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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Training Camp continues, Josh Allen rolling between bags,

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Speaker 1: one beautiful day out, buckets of content being poured over

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Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, did green Bay jump pretty quick and making

426
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Speaker 1: that deal happen, they trade a six round pick, They

427
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: get Randall Cobb back for Aaron Rodgers because he wanted

428
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 1: him back in the building and in the field, and

429
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: six round pick for Cob. Yeah, that's a pretty good

430
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: deal for for green Bay. But does he thirty one

431
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: now or something? I think he's on the yeah, a

432
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: side of thirty. Yeah, the green Bay thing is going

433
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: to be fascinating to why I think. I think Aaron

434
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: Rodgers is gonna play and he's gonna play extremely well

435
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 1: for green Bay this year. I don't think it's any

436
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: question about it. I think what he laid out in

437
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: his press conference at length over the course of this

438
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 1: last few days, that's been diced and chewed up, and

439
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: and you know, of course, like everything else, some people

440
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: are shouting him down and other people are applauding him

441
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: for his his you know, candid the candid nature with

442
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: which he spoke and at length and as well thought

443
00:24:55,359 --> 00:25:00,120
Speaker 1: out as his arguments and statements were. Um, but it's

444
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch what has transpired between the most valuable

445
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: player in the National Football League and the club that

446
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: drafted him sixteen years ago. Fascinating, Yeah, because there's on

447
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: one hand, it's hyper hypocritical for him to have any

448
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: problem with Jordan Love being drafted to replace him when

449
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: that is the exact thing that he was drafted to

450
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: do with Brett Farve, and he sat for four years

451
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: and the club finally had to force Brett Farve out

452
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: of the way. On the other hand, now he's saying,

453
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: I'm not living like that, get rid of me, trade me.

454
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: I'm not happy. All of that is. It's fascinating to

455
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: watch it transpire because he is, whether you like him

456
00:25:53,960 --> 00:26:01,959
Speaker 1: or not, the guy's extremely intelligent and really disciplined and articulate.

457
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: So it's hard to win an argument with people like that. Yeah,

458
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: and he's gonna wage that for the first time in

459
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: a long time, we've got a high profile player waging

460
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: war on the organization that employs him while still playing

461
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah. I mean, there's incentive for him to

462
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: play well now because now he said his piece. Now

463
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: it's time to go out and play, and you better

464
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: hold yourself to the same standout. I mean, that's after

465
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: saying all that stuff, he goes out and plays average,

466
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: people are gonna turn on him. There's so many ways

467
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: this could turn out. See what happens Brown. If he

468
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: goes out and knocks it out of the park MVP,

469
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,959
Speaker 1: they and now it's it's over. They got to trade him,

470
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: and so somebody's getting an MVP next year. What if

471
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: he goes out and through some flukey thing just cracks

472
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: his ankle, Yeah, it's not a career ender. Or but

473
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: he in week three after he was throwing for three

474
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five yards on average a game and

475
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: three touchdowns a game on pace to you know, on

476
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: pace to throw fifty touchdowns again and all that. He's

477
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: doing all that and now he's out and Jordan Love

478
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: comes in and stinks. Now it's a much different conversation.

479
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: Or Jordan Love goes in and he plays, Okay, he's

480
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: getting better. That kind of scenario, I mean, what's Jordan

481
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: Love gonna look like if he gets in there. There's

482
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: a million ways, and it is fascinating to watch, but

483
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: you know, you have to wait for the next shoe

484
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: to drop. How good is he going to play. How

485
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: good is the team gonna be around him? Is Matt

486
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: Lafleur really all of that? You know, where's his leadership

487
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: been in all this? He's been awkwardly silent in my opinion. Yeah.

488
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: I saw he addressed the media the other day and

489
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: he was just expressing gratitude that, you know, he was

490
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: here and he's back in the building, and you know,

491
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: people are like, well, what about this and what about that?

492
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: And what about this and what about that? And he

493
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: kind of pushed that off to the levels above him

494
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: in the front office and he said, I'm just glad

495
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: he's here at practice. On the field, that was my

496
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: main concern. He's here now, he's invested, he's committed, and

497
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: for me, it's let's go. And as a head coach,

498
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: I don't blame him for dumbing it down, quite frankly,

499
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: because really that's all that matters for him as far

500
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: as his job security is concerned. I got the MVP

501
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: at quarterback here in practice. Let's go, and let's the

502
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: stuff that has been said too that Aaron Rodgers was

503
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: never a Matt Lafleur guy when they made the higher

504
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: and of course he was not consulted at all about it,

505
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: and and Aaron has dutifully if nothing else said no,

506
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: he's glad. Matt Lafleur is the coach now. If for

507
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: anything else, it was, you know, Mike McCarthy's not. But

508
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: Lafleur was one of those guys, along with McCoy in

509
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and Kingsbury in Arizona, all these guys that had

510
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: a connection to Sean McVay in LA. Remember the every

511
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: coach that was hired that offseason had an allegiance to

512
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: Sean mcvagh. They were all supposed to be these offensive

513
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: wizards that nobody else could touch. Be that as it may,

514
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: that's you know, you. I don't know if that was

515
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: the right move, but Aaron Rodgers had no say in

516
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: an either way. And I think the guy's got into

517
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, so he's got something on the ball.

518
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: And Rogers now seems happy about it, at least he's

519
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: saying he is. I don't know what that means. There

520
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: are several other chapters in that boot, Oh my gosh,

521
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: several other chapters. It's a page turner. Yeah. Oh, it

522
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: will be break time for us here when we return

523
00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate. See what Steve can

524
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: do with the clues that are coming his way. I

525
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: got to do some stretching during the break. That's right,

526
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: Get loose, It's gonna be good. One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Help. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

528
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: to a Friday edition of One Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

529
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as we get ready to roll

530
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: into the latest edition of Tasker's Teammates, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious Meals Delivered Download the

532
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: Wegman's app today. I can't tell you, Steve. That will

533
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: kind of defeat the purpose of Tasker's Teammate. Your job

534
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: is to tell us who we're talking about. Clue number one.

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Speaker 1: Born in Inglewood, New Jersey. I moved to Virginia growing up,

536
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 1: where I played my high school football. My accomplishments in

537
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: high school included being named to the USA Today High

538
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: School All American Team. I was also an accomplished wrestler Virginia.

539
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: Born in New Jersey, moved to Virginia. Restaurant wrestler. Yes, no,

540
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: go ahead. Clue number two, Wow, don't buzz im he

541
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: didn't even guess. Wow, it's a rough room out there

542
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: in the control room. I tell you they did. He

543
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: buzzed me quick with the buzzer man. Clue number two.

544
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: I played my college ball in the Big East, where

545
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: I played a premier position, but it wasn't the same

546
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: position I would go on to play in the NFL

547
00:31:53,680 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: Pat Williams. It is not petward premier position, months position

548
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: played the Pat Williams play a different position and shotgun

549
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: in that blindfold on here, let's wrestler premier position. Oh oh,

550
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: Mark Kelso not Mark Kelso. No, it's a hard time

551
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: seeing him as a wrestler. Go ahead. Clue number three.

552
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: After being a three year starter in college, I was

553
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: a highly touted NFL prospect and was eventually made a

554
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: first round draft choice of the Buffalo Bills. Oh man,

555
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: someday we have to review draft draft history Buffalo Bills,

556
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,239
Speaker 1: certainly first round draft. It is Reuben Brown. You are

557
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: one hundred percent correct. I fear. I feared that would

558
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: be a giveaway, but I figured I'd give you. I'd

559
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: throw you a bone. STI since we have Ruben Brown

560
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: with us. Ruben made you look good man, Thank you,

561
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve, I have a shaving so yeah, hanging

562
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: in there. How are you? How are you doing here

563
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: in the little in the rim, in the white Well,

564
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: I say, right, how the pandemic? How's it going? Are

565
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: you still doing? All right? I'm doing pretty good. You know.

566
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: I found my group, I found my place, and I

567
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: know how to, you know, kind of work through this

568
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: thing and stay busy. So I feel like I'm coming

569
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: out of the pandemic or improving. But you know, we're here.

570
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: That's gonna be some setbacks here and there, but I'm

571
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,239
Speaker 1: ready to take it on for for us. Bring it on,

572
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: all right? Good So, Rube, I'm doing the research to

573
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: come up with these clues for Steve, and I try

574
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: to be as vague and cryptic as possible so he

575
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: doesn't get it on the first guess, I didn't know

576
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: you were a big time wrestler. Man, What was your

577
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: what was your weight class? I was a heavyweight, a

578
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: weigh two hundred and sixty seven pounds. Oh my god, yeah, yeah, yeah,

579
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: I could not in any way come close to dealing

580
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: with Ted Washington. Well, I don't know if there anybody,

581
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: there's anybody, Yeah, I had I had jokingly you know,

582
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: run in with Ted, you know, trying to like asking

583
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: him for you know, seeing what he could do. You know,

584
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: in the locker room, he said, let me see your

585
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: wrestling room. He made the big mistake of asking him.

586
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: You could have counted to three Mississippi before I was

587
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: just saying, just stop, just please stop, just stop. I

588
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: remember that Steed. Actually, dude, I thought it was one

589
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: of the coolest things that he he grabbed. Describe me,

590
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: described to me, Rubin, what the hell happened? Did flip

591
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: him like a pancake? We didn't have to. He grabbed

592
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: me with one He just snap like a rattlesnake. He

593
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: grabbed my arm and the grip was so strong he

594
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: just bent me to the ground. I was like, just stop,

595
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: and it was obvious what was going to happen. And

596
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: what happened was not even you know, It's like, okay,

597
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: that's what we expected. Yeah, So let me ask you this, Ruben.

598
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: Did you ever try to square off with him or Pat?

599
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if Pat wrestled, but I know Ted did.

600
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: But did you ever try to test your skills against his?

601
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: I mean, or you just said forget it. I'm not

602
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: even gonna bother. Yes I did, and I was silly

603
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: to do so, just like Steve. But I thought I

604
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: had a little bit more with me because I was

605
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: a wrestler. And on that day I learned more about

606
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: wrestling than I ever knew in my life. So yeah,

607
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: Ted and I and Ted and I worked together on

608
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: a daily base Pat Williams, Ted and I. We were

609
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: one on one every day when I went to work.

610
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: I put my hands on those two guys each day.

611
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: Ye take it how you want them? Right yeah, yeah,

612
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: you're trying to push them against their will and then

613
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 1: yeah and then same time right yeah, that it's uh

614
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: yeah that we and you you know this give us

615
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: like Ted, maybe one of them. But you played, you

616
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: know for the Bills here for a time, you went

617
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 1: nine Pro Bowls and all that. You also played in Chicago.

618
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: Think back across your career something and you're here on

619
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: Tasker's teammates. Think back to some of your teammates that

620
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: maybe Bills fans or Chicago Bears fans might not be

621
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: as familiar with, and bring out some guys that you

622
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: think people should no better would, no better would be

623
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: interested in, Like some of the guys that were highlights

624
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: of your career. Well, if you're an officer learnment in

625
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: the NFL and you played it during my time, you

626
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: know who feel hands in it. Sure, if you're a

627
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fan, you know who Bills Hanson is. Maybe

628
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: maybe feel didn't get the accolades that he we I

629
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: personally feel that he should have gotten. But Phil Hanson

630
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: was an egrical part in mind the man as a

631
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: young offensive lineman, and Kith Hall affectionately called him slippery

632
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: Phil because that's exactly what he was. It was hard

633
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: to put your hands on him, hard to keep him contained.

634
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: And you know he worked right alongside and greatly. I

635
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: mean Bruce Smith and the rest of the game that

636
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Speaker 1: were really good. They have a lot they owe him

637
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: a line because Phil really came to work each week

638
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: and busted his hume. He was so much fun to

639
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: play with. It was such a great teammate. I enjoyed

640
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: the challenge that he gave me each day when we

641
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: would line up in practice. I can fondly remember me

642
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: blocking him one day and Marcus Spriggs, another offensive linement,

643
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: comes up to me. It's like one day I'm gonna

644
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: get him too, you know, like everyone wanted to give

645
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: me he's a Phil because Phil was so good. So

646
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: I have great tremendous memories of Phil Hanson and the

647
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: time that we spent together playing and practicing and getting

648
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: to know each other. It's just humans, and um, it

649
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: was a flash. It was really a black Phil. It

650
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: was awesome teammate, Steve, you know that. Yeah, I'm just

651
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: the first time I ever called heard him called slippery Phil,

652
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: though that is a nickname I was unaware of. Can't

653
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: Hall called him slippery Phil? I did not know that.

654
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: It was hard to get his hands on them. And

655
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: these are these when the next time you're gonna be

656
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, Rube. Are we ready for the home opener?

657
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: Are we really ready for the home opener? Stun be

658
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: like Marti Guiss super Bowl, the one I've heard. I've

659
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 1: heard it from a lot of Yeah, I've heard from

660
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. A lot of guys are really

661
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: really trying to get back for the Pittsburgh game opening day,

662
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: no question. Yeah, well I'll be back for that game

663
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. You know. Obviously I played

664
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: down in the University of Pittsburgh, but I have a

665
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: personal connection with the whole McDermott and well, how did

666
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: you forget that? Tomlin? Yeah? All right, So Tomlin and

667
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: I were in high school at the same time in Virginia.

668
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: Both played in the high school All Star Game together

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00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: in the state of Virginia. So I've known him, known

670
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: him for a lot of years, and I'm we're all

671
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: proud of him, but being a Virginia native and everything,

672
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: you know, all us Virginia guys stick together. And also

673
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: he and McDermott went to William Mary Yeah all right,

674
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: and they played with my high school center Charlie White,

675
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 1: who's a lawyer in Virginia right now. And then I'm

676
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: pretty sure he'll probably be at the game. So you know,

677
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: I have like a personal connection with the two teams,

678
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: not only just playing with the Bills, but I got

679
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: family members, people you know, connected to this, so it's

680
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more personal. Um, you know, I hate

681
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: to see I'm a big fan of Tim. I hate

682
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: to see him lose, but he's coming on our turf,

683
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: and I'm excited for the Bills season, and I'm excited

684
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: for what Dermon and everyone's gonna be doing this year.

685
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, what better time to be a Buffalo?

686
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: Bills fan right now. There's there's people in Western New York.

687
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: They already put in for being off of work Thursday

688
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: and Friday, just to get ready for that. It is

689
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: already getting marked on the calendar something fearing. We'll try

690
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll have it on the show that week. Yeah,

691
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: we'll get you on anytime. You know, I'm wide open, guys,

692
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: I don't be a brown. I'll be going to here

693
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: and there and making sure. I haven't been to Buffalo

694
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: in such a long time. So I'm gonna get in

695
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: early in the week and I'm gonna go and visit,

696
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: you know, all the friends, all the local game. You

697
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: gotta go buy the polos. You know, you gotta make

698
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: a stop there. You know, you gotta go see the

699
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: guys over at Maulbury and other places. Because I'm sure

700
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: the pandemic has done something to the environment. There a

701
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: lot of businesses maybe struggling, and you know, things like that.

702
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: But I'm just excited to get back and see the

703
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,720
Speaker 1: people I can see and say hi to them, hopefully

704
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: get close enough to them to give them a fist

705
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: bump maybe, you know. And I don't know how people

706
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: are feeling about hugs and I'm a big hugger. I

707
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys know, I hug everyone, and

708
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: this has been trauma to me. Yeah, the pandemic has

709
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,439
Speaker 1: been total trauma because I can't hug anyone anymore. So

710
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to being a part of the

711
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: excitement that's gonna happen. I've told everyone that I come

712
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: in contact. I talked to other people on shows and

713
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: then like, what's the most exciting place to be in

714
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: football Sunday? I said, Buffalo Bills on game the first

715
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: game of the season is by far one of the

716
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: most exciting build ups events that you could ever go to.

717
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: The Robin Stones concert can't come close to the Bills

718
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: are opening night. Rube, thanks for getting us some time, man.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you soon, all right, be goods man, anytime, anytime.

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00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: All right. That's Ruben Brown. Nine time Pro bowler. You

721
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: know he was also a four time second team All Pro.

722
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: I mean he was right there. He's yeah, he's he's

723
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: a tremendous player. He was first round draft pick and

724
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: he's got he's got Hall of Fame credentials, just like

725
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: all the guys that a lot of guys on that

726
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: team and he came just after the Super Bowl years

727
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: and was a huge part of it. Just a great athlete,

728
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: could really run block, Oh my gosh, he was a

729
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: He was a steam roller, and what a great player

730
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: he was. Played left tackle in college and then moved

731
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: through guard with the Bills. As we know, there is

732
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: some breaking news in the NFL concerning Colts quarterback Carson Wentz.

733
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: He is out indefinitely as he undergoes further testing on

734
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: a foot injury that he suffered at the end of

735
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: yesterday's practice. That's according to Adam Schefter and Mike Wells NFL,

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00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: who I believe covers the Colts. Second year quarterback Jacob

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00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: Eason took the starter reps at today's practice, with Sam

738
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: Ellinger as his backup. So seismic news coming out of

739
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: Indianapolis as Carson Wentz is going for further tests out

740
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: indefinitely with a foot injury. Sure, it's early in the

741
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: game here, but there's a lot on the to do

742
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: list there with him arriving in Indianapolis and expected to

743
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback there and carry that team to

744
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: what they hope are new heights. So hopefully not a

745
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: serious injury. For him, but out indefinitely with a foot injury.

746
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: We'll see if there's more on that, but we'll take

747
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: a break here, come back with more on a Fan

748
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Speaker 1: Friday Mailbag edition of One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bills Live Fan

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Speaker 1: Friday Mailbag edition with plenty of other stuff coming your way,

751
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 1: including comments from Levi Wallace today, Leslie Frasier, defensive coordinator

752
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 1: also addressing the media, will play some of his more

753
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: noteworthy comments today, and one Tradavious White will also be

754
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: addressing the media. We will have those for you in

755
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: the second hour of the show. In the meantime, we

756
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: turned Steve to the Fan Friday Mailbag, where you submit

757
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: your questions and Steve and I do our best to

758
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: give you an intelligent and coherent answer. No promises. Veto says,

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00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: if you saw real improvement in Trubisky's game, would you

760
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: possibly put him into certain late game spots more often

761
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: to showcase his skills in an effort to make some

762
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: type of late year deal. No, first and foremost, it

763
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: ain't hockey. First and foremost, he's on a one year contract.

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Speaker 1: This is a stopover in Mitchell Trubisky's career. His hope

765
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: is that he improves himself in terms of his personal game.

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00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the pressure of leading a football team

767
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: every week like a starting quarterback would, because that's what

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00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: Josh is doing. And if he's needed for a game

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00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,479
Speaker 1: or two, god forbid, something happens that Josh he can't

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00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: play show out in an offense that looks like it's

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00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: tailored to a lot of his skills. So there are

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00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 1: advantages here. Number Two, you can't really make a late

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00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: year deal because the trade deadline is right around Halloween,

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00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: the first week in November. So making a deal in

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00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: December or something just isn't in the cards because the

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00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: trade deadline is gone, dead and gone. So I would

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00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: say no to that. It doesn't work. It's not like that.

778
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: In the NFL. Nobody's gonna trade for a quarterback for

779
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: a playoff run. They may they may do that with

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00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,479
Speaker 1: the Let's think about this, if say, from Trubisky plays

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00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: a month in the first half of the season because Josh,

782
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: you got to pull the hamstring, and he plays good,

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00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,240
Speaker 1: and the Bills go three and one in that or whatever,

784
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: and they win some games and he looks good doing it,

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00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, teams won him. They may

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00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: talk to the Bills and say, okay, how about this,

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00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: We'll trade for Trubisky. Now give you a two so

788
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: they so that Trubisky doesn't hit open market, and then

789
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 1: they'll and the Bills will say, you can talk to him,

790
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: and then if you can work out a long term deal,

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00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: we'll make that trade. So if Trubisky would have to

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00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: be presented with an enticing offer right, something like that

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00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: to happen, right, Trubisky would have to say, okay, I'll

794
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: sign with your team, you know, and with this long

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00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: term deal in place with your team when the trade

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00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: and you know, Bills will trade me during the season.

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00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: That that is a you know, highly unlikely scenario. But

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00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: because of where I think it could happen, you can't

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00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: forget why he's here in the first place. He is

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00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: a valuable insurance plan number one. Number two. His skill

801
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: set is probably as close as you're gonna get to

802
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen this side of Justin Herbert, because there are

803
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: many people built like Josh Allen, but he has similar mobility.

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00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,760
Speaker 1: He does not have the arms quite the arm strength

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00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: that Josh has got a good arm, it's good enough, yea.

806
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: And his mobility I think allows him to execute in

807
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: this offense in a similar fashion to that of Josh,

808
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: where if you had to play him, Brian Dable could

809
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: probably utilize almost all of the same kinds of plays

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00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: he would call for Josh. I don't think you could

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00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: have said that last year for Matt Barkley, who is

812
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: not the athlete that's right. So, yeah, Trubisky is here

813
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: for a reason, and they're not going to bail on

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00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,479
Speaker 1: that unless it's a very enticing offer. And then even

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00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: if a team think about it, a team would have

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00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: to see something in Trubisky or enough of Trubisky in

817
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: the regular season to think that's our guy, and we're

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00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: gonna pay him top dollar. To make sure, we're gonna

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00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: pay him a good give him a really enticing contract,

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00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: maybe even a short term two or three year deal

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00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: to come to our team to be the guy going forward,

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00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: and we'll trade a one or a you know, a

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00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: two and a four or whatever you pick your package.

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00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: We'll trade all of this stuff for him. The only

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00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: way that happens is if Trubisky gets on the field,

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Speaker 1: and then even then he'd have to play well, and

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Speaker 1: then you'd have to pick a team that was willing,

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Speaker 1: would be willing to do what we just said. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know that all those those things are going

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00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: to happen, or any of them for that matter. Break

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Speaker 1: time for us here, but when we come back, you

832
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,479
Speaker 1: will be hearing from the players, among them Tredevious White,

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00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, Cody Ford, Ed Oliver, and we also have

834
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Speaker 1: some comments from defensive coordinator Leslie Fraser who addressed the

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Speaker 1: media today. All of that coming your way an hour

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Speaker 1: number two here on One Bills Live, presented by Collid

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Speaker 1: to help. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

838
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the field. Kind of unique.

839
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

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00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratgyre of normalcy.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to our number two Friday edition, One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as usual, and just

843
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: to provide you with an update on the Carson Wentz

844
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: situation if you're just joining us. Carson Wentz out indefinitely

845
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: as he undergoes further testing on a foot injury that

846
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,439
Speaker 1: he suffered at the end of Thursday's practice, and Mike

847
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: Garafolo from NFL Network has followed up on that report

848
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:21,320
Speaker 1: by saying, not sensing major alarm bells here, just further

849
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: evaluation on Wentz. So the Colts know what they're dealing

850
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: with here and how to treat it. There is no

851
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: prognosis on how long he'll be out, and that's why

852
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: very often at the outset of an injury you'll see

853
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: the indefinitely word thrown around because they don't have a

854
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:42,320
Speaker 1: hard time table, but indefinitely sometimes sets off alarm bells

855
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: because you don't know how long it's going to be

856
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: and people fear the worst. So we'll wait and see

857
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: if there's an eventual prognosis here, so we'll see where

858
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: it goes. Hopefully good news for Carson Wentz and he's

859
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: back sooner rather than later. This hour hold you. We're

860
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: going to bring you some interviews from some players along

861
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: with some comments from defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier, and we

862
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: begin with Trudavius White, who just addressed the media a

863
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: short time ago. I've been getting a lot of stuff

864
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: about it, man, so I talked to mister Terry to

865
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: day I told him he can sign me to a

866
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: two way contract. Trey, I guess, just you know, what

867
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 1: is it like to be back? And you know, also,

868
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,760
Speaker 1: just how does this team manage expectations this season given

869
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: everything that you guys accomplished in twenty twenty. First of all,

870
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: it is always good to be back with the guys.

871
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 1: You know, the summer is great, you get to travel

872
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: a little bit and spend time with your family, but

873
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: you know, you get get here and get with the guys,

874
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: and guys that I've been around for five years now,

875
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: it's just like getting back together. It's like a family union.

876
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: So it's always good. Just because of the quality of guys,

877
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: with the character guys we have, it just makes it

878
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: so much more fun. And uh, what's your second question?

879
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: I'm sorry here, then, I'm sorry what you said again,

880
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: Just you know, just managing expectations, given everything that you guys,

881
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: this team accomplished in twenty twenty, how do you manage

882
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: such high high expectations? And just what's the mind side?

883
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: I mean, just trust, trust in the process, and you know,

884
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: last year is behind us. It doesn't matter because it's

885
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: a new year of teams has changed, expect expectations have

886
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: changed for each team, but we don't sort of try

887
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: to put the expectations of outside on ourselves. We just

888
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: try to go into each and every day because we

889
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: know we got to earn it. It's a tough year,

890
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: it's a tough league. It's a year to year league.

891
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: And I think that the approach that we are that

892
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: we are having going into it, in the attitude that

893
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: we got coming into camp, I think that we're getting

894
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: to a great start and guys are coming in with

895
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: a great attitude and guys are buying in. So I

896
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: think that it's kind of funny though, because when I

897
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 1: first got here and got drafted, expect the expectations were, man,

898
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,959
Speaker 1: can we please just get to the playoffs. So now

899
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: it's just you know guys, you see guys out, you

900
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: see fans out. It's like we got we're gonna win

901
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. So it's so crazy how things have changed,

902
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: but we wouldn't want to know other way. It just

903
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: goes to show you that we're doing the things the

904
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: right way. Try and know there's a sense of a

905
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: reset every single season. But we just spoke to Levi

906
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: and he said, there's an anger about this team this

907
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: season that he's feeling. Would you agree with that just

908
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: because of how last season ended, as you guys are

909
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: heading into training camp with so many of the roster,

910
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: so much of the roster returning. Yeah, I would say so,

911
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: just because you know, we put so much hard work

912
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: in and then we go into the game and the

913
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: week's leading up to it, we practiced great, we had

914
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: great preparation, we had a great plan. We thought we're

915
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 1: going in and we just didn't play well. So and

916
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing that's the most disappointed. When you

917
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: go in and put so much work in and you

918
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: practice well, and you do all the things that you're

919
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: supposed to do, you know, eating the right things, getting

920
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: a enough amount of sleep and stuff like that, and

921
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: you just go out and you just have one of

922
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: those days. So that's definitely the disappointed thing. But I

923
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: think that we just come back and continue to be

924
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: who we are will be fine for one of those days.

925
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: Is there more that you can take from that? You know,

926
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: it's experience, right when a team has been in a

927
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: in the spot like big game, AFC championship, that sort

928
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: of thing. From a preparation execution football specific standpoint, that experience,

929
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: what can you as a player and you as a team.

930
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 1: I guess taken. We gotta get better that night though

931
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: those guys were a better team, Like you said, they

932
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: had more experience than us, and obviously that that plays

933
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: a small part in it. And you could tell those

934
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: guys have been in those big time moments that they

935
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: didn't shy away from it and they executed their game. Man.

936
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: So I think going into it now, we just got

937
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: to build, continue to build, continue to build a company.

938
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: So you know, if goods say the same, we get

939
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: to that game again, which we all hope we can

940
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: just perform at a high level. Said that you were

941
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,439
Speaker 1: one of the best cuprom pointers that he's ever seen,

942
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: also because of your patience and not for double whos

943
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: kind of having trusting himself. How is it in your perspective,

944
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: how were you able to develop that connotatience. I think

945
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 1: it's a trial and everything. Man, I've been beating on

946
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: so many routes, been beaten by and been beating over

947
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: and over again, and I think that you know, to

948
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: become that corner that you know that you want to

949
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: become is just gonna take time and take patience. It's

950
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: gonna take trial and every you're gonna you're gonna have

951
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: guys that like did he's gonna come up, He's gonna

952
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 1: give you different looks at each and every time, so

953
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: you you just don't know what to expect. And you

954
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: got guys like the man he was saying us coming

955
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: in too. It's gonna give you a different look too.

956
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: So I think it's a little bit of just studying

957
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: film and just learning from your mistakes and trial and

958
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: earth and just going out and being confident no matter what,

959
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: because you know, we're in a we're sort of in

960
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: a disadvantage anyway, and if you could do it pretty good,

961
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: I think that you're you're gonna being for a good,

962
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: good career. So I'm happy that he said that because, uh, man,

963
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: I put a lot of work in and uh I

964
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: mean I take a lot of time, and I put

965
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 1: a lot of work into my craft, and I take

966
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: it seriously. So to hear one of my team they say,

967
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: it's that I don't take like it that mentality that

968
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: this isn't you getting beat. This is I mean obviously

969
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: coming in as a young guy and then coming in

970
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 1: from LSU, my coaches, you know, get up and challenge

971
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: the guy. He didn't care. He don't care about the result.

972
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: He just cared about you fixing your technique and believing

973
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: in yourself. So it took me a while to get

974
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: that because I'm so competitive. I don't want a guy

975
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: to catch a one yard hit or a three yard slant,

976
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: but you know it's unrealistic. So I think that it

977
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: just comes with maturity and just knowing that everything is

978
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,320
Speaker 1: not about you being a bad player. It's about you

979
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: learning too. You got to learn from your mistakes. And

980
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: I think that as I matured in this league, I

981
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: know that sometimes I can learn a lesson, So I

982
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: go back to the family watch it. Okay, next time,

983
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 1: I know how to play a different So it just

984
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: take a little bit of tried and they're immaturity too.

985
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: Was last year more challenging for you behind the scenes

986
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,400
Speaker 1: with everything going on? Or he went up to the

987
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: last couple of days before the opt out to even

988
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,280
Speaker 1: know before you were you were gonna be playing football,

989
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: And maybe more the fans realize all the different things

990
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: you had to go through as a team in personally,

991
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: maybe that we all realize, oh yeah, for sure. But

992
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: you know, once I got here, and once the ball

993
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: got rolling. Uh sale, Man, I think that my teammates,

994
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: the coaches, they did a great job of just making

995
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: it feel sort of normal, which it wasn't a normal ye,

996
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: but they made it seem normal as it could be.

997
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: So being here and staff in our support system and

998
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: they just make it things so much more easier. You're

999
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: going to your fifth year now, I'm yeah kind of

1000
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: being listening that where the old man of the yeah,

1001
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: and you know what's out over the summer when we

1002
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: was on our zoom calls and uh so after after

1003
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: the meets, the younger guys got to stay on and

1004
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: do some some other type of development and Coach Butler

1005
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: was like, I trade I see you tomorrow. And I

1006
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it's not. It's a weird feeling, but

1007
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: it's a good feeling. But it's like, man, I'm growing up,

1008
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: and uh it's a blessing man that I can be

1009
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: that that that outlet for those young guys. Those guys

1010
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: come to me, you know, ask me how should I

1011
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: play this? How to should I do this? So it's

1012
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: something that I look forward to. It's a new challenge

1013
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: for me now and uh, I think that if I

1014
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: continue to do that and leave those guys the right way.

1015
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: I think that these guys that he should send flowers

1016
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: to brand because of all the home but you got

1017
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: you guys like guys like uh, you know, Coach McDermott

1018
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: says all the time, you know, to winning this league,

1019
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,919
Speaker 1: you gotta be strong upfront, offensive line, in defensive line.

1020
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: And uh, that's that's the approach that those guys took

1021
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: in the draft and too free agency too. So I

1022
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: think that, uh, they do a great job of that.

1023
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: And and also I was want to send him send

1024
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: Brandon Beating and Coach McDermot fliers for keeping us together. Man.

1025
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: You don't see you know, secondaries or guys like this

1026
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: staying together for this long. I've been fortunate enough to

1027
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: have Jordan Michael for the five years I've been here,

1028
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: then leave his fourth for year two. So it's quite special, man.

1029
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: And it's a group that that I forever cherish, and uh,

1030
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: the times that we have the other week, we're just

1031
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna cherish it each and every day. You mentioned Levi,

1032
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: and you know, the maturity we just heard him talk

1033
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: for five minutes, and the maturity with him year to

1034
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: the year, and you just see it grow. Every year

1035
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 1: that he's been here, there's been like this battering in

1036
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: the group competing for that two times Josh Norman, E. J. Gaines,

1037
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: Kennon Johnson. Now he's kind of that guy in a

1038
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: lot of ways. I mean, how much have you seen

1039
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: him grow each and every year? Levi, He's never seems

1040
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: to amaze me. Man. He's he's a guy, he's super consistent.

1041
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: He's gonna be in the right spot each and every time.

1042
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have any mental bus So anytime a

1043
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: play happens, it's gonna be a physical it's never going

1044
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: to be mental with him. So you can always live

1045
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: with that. And he's a guy that he's coming along. Man.

1046
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: He's he tackles, he comes up, he covers two and

1047
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: he just take on the challenge each and every year.

1048
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: Each and every year they bring somebody in to try

1049
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: to take to beat him out, and he just standshed

1050
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 1: on each and every each and every time. And that

1051
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: says a lot about him, And that says a lot

1052
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: about his mental Even with I think I said this

1053
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: last year, Man, I respect him so much more because

1054
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: he's a guy that walked on at Alabama and to

1055
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: start and to go in undrafted, what are the chances

1056
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: him making the squad? And then he's been a starter

1057
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: for four years. So he's a guy that I tell

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01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: him all the time, Man, I just respect your grind.

1059
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: You what have you taken from him? He's mentioned things

1060
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: he's taken from you. What have you taken from him

1061
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: over this time? Just his mental approach, like I said,

1062
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: just he was he was from the get go. His

1063
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:30,919
Speaker 1: his chances of making it were slim, you know, So

1064
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: for him to walk on, like I said, Alabama, then

1065
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: go and drafted and battlet it out and then for

1066
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 1: him to be thrown in the fire with week ten

1067
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and he's been holding on every since. So

1068
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: what else could you say about the guy? So it's

1069
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 1: just good to watch on the day to day basis.

1070
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: Just before you about talked to a mental health coach

1071
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: and during his rehab he kind of rediscovered himself going

1072
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: through what you went through what year ago at this time?

1073
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: You know, would say how much behind the scenes and

1074
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: you know, just dad aspect, howard work is it for?

1075
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: You know, you guys as athletes to take care of

1076
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: your mental health and you know what before we for

1077
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 1: coding open about ah Man, it's definitely important. You see

1078
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 1: a lot of things that's going on now with athletes

1079
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: just coming out and it's cool now, it's it's it's

1080
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: been you know, it's not found up on to talk about.

1081
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of a lot of people see

1082
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: athletes or as these superhumans that don't have emotions and

1083
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: that they don't go through things because we're don't playing

1084
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: a game for for a living. But you know, it's

1085
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: so much that we have going on our minds as

1086
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: we come to work. We have families too, we have

1087
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: friends that go through things that weigh up on us

1088
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: because they look at at us as the person that

1089
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: they can turn to because we're inness in this situation

1090
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: that we're in. So it's a lot of you know,

1091
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 1: we get pulled each and every day direction and then

1092
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: we got to come here and try to perform to

1093
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: and be the best version of ourselves. So that's that's

1094
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 1: that's a tough thing to juggle. Being young. Cody's he's young.

1095
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: I think he's like twenty three, twenty four years old,

1096
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:04,919
Speaker 1: so it's a lot of stuff that's on his shoulders too.

1097
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: So I think that, you know, it's good that guys

1098
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: are open and talking about it, and guys are not

1099
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: afraid to get help and said that that they're getting here.

1100
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, right, since I think you just kind of

1101
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 1: referenced that and it's like, no means is it a

1102
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: direct comparison at all, But you see someone like some

1103
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: own bios come out and go through that hole. But

1104
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: as a professional athlete and a performer at a high level,

1105
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: to what degree can you what's your take on that

1106
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: and and can you relate at all? Most definitely, Uh,

1107
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: just you know, she's been doing it at a high

1108
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 1: level and the expectations on her is to continue to

1109
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 1: do it at a high level. And if she don't

1110
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: do it at a high level, you know, it's it's

1111
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: so much backlash on it because the expectations are here.

1112
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: So it takes a lot. It takes a lot on

1113
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,439
Speaker 1: a person. It's a lot that's on her and it's

1114
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: a lot of us on a lot of athletes. Man.

1115
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: That it's just the pressures of trying to perform well

1116
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: on a big stage. It's just it's something that I

1117
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: can't explain because it's just like if you don't perform well,

1118
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: then you just you're you're not who who you think

1119
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: you are, who we thought you were. So it's a

1120
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,439
Speaker 1: lot of just being down, you know, when when people

1121
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: don't perform well as people think they should. It's just

1122
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: a lot that you have to deal with. And if

1123
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: you're not strong to have a solid foundation of people

1124
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: around you to support you, it becomes tough. Uh you

1125
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: know what. So I really don't because, like I said,

1126
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: I don't even play the game. I own a system

1127
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 1: because Levi actually brought me a PlayStation five lash it

1128
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 1: for Christmas, but I still haven't opened it. So now

1129
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: I really don't care about it. It is what it is.

1130
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 1: But I think the guy, one of the guys here

1131
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: told me that. I was like, ah, like the fourth guy.

1132
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's cool. I really don't care. I don't

1133
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: play Man, but my little cousins do. So I'm pretty

1134
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: sure they're going to be hitting me up and telling

1135
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: me all about it all. Yeah, I think you all right,

1136
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: that's Trevias White, always entertaining um some pretty point you comments.

1137
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: So when they asked about, you know, some old miles

1138
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: and mental health and stuff like that, I mean it

1139
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: was very clear that last year, right around this time,

1140
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 1: he was weighing a very big decision, namely the decision

1141
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: on whether to opt out or not. He had some

1142
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: family concerns with respect to COVID, and ultimately it went

1143
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: down to he said, it went down to the last

1144
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: day before he ultimately decided to play, and the Bills

1145
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:30,560
Speaker 1: were obviously the beneficiaries of that last season. But I

1146
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 1: think right there, Steve, he kind of painted a picture

1147
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: about the pressures that are on professional athletes to perform

1148
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 1: sometimes no matter the circumstance, whether it's a global pandemic

1149
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: or whether the weight of the world is on your

1150
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 1: shoulders in terms of teammates, depending upon you, it's and

1151
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: you get it from both sides as well, because you

1152
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 1: One of the compelling things about watching professional athletes do

1153
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: what they do is, particularly when you learn their stories,

1154
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 1: you learn about all the things they've overcome to get

1155
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: to the pinnacle of where they are, you know, ear

1156
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: injuries earlier in their career or recent injuries that were

1157
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: thought to be catastrophic and they fought back, you know,

1158
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: like Alex Smith, the scenario he went through. Other guys

1159
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: like that, guys who came from horrific backgrounds, who who

1160
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: quote unquote escaped a worse fate and now have climbed

1161
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: to the pinnacle in professional sports. You hear about all

1162
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 1: these professional athletes who have overcome so much to get

1163
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: to where they are, then that it becomes unthinkable that

1164
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: anything could ever derail another professional athlete, anything that derails him. Well,

1165
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 1: they didn't want it as bad as this other guy. Yeah,

1166
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: or this other guy did something, and this guy wouldn't

1167
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: ever have been able. He's not he's no good because

1168
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: he didn't overcome something different than this guy overcame. And

1169
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 1: of course, when you talk about mental health, there's always

1170
01:05:56,880 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: the easy it's for some reason when we speak about

1171
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:03,439
Speaker 1: mental health. Sometimes we all think about what I feel.

1172
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: I don't know why I've never been in that spot,

1173
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: or I don't know I can't relate to that, so

1174
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 1: it must be kind of made up because it's a

1175
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: mental thing. You must make it up, or there we

1176
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: tend to belittle it because we've never been in that

1177
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: are never been subject to the pressures that that person

1178
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 1: is going through. So for the other side of the argument,

1179
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: there's always those who don't get that, who can't understand that,

1180
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:28,439
Speaker 1: particularly given what the obstacles that everybody knows these guys

1181
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: have overcome to get there. I think, I think what

1182
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 1: makes it so hard for you know, regular Joe's like

1183
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: me at times to understand the mental health that gets

1184
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: in the way of them performing is Athletes at the

1185
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: highest level are put on pedestals by the general public.

1186
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: They are seen as superhumans almost sometimes, and so it's

1187
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: almost unfathomable, you know, to regular people out there, how

1188
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 1: can somebody so talented, so gifted and all of this

1189
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: have a mental health issue or you know, get the yips.

1190
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: You know when Chuck Nablock can't throw a ball to

1191
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 1: first base from second base. You know what when Mackie

1192
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: Sasser as a catcher cannot get the ball back to

1193
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: the pitchers mound sixty feet away. It just it doesn't

1194
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: compute for regular people because they look at them like,

1195
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: you are so gifted and so talented, how could you

1196
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: possibly not have, you know, the mental wherewithal to have

1197
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 1: the confidence necessary to perform at the highest level in

1198
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: pressure situations. More often than not they do, but there

1199
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: are instances, and I don't know the percentage, but I'm

1200
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 1: sure they are there. Everybody's got doubts no matter how

1201
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: talented and gifted you are. Back in the forties or

1202
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: thirties or way back in the middle of the twentieth century,

1203
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: the baseball player who had a nervous breakdown on the

1204
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: field during a game and he climbed the backstop, you know,

1205
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: and there was a movie made about it. You know.

1206
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: It was a mental health kind of awareness kind of

1207
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 1: thing that the pressure that they're going to think about

1208
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: it if if everything you've ever done has and every

1209
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: piece of notoriety or prosperity that you've ever in every way,

1210
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: shape and form, has come from the sport that you play,

1211
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: and you get to a moment, particularly a place like

1212
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,920
Speaker 1: Simone Bile. So after she's done everything possible in the

1213
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,639
Speaker 1: sport and more, she's got moves named after her, she's

1214
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 1: won the gold medal, she's carried a team in a

1215
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 1: nation's hopes and dreams on her back, and to get

1216
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,680
Speaker 1: into a place where she's not sure that physically she's

1217
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:37,720
Speaker 1: gonna make it through a competition, to think for a

1218
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 1: moment that all of that that she's built up over

1219
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: the course of her career could be gone. Yeah, in

1220
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: a moment. That's pressure, and that's something that nobody else

1221
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: knows what it's like to go through Unfortunately for her,

1222
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: the vast majority of people on social media supported her

1223
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: and her very very brave decision to step out of

1224
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: the competition so as not to cost your teammates a medal. Right, um,

1225
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:09,000
Speaker 1: she made it about her teammates, not about herself when

1226
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: she was dealing with her own personal demons. I guess

1227
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: in the gymnast world it's called the twisties when you

1228
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:18,640
Speaker 1: have these demons in your head, you know, eating you

1229
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 1: up and keeping you from performing at your best. And

1230
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 1: the gymnast when she said she had the twisties, I

1231
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: was like, what does that mean? And all these gym

1232
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: older gymnasts and people from the from the sport, Oh

1233
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: my gosh, I know exactly what she's talking. I'm like,

1234
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 1: why you know? So that she didn't make it up.

1235
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a thing. It's a real thing,

1236
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: and and it's easy for us to sit back and say, wow,

1237
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:47,799
Speaker 1: it's that life seems so great to be a professional athlete,

1238
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: But you know when you're when you reach a point

1239
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 1: in your career where you cannot do it and you're

1240
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: still expected to, and you feel like the entire world

1241
01:09:55,880 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: will crash down upon you if you don't um, people,

1242
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: do you got to handle it somehow, some way. Tredevias

1243
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: is trying to handle the fact that he is now

1244
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 1: a grizzled veteran, now entering his fifth season. He's not

1245
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,680
Speaker 1: a young pup anymore. And Steve was talking to me

1246
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 1: about this when Tradevious was addressing the media on our air.

1247
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: Here just the fact that he is one of the

1248
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: quintessential representations of the transformation of this franchise. He comes

1249
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: in in year one, he's the first draft pick under

1250
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: the Sean McDermott era, and he's a home run. I mean,

1251
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, twenty seventh pick in the draft.

1252
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: He is an all Pro. You're right, Steve, and I

1253
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 1: think his game has matured. I think he always had

1254
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: playmaking talent. The thing that most impresses me about Tradevius

1255
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 1: Tredevius White's game is his consistency. Down in down, out,

1256
01:10:56,600 --> 01:11:02,879
Speaker 1: series in series out. You've very rarely gets something different

1257
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. A bad play, you know, a

1258
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: brain cramp, poor technique. You get none of that with

1259
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 1: his game, none of it. Like we talk all the time, Steve,

1260
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:22,799
Speaker 1: what do coaches value more than anything else in their players?

1261
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: The ability to trust them, right. I don't know if

1262
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:32,679
Speaker 1: you could trust anybody more at that position than Tredavious White.

1263
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 1: He is a trustworthy player who convinces you if you

1264
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: just watch him play one game. The guy has all

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01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: his teas crossed, his eyes dotted. His game is as

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Speaker 1: buttoned up as it gets. It just he is consistency

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01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 1: with a capital C and and that's one of the reasons.

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01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 1: On the other side of the field you see Levi Wallace.

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01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: He mimics that. He's not as gifted as Tredavious, and

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01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 1: he's not as fearsome a matchup as Trdavious, But that

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01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 1: consistently that tells you why Tredavius was so sought after.

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01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 1: Is the first draft pick of the new regime, and

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01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 1: with Sean McDermott, he's a lockdown corner. He's the right

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01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 1: type of mentality. He's a leader, you know, he stayed.

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01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 1: He's very humble and he tries to and he's a

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01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: thinker as well. I mean, he tries to get better

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01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 1: at everything he does. You think about it. He's been

1278
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: in the playoffs three out of his three out of

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01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:33,320
Speaker 1: his four years in the National Football League. The guy

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01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:36,599
Speaker 1: expects it now. That's kind of where the standard is.

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01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: He doesn't know anything about what it's like to be

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01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 1: on a on a bad team. He had had a

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01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 1: down year in twenty eighteen, but that was with a

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01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback in an offensive line that was a mess

1285
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 1: that changed quickly, obviously, But Tardavius is You're right. He

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01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 1: is the face of what has happened in Buffalo since

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01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott has taken over. And he went from being this, Okay,

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01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 1: he's good college player and he wore that number eighteen

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01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:06,680
Speaker 1: at LSU. Okay, it's pretty impressive. Now he's you know,

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01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: everybody knows. He's like everybody, part of everybody's family. He's

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01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 1: like part of the part of the scenery here in Buffalo.

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01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: Everybody knows him and they like he's a staple. He's

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01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,639
Speaker 1: an absolute face of the franchise on the defensive side

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01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: of the ball, and you know, he's beloved and for

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01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:27,680
Speaker 1: good reason. He's a cornerstone. He's a franchise's absolutely a cornerstone.

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01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:30,679
Speaker 1: So's it's fun to hear from him, and we don't

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01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:32,719
Speaker 1: hear from him that often. He's not one of those guys,

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01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,320
Speaker 1: but man, o'man when you line up. He's always there.

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01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:38,600
Speaker 1: One A person we also have not heard from is

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01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,880
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, who as we know, is on the COVID

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01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 1: reserve list, but he did just tweet about fifteen minutes

1302
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 1: ago beyond overwhelmed with the get well wishes. I'm going

1303
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 1: to knock this COVID battle out and be back sooner

1304
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:56,640
Speaker 1: than later. Hashtag thank you, hashtag you already schnow so uh.

1305
01:13:56,800 --> 01:13:59,600
Speaker 1: Dion thanking everybody for their well wishes as he was

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01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 1: put on the COVID reserve list. So as we know,

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01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:06,519
Speaker 1: he and Ike Butcker still out of commission as far

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01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: as participating with the team in practice, and we'll just

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01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:15,040
Speaker 1: have to wait for them to return. The Bills in

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01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: the interim have two extra alignment on the roster that

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01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:21,120
Speaker 1: they signed yesterday. We have to take a break here,

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01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we're going to hear from

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01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 1: one Leslie Frazier. See what he has to say about

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01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: his defense as he enters year five with this crew.

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01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 1: That and more when we return here on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back,

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01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:51,240
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you second half of the

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01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 1: show under way, and we wanted to bring to some

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01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: of the more notable comments from defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier,

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01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: who addressed the media for the first time heading in

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,680
Speaker 1: to this twenty one season at training camp, and naturally,

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01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:09,679
Speaker 1: coach Frasier was asked about his two prized new rookies

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01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: that were taken at the top of the draft in

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01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 1: the spring, namely Greg Rousseau and Boogie Basham, who have

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01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: already flashed here in the early stages of training camp.

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01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:22,719
Speaker 1: Here is Coach Frasier's take on his two rookie defensive

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01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 1: alignment throughout the spring and now here in training camp.

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01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: We've really been impressed with their attitude and their work ethic,

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01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 1: and they really picked up where they left off at

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01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: in OTA's. They're really smart guys, and we were concerned

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01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: early on, you know, how much we could throw at

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01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: them when it comes to the volume of the defense,

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01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: but they both have handled it extremely well and it

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01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 1: doesn't seem too big for him at this point. Now

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01:15:45,280 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: we haven't put on pads yet, we still have some

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01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 1: more installation to go, but at this point we're very

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01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 1: pleased with where they are. Just doing a lot of

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01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: good things. So general in nature with that response, but

1339
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: certainly urged by their approach to improve, get better, get

1340
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 1: this playbook down and understand what their responsibilities are. It's

1341
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: always interesting because they would say, well, of course, we

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01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,600
Speaker 1: haven't put pads on yet, and people say, well, you

1343
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: know they're doing the right thing. They're stepping and it's

1344
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:15,880
Speaker 1: and you can probably most people can relate to this.

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01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: When you put the pads on and the level, that's

1346
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 1: when it gets real. The mentality of all the things

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01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: that they've learned become scrambled eggs because now they got

1348
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,479
Speaker 1: a guy that's punched in the you're even hitting the mouth,

1349
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: and that changes your out. Can you still execute as

1350
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: effectively when someone goes bap okay? Yeah, yeah, that's a distraction.

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01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: So you could understand why coach Frasier is withholding throwing

1352
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 1: bouquets to everybody and that. Yeah, and you and I

1353
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:50,679
Speaker 1: have been talking about how well they're executing, how crisp

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01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:53,640
Speaker 1: and everything looks, and it's true now when pads, the

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01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: pads go on. We had a fight today, but it

1356
01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: was a scuffle, uh, but it was fizzled quickly, right,

1357
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:05,680
Speaker 1: But it fizzled quickly because the entire squad jumped on

1358
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 1: the dogpile and trying and was pulling. It was hilarious. Anyway, So, um,

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01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 1: when you start getting into the pads, now, guys start

1360
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: think your their mind just goes scramble because whatever they're

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01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing and a guy's trying to keep

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01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:23,719
Speaker 1: him from doing it, and he's given an extra effort,

1363
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 1: and you're trying to like be a physical football player

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01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 1: while thinking about what you're supposed to be doing some

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01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:35,719
Speaker 1: some other way. Uh, and that little mesh point there

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01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:40,240
Speaker 1: is a problem in the beginning for a lot of guys.

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01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 1: A lot of guys had completely changed their mind changing

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01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:44,519
Speaker 1: their mindset, and it can't get it back, you know

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01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:47,759
Speaker 1: what I mean. The pads go on and some little

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01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: wire in their brain snaps and they can't get it

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01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 1: put back together. Yeah. So it and it's a thing.

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01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:58,559
Speaker 1: It's a real thing. So that's why all these had

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01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:00,720
Speaker 1: these coaches and stuff. Anyway, I haven't put the pads

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01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:02,640
Speaker 1: on yet, he said, Well, once we put the pads on,

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01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:04,639
Speaker 1: this is gonna and when they you know, when it's

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01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 1: not just like we're gonna do a We're gonna do

1377
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: a run through today instead of a walkthrough. That's nothing.

1378
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 1: You put the pads on, we say we're gonna start,

1379
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 1: you know, bunking heads. That's another thing, and that's that

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01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:19,680
Speaker 1: causes problems for guys. Coach Frasier, even though it is

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01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:24,280
Speaker 1: only day three, was asked about the cornerback to competition

1382
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: between Dane Jackson and Levi Wallace. And again, it is early,

1383
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 1: they're not playing real football yet. But here was coach

1384
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: Frasier's take on how that is unfolded through the early

1385
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 1: stages of training camp. Levi, he um, he's a really

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01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:43,680
Speaker 1: mellow guy when it comes to things like that. I mean,

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01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:47,640
Speaker 1: he he's really focused on who he is and what

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01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:51,640
Speaker 1: he brings to the table. I'm I you know, just

1389
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: in talking with him and and and going through some

1390
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: of his uh Marcelle, I don't think he's too concerned

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01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 1: about who we bring the camp or who someone might

1392
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: say as his competition. He's much more concerned with getting

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01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: his game where it needs to be. And that's that's

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01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:08,600
Speaker 1: the right attitude. That's the way it should be. It

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01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:11,800
Speaker 1: should be about Levi and not you know, worried about

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01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:13,560
Speaker 1: things I can't control. And I think that's one of

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01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: the reasons each time there's been a challenge. You know,

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01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: he's been able to rise to the challenge and be

1399
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:23,400
Speaker 1: surprised if this year is in a different Dane. You know,

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01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:25,719
Speaker 1: we saw this last season when he got in games

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01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't too big for him and made some big

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01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: time plays for us, you know, in the games that

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01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 1: he played, and he's embraced this opportunity. He's looking forward

1404
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: to the challenge of being able to compete for starting job,

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01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: and he's working his tail off in a short time

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01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 1: that we've been here, and you know, we're looking forward

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01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: to seeing how it all unfolds. But he's not afraid

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01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: of the challenge. He's looking forward to it. I will

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01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: say through the first three days, both Levi Wallace and

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01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson have made plays on the ball during team segments.

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01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend to have a tally sheet

1412
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,759
Speaker 1: as to who made more, but they have both factored

1413
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 1: in to making plays defending passes. So I think this

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01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 1: is one that is going to certainly last into the

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01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: preseason schedule, and then that might present them with an

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01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:18,200
Speaker 1: opportunity to gauge who has really separated themselves and said

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01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,519
Speaker 1: this is my job. Yeah, separating yourself is really going

1418
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: to be difficult because everybody on the team and everybody

1419
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 1: on every rep is trying to do their best to

1420
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:29,760
Speaker 1: do exactly what Dane Jackson and Levi Wallace are doing.

1421
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:32,679
Speaker 1: There's either keep their job or win a job. So

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01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: that the evaluation process isn't just about what happens on

1423
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,440
Speaker 1: the practice field, although that's a big part of it.

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01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,519
Speaker 1: It's some of it's what happens in the meeting rooms.

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01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:44,760
Speaker 1: That's a big part of it. Some of it's happens

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01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:47,720
Speaker 1: as a result of workouts and what happens in the

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01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 1: rehab room, and you know, all that interaction happens when

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01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: they're in their individual meetings and their positional meetings. It's

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01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: gonna and some of it's gonna have to do when

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01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 1: they actually play against another team in preseason. That'll have

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01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:04,120
Speaker 1: be a big part of it. So there's a million

1432
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: things that go into the evaluation process of these guys

1433
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 1: that are trying to beat each other out or win

1434
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:12,280
Speaker 1: the job in relation to the other guy. None of

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01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:16,160
Speaker 1: these neither of these guys, Dane Jackson, Levi Wallace, Rashad

1436
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: wild Goose, none of these guys are gonna fall flat

1437
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 1: on their face. So it's gonna be really difficult to

1438
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: make yourself head and shoulders above or separate yourself in

1439
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 1: a big way substantively from the others. It's going to

1440
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:34,719
Speaker 1: come down to tiny judgment calls by the coaching staff

1441
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: and how this evaluation on this day equates to the

1442
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 1: evaluation on another day for a different guys. It's hard.

1443
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how coaches do it. I really don't,

1444
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 1: because you get out there and you have two guys

1445
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: that play identically. Even from my perspective as a wide receiver,

1446
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:55,960
Speaker 1: I'd go out there and there'd be defensive back. I'd

1447
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:59,040
Speaker 1: go against all twelve defensive backs during training camp at

1448
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: one point or another. You're going against all those guys

1449
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: multiple times, and at the end of the day, say

1450
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: which one's better, this guy or this guy, And you

1451
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 1: have to say, well, he's harder to do this against,

1452
01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 1: but this but he's easier to do this against. And

1453
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 1: this guy's harder to do that against, and he's easier

1454
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: to do the other thing against. Um, they're equally difficult

1455
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 1: to play against. How do you discern which guy you

1456
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:21,040
Speaker 1: want on your team and which one you don't. How

1457
01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 1: do you know when the when the chips are down

1458
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 1: that this guy will be better than that guy. You don't, No,

1459
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't. I don't know how coaches do it.

1460
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: I really do not know, because it's you're really cutting

1461
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: it fine. I mean, it doesn't through it with a

1462
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:37,040
Speaker 1: fine tooth comb. Here, define differences and what you believe

1463
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 1: will ultimately help your team, your unit, your position group

1464
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 1: more than the other You've said it though. The one

1465
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: word that trump's almost every other word is consistency. For

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01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:55,639
Speaker 1: a coach, Yeah, for a coach, is consistence? Can I

1467
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: trust you out on that field a nine times out

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01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: of a a hundred on your worst play, you're only here

1469
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 1: on your best play, you're only up here, but you're

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01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 1: never outside of that. This other guy might give you

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01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: a little bit more here, but every so offan he

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Speaker 1: gives you play way down here. And what can we

1473
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: win more with? Right? What? Who do I trust? Who's

1474
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:17,040
Speaker 1: most consistent? Who do I know at least I'm gonna

1475
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 1: get this out of them? Yeah, that's where a lot

1476
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 1: of that's where a lot of these decisions are made. Now,

1477
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: it's not just about quarter quarterback two here in twenty

1478
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,559
Speaker 1: twenty one with the Buffalo Bills, that's about that's like,

1479
01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 1: that's like quarterback one on a lot of teams, who's

1480
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: not gonna kill us? Yeah, on any given play. That's

1481
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:39,880
Speaker 1: number one. And then number two is if the range

1482
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:43,439
Speaker 1: between his worst and his best is rather small and narrow,

1483
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,759
Speaker 1: can we win with that? Right? Like, that's the floor

1484
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 1: and that's the ceiling. They're really close to one another.

1485
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: Do we know within that range is the floor high enough?

1486
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:58,120
Speaker 1: Is the floor high enough for us to win? Right? So? Yeah, there,

1487
01:23:58,200 --> 01:23:59,840
Speaker 1: you're right. There are a ton of layers to it.

1488
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 1: We wanted to get to this comment from coach Frasier

1489
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,960
Speaker 1: because it was probably the most notable one that he

1490
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 1: had this morning. It was on the development of Tremaine

1491
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: Edmonds and Ed Oliver, two players entering very important years

1492
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:17,000
Speaker 1: in their young careers. Here's coach Fraser on those two players.

1493
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you were to asked them that question,

1494
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they would want to answer. Yes, I

1495
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 1: need to make more game changing plays. Tremaine would say that,

1496
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 1: and so would Ed. I mean, that's something we've talked

1497
01:24:29,120 --> 01:24:32,760
Speaker 1: to him about. We need that not only from those

1498
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:34,559
Speaker 1: two guys with us some other guys as well, but

1499
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:37,760
Speaker 1: we expect with their ability and the fact that they

1500
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:42,120
Speaker 1: are two premier players for us on defense. We need

1501
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: those impact plays, those splash plays, and they're capable. You know,

1502
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 1: Ed's done it for us in the past. Tremaine can

1503
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 1: do it. So yes, that would be the next step

1504
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: in their development to be able to create those splash

1505
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 1: plays on a consistent basis, and like I mentioned, they

1506
01:24:56,600 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: are capable of doing it. There's that consistent word again. Um,

1507
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:04,960
Speaker 1: what do you think is realistic for a defensive tackle

1508
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:09,880
Speaker 1: and for you know, a middle linebacker in terms of

1509
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: splash plays? Every game is different. We understand that, you know,

1510
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,920
Speaker 1: there's some weeks you're only on the field for fifty

1511
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 1: two plays, some weeks around the field for seventy five.

1512
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,639
Speaker 1: What is realistic for two starting players in those positions

1513
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: with the talent level that those two possess as first

1514
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: round draft choices. Are we talking two three plays a game?

1515
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:33,639
Speaker 1: You know, sack and you're off the field, interception, two

1516
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 1: three plays like that a game? Splash plays well as

1517
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: a middle linebacker, you know, it's about kind of it

1518
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 1: all encompasses everything. It's it's about sacks, forced fumbles, batted passes,

1519
01:25:46,120 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: tackles for loss that those kind of things, passes defensed,

1520
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:54,200
Speaker 1: those kind of five things. If you can't batted passes,

1521
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: passes defense. The same for a defensive lineman like at Oliver.

1522
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: It's about forced fumbles, it's about sacks, it's about tackles

1523
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:07,800
Speaker 1: for loss, and that that's it that it passes to,

1524
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 1: of course, but you know that's it, and they've got

1525
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:14,680
Speaker 1: to do that when it's now. And I'll say this too,

1526
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: and in their defense, some of this has to do

1527
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 1: with and defenders will tell you this all day. Not

1528
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:23,840
Speaker 1: every play is there is to be made. You go

1529
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 1: out there for five series or six series or maybe

1530
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 1: even an entire game, and you'll never have a play

1531
01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:31,040
Speaker 1: that that comes to there is your where your middle

1532
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 1: linebacker says, that's his play he's got to make, not

1533
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:35,639
Speaker 1: in position to making right. They run either they run

1534
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:37,800
Speaker 1: away from it or they or they cut away from

1535
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: your gap. Your They don't send you against the pass rush.

1536
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,639
Speaker 1: You know enough times that the quarterback throws the other side,

1537
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,920
Speaker 1: you can't whatever, they don't target your receiver. All of

1538
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 1: that stuff's possible, and that can happen as a defensive

1539
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 1: lineman to a lesser extent as well. But you know,

1540
01:26:55,960 --> 01:27:00,160
Speaker 1: but when that play is there to be made. You

1541
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 1: make it every time, and sometimes do you make it

1542
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:07,200
Speaker 1: when nobody thought you should or it was a you know,

1543
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,000
Speaker 1: one of those kind of plays, a talent play. That's

1544
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 1: what it's about. And there's no real number you can

1545
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,400
Speaker 1: put on that stuff, because you know, Tremaine Edmonds may

1546
01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:18,439
Speaker 1: have two sacks this year and everybody thinks, wow, he's

1547
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: an incredible pass rusher, or he may have five sacks

1548
01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 1: and they might say, well, you know, the guy was

1549
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:24,599
Speaker 1: running around and he didn't really do anything. He set

1550
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:27,439
Speaker 1: the guy. You know, he chased the guy down. Uh,

1551
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,439
Speaker 1: you know, which is great, but there's a difference there.

1552
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: I think what it comes down to is situational football

1553
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: when the when the game is tight, when you need

1554
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:47,599
Speaker 1: a play. And I've said this a ton and most

1555
01:27:47,600 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 1: people will you go back and watch games. You can

1556
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 1: walk through every football game of my career and the

1557
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: careers and the careers the guys since I played. Every

1558
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 1: game comes down to less than five plays or less

1559
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: or less, game changing game change, the game hinged on

1560
01:28:03,920 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: that play. Is your guy in that play and does

1561
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:09,240
Speaker 1: he make it for your team? Now? How many of

1562
01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:11,760
Speaker 1: those are his play to make? And part of what

1563
01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:15,560
Speaker 1: leads to those kinds of plays is a keen ability

1564
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:18,840
Speaker 1: to anticipate, because, as you have said time and again,

1565
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: in this league, everybody's good, everybody's athletic. There's a small

1566
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 1: margin of difference between the ultra elite and the guys

1567
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: that are on the back end of a fifty three

1568
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 1: man roster. It's only about two percent. As you said,

1569
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 1: Marv Levy used to say, but if what you have

1570
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:37,760
Speaker 1: between the years and through film study gives you the

1571
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:41,759
Speaker 1: opportunity to anticipate and get to a place before anybody

1572
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 1: else to make such a play, well, now you've reached

1573
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:48,640
Speaker 1: the holy grave, and Tremaine should be getting close to that.

1574
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: He's been in the league long enough, he works hard

1575
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:51,880
Speaker 1: enough at I mean, you look at a guy like

1576
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: Luke Keekley, who is retired since when I'd watch him

1577
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:58,880
Speaker 1: as an analyst for CBS getting ready for a Carolina game.

1578
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:02,600
Speaker 1: You watch him and he'll tell you where the ball is.

1579
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,280
Speaker 1: He's there before everybody else. I use this word a

1580
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:08,640
Speaker 1: ton about Luke Kickley. He was clara voyant in his

1581
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:11,360
Speaker 1: ability to read and discect It was a savant. It

1582
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 1: was unbelievable how fast and before the play before the

1583
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 1: running back went there. He was going there that kind

1584
01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:22,360
Speaker 1: of play that comes from film, study and understanding and

1585
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:24,360
Speaker 1: you know, and that will help a guy like Tremaine

1586
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:26,679
Speaker 1: Edmunds get there, And a guy like Tremaine will also

1587
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:28,800
Speaker 1: help out everybody else see it as well, because he'll

1588
01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 1: communicate it. Break time for us here. We've got more

1589
01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:34,880
Speaker 1: of your questions to answer in the Friday fan mail Bag,

1590
01:29:35,240 --> 01:29:37,280
Speaker 1: so we'll get to those in the next segment. We

1591
01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:41,200
Speaker 1: also will be hearing from one Levi Wallace, along with

1592
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:44,760
Speaker 1: some comments from Cody Ford and others. Next here on

1593
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:47,320
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

1594
01:29:47,360 --> 01:30:03,599
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio time for the obil Friday fan mail Bag.

1595
01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:07,040
Speaker 1: Question from Rachel do you think Gabriel Davis or Emmanuel

1596
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 1: Sanders gets more snaps at the start of the year.

1597
01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 1: I know Sanders is the proven vet, but Davis does

1598
01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 1: have a year in the system. I am going to

1599
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 1: say this first and foremost, Emmanuel Sanders looks like he's

1600
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 1: been here for three years through the first three days

1601
01:30:21,479 --> 01:30:23,200
Speaker 1: of camp. Is he on the same page with these

1602
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:28,320
Speaker 1: guys or what? Holy cow? Yeah, he seems acclimated fairly well. Um,

1603
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:31,840
Speaker 1: very much so. Yeah, and you would expect from a

1604
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 1: twelve year vet who's been on a couple of different

1605
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 1: teams and knows how what it has. You know, it

1606
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:39,679
Speaker 1: looks seamless though yes, has been acclimated to other teams

1607
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:42,400
Speaker 1: in this manner. Yeah, he does look comfortable. He's you know,

1608
01:30:42,439 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: I mean we're seeing pictures of he's now obviously feels

1609
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: comfortable in the practice feel he's that they're dancing and

1610
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:52,320
Speaker 1: hobnob and all that stuff, and he's made some catches.

1611
01:30:52,600 --> 01:30:57,000
Speaker 1: He's on the field, so they aren't easing him into anything,

1612
01:30:57,040 --> 01:30:59,639
Speaker 1: and that's a testament in both him and the coaching

1613
01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:02,760
Speaker 1: staff and the level of execution all these guys are

1614
01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:08,320
Speaker 1: used to. It's you know, it's almost it's almost the

1615
01:31:08,360 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 1: only thing we can talk about is how well this

1616
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:12,519
Speaker 1: training camp is going for both sides of the football.

1617
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to be it really interested to see what

1618
01:31:15,439 --> 01:31:18,080
Speaker 1: it looks like when the pads go on and they

1619
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:23,120
Speaker 1: really start getting physical, because the way both sides of

1620
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 1: the ball up front behave is going to have a

1621
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:28,559
Speaker 1: lot to say about how successful the team's going to be,

1622
01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:31,000
Speaker 1: no matter what the skill positions look like without pads.

1623
01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:34,720
Speaker 1: Pertaining to Rachel's question. Specifically, I think they're going to

1624
01:31:34,760 --> 01:31:37,040
Speaker 1: both be on the field a great deal. I don't

1625
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 1: think it's one getting more snaps than the other. I

1626
01:31:39,520 --> 01:31:42,920
Speaker 1: think with Sanders here now, I think ten personnel is

1627
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:46,360
Speaker 1: firmly on the table as a popular formation for this

1628
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:49,000
Speaker 1: team going forward. Granted, they only did at fifteen percent

1629
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 1: of the time last year in terms of all of

1630
01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:53,840
Speaker 1: their offensive snaps going with four wides that is, but

1631
01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 1: that was the second highest percentage in the league, behind

1632
01:31:56,080 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 1: only Tampa Bay. So I would say both are on

1633
01:32:01,479 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 1: the field a great deal. If you're wanting to split

1634
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:06,120
Speaker 1: hairs and says who gets more time on the field,

1635
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:09,280
Speaker 1: I would say Sanders buy a whisker because Gabriel Davis

1636
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 1: has looked awfully good through the first three days as well.

1637
01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 1: His game has not missed a beat. If anything, it's

1638
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:16,000
Speaker 1: probably gotten a little bit better. It's good. It's a

1639
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 1: good question, though, yes, I don't know if I can

1640
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:21,720
Speaker 1: definitively say that now because of what Gabe Davis did

1641
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:24,200
Speaker 1: last year, and I don't know how you know the

1642
01:32:24,240 --> 01:32:27,200
Speaker 1: improvement they see in him or how he's playing right

1643
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:31,760
Speaker 1: now is compared to Sanders. But it's a really good

1644
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 1: question because I don't know the answer for sure. And

1645
01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:36,800
Speaker 1: seventy four percent of the offensive snaps were played in

1646
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 1: eleven personnel with a tight end on the field and

1647
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:41,640
Speaker 1: only three wide, And we're all assuming that Beasley and

1648
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 1: Digs are the top two. So yeah, the question in

1649
01:32:44,360 --> 01:32:47,760
Speaker 1: essence is who's the three right and it could very

1650
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:51,920
Speaker 1: well vary from week to week based on opponent. Yeah,

1651
01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:54,240
Speaker 1: I think Sanders is the VET. He'll get the benefit

1652
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:55,720
Speaker 1: of the doubt, and if he keeps going along the

1653
01:32:55,720 --> 01:32:57,880
Speaker 1: way that he is, yeah, I could see him on

1654
01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:00,320
Speaker 1: the field a little bit more than Gabriel Davis, but much.

1655
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say the Bills are a four

1656
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:05,320
Speaker 1: wide team all the time. Oh no, no, no, And

1657
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to indicate that if I'm not. I'm

1658
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 1: just saying that's what it would take to have both

1659
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:11,960
Speaker 1: those guys on the field. But it's a really good

1660
01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:15,960
Speaker 1: question and I don't know the answer to it. But

1661
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:20,320
Speaker 1: they've got some tough decisions to make, because if they're

1662
01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 1: going to stick a tight end on the field and

1663
01:33:21,960 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 1: take Dawson Knock put Dawson Knox on the field, they're

1664
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:28,479
Speaker 1: not doing it because he's a better pass catcher than

1665
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:30,800
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis or Emmanuel Sanders. They're doing it for the

1666
01:33:30,880 --> 01:33:37,720
Speaker 1: run game and or a matchup. So yeah, it's a

1667
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 1: really good question. Nick t asks how much playing time

1668
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 1: do you think Josh will see in the preseason as

1669
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,160
Speaker 1: he reached the point where he barely sees the field

1670
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:46,760
Speaker 1: like some other star qbs Or is it still too

1671
01:33:46,800 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 1: good or is it still good for him to get

1672
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:51,880
Speaker 1: at least a few possessions each game? I think this.

1673
01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott does not subscribe to sitting people out an

1674
01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,840
Speaker 1: entire preseason. If there is value to be gained by

1675
01:33:58,840 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 1: putting said player on the field, they will be put

1676
01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:03,240
Speaker 1: on the field if it means they will be better,

1677
01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:06,880
Speaker 1: even incrementally in the regular season. That's just the way

1678
01:34:06,880 --> 01:34:09,679
Speaker 1: he operates. And I think Josh will want to play

1679
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:13,040
Speaker 1: in the preseason. I think he wants those reps. Yeah,

1680
01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:16,160
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and the only risk, most of the

1681
01:34:16,280 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 1: risk for me, thinking back about my career was the

1682
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:23,800
Speaker 1: uncertainty about how much each player was gonna play. How

1683
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:26,040
Speaker 1: much am I gonna play? And they'll say, well, we're

1684
01:34:26,080 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 1: thinking that, I don't know, Maybe I don't know a

1685
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:29,600
Speaker 1: couple of series, Well what is that? And what's a

1686
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:31,320
Speaker 1: couple of series. Is it seven play we get a

1687
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:33,920
Speaker 1: good series out of service seven play drive and then

1688
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 1: we sit out and then we go or do we

1689
01:34:35,360 --> 01:34:37,160
Speaker 1: and then we go another drive? If it's a seven

1690
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:39,000
Speaker 1: play drive, do we go the next drive? Even if

1691
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:41,640
Speaker 1: it's three and out of how many? What am I

1692
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 1: gonna play? And the best way to handle it for

1693
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:46,880
Speaker 1: a coaching staff is say, listen, if we get the

1694
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:50,479
Speaker 1: ball in the first twenty minutes of game time, you're

1695
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 1: on the field through the first quarter and five minutes

1696
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:56,000
Speaker 1: into the second quarter, and that's it. And if you're

1697
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 1: on the field before the five, if we get it

1698
01:34:58,080 --> 01:35:02,640
Speaker 1: at if we get it at ten oh one of

1699
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,720
Speaker 1: the second quarter, you're still on the field once we

1700
01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:08,800
Speaker 1: get to nine fifty nine left in the second quarter,

1701
01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: you will never play in this game again. You understand.

1702
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:15,599
Speaker 1: That's the kind of certainty players like, because then they'll

1703
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:19,559
Speaker 1: stay engage. You get into problems and injuries and all

1704
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:23,320
Speaker 1: of this soft tissue injury and the sloppy play. When

1705
01:35:23,320 --> 01:35:25,479
Speaker 1: the guy says, oh, oh I am going out, they say, okay,

1706
01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: let me grab my helmet here. That's a problem. And

1707
01:35:28,360 --> 01:35:30,599
Speaker 1: most because it's hard to say how long, you know,

1708
01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: how many players, they want you to play, but when

1709
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:36,240
Speaker 1: you give them a specific amount that they are going

1710
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:38,960
Speaker 1: to be on the field, they look better when they're

1711
01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 1: out there. They have an endpoint of they know when

1712
01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:44,000
Speaker 1: and when when they're out and when they're in, and

1713
01:35:44,080 --> 01:35:47,479
Speaker 1: that's that helps them prepare to play well. When you

1714
01:35:47,479 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 1: don't know how much you're gonna play, well, what if

1715
01:35:50,080 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 1: I have a bad play? Am I gonna get a

1716
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 1: chance to recover from it? Are you gonna get me

1717
01:35:52,760 --> 01:35:54,800
Speaker 1: to put it back out? Well? Then you know. And

1718
01:35:54,840 --> 01:36:00,719
Speaker 1: that's that's where for players it's a real a real

1719
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:04,559
Speaker 1: bummer for the preseason. If you pull me out after

1720
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:08,599
Speaker 1: if there's three quarters of the game left and we're

1721
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:11,080
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes in and there's a break in the action

1722
01:36:11,760 --> 01:36:13,720
Speaker 1: and you've told me I'm not going in after that,

1723
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:17,720
Speaker 1: even in the middle of the drive, Fine, just let

1724
01:36:17,720 --> 01:36:21,879
Speaker 1: me know. Yeah, don't leave it, don't make it ambiguous,

1725
01:36:22,120 --> 01:36:24,639
Speaker 1: leave it open ended. Yeah, tell me how much I'm

1726
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna be specific. Yes, because there's a mental preparation involved

1727
01:36:28,720 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 1: for what you're stepping into. And it's also it's ongoing

1728
01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:32,880
Speaker 1: during the game. I like it because then you got

1729
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 1: to get your mind around the next series and he says, okay, here,

1730
01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 1: am I gonna We're gonna do this and this, and okay,

1731
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:39,640
Speaker 1: let's go. And you're kind of into it. And if

1732
01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:41,800
Speaker 1: you're standing there and you gotta you're looking around on

1733
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 1: the sideline, you're waiting for the coach to be standing

1734
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:44,800
Speaker 1: there talking to somebody so you can go up and

1735
01:36:44,840 --> 01:36:46,519
Speaker 1: butt in on the conversation. Say, hey, am I going

1736
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 1: back in. That's a bad place to be even in

1737
01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:52,880
Speaker 1: the preseason. Yeah, break time for us here. When we

1738
01:36:52,960 --> 01:36:55,720
Speaker 1: come back, we will hear from one Levi Wallace, who

1739
01:36:55,760 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 1: addressed the media a short time ago. We will check

1740
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:00,800
Speaker 1: in and see what Levi has to offer about his

1741
01:37:01,479 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: battle with Dane Jackson for the cornerback two spot. He's

1742
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 1: got a three and oh record when battling for that

1743
01:37:09,160 --> 01:37:11,080
Speaker 1: spot in the past. Will you make it four and

1744
01:37:11,160 --> 01:37:14,720
Speaker 1: oz this summer. We'll hear from him next here on

1745
01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:34,600
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by colloida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1746
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:38,840
Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field,

1747
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1748
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:46,559
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, a little Steve a blimp. We're

1749
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:53,160
Speaker 1: not even in the stratgyre of normalcy. How we're number

1750
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:56,559
Speaker 1: three on a Friday, the mail bag is open. We'll

1751
01:37:56,600 --> 01:37:58,320
Speaker 1: get some more of your questions a little bit later.

1752
01:37:58,360 --> 01:38:01,080
Speaker 1: We want to bring to you now the comments from

1753
01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:07,640
Speaker 1: one Levi Wallace, who for the fourth season is embroiled

1754
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:14,519
Speaker 1: in a position competition. The man is undefeated in position

1755
01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:19,240
Speaker 1: competition at the cornerback spot. So will he go four

1756
01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:22,840
Speaker 1: and ozer as his latest challenger is second year man

1757
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:26,759
Speaker 1: in former seventh round picked Dane Jackson. Both of those players,

1758
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:28,559
Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier in the show, I've made plays

1759
01:38:28,600 --> 01:38:31,080
Speaker 1: on the ball through the course of the first three

1760
01:38:31,160 --> 01:38:36,880
Speaker 1: days of training camp practices. Here is Levi addressing the competition,

1761
01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:39,400
Speaker 1: among other things, as he enters year four with the

1762
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:46,639
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. How's your off season? Uh? Which off season?

1763
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:50,000
Speaker 1: The first one? With this last one, I'm saying like this,

1764
01:38:50,280 --> 01:38:52,960
Speaker 1: like back in March or okay, I was up here

1765
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:56,120
Speaker 1: for the most part, Um just working with Dane was

1766
01:38:56,200 --> 01:38:59,400
Speaker 1: up here too, a couple of guys, Um cam Lewis,

1767
01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:02,759
Speaker 1: just working on everything that we always work on, back felling,

1768
01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: getting stronger, getting faster. Took some time off, you know,

1769
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 1: and went to a couple of places, but it's up here.

1770
01:39:07,760 --> 01:39:09,800
Speaker 1: The weather's perfect in Buffalo, and I didn't want to

1771
01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:12,080
Speaker 1: go back to Arizona. It's one hundred and fourteen out there,

1772
01:39:12,120 --> 01:39:14,960
Speaker 1: So I was out here for the most part. Were

1773
01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:20,080
Speaker 1: working with during this award of year. Some people we

1774
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 1: know you, but some people may find that interesting that

1775
01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:25,200
Speaker 1: you're a direct money or the competition. You two were

1776
01:39:25,240 --> 01:39:28,599
Speaker 1: working with each other. Way to feel what brought that about?

1777
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:30,360
Speaker 1: And what would you say to people who would maybe

1778
01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 1: be surprised about that. Well, I think if you know me,

1779
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:35,880
Speaker 1: you wouldn't really be surprised. Or Dane, you know, we're

1780
01:39:36,520 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 1: brothers on this field. Everyone. I mean, you guys know

1781
01:39:38,360 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: the Bills. Everyone's out here. We're a family. Um. Me

1782
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:42,639
Speaker 1: and Dane been together for it. It's our second year

1783
01:39:42,680 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 1: now and we're just trying to make each other better.

1784
01:39:45,160 --> 01:39:47,479
Speaker 1: If he getting better, I'm getting better. Same with t White.

1785
01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:48,920
Speaker 1: I mean he was up here for a little bit too,

1786
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 1: all of us working. You know, we're just trying to

1787
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:53,519
Speaker 1: be the best secondary that we can be. M As

1788
01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 1: we know how last season finished, we weren't really happy

1789
01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:58,320
Speaker 1: with that. So we're just trying to do the most

1790
01:39:58,320 --> 01:40:00,800
Speaker 1: for our team while we can. So you have come

1791
01:40:00,800 --> 01:40:03,519
Speaker 1: a lot, you know on your way to this point

1792
01:40:03,880 --> 01:40:06,920
Speaker 1: and everything in terms of the competition, there's nothing new

1793
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:10,320
Speaker 1: to you if you welcome that. What's your outlook on

1794
01:40:10,760 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 1: this camp? Addition for that spot, I feel like the

1795
01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:18,479
Speaker 1: same question every year. You know, we're competing. I'm in

1796
01:40:18,520 --> 01:40:22,200
Speaker 1: the most competitive job in America, you know. And if

1797
01:40:22,240 --> 01:40:23,920
Speaker 1: you're not out here competing, if you're not having fun,

1798
01:40:23,920 --> 01:40:25,680
Speaker 1: what are you out here for? You know, Dane's a

1799
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:28,599
Speaker 1: great corner, so is cam Lewis, um so it is Nick,

1800
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:31,439
Speaker 1: So it was og. I mean, there's so many guys

1801
01:40:31,439 --> 01:40:34,000
Speaker 1: that they brought in, so many talented guys. You're out

1802
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:36,640
Speaker 1: here for one reason, one reason a lot alone to compete.

1803
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:39,040
Speaker 1: I mean, t White, we're all chasing two seven. One

1804
01:40:39,040 --> 01:40:41,840
Speaker 1: of the greatest corners in my opinion in the league

1805
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 1: right now, that I've ever seen. So it just pushes you,

1806
01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:47,080
Speaker 1: makes you want to go for more. What do you

1807
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:49,720
Speaker 1: have a guy like Davis on one side and he's

1808
01:40:49,760 --> 01:40:52,120
Speaker 1: so good A lot of times in that situation the

1809
01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: other guy gets kind of overlooked. You feel like where

1810
01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:57,920
Speaker 1: you've come from thirty five games all starts in the NFL,

1811
01:40:58,080 --> 01:40:59,800
Speaker 1: what you've had to put in for the successful team.

1812
01:41:00,120 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you get overlooked sometimes maybe locally

1813
01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:07,720
Speaker 1: or nationally. I think I never get overlooked because it

1814
01:41:08,160 --> 01:41:10,120
Speaker 1: the opinions of other doesn't really matter to me. You know,

1815
01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm a real faithful, spiritual guy, and I know the

1816
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:16,360
Speaker 1: Lord doesn't overlook me. So um, I'm straight ahead, straight

1817
01:41:16,360 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: ahead and try to do my job on to feel

1818
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: the best that I can keep it pushing. When you

1819
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 1: talk about work corners, what has changed about what you

1820
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,280
Speaker 1: look for out of them? When you guys are trying

1821
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 1: to make each other better? I'm sorry. When like you're

1822
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:32,679
Speaker 1: working with the other guys in the off season trying

1823
01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:35,559
Speaker 1: to make each other better, have you approached any differently

1824
01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:37,559
Speaker 1: of like what you're watching for to see what they

1825
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:39,840
Speaker 1: can improve on? Yeah? I mean me and Dane we

1826
01:41:39,960 --> 01:41:42,080
Speaker 1: just came out to field kind of a conversation about

1827
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:45,040
Speaker 1: his off technique. Me and him came from Bama and

1828
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: Pitt and we did a lot more pressing and so

1829
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:51,639
Speaker 1: me watching T White really helped me improve my off technique.

1830
01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 1: And I said, bro, it just takes time, it does,

1831
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:56,439
Speaker 1: and it's taking me with three or four years now

1832
01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:59,200
Speaker 1: to to real feel comfortable in me being off and

1833
01:41:59,320 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: Dane said he just starting to feel good and being off.

1834
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:03,479
Speaker 1: So try to help them in that aspect. You know,

1835
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:05,280
Speaker 1: like I said, there's no there's no bad blood, there's

1836
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:07,720
Speaker 1: no beef. We're really out here trying to do the

1837
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:10,640
Speaker 1: best we can because this is this is football. You know,

1838
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:12,200
Speaker 1: one year on this team, when you're on, you're on

1839
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 1: the next. You just want everyone to be successful as possible.

1840
01:42:15,200 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 1: Clearly competition or you wouldn't be here. But has there

1841
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:21,680
Speaker 1: been a point anywhere in these three years you know

1842
01:42:21,800 --> 01:42:23,960
Speaker 1: what you've accomplished? Like you just think, like what more

1843
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:26,720
Speaker 1: are I gotta prove to be the number two quarterback here?

1844
01:42:26,720 --> 01:42:28,439
Speaker 1: Do you ever get to that point, like you know,

1845
01:42:28,479 --> 01:42:31,080
Speaker 1: what more are we gonna do? Aerator? I think that

1846
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:33,920
Speaker 1: comes from me not getting scholarships out of high school.

1847
01:42:34,240 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 1: I think I'm always trying to prove myself, not getting drafted.

1848
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:40,840
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to prove myself to myself, not to

1849
01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:43,679
Speaker 1: anyone else, just that I belong here. I'm the best

1850
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:46,200
Speaker 1: of the best, and as simple as that. Not proving

1851
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:49,040
Speaker 1: to the Bills fans, or the Bills media, or to

1852
01:42:49,080 --> 01:42:51,000
Speaker 1: the Bills coaches. I proved to myself that I belong

1853
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:54,760
Speaker 1: here and I'm one of the best corners in the league.

1854
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 1: Goose super competitive, super competitive, and I like that about him.

1855
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:03,760
Speaker 1: And he's, uh, sorry, somebody's getting FaceTime. Calm, I mute that,

1856
01:43:04,479 --> 01:43:09,120
Speaker 1: but uh, he's uh, he's playing nickel and corner. Uh.

1857
01:43:09,200 --> 01:43:11,479
Speaker 1: Let's makes some versatile, you know, And and that's great.

1858
01:43:11,560 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 1: You know, we need more guys that can do that,

1859
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:16,360
Speaker 1: like Saran, Um, like Tarn, just just guys that can

1860
01:43:16,439 --> 01:43:19,120
Speaker 1: play with um. And so he brings a lot of

1861
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 1: a lot of death. But you know, these guys that

1862
01:43:22,160 --> 01:43:24,639
Speaker 1: they that they brought in their way further along than

1863
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:26,320
Speaker 1: what I was when I first got here, as far

1864
01:43:26,400 --> 01:43:28,960
Speaker 1: as far as the playbook, UM, just understanding what coach

1865
01:43:29,040 --> 01:43:32,120
Speaker 1: JB Is asking for them. They're super advanced or super smart.

1866
01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:35,040
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that they're on the team pushing us.

1867
01:43:35,360 --> 01:43:37,639
Speaker 1: Only the third practice of the campus year, but it's

1868
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:39,960
Speaker 1: your fourth year with this team with you sense anything

1869
01:43:40,040 --> 01:43:42,080
Speaker 1: different on either side of the ball so far and

1870
01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:46,640
Speaker 1: this year's camp, Uh, I think there's a little bit

1871
01:43:46,640 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 1: more anger this year in urgency. UM. Obviously, you know

1872
01:43:51,240 --> 01:43:53,400
Speaker 1: I came back to be with these guys. You know,

1873
01:43:53,800 --> 01:43:55,960
Speaker 1: it was many nights where I was just sick to

1874
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:58,640
Speaker 1: my stomach about how we ended last year, and I

1875
01:43:58,640 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: think a lot of guys are still pissed off about that.

1876
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:02,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's a new year, new team, but you

1877
01:44:02,640 --> 01:44:05,200
Speaker 1: never forget those feelings, you know. And I hate losing

1878
01:44:05,520 --> 01:44:09,960
Speaker 1: more than anything. And I think you just see that

1879
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:11,880
Speaker 1: in a lot of guys, just and it starts with

1880
01:44:11,880 --> 01:44:15,040
Speaker 1: the leadership with Mica Employer, you know, in the secondary alone,

1881
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:17,439
Speaker 1: We've been together for four years now and t White,

1882
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:21,240
Speaker 1: Mica and Trey been together for five and it's like, Okay, One,

1883
01:44:21,320 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 1: this doesn't happen a lot in the league where team

1884
01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:27,160
Speaker 1: where players are together a lot. But two, we don't

1885
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:29,959
Speaker 1: want to look back seven years from now and let anything,

1886
01:44:30,520 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: you know, and be like, oh damn, we should have

1887
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:34,599
Speaker 1: went harder, or we should have did more drills at

1888
01:44:34,600 --> 01:44:36,800
Speaker 1: the end, or we we messed up, you know what

1889
01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:39,000
Speaker 1: I mean. We want to go put our best foot

1890
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:42,600
Speaker 1: forward this year and put that urgency to test. Is

1891
01:44:42,600 --> 01:44:45,120
Speaker 1: there a sense of urgency with that knowing like you

1892
01:44:45,160 --> 01:44:47,880
Speaker 1: don't know how long this good group of players is

1893
01:44:47,880 --> 01:44:51,240
Speaker 1: going to be here together. Yeah, I mean, Tomorrow's not

1894
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 1: promised for anybody, you know. And so when I step

1895
01:44:54,280 --> 01:44:56,680
Speaker 1: on this field, I pray said, Lord, thank you for

1896
01:44:57,280 --> 01:45:00,200
Speaker 1: my teammates and this amazing opportunity that I have let

1897
01:45:00,200 --> 01:45:02,200
Speaker 1: me play for you, you know, And like I said,

1898
01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:04,920
Speaker 1: tomorrow's not promise. You know, with these guys, football is

1899
01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 1: a dangerous sport. You can get hurt any moment I'm

1900
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:08,720
Speaker 1: going to be taken away from you. So I never

1901
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:11,800
Speaker 1: take it for granted. And I always try to bring

1902
01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:15,080
Speaker 1: the urgency each and every day while I'm in this job,

1903
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:20,560
Speaker 1: while I'm in this position, see that that emotion is

1904
01:45:20,600 --> 01:45:24,680
Speaker 1: obviously understandable. But from an experienced standpoint, having been in

1905
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:27,080
Speaker 1: a game like the AFC Championship game, haven't had to

1906
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:29,120
Speaker 1: run through the end of last season that sort of thing,

1907
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:31,880
Speaker 1: What do you take from that in a football sense,

1908
01:45:31,880 --> 01:45:33,960
Speaker 1: in a preparation sense, in terms of knowing what you

1909
01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:36,519
Speaker 1: might have to do to get over the top. Uh.

1910
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:41,000
Speaker 1: For me, personally, I think whatever I mean, I'm like,

1911
01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:43,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna speak to myself. For me, personally, I'm no

1912
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:46,559
Speaker 1: stranger to big games, you know, with championship games and

1913
01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:50,640
Speaker 1: as these championships, National championships, championship games. I know what

1914
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:53,080
Speaker 1: it takes, you know, and and I feel like even

1915
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 1: some parts in last year, I didn't bring all that

1916
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:57,360
Speaker 1: I needed to bring, um, And I think that's what

1917
01:45:57,439 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 1: keeps me up at night. Um. So, like I said,

1918
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:03,880
Speaker 1: just bringing the dying and teas and dying your eyes

1919
01:46:03,920 --> 01:46:06,400
Speaker 1: across your teas to me this year is the most

1920
01:46:06,439 --> 01:46:08,880
Speaker 1: important thing. Just being detailed and what I do and

1921
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:11,639
Speaker 1: what I bring out to this field in coverage thing.

1922
01:46:11,760 --> 01:46:13,519
Speaker 1: What aspect of your dame do you think you've developed

1923
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:16,559
Speaker 1: the most? You know, your time here, probably my off coverage,

1924
01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:19,679
Speaker 1: to be honest, I couldn't like the way tre Davis

1925
01:46:19,680 --> 01:46:22,240
Speaker 1: plays off is. Not a lot of corners can do that,

1926
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 1: like in the league, not even the best ones. Um,

1927
01:46:25,439 --> 01:46:27,479
Speaker 1: he's the best off coverage corner I've ever seen in

1928
01:46:27,520 --> 01:46:29,559
Speaker 1: my life. And so just watching him and learning from

1929
01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:32,400
Speaker 1: him and asking him questions. Uh, you know, Atabama, all

1930
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:35,400
Speaker 1: we do is press, you know, and that's savings philosophy.

1931
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:38,479
Speaker 1: Go up there and challenge and so just learning how

1932
01:46:38,520 --> 01:46:41,320
Speaker 1: to switch it up. Because you're in the NFL, people

1933
01:46:41,320 --> 01:46:43,360
Speaker 1: write books on you, and like, okay, he likes the press,

1934
01:46:43,439 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 1: how we can beat him on press. When you start

1935
01:46:45,080 --> 01:46:48,400
Speaker 1: switching it up off bill press, it makes it harder

1936
01:46:48,439 --> 01:46:52,040
Speaker 1: for the receivers. And just being comfortable on that, you know,

1937
01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:54,000
Speaker 1: and there's still some reps where I'm like, oh, I

1938
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:55,679
Speaker 1: don't know how how would you play this? T? White?

1939
01:46:55,720 --> 01:46:57,559
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's always learning from each other. And

1940
01:46:57,600 --> 01:47:00,479
Speaker 1: I think me and my experience for pressing so much

1941
01:47:00,840 --> 01:47:03,800
Speaker 1: helps him too, you know. We we we like to

1942
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:05,320
Speaker 1: do a lot of give and take to each other.

1943
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:10,080
Speaker 1: So it's great showing like technique wives a ready, so

1944
01:47:10,120 --> 01:47:12,599
Speaker 1: I apologize. But what makes a good off corner? What

1945
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:17,839
Speaker 1: makes feel good at that technique? His patience. He's so patient.

1946
01:47:18,040 --> 01:47:22,040
Speaker 1: I think he trusts his speed for one, um, but

1947
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:25,519
Speaker 1: he's also just really patient, um, just knowing guys can't

1948
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:27,640
Speaker 1: really fly by him where he's just a what was

1949
01:47:27,680 --> 01:47:30,120
Speaker 1: he four four four three guy? And were for me?

1950
01:47:30,280 --> 01:47:32,000
Speaker 1: I had to get comfortable, like I can't play like

1951
01:47:32,080 --> 01:47:33,880
Speaker 1: T why I'm not as fast as him? So I

1952
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 1: get comfortable in Okay, when do I open up? You know,

1953
01:47:36,160 --> 01:47:38,840
Speaker 1: just not mimicking him because he's a different player than

1954
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:40,439
Speaker 1: what I am, you know, So just trying to find

1955
01:47:40,439 --> 01:47:43,680
Speaker 1: that balance of how I can be patient, um, but

1956
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:47,880
Speaker 1: also aggressive too, like how he is so just confidence.

1957
01:47:48,160 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 1: He has much of confidence. He never thinks about double moves.

1958
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:56,000
Speaker 1: He plays free out there, and I love that about him,

1959
01:47:56,080 --> 01:47:58,760
Speaker 1: all right. That's so Levi Wallace. And I gotta tell

1960
01:47:58,800 --> 01:48:01,280
Speaker 1: you the number one thing that he is using right

1961
01:48:01,320 --> 01:48:06,000
Speaker 1: now is confidence. That's as confident as I've heard him

1962
01:48:06,040 --> 01:48:10,240
Speaker 1: in a media setting like that, and I mean that's

1963
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:13,400
Speaker 1: a group media conference. He's got twenty people looking at

1964
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:21,280
Speaker 1: him asking him questions. He couldn't be no hesitation, comfortable, confident, confident.

1965
01:48:22,800 --> 01:48:25,600
Speaker 1: And that's not to say I mean he he is.

1966
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:29,479
Speaker 1: Really you can just tell he's in a great mental

1967
01:48:29,520 --> 01:48:32,439
Speaker 1: state right now coming to a training camp. He's been

1968
01:48:32,479 --> 01:48:36,960
Speaker 1: down this road three times before, once as an undrafted

1969
01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:40,400
Speaker 1: rookie free agent, in which he earned his way onto

1970
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:43,479
Speaker 1: the field as a starter by during the regular season,

1971
01:48:43,520 --> 01:48:46,400
Speaker 1: and then was the incumbent starter the next year, and

1972
01:48:46,479 --> 01:48:48,760
Speaker 1: the incumbent starter the next year, and now here he

1973
01:48:48,840 --> 01:48:55,400
Speaker 1: is again. He he couldn't have been more impressively comfortable

1974
01:48:55,439 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 1: in that situation, and absolute lutely is as solid an

1975
01:49:03,080 --> 01:49:05,599
Speaker 1: individual as you want on your team. And you know

1976
01:49:05,800 --> 01:49:07,200
Speaker 1: a lot of what was said in there, and if

1977
01:49:07,200 --> 01:49:09,080
Speaker 1: you you know, I note the radio listeners can't see,

1978
01:49:09,080 --> 01:49:14,320
Speaker 1: but we were watching him as he spoke, and it

1979
01:49:14,439 --> 01:49:18,639
Speaker 1: just becomes it just becomes so obvious why he can

1980
01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:23,120
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. It's so painfully obvious because of

1981
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:27,160
Speaker 1: the kind of intelligence and confidence, articulation, the communication he has,

1982
01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:30,080
Speaker 1: the feelings he has about his teammates, and the he's

1983
01:49:30,080 --> 01:49:33,479
Speaker 1: just he's off the charts. That's why the guy has

1984
01:49:33,560 --> 01:49:35,960
Speaker 1: carved out a nice career for himself thus far here

1985
01:49:35,960 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Is just that kind of guy, and the

1986
01:49:39,320 --> 01:49:41,920
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce for Buffalo may want to sign him

1987
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:46,479
Speaker 1: up after basically revealing he spent the summer here in

1988
01:49:46,479 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo because, as he said, why would you go anywhere else?

1989
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:52,800
Speaker 1: It's perfect here in the summer. I'm certainly not going

1990
01:49:52,840 --> 01:49:56,080
Speaker 1: back to Arizona where it's one hundred and fourteen degrees. Yeah.

1991
01:49:56,640 --> 01:49:59,599
Speaker 1: News alert to the Chamber of Commerce. Sign up Levi Wallace.

1992
01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:02,880
Speaker 1: He is your ambassador keep for summers and Buffalo. He'll

1993
01:50:03,400 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 1: for me. I do just the opposite. I make fun

1994
01:50:05,560 --> 01:50:08,080
Speaker 1: of Buffalo weather all the time, so nobody else moves here.

1995
01:50:09,320 --> 01:50:11,320
Speaker 1: I like, you know, I like Buffalo the way it

1996
01:50:11,400 --> 01:50:13,080
Speaker 1: is with the people that are here. I don't I

1997
01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:18,559
Speaker 1: don't need you know, donkeys moving in Okay, all right,

1998
01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:21,640
Speaker 1: So I always I never say that stuff. Uh, but

1999
01:50:21,720 --> 01:50:26,360
Speaker 1: he's right. I mean I stayed here. I was got

2000
01:50:26,360 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: picked up off waivers nineteen eighty six. I've been almost

2001
01:50:29,120 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 1: every offseason here, So yeah, I'm with him. He's he's right,

2002
01:50:35,080 --> 01:50:37,840
Speaker 1: and he's and the same thing. You come into this

2003
01:50:37,920 --> 01:50:40,640
Speaker 1: building and you're getting helped at the highest level. And

2004
01:50:40,680 --> 01:50:42,720
Speaker 1: I know they're they're quality trainers out there. I know

2005
01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:45,320
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary's got him, you know, with Jordan Palmer on

2006
01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:48,160
Speaker 1: California and Joshua. But man, you come in here, you're

2007
01:50:48,160 --> 01:50:51,760
Speaker 1: getting helped. Yeah, you're getting You're getting helped, You're getting better.

2008
01:50:51,800 --> 01:50:54,040
Speaker 1: And that's you know, Levi's smart enough to know that.

2009
01:50:55,360 --> 01:50:58,320
Speaker 1: We also heard from Cody Ford and Ed Oliver today.

2010
01:50:58,439 --> 01:51:00,080
Speaker 1: We don't have time to give you those guys in

2011
01:51:00,120 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 1: their entirety. So here is Cody Ford, who as we know,

2012
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:08,559
Speaker 1: is coming off major knee surgery but has fared well

2013
01:51:08,760 --> 01:51:12,720
Speaker 1: through the first three days of camp, hasn't really been

2014
01:51:13,560 --> 01:51:17,759
Speaker 1: reduced in terms of activity out there doing his offensive

2015
01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:21,080
Speaker 1: line work in the team segments. So here is a

2016
01:51:21,120 --> 01:51:25,080
Speaker 1: couple of comments from Cody Ford from today with the media.

2017
01:51:25,200 --> 01:51:27,520
Speaker 1: I've come back this fall camp with a whole new mentality,

2018
01:51:27,560 --> 01:51:31,120
Speaker 1: a whole new mindset in this whole offseason. The one

2019
01:51:31,160 --> 01:51:34,360
Speaker 1: thing that the recovery did allow me to do was,

2020
01:51:34,680 --> 01:51:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, he gave me time to think. It gave

2021
01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:40,240
Speaker 1: me time to rediscover myself and figure out what's my

2022
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:42,760
Speaker 1: wife again and why I'm doing this and what it's

2023
01:51:42,800 --> 01:51:44,640
Speaker 1: going to take to get the job done. I know

2024
01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:50,680
Speaker 1: you have my wife. Yeah, I definitely did so early on,

2025
01:51:50,880 --> 01:51:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, in high school and in college. You know,

2026
01:51:54,080 --> 01:51:57,320
Speaker 1: my best friend with my grandfather, and he passed when

2027
01:51:57,360 --> 01:52:00,000
Speaker 1: I was in college, and I always said we always

2028
01:52:00,040 --> 01:52:02,320
Speaker 1: had a discussion of making it to the NFL, so

2029
01:52:02,560 --> 01:52:04,680
Speaker 1: he never got to see me play college ball. He

2030
01:52:04,720 --> 01:52:07,320
Speaker 1: never obviously hasn't got to see me play a NFL game.

2031
01:52:07,880 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 1: And you know, my rookie year and then last year

2032
01:52:11,080 --> 01:52:12,559
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, there was so much pressure

2033
01:52:12,600 --> 01:52:15,679
Speaker 1: as just being in the NFL and still figuring things out.

2034
01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:18,200
Speaker 1: I kind of lost h side of that in this

2035
01:52:18,360 --> 01:52:22,000
Speaker 1: whole offseason. You know, I've I've dug deep. You know,

2036
01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:24,840
Speaker 1: I went back home a few times, had to. I

2037
01:52:24,920 --> 01:52:27,000
Speaker 1: heard this one quote in college. You know, you got

2038
01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:28,920
Speaker 1: to go back to where he was to get to

2039
01:52:28,920 --> 01:52:32,120
Speaker 1: where you're going. So that's what I did. Pretty friend,

2040
01:52:32,160 --> 01:52:33,920
Speaker 1: did you go to any friends or teammates or coaches

2041
01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:37,880
Speaker 1: or anybody to help you, you know, in that journey. Yeah,

2042
01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:42,200
Speaker 1: so I h I started talking to a mental coach.

2043
01:52:42,280 --> 01:52:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm on name drop, but I did find themental coach

2044
01:52:44,920 --> 01:52:47,720
Speaker 1: that I really liked. We uh, we started talking, and

2045
01:52:47,760 --> 01:52:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, that was the one thing that that really

2046
01:52:49,920 --> 01:52:51,599
Speaker 1: helped me a lot, was just being able to talk

2047
01:52:51,640 --> 01:52:54,200
Speaker 1: to someone other than you know, a coach or teammate

2048
01:52:54,400 --> 01:52:56,840
Speaker 1: or even just a friend, but someone who's just so

2049
01:52:56,960 --> 01:52:59,760
Speaker 1: unbiased and you know, they they just listened to you

2050
01:52:59,840 --> 01:53:02,599
Speaker 1: and they just take everything in. And it was more

2051
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:04,920
Speaker 1: like she wouldn't she would not talk to me, is

2052
01:53:04,960 --> 01:53:06,760
Speaker 1: it since like she's trying to figure things out. She

2053
01:53:06,760 --> 01:53:09,240
Speaker 1: would ask me questions and it was just me just

2054
01:53:09,240 --> 01:53:13,080
Speaker 1: getting my feelings out, you know, as as a young man.

2055
01:53:13,160 --> 01:53:16,720
Speaker 1: You know sometimes that's hard in that room, you know,

2056
01:53:16,880 --> 01:53:19,599
Speaker 1: on zooms and whatnot. Just being able to go one

2057
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:21,840
Speaker 1: on one with her and express my feelings it really

2058
01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:26,360
Speaker 1: helped out. I think we're learning very quickly, Steve. The

2059
01:53:26,360 --> 01:53:31,599
Speaker 1: pandemic really beat on people's mental well being in ways

2060
01:53:31,680 --> 01:53:34,320
Speaker 1: that I think we're still just finding out now. I'm

2061
01:53:34,360 --> 01:53:36,000
Speaker 1: not saying that's the case with every one of these

2062
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:38,760
Speaker 1: guys that has addressed the mental health issues. But you

2063
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:41,719
Speaker 1: see someone Biles who had to delay her Olympic bid

2064
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:44,880
Speaker 1: a full calendar year. I've heard other Olympians watching some

2065
01:53:44,960 --> 01:53:48,080
Speaker 1: of the coverage on NBC talk about how it's been

2066
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:51,920
Speaker 1: a really long year. And we're talking about athletes that

2067
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:56,440
Speaker 1: have a four year preparation plan to become an Olympian

2068
01:53:56,680 --> 01:54:00,280
Speaker 1: and they had to tack on a fifth year. And

2069
01:54:00,360 --> 01:54:02,400
Speaker 1: now we're hearing it from some of the Bills players too.

2070
01:54:02,439 --> 01:54:05,439
Speaker 1: Trudevious White talked about it, and now we hear Cody Ford,

2071
01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:07,439
Speaker 1: you know, going to a mental coach just to get

2072
01:54:07,520 --> 01:54:10,280
Speaker 1: himself in the right headspace to be the best player

2073
01:54:10,280 --> 01:54:13,479
Speaker 1: he can be. I think the pandemic did exacerbate the

2074
01:54:13,520 --> 01:54:18,000
Speaker 1: mental state and exaggerate some of the problems and maybe

2075
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:21,320
Speaker 1: maybe some of the benefits of you know, being an

2076
01:54:21,320 --> 01:54:24,680
Speaker 1: athlete and competing, and maybe and everybody else out in

2077
01:54:24,920 --> 01:54:27,360
Speaker 1: society at large, I mean, we all went through a

2078
01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:29,320
Speaker 1: little bit of that, right. The lack of connection I

2079
01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:31,640
Speaker 1: think affected a lot of these players, especially on a

2080
01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:35,400
Speaker 1: team as tight as this one. Right, And and for

2081
01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:37,720
Speaker 1: Cody Ford then to have gone through a season like

2082
01:54:37,760 --> 01:54:39,840
Speaker 1: he did last year where he didn't get to participate

2083
01:54:39,960 --> 01:54:43,240
Speaker 1: like everybody else did. He was lost for the last isolated,

2084
01:54:43,800 --> 01:54:45,920
Speaker 1: and there was and this pressure coming on to come

2085
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:47,800
Speaker 1: back and come back just as good. And the fact

2086
01:54:47,840 --> 01:54:49,640
Speaker 1: that you know, the club went a long way and

2087
01:54:49,680 --> 01:54:53,400
Speaker 1: he wasn't a part of it, you feel excluded, and

2088
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:57,000
Speaker 1: you know, I think and and there's also this too

2089
01:54:57,040 --> 01:55:01,760
Speaker 1: that now in particularly you surrounding football and probably some

2090
01:55:01,800 --> 01:55:05,280
Speaker 1: other sports, basketball and some other major sports and maybe

2091
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:07,720
Speaker 1: some minor sports where these guys have been a part

2092
01:55:07,760 --> 01:55:10,400
Speaker 1: of it since they were kids, and it's part of

2093
01:55:10,440 --> 01:55:15,400
Speaker 1: a huge business that brings you know that athletes filter

2094
01:55:15,560 --> 01:55:18,160
Speaker 1: through as they come up through the ranks, that one

2095
01:55:18,160 --> 01:55:22,560
Speaker 1: of the major breakthroughs that has been made in recent

2096
01:55:23,160 --> 01:55:26,800
Speaker 1: in recent years has been their ability to get their

2097
01:55:26,840 --> 01:55:31,000
Speaker 1: mind right and get their mental health and put it

2098
01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:34,480
Speaker 1: at a higher priority and to see the benefit from

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01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:36,560
Speaker 1: being in a better place mentally and how it affects

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01:55:36,600 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 1: the rest of your game. And a lot of guys

2101
01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:42,400
Speaker 1: are taking advantage of that, and those who don't do

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01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:45,120
Speaker 1: so at their own peril and their own detriment in

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01:55:45,160 --> 01:55:48,800
Speaker 1: some type cases. So Cody Ford seeing that and know

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01:55:48,920 --> 01:55:50,960
Speaker 1: and now in the in the environment which all these

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01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:54,959
Speaker 1: athletes in America, at least in our country, are performing

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01:55:55,000 --> 01:55:57,960
Speaker 1: in with someone Biles doing what she did and others

2107
01:55:57,960 --> 01:56:01,320
Speaker 1: of that. In that way just say, it's saying you

2108
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:04,160
Speaker 1: know what I need, I need to get it right too.

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01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:07,120
Speaker 1: You know, golfers have been big on that of late.

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01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,680
Speaker 1: That game is entirely played between your ears, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of them have coaches that are you know, strategy

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01:56:12,640 --> 01:56:17,560
Speaker 1: coaches and mindset and mental mental preparation tests or you

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01:56:17,600 --> 01:56:21,000
Speaker 1: know preparation processes that they go through now and it's

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01:56:21,040 --> 01:56:24,480
Speaker 1: all gotten by professionals. So yeah, I think I think

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01:56:24,480 --> 01:56:26,520
Speaker 1: it's a new era, and I think guys like Cody

2116
01:56:26,600 --> 01:56:29,480
Speaker 1: Ford are probably a little ahead of the curve on that.

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01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:32,800
Speaker 1: We heard Leslie Fraser earlier in the show comment on

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01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:35,960
Speaker 1: how ed Oliver and Tremaine Edmunds are two players he

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01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:40,960
Speaker 1: is looking to make more splash plays in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: For his defense, here is Ed Oliver addressing that very

2121
01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:48,960
Speaker 1: subject today. They did a great job, guys to put

2122
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:51,800
Speaker 1: around me and the guys that already here Jerry, you know,

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01:56:51,920 --> 01:56:54,960
Speaker 1: Jerry and Mario. So you know, we got all the things,

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01:56:55,000 --> 01:56:57,800
Speaker 1: all the tools, even fa like, we got all the

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01:56:57,840 --> 01:56:59,960
Speaker 1: tools to just go out, damn be great. We got

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01:57:00,040 --> 01:57:02,360
Speaker 1: do it. Just make it happen on Sundays, you know,

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01:57:02,400 --> 01:57:04,320
Speaker 1: And that's what that's what we're doing here in camp,

2128
01:57:04,360 --> 01:57:07,480
Speaker 1: just building that camaraderie, building that rush. So on third down,

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01:57:07,560 --> 01:57:10,520
Speaker 1: third and long's automatic, automatic, you know, we're taking the

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01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:13,920
Speaker 1: ball away or we're getting off the field. For you

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01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:16,920
Speaker 1: a guy who made used to, has it been tough

2132
01:57:17,000 --> 01:57:19,480
Speaker 1: to be patient for those players to come in the

2133
01:57:19,560 --> 01:57:22,640
Speaker 1: pros so as you have games redominated in college. But

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01:57:23,080 --> 01:57:25,240
Speaker 1: that's what even the case you have to you know,

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01:57:26,280 --> 01:57:28,960
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. You know, it's different than it was

2136
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:30,920
Speaker 1: a learning curve and I'm still in the learning curve.

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01:57:30,960 --> 01:57:34,280
Speaker 1: But like I say, this is mine. I think my

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01:57:34,360 --> 01:57:36,920
Speaker 1: first year like coming into camp healthy and being able

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01:57:36,920 --> 01:57:38,920
Speaker 1: to be with the guys and like build that rush

2140
01:57:39,280 --> 01:57:41,160
Speaker 1: during camp because last year I was coming out with

2141
01:57:41,240 --> 01:57:43,840
Speaker 1: growing injury, so you know it's kind of like limited time,

2142
01:57:43,880 --> 01:57:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, sporadic time, and I just had to monita

2143
01:57:46,800 --> 01:57:48,360
Speaker 1: what they had to monitor me. But this year is

2144
01:57:48,400 --> 01:57:50,520
Speaker 1: gonna be the first year like we we actually from

2145
01:57:50,520 --> 01:57:53,680
Speaker 1: the ground, so we're building that rush, not me coming

2146
01:57:53,720 --> 01:57:55,880
Speaker 1: in halfway through camp. You know what I'm saying it's

2147
01:57:55,920 --> 01:57:57,880
Speaker 1: kind of weird, and even into the first couple of games,

2148
01:57:57,920 --> 01:58:00,400
Speaker 1: kind of weird. We're starting that from from day one.

2149
01:58:00,400 --> 01:58:02,760
Speaker 1: We're building that Russian, building that camaraderie. Who was going

2150
01:58:02,800 --> 01:58:07,200
Speaker 1: to carry over into the season so interesting that you know,

2151
01:58:07,280 --> 01:58:09,440
Speaker 1: he referenced last year felt he got off to a

2152
01:58:09,520 --> 01:58:11,800
Speaker 1: slow start because of the groin injury, which you know,

2153
01:58:11,920 --> 01:58:15,680
Speaker 1: totally understandable. Also did not have Star lined up next

2154
01:58:15,720 --> 01:58:17,600
Speaker 1: to him for the entire season, as he was an

2155
01:58:17,600 --> 01:58:22,560
Speaker 1: opt out. Those elements are not present this year. He's

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01:58:22,560 --> 01:58:26,760
Speaker 1: got Star back, he is healthy, and there are new

2157
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: recruits lining up all around him. Now. I think he's

2158
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:35,800
Speaker 1: smart enough to know though that it's go time, Like

2159
01:58:35,920 --> 01:58:40,520
Speaker 1: he's got to show up on tape and pop on film.

2160
01:58:40,560 --> 01:58:43,520
Speaker 1: Here in year three, right when you think about this,

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01:58:43,560 --> 01:58:48,160
Speaker 1: you got Greg Russo, Jerry Hughes, Aja Panessa, Ed Oliver,

2162
01:58:48,360 --> 01:58:52,720
Speaker 1: Darryl Johnson, Fao Bota, Vernon Butler, Boogie Basham Mario Addison,

2163
01:58:52,760 --> 01:58:57,640
Speaker 1: Starlotu Lele, Harrison Phillips. That's eleven guys. It's a long list.

2164
01:58:57,680 --> 01:59:00,000
Speaker 1: It's a long list. And that doesn't and that leads

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Speaker 1: out Justin Zimmer, Brandon Bryant, Mike Love, Elion Coup, Trevon Hester.

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01:59:09,000 --> 01:59:13,360
Speaker 1: I mean, there's you're only keeping nine at most, right,

2167
01:59:13,720 --> 01:59:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't know nine. I think they might. How can

2168
01:59:16,360 --> 01:59:19,000
Speaker 1: you keep more than nine? They could keep ten and

2169
01:59:19,120 --> 01:59:27,080
Speaker 1: go ten linebackers, ten linemen, ten linemen, ten dbs, five linebackers,

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01:59:27,360 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: or so you're robbing from the linebacker position to give

2171
01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:33,720
Speaker 1: you another d line, right, or it could be the

2172
01:59:33,760 --> 01:59:40,360
Speaker 1: other way, could be nine dbs, six linebackers. If you

2173
01:59:40,560 --> 01:59:42,840
Speaker 1: if depending depends, if you think the talent is so

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01:59:42,960 --> 01:59:46,080
Speaker 1: deep there you should not part with it, right, Yeah, right,

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01:59:46,120 --> 01:59:48,920
Speaker 1: I get it. I think you need big bodies up front,

2176
01:59:48,920 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 1: and you got to keep them, keep yourself deep in

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Speaker 1: that pool. Um, and I think they might. I would

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01:59:54,160 --> 01:59:56,240
Speaker 1: do the almost the exact same thing on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the ball with line offensive linemen. Yeah, it's

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02:00:01,000 --> 02:00:04,440
Speaker 1: I mean that numbers game is gonna be tricky. I know.

2181
02:00:04,520 --> 02:00:06,480
Speaker 1: I make you do the numbers game on our podcast

2182
02:00:06,560 --> 02:00:09,280
Speaker 1: One Bill's Light every week. The numbers game that they

2183
02:00:09,320 --> 02:00:12,680
Speaker 1: have the front office and the coaches, that's a whole lot.

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02:00:12,840 --> 02:00:15,520
Speaker 1: I have higher degree of difficulty. I'll say that twenty

2185
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:17,320
Speaker 1: five guys on each side of the ball and three

2186
02:00:17,360 --> 02:00:23,640
Speaker 1: specialists yeah, it sounds easy, but with a roster like this,

2187
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be. We step aside here, but

2188
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Speaker 1: when we come back, we will be joined by former

2189
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Speaker 1: Bills executive and author Don Purdy, who's gonna join us

2190
02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:40,800
Speaker 1: to talk about his new book out on shelves now

2191
02:00:40,920 --> 02:00:46,800
Speaker 1: and online, also thunder Snow of Buffalo The October Surprise Storm,

2192
02:00:46,840 --> 02:00:49,280
Speaker 1: almost coming up on the fifteen year anniversary of that

2193
02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:52,400
Speaker 1: Steve It is Crazy. We talked with Don next about

2194
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Speaker 1: that book. You're on One Bill's Line presented by Callid

2195
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Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back on One Bills Live,

2196
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and please to be

2197
02:01:10,040 --> 02:01:14,280
Speaker 1: joined now by a former Bills executive who has recently

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Speaker 1: added the title of author to his career title. Steve

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Speaker 1: it is one Don Purty joining us on the show

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Speaker 1: here as he's got a new book out called thunder

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Speaker 1: Snow of Buffalo The October Surprise Storm. How does it feel,

2202
02:01:29,520 --> 02:01:32,080
Speaker 1: Don to be called an author? Now? How about that?

2203
02:01:32,400 --> 02:01:35,080
Speaker 1: It's a little weird. I gotta be honest with you.

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02:01:35,160 --> 02:01:39,040
Speaker 1: I was told that when you finally, after all at work,

2205
02:01:39,040 --> 02:01:41,080
Speaker 1: when you finally get that book in your hands and

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02:01:41,440 --> 02:01:43,920
Speaker 1: there's just no feeling like it. It's even that physical,

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02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:48,880
Speaker 1: tangible book. And I had ordered one before our author

2208
02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:51,800
Speaker 1: copy came in. I ordered one on Amazon before the

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Speaker 1: rescue in and I was from Marrow. I was going

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02:01:53,400 --> 02:01:55,760
Speaker 1: to get that to him before my own mother. But

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02:01:57,280 --> 02:02:00,960
Speaker 1: it came Amazon, package came, opened it up, felt right,

2212
02:02:01,040 --> 02:02:04,320
Speaker 1: open it up. It was six tupleware container tops that

2213
02:02:04,360 --> 02:02:09,240
Speaker 1: my wife had ordered the night before. What a doubter

2214
02:02:09,920 --> 02:02:13,040
Speaker 1: that I was video videoing it too, like I didn't

2215
02:02:13,040 --> 02:02:14,480
Speaker 1: know what I was gonna do with the video kind

2216
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:17,240
Speaker 1: of pain depending on how it came out. And it

2217
02:02:17,320 --> 02:02:19,040
Speaker 1: was just oh. But the book did come the next day,

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Speaker 1: so it feels great. Thanks for asking. Its good and

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02:02:21,120 --> 02:02:22,800
Speaker 1: you and this is a this is the storm that

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02:02:23,600 --> 02:02:27,040
Speaker 1: sent ripple effects, which is the impetus for the book, right,

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Speaker 1: And what was what was the most surprising thing that

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Speaker 1: you didn't know before you started writing the book about

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02:02:31,880 --> 02:02:37,760
Speaker 1: what happened with around that October storm? Um, I would say, uh,

2224
02:02:37,800 --> 02:02:42,440
Speaker 1: and not to steal, I'm just reinforcing what um Mike

2225
02:02:42,520 --> 02:02:45,520
Speaker 1: Chope had had told me. He was a contributor, and

2226
02:02:45,640 --> 02:02:50,240
Speaker 1: just the the vast difference in how severe it was

2227
02:02:50,400 --> 02:02:53,360
Speaker 1: in the zone and like a ten mile zone as

2228
02:02:53,400 --> 02:02:57,040
Speaker 1: compared to how say, in East Aurora there was nothing.

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02:02:57,160 --> 02:03:01,839
Speaker 1: So the people south of Buffalo just literally couldn't believe

2230
02:03:01,880 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: what a war zone Buffalo, you know, a war zone

2231
02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:07,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo was the city. Um, and that just got only

2232
02:03:07,400 --> 02:03:11,800
Speaker 1: reinforced through talking with you know, over fifty contributors to

2233
02:03:11,840 --> 02:03:14,920
Speaker 1: the book. That was that was a real theme. Yeah,

2234
02:03:14,920 --> 02:03:16,880
Speaker 1: why don't you Why don't you explain that a little

2235
02:03:16,880 --> 02:03:20,800
Speaker 1: bit further, John, because I think it's important to know

2236
02:03:20,960 --> 02:03:24,480
Speaker 1: this isn't just a first person account of this, and

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02:03:24,560 --> 02:03:27,440
Speaker 1: maybe Bill's tie INDs there's there's far more to it

2238
02:03:27,480 --> 02:03:30,600
Speaker 1: than that. I mean, you solicited, you know, stories from

2239
02:03:31,120 --> 02:03:35,080
Speaker 1: dozens of people to kind of weave throughout this thing. Right,

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02:03:36,360 --> 02:03:38,800
Speaker 1: very true. Um. You know we had started the book.

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02:03:38,800 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: When I say we as our co author Billy Kloon,

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02:03:41,360 --> 02:03:44,000
Speaker 1: who actually lived in a house behind us, and he

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02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:46,120
Speaker 1: had relatives on our streets, so I used to cut through,

2244
02:03:46,640 --> 02:03:50,320
Speaker 1: became a family friend, and he was sharing some stories

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02:03:50,360 --> 02:03:53,280
Speaker 1: about the storm he'd experienced, and I shared some, and

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02:03:53,480 --> 02:03:55,640
Speaker 1: almost flippantly, he said, oh, we should write a book,

2247
02:03:55,680 --> 02:03:59,400
Speaker 1: And so I thought, you know, if nothing else, I'll

2248
02:03:59,520 --> 02:04:01,760
Speaker 1: go to the office talk to some bills, players and

2249
02:04:01,800 --> 02:04:04,879
Speaker 1: coaches asked them what they thought of it happening in October.

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Speaker 1: You know, agents were telling players, you know, the snow

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02:04:08,800 --> 02:04:11,360
Speaker 1: and buffalo, but they thought they until January, right, So

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02:04:14,720 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 1: we came up with maybe thirty pages, really good stuff,

2253
02:04:18,520 --> 02:04:22,120
Speaker 1: but it wasn't enough to be a book, and you know,

2254
02:04:22,160 --> 02:04:23,880
Speaker 1: life kind of happened. It sat in the shelf, and

2255
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Speaker 1: then last summer I was going through my computer files

2256
02:04:27,080 --> 02:04:29,960
Speaker 1: and found the files. They were in the computer and

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02:04:30,320 --> 02:04:33,280
Speaker 1: I started reading them and thinking, these are excellent stories.

2258
02:04:33,360 --> 02:04:36,040
Speaker 1: And next year's the fifteenth year anniversary of the storm.

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02:04:36,040 --> 02:04:39,640
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna get some play. And I thought, maybe

2260
02:04:39,680 --> 02:04:42,280
Speaker 1: let's let's kick the tires on this thing and see

2261
02:04:42,280 --> 02:04:44,720
Speaker 1: if we can't resurrect it. And I thought, I'm gonna

2262
02:04:44,720 --> 02:04:46,400
Speaker 1: need someone at the top of the ticket to help

2263
02:04:46,440 --> 02:04:48,560
Speaker 1: us get a lot more stories. So I emailed Marv,

2264
02:04:48,600 --> 02:04:52,880
Speaker 1: who I'd been in contact with in Chicago. Some asked

2265
02:04:52,960 --> 02:04:54,680
Speaker 1: him what he remember. That was his first year back

2266
02:04:54,720 --> 02:04:57,480
Speaker 1: as GM, and he said, oh, my gosh, yeah I

2267
02:04:57,480 --> 02:04:59,520
Speaker 1: remember it. I don't know all the details, but here's

2268
02:04:59,520 --> 02:05:02,760
Speaker 1: what I do remember. Um, you said that back like

2269
02:05:02,800 --> 02:05:04,800
Speaker 1: the next day, and I read it and I thought Marv,

2270
02:05:04,880 --> 02:05:08,360
Speaker 1: this is incredible. Would I, if this continues, would you

2271
02:05:08,400 --> 02:05:11,120
Speaker 1: allow me to use this as the forward? And U.

2272
02:05:11,440 --> 02:05:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm under no illusion that leveraging you know his name, UM,

2273
02:05:16,080 --> 02:05:18,560
Speaker 1: which he was so thrilled to do, helped me get

2274
02:05:18,720 --> 02:05:22,200
Speaker 1: contributors like all the meteorologists who all admitted how they

2275
02:05:22,200 --> 02:05:25,680
Speaker 1: missed it, Um to a degree, the Mike Chops and

2276
02:05:25,680 --> 02:05:28,080
Speaker 1: the Tim Wingers and Chris. I'd like to think that

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02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:30,880
Speaker 1: you would have still given me your excellent contribution if

2278
02:05:30,920 --> 02:05:32,760
Speaker 1: I didn't play the Marv card. But that's right, I

2279
02:05:32,800 --> 02:05:35,160
Speaker 1: didn't have to. Actually you didn't play the Marv card.

2280
02:05:35,720 --> 02:05:39,680
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I couldn't. I wish I could have contribuded.

2281
02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:43,400
Speaker 1: I had no memory whatsoever. Yeah, because I live it.

2282
02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:47,040
Speaker 1: Like I said, I lived outside and I was traveling.

2283
02:05:47,120 --> 02:05:49,360
Speaker 1: I was traveling for CB. I was out. I was

2284
02:05:49,440 --> 02:05:51,880
Speaker 1: like I was on another planet while this whole thing

2285
02:05:51,960 --> 02:05:53,960
Speaker 1: was going on. And I was like, what are you talking?

2286
02:05:53,960 --> 02:05:56,480
Speaker 1: If you talk about and I do remember this. The

2287
02:05:56,520 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 1: reason it was such a catastrophic event was because it

2288
02:05:59,520 --> 02:06:02,120
Speaker 1: was in Ober and the leaves were still on the trees,

2289
02:06:02,920 --> 02:06:04,800
Speaker 1: and when you get the end of and the snow

2290
02:06:05,000 --> 02:06:08,480
Speaker 1: was wet and heavy, and it crushed everything. It was

2291
02:06:08,520 --> 02:06:12,440
Speaker 1: the heaviest possible snow. This I did learn as well.

2292
02:06:12,440 --> 02:06:15,640
Speaker 1: We're talking to the meteorologists of your John Murphy helps

2293
02:06:15,640 --> 02:06:17,880
Speaker 1: when you get Don Paul and exclusive with him. And

2294
02:06:18,560 --> 02:06:20,640
Speaker 1: this is as weather geek is. I'll go on here,

2295
02:06:20,720 --> 02:06:24,200
Speaker 1: but the heaviest snow is a ratio of one to six.

2296
02:06:24,280 --> 02:06:26,840
Speaker 1: The lightest snow is one to twenty two, which is

2297
02:06:26,880 --> 02:06:29,839
Speaker 1: like ski heaven. This was one to six. It couldn't

2298
02:06:29,840 --> 02:06:31,600
Speaker 1: have been heavier. All the leaves are on the trees

2299
02:06:31,640 --> 02:06:35,480
Speaker 1: two feet of it because of the cold front that

2300
02:06:35,800 --> 02:06:38,560
Speaker 1: came over Canada. Thanks a lot Canada and just it

2301
02:06:38,600 --> 02:06:40,760
Speaker 1: was the perfect storm, literally the storm of the century.

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Speaker 1: The last time one happened that Don Paul talked about

2303
02:06:43,480 --> 02:06:47,080
Speaker 1: was nineteen o six, and my co author Billy Cloon

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02:06:47,160 --> 02:06:50,400
Speaker 1: did an excellent job of weaving in that story. But

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Speaker 1: as Chris said, you know, with the Bills in particular,

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Speaker 1: you know, for your audience, the biggest suspense probably was

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Speaker 1: would we be able to get to Detroit? Could all

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Speaker 1: the players and coaches to the airport to get to

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Speaker 1: Detroit for our game the next day? And I'll leave

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Speaker 1: that to the readers. Put it is very challenging. But

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Speaker 1: that's so. I think that for Bills fans, even non

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Speaker 1: Bills fans, of which there are fewer and fewer by

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Speaker 1: the way, told me that they really found it interesting

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Speaker 1: to learn how an NFL team handles a crisis like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's all hands on deck, no question, right. And I

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Speaker 1: think you guys do a really good job of kind

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Speaker 1: of weaving in some of the regular Joe's like like

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Speaker 1: me and others along with you know, some of what

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Speaker 1: the Bills players experienced or had to deal with to

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Speaker 1: make sure they got to the plane, you know, and

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Speaker 1: get we're getting to the stadium or checking in here

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Speaker 1: or whatever they had to do for Saturday practice before

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Speaker 1: they're on the plane to go to Detroit. Not to

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Speaker 1: mention the fact tying up everything on the home front

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Speaker 1: in a bow, no one you were going to be

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Speaker 1: gone for the next forty eight hours and a lot

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Speaker 1: of people didn't have hour. Yeah, yeah, for eight days.

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Speaker 1: Are that's a running narrative through the storm. We took

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Speaker 1: a tree to the roof, went in the house. No

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Speaker 1: power for eight days, so our basement flooded, just like

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people. And you know, Chris, you

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Speaker 1: made a point in the book how there was this

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Speaker 1: little guilt factor, felt factor having to leave them behind,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we had a job to do. But

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Speaker 1: you're right, I was. I got great contributions from Joe

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Speaker 1: Frandina and Perry Dix and ran into Bill Connell one

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Speaker 1: day at stadium operations at Delta Sonic. He was like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is what I remember. So I

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Speaker 1: had to get permission from all these people to use

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Speaker 1: their stories, but they were so happy and willing to

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Speaker 1: do it. I saw Perry just last week. He bought

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Speaker 1: eleven books from me and he said, I'm not done.

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Speaker 1: I have a huge family, but they love reading. Like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I really did work there, and this is these are

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Speaker 1: some of the things that we really did. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's and it. People really don't realize how many people

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Speaker 1: are pulling the rope to get these clubs on the

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Speaker 1: road and back on a normal weekend, let alone one

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Speaker 1: that is fraught with you know, this catastrophic storm. And

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Speaker 1: when you do stories like this, you know, Buffalo always

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Speaker 1: takes one on the chin because they feel like it.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's only there's you know, there's winter, and

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Speaker 1: there's the fourth of July and that's the only seasons

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Speaker 1: Buffalo gets right, so right, so that that is it's

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Speaker 1: it's always kind of reinforces that stereotype. But the simple

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Speaker 1: fact of the matter is sometimes some of the best

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Speaker 1: memories are the ones that happened in the midst of

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Speaker 1: all this stuff that we get made fun of. For

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Speaker 1: that's a great point. And I think what I tried

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Speaker 1: to do, what co author Billy Cluton, I tried to do,

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Speaker 1: was to try to dispel the notion by by explaining

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Speaker 1: what just how freakish a storm this was ominously again

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Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth, but by comparing it to how normally

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Speaker 1: beautiful octobers are in Buffalo, and so it's just it

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Speaker 1: was such a huge disparity. But the starting point what

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Speaker 1: was just that, you know, this was Buffalo's excellent weather.

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Speaker 1: And my friends they come down, you know, almost originally

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Speaker 1: from the north who moved to south to Buffalo or

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Speaker 1: to Florida and other southern states, they come up, they

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Speaker 1: get off that plane and they just kind of take

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Speaker 1: it all in. So and there's a little chapter in

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Speaker 1: there about my friends less important than us getting to Detroit.

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Speaker 1: But it was kind of fun for them to see

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Speaker 1: firsthand why we almost canceled our annual weekend that year.

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Speaker 1: Most important news here, don how can people get their

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Speaker 1: hands on thunder Snow of Buffalo? Thank you for asking him.

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Speaker 1: I'm sold out of my author copies, but I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get another copy. Um. But we're just now trying

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Speaker 1: to make the stores available, but Dog Ears on Abbott

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Speaker 1: Road and Hallmark and Southgate Plaza benders. But the big

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Speaker 1: deal for me is thank you very much, Jason Klein

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Speaker 1: over at the bills Or. They're going to be carrying

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Speaker 1: it both at the store and online, and so I'm

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Speaker 1: thrilled to have it there. I was there last week

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Speaker 1: and it's like twenty cars in the parking lot in

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Speaker 1: mid July. I mean, he said that they just can't

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Speaker 1: keep up with the demand, and so it's great to see.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad to be to be part of

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Speaker 1: that awesome, awesome So well, do wish you the best

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Speaker 1: of luck with the book, and we hope it does well.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it will, and I know it was kind

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Speaker 1: of a laborious project for you at times, but I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you're proud of what it's turned out to be.

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Speaker 1: And best of luck. With sales man. It's it's very rewarding.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris. UM. If I have ten seconds, I

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Speaker 1: got to tell Steve that opening that you have with UM,

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Speaker 1: I think it's Marv Albert saying Steve Tasker comes out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere. Steve was the recipient of the most unorthodox

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Speaker 1: compliment I ever heard. We were in Miami. I was

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Speaker 1: with the team and Steve O. J McDuffie I think,

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Speaker 1: had a lane and everyone was excited, and he came

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02:11:56,360 --> 02:11:58,920
Speaker 1: out of nowhere did his classic shoe string tackle. They

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Speaker 1: started to drive at the fifty instead of fifty and two.

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Speaker 1: Miami fans were like, I hate that guy. He's everywhere.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, Thanks very much. Do you up to a

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Speaker 1: red light? Yeah, and you see him there. That's a

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Speaker 1: good way of being everywhere. But thanks guys, I real appreciate. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's joining us. Former Bills executive and author of thunder

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Speaker 1: Snow of Buffalo, available now at the Bills Store, so

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Speaker 1: be sure to get yourself a copy. Break time for us.

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Speaker 1: But Steve and I close it up next here on

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Speaker 1: learned that mental health is front and center, not only

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Speaker 1: at the Olympics, with Simone Biles and other Olympians who

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Speaker 1: had to take on the grueling mental task of lengthening

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Speaker 1: their preparations for the Olympics an additional year because of

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Speaker 1: the pan emmick, but the pandemic wore on some NFL

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Speaker 1: players as well, and they needed to get themselves in

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Speaker 1: the right headspace and some sought professional help, as Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford was explaining today, got a mental coach to kind

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Speaker 1: of get himself right and in the right frame of

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Speaker 1: mind to undertake this coming season coming off a major injury.

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Speaker 1: Pressure comes from within, and these guys feel it like

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Speaker 1: nobody else. And I think going through the COVID protocols

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Speaker 1: like they did last year, it's going to be different

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Speaker 1: this year even and they all got to have to

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Speaker 1: cope with it. And I guy like Cody Ford, who

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Speaker 1: was part of the team and then excluded because of

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Speaker 1: an injury, trying to get back to him back inside

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Speaker 1: and couldn't really participate like you wanted to, couldn't feel

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Speaker 1: like he was a part of it, felt excluded. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to handle sometimes and right. Good for him for

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Speaker 1: getting getting it back together. The Bills have training camp

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Speaker 1: practice tomorrow. It's open to the public if you have

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Speaker 1: a complimentary ticket. We'll have full coverage of that on

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