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Speaker 1: the strated fere of normalcy. All right, It's Friday, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

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Speaker 1: and we know what Friday means. It's the obil fan mailbag,

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Speaker 1: we've got a new addition, Steve of Tasker's summate, coming

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Speaker 1: When are we doing that bottom of this hour or

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Speaker 1: happy to also tell you that we've got your resident

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Speaker 1: Nick Harrison, who hails all the way from Louisiana, but

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Speaker 1: how his head banging routine in the front seat of

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who don't believe in him.

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Speaker 1: They think it's just not there, it's just not the guy,

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Speaker 1: you know. But they're going to give him another year.

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Speaker 1: And from what I've heard, he's worked at it, so

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Speaker 1: that usually means the guy does get better. Yeah. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Jet, we'll see, we'll see. I'm I'm interested in

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Speaker 1: and finding out. I'm I think the Jets are really

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Speaker 1: good story this year. Yeah, they'll be interesting to watch

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Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. I mean with a lot of

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Speaker 1: new talent added there, and their free agent acquisitions are

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Speaker 1: kind of under the radar. Good. I liked some of

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Speaker 1: what they did in free agency this year, so it'd

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see to what degree they can improve here.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, it is Obel Friday Fan Mailbag Day,

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Speaker 1: which means you need to get your questions into us

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Speaker 1: on the bills, the NFL, anything you have on your mind.

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Speaker 1: Stephen here to answer those for you, and we'll crack

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Speaker 1: the mail bag open here now before we go to break,

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Speaker 1: just to get things warmed up and started. And Rick

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00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: begins with having read about rookies having to pay enormous

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Speaker 1: dinner checks as part of their NFL initiation by veterans.

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Speaker 1: I was wondering if Steve could share any rookie pranks

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Speaker 1: he was part of or took part in during his

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Speaker 1: time in the NFL. Uh, we didn't do that. Everybody

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Speaker 1: had to sing songs. Um, okay, well, Jef, you used

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Speaker 1: to sing your alma mater or something, yeah or something

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Speaker 1: of that. In nature. I actually got up and I

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Speaker 1: sang a Rugby song that was so disgusting. They didn't

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Speaker 1: ask me to sing again, so I kind of dirty. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I outsmarted him. And because you're in training, can We're

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Speaker 1: in San Angelo, Texas. It's one hundred yeh stores. I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure it was one hundred and sixty three degrees

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Speaker 1: outside and we're eating in this college cafeteria, and they

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Speaker 1: had actually had a stage set for the guy. So

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Speaker 1: once a day, once every somebody had to get up

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Speaker 1: and sing. Um. So it was my turn, and I

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Speaker 1: sang a rugby song that is unmentionable, and it got

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Speaker 1: me out the rest of the year. Nice. Um. Any

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Speaker 1: kind of rookie show, because a lot of times, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we end of training camp, they're asked to put together

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Speaker 1: a performance or a skid of sorts where they're usually

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Speaker 1: impersonating coaches or veteran players. Exactly what we did, you know,

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Speaker 1: just kind of made fun of all the old guys

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Speaker 1: and the coaches. Who'd you have to be? Mike Renfrowers,

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Speaker 1: I was actually, uh, Tommy Thompson. Yeah, the receiver too,

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Speaker 1: or no, he was the former guy, the guy that

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Speaker 1: was the present gem of the Green Bay Packers for

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Speaker 1: years ago. Okay, that's not right. That's ted ted Thompson,

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Speaker 1: Teddy Teddy Thompson. So Teddy was on the team and

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Speaker 1: he was a tenure vet and even then he had

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Speaker 1: silver hair as so did you get a wig and everything?

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Speaker 1: I was just grandpa? Okay, so maybe yeah I did.

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Speaker 1: I did the old man thing. Yeah, um. And I

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Speaker 1: also later on in the same skit, I portrayed the

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Speaker 1: head coach cutting him because they had drafted his grandkid. So, um,

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So Teddy Thompson was a target

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Speaker 1: of us. Uh yeah, all right, very easy. Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. I like it. Um, that was an interesting

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Speaker 1: approach on your behalf. But why is at the same time,

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Speaker 1: because it got you out any further? Well, it's if

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be embarrassing, you may as well hit a

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Speaker 1: home run. Fair enough, fair enough, all right, We got

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Speaker 1: to take a break here, but we'll get to more

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Speaker 1: of your Friday Fan mail Bag questions when we return.

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Speaker 1: If you have a question in mind, then you want

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Speaker 1: to give us a call. You can do that as well.

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Speaker 1: Fan Friday mail Bag is open. We'll get to more

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Speaker 1: of your questions next Here on One Bill's Live. I'm

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalota Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back One Bill's Live. It is o b L

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Speaker 1: Fan Friday Mailbag, and we get back to the questions

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Speaker 1: that you submitted first on the tweet sheet, but if

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Speaker 1: you have a question and you want to give us

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Speaker 1: a call, that as an option as well. Eight O

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Speaker 1: fifty open line for you there. From Bill's News, the

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Speaker 1: Bills seemed focused on hitting the ground running in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. How big of a hurdle will it be

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Speaker 1: for Dorsey to implement the added pieces on offense and

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Speaker 1: how much time does Alan need to get in sync

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Speaker 1: with Crowder, Howard and Cook. Yeah, it's interesting to think about.

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Speaker 1: I know that he did it really quickly with Steph Diggs.

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Speaker 1: You know, we all remember the story about how that

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Speaker 1: they became best buddies playing video games together. When you

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Speaker 1: got three of them who may be on the field

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Speaker 1: a lot like Crowder, Howard and Cook. I think what

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Speaker 1: happens is the way an offensive coordinator can help with

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Speaker 1: that is scheme those guys so they get open, so

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Speaker 1: Josh sees it, throws it to them, and do it

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Speaker 1: again and again and again. And the more times you

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Speaker 1: do that, when you're really doing it one hundred competitively,

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Speaker 1: then you start doing it. And then when you then

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Speaker 1: when you start trusting them with you know, tougher catches,

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Speaker 1: tighter throws, harder routes, to thin smaller windows, and they

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Speaker 1: keep coming through with that as when you know, when

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Speaker 1: the trust starts to happen and then it becomes like

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it to him under any circumstances. But

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Speaker 1: it takes, and it takes all of those things to

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Speaker 1: go through to get to the point where you think

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Speaker 1: they have these finger quote chemistry things going. I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty confident they'll have it all tied up by the

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Speaker 1: time they to the regular season. Here's the reason why.

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Speaker 1: If you remember, back in twenty nineteen, Cole Beasley signs

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Speaker 1: with the team in free agency and he has core

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Speaker 1: muscle surgery basically sports hernia surgery in April. He misses

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Speaker 1: all of OTAs he misses the mini camp. He basically

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Speaker 1: has training camp for he and Josh Allen to get

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Speaker 1: on the same page develop some kind of chemistry, and

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Speaker 1: they successfully did that. He had like seventy something catches

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Speaker 1: that first year in Buffalo and they, you know, they

536
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Speaker 1: were a ten win team, got to the playoffs. So

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Speaker 1: all three of these guys, Crowder, Howard, and Cook have

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Speaker 1: all had the whole spring with Josh Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if how many reps Cook got because a lot

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Speaker 1: of times rookies aren't automatically thrown in with the first

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Speaker 1: team offense. So maybe he's had a few less than

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Speaker 1: the rest of the guys, the veterans, But I don't

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Speaker 1: have any concerns about them getting in sync with Josh

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Speaker 1: and think haill happen in due course and they'll be fine,

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Speaker 1: depending on the role that he When you have when

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Speaker 1: you have really talented players, and we used to talk

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Speaker 1: about this all the time during the drought years and stuff,

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Speaker 1: and they weren't talented players, you know, we're talking with

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Speaker 1: guys who weren't really gifted or proven players like that.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about Jamison Crowd or a guy who's played

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Speaker 1: against the Bills and played well in the league for

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Speaker 1: eight years. And you're talking talking about um, you know, O. J.

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Speaker 1: Howard who's supremely gifted and physically and with speed and

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Speaker 1: Jilli all that stuff, and James Cook, who is a

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Speaker 1: high round draft pick with some talent. And here's a thing,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about a quarterback. So the Bills have Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: When these when guys like that who are really talented,

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Speaker 1: like Steph Diggs like Cole Beasley was when he came in.

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Speaker 1: When you're talking about really talented players, they can win

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Speaker 1: their part of the play. They're gonna come open and

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Speaker 1: the quarterback because of because it's Josh, it's gonna like, okay,

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Speaker 1: put the ball on him. Well, you both see each

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Speaker 1: other as this talented player, and when you ask him

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Speaker 1: to do something, you think, yeah, he's gonna win for sure.

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Speaker 1: That's that is chemistry. So it's easy for really really

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Speaker 1: talented players to get it really really fast because both

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Speaker 1: ends of the play are getting won by the most

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Speaker 1: talented guy, and it's hard to win that matchup on

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Speaker 1: either end of the play. Let alone happen to make

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Speaker 1: a quarterback thread the needle or have a guy get

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Speaker 1: open against somebody who's a better dB than you are

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver that on both ends of the that

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Speaker 1: play with Josh and Crowder or Howard or Cook, they

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Speaker 1: win both ends of the play because of the talent level.

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Speaker 1: That's that's chemistry, that's just being better, and so that's

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Speaker 1: why it's it doesn't take as long in this day

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Speaker 1: and age with these guys as it did back when

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Speaker 1: you've got you know, JP Lossman and some guy. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it took a while for those guys to figure out

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Speaker 1: how to win against players that one or the other

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Speaker 1: both were better than the two of them. Yeah. The

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Speaker 1: thing here is Cook and Crowder, granted at different levels

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Speaker 1: of football, are proven separators when running routes. I think

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Speaker 1: Howard has some proving to do there coming off of

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Speaker 1: the Achilles injury. The question in training camp is going

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Speaker 1: to be does he have his explosiveness back now two

587
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Speaker 1: years removed from achilles surgery because it did not return

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Speaker 1: last year for him, which is why Tampa thought he

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Speaker 1: was expendable. Can he get it all back? Can he

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Speaker 1: be the full athletic specimen that he was coming out

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Speaker 1: in the draft. That is the question that he'll have

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Speaker 1: to answer in training camp. If so, you're three for

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Speaker 1: three there, and what you said is in terms of

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Speaker 1: what establishes chemistry will be there for all three of

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Speaker 1: those players, regardless of how big or small their role is,

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the key here. So right, But

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Speaker 1: that one's to be determined, which will be interesting. Trevor

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Speaker 1: from the mail Bag asks him, I the only one

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Speaker 1: worried about cornerback depth. Obviously the elam pick Helps, but

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Speaker 1: I would have liked to see one more established corner

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Speaker 1: on the roster, like a James Bradberry for example. Bradberry's

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Speaker 1: no longer an option. He signed with Philadelphia after the

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Speaker 1: Giants released him in a salary cap maneuver, so he

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Speaker 1: is off the table even as an option right now.

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Speaker 1: And I think with the cap space that the Bills

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Speaker 1: have remaining, which is just a shade over five million dollars,

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Speaker 1: that's the amount that Brandon being typically likes to keep

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Speaker 1: in reserve in the event that there's a rash of injuries,

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Speaker 1: and he wants the ability to go and sign some

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Speaker 1: player out on the street that you know, still has

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Speaker 1: some value and probably shouldn't even be on the street

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Speaker 1: to supplement the roster. But you know, all things considered,

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Speaker 1: what is your interpretation of the Bill saying, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we're good here? After drafting kayr Elam and Christian Benford

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Speaker 1: out of Villanova, they drafted two corners. Should we interpret this,

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Speaker 1: Steve like just with them standing pads outside of adding

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Speaker 1: the two draft choices? Should we interpret this as this

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Speaker 1: is a good this means good things for Tardevious White's

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Speaker 1: recovery is that where we interpret from this or do

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Speaker 1: we interpret there's some young vets on the roster that

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Speaker 1: are ready, willing and able to be capable back. I

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Speaker 1: think it's you and I I think for me, I

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Speaker 1: think it's they like the guys they have. They've got

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Speaker 1: Kayr Elam, They've got Dane Jackson, tarn Johnson, Tredevius White.

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Speaker 1: Those are your top four, right. You've got Nick McLeod

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Speaker 1: serand Neil JaMarcus Ingram, Tim Harris. Sam Lewis is the

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Speaker 1: guy that comes to mind for me here, uh Trayvon

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Speaker 1: Fuller and of course the guy you mentioned, which was

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Speaker 1: Christian Benford. They've got enough guys on the roster, and

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Speaker 1: I think I think Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean can

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Speaker 1: look around and say, who's you know are like during

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Speaker 1: these OTAs and all the things that they've been doing.

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Speaker 1: Physically you can't compete, I get it, But you can

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Speaker 1: athletically evaluate these guys. You can athletic you can evaluate

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Speaker 1: them mentally. You can see what they've picked up, the

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Speaker 1: kind of mistakes they've made and the mistakes they don't make.

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Speaker 1: So I think they've got a handle on what these

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks can do now. US. Unlike US, they also know

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Speaker 1: they can get it from their coaching staff, Zalgado and

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Speaker 1: all the guys what they think they can get out

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Speaker 1: of them where they think there'd be not today as

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Speaker 1: an OTA or an undrafted rookie free agent. But can

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Speaker 1: they become as good or better than Levi Wallace did

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Speaker 1: for us? Can we get that out of some of

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Speaker 1: these guys? Or are all these guys guys like Dane Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Tarn Johnson, Kayer Elam and all these others. Are there

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Speaker 1: guys on the roster who are better athletically who could

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Speaker 1: step in and a pitch where we stand that way?

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Speaker 1: And I think that tells you more than anything. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think it has to do specifically with Trdavious White,

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Speaker 1: although he's in the mix, of course. I think it

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Speaker 1: has to do with what they think they've got on

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Speaker 1: the roster now and how much they can get out

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Speaker 1: of them, and when they'll have to get it out

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Speaker 1: of him. When they do, I think they think there's

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Speaker 1: enough time. I think they have enough confidence in their

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Speaker 1: player development and from what they've seen of the guys

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Speaker 1: they've got that. You know what I think A and B.

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Speaker 1: You know when you get past kayre Elam, Taren Johnson

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Speaker 1: and Dane Jackson. I think they're looking at the rest

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Speaker 1: those guys going, you know what, there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys in there that got a chance and that's really

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Speaker 1: all you need. Well right, And you know we've said

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Speaker 1: it before, the player development here has been outstanding since

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott's arrival. And they groom players to fill roles

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Speaker 1: in a backup capacity, so in the event that they

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Speaker 1: are needed, they come onto the field and the drop

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Speaker 1: off is minimal. And much like they have groomed some

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Speaker 1: players at the safety position who have been here for

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Speaker 1: a couple of years now, Jaquan Johnson, I mean this

671
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Speaker 1: is his third season, fourth season, and you've got Josh

672
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Speaker 1: Thomas going into his third season, two years on the

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Speaker 1: practice squad, and you've got tomar Hamlin entering a second season,

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Speaker 1: you know, former late round draft choice. It's similar at

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Speaker 1: the cornerback position. Got cam Lewis, who is entering his

676
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Speaker 1: fourth NFL season. He's been an undrafted player on this

677
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Speaker 1: roster for the better part of the last three years,

678
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Speaker 1: mostly on the practice squad, but has gotten a game

679
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Speaker 1: or two here in the regular season. In his career.

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Speaker 1: Tim Harris is entering his fifth NFL season. He was

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Speaker 1: here last year. And then you've got guys like Nick McLeod,

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Speaker 1: who you mentioned undrafted last year, rookie made the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: was poached by Cincinnati, was on their active roster for

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Speaker 1: about half the season, then released, came back here, knows

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Speaker 1: this defense. So there are a handful of players behind

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Speaker 1: the front four. If they believe in their player development

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Speaker 1: and really believe they've brought these players along to where

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Speaker 1: they can fill immediate backup roles, They're gonna stick with

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Speaker 1: the guys they've got and feel confident about it. So

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Speaker 1: good on them for developing these players and having guys

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Speaker 1: in the pipeline. We've got to take a break here

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Speaker 1: when we come back. Morrior Comments and questions from the

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Speaker 1: presented by Kaloid of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, all right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bill's Live and Steve you are

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Speaker 1: you know are resident golfing expert on this show. I

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Speaker 1: took issue with something that I saw at a tournament

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Speaker 1: just yesterday. Television coverage revealed a runaway golf cart and

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Speaker 1: there was a course worker on site had full view

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Speaker 1: of the runaway golf cart right and in my estimation,

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Speaker 1: failed miserably to common deer said, golf cart, Jam on

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Speaker 1: the brake and keep it from going into the water.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, look at that. Yeah, our MSG viewers are

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Speaker 1: watching a golf cart right there, careening down the hill. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is called this is called not springing into action.

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Speaker 1: By the time he even approached the runaway golf cart,

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Speaker 1: it was only ten feet from the water. This thing

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Speaker 1: was coming across the top of the ridge for about

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Speaker 1: fifty yards at this point in time, as a as

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Speaker 1: a golf club worker, spring into action. Friend, get up

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Speaker 1: that hill and hop at the thing. Okay, here's my

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Speaker 1: evaluation right here, lack of awareness really put him out

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Speaker 1: of position to make the play. There's a card with

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Speaker 1: no driver. What do we have to be aware of?

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Speaker 1: Lack of awareness? And then on top of that, a

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Speaker 1: serious lack of commitment to actually making a difference on

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Speaker 1: this play leads to him being cut from our roster.

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Speaker 1: This is I mean, this is that guy can't make

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Speaker 1: my team. See that. If you see that thing coming

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00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: down the hill, like right here, you gotta go across

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Speaker 1: those weeds. You gotta be committed, go get it now.

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Speaker 1: He's kind of try and kind of meet it. Like

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Speaker 1: when it gets to him, do you don't want to

728
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Speaker 1: know what you got? You gotta come back to the play,

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Speaker 1: pal and get there before that thing reaches the bro

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Speaker 1: That is it? That's on you? You know what I

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Speaker 1: call that efforts on you. That's a half ass effort

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Speaker 1: right there, that's in every sense of the word. That

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Speaker 1: he takes three steps in the direction the path that

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Speaker 1: the cart is taking and then stops and watches it,

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00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: watches it go right in the water, like you gotta

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Speaker 1: be high tailing it through that high rough you jump

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Speaker 1: in the here's the thing, And this is why I'm concerned. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's exactly right. This is a cart. Okay, Okay, So

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Speaker 1: it costs the club a little bit of money, you

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Speaker 1: replace the cart. Whatever he could have prevented that. What

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00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: happens if there is a real crisis. I have zero

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Speaker 1: faith in this man doing anything. You know, he's God

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Speaker 1: forgid somebody. Let's like, let's just say there's a storm

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Speaker 1: and maybe somebody gets struck by lightning. Out of this

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Speaker 1: am I gotta rely on this guy to help us.

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Speaker 1: We're doomed. Here's my thing that this is a card

747
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: of people who listen to radio. Let me just tell you.

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Speaker 1: It's a cart with no hood, no top. It's open.

749
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: It's like, there's no roof on it. Right, it's you

750
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: can jump in from the back and make it to

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00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: the front. So there's no way he there was anything

752
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: other than a runaway cart going across the course. Not

753
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Speaker 1: only is he like the last guy to do it,

754
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: there's like nobody there. I don't know where this thing

755
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: comes from he has. There's no nothing keeping him from

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00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: running right up that thing, jumping in from the side

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00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: or to the front or the back, whatever, and getting

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00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: to the break of this thing. These things could not

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00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: be simpler to operate. And that guy himself has probably

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Speaker 1: operated a hundred different golf carts, let alone the one

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Speaker 1: he watched roll by into the into the pond. There

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Speaker 1: is no excuse for a cart going this far out

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00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: of control and having this much time to like it

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00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: found its way down the hill and it kind of

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00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: followed the contour of the course because it was it

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00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: was undrive have to anticipate, right the laws of gravity.

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Speaker 1: Here you he is the last line of defense between

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Speaker 1: this thing hitting the water and costing the club money.

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Speaker 1: And his attitude for the whole thing was, oh, look

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Speaker 1: at that. Yeah, Oh it's coming over here. Should I

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Speaker 1: stop this? It's a black guy on TPC River Highlands

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Speaker 1: Golf Course at the Travelers Championship. The TC TPC River

773
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Speaker 1: Highlands Golf Course, hosting the PGA Travelers Championship this weekend

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00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: now has a big fat black eye from this guy

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00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: standing there like a dope looking at all the floating

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Speaker 1: gear in the pond. I mean, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you could damn it so bad. I don't know if

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00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: you can damn it. Come on, I don't know if

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00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: you could demonstrate. I don't know if there is a

780
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: better exercise eyes of being more useless in a given

781
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: situation anywhere else on a golf course. This is come on, man.

782
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: And then the best part is he takes two steps

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00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: towards the golf cart after it's completely submerged. Bubbles are

784
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: coming up to the surface of the water, and he's

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Speaker 1: not He's just standing there looking at it. He's looking,

786
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: how did that happen? How did that happen? He's because

787
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: you did nothing, you know nothing, you know, he looks

788
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: like he looks like Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy after

789
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: he just let in a touchdown ye standing or or

790
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: at the end of that game last year, how did

791
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 1: we run out of he said, how did we run

792
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: out of? Times? I don't get it. That is so bad.

793
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: This higher people with the urgency TPC. It's come on,

794
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, I know the thing's going a

795
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: little pretty fast for a golf cart, but it's a

796
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Speaker 1: golf cart. Bro. If you put a mat ato are

797
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: on a golf course, that's what he would look like. Yeah,

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00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: all he needed was a little suit of lights in

799
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: a cape and you put a set of horns on

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00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: the front of the golf cart and there you go.

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00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: It's bad. It's a it's a poor effort. It takes

802
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:21,479
Speaker 1: the golf cart literally five or six eight seconds to go.

803
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: But Steve Here's and he sits there and waits for it.

804
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 1: You're only watching the last eight seconds of this thing

805
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: making its way to the water. This thing was going

806
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: across the top of the ridge for so long the

807
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: commentators started talking about it. See like, oh, we gotta run.

808
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: It looks like, oh yeah, there's no one in that

809
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,959
Speaker 1: cart way. Then the camera cuts to it ten seconds later.

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Speaker 1: This was yesterday, right now, that's the opening day of

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00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: the tournament. There's gotta be a lot of people around.

812
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: Nobody can Nobody knows how to push a brake pedal.

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00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: It was. It was the worst effort I have ever seen.

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00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: Black Eye for the Terrible Sea River Highlands. I'm sorry.

815
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Speaker 1: I mean, they get they get zero. You gotta do

816
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: better than that, bro, you gotta do better than embarrassment.

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00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: Spring into action, my friend being, Come on, at least

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00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: try to be a hero. Yeah, ride the thing in

819
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: the water. I will be a here. You'll be like.

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00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: It'd be awesome if we go to the post game

821
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: and the guy says, yeah, I had my back turned.

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00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: I'm working security over here. I didn't see the cart,

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00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: you know, when it first escaped the golfers. I only

824
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: saw it after it was already coming down the ridge.

825
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: Even then, I'm trying to jump in that thing, and

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Speaker 1: if I gotta get a little wet to try to

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00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: stop it in time, I'm gonna do it. Well, you

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00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: gotta know too. He knew where the pond was. He's

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00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: walking right beside. Oh, he knew it, which is why

830
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: he waited till the thing got there. And all he

831
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: really did was he may as well just held up

832
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: he escorted it. He was waving it in a like,

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00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: go let's see how big a splash you make? Is

834
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: basically what he was doing. You gotta go out across

835
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: those weeds, you know, the heather and get it, got

836
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: to go meet it. It was a total He had

837
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: no interest in stop. That's the thing that's what gets you.

838
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: You had no interest is he kind of made like

839
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: the half effort like, yeah, I'll think about he had

840
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: no interest in stopping that cart. Oh well it went

841
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: in the water. What are you gonna do that it too.

842
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, it's so bad. It is. It's so

843
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: against everything that you know, the ways you want the

844
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: guy to be a hero. That's why I have to

845
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: consult you on this. I wanted to make sure I

846
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Speaker 1: was reading this one right. That right there is the

847
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: quintessential definition of being disappointed in what you're looking at. Yeah,

848
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: it's just a disappointment. It just blows your whole faith

849
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: in and what like some like the dad thing to

850
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: do right. That was an abject failure. That was an

851
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: abject failure. And it's disappointed. And now that the more

852
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: you talk about it, the more enraged you get it. Like,

853
00:50:55,719 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: come on, the more you talk about at, the more

854
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: upset you get, Like do something like throw your hat

855
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: at his leve, do something, Put a log in front

856
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,439
Speaker 1: of the tire, stick your foot out, ers, I'm gonna

857
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: let her run over your foot. At least you come

858
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: away with an injury like what I tried. I broke

859
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: my toe trying to stop. Ah, that was terrible. So

860
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: all right, we gotta take a break here. When we

861
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: come back, your resident Bills fan headbanger Nick Harrison, whose

862
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: video on TikTok went viral as he was headbanging in

863
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: a Bill's t shirt to rage against the machine. We

864
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: may have him go headbanging to a different tune in

865
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: just a second. Here on one Bill's Live presented by

866
00:51:43,920 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Oh yeah, we're

867
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: we're warming it up here. An hour number two, and

868
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: that man you saw a headbanging is probably someone a

869
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans. It's seen already as his TikTok

870
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: video went viral when he did it to rage against

871
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: the machine. He was kind enough to humor us with

872
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: a headbanging effort for the one Bills Live theme song,

873
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: and he's joining us now on the line. It is

874
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: one Nick Harrison, who I don't know, do you have

875
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: any other titles, Nick, besides your your resident Bills fan headbanger?

876
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: That's it seems like more people you'll know you buy

877
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 1: that moniker than anything else. I know you do some

878
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: football work for Grambling, So let me know how you doing.

879
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, man, how are you? A lot of

880
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: people know me as a pezzim. You could just call

881
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: me there, it's totally fine. Yeah, oh yeah, that's right.

882
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: The professor. Yeah, that's your handle on social Yeah. How

883
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: now where does that originate from? Well? I taught at

884
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: Grantley State University for a number of years in the

885
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 1: theater department, and that's I was working in sports radio

886
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: at the time at the same time, so they started

887
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: calling me the professor because I was a college and show.

888
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 1: All right, that makes sense, well, you're a kindred spirit

889
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: to us. Being on the radio and having some experience

890
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: doing that, When did you get an idea that this

891
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: that the head banging video like just blew it out

892
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: and you kind of hit on something. Well, I've been

893
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: I've been on TikTok for two years. Started as the

894
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: pandemic began, and uh, I you know, being in isolation,

895
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: I started doing these series of videos how to freak

896
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: out other parents in the pickup line because I was

897
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: an elementary school teacher and I was put into like

898
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: really hardcore rock songs and they really started to take

899
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 1: off and do well. And you know, the next thing

900
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: I know, I'm getting featured by different bands and uh

901
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: bet metal bands are approaching me to do videos headbanging

902
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: in the car. And then this one was just this

903
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: is the biggest one to date and it just absolutely

904
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: blew up and I couldn't be proud. Yeah, I think

905
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: I think you really sold it with the I mean

906
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: this this was a little bit choreographed. I mean, you know,

907
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,919
Speaker 1: the songs because you're you know, you're a hard rock

908
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: and a metal fan. But the towel, the water bottle,

909
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: you know, during the pause, I think is what really

910
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: sold it. Probably every middle age dude out there could

911
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 1: could relate, because after you're head banging as as fervently

912
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: as you were, people our age need to take a

913
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: break for a few seconds. So I think a lot

914
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: of people, uh that resonated with a lot of peoples

915
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: certainly did with me. Um because you're I mean, you

916
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: are way into it man, like you. This isn't for show.

917
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: This is just kind of like, this is what I do.

918
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: So what usually what usually prompts you nick to get

919
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: to this place where you just need to maybe blow

920
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: off some steam in the car? Well, you know, as

921
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: I said, I was in the education realm uh for

922
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: the past year. I was an administrator I know where

923
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: a different school and so just sometimes at the end

924
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: of the day, you're dealing with the kids all day.

925
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm a father as well, and as

926
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 1: you said, I'm you know, I'm in my forties. I

927
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 1: keep my tiel on me. I keep my water ballet

928
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: bottle on me at all times. So it's now that

929
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: wasn't just like a thing video. That's real life, my brother,

930
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: that's every day. I believe. It's crazy. Now, how do

931
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: you h you were Bills Geart doing all that. This

932
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: is how long you've been a Bills fan. Give us

933
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: your history of that. How that took place? Crazy enough

934
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: and started when I was a kid. You know, I'm

935
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: from Louisiana. But the first football game I remember watching

936
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: in full, Super Bowl twenty five, my uncle had invited

937
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: me over to watch it with him, and that's when

938
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: I fell in love with the Bills, and I've just

939
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: been a fan ever since. You know, I grew up

940
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: watching them. It was hard, you know, being in Louisiana,

941
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: But then Sunday Ticket changed my life. When I became

942
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: a grown man and I could just watch them every

943
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: week when I wanted to. And then I started going

944
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,720
Speaker 1: places to watch them, and I found other Bills fans

945
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: traveling doing football was granting state, Like you mentioned, I

946
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: was able to go to Bill's Backus bars and like

947
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: Dallas and Houston in any place that we would go.

948
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:25,479
Speaker 1: And then it really started to The love was always there,

949
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: but meeting up with Bills Mafia in New Orleans for

950
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Day game against the Saints is really what

951
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: just it just blew it into another stratosphere. Yeah, the

952
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia and the emergence of it and kind of

953
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 1: the affection they have for each other and their willingness

954
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: Unlike I always used this phrase, they have an affection

955
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: for each other that's unlike any other fan base. They

956
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,919
Speaker 1: kind of commiserate and all the good things and bad

957
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,919
Speaker 1: things and celebrated together. But you're going out and being

958
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: able to reach out, and particularly with social and the

959
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: way that as their presence on social you really have

960
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: been able to reach out to connect with the Mafia,

961
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: and that in and of itself has kind of given

962
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 1: it a chance to grow exponentially. It seems like from

963
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: our end, yes, absolutely, you know, before even getting a

964
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: chance to meet a lot of the Bills Mafia members,

965
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: I was I've been on Twitter for years and of

966
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: course linking up with Bills Mafia that way where it

967
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: really all started, and talking to people like Dale Reid

968
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: and Kristen Kimmick and Ashley Petty and you know, deep

969
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: members of the Mafia and being able to connect with

970
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,439
Speaker 1: them in that way, and then being able to meet

971
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: a lot of them over the past year. When I

972
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: went to New Orleans for the game, I got a

973
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: chance to meet Kimmick and Petty, but I met a

974
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: couple of other people of Kara and Andy Rendell, who

975
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: actually gifted me tickets to the Panthers game in Buffalo

976
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: as long as I could get there back in December,

977
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: and I was able to get a plane ticket, fly out,

978
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: go to the game tailgate with men was Le Mafia

979
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: even did a little karaoke with Mary Wilson Like it's

980
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: it's crazy like this past year. I'm sorry. It's a

981
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: close head group. Yeah, yes, it's it really is, and

982
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just thankful to be a part of it.

983
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: I noticed that in a couple of your videos, including

984
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: the one for Us, you have the Trade devious white

985
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: jersey on. I'm not surprised your your gravitate to the

986
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: Louisiana native. Uh. Is he unequivocally your favorite player on

987
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 1: the roster? And and who might be your your top choices,

988
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of favorite bills right now? Right now,

989
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: Trade is very high on the list. Uh. My favorite

990
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: bill of all time is Kyle Williams. Because Kyle Williams

991
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: right yeah, Like he's from Rustern, Louisiana, I'm from Grambling. Uh.

992
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: He he's a guy who was right down the road

993
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: and went to LSU. He's the Louisiana. Guy thrown through

994
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: and the epitome of what a Bills player is. You know,

995
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: lunch pale guy isn't go in do the work. Is

996
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: awesome and he's a great guy. On top of that,

997
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 1: very humble h Trey as far as guys on the

998
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: roster right now, Trey Josh Allen. Of course, I'm a

999
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 1: big fan of Gabe Davis. I love Gabe Davis. If

1000
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: you stought my Twitter, you'll see that tweet a million

1001
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: times over. Love me some Gabe Davis. Uh, just so

1002
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: many fantastic. Zach Moss was another guy that I really loved,

1003
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: Like I love a lot of these guys on the team,

1004
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: like the whole just I love the Bills, man. I

1005
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: can't It's hard to put it in the words. We

1006
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: love this team, love love love this team. What was

1007
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: the most Let's I'll just put it out there. What's

1008
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: this last offseason? The Bill and Brownie and I have

1009
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 1: had this conversation as well. You take Von Miller even

1010
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: out of the mix of the Buffalo Bills offseason, even

1011
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: though they signed him, and it's gotta be like, wow,

1012
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: it's it's a real epopper. They did it, But you

1013
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: take von Miller off that roster. We're making the contention

1014
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: of the Bills roster even without von Miller is better

1015
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: than it was twelve months ago at this time headed

1016
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: into the season, and would be a better team without

1017
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: von Miller headed into this season this year, even with

1018
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: the expectations they have, what do you think about this

1019
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: roster and then you know, obviously throw von Miller on

1020
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: top of it all. I think that I think the

1021
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: roster that they had this past year, even going into

1022
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 1: the offseason, was still one of the better rosters, if

1023
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: not the best roster in the league. With a little

1024
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 1: bit of misfortune in the playoffs leads to them not

1025
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: going any further than they did. I feel like the

1026
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: addition of von Miller, key free agents, resigning some guys,

1027
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 1: and of course the draft, it just it looks like

1028
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: a complete roster. It's especially with the old line moves.

1029
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: To me, that's what was really important. You got guys

1030
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: on the second team on the old line that could

1031
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: be starters or like the second team old line is

1032
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: like a starting line just about anywhere in the league,

1033
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: and that's extremely important going into this season because you

1034
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: gotta protect QB one and I just I love the

1035
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 1: moves that the Bills have been able to make this

1036
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: offseason in order to make the roster the way that

1037
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: it looks. Right. So Nick, who what what dates do

1038
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 1: you have circled on your calendar? Do what games do

1039
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 1: you anticipate getting to this season? If Fanny, I want

1040
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: to get to the season opener against the Titans, of course,

1041
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: I'd love to get. The one that I have circled

1042
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: that I'm definitely going to is UH Cincinnati on January second,

1043
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football against the Bengals. You know, Joe Joe Burrow,

1044
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: the LSU guy. I have a buddy of mine that

1045
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: owns a restaurant in Monroe who is a huge Bengals fan.

1046
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 1: And we said, because we were looked at the you know,

1047
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: you look at the schedule years in advance and say, Okay,

1048
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: this is a game I want to go to. This

1049
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: is a game I want to go to, and that

1050
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: game especially, and I want to go to the Jets

1051
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: game in the you know, because you have to go

1052
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: to a cold weather build game and I hate the Jets.

1053
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: So it just it all converges right there. That's exactly right,

1054
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: exactly which which if you could, if you could pick

1055
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 1: any one of them. What primetime game you want to

1056
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: go to us? I mean not the season over, I

1057
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: mean the hop Yeah that's cool. All right. Well, Nick,

1058
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's been communicated to you, but

1059
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: we're going to be changing our show open. Uh in

1060
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: the near future, probably right around training camp will have

1061
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: new music. We may need to press you into action

1062
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: one more time, Uh, in your headbanging exploits because I

1063
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: think it might be more fitting. I've I've heard a

1064
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,760
Speaker 1: sneak peak of this music Steve for our new show Open.

1065
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 1: I think it might be more fitting to Nick's genre

1066
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: of music. Um, I'm not promising rage against the machine

1067
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: level of intensity, but it's it's not far off. We

1068
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: went a little dirtier and grungier with our new show Open,

1069
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: so we may we may need to call on you

1070
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: again Nick in the near future, see if you might

1071
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: be able to help us out. So I hope you're

1072
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 1: you're ready, willing and able. Well, they got you, guys,

1073
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: have them a numbering the contact when we just hit

1074
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 1: me up. Yeah, hey man, it's what it's what you do,

1075
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 1: and you do it well. So, yes, sir, very much so,

1076
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you saying that, Nick Hope, So I

1077
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: hope a cross paths when you come up to a game.

1078
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: We'll look forward to seeing you give us another heads up.

1079
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: We'll give you a heads up and we'll touch base

1080
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 1: and get a chance to say hello in person. So

1081
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us today. Thank you guys for having me.

1082
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Go Bills, Roll Bills, enjoy your summer. Nick,

1083
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 1: that's Nick Harrison. You're a resident Bill's fan headbanger. You've

1084
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,919
Speaker 1: seen him on TikTok. Guys got over a million followers. Now.

1085
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: The coolest thing was when, uh, one of the band

1086
01:03:57,240 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: members from Rage against the Machine, Tom Morello, who I

1087
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: believe is one of their guitar players if I remember right,

1088
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: he actually retweeted him headbanging to Rage against the Machine

1089
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: and then commented so. Then so Nick takes that tweet,

1090
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: puts it on his TikTok and then puts his he

1091
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 1: kind of he shoots himself, pointing to the comment made

1092
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: by Morello in his TikTok video and he and he

1093
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: mouths the words Tom Morello like he was blown away

1094
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: when one of the actual band members tweeted in him

1095
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 1: that's that's really cool and Hey, man, if if you're

1096
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 1: a middle aged guy with kids or you're in the

1097
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: education field, you can you can relate to having a

1098
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,440
Speaker 1: blow off a little steam at the end of the

1099
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: workday in your car. And this is a pretty healthy

1100
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: way to do it. You've seen well, you told you

1101
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: went to the Corporate Challenge and you saw the school district.

1102
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: So all the teachers were cutting loose after a long year,

1103
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 1: some school year, blowing off some steam. It's it's a thing, man,

1104
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: So um yeah, good kudos to Nick for doing that.

1105
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: And um I always like having fans on the from everywhere,

1106
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: Like you know, I went to Italy. This ring list officer,

1107
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: the guys from the Milan Milan Rhinos you know, hosted

1108
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: me and they're some of them are coming over to games,

1109
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: and uh right, I'm gonna I'm gonna cross paths with

1110
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,920
Speaker 1: those people. We got people from you know, obviously Anchorage, Alaska,

1111
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: where my daughter lives into her husband. They're gonna a

1112
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: bunch of people coming down. I got my listen to

1113
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: this brownie. So might have three older brothers, right, they're

1114
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: all coming to a game the same one, yes, and

1115
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 1: their kids all my kids cousins. So it's gonna be

1116
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: like task or for a for a hot second. So

1117
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: they're all coming and they haven't done that for they

1118
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 1: haven't done that for it's been twenty five years. But

1119
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: since they've all been up here for a game. And

1120
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 1: they're coming at the same time. So they're gonna make

1121
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 1: a weekend of And I told him they were thinking

1122
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 1: about doing it, and I, you know, typical Bills MOFFI.

1123
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, come on up. It'll be wings, golf,

1124
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls and Bills game. You know, let's go. So

1125
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: it'll be quite the quite the week when we when

1126
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: they come up, they're all they'll all be in here too,

1127
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 1: so they'll you'll be get a chance to say hi

1128
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: to woman. Yeah, so be nice. I will. But yeah,

1129
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: I mean I love it because that's and that's the

1130
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 1: same with thing with Nick Harrison. He comes to town.

1131
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: I like to I'd like to see him in person,

1132
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,360
Speaker 1: like say hello. Yeah, you know, we all like to

1133
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: meet him in person because we see it in this

1134
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: day and age, people are seemed to be more satisfied

1135
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: with talking to somebody over the phone because you can

1136
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: see him now right in this in this era. That's

1137
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: the one thing the pandemic gave us right a greater

1138
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 1: acceptance of zoom Right. But for me, I still like

1139
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: seeing him giving him a hug, saying, hey man, it's

1140
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:55,439
Speaker 1: good to see it. I'm I come in an old

1141
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 1: head that way. So all these people we have on,

1142
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 1: all the guys in Italy, I was, you know, I

1143
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: want to see him in person. Yeah, so I tell

1144
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: him if you're coming into town, reach out. Yeah. So

1145
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: a lot of them do it. It's nice to see. Unfortunately,

1146
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of sad news to pass

1147
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: along concerning the Bills family Bills, a long time and

1148
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 1: former athletic trainer Ed Abramoski has unfortunately passed away at

1149
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 1: the age of eighty eight. Ed was the athletic trainer

1150
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: of the Bills from its inception through I believe the

1151
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four season, actually retired nineteen ninety six, so

1152
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: the first thirty seven years that the Bills existed as

1153
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 1: a football franchise, Ed Abramoski was this team's athletic trainer

1154
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: and served dutifully for thirty seven years and was so

1155
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: popular and so beloved here he was not only inducted

1156
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 1: into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of fame him in

1157
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six. He was also put on the Bill's

1158
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: Wall of Fame in nineteen ninety nine. So an amazing career.

1159
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 1: And really, I know, Steve, you can probably share some

1160
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:17,759
Speaker 1: stories because this guy taped your ankles a few times

1161
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:21,799
Speaker 1: a few He was a fixture and a close friend,

1162
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 1: confidante for every player to walk through that locker room

1163
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 1: for thirty plus years. He's a close friend of mine,

1164
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 1: and my heart goes out to Pat, his wife and

1165
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 1: his oldest dag, their daughters, their whole family. Their extended

1166
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: family had four sisters. Abe was a Buffalo guy. He

1167
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: went to Purdue University and on a football scholarship. I

1168
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 1: didn't know that he had a back injury. Yeah, and

1169
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: was a Buffalo Bill fixture in the locker room. I

1170
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 1: remember he had one of those personnelity. I trusted him

1171
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: from from the moment I met him, just because of

1172
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: the way he spoke to me. And I was sitting

1173
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,639
Speaker 1: there one time in my second game as a Buffalo Bill.

1174
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 1: I didn't know this was a thing because it just

1175
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:11,440
Speaker 1: wasn't done on the Houston Oilers where I came from.

1176
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: It was an away game in Foxborough. I'm sitting in

1177
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 1: the locker room and my game pants, and this gentleman

1178
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: comes up in a nice coat and tie and a

1179
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:22,200
Speaker 1: top coat and a and a you know, kind of

1180
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: a rain jack, kind of a Columbo rain jack. It

1181
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 1: was a trench yeah, a trench coat. Very you know,

1182
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:31,640
Speaker 1: very put together guy. And he came up to me,

1183
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: shook my hand and said hello, Steve. I said, yes, yes, sir.

1184
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:36,719
Speaker 1: He said, hey, Steve, I just want to say hello,

1185
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 1: good luck. I'm glad you're with us. I'm my name's

1186
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 1: Ralph Wilson. I just want to let you know how

1187
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: happy we are to have you on the team. Good

1188
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: luck today. I said, thanks, Sir, I appreciated, and he

1189
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: left and he went around and said that to a

1190
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:50,040
Speaker 1: bunch of guys and I was like, oh, it's interesting.

1191
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: So I went over to Abe and I said, hebe

1192
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: who is that guy? He said that was Ralph Wilson Jr.

1193
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:00,799
Speaker 1: I go, I know he told me his name, but well,

1194
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: you know what's he doing in here? Who? Why is he?

1195
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 1: He goes, he owns the team, He's the owner. And

1196
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,640
Speaker 1: uh Abe was perfect because he was saying it like

1197
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 1: like he was like, it's like, what's wrong? He was

1198
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: like outright, but he was whispering game, you know, and

1199
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I get it, you're right. Um.

1200
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:25,560
Speaker 1: That's when I knew that. You know, Ralph was a

1201
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: little bit of a different guy. But Abe d was

1202
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: the guy that you could go to and knew. He

1203
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: knew everything about everything and he was a good friend.

1204
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 1: Um loved him to death. I know. I speak for

1205
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 1: all the players past and present who got a chance

1206
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: to meet and talk with him, how specially was and

1207
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 1: what he and he made uh every day coming to work. Uh,

1208
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 1: he made it feel like home. Um. That's a hard

1209
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:53,879
Speaker 1: thing to do for a guy with so many players

1210
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: from so many walks of life, so many different personalities,

1211
01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:00,880
Speaker 1: and so many Uh in the socioeconomic back grounds, from

1212
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 1: west coast, east coast, from the south, and from the north,

1213
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: guys from big schools, small schools. They came into the

1214
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: locker room and Abe made him feel like they were home. Uh.

1215
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: It was a gift he had and it's why he's

1216
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame athletic trainer. It's why he's on

1217
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: the Wall of Fame and Buffalo, that's why he's has

1218
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 1: a special place in the hearts of players like me.

1219
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 1: He was a part of all four of the Super

1220
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: Bowl teams. He was a part of both AFL franchise championships.

1221
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 1: He was in the nuts and bolts of what made

1222
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:36,720
Speaker 1: the great teams great and what helped uh the not

1223
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: so great teams be better than they should have been.

1224
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 1: So uh to Pat and Eddie h and their and

1225
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: their family, our condolences, our best wishes, and uh so

1226
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,640
Speaker 1: goodbye to Eddie Bramowski who was a sweetheart of a

1227
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 1: guy and a fixture for Bills fans, the Bills mafia,

1228
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 1: and a part of the fabric of our history. And

1229
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:04,640
Speaker 1: I had only had the opportunity to meet at a

1230
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:08,000
Speaker 1: few times because his career was wrapping up right when

1231
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: I was getting on the Bills beat. But I had

1232
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 1: a few occasions where I had a chance to spend

1233
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,679
Speaker 1: ten fifteen minutes around him. You want to talk about

1234
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 1: a guy who knows how to tell a story, I

1235
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 1: knows how to tell stories and funny ones. So he

1236
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: will be missed, no question about it. And that was

1237
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:32,360
Speaker 1: a guy that started in this business when athletic training

1238
01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: departments were one or two guys. It was at the

1239
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:36,639
Speaker 1: most it was a roll of tape and a pack

1240
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: of cigarettes and now staffs that are six seven, eight

1241
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: people deep. Right, he had to handle a whole roster

1242
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 1: with maybe one assistant. Right, it was a long time.

1243
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: It literally was a roll of tape and a bag

1244
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: of ice and and an ace bandage, and that was

1245
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 1: that was the tools of the trade. And now, of course,

1246
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 1: of we've got cryo chambers, red light therapy. Yeah, you've

1247
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: got barbaric chambers, massage therapists, acupuncture, laser treatments. It runs

1248
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 1: the whole gamut. And Aby saw the industry go from

1249
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 1: what really was the stone ages into the space age

1250
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:18,400
Speaker 1: during his watch and Kudo's tomb for being so good

1251
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 1: at it. So condolences to the Abramoski family. Eighty eight

1252
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 1: years but a life well lived for sure. We will

1253
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: take a break here, be back with more of your

1254
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 1: comments from the obl Fan Friday mail bag after this

1255
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Life. All right, welcome back to

1256
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,640
Speaker 1: One Bill's five. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and

1257
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:40,760
Speaker 1: it is that time in the show. It's been a

1258
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: minute since we've done one of these. It's time for

1259
01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:49,160
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Speaker 1: app today. For those that are unfamiliar with how this works,

1262
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 1: I give Steve a series of very cryptic, in vague

1263
01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:02,920
Speaker 1: clues to make it as difficult as possible for him

1264
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 1: to guess what former teammate of his over his thirteen

1265
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 1: year playing career. I am describing Steve. Are you ready

1266
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: all right? Clue number one? Born in Pontiac, Michigan. I

1267
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: was an accomplished high school athlete and earned a college

1268
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 1: scholarship to a Big eight school where I was a

1269
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 1: three year starter. Big eight school, Big eighth school, Yes

1270
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:43,679
Speaker 1: moren where Pontiac, Michigan. I don't know. Okay, we'll move

1271
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:47,879
Speaker 1: on to clue number two. My sophomore year, my college

1272
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:52,479
Speaker 1: team won a national title in nineteen ninety, going eleven

1273
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:54,720
Speaker 1: one and one and finishing the season with a ten

1274
01:14:54,880 --> 01:15:00,040
Speaker 1: nine victory over Notre Dame, our school's first bowlwin in

1275
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:06,880
Speaker 1: nineteen years. John Parrella, It is not John Parrella. Clue

1276
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: number three, She's Nebraska guy. Among my teammates on our

1277
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: national championship team that year were future NFL players Eric

1278
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:21,639
Speaker 1: b Enemy, Christian Fourier, Michael Westbrook, Charles Johnson, Chad Brown,

1279
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 1: and Dion Figures. Okay, so it's a Colorado. There you go.

1280
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 1: You've narrowed it down. M m oh, spins wheels, spin room,

1281
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: Steve's brain. What's this? The outside linebacker we got and

1282
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: really good played. I'm not gonna remember. I'm not gonna

1283
01:15:56,360 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 1: be able to remember him. I am gonna remember him.

1284
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 1: Hold on, um, keep going, keep going, all right, next clue.

1285
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 1: After my college career was over, I was the second

1286
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: round pick of the Bills, appeared and had a nice pick.

1287
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: I had a nice pass interception like in our second

1288
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 1: or third preseason game. And I appeared in fourteen games

1289
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: as a rookie, serving mainly on special teams. Um, you're

1290
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 1: right there, dude, I'm you are on the right track. Yeah,

1291
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 1: I know who it was, Sam Rogers. Sam Rogers is correct.

1292
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: It was well done, Steve Sam Roy. I remember Sam

1293
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:46,760
Speaker 1: was a good player. Man. He came out and he's

1294
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:48,600
Speaker 1: one of those guys. We had a hard team to

1295
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: make right and Sam comes in and you know it's

1296
01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: hard to bust any burst on it. You remember that

1297
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 1: pick I'm talking about? Yes, I do. Who was it again?

1298
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 1: Houston orders at the time, right, Sam? Right? How are

1299
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 1: you doing, Sam? I'm doing great, Steve, I'm bad. I'm

1300
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:11,599
Speaker 1: glad you've figured it out, Steve. I have been made

1301
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 1: because I looked up to you right, exactly right. You

1302
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: look look at you, You look at he All these

1303
01:17:16,479 --> 01:17:18,640
Speaker 1: guys you we had, we had guys come on and

1304
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 1: they all look like they could sell soap. They're all

1305
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: still good looking. Man. You look a look at him.

1306
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:26,719
Speaker 1: Look how good he looks. I know. Um. Sam's career

1307
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:29,840
Speaker 1: began shortly after I kind of came on the scene

1308
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 1: as a reporter, and I remember there was one time

1309
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 1: Sam proved Meat proved. I mean, all you guys are

1310
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: tough guys playing in this league. I remember Sam played

1311
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:40,679
Speaker 1: almost a whole season with a torn labor in his shoulder,

1312
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 1: and I remember talking to him at the end of

1313
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 1: the season and he's like, yeah, I'm you know, I

1314
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 1: gotta get surgery and whatever. I said, how did you

1315
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: get through the whole season? Were you taking pain killers?

1316
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 1: And he said, no, I don't take pain killers. I

1317
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: was like what and he said no, I can't do it,

1318
01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:57,759
Speaker 1: you know, And so I was just like, holy crap,

1319
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,000
Speaker 1: these guys are some serious people. Where you Sam Where

1320
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 1: do you call home? Now? I live in Las Vegas? Now?

1321
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: Oh nice? Nice? Are you did you go in? How's

1322
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 1: there new? Have you been out to the to the

1323
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: new UH stadium and all that? How's that all? Look

1324
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:16,640
Speaker 1: out there? Y'all went uh this this past uh? I

1325
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: think it was Februarhere I came and if I can remember,

1326
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: my son he played in one of the Senior Bowls

1327
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 1: up there, and now he's with the watch the commanders.

1328
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,640
Speaker 1: Oh very nice. How's that going for him? How does

1329
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: that make you feel as a dad watching your kid

1330
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 1: go through that? And what are his prospects? Well, he

1331
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:34,640
Speaker 1: was a quarterback all four years of college and then

1332
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: he switched over as a senior at the Senior X

1333
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl as tight end. So right now

1334
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:44,320
Speaker 1: it's looking very promising for him. You know, Ron Rivier,

1335
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:47,200
Speaker 1: the general manager, vice president, they all love him. You know,

1336
01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 1: they really shocked that he's able to transform into a

1337
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:53,000
Speaker 1: tight end at the never planning before. Now is he

1338
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,559
Speaker 1: a big Is he big like you? Is he a

1339
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: big kid like you? Oh? Now he's talking. No, he's

1340
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 1: a slimmer kid. He's six six, it's like two thirty five.

1341
01:19:01,479 --> 01:19:07,920
Speaker 1: He's what six six. Yeah, man, if I was six six,

1342
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:13,840
Speaker 1: I'd still be playing all right, me too. That's great.

1343
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 1: That's to give us an idea, Sam, what what a hit?

1344
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: You think he's gonna make that team? You think he's

1345
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: got a shot at least maybe practice squad and hang

1346
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: out until he get good enough for smooth enough. Well,

1347
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 1: from what I heard from the three main people would

1348
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 1: actually offer the offers a coordinator to head coach, vice president,

1349
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 1: general man. They all say he he looks like he's

1350
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: gonna make the fifty three man roster so far the

1351
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: way he's looking. But you know, you never know how

1352
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:39,000
Speaker 1: that go, and numbers, you know, politis, you know when

1353
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: they come down to contract that they signed a few

1354
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 1: years before, you know, all that type of stuff. So

1355
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:46,799
Speaker 1: we're more likely, you know, if he's on a practice squad.

1356
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: That's that's good because like I said, they never played

1357
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: tight end before in the switch right at your seeing Bowl.

1358
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: That's amazing too that the team even picked him up.

1359
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:56,840
Speaker 1: When you think back about your time second round draft

1360
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 1: pick the Buffalo Bills and you and your time here,

1361
01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: you come in and Bruce is here and all those

1362
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: you know, all those jokers are here. What do you

1363
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 1: remember about those times. The first thing I remember, I'm

1364
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:10,719
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I remember Steve Tasker when he first

1365
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:13,640
Speaker 1: walked in the locker room. When I seen Steve, I

1366
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: think it was me and Kevin Knox at the time,

1367
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: and I looked at Steve, I'm like, is that the

1368
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:19,920
Speaker 1: guy who would be tearing people up on special teams?

1369
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 1: And every since then I looked up to Steve on

1370
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 1: special team. That's why I made the Rookie team rookie

1371
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: year on special teams because I looked up to Steve

1372
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:29,760
Speaker 1: and Mark and then you know, of course he had

1373
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 1: a great special team coach and Bruce the Haven. May

1374
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 1: he rest in pairs ice, you know, But that was

1375
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:39,519
Speaker 1: my first impression of of the NFL. When I've seen

1376
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, he really inspired me by his size, his

1377
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: look and like they say, he can't judge a book

1378
01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: by his cover. Yeah, and this dude, this guy bust us.

1379
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:52,519
Speaker 1: But he said example, on the field, he was he

1380
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 1: wasn't really loud guy, but when he got on that field,

1381
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 1: he was pretty loud. Yeah. That's yeah. I liked where

1382
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 1: you're if he looked over there and you saw me

1383
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: that if that guy can play, I know, I know

1384
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:05,880
Speaker 1: I can do it right, I mean, tell the truth.

1385
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:11,479
Speaker 1: That's the way it really went down. Actually, I was

1386
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 1: inspired by you. But when I first seen and the

1387
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:15,920
Speaker 1: next set of group of guys I seen and I

1388
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:19,440
Speaker 1: walked in the locker room was Matt Darby, Mark Maddox

1389
01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 1: and uh Marvis Marvis Patton Mars. Yeah. When I see

1390
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: those guys, you know, I'm you know, young guy. I

1391
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 1: wasn't into waste like those guys were. You know, those

1392
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:33,600
Speaker 1: guys are like natural bodybuilders that look like Yeah. So

1393
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: I turned over to Marvelo. I said, hey man, I

1394
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: don't know we're gonna make this team. Look how these

1395
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 1: guys look. Ye. And then my third impression was Conelius

1396
01:21:42,880 --> 01:21:46,439
Speaker 1: been it. He made a mistake in practice. He went

1397
01:21:46,479 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: the wrong direction and he ran all the way across

1398
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 1: the field and caught up to Pete Messler and almost

1399
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:54,000
Speaker 1: intercepted in a ball And I'm like, not only out

1400
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: the big they're fast, yea. So I was. I was

1401
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:04,160
Speaker 1: kind of stun and doubting myself at the time because

1402
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:06,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey man, he's got a different you know

1403
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They played different than we do. You know,

1404
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:13,840
Speaker 1: when I'm Sorry, Sam, I didn't mean to cut you

1405
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:17,559
Speaker 1: off there. I was gonna ask you. We actually Ted

1406
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:20,759
Speaker 1: Cotrell was just in town at mini camp here last week.

1407
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: Steve got a chance to kind of chat with him

1408
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: a little bit. It was kind of cool. We actually

1409
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: took a picture of the two of them, him with

1410
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, because those are the last two defensive coordinators

1411
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 1: to coach a number one defense here in Buffalo. I

1412
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:34,920
Speaker 1: knew you were part of that ninety nine squad. What

1413
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: what made it so easy for you guys to just

1414
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,640
Speaker 1: lock people down every week that year? Well, when you

1415
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 1: had the deepest a scheme that Way put together, he

1416
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: made it very simple for you to just go out

1417
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: there and play football. And not only that, you had

1418
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, Pro Bowlers and Hall of famers like the

1419
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 1: Bruce Smiths. You had a very underrated guy like Phil

1420
01:22:56,840 --> 01:23:01,920
Speaker 1: Hanson out there, You had a the dbs like Kurt

1421
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: Shultz and Henry Jones. It just made things so much

1422
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,000
Speaker 1: easier and fun. I don't think you just had to

1423
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: do make sure you didn't mess up, you know. So

1424
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 1: when when Way simplified the defense, it made it a

1425
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: lot easier for guys just to go out there and

1426
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,200
Speaker 1: play football. And I think that was the key to

1427
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: us being able to lock a lot of teams down

1428
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:22,799
Speaker 1: because it was a very simple defense to just play football.

1429
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:27,000
Speaker 1: And that's how way you did it. So wine things up.

1430
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:28,519
Speaker 1: What are you doing now? I know you're living out

1431
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: in Vegas. What are you doing now? You're not a

1432
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 1: dealer or anything like that. You're not standing at a

1433
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: casino table dealing cards or anything. What do you do

1434
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 1: with yourself? I don't even go on those casinos. That's

1435
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,640
Speaker 1: that's that's bad. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I

1436
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: don't gamble. So I was I was coaching football for years,

1437
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, Pop Warner and high school football, and uh

1438
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 1: I just settled back a little bit, and I'm my wife.

1439
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 1: She's gonna start a trucking company, so I'm gonna go

1440
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: and try to help her out with as much as

1441
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: I can with that. You know, I can't do a

1442
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 1: lot of you know, moving around based on my back

1443
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: and my knee, but right now I'm gonna try to

1444
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 1: help her out as much as I can. All right, Well, good,

1445
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 1: it was great to catch you up with you, Sam.

1446
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad Steve guess you Uh I knew who. I

1447
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: couldn't think of his name. He was flipping through that

1448
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: role of dex He knew it. He knew he had

1449
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: a linebacker. He just knew. I knew what you looked like. Listen, listen,

1450
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,280
Speaker 1: I knew what you look like. I could picture number

1451
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 1: fifty nine. I could picture you get getting both hands

1452
01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 1: on that out route and heading up the sideline. And

1453
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,439
Speaker 1: I was like, and I could not read the back

1454
01:24:30,479 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 1: of your jersey. I could not get it, Steve, Steve,

1455
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: I was more impressed than you. Remember that interception. Yeah,

1456
01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: I was watching about it all the time. I'll tell

1457
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: you about all the time. When I got that interception,

1458
01:24:41,880 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: I was so happy. The first person that ran down

1459
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: the field, the same person who taught me how to

1460
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,479
Speaker 1: cover back Thermatome was the first one to run down

1461
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:51,640
Speaker 1: the field and jump on my back. Yeah. Yeah, I

1462
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, that was special for me. This well, yeah,

1463
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Good luck to you, Sam. Good luck to

1464
01:24:57,080 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: your son as well, uh in his football exploits. It

1465
01:24:59,880 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: was great to catch up with you. We appreciate you

1466
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: giving us sometimes. Sam. Appreciate you man, right, thank you

1467
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:07,280
Speaker 1: for having me on. All right, that's a Bill's former

1468
01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: linebacker Sam Rogers the latest Tasker's teammate. Sam. No wonder,

1469
01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 1: I didn't hang out too much. He didn't drink, smoke

1470
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 1: or gamble, No wonder, I didn't know who the guy was, right,

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Speaker 1: Yeah he was. That guy was A he was a

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Speaker 1: big dude and A he was a stud. He was

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01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:26,200
Speaker 1: like an unsung hero on that he was really because

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01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: you had big names like Bruce Um, you know, even

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01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 1: Phil Hanson had been playing a while so he was

1476
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:37,320
Speaker 1: well known, Ted Washington and those guys, I mean, Henry

1477
01:25:37,360 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: Jones had gone to Pro Bowls, and Sam was just

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01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:44,760
Speaker 1: blue collar, you know what I mean, just doing his

1479
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 1: job every single week. Yeah. He's a big, heavy body

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01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: and could run. He was a really good player. Good

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01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: for Sam, Thank you that it was a good one. Yeah,

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01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: we were. We did a little more digging this week

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01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:59,160
Speaker 1: to try to find one that was, you know, maybe

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01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:01,680
Speaker 1: a little bit tougher to get nailed down, you know,

1485
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 1: not a household name guy. I think in six year

1486
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:10,679
Speaker 1: career here in Buffalo ninety four through two two thousand, Yeah, yeah,

1487
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 1: he had a good run. He had a good run

1488
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:14,639
Speaker 1: for sure, and then played a few more years after

1489
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:17,280
Speaker 1: that and then some knee and back problems kind of

1490
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 1: caught up with him, which you heard him reference right there.

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01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:23,800
Speaker 1: So a good edition of Tasker's Team, ain't We hope

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01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:26,479
Speaker 1: to bring you more in the coming weeks. We take

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01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: a break here, but Steve and I to wrap things

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Speaker 1: up next on One Bills Live, presented by Collot of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome to back one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Couple more questions in the mail bag. Where

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01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 1: is the offense more likely to struggle with a new OC,

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01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:53,040
Speaker 1: the run or the passing game? That from Colt? What

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01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 1: say you? I would tend to think the run game

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01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 1: only because you've got a new old line coach here

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01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:02,000
Speaker 1: two and Aaron Chromer who may be employing some different

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01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:04,960
Speaker 1: blocking schemes. Yeah, but it's hard to say that the

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01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:07,320
Speaker 1: passing game is gonna be all as good as it

1504
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:09,600
Speaker 1: was under date. It's so good, I mean, it was

1505
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:11,519
Speaker 1: very good. How is it gonna improve? How do it's

1506
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:13,200
Speaker 1: hard to even think it's gonna improve? How's it going

1507
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:15,519
Speaker 1: to improve it? Even if it's the same, it will

1508
01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:17,639
Speaker 1: think you know, it'll be off the mark, it'll off

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01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,080
Speaker 1: the charts. So I don't know that's a good one.

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01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: I I don't know, hope. I don't know which one's

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01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 1: gonna be up or down. Fair enough, you know which

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01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: one is more likely to struggle at the outset? Though?

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01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 1: Was the question, Well, it's harder to run the ball

1514
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 1: in this league than it is to throw it, So

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01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,080
Speaker 1: I'll say run it, yea, And I'll say that, you

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01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 1: know at the beginning. Sure, I don't know how much

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01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to though, Yeah, Lands asks does Josh

1518
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:49,040
Speaker 1: Allen break fifty touchdowns in twenty twenty two if he's

1519
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: talking total touchdown total? Yes, kind of shot at that,

1520
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:55,040
Speaker 1: especially with the extra game. It's kind of shot at

1521
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:57,600
Speaker 1: last year. I finished with forty two last year. I

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01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:01,719
Speaker 1: think total, Jack, What are the thoughts on Nick McCleod

1523
01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 1: making the fifty three man roster. It's got a shot

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01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 1: at it. I don't think it's gonna be easy. I

1525
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:09,679
Speaker 1: don't think. Yeah, right, it's not a given. It's gonna

1526
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 1: be because Caier, Taran, Jane Dane, and then you know

1527
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 1: cam Lewis, Yeah, cam Lewis is right there. So Nick

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01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:23,639
Speaker 1: McCleod may not. He's got he's got some things he's

1529
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:25,360
Speaker 1: got to work on. He'd have to have a big camp,

1530
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:28,559
Speaker 1: I think, and a great preseason to nail it down.

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01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:33,480
Speaker 1: I think he's still on the practice squad all things considered. Yeah,

1532
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:35,760
Speaker 1: he might not leave the building, but he might not

1533
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 1: be on the roster either. Randall asks. After Honey Badger

1534
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,559
Speaker 1: got his contract, I felt the benefit of the bills

1535
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:45,799
Speaker 1: with the Poiler deal. After the mink of Fitzpatrick contract,

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01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: I felt a bit worse about it. What's the max

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01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 1: money you think the bills will go. I think we're

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01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:56,639
Speaker 1: looking at like a one year extension at best for Poler. Yeah,

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01:28:56,680 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 1: I think so. I they'll give him some money, but

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01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what they'll do. You know, they'll do

1541
01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:03,840
Speaker 1: the minimum what it will take to help keep him happy,

1542
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: I think. But something will get done. Maybe it's a

1543
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:09,320
Speaker 1: big question still sitting out there. Have a great weekend, everybody, Steve,

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Speaker 1: and I'll see you back here next week.