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Speaker 1: Oh, Steve taskernexs Dome touch down text down time. Hello,

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Speaker 1: They're welcome to One Bill's Drive. Welcome to one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: and right next door to us is practice going on

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Speaker 1: right now. Good afternoon, and everybody, John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: here for our Wednesday, here for the start of another week.

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Speaker 1: It's funny, Seeve, I did a lot of work last

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Speaker 1: night down this game, and you know, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: getting ready for this game, to call this game and

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Speaker 1: to talk about another week. And I feel refreshed this morning, like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go, new week, let's go, let's get it going.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely you I know you watched the old twenty two

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Speaker 1: last night. I did, and I watched and it is

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Speaker 1: just like what I always tell you, right, it's not

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Speaker 1: as bad as it look it's not as ever as

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Speaker 1: good as it looked. There's a lot of reason for optimism.

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Speaker 1: There's some growth there. And you know, while you were

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Speaker 1: doing that, I I was hockey game. What do you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about first? Let me talk about this first,

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Speaker 1: because you've got more to say about hockey that I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I usually watch all twenty two of Bills, but last

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Speaker 1: night I focused specifically on the Buffalo defense. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they gave up those four touchdown drives in

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Speaker 1: the first half, bang bang bang bang, and that's what

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Speaker 1: and there was a lot of bad things going on there.

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Speaker 1: But I started to look at it thinking, almost worried,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to see us getting put bills getting pushed

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Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage, defensive lineman being overpowered with

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Speaker 1: no answers. And I didn't see that. I didn't see that.

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Speaker 1: I saw a very good Philip Rivers pick apart the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo defense. I saw them take advantage of, quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: the inexperience of Tremaine Edmonds forcing him to look one way,

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Speaker 1: and then the players going back the other day. A

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Speaker 1: lot of short passes, obviously to Melvin Gordon, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of that and Ekeler two got involved, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of that was the result of Tremaine edmonds inexperience

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Speaker 1: I thought that was one of the big problems I saw.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see the Bills get overpowered, which you know,

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Speaker 1: small consolation, Right, they still gave up four touchdowns. They

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Speaker 1: still were down twenty eight to three, I think, right,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight to six at half time. So there are

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Speaker 1: issues there, clearly some issues on defense. But it wasn't

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Speaker 1: from yeah. And you got to know too, You've got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of young players on the field. And I

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Speaker 1: mean young players, not only rookies, but second year guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, like guys like Matt Milano, guys, Yeah, guys

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Speaker 1: like Tredavious White, guys like Tremaine Edmonds. You know. So

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Speaker 1: you've got some guys. Harrison Phillips plays a significant amount

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Speaker 1: of time upfront. But I think, and like you and

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Speaker 1: I kind of feel it on the climb. It may

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Speaker 1: one lass certainly hasn't shown it on the one loss yet.

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Speaker 1: But you really feel like they got some pieces that

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Speaker 1: the nitty grittis there's some young mistakes there s. It

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Speaker 1: starts with Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmonds, those top guys because

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Speaker 1: some some deficiencies. That was to me the biggest issue.

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Speaker 1: They're up against a great future Hall of Fame quarterback

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Speaker 1: who knew exactly what to do and exactly where to go,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills paid dearly. We'll talk more about that

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Speaker 1: as I don't want to dwell too much on Sunday's

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Speaker 1: loss today because we do have another game to look

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Speaker 1: forward to and a practice to look at. A practice

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Speaker 1: going on right now, the Bills on the grass practice

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Speaker 1: field here in Orchard Park, and that's where Army and

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills insider from Buffalo Bills dot Com, is

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Speaker 1: standing by to report from practice. Chris, good afternoon, How

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Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy and Taiwan Jones. Both of those guys are

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Speaker 1: that's the case for both of these guys, with Lashawn

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Speaker 1: a brief second, Steve real quick, just to talk to

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Speaker 1: Taiwan on Monday. I said, did you get the shoulder

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Speaker 1: it was a bad play, should have been blown dead

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Speaker 1: what's going on out here on the field early fundamental

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Here we got guys trying

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Speaker 1: They're working on fumble recoveries, proper body fingers under the football,

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Speaker 1: done this accountless number of ties from being a former player,

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Speaker 1: field just about every week. Chris, let me. We're talking

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Speaker 1: with Chris Brown, Bills insider from Buffalo Bills dot com.

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Speaker 1: He's out on the practice field where the Bills are

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Speaker 1: right now getting set for Sunday's game in Minnesota. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the shady McCoy for a second. He

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they don't want him to take any hits

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you don't want to completely

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get from Philip Gaines this week.

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Speaker 1: And those are your top two options at Nickel Corner,

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Speaker 1: and that's when it really that's when you feel it

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Speaker 1: when you're trying to heal up, and that's one of

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Speaker 1: when you try and put the brakes on and keep

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Speaker 1: your feet from going as fast as they are, keep

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Speaker 1: your the bottom of your shin and calf from flowing

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Speaker 1: throwing forward. Your hamstring fires an injured hamstring that sends

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Speaker 1: you through the roof. And that's what does it. It's

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Speaker 1: when you put the brakes on. Is when you put

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Speaker 1: and I feel it. I mean, I know exactly what

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Speaker 1: to come back. We'll see if they can get losting

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Speaker 1: on the field this week or even for the game

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Speaker 1: need to get to Chris. We did get to Chris

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Speaker 1: while he's available to talk to us. They shut practice

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Speaker 1: get to a certain point in practice, and that's the

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Speaker 1: point we just passed. So we got a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about. I mentioned I got thinking about it too,

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Speaker 1: Trent Murphy and the defensive line. So and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about your night. I spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: I went into it Steve, I think I mentioned looking

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Speaker 1: to see, well, how did the defense collapse against the Chargers?

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Speaker 1: And you know what, it wasn't a collapse. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: not a collapse. It was bad. And they gave up

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Speaker 1: four straight touchdowns in the second half or the first half,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight points in a row. That's bad. But I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for a common theme and there was none that

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Speaker 1: I could detect. They weren't getting blown off the ball,

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Speaker 1: they weren't getting overpowered up front. Philip Rivers was a

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Speaker 1: surgeon and picked his spots, and he took advantage of

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds in experience, used his running backs Ekeler and

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Speaker 1: Gordon coming out of the backfield, and he just kind

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Speaker 1: So that's what I got out of ALL twenty two,

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Speaker 1: among other things last night, But that's what I got

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Speaker 1: out of it that I could not identify one overriding

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Speaker 1: thing I got out of it was Josh Allen didn't

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Speaker 1: make too many mistakes. Then that gets us to our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today. Look, he's got room for improvement, there's

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Speaker 1: no question about that. But there was nothing that I

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Speaker 1: nothing that I saw that I said, Oh, that's not

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Speaker 1: going to fly in the NFL. Not for Josh. No,

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Speaker 1: not really. He's got a lot of room for improvement.

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Speaker 1: And that's what we want to hear from you. Our

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Speaker 1: What's the most important thing Josh Allen needs to do

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Speaker 1: he's got to get better all over the place. But

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Speaker 1: what would you put at the top of the list.

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Speaker 1: You can give us a call at eight o three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty or twell three one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: by fifty two five fifty you're vote on our Twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: On the poll and it's pretty close ballot so far.

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Speaker 1: The most important thing Josh Allen needs to do in

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Speaker 1: his second career start Forty three percent of you say,

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Speaker 1: continue the progress made okay, Forty two percent of you said,

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Speaker 1: get the ball out quicker. That's what Chris Brown said.

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Speaker 1: I believe that's them. I believe that's what I would

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Speaker 1: vote for number one. And I think Chris made the

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Speaker 1: excellent point about trusting what you see and pull on

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Speaker 1: the trigger nine percent. Only nine percent say use more

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Speaker 1: short passes. We can talk about that. Six percent have

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Speaker 1: something else said, Mike, give us a call, let us

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Speaker 1: know what you think. Eight o three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Steve, what's the most important thing

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Speaker 1: Josh can do to in his second career start? The

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Speaker 1: overriding thing for me is he needs to relax. He's

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Speaker 1: he's he deserves to be out there. He earned his

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Speaker 1: way onto the field, and you're right, we did see

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Speaker 1: a lot of good things from him. But I think

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I'd like to see from

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Speaker 1: him is if you're gonna throw the easy throw, complete it.

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Speaker 1: You know, take those easy throws, make them more accurate,

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Speaker 1: give you guys a chance to make a play after

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Speaker 1: they catch it. And we all saw that throw to

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Speaker 1: DeMarco down the sidelines where DeMarco had to make the

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Speaker 1: acrobatic catch when he was wide open, and he actually

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Speaker 1: fell down after he caught it. An accurate throw makes

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Speaker 1: that a bigger play than it was. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that that play would have been a touchdown even

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Speaker 1: but I am saying that's indicative of what I'd like

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Speaker 1: to see from him. Make the easy throws easy, take him,

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Speaker 1: move the chains, and stay on the football field. I

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Speaker 1: saw him make some crossing rounds, and we saw Robert

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Speaker 1: Foster catch one across the middle. The other day, we

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Speaker 1: saw him throw the air it out to Zay Jones

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Speaker 1: down the sidelines. I like his intermediate throws. I think

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Speaker 1: he makes puts good velocity on him. He fit it

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Speaker 1: through tight windows. Even on his touchdown pass late, he

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Speaker 1: fit it through a tight window. The easy throws, and

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Speaker 1: I like what Chris Brown said, You'd see it. He'd

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Speaker 1: see it. You'd see him think about throwing it and

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Speaker 1: then not throw it because he didn't think the window

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Speaker 1: was big enough, or it was too quick, or he

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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure of it, and by the time

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Speaker 1: you make sure of it, it's too late, and then

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Speaker 1: he has to go someplace else with the football. I

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Speaker 1: get a lot of that, and that comes from a

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Speaker 1: quarterback who knows what he's seeing, trusts what he's seeing,

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Speaker 1: and has confidence he's going to throw it in there.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what I'd like to see a lot

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Speaker 1: from from Josh Allen. Just relax, take the easy throws,

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Speaker 1: know that you're gonna have an option, have confidence that

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Speaker 1: you're going to have an option. We all know that

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Speaker 1: we'd like to see his receivers get more separation, we'd

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Speaker 1: like to see more open receivers. We'd like to see

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Speaker 1: guys win one on one. But by the same token,

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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some options for him out there,

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Speaker 1: and he'll be able to win some of the guys

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Speaker 1: around him, will win some of those battles, enough of

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Speaker 1: those battles to keep him on the field this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I think I think take those easy completions, particularly

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Speaker 1: against a defense that is as quality and as tough

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Speaker 1: as the Vikings defense. If it's there, you gotta take

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Speaker 1: it right now. It's a good defense. It's probably the

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Speaker 1: best defense the Bills have faced for the first three

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Speaker 1: weeks here, the defense they'll see Sunday on the field.

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Speaker 1: Still there's room for improvement for Josh Allen, no question,

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Speaker 1: and we're trying to pin down from you your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on where that room is. What's the most important thing

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen needs to do this Sunday. You can vote

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Speaker 1: on a Twitter poll or you can ring us up

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty or on Twitter at

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live. The rest of the show today coming

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Speaker 1: up at one o'clock. Pete Bursch, former Minnesota Viking player.

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Speaker 1: He played for euro coach Dennis S. Green. Do you

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Speaker 1: know at halftime they're gonna shrine Dennis Green on the

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Speaker 1: Vikings Wall of Fame out there. I played for him

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Speaker 1: as a college player at Northwestern University Dennis, and I

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Speaker 1: felt like the way he coached, the way he handled

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Speaker 1: us as college players was a lot like the pro

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Speaker 1: game that we what was driving for. He held him hell,

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Speaker 1: the guys accountable. He was a no nonsense coach. He

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Speaker 1: would not be afraid to coach him hard, coach guys hard.

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Speaker 1: He taught. He used the West Coast offense. We had

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Speaker 1: a real pro style offense back then, And I just

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Speaker 1: thought he was an NFL coach through and through, And

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Speaker 1: I don't know, And at that point I didn't know

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Speaker 1: enough to think, you know, it would be better if

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Speaker 1: he was a college coach like we were in northwester

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Speaker 1: He took over a horrible Northwestern program. They were and

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Speaker 1: twenty nine when I was. He recruited me after his

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Speaker 1: me and a couple bunch of other guys midway through

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Speaker 1: his second year in the as a head coach, and

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Speaker 1: we went three and eight the next year in his

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Speaker 1: second year, I believe as a head coach with it

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Speaker 1: college transfer me and six or seven other guys or

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Speaker 1: five or six other guys, and we went three and

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Speaker 1: eight after starting this season three and so we went

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Speaker 1: our first game, the team was o and thirty four

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Speaker 1: after a three year drought, and we win the first

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Speaker 1: three and five. The rest of the way down, they're

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Speaker 1: reading more of a five hundred football team. And you've

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Speaker 1: never been to a happier three and eight football Banquich

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Speaker 1: then Northwest Champa and thirty four and they went three

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Speaker 1: and eight. Boy, they were happy, happy, and that's great,

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Speaker 1: and it was great. It was it was fun to

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Speaker 1: He my last year there ended up being his last year.

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Speaker 1: He went and went back to the Pros. After that,

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Speaker 1: back to the Vikings, he spent eleven years head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Vikings. Second, we're talking about Dennis Green, second

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Speaker 1: winning his coach and Vikings history behind Bud Grant obviously

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Speaker 1: and Pete Versach. We'll talk with us about Dennis Green

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Speaker 1: and talk about the Vikings. Pete Versage, former player for

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Speaker 1: the Vikings, is also the color analysts on the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings radio and network. So he's joining us today at

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Speaker 1: one o'clock. After practice, we'll hear from Josh Allen. He'll

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Speaker 1: go to the podium and talk to the media. We'll

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Speaker 1: pick that up and we hope to get Trent Murphy.

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Speaker 1: I think we are getting Trent Murphy. You practice today,

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Speaker 1: Bill's defensive end, so all of that coming up the

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Speaker 1: rest of the day. We got a good show. Started.

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Speaker 1: Love to hear from you. What are you looking what

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Speaker 1: are you looking to see from Josh Allen in his

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Speaker 1: second start, first start on the road. What's the number

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Speaker 1: one area that he can improve upon? Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. We'll get your calls,

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Speaker 1: your tweets when we return. It is One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Just getting started from One Bill's Drive. And this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. It's Wednesday afternoon in Auchard parkins first

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Speaker 1: day the practice week for the Buffalo Bills, and they

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Speaker 1: Training Center. We are inside our One Buffalo Studio, same building.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bill's Live. John Murphy, Steve Casker, Steve

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Speaker 1: got'ta talk about last night. I told you what I did.

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Speaker 1: I watched all twenty two. I did my spotting board

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings. Very interesting team, very working, too hard. Murder,

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Speaker 1: I did work hard last night. I did. I got

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Speaker 1: after it last night. But one of the observation about

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Speaker 1: on defense. They are solid number one defense in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Last year, you know they had a good they give

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Speaker 1: sixteen points of the Niners week one, twenty nine in

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Speaker 1: the tie last week against Aaron Rodgers. Really slid on

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Speaker 1: defense and there's no superstars on defense. They have good

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Speaker 1: players on every level of their defense. D line linebackers,

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Speaker 1: defensive backs, it's gonna be I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: an uphill climb for the Buffalo offense on Sunday. I

644
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: really do, well, you kind of anticipate that coming into

645
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: a defense like that with a rookie quarterback, even if

646
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: you've got, you know, an established offense around him, which

647
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: I don't think the Bills can could be considered to

648
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: have that yet. Bill, You're right, it is, And I

649
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: think it comes down to finding somebody you can take

650
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: advantage of on their defense, and if they don't have

651
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: any superstars, maybe there is one or two of those

652
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: guys that you can get on an island roughly good. Yeah,

653
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: that's what I did. I dug into this game, and

654
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this game. I don't know why. I

655
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: don't know how, but I'm excited. They're always great. Yesterday

656
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: on the show, you and I think I was. I

657
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: think I'm partially responsible for this Saber season ticket holder.

658
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: I said, you got to go to this home preseason game.

659
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: Michael's playing, Diylene's playing, and what do you know, Steve

660
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: went right, You went down and saw the sass. You know,

661
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: the difference between Game seven of the finals in the preseason. Yeah,

662
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: she was looking at me side. She affected me during

663
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: the show yesterday. I didn't share that with them. She texted, Um,

664
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: she knows. I mean, I'm I gotta give her a

665
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: like credit. She's you know, she's been the wife of

666
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: a professional athlete or former professional athlete for over thirty years.

667
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, she's kind of on the ball, she said,

668
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: compared to most wives. But anyway, so we went and

669
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: had a blast. It was fun. Not of course, you know,

670
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: three nothing through most of the game, and it was

671
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: it was great. And I was trying to explain to

672
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: her some of the guys on the team and who

673
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: they were and what about them. And because she's not

674
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: she's not the reason I got the hockey ticket and

675
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: my son and I and some buddies we got the

676
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: hockey tickets together. So she will go to a game

677
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: or two during the season. But we had we had

678
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: fun last nice game. The crowd, like decent sized crowd. Yeah, probably,

679
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm saying thirty percent, thirty five maybe more than that

680
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: full Yeah, yeah, full. Now it's probably more than that.

681
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, it's less little less than half probably, Okay,

682
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: you know the upper deck was smattered. Yeah, I was

683
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: man that's why he went. It was good man. Oh.

684
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: Every so often he did something with the puck on

685
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: his stick that was oh did you see that? You know?

686
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: He just made a look my, my, you know. And

687
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: I tell the instigrators this whole time. You can put

688
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: what I know about hockey into a thimble and still

689
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: have a shot of whiskey to you right. So, Um,

690
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: the confidence he had with the puck on his stick,

691
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't care who was close to him.

692
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: He didn't have close even, he didn't care how what

693
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: the traffic was around him. He was fine. He was

694
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: gonna have that. He's got the puck. You're not getting

695
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: it from me. I can keep you away from it,

696
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: no matter how close you are to me. Going down

697
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: the ice with his eyes up um and and making places,

698
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: throwing the throwing the puck over to the open area.

699
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: Finding a guy through traffic carrying the puck down the ice,

700
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: I mean some people in uh, some of the people

701
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: are watching now with his highlights coming down. Just you

702
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: can't get the puck away from him. And that's you

703
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: got to have guys on your team that can do that,

704
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: particularly in your end. And he's one of those guys.

705
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: Their defense looked way but all the way from the

706
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: top line, all the way down through the third fourth

707
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: line looked that much better. And that made the kid

708
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: hutting in goal. I mean, he looked great. He shut

709
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: him out through two periods. He looked really solid because

710
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting caught with three guys in his end

711
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: with only one defender. You know, he didn't get any

712
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: odd man rushes. They just look solid. So and great,

713
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: you saw a great goal from Michael, right, you're good.

714
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: And the thing about it was, yeah, he can't he

715
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: put the puck in the net. He came down and

716
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: sent the goalie back and forth across the crease and

717
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: he dumped it into the empty net. But the thing

718
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: that got it was setting up the goal. The puck

719
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: came out, he took about three strides and the defender

720
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: couldn't keep up with him. Neither guy could. He was

721
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: past him before they could even get back to help

722
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: their goalie. I mean, he was just two or three

723
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: strong strides and he was in by himself, and it

724
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: was he just passed the defender. So on the way out,

725
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: you went out and about a new Ocul jersey and

726
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: new number of nine ocultures. No, I did not. I'm

727
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: not a jersey guy. There's a couple of jerseys I get, though,

728
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I saw a guy in a in

729
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: one of the military camouflage jerseys. If I could get

730
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: one of those with a number eighty nine on it,

731
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: I might do that. You say that in the air

732
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: a couple of times. I'm sure somebody from a PSC

733
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: will dropping off. Yeah right, yeah, like there, Yeah, you

734
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: know what's good to hear. You sound like a fan.

735
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: You are a hockey fan, You're a Sabers fan. I

736
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: like that. I'm a perfect Sabers fan because I'm enthusiastic

737
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 1: and I know nothing, and I am all about whatever

738
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: they're doing. It's awesome, and I do I am acquainted

739
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: with Phil. Yeah, I am acquaint with Phil so but yeah,

740
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: I mean I'm the perfect fan. I'm a season ticket holder.

741
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: I love the team and I'm like, let's go. Yeah,

742
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: Steve had fun. Steve had it was fun, good, good,

743
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: good game day experience. I will say this though, on

744
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: the side out the ads they run on the JumboTron.

745
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: Our viewers on MSG have seen these oh no oh,

746
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: the Fleetwood Mac concerts coming. I don't know if you've

747
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: seen it. I don't know if you've heard about that.

748
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: All of those are on the shares coming to town.

749
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did you feel like you're at work? Yeah,

750
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: exactly a little bit. Yeah, our ad, the ads on

751
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: the JumboTron before game and all that our r MSG

752
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: viewers once or twenty tough. Steve had fun at the

753
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: hockey and we're gonna check it. W we had ice cream.

754
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: He had ice cream, ice cream in the future, the

755
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: little dippin dot stuff or ice cream. Now I'm an

756
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: old deal with it. I'm serving a waffle cone, Okay,

757
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: as big as my head. I wish we had video

758
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: of that. Steve had fun at the hockey game. We're

759
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: talking football with you. The fun lines open eight o

760
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: three five fifty to three one eight eight eight five

761
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,479
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty or on Twitter, and the question

762
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: is what are you looking for now? From Josh Allen,

763
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: first road start what would you like to see him

764
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: improve upon? We'll take a call here from Gary Indepu. Hello, Gary,

765
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us. Okay, Hi guys,

766
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: how are you doing, Murph? How are you doing? Steve?

767
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: And thank you for the great years you gave us

768
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: here in Bob Balow. We appreciate it. Appreciate you Gary.

769
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: What's on your mind today? Okay, I got a different

770
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: question about Josh and an Oh. I was thinking the

771
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: Bulls should make a trade, okay, for an offensive lineman.

772
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: We all know we need somebody up front, okay, and

773
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: we need a wiki is a good wide receiver. I

774
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 1: wonder what you guys think about that. Yeah, I agree.

775
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's someplace you there's something you could do.

776
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, oh, lineman and a wide receiver and anybody.

777
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: And this is why sometimes it's hard to make trades

778
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: happen during the regular seasons because and you heard Chris

779
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: Brown a minute ago talk about how huge the Bill's

780
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 1: playbook is. Plugging in a wide receiver would be really difficult,

781
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: no matter who it's going to be. And I and

782
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: this Josh Gordon thing going up to New England. Their

783
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 1: playbook is bigger than anybody's in the league because they've

784
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: got a quarterback has been playing in the same offense

785
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 1: for seventeen years, in the same offensive place, offensive system

786
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: in place, it evolves over the years. I mean, they're

787
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: way down the road. It's hard to get a guy

788
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: acclimated to come in and play. Josh Gordon couldn't do it.

789
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: They cut him and kicked him to the curb, and

790
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon, I would expect, is probably not too far

791
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: behind him. I mean, it's gonna be really tough to

792
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: acclimate a guy. So for the Bills to bring in

793
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, maybe they could do it if they

794
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: could teach it. And now the concepts you could probably get,

795
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: no question, but communicating to them and get in to

796
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: know what you mean when you say just one or

797
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: two words. Say hey, listen, if I say this one

798
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: or two words, you've got an assist with the guard

799
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: on the inside with your hand out to the tackle

800
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: and check if that doesn't work. And then on this

801
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 1: play you got to get to the second level on

802
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: the run, you know. So there's a lot of words

803
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: in there that will have, you know, and make it

804
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: difficult for an offensive lineman to get acclimated. So, yeah,

805
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: trade sounds good and they may be able to upgrade

806
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: talent wise, but I don't know if the guy could

807
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: get acclimated to the offense and the terminology quick enough

808
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: to help out enough to keep the game, keep the

809
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: team or to get on the field to help the

810
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: team in the near future. So it sounds good and

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00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: I get it, Gary, but it's hard to get those

812
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: guys acclimated fast enough to help out. Two things about

813
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: a trade, Gary that strike me. Number one is who

814
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: are you gonna get. No one's going to trade away

815
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: a good offensive linement or a good receiver without getting

816
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: something significant in return. That's number one. And one A.

817
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Bills are in the market

818
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,959
Speaker 1: to do that, you know, to trade away assets, whether

819
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: it's players or more. Even more importantly, I don't think

820
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: they're in the mood in a position to trade away

821
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: draft picks in order to get somebody to help this season.

822
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the mode they're in this year.

823
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: This too. I came across this on my night of

824
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: work last night, Steve about Bill's offensive line. Well, two

825
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: things I heard. Brian Dabole on Monday said this, and

826
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: I got the quote right in front of me. He

827
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: was asked about the sacks and Bills are given up

828
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 1: eleven sacks in the first two games. Brian Dabole says

829
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 1: most more, I'm sorry, more than half of those sacks

830
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 1: are not the offensive line. Those guys have protected inside

831
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: out for the most part. In pass protection, there have

832
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: been some free runners you guys have seen, but it's

833
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: not all on the line, no question about it makes

834
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: a good point, you know, So who's it about. It

835
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: could be about you know, the quarterback not getting rid

836
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: of the ball, could be about tight ends. I don't

837
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: know that they've had a good job at pass protection

838
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: from from pass blocking tight ends, and most notably in

839
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: this past Sunday's game, I thought there were a lot

840
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: of whiffs, even from Logan Thomas in past protection. So

841
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: there's that. And then this Pro Football Focus right analytics website,

842
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: we talk about their grades. Pro Football Focus take it

843
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: wherever it's worth. They grade You know that. You know

844
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: how they work. They look at video and they grade

845
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: and give grades to players. Pro Football Focus says the

846
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: Bills guards do cosson John Miller are doing a good

847
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: job in pass protection. In fact, Pro Football Focus is

848
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: left guard Philandocasta is the highest grade in pass blocking

849
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: among NFL guards in the first two weeks. Tell me

850
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't surprise some people listening. Yeah, it surprised me.

851
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: I went back and read it three times. They said

852
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: that last week do cosson John Miller. I'm sorry. The

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Speaker 1: first two games, Ducas and John Miller have allowed a

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Speaker 1: total of one quarterback pressure. Now, it doesn't say anything

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Speaker 1: about the Bills tackles, or the center or the tight

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Speaker 1: ends everybody else. And yes, eleven sacks is too many

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Speaker 1: in two games, but it doesn't say anything about the

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Speaker 1: about it does say something about what Dable said about

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Speaker 1: the Yeah, it's not there. A lot of offensive lines fallball.

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Speaker 1: It's not all on the offensive line. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's been two rough weeks, two horrible losses, and the

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Speaker 1: kind of the prevailing narrative is get rid of all

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Speaker 1: those guys on the offensive line, go trade for somebody else. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you, if you put any stock at all in

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Speaker 1: people might not want to John Miller the highest grade

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Speaker 1: of any Bills offensive player at all. In the Chargers game.

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Speaker 1: M Miller and Ducas have allowed a total of one

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Speaker 1: quarterback pressure through the first two games, and led Ducas,

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Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus through two weeks, has the

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Speaker 1: highest grade among any guard in the NFL in terms

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Speaker 1: of pass protection. Yeah, so you got to think about that, right,

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Speaker 1: you got I'm not saying pro football folk says all

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Speaker 1: the answers, but I think the narrative that's developed is

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Speaker 1: like you're dealing with a bunch of stumble bumps up there,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you're not, maybe they are not. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's I that's surprises me me too. But those guys,

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Speaker 1: they they crank through that All twenty two. And you

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Speaker 1: said it though you watch the All twenty two yourself,

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Speaker 1: it's like, gosh, it's it's not what I thought. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think you got to know too that Sean McDermott,

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, Brian day Ball, and day Ball admitted to it.

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Speaker 1: You said on Monday, he said, listen, let more than

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Speaker 1: half of them were not the offensive line's fault. And

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Speaker 1: I think that speaks to, yeah, you're tight ends. You're

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Speaker 1: running backs and your quarterbacks not doing enough either getting open,

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Speaker 1: holding and forcing the quarterback to hold onto the football

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Speaker 1: too long, not moving the quarterback's eyes to this next

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Speaker 1: read quickly enough, not pulling the trigger when he should

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Speaker 1: have pulled the trigger, and a running back maybe not

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Speaker 1: stepping up and sticking with a block for an extra

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Speaker 1: half a second. Tight end the same story. So there's

893
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Speaker 1: a lot of things that go into pass protection. It's

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Speaker 1: not just the quarterback or the offensive line, it's it's

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Speaker 1: the offense. It's the offense all needs to be in

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Speaker 1: pass protection. Plus, your quarterback has to set it to

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Speaker 1: the right side. He's got to see where the pressure

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Speaker 1: is coming from and give this offensive line a better

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00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: chance at getting it too. So all that goes into

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Speaker 1: the equation, and it's got to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: encouraging to hear a place like Pro football focals who

902
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Speaker 1: does dive into that stuff, say, you know what, they're

903
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: interior lines not so bad, two guards not so bad.

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Speaker 1: Two games in too. Hey, we're gonna talk more about

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Speaker 1: Josh Ellen. What's the most important thing he needs to

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Speaker 1: do This Sunday. We'll get your phone calls. We'll read

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Speaker 1: back with Moore. One Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: We are rolling here, rolling at One Bill's Drive, John

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Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker One Bills Live coming to you

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Speaker 1: from Orchard Park. Bills in the Minnesota Vikings. They never

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Speaker 1: they don't play much up there, Steve, I haven't been

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Speaker 1: up there since twenty ten, and I was looking this

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Speaker 1: up last night. The last time the Bills played up

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Speaker 1: there was a memorable game for me. I think most

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Speaker 1: Bills fans. The Bills lost badly. I think it was

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Speaker 1: thirty fourty eighteen or something, but Arthur Moates rookie linebacker

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Speaker 1: Arthur Moates, Drills, Brett Farve knocks him out of the

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Speaker 1: game and ends Brett Farve's consecutive NFL record consecutive start

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Speaker 1: street He did not start the following week. It was

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Speaker 1: it was hard moats, Arthur Moates. Don't cruss the moats.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. You've heard. We're we're getting some feedback

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Speaker 1: on our Twitter question um about Josh Allen and what

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Speaker 1: you know, what do you think is h He's the

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Speaker 1: first thing should happen now I've got now I gotta

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Speaker 1: go back and read the thing again. What's the most

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Speaker 1: important thing Josh Allen needs to do in his second

942
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Speaker 1: career start versus the Vikings. We're getting some feedback also

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Speaker 1: John Bob Rush, was he what does continued progress made

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Speaker 1: on the pole regarding Josh Allen means that you tell us,

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00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: you tell us what continued progress means. Uh, that's part

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Speaker 1: of the deal, and we're getting you know, here's what

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Speaker 1: it means. It means he played okay. I think that's

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Speaker 1: what it means. He played okay against the Chargers. Does

949
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: he need to do something different now or just kind

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00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: of stay on that path get better? I think that's

951
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Speaker 1: what the question is. It's hard to do in Twitter,

952
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: you know, you got you getting limited in the number

953
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Speaker 1: of characters and from Dougie Briggs and Dougie brig kind

954
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Speaker 1: of repeats what I thought too, and this is on me.

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Speaker 1: I would say quicker and accurate, quicker and more accurate

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00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: on shorter passes. The kid is young, he's learning how

957
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: to scan the field, but with time that will come.

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00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: We saw times on tape that we're wide open. Joshn

959
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: just needs to get that to on the field speed

960
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: to be able to see it, and I think I

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00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: agree with that. I'd love to see him hit those

962
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: passes that are gimmes. There was a couple of them

963
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: this week that he missed. I want to see him

964
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: hit him easy, just on the money, on time getting it.

965
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: He'll help him get the ball out of there a

966
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: little quicker, but it's all it's all interconnected. So that's

967
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: what I think a little more progress would be. Just

968
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: take those easy completions, keep the change moving, and then

969
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: that gives you a chance to hit it down the

970
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: field when you get it, when the opportunity comes up.

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Speaker 1: Also from the tweet sheet, You're gonna love this one, Steve.

972
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Speaker 1: When we ask a question, what's the most important thing

973
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Speaker 1: Josh Alan needs to do this Sunday. Is it continue

974
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: his progress? Is it get the ball out quicker as

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Speaker 1: it hit short passes. Brian Cook tweets in other that's

976
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: why we have other, That's why you put your favor other.

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Speaker 1: Allan needs to take a couple of deep, deep shots,

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Speaker 1: even if they're jump balls, especially on third down. I

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Speaker 1: would love to see a sixty yard bomb on third down,

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00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: even if it gets picked off. It's like putting. It's

981
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: like punting the ball. I can't remember the last time

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00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: we had a play like that. I think he's capable

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00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: of that. I think they tried that a little bit

984
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: in the Chargers game. I think I look for more

985
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: of it that. I believe it could be Josh Allen

986
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: strength as we get to know a little bit more

987
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: about him. But somebody votes other Steve Yeah, and also

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Speaker 1: from sipping the Koole, which is apropos given his tweet

989
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: in theory, I would like to pick the first two choices.

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Speaker 1: But from what I saw on Sunday's game, there were

991
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Speaker 1: ten defenders within seven yards of the line. Is crimmage

992
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: with a safety at ten to twelve. That's a bunch

993
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: of traffic in a small area. Somehow we need to

994
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: throw the ball down the field to open things up.

995
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be what you see with a rookie quarterback.

996
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna dare him to throw the football and let

997
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: him decipher him and the offensive line decipher who's gonna

998
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: drop back into coverage and who who's gonna rush the passer.

999
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: And that generates a lot of chances for sacks for

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00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: a defense, and it also makes it complicated for a

1001
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,919
Speaker 1: young quarterback to decipher. So all that stuff's in play.

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00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: And it's true if if josh Alec has start hitting

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00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: some throws down the field and stinging a defense that's

1004
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys up around the line of scrimmage,

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00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: that'll stop. All right, A break here for the top

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Speaker 1: of the hour, when we come back. More on the

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Speaker 1: Vikings Sunday's opponents. Pete Versix played linebacker for the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Will talk with him. He's also the radio color analyst

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings Radio Network. He's coming up when we

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Speaker 1: come back. One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Stories Update update from One Bill's Drive.

1013
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Speaker 1: The Bills. They're here practicing today, getting set for their

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Speaker 1: matchup with the Minnesota Vikings coming up on Sunday. Not

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Speaker 1: practicing today defensive end Shack Lawson with his hamstring pull.

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Speaker 1: Also a day of rest today for linebacker Lorenzo Alexander

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Speaker 1: and defensive tackle Kyle Williams. Limited word today for Lashawn

1018
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Speaker 1: McCoy with his rib injury. He's getting in some work today. Also,

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Speaker 1: running back Taiwan Jones getting in a little bit of

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Speaker 1: work as well after a hit to the head. The

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Speaker 1: cornerback position the Bills with limited work today for both

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Speaker 1: Philip Gaines and cornerback Karen Johnson. No word yet on

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Speaker 1: whether they'll be ready to play. Sean McDermott says still

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Speaker 1: has not made up his mind on whether he will

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Speaker 1: call defensive signals Sunday against the Vikings or whether he

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Speaker 1: will turn it back over to Leslie Frasier. They're still

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Speaker 1: working through that. The Bills made a roster move yesterday,

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Speaker 1: promoting cornerback Ryan Lewis from the practice squad to the

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Speaker 1: active roster. With all those cornerback injuries, Lewis originally claimed

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Speaker 1: off waivers by the Bills from New England before the

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Speaker 1: season began not an action week one, then cut from

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Speaker 1: the roster last week, and then added again yesterday. Antonio

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Speaker 1: Brown back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ben Roethlisberger says he

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Speaker 1: is a very passionate football player and he's happy to

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Speaker 1: have him back. Brown back into practice today after issuing

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Speaker 1: a trade meet tweet on Monday and then did not

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Speaker 1: show up Monday for practice, But Antonio Brown is back

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Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Stelers today. Former Bills wide receiver Jordan

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Speaker 1: Matthews has a new old home in the NFL. He

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Speaker 1: has resigned with the Philadelphia Eagle. The Eagles put starting

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Mike Wallace and injury reserve and signed Jordan

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Speaker 1: Matthews today, second round pick for the Eagles. Back in

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Speaker 1: two fourteen hockey news, the Buffalo Savers have signed forward

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Speaker 1: Sam Reinhart to a two year contract with an average

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Speaker 1: annual value of three point six five million dollars. Reinhart,

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Speaker 1: with eighty two games played, twenty five goals and fifty

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Speaker 1: points last season. The second overall pick in the twenty

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Speaker 1: fourteen NHL Entry Draft, Sam Reinhardt inks a contract with

1049
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Savers. Savers got a three two preseason victory

1050
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Speaker 1: over the Penguins last night. They're off today, practicemorrow, and

1051
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Speaker 1: they traveled to Toronto for a preseason game against the

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Speaker 1: Leafs on Friday. And that is the update from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steam Tasker in our one Buffalo

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Speaker 1: studio here until three o'clock today, the Bills on the

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Speaker 1: practice field getting set to play the Minnesota Vikings and

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Speaker 1: on the subway. Fresh take Hountland with us right now,

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Speaker 1: Coloradalysts on the Minnesota Vikings radio network. Five years as

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Speaker 1: a linebacker for the Vikings and five years as a

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Speaker 1: member of the Vikings coaching staff. Happy to have Pete

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Speaker 1: Versuch on the line with us peak. John Murphy and

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Speaker 1: Steave Tasker in Buffalo, thank you very much for spending

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Speaker 1: some time with us today. Oh no problem. How are

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00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: you guys doing. We're doing good. You know what got

1064
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: our attention though, among along with the game, the halftime

1065
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: ceremony Dennis Green to be inducted into the Vikings Ring

1066
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: of Honor. You played for him, Steve played for him

1067
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: in college at Northwestern. That's kind of I'm glad we're there.

1068
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: I thought a lot of Dennis Green, as I'm sure

1069
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: you did. Yeah, I did. He recruited me coming out

1070
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 1: of high school. So my relationship with Danny goes back nearly,

1071
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: you know, thirty years, and I think if you look

1072
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: at Denny and his legacy, you look at the guys

1073
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: that coached for him, who went on and continue to coach,

1074
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: whether it's Dungee or Billick, or Jack del Rio or

1075
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: Mike Tye. I mean, there's so many guys. You know,

1076
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: I'm coaching. I'm the head coach at a high school,

1077
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 1: local high school here in East Saint Paul. Uh. You know,

1078
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: we we we were all inspired by Denny. I mean,

1079
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: he hadn attitude, he had a way about him, he

1080
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: could see talent, uh and he could just keep a

1081
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: group together. So he, you know, Denny was you know,

1082
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: I played. I was with the bike for seven seasons

1083
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: and we never had a losing season. Eight eight was

1084
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: the worst that we ever did. So we had, you know,

1085
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: we had a good group and we had, you know,

1086
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: pretty good teams under Denny. I know there's a lot

1087
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: of guys Pete that you know, you can describe him

1088
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, and he'll always be known

1089
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: for the the saying. In Arizona, they are who we

1090
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: thought they were. But I don't think he'll ever get

1091
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: credit for how intelligent he was and on the other

1092
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: side of that, how uncompromising he was. No, I agree

1093
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: with you, and he made it clear to the players,

1094
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 1: which for head coaches sometimes you know, it's hard because

1095
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: you have like Chuck Knox Senior would say, you had

1096
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: some guys that follow have to follow rules, and some

1097
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: guys had to follow guidelines, and you have to know

1098
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: where you where you stand. And Denny would always say,

1099
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: know your role, accept your role, and perfect your role.

1100
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: And if you have any questions on any of these,

1101
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,439
Speaker 1: come see me and I'll let you know where you fall.

1102
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: But he did he had, you know, he had his

1103
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: things about being on time, he had his things about

1104
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: not fighting in practice. There were a lot of things

1105
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: that he never really compromised. And uh, you know, you

1106
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: know guys with being late, and he said, I'd never

1107
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: find you, but I will cut you. And you know,

1108
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: if he had a guy who you know was not

1109
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: a Chris Carter or Randy Moss, not to those guys

1110
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: did show up late. But if you if you couldn't

1111
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: get with the program and be on time, you know

1112
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: he would he would get radio. But conversely, if we

1113
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: had an NFL meeting and the speaker showed up late,

1114
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: he would let us go because he respected our time

1115
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: as much as we he demanded us. Respect is on

1116
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: the line with Pete Versage, color analyst on the Vikings

1117
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: Radio network. I would you think about the you know,

1118
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: the the Vikings history with obviously Dennis Green and before

1119
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,919
Speaker 1: that Bud Grant, And I'm wondering where you know Mike

1120
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: Zimmer making his mark in the pantheon of Vikings coaches.

1121
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: He said he's five years. I believe now for code

1122
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: Zimmer and some success and an upward trend, they must

1123
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about that. I'm sure you do as well. No,

1124
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: we do, And you know, I think with Zimmer, I

1125
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: think the one thing that uh you can look back

1126
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: and and really put on him is uh the way

1127
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: he got Everson Griffin to take it to the next level. UM. Defensively,

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00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: this team has been very very good, consistently good U

1129
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: with Zimmer as head coach, we've been a very low

1130
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 1: scoring defense. We've been very good on third down. So

1131
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: those you know, those things are a trend, and we

1132
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: have invested a lot to draft picks. Uh, for defensive backs.

1133
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: I mean, we're a team. The league has changed, and

1134
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: I think that Zim's kind of on the you know,

1135
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 1: on the cutting edge of that. You build a good

1136
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: defense from the outside end. You have to have two

1137
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: really good corners, and you have to have two really

1138
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: good defensive ends. And if you have two good interior tackles,

1139
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: when then you can play with a seven man box

1140
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: and still get away with it. And I think Zimmer

1141
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he's done. We have high athletic linebackers,

1142
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: but we've invested in the draft and we've invested in

1143
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: free agency in bringing that talent in now offensively, um,

1144
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, we've made some investments and some have paid

1145
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,800
Speaker 1: off and I think others are yet to payoffs. So,

1146
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: you know, if for Zimmer, he definitely uh, you know,

1147
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 1: because the players love them, they respect them, They know

1148
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: that what he tells them is going to make them better,

1149
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: especially defensively, and there's a camaraderie there in respect there

1150
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: that's you know, that that's that will transcend time. I mean,

1151
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,320
Speaker 1: that's something that will always be there. Certainly. One of

1152
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: the things that happened this offseason, you got Kurt Cousins,

1153
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: he had thirty five or forty eight twenty four hundred

1154
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: and twenty five yards last week. Four TDS won the reception. Certainly,

1155
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: not everything is a question mark on the offensive side

1156
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: of the football. Some of those uh, some of those

1157
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: gambles or whatever you want to call him, some of

1158
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: those things did come through for Mike Zimmer and the Vikings.

1159
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: Cousins seems to be all that he's advertised to be. Yeah,

1160
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: he's been he's been a leader, and you know it's

1161
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 1: been the frust the frustrating pardon as you know, we uh,

1162
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: you know, we released Daniel Carlson, our rookie kicker and

1163
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,800
Speaker 1: signed Dan Bailey. You know, we you bring in a

1164
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,399
Speaker 1: guy like Kirk Cousins to do exactly what he did

1165
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and that's in a on a on a

1166
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: road game. Um, you know, you give up a touchdown

1167
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: on a block punt, things to start going your way

1168
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,280
Speaker 1: and then you know, it's twenty one seven, I believe

1169
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: at the start of the fourth quarter, and then you

1170
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: end up scoring you know, twenty one twenty two points

1171
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: in that last quarter. And that's what we brought him

1172
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: in for. And he showed that leadership and uh, you

1173
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: know he's worth. You know, he proved his worth for

1174
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: that eighty six million. That's the Vikings guaranteed him. So

1175
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: that investment, for sure is paying off. He's a leader here.

1176
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: He's not like in Washington where he was the other

1177
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: guy that was drafted and people I think always he

1178
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: always kind of had that stigma around him. And as

1179
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: soon as he showed showed up here, you know, he

1180
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: even mentioned how he was surprised at the players, you know,

1181
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: look at him as a leader right off the bat.

1182
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,879
Speaker 1: And you know the thing is, this is this team,

1183
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: we don't know him. We invested a lot of money

1184
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: in him, and the players are saying, all right, we

1185
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: brought you here for a reason, you know, let you

1186
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: know lead us and with digs and feeling as targets. Um,

1187
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 1: you know it's gone. It's gone pretty well. He pursued

1188
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: our guests. He's the color analyst on the Vikings Radio

1189
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 1: network on Kirk Cousins Pete. The money will always come

1190
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: up when people talk about him, you know, eighty four

1191
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: eighty six million or whatever. I believe in free agency,

1192
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: if you're a player or maybe two players away from

1193
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 1: content you for a championship, you spend what it takes.

1194
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: He'll never earn that kind of money, you know. I mean, no,

1195
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: nobody's worth that kind of money. He's certainly no one

1196
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: would put him among the top three to five quarterbacks

1197
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: in the game, I wouldn't think. But if that's what

1198
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: they needed, they went out and spent it. Right. Is

1199
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: that the feeling that most Vikings fans have? Yeah? I

1200
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: think yeah, absolutely there. And that's been a change here

1201
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, you know, when I when I

1202
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: was coaching, we had Red mccolmes and as a leader

1203
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: as our owner. He since sold the team. He tried,

1204
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, he originally sold the team to Reggie Foller

1205
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: and that deal fell through, and then the Wilps, who

1206
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: are part of that buying group, stepped up. And since

1207
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: then we have built the brand new stadium, which is

1208
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: state of the are you guys are gonna love it.

1209
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: I don't think you've been out there yet, but it's

1210
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: a fantastic facility. And then we have a brand new

1211
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: practice facility here in Eagan, Minnesota that second to none.

1212
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,959
Speaker 1: And I mean, the Wilps have definitely invested in this team.

1213
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: And when you're making these physical investments in the buildings

1214
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: and the infrastructure, and they make the same investments with

1215
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: the players. You know what it does is it removes excuses.

1216
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: I mean the team saying that tells the coaching staff,

1217
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: tell me what you need coaching staff, you know, the

1218
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: general manager Rick Spielman says we need a B and C.

1219
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: They go out, they get it. You know. There it's

1220
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: supports that that's there. And there's no question to anybody

1221
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: who walks into this building or plays football for this

1222
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: team that the Wilps want to win and they are

1223
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: willing to back that. They're not just going to say it.

1224
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: They're not just going to give a lift service. They're

1225
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: going to invest in this team. They have invested in

1226
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: the team and that puts the honest on the players

1227
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: to perform it. So tell us a little bit about

1228
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: Mike zimmer Why has he You know, he was the

1229
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: hot coordinator coming out of Cincinnati. He played, he coached

1230
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: so well for Marvin Lewis there, got that team uh

1231
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: into the playoffs with a solid defense, which they're still writing.

1232
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: What has made him after this in his fifth year?

1233
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: What's his personality like with the media, with the fans.

1234
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: And I know that every team kind of takes the

1235
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: personality of their head coach. Tell tell us a little

1236
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: bit about Mike Zimmer. Uh. You know, Mike is he's

1237
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's tough and he's you know, no nonsense.

1238
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he spent some time in Dallas as well,

1239
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: had a lot of success there as a secondary coach,

1240
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl down there, I believe, might believe

1241
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: maybe more than one. But you knows that that's just

1242
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: kind of how he is. He's just he's not gruff

1243
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: or grumpy. He's just direct. And you know, as a

1244
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 1: head coach like Denny Green would always say, you know,

1245
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you the truth. And that's kind

1246
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: of what he does, doesn't you know, try to package

1247
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: it in any certain way. He tells these guys what

1248
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: needs to be done, what they have to do, and

1249
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: how they have to go about doing it. Uh, and

1250
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: basically says, either you believe in what we're doing here

1251
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: or you know or are you just not going to

1252
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: fit in? But the proof is in the development of

1253
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: guys like Demil Hunter, who was a lower draft pick

1254
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: from Clemson. Uh, you know, Everson Griffin, who was a

1255
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: good player, He didn't become elite until, you know, until

1256
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: Zim got here and got a hold of him. Uh

1257
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: So the coaching staff that he's brought in here, all that,

1258
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: you know, all of that has uh you know, has

1259
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: really helped him. And I think you know, he lost

1260
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: you know, he lost his wife, um a few years ago.

1261
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: You know, they had the death of Tony Soprano at

1262
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: the beginning of this stripe before the season started, um.

1263
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: And so he's he's led these guys through a lot

1264
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: of a lot of grief, you know, a lot of

1265
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. And you know, those are those

1266
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: those are the times that you establish yourself as a

1267
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: head coach and as a leader. And like I said,

1268
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: I think the main thing is he has the respect

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Speaker 1: of every man in in that meeting room. And you

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Speaker 1: guys know in tasks you know, as a player, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't always happen, but here it is. If you didn't

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Speaker 1: want to ask you about another coach to George Edwards

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Speaker 1: spent a couple of seasons here, got to know him

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Speaker 1: a little bit as the Bill's defensive coordinator. He's been

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Speaker 1: coordinating Zimmer's defense for the last five years down there,

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Speaker 1: and I know he interviewed for the Bears head coaching

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Speaker 1: vacancy over the offseason. What does he add to the

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Speaker 1: mix that does Zimmer has put together? Then what are

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Speaker 1: his contributions you think to that defense? You know, I

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Speaker 1: think what George adds is a lot of good storytelling him.

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Speaker 1: That guy, he has some of the best stories that

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Speaker 1: you know, that I've ever heard. But you know, he

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Speaker 1: adds I think, uh, just a different look, a fresh

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01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 1: look at certain things. You know, I really do think

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Speaker 1: in the game planning, it's it done as a group

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01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: that everybody has everything, everybody has contributions. He does think

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Speaker 1: a little bit differently. He's been around, he's been in

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Speaker 1: different places, and you kind of see that a little

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Speaker 1: bit more together with uh, you know, with what Zimmer's doing.

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Speaker 1: And I think with what with coach Zimmer, he's open

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Speaker 1: and he's open to ideas. You know, there's no pride

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Speaker 1: of authorship and a good idea, so he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he listens to him whenever he has a chance. And

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Speaker 1: they worked very well together, and I think that's really

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Speaker 1: the key. Yeah. One of the things about the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're wide receivers Adam Thalen and Brandon Cooks

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Speaker 1: or Dalvin uh Stefan Diggs, but Dalvin Cook has really

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Speaker 1: emerged as a guy. He's got one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: yards a game in yards from scrimmage. Um, he's turned

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Speaker 1: into quite the weapon for Kirk Cousins. Is that just

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Speaker 1: the way Cousins sees the game, or as Cook's been

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Speaker 1: a guy that's been kind of waiting for a chance

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Speaker 1: to shine. Well. I think Dalvin what he brings is

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Speaker 1: he's uh, he's recovered well. He had a torn acl

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Speaker 1: a week four against Detroit. Last year, they used him

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Speaker 1: extensively as a rookie. It was I was surprised at

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Speaker 1: the number of touches that they were given him early.

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01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: Now he split time with Oltavius Murray. O'tavius Murray Uh

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Speaker 1: had a you know, had some issues with his foot

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Speaker 1: coming out of Oakland. So last year he's a little

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01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: bit hobbled on it. You know, he's our north and

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Speaker 1: south kind of a cutback and goal line style a runner.

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01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: But Dalvin Cook, um, you know, he kept. He caught

1314
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Speaker 1: a slant route against Green Bay, he kept. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's a he's a very versatile running back. He

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Speaker 1: can you know, you know, running back. Some can run,

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Speaker 1: some can pass protect, some are good out of the backfield.

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Speaker 1: Some can run pass routes, like Kimara He's he's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of all of that. And so for John d. Philippar,

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, he's just trying to get matchups. He's trying

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Speaker 1: to get him in spots where the guy covering him

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Speaker 1: as a linebacker or the guy you know, or they

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Speaker 1: have an extra defensive back as they're trying to bring

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Speaker 1: in and now we can run the football and get

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Speaker 1: him one on one with a safety or get him

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Speaker 1: one on one with a with a nickel um and

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Speaker 1: those are the matchups that are trying to win. But

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Speaker 1: he's every bit as quick and explosive as he was

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Speaker 1: last year. So he's recovered fully from that injury. Um,

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01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's an explosive guy. And and you know,

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Speaker 1: against Green Bay, when you're behind by that much, the

1332
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: running game kind of goes away. But I think that

1333
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 1: on bass sounds and when the game is close, yeah,

1334
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of Dalvin Cooks. To go

1335
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: to Lambeau, to come from behind, to get as close

1336
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Speaker 1: as the Vikings got last week, and then to lose

1337
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 1: it on a couple of miskicks, I would think that

1338
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: was a bitter pill. I wonder what the mindset is

1339
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 1: of the Vikings team right now, especially looking ahead after

1340
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo you got what at the at the Rams on

1341
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: Thursday night and then the rematch of the championship game

1342
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 1: after that? Right, Yeah, it never gets any easier in

1343
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 1: the NFL, does Um. You know, you come out of that,

1344
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 1: you come away from that feeling more like a loss

1345
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: in a tie. But then you have to watch the

1346
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: film closely and say, you know a lot of guys

1347
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: there were a lot of great performances mixed in there

1348
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: that kept kept them in the game, and that they

1349
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 1: never really gave up. Uh. And then you know, you

1350
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: look and and Daniel Carlson gets released and they signed

1351
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, so they addressed they addressed that issue. Uh.

1352
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: And so as a player, you're you what more? You know,

1353
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: what more can you ask for? You've got, you know,

1354
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: some things that need to get clean up, some things

1355
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 1: that you know cost you a victory, and the coaches

1356
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: address them, and you know, it puts them all kind

1357
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: of on alert saying, well, you know what, if I

1358
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: don't do my job, I could be the next you know,

1359
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: I could be the guy that decks. So we'll see.

1360
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: But um, you know, defensively McKenzie, Alexander, Mike Hughes. You know,

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01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: they got to figure out what they're gonna do. Jy

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01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: Ron Curse at the nickel position, um, and figure out

1363
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: who's gonna you know, take you know, take that spot

1364
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Speaker 1: over from you know, for the rest of the season.

1365
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Speaker 1: And you know, we'll see, but we have plenty of

1366
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Speaker 1: talent depth as a defensive back position, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Last question we have for you what are we gonna

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01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: like about us Bank Stadium. I've never been there, the

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Speaker 1: Bill has never played there. What is there to see you?

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be well. The neat thing about it is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the ceiling, the ceiling itself is made of

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Speaker 1: a cloud. Uh. And then we have the big doors

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Speaker 1: on the northern part of the stadium, so you really

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01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: you're indoors, but you feel like you're outside and hopefully

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Speaker 1: it'll be a nice day on you know, on Sunday,

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01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: so the sun is out and you really do you

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01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 1: feel like you are out side. It's a nice wide

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01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: open space. Uh. The technology in that place is amazing

1379
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 1: that you know, between the scoreboard and all the different

1380
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: things that you can do as a as a as

1381
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: a fan with a WiFi and finding your own seed.

1382
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 1: And I mean just it's kind of crazy the amount

1383
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: of money that they that they put in and in

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Speaker 1: the technology side. But it's a it's a wonderful venue.

1385
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 1: It's not a bad seat in the house like you'd expect,

1386
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: and your view from your booth is going to be wonderful.

1387
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: I know you've been around the league. Some some views

1388
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: are not as good as others. You might be a

1389
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 1: little closer towards the end zone, but at the same time,

1390
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Speaker 1: it's your view is going to be fantastic. The food

1391
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Speaker 1: is good. Marked you want all right? Am? I? Right?

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Speaker 1: Is this? Is it right on the site of the

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01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: old Metrodome right there? Yeah? Yeah, it's built that exacting spot.

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Speaker 1: The only difference is the field faces a different direction. Okay,

1395
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 1: when you come up and see it, you'll it's amazing

1396
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: because there's there there's not a single right nor ninety

1397
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 1: degree angle on the entire exterior of the of the

1398
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Speaker 1: stadium themselves, so it's really it's really an amazing looking building.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad the Metrodome's not there. I still have nightmares

1400
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Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl in the Metrodome. This guy does too.

1401
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: Sitting next to me year the inflatable toilet where we

1402
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: played in that Super Bowl too. Pete, thanks for this.

1403
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: We'll see you there Sunday. Thank you very much. Take there, guys,

1404
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: have a great day. Pete Versa, who talked about his

1405
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: former coach as as Steve had for a former coach too,

1406
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: Denny Green. He'll be honored at halftime of the Bill's

1407
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 1: Vikings game. He's the color analyst for the Vikings radio network.

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Speaker 1: Pete joined us on the Subway fresh Day Hotline, presented

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Speaker 1: by Subway Restaurants proud to be locally owned and operated. Um,

1410
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: is that one of your most hated games? That Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl twenty six in Minnesota? Washington? Twenty seven was worse?

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01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: Twenty seven was worse Pasadena. Yeah, nine turnovers, Yeah, that's

1413
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 1: a bad one the past. The Minnesota Super Bowl was

1414
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 1: more of a we got beat by a really good team.

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Speaker 1: We didn't play our best and we could have made

1416
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: it a much better football game than it turned out

1417
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,919
Speaker 1: to be. But they were really good and they played

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01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: inspired football. They played great all year. Tip tipped my

1419
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: hat to that Red Skin team. They played really well

1420
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: that night. That place was not a good place, so

1421
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 1: it was at the Metrodome. It was dark, it was like, yeah,

1422
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: it was. It was an old time stadium, a little

1423
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: outdated even then. Yeah, all right, thanks to Pete Versus

1424
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: for joining us. Steve and I'm back. We're gonna reignite

1425
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Speaker 1: the discussion about Josh Allen. What are you looking for

1426
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: in his second NFL start this week? Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Lines are open eight oh three five fifty and toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: We're back with more One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida

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Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

1431
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. John Murphy and Steve Tasker

1432
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: from our one Buffalo studio. Practice continues out on the

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Speaker 1: practice field for the Bills and we continue with our show.

1434
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: We hope to get Trent Murphy on the show once

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01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 1: practice ends in studio with us, and we hope to

1436
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: hear from Josh Allen at the podium as he gets

1437
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 1: set for his second NFL start, his first down the road.

1438
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: Our Twitter pole deals with Josh Allen. We find that

1439
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 1: we usually have some success when we bring up quarterbacks

1440
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: on Twitter, right, Yeah, every day talk about quarterbacks what's

1441
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: the most important thing Josh Allen needs to do in

1442
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: his second career starts coming up to Sunday in Minnesota.

1443
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 1: What do you think? On Twitter? We offer you a

1444
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,560
Speaker 1: couple of suggestions that you may want to go for.

1445
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: Get the ball out quicker. Forty five percent of you say, Yeah,

1446
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 1: that's what he needs to do, the most important thing

1447
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:32,720
Speaker 1: he needs to do. Thirty eight percent of you say,

1448
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,680
Speaker 1: continue the progress he's already made. I can buy that.

1449
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,719
Speaker 1: Eleven percent say more short passes, short and intermediate passes.

1450
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:41,880
Speaker 1: Five percent have something else in mind. Let us know

1451
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: what you think. Eight h three five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty four.

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Speaker 1: The phone calls and some interesting tweets on this two

1454
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: stony yeah from Nick Terry off the tweet sheet. Find

1455
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: chemistry with anyone. If he's more comfortable with Foster, Ray,

1456
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 1: Ray and Logan Thomas, then play them more snaps. I

1457
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: could care less If KB, Zay and Clay get a

1458
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:03,600
Speaker 1: majority of snaps, find what works for Alan and go

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01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 1: with it. That's pretty good. Well, let's yeah, all right,

1460
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Speaker 1: Let's get the best players on the field. Hey, Ray,

1461
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:12,600
Speaker 1: ready yet to take a snap in the NFL. We

1462
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 1: don't know how good he can be. Your anoister's getting

1463
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 1: more snaps, so we're seeing that he might be have

1464
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 1: a factor Logan Thomas or Charles Clay. I'm lining up

1465
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: with Charles Clay every down right now. So let's get

1466
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: the best players on the field. That will probably be

1467
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 1: the best thing they can do for Josh. There is

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01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:28,720
Speaker 1: something in there, though, about putting the guy in a

1469
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: position where he feels comfortable, and I think it has

1470
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 1: more to do with XS and ose and the kind

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Speaker 1: of plays he likes and what he sees out in

1472
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Speaker 1: front of him more so than the guys actually on

1473
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: the field. Let's face it, the better players around him,

1474
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: the better it's going to be for him. And he's

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01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:43,920
Speaker 1: smart enough to know that. And I get that too.

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01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: That chemistry is all something about. But listen, he's working

1477
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:53,839
Speaker 1: almost exclusively with Kelvin, Benjamin, Zay Jones, Charles Clay, LaShaun

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01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: McCoy and that group. So Foster is getting Foster's getting

1479
01:09:57,439 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: in there, and believe me, Foster's earning that right. But

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01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 1: that it has more his comfort level is going to

1481
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,759
Speaker 1: have more to do with the play that's called Who's

1482
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,280
Speaker 1: than it does with the number of the guy who's

1483
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: who's running it now, because comes down to the guy

1484
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,120
Speaker 1: getting separation, no question about it. But yeah, there's a

1485
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:18,600
Speaker 1: little something in that tweet from Nick Terry. You know,

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01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: give him what makes him comfortable that but that goes

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01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: all the way from his preparation on Monday through Saturday

1488
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: to the game day on I bet he'd be most

1489
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: comfortable with the best players in there. I think. Here's

1490
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: an interesting tweet from the tweet sheet from Read Craig.

1491
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: When we ask what's the most important thing Josh Allen

1492
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 1: needs to do on Sunday, Read Craig answers, I would

1493
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 1: like to see some no huddle, see how he does

1494
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: with a faster pace and a little less time to overthink.

1495
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: Not saying he does overthink, but it has other positives.

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01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 1: Steve over the years, it seems to me that's been

1497
01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:50,240
Speaker 1: the answer to virtually every question about offensive productivity in

1498
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: Bill's history since about nineteen ninety one. Yeah, well, no

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01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 1: huddle is one thing that you can try to look

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01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 1: better offensively. It is one thing that you should try

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01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: in a group of experiments when you're trying to get

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01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:13,640
Speaker 1: better offensively, get more productive offensively, find a spark offensively,

1503
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:17,200
Speaker 1: and that is tinker with the pace that you call

1504
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 1: your plays. I understand it. I get why people think

1505
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:27,560
Speaker 1: it would work. It seems like it's more pressure on

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01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 1: the defense. It is. It seems like it doesn't command

1507
01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:34,680
Speaker 1: certain things of the defense that it does, but it

1508
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: does put you at risk for giving the other team

1509
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: the football back really quickly. And if you can't stay

1510
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:45,680
Speaker 1: on the field and get a first down or two

1511
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,720
Speaker 1: first downs, stay on the field for like four or

1512
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:51,799
Speaker 1: five plays in a no huddle setting and move the football,

1513
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 1: you're asking for trouble at the other on the other

1514
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,479
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So with a rookie quarterback, you

1515
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: probably would try that at some point, that no huddle,

1516
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: But going out there as part of your game plan

1517
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: that is an enormous risk. And I don't think the

1518
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:12,639
Speaker 1: Bills offensively are in the spot right now with Josh

1519
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: Allen and their offensive line and their wide receivers in

1520
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 1: a spot where they want to go out there and

1521
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 1: take a big risk like that. Two things on that

1522
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 1: I'd like. Number One. One of the big problems with

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01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 1: the Buffalo defense in the first two games, I believe

1524
01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: has been the three announced by the Buffalo offense. They're

1525
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,640
Speaker 1: just out there too much. There's no sustained drives by

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01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 1: the offense. That's a problem. Number two. I'm an advocate

1527
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: of pace, but you can have good pace, upbeat pace,

1528
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 1: and still huddle. And I think they showed that. The

1529
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,840
Speaker 1: Bills showed that in preseason this year, right preseason game

1530
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 1: number one. We keep talking about it. Best performance of

1531
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 1: Bills have had so far came against Carolina back on

1532
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 1: August ninth. But you can get plays in quickly, call

1533
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: the plays quickly, get up to the line of scrimmage,

1534
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 1: give a young quarterback like Josh Allen a good long

1535
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 1: look at what he's seeing on the other side of

1536
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:57,680
Speaker 1: the ball. You can do that and still huddle. That's

1537
01:12:57,720 --> 01:12:59,679
Speaker 1: where I'd like to see their pace at, not necessarily

1538
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:01,680
Speaker 1: rushing to the line of scrimmage and standing there and

1539
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 1: calling the play there. Yeah, and you got the defense

1540
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: going battling the fact that the offense is going three

1541
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: and out a little too much. No huddle might exacerbate that.

1542
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 1: It makes it worse, not better. Even if you get

1543
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: one first down on second down, you're going no huddle.

1544
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 1: You're on and off the field much like you would

1545
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 1: if you were in a four minute offense going three

1546
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 1: and out. I mean, that's how fast it happens. So hey, yeah,

1547
01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: you're I get it, You're right pace, And I like

1548
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: what you said, Murph. It looks better when you're in

1549
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:32,880
Speaker 1: and out of the huddle and snapping the football early.

1550
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 1: It also, and there's one other aspect of this we

1551
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 1: don't get into much, because I'm surprised Brian Dabele hasn't

1552
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 1: been questioned about this a little bit. The radio when

1553
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:46,679
Speaker 1: they call the play from the sideline using the radio headset,

1554
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 1: the play clock starts at forty whoever is calling the

1555
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:53,639
Speaker 1: play can talk to the quarterback all the way down

1556
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: until the play clock gets to fifteen seconds, and then

1557
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:00,559
Speaker 1: the radio shuts off. So if you're going as pace,

1558
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: the quarterback coach can talk to the quarterback all the

1559
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:06,639
Speaker 1: way through the play, all the way through the snap

1560
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: of the ball, if the ball is snapped before fifteen seconds.

1561
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a lot to that, but

1562
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: think about this. You're also the quarterback's got to call

1563
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,000
Speaker 1: the snap count at the same time where he's getting

1564
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 1: spoken to and is here by the radio, So you

1565
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 1: can't do too much of that, but certainly there is

1566
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 1: a benefit. And we've heard guys like Tom Brady, Drew

1567
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: Brees and other guys speak about how it helps once

1568
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,680
Speaker 1: in a while to have that coach's voice, Hey, remember A,

1569
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: B and C about this play and then have the

1570
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 1: ball snap. And it's good to get that reminder right

1571
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: before the snap. But it's hard to make too much

1572
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: out of that because the quarterback's got to be yelling

1573
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 1: and screaming the snap count before the ball too. But

1574
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 1: when you do go with pace, there is that benefit

1575
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:49,840
Speaker 1: of having the coach be able to talk to you

1576
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 1: all the way through eight three fifty to three, eight

1577
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:57,479
Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, coming

1578
01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:00,840
Speaker 1: to you live from one Bill's Drive. Let's let's take

1579
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: a quick phone call here from Bill and Henrietta. Hello, Bill,

1580
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hey John, Hey Steve, how are

1581
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 1: you guys in day? Good? Good? Um. I just smanted

1582
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: to touch on Josh Shanlett um my cake on him

1583
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: this year in this season for my Buffalo Bills, just

1584
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: to see how he progresses, see what chemistry he could,

1585
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: you know, get with his receivers, tight ends and whoever's

1586
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 1: out there. And I just wish him the best like

1587
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: every other Buffalo fan, and in no matter what happens,

1588
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: win or lose, just keep playing him, keeping him, let

1589
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: him gain the experience, and so he'll come back even

1590
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,920
Speaker 1: stronger and well prepared for next year. So yeah, Bill,

1591
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,560
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I'm on board with that.

1592
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,040
Speaker 1: But here's the here's where it gets difficult. When Josh

1593
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:53,840
Speaker 1: Allen has games where he looks worse than he did

1594
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:57,960
Speaker 1: last week, worse than that, I mean, just and where

1595
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,560
Speaker 1: he has times in this sea where it's going to

1596
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: get to the point where it's dark. I mean, it

1597
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:04,680
Speaker 1: doesn't look like he's making any progress. It doesn't look

1598
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:06,719
Speaker 1: like he's getting any better. It doesn't. It's not gonna

1599
01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 1: feel like he is. That's when it's up to his

1600
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:11,560
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the fan base and the guy in

1601
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,680
Speaker 1: the most importantly, the guys in that locker room to

1602
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:15,600
Speaker 1: rally around him and say, listen, you're gonna get it.

1603
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:18,640
Speaker 1: You've got to stay with him through the times this

1604
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 1: season when it looks like he's a complete bust. That's

1605
01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: when it's gonna be hard. It's not hard when he

1606
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:28,360
Speaker 1: goes out makes some plays like he did against the Chargers,

1607
01:16:28,400 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be difficult when he goes out and

1608
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:33,400
Speaker 1: throws for fifty six completion percentage and throws for two

1609
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty some odd yards, maybe throws one pick

1610
01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 1: or two picks that are tipped or whatever, has one

1611
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 1: touchdown pass. When he's throwing more interceptions than touchdowns, but

1612
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 1: he is throwing touchdowns. It's tough. When he goes one

1613
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 1: for fifteen and a half, throws three picks, the team

1614
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 1: looks horrible and he looks lost out there. That's when

1615
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to stick with him. But that's

1616
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 1: also when you got to say, hey, listen, you don't care,

1617
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna get through this. We're with you. We need

1618
01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 1: you to learn from this. Don't stop concentrating and let

1619
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: this thing get out of handy. Just keep throwing it,

1620
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 1: keep running the offense, and keep learning from what you're doing.

1621
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: That's when it's gonna get tough, is to tell him

1622
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: those things when he's had a half that is beyond

1623
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: describably bad. You know, I look forward to that, right,

1624
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: he's got to stay And I said, I went on

1625
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: that rant. Remember when we were deciding whether it was

1626
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 1: gonna be Nate Peterman after Peterman in the Baltimore game

1627
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,760
Speaker 1: had the rough outing. We went through this, and I ranted, listen,

1628
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go to him, you gotta go to

1629
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: him and stay with him through the bad, the good,

1630
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: the ugly, and the dark times and that because when

1631
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:46,679
Speaker 1: he through that, he's gonna know he can still try

1632
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: things as a quarterback. He can still try to make

1633
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: that throw, he can still try to make that read,

1634
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 1: he can still try to hang onto that football until

1635
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: the rush gets him to make that throw. He's got

1636
01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: to learn a lot of tough lessons in bad, dark times.

1637
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: And I don't even we haven't even seen those dark

1638
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: times yet. Nope, for him, we haven't even seen him.

1639
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:05,559
Speaker 1: You're right, and they're on the horizons. It's gonna get

1640
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: ugly for him. I hate to say that. I can't

1641
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:09,759
Speaker 1: believe I just said it, but it is. I agree

1642
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I agree. We're gonna take a break.

1643
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 1: When we come back. Trent Murphy's gonna join this Bill's

1644
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: defensive end in the lineup full time. This past Sunday,

1645
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 1: we'll talk with him about his first couple of weeks

1646
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:20,720
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills. Come on back for that. One

1647
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,719
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive.

1648
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, one of Bills Live, John Murphy,

1649
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Bills practices over. Steve Tasker has had his

1650
01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: sandwich tuna again today, Steve ham and cheese, Ham and

1651
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: cheese today. Excellent. Yeah, just a little simple snack it. Yeah,

1652
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 1: good too. Joining us in studio right at your practice.

1653
01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:54,600
Speaker 1: Come on, no, I do, but I keep track of

1654
01:18:54,640 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: your sandwiches. I know you're a big tuna guy. That's

1655
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: also keep tracking my diet doctor peppers. Yeah, no, that

1656
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 1: is the problem. You're watching what I eat. I know

1657
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 1: I should turn the focus and myself. Trent Murphy joins

1658
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: us right out the practice field Bills defensive end. I mean,

1659
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: just first start with the Bills last Sunday in the

1660
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: game against the Chargers. Trent, thanks for joining us. We

1661
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: appreciate it absolutely, Always a pleasure to be here. Fellas,

1662
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:14,960
Speaker 1: how was it last week? Would you think getting the

1663
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,640
Speaker 1: first start, getting to play in front of the home

1664
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:19,040
Speaker 1: crowd last Sundays? I mean it was awesome. Our crowd's great,

1665
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: I mean great community. You've said it since I've been here,

1666
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 1: they've been welcoming me with open arms, So nothing but

1667
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:26,519
Speaker 1: love for them. For sure. It was exciting. Whish we

1668
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 1: could have given them a win, but we'll keep chipping

1669
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:31,719
Speaker 1: along end get after it. You've been struggling with growing injury,

1670
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 1: and we were talking in the break, and I know

1671
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 1: exactly what you mean. You're kind of get healthy enough

1672
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 1: to play, then you back it up a little bit

1673
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 1: because you get irritated when you play. Then you heal

1674
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: a little bit further than you irritated the next game.

1675
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 1: That's kind of the track you're on right now, right, yeah,

1676
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:47,240
Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, we knew there would be

1677
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:49,679
Speaker 1: some growing pains coming off of a knee and ir

1678
01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: for a year and getting back to football, and you know,

1679
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:54,520
Speaker 1: it kind of counts as a little bit of preseason,

1680
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 1: a little bit of getting back into it, getting used

1681
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: to those hits. So we knew it. But they take

1682
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,559
Speaker 1: care of me and and I'm ready every Sunday, ready

1683
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:03,880
Speaker 1: to go. So you think, you know, just keep improving,

1684
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 1: keep improving, and be where I want to be. When

1685
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: when it's when it counts, they hit you on what

1686
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:11,680
Speaker 1: coach mcdermo called a pitch count. For the Baltimore game,

1687
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:14,559
Speaker 1: you played twenty eight plays, thirty eight plays last Sunday?

1688
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: Is the pitch count over? Are they still monitoring your workload?

1689
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: They're still monitoring a little bit and being cautious and

1690
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 1: taking care of me. And I think, you know, when

1691
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,160
Speaker 1: some guys go down, other guys are up and puts

1692
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: more pressure, so so they take care of it. But

1693
01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, it's about

1694
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 1: winning games and winning football, so I don't I don't

1695
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 1: need a pitch count. How's the rotation going with the

1696
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: four or six eight guys? You've got it active for

1697
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,760
Speaker 1: every game? Is that? Has that been going smooth? Yeah?

1698
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: It's awesome. I mean we always say we don't have starters.

1699
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:45,759
Speaker 1: You know, we have one lineup, we have another lineup

1700
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: and everyone playing and everyone is as equally as important,

1701
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 1: and that keeps guys fresh and keeps us being able

1702
01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:53,000
Speaker 1: to play the attack defense we want to play. So

1703
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,400
Speaker 1: so it's it's been solid. They take care of us.

1704
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:58,320
Speaker 1: How fluid is their rotation through there? Do you guys have,

1705
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: like you say, one line up in another line up?

1706
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: Do you try and keep those four guys in the

1707
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:04,560
Speaker 1: lineup intact? Or can like one or two guys interchange

1708
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:07,679
Speaker 1: in any spot. Yeah, I mean, I mean honestly, yeah,

1709
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 1: yeah know, honestly, anything goes it really where we need somebody,

1710
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: when we need somebody with the situation, who the opponent is,

1711
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: what matchups we like, It can change every week. So

1712
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a rolling, rolling, right rolling combination. Yeah,

1713
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,080
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about you've started to kind of

1714
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:27,000
Speaker 1: get a look at Minnesota. The really Kirk Cousins is

1715
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:28,720
Speaker 1: throwing the football all over the yard. They got some

1716
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:32,920
Speaker 1: weapons outside. Talk about their offensive line and their philosophy. Yeah,

1717
01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: they're a good team. I mean they're they're running the

1718
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 1: ball in the first couple quarters. But really it comes

1719
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: down to Kirk Cousins throwing the ball and that's what

1720
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: what he wants to get to. And so that'll that'll

1721
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: be the challenge this week to affect the quarterback, whether

1722
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:49,840
Speaker 1: it's his vision, is his feed, get him out of

1723
01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 1: the pocket, to get him, get him outside of his

1724
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 1: comfort zone. And that's that's kind of our plan. Trent Murphy,

1725
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: our guests, Bills defensive and hey, Trent, can I take

1726
01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 1: you back to the last Sunday for a second. And

1727
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: I told Stee you know, I spent a little time

1728
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:03,920
Speaker 1: last night watching video of that game to my untrained eye,

1729
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 1: and I thought I'd go in and say, I'm going

1730
01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:08,759
Speaker 1: to find out what happened last Sunday? How the Chargers

1731
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: scored four straight touchdowns in the first half, And you

1732
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:12,760
Speaker 1: know what, I couldn't come up with an answer. It

1733
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 1: was a lot of little different things going on. You've

1734
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: been in the film room a couple of times now

1735
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 1: reviewing that tape, probably Monday this week. Was there one

1736
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 1: common theme or one common shortcoming that the Bills had

1737
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:26,240
Speaker 1: defensively less Sunday against the Chargers. Honestly, probably the biggest thing.

1738
01:22:26,280 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 1: It just came back to fundamentals for us. I mean

1739
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:30,519
Speaker 1: things we've talked about since the beginning when we laid

1740
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:33,560
Speaker 1: the foundation in OTAs, and that was turnovers, and we

1741
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: need to get more turnovers and create more turnovers than

1742
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:38,400
Speaker 1: they do. And a couple of things didn't go our way,

1743
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 1: but they easily could have, and we could have created

1744
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: more turnovers. And I think we get a couple of

1745
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: those balls, create a field advantage for our offense. I mean,

1746
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:48,560
Speaker 1: we're in a better position. It could have been a

1747
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 1: one score game easily in the third quarter, and start

1748
01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:54,680
Speaker 1: start moving momentum our way. So there's a lot of correctibles,

1749
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: a lot of things where we can put ourselves in

1750
01:22:56,360 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 1: a better position. Like you said, it's not all bad.

1751
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 1: I mean, we played great two quarters and that's an improvement.

1752
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 1: It's kind of part of the process and now we

1753
01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:05,599
Speaker 1: just have to learn how to put an entire game together.

1754
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: It wasn't all bad. In fact, you know, I went

1755
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:10,519
Speaker 1: in knowing Philip Rivers would make a difference. But watching

1756
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:13,760
Speaker 1: the game again, actually for a second time this weekend video,

1757
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:16,680
Speaker 1: I thought Philip Rivers is uncanny, Like his knowledge of

1758
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 1: where to go with the bomb, where the weaknesses were,

1759
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:21,680
Speaker 1: what to do against the Buffalo defense. He was spectacular

1760
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 1: in that game. So yeah, I mean, it doesn't get

1761
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: more savvy than him. He's a savvy vet through and through,

1762
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 1: I mean mitigating risks and plays I should have been

1763
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: in a sack, he should go down. I mean, he

1764
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:32,640
Speaker 1: doesn't panic, He flips the ball out of trouble and

1765
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 1: they don't lose in a yard. So he's really Good's

1766
01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:37,599
Speaker 1: that's why he's one of the best, and that's why

1767
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:40,680
Speaker 1: why everyone respects him. Talk a little bit about the

1768
01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 1: vibe in the locker room. You guys. Tough loss in

1769
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 1: week one, no doubt about it, a lot better in

1770
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:47,680
Speaker 1: week two, although he still can't get in the w

1771
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: what's the vibe like longer? What are guys talking about

1772
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:51,400
Speaker 1: with each other? On your side is a football and

1773
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: overall I think everyone is focused. I mean it's just

1774
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:57,400
Speaker 1: kind of narrowing that vision, ignoring any noise. I mean,

1775
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: no one's bannoning ship. Everything is there for the taking.

1776
01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we just keep working, keep improving, we'll be

1777
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: right where we want to be. And I think the

1778
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:07,479
Speaker 1: defense is going to take ownership and we're going to

1779
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: keep working, keep working and be responsible for our side.

1780
01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:12,559
Speaker 1: And we know the other two phases will be responsible

1781
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: for their side as well. So it's a team game.

1782
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: Everyone kind of trust the process, does their job, and eventually,

1783
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know how close you are. You

1784
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: don't want to give up. You're just that close, that

1785
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,560
Speaker 1: close to success, and then eventually, just boom, all of

1786
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's a new it's a new deal and

1787
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: everyone's happy. So we'll be all right. Hey, Trent, you

1788
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 1: do not get the play calls from the sideline, the

1789
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 1: defensive calls. Tremaine does, But were you aware that that

1790
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: Sean took over in the second half, and did it

1791
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: make a difference. Do you think now for us, it

1792
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,000
Speaker 1: doesn't matter where the calls are coming from. I mean,

1793
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 1: coach Fraser, Coach McDermott, I mean, we have so many

1794
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 1: good coaches that could make those calls. So that's that's

1795
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: kind of above my pregrade. But we get the calls

1796
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:51,680
Speaker 1: and we execute them. And honestly, every one of our

1797
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: defenses is a sound defense and should be able to

1798
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 1: be executed in any almost any situation with our checks

1799
01:24:57,360 --> 01:24:59,880
Speaker 1: and fundamentals and the way we fly to the ball

1800
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 1: and get the sharks moving. So that stuff. It's kind

1801
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: of one of those things where it's just it is

1802
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah, novices like me, you know, amateurs

1803
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:10,840
Speaker 1: will say they need more pass for us, they need

1804
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:14,439
Speaker 1: to dial out more pressure. Is that a consideration do

1805
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: you think, is Emperor, you would look at you think,

1806
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: in order to get this defense up to where it

1807
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: needs to be, you can always always do more and

1808
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 1: get a little more pressure on the quarterback and in

1809
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:25,560
Speaker 1: some situations rush some situations put your hand up and

1810
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 1: you know it's kind of a catch twenty two. But

1811
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:29,720
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, I mean as savvy as he is. The

1812
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 1: ball comes out in two point one second, So even

1813
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:33,719
Speaker 1: if you ran a straight line and there was nobody

1814
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:35,880
Speaker 1: stand in front of you, it's it's hard to affect

1815
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 1: the quarterback in those plays. But all of a sudden,

1816
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,439
Speaker 1: you're talking max protection, you have three and a half

1817
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:43,560
Speaker 1: three point eight seconds. That's a different story. So we

1818
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:45,760
Speaker 1: can definitely help out, help out the back end a

1819
01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: little bit and get some get some pressure in his face.

1820
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 1: But for the most part, our rush was a huge

1821
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:55,280
Speaker 1: improvement last week. And I mean they gave up seventeen

1822
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: sacks all of last year, and we had some hits

1823
01:25:57,560 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 1: and some sacks on in this last game. So we

1824
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:01,799
Speaker 1: were at with that talk a little bit about compared

1825
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 1: con Trash what we saw in Philip Rivers as a

1826
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:07,560
Speaker 1: quarterback to Kirk Cousins. Yeah, I mean Kirk is on

1827
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:10,599
Speaker 1: his way getting to try to be like Philip Rivers.

1828
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 1: I mean he wants to get the ball out fast

1829
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: and kind of dictate, make the calls, make the checks,

1830
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 1: and and so he's on his way there. So it'll

1831
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 1: be a good challenge for us this week. It Trent,

1832
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: the last time we had you on the show, I

1833
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:22,599
Speaker 1: want to say it was ota springtime. Anyway, you were

1834
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 1: looking for a house that had the right set up

1835
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 1: for a weight room that you want to equip. How

1836
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,639
Speaker 1: did that ever turn out to live in a garage? Yeah,

1837
01:26:31,360 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: it didn't turn out so great, but yeah, exactly the worst.

1838
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 1: Did you ever get your weight room set up at all? Yeah?

1839
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: I brought it up here, but we're here all day

1840
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,439
Speaker 1: and we have a great facility, so on the off

1841
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: day and when I can all get in there. But

1842
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 1: it's it's tough to balance hard work and over training

1843
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:51,640
Speaker 1: and everything. So all right, let the guys upstairs to

1844
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:53,599
Speaker 1: care that. One of the things people saw, maybe if

1845
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 1: they were at the game last week, was the construction

1846
01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: fences outside where they're building the new ad Pro Sports

1847
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: Training Center and all that. And it's kind of has

1848
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:04,679
Speaker 1: that hampered you, guys, because I see when we're walking around,

1849
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: the weight room's kind of spilled out into the field house.

1850
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 1: Now you got smaller, Yeah, you got like you got

1851
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand feet of space. Now if you're gonna

1852
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:14,679
Speaker 1: go out on the turf out there in the field house,

1853
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:16,840
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what you're doing right now, right. Yeah, No,

1854
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:18,559
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. I mean, they basically have all

1855
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:20,800
Speaker 1: the same equipment, just shrunk down into a tinier space.

1856
01:27:20,880 --> 01:27:23,040
Speaker 1: So either they didn't use the first space as well

1857
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:24,559
Speaker 1: as they could have, or they're trying to get us

1858
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:27,080
Speaker 1: to be closer to each other. But we can get

1859
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: all our work done in there, and it'll be exciting

1860
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 1: when the new stuff is in there, and I'm sure

1861
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:34,720
Speaker 1: it'll be very extravagant, but I kind of like this

1862
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: blue collar put together we got there. Yeah, exactly. When

1863
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 1: it's all shining, you can't, you know, spill anything. I mean,

1864
01:27:42,160 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't wipe down, you can't sweating all

1865
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 1: over the equipment, you can't spend that kids. Last question

1866
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 1: I for you, Trent is um you know, four years

1867
01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: in Washington and a couple of just a couple of

1868
01:27:56,479 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 1: months here. Let's put oh on two aside for a second.

1869
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:01,040
Speaker 1: How would you compare the two franchises and how are

1870
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:03,640
Speaker 1: you liking the Buffalo experience so far? Yeah, honestly, I

1871
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: love it here. I mean there's a lot to be

1872
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 1: taken from here and a lot of support, and I

1873
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 1: think the culture here is all move in the right

1874
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 1: direction and it just strides ahead. So I'm excited to

1875
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 1: be part of this journey and part of this process.

1876
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 1: And I mean the guys in the locker room are

1877
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: phenomenal all the d line. I mean lyne about every

1878
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: everyone in every room as a great, great group of guys.

1879
01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 1: So I'm happy to be here. Fans are fickle, not

1880
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 1: just in Buffalo, all over and when when they hear

1881
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure some fans when they hear you say the

1882
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 1: culture is moving the right direction, they're saying, really, come on,

1883
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:37,240
Speaker 1: but you can feel it right regardless of oh and two. No,

1884
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:39,760
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing has ever happened overnight. And I mean

1885
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 1: one year in Washington we started owing two and we

1886
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 1: made the playoffs that year. So you can't abandon ship.

1887
01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:46,679
Speaker 1: I mean it's a long season. All of a sudden

1888
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:48,400
Speaker 1: you start going one and oh the rest of the season,

1889
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:50,840
Speaker 1: where are we now? Nobody remembers these first two so

1890
01:28:51,360 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: you got to learn from it and prove you can

1891
01:28:53,240 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: never be the same team you were in the week prior,

1892
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 1: and you just keep moving forward. So you know, they

1893
01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:01,040
Speaker 1: stay loud on Sunday, We'll keep working every day and

1894
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: show up and we'll be right where we need to be.

1895
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 1: The deal, thank you, That's it. That's simple. Don't overcomplicate

1896
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Speaker 1: as Thanks Trent. Thanks Trent Murphy, Bill's defensive end. Joining

1897
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Speaker 1: us in studio, Steve and I back for another hour.

1898
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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radiofalo Bill's Radio Network Stories. We got the

1900
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:35,200
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive where the Buffalo Bills have

1901
01:29:35,320 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: come off the practice field. Their practice for Wednesday is complete,

1902
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:41,760
Speaker 1: and they have some notable absences from practice today as well.

1903
01:29:42,160 --> 01:29:45,160
Speaker 1: They Lashawan McCoy was limited. We're gonna hear from Shady

1904
01:29:45,160 --> 01:29:47,360
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes, limited with the rib injury

1905
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: that he suffered the other day. The Bills with questions

1906
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,160
Speaker 1: at cornerback, and they had a couple of players who

1907
01:29:52,840 --> 01:29:55,479
Speaker 1: were limited as well at the cornerback spot. But the

1908
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 1: practice is over. We're gonna hear from Josh Allen, Bill's

1909
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:00,639
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback coming up and just a couple of minutes

1910
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:02,400
Speaker 1: here as he just met with the media moments ago

1911
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 1: following practice today, the Pittsburgh Steelers welcome to Antonio Brown.

1912
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Speaker 1: They're talented wide receiver back to practice today. Brown skipped

1913
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Speaker 1: out on Monday, did not report for practice and actually

1914
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:16,679
Speaker 1: tweeted out message that said trade me. Ben Roethlisberger says

1915
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Speaker 1: he's happy to have Antonio Brown back and says he

1916
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 1: gets a little emotional at times. Buffalo Sabers have signed

1917
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Speaker 1: Sam Reinhardt, one of their top young prospects, to a

1918
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:27,560
Speaker 1: two year deal. Reinhardt gets a two year deal that

1919
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 1: the Sabers say is worth an average annual value of

1920
01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:33,360
Speaker 1: three point six five million dollars. New career highs and

1921
01:30:33,439 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 1: games played last year eighty two games, twenty five goals,

1922
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:38,280
Speaker 1: fifty points. He was the second overall pick of the

1923
01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:42,400
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen NHL Draft. Sam Reinhardt has signed up with

1924
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Sabers for the next two years. The Sabers

1925
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: one last night, a victory over Pittsburgh in preseason. They

1926
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:50,200
Speaker 1: are now two and oh in preseason. Player's day off today,

1927
01:30:50,280 --> 01:30:53,480
Speaker 1: back from practice tomorrow, and the Sabers continue their preseason

1928
01:30:53,520 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 1: at Toronto against the Maple Leaves on Friday. And that

1929
01:30:56,360 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: is the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's team

1930
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:02,639
Speaker 1: Tasker Welcome Back to One Bill's Life, presented by Kalida Health.

1931
01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy is impressive to the second time we've had

1932
01:31:05,080 --> 01:31:06,479
Speaker 1: him on the show. We had him back in the spring.

1933
01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:08,519
Speaker 1: He's an impressive guy though, you know it, just is

1934
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 1: got a low key demeanor and his way of thinking

1935
01:31:11,120 --> 01:31:14,920
Speaker 1: about things just a hair, no nonsense too. Yeah. Yeah,

1936
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:17,679
Speaker 1: and you can get him to laugh or smiles. Serious dude,

1937
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:21,680
Speaker 1: and you can. Yeah. He fits the part of a

1938
01:31:21,760 --> 01:31:25,640
Speaker 1: defensive end. Yeah. Good guy. Like his insight, like his

1939
01:31:25,800 --> 01:31:29,040
Speaker 1: perspective on the two seems to like it here in Buffalo,

1940
01:31:29,160 --> 01:31:32,559
Speaker 1: which I think for unlike any other NFL team, that's

1941
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 1: important to Bills fans. Yeah, they want guys who want

1942
01:31:35,479 --> 01:31:37,559
Speaker 1: to be here because they know that this the city.

1943
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:40,400
Speaker 1: People make fun of Buffalo because of the snow and

1944
01:31:40,439 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 1: all that, and and I do it when I when

1945
01:31:42,360 --> 01:31:43,760
Speaker 1: I go out on the road, I make fun of

1946
01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:45,760
Speaker 1: my own town because I keeps the riff raff out

1947
01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:50,640
Speaker 1: and I don't care what people around the country think

1948
01:31:50,640 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 1: about Buffalo. I really don't. So I make fun of

1949
01:31:54,160 --> 01:31:56,840
Speaker 1: it all because I don't want when who need it

1950
01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:58,599
Speaker 1: to be sunny all the time? Living in my town

1951
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: my happy This doesn't My happiness isn't tied to the weather,

1952
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:06,200
Speaker 1: and and it's and it's nice to have guys like

1953
01:32:06,240 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy come in and say, you know what, I

1954
01:32:08,160 --> 01:32:11,760
Speaker 1: like it too. It's uh, and I think Buffalo people

1955
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 1: have a lot to be proud of. And um, the

1956
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:18,400
Speaker 1: town is is only the start of it. It's something

1957
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:20,320
Speaker 1: about the vibe and what he sees in the locker

1958
01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:21,800
Speaker 1: room as well. He asked him about that, and he

1959
01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:23,360
Speaker 1: loved the guys in the locker room. It's a great

1960
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: culture they're building here and and uh, like he said,

1961
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen overnight, but certainly, um, you know times

1962
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:33,280
Speaker 1: the night seems pretty dark. Yeah, it's not. You know,

1963
01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you mentioned it about culture, and yeah,

1964
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Speaker 1: that's why I got him, trying to get him to

1965
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 1: amplify that a little bit. There's still culture part about

1966
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:42,720
Speaker 1: all this, and people may not there's a lot of

1967
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:45,680
Speaker 1: optimism in this building. Yeah, you know, despite what I

1968
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:47,360
Speaker 1: what I was saying, you know earlier about you know,

1969
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 1: the dark day that Josh Allen's going to go through

1970
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,160
Speaker 1: and all that, there's a lot of optimism and it

1971
01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: starts not only with a young quarterback here in Buffalo,

1972
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:56,120
Speaker 1: but but also the culture that Sean mcdermots built and

1973
01:32:56,400 --> 01:32:58,560
Speaker 1: the positives we saw last year in a nine and

1974
01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:01,680
Speaker 1: seventh season that was surprised zingly good enough to get

1975
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:04,320
Speaker 1: him into the playoffs. That there was a fun ride

1976
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:06,640
Speaker 1: last year. Yes, they need to have some more fun

1977
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:09,800
Speaker 1: this year. They need wins. I believe they're going to

1978
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:13,439
Speaker 1: I think there are going to um. Where do I

1979
01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 1: want to go? Oh, quarterbacks Josh Allen. That's our Twitter

1980
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:19,000
Speaker 1: poll today. What's the most important thing Josh Allen needs

1981
01:33:19,080 --> 01:33:21,800
Speaker 1: to do in his second career NFL start? What do

1982
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:23,880
Speaker 1: you think? Give us a call, we'll discuss it eight

1983
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Speaker 1: o three fifty and toll free one eight eight eight

1984
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty, or you can do it

1985
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:31,240
Speaker 1: on Twitter. You can vote on Twitter the most important

1986
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 1: thing Josh Allen needs to do in a second NFL

1987
01:33:33,479 --> 01:33:36,920
Speaker 1: start on Twitter With almost a thousand votes in, forty

1988
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:38,560
Speaker 1: five percent of you say the number one thing he

1989
01:33:38,600 --> 01:33:40,679
Speaker 1: needs to do is to get rid of the ball quicker,

1990
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: get the ball out, don't take sacks, pull the trigger,

1991
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:46,439
Speaker 1: make decisions quickly. Forty five percent of you say that's

1992
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Speaker 1: what to do. Number one. Thirty nine percent say just

1993
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: keep going, continue to progress that he's made. Okay, we're

1994
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:54,240
Speaker 1: good with that. Ten percent say more short passing, more

1995
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:56,920
Speaker 1: accurate short passing. Maybe five percent of some of the

1996
01:33:57,160 --> 01:33:59,720
Speaker 1: something else in mine eight three five fifty toll free

1997
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:02,599
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty if

1998
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 1: you'd like to discuss. In the meantime, Josh Allen just

1999
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:07,559
Speaker 1: wrapped up his news conference with the media here moments

2000
01:34:07,560 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: ago his post practice news conference. Let's here from the

2001
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 1: Bills quarterback. Obviously, we didn't start fast enough, you know,

2002
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:15,800
Speaker 1: team the second half as when it came out and

2003
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:18,640
Speaker 1: we actually played, um, you know, pretty well, and we

2004
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 1: got to find a way to do that for four

2005
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:22,640
Speaker 1: quarters and do it consistently. So you know, that's what

2006
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:26,040
Speaker 1: we're trying to do right now in practice, specifically yourself. Yeah,

2007
01:34:26,240 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 1: your four bits in the game, I mean, we didn't

2008
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:33,040
Speaker 1: we didn't win. Um, so in my opinion, it wasn't

2009
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:34,600
Speaker 1: good enough. You know. That's that's all I want to do,

2010
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:37,880
Speaker 1: is win football games and and continue to improve every day, um,

2011
01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:40,720
Speaker 1: you know, without of coach Dable and um the guys

2012
01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:42,760
Speaker 1: around me, just continuing to come out to practice and

2013
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 1: working as hard as I camp. Josh, how can you

2014
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:48,960
Speaker 1: balance just the bad and the good that happened on

2015
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: Sunday from you know, just on offense and whether it

2016
01:34:52,320 --> 01:34:56,320
Speaker 1: was like your your interceptions versus your computed passes and

2017
01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:58,720
Speaker 1: things like that. How do you balance that, you know

2018
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,720
Speaker 1: going forward? Well, obviously we will want to limit those interceptions.

2019
01:35:01,760 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 1: And those were two plays that you know could have

2020
01:35:04,560 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 1: easily been UM stopped if I had done the right

2021
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:09,400
Speaker 1: right thing and made the right decision. So, you know,

2022
01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:12,400
Speaker 1: just learning to whin to say when, um, learning to

2023
01:35:13,200 --> 01:35:14,640
Speaker 1: to know when to hold the ball or throw it

2024
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: away is still something I'm still still learning to do,

2025
01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, but these new experiences are you know, only

2026
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:22,080
Speaker 1: gonna help me the long run a different this week

2027
01:35:22,120 --> 01:35:24,880
Speaker 1: at those road game as a starter, what do you

2028
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:28,080
Speaker 1: expect in Minnesota? Well, I mean that's statistically one of

2029
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 1: the best defenses in the league, UM the past couple

2030
01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:34,040
Speaker 1: of years. To a new stadium, and I heard it's

2031
01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:36,160
Speaker 1: pretty loud in there, so those fans are gonna be

2032
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:39,080
Speaker 1: pretty amped up. You know that that team's uh, you know,

2033
01:35:39,120 --> 01:35:41,240
Speaker 1: they're well coached team. They got a lot of bets

2034
01:35:41,240 --> 01:35:42,760
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. So we gotta come in,

2035
01:35:42,840 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 1: We gotta, like I said, start fast and UM just

2036
01:35:45,120 --> 01:35:47,679
Speaker 1: try to control the elements there. It'll be the loudest

2037
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:53,120
Speaker 1: place to play. I'm not sure. I played in Nebraska

2038
01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 1: and that was pretty loud. Um, but we'll see. I

2039
01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:58,840
Speaker 1: heard Minnesota is pretty loud too, ban on Monday that

2040
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:01,880
Speaker 1: you love and sex that you guys have given up

2041
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:03,880
Speaker 1: so far, he probably would only put about half of

2042
01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:07,120
Speaker 1: those on the offensive line. So what's up. What are

2043
01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 1: some of the things that you're working on to try

2044
01:36:10,240 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 1: to avoid those take out? We'll just continue to understand protection. Um,

2045
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:16,720
Speaker 1: making sure that we're set the right way. Um, you know,

2046
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:21,000
Speaker 1: ultimately in the pocket when when we feel things stepping

2047
01:36:21,040 --> 01:36:23,599
Speaker 1: up instead of stepping behind and running out and rolling out.

2048
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 1: So just being smarter in that area. Um, you know,

2049
01:36:28,120 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 1: things are gonna get cleaned up. You know, I'm in

2050
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:33,040
Speaker 1: the film room with Coach Deable and with their offensive line,

2051
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:35,519
Speaker 1: and so that's something that's fixable and that's something we're

2052
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:38,320
Speaker 1: working on. There's such a big arm you know in

2053
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:40,240
Speaker 1: a couple of those longer passes may have been a

2054
01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:42,840
Speaker 1: little bit underthrown. Is that because maybe you're trying to Hey,

2055
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:44,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to overthrow here because you know that

2056
01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:46,920
Speaker 1: I can really fire them all down fielding. Maybe we're

2057
01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:49,240
Speaker 1: a little more touch on it, um. I mean, you know,

2058
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:51,439
Speaker 1: with the guys that we got outside, I definitely think

2059
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:52,760
Speaker 1: that we got to give him a chance to catch

2060
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 1: the ball. Um, you know I trust those guys, so

2061
01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:58,760
Speaker 1: you know, I just won't want them to have a

2062
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 1: chance to catch the balls. I know. Um, they're gonna

2063
01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:03,120
Speaker 1: try to come down with it, so they if it's

2064
01:37:03,160 --> 01:37:05,080
Speaker 1: over their head, you know, we got no chance of completion.

2065
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:08,719
Speaker 1: Did you actually do you know how many run calls

2066
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:14,240
Speaker 1: deves for your last year? One calls design runs for

2067
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 1: you two or three? Yeah? All that because people people

2068
01:37:18,880 --> 01:37:22,840
Speaker 1: fringe when they see the franchise running whatever helps us

2069
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:26,840
Speaker 1: swin football games? Do you whatever? Whatever helps is if

2070
01:37:26,920 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 1: if it's me putting my head down to get Kody

2071
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 1: R on third and short, Um, yeah, I'm fine with it.

2072
01:37:33,520 --> 01:37:36,840
Speaker 1: Did you feel like they really testing you a little

2073
01:37:36,840 --> 01:37:38,880
Speaker 1: bit with bringing pressure, going all different angles, going back

2074
01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:40,920
Speaker 1: and looking trying to confuse you as much as possible

2075
01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:43,479
Speaker 1: Since it was your first start, I wouldn't say they

2076
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: were trying to really confuse me. Um. Obviously, being a rookie,

2077
01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:49,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to throw things at you that maybe

2078
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 1: I haven't seen before. Um. You know, a couple of

2079
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:55,080
Speaker 1: the so called sacks were easy things that I could

2080
01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:57,439
Speaker 1: have could have fixed and could have protected. Um, so

2081
01:37:57,520 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 1: I got to do better job of that, just protecting

2082
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:05,479
Speaker 1: our offensive line and um ultimately protects myself fundamentals and giggings. Sure,

2083
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:08,040
Speaker 1: how do you feel that those maintained and kind of

2084
01:38:08,080 --> 01:38:10,960
Speaker 1: things you've been working on, especially when under darrests in

2085
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:13,360
Speaker 1: the first start? You know, I mean there's still a

2086
01:38:13,400 --> 01:38:15,080
Speaker 1: lot of room to grow, still a lot of progress

2087
01:38:15,120 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 1: to be made, but getting out there and um I

2088
01:38:17,880 --> 01:38:20,640
Speaker 1: felt good. I felt that. You know, my shride was

2089
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:23,240
Speaker 1: was at a good length. I was putting the ball

2090
01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:25,479
Speaker 1: where it was supposed to be a most of the time. Um,

2091
01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:27,880
Speaker 1: I still continue to come out here with Shane Dable

2092
01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:31,400
Speaker 1: and try to improve on that every day. Fair Probably

2093
01:38:32,600 --> 01:38:36,479
Speaker 1: your your offensive line is being the Bills offensive line

2094
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:40,360
Speaker 1: is being blame unfairly. Right, how do you respond to

2095
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:43,160
Speaker 1: people who just say the offensive line you know, blah

2096
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 1: blah blah. I mean, they don't need to know what's

2097
01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:47,840
Speaker 1: going on behind closed doors. Um, you know, I love

2098
01:38:47,880 --> 01:38:50,200
Speaker 1: those guys up front. I trust him. You know that

2099
01:38:50,360 --> 01:38:52,080
Speaker 1: relationship that I have with them is going to continue

2100
01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,599
Speaker 1: to grow. What is it out of Foster that allows

2101
01:38:54,680 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: him to have a little bit more on his plate

2102
01:38:56,040 --> 01:38:59,599
Speaker 1: every week? It looks like when you know he's filling

2103
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:01,559
Speaker 1: the game little better. You know. Obviously he's a guy

2104
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:05,120
Speaker 1: that has some explosive speed, and just getting him more touches.

2105
01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:08,760
Speaker 1: He saw last week we got him kind of incorporated

2106
01:39:08,840 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 1: in some of the jet sweep stuff. So just little

2107
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:13,080
Speaker 1: things like that to get him the ball because he's

2108
01:39:13,080 --> 01:39:16,640
Speaker 1: a playmakers. See when you went back and watched that

2109
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:20,880
Speaker 1: long completion, because they Um, if I had thrown it

2110
01:39:20,920 --> 01:39:22,760
Speaker 1: earlier to him, he probably walked into the end zone.

2111
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 1: You know, UM wouldn't say my ayes are in the

2112
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:26,920
Speaker 1: wrong place, but I probably got off him a little

2113
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:29,759
Speaker 1: too soon. Um, they slipped under our our out route.

2114
01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:31,680
Speaker 1: I think it was Charles, And you know, I just

2115
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:33,639
Speaker 1: felt like there was enough time, so I just try

2116
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 1: to make a place. So I'm running deep and like

2117
01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:37,240
Speaker 1: I said, just try to let him have a chance

2118
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: of catching the football. How long how much do you

2119
01:39:41,120 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 1: find that you already talks about eyes and I think,

2120
01:39:44,800 --> 01:39:48,800
Speaker 1: how are you becoming accustomed to catching up to the

2121
01:39:48,840 --> 01:39:51,559
Speaker 1: speed of the game with the more snaps that you're

2122
01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:54,719
Speaker 1: getting through fire, you know, being in there and actually

2123
01:39:54,760 --> 01:39:57,639
Speaker 1: experiencing it. You know, I'm it's only gonna get better

2124
01:39:57,680 --> 01:40:00,639
Speaker 1: with time. So all these trials and relations that I'm

2125
01:40:00,640 --> 01:40:02,639
Speaker 1: going to go through my rookie year, like I said,

2126
01:40:02,720 --> 01:40:04,360
Speaker 1: only going to help in the long run. So to

2127
01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:06,600
Speaker 1: get out there and actually have in game reps with

2128
01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:09,639
Speaker 1: some really good defenses, like a team like we're gonna

2129
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:12,960
Speaker 1: be facing this week, just experiencing, you know, all that

2130
01:40:13,040 --> 01:40:15,160
Speaker 1: they have to offer and trying to weather that storm

2131
01:40:15,200 --> 01:40:16,960
Speaker 1: and ultimately just trying to learn and get better from

2132
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:20,200
Speaker 1: that game. Oh, Josh Allen met with the media just

2133
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:23,040
Speaker 1: about the fifteen twenty minutes ago. I like his answers

2134
01:40:23,040 --> 01:40:25,160
Speaker 1: even I like the thought that he gives and here's

2135
01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:26,920
Speaker 1: what I get. And look, I'm not one of those

2136
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:29,880
Speaker 1: guys that grades news conferences. There's a lot of there's

2137
01:40:29,880 --> 01:40:31,559
Speaker 1: some media people who say, well that wasn't a very

2138
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:33,960
Speaker 1: good news conference, so that didn't go well. I'm not

2139
01:40:34,080 --> 01:40:36,200
Speaker 1: like that because it really what matters is how they play.

2140
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:39,639
Speaker 1: But I will say this, when I hear Josh Allen's answers,

2141
01:40:40,200 --> 01:40:42,360
Speaker 1: I can tell you could I wonder if you can

2142
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 1: he he puts thought into what he's saying. You could

2143
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:47,360
Speaker 1: tell he's done the work when he starts talking about

2144
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:49,320
Speaker 1: throws that he would have made, or I wish I

2145
01:40:49,479 --> 01:40:51,680
Speaker 1: should take my eyes off that sooner and gone to this.

2146
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm thinking he's gone through this. He's look yes, I

2147
01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:56,280
Speaker 1: know they look at video. He's gone through it. He's

2148
01:40:56,479 --> 01:40:58,760
Speaker 1: looked at it critically and looked at how can I

2149
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:01,280
Speaker 1: do this better? Which rests the hell out of me.

2150
01:41:01,320 --> 01:41:03,000
Speaker 1: I gotta say for a young guy like that, you

2151
01:41:03,040 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 1: know what I mean, he's not He's confident, but he's

2152
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:07,519
Speaker 1: not like, well, I got this down. I know what

2153
01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:09,280
Speaker 1: I'm doing here. Now he's saying I could do that better.

2154
01:41:09,360 --> 01:41:11,880
Speaker 1: I should have moved by eye sooner, you know what

2155
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:14,479
Speaker 1: I mean. I'm impressed about Josh Well in the pre

2156
01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:17,720
Speaker 1: draft run up when they were evaluating all these quarterbacks

2157
01:41:17,840 --> 01:41:19,439
Speaker 1: on all the tests that they give him to find

2158
01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:23,000
Speaker 1: out how intelligent they are. So to speak. He's a

2159
01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:26,760
Speaker 1: smart guys. He's really smart. And I don't know if

2160
01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:29,519
Speaker 1: that translates when you watch films to making changing your

2161
01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:31,240
Speaker 1: behavior when you get back on the field. We're gonna

2162
01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:37,160
Speaker 1: find out. It seems to me he's getting better and

2163
01:41:37,479 --> 01:41:40,760
Speaker 1: and the smart guys always do. And we'll have to

2164
01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:42,920
Speaker 1: wait and see if all this film studying, and you're right,

2165
01:41:43,479 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 1: Murphy's obvious He's watched himself and been coached up and

2166
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:48,080
Speaker 1: he's taking it to heart and he can recite what

2167
01:41:48,200 --> 01:41:50,400
Speaker 1: he's been told and knows what he needs to work on,

2168
01:41:50,640 --> 01:41:52,760
Speaker 1: knows what he's looking at when they asked him, and

2169
01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:55,439
Speaker 1: during that interview, they asked him about his fundamentals about

2170
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:58,519
Speaker 1: how that's coming along, and he had some specific things

2171
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:01,120
Speaker 1: to say about what he's working at. Overstriding is right,

2172
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:04,040
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, smart guys like that keep

2173
01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:05,840
Speaker 1: track of things like that and they think about them

2174
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:08,400
Speaker 1: and they work on them, and they're right it is.

2175
01:42:08,720 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: It is encouraging to see him obviously putting in the

2176
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:14,200
Speaker 1: work that it's going to take to get better. Love

2177
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:17,080
Speaker 1: to hear that. Let's hear what you think about Josh

2178
01:42:17,160 --> 01:42:20,120
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen in the next step, in particular this Sunday.

2179
01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 1: If there were one thing you'd like to see him

2180
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:23,840
Speaker 1: do better this Sunday, what would it be. We offered

2181
01:42:23,880 --> 01:42:26,000
Speaker 1: a few suggestions on a Twitter poll. Whether it's get

2182
01:42:26,080 --> 01:42:28,360
Speaker 1: the ball out quicker, maybe that's what you think should

2183
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:31,679
Speaker 1: be done this week, Whether it's more short passes, whether

2184
01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 1: it's just keep going on the path around you're doing great.

2185
01:42:33,960 --> 01:42:36,000
Speaker 1: What's the most important thing Josh Allen needs to do

2186
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 1: this Sunday, give us a call eight h three five

2187
01:42:38,479 --> 01:42:41,519
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

2188
01:42:41,600 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 1: five fifty, or let us know on Twitter anything I'm

2189
01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 1: known on Twitter. In response to that question, Steve, that

2190
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: might be worth it. Yeah, there's a read, there's a

2191
01:42:48,520 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 1: little Somebody was talking about my rant I had about

2192
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:56,240
Speaker 1: the impending guard time. He said, Josh Allen's coming. That

2193
01:42:56,360 --> 01:42:58,639
Speaker 1: was almost biblical when you started talking about the impending

2194
01:42:58,760 --> 01:43:05,320
Speaker 1: dark times, right right, Dennis Walla Wallas. Josh Allen's completion

2195
01:43:05,360 --> 01:43:07,639
Speaker 1: percentage in college was fifty six point two, and since

2196
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:11,240
Speaker 1: he's been a bill, it's greater than college. His delivery

2197
01:43:11,320 --> 01:43:14,439
Speaker 1: motion is side arm seventy five percent of the time.

2198
01:43:14,560 --> 01:43:16,840
Speaker 1: Last quarterback like this was Bernie Kozar and he was

2199
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:21,840
Speaker 1: benched by Belichick. If corrected, his completion percentage will dramatically increase.

2200
01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:27,599
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. I don't know if it. Listen,

2201
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:30,760
Speaker 1: I've seen guy. We had this conversation about Philip Rivers

2202
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:33,640
Speaker 1: last week. Philip Rivers has a sidearm delivery. He's going

2203
01:43:33,720 --> 01:43:36,800
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame. I know that sometimes they

2204
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:39,080
Speaker 1: think they need to fix these guys, and I think

2205
01:43:39,160 --> 01:43:41,360
Speaker 1: one of the reasons nobody tried to fix Philip Rivers

2206
01:43:41,479 --> 01:43:44,240
Speaker 1: because his accuracy wasn't an issue. Josh Allens does seem

2207
01:43:44,240 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 1: to be a little bit of an issue. They tried

2208
01:43:46,080 --> 01:43:48,320
Speaker 1: to they fix other guys. They tried to fix their

2209
01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:51,400
Speaker 1: throwing motion because it makes them more accurate. I know this.

2210
01:43:52,880 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 1: I've seen the Patriots practice. Tom Brady works on his

2211
01:43:56,240 --> 01:44:00,040
Speaker 1: throwing motion to like today, he worked on it on

2212
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 1: a Wednesday practice. He'll go out and go through his

2213
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:07,000
Speaker 1: book throwing motion in the most basic fundamental exercises. He

2214
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: will be out there today going in his over the

2215
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:13,439
Speaker 1: top throwing motion in slow motion, throwing literally a ten

2216
01:44:13,520 --> 01:44:18,800
Speaker 1: foot pass add to warm up. Some guys feel like

2217
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 1: they need to be on top of it. Other guys

2218
01:44:22,280 --> 01:44:23,680
Speaker 1: find a way to get it there no matter what

2219
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:26,000
Speaker 1: their on motion is, you know, and the stuff about

2220
01:44:26,120 --> 01:44:28,800
Speaker 1: his fundamentals. Listen, if he wants to work on him,

2221
01:44:28,800 --> 01:44:31,360
Speaker 1: if it's gonna help him, man, do it. Do it.

2222
01:44:31,520 --> 01:44:33,160
Speaker 1: But if you're a guy like Philip Rivers and you

2223
01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:38,640
Speaker 1: got this cockamami side arm sling delivery and you can

2224
01:44:38,680 --> 01:44:42,599
Speaker 1: go to the Hall of Fame, why would you fix it? Right?

2225
01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:46,240
Speaker 1: Don't fix it? Yeah? I mean, and I did go off,

2226
01:44:46,280 --> 01:44:48,400
Speaker 1: And I do think there's gonna be some rough patches

2227
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:50,600
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen, although you know, he seems to be

2228
01:44:50,680 --> 01:44:52,560
Speaker 1: on an upward trend. We saw him go in the

2229
01:44:53,640 --> 01:44:57,880
Speaker 1: in the Carolina game, played pretty well in the Cincinnati

2230
01:44:57,960 --> 01:44:59,960
Speaker 1: game when he started and the Cincinnati Bengals got out

2231
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:01,800
Speaker 1: from pretty good in the pocket, he didn't throw so well.

2232
01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 1: And then this game, I think this game against the

2233
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,400
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers was better than the Cincinnati game. He

2234
01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:10,479
Speaker 1: had absolutely So you know what, do you think? He

2235
01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:12,160
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a roller coaster. Good Week

2236
01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:14,880
Speaker 1: one of the preseason, not so good Week three, and

2237
01:45:15,040 --> 01:45:18,839
Speaker 1: back in the saddle in week Week one in Baltimore

2238
01:45:18,840 --> 01:45:20,680
Speaker 1: he acted look better than he did in Cincinnati, and

2239
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:23,040
Speaker 1: in week two he looked better than he did in Baltimore. So,

2240
01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:25,439
Speaker 1: and let me say this, He's up against a really

2241
01:45:25,479 --> 01:45:28,200
Speaker 1: good defense. This defense could make this game. He could

2242
01:45:28,240 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 1: look bad. This defense is gonna make him he's gonna

2243
01:45:32,280 --> 01:45:34,679
Speaker 1: be tough. I s defense could make him look really bad.

2244
01:45:34,880 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 1: But I also think this there's gonna be once in

2245
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:38,679
Speaker 1: a while when he's gonna sling that ball and they're

2246
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:41,800
Speaker 1: gonna go, oh wow, this this young kid is we gotta,

2247
01:45:42,040 --> 01:45:45,040
Speaker 1: we gotta tighten up. You know he'll do that because

2248
01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:48,000
Speaker 1: he's that good. Um, The question is, and we all

2249
01:45:48,120 --> 01:45:51,720
Speaker 1: know it, can the ability between his ears catch up

2250
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:54,799
Speaker 1: to the ability from his neck down and when that happens,

2251
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:57,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna be pretty good. So Josh met with the media.

2252
01:45:57,360 --> 01:45:59,559
Speaker 1: Has Shitty McCoy met with the media moments ago? All

2253
01:45:59,560 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 1: the Bills running back who was limited in practice today,

2254
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:05,160
Speaker 1: McCoy came up with that shot to the ribs. Limited

2255
01:46:05,200 --> 01:46:07,000
Speaker 1: in practice today. He has not been ruled out for

2256
01:46:07,080 --> 01:46:10,360
Speaker 1: Sunday's game at Minnesota. McCoy also has this the report

2257
01:46:10,439 --> 01:46:12,960
Speaker 1: that came out after the mother of a six year

2258
01:46:12,960 --> 01:46:15,799
Speaker 1: old son filed in Alfi David in a court in Georgia,

2259
01:46:16,160 --> 01:46:19,240
Speaker 1: supporting an active lawsuit against McCoy by his ex girlfriend.

2260
01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott talked about it earlier today, was asked about it,

2261
01:46:22,920 --> 01:46:27,559
Speaker 1: he said McCoy. McDermott said, nothing has changed as far

2262
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:30,200
Speaker 1: as we're concerned. Shady got asked about it today as

2263
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 1: well as his ribs. Let's listen and Shady McCoy at

2264
01:46:33,040 --> 01:46:36,600
Speaker 1: the podium post practice news conference today, starting out with

2265
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:40,760
Speaker 1: a description of his physical status right now. So good.

2266
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:44,880
Speaker 1: The first day really running, got the ray jersey on

2267
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:47,920
Speaker 1: Sidn't got touched really yet, but just taking East out

2268
01:46:47,960 --> 01:46:51,040
Speaker 1: of time, trying to get back full health for strength

2269
01:46:51,960 --> 01:46:58,200
Speaker 1: so help my team on Sunday. Is not really Yeah,

2270
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:03,679
Speaker 1: just I'm just worried about maybe just running um full speed,

2271
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 1: you know, without too much pain. I can kind of

2272
01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:10,280
Speaker 1: deal with getting hit and that type of pain. It'll

2273
01:47:10,280 --> 01:47:12,679
Speaker 1: only be about twenty or eighteen times if it happens.

2274
01:47:12,760 --> 01:47:20,920
Speaker 1: But just running constantly with pain, Yeah, just just just

2275
01:47:21,080 --> 01:47:24,120
Speaker 1: running stopping cutting, you know, it's not pain. I don't

2276
01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:25,920
Speaker 1: want to be running out there with too much pain,

2277
01:47:26,720 --> 01:47:28,920
Speaker 1: you know. But I'm gonna fight hard and I'm fight harmer.

2278
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna training, get treatment, practice hard. Um. Like I said,

2279
01:47:32,840 --> 01:47:34,639
Speaker 1: today was the first day I've actually been out there

2280
01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:43,760
Speaker 1: of running and cutting. So yeah, yeah, for sure. Um,

2281
01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:47,519
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll have this type of equipment I need

2282
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:50,920
Speaker 1: to protect myself. UM. I don't know if you've seen

2283
01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 1: the play when I have, I got tackled and Groy

2284
01:47:53,120 --> 01:48:01,920
Speaker 1: kind of put all three hundred and fifty pounds Groy, Yeah, Groy, Yeah,

2285
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:03,640
Speaker 1: but that I was getting up, it kind of hit

2286
01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:05,800
Speaker 1: me and I was getting up then Groy did this

2287
01:48:05,920 --> 01:48:12,360
Speaker 1: thing and I heard it crack. So I mean, giving

2288
01:48:12,520 --> 01:48:15,000
Speaker 1: how much pain you're run right now because you pursue

2289
01:48:15,080 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 1: yourself at this point, being ready to go up against

2290
01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:21,320
Speaker 1: the defense like that, you know, and getting Minnesota not

2291
01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:23,920
Speaker 1: four days. Oh, they're they're a tough group. They're a

2292
01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:27,479
Speaker 1: good group. Um. It gets very loud there, um and

2293
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:30,760
Speaker 1: that type of atmospheres. It was pretty crazy. They're a

2294
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:34,160
Speaker 1: good team. But no, it's a challenge, you know, if

2295
01:48:34,160 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonnaugh to go out there and compete. You know,

2296
01:48:37,160 --> 01:48:38,920
Speaker 1: if I'm out there, I'm giving a hundred ten percent.

2297
01:48:39,240 --> 01:48:42,240
Speaker 1: So just each day at the time, it's only Wednesday,

2298
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:46,559
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I probably make that decision about Saturday Friday,

2299
01:48:47,080 --> 01:48:49,160
Speaker 1: see if I can actually go out there and run, uh,

2300
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:53,599
Speaker 1: full tilt, full speed with no pain. Um, but there

2301
01:48:53,720 --> 01:48:55,040
Speaker 1: might be some pain. I have to deal with it.

2302
01:48:56,320 --> 01:48:59,519
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Obviously, there's new allegations that

2303
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 1: became yesterday. Um, can you just speak to those and

2304
01:49:03,160 --> 01:49:05,400
Speaker 1: what's going on? Yeah, I just I mean briefly on it.

2305
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:11,960
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Like I love my son. I mean, anybody

2306
01:49:11,960 --> 01:49:14,439
Speaker 1: that knows me or ever see me around with my boy,

2307
01:49:14,880 --> 01:49:17,320
Speaker 1: they know what's our relationship we have, you know, Um,

2308
01:49:18,360 --> 01:49:23,320
Speaker 1: so I can't always speak on it. Mean, it's it's ridiculous,

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01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:28,720
Speaker 1: I know, but we're in court everything, and we'll see

2310
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:36,000
Speaker 1: what happens. I mean, you're just allegations child abuse? Which

2311
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:37,479
Speaker 1: does that? I mean, do you fear for what that

2312
01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:40,000
Speaker 1: what people may think of you, or worry about what

2313
01:49:40,080 --> 01:49:42,479
Speaker 1: people may think of you? I mean, you know, the

2314
01:49:42,560 --> 01:49:45,519
Speaker 1: whole story hasn't come out or whatever. But well, just

2315
01:49:46,280 --> 01:49:48,840
Speaker 1: in this world with social media, you could say what

2316
01:49:48,960 --> 01:49:53,120
Speaker 1: you want, and I mean the cameras everybody would were

2317
01:49:53,200 --> 01:49:56,240
Speaker 1: taken around with it. I can't control that. I'm talking

2318
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:59,720
Speaker 1: control as being a great dad, um, you know, and

2319
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:03,000
Speaker 1: and being the person that potentially grow up to be,

2320
01:50:03,479 --> 01:50:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, and that's all I can do. How how

2321
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:12,640
Speaker 1: much do you have to hold back defend yourself, you know,

2322
01:50:12,960 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: especially when you're getting called papers? I'm honest, what Yeah,

2323
01:50:19,040 --> 01:50:23,280
Speaker 1: people people know me, work with me, um growing up,

2324
01:50:23,920 --> 01:50:26,479
Speaker 1: you know these people. I mean, I always have so

2325
01:50:26,600 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: much to gain by doing this. I mean, but I'm

2326
01:50:30,200 --> 01:50:32,479
Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and spend so much time even

2327
01:50:32,560 --> 01:50:37,000
Speaker 1: talking about it. It's it's crazy, it's it's ridiculous. I

2328
01:50:37,080 --> 01:50:41,240
Speaker 1: mean everything I do is for my my little man,

2329
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: my son, you know so, and if I didn't care,

2330
01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:47,840
Speaker 1: I want to be fighting, you know, for custody. I'm

2331
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:50,320
Speaker 1: my boy. What is what it is. I won't let

2332
01:50:50,360 --> 01:50:53,560
Speaker 1: it affect me. I'm a strong person. Um. You know

2333
01:50:53,720 --> 01:50:56,559
Speaker 1: it's in God's hands and you know we'll see how

2334
01:50:57,160 --> 01:51:00,600
Speaker 1: impact your preparation as professional what's going. I just know

2335
01:51:00,680 --> 01:51:02,479
Speaker 1: what I personal I am. You know the person I

2336
01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:05,600
Speaker 1: am that them both my parents are still married, and

2337
01:51:05,960 --> 01:51:09,240
Speaker 1: what they've taught me. You know, it's the type of

2338
01:51:09,479 --> 01:51:12,320
Speaker 1: dad I want to be. I'm sure he's proud of me,

2339
01:51:13,080 --> 01:51:14,320
Speaker 1: and I don't take great care of him and I

2340
01:51:14,400 --> 01:51:17,720
Speaker 1: love him. So that's what really matters to me, not

2341
01:51:18,200 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 1: comments or people's opinions, because I can't control that. No

2342
01:51:22,479 --> 01:51:28,559
Speaker 1: matter what evidence bring or what happens, I can't change

2343
01:51:28,680 --> 01:51:31,560
Speaker 1: perception of people. That's that's impossible. I don't think I

2344
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 1: can control us. Is the love and the care for

2345
01:51:34,320 --> 01:51:37,320
Speaker 1: my little boy, and that's the only thing that matters, honestly,

2346
01:51:38,680 --> 01:51:42,240
Speaker 1: Sean McCoy having to answer those questions, I don't really

2347
01:51:42,320 --> 01:51:43,600
Speaker 1: have an opinion. See if I don't know what the

2348
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:46,479
Speaker 1: truth is, I don't think any of us do I hope,

2349
01:51:47,160 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 1: you know the things you're good with Lashan. I hope

2350
01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:52,760
Speaker 1: things are good with his family. But it's unfortunate that

2351
01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean, there's the last three minutes of that press

2352
01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:59,120
Speaker 1: conference deal with the extremely personal matters I think, you know,

2353
01:51:59,200 --> 01:52:01,960
Speaker 1: and obviously a court dispute that I think is going

2354
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:05,280
Speaker 1: to court next week. UM, I don't know what, I

2355
01:52:05,280 --> 01:52:08,280
Speaker 1: don't know. It's always a bad idea for players in

2356
01:52:08,520 --> 01:52:11,600
Speaker 1: situations like this to say anything. Just just tell the

2357
01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:13,639
Speaker 1: guys who ask the questions listen, it's a personal matter,

2358
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:14,960
Speaker 1: and I don't want to deal with it. I don't

2359
01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:17,720
Speaker 1: want to speak publicly about it and leave it at

2360
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:20,040
Speaker 1: that about all of those questions, I think they always

2361
01:52:20,080 --> 01:52:23,559
Speaker 1: make a mistake, um, addressing any of their personal lives

2362
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 1: in a public way. UM. So yeah, he's doing the

2363
01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:31,000
Speaker 1: best he can. I'm sure that, Uh, he's trying to

2364
01:52:31,040 --> 01:52:33,280
Speaker 1: balance what he's got going on off the field with

2365
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:36,160
Speaker 1: what's going on here one bills drive. But uh, you know,

2366
01:52:36,200 --> 01:52:40,920
Speaker 1: I it's it's it's a it's a very difficult balance

2367
01:52:40,960 --> 01:52:43,240
Speaker 1: to strike, no doubt about it. And I think my

2368
01:52:43,320 --> 01:52:45,519
Speaker 1: advice to guys like that is just say, listen, that's

2369
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:47,720
Speaker 1: a personal matter. I don't want to discuss it publicly. Yeah,

2370
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:50,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if you stick to football, it's to date,

2371
01:52:50,400 --> 01:52:52,599
Speaker 1: it's not a criminal matter. You know, there's a lot

2372
01:52:52,920 --> 01:52:55,679
Speaker 1: of all yeah, there's, but there's no criminality at least

2373
01:52:55,720 --> 01:52:58,679
Speaker 1: to date. I mean, if he feels, if he feels

2374
01:52:58,720 --> 01:53:02,080
Speaker 1: didn't need to justify a great relationship with his son,

2375
01:53:02,280 --> 01:53:03,760
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing. I mean, you don't

2376
01:53:03,800 --> 01:53:05,680
Speaker 1: have to do what exactly? You don't have to do that,

2377
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:08,040
Speaker 1: you don't. All right, we're gonna take a break. We're

2378
01:53:08,040 --> 01:53:09,479
Speaker 1: gonna come back. We got a lot to talk about,

2379
01:53:09,520 --> 01:53:14,800
Speaker 1: including Steve Hall of Fame nominee, this proposal to pay

2380
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:17,360
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of famers. Yea, as a guy who's

2381
01:53:17,400 --> 01:53:19,400
Speaker 1: just been nominated for the Pro Football Hall of Fame,

2382
01:53:19,439 --> 01:53:22,840
Speaker 1: you gotta be thinking, Yeah, gravy trained, baby, I'm talking

2383
01:53:22,880 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: about I'll talk to Steve about that when we come back.

2384
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:27,519
Speaker 1: Plus more on the bills, you can give us a

2385
01:53:27,560 --> 01:53:29,880
Speaker 1: call eight h three h five fifty and toll free

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01:53:29,960 --> 01:53:32,880
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty one

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01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:35,679
Speaker 1: bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2388
01:53:48,520 --> 01:53:51,360
Speaker 1: We're just powering right through the day, getting to three o'clock,

2389
01:53:51,360 --> 01:53:53,200
Speaker 1: close to three o'clock. Got another show tomorrow. What a

2390
01:53:53,240 --> 01:53:56,120
Speaker 1: show we have tomorrow, Steve, Oh my goodness, Thurman Thomas

2391
01:53:56,160 --> 01:53:58,760
Speaker 1: are gonna join us tomorrow. Tracy Wolfson one of your

2392
01:53:58,800 --> 01:54:02,679
Speaker 1: CBS NFL on CBS colleagues. Yeah, she's doing a game Sunday.

2393
01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:04,880
Speaker 1: I've called Tracy on a number of occasions for advice

2394
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:06,880
Speaker 1: on you know, how to do the sideline thing better.

2395
01:54:08,120 --> 01:54:10,200
Speaker 1: She's really good. She'll be with us tomorrow. She's doing

2396
01:54:10,240 --> 01:54:14,200
Speaker 1: the game Sunday. Bills Vikings John Randall. He's a Hall

2397
01:54:14,200 --> 01:54:16,519
Speaker 1: of Famer, right, Yes, he is Pro Football Hall of Famer,

2398
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:19,160
Speaker 1: longtime Minnesota Viking. He'll be one of the few guys

2399
01:54:19,200 --> 01:54:21,599
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame that was not drafted. That's right.

2400
01:54:21,680 --> 01:54:26,040
Speaker 1: He's a really free agent. Went how about hitting that lottery? Yeah,

2401
01:54:26,280 --> 01:54:29,519
Speaker 1: as a as a GM longtime Bison. He'll be with

2402
01:54:29,640 --> 01:54:31,639
Speaker 1: us tomorrow as well. I speaking of the Hall of Fame,

2403
01:54:31,720 --> 01:54:33,720
Speaker 1: this came up yesterday. We never got to it yesterday.

2404
01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:36,560
Speaker 1: It bothered me yesterday. I brought it up with you yesterday,

2405
01:54:36,800 --> 01:54:38,280
Speaker 1: and we kind of put it off to the side.

2406
01:54:39,080 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 1: A letter sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, NFL Players

2407
01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:46,320
Speaker 1: Association executive director Demarris Smith and the President of the

2408
01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:48,600
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame, David Baker. The letter sent

2409
01:54:48,880 --> 01:54:52,840
Speaker 1: Tuesday yesterday, many high profile Pro Football Hall of Famers

2410
01:54:52,880 --> 01:54:56,280
Speaker 1: say they will not attend the annual induction ceremony until

2411
01:54:56,800 --> 01:54:59,960
Speaker 1: Hall of famers get health insurance and an annual salary

2412
01:55:00,120 --> 01:55:02,280
Speaker 1: that includes the share of league revenue. Who signed it?

2413
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:06,360
Speaker 1: People like Bruce Smith, former Bill's defensive lineman Bruce Smith.

2414
01:55:06,960 --> 01:55:10,000
Speaker 1: John Randall is on the list. John Yeah, John Randall

2415
01:55:10,040 --> 01:55:13,280
Speaker 1: signed it. Jerry Rice, There's a lot of great players here,

2416
01:55:13,400 --> 01:55:18,400
Speaker 1: Jim Brown, Earl Campbell. They say that they sacrifice their bodies.

2417
01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:21,200
Speaker 1: They want health insurance and an annual salary for going

2418
01:55:21,240 --> 01:55:25,080
Speaker 1: into Pro Football Hall of Fame. I gotta say, Steve,

2419
01:55:25,160 --> 01:55:27,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate, I want to get your thoughts on this

2420
01:55:27,560 --> 01:55:29,960
Speaker 1: because you're a nominee for the Pro Football of Fame.

2421
01:55:30,160 --> 01:55:33,840
Speaker 1: I appreciate their contributions. But to be paid because you're

2422
01:55:33,840 --> 01:55:36,920
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, to get lifetime health insurance, that

2423
01:55:37,280 --> 01:55:39,520
Speaker 1: has a little more residence with me. But what really

2424
01:55:39,600 --> 01:55:43,560
Speaker 1: offends me is affected they want lifetime health insurance for themselves.

2425
01:55:45,200 --> 01:55:48,080
Speaker 1: What percentage of players going to Hall of Fame? Three percent,

2426
01:55:48,280 --> 01:55:51,200
Speaker 1: five percent, maybe what about the other guys who are

2427
01:55:51,360 --> 01:55:54,400
Speaker 1: in just as bad shape, maybe and need health insurance

2428
01:55:54,440 --> 01:55:56,480
Speaker 1: and don't have the resources to pay for health insurance.

2429
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:58,600
Speaker 1: I can't believe they left them out right. And one

2430
01:55:58,640 --> 01:56:00,480
Speaker 1: of the things too, some of the guys that were

2431
01:56:00,600 --> 01:56:03,160
Speaker 1: whose names were on the list of guys who signed

2432
01:56:03,280 --> 01:56:07,160
Speaker 1: CO signed that with the guys who signed on UM

2433
01:56:07,480 --> 01:56:10,440
Speaker 1: said listen, this is a stepping stone or I am

2434
01:56:10,520 --> 01:56:14,200
Speaker 1: all for like Eric Dickerson, We've got a SoundBite from said,

2435
01:56:14,360 --> 01:56:16,440
Speaker 1: you know, I want to get it for everybody, and

2436
01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:20,600
Speaker 1: I think that's more realistic, and perhaps getting it for

2437
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:23,600
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame guys is a stepping stone, But

2438
01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:29,440
Speaker 1: I mean it makes good sense given the topics of

2439
01:56:29,840 --> 01:56:32,400
Speaker 1: player safety that we've heard so much about in recent years,

2440
01:56:32,440 --> 01:56:34,880
Speaker 1: about how you know, guys are struggling with some things

2441
01:56:34,920 --> 01:56:37,120
Speaker 1: that happened to them while they were playing now that

2442
01:56:37,200 --> 01:56:39,600
Speaker 1: they're later in life. It would be great for the

2443
01:56:39,720 --> 01:56:41,800
Speaker 1: league to start taking care of guys and give them

2444
01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:45,640
Speaker 1: lifetime health benefits for guys who not just of famers, right,

2445
01:56:45,720 --> 01:56:49,640
Speaker 1: not just Hall of famers UM side for the salary

2446
01:56:49,720 --> 01:56:51,360
Speaker 1: thing for being in the Hall of Fame. I know

2447
01:56:51,800 --> 01:56:53,560
Speaker 1: I have here thinking a little bit over the top

2448
01:56:53,680 --> 01:56:56,840
Speaker 1: to me document in which you say you will forego,

2449
01:56:56,960 --> 01:56:59,600
Speaker 1: you will not accept payment or health insurance if you

2450
01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:02,000
Speaker 1: should make it to a lot of fame. Here's who

2451
01:57:02,080 --> 01:57:05,000
Speaker 1: I will not exactly. I will not say you sign this, Yeah,

2452
01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:08,040
Speaker 1: I'll sign it. I'm never getting in, but that, yeah,

2453
01:57:08,280 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: And I get it. I think the health care issue

2454
01:57:12,440 --> 01:57:17,160
Speaker 1: is something that's serious. It's serious particularly, and it is

2455
01:57:17,160 --> 01:57:18,880
Speaker 1: a little bit of a reaction on even on my part.

2456
01:57:18,920 --> 01:57:20,760
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of reaction to the player's safety

2457
01:57:20,800 --> 01:57:22,640
Speaker 1: issues that we were kind of in the midst of,

2458
01:57:23,080 --> 01:57:27,440
Speaker 1: and all the rule changes and all the the you know,

2459
01:57:27,920 --> 01:57:31,400
Speaker 1: the funky penalties that have been called, all of that stuff,

2460
01:57:31,440 --> 01:57:34,200
Speaker 1: the ejections that have happened in recent years, the helmet

2461
01:57:34,240 --> 01:57:37,920
Speaker 1: technologies that they've started to research and implement, um, all

2462
01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 1: of that stuff, and then that climate, it's easy to see, hey,

2463
01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:42,000
Speaker 1: you know what, let's take care of the guys who

2464
01:57:42,080 --> 01:57:44,920
Speaker 1: sacrifice some things for this league to become what it is.

2465
01:57:45,080 --> 01:57:46,880
Speaker 1: I get that, and I'm all for that. I have

2466
01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:49,640
Speaker 1: been for a long time. But but to just give

2467
01:57:49,680 --> 01:57:51,680
Speaker 1: it to a segment of guys who are absolutely the

2468
01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 1: elite of everything is it's a starting point okay, but

2469
01:57:56,920 --> 01:57:58,480
Speaker 1: you know there are a lot of guys out there

2470
01:57:58,560 --> 01:58:00,280
Speaker 1: who didn't make it to the Hall of Fame who

2471
01:58:00,320 --> 01:58:02,880
Speaker 1: needs some help to maybe need help even more. Eric

2472
01:58:02,960 --> 01:58:04,920
Speaker 1: Dickerson talked about it. Let's see here from the Hall

2473
01:58:04,960 --> 01:58:07,560
Speaker 1: of Fame running back Eric Dickerson his thoughts on this

2474
01:58:07,840 --> 01:58:11,680
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame request. I think every Hall

2475
01:58:11,760 --> 01:58:15,120
Speaker 1: of Famer would get about three hundred thousand dollar the

2476
01:58:15,200 --> 01:58:18,480
Speaker 1: year that would that would do. I think a proper number.

2477
01:58:18,920 --> 01:58:22,800
Speaker 1: And my main thing is because the pension is so bad.

2478
01:58:23,120 --> 01:58:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean, if the pension was right, that's fine. I

2479
01:58:25,440 --> 01:58:27,440
Speaker 1: mean make it. If you want to say pension, making

2480
01:58:27,440 --> 01:58:29,640
Speaker 1: a pension, but making a correct pension, go go out

2481
01:58:29,680 --> 01:58:32,280
Speaker 1: kind of Major League Baseball, maybe Baseball. If you played

2482
01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:33,960
Speaker 1: ten years, you get you on the twenty two thousand

2483
01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:36,680
Speaker 1: dollars the rest of your life. I mean that's good.

2484
01:58:36,680 --> 01:58:39,480
Speaker 1: That's that's a good pension. Players aren't greedy. I mean,

2485
01:58:39,520 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 1: it's it's what they've earned this youse. Guys have earned this.

2486
01:58:42,880 --> 01:58:46,000
Speaker 1: They've earned and be treated right. I'd like to see

2487
01:58:47,280 --> 01:58:50,480
Speaker 1: every player health healthcare, but we have to wait until

2488
01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:53,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one till they get that new CDA and

2489
01:58:53,360 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 1: get a seat at the table, got to sit there

2490
01:58:56,240 --> 01:58:59,360
Speaker 1: with them because no formal no, no, the tie players

2491
01:58:59,400 --> 01:59:01,040
Speaker 1: have on the board. You know they don't care a

2492
01:59:01,120 --> 01:59:02,560
Speaker 1: thing about the time. But I don't, can't think about

2493
01:59:02,560 --> 01:59:04,160
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. It's all about the current players.

2494
01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:07,000
Speaker 1: But what made this league so great form of players,

2495
01:59:07,120 --> 01:59:11,600
Speaker 1: not even me, guys even before me, Eric Tickerson and

2496
01:59:11,920 --> 01:59:14,520
Speaker 1: Steve look, I agree with this. The lead's got plenty

2497
01:59:14,560 --> 01:59:18,040
Speaker 1: of money. They can get health insurance for everybody they

2498
01:59:18,400 --> 01:59:22,160
Speaker 1: maybe they can pay Hall of famers. The letter called

2499
01:59:22,160 --> 01:59:25,720
Speaker 1: into question Roger Goodell's forty million dollars annual salary as

2500
01:59:25,760 --> 01:59:28,600
Speaker 1: well as construction of the Hall of Fame Village in Canton, Ohio,

2501
01:59:28,960 --> 01:59:30,440
Speaker 1: and the letter went out of the say many of

2502
01:59:30,520 --> 01:59:33,120
Speaker 1: us Hall of Fame players cannot walk, many can't sleep

2503
01:59:33,200 --> 01:59:34,960
Speaker 1: at night. More than a few of us don't even

2504
01:59:35,040 --> 01:59:37,640
Speaker 1: know who are where we are. Commissioner Goodell, there are

2505
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:39,800
Speaker 1: better uses for the money than what is sary and

2506
01:59:40,200 --> 01:59:43,040
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame village. The money is there, I

2507
01:59:43,160 --> 01:59:47,200
Speaker 1: have no problem with that. My major problem, Steve, is,

2508
01:59:47,440 --> 01:59:48,960
Speaker 1: how do you just do it for Hall of famers?

2509
01:59:49,000 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: The guys who, to my mind, would maybe least need

2510
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:56,240
Speaker 1: this sort of financial support, whether it's health insurance or compensation. Yeah,

2511
01:59:56,600 --> 01:59:59,840
Speaker 1: you agree. I agree they all for one, one for all.

2512
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:01,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's and I get it if they're going

2513
02:00:01,960 --> 02:00:05,640
Speaker 1: to do it step by step, but yeah, at some

2514
02:00:05,760 --> 02:00:07,640
Speaker 1: point it's Fair's fair. And there are a lot of

2515
02:00:07,720 --> 02:00:11,440
Speaker 1: guys who played like one season and who are struggling

2516
02:00:11,520 --> 02:00:14,040
Speaker 1: just as bad as guys who played or even worse

2517
02:00:14,080 --> 02:00:18,080
Speaker 1: than guys who played seventeen years. So everything's relative in

2518
02:00:18,120 --> 02:00:20,000
Speaker 1: the How much damage is I don't want to dwell

2519
02:00:20,000 --> 02:00:21,640
Speaker 1: on this much longer, but how much damage do you

2520
02:00:21,680 --> 02:00:23,480
Speaker 1: think this does to the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

2521
02:00:23,560 --> 02:00:25,360
Speaker 1: And you know you got t o now. We got

2522
02:00:25,400 --> 02:00:27,240
Speaker 1: a guy who says I'm not coming. Now I got

2523
02:00:27,280 --> 02:00:29,800
Speaker 1: a whole group of Hall of famers who see, we're

2524
02:00:29,840 --> 02:00:32,080
Speaker 1: not coming unless you fix this, will never come back.

2525
02:00:32,400 --> 02:00:34,120
Speaker 1: How much damage is that due to the Pro Football

2526
02:00:34,120 --> 02:00:37,200
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame? It remains to be seen. I don't

2527
02:00:37,200 --> 02:00:40,600
Speaker 1: know if it does any damage to it. Certainly it

2528
02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:44,320
Speaker 1: is important to all those guys, I would think. I

2529
02:00:44,400 --> 02:00:46,400
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of sacrifice it is for them

2530
02:00:46,480 --> 02:00:48,640
Speaker 1: not to go back to the Hall of Fame ceremonies

2531
02:00:48,920 --> 02:00:51,880
Speaker 1: in Kenton once a year. They're still in the Hall

2532
02:00:51,880 --> 02:00:54,800
Speaker 1: of Fame, so it doesn't They're not really sacrifice in

2533
02:00:54,840 --> 02:00:57,560
Speaker 1: anything except the burden of traveling there once a year

2534
02:00:57,600 --> 02:01:00,960
Speaker 1: and going through the festivities, signing autograph for a weekend.

2535
02:01:01,000 --> 02:01:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're losing by by not going,

2536
02:01:03,760 --> 02:01:07,280
Speaker 1: unless they're looking for an excuse not together enough. I'll

2537
02:01:07,280 --> 02:01:09,280
Speaker 1: take a phone call on this issue. Steve calling from

2538
02:01:09,360 --> 02:01:13,440
Speaker 1: Archard Parko. Ahead, Steve, you're on the air. Hey, good afternoon, guys.

2539
02:01:13,560 --> 02:01:16,160
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, my question. My question is, Steve, you

2540
02:01:16,240 --> 02:01:19,680
Speaker 1: and I are about the same age, and I you know,

2541
02:01:19,880 --> 02:01:22,560
Speaker 1: I didn't play professional football, but played a lot of sports,

2542
02:01:22,640 --> 02:01:24,600
Speaker 1: and I know when I get up in the morning,

2543
02:01:24,680 --> 02:01:26,720
Speaker 1: I had some you know, knee surgeries and whatnot. But

2544
02:01:27,320 --> 02:01:29,400
Speaker 1: you know, my body's pretty sore every day. You know,

2545
02:01:30,320 --> 02:01:32,800
Speaker 1: takes a while to get moving in the morning. Um.

2546
02:01:33,720 --> 02:01:37,160
Speaker 1: So my question is how has it affected you personally?

2547
02:01:37,560 --> 02:01:40,200
Speaker 1: How are you doing with you know, your health and

2548
02:01:40,760 --> 02:01:43,560
Speaker 1: you know anything lingering over? How do you feel play?

2549
02:01:44,120 --> 02:01:47,080
Speaker 1: Steve's asking Steve how he feels. I feel fine. I

2550
02:01:47,160 --> 02:01:48,960
Speaker 1: feel great. I walk the golf course. That's about the

2551
02:01:49,000 --> 02:01:51,480
Speaker 1: only exercise I get. I do not exercise at all.

2552
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:56,680
Speaker 1: I control my weight with my diet constraints and walking

2553
02:01:56,720 --> 02:01:58,480
Speaker 1: a golf course when I can, which I have stopped

2554
02:01:58,520 --> 02:02:00,520
Speaker 1: doing since I you know, now I'm here with Murph,

2555
02:02:01,040 --> 02:02:04,440
Speaker 1: but blame me. Yeah, and but I got aches and

2556
02:02:04,480 --> 02:02:08,320
Speaker 1: pains I had. I had five knee surgeries, four on

2557
02:02:08,440 --> 02:02:11,360
Speaker 1: one knee, or five knee procedures, four on one knee,

2558
02:02:11,360 --> 02:02:13,760
Speaker 1: one on the other. I had my arm broken. My

2559
02:02:13,840 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: hands were broken nine times. I had more bumps and

2560
02:02:17,400 --> 02:02:22,080
Speaker 1: bruises than I can count. Uh, what else Liz Frank's brain.

2561
02:02:22,720 --> 02:02:24,640
Speaker 1: I had a stress fracture in my spine, but that

2562
02:02:24,840 --> 02:02:27,080
Speaker 1: was in college. I got over that and I had

2563
02:02:27,160 --> 02:02:29,880
Speaker 1: no problems with it. M I had my shoulder fixed

2564
02:02:29,920 --> 02:02:35,680
Speaker 1: after I finished playing um scratched cornea. You know, I mean,

2565
02:02:35,920 --> 02:02:38,200
Speaker 1: the list goes on. And yeah, I asked for my

2566
02:02:38,320 --> 02:02:42,560
Speaker 1: medical records for the UH for some of the stuff

2567
02:02:42,560 --> 02:02:44,280
Speaker 1: that was going on with the NFLPA. So I had

2568
02:02:44,320 --> 02:02:46,760
Speaker 1: a copy of my medical records. Bills had it for

2569
02:02:46,840 --> 02:02:48,840
Speaker 1: the bills, gave it to me, no problem. The next

2570
02:02:48,960 --> 02:02:50,360
Speaker 1: day they go here, here's a whole copy of it

2571
02:02:50,440 --> 02:02:53,160
Speaker 1: was an inch thick. I was like, that's all me. So, yeah,

2572
02:02:53,160 --> 02:02:57,160
Speaker 1: I feel fine. Like here's the thing I'm with you, Steve,

2573
02:02:57,200 --> 02:02:58,760
Speaker 1: you called in said, hey, when you get up in

2574
02:02:58,800 --> 02:02:59,960
Speaker 1: the morning, that's me. And when I get up in

2575
02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:01,720
Speaker 1: the morning, it takes me. And when I when I

2576
02:03:01,800 --> 02:03:04,360
Speaker 1: get out of a car drive for an hour long

2577
02:03:04,480 --> 02:03:07,560
Speaker 1: car drive, it takes me twenty five thirty feet to

2578
02:03:07,680 --> 02:03:11,040
Speaker 1: start walking normally. But at twenty five thirty feet I'm

2579
02:03:11,080 --> 02:03:14,640
Speaker 1: walking normally, it takes me about ten or fifteen steps

2580
02:03:15,560 --> 02:03:17,960
Speaker 1: to work it loose, you know. But I feel but

2581
02:03:18,040 --> 02:03:20,720
Speaker 1: I feel great, and I tell people when everybody asked

2582
02:03:20,720 --> 02:03:23,480
Speaker 1: me how I'm doing, I say, listen, this is the truth.

2583
02:03:23,600 --> 02:03:27,240
Speaker 1: I say. Everybody should be me. And I wouldn't have changed.

2584
02:03:27,400 --> 02:03:29,640
Speaker 1: I would not change anything about what happened to me,

2585
02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:33,360
Speaker 1: what has happened to me, about where I'm at now.

2586
02:03:33,560 --> 02:03:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sitting next to murfh and I'm doing the

2587
02:03:35,960 --> 02:03:39,600
Speaker 1: thing I do on weekends with the CBS and listen.

2588
02:03:39,600 --> 02:03:41,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change anything about my career either, even the

2589
02:03:41,760 --> 02:03:44,320
Speaker 1: four Super Bowls. I liked what I did. I had fun,

2590
02:03:44,400 --> 02:03:46,480
Speaker 1: I love the guys I played with, and so I'm

2591
02:03:46,560 --> 02:03:48,600
Speaker 1: not you could die now. I'm not bitter at all.

2592
02:03:49,600 --> 02:03:51,440
Speaker 1: I'm not bitter at all about anything. The way I

2593
02:03:51,480 --> 02:03:53,800
Speaker 1: was treated by the club, the way I was handled

2594
02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:56,880
Speaker 1: by the medical staff, the decisions I made in my career,

2595
02:03:57,200 --> 02:03:59,840
Speaker 1: some of them weren't very smart, but I feel great.

2596
02:04:00,400 --> 02:04:02,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling Steve to ask Steve how he feels.

2597
02:04:02,440 --> 02:04:05,360
Speaker 1: That's cool. Hey should ask Steve how how you feel?

2598
02:04:05,840 --> 02:04:09,640
Speaker 1: How you doing? Thanks Steve, that's an interesting question. Hey,

2599
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:12,320
Speaker 1: Chris Brown sits down with head coach Sean McDermott. Every

2600
02:04:12,360 --> 02:04:15,440
Speaker 1: week has little Tim Horton's Coffee Time. Now for Coffee

2601
02:04:15,480 --> 02:04:17,920
Speaker 1: with the Coach, presented by Tim Hortons, tim Horton's Cafe

2602
02:04:17,960 --> 02:04:23,040
Speaker 1: in Bakeshop, the official coffee of the Buffalo Bills. Hello, everybody,

2603
02:04:23,160 --> 02:04:25,680
Speaker 1: Welcome to the week three edition of Coffee with the Coach,

2604
02:04:25,760 --> 02:04:28,120
Speaker 1: presented by Jim Hortons. I'm Chris Brown along with Bill's

2605
02:04:28,120 --> 02:04:30,920
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott as the Bills begin a two

2606
02:04:31,040 --> 02:04:34,280
Speaker 1: game road swing through the NFC North, beginning with the

2607
02:04:34,400 --> 02:04:36,920
Speaker 1: Vikings in Minnesota this weekend. Coach is always thanks for

2608
02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:39,120
Speaker 1: being with us. So, Coach, I know right after the

2609
02:04:39,240 --> 02:04:42,320
Speaker 1: game you pointed to the slow start that your team

2610
02:04:42,400 --> 02:04:44,240
Speaker 1: got off to and how much that cost you in

2611
02:04:44,320 --> 02:04:46,920
Speaker 1: the game. Playing catchup the whole time with all the

2612
02:04:47,000 --> 02:04:49,840
Speaker 1: preparation that goes into getting ready for a game at

2613
02:04:49,880 --> 02:04:52,280
Speaker 1: the end of the week. Is there any way to

2614
02:04:52,640 --> 02:04:56,560
Speaker 1: ensure getting a faster starting games? Well, we try, it's

2615
02:04:56,600 --> 02:04:58,840
Speaker 1: not always. Nothing's guaranteed in this league. It's a it's

2616
02:04:58,840 --> 02:05:01,840
Speaker 1: a competitive league and for good reason. There's there's quality

2617
02:05:01,880 --> 02:05:05,400
Speaker 1: people and professionals in this in this business. But you know, listen,

2618
02:05:05,440 --> 02:05:09,200
Speaker 1: we didn't play complimentary football last week, and that's something

2619
02:05:09,280 --> 02:05:11,400
Speaker 1: we have to do. When I say complimentary football, person

2620
02:05:11,560 --> 02:05:14,160
Speaker 1: talking about the defense setting up the offense, the offense

2621
02:05:14,200 --> 02:05:16,720
Speaker 1: setting up the defense, and the special teams doing their

2622
02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:20,240
Speaker 1: part as well. Is there an overriding message that you

2623
02:05:20,360 --> 02:05:22,600
Speaker 1: have in mind for the team this week? I mean,

2624
02:05:22,640 --> 02:05:25,480
Speaker 1: I know complimentary football is a frequent message of yours,

2625
02:05:25,600 --> 02:05:28,400
Speaker 1: just as a reminder. Is there something that you pulled from,

2626
02:05:28,920 --> 02:05:30,320
Speaker 1: you know, the game this week that you want to

2627
02:05:30,360 --> 02:05:32,360
Speaker 1: deliver to them. I just think overall the energy that

2628
02:05:32,440 --> 02:05:34,320
Speaker 1: I saw in the second half, we can do a

2629
02:05:34,400 --> 02:05:36,880
Speaker 1: lot with that. And it's hard to accomplish anything in

2630
02:05:36,960 --> 02:05:40,280
Speaker 1: life if you don't have the right energy or positive energy.

2631
02:05:40,320 --> 02:05:43,520
Speaker 1: And that goes a long ways in terms of getting

2632
02:05:43,600 --> 02:05:45,960
Speaker 1: us on the track we need to be on now.

2633
02:05:46,040 --> 02:05:47,520
Speaker 1: Some fun and I'm going to try to do a

2634
02:05:47,600 --> 02:05:51,160
Speaker 1: better job here with the word association. It was embarrassingly brief.

2635
02:05:51,440 --> 02:05:54,400
Speaker 1: So that was my execution, not yours. So when I

2636
02:05:54,520 --> 02:05:57,320
Speaker 1: say Minnesota Vikings, what are the first couple of words

2637
02:05:57,360 --> 02:06:00,400
Speaker 1: that come to my challenging opponent? Challenging a ball? Okay?

2638
02:06:00,520 --> 02:06:08,640
Speaker 1: How about Kirk Cousins, a veteran free agent, very capable

2639
02:06:08,720 --> 02:06:15,000
Speaker 1: quarterback off to a great start. Mike Zimmer, respected in

2640
02:06:15,200 --> 02:06:19,480
Speaker 1: charge defensive head coach that has had, that's been on

2641
02:06:19,560 --> 02:06:22,800
Speaker 1: the journey that I feel like i'm embarking on. You know,

2642
02:06:22,840 --> 02:06:26,880
Speaker 1: he's had success, he's had some like any head coach

2643
02:06:26,960 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 1: you've had, he's had some moments and where he's had

2644
02:06:29,640 --> 02:06:33,160
Speaker 1: to study the ship. And I admire that about coach Zimmer.

2645
02:06:33,320 --> 02:06:35,640
Speaker 1: And then a guy that played in a familiar place

2646
02:06:35,720 --> 02:06:39,160
Speaker 1: for you, Harrison Smith. One of the quality safeties in

2647
02:06:39,240 --> 02:06:42,080
Speaker 1: this league. It's been fun to watch him over the years.

2648
02:06:42,800 --> 02:06:46,040
Speaker 1: Very smart, heady player, also physical and can change change

2649
02:06:46,080 --> 02:06:48,400
Speaker 1: a game like that. All right, very good coach, you

2650
02:06:48,520 --> 02:06:50,720
Speaker 1: did a much better job. I think this week now

2651
02:06:50,760 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 1: it's time for our fan question. Where are you the

2652
02:06:53,280 --> 02:06:56,000
Speaker 1: fan get a chance to ask coach a question about

2653
02:06:56,080 --> 02:06:59,240
Speaker 1: the team. This week's question comes from JP on Twitter,

2654
02:06:59,600 --> 02:07:02,120
Speaker 1: who asked, coach, a lot of fans are concerned with

2655
02:07:02,240 --> 02:07:05,000
Speaker 1: the offensive line in terms of protecting our quarterback and

2656
02:07:05,320 --> 02:07:07,960
Speaker 1: in the running game. Do you feel comfortable with the

2657
02:07:08,040 --> 02:07:12,320
Speaker 1: current group? Well, we're always looking at different combinations. I

2658
02:07:12,440 --> 02:07:15,960
Speaker 1: know those guys are working extremely hard, and there's moments

2659
02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:17,880
Speaker 1: where we've done a good job of it to this point,

2660
02:07:17,920 --> 02:07:20,800
Speaker 1: there's moments where we haven't. And so as we continue

2661
02:07:20,880 --> 02:07:23,960
Speaker 1: to embrace that growth mindset, it's about growing and getting

2662
02:07:23,960 --> 02:07:28,720
Speaker 1: better every rep, every week, every game as we move forward.

2663
02:07:28,960 --> 02:07:30,720
Speaker 1: All Right, good enough, coach, good luck getting a big

2664
02:07:30,760 --> 02:07:32,760
Speaker 1: road win this week. Thanks Chris. All right, that's Bill's

2665
02:07:32,800 --> 02:07:35,280
Speaker 1: head coach, Sean McDermott And this has been Coffee with

2666
02:07:35,320 --> 02:07:37,920
Speaker 1: the Coach, presented by Tim Hortons. Thanks for watching. We'll

2667
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:40,880
Speaker 1: see you next week. Coffee of the Coach presented by

2668
02:07:40,920 --> 02:07:43,320
Speaker 1: Tim Morton's Cafe and Big Champ, the official Coffee of

2669
02:07:43,360 --> 02:07:46,680
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. What do you think? Yeah, he's right,

2670
02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:48,920
Speaker 1: I mean that's they're still I think that culture in

2671
02:07:49,000 --> 02:07:51,000
Speaker 1: that in the locker room, it's it's going to serve

2672
02:07:51,080 --> 02:07:53,960
Speaker 1: from well at some point because they are all kind

2673
02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:56,040
Speaker 1: of chirping the same thing. They're trying to get better,

2674
02:07:56,120 --> 02:07:58,480
Speaker 1: trying to get better, and they're working really hard at it.

2675
02:07:58,560 --> 02:08:00,960
Speaker 1: And we've evidenced that. We we watched these guys in

2676
02:08:01,040 --> 02:08:02,720
Speaker 1: and out of this building and there they've got their

2677
02:08:02,760 --> 02:08:06,120
Speaker 1: noses on the grindstone. So I think there's it's inevitable

2678
02:08:06,160 --> 02:08:07,600
Speaker 1: that they're going to see some results from you know,

2679
02:08:07,640 --> 02:08:09,600
Speaker 1: it strikes me and talking to Trent Murphy today about it,

2680
02:08:09,600 --> 02:08:11,240
Speaker 1: and din't even all week long we've been around here,

2681
02:08:11,640 --> 02:08:15,560
Speaker 1: and is displeased and discouraged as fans are, and and

2682
02:08:15,760 --> 02:08:18,520
Speaker 1: upset about losing. You know who feels worse, Yeah, those

2683
02:08:18,560 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 1: those players in the locker room feel worse about the

2684
02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:22,680
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the coaching staff as well. You know

2685
02:08:22,720 --> 02:08:25,320
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I think people sometimes get the sense

2686
02:08:25,360 --> 02:08:28,840
Speaker 1: that they don't care. They care, and it hurts. I

2687
02:08:28,920 --> 02:08:31,000
Speaker 1: think it hurts a lot to lose, especially the way

2688
02:08:31,320 --> 02:08:33,480
Speaker 1: they've lost. You know, you lose the first two and

2689
02:08:33,600 --> 02:08:35,800
Speaker 1: you lose that way, the way they you know, gave

2690
02:08:35,920 --> 02:08:38,960
Speaker 1: up all those points in two games. Yeah, I think

2691
02:08:39,000 --> 02:08:43,400
Speaker 1: that really hurts this group. Yeah, because they're fully invested

2692
02:08:43,440 --> 02:08:45,200
Speaker 1: in and I think you know, you talk about players

2693
02:08:45,240 --> 02:08:48,360
Speaker 1: who've bought in and all, yeah, not they really. I

2694
02:08:48,440 --> 02:08:51,080
Speaker 1: mean this is it was evidence last year and by

2695
02:08:51,120 --> 02:08:53,080
Speaker 1: the players who are who are here for the second year,

2696
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:56,280
Speaker 1: I mean, they were all immersed in what was going

2697
02:08:56,360 --> 02:08:59,160
Speaker 1: on with this team. Last year. They were absolutely completely

2698
02:08:59,240 --> 02:09:01,120
Speaker 1: sold out. You saw in the reaction when they found

2699
02:09:01,160 --> 02:09:02,920
Speaker 1: out they were getting in the playoffs and the most

2700
02:09:03,000 --> 02:09:07,640
Speaker 1: unlikely of scenarios and they got in. How together they were.

2701
02:09:07,800 --> 02:09:10,080
Speaker 1: You saw different signs of it last year when they win,

2702
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, and they won. Let's face it, last year

2703
02:09:12,080 --> 02:09:16,000
Speaker 1: they won a lot of unexpected football games, going into Atlanta,

2704
02:09:16,240 --> 02:09:20,600
Speaker 1: beating Kansas City, the Raiders game here, there was a

2705
02:09:20,680 --> 02:09:23,600
Speaker 1: lot of games where going into those games and the

2706
02:09:23,640 --> 02:09:26,160
Speaker 1: early in the season, people were thinking, okay, it was

2707
02:09:26,200 --> 02:09:28,200
Speaker 1: like this first four game stretch of this season, I

2708
02:09:28,240 --> 02:09:30,240
Speaker 1: don't know if against you know, see a victory there,

2709
02:09:30,320 --> 02:09:34,360
Speaker 1: you know it's and they won those games. So when

2710
02:09:34,400 --> 02:09:36,280
Speaker 1: these teams come up short, when these guys come up

2711
02:09:36,320 --> 02:09:40,360
Speaker 1: short and this building, yeah, I think they really feel

2712
02:09:40,360 --> 02:09:43,000
Speaker 1: a deep and I think but on the other hand,

2713
02:09:43,840 --> 02:09:46,800
Speaker 1: because this culture is what it is, they kind of

2714
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:50,760
Speaker 1: quickly flip that page and they come together and they

2715
02:09:51,120 --> 02:09:53,960
Speaker 1: start looking ahead, you know, and they they do all

2716
02:09:54,120 --> 02:09:56,960
Speaker 1: everything right. And that's unfortunately doing everything right. It's not

2717
02:09:57,080 --> 02:10:00,240
Speaker 1: a not a guarantee of a win. Success. Hey, The

2718
02:10:00,240 --> 02:10:04,000
Speaker 1: Bill's injury report is out. The practice participation report for today.

2719
02:10:04,640 --> 02:10:07,760
Speaker 1: A total of three players missing practice today, one of

2720
02:10:07,800 --> 02:10:10,000
Speaker 1: them Shack Lawson who did not practice last week. He

2721
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Speaker 1: did not practice today with his hamstring. Rest days for

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander and Kyl Williams. And then a list of

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Speaker 1: six other Bills players limited with their work today, including

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Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy with the rib injury. He is limited today,

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Speaker 1: Calvin Benjamin limited with the hip, Phillip Gaines, and tarn

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Speaker 1: Johnson the two corners both limited. Gains with his elbow,

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Speaker 1: Johnson with his shoulder, running back time On Jones limited

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Speaker 1: with the head injury, and wide Reshiver Ray Ray McCloud

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Speaker 1: limited with the knee injury. That's the updated Bill's injury report.

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Speaker 1: The practice report for injuries. We're back at a moment.

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Speaker 1: We talked with Pete Versage today. He's a color man

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings Radio Network. Played linebacker for the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings and played under Dennis Green, longtime coach of the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: who passed away about two years ago. On Sunday, at

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Speaker 1: halftime on the Vikings Ring of Honor, they will put

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Speaker 1: up Dennis Green's name to honor him at halftime of

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Speaker 1: the Bills Vikings game. And Pete Versage had some thoughts

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Speaker 1: about Dennis Green and how he was as a coach.

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Speaker 1: I think if you look at Denny and his legacy,

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Speaker 1: you look at the guys that coached to pour him,

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Speaker 1: who went on and continue to coach, whether it's Donee

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Speaker 1: or Pillick or Jack del Rio or Mike Tye. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's so many guys. You know I'm coaching. I'm the

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Speaker 1: head coach at the high school local high school here

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Speaker 1: named Saint Paul. You know, we were all inspired by Denny.

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Speaker 1: I mean he had an attitude, he had a way

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Speaker 1: about him. He could seat talent and he could just

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Speaker 1: keep a group together. So he you know, Denny was

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Speaker 1: you know, I played BA was with the Bike for

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Speaker 1: seven seasons and we never had a losing season. Eight

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Speaker 1: May was the worst that we ever did. So we had,

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Speaker 1: you know, we had a good group and we had,

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty good teams under Denny. He versuge on

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Speaker 1: Dennis Green, he'll be honored at halftime on Sunday. Also

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Speaker 1: on the show today, Trent Murphy, Bill's defensive end stopped

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Speaker 1: into the studio. He says, despite the fact that Bills

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Speaker 1: are owing two, they still got it, they still got

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Speaker 1: their culture moving forward. Nothing has ever happened overnight. And

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Speaker 1: in one year in Washington we started owing too and

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Speaker 1: we made the playoffs that year. So you can't abandon ship.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a long season. All of a sudden

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Speaker 1: you start going one and over the rest of the season,

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Speaker 1: where are we now? Nobody remembers the first two, so

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Speaker 1: you got to learn from it and prove you can

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Speaker 1: never be the same team you were in the week prior,

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Speaker 1: and you just keep moving forward. So you know, they

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Speaker 1: stay loud on Sunday. We'll keep working every day and

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Speaker 1: show up and we'll be right where we need to be.

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Speaker 1: See where it goes a lot of season left. Our

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Speaker 1: Twitter polls, we asked you what's the most important thing

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen needs to do in a second career Start

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Speaker 1: this Sunday on Twitter. Forty five percent of you said

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Speaker 1: the most important thing he's get the ball out quicker.

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Speaker 1: Forty percent say just keep going, continue with the progress,

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Speaker 1: ten percent use more short passes, five percent said something else.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen on our show tomorrow after practice, Steve, that'll

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Speaker 1: be good. Yeah, And it'll be good to see if

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Speaker 1: if any of those things happen to the choices we have.

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Speaker 1: But I like the fact that a lot of people

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Speaker 1: just think, hey, man, just keep on keeping on, because

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Speaker 1: that shows that they see some positive things in him,

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Speaker 1: that he's done already and he is improving, and we'll

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Speaker 1: see if that continues. It's it's gonna be fun to watch. Yep,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. With two Hall of famers on

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Speaker 1: our show tomorrow schedule, Thurman Thomas, we'll join us tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: John Randall, longtime Minnesota Viking. Also Tracy Wilson from the

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Speaker 1: NFL on CBS joins us tomorrow. Make sure you tune

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Speaker 1: in at noon. Our production assistants George Blast, Jeff Colt,

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Speaker 1: Nick Thomas, Donalder, Kelly Rude, JJ Tarito, Kevin Kartiss and

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Speaker 1: James Robold Our producer Jay Harris. We are back here

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at twelve noon One Bill's Live from One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Drive on Fellow Bills Radio m HM