1
00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,560
Speaker 1: The is one Bill's live presented by called Light of Health.

2
00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,800
Speaker 1: All right, here we are and there it is for

3
00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,080
Speaker 1: our MSG viewers at home, they are looking at one

4
00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,760
Speaker 1: of the two rendering images released by the team today.

5
00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,240
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen him yet, you're either living under

6
00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,040
Speaker 1: a rock or you don't have internet access. It's on

7
00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,440
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com, so check it out if you can.

8
00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,240
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as always, enjoined now

9
00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,400
Speaker 1: by Bill's executive vice president, chief Operator Officer Ron Recue. Ron,

10
00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,400
Speaker 1: thanks for giving us some time here today to kind

11
00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,360
Speaker 1: of shed a little bit more light on what you

12
00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,280
Speaker 1: guys kind of put out there for everyone to see.

13
00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:14,720
Speaker 1: So why don't we begin with now? Why now? Why today?

14
00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,440
Speaker 1: What made today kind of the data finally pull the

15
00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,840
Speaker 1: trigger on this. I don't know that I can answer that.

16
00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,000
Speaker 1: M You know, everything just came together over the last

17
00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,360
Speaker 1: few days and it seemed appropriate. It was a good time.

18
00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,040
Speaker 1: We've been waiting for this day for a while. So yeah,

19
00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,200
Speaker 1: we're excited, but I don't know why today. It really

20
00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,280
Speaker 1: wasn't circled on the calendar and we've got and we've

21
00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,800
Speaker 1: obviously this is today. It's always a step for the

22
00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,640
Speaker 1: fans when they finally get a little more information to

23
00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,080
Speaker 1: get a look at what the renderings look like. And

24
00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,720
Speaker 1: then you know, we were talking and kind of laugh.

25
00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:47,800
Speaker 1: Is good that the questions are like, does it really

26
00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,280
Speaker 1: cover sixty percent? You know that you know that number.

27
00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,240
Speaker 1: What's some of the feedback that you've gotten that you

28
00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,160
Speaker 1: can address with us. Yeah. From what I've heard so far,

29
00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,520
Speaker 1: people are excited. We're certainly excited. I hope it matches

30
00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,840
Speaker 1: what we've been talking about for several months in what

31
00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,680
Speaker 1: we are trying to build in our vision for the

32
00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,440
Speaker 1: Bill Stadium of the future. I can answer, yes, the

33
00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,400
Speaker 1: canopy covers sixty five percent of the fans. Yes, the

34
00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,240
Speaker 1: buffaloes are pretty big. How big, I'm not really sure.

35
00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,880
Speaker 1: So we're excited about it. I hope the fans are

36
00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,320
Speaker 1: excited about as much as we are and the amount

37
00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,560
Speaker 1: of time and thoughtful effort that went into designing what

38
00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,320
Speaker 1: we think is going to be the best football stadium

39
00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:30,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It is going It's gonna be a

40
00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,440
Speaker 1: football stadium, but it's gonna be way better. I can

41
00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,919
Speaker 1: tell al Ray it's gonna be way better than that.

42
00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,320
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be vastly different than high Mark has

43
00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,359
Speaker 1: is a different style of stadium, a different kind of setup.

44
00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,560
Speaker 1: It's going to answer the problems that high Mark has

45
00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,560
Speaker 1: always had, and I think the biggest adjustment is the

46
00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,679
Speaker 1: fact that it's going to be better but also very

47
00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,840
Speaker 1: different than the experience. The way it looks when you're

48
00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,280
Speaker 1: inside of it, it's certainly going to be different in

49
00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,760
Speaker 1: every way. I think we've talked in the pastor he said,

50
00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,800
Speaker 1: you know what will be the same, and the answer

51
00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,079
Speaker 1: is really nothing, right, it won't, but the same team

52
00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,360
Speaker 1: will be same team will be playing the same great

53
00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,760
Speaker 1: fans will be in there. But really what it will

54
00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,080
Speaker 1: would be the greatest home field advantage in the NFL,

55
00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,800
Speaker 1: which is what we're committed to doing. The fan amenities,

56
00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,680
Speaker 1: the modernization, all of that will be in the stadium

57
00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,600
Speaker 1: that Highmark unfortunately has never had. So what we want

58
00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,320
Speaker 1: to do is we really want to recreate the unbelievable

59
00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,880
Speaker 1: memories that we've all had throughout the years at him

60
00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:30,799
Speaker 1: Mark and bring them to the new stadium and make

61
00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,640
Speaker 1: all these new memories. Again. Let's talk a little bit

62
00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,520
Speaker 1: more about the vision for the stadium, because I know

63
00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,400
Speaker 1: a lot of work has gone into this. You know,

64
00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,800
Speaker 1: umpteen number of hours countless hours by the creative staff

65
00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,000
Speaker 1: and everything. And I know everybody's all consumed about what

66
00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,840
Speaker 1: the inside the stadium is going to look like. The

67
00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,280
Speaker 1: seating experience will get to all of that. I want

68
00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,160
Speaker 1: to spend a little time on the outside of the stadium, though,

69
00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,320
Speaker 1: and the vision behind some of that. I know a

70
00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,000
Speaker 1: picture says a thousand words, but can you just lend

71
00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,360
Speaker 1: and elaborate a little bit more on some of the

72
00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,160
Speaker 1: thoughts into the outside design of the stadium? Sure? You know?

73
00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,840
Speaker 1: Number one is we wanted to honor what's really important

74
00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,640
Speaker 1: to Western New Yorkers. Architecture and our history is really

75
00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,200
Speaker 1: what makes this community special, one of the many things

76
00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,880
Speaker 1: that make it special. We wanted to carry that over

77
00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,240
Speaker 1: into the new stadium, but we also needed to make

78
00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,480
Speaker 1: sure that it was modern, it was going to last

79
00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,120
Speaker 1: the next thirty years. It was effective in terms of

80
00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,400
Speaker 1: how to manage wind and precipitation and create a more

81
00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:32,400
Speaker 1: comfortable atmosphere. So really proud of what our team and

82
00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,520
Speaker 1: populace and legends and everybody has come together. Kim and

83
00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,760
Speaker 1: Terry were instrumental in in how this came about. You

84
00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,000
Speaker 1: see a lot you're gonna be brick, there's gonna be glass,

85
00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:49,159
Speaker 1: there's gonna be metal, steel framings. Yeah, it's gonna feel strong,

86
00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna feel like a community, and it gives us

87
00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,120
Speaker 1: a lot of kind of our history in building into

88
00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,960
Speaker 1: the future. And it's interesting too. And I didn't think

89
00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,200
Speaker 1: about it until I just saw the One of the

90
00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,320
Speaker 1: themes that has become part of Buffalo Bill's lore and

91
00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,000
Speaker 1: the Bills Mafia and the fan base is the fraternal

92
00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,480
Speaker 1: nature of it and the fact that when you grow

93
00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,040
Speaker 1: up here you never leave, even if you live someplace else,

94
00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,320
Speaker 1: and even the statues of the buffaloes, it's a family

95
00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,320
Speaker 1: of buffalos. It's right right, everything about it, if you will,

96
00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,800
Speaker 1: right exactly so. And the brick use harkens back to

97
00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,840
Speaker 1: all the architectural, iconic buildings here in Buffalo that really

98
00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,119
Speaker 1: only Western new Yorkers are familiar with. That's exactly right, Steve,

99
00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,800
Speaker 1: And I want to go back to one thing that

100
00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,720
Speaker 1: you said, it is for families. Yeah, it is for

101
00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,400
Speaker 1: our family, our Bill's family, our community of Western New

102
00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,880
Speaker 1: York family. And everything we're trying to do is make

103
00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,920
Speaker 1: this a place where people want to come, they want

104
00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,240
Speaker 1: to celebrate, they want to have shared experiences, they feel comfortable,

105
00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,039
Speaker 1: and we feel we did that not just inside the

106
00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,080
Speaker 1: ball but the exterior as well. You know what we're

107
00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,680
Speaker 1: generally and generically calling right now, family Circle is where

108
00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,840
Speaker 1: the buffaloes are. That's not just going to be some amazing,

109
00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,200
Speaker 1: really big buffalo statues. We want to celebrate the history

110
00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,800
Speaker 1: of the buffalo bills there, the history of our community,

111
00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,600
Speaker 1: the history of the Seneca Nation. You know where this

112
00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,520
Speaker 1: land was and was theirs, and we're working with them

113
00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,560
Speaker 1: diligently every day to do that as well as make

114
00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,560
Speaker 1: it a place for three hundred and sixty five days

115
00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,560
Speaker 1: a year that people come and feel comfortable as a

116
00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,360
Speaker 1: family to celebrate our history. Moving to the inside of

117
00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,400
Speaker 1: the stadium, we've heard a lot about the stacked seating

118
00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,000
Speaker 1: and how that will help make it a intimidating place

119
00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,479
Speaker 1: to play in terms of sound raining back down onto

120
00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,600
Speaker 1: the field. But that stacked seating is also going to

121
00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,159
Speaker 1: enhance the fan experience because of the viewing angles, the

122
00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,760
Speaker 1: proximity to the field, all those things too. Right, Like,

123
00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,760
Speaker 1: absolutely every seat in this stadium the equivalent seat in

124
00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:54,920
Speaker 1: high Mark. You're closer to the action in the new

125
00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,360
Speaker 1: stadium Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, and I will

126
00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,080
Speaker 1: tell you know, growing up and coming to games, we

127
00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:01,920
Speaker 1: always sat in the upper deck and it's a great

128
00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,160
Speaker 1: place to watch football and watch plays develop and all

129
00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,240
Speaker 1: that stuff. If I'm a fan and I want to

130
00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,800
Speaker 1: come and really just football is the most important thing,

131
00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,680
Speaker 1: that upper deck might be the best viewing experience ever.

132
00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,000
Speaker 1: It is. Number one, You're hanging over the field, You're

133
00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,760
Speaker 1: really close, You're covered. We will have amenities in the

134
00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,520
Speaker 1: upper decks and in the end zones that are equivalent

135
00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,600
Speaker 1: everywhere else. It's it's really going to be fans centric.

136
00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,880
Speaker 1: I saw too that radiant heating is going to be

137
00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,360
Speaker 1: a big part of the stadium. Now, correct me if

138
00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,800
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. For fans that are looking at the inside

139
00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,080
Speaker 1: photo on Buffalo bills dot Com or our MSG viewers

140
00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,160
Speaker 1: that are looking at it now, those red tinted areas,

141
00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:48,560
Speaker 1: are those the planned radiant heating locations or is it

142
00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,760
Speaker 1: going to be even more extensive than that? I mean,

143
00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,040
Speaker 1: what are we those out? Yeah, those are the planned

144
00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:59,200
Speaker 1: stations now, but there will be significantly more, especially in

145
00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,920
Speaker 1: the concourse is where there will be temperature controlled spaces

146
00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,640
Speaker 1: throughout what you're seeing there is where the radiant heating

147
00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,240
Speaker 1: affects the bowl. Okay, again, a lot of things subject

148
00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,640
Speaker 1: to change, yes, but that is really what we envision

149
00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,400
Speaker 1: right now in terms of safe to say, far more

150
00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,120
Speaker 1: expansive than what exists in high Mark right now, which

151
00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,160
Speaker 1: is basically just the club seats right for radiant heat exactly.

152
00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:24,840
Speaker 1: So a thing like this happens where we finally get

153
00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,920
Speaker 1: a chance to see what it what it is going

154
00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,880
Speaker 1: to look like, generally speaking, at least, baby, this is

155
00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,840
Speaker 1: kind of a baby step in the process for you

156
00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,720
Speaker 1: guys who are like, I mean, you guys are twenty

157
00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,440
Speaker 1: four seven on that and we know we've we've had conversation,

158
00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,600
Speaker 1: so this is a but this is a baby step

159
00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,640
Speaker 1: for you guys, kind of a significant step for the fans.

160
00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,559
Speaker 1: What's another, maybe down the road, significant step the fans

161
00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,000
Speaker 1: could look forward to with this whole huge project. Well,

162
00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,120
Speaker 1: one of the things I heard is, you know, when

163
00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,480
Speaker 1: when can they see more pictures? Oh? Yeah, for sure,

164
00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,440
Speaker 1: I want to hold it and spit it and look

165
00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,680
Speaker 1: at it. And yeah, listen, we're gonna we're gonna continue

166
00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,120
Speaker 1: to release images as plans and areas of the stadium

167
00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,480
Speaker 1: get finalized. M that's happening literally daily. Our teams are

168
00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,120
Speaker 1: meeting every day. As you mentioned, One of the exciting

169
00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,000
Speaker 1: things that that we're going to start to introduce to

170
00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,640
Speaker 1: fans is the sales center, which is something new that

171
00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,480
Speaker 1: we're starting to talk about. We will have a sales

172
00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,080
Speaker 1: center where fans can go and experience what it would

173
00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,199
Speaker 1: be like to be inside the new stadium with virtual reality,

174
00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,440
Speaker 1: with actual buildouts of seats where you can sit in there.

175
00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,520
Speaker 1: That's gonna be really exciting. That's going to come up

176
00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,040
Speaker 1: in a few months, but we're gonna start talking about

177
00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,520
Speaker 1: it and showing people some of those experiences soon. Is

178
00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,640
Speaker 1: there Is there going to be like a designated place

179
00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,600
Speaker 1: where that's going to happen? Is that a that it

180
00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,360
Speaker 1: is and will be the first time we say it.

181
00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,400
Speaker 1: It will be at the Walker Center on Main Street

182
00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,240
Speaker 1: in Williamsville, a great place, a central location right off

183
00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,960
Speaker 1: the ninety the two ninety great partners there with the

184
00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,120
Speaker 1: owners of the Walker Center. We've been developing it now

185
00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,920
Speaker 1: for several months. We're really excited ample parking. It's a

186
00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,079
Speaker 1: great space, former retail center of Tony Walker and Company.

187
00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,800
Speaker 1: So it's designed to have a lot of people we're

188
00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,480
Speaker 1: really excited about. That'll serve basically as a one stop

189
00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,400
Speaker 1: shop for fans to experience what a new seating that's

190
00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,640
Speaker 1: experience will be, Like every fan who buys a seat

191
00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,640
Speaker 1: at the new stadium will experience the sales center at

192
00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,280
Speaker 1: the Walker So that's yeah, so that's if you also,

193
00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,000
Speaker 1: that's going to be where the latest information. You can

194
00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,760
Speaker 1: go to the Walker Center and say, Okay, are there

195
00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,560
Speaker 1: any new pictures, new renderings and that kind of thing.

196
00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,120
Speaker 1: You can kind of progress report well that We're gonna

197
00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,200
Speaker 1: have a website which will launch very soon. Forgive me

198
00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,400
Speaker 1: for not knowing the exact date it's, but it's really soon,

199
00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,600
Speaker 1: and the website will be the first place to do that,

200
00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,000
Speaker 1: and then sales center will be the place where you

201
00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,960
Speaker 1: actually start to go and physically experience it. We're gonna

202
00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,240
Speaker 1: have one thing I want to say about about the

203
00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,439
Speaker 1: sale center. It's not just a place to go my ticket.

204
00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,520
Speaker 1: You're going to be able to recreate through virtual reality

205
00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,120
Speaker 1: and a lot of technology, your front door at home

206
00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,199
Speaker 1: to your seat at the stadium. How do you want

207
00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,600
Speaker 1: to drive there? Where do you want to park, Where

208
00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:04,959
Speaker 1: do you want to tailgate? How do you want to

209
00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,880
Speaker 1: get in and out of the stadium. Where do you

210
00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,160
Speaker 1: want to be in terms of food and beverage operations.

211
00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,120
Speaker 1: You're going to be able to choose all of that

212
00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,920
Speaker 1: and experience it in this virtual reality setting. So we're

213
00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,480
Speaker 1: talking like slapping on a pair of VR goggles, punching

214
00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,040
Speaker 1: in your address and saying, all right, here's my day one,

215
00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,920
Speaker 1: here's my game day. But it sounds like you're as

216
00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,679
Speaker 1: technological advanced as I am, which is not very much. Okay,

217
00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,000
Speaker 1: I don't know that it works that way. Yeah, but

218
00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,400
Speaker 1: you will be at the same experience that I don't

219
00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:35,320
Speaker 1: know if we'll have goggles. Yes. So obviously it's you

220
00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,640
Speaker 1: got some work to do at the at the Walker

221
00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,800
Speaker 1: Center to get this done. Like was this going to

222
00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,240
Speaker 1: be like in the spring next year, the summer coming up,

223
00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:43,880
Speaker 1: you know after the winter you get that built out,

224
00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,160
Speaker 1: or yeah, that construction has really started. Um, we think

225
00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,199
Speaker 1: it'll open in the spring at some point, we can

226
00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,600
Speaker 1: move that up if things move faster. They like I said,

227
00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,120
Speaker 1: they've been great partners with us to be accommodating. But

228
00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,480
Speaker 1: I would say worst case scenario, yes, will open up

229
00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,640
Speaker 1: in the spring. So what is with a fan this

230
00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,400
Speaker 1: this sales center is certainly one of them. Um, and

231
00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,400
Speaker 1: I think for the next what twenty three, twenty four,

232
00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,800
Speaker 1: and twenty five, you're gonna see incremental progress across the

233
00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,400
Speaker 1: road you're on Abbot definitely. You know, the plan is

234
00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,080
Speaker 1: still to officially break ground, you know, with all the

235
00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,600
Speaker 1: pomp and circumstances of a big dig, as soon as

236
00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,680
Speaker 1: the weather breaks in the spring. So hopefully that's in March,

237
00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,000
Speaker 1: could be in April, and then you know, you start

238
00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,520
Speaker 1: with a hole and you start building it from from there.

239
00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,960
Speaker 1: How much I mean this stadium is Is it gonna

240
00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna sit up above completely above ground, not like

241
00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,640
Speaker 1: Hi Mark correct, well, some of it will be belowground.

242
00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,120
Speaker 1: It'll probably be one level, which could be twelve fifteen feet, um,

243
00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, on average, but significantly different than High Mark,

244
00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,040
Speaker 1: which I believe is close to fifty feet below ground. Right. Yeah,

245
00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,280
Speaker 1: And you you already talked about the wind and keeping

246
00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,720
Speaker 1: it out, you know, to kind of enhance the fan

247
00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,640
Speaker 1: experience as well, because we know all too well, you know,

248
00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,959
Speaker 1: the Lake Eerie facing end of the stadium, how many

249
00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:06,959
Speaker 1: the wind swoops in. How many people have gone to

250
00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,640
Speaker 1: a game and they'll just you stand there looking at

251
00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,640
Speaker 1: the flags. I would say the vast majority of fans

252
00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,040
Speaker 1: don't mind the cold or the snow. It's the wind

253
00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,280
Speaker 1: that's the killer in high mark a lot of the

254
00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,120
Speaker 1: times in terms of impacting you know how many layers

255
00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,440
Speaker 1: am I gonna have to wear? That's going to be

256
00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,199
Speaker 1: significantly reduced by the sounds of how this stadium is

257
00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,440
Speaker 1: going to be contoured on the outside. It's totally accurate.

258
00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,320
Speaker 1: One of the things about the canopy is people look

259
00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:33,840
Speaker 1: at the canopy and say it's going to protect me

260
00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:38,480
Speaker 1: from precipitation. The canopy is also a key component to

261
00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,320
Speaker 1: mitigating the wind. So the exterior and the canopy all

262
00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,160
Speaker 1: work together so that the words you use, Chris, the

263
00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,120
Speaker 1: wind doesn't swoop in. Yeah, you don't want it to

264
00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,720
Speaker 1: swoop in. You know, you want the wind to, as

265
00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,080
Speaker 1: we've been talking about, get confused. So it hits the

266
00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,600
Speaker 1: exterior of the building, it starts to dissipate. It doesn't

267
00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,800
Speaker 1: run up the building and then fall in and then

268
00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,160
Speaker 1: just swirl and go crazy. We want it to lose

269
00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,719
Speaker 1: all of its steam, go over the top and come

270
00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:06,920
Speaker 1: out the other side and not have significant It's not

271
00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:08,560
Speaker 1: going to be the stage is not going to be

272
00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,040
Speaker 1: like a sports car that slips through the wind. It's

273
00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like like a hair dryer that that

274
00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,560
Speaker 1: spreads it out almost correct. And that's why you know

275
00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:21,080
Speaker 1: the exterior of the building has metal perforation, glass, steel brick.

276
00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,000
Speaker 1: As we talked about that metal perforation is non patterned,

277
00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,160
Speaker 1: so different pieces will have larger holes, different shaped holes.

278
00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,760
Speaker 1: It'll have one ply two ply. All of that, through

279
00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,840
Speaker 1: testing and scientific research, is to dissipate the wind not

280
00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,840
Speaker 1: only into the bowl but also into the concourses, and

281
00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,880
Speaker 1: then once it gets up into the canopy, the canopy

282
00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,080
Speaker 1: is angled and positioned in such a way that again

283
00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,520
Speaker 1: diffuses the wind. One of the things that has that

284
00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,560
Speaker 1: struck me about being vastly different from high Mark is

285
00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,840
Speaker 1: the fact that when you go out to get you know,

286
00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,040
Speaker 1: beer or food or whatever, go to the bathroom, whatever

287
00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,840
Speaker 1: you have, you never feel like you leave the stadium

288
00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,360
Speaker 1: because now you feel like you go out, you walk

289
00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,560
Speaker 1: into concourses of high Mark and you kind of feel

290
00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,920
Speaker 1: like you can you can kind of even just barely

291
00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,120
Speaker 1: hear the game. Right, this is going to be more

292
00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:11,880
Speaker 1: like a baseball stadium where you can even see the

293
00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,800
Speaker 1: field while you're walking a circle around it. Steve, you're right,

294
00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,840
Speaker 1: think about high Mark. Right now, everything is in the

295
00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,440
Speaker 1: interior of the bowl, right. Everything in the new stadium

296
00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,680
Speaker 1: is going to be at the exterior of the concourse.

297
00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,520
Speaker 1: So you have seating concourse and then restrooms and you know,

298
00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,920
Speaker 1: food and beverage, etc. So when you're in the concourse,

299
00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,560
Speaker 1: you are actually not impeded at all from a site

300
00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,720
Speaker 1: standpoint or a noise standpoint to the field. We wanted

301
00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,920
Speaker 1: to be able to people to walk around and when

302
00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,160
Speaker 1: you're in the concourse, you still see the field, you

303
00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,680
Speaker 1: still feel the energy. We don't have that in him Mark.

304
00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,000
Speaker 1: It's one of the bigger differences that people are going

305
00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,360
Speaker 1: to experience. So from a general perspective, run what is

306
00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,440
Speaker 1: kind of next on the tuduelist here. But we you know,

307
00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,520
Speaker 1: maybe the less sexy part of it is, we've got

308
00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,320
Speaker 1: to finish off these agreements. We're still in the middle

309
00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,640
Speaker 1: of this negotiation. We feel good with where we're at,

310
00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,720
Speaker 1: but we're not there yet. Every agreement is still needing

311
00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,600
Speaker 1: to be finalized. We have to focus and get that

312
00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,920
Speaker 1: done across the finish line. While that's happening, as you

313
00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,440
Speaker 1: can see by the renderings and you know the depth

314
00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,440
Speaker 1: that we've got into in this conversation. We are still

315
00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,360
Speaker 1: moving forward with this development. It is a short window

316
00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,760
Speaker 1: to get a new stadium built and have it ready

317
00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,680
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six. So that is happening today. There's

318
00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,520
Speaker 1: a seeker hearing tonight. UM Populace is on site. Scott Radisak,

319
00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,800
Speaker 1: former Bill, your former teammates. Pretty good guy, by the way,

320
00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,800
Speaker 1: it's done a great job. It's pretty good guy. Yeah,

321
00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,320
Speaker 1: it's good skill. It's pretty good guy. He's done a

322
00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,800
Speaker 1: great job. His team has legends is on site now. Yeah,

323
00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,880
Speaker 1: the work is just constant, non stock. Well, Ron, thanks

324
00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,640
Speaker 1: for your effort. It's been awesome. It's great to get

325
00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,880
Speaker 1: a shot at them. It's always fun when we get

326
00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,400
Speaker 1: a chance to see just a little bit more of

327
00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,400
Speaker 1: what it's actually it'll look like. Thanks. Well, we'll do

328
00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,520
Speaker 1: this more and as things come out, and we'll spend

329
00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,600
Speaker 1: more and more time. Absolutely. Yeah, that's Ron Rakulia, Executive

330
00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,080
Speaker 1: vice president of the Bill's chief operating officer. We will

331
00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,520
Speaker 1: take a break here. When we come back, we've got

332
00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,880
Speaker 1: this week's Legend of the Game with us. It's Stevie

333
00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,520
Speaker 1: Johnson in studio next here on one Bill's Live presented

334
00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:36,280
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome

335
00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,320
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, and

336
00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,280
Speaker 1: the man who had three straight one thousand yard seasons

337
00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,800
Speaker 1: first in Bill's history to do that. You know him,

338
00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,080
Speaker 1: you love him. His name is Stevie Johnson. Number thirteen

339
00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,679
Speaker 1: in your program, number one in your heart. How are

340
00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,639
Speaker 1: you doing, man, Good to see it good, good to

341
00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,119
Speaker 1: be back good. Yeah. Legend of the game this week.

342
00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,520
Speaker 1: I know this isn't the first time it's happened. Legend

343
00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,800
Speaker 1: of the game, by the way, presented by the BFLO Store,

344
00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,159
Speaker 1: the ficial retailer or the Buffalo Bills. You're getting some

345
00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,880
Speaker 1: primetime action though, Like this is Sunday, this big time stuff. Yeah,

346
00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:12,919
Speaker 1: I don't lucked up, Come in you get the good game, right. Yeah.

347
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,199
Speaker 1: This is not the Detroit Lions or the Bears or somebody, right.

348
00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,359
Speaker 1: I mean nowadays with our Bills, every every game is

349
00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,840
Speaker 1: a good game. You know, it's every game, you really

350
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,280
Speaker 1: is like that. You talked to Bills fans. They cannot

351
00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,199
Speaker 1: get in their hope. They wish they played every day,

352
00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,480
Speaker 1: right right, And that's that's the field. You know, because

353
00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,320
Speaker 1: they have fun with each other. You know, they working

354
00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,560
Speaker 1: hard is not looking like as a mess. Um, it's

355
00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,720
Speaker 1: exciting to see. This is what it's about. Have you

356
00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,520
Speaker 1: noticed in the league we've been talking about this a lot.

357
00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:40,760
Speaker 1: It's a real roller coast. You got some teams and

358
00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,920
Speaker 1: it's a little topsy turvi. You thought the Seahawks were

359
00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,080
Speaker 1: gonna stink, they're actually pretty good. You thought the Giants

360
00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,879
Speaker 1: and Jets are gonna stink, they're actually pretty you know

361
00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,439
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Yeah, plus week to week, some

362
00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:54,160
Speaker 1: of these teams look awesome and then they look horrible. Yeah,

363
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:55,960
Speaker 1: but that's the beauty of it. That's the beauty of

364
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,280
Speaker 1: this of this game. Like you just you just never know,

365
00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,760
Speaker 1: you never know, And I think that's why this is

366
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,280
Speaker 1: a great season for football. You know, Like you said,

367
00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,360
Speaker 1: the teams that we thought was not gonna have a chance, right,

368
00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,840
Speaker 1: they sitting there with one loss. Yeah, well one loss

369
00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,320
Speaker 1: on any record, you know. So, Um, it's good. It's

370
00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,560
Speaker 1: good to see the competition. That's what we like. Where

371
00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,600
Speaker 1: I know you are well aware of the busy schedule

372
00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,560
Speaker 1: you have between now and Sunday, but I'm gonna run

373
00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,639
Speaker 1: through it so our fans know where and when they

374
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,000
Speaker 1: can find you. So later today, Stevie's helping out with

375
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,199
Speaker 1: the Huddle for Hunger out in the lot too. I

376
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,600
Speaker 1: think it is where they're taking donations from fans for

377
00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,359
Speaker 1: their Bills Food Drive Huddle for Hungers. So Steve'll be

378
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,199
Speaker 1: out there collecting can goods, non perishables out there right

379
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,800
Speaker 1: handing out those grocery bags as a thank you. Those

380
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 1: bills grocery bags. Those are pretty sweet. And then on Saturday,

381
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,120
Speaker 1: he's going to be at the Bflllo store October twenty nights,

382
00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,680
Speaker 1: so that's this Saturday at one pm, So make sure

383
00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,880
Speaker 1: you get out there, say hi to Stevie. And then

384
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,679
Speaker 1: that's not all you're doing on Saturday, You're out at

385
00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,840
Speaker 1: the Sabers game. Indeed, on Saturday you're you're getting it

386
00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,040
Speaker 1: all all in before that's not even game day yet

387
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,879
Speaker 1: you're getting it all in. I mean, you know, the

388
00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 1: city of Buffalo, they know I'm I'm for it. I'm

389
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 1: adopted son. You know, everything I do is for the community,

390
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,640
Speaker 1: and especially this Buffalo community that that accepted me. So

391
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 1: I'm glad to have this this list of things to do. Um,

392
00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 1: it's cool to be out there with the family, and

393
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm also very excited about this the Huddle for Hunger,

394
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 1: and that's something that me and my wife loved doing

395
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,160
Speaker 1: and she loved doing it when she was here, and

396
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,160
Speaker 1: having this opportunity is great, especially around things at Tay.

397
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,480
Speaker 1: It's not perfect, but I know this. You lucked out

398
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,040
Speaker 1: with the weather because if you're gonna be out a

399
00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,760
Speaker 1: lot too today, it's not Hey, not so bad. Look,

400
00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 1: I got that, I got this rain jacket on. It

401
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,879
Speaker 1: was a little raining last night, but because we know,

402
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 1: we all of us know how it could have been. Yeah, right,

403
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 1: So it's nice to nice day to be out there

404
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,119
Speaker 1: and saying hi to people exactly exactly before you do

405
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 1: your thing on the field, you know, right before kickoff

406
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 1: you are going to do a little pregaming two So

407
00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 1: six twenty pm on Sunday, he's gonna be at the

408
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: Corona leaping through lots tailgate experience. Uh, do you actually

409
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 1: know what you got to do out there or you

410
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,040
Speaker 1: have any clue or you're just gonna be glad handed.

411
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm prepared for it. I know it. I

412
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,400
Speaker 1: know it's wild, but but I'm prepared for it. People

413
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: are gonna be pretty lose by that. Ye. Right, that's

414
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,360
Speaker 1: like trying to give a speech after an open bar.

415
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,200
Speaker 1: It's gonna be memorable, though, it'll be it'll be memorable.

416
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see the costumes, you know. I'm ready

417
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,920
Speaker 1: to see the fans, you know, enjoy in a element. Yeah,

418
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe the easiest thing you've got to do

419
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 1: is the thing right before kickoff on the field, because

420
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 1: people are already going to be in a ladder. You're

421
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: not gonna have to get the man. Yeah. I want

422
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: I want to. I want them to be so loud

423
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 1: that my family here in California when we staring that song,

424
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be amazing. All right. So, as

425
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 1: I mentioned at the top, you're the first receiver in

426
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 1: Bill's history three straight one thousand yard seasons. There's a

427
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 1: pretty good chance the guy's gonna be joining you by

428
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: the time we get to the end of this year.

429
00:21:55,359 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 1: Instefon Diggs, um, you were a very unconventional, unique route runner.

430
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: Stefan he's got some variety to his game, but he

431
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 1: is right. He pinpoints precise right, Like, just maybe kind

432
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,640
Speaker 1: of walk me through what your observations are of his

433
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 1: route running repertoire. Yeah, and that's that's actually a good

434
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: point that you brought up. I was a lot more unconventional.

435
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 1: A lot of people may try to say compare us

436
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 1: because you know, he's gonna he's gonna for that record,

437
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: another great but at the same time, he he is

438
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 1: a different receiver than me. He's more of that technician type. However,

439
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 1: he's evolved the technicians and not only be on technique.

440
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 1: You know, he still got savvy and he got that

441
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 1: wit to uh, you know, getting certain spots with defenders.

442
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 1: So that's a that's a big, big difference with it

443
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: or give people because I played, I played wide receiver

444
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday. Right, So here's what happened. Here's here's

445
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 1: why you were so unique and I and I people

446
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,120
Speaker 1: will understand this. Maybe um quarterbacks when they drop back

447
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: the pass, they go out and they have this route

448
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 1: in their mind, this constant. This guy's supposed to be

449
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: over here, that guy's supposed to be out there, and

450
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: this if these guys are done, this guy will be

451
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: open down. The reason you were so unique and I was,

452
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: I really got to applaud you know, the coaching staff

453
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: and their ability to say, listen, it's work and let's go.

454
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,239
Speaker 1: You had a way to get and this is why

455
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 1: you were so good against really good dbs. You were

456
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,919
Speaker 1: better against elite corners than anybody because they didn't have

457
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 1: they didn't know what you were gonna do. You had

458
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 1: the ability, and this is why it's so good. You

459
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: could get to the spot where the quarterback expected you

460
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: to be running something. But the timing was perfect. That's

461
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 1: the crucial part of it. Your ability to get open

462
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: at the spot they expected you to be. No matter

463
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: what it took to get there, you were there, and

464
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 1: you were there on time, and you were by yourself.

465
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 1: And if it was an outroute, you might have run

466
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: an out and up and a stop right kind of thing.

467
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 1: But you were right where you were supposed to be.

468
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: And that's that's an amazing attribute. And I really got

469
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: to applaud you know, fits for being like I like Stevie.

470
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: Let's keep him with it, you know what I mean? Yeah,

471
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 1: you had a lot of help. It's a so as

472
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: good as you're bringing that up, because it's a gift

473
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: and a curse, you know what I'm saying. Because you

474
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: got to have those pieces and with my mentor program

475
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 1: me and my brother, we run we do an exposure

476
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: academy and I teach these kids like you know, you

477
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 1: can do it your way. You know, however, this you

478
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: need help with that, Like you said, somebody with patience, yeah,

479
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: fits to help. I had a coaching staff that was

480
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: helping me. So when I was going out and running

481
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: these unconventional routes, it actually wasn't accepted, you know what

482
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I had to have the help there. Some

483
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: guys will say no, no, no no, no, no, right, they

484
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: didn't have the patience for it exactly exactly and if so,

485
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: the great thing about Stefan for kids to learn, they

486
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: can watch him from top to bottom and you won't

487
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: get no no left type of replies or or um,

488
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, criticism. You know, you can look at his

489
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: routes from top to bottom and you can run it

490
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: and you won't get in trouble. You look at minds.

491
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: A coach might say, hey, look, you know you gotta

492
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: do this or this is about you know what I'm saying.

493
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: And the quarterback too, and all those guys are like,

494
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,919
Speaker 1: I don't know, but when you do it again and

495
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: again and you still consitenci and it's great mindset to

496
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: have as a kid growing up, say listen, do it

497
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: your way, but understand you might get some pushback at

498
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: some point in your life, but don't just fight through it.

499
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: The mentor program. I was gonna say, your brothers, I'm

500
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: gonna say, hey, yeah, man, th'k, you're glad you're here too. Uh,

501
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: it's nice to you. You're giving back and giving kids

502
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: the inspiration and having accomplished what you did. Indeed gives

503
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 1: kids the hope that they can do it too, definitely,

504
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: and they could do more. That's that's the main thing

505
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: why why I got it, because I could have been more.

506
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: These kids can be more that take my information. Then

507
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 1: I'll tell them go look at this person, go look

508
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: at that. So you guys will be even better, you

509
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: know when it's y'all time. So it's a fulfilling wrong

510
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: with setting goals that are ridiculous when you're a kid,

511
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 1: But but when you get older, even if you missed

512
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: by this much, you still exactly who would have thought

513
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 1: we be here? You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm

514
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,479
Speaker 1: still catching the lottery ticket and exactly exactly, and it's

515
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: more to come, all right. So you mentioned fits Steve,

516
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: what we think about this can on Thursday Night Football

517
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: now doing his pre and post game stuff. If you

518
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: called him yet, yeah, yeah smooth. Are you surprised? No,

519
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,719
Speaker 1: I don't think nobody here is surprised by that. You know. Uh,

520
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: he's always been smooth, always been good with words, just

521
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 1: his his aura about him, a boy himself, always been good.

522
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: So I think it's a great fit and it's more

523
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: more to come for him. About that broadcast number far though, Yeah, yeah,

524
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: he's seen some of that. Yeah, yeah he fly, he flies. Man.

525
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: I was like, can he pull that off? I guess

526
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: he can. Yeah, he dang there, can pull off anything. Now.

527
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm wearing Deshaan Jackson's warm up shoot after a game.

528
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 1: You know, I want to see him come with a

529
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: robe and no shirt next time. I don't know, we

530
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:44,239
Speaker 1: need to see all that. A lot of chest pajamazon up.

531
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: Go give him some'll give him more. Look, how are

532
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 1: you with the guy wearing your old number? Oh? Man? Look,

533
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis is he's chopping it up right now? Yeah.

534
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody that's that's in his game, especially those

535
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,719
Speaker 1: third teams I keep an eye out on. But when

536
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: you get out, when that's all that's making the plays

537
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: and doing the things that he's doing. It is like

538
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: it's good to know, all right, it's not being represented

539
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: by somebody that's you know, making another numbers in good. Yeah. Yeah,

540
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: in a sense, I feel like when when it's a

541
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: bad player, not bad, I don't want to say bad,

542
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: but it is a guy not like Gabe Um using

543
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: the number, people start talking about me more like Stevie Steve,

544
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm done, my time was over with. Let's talk about

545
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: this guy that's playing. But you know, so now with

546
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: Gabe balling and doing what he's doing, everybody's talking about

547
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,479
Speaker 1: Gabe in that thirteen. You know, that's how that's how

548
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: it should be. And if the momentum and as you

549
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: go down this this is a team and there's a

550
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: read there are reasons they're the Super Bowl favor and

551
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: they're the hottest thing in football is because they go deep. Yeah.

552
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: I mean you've seen it in your room. You got

553
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: these teams where you got like maybe one or two guys,

554
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: but behind them, it's like, man, even the quarterbacks looking over,

555
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna don't put that guy out that kind of Now,

556
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: all these guys all the way across have been really

557
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: solid telling about the dynamic in the locker room. When

558
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: you got a group of guys where every single guy,

559
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: every single locker feels like they are contributing. Oh man,

560
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: it's it's a beautiful atmosphere. Yeah, the atmosphere is beautiful

561
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: because you don't have too much pressure on person A.

562
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: There's not too much pressure on person B is because

563
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: the whole alphabetical roster is good. You know, everybody can

564
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: play their part, so now you can have more fun

565
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: competing instead of it being a serious competition. I mean,

566
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: you know, there's always a hierarchy where you got to

567
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: start superstar like Jo, like Josh and definitely, but when

568
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: you got guys to the bottom, like even like Jake,

569
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,719
Speaker 1: Kumero's of the world and you know the rest of them,

570
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: the sarand nels, right when they feel like the stars

571
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: really appreciate their contribution, and when they get a chance

572
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: to help out, they really help out. You know, when

573
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: they cover for a guy who's injured for a minute,

574
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: the level of respect, the mutual affection really rises in

575
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: it and it allvates everybody on the field, not only

576
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: not only emotionally and when they're sitting around being buddies,

577
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: but on the field. There's a there's a vibe. Yeah,

578
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: it looks different from the outside looking in, and it

579
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: looks special, to be honest, you know, because you got

580
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: guys playing for each other and you know what more,

581
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: what more could you ask for than a collective group

582
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: of talented guys. You know, it's not just words either.

583
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: I mean that all that stuff is tangible where you

584
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: getting live it. Yeah, yeah, and they're and they're at

585
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: a point where the words don't even matter to them,

586
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: more like they graduated from it from your words. You

587
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: guys are good too. Oh you guys were there, you know.

588
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: Now it's like they know exactly where they're going and

589
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: they graduated from each step. Um, and it's good. It's

590
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: a great thing to see because this is what you was,

591
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: This is what you was a part of, you know,

592
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: and for these guys to do it now, it's like

593
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: it's like that time special group, Yeah special. Last time

594
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: we had you on you were putting out a children's book. Um,

595
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: there's always away with Stevie j. First of all, a

596
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: personal public thank you to you because you and your

597
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: co author donated some books to Literacy Buffalo Niagara here locally,

598
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: which kind of tries to promote getting kids reading at

599
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: an early age. So your book was like right in

600
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: the wheelhouse there. They were like super appreciative that you

601
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: guys send some copies over to them when they had

602
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: a book drive about a month ago. So thank you

603
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: for that. Number one. Yeah. Um, I saw some of

604
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: the video of you kind of running up through auditoriums

605
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: and high fiving kids and stuff. That is your element, man,

606
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: That is your element. Like I just know, like they're

607
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: the future. You know, those are little bosses right there.

608
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: You know, if we don't take care of them or

609
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: give them the right type of spark, they may turn

610
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: into firecrackers, you know what I'm saying. And that's what

611
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: we don't want in the world. It's already a lot

612
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: that we got to deal with. You know, it's tough

613
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: raising kids. So with me having a platform that I

614
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: do have, let's utilize that to to to provide a

615
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: spark to help to tell these kids, Hey, make sure

616
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: you get up and brush your teeth, wash your face, um,

617
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: fix your bed. Just helping out the parents a little bit,

618
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, letting the kids know. Yeah,

619
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: your little weight man. That's like, like we said, just

620
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: get used to being a contributor. Yeah, and then of

621
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: a taker, you know, being helping out instead of asking

622
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, being problem right exactly. And um,

623
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: so that's what we're doing. We're providing sparks. Um. The

624
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: book is is another form of a mentorship that we

625
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: have because we got lessons in there. Um. And and

626
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: one thing that I want to do with the book

627
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: is grow it. So we've been actually working on Fred

628
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: Jackson's um, his children's so we want to keep it

629
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: going and get guys in so we can uplift their story.

630
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: And um, you know something smooth, I was gonna ask

631
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: you for fit bills. Fans that have been around long

632
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: enough to you know, go back to your time with

633
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: the squad. How many members of the Goon squad do

634
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: you still keep in touch with? I mean we're talking

635
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: like naming Rose, Donald Jones, uh, Marcus Easily Nelson, David Nelson,

636
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: and Kevin Elliott, like we all we all still time

637
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: te string or something. Yeah, we actually do, we actually do.

638
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: And um, I just I just talked to Fred actually

639
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: the other day. I sent him a picture. I'm driving

640
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: to my son's VOLLEYBA our club game and he's got

641
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: his um his his like blanket or what not over

642
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,719
Speaker 1: his over his head. And I don't know if everybody

643
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: know remember the stories and things, but when I was

644
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: Fred's roommate for the games, I always did that. And

645
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: he took a picture of you one time. He's always

646
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: teas and he don't know if you ever put it out.

647
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: But then I've just randomly seen him and I took

648
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: the picture and send it to Freddie and he was

649
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: just laughing at some you know, some fun things. Yeah

650
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: that's great. Yeah, that's great because he's got it. He's

651
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: got his text string with Yeah. I call it the

652
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: Five Presidents because it's the old guys and and they

653
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: take and the same thing, you know how it is.

654
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you take it. It's like no time has passed, right,

655
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: and you know they'll always be you know, twenty seven

656
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: year old guys like me, right, So um, it's a

657
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: bond that really lasts. And you know you've got it

658
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: with your guys and these guys, it's fun to see

659
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: it take place. Indeed, And I think one of the

660
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 1: things too, and we we talked about this. The stadium

661
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: renderings came out, and you know, we've all got great

662
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: memories of high Mark and Rout the Ralph and here

663
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: playing and uh, what are your thoughts about, you know,

664
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: the team moving into a new building across the street

665
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: and what it means not just for the team and

666
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: all that, but the fans. Yeah, and having a new home.

667
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: I think it means. I like it. I love the

668
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: fact that they're you know, upgrading for this, for this team. Um,

669
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: it's appropriate, you know, I think this city, it's appropriate

670
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: for the city, is appropriate for everybody on the outside

671
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: to see this. Um. I know we'll bring a lot

672
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,719
Speaker 1: a lot more fans here, even though I think they

673
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: are starting to come by because they hear about our

674
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: the Buffalo experience. Now now we're just we're just completing it,

675
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,719
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, with our with our facility. Um,

676
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: it's a full it's a full experience now, you know.

677
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,479
Speaker 1: It's nothing to be taken lightly. Yeah. Well, always good

678
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: to see you, Stevie. We look forward to seeing you

679
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: because we know you don't disappoint when it's time to perform,

680
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: so we expect big things out of you someday. But

681
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: before the game, make it happen. Uh. And then for

682
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: those of you looking to catch up with Stevie Huddle

683
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: for Hunger here out in a lot too. Later this afternoon,

684
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: bring your can good or non perishable item help our

685
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: fight to battle hunger in Western New York community. And

686
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: then at the bf l O Store on Saturday at

687
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: one pm, Steve, he's making an appearance out there. Head

688
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: on out, shake his hand, say hello. This guy loves

689
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: the interaction, so he's all about it. It'd be happy

690
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: to save. Hi to some of you folks from Bill's Mafia.

691
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: And then Saturday night he's at the Sabers game as well.

692
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: Busy schedule, busy, better get some rest tonight man at

693
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: Stevie Johnson Legend of the Game on Sunday night for

694
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: Bill's Packers. Be sure to catch him out there. If

695
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: you're going to the game, we will take a break.

696
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: Be back with more here on One Bills Live. All right,

697
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live a snap. Snapdragon Apples

698
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: are back. Fuel your game day adventures with Snapdragon Apples

699
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: now available at Wegman. Snapdragon Apples the official apple of

700
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: your Buffalo Bills. They dropped a bag of those off

701
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: to each of us yesterday. I had one yesterday, I

702
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: had one this morning. I had one yesterday, had one today.

703
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: They're good. They are good, they are They're good. After all,

704
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: after all the anticipation and complaining that we did. Where

705
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: are they not having one? But they don't harvest them

706
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: until October? I guess that was the That was the

707
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: hold up. Don't Yeah, you know what, I'm not interested

708
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: in the problems. Just show me what I want, you know,

709
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: Just give me the fruit. Yeah, don't tell me about

710
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: the labor. Show me the baby. I'm not interested in

711
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: picking apple. Just give me the fruit. Was Buddy Knicks's

712
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: big line when he was GM. Don't tell me about

713
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: the labor. Show me the baby. Yeah, Um, I don't

714
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: want to hear about the pain. Show me the baby.

715
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: Our week eight game sponsor this week, incidentally, for Sunday

716
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: Night football against the Packers. Is Wegmans making a difference together? Uh?

717
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: We we can finally get into the show here a

718
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 1: little bit. And we're just going on. Yeah, and happy

719
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 1: to report. You know, Tradavious White out there practicing again

720
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: today and they were out on the grass feet. And

721
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: remember yesterday we were talking about how he was only

722
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: wearing sneakers inside on the turf. Well today cleats on

723
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: so hopefully that's a good sign. I was encouraged too

724
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: by the way Jordan Poyer was talking yesterday when he

725
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: was at the podium with the media, basically saying, hey,

726
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: when he comes back, Like, it's not an if thing,

727
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? He said when, And I

728
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 1: was like, I don't think he's a question. He's gonna

729
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: be back in the lineup. And I've said this too.

730
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: It's just nice to hear that confirmation though, you know

731
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, yeah, it's coming. Yeah, I've had

732
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: these conversations. He had an ACL and we've all heard

733
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: anybody who's a football fan at the NFL level for

734
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: any length of time has heard about an ACL injury.

735
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: And that used to be it was a death knell

736
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: for a guy's career. He might come back for one

737
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: half season or a season after he had it because

738
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: the team wanted to see if he could still play,

739
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: but they could never play, and that was waved. That

740
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: was decades and decades ago. Then the medical technology caught

741
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: up with it. Now it is a serious injury, but

742
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: it's one that every player who gets it fully expects

743
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: to come back one hundred percent and be just as

744
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: good as he was. Before the injury. Um, that's where

745
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: we're at today. And you know, so there's no reason

746
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: to think Tradavious White particularly and we've said this every

747
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: time we talk about him, we talk about this, we

748
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: see him all the time. Man, the guy looks like

749
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: a thoroughbreak. Oh he is. I mean he's I'm like,

750
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: what's wrong with him? You know? And I wound tight.

751
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: He is like his muscle, he is his musculature on

752
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: his frame is he looks like painted polished stone. I mean,

753
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: the guy is just sparkly. Yeah, he looks like something

754
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: out of a Spartacus movie. Yeah, you know what I mean,

755
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: he looks He seriously look looks like an action figure.

756
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: Yeah that's yes. Right, So, and he's out there and

757
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: you know, for whatever reason, it's just you know, he's

758
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: just waiting for it to be in a one hundred

759
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: percent until they get the right data and the way

760
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: he feels and the way you know, it's the guy's Yeah,

761
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: I have You're right when Payer said when he comes

762
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: back instead of it not if he comes back. And

763
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: you and I have been on the win early in

764
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: this process. So basically, with respect to practice updates, we

765
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: will get those two as soon as we can once

766
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: my our eyeballs out on the practice field to get

767
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: back to US. I do have an update on the

768
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, however, they have some pretty important people

769
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 1: on their injury list, and this is coming from Packers

770
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: beat reporter Matt Schneidman, who writes for the Athletic up there,

771
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: and he said, No, David Baktiari had practice today. He's

772
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: their starting left tackle. No Alan Lazard for a second

773
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: straight day, one of their veteran receivers, No Marcedes Lewis,

774
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: the veteran tight end. None of them are practicing today.

775
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Rashaan Gary, Elston Jenkins, their right tackle, returned

776
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: to practice after missing yesterday's session. And Chris Watson, the

777
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver, is practicing again today, so it looks

778
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: like he's good to go for Sunday night if he

779
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: can trending in the current direction he is. It's interescing

780
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: because the Bills are coming into this game really getting

781
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: a lot healthier, coming off a boy and that's the

782
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 1: one thing you kind of forget about. The Bills come

783
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: into this thing healthy, and the Packers haven't had their

784
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: bye week and they're still grinding, you know what I mean.

785
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: They've still got that week to week, day to day

786
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 1: thing going with so many players and like we said

787
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: we had when Sean McDermott, I'm doing the Sean McDermott Show.

788
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: You get a couple of days off in the NFL

789
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: and it feels, it literally feels like you get a

790
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: two week vacation because of the routine nature of what

791
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 1: they do day after day after day after day after

792
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: day during the regular season. Those you know, that bye

793
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: week comes in and it really is like a two

794
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: week vacation. So the Bills come into this thing completely

795
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: in a different spot healthwise than the Packers do. It's

796
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: another thing that should doesn't have to but should work

797
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: in their favor coming in and as Bills fans know,

798
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: this is you can't wait to see this team play

799
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: when they're healthy. Oh yeah, So that is kind of

800
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: a brief look at the practice update, And as we

801
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: always tell you, practice updates are brought to you by

802
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: Lee com Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. We go

803
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: around the NFL. Because there was another trade that happened

804
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 1: just before we came on the air today. The Kansas

805
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: City Chiefs have acquired a wide receiver. His name is

806
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: Cadarius Tony. He had kind of fallen out of favor

807
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: with the New York Giants. So Joe, Shane Jim and

808
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: the Giants sends Caadarius Tony to the Chiefs in exchange

809
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: for a conditional third round pick and a sixth round pick.

810
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: And Steve, I don't know what you think about this,

811
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: but to me, this is the Chiefs attempt to try

812
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: to replace what Hill Tyreek Hill used to do in

813
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: their offense. Kadarius Tony plays in the slot. He is

814
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: a lightning quick player, not as fast as Tyreek Hill,

815
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: but it looks like they have decided almost halfway through

816
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: the season that they need to add something to their

817
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 1: passing attack, which does not have as many big plays

818
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: as it used to. He's had health issues. Oh yeah,

819
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: staying healthy is a big problem. But yes, but his

820
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: upside is evident. The guy can scoot and we know

821
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: Bills fans know this as well as Chiefs fans know this.

822
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: The Chiefs like speed on the outside, and the more

823
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: the better. I'm really interested and I get it, Tony.

824
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: You're you're getting not given up that much form. They're

825
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: giving up a second or fourth and conditional third sixth. Yeah,

826
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: conditional third and six that's like peanuts for guys. Well

827
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: Tony's upside, that's peanuts. But if you get his upside, well,

828
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 1: if you get his upside, the conditional third probably turns

829
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: into a second. Right. But my question is why are

830
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: the Chiefs doing this? I mean, I get why are they?

831
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: Did the loss to the Bills strike them that hard?

832
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: Are they looking at them? Would they have made this

833
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: had they beaten the Bills? Are the Bills on their

834
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: radar like the Chiefs are on the Bills radar? You

835
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I think they know they don't

836
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: measure up the way they used to, not like they did.

837
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: Mean Tyree? Was that not interesting to you? Though? Tyreek

838
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: was the difference maker that kept the Chiefs I would

839
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: say ahead of yes, Buffalo, and now he's no longer

840
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: part of that equation. They're trying to recoup what they've lost,

841
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: and I don't know that you're ever going to get

842
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: it back. He is as unique a player as there

843
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: is in football. He was he was, like you know,

844
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: Chris the the running back for the Cardinals, started with

845
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Why to Chris Chris john Chris Johnson

846
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,359
Speaker 1: just faster than everybody, and not only faster, but able

847
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: to be fast in two steps into a run, right,

848
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: I mean to accelerate an explosion. But I'm I'm really

849
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: interested into the mindset behind what the Chiefs are doing.

850
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: Who's gonna sit down on their roster? Now? Yeah, who

851
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: are they gonna pluck out of that rod that well,

852
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: you're assuming he's gonna start That guy couldn't get on

853
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: the field for the Giants. What does that say then?

854
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: Why make it? Well? Why are they doing it? I

855
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs are desperate. It might be a little bit.

856
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: They can't be that desperate. Come on, what are you

857
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: doing that for them? Exactly? They are. They can't be

858
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: desperate unless they saw something in the Bills game that

859
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: they were like, we got no answer, But that wouldn't

860
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: be Maybe they're saying, we can't score with them now

861
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: without without Tyreek, we can't score with those guys. Is

862
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: that what they're saying? Or they know or they know

863
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 1: the Bills defense is vastly superior to their defense. Yeah,

864
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: and the only way to fight that is to try

865
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: to I think they've come to the conclusion that the

866
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: only way they're gonna go deep into the playoffs is

867
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: by out scoring everybody. So let's get as many let's

868
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: accumulate as many weapons as we can and hope it's enough.

869
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: Because their defense, it's not a bad defense, Don't get

870
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: me wrong. I mean, Kansas City is not awful on defense.

871
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: I mean they're third in the league against the run,

872
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: but right now they are thirtieth in the league against

873
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: the pass. And they just lost Frank Clark to a suspension,

874
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: one of their better pass rushers, so that's not going

875
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: to get better anytime soon. And they're twenty fifth and

876
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: points allowed. So the Chiefs now have Kadarius Tony, Juju Smith, Schuster,

877
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: Mark Quez Valdez, Scandole Hardman, sky More and Justin Watson.

878
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: I don't know how you spread the ball around to

879
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: all those dudes. Well, I mean, that's always a problem

880
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: when you can really sling it when your offense is

881
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: high powered. But you know, I'm really intrigued by the

882
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: reasoning behind Kens. Maybe they've got some guys there they're

883
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: not happened. Maybe maybe he's a former first round maybe

884
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: is unquestionably a talent. Maybe sky Moore is out there,

885
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: guy is not doing what they want off the field

886
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: or on the field. Maybe they've got some problems there

887
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: that they want to sort out, you know what I mean.

888
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: Let's not forget that in year one of the McDermott regime,

889
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: here they traded away a first round draft choice at

890
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: wide receiver, also by the name of Sammy Watkins. Is

891
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: going to be back this week. We got traded to

892
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: Los Angeles for a two and a six, or for

893
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: a for a two and EJ. Gaines and the Bill

894
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,439
Speaker 1: sent Sammy in a six to LA and he played

895
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: for LA for like what a month a year and

896
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 1: before that and then after that he was in Kansas City. Yeah,

897
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: so here is Joe Shane in year one, he wasn't

898
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: there throwing a former first round draft choice overboard at

899
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: wide receiver for a three and a six. So I

900
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: keep I bring this up every time we talk about

901
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: the Sammy Watkins deal. Him was right after the Darby

902
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: deal with Ron Darby, but they happened the same day

903
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 1: almost And then also that was in training. That was

904
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: that was after getting rid of the big guy, Marcel Well,

905
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: Marcella got traded later he went he went around this time,

906
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 1: he got traded right around Halloween right before the deadline.

907
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: So they're they're getting accused the Sean McDermott cruise, getting

908
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: accused of tanking in the twenty seventeen season, and let's

909
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: not forget they end up going to the playoffs that year.

910
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: So that's when you kind of knew he could get

911
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: the most out of the roster, and they made some

912
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: moves that were very insightful and turned out to be money.

913
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: That's when you kind of knew things that were going

914
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: to be different here in Buffalo. And despite the twenty

915
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: eighteen year where Josh came in and they struggled and

916
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: they were six and ten, you knew that they were

917
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction. Everything they did seem to

918
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: be solid and logical and made sense. And it started

919
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: by trading guy like Samy, like like the Giants are

920
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: doing over into Darius in New Jersey. The only difference

921
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: is they're five and six and one. They're doing all

922
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: this while win games, yeah close ones, like all six

923
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: and their wins by one score or less. But that's

924
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: you know that even their loss was by one score

925
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: or lost. Right now, how long is their leash? Oh

926
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 1: my gosh, Yeah, there's a part of me that feels

927
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: like they're cheating the Hangman a little bit. I mean, yeah,

928
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they're getting away with it. It's like they're

929
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: getting away with it, right, Yeah. But really, if you

930
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: look at the rest of their schedule, their hardest games

931
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: or the Eagles, and that's it. Oh, I think they

932
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: have Dallas one more time. They got Dallas and the

933
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: two games against the Eagles, one game against Dallas. You

934
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: look at the rest of their schedule, they're playing a

935
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: last place schedule. They're gonna be Okay, They're they're in,

936
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: I mean, unless the unless the bottom falls out, they're

937
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They're gonna make it in. Might be

938
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: a little bit. They they're six and one after seven games.

939
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: You got eleven games left. You win, you win five

940
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: of those, you're an eleven win football team. They've got

941
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: they got the Texans, Detroit, the Commanders, the Commanders, yeah,

942
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: the Colts, yeah, the Viking and then the Vikings, the

943
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 1: Eagles twice, and the Cowboys and the Vikings, Eagles twice, Cowboys.

944
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: All right, so let's go. Let's say they lose all

945
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: four of them, and the Seahawks. They got the Seahawks

946
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: this week, tough game, all right, they're at this. So

947
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: let's say they lose all five of those games, they

948
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: win the other six, They're a twelve win football team.

949
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: You can't get around at twelve wins, gonna do it?

950
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 1: Eleven you're in in the NFC. Yeah, eleven wins, you

951
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: are in. Maybe ten. I mean, look at that they got.

952
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: They don't even have to play five hundred ball. The

953
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: rest of the eight teams that they're nine teams that

954
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: are below five hundred in that conference, and the Rams

955
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: that are three and three at five, they you play

956
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: near five hundred ball the rest of the way. The Giants,

957
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs, they're in. They go five and five,

958
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: they're eleven and six. Yeah, they're in. It's a that's

959
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: a belief. That's great. I mean, I'm happy for those great,

960
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: good for them. Yeah, we're all we're fans of you know,

961
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: we're Joe Shane brand Able. I mean, it's hard not

962
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 1: to root for him. For your cousins exactly exactly until

963
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: you play them, that's right, you know, and hopefully you

964
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: do this year, right, I mean, that would be wild.

965
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't even imagine that anyway, the

966
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: media would be happy yes, but that would be that

967
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: would just yes, Okay, all right, we have to take

968
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: a break here. When we come back, our cavalcade of

969
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 1: studio guests continues as we have the Hall of Famer

970
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: coming in for our number two, Thurman Thomas coming your

971
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: way next here on one Bill's Live presented by Callid

972
00:49:33,560 --> 00:50:19,919
Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. These one Bills Live

973
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: presented by called Light to Health. Hey, how do you be?

974
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: It's our number two here I won Bills Live. Where

975
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: this day is well, the locker room or something I

976
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,720
Speaker 1: don't know, the back of the classroom of third grade.

977
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: It's one of those things. Give me something to write with. Yeah,

978
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: I can't control these two completely off the chain. What

979
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: happens in the break should be a show unto itself

980
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: tell you at least too unbelievable. I gotta get him

981
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: a tissue. He's crying over here, and it's not because

982
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: of the SALCA. He was just inhaling here during the break.

983
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: Good lunch today, by the way, But in case you

984
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: haven't noticed, we have the Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas

985
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: joining us here in the second hour of the program,

986
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: and Therm thanks for being flexible. Flexible. We moved you

987
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: around a little bit this week. We're yeah, yeah, it's hunger, Yeah,

988
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: all this other stuff, we got it all. And let

989
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: me tell you something like like Bruce told me years ago.

990
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: You know when when they win, we win? Right? Oh yeah, right,

991
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: well I gotta go to this place. Yeah, okay, yeah,

992
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: let's do it right. So it's all good, Yeah good,

993
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: it is all good. The number not that we're a

994
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: betting show, but the line on this game keeps going

995
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: up therm. It was at ten and a half at

996
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: the beginning of the week, went up to eleven yesterday.

997
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: Now it's eleven and a half. Oh there's a part

998
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,720
Speaker 1: of me that doesn't like that. And the only reason

999
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: why is because it's Aaron freaking Rodgers over there. And

1000
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer said the same thing yesterday when he was

1001
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: addressing the media. People are talking to him like, oh,

1002
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: the Packers have lost three in a row. Their offense

1003
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: is only averaging eighteen points a game, this, that, and

1004
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: the other. Jordan looked the guy right in the eye

1005
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,720
Speaker 1: and he goes, I don't care. It's Aaron freaking Rodgers

1006
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: over there, right. I mean, I know you guys have

1007
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: seen a lot of great quarterbacks in your time, and yeah,

1008
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: I've been around long enough to see a fair share

1009
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: of mine as well. I'm gonna say this, I don't

1010
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: think there has been a more accurate quarterback than Aaron Rodgers.

1011
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 1: The places he can stick a football, the little cracks

1012
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: he can stick a football in, twenty five yards down

1013
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: the field. Is I still marvel at it. Yeah, I've

1014
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: been an Aaron Rodgers fan football fan for years, for years,

1015
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: like when he got even when he got drafted from

1016
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: cayl and he sat waiting in the green room or

1017
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: waiting in the green room for a while, and then

1018
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: he dropped back. You know about that? Oh yeah, exactly,

1019
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: I know exactly about that. And he dropped down and

1020
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: Alex Smith was taking number one, and I can remember

1021
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: all of them showing the clip of him and Alex

1022
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: Smith trying to throw a football through I think it

1023
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: was like a tube or something, okay, and I was

1024
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: like one of those sports sciences. Yeah, they haven't even

1025
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: been drafted yet and they did this and Alex was

1026
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: way off and like, first throw Aaron Rodgers whoop right

1027
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: between it, And I'm thinking, man, that they guys should

1028
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: have been a number one pick. But then he goes

1029
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: to Green Bay and hasn't said a couple of years.

1030
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,720
Speaker 1: His fourth year he players, oh wow, yeah behind Brett Farve,

1031
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: and it's uh, he's been fed. If you look at

1032
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: his numbers, you would be like, this guy has to

1033
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: have more than one Super Bowl. I mean, his numbers

1034
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,240
Speaker 1: have been off the chart. He don't really throw any sceptions.

1035
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: He threw three this year. And but I will tell

1036
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: you this, the comment that he made the other day

1037
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: about you know, some guys snap counts should be taken

1038
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: down or whatever. I'm yeah, true, But if you get

1039
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: the practice or whatever, and all of a sudden you're

1040
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: snap counsel down and stuff. And he's like, well he

1041
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: didn't name any names. Well, if Mike snap counts going

1042
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: out from sixty to thirty, well he pretty much should

1043
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: have said my name. He pretty much should have said

1044
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: my name. So you get a couple of guys in

1045
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: and out of the locker room, three or four of

1046
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: them that are gonna be getting more plays coming up

1047
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: this Sunday. Hey, this guy has to step up too.

1048
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: And Roger, but he hasn't been the type of player

1049
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: that he's been neither, right, I get that. I wanted

1050
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,280
Speaker 1: to ask you this because you played on this Bill's

1051
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: team in the heyday when things were great, but then

1052
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: you were still playing here when this roster kind of

1053
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,720
Speaker 1: turned over and changed a little bit and it started

1054
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: depending on a lot more youth. That's the situation that

1055
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,280
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is in right now. He's got three rookie

1056
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: receivers on this roster, no more Davante Adams security blanket,

1057
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 1: Marquez Valdez Scantlings in Kansas City, and he's got an

1058
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: offensive line that's been shuffling the deck the last three weeks.

1059
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: You know what's so bad? I feel so bad. The

1060
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: reason I'm asking is because you know what that turnover

1061
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:06,240
Speaker 1: was like here? How do you manage that? Knowing because

1062
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 1: you're about as hyper competitive as they come. When you're

1063
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: hyper competitive about winning and still holding a standard and

1064
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: you've got to endure some of these growing pains with

1065
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: young players, how do you navigate that. You gotta do it.

1066
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: He's a professional. He has to do it. He's been

1067
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: at the top of his game ever since he started

1068
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: starting in year four. And uh yeah, I mean, I

1069
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: guarantee you if you go back and look at his career,

1070
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: you'll find some of this. You will find some of

1071
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: this where he's struggling right now with different receipts. It

1072
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: hasn't always been Randall Cobb and Jane Adams. You go

1073
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: back to what was eighty three, I can't remember. Oh

1074
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: the kid from Kansas State. Uh I look him up, Jordan, Yeah,

1075
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: I mean there were times. I'm sure he struggled with

1076
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: those guys when they first came in too. So I hey,

1077
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: it's uh, I mean he still has what fifteen eighteen

1078
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 1: touchdowns three interceptions this yet, So I mean he's not

1079
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: having it's just that their record doesn't indicate where they

1080
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: should be or why they should be playing right now.

1081
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,839
Speaker 1: So and I get that, and it's um, not every

1082
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: year can be as great as you want it to be.

1083
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: And some guys got to get in there and learn. Now,

1084
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: I guarantee you. Now, these same guys that are starting

1085
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: right now, I would say, yes, they would be one

1086
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: hundred percent better next year. Right, Yeah, you take some time.

1087
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 1: It's gonna take some time. Yeah, it's time on the chart.

1088
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers, what he's making what sixty three this year?

1089
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 1: It's fifty something fifty three something like that. So he's

1090
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: gonna if he's struggling, fine, whatever, does he know that

1091
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: maybe this might be his time, this might be his

1092
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: last year or whatever. So you know, he wants to

1093
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: go out the way he wants to go out, and

1094
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: nothing that's saying that he's gonna retire. But hey, sometimes

1095
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: you got to struggle with things and how they go.

1096
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:05,800
Speaker 1: It was catching up with them a little bit. Anybody

1097
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: the law of averages. They were thirteen and three, thirteen

1098
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: and three again, and then thirteen and four. Nobody's ever

1099
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: put back to back thirteen seas together. Let the leven

1100
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: three of them and I get to the extra game.

1101
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: But they lost it. Yeah, they got nothing to show

1102
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: for it, right, they got beside a couple of chip

1103
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: So you knew that their their window was open for

1104
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: that long. And and I Green Bay is a different team. Uh,

1105
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: it's run differently, it's set up differently. The fans own it.

1106
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: They've got a board with a president and they you know,

1107
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: all that stuff going on over there that nobody else

1108
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: has to deal with. So they're like, and they are

1109
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: not an attractive free agent destination. It's here, So it's here. Yeah,

1110
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: they've got to hit on their draft picks and they've

1111
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: got to have a staff who can develop players. Our

1112
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: conversation is this, and let me know what you think.

1113
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: Where's Matt Lafleur's voice in all of this? I'm where.

1114
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: I never hear him. Nowhere, nowhere to be found. It's weird,

1115
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: isn't Yeah, Yeah, you don't hear anything like odd. It's

1116
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: like he's almost deferring to Aaron. I think he is, yes, man,

1117
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: that's that's not that's you're gonna be yeah. And he

1118
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: could be on his way out. I mean, didn't he

1119
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: kind of year come in a year before Matt Lafloor,

1120
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: I mean same year the guy down in Carolina, Oh,

1121
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: Matt rule. Didn't they came in like the same year

1122
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: or a couple of years before. Might be a year

1123
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Yeah, it's but he came in the

1124
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: same time that the seasons the guy in in in

1125
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: Cincinnati got his job. Um, Zach Taylor, Zach Taylor, Matt Lafleur,

1126
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: Nag and all those guys got because they were all

1127
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: affiliated with the Sean mcveighor Mike Shanahan. Right. So he's

1128
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: been there and and they've been they've been running a

1129
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: they've been winning a ton of games. I mean, you know,

1130
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: and they're getting deep. But his absence as a public

1131
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: voice for the franchise, at least to anybody out here,

1132
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: maybe in the maybe in Green Bay, Wisconsin, everybody hears

1133
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: him every day. We never hear that guy. He's never

1134
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: on NFL network or any Yes, he's never. He's nowhere.

1135
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: It's only Aaron. Maybe it's because he doesn't say anything

1136
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: remotely controversial. Maybe that's why. I don't know. Maybe I

1137
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I think it's really and

1138
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: I've said this too, you say what you think about this,

1139
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: because when you have a quarterback who has and every

1140
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: quarterback does have a little elevated role in what goes

1141
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: on in the building, But when you have a quarterback

1142
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: like Aaron who it's almost like every decision has to

1143
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: be run across his desk, you know what I mean.

1144
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: It's an odd and I think a dysfunctional dynamic in

1145
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: how everything works in the locker room, on the team

1146
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: and the game plan and everything. I think it's a

1147
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: little bit counterproductive. Yeah. Two, and look when we talk

1148
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: about you know what they've done here with Sean McDermott

1149
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen, I mean, they seem to have a

1150
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: say they got it, they got it going on. They

1151
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: haven't route, they haven't going on big time. They got

1152
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: a good relationship, they got a great relationship that I

1153
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: think in great Green Bay, I just you see more

1154
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: Sean than you do Josh, except unless it's a commercial, right,

1155
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. When when they're talking

1156
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: about yeah, right, when they're talking about Buffalo football, it's

1157
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott talking. Mostly. You can see a player here

1158
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: and there in Josh too, but Sean, Sean speaks a

1159
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: lot on behalf of what the team is, what's going

1160
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: on with the team, and you hear it, and you

1161
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: hear it throughout the other players. Here his message, you

1162
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: hear his message. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that doesn't happen in

1163
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: Green Bay. It's pretty much all what Aaron Rodgers say.

1164
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the only one, like you said that

1165
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Like. It can't be healthy, It can't

1166
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 1: be healthy. It don't seem right, It does not seem right, right, Yeah,

1167
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: So I let them deal with it. Let them deal

1168
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: with it. If they're having problems right now, they better

1169
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,479
Speaker 1: solve them in a couple of days, because they're getting

1170
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: rid of run until a bud saw. So so here's

1171
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: the next part of that. Then they're losers are three straight. Yeah,

1172
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: they have seven first round draft choices on defense. Seven Yeah.

1173
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: And I guess if you watch, if you watch their

1174
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: tape pre snap, they got guys going like that, Hey

1175
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: you got that gap, Hey you got this guy. That's coaching,

1176
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: isn't it. Oh? Yeah, When you got guys that don't

1177
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: know how to lie, or they're not sure call comes in,

1178
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: not sure about who's line up, that's a coaching issue,

1179
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah. For for a franchise like that to

1180
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: not have the correct coaches in place, when you have

1181
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback like Aaron running rizz on offense or defensive

1182
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: special team, I mean, that's that speaks volumes of what

1183
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: they're not doing in Green Bay, I think. And because

1184
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: that's a talent. Talent. They've got some guys talent. But

1185
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: you're right, if you if they're struggling over there by

1186
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: blowing coverages and not being in the right spot and

1187
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: not gap control, not sound gap control, Yeah, that's that's

1188
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: that's above the players. That's a that's a rung above

1189
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: the players that they're doing doing something I haven't watching me.

1190
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: I watched their offense a lot, and I watched their

1191
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: broadcast and game stuff. Um, and I don't see egregious

1192
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:42,919
Speaker 1: stuff going on. But man, with all those draft picks

1193
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: over there, you gotta think what's going on? What's going on? Yeah,

1194
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: it could be one of those situations. And I haven't

1195
01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: really looked at their defense to see this. Remember when, um,

1196
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: I know where you're going, what I know where you're going?

1197
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: Just talking, I'll trying to think of the defensive coordinate

1198
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: at that time when we had like three out of

1199
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: four guys getting like ten, ten Schwartz, Jim Schwartz, and

1200
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: then Rex Winine came in and totally flipped the defense.

1201
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: They were out of play. Yeah, exactly. Maybe that's what

1202
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 1: the that's what Maybe that's what's the problem with Green Bay.

1203
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 1: They're drafting guys who can't play this type of defense.

1204
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: If you got a pass rushing on the edge and

1205
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: now he's standing up all the time, and if the

1206
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: drop back in coverage, Mario win was not going to

1207
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: drop back in coverage. He wanted to rush the passer

1208
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 1: and he should have been and he should have been,

1209
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 1: he should have been got to use the guy out,

1210
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: And that was the difference between Jim Schwartz defense and

1211
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan. You have to have those players ready, and

1212
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: I think at that portant time Jim Schwartz should have

1213
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: been the defensive coordinate even today and not so much today.

1214
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: Maybe this is an example of it here in Green Bay.

1215
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 1: We're talking about even today. You get coaches that have

1216
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: this system they want to run, yeah, and they're gonna

1217
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: gonna run this thing. You know. Nowadays, though in the NFL,

1218
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 1: predominantly the successful teams have always been like what can

1219
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: this guy do? All right? What about this other guy?

1220
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: So all these guys, you get them, and you get

1221
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: put each guy into a spot where he gets to

1222
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: do what he does best. That's why Don Shula won

1223
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: more games anybody else. They come up here with Dan

1224
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: Marino and John Offerdahl and just and be a pain man.

1225
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: They're hard to beat everybody, and they're not complicated. They're

1226
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: like three things on defense because that's all they had.

1227
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: That's all they did. Louis Oliver he couldn't change directions

1228
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 1: in a car let alone on the field, right, But

1229
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: he only did what he should do right, And they

1230
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: were hard to beat. You knew where they were you

1231
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: knew where their defense are gonna. They were hard to

1232
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: beat because they were all their guys were always doing

1233
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: what they did best, whether it was complicated or not.

1234
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: And you see even today you see coaches like everywhere

1235
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: around the league something where they got guys trying to

1236
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: do things ain't good at Yeah. The only time only

1237
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 1: teams that I've seen, probably in the last what twenty

1238
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: five maybe thirty years that have basically stayed with the

1239
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:09,880
Speaker 1: same defense has been a Pittsburgh Steeler with Bill Cower

1240
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 1: and Mike Tomlin. Right, they've been in at three to

1241
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: four or whatever you want to call him. But you

1242
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: know what I think, and they picked the right guys

1243
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: for those positions to play that type of defense. They

1244
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: don't have to pick an OLB exactly. I mean, Harrison,

1245
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 1: You're you're down through the list. There's a whole but

1246
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: Kevin Green, Greg Lloyd, y T J. Watt, Yeah, you

1247
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 1: go down the list. They know, but they know what

1248
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: those guys look like. Yeah, exactly. So maybe that's the

1249
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 1: problem with Green Bay. I don't know they're roster. It's

1250
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 1: just I don't know. The thing that defies logic is

1251
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: you got seven first round picks on that side of

1252
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: the ball, and the defense has performed in recent years,

1253
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: like it's been a good defense. And I'm not saying

1254
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: they're horrible, but there's a disconnect there that's going on,

1255
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it is. Like they don't

1256
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 1: even have an NFC championship title to celebrate after thirteen

1257
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 1: after three straight thirteen win seasons. That's tough and like

1258
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: that and a couple I'm going they had a number

1259
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: one seat, right, Yeah. So now so now that you're

1260
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 1: you've had three thirteen win seasons in a row, you've

1261
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: got nothing to show for it, but you've been enormously

1262
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 1: successful in the regular season. Is this where you worry

1263
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: about the complacency stuff? Like, you know, we'll be all right. Like, man,

1264
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: there haven't any losses as they had last year. I

1265
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 1: think they're at this point now where they're like, no

1266
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:37,959
Speaker 1: matter what we deal on defense, we still got Aaron

1267
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: Rodgers who can hold us forever. Yeah, pretty much. That's

1268
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: why you get seven first round us on defense and

1269
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 1: nothing on offense. Who are you right about that? Yeah?

1270
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: You know, because you think Air is gonna handle that

1271
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: side of it. We're gonna stock up on this side

1272
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 1: because we need to last year and Wyatt from and

1273
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: here's somebody needs to go. They come out of the

1274
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: gate and they win. They go three and one after

1275
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 1: losing an opening day, but the defense gave up twenty three, ten, twelve, yea,

1276
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: twenty four, and now in the last three weeks they

1277
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: gave up twenty seven, twenty seven, twenty three in three losses.

1278
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 1: They still haven't given up thirty points. They're getting ready

1279
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: to you know, well we'll see, we'll see they better.

1280
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, get ready to tell you. I mean,

1281
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. So we've been talking about it.

1282
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: We're having fun with this because you know, we don't

1283
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: know how this is gonna go. I thought the Bears

1284
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: were gonna get their heads caved in by the Patriots.

1285
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,920
Speaker 1: So I said they're going to win by as many

1286
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: points as they score because the Bears are gonna get

1287
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: shut out. That's what I said that on Monday Show.

1288
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 1: It would have been great if it were, it would

1289
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: have been great, but it didn't. So we have no

1290
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: idea what this is gonna look like. But what do

1291
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: you think about this? So you know how it is.

1292
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 1: Have a personal relationship with somebody on the other team.

1293
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 1: You know, he got some buddies around the league and stuff.

1294
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 1: So you know, Josh and Aaron Rodgers played in the

1295
01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 1: match and stuff. Aaron is the two time defending MVP.

1296
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 1: Don't you think Josh has got just a little bit

1297
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: extra fueling this fire this week? Absolutely? Don't you think

1298
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 1: he wants to like beat him by nine thousand? Yeah? Exactly.

1299
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: Josh wants his name to be mentioned more times on

1300
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,600
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football than Aaron Rodgers. He wants it to

1301
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:21,720
Speaker 1: be my show Sunday Night. And the only thing that

1302
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 1: y'all can talk about after this is why Green Bay

1303
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 1: is still struggling and why I am at the top

1304
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: of the league, right of the M one voting right now,

1305
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 1: it's Sunday Night. When he first came here, we were

1306
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 1: all talking about, Oh, he hasn't performed on big time

1307
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: game or what. Can't say that anymore? No, can't say

1308
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: that anymore. Seven and three in his last ten primetime games.

1309
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: Josh is a noun not for nothing. Aaron Rodgers is

1310
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 1: thirteen and o in his last thirteen primetime games. Yeah,

1311
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: just maybe thirteen and one. I'm throwing it out there

1312
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: like New England in Chicago how about this, So it

1313
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 1: goes away, So this turns out. So this comes out,

1314
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: and the bills come out and they turn in. It

1315
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,680
Speaker 1: turns into a Pittsburgh game. Thirty eight three. You're going

1316
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,600
Speaker 1: into the third quarter up thirty points. Listen to this.

1317
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: This is I have a problem with this. Up thirty points.

1318
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: So you got your guy Josh, who's sitting there looking

1319
01:09:12,479 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: at you, going to listen. I want to I'm gonna

1320
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:19,800
Speaker 1: win the MVP this year. And this organization has always

1321
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: given guys a chance to do the individuals like get

1322
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: to get the record, do this, do that? Do you

1323
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: send him back out there and say, listen, I'm they

1324
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 1: can't stop me. I'm gonna pad my, I'm I'm throwing

1325
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:35,760
Speaker 1: some more. Get a case comes up. But Josh goes

1326
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: up to Sean and goes and you've already he's having Wait,

1327
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:42,240
Speaker 1: he's having conversations during the week saying, listen, we get

1328
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 1: up on him. I still want to play. I still

1329
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 1: want to play. Put the baseball, put the baseball had off.

1330
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 1: Go forward next week, Listen, I want to play Sunday night.

1331
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to see this. So if he's up, I'm

1332
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: gonna say he'd throw four touchdowns, they run for one.

1333
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: That's enough of me right there. I don't have to

1334
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: play anymore. And he comes those NBP stamps right there.

1335
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: Every every reporter that votes on that it is looking

1336
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: at going he is the best in the league. And

1337
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: and he comes up to you after all of that

1338
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: and says, hey, I want to play boy. If that's

1339
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:19,560
Speaker 1: the case, I should have did that years ago, a

1340
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and Mark said, I said, well

1341
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:23,559
Speaker 1: I got a chance to go for the Russian title.

1342
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 1: Or you're sitting down, okay, same thing, same thing. No,

1343
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: it's not the same thing because you said okay. And

1344
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,160
Speaker 1: if Josh says I want to play, that's where that's

1345
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 1: where the coach has to step in. And the coach

1346
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: has to say, hey, we got we gotta keep our

1347
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 1: eyes on the prize here. It's a bigger prize than that.

1348
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: And to think I'm just saying, Josh, there's the ultimate

1349
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: team guy. And I don't see him doing that anymore.

1350
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: He doesn't like I said, but a couple of weeks

1351
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: ago against Pittsburgh or was it Pittsburgh, Well, Trey White,

1352
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: he's not playing this game. They know what about this?

1353
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 1: What about this they're winning. They're winning thirty to three,

1354
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 1: and he has had no touchdowns Russians, nochdow, I don't

1355
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 1: have too much Halloween. Yeah, if you know, one hundred

1356
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:17,559
Speaker 1: and seventy five yards passing, that is not Devin Singletary

1357
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 1: has two thirty five and that is not happening. That

1358
01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 1: is not the way this offense even operates. So you're

1359
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: not even gonna So you guys aren't even gonna entertain entertain.

1360
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:31,760
Speaker 1: I can't entertain that. I want to be doing. I

1361
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:33,800
Speaker 1: want to be doing the last couple of things. I do.

1362
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: Want to see the Bold game. I want to be

1363
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: leaving mid third quarter. I want to see Josh Shallon

1364
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:41,960
Speaker 1: grab it. It's amazing where we are, ye know what

1365
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:44,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He is like, I don't know where he's

1366
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 1: at right now, but I have to think about this.

1367
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,680
Speaker 1: We're thinking about this. Yeah, this is where we're at now.

1368
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 1: We're at a point now with with Josh, and believe me,

1369
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:55,960
Speaker 1: every Bill's fan out there knows how lucky we are

1370
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,640
Speaker 1: to have that kid. We got people having conversations now

1371
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 1: that go to these games. That's say, you know what,

1372
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,800
Speaker 1: it'd be great, if it'd be cool, if I could

1373
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 1: leave mid third quarter, you know, beat the traffic because

1374
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:09,720
Speaker 1: the game's over already. Thurman just said that. Yes, this

1375
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: is where Bill's fans are now with this team here.

1376
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:14,640
Speaker 1: It's not about bad, It's not about hey man, I

1377
01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: think you know, if we get a couple of turnovers,

1378
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 1: we got a chance to win this game. You know

1379
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 1: we lead this team. Hey we go win that too long?

1380
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 1: Well yeah, now it's well, I hope you're up by

1381
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: enough so I can just leave mid third quarter, get

1382
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 1: a good night's sleep. For here's what I want to see.

1383
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 1: I want to see. I want to see Pittsburgh. I

1384
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 1: want to be out. I want to see this game

1385
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:35,760
Speaker 1: get to the point where Josh is grabbing his helmet

1386
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: running on the field and they have to stop him

1387
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: and he turns around and him and for having a

1388
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: shouting match. Where is this coming up? Just calling time

1389
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: out and get him off the field. Where is this

1390
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 1: coming from? Steve? I gotta know, like where what is

1391
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:52,439
Speaker 1: the iteration of this where I want to listen? There

1392
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: haven't been games maybe high school college, at a professional level.

1393
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,720
Speaker 1: If you see that the scores Adam hand and that

1394
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: quarterback is still there and he's still throwing the football.

1395
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: Somebody will take a shot at him. I guarantee you

1396
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: somebody will take a shot at him. You just don't.

1397
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't hurt, fine, exactly take the fine r.

1398
01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: If he gets hurt, then what then? What? Then? It was, Josh,

1399
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:18,519
Speaker 1: they wanted to go back here? No, no, no, you're

1400
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 1: the head coach. You make that call. Otherwise on a

1401
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 1: pretty lively show on listen. You got listen, Josh, you

1402
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 1: got four hundred and ninety yards passing and we're halfway

1403
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: through the third quarter. Four I wanted six. Let's go

1404
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 1: bared ninety. Bear down, Steve, bear down, Josh, You're not

1405
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: playing good enough golf with four nineties. That's right, Steve,

1406
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: that's what That's what I want. You are a man.

1407
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 1: I want to see yes, and I want Aaron Rodgers

1408
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: to be sitting over there with his hat on sideways.

1409
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 1: Oh man, going holy you might need to be suspended

1410
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,679
Speaker 1: for a week from the show we just had to buy.

1411
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:57,679
Speaker 1: I thought it was okay, comes back from the week,

1412
01:13:57,760 --> 01:13:59,800
Speaker 1: just so I don't know what happened. He's all, am,

1413
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: you should come back more often, but that's come back week.

1414
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: So before we let you go thirm. Give me, how

1415
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:10,560
Speaker 1: do you think this thing plays out? Score wise? The

1416
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: line is now up to eleven in some places, and

1417
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: I will remind you the Packers have never won a

1418
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 1: game in Orchard Parking six. They will be old and

1419
01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:25,600
Speaker 1: seven around eleven fifteen, eleven thirty. Okay, you think do

1420
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,560
Speaker 1: you think that? I think, you know what? Comfortable they'll

1421
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 1: hang around. They'll hang around a little bit. Okay, But

1422
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,640
Speaker 1: I think in I think in the end, we just

1423
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 1: have too many weapons for them, too much. And may look,

1424
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 1: if those wide receivers are that in experience and not

1425
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 1: running the route, you're going to get Sean McDermott and

1426
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: les Nick Fraser off a bye week, off a bye week. Yeah,

1427
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 1: you're getting healthier, you get I mean, come off those

1428
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,719
Speaker 1: of those Bill Belichick type moments. You know, those guys

1429
01:14:54,760 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 1: fourteen days to grind tape exactly. So I just right, yeah,

1430
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 1: that's just my mindset for right now for Bay. Well,

1431
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 1: here's the thing, you're right. The way it gets out

1432
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: of hand for the Bill, if it goes against the Bills,

1433
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: it's because they're gonna they're gonna turn it over. And

1434
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: that's the one thing they have done too much of

1435
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:14,720
Speaker 1: this year, they turn it over. If you if you're

1436
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: gonna do that, that's how you lose in Jacksonville. You know, Um,

1437
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: you can't let that happen. But you know it's gonna

1438
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: take something like that, right, I mean the Bills we

1439
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 1: have seen too, because it's gonna take a special team

1440
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: TD and I'll say that Green Bay defensive touchdown. Those

1441
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: happen to happen in order for them to be last week.

1442
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:39,680
Speaker 1: The way it has gone for the Bills during the

1443
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott era to this point, to me, it seems

1444
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 1: like there are too many bitter lessons that they have

1445
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 1: learned that there ain't gonna be any let up. Oh

1446
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: there's tunnel vision. They are they are totally focused on listen,

1447
01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 1: this let's go. We can't let these games get on.

1448
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: You can't do it. You can't do it. You can't

1449
01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 1: do it. I mean you go all the way back

1450
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. You can't do it. You can't do it

1451
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: at this important time. Thurm. Thanks for stopping in. Always

1452
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:09,800
Speaker 1: good to see it. Enjoy the game on Sunday, you

1453
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 1: got your jersey in mind or at Oh yeah, we'll

1454
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 1: wait for the reveal. On Instagram oh yeah, make sure

1455
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 1: you take a picture before the game. We want to

1456
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 1: see I will all right, I'll cover the Hall of

1457
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 1: Famer thurm and Thomas joining us here on One Bills Live.

1458
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: We're back with more. Stay tuned, all right, welcome back

1459
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1460
01:16:45,479 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: time now here in the show for sound Bits presented

1461
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 1: by Tim Horton's, the official cafe and bike shop of

1462
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen von Miller and more discuss

1463
01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: Micah Hides returned to the facility this week on Wednesday,

1464
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 1: following his recent next surgery. Yeah, surgery went amazing. Um,

1465
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: you know, it happened quick, you know, leaving here getting

1466
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: second opinions. Um, ended up in La. Uh got a

1467
01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: second opinion next morning, five am about getting a surgery.

1468
01:17:16,479 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: So watching these games on TV was not the same, Uh,

1469
01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: it was you know, it hurt a little bit. And

1470
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:23,680
Speaker 1: so this is just new to me and I think

1471
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: it's eye opening, and I know there's a you know,

1472
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 1: there's a there's a lesson to be learned, a blessing

1473
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:31,360
Speaker 1: on the other side of this, you know. So I'm

1474
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:34,720
Speaker 1: just here to to help out the young guys, and

1475
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 1: you know when that when my time comes to get

1476
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 1: back out there and earn the trust of the guys again. Um,

1477
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: you know, so bit he's awesome and we're we're super

1478
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: excited to have him back offseason. He's in good spirits

1479
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: right now and he's um moving pretty good. I know

1480
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 1: those next surgeries aren't anything to play with, um, but

1481
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 1: just having his presence here in the leadership that he brings,

1482
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: the the energy in the laughter that he brings into

1483
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 1: our locker room. You know, he's a he's a loved

1484
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 1: guy for a reason. He's a he's a great father,

1485
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:08,519
Speaker 1: a great husband, and he's a great friend and a teammates. Sel.

1486
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: We're definitely lucky to have him back. It's good to

1487
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: have Michael Hide back in town in the building. Obviously,

1488
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:19,000
Speaker 1: he carries great influence for our football team, so great,

1489
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:21,000
Speaker 1: great to have him and his family back in town.

1490
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 1: He just carries so much influence as a leader on

1491
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 1: our football team. He's still on our football team. So Um,

1492
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: he doesn't really want to put on that coach's hat.

1493
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:33,559
Speaker 1: I tried to offer that to him, but he didn't.

1494
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: I guess the hat didn't fit my size, had didn't

1495
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: fit him so um now we're happy to have him back.

1496
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 1: The overall he's got such a great family and like

1497
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:46,440
Speaker 1: I said, just the energy that he brings, the influence,

1498
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 1: the leadership. He's seen a lot of football too, so

1499
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: we have you know, a young secondary right now. So

1500
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 1: his influence, his input, the way he sees it certainly helps.

1501
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:58,640
Speaker 1: It's great to have Michael bet because he's one of

1502
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 1: our captains and this perspective on everything. He's had so

1503
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:04,680
Speaker 1: much knowledge and you know, just his energy being in

1504
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: the locker room it helps us. So whenever you get

1505
01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 1: your your captain's back, whenever you get the guys around

1506
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: that that are injury back in the locker room, like

1507
01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta love on them. You know, let

1508
01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 1: him know that you appreciate them. You know, let him

1509
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: know that you got him, because it's it's a it's

1510
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 1: a struggle, you know, coming up for every single day

1511
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,200
Speaker 1: and you see everybody working around good going to practice

1512
01:19:21,200 --> 01:19:22,719
Speaker 1: and I gotta sit in the training room and recover.

1513
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 1: So it's tough, man, but you know, this is our

1514
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: life and this is what we love and it's good

1515
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: to have all those guys back in the locker room. Yeah,

1516
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:30,600
Speaker 1: I think it's a great feeling for us, you know

1517
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: what I mean, just to have him as back as

1518
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:33,400
Speaker 1: a leader, you know what I mean. He's still doing

1519
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 1: the same thing, leading us on and off the field.

1520
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:37,560
Speaker 1: In the classroom, he's leading us on and we's on

1521
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 1: the field. He's giving us pointers and stuff as we

1522
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: come off the field. So it's a great feeling for us.

1523
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's awesome to see mica Um. You know

1524
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,160
Speaker 1: the energy that he brings. Man. Obviously miss him out

1525
01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: on the field. Um. I tell him that all the time. Man,

1526
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:50,799
Speaker 1: But it's awesome to see him back here in good spirits.

1527
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: And you know, you know, we know, we know who

1528
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:54,920
Speaker 1: go back to him. It did feel there, you know,

1529
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: just like I said, his energy, his voice, Um, you know,

1530
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 1: the way he sees the game. You know, it's like

1531
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: it's different than some of the way the other younger

1532
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: guys or money sometimes my self sees a game. So

1533
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:06,439
Speaker 1: just being able to get his input, um, you know,

1534
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 1: and like says coach Michael, now for the next couple

1535
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks or a couple of months, however

1536
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 1: long it is, and you know, whatever he's got, you know,

1537
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:14,800
Speaker 1: he's a leader on our defense. He's led on our team,

1538
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 1: and you know, I know guys that are gonna be

1539
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: locked in with him. Yeah, I mean, you know, I

1540
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: kind of let him know how my injury was back

1541
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:23,640
Speaker 1: in Cleveland when I was done for the season. And

1542
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: you know, it sucks, Um. You know, it's being around

1543
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,559
Speaker 1: the guy's feeling like, you know, you can't you can't help,

1544
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:31,840
Speaker 1: you know, you're kind of helpless, and you know, but

1545
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:33,640
Speaker 1: he's taking initiative. Like I said, he came to the

1546
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: meeting today and he's been out here in practice to

1547
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: really help us and tell us things the way he

1548
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 1: sees things. And you know, it's awesome to have him

1549
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: back here. Um and his family, his family, Amanda and

1550
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:46,040
Speaker 1: his kids were here yesterday playing with playing. My daughter were,

1551
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, so it's cool to see him back but

1552
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: back together playing again, and you know, it's awesome face

1553
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: to see in the building. It's always nice to get

1554
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: a leader and a captain back and get him around

1555
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 1: the guys. And today he was like, I'm not for

1556
01:20:57,800 --> 01:20:59,600
Speaker 1: sure what he's doing from looking for my distance, so

1557
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 1: it looks like he was helping the young guys and

1558
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, picking up where he left off just the

1559
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:07,560
Speaker 1: wisdom in the leadership and he's seen it all. So

1560
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: even when say a young guy's watching film, he can

1561
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: give their his perspective and you know, not let him

1562
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 1: make the mistake, if that makes me makes sense? Oh

1563
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,639
Speaker 1: good man, anytime you get you know, his leadership about

1564
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:24,720
Speaker 1: dad Man, just his presence, the guy street off that

1565
01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 1: you feel he need to feel the energy. As soon

1566
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 1: as he walked down, Man, everybody was happy to see him.

1567
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 1: We saw him a couple a couple of days ago,

1568
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: so it wasn't our first day, but just to see

1569
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: him back on the field helping out have a way

1570
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 1: he can just in drills, throwing the ball towards his

1571
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:39,760
Speaker 1: motivating us man. I mean, guys look up to him

1572
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:41,679
Speaker 1: a lot. So it's definitely good saying in my death.

1573
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen him a couple of a couple

1574
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:45,680
Speaker 1: of days ago. Last week, you know what I'm saying.

1575
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: I was just happy to have him back in the building.

1576
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, that's my it's really my brother.

1577
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 1: So I'm just happy that that he's still around the

1578
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 1: team and he's gonna be with this restless season. Um,

1579
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:56,599
Speaker 1: I mean, his leadership, his leadership is everything you know, um,

1580
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,639
Speaker 1: you've seen it time and time again. When players goes down,

1581
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 1: he's right there trying to help him coaching, and he's

1582
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: gonna consider to do that. I mean, you could be

1583
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:07,480
Speaker 1: beneficial in the man, if you're playing on the sideline

1584
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 1: at home, he'd be texting us sometimes when he was home,

1585
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: so like he'd be helping us with the game or

1586
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: film little stuff to help was getting better position on.

1587
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:22,679
Speaker 1: So it's highly impact for you, like where he does

1588
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 1: no matter where he's at all. Right, that soundbits presented

1589
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: by Tim Horton's and I think you get a pretty

1590
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 1: clear perspective on the reverence that players have for Micah

1591
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:40,800
Speaker 1: Hyde in that locker room. Just listening to all of

1592
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: those guys. I mean, to a man, you know why

1593
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: he's a captain. I mean, it's pretty evident, and it's

1594
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 1: hard like for people like you and me they've been

1595
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: around a while. I remember when he first got here

1596
01:22:56,520 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: and how much he gravitated to Kyle Williams and the

1597
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:03,600
Speaker 1: leader that he was on the defensive side of the

1598
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:06,680
Speaker 1: ball as a captain, and I think he took a

1599
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:11,280
Speaker 1: lot from Kyle's leadership and when it came time for

1600
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: him to be like a real veteran leader on this team.

1601
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: He just kind of slid right into it. And that's

1602
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 1: coach McDermott's whole way of that's how his operation works.

1603
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:27,760
Speaker 1: He taps guys and puts them in leadership roles, and

1604
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 1: when guys mature and maybe get close to the end

1605
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: of their career, there are other young guys in the

1606
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 1: pipeline to come up and through and then serve as

1607
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,040
Speaker 1: the next wave of leaders. And we've seen that. I mean,

1608
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: most of us here in Buffalo have heard Mike over

1609
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 1: the course of his time here in Buffalo, had a

1610
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 1: chance to hear his interviews time and time again, year

1611
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,800
Speaker 1: after year. And you know, the thing that jumps out

1612
01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: at is how intelligent he is, how articulate he is,

1613
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:57,599
Speaker 1: how his level of wisdom about what's going on around him.

1614
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:01,680
Speaker 1: And of course he's a great player. You mix all

1615
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:03,640
Speaker 1: that up and you know, you come out with a

1616
01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:05,519
Speaker 1: with a sea on your jersey, right, I mean, if

1617
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:07,720
Speaker 1: it's a hockey player, right, I Mean, that's just the

1618
01:24:07,760 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 1: way he is. And uh, he's just one of the

1619
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: outstanding assets this organization has going for it. And it

1620
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 1: is kind of cool when you see a guy who's

1621
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 1: been away for a few weeks, particularly in the grind

1622
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: of a season when everybody's you know, you got your

1623
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: head down to see him pop back into the locker

1624
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 1: room feeling good and being exactly who he is, you know,

1625
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:31,040
Speaker 1: just like it was before he was hurt. It's pretty

1626
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,360
Speaker 1: refreshing for the guys in the attitude in the in

1627
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: the locker room. Yeah, no question about it. We are

1628
01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:40,479
Speaker 1: going to step aside here when he come back, we

1629
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 1: will close things up here on a Thursday. Got a

1630
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: couple of things to go over with you. Stay tuned

1631
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:48,240
Speaker 1: for that. It's One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

1632
01:24:48,560 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 1: Is Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right here, we are One

1633
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: Bills Live on a Thursday, just about done for the day.

1634
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 1: Wanted to let you know if you missed our interview

1635
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:14,040
Speaker 1: at the top of the show with Bill's executive vice

1636
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:17,839
Speaker 1: president and chief operating Officer Ron Raquia on the stadium

1637
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: rending renderings that we're released today. You can catch that

1638
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:25,560
Speaker 1: whole segment online. It is posted so you can do

1639
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,600
Speaker 1: that at the Bills YouTube channel or somewhere else at

1640
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com. So be on the lookout for

1641
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 1: that or just check on Twitter. We'll probably post a

1642
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:38,600
Speaker 1: link there at one Bills Live Steve. As you know,

1643
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: the Bills are not playing until Sunday night. You already

1644
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 1: talked about getting here early so you can watch one

1645
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:48,720
Speaker 1: o'clock games uninterrupted. Is there a one o'clock game that

1646
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 1: you are circling that is of particular interest because I

1647
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: have one. There's a couple. Yeah, the Pat's Jets game.

1648
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 1: Watch the one. I want to watch that game. I'm

1649
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 1: gonna watch that why to wire, no question about it.

1650
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 1: And the other one, there's a couple of others. I

1651
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 1: want to watch the four twenty five game between the

1652
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 1: Giants at the Seattle I want to see that game

1653
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: as well. And if Dabele and the Boys can keep

1654
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 1: it going, and I will be rooting hard for the

1655
01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:16,719
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions and their matchup at home against the Miami Dolphins.

1656
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: Oh so there you go. Yeah, Patriots Jets for me. Yeah,

1657
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: that's a month. That's the big one. Those two teams

1658
01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 1: loathe each other Jets fans, and we loathe both of

1659
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: them Jets fans. Jets fans might be the only fans

1660
01:26:32,439 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: that have the Bills fans beat in terms of level

1661
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 1: of hatred for the Patriots. I actually saw it written

1662
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: in a New York paper this week that Belichick, the

1663
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:47,519
Speaker 1: guy who left the Jets at the altar returns. I'm like, guys,

1664
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: that was twenty two years or two years ago, Like

1665
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: we're still holding onto that. Wow. I mean it's that's

1666
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: a special kind of deep seated hatred. That is a

1667
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: generational hate. Yes, So for me, that one down. For me,

1668
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:06,479
Speaker 1: that's something I gotta watch and I need to witness

1669
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 1: what I get it. To the Jets, that meant life. Yeah,

1670
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 1: the Jets. You know, they lost Bruce Hall and Vera

1671
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:14,560
Speaker 1: Tucker for this game, so they got a couple of

1672
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: key offensive guys out. That's the other element. Does James

1673
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:20,200
Speaker 1: Robinson ever roll on Sunday after trading for him? I

1674
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:23,600
Speaker 1: would I would think he probably does that. You know,

1675
01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 1: a couple of days is really you can you can

1676
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 1: kind of get a grasp, but what's going on. You

1677
01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 1: won't have the nuance maybe a package of plays right

1678
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:34,639
Speaker 1: at least goal line, at least situational. Yeah, they'll probably

1679
01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:36,599
Speaker 1: have a package of plays in each situation, a third

1680
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: down package of first and ten package, and then a

1681
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,479
Speaker 1: goal line package. You mentioned the Dolphins and the Lions,

1682
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 1: which is going to be played at Ford Field, and

1683
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 1: already the media is asking Lions ownership because they're one

1684
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: in five about hey, what's Dan Campbell's future blah blah blah,

1685
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 1: and ownership said, we believe we have the right people

1686
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: in place. We're willing to be patient for the winds

1687
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:05,479
Speaker 1: to come. How patient, though, is probably the next question. Well,

1688
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 1: you say that until he started getting because this is

1689
01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:10,760
Speaker 1: year two, right and they're one in five. One of

1690
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:14,600
Speaker 1: the things about it, though, you got to know that

1691
01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:17,920
Speaker 1: patients they can things can happen to make them believe

1692
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:20,040
Speaker 1: they don't have the right people in the place. That's

1693
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:22,640
Speaker 1: the problem. And you start start getting embarrassed week in

1694
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:26,080
Speaker 1: week out. That's a different animal. You know, the Lions

1695
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: were scoring a ton of points thirty five, thirty six,

1696
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 1: twenty four, forty five, and now they've scored zero against

1697
01:28:32,240 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots and they scored six against the Cowboys coming

1698
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 1: out of their own by the Detroit by. Yeah, you

1699
01:28:41,080 --> 01:28:43,920
Speaker 1: can't score zero points in a game going to buy

1700
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:47,439
Speaker 1: and come back and score six. You got to do better.

1701
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,679
Speaker 1: And that's so if until that's why the questions started. Yeah,

1702
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 1: until Dan Campbell convinced his ownership. He's not the right guy.

1703
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 1: They probably will be patient. They play hard for him.

1704
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:01,640
Speaker 1: I'll say that those players do play hard for him.

1705
01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: But you can tell us to the the the Lions

1706
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 1: being the flavor of the month after hard Knocks has

1707
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 1: kind of started to wear off pretty quick. Yeah, the

1708
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: bloom is off that rose. Bloom is off that rose.

1709
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:16,120
Speaker 1: But they could get it back, you know. They go

1710
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 1: out and if they could, if they could strike some

1711
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:24,960
Speaker 1: wins together, Yeah, that comes right back. Yeah, and it's

1712
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:27,880
Speaker 1: not like the Dolphins are a juggernaut point scoring team,

1713
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 1: so we'll see the Lions just have the trouble stopping people.

1714
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:35,760
Speaker 1: The Lions can't stop anybody. They have. They've given up

1715
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four points is the least they've given up

1716
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:41,400
Speaker 1: the least. Yeah, I think they are last in the

1717
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 1: league and they've given up thirty eight, forty eight, twenty eight,

1718
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:48,799
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty nine. Big show tomorrow, as always, OBL

1719
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 1: fan mail bag will be open on Friday and we'll

1720
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 1: have Greg co Sell from NFL Films. We'll see it

1721
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 1: one