speaker 1: bond grows, and especially when a situation like this happens

1416
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: and you can relate and have a conversation with a

1417
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 1: bunch of different men about the situation, that also grows

1418
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 1: a bond. And then on top of that, going back

1419
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,799
Speaker 1: to OTAs with playing football, which we all love together.

1420
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: That is really what grows it. But um, with everything

1421
01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:02,160
Speaker 1: that is going along, we're all in it together, Like

1422
01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:04,720
Speaker 1: we're all busses were going up to Jefferson, we're in

1423
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:07,720
Speaker 1: the locker room, we're talking about it and it's a

1424
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,719
Speaker 1: family thing. So we're all walking and this walk together.

1425
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: And what kind of conversations have you guys been having

1426
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: as a team and how confident are you in this

1427
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:21,440
Speaker 1: group to move forward and keep giving back to the community.

1428
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: You know when the cameras are up, Well, um, like

1429
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 1: what the first thing is, right, like, we don't do

1430
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:32,600
Speaker 1: it for the camera, and we're gonna keep doing it

1431
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:38,120
Speaker 1: without the camera going because to be honest, right, like

1432
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: media goals, right, media goals, And then the hype about

1433
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:44,639
Speaker 1: it disappears and then it just like, oh whatever happened

1434
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:49,719
Speaker 1: to It's it's on us to really continue to feed

1435
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,760
Speaker 1: the like the community when people like aren't looking. And

1436
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: that's what that bond and that's what like that true

1437
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:58,599
Speaker 1: love and comes from like we're out there without a camera,

1438
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: like I pulled up to and the kids and birthday party,

1439
01:21:01,479 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: like not with a bunch of media cameras and and

1440
01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I pulled up right in the truck,

1441
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:10,679
Speaker 1: parked in the front, pay for parking, and went inside

1442
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 1: Like um, just doing things without an audience is real love,

1443
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:19,760
Speaker 1: and that's what the Bills will continue to do. I

1444
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:23,720
Speaker 1: will continue, and hopefully the world will continue as well,

1445
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 1: because stuff like this you don't really want to let disappear,

1446
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:29,519
Speaker 1: because this is this is real life for a lot

1447
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 1: of people, and we got to keep it relevant. I

1448
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: know you do a lot of things in the community

1449
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: without no fan fan and you do seven one six

1450
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:42,800
Speaker 1: you're doing now side this year, but is there a

1451
01:21:42,880 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 1: chance that you will do seven one six day in Jefferson. Wow? Uh,

1452
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:51,719
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good question, hard question to ask. Um.

1453
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that go into having a

1454
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 1: seven one sixth day at a location. But if Buffalo

1455
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:01,759
Speaker 1: once a seven one six day on Jefferson, I mean cool.

1456
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 1: But I think truly that that area should be remembered

1457
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: for those people that were tragically that tragically lost in

1458
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 1: their lives. So if I have to have seven one

1459
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 1: six Dean's Dreamers function on Canal Side and just dump

1460
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: all of the greatness there, that's that's also well. But

1461
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: whatever the community wants, I'm all for. I'm a community

1462
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 1: guy and you know that, Like I'm all for if

1463
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: they want to see it, let's do it. But if

1464
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: they don't, I'm perfectly fine with that as well. But

1465
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:39,800
Speaker 1: whatever I do, I would for sure be funding and

1466
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: throwing everything I possibly can to that Jefferson area. Just

1467
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 1: a football question just in terms of what OTAs are

1468
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:50,880
Speaker 1: kind of setting the foundation with all the expectations this season,

1469
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: kind of how important is you know it's may, but

1470
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: how important is this work on the field right now?

1471
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: You know the world takes everything like this, right, but

1472
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: we just got to attack each day like this in

1473
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 1: little pieces and as an organization, we are attacking it

1474
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:13,599
Speaker 1: like this while the world thinks we're attacking it like this.

1475
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:18,959
Speaker 1: So every bit that and we do is as important

1476
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:22,439
Speaker 1: as the first time this team became a team. So

1477
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: just because we made it as far as we made

1478
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 1: it last year, that has nothing to do and with

1479
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 1: this year, you know, all those wins from last year disappear.

1480
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 1: Our record is zero zero, Our roster isn't set, and

1481
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: we have a lot of building to do. We have

1482
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:42,360
Speaker 1: a lot of practice to go about, We have a

1483
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:46,759
Speaker 1: lot of individual battles to win, and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: expectations all super Bowl but whatever, Like we don't even

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01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:53,599
Speaker 1: think think about that stuff, like there's a vision for it.

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01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:57,519
Speaker 1: But tomorrow's Wednesday. I just got finished with the lift,

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01:23:57,560 --> 01:23:59,920
Speaker 1: and I'm worried about making sure that my alarm clock

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01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: said to be here in the morning on time, and

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01:24:03,200 --> 01:24:05,640
Speaker 1: the rest of that stuff it will fall and uh,

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01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 1: day by day, truly, day by daymer dope, it's my dog.

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01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 1: I like him. He is a real pro, true prouh.

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01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: Not to say that the other coaches weren't like like

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01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 1: real pros um like Og was a dog like he

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01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,880
Speaker 1: was cool too, but chromer. He's a different style coach,

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01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,320
Speaker 1: different style. Um. He understands the room. He understands that

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01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 1: everybody is drastically different, and he understands that everybody's play

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01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 1: is going to be different. And that's what I love

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01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 1: about him. He's not trying to make us all and

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01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:39,599
Speaker 1: look like like robots and different. No, like everybody's supposed

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01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: to look perfect. Nahum, Spencer Brown is like seven foot

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01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,720
Speaker 1: tall and I am not, so I cannot look like

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01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 1: Spencer or Tommy or any of those guys. So we're

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01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: just hearing him say comments and like that I see

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01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 1: like the insight of his brain that he understands that

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01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: everybody is different and um as an old line even

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01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:02,719
Speaker 1: though everybody he has to play in unison, but everybody

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01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:05,840
Speaker 1: will play their own form of that unison role. And

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01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for him. I'm happy for him. I've been

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01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 1: around him for shoot it seems like it's been like

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01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 1: six weeks now, or maybe four or five, like I

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01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 1: don't know, like Tims flying, But he's been doing a

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01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:22,320
Speaker 1: great job and I'm happy to have him here. All right.

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01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:26,240
Speaker 1: That was Dion Dawkins on OTAs and on helping the community.

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01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: He has a kickball tournament coming up on Saturday, June eleventh.

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01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: If you guys google Dion's Dreamers, you can find the

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01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 1: link to click on to register to have a team

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01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: for ten people. If you want to register with ten people,

1518
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 1: it's three hundred and fifty dollars to fill an entire team,

1519
01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars for an individual. It starts at ten

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01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:49,599
Speaker 1: o'clock and will last until four o'clock. A fun way

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01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:52,719
Speaker 1: to spend your Saturday, and the proceeds will go to

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01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 1: the victims of the Tops shooting less than two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break, but when we come back,

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01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: we'll be wrapping up the show here on One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We're presented by Clyde of Health. This is Buffalo Bills

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01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:23,520
Speaker 1: Radio and we're back here on one Bills Live, closing

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01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:27,320
Speaker 1: out Wednesday's showing. While you are listening to sound of

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01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins from yesterday's Ota practice, Frank Reich was talking

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01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: to the media over in Indiana and he held up

1530
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:39,719
Speaker 1: one of the Choose Love shirts that you can buy

1531
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:43,439
Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot com. You can click the Help

1532
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo page and purchase yours and the proceeds will go

1533
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:50,880
Speaker 1: to benefit Buffalo five fourteen Survivors Fund and Buffalo Together

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01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: Community Community Response Fund. So Frank held up the shirt

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01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:57,920
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the press conference. He also posed

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01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 1: with flour with longtime Bill Strength coach Rusty Jones, two

1537
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:07,080
Speaker 1: people who you know well Steve, and they also announced

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01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:10,920
Speaker 1: that Frank and his wife and Jim Urse will make

1539
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:14,599
Speaker 1: a contribution to that fund as well. So really cool

1540
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:19,679
Speaker 1: to see the NFL the support to a tragic event

1541
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: that happened in Buffalo. Great to see people supporting the

1542
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:26,360
Speaker 1: East Side like it should be supported. Yeah, Frank obviously

1543
01:27:26,680 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 1: with his call to Courage Award breakfast. It happens in

1544
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo every year, even as head coach of

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01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:33,479
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. Says a lot about the kind of

1546
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 1: man he is, and also the guy there in the

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01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:37,519
Speaker 1: picture with him, Rusty Jones. You'll you go back and

1548
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:39,400
Speaker 1: you have to be an old time Bills fan to

1549
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:42,000
Speaker 1: remember Rusty. But the guys who I played with back

1550
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:45,120
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties remember him well. He was.

1551
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 1: He was one of the guys who was at the

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01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 1: forefront cutting edge of sports science in the field. For

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01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. He got Bruce Smith. He's one of

1554
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:56,960
Speaker 1: the driving forces between Bruce going from a three hundred

1555
01:27:56,960 --> 01:28:00,400
Speaker 1: and fifteen pound rookie to two hundred and fifty nine

1556
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: pound first ballot Hall of Famer. He transformed Bruce, along

1557
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:06,800
Speaker 1: with a bunch of other players who owe a really

1558
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 1: good career to a guy like Rusty Jones still coaching.

1559
01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 1: Frank reached out to him when he came back to

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01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:13,240
Speaker 1: the to the field and got into got the head

1561
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 1: coaching job in Indianapolis. Rusty's been with him ever since,

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01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:20,599
Speaker 1: and the two of those guys making a gesture towards

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01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,679
Speaker 1: a town that they had great success in and there's

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01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:25,120
Speaker 1: a lot of and they have a lot of affection

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01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:26,679
Speaker 1: for and there's a lot of guys on the teams

1566
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 1: that I played with, and of obviously Frank and I

1567
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:33,479
Speaker 1: have been friends for thirty plus years. I wish nothing

1568
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:35,160
Speaker 1: but the best. It's a it's a testament to him

1569
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 1: reaching back to Buffalo to make a contribution at this

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01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: time along with Rusty and of course Jim Ursay, the

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01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:42,519
Speaker 1: owner of the Colts doing the same says a lot

1572
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:45,160
Speaker 1: about him as well. So it's great to be a

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01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: part of that and see those guys take do that

1574
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:51,880
Speaker 1: for our city. Yeah, we all appreciate Frank Reich and

1575
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 1: all he's done for the Buffalo Bills. It's always great

1576
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:57,160
Speaker 1: to see him at the events that the NFL has

1577
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:00,720
Speaker 1: throughout the offseason, whether it's the NFL Scouting Combine, UM

1578
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:03,240
Speaker 1: or or any other places where he's at. You said,

1579
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 1: he comes to Buffalo for that event every year. UM.

1580
01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:08,559
Speaker 1: So good to still have connections with those people with

1581
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 1: great people who are in the NFL. There's so many

1582
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: amazing people who fill out the NFL and help make

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01:29:14,200 --> 01:29:17,719
Speaker 1: it um the great place that it is. In full

1584
01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 1: of a lot of wonderful people. The team will have

1585
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:24,519
Speaker 1: a practice tomorrow, another OTA practice, and then everybody's off

1586
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:28,120
Speaker 1: for the weekend. Yeah, so we'll have one right show tomorrow,

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01:29:28,160 --> 01:29:30,519
Speaker 1: but I didn't know until you told me. Yeah, which

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01:29:30,520 --> 01:29:34,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate. Yet Friday, Monday, no things. Yeah, Will you

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01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:36,639
Speaker 1: guys have a good rest of your day. We will

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01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:38,559
Speaker 1: be back here tomorrow on One Builds Live