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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker here with you on a very somber Tuesday afternoon

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Speaker 1: in the wake of the events that happened at pay

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Speaker 1: Horse Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio last night during Monday night

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Speaker 1: football just passed the midway mark of the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: We all know what happened. Those of you that were

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Speaker 1: watching or listening to the game know that Damar Hamlin

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Speaker 1: had experienced cardiac arrest on the field after making a

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Speaker 1: tackle on Te Higgins in the game in the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: And while we were all watching it unfold and not

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Speaker 1: knowing exactly what was going on, I think we all

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Speaker 1: very quickly realized it was a very serious situation, quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: a life or death situation. And now we are still

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest with you, doing the game

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Speaker 1: on the radio, traveling overnight with the team back to Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: I'm still trying to find my footing in all of this.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know Steve has tons of years of

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Speaker 1: experience broadcasting games. That was unprecedented. The only thing that

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Speaker 1: I even said on the air that I and my

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Speaker 1: thoughts went to this as I was watching the ambulance

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Speaker 1: back up visibly upset players on the field. Was the

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Speaker 1: Kevin Everett situation. It is the only thing that comes

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Speaker 1: remotely close to what we all experienced last night. That

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Speaker 1: was in the season opener back in two thousand and seven, when,

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Speaker 1: for those that don't know, Kevin Everett, a former tight

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Speaker 1: end of the Buffalo Bills, was coming down the field

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Speaker 1: covering a kickoff, collided violently with the return man Dominic

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Speaker 1: Hickson of the Giant of the Broncos, and immediately was

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Speaker 1: motionless on the field. We would learn later he suffered

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Speaker 1: a severe spinal cord injury, and fortunately, through the great

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Speaker 1: work of the doctors and medical professionals, his temporary paralysis

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Speaker 1: and function in everyday life. His football career was over,

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Speaker 1: but that was the only time where I heard a

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Speaker 1: last night. There really is no update from the latest news,

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Speaker 1: which we received through a statement from the team overnight,

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Speaker 1: and that statement basically by the Bills confirmed that Damar

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Speaker 1: Hamlin had a cardiac event following a cardiac arrest following

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Speaker 1: the hit in the game. Versus the Bengals. His heartbeat

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Speaker 1: was restored on the field, transferred to UC Medical Center

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Speaker 1: for further testing and treatment, and sedated and listed in

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Speaker 1: critical condition. We have since learned, based on medical comments

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Speaker 1: that have been out there, and we take them at

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Speaker 1: their word as medical professionals, that sedating patient in a

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Speaker 1: case like this is common to basically let the entire

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Speaker 1: And we imagine that that is in fact what the

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Speaker 1: medical professionals in Cincinnati are doing with him right now.

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Speaker 1: See if I can go on and on about what

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Speaker 1: we were experiencing in Cincinnati. Where did where did your

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Speaker 1: perspective lie in all of this, not only you know,

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Speaker 1: being a guy that covers the team as an employee

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Speaker 1: forty years. And because of that, we've all seen too

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Speaker 1: many times guys get carded off the field, and and

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Speaker 1: So Terry calls the league, calls his guy at the official, Hey,

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Speaker 1: that in Port Tony and Joe or just trying for

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Speaker 1: any scrap of information, and they say, well, the league,

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Speaker 1: The League just told him what the procedure was. And

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Speaker 1: of course, pretty quickly everybody realized that it's, you know,

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Speaker 1: not what this is about. It's not going to happen.

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Speaker 1: And Dona Ponte, who is the chief administrator Football Operations

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Speaker 1: and for all the policies and the rules and regulations,

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Speaker 1: We're not going to do it go any further. And

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Speaker 1: I've said it a million times. The league sometimes takes

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I've been playing the game since I

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Speaker 1: That's that we're all in uncharted waters. And even today

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Speaker 1: We're all going to kind of hang in here where

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Speaker 1: Until we find out we can we're gonna move forward

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Speaker 1: Let's focus on DeMar Hamlin and his care and get

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Speaker 1: and we've got little snips and give you an idea

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Speaker 1: of what kind of guy he is. It's and he's

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Speaker 1: pretty awesome. So that's why a guy like that, not

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Speaker 1: just because it was any player, but Damar who had

435
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Speaker 1: his teammates a little really upset and visibly upset last

436
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Speaker 1: night when they saw him down. We'll pass along some

437
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Speaker 1: of that as we move along here in the show.

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Speaker 1: We want to get to the phones though now, and

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Speaker 1: leading us off today is Alex in Rockland. What do

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Speaker 1: you have for us? Alex here on One Bill's Life

441
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: and I afternoon, Chris, because after thing, Steve and I

442
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: just want to say thank you for being a vehicle

443
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: for not just Bills fans, but football fans and just

444
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: humans in general to release some of these emotions that

445
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: are so supposed to be a sport for entertainment. And

446
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: it quickly changed in seconds and I'm a sports physical

447
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: therapist with extensive sideline coverage. I've been around sports for

448
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: thirty years. I've practiced exactly Steve what you were talking about.

449
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: Every year, I go through training on stabilizing the spine,

450
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: holding the helmet, removing the face mask. It is not

451
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: easy taking shoulder pads off these football players and then

452
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: putting an AD on them. So that's my worst nightmare.

453
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: And I'm usually ready for an ACL. I'm usually ready

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Speaker 1: for a concussion, but this is the worst case scenario.

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00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: And I can't say enough things for the first responders

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Speaker 1: between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills and actually

457
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: implementing the plan it was designed. There were so many

458
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: different people involved that this could have went wrong, and

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Speaker 1: what they did was beautiful. I've been a part of

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Speaker 1: bringing people back to life. I've seen people die. It's

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Speaker 1: part of being a medical professional and unfortunately unfortunately depending

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Speaker 1: on how you look at it. But they did their

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Speaker 1: jobs to the tea in front of millions of people.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like in the corner of the hospital room

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Speaker 1: where only four or five people are involved. You had

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Speaker 1: eighty thousand people live, you had millions of people on TV.

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Speaker 1: And kudos to the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals

468
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Speaker 1: working together for this young man. Um. I have a

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Speaker 1: lot of hope for the Hamlets because I've been there.

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Speaker 1: I know that he's gonna be okay. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are listening to me right now worry

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Speaker 1: it's this kind gonna make it. Is he gonna die

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Speaker 1: because that's kind of natural. But being a medical professional,

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Speaker 1: I know he's gonna be okay. So billse fans and

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Speaker 1: football fans and those from Pittsburgh and Hamlin who know

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Speaker 1: the kid intimately, please have faith and hope and still

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Speaker 1: pray that he comes out one hundred percent. And I

478
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Speaker 1: just wanted to be as a medical professional who's done

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Speaker 1: this before, I empathetically feel what they went through. So

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Speaker 1: if you have any questions for me, I'll stay on.

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Speaker 1: If not, I just want to wish you guys and

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Speaker 1: say thank you for being a vehicle. This isn't easy

483
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Speaker 1: for you, guys, This isn't easy for you to talk

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Speaker 1: about it. So thank you again for stepping up to

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Speaker 1: the task and in your capacity and what you can

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Speaker 1: do to allow all of us in Buffalo, in New

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Speaker 1: York and across the country to kind of heal from this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Alice, I think the only thing, the only thing

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Speaker 1: we would ask just if you could confirm for us

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Speaker 1: the sedation portion of the treatment as well as you know,

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Speaker 1: trying to let his body rest, the whole method behind that,

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Speaker 1: if you have any knowledge on that front as a

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Speaker 1: medical professional. Absolutely, it's actually routine protocol even for spinal

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Speaker 1: cord injuries to cool the body to reduce inflammation because

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Speaker 1: not only was there trauma to the body from the

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Speaker 1: from the impact, but also there's a shock response from

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Speaker 1: the rest of the body and you can actually lose

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Speaker 1: organs um other organs, so that the whole process of

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Speaker 1: cooling the body down for twenty four to forty eight

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Speaker 1: hours is protocol to spare other vital organs like kidneys,

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Speaker 1: um and liver and other because the whole bodies in trauma.

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Speaker 1: Right what what believe what I believe what happened was

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Speaker 1: called kamoda chordia, which is extremely rare. Um. It's why

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Speaker 1: little leaguers now have to pictures, have to wear chest

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Speaker 1: pads because it is very rare. It's like getting struck

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Speaker 1: by lightning at some point. How rare it is um

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Speaker 1: and but it does happen, and that's why they went

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Speaker 1: through the protocol and um, if you have any questions

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Speaker 1: about that, So it basically, I know it's a cardiac event.

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Speaker 1: Is the herd being shocked out of rhythm from the hit?

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Speaker 1: Is that what I don't want to speculate here, but

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Speaker 1: basically it's basically what happens is is there is an

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Speaker 1: electrical current that goes through your heart that kind of

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Speaker 1: gets your you know, you're too many Ekg's measuring. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of basically the signal that tells the heart to beat,

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Speaker 1: and he got struck at right before that signal was

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Speaker 1: going to be to have a contraction and it started

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Speaker 1: a cardiac arrest and it is extremely rare, and so

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Speaker 1: the aeed was the only thing that would save him.

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Speaker 1: So what you've mentioned the Cincinnati Bengal Athletic training staff

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Speaker 1: running immediately and putting the aeed by the way, removing

522
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: his shoulder pads, that's not that that doesn't happen without practice.

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Speaker 1: You know, imagine how nervous those guys must have been.

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Speaker 1: But they've done it dozens of times. And I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be straight up with you, I've done it dozens

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Speaker 1: of times. And I'm like kind of half asking, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: I'm not putting one hundred percent of my effort because

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Speaker 1: it never happened. Like, Okay, we're just doing this because

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Speaker 1: we have to. And I'm going through the motions and

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Speaker 1: oh my god, there it is my worst nightmare, right

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Speaker 1: on TV in front of millions of people. I'm usually

532
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Speaker 1: ready for an ACL or a broken bone, but not this. Alex,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for sharing your expertise. I appreciate it, Um.

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Speaker 1: And that's you know, We've I've started, We've started to

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Speaker 1: have experts way in on it, and you know, it

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Speaker 1: gives you a lot of hope about you know, how

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Speaker 1: DeMar coming out of this. I don't. I would encourage

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Speaker 1: you to. UM. Mike Tomlin, Steelers head coach, who did

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a media session today, he does.

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Speaker 1: He was very open about DeMar Hamlin. Of course, Damar

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Speaker 1: went to pitt And if you know where the Steelers practice,

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00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: it is in one building side by. It's in the

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Speaker 1: same building as the Pittsburgh Panthers. There's just a wall

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Speaker 1: between him. It's one building. You go in, one door

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00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: for the Panthers and one door for the Steelers. There

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00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: and both teams used the same practice field. Sou and

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin alluded to the fact that he's known Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: Hamlin since he was twelve and had some things to

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Speaker 1: say about him today, and he said that before he

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Speaker 1: had alluded to anything about the Steelers game this weekend,

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Speaker 1: I've got it here, he said. It's a really personal

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00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: thing for me. I've known that guy since he was

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Speaker 1: about twelve. I have a lot of respect and love

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Speaker 1: for him as a human being. I have a lot

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Speaker 1: of love for that young man. We lift him and

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Speaker 1: that organization up in prayer. And let's not forget Mike

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00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: Tomlin and Sean McDermot are former college teammates. So it

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00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me at all if Coach Tomlin has already

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00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: reached out to coach McDermott just to see kind of

560
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Speaker 1: where he's at. Because here's the thing, and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to break in a second, because I know we're up

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Speaker 1: against the clock. Coach McDermott, as concerned as he is

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Speaker 1: for DeMar Hamlin's health, has to lead his team and

564
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: he's got to focus on leading more than he can

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00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: on his thoughts and prayers for DeMar Hamlin because he's

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Speaker 1: the caretaker for an entire roster of players and a

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00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: coaching stats. So it's only natural for a head coach

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Speaker 1: who knows what that is like in a time of

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Speaker 1: tragedy to reach out and say, hey, how are you

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00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: doing right? It's yes, exactly from a pier, but because

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Speaker 1: it's it's typical and normal. You know, a guy like

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. You want to lead your players and be

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Speaker 1: there for them, but you feel guilty because you don't

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Speaker 1: want to move on without Damar, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to lead your team and start getting

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Speaker 1: them in the practice field and start thinking about other

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Speaker 1: things when you've got one of the family not with you.

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Speaker 1: So it's a it's a difficult balance to strike. It

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Speaker 1: takes great leadership and I have total faith in the

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Speaker 1: bills the ability to do that, and Sean's the ability

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Speaker 1: to do that. There was a handful of front office

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Speaker 1: people and people who stayed behind in Cincinnati with Damar

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Speaker 1: and his family, and so there they'll have eyes and

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00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 1: ears right there if anything, if any news comes out.

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00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a difficult time. And like we said,

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Speaker 1: this is not something any of us have ever been through,

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Speaker 1: not in my lifetime and it's you. We're kind of

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00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: tread and water a little bit, all of us. So

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Speaker 1: we're putting the phones open and if you want to

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00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: you can. You can chime in and join us and talk.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: your phone calls at eight oh three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty As

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Speaker 1: we all hope and pray for an improved condition for

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Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin, who at latest word still remains in critical

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Speaker 1: condition at the UC Medical Center in Cincinnati, we're back

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Speaker 1: with your phone calls next here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by a lot of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker on a very somber Tuesday in the wake

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Speaker 1: of the emergency medical care administered to Damar Hamlin, Bills

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00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: safety second year player out of Pittsburgh, former sixth round

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Speaker 1: pick of the Bills in twenty twenty one and just

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Speaker 1: twenty four years old, still in critical condition at UC

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Speaker 1: Medical Center in Cincinnati. To our best knowledge, as soon

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Speaker 1: as we have updates on his condition or where things

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00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: are headed with his care, we will pass them along

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Speaker 1: to you, and the NFLPA just sent an updated statement.

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Speaker 1: They issued a statement late last night in the wake

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Speaker 1: of this incident. They've since sent another statement. The tweet

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Speaker 1: says our focus remains on Damar, and then their official

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Speaker 1: statement reads as follows, Our union's focus remains on the

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Speaker 1: health of our brother Damar Hamlin. We continue to be

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Speaker 1: in touch with the clubs and the NFL to ensure

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Speaker 1: that Bills and Bengals players have every resource available to

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Speaker 1: aid and support them during this time. We go to

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Speaker 1: the phones, though now as promised as we are here

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00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: to kind of gather together as a Bills community in

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Speaker 1: the wake of this tragic event, and we go to

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Speaker 1: Roger in Maryvale. Next. What do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: Roger hold on, let me punch them up here. There

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Speaker 1: we go, Roger Mayville, Sorry, Maybelle, Yeah, no, I just

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Speaker 1: first foremost my prayers, but I was just saying about,

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Speaker 1: let'd be wrong with given the whole NFL a bye

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Speaker 1: week that let everybody just and yeah, yeah, I understand

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Speaker 1: where you're coming from, Roger. I mean I do remember

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Speaker 1: basically when nine to eleven happened in two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: the league did take a week off in the wake

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Speaker 1: of that event that was far different. It is far different.

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Speaker 1: It was a national tragedy. And I'm not making light

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Speaker 1: of this incident concerning Tomar Hamlin. The league does have

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Speaker 1: some decisions to make. They were not going to make

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00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 1: them last night. As I said, I was on the

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Speaker 1: conference call that the league provided in the wake of

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Speaker 1: what happened to DeMar Hamlin on the field last night,

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Speaker 1: and Troy Vincent, Jeff Miller, the senior vice president of

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Speaker 1: Health and Safety, and Donna Ponte, who was in the

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Speaker 1: building and the chief administrator of football Operations. They were

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00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: all on the call and they took about four questions

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00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: after they kind of laid out how they proceeded through

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00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: the decision making process to postpone the game, And basically

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Speaker 1: what they said was they were asked what's to become

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Speaker 1: of this game? And their answer was very quickly, We're

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00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 1: not concerned with the game right now. What we're concerned

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00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 1: with is the health of Damar Hamlin. The game will

646
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: be addressed at a later time. No timetable was given

647
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: for sorting out what's to become of that game between

648
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Bengals. They will obviously have to

649
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: address it at some point in time. We just don't

650
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: have a timeline as to when that's going to happen, right.

651
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 1: I would imagine, given and I used the word earlier,

652
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: the inertia of the NFL and the season and you

653
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: and all of that, I would imagine it just becomes

654
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: a hole in the schedule and the Bengal and Bills

655
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: will play sixteen regular season games. I'm guessing here. This

656
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: is all guessing, but it's the easiest and most expedient

657
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: way to make it go away is just that it

658
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: never happened, and they'll the Bengals and Bills will go

659
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: on play sixteen games, everybody else play seventeen games, and

660
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: whatever the winning percentages and how that affects the standings

661
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: will be what it is, and they'll go on. That

662
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: seems to be the easiest, most no fuss, no must

663
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: rule of it. Don't know if they've got other contingencies

664
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: in place. When you when you start making assumptions about

665
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: what the league will do and what it won't do,

666
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: you'll be surprised at how many policies they've had, how

667
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: many times things have happened before, and they say, well,

668
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: when this happens we do this. I doubt they've got

669
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: a although COVID might have put this in place. We

670
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: didn't know if we're going to get all the games

671
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: in during the COVID year, and they did, so, you know,

672
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: maybe fall back, maybe they fall back on some of

673
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: those those protocols. So we'll see. But you know, I

674
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: think there's no way for us to know where we sit.

675
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: Who really, I mean even I've heard a ton of

676
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: Bills fans like, listen, I don't I don't even care.

677
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: Just give us the loss, which is move on, you know,

678
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: the one seed whatever. We'll go on the road in

679
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs and we'll and we'll play well, let's go

680
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Um, But that's that's to be

681
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: determined at a later date. Yeah, and at the league level,

682
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones into Jim in Olean,

683
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Jim Well, in a

684
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: split second last night, I went from rabid football fan,

685
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: diehard Buffalo Bill fan to parent. I can't imagine what

686
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: it was like for his mother sitting in the stands

687
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: watching her son and having CPR performed on him. And

688
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: I really can't see how the Bills as a team

689
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: can process this and play anytime in the near future.

690
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's unimportant, Yeah, Dan, Jim, I'll tell

691
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: you this. You're right, Um. I think it will be really,

692
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: really difficult for the team to do anything moving forward

693
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: until they get some sense of what's going to happen

694
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: to DeMar, some clarity. They need some clarity on how

695
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: he's going to come out of this good, bad, or indifferent,

696
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,439
Speaker 1: well however that is. They want some clarity about how

697
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: this is going to be for DeMar, even if it

698
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: ends his career, but he's gonna be okay or even

699
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: you know, or whatever the outcome might be. That You're

700
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: exactly right, Jim, It's going to be really hard for

701
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: guys to practice, to lift, to go to meetings, to

702
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: do anything football related until they get some clarity about

703
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: how Damar Hamlin is doing. And when that happens, then

704
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: it will change for them and it will become. Um,

705
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: hopefully like somebody who you know had a more minor injury,

706
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: a more minor incident, they can move on and say, Okay,

707
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: we can go. I don't know when that's going to happen.

708
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: And as for you, you know, talking about becoming a parent,

709
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: I'll say this. I was, I was here at the

710
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: stadium and Mattie and I were going to do postgame live,

711
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: you know Bill's bills um tonight after the game, and

712
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: that you know obviously was never gonna happen. On my

713
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: drive home, my mom called me. She's ninety two. Yeah,

714
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: and you know why. She's I just wanted to hear

715
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: your voice. I mean, she she witnessed me getting carted

716
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: off a football field on a stretcher when I was

717
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: in community college, Dodge City Community College. She watched me

718
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: get carted off put into an ambulance last night. Probably

719
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: took her right back to that moment, which is why

720
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: she needed to call you. She she had to call

721
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: me and my mom. I'm the youngest of four sons

722
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: and they all played. Three of us played college sports,

723
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,959
Speaker 1: and she went sat through a lot of games like that. Um,

724
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: so she you know, it brought back a lot of

725
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: memories for us. She just called me and I was

726
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,439
Speaker 1: driving on my drive home and she goes, I just

727
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: want to hear your voice. That's how mom's work. That's

728
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: how moms work. So that yeah, Jim Fremolan is right, Um,

729
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: you'd kind of become a parent. Your heart goes out

730
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: to Damar's mom and dad and his brother. Um. Yeah,

731
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: so I I felt it last night when my mom,

732
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: my ninety two year old mom called me. She goes right,

733
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: She's brought back all the all the fields for her

734
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 1: about watching one of one of or two of her

735
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: sons and over the course of my life get carted

736
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: off a football field. Nothing like Damar, but still so. Yeah,

737
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: it hit all of us in a different way. All Right,

738
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,760
Speaker 1: we have to break here. More of your phone calls.

739
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: Next here on One Bill. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

740
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you on a very sobering

741
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon in the wake of the emergency medical attention

742
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: required for DeMar Hamlin, who remains at the University of

743
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati after needing emergency treatment and

744
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: taken by ambulance to the hospital last night, which eventually

745
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: postpone the game between the Bills and the Bengals. We

746
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: imagine that it's going to be a couple of days

747
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: before there's any word on what's to become of that game.

748
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: Our best guest, as Steve pointed out last segment, was

749
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: that the Bills and the Bengals will just play a

750
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: sixteen game schedule this season, not a seventeen game schedule,

751
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: and I guess playoff implications will be determined based on

752
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: winning percentage, not total games, since their games will not

753
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: add up to the rest of the teams in the AFC.

754
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we go to the phones as

755
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: we try to come together as a Bill community, and

756
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: we're taking your phone calls as a means of therapy

757
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,959
Speaker 1: today for us to all kind of try to hope

758
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: and pray that DeMar Hamlin's condition improves. So with that

759
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: we go to Albert in Oakfield. What do you have

760
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: for us? Albert, you're on one Bill's Live. Oh, gentlemen,

761
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call us first thoughts and prayers,

762
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: you know for tomorrow his family teammates. But last night

763
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: we didn't watch uh you know, when Odell back and

764
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: more handed catch. We didn't watch a game winning field

765
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: goal or or anything nothing that we need to be

766
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: keep seeing, you know, nothing we want to watch over

767
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: and over again. And uh, same option, I believe tweeted

768
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: it last night asking people to stop stop posting that video,

769
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: stop posting the replay of tomorrow going to the ground.

770
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: It's not something it's not something to put out there.

771
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: I guess I've we just want to ask, even as

772
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: a ten minutes ago, people still posting in different groups

773
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: on Twitter, Facebook, if you want to post out and

774
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: post the video of him working with kids at camp,

775
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: working with you know, his teammates, the community. Uh, we

776
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: don't care. We don't need to see it over and

777
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: over again. UM, just send your thoughts and prayers, send

778
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: you know, pictures videos of of who Demark is, not

779
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 1: not what happened last night. Yeah, ye, well said Albert,

780
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 1: thanks for the phone call, um. And there's a lot

781
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: out there. I mean, we we mentioned it. We'll show

782
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: you some of it, um, but yeah, we're not Yeah,

783
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: there's no place for that. Yeah we know, we know

784
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: everybody knows what happened. Yeah, we know DeMar and we

785
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: see him as more than the incident last night, way

786
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: more and so um yeah, we've uh, we're not turning

787
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: this into you know, you know this this sationalized, sationalized spectacle.

788
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're we're here for people to to uh

789
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: to call in and offer their thoughts and how they're

790
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: getting through, you know, a situation like this, and we've all, Um,

791
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: kind of been caught off guard by it's amazing that

792
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: we all spend so much time watching this game that

793
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: has become such a national well, national treasure, national institution.

794
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: Call it what you will, um, can none of us

795
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: have seen anything like this. Um, it's so we're we're

796
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: in it together and and helping each other through it

797
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: as best as we can. We got a lot of

798
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,720
Speaker 1: things to consider. How it was handled last night still

799
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: to me was it's just it's amazing that we've never

800
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: seen anything like this happened, and the medical professionals on

801
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: site were ready for it. I was, that's just to me,

802
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: it's just you just give it a big who wow,

803
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: thank you. You know, it's just awesome. Eight oh three

804
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight five fifty two, five fifty

805
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: the number to get on board, share your thoughts and

806
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: prayers with us. We go to John, who is actually

807
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: coming home from the game. I'm presuming you're driving back

808
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: John from Cincinnati. I'm actually in the airport coming back.

809
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: Ran the airport, Okay, so I wouldn't say as you

810
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: guys were talking about Bengal and first of all, thanks

811
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: for taking my car, appreciate it. But as you guys

812
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: were talking about, you know, Bengal Nation and just how

813
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: how much of a class act they were. Um, I were.

814
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: I've been to you know, over at Douglin stadiums, away

815
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: stadiums to build games, and I formed that opinion before

816
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: this even happened. I've formed that before the game. It

817
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: was an incredible atmosphere outside of the stadium, even before pregame,

818
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 1: hanging out in the stadium, Bengals fans, I've never seen

819
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: them hosts. I've never seen an opponent, opponent fan based

820
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 1: host as good as they did, and it was just incredible. Um.

821
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: And just then the way they responded after it was unbelievable.

822
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: I've been trying to go into what I've been trying

823
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: to process. I've been trying to process all of this.

824
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: Seventy thousand people walk into a stadium to see two

825
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks, two of the best teams in

826
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: the NFL for a shot at the one seed, and

827
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: then this happens, and we walk out of the stadium

828
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: after an hour of silence, not mourning a loss or

829
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: celebrating a win that's what we expected, but instead traumatized

830
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: just by what we witnessed in praying for a twenty

831
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: four year old man. I didn't know how to process that.

832
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: I had so many emotions, and my buddy just called

833
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: me and check in with me and see I'm doing.

834
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: And he told me, he said, feel what you need

835
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: to feel, and don't feel guilty if you're not crying,

836
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: or if you're not you know, if you're not responding

837
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: like somebody else. So maybe somebody needs to hear that today.

838
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: But today I started my morning early this morning navigating

839
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: flight cantilations delays, and that didn't matter in all of this,

840
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: but my emotions today have not been fun, to say

841
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: the least, for six plus hours today I didn't hear this,

842
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: but in Midway Airport I get my first GO bills

843
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: of the day in build Nation. We know what that

844
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: feels like. And I didn't say it all day to anyone.

845
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if it was proper or respectful to

846
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: say that today with what happened, But when that person

847
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: said it to me, I felt comfort, I felt support.

848
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: So as bills Mafia, I feel like go bills has

849
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: many meetings, and today go bills means prayers for Damar.

850
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: Go bills means hope for Hamlin or Go Bills just

851
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: means I love you, I'm there for you. So, guys,

852
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: I just want to say to you, guys, thanks for

853
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: your time today, Thanks for taking my call. Thanks for

854
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: the way you're navigating this tragedy. You're navigating it with

855
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: love and class, and I appreciate that, and to you both,

856
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 1: to the Hamlin family into all of Bills Mafia, Go Bills. Thanks,

857
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: we'll get through this. Thanks, John, appreciate it. That's a

858
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: great thought. I hadn't gone down that road, and I

859
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: get it. I hadn't thought about it, but you're right.

860
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: I said it like four or five times yesterday to people,

861
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: and yeah, thanks for that. It means a lot more

862
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 1: today and a lot different things today than did yesterday.

863
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: Yeah awesome, because in many ways we are all alone

864
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: in our thoughts processing all of this. But I think

865
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 1: he's right. When you hear Go Bills, it might ring

866
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: a little bit different today because it's a reminder to you,

867
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: as a Bills fan, that their community is out there

868
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: for you to lean on if you need to lean

869
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: on somebody today in the wake of this tragic event,

870
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 1: we will take a break here. More of your phone

871
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: calls coming up next in the second hour of our show,

872
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: as we continue our hope for DeMar Hamlin, hope and prayers,

873
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: do your best to send those his way and to

874
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: his family. We'll take a break and be back with

875
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: more here on one Bills Live. Welcome to our number

876
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: two of one Bills Live. Here on this Tuesday, Chris Brown,

877
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as we work our way through

878
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: processing what transpired in Cincinnati at pay Course Stadium last night,

879
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: the emergency care required for DeMar Hamlin, who, as we

880
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: all know, collapsed on the field. He remains in critical

881
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: condition to the best of our knowledge at the UC

882
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: Medical Center in Cincinnati. And we are here today for you,

883
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia. We're going to serve as a therapeutic outlet

884
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: for you, how you're feeling, how you're processing all of

885
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 1: this as a Bills fan, and the hopes and prayers

886
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 1: that you're putting out there into the ether for the

887
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: Bills Young safety. The phone number is eight oh three

888
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five

889
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: fifty if you'd like to jump on and share your thoughts,

890
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: or share your well wishes or what you are experiencing

891
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,399
Speaker 1: right now as a Bills fan, We're here for you.

892
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: And so with that, we go back to the phones

893
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: and we go to Kevin in Amherst. What do you

894
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: have for us? Kevin, You're on one Bills Live. First off,

895
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Guys. Sure you know this

896
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 1: is something that impacts the entire Buffalo community, and if

897
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: you look back at our sports history, saying such as

898
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: Clinton Malarchuk as well, was an area that we didn't

899
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: know how to pull forward from, and we did, but

900
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: having been there, it was traumatic to see and watching

901
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: this last night on TV was traumatic. But one of

902
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: the things that we've been talking about on your show

903
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: today is the quickness that was there for this player,

904
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: for Demark and if you look at the college level,

905
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: they have AEDs. But as your initial caller said, a

906
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: lot of people don't take it seriously and pulling off

907
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: those shoulder pads and other things. How do you think

908
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: this is going to change moving forward for organizations at

909
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: the youth sports level that are dealing with children that

910
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: the parents now see this and say, I don't want

911
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: this to happen to my child. We've seen it with

912
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: helmets coming into the NHL. We've seen it with chess

913
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: protectors in baseball for youth and what do you think

914
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: this change at the lower levels from a medical perspective

915
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 1: and from a gear perspective for players. If anything, Yeah,

916
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: it'll I'm sure it'll change some things, particularly on the

917
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Speaker 1: end of at least at least Kevin. On the individual basis,

918
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean, your your mom or your dad. They might say, listen,

919
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: you can play baseball, soccer, high lacrosse, whatever, if you

920
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 1: wear certain, if you wear this equipment, I'll let you play.

921
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: Or uh, instead of playing this sport, let's play this

922
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: other sport, you know, play tennis instead of um, you know,

923
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,439
Speaker 1: baseball or whatever. They may make some different choices about

924
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: their kids, or they may make their children wait longer

925
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,879
Speaker 1: to play. Um, you're right, and everybody should take those

926
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: decisions really, really seriously. I'm not gonna sit up here

927
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: and say, oh, no, you're gonna you should always let

928
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: your kids. It's up to you, and more importantly, it's

929
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: up to your child if they want to play. Um,

930
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 1: I know this, and it's easy to say this now

931
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: when I'm when I'm the age I am, and after

932
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: I've I've made it through the NFL and all that

933
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,919
Speaker 1: I know this I've seen so much good come out

934
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: of team sports. And I'm not just talking football, but

935
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: life lessons, friendships, relationship skills, people's skills, team skills for

936
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: young kids who otherwise would not get them. They learn

937
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: how to be part of a group that's bigger than

938
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: themselves and work together. And there is inherent risk in it,

939
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: no question about it. You can't get around it. I

940
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: will you know say this. It is and I've said

941
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: it before on this show. It's a hill I fight on.

942
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll die on it, but I'll

943
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: say this. The benefits I've seen young people get from

944
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: team sports far outweighs the risk. Now, Jesus say that

945
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: when it's hard to say that today with a serious face,

946
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 1: when Damar Hamlin is in the condition he's in, I

947
00:55:54,840 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: have seen it the benefits. Certainly, there's always inherent risk,

948
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: and you always have to take that extremely seriously. But

949
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: some risks are worth it, some risks. To rise above

950
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: challenges and risks is what it is to be human

951
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: and to be be you know, part of what being

952
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: human is and coming to the rescue and being there

953
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: for guys like Damar Hamlin and understanding it as part

954
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: of being human as well. So I'm yeah, I'm sure

955
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: that there are going to be some different decisions, but

956
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: policies or more stringent restrictions at lower levels of sport,

957
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 1: and certainly a newfound appreciation and support for those first

958
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: responders at all these little events around the country, at

959
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: these youth sports, high school sports, college sports. So yes,

960
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,439
Speaker 1: I would say it does reiterate the commitment to those

961
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: things we at least I think we have to. While

962
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: we're all very sensitive and the emotions are very raw

963
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: in the wake of what happened last night, we have

964
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: to remember that there are risks in every facet of

965
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 1: our lives. Life is fragile, and I don't think we

966
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: always recognize the fragility of life on a daily basis

967
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: because we're just going about our daily routines, and incidents

968
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: like this happen, and they are stark reminders that life

969
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: is very fragile, whether you're twenty four or eighty four,

970
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: whether you're a tip top supreme, highest level athlete on

971
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: the planet, or whether you're a person with a congenital

972
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: heart defect that goes through daily life as a struggle.

973
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: It's not just sports where there are risks. You know,

974
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: you could be crossing the street and something could happen.

975
00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: In sports, just as in anything, there are risks every

976
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: single day because no one is invincible to the pitfalls

977
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: that lie out there in our everyday lives. And because

978
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: of that, I'm not trying to make light of the

979
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: risks that are inherent in sports, certainly ones as violent

980
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: as football. And you know, maybe this does put in

981
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: more emergency medical response measures at the lower levels of sport,

982
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 1: youth sports in particular, but those risks exist everywhere, and

983
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: I would echo what Steve said about the inherent values

984
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: of team sports like football and others. There are an

985
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: innumerable amount of benefits that come out of those. This

986
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: is a rare occurrence. I was saying it on the

987
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: air with Eric Wood last night when we were doing

988
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: the radio broadcast. Steve, I've covered the NFL for twenty

989
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: five years. I've seen similar things that required an ambulance

990
00:58:56,120 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: and emergency care, but nothing like this. So and this

991
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: that's how rare it is. Yeah, this and again light

992
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: of it, but it's rare. This incident with Damar doesn't

993
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: make doesn't make football more dangerous. It just makes you

994
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: realize that the risk is real, right, and no matter

995
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: how statistically small it is, it's still there. And there

996
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: are things that because of the medical attention these guys

997
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: get in the preseason. They give them full physicals, they

998
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: give them evaluations, both EKGs, all all, you know, brainwave activity.

999
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: They do all this baseline work on these guys. And

1000
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: I've seen it time and time again as well where

1001
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: the guys played through youth sports, high school sports, and

1002
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: college sports. He gets to the pros and they run

1003
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: some tests on him and say, wait a minute, you

1004
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: shouldn't be playing. Yeah, that's a hard thing. I had

1005
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: a guy I was drafted with with Houston Oilers go

1006
00:59:55,120 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: through that. He ended his career without ever being injured

1007
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: because he was at a greater risk. He had spinal stenosis. Yeah,

1008
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: and you know it those it's there for a reason,

1009
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: and we should never turn a blind eye or treat

1010
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: this as a nonchalant risk because it is real and

1011
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: as part of the respect and an admiration we have

1012
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: for guys who are willing to do that. So but

1013
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: I you know, in response to Kevin the caller, Yeah,

1014
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: I think I think there will be some people who

1015
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: will make some different decisions, some different life decisions for

1016
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: their children or for themselves about what kind of sports

1017
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: they take part in and how big a risk they're

1018
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: willing to take. I mean, there are risks everywhere though

1019
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: in sports, no matter what sports you play. You know, baseball,

1020
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: we I heard a caller on the WGR Morning show

1021
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: talking about how his son took a fastball to the

1022
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: chest and experienced exactly the same thing that tomar Hamlin experienced.

1023
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,919
Speaker 1: That's youth baseball. If a kid that throws a ball

1024
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 1: hard enough, you get hit in the chest. There's no

1025
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: protection there. It's possible. It's a one in probably one

1026
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 1: hundred million shot billion. Yeah, but yeah, it can happen.

1027
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: I played high school lacrosse and there was a kid

1028
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: that same thing, took a shot to the chest, and

1029
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: fortunately he came out of it okay. But he had

1030
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: a cardiac event because that ball hitting him in the chest,

1031
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: just under his chest protector sent his heart out of rhythm.

1032
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: And fortunately there was a defibrillator at that game to

1033
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: shock his heart back into rhythm, and because he was

1034
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: a finely tuned athlete, that helped in his recovery. But

1035
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: the sport very often does not matter. The risks are

1036
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,959
Speaker 1: always there in sports and as I said, in every

1037
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: walk of life. Let's go back to the phones and

1038
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: to Chuck in Hamburg. Next, what do you have for

1039
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: a Chuck? You're on one Bill's Live. Thanks for taking

1040
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 1: my call, guys, thanks for coming in today, Thanks for

1041
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 1: being a set of years for all of us. Absolutely

1042
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: talk to um. You know, I I think especially when

1043
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: you kind of look at the person um you know,

1044
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 1: and and who DeMar was, you know, very um a

1045
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: person about just be kind to people. You know, it

1046
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 1: doesn't cost anything. Um. You know, his charity that he

1047
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: had he started that last I saw was up to

1048
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: three million dollars, you know, over four million now beautiful awesome.

1049
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: You know. Just on a side note, I think whatever

1050
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 1: it ends up being by whatever date, I think the

1051
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: NFL should match it. Um. You know, if they really

1052
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: want to show a good, good gesture towards towards DeMar

1053
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: Um and you know kind of going with that, you know,

1054
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: find a way to make the world better. You know,

1055
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 1: I think that's what Damar would want, whether that's you

1056
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: know better better, Um, you know, Training for athletic trainers

1057
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: or more athletic trainers on how to handle these situations

1058
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: seeing how they handled that last night. And I don't

1059
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 1: know who the whole training staff is. I think they

1060
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 1: should definitely, you know, be acknowledged. I mean what they

1061
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: did last night was amazing. Just to give the guy

1062
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: an opportunity to have a pulse again, that was incredible.

1063
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: And you know, if there's a way that we can

1064
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: maybe kind of take more positives out of this, you know,

1065
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: maybe more people go out and get cpr ae D certified.

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01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: You know, I'm myself, I've been trained for over ten

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01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: years and you know, I always go through the recertification.

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01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: It always just amazes me that, you know, if in

1069
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: a situation like this, would I know how to act accordingly?

1070
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 1: And these guys they pulled it off last night, you know,

1071
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: so hats off to them. And you know, maybe in

1072
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, we can all kind of

1073
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: use today to to just kind of think about what

1074
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: would Damar want, you know, and he would just want

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01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: us all to be better as people today than we

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01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: were yesterday. And that's the kind of person he is,

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01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: and I think we should celebrate that. So thanks for

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01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: taking my call, guys. Yeah, good call, Chuck, Thanks for it.

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01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: I think your point is well taken. You know, Steve

1080
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: mentioned it at the top of this hour, how Damar

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01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 1: is a guy that likes to spread love and compassion,

1082
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: and maybe that's how we can all be better coming

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01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: out of this too. The love and compassion and prayers

1084
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 1: that we're sending out for Damar's improved condition is something

1085
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,439
Speaker 1: that we can probably take with us every day and

1086
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: spread to other people just out of the kindness of

1087
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: your heart. So if we all can be better humans

1088
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 1: after all going through this together, maybe the world's a

1089
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: little bit better place, you know, tomorrow and the next day. Yeah,

1090
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 1: that's where we need to be. And yeah, and this

1091
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: is a a way for people to kind of reset

1092
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: their priorities. And we get you and I even to

1093
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 1: Brownie we joke about being having Bill's myopia here. Yeah,

1094
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: we're the world. So I mean we you and I

1095
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: were buried were eyeballs deep in Bill's stuff all the time,

1096
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: talking and how the next game and the last game

1097
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: and just ask our spouses exactly. So we're part of that.

1098
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 1: And this is a and you know, whatever positives will

1099
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: come out of this, hopefully tomorrow will come out and

1100
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 1: and you know we'll get a love on him a

1101
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: little bit. And um, Yeah, it's it's great to see

1102
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: how quickly we can. We'll push all that aside and

1103
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: think about what really is important. David and Tonawanda is

1104
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: up next here on one Bill's Live. Hi David, how

1105
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: are you doing guys? Thank you for taking my call today. Sure. Um,

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01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: A couple of things. UM, I just wanted to mention

1107
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: um with this game, it got a lot of people's

1108
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: minds completely messed up. Emotions are all over the place. Um,

1109
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: it's hired for just about everybody. And listening to the

1110
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: broadcast this morning, I'm not gonna lie. I was driving.

1111
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: I worked for FedEx, so I was completely in tears honestly, UM,

1112
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 1: knowing that no matter how old you are, this can

1113
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: basically happen to just about anybody. UM. So my my

1114
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: prayers and everything is with Hamlin, with their family. Where

1115
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 1: a lot of these fans got understand too. Um. This

1116
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 1: team is like family to Buffalo. The Buffalo community stands

1117
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 1: together for this team. UM and uh, Like I said,

1118
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: this team is like family to us all. So when

1119
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 1: we see a family member basically fall, it hurts us all.

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01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 1: So I do pray for Hamlin and a speedy recovery.

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01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: One other thing UM, I did want to mention. UM.

1122
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: It's something that's basically been going around social media. UM.

1123
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 1: Something I don't know if I can read it. See

1124
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 1: you guys real fast that that's fine with you. Yeah,

1125
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 1: as long as it's clean, yes, sir. The thing that's

1126
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: going around right now says. In the last nine months,

1127
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills had to deal with a mass shooting,

1128
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: their own owner having a massive health emergency to this

1129
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: day ongoing, one of our stired players knocked brother unexpectedly dying,

1130
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 1: their sty dB Hide, having a ding season ending injury,

1131
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 1: a seven foot storm straining many of them to their homes,

1132
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: lost Bon Millard for the season, who was supposed to

1133
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 1: be their defensive line savior, a snow hurricane, stopping up

1134
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: from spending in Christmas with their families, and now watching

1135
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: one of their brothers possibly dying on the field in

1136
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,919
Speaker 1: front of them. I can only imagine any team going

1137
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: through this much in one year. The fact that they

1138
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: are recording so much emotionally and physically and still the

1139
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: top competitor for the Super Bowl is incredible. They have

1140
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: already shown they have so much heart when most teams

1141
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: would crumble. I love this team no matter no other

1142
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: could ever take its place in my own heart. Bills

1143
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 1: Mafia for life. Yeah, thanks David. We appreciate it. And

1144
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: you know, if you're having a tough time like David

1145
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 1: is a I'm not a medical professional, nor am I

1146
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 1: a mental health professional. But if you're really having a

1147
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 1: difficult time with this, please reach out to somebody so

1148
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: you can get your feelings off your chest. There is

1149
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: no reason that anybody should sit with this by themselves.

1150
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: Call a family member, call a friend. If you don't

1151
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 1: have somebody to call, reach out on social media. I

1152
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: can promise you a Bills Mafia member will reach back

1153
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: out to you in support. We all handle these things

1154
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:08,559
Speaker 1: in many different ways. Some can deal with it a

1155
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:11,760
Speaker 1: little bit better than others. If you're really struggling with this,

1156
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:14,439
Speaker 1: I encourage you reach out to somebody that you know

1157
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: you can count on. I promise you that the Bills

1158
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 1: Mafia community will be there for you. They do not

1159
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 1: disappoint Their community efforts are second to none. So helping

1160
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 1: a fellow Bills fan in need, I promise you they

1161
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: will reach out to you if you reach out to them.

1162
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 1: So if you're having a difficult time with this today,

1163
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:39,559
Speaker 1: please please reach out to somebody. There's no reason that

1164
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: anybody needs to struggle with this by themselves. I want

1165
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 1: to take a moment here to maybe paint a little

1166
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: bit more about the picture of who Damar Hamlin is.

1167
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 1: We were fortunate enough to have him here in studio

1168
01:09:55,520 --> 01:10:00,439
Speaker 1: a little over a month ago, and he's just an

1169
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 1: upbeat guy that loves playing football, loves his teammates, and

1170
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: I think the funniest thing, you know. I don't mean

1171
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: to make light of the situation we're all dealing with now,

1172
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to remember some positive things that can

1173
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: kind of put a smile on our face here, even

1174
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 1: if just for a moment about Damar Hammling the person.

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01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:24,880
Speaker 1: When the interview was over here in the studio, Damar

1176
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 1: was very taken with our whole operation because he was

1177
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: a communication major at pitt and doing broadcasting, I know,

1178
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 1: is something that he would openly consider when his playing

1179
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: career is over, and so he was fascinated by our

1180
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:46,559
Speaker 1: whole operation, the control room and the job that the

1181
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 1: guys and ladies do in there, and this whole set

1182
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: that we sit on and how this show is run.

1183
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: He was really fascinated by the inner workings of it.

1184
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: And I remember Steve and I telling him him because

1185
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 1: his eyes were as big as saucers. We said, Hey,

1186
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: you want to come by and just hang out, you know,

1187
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 1: you don't even have to be a guest on the show.

1188
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: You want to just hang out and take it all in.

1189
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:14,559
Speaker 1: Do that. So I'm I'm kind of reminded of that

1190
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: today when I think of the personality of Damar and

1191
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: just how how engaged he is in this side of

1192
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 1: what we do here at one. Bill's drive as much

1193
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 1: as what he has to handle as far as his

1194
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 1: football responsibilities go. I don't know if there's anything else

1195
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: that you're reminded of when we had him here in Street.

1196
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:34,680
Speaker 1: He's just genuine as all get out, you know, and

1197
01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: he's his family's really important to him. And there's if

1198
01:11:38,439 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 1: you want to go on you know, the Bill's website

1199
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:43,719
Speaker 1: or on the bills app, you can look at videos

1200
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:45,640
Speaker 1: he was on with Mica and Maddie the M and

1201
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 1: M Show and had they talked to him, and then

1202
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,719
Speaker 1: you know, we had him on our show. Um, he's

1203
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: got his own publicist who you know, we've heard from

1204
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 1: over the last twenty four hours, and they've got content

1205
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: and now you can get a sense of him, and

1206
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: you can see him playing with the kids at his

1207
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: mom's daycare. So if you want to find out, you know,

1208
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 1: why his teammates care about him, I would invite you

1209
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: to do that. We have an updated statement from the Bills.

1210
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: It's not really anything terribly new, but more of a

1211
01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:29,920
Speaker 1: confirmation of where things stand with DeMar right now. So

1212
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to read that first, and it essentially says

1213
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin spent last night in the intensive care unit.

1214
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 1: He remains there today in critical condition at the University

1215
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati Medical Center. We are grateful and thankful for

1216
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 1: the outpouring of support we have received us far. That's

1217
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 1: from the Buffalo Bills Twitter account. There is also information

1218
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: now an NFL update on the Bills Bengals game and

1219
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:01,759
Speaker 1: the Week eighteen schedule. It read as follows, The NFL

1220
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,479
Speaker 1: continues to be in regular contact with the medical team

1221
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 1: caring for Damar Hamlin, and also the Bills and Bengals

1222
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:10,800
Speaker 1: organization in the NFLPA. After speaking with both teams in

1223
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 1: NFLPA leadership, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and formed the clubs

1224
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: today that the Bills Bengals game will not be resumed

1225
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: this week. The NFL has made no decision regarding the

1226
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: possible resumption of the game at a later date. The

1227
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: league has not made any changes to the Week eighteen

1228
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: regular season schedule. We will continue to provide additional information

1229
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:37,479
Speaker 1: as it becomes available. So as of right now, the

1230
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:41,799
Speaker 1: Bills as a football organization are on too Week eighteen

1231
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 1: and the New England Patriots. The Bengals Bills game will

1232
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: not resume in any capacity this week, so it's basically

1233
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 1: onto New England and Week eighteen. The Week seventeen game

1234
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 1: that was supposed to take place last night is completely

1235
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,560
Speaker 1: up in the air because there is no further information

1236
01:14:02,720 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 1: other than the league saying the resumption of that game

1237
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:09,599
Speaker 1: and a decision on the resumption of that game will

1238
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:12,599
Speaker 1: be made at a later date. Nothing is happening this

1239
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 1: week with regard to Bills Bengals, so it's essentially on

1240
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: to Week eighteen in New England. That's right now. That

1241
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean they couldn't push everything back, but once

1242
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: they start pushing games back, they probably will have to

1243
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: push all the games back, not just the Bills Bengals obviously,

1244
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: because you can't have everybody in the league getting a

1245
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,760
Speaker 1: bye week and the Bills Bengals not getting a bye week,

1246
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: or everybody getting a bye week, and the Bills all

1247
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: that they want all the games to take place at

1248
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:44,720
Speaker 1: the same time because they want the same amount of

1249
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: rest after the games take place. So if they're pushing,

1250
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:49,919
Speaker 1: if they're going to try and fit the Bills Bengals

1251
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 1: game in, they got a problem because they're the only

1252
01:14:55,040 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: teams that don't have sixteen games under their belt right now,

1253
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,000
Speaker 1: so everybody would have to sit and watch them play

1254
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: on a week where they all get off, So everybody

1255
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: would all of a sudden get an extra buy week

1256
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,360
Speaker 1: right before the playoffs. And while you know, you may think, well,

1257
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, that'd be great just to play the game,

1258
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's an option they had. You know,

1259
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: they had all the we spoke about it. We had

1260
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: all the COVID things in place for the week eighteens,

1261
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 1: week nineteens, the gap between the championship games and the

1262
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl weekend, all of this stuff

1263
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: is out there. We're pushing the whole season back seven days. Yeah,

1264
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: that's easier said than done, because of stadium availabilities, because

1265
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 1: of other legariati. Yes, it's a it's a yeah, Spider's

1266
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:50,120
Speaker 1: web of connected problems. We have to take a break here.

1267
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: We are taking more of your phone calls though when

1268
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 1: we return. So those are you holding at eight oh

1269
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: three five fifty one eighty five fifty two, five fifty

1270
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: Hang on, We will get to you. We are trying

1271
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: to serve as a therapy for our Bills community today,

1272
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: so we welcome your thoughts. Keep the calls coming. We'll

1273
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 1: get to as many as we can in the allotted

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Speaker 1: amount of time. Still an hour and a half to

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Speaker 1: go here on One Bills Live. Welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here as

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Speaker 1: we make our way through a very trying Tuesday. In

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Speaker 1: the wake of the incident that occurred on the field

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Speaker 1: last night at pay Corps Stadium in Cincinnati, with the

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Speaker 1: emergency treatment required for DeMar Hamlin, the Bills released an

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Speaker 1: updated statement just in the last fifteen minutes. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: really spell anything out terribly new. It only confirms a

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Speaker 1: lot of what we do already know. And I'll just

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Speaker 1: read it one last time before we get back to

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Speaker 1: the phones here. DeMar Hamlin spent last night in the

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Speaker 1: intensive care unit and remains there today in critical condition

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Speaker 1: at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. We are grateful

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Speaker 1: and thankful for the outpouring of support we have received

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Speaker 1: thus far. Let's go back to the phones, though, as

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Speaker 1: we have people holding at eight three fifty, and we

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Speaker 1: lead off this segment with John and Buffalo. What do

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Speaker 1: you have for us? John, You're on One Bill's Live, bro.

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01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you guys for allowing

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Speaker 1: me on the show today. And I just want to

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01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:22,920
Speaker 1: say I appreciate our city so much, not even just

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Speaker 1: our city, Cincinnatic through it well, we all came together

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Speaker 1: and made sure that this was more than just a game.

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Speaker 1: This was about demorrow Hand's life and his help. So like,

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Speaker 1: I really do appreciate everybody for just talking about that

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Speaker 1: through the game, through what happens about the one Seed,

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Speaker 1: and just I pray to God this guy is safe.

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Speaker 1: Thank you again for Lemium. So thank thanks John, And

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Speaker 1: I'll say it again. I think that's where most of

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01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 1: us are today. It's hard, it's hard to move on

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Speaker 1: with your life until you find out how Demoor is

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01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: going to be. We want to know what his future

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01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 1: looks like because we care about him, and we feel

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01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: and you feel guilty, you feel bad, you feel insensitive

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01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:17,440
Speaker 1: doing anything without knowing that, you feel like you're belittling

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Speaker 1: what he's going through. And none of us want to

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Speaker 1: do that. You know, we we feel for the gay

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Speaker 1: particularly you know, the people in our building where we

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Speaker 1: work obviously, I mean we're all ground zero. Yeah, we're

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01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: part of the part of the fabric here. You really

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01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: don't want to do anything normal because you understand how

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Speaker 1: abnormal this is for DeMar, and you don't want to

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Speaker 1: have an easier, a great day knowing that DeMar's not.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem fair, right, and so I yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I really do. I It was hard to see, but

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Speaker 1: on the broadcast, and you've said it, you saw it yourself.

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01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: The city of Cincinnati and the fans could not have

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01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: been better. What a moment for football fans to take

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Speaker 1: great pride in. There were Bengals fans outside of the

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Speaker 1: hospital last night holding a candlelight vigil. Bengals fans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it's And there were some Yeah Bills fans the

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01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:20,680
Speaker 1: same thing. There was a guy on social Day was

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01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:23,480
Speaker 1: he went to the hospital today before he left town,

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01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: just to you know, say a quick prayer and then

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01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: get on his way. It was really in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways us. It shows and it highlights the risks

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01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 1: these guys take to play a game they love very

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01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:42,680
Speaker 1: much and that we all love to watch. And it

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Speaker 1: also brings it unites us in a moment when the

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Speaker 1: game becomes meaningless. We become united across fan bases and

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01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 1: across teams, across cities. It's um It's an amazing event

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01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 1: that he can't up in just a few sentences. So

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01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:06,960
Speaker 1: we're here today. If you want to speak to about it,

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01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: and like John just did, get some of your thoughts off,

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01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 1: some pots off your chester, or talk to us, or

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01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:14,320
Speaker 1: have some sort of insight that you want to share,

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01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: We're more than willing to listen. There is one other

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01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:21,960
Speaker 1: update from the Bills pr department. This is really of

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01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:25,160
Speaker 1: no surprise. Typically the day after games there is media

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01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 1: availability with head coach Sean McDermott as well as offensive

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01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:32,640
Speaker 1: coordinator Ken Dorsey and defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier, and they

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01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 1: just issued a notice saying due to the ongoing situation

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01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: with Damar Hamlin, the Bills will not hold any media

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01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: availability today, which is really of no surprise there if

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Speaker 1: you are just joining us. The NFL also released a

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Speaker 1: statement concerning the Bills Bengals game as well as the

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Speaker 1: Week eighteen NFL schedule, and they essentially said the league

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Speaker 1: has made no decision regarding the possible resumption of the

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Speaker 1: Bills Bank Goals game, and they also said if there

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Speaker 1: is a resumption of the Bills Bengals game, it will

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01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: not be this week. They also said, at this time,

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Speaker 1: they have not made any changes to the Week eighteen

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Speaker 1: regular season schedule, So as of right now, the Bills

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01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: have to begin preparing for the New England Patriots their

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01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 1: Week eighteen game. Yeah, that's really You can imagine how

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01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:29,840
Speaker 1: difficult it is for these players to come in and

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Speaker 1: start thinking about a game this next week less than

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, twelve or fifteen, sixteen hours after

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Speaker 1: what they went through last night on the Roma Fielder Cincinnati. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's a big ask, but you know, the club is

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01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 1: going to help them through it as best they can.

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Speaker 1: They'll get through it together. Let's go back to the

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Speaker 1: phones and we go to Tom, who is in West Arizona.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Tom? You're on one

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01:21:56,800 --> 01:22:02,719
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Hello me offer you a little bit of hope.

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Speaker 1: I was in a similar situation to Lamar. My lungs

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01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 1: filled up with fluid and my body completely shut down.

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Speaker 1: I was innubated, just like he has been, and they

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Speaker 1: let my body rest. I think, although I don't remember

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Speaker 1: it because I couldn't, I wasn't awake to experience it.

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Speaker 1: I think it took three or four weeks, but I

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01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:35,640
Speaker 1: was able to recover. They were able to remove the

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Speaker 1: two from my throat, and after a long rest, I

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Speaker 1: was okay. So here's some hope here this can work out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we're all hoping for that time. And thanks

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Speaker 1: for sharing and appreciate the phone call. And I think

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Speaker 1: what is working into Mar's favor? And I think I'm

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Speaker 1: safe in saying this, even though I'm not a medical professional,

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Speaker 1: but I think in the injuries and situations that we've

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01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,799
Speaker 1: seen over the years in football and covering the league,

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Speaker 1: I think most medical professionals would agree with this. What

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Speaker 1: is working in DeMar Hamlin's favor in this process is

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Speaker 1: the fact that he is a finely tuned athlete and

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01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: the fact that he's twenty four years young. Those are

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Speaker 1: things working in his favor in terms of the healing

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01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 1: pre He got the best possible cares for quickly as

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01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:29,000
Speaker 1: you can imagine as well. So yeah, he does have

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Speaker 1: a lot of things working in his favor, let alone

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Speaker 1: all our well wishes and prayers that are going up

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Speaker 1: for him. So yeah, this is the hard part of

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. It's waiting now to see if the

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Speaker 1: fast action of the mts and the doctors are going

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01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:49,040
Speaker 1: to do what they're supposed to do what we hope

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Speaker 1: they will. We have to wait and see, and it's

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Speaker 1: up to tomorrow. We go next to Chuck in Tonawanda.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Chuck, you're on one

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01:23:56,720 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. How you're doing bad? Bad day to day?

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01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 1: Last night was a lad night. But I just want

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01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: to say one to you. Guys are doing a great job.

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01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:07,880
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. It's to see you. It's nice to

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01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 1: see you guys on there. I just want to run

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01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 1: something all real quick. Then I'm gonna end it. These

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01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 1: people that are calling in and want to know when

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01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 1: the game is going to be brought on, you know something,

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01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 1: Let that go. We don't care about that right now.

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01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: Let that go for another day. If you're worried about

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01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:29,000
Speaker 1: your money for tickets. It's the way it works. Let

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01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 1: it go. I just worry about the player. He's a

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01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 1: good player. It's a shamed that it happened. And I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, I never see nothing like this

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01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: in seventy two years. It's terrible. Yeah, yeah, Chuck. I

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01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: can hear the I can hear the concern and you know,

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01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 1: distressing your voice. We appreciate the phone call, and you know,

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01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:52,760
Speaker 1: hopefully if you're haven't help tough time dealing with this,

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01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: hopefully you got some people to reach out to, if

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01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 1: not in your own family, in the Bill's fan community,

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01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:03,240
Speaker 1: because I think we can all agree there is no

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01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: fan base that comes together and is as tightly bonded

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01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:11,880
Speaker 1: as Bills Mafia. So we encourage you to do that.

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01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 1: If you are struggling by yourself with this, reach out

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01:25:14,479 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: either on social media or by phone to one of

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01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 1: your fellow Bills fans. Maybe it's somebody even sitting next

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01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: to at the games that you know has come to

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01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: be an extension of your family. Reach out to them.

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01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'd be happy to help you through it.

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01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: Today we take a break here, we're back with more

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01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,679
Speaker 1: of your phone calls. Next. We also have Eric Wood

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Speaker 1: coming up an hour number three, who was in the

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Speaker 1: broadcast booth with me last night in Cincinnati. We're back

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Speaker 1: in a moment here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,200
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:46,600
Speaker 1: you here on a very difficult Tuesday. If you're a

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01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:53,639
Speaker 1: Bills fan and there's really no new news on tomorrow

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01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: Hamlin's condition. I guess that's good that it hasn't changed

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01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 1: for the worst. Obviously, we're all hoping it changes for

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01:26:01,479 --> 01:26:04,600
Speaker 1: the better sooner rather than later. But he remains in

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01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:09,680
Speaker 1: the ICU at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He

1443
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:13,839
Speaker 1: is still in critical condition. So your thoughts and prayers

1444
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: are more than welcome, as the power of prayer is

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01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 1: a real thing, whether a religious person or not, I

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01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:23,080
Speaker 1: know it does make give comfort to a lot of

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01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 1: people when they can, you know, offer prayers and thoughts.

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01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: So if you have been doing that, we encourage you

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01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:34,800
Speaker 1: to continue to do that for Damar's well being. And

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01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:36,800
Speaker 1: we will go back to the phones now. We've had

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01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:38,479
Speaker 1: a lot of people waiting patiently. We want to get

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01:26:38,479 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 1: to as many of you as we can. So we

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01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:44,760
Speaker 1: move ahead to John in Tonawanda. Next. Welcome John. You're

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01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Yeah, thank you. You know, all

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Speaker 1: of the past several years, I've been noticing that the

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01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:56,760
Speaker 1: shoulder pads have becoming smaller and smaller as opposed to

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Speaker 1: what they were years ago. I was wondering how much

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Speaker 1: protection the new pads are forward the player than several

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01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 1: years ago. And I'll just hang up and listen to

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Speaker 1: your answer. Thank you. Yeah, I know you go back

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01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:13,320
Speaker 1: and look, go back and look at my football cards.

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01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:16,400
Speaker 1: Und Oh my gosh, I look like a refrigerator walking around.

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Speaker 1: But now they are more form fitting. And I'll say this,

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01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 1: it's not so much about where how they look under

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01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: your jersey, is about how they fit around your body.

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Speaker 1: That makes these pads a little better and more functional

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Speaker 1: than they used to be. Plus they're easier to play

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01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: and because you can raise your arms over your head easier,

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01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. The equipment's better and it looks different,

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Speaker 1: it looks smaller, it looks, you know, less protective oriented,

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Speaker 1: but it's better and it gets better all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's what happens under you know, there's a plastic shell

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01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: that's not changed, but the shape of the shell has changed,

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Speaker 1: and what's underneath that plastic shell has changed a lot.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's interesting, you wonder, because most of them

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01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 1: when I you know, the chest plates and the body

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01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 1: stuff around the rib cage and around the back is

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01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:14,599
Speaker 1: much more significant than it was in my day. And

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Speaker 1: the game has changed in so many ways. It's safer.

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01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 1: Yet you have an incident like Damar Hamlin had last

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01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 1: night that probably wouldn't have happened back in the old

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Speaker 1: days because unfortunately, he probably would have been leading with

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Speaker 1: his head and shoulders to take the top off T. Higgins.

1484
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 1: You know, he would have been hitting t Higgins high

1485
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:40,560
Speaker 1: up around the head and shoulders with his head and

1486
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:42,920
Speaker 1: head jam. For those that don't know, is a very

1487
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 1: physical player to begin with. He hits hard. He would

1488
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 1: have come in there head first and you know, helmet

1489
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 1: to helmet, trying to knock him off his balance. Instead,

1490
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 1: now he has to come in and kind of hit

1491
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: him with his body and hug him to the ground

1492
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 1: and they fall down together. It's interesting how things like

1493
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 1: that change and the ripple effects are you know, unforeseeable.

1494
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 1: And even so this is a you know, this is

1495
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 1: a one in a million. Yeah. Um, even with that

1496
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: change in the in the technique and the and the

1497
01:29:14,240 --> 01:29:19,760
Speaker 1: padding and all, this is just me. It's all that

1498
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:22,960
Speaker 1: is just me talking about, you know, my experience and

1499
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:24,879
Speaker 1: what I observe. I mean, I don't have any scientific

1500
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:26,960
Speaker 1: data to back any of what I'm saying about this

1501
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 1: up right. It just seems like that's the way it's

1502
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:33,720
Speaker 1: changed the game. The guys tackle differently. It's harder to

1503
01:29:33,760 --> 01:29:36,000
Speaker 1: tackle these days, and we've seen it that the guys

1504
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,479
Speaker 1: have struggle to tackle all over the National Football League.

1505
01:29:38,479 --> 01:29:41,439
Speaker 1: Bills fans have been you know, yeah, complaining about the

1506
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:44,519
Speaker 1: Bills struggle. It's hard to tackle now because you can't

1507
01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:49,720
Speaker 1: knock guys off balance with force and violence. You got

1508
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 1: to kind of wrestle them down. And that leads to

1509
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:54,880
Speaker 1: different tackling techniques and different situations like this, and we've

1510
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: we never see it's a it's a strange phenomenon, but

1511
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 1: I I think it's real. Yeah, good call from John

1512
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 1: and Tonawanda on that subject, And good too that I

1513
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,040
Speaker 1: turned to Steve to weigh in on that, because he

1514
01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:11,320
Speaker 1: certainly had a lot more knowledge to speak on it

1515
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 1: than I did. There we go from John and Tonawanda

1516
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:16,600
Speaker 1: to Daniel in Tonawanda. What do you have for a

1517
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: Daniel you're on one Bill's life. Well, I just want

1518
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:23,360
Speaker 1: to say a prayer to him, because he was a

1519
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,200
Speaker 1: good player and everything. And I was watching the game

1520
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:30,679
Speaker 1: live last night and I was like, a big shot, Daniel.

1521
01:30:30,880 --> 01:30:32,640
Speaker 1: If Daniel, if you could turn your radio down, that

1522
01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:34,600
Speaker 1: would be great because we're having a tough time hearing you.

1523
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 1: I just like to say a big prayer to his

1524
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:39,800
Speaker 1: family and everything. I know, holiday is to lose a

1525
01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 1: loved one almost yeah, yeah, yeah, tough time. Well he's yeah,

1526
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: he's not gone, so yes, yeah, so this is yeah,

1527
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:53,000
Speaker 1: it is hard, if hard to watch. Yeah, it's hard

1528
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:57,240
Speaker 1: to lose someone if you go right beyond it, right, yeah,

1529
01:30:57,280 --> 01:31:01,759
Speaker 1: it's and yeah, and it will have happened very different,

1530
01:31:02,120 --> 01:31:05,480
Speaker 1: very much in a public manner. Two for his family, shockingly.

1531
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:07,840
Speaker 1: So I think that's one of the reasons, though, Steve,

1532
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:12,920
Speaker 1: why so much money has been raised for his foundation,

1533
01:31:14,120 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 1: and because from what we were so last night, I

1534
01:31:18,439 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 1: come down from the broadcast booth and we go down

1535
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 1: into the bottles of the stadium because we've basically been

1536
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 1: informed that the game is not going to continue, it

1537
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 1: will be postponed indefinitely. And so me and a couple

1538
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 1: of my coworkers come down into the bottles of the

1539
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:37,280
Speaker 1: stadium and at this point we're just waiting to see

1540
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,800
Speaker 1: what the next step is. And so I'm just on

1541
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: social media seeing if any of the NFL network reporters

1542
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:47,559
Speaker 1: are getting information from the league sooner than we are.

1543
01:31:48,120 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 1: So I'm scrolling through social media and I see three

1544
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:54,960
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars had been raised. And we're like an

1545
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:58,920
Speaker 1: hour after the incident took place on the field, three

1546
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:02,160
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars had been raised for DeMar Hamlin's foundation.

1547
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: Because this game was on national television. It wasn't just

1548
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: Bill's mafia submitting these donations. The people that run DeMar's foundation.

1549
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:17,520
Speaker 1: We're saying donations were coming in from across the country.

1550
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:22,400
Speaker 1: Every corner of the country was sending donations. Ten minutes later,

1551
01:32:22,439 --> 01:32:24,679
Speaker 1: it was up to four hundred thousand, and the latest

1552
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 1: update we got it's over four million dollars. It's amazing. Yeah,

1553
01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:33,679
Speaker 1: And I thought one I saw one point the foundation

1554
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:35,800
Speaker 1: put out it they were getting the they were getting

1555
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 1: a new donation every three seconds. They were somebody was

1556
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:45,200
Speaker 1: DeMar's number, yeah, number three, and then amazing it was.

1557
01:32:45,400 --> 01:32:50,120
Speaker 1: It was an amazing outpouring and something that kind of

1558
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 1: reaffirms your faith in humanity perhaps, which is good to see.

1559
01:32:55,840 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: So I'm yeah, I think it's one of the positives

1560
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:04,080
Speaker 1: that will come out of this. I think there could

1561
01:33:04,080 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 1: be a ton of them as we moved through this,

1562
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:09,679
Speaker 1: and the first and foremost is DeMar. When Damar walks

1563
01:33:09,720 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 1: out of the hospital, so that'll be the best. So it. Um,

1564
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,559
Speaker 1: we're trying to get through this today and we're helping

1565
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,519
Speaker 1: you and you're helping us as well, So thanks for that.

1566
01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:22,360
Speaker 1: Thanks for all the calls and the and the well

1567
01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:25,439
Speaker 1: wishes we're getting. And one of the things, Brownie, you

1568
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 1: and I, because we are in the building and we're

1569
01:33:29,040 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 1: kind of on the payroll and the we're the bill's

1570
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,680
Speaker 1: voice during the week for all of this, you and

1571
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:39,639
Speaker 1: I are getting our computers or emails and our phones.

1572
01:33:39,640 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 1: We're getting blown up by everybody. They want to talk

1573
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:46,600
Speaker 1: to us about what DeMar's going through as remember, you know,

1574
01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 1: as as public voices of the bills, and we are

1575
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:57,679
Speaker 1: deciding we're not doing any other outside interviews going forward

1576
01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:00,720
Speaker 1: for the time being. UM, we're gonna just a real

1577
01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 1: sensitive time. Yeah, we're going to start thinking that most

1578
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:05,840
Speaker 1: of those media outlets understand that they all do. They

1579
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:09,920
Speaker 1: all get it, and it's easy to say no because

1580
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:11,679
Speaker 1: it's happened to us a ton of times. It's easy

1581
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 1: to say no to interview requests. So we're doing that

1582
01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 1: as well, because well, it's just not time for us

1583
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:23,080
Speaker 1: to do that yet, right, we'll take a break here.

1584
01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to be joined by

1585
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:31,960
Speaker 1: the Bills radio color analyst Eric Wood usually joins us

1586
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:35,160
Speaker 1: the day after games. This is obviously a much different circumstance,

1587
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:38,519
Speaker 1: but Eric will join us in our number three as

1588
01:34:38,880 --> 01:34:43,080
Speaker 1: we kind of go over and go through what we

1589
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:45,719
Speaker 1: all witnessed last night on the field a pay Corps

1590
01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:48,840
Speaker 1: Stadium and where we go from here. Eric Wood joining

1591
01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:51,559
Speaker 1: us next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalata Health.

1592
01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live

1593
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:58,519
Speaker 1: Hour number three here on a very somber Tuesday, in

1594
01:34:58,560 --> 01:35:01,519
Speaker 1: the wake of the emergency medical even required for Damar Hamlin,

1595
01:35:01,560 --> 01:35:04,720
Speaker 1: Bills second year safety Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1596
01:35:05,680 --> 01:35:09,400
Speaker 1: and as we do the day after games on this show.

1597
01:35:10,040 --> 01:35:13,680
Speaker 1: We bring in Eric Wood, Bills radio color analyst. It's

1598
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:16,600
Speaker 1: a much different day after game, Eric, as you well know,

1599
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:20,000
Speaker 1: you and I were dealing with it in real time

1600
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:22,920
Speaker 1: on the air on the Bills Radio network. We know

1601
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:27,240
Speaker 1: a little bit more now, but he's still in critical condition.

1602
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 1: So Eric, maybe walk me through, you know how in

1603
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:37,360
Speaker 1: the aftermath of you know, something like this, because we've

1604
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:39,880
Speaker 1: heard from the league already that as of right now,

1605
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:44,800
Speaker 1: week eighteen is unchanged, how you somehow wrap your head

1606
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:49,519
Speaker 1: around compartmentalizing this and trying to move forward knowing that

1607
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:53,120
Speaker 1: there's the potential you got to play another game in

1608
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:58,320
Speaker 1: five days. Yeah, and to my understanding, they've had to

1609
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 1: just hop right into game plan for New England today

1610
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:04,000
Speaker 1: because that's what you have to do. That's part of

1611
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:08,320
Speaker 1: your job. And tomorrow still in Cincinnati and they're just

1612
01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 1: waiting for answers, waiting for any information, and as we

1613
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:15,120
Speaker 1: all are, and we're just praying for any bit of

1614
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 1: good news that we can get. But we talked about

1615
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:21,760
Speaker 1: compartmentalizing before we knew the severity of the situation. Me

1616
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:25,679
Speaker 1: and Chris did on error because a very great question

1617
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:27,800
Speaker 1: Chris asked me was, you know, how do you go

1618
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:30,000
Speaker 1: back out there when you see one of your teammates

1619
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:33,639
Speaker 1: down like that. Let's go back to Tennessee and Dane Jackson.

1620
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:35,679
Speaker 1: You know, the defense has got to go right back

1621
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:38,240
Speaker 1: out on the field after seeing I gotta get carted

1622
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:42,840
Speaker 1: off in an ambulance. And so it's a really tough situation. Now,

1623
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:45,800
Speaker 1: we didn't know the extent of it at the time

1624
01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: that we had that conversation. We said, look, these guys

1625
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 1: have lives. They were constantly battling things off the field,

1626
01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:53,760
Speaker 1: and you show up and you do your job. Last

1627
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:57,599
Speaker 1: night was different. Last night was obviously not a situation

1628
01:36:57,600 --> 01:37:00,839
Speaker 1: where you go back into your job. But to my understanding,

1629
01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:04,080
Speaker 1: both teams agreed that there's no way, without knowing the

1630
01:37:04,120 --> 01:37:06,800
Speaker 1: status of Damar, that they could go back out on

1631
01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:10,439
Speaker 1: the field in that situation, and so they weren't forced to.

1632
01:37:10,720 --> 01:37:13,759
Speaker 1: But now today, as you got a game five days away,

1633
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: you must and you try and likely if you're those

1634
01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:20,240
Speaker 1: guys on that were down there on the field around Damar,

1635
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:24,040
Speaker 1: get the images of a ten minute, almost ten minute

1636
01:37:24,120 --> 01:37:27,160
Speaker 1: CPR session to revive a teammate of years, try and

1637
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:30,439
Speaker 1: get those images out of your head. The you know,

1638
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:35,080
Speaker 1: constant emotions that you feel for Damar's mother, who was

1639
01:37:35,160 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 1: trying to get onto the field. I mean, just a

1640
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:41,519
Speaker 1: situation that is traumatizing even to talk about, much less

1641
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: if you're in pad standing next to them. Yeah, and

1642
01:37:44,400 --> 01:37:46,559
Speaker 1: if as that thing happens, I mean, none of us

1643
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: have ever seen in you about it. You know the

1644
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:52,840
Speaker 1: catchphrase of the days were an uncharted waters. It's hard

1645
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:56,240
Speaker 1: to process something you've never experienced or even felt like

1646
01:37:56,280 --> 01:37:59,879
Speaker 1: you were even prepared for. We've seen, we've seen ambulance

1647
01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:03,040
Speaker 1: is on the field before. The thing that makes this different,

1648
01:38:03,080 --> 01:38:07,160
Speaker 1: I think for everybody, Eric, is that usually you get

1649
01:38:07,200 --> 01:38:09,240
Speaker 1: a thumbs up from the player. You see the player

1650
01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 1: if his legs broken, you see him high five, and

1651
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:12,960
Speaker 1: his teammates are given him a bug even if it's

1652
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:18,000
Speaker 1: a if he's upset, you know he's gonna be okay.

1653
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:21,280
Speaker 1: We don't have that information for Damar Hamlin. I think

1654
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:23,439
Speaker 1: that's what makes it so difficult for all of us

1655
01:38:23,439 --> 01:38:27,320
Speaker 1: to get past this. Absolutely and the fact that he

1656
01:38:27,400 --> 01:38:30,280
Speaker 1: was on the field without a pulse. You know, even

1657
01:38:30,479 --> 01:38:35,000
Speaker 1: those that lay motionless with spinal injuries. You're right, Steve,

1658
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:39,080
Speaker 1: we generally get that thumbs up. The risk of loss

1659
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:43,320
Speaker 1: of life isn't necessarily there. Yes, you could have extreme

1660
01:38:43,439 --> 01:38:46,840
Speaker 1: circumstances with those injuries. This was much different. This was

1661
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 1: a life and death situation. And you guys know, and

1662
01:38:50,800 --> 01:38:52,840
Speaker 1: we've talked about it so much, and Steve, as long

1663
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:56,280
Speaker 1: as you played, there's inherent risks playing football. There's there's

1664
01:38:56,320 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 1: physical risks. But this is different. This is a different

1665
01:39:00,120 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 1: situation here where this wasn't a monster hit across the middle.

1666
01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:08,559
Speaker 1: This was the exact wrong hit at the wrong spot

1667
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:12,840
Speaker 1: at the wrong time that left him motionless, left him

1668
01:39:12,880 --> 01:39:15,760
Speaker 1: without a pulse for a period of time. We don't

1669
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:19,400
Speaker 1: know exactly how long before the CPR and the rest

1670
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 1: of the treatment was able to revive him on the field,

1671
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:27,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was. It was like nothing I've ever seen.

1672
01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:32,400
Speaker 1: The atmosphere in Cincinnati was electrifying. I mean, walking from

1673
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:35,720
Speaker 1: my car to the stadium. I grew up in Cincinnati.

1674
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:38,519
Speaker 1: I'd never seen anything like that in that city. Now,

1675
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: Bills fans have a strong presence as well, bring some

1676
01:39:42,880 --> 01:39:46,160
Speaker 1: energy themselves, but I mean that opening kickoff maybe the

1677
01:39:46,240 --> 01:39:50,000
Speaker 1: loudest I've heard at kickoff, maybe outside of Buffalo this

1678
01:39:50,040 --> 01:39:53,519
Speaker 1: season and even maybe for some Bills games. And then

1679
01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:56,080
Speaker 1: you go from that to less a little over halfway

1680
01:39:56,120 --> 01:40:01,719
Speaker 1: through the first quarter, complete silence. Just it was eerie

1681
01:40:01,800 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, Eric, I will tell you at the

1682
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:07,360
Speaker 1: top of the show, I did tip my hat to

1683
01:40:07,479 --> 01:40:15,000
Speaker 1: your hometown. Just the class that the Cincinnati fans showed,

1684
01:40:15,040 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 1: not only in the stadium, the orderly way in which

1685
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 1: they left, even though a night that they had planned

1686
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:22,840
Speaker 1: for a lot of fun and entertainment got turned on

1687
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:27,320
Speaker 1: its head. But then you had Cincinnati fans that went

1688
01:40:27,360 --> 01:40:30,760
Speaker 1: to the hospital, Eric and had a candlelight vigil outside

1689
01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:33,559
Speaker 1: the hospital last night. Really got to tip the hat

1690
01:40:33,920 --> 01:40:38,599
Speaker 1: to your people there in the Queen city there in Ohio. Well,

1691
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:41,840
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And it's just like Buffalo. I did

1692
01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:44,639
Speaker 1: a bunch of media appearances last week. Then they would

1693
01:40:44,640 --> 01:40:46,880
Speaker 1: ask me about my hometown, and then what became my

1694
01:40:46,920 --> 01:40:50,760
Speaker 1: hometown of Buffalo my original hometown of Cincinnati, And I said,

1695
01:40:50,800 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like the NFL is better

1696
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:56,000
Speaker 1: when markets like Cincinnati and Buffalo are good and they're

1697
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:59,639
Speaker 1: so passionate, and so there's some similarities between the towns.

1698
01:41:00,760 --> 01:41:03,160
Speaker 1: You know, Buffalo, known as the city of good neighbors.

1699
01:41:03,479 --> 01:41:07,760
Speaker 1: The west side of Cincinnati especially would give a run

1700
01:41:07,800 --> 01:41:10,559
Speaker 1: for their money, just the way how cordial everybody is

1701
01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:12,759
Speaker 1: and willing to help in any situation, and they showed

1702
01:41:12,760 --> 01:41:15,360
Speaker 1: it last night. I can say I walked out with

1703
01:41:15,400 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: the general fan base because I was walking to my

1704
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:20,280
Speaker 1: car because I was driving back to Bloisville last night

1705
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:23,320
Speaker 1: after the game, and you know, there's bad eggs in

1706
01:41:23,360 --> 01:41:27,000
Speaker 1: every crowd, so I expected to get frustrated leaving with

1707
01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 1: the rest of the fans that justin got the news

1708
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:31,680
Speaker 1: that the game is going to be suspend it for

1709
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:34,880
Speaker 1: good that night, and there wasn't any There was no

1710
01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 1: you know, almost just like a low murmur leaving the game,

1711
01:41:38,560 --> 01:41:41,800
Speaker 1: people having conversations, but it was. It was a very

1712
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: classy atmosphere leaving there, and that just speaks to how

1713
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:51,240
Speaker 1: affected seventy thousand people were by the event that happened

1714
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:54,200
Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah, there was And of course for us,

1715
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:56,680
Speaker 1: we're watching the broadcast is all we can do. We're

1716
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:59,320
Speaker 1: back here in Buffalo and we're catching what we can

1717
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 1: catch on social media, which is sometimes a you know,

1718
01:42:03,840 --> 01:42:07,600
Speaker 1: a dicey situation because you know, everybody has an opinion.

1719
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:16,479
Speaker 1: And the decision that happened early I thought the decision.

1720
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:20,719
Speaker 1: I told Brownie this the decision to suspend the game

1721
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:24,760
Speaker 1: in this case was actually made by Sean McDermott and

1722
01:42:24,840 --> 01:42:28,160
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor. The conversation they had when the teams were

1723
01:42:28,160 --> 01:42:30,559
Speaker 1: still on the field and they were sitting there with

1724
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:33,639
Speaker 1: the official, the head official, and Sean had his hand

1725
01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 1: on his mouth and he was talking, and Sean said,

1726
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:38,600
Speaker 1: and they both nodded in agreement, and Sean looked at

1727
01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:41,599
Speaker 1: his sideline and said, everybody in the locker room right

1728
01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 1: then is when the game was not going to happen.

1729
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:49,599
Speaker 1: And I thought it shows great leadership by the league.

1730
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:53,160
Speaker 1: But when you know, whenever the things got up line

1731
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:55,439
Speaker 1: of what was going on in Cincinnati, and you know,

1732
01:42:55,479 --> 01:42:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure the good League was. It's not like they

1733
01:42:57,160 --> 01:43:01,960
Speaker 1: weren't aware. But when they got on the phone and

1734
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 1: when Don a Ponte saw what was going on, the

1735
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:10,680
Speaker 1: league just said, okay, you guys made the call, go

1736
01:43:10,840 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 1: with it. We're ready to that. There was nothing about

1737
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:15,519
Speaker 1: it never really got to the point where how are

1738
01:43:15,560 --> 01:43:17,040
Speaker 1: they going to get on with the game, How are

1739
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:21,479
Speaker 1: they going to resume the game? The two head coaches

1740
01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 1: made the call and the league backed them up, and

1741
01:43:23,360 --> 01:43:26,280
Speaker 1: I thought it was a brilliant a brilliant moving, a

1742
01:43:26,320 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 1: great moving leadership for the league to take the word

1743
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:32,160
Speaker 1: of the guys that were actually on the ground there

1744
01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:35,439
Speaker 1: making the call. Yeah, I think you have to do

1745
01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:37,320
Speaker 1: that because you'd be easy to sit at the league

1746
01:43:37,320 --> 01:43:41,000
Speaker 1: offices in DC or Philadelphia. It would be easy to

1747
01:43:41,080 --> 01:43:43,519
Speaker 1: sit there and not be in the stadium and understanding

1748
01:43:43,560 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: the gravity of the situation and what's truly being felt

1749
01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:50,120
Speaker 1: by those on the field. And you know, the NFL

1750
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:52,800
Speaker 1: took some grief and took a lot of grief, you know,

1751
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: as long as it took to cancel the game, as

1752
01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:58,600
Speaker 1: long as you know, there's rumors that they said, you

1753
01:43:58,640 --> 01:44:00,360
Speaker 1: have five minutes to get back out on the field.

1754
01:44:00,400 --> 01:44:03,720
Speaker 1: And look, I'm not saying the NFL is perfect. I'm

1755
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:07,200
Speaker 1: not saying these organizations are perfect. But in an unprecedented

1756
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:12,839
Speaker 1: situation where there's so much at stake, I think everybody

1757
01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:15,600
Speaker 1: needs a little grace here. You know, you have a

1758
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:18,040
Speaker 1: young man that's twenty four years old. Whether it was

1759
01:44:18,080 --> 01:44:20,479
Speaker 1: the right you know, why, why, Whether everyone agrees that

1760
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 1: we should have canceled the game or not, that's that's

1761
01:44:22,479 --> 01:44:26,240
Speaker 1: on those participating. And then for the NFL, you know,

1762
01:44:26,280 --> 01:44:28,960
Speaker 1: they're they're denying the five minute deal, and however it

1763
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:31,960
Speaker 1: shook out, they're not They're not there. I just feel

1764
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:36,320
Speaker 1: like in this situation, you know, unless someone's truly trying

1765
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:39,840
Speaker 1: to be a troll on social media, let's let's give

1766
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:43,200
Speaker 1: some grace here. Yeah. But one of the things we'd

1767
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:46,280
Speaker 1: heard it because I've been in the booth where Troy

1768
01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:50,679
Speaker 1: Aikman and Joe Buck were and Terry McAuley, the official

1769
01:44:50,720 --> 01:44:53,080
Speaker 1: that's in there with them, and I'm sure that when

1770
01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:58,400
Speaker 1: this began to take place and the league, Terry McCauley

1771
01:44:58,400 --> 01:45:00,560
Speaker 1: probably got on the horn with his back at the

1772
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: league office and said, hey, what is you know, what's

1773
01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:07,960
Speaker 1: this supposed to look like? And the league office is, well, depending,

1774
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: you know if if if it takes a long time,

1775
01:45:11,080 --> 01:45:13,679
Speaker 1: they'll give the players five minutes to warm back up

1776
01:45:14,439 --> 01:45:17,200
Speaker 1: and then resume the game. Well, Terry, you know, that's

1777
01:45:17,240 --> 01:45:19,840
Speaker 1: just a procedural thing. That's not a policy or anything

1778
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 1: like that. He wasn't Yeah, he was just saying what

1779
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:24,720
Speaker 1: the procedure is. He wasn't trying to apply it to

1780
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: that game. He was just providing information on what procedures

1781
01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:32,160
Speaker 1: could take. And Terry McCauley turns into Joe Buck during

1782
01:45:32,160 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: one of the five commercial breaks they take. Right then,

1783
01:45:36,200 --> 01:45:39,640
Speaker 1: Terry McCauley turns to Joe Buck and says, Listen, I

1784
01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:41,479
Speaker 1: haven't heard from the league that it's like they'll have

1785
01:45:41,520 --> 01:45:43,880
Speaker 1: a five minute warm up period and then they'll get going.

1786
01:45:44,400 --> 01:45:46,400
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with the decision to whether

1787
01:45:46,439 --> 01:45:48,040
Speaker 1: they were going to go on with the game or not.

1788
01:45:48,680 --> 01:45:51,800
Speaker 1: Right so, people got the idea that the league is

1789
01:45:51,840 --> 01:45:54,040
Speaker 1: up there going now, give him five minutes and let's go.

1790
01:45:54,439 --> 01:45:56,960
Speaker 1: Nothing could be further from the truth. And that's what

1791
01:45:57,040 --> 01:46:00,000
Speaker 1: you know. That never got up the flag far enough

1792
01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:04,920
Speaker 1: for anybody to even consider it. And I'll say this again,

1793
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:11,599
Speaker 1: when Sean Zach Taylor walked across the field to talk

1794
01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:15,200
Speaker 1: to Sean McDermott and those two guys were in agreement

1795
01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:18,519
Speaker 1: that this was way beyond anything anybody had ever gone through.

1796
01:46:19,640 --> 01:46:22,320
Speaker 1: That's when the decision was made that that game wasn't

1797
01:46:22,320 --> 01:46:24,439
Speaker 1: going to happen, and the league got on board with it.

1798
01:46:24,520 --> 01:46:26,640
Speaker 1: So I'm I thought it was I thought it was

1799
01:46:27,080 --> 01:46:29,160
Speaker 1: exactly the way that should have been handed. Eric. There

1800
01:46:29,640 --> 01:46:33,720
Speaker 1: is one positive that has come out of this, and

1801
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:36,839
Speaker 1: we hope there are more in the future, namely Tamar's condition,

1802
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:43,559
Speaker 1: but his foundation was flooded with donations. With this being

1803
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:48,480
Speaker 1: a nationally televised game, it was not just Bill's mafia

1804
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:52,840
Speaker 1: contributing to his foundation as is usually the case. There

1805
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 1: were donations coming in every three seconds. At one point

1806
01:46:56,760 --> 01:47:00,439
Speaker 1: from across the country. It was at four hundred by

1807
01:47:00,479 --> 01:47:02,439
Speaker 1: the time we were leaving the stadium last night. At

1808
01:47:02,439 --> 01:47:07,760
Speaker 1: midnight today it is over four million dollars. Yeah, it's

1809
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:11,720
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. And that just shows how everybody around the

1810
01:47:11,760 --> 01:47:16,040
Speaker 1: country right now how shook they were from that, and

1811
01:47:16,080 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 1: then spurs them to action, to want to do something anything. Yes,

1812
01:47:20,560 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 1: keep praying, keep encouraging, keep supporting in any way you can.

1813
01:47:24,360 --> 01:47:26,360
Speaker 1: But then hey, we want to we want to just

1814
01:47:26,400 --> 01:47:31,360
Speaker 1: show some appreciation for this twenty four year old Intomar

1815
01:47:31,439 --> 01:47:33,519
Speaker 1: Hamlin that many of us are learning a lot more about.

1816
01:47:33,520 --> 01:47:36,639
Speaker 1: We're getting to hear about what kind of incredible young

1817
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 1: man he is, about the impact he tried to make

1818
01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:41,000
Speaker 1: off the field as well. Let's let's try and provide

1819
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: him some support. So very classy move by so many individuals.

1820
01:47:45,520 --> 01:47:47,639
Speaker 1: Last time I saw it was close to one hundred

1821
01:47:47,640 --> 01:47:51,840
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand people had made donations. Just a powerful

1822
01:47:53,160 --> 01:47:56,519
Speaker 1: kind of faith in humanity restoring move by so many

1823
01:47:56,520 --> 01:48:00,320
Speaker 1: individuals out there. So what you know, your thoughts now

1824
01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:02,880
Speaker 1: about you know, the league had you know, they're kind

1825
01:48:02,880 --> 01:48:06,519
Speaker 1: of hands are tied, you know, I mean, and it's

1826
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:11,040
Speaker 1: hard even to address anything other than waiting on on

1827
01:48:11,080 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 1: the you know, for positive things to be reported about

1828
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:18,640
Speaker 1: Damar's improvement the league. They can't get this game in.

1829
01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:21,960
Speaker 1: It's too late in the season. Do you are you

1830
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:24,680
Speaker 1: a proponent? I've just suggested this. I just leave it

1831
01:48:24,720 --> 01:48:27,360
Speaker 1: as a hole in the Bengals and the Bills schedule

1832
01:48:28,040 --> 01:48:30,800
Speaker 1: to skip the game. They'll play sixteen games. Everybody else

1833
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 1: will play seventeen and go with winning percentages and go

1834
01:48:33,960 --> 01:48:36,960
Speaker 1: with the standings the way they are, and and not

1835
01:48:37,080 --> 01:48:40,720
Speaker 1: try to go back and pay back a game out

1836
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:43,320
Speaker 1: of two hundred and sixty four or whatever games they have.

1837
01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:47,360
Speaker 1: Just let's just move Let's just move on from it,

1838
01:48:47,439 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 1: move on from this game the teams have they have to. Yeah,

1839
01:48:55,040 --> 01:48:57,760
Speaker 1: I think that makes the most sense. I mean, as

1840
01:48:57,800 --> 01:49:00,479
Speaker 1: me and Chris were doing post game afterwards, I was

1841
01:49:01,320 --> 01:49:05,639
Speaker 1: telling Chris, look, if the situation is the Bills either

1842
01:49:05,680 --> 01:49:09,880
Speaker 1: finish this game or they forfeit, then screw it. Loss,

1843
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:12,800
Speaker 1: take the loss. It will go to Kansas City, and

1844
01:49:13,240 --> 01:49:17,599
Speaker 1: it is what it is, but that's not what they

1845
01:49:17,640 --> 01:49:19,960
Speaker 1: needed to be worried about in that moment. We'll see

1846
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:21,920
Speaker 1: what the league does. I think, Steve, I think your

1847
01:49:22,360 --> 01:49:25,320
Speaker 1: situation makes the most sense. It has less the least

1848
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:28,439
Speaker 1: amount of moving parts. You have that week off between

1849
01:49:28,479 --> 01:49:30,800
Speaker 1: the conference championship games and the super Bowl. You could

1850
01:49:30,800 --> 01:49:34,719
Speaker 1: potentially have a week nineteen game with Bills and Bengals,

1851
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:40,360
Speaker 1: which would provide enormous ratings with the playoff implications that

1852
01:49:40,360 --> 01:49:42,880
Speaker 1: that would involve. If both teams were to take care

1853
01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:47,160
Speaker 1: of business this weekend and so, and if Kansas City

1854
01:49:47,160 --> 01:49:49,479
Speaker 1: were to somehow lose this weekend to the Raiders, that

1855
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:51,720
Speaker 1: would be for the number one overall seed and a

1856
01:49:51,800 --> 01:49:54,519
Speaker 1: chance to have the next week off. I don't know

1857
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:57,080
Speaker 1: how that would shake. You know, that would be really

1858
01:49:57,080 --> 01:49:59,479
Speaker 1: tough on the Bills to give everybody heading into the

1859
01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:02,880
Speaker 1: playoffs a free week and the Bengals the same. So

1860
01:50:03,120 --> 01:50:06,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what the exact best move is here.

1861
01:50:06,320 --> 01:50:08,759
Speaker 1: And you know that's why those guys make the big bucks.

1862
01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:12,120
Speaker 1: And everyone gets on Roger Goodell by about his salary. That's,

1863
01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, right around that fifty million a year. Mark.

1864
01:50:15,200 --> 01:50:18,160
Speaker 1: But when you're the CEO and you have to make

1865
01:50:18,240 --> 01:50:22,280
Speaker 1: really tough decisions of an over ten billion dollar revenue

1866
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:26,599
Speaker 1: company a year, this is when you earn it. Yeah right, Eric,

1867
01:50:26,680 --> 01:50:28,880
Speaker 1: thanks for jumping on with us. We know it hasn't

1868
01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:31,240
Speaker 1: been easy for any of us, so we appreciate the time.

1869
01:50:31,280 --> 01:50:34,160
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you later in the week. Sounds good,

1870
01:50:34,240 --> 01:50:36,439
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Guys. All right, that's Eric Wood joining US

1871
01:50:36,439 --> 01:50:41,240
Speaker 1: Bills Radio color analyst. And yeah, it was. We were

1872
01:50:41,280 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: going through it in real time. They are on the air,

1873
01:50:43,960 --> 01:50:50,320
Speaker 1: and it's like you turn into a news reporter. You're

1874
01:50:50,360 --> 01:50:54,679
Speaker 1: no longer a sports broadcaster. You are a field reporter

1875
01:50:55,520 --> 01:50:58,840
Speaker 1: out of the newsroom, and you're just describing the scene,

1876
01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:03,400
Speaker 1: describing what happened, and providing the information that you know,

1877
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 1: which at the time was very limited, and so you're

1878
01:51:06,560 --> 01:51:11,040
Speaker 1: trying to be there for the listening audience with limited

1879
01:51:11,080 --> 01:51:13,679
Speaker 1: resources in terms of what you can deliver to them

1880
01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:17,920
Speaker 1: that they're waiting for. And it was a long time

1881
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:21,240
Speaker 1: on the field. It's like almost fifteen minutes from start

1882
01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:23,280
Speaker 1: to finish, and it felt like a half an hour

1883
01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:27,720
Speaker 1: just because everybody was waiting anxiously to see if there

1884
01:51:27,720 --> 01:51:30,639
Speaker 1: would be some resolution to the emergency carry was receiving.

1885
01:51:31,640 --> 01:51:35,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was I don't want to use a

1886
01:51:35,120 --> 01:51:38,719
Speaker 1: negative word, but it was terrible. It was terrible going

1887
01:51:38,800 --> 01:51:41,720
Speaker 1: through that and having to describe it, and you know,

1888
01:51:41,760 --> 01:51:44,280
Speaker 1: then reiterating it. Hey, if you're just joining us, this

1889
01:51:44,320 --> 01:51:47,120
Speaker 1: is what's taken place. And it was rough. And for

1890
01:51:47,280 --> 01:51:49,720
Speaker 1: I know this too, for those all of us who

1891
01:51:49,720 --> 01:51:53,200
Speaker 1: were back, you know we were here in Buffalo, and

1892
01:51:53,840 --> 01:51:56,080
Speaker 1: for all of us who all those people at around

1893
01:51:56,080 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 1: the country who were watching the broadcast. Yes, he in

1894
01:52:01,200 --> 01:52:08,160
Speaker 1: caught the faces of Josh and Steph Tredavius, um Spencer Brown,

1895
01:52:09,320 --> 01:52:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, they were they were visibly shaken, visible dozens

1896
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:17,679
Speaker 1: of guys crying and you know, siran Neil was couldn't

1897
01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:19,880
Speaker 1: hold it together. I mean, it was, it was. It

1898
01:52:19,960 --> 01:52:26,360
Speaker 1: was really really traumatic for these guys, and that in

1899
01:52:26,439 --> 01:52:32,120
Speaker 1: and of itself made it way different, way different than

1900
01:52:32,240 --> 01:52:37,479
Speaker 1: any other injury incident I've ever witnessed, you even kind

1901
01:52:37,640 --> 01:52:41,479
Speaker 1: even big you know ones were you know, you know guys,

1902
01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, like the Alex Smith incident and the Kevin

1903
01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:48,120
Speaker 1: Everett incident. Guys saw the guy move and he was

1904
01:52:48,280 --> 01:52:52,320
Speaker 1: you know, this was they were, they were frantically working

1905
01:52:52,439 --> 01:52:55,280
Speaker 1: on their teammate to try and save his life frantically,

1906
01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:58,559
Speaker 1: And that written and of itself makes it completely different

1907
01:52:58,560 --> 01:53:00,639
Speaker 1: than anything else you've ever seen. And you've talked about

1908
01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:06,400
Speaker 1: this before. Athletes, young athletes in particular, in this line

1909
01:53:06,400 --> 01:53:12,360
Speaker 1: of work, they're finally tuned, highly trained, and many of

1910
01:53:12,400 --> 01:53:17,439
Speaker 1: them believe they are bulletproof. Sure, And so when something

1911
01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:22,280
Speaker 1: like this is witnessed by players who have that mindset,

1912
01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:27,240
Speaker 1: suddenly the fragility of life shakes them to their core,

1913
01:53:27,320 --> 01:53:31,559
Speaker 1: because holy crap, I'm not bulletproof, and neither is my teammate, right,

1914
01:53:31,760 --> 01:53:35,040
Speaker 1: And you know, because that's got a I mean, you've

1915
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:37,559
Speaker 1: said it. Like when you were twenty four and you're

1916
01:53:37,600 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 1: a strap and athlete, you felt like you could run

1917
01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:42,960
Speaker 1: through walls, right I was? You know, yes, exactly. You

1918
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:47,120
Speaker 1: feel invincible, you really do. And you're not only are

1919
01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:50,799
Speaker 1: you invincible, you hang out with guys who are your family,

1920
01:53:50,840 --> 01:53:53,519
Speaker 1: who are invincible too. It's like, you know, it's like

1921
01:53:53,560 --> 01:53:56,120
Speaker 1: being one of the Avengers, you know, I mean, it's

1922
01:53:56,160 --> 01:53:59,280
Speaker 1: really the way they feel. And then to see one

1923
01:53:59,320 --> 01:54:01,599
Speaker 1: of them go down down like and in an instant,

1924
01:54:02,160 --> 01:54:06,840
Speaker 1: and then to see people and you can you feel

1925
01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:08,840
Speaker 1: the you know, we've you've all seen it. I mean,

1926
01:54:09,040 --> 01:54:13,000
Speaker 1: you can imagine it, but working the working hard, and

1927
01:54:13,160 --> 01:54:16,280
Speaker 1: you can see the concern and the and the urgency

1928
01:54:16,360 --> 01:54:18,680
Speaker 1: on the face of the mts and the first responders

1929
01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:21,840
Speaker 1: and the medical guys and the guy you know, yelling

1930
01:54:21,880 --> 01:54:25,800
Speaker 1: for the ae ed um and they sprint and Frank

1931
01:54:25,960 --> 01:54:29,360
Speaker 1: frantically run that thing out into the middle of the field. Um,

1932
01:54:30,600 --> 01:54:36,240
Speaker 1: it's more than just sobering, you know, it's traumatizing. And

1933
01:54:36,760 --> 01:54:39,360
Speaker 1: they were The league was smart enough to take the

1934
01:54:40,920 --> 01:54:43,320
Speaker 1: cue from Sean McDermott and Zach Taylor and saying, listen,

1935
01:54:43,320 --> 01:54:45,920
Speaker 1: that's it. This is crazy. It's crazy as these guys

1936
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:47,680
Speaker 1: come out and play a game. Yeah, but I thought

1937
01:54:47,720 --> 01:54:49,280
Speaker 1: of that because I know you've talked all the time

1938
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 1: about how young athletes they feel like their bulletproof, and

1939
01:54:52,800 --> 01:54:55,480
Speaker 1: this was a very jarring reminder that they are not.

1940
01:54:55,720 --> 01:54:58,320
Speaker 1: And I think that's what really shook a lot of

1941
01:54:58,320 --> 01:55:01,120
Speaker 1: those guys to their core. They really did realize, well,

1942
01:55:01,120 --> 01:55:03,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what agr if you're twenty four or

1943
01:55:03,360 --> 01:55:06,480
Speaker 1: eighty four, life is fragile no matter who you are.

1944
01:55:07,360 --> 01:55:10,360
Speaker 1: Let's take a phone call here as Harold and Rochester

1945
01:55:10,440 --> 01:55:14,000
Speaker 1: has been waiting patiently. Harold, you're on one Bill's Live.

1946
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:17,560
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Well, I mean, obviously,

1947
01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:20,040
Speaker 1: first and foremost, I want to be concerned about Damar

1948
01:55:20,160 --> 01:55:23,520
Speaker 1: and and hope that he's getting in great medical care

1949
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:27,200
Speaker 1: there in Cincinnati. But I also am concerned about, you know,

1950
01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:29,600
Speaker 1: the other guys on the team and the players on

1951
01:55:29,640 --> 01:55:33,520
Speaker 1: the team that they're getting help because I have witnessed

1952
01:55:33,520 --> 01:55:37,200
Speaker 1: a traumatic event and it stays with you, you know it,

1953
01:55:37,480 --> 01:55:44,080
Speaker 1: It's hard, and I hope that those guys are getting

1954
01:55:44,080 --> 01:55:47,080
Speaker 1: helped too. I mean, look like Dane Jackson and those

1955
01:55:47,120 --> 01:55:49,240
Speaker 1: guys in the dB room, look like Dane Jackson was

1956
01:55:49,240 --> 01:55:52,360
Speaker 1: the first guy to get over there and run to

1957
01:55:52,440 --> 01:55:57,840
Speaker 1: the situation, and Sir ron Neil looked really upset. And

1958
01:55:58,920 --> 01:56:01,600
Speaker 1: when they announced that about five minutes they showed Trey White,

1959
01:56:01,600 --> 01:56:03,080
Speaker 1: and I was like, that guy's not gonna be able

1960
01:56:03,080 --> 01:56:06,160
Speaker 1: to play football for several days. So yeah, I just

1961
01:56:06,160 --> 01:56:09,000
Speaker 1: want to make sure the players on the team, and

1962
01:56:09,120 --> 01:56:13,560
Speaker 1: especially in that dB room are getting support and help

1963
01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:17,640
Speaker 1: right now as well. Yeah, thank you. You can rest

1964
01:56:17,640 --> 01:56:24,280
Speaker 1: assured that the team has things in place to address

1965
01:56:24,360 --> 01:56:27,880
Speaker 1: the mental health concerns of all of the players on

1966
01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 1: the roster, and I would imagine the wheels are very

1967
01:56:31,360 --> 01:56:34,240
Speaker 1: much in motion on all of that. As I know,

1968
01:56:34,320 --> 01:56:36,400
Speaker 1: the players did have to come in for a meeting

1969
01:56:36,440 --> 01:56:40,120
Speaker 1: today early this afternoon. I would imagine that a lot

1970
01:56:40,160 --> 01:56:43,520
Speaker 1: of those elements were put in place and the players

1971
01:56:43,520 --> 01:56:47,640
Speaker 1: were made aware that they could take advantage of those resources,

1972
01:56:48,440 --> 01:56:53,640
Speaker 1: because really it is about healing mentally first before this

1973
01:56:53,680 --> 01:56:57,120
Speaker 1: team can even think about playing another football game, and

1974
01:56:57,200 --> 01:57:03,000
Speaker 1: hopefully that soon followed buying proved report ontomorrow Hamlin's condition,

1975
01:57:03,760 --> 01:57:06,720
Speaker 1: so everyone can breathe a little bit easier and at

1976
01:57:06,800 --> 01:57:09,520
Speaker 1: least have the peace of mind that their teammate's going

1977
01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:15,960
Speaker 1: to be okay going forward. That's right there. It's commonplace

1978
01:57:16,080 --> 01:57:21,640
Speaker 1: for teams now to have access to mental health care

1979
01:57:21,720 --> 01:57:24,920
Speaker 1: for their players and the players families and you know,

1980
01:57:25,560 --> 01:57:29,320
Speaker 1: and particularly here in this building, it's wide even into

1981
01:57:29,360 --> 01:57:34,520
Speaker 1: the staff and workers around the building as well. So yes,

1982
01:57:34,680 --> 01:57:37,720
Speaker 1: that will be addressed and it will be obviously made

1983
01:57:37,720 --> 01:57:41,120
Speaker 1: available for all these guys, and as we saw, there's

1984
01:57:41,120 --> 01:57:42,680
Speaker 1: gonna be a good hand more than a handful of

1985
01:57:42,680 --> 01:57:44,960
Speaker 1: them that are gonna probably take advantage of it because

1986
01:57:44,960 --> 01:57:50,440
Speaker 1: they need it badly. So you're right, Harold from Ronchester.

1987
01:57:50,480 --> 01:57:53,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. It's something has to be taken

1988
01:57:53,760 --> 01:57:57,920
Speaker 1: really seriously because it goes hand in hand with what

1989
01:57:58,000 --> 01:57:59,960
Speaker 1: we've spoken about on the show at all the time.

1990
01:58:00,640 --> 01:58:05,600
Speaker 1: These guys play like they play and they pour them

1991
01:58:05,640 --> 01:58:08,880
Speaker 1: everything into these games, everything there, and their wives and

1992
01:58:08,960 --> 01:58:12,160
Speaker 1: children and families and their support crews at home know it,

1993
01:58:12,560 --> 01:58:14,760
Speaker 1: and they feel it when the guy's playing well, when

1994
01:58:14,760 --> 01:58:16,960
Speaker 1: he's not playing well, when when things are bad with

1995
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:19,000
Speaker 1: the team, or when it's game day and he needs

1996
01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:20,560
Speaker 1: to get to the stadium and he's kind of aunty

1997
01:58:20,600 --> 01:58:23,960
Speaker 1: about it. They feel what he feels going through all

1998
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:26,360
Speaker 1: of this. And you can bet that you know these

1999
01:58:26,360 --> 01:58:28,200
Speaker 1: players are going to lean on their families a lot

2000
01:58:28,280 --> 01:58:30,240
Speaker 1: to help them get through this, and their families are

2001
01:58:30,240 --> 01:58:32,440
Speaker 1: going to get help from the club as well. So

2002
01:58:32,600 --> 01:58:37,840
Speaker 1: it yes, it is a large number of people in

2003
01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:41,000
Speaker 1: this building that are affected by an instance like this

2004
01:58:41,080 --> 01:58:45,320
Speaker 1: and occurrence like this, and the club. I think clubs

2005
01:58:45,320 --> 01:58:47,840
Speaker 1: are not just the bills, but clubs around the league

2006
01:58:48,160 --> 01:58:50,960
Speaker 1: do reach out and feel and do their best to

2007
01:58:51,000 --> 01:58:55,320
Speaker 1: take care of all of those needs. So that is

2008
01:58:55,360 --> 01:59:00,480
Speaker 1: not just being that nobody's casually waiving that all not

2009
01:59:00,520 --> 01:59:03,240
Speaker 1: being paid any lip service. It's an action, it's happening now.

2010
01:59:03,480 --> 01:59:05,440
Speaker 1: They have people on staff that look out for that

2011
01:59:05,520 --> 01:59:08,560
Speaker 1: kind of thing. We'll take a break here. When we return,

2012
01:59:08,880 --> 01:59:12,760
Speaker 1: we will address some of the controversy. I guess is

2013
01:59:12,760 --> 01:59:14,760
Speaker 1: a strong word, but some of the questions that were

2014
01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:18,600
Speaker 1: raised about this so called five minute warm up period

2015
01:59:18,640 --> 01:59:23,400
Speaker 1: to resume the game. Troy Vincent, the executive vice president

2016
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:26,360
Speaker 1: of football Operations at the League Office, addressed it on

2017
01:59:26,400 --> 01:59:29,920
Speaker 1: the conference call last night. We'll play those comments for

2018
01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:32,960
Speaker 1: you next here on One Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health,

2019
01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:36,240
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One

2020
01:59:36,240 --> 01:59:39,840
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Here on a tough Tuesday, less than twenty

2021
01:59:39,840 --> 01:59:43,400
Speaker 1: four hours removed from the emergency medical care required for

2022
01:59:43,720 --> 01:59:46,880
Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin, we're trying to help each and every one

2023
01:59:46,880 --> 01:59:50,800
Speaker 1: of you through it as members of the Bills fan community,

2024
01:59:50,960 --> 01:59:57,480
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia, and hoping in some small way we're easing

2025
01:59:57,480 --> 02:00:01,120
Speaker 1: the difficulty with which you're moving through this day. After

2026
02:00:01,120 --> 02:00:04,640
Speaker 1: seeing what transpired with DeMar last night, there is no

2027
02:00:04,840 --> 02:00:08,640
Speaker 1: new update. He remains in critical condition in the ICU

2028
02:00:08,800 --> 02:00:14,680
Speaker 1: unit at University a Cincinnati Medical Center, and we're hoping

2029
02:00:14,800 --> 02:00:19,520
Speaker 1: and waiting for news of improved condition. I think all

2030
02:00:19,520 --> 02:00:22,320
Speaker 1: of us will breathe a little bit easier when we

2031
02:00:22,360 --> 02:00:27,680
Speaker 1: hear those words that DeMar's condition is now stable. We're

2032
02:00:27,720 --> 02:00:31,200
Speaker 1: hoping for those words to be coming sooner rather than later.

2033
02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:33,480
Speaker 1: For sure. There is one thing we wanted to address.

2034
02:00:34,280 --> 02:00:37,919
Speaker 1: There was a little bit of questioning of the league's

2035
02:00:38,840 --> 02:00:42,640
Speaker 1: handling of the situation last night before ultimately postponing the

2036
02:00:42,680 --> 02:00:50,280
Speaker 1: game indefinitely, and there was some confusion as to whether

2037
02:00:50,440 --> 02:00:54,960
Speaker 1: or not the league was planning to rezoom the game

2038
02:00:55,400 --> 02:00:59,560
Speaker 1: and give players five minutes to warm up. John Parry

2039
02:00:59,600 --> 02:01:05,000
Speaker 1: at the League office, former official, basically was relaying to

2040
02:01:05,080 --> 02:01:10,760
Speaker 1: the ESPN telecast that in the event that a game

2041
02:01:10,880 --> 02:01:14,160
Speaker 1: is resumed after a long delay, players are given five

2042
02:01:14,200 --> 02:01:17,440
Speaker 1: minutes to warm up. In no way was he indicating

2043
02:01:17,880 --> 02:01:20,680
Speaker 1: that was the decision that the league was going to make.

2044
02:01:21,480 --> 02:01:27,520
Speaker 1: He was just explaining procedurally, what would happen in such

2045
02:01:27,560 --> 02:01:31,440
Speaker 1: an event potentially, Yeah, And unfortunately Joe Bucket, I think

2046
02:01:31,440 --> 02:01:33,840
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman kind of took it and applied it to

2047
02:01:33,880 --> 02:01:35,560
Speaker 1: the game. They just said, hey, listen, we're hearing from

2048
02:01:35,600 --> 02:01:37,280
Speaker 1: the league to be a five minute warm up, and

2049
02:01:37,280 --> 02:01:39,880
Speaker 1: they're going to resume the game. That's what they you know,

2050
02:01:39,920 --> 02:01:43,200
Speaker 1: that's the way they presented it. And something gets lost

2051
02:01:43,240 --> 02:01:45,240
Speaker 1: in there in the fact that you know, their guy

2052
02:01:45,360 --> 02:01:48,320
Speaker 1: Terry mcaulay called someone in New York, and the guy

2053
02:01:48,320 --> 02:01:50,000
Speaker 1: in New York just gives him a procedural Listen, like

2054
02:01:50,080 --> 02:01:53,480
Speaker 1: when there's a rain delay or a longer injury thing

2055
02:01:53,560 --> 02:01:56,760
Speaker 1: or whatever, they're just, you know, give him a five

2056
02:01:56,760 --> 02:01:58,720
Speaker 1: minute warm up, go back to the game. That's if

2057
02:01:58,760 --> 02:02:02,280
Speaker 1: the game's gonna go back on. So that was never

2058
02:02:02,480 --> 02:02:05,040
Speaker 1: about the league deciding that the game was going to

2059
02:02:05,120 --> 02:02:08,800
Speaker 1: be right resumed. So on the conference call late last

2060
02:02:08,880 --> 02:02:13,360
Speaker 1: night with Donna Ponte, Chief Administrator of Football Ops, Troy Vincent,

2061
02:02:13,440 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 1: the executive vice president of Football Ops at the league level,

2062
02:02:15,840 --> 02:02:18,160
Speaker 1: and Jeff Miller, Senior vice President of Health and Safety

2063
02:02:18,160 --> 02:02:21,600
Speaker 1: at the league level, they were asked the question about

2064
02:02:21,640 --> 02:02:26,280
Speaker 1: this five minute warm up period that had been delivered

2065
02:02:26,440 --> 02:02:29,680
Speaker 1: on the air on the ESPN telecast. Here is Troy

2066
02:02:29,800 --> 02:02:34,520
Speaker 1: Vincent addressing that very concern, and I'm not sure where

2067
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:41,120
Speaker 1: where that came from. Frankly, there was no no time

2068
02:02:41,120 --> 02:02:45,640
Speaker 1: period for the players to get warmed up. Frankly, the

2069
02:02:45,720 --> 02:02:49,560
Speaker 1: only the only thing that we asked was that sean

2070
02:02:49,680 --> 02:02:52,960
Speaker 1: communicate were both head coaches to make sure they had

2071
02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:55,960
Speaker 1: the proper time inside the locker room to discuss what

2072
02:02:56,080 --> 02:02:59,840
Speaker 1: they felt like the best. I'm not sure where that

2073
02:03:00,080 --> 02:03:03,840
Speaker 1: where that came from. Five minutes warm I've never never

2074
02:03:04,000 --> 02:03:07,800
Speaker 1: was never crossed my mind personally, and I was the one.

2075
02:03:07,800 --> 02:03:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying I not to be selfish, but the one

2076
02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:16,240
Speaker 1: that was communicated with the commissioner. We never, frankly and

2077
02:03:16,400 --> 02:03:19,200
Speaker 1: never crossed our minds to talk about warm enough to

2078
02:03:19,280 --> 02:03:25,840
Speaker 1: resume play. That's that's ridiculous. That's that's insensitive, um, and

2079
02:03:25,920 --> 02:03:28,960
Speaker 1: that's not a place that we should ever be it.

2080
02:03:30,320 --> 02:03:33,440
Speaker 1: So that's Troy Vincent addressing that question. I think people

2081
02:03:33,480 --> 02:03:36,360
Speaker 1: heard it on the telecast assumed it was happening for

2082
02:03:36,560 --> 02:03:39,320
Speaker 1: that game last night, and that was clearly not the

2083
02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:42,520
Speaker 1: case based on what Troy Vincent said. It was a

2084
02:03:42,560 --> 02:03:48,960
Speaker 1: procedural rule that was explained in no way. According to

2085
02:03:49,000 --> 02:03:52,240
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent, wasn't even considered to be applied last night.

2086
02:03:52,240 --> 02:03:55,640
Speaker 1: I don't even think it was a rule, um. I

2087
02:03:55,640 --> 02:03:59,160
Speaker 1: I think it was just more of a listen in

2088
02:03:59,160 --> 02:04:03,160
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl forty two, I think when the lights

2089
02:04:03,160 --> 02:04:07,839
Speaker 1: went over, maybe it's forty seven. It was the Ravens

2090
02:04:07,920 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: versus the Niners in New Orleans and the lights went out.

2091
02:04:10,360 --> 02:04:14,360
Speaker 1: I was that order, right. So when there's a delay

2092
02:04:14,480 --> 02:04:17,840
Speaker 1: like that and they don't know exactly when the lights

2093
02:04:17,840 --> 02:04:19,680
Speaker 1: are gonna come on or whatever when it's going to

2094
02:04:19,760 --> 02:04:22,600
Speaker 1: be resumed, the officials do their best to make sure

2095
02:04:23,280 --> 02:04:27,320
Speaker 1: that they have warnings so that they can stay lose.

2096
02:04:27,320 --> 02:04:28,840
Speaker 1: If it's gonna be like a half an hour, they

2097
02:04:28,880 --> 02:04:31,120
Speaker 1: tell them and they say, hey, you better start warming

2098
02:04:31,200 --> 02:04:32,800
Speaker 1: up or whatever. We're gonna kick it off. As soon

2099
02:04:32,800 --> 02:04:35,160
Speaker 1: as these lights come on, we're kicking it off or

2100
02:04:35,160 --> 02:04:38,600
Speaker 1: putting it into play. That's kind of that's kind of

2101
02:04:38,640 --> 02:04:45,200
Speaker 1: the the the way they handle these types of these delays.

2102
02:04:45,560 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 1: For whatever reason. In the case, I'm saying it was

2103
02:04:47,680 --> 02:04:49,960
Speaker 1: a lights out delay. In another case it could have been,

2104
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:52,520
Speaker 1: you know, a delay of an ambulance, or it could

2105
02:04:52,520 --> 02:04:55,000
Speaker 1: have been a lightning delay or whether delay down in

2106
02:04:55,040 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 1: Miami or Tampa Bay or something. That's the way they

2107
02:04:58,360 --> 02:05:01,320
Speaker 1: handle it. Terry McAuley, who the rules expert in the

2108
02:05:01,520 --> 02:05:04,600
Speaker 1: in the booth with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, as

2109
02:05:04,600 --> 02:05:08,400
Speaker 1: he should, he calls the guy in New York, the

2110
02:05:08,440 --> 02:05:10,600
Speaker 1: head of Officiating says, hey, you know, what do you

2111
02:05:10,600 --> 02:05:12,200
Speaker 1: think about the house it's going to handle and the

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Speaker 1: guy in the and the without saying anything about whether

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Speaker 1: the game's gonna go on or not, he says, how

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Speaker 1: do they handle a delay of this nature this long?

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Speaker 1: He says, Well, if it's a delay this long, they

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Speaker 1: usually give him five minutes to warm up. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna give him some warning. And that's what Terry

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Speaker 1: McCaulay tells Joe Buck Troy Aikman. He says, I just

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Speaker 1: talked to New York, and what will happen is they'll get,

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Speaker 1: you know, game resumes, they give him five minutes to

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Speaker 1: warm up and go on, and Troy Aikman and they go.

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Speaker 1: They said, well, we heard from New York they'll give

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Speaker 1: him five minutes to warm up. And it sounds like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're hearing from New York there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a five minute warm up and they'll resume the game. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's not exactly what they heard from New York. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's not it's just not accurate with where the

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02:05:55,360 --> 02:05:58,880
Speaker 1: league was. The league very from the league from the jump,

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02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:04,640
Speaker 1: was deferring any and all decision making to the boots

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Speaker 1: on the ground in Cincinnati. Donna Ponte was the NFL

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Speaker 1: official that was on the ground in Cincinnati last night,

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Speaker 1: the chief administrator of Football Operations. She was there at

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Speaker 1: the game and she was in close contact with Sean McDermott,

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor, and the head referee, Shawn Smith. If you've

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Speaker 1: seen any of the Troy Vincent and Jeff Miller at

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Speaker 1: the league office were deferring to them, what's the situation?

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Speaker 1: How upset are the players? Is this the situation that

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Speaker 1: we can come back from with a game? Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: It's not happening, okay, And everybody's in agreement on that. Yes, Now,

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Speaker 1: it didn't happen that quickly. They went to the Bill's

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Speaker 1: locker room, talk to those players, They went to the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati locker room, talk to those players. They got the

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Speaker 1: officials together with the coaches, and all those discussions took place,

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Speaker 1: and then there was some back and forth conversation with

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Speaker 1: the league. And did it probably take longer than most

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02:06:55,200 --> 02:06:58,440
Speaker 1: people would have liked. Sure, but they're dealing with an

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Speaker 1: unprecedented situation in real time, with people in different places

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02:07:03,120 --> 02:07:07,440
Speaker 1: by phone, trying to delineate anything and everything that has

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Speaker 1: taken place, let alone making sure that Tamarrow Hamlin was

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02:07:10,400 --> 02:07:13,360
Speaker 1: properly taken care of and sent to the hospital. Right.

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing. The people on the phone who

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02:07:15,320 --> 02:07:18,600
Speaker 1: weren't anywhere near it up in New York were deferring.

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02:07:19,360 --> 02:07:21,120
Speaker 1: Were the ones who make the call, who have the

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02:07:21,120 --> 02:07:23,040
Speaker 1: power to make the call, but they're deferring to the

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02:07:23,040 --> 02:07:24,360
Speaker 1: people who are on the ground there. So you got

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02:07:24,360 --> 02:07:27,560
Speaker 1: to get those people in touch with each other. And

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02:07:28,840 --> 02:07:34,440
Speaker 1: don Aponte is the lady who is the chief administrator

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Speaker 1: of football operations. She's right there, so it's her phone

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Speaker 1: thereon if you see some of the footage, if you

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02:07:38,880 --> 02:07:40,560
Speaker 1: go back and look on social she's the lady in

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Speaker 1: the black slacks standing right with Sean McDermott and Zach Taylor,

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Speaker 1: and she's passed. They passed the phone back and forth.

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Speaker 1: It's her phone, yea. And she is an essence facilitating

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Speaker 1: the postponement of the game that Sean McDermott and Zach

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Speaker 1: Taylor have agreed it's going to be postponed or maybe forever.

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Speaker 1: And that's how it happened, and you know, and that's

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02:08:08,800 --> 02:08:11,000
Speaker 1: how things get misconstrued and all of that in the

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Speaker 1: in the translation of who knew what when and all

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Speaker 1: of that and why does it take so long? You know,

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Speaker 1: people are outraged that it took like half an hour

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Speaker 1: after Damar was taken off for them to cancel the game. Well,

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Speaker 1: they got that. They got it right. I mean I saw,

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Speaker 1: like all you can say the bottom line. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: they didn't make it the moment his head hit the ground, okay,

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Speaker 1: but they got it right, and they got it right

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Speaker 1: in a reasonable fashion. I think let's go back to

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Speaker 1: the phones, and next up is Steve on a sell.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for a Steve You're on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's life. Hey, guys, um, I want to touch lightly

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Speaker 1: on last night. Then I want to make a comment

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Speaker 1: to your broadcast. Brownie. I'm gonna side with Steve because

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02:08:56,520 --> 02:08:59,920
Speaker 1: you always picked the classy side. Yeah, these people unpressed.

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Speaker 1: Then it deserves grace and patience. Nobody's gone through this.

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02:09:05,400 --> 02:09:08,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say very few sports, let alone the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So the NFL and the administration deserves grace and patience

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Speaker 1: in a past Brownie, I just want to say what

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02:09:16,320 --> 02:09:20,000
Speaker 1: a great job you did on the broadcast. I listened

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Speaker 1: to Murph, I've listened back to the days of An Miller,

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02:09:23,240 --> 02:09:25,360
Speaker 1: and I have a TV and I watched the National

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02:09:25,440 --> 02:09:29,520
Speaker 1: Games or the NFL Kicker, But I don't like the

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02:09:29,600 --> 02:09:33,120
Speaker 1: national announcers. They don't really know our team, they don't

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Speaker 1: know our community, they don't know our region. And for

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02:09:36,640 --> 02:09:38,840
Speaker 1: you to step in like that, I'm not I don't

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02:09:38,840 --> 02:09:41,200
Speaker 1: mean to puffy up on a tough day, but I

2195
02:09:41,280 --> 02:09:43,520
Speaker 1: was listening to it and my wife sits there and

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Speaker 1: tolerates being no sound and just watching it. I said,

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe how good of announcer Chris Brown is

2198
02:09:50,880 --> 02:09:55,160
Speaker 1: to seamlessly step in. Is that something that you have

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Speaker 1: to do week to week because you're in the bullpen

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02:09:57,240 --> 02:10:00,080
Speaker 1: just in case something like this happens? Film me in

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Speaker 1: on how how what a remarkable job you did. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that, Steve. That's very nice you to say. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you always it's like the life of a

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Speaker 1: backup quarterback. I guess I don't know how else did

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Speaker 1: describe it. You always gotta be ready because something like

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02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:19,760
Speaker 1: what happened this past week could happen, so you try

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02:10:19,800 --> 02:10:22,560
Speaker 1: to prepare as best you can, and you know, you

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02:10:22,640 --> 02:10:25,839
Speaker 1: just try to be ready. And you know I already

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Speaker 1: texted these guys after last night. Obviously we were busy

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Speaker 1: with the Damar Hamlin situation. But I texted them all

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Speaker 1: this morning, all the guys on the radio broadcast crew.

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02:10:34,520 --> 02:10:37,360
Speaker 1: I texted them and said, thank you for making me

2213
02:10:37,640 --> 02:10:40,240
Speaker 1: as an ad in to your radio team so easy

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Speaker 1: and so seamless, because they really propped me up and

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Speaker 1: supported me, and their professionalism was outstanding, you know, Eric Wood,

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02:10:47,720 --> 02:10:52,240
Speaker 1: sal Capaccio, Greg Harvey, Todd Brody, and Jeff Matthews were

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02:10:52,280 --> 02:10:55,560
Speaker 1: just great. I can't thank them enough for making it

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Speaker 1: as easy as possible on me to deliver that broadcast

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Speaker 1: to you. And we obviously wish Murf well and hope

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Speaker 1: he's doing better after going under the weather and not

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Speaker 1: being able to make the trip. But thanks, that's very

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Speaker 1: nice of you to say. And I appreciate those comments.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say too. I'm and I worked with Brownie

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Speaker 1: every day. I knew we were all supportive here. We were,

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02:11:16,680 --> 02:11:18,480
Speaker 1: you know, cheering for Brownie to do have the game

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Speaker 1: and get a chance to do it because it's an

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Speaker 1: honor I mean, right, I mean, yes, absolutely absolute honor

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Speaker 1: to be able to call a game for the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills here in Buffalo's and You're right, no, but I

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Speaker 1: mean you never really think anybody's going to do except Murf.

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02:11:33,120 --> 02:11:36,760
Speaker 1: I mean, Murph's the guy and and when that's something

2232
02:11:36,800 --> 02:11:39,000
Speaker 1: like this happens and it gets dropped into his lap,

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02:11:41,440 --> 02:11:43,000
Speaker 1: it's been a minute since he did it, but he's

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Speaker 1: You had, like age, get eighteen years of doing play

2235
02:11:45,640 --> 02:11:47,720
Speaker 1: by place, a lot of arena football games and all

2236
02:11:47,720 --> 02:11:49,560
Speaker 1: of that. So I knew Brownie was going to hit

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Speaker 1: it out of the park. I did not know. We

2238
02:11:53,360 --> 02:11:56,800
Speaker 1: none of us knew how this game was gonna turn

2239
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Speaker 1: out the way it did and for you and E

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Speaker 1: would to handle it the way you did. Man, I'm

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02:12:02,640 --> 02:12:04,320
Speaker 1: really proud of you. You got us through a really

2242
02:12:04,320 --> 02:12:06,760
Speaker 1: tough spot. Any we are still doing it today, but

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02:12:08,080 --> 02:12:10,320
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you Brownie. You did great. Appreciate that.

2244
02:12:10,680 --> 02:12:13,480
Speaker 1: And there's no there could be no more difficult to

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02:12:13,560 --> 02:12:14,920
Speaker 1: spot to be in, and you handle it with a

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02:12:15,000 --> 02:12:18,120
Speaker 1: lot of grace and a lot of a lot of

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02:12:18,320 --> 02:12:21,360
Speaker 1: tact and a lot of emotion. We appreciate it. So

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02:12:21,920 --> 02:12:25,600
Speaker 1: for all Bill's Mafia, you got thrown into what was

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02:12:25,640 --> 02:12:28,800
Speaker 1: a fire and you came out a lot stronger and

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Speaker 1: helped us through it too. So thanks, thank you. Appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break and close it up here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. As

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Speaker 1: we're showing our MSG viewers some well wishes and from

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02:12:39,000 --> 02:12:42,560
Speaker 1: teammates for tomorrow. Hamlin, just want to let you know

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys all being part of the show

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Speaker 1: today so we can all kind of wrap our head

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Speaker 1: around this together. Thanks for being here, everybody. Well, we'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomar at our normal time one o'clock and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you then. So until then, we'll see

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Continue to those prayers for tomorrow.