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Speaker 1: Welcome to the twenty nineteen season. It's official now, right, Bills?

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Speaker 1: Is it almost? Yes? Sir? Another couple of days in

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Speaker 1: you're and you're there, could to see you. Um, you

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Speaker 1: had an interesting weekend and I'm wondering how different because

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Speaker 1: it seemed like you had a lot of competition in

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Speaker 1: this camp, maybe more so than other camps. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: can answer that was this a difficult roster to put

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Speaker 1: here saying that guy could help us, and yet I

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Speaker 1: don't have a room. Uh. Yeah, It's it's always a

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Speaker 1: little bit like that. Um, you're dealing with the usual

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Speaker 1: end of training camp situations, usually some type of injuries. UM.

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Speaker 1: And you have depth at some positions, but you can't

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Speaker 1: have it at all. That's just the reality of the

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Speaker 1: National Football League. So you have to pick where you

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Speaker 1: you want to keep your depth or where you want

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Speaker 1: to keep your developing players, um, and just figure it out.

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Speaker 1: So and every team's got to deal the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's it's always challenging, but UM, it's do the best

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Speaker 1: you can. You know. One of the bigger one for us,

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Speaker 1: I think was a Hoyer being released, So I was just,

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Speaker 1: curiously some of the dynamics that went into your decision

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Speaker 1: to release him and keep Stidham. Yeah, well, I mean

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Speaker 1: in the end, we're trying to do it's best for

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Speaker 1: the football team. So that's that's really a short answer

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Speaker 1: to it. Was it was it just one of the

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Speaker 1: because I saw that you said that either was a

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Speaker 1: bunch of different considerations. Was one of them? Did them

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Speaker 1: just play better than you guys thought he would to

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Speaker 1: the point where you knew you could trust him if

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Speaker 1: you got into a jam during during the season. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean we you know, I think Jared had a

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Speaker 1: good preseason, but we'll see. I don't know. We haven't

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Speaker 1: been in the regular season with him or any other rookie.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we have to make a decision. We

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Speaker 1: have to do what he thinks best for the team.

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Speaker 1: So that's what we did. Speaking of how things worked

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Speaker 1: out well for him, he ended up out in India

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Speaker 1: a new contract. There were some teams, I guess some

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Speaker 1: other teams that were portedly were interested. Um did you

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Speaker 1: guys look into the trade market with him before you

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Speaker 1: had released him? Yeah? Again, are a lot of considerations, um,

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Speaker 1: with him and you know, with other players on the team. Um,

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Speaker 1: but it is what it is. So let's leave it

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Speaker 1: at that. Because because with him, it seems like he's

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Speaker 1: well respected. Everybody seems to like him. I don't bring

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Speaker 1: everybody loved him, and it almost feels like you kind

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Speaker 1: of did him a solid because he can go pick

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Speaker 1: where he wants and he made more money. Almost seems

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Speaker 1: like he did him a favor by releasing him and

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Speaker 1: not trading him. Well, look a lot of times, so

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Speaker 1: situations that work out well for everybody, are you know, good? Good?

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes. What was that? What

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Speaker 1: was that conversation like with him? Um? Is it just

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Speaker 1: a numbers thing? You know? Was it? Was it a

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Speaker 1: tough conversation for you to have with him? Well, it's

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Speaker 1: never easy to have conversations. Um, you know, when you

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Speaker 1: can't keep a player on your team, that's that's the

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Speaker 1: hardest part of the job. So but I'll just keep

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Speaker 1: the private conversations between myself and Brian the gonna Olshefski

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Speaker 1: and how that all played out. Um, first of all,

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Speaker 1: did you watch Bemidji State an awful lot? Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they got filmed. You do you have a room in

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Speaker 1: here with a box that has videos of Bemidji State

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Speaker 1: because you watched the guy. But originally we heard that

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Speaker 1: he was released and then hours later he makes the team.

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Speaker 1: What was that like? That must have been a strange situation. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's honestly, it's not. Um. Again, when you have over

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Speaker 1: thirteen hundred transactions throughout the league in over this time period,

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Speaker 1: different things happen. That's not the first time. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know, our roster change from the morning to the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: So when when it comes to Gunner, there's so much,

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Speaker 1: If you guys perform and play, we'll notice you and

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Speaker 1: you'll get a legitimate shot, just like anybody else. All

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Speaker 1: And I've talked about that that nauseum for the last

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Speaker 1: Like you're not full of it, right, But I know

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to pick the team. Who's gonna be on

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Speaker 1: not the way it is. We let the competition play

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Speaker 1: different players have different roles on the team, and it's

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Speaker 1: not saying that one is better than the other, but

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Speaker 1: that's just a reflection of trying to do it's best

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Speaker 1: Not that there won't still be some trades. There will

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Speaker 1: be some, but probably not as many as what we've

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Speaker 1: seen over the last few days throughout the not just

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Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. But again, we have some

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Speaker 1: the roster, and as you said, competition determines it. We

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Speaker 1: say after week ten. So how much more do you

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Speaker 1: learn in the first four games about some of these

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Speaker 1: guys who you were impressed with here during camp. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we'll learn a lot. This is a whole that's a

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Speaker 1: whole different game now, so we'll we'll find out a

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Speaker 1: lot how our team is as a team and individually,

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Speaker 1: how we match up, but how our units overall match

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Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh, So we just haven't seen that yet. There

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Speaker 1: hasn't been any game planning. There hasn't been any strategizing.

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Speaker 1: It's just been you go out and pretty much run

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Speaker 1: the plays. Get good at the fundamentals. And that's critical.

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Speaker 1: I'm not minimizing that at all. It's valuable. It's critical.

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Speaker 1: But the actual game planning and strategy and so forth

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