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Speaker 1: Back on One Bill's Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, and

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Speaker 1: we got through that whole first segment. We didn even

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Speaker 1: get to the dang tweet sheets, Steve. We're busy, right,

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Speaker 1: so we'll do that now. As you know, no preseason,

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Speaker 1: as we've talked about more than once here on the show,

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Speaker 1: and the question on the table is some of what

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Speaker 1: we're going to see eventually with no preseason, Should Bills

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Speaker 1: practices be full contact and you know, include full contact?

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Speaker 1: I guess is probably the better way to put it.

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Speaker 1: And there's really only two choices. Of course, you can't

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Speaker 1: go into the season without it and be absolutely not

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Speaker 1: not work worth the risk of injury. And overwhelmingly people

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Speaker 1: are saying, yeah, you got you gotta tackle and practice

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Speaker 1: full contact as a must. I mean, when you think

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Speaker 1: about it, Steve, it's a part of training camp, even

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Speaker 1: with the preseason, albeit abbreviated, because usually when you have

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Speaker 1: four preseason games, you have a situation where you're still

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Speaker 1: gonna have some live goal line to the ground a

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Speaker 1: couple of times during training camp, or at least that's

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Speaker 1: what we've seen. Think about the last several years. Think

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Speaker 1: about this Brownie in a regular preseason your number one

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Speaker 1: offense and defense. The live reps you get are almost

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent in preseason games. Let's and you break

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Speaker 1: that down, it's less than a single half of football,

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Speaker 1: or about a single half of football they get in.

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Speaker 1: They get one series offense and defense the first two games,

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Speaker 1: about a half a game. And because they don't do

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Speaker 1: it in they don't really do it in your probably

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Speaker 1: in camp. Yeah, and that's usually like a twelve play series,

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Speaker 1: and it's not the same guys all twelve. Yeah, you'll

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Speaker 1: get three or four plays of that. If your second

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Speaker 1: they'll get failed to get three or four plays. So

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Speaker 1: let's not let's not act like these guys are out

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Speaker 1: there like it's nineteen sixty five and they're going full

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Speaker 1: you're saying it's about a half for the starters through

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Speaker 1: the course of the preseason, where it's you know, live

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Speaker 1: tackle to the ground. Here we go in terms of

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Speaker 1: all the playing time that they get might be a

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Speaker 1: little bit more than that, but probably about a half

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Speaker 1: to maybe almost three quarters of a football game through

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Speaker 1: the course of four preseason games. So with that in

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Speaker 1: six weeks, So with that in mind, you're probably talking

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Speaker 1: somewhere between forty five and fifty plays, give or take.

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Speaker 1: So how many so, how many, how many series one series,

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Speaker 1: how many get one tackle? No, So my question is, now,

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Speaker 1: let's let's move that to training camp. And so usually

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Speaker 1: you have team segments that go anywhere from twelve to

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Speaker 1: you know, listed for or planned for, and you're rotating

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find how much live hitting you've

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Speaker 1: got to incorporate into training camp to replace the forty

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Speaker 1: so you've got to you've got to wedge all that

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Speaker 1: so your players are calloused up, but they're not beat up,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, it's more about getting

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Speaker 1: you cannot have NFL players shine away from contact, and

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Speaker 1: this coaching staff works on tackling all through the course

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Speaker 1: forget this. Anytime you go live in training camp, the

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Speaker 1: now when you decide to flip the switch on training camp,

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Speaker 1: the added intensity of guys who there may or may

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Speaker 1: tradevious white out there who's just trying to have another

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Speaker 1: How effect that raises it, here's a question for you.

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Speaker 1: How effectively though, can that be mitigated by a coach saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: we are tackling to the ground today. It is live.

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Speaker 1: If you have somebody that you can really line up

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Speaker 1: make a wrap up tackle play right now? Football is

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Speaker 1: I gotta imagine that's a tough thing to a tough

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Speaker 1: let us know on the tweet sheet where you stand.

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Speaker 1: You know, with no preseason should Bills practices include full

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Speaker 1: you can't go into the season without it, or be

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. It is not worth the risk of injury.

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Speaker 1: And when we get the opportunity, we'll get those to

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Speaker 1: you from the tweet sheet. And we actually have a

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Speaker 1: couple right now. And tweet sheet brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official moving company of the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: and this first one from Jeremy says, yes, a player

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Speaker 1: cannot get into quote unquote game shape by playing two

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Speaker 1: to remember the brutal side of the game. Game don't

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Speaker 1: eat Sean Taylor tackling Mormon plays, but game speed is good.

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Speaker 1: He's referring to that Sean Taylor hitting the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: one's better. Well, there is something to be said, Steve

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Speaker 1: about callousing your players up for live contact, right, There's

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's radio Back on One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as we are making

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Speaker 1: our way through your comments on the tweet sheet where

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Speaker 1: we were asking today with no preseason should the Bills

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Speaker 1: practices include fully to act. I think the vast majority

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Speaker 1: of people have said yes, you have to, especially without

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Speaker 1: preseason games to get the players kind of callisted up

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Speaker 1: and ready for regular season football. Could you imagine, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Week one without any kind of full contact whatsoever? What

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bills put on the pads for the

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Speaker 1: ourselves in position to make a stretch and a run.

428
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: Here just to be back out there with those guys

429
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 1: and be in the huddle and look around at all

430
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 1: my brothers, being out there playing with them again. It's

431
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: the same reason that brought me into the game when

432
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: I was, you know, eleven years old, is go out

433
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: there and play football with my friends. And so to

434
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: be out there and do that again, it's truly a blessing.

435
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: It honestly has been emotionally, I mean, one of the

436
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: hardest things I've had to do. And maybe that means

437
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,439
Speaker 1: I've had to shelter life or something. But when you

438
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: care about something this much and have it taken away

439
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,640
Speaker 1: from you, and again, it's it's so much bigger than myself.

440
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 1: It's not being able to you know, last year we

441
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 1: had such an amazing team and not being able to contribute.

442
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: And who's to say we might not have won another

443
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 1: game or two if I was able to play or

444
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 1: make a longer stretch. And again I'm not saying I'm

445
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: a giant playmaker or anything like that. I'm just saying,

446
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: you think those things into existence sometimes, and um, and

447
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: and then it was over, and then the season was

448
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: over and everyone went home, and here I am in

449
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: sunny January, Buffalo, uh, you know, by myself every day

450
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: rehabbing and five six hour days working, sweating, crying, throwing

451
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 1: up from from how hard that that I'm going? And yeah,

452
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: I mean there was definitely some depression through there. There's

453
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: definitely a lot of anxious anxiousness, anxiety, fear. Um. I

454
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: mean there was. I remember having a conversation with a

455
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: couple of the trainers, a very emotional phone call or

456
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,479
Speaker 1: rehab day where I was sitting there like what if

457
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: I can't play again? Like what if this doesn't get better?

458
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: What if I don't get stronger? And luckily, you know,

459
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: some fantastic people here in the organization that you know,

460
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: kept believing in me and kept pushing me. And I'm

461
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: an extremely motivated individual, and so when you kind of

462
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 1: get that great um, just I don't know, force going

463
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 1: towards one common goal. And every day I was chipping

464
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: away at the rock, chipping away and saw a light

465
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel and it got me here. And

466
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: like I said, three hundred and thirty days since I

467
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: got to play football with my friends again. And it's

468
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 1: truly undescribable how bread and feeling it is. I tell you,

469
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: the mental health stuff is a real thing with guys

470
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: that have to go through rehab. I mean, I remember

471
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: talking to Corey Legit, who was a veteran that got

472
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: signed here mid season and he had to come back

473
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 1: from a torn patellar tendon, which is a really tough injury,

474
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: especially for alignment, and he was he was pretty self

475
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: effacing with me. He said, I'm telling you right now,

476
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for my wife, I wouldn't be here

477
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: right now, because he said, there are dark days during

478
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: rehabilitation for a major injury like that, and there are

479
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 1: times where he just like, screw it, I'm not doing

480
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: this right. I don't want to do this anymore. And

481
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 1: he gave his wife full credit for kind of getting

482
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: him back on the horse to kind of follow through

483
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: with his rehabilitation, and he was grateful that she did that.

484
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: But you know, Harrison Phillips is a young guy, single guy.

485
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 1: His family's all the way back in Nebraska. He's here

486
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: all off season, like he was saying in January by himself.

487
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: The only people he's talking to every day are these

488
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: athletic trainers and the medical people here at one Bill's

489
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: Drive that he's seeing every day, and most of his

490
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: teammates are gone to wherever they live in the off season.

491
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 1: And around March, it got really rough. Well right, and

492
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: then you had COVID on top of it. So yeah,

493
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: I mean so I give him credit for admitting, you know,

494
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: there were some depressing moments there and he had to

495
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: have some people help pull him out of it. It's

496
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,679
Speaker 1: it's real. The thing about it is for most for

497
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: the general population, I use that term for everybody who's

498
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: not a professional athlete. Yeah, which is of the population.

499
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips, you know, in January February probably could have

500
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: if he was, you know, nine to five, or he

501
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 1: could go back to work. His life is his own. Again,

502
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: certainly he wouldn't be one hundred percent, couldn't do that.

503
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 1: But he's not. He's a professional athlete. And not only

504
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: do you have to get better, then you have to

505
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: get strong, you get back to an elite level athlete

506
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: as much as you can. While he and this is

507
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: a guy here with Harrison Phillips, He's got to carry

508
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: three hundred plus pounds around on a brand new knee

509
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: and then push another three hundred pound man at the

510
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: same time against his will. He's got to keep a

511
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: three another three hundred pound guy from pushing him against

512
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: his will, or two of them. It is a physically

513
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: demanding position and the job that he has. And I

514
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: you know, I I never had an ACL injury, but

515
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: I had five knee surgeries and a laundry list of

516
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: other injuries. That mental health stuff in the depression is

517
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: a real thing. The offseason, you get out and you

518
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: take it. You get a cast off your leg and

519
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: you look at your leg and it looks like assicle stick. Yeah,

520
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: it looks like a popsicle stick. And you got to

521
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: get ready to play against guys in the world. Yeah,

522
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: like Harrison Fellow. I mean, and it seems a million

523
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: miles away, and you start slow and then you you know,

524
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 1: and you have setbacks, and it is just it is

525
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: mentally grueling, right, And that's and that's what a lot

526
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: of players talk about that I don't think again, the

527
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: general population really understands. You know. People say, oh, it

528
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 1: takes seven to nine months to come back from an

529
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: ac L injury. Well it's not, but it's your gut.

530
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and it's not a steady climb either. Like

531
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: you might be going like this for two weeks and

532
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: then you have an awful day where you don't you

533
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: can't do anything you just did last week and You're like,

534
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: what the heck's going on? It just plays with your

535
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: head and it throws you in a funk. Now, the

536
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: next day might be better, or it might be another

537
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: bad day. Good days and days where you don't see

538
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: any improvement. Yeah, and it's like you're like, is this

539
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: going to come back? Or not having my knee? I mean,

540
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: you heard Harrison himself and I know, dark day. I

541
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: wonder if I'm gonna play your got your thumb on

542
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: the throat of the doctor saying why am I not

543
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: getting better? You know? What do you? You know? And

544
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: but that doubt creeps in when you have a bad

545
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: day and it makes it even harder. Yeah, it's rough. Um,

546
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: So I give him credit for, you know, being that

547
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: revealing and he's been and let me tell you he's

548
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: been through it once. That doesn't help. No, it makes

549
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: it worse, does it? Because you because I always thought,

550
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: all right, well, he's done this before. He at least

551
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: he has a roadmap of what to expect. So when

552
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: there are bad days, you know, he's like, it's kind

553
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: of part of the deal, you know, that kind of thing.

554
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: But you're saying, no, it doesn't what it's yeah, getting

555
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: in the ring with Mike Tyson. You may have done

556
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: it before. It doesn't make it easier to get back

557
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: in all right, I'm I'm saying it's easy. I'm just

558
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 1: saying it's at least you know what could be coming.

559
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:56,239
Speaker 1: It's it fills you full of dread. Yeah, you know,

560
00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: and no, no question dread and it's all different. But yeah,

561
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: to have him bounce back and there's you know, it's

562
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: not by coincidence. He knows it's three hundred and thirty days.

563
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: You know, he's been counting them. Yeah, just over a

564
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: month to the day, has been a year. Yeah, you know,

565
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: So it's you count them. You just gotta put more

566
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: behind you than you've got in front of you towards

567
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: getting back to it. On a much more encouraging subject,

568
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: Harrison also addressed the new additions on the defensive line,

569
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: where the Bills made some of the most sweeping changes

570
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: due to free agent losses to their roster. Whether you're

571
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: talking about Vernon Butler or aj Epinessa, the draft choice

572
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, there's a whole new crew up front. So

573
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: Harrison addressed talking about playing with the new additions on

574
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Ah, it gets me so happy. We

575
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: have some dogs on the defensive line. Honestly, we have

576
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: some guys who have come in this league and already

577
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: proven themselves and have multiple sacks in NFL. And then

578
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: we have young, hungry guys who are still on the

579
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: up and up and want to you know, take their

580
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: game to the next level, get double digit sacks, make

581
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: their Pro Bowls, you know, win a Super Bowl. And so,

582
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I look around the room and I keep

583
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: telling all the guys, I mean, man, look at how

584
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: many rushers we have. We have guys who can rush

585
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: the passer. And it's so great when you can throw

586
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: a bunch of different groups together, you know, ends on

587
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: the inside, inside, guys on the outside, a big group,

588
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: a small group, a joke a group, all these different combinations.

589
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: It's got to be hard for an offensive lineman. You know,

590
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: in the past, sometimes we have a green group, or

591
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: you know, some teams in the NFL, well just have like, hey,

592
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: these are the rushers, and so the offensive line we'll

593
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: just have to study one player and then they get

594
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: sixty plays against that player to learn them and block them. Well,

595
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: if we've got seven different players that we could line

596
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: up at the right free technique or the left defensive

597
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: end or all these things that's got to be hard

598
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: for an offensive lineman to break that down. And then

599
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, bring a power rusher over and bring somebody

600
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: with a little bit of wiggle. I truly am excited

601
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: when we can start to game plan against you know, Jets.

602
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: Jets are coming up a wee can game plan against

603
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: the offense and just all these different fantastic dogs you

604
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: got in the d line room. I forgot to mention

605
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: Quentin Jefferson, another addition on the defensive front there, so

606
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: you know, he's clearly of the belief that the collective

607
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: talent that's been added is all very capable. And as

608
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: he pointed out, you know, it's it's not some undrafted

609
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: kid that you're bringing in off the street. I mean,

610
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 1: the guys that they've added are proven players in this

611
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: league with proven production. I mean, most notably Addison, but

612
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: Butler's been in the league four years now. Jefferson's made

613
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: his mark, albeit as a rotational player in Seattle, but

614
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: it's clear that the guys here think a lot of him,

615
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, and then you got the draft kit choice,

616
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: so I mean they can really come at people in

617
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: waves and they can slide people up and down the

618
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: line as much as they want. And they're not gonna

619
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: lose much here. I don't think they're gonna lose anything.

620
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna gain. I think they're really gonna

621
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: be better ups front the key. And we've said it

622
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: before at different times during the offseason. The best defenses

623
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL historically have always been able to get

624
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: very quick pressure on a quarterback. And likes say, no kidding,

625
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: but you got to get quick pressure with four guys

626
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: or three guys, with as few of people as possible.

627
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: The reason is, the reason is, and you see all

628
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: these things, let's just send pressure. Well, the more guys

629
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: you send, the thinner you are in the back end,

630
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: and it's the easier it is to find windows and

631
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,719
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. You've got to get pressure

632
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: right now on a quarterback with four or fewer guys,

633
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: and that's when your defense becomes great and super Bowl

634
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: caliber and Playoff caliber and top elite defense caliber. Now,

635
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: the Bills were able to do that as well because

636
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: they've got a stellar secondary playing behind their defensive line,

637
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: and early last year their offense was kind of putting

638
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: them in bad spots where you know they weren't playing

639
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: even in that you think about it, even the opening

640
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: day they were down sixteen points, Jets aren't going to

641
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: throw the football around. And when they're up sixteen points

642
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,239
Speaker 1: at their own place, you just got put in that

643
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: spot too many times as a defense. And then when

644
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: the offense got together, Josh Start went on that run

645
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: where he went twelve and tds and just two interceptions,

646
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: and they started playing better offensively, at least more efficiently. Well.

647
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: Their defense got into the top ten in sacks. So

648
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: they had enough guys last year. They've got more horses

649
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: this year up front than they had last year. And

650
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be able to get more pressure, faster,

651
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: more consistent pressure with just four guys this year, and

652
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,720
Speaker 1: that means their secondary is going to be even better.

653
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 1: And I think they have every bit the position flexibility

654
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: that they had last year. I know Shack Lawson was

655
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: a player who played on the end and then would

656
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: kick inside and pass rushing situations, and they would use

657
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: Lorenzo and pass rushing situations from the linebacker position. But

658
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: Gwenn Jefferson's already been described as a player that's capable

659
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: of playing end and setting the edge for you on rundowns,

660
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: and could obviously work at the three technique position, which

661
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: he's played in Seattle. And then aj is a guy

662
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: that right after the draft, Brandon being said he's big

663
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: enough where he could reduce down in pass rushing situations.

664
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: I mean he said he said that hours after drafting

665
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: the kids. So you have to believe that that's an

666
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: option that they're going to certainly explore. So you know,

667
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: you look at all of that and you're like, yeah,

668
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: you know, these guys have a multitude of options even

669
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: within one or two players, and you know, as Harrison said,

670
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: you could have upwards of seven guys that can play

671
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 1: two different positions. Right, It's two sides of the same

672
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: story that are both positive for your defense. One, you've

673
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: got guys who have proven they can play multiple positions

674
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: and be productive doing it. And you've got guys like

675
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: this aj Epinezza. You've got like Harrison Phillips, Quinton Jefferson

676
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: and all these guys that are multiple who we don't

677
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: know about yet but could be huge upgrades. It could

678
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: it could be that these guys elevate each other. It

679
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: certainly sounds from the guys we've spoken to and heard

680
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: speak in these interviews, man, they they seem like they're

681
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: really interested in helping each other be great. That kind

682
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: of atmosphere gives you a lot of optimism about this group,

683
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: more talented than they were last year, being greater than

684
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: the sum of even these parts. Right. That puts you

685
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: in a spot where it's going where you sit back

686
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: and go, man, how good are these guys going to be?

687
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: It's a great question, and it's a lot of fun

688
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: to think about, and we still got a long way

689
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: to go to get there to find out, you know,

690
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: we gotta, but it's hard to imagine them going into

691
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: a preseason and a regular at least at this point,

692
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: being positioned any better than they are now. Up front.

693
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: The final comment that we have from Harrison is just

694
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: about how good the defense can be. He was asked,

695
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: you know, where do you see this defense ending up?

696
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: One that was already in the top three each of

697
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: the last two years? So here are his thoughts on

698
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: what this unit could be this year? What kind of

699
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: potential do you think this defense has untapped? Honestly, this

700
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: guy's the limit for this defense. I can't remember exactly

701
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,479
Speaker 1: what we finished in last year. I think we're number

702
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: two or number three and either yards or points or

703
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 1: whatever it was. I mean, this is a fantastic defense.

704
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: And then we brought in some new additions. So our

705
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: standard is extremely high, and I mean no one wants

706
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: to settle for second best. So obviously those are our goals.

707
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: We have high aspirations and we're all putting in the

708
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: work right now. Is you guys got to come out

709
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: and finally see a practice. We really are working and

710
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: trying to build this thing from the ground up. So

711
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: I mean they're with their history, their recent history. I mean,

712
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: this group's primed. I mean, even though there's a good

713
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: amount of change up front, you know, the back seven

714
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: is largely unchanged. I mean, you're gonna have a j

715
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: Klein in the mix now and Josh Norman's in the

716
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: mix now. But besides those two guys, Yeah, the thing

717
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: that gets lost browned that you and I forget to

718
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: talk about. Yeah, they got all this great talent. They

719
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: got This defense has been really well coached and really

720
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: well coordinated. They show up ready to play. They got

721
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: guys that know what they're supposed to do. They're in

722
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: the right spots, they play with aggression. They got great

723
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 1: technique and not for nothing, they're really disciplined. Yeah, consistent,

724
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: consistent they are. Yeah, remember that they lost the game,

725
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: but the ball the game they had against the Baltimore

726
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: Ravens last year, that Ravens run game is so misdirection

727
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: oriented and so you take the wrong steput And the

728
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: Bills did as good a job as anybody did last year.

729
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: In the memory serves, that was the lowest rushing total

730
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: of the season for the Ravens against the Bills, and

731
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: I believe it was also leaned on the Lamar Jackson's

732
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: lowest rushing total of the season against the Bills last year,

733
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: the year that he was there, and that game, more

734
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: than anything, showed how disciplined and how well coached they

735
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: are on a week to week basis, because that Baltimore

736
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: offense is different than anything else anybody else fielded all

737
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: of last year. It's the only time you're going to

738
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: see an offense like that, and the Bills had given

739
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: you one week to get ready for it, showed up

740
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: and did a really good job against that offense that

741
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: was so different than anything else they faced all year.

742
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: That's a real sign and a characteristic of a discipline defense.

743
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: And that's why all these parts that we're talking about

744
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: with Harrison Phillips and Quentin Jefferson and Mario Addison and

745
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 1: all those guys up front, that's how it really gives

746
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: you a lot of optimism as to how good they

747
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: could be because you know the coaching is going to

748
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: be there. So the only question, though, is finding I

749
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: guess the only question. You know you have talent, you

750
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: know you have versatility within that talent. So really the

751
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: only thing on the to do list for the coaching

752
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: staff is to find out who works best with who right.

753
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: You're looking for the right combinations to get you the

754
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: most effective results. That's really priority number one with this

755
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: new defensive line, right, that's really all they have to

756
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: figure out for the next month. Leslie Fraser is going

757
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: to be in a lab coat with two little test

758
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: tubes of pouring one test tube into the other, taking

759
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: another one, pouring that test tube into a third. It's

760
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: all an experiment. Let's just see. Let's just try this,

761
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: see how it looks, Try that, See how that looks,

762
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: Try this other thing, see how they all work. And

763
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: that could spill into the regular season because you don't

764
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: have preseason games. It absolutely will spill into the regular season. Absolutely,

765
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: they'll like even as late as Week four or five. Yes,

766
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: And plus then you're you're experimenting with this new element

767
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: that nobody knows what's going to be. That's aj Epenesa. Yeah,

768
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do? What if we mix him with

769
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: this and that? What if he's here and then there,

770
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: and then here and here there and then with three

771
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: different guys on the line. You know, it's there's a

772
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: lot of reps to be had, and they're trying to

773
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: find something out about aj on every rep and the

774
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: other guys on every rep, and the combination of guys

775
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: on every rep. Just you know, there's a lot of

776
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: variables in there that you've got to kind of start

777
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: throwing out trying to eliminate. It's it's an enormous logic problem, right,

778
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: but it's a good problem to have in light of

779
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: the talent they have at their disposal. And not only that,

780
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: I think pretty quickly, you know, a coordinator with the

781
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 1: experience of Leslie Fraser, I mean, he's gonna go back

782
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: upstairs and look at a practice tape and be like,

783
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: these guys just work together those two are just they're

784
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: just good over there. You know, they want to do

785
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: a stunt or a twist or something. It's like, these

786
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: guys are just on it. They know how to feel

787
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: each other. And we're going with those two guys on

788
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: that side. Because those two guys work great together. It's

789
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: just obvious to everybody, and we're going with that. And

790
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: this is why training camp is such an enigma to

791
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: all of us. They may not see anything different on

792
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: film from this group to that group, but this group,

793
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: these two guys have told you in meetings and privately

794
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,240
Speaker 1: in conversation that you have with these guys like Harry

795
00:41:56,239 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: Phillip Sat I love working with AJJ and I like

796
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: the way because we talk and we talked, and the

797
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: coaching stats says, Okay, there you go. That's your guy

798
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: where you're out there, he's gonna be with you. That

799
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: kind of thing happens as well, and sometimes that it

800
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: happens the other way. So you may like it, but

801
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: you're not doing enough, you know what I mean. You

802
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: might like that combination, but we got to see it

803
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: on the field before we just put a rubber stand. Right.

804
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: It sounds good, but show us this is what I'm

805
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 1: seeing on film, So you better you know what's your

806
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 1: problem or you know if yet, He goes, I want

807
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: to try. We haven't. I have not, you know, I

808
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: haven't worked with this guy or this guy yet. I

809
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: want to see what I'm like. He goes, Okay, tomorrow,

810
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: here you go. Make it happen. Yeah. So it's that

811
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: kind of thing happens. It's it's not just what they

812
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: see on film. It's also how these guys converse and

813
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: interact on and off the field. And you get two

814
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: guys that all of a sudden become had never met

815
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: before three weeks ago, and for the rest of their

816
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,479
Speaker 1: lives are going to be close friends because they click.

817
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: And it starts with being a great pass rush combination

818
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: for the Bills in twenty two during the pandemic. We

819
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: got to step aside and take a break. But when

820
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: we come back. We will hear from Tremaine Edmonds coming

821
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: up on the show, as he was made available to

822
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: the media after practice today as well, in addition to

823
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips, Steve and I might dabble in some what's

824
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: for lunch. We'll see it's all coming your way next

825
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health.

826
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio back on One Bill's Live.

827
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as we are motoring

828
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: our way through our number two of the program. And

829
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: it's that time in the show where we kind of

830
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: sit down and pick some things off the menu. Here

831
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: it's called What's for Lunch? And I'm gonna throw some

832
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: at Steve and he's gonna pick one or the other

833
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: and I'll try to pick some two. As a matter

834
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: of columb a column B. Yeah, colum a columb kind

835
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,720
Speaker 1: of thing. So first on on What's for Lunch, Steve,

836
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: which quarterback over thirty five years of age has a

837
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: better chance to win multiple Super Bowls? Is it Aaron

838
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 1: Rodgers or Drew Brees. I'd say Aaron Rodgers. That's that's

839
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 1: who I picked because he seems to have more gas

840
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: in his tank. Drew Brees is flirted with retirement already,

841
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: and I get the feeling even if if Drew Brees

842
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: won one this year, I think he would be like,

843
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gritting off. He's off Aaron Rodgers.

844
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: I don't think he sits in that if he wins

845
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: one with the Green Bay Packers. I think he's still

846
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: got a few years left on him, and I think

847
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: the fact that they drafted Jordan Love this year kind

848
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: of lit a fire and under him to say, you

849
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna even if and here's the thing

850
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers, he may win one with the Packers

851
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: and he may win another one with somebody else. Yeah,

852
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: So I think Aaron Rodgers is more likely than of

853
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: the two of them, because I think Drew Brees is

854
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: nearer his body clock given out. I think Aaron Rodgers

855
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: got a lot more left. Yeah, I would agree with

856
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: just about everything you said, including and because I was

857
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 1: gonna say it, I think if he wins multiple ones,

858
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: you know, the second one would be with somebody else.

859
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: I could see him, you know, pulling at Joe Montana

860
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: or Brett Fave kind of situation send up somewhere else

861
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: and really putting that team in contention. So I'm on

862
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: the I'm ordering the same thing off the menu as you.

863
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: Number two for what's for lunch? Which teams will get more?

864
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: Would get more wins Mahomes with the Bengals or Joe

865
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: Burrow with the Chiefs. So basically they switched teams Burrow

866
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: gets this monster roster that he gets to work with

867
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: even though he's a rookie. Mahomes, Mahomes gets to go

868
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: to Cincinnis, I'm taking I'm taking Joe Burrow because he's

869
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: got Andy Reid, and I trust Andy Reid more than

870
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor. Yeah, and I think that they've got that

871
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: system in place, and Andy Reid would work with what

872
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: he's got, given what he can to work with. And yeah,

873
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: and I think that's a team that's that's got that

874
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: mojo working out now. Mahomes is a big part of

875
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 1: the mojo. And I don't think either one of them.

876
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: I don't think Mahomes would fall on his face and Cincinnati,

877
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: I just think the Chiefs are more suited to overcoming

878
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 1: the deficiencies of a young quarterback than the Bengals are

879
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: to rise up to the level of a Pat Mahomes

880
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: would be raised by Pat Mahomes. You know. It also

881
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: has me leaning towards Burrow in this. This guy's used

882
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: to play in with stars. I mean he was down

883
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: at LSU with like fifteen guys that are going to

884
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: be draft choices. I mean, some of the best receivers

885
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: are going to be in the league. In the next

886
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: two or three years, Clyde Edwards, a layer, will be

887
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: right back in his backfield. Again, it's a good point

888
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: who he said is the favorite player he's ever played with. Yeah,

889
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,399
Speaker 1: so I gotta go Burrow. I think so too. I think,

890
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying things like I don't think it. Well,

891
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: they'll win more games. They would win more games than

892
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals would. Yes, that's what I'm saying as well.

893
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: I think Andy Reid and all those offensive weapons, and

894
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's ability to get be a quarterback whisper and

895
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: a justice system and all that is much more likely

896
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: than Patrick Mahomes elevating an entire ross. That's an interesting

897
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 1: one to chew on. I like that one for lunch there. Okay,

898
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: next one bigger loss for the Bills. John Feliciano or

899
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: Star lotu La. This is a tough one. I'm gonna

900
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: say both starters, obviously, I'll tell you what I think.

901
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: I'll I think I'll just say Star Lotulelee. Not because

902
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: I don't think John Feliciano is a great contributor, but

903
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: I think because when they lost Star, they still go

904
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: into the season with an enormous rotation on the D line.

905
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: But they did sign two defensive tackles already, right well, yeah,

906
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: doing part because they had to wave injure one of

907
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: them that was previously on the roust. You know what, though,

908
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: you think about it too. The Bills also signed Brian

909
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: Winters as soon as they lost John Feliciano, so they

910
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: trying to replaced him with I don't know, I'm gonna say, yeah,

911
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: I'll say Star just because I think having a I think,

912
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: you know, guys like him. He's still one of their

913
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: top paid defensive players on the team. So I'm gonna

914
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,800
Speaker 1: say Star Lotulele. I don't think there's any question that

915
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good coin flip. It's a tough one.

916
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: It's a coin flip. And here's why. Here's why it's

917
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: a coin flip. Because Feliciano is the emotional engine of

918
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: that offensive line. I mean, he's just got this nastiness

919
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: to finish his people to the ground. He looks for

920
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: extra work even when he's got his guy taken care of,

921
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: and that rubs off on people in a good way.

922
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: Where that line's got an edge, and that has value

923
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: in this league, especially on the offensive line. But because

924
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: they have guys in reserve who might be every bit

925
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: as capable as him in terms of execution. You kind

926
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: I kind of lean towards Star too, because you wonder, well,

927
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: we don't really know yet. This is why it's a

928
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: coin flip, Steve. Yeah, we don't really know who the

929
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,720
Speaker 1: replacements are for sure. Yeah. And even if you think

930
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: you know who the replacements are, you haven't seen him

931
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: play with these guys on the bill's roster, That's right.

932
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: So that I think that's why this is such a

933
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: a tough one to call a real a tough one

934
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: because there are so some unknowns associated with it, and

935
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: I get it. So I'm saying Star just because I

936
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: don't know for all the reasons we said, I just

937
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: it's a coin flip. That's probably the toughest one we've

938
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: got on this whole list. Yeah, next one, what's for lunch?

939
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: Bigger contender for the Ravens in the AFC North, the

940
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: Browns or the Steelers. I think I know where you're

941
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: coming down on this. It's the Steelers. The Browns are

942
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: a big roll of the dice. So the Steelers you

943
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: can depend on. Ben Roethlisberg comes back and is healthy,

944
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: there's no question it's the Steelers. Uh. They've got the culture,

945
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 1: they've got the stability, they've got uh, a head coach

946
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: that's been there for double digit years. They have a

947
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: top five defense, they've got Yeah, and the Browns have

948
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: a brand new head coach coming in during a pandemic

949
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: year with no offseason to instill his uh, his system

950
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: and in a normal way. So it's the Steelers all

951
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: the way for me. I mean, the Browns could surprise,

952
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: they could also disappoint that they've got some talent, and

953
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: I think the Browns will surprise some people. I think,

954
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: you know, I think Kevin Stefanski is a guy who

955
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: has uh made himself, um, the kind of guy that

956
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 1: you think, wow, this is the right kind of guy.

957
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: He's he's groomed himself to be a head coach. He's

958
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: ready for this opportunity. But it's a pandemic year. Again,

959
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how you make yourself then against him. Yeah,

960
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: it's all working against the Browns in this argument. So yeah,

961
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: go with what you know, and that's that's the Steelers machine.

962
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would probably side with the Steelers here too.

963
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: Last one on what's for lunch? The menu, Will Cam

964
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: Newton and Bill Belichick be able to handle each other? Yes?

965
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: Or no? Now long, Well, we didn't go that far

966
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: down here. Here's here's what I'm reminded of. We had

967
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: Ben Volan on the show a couple of weeks ago,

968
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: and I asked him that question, you know, is Cam's

969
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: ego going to be able to fit in the room,

970
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: let alone mesh with Belichick? And I was surprised by

971
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: his answer because he essentially said, well, you know, Cam

972
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: said all the right things, and you know, he knows

973
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: he has to play this year. He's only there on

974
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: a one year contract, so you know, he knows he's

975
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: got to kind of fall in line if he's going

976
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: to get the opportunity on the field with Belichick. And

977
00:51:54,200 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, Cam, I'm not so sure about.

978
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 1: You know, he's a larger than life personality and quarterback. Physically,

979
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: he is the polar opposite of team player Tom Brady?

980
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 1: Is he not? Yes? So will they be able to

981
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: handle each other? I think they're going to quickly realize

982
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find a way or it's just

983
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 1: not gonna work. Right here. Here's another thing as well, though,

984
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: and I've got nothing but respect for Bill Belichick and

985
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: what he's accomplished in the NFL. I would be I

986
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: don't believe that he is unable to change his coaching

987
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: style or to coach different guys in a different way

988
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: than what he has done. Tom Brady's a different quarterback.

989
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman is different than Wes Welker, He's different than

990
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 1: h you know, Chris Hogan, all those every every player

991
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: is different. Now, he does like to get guys with

992
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: a certain DNA in the building. There's no question about it.

993
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: And we've heard I've heard other players that have gone

994
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:09,280
Speaker 1: through that system saying, listen, new England isn't for everybody.

995
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 1: And Cam Newton is a guy who does not, at

996
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: least from our perspective, and I think everybody's perspective does

997
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: not fit that DNA. He's a different kind of player

998
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: and like, I'll handle it. You know, game's on the line,

999
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, Yeah. And he's also a kind

1000
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: of guy like you know, I'll show up on Sunday

1001
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: kind of guy. Right, I don't care about this practice thing.

1002
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: I'll do it. But I'm I'm just getting myself ready

1003
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: to play. And you guys you know, take care of

1004
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: everything else. Whatever the perception may be about Cam Newton's

1005
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: exactly different than what it's been with Tom Brady. I

1006
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 1: would think Bill Belichick has a plan to handle Cam Newton,

1007
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: and I think it will work. And let's face it, folks,

1008
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,439
Speaker 1: it only has to work for about six months here,

1009
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: That's all it has to work for. And I think

1010
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick will give Cam Newton some things that will

1011
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: keep him highly interested in playing well, let alone his contract.

1012
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: But I think schematically and play selection and the kind

1013
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: of offense they're gonna run, I think we'll give Cam

1014
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: Newton a chance to really thrive and do some really

1015
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: good things. So I think it will work, and I

1016
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: think it's because of Bill Belichick being able to adjust.

1017
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: I don't think Camp can adjust. He'll try, but I

1018
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: think ultimately, if something goes bad, which it always does

1019
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: in a football season, you know that's Camp's not the

1020
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: kind of guy. You kind of get the feeling he's

1021
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,959
Speaker 1: gonna gut it out, you know what I mean. Yeah,

1022
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: they'll be like mixed results, right, I think there'll be

1023
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: some good and some not so good. So I'm gonna

1024
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: say in terms of what the New England standard is

1025
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna work, so I will say no.

1026
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: You're saying yes, you'll think they'll find a way. I do.

1027
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 1: All right, that's what's for lunch. We gotta take a

1028
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 1: break when we come back back to the tweet sheet

1029
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: as we get your comments on just what is the

1030
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: deal with the live hitting at practice? Should there be

1031
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: more apps in a preseason to get these guys ready

1032
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 1: for the regular season. Most of you have said yes.

1033
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: I tend to agree, but there are some on the

1034
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: other side of that argument. We'll see if we can

1035
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: find him on the tweet sheet. Next, it's one Bills Live,

1036
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: presented by Kalidah Health. This is Buffalo Bill's radio broadcasting

1037
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: from the Seneca studio here at One Bills Drive. It's

1038
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Steve Tasker Chris Brown with you. And

1039
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: as bad as the news was for the Dallas Cowboys

1040
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: and defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, who looks like he suffered

1041
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: an ACL injury on the first day of padded practice

1042
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: and individual drills of all things, the news is certainly

1043
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: much more encouraging for one Alex Smith, who has been

1044
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: out or off the field for six hundred and thirty

1045
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: eight days. That was the time of his last game

1046
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: when he suffered that horrific leg injury that almost cost

1047
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 1: him his leg because he had a an infection after

1048
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 1: the multiple surgeries and almost lost the leg, and miraculously

1049
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: he's come all the way back. He was activated off

1050
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: the physically unable to perform list by the Washington football

1051
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: team today. And some interesting stats. Steve tenth and quarterback

1052
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: wins since two thousand and five when he came into

1053
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: the league winning record in each of his last eight

1054
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: seasons played, which we know some of those being in

1055
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and tied for third most wins from twenty

1056
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: eleven to twenty eighteen. Breeze is ahead of him, and

1057
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: so is Brady, but that's it. So you can do

1058
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: a lot worse than Alex Smith when he's healthy, and

1059
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: he probably has Andy Reid to thank for kind of

1060
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: resuscitating his career when he went to Kansas City and

1061
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 1: then came the trade to Washington. The trade or did he?

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00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: I think it was a trade? Yeah, it seemed to

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00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,240
Speaker 1: remember it that way, think of that free agent was

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00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't I couldn't remember. I don't know why it

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00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: might have been a trade. Yeah, either way, I'm I

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00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: think I might be confusing Kirk Cousins. The story here though,

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00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: is this is this is a miraculous return. Miraculous Yeah. Yeah,

1068
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: seeing the play where his leg got shattered makes is

1069
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: just absolutely cringe worthy. And I think it upwards an

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00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: eighteen surgery. Yeah, it's just been one thing after another

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00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: with the leg after he got hurt. But uh, six

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00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight day we had Harrison Phillips. It

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00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: was three hundred and thirty since his ACL six hundred

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00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: and thirty for Alex Smith when his leg got shattered, Uh,

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00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: you can it brings to mind and begs the question

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00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: for regular for the rest of the population, Why does

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00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: he want to play so bad? Yeah, because I'll tell

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00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: you that's the only reason he's doing it. He wants

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00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: to play. He was a number one overall picked by

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00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers way back in the day,

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00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: was picked over Aaron Rodgers, remember that. And then he

1082
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: had some really and he was taking under Jim Harbor,

1083
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 1: was taking the forty nine ers to a Super Bowl

1084
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: when he got a concussion and they made the switch

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00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: from Alex Smith to Colin Kaepernick. So his time in

1086
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: San Francisco came to an end, went to Kansas City,

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00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: got him to the playoffs, and then was traded when

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00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: they drafted Pat Mahomes. One year, he played the entire year.

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00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes played in one game, and then he went

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00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: to Washington in the trade, and now Pat Mahomes the

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00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: next year, after sitting behind Alex Smith, became MVP of

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00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: the National Football League and Alex Smith got his leg

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00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: shattered in Washington. He's a guy who has been nothing

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00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: but a great teammate. Pat Mahomes has nothing but phenomenal

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00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: things to say about how he treated Pat Mahomes when

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00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: he was his understudy, brought him along, taught him how

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00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: to do things, taught him how to be a professional,

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00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 1: taught him how to watch film, taught him how to

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00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: schedule his time, taught him win the workout, taught him

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00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: how to recover. And now he's after getting his leg

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00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: shattered beyond recognition and almost losing it because of a

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00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: complication for the surgery and surgeries to subsequent to that,

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00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 1: after making up three piles of money, he wants to

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00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: play again. And he's not the first and he probably

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00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: won't be the last. I mean, I remember Marianna Rivera,

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00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: the famed reliever for the New York Yankees. I mean,

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00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: he couldn't have done anything else in his career, but

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00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: he's out shagging fly balls before a game, tears his

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00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,439
Speaker 1: acl in the outfield on just a slip missus. That year,

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00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: which was supposed to be his last year, he's like, no,

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00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: I'm not going out like that. Came back for another

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01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: so he could finish on his terms, and maybe that's

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01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: what Alex Smith is dealing with. I want to finish

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01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: on my terms. But man, you take a wrong hit

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01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: to that leg and you got I don't know. I mean,

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01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, but you gotta think there's only

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01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: so much that leg can take, even now after all

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01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: the rehabilitation. So it's it's a testament to the human spirit,

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01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: no question, man, I already sounds and that sounds trite

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01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: and like overblown. It is it is. He's as old

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01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: as Aaron Rodgers and has just you know, coming back

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01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: from an injury the likes of which, um, you don't

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01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: see very often in the NFL. Joe thisman comes to mind.

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01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: But it was worse than that. His leg break was

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01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: worse than Joe's. And he and Joe didn't come back,

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01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: and there's no reason financially for Alex Smith to want

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01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: to come back. But here he is. Yeah, and I'm

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01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: I'm telling you if if you've got one guy from

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01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: that's not on your team's roster, that's on another team,

1130
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: and if you want to root for one guy that's

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01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: not on your team, root for Alex Smith. It's a

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01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 1: it's a it's an absolutely epic journey. Uh. And his

1133
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: football career needs needs to be hit. That story needs

1134
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: to be told in a big way on a movie screen.

1135
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: Thirty for thirty You couldn't. It's already had a long

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01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: expose on his rehabilitation. UH. Stefania Bell, who's a medical

1137
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: correspondent for them, narrated the whole thing and kind of

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01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: went step by step with him through it, through all

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01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: the ups and downs, and there were a lot of them.

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01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: I mean, there were times where they thought he was

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01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: gonna lose the leg um. They were worried about him

1142
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: walking right again, you know, without a limp. It's just

1143
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: it was fascinating to watch it. I watched it start

1144
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: to finish. I was glued um, just because that's the

1145
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: kind of access you don't usually get when a player

1146
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: goes through a major rehabilitation like this. It was fascinating

1147
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: um and really great television, and you know, credit to

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01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: the Smith family for just being so open with the

1149
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:09,919
Speaker 1: whole thing. But at the very end of that program,

1150
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,959
Speaker 1: he's throwing a ball, sitting in a chair, and even

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01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:18,320
Speaker 1: his wife says, and he might still have the itch.

1152
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's going to really try to come

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01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 1: all the way back. And even some of his friends

1154
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: are like, yeah, he may still want to play. I

1155
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: don't feel great about that, but you know, he may

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01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: still want to do it. It's it's still in him,

1157
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: you know. And it's he's throwing the ball and his

1158
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: eyes are glowing and it's just it's like it's like,

1159
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 1: just struck a match again. It was crazy. You can

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01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 1: and that was the end of the program, at the

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01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: end of his rehab. You can. You can shake your

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01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: head out of it. You can. You can say it's

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01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:47,479
Speaker 1: not wise, but listen, if you're gonna take that tack,

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01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: it ain't wise for anybody to play. So something, something

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01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 1: in him wants to play in this world in which

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01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: we live in, Brownie, let him play, and good luck

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01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: to him, man, I'll be cheering for him. I really will.

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01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: I've been a hard guy not to root for him. Man,

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01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: with all that he's been through, Mica, all the old

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01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: guys like me, we all hurt, We've all hurt, we

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01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: all carry stuff around with us now in our old

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01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: age that we're doing it. But I'll tell you what,

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01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: for me, I'd do it all again. I'd break break

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01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: my hands nine times. I'd take five knee operations, bad back.

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01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: I'd take the concussions I take. I wouldn't change it.

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01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: And if and if, because I got a chance, luckily

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01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: I've said thanks, I'm done. A lot of guys don't

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01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 1: ever get that chance. They say you're they say you're

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01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: done before you feel like you're done. And Alex Smith

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01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be one of those guys, so good

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01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: for him. All Right, we're at the top of the hour.

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01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: We do have to take a break, but when we

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01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: come back, we'll be hearing from one Tremaine Edmonds, who

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01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: addressed the media today via zoom call. So we'll have

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01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: some of his best comments for you coming up in

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01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,120
Speaker 1: the next hour, along with your comments from the twa

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01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: cheap we'll get to all of it when we return

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio hellow Bills Radio Network. Sports Update

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Speaker 1: Here a sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills

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01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: put on the pads for the first time since training

1192
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 1: camp began today. Make sure you keep it locked to

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01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: One Bills Live and all the Bills media platforms for

1194
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: continued coverage as the Bills get ready for their season

1195
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 1: opener against the Jets coming up on September thirteenth. A

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Speaker 1: few injury updates has Levi Wallace, at Oliver, John Feliciano,

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01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: and Tommy Sweeney all set out today's practice session. Familiar

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Speaker 1: name rounding out his tour of the AC East AFC

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Speaker 1: East It's seven eleven Chris Hogan. He signed on with

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Speaker 1: the Jets. He spent last season with the Panthers, but

1201
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: before that played for the Patriots, Bills, and Dolphins, where

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01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 1: his career began. Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Gerald McCoy suffered

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01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 1: a quadras ups tendon injury, according to reports, during the

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01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 1: first padded practice of training camp today. McCoy was hurt

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01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: during individual drills and was unable to put weight on

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01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: his leg. After he was examined by the team's medical staff.

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01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: The Cowboys signed McCoy to a three or eighteen million

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01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: dollars deal this offseason, but reports are that he will

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01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: miss the twenty twenty campaign. Four more games in the

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01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: NHL Playoffs today, starting with the Lightning and Blue Jackets

1211
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: in Game four of that series face off. There is

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01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: at three pm Avalanche Coyotes, Bruins Hurricanes, and the nightcap

1213
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 1: between the Blues and Canucks get started later on today.

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01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: All of those are in Game four action, and believe

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01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 1: it or not, Monday marks the first day of the

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01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty NBA Playoffs. First game is just underway between

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01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 1: the Jazz and the Nuggets. They're in the first quarter

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01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: there as part of the sixteen team playoff to crown

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01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty champion. Three other game ones include the

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01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: Nets and the Raptors, seventy six ers in the Celtics,

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01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: and a nine o'clock tip between the MAVs and the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. As

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Speaker 1: we began our number three of the program, Chris Brown,

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01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you broadcasting from the Seneca studio with

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01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and Steve we mentioned Tremaine Edmonds, the

1226
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: man who is got some comments, made some comments to

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Speaker 1: the media today via zoom call after practice and was

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01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 1: undoubtedly asked about, you know how practice went, first padded practice,

1229
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: and that was one of the first questions he fielded Steve,

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01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: So here were his thoughts about the first padded practice

1231
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: for the team. Man, it felt good. It felt good.

1232
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 1: You know. I think guys were anxious to get out there.

1233
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 1: You can feel an energy out there, and you know,

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01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: I think Goes do a good job of making everything

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01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: competitive and I think guys were competing out there and

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01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: just getting after it and then we was getting better.

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01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: I think it was a productive date and looking to

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01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: build up on it. Now. Yeah, I mean we played

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01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 1: he played football with pads on. Man, So this was

1240
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: the first time you said, we've been in passed since

1241
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: the playoff game. It's been a very long time. And

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01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: I mean just to be out there and just flying

1243
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 1: around just to actually, you know, hit each other. I mean,

1244
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:09,959
Speaker 1: that's the name that we play. And I think Gods

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01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: felt good with that. And you know it's gonna take

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01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: some getting used to again. Let's not you know, just

1247
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: simple as that, because you know, it's just been a

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01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:18,880
Speaker 1: while since we've really been out there competing against each other.

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01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: So it's gonna take some used to and you know,

1250
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: getting our legs underneath us. But it's a good feeling

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01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm very pleased with how it down

1252
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: and closer today. You know, we're about three weeks late,

1253
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: almost three weeks late on when the first padded practice

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01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 1: would normally be in a regular training camp, so you know,

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01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: probably a little more. Yeah, it's a little longer. So

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01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: these guys were really probably itching to put some pads

1257
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 1: on and really get some live hits on their bodies.

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01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: Even though it was only thud today. There will be

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01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: live practice coming up at some point in training camp,

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01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 1: so yeah, it'll be interesting to see where it goes

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01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 1: from here. But you have to imagine waiting an extra

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01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: three weeks and with all the other things rolled into

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01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 1: this most unique of off seasons, that there had to

1264
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: be a good number of guys looking to get going here.

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01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: Let's let's go, it's mid August. We should be in

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Speaker 1: pads by now. Yeah, I'll bet it's one of those

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Speaker 1: practices where there's a lot of joy out there, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys actually getting after the off season that we have

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01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 1: all experienced and witnessed to do something that looks and

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01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: feels so normal for these guys, I'll bet it felt

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Speaker 1: really good for them to be out there. Harrison was saying,

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01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 1: I was back out there with my friends. Yeah, I mean,

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01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: it wasn't even saying teammates. You know, it's it's got

1274
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: to be such a great feeling to do something that

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01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: feels normal when all of us have been living such

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01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 1: an abnormal existence for months. So yeah, getting out and

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01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 1: playing football is probably as normal as they've been for

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01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:50,760
Speaker 1: the last six months. And there, I think there's still

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01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: a sign in the fieldhouse. We don't have access to

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01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: that area anymore because of COVID, but there's there's an

1281
01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: area out there right before the players get onto the

1282
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: practice field or walk out to practice that says it

1283
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 1: says it right on the door, I think says compete, compete,

1284
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: and they try to have that high level of competitiveness

1285
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: when they're on the practice field with one another every

1286
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: time out. And you know, just seeing the pace of

1287
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 1: practice today, you could see that they were eager to compete.

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01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 1: And Tremaine also addressed that the competitiveness in practice today,

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01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing I mean that's that's what we played

1290
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: his game for a managed to compete and you know,

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01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:35,799
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a I'm a competitor myself, So anytime

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01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:37,640
Speaker 1: stuff like that happens, when we'd love to see it.

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01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we you know, at the end

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01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: of the day, we want team. So when my offense

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01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,439
Speaker 1: have to sets out there, obviously I'm gonna be mad.

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01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:45,840
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, man, it's hoping

1297
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 1: this team. I mean, you know, we we're helping each

1298
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: other out offensive defense. No, we're making each other better.

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01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: And that's the goal of you know, training him, man,

1300
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: it's to make each other better. So when we go

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01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: out there on you know the days that we played,

1302
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 1: man and we could just dominate, and I think that

1303
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:01,959
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing. Man. We just want to compete,

1304
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: and you know, just continue to stop excellence, man, and

1305
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 1: you know, continue to see big things out of each

1306
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 1: side of the bar. You know, I think we're only

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01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 1: gonna be as good as we you know, we push

1308
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 1: each other, so that's the biggest thing. Then we've got

1309
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:15,880
Speaker 1: to continue to push each other out here and you know,

1310
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: get the best out of each each side of the bar,

1311
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: including special team. I think special teams do a good

1312
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: job of, you know, competing out there. You know, I

1313
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 1: see a lot of juice out there from all those guys,

1314
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: So I think it's just guys out there having fun. Man.

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01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a competitive sport we played, and anytime

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01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 1: that you can have fun with it, man, it just

1317
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:33,519
Speaker 1: makes it ten times better. And I think we do

1318
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 1: a good job of that here. We're only going to

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01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: be as good by as hard as we push each other.

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01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: That pretty much says it all right there. Yeah, And

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01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: most of the players, the coaches and even the fans,

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01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 1: we don't care how hard they practice. Practice as hard

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01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: as you can without getting hurt, without being overly, you know,

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01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 1: get there healthy, and then hey, practice hard. Go. Um.

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01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:59,599
Speaker 1: That's the balance of the coaching staff has to strike

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:01,600
Speaker 1: because the as you can tell from here here in

1327
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips and Tremaine Edmonds and all the other guys

1328
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 1: and not just here in Buffalo, but around the league

1329
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 1: that are talking about what's going on with training camp,

1330
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: they all want to play, and they all want to

1331
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: play hard. I mean you can they wouldn't flinch if

1332
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 1: you said we got a game tomorrow, let's go. They

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01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 1: want to play. And there was a palpable energy out

1334
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: there on the practice field today. I mean you could

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01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: sense it. It was there. It was probably there on

1336
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 1: other days before you know, the media got a chance

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01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:27,679
Speaker 1: to go out there and view it for the first time,

1338
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: but it was it was you could sense it like

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01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:33,040
Speaker 1: it was there, and the pace of practice was great. So,

1340
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, good on them for being able to dial

1341
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 1: it up every day. And maybe the pads going on

1342
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 1: added an extra little layer to it. I'm sure it did.

1343
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, this, this roster doesn't need a

1344
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: whole lot of coaxing right to get going. And that

1345
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: is not the case with every NFL club all the time.

1346
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:58,520
Speaker 1: Now it's it's obviously a hyper competitive league and everybody's competitive,

1347
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 1: but to be able to dial it up that way

1348
01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: day in and day out, I don't know that every

1349
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: team can say they do it the way this team does.

1350
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:09,680
Speaker 1: I think you're right, and it's gonna be interesting to

1351
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:13,599
Speaker 1: see how this team takes shape the roster comes into fruition.

1352
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 1: Who's gonna make this team and what's there always are,

1353
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 1: but they're always going to be some surprise releases at

1354
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:23,599
Speaker 1: the end of training camp. But while this has been

1355
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 1: an incredibly different training camp. There's still a couple of

1356
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: weeks into this, their neck deep into the xs and

1357
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 1: os and the knowledge about what it takes. But they've

1358
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: just dipped their toe into the physicality of the game today.

1359
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: And that's why there's such an uptick and energy around

1360
01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:41,600
Speaker 1: this building, around the practice facility. They're deep into this,

1361
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: and it's they've got a long way to go to

1362
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: get to their first game on September thirteenth. It's a

1363
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: long way to go. And but you said it earlier

1364
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:54,719
Speaker 1: in the show, Brownie, they'd be breaking camp this week

1365
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 1: ye in Rochester and coming back and now it's just

1366
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,719
Speaker 1: as though now they're just getting started in training camp.

1367
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 1: They've got a long way to go, and they're nowhere

1368
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 1: near being ready to take the field as a as

1369
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 1: a football team to take on the New York Jets.

1370
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: But they're not supposed to be ready today. And you've

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01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:15,479
Speaker 1: got to you've got some runway in front of Yeah,

1372
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: you've got to be You've got to take a healthy

1373
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 1: approach to this about how hard you're going to work

1374
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: and how and to getting there, not only getting to

1375
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:23,639
Speaker 1: the Jets healthy, but also getting there while you're peeking

1376
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 1: and getting ready to play in your top four. You

1377
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 1: don't want to get at all done today, that's right,

1378
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, or even this week. You want to build

1379
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: up to it. And you know, coach McDermott has said

1380
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:37,679
Speaker 1: he and his coaching staff have met a countless number

1381
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:42,679
Speaker 1: of times tweaking the schedule, working on how and where

1382
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:46,639
Speaker 1: to do certain installs into what degree and how much

1383
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 1: of the you know, refinement they want to get to

1384
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 1: when they want to reach that point of the process

1385
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: and really just be fine tuning things maybe two weeks

1386
01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: prior to the opener and then it's all out game

1387
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: plan for the old putter for the last ten days.

1388
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: Those are all things that they've been massaging and adjusting

1389
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 1: based on how they've had to deal with this whole

1390
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: COVID situation. So they it's a little different, but in

1391
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 1: the end, there's a lot of things that are the same.

1392
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 1: You just got to balance it out with the time

1393
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: you have afforded to you. Yeah, there's still something to

1394
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: be said too. There's one more SoundBite from Tremaine about

1395
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: and for us, he's been around here a long time,

1396
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: it feels that way, right, and he's what twenty one

1397
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:32,679
Speaker 1: and this is his third year still coming up, and

1398
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 1: you've seen we've seen him progressed to a Pro Bowl

1399
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 1: caliber player. Last year he was named to the Pro

1400
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 1: Bowl as an injury alternate and he actually played in

1401
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: the game last year, and he has come a long

1402
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 1: way from his rookie year and now he was asked

1403
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: about the difference between where he was two years ago

1404
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: as a rookie and where he is now coming into

1405
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 1: his third year. Here's what Tremaine said about that. I

1406
01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 1: think it's confidence. I mean, I think it's normal for

1407
01:14:58,040 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: somebody that's you know, just into a situation to not

1408
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: exactly have that amount of confidence they want. And you know,

1409
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm a very confident person then, but you know it's

1410
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: about you had to. I had to, you know, get

1411
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: adjusted to it and you know, learn the system and

1412
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: you know, get back to my normal so so I

1413
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 1: can play fasts like I wanted to. And uh, you

1414
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:19,120
Speaker 1: know now it's just like, you know, my confidence level

1415
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 1: is real high, but it's always something that we always

1416
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: can get better with. I mean that's what everybody in life.

1417
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm I'm my hardest credit, so you know,

1418
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:30,360
Speaker 1: I know out there when I myself on something. I know,

1419
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: things that I have to get better with, and you know,

1420
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna continue to doing that. And you know, I

1421
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 1: think I have a good group of guys around me

1422
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 1: that's gonna push me to do the press that I

1423
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: could do. And you know that's my that's that's the

1424
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: thing that I feel. I don't want to let those

1425
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 1: guys down. So I'm gonna make sure that I know,

1426
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 1: continue to get better with something and continue to improve

1427
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:49,280
Speaker 1: on things to you know, ultimately have you know, uh

1428
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:53,479
Speaker 1: help the team out. Hey. Well, and that's part of

1429
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:57,479
Speaker 1: coaches mantra. You know, daily self improvement. You know how

1430
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: you can become the best version of yourself, and it's

1431
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: by putting the work in every single day. So to

1432
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 1: hear the guy that's going to be running the defense

1433
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: kind of parting that in many ways is a good thing. Yeah.

1434
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:11,760
Speaker 1: A lot of what makes these teams successful is when

1435
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: you get enough guys with the same mindset. And I

1436
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: know it sounds simple, it's not easy to do. And

1437
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,680
Speaker 1: it starts with a head coach finding a guy like

1438
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds in the draft, trading up to get him,

1439
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:27,800
Speaker 1: making sure he's on his team because he shares the

1440
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: mindset that the coach wants this team to have throughout

1441
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:36,759
Speaker 1: and we heard Harrison Phillips day, he echoes that mindset.

1442
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: You know, TuS White echoes does mindset you get more.

1443
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen echoes that mindset of just day to day,

1444
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 1: every day getting better and better and better. And when

1445
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:49,080
Speaker 1: you've got enough guys, particularly crucial guys on your team

1446
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 1: that are that way, it elevates everybody on the roster

1447
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:55,680
Speaker 1: that and that's part of the reason that culture and

1448
01:16:55,720 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 1: that mindset is part of the reason why this team

1449
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,560
Speaker 1: always seems to be a little better than the some

1450
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 1: of its parts, at least as has been most of

1451
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 1: the time since Sean McDermott took over. You can say

1452
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: what you want about twenty eighteen when they were six

1453
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 1: and ten with a rookie quarterback, but they had a

1454
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: bad roster. And when they did make the changes to

1455
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: that roster that they had when they got out of

1456
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 1: financial jail that they were in twenty and eighteen, when

1457
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: they were saddled and I say saddled, but you know,

1458
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: you got a rookie quarterback he didn't think was gonna

1459
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:27,559
Speaker 1: play but actually had to end up playing. You kind

1460
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 1: of get those week years like twenty eighteen, but this

1461
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 1: is a roster that still has outperformed expectations of its

1462
01:17:36,479 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 1: talent level as perceived. Now this year's different. There's a

1463
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: there's a perception about this roster now that they've got

1464
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 1: some guys. Now, this is a team that's got some talent,

1465
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: and with the way and with the maximization that the

1466
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff have been able to get out of the

1467
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: other rosters that they've had, it gives you high hopes

1468
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 1: for this year. And guys like Tremaine Edmonds and what

1469
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 1: he said there about his experience and his confidence goes

1470
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: a long way towards bolstering those expectations. So that was

1471
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:05,640
Speaker 1: the highlights of what Tremaine had to offer, and I

1472
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 1: thought between him and Harrison, there was some good stuff

1473
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:09,280
Speaker 1: to chew on there. So we wanted to bring that

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01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: to you here on the show today, and we'll continue

1475
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:15,000
Speaker 1: to do that as more players are made available via

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01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 1: zoom call to the media each and every day after

1477
01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 1: practice with the media relations staff getting the guys over

1478
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 1: to the zoom screens on the iPads to make them available.

1479
01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: So it's been real helpful for the show and I'm

1480
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: sure for the media as well. We do want to

1481
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: get back to the tweet sheet where our Twitter poll

1482
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 1: is basically with no preseason, should the Bills practices include

1483
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: full contact? Coach McDermott said it himself today. There are

1484
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:45,600
Speaker 1: going to be more segments with live tackle to the

1485
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: ground portions. To what degree I think remains to be seen,

1486
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:52,439
Speaker 1: but he did say there will be more. So where

1487
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: do you stand on that? And we'll go to Nick

1488
01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:57,639
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. He says they need some full

1489
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:00,840
Speaker 1: contact experience, but they shouldn't overdo it. Even in a

1490
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:03,800
Speaker 1: normal preseason, most players are only playing one quarter per game,

1491
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 1: and some players barely play at all. I'd rather have

1492
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: a healthy team that's a little rusty than one destroyed

1493
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: by injuries week one. That's it right there, and it's

1494
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:16,680
Speaker 1: well put by Nick Either or If you've got an

1495
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:19,439
Speaker 1: either or scenario, everybody I think would agree with him.

1496
01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: You want your stars ready to go on. You want

1497
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 1: your best players ready to go in Week one and

1498
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:26,519
Speaker 1: let their instincts and athleticism take over, even if they

1499
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 1: are a little rusty in the physicality of the game.

1500
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:31,160
Speaker 1: You don't want to go into the Week one needing

1501
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: a win with you know, half your roster decimated by

1502
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: injuries or not one hundred percent, or maybe some of

1503
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 1: the key guys you've been looking forward to seeing and

1504
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: exploiting their talents for your benefit not even playing. And

1505
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 1: that happens all the time. Gerald McCoy's out for the

1506
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys happened in preseason, not even in contact. It

1507
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: was an individual drill, and it has this season and

1508
01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 1: in this season. I'll say it again, no preseason games.

1509
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 1: Usually in the preseason you don't really mind. Let your

1510
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 1: guy go out, turn them loose, and you know, get

1511
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:06,640
Speaker 1: them ready that way, they get them ready for the physicality.

1512
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 1: But here's the problem when you do that in your

1513
01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: own practice and I'll say it again, both sides of

1514
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: the ball or your guys. Yeah, it's not it's one

1515
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,559
Speaker 1: hundred it's one hundred percent of the injuries that happen

1516
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:20,679
Speaker 1: in these plays are yours to your roster. That's why

1517
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: it's really really risky to go full speed in practice.

1518
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 1: It's you know, coaches are just really really hesitant to

1519
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: do it for obvious reasons. So they're gonna have to

1520
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: find a balance to do in that and they will.

1521
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of with just a little bit is enough,

1522
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: you know, A pinch as salt is plenty to make

1523
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: to make good soup, you know, so right, So I

1524
01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:56,680
Speaker 1: just you can just tell whenever you go on these

1525
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:59,400
Speaker 1: live drills, you can you watch the coaching staff, they

1526
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 1: like they're all standing on they're all standing on their toes,

1527
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 1: like going, oh yeah, you know, the plays over and

1528
01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, everybody got everybody got up right. So

1529
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:10,839
Speaker 1: that's it's just the way it is because they understand

1530
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:13,320
Speaker 1: better than anybody that when you when you go live

1531
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:16,720
Speaker 1: in practice, one percent of the injuries are on your

1532
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:21,040
Speaker 1: injury list. Yeah, this one from Darryl. I believe what

1533
01:21:21,080 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: will happen is what should happen because this current regime

1534
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:27,479
Speaker 1: and the coaches have proven to everyone that they'll handle

1535
01:21:27,479 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 1: and do everything correctly in order to place the most healthy,

1536
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:35,120
Speaker 1: competitive Bills team on the field. Week one, Darryl backing

1537
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 1: up the staff drinking a kool aid love it. Yeah,

1538
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 1: that's yeah, And he's right. I mean they've earned a lot,

1539
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 1: they've learned a lot of slack. They've yeah, they've they've

1540
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: earned the benefit of the death. They've earned a lot

1541
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: of them without question. And and you're right they they were.

1542
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:53,720
Speaker 1: They've been the healthiest team in the league the last

1543
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:59,719
Speaker 1: couple of years. Um they have guys they are not resident,

1544
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:03,519
Speaker 1: had a reticent to give guys time off, where other

1545
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 1: coaching stats are like, ah, he you know, he needs

1546
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 1: to practice and we need him in there, and they're like,

1547
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: now we need him ready on game day. And they've

1548
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:14,680
Speaker 1: taken made hard decisions to make that happen. The way

1549
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 1: they rotated Tynesseki in last year and the way they

1550
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: handled that other players at Oliver and Robert Foster, Levi Wallace,

1551
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:29,799
Speaker 1: all these young players who have been worked in gently

1552
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: and progressively and methodically. They didn't just throw them in

1553
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 1: and said sink or swim. They gave him a chance

1554
01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 1: to be successful. That goes the same way that is

1555
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: with the health concerns of the entire roster. They do

1556
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: it in a way that gives them the best chance

1557
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: to be successful. This one from Tiffany Tough Poll question.

1558
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: You want to get the players in game shape, However,

1559
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: you don't want to lose any impact player to injury.

1560
01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: I would say play a simulated game at the end

1561
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: of camp with the players that are on the bubble

1562
01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 1: in the hopes to round out the final roster and

1563
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:01,759
Speaker 1: practice squad. Wouldn't be surprised if they have an interest

1564
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: squad scrimmage of some kind. But I almost like Tiffany's idea.

1565
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:10,080
Speaker 1: Better have the guys, you know, provided you have enough,

1566
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:13,759
Speaker 1: have the guys that are really fighting for roster spots

1567
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: that you need to know about, you know, playing some

1568
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: kind of scrimmage. They're only gonna cut eleven guys. Yeah,

1569
01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: I know. That's why I don't have enough people. And

1570
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: people were asking, what are you talking about? They got

1571
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:26,840
Speaker 1: eighty guys. Yeah, they got eighty guys. They got fifty

1572
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 1: three on the natural, on the on the roster, and

1573
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:31,680
Speaker 1: sixteen on the practice squad. And add that up. What

1574
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 1: is it this sixty nine players? Yea, and they got eighty.

1575
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:41,479
Speaker 1: So do the math. Yeah, and it may not and

1576
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:43,680
Speaker 1: it may not be that many, depending on injury and

1577
01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 1: or COVID, so it might be even less cutting eleven

1578
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: guys off and less master so eleven guys. It's it's

1579
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 1: different this year. It's different, and it should be. And

1580
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 1: I've you and I have gone long winter going around

1581
01:23:57,240 --> 01:24:00,840
Speaker 1: the circles, and I said they should keep guys well.

1582
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:03,960
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing, Steve, with this whole you know,

1583
01:24:04,120 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: live hitting and practice thing to consider too. As you said,

1584
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:11,559
Speaker 1: you're only part in ways with eleven guys. How much

1585
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 1: live hitting do you want to do and risk injury

1586
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: and suddenly be short on numbers and then throw your

1587
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 1: personnel pro personnel department into a scramble to bring people in.

1588
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you can't do that. I mean, heck,

1589
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: the Bills just signed two defensive tackles over the weekend

1590
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 1: that they pulled in off the street. I mean there

1591
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 1: are players out there. I'm not saying there aren't guys

1592
01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 1: on the street, especially this time of year. But at

1593
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 1: the same time, I think that is something that you

1594
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 1: have to weigh and say, Look, this year is a

1595
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 1: little different. We're only gonna part ways with probably eleven

1596
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:46,680
Speaker 1: players here, you know, barring an injury or some other

1597
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: unforeseen circumstances. So how many how much hitting do we

1598
01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:52,639
Speaker 1: want to do because if we start losing people, we're

1599
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:54,679
Speaker 1: gonna have to cut back on that so we don't

1600
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 1: lose anymore. It's it feels I don't know if it

1601
01:24:58,479 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: is different, but it feels different. And every other for instance,

1602
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,760
Speaker 1: you get two corners who twist their ankle. Maybe not

1603
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 1: even your st top corners, but the two backup corners.

1604
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: You've got to go find some guys to play and

1605
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 1: then your special team and you've got you only got

1606
01:25:13,960 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 1: so many roster spots, and you gotta stay healthy. You

1607
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:18,400
Speaker 1: gotta keep guys ready that can be plugged in for

1608
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 1: Because of COVID, there's just an extra layer of hesitation

1609
01:25:22,160 --> 01:25:27,760
Speaker 1: as to who you can bring in and who you trust. Yeah,

1610
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 1: a positional emergency is the last thing you need going

1611
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 1: into this season. And a lot of teams that I

1612
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:37,280
Speaker 1: think that is the number one particularly for this squat

1613
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. That's the number one concern for your

1614
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 1: coaching staff and your personnel department right now, because they

1615
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: got a good roster, but all of a sudden, if

1616
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:48,760
Speaker 1: they get into a positional emergency where they don't have

1617
01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: enough dts or they don't have enough offensive tackles or whoever,

1618
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 1: you can't get into that spot. So you're keeping your

1619
01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 1: sixty nine players with an eye towards making sure you

1620
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 1: got enough at every position. You may have guys that

1621
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: are good enough to play in the NFL, you gotta

1622
01:26:05,040 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 1: cut because you got too many guys that can play

1623
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:09,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL at that spot, and you need a

1624
01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 1: couple of others at another spot that can play in

1625
01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 1: case you need them. It's the positional emergency is the

1626
01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 1: great unknown, particularly with COVID in the air. You don't

1627
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 1: want to get there and it can happen with COVID,

1628
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: or it could happen with injury, with injury, so it's yeah,

1629
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 1: it's double edged. Now there's two ways you can, Yeah,

1630
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: lose guys, not the usual way which you're kind of

1631
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:31,799
Speaker 1: accustomed to seeing. And it's not easy to get fine guys.

1632
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: It's not easy to go out and say, okay, come

1633
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: on in, we fly in, you'll be at practice tomorrow. Yeah,

1634
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: they did. They did change a couple of things. You

1635
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:42,719
Speaker 1: don't have to create a hole on your roster anymore

1636
01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 1: to bring somebody in. So that's good. That's out of

1637
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 1: the way. And I think now you can bring in

1638
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 1: more than one person, you can bring in multiple people.

1639
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 1: I think I think jams around the league. So the

1640
01:26:55,920 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: initial sets of rules that look, we gotta but you

1641
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:01,439
Speaker 1: can't get in the building. No, it's got a test negative,

1642
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 1: test negative, and get a physical away from the site.

1643
01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not presto chango like it used

1644
01:27:06,439 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 1: to be. And that's it's gonna be interesting to see

1645
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 1: late in the week when you're getting in a regular season,

1646
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 1: when you get into that those things late in the week. Yeah,

1647
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: how flexible and nimble can you be with your roster?

1648
01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:22,360
Speaker 1: If the worst happens and we don't even know what

1649
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:24,599
Speaker 1: the worst is, is it this position or that position?

1650
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:30,320
Speaker 1: He is gonna take reps like Fridays on the other

1651
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:32,519
Speaker 1: side of the ball for some do you know what

1652
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:35,160
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, yeah, yeah, it could happen. Yeah, I

1653
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:40,519
Speaker 1: mean an extreme circumstances. Think about it, Quentin Spain, we

1654
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: needs you at knows today, right wow? Or Dawson knocks.

1655
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 1: You're the only guy who knows the plays. You're gonna

1656
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: have to play exitday. You're gonna be split out wide.

1657
01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 1: You're gonna take John Brown spot. You're gonna take the

1658
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:57,680
Speaker 1: slot in Cole Beasley down you. We need you at

1659
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: the slot. You're gonna play slot the entire game at

1660
01:28:00,439 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 1: six five, two fifty. Thanks, go, you know, just just

1661
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 1: get through it. You know that it's it's that kind

1662
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: of scenario that you get into a point where because

1663
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 1: you know that's the thing, there'll be tight ends who

1664
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: know the slot position, because certain physicians don't have to

1665
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: flex out right, So you'll say, okay, Beasley, what are

1666
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 1: we gonna do now, right? You gotta have your tight

1667
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 1: ends play slot and then if that, if the worst happens,

1668
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: instead of playing you got that tight ends out. Now,

1669
01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 1: you gotta go four wides because that's the only thing

1670
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 1: you know you got left. All these positional emergencies are

1671
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:37,160
Speaker 1: on the horizon and you don't know where they're gonna

1672
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: pop up. And there's a whole different thing in the

1673
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 1: mix that could make them pop up, which is obviously coronavirus.

1674
01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:45,680
Speaker 1: That's not even Listen, The skill positions aren't even the

1675
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,639
Speaker 1: worst scenario. The worst scenario is Mitch Morris and John

1676
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:55,680
Speaker 1: Feliciano and Quentin Spain and Brian Winters and Darryl Williams

1677
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: all go down. Now you've played an offensive line with

1678
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:06,840
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox Lee Smith at guard, you know, and you're

1679
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: scaring me, right, That's that's the nightmare right there, That's armageddon.

1680
01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:15,800
Speaker 1: That's the nightmare. Well you got when you got guys.

1681
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:18,280
Speaker 1: That's why all these that's why all these things are

1682
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:20,600
Speaker 1: in place to avoid such a scenario. That's where you

1683
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 1: got the guys where where Dawson Knox and Lee Smith

1684
01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 1: have to turn to the official every plane go I'm out,

1685
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm ineligible. Yeah, I'm playing guard. Oh you have effectively

1686
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:35,479
Speaker 1: scared the Bejesus atomy with that doomsday scenario. That's the

1687
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: that's the emergency that we're staring in the face. We

1688
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:39,920
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but we come back. It's

1689
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 1: time for some NFL true false. We'll also get back

1690
01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: to the tweetcheat to see what you have to say.

1691
01:29:44,280 --> 01:29:46,679
Speaker 1: They're coming up next here on One Bill's Live, presented

1692
01:29:46,680 --> 01:30:02,360
Speaker 1: by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio First

1693
01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: Ground see a tasker with you here on One Bill's Live,

1694
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:08,360
Speaker 1: final half hour of the show. And we've talked about

1695
01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:10,920
Speaker 1: a multitude of things. We've heard from Tremade Edmonds, Harrison

1696
01:30:10,920 --> 01:30:13,640
Speaker 1: Phillips after first padded practice today, So they had some

1697
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:16,559
Speaker 1: good things to lend to the conversation that we had,

1698
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:21,400
Speaker 1: which included, you know, without preseason games, the idea of

1699
01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 1: full contact practice. The Bills are going to do more

1700
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:26,360
Speaker 1: of those because they're just not gonna be having preseason games.

1701
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:28,680
Speaker 1: And we've talked about all the risks they're in and

1702
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:31,439
Speaker 1: there are risks, just as there is with anything that

1703
01:30:31,479 --> 01:30:33,320
Speaker 1: you do on a football field, really just by the

1704
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:36,360
Speaker 1: nature of how the sport is played. But we do

1705
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:39,840
Speaker 1: want to get to a little bit of NFL true false.

1706
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 1: It's that time in the show for that NFL true false,

1707
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:46,120
Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancy's Fancy Yancey's Fancy New York's

1708
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:50,120
Speaker 1: Artists and Cheese. And we lead off Steve with this,

1709
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:54,719
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders are the NFL team most likely

1710
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 1: to surprise in twenty twenty true or false. And I

1711
01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 1: guess what we're looking for here is a team that's

1712
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:05,719
Speaker 1: just completely coming out of nowhere, that isn't being trumped

1713
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:09,479
Speaker 1: up at all or talked about much. Who have we heard,

1714
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:12,240
Speaker 1: but who's actually got a chance to be good? We've heard,

1715
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 1: you know, the Bills have been AFC's favorites for months now.

1716
01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 1: Some people are bullish on the Cardinals taken a step

1717
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:22,800
Speaker 1: after the Hopkins trade, and how encouraging Kyler Murray is.

1718
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,519
Speaker 1: We need a team that's really really under the radar

1719
01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:29,040
Speaker 1: that nobody's talking about that could surprise. Are the Raiders

1720
01:31:29,479 --> 01:31:35,160
Speaker 1: the team that fits that Bill? Well, certainly they're not

1721
01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 1: the I mean, obviously, if they're successful, the most surprising

1722
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:41,439
Speaker 1: team would be the Cincinnati Bengals because they were the

1723
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 1: first pick of the draft and all that. But how

1724
01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 1: likely is it that they will surprise? What's it take

1725
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 1: for them to surprise is probably a little less than

1726
01:31:48,120 --> 01:31:50,519
Speaker 1: order will take for the Raiders to surprise as well too,

1727
01:31:51,439 --> 01:32:00,559
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I would say, just say

1728
01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 1: it somebody else. I would say it's somebody else. I

1729
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:05,960
Speaker 1: like the Raiders. I think they are going to have

1730
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: a pretty good year. I don't think they're gonna make

1731
01:32:07,760 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 1: it to the playoffs because I think they're in a

1732
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:11,679
Speaker 1: division with the Kansas City Chiefs. I don't think they're

1733
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:13,720
Speaker 1: any better or have reason to think they're going to

1734
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:17,160
Speaker 1: be any better than that's the LA Chargers, Uh, the

1735
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:19,599
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. I think they're kind of and also ran.

1736
01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 1: They're not going to get past the Chiefs in that division,

1737
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:27,080
Speaker 1: and I don't think the wildcard will come from that division.

1738
01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: So I would say probably not YEA, so false for you.

1739
01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:34,760
Speaker 1: I would say a team more likely to be successful

1740
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 1: that is kind of off our radar here would be

1741
01:32:37,760 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. I think Joe Judge is

1742
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: going to bring in a little bit of energy and

1743
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 1: something to that squad, and that's a division that's they're

1744
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 1: gonna beat Washington. Philly's got a chance to win the division.

1745
01:32:49,439 --> 01:32:51,000
Speaker 1: I think they would be the favorite in my eyes,

1746
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:55,599
Speaker 1: and Dallas the right exactly and that whole division, that's right.

1747
01:32:55,720 --> 01:32:59,599
Speaker 1: The philadelf Eagles have continuity, right, So I would say

1748
01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:05,040
Speaker 1: probably the Giants because of them being able to play

1749
01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:08,559
Speaker 1: well in that division even against the Philadelphia Eagles. So

1750
01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:12,240
Speaker 1: that's who I would say it would be. At least

1751
01:33:12,280 --> 01:33:13,800
Speaker 1: that's one of the teams I would say. I am

1752
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 1: going to say false as well. And the team I'm

1753
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:20,320
Speaker 1: going with is the Denver Broncos. I think that team

1754
01:33:20,400 --> 01:33:23,679
Speaker 1: has a chance to surprise some people because that team

1755
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:26,760
Speaker 1: very quietly had a top ten defense last year under

1756
01:33:26,840 --> 01:33:29,320
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio, who we know knows how to coach defense.

1757
01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:34,200
Speaker 1: And I mean, granted, the quarterbacks got to come through

1758
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 1: there if they're gonna surprise, but Drew Locke was four

1759
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 1: and one in his five starts last year, and this

1760
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:42,280
Speaker 1: guy's got a multitude of weapons, no offense at tight end,

1761
01:33:42,760 --> 01:33:46,559
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton, and they drafted Jerry Judy and kJ Hammler

1762
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:50,920
Speaker 1: from Penn State. I mean, if those guys come through

1763
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:56,439
Speaker 1: and are quick on the uptake, they could surprise some people. Again,

1764
01:33:57,200 --> 01:33:59,599
Speaker 1: they're not beating out the chiefs for the division or anything,

1765
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:02,840
Speaker 1: but right, they might surprise him people and be in

1766
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:05,720
Speaker 1: playoff contention, especially knowing there's seven teams that make the

1767
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:08,800
Speaker 1: playoffs from each conference. Now, I think they could be

1768
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:11,479
Speaker 1: the surprise. So I will say, no, the Raiders are

1769
01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:14,639
Speaker 1: not the most likely to surprise in twenty twenty. False

1770
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: for me too, second for NFL true false. Bruce arians

1771
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:21,320
Speaker 1: is the head coach most likely to win a Super

1772
01:34:21,360 --> 01:34:27,479
Speaker 1: Bowl in twenty twenty. It's the pay So they're saying

1773
01:34:27,479 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are the favorites for the super Bowl. He's

1774
01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:34,600
Speaker 1: the head coach. Yeah, yeah, that's essentially what you're saying. Sure, no,

1775
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:36,760
Speaker 1: it would be a home game too if he got

1776
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:39,960
Speaker 1: that in Tampas. And I'll tell you what. Let's let's

1777
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:43,559
Speaker 1: talk about storybook endings for Tom Brady, which, good, guys,

1778
01:34:43,600 --> 01:34:48,960
Speaker 1: here we go, right, he goes down. Has in is

1779
01:34:48,960 --> 01:34:52,599
Speaker 1: the first and now, aside from all the nine Super

1780
01:34:52,600 --> 01:34:54,519
Speaker 1: Bowls he's been in and the six wins he's got

1781
01:34:54,560 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 1: and the MVPs and all that, he goes to Tampa

1782
01:34:56,479 --> 01:34:59,519
Speaker 1: Bay and he's the first ever quarterback to have a

1783
01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 1: home aim as a super Bowl in his hometown for

1784
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:07,080
Speaker 1: the city that he plays for. Yeah, that's something. Let

1785
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:10,160
Speaker 1: me just sticks also, he let me stick my finger

1786
01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 1: down my throat for that. That and then if he wins,

1787
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:16,240
Speaker 1: he would have a seventy percent winning percentage in Super

1788
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:22,040
Speaker 1: Bowls for his career. Good grief. Yeah, yeah that. Yeah,

1789
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:24,559
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna say false just because I can't

1790
01:35:24,560 --> 01:35:28,920
Speaker 1: live with it. I do like Bruce that. I'll say that.

1791
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: That literally just turned my stomach. Yeah, I like ba too.

1792
01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:36,840
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians is a phenomenal dude. Players love him. Let

1793
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 1: a playing for him. But if Tom Brady is the

1794
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:41,599
Speaker 1: first quarterback in NFL history to get to the Super

1795
01:35:41,640 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 1: Bowl and in his hometown and his home team's town,

1796
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:49,759
Speaker 1: just about all I can stand. Take me now, lord, Yeah, um,

1797
01:35:50,400 --> 01:35:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm what I'm trying to do now is pick someone

1798
01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:55,160
Speaker 1: else that's more likely to win the Super Bowl in

1799
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:58,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty a head coach. So I don't know. I'll

1800
01:35:58,880 --> 01:36:02,320
Speaker 1: just say I'm saying falls for Bruce Arians, but I

1801
01:36:02,320 --> 01:36:08,320
Speaker 1: will say John Harbaugh. I don't know, Yeah, there's won

1802
01:36:08,439 --> 01:36:13,040
Speaker 1: one before. He's got a loaded roster. They were closed

1803
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 1: last year. I think after having a fourteen and two

1804
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 1: regular season and coming up short, I think the sting

1805
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:23,240
Speaker 1: one and done. Her sting is very sharp and it

1806
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:26,360
Speaker 1: will be carried with them into this season. So I

1807
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:28,719
Speaker 1: expect the Ravens to be a team on a mission

1808
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 1: this year. So that'll be my pick for most likely

1809
01:36:32,360 --> 01:36:36,080
Speaker 1: head coach. Yeah, here's I'll just tell you, do you

1810
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:38,160
Speaker 1: have Do you have a team you would choose, but

1811
01:36:38,320 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: outside of Buffalo, I'd say Buffalo, Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, I'm

1812
01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:48,439
Speaker 1: taking I'm taking the entire I'm taking the entire division

1813
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,280
Speaker 1: AFC South and throwed and out the window Kansas City again,

1814
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:54,960
Speaker 1: and one other team from the from the from that

1815
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:57,040
Speaker 1: division as well. And also I wouldn't throw out in

1816
01:36:57,040 --> 01:37:00,439
Speaker 1: New England either, So they got Pittsburgh to be two

1817
01:37:00,439 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 1: of them. That's what I said. Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New England.

1818
01:37:05,439 --> 01:37:10,240
Speaker 1: One team from the South, the Chiefs, right, maybe Chiefs,

1819
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:12,920
Speaker 1: and one more out of this maybe the Raiders out

1820
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:14,679
Speaker 1: of the out of the West as well with the Chiefs,

1821
01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:23,280
Speaker 1: and then from from the north, Green Bay, Philly, in

1822
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:28,720
Speaker 1: the you're picking the playoff field? Yes, the Bucks and

1823
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 1: the and the Saints, and I'll take the Cardinals and

1824
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:35,280
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Did you want to buy a vowel too?

1825
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:37,680
Speaker 1: Or I would? I'm telling you right now, those are

1826
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:40,760
Speaker 1: the Seattle to Callie. They might have three teams from

1827
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: the NFC West take the playoffs. Yeah and I and

1828
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:48,439
Speaker 1: I Yeah. So I'm not gonna say the Buccaneers are

1829
01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 1: the favorites because I didn't. You know, I think they'll

1830
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:52,120
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I think they're that kind of team.

1831
01:37:52,160 --> 01:37:55,800
Speaker 1: But that's a tough division and it's a it's a

1832
01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:58,439
Speaker 1: long season, not from here. I tried to do that

1833
01:37:58,479 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 1: last year with Cleveland, you know what I mean? Oh yeah,

1834
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 1: let's not go there. Last one NFL true falls Foals

1835
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:08,080
Speaker 1: or Trubisky is the top training camp question to answer

1836
01:38:08,160 --> 01:38:11,439
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now I have to rack my brain

1837
01:38:11,479 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: and try to think of a different one. No, I

1838
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:17,479
Speaker 1: think Tampa Bay's got more intriguing storylines. I think, what's

1839
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:20,639
Speaker 1: the question down there? And Brady still do it? Or yeah,

1840
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:23,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? Is that the team that all they needed was,

1841
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:26,720
Speaker 1: you know, a little better version of Jamis Winston? And

1842
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:29,000
Speaker 1: I think they got that, no question. I think another

1843
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:33,920
Speaker 1: question for training camp is can the Tennessee Titans keep

1844
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:36,000
Speaker 1: going what they had going in the last half of

1845
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 1: last year. I don't think they can't. Ben Roethlisberger the

1846
01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:41,400
Speaker 1: same guy. I think that's a big fat belly flop

1847
01:38:41,439 --> 01:38:45,760
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Now I could be wrong. U Tannehill is

1848
01:38:45,800 --> 01:38:47,840
Speaker 1: a good player, but he's not the player he was,

1849
01:38:48,120 --> 01:38:50,559
Speaker 1: you know, last year in the second half at least.

1850
01:38:51,400 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 1: And he's heard that too. I've read the articles coming

1851
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:56,280
Speaker 1: out of their people. He has heard that that everybody

1852
01:38:56,280 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 1: thinks it's a fluke from last year's and he's you know,

1853
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 1: he's got a chip on his shoulder, and that works

1854
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:05,160
Speaker 1: guys with chips on the shoulders. You know, We'll see

1855
01:39:05,200 --> 01:39:06,960
Speaker 1: what it translates into. Right, I don't know. There's a

1856
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:08,880
Speaker 1: lot of going on, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna the

1857
01:39:09,040 --> 01:39:12,200
Speaker 1: last NFL True Falls, what was it? It was is

1858
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:15,080
Speaker 1: fuls of tsisky the top training camp ques Nobody cares

1859
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:17,920
Speaker 1: because that team, I would say, I would say nobody cares,

1860
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:19,920
Speaker 1: all right. That is NFL True Falls. Brought to you

1861
01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:22,240
Speaker 1: by Nancy's Fancy New York's artist and Chee Steve and

1862
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:23,920
Speaker 1: I will take a break, but when we return, it

1863
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:26,840
Speaker 1: is what have we learned from today's show? Coming up

1864
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

1865
01:39:29,360 --> 01:39:46,920
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio time for What have we Learned?

1866
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

1867
01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:53,640
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. And what we learned on

1868
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:56,840
Speaker 1: today's show is that Harrison Phillips went through some heavy

1869
01:39:56,920 --> 01:40:01,000
Speaker 1: ups and downs during his long rehability tation process in

1870
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:03,840
Speaker 1: his return from his ACL injury that he suffered in

1871
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:07,080
Speaker 1: Week three last season against the Bengals. There were some

1872
01:40:07,200 --> 01:40:10,559
Speaker 1: dark days there, Steve, and I give him credit for

1873
01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: admitting that there were times when he got depressed about

1874
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:16,080
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and you know, gave the athletic training

1875
01:40:16,120 --> 01:40:19,680
Speaker 1: staff a boatload of credit for helping him pull him

1876
01:40:19,680 --> 01:40:23,759
Speaker 1: out of those depths. I guess when sometimes you ask yourself,

1877
01:40:24,880 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: is this need going to be right? Am I gonna

1878
01:40:26,439 --> 01:40:28,920
Speaker 1: be able to play again? Right? Usually we'll play a

1879
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:30,880
Speaker 1: sound bite from the player about you know, what do

1880
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:33,679
Speaker 1: we learned? But today Harrison was pretty emotional. I would

1881
01:40:33,720 --> 01:40:35,320
Speaker 1: encourage you to go back and listen to the podcast

1882
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:37,120
Speaker 1: and hear what he had to say about how you know,

1883
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:39,000
Speaker 1: you always think about these players. You know, they get

1884
01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:42,120
Speaker 1: paid a boatload of money, and they do, but when

1885
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 1: they become human beings after they get hurt and they

1886
01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 1: got to go through this, they're human beings in the

1887
01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:48,400
Speaker 1: building who help them through it. And three hundred and

1888
01:40:48,479 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 1: thirty days to the day, he gets to put pads

1889
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:53,759
Speaker 1: back on and play with his friends. Yeah, play football

1890
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Speaker 1: with his friends. It's a it's a great vibe. We

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Speaker 1: also have a ton of sound bites from Sean McDermott,

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds on as well. A lot going on today's show.

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Speaker 1: First day of padded practice, a lot of energy in

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Speaker 1: the building. It was fun. Yeah, And that Harrison Phillips

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01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:09,680
Speaker 1: sound was in the one o'clock hour, or you can

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01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:13,000
Speaker 1: probably check his entire zoom call out on Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: dot com if you want to hear him in his entirety.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for us here today on

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Speaker 1: today's show. But we'll have more as training camp rolls

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Speaker 1: on on Tuesday and the rest of the week, and

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Speaker 1: we'll have another live stream coming your way on Thursday

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01:41:28,640 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: on all of our streaming platforms, so be prepared for that.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for that. It was Maddie and I today.

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Speaker 1: I think it might be you and Maddie on Thursday,

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01:41:37,320 --> 01:41:39,200
Speaker 1: so that'll be good as you guys will be live

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01:41:39,280 --> 01:41:41,800
Speaker 1: from the field to kind of give fans a sneak

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01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 1: peak because there's no fans of training camp this year.

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01:41:44,240 --> 01:41:47,280
Speaker 1: It's different. It's just like a regular season practice. They're

1909
01:41:47,280 --> 01:41:50,720
Speaker 1: out there's yeah, no hoots and hollers, no anything. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty quiet out there, although the players are pretty energy.

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Speaker 1: Players are full of energy, but yeah, the fans that

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Speaker 1: you're used to hearing on big plays, you know, the

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Speaker 1: US and the odds and that kind of stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: it's sorely absent, safe to say we miss you fan

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Speaker 1: will be energetic tomorrow too. That's right. That'll do it

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Speaker 1: for us. Here on the show for Steve Tasker, I'm

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. Thanks for listening. It's One Bill's Live, presented

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