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Speaker 1: Oh a good time, Steve Tasker, good SEXTI text textstop

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Speaker 1: over time, Hello there, Welcome. Welcome to One Bill's Life

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Speaker 1: is presented by Kalida Health. Welcome to one Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: It's a cloudy, gray day in Orchard Park, New York.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. John Murphy's sitting here in our one Buffalo

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Speaker 1: studio right next door to New Era Field and happy

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Speaker 1: to be back. Steve, thanks for leting me have yesterday off.

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Speaker 1: I'm really happy, happy to do it. Brownie came in

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Speaker 1: tomorrow on Brownie came in and lit it up. I heard, huh,

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Speaker 1: yeah he had. I don't know if you heard about it.

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Speaker 1: Brownie has a phobia about blimpse. But other than that,

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Speaker 1: it was a good day here when I was Other

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Speaker 1: than that, I heard it was epic, epic rank look.

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Speaker 1: I like Glimpse. I like the Goodyear of Blimp. I've

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Speaker 1: had at least two different occasions when I was a

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Speaker 1: passenger on the Good Year Blimp and it was great.

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Speaker 1: You know what's cool about I'll tell you one thing

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Speaker 1: about blimps. This is why I defend blimps. You're ready,

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Speaker 1: and I've only been on the Good Year Blimp. You

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Speaker 1: haven't been on the progressive film progressive, none of them.

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Speaker 1: What was the one with Snoopy on the side? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what was it? I don't know. I've only been on

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Speaker 1: the good Year Blimp. You know what's cool about being

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Speaker 1: on the good Year Blimp? It's quiet, it's quiet, but

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Speaker 1: everybody you're low enough, people run out in their backyard

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Speaker 1: and wave to you. You You don't have you're flying on

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Speaker 1: a plane. How low were you? Well, you know you're

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Speaker 1: only a couple hundred feet. See, I heard people run

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Speaker 1: right out. It's not like a plane going overhead. It's

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Speaker 1: like why I heard everything redneck goes out and starts

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Speaker 1: taking pot shots. That didn't happen. I don't know. I was.

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Speaker 1: I was in Lackawanna, cheek to Lancaster, cheek to what

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Speaker 1: was here? Local? Yeah, yeah, this is a reason. No,

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Speaker 1: I was a little kid. Oh really Yeah. But people

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Speaker 1: running in their backyard and wave to the good Year blimp.

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Speaker 1: That because it's real low, because it's low and it's recognizable,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know where it's round legal for it

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Speaker 1: to be low like that? What's it's the whatever the

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Speaker 1: legal height is. I want to say, a couple hundred

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Speaker 1: feet three because you like holler at them. No, no,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't but you wouldn't hear him. Yeah, you wouldn't hear it.

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Speaker 1: It's quiet, but it's you know, so you're a big fan,

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Speaker 1: right because of your childhood experience. Yes, I love the

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Speaker 1: good Year Blimp, and I can't believe Chris would take to, uh,

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Speaker 1: does it belong on the College Football Hall of Fame?

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Speaker 1: That's debatable. That's I think that's the crux of the

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Speaker 1: It's not that and I said he had a phobia

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Speaker 1: I would say, yeah at this point, after listening to

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Speaker 1: I heard brief, brief segment of his rant, which has

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Speaker 1: been described to me as epic, and I didn't hear

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Speaker 1: any indication as to whether the College Football Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame this is like some commercial deals some the blimp

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Speaker 1: tweeted back at him, but I saw that, Yeah, which

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Speaker 1: I won't want the blimp mad at me. I would

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Speaker 1: not want the good Year Blimp. I will not want

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Speaker 1: to be in the wrong side of the good Year Blimp.

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Speaker 1: What is the wrong hanging onto one of those ropes.

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Speaker 1: That's the wrong side. Well you're a couple hundred feet

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Speaker 1: off again, Yeah, that is true. Well I heard it

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Speaker 1: went well. I heard that that alone made the three

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Speaker 1: hours that I missed yesterday. Compel compell like, you don't

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Speaker 1: know where I'm going with this. Yeah, I saw a

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Speaker 1: look of fear. No, no, no no, I'm glad you. I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you had a little extra time off over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: It was my first weekend off and quite some time.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. There was a you know, wildcard weekend

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Speaker 1: we had. We talked about that and we're going to

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Speaker 1: it was good. Brinnie came in. We did miss you,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. No, no, we did. It's not

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Speaker 1: the same without you. I missed you, guys. I listened

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Speaker 1: wild card weekend and also last night's National Championship game

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Speaker 1: that happened. Uh, there was my brother in law's in

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Speaker 1: He can watch it on his phone, right, he's got

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Speaker 1: And it's not like the NFL where there's every you

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Speaker 1: the stadium. Were getting at that? Well, my question exactly

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Speaker 1: where they haven't? You can watch it from the blimp

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Speaker 1: bank where? Yeah, we were, we were. We took a

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Speaker 1: little shopping spree. Uh drove to Rochester that two sons.

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Speaker 1: Rochester um to do some specific I want to hear this,

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Speaker 1: probably didn't know this, and most people know this. I'm

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Speaker 1: not I don't mean that. But the different platforms ESPN

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Speaker 1: They had the Monday Night Football Crew, Joe Testa Tour

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Speaker 1: there were I think five different they had a five

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Speaker 1: different ways to digest it. Yes, and and and there

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines discussing the game. Oh no, there was

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Speaker 1: a fifth. The fifth one was like lighthearted comments as

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Speaker 1: like Mystery Science Theater three thousand where they would snark

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Speaker 1: watch the game. I don't want to hear your snarky,

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't you can do that after the fact.

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Speaker 1: and I wonder how if I'm in the minority there

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Speaker 1: not hammer and millennials here, But dude, people need that

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Speaker 1: it put into context for us. We just want to

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Speaker 1: up and you have some X Like the guys in

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Speaker 1: people aren't used We already had this conversation on the

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Speaker 1: to watch. Am I Right? Yeah, it's like it is

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Speaker 1: It's a different dynamic social dynamic nowadays than it was

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Speaker 1: have comment, immediate comment, a real time comment on games

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Speaker 1: that are staking place. Is that progress? Here's the book.

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Speaker 1: I want to watch the game. If the announcers have

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Speaker 1: Yeah I get that too, But I also take guy's name,

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Speaker 1: I forget his name, Williams. Great. Yeah, think about this.

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Speaker 1: It's the way you It's like having steak six different

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Speaker 1: to pick. It's like that, right, that's this, you know,

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Speaker 1: in our culture, in our country, we're so good at

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Speaker 1: this consumption thing, right, right, we're so good at consuming stuff. Listen,

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Speaker 1: we oh you want to like this? How about that?

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Speaker 1: How about how many you know, clicks or how many views,

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Speaker 1: we can monetize it. Yeah, and that just don't know

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Speaker 1: that it's progress. Well, it is progress and it's well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's progress or evolution. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: call it whatever you want. You pick the night, pick

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Speaker 1: the pick the descriptive term of your choice. But it's

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Speaker 1: what it is. It's channing. Here's what it is. Tom.

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Speaker 1: It's changing all the time. You know, it's really changing fast.

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Speaker 1: You know what can I just say? This is an aside.

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Speaker 1: I like when we start a show like this on

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Speaker 1: What do you want to do when you start the show.

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Speaker 1: This never came out. Yeah, this never came Let me

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Speaker 1: some of them are NFL prospects in two years two years.

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Speaker 1: Like the quarterback Lawrence, I mean, good grief, that guy

423
00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 1: he's six six sixty seven ways two hundred and forty

424
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,560
Speaker 1: pounds and he throws and he's got it all going on.

425
00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,920
Speaker 1: Plus he had guys that he was thrown too, making

426
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Speaker 1: one handed grabs. They're fast, running all over the field.

427
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 1: And of course Alabama has always got about at least

428
00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,959
Speaker 1: you know, ten guys that are gonna get tryouts on

429
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 1: NFL teams, and Buffalo Bills we've got a couple of

430
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Speaker 1: them on their squad. So uh yeah, there was probably

431
00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:22,600
Speaker 1: you know, double digit NFL players NFL players, and there's

432
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Speaker 1: probably you know a handful more than that that are prospects.

433
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,359
Speaker 1: You know that they're probably gonna there there's a lot

434
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 1: of guys that are gonna get, you know, invited to

435
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,160
Speaker 1: a camp or try it out or whatever. Guys, there's

436
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,880
Speaker 1: probably twenty guys on the field that are gonna get

437
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,920
Speaker 1: invited to the Combine at some point in the next

438
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,360
Speaker 1: couple of years something. You know, the quarterback for Clemson's

439
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:46,200
Speaker 1: a freshman. Yeah, oh my guys, they're true freshman right. Yeah,

440
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,920
Speaker 1: that's amazing, that's amazing. And football. I never thought football

441
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,440
Speaker 1: would be a game like hockey or basketball where you

442
00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 1: got these eighteen year old kids that are saying, you

443
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 1: know what, I'm ready for the NFL. And it has

444
00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 1: taken a long time to get their decades in fact,

445
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 1: but you're getting to the point where those guys, those

446
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 1: guys could probably make an NFL squad. Maybe, you know,

447
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 1: you'd think, I don't know, I don't know what kind

448
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,919
Speaker 1: of kid they are. It takes a it takes a

449
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: mindset to do it. But nevertheless, that game was unbelievable

450
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 1: as it was a great game. And I and I'm

451
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 1: I've got no skin in that game. I'm not a

452
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got a lot of respect for Nick

453
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,879
Speaker 1: Saban what he's put together at Alabama. I like watching

454
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 1: that team because I because of how good they are

455
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 1: and from the distance that I am from all of that,

456
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 1: Dabo Sweeney, they seem to have a different vibe about

457
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 1: their program that Nick Saban has about his bro Nick

458
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,920
Speaker 1: Saban and Alabama. All of a sudden overnight, they went

459
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,959
Speaker 1: from being this big time college program to being like

460
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 1: this evil prison camp of a football program where they're

461
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 1: robotic and business like and corporate, to this big little

462
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: family picnic that Dabo Sweeney's got going on at Clemson. Right. Imagine,

463
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 1: I'm right, I'm exaggerating on both ends to make the point. Yes,

464
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 1: Alabama seems just buttoned up, very football factory kind of

465
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: put college program, and Dabo Sweeney seems like he's got

466
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,479
Speaker 1: a bunch of cam and they're giving him what Willie's

467
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 1: on the on the trophy stand last night. I mean

468
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 1: they you know, it's just just happy go and certainly

469
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 1: it happens, you know Nick's you know, I don't know

470
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Speaker 1: what the name's given, Nick Saban or wet Willie on

471
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 1: the on the victory stand, but they do kind of

472
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Speaker 1: cut loose when they do win and they are happy.

473
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Speaker 1: You know what I've noticed about Alabama when and the

474
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Speaker 1: players come through here, including as you mentioned, a couple

475
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: of undrafted this year, They all have tremendous respected, really

476
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Speaker 1: affinity and uh and regard for Nick Saban, They really do.

477
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 1: They guys Sitting and marchall Darius, all of them always

478
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 1: say Coach Saman was everything to me. He had me

479
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: on the right path. So we don't get it because

480
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: we see the corporate stuff and we see how how

481
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: button down they are, and we see how serious Saban

482
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: appears to be on the sideline, so that that doesn't

483
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Speaker 1: come across. But the guys who come through that program

484
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: have that sort of affinity and and really regard for

485
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Speaker 1: for that program. They love it there. When they stick

486
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 1: around there for long enough, they get an idea of

487
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: the level of discipline that they put in on them,

488
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: and they coach them hard at Alabama, even you know

489
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: they're they're they do not cut those guy young guys

490
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,440
Speaker 1: any slack. And I think the longer they stay there,

491
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Speaker 1: the more they appreciate that it's not so much that

492
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 1: they're not trying to let them have any fun, it's

493
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: that they're trying to get them to do football and

494
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: their life away from football the right way and I

495
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: think they come away from it very much appreciative of

496
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Speaker 1: what Alabama gives them. So I'm what I said about,

497
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Speaker 1: you know, them being the kind of the evil Empires,

498
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: and I was exaggerated greatly to make a point. They

499
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Speaker 1: do a lot of great things for their players up

500
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Speaker 1: and down the line, and I got nothing rect or

501
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: discuss anything with coach Saban. Have you ever met that?

502
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 1: I had a couple of pri when he was with Miami.

503
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: I covered them a couple of times when he was there. Yeah,

504
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: all business and he was know he's not a huggy,

505
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: touchy feely guy. And in fact, I don't I like

506
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick better than I like Saban. Wow, had a

507
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Speaker 1: better experience with that. How about the Sweeney ever not

508
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: never met? Tell you two quick stories, sure, both in

509
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Speaker 1: relation to the show. Um, it is thunder outside, it's crazy.

510
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Speaker 1: I don't think it is thunder. Oh, I think I

511
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Speaker 1: hope it is. Oh that's thunder under A Yeah, it's

512
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: thunder if the building shakes, Yeah, you're gonna go to commercial.

513
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: Four or five years ago, I'm at the Senior Bowl

514
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Speaker 1: mobile Alabama and standing on the sidelines. One of the

515
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Speaker 1: early practices of the week CJ. Spiller walks up. CJ

516
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: was already with the Bills, and I got talking to CJ.

517
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Speaker 1: What are you doing? He goes, well, I hopped in

518
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 1: a car with the coach Sweeney up at Clemson this morning,

519
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 1: and we said let's go see our guys. They had

520
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,719
Speaker 1: Clemson players at the at the Senior Bowl, so they

521
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Speaker 1: drove down. So I'm talking to CJ for a while,

522
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Coach Sweeney comes over and

523
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Speaker 1: he started. I spent forty five minutes talking to the

524
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Speaker 1: CJ and Coachabo Sweeney. Great guy, just a great guy.

525
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: And you know he's given me opinions about his players

526
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: there at the Senior Bowl, talking about c J. Spiller,

527
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: talking about other players, talking about non football stuff. Great guy.

528
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 1: He's been on the show. Well who do we draft

529
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson from Clemson? Right? Yeah? And he was on.

530
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: He came on the show that night forty minutes after

531
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Speaker 1: the Bills drafted Shack Lawson to talk about check Lawson.

532
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: And it was like, hey, coach, when you go out, sure,

533
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: I'll come on what time? Half hour? Yeah, I'll be there.

534
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: I mean, so, yeah, I appreciate it. Pretty good for

535
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: a guy of that stature. So in that sense, I

536
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: rooted rooted for them. But they're not a mom and

537
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: pop grocery store either. No, no, no, they're a big

538
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: time Oh yeah, yeah. And I read an article today

539
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 1: Clemson is a universe. It's two hours from Charlotte and

540
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: two hours from Atlanta, and to drive that the town

541
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Speaker 1: is it described as just big enough and just small

542
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: enough as Clemson, South Carolina. And so it's got that

543
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 1: collegiate feel of a college town, but it's a big

544
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: time And I remember this maybe ten years ago. They

545
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 1: had them on and you know, you hadn't heard about them.

546
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 1: It's right after Dabbo got the job, I think. And

547
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: it was a night game and they had you know,

548
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 1: it's the stadium was lit and the whole surrounding country

549
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: was black. It was dark. Nothing, there's nothing there. It's

550
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: this one little orange jewel sitting in the darkness of

551
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: South Carolina on a game night and it's all orange

552
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: and it was. It was pretty spectacular. It's pretty gripping.

553
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, I didn't I didn't even know

554
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: where that was, you know, I didn't. And then you know,

555
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: ten years later, they've won two of the last three

556
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 1: national championships and the guys you know they're on their way.

557
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: I mean they're established. I gotta say this about Clemson

558
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: to their defensive coordinator Brent Venables. Outstanding job last night, right,

559
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: I mean they just shut down Alabama. They just shut

560
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: him down. And I didn't see that coming. Look, I

561
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: knew Alabama was mostly a defensive unit they have been

562
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: for years. But they got sixteen points in that game

563
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: with the you know, the quarterback that everybody was to Atta,

564
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Speaker 1: who was Heisman last year, Heisman this year, went in

565
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: the running for it. I mean picked him off twice

566
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Speaker 1: in the first half, gave him look so that I'm

567
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: sure he had no idea what he was looking at.

568
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: They got good players, no question about that on Clemson.

569
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Speaker 1: But a great job by their defense coordinator Brent Venables,

570
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 1: who got a lot of screen time last night and

571
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: can probably move along somewhere if he wants to. Although,

572
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: as you're the Clemson defense coordinator, what do you earning

573
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: seven hundred fifty thousand million dollars a year in South

574
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: Carolina has a bad quality of life? And it's interesting

575
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: too because he deserves a lot of credit and sometimes

576
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 1: those guys don't get the credits. When you see their

577
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: players play as hard as and as inspired as they do,

578
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: you kind of think, wow, those it's the kids, you know,

579
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: And mostly it is, but he had whoever got those guys?

580
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's a championship, it's like the

581
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. How can you not be ready to play?

582
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: But it's it's not easy. And that defensive staff for

583
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: Clemson deserves a lot of credit for the for the

584
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: effort they put together, for the quick turnovers. Even Sabing

585
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,719
Speaker 1: at halftime during his halftime interviews said, listen, they're doing

586
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that has hurt us in the

587
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: past that they hadn't done before. They caught us off guard.

588
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: Hess now we hadn't practicing it, and now we'll kind

589
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: of get it. Well. Then you can tell too that

590
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: Clemson also switched some stuff at their halftime as well,

591
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: and they added a few wrinkles on top of what

592
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: they had been doing, so they kept they stayed ahead

593
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: of Alabama and and kudos to him for doing it.

594
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: It was it was a fun game, even though it

595
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: was even though it was out of hand, it was

596
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: out of hand for the sake of viewership, keeping your interest.

597
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: It was out of hand in the right direction direction.

598
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 1: If it had gotten out of hand and Alabama was

599
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: winning like that, it had been like you know, it

600
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: had been like same old, same old kind of thought process,

601
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of viewers. But because Clemson

602
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: jumped on him and started and then didn't backed off

603
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: and kept their foot on the game the way they

604
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: started the second half, it was pretty unbelievable. Now, the

605
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: two of the most dominant. I don't want we're talking

606
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: about this for just a few more minutes. We got

607
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: bill stuff to talk about. But the guys as far

608
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: as NFL prospects, and I'm going to leave the Clemson

609
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: quarterback and receiver out because there are a couple of

610
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: years away. But I really liked Quinnon Williams number ninety

611
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: two defensive tackle for Alabama. Dominant, dominant. It's good. I

612
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: remember Marcel Darius as a defensive tackle in Alabama. He

613
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: was dominant. Quinn and Williams looked more dominant yesterday. I

614
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed him. Offensive tackle number seventy three.

615
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: He was Williams two. Jonah Williams he was. Now. He

616
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: didn't have a perfect game because they got some pass

617
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: rush pressure on tour but I thought he was a

618
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: really good NFL prospect. There's some guys, guys either side

619
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: of the ball for Alabama just jumped out, there's some guys.

620
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: There's some guys there that you know. There was a

621
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: lot of professional scouts in that building out in San

622
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: Jose last night, and there's gonna be a lot of guys.

623
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: There's names you may not recognize, but who's who were

624
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 1: in this game last night? Who are going to end

625
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: up at the Combine in Indianapolis, like we spoke about,

626
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a chance that And I heard a

627
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks wrote some things on Twitter or former teammate

628
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: of mind. He said last night, he goes, you stand

629
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: on the sidelines of this game. He goes, these are

630
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: two teams that look like teams on Sunday. They're big,

631
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: athletic and strong, knot don't get carried away, he said,

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Speaker 1: they look like it. Okay. Now here's the thing. A

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Speaker 1: large percentage of the guys on either side of that

634
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: they can't play at the name. They can't. I mean

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Speaker 1: they just can't play. And they can't even play for

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Speaker 1: those two teams. They stand back to that narrative when

637
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: the Bills were awful early in the season. People, I

638
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: think Alabama could beat the Bills. Well, no, they couldn't

639
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: back then, and certainly after last night they couldn't meet anybody, right, nobody, nobody,

640
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: neither neither could Clemson. Believe me, neither could Clemson. So um,

641
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: there's a ton of guys on both those rousters that

642
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: cannot play. But when you stand there on the sidelines,

643
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: you see the first line of those guys that you know,

644
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: because there's some guys who are big enough and look

645
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: at but you know they can't, right and they can't.

646
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: They don't play that much even for Clemson because they

647
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: don't you know, they just don't have something else in

648
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: the tank. So but you do get the sense that

649
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: there was a lot of guys on that field last

650
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: night who have a lot more to offer the game,

651
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: and they're going to get a chance to do that.

652
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Speaker 1: Is it's fun to watch. I got one more guy

653
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: for you, and it's now coming back to me. I

654
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: watched the game, watched through three quarters, a little bit

655
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Speaker 1: into the fourth the tight end for Adam hamma irv

656
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Speaker 1: Smith Junior. Um, I thought he was sensational. Did you

657
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: see that guy? He was unbelievable catching passes. He looked

658
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: like he was a willing blocker. Irv Smith Junior, the

659
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: son and nephew a former NFL tight ends and I'm

660
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: just looking at him up here. He's from New Orleans

661
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: and uh man, I thought his father was a former

662
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: first round pick of the New Orleans Saints. His uncle

663
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Speaker 1: played in the NFL. Regardless of that, I thought he

664
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Speaker 1: was a great player. I think he was eighty two. Yeah, okay,

665
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: great player. I mean there's so many good players play

666
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: in that game. There really was, yeah, And there's great

667
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: athletic plays, the one handed catches. You saw, the great throws.

668
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: The quarterback from Clemson really stood out. And I think

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. I'm to a tag of Aaloa, the

670
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: Alabama quarterback. If you've watched him, he was in the

671
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: He's in the finals of the Heisman Trophy this year.

672
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: I said last year. I don't know if he was

673
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: last year. By this last Heisman Trophy, he was in

674
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: the finals for that. He's a really likable kid, very

675
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, a great kid, and he was kind of

676
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: a college football darling this year. He was a great

677
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: player on a great team and he was playing well

678
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: and he said and did all the right things. He

679
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: seems to be an outstanding individual. He didn't. He's a lefty.

680
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Speaker 1: And then last night the kid and Lawrence what's his

681
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: first I don't even know his Lawrence's first name. It

682
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: was anyway. So he's the quarterback for Clemson. Yeah, and

683
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Speaker 1: he's this right, Yeah, Trevor Lawrence. He's like six six

684
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Speaker 1: sixty seven and he's got this long, flowing, prince charming

685
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Speaker 1: thing going. And he was unbelievable. He was unbelievable. He

686
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: stood in the pocket. He looked like an NFL. He

687
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: looked like an NFL quarterback playing in the NFL. He

688
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: stood in the pocket, saw Russia's coming, felt Russia's coming,

689
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: he never shied away from it. He stood in there

690
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: through the football and accepted the hit. It was. It

691
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: was really impressive, really impressive. And I've heard about him

692
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: and I'd never seen him play that much. Man, oh man,

693
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: he was unbelievable. He was to me, he was. He

694
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Speaker 1: was the surprise of the game for me. Last night.

695
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Speaker 1: I knew it. I heard. I said, Okay, he's gonna

696
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: be he's gonna be another you know, I'll check him out, Alice.

697
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna be okay, he's gonna show one or two things.

698
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Speaker 1: I mean, from start to finish, he was really impressive.

699
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Speaker 1: You know what I liked about him, among other things,

700
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Speaker 1: is that he came from Georgia and grow Georgia, got

701
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: right out of Georgia, went right up to Clemson. Yeah,

702
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a different world. And we got to

703
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: get to a break here because we've talked too much

704
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: about that game. But I just want to get your

705
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Speaker 1: thoughts on this. We live in an area and God

706
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: bless that you be Bowls a great football season, but uh,

707
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: in Syracuse, down the road, but this is not a

708
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: hotbed of college football around here. And when you see

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00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: those programs, those top flight programs, those SEC programs, some

710
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: of the ACC even Big ten and out West, when

711
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: you see them at the full flower of their power

712
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: like last night, it's impressive. And not that they're going

713
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: to beat into NFL teams, but the fan following they have,

714
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: the h the business like approach of the program, the

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Speaker 1: money generated by these programs, it's it blows me away

716
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Speaker 1: sometimes because we don't we don't see that here. We

717
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: don't get anything close to I mean Syracuse in the ACC. Okay,

718
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: but they're not making money like Clemson or some of

719
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Speaker 1: those other ACC schools. Somebody's making it. It's not it's

720
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: not it's not the players in this case, you know,

721
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: and it's not thirty two owners, right, But there's money

722
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: to be made there. The NCAA's making at the colleges

723
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: is making the conferences are making it. And you can

724
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: go on and on about the debate about where the

725
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: players should be paid and if they are, if they're not.

726
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: But the sensible fact of the matter is you're right.

727
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: It isn't. It's a spectacle that it's becoming. It's become

728
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: a national holiday, I mean, the national the football playoff.

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00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 1: All right, we got a break. We've spent thirty three

730
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Speaker 1: minutes of the show talking about something we never discussed before. Man,

731
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: we got a list of stuff to talk about that

732
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: wasn't well a little bit was. We got a little

733
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Speaker 1: time left about two and a half hours ago. We're breaking.

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Speaker 1: We're coming back. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

735
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Speaker 1: John Murphy was Steve Tasker. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

736
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Speaker 1: We should start the show. We have started. We got

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00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: we have, we were and we we're both sprinting back

738
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Speaker 1: into the studio. Well, you get a shot of the

739
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: forlorn empty stadium. One thing, did you work outside? You

740
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: can't tell from the it'scoring. It's it's a it's a

741
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 1: down point. It looks like April. In the last segment

742
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: we were talking about the National Championship game, it was thundering,

743
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: which I it's January. We get the thunder in January, right,

744
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: I know. Hey, a couple of things. Um, one more

745
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: thing about the college football National Championship game last night,

746
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: and a lot of Bills fans are talking about this

747
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: or at least making note of this. Steam Are you

748
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: ready for this? Nick Saban's team lost last night by

749
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: twenty eight points. Right, I know where you're going with this.

750
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: So last time a Nick Saban team lost the game

751
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: by fourteen or more points was, let me say it, yes,

752
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, by twenty one to nothing score

753
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: lost to the Buffalo Bills under the head coach of

754
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, who was beaten with three touchdown passes from

755
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: JP Lossman December seventeenth, two thousand and six. That was

756
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: the last time a Nick Saban coach team lost by

757
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: fourteen plus points. It was one of he was coach

758
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins. Did be Nick Saban? Twenty One's amazing? Yeah?

759
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: It is amazing. And he's had he's had a fantastic run.

760
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: Uh in college as well. Hey there you are. You're

761
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: at the game that was back in the back in

762
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: Michael Rocket, who's number three for Was that? Uh? Was

763
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: that the finishing? Yeah? There you go. There's a different guy,

764
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: all right, So yeah, that notable. Anyway. I don't think

765
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: Saban's going anywhere because he left after that. U left

766
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: the Dolphins right after that after saying he would not leave,

767
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: but he did. That's that's Nick Saban's a smart move. Yeah,

768
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: he's doing Okay. A couple of notes. Kyle Williams this

769
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: came out late yesterday, officially named to the Pro Bowl.

770
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: He replaced Titans defensive tackle Jurrell Casey who's injured. So

771
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: it's the six Pro Bowl selection for Kyle Williams. Knight's

772
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: bill to be selected to six or more Pro bowls. Um.

773
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: He's the Bills all time leader in games played among

774
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: defensive tackles one hundred eighty three and sacks among defensive

775
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: tackles forty eight point five. And we thought We saw

776
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: his his final game a couple of weeks ago, a

777
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: couple of sundays ago here at newer Afield, we did

778
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: not he will play in the Pro Bowl. What do

779
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: you think of that? It's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome. I

780
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I'm if it was me, uh

781
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: in my last year, I'm like, oh really, you wouldn't know,

782
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: you wouldn't do it. I'd do it. But man, oh man,

783
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: you have to turn that switch back on. Now. He's

784
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: probably got to go out and, like, you know, work

785
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: out a little little stretch a little bit. Yeah, I mean,

786
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: you can't just show up and I guess maybe a

787
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: defensive tackle he could. And now today's game, I've seen it.

788
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: It's it's a glorified practice. But uh yeah, he's he

789
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 1: probably caught him a little bit off guard. Oh gosh,

790
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: you know, he probably asked his flip a switch mentally

791
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: and say, oh man, but I'll bet his wife and

792
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: kids were stoked about it because now they get ran though. Yeah,

793
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: oh yeah, So it'll be fun and it's worth the trip,

794
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: no question. They do treat you like royalty when you

795
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: go to those things. So it's pretty fun. And I'm

796
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: sure he's thrilled about doing it. Plus, hey, it goes

797
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: on his resume. It's six Pro bowls. That's a that's

798
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: a good number. There are these notes too. On this

799
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Speaker 1: Tuesday around the NFL, Bruce Arians, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

800
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: are ready to offer their head coaching job to the

801
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: former Cardinals coach now the NFL on CBS broadcaster. The

802
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: interest is mutual, negotiations likely to begin soon. According to

803
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,959
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport, Bruce Arians looks like he's headed to Tampa Bay.

804
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: He's a quarterback guy, and he's got a talented thrower

805
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: to work with down there. But I don't know would

806
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: you want to dive in and I don't know how,

807
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how attractive it is. I don't know.

808
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: Jamis Wilson's got some issues that are keeping that are

809
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: keeping him from being a good quarterback. I'm talking about

810
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: a good quarterback, not a great quarterback. He is. He

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00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: turns it over, he can't stay on the field. He's

812
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: got issues. He's got leadership issues. He's got maturity issues

813
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: that you knew coming out of college. They have not

814
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: gotten better now. Certainly, Bruce Arians probably thinks he can

815
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: push the right buttons, and he certainly has a track record.

816
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: The players that have played for him swear by him.

817
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: They love him. The guys in Arizona loved him to

818
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 1: a man. But you know, he left coaching for a reason,

819
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: and he's gonna he's gonna go down there and jump

820
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: back into that meat grinder that is a head coaching

821
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: job in the NFL. We'll see if, if, if he

822
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Speaker 1: does it. One of the reasons he left was his

823
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: own health right when he left, and I read somewhere

824
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 1: where the Bucks are going to require a comprehensive physical

825
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: exam to make sure that he's healthy and ready to

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Speaker 1: go if he comes back as their head coach. Sounds

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Speaker 1: like they're ready to offer him. Green Bay Packers ready

828
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: to hire Matt Lafleur. I think I've seen where they've

829
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: agreed to a four year deal. Matt Lafleur is going

830
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Speaker 1: to be Green Bay's new head coach. Thirty nine years old.

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Speaker 1: He worked with Jared Goff in Los Angeles, Matt Ryan

832
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Speaker 1: and Atlanta. He's another quarterback whisperer type. That's I guess

833
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: what you're looking for if you're looking for NFL is

834
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: either a quarterback whisper or a defensive guru, right, I

835
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,720
Speaker 1: mean a defensive guys. Most teams now with the success

836
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Speaker 1: that Sean McVay has had, and anybody who is you know,

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Speaker 1: I had a run in with guys like that, like

838
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Speaker 1: with a Kyle Shanahan and guys like that around the

839
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Speaker 1: league who have worked with quarterbacks, like Frank Reich, who's

840
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Speaker 1: worked with a bunch of really good quarterbacks. Those guys

841
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: are in high demand and and we'll see it. I

842
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: don't know how much Matt Lafleur helped the coaching situation

843
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 1: in Tennessee this past year, but certainly his resume speaks

844
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: for itself, and he was one of the hot names

845
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: out there. Anybody think thirty nine is too young to

846
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 1: be an NFL head coach? I don't, Okay, I don't

847
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: I'd listen to that argument. I don't know if I

848
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: think it's hard and fast, but I guess i'd just

849
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: like my coach with a little more experience than a

850
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: guy who maybe has been a head coach somewhere before.

851
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if I buy that or not. If

852
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: he's if he's failed someplace that I mean, I get it.

853
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 1: You learn a lot from failure and it's not something

854
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: to fear if you're hiring a guy. But I think

855
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in generalities of saying, Hey, we need

856
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: we need a defensive head coach, we need an offensive

857
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: head coach, we need a quarterback head coach, we need

858
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: we need a leader. You need a guy who can

859
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: lead that team and that franchise and the right path

860
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: from where it is now to where you want to get.

861
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: And if you feel it, he's the right guy. I

862
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: don't care if he was a quality control guy in

863
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: the CFL. Hire him and support him until he figures

864
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,479
Speaker 1: it out. That's I go back to that all the time.

865
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: The Dan Rooney, the late Dan Rooney, before he went

866
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: to be the ambassador to Ireland for the US, it

867
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: was still he still saw him out, and he still

868
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: came around the team, and we had them for a

869
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: couple of times. I had an opportunity to talk with

870
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: him on a handful of occasions, and one of them

871
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: I asked him, I'd probably have related this story to

872
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: you before, and you're probably tired of hearing it, but

873
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: I asked him, how do you have a track record

874
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: like you have? How did you have Chuck Nole for

875
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: twenty six years and won four Super Bowls. You had

876
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: Bill Cowery, he went to two Super Bowls and won

877
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: one of them. Then you got Mike Tomlin and you've

878
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: got two super bowls with him. Ill, how do you

879
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: find head coaches that you can stick with and have

880
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: success with? And he goes Listen, you hire the smartest

881
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: guy you can find, and then you support him until

882
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: he figures it out. That's what you're looking at in

883
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: this head coaching, these head coaching searches. And that's why

884
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: I don't get I don't get caught up in the

885
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: former head coach guys, the defensive guys, the quarterback whisperer guys,

886
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: the old guys or the young guys. You find the

887
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: right guy who's smart enough to do it, and you

888
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: support him until he figures it out. And you and you,

889
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: that's it. And that's why a guy like in Pittsburgh,

890
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 1: Bill Kauer, if you remember that, remember Tom Donahoe is

891
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: part of that power structure down there, and there was

892
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: a power struggle down there, and they supported the coach,

893
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,479
Speaker 1: not the executive, because the coach is the one who

894
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: says what goes on between the lines. They supported him

895
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: and he's the guy who put him on this It

896
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: was not easy for the regard and a lot of

897
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: people still do. Yeah, and I do so even though

898
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: he didn't, you know, it couldn't make it work here

899
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. There's no doubt that they have their the

900
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: way they do business in Pittsburgh, and it has proven

901
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: to be extremely successful over the course of time. So

902
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 1: that's always been my mantra. You hire the smartest guy

903
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: you can find, and you support him until he figures

904
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: it out. And that means going through some rough years.

905
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: That means going through some stuff where you're head coach,

906
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: young or old or inexperienced or whatever, learn some really

907
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: hard lessons when you know he makes a dumb call

908
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 1: on the fourth down, or he doesn't take a time

909
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: out when he's supposed to, or he doesn't manage this well,

910
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 1: or he has a problem in the locker room one year.

911
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: He let him fight through it and know that he's

912
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: got security and he's going to be able to fix it. Yeah,

913
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: and you stick with him through all that stuff. And

914
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: some a lot of teams, most teams will not do that. Hey,

915
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: we got a couple of calls. People want to talk

916
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: about last night's game. We're gonna take a break here

917
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: and do that. I want to get you going on

918
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll today too, and it's something that's pretty basic,

919
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: really basic. What do you think we're laying the foundation

920
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: for future things? Are the Buffalo Bills headed in the

921
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: right direction? Let me repeat that. Are the Buffalo Bills

922
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: headed in the right direction? There's only a couple of

923
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,439
Speaker 1: and what are the choices? The choices as you're big

924
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: on choice, not yes, no question. It's Twitter poll. It's

925
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 1: on One Goes Live. You can vote on One Goes Live.

926
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: Are the Buffalo Bills headed in the right direction? Yes,

927
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: because they're gonna make the playoffs in twenty nineteen. Yes,

928
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: but patience is required. It might not be twenty nineteen

929
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: and no. So right now, early on here, fifty two percent,

930
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: just over half say yes, playoffs in twenty nineteen. Forty

931
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: three percent say yes, but patience is required, and only

932
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: five percent say no. That's what the Twitter pole looks

933
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: like right now. So if you're keepment scoring home, ninety

934
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: five percent of our respondents think the Buffalo Bills are

935
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: headed in the right direction. I'm a little surprised by that,

936
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that and get your phone calls

937
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: on that, plus more talk about if you'd like about

938
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: the championship game last night, whatever's on your agenda. We'll

939
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,959
Speaker 1: take a break, we'll come back with more. One Does

940
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

941
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: Welcome back, One Does Live from One Does Drive, John

942
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: Murphy's team Tasker. Um, we have a good discussion. I

943
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: thought a good discussion about the championship game last night.

944
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: A couple of callers want to weigh in on that

945
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: right now, Frank and cheek twaga high Frank ahead, you're

946
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: on the air. Get you guys covered that in great details.

947
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: So I'm going to take a turn here. Um, I

948
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: want to ask the couple of special team's questions. Okay, Um,

949
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: the this ice the kicker thing where the coach calls

950
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: time out with a second left in the clock and

951
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: the guy texts the field goal. Anyway, I don't know

952
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: how you guys feel about it. This seems not right

953
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: to me. Something about that. I don't like you that

954
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: like not would you mean legally or a lot of

955
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: sports side ethically? Yeah, yeah, hip, like you know, it's

956
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: just seems you're right. I don't think well that I

957
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: think the referee should be able to be standing there,

958
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: like looking over to the sideline and maybe you blow

959
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: with a ray aware of if somebody warningly don't think

960
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: take it takes away a game. I think I think

961
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: it's interesting you say that. I'd never really thought about

962
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: it being unsportsmanlike. Um, there is no question. It's it's

963
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: it's the only time in the in the sport where

964
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: you can you kind of do that to get in

965
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: somebody's head, right, I mean, it's part of the game.

966
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: It is a little bit. I don't have a problem

967
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: doing it. It's the only time in football, and there

968
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 1: may be some other times in other sports like taking

969
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 1: a time out before free throws and humping basketball, uh

970
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. Taking a time out

971
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: in hockey if to kill a penalty to get some rest.

972
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: But in football, it is the only time the bench

973
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: can't affect what's going on for that real you know

974
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: what I mean. They can take a time out to

975
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: get keep from getting to delay a panel, delay a

976
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: game penalty, that kind of thing. But as far as

977
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: the emotion of the game, I think that's the one

978
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,479
Speaker 1: spot where you're right. I mean, it is a little

979
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: bit of a. I don't have a problem with it.

980
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: I think it's okay. But what about can I just

981
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: I think for kickers, because it is a thing. I

982
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: think kickers need to be prepared for it. We don't

983
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: have to start protecting kickers, right got they gotta be

984
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: ready for that. And you know, it's it's like a

985
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: coach calling a time out because he doesn't like the

986
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 1: pace of the game or or the way that team's

987
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: running too many plays quick. They got to slow him

988
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: down the way teams used to do against your no

989
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,919
Speaker 1: huddle when you played. We need to slow this thing down.

990
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: We need to stop and take a breath. What's the

991
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 1: difference between trying to ice a kicker and trying to

992
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: change the pace of the game. I don't think there's

993
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: any and it's not difference, and it's a problem I

994
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 1: don't have. I don't either. I don't have a problem

995
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: with it, but I see what it is valuable and

996
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: it is, but no question, I've also had kickers. It's

997
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: part of it should be part of their preparation. They've

998
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: got to be ready for that. And I think that's

999
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: you know, and whether he's going to do it or not,

1000
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 1: it's also a question where he's over there at the

1001
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: the official and I've seen head coaches, you know, they

1002
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: try and do their best to get the kicker to

1003
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,959
Speaker 1: look at him to think he's gonna call the time out,

1004
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: and then doesn't call the time out. Yeah. Right, So

1005
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that either. So it is something.

1006
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: It's the one spot in the game where that does

1007
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: happen in football. But you know that, you know you're

1008
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,439
Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time getting anybody to feel bad

1009
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: for iceing a kicker. Here was one more call here,

1010
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: Kevin and Hamburg. Kevin, go ahead, you're on the air.

1011
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: How you doing okay? Um? One guy watching the game

1012
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: last night and the one guy thing you should watch

1013
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,479
Speaker 1: out for the Bills and then to see the Bills

1014
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 1: get him. Is he's the beast? Is Christian Wilkins from Clemson.

1015
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: He was he has an event. You don't have a

1016
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: typical defensive lineman number and if he was like forty

1017
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: five rights forty two, he might have been forty two

1018
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: four of a fullback number. Yeah, he was really good,

1019
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: really good. He's awesome. He's a beast. He looks like

1020
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: he's be something that would be awesome to maybe feel

1021
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: Kyle's late spot. I mean, he was like a man man.

1022
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: He was like something, Yeah, there's so many good players

1023
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: there wasn't there's a lot of good players. He might

1024
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: have a hard time getting him. I don't know what

1025
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: kind of player he is, or what he's what kind

1026
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: of season he put together, but certainly he dominated that

1027
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: game last night or was a big part of it

1028
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: and they were. Wasn't he the guy too that came

1029
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: back for his senior season? So for that just that

1030
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: game and they made it back and he and everything

1031
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: happened exactly like he envisioned it did when he when

1032
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: he returned to Clemson for a senior year. So good

1033
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: for him, But you're right. You have to question though too.

1034
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be cynical, but is that

1035
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: kid gonna be as motivated to play in Buffalo as

1036
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: a rookie defensive lineman as he was to play in

1037
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: the National championship for Clemson South Carolina. I don't know.

1038
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he would be, maybe he's that

1039
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: kind of guy, but that's a big question. And I

1040
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: don't know if he's He may be a top pick

1041
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: in the draft, so he may not be a chance

1042
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: to get him, so he may played that good last night.

1043
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: So we got a break here. We got Lorenzo Alexander

1044
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: standybody to join us for the next hour. He's standing

1045
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: by to walk into the studio. Come on back for that.

1046
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: One Does Life, presented by Callida Hell from One Bill's Drive.

1047
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: And this is Buffalo Bills Radio Bills Radio Network. Sports

1048
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: Day update comes from One Bill's Drive. Kyle Williams officially

1049
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: named to the Pro Bowl late yesterday. He replaces Titans

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00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Jerale Casey, who was injured. It's the six

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl selection of kyl William's career, ninth Bill to

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00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: be selected to six or more Pro Bowls. Coaching news

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00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: around the NFL. The Green Bay Packers ready to hire

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00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: Titans offensive coordinator Matt Lafleur as their head coach. Lafleur

1055
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: spent this past season as Titans offensive coordinator. Before that,

1056
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: worked under Sean McVay for the Los Angeles Rams. Also

1057
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: worked under Kyle Shanahan with the Atlanta Falcons. The Tampa

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00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers ready to offer their head coaching vacancy to

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00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians, a former Arizona Cardinals coach. They've had a

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00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: couple of meetings. Negotiations scheduled to beginning soon. Cliff Kingsbury

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00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: is going to interview with the Arizona Cardinals today, interviewing

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00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: the highly sought after assistant for their vacant head coaching position.

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00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: Kingsbury met yesterday with the New York Jets. Now he's

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00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: a chance to impress the Arizona Cardinals. USC hired Kingsbury

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00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: as their offensive coordinator in early December. He's still employed

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00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: by the school, according to officials. Days after parting with

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00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: outside linebacking coach Joey Porter, the Pittsburgh Steelers continue to

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00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: shake things up. The Steelers have released running backs coach

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00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: James Saxon. He will not return for the twenty nineteen season. Elsewhere,

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00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is going to miss another game. The Steelers

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00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: receiver will not play in the Pro Bowl. End of

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00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: his season, sparked train converse trade conversation after missing the

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00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: Steelers season finale against Cincinnati. He'll be replaced in the

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00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl by his teammate Juju Smith Schuster. Clemson scored

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00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: it's a second national college football title in three seasons

1076
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: last night with a dominant forty four sixteen win over Alabama.

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00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: Led by true freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence, at Tiger scored

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00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,320
Speaker 1: thirty unanswered points on Alabama last night. Hockey Tonight, the

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00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers face off against the New Jersey Devils at

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00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: Keybank Center, seven o'clock puck drop. Zeen Gis Gurgenson returned

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00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 1: to practice yesterday. Jack Ico will not play in that

1082
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: game tonight, seven o'clock face off at Keybank Center. That's

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00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker

1084
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: here at One Bill's Drive with One Bills Live. I

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00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: totally forgot about the Lowdown out about the Lowdown music. Well,

1086
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: it's not Friday, which throws us off a little bit.

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00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 1: Right Tuesday, which is Friday, we've got the Lorenzo Alexander

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00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 1: with the Lowdown in studio with its Lorenzo Happy New Year.

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00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: Good to see him New Year as well. So the

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00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: season ended every week? No, No, we didn't know that

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00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: last Friday before Miami. Nice game too, by the way, Yeah,

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00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: I appreciate it was fun to be out there. Obviously

1093
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 1: to win that game. The way we did to send

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00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: Kyle off was awesome for us. How much of a

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00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: factor was that being Kyle's last game, you think in

1096
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: getting that your team ready to play, I mean I

1097
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: think probably. I mean we were going to be prepared regardless,

1098
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: but I think, um, it adds obviously emotion to the game.

1099
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: Anytime you have one of your leaders and a guy

1100
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,919
Speaker 1: like Kyle, a teammate like he is, what he means

1101
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: to this organization, guys naturally gonna get up even more

1102
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 1: so for the game. I know it impacted me and

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00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: several of my teammates. So I know everybody pretty much,

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00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: including the fan base, you know, showed up and showed

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00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: out for him as we sent him off into his

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00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: u next chapter in his life. Ye sent him off

1107
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: for the Pro Bowl. Yeah, yeah, I know. I know.

1108
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go down there and check him out while

1109
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: he's down there too, So you color pretty close. Did

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00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 1: he tell you before? He let everybody know that Friday

1111
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: before the Dolphins Candid, Um, Yeah, I knew before the

1112
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: rest of the guys. I had a sense kind of

1113
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: throughout the season this was going to be his last

1114
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 1: season as well. Um just had prior conversations obviously this

1115
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: was this would have been like the third time of

1116
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: trying to convince him to come back his house was done.

1117
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of you know, outside factors that

1118
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: people wouldn't know unless you're you know, you kind of

1119
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: around him. And uh so I was kind of, you know,

1120
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: had braced myself for. But until you go through it,

1121
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 1: you know, a teammate, you know, announcing it, you still

1122
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: get emotional over it. Um And I was emotional Friday,

1123
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: you know, Sunday for the game. So very happy for him,

1124
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: but obviously gonna be sad for him leaving his locker room. Yeah,

1125
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about that game after the Dolphins win.

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00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: It was almost a perfect send off, wasn't that The

1127
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: way the Bills played, the way you won the game,

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00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: the way Kyle contributed, the way the fans reacted it

1129
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: was it was great. I mean, you know, went out there,

1130
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: played a physical game. Obviously we jumped out, then they

1131
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: came back, and then we rose to the challenge and

1132
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,280
Speaker 1: then kind of ran away with the game. And obviously

1133
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: the crowd out there, him making that lap around the

1134
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: whole stadium, just people coming out and celebrating him. I mean,

1135
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: here's billboards out there now, you know, thanking Kyle. So

1136
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: it just shows you how this city embraces and I

1137
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: think in Kyle's case, you know, grit and he always

1138
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: talks about this, this this city being um probably unique

1139
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: in that way where a lot of people celebrate talent,

1140
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: this city probably celebrates grit as much as talent. And

1141
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: I think Kyle really he's that in with his career

1142
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: in the way he produces out there the field. So

1143
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: when in the interim since the season ended and you

1144
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: said goodbye to Kyle, you had the big win to

1145
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 1: end the season and a lot of optimism around the building,

1146
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: around the team, focused on the team and the development,

1147
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: how great the defense played this year? Do you have

1148
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: what was your if you look back across and I

1149
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: know we've been talking about Kyle and aside from you know,

1150
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,240
Speaker 1: saying goodbye to a close friend and a great teammate

1151
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: and one of those guys was there, When you look

1152
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 1: back at this season, what are what are you going

1153
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: to remember about it? I mean, what's this? Because you've

1154
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: got a lot of them, it's like great two years

1155
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: You'll think if you'll you'll remember something about this season

1156
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: realized twenty Yeah, yeah, you know obviously Kyle obviously the

1157
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: fight that happened in Jacksonville Jaguars game and Jay reminded

1158
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 1: you of that that one w did you see there?

1159
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: When I was in the middle of it trying to

1160
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: get Leonard Fournette off of a shack and Shack had

1161
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 1: him in his tight show hold. I'm like trying to

1162
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: pull him, like why can't Gotti the may swing at nobody?

1163
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: Nobody came from me and I had my uly. Even

1164
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: if you get hit, you can't really feed, you know

1165
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like, nobody hit me and my

1166
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: back was turned to it and I was actually kind

1167
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: of on top of Leonard trying to pull him off,

1168
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: and I was surprised nobody. That's what I was worried about. Well, yeah,

1169
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: somebody thinks you're yeah, you know, I'm trying. You're trying

1170
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:20,879
Speaker 1: to pull Leonard off and they're trying to pull you off,

1171
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: pull off Leonard. And then somebody comes in site and

1172
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: site swipes them and yeah, yeah, nobody tells me. So

1173
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, cool man, they respect the five seven.

1174
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Maybe he respect the three five. I

1175
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: don't know. It was it was yeah, and not get

1176
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,959
Speaker 1: him off. So that was a good memory the fight, Yeah,

1177
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 1: like or remember remember what will you remember? Um? The missopportunities. Um,

1178
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: you know, I think the Houston game was big in

1179
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,399
Speaker 1: my mind. Um, I think that really kind of set

1180
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: the restaur trajectory of that season. Josh gets hurt, we

1181
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 1: we don't recover fumble that could have ended the game,

1182
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 1: and from there they win. They go on to win

1183
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 1: I think eight or nine games straight and we're going

1184
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: to kind of continue to kind of struggle. That's one

1185
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: of the big ones that kind of jump out. And

1186
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:12,760
Speaker 1: then a couple of other games, I mean, the Jets

1187
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: game here, the Miami game. You know, that's an easy

1188
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: shift as far as you have some additional wins, so

1189
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: maybe you can squeak out another one and get back

1190
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Um what else was good? I mean,

1191
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: I really love the way Tremaine being in that locker

1192
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: room watching his growth. I will remember that him and

1193
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: Josh really watching that growth of that rookie class because

1194
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: I think those guys are going to be staples of

1195
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: this organization for a long time. Do you see when

1196
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: you look at guys like Josh and Tremaine at this

1197
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: point you're here, I know you've got more football to play,

1198
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: but you just kind of look at it. I remember

1199
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: thinking this when these young guys come in and think

1200
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna you could be so good, and you don't

1201
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: even know what you don't know yet, you know, you

1202
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: don't even know how good you're gonna be yet. And

1203
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: so you look at them, you see a lot of

1204
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: yourself in them, where you and your think back to

1205
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: where you were at the beginning, I mean, think about

1206
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: where you were, you were kind of a even a

1207
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: different human being, right, Yeah, It's it's amazing to think

1208
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: about those young guys when you look at them in

1209
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: the locker room and how much that they've come along

1210
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:08,919
Speaker 1: in the environment they're in now, right, and they still

1211
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: have so much growth to go and they have that ability.

1212
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited for those young men, those in particular,

1213
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: and I think just our football team in general, because

1214
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: we do have a core of young guys that really

1215
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: developed this last season. That's probably another memory I'll have,

1216
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: just the growth, because I really think this is a

1217
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: pivotal This last year was a pivotal season as far

1218
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: as this organization going to where it wanted to go. Obviously,

1219
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs the first year, kind of got

1220
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: that off our back and kind of reset it in

1221
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: a way, and now you have a nucleus of young

1222
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: guys that is really going to carry this organization for

1223
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: the next you know, four or five years. We have

1224
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: a great window right now to really do something special.

1225
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: Murph and I were talking during the season. We were

1226
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: sitting here and we the fact that they got through

1227
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: not it was a six and ten season and nothing

1228
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: to write home about it, right, But during the midst

1229
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: of that six and ten season, you played four quarterbacks

1230
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: and it got really dark and around the Chicago Indianapolis

1231
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: games where you were starting another guy off the street

1232
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: and and you were gonna start he was. He was

1233
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: there for two weeks before his first start, he started

1234
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: a second when he couldn't finish his second when you

1235
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: gotta to get another guy off the street. I mean

1236
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: it was bad. Yeah, and yet and I think that's

1237
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: the one thing that really I think tested the organization

1238
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: right there. That was the moment when he said, listen,

1239
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna get through this, and we gotta get through it.

1240
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: And he came back, and you know, Matt Barkley has

1241
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: the game he does against the Jets, and then it's

1242
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: like from that point on, I mean, you were a rocket.

1243
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: I mean it was right. But it all goes back

1244
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: to I think the you know, the culture that we're

1245
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: building here. Guys didn't start pointing finger because the way

1246
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: the season was going, it could easily have been a

1247
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 1: just pushed the red button and blew up and guys

1248
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: pointing and giving up and not playing hard. And that's

1249
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: one thing, you know, I you know, I know a

1250
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: lot of coaches that are around the league now, So

1251
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk to him before the game, like, man,

1252
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: you guys are out here playing hard, you know, And

1253
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: that's what you want to hear year, especially when you

1254
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: know nothing is on the line as far as playoffs

1255
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 1: or you know, anything that you're gonna be able to

1256
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: do as far as postseason. You know, how are you

1257
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: going out there and competing? And that's really the telltale

1258
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 1: sign of a team that's on the cusp of doing

1259
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: something special, especially when you are so loaded on the

1260
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: younger side of guys who are going to play pivotal

1261
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: roles with Bills linebacker and Lorenzo Alexander. If you have

1262
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 1: a question for Zonda, phone lines are open eight O

1263
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: three fifty and twelve three one eight eight eight five

1264
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty last week there and Joe, Steve

1265
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: and I did one the show about kind of giving

1266
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 1: out awards end of the season awards. Can we get

1267
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: your thoughts on some of these most valuable player on

1268
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: the Bills offense, Josh Allen, That's what we said. Yeah, man,

1269
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: that's the easy one. Rookie of the year. Yeah you

1270
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: want to say, I'm yeah he I mean, obviously he

1271
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: would be the Rookie of the Year too, But I'm

1272
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: gonna say Robert Foster, he kind of came out of nowhere,

1273
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: undrafted guy, you know, got cut brought back. I think

1274
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: that really shifted his perspective of what it meant to

1275
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: be an NFL player, and he exploded the last you

1276
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: know what, six or seven games, just kind of came

1277
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. So almost end up leading our team

1278
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: and receiving with six or seven games under this belt.

1279
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say he's a Rookie of the year. Defense,

1280
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: I am going to go with do I have to

1281
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: just pick one or kind of pick a tandem. I

1282
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: like our safeties, you know, the Payer and Micael high

1283
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: back there. Obviously we led the league I think in

1284
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: um pass defense this year, and they really allow us

1285
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 1: up front, uh to get after the quarterback as well

1286
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: as far as making quarterbacks hitch what they do a

1287
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: great job of the skies and coming down tackling. Um.

1288
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: You know, obviously they're both ball hawks. I know Michael

1289
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: probably didn't have the interceptions nor Jordan did, but I

1290
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: think quarterbacks didn't want to test them based on the

1291
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: first year they had this year, there are a lot

1292
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 1: of candidates on defense. I picked player. I think I

1293
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: picked Jerry. Yeah, Jerry, Yeah. I mean that's another a

1294
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: bunch of tackles for loss and right, and he had

1295
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: a ton of hurries and I'm you know, just talking

1296
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: to Jerry's like, man, what can we do? Jerry? Sometimes

1297
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 1: I think he tries to make a play big something.

1298
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: The sack to dude, that's what you know. Sack is

1299
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: getting on the ground man and hit. And his sack numbers,

1300
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: I mean could have easily been double digits because he

1301
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 1: missed you know, four or five. Yeah, I mean he

1302
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: could have been double digits easy. I mean with the

1303
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 1: pressures and the opportunities that he got. There were a

1304
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: lot of support for you as the defensive MVP, right

1305
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: from fans people calling and yeah, our big argument for

1306
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,439
Speaker 1: you was that there were times when you weren't playing

1307
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: that many snaps, but man, where you were there, you

1308
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: were in there. High percentage of snaps were impact plays, right,

1309
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: And that's and that's the key. When you get your

1310
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,439
Speaker 1: opportunities going out there, you got to be impactful as

1311
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: far as you know, are you just out there or

1312
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: you out there you know, moving around making some place?

1313
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: And what else do we have? I think there was

1314
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: the comeback player of the year, come Back player of

1315
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: the year anyway you want to because a rookie of

1316
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: the year would be Tremaine right out. Yeah, and then

1317
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: he said comeback player of the year, Yeah, anyway I

1318
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: wanted to find. Mine was Robert Foster. He got cut with.

1319
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: I didn't know we had that that uh category, let

1320
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: you know that because we we kind of said you

1321
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: can do it whatever you want. And there was a

1322
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 1: ton of guy is that you know, overcame from things

1323
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: during season as well. So yeah, I would definitely, he

1324
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: definitely would be up there. I might even say, yeah, yeah,

1325
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: I like Robert Foster. Who did I have, Steve? I

1326
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: don't remember comeback play. I can't remember. It was a

1327
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 1: good It's all so important. I didn't etch it into

1328
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: my guy, yeah, lawson. Oh yeah, this guy's old regime.

1329
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be around long boom. Yeah, Shot grows

1330
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: on you. It's hard once you get to meet him

1331
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: and know him. He's a little silly, still growing to mature.

1332
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 1: But he definitely took the step in the right direction.

1333
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: And um, I really love his his passion and want

1334
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 1: to of getting better and he's going to continue to

1335
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 1: get better and continue to grow. He seemed to take

1336
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: a big step forward. We did a lot of stories

1337
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:42,959
Speaker 1: and we talked about a lot on the show during

1338
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 1: the seat, during the preseason and training camp, where he

1339
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: openly admitted that listen, I'm I'm a different guy there.

1340
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be different this year. I'm gonna I worked

1341
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: harder in the offseason and and I've always loved guys

1342
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: who have taken ownership right, and that's this is the

1343
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 1: first time I've heard him do it, you know, And

1344
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: and it was and it's key, key year for him too.

1345
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 1: I mean to do it at this point in his

1346
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: career when you know it's gonna be going into his

1347
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: fourth year and it's a good thing. Got an option

1348
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 1: coming up to right, Yeah, So I mean he did

1349
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: a great job, and he's gonna team to get better.

1350
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: And I know this offseason he's he's gonna be down

1351
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: to Arizona, so we'll get a chance to kind of

1352
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 1: hang out and continue to work together as well. All Right,

1353
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 1: So one of the things I was going to ask

1354
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: you about now is we kind of gave our postseason.

1355
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 1: Can I get one more? Lorenzo um your year was you?

1356
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: You've You've covered a lot of territories career, both geographically

1357
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 1: and right formation wise, a situation wise. Yeah, And I

1358
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,919
Speaker 1: wonder was it different for you because the different roles

1359
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: you were asked to play. I don't know if you've

1360
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: ever gone through that. I know you were an offensive lineman,

1361
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: you were a defensive tackle. I've done everything the season.

1362
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I've done something similar, not not to the

1363
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: extent or at the depths I mean, but offense I

1364
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: would play, I had to do d tackle, defensive end,

1365
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: and then go and play some guard and some tight end.

1366
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: I've done some stuff where I was all over the

1367
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: place in the same season, even within the game. So

1368
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: that's become become my niche in a sense, being a

1369
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: versus tell player. Yeah, I did it again this year.

1370
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 1: You know, playing Obviously I started up started in a

1371
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: couple of different spots, right, Yeah, So obviously when Matt

1372
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 1: went down, started that wheel linebacker. Um also could play

1373
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: some Mike plays wheel linebacker in Bays defense. That's where

1374
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 1: I started, ask my natural position. Then playing the three

1375
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,479
Speaker 1: technique when we have our four rushers on the field

1376
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: on third down. Then also rotating on a defensive end

1377
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: with Um Shack and Trent on the left side. That

1378
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: three technique, when they stuck you in there, changed some things, right.

1379
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 1: You guys got a real boost from that earlier in

1380
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 1: the season when they stuck you in there. And I

1381
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: looked like Jerry Hughes was like saying, hey, I want

1382
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: I want you know, I want Trent, I want Low

1383
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: and you know, and he kind of called it, right, yeah,

1384
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about. And then when you

1385
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: put me out there. And then when we when Matt

1386
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: went out the game, I was on third down, They'll

1387
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: keep me in and then as he rushing, as he dropping,

1388
01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: and so we were able to create a lot of

1389
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 1: confusion because I'm a spin I'm a joker, and they

1390
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: don't quite know what I'm going to do. And so

1391
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: I think as the future moves along, hopefully I'm back here,

1392
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: we can continue to build off those type of packages

1393
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: to where you don't know what I'm gonna do and

1394
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 1: it just creates, you know, um, confusion on the quarterback

1395
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 1: and a lot of time that's how Treman got his

1396
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: sack because they slid it to me, He's free or

1397
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, shack, they slid it to me and he's

1398
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 1: he's free. So it opens it up for everybody, not

1399
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: just myself. Now, what about the future, if you had

1400
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: any discussions yet about that, Yeah, yeah, I mean we're in,

1401
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:34,120
Speaker 1: uh in conversations obviously. Um. I think there's excitement on

1402
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: both sides as far as me being back and being

1403
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 1: a Buffalo being be able to retire here. Um. But

1404
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: I've always mentioned this is the worst side of football.

1405
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: I hate because the business and you got to talk

1406
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: about stuff and money and all this when I just

1407
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 1: want to get out there and play. But obviously it's

1408
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 1: part of the game that you have to go through,

1409
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: and that's why you the older I've gotten, the more

1410
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: involved I've gotten. Um, I think just because I'm mature

1411
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: enough to handle the criticism of what comes out from

1412
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 1: the other side. As far as you know, we're here. No,

1413
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: we're here, and you're just also wanted to own it

1414
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: a little bit more as I've gotten older, just because

1415
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: I've been around the league, I know how it works,

1416
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: you know. I know confident on how guys are playing.

1417
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you are always

1418
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: your own best advocate because of the passion and all

1419
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: the work that you put into it. And sometimes I

1420
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: can work against you, but I try to go in

1421
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:24,560
Speaker 1: there with a clear mind and head and be as

1422
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: objective as possible. Yeah, So with if with all this

1423
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: going on in the off season, I know you said

1424
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna be in and out of town for

1425
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: over the next month and stuff, and how much time

1426
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: do you take to like decompress. Well, at this stage,

1427
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:41,439
Speaker 1: I don't It's not too much time. I mean, I'm

1428
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: I think I live a balanced life as it is anyway,

1429
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 1: So even during football season, it's not like I'm just

1430
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 1: football twenty four to seven. I make time for my wife,

1431
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: my kids, So I never feel like I'm just overwhelmed

1432
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: from being in this building. I think also being older now,

1433
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 1: because the coaches are still here and they just went

1434
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: through a season with us too, I don't. I don't

1435
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,160
Speaker 1: feel like I'm burdened by being up here or or

1436
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 1: because my family's with me, and this is what I

1437
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 1: love to do. So I took a week off, but

1438
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 1: now I'm back up. You're just getting treatment, start doing

1439
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: some light cardial stuff. But I'll be around the building.

1440
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:11,479
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the best facility I've ever been around.

1441
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take full advantage, especially when this thing is done. Um.

1442
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 1: You know this health and wellnesses that they're putting together

1443
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 1: behind us. Um, So it's great. I love being in

1444
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo and love being up here. So you took a

1445
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: little time, like a week off and stuff. Did you

1446
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 1: watch Wild Card weekend? I watched a little bit of

1447
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: it when I'm kind of in and out. I was

1448
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 1: surprised by probably really just a Texans game. I didn't.

1449
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 1: It got out of hand kind of early and they

1450
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:35,720
Speaker 1: never get back into it, kind of out of the

1451
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:39,800
Speaker 1: scored two quick touchdowns opening drives and it was fourteen nothing,

1452
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 1: And yeah, Texans weren't built to come back from exactly,

1453
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I didn't. They had to shine,

1454
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:47,839
Speaker 1: and I think I was kind of transposing that Baltimore

1455
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: Ravens on it but I was shocked at how easy

1456
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 1: the Colts made it look, especially early, right, and it

1457
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:56,840
Speaker 1: just never could recover from that that all thought early on.

1458
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 1: So that was kind of only the real weird one

1459
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: that kind of happened to me. And I thought I

1460
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:04,879
Speaker 1: didn't think the Ravens game would be as close with um,

1461
01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: who did they play Charger Chargers. I thought the Chargers

1462
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: would win that more handedly. Oh really yeah, well, like

1463
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: they were way up and I mean he had negative

1464
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 1: four yards passing going in the fourth quarters. I think

1465
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 1: it was only like six teal was only up by

1466
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 1: like they was still always in striking distes. It seemed

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01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: like in that game. Yeah, yeah, they were within two

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01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:24,600
Speaker 1: score boards, right, Yeah, Lorenzo, we want to ask you

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01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 1: about a couple of other things. We're gonna take a

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01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: break and ask you about Walter Payton Man of the Year,

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01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: and about your schedule. You got a pretty ambitious Trampel

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01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: schedule coming up, right, I'm all over the place. You're

1473
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:36,559
Speaker 1: gonna come back with, Lorenzo. If you have comments or questions,

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01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 1: give us a call. Eight oh three h five fifty

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01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: or two three one eight eight eight five fifty two

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01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: five fifty, Come on back. We got more of a

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo coming up. It is One Bill's Live from One

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01:09:45,560 --> 01:10:00,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One

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01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: Bill's Life from One Goals Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker

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01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: in studio with us Lorenzo Alexander Bills linebacker. Also the

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01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: Bill's nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year

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01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,400
Speaker 1: award that's coming up in the next couple of weeks ago.

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01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: Consider one of the most prestigious honors in the NFL,

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01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 1: The Walter Payton Man of the Year recognize as a

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01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: player for outstanding community service activities off the field as

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01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 1: well as excellence on the field. Named, of course after

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01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: the great Walter Payton. You are the Bills nominee. You've

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01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: been the nominee before, right, Yeah. This is my second year,

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: second year of the team in Bills yeeah. Yeah. I

1490
01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: was also a nominee twice in wat you gotta win.

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01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 1: This is the year I gotta Yeah, I'm older. Normally

1492
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 1: give it to guys that a little bit older, who've

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01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: been around for a while and the kind of set

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01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: a consistency of serving so they have a good chance.

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01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:47,760
Speaker 1: And this is as a panel that that awards the

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01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. But fans can

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01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: help out in ways too. I mean they can write, yeah,

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01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,680
Speaker 1: they can be the hashtag on Twitter Washington what is it,

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01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: w m O Y Challenge w P w p Y

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01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 1: Walter Peyton Man of the Year Challenge and then tag

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01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: my last name Alexander and then that counts as one vote,

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01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: similar to the high the pro bow voting works fan voting.

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01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: And it's not that you'll be more likely to be

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01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 1: the national Walter Peyton Man, but they it means more

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01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 1: to retweets, means you'll get more money for the Foundation

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01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 1: twenty five grant if you win it. Right now, that's

1507
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:24,000
Speaker 1: not from the people who are retweeting it. It's from

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01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: the Foundation Foundation and fail foundation donate that to your foundation.

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01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: So it's been really cool. My mom is really taken

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01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: to this. She's new on Twitter, so she's really leading

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01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 1: to charge as well as Bills Mafia and really Laura,

1512
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:40,920
Speaker 1: who's done a great job of just retweeting actually driving

1513
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 1: people crazy. But you know, I really appreciate all the

1514
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: support that they're giving me um and hopefully I can

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01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 1: push into the top five and maybe overcome Kyle Rudolph,

1516
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 1: but I think he's way out in front. Yeah, he's

1517
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:54,799
Speaker 1: killing it. It's Nationwide Insurance, the fourth annual Charity Challenge.

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01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: Fans can vote. You gotta vote before Sunday. Just saw

1519
01:11:57,320 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: that the Sunday is the last state of over Yes Sunday,

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01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 1: and it's it's WP. It's hashcha w p m y

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01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 1: challenged right with your name in there, Lorenzo Alexander. And

1522
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 1: the player gets the most gets twenty five thousand dollars

1523
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: to the charity of your choice, courtesy of Nationwide. But then,

1524
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 1: of course the main award is the Walter Payton Man

1525
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: of the Year Award, and there's like a million dollars. Right,

1526
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 1: then you split that with United Way. That's how they

1527
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 1: did it last year. The nominee last year will get

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01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: fifty and a unit of the Way we'll get fifty,

1529
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:25,639
Speaker 1: and then the Washington the Man of the Year gets

1530
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: a million. And then so five hundred goals to that

1531
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 1: person's foundation and another five hundred goals to the local

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01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: United Way here in Buffalo. Also in it here comes

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01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 1: a dumb question, why is that important to you? M Well, obviously,

1534
01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:40,880
Speaker 1: winning the award gives finances and resource that you can

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01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:42,599
Speaker 1: bring right here to Buffalo. And there are a lot

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01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:45,560
Speaker 1: of worthy organizations that I've worked with, you know, the

1537
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: Bell Center, obviously, South Park High School, and many others

1538
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,640
Speaker 1: that the Bill's Organization have worked with, and we've kind

1539
01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 1: of vetted and have gotten it known and built relationships

1540
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: that this money can help, so that at the end

1541
01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 1: of the day, that's what it comes down to in

1542
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: my mind, as far as provide resources program that impacts lives,

1543
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 1: kids lives, families, lives, and changes trajectories. As far as

1544
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: whether people can overcome certain things that they that were

1545
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 1: out of their control in the first place. There was

1546
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 1: another question, maybe maybe not quite as dumb. What is

1547
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: it about you that allows you to parachute into a

1548
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: city where you've never been before, right before you came

1549
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 1: here three years ago, and immediately adapt the city and

1550
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: be out there. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

1551
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 1: I think that well. I think the biggest thing is

1552
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: that I recognize that I wouldn't be successful if I

1553
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: didn't have those type of individuals in my life who

1554
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: stepped up and fielded gaps. Whether you know, obviously my

1555
01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: mom had too, but my uncle played a father role.

1556
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 1: He didn't have to. He had his own family, three

1557
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: girls and wife married and being a parent. I know

1558
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 1: how hard that is is now trying to take care

1559
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: of somebody else's child. Coaches, teachers, a ton of people

1560
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:50,560
Speaker 1: that have allowed me to stand on the show, to

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01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: to reach the pinnacle of the NFL. And so now

1562
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: that I have this platform, relationships, resources anywhere I go,

1563
01:13:57,479 --> 01:13:59,600
Speaker 1: I try to use that to impact and make a

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01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: positive of change. And it was easy here because we

1565
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 1: have a great community relations department that that's very hands

1566
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 1: on with the players and really trying to get our

1567
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: initiatives out there. So they've done a great job of

1568
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:14,640
Speaker 1: being supportive to me. And my first year that's all

1569
01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: I did was Bill's really initiatives, working with them, and

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01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: then as I got to understand and what the city

1571
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 1: was all about, what it stood for some of the issues.

1572
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 1: Then the following years when I kind of introduced aces

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01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: and kind of stepped out on my own and work

1574
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 1: with the Bell Center in South Park and Tim Delaney, Well,

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01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,439
Speaker 1: I'm glad this Walter Peyton Men of the Year Award

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01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 1: is in you're nominated for it. I'm glad you're a

1577
01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: part of the team and you've been a real asset

1578
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: to the organization from the day they got you and

1579
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:42,600
Speaker 1: when you came here. I hate to say it like this,

1580
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: you're just a special teams guy, right, You're like, you're

1581
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 1: just a special teams guy, and it comes so much

1582
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:49,759
Speaker 1: more than that. I think it's and it's a testament

1583
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: to you in your career and the kind of person

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01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: you are. And and it's also been interesting to me

1585
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: is that they brought you in and then when Sean

1586
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: McDermott came you were I mean, you were the exact

1587
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 1: he were like his guy, even without being his guy.

1588
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, you were like did you

1589
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: feel that quickly? I mean, I know it's it seems

1590
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: easy now, yeah, I mean when you once you talk

1591
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: to him on the phone. I think similar the reason

1592
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 1: why Kyle came back. You know, you talked to Sean

1593
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 1: and see what he's all about, what he represents where

1594
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 1: he comes from. You make a couple of phone calls.

1595
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: I was real tight with Thomas Davis coming up when

1596
01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:24,880
Speaker 1: we came out together down there in Carolina, and he

1597
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 1: vouched for him, love him, so it was it was

1598
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 1: really easy for me to come in here and see

1599
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: what he was all about. And really, I guess we

1600
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: just worked well together because we're kind of cut from

1601
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,599
Speaker 1: the same cloth. It's being blue collar, grinder type guys

1602
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: and overcoming whatever you throw in our face. You know

1603
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: what I like about the fact that you're in nominee

1604
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:43,800
Speaker 1: for the Waller pay Man of the Year and that

1605
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: we're talking about it today is because about a year

1606
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 1: and a half ago, fourteen months ago, you were right

1607
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: here on this show and we're talking about protests and

1608
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: the controversial nature of the protests. Yeah, here's an example

1609
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 1: of what really NFL players are all about. And the

1610
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,720
Speaker 1: steep points out of somebody tell you. You said this,

1611
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: there's so many more good guys in the NFL than Oh,

1612
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 1: it's chock full of guys like like Lorenzo. I mean,

1613
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 1: Lorenzo is a great example, but they're there's only there's

1614
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: a little less than two thousand guys in the league

1615
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 1: at any given time, nineteen hundred of them. I mean, yeah,

1616
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 1: great people. Yeah, you know you're great, really, which is

1617
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: a subset of culture. So you take two thousand regular people,

1618
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:26,720
Speaker 1: like you said about nineteen hundred gonna be awesome people

1619
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 1: that you want to hang out with, and the underhunter

1620
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 1: is like, I don't know, and a couple of them

1621
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: is like, no, no, never, you know, It's just it

1622
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:36,640
Speaker 1: just is what it is. That's the way it is.

1623
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: And it's and you really get a sense that when

1624
01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: you hang around this team and this because the guys,

1625
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: particularly in this culture that Sean and you and and

1626
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: Kylo helped to build, the guys who were known those

1627
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: really stand out, right Yeah. I mean they're like, like,

1628
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 1: you know, one of these things, it's not like the

1629
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: other right, right exactly. They stand out like a sword thumb.

1630
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 1: And I think that's why management is trying a good

1631
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:05,639
Speaker 1: job of weeding those guys out, and also leadership, especially

1632
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 1: younger guys that are still multiple that maybe have some

1633
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 1: of that attitude, trying to pull those guys along. And

1634
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 1: that's what I was really proud about this team again,

1635
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, because we did have some of those

1636
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 1: guys that's kind of on the fence, but I think

1637
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: by the end of the year they started drifting to

1638
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 1: the right side and understanding what we're all about. And

1639
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: that's part of why leadership is so important. So Sunday

1640
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 1: is the last day to vote for Walter Peyton Man

1641
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 1: of the Year on Twitter again hashtag w p M

1642
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: Y Challenge and put Lorenzo's name in there, and maybe

1643
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:32,640
Speaker 1: he gets the extra money and maybe you win the

1644
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 1: big thing, the big the big price. That'd be great

1645
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: that the super Bowl, right, yeah, we'll actually all be

1646
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 1: down there. I think they're doing a little bit different

1647
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 1: this year, the NFL. They're flying all the nominees out

1648
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowls, doing some be fence down in Atlanta,

1649
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: and then they're going I think I announced each one

1650
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 1: of us before the Super Bowl, so I'll get to

1651
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 1: be on the field and then head out because I'm

1652
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: not going to the game. You're going to the Pro

1653
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 1: Bowl week anyway. I'm going to the Pro Bowl week.

1654
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,200
Speaker 1: We may or may not, depending on, you know, just

1655
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:03,679
Speaker 1: how it is. Yeah, yeah, we'll see how we feel. Yeah, yeah,

1656
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 1: you know what'll Yeah, I get you because sometimes if

1657
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: you go right from the super Bowl of the Pro

1658
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: Bowl because it's that next week. No, it's the other way.

1659
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 1: It's the other way. It's before that between right right, Yeah,

1660
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:17,640
Speaker 1: that's but still oh yeah, it's just a lot. I

1661
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 1: mean just to go sit out there and watch. It's

1662
01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 1: more the week since I've been in it. If all

1663
01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 1: the fun happens leading up to the game, you know.

1664
01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:24,880
Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll be able to do some of those

1665
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,200
Speaker 1: things we did last time, because the NFL does a

1666
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 1: good job down there taking care of the guys in

1667
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, and so hopefully we can. But if

1668
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 1: you're not in the Pro Bowl, well I can attach

1669
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 1: to Kyle Williams, him and his family. I adopt me, Kyle,

1670
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:41,320
Speaker 1: get me in urage. Yeah, yeah, he's with him. Rather,

1671
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: it was quiet here in Buffalo these days, but around

1672
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 1: the league with eight different places looking for new head coaches,

1673
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:48,799
Speaker 1: you know some of these people. In fact, the Packers

1674
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:51,799
Speaker 1: are ready to hire a Matt Lafleur, the Titans offensive

1675
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:55,200
Speaker 1: coordinators their head coach. You knew him from your days

1676
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:57,640
Speaker 1: in Washington. Yeah, it was a young quarterbacks coach. He

1677
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 1: was there with Sean mcvaan, Kyle Shanahan. All were obviously

1678
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: assistant coaches. I think Kyle was He might have been

1679
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: the OC by then. But those guys have really grown up,

1680
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:08,920
Speaker 1: put the work in, or really getting their opportunities. You're

1681
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: starting to see this new generation of head coaches, younger guys,

1682
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 1: and Matt Lafleur is one of the good ones. Being

1683
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: around him good dude. Great guy. Was able to talk

1684
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: to him a little bit when we played Tennessee this year,

1685
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: and he'll get that organization going in the right direction. Obviously,

1686
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 1: has Aaron Rodgers, one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever

1687
01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:29,560
Speaker 1: played this game. And I think that that bond in

1688
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,280
Speaker 1: his offensive minor really helped them get back to where

1689
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 1: they usually are. Yeah. One of the things about if

1690
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: people had know Matt Lafleur, he started out with the

1691
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 1: Houston Texans as an offensive assistant, went to the Washington Redskins,

1692
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: which were you which were you got to meet coach

1693
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:45,360
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and that was the years with Robert Griffin

1694
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: the third and Kirk Cousins. Yeah. And then he went

1695
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,639
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Falcons and was as the quarterbacks coach

1696
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:55,679
Speaker 1: under Kyle Shanahan when when Matt Ryan won the MVP. Yeah,

1697
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 1: so he was that's where your head. And then he

1698
01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 1: went to Los Angeles with Sean McVeigh, who they've worked

1699
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: together in Washington. So that's where his trajectory has come

1700
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: from exactly. And he started working with these guys and

1701
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 1: they started playing pretty well under his tutor. Yeah. And

1702
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, when you're around success, around good people, you

1703
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 1: tend to get opportunities like this, and he's done a

1704
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: great job. Then he stepped on his own when your

1705
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: players step up and played different than they did when

1706
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: you get it got like Jared Golf who all the

1707
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:21,479
Speaker 1: sudden was a was exactly it was a toad and

1708
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: then turns into and you know, an MVP kind of

1709
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: has a lot to do that. That's and you get

1710
01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for that, and you deserve it.

1711
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,600
Speaker 1: Let me answer and Steven, how much of this is

1712
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:32,439
Speaker 1: flavor of the month, Like the flavor of the month

1713
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 1: is young upcoming offensive coordinator who was around quarterbacks who

1714
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,840
Speaker 1: had success. That's what the RAMS guy, that's what we need,

1715
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, obviously that's part of it. But I also

1716
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 1: think we're at the point in the NFL history where

1717
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:46,640
Speaker 1: you see a lot of the old guys that have

1718
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: been in recycle. And I think Bruce Aarons will probably

1719
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:50,200
Speaker 1: get a job, but he's not recitled to the second

1720
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 1: job that you're seeing a m just a new generation

1721
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:56,320
Speaker 1: of head coaches of the NFL starting to get their

1722
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 1: opportunities because a lot of the old guys, the names

1723
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 1: they were kind of used to hearing, they're getting old.

1724
01:21:01,479 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: I mean, and they've worn out and it's just time

1725
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:05,519
Speaker 1: for a new busch to come in. So yes, this

1726
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:07,560
Speaker 1: is going to be I think the new flavor. Just

1727
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 1: like the NFL works in the copycat type of league,

1728
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:12,680
Speaker 1: and when you seek success, you try to duplicate that.

1729
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: And that's what you're going to continue to see. That's

1730
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: why when Tony Dungee goes to Tampa Bay and they

1731
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: start running the Tampa two defense, everybody starts from Seattle

1732
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, everybody's running it. And the same

1733
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:25,000
Speaker 1: thing when you get a young hot coach who has

1734
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: worked with quarterbacks and they start doing it, everybody does

1735
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: the same thing for a while, you know, and it's

1736
01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 1: and it's crazy how all these guys normally come from

1737
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 1: like a tree, you know, write somebody's tree obviously date back.

1738
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 1: All these guys come back from Walshes. But this Shanahan

1739
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: had Kyle Sean and Matt Lafleur all on his staff,

1740
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:44,800
Speaker 1: and those guys are just kind of branching out and

1741
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:46,600
Speaker 1: doing it and doing it. And Andy Reid has this

1742
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 1: whole other tree. Yeah right, and Andy red so those

1743
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:51,840
Speaker 1: probably be the two trees. And Andy does he go

1744
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: back to Walsh or does he go back to h

1745
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 1: He was back to Walsh through Mike holmeground okay, right, yeah,

1746
01:21:57,640 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 1: so they all have you know, kind of that similar

1747
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:01,639
Speaker 1: and they all kind of go back, which I think

1748
01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: is kind of you And he read came off Mike

1749
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 1: Holmegren Staff in Green yay, right and right Homegren was

1750
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:09,400
Speaker 1: a disciple of Bill Walsh back in San Francisco exactly. Yeah,

1751
01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 1: where Shanahan was you entered Bruce arians Apparently he's getting

1752
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: close with Tampa Bay. Yeah, he played for him out

1753
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: in Arizona. Right, Yeah, that's gonna be a great high

1754
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: for them. I really like Bruce when I was there. Um,

1755
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:22,400
Speaker 1: he's a little bit a mix of new school in

1756
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 1: old school. He still got a little rough yeah, tough

1757
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:28,640
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah he doesn't. He doesn't mince words, right, No,

1758
01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:30,680
Speaker 1: not at all. But then he's also real cool and

1759
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:32,760
Speaker 1: approachable and you can relate to him. So I think

1760
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: he'll do a good job and he's gonna bring a

1761
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: lot of those people I think obviously in this league

1762
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 1: as a tight circle people you trust and believe in

1763
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: the people that he had in Arizona. So I think

1764
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: ty Bows was on his radar. Keith Armstrong I think

1765
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:46,599
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens is another guy they might try to get

1766
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,560
Speaker 1: from Cleveland to come down with them to kind of

1767
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:53,479
Speaker 1: reduplicate what they did in Arizona. When the year before

1768
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: I got there, we weren't that good. But then he

1769
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 1: got there, we became a championship contender. They never reached it,

1770
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: but that's what we what he's able to think about it.

1771
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: That sounds, you know, and really good to get. You know,

1772
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, who's a defensive who's been a head coach

1773
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: in New York. He was, he's really well respected around

1774
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: the league. And of course Freddie Kitchens really made his

1775
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:14,439
Speaker 1: name for himself the last half of the season. They

1776
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:17,560
Speaker 1: fired Hugh Jackson and Todd Haley in Cleveland all of

1777
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: a sudden, they went six and one over their last

1778
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: seven with a rookie quarterback, and all right, you know that,

1779
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: yet that would be a staff that would be really

1780
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 1: really intriguing to watch work. Yeah, and so, and he

1781
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 1: has a relationship with the gym that was down there

1782
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 1: as well, Jason Light who was in Arizona and I

1783
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:34,640
Speaker 1: was there under Steve Kime. So this is gonna be

1784
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 1: a good synergy. And I think that was one of Bruce.

1785
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 1: Bruce stress when I was in Arizona is that GM

1786
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:44,599
Speaker 1: head coach and owner worked really well together. And if

1787
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 1: he's able to take that same mindset in same system

1788
01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 1: down there, they'll they'll definitely have some success because they

1789
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:52,800
Speaker 1: do have a couple of pieces, veteran pieces that's going

1790
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:55,599
Speaker 1: to allow them to maybe even win sooner than later

1791
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 1: like we did when I was in Arizona. The only

1792
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:01,719
Speaker 1: wild card in the coach GM own ship circle there's

1793
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: his ownership. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know the owner,

1794
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 1: so I can't speak to him. Yeah, the owner is

1795
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: a big umbrella there. Yeah, I don't know what. You

1796
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get. You know, how they're

1797
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 1: gonna how the owner. Is he gonna be engaged, Is

1798
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: he gonna be disengaged, he gonna say hey, handlet, handlet, handlet?

1799
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:17,680
Speaker 1: Or is he gonna say wait a minute. I think

1800
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: that kind of thing true and Steve I have a

1801
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: kind of an ongoing dialogue about the Arizona ownership. I

1802
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 1: think I think, uh Bidwell, Michael Bidwell is fine. Yeah,

1803
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:28,960
Speaker 1: I think you you think there's a little bit too

1804
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:31,639
Speaker 1: much interference sometimes. I mean they came up last week

1805
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: when they fired When they fired their after one year,

1806
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:36,080
Speaker 1: I was surprised at that, I guess, but I've spoken

1807
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,240
Speaker 1: with Mike. Now, this isn't Mike Bidwell is not a

1808
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:42,719
Speaker 1: norm I say normal. Um, he may have inherited the teams,

1809
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: but this guy was a federal prosecutor. I mean, he's

1810
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,720
Speaker 1: got something on the ball, so I have he's got

1811
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:50,640
Speaker 1: a big benefit of the doubt for me. Okay, but

1812
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 1: I was shocked that they let the guy go after

1813
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:54,840
Speaker 1: one year. I think he's a pretty good owner. I

1814
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 1: think that's pretty good. I thought he was pretty good. Especially. Um,

1815
01:24:57,520 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: I think he's doing a different than what his dad did,

1816
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:02,400
Speaker 1: and I think he's doing when I was there at least.

1817
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: And maybe some of that comes down to he didn't

1818
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: really trust wholeheartedly into the initial process, because I think

1819
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,400
Speaker 1: he had great respect for Bea, not that he didn't

1820
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:14,000
Speaker 1: for Wilks, but maybe there was something there that he

1821
01:25:14,080 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 1: didn't quite agree with and instill allowing it to linger.

1822
01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 1: He just cut ties and let's reboot before we get

1823
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,479
Speaker 1: too far down this river. And I got a rookie quarterback.

1824
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: And now now we're set back three years instead of

1825
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 1: just one. So obviously You never like to see a

1826
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: head coach get fired like that after one season, but

1827
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:30,759
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, at ownership,

1828
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 1: you have that right to do it. Yeah, when they

1829
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:36,639
Speaker 1: you never know what they see, what tea leaves they read,

1830
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:39,559
Speaker 1: or who's in their ear, or what signs they've seen,

1831
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 1: whether good or bad. But say, you know what, it's

1832
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:45,880
Speaker 1: time right and they did it here in Buffalo with Rex,

1833
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 1: and it seems like it was the right move at

1834
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: the right time. Yeah, for the time being. So hey,

1835
01:25:50,880 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 1: before it, let you go. Can you participate in our

1836
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: twitter polar runs out here? It is it's a simple one.

1837
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 1: Is it a good one? I'll let you decide. Or

1838
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills had it in the right direction. We

1839
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 1: got people calling up and three choices. Yes, yes they are,

1840
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 1: but playoff, yes they are. In the expect playoffs in

1841
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:11,840
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Yes, right direction, but patients required six percent

1842
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 1: say no, So that's ninety four percent say yes, headed

1843
01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:18,280
Speaker 1: in the right direction? I say number one playoffs, Yes, yes,

1844
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 1: especially if I'm back, Yes, let's playoffs. I'm going to

1845
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 1: lead us to the playoffs. Some of the was like

1846
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: some of the feedback is, you know, yeah, the goal

1847
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:31,640
Speaker 1: should be playoffs. And I'm saying no, the goal is

1848
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:35,360
Speaker 1: winning Super Bowl fifty right for always? Oh, that's the goal.

1849
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:38,559
Speaker 1: That's always expectations. Maybe playoffs at least and then getting

1850
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: the term then see where you go. But the goal

1851
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 1: is to win a championship in and what do we

1852
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 1: defend it? Finishing division third? Okay? And that's that always

1853
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 1: helps too, because now you're playing another third place team

1854
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:51,639
Speaker 1: when you take that jump up, and then you start

1855
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:53,679
Speaker 1: playing some more of the top echelon team, so maybe

1856
01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 1: some more winnable games for a young team in there

1857
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:59,200
Speaker 1: as well. To tell the Patriots because it never bothers

1858
01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: them first place, Joe, Well, there, I mean there's they're

1859
01:27:01,479 --> 01:27:03,160
Speaker 1: a good team. I'm not saying I'm just saying there.

1860
01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 1: I mean, then they have Tom Brady, a perennial playoff team.

1861
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:07,400
Speaker 1: They are the standard of the league, so that it

1862
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 1: doesn't apply to them. It applies to teams trying to

1863
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: get to where they're at. I got your yes, yes,

1864
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:18,839
Speaker 1: Lorenzo's back. We should have put that as a response.

1865
01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:22,880
Speaker 1: Nos messing around because I know somebody you said you're

1866
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 1: going to guarantee as playoffs. I was just playing messing around.

1867
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:31,320
Speaker 1: Stick around. You know you're in town, all yeah, so

1868
01:27:31,360 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 1: we'll get you in here once in a while, right, yeah, yeah,

1869
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 1: of course, let's schedule Stuf hanging out with you guys.

1870
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,439
Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate it. Thanks for coming in always.

1871
01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:39,920
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander joining us in studio. Steve and I coming

1872
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 1: back with more. One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive

1873
01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio One Game. Welcome back to John

1874
01:27:57,160 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, One Bills Live from One Bills Drive, Rainy

1875
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: Orchard Today. It could happen, go ahead, h yeah, yeah,

1876
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 1: just you know, the worst case scenarios for you know,

1877
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: AFC East. It's funny because all these outlandish conspiracy theories

1878
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 1: get floated out and you know, most of its garbage,

1879
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 1: but it does take you down a road. What happens if,

1880
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: through some twist of fate or whatever, two years down

1881
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 1: the road, Tom Brady's gonna call in a career. Everybody

1882
01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:30,680
Speaker 1: in the AFC East is jumping for joy that, you know,

1883
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:32,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's finally gonna call it quits and we don't

1884
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:36,400
Speaker 1: have to watch him beat our teams anymore. And certainly

1885
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 1: in the next draft they draft this kid. Lauren Taylor

1886
01:28:39,640 --> 01:28:43,639
Speaker 1: Lawrence from Trevor Lawrence from Clemson and and the Patriots

1887
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:48,320
Speaker 1: just keep fly happening in Indianapolis. They didn't have it.

1888
01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:50,519
Speaker 1: They didn't have a three and thirteen year between maybe

1889
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:54,840
Speaker 1: look Trevor Lawrence and a great game last night. It's

1890
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:57,160
Speaker 1: just one game. It's one game by a freshman, by

1891
01:28:57,200 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 1: a freshman against against a powerhouse and a nation, huge event.

1892
01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 1: Let's not get carried away. Our Twitter pull today deals

1893
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:08,679
Speaker 1: with the Bills. What do you think are they headed

1894
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 1: in the right direction? Give us a call, Lorenzo says, yes,

1895
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: eight three fifty two three one eight eight five fifty

1896
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 1: two five fifty call on the line from Zaire in Buffalo. Hi, Zaier,

1897
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:20,599
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us. How are

1898
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 1: you doing Okay? I just wanted to say that I

1899
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: definitely think that we're going in the right direction, and

1900
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 1: I honestly don't believe that people around the league are

1901
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 1: ready for what Josh Allen's gonna bring in the twenty

1902
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:36,519
Speaker 1: nineteen season. If you think about it, he only played

1903
01:29:36,560 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 1: a year and a half college football, real college football.

1904
01:29:39,560 --> 01:29:42,640
Speaker 1: He split reps all off season last year, had a

1905
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 1: terrible quarterback room for the first half of the season

1906
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 1: behind the mixed offensive line and the number one I received,

1907
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:50,720
Speaker 1: I didn't really want to play here. So I think

1908
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: if we give him with a better quarterback room that's

1909
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:56,080
Speaker 1: coming back next year and some better protection around him,

1910
01:29:56,680 --> 01:29:59,080
Speaker 1: and also some receivers that can I mean to catch

1911
01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 1: the ball in a full off season with Ryan Dabele

1912
01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:05,200
Speaker 1: and to be the first quarterback in the race for

1913
01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:08,080
Speaker 1: the signing position, I think we can make a lot

1914
01:30:08,120 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: of noise and it might be a change of the

1915
01:30:09,439 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 1: garden next season in the AFC. That's a lot of

1916
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 1: good stuff you put in there, Zieria, right, I mean

1917
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:17,760
Speaker 1: he did think about it. What a different offseason this

1918
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:20,640
Speaker 1: is going to be for Josh Allen. He's gonna be

1919
01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 1: coming back to the same offense he ran last year

1920
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 1: after being in it for eleven games as a starter.

1921
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 1: He's gonna get all the reps in the OTAs in

1922
01:30:28,520 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 1: the preseason. He's gonna have two quarterbacks in the room

1923
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:33,760
Speaker 1: that are there who are in full support of his

1924
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 1: improvement and his career and to help him win games

1925
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 1: as quarterback. And he's not going to be splitting reps

1926
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 1: with them. And plus this is gonna be a little

1927
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:51,000
Speaker 1: better team around him offensively as you would you would think, right,

1928
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:54,040
Speaker 1: that's that's the goal. I mean, they got ninety million

1929
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: dollars and ten draft picks to help him out. So

1930
01:30:57,200 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 1: we'll see if if they can get that done. But

1931
01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:04,439
Speaker 1: you know, if if that trajectory continues and and this

1932
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 1: front office and coaching staffs do what they did on

1933
01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 1: the defensive side, there's no reason to think it's not

1934
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:12,760
Speaker 1: going to be vastly improved. Let alone Josh himself is

1935
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,800
Speaker 1: going to be I see what you mentioned is around

1936
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen in the situation in the quarterback room in

1937
01:31:19,120 --> 01:31:21,520
Speaker 1: the second year. That's just the reps in the preseason.

1938
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:24,000
Speaker 1: What they need. I mean, they see they need at

1939
01:31:24,080 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 1: least a couple of wide receivers who can play right away.

1940
01:31:26,360 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 1: They need a couple of offensive linemen who can play

1941
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,040
Speaker 1: right away. They probably need a tight end. They probably

1942
01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:33,240
Speaker 1: need a running back for the future. There's a lot

1943
01:31:33,280 --> 01:31:35,720
Speaker 1: of work to do this offseason, and that's why. And

1944
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:37,800
Speaker 1: our Twitter poller for putting it at the Bill's head

1945
01:31:37,840 --> 01:31:40,280
Speaker 1: in the direct direction, I would vote yes, like ninety

1946
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 1: four percent of our ninety six percent of our respondents are,

1947
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 1: But I would also say there's a measure of patients

1948
01:31:45,479 --> 01:31:47,720
Speaker 1: that should be exercised here. I don't know if they

1949
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:49,760
Speaker 1: can make the jump from a six win team to

1950
01:31:49,840 --> 01:31:53,000
Speaker 1: a ten win team next year. I don't know that yet.

1951
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 1: Let's see, Here's there's a lot of work to be

1952
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:56,400
Speaker 1: done in free agency, in the draft, and there's some

1953
01:31:56,479 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 1: other things to consider too that which might be in

1954
01:31:58,280 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 1: there to their benefit. One, you look at every other team,

1955
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,519
Speaker 1: even a lot of the teams in the playoffs, they're

1956
01:32:06,560 --> 01:32:08,840
Speaker 1: gonna leave this season, most of them, all but one

1957
01:32:08,880 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 1: are gonna leave the season, you know, like it didn't

1958
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:13,040
Speaker 1: go the way they finished the way they wanted to.

1959
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:15,960
Speaker 1: All of them except for maybe the last one standing

1960
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:18,680
Speaker 1: is gonna say, you know, we got some holes we

1961
01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:22,400
Speaker 1: gotta fill. So that puts the Bills with all of

1962
01:32:22,439 --> 01:32:24,760
Speaker 1: those teams as well. There there's other teams out there

1963
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,439
Speaker 1: that have just as many holes to fill as the Bills.

1964
01:32:27,479 --> 01:32:30,760
Speaker 1: You may think the bills holes are unbelievably gaping, there

1965
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:33,320
Speaker 1: are other franchises that have other things that they're trying

1966
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:36,200
Speaker 1: to work on just as hard as the Bills are. Secondly,

1967
01:32:37,120 --> 01:32:38,640
Speaker 1: hold on, I went down the road too far that one.

1968
01:32:38,680 --> 01:32:40,200
Speaker 1: Now I can't pick them Where my second cup point

1969
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:44,719
Speaker 1: was going to be oh third place schedule. Their schedule

1970
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:47,240
Speaker 1: is gonna be one that is going to help them

1971
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 1: a lot more than it did last year when they

1972
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:51,000
Speaker 1: got off and they had to go play Green Bay,

1973
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 1: they had to go play the Minnesota Vikings, they had

1974
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:56,599
Speaker 1: to go play Baltimore, and they had to go play

1975
01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:59,400
Speaker 1: had to play the Chargers. Here, think about the Charger game, now,

1976
01:32:59,479 --> 01:33:02,160
Speaker 1: what's that like if they'd you know, and and the

1977
01:33:02,280 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: Colts game that they went They had a schedule that

1978
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: was rough and this is and the people in MSG

1979
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: are getting to look at the schedule right now. They've

1980
01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:19,600
Speaker 1: got the Titans, all right, they got the Titans, Cowboys, Browns, Steelers, Giants, Redskins, Bengals, Eagles, Ravens, Broncos.

1981
01:33:22,439 --> 01:33:24,679
Speaker 1: Ravens are in the playoffs, Cowboys are in the playoffs,

1982
01:33:26,320 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 1: and the Eagles are in the playoffs. Three of those

1983
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: eight teams are in the playoffs. It's a lot better

1984
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,840
Speaker 1: than I think this year's schedule was. I don't I

1985
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:36,240
Speaker 1: have to go back. I gotta go back and look

1986
01:33:36,240 --> 01:33:38,880
Speaker 1: at it now and see what it looked like. But

1987
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 1: you know, the third place schedule is going to help them,

1988
01:33:41,320 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 1: along with the fact that these other teams have got

1989
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:45,599
Speaker 1: holes to fill as well. Tweet from Bill Chick from

1990
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:47,800
Speaker 1: the Tweet Sheet, The twenty nine Sheet agrees with you, Steve.

1991
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:50,600
Speaker 1: The twenty nineteen schedule doesn't look too bad. Plus the

1992
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:52,679
Speaker 1: Bills have a ton of money to spend on free agents.

1993
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 1: Bills need at least nine wins in twenty nineteen to

1994
01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:57,920
Speaker 1: stay on track. If that includes playoffs, that's great, but

1995
01:33:58,080 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 1: nine wins minimum, that's high diations. I think that's three

1996
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:04,920
Speaker 1: more wins and they had this year Wandering Jack tweets,

1997
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,240
Speaker 1: and I believe in the process as long as they

1998
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:10,360
Speaker 1: spent some money in free agency albeing wisely to fill

1999
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:13,000
Speaker 1: some holes and have another strong draft to build talent

2000
01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:15,400
Speaker 1: and depth and continue to grow on offense and defense,

2001
01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:19,960
Speaker 1: they should be pushing for a playoff spot in twenty nineteen. Yeah.

2002
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 1: I agree with all of that. I mean they're all true.

2003
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 1: I mean we've sat here and we've dissected the Bills

2004
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 1: for you know, seventeen weeks of the regular season, all

2005
01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 1: of preseason as well, and we've watched him evolve and

2006
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:36,599
Speaker 1: devolve and take leaps forward and take side steps and stumble,

2007
01:34:37,680 --> 01:34:39,920
Speaker 1: and we all see the same thing. They're they're headed

2008
01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:42,640
Speaker 1: in the right direction. They've made some good decisions. I

2009
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:45,280
Speaker 1: can't say that, you know that. You can think back

2010
01:34:45,320 --> 01:34:47,880
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of personnel moves this regime has

2011
01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 1: made that didn't work out, and decisions they made it

2012
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:54,559
Speaker 1: didn't work out. You know, Trent Murphy, it was okay,

2013
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:57,440
Speaker 1: but they didn't break the bank getting him. Star Lotulelee

2014
01:34:57,520 --> 01:35:00,640
Speaker 1: had a very solid year down inside. But you look

2015
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:05,160
Speaker 1: at the Kelvin Benjamin deal that that didn't work. But

2016
01:35:05,240 --> 01:35:08,120
Speaker 1: they had to do something. There's there's been some things

2017
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:09,560
Speaker 1: that have kind of gone inside was But then you

2018
01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:11,600
Speaker 1: look at Josh Allen, you look at Tremaine Edmonds, you

2019
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:15,559
Speaker 1: look at Tarren Johnson and Robert Foster. There's some reason

2020
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:17,439
Speaker 1: to think that if they do find guys that are

2021
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 1: ready to willing to work, they can mold them and

2022
01:35:19,479 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 1: help these guys do it. So at all, it all

2023
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:25,000
Speaker 1: comes down to all the decisions that they gotta pick

2024
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:27,600
Speaker 1: good players. They got out of good players. That's a

2025
01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:29,280
Speaker 1: lot of work. A break coming up here, We're gonna

2026
01:35:29,320 --> 01:35:31,880
Speaker 1: talk about the Los Angeles Chargers when we return. You're

2027
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:34,160
Speaker 1: welcome to join us. Phone line's open eight oh three,

2028
01:35:34,439 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 1: five fifty and toll free. One eight eight eight by

2029
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:40,599
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. One Bill's

2030
01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:42,960
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive on

2031
01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:58,559
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bills Radio Network Stories Up. They

2032
01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 1: comes from One Bill's Drive. Where the show comes from

2033
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:03,840
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Very quiet here these days. Kyle Williams

2034
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: late yesterday officially named the Pro Bowl. He replaces Titans

2035
01:36:07,240 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Jurrell Casey, who was injured. So Kyle Williams

2036
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:12,600
Speaker 1: goes to the Pro Bowl for the sixth time. He

2037
01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 1: is the Knights Buffalo Bill to be selected to six

2038
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: or more Pro Bowls during his NFL career. Kyle Williams

2039
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:21,120
Speaker 1: going to the Pro Bowl. He is the Bills all

2040
01:36:21,160 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 1: time leader in games played at defensive tackle, all time

2041
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:27,439
Speaker 1: leader at SAX at defensive tackle. There's coaching news all

2042
01:36:27,479 --> 01:36:29,720
Speaker 1: over the National Football League these days. The Tampa Bay

2043
01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 1: Buccaneers reportedly ready to offer their head coaching vacancy to

2044
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 1: the former Arizona's Cardinals coach Bruce Arians. The interest is mutual.

2045
01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:42,600
Speaker 1: According to NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport, the Packers have

2046
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:46,160
Speaker 1: struck a deal with Matt Lafleur Tennessee Titans offensive corner

2047
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:49,439
Speaker 1: as their next head coach. Lafleur spent this half season

2048
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 1: as the Titans offensive coordinator. Previously had worked under Sean

2049
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 1: McVay for the Los Angeles Rams and with the Atlanta

2050
01:36:55,200 --> 01:36:58,280
Speaker 1: Falcons under Kyle Shanahan. I Fleur ready to go as

2051
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:01,960
Speaker 1: the head coach the Green Bay Packers, and reports in

2052
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:05,120
Speaker 1: Cleveland say their offensive coordinator, Freddie Kitchens, maybe the top

2053
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:08,639
Speaker 1: candidate for the Cleveland Brown's head coaching vacancy. Cliff Kingsbury

2054
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:12,120
Speaker 1: interviewing today with the Arizona Cardinals for their head coaching vacancy.

2055
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 1: The former Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Tech head coach

2056
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:21,720
Speaker 1: and USC offensive coordinator has interviewed also for the New

2057
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 1: York Jets that came yesterday. Kingsbury just hired at USC

2058
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:27,800
Speaker 1: back in early December. Pittsburgh Steelers have parted ways with

2059
01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:31,040
Speaker 1: running backs coach James Saxon head coach Mike tomlind and

2060
01:37:31,080 --> 01:37:33,280
Speaker 1: made the announcement yesterday. Saxon will not return. He's been

2061
01:37:33,320 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: with the Steelers since twenty fourteen. College football, Clemson Tigers

2062
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:41,000
Speaker 1: won their second national college football title in three seasons

2063
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:43,760
Speaker 1: in domin in fashion last night, a forty four to

2064
01:37:43,880 --> 01:37:47,240
Speaker 1: sixteen victory over Alabama. Buffalo Sabers home tonight against the

2065
01:37:47,280 --> 01:37:50,200
Speaker 1: New Jersey Devil, seven o'clock faceoff. Jack Oioll still not

2066
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:53,400
Speaker 1: ready to return. You'll be basketball at home tonight against Toledo.

2067
01:37:53,520 --> 01:37:56,360
Speaker 1: That's a seven o'clock tip off at Alumni Arena. Kennisia's

2068
01:37:56,360 --> 01:37:59,680
Speaker 1: basketball home tonight, seven o'clock against Brown University. And that's

2069
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: the date from One Wheels Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker

2070
01:38:02,360 --> 01:38:04,240
Speaker 1: in our one Buffalo studio here for one more hour

2071
01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:06,000
Speaker 1: ago you got another hour left? Ini there? I do,

2072
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:07,639
Speaker 1: I do? I do good because we got a lot

2073
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:10,880
Speaker 1: to talk about, including the Los Angeles Chargers winners in

2074
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 1: the wild card playoff game on Sunday in Baltimore. Joining

2075
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:17,280
Speaker 1: us on the subway fresh Tank Hutline Chargers NFL Nation

2076
01:38:17,360 --> 01:38:20,040
Speaker 1: reporter for ESPN. He's been with ESPN for the last

2077
01:38:20,080 --> 01:38:22,920
Speaker 1: six years. Former Seahawks beat reporter. Happy to have Eric

2078
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:24,680
Speaker 1: Williams on the line with us. Eric, John Murphy and

2079
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:27,840
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in Buffalo. Thank you for joining us, sure,

2080
01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:30,040
Speaker 1: no problems. Thanks for having me, guys, I really appreciate it.

2081
01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:33,360
Speaker 1: How's the vibance in la right now. It's gotta be uh.

2082
01:38:33,439 --> 01:38:35,559
Speaker 1: They got to feel pretty good about their team's ability

2083
01:38:35,600 --> 01:38:38,559
Speaker 1: to go on the road and win a game. Yeah,

2084
01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:41,160
Speaker 1: no doubt. This is the scene that's that's confident playing

2085
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:43,840
Speaker 1: on the road. They're nine and oh when they board

2086
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: to play in this season, so they have to. They

2087
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:51,120
Speaker 1: like hostile environment any place, any squad is kind of

2088
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 1: the model they've adopted this year, and we'll see if

2089
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 1: they can continue that against New England. Eric. The easy

2090
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:00,120
Speaker 1: explanation for that might be the fact that they do

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01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:03,599
Speaker 1: not have a real pronounced home field advantage. But I'm

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01:39:03,640 --> 01:39:07,040
Speaker 1: not buying it. I like stuff stadium there, stuff Hub Center.

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01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:11,160
Speaker 1: I know it's unusual and unorthodox, But is that why

2094
01:39:11,200 --> 01:39:12,840
Speaker 1: they're so strong on the road. Do you think because

2095
01:39:12,840 --> 01:39:16,679
Speaker 1: their home field is not that great an advantage. Yeah,

2096
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 1: I think that's partially the reason. And you're right. I

2097
01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:21,479
Speaker 1: think it's a cool place to watch a game. It's

2098
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:24,400
Speaker 1: it's intimate. I think that's the word that they say,

2099
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 1: continue to use. You know, you're close to the action.

2100
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:30,080
Speaker 1: But it isn't a true home field advantage because a

2101
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 1: lot of times even play, you know, a team that

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01:39:33,720 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 1: is recognizable around the league. If it's the Eagles or

2103
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:38,840
Speaker 1: something like that that has a lot of fans, then

2104
01:39:39,120 --> 01:39:42,080
Speaker 1: the opposing crowd does have a factor in the game

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01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:44,000
Speaker 1: in terms of noise and that kind of thing. And

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01:39:44,160 --> 01:39:46,880
Speaker 1: so I think they've kind of adopted us against the

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01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:49,920
Speaker 1: World mentality, not only on the road but at home,

2108
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: because they're not really at home when they play there,

2109
01:39:52,439 --> 01:39:55,679
Speaker 1: because there's so many opposing fans that in that smaller

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01:39:55,760 --> 01:39:58,759
Speaker 1: setting could have a more of an impact. My partner,

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01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:01,560
Speaker 1: go ahead, Eric, I'm sorry, No, I was going to

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01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:05,599
Speaker 1: say because of that mentality, they have that mentality when

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01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 1: they're at home and when they're on the road. My partner,

2114
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:10,240
Speaker 1: Steve and I we were talking about this late last week.

2115
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:13,000
Speaker 1: You know, the TV ratings came out for the season.

2116
01:40:13,040 --> 01:40:15,439
Speaker 1: They're up, attendance down a little bit, and we were

2117
01:40:15,520 --> 01:40:17,840
Speaker 1: kind of projecting into the future a little bit. I'm

2118
01:40:17,880 --> 01:40:21,040
Speaker 1: wondering if maybe the stub Hub Center model might be

2119
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:23,680
Speaker 1: what the NFL looks like in what ten years, that

2120
01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:27,000
Speaker 1: you don't need big in stadium attendance because the television

2121
01:40:27,080 --> 01:40:30,320
Speaker 1: ratings are so massive, and that they've always been, at

2122
01:40:30,400 --> 01:40:32,160
Speaker 1: least for the last thirty years, they've always been more

2123
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:35,800
Speaker 1: important than in stadium attendance anyway, what do you think? Yeah,

2124
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:38,679
Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing. And because, like you said,

2125
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:42,519
Speaker 1: people are happy to watch games at home because it's

2126
01:40:42,560 --> 01:40:45,280
Speaker 1: so comfortable, and then the views in some respects is

2127
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:47,759
Speaker 1: much better than you see when you're actually in the stadium.

2128
01:40:48,120 --> 01:40:51,719
Speaker 1: You don't miss as much and ticket prices all those things.

2129
01:40:51,880 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: But I mean, they're building this new Englewood facility, right,

2130
01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:57,800
Speaker 1: that's going to be similar Jerry's World. And I think

2131
01:40:57,880 --> 01:41:00,600
Speaker 1: the attraction in building the new state aims is to

2132
01:41:00,720 --> 01:41:03,439
Speaker 1: give fans more things to do when they're there and

2133
01:41:03,560 --> 01:41:06,120
Speaker 1: to make them comfortable like they are when they're at home.

2134
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:08,880
Speaker 1: And I think this new stadium Engwood is going to

2135
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: be on par with kind of all the different things

2136
01:41:10,960 --> 01:41:14,439
Speaker 1: that are being offered when you're at Jerry's World. So

2137
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:18,679
Speaker 1: the game itself, it almost becomes kind of a side

2138
01:41:18,720 --> 01:41:20,640
Speaker 1: attraction because you have all these other things that you

2139
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:23,080
Speaker 1: can do when you're in the stadium. And I think

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01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:26,000
Speaker 1: that's something that maybe they'll continue to do in the

2141
01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: future in order to keep fans coming to games. Yeah,

2142
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: certainly it will. The new facility in Englewood will be

2143
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:35,760
Speaker 1: a different game day experience than stub Hub Center. I

2144
01:41:35,840 --> 01:41:38,160
Speaker 1: think one of the things about this Chargers, this particular

2145
01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:41,600
Speaker 1: Chargers team, is the fact that, you know, given what

2146
01:41:41,720 --> 01:41:45,240
Speaker 1: they do, play in a small soccer stadium, they went

2147
01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:47,240
Speaker 1: to London and won. They've gone on the road and

2148
01:41:47,320 --> 01:41:51,640
Speaker 1: won so many times. Anthony Lynn has really done an

2149
01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:54,639
Speaker 1: amazing job with this roster. They're a very talented team.

2150
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:57,000
Speaker 1: But not only that, As you know this, it's not

2151
01:41:57,120 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: just having the talent on the squad. You've got to

2152
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 1: have them playing together, playing really hard, and he's done that. Yeah,

2153
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:05,000
Speaker 1: you have to motivate them, you know, particularly at this

2154
01:42:05,080 --> 01:42:09,320
Speaker 1: level you're talking about athletes. When Tom Salesco was looking

2155
01:42:09,400 --> 01:42:11,760
Speaker 1: for a head coach, the first thing they were looking

2156
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:14,559
Speaker 1: for was a leader, and I think when they first

2157
01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:17,760
Speaker 1: interviewed Anthony they saw that they had that in coach

2158
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:20,519
Speaker 1: Win and that's really spilled over to the players and

2159
01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:24,840
Speaker 1: how he runs things. He's transparent and no nonsense in

2160
01:42:24,920 --> 01:42:27,760
Speaker 1: his communications with the players, and I think they appreciate that.

2161
01:42:28,400 --> 01:42:31,000
Speaker 1: And he's kind of built the resiltency in this group.

2162
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:34,720
Speaker 1: You know, nothing affects them, you know, if things start

2163
01:42:34,760 --> 01:42:36,960
Speaker 1: to get bad, they don't get shaky, and I think

2164
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:39,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of shown in their ability to come back

2165
01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:43,120
Speaker 1: in games against Pittsburgh, against Kansas City on the road,

2166
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:46,840
Speaker 1: and so again, I think that's one of the reasons

2167
01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:49,800
Speaker 1: why there's such a tough road team. They can win

2168
01:42:50,160 --> 01:42:52,160
Speaker 1: a number of different ways. They don't have to be

2169
01:42:52,240 --> 01:42:54,400
Speaker 1: ahead to win. They can come from behind and win.

2170
01:42:55,280 --> 01:42:58,040
Speaker 1: Their offense doesn't have to be clicking on all cylinders.

2171
01:42:58,120 --> 01:42:59,880
Speaker 1: They do have a defense that can come and kind

2172
01:42:59,880 --> 01:43:02,960
Speaker 1: of hold other offenses at bay. When you have a

2173
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:05,240
Speaker 1: number of different ways that you can win, I think

2174
01:43:05,280 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: that makes you dangerous. Well. One of the things that

2175
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:09,479
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn was able to do, and it's always a

2176
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:11,439
Speaker 1: critical thing. We're gonna see it with the eight hires

2177
01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:13,720
Speaker 1: that are being made around the National Football League now.

2178
01:43:14,200 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn brought in an absolutely stellar staff and it

2179
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:21,000
Speaker 1: starts with his coordinators. Ken wizzen Hunt on offensive former

2180
01:43:21,040 --> 01:43:23,400
Speaker 1: head coach the Arizona Cardinals got them to a Super Bowl.

2181
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:27,200
Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, who was a former head coach

2182
01:43:27,240 --> 01:43:30,439
Speaker 1: of the Dolphin of the Jacksonville Jaguars and also was

2183
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:34,759
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator World champion Seahawks, and then George Stewart

2184
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:37,720
Speaker 1: who is a special teams coordinator and also assistant head coach.

2185
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:40,439
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got some guys that are coordinating his

2186
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:44,759
Speaker 1: team are It's an amazing staff that he has put together,

2187
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:47,080
Speaker 1: and I think it's showing through on game day strategy

2188
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:51,040
Speaker 1: and also game day play. Yeah you mentioned those names.

2189
01:43:51,080 --> 01:43:53,760
Speaker 1: And then he also has Richard Smith coaching his linebackers.

2190
01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 1: That was a defensive coordinator in Atlanta. Rip Shear is

2191
01:43:57,280 --> 01:44:00,160
Speaker 1: coaching tight ends. He's a former head coach. They have

2192
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: a lot of experience across the board, even at position groups,

2193
01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:07,640
Speaker 1: and I think that experience helps you. Lynda doesn't have

2194
01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 1: to worry about the xs and os in terms of

2195
01:44:10,120 --> 01:44:14,559
Speaker 1: either coaching positions or you know, being the defensive, offensive

2196
01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:16,640
Speaker 1: units or special teams units. He can just kind of

2197
01:44:17,120 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: be the CEO the entire team, set the message, set

2198
01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:22,360
Speaker 1: the tone, and then let his coach his coach, and

2199
01:44:22,400 --> 01:44:25,080
Speaker 1: then he can lean on that experience in game day.

2200
01:44:25,120 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that is maybe underrated

2201
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 1: about this team is their ability to just in game

2202
01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:33,160
Speaker 1: and change game plans on the fly. That's going to

2203
01:44:33,200 --> 01:44:35,400
Speaker 1: be necessary when you go to New England because you

2204
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:38,400
Speaker 1: might think you're getting one thing going into that game.

2205
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:40,920
Speaker 1: But we know Bill of Belichick is one of the

2206
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:43,679
Speaker 1: best in the business, maybe the best ever at changing

2207
01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:46,320
Speaker 1: things in game and adapting to how the game's going,

2208
01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:48,360
Speaker 1: and they're going to have to play that chess match

2209
01:44:48,600 --> 01:44:51,960
Speaker 1: against Belichick. Talking with Eric Williams, Chargers NFL Nation reporter

2210
01:44:52,120 --> 01:44:56,480
Speaker 1: on ESPN about the Los Angeles Chargers, Eric, the defensive

2211
01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:59,839
Speaker 1: defensive game plan last Sunday in Baltimore was pretty intriguing.

2212
01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:03,280
Speaker 1: I found it interesting that took Tony Romo deep into

2213
01:45:03,320 --> 01:45:05,519
Speaker 1: the game to figure out what the Chargers were doing

2214
01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:08,120
Speaker 1: on defense, what were they doing and what well, how

2215
01:45:08,200 --> 01:45:10,040
Speaker 1: are they playing at just no linebackers at all on

2216
01:45:10,080 --> 01:45:13,280
Speaker 1: the field. Was that the plan? Yeah, I kind of

2217
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:14,680
Speaker 1: knew that going in that they were going to go

2218
01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:17,320
Speaker 1: with seven defensive backs. One of the reasons they did

2219
01:45:17,400 --> 01:45:20,920
Speaker 1: that is they played six defensive backs predominantly. That's been

2220
01:45:20,960 --> 01:45:24,599
Speaker 1: their base the entire year. Adrian Phillips has been basically

2221
01:45:24,640 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: their will linebacker. And he's, you know, six foot two

2222
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: hundred and ten pounds. He's basically a safety that's playing

2223
01:45:30,479 --> 01:45:33,360
Speaker 1: in the box. But he's so smart and cerebral he's

2224
01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:35,280
Speaker 1: able to kind of get around the fact that maybe

2225
01:45:35,320 --> 01:45:38,960
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the size to play there inside When

2226
01:45:39,080 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 1: j Tavis Brown went down, who was their defensive play caller.

2227
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 1: They really didn't have another linebacker that could come in

2228
01:45:46,280 --> 01:45:48,160
Speaker 1: and do the kind of things that j Tavis can

2229
01:45:48,200 --> 01:45:51,120
Speaker 1: do because j Tavis is, you know, six foot two

2230
01:45:51,160 --> 01:45:54,160
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pounds. He's a real athletic linebacker. So

2231
01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:57,400
Speaker 1: instead of bringing another big end to take j Tavis's place,

2232
01:45:57,760 --> 01:46:01,400
Speaker 1: they just moved Jalil from free safety to inside the

2233
01:46:01,479 --> 01:46:04,640
Speaker 1: box where he's really more comfortable anyway. He's he's more

2234
01:46:04,680 --> 01:46:07,320
Speaker 1: of a strong safety that's kind of planes free safety

2235
01:46:07,360 --> 01:46:10,760
Speaker 1: for them. And so by moving Jalil inside, they brought

2236
01:46:10,880 --> 01:46:13,760
Speaker 1: ray Sean Jenkins and to play free safety off the

2237
01:46:13,840 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 1: bench and just went seven defensive backs really after defensive

2238
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:21,200
Speaker 1: line to do a good job of holding off those

2239
01:46:21,240 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 1: offs of the linemen, so their athletic guys could run

2240
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:26,880
Speaker 1: to the football and really contain Lamar and forced him

2241
01:46:26,920 --> 01:46:29,720
Speaker 1: to be a passer and it proved very effective for him. Well,

2242
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:32,000
Speaker 1: it's interesting that you had a heads up that the

2243
01:46:33,240 --> 01:46:35,559
Speaker 1: Chargers would use seven defensive backs. Do you have any

2244
01:46:35,680 --> 01:46:38,080
Speaker 1: ideas as to how they're gonna play their defense going

2245
01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:40,640
Speaker 1: into Fox Ball Sunday? Tell us, Now we're gonna call

2246
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:44,800
Speaker 1: Boston right away. We would not do that. I believe me,

2247
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:46,840
Speaker 1: We're the last people that would help the Patriots out.

2248
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:51,799
Speaker 1: Now I'm not I'm not in the meeting rooms today

2249
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:54,479
Speaker 1: during the off day, so I don't I don't have

2250
01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 1: an idea how they're gonna, you know, game plan for

2251
01:46:57,320 --> 01:46:59,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots. But I do think one of the things

2252
01:46:59,880 --> 01:47:03,040
Speaker 1: that helps them is their versatile you know, they can

2253
01:47:03,120 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: play big. You know, they still have linebackers they can

2254
01:47:05,479 --> 01:47:07,959
Speaker 1: bring off the bench and Hayes Pullard and Kyle Manuel,

2255
01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:11,000
Speaker 1: so if the Patriots getting too big personnel, they can

2256
01:47:11,120 --> 01:47:13,879
Speaker 1: they can match it. But they also feel pretty confident

2257
01:47:13,960 --> 01:47:17,519
Speaker 1: with you know, that sixth defensive backgroup because those guys

2258
01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:19,360
Speaker 1: have been stout in terms of the run game, and

2259
01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:21,880
Speaker 1: it gives them versatility to match up in the past

2260
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:25,000
Speaker 1: game and to play coverage. Along with that, they feel

2261
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:27,000
Speaker 1: like you can get pressure with the front four, you know,

2262
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram, and they move those guys around

2263
01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:32,760
Speaker 1: and pass the situations. Sometimes you'll see Melvin rush from

2264
01:47:32,800 --> 01:47:35,160
Speaker 1: the inside or both or rush from the inside. Sometimes

2265
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:36,960
Speaker 1: they'll be on the same side. So they do a

2266
01:47:37,000 --> 01:47:39,080
Speaker 1: good job of kind of mixing things up, so they

2267
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:41,320
Speaker 1: can create pressure with the front four, and then that

2268
01:47:41,360 --> 01:47:44,160
Speaker 1: allows them to play coverage and keep everything in front

2269
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:46,360
Speaker 1: of them. So again, I don't know if they'll go

2270
01:47:46,479 --> 01:47:49,200
Speaker 1: base or if they'll go, you know, six defensive back,

2271
01:47:49,360 --> 01:47:51,280
Speaker 1: or maybe they'll go seven defensive backs. I think a

2272
01:47:51,360 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 1: lot of it is dependent on what the Patriots do

2273
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:57,200
Speaker 1: offensively in and matching with their personnel about the Chargers offense.

2274
01:47:57,240 --> 01:47:59,000
Speaker 1: By the way, we're talking with Eric Williams, who covers

2275
01:47:59,040 --> 01:48:02,439
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles charge Us for ESPN their NFL Nature reporter,

2276
01:48:02,720 --> 01:48:04,560
Speaker 1: my partner, you're Steve Toe. I didn't realize this. What

2277
01:48:04,600 --> 01:48:07,920
Speaker 1: did you say that Philip Rivers is one seven all

2278
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:11,160
Speaker 1: time lifetime Tom Brady, Yeah, I didn't realize that. He

2279
01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:13,280
Speaker 1: said he's had good teams. He's taken good teams to

2280
01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:16,880
Speaker 1: Foxborough and lost in the past as in New York. Yeah,

2281
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:18,880
Speaker 1: you're right. I think that two thousand and seven is

2282
01:48:18,920 --> 01:48:20,840
Speaker 1: probably the ones that stick thousand people's mind. He had

2283
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:24,719
Speaker 1: the torn acl and was batted through that and continued

2284
01:48:24,760 --> 01:48:27,240
Speaker 1: to play, and really the charges were hurt as a whole.

2285
01:48:28,040 --> 01:48:29,680
Speaker 1: LT went in there and I think he had a

2286
01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:33,000
Speaker 1: knee injury. He tried to go but couldn't play, Antonio

2287
01:48:33,080 --> 01:48:36,240
Speaker 1: Gates had a toe injury. I think Merryman was dealing

2288
01:48:36,280 --> 01:48:37,840
Speaker 1: with an injury as well in that game, and they

2289
01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:40,679
Speaker 1: just weren't able to get it done. And I believe

2290
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:44,880
Speaker 1: they lost the Patriots in San Diego the year before

2291
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, and that might have been

2292
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:49,800
Speaker 1: the year they went fourteen and two. He got another

2293
01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:52,720
Speaker 1: really good team just you know, didn't get it done.

2294
01:48:52,880 --> 01:48:56,000
Speaker 1: And so that's certainly in the back of Philip rivers

2295
01:48:56,160 --> 01:48:58,920
Speaker 1: mind and Antonio Gates's mind that they haven't, you know,

2296
01:48:59,040 --> 01:49:02,640
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots when they needed to beat them. And

2297
01:49:02,760 --> 01:49:05,200
Speaker 1: we'll see if they can overcome that on Sunday. Well,

2298
01:49:05,240 --> 01:49:07,280
Speaker 1: one of the things about this game at this point

2299
01:49:07,320 --> 01:49:09,040
Speaker 1: of the season, it's hard to be healthy when you

2300
01:49:09,160 --> 01:49:11,800
Speaker 1: headed into these games. It's been a long season. But

2301
01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:14,200
Speaker 1: the Chargers seemed to be getting some help with Hunter Henry,

2302
01:49:15,040 --> 01:49:17,120
Speaker 1: the tight end who's going to be activated. Will he

2303
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:20,680
Speaker 1: make a difference, Yeah, I'm not sure if he'll make

2304
01:49:20,720 --> 01:49:23,679
Speaker 1: a difference, you know, I mean, I guess the first

2305
01:49:24,040 --> 01:49:26,839
Speaker 1: indication of that was he didn't play against the Ravens.

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01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: So although he's ahead of schedule, it's still an ACL injury.

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01:49:31,280 --> 01:49:34,360
Speaker 1: It's it's about seven months he injured in May. If

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01:49:34,400 --> 01:49:36,240
Speaker 1: he does play, I think he would be limited to

2309
01:49:36,320 --> 01:49:40,040
Speaker 1: probably ten or twenty snaps. Now, it does force the

2310
01:49:40,080 --> 01:49:42,280
Speaker 1: Patriots the game platform him the fact that he could

2311
01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:44,160
Speaker 1: be out there on the field, But I just don't

2312
01:49:44,200 --> 01:49:45,760
Speaker 1: know how much of the impact he can have on

2313
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:48,640
Speaker 1: offense because he hasn't been through a padded practice, he

2314
01:49:48,720 --> 01:49:51,760
Speaker 1: had no offseason, he didn't have a training camp. So

2315
01:49:52,080 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 1: to go out there and lean on him for forty staffs,

2316
01:49:55,040 --> 01:49:58,320
Speaker 1: I think it is probably unfair to the player. But again,

2317
01:49:58,400 --> 01:50:01,120
Speaker 1: it does make the Patriots have to help for Henry

2318
01:50:01,160 --> 01:50:04,559
Speaker 1: because you know he's he's an impact player if he's

2319
01:50:04,600 --> 01:50:07,400
Speaker 1: healthy and can play like he normally does. Hey, you

2320
01:50:07,479 --> 01:50:09,559
Speaker 1: know we talked about home and road and the Chargers

2321
01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:13,040
Speaker 1: excelling down the road, but here comes another East coast

2322
01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 1: trip for the Los Angeles Chargers. Right back and forth

2323
01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:17,720
Speaker 1: to Baltimore last week, now back and forth to Foxborough.

2324
01:50:18,400 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 1: That's a lot to ask, I would think, right, is it?

2325
01:50:20,640 --> 01:50:23,120
Speaker 1: Even for a road tested team like the Chargers? A

2326
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:26,120
Speaker 1: lot to ask on the coast to coast like that, sure,

2327
01:50:26,240 --> 01:50:28,240
Speaker 1: and back to back weeks. I think the tribal can

2328
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:29,720
Speaker 1: catch up with it, and you have to do a

2329
01:50:29,760 --> 01:50:32,160
Speaker 1: good job of making your players are getting enough ref

2330
01:50:32,600 --> 01:50:36,040
Speaker 1: that you're getting to the New England area in time

2331
01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:39,479
Speaker 1: to let them transition to the different time changes. But

2332
01:50:39,600 --> 01:50:41,800
Speaker 1: I think at this point of the season, you know,

2333
01:50:41,840 --> 01:50:43,800
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys are young guys that haven't

2334
01:50:43,840 --> 01:50:46,120
Speaker 1: been in the playoffs before, so there's excited for the

2335
01:50:46,200 --> 01:50:48,960
Speaker 1: opportunity and they want to make sure that they make

2336
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:52,160
Speaker 1: the most of it and take advantage of it. But yeah,

2337
01:50:52,240 --> 01:50:54,439
Speaker 1: certainly back to back weeks going to the East Coast

2338
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:57,519
Speaker 1: can catch up with you. Melvin Gordon got a little

2339
01:50:57,520 --> 01:50:59,280
Speaker 1: bit nicked up in the Baltimore game. He had been

2340
01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:01,599
Speaker 1: nicked up late in the season as well. How what's

2341
01:51:01,680 --> 01:51:05,479
Speaker 1: his status headed into Foxborough. Yeah, it looks like he's

2342
01:51:05,479 --> 01:51:08,040
Speaker 1: got a sprain left knee. He had a splain MCL

2343
01:51:08,479 --> 01:51:10,120
Speaker 1: a month ago that he's been dealing with, and he's

2344
01:51:10,120 --> 01:51:13,439
Speaker 1: been dealing with an ankle issue for most of the season.

2345
01:51:13,560 --> 01:51:16,320
Speaker 1: So they're going to probably rest him during the week

2346
01:51:16,400 --> 01:51:18,439
Speaker 1: to see if he can get as healthy as possible

2347
01:51:18,520 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 1: going into Sunday's contest. Last year against New England, he

2348
01:51:22,320 --> 01:51:23,840
Speaker 1: had a pretty good game. I think he ended up

2349
01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:25,760
Speaker 1: with one hundred and thirty two rushing yards. He had

2350
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:30,719
Speaker 1: an eighty seven yard rushing touchdown. So I think they

2351
01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:33,519
Speaker 1: feel like they can get Melvin Gordon if he's fully healthy.

2352
01:51:33,800 --> 01:51:36,000
Speaker 1: If he's not healthy, though, they have pretty good depth

2353
01:51:36,040 --> 01:51:38,559
Speaker 1: at running back. Austin Eckler has been a guy that's

2354
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:41,679
Speaker 1: been able to create explosive plays for him. Justin Jackson

2355
01:51:41,720 --> 01:51:43,720
Speaker 1: had a pretty good game against the Steelers on the

2356
01:51:43,800 --> 01:51:47,839
Speaker 1: road a month ago, and then they had to Tres Neusom.

2357
01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:50,800
Speaker 1: That is a between the tackles runners. So they feel

2358
01:51:50,840 --> 01:51:52,760
Speaker 1: good about all four of those guys. Eric Lessing, I

2359
01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:55,240
Speaker 1: got for you. I'm a big Anthony Lynn fan. I

2360
01:51:55,320 --> 01:51:56,920
Speaker 1: love the way he runs a team. We talked about

2361
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 1: in him earlier. I wonder if he playing the card

2362
01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:01,519
Speaker 1: at all of Look, we won twelve games and we're

2363
01:52:01,520 --> 01:52:03,280
Speaker 1: not getting any respect here. We're going back on the

2364
01:52:03,360 --> 01:52:07,200
Speaker 1: road for a second consecutive playoff game. Does that resonate

2365
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:10,160
Speaker 1: with those Chargers? Do you think? I think he's using

2366
01:52:10,240 --> 01:52:13,320
Speaker 1: anything at his disposal to try to motivate his players,

2367
01:52:13,360 --> 01:52:15,840
Speaker 1: and certainly that is part of it. You know, people

2368
01:52:15,840 --> 01:52:17,640
Speaker 1: are going to be talking about New England more than

2369
01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 1: his Chargers, and why wouldn't they when you look at

2370
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:22,439
Speaker 1: the pedigree that the Patriots bring to the table. So

2371
01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:25,600
Speaker 1: that's going to be a motivating factor. And this is

2372
01:52:25,640 --> 01:52:27,720
Speaker 1: a team that Lynn knows pretty well. You know, he

2373
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,720
Speaker 1: coached twice a year against this team when he was

2374
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:33,000
Speaker 1: a coach with the Jets and with the Bills, So

2375
01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:36,680
Speaker 1: he understands what coach Belichick and the Patriots kind of

2376
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:38,840
Speaker 1: bring to the table. And he's really emphasizing that to

2377
01:52:39,439 --> 01:52:41,519
Speaker 1: his players that they have to be on point, they

2378
01:52:41,600 --> 01:52:44,240
Speaker 1: have to tighten things up, and they can't make mistakes

2379
01:52:44,280 --> 01:52:45,680
Speaker 1: in this game or else. It's going to be hard

2380
01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:47,800
Speaker 1: for them to want on the road. It'll be hard,

2381
01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:50,880
Speaker 1: but I look forward to seeing it. That's almost Eric,

2382
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:52,880
Speaker 1: thanks for this. We appreciate you coming on with us today.

2383
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:55,759
Speaker 1: Thank you, no problem, Thanks for having guys. Eric Williams

2384
01:52:55,800 --> 01:52:58,599
Speaker 1: covers the Chargers the Los Angeles Chargers for ESPN. They're

2385
01:52:58,680 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 1: NFL Nation reporter. Been with the ESPN for the last

2386
01:53:01,240 --> 01:53:04,000
Speaker 1: six years. He joined us on the Subway Fresh Take hutline,

2387
01:53:04,040 --> 01:53:07,240
Speaker 1: presented by subway Restaurants proud to be locally owned and operated.

2388
01:53:07,320 --> 01:53:09,040
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any point spreads or anything. I don't

2389
01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:11,439
Speaker 1: paid much attention to that I'd imagine the Patriots are

2390
01:53:11,479 --> 01:53:13,120
Speaker 1: going to be favored at home, but this could be

2391
01:53:13,160 --> 01:53:16,519
Speaker 1: a really good game. Steave, I really like Philip Rivers

2392
01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:18,320
Speaker 1: at this point in his career going in there. It'll

2393
01:53:18,360 --> 01:53:23,160
Speaker 1: be hard for the Patriots to fool him. He is,

2394
01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:26,760
Speaker 1: in my mind, right on pace on par with a

2395
01:53:26,840 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: guy like Peyton Manning, who could decipher what he's looking at.

2396
01:53:29,439 --> 01:53:30,960
Speaker 1: And I think Philip Rivers is the point of his

2397
01:53:31,000 --> 01:53:34,960
Speaker 1: crease seen everything, knows everything well, and we'll be totally

2398
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:38,200
Speaker 1: prepared for that. So I think that is something that's

2399
01:53:38,240 --> 01:53:42,120
Speaker 1: going to serve the Chargers well, more so than other

2400
01:53:42,200 --> 01:53:44,200
Speaker 1: teams who have gone in there and not been successful.

2401
01:53:44,560 --> 01:53:48,320
Speaker 1: So I think. And plus, like I said when we

2402
01:53:48,400 --> 01:53:51,600
Speaker 1: were talking to Eric Williams, the Chargers have got some

2403
01:53:51,840 --> 01:53:55,840
Speaker 1: dynamite coordinators Ken wizzen Hunt and Gus Bradley know what

2404
01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:59,040
Speaker 1: they're doing and their ability to end game adjust is

2405
01:53:59,160 --> 01:54:03,800
Speaker 1: critical when you're playing the Patriots. So yeah, I think

2406
01:54:03,840 --> 01:54:07,160
Speaker 1: this is a game that is going to be a really,

2407
01:54:07,240 --> 01:54:10,000
Speaker 1: really good football game. It'll be interesting to see. So

2408
01:54:10,120 --> 01:54:12,360
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday, and I have not paid much attention to

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01:54:12,439 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 1: the NFL since Sunday, since that game ended Sunday night.

2410
01:54:16,040 --> 01:54:18,000
Speaker 1: And now I'm looking at the schedule for this weekend.

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01:54:18,360 --> 01:54:20,599
Speaker 1: I got a great weekend coming up here with these

2412
01:54:20,640 --> 01:54:24,559
Speaker 1: divisional playoff games Colts and Chiefs four thirty five pm

2413
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:29,280
Speaker 1: on Saturday, that's the game. The AFC bracket is really good,

2414
01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:33,880
Speaker 1: I mean, really fun games. The NFC bracket, I see

2415
01:54:33,880 --> 01:54:37,640
Speaker 1: a couple of blowouts. I'm sorry, ramsammer that are gonna crush.

2416
01:54:37,720 --> 01:54:40,920
Speaker 1: The Cowboys and the Eagles. I mean, they're just they've

2417
01:54:40,960 --> 01:54:43,640
Speaker 1: just been scraping by, scraping by, barely gott in the playoffs,

2418
01:54:43,760 --> 01:54:46,920
Speaker 1: barely beat a Chicago team, and now they're playing the Saints,

2419
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:52,320
Speaker 1: rested and ready and at New Orleans. The NFC side

2420
01:54:52,400 --> 01:54:55,480
Speaker 1: looks lopside with those two AFC games Sunday one Acock

2421
01:54:55,600 --> 01:54:58,240
Speaker 1: Chargers Patriots. They look, really, what Bills fan cannot go

2422
01:54:58,400 --> 01:54:59,920
Speaker 1: and sit down and watch that game and say, let

2423
01:55:00,040 --> 01:55:03,320
Speaker 1: let's go la right, seriously, how do you yeah? I mean,

2424
01:55:03,400 --> 01:55:05,640
Speaker 1: come on, that's a that's a great murphy. Don't have

2425
01:55:05,680 --> 01:55:09,520
Speaker 1: to apologize for picking a team for whatever reason. You're

2426
01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:12,280
Speaker 1: right hunting. Come on, I'm gonna rote for the roof

2427
01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:14,400
Speaker 1: of the Colts. I'm gonna roof for the chargers. There

2428
01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:16,640
Speaker 1: you going. I'm with you. I'm totally with you. We're

2429
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:18,320
Speaker 1: gonna take a break. We're coming back with more. One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Side presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive.

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01:55:21,120 --> 01:55:37,320
Speaker 1: And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, One Bill's

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01:55:37,320 --> 01:55:39,800
Speaker 1: Side from One Bill's Drive. I'm John Murphy. Steve Tasker

2433
01:55:39,920 --> 01:55:42,880
Speaker 1: joined us as well. What's matter of Steve? I thought

2434
01:55:42,920 --> 01:55:45,760
Speaker 1: it was two, not two thirty. It's two thirty, buddy. Hey,

2435
01:55:45,840 --> 01:55:48,120
Speaker 1: you gotta hurry up, man the self. We gotta more

2436
01:55:48,160 --> 01:55:50,560
Speaker 1: ground to cover. You and Chris Brown, when you weren't

2437
01:55:50,560 --> 01:55:54,680
Speaker 1: talking about the Dirigibles, talked about the Bill's new signy yesterday.

2438
01:55:54,680 --> 01:55:56,680
Speaker 1: I want to get your take on Duke Williams, wide

2439
01:55:56,680 --> 01:55:59,920
Speaker 1: receiver from the CFL. Auburn product led to see if

2440
01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:02,600
Speaker 1: fell in receiving yards this past year eighty eight catches,

2441
01:56:02,840 --> 01:56:06,240
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and seventy nine yards twenty eighteen CFL All Star.

2442
01:56:06,520 --> 01:56:09,200
Speaker 1: You have unique insight into the Canadian Football League because

2443
01:56:09,280 --> 01:56:11,680
Speaker 1: your son is a Canadian Football League receiver. But what

2444
01:56:11,760 --> 01:56:13,120
Speaker 1: do you know about Duke Williams? What do you think

2445
01:56:13,120 --> 01:56:15,720
Speaker 1: about Say, he's a big body, he runs really good routes,

2446
01:56:16,280 --> 01:56:19,240
Speaker 1: he's got great ball skills, adjust the ball well in

2447
01:56:19,320 --> 01:56:22,200
Speaker 1: the air, goes up and wins fifty fifty balls and

2448
01:56:22,280 --> 01:56:24,200
Speaker 1: he can. And he's a big dude up there. He's

2449
01:56:24,200 --> 01:56:26,720
Speaker 1: sixty three two twenty down here too, so he's a

2450
01:56:26,760 --> 01:56:30,320
Speaker 1: big body. But he wins a lot of contested balls

2451
01:56:30,640 --> 01:56:33,720
Speaker 1: in the Canadian League. Now, he's not a fast speed guy,

2452
01:56:34,400 --> 01:56:39,360
Speaker 1: but he is a productive guy. He runs really good routes,

2453
01:56:39,400 --> 01:56:42,040
Speaker 1: gets good separation even though he's like a four seven guy,

2454
01:56:42,160 --> 01:56:46,080
Speaker 1: four seven five guy, So he's got a lot of

2455
01:56:46,160 --> 01:56:49,320
Speaker 1: things going for him. He did have some off the

2456
01:56:49,400 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: field issues, but from what I understand, no, no, no,

2457
01:56:52,880 --> 01:56:55,560
Speaker 1: and down to college he has kept it on the

2458
01:56:55,600 --> 01:57:00,440
Speaker 1: straight and narrow. In Edmonton, he had a cup coffee.

2459
01:57:00,440 --> 01:57:02,640
Speaker 1: Who I believe with the Rams, Well, yeah, I went

2460
01:57:02,720 --> 01:57:05,200
Speaker 1: to camp with the Rams, not drafted, but they the

2461
01:57:05,240 --> 01:57:07,960
Speaker 1: final cuts with the Rams, right, so there's no reason

2462
01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:10,120
Speaker 1: to think they had any issues with him off the field,

2463
01:57:10,160 --> 01:57:13,240
Speaker 1: at least to my knowledge. And so I think he's

2464
01:57:14,040 --> 01:57:17,480
Speaker 1: done his best to prove that he's committed and wants

2465
01:57:17,520 --> 01:57:20,520
Speaker 1: to play, and he got a contract with the Bills.

2466
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:23,280
Speaker 1: But he is a big bodied receiver and I don't

2467
01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:25,480
Speaker 1: want to say this for any negative reasons, but he's

2468
01:57:25,520 --> 01:57:27,160
Speaker 1: kind of the guy. I think the Bills have one

2469
01:57:27,200 --> 01:57:29,120
Speaker 1: of these guys on the radar, like they want a

2470
01:57:29,160 --> 01:57:31,680
Speaker 1: big like a Kelvin Benjamin type and best case scenario

2471
01:57:31,800 --> 01:57:34,160
Speaker 1: guy who goes up and gets contested balls. Now you

2472
01:57:34,240 --> 01:57:35,960
Speaker 1: know they try to get one in Kelvin Benjamin. We

2473
01:57:36,000 --> 01:57:37,920
Speaker 1: all know that didn't work out. But if that's in

2474
01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:41,360
Speaker 1: their philosophy or in their perfect world, is to have

2475
01:57:41,480 --> 01:57:43,240
Speaker 1: one of those guys on their roster, this could be

2476
01:57:43,280 --> 01:57:45,040
Speaker 1: a guy that filled that role. I found it interesting

2477
01:57:45,160 --> 01:57:47,080
Speaker 1: and it's been really almost a couple of years. Now

2478
01:57:47,160 --> 01:57:50,520
Speaker 1: is the Bills trying to construct a wide receiver depth chart?

2479
01:57:51,040 --> 01:57:52,760
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the answer is, but they

2480
01:57:52,840 --> 01:57:56,480
Speaker 1: do seem this group anyway, seem to have like a

2481
01:57:56,600 --> 01:57:58,480
Speaker 1: template in mind. We need one big guy, we need

2482
01:57:58,520 --> 01:58:00,760
Speaker 1: one speed guy, we need one all around guy. You

2483
01:58:00,800 --> 01:58:02,680
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And I don't. This would be

2484
01:58:02,760 --> 01:58:04,760
Speaker 1: the big guy. I guess if he can contribute. I

2485
01:58:04,840 --> 01:58:07,320
Speaker 1: don't think you can immediately and you could speak to this.

2486
01:58:07,520 --> 01:58:11,760
Speaker 1: Having Luke in the CFL, you cannot transpose his numbers

2487
01:58:11,840 --> 01:58:15,280
Speaker 1: CFL numbers to the NFL. Totally different game, totally different

2488
01:58:15,400 --> 01:58:18,240
Speaker 1: number of pass attempts for one, But uh, I think

2489
01:58:18,280 --> 01:58:20,480
Speaker 1: a good signing just to add to the ranks and see,

2490
01:58:20,560 --> 01:58:22,560
Speaker 1: you know, I would imagine I think, I hear I

2491
01:58:22,640 --> 01:58:24,680
Speaker 1: do hear you said this yesterday? Because it happened last year,

2492
01:58:24,760 --> 01:58:27,680
Speaker 1: You're anticipating in another year with like thirteen receivers in

2493
01:58:27,800 --> 01:58:29,960
Speaker 1: camp for the Bills, right, I would imagine. So, yeah,

2494
01:58:30,080 --> 01:58:32,480
Speaker 1: there's usually about that many. There's there's usually about as

2495
01:58:32,520 --> 01:58:37,680
Speaker 1: many receivers in camp as offensive lineman and maybe just

2496
01:58:37,840 --> 01:58:40,880
Speaker 1: a hair right around the same number, like between twelve

2497
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:45,960
Speaker 1: to fourteen of each position group. And that's that's you know,

2498
01:58:46,160 --> 01:58:50,720
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. There's usually six running backs,

2499
01:58:51,920 --> 01:58:54,720
Speaker 1: you know, four quarterbacks, and that's that's all have their

2500
01:58:54,800 --> 01:58:56,280
Speaker 1: choice of a lot of different guys that look at

2501
01:58:56,600 --> 01:58:58,720
Speaker 1: that's right, and and and he'll be one of them.

2502
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:00,440
Speaker 1: Duke Williams will be one of them. Him. He'll be

2503
01:59:00,600 --> 01:59:03,000
Speaker 1: a guy who will have a role to fill, no

2504
01:59:03,160 --> 01:59:08,440
Speaker 1: question about it. But he's he does not fit the

2505
01:59:08,600 --> 01:59:10,280
Speaker 1: template that we saw at the end of the year

2506
01:59:10,320 --> 01:59:12,320
Speaker 1: with the Bills about getting more speed on the field.

2507
01:59:12,440 --> 01:59:15,200
Speaker 1: He is the exact He's a different guy than that.

2508
01:59:16,760 --> 01:59:20,280
Speaker 1: It'll come down to how big his catch radius is

2509
01:59:20,600 --> 01:59:23,320
Speaker 1: does Josh Allen like him? Can he get separation in

2510
01:59:23,400 --> 01:59:26,800
Speaker 1: tight areas? Can he run intermediate routes and deep routes?

2511
01:59:26,880 --> 01:59:28,960
Speaker 1: He's good on deep balls going up and getting him.

2512
01:59:29,720 --> 01:59:30,960
Speaker 1: But you know he's gonna have to do a lot.

2513
01:59:31,120 --> 01:59:33,760
Speaker 1: He's gonna do a lot to make this team. Okay,

2514
01:59:34,640 --> 01:59:36,520
Speaker 1: watch some of the video. He caught a pass and

2515
01:59:36,840 --> 01:59:39,880
Speaker 1: crawled through the signage and all these Oh my gosh,

2516
01:59:39,920 --> 01:59:42,160
Speaker 1: there's like three of one guy went in, three guys

2517
01:59:42,240 --> 01:59:44,400
Speaker 1: came out. Don't try that in the NFL. Right, don't

2518
01:59:44,480 --> 01:59:48,320
Speaker 1: jump in that salvation army kettle in the ends. That's right? Hey, um,

2519
01:59:48,400 --> 01:59:50,200
Speaker 1: why don't know what you think about the Bills? And

2520
01:59:50,480 --> 01:59:52,640
Speaker 1: this came about last week we were doing the kind

2521
01:59:52,680 --> 01:59:55,080
Speaker 1: of season in review? It's a simple question for our

2522
01:59:55,080 --> 01:59:56,840
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. We got time to talk about it here

2523
01:59:57,120 --> 01:59:59,280
Speaker 1: eight oh three h five fifty and toll free one

2524
01:59:59,440 --> 02:00:02,120
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty or on

2525
02:00:02,200 --> 02:00:04,200
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet are the Bills simple question? Or the

2526
02:00:04,200 --> 02:00:07,120
Speaker 1: Bills headed in the right direction? Yes? On Twitter, fifty

2527
02:00:07,160 --> 02:00:09,480
Speaker 1: one percent of you say yes, and you expect them

2528
02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:12,400
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. In twenty nineteen, forty four percent

2529
02:00:12,440 --> 02:00:14,440
Speaker 1: of you say, yes, they're headed in the right direction,

2530
02:00:14,520 --> 02:00:17,400
Speaker 1: but patience is required, and only five percent of you

2531
02:00:17,560 --> 02:00:21,440
Speaker 1: say no. I confess I'm surprised by the magnitude of that, Steve.

2532
02:00:21,960 --> 02:00:25,760
Speaker 1: Ninety five percent of respondents say the Bills are heading

2533
02:00:25,760 --> 02:00:28,400
Speaker 1: in the right direction. I'm impressed, and I like it.

2534
02:00:28,440 --> 02:00:30,560
Speaker 1: I like the fact that people are optimistic about where

2535
02:00:30,600 --> 02:00:32,480
Speaker 1: this team is headed. And I think what the five

2536
02:00:32,600 --> 02:00:36,000
Speaker 1: percent is Miami and New England and Jet fans living

2537
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:40,560
Speaker 1: in the area right within the Bills. Yeah, yes, it's hard.

2538
02:00:40,560 --> 02:00:42,200
Speaker 1: I mean, they always see something they can latch onto

2539
02:00:42,240 --> 02:00:44,080
Speaker 1: and they don't like. But you're right ninety five percent.

2540
02:00:44,200 --> 02:00:45,680
Speaker 1: And I think even the people to say, hey, listen,

2541
02:00:45,680 --> 02:00:48,200
Speaker 1: playoffs in twenty nineteen, or even if they don't get

2542
02:00:48,200 --> 02:00:50,600
Speaker 1: to the playoffs in twenty nineteen and they look the

2543
02:00:50,720 --> 02:00:52,960
Speaker 1: way you think they should look and they get close

2544
02:00:53,000 --> 02:00:57,840
Speaker 1: out because listen, there's no guarantee you win eleven games

2545
02:00:57,840 --> 02:00:59,880
Speaker 1: and get in. I mean, I had a former coach,

2546
02:01:00,120 --> 02:01:03,480
Speaker 1: mind Nick Nikolau, said we were eleven and five in

2547
02:01:03,560 --> 02:01:06,200
Speaker 1: Denver one year back and we got shut out of

2548
02:01:06,280 --> 02:01:09,880
Speaker 1: the playoffs, And how does that happen? It's hard, but

2549
02:01:10,000 --> 02:01:12,080
Speaker 1: it does have ten and six not a guarantee. Nine

2550
02:01:12,080 --> 02:01:14,880
Speaker 1: and seven is not a guarantee. You you've got to

2551
02:01:15,120 --> 02:01:17,440
Speaker 1: But if your team is up there playing like that

2552
02:01:18,200 --> 02:01:20,120
Speaker 1: and bad things happen, you don't get in the playoffs.

2553
02:01:20,200 --> 02:01:21,840
Speaker 1: It's not that they make in the playoffs, but it's

2554
02:01:21,880 --> 02:01:23,880
Speaker 1: got to be the team you want to see. They

2555
02:01:23,960 --> 02:01:26,400
Speaker 1: got to be the team that is making progress and

2556
02:01:26,800 --> 02:01:29,960
Speaker 1: winning games that you think they should win. Now, certainly

2557
02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:32,320
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win all of them, but I think

2558
02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:34,000
Speaker 1: that's where we're talking about. This has got to be

2559
02:01:34,040 --> 02:01:36,080
Speaker 1: a team that takes a big step forward this next year.

2560
02:01:36,520 --> 02:01:38,280
Speaker 1: Let's don't you think we got lines open at eight

2561
02:01:38,360 --> 02:01:42,080
Speaker 1: O three fifty and toll three eight five fifty two

2562
02:01:42,120 --> 02:01:44,840
Speaker 1: five fifty or On Twitter from the tweet sheet from

2563
02:01:44,920 --> 02:01:48,520
Speaker 1: Brian Greer, he says, I voted yes, but patience is required.

2564
02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:51,280
Speaker 1: I wanted to vote for playoffs, but realistically, we have

2565
02:01:51,360 --> 02:01:54,440
Speaker 1: too many holes and the AFC is stacked with good teams.

2566
02:01:54,760 --> 02:01:56,839
Speaker 1: I think we are a few years away from the playoffs.

2567
02:01:56,840 --> 02:02:00,080
Speaker 1: But I hope I'm wrong. I get it. I understand that,

2568
02:02:00,160 --> 02:02:02,320
Speaker 1: and I'm declined to agree with that. Yeah, I mean,

2569
02:02:02,400 --> 02:02:04,680
Speaker 1: I see the same thing he does. There's good teams

2570
02:02:04,720 --> 02:02:10,240
Speaker 1: in Chiefs, Patriots, The Steelers will be bouncing back next year. Um,

2571
02:02:10,520 --> 02:02:16,680
Speaker 1: the Browns look to be improving, the Colts, Texans, the Texans.

2572
02:02:17,320 --> 02:02:21,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the Chargers, they're not going anywhere

2573
02:02:21,360 --> 02:02:26,280
Speaker 1: for the time being. Um. Yeah. And so it's it's

2574
02:02:26,480 --> 02:02:29,720
Speaker 1: it's hard to win. It's hard to win. This this

2575
02:02:29,920 --> 02:02:33,480
Speaker 1: just end. It's really hard to win. And every time

2576
02:02:33,520 --> 02:02:35,480
Speaker 1: and every year we're gonna go, we're gonna be here.

2577
02:02:35,520 --> 02:02:38,080
Speaker 1: And I'll just warn you now, and we all do this.

2578
02:02:38,200 --> 02:02:40,560
Speaker 1: There's the schedule is gonna come out when you play

2579
02:02:40,640 --> 02:02:42,520
Speaker 1: and where you play is gonna come out, and we're

2580
02:02:42,520 --> 02:02:44,240
Speaker 1: all gonna go down that list and we're gonna go

2581
02:02:44,800 --> 02:02:47,960
Speaker 1: when when loss loss win, loss win win. You know,

2582
02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:49,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna go down there. We're gonna come out and

2583
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:50,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be ten and six and we're gonna say, yeah,

2584
02:02:50,960 --> 02:02:53,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna make the playoffs. And none of the teams

2585
02:02:53,360 --> 02:02:55,160
Speaker 1: on that schedule are gonna be the same as they

2586
02:02:55,200 --> 02:02:58,040
Speaker 1: are right now, right and we're all gonna fall into

2587
02:02:58,120 --> 02:02:59,640
Speaker 1: that trap. And the Bills aren't going to be better.

2588
02:02:59,720 --> 02:03:01,680
Speaker 1: There are different or the Bills aren't gonna be the same.

2589
02:03:01,680 --> 02:03:04,400
Speaker 1: They're gonna be different. I told you this a couple

2590
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:06,760
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, Murph, and I'm still I still believe it.

2591
02:03:07,080 --> 02:03:09,160
Speaker 1: The Bills are a better team now than they were

2592
02:03:09,280 --> 02:03:11,080
Speaker 1: a year ago when they made the playoffs and they

2593
02:03:11,160 --> 02:03:13,960
Speaker 1: won what three fewer games. I think they're a bunch

2594
02:03:14,040 --> 02:03:16,000
Speaker 1: better football team now at the end of this season

2595
02:03:16,040 --> 02:03:17,600
Speaker 1: than they were at any point last season when they

2596
02:03:17,640 --> 02:03:23,720
Speaker 1: were in the playoffs. The quarterback, yeah, and the defense

2597
02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:28,360
Speaker 1: is twenty four notches better on the rankings than they

2598
02:03:28,400 --> 02:03:32,120
Speaker 1: were this last year, or twenty two more higher. You know,

2599
02:03:32,200 --> 02:03:35,000
Speaker 1: they were twenty six last year and their second this year. Hum,

2600
02:03:35,240 --> 02:03:37,200
Speaker 1: it's a much better football team, but they only come

2601
02:03:37,280 --> 02:03:39,640
Speaker 1: up and they only win six games instead of nine games.

2602
02:03:41,240 --> 02:03:43,480
Speaker 1: That's the frustrating part of it. You know, you can

2603
02:03:43,560 --> 02:03:46,160
Speaker 1: get better and lose more games and then everybody's and

2604
02:03:46,520 --> 02:03:48,800
Speaker 1: everybody thinks you're laying down the job, but it's it's

2605
02:03:48,840 --> 02:03:51,240
Speaker 1: really not the case. So we're all going to fall

2606
02:03:51,280 --> 02:03:53,400
Speaker 1: into that trap where the season is going to start

2607
02:03:53,440 --> 02:03:54,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna think we have a handle on who

2608
02:03:55,000 --> 02:03:56,440
Speaker 1: the team is going to be because we think we

2609
02:03:56,560 --> 02:03:58,280
Speaker 1: know the other teams from what they did last year,

2610
02:03:58,600 --> 02:03:59,920
Speaker 1: and is none of it's going to be true because

2611
02:04:00,160 --> 02:04:01,760
Speaker 1: I always say it's a week to weekly. It is

2612
02:04:01,760 --> 02:04:03,720
Speaker 1: a week to weekly. You always say that, you say,

2613
02:04:03,760 --> 02:04:05,560
Speaker 1: and I mean, it's kind of frustrated that you say

2614
02:04:05,600 --> 02:04:08,120
Speaker 1: that too. I can't have a discussion with somebody only

2615
02:04:08,200 --> 02:04:11,320
Speaker 1: has one line, Tom and left, I wanna I got

2616
02:04:11,360 --> 02:04:13,320
Speaker 1: a lot more lines. You don't want to hear some

2617
02:04:13,360 --> 02:04:15,560
Speaker 1: of my time and lack of wanna go ahead? You're

2618
02:04:15,600 --> 02:04:19,000
Speaker 1: in the air, yes, Hi. What are you called in

2619
02:04:19,120 --> 02:04:23,480
Speaker 1: earlier about coach at calling time out and freezing the kicker? Right, Yeah,

2620
02:04:24,200 --> 02:04:26,520
Speaker 1: freezing the kicker is fine. But I think if the

2621
02:04:26,600 --> 02:04:29,400
Speaker 1: guy gets the kick off and it's good, well, whether

2622
02:04:29,480 --> 02:04:31,280
Speaker 1: it's good or not, if he got the kick off,

2623
02:04:32,040 --> 02:04:34,200
Speaker 1: the guy who was calling time out blew it and

2624
02:04:34,400 --> 02:04:38,400
Speaker 1: it should count. What do you mean get the kickout? Well,

2625
02:04:38,440 --> 02:04:40,200
Speaker 1: they you mean before the snap or what are you

2626
02:04:40,280 --> 02:04:42,520
Speaker 1: talking about? I'm talking about if they don't get the

2627
02:04:42,600 --> 02:04:45,520
Speaker 1: time inage like in the Chicago the guy made the kick.

2628
02:04:46,520 --> 02:04:48,360
Speaker 1: Well that was after the pet time out though, So

2629
02:04:48,520 --> 02:04:52,600
Speaker 1: you're saying basically no, no, before the timeout, after the

2630
02:04:52,680 --> 02:04:54,880
Speaker 1: time it was called. But Tom is saying, if the

2631
02:04:54,920 --> 02:04:57,320
Speaker 1: guy manages to get the kick into the air before

2632
02:04:57,360 --> 02:04:59,920
Speaker 1: the timeout is officially recognized, then the kick should count.

2633
02:05:00,280 --> 02:05:03,560
Speaker 1: I think about that time, Well, you want you want

2634
02:05:03,600 --> 02:05:05,400
Speaker 1: that on every play. Let me tell you this though,

2635
02:05:05,600 --> 02:05:07,560
Speaker 1: and this is me, just me talking Tom, and I

2636
02:05:07,600 --> 02:05:09,400
Speaker 1: don't want to make make it sound like I'm some

2637
02:05:09,720 --> 02:05:12,800
Speaker 1: some sort of barbarian, But it was my thought when

2638
02:05:12,840 --> 02:05:15,760
Speaker 1: they started doing this and started icing the kicker, that

2639
02:05:16,360 --> 02:05:18,840
Speaker 1: as me as a as a rush guy. If our

2640
02:05:18,880 --> 02:05:21,800
Speaker 1: guy was gonna ice the kicker, that kicker's not taking

2641
02:05:21,840 --> 02:05:23,760
Speaker 1: a practice kick. In fact, I'm gonna go in and

2642
02:05:23,880 --> 02:05:28,320
Speaker 1: rough him after the time out. If he's gonna get

2643
02:05:28,360 --> 02:05:30,280
Speaker 1: a practice I'm not letting him have a practice kick.

2644
02:05:30,920 --> 02:05:33,920
Speaker 1: I'm rushing the kicker and I'm gonna stumble. I'm gonna

2645
02:05:33,960 --> 02:05:36,760
Speaker 1: stumble and fall into his plant leg and I may

2646
02:05:36,840 --> 02:05:43,360
Speaker 1: break it. And then they ain't making ain't making the

2647
02:05:43,400 --> 02:05:46,320
Speaker 1: field goal to beat us with one play left. If

2648
02:05:46,360 --> 02:05:48,640
Speaker 1: it's there's five seconds left on the clock in that's

2649
02:05:48,720 --> 02:05:51,600
Speaker 1: Chicago and they got no time for anything else. Let's

2650
02:05:51,600 --> 02:05:53,360
Speaker 1: see him make a field goal with a busted leg.

2651
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:56,720
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Then? I just think it's

2652
02:05:57,400 --> 02:05:59,400
Speaker 1: it's up to the head coach of the guy that

2653
02:05:59,520 --> 02:06:01,800
Speaker 1: wants to freeze them to get it in in time

2654
02:06:01,840 --> 02:06:03,720
Speaker 1: and if he doesn't, then he blew it. Well that's

2655
02:06:03,760 --> 02:06:05,080
Speaker 1: just it. If he does, he all he has to

2656
02:06:05,160 --> 02:06:07,080
Speaker 1: do is do it before the snap. That's what they can't.

2657
02:06:07,120 --> 02:06:08,920
Speaker 1: That's what they So what you're saying, really is you

2658
02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:11,560
Speaker 1: want them to say they have to do it before

2659
02:06:11,760 --> 02:06:14,360
Speaker 1: what what? When? How early? Just before the snap or

2660
02:06:14,480 --> 02:06:17,720
Speaker 1: earlier than that, they can line up in whatever. But

2661
02:06:17,840 --> 02:06:21,000
Speaker 1: if he gets the snap off and the referee isn't

2662
02:06:21,240 --> 02:06:25,600
Speaker 1: blown to play dead and he blew it, the head

2663
02:06:25,640 --> 02:06:29,720
Speaker 1: coach of the opposing team blew it, and it should

2664
02:06:29,760 --> 02:06:32,400
Speaker 1: the head the time out should be denied. Well yeah,

2665
02:06:32,440 --> 02:06:35,240
Speaker 1: I mean, if if they're going to recognize the time out,

2666
02:06:35,480 --> 02:06:38,600
Speaker 1: you're you're kind of splitting hairs as to whether it's

2667
02:06:38,640 --> 02:06:40,120
Speaker 1: in time or not. If he if he if he

2668
02:06:40,160 --> 02:06:42,920
Speaker 1: calls the time out before the kick is snapped, before

2669
02:06:42,960 --> 02:06:45,280
Speaker 1: the ball is snapped, it's a time out. I mean,

2670
02:06:45,280 --> 02:06:46,720
Speaker 1: I don't know how other way you could do it

2671
02:06:46,840 --> 02:06:51,840
Speaker 1: and still have the the ability to call time out,

2672
02:06:51,960 --> 02:06:54,800
Speaker 1: because if if the official just doesn't see it, then

2673
02:06:54,840 --> 02:06:57,400
Speaker 1: you're stuck, you know. So, I know, I the way

2674
02:06:57,440 --> 02:06:59,040
Speaker 1: it is now is fine, but I get it. They're

2675
02:06:59,040 --> 02:07:00,720
Speaker 1: gonna wait as late as they can, no matter what

2676
02:07:00,920 --> 02:07:03,240
Speaker 1: and call the time out late. But that's for me,

2677
02:07:03,400 --> 02:07:05,520
Speaker 1: I always thought that's crazy talk. Why don't you just

2678
02:07:05,720 --> 02:07:07,600
Speaker 1: rush You gotta rush the kick hard. If they're gonna

2679
02:07:07,600 --> 02:07:09,600
Speaker 1: call time out and they start blowing it, do not

2680
02:07:09,840 --> 02:07:13,320
Speaker 1: let the guy have a practice kick. Block it right

2681
02:07:13,400 --> 02:07:15,960
Speaker 1: back in his face and fall on the and fall

2682
02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:20,200
Speaker 1: on the holder. I don't care. What are you risking?

2683
02:07:21,160 --> 02:07:25,880
Speaker 1: Probably okay, So so it's a closer kick. The guy's

2684
02:07:25,880 --> 02:07:29,000
Speaker 1: got a bum ankle. Maybe it's a first down. Okay,

2685
02:07:29,240 --> 02:07:32,840
Speaker 1: you got one play. You know what I'm saying. I mean, well,

2686
02:07:32,840 --> 02:07:35,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't let the guy kick. I do not let

2687
02:07:35,480 --> 02:07:38,560
Speaker 1: him take a practice kick. That's big. Now, the guy

2688
02:07:38,600 --> 02:07:41,320
Speaker 1: did it in Chicago and it didn't matter. He still

2689
02:07:41,360 --> 02:07:44,080
Speaker 1: doinked it and it and he got he got deflected,

2690
02:07:44,520 --> 02:07:46,840
Speaker 1: and it double doinked off the cross. I had no

2691
02:07:46,920 --> 02:07:49,560
Speaker 1: shot at making that kick. They had three things going

2692
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:53,080
Speaker 1: against him. But that's that was I always thought it

2693
02:07:53,160 --> 02:07:55,560
Speaker 1: was crazy. If you're gonna ice the kick, the coach

2694
02:07:55,600 --> 02:07:57,880
Speaker 1: should say, hey, I'm icing the kicker. Don't let him

2695
02:07:57,880 --> 02:08:02,600
Speaker 1: take a practice kick. I gotta think about this. I

2696
02:08:02,680 --> 02:08:04,360
Speaker 1: thought it was crazy because that for me, he's a

2697
02:08:04,400 --> 02:08:06,560
Speaker 1: pro kicker and you're out there right in the right spot.

2698
02:08:06,920 --> 02:08:09,480
Speaker 1: He kicked that one and went right through. Perfect kick.

2699
02:08:09,720 --> 02:08:11,280
Speaker 1: Now only as Dud's line up and do it again,

2700
02:08:11,400 --> 02:08:13,920
Speaker 1: and the guy could the guy couldn't do it. But still,

2701
02:08:14,640 --> 02:08:16,240
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I know what you think

2702
02:08:16,240 --> 02:08:17,560
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, you can kick all you want

2703
02:08:17,560 --> 02:08:19,760
Speaker 1: in the net off the side of the field, but

2704
02:08:19,840 --> 02:08:21,520
Speaker 1: when it's time to go, I don't want you to

2705
02:08:21,600 --> 02:08:24,640
Speaker 1: take one with everybody standing in their spots. I got you. Hey,

2706
02:08:24,680 --> 02:08:26,640
Speaker 1: it's signed out for NFL. True or false brought to

2707
02:08:26,640 --> 02:08:30,280
Speaker 1: you by Yancey's, Fancy New York's artists and cheese. Um.

2708
02:08:30,480 --> 02:08:33,760
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks wrote an interesting piece on NFL dot com.

2709
02:08:33,880 --> 02:08:36,920
Speaker 1: Now he wrote it before the weekend, but it doesn't

2710
02:08:36,920 --> 02:08:40,960
Speaker 1: seem like that won't matter. True or false um. In

2711
02:08:41,040 --> 02:08:44,720
Speaker 1: a ranking of the playoff quarterbacks, he had Nick Foles

2712
02:08:44,880 --> 02:08:50,000
Speaker 1: ranked ahead of Tom Brady. Um as it was clutch

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Speaker 1: quarterback of all time. No no, no, no, no today no,

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Speaker 1: Today's true false No. Nick Foles is the most clutch

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Speaker 1: qb ever. Yeah. The guy on Good Morning Football, Pete

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Speaker 1: Schrager said that this morning, and he says Nick Foles

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Speaker 1: is the most clutch quarterback ever. I think he's nuts.

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles isn't even in the conversation for the most

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Speaker 1: clutch quarterback. He's not even in the quarterback. He's not

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Speaker 1: even the conversation for most clutch quarterback on his team. No,

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles is not them. He had no come on,

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Speaker 1: come on, come on, what would you be saying if

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Speaker 1: that kick goes through Mitch Trubisky's more clutch? Yeah, come on?

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Speaker 1: All right? No, false and false? All right, parts two.

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Speaker 1: Bruce Arians said to be the front runner now in

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Bruce Arians can revive the Buccaneers and Jamis Winston. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's false too. Jamis Winston is who he is. It's

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Speaker 1: it's not like he's a first or second year player.

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Speaker 1: We know who he is. Bruce Arians might help him,

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Speaker 1: but revive, get him to the playoffs, make him a

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Speaker 1: top level NFL quarterback. That's not gonna happle with Jamis Winston.

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Speaker 1: That's false. I think it's false too. I think I

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Speaker 1: mean there says some scenario somewhere out there that you

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Speaker 1: can say, Hey, all of a sudden, something clicks and

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Speaker 1: everything changes. I'm with you, Murph, it's not gonna happen. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna Happencharians is not going to come back

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Speaker 1: on his second go round as a head coach when

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Speaker 1: he retired for health reasons and come fix an immature

2739
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Speaker 1: quarterback who's been suspended and who has and who has

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Speaker 1: been a bad leader for his guys on offense, and

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Speaker 1: he's been outplayed by the journeyman of all journeyman quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: and Ryan Fitzpatrick. It's gonna say he's got more chance

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Speaker 1: of having success with both false on that. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's it, all right, We're not gonna go any further

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Speaker 1: than no. Alright, let's fancy New York artist and chief

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Speaker 1: sponsor off Truin falls a break here, We're back with

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Speaker 1: more One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. I'm Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Enough for what do we learned? Presented by

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Speaker 1: with the finance and security and Home Theater the preferred

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Speaker 1: alarment home theater provider of the Buffalo Bills. We had

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander in studio with us today and he talked

2753
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Speaker 1: about the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. He

2754
02:11:13,040 --> 02:11:14,960
Speaker 1: is a finalist one of thirty two finalists in the

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Speaker 1: NFL for the Walter Man of the Year Award. You

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02:11:18,160 --> 02:11:19,920
Speaker 1: can vote help him get a little bit more money

2757
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Speaker 1: for his local charitable efforts by going on Twitter hashtag

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Speaker 1: w P my Lorenzo. Alexander Lorenzo talked about why winning

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Speaker 1: the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award is important

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02:11:30,680 --> 02:11:35,800
Speaker 1: to him. Well, obviously, winning the award gives finances and

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Speaker 1: resource that you can bring right here to Buffalo. And

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of worthy organizations that I've worked with,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Bill Center obviously, South Park High School

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Speaker 1: and many others that the Builds Organization have worked with,

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Speaker 1: and we've kind of vetted and have gotten to known

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Speaker 1: and built relationships that this money can help. So that

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's what it comes

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Speaker 1: down to in my mind, as far as providing resources

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Speaker 1: program that impacts lives, kids, lives, families, lives, and change trajectories,

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Speaker 1: as far as whether people can overcome certain things that

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Speaker 1: they that were out of their control. In the first player,

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Speaker 1: when you root for Lorenzo and you got until Sunday

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Speaker 1: to vote for him on Twitter at wpmoy I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: hashtag w P m OI Lorenzo Alexander get to help

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Speaker 1: him get more money for his charities in Buffalo. Also,

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Speaker 1: what have we learned today? We had Eric Williams on

2777
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Speaker 1: earlier this hour. He's the NFL reporter, NFL Nation reporter

2778
02:12:23,520 --> 02:12:26,040
Speaker 1: covers the Chargers for ESPN, and he talked about the

2779
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers and why Anthony Lynn has been so

2780
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Speaker 1: successful as their head coach. When Tom Flasco was looking

2781
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Speaker 1: for a head coach, the first thing they were looking

2782
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Speaker 1: for was a leader. And I think when they first

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Speaker 1: interviewed Anthony they saw that they had that and coach

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Speaker 1: NN and that's really spilled over to the players and

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Speaker 1: how he runs things. He's transparent and no nonsense in

2786
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Speaker 1: his communications with the players, and I think they appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: And he's kind of built the resiltency in this group.

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Speaker 1: You know, nothing affects them. You know, if things start

2789
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Speaker 1: to get back, they don't get shaky. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's kind of shown in their ability to come back

2791
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Speaker 1: in games against Pittsburgh against Kansas City on the road.

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Speaker 1: All Right, what have we learned? Steve? I got one

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Speaker 1: call earned we got less than a minute. But Greg

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Speaker 1: in Lockport, I believe you have a message for mister tasker, please. Yeah,

2795
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Speaker 1: he's just kind of curious regarding the intent to try

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Speaker 1: to hurt somebody. Yeah, we're talking about safety of the game.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the integrity of competition. Yeah, talking about

2798
02:13:28,280 --> 02:13:31,160
Speaker 1: professional respects for each other. They're just trying to win

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Speaker 1: the game. And the coach call time out. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he's talking about Steve. I'm sorry, I gotta cut you off. Greg,

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Speaker 1: We're almost on the time. But how do you square

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Speaker 1: that with your intention to U Yeah, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hurt the guy. I do. I do want to

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Speaker 1: stop him from getting a free run at a practice kick,

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Speaker 1: whatever that takes. Okay, we got to explore this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean thinks it seems stupid to

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Speaker 1: me to give the guy free kick and don't matter.

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Speaker 1: They don't. I'm going to a hockey game tonight, So

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm out. So sorry, show goes another minute or

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Speaker 1: two you production assistant and George Blast, Jeff Colton, Thomas Hammelder,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, j J. Trito, Kevin Cartis, James Robel, Producer

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris will see it tomorrow at twelve noon One

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