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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live, presented by Calllida Health.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into One Bell's Live. Happy Free Agency Week, everybody.

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Speaker 2: It's been so fun to get to know some of

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Speaker 2: these new players on this roster and guess what they're

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Speaker 2: in the building today. We're gonna have some on the show.

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Speaker 2: Some have just done their press conferences with local media.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a busy show today. I'm Mattie Glabb

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Speaker 2: and I'm joined by CBS NFL Draft analyst Chris Drapasso,

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Speaker 2: who's filling in for Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 3: Apreci shit you coming on with us today. A lot

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Speaker 3: to talk about.

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Speaker 4: This is one of my favorite weeks of the year.

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Speaker 4: My birthdays tomorrow and this always coincides with free agency.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: The last couple of years, the Bills haven't had as

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Speaker 4: much money. They just haven't had as many roster spots

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Speaker 4: to fill. Now, with a little more money, we've seen

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Speaker 4: one of the busier free agent periods. Right away for

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Speaker 4: Brandon Bean, we thought, hey, it's not gonna be until

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Speaker 4: Thursday or Friday that the Bill's actually signed players. That's

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Speaker 4: not the case. The guys are here. We're gonna get

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Speaker 4: to maybe talk to a few of them face to face.

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Speaker 4: So one of the more fun times of the offseason

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Speaker 4: for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I my mind goes to it because it's been

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Speaker 2: the past few years where Bean starts to make moves,

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Speaker 2: maybe not right away, but later in the week or

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Speaker 2: in the second week of free agency, and this year

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Speaker 2: it's been a bam, bam bam. We're hearing stuff during

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Speaker 2: the negotiating period, and sure enough a day after the

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Speaker 2: new league year begins, guys are in the building. I

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Speaker 2: can tell you Joey Bosa is in the building, everybody

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Speaker 2: I've seen, j Ashua Palmer as well. Derek Forrest just

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Speaker 2: signed his contract and met with the media. He's going

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Speaker 2: to join us in studio in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: But something that happened right after we went off air

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Speaker 2: yesterday Chris was the Bills agreeing to terms on a

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Speaker 2: trade that sends cornerback Kyer Elam and a twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: six to seventh round pick. Elm played in twenty nine

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Speaker 2: games for Buffalo, making twelve starts. He had two interceptions

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Speaker 2: and eighty one tackles in his three year career. Kyer

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Speaker 2: Elam was a player that we were wondering, Okay, does

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Speaker 2: this cornerback get another opportunity because Russell Douglas is set

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Speaker 2: to become a free agent. How is it going to

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Speaker 2: work this season? And we know that Kaye is no

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Speaker 2: longer a part of this team, he's going to get

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Speaker 2: a new opportunity elsewhere.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, in that same draft, sixth rounder Christian Benford was

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Speaker 4: ultimately the corner that the Bills went into that draft

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Speaker 4: desperately needing. He's become an elite level player. We'll see

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Speaker 4: if the contract extension is on the horizon for him.

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Speaker 4: I think at this point this is the classic former

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Speaker 4: first rounder who didn't play to that level that just

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Speaker 4: needs a change of scenery. So hats off to Brandon

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Speaker 4: Bean and the entire Bills front office for still getting

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Speaker 4: two picks for Kyer Eloman, actually moving up from the

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Speaker 4: sixth round to the fifth round in this year's draft

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Speaker 4: for a player that certainly made plays, and if you're

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Speaker 4: Mahomes in the regular season on his resume, but never

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Speaker 4: quite fit with what the Bills wanted to do in

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Speaker 4: he got an opportunity in the AFC title Game, didn't

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Speaker 4: the Bills needed. This was very good general managing by

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Speaker 4: Brandon Bean to not just continue this disappointing pick, give

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Speaker 4: him a new head coach, a new city, a new

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I definitely think it's a win for both sides, especially

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Speaker 2: if the plan for Kayer Elon to keep him here

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Speaker 2: he deserves an opportunity elsewhere to try and make things work.

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Speaker 2: And I have the utmost respect for Elam. When he

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Speaker 3: He's still a young player in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: I think that was key in the Bills being able

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Speaker 4: to get something in return for kyer Elum. Had he pouted,

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Speaker 4: had there been reports that he wasn't putting in as

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Speaker 4: in arguments with assistant coaches and position coaches that he

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Speaker 4: wasn't playing as much as he should as he felt

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Speaker 4: he should have been as a former first round pick.

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Speaker 4: I don't think this trade happens. I don't think the

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Speaker 4: Bills get a fifth and a seventh next year for

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Speaker 4: kyer Elam in the sixth. So yes, he is still young,

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Speaker 4: still in his early twenties, has the NFL pedigree with

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Speaker 4: his dad playing in the NFL, and everything from off

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Speaker 4: the field locker room work ethic ticked all the boxes

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Speaker 4: just didn't really work out with the Bills scheme again,

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Speaker 4: mostly a pressman corner coming to a zone heavier scheme

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Speaker 4: that's pretty complicated in s a lot of its defensive backs.

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Speaker 4: This is good for him and it's certainly good for

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Speaker 4: the Bills too, because it frees up two point five

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Speaker 4: seven million dollars on their cap. Had they just released him,

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Speaker 4: that would not have been the case. He would have

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Speaker 4: had dead money. Now that final year of his rookie

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Speaker 4: off the books for the Bill. So this is you

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Speaker 4: can say, win win for Kyrielam and the Bills, but

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Speaker 4: it is also just a win win for Brandon Bean

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Speaker 4: to get a draft pick and to free up cap space.

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Speaker 2: The Bills now have eleven draft picks in this year's draft.

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Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see what the Bills decide to

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Speaker 2: do with that because now they have still ten. Now

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Speaker 2: they have three fifth rounders. Do you want to package

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Speaker 2: where you don't have a pick right now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what seems to be glaring at this point

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Speaker 4: with picks one, six, nine, seventy one, seventy three, it

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Speaker 4: would be kind of I mean, we see it every

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Speaker 4: back to back selections is relatively rare. That is glaring.

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Speaker 4: They don't have a third rounder. We know they traded

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Speaker 4: to pick Dwayne Carter. It feels like now at this point,

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Speaker 4: agency two, there might not be ten spots on the

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Speaker 4: from the history that Brandon Bean has had some sixth

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Speaker 4: and seventh rounders get poached almost immediately Alec Anderson or

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Speaker 4: get up to move up to get that player. That's

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Speaker 4: kind of how you have to navigate the draft, get

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Speaker 4: If you're a contender like the Bills.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question.

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Speaker 2: You are a draft guru with the picks that Buffalo has,

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Speaker 2: how do you evaluate how they head into this year's

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Speaker 2: draft right now? At ten picks and three that are

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they have seven in the top one to seventy,

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Speaker 4: if they're not a team that's looking to fill a

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Speaker 4: they have just a lot of star players on their roster,

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Speaker 4: the two second rounders is absolutely huge. They can address

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Speaker 4: still have a need a corner and now obviously trading

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Speaker 4: even after signing Larry Ogunjobi or reportedly signing him, a

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Speaker 4: that would make a lot of sense. So that Stefan

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Speaker 4: Diggs trade, we're reaping the rewards right now, like the

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Speaker 4: Bills are seeing that they don't have the dead cap

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Speaker 4: that will really bode well for this team really reloading

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Speaker 4: its roster in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: All right, our question for you today, what has been

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Speaker 2: been several in Christen's you haven't been on with me

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Speaker 2: yet this weekend. Some moves have been made since you

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Speaker 6: For?

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Speaker 4: Mine is Michael Hoyt? And we can ask our producer

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Speaker 4: Jay Harris that there is proof to this. Before I

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Speaker 4: to ask that very question. Sent him an email and said, look,

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Speaker 4: if we talk about the free agents or potential free agents,

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Speaker 4: who like these are my top five that I realistically

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Speaker 4: think the Bills could sign. Michael Hoyt was at number one.

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Speaker 4: I thought he was the guy that absolutely was a

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Speaker 4: perfect fit for what the Bills want to do. They

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Speaker 4: want to get more athletic. It feels like on the

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Speaker 4: defensive line, former defensive tackle turned edge rusher, very reminiscent

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Speaker 4: very athletic slimmed him down. Then he was this do

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Speaker 4: everything front seven player for the Bills and was a

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Speaker 4: great pressure creator sac guy. Michael Hoyt is that type

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Speaker 4: of player. He plays with a lot of power, a

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Speaker 4: lot of handwork at the point of attack, and you

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Speaker 4: can align him anywhere. He played seventy nine snaps at

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Speaker 4: so they put him out as a slot defender. Yes,

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Speaker 4: he plays literally everywhere. They trust his athleticism, and I

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Speaker 4: think he gives defensive coordinator Bobby Babbage so much more creativity.

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Speaker 4: You can have plans for creativity as a decordinator, but

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Speaker 4: you need the horses. You need the guys who are

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Speaker 4: capable to sink in coverage if they're playing defensive end,

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Speaker 4: in a passing situation. That's what I liked so much

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Speaker 4: about watching Michael Hoyt's film with the Los Angeles Rams

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Speaker 4: and thought he was such a great fit for a

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Speaker 2: I watched a few highlights for Michael Hoyt, and what

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Speaker 2: jumps off the film right away. For Michael Hoyt is

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Speaker 2: his motor. It seems like this is a guy who's

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Speaker 2: Brown Hoyt was a practice squad player, turned into a

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Speaker 4: And doesn't this just feel like the classic Bills player,

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Speaker 2: So the Bills add like a senior defensive assistant in

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Speaker 4: It's exactly what Sean McDermott and the Bills have seemingly

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Speaker 2: That's what we were talking about yesterday, me and Steve

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Speaker 2: let's figure out how he can do that. And I

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Speaker 4: But I do think we have to go with this

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Speaker 2: And the big question with him, and like you said,

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Speaker 2: that bodes very well for Joey Bosa and his off

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Speaker 2: We know we need some additions to this defensive line

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I said it earlier. I think the biggest

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Speaker 4: these are two Hall of Fame type players, Joey Bosa

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Speaker 4: He's really athletic. If he's inside at defensive tackle, he's

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Speaker 4: That and I'm I'm saying that as a segue off

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Speaker 2: We have three new defensive linemen that are going to

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Speaker 4: But I think at that point you would have a

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Speaker 2: And as you look at what Buffalo has done to

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Speaker 4: Well, right now, I have to say cornerback, because they

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Speaker 4: Man? Is this a needed addition to this offense? And

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Speaker 4: And josh Palmer that's where he thrived. Now, it was

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00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,239
Speaker 4: a lower value than a Stefan Diggs. He was not

437
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Speaker 4: a fifty to sixty to seventy eighty catch player had

438
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,679
Speaker 4: Keenan Allen, there had Mike Williams. But can win on

439
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 4: the inside, can win on the outside and down the

440
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 4: field at like six one two hundred and ten pounds

441
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 4: with like documented you know, with the next gen stats

442
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 4: and the average separation score the eighth best among qualifying

443
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Speaker 4: receivers last season against man coverage. Overall, just a quality

444
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 4: separator like you mentioned. He brings not the volume, and

445
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 4: that's probably why the Bills didn't have to pay an

446
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 4: exorbitant price to get him, but he brings precisely what

447
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 4: the Bills needed. A niche outside player, wins down the field,

448
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 4: back shoulder, and like you mentioned, can get open against

449
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Speaker 4: man coverage.

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Speaker 2: I think one thing for Palmer as well is that

451
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Speaker 2: he's a younger player. See is entering I think the

452
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Speaker 2: prime of his career. And you look back at what

453
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Speaker 2: he did with the Chargers, and he was in a

454
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Speaker 2: room full of some talent and wide receivers. You said

455
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Speaker 2: Keenan Allen. He also had coaching changes when he was there.

456
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Speaker 2: You get there, your rookie season, your rookie year is

457
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 2: all about learning the offense. How can I fit in here,

458
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 2: how does my quarterback operate? And then your second year

459
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 2: is when you really start to blossom. And then he

460
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,880
Speaker 2: faces a head coaching change last year with Jim Harbaugh

461
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 2: coming into the picture. That's a new offense that you're learning.

462
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Speaker 2: I think coming to Buffalo, what Joshua Palmer is gonna

463
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Speaker 2: get is steadiness. You get a quarterback who's not going

464
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Speaker 2: to change, you get a coaching staff who's not going

465
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Speaker 2: to change for the foreseeable future, and you understand your

466
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 2: role right away.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. What I like about him too is the you're

468
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Speaker 4: mentioning just the steadiness, the well roundedness. To be a

469
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Speaker 4: third round pick and to come in have thirty three

470
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Speaker 4: catches for over three hundred and fifty yards as a

471
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Speaker 4: rookie with all those veterans round, that's a sign that

472
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,919
Speaker 4: he was pro ready. There wasn't oh man, he just

473
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Speaker 4: really couldn't make an impact. Then in the year or

474
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Speaker 4: two he goes over seventy catches and it's like this

475
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 4: guy is really big jump. That's a huge jump into

476
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Speaker 4: year two. The last two seasons not as much volume,

477
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Speaker 4: but back to back years for josh Palmer with a

478
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 4: yard's perception average over fifteen so they I think they

479
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 4: kind of said, all right, he is best in that

480
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 4: to use a Bills example in that Gabe Davis down

481
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 4: the field role, that if they wanted to throw him

482
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 4: screens and shallow crosses, he can be that seventy catch

483
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 4: guy that he was in year two. I don't think

484
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 4: the Bills are necessarily hoping that he's that underneath guy

485
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Speaker 4: that catches seventy passes. They would take forty fifty catches,

486
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Speaker 4: seven hundred, eight hundred and nine hundred yards four or

487
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 4: five six touchdowns and you kind of think of that

488
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 4: Josh Allen boost. That's why I'm so bullish on the

489
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 4: Bills signing this twenty five year old player, because he

490
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 4: settled into that downfield role and really excelled with separation

491
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Speaker 4: and making catches in traffic downfield.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be exciting to see how he

493
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: fits with a quarterback like josh Allen. And I told

494
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Speaker 2: Steve Tasker that Joshua Palmer and I we spent time

495
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 2: together at Tennessee when I worked there. So we were

496
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 2: there for two years and he went on a leadership

497
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 2: trip to Africa with a bunch of other student athletes.

498
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to join them in Africa. So

499
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Speaker 2: I got to I ran into Palmer earlier today, right

500
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Speaker 2: after he was meeting with some of our weight room coaches,

501
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 2: and I was like, Oh my gosh, so good to

502
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 2: see you. I can't believe you're here. And this is true.

503
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 2: In the back of my mind, I always wondered, man,

504
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 2: I could see him fitting in here. He just makes

505
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 2: sense for the type of wide receiver he is, especially

506
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Speaker 2: after the Bills moved on from Stefon Diggs.

507
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 3: Not that Steph was just a big, go ball guy.

508
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 2: He did way more than that for the offense, but

509
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 2: kind of seeing how the roles filled out last year,

510
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 2: wondering more this year, could this be the year that

511
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Speaker 2: Joshua Palmer comes to Buffalo. I just know him as

512
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: a person. I think he fits inside of this locker

513
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 2: room that Bills DNA that you talked about how Michael

514
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 2: Hoyt kind of fits that picture. I think Palmer fits

515
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 2: that perfectly as well. You saw the picture up on

516
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 2: the screen of our group in Africa.

517
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Speaker 3: It was a leadership trip.

518
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 2: It was it was all about learning how to lead

519
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 2: as an up and coming junior or senior on your

520
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 2: team and how you can better your leader skills, and

521
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 2: I think he was that at Tennessee, and I know

522
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 2: he did that with the Chargers as well once he

523
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 2: started to kind of feel comfortable in La.

524
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm just going back to when I was on

525
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 4: Monday and to Rol Bernard was sitting right over there,

526
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 4: and we talked a little x's and o's about you know,

527
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 4: the interception against the Texans and how cool that was.

528
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 4: He really mentioned so much and stressed the importance of

529
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 4: the camaraderie and the belief and the really the brotherhood

530
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 4: that they have in the locker room. Now, do I

531
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 4: think the Bills are just signing really nice guys and

532
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 4: hoping that they feel like feel the good team. No,

533
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 4: I think nice come here, Yeah exactly. But I think

534
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 4: that they understand that the locker room culture and that

535
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 4: we've seen so many free agents come in and out

536
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 4: of Buffalo, they always afterward are like my favorite place

537
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 4: to play was in Buffalo those two seasons, three seasons,

538
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 4: four seasons. Being able to gel with others, to be

539
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 4: a leader, to be just someone that can become close

540
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 4: with other receivers or the cornerback room or your wide

541
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 4: receiver coach. That certainly factors in it and if you

542
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 4: can say that from knowing him before he was in

543
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 4: the NFL, that probably was something that was a little

544
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 4: footnote on this on this free agent before the Bills

545
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 4: ultimately signed him.

546
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 2: Definitely, and I mean him coming to Buffalo. The other

547
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 2: tie here is he's from Brampton, Ontario, which is I

548
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 2: talked to him today and I was like, are you

549
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 2: two hours away from home?

550
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Speaker 7: What is?

551
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 2: He goes about an hour forty from home? He went

552
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: to He moved to Florida from Canada to play high

553
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: school football at Saint Thomas Aquinas, which is a huge football.

554
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 4: High schoo That's where Joey Bosa went.

555
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 3: That's where Joey Bosa went to. I don't know if

556
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Speaker 3: they overlapped at all.

557
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 2: I don't think they did, because Bosa was definitely older

558
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 2: than Joshua Palmer maybe but anyways, maybe maybe Nick, but anyways,

559
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 2: Palmer says, it's so nice to be closer to home.

560
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 3: All my family is still there too.

561
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Speaker 4: That's that's super cool. And how about Michael Hoyt also

562
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 4: from Ontario, Southern Ontario. What are the chances that the

563
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 4: Bill's first two free agents they signed from Canada and

564
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 4: grew up twenty minutes apart from each other. Yeah, that

565
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 4: is so weird.

566
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Speaker 3: That is wild.

567
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Speaker 2: All Right, we're going to take a break, but when

568
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Speaker 2: we return, we'll dive into a few more of these

569
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Speaker 2: new additions to Buffalo's roster, and Derek Forrest is going

570
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Speaker 2: to join us on the show in just a bit.

571
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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere where. One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we're back here.

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Speaker 2: On One Bill's Live discussing all the new additions to

574
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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills. One player that we didn't get to

575
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 2: yet was a safety. Derek Forrest comes to the Bills

576
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: from Washington on a one year deal that he already

577
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 2: signed today. Has played in forty games, started in seventeen.

578
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: His best season came in twenty twenty two when he

579
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Speaker 2: had four interceptions. How does Derek Forrest fit into Buffalo's defense?

580
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Speaker 4: This is right up my alley because not a lot

581
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 4: of people knew about him, and I have all this,

582
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 4: like I have a treasure trove of like what I

583
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 4: feel is useless information. Being a drafted guys get drafted, yeah,

584
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 4: or like a guy goes undrafted, or he's a fifth

585
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 4: founder like Derek Forrest was, and he doesn't play a lot.

586
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I know so much about this guy,

587
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 4: but he's not really on the field much. Well, you

588
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 4: mentioned twenty twenty two four interceptions, nine pass breakups, eighty

589
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 4: eight tackles. That's that's exactly. That's the player that I

590
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 4: saw at Cincinnati in that secondary with Sauce Gardner, with

591
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 4: Brian Cook the chief safety. He is a true free

592
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 4: safety five to eleven, around two hundred pounds, so maybe

593
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 4: a little shorter than you would like at the position,

594
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 4: but plus ball skills. He finds the football frequently, knows

595
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 4: when it's arriving, will make plays on it routinely. He

596
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 4: did it in college and what I like legitimate speed.

597
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 4: He adds more explosiveness to the defense. He ran four

598
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 4: to four to three in the twenty twenty one or

599
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 4: at his pro day. I don't think there was a

600
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Speaker 4: combine that year because of COVID, but four four to

601
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Speaker 4: three speed and showed up in that season in twenty

602
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Speaker 4: twenty two under Ron Rivera. So I wonder was there

603
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Speaker 4: a phone call between Ron Rivera and Sean McDermott do

604
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Speaker 4: you sign off on this player? I loved him as

605
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 4: a prospect, and I think for the money. The Bill's

606
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 4: got a great safety in Derek Force.

607
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned that connection with Ron Rivera. You think

608
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Speaker 2: that Sean McDermott. Ron Rivera had to connect at some

609
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Speaker 2: point on this and joining our show right now one

610
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Speaker 2: of Buffalo's newest members of their team. It's safety Derek forres. Derek,

611
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Speaker 2: thanks for coming on the show man.

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Speaker 8: I appreciate you'all for having me.

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Speaker 3: This is one Bill's live.

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Speaker 2: By the way, we are a daily show that we

615
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: run out of our facilities, which is awesome. We're live

616
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 2: one to three every day. Just because it's the off

617
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 2: season doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Mean that we go away.

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Speaker 2: It's been a busy week, busy week for you as well.

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Speaker 2: You're finally in Buffalo. How have the last few hours

621
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Speaker 2: been for you.

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Speaker 9: It's been amazing. I've been open with I mean, I'm

623
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Speaker 9: being welcome with open arms. They've been great smiles on

624
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 9: everyone's faces. They're so nice. I'd love you here.

625
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Speaker 4: Okay, So I originally am a draft analyst, and I

626
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 4: remember watching you with Cincinnati with Sauce Gardner and Brian

627
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 4: Cook and those really good Cincinnati teams. What can you

628
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 4: say about the fact that you have the big year

629
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Speaker 4: in your second season, didn't play quite as much. How

630
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 4: were you able to handle that? And if you're not

631
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Speaker 4: someone that's gonna come in be the full time eighty

632
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 4: percent of the step starter. How important is it to

633
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 4: always be ready in case your number is called?

634
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Speaker 9: If I've learned anything in this league, it's to absolutely

635
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 9: be ready at all times. I remember last year there

636
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 9: was a game we woke up.

637
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 8: I didn't.

638
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 9: I had like one or two snaps during the week

639
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 9: in practice, and I woke up on game day and I.

640
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 8: Was a starter. So my gosh, that's so important.

641
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 9: To always be locked in, always pay attention, you know,

642
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 9: know the game plan, be ready for anything, because you'll

643
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 9: never know what happened in this league.

644
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: Okay, before, just before you came out, and we were

645
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: talking about Ron Rivera his connection to Sean McDermott. Did

646
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Speaker 2: Ron talk to you at all about Buffalo? Was there

647
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: any connection between those two before you came to Buffalo?

648
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Speaker 9: Ron didn't talk to me, but they told me about

649
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 9: the connection and I didn't know that. And it's definitely awesome,

650
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 9: you know, to have guys back in me and know

651
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 9: how I play, and to tell people you know exactly

652
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 9: what type of person I am.

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00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna go back to my draft roots again.

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Speaker 4: I thought you were a great true free safety, which

655
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 4: is pretty hard to find. But you can tell me

656
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 4: where where do you think your strengths are specifically as

657
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 4: a player. Is it ranging from the deep middle? Is

658
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 4: it running the alley on and outside run? Is it

659
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 4: as a tackler? Where can you tell fans where they're

660
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 4: going to see you make the most plays?

661
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 9: My nick is like getting the ball, something about having

662
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 9: the ball, you know, running with the ball. You know,

663
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 9: I was an offensive player, but I switched the defense

664
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Speaker 9: when I realized that I didn't want to be getting

665
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 9: hit every play. You know, I ready to go Ladwood

666
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 9: and you know, then beat the nail. So I definitely love,

667
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 9: you know, just getting to the ball, doing whatever I

668
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 9: can to get the ball. I love playing strong safety

669
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 9: because the thing is when I get in a post

670
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 9: at free safety, they test me, and the thing is

671
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 9: I got arranged and that's where I get my interceptions at.

672
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 8: So I love it.

673
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: You talk about your explosiveness that twenty twenty two season

674
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: where you had four interception for interceptions. What went so

675
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 2: right for you that season and why do you want

676
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: to bring that year to Buffalo.

677
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Speaker 9: The thing that went right for me is that I

678
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 9: had dudes in front of me that pushed every single

679
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 9: day to compete and get better.

680
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 8: Because I started the Jaguar.

681
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 9: Game and I got an interception that game, and I

682
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 9: only started because a guy toward likam in his stomach

683
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 9: and I was the guy behind him, and I was ready,

684
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 9: and I went out there and I played my heart out,

685
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 9: and that's when people started to notice me. So it's

686
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 9: just so important to really be ready, you know, and

687
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 9: compete at all times.

688
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 4: My thought for you on this team is that again

689
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 4: maybe not going to be handed a job right away,

690
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 4: and the Bill's coaching staff at GM has said, like,

691
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter if you're a first rounder, if you're

692
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 4: a free agent signee, everyone's going to compete for jobs.

693
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 4: What did you see from Afar or have you noticed

694
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 4: from this Bills organization what they've been able to do

695
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 4: at the safety position that maybe helped you say, yeah,

696
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 4: I'm gonna sign that contract with the Bills.

697
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 9: They've been able to develop safeties at a high level,

698
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 9: especially I'll say of like the last six years, you know,

699
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 9: it's been great. They had great safeties come in and

700
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 9: play and even the guys behind them that come in

701
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 9: and play it played great, man, So I can't wait

702
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 9: to get to it.

703
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, this defense, especially last year and even the year before,

704
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 2: they faced lots of injuries to their secondary and it

705
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, now another safety or corner is down,

706
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 2: and the guys who step up in their absence may

707
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 2: not be first rounders or second rounders. Some of them

708
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 2: were undrafted, some of them were fifth rounders, but they

709
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 2: were so ready for the opportunity and made explosive play.

710
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: So you talk about how this staff has been able

711
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 2: to develop guys, and we see it every single season.

712
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: In deciding that Buffalo was the place you wanted to go,

713
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 2: what were your conversations like with the coaching staff and

714
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 2: with our scouting scouting.

715
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 9: Department, I definitely wanted opportunity, And then after opportunity, I

716
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 9: knew that I wanted to be on a great team.

717
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 7: You know.

718
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 9: You can tell that they have a great culture around here,

719
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 9: love to win. The people are great, and that's something

720
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 9: I wanted to be a part of. Man, it just

721
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 9: allows you to come in every day and love what

722
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 9: you do. You know, love coming to work, and I

723
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 9: feel like it's a job all right.

724
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Speaker 4: I mentioned early sauce guardner Brian Cook. You play with

725
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 4: two great secondary guys there in Cincinnati. How important you

726
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 4: mentioned that you can't wait to get to it. Can

727
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 4: you explain as someone that has so many responsibilities at

728
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 4: the safety spot, you're playing free safety, you playing strong safety,

729
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 4: even in the slot at corner. Explain how important it

730
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 4: is to understand and get to know your teammates, not

731
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 4: even just off the field, but also on the field

732
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 4: to be able to play off a Christian Benford at

733
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 4: corner or Damar Hamlin at the other safety spot or

734
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 4: Taylor rep. How important is it to really have communication

735
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 4: on the back end.

736
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 9: It's very important because at the end of the day,

737
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 9: people they don't see when you know, the things up

738
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 9: front breakdown, but in the back end, when things break down,

739
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 9: that's the first thing that they're going to notice, you know.

740
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 9: So it's so important to be on the same page,

741
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 9: to have trust, you know, to have that you know,

742
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 9: everything just going together for us to go out there

743
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 9: and play fast, play smooth, you know, play confident.

744
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 2: Derek, there's also a person behind the jersey that you're

745
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: gonna wear.

746
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 3: What is Zeric Forrest like as.

747
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 8: A person I'm a very happy person. Man.

748
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 9: I love the smile. I love to just have fun.

749
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 9: I love to be around great people.

750
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 8: Man.

751
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 9: You know, I can definitely feel the energy around here,

752
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 9: and it's a lot of great people.

753
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 7: Man.

754
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 8: I like to cut hair, you know, I play video games.

755
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 9: I do everything, man like, if y'all want to, I

756
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 9: got to write it down because I do so much stuff. Man.

757
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 4: All right, last one for me. Are you ready to

758
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 4: eat way more wings than you've ever eaten in your life?

759
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 4: Are you a big wing guy already? Can you just

760
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 4: give us your your general sense on buffalo wings and

761
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 4: your experience with them up until now.

762
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 8: My favorite wing, I'm going to order buffalo.

763
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 7: You know.

764
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 9: If it's not buffalo, then it's hot wing. So I

765
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 9: love wings, you know, Man, A lot of people barbecue guys. Man,

766
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 9: I'm not a barbecue guy. I'm a buffalo guy, you know,

767
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 9: like a little spicy man.

768
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: Derek, you're in the right place for wings. You spoke

769
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 2: about cutting hair, doing a lot of things. My wheels

770
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 2: are churning of players. Who I think you're gonna vibe with.

771
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 2: One of those guys is JaMarcus Ingram, who also likes

772
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 2: to cut hair in his free time. Well, some times

773
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 2: do it in the fieldhouse after practice. He'll help some

774
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 2: guys with haircuts and also just has a running list

775
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 2: of random things that he loves to do and random

776
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 2: things that he's really good at. He wrote a children's

777
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 2: book this offseason. So somebody who's going to be near

778
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 2: you and in the defensive backs units. So excited for

779
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: you to get to meet him and everybody else in

780
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 2: this building. But we just want to say a big

781
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 2: welcome to Buffalo to you. We're so excited for having

782
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 2: for you to join this defense.

783
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 8: Thank you so much, and I appreciate you all for

784
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 8: having me here.

785
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: Awesome.

786
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: That was Derek Forres joining us on One Bill's Live.

787
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Speaker 2: We're going to take a break, but be right back

788
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Speaker 2: here where One Bill's Live. We're presented by Colida Health

789
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 2: on Buffalo for you. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

790
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: Maddi glab and Chris Terpasso here giving you the news

791
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 2: for today. And we just had new Bill safety Derek

792
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 2: Forrest who joined us on the show. It was great

793
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 2: to hear a little bit more from him. I love

794
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 2: his attitude, I love how he views himself on the field,

795
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: an explosive type of player who just wants to force turnovers.

796
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 4: And his vibe was great too. I mean you mentioned

797
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 4: it at the end of that interview, like, you know,

798
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 4: being part of the locker room. He seems like he's

799
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 4: gonna fit right in and be that playful guy that

800
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 4: is focused but also keeps it loose at times.

801
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Speaker 7: You know.

802
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 4: I think the Bills teams have been at their best

803
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 4: when they're having snowball fights after practice and it's not

804
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 4: everything so rigid and robotic, and I think it's almost

805
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 4: a trickle down effect from Josh Allen, like your quarterback. Yes,

806
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 4: teams can kind of take the shape of the head

807
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 4: coach or the quarterback. And we know that Sean McDermott

808
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 4: has gotten less robotic over the years and that's bowed

809
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 4: very well for this team. So he just from the

810
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 4: two minutes that we talked to him, he seems like

811
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 4: a high energy, good vibe type of player and I

812
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 4: think he can really play that free safety position.

813
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll definitely be in the to compete for a spot.

814
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 2: That's a position group already that I'm going to be

815
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: very interested to see how things take shape take form

816
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 2: as we approach April twenty first, when players report back

817
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 2: here for workouts, but then when mini camps begin, and

818
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: then when we get into training camp where it's true

819
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 2: time to compete for a starting role.

820
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 4: And like you mentioned those four interceptions and we were

821
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 4: rolling the b roll on TV, those four interceptions in

822
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two were no fluke like. He showed his

823
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 4: range from the deep middle. He said, that's what he

824
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 4: likes to do. If I kind of asked him, what's

825
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 4: your strength, he said, taking away the football. I think

826
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 4: a lot of safeties want to do a lot of

827
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 4: things well because that's just a position that has so

828
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 4: much responsibility today. He did at Cincinnati, he did it

829
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 4: when he was a full time starter, and got that

830
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 4: opportunity in Washington on a good team with Ron Rivera,

831
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 4: a defensive minded coach, and then obviously last year with

832
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 4: Dan Quinn getting as far as the Bills did in

833
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 4: their respective conference. He's won and that I think will

834
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 4: outplay what is a pretty modest contract, young in the

835
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 4: prime of his career, Like we talked about with Josh Palmer,

836
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 4: Derek for is certainly a name that maybe not a

837
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 4: lot of Bills fans knew immediately because he wasn't a

838
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 4: full time player last year, but I think one that

839
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 4: they will know come September, October, and November.

840
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: The Bills were at the top of the league in

841
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 2: takeaways last year thirty two, ranked third in the NFL,

842
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 2: had the best turnover differential in the NFL.

843
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,959
Speaker 3: You think about putting a.

844
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 2: Player like that into what Buffalo already did last season,

845
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 2: and you gotta think if Bobby Babbage got that many

846
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 2: takeaways out of that group, they want to bring it

847
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 2: back for twenty twenty five and see what they can do.

848
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 4: And they have a four to four to three free

849
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 4: safety now who's twenty five years old. They have at least,

850
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 4: like I said earlier, with Michael Hoyt and Bobby Babbage,

851
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 4: wanting to do specific things up front, to utilize players

852
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 4: in different roles, different pre snap alignments. You can say

853
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 4: we want to run this cover three or this complex

854
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 4: blitz with this coverage behind it if you don't have

855
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 4: someone that can range to the football routinely. And I

856
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 4: don't really think the Bills, even in their primes, Michael

857
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 4: Hyde and Jordan Poyer were not for low for four

858
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 4: type players. They didn't run that fast coming out of

859
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 4: the combine. Forrest has that elite level range for the position.

860
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 4: So we'll see if it ultimately takes shape on the

861
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 4: field and if he can grasp the playbook. But now

862
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 4: Bobby Babbage has someone on the back end who really

863
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 4: has that juice to even if it's not a perfect

864
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 4: play or there's a really fast wide receiver, he can

865
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 4: close that gap, force pass breakups and intercept the football.

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Speaker 3: I like that a lot.

867
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phone lines to Butch

868
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 2: from the east side. Butch, you're joining us now, how

869
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 2: are you doing?

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Speaker 10: Butch the Queen of w GR MSG Maddie, I love you,

871
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 10: and guess what, supersub my boy, Chris track Mode, Chris Trapp.

872
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 6: You know I love both of y'all. But I love MSG,

873
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 6: I love WG I and all the fans around the

874
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 6: world who lists And I definitely love your yalldy know that.

875
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 6: Let me get right to the point. I want to

876
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 6: go right back to a big baller being on the

877
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 6: move about elm every for the last two years, you

878
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,479
Speaker 6: guys know, people have been saying why is he still here?

879
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,479
Speaker 6: At the same exact time they kept saying, we gonna

880
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 6: give them opportunity. To give them opportunity. Let me tell

881
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 6: you what this gentleman just did. That people kind of

882
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 6: sleeping on. But I want everybody to understand when you

883
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 6: cook out on the summertime, you have to marinate your meat.

884
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 6: Marinate this. He took Kyrie Elm and since them in

885
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 6: Dallas for a fifth round pick and the seventh round

886
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 6: pick in twenty twenty six in return. In return, he

887
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 6: got a fifth of crushing, He got a fifth and

888
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 6: a seven. He gave up a sixth and Kyrie at

889
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 6: the same time. Now pay attention, he is two point

890
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 6: six million dollars that was saved on the Cat two

891
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 6: point six. He hired a guy who we already loved

892
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 6: named Damar Hamler for two million dollars. That's six hundred

893
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 6: thousand extra saved on the Cat. Plus at the same time,

894
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 6: he got a fifth and a seventh, but he gave

895
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 6: up a sixth. You guys knowing in like trap, what

896
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 6: you just what did you just tell my guy from

897
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 6: the Washington Redskins, the Washington Commanders who you were when

898
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 6: you identified yourself? You say I am a draft annualist.

899
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 6: You know for a fact that you could take a

900
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 6: fourth inut of fifth, move back two slots and pick

901
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 6: up an extra six. They means we get our sixth back.

902
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 6: Only thing we gave up with Kyrie. We got a

903
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 6: free player, and we got a fifth and the seventh

904
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 6: for next year. That's big baller beans. We gotta stack.

905
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 5: Now.

906
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say this last thing. I'm going I appreciate

907
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 6: you and saying you're my car. This is the ice

908
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 6: in which I love about the game about free agency

909
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 6: that people sleeping on. The Kansas City Chiefs just moved

910
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 6: a couple of players. I think it's my homes and

911
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 6: it was Jones to create forty nine million dollars for

912
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 6: their bank. I want Buffalo let them go shopping. Just

913
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 6: fall back when they start spending that money. I want

914
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 6: try to go and give a deal one point six

915
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 6: to their punter or to their punter who can flip

916
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 6: the game on our defense. They would have to make

917
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 6: it might not be able to have can because they

918
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 6: don't have enough money. We can solidify what we lost

919
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 6: and got a game by bringing back our partner Matt

920
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 6: a reason from number fourteen from the Kansas City Chiefs,

921
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 6: who overcame the situation that when he got drafted by Buffalo,

922
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 6: which we already know the situation. But at the same time,

923
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 6: we can make a right or wrong or right by

924
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 6: doing that at the same time flipping the field with

925
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 6: his new defense. Now I'm going after this and thank you.

926
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 6: I promise you you tell Jake Joey Bosa when y'aw

927
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 6: when y'all interview him coming up, I'm telling, along with Buffalo,

928
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 6: love him. We expecting nothing less than what he's supposed

929
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 6: to do. The Mafia is going holme accountable because guess what,

930
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 6: we got a nice training staff. Ain't no excuses. Go

931
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 6: ahead and get that contract, give Josh Allen that ship,

932
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 6: and go and get your five year, one and forty

933
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 6: six year dollar deal next year. I love you, guys,

934
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 6: man up way already know everybody else, I love you.

935
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 6: Thanks so much for not cutting me off and loving

936
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 6: me that yah Drew, and thanks so much for your time.

937
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 6: I love you each and have you one all right?

938
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 3: Thanks? Butch, hope you have a great day.

939
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 4: Butch needs his own radio show. I mean, how does

940
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 4: he not already have one? Or he needs to be

941
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 4: like a narrator for like the Bill's offseason video that they.

942
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,280
Speaker 3: Do or something like it. That's a good idea.

943
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 4: I'm trying to unpack everything. He said, Yeah, and we

944
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 4: talked about it at the outside of this show. The

945
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 4: job that Brandon Bean did as a general manager to

946
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 4: get extra picks to free up space, and like Butcher

947
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 4: put it, use that savings to sign DeMar Hamlin, who's

948
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 4: been a steady force at the safety position and has

949
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 4: gotten better throughout the beginning of his Bill's career. I

950
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 4: thought he was rock solid this past season. It was

951
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 4: a detriment to the defense when he went down late

952
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 4: in the year. He was very steady as a tackler,

953
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 4: did not very did not miss very many tackles at all,

954
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 4: made plays and coverage. Obviously, had the big strip sack

955
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 4: of Lamar Jackson in the divisional round that really, I

956
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 4: don't want to say sealed the game, but was a

957
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 4: huge turning point in that game. So yeah, that was

958
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 4: master class GMing from Brandon Bean. Yeah, it was and

959
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 4: not one that I saw coming. Not that Brandon Bean

960
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 4: couldn't do it. I didn't think they were going to

961
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 4: be able to trade Kyrie Elam and get Yes, they

962
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 4: traded the extra sixth, but to get two picks for

963
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 4: him and free up cap space in the process, really

964
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 4: well done by Brandon Bean.

965
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and DeMar Hamlin was set to become a free agent,

966
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: and he is going to I think sign here today

967
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 2: and speak to media later this afternoon. But you wonder

968
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,240
Speaker 2: if he would have gone to another team. I'm happy

969
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 2: he's back in Buffalo because, like you said, he was

970
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 2: a solid piece to that defense last year and earn

971
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 2: himself a starting spot and I think was a difference

972
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 2: maker at times. You mentioned that stripsack that he had

973
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 2: against Baltimore in the playoffs and how he's consistently gotten

974
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 2: better every single year. I mean thinking about what he

975
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 2: went through as well, and how he has gotten better

976
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 2: every year as a football player. What's in store for

977
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 2: him next? He's got a one year deal to stay

978
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 2: in Buffalo. I'm sure this place is just special to

979
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 2: him and that's a big reason why he wanted to

980
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 2: stay with the Bills.

981
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 3: But it'll be interesting.

982
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 2: To see how he fights for our starting opportunity this offseason.

983
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 4: You saying all that makes me realize. We just talked

984
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 4: to Derek Forrest, the Bill's new safety. I think this

985
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 4: is a safety position and you mentioned it. You want

986
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 4: to watch that position closely in mini camp and certainly

987
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 4: training camp in Rochester preseason. It's a position that has

988
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 4: like three or four guys that are all trying to

989
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 4: prove something, and Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott can say, oh,

990
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 4: we're trying to preach competition. Those are four players, including

991
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 4: Cole bish Up, the twenty twenty four second rounder, that

992
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 4: they're gonna get the most out of each other because

993
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 4: no one is coming in as here's your starting job

994
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 4: you have. You know you're making seventeen million a year,

995
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 4: you're a veteran. I think it is going to breed

996
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 4: the best play out of all four of those safeties

997
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 4: on this roster.

998
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like what I'm seeing out of the names

999
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 2: in that group. I think I think whoever ends up being.

1000
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 3: The two starters are going to be two special players.

1001
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 4: And they would have earned it too. Absolutely.

1002
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna take a break.

1003
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 2: When we return, we'll talk more free agency and answering

1004
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 2: any phone calls that you have. Give us a call

1005
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 2: here at eight oh three, five point fifty. Who was

1006
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 2: your favorite free agent signing so far for the Bills?

1007
00:50:41,440 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 2: Where One Bill's Live presented by Clidahelp on Buffalo Bills Radio.

1008
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live presented by Calledlida Health.

1009
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 3: What's up, everybody?

1010
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 2: Welcome into our number two of one Bill's Live Happy

1011
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: Free Agency Week. It's been a crazy week already, but

1012
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,879
Speaker 2: in the best way. I'm Maddie glab and I'm joined

1013
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 2: by CBS Sports NFL Draft analyst Chris Trepasso. It's been

1014
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: fun to talk about all these new additions to Buffalo's roster.

1015
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 2: Earlier in the show, we had new safety Derek Forrest

1016
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 2: to join us, and he spoke about why he feels

1017
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 2: like this is the right thing for him and what

1018
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 2: he can offer to this defense. I know we're just

1019
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 2: in March, and I know we still have the draft ahead,

1020
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 2: and we still have Mini camp and training camp, but

1021
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 2: it's weeks like this that gets you so excited for

1022
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 2: what's to come in September.

1023
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 4: It is a reminder that the NFL has a firm

1024
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 4: grasp on our attention pretty much eleven months out of

1025
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 4: the year. Maybe June, maybe fourth of July, we're not

1026
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 4: thinking too much NFL. But then by August it's obviously

1027
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 4: training camp. And even in March, you know, a full

1028
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 4: month removed from the Super Bowl, we're like ready to

1029
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 4: go watch a game in that stadium, right here, Like

1030
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 4: that's how excited people are in Western New York and

1031
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 4: really just across the entire NFL with a flurry of

1032
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 4: all of these moves coming in. What I've done Instead

1033
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 4: of checking my phone and like constantly scrolling, I've set

1034
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 4: up the notifications. I like set it up on my

1035
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 4: desk at home, and I'll just let the Ian Rappaport

1036
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 4: tweets popa and then I'll just like, Okay, I saw

1037
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,959
Speaker 4: this happen and saw that happen. Because in years past,

1038
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 4: you could just be on there for hours.

1039
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 7: It sucked.

1040
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 4: It's very hard. So that's the way that I've done it.

1041
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 4: But it is certainly, you're right, such a fun week

1042
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 4: if you're an NFL fan to see which pieces your

1043
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 4: team is going to bring in to probably improve the

1044
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 4: next coming season.

1045
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 3: And I have so.

1046
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 2: Much respect for guys like Ian Rappaport, Adam Schefter.

1047
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 4: Between it like two in the morning.

1048
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 3: Breaking news throughout free agency. I mean, these guys they.

1049
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 2: Probably get a couple hours of sleep every night and

1050
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 2: they're on TV and then they're on TV all day.

1051
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's pretty incredible. The industry of the NFL

1052
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 4: off season. It's not there's there's no off season. There's

1053
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 4: two seasons, like we should remove the word off at

1054
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 4: the beginning.

1055
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 3: He's in a not quite in season, but still busy.

1056
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 4: Transaction season maybe something like that. It's been a lot

1057
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 4: of fun in master building season, yeah, roster building season.

1058
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 4: And that we mentioned at the outside of this last

1059
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 4: two free agent periods for the Bills, I don't want

1060
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 4: to say sleepy, but close because they didn't have the money.

1061
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 4: They had a lot of pieces bam right away. Right

1062
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 4: after I went off the air on Monday, they signed

1063
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 4: Josh Palmer. Michael Hoyt comes in. Joey Bosa is kind

1064
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 4: of the big ticket guy, the most marquee name, Derek Forrest,

1065
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 4: who I think is going to outplay that draft position,

1066
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 4: and then Larry Ogunjobi, who's a big, really physical, nasty

1067
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 4: up the field defensive tackle to pair with Ed Oliver.

1068
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 4: They've been busy in these first three or four days

1069
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 4: of free agency.

1070
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 2: You mentioned Joey Bosa being that big ticket item, and

1071
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 2: we've seen throughout the week and early on players re

1072
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 2: sign with their teams and then guys who didn't sign

1073
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 2: resign with their teams go elsewhere, and the list is

1074
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 2: starting to dwindle and become smaller, and there's not as

1075
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 2: many big names out there. And sure there's a guy

1076
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 2: like Trey Hendrickson who's still out there that you could

1077
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 2: trade for, but the word on the street is they

1078
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 2: want a first and then Trey Hendrickson is also want

1079
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:58,720
Speaker 2: to get going to be paid upwards of twenty five million.

1080
00:54:58,400 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 3: Dollars per year.

1081
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,839
Speaker 2: And I look at what Buffalo has done adding three

1082
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 2: different defensive linemen to their roster in Joey Bosa, Larry Ogan,

1083
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 2: Jobi and Michael Hoyt, and you put all that money

1084
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 2: together and there's about twenty five ish there, and instead

1085
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,280
Speaker 2: of getting one player, you're getting three different players.

1086
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 4: And I think in today's NFL, with the prevalence of injury,

1087
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 4: it's almost always better to have. I don't want to

1088
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 4: say quantity over quality. If you can get a Miles Garrett,

1089
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 4: if you can you know, Trey Hendrickson probably should have

1090
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 4: been the defensive player of the year, led the league

1091
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 4: in sacks. That certainly helps, But all you are one

1092
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 4: play away from your big ticket item that you spent

1093
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 4: twenty five million dollars on being injured and out for

1094
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 4: the year. You want to diversify your roster in terms

1095
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 4: of having legitimate depth. The Bills certainly know that very

1096
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 4: well that your depth is going to be tested, whether

1097
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 4: it's in December, whether it's for a tough road stretch

1098
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 4: in October, or in the playoffs. It's better to diversify

1099
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 4: and spread out your money a little bit more. And really,

1100
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 4: even since his first offseason in Buffalo, Brandon Bean has

1101
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 4: done a great job to shop low level, mid tier

1102
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 4: free agents that aren't going to break the bank. I mean,

1103
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 4: outside of von Miller obviously, that aren't going to break

1104
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 4: the bank. So you can sign five, six, seven guys

1105
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 4: that are just gonna be pieced into the roster along

1106
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 4: with solid drafts and of course number seventeen. And that's

1107
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 4: how you feel the perennial contender.

1108
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, And having you say all this, my mind goes

1109
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 2: back to like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. My first season

1110
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: here was twenty nineteen, and even then still you kind

1111
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 2: of had to sell guys in free agency of why

1112
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 2: should you come to Buffalo. Twenty nineteen was the year

1113
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 2: that things started to really kick off in the right

1114
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 2: way for this team to become a team that was

1115
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 2: making the playoffs. Every single season, and now you're you're

1116
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five here and you don't even have

1117
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 2: to sell anybody on coming to Buffalo. Well, it's hey,

1118
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 2: they could win a super Bowl. You want to be

1119
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 2: part of this or not?

1120
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 4: And they want to sign one year deals, whether it's

1121
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 4: you're like Taylor Rapp and you springboard that into a

1122
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 4: starting job and a multi year deal in Buffalo or

1123
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 4: somewhere else. To go back that I just went back

1124
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 4: if there was anyone else that I was forgetting from

1125
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, famously John Brown Cole Beasley, that barely sent

1126
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 4: a ripple across the pond. It was oh okay, Yeah,

1127
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 4: two decent wide receivers. They were at their best in Buffalo.

1128
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 3: So important to Josh, so.

1129
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 4: Important to his development.

1130
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1131
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 4: Also Daikwon Jones and Jordan Phillips as well, guys who

1132
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,919
Speaker 4: were just on the team this past year. So there

1133
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 4: is some staying power to those lower to mid level

1134
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 4: guys that aren't sending shock waves across the NFL, not

1135
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 4: breaking the bank, staying here. The bills get you in

1136
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 4: the building, you produce that, you gel with the coaching staff,

1137
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 4: and they want to retain you. It's really not always

1138
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 4: a situation where a one year deal equates to a

1139
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 4: one year rental and then you're out the door.

1140
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 8: Again.

1141
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 4: We've seen it with Taylor Rapp being most recent, DeMar

1142
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 4: Hamlin resigning. Obviously not a free agent, but they like

1143
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 4: to retain the players that they know the best, and

1144
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 4: you're right, players don't need to be sold on coming

1145
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 4: to Buffalo the fan base, Josh Allen and like you're

1146
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 4: mentioning the ability to contend for a super Bowl potentially

1147
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 4: probably the biggest bargaining chip of me.

1148
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 2: We're asking you this question. What has been your favorite

1149
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 2: Bills free agents signing so far? Do you have one

1150
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 2: in mind? Give us a call eight oh three oh

1151
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 2: five point fifty or tweet at us. We're gonna go

1152
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,479
Speaker 2: right to the phone lines to Ryan and Toronto. Who's

1153
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 2: joining us?

1154
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 3: Now? Ryan, what's up?

1155
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 5: What's up? Many? Chris? What's up? Chris good Man? So,

1156
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 5: I'm honestly I'm going to upset the fact that I'll resigned.

1157
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 5: Joey Bosa, whats gonna say? That is twelve million dollars

1158
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 5: guaranteed ten million our contract, one a deal. This guy

1159
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 5: is made of glass. He's so pridi I doubt it's

1160
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 5: going to play made the whole season. Secondly, we've got

1161
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 5: a chance to pick up for the same team one

1162
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 5: ideal for eighteen million dollars. Come on. And then I

1163
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 5: don't know. I don't know what bad is thinking. I

1164
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 5: have no idea, but I think it's a really bad tackup.

1165
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 7: You ask me.

1166
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 5: That's all I gotta say. Thanks for taking my cause,

1167
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 5: all right.

1168
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 3: Thanks for calling in Ryan.

1169
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Joey Bosa does have injuries in his past,

1170
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 2: and we'll see if that's what happens in his one

1171
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 2: year that he signed here with Buffalo. Who maybe it

1172
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 2: could maybe it could turn into more years. But like

1173
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 2: you mentioned earlier, Chris, he is not injured at this

1174
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 2: current moment. He did not go into the off season injured.

1175
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 2: That means we are dealing with a healthy player right

1176
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 2: now who is going to start the season healthy unless

1177
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 2: something happens in the off season. Knocking on wood right

1178
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 2: now that it doesn't.

1179
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 4: Three other factors to this, which Ryan has all the

1180
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 4: right to say that not everyone has to love every

1181
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 4: single move, and even Brandon Bean would say, hey, every

1182
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 4: move that we make is not going to turn into

1183
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 4: an All Pro and be the greatest move in team history.

1184
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 4: Three factors though that I think get different Khalil Mack

1185
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 4: versus Joey Bosa. Number one, Joey bos is five years

1186
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 4: younger than Khalil Mack. Now Mack does not have the

1187
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 4: injury history. He's probably been a little bit better player later,

1188
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 4: like he's aged better because he hasn't had the injuries.

1189
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 4: Number two, eighteen million and twelve million are not the

1190
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 4: same amount of money like that is that's for a

1191
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 4: team with the bills that don't have an exorbitant amount

1192
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 4: of cap space. The difference in six million dollars for

1193
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 4: one player is sizable. And Thirdly, Khalil Mack didn't even

1194
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 4: really test free agency, like the second the door's opened

1195
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 4: inside the building in LA He re signed that deal

1196
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 4: one year eighteen million, So it's easy to think, hey,

1197
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 4: once free agency begins, every player is just wide open.

1198
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 4: Anyone can sign them. A lot of times these players

1199
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 4: just want to get the security of Hey, I'm here

1200
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles, I've known this team, now my family's here.

1201
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 4: I'm going to just sign this deal. I'm not even

1202
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 4: really going to talk to any other teams. If my

1203
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 4: team lowballs me, then maybe I'll you know, have my

1204
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 4: agent reach out. It feels like the fact that Khalil

1205
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 4: Mack happened so quick, maybe he really wasn't truly wanting

1206
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 4: to test the waters and the Bills and any other

1207
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 4: team besides the Chargers did not really have an opportunity

1208
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 4: to sign him.

1209
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 2: We saw so many players this year re sign with

1210
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 2: their teams, so many What is your take on why

1211
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 2: we saw so many players do so this year?

1212
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 4: Well, this is a this is a perfect segue because

1213
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 4: we heard from Josh Allen went yesterday or two days

1214
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 4: ago yesterday, say like, what's the difference for five million

1215
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 4: or in five million dollars per year for me? Now

1216
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 4: Josh Allen can say that with making two hundred and

1217
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 4: fifty million guaranteed. That's always been a theory that I've had,

1218
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 4: Where where's the point when you're making millions of dollars

1219
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 4: where maybe the top bidder the most amount of money

1220
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 4: is not the number one priority and factor in making

1221
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 4: your decision someone like a Khalil Mack or Damar Hamlin

1222
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 4: or Khalil Shakir or Greg Russau. Yeah, technically they could

1223
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 4: have maybe hit the market and gotten like one more

1224
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,919
Speaker 4: million dollar guaranteed per year or three or four more.

1225
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 4: They're already making a considerable amount of money. And I

1226
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 4: thought it was funny that literally, Josh Allen is the

1227
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 4: guy that's saying this, because he's a quarterback, he has

1228
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 4: all the leverage in the world. He could say, I

1229
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 4: want to go to the highest bidder. I think to

1230
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 4: answer your question, we're under we're seeing now that the

1231
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 4: money has gotten so big in the NFL that these

1232
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 4: players understand, Yes, money matters, it's it would be great

1233
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 4: to be every contract to be fully guaranteed. But I'm

1234
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 4: also valuing team situation, my role on the team, my

1235
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 4: family situation, not uprooting my family again. So I think

1236
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 4: that's why guys like what the Bills did with their

1237
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 4: core and while why Khalil Mack and a lot of

1238
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 4: these other players have decided to re sign because we

1239
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 4: are to the point where it's not one hundred percent

1240
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 4: about going to the highest bidder. Right, doesn't that make

1241
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 4: sense to you?

1242
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 7: Right?

1243
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 3: That's a really good point.

1244
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 2: And you think about if you're if you're set to

1245
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 2: become a free agent, but you're happy in your role

1246
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 2: currently with the team that you were on the previous season,

1247
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 2: and you feel like you have it set up good,

1248
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 2: and maybe you're well established into your NFL career. What

1249
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 2: is a couple extra million dollars going to do for

1250
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 2: you at that point in your life. So it does

1251
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 2: make a lot of sense of I'm not gonna I

1252
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 2: don't want to learn a new defense. I don't want

1253
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 2: to learn a new offense. I don't want to have

1254
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 2: to go through I'm a new kid here trying to

1255
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 2: figure my way around and trying to learn about all

1256
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 2: these new coaches that we have on this new staff

1257
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 2: that I have no idea about. Let me just stay

1258
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:36,560
Speaker 2: where I'm comfortable and where I know what my role is.

1259
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 4: Everything that you just outlined is exactly what I've thought

1260
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 4: for a long time, And it was so illuminating to

1261
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 4: hear that from Bill's quarterback Josh Allen, Like Greg Russo,

1262
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 4: forty nine million fully guaranteed at signing, What can't he

1263
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 4: do with forty nine million guaranteed at signing that he

1264
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 4: could do with fifty one million guaranteed at signing to

1265
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 4: go to the Jaguars, or you know what I mean.

1266
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 4: So I think to answer your question, I think that's

1267
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 4: what maybe the agents are kind of in their ears now.

1268
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 4: Or maybe it's the players pushing back on the agents

1269
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 4: and saying, look, your job is to get me the

1270
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 4: most money, but I will take maybe two or three

1271
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 4: percent less money to not have to go through all

1272
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 4: of those things that you just outlined.

1273
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 2: And we've talked about it this week on the show.

1274
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 2: With where the cap is at, where TV deals are at,

1275
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 2: I mean it's going up twenty to thirty million dollars

1276
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 2: per year. It's more than they expected this year to be.

1277
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 2: So you have gms who get to deal with a

1278
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 2: few extra million, and maybe that's the difference in resigning

1279
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 2: some of your own players of hey, now we have

1280
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 2: a couple extra to deal with that we feel like, oh,

1281
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 2: we can retain these guys now.

1282
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:40,000
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1283
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 4: And how about the fact that the cap has gone

1284
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 4: up like by double in the last ten years for

1285
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 4: the NFL and there's really no signs of it slowing down.

1286
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 4: There was the one COVID year where it did regress

1287
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 4: a little bit and owners lost their minds, Oh my gosh,

1288
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 4: how are we going to recoup this? That's clearly not

1289
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 4: a problem. The last two years twenty million dollars good.

1290
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 4: So it's I think the NFL is in pretty good

1291
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 4: shape financially with all of the different streaming services, you

1292
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 4: got to have like five different subscriptions now to watch

1293
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 4: all these games late in the season. The Bills have

1294
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 4: been on a few of those, So I think yes,

1295
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 4: for the owners, for the guys negotiating the TV deals,

1296
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 4: the money is king, And I still think the players

1297
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 4: should with how much rigor they're they're going through every

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01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 4: season on their bodies, they should be trying to get

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Speaker 4: the most money possible. But it's not always the only

1300
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 4: determining factor to sign. And I think, like Terrell Bernard mentioned,

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Speaker 4: it could come off as it's cliche and it's just

1302
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 4: what a player is gonna mention. But the camaraderie in

1303
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 4: the locker room and staying here and being comfortable here

1304
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 4: and knowing that you're going to compete at the highest level,

1305
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 4: potentially for a championship, with Josh Allen as your quarterback

1306
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 4: and all the other pieces, makes more sense to just

1307
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 4: stay home, even if you're not completely one hundred percent

1308
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 4: maxing out your true value on the free agent Mark yep, let's.

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Speaker 2: Go back to the phone. Mark from West Seneca is

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01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 2: joining us now, Mark, how are you.

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Speaker 11: Doing good afternoon? How are you guys doing good?

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01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 3: What do you got for us?

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Speaker 11: Well? First, I want to say I love Brandon Bean

1314
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:10,960
Speaker 11: and he's, without a doubt, one of the best gms

1315
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 11: in the league. But when when I'm looking at where

1316
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 11: we're at right now, I love what he's done. What

1317
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:19,800
Speaker 11: I love most is the re signings of our own guys.

1318
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 11: I love that the guys he's taught back. As far

1319
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 11: as the new guys, you know, free agency is always

1320
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 11: a crapshoot. The reason they're on the market is because

1321
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 11: they all have question marks. So if they pan out,

1322
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 11: they pan out. And Brandon has under earned our trust

1323
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 11: and the benefit of the doubt and the guys he

1324
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 11: brings in. But what I'm really really concerned about I

1325
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 11: was concerned about it before the season last year, especially

1326
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 11: at safety, but even more so now when you look

1327
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 11: at where we're at right now, and I'm sure Brandon

1328
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 11: has some kind of a plan. I wish I knew

1329
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,919
Speaker 11: what that was. He would make me calm my nerves down.

1330
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 11: But with the I mean we're down numbers that corner

1331
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 11: with the with the absences out of Elam and Douglas.

1332
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 11: So right now we've got jamarrow Ingram Pennsylvan right the

1333
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 11: right there. At safety, we have Taylor Rapp, who I love,

1334
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 11: but he's oft injured and Cole Bishop who is an

1335
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 11: unknown at best, and so far all we've done is

1336
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 11: bring in Damar Hamlin, which I love tomorrow. Don't get

1337
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 11: me wrong, but we all agree that we need to

1338
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 11: get more athletic and more speed in our defensive backfield. So,

1339
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 11: and one of the strengths of McDermott is coaching up safeties.

1340
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 11: So I don't understand how we're not bringing in a younger,

1341
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 11: more athletic guy even if we have to coach him up,

1342
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 11: and we bring in basically a part time player at safety.

1343
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 7: So and.

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Speaker 11: Spinning the whole move about Elam getting a fifth round pick. Okay,

1345
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:55,439
Speaker 11: it's great that you're bringing your getting a fifth round

1346
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 11: back for a guy who's obviously a bust, but we

1347
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,439
Speaker 11: can't find that as a great deal. If you ask

1348
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:05,360
Speaker 11: Brandon Bean, he'll I'm sure he'd be the first guy

1349
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 11: to tell you, I'm not going to have my job

1350
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 11: very long if I continually have to flip first round

1351
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 11: draft picks for five and sevens over three years. So

1352
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 11: that's a fail. That's a fail, no matter how you

1353
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 11: look at it, We'll take the fifth and run. But

1354
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 11: I mean Brandon would I'm sure Brandon would tell you that.

1355
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 11: So I am really really nervous as to where we're

1356
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 11: at in the defensive secondary, and I don't believe we're

1357
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 11: gonna have this great thing like Casey did a few

1358
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 11: years ago, or they drafted three rookies and they all

1359
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 11: started and they were all great. You know, how often

1360
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 11: does that really happen? You know, there's there's learning to

1361
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 11: be done, there's growing pains to be had. So I

1362
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:47,720
Speaker 11: don't know what you guys think. Chris, I don't know.

1363
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:49,880
Speaker 11: Maybe you can calm my nerves a little and tell

1364
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 11: me a little bit more about the cornerback and safety

1365
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,640
Speaker 11: group that's out there for drafting that they might have

1366
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 11: a shot at. But right now, from where I'm sitting,

1367
01:08:58,640 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 11: we're in real trouble.

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys, No, Mark, those are legitimate concerns. Maddie asked

1369
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 4: me earlier in the show, and we agreed that right now,

1370
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Speaker 4: if you were to put some odds on what position

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01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 4: the Bills would address in Round one, it would have

1372
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,759
Speaker 4: to be cornerback because they just don't have the bodies

1373
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 4: there now. I think Mark either just didn't see it,

1374
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:23,760
Speaker 4: didn't or latantly forgot. Derek Forrest is the four four

1375
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 4: to three free safety. See he's young, he's twenty five.

1376
01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 4: He is the athleticism and jews and ballhawking skills in

1377
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:35,080
Speaker 4: the safety room. The cornerback class. It's been what I've

1378
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 4: repeated over and over so far in this pre draft process.

1379
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 4: Late first into mid second, I think there's going to

1380
01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 4: be a bunch of corners that go off the board.

1381
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 4: That's where the Bills are picking at thirty and then

1382
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 4: with those two second rounders, and I would be pretty

1383
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 4: surprised if there is not a veteran cornerback signed at

1384
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 4: some point. Remember I said when we were on the

1385
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 4: show on Monday, when I did it with Steve, that oh,

1386
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 4: it'll probably be a day or two until Bill side

1387
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 4: some players. And then they went through this flurry. We're

1388
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 4: really only in the fourth day of free agency. There's

1389
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 4: still a Sante Samuel Junior. Available. There are some other

1390
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 4: veteran corners who are either coming down in their asking price,

1391
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 4: or maybe there's an injury concern, or they're talking through

1392
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:17,080
Speaker 4: some things in terms of just how much money teams

1393
01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 4: are offering them. I don't think the Bills will go

1394
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 4: into twenty twenty two or twenty twenty five the draft

1395
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:26,919
Speaker 4: like they did in twenty two, where it was obvious

1396
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 4: that they had to pick a corner. And for as

1397
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 4: much as Mark is right, you don't want to be

1398
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 4: drafting a bunch of bus in the first round. The

1399
01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 4: sixth round selection of Christian Benford kind of mid treates.

1400
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 4: It's a trade. If you said kyer Elum was the

1401
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 4: sixth rounder and Christian Benford was the first rounder, no

1402
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 4: one would be batting an eye at that right now

1403
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 4: that you ultimately had to trade the sixth rounder for

1404
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 4: a fifth and a seventh. So no, Brandon Bean should

1405
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 4: not be ecstatic about the kyer Elam pick and how

1406
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 4: it developed, But doubling down at that position that was

1407
01:10:57,320 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 4: a clear need in that draft was smart. Was smart

1408
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 4: drafting by him to ultimately fix that position, which he

1409
01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 4: certainly did with Benford.

1410
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 3: And Brandon Bean.

1411
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 2: When he met with the media after the season was

1412
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 2: over and was asked about kyer Elam, Bean was very

1413
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 2: honest saying, this is not how we thought things would

1414
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 2: go with kye Elam, and I'm sure Elam would say

1415
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,960
Speaker 2: the same thing. He was not happy about the situation.

1416
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 2: You drafted guy in the first round, you obviously want

1417
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 2: that player to become your first become a starter. Not

1418
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 2: how it worked out here, but hopefully kyer Elam gets

1419
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 2: another opportunity with the Cowboys. He's somebody that I'm gonna

1420
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 2: be cheering for because when he was in this building,

1421
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 2: he was an awesome person to be around, and I

1422
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 2: want to see people like that have success. We're gonna

1423
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 2: take a break when we returned to mar Hamlin just

1424
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 2: signed his contract. He's speaking to the media right now,

1425
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 2: so we're gonna hear from him next on One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Represented by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. We're back

1427
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Speaker 2: here on One Bill's Live medic Glab and Chris Jipasso.

1428
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 2: It's a busy day at One Bill's Drive. A lot

1429
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,800
Speaker 2: of these new players are inside the building right now.

1430
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 2: And what happens before guys put pen to paper on

1431
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 2: their contract is they fly in here. They get a

1432
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 2: tour of the facility once they arrive at One Bill's Drive.

1433
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 2: So they're checking out the weight room, they're checking out

1434
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:41,160
Speaker 2: the cafeteria. They're getting to meet with their position coaches.

1435
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 2: If there's any players in the building who are on.

1436
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 3: The team last year.

1437
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 2: They get to meet some of those guys, so it's

1438
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 2: a real day of like feeling out your new home.

1439
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:52,479
Speaker 2: Then they go through physicals and sure enough they're signing

1440
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:55,479
Speaker 2: their contracts and meeting with the media. Somebody who didn't

1441
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 2: have to have a tour of the building because he

1442
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 2: already knows it very well is Bill's safety Demi Hamlin,

1443
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 2: who re signed with Buffalo on a one year deal.

1444
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 2: He has started in fourteen games last year and had

1445
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 2: a career high two interceptions. Entering the fifth year of

1446
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 2: his NFL career with twenty seven starts and forty eight

1447
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 2: games played. He's meeting with the media right now, so

1448
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:18,759
Speaker 2: let's go right over to DeMar Hamlin.

1449
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 7: It feels amazing to be back. You know, this is home.

1450
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 12: This is all I know as a pro, and you know,

1451
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 12: you know I'm connected to this place on a totally

1452
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 12: different level, so you know, this is the place I

1453
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 12: want to be. This is you know, where I would

1454
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 12: want to spend my whole career if I can. So

1455
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 12: it feels good to be back.

1456
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 8: This process like.

1457
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 7: It was fun, Like it was fun.

1458
01:13:44,479 --> 01:13:47,799
Speaker 12: I was like, whatever happens I'm gonna be blessed and grateful,

1459
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 12: and you know, it's a childhood dream. As stressful as

1460
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 12: it is and as much pressure, and you know how

1461
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:58,719
Speaker 12: many roller coasters of emotions you could go on throughout

1462
01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 12: the free agency process. I was able to just keep

1463
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 12: my mindset on the fact that, you know, it's a

1464
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 12: blessing to be in this position, and you know, I'll

1465
01:14:07,120 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 12: be super grateful for whatever come my way.

1466
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 3: Just going into next year, what are you looking forward to?

1467
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 3: How do you feel you grow here last year?

1468
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 8: You can build on that going into next year.

1469
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 12: You know, last year, I feel like I was, you know,

1470
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:23,880
Speaker 12: getting the training where it was off, you know, of

1471
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 12: myself in a way, just coming back from like you know,

1472
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 12: literally dying on the field to you know, playing again

1473
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 12: in a significant role, a starting role, playing a full

1474
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 12: season again for the first time, you know, just feeling

1475
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:38,639
Speaker 12: myself out.

1476
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 7: I feel like it was a year or.

1477
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:42,640
Speaker 12: That and I feel like I had a lot of

1478
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:45,280
Speaker 12: success on the field. So to see where I can

1479
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 12: take it from, you know, knowing that's where I was

1480
01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 12: within myself to you know, just growing into another year

1481
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 12: and being able to see what I did and develop

1482
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 12: myself into what I want to become this this upcoming year.

1483
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 12: I'm excited for that journey. I've I've done it in

1484
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 12: every level you know, high school, college, and you know

1485
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 12: now the pros being able to just get a full

1486
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 12: load underneath me and then be able to build on it.

1487
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:14,240
Speaker 7: Do you want to be comples here?

1488
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:18,439
Speaker 12: I just want to just continue to grow off of

1489
01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 12: what I did last season.

1490
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 7: You know, I know it was a lot of you.

1491
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:25,600
Speaker 12: Know, playoffs and a lot of plays you know, to

1492
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 12: be made on top.

1493
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:28,040
Speaker 7: Of the ones that I feel like I already made.

1494
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 12: So you know, just to continue to grow to be

1495
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,080
Speaker 12: a leader on this team, you know, fifth your presence.

1496
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 12: You know, that's a very long time, especially you know

1497
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,639
Speaker 12: in the NFL, which they say is not for long.

1498
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 12: So you know, just to continue to grow and develop

1499
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 12: with my teammates. I think, going back to your other

1500
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 12: question as far as free agency, that was probably one

1501
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,280
Speaker 12: of the most uh nerve nerve wracking things was you know,

1502
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 12: just the bond we build here with my teammates, just

1503
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 12: to like, you know, separate from those it was that

1504
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 12: was it was messing with me emotionally. So I'm super

1505
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 12: glad to be back with my brothers and you know,

1506
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 12: just continue to work the way that we already do.

1507
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Speaker 1: Can take us through your conversations with Brandon Bean starting

1508
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 1: maybe at the end of the year exit interview, and

1509
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:13,639
Speaker 1: how we got to this point when you resigning, You.

1510
01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 12: Know, it was always a conversation of you know, I

1511
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 12: always wanted here and I appreciated that, and it was

1512
01:16:19,280 --> 01:16:21,680
Speaker 12: always known that I had a home here no matter what.

1513
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 12: So you know, I just appreciate the relationship I'm able

1514
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 12: to have with them, uh, the clarity that I can

1515
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 12: get with them just off of a phone call. You know,

1516
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 12: I feel like I could call being at any second

1517
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 12: of the day and talk to him about anything as

1518
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 12: alongside as coach McDermott too. So you know, I always

1519
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 12: had a home here, and you know, I'm trusted to

1520
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 12: play valuable snaps and I'm trusted, you know, to go

1521
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 12: out there and make plays for my team, which you know,

1522
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 12: that's the ultimate thing you want as a player.

1523
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 7: The bond that you built with a lot of people here.

1524
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 1: One of those people seems to be Cole Bishop, who

1525
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 1: reacted to your signing.

1526
01:16:55,760 --> 01:16:57,680
Speaker 11: What wasn't like getting to know him last year and

1527
01:16:57,680 --> 01:16:58,600
Speaker 11: how much does he mean you?

1528
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 7: It was? It was super dope getting the no cold.

1529
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 12: He means a lot to me, you know, just coming

1530
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 12: in as a young guy in the room that you

1531
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 12: know has already been shaped by so much culture and

1532
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 12: you know so many great players that have walked the

1533
01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 12: journey before him, and you know, he was all ears

1534
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 12: and he was just a lot of love.

1535
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 7: Like Cole is one of the biggest hearts.

1536
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:23,360
Speaker 12: You know, he loves everybody, and he's he's all in

1537
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 12: on his teammates, you know, and he fits in here

1538
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 12: with us well, So you know, I'm super excited to

1539
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,639
Speaker 12: get back to work for him. We joke around a lot,

1540
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,760
Speaker 12: so you know, Cole is my man's that's my baby bro.

1541
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 7: For sure. There's such an.

1542
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 13: Emphasis of not giving up explosives for safeties, especially here

1543
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 13: where this team has been so good, and not giving

1544
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 13: them all. You know, do you think, like now you're

1545
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 13: your seventeen games started this year, how do you like

1546
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 13: the more you play? Can you think you can better

1547
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 13: balance you know, keeping that priority while still being a playmaker.

1548
01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 13: What do you how do you think that you balance.

1549
01:17:56,840 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 12: Those two things. That's a good question, but I think

1550
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 12: you know, at the end of the day, you know,

1551
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 12: that's that's what we do here. Like you said, you know,

1552
01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:09,440
Speaker 12: we eliminate explosives. That's you know, one of our cornerstones

1553
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 12: of our dB room of what we talk about. So,

1554
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:15,320
Speaker 12: you know, I think just having that mindset right there,

1555
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 12: you know, there's opportunities to make plays within. You know

1556
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 12: that in itself as far as if you're in position

1557
01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 12: to take away the explosive. You know, teams are going

1558
01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 12: to try their explosives no matter what. So if you're

1559
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:30,360
Speaker 12: already in position of taking away the explosive, you know,

1560
01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 12: whenever they take their shot, you you know, you should

1561
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 12: be in position to be able to take it away.

1562
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 12: So uh, I think there's plays to be made within

1563
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 12: following the scheme and the system. So uh and I'm

1564
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,519
Speaker 12: at the point where I can understand that and know

1565
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:48,759
Speaker 12: how to make plays within doing my job toward.

1566
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:49,839
Speaker 8: Pentioned free agency.

1567
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 2: What was the interest around maybe how many teams did

1568
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:57,880
Speaker 2: you have different conversations with and a truly close did

1569
01:18:57,880 --> 01:18:58,599
Speaker 2: you maybe go to.

1570
01:18:58,600 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 7: Going a different direction?

1571
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 12: We had a lot of a lot of conversations and

1572
01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 12: a lot of interests which was pretty cool, you know

1573
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 12: what I mean to be able to get back like man,

1574
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 12: I'm coming from like not knowing if I would be

1575
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 12: able to play football again, so to you know, know

1576
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 12: that I had what it took still and to actually

1577
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 12: go after it and chase it and make it happen.

1578
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 12: To be able to be out there this year, like

1579
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 12: and for teams to respect my body of work after

1580
01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:29,879
Speaker 12: going through.

1581
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 7: So much was like it was just cool.

1582
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,920
Speaker 12: Like I was just appreciative of everything, regardless of if

1583
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 12: it worked out or not. So there was a lot

1584
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 12: of interest from a few teams, which I was, you know,

1585
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 12: greatly appreciative of.

1586
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:44,839
Speaker 7: But ultimately, you know, coming back.

1587
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 12: Here and you know, staying where I'm comfortable, I know

1588
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 12: the system, I've been here. I can be a leader

1589
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 12: on this team, and you know, we have a chance

1590
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 12: to win. I think that's my that's my biggest thing

1591
01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 12: of why I'm still playing and why want to be

1592
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:02,759
Speaker 12: here is I want to win and I'm a winner.

1593
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 12: You know, playing this game and not winning games makes

1594
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 12: this thing a thousand times harder, which it's already hard

1595
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 12: within itself, So you know, I'm just that's a big

1596
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 12: part of you know, coming back as well.

1597
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 8: Free agency.

1598
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,320
Speaker 7: Did you talk to Dan at all about what it.

1599
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:21,160
Speaker 8: Was like for him last year?

1600
01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 12: Yeah, I talked to day today on the phone. I've

1601
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 12: been talking to day like every day for the past

1602
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 12: couple of weeks, you know, just about life, Like that's

1603
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 12: really my brother. You know, we've been knowing each other

1604
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:34,240
Speaker 12: since knee high, so you know, that's really my brother,

1605
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 12: and it's just a genuine relationship. Like we can go

1606
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 12: months without talking and we can call and talk about

1607
01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:44,719
Speaker 12: all of our problems, whether it's you know, football, whether

1608
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 12: it's you know, girls, whether it's you know, anything.

1609
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:51,880
Speaker 7: He's always there for me and I appreciate that.

1610
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 12: So you know, I've been keeping up with him, and

1611
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,840
Speaker 12: I'm super excited for him to, you know, get what

1612
01:20:56,920 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 12: he deserves on his journey as well.

1613
01:20:59,320 --> 01:20:59,680
Speaker 7: A lot of.

1614
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: Guys talk about for you, Tocy has been very stressful

1615
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: and going through that, you seem to have embraced it,

1616
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:07,760
Speaker 1: saying you're you know, hey for what I went through

1617
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 1: to be that. If you didn't go through what you

1618
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:12,519
Speaker 1: went through, do you think you still embraced it so

1619
01:21:12,600 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: much or did that give you a different.

1620
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:17,799
Speaker 7: Perspective on that? If that makes sense, that's a great question.

1621
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 7: I would say.

1622
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,519
Speaker 12: I would say, you know, going through what I went

1623
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:26,720
Speaker 12: through definitely gave me more perspective, But I feel like

1624
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 12: I was already like perspective, first kind of person, just

1625
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 12: growing up and coming from where I came from, Cause

1626
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:39,759
Speaker 12: you know, it always wasn't you know, sunshine and bright skuys.

1627
01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 7: You know, coming up out of my environment. So you know,

1628
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:42,760
Speaker 7: I always had.

1629
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 12: To keep a positive mindset to you know, give myself

1630
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:48,720
Speaker 12: the energy to keep going and get what I want

1631
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 12: out of, you know, whatever situation. So yeah, I definitely

1632
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 12: always had, you know, a good perspective. But you know,

1633
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 12: just having everything snatched away from you and not knowing

1634
01:22:00,080 --> 01:22:02,400
Speaker 12: you know, what the future holds, definitely.

1635
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 7: Uh. You know it made me like, no matter what

1636
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:06,799
Speaker 7: going no matter what goes.

1637
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:09,559
Speaker 12: On a couple of deep breaths and uh, you know,

1638
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 12: uh a call with my mom and my dad will

1639
01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:13,600
Speaker 12: will cure the world for me.

1640
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 7: I ain't gonna lie very action tallness. Your family, you know,

1641
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 7: just stressed out. They just want the best for their kid.

1642
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 5: Uh.

1643
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:24,680
Speaker 12: They just want the best for their son, and uh

1644
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 12: I I appreciate that. But you know they're in my

1645
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 12: corner no matter what, and you know, they walk this

1646
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 12: whole journey down with me from start to finish. Uh,

1647
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:35,960
Speaker 12: And you know I owe them everything in my life.

1648
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 8: For real.

1649
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:39,639
Speaker 12: I'm super excited. We're building a home back at home

1650
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 12: for them in Pittsburgh right now. So a couple of

1651
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 12: days ago I got to see them laying the foundation

1652
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:46,840
Speaker 12: to it of you know, our new home. So it's

1653
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 12: just a accumulation of you know, them putting sacrifice into

1654
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:53,640
Speaker 12: me at a young age and you know, reaping the

1655
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:57,640
Speaker 12: benefits of it. So, uh, life's good for for the

1656
01:22:57,720 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 12: handle and family. Ain't gonna lie.

1657
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 8: One of the reasons you.

1658
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 4: Want to come back is because you're comfortable here. What

1659
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:05,599
Speaker 4: makes you comfortable with Buffalo and then in.

1660
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 12: This organization, well, I would say, you know, it's just

1661
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 12: speaking of Buffalo in general. I always tell everybody on

1662
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:13,840
Speaker 12: the outside world when they ask me about the snow

1663
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 12: and the weather and you know, all of the things

1664
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 12: that people like, you know, pinpoint about Buffalo being what

1665
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:24,560
Speaker 12: it is, and I always tell them like, I love Buffalo,

1666
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,400
Speaker 12: like it's just my peace away from the world.

1667
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 7: Safe here.

1668
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:31,519
Speaker 12: You know, everybody treats me normal, like I'm I'm not

1669
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 12: I'm not bothered by anybody, you know, like people truly

1670
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 12: love me here. And you know, just adding on to that,

1671
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 12: you know, the weather, I feel like I learned how

1672
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:45,559
Speaker 12: to use it to my advantage. You know, people don't

1673
01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 12: want to come here December January, late in the year

1674
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 12: and play football.

1675
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 7: It's a different type of animal. You know.

1676
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 12: You got to be really, really, really built different to

1677
01:23:56,160 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 12: be able to do that.

1678
01:23:57,640 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 7: And I feel like I learned how to use it

1679
01:23:59,280 --> 01:23:59,879
Speaker 7: to my advantage.

1680
01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:03,519
Speaker 12: You know, I really love being here, so you know,

1681
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:05,560
Speaker 12: on and off the field, man, it's my it's my

1682
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 12: peace away from the world. And you know, we have

1683
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:11,679
Speaker 12: all the resources here in the building to do whatever

1684
01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 12: we want to do in the world and be as

1685
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 12: successful as we want to be and take take it

1686
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 12: as far as we want to be.

1687
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 7: From the training room to the weight room, to.

1688
01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 12: Chapel to doctor Daz to Len everybody. You know, it's

1689
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 12: it's it's everybody's investing into the players here. So you know,

1690
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 12: this is the place to thrive and become whatever you

1691
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 12: want to become for the organization.

1692
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 8: Denny Kellington moves on to Carolina. Obviously you two will

1693
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 8: always be connected. Yeah, can you give your perspective.

1694
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,040
Speaker 13: On him moving on and what he meant to you

1695
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 13: while he was here.

1696
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:52,200
Speaker 12: Then he meant the world to me, Like every morning,

1697
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 12: you know, coming in or you know, seven am stretch,

1698
01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:59,639
Speaker 12: full body stretch to Denny, you know, cracking my toes

1699
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 12: to cracking my neck to you know, just stretching my

1700
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 12: whole body out man, and a just one on one

1701
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,160
Speaker 12: talks that we would always have. Like Denny was, you know,

1702
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 12: one of the most locked in people, one of the

1703
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 12: most focused on his craft individuals that I've ever met.

1704
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:17,400
Speaker 12: He's helped me through a lot of like small injuries

1705
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:20,280
Speaker 12: that I've had under the radar, just to keep me

1706
01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 12: going and keep me feeling the best that I can feel. So,

1707
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 12: you know, I love Denny Man. He's He's definitely a

1708
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:29,880
Speaker 12: stand up human being. But to see him, you know,

1709
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 12: go on and further his career, you know, increase his

1710
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 12: role within the organization, I'm super excited for him.

1711
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 7: And you know, another thing that was going through my.

1712
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:42,960
Speaker 12: Head as I was dealing with free agency, I was

1713
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:45,839
Speaker 12: telling myself that I wasn't going to allow the business

1714
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 12: of the NFL to dictate my relationships with anyone within it,

1715
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 12: as far as my teammates, as far as you know, Denny,

1716
01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 12: my trainers, as far as anyone that I build a

1717
01:25:57,000 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 12: relationship wherever I'm at. You know, I didn't want to

1718
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 12: allow the business and the nature of the business of

1719
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 12: people moving around and shift the hats to control my

1720
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:08,160
Speaker 12: relationships with anybody. So you know, I've been working my

1721
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:11,559
Speaker 12: phone more than normal, just calling people just to like

1722
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Speaker 12: continue those relationships and just let people know that, like

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01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 12: I'm here for you, regardless of you know, if we're

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01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:18,600
Speaker 12: under the same roof or not.

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Speaker 3: H DeMar Hamlin one of the good ones.

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01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 2: Happy he's back here in Buffalo on a one year deal.

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01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 2: And early in that press conference, Damar Hamlin talked about

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01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 2: why he wanted to come back to Buffalo. He said,

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01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 2: this place is home. I have a different connection to Buffalo.

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01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:40,799
Speaker 2: Going back into DeMar Hamlin's career as a football player,

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01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:45,439
Speaker 2: Hamlin is from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. That's less than ten

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01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:49,919
Speaker 2: miles away from University of Pittsburgh, where Hamlin played college football.

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01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:53,880
Speaker 2: He spent most of his life in Pittsburgh growing up.

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01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 2: Thinking about that, Hamlin wasn't gonna leave Buffalo. He knows

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01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:02,640
Speaker 2: two places at home, that's Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

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01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 3: Our guy wasn't going anywhere.

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01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great call, and a lot of what

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01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:11,679
Speaker 4: he mentioned really spoke directly to from a legitimate player

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01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 4: that just signed. What we talked about earlier that we

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01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 4: haven't gotten any of the contract details. I don't think

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01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 4: this is going to be or anyone expects it to

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01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:23,400
Speaker 4: be a seismic contract. Maybe DeMar Hamlin could have squeezed

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01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 4: a few pennies out of some other teams. The camaraderie,

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01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:30,919
Speaker 4: the familiarity, the understanding of his role within the defense,

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01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 4: and that he himself probably liked and felt I'm developing

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01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:38,760
Speaker 4: as a player. I'm now a full time safety in

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01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 4: the NFL. My first two interceptions, over ninety tackles, five

1748
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:46,880
Speaker 4: pass breakups, sets some new career highs understands the scheme

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01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,360
Speaker 4: has a really firm grasp of it, I think, and

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01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 4: he spoke to it that those things really played a

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01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:55,840
Speaker 4: big role along with being that guy that was so

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01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 4: local in Pittsburgh and wants to stay here in Buffalo.

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01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 4: That's become his second.

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Speaker 2: All right, break time for us when we return, reading

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Speaker 2: a couple tweets off the tweet sheet before he closed

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Speaker 2: things up Here on One Bill's Live, We're presented by

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Speaker 2: Clyde Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. We're back on One

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01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 2: Bill's Live. Our question for you today, what is your

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01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 2: favorite free agent signing for the Bills. We're gonna go

1760
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 2: to the tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems,

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01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 2: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and

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01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:41,559
Speaker 2: first from Kate bringing back Ty Johnson and the Joey

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01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 2: Bosas signing in hopes that he can stay healthy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:48,240
Speaker 2: Ty Johnson was an important piece to Buffalo's offense down

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01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:50,880
Speaker 2: the stretch. We go back to that game against the

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01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:54,759
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions and he I don't think the Lions defense

1768
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 2: knew what was coming when we started to get him

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01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,960
Speaker 2: involved in things. He averaged fifty point eight yards per

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01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 2: catch last season as a running back.

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01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, insane. Over one hundred yards in that game. And

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01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:07,639
Speaker 4: how many times do we hear postgame Josh Allen say,

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01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:11,040
Speaker 4: Ki Johnson is the best third down back in the league,

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01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:13,680
Speaker 4: and I think the Bills value that in an offense

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01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 4: that wants to utilize the running backs, not just James Cook,

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01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 4: but all of the running backs in the past game.

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01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:22,720
Speaker 2: Rob says Hoyt, I really liked his film from last year.

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01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:25,320
Speaker 2: He pops when you watch him play. Scotty says, I

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01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 2: think Derek Forrest is a sneaky good signing I could

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01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:30,360
Speaker 2: see him making a push at a starting job. I

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01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 2: love his athleticism and his hard hitting ways. You really

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01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 2: like Toyt, and you said Derek Forrest is a quick

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01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 2: guy who could be an explosive piece of this defense.

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01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:42,400
Speaker 4: Those are my top two signings, Hoyt and then Derek

1785
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 4: Forrest because of the juice that they bring to their

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01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 4: respective positions.

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01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:49,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joey Bosa is meeting with the media right now.

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01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,839
Speaker 2: Some other players still waiting to put pen to paper

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01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:56,480
Speaker 2: on their new contracts. We'll hear from them later this afternoon.

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01:29:56,680 --> 01:29:57,320
Speaker 3: But we want to.

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01:29:57,240 --> 01:30:00,400
Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning into One Bill's Live. Make sure

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Speaker 2: you tune in tomorrow from one to three. Chris Brown

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01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 2: is gonna be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Don't miss it.