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Speaker 1: We've got another great edition of One Bill's Live coming up.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy was Steam Tasker. The Bills kick off their

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Speaker 1: mandatory three day minicamp today. We're gonna be with insider

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown right at the top of the show. After practice,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from the quarterbacks. A. J. McCarron, Nathan Peterman,

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Speaker 1: John s Allen Amil here for money. Back to Lashan McCoy.

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Speaker 1: Also in studio today, rookie undrafted free agent defensive end

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Speaker 1: Mike Love. Plus an update on the game day experience,

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Speaker 1: a New Era Field stick around. One Bill's Live starts

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Speaker 1: right now, Oh, Steve Tasker, Smuckstown, Smocks, Downtown, Tapstock time.

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Speaker 1: That's how we start every day. Here at twelve noon,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker, work r your park, the home

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Speaker 1: of New Era Field, which is empty, but there's a

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Speaker 1: football field with about ninety players, eighty nine players, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of coaches on it right now. The veteran or

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Speaker 1: not the veteran, the mandatory minicamp, veterans, rookies, everybody assembling

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Speaker 1: right now as we speak to begin practice at this moment.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Welcome everybody, John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our

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Speaker 1: one Buffalo studio getting ready for the show. Three on

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Speaker 1: the show gonna be a good one. Steve got a

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Speaker 1: lot going on today. Brownie's coming in, Chris Brown's coming in.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna join us where he was going to join

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Speaker 1: us pretty quick unless we have technical difficulties. And he

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Speaker 1: just went out to practice and said, forget it. Your

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Speaker 1: practice is more interesting than one bills live. So what right?

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Speaker 1: So Also it's fun though, because when this mandatory stuff

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Speaker 1: through the company. We always get a couple of those

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Speaker 1: today as a matter of fact. Yeah. Also today we're

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Speaker 1: got some comments from Sean McDermand. He did a news

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Speaker 1: conference about thirty minutes ago. Interesting things about the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Will tell you that in a second Andy Major, Bill's

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Speaker 1: vice president, and a fan experience, is going to join us.

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Speaker 1: At one thirty. They made some changes in the bus

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Speaker 1: parking lot. We'll talk with any Major about that. And

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Speaker 1: coming up at two o'clock after practice, we'll hear from

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. We'll hear from AJ mccaron Nathan Peterman. We'll

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Speaker 1: hear from Josh Allen, we had him on the show yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and le Sean McCoy's schedule to meet the media. All

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Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agent Mike Love schedule to join us

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Speaker 1: in the two o'clock hour as well. So practice began

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Speaker 1: just it is beginning now. It'll go for about two

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Speaker 1: hours and we'll have a bunch of sound from the

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Speaker 1: the quarterback situation. Sean McDermot talking about it a moment ago,

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Speaker 1: talked about how they we've talked about it all last week,

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Speaker 1: about the rep plan for Josh Allen. Sean McDermot, I

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Speaker 1: dropped the bomb today. No, it wasn't a bout. Josh

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Speaker 1: is still with the threes as you might expect. But

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Speaker 1: McDermot said they're going to get us in work with

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Speaker 1: the ones over the next couple of days here, which

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Speaker 1: is good. I think that's the right way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Steve Well, I'm glad you approved. Yes, he ran behind me.

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Speaker 1: It's happening whether we like it or not. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you knew they we're all going to glom onto this

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Speaker 1: in the media, Like Josh Hollen's gonna take reps with

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Speaker 1: different guys. He wants to see different guys catch balls

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Speaker 1: I do think this is a plan that's been in

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Speaker 1: place on paper. This is what we want to do

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Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. I think you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: I mean this was written no matter and it didn't

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Speaker 1: sunshine here in Orchard Park as Mini Camp Session number

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Speaker 1: great day to work with out there, Chris. Look at

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Speaker 1: the sun. You're all set. Yeah, the sunscreens on, definitely,

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Speaker 1: Brownie about you know this thing that are How big

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Speaker 1: a deal do you think it is that Josh, Josh

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Speaker 1: that's stuff about John Miller that's pretty interesting. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: sometimes I mean it'll be his third year. You know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it takes a guy a while, takes somebody getting

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Speaker 1: through to him in the offseason to say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: but you got to you gotta drop your body fat

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Speaker 1: percentage by about five percent, and you gotta keep your

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Speaker 1: weight up, and you gotta get in shape if you

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Speaker 1: want to be a great player and get a big

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Speaker 1: contract and change your life with your second contract in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, that's what it's going to take. And and

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Speaker 1: guys will listen. He'll go. He goes down to Miami,

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Speaker 1: jumps into the gym, gets with some people he trusts,

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Speaker 1: and they change his body type and help him become

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Speaker 1: a great pro. It's a great move by John Miller.

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Speaker 1: Will see if it pays dividends. But as the early

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Speaker 1: returns are very good and it's it's nice to see

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Speaker 1: that a guy grabs hold of something and it helps

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Speaker 1: him be a better football player. It has not been

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Speaker 1: an easy path for John Miller when you think about it.

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Speaker 1: You know, his rookie year in twenty fifteen and his

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Speaker 1: mom passed away when the Bills were in London, he

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Speaker 1: had to rush home. I think that sort of took

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Speaker 1: him off track a little bit in his rookie year

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Speaker 1: and then played in his second year and then lost

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Speaker 1: his job in his third year to vlad Dukas and

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Speaker 1: now here he is back in the starting lineup. It's

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Speaker 1: been a very number two. He was one of the

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Speaker 1: one of the analytics websites had him as the most

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Speaker 1: improved second year player in the NFL when he was

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Speaker 1: playing right guard for the Bills in twenty sixteen. He

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Speaker 1: came back and had a really up year after after

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Speaker 1: his rookie season and then last year, as you said,

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Speaker 1: sat down and so it's a it's an interesting spot

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Speaker 1: for him to be in. Hey, let's get you a claimed.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot more to come on the mandatory

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Speaker 1: minicamp that started today with the reaction coming after from

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, from mccaren, from Peterman, from Josh Allen, and

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Speaker 1: from Shady McCoy. They're all scheduled to hit the microphone.

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Speaker 1: Will pick up those news conferences after practice today. Gonna

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Speaker 1: be live in studio with an interesting case Mike Love

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Speaker 1: of undrafted rookie free agent that's coming up after practice.

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Speaker 1: So all of that coming up on the show. We'll

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Speaker 1: here from Sean McDermot in a couple of minutes our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll, you know, Chris mentioned it and we were

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Speaker 1: talking about the wide receivers. Want to get you involved.

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Speaker 1: After Calvin Benjamin, which veteran Bills receiver has the biggest

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Speaker 1: role to play this season? And why? Look, we know

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Speaker 1: that Austin Prole was drafted, Ray Ray McCloud, the Alabama

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Speaker 1: right Roberte Foster. Robert Foster is here undrafted free agent.

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Speaker 1: But veterans Calvin Benjamin, I think is obviously going to

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Speaker 1: be the number one. But after him, who's the biggest

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Speaker 1: role to play this year? Let us know what you

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Speaker 1: think eight oh three oh five fifty or toll free

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Speaker 1: from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. On Twitter, you can vote at one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: We offer a couple of suggestions on Twitter. So far,

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Curley is the front runner fifty five percent of

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Speaker 1: respondents on Twitter, and we have more than six hundred already.

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Speaker 1: Fifty five percent say it's going to be Jeremy Curley,

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Speaker 1: eighteen percent say Rod Streeter, seventeen percent say Andre Holmes,

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Speaker 1: ten percent have someone else in mind. Let us know,

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Speaker 1: think which veteran are you're looking for to make a

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Speaker 1: difference when it comes to wide receiver. It's interesting too

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Speaker 1: because the wide receiver spots taking a beat and Kelvin

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Speaker 1: Benjamin is kind of an accepted veteran and people are

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Speaker 1: excited about him. He's coming back, he's in a contract year.

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Speaker 1: People are expecting his best best ever. For the rest

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Speaker 1: of the roster receiver, everybody's they've been kind of getting

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Speaker 1: hammered because nobody really has a lot of faith in him.

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Speaker 1: And this from the first responses from our Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: from Justin's it's definitely going to be someone not on

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Speaker 1: our roster yet. We are most likely going to grab

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Speaker 1: someone released from another team as their cap casually or

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Speaker 1: because of age, and they wanted to give their young

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Speaker 1: guys a shot. But we all know we need someone

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Speaker 1: to come in here who has proven and that's I

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Speaker 1: think that's a wide sentiment around Bills fans everywhere. They

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Speaker 1: think somebody, much like last year, the Bills are going

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Speaker 1: to come out at the end of training camp and

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Speaker 1: make a move on their roster and bring somebody in

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Speaker 1: who they made like they did last year, who's going

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Speaker 1: to come in and make a significant, a significant contribute.

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Speaker 1: I just hate to rely on that and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you last year it happened because the trades, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean they got Jordan Matthews and traded away Ronald Darby

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Speaker 1: to get him. I don't see a big trade light

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Speaker 1: that in the future. And then mid season, yeah, the trade,

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Speaker 1: you know, to bring in Calvin Benjamin. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if those trades are in the works here.

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Speaker 1: And yes, there will be cap casual leagues, there will

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Speaker 1: be cuts, maybe somebody gets cut because of age. But

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Speaker 1: to rely on that as the answer for the you know,

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Speaker 1: the second guy behind Calvin Benjamin, I think is a

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Speaker 1: bit of a reach, I believe. I'll say you this too.

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Speaker 1: You think about last year when they traded away ron

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Speaker 1: Darby and they traded away Sammy Watkins, and they trade

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Speaker 1: away Marcel Darius and they and they traded away Reggie

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Speaker 1: Raglan and you get down and see this is now,

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Speaker 1: this is their roster. Yeah. So I don't know if

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Speaker 1: there's anybody they're really willing to let go like they

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Speaker 1: were those guys. I mean, the guys they have in

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Speaker 1: here now are our culture fits. They are guys that

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Speaker 1: they went out and sought after to bring in. So

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Speaker 1: there's nobody out here that they're thinking is you know,

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Speaker 1: coasting or you know, taking it out of gear, you know,

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Speaker 1: or whatever whatever reasons you want to put on it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody left on this roster of

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Speaker 1: value who they could trade away that they really feel

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Speaker 1: like they can do without. That's the interesting part because

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Speaker 1: last year, of course we know now, we didn't know

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Speaker 1: then what we know now. They were certainly willing to

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Speaker 1: part with just about anybody if they thought it was

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Speaker 1: gonna get them to where they wanted to go. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that there are people on this roster that

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Speaker 1: they're willing to say it the same things about as

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Speaker 1: they were those guys last year. So I think that's

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Speaker 1: the thing that makes it hesitant. Me hesitant to say, well,

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Speaker 1: they make another trade now. I do think, like with

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Speaker 1: our Twitter responder just now justin he said, I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get somebody off the waiver wire. Somebody's gonna

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Speaker 1: who's a quality player, proven who the other team just

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Speaker 1: didn't have room for, or who was fed up with,

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Speaker 1: or you know, I don't I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: a regime that's kind of get one of those guys

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Speaker 1: off the waiver wire like a des Bryant or somebody

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Speaker 1: with a little bit of emotions. The point is they

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Speaker 1: got receiving help last year, but they came from trades. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't really Yeah, I don't know if those guys

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Speaker 1: were available, right, But then again, you gotta think Jordan

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Speaker 1: Matthews might have been available anyway because they had they

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Speaker 1: had some value. They were neck deep. The Philadelphiagas were

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Speaker 1: neck deep and really quality receivers, and Jordan Matthews was

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Speaker 1: the odd man out and they got something for him.

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Speaker 1: So there's probably some other teams like that either. I

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Speaker 1: could not tell you who it was gonna be. Unless

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones is out on the market because he's done

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Speaker 1: with Atlanta wants a trade. Then you know, then there's

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Speaker 1: a couple other guys on the table that you might trade,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, so not likely right right,

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Speaker 1: But that's because of his contract, and then you'd have

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Speaker 1: to give him a contract. Yeah. A tweet from minicamp

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Speaker 1: jack Rod Streeter will make some noise this year. He's

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Speaker 1: got the size and speed to play outside as something

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Speaker 1: to prove after strong camp last year had him poised

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Speaker 1: for a roster spot until the injury there is an

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Speaker 1: open spot at number two wide receiver. And he also

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Speaker 1: goes on the saying and we didn't include this guy,

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Speaker 1: but he says, don't sleep on Riley. Brandon Riley, he

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Speaker 1: will make a push and be this year's feeling. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't sleep on Brandon Riley. That's a good one. Riley

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Speaker 1: had a pretty good, pretty good preseason last year and

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Speaker 1: uh never got on the field last season for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: But when we get to those preseason games in August,

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Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting to see what Brandon Riley looks

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Speaker 1: like and you know how strong his play is because

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Speaker 1: there's a spot. Is he good enough to be number two?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I would look at Brandon

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Speaker 1: Riley maybe as a potential fifth or sixth wide receiver

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Speaker 1: on the roster. He's gonna have to find a way

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Speaker 1: to contribute on special teams and that was sort of

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Speaker 1: his drawback last year. Riley couldn't didn't really have a

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Speaker 1: big role to play on special teams, so they had

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Speaker 1: to go with somebody else. Yeah, but he's also he's

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Speaker 1: been in the building for an entire year. It's not

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Speaker 1: like he left and we never they never saw him.

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Speaker 1: He was in the building on the developmental squad and

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Speaker 1: and was soaking it all in. He's I think when

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Speaker 1: you get in that locker room, he's part of the guys.

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Speaker 1: He's part of the fixture. You know now, he's part

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Speaker 1: of the guy And so he's he's a guy they're

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Speaker 1: familiar with and they know what they're gonna get out

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Speaker 1: of him. But there's no question if he's gonna make

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Speaker 1: a role for himself. He's got to do something on

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Speaker 1: special teams. He's not unless he does move into this

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Speaker 1: top three, top four wide receiver, maybe getting the field,

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Speaker 1: but that would I think it would be a big jump.

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Speaker 1: But by the same token, who's he's doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: jump over anybody. Yeah, all he has to do is

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Speaker 1: be better than the other third, fourth wide receiver. Hey,

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Speaker 1: let's take a break. When we come back, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear some of Sean mcdermot's comments from his news conference

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Speaker 1: late this morning, some of the thoughts he had on

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and others. We want to hear more from you.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts on our Twitter poll veteran wide receivers. After

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Speaker 1: Calvin Benjamin, who do you think I'll have the biggest

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Speaker 1: role to play on the Buffalo Roster this year. Got

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Speaker 1: time for your phone calls as well. Eight oh three

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Speaker 1: five fifty and toll free from outside Buffalo one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We're just getting

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Speaker 1: rolling John Murphy's Team Tasker on this first day of

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Speaker 1: the mandatory Mini Camp. It's One Bill's Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive, and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Steve and

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Speaker 1: I just sitting here talking about who is listening and

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Speaker 1: watching to us on this beautiful day. We know that

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Speaker 1: you're out there. We should do a survey someday, you know,

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Speaker 1: on the show. Maybe this summer when I know we

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Speaker 1: got a couple of weeks where no one's gonna be here,

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Speaker 1: don't you guys? I know, you know, working deliver Stuffy

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Speaker 1: and or are out when the service injuries, driving around

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Speaker 1: or sales calls or whatever they're and they you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're in Western New York, you know you're a

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Speaker 1: Bill's person probably tuned in. You gotta listen. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would think, but i'd like actually today when Josh Allen's

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Speaker 1: taking number one reps with the one Now, why are

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Speaker 1: you head? You think it's big? I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: a big deal either worth mentioning. I have to mention it.

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Speaker 1: We did mention Why are you making fun of it

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Speaker 1: like you're getting all excited because the guy's taking a

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Speaker 1: couple of snaps. It's not excited. I think it's the

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Speaker 1: logical progression of his NFL career. I anticipated that he

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Speaker 1: would get That's why when we had the Twitter poll,

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Speaker 1: you're making me spit water out of my nose. I

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Speaker 1: anticipated this, I did when we had the Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: last week. Howscomb is the first time I've heard your

643
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: boy here me. Howscom is the first time your boys

644
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: heard about you. Remember anticipating that Josh Allen will get

645
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: number one with with Mini camp? Do you remember the

646
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: Twitter poll last week when we said when does Josh

647
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: Allen get first team reps? And I didn't know. I

648
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: didn't forecast it would happened here, but I anticipated that

649
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: they have a plan for him. But one of the

650
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: answers was next week in Domnicant. The reason why that

651
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: was in there, it was because it could happen, and

652
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen to a limiting stet today. What's so

653
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: funny about that? One of the answer possible answers that

654
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 1: I anticipated predicting. I didn't predict it. I know you did,

655
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: but I knew it could happen. You, why is this?

656
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: What are you laughing at? Because I listen that stop

657
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: the presses. Josh Allen's getting first team reps. Nobody said that. Yeah,

658
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: it's like everybody getting everybody getting getting excited. When Brandon

659
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: Riley catches a pass, you know, it's like, Wow, he's

660
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: gonna make the team. He's got it, he's awesome. You know,

661
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: it's like you're worse thing anybody when it comes to

662
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,959
Speaker 1: I don't get listen. I am, I am, I am

663
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: mister knee jerk. But mine's out of emotion. It's not

664
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: out of an analytical spot. It's not like there's a plan,

665
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: and I think mine is. When you know top ten defense,

666
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you just pull that out of nowhere, nowhere.

667
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. Okay, I'm listening. I hope it does.

668
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: Here's the difference between you and me. I courageously and

669
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: not just stop there. I'm not waiting till it happens.

670
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: Before I anticipated this, I'm predicting it right now. I

671
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: know you are no. A month and a half ago.

672
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: It's they're gonna be a top ten. I just don't

673
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: think it's funny that It's not like you're making fun

674
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: of the fact that people want to know that Josh

675
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: Handle's getting first team reps. It's no, I'm not thinking

676
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: no now, not exactly. I'm making fun of the fact

677
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: that that they think it's important that he's getting number

678
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: one reps, not that they want to know. I know,

679
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: Bills fans everywhere they want to know. They want to

680
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: they want to know, but they don't know if they

681
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: don't think it's any more important than you and I do.

682
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: Let's hear what Sean McDermot made the announce spend today

683
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen. You talk about the plans for the

684
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: quarterback rotation. He says Allen will get most of his reps,

685
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: by the way, he did say it with the third team,

686
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: but we'll get some snaps with the ones. Let's listen

687
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: to him Sean McDermot talking about the plan for Josh

688
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: Allen this week at the mandatory minicamp. Josh is going

689
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: to continue with the third group like he's done before.

690
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: What we'll do periodically is give some Josh some reps

691
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: with the ones. Um that's all part of the of

692
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: his development plan and really a chance for us to

693
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: evaluate our entire roster as well, from top to bottom.

694
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: So um, you know, he'll still work with the threes,

695
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: um buy and large and Nate and aj will continue

696
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: with the ones and twos there, but we'll throw Josh

697
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:50,959
Speaker 1: in from time to time moving forward. They undersell it obviously.

698
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: He was like, he doesn't want to come out and say,

699
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: I got a little news today, Josh Allen's gonna get

700
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: some rep to the ones. It's totally stuttering through the

701
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: whole thing because he didn't want to come out and say, hey,

702
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: Josh's taking reps with the ones today. Guys, it's uh,

703
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: go ahead and eat. He was like, guys, and at

704
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: this point, because he knew where the rest of the

705
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: rest of his time at the podium was going to

706
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: be spent talking about nothing else. And look, we're as

707
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: guilty as anybody. It's news. We're here to talk about

708
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: what's going on. Actually we for three hours. We're more

709
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Speaker 1: guilty than anybody because that's what we've been talking about. Yeah, um,

710
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: I think it's good. I think it's and again I

711
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: do too. I think it's part of the plan. My

712
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: question is this. I don't know how badly he could

713
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: have messed up not to get reps with the number

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Speaker 1: one that's Mike, you know, yeah, I mean he's they

715
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: want to look at the guy, and it's not like

716
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Speaker 1: Nate Peterman and A. J. McCarron are light years ahead,

717
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: and they are a little ahead of him in school.

718
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: We're in in in the in the classroom work and

719
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: they and their experience, of course, but it's a brand

720
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: new offense and they were so and he's got better

721
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: physical abilities than either of them, so you knew, I mean,

722
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: he'd really have to fall on his face for them to.

723
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: We would have heard if they were con sideways to

724
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: each other, going why do we draft this guy? Right?

725
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: But no, it's not hasn't been like that. He's been

726
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: exactly what they thought he was gonna be. To this point,

727
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: it seems like and they're moving ahead, and I think

728
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: it's and you're right, it makes a lot of sense

729
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: when this thing step up. All right, we're gonna step

730
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: everything up where everybody, not just and we were talking

731
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: about this too, not just Josh Allen, but all those

732
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: the offensive line, the receivers, everybody's gonna get a little

733
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: bit of a shake up here in stage three. It is,

734
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: by the way, Steve, for your information, the number one

735
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: story in nfl dot com and their news feed. Josh

736
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: Allen will get some first team reps in mini camp.

737
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: I see, So, why don't you laugh at that? Now

738
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: that it's on the NFL com you think it's I'm

739
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: not gonna laugh at that. I'm gonna be like, why

740
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: it's news. Yeah, it's yeah. You know why it's news

741
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: because it's different May May tenth, May eleventh. That's why

742
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: it's new. June twelve, it's oh yeah, June twelve. It's

743
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: June twelfth. That's why it's news. We're like, we're like

744
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: two months, just under two months from training camp. Yeah,

745
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: it is news. There is other news today as far

746
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: as some injured players that Sean McDermott talked about. Defensive

747
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: end Trent Murphy still limited work, no team reps for

748
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: him as he comes back from that knee injury that

749
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: kept him out last year. He's off to the side,

750
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: gets in some individual work, but no teamwork. No work

751
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: this week, according to McDermott. For the following Zay Jones

752
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: wide receiver j Jones with that knee surgery, and other

753
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: wide receiver Malakai dupre tight end Logan Thomas will have

754
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: the mini camp off. Defensive lineman Tenny Palopoe will not

755
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: practice this week. A linebacker Matt Malano came up with

756
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: a hamstring and he's on the side as well. He's

757
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: out there, he is here, but he will not practice

758
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: this week at all. Yeah, I think that's that's interesting too,

759
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 1: because you got these guys in here, and I notice

760
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, they some of them not Trent Murphy,

761
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: he's from last year, but like Matt Milano, Malakai dupri Is,

762
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: a Jones. It's it's interesting and also Logan Thoms. I

763
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: don't know the nature of these injuries, all of them,

764
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: but it happens that the young guys come out there,

765
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: and particularly guys coming in their second years, and this

766
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: is a year I'm gonna explode, This is a year

767
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come out, you know, I'm gonna do And

768
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: they come out and they work, you know, themselves into

769
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: a soft tissue injury. They pull a muscle, you know,

770
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,439
Speaker 1: or even like for a wide receiver like Change Jones,

771
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: say Jones or somebody, they break a bone, in their

772
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: foot because they're trying to cut hard. They're cut too hard,

773
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: they're not ready for you know, they kind of jumped

774
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: back so fast that they've asked so much of their body.

775
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: Because they really want to be so successful this season.

776
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: They come out in Mini camp before it's a little

777
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: bit time to do that, and they're going a little

778
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: bit faster pace and do something like Matt Malan is

779
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 1: a perfect example of that, you know, Mike Malachai du Pree.

780
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact nature of their injuries, but

781
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: it kind of it's what it smells like to me,

782
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: is these guys, these young guys that are just kind

783
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: of trying, just waiting to explode. You know. We talked

784
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: to Brownie about this when he was out there in

785
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: the last half hour. It's hard to get a sense

786
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: that these practices are much different, much more intense than

787
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: the OTAs they've had in three weeks ten sessions of

788
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: OTAs McDermot talked about it today, he said the mini

789
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: camp workouts this week will look a lot like the

790
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: OTA practices over the last three weeks. There's what John

791
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: McDermott said about that, pretty much the same same, same

792
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: style practice overall verbiage. To your point, sal is different.

793
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: But and there's some obviously some things rule rules wise

794
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: change in terms of mandatory versus voluntary. But other than that,

795
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: the complexion of what we do really won't change all

796
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: that much. Yeah, that's it looks. But I'll tell you what.

797
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:22,439
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying right about because I remember coming

798
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: back after a first year when you think, oh, I've

799
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: seen everything now, you know what I mean. I've been

800
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 1: around the block once in the NFL. I've seen the draft,

801
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: I've took part in the draft. Now I've now I've

802
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: watched other players get draft. I've watched the free agent process,

803
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: the preseason process, the cutdowns, the grind of a regular season,

804
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: saying goodbye to the season. Coming back, you know, you

805
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: kind of get back and think, hey, I've done this,

806
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show these guys how to do it. And

807
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: you bounce back a little too fast and you come up,

808
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: you know, with you know, you come out of there

809
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: with just some injuries, some knicks, and uh. I think

810
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: it's easy to see how that happens, but I think

811
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Speaker 1: it speaks to their enthusiasm. I would think you can

812
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm wrong. I would think also that

813
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: knowing that this is today or on Thursday, the end

814
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: of this week, it's their last practice for six weeks,

815
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: and when you come back it's training camp, and when

816
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: jobs are really on the line, I would think if

817
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: you are worried about your roster spot, or want to

818
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: make a good impression, really good impression, or feel like

819
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: you have something to prove, you might amp it up

820
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: a little bit these three days to say, Hey, this

821
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: is it for the next six weeks. I gotta make

822
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: a good impression now so that when we get to camp,

823
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: I gotta jump. Listen, there's nothing says they gotta wait

824
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: to training camp to cut you. Yeah. I don't even

825
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: believe it. I mean, somebody if some shiny new toy

826
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: comes across the waiver wire that they want to look

827
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: at it. They know from college, and they said, oh wow,

828
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: I remember this guy coming out. I want to show

829
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: I want to see him. I like him better than

830
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: this guy I've been watching for three weeks. He hasn't

831
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: showed me anything. Get him out, get this guy in.

832
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: That happens, and it happens all over the league. So

833
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: players know that, so nobody. Not too many are sitting

834
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,439
Speaker 1: back on now, I got this. You know, I'm good.

835
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 1: It's just at that time of year for that, right.

836
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: Our Twitter poll today actually a result. We talked yesterday

837
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: with miniche Meta of the New York Daily News about

838
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: the Jets, and he told us about the Jets who

839
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: don't really have a strong group of receivers, at least

840
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 1: not on paper. People are saying that about the Bills

841
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: group as well. So our Twitter poll today deals with

842
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: the Bills receivers and which veteran might make a good

843
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 1: impression or might have a role to play. Sean McDermott

844
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: was asked a similar question today. He was asked about

845
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position what he has seen so far,

846
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: and here's what the Bills head coach had to say

847
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: about that today. I mean, those guys are working hard.

848
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: You've got a guy like Kelvin who's who's been around

849
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: the league a little bit and a guy that I

850
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: have experienced with, and then you take that all the

851
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Speaker 1: way to a new player in Austin Prole and Ray

852
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: Ray and some of the other players that are new

853
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: to our team this year. So they're all working extremely hard.

854
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: I think the leadership at the coach level from coach

855
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: Robiski and Chad Hall. Has been phenomenal to be able

856
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: for our young players to be able to learn from

857
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: those two men in terms of Terry Rubisky being around

858
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: some well established receivers over the years and then Chad

859
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: playing the position both outside and in the slot really

860
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: bodes well for the future of our position there. And

861
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: the competition level I think is very high. It's interesting

862
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: to watch a different player makes a play about every day,

863
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: so that's healthy for us. You're gonna be looking for

864
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 1: plays from those receivers. Yeah, I think it's a great

865
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: It's got to be a great atmosphere because all those

866
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: guys got to feel like they have and even footing

867
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: with everybody else in the room, you know, save maybe

868
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin, but even when plus with the fact that

869
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: Zay Jones is down with a knee injury, now it's

870
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: even wider open You've got There isn't even a guy

871
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: that was number two last year here. It starts with

872
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: probably Jeremy Curley, and a lot of people obviously in

873
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll have picked Jeremy Curley is the guy

874
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: they believe is going to step up and make a

875
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: bigger contribution. And that the slot receiver being a guy

876
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: inside with a question marks at offensive line, the ball

877
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: is gonna have to come out quicker. That spells splot

878
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,959
Speaker 1: slot receiver moving the chain, staying on the field, keeping

879
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: the defense off the field, and complimenting a run game

880
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: with a quick passing in. It all makes sense that

881
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: the slot receiver in this offense might have something to

882
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,959
Speaker 1: say about it, and Curly is the logical choice because

883
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: of his experience. You might have a different thought. Give

884
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 1: us a call eighth three five fifty or two three

885
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty or

886
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: Twitter poll after Calvin Benjamin, which Bills wide receiver has

887
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: the biggest role to play this season? And why give

888
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,720
Speaker 1: us a call so we can discuss on Twitter. Fifty

889
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,399
Speaker 1: five percent of you say it's Jeremy Curly, eighteen percent

890
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: of you think it's Rod Street, or seventeen percent say

891
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: Andre Holmes, ten percent of somebody else in mind. Let's

892
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: talk about it when we come back. John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

893
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: one Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

894
00:42:44,960 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. We're rolling here on a beautiful day

895
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,439
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. John Murphy and Steve Tansker one Bill's

896
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: line from One Bill track. We just briefly mentioned a

897
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: moment ago about a beautiful day like this and who

898
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: would be watching the show listening to the show, And

899
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,240
Speaker 1: we got a bunch got a bunch of reply Buffalo

900
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: fan tweets in, hey, we're listening. I know, I know,

901
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: I know you're listening. I'm glad you're listening. Yeah. And

902
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: the other tweet from California. You see that one Steve

903
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: number one Bills. I live in California. I listened to

904
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: this show all the time. It's the highlight of my day,

905
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: right when it comes to Bills news, no one does

906
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: it better. I'm listening right now. Yeah, good, thank you.

907
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: That's great. It's just when it's so nice out and

908
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 1: you and I are sitting in here in our studio

909
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: thinking we should be outside. Yeah, I got TC Bushnell.

910
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm stuck in a basement doing a bathroom remodel. So

911
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm he's listening. Well, he's an that is an indentured

912
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 1: listener right there. He has no choice. Where's where's he from? Attica?

913
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 1: Where's he? I didn't say, yeah, right, no, I don't

914
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: think there's bar on the windows but he is stuck

915
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: in a basement. Receivers, who do you like as far

916
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: as emerging is the number two? We know Calvin Benjamin

917
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: likely to be the number one. Veterans who could be

918
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: the number two receiver? Who do you counting on on

919
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: this Bill's roster? Give us a call, Shoot us a tweet.

920
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: Eighth three fifty toll free one eight eight five fifty

921
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Speaker 1: two five fifty mafia Man tweets in solid play from

922
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: your slot, receivers are the key to moving the chains

923
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 1: and keeping defenders off balance. With questions on offensive line,

924
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: we'll need to get the ball out quick. My vote

925
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: is curly Okay, it makes sense. And then Mike Nery

926
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: tweets and Streeter can play special teams. He can. I

927
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: do think, and I've said this on the show before,

928
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: I think many Bills fans, maybe some of us, are

929
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: overlooking Rod Streeter as a potential answer to this receiving question.

930
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: And I'm basing that on his years in the league

931
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: and his preseason last year. I thought he was really

932
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,760
Speaker 1: strong last year in preseason and preseason games in particular.

933
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: Streeters a pro. Yeah, he's a pro, and he's I

934
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: think if he's he stays healthy. Obviously, I think he's

935
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: on this team and in some capacity, And I think

936
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: he showed some things in the preseason last year at

937
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: wide out, so he could have a real prominent role

938
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Speaker 1: given what he was doing last year before he got hurt,

939
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 1: and you know his experience, I think you know he's

940
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: a guy. You're right, you don't want to sleep on

941
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: him because he does have some things to offer. What

942
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: else you got on the tweets there, Well, we've got

943
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: from Brian Rosignall the wide receiver. The wide receiver group

944
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: is any man's game. The whole group is proven. I

945
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: believe there are diamonds in the rough here on the

946
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: receiving course. The question is, as is all too often

947
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: the case in Buffalo, will a quarterback play make it

948
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 1: possible for them to shine? Wide receivers got to dread

949
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,320
Speaker 1: the uncertainty. Listen, everybody dreads the uncertainty at that spot.

950
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: But I think you're right, and I've said this since

951
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: I started coming on the show. It's not the wide

952
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: receipt and I heard I hear fans say it all

953
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: the time. It drives me crazy. It's not the wide

954
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: receivers who make a quarterback. It is the opposite the

955
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: quarterback makes the wide receiver. How many guys has Tom

956
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: Brady been to the Super Bowl with a wide receiver?

957
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: A bunch, a bunch, a bunch and it and the

958
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: you can go the other direction. Go the Atlanta Falcons,

959
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: they got that one super Bowl in because their quarterback

960
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: had an outlier year for his career. He had a

961
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: great year for his career. And you can say, hey,

962
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: was Julio Jones, it was it was Mohammed Sanu and all. Yeah,

963
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: he had some pretty good receivers, but they didn't go

964
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: anywhere until the quarterback rose up. So I think you're right,

965
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 1: it's the receivers they're gonna have are gonna be able

966
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: to do it. If they got a quarterback, they can

967
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: get him the football and that's going to be the key.

968
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: I agree for the most part Steve with that, however,

969
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: and we saw it the last couple of years. And

970
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: this is not by any means, you know, an apology

971
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: for Tyrod Taylor's play, because he was the biggest problem

972
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: in the past offense. But if you have receivers who

973
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: cannot stretch the field, who don't get open on a

974
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: consistent basis, you've got a problem in your passing game.

975
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: There's you know, the quarterbacks have a hard time and

976
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: the other receivers have a hard time. If no one's

977
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: stretching the field, if no one's running good, crisp routes

978
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: and getting open, you've got a problem in your passing game.

979
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: So while I agree that the quarterback makes the receivers

980
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the time, I do think the receivers

981
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: have a role to play to get themselves open, whether

982
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: it's stretching the field or getting open over the middle,

983
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: or whatever it takes. And the Bills have been lacking

984
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: in that department two for a couple of years. It

985
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: can't be that hard. I did it. I mean, really, seriously,

986
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: I did it for thirteen years. It's not that hard.

987
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna get guys open. Your offensive coordinator, your receivers, coaches,

988
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: the techniques they teach you, and listen whenever they play zone.

989
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: There's gonna be open spots all over the field. All

990
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: you gotta do is find them and get in them

991
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Now, they're not going to be there for

992
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: very long. The windows closed quick. But the quarterback is

993
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: gonna make this team go. I mean, that's the way

994
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: it is, And I get what you're saying, But the

995
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: guys they have in their stable right now, no matter

996
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: who they are, if they've gotten to this point in

997
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: their career as football players, they are good enough to

998
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: have the skills and the athletic ability to find the

999
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 1: open seams. And it's gonna be down to the guys

1000
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger to get it to him. I truly

1001
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: believe that Kelvin Benjamin's good enough, Rod Streeter's good enough.

1002
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: The other guys are good enough that I mean, they're

1003
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: just they are. They've got at the physical Bill and

1004
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: now if they stay can they stay healthy? Are they

1005
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: gonna be smart enough to pick up the playbook? Are

1006
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: they gonna make adjustments on the fly when they need to? Okay,

1007
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: maybe maybe not, but there's no question they're gonna have

1008
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: the windows are gonna be there. Listen, listen, Murph. You

1009
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: and I sat here, and you watched the Bills play

1010
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: all last year. I watched them play every game, either

1011
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 1: live or on tape, and there were guys running open

1012
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: last year. They had some got windows that needed to

1013
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: have the ball thrown into last year, and it was

1014
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: the most frustrating thing that and that alone is the

1015
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: reason Tyrod Taylor got benched in Week ten. That was

1016
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: the reason because there were guys running open and they

1017
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: needed something in the passing game they couldn't get it,

1018
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: and it started with the guy pulling the trigger, not

1019
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: the guys, right. I do think receivers have a role

1020
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: to play, especially in terms of stretching the field that

1021
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,760
Speaker 1: the Bills have not got consistently out of their receiving

1022
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: group for a couple of years. I think you know

1023
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: that you're right, But speed is not what that's all

1024
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: about in the NFL. It's not about outrunning guys. As

1025
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, it's not about outrunning guys. It's about

1026
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: fooling them. That's how you get open in the NFL.

1027
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: You gotta fool them. That's that's what the fastest guys do.

1028
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: That's what the slowest guys do. And that's what the

1029
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: intermediate guys do. They fool them. You gotta get them

1030
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: thinking you're gonna run one route and you run a

1031
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: different one, even if it's a even if it's a

1032
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 1: dead go route. That's what you gotta do. You gotta

1033
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: make them think you're gonna stop and you don't. That's

1034
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: how you get that's how you get open. So it's

1035
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: not about, you know, they don't have a fast guy

1036
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: outside that's gonna really stretch the listen, send the guy deep.

1037
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: They have to cover him. It's not that you're gonna

1038
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: let him run without you know, it's not like you're

1039
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: not gonna find You're not gonna find a guy on

1040
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: the planet that plays football that's gonna outrun everybody on

1041
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: a football team in the NFL. It's just not gonna happen.

1042
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to find a guy that run, uses

1043
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: techniques and finds a way to get open deep and

1044
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: all you gotta And it doesn't matter if the guy's

1045
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: a fast or not. If he runs down there, they've

1046
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: got to cover him. That's the idea. Double cover, you

1047
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean. If we don't have fast enough guy,

1048
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: you can dictate what kind of coverage you're gonna get.

1049
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: No nobody double covered Marquis good one either, Right, he

1050
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: was fast. You gotta be more than fast. Okay, all

1051
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: right there. I don't know if we're a green or disagree.

1052
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: They're all fast. Every guy out there's fast, pretty fast.

1053
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: Even even Wyatt Teller at three twenty is faster than

1054
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,240
Speaker 1: most people walk on the street like you and me. Okay,

1055
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: I mean they're all fast. I can't figure out if

1056
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: we're a green or disagreeing. I don't know we're gonna break.

1057
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: We got more to like arguing thoughts, receiver talk when

1058
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Speaker 1: we come back. Eight fifty toll free one eight eight

1059
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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty lines open for you.

1060
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Speaker 1: Who are you counting on? Who's gonna have a role

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Speaker 1: to play among the veterans on this Buffalo roster that's

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Speaker 1: coming up next hour one Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network. Sports update

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Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive where the Buffalo Bills are

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Speaker 1: on the field for mandatory mini camps started about one

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Speaker 1: hour ago. About one hour two go left in today session,

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Speaker 1: the first of three mini camp sessions this week Monday

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00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,760
Speaker 1: or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. After that, the Bills are gone

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00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: until training camp. Some injured players defensive end Trent Murphy

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00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: will get limited work today, no team reps as he

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00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: comes back from his knee injury. No work this week

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00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: for wide receivers A Jones wide receiver, Malakai Duprie, tight

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00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: end Logan Thomas defensive lineman Tenny Palapoy and linebacker Matt Malan.

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00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: Head coach Sean McDermot said, Josh Allen, Bill's number seven

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00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 1: overall pick. We'll get some reps with the first team offense,

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00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: but he will stay with the third team for most

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00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: of the week. McDermot said Allen will spend most of

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00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: his time with the third team, but heat periodically will

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00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: get some work with the starters. Odell Beckham reported for

1080
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: duty with the New York Giants mandatory miniicamp today, but

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00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: is not planning on taking any team reps. The Big

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00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: Blue and the Dynamic Receiver on the same page as

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00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: Odell's not getting any team reps this week, they don't

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00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: feel the need to rush their top playmaker back on

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00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: the field. He broke his ankle last October. Falcon's wide

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00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: receiver Julio Jones told the team that he will not

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00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: attend their mandatory minicamp. Sources say that Jones, as a

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00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: contract issue, sent a preliminary proposal to the Falcons, a

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00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 1: response not to his liking, and Jones did not see

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00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: fit to attend the mandatory minicamp. He will be fined

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00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: for not reporting. Two Dallas Cowboys players who have skipped

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00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: OTAs will report for a week today for work today rather.

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00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: David Irving, who stayed away as he dealt with off

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00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,280
Speaker 1: field issues, expected to participate in the mandatory minicamp along

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00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: with guards. Zack Martin news expected to show and finalize

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00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: a big six year contract. According to NFL dot Com

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00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: and Saint Stop draft pick, defensive end Marcus Davenport will

1098
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: have thumb injuries or a thumb surgery rather after this

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00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: week's three day minicamp. It's described as no big deal.

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00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: Davenport expected to be fine by the start of training

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00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: camp in late July. That's the update from one Bill

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00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,280
Speaker 1: Stride Football news from all over the NFL today, Stephen.

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00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: Most of it deals with reporting to miniicamp. Are not

1104
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: reporting to minicamp. We talked about the fines yesterday. They

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00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: are sizeable. It's eighty four grand if you miss all

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00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: three days. Yeah, that's a lot. You got to be

1107
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: committed if you're gonna miss a mandatory miniicamp, right, well,

1108
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: you gotta be committed to a new deal. Yeah. And

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00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: I think you see guys who have already made a

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00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: little bit of a pile of money doing it. Guys

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00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: like Levan Bell on Julio Jones, I mean they've already

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00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,840
Speaker 1: made enough money that eighty four grant is more like

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00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: a long weekend in Vegas for them, you know. I

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00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: mean they're gonna they'll do that, particularly if it means

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00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: getting a two point five million dollar raised per year

1116
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: in a contract, which is kind of where Julio Jones

1117
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: is sitting behind the going rate for top whiteouts, and

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00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: he wants that to be addressed. Levion Bell, this is

1119
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: the second year in a row he's had contract issues,

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00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he's got much leverage. He's

1121
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: a great player, no question about it, but he's playing

1122
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: a position that even here in Buffalo, when the guy

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00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: we've got as an elite guy like Shady McCoy, we've

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00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: got him buttoned up. We've seen guys like Travers Cadet

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00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: and Gillis Lee who went to the Patriots last Yarman.

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00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: We've seen some guys come in and really flash and

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00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: play well for this team in backup roles to Lashawn McCoy.

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00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,919
Speaker 1: So I don't know that a guy like Levion Bell

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00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: is I just don't like that. It's a bad look

1130
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: for a guy for him in particular for the second

1131
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: year in a row. Yeah, we're talking a lot about

1132
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: receivers today and the Bills Receiving Corps. Well, I don't

1133
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: know from you. After calmudn Benjamin, who do you think

1134
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: will emerge and have a role to play in the

1135
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Receiving Corps. Got phone lines open to discuss

1136
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,760
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty and from outside Buffalo

1137
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: toll free and one eight eight eight five fifty two

1138
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: five fifty or on Twitter at one Bills Live. A

1139
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: couple of tweets on this, and I'm not saying it's

1140
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 1: an oversight because I did think about it on their Twitter.

1141
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: We did, We thought about it. But it deals a

1142
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: couple of people wondered about Zay Jones. Zay isn't even

1143
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: a choice. Phil Martello says Corbone tweets and Zay Jones,

1144
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: I would think, Look, his injury and the fact that

1145
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: he's only in a second year, I guess led me

1146
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 1: to think he doesn't really belong on this list of

1147
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: you know, veteran wide receivers. Technically he does, but yeah,

1148
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: he get better and he's a two year veteran, right,

1149
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon Riley is not on this list either,

1150
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: and he's in his second year. So we're looking at

1151
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: the vets we left. We left veteran bills received. I'm sorry,

1152
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,800
Speaker 1: I keep talking over you Left has been around, Curley's

1153
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: been around, Street has been around. Zay Jones has been

1154
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: here one year and he's hurting now too. Right. Plus

1155
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,919
Speaker 1: he's also a guy that we kind of rubber stamps

1156
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: can probably be on the roster. Yeah, we're talking about

1157
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: what role other guys are gonna play, and so we

1158
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: did discuss, you know, because we only allowed four choices

1159
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: on it, and we want to have one as being

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00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: the other, which I guess is a Jones in this case,

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00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: would be if you're gonna be one of those guys,

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00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: I got um. We have other Twitter reaction as well,

1163
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 1: and this one Poor Soul agrees with me. Murph couldn't

1164
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: agree more with Tasker on this one. We'll find out

1165
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: if Tyrod was the issue now that he has Josh

1166
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: Gordon and Jarvis Landry in Cleveland got some receivers. I mean,

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00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: Tyrode had Sammy Watkins here in Buffalo and didn't do it. Yeah,

1168
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: but Sammy Watkins now has turned into a journeyman wide

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00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: receiver who is now making fourteen million bucks a year.

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00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: But at the point is Tyrod had a quality receiver

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00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: in Sammy Watkins and never really utilize him to the

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00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 1: to the maximum. So look, I'm not I know Tyrode

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00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: was the problem in the passing game, right, there's no

1174
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: question about that. You said he missed guys downfield. I

1175
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: thought he was consistently late in delivering the ball. He waited, waited,

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00:56:55,560 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: waited until the hole closed up, until his little it

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00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,479
Speaker 1: seemed closed up, and that was a problem. And they're

1178
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: better off moving on finding a different quarterback. But I

1179
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: do believe the receivers have a role to play in

1180
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,399
Speaker 1: in the success of the passing game. I think it's

1181
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: I think it's evident. What else we got on Twitter, Well,

1182
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: we've got I got one from Jacob Tang who sees

1183
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: Rod Streeter was killing it last year in camp. I'd

1184
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: love to see him recapture that and see his career

1185
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: take off. I agree. I agree with that, and then

1186
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: Steve Noble. After Shady, Cadet, Clay and Benjamin get their catches,

1187
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: there's just not enough opportunities for someone else to be

1188
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: noticeably impactful. I think it will be impact by a committee,

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00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: Zay and Riley will have the best chance if someone

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00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: were to step up, but I don't consider them bets. Yeah,

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00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: that's why we left him off that list. Yeah, yeah,

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00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I agree that after Shady Cadet,

1193
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: Clay and Benjamin get their catches, not enough for anybody else.

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00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: We did not, you know, Charles Clay. We're talking about receivers,

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00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: and Charles Clay has been a pretty consistent, productive performer

1196
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: for the Bills, but there's another level he could get to,

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00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: and I would love it if it were this year.

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00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,959
Speaker 1: I had concerns about Charles Clay being able to stay healthy.

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00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: He seems fragile to me, even as big as he is.

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00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 1: They give him some days off during training camp and

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00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,479
Speaker 1: during the regular season to make sure his knee stays healthy.

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00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: There was a couple of times last year where he

1203
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: got up gimpy after catches because of because the knee

1204
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: isn't one hundred percent. So I have concerns about how

1205
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: dependable he's gonna be on a week to week basis.

1206
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's any question that guy was

1207
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy. He's dominant. He was the free

1208
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: agent signing of the year. He came out of Miami

1209
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: after putting together a few seasons there. I saw him

1210
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: play in other games, not against the Bills, but other

1211
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: games as well, not just against the Bills. He was

1212
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: dynamite and he is a guy the Bills could really

1213
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 1: lean on if he can come out and prove that

1214
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: he can stay on the football field. But you're right,

1215
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: we didn't include him in this because we're kind of

1216
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: looking at that spot of wide receiver wondering what it's

1217
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 1: going to look like and how many guys they're gonna keep,

1218
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: and let alone, which guys are going to make the club.

1219
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: We should do that at some point, did go right down?

1220
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: You know? Is it five or six receivers? You want

1221
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: to do that now? Well? No, not now, No, we

1222
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: need I gotta prepared for that. We gotta go down

1223
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: because they've got you've got fifty three guys, and it

1224
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: usually six is the absolute maximum number you can keep.

1225
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: That's if one of them is or two of them,

1226
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: now one of them is almost a completely dedicated special.

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00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: Let me do it this way, all right, Let's say

1228
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: five Benjamin Zay Jones curly is three, So you're looking

1229
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: at two spots for the following Rod Streeter, Andre Holmes,

1230
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: Brandon Riley, m Austin Prole, Ray Ray McLoud. I'm trying

1231
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: to list these in yeah, in order of you know,

1232
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: the strongest candidates, Robert Robert Foster, and then you got

1233
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: others Malachai Dupree, you got um Kaylin Clay, Quan Bray,

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00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: Cam Phillips. So you have to pick two out of

1235
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: their It's a lot of names. But how much quality

1236
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: is there? I guess that would be the question. I

1237
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: get it, you're right, But at that point when they

1238
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: get down that low past uh Zay Jones, Kelvin, Benjamin,

1239
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: and Curley, well, those guys aren't gonna those guys are

1240
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: gonna be on the field for maybe five plays a

1241
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,919
Speaker 1: game at wide out. The fourth guy is the fifth

1242
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: guy is gonna be playing special teams. He's gonna be

1243
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: returning kicks, He's gonna be doing other things, gonna returning kiss,

1244
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: block and kicks, you know, up on uh up on

1245
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: a front line of kickoff return, all that stuff. So

1246
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: it's you know, those all this stuff out there that

1247
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: they're doing, this wide receiver stuff is all secondary to

1248
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 1: what they're actually going to be contributing. So that's even

1249
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: even that is hard to even you know, get your

1250
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: mind around. So you're gonna want to keep Pearl and

1251
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: McLeod around in some fashion, whether it's practice squad or whatever. Well, right,

1252
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 1: if they can, if they can play, yeah, yeah, if

1253
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: there's that on the horizon, they like Foster. These are

1254
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: all rookies. I don't know, I mean, is there a

1255
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: room for Andre Holmes that he he had a role

1256
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: to play on special teams last year? Is what what

1257
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: does Ride Street? I think it's a pretty interesting question,

1258
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, question the whole wide receiver picture, and that's

1259
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: why we just focused on the veterans today. But I

1260
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: don't know how it's going to turn on. I think

1261
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: it's a pretty interesting question, is to what they want,

1262
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: what they get out of special teams from guys like

1263
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: Street and Andre Holmes, and how much room they leave themselves.

1264
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: What do they do with prol and Ray Ray mcleoud. Well,

1265
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 1: they got four rookies on their roster now and two

1266
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: two one year two first year guys or one year guys,

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Speaker 1: meaning you know, Malachai Duprees got one year, Brandon Roddy's

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01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: got one year, Zay Jones this will be his second

1269
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Speaker 1: year there. Then they've got Robert Fosters, Ray Ray McLeod,

1270
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Speaker 1: cam Phillips from Virginia Tech, and Austin Prole. Those four guys,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a ton of guys. They're all gonna

1272
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Speaker 1: get evaluated and it's gonna come down to the best

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01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: five guys that get on the team, the guys five

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01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: that help them gonna win games. And some of those

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna have to cover kicks, which is a huge,

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01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: a huge part of what Rod Streeter did. So you

1277
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Speaker 1: think if Rod Streeters is that guy, there's the fourth guy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's a special teams he's a really good

1279
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: special teams player, but he's thirty years old as well,

1280
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 1: and he's you know, so that's that's a quandary. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they're looking at. Yeah, call on

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Speaker 1: the line from Gary and Checktaga. Hello, Gary, Welcome, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air with us. Hello, guys. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about Andre Holmes. I'm really surprised that he only got

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Speaker 1: sixteen percent of your votes. I think that he might

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Speaker 1: have a breakout season because I remember on December of

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Speaker 1: the third against the Patriots, he was an incredibly wide

1288
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: open on a couple of plays and Tyrod didn't give

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Speaker 1: him the ball. Yeah, I thought going into last year.

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Speaker 1: Last year, at this time, I thought Andre Holmes might

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01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: have something to add to the Bills receiving crew. It

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01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 1: didn't really happen last year. And look, that receiving group

1293
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: last year was in almost a constant state of flux,

1294
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 1: right with guys coming in and coming out. And you know,

1295
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:58,919
Speaker 1: preseason Jordan Matthews came he had a major role to play,

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01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: and then midst season Calvin Benjamin came in. They had

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Speaker 1: a major role coming from him. Obviously Sammy was out

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01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: in August. I just thought, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: just never felt like Andre Holmes demonstrated last year and

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01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up on him this year, but I

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01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 1: never thought that he demonstrated. You know, he never gave

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01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: you a reason why he would be an important player

1303
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:21,919
Speaker 1: at the receiver position. Could it happen this year? Shirt

1304
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: could hope it does. They need him, they need somebody,

1305
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: But I didn't see that last year. And when there

1306
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: were opportunities for him last year. It's hard to evaluate

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Speaker 1: anybody given the fact that they couldn't throw the ball

1308
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 1: very well. Yeah, I mean, I mean, here's the thing, though,

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01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 1: The coaching staff watches every film. They watch every player. Now,

1310
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: if a receiver runs his route gets open like NFL open.

1311
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: Even if he's not running by himself down the middle

1312
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: of an open field, there are places where you get

1313
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: open where there's a defender close by. But if the

1314
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: balls in the right spot, it's a window where the

1315
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: most NFL quarterbacks would throw it. You get credit in

1316
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: film study by a coaching staff for doing it right.

1317
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,439
Speaker 1: You're they're saying, yeah, that's right. That's why you play

1318
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: practice hard. In mini camps like the one they're out

1319
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: there now doing. These guys run routes hard because they

1320
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: know there's only one football and you've got to run

1321
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: your route in such ways to get open so that

1322
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: if the guy needs you, he's gonna throw it to you.

1323
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: And quarterbacks, offensive coordinators, receiver coaches, quarterback coaches, they watch

1324
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: all this film together and they look and they watch

1325
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: the quarterback and when he throws and they complete it,

1326
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 1: that's great. But then they go back watch the tape

1327
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: again and they watch everybody else. What this receiver do,

1328
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: how's he looking? So you don't just because you don't

1329
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 1: get the ball doesn't mean you don't get evaluated on

1330
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: that route. And there's some guys that you're right, they

1331
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: played a lot better than their statistics would would indicate

1332
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 1: by their catches and their touchdowns and all that stuff

1333
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 1: that you did last year. But also that evaluation goes

1334
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 1: on all through practice as well, all through training camp,

1335
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: all through these mini camps. So there are guys that

1336
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: they're going to feel confident about. If there's a guy

1337
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: out there that just can't get open, he will not

1338
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 1: be around. So the guys they've got there are playing,

1339
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 1: working harder, doing everything they want him to do, and

1340
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: are good enough at this point to be on this

1341
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: football team. So that's the way it's gonna land, and

1342
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: that's the way it's going to continue to progress. But

1343
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 1: I agree with him, guys like Andre Holmes, Rod Streeter,

1344
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 1: Brandon Riley, we don't really know what they're gonna do

1345
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 1: when when the season kicks off with this crop of quarterbacks,

1346
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: with these with this bunch of guys pulling the trigger.

1347
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: And I think that's going to be the interesting thing

1348
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 1: to see is how much better this group of receivers

1349
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 1: will be with different guys throwing in the football. You know,

1350
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: we had somebody on Twitter a minute ago talk about

1351
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: how Shady McCoy's roll in the passing game might help

1352
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 1: a lot. And it could, I guess. And there's another

1353
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: thing you talk about what we don't know, Steve. You know,

1354
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: what I don't know is how much the Bills are

1355
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: going to pass it to McCoy. You know, is that

1356
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 1: a big part of Brian Dabo's offense. I don't know.

1357
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case at all. Last

1358
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 1: year Shady head fifty nine catches, four hundred forty eight yards,

1359
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns through the air. Yeah, it would seem like

1360
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,040
Speaker 1: he could do more, Steve, right, it would seem like

1361
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: Shady could do more in the passing game. And if

1362
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 1: he can, that'd be great. That would be a big

1363
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: step for it him kind of punching up his receiving

1364
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: stats for his career. He had seventy eight catches in

1365
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:12,920
Speaker 1: his second year in the league with the Eagles. He had.

1366
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: The most he had with Buffalo was last year fifty nine.

1367
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 1: He went thirty two catches, fifty catches, fifty nine somewhere around.

1368
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: He had seventy eight that one year, two ten, two

1369
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Speaker 1: of them for touchdowns. If you can get you know,

1370
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Speaker 1: fifty nine catches last year for Shady with the Bills.

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Speaker 1: If you can get sixty seventy catches from Shady McCoy, yeah,

1372
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Speaker 1: he would be a major factor in the Buffalo passing game.

1373
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:34,919
Speaker 1: Is that a part of what Brian day Ball wants

1374
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 1: to do expects to do. I don't know. We haven't

1375
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: seen his offense yet. Yeah. And here's the thing about

1376
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: day Ball In these offense you think these guys say, hey,

1377
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: I want to throw it to Shady because he's good

1378
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: at that. Well, here's the thing. You do that when

1379
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 1: it's there to be had, you have that. That's what

1380
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: installing an offense is all about. When we get into

1381
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 1: a game where they can't cover our running backs, we're

1382
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 1: gonna throw the football to Shady and here's how we're

1383
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: gonna do it. We're gonna do this, this, this, and this.

1384
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: When we get into a game and they've got linebackers

1385
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: that can really run and cover out of the backfield,

1386
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: but they're kind of light, we're gonna hand it off

1387
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: and run it right up the gut at them and

1388
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 1: make them make them muscle up and stop our big boys.

1389
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 1: That's what an NFL offense does you pick the matchups

1390
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: you want when you want them on games when it's

1391
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: gonna give you the advantage to pick those matchups, so

1392
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: you can say that, hey, Shady's gonna be great. The

1393
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: reason Shady's great he is because he's a tough matchup

1394
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: in any defense. Right, he's a great route runner, but

1395
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: he's also obviously a great runner with the football when

1396
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: you just hand it to him. So either way you

1397
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: get it to him, you're gonna have a matchup that's

1398
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 1: superior if the defense gives you the look that you like.

1399
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,919
Speaker 1: So this offense that you're talking about, hey, they're gonna

1400
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:41,440
Speaker 1: do this, They're gonna do that, They're gonna do everything.

1401
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 1: The idea is to have an offense that is versatile

1402
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: enough that you can go fast and yet pound the

1403
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,720
Speaker 1: ball in the run game, or go fast and air

1404
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 1: it out. Go fast with five wides, go fast one

1405
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: with one wide. You know that kind of thing. It's

1406
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,440
Speaker 1: the it's an offense in the NFL. You've got to

1407
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: be able to do all of it and everything, and

1408
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: how well you do all of that says what you're

1409
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: gonna do. So you want to get the best players

1410
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: you can so that gives you flexibility to do all

1411
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 1: of that stuff against more teams because they won't have

1412
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: the people, good players to match up with your great players,

1413
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 1: and Shady is an impossible matchup. Yeah. McCoy the obviously

1414
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:21,560
Speaker 1: the main part of the Bills offensive engine in the

1415
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: last three years, and today this morning, Sean McDermott was

1416
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: asked about him. McDermot asked about McCoy going into his

1417
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 1: fourth year here with the Buffalo Bills and his tenth

1418
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 1: year in the league and what he sees for Lashan McCoy.

1419
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: Here's what Joan McDermott had to say. Again, I had

1420
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:37,679
Speaker 1: a chance to be around Lashawn earlier in his career,

1421
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 1: so you know very you know, really from the start,

1422
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 1: I could see the skill level early on. And I've

1423
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 1: mentioned this before, but as now coming full circle, you know,

1424
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 1: coming back to you know, in terms of our relationship,

1425
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: coming full circle a year ago when I came back

1426
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:59,759
Speaker 1: to Buffalo here, you know, just to watch his habits

1427
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: all off the field, in terms of the way he

1428
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: takes care of his body, um you know, for running

1429
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: back to um to you know, accrue the number of

1430
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 1: yards and to be healthy like he's been for the

1431
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 1: most part during his career is really a testament to

1432
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:14,719
Speaker 1: the way he takes care of his body. Has become

1433
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: a pro um on and off the field in terms

1434
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: of what he does. UM with the maintenance preservation part.

1435
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 1: But you're a quarterback and new offensive life, um, most

1436
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: of the offensive life and a new coordinat or how

1437
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:33,160
Speaker 1: much are you going to need to lean on Leshan?

1438
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 1: Get again? Um? As as as the one fixture of it,

1439
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:40,679
Speaker 1: not not the loan fixture, but but the key fixture

1440
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:43,720
Speaker 1: of his office we're giving you know what he's done. Well,

1441
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 1: you know, listen, Well, Shan is a good player. I'm

1442
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: not going to take anything away from from him and

1443
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: what he's done over the years and what we'll expect

1444
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 1: him to do this year no different. But um, you know,

1445
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: we've got a number of good players. And you know,

1446
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer that the team is not made

1447
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 1: up of of one guy. It's it's eleven guys on

1448
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: one side of the ball, all doing their respective jobs.

1449
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 1: And and LaShaun has really subscribed to that philosophy. And

1450
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, all good running backs usually have a pretty

1451
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 1: good offensive line in front of him as well. So

1452
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, we've got to piece this thing together the

1453
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 1: right way and play good team, good team football. Clearly,

1454
01:10:23,439 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 1: Shady McCoy has a big role to play in this offense,

1455
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:27,720
Speaker 1: in the past game and in the run game. What

1456
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 1: do you do last year? Well? NFL Network again their

1457
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,720
Speaker 1: Top one hundred, which is unveiled every Monday night, last

1458
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,680
Speaker 1: night named Lashaw McCoy the thirtieth best player in the

1459
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 1: NFL as voted on by other players. Shady McCoy ranked

1460
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: number thirty in the NFL's Top one hundred. He didn't

1461
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 1: like that, Oh yeah, who did? But he's pretty that's

1462
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's pretty good. That's really good, Shady. His

1463
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:54,799
Speaker 1: tweet last night was thirty double question mark too high? Lol,

1464
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 1: But I'm thankful he was the number thirtieth ranked player

1465
01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: in the NFL and last night, I don't know if

1466
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 1: that means that too high? Does that mean too high

1467
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: a number or too highly ranked? He's been self deprecating.

1468
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 1: I think no, I don't have a hard I don't

1469
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 1: know you mentioned. I thought I interpreted his meaning thirties

1470
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:13,640
Speaker 1: higher than twenty. He'd rather be twenty than thirty. But

1471
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,479
Speaker 1: maybe he is being self deprecating, like thirty, I'm not

1472
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: that good? No, have you met Shady. Yeah, that's had

1473
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 1: an hard time seeing him, you know, being all Chuck's

1474
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 1: about gonna hear from him. He might talk about it

1475
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 1: today after practice. Um, I think that's about right for him,

1476
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 1: don't you. Thirtieth best player in the NFL, he's up there.

1477
01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Um at a at a

1478
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 1: position that continues to be devalued by a lot of people. Um,

1479
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 1: he is valuable. He is very valuable. He's slippery, he's versatile.

1480
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: He runs very good up inside, he runs good outside.

1481
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: He runs great in the past in the in the routes.

1482
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: You can split him out wide as a wide eye.

1483
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 1: You can bring him in tight and run him between

1484
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: the tackles. Turned out to be He turned out to

1485
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,760
Speaker 1: be very durable too, right, He isn't and he's available. Yeah,

1486
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: you know that's the thing. I mean, the guy doesn't

1487
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:59,240
Speaker 1: miss games. And I think, uh we you know, we

1488
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:02,640
Speaker 1: spoke yesterday briefly about you know, he just went over

1489
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:06,839
Speaker 1: ten thousand yards in his career. Two more years of thousand,

1490
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 1: he's going to be in twelve thousand yard territory. And

1491
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: that's that's Hall of fame. It's hall of fame worthy

1492
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 1: and I think, uh, it's something that I don't have

1493
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 1: a Probably he should think about for he should think

1494
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 1: about being staying you know, that should be job one

1495
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 1: for this team, keeping him healthy and on the field.

1496
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 1: He is, he is all of that, and he thirty ranked.

1497
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 1: And I'm not getting into who's you know, because there

1498
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: was all kinds of questions about it's all kinds of

1499
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are more important in the team. And I

1500
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: don't know if thirty better playing quarterback than he isn't

1501
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 1: playing wide out, I mean, is he doesn't playing running back.

1502
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,680
Speaker 1: But that guy is as good as it gets in

1503
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: National Football League at that position. I have got nothing

1504
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 1: but respect for the guy talking about who are the

1505
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: Bill's best veteran receiving options are behind Calvin Benjamin? Give

1506
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,880
Speaker 1: us a call eight three five fifty toll free one

1507
01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five. Got a call

1508
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 1: from Tom on Grand Island. Tom, go ahead, you're on

1509
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:07,599
Speaker 1: the air, Hey guys, all right. I think the best

1510
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 1: option after Calvin Benjamin is probably Jeremy Curly. And uh,

1511
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: I think that because you know he's gonna come in

1512
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:20,640
Speaker 1: and you know what his role is. He's always been

1513
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: a fly receiver in a solid one, and uh yeah,

1514
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a solid addition to

1515
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:27,760
Speaker 1: this team. I think he'll be very it's a very

1516
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 1: underrated signing. Yeah, I think you might have a point.

1517
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:33,200
Speaker 1: And I get it. We've gotten a lot of feedback

1518
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 1: he's he's leading this poll um by a long shot.

1519
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 1: And you think, um Curly's is just a guy who

1520
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: brings his experience and the fact that we've seen him.

1521
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 1: I mean, he played for the Jets. He hurt us,

1522
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 1: he hurt the Bills in a bunch of games. So

1523
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: I agree. I think he's going to be a guy

1524
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 1: that they can plug in and expect a certain amount

1525
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: of production from. And also I think he's a veteran

1526
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: guy knows how to handle quarterbacks and knows how what

1527
01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:02,920
Speaker 1: quarterbacks want when you come out around. Sometimes that's the

1528
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:05,320
Speaker 1: hardest thing as a wide receivers find out how the

1529
01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: quarter how the quarterback wants you to look. When you

1530
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:09,600
Speaker 1: come out of the route, you know, you've seen a

1531
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 1: lot of these guys that you know, they've seen the

1532
01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 1: route on paper and they've seen other guys run. But

1533
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: when you turn around, you bring your head around, you

1534
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 1: get a feel for where the quarterback wants you to

1535
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 1: be and that's where you got to get. And if

1536
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: you do those things, the quarterback throws you the ball out.

1537
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: Jeremy Curley does that. How quarterbacks, if there's three different guys,

1538
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 1: you don't know who's that's a real problem. That's why

1539
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,519
Speaker 1: they start moving guys around too, so you can start

1540
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: getting used to all of them. Yeah, because at this

1541
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: pointless face and we don't know exactly who's going to

1542
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:41,599
Speaker 1: be taking snaps for the Bills on Week one, right

1543
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:44,400
Speaker 1: or where or where any of these receivers are gonna

1544
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:45,760
Speaker 1: fall on the depth chart with who they're going to

1545
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 1: be working with. Yep. We'll continue to talk about this

1546
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:50,840
Speaker 1: through the rest of the day, the Bills receiving question.

1547
01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 1: Which veteran has a chance to play a major role

1548
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: in there in the pass game this year. We'll take

1549
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: more phone calls on that. We're gonna break from that though.

1550
01:14:58,160 --> 01:14:59,680
Speaker 1: Coming up in just a second, we're gonna be with

1551
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: Andy Major, the Bills vice president of Operations and guest Experience.

1552
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: They've got a change in the bus lot policy for

1553
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: the upcoming season and Andy's gonna be with us to

1554
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:11,840
Speaker 1: outline that. So come on back for that. John Murphy

1555
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,679
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. We are One Bills Live from One Bill's

1556
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:29,400
Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show,

1557
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:32,920
Speaker 1: John Murphy's Steve Tasker mini camp continues outside. That will

1558
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 1: end in about thirty minutes. We'll get some players on

1559
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: the show after that, including the three quarterbacks. We expect

1560
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 1: to hear from them. I want to talk a little

1561
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: bit about the game day experience, and we do that

1562
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 1: a lot during the regular season. A little offseason update

1563
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,320
Speaker 1: today from our buddy Andy Major, the Bills vice president

1564
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: of Operations and guest Experience, and he's in the studio

1565
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: with us. Hello, Andy Goode, It all right now it's

1566
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: your vice. Can I still call you Mage? Yes? Because please?

1567
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:59,759
Speaker 1: I coached I coached his son of football. So oh okay,

1568
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 1: there you go. Hey, big change in the bus lot

1569
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,639
Speaker 1: policy this year. You announced it last week. What prompted that, Andy?

1570
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: What was going on that you felt like the Bills

1571
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 1: felt like they needed to make a change. Well, you know,

1572
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:12,479
Speaker 1: we kind of saw a little bit of an uptick

1573
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 1: in some unsafe behavior in the parking lot last year.

1574
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:18,719
Speaker 1: In the bus lot, specifically, the bus lot is across

1575
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:20,599
Speaker 1: the Abbott Road here right across in the stadium. Yes,

1576
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: it's right across the street off the Abbott Road and

1577
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 1: next to the RV camper lot between ECC and the stadium. Yes. Yeah,

1578
01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: So you know, we did see a little bit of

1579
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 1: an uptick in some issues. Uh you know, a few

1580
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:37,560
Speaker 1: fans unfortunately jumping off of buses getting hurt. Um. You know,

1581
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 1: we were concerned for our own security folks who were

1582
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: dealing with the issues. Uh. Some of those uh incidents

1583
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:47,560
Speaker 1: created a little bit of a mob mentality issue with

1584
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:51,240
Speaker 1: some of the fans there, and obviously alcohol was the

1585
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: root of all the evils there. But you know, we

1586
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:57,679
Speaker 1: just want to make it safer, you know, more fan friendly.

1587
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: Allow the tailgating in the bus lot for those fans

1588
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,640
Speaker 1: that are coming in the charter buses and having a

1589
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: great time. We did get a lot of feedback from

1590
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,120
Speaker 1: them about some of the issues last year, so we

1591
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:11,599
Speaker 1: think that some of these changes will will help. One

1592
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: of the things, too, is it because of the That's

1593
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 1: the reason people take those buses. So you know, listen,

1594
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: they don't want to drive, right, so they want to

1595
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 1: go in there and have fun. But but the uptick

1596
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 1: was listening. Okay, we'll just give us a minute here.

1597
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:26,720
Speaker 1: And the interesting thing we were talking about this leading up.

1598
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: You've got a coalition of people who are partners, like

1599
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:34,760
Speaker 1: security vendors, transportation people, bus companies and what you have,

1600
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:36,719
Speaker 1: you name it. I mean, there's a ton of companies

1601
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 1: that are in business doing business at the stadium that day.

1602
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 1: You get together with the leaders of those and hash

1603
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 1: this stuff out and ask for their advice. Yeah, you know,

1604
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we did an awful lot of research before

1605
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 1: we did anything. You know, we spoke to our fans,

1606
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: We spoke to the some of the bus companies, especially

1607
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: some of the companies that we deal with directly internally.

1608
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 1: You know, we research what other NFL teams are doing,

1609
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: We talk to the NFL. We have a fan advisory board,

1610
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 1: we have a team member advisory board, and we have

1611
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 1: an internal fan Code of Conduct committee. So we talked

1612
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 1: through all these different ideas and options, and you know,

1613
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: we landed on what we landed on. So there'll be

1614
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:15,679
Speaker 1: a little bit of an increase in the bus parking

1615
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: permit itself. That price will now go to one hundred

1616
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 1: dollars a bus, and that's really yeah, and that's really

1617
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 1: more in line with what the rest of the NFL

1618
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: is we're still even lower than a lot of places there.

1619
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:32,599
Speaker 1: But we also implemented as one hundred dollars security deposit.

1620
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 1: Fans need to purchase the bus parking permit in advance,

1621
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: so we will have, you know, a record of who

1622
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 1: owns that permit. The permit will tie directly to the bus,

1623
01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:45,600
Speaker 1: so that'll really help us with the postgame isssue. And

1624
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 1: they can they either have to show up in person

1625
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: or do it online in advance, or can they do

1626
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: it online or they have to show up in person

1627
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 1: to ticket off is that kind of thing. Yeah, they

1628
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:53,560
Speaker 1: can call the ticket office or they can do it

1629
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 1: in person. And we want to be able to have

1630
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 1: the contact information of the person who's managing the bus.

1631
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:01,680
Speaker 1: But it's going to people. Somebody's going to have to

1632
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:03,920
Speaker 1: put their name on it and say listen, I'm gonna

1633
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 1: be responsible for this group. Yeah, pretty hit if if

1634
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: something happened. I think that's ultimately the hope here is

1635
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 1: that you know, fans will be a little bit more

1636
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 1: responsible with regard to their their guests that they're bringing

1637
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:18,600
Speaker 1: to the game while using a bus. Um, what I

1638
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 1: would tell you is we really most of the buses

1639
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 1: that use our lot are are great. You know, the

1640
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: charter buses are fine. We really don't have issues with

1641
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: the charters as much as you might think they've been

1642
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 1: coming for years. We didn't want to disrupt the people

1643
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:34,680
Speaker 1: that are having a good time and that are tailgating responsibly,

1644
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 1: that have been doing this for years. Um. But I

1645
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: will say we did see a bit of an uptick

1646
01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: in yellow school buses and you kind of alluded to it.

1647
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:46,760
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, the younger generation, maybe they feel like

1648
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 1: they're being responsible, Hey let's all take this bus to

1649
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: the game, right, and then they kind of you know,

1650
01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 1: use that as a license to go crazy when they

1651
01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 1: get here. So we're hoping that, you know, that those

1652
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 1: folks will kind of rethink what they're doing. What do

1653
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 1: you expect the increase in the price, the deposit and

1654
01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: the you know, knowing who in charge of the bus,

1655
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:07,840
Speaker 1: what will that do for you? What what would your

1656
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 1: recourse be there? Yeah, you know, I think you know,

1657
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: we're hoping obviously to eliminate ejecting fans out of the

1658
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 1: bus lot and making arrests out of the bus lot

1659
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:21,719
Speaker 1: and give our security teams a little extra help because

1660
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: quite frankly, we had undercover security teams, we have video surveillance,

1661
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 1: we have the sheriff, We had the state police, We

1662
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:30,599
Speaker 1: had Orchard Park Police out in those lots at times

1663
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 1: last year because it was a little, you know, more

1664
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: more crazy than it should be. How many are we talking?

1665
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:38,320
Speaker 1: How many buses are out there on an average on

1666
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:40,879
Speaker 1: a Sunday? Yeah, you know, we we can park anywhere

1667
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: up to you know, one hundred and fifty plus buses.

1668
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: We've had a good number we Last year was arguably

1669
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 1: the first year where we um sold out the bus lot,

1670
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:53,479
Speaker 1: you know where we took buses. All Pro parking was

1671
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 1: parking buses in lot for because they buses out there. Yeah.

1672
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:01,080
Speaker 1: I mean there's some of those plea season games when

1673
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:03,639
Speaker 1: the weather's beautiful, we get a lot of buses. Are

1674
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: we talking thousand fans approximately in the bust? Uh? Yeah,

1675
01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 1: it could be as many. Is that you know? Um

1676
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,080
Speaker 1: the buses are forty to fifty passenger, you know, so

1677
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: uh yeah. But but also uh, some of the social

1678
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:22,680
Speaker 1: media sites are you know, pumping up the uh the

1679
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,320
Speaker 1: hype about going to the bus lot right and right,

1680
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 1: so it's joining us coming in yeah, and uh, and

1681
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: some of those people don't even have tickets to the game,

1682
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 1: and they're you know, they're out and there doing those

1683
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 1: things too, because you're trying to get it to the

1684
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:35,040
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's a it's a balance you're

1685
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:36,640
Speaker 1: trying to strike. You're trying to get people to be

1686
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:38,600
Speaker 1: a little more responsible and keep a lid on some

1687
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,720
Speaker 1: of this stuff that they're doing, while still making it

1688
01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: more than worth it for them to come out and

1689
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:45,600
Speaker 1: be in the bus lot, say, and have fun and

1690
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,200
Speaker 1: party if they want to. But yeah, keep the lid

1691
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:50,080
Speaker 1: on it a little absolutely. I mean, all we're really

1692
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:52,080
Speaker 1: doing here is trying to make it safe, you know,

1693
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:53,640
Speaker 1: trying to make it a little bit more safe for

1694
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: the fans that are in those lots of using the

1695
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: lot responsibly and parking responsibly with their buses, um, and

1696
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: improve the fan exp so those charter buses that are

1697
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: coming that are maybe parked next to or near the

1698
01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:10,640
Speaker 1: other buses of people that maybe aren't behaving responsibly, you know,

1699
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: to improve their experience. So both to twofold, my question is,

1700
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: did you have these problems when the team wasn't going

1701
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 1: to the playoffs? You know, no, not really. I mean

1702
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: I think what we've seen is in general builds the

1703
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:26,920
Speaker 1: fan behavior. Even last year, which is silly to think

1704
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:29,640
Speaker 1: of this in a way, the fan behavior last year

1705
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 1: was arguably as good as it's ever been. Overall, we

1706
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: had the lowest number of fan incidents, lowest number of

1707
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: injections in our team's history last year. This last year,

1708
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:43,519
Speaker 1: last year twenty seventeen, we had a little slight uptick

1709
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 1: in arrests, and all those arrests were in the bus,

1710
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: not all of them, but a vast majority of those

1711
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: arrests were in the bus lot where we had that issue.

1712
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:54,880
Speaker 1: So we're always just trying to get better and looking

1713
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 1: at what happened in the bus loot last year, we

1714
01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:58,800
Speaker 1: know we need to get better in there, and that

1715
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:01,560
Speaker 1: was a major focus for us in this offseason with

1716
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: Andy Major, the Bills vice president of Operations, Guests experience,

1717
01:23:05,040 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: if you have comments questions about this are really the

1718
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: fan experience. We got a couple of minutes with Indy.

1719
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 1: You can call him in at eight oh three fifty

1720
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:15,559
Speaker 1: or twelve three one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1721
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: You gotta call out on the bus lot, Andy for

1722
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: you from Dexter in Buffalo. Dexter, go ahead and you're

1723
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:26,640
Speaker 1: on the air, he's gone. You mentioned and you just

1724
01:23:26,760 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 1: kind of touched on it a little bit. Overall, the

1725
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 1: Bills are doing pretty well when it comes to fan behavior.

1726
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 1: In fact, there are new NFL regulations that the Bills

1727
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: have already implemented in terms of fan behavior and what

1728
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 1: goes on inside the stadium. Well, yeah, you know what,

1729
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: we recently got back from some NFL meetings out in California,

1730
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:49,640
Speaker 1: and every year we talk about what new security procedures

1731
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 1: or what new fan behavior procedures, fan Code of conduct

1732
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 1: procedures that you know, the league wants us to implements

1733
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: as an organization but also as a league in general,

1734
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 1: and many of those things that they're talking about we're

1735
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: already doing. So we already have a lot of the

1736
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:05,200
Speaker 1: signage in place, we have a lot of the staffing,

1737
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: We have a lot of the security teams in place,

1738
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 1: trying to be proactive nip things in the bud and

1739
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: that that was a big change we made a few

1740
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 1: years ago when we added the sheriff to our security

1741
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 1: deployment and had a more visible presence around the operation

1742
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 1: around the facility. And I think fans have really warmed

1743
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 1: up to that and embrace that. You know, we were

1744
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,640
Speaker 1: a little concerned that they may not perceive that in

1745
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: a positive manner, but you know, they're going up to

1746
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 1: the sheriff, they're going up to our swat teams and

1747
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 1: our canines and taking pictures with them and shaking their hands,

1748
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: saying hey, thanks for being here, thanks for keeping an

1749
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:42,560
Speaker 1: eye on our on the area, because we want to

1750
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:44,439
Speaker 1: be safe too and enjoy the game. Yeah, is there

1751
01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:47,400
Speaker 1: anything inside the statement is going to change or anything

1752
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 1: anything that you're talking about. Is there any other subtle

1753
01:24:50,439 --> 01:24:52,599
Speaker 1: or slight or fun things that are going to be Yeah,

1754
01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: you know, there's a few things, you know. You know,

1755
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: last year we implemented, uh, you know, the Billivard, which

1756
01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: was a new fan experienced area right on Abbott Road

1757
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:01,560
Speaker 1: in front of the team store. So we're looking to

1758
01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: make a few positive changes out there this year and

1759
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: it really enhance that that area for fans. The fan

1760
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 1: Zone inside the field House, which is another opportunity for

1761
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:14,599
Speaker 1: fans to enjoy pregame outside the stadium but yet inside

1762
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:16,960
Speaker 1: a covered area in the field house, and the ad

1763
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: Pro Sports Training Center. That's a great spot for fans.

1764
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:23,640
Speaker 1: We're also looking to add some more a lot more

1765
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: photo opportunities and fan experienced areas within the gates, So

1766
01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:29,880
Speaker 1: when fans come inside the stadium, you know there's some

1767
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 1: photo opportunities, there some things to do. At some of

1768
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 1: the larger gate areas where there's a little bit more space,

1769
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:38,640
Speaker 1: it is a little tough to implement some of the

1770
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:42,519
Speaker 1: things that these newer, bigger stadiums have just because of

1771
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:45,720
Speaker 1: a space standpoint. So I think our events team and

1772
01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: our marketing teams, and you know, we have a lot

1773
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:51,600
Speaker 1: of collaboration inside the organization where we're talking about what

1774
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:53,519
Speaker 1: can we do, what can we make better, what can

1775
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,800
Speaker 1: we improve, what are the fans looking for? Food and

1776
01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:01,639
Speaker 1: beverage related, photooperlated, you know, fan experience related. So we're

1777
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 1: excited about this upcoming season off the field as much

1778
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:05,840
Speaker 1: as we are on the field. I got a call

1779
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 1: for you from Andy Indpew. Go hand Andy and Depew.

1780
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:11,760
Speaker 1: You're on with any major Yeah, I had a quick

1781
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 1: question all season. I have season tickets and I'm up

1782
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 1: in three thirty one, and in those bathroom towers at

1783
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 1: the top when you go up to use the restroom,

1784
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: the game broadcast isn't on up there. If you go

1785
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: downstairs it's you know, in the lower bowl audio TV

1786
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: here you can hear John Murphy's called, so it goes

1787
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: on up there. That's important, Andy, that was on my list.

1788
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:36,040
Speaker 1: You know what will three thirty one, Andy appreciate you

1789
01:26:36,120 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 1: being a season ticket holder. I like your first name,

1790
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 1: But we definitely will look at that. I know that's

1791
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 1: something that some of the fans have asked about. Televisions

1792
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 1: in the restrooms. Um, you know, I like the arena

1793
01:26:48,560 --> 01:26:50,000
Speaker 1: that kind of things. Yeah, thing so you can keep

1794
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: track of the game while you're waiting in line, but

1795
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 1: at least to have the call the broadcast. So it

1796
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: is something that we have on our list and our radar.

1797
01:26:57,920 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 1: I'll have to take a look at the upper level.

1798
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 1: I know there some infrastructure challenges we have with the

1799
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:05,360
Speaker 1: old building here, but we've made a lot of changes,

1800
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 1: as you guys all know and the fans know, with

1801
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:12,000
Speaker 1: the areas of the stadium, and we're renovating our club

1802
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 1: level this year too, so that's another area that will

1803
01:27:15,479 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: have a great upgrade for fans that sit in those sections.

1804
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: I know it's a completely different building now than it

1805
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 1: was when I first got here in nineteen eighty six,

1806
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 1: has been through three or four five renovations, all the

1807
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:30,760
Speaker 1: upgrades in the last one of course with a new

1808
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: concourses and stuff hugely it makes a huge difference. So

1809
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:36,560
Speaker 1: you can, you can every year you address this and

1810
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:38,880
Speaker 1: try and take it a step further. This year, they

1811
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 1: are there. There are people out here all day every

1812
01:27:41,479 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 1: day working on the club level. Yeah. Well what I

1813
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:46,640
Speaker 1: you know, in my role as part of my role

1814
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 1: being involved with the guest experience and having a great

1815
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 1: team to work with the support from ownership to do

1816
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:55,640
Speaker 1: some of these things. Boy, when we talked about this

1817
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:59,160
Speaker 1: club level renovation, we haven't done the club level renovation

1818
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: since it was There's nothing being done. It's the same

1819
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 1: work for twenty plus years, you know. So uh, you know,

1820
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:08,080
Speaker 1: to change that whole look and feel and make it

1821
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:10,800
Speaker 1: more efficient for fans and give them more space and

1822
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 1: new furniture and new carpeting and new lighting and led

1823
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 1: and new video. Um, so we're excited about that, and

1824
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:21,160
Speaker 1: uh to have the support from the fan experience side

1825
01:28:21,200 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: from ownership to say, hey, you know, this is what

1826
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 1: the fans are looking for. What do you think if

1827
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:28,320
Speaker 1: we can possibly do this for twenty and eighteen And

1828
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:30,800
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, I love it. Let's do it. Shoot

1829
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:32,599
Speaker 1: through A couple of more calls for you, Andy. Aaron

1830
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: calling from Oregon, Aaron, go ahead, you're on the ear.

1831
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: Are you there, Aaron got Are you there? Yes, you're hearing? Yeah,

1832
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 1: go ahead and go ahead? Okay, Yeah, I'm I am

1833
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: planning on coming all the way out from Oregon, go

1834
01:28:52,200 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: to Niagara Falls and come to a game. Um wow,

1835
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to see if they can

1836
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:01,560
Speaker 1: be a good experience for my wife kids. You know,

1837
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,360
Speaker 1: I talked to people at the Builds Establishment here in

1838
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:06,599
Speaker 1: Portland and they're all like, oh, don't bring your family,

1839
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:10,639
Speaker 1: it's a drunken mass and I hate to hear that. Well,

1840
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 1: you know what I would say to Aaron, Um, first,

1841
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 1: I'd ask those people in Oregon when's the last time

1842
01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 1: they've been to a Bills game? You know, if they

1843
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 1: if they say, you know, eight ten years ago, I

1844
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:22,559
Speaker 1: would agree with you that or agree with them that yeah,

1845
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 1: maybe wasn't the best experience back then. But especially the

1846
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:28,639
Speaker 1: last five or so years, we have made so many

1847
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:32,080
Speaker 1: changes here. Um. You know, like I mentioned earlier, are

1848
01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 1: our numbers of fan behavior incidents are the lowest in

1849
01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:38,799
Speaker 1: our team's history. And what is really cool and exciting

1850
01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 1: for us as an organization and for our staff, especially

1851
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:44,320
Speaker 1: our guest services team that deal with the people. The

1852
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:47,200
Speaker 1: fans want it. They want it to be fun. They

1853
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 1: want the fellow fans around them to have a great time,

1854
01:29:50,600 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 1: but just be responsible. They want to bring their kids. Yeah,

1855
01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 1: they want the families to be here, and they want

1856
01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 1: to show their sons that experience they had grown up,

1857
01:29:57,360 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 1: as you know, with their own dad. And I remember

1858
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:02,320
Speaker 1: come to the games with my dad and eating chili

1859
01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:04,320
Speaker 1: in the parking lot and going into the game, and

1860
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:07,680
Speaker 1: that's some memory I'll never forget. And you know, but

1861
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:11,640
Speaker 1: we've all seen the incidents of long ago and we

1862
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 1: don't want any of that to happen here on our watch.

1863
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 1: We know there's going to be a few here and

1864
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: there no matter what we do, but that's our job

1865
01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:20,680
Speaker 1: to really address it and make sure we're taking care

1866
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 1: of it and trying to be as proactive as possible.

1867
01:30:22,720 --> 01:30:25,160
Speaker 1: Call here from George and Buffalo. George, go ahead, you're

1868
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:28,599
Speaker 1: on with any major Yeah, I'll just wonder about handicap

1869
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 1: people with scooters. Preserve Sillys therefore us to watch the game.

1870
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yea, get people with scooters. Sure, So we

1871
01:30:37,400 --> 01:30:40,240
Speaker 1: have a lot of opportunities for our guests with disabilities.

1872
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:43,240
Speaker 1: We have seating areas with platforms where someone in a

1873
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 1: scooter can actually you know, scoot and wheel right into

1874
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:49,439
Speaker 1: the platform and sit there with their wife or their

1875
01:30:49,520 --> 01:30:52,639
Speaker 1: husband or their companion and enjoy the game. And there's

1876
01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 1: a multiple number of places for that, the end zone,

1877
01:30:56,240 --> 01:30:58,519
Speaker 1: some of the corner seating, some of the upper deck

1878
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:02,360
Speaker 1: seating as points. Yeah, I mean, you can get as

1879
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 1: good as seats or as bad as seats as you

1880
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:07,880
Speaker 1: can afford and just absolutely right, so it's your choice, yep.

1881
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 1: And uh. And we have a transportation system for a

1882
01:31:11,439 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 1: guest with disabilities as well that um, you know, we

1883
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:16,559
Speaker 1: never used to have here either, so that's something new

1884
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 1: that we implemented a few years ago. And our Ada Ambassadors,

1885
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:23,240
Speaker 1: we call them our Guest Services Ambassadors. They deal with

1886
01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:25,680
Speaker 1: all of our guests with disabilities. They'll will them from

1887
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:29,320
Speaker 1: the gates to their seats. We have golf cart teams

1888
01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:33,120
Speaker 1: that actually have designated locations within the parking. Lots of

1889
01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:36,200
Speaker 1: fans of the golf cart teams, by the way, you

1890
01:31:36,320 --> 01:31:39,880
Speaker 1: probably taken advantage come in handy. But we you know,

1891
01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 1: we try to do things that the fans are looking

1892
01:31:42,040 --> 01:31:43,760
Speaker 1: for and they want. It's a tough one to do

1893
01:31:43,840 --> 01:31:46,439
Speaker 1: the golf carts post game because of the numbers of

1894
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:49,679
Speaker 1: fans flooding out at the same time. But the guests

1895
01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:51,640
Speaker 1: that take the service, they know up front they might

1896
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 1: have to wait a little bit to let the traffic

1897
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:56,000
Speaker 1: go and then we safely take them back to their spots.

1898
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: So it's worked out really well. I'll know this because

1899
01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:03,120
Speaker 1: I was playing and I've been in town watching or

1900
01:32:03,240 --> 01:32:05,760
Speaker 1: being at games or being end games since nineteen eighty six,

1901
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:10,000
Speaker 1: and last year the New Orleans game was the first

1902
01:32:10,040 --> 01:32:12,679
Speaker 1: time I actually sat in the stands for a game.

1903
01:32:12,720 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 1: I just went and with with my kids and my

1904
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: wife and we took everybody and we went down sat

1905
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:19,759
Speaker 1: in the stands down on the home side, down towards

1906
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 1: the tunnel, just about six or eight twelve rows up,

1907
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:24,679
Speaker 1: and it was it was you know, the game stunk

1908
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:28,720
Speaker 1: because because the Saints beat us, but it was fun.

1909
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:30,600
Speaker 1: You know, I had a great experience and I thought, wow, this,

1910
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, I can get it. And there were a

1911
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,720
Speaker 1: lot of kids, there was families. It was it was nice.

1912
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 1: It really it was much more pleasant, you know, much

1913
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:42,439
Speaker 1: more low key than I thought it was gonna be.

1914
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 1: Of course, it was a game where note not too

1915
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 1: much to cheer about, but I was really impressed and

1916
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:49,240
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun being a guy who

1917
01:32:49,640 --> 01:32:51,680
Speaker 1: just for the first time got a chance to sit

1918
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 1: down with my family and watch it because you know,

1919
01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:56,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always up in the press box or well,

1920
01:32:56,120 --> 01:32:57,679
Speaker 1: you know, Murph. I mean, you never get a sitting

1921
01:32:57,680 --> 01:32:59,200
Speaker 1: and watch a game, so it was kind of I

1922
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:00,920
Speaker 1: just want to try it and see and it was fun,

1923
01:33:01,200 --> 01:33:02,760
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, a fan, it was nice and

1924
01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:05,720
Speaker 1: walking in you know, everybody, you gotta know this too,

1925
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:07,599
Speaker 1: you gotta And if I had to, you know, if

1926
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: I do this all the time, you'd know certain times

1927
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:12,439
Speaker 1: of the day they run up to the game, there's gates,

1928
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:15,800
Speaker 1: even the huge gates where there's sixty five gates. I

1929
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:17,519
Speaker 1: don't think you crowded, so you got to kind of

1930
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:19,479
Speaker 1: be ready for that. Yeah, other than but you kind

1931
01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:22,200
Speaker 1: of know it's that time, you know. Yeah, And you know,

1932
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:24,880
Speaker 1: funny bring that up, because we really appreciate the fans

1933
01:33:25,160 --> 01:33:27,639
Speaker 1: understanding the gate crunch. I mean there's a gate crunch

1934
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:30,680
Speaker 1: at every NFL stadium across the country. And as much

1935
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:32,880
Speaker 1: as we would love fans to come in ninety minutes

1936
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,680
Speaker 1: before kickoff, we know that they're not gonna and not

1937
01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:38,439
Speaker 1: all of them, a lot of them do. But it's

1938
01:33:38,479 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 1: crunch time at twelve thirty to one o'clock one fifteen,

1939
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,880
Speaker 1: and fans are for the most part, they're okay with that.

1940
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 1: I mean, they know what they're getting themselves into. We

1941
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,200
Speaker 1: try to make sure we have as much staff out

1942
01:33:50,240 --> 01:33:52,640
Speaker 1: there as we possibly can. The new layout of the

1943
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 1: gates that we renovated a few years ago has helped greatly,

1944
01:33:55,680 --> 01:33:58,560
Speaker 1: and we appreciate the security teams with the jobs that

1945
01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 1: they have to do it and slow things down, but

1946
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:04,160
Speaker 1: it definitely makes things safer and more efficient. And the

1947
01:34:04,200 --> 01:34:06,560
Speaker 1: crunch is a lot about the pregames, the fact that

1948
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: you do have bus lot, that you do have all

1949
01:34:08,120 --> 01:34:10,880
Speaker 1: the tailgating lots, and everybody has their own little ritual

1950
01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Everybody's got their own little ritual anyway

1951
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:15,320
Speaker 1: they're going to go to the game when they need

1952
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:16,880
Speaker 1: to go to the game because there that's the way

1953
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 1: they go to the game every week, so you know,

1954
01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: they know how it's going to work. So it's part

1955
01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:23,920
Speaker 1: of the crunch. Is the fact that it is so

1956
01:34:24,160 --> 01:34:26,040
Speaker 1: nice outside in the lots where you can have your

1957
01:34:26,080 --> 01:34:28,160
Speaker 1: own party. Yeah, and you know, like you said, I

1958
01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:30,760
Speaker 1: think a lot of fans they know the routine, right, so,

1959
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:33,960
Speaker 1: especially now, if they know one gate is a little

1960
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:36,840
Speaker 1: bit more busy than another, they know which gate to

1961
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:39,840
Speaker 1: come in. You know which gate. Everybody knows Gate four, right,

1962
01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:42,639
Speaker 1: Gate four. We've talked about that from last couple of years.

1963
01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:44,519
Speaker 1: Gate four is like the magic gate. You come into

1964
01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:46,960
Speaker 1: Gate four and for whatever reason, it seems to be

1965
01:34:47,160 --> 01:34:49,400
Speaker 1: a very easy entry. And it's great to talk to

1966
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:50,720
Speaker 1: you because it gets me in the mood that we're

1967
01:34:50,760 --> 01:34:52,640
Speaker 1: not that far our way from the regular season. We

1968
01:34:52,760 --> 01:34:55,360
Speaker 1: are ready, we're excited. We're in the middle of our

1969
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:57,559
Speaker 1: training for all of our staff and our security teams,

1970
01:34:57,600 --> 01:34:59,640
Speaker 1: and we're getting ready for training camp. You're involved in

1971
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 1: training camp as well. Oh yeah, yeah. We we had

1972
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:04,519
Speaker 1: a great meeting with some of the coaches, the new coaches,

1973
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:08,120
Speaker 1: the new trainers and video people and all the football guys.

1974
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:10,160
Speaker 1: So we had them out at Saint John Fisher Um

1975
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:15,320
Speaker 1: last week and reviewed the space, remood, the whole operation. Um. Yeah,

1976
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 1: it's wed the obl's show location center field right right,

1977
01:35:21,920 --> 01:35:25,400
Speaker 1: good line for US FYRD line right on the field right, no, no,

1978
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 1: but it's good. It's a great location. So yeah, we're

1979
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: we're looking for that's a great outing for fans in

1980
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 1: Rochester and a lot of fans come over from Buffalo too,

1981
01:35:33,240 --> 01:35:36,760
Speaker 1: so it's a fun atmosphere. Thanks and thanks for all

1982
01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:39,679
Speaker 1: the callers. I really appreciate the feedback and the questions,

1983
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 1: and you know, we're always there to help any major.

1984
01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:44,680
Speaker 1: The Bills vice President of Operations, guest Experience, Steve and

1985
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:47,559
Speaker 1: I back with more One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

1986
01:35:47,600 --> 01:36:04,400
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live

1987
01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:06,960
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our

1988
01:36:07,040 --> 01:36:09,400
Speaker 1: one Buffalo studio. There's a lot of ones there. Andy

1989
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:11,559
Speaker 1: is the man, Andy Major. Great to have him here.

1990
01:36:11,640 --> 01:36:13,439
Speaker 1: We had him on a regular basis during the regular

1991
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:16,439
Speaker 1: season last year. We'll probably do something very similar this year.

1992
01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 1: And the thing that I think impresses folks about Andy

1993
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:22,200
Speaker 1: Steve is he's so earnest. They want to get it right.

1994
01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:25,040
Speaker 1: They want to they want to get it straightened out.

1995
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:26,680
Speaker 1: They have a problem in the bus slot. They want

1996
01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:28,439
Speaker 1: to get that fixed this year. You know, I think

1997
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 1: you ain't say what you want, people will will look

1998
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 1: and say, well, that's just the bills. And no, they're

1999
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 1: trying to get it right. I'm trying to improve the

2000
01:36:35,520 --> 01:36:38,680
Speaker 1: fan experience. He also the thing about is they he

2001
01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:40,800
Speaker 1: really does. He told us off the area says, listen,

2002
01:36:40,840 --> 01:36:43,040
Speaker 1: we love it when we get feedback. Yeah, because some

2003
01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:44,960
Speaker 1: of it, Yeah, some of it is just complaining. And

2004
01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:46,519
Speaker 1: we get a boat you can sift through it and

2005
01:36:46,600 --> 01:36:48,559
Speaker 1: see what the real root of the problem is. Why

2006
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:50,200
Speaker 1: is there a trend and why are we getting so

2007
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:53,879
Speaker 1: many complaints about this? Yeah? And like the caller who

2008
01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:56,720
Speaker 1: called in, I think maybe it was George, No, it

2009
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,320
Speaker 1: was somebody else. He called in, asked, you know we

2010
01:36:59,439 --> 01:37:02,800
Speaker 1: can't hear Murph's call in the in the time, in

2011
01:37:02,840 --> 01:37:05,439
Speaker 1: the in the third story restrooms. You know we gotta

2012
01:37:05,479 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 1: hear that, right, That's that's job one in this off

2013
01:37:08,920 --> 01:37:11,040
Speaker 1: an You and I. You and I are gonna get

2014
01:37:11,080 --> 01:37:13,639
Speaker 1: a petition and pass it around the building, right though,

2015
01:37:13,680 --> 01:37:16,479
Speaker 1: they do, and they welcome the feedback. There's seventy three

2016
01:37:16,479 --> 01:37:18,519
Speaker 1: thousand people over there on game day. They can't keep

2017
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:21,720
Speaker 1: track of what everybody's issue is. Where everybody's complaining. He

2018
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: knows Andy coming on the show with us like this

2019
01:37:24,240 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 1: gives folks an opportunity to tell them what it's like,

2020
01:37:26,240 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 1: what it's like really out there, and everybody knows there's

2021
01:37:28,960 --> 01:37:30,479
Speaker 1: gonna be a few hammer heads out there on it

2022
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:32,880
Speaker 1: or you know, because and you can understand this the

2023
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:35,600
Speaker 1: bus lot. You know, you get a bus because you

2024
01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: don't want to drive, because you're gonna drink and you're

2025
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:40,080
Speaker 1: gonna But then that doesn't mean, you know, all bets

2026
01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 1: are off. I mean, you can't go out and go

2027
01:37:41,400 --> 01:37:43,559
Speaker 1: out of control, and that's you know, obviously a handful

2028
01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:47,240
Speaker 1: of people did so um plus that and I know

2029
01:37:48,680 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 1: all the pregame stuff. I mean, we got a lot

2030
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:53,120
Speaker 1: of attention last year with all the stuff that was

2031
01:37:53,160 --> 01:37:56,240
Speaker 1: going on, and they even got some you know, well

2032
01:37:56,280 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 1: that's the way we are now with a social media

2033
01:37:58,080 --> 01:37:59,599
Speaker 1: Twitter and stuff. There was a little bit of barbs

2034
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:02,240
Speaker 1: being shot back and forth between Jacksonville fans and Buffalo

2035
01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:04,080
Speaker 1: fans after the playoff game and that kind of thing.

2036
01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:07,760
Speaker 1: But by the same token, there's always things to be fixed, yeah,

2037
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 1: and it's and they are always searching for a better

2038
01:38:10,439 --> 01:38:12,080
Speaker 1: way to do it and make fans happier that they

2039
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:14,000
Speaker 1: came to the game live and in person to sustaining

2040
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:15,960
Speaker 1: on watching them on TV. We think Andy for coming

2041
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:18,200
Speaker 1: on the show. We'll get them back as the season approaches,

2042
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:20,679
Speaker 1: maybe even as a training camp approaches. All Right, Bills

2043
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:22,599
Speaker 1: players getting ready to come up the field. The first

2044
01:38:23,200 --> 01:38:26,360
Speaker 1: mini camp practice is winding down, and we'll talk about that.

2045
01:38:26,439 --> 01:38:28,519
Speaker 1: We'll hear from some of the quarterbacks from LaShaun McCoy,

2046
01:38:28,520 --> 01:38:31,719
Speaker 1: and we've got defensive end Mike Love, a undrafted rookie

2047
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:33,800
Speaker 1: free agent set to come into the studio as well.

2048
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:35,800
Speaker 1: So a lot coming up in this third and final hour.

2049
01:38:35,920 --> 01:38:38,479
Speaker 1: It's up next One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive

2050
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radiofalo Bill's Radio network. Sports

2051
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:58,360
Speaker 1: Update update from One Bill's Drive, where the first day

2052
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:01,400
Speaker 1: of the mandatory mini camp has just ended moments ago.

2053
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: Those players making their way off the field changing at

2054
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:08,719
Speaker 1: least announced anyway from a head coach Sean McDermott. Quarterback

2055
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:11,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen getting some first team reps in minicamp this week.

2056
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 1: He is still working primarily with the third teamers, but

2057
01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:18,640
Speaker 1: McDermott said it's this has been the plan from the

2058
01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:21,479
Speaker 1: start to give Josh Allen some reps with the first teamers,

2059
01:39:21,920 --> 01:39:23,960
Speaker 1: and we'll find out maybe later this hour whether or

2060
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:26,320
Speaker 1: not that happened today. Number of players not on the

2061
01:39:26,400 --> 01:39:29,280
Speaker 1: field today, not getting through the workhouse to day, including

2062
01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:32,040
Speaker 1: defensive end Trent Murphy. Limited work, no team reps for

2063
01:39:32,120 --> 01:39:34,519
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy as he comes back from knee injury. No

2064
01:39:34,640 --> 01:39:37,200
Speaker 1: work expected this week for wide receivers Aid Jones with

2065
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:40,759
Speaker 1: his knee, wide receiver Malakai Dupri, tight end Logan Thomas,

2066
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:44,640
Speaker 1: defensive lineman Tenny Palapoe, and linebacker Matt Malana Milana with

2067
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:47,120
Speaker 1: a hamstring back on the field tomorrow at noon, day

2068
01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:50,639
Speaker 1: two of the three day mandatory miniicamp for the Buffalo Bills.

2069
01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:54,000
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior expected to report today for the Giants

2070
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:57,559
Speaker 1: mandatory miniicamp, but is not planning on taking any team reps.

2071
01:39:57,880 --> 01:40:00,519
Speaker 1: Beckham is still coming off the injury that he suffered

2072
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:04,320
Speaker 1: last year, and beckham Sockter's and the Giant's medical staff

2073
01:40:04,360 --> 01:40:06,360
Speaker 1: have been in concert on the plan. He did not

2074
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:09,599
Speaker 1: attend the recent OTAs after reporting to the voluntary mini

2075
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:11,800
Speaker 1: camp in April and working out during a portion of

2076
01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 1: the OTAs. Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones told his team

2077
01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:18,400
Speaker 1: that he will not attend mandatory minicamp. Jones with a

2078
01:40:18,479 --> 01:40:22,000
Speaker 1: contract issue. They've traded some proposals. He has three years

2079
01:40:22,479 --> 01:40:25,080
Speaker 1: and almost thirty five million dollars remaining on his contract,

2080
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:27,439
Speaker 1: but he is also keeping an eye on the Antonio

2081
01:40:27,520 --> 01:40:30,639
Speaker 1: Brown contract and some others, and so Julio Jones elected

2082
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:34,839
Speaker 1: not to participate. Take the finds by missing the Falcons

2083
01:40:34,880 --> 01:40:38,040
Speaker 1: minicamp this week and the Cowboys. Two players who skipped

2084
01:40:38,040 --> 01:40:41,960
Speaker 1: their OTAs are reporting for work today, including David Irvine

2085
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:44,000
Speaker 1: who stayed away from the OTAs as he dealt with

2086
01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:48,320
Speaker 1: off field issues. Guards Zack Martin expected to show up

2087
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 1: and finalize his new massive contract and he should be

2088
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:53,320
Speaker 1: there as well. That's the update from One Bill's Drive.

2089
01:40:53,400 --> 01:40:57,120
Speaker 1: John Murphys, Steve Tasker Minicamp day day, won a minicamp day.

2090
01:40:57,120 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: We've got Mike Love defensive and a rookie undreafter free

2091
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 1: h and coming into the studio with us momentarily to

2092
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:05,439
Speaker 1: talk about his first NFL training camp. I'm gonna hear

2093
01:41:05,479 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 1: from Lashawn McCoy and from the three quarterbacks. So there's

2094
01:41:08,160 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: a lot coming up this week. See what do you

2095
01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:11,800
Speaker 1: think the goal is for the Bills this week? At

2096
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 1: this three day mini caamp. What do you think they're

2097
01:41:13,280 --> 01:41:15,479
Speaker 1: looking to get done. I think they want to get

2098
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:20,200
Speaker 1: these guys going in real reps without contact, you know.

2099
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:21,960
Speaker 1: I want to see see him mix it up. They

2100
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:23,360
Speaker 1: want to see him go again. They want to see

2101
01:41:23,360 --> 01:41:25,160
Speaker 1: guys break on the ball, they want to see routes.

2102
01:41:25,200 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 1: And I think it's for the quarterbacks anyway, and particularly

2103
01:41:28,560 --> 01:41:30,240
Speaker 1: for the guys on the offensive side who are installing

2104
01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:32,080
Speaker 1: in a whole new system. They want to see what

2105
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:34,040
Speaker 1: it looks like at full speed with guys running around

2106
01:41:34,040 --> 01:41:36,760
Speaker 1: on the other side of the football. They do a

2107
01:41:36,800 --> 01:41:38,200
Speaker 1: little bit of that, but I think when you get

2108
01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:41,080
Speaker 1: all eleven guys out there and you can run through

2109
01:41:41,160 --> 01:41:44,280
Speaker 1: some stuff, you start to get a sense of how

2110
01:41:44,400 --> 01:41:48,000
Speaker 1: fast it's going to be. And it's one more degree

2111
01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:50,760
Speaker 1: of difficulty for the young players to get acclimated to.

2112
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:54,120
Speaker 1: Lashan McCoy just stepped to the podium a moment ago,

2113
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:57,960
Speaker 1: the Bills veteran running back in his tenth season, now

2114
01:41:58,040 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills for his fourth season. What la

2115
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:02,720
Speaker 1: Sean McCoy had to say today after the first mini

2116
01:42:02,760 --> 01:42:08,280
Speaker 1: camp session, Yeah, what can I say? I mean, it's

2117
01:42:08,320 --> 01:42:11,240
Speaker 1: been a great ride, man, UM, I look forward to

2118
01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:15,240
Speaker 1: having a big year again. We have some special pieces here.

2119
01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: McDermot is really putting together him him and being in there,

2120
01:42:19,520 --> 01:42:22,000
Speaker 1: getting a group together that's gonna be tough on defense

2121
01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:24,920
Speaker 1: and offense, is gonna run the ball. Put some points up.

2122
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Dave oh bringing him here, the impact

2123
01:42:28,240 --> 01:42:31,080
Speaker 1: that he's having with the players. Um, he's a very

2124
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 1: intelligent offensive coordinator. I'm a smart person. He's always trying

2125
01:42:35,960 --> 01:42:38,760
Speaker 1: to find ways to get the backs and open space. UM.

2126
01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:42,920
Speaker 1: I guess the playmakers always trying to get them to

2127
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 1: the ball, you know. So I'm excited. I'm excited about

2128
01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:49,839
Speaker 1: this year. I'm excited to be back in that offense

2129
01:42:49,960 --> 01:42:53,840
Speaker 1: where it's UM, I'm just hitting all cylinders from throwing

2130
01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:56,360
Speaker 1: the ball to actually find the ways to get the

2131
01:42:56,439 --> 01:43:00,960
Speaker 1: guys in space. Which should I do best? Your training camp,

2132
01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:03,200
Speaker 1: you made the comment that you had probably five good

2133
01:43:03,320 --> 01:43:06,200
Speaker 1: years left. You have four now, or do you still

2134
01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:09,479
Speaker 1: think I can still play another five? I mean, we'll see.

2135
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 1: I think it has a lot to do with winning,

2136
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:13,720
Speaker 1: you know, winning and other achievements that I want to

2137
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:17,240
Speaker 1: make and accomplish. Um. You know, every year I try

2138
01:43:17,280 --> 01:43:21,840
Speaker 1: to jot down some some goals to achieve. You know.

2139
01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:24,479
Speaker 1: It's it's weird because like every year, man, it's like

2140
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:27,640
Speaker 1: not that I expect to get this far, but just

2141
01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 1: I mean, look at like backs like like Frank Gore.

2142
01:43:31,840 --> 01:43:33,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's not a lot of them. It's not

2143
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:34,680
Speaker 1: a lot of guys like that out there, you know,

2144
01:43:34,760 --> 01:43:36,200
Speaker 1: so I want to try to chase that and be

2145
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:38,519
Speaker 1: with them guys. You know, it's like I hang out

2146
01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:40,200
Speaker 1: with an off season a lot of the running backs,

2147
01:43:41,080 --> 01:43:44,120
Speaker 1: like the girlies and the bells, and like the way

2148
01:43:44,160 --> 01:43:48,519
Speaker 1: they view me is like the old head baller, you know,

2149
01:43:48,720 --> 01:43:51,920
Speaker 1: so uh and and it drives me. It does, like

2150
01:43:52,479 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: because I remember being twenty five, twenty four looking at

2151
01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:57,280
Speaker 1: the older guys saying I'm gonna catch him, and I

2152
01:43:57,400 --> 01:43:59,280
Speaker 1: want to be better than him. So now it's like reverse.

2153
01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:02,559
Speaker 1: Now that's okay, all right, I'm still an elite player,

2154
01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:04,800
Speaker 1: but these young guys are creeping on me. So I

2155
01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,920
Speaker 1: gotta continue to do better and do better, you know,

2156
01:44:08,080 --> 01:44:11,040
Speaker 1: stack my my numbers up, stack the wins up. I'll

2157
01:44:11,080 --> 01:44:14,360
Speaker 1: just make that that portfolio just a baller, you know,

2158
01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:18,600
Speaker 1: solid letting them catch you so far. Yeah, yeah, that's it.

2159
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:22,120
Speaker 1: We're chasing twelve thousand, right, Bigo, twelve thousand were chasing

2160
01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:26,240
Speaker 1: that um and also last year was our first time

2161
01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:28,720
Speaker 1: the playoffs and what seventeen years, so to capitalize on

2162
01:44:28,800 --> 01:44:31,960
Speaker 1: that moving forward slot of exciting things happened in the

2163
01:44:31,960 --> 01:44:33,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo right now. I just want to be part of it.

2164
01:44:34,160 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: Do you remember when your mindset changed from I'm chasing

2165
01:44:37,160 --> 01:44:42,680
Speaker 1: these guys too, I've gotta be good guy and um

2166
01:44:42,960 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 1: as opposed to like like to these younger guys. Do

2167
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 1: you recall when that when that kind of hit home

2168
01:44:48,280 --> 01:44:53,160
Speaker 1: for you? My second year in Buffalo, Yeah, my first

2169
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:57,840
Speaker 1: year it was it was rough to transition from Buffalo, Philadelphia,

2170
01:44:58,120 --> 01:45:02,600
Speaker 1: Philadelphia to Buffalo, give my sulf together. Um, you know,

2171
01:45:02,720 --> 01:45:05,759
Speaker 1: so it's more than than just competing. I didn't find myself.

2172
01:45:06,080 --> 01:45:08,000
Speaker 1: Then the next year I was otky, I'm back. It's

2173
01:45:08,040 --> 01:45:10,280
Speaker 1: trying to go out there and produce, get my name

2174
01:45:10,479 --> 01:45:13,360
Speaker 1: backwards supposed to be to my mind clear, and then

2175
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:15,679
Speaker 1: I kind of took off again. Um and last shout

2176
01:45:15,720 --> 01:45:18,639
Speaker 1: of solid year, you know. So probably my second in Buffalo,

2177
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:24,240
Speaker 1: I kind of hit hit me again Eric Ward and

2178
01:45:27,640 --> 01:45:31,679
Speaker 1: losing the Warden uh Richie A couple of moves maybe,

2179
01:45:32,960 --> 01:45:34,200
Speaker 1: How do you feel about your line. How do you

2180
01:45:35,840 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: this me? What's going on? ZIM? All right? Thanks buddy?

2181
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:47,760
Speaker 1: Um Nah, hey, I mean losing Richie and Eric, I'll

2182
01:45:47,800 --> 01:45:50,280
Speaker 1: be lying if I told you that didn't matter. Um.

2183
01:45:50,439 --> 01:45:53,000
Speaker 1: Some people might say that the kind of nip it

2184
01:45:53,040 --> 01:45:54,680
Speaker 1: in the bud and get it out the way. But

2185
01:45:55,200 --> 01:45:59,120
Speaker 1: the guys are great players. Eric is very smart, intelligent,

2186
01:45:59,320 --> 01:46:02,759
Speaker 1: plays hard. He's a veteran. He's been in different scenarios

2187
01:46:02,800 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 1: and situations. Um, you know, so having that that leadership

2188
01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:10,320
Speaker 1: is big. And if we don't have that because he's gone,

2189
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 1: you know, been uh and talk about Ritchie. People can

2190
01:46:13,400 --> 01:46:16,120
Speaker 1: say they want about Richie, but he's one of the

2191
01:46:16,160 --> 01:46:19,120
Speaker 1: best blockers I played with. He is aggressive, which we

2192
01:46:19,240 --> 01:46:22,120
Speaker 1: all know, and he's tough. M you know, so I'll

2193
01:46:22,120 --> 01:46:25,200
Speaker 1: miss him. Also, a lot of my best runs behind him,

2194
01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:29,720
Speaker 1: so you calculate, um, four hundred yards. I'll always say,

2195
01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:33,760
Speaker 1: you know, behind Ritchie. But that's that's one thing. I mean.

2196
01:46:33,840 --> 01:46:35,519
Speaker 1: The other part of that is also guys got to

2197
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:38,599
Speaker 1: step up. I've been in a place with Brian Westbrook

2198
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:40,880
Speaker 1: is a heck of a player. I remember my first

2199
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:44,200
Speaker 1: year with them and then us next year. Like one

2200
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:45,840
Speaker 1: of the big stories is what we're gonna do without

2201
01:46:45,840 --> 01:46:48,519
Speaker 1: Westbrook And that kind of drove me like, okay, you know,

2202
01:46:48,680 --> 01:46:50,800
Speaker 1: so the same thing with these guys. It's kind of

2203
01:46:50,840 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: a sign of opportunity and what do you do with it?

2204
01:46:53,479 --> 01:46:55,400
Speaker 1: So and we will say we have some good, good

2205
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:59,080
Speaker 1: backups and some guys competing for starting jobs, and the

2206
01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 1: NFL is all about I mean, who was Tom Brady

2207
01:47:01,560 --> 01:47:03,720
Speaker 1: before Tom Brady? You know, he got an opportunity and

2208
01:47:03,720 --> 01:47:06,240
Speaker 1: he made the best of it. So everybody has a opportunity. Man,

2209
01:47:06,280 --> 01:47:09,760
Speaker 1: he's gotta make the best of it, like a back Brady.

2210
01:47:10,280 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 1: I've always been a fan of Ivory. He's one of

2211
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:15,720
Speaker 1: them guys who runs extremely hard. Um, you know, I'll

2212
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:18,160
Speaker 1: make jokes with him now that this year, for sure,

2213
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run a guy over and he's inspired me

2214
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:23,200
Speaker 1: to do that. So we'll see. But now I'll be

2215
01:47:23,280 --> 01:47:25,400
Speaker 1: fun working with him. I'm sure he'll do a lot

2216
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:29,479
Speaker 1: of the Shirtyardage type of downs. Keep me fresh, um,

2217
01:47:30,080 --> 01:47:31,880
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully don't take too many touchdowns from me.

2218
01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:34,120
Speaker 1: But other than that, I'm happy to work side to

2219
01:47:34,160 --> 01:47:37,760
Speaker 1: side with him. Shandy McCoy talking to the media here

2220
01:47:37,840 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: as day one of the mandatory mini camp comes to

2221
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:42,719
Speaker 1: an end. We're happy to welcome into our studio a rookie,

2222
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:45,360
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent trying to make this Buffalo roster. He's

2223
01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:48,439
Speaker 1: just off the field. After today's mini camp, defensive end

2224
01:47:48,479 --> 01:47:50,680
Speaker 1: Mike Love joined us. Mike, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. We

2225
01:47:50,840 --> 01:47:53,519
Speaker 1: first time we met. Congratulations being here and welcome. Thank

2226
01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:55,120
Speaker 1: you guys. Nice to meet you guys. Yeah, we were

2227
01:47:55,160 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 1: talking before we went on the air. This is Florida weather.

2228
01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:00,840
Speaker 1: You've got clearwater, Florida. This is like, yeah, it is

2229
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:03,040
Speaker 1: like home. You know, as I was saying earlier, you know,

2230
01:48:03,120 --> 01:48:05,040
Speaker 1: with the rumors I heard coming in its supposed to

2231
01:48:05,040 --> 01:48:06,599
Speaker 1: be cold, and I get here and I'm like, man,

2232
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:09,240
Speaker 1: this is this is home right here, Mike, Mike is

2233
01:48:09,280 --> 01:48:12,880
Speaker 1: not just a rumor. Okay, you'll see, you'll see. Yeah,

2234
01:48:13,400 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 1: all of that adopted things pretty well. Yeah. I just

2235
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:18,519
Speaker 1: gotta get a jacket and boots. So maybe a couple

2236
01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:20,320
Speaker 1: and hopefully that's the plan. You want to be here

2237
01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:22,880
Speaker 1: when the snowfly exactly exactly that going for you? To

2238
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:24,680
Speaker 1: tell us give us some early returns on how it's

2239
01:48:24,680 --> 01:48:26,559
Speaker 1: going for you here in Buffalo. It's going pretty good.

2240
01:48:26,760 --> 01:48:28,920
Speaker 1: I got the vets Uh, you know Jerry Hughes and

2241
01:48:28,960 --> 01:48:32,439
Speaker 1: I'm looking at looking at Trent Murphy, Shag Lawson, you know,

2242
01:48:32,600 --> 01:48:34,439
Speaker 1: watching them every day and them being in my ear,

2243
01:48:34,640 --> 01:48:36,800
Speaker 1: you know, Eddie every day you know they're telling me

2244
01:48:36,880 --> 01:48:38,840
Speaker 1: I do this move or do that, so you know

2245
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:40,920
Speaker 1: they're working with me and I'm just adopting and I

2246
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:43,439
Speaker 1: love it so far, everything's going pretty Why why here, Mike?

2247
01:48:43,479 --> 01:48:45,759
Speaker 1: What brought you here to Buffalo? You know the draft passes,

2248
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:47,640
Speaker 1: you don't get a call up during the draft. What

2249
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:50,000
Speaker 1: about Buffalo made you want to sign here? Oh? I

2250
01:48:50,120 --> 01:48:51,800
Speaker 1: had a lot of people was telling me, you know,

2251
01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:54,280
Speaker 1: if things don't work out, you got a home here.

2252
01:48:54,680 --> 01:48:57,280
Speaker 1: And one coach who was always in my ear was

2253
01:48:57,360 --> 01:48:59,880
Speaker 1: and In Whitecotton. He's always he He talked to me

2254
01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:02,479
Speaker 1: before the draft, the middle of the drift and the

2255
01:49:02,600 --> 01:49:04,519
Speaker 1: end of the driving. He was always in my ear saying,

2256
01:49:04,760 --> 01:49:06,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's a good opportunity to come here. You

2257
01:49:06,479 --> 01:49:08,800
Speaker 1: know I can compete and have a good chance of

2258
01:49:08,880 --> 01:49:11,040
Speaker 1: making this team. And uh, I believe them, and I

2259
01:49:11,160 --> 01:49:13,679
Speaker 1: just came here just sor listener, don't. Coach white Cotton

2260
01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:17,040
Speaker 1: is the assistant defensive line coach behind coach Tier Link. Right, sir, Yes, sir,

2261
01:49:17,520 --> 01:49:19,559
Speaker 1: and uh he was, you know in my air, telling

2262
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:20,920
Speaker 1: me I'm a you know that I was a good

2263
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:23,080
Speaker 1: player and he saw me fitting him perfect and he

2264
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:25,559
Speaker 1: knew I liked it the four three up front because

2265
01:49:25,600 --> 01:49:27,160
Speaker 1: a lot of teams wanted me to do three four

2266
01:49:27,360 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 1: and I didn't you know, I didn't care. I would

2267
01:49:28,960 --> 01:49:30,800
Speaker 1: have did anything, but you know, he said, that's your

2268
01:49:30,840 --> 01:49:33,360
Speaker 1: fit four three and you know you can ball out here.

2269
01:49:33,400 --> 01:49:36,160
Speaker 1: So you know, I listened and I came. You're considered

2270
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:39,160
Speaker 1: an edge guy, right, like edge rusher, but just an

2271
01:49:39,280 --> 01:49:41,519
Speaker 1: edge player defending the edge. Yes, sir, Yeah, Can I

2272
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:43,360
Speaker 1: ask you a personal question? What kind of length you have?

2273
01:49:43,439 --> 01:49:47,200
Speaker 1: Because I will say they said I was seventy one,

2274
01:49:47,439 --> 01:49:50,519
Speaker 1: seventy two, maybe seventy yea seventy two, seventy three. Yeah,

2275
01:49:50,520 --> 01:49:52,160
Speaker 1: that's got to be one of your best attribute, CHAT

2276
01:49:52,160 --> 01:49:56,040
Speaker 1: would think, right, yeah, it's my length, yes sir, yes, right, yes,

2277
01:49:57,120 --> 01:50:01,360
Speaker 1: your arms yeah yeah, I'll played basketball too, right, yeah, everybody,

2278
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:04,400
Speaker 1: So you could grew up in Clearwater, Florida's you grew

2279
01:50:04,479 --> 01:50:07,439
Speaker 1: up like a Dolphins fan or was a Tampa Bay fan.

2280
01:50:07,760 --> 01:50:10,120
Speaker 1: I was always the Bucks fan, and I love the

2281
01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:12,599
Speaker 1: Ravens because of ray Lewis. Yeah. You know, I always

2282
01:50:12,640 --> 01:50:14,840
Speaker 1: love his speeches and I used to look them up

2283
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:17,040
Speaker 1: all the time and just ray Lewis Man. So I

2284
01:50:17,160 --> 01:50:19,759
Speaker 1: was a Baltimore fan as well. Right, so you're a linebacker.

2285
01:50:20,200 --> 01:50:22,880
Speaker 1: He was a linebacker. Yeah, and I love defensive end. Yeah.

2286
01:50:23,040 --> 01:50:25,120
Speaker 1: Well I try to be right receiver at first, but

2287
01:50:25,200 --> 01:50:29,400
Speaker 1: that didn't work out. You grew up. Yeah, Buffy, it's

2288
01:50:29,439 --> 01:50:32,360
Speaker 1: always fun to it's your position. You can eat pizza. Yeah,

2289
01:50:32,800 --> 01:50:34,920
Speaker 1: well not now, not now? You know, you got That's

2290
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:37,160
Speaker 1: the main thing about this that I'm learning. You have

2291
01:50:37,240 --> 01:50:39,880
Speaker 1: to watch what you you know. Uh, Jared was telling me.

2292
01:50:39,960 --> 01:50:41,439
Speaker 1: You know, your body's like a car, you know, you

2293
01:50:41,479 --> 01:50:44,160
Speaker 1: gotta get a tune up, a linement, everything all changeing.

2294
01:50:44,439 --> 01:50:46,320
Speaker 1: Gotta take care of your body because it's your business,

2295
01:50:46,400 --> 01:50:49,200
Speaker 1: you know, So it can't be you know pizza. Well,

2296
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:51,280
Speaker 1: we talk about your background in Florida. We got to

2297
01:50:51,280 --> 01:50:54,200
Speaker 1: talk about your upbringing there and you grew up in

2298
01:50:54,320 --> 01:50:56,519
Speaker 1: a in the with the Martinez family. Can you talk

2299
01:50:56,560 --> 01:50:58,680
Speaker 1: about that, like what was going on that you had

2300
01:50:58,720 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 1: to move It was almost like the blind Yeah. Almost.

2301
01:51:01,720 --> 01:51:04,640
Speaker 1: My eighth grade year, I had got in trouble at

2302
01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:07,040
Speaker 1: the middle school. And my mom got me back into

2303
01:51:07,080 --> 01:51:10,040
Speaker 1: a public school, uh in clear Water, and I was

2304
01:51:10,120 --> 01:51:12,760
Speaker 1: telling her that, you know, I was gonna live with

2305
01:51:12,800 --> 01:51:15,439
Speaker 1: my friend Dalton, and she was okay with it at first.

2306
01:51:15,520 --> 01:51:18,400
Speaker 1: She was like, you know, I understand everything not going away.

2307
01:51:18,439 --> 01:51:20,400
Speaker 1: He wanted to go in life. And I talked to

2308
01:51:20,680 --> 01:51:23,560
Speaker 1: Dalton's mom, Mama Lisa, and I told her, you know,

2309
01:51:23,600 --> 01:51:25,599
Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, change my life around because

2310
01:51:25,680 --> 01:51:27,799
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing football, you know, I wasn't doing anything

2311
01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:30,080
Speaker 1: like that. And she said, you can come stay here,

2312
01:51:30,200 --> 01:51:33,519
Speaker 1: you know, and we'll see where it goes. They had

2313
01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:38,360
Speaker 1: four three boys and one girl that Dalton was their

2314
01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:40,680
Speaker 1: youngest boy. Yes, and he was your best brother, my

2315
01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:42,640
Speaker 1: best friend. And he told me when we were in

2316
01:51:42,760 --> 01:51:44,880
Speaker 1: six seven grades, like you ever want to live here,

2317
01:51:45,439 --> 01:51:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, just you come here and

2318
01:51:47,640 --> 01:51:49,040
Speaker 1: you can stay here for as long as you like.

2319
01:51:49,439 --> 01:51:51,800
Speaker 1: You guys, I guess, yeah, we're best friends. I talked

2320
01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: to him the other day because he always, you know,

2321
01:51:54,360 --> 01:51:56,240
Speaker 1: he always saw that I was kind of rocky because

2322
01:51:56,240 --> 01:51:58,240
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up without a father, so I

2323
01:51:58,280 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 1: didn't have a father figure. And when I went there,

2324
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:03,120
Speaker 1: I kind of have more authority, so you know, I

2325
01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:05,920
Speaker 1: saw that and in my head, so even at that age,

2326
01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:07,400
Speaker 1: you were wise enough to know it was gonna be

2327
01:52:07,479 --> 01:52:09,679
Speaker 1: good for you to move anywere right, And it wasn't

2328
01:52:09,680 --> 01:52:11,000
Speaker 1: like it was out of the blue. You knew him

2329
01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:13,160
Speaker 1: really well. You spent weekend, you were hanging out with

2330
01:52:13,520 --> 01:52:15,320
Speaker 1: all the time anyway, so it wasn't like you were

2331
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:18,000
Speaker 1: some stranger coming in there exactly that I used to

2332
01:52:18,080 --> 01:52:20,320
Speaker 1: I was before I lived there. I was walking in saying,

2333
01:52:20,360 --> 01:52:22,519
Speaker 1: heyed them like they were my family. So it was

2334
01:52:22,560 --> 01:52:25,120
Speaker 1: a good opportunity to go there because I saw that.

2335
01:52:25,360 --> 01:52:26,720
Speaker 1: You know, if I didn't go there, I would have

2336
01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:28,519
Speaker 1: because I didn't listen to my mom. I was young,

2337
01:52:28,720 --> 01:52:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, so just going there it gave me more

2338
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 1: authority and grew me up as a man. And you know,

2339
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:35,840
Speaker 1: ever since I've been there, everything was gonna You went

2340
01:52:35,920 --> 01:52:37,920
Speaker 1: right through high school with them, Martina, Yes, sir, I

2341
01:52:38,160 --> 01:52:40,400
Speaker 1: moved back with my mom my senior year. You know,

2342
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:43,519
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of self awareness, I would think,

2343
01:52:43,680 --> 01:52:46,240
Speaker 1: in eighth grade to realize that what you need. Some guys,

2344
01:52:46,840 --> 01:52:48,920
Speaker 1: some people might just say, WHOA, I'm free, I can

2345
01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:50,519
Speaker 1: do what I want. Yeah, well, I was. I was

2346
01:52:50,600 --> 01:52:52,240
Speaker 1: to be honest. I was just taught of, you know,

2347
01:52:52,360 --> 01:52:54,080
Speaker 1: hurting my mom because I had got in trouble that

2348
01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:57,320
Speaker 1: eighth grade in that middle school, Uh, just doing dumb stuff.

2349
01:52:57,360 --> 01:52:59,120
Speaker 1: And I saw that she was hurting because she had

2350
01:52:59,120 --> 01:53:00,600
Speaker 1: to keep getting off of work to come to the

2351
01:53:00,640 --> 01:53:03,320
Speaker 1: middle school. So you know, and I just thought to myself,

2352
01:53:03,400 --> 01:53:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, if I go stay there, I wouldn't get

2353
01:53:04,880 --> 01:53:07,200
Speaker 1: in any trouble because when I actually lived in there,

2354
01:53:07,200 --> 01:53:09,880
Speaker 1: they grounded me for the first time. You know, I've

2355
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:12,840
Speaker 1: never been grounded with my mom, and you deserve it. Yeah,

2356
01:53:12,880 --> 01:53:15,120
Speaker 1: I had gotten I was talking in class and uh

2357
01:53:15,479 --> 01:53:17,439
Speaker 1: they called mom Alissa, and she grounded me, and I

2358
01:53:17,560 --> 01:53:19,800
Speaker 1: was surprised. So yeah, you know, that kind of gave

2359
01:53:19,840 --> 01:53:21,920
Speaker 1: me some discipline. But still the wisdom you had at

2360
01:53:21,960 --> 01:53:23,599
Speaker 1: a young age, say no, this is gonna be good

2361
01:53:23,640 --> 01:53:25,559
Speaker 1: for me in the long run. And just and Dalton,

2362
01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:27,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was. It was an example to you

2363
01:53:27,240 --> 01:53:30,120
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, he was playing baseball. He wasn't good

2364
01:53:30,160 --> 01:53:32,280
Speaker 1: in school, you know, and all of them were good.

2365
01:53:32,280 --> 01:53:35,439
Speaker 1: They all played sports. And that's what Dave Martinez, he was,

2366
01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:38,519
Speaker 1: I guess bench coach for the Raids at the time,

2367
01:53:38,760 --> 01:53:41,759
Speaker 1: right for this, Yeah, Florida Race. So yeah, he said,

2368
01:53:42,200 --> 01:53:44,000
Speaker 1: that's it. You're gonna get into something. You're gonna do

2369
01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 1: some stuff. You're gonna stay busy. He put you into sports.

2370
01:53:46,360 --> 01:53:49,120
Speaker 1: Was a football right away or basic? Really it was

2371
01:53:49,200 --> 01:53:51,720
Speaker 1: mom Alissa believing. She was telling me, you know, if

2372
01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:53,880
Speaker 1: you stay here, you're gonna get good grades. And my

2373
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:56,920
Speaker 1: mom said, he'll try for the football team. And at first,

2374
01:53:57,000 --> 01:53:58,920
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't playing football. I really didn't like it.

2375
01:53:59,040 --> 01:54:01,000
Speaker 1: So I said, okay, I'll try it, and I went

2376
01:54:01,040 --> 01:54:03,519
Speaker 1: out for receiver and that didn't work out. So they

2377
01:54:03,760 --> 01:54:05,880
Speaker 1: with the defensive end and I've been playing every since.

2378
01:54:05,960 --> 01:54:08,600
Speaker 1: So you still take with the family. Las. I just

2379
01:54:08,680 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 1: talked to her yesterday and if you if you're hearing

2380
01:54:11,120 --> 01:54:13,280
Speaker 1: the roster they come up for games. Of course she's

2381
01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:16,400
Speaker 1: trying to come to the first preseason there you go. Yeah,

2382
01:54:16,439 --> 01:54:18,320
Speaker 1: so we're like this, man, I got I'm blessed. I

2383
01:54:18,400 --> 01:54:20,519
Speaker 1: have two good families. So yeah, tell me about the

2384
01:54:20,560 --> 01:54:23,240
Speaker 1: process of getting the USF to South Florida. What what

2385
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:24,600
Speaker 1: was going on there? Why did you want to I

2386
01:54:24,680 --> 01:54:27,519
Speaker 1: always wanted to, you know, stay home. I'm a mom's baby,

2387
01:54:27,600 --> 01:54:29,760
Speaker 1: you know, I love to be near my mom and UM,

2388
01:54:30,040 --> 01:54:32,520
Speaker 1: I was recruited. My top three at towards the end

2389
01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:35,800
Speaker 1: was Nebraska, West Virginia and USF and an hour away

2390
01:54:35,920 --> 01:54:39,560
Speaker 1: right thirty minutes not even UH, and USF never offered me.

2391
01:54:39,840 --> 01:54:42,320
Speaker 1: You know, they said they were waiting until my act

2392
01:54:42,480 --> 01:54:45,400
Speaker 1: scores catch up with my core grade, so they never often.

2393
01:54:45,480 --> 01:54:47,080
Speaker 1: But I still wanted to go there. You know. I

2394
01:54:47,160 --> 01:54:50,840
Speaker 1: took visits, unofficial visits, and then when Willie Tagger came

2395
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:53,320
Speaker 1: in UH, he said, take official visit and I did,

2396
01:54:53,360 --> 01:54:54,720
Speaker 1: and I told him I wanted to come. He's like,

2397
01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:56,880
Speaker 1: what are you waiting on? So I was like, okay,

2398
01:54:56,960 --> 01:54:59,080
Speaker 1: I committed, you know. You know so because I told

2399
01:54:59,160 --> 01:55:01,280
Speaker 1: him that Skipp didn't want me, so he was like, well,

2400
01:55:01,320 --> 01:55:03,839
Speaker 1: we want you. And you know, right then there I committed.

2401
01:55:03,880 --> 01:55:05,440
Speaker 1: You know. I always wanted to stay close to home

2402
01:55:05,480 --> 01:55:08,120
Speaker 1: because my mom wouldn't afford it to come to Nebraska

2403
01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:11,440
Speaker 1: and stuff, so I stayed close to home. And she

2404
01:55:11,520 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 1: actually worked at USF when I was little. She worked

2405
01:55:14,240 --> 01:55:16,520
Speaker 1: in the social science building. So you got you got

2406
01:55:16,600 --> 01:55:19,000
Speaker 1: to us You started playing almost right away, but you

2407
01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:21,360
Speaker 1: struggle with some injuries. Try to talk about the hobcheck

2408
01:55:21,360 --> 01:55:23,280
Speaker 1: because that that always teaches a guy about him, so

2409
01:55:23,320 --> 01:55:25,520
Speaker 1: you always find out about yourself. I faced a lot

2410
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:29,200
Speaker 1: of adversity at USF. I had three surgeries. Uh my

2411
01:55:29,320 --> 01:55:31,560
Speaker 1: first year two thousand and thirteen, going in, I heard

2412
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:33,480
Speaker 1: my left knee in practice, so I had to get

2413
01:55:33,520 --> 01:55:37,200
Speaker 1: a micro fracture. And then two thousand and fifteen spring ball,

2414
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:40,880
Speaker 1: I had him, Uh, let's frank spray on my foot. Yeah,

2415
01:55:40,920 --> 01:55:42,600
Speaker 1: and then the end of and then I got back.

2416
01:55:42,680 --> 01:55:44,920
Speaker 1: I actually when I heard that the news, I didn't,

2417
01:55:44,960 --> 01:55:47,280
Speaker 1: you know, mope around anything. I battled my button. I

2418
01:55:47,400 --> 01:55:49,840
Speaker 1: did rehab, and I got back to that season. So

2419
01:55:49,960 --> 01:55:52,480
Speaker 1: I played a two thy fifteen season the whole way,

2420
01:55:52,840 --> 01:55:54,040
Speaker 1: and then the end of the season, I had to

2421
01:55:54,080 --> 01:55:56,760
Speaker 1: get another micro fracture my right knee. Just because of

2422
01:55:57,360 --> 01:55:59,960
Speaker 1: Carlage back college. I didn't hear anything. I told him

2423
01:56:00,040 --> 01:56:02,120
Speaker 1: that it was hurting. They said, if you can wait

2424
01:56:02,200 --> 01:56:04,320
Speaker 1: it out to the season, go ahead, So we did that.

2425
01:56:04,480 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 1: In the end of the year, I got the surgery.

2426
01:56:06,760 --> 01:56:09,680
Speaker 1: So I faced a lot of adversity, but every year, man,

2427
01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:12,040
Speaker 1: I just rehabbed it. And uh, that's why I'm really

2428
01:56:12,080 --> 01:56:13,680
Speaker 1: good in my body now, because I learned that you

2429
01:56:13,720 --> 01:56:16,160
Speaker 1: gotta keep taking care of it to the draft. Here

2430
01:56:16,240 --> 01:56:17,840
Speaker 1: did you get inviody to do the combine where you

2431
01:56:17,920 --> 01:56:19,960
Speaker 1: had to come? Oh? No, I went to a regional combine.

2432
01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:22,920
Speaker 1: And then I read somewhere where you really did not

2433
01:56:23,440 --> 01:56:25,560
Speaker 1: Did you expect to be drafted? Maybe even on day three?

2434
01:56:25,600 --> 01:56:30,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, my agent was saying five through seven.

2435
01:56:30,440 --> 01:56:33,080
Speaker 1: Some teams were saying, you know, fifth through seven, you know,

2436
01:56:33,240 --> 01:56:36,760
Speaker 1: maybe so that Saturday. Yeah, so you know, my mentality

2437
01:56:36,880 --> 01:56:38,280
Speaker 1: was going in at the end of the day. I

2438
01:56:38,360 --> 01:56:40,720
Speaker 1: knew that I was gonna be on the team by Sunday,

2439
01:56:40,840 --> 01:56:43,040
Speaker 1: So you know, I wasn't I didn't have that in

2440
01:56:43,120 --> 01:56:44,880
Speaker 1: my head, like if I don't get drafted, I'm gonna

2441
01:56:44,880 --> 01:56:47,040
Speaker 1: be upset. So I just knew I was gonna be

2442
01:56:47,120 --> 01:56:49,320
Speaker 1: on the team. And what you do tell everybody where

2443
01:56:49,360 --> 01:56:52,320
Speaker 1: you were on the day you thought you might get Saturday? Well, yeah,

2444
01:56:52,360 --> 01:56:54,760
Speaker 1: at first I was at mym Lisa house with everyone,

2445
01:56:54,960 --> 01:56:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, just watching it because it was the third day,

2446
01:56:57,560 --> 01:56:58,960
Speaker 1: and I told him I was like, I gotta leave

2447
01:56:59,040 --> 01:57:01,360
Speaker 1: by four, you know, to go to this wedding. And

2448
01:57:01,440 --> 01:57:03,720
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting on a call. It was fifth, fifth round.

2449
01:57:03,760 --> 01:57:05,600
Speaker 1: I think I left around the end of fifth or

2450
01:57:05,800 --> 01:57:07,680
Speaker 1: the sixth round, and I'm like, I didn't get a

2451
01:57:07,720 --> 01:57:09,400
Speaker 1: call yet, so I'm just gonna drop to this wedding.

2452
01:57:09,400 --> 01:57:11,080
Speaker 1: So I drove, me and my mom drove all the

2453
01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:14,840
Speaker 1: way to Tampa to the wedding. So we're on the boat.

2454
01:57:15,280 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's getting ready. The wedding ends tire yet

2455
01:57:17,440 --> 01:57:19,280
Speaker 1: I'm just on my phone. Everyone a whole bunch of

2456
01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:21,360
Speaker 1: teams are calling me because of free agent. Sure, so

2457
01:57:21,400 --> 01:57:22,920
Speaker 1: I'm getting a bunch of calls up, but I'm not

2458
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:24,480
Speaker 1: watching the TV, so I don't know if it's a

2459
01:57:24,640 --> 01:57:27,480
Speaker 1: draft call or you know, any calls. I'm just an

2460
01:57:27,840 --> 01:57:30,200
Speaker 1: answer my calls answering and are like, hey, you know,

2461
01:57:30,280 --> 01:57:32,400
Speaker 1: you got a spot here at the end of the

2462
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:34,840
Speaker 1: draft if you if things don't work out, you got

2463
01:57:34,920 --> 01:57:37,320
Speaker 1: a spot here. Do you remember a shortlist of the teams?

2464
01:57:38,400 --> 01:57:41,280
Speaker 1: I know the Coats said they had two draft picks

2465
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:43,320
Speaker 1: in the seventh, which they did. They say, hey, stay

2466
01:57:43,360 --> 01:57:46,920
Speaker 1: by your phone, we may get you. Unfortunately they didn't.

2467
01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:50,480
Speaker 1: So they're like, hey, you know free agent, the Titans,

2468
01:57:50,840 --> 01:57:53,920
Speaker 1: the Bucks, that was home. I was almost about to

2469
01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:56,760
Speaker 1: do that, but I just wanted the opportunities. So I

2470
01:57:56,880 --> 01:57:58,920
Speaker 1: came here and you got to call Saturday night here

2471
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:02,280
Speaker 1: at I got it right before all the people started

2472
01:58:02,320 --> 01:58:05,240
Speaker 1: showing up for the wedding. Okay, Aaron called me, He's

2473
01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:07,520
Speaker 1: like the drift solder. He's like, uh, man, it's gonna

2474
01:58:07,520 --> 01:58:09,840
Speaker 1: be a good opportunity. And I told him, you know us,

2475
01:58:10,400 --> 01:58:12,080
Speaker 1: let's go, let's do it. So, how do you like

2476
01:58:12,160 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 1: it so far? I love it, man, I love the

2477
01:58:15,040 --> 01:58:18,920
Speaker 1: you know, the teammates, coaches definitely love the defense Man

2478
01:58:19,120 --> 01:58:22,680
Speaker 1: got great coaches. I love my defensive line coach, coach

2479
01:58:22,760 --> 01:58:26,360
Speaker 1: Bill Man, Leslie Faja, decordinator. I mean there's some great

2480
01:58:26,440 --> 01:58:28,640
Speaker 1: guys man, and I kind of feel like I fit here.

2481
01:58:28,720 --> 01:58:31,320
Speaker 1: You know, so far it's just been awesome. Did you

2482
01:58:31,800 --> 01:58:34,000
Speaker 1: feel like you needed to do anything different this week

2483
01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:36,400
Speaker 1: the minicamp free practices than you've done the last couple

2484
01:58:36,440 --> 01:58:39,320
Speaker 1: of weeks here in Otash. No, well we've been We've

2485
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:41,800
Speaker 1: been doing everything the same, you know, attacking it the same.

2486
01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:44,840
Speaker 1: There was no difference between Ota now, just attacking it

2487
01:58:44,920 --> 01:58:47,160
Speaker 1: the same. We get up early, workout, you know, get

2488
01:58:47,280 --> 01:58:50,320
Speaker 1: my treatment and basically attack it the same. And Stephen

2489
01:58:50,360 --> 01:58:53,040
Speaker 1: I were talking before before on the show, but guys

2490
01:58:53,080 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 1: in your position, do you feel at all like you know,

2491
01:58:55,640 --> 01:58:58,440
Speaker 1: because when you're done Thursday, You're done for six weeks.

2492
01:58:58,840 --> 01:59:00,520
Speaker 1: You feel like you need to leave it impression for

2493
01:59:00,600 --> 01:59:02,160
Speaker 1: those six weeks or do you just want to keep

2494
01:59:02,240 --> 01:59:04,200
Speaker 1: taking it day by day, taking it day by day

2495
01:59:04,240 --> 01:59:07,080
Speaker 1: and just keep working hard and controlling what I can control,

2496
01:59:07,160 --> 01:59:09,280
Speaker 1: and when it's my time out there, I just go

2497
01:59:09,400 --> 01:59:11,600
Speaker 1: hard as I can. Now after Thursday, you're gonna go

2498
01:59:11,640 --> 01:59:14,640
Speaker 1: back in Florida. Yeah, I was training at Cooper Fitness,

2499
01:59:14,680 --> 01:59:16,920
Speaker 1: which is in Tampa because I was still taking classes

2500
01:59:17,040 --> 01:59:20,120
Speaker 1: during the during the you know, pro day and stuff,

2501
01:59:20,200 --> 01:59:22,520
Speaker 1: so I stayed in Tampa. So I'm just gonna go

2502
01:59:22,600 --> 01:59:24,400
Speaker 1: back to Coops and training there and the weather will

2503
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:27,000
Speaker 1: feel just like Buffalo when you Yeah, Yeah, I can't wait.

2504
01:59:27,120 --> 01:59:30,720
Speaker 1: Many great to meet Mike. Thanks you guys, thanks for

2505
01:59:30,800 --> 01:59:33,960
Speaker 1: having me. Mike Love. Bills Bills undrafted rookie free agent

2506
01:59:34,040 --> 01:59:36,240
Speaker 1: defensive end Mike Love joining us in Cureo. Will hear

2507
01:59:36,320 --> 01:59:39,400
Speaker 1: from AJ McCarron and from Nathan Peterman when we come back.

2508
01:59:39,640 --> 01:59:42,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo

2509
01:59:42,080 --> 01:59:57,120
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show, John Murphy, Cheap

2510
01:59:57,120 --> 01:59:58,800
Speaker 1: Tansk are really good to meet Mike Love with a

2511
01:59:58,920 --> 02:00:02,120
Speaker 1: really interesting story about his upbringing in uh in the

2512
02:00:02,240 --> 02:00:05,440
Speaker 1: Tampa area, Clearwater, Florida. It's it's kind of like the

2513
02:00:05,560 --> 02:00:08,080
Speaker 1: movie The Blindside, see right, he and and the important

2514
02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:09,520
Speaker 1: thing was, I don't think this happened in the movie.

2515
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:12,040
Speaker 1: I've seen the movie. I can't remember. My club says

2516
02:00:12,080 --> 02:00:15,040
Speaker 1: that he recognized that he needed to get out and

2517
02:00:15,080 --> 02:00:17,280
Speaker 1: get to another family. That wasn't the case in the movie.

2518
02:00:17,400 --> 02:00:20,080
Speaker 1: And he was eight, was in eighth grade. Yeah, so

2519
02:00:20,640 --> 02:00:24,200
Speaker 1: that shows an amazing self awareness fourteen fifteen years old

2520
02:00:24,240 --> 02:00:26,120
Speaker 1: at the time in your life when you're the most

2521
02:00:26,360 --> 02:00:28,880
Speaker 1: when you know the most, right, Yeah, when you think

2522
02:00:28,920 --> 02:00:32,200
Speaker 1: you know the movie, Yeah, and uh he said, yeah,

2523
02:00:32,200 --> 02:00:35,920
Speaker 1: it'd probably be good for me, and that that that

2524
02:00:36,040 --> 02:00:39,280
Speaker 1: alone lets you it's his life took a different trajectory

2525
02:00:39,360 --> 02:00:42,320
Speaker 1: from that moment on. And yeah, good story. Good guy.

2526
02:00:42,880 --> 02:00:45,120
Speaker 1: He's long. And I don't don't normally ask guys, you know,

2527
02:00:45,200 --> 02:00:47,160
Speaker 1: sitting here, how big are you? But I was immediately

2528
02:00:47,240 --> 02:00:49,480
Speaker 1: first time I've seen him in practice, but first time

2529
02:00:49,560 --> 02:00:51,680
Speaker 1: in a like a sit down session with him. His

2530
02:00:51,960 --> 02:00:56,040
Speaker 1: arms are long. I mean the definitions. Yeah, he probably

2531
02:00:56,240 --> 02:00:59,040
Speaker 1: plays with great leverage, you know all that stuff. Yeah,

2532
02:00:59,080 --> 02:01:03,440
Speaker 1: he's he's sixty three. And but he looks much bigger

2533
02:01:03,480 --> 02:01:05,440
Speaker 1: than that because his legs in his arms wearing cleats

2534
02:01:05,480 --> 02:01:07,080
Speaker 1: in here. So he's a six to four and a

2535
02:01:07,120 --> 02:01:12,080
Speaker 1: half probably, And uh, but he's overcome some things in college,

2536
02:01:12,120 --> 02:01:16,160
Speaker 1: at US and obviously in his personal life. But what

2537
02:01:16,320 --> 02:01:19,600
Speaker 1: a what a stellar young guy to have on the

2538
02:01:19,640 --> 02:01:22,040
Speaker 1: Show's fun talking to him. Thanks to Mike Love for

2539
02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:23,880
Speaker 1: joining us. The Bills coming off the field in the

2540
02:01:23,960 --> 02:01:26,680
Speaker 1: last twenty minutes or so. After today's day one of

2541
02:01:26,760 --> 02:01:30,480
Speaker 1: the mandatory mini camp moments ago, second year quarterback Nathan

2542
02:01:30,560 --> 02:01:33,600
Speaker 1: Peterman met with the media outside in the ad Pro

2543
02:01:33,720 --> 02:01:35,880
Speaker 1: Sports Training Center and he was asked how much more

2544
02:01:35,920 --> 02:01:38,520
Speaker 1: comfortably is this year compared to last year when he

2545
02:01:38,600 --> 02:01:41,280
Speaker 1: was a rookie. Here's what Nathan Peterman said, A lot

2546
02:01:41,360 --> 02:01:44,680
Speaker 1: more comfortable, especially just knowing the guys. I mean, I know,

2547
02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, knowing everybody's names out there, having a pretty

2548
02:01:48,320 --> 02:01:50,680
Speaker 1: good feel you know, there's a lot of new faces obviously,

2549
02:01:50,760 --> 02:01:54,080
Speaker 1: but a pretty good feel just for who's here, especially

2550
02:01:54,160 --> 02:01:56,200
Speaker 1: after you know, going through phase one to phase two.

2551
02:01:56,600 --> 02:01:59,160
Speaker 1: That's something you don't get as a rookie. So going

2552
02:01:59,240 --> 02:02:01,280
Speaker 1: through all that with a new offense, having a little

2553
02:02:01,280 --> 02:02:03,480
Speaker 1: bit more time with it with phase one and Phase two.

2554
02:02:03,520 --> 02:02:05,880
Speaker 1: I think it's been really helpful and um yeah, just

2555
02:02:05,920 --> 02:02:08,080
Speaker 1: trying to improve on it every day. Being out there

2556
02:02:08,160 --> 02:02:11,560
Speaker 1: with the first team affect your confidence at all. Um,

2557
02:02:12,480 --> 02:02:15,360
Speaker 1: it's just a great opportunity, you know, So UM, I

2558
02:02:15,440 --> 02:02:17,120
Speaker 1: want to take that opportunity to run with it and

2559
02:02:17,880 --> 02:02:20,000
Speaker 1: play the best of my ability. And um, you know,

2560
02:02:20,120 --> 02:02:23,240
Speaker 1: moved the team down the field. Uh. So it's just

2561
02:02:23,320 --> 02:02:25,160
Speaker 1: the focus when you're out there. And but if the

2562
02:02:25,240 --> 02:02:28,280
Speaker 1: same focus with if you're the twos or threes or fours.

2563
02:02:28,520 --> 02:02:30,720
Speaker 1: You know, it's just trying to do your best out there,

2564
02:02:31,520 --> 02:02:36,960
Speaker 1: look tighter, make it, say an increase level. It's just

2565
02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:38,800
Speaker 1: a team with the timing with the guys that you're

2566
02:02:39,040 --> 02:02:42,440
Speaker 1: growing to out of here late. Yeah, it's been great,

2567
02:02:42,480 --> 02:02:44,680
Speaker 1: like I said, to be in the third phase now

2568
02:02:44,960 --> 02:02:47,680
Speaker 1: and really fourth phase of Mini camp Mandatory Mini Camp.

2569
02:02:47,720 --> 02:02:50,760
Speaker 1: I think the work that we've done to improve our chemistry,

2570
02:02:50,760 --> 02:02:53,280
Speaker 1: improve our timing has been great, um, and I think

2571
02:02:53,280 --> 02:02:55,240
Speaker 1: it's just something we can build on even more. UM

2572
02:02:55,720 --> 02:02:58,160
Speaker 1: here you know, in this off time we're gonna all

2573
02:02:58,200 --> 02:03:01,760
Speaker 1: get together then. UM in the camp obviously too, which

2574
02:03:01,840 --> 02:03:06,920
Speaker 1: is your familiarity with Kelvin and fraud and Andrea and

2575
02:03:07,000 --> 02:03:11,200
Speaker 1: those guys where the other two quarterbacks don't seem hap Um,

2576
02:03:11,280 --> 02:03:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't know a comparison. I mean we've we've all

2577
02:03:13,280 --> 02:03:15,600
Speaker 1: worked with them, you know, through I mean me and

2578
02:03:15,680 --> 02:03:18,160
Speaker 1: aj have since Phase one and then obviously Josh getting

2579
02:03:18,200 --> 02:03:20,360
Speaker 1: here working with them, and UM, it's been great. You know.

2580
02:03:20,480 --> 02:03:22,120
Speaker 1: Like I said, I think we've taken a lot of

2581
02:03:22,160 --> 02:03:25,280
Speaker 1: strides with our chemistry, um, with with knowing what we're

2582
02:03:25,320 --> 02:03:28,440
Speaker 1: looking for, what they're seeing, um and reading body language

2583
02:03:28,480 --> 02:03:30,240
Speaker 1: of guys. I mean, guys been great, and I think

2584
02:03:30,280 --> 02:03:34,200
Speaker 1: it's just gonna get better experience what it's usually the

2585
02:03:34,320 --> 02:03:37,480
Speaker 1: feedback from coach table, because I mean those guys are

2586
02:03:38,120 --> 02:03:39,920
Speaker 1: and I know it's not bad yet, but they were

2587
02:03:40,040 --> 02:03:43,240
Speaker 1: kind of coming today. What's the general given take in

2588
02:03:43,320 --> 02:03:45,200
Speaker 1: between series for you when you're coming off with the

2589
02:03:45,280 --> 02:03:48,120
Speaker 1: coach dad, what he's got A second, it's just talking

2590
02:03:48,120 --> 02:03:50,160
Speaker 1: about that play, you know, what you could do better,

2591
02:03:50,240 --> 02:03:53,600
Speaker 1: what you did good? Um, either or and then just

2592
02:03:53,720 --> 02:03:56,240
Speaker 1: how we can prove what we got coming up next also,

2593
02:03:56,360 --> 02:03:58,600
Speaker 1: So uh, that's been a great thing. Though communication with

2594
02:03:58,680 --> 02:04:02,560
Speaker 1: coach Dable has been unbelievable this past you know whatever.

2595
02:04:02,600 --> 02:04:04,960
Speaker 1: It's been a couple of months and uh, yeah, I

2596
02:04:05,120 --> 02:04:09,040
Speaker 1: enjoy him a lot. Serious you better know your stuff,

2597
02:04:09,080 --> 02:04:12,840
Speaker 1: but it makes it fun. How did you make it? Yeah?

2598
02:04:13,080 --> 02:04:14,480
Speaker 1: I think I've been trying to say that too, with

2599
02:04:14,600 --> 02:04:16,880
Speaker 1: just his passion for the game. So he's got that

2600
02:04:17,080 --> 02:04:21,360
Speaker 1: undeniable passion that this is football. This is, um definitely

2601
02:04:21,360 --> 02:04:23,280
Speaker 1: a job, but it's it's fun, you know. It's we

2602
02:04:23,440 --> 02:04:26,320
Speaker 1: get to play this great game um as our job. Um,

2603
02:04:26,360 --> 02:04:28,680
Speaker 1: So taking kind of both with some balance. You know,

2604
02:04:28,760 --> 02:04:31,240
Speaker 1: this is serious and stuff, but um, you know we

2605
02:04:31,320 --> 02:04:33,440
Speaker 1: can have some fun around here, and uh, the game

2606
02:04:33,520 --> 02:04:35,800
Speaker 1: is fun when we have success. It's fun. So I'm

2607
02:04:35,840 --> 02:04:38,640
Speaker 1: just to keep doing that phillips on that want in

2608
02:04:38,680 --> 02:04:41,840
Speaker 1: the red zone to really tight draw just like your

2609
02:04:41,880 --> 02:04:44,360
Speaker 1: second read or what was it good about that play? Yeah,

2610
02:04:44,360 --> 02:04:46,240
Speaker 1: it's kind of a double move. I'm kind of been

2611
02:04:46,280 --> 02:04:48,360
Speaker 1: setting it up. I guess all camp and I thought

2612
02:04:48,440 --> 02:04:50,600
Speaker 1: Cam went up and made a great play. Um often

2613
02:04:50,640 --> 02:04:52,680
Speaker 1: I could step up offensive lined a great job of

2614
02:04:52,720 --> 02:04:55,840
Speaker 1: having within the pocket, and um Cam when I've made

2615
02:04:55,840 --> 02:04:57,600
Speaker 1: a great play. And so that's great to see as

2616
02:04:57,640 --> 02:04:59,320
Speaker 1: a rookie, you know, going up and making a play

2617
02:04:59,440 --> 02:05:02,440
Speaker 1: like that. I was having for him. Josh came out

2618
02:05:02,800 --> 02:05:05,120
Speaker 1: the first team reps, the first group that he took

2619
02:05:05,320 --> 02:05:08,120
Speaker 1: for six eight seventeen snaps, came out and came right

2620
02:05:08,160 --> 02:05:10,680
Speaker 1: over to you and you guys immediately started going over

2621
02:05:11,000 --> 02:05:13,280
Speaker 1: exactly the plays that he ran. Can you kind of

2622
02:05:13,280 --> 02:05:15,440
Speaker 1: give us an idea what you guys were talking about there?

2623
02:05:15,560 --> 02:05:19,120
Speaker 1: And how hard is it to have that competitive edge

2624
02:05:19,320 --> 02:05:22,880
Speaker 1: and still you know, make sure you're working with each other. Yeah,

2625
02:05:24,040 --> 02:05:27,160
Speaker 1: we're just we do that every every series. Really, you know,

2626
02:05:27,280 --> 02:05:29,600
Speaker 1: I bounced stuff off at him or a j or

2627
02:05:29,600 --> 02:05:31,960
Speaker 1: whoever it is back there that he did the same

2628
02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:34,160
Speaker 1: with me. So I think that's helpful. That's what you

2629
02:05:34,240 --> 02:05:36,480
Speaker 1: need in the quarterback room is to you know, that's

2630
02:05:36,480 --> 02:05:38,280
Speaker 1: what all of all three of us are there for,

2631
02:05:38,760 --> 02:05:41,360
Speaker 1: especially during a game, but even in practice that Hey,

2632
02:05:41,440 --> 02:05:43,760
Speaker 1: what did you see there? You know, just bouncing off

2633
02:05:43,800 --> 02:05:45,640
Speaker 1: each other and m That's really how it should be.

2634
02:05:46,160 --> 02:05:49,240
Speaker 1: Shouldn't you guys getting together that like a quarterback with

2635
02:05:49,360 --> 02:05:53,720
Speaker 1: some receivers in between camp and yeah, yeah, we still

2636
02:05:53,720 --> 02:05:55,440
Speaker 1: got to set some things up, but that's the plan

2637
02:05:55,560 --> 02:06:00,400
Speaker 1: right now. How much helpful is it that all three

2638
02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:03,320
Speaker 1: of you guys have that same mindset that you AJ

2639
02:06:03,480 --> 02:06:05,800
Speaker 1: and Josh and there's not one of you that's like

2640
02:06:06,640 --> 02:06:10,520
Speaker 1: I got information to myself. Yeah, no, it's great. Um obviously,

2641
02:06:10,680 --> 02:06:12,520
Speaker 1: like I said, that's what you want in the quarterback room.

2642
02:06:12,600 --> 02:06:14,440
Speaker 1: And I think it's really important, you know, just to

2643
02:06:14,560 --> 02:06:17,960
Speaker 1: have that good atmosphere, um for you know, whoever it is.

2644
02:06:18,040 --> 02:06:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we're trying to win as a team. Um,

2645
02:06:20,240 --> 02:06:21,760
Speaker 1: so all of us got to do our job to

2646
02:06:21,880 --> 02:06:25,400
Speaker 1: get that done. You might have heard that there's been

2647
02:06:25,400 --> 02:06:29,080
Speaker 1: a lot of disgust about Josh Allen's arm strength, and

2648
02:06:29,200 --> 02:06:31,080
Speaker 1: of course when you came here last year as a rookie,

2649
02:06:31,320 --> 02:06:33,000
Speaker 1: people said he could do everything, but he doesn't have

2650
02:06:33,080 --> 02:06:35,080
Speaker 1: a strong arm. First of all, have you worked on

2651
02:06:35,200 --> 02:06:37,520
Speaker 1: your arm because you were really ripping some classes today

2652
02:06:37,800 --> 02:06:40,440
Speaker 1: in the off season. Isn't stronger now? And generally, what

2653
02:06:40,600 --> 02:06:42,560
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on do you have to have a

2654
02:06:42,600 --> 02:06:47,120
Speaker 1: gun to succeed the intel? Where are your thoughts on? Um? Yeah,

2655
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:50,640
Speaker 1: I have been working just that. I mean, like I said,

2656
02:06:50,640 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 1: I've been working kind of California with those guys Tom House,

2657
02:06:53,840 --> 02:06:56,560
Speaker 1: dud QB. Probably do that over the summer as well.

2658
02:06:56,640 --> 02:06:59,680
Speaker 1: Got that set up, um, And I'm always working, you know,

2659
02:07:00,120 --> 02:07:02,400
Speaker 1: to get better at whatever. Anybody says, the weakness is

2660
02:07:02,480 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 1: because you know, you make your weakness is your strength,

2661
02:07:04,680 --> 02:07:08,080
Speaker 1: and that's when you're dangerous. And as far as the NFL,

2662
02:07:08,080 --> 02:07:10,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a you know, I necessarily master

2663
02:07:10,800 --> 02:07:14,040
Speaker 1: the NFL yet, so I think I've been able to

2664
02:07:14,120 --> 02:07:18,280
Speaker 1: play well all throughout my career. I'm working hard, you know,

2665
02:07:18,480 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 1: to earn the right to start for this team and

2666
02:07:21,320 --> 02:07:23,280
Speaker 1: to go out there and prove myself in the NFL.

2667
02:07:24,880 --> 02:07:28,280
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman apparently through the ball pretty well today. It

2668
02:07:28,440 --> 02:07:31,280
Speaker 1: is look, can we do it too? Just for the outset?

2669
02:07:31,360 --> 02:07:34,800
Speaker 1: But when people ask about specific plays in a non contact,

2670
02:07:35,360 --> 02:07:40,120
Speaker 1: non padded mini camp practice, you're kind of like, Okay,

2671
02:07:40,440 --> 02:07:41,760
Speaker 1: I mean you know what, I mean, what did you

2672
02:07:41,800 --> 02:07:43,640
Speaker 1: see on that play? What you what kind of throw it?

2673
02:07:43,760 --> 02:07:46,320
Speaker 1: You know, there is a danger of putting too much

2674
02:07:46,320 --> 02:07:48,040
Speaker 1: into this. It's all we have, I know, and I

2675
02:07:48,120 --> 02:07:50,560
Speaker 1: get it, and we're as guilty as anyone. We're here.

2676
02:07:50,760 --> 02:07:53,120
Speaker 1: We got Chris Brown out there before practice talking about it.

2677
02:07:53,480 --> 02:07:56,680
Speaker 1: We analyze the practices, but you got to keep things

2678
02:07:56,720 --> 02:07:59,080
Speaker 1: in check. Yes, No, what do you think? It illustrates

2679
02:07:59,120 --> 02:08:01,840
Speaker 1: to me how far way we all are. I mean,

2680
02:08:02,200 --> 02:08:05,360
Speaker 1: you mean from the season from No, from being able

2681
02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:08,160
Speaker 1: to accurately evaluate what these guys are doing. We're talking.

2682
02:08:08,320 --> 02:08:10,520
Speaker 1: We're talking about one play the guy made, and here's

2683
02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:12,680
Speaker 1: the way the coaches do it and the players do

2684
02:08:12,720 --> 02:08:16,520
Speaker 1: it themselves. That play that you just watched is in

2685
02:08:16,680 --> 02:08:18,880
Speaker 1: context with every other play that he's done. They said,

2686
02:08:18,920 --> 02:08:20,680
Speaker 1: And if he does this, well, wow, he did that

2687
02:08:20,840 --> 02:08:22,760
Speaker 1: right that time. He didn't do it the wrong way

2688
02:08:22,880 --> 02:08:24,680
Speaker 1: that like he did last time or the first time

2689
02:08:24,720 --> 02:08:26,280
Speaker 1: he ran. And now he did it exactly the way

2690
02:08:26,320 --> 02:08:28,080
Speaker 1: we wanted him to. And in fact, now you do

2691
02:08:28,200 --> 02:08:30,920
Speaker 1: that right. He also does this right. So he started

2692
02:08:30,960 --> 02:08:32,320
Speaker 1: a bit and now he's starting to build on what

2693
02:08:32,440 --> 02:08:34,160
Speaker 1: he did before. Now we're going to give him this

2694
02:08:34,280 --> 02:08:35,880
Speaker 1: play and I'll see if he can figure this out

2695
02:08:35,960 --> 02:08:38,280
Speaker 1: and do this execute this right. And and he does it,

2696
02:08:38,360 --> 02:08:40,040
Speaker 1: and he said, wow, that's something he does really well.

2697
02:08:40,240 --> 02:08:43,320
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's a context of what these guys

2698
02:08:43,400 --> 02:08:45,640
Speaker 1: do as a body work, plus everything they do when

2699
02:08:45,640 --> 02:08:47,240
Speaker 1: they're sitting in a room and Murphy, you know, I

2700
02:08:47,320 --> 02:08:51,240
Speaker 1: sit in this studio this you know, we spend as

2701
02:08:51,320 --> 02:08:52,959
Speaker 1: much time to the studios they do in the classroom.

2702
02:08:53,240 --> 02:08:55,960
Speaker 1: They spend more time watching film study and going over

2703
02:08:56,040 --> 02:08:58,520
Speaker 1: plays and installing stuff in a classroom setting than they

2704
02:08:58,560 --> 02:09:02,160
Speaker 1: do on the football field. Now, it's all equally important, obviously,

2705
02:09:02,720 --> 02:09:05,200
Speaker 1: but it's also part of the evaluation process. How they

2706
02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:07,320
Speaker 1: handle themselves in those meetings, what they contribute and what

2707
02:09:07,440 --> 02:09:10,400
Speaker 1: they're able to regurgitate to their coaches or add to

2708
02:09:10,440 --> 02:09:14,520
Speaker 1: the conversation. So all of that goes into the evaluation

2709
02:09:14,600 --> 02:09:16,640
Speaker 1: process for the coaches who are actually making the call

2710
02:09:16,720 --> 02:09:18,800
Speaker 1: on who plays and who doesn't who we're so far

2711
02:09:18,880 --> 02:09:21,600
Speaker 1: away from that. We're we're taking that one play and

2712
02:09:21,720 --> 02:09:24,120
Speaker 1: one to practice and you get a snapshot and you think, okay,

2713
02:09:24,160 --> 02:09:26,320
Speaker 1: what do you think? And it's hard. It's hard to

2714
02:09:26,400 --> 02:09:29,280
Speaker 1: do now. Obviously, the one, the most important thing and

2715
02:09:29,360 --> 02:09:32,000
Speaker 1: the thing that you know we can all see is

2716
02:09:32,000 --> 02:09:33,960
Speaker 1: when they get on the field in a preseason game,

2717
02:09:34,080 --> 02:09:36,160
Speaker 1: they start slinging around with a with a team that's

2718
02:09:36,200 --> 02:09:41,400
Speaker 1: trying to make them unsuccessfuls That weighs more than anything,

2719
02:09:41,560 --> 02:09:44,560
Speaker 1: but it all counts. Quarterback's all three of them talk

2720
02:09:44,600 --> 02:09:47,680
Speaker 1: to the media after today's minicamp work out, including veteran

2721
02:09:47,760 --> 02:09:50,080
Speaker 1: AJ McCarron. He was asked if the timing is coming

2722
02:09:50,120 --> 02:09:53,960
Speaker 1: together with the new Bills receivers he's working with just

2723
02:09:54,000 --> 02:09:57,480
Speaker 1: because you're spending more time with them. It's still tough

2724
02:09:57,560 --> 02:10:02,960
Speaker 1: on certain stuff, but um, you know, just gradually getting better, uh,

2725
02:10:03,800 --> 02:10:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, each day trying to take a step forward

2726
02:10:06,360 --> 02:10:09,720
Speaker 1: in that process. So, um, today was a good day.

2727
02:10:09,760 --> 02:10:16,320
Speaker 1: Though down today, UM, I don't even know. To be

2728
02:10:16,400 --> 02:10:20,320
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't. I don't think we had

2729
02:10:20,360 --> 02:10:23,040
Speaker 1: third down. I think we just had blitz. Um, But

2730
02:10:23,120 --> 02:10:25,280
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I mean there might have been a

2731
02:10:25,360 --> 02:10:27,440
Speaker 1: bunch of third downs, because I mean it usually when

2732
02:10:27,480 --> 02:10:30,160
Speaker 1: you get blitz. But where do you feel you guys

2733
02:10:30,200 --> 02:10:37,960
Speaker 1: are where you are in the install? You haven't, I

2734
02:10:38,040 --> 02:10:42,520
Speaker 1: have no clue. I mean we just kind of go

2735
02:10:42,640 --> 02:10:45,720
Speaker 1: in a meeting room with a open mind and just

2736
02:10:45,800 --> 02:10:48,480
Speaker 1: get ready for the day. Really, um, I mean there's

2737
02:10:48,520 --> 02:10:51,400
Speaker 1: no telling. I haven't seen the whole playbook, like as in,

2738
02:10:52,320 --> 02:10:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, this is it from the front to the end.

2739
02:10:55,160 --> 02:10:59,480
Speaker 1: But um, I have no clue. When did you find

2740
02:10:59,520 --> 02:11:05,560
Speaker 1: out there? I would put all of that well, I

2741
02:11:05,640 --> 02:11:09,360
Speaker 1: mean it's probably part of it. He's seventh overall pick,

2742
02:11:09,440 --> 02:11:11,720
Speaker 1: so I would think he would at some point. So, UM,

2743
02:11:12,640 --> 02:11:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean I just go play my game. I don't

2744
02:11:15,280 --> 02:11:18,560
Speaker 1: worry about it. Familiar with you, were you Uh with

2745
02:11:19,000 --> 02:11:22,560
Speaker 1: Sho McCloy. You know just what what he was capable

2746
02:11:22,600 --> 02:11:27,200
Speaker 1: of doing before you got your local Yeah, character that's him.

2747
02:11:31,480 --> 02:11:34,800
Speaker 1: Uh No, I mean you know, watching him play in

2748
02:11:34,840 --> 02:11:37,880
Speaker 1: the league, um, while I was in college. Uh, I

2749
02:11:37,960 --> 02:11:42,880
Speaker 1: mean even even uh you know, shoot when he was

2750
02:11:42,920 --> 02:11:47,840
Speaker 1: at pit Um playing and I was probably what high school. Um,

2751
02:11:48,680 --> 02:11:51,480
Speaker 1: but uh, I mean you know what type of player

2752
02:11:51,480 --> 02:11:54,280
Speaker 1: he is. Um, type of athlete he is, uh, the

2753
02:11:54,440 --> 02:11:57,760
Speaker 1: dynamic uh you know player he is, and the things

2754
02:11:57,800 --> 02:12:00,280
Speaker 1: he can do on the field is uh one of

2755
02:12:00,320 --> 02:12:03,480
Speaker 1: a console. Um. Definitely try to get him in the

2756
02:12:03,520 --> 02:12:13,000
Speaker 1: ball when you can. So I was gonnaast questions so

2757
02:12:13,200 --> 02:12:15,280
Speaker 1: for now one during the season, so I should go

2758
02:12:15,360 --> 02:12:18,880
Speaker 1: after you. Is that what we're doing? You had to

2759
02:12:18,920 --> 02:12:22,440
Speaker 1: talk to somebody, AJ. You pumped your fist when you

2760
02:12:22,520 --> 02:12:26,200
Speaker 1: hit older there in the red ns. Um. That just

2761
02:12:26,320 --> 02:12:28,520
Speaker 1: kind of the culmination of you know, we're working so

2762
02:12:28,680 --> 02:12:32,200
Speaker 1: dang hard here. It's great like that, just dude, Yeah,

2763
02:12:32,280 --> 02:12:35,879
Speaker 1: I mean it's just part of football. You just show emotion.

2764
02:12:35,960 --> 02:12:38,640
Speaker 1: That's the way I've always been. Um. I mean it

2765
02:12:38,760 --> 02:12:43,240
Speaker 1: was a tough play just because I think d line

2766
02:12:43,280 --> 02:12:45,200
Speaker 1: had a little push. Um. They did a good job,

2767
02:12:46,880 --> 02:12:49,800
Speaker 1: you know, I had to throw it really early. Uh sorry.

2768
02:12:49,880 --> 02:12:51,840
Speaker 1: It was just overall good play, good route by Nick,

2769
02:12:52,000 --> 02:12:55,840
Speaker 1: great catch and um for a touchdown. So it sounds

2770
02:12:55,880 --> 02:12:58,480
Speaker 1: like quarterbacks thing think it went well today, Steve right

2771
02:12:58,520 --> 02:13:00,280
Speaker 1: the it sounds like at least the two of them

2772
02:13:00,280 --> 02:13:02,080
Speaker 1: would be hurt from Peterman and mccarin thought they were

2773
02:13:02,080 --> 02:13:03,560
Speaker 1: throwing the ball pretty well today. Yeah. I think they

2774
02:13:03,600 --> 02:13:05,280
Speaker 1: were pretty happy with how it was going on. And

2775
02:13:05,320 --> 02:13:06,840
Speaker 1: I know it always feels good when you go out

2776
02:13:06,840 --> 02:13:08,640
Speaker 1: there and there's a yeah it's a new week, new

2777
02:13:08,800 --> 02:13:11,200
Speaker 1: kind of set of circumstances. You get to go out

2778
02:13:11,240 --> 02:13:13,120
Speaker 1: there at eleven on eleven and throw some red zone.

2779
02:13:13,120 --> 02:13:15,840
Speaker 1: It's fun. Perfect weather, no wind that perfect. They help

2780
02:13:15,880 --> 02:13:17,640
Speaker 1: a little bit, right, They've had some windy days out

2781
02:13:17,680 --> 02:13:20,400
Speaker 1: there when the throws have been less than perfect. Yeah. Yeah,

2782
02:13:20,440 --> 02:13:22,320
Speaker 1: they it got blue. They got blown around a little

2783
02:13:22,320 --> 02:13:24,440
Speaker 1: bit last week. I don't know what day was out there,

2784
02:13:24,480 --> 02:13:27,600
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, it was. Josh Allen threw it

2785
02:13:27,840 --> 02:13:30,000
Speaker 1: today as well. And Josh Ellen met with the media

2786
02:13:30,640 --> 02:13:34,080
Speaker 1: today and Josh Ellen was asked the question about the

2787
02:13:34,280 --> 02:13:36,560
Speaker 1: conversation he had with Lashawn McCoy, the veteran Here's what

2788
02:13:36,640 --> 02:13:39,680
Speaker 1: Josh Ellen responded with, Now he likes the joke around.

2789
02:13:39,800 --> 02:13:42,640
Speaker 1: You know, he says, I'm all football, Um, so there's

2790
02:13:42,680 --> 02:13:44,880
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. But he wants me to loosen

2791
02:13:44,960 --> 02:13:46,720
Speaker 1: up a little bit, So I'll loosen up for him.

2792
02:13:47,280 --> 02:13:49,920
Speaker 1: What is that? What is that like? You know, when

2793
02:13:49,960 --> 02:13:51,600
Speaker 1: a guy who's been in the league and it's done

2794
02:13:51,600 --> 02:13:53,960
Speaker 1: so much, you know, saying just loosen up just a bit.

2795
02:13:54,000 --> 02:13:56,840
Speaker 1: I mean it must resonate with from a guy of

2796
02:13:56,920 --> 02:13:59,720
Speaker 1: that step for sure, and he's seen you know, he's

2797
02:13:59,720 --> 02:14:02,160
Speaker 1: based cleasing at all. So to come up and have

2798
02:14:02,360 --> 02:14:04,360
Speaker 1: that relationship with me where you can tell me something

2799
02:14:04,560 --> 02:14:07,360
Speaker 1: how he's feeling. Um, obviously he's been in this league

2800
02:14:07,360 --> 02:14:11,280
Speaker 1: for a long time now. He's a really great football player.

2801
02:14:11,320 --> 02:14:12,640
Speaker 1: So for him to say that, I'm gonna take that,

2802
02:14:13,000 --> 02:14:14,760
Speaker 1: you know, to the heart and uh, you know, come

2803
02:14:14,800 --> 02:14:18,440
Speaker 1: out and be more relaxed and be myself. He sees

2804
02:14:18,480 --> 02:14:20,600
Speaker 1: a guy who can be a special player when he

2805
02:14:20,760 --> 02:14:23,360
Speaker 1: when he watches you. When you hear that from a

2806
02:14:23,440 --> 02:14:25,520
Speaker 1: guy who you know potentially is a Hall of famer,

2807
02:14:26,080 --> 02:14:28,760
Speaker 1: you know, how does that make you feel? It makes

2808
02:14:28,800 --> 02:14:32,600
Speaker 1: me feel good, I guess. Um. You know, I'm just

2809
02:14:32,800 --> 02:14:35,200
Speaker 1: here to do my job and you know, be the

2810
02:14:35,240 --> 02:14:37,560
Speaker 1: best quarterback that I can be. Um, So for him

2811
02:14:37,600 --> 02:14:39,880
Speaker 1: to say that, though, is pretty special because it's a

2812
02:14:39,920 --> 02:14:44,040
Speaker 1: special guy right there. Some reps with the first teams

2813
02:14:44,160 --> 02:14:45,880
Speaker 1: early on in the process, What does that do to

2814
02:14:45,920 --> 02:14:48,600
Speaker 1: your confidence? I mean, I'm just trying to take advantage

2815
02:14:48,600 --> 02:14:51,600
Speaker 1: of every opportunity. Um, you know, it doesn't mean anything

2816
02:14:52,040 --> 02:14:54,600
Speaker 1: in my opinion. I'm just out there. I'm thrown with

2817
02:14:54,720 --> 02:14:57,720
Speaker 1: guys like Lashawn McCoy, thrown against guys like Michael Hyde

2818
02:14:57,720 --> 02:15:00,720
Speaker 1: and Jordan Player, and you know, uh it felt good

2819
02:15:00,760 --> 02:15:03,480
Speaker 1: to throw with those guys, but also just learning, just

2820
02:15:03,560 --> 02:15:06,080
Speaker 1: taking those reps and taking the knowledge that comes with it.

2821
02:15:06,200 --> 02:15:08,360
Speaker 1: You know, Mica Hid came down and, um, you know,

2822
02:15:08,400 --> 02:15:10,080
Speaker 1: I broke when my passes up and I came up,

2823
02:15:10,320 --> 02:15:12,240
Speaker 1: came up to him after practice and just asked what

2824
02:15:12,320 --> 02:15:15,080
Speaker 1: he saw and he saw my eyes. So just being

2825
02:15:15,120 --> 02:15:16,960
Speaker 1: able to talk with the defense like that and just

2826
02:15:17,000 --> 02:15:18,680
Speaker 1: trying to pick up on cues that they're looking at

2827
02:15:19,040 --> 02:15:20,880
Speaker 1: in order to make plays on the football because they

2828
02:15:20,880 --> 02:15:23,400
Speaker 1: get paid to play this game too. So, um, you know,

2829
02:15:23,520 --> 02:15:24,840
Speaker 1: just learning from all the reps that I take it

2830
02:15:25,000 --> 02:15:27,200
Speaker 1: is not the biggest benefit. More so going against the

2831
02:15:27,280 --> 02:15:29,720
Speaker 1: first team defense as opposed to working with the first

2832
02:15:29,720 --> 02:15:32,560
Speaker 1: team offensive guys. I guess you can say that, you know,

2833
02:15:32,640 --> 02:15:34,760
Speaker 1: those guys are fine around. I guess they know that

2834
02:15:35,160 --> 02:15:36,840
Speaker 1: what they're doing a little bit more than some of

2835
02:15:36,840 --> 02:15:39,720
Speaker 1: the other guys. But I'm not taking anything away from

2836
02:15:39,760 --> 02:15:42,200
Speaker 1: the other guys, but they just you know, it's Micah

2837
02:15:42,240 --> 02:15:44,600
Speaker 1: hyde enjoined player there. Those players for a reason. They're

2838
02:15:44,600 --> 02:15:46,520
Speaker 1: special players. So it'd be out there throwing against them.

2839
02:15:46,520 --> 02:15:50,160
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. There's a couple of plays there where

2840
02:15:50,160 --> 02:15:52,000
Speaker 1: you just said working gotta live to the next player.

2841
02:15:52,720 --> 02:15:55,360
Speaker 1: This one way, just being the competitor you are in

2842
02:15:55,440 --> 02:15:58,920
Speaker 1: the situation you're in, how are you fighting that? Valancee

2843
02:15:59,040 --> 02:16:02,040
Speaker 1: just want to make something that happened, but also trying

2844
02:16:02,040 --> 02:16:04,440
Speaker 1: to disciplined it up to say, you know, let's just wait,

2845
02:16:04,720 --> 02:16:06,760
Speaker 1: let's just make a play on the next day. It's

2846
02:16:06,840 --> 02:16:09,720
Speaker 1: it's really about taking the smart play. Um, sometimes the

2847
02:16:09,760 --> 02:16:12,600
Speaker 1: smart plays thrown it away or holding on to it,

2848
02:16:12,760 --> 02:16:16,360
Speaker 1: you know, and just trying to consistently develop great habits.

2849
02:16:16,560 --> 02:16:18,880
Speaker 1: And you know, coach Dabele and you know continues to

2850
02:16:18,960 --> 02:16:22,120
Speaker 1: tell us don't pass one, to take one. So, um,

2851
02:16:22,160 --> 02:16:23,800
Speaker 1: if we see a guy open and might not be

2852
02:16:24,280 --> 02:16:26,840
Speaker 1: the long one or the home run ball. Um, you know,

2853
02:16:26,880 --> 02:16:28,360
Speaker 1: if he's open now and get it to him now

2854
02:16:28,400 --> 02:16:31,120
Speaker 1: and let our guys make place. Nice is it to

2855
02:16:31,240 --> 02:16:33,560
Speaker 1: have a weapon like Calvin Benjamin. You made a throw

2856
02:16:33,640 --> 02:16:35,800
Speaker 1: where only he could get it, but he made a

2857
02:16:35,840 --> 02:16:37,720
Speaker 1: pretty good grab. You go up and get it, you know,

2858
02:16:37,959 --> 02:16:39,720
Speaker 1: knowing that you can have a guy out there wide

2859
02:16:39,800 --> 02:16:43,200
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I mean his catch radius is unbelievable.

2860
02:16:43,440 --> 02:16:45,200
Speaker 1: You know, I just threw it up there and let

2861
02:16:45,240 --> 02:16:46,680
Speaker 1: him go make a play. And that's you know, our

2862
02:16:46,760 --> 02:16:49,840
Speaker 1: job as quarterbacks to allow our guys to make a

2863
02:16:49,879 --> 02:16:53,680
Speaker 1: play on the ball. Um. He's a special player. You know,

2864
02:16:53,680 --> 02:16:56,240
Speaker 1: I've never played with anybody like him. Just the things

2865
02:16:56,280 --> 02:16:58,680
Speaker 1: that he can do, the matchups that you can have

2866
02:16:58,840 --> 02:17:02,040
Speaker 1: with them. Um, it's just pretty phenomenal the things that

2867
02:17:02,080 --> 02:17:04,280
Speaker 1: he can do on the football field. Probably won't talk

2868
02:17:04,320 --> 02:17:06,840
Speaker 1: to you before you guys break before training camp. What

2869
02:17:06,920 --> 02:17:10,760
Speaker 1: are your plans for your Hobviously you can come back

2870
02:17:10,800 --> 02:17:13,880
Speaker 1: for training. Um, you know, probably go see Jordan Palm

2871
02:17:13,959 --> 02:17:16,880
Speaker 1: again and continue to throw throughout the whole process. I do.

2872
02:17:17,400 --> 02:17:19,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a groom's been in my buddy Tanner

2873
02:17:19,120 --> 02:17:21,800
Speaker 1: Gentry's wedding he's he's with the Chicago Bears. But that's

2874
02:17:21,840 --> 02:17:24,400
Speaker 1: pretty cool, So I could just do some cool things

2875
02:17:24,440 --> 02:17:27,959
Speaker 1: with my family. Um, you know, just kind of hang out, relax,

2876
02:17:28,080 --> 02:17:30,680
Speaker 1: get ready for for a long season ahead. You know,

2877
02:17:30,800 --> 02:17:34,000
Speaker 1: it's just talking with you know, AJ and Naton, just

2878
02:17:34,160 --> 02:17:37,640
Speaker 1: understand how long the NFL season is, and just trying

2879
02:17:37,680 --> 02:17:39,720
Speaker 1: to get my body prepared for what we're gonna endure.

2880
02:17:40,360 --> 02:17:43,040
Speaker 1: Studying wise, is there have they given you a pointers?

2881
02:17:43,080 --> 02:17:46,080
Speaker 1: I'm the best approach to taking time off while still

2882
02:17:46,520 --> 02:17:49,520
Speaker 1: continuing to work on the playboat. Yeah, I mean, you know,

2883
02:17:49,560 --> 02:17:53,160
Speaker 1: it's just about you know, picking your um your fight's wise.

2884
02:17:53,200 --> 02:17:55,240
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just trying to find time to relax.

2885
02:17:55,320 --> 02:17:56,560
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you got to stay in

2886
02:17:56,600 --> 02:17:59,040
Speaker 1: tune and focused on the task at hand. Obviously, you

2887
02:17:59,080 --> 02:18:01,760
Speaker 1: want to still being your playbook and going over things

2888
02:18:01,800 --> 02:18:05,200
Speaker 1: in your mind, mental situations and things like that. So

2889
02:18:06,680 --> 02:18:08,640
Speaker 1: it's definitely about staying on top of the game, you know,

2890
02:18:08,720 --> 02:18:10,440
Speaker 1: staying ready so you don't have to get ready. Your

2891
02:18:10,480 --> 02:18:12,680
Speaker 1: plans on meeting with any of the guys on offense.

2892
02:18:12,959 --> 02:18:14,680
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about it. There's nothing set in

2893
02:18:14,680 --> 02:18:17,040
Speaker 1: stone yet. I would definitely like to I think the

2894
02:18:17,080 --> 02:18:19,640
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks would also say the same thing. So we're

2895
02:18:19,680 --> 02:18:22,720
Speaker 1: trying to figure something out. You know. As of now,

2896
02:18:22,920 --> 02:18:25,119
Speaker 1: aj NATO, the veterans whoerever they want to meet, I'll

2897
02:18:25,160 --> 02:18:28,680
Speaker 1: meet them there. People last chance in a while. Did

2898
02:18:28,680 --> 02:18:31,040
Speaker 1: you get a chance to breathe? You know, it's been

2899
02:18:31,160 --> 02:18:34,280
Speaker 1: pretty much world windish since you got drafted and now

2900
02:18:34,360 --> 02:18:37,560
Speaker 1: it's like a pretty four week break now they camp start.

2901
02:18:37,800 --> 02:18:39,959
Speaker 1: This is breathing for me, you know, playing football? Oh yeah,

2902
02:18:40,080 --> 02:18:42,360
Speaker 1: this is this is what I want to do, you know,

2903
02:18:42,480 --> 02:18:44,160
Speaker 1: for a long time, and to get out here and

2904
02:18:44,680 --> 02:18:47,440
Speaker 1: be with this organization, being the facilities, you know, as

2905
02:18:47,520 --> 02:18:49,800
Speaker 1: much as I can. It's just been awesome just because

2906
02:18:50,360 --> 02:18:53,360
Speaker 1: it's been everything that I've always wanted in more just

2907
02:18:53,480 --> 02:18:57,400
Speaker 1: being a professional football player and just being around these guys.

2908
02:18:57,440 --> 02:19:01,200
Speaker 1: It's been awesome. There go Josh Allen. Most of his

2909
02:19:01,320 --> 02:19:04,080
Speaker 1: comments today, This is breathing for me, he said. He

2910
02:19:04,120 --> 02:19:06,720
Speaker 1: answered a similar question for me yesterday. Yeah, this is

2911
02:19:06,760 --> 02:19:08,360
Speaker 1: what he's here for you. Kind of like that. I

2912
02:19:08,440 --> 02:19:10,480
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't. It sounds like you'll spend a little

2913
02:19:10,480 --> 02:19:13,680
Speaker 1: family time, a little downtime in the upcoming time off

2914
02:19:13,720 --> 02:19:17,280
Speaker 1: after Thursday's practice. He needs to take a little break. Yes,

2915
02:19:17,520 --> 02:19:21,800
Speaker 1: he's twenty two. He didn't need it. He knows of

2916
02:19:21,840 --> 02:19:24,600
Speaker 1: the grinds ton mental. Let's go mentally now that it's

2917
02:19:24,640 --> 02:19:27,080
Speaker 1: interesting too, because they are planning on some of the

2918
02:19:27,120 --> 02:19:29,360
Speaker 1: guys getting together away from Buffalo to work out together,

2919
02:19:29,480 --> 02:19:31,560
Speaker 1: throw the football around the way they've been doing the

2920
02:19:31,640 --> 02:19:34,920
Speaker 1: last few weeks here together and Nate Peterman a J.

2921
02:19:35,080 --> 02:19:37,560
Speaker 1: McCarn probably take the lead those quarterbacks. They'll say, hey, listen,

2922
02:19:37,600 --> 02:19:40,320
Speaker 1: we're getting together in Birmingham or California or wherever it

2923
02:19:40,440 --> 02:19:41,720
Speaker 1: is they are, and the guys will meet there and

2924
02:19:41,959 --> 02:19:43,560
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if that takes place in

2925
02:19:43,600 --> 02:19:46,320
Speaker 1: which guys show up, because it's it's a good idea.

2926
02:19:46,520 --> 02:19:49,720
Speaker 1: It's a good idea. Quarterback. News from Indianapolis that a

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Speaker 1: lot of Colts fans have been looking for Steve just

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Speaker 1: came across this Andrew Luck throwing a real football, the

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Speaker 1: normal football in his rehab today. The Colts tweeted it

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Speaker 1: out today at one thirty video showing Luck throwing footballs again.

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Speaker 1: According to reports from Colts minicamp, Andrew Luck throw about

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Speaker 1: ten passes more than none more than ten yards, nothing

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Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. The first time the media has

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Speaker 1: seen Andrew luckthrow since last October. Missed all of last

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Speaker 1: year with shoulder surgery in March at a setback, really

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Speaker 1: slow rehab. Nothing but good news. Right If Andrew lux

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Speaker 1: throwing footballs again, good news for the Colts. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he's going through drills. I mean the video shows him

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Speaker 1: dropping back doing almost the exact same thing we saw

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen doing a day one a miniicamp, just dodging

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Speaker 1: a fake rush and letting it go. We'll see. It's

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Speaker 1: got a long way to go though, it's been a

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Speaker 1: long time since October. We got a little bit to

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Speaker 1: go on our show when we return in a moment

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bills Drive, and this is

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Speaker 1: We had his comments on the show today. The Bills

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02:21:11,879 --> 02:21:15,000
Speaker 1: head coach talked about the new quarterback rotation slightly altered

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Speaker 1: going into today's day one of the mandatory minicamp, Josh

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Speaker 1: is going to continue with the third group like he's

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Speaker 1: done before. What we'll do periodically is give some Josh

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Speaker 1: some reps with the ones. That's all part of the

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Speaker 1: of his development plan and really a chance for us

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Speaker 1: to evaluate our entire roster as well, from top to bottom.

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Speaker 1: So you know, he'll still work with the threes, buying

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Speaker 1: large and Nate and aj will continue with the ones

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Speaker 1: and twos there, but we'll throw Josh in from time

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Speaker 1: to time and before some work with the first team

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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen. That was the news before training or

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Speaker 1: before mini camps started. Today. We also had deep offensive

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Speaker 1: end Mike Love on the show, undrafted rookie free agent

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Speaker 1: from University of South Florida making a bid to stay

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Speaker 1: on this Buffalo Bills roster. He went undrafted, got the

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Speaker 1: call from the Bills right after the draft ended, along

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Speaker 1: with some other teams, and we asked Mike club why

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Speaker 1: he chose Buffalo as the team to try to win

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Speaker 1: a spot with. I had a lot of people was

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02:22:18,920 --> 02:22:21,200
Speaker 1: telling me, you know, if things don't work out, you

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Speaker 1: got a home here. And one coach tool was always

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Speaker 1: in my ear was an in white cotton. He's always

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Speaker 1: he talked to me before the draft, in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the drift and the end of the drive, he

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Speaker 1: was always in my ears stand. You know, it's a

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Speaker 1: good opportunity to come here. You know I can compete

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Speaker 1: and have a good chance of making his team, and

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Speaker 1: I believe them, and I just came here. It's good

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Speaker 1: getting to know my club a little bit like that kid. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we spent a lot of time early in the show

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Speaker 1: Steve talking about receivers, and our Twitter polled dealt with

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Speaker 1: receivers today. Twelve votes on that. After Calvin Benjamin, which

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Speaker 1: veteran Bills wide receiver has the biggest role to play

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02:22:55,480 --> 02:22:59,560
Speaker 1: this season and why? Pretty consistently Jeremy Curley the acquisition

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02:22:59,600 --> 02:23:02,520
Speaker 1: from the Jet's fifty four percent of respondent say he's

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Speaker 1: got the biggest role to play this season. Twenty one

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Speaker 1: percent said Rod Streeter, nice pick there, sixteen percent said

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Speaker 1: Andre Holmes, eleven percent had something else. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we solved anything today. I guess not that we

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Speaker 1: do take to it a poll, but I feel like

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be all right. I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people believe Jeremy Curtige is going to be on the

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Speaker 1: team and contribute. I think he'd got him pegas that

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Speaker 1: slot receiver, and he's a guy that they've seen play

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Speaker 1: with the Jets pretty well and they can envision him

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Speaker 1: being a good part of this team as well. And

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Speaker 1: I think Rod Streeter is a little bit of a sleeper.

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Speaker 1: He had a phenomenal training camp last year before he

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Speaker 1: was injured, and a lot of people thought man last

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Speaker 1: year was his year, and they're hoping for a bounce

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Speaker 1: back year from him after the injury. We got a

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Speaker 1: show coming up tomorrow. I hope you can join us

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Speaker 1: at twelve noon tomorrow, Day two of the Mandatorian Menicamp.

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Speaker 1: Our production assistance George Blast, Jeff Coltonick Thomas, honald Or,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Turto, Keith, Kevin Karges surrounded it and

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Speaker 1: it is Kevin and James Robol our producer Jay Harris.

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Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow at twelve noon with One Bill's Live

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