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Speaker 1: the strategy here of normalcy here and welcome to a

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Speaker 1: Looking at the stadium, Bills Stadium, where the players may

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to pick a direction at this point

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Speaker 1: when you had upwards of twenty thousand bills fans at

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Speaker 1: a road game. I mean I talked to five players

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Speaker 1: in the locker room. Every one of them said that

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Speaker 1: that crowd made an impact for them on the road

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Speaker 1: when they needed it. So coach McDermott was actually asked

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Speaker 1: a question similar to this about how he's dealing with

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Speaker 1: his players about the uncertainty of fans in the stands

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Speaker 1: this coming season. Here's what he had to say. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this last night when you're you know,

436
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Speaker 1: because there was going to be reduced amount of fans

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Speaker 1: and stadiums. Fans are great, and in particular our fans,

438
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Speaker 1: it's really you know, it's it's once you lock in. Though,

439
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 1: once the ball is kicked off, you're locked in. And

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Speaker 1: as a professional and guys that perform at a high level,

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Speaker 1: you've got to, you know, be focused on what's right

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Speaker 1: in front of you. And the fans certainly make it

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Speaker 1: special and unique to play here and when we go

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Speaker 1: on the road and hearing them gives us that little

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Speaker 1: extra you know, um fifty will that twelfth man and

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Speaker 1: we rely on that. Having said that, as professionals, we've

447
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Speaker 1: got a job to do and we've got to focus

448
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Speaker 1: and be ready to be locked in and get our

449
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Speaker 1: minds wrapped around the fact that there's going to be

450
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Speaker 1: obviously a reduction in fans, so he's doing what he

451
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Speaker 1: can to prepare them for it. But I think it's

452
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Speaker 1: still going to be almost eerie to kind of walk

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Speaker 1: in to a stadium that's empty and you know it's

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Speaker 1: game day, but in the back of your head you're

455
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Speaker 1: probably saying, here, where the heck is everybody? You know.

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Speaker 1: The craziest thing about it, I've been thinking about it

457
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Speaker 1: and trying to get my mind abound what it would

458
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Speaker 1: be like. You're gonna be able to hear guys yelling,

459
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Speaker 1: because that's the form of communication on the field. You

460
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: got you know, Josh Allen's yelling at his guys. You

461
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Speaker 1: know Tremaine Edmonds on the other side yelling at his guys.

462
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Speaker 1: You know Micah Hyde and Jordan Poor. You're yelling at

463
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Speaker 1: the DBS and they're all talking back and forth. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to hear all that. Normally you have

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Speaker 1: no idea, Yeah, but you're gonna be able to maybe

466
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Speaker 1: not be able to discern the words, but you're gonna

467
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Speaker 1: get an idea of how loud it is on the field.

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Speaker 1: And I know that the Fox Network has talked about

469
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Speaker 1: piping in sound to the broadcast to make it sound

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Speaker 1: like a real game. Now, that's not going to be

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Speaker 1: for the players in the stadium, but for the people

472
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Speaker 1: watching at home, they're gonna hear artificial crowd noise from

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Speaker 1: probably some other game from some year or two ago,

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Speaker 1: and that's gonna play. And I know I've talked to

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Speaker 1: you about this on the show. Earlier in the summer.

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Speaker 1: Some of the European leagues for soccer, they had a

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Speaker 1: guy on a sound effect laptop, which you know, he

478
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Speaker 1: would choose the reactions based on whether the team was

479
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Speaker 1: playing at home or away. That would mimic how a

480
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Speaker 1: crowd might react to that happenstance in a game, you know,

481
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Speaker 1: like a shot that just missed it ooh, you know,

482
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Speaker 1: like he was he was doing all of that, which

483
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Speaker 1: sounds I mean, it sounds silly and almost humorous. But

484
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Speaker 1: I saw the first couple of games without it, and

485
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Speaker 1: it's very sterile and you can hear the player, you

486
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,959
Speaker 1: can hear the coach yelling at the players, right. And

487
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: then the next week they went to like an artificial

488
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: fan noise thing and it was kind of humorous, but

489
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Speaker 1: it did feel more like a real game. It's I'm

490
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Speaker 1: just trying to get my mind around. And I thought

491
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Speaker 1: about it quite a bit. And I was part of

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Speaker 1: those teams where we had where something would happen here

493
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Speaker 1: in the in the stadium and we'd make a big

494
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Speaker 1: play and we'd be up on top of somebody, and

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00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: the fans were just in an absolute frenzy because we

496
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Speaker 1: were all up on top of a team and we

497
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Speaker 1: were getting it done and when you know, everything was

498
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: going our way and and it was a it was

499
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: a big game and we were winning. And he turned

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Speaker 1: around and look at the stands and it was I mean,

501
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Speaker 1: you couldn't discern faces or all. It was was arms

502
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Speaker 1: and heads and bodies just jumping on it. Just one giant.

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00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 1: It was like it was like its own living creature,

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00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: this big thing that covered the holes. You couldn't even

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Speaker 1: discern anybody, like a giant am But it's unbelievable. And

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Speaker 1: I also remember too, and I listen not for nothing

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Speaker 1: and because I'm not this guy, but last night I

508
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Speaker 1: was I got tired of watching commercials on the TV shows.

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Speaker 1: I said, I went to YouTube, and the thing that

510
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Speaker 1: pops up on my YouTube thing was a nineteen ninety

511
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Speaker 1: three championship game in Miami, so I go, oh, I'll watched.

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Speaker 1: So I watched it, and I remember, I didn't watch

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, but I got remember went down into

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Speaker 1: the fourth course order where we beat them twenty nine ten,

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Speaker 1: And I remember at the end of that game, place

516
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 1: was empty except the first eight rows of the stadium.

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00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: All the way around were Bills fans. Yeah, and it

518
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: was Dolphin fans had had it. They were losing. They're

519
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: not going to the super Bowl. The Bills are going

520
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: to their third straight when the one where we got

521
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: our heads caved in. But that and it was two

522
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: weeks after the comeback game, and everybody's down there around

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Speaker 1: and it was it turned into a home game. That's

524
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Speaker 1: the fun. Yeah, And I thought, well, that's the fun.

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Speaker 1: What's it gonna be like without all of that? And

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it's gonna be a serious, very somber

527
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: sideline bench area, locker room before, during, and after that game.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a very different experience for these players

529
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Speaker 1: without fans, and they forget about, you know, the roar

530
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Speaker 1: and all that. It's gonna be a different experience because

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna have any emotion to tap into. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm trying to look at all of these games

533
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Speaker 1: on Buffalo schedule at least that we know what the

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Speaker 1: plan is for each of these teams. And you know,

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Speaker 1: New England said twenty percent capacity once they get state

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Speaker 1: and local approval. That hasn't happened yet. But they don't

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Speaker 1: play the Patriots till November, so you know, that could

538
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: certainly change before that happens. And even that first Patriots

539
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: game is here in Buffalo, they don't see the Patriots

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Speaker 1: in New England until the end of the year, after Christmas,

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Speaker 1: so things could be dramatically different by then. And now

542
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Speaker 1: you got to go play a road game suddenly in

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Speaker 1: a stadium full of people, or at least some people.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are a no because the governor said no fans,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know that. I guess that could change

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Speaker 1: before you know, you get to October twenty fifth, and

547
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: they have the changes for the Bills too, And Kansas

548
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: City is here, so they're twenty two percent capacity thing

549
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: doesn't apply. And we really haven't heard from any of

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Speaker 1: these other teams. At least Fangas will be empty, right, Well, yes,

551
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: you're right, that's the other team, Vegas at that time,

552
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: Tennessee will probably have tube. This might be their third

553
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: home game at Tennessee at most. Yeah, so they may

554
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Speaker 1: have a few fans or maybe they'll still be empty.

555
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: They said no fans to start, right, So that's their

556
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: second or third home game. Problem second or third home games,

557
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: so that could change. Can't then at Kansas City's here?

558
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: No fans New York in New York of course the Jets,

559
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: and they're not New York teams, they're New Jersey teams.

560
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's a little so there it is.

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Speaker 1: So let us know what you think. You know, we

562
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Speaker 1: see the Chiefs saying twenty two percent capacity. So that's

563
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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll today. With the Chiefs hosting fans at

564
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Speaker 1: twenty two percent capacity, how do we think other NFL

565
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Speaker 1: clubs will react? Will they seek their own approvals for

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Speaker 1: fans and seats, Will they wait and see how it

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00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: plays out for the Chiefs and some other clubs doing that,

568
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Speaker 1: or will they just scrap the whole thing and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's just not work worth the risk. Hit us up

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, let us know where you stand.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to your comments after the break. We'll also

572
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Speaker 1: give you a brief update on practice today. We got

573
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Speaker 1: a little rundown from Manny Glab and others that basically

574
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,959
Speaker 1: said who had good days out on the field, So

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Speaker 1: we'll run down that list and give it to you.

576
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Speaker 1: And other than that, more to come, including Cole Beasley

577
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Speaker 1: and Christian Wade who are made available to the media

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Speaker 1: via zoom call. That and Plenty Moore coming up next

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio back on One Bills five. Chris Brown,

581
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you jam Pack Show today. As we'll

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Speaker 1: hear from Cole Beasley and Christian Wade in the one

583
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Speaker 1: o'clock hour as they were made available to the media

584
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Speaker 1: via zoom call, so we'll hear some of the highlight

585
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Speaker 1: comments from them and check in with them see how

586
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Speaker 1: things are going for them as camp is fully underway

587
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 1: now with Pad's practices and such, and as far as

588
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,239
Speaker 1: today goes. As Steve already mentioned, Gabe Davis was on

589
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Speaker 1: the side. We'll find out from coach McDermott presumably tomorrow

590
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: when he's next schedule to meet with the media what

591
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: that could be about, but he would, you know, hopefully

592
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: nothing serious, but he'll provide details tomorrow, presumably he'll be

593
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: asked by the media about that, and then as far

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Speaker 1: as guys that performed well today, as Stefan Diggs made

595
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: some plays were told along with Jordan Poyer and Trey

596
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: White on the defensive side. I'm sure Trey White wanted

597
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: to have a bounce back day after yesterday's practice ended

598
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: with John Brown beating him for a touchdown, So that

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00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: was good. And I heard t J Yeldon look good today,

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Speaker 1: so that was nice to hear. I think he's kind

601
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: of somewhat of a forgotten guy in the offensive backfield.

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00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: You know, Devin Singletary deservedly so after the way he

603
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: performed last year is at the top of the depth

604
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: chart there. But you know a lot of attention has

605
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: been paid to Zach Moss and understandably so, but it's like, hey,

606
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: what about that guy? You know, Yeah, it was nice

607
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: to hear they was making some plays out there too,

608
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people that are chime in.

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00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: They want to see what Christian Wade has. I mean,

610
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: he made a big splash last year. You know, the

611
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: former rugby player who's an international party gets like roster exemption.

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00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: I mean, he's you know, he's always he's kind of

613
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: always in your attention because you're kind of wondering how

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Speaker 1: this guy is gonna do. He's a really good rugby

615
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: him a little bit of space and it's over and

616
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: he's got the instincts forward. He really splashed hard in

617
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Speaker 1: preseason last year, and a lot of people are like, oh,

618
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna make it last last year,

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Speaker 1: but he's he was here all year. He was practicing,

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Speaker 1: learning how to play, you know, getting a year under

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Speaker 1: his belt, and you know, there's a ton of people

622
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: pulling for that guy. And the guy's always got a

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Speaker 1: positive attitude. I mean, he's always got a giant smile

624
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: on his face. And I still marvel at the risk

625
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: that this guy took. I mean, this guy, I understand

626
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: he had accomplished everything he possibly could in the world

627
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: of rugby, but at age twenty eight to try to

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Speaker 1: take on a sport like NFL football, even though he

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00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: is athletically gifted, and there are definitely something things from

630
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: rugby that translate to the running back position in football,

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Speaker 1: that is still a giant undertaking. It's a giant roll

632
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Speaker 1: of the dice, giant undertake. So I give him. I

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Speaker 1: give him credit for wanting to pursue that and see

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Speaker 1: if he can make it happen. I mean, that's just

635
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: I respect people to take risks like that. I do too.

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00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: I do too, And I would wonder now and maybe

637
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: now's not the time because it's still you know, he's

638
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: still young in his career here in the NFL, and

639
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: hopefully it'll be a long career. And if it is

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00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: a long career, I guess I know the answer. But

641
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: will he ever get to a point where he regrets it,

642
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: you know, will it get to the point where he thought, yeah,

643
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: you know what, it was worth it. I loved it.

644
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: I love being on that team because is a team

645
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: that's a lot of fun to play on, you know,

646
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: and it's all they're giving him a shot and they've

647
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: kind of put their arms around him, and I think

648
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: it'll be really interesting to see what his thoughts are

649
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: about you know what it is, how you know hard

650
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: it has been just you know that we're watching I'm

651
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: kind of talkings because we're seeing highlights of him now

652
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: on the screen and it's just those two plays he

653
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: made last year, the catch out of the backfield and

654
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: the first the first handoff he took was for a touchdown.

655
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: But that one play he caught that we just saw

656
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: on MSG, he kind of screwed that up because he

657
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: had some guys in front of him. Now he does

658
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: he's a magician getting out of trouble in the first place,

659
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: but once he gets out in the open field, he

660
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: doesn't understand how rugby you're not allowed to use blockers. Yeah,

661
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: so he's running away from his guys instead of towards

662
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: them so they can help him, and he runs right

663
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: into the tacklers and he costs himself a TV. That

664
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: kind of instinctual stuff. Break to the sideline, yeah, yeah,

665
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: go behind Duke Williams, go behind those guys, David Stills,

666
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: and he just didn't know. So that's the kind of

667
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: thing that held him up as a player in the NFL,

668
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: those basic instinctual things that most kids in America grow

669
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: up with. But it's the opposite of the sport he

670
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: made his name in in Europe. So for more details

671
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: on practice today, you can go to Buffalo Bills dot com. Maddie,

672
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: you'll have a report up there on three things to

673
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: know from the practice field today, So just keep staying

674
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 1: tuned to that, and obviously we'll bring you more updates

675
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: here as we get them. But as far as the

676
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: tweet sheet is concerned and the Twitter poll, how you

677
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: think NFL teams will react after seeing the Chiefs announced

678
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: that they'll have fans in the stands at twenty two

679
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: percent capacity after getting all necessary approvals for their stadium

680
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: plan for the regular season. First one here from Paul,

681
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: and we should remind everybody that the tweet sheet is

682
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

683
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. From Paul. Not really

684
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: very fair. Some teams will have fans while others will

685
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: have none, though I'm not sure how much noise twenty

686
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of fans would affect an offense

687
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: being able to hear it is going to stick in

688
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: the crops some fans, though, when their teams on the

689
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: road and they see fans in the stand like, hey,

690
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: we can't do that, Well, what's up with that? Yeah,

691
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: the gonna rankle some people. Level playing field is gonna

692
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: be tilted, no question about it, and points out how

693
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: much right twenty twenty five, like, how much noise can

694
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: they generate? I get it? And I think a respectable amount.

695
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: You're talking what do we say, almost seventeen thousand fans

696
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. Yes, but they will be together. Yeah,

697
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: they'll be spread out. And he is opening rich the

698
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: Bill Stadium. Bill Stadium here. It'll look vacant with seventeen

699
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: thousand people, they'll look cavernous, but you know they will

700
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: do what even more show up. Bill's fans will show up,

701
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: you know they will, and fans for other teams will

702
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: show up if they get the chance to do it.

703
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: The question is what's it gonna look like, what's it

704
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: gonna feel like? Will it be worth it for them?

705
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: Let mean the end? And I think for a lot

706
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: of people, the novelty of it and being able to

707
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: say I was there in future years will will kind

708
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: of be worn as a badge of honor, no question

709
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: about it. Um. And then there's always the thought of

710
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: liability and what's going to mean and who's gonna take

711
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: that risk? From Jeremy on the tweet sheet, he says,

712
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: I believe it comes down to the fans. If you're

713
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: a high risk, don't go. Every fan that enters the

714
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: stadium can sign a waiver to hold the team not liable,

715
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: keep distancing mitigation in as best as possible, and when

716
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: not eating or drinking, wear a mask. Okay, good luck

717
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: telling every single solitary person that comes to the game

718
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: they have to wear a mask. Some people just won't

719
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: do it, and that you certainly they certainly will. Haven't

720
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: done it in Texas and Florida and California. It's a

721
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: bigger ask, it seems it's yeah, it seems as though

722
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: they're unwilling to do it, and I whatever. Um, But obviously,

723
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: if you're a high risk person, it's silly to even

724
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: consider going, even if you're in a suite, you just

725
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: because you can't. It's okay for you. You can't control

726
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: anybody else. Yeah, and you know, something could happen you

727
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: where you somebody coughs on here or whatever, and somebody's Innebria.

728
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: And we always kind of picture of people, you know,

729
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,240
Speaker 1: being at or worst once in a while at these games,

730
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: it might be a little more hard to get there. Um,

731
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: set up like this with only seventeen thousand fans. And

732
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if you go to a game, if you're

733
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: sitting by yourself socially distance, with nobody else around you,

734
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: and you're a debriated you're a goner man. Come on,

735
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: that's not right. I mean, I know there'd be people

736
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: who do it, but come on, bro, I mean socially

737
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: distanced drinking. That that you're you're you're drunk. That could

738
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: be a new that could be a new friends that

739
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: there are enough teams hosting fans in the stands. I'm sorry,

740
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: that's reduced capacity. That's a new low. Sitting by yourself

741
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: in the stadium. Who are you high five in an right? Like?

742
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: Drinking by yourself? Virtually? What are you? Come on, you

743
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: gotta gotta said you have some soul searching. There's a

744
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: I could just see it, you know, sub stadium, they're

745
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: playing George. They're a good big board. It's like I

746
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: drink alone and find some dude in the stands that's

747
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: like keeled over, half asleep, a drunken stupor. By the

748
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: third I don't know who's crazy on this because it's not,

749
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: because it's not. I'm trying to I'm trying to conjecture

750
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: what it would take for me to do that. It's

751
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: not out of the realm apostles, you know. Let me

752
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: just say, let me just come clean here, let me

753
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: just come clean. I could conjure up some circumstances where yes,

754
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: I would be watching a Bills game in the stadium,

755
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: socially distanced from everybody around me and have yes, Okay,

756
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: maybe I was my first My first reaction to that

757
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: scenario might be a little over there. It's a little

758
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 1: holier than that. I don't want to be that way,

759
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: because yeah, that could be me, all right. From Ralph

760
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. In terms of how will other

761
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: NFL teams react to the Chiefs announcing their hosting fans

762
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: of twenty two percent capacity this season, he says, hoping

763
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: the Bills follow the Chiefs approach, if permitted by law,

764
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: reduced capacity with masks at outdoor events can work, at least,

765
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: Let's give it a try for the fans who are

766
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: willing to responsibly take the risk. That's a very measured

767
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: answer from Ralph. Very much so, I mean that's reasonable. Yes,

768
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: I get it, and it is very reasonable, very logical,

769
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: very straightforward. And now you're counting on everybody else to

770
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 1: be reasonable. And it's a big popula, even at reduced capacity,

771
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: it's a big population that. I mean, Steve, you all

772
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: you have to do, say well, there's always gonna you know,

773
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 1: you hear the statement all the time, it's always gonna

774
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: be a few bad apples, you know that kind of thing. Well,

775
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: that's the whole problem. Well that is the whole problem.

776
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: And you say, well, how big a group do you

777
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: have to have before a bad apple shows up? I

778
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: mean two, it's just about every team you've been on

779
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: in a locker room, yeah, I mean, what are you talking?

780
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: Fifty guys, it's a couple of bad apples in there.

781
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: It just are guys that aren't going to do the

782
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: right thing every time. You know, in a stadium, even

783
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: at reduced capacity, you're gonna have some knuckleheads, you just are.

784
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 1: So if it's a fifty three man roster and you've

785
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: got we'll say, on average, four bad apples in fifty man,

786
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: that's eight per hundred, Yeah, eight percent of seventeen thousand.

787
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: What do we got it's like four hundred and fifty people,

788
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: right or something like that. No, well, seventeen thousand and

789
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: ten percent seventeen hundred, so it's a little bit less

790
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: than that. So, right, you're up near a thousand probably. Okay,

791
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: So that ain't good odds, No, that's not good. Odds

792
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: if if it's if it's society reflects it in you know, right,

793
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,240
Speaker 1: and in some states it probably will be that number.

794
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: In you know, probably states like New York, you know,

795
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: just going around town. I think a lot of people

796
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: are doing the right thing around here. But in some

797
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: of these other areas, you know, particularly in the Sun Belt,

798
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: it's just whoa. I mean, you saw the school chancellor

799
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: for the University of Alabama, you know, first day of classes.

800
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: You got kids waiting in line at the bookstore. I

801
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: mean it's like two hundred and fifty people all waiting

802
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: in line. Nobody's six feet apart, and about three or

803
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: four of them are wearing masks. I'll tell you, like,

804
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,439
Speaker 1: we ain't having football with this. You know, the best

805
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: part about this conversation, it just occurred to me because

806
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: we're talking about COVID so much and fan reaction and

807
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: fan capacities, not get it. The best part about this

808
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: conversation is that I think in the underlying thing about

809
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: it is that we all believe that there's gonna be

810
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: games coming up. Yeah, they're gonna make it. They're gonna

811
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: have these games, and they're gonna be a factor. And

812
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: the factor is going to be how fans can be

813
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: a factor. Well, you think that seeing the games will

814
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: motivate people to do the right thing so they can go.

815
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: And I think from what we've talked, we talked about

816
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: you and I have to take we don't we're not

817
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: getting within one hundred yards of these players, and we're

818
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: working in this building. Were questered off with a wall

819
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: between us. We get and you and I, even though

820
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: we're that close, have protocols just to get on the property.

821
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: It gives me great optimism, and I think most people

822
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: at this point are saying, Okay, they're testing every day.

823
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,399
Speaker 1: This thing's gonna happen. And there was a minute there

824
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: where it didn't look like it was going to Certainly

825
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: the league never let up the gas. They felt like

826
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: they were always going to But I thought that, you know,

827
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 1: for a couple of for a week or two there,

828
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: I was thinking, you know, that's just posturing. I don't

829
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna get this off the ground.

830
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: The league and the union were negotiating looking good. But

831
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: you know what, it's surprisingly surprisingly good. I didn't think

832
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: it was going to be a problem. We'll get into

833
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: this after the break because we do have to take

834
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: a break here, but I didn't think it was going

835
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: to be an issue now. My concerns is once they

836
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: start traveling and now your risk of exposure is greater

837
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: just because of where you got to go to play games.

838
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: You know, no matter what efforts you make, there's other

839
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: variables now that that are out there and could impact

840
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: how effective you are with your own stuff. That's where

841
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: the rubber meets the road here, and we can get

842
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: into that later on in the show. We got to

843
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 1: take a break right now, but when we come back,

844
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: we'll check in with one Trey White who's had a

845
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: sit down and a little chalk talk with one Brian

846
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: Baldinger from NFL Network. We got an excerpt from that

847
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 1: that we want to play as Trey kind of explains

848
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: some of the methods to his success as one of

849
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: the best cover corners in the NFL. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: that after this here on One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Close to wrapping up the first hour of the program,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and as we mentioned,

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Speaker 1: Tredavious White in the off season appeared on the Game

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Speaker 1: Pass film session on NFL Network where a player usually

856
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: sits down with Brian Baldinger and Kurt Warner, one of

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Speaker 1: their other NFL Network personalities, and they kind of go

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Speaker 1: over tape of their own play. And Brian Baldinger, who

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Speaker 1: likes chopping up tape. If you follow him on Twitter,

860
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 1: he always has game reviews when he watches the film

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Speaker 1: and marvels at some of the best performances. You know,

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00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: look at this guy, look at him over there. He

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00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 1: gets all fired up. So he loves Trey White. So

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Speaker 1: he had Trey come in and sit down with him,

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Speaker 1: and they spend a lot of time on the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: game in the film session that they had together, and

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Speaker 1: they asked him about you know, a lot of times

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Speaker 1: you're asked to follow the best receiver on the other

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Speaker 1: team all over the field. They don't just play one side.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're playing that guy where he goes, you're going.

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Speaker 1: They call it traveling. Yeah, traveling. So Trey White will

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Speaker 1: travel with Amari Cooper. He's going to travel with him.

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Speaker 1: Wherever Mark Cooper lines up, he travels with him. So

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Speaker 1: it was an interesting conversation that the two had and

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Speaker 1: will shed some more light on this, but we do

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Speaker 1: have one SoundBite from Trey that we wanted to play

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Speaker 1: for you on covering the best wide receivers on opposing teams. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, just being a competitor and playing this game,

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00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: I want to play it at a high level and

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Speaker 1: I want to be one of the best two players.

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Speaker 1: So that's definitely a challenge that I look forward to,

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Speaker 1: and that keeps me continue to get bet and keeps

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Speaker 1: me motivated to continue to work on my craft and

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Speaker 1: never settle for anything less. And that's all admirable and great.

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Speaker 1: Now the problem he had, at least, I thought he

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00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: was pretty revealing in that five minute interview, because if

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Speaker 1: we flash back to the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving, the

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Speaker 1: Bills are coming off a short week, they just played Denver,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to follow Amari Cooper all over the field.

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Speaker 1: And Trey said, the problem is my guys that I

891
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: usually match up against our ex receivers and they're right

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Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. Amar plays the Z or

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Speaker 1: the flanker spot, and they're usually two or three yards

894
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Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage, so that's more space before

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Speaker 1: the snap for the Z to kind of get through

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Speaker 1: his release, right. I mean, you can explain this better

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Speaker 1: than I can, Steve. But for Trey, that was a

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Speaker 1: big adjustment. And they didn't practice that week because it

899
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Speaker 1: was a short week. They didn't have a real practice.

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Speaker 1: It was all walk through. Yeah, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: revealing things in there. If you think these guys are

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Speaker 1: just great athletes and they kind of line up and say,

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Speaker 1: who's my guy, right, I'm gonna get him, it's it's

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Speaker 1: far from that. Tardavius gets into the ins and outs

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Speaker 1: of Amari Cooper. They talk about the uh, the game,

906
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Speaker 1: the game against the Denver Broncos as well. Yeah, so uh,

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Speaker 1: Turdavius talks about what it means when Amari travels. He's

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Speaker 1: a Z receiver and his you know, he has to

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Speaker 1: be in the backfield technically, so he's off the line

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Speaker 1: of the line, but he's out there in space. So

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Speaker 1: that extra two yards away from Tredavius affects how he

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Speaker 1: can let him release or how effective Amari Cooper is

913
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Speaker 1: at releasing. And they show some plays and his insights

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Speaker 1: as to what he's thinking and how difficult it was

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Speaker 1: to get into the game because they didn't have any

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Speaker 1: reps that week because it was a short week, and

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Speaker 1: the insights he also gave about being a boundary receiver

918
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Speaker 1: is a boundary corner of the field corner. And even

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Speaker 1: though the hash marks are in towards the center of

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Speaker 1: the field and the NFL, the fact that you're on

921
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Speaker 1: the boundary and also to the field, the boundary corner,

922
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit easier. And one of the reasons

923
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Speaker 1: is it's not just the space, which is not that

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Speaker 1: much different from the wide side, it's the bodies. Because

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Speaker 1: there's less field, it fills up quicker. Yeah, and he

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Speaker 1: also said, you can't run a full route tree over there.

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Speaker 1: That's right. You're limited running a lot of isolation routes.

928
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Speaker 1: That's right. You're you're running the stuff that it's a

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Speaker 1: route that you're not getting a guy running past you

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Speaker 1: and taking the defense with him and then you curl

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Speaker 1: up underneath him and that kind of thing. You're out

932
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Speaker 1: there running double moves and you're running posts and flies

933
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Speaker 1: and fades. So the insight that you gain from that

934
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Speaker 1: from Turnavious White, listening to him talk about certain instances

935
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Speaker 1: and plays really gives you an insight as to how

936
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Speaker 1: much thought goes into these guys on a weekly basis.

937
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Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting. He was saying, you know, when I'm

938
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Speaker 1: playing an X receiver and we're right up on the line,

939
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Speaker 1: I can react right away. I'm when I had to

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Speaker 1: go play a Mari on the other side, he really

941
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Speaker 1: had to hold his water there right and just kind

942
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Speaker 1: of be patient, even more patient than he might be

943
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Speaker 1: with some other receivers that he's faced, because Amar is

944
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Speaker 1: very deliberate with his first three steps and how he

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Speaker 1: takes those. You're talking about max like two tenths of

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Speaker 1: a second, and the game moves so fast, and I

947
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Speaker 1: totally remember I can't I can't get my mind around

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Speaker 1: it now because I'm an old guy. But when I

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Speaker 1: was playing, that two tenths of a second seems like

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Speaker 1: an eternity because you see the guy doing stuff, and

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Speaker 1: within that tenth of a second, you've got about three

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Speaker 1: thoughts that cross your mind about what he might do,

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Speaker 1: and you react to one or the one you think

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Speaker 1: is the mess. When you captured, like let that go

955
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Speaker 1: for two tenths of a second, it feels like you're

956
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Speaker 1: the whole game is leaving you behind. It really takes

957
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Speaker 1: a lot of discipline, and it really is that fast.

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Speaker 1: I mean it is, it's a hair's breath of time,

959
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Speaker 1: and it seems like forever when you're talking about the

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Speaker 1: speed and quickness and the explosion these guys have it.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting, a lot of fun to listen to

962
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Speaker 1: Trey Whinner. Really gives you an insight of why the

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Speaker 1: guy's an all pro. So if you get a chance,

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Speaker 1: you should check that out on NFL Network. I think

965
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Speaker 1: it's online too, so just hop online and check it out.

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Speaker 1: It was a fascinating conversation and it's only about five

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Speaker 1: minutes of your time, so it's worth checking out for sure.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta take a break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we will hear from one Cole Beasley, who feels as

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Speaker 1: good as he's felt in quite some time. You remember,

971
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Speaker 1: he had core muscle surgery in the spring prior to

972
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Speaker 1: his first year with the Bills. That didn't have that

973
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Speaker 1: didn't happen this offseason. He's healthy and got a clean

974
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Speaker 1: bill of health, and he's feeling fit as a fiddle.

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Speaker 1: I'm going into training camp this year, so we'll hear

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Speaker 1: from him coming up next here on one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Healo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Update, Your sports update from One

979
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bills resumed training camp practice this morning,

980
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: day two of padded sessions. Gabe Davis was working on

981
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Speaker 1: the side, he did not participate in the practice session.

982
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Speaker 1: Go to Buffalo Bills dot com for all the updates

983
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: on the goings on at practice today. The reigning champions

984
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: will only be welcoming back a fraction of their fan

985
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Speaker 1: base in September due to the ongoing COVID nineteen pandemic.

986
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs of finalized plans for a reduced capacity of

987
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,879
Speaker 1: approximately twenty two percent of their fans to kick off

988
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season. Physical distancing measures will be implemented,

989
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: including in seating areas as well as high traffic areas.

990
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: As expected, masks will be required for all who enter

991
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Speaker 1: Arrowheads Stadium, and the Chiefs will provide a commemorative mask

992
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Speaker 1: for all who attend the first three games. Chiefs open

993
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Speaker 1: up the season on September tenth, when they host the

994
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans in the league's kickoff game. As the NFL

995
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: moves closer to the first game of the twenty twenty season,

996
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: the league is moving closer to know players on the

997
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen reserve list. Currently, the total number league ye

998
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: has dropped to twelve. It's a great sign for the

999
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: league as it relates to the handling of the situation.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if that number changes following the start to

1001
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Speaker 1: padded practice sessions this week. College football, the SEC intends

1002
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Speaker 1: to move forward and play the twenty twenty campaign. On Monday,

1003
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Speaker 1: the league officially released its retooled ten game conference schedule.

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Speaker 1: The SEC will begin play on September twenty sixth, which

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Speaker 1: would normally be a week four of their college season.

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00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup playoffs resumed this afternoon in the NHL. First

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00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 1: game on the slate is at three o'clock when the

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Speaker 1: Liars look to take a three games to one lead

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Speaker 1: over the Canadian Ends, and then it's the Flames and Stars,

1010
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: that series nodded at two games apiece. Tonight, the Caps

1011
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: and Islanders with a win, the Aisles can sweep the

1012
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Speaker 1: Capitols and the Nightcap Blackhawks and the Golden Nights Vegas

1013
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: can eliminate the Hawks with a win as they lead

1014
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: that series three games to one. And that is your

1015
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Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve tasker

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Speaker 1: with you as we begin our number two of the program,

1017
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Speaker 1: and on the zoom calls today with the media after

1018
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Speaker 1: practice was one Cole Beasley, whose comments we want to

1019
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Speaker 1: get to here in just a second. But I think

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Speaker 1: the main thing for Beasley is he's really coming in

1021
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Speaker 1: hitting the ground running here, Steve. We remember last offseason,

1022
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Speaker 1: he gets to town and he's got to have core

1023
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Speaker 1: muscle surgery. He misses all the OTAs, the mini camp

1024
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Speaker 1: and does not have a rep on the field with

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen until you know, the latter ages of training camp.

1026
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Speaker 1: So I think you think about what he's up against

1027
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Speaker 1: last year and the season that he had, which was

1028
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Speaker 1: one of the most productive seasons of his career, you

1029
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Speaker 1: really got to be encouraged about what he's capable of

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Speaker 1: this year. Right, Yeah, it's I remember too. I had

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Speaker 1: a number of off seasons where you get you know,

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Speaker 1: get a knee done or whatever, and you spend your

1033
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Speaker 1: whole time getting back and you're all focused on that

1034
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Speaker 1: knee or that injury or the shoulder or whatever whatever,

1035
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Speaker 1: and you get back to training camp. I think, man,

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Speaker 1: I hope my knee holds up. Let's get going. It starts,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's start practicing. It feels good when you

1038
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Speaker 1: get back out there and you start playing and you

1039
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Speaker 1: can kind of forget about it. The difference between that

1040
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Speaker 1: and then going into an off season healthy and say, man,

1041
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get better, I'm gonna start catching the ball better,

1042
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna run my routes, I can start working on

1043
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Speaker 1: the offense, I can get in watch film. You don't

1044
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Speaker 1: spend any of the time, which is all day every

1045
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Speaker 1: day getting better rehabbing an injury. You spend it getting

1046
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: better at everything else that you need to do is

1047
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Speaker 1: at your position, and it gives you an entire hire

1048
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Speaker 1: different minds, entirely different mindset throughout the off season and

1049
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Speaker 1: you get better. You don't just get healthy again. It's

1050
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: where you can play. You get better at playing when

1051
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Speaker 1: you're healthy in the off season, and that's what every

1052
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Speaker 1: player strives to do. So here is Cole Beasley on

1053
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Speaker 1: his approach with his game entering season nine. Steve isn't

1054
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Speaker 1: that crazy. I can't believe he's played that long. But

1055
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Speaker 1: here is his approach to his game now fully healthy

1056
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Speaker 1: entering year nine in the NFL. You know, I've had

1057
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Speaker 1: a lot of time to grow since I've been in

1058
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Speaker 1: the league, and I said earlier that that stats and

1059
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Speaker 1: numbers aren't for I mean, that doesn't matter to me anymore.

1060
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Speaker 1: I used to. I used to play for those things

1061
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: I want to be, you know, get recognition for being

1062
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: the best slot in the league or whatever it may be.

1063
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: But that's for the people outside of here and the media,

1064
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot of variables that they

1065
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: don't take into account. So you know, I'm sitting here

1066
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: playing for things that that didn't even matter, you know.

1067
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: So I've had time to grow and now it's just

1068
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, doing my part, and you know, given the

1069
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: best I can out there, and I know, you know,

1070
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: one on one, in my mind, nobody's going to really

1071
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: cover me. So you know, as long as I know

1072
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: what I am, that's all that matters to me. I

1073
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: don't need numbers to really prove that. You know, if

1074
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 1: there's two guys outside of me to both have a

1075
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: thousand and each, you know, I'm happy, you know what

1076
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: I mean. So you know, it's really just to do

1077
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: what I can to help the team win and do

1078
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: my part, and I'm gonna be able to get open

1079
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 1: just like those guys wherever the ball goes is where

1080
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: the ball goes. And it's interesting to hear this is

1081
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: not the first receiver on the Bill's roster that has

1082
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: talked about not worrying about spreading the ball around. And

1083
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: you know, that's obviously a credit to the way McDermott

1084
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,439
Speaker 1: runs this thing, and to you know, the way Chad

1085
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: Hall is running the receiver's room, because there's only one

1086
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 1: ball out there on the field. And yeah, you may

1087
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: have oodles of talent at the receiver position, but spreading

1088
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,240
Speaker 1: the ball around is going to be predicated on who's

1089
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: open on any given play and what the quarterback decides

1090
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: is the best thing to do with the football on

1091
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: said play. So it's nice to know that these these receivers,

1092
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: especially these veteran receivers, get that, because you can very

1093
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: easily go around the league and find guys whining and

1094
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: crying about the ball. And I said this when we

1095
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: were talking about Stefan Diggs and the reason he left Minnesota,

1096
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: or one of the reasons he was a little perceived

1097
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: as being discontented in Minnesota, which he has denied, and

1098
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 1: the coaching staff liked him, and Mike Zimmer has said, hey,

1099
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: I'd have him on my team. He was great. He

1100
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: never caused us any problems. Yea, the incidences where you

1101
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: see guys unhappy like Steph Diggs last the whole thing

1102
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: came from a game where they where he was on

1103
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: the sidelines. He was not happy and he threw a

1104
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: little bit of a temper tent through his helmet. Whatever.

1105
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: That comes from a player wanting to contribute and not

1106
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: getting a chance to contribute in a game or his

1107
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: team's not playing well, that's why I can help us win.

1108
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:08,439
Speaker 1: Give me a chance to help. Um, I'm I'm getting open,

1109
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: you're not calling my number, or I'm whatever. The reason is.

1110
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: They want to help. Frustration comes out when they they

1111
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: know they can help and they're not getting a chance

1112
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: to do that and the team's not winning. Now, if

1113
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: they can help and the team wins and they still

1114
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: didn't get the ball or whatever, we're winning, just let's go,

1115
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: just keep going because I know when you need me,

1116
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: I'm here. Let's go, and you get into a tough spot,

1117
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: give me a chance to help. If you're winning, everybody's happy,

1118
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: buying if you're If you're not happy and your team's winning,

1119
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: that's it's you not then it's you, and guys know that.

1120
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: Guys get unhappy when the team's not playing well, you're

1121
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: not winning games, and you're not being asked to contribute

1122
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: or you're not getting a chance to contribute. That's when

1123
00:58:53,680 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: guys get discontented, almost universally. So if this team is

1124
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: as good as we all think it could be and

1125
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: should be and all of that stuff, there's not gonna

1126
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: be much discontent here because they're gonna win the games

1127
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: they should win, and guys are gonna get a chance

1128
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: to contribute. And I gotta believe Cole Beasley feels like

1129
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna see more one on ones than he's ever

1130
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 1: seen in his life this year. Yeah, I mean, oh yeah, certainly,

1131
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: as all these guys have got to feel really good

1132
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 1: about this season. What's gonna happen. They got a quarterback

1133
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: has been in the system for three years and he's

1134
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 1: on an uptick and he's this you know, he's this

1135
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: alpha dog and everybody's like, who let's go Yeah, you

1136
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: know what I mean, He's like this fun guy to

1137
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: play with, he's working hard, and he's got all he's

1138
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: got a big engine under the hood, right, So everybody's

1139
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: you gotta be these guys gonna be let's go man

1140
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: kicking off, and I think that's gonna show a little

1141
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: bit early on. They may come out and you know,

1142
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: just be a little too you know what I mean, Yeah,

1143
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: too much jews, too much, too early. But I don't

1144
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: see that happening with his coaching staff. And speaking of

1145
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: Josh Allen Cole, Beasley was asked about him him and

1146
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: his leadership and how he might be different entering year three.

1147
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: Here's what Beasley had to say about that. It's really

1148
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 1: just the confidence factor. You know, when you see a

1149
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: guy with a lot of confidence in himself, that kind

1150
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: of drifts to everyone else too as well. And it's

1151
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: infectious anytime you have a guy like that, and it

1152
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: spreads throughout the team and everybody's playing confident because the

1153
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: guy who they're looking at to lead us is playing confident.

1154
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: I mean that makes a dangerous team. And he's a

1155
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: guy that's he's unselfish and he's gonna put his body

1156
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: on the line for everybody, so everybody will run through

1157
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: a brick wall for him. And when you got guys

1158
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,439
Speaker 1: that will do that for a guy, you know, great

1159
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: things happen. So I mean that's that's really where it starts,

1160
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: as just his confidence as a young player and finally

1161
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: having a full season in his belt and having success

1162
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: and knowing what he can do in this league and

1163
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: he can do damage, and knowing how good he can be.

1164
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: But he's still he still works his butt off every day.

1165
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: So we just if we just follow suit, we'll be fine.

1166
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: He finally got a full year under his belt last year,

1167
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: so um, you know, he's playing more confident than ever.

1168
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: You know, he's making throws that he wouldn't even have

1169
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: tried to attempt last year. You know, he's starting to

1170
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: throw guys open a little bit. Um, So, you know,

1171
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: just his confidence on the field, his leadership and pushing

1172
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: us to be the best offensive group that we can be. Yeah.

1173
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: So hearing he's throwing guys open now, I mean that

1174
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: was something that didn't exist in Josh Allen's game two

1175
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: years ago. He even last year to a certain extent. Yeah,

1176
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: he's we have seen him. You me, people in the building,

1177
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: close observers with Buffalo bills, they're fans. You watch Josh

1178
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: and you know, listen, let's face it, we we drafted

1179
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: the guy so high and we put pins some hopes

1180
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: on us. We have seen him go from this big,

1181
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: raw rookie athlete who you know, was big hunk of

1182
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: clay right, and he's not that anymore. He's gotten better

1183
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: and better, and even casual fans of football can look

1184
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: at him week to week and say, oh, that's a

1185
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: little different this week, and this is a little different

1186
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: than this, Oh this year. Listen at the beginning of

1187
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: last year, it's like, wow, look he can do that. Yeah,

1188
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: they'll look at this. Yeah, you could see stuff he

1189
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,439
Speaker 1: did one week that he would not do other weeks,

1190
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: and stuff he stopped doing that he was doing turning

1191
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: the ball over short to intermediate passing game was markedly

1192
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: better last year. So we and it continued throughout the

1193
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: year last year, and we feel and we've seen him

1194
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: and heard reports from firsthand knowledge like Cole Beasley and

1195
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer and other guys that he's working hard at it.

1196
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: So we have every reason this Cole Beasley stuff, it

1197
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: sounds genuine to me that he's doing things a little

1198
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: different they did last year. He was better last year,

1199
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 1: and if he takes another step forward, this team's gonna

1200
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: be really good, really good, o our MSG viewing audience.

1201
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: So Beasley, who is rocking a man bun this year. Yeah,

1202
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: he's got interesting. I'm curious interesting. Yeah, I'm curious if

1203
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: he goes that way under the helmet because I got

1204
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: believe there's only so much room under there. Yeah, he

1205
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: can't do that, I can't. But he's got the sides

1206
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: like about. The sides are buzz. The sides are buzz.

1207
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: He's got like this, you know, the CAP's top cap

1208
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: that he can bun. Yeah. So yeah, doing good. He's got.

1209
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: Now it is hanging out. It's hanging out the back. Okay,

1210
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: we're seeing some pictures of control room. People gave us

1211
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: a look at him. Yeah, he's got it hanging out

1212
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: the back. I'm looking at that slowing. There is no

1213
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: way he's cramming that in his helmet. Looks like just

1214
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 1: no way. It looks like my hair in nineteen eighty nine.

1215
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 1: A little better actually than mine looked. So he flops

1216
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: around a lot. Nice. Yeah, mine was was tight. Mine

1217
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: was a mullet though. See I had that kicking back.

1218
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: Oh it was kicking yeah remember it. Well yeah, so

1219
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: not something I'm really proud of, but still uh so.

1220
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: Brian Dable's offense is something that a lot of people

1221
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: are curious about how might it morphin change with weapons

1222
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,919
Speaker 1: being added to it, like Stefon Diggs, like a Zach

1223
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: Moss second year for Dawson Knox and Devin Singletary. How

1224
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: might it more and change going forward? Is it more

1225
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: diversified because there are more options? We know Dabel loves

1226
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: to take advantage of matchups on a week to week basis,

1227
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: and the changes happen week to week. Sometimes he'll change tempo.

1228
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: So here's Cole Beasley on how the evolution of Brian

1229
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:23,439
Speaker 1: Dable's offense has gone up to this point. Now, sure

1230
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: we got we got guys that are great with the

1231
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: balls and ball on their hands, and you know we

1232
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: could be good in the deep passing game as well.

1233
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 1: You know we we have guys that can do a

1234
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: lot of things. That's that's the thing about our offense.

1235
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: We have more versatility this year. So, um, you know

1236
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: we could do I mean, which is what it takes.

1237
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: You know, different games are gonna call for different things.

1238
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: If it's short game, we should be able to do

1239
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: short game. If we got to go a little more

1240
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: vertical sometimes, if you should be able to do that

1241
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: as well. So, um, we just gotta be ready to

1242
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 1: execute with whatever the defense throws at us. So I

1243
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 1: think in the grand scheme of things, Steve Brian Dable

1244
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: love to dictate to a defense every given week, whether

1245
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 1: it's with a change in tempo to put them on

1246
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 1: their heels. They can't sub they're in a bad personnel grouping,

1247
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: whether it's a certain matchup that they feel they have

1248
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: the upper hand, and then they increase tempo to keep

1249
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 1: that matchup on the field, to keep pounding it all

1250
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: the way down the field. But there are going to

1251
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: inevitably be games where a defense throws them a curveball

1252
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: that they're just flat out not expecting. And I still

1253
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: remember the first interview I had with Brian Dable when

1254
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: he got hired, and we did it down at the

1255
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl in Mobile because he just came on the staff,

1256
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: and I talked to him about halftime adjustments, which was

1257
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: something that was sorely absent with previous coordinators here in Buffalo,

1258
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 1: and he said, adjustments don't just happen at halftime. He goes,

1259
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:57,560
Speaker 1: they happen throughout the game. So I feel confident that

1260
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: with all of the weapons that Dabele now has at

1261
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: his disposal that even in those instances where maybe some

1262
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: top notch defense that they're facing throws them a screwball

1263
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 1: on the first series and a curveball on the second series,

1264
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: that he will say, Okay, they want to try this,

1265
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: here's our answer because we have that guy, that guy

1266
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 1: and that guy and they can win. Yeah, and it

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Speaker 1: may be, and it's even better than if it's a

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Speaker 1: matchup based offensively, which you know ostensibly it is. With

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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs added to the mix, Josh Allen will quickly

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Speaker 1: learn that no matter what that defense throws out, he's

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01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: got a match up somewhere that he thinks he can win.

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01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: John Brown can beat their third corner if or if

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01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: they double team John Brown and they take and they

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01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 1: take a safety over the top of Steph Diggs. Cole

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01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: Beasley's gonna win. Somebody's gotta get or on that giant

1276
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: or Devin Singletary, some matchup is gonna go the Bill's

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01:06:57,200 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: way on that roster every single play. And I have

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01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 1: to believe too, Steve, that with this wide receiving corps,

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01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary and Zach Moss are not going to see

1280
01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: eight in the box all that much. Am I right

1281
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: about that. You can't drop that safety down. That's true,

1282
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 1: and it gives and it opens up a ton of stuff.

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01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: When you've got the ability to put get an eighth

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01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 1: guy out of the box when he dropped the second

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01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: safety back in, you got four deep. You know, you're

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01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: playing cover two. You're playing Cover two where you got

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01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 1: two safeties down the hashes. Outside the hashes, the running

1288
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: game will open up a little bit and you'll start

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01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: getting four point nine yards per carry to the four

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01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: point one yards per carry. But it adds up over

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01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: the course of a game. It's an enormous difference. It's

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01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,240
Speaker 1: a first down on second down rather than a third

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01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: down after first down. You know, So all of that

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01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: stuff makes a difference over the course of the game.

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01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: But the problem is the thing about it is this,

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01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 1: it becomes a numbers game, and then it all becomes

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01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: about if you can hand the ball off, then all

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01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 1: of a sudden, your play action pass game becomes really key.

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01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 1: And we know how good Josh was in play action.

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01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably one of his forts as a

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Speaker 1: quarterback right now. I mean, forget about all this stuff.

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01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: He's trying to get better at. Right He's good at

1303
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: play action right now. And then with this offense, with

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01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: the change in offensive line, all of a sudden, you've

1305
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: got and the team says, all right, we're gonna see

1306
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: if we can put some pressure on him. All of

1307
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 1: a sudden. Now you've got offensive linemen that can run

1308
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:22,760
Speaker 1: because of the addition of Brian Winters, and you got

1309
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: Cody Ford to tackle. You got Mitch Morse down inside,

1310
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: who they got to choose, who they're going to cover

1311
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 1: up and not allowed to pull. You've got three guys

1312
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 1: that can pull. All of a sudden, Now your screen

1313
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:34,679
Speaker 1: game opens up, which is something the Bills just didn't

1314
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: do last year. So it is a steamroller. You know,

1315
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:42,879
Speaker 1: you've got matchups you can win. You've got a quarterback

1316
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: with an arm that can deliver it. He's starting to

1317
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: throw guys open. He's got more options, and he starts

1318
01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 1: to learn that where those options are faster. It's it's

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01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 1: just a big step that this offense needs to take

1320
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: and and all it amounts to they just need one

1321
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: more touchdown a game. Yeah, one more touchdown a game.

1322
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,560
Speaker 1: And this is a team that's really rough. And I

1323
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: know that just about every offensive player on the roster

1324
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: has been asked about Stefan Diggs and their initial impressions. Well,

1325
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,560
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley was no exception. So here he is with

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01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: his initial impressions on Stefan Diggs after seeing him on

1327
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 1: the practice field for the last few days. And then

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01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,720
Speaker 1: Diggs obviously the big piece. You know, he's had a

1329
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 1: lot of success in the NFL. He's been a stud

1330
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 1: for for a few years. So anytime you add a

1331
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: talent like that to your team, you know it's only

1332
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 1: gonna make the offensive better and make guys around him

1333
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 1: better as well, because they're gonna have to pay attention

1334
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: to him a little bit, a little bit, there's an understatement,

1335
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:42,880
Speaker 1: if ever there was one. A little bit. People's eyes

1336
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: are gonna be like saucers matched up against him. Yeah,

1337
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,799
Speaker 1: he's he gets separation, he's got great hands, got great speed,

1338
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 1: great route runner. And then you've got Cole Beasley's a

1339
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 1: tough slot guy and John Brown cannot run just about

1340
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,600
Speaker 1: anybody on the field, and who is very good at

1341
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: getting separation deep we saw last year and all the

1342
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:04,560
Speaker 1: multitude of just misses that the Bills had in the

1343
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: deep passing game. Yeah, yeah, if your offensive line, he's

1344
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 1: a tough cover if he is, I don't care who

1345
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:15,679
Speaker 1: you are. If your offensive line holds up Josh Allen will,

1346
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 1: we'll have some much better results in the passing game

1347
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 1: this year, much better results. So that is Cole Beasley

1348
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: in a nutshell today. Those are the highlights of his

1349
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 1: comments as he was made available to the media via

1350
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 1: zoom call after practice. It's usually about two players a day,

1351
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: and that other player is one Christian Wade, who will

1352
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 1: get to after we take a break. So you know,

1353
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 1: you look at Christian and it's an uphill battle this year.

1354
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think there's any question about it.

1355
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: It was an uphill battle for him last year just

1356
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: by virtue of the fact that he's trying to master

1357
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,720
Speaker 1: the nuances of football and as hard as he has

1358
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: worked on those, because I talked to him early this officely,

1359
01:10:57,960 --> 01:10:59,720
Speaker 1: I want to say, back in May, I had him

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01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 1: on his room call and I was asking him. I said,

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01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: you know, the things that you want to master are

1362
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 1: things like blitz pickup. You know you never see that

1363
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: in rugby, you know what I mean. So he's got

1364
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: to master that kind of thing. You know, his reads.

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01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: Where's my pickup? Man? Like? Who do I have on

1366
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: this blitz call that's coming at us. And there are

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01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 1: other nuances too that go outside the realm of just

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01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 1: carrying the ball for a running back position. And I said,

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01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: we're in COVID here. You can't get on a field

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01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 1: with twenty one other guys to execute that. How are

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01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:40,560
Speaker 1: you making yourself better on blitz pickup when you know

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01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: that's something you got to work on and you can't

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01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 1: go near anybody. And he said, I'm just pounding film

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01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: right now. I'm really just diving in to the film

1375
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: to try to get a feel for it mentally and

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01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: then just hope it sticks. So when I go out

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01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: there and we do get to training camp and we

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01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: do practice it, I look like I know what I'm doing. Yeah,

1379
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,800
Speaker 1: And that's a feel thing. It's a want to thing

1380
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 1: also because you gotta stick your head in there and

1381
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: stop a linebacker coming eight hundred miles an hour, but

1382
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 1: you also gotta know what you're doing. And he said,

1383
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: I just gotta know what I'm doing and then technique

1384
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:17,720
Speaker 1: from there and I'm good. So I just wonder if

1385
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 1: there are different dynamics for him now that he's been

1386
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 1: a year into football. So we'll hear from him on

1387
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: the other side of the break. We will step aside

1388
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 1: here and come right back. So Christian Wade on the

1389
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:31,240
Speaker 1: other side, and more your comments on the tweet sheet.

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01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: As we are talking about the chief's decision to go

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,640
Speaker 1: twenty two percent capacity at Arrowhead Stadium, how might the

1392
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:41,760
Speaker 1: other teams in the league react to that? We want

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01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,639
Speaker 1: your answers, We want your comments, so fire them off

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01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:47,040
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at One Bills Live. Back in

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Speaker 1: a second here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid

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01:12:49,720 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 1: to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back on one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you official injury report out

1398
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: from today's practice. Missing practice as we mentioned one Gabe

1399
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:14,600
Speaker 1: Davis he's got a leg contusion. Robert Foster in the

1400
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: concussion protocol, Pat DeMarco has some next sore nows, and

1401
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver's still out with the hip who missed yesterday's

1402
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: session as well. And the good news is Levi Wallace

1403
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,160
Speaker 1: and Tie and Secky returned to practice. So good news

1404
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 1: for those guys getting back into the flow of things.

1405
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 1: So we're talking about Christian Wade and you know the

1406
01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: battle that he's got on his hands to make this roster,

1407
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: you know, which didn't get any easier with the addition

1408
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: of Zack Moss in the third round of the draft

1409
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 1: this year. So you know, we look at it and

1410
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,760
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, Steve, I mean, the risk that

1411
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 1: this guy took to leave professional rugby to try to

1412
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: take a crack at NFL football is admirable, even though

1413
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: it is risky. And you know, he's he's entering his

1414
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: second season now with the Bills. He was a roster

1415
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: exempt practice squad player in twenty nineteen for the whole season.

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01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: You know, kind of learned the ropes, so to speak,

1417
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: of the NFL game and the routine week to week

1418
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: getting ready for games and whatnot. A lot of scout

1419
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: team reps. And you know, here he is again trying

1420
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: to make this roster via the International Pathway program. So

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01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:33,400
Speaker 1: this is Wade commenting on how he thinks his game

1422
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 1: has developed heading into year two in the NFL. Yeah,

1423
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: I feel as though I have the potential to make

1424
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: the team. Obviously that I wouldn't been playing a game

1425
01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 1: a year, so that's still things that I need to

1426
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: learn and some reaction and stuff. I would say that

1427
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,960
Speaker 1: I need to improve one but in terms of my

1428
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:58,679
Speaker 1: base knowledge now compared to last year when my base

1429
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: knowledge would have been down here and my skill up here.

1430
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: Now it's actually starting to rise up. So I have

1431
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: a good base knowledge now and I can definitely work

1432
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: from not going forward, but I believe I have the

1433
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: potential to eight team, just like everybody else. So you

1434
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: would hope at least there was like what he's saying,

1435
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:22,839
Speaker 1: he's he's doing more playing, just playing than thinking and reacting,

1436
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 1: and that allows you to play faster, and hopefully that's

1437
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: the case for him. Yeah, and certainly he's he made

1438
01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 1: the decision to come to America, not out in not

1439
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: out of blind hope. There are people out there looking

1440
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:39,840
Speaker 1: at these guys on other in other sports and another

1441
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: continents in Europe and what have you. In Australian rugby

1442
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: and Australian football, the whole line yards, and they look

1443
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: for these athletes. And obviously Christian Wade has some traits

1444
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:52,799
Speaker 1: you're looking for in an NFL running back. Size, strength, power, explosion,

1445
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: athletic ability, can catch the ball, has good ball skills,

1446
01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. The rest is just comfort level

1447
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 1: and what your assignments are. And certainly the one thing

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01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: he would be asked to do as a running back.

1449
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: Is the thing you talked about just before he went

1450
01:16:05,439 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: to break stepping into a guy in blocking him. It's

1451
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 1: not something that happens in rugby. It's in a totally

1452
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: new mindset for a player. So once he can get

1453
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,679
Speaker 1: that his mind around that, the rest is just comfort level.

1454
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: Certainly he can learn the verbige. He's had an entire

1455
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 1: year to do that, which is great. And the next

1456
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 1: is the instinctual stuff, a lot of it. When the

1457
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 1: ball is in his hands, he's out everything he needs

1458
01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: to have the rest of it getting the ball, taking

1459
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:35,639
Speaker 1: the right steps, lining up correctly, is all learned knowledge,

1460
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: and that's what he's been working on for years. So

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01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, he's light years ahead of where

1462
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,600
Speaker 1: he was a year ago coming into this season. And

1463
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:45,720
Speaker 1: we mentioned the risk that he did take a very

1464
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: successful career in rugby. He scrapped that at age twenty

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01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:52,640
Speaker 1: eight to try to make a run at making a

1466
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 1: career for himself in the National Football League. So he

1467
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 1: was asked again today if he has any regrets about

1468
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Speaker 1: leaving what was a very successful rugby career behind. Now,

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Speaker 1: there's no regrets whatsoever on my side, just because when

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Speaker 1: I make a decision, I already thought out, thought it

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Speaker 1: out in my mind. I'm not not really someone to

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01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: like make spur at the moment decisions as such, although

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01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:20,519
Speaker 1: I am very spontaneous, so it's kind of like you know,

1474
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, when it's like big decisions, if I've made

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Speaker 1: a decision, it's something that I've thought about and kind

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01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 1: of already processed in my mind. So yeah, there's definitely

1477
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 1: no regrets. The whole reason for me coming over here

1478
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 1: was just an opportunity that presented itself. I wanted to

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01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:41,960
Speaker 1: test myself against the best athletes in the world and

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: also just put myself in a situation where I was

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01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:47,760
Speaker 1: uncomfortable or I knew I was going to be uncomfortable.

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01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:49,600
Speaker 1: It was obviously going to make me grow as a

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01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: man and as an athlete as well. And wherever it

1484
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 1: comes with that, I guess it's what's what's meant to be.

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01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 1: And I'll be able to, you know, at that as

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01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 1: I am now starting to get towards the end of

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01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: my career be able to give back, which has always

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01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: always been my thing anyway. So yeah, I'm very blessed

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01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 1: to be here, and um, I'm reddish in every opportunity

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01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 1: that I get. It's clear to me that that's a

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01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 1: guy that at the end of his life doesn't want

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01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: to be asking I wonder if I could have played

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01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's why he's doing this. Yeah, and

1494
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 1: he knew too. It's interesting that he put it in

1495
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:30,600
Speaker 1: these words because it's pretty profound because I knew I

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01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:32,640
Speaker 1: would be uncomfortable. I knew it would be in a

1497
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: spot where I was going through some discomfort, but I

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01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,360
Speaker 1: knew that that discomfort would make me grow as a man.

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01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 1: That's that's pretty deep wisdom right there. And that's why

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01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:46,760
Speaker 1: he's stuck it out for a year. And that's why

1501
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta he's a guy each cheer four.

1502
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:51,360
Speaker 1: I mean, goodness, gracious, we got people over you know,

1503
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:54,559
Speaker 1: for a year have been hollering for him to get

1504
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: on the field and play. And you know, quite frankly,

1505
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: he's hard to root against, right, I mean, if there's

1506
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 1: a guy you could, you know, you can't wave a

1507
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: magic wand and give him an extra spot on the

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01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 1: fifty three and have fifty four guys. He's got to

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01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 1: earn it. And as you can tell from his comments there,

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01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 1: he would have it no other way. You know, he

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01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be here because of an exemption. He

1512
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,320
Speaker 1: wants to earn a spot and against the best athletes

1513
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 1: in the world. What a great interview that was, and

1514
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 1: to hear his perspective on I don't have any regrets.

1515
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: This is something new I thought out before I made this,

1516
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 1: and I knew it was going to be uncomfortable. But

1517
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: I've got a realistic chance of making the roster. I'm

1518
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 1: gonna give it a shot. It's really really refreshing to

1519
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: hear a guy talk like that about himself and his career.

1520
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. And you know, if you just put

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01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:42,439
Speaker 1: yourself in his shoes for a second, think about how

1522
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:44,639
Speaker 1: long you would have thought about it. You know, I'm

1523
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: a successful rugby player, I'm making a decent living, and

1524
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:52,759
Speaker 1: you know I'm a popular player in this league in Europe.

1525
01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: But I've I've done a lot, you know, and probably

1526
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: accomplished just about everything I want to accomplish it rugby.

1527
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 1: Do I really want to take this on? Even though

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01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 1: I've never played this game, never been on a field

1529
01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: in a helmet and pads. I know it's gonna be hard.

1530
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: I got to go across the Atlantic ocean to try

1531
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 1: to undertake this thing and make it happen. And then

1532
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 1: I got to hope I get enough of an opportunity

1533
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: to prove that I can help a team. I mean,

1534
01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:22,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ifs there that you're dependent on

1535
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: to come through for you. And he still said, yeah,

1536
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna foreign country. That's it's

1537
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 1: pretty amazing, and you know, you root for the guy

1538
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 1: to make it. He's certainly shown flashes of the ability

1539
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: that made him a great rugby player, and you hope

1540
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: he gets a chance to do it for the Bills.

1541
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: And it's interesting too because you're right, there is a

1542
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:45,400
Speaker 1: lot that he's got to learn, but he also has

1543
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:48,760
Speaker 1: to learn to contribute. I wonder if he's got abilities.

1544
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 1: I would think he absolutely has to as a kick

1545
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 1: returner or a special teams player, some way to get

1546
01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 1: on the fifty three and make himself available on game

1547
01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:02,479
Speaker 1: day to help if he's not playing running back. Don't

1548
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:05,519
Speaker 1: know how likely that is or how far away that is,

1549
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: but certainly it should be on the table for him.

1550
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:10,719
Speaker 1: It would really enhance his opportunities to make the club.

1551
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's been taught had that conversation with Sean McDermott,

1552
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: Beth Farewell and the group. There are instincts in football

1553
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:22,679
Speaker 1: that you just develop having played the game your whole life,

1554
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:28,400
Speaker 1: and that's what he has to somehow find a way

1555
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: to capture in some way, shape or form so he

1556
01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 1: can react at the same speed and is not a

1557
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: half step late on something because he just hasn't seen

1558
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:40,560
Speaker 1: it enough times to know this is where I gotta be,

1559
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:43,280
Speaker 1: or this isn't step I have to take, you know,

1560
01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: or this is how I read my blocking assignment. Those

1561
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 1: are things that he's seen maybe dozens of times, maybe

1562
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: a few hundred times. A lot of these guys that

1563
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 1: he's lining up with have seen at tens of thousands

1564
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 1: of times, maybe hundreds of thousands of times. Right, it's different.

1565
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this though. If you're if you're a

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01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: coaching staff like McDermott and Leslie Frasier, Brian Dable and

1567
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:13,040
Speaker 1: Heath Farewell, you're looking for things that he can do

1568
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 1: and you want to get to and this is what

1569
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 1: training camp is all about, and this is what you know.

1570
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: Some teams it takes him a while to find out

1571
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:22,640
Speaker 1: who they are, who they've got, what can they do

1572
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 1: as an offense, what do their guys do really well?

1573
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:27,719
Speaker 1: And they probably are finding that out about Christian Wade

1574
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: and they say, Okay, what's he doing really well? Well?

1575
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: He's got great ball skills in the kicking game. He

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01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:35,040
Speaker 1: can catch the ball out of the backfield, he runs

1577
01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: with it once he gets it in his hands. He

1578
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:41,600
Speaker 1: struggles with what he struggles with blocking and all the

1579
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 1: offensive stuff about the physicality of you taken on somebody

1580
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: without the ball in your hand. And he struggles with

1581
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 1: the number game where you got a seven man front

1582
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: or an eight man front and a guy comes from

1583
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 1: the secondary, which one is yours? Right, all of that

1584
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: stuff about x's and os. He's not instinctual and he

1585
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:01,560
Speaker 1: hasn't had much exposure to it. That's what he struggles with.

1586
01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: So can you is there a place on the roster,

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01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: particularly a loaded roster like this, for a guy with

1588
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: his specific skill sets where you can use them and

1589
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:15,559
Speaker 1: maximize him and minimize his exposure to what he doesn't

1590
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 1: do well until he gets proficient at it. Last year

1591
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case. They couldn't find a spot for him.

1592
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: They had too many guys that they needed to do

1593
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: other things. Maybe that gap has changed this year and

1594
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:27,880
Speaker 1: there's a spot for him where he can contribute with

1595
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: his skill set. It will be interesting to watch. It's

1596
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 1: harder without preseason games for us to kind of get

1597
01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:37,839
Speaker 1: a handle on that because his reps are still limited

1598
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:42,479
Speaker 1: to say the least, because let's be honest here, they

1599
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:44,720
Speaker 1: have to get Devin Singletary ready for a Week one

1600
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 1: and they have to get Zach Moss up to speed

1601
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 1: with reps being the rookie, so reps are going to

1602
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 1: be probably hard to come by for the time being.

1603
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 1: Christian Wayne for the time being, I would imagine t J.

1604
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 1: Yelden's ahead of him in the depth chart right because

1605
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:02,880
Speaker 1: of his experience with the team, and he was on

1606
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 1: the roster last year, and yeah, you know that's not

1607
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 1: going to change in the off season. So they they're still,

1608
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:11,719
Speaker 1: you know, only so many reps to go around. There's

1609
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: no they're not going to get a chance to see

1610
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: him take a handoff in Carolina or against the Colts

1611
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:19,280
Speaker 1: and go the distance and snap off a sixty five

1612
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: yard or again, you're not going to get to see

1613
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 1: him snap off another long run because there's no games,

1614
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:28,439
Speaker 1: So the reps are different. The opportunity tunities are different,

1615
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,599
Speaker 1: but they're still real and I think that I think

1616
01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: it is factual to say he is in the mix.

1617
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,080
Speaker 1: You know this early in camp, no question. All right,

1618
01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:40,000
Speaker 1: We've have to take a break, But when we come back,

1619
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 1: we'll get back to the Twitter poll. As the Chiefs

1620
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:44,880
Speaker 1: will be hosting twenty two percent capacity in terms of

1621
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:49,679
Speaker 1: fans at Arrowhead this season, how might other NFL clubs react?

1622
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: Your choices are there at One Bills Live on Twitter,

1623
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 1: chime in, let us know how you feel and hit

1624
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:57,839
Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet. We'll take an updated

1625
01:24:57,880 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 1: look at that when we return here on One Bills Live,

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01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 1: presented by Collat of Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 1: Back on One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

1628
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 1: and we're talking about what the Chiefs have announced, and

1629
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: they're going to be holding twenty two percent capacity for

1630
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:30,200
Speaker 1: fans for the regular season in twenty twenty, and we're

1631
01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 1: asking how you think other NFL teams will react. We

1632
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:35,760
Speaker 1: should mention that a lot of teams have put information

1633
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 1: out there already about where things stand for them as

1634
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,680
Speaker 1: they currently exist. Obviously, a lot of these situations are

1635
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 1: fluid and subject to change, but Atlanta is saying they'll

1636
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: probably have ten to twenty thousand fans in their stadium

1637
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:54,240
Speaker 1: for regular season games. Baltimore is saying we'll have reduced

1638
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 1: seating if permitted. That leaves it pretty open ended as

1639
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,320
Speaker 1: we know here for buff Below the New York state

1640
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:05,560
Speaker 1: mandate currently is saying no, you know, but it'd be

1641
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: nice if they if that could change, and you know,

1642
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 1: Bill's fans could get to games even in a reduced

1643
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: capacity situation. And Chicago yesterday said no fans unless deemed appropriate.

1644
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:21,679
Speaker 1: Cincinnati said greatly reduced capacity if allowed. Green Bay said

1645
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:25,120
Speaker 1: no fans for the first two home games, which will

1646
01:26:25,160 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: be crazy when you think about it, because you have

1647
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:30,680
Speaker 1: people in Green Bay that will there's waiting spot in

1648
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 1: line for season tickets for there to their descendants because

1649
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:38,679
Speaker 1: there's so long a wait in line for that. Houston

1650
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: saying fourteen thousand fans, but they must wear a mask,

1651
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:44,080
Speaker 1: but there will be no fans for the home opener.

1652
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:48,880
Speaker 1: Indianapolis says two half season plans. They're offering two half

1653
01:26:48,920 --> 01:26:51,719
Speaker 1: season ticket plans knowing they're gonna have a reduced number

1654
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 1: of people, but they're saying no more than twenty five

1655
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: percent capacity, Jacksonville twenty five percent, Kansas City twenty two percent,

1656
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:01,639
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. No fans of all this season, New England

1657
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,960
Speaker 1: twenty percent, New Orleans no fans for the home opener,

1658
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: Giants and Jets. They're at the mercy of the governor's

1659
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: mandate down there. No fans, Washington, no fans, Tennessee, no

1660
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:16,160
Speaker 1: fans to start the season. Those are the teams that

1661
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 1: have put policies out there, at least as they currently exist.

1662
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:22,960
Speaker 1: So there's that leaves a lot of other teams to

1663
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:28,000
Speaker 1: still make decisions. So Tiffany says, honestly, as a season

1664
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:31,679
Speaker 1: ticket holder, I would appreciate the opportunity to sensibly attend

1665
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,160
Speaker 1: games established set arrival times, to socially distanced as you

1666
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:37,960
Speaker 1: enter the stadium, masked up to protect yourself and others.

1667
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 1: I hope the state allows the Bills to allow fan

1668
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:43,640
Speaker 1: attendance at some point, And you have to believe that

1669
01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:46,519
Speaker 1: the Bills want that too. I mean, they love the

1670
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:49,639
Speaker 1: home day atmosphere that the fans provide, and I think

1671
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: we heard Sean McDermott earlier in the show. We even

1672
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:54,680
Speaker 1: say it's an advantage for them no matter how many

1673
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:56,960
Speaker 1: you got somebody's making noise. It makes a difference. I

1674
01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 1: gotta think too. I don't know who does it. I don't.

1675
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,720
Speaker 1: I don't think Terry Pagoula does. Somebody that bill has

1676
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:04,640
Speaker 1: got to be on the phone with the governor's office saying, bro,

1677
01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 1: let's make this happen. Because what's it gonna take? Infection

1678
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:10,920
Speaker 1: rates at one and a half percent county or whatever it?

1679
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:12,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you got you gotta cut us some slack

1680
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 1: up here in numbers are good? What's it gonna take?

1681
01:28:15,479 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 1: Or what are you looking for from our region? What

1682
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: can we do to you know, to expedite some fans

1683
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 1: in our stands? Uh is to mitigate the losses, if

1684
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:27,360
Speaker 1: for nothing else, right, So you got to think that

1685
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Speaker 1: the bills are on that program. How effective it will

1686
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 1: be it remains to be seen, certainly, you know the

1687
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 1: govern It all comes down to being able to change

1688
01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 1: one guy's mind. Yeah, and if you can, you can.

1689
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 1: From Dinah, While it's not necessarily what I want, I

1690
01:28:47,200 --> 01:28:49,280
Speaker 1: think the NFL clubs will try to get fans in

1691
01:28:49,360 --> 01:28:53,559
Speaker 1: the seats as well. Personally, I will be watching from home.

1692
01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: And Steve already mentioned this once that there is a

1693
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 1: great number of football all fans that just prefer the

1694
01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 1: couch to the game experience. I mean, and there are

1695
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: others on the other side of the fence too. Well, well,

1696
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 1: let's face it, the NFL isn't this eight hundred pound

1697
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 1: guerrilla because it's bad anywhere. If you're in the stadium,

1698
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:18,479
Speaker 1: it's awesome. I mean, how many, you know, seventy thousand

1699
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 1: people a week will tell you it's the best thing

1700
01:29:20,439 --> 01:29:22,479
Speaker 1: to do. And then everybody else, like you know what

1701
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 1: NFL at home on it, it's a you know, it's

1702
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:28,600
Speaker 1: both places are great. The key thing to me is,

1703
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:30,600
Speaker 1: and like I said this earlier in the show, is

1704
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:33,280
Speaker 1: that we actually now today you and I both think

1705
01:29:33,320 --> 01:29:36,040
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. They're gonna get at least opening weekend,

1706
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:38,479
Speaker 1: first couple of games. They're gonna make it go yeah

1707
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:41,559
Speaker 1: and it and depending on how that goes, we may

1708
01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 1: be optimistic about seeing the rest of the season. I mean,

1709
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:46,960
Speaker 1: I it. It's starting to hit home with a lot

1710
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: of people that they got twelve guys on the COVID

1711
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:59,120
Speaker 1: list now twelve across the entire entire league. That's it's amazing. Yeah,

1712
01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:02,080
Speaker 1: they're not bubbled up up, but they are really good.

1713
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:04,720
Speaker 1: They are sequestered sort of, but they're not bubbled up,

1714
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:09,559
Speaker 1: so they're doing pretty well at this um pretty pretty

1715
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:11,880
Speaker 1: high level of optimism when these teams are coming out

1716
01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:14,360
Speaker 1: and there's no coincidence. So these teams are coming out saying,

1717
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:18,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this. We gotta get a policy in place.

1718
01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:20,560
Speaker 1: We better announce this and start getting this set so

1719
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:22,840
Speaker 1: people can get their minds around scheduling trips and with

1720
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:24,400
Speaker 1: how many tickets we can sell, how are we going

1721
01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 1: to sell them? Because you can't just say, okay, season

1722
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:29,559
Speaker 1: ticket holders, you get it, well the bills they've got

1723
01:30:29,640 --> 01:30:32,360
Speaker 1: fifty thousand season ticket holders in a seventy They're putting

1724
01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:34,759
Speaker 1: plans in place in the event that the state mandate

1725
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:37,840
Speaker 1: changes or gets reversed. So that's what you gotta do.

1726
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:41,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've you have to have like like what

1727
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 1: two six, seven plans for what maybe? Right maybe? And

1728
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:50,799
Speaker 1: you went down the list of stuff they've got to do, signage, parking,

1729
01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 1: food and drinks, egress, egress ingress, bathrooms, put in beverage,

1730
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:04,760
Speaker 1: parking response. The list is unbelievably long, and they gotta

1731
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:08,479
Speaker 1: do all of that. So we're changing, no doubt, they're

1732
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 1: working on at night. It's in an ever changing landscape.

1733
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 1: They got to do that, so it's monumental. But now

1734
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 1: with this Chief's announcement, it's obvious around the league that

1735
01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 1: everybody's litt got all fire lit under him. After the

1736
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:21,920
Speaker 1: first couple of days of training camp, they're like going,

1737
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 1: I think the league's looking at itself, going, wow, this

1738
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: is going pretty good. We're gonna start It's I read

1739
01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 1: an article today somebody's like nobody's saying anything because they

1740
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:33,960
Speaker 1: don't want to jinx it. Yeah, that's how good it's

1741
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:37,479
Speaker 1: going right now. Now, yeah, next you know, you and

1742
01:31:37,560 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 1: I will be outsick, probably, but everybody will be sitting

1743
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: right the whole roof's gonna cave in on us, right.

1744
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 1: But no, right now, it's like, let's go. They're starting

1745
01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:46,120
Speaker 1: to shift gears. You're starting to get announcements like this

1746
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:50,479
Speaker 1: chiefs one, like whoa, whoa, here we go, folks, Buckle up,

1747
01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:53,680
Speaker 1: because this is what's gonna look like hopefully. Yeah, all right,

1748
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:55,479
Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but when we return,

1749
01:31:56,280 --> 01:32:00,280
Speaker 1: we'll hit it from one. CBS Sports NFL reporter Pete

1750
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:02,920
Speaker 1: Prisco has been on the show before. He's been high

1751
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:05,200
Speaker 1: on the Bills all offseason long. We'll check in with

1752
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:09,479
Speaker 1: him and see if anything's changed. That and more coming

1753
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:12,200
Speaker 1: up next One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This

1754
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio, Balo Bills Radio Network story sup

1755
01:32:26,240 --> 01:32:29,120
Speaker 1: date your sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills

1756
01:32:29,160 --> 01:32:32,479
Speaker 1: resume their training camp practice this morning. Day two of

1757
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:35,880
Speaker 1: padded sessions gave Davis among those on the side and

1758
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:39,519
Speaker 1: not participating in practice due to a leg contusion. Also

1759
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:43,240
Speaker 1: not participating here on Tuesday. Pat DeMarco with some next

1760
01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:46,680
Speaker 1: sore neist Robert Foster who's in the concussion protocol and

1761
01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:50,519
Speaker 1: d Oliver's still out with the hip injury. Isaiah Hodgens

1762
01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:54,160
Speaker 1: and Vashon Joseph still in red non contact jerseys back

1763
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:58,280
Speaker 1: at practice, though we're Levi Wallace and Tie. In Secy,

1764
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:02,160
Speaker 1: the reigning Super Old Champions will only be welcoming back

1765
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:04,160
Speaker 1: a fraction of their fan base to the stadium in

1766
01:33:04,240 --> 01:33:07,719
Speaker 1: September due to the ongoing COVID nineteen pandemic. The Kansas

1767
01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:11,760
Speaker 1: City Chiefs have finalized plans for a reduced capacity of

1768
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:15,679
Speaker 1: approximately twenty two percent to kick off the twenty twenty

1769
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:19,400
Speaker 1: season at Arrowheads Stadium. Physical distancing measures will be implemented,

1770
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 1: including seating areas as well as high traffic areas. Masks

1771
01:33:23,360 --> 01:33:26,439
Speaker 1: required for all who enter Arrowhead, and the Chiefs will

1772
01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:28,720
Speaker 1: provide a commemorative mask for all who attend the first

1773
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 1: three games. The Chiefs have the kickoff game on September tenth,

1774
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:36,400
Speaker 1: when they host the Houston Texans. As the NFL moves

1775
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:38,639
Speaker 1: closer to the first game of the twenty twenty season,

1776
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:42,040
Speaker 1: the league is moving closer to no players on the

1777
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:46,639
Speaker 1: COVID reserve list. Currently, the total number league ye has

1778
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 1: dropped to twelve. It's a great sign for the league

1779
01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:51,360
Speaker 1: as it relates to the handling of the situation. We'll

1780
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 1: see if that number changes as padded practices continue. College football,

1781
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:59,719
Speaker 1: the SEC intends to move forward and play the twenty

1782
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 1: twenty season. On Monday, the league officially released it's retooled

1783
01:34:03,320 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 1: ten game conference schedule. The SEC will begin on September

1784
01:34:07,920 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 1: twenty six, which is normally Week four of their season

1785
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:15,599
Speaker 1: and in the NBA Day two of playoff action. There

1786
01:34:15,640 --> 01:34:17,880
Speaker 1: they begin with another matinee game as the Magic and

1787
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:20,839
Speaker 1: Bucks begin their best of seven series. Later this afternoon,

1788
01:34:20,880 --> 01:34:23,839
Speaker 1: it's the Heat and Pacers, followed by the Thunder and Rockets.

1789
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:26,320
Speaker 1: In the final game on the slate, Damian Lillard and

1790
01:34:26,360 --> 01:34:29,240
Speaker 1: the Blazers going against Lebron James and the Lakers. That

1791
01:34:29,360 --> 01:34:33,960
Speaker 1: tip is set in Primetime four nine pm. Joining us

1792
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 1: now on the show as a guest we've had before,

1793
01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:39,559
Speaker 1: a guy who's been very high on the Bill's fortunes.

1794
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:43,000
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty from CBS Sports, It's NFL writer for

1795
01:34:43,120 --> 01:34:45,800
Speaker 1: them one Pete Prisco. Pete, thanks for taking the time

1796
01:34:45,840 --> 01:34:48,400
Speaker 1: to join us. How you doing good? How are you guys?

1797
01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:51,800
Speaker 1: We're doing okay. We're making our way through what is

1798
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:55,280
Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to real football predated practices beginning

1799
01:34:55,320 --> 01:34:59,080
Speaker 1: this week. As you know, I'm guessing that for you

1800
01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:02,720
Speaker 1: it's kind of a differ training camp and everything as well,

1801
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 1: because traveling to different cities and taking in different teams

1802
01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:09,439
Speaker 1: camp settings is probably a lot more difficult than it

1803
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:11,639
Speaker 1: used to be. Am. I right, well, I'm not even

1804
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:13,600
Speaker 1: going to be Yeah, that's why I figured, you know,

1805
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:15,400
Speaker 1: we you know, we can't get a guy on camera.

1806
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:17,640
Speaker 1: You have to do it virtually, and it makes no

1807
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:20,560
Speaker 1: sense for us to go and it's just killing me

1808
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 1: because normally be in the middle of like a thirty day,

1809
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, out and see as many teams as I

1810
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:27,880
Speaker 1: possibly can. And I love practice. I love going to

1811
01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:29,920
Speaker 1: talk to guys. I love talking to players and coaches

1812
01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:31,960
Speaker 1: in front office people, and you can still talk to guys,

1813
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:35,679
Speaker 1: but it's definitely different not being there in person, seeing

1814
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, guys working and playing and practicing and all that.

1815
01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:41,240
Speaker 1: So it's tough. It's been different, but you know, let's

1816
01:35:41,280 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 1: just hope we get through training camp and get on

1817
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:45,719
Speaker 1: with the season. We will include you in the conversation

1818
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:47,679
Speaker 1: we're having today. With the announcement by the Chiefs they're

1819
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:49,840
Speaker 1: gonna allow twenty two percent capacity, it seems to me

1820
01:35:49,920 --> 01:35:52,599
Speaker 1: that some of these announcements are coming out because after

1821
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:54,800
Speaker 1: the first few days, maybe the first week or two

1822
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: of training camp, even though it is very different than

1823
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 1: what it has been, there's only twelve guys on the

1824
01:36:00,800 --> 01:36:04,120
Speaker 1: COVID list league wide, and now there's some momentum leaning

1825
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:06,360
Speaker 1: towards Hey, this thing's gonna get off the ground on

1826
01:36:06,479 --> 01:36:10,519
Speaker 1: opening day. Are you as optimistic as the NFL seems

1827
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 1: to be that this is going to go off, at

1828
01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:14,360
Speaker 1: least in the early stage of the season without a hitch.

1829
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:17,519
Speaker 1: I do. I'm very optimistic, and I'll tell you a

1830
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:20,839
Speaker 1: couple of reasons why I think the numbers are in retreat.

1831
01:36:21,160 --> 01:36:24,479
Speaker 1: You know, the whole hysteria over Florida would become New

1832
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 1: York and Arizona and Texas would become New York and

1833
01:36:27,320 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 1: California would become New York didn't happen. And so I

1834
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:32,719
Speaker 1: think if you looked at the numbers of the data,

1835
01:36:33,240 --> 01:36:35,519
Speaker 1: I think virus is virus, you know, And by that,

1836
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:38,920
Speaker 1: I mean they eventually they wear out, and I think

1837
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:42,120
Speaker 1: we have better therapeutics. The hospitals aren't overrun, and a

1838
01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 1: lot of the cases are asymptomatic. And so from that standpoint,

1839
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:47,880
Speaker 1: I do think we're going to play, and I think

1840
01:36:47,880 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: it's a good thing to play. I was hoping that

1841
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:52,040
Speaker 1: the colleges would play as well. There will be outbreaks,

1842
01:36:52,120 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 1: and they'll be outbreaks in college campuses as well. But

1843
01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:57,840
Speaker 1: you know, to what degree our kids getting sick to

1844
01:36:57,920 --> 01:37:00,160
Speaker 1: the point they go to the hospital. Probably not. Those

1845
01:37:00,200 --> 01:37:04,479
Speaker 1: people are asymptomatic, And so yeah, there's risk involved. There's

1846
01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: always a risk in life, and there's risk in playing football.

1847
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:09,160
Speaker 1: I understand the guys who opted out, and I respect

1848
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:11,280
Speaker 1: the guys who opted out. That's their decision. You make

1849
01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:13,680
Speaker 1: a decision that's best for you. But I think as

1850
01:37:13,720 --> 01:37:15,560
Speaker 1: far as the league moving forward, I think it's the

1851
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:18,639
Speaker 1: right thing to do. Since the last time we spoke

1852
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: with you, Pete head coach Sean McDermott as a new

1853
01:37:21,560 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 1: contract extension. You know, six years. That's a lot of

1854
01:37:26,920 --> 01:37:29,400
Speaker 1: security for a head coach these days in this league.

1855
01:37:29,439 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: But he certainly earned it. What do you think is

1856
01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:34,240
Speaker 1: the message to the locker room with a deal of

1857
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:37,920
Speaker 1: that length, Well, it tells you what they think about him,

1858
01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:40,800
Speaker 1: and rightfully so. I think Sean's one of the more

1859
01:37:40,880 --> 01:37:43,240
Speaker 1: underrated coaches in the NFL. And I think that group

1860
01:37:43,320 --> 01:37:45,080
Speaker 1: up there has done a heck of a job. And

1861
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:47,360
Speaker 1: I told you on that at the combine, I said,

1862
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 1: you're last year. At the combine, he said, your team

1863
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 1: has taken on your feisty, tough personality and the way

1864
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:56,120
Speaker 1: they play you can see that, and that's a sign

1865
01:37:56,160 --> 01:37:58,439
Speaker 1: of respect for a football coach. I'm a big believer

1866
01:37:58,560 --> 01:38:00,080
Speaker 1: in the Bills and I'm a big believer with what

1867
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:02,760
Speaker 1: they're doing, and I think Sean is an underrated coach.

1868
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:04,479
Speaker 1: Why not lock them up makes all the sense in

1869
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:06,360
Speaker 1: the world, And they're starting to line up. Their key

1870
01:38:06,439 --> 01:38:09,880
Speaker 1: players are left tackle Dion Dawkins signed a four year extension.

1871
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:14,560
Speaker 1: It didn't break the bank, but yet there's also some

1872
01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:16,680
Speaker 1: talk about how what the Kansas City Chiefs are doing

1873
01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:19,800
Speaker 1: their roster. What do you think about the team's abilities

1874
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:22,360
Speaker 1: to sign the players they've got lined up long term?

1875
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: Is the cap real or is it a myth? Well?

1876
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 1: I think the cap is real and it's going to

1877
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:33,320
Speaker 1: get bigger. You know, next year it won't because clearly,

1878
01:38:33,400 --> 01:38:35,960
Speaker 1: with the COVID situation being what it is, the revenue

1879
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:38,000
Speaker 1: is not going to be close to that, but it'll

1880
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:40,280
Speaker 1: be one hundred and seventy five million. But after that,

1881
01:38:40,439 --> 01:38:42,599
Speaker 1: I think you're talking about seeing a lot more growth.

1882
01:38:42,640 --> 01:38:44,760
Speaker 1: The TV money is going up, you know, all these

1883
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:46,840
Speaker 1: guys are jockeying to try and get it, and even

1884
01:38:46,880 --> 01:38:49,880
Speaker 1: in this type of environment, you know, live sports sells,

1885
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 1: and so I think that they're still going to get

1886
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:55,559
Speaker 1: a ton of money from that. Also the gambling money,

1887
01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:57,320
Speaker 1: and people don't want to talk about that, but there's

1888
01:38:57,320 --> 01:38:59,560
Speaker 1: a lot of money to be made outside in the

1889
01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 1: gamble market, and I think that's going to increase revenues

1890
01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:04,559
Speaker 1: as well. So I add it all up. The CAP's

1891
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:06,960
Speaker 1: gonna keep going up. And yeah, you know, you have

1892
01:39:07,080 --> 01:39:10,200
Speaker 1: to pay for success. And if you're the Kansas City Chiefs,

1893
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:12,800
Speaker 1: you pay to keep your stars. And that's what this

1894
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:14,880
Speaker 1: league is going to get to. And you look at

1895
01:39:14,920 --> 01:39:17,240
Speaker 1: the bills. If Josh Allens continues to ascend, they're gonna

1896
01:39:17,240 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: have to pay him. You pay guys who are you know,

1897
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:22,920
Speaker 1: star young star players, and then you have to try

1898
01:39:22,960 --> 01:39:25,120
Speaker 1: and sup them at the roster. And that's where a

1899
01:39:25,200 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 1: guy like Brandon Bean will come in later on because

1900
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:29,680
Speaker 1: he's built this roster. But it's gonna get more to

1901
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:32,639
Speaker 1: become more of a challenge when you have to fill

1902
01:39:32,680 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 1: it in around guys that make big contracts and take

1903
01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:38,639
Speaker 1: big chunks of the cap. I know recently you had

1904
01:39:38,720 --> 01:39:41,960
Speaker 1: your top one hundred NFL players list and you had

1905
01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:45,160
Speaker 1: two bills on there. You had Trdavious White and Stefon Diggs.

1906
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 1: Did anyone else merit a little bit of consideration that

1907
01:39:50,479 --> 01:39:53,879
Speaker 1: you maybe had, you know, on the bubble there at

1908
01:39:53,920 --> 01:39:56,439
Speaker 1: the very back of the list. Well, I think they

1909
01:39:56,520 --> 01:40:01,160
Speaker 1: have guys that are pushing to get there, and Edmonds

1910
01:40:01,320 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 1: might be one of those guys. I think, you know,

1911
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 1: Milan is probably not a top one hundred player, but

1912
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:08,879
Speaker 1: he's a really good player. I think, you know, I'm

1913
01:40:08,920 --> 01:40:10,960
Speaker 1: a big believer in Josh Allen. I think he has

1914
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 1: a chance to get there after this season. He's got

1915
01:40:13,600 --> 01:40:15,720
Speaker 1: to do some things better. He's got to get the

1916
01:40:15,760 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 1: ball out of his hands more, and he's got to

1917
01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, for me personally, I think he's got to

1918
01:40:19,080 --> 01:40:21,840
Speaker 1: go through his progressions better and not just get out

1919
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:24,760
Speaker 1: there and run. And I think he can. Mechanically. He

1920
01:40:24,840 --> 01:40:26,800
Speaker 1: looks like he's improved just from some of the stuff

1921
01:40:26,800 --> 01:40:28,400
Speaker 1: I've seen, and he spent a lot of time doing

1922
01:40:28,479 --> 01:40:30,560
Speaker 1: that and he needed to. So yeah, those are a

1923
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:32,760
Speaker 1: couple of guys. I just think when you look at

1924
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:34,640
Speaker 1: this right you know, the two safeties as well. I mean,

1925
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:36,560
Speaker 1: they're good players and they were on the you know,

1926
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:38,720
Speaker 1: they were in the verge of being on that list

1927
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:40,760
Speaker 1: as well. I think this is a team right now

1928
01:40:41,280 --> 01:40:45,080
Speaker 1: made up of a lot of really good, talented players

1929
01:40:45,720 --> 01:40:47,560
Speaker 1: who and a couple of them have a chance to

1930
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:50,640
Speaker 1: be special and they're not there yet. Davis White is there,

1931
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:52,280
Speaker 1: but they're the rest of the art there yet, but

1932
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:54,000
Speaker 1: they have a chance to get there. One of the team,

1933
01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:55,600
Speaker 1: one of the players of the Bills picked up this

1934
01:40:55,680 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: year's second round pick in the draft. As people are

1935
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:02,280
Speaker 1: excited to see him. He's got a big body, came

1936
01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:05,000
Speaker 1: out of Iowa, came off the edge of Iowa. The

1937
01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:07,559
Speaker 1: Bills could reduce him down, put him a defensive tackle.

1938
01:41:08,479 --> 01:41:10,760
Speaker 1: How excited already to see a guy like epinaz and

1939
01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:12,560
Speaker 1: what might we find out about him? How good he

1940
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: could be? Yeah, he's one of those guys that you know,

1941
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:17,599
Speaker 1: the pure speed up the field. He's not gonna win

1942
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:20,040
Speaker 1: value with that kind of thing, but he's a football player.

1943
01:41:20,080 --> 01:41:23,200
Speaker 1: And every team that you've ever been around needs good

1944
01:41:23,240 --> 01:41:25,880
Speaker 1: football players. You played with one wasn't so handsome a

1945
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:28,280
Speaker 1: lot like that? I mean, wasn't that what he was?

1946
01:41:28,479 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's the kind of guy he

1947
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:33,080
Speaker 1: can be for them. You can fly them inside and

1948
01:41:33,160 --> 01:41:36,760
Speaker 1: passing situations. He's tough, he's physical. Uh, you know, he's

1949
01:41:36,800 --> 01:41:40,840
Speaker 1: just a good football player. I like when teams don't

1950
01:41:40,880 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: get so caught up in the measurables and they look

1951
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:44,800
Speaker 1: at it, they say, you know what, this guy made

1952
01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:47,519
Speaker 1: a lot of plays. I mean. Austin Jackson was the

1953
01:41:47,600 --> 01:41:50,280
Speaker 1: first round pick of the Miami's Dolphins. He abused him.

1954
01:41:50,320 --> 01:41:51,880
Speaker 1: When he faced them in the Bowl game, he just

1955
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 1: destroyed him. So I think it's the Bills hit on

1956
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 1: that one. He's gonna be a really good player for him.

1957
01:41:57,479 --> 01:42:01,479
Speaker 1: Talking to CBS senior NFL writer Pete Prisco and Pete,

1958
01:42:01,520 --> 01:42:04,040
Speaker 1: I know you put together your top ten games on

1959
01:42:04,120 --> 01:42:07,840
Speaker 1: the NFL schedule earlier this offseason, and the Bills made

1960
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:13,200
Speaker 1: the list with their road game at San Francisco. It's

1961
01:42:13,360 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: it's an interesting one and it looks like, you know,

1962
01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:17,960
Speaker 1: the Bills have to play the Super Bowl champs and

1963
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: the defending NFC champs this year on their schedule, but

1964
01:42:21,160 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 1: you picked that December seventh game. Tell us why? Yeah,

1965
01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:27,160
Speaker 1: I just like the whole dynamic of the team trying

1966
01:42:27,240 --> 01:42:29,439
Speaker 1: to be that team. You know, the Bills are trying

1967
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:32,160
Speaker 1: to be that forty nine ers team, and they you know,

1968
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:35,720
Speaker 1: they're physical to both physical teams, and I just think

1969
01:42:35,760 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 1: that that's why that game stood out to me. I

1970
01:42:37,840 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 1: think the Bills, Hey, I said last spring, I said

1971
01:42:41,360 --> 01:42:43,120
Speaker 1: they would win, you know, be a playoff team and

1972
01:42:43,160 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 1: win the division in twenty and twenty even if Brady

1973
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:48,000
Speaker 1: was coming back. That's how much I think about this

1974
01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:50,680
Speaker 1: team now that I'm looking at it. You know, with

1975
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 1: the division the way it is, I not only think

1976
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:55,240
Speaker 1: they win the division, I think they can make noise

1977
01:42:55,280 --> 01:42:57,920
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, have become a real factor, and in fact,

1978
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:00,320
Speaker 1: it wouldn't shock me to see them go to a

1979
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:02,760
Speaker 1: championship game and maybe beyond. I mean if they could

1980
01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:05,000
Speaker 1: pull off an upset or something, because let's face it,

1981
01:43:05,080 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs of the odds on favorite to win the

1982
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:09,879
Speaker 1: whole thing, and they should be. But you saw Tennessee

1983
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:12,000
Speaker 1: go in there and lead the Chiefs last year in

1984
01:43:12,040 --> 01:43:14,720
Speaker 1: the postseason. You saw Houston go in there and lead

1985
01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:16,639
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in the postseason. Neither one of those teams

1986
01:43:16,680 --> 01:43:19,280
Speaker 1: could stop Patrick Mahomes. Clearly, you have to be good

1987
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 1: on defense to win that game. But I think the

1988
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:23,960
Speaker 1: Bills will be good on defense, and it's all about

1989
01:43:24,040 --> 01:43:26,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. If Josh Allen takes the next steps, and

1990
01:43:26,400 --> 01:43:28,439
Speaker 1: I believe he can. I'm a big believer in Josh Allen,

1991
01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:30,599
Speaker 1: probably more so than most people than I think they

1992
01:43:30,640 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 1: can have a really good season. And one of the

1993
01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:34,559
Speaker 1: things that the Bills have to do to win the East,

1994
01:43:34,600 --> 01:43:37,479
Speaker 1: the AFC East, is to finally beat New England Patriots.

1995
01:43:38,479 --> 01:43:41,679
Speaker 1: With Cam Newton signs that change, How does that change

1996
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 1: your expectations for how that rivalry will play out this year.

1997
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 1: I think they're in big trouble in New England. And

1998
01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:50,799
Speaker 1: the reason I say that not because of the quarterback position.

1999
01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:52,479
Speaker 1: I think they're going to switch the way they play.

2000
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:54,559
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be much more physical on offense

2001
01:43:54,640 --> 01:43:56,519
Speaker 1: and run the ball and use him in the run game.

2002
01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:58,479
Speaker 1: They won't throw it around as much. But I think

2003
01:43:58,520 --> 01:44:01,080
Speaker 1: defensively they've got major issues. I mean, they've suffered some

2004
01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 1: big hits in free agency. They suffered some big hits,

2005
01:44:05,560 --> 01:44:07,879
Speaker 1: you know, with the opt outs. I think Bill Belichick

2006
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: will be challenged like he has never been challenged before,

2007
01:44:10,160 --> 01:44:12,360
Speaker 1: at least in a long time, to put that defense

2008
01:44:12,479 --> 01:44:15,679
Speaker 1: together and try and keep games low scoring. I would

2009
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:18,160
Speaker 1: imagine they will try and shorten games this year with

2010
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:21,200
Speaker 1: Cam Newton running the ball and you know, that running

2011
01:44:21,240 --> 01:44:22,760
Speaker 1: game trying to get going because the line is still

2012
01:44:22,760 --> 01:44:26,040
Speaker 1: pretty good, even though Scarneki is not there anymore. They

2013
01:44:26,080 --> 01:44:28,360
Speaker 1: did lose Marcus Cannon. I think they're going to shorten

2014
01:44:28,400 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 1: the game and play a different style and try and

2015
01:44:30,120 --> 01:44:33,040
Speaker 1: cover up for that defense. As much as you believe

2016
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:36,920
Speaker 1: in Josh Allen Pete. Is there something else besides him

2017
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:39,439
Speaker 1: that you think is the biggest question mark for the

2018
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:41,600
Speaker 1: Bills heading into the twenty twenty season. A lot of

2019
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 1: people are of the opinion it's Josh taking the next step,

2020
01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:48,080
Speaker 1: But do you feel it's something else. I think there's

2021
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:50,559
Speaker 1: Like I said, I think they're solid across the board.

2022
01:44:50,560 --> 01:44:54,040
Speaker 1: I mean the down guys on the defense. You know

2023
01:44:54,240 --> 01:44:56,200
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver has to step up and become a force.

2024
01:44:56,439 --> 01:44:58,559
Speaker 1: I mean you drafted him there. He has to become

2025
01:44:58,600 --> 01:45:00,960
Speaker 1: more of a factor. In the middle. I think Will Uh,

2026
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:02,880
Speaker 1: you know, they signed Butler, he's a big guy. He

2027
01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:05,160
Speaker 1: can hang in there. You have you know, Phillips, who

2028
01:45:05,479 --> 01:45:07,880
Speaker 1: you know has been a decent player. But I think

2029
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:10,920
Speaker 1: the interior, that group has to become more of a

2030
01:45:11,160 --> 01:45:13,920
Speaker 1: presence in the middle and try and you know, slow

2031
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:16,400
Speaker 1: teams down with the run. They're not big and and

2032
01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:18,639
Speaker 1: you know, when you're not big, that's can be concerned

2033
01:45:18,640 --> 01:45:21,160
Speaker 1: at times. Oliver is not a big guy, but teams,

2034
01:45:21,320 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 1: you know, Jerry uses in a big player and Mario

2035
01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:26,080
Speaker 1: Addison's not a big player. So I think that's where

2036
01:45:26,120 --> 01:45:29,200
Speaker 1: Epanessa can come in and help slow some of that

2037
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 1: run game down. So yeah, I think the interior of

2038
01:45:31,360 --> 01:45:34,960
Speaker 1: the defense up front, and then Josh Allen take him

2039
01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:37,080
Speaker 1: the next step in the afc USTs go down to

2040
01:45:37,160 --> 01:45:39,519
Speaker 1: listen and talk about the Miami Dolphins. How long is

2041
01:45:39,520 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: it going to be before two Octongo Volois starts for

2042
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:46,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins in place of Fitzpatrick. Well, I think the

2043
01:45:46,120 --> 01:45:47,920
Speaker 1: sooner you get on with it, the better off you are.

2044
01:45:48,160 --> 01:45:51,000
Speaker 1: That's that's my belief. If you draft that guy to

2045
01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:53,120
Speaker 1: be your franchise quarterback, get on with it. Go, you know,

2046
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:55,320
Speaker 1: go play with him, because if you don't play them

2047
01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 1: all year and people say, oh, maybe you can have

2048
01:45:56,920 --> 01:45:59,280
Speaker 1: a red shirt year. If he redshirts, then you start

2049
01:45:59,320 --> 01:46:01,519
Speaker 1: the process all over next year. If he plays, no

2050
01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:03,880
Speaker 1: matter what happens, now you go in the next season.

2051
01:46:03,920 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 1: You've got an experienced quarterback. So I think they'll start

2052
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:09,639
Speaker 1: the season with Fitzpatrick and then you know things don't

2053
01:46:09,720 --> 01:46:12,960
Speaker 1: go well, then I think by October you'll see Tua.

2054
01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:15,880
Speaker 1: But here's the problem. If you start Fitzpatrick and let's

2055
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:20,120
Speaker 1: just say they're seven and five, at some point you

2056
01:46:20,160 --> 01:46:23,080
Speaker 1: know there are six and four, you got to keep

2057
01:46:23,160 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: him in there, and that means you may never get

2058
01:46:25,200 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 1: to Tua and that could be a problem because they're better,

2059
01:46:28,360 --> 01:46:30,680
Speaker 1: they're improved. I think Brian Flores is the right guy

2060
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:32,200
Speaker 1: for the job. I think they're doing a good job

2061
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:34,880
Speaker 1: building that thing. But it's all building to next year,

2062
01:46:35,439 --> 01:46:37,800
Speaker 1: And if you don't play twa this year, then that

2063
01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:39,880
Speaker 1: kind of stunts the growth for next year. So I'd

2064
01:46:39,880 --> 01:46:41,560
Speaker 1: play him as soon as I possibly could if I

2065
01:46:41,640 --> 01:46:44,120
Speaker 1: were adult. And as much as people are asking if

2066
01:46:44,360 --> 01:46:46,439
Speaker 1: you know Josh Allen can take the next step here

2067
01:46:46,479 --> 01:46:49,600
Speaker 1: in year three, they're certainly asking that question down in

2068
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:53,320
Speaker 1: New York with Sam Darnold. And it looks like the

2069
01:46:53,439 --> 01:46:55,960
Speaker 1: offensive line is better for him to give him better

2070
01:46:56,040 --> 01:46:59,559
Speaker 1: protection to make plays. But is there enough around him

2071
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:03,240
Speaker 1: in Toto reality to help lift his game to the

2072
01:47:03,400 --> 01:47:05,920
Speaker 1: level they're looking for. Well, he's got to stay on

2073
01:47:05,960 --> 01:47:08,080
Speaker 1: the field too. Remember he's had some issues standing on

2074
01:47:08,160 --> 01:47:10,000
Speaker 1: the field. They've done some good things when he's been

2075
01:47:10,040 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 1: on the field. Uh, you know they say Levy on

2076
01:47:12,479 --> 01:47:15,320
Speaker 1: Bell looks great, Um, which will you know? He's leaner.

2077
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:18,280
Speaker 1: He mentioned the offensive line, which was a disaster last year,

2078
01:47:18,360 --> 01:47:21,240
Speaker 1: will be better. Uh do they have any weapons outside?

2079
01:47:21,280 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 1: You know Mims has been slowed. They thought he might

2080
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:24,680
Speaker 1: step in at be a starter. He's been bothered by

2081
01:47:24,680 --> 01:47:28,400
Speaker 1: an injury already. So what's that Levia Jamison Crowder for

2082
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:32,160
Speaker 1: sharp Perriman. That's that's a problem, and I think you

2083
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:34,000
Speaker 1: know they're gonna have to rely on you know, hearned

2084
01:47:34,040 --> 01:47:36,000
Speaker 1: in the tight endf you know, he's got some issues

2085
01:47:36,040 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 1: off the field and had some suspensions. But I think

2086
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:41,280
Speaker 1: the biggest problem, and you mentioned it, is where are

2087
01:47:41,320 --> 01:47:43,400
Speaker 1: the weapons. They don't They don't have a lot of weapons,

2088
01:47:43,439 --> 01:47:46,840
Speaker 1: and that's always a concern for a young quarterback. But

2089
01:47:47,720 --> 01:47:49,120
Speaker 1: one of the things we're going to ask you about

2090
01:47:49,280 --> 01:47:51,400
Speaker 1: is that with all the success the New England Patriots

2091
01:47:51,439 --> 01:47:55,040
Speaker 1: have had over the years, now proteges of Bill belichicker

2092
01:47:55,160 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 1: starting to sprinkle about the NFL. I've got Bill O'Brien

2093
01:47:57,600 --> 01:48:00,160
Speaker 1: in Houston, You've got Brian Floores and my I mean,

2094
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Joe Judge, the latest

2095
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 1: incarnation Matt Patricia's in Detroit. Joe Judge in New York

2096
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:07,679
Speaker 1: is starting to make splashes because he's making his guys

2097
01:48:07,760 --> 01:48:10,200
Speaker 1: run laps when they make mistakes. Even the coaching staff

2098
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:13,920
Speaker 1: is no names on the back of the jersey, Yeah,

2099
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:17,519
Speaker 1: no names on the back of the Jerseys is I mean,

2100
01:48:17,600 --> 01:48:19,560
Speaker 1: how's this going to fly in New York? Is this

2101
01:48:19,680 --> 01:48:23,320
Speaker 1: another guy trying to be Bill Belichick and even a

2102
01:48:23,400 --> 01:48:25,599
Speaker 1: better version than Bill Belichick, if there is such a thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how's this going to go in New York? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer. If you're going to become a

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Speaker 1: head coach, be who you are. Don't try to be

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Speaker 1: somebody else. And I'll give you a good example. You know,

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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with Tom Coughlin, and

2108
01:48:36,640 --> 01:48:38,400
Speaker 1: he knew what he was. He was rigid, he was

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Speaker 1: hard to play for. Players hated him, but he was

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Speaker 1: what he was. Kevin Gilbride wasn't that. But when Kevin

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Speaker 1: Gilbride became the head coach of the Chargers, he tried

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Speaker 1: to be that and it just didn't work. I think

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Speaker 1: you have to be true to who you are. And

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe Joe judges that, but I think that

2115
01:48:57,520 --> 01:49:00,519
Speaker 1: that's something that you copy from him. And you give

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01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:02,680
Speaker 1: too much respect to a guy. Bill Belichick is Bill

2117
01:49:02,720 --> 01:49:06,560
Speaker 1: Belichick because that's who he was, but also because he

2118
01:49:06,600 --> 01:49:09,360
Speaker 1: has skins on the wall. Players respect that. If you

2119
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Speaker 1: have those championship trophies, players are going to buy into it.

2120
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Speaker 1: If you don't, they're gonna push back on you in

2121
01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:20,160
Speaker 1: a big way. Players all the time want consistency, for one,

2122
01:49:20,280 --> 01:49:22,919
Speaker 1: you know that they want to be treated fairly and consistent.

2123
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:26,040
Speaker 1: What the coaches to be consistent, But don't be somebody

2124
01:49:26,160 --> 01:49:28,559
Speaker 1: you're not. And that's my biggest concern when I see

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Speaker 1: all that stuff about Joe Judge. Pete, thanks very much

2126
01:49:31,720 --> 01:49:34,040
Speaker 1: for the time. As always, we appreciate you painting the

2127
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:37,080
Speaker 1: picture not only of your thoughts about this team here

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01:49:37,080 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, but around the league. Thanks much for the

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01:49:39,040 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 1: time you got it. Guys, Take care all right. Pete's

2130
01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:48,440
Speaker 1: CBS Sports senior NFL writer Pete Prisco, who is disappointed

2131
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:52,240
Speaker 1: he can't make his usual training camp sojourn around the league.

2132
01:49:52,240 --> 01:49:54,000
Speaker 1: A lot of those national reporters are not doing that.

2133
01:49:54,120 --> 01:49:57,360
Speaker 1: It's just it's too difficult between hot states and having

2134
01:49:57,400 --> 01:50:01,000
Speaker 1: a quarantine. You know, if you return to a good

2135
01:50:01,080 --> 01:50:04,080
Speaker 1: state and access to players is just not happening in

2136
01:50:04,160 --> 01:50:07,280
Speaker 1: a face to face way. So it's it's hard for

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01:50:07,320 --> 01:50:10,200
Speaker 1: those national guys. Yeah, and because it does help when

2138
01:50:10,200 --> 01:50:13,000
Speaker 1: you can get out to those venues and see those

2139
01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 1: guys in person, see what the vibe of camp is,

2140
01:50:15,280 --> 01:50:17,559
Speaker 1: see what they really think about a rookie and behind

2141
01:50:17,600 --> 01:50:19,760
Speaker 1: the scenes and what fans are is thinking and get

2142
01:50:19,800 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: a getting And you can also have conversations with the

2143
01:50:22,400 --> 01:50:26,040
Speaker 1: local media because those guys are real great resources. They

2144
01:50:26,120 --> 01:50:27,720
Speaker 1: have their finger on the pulse of what's going on.

2145
01:50:27,920 --> 01:50:31,320
Speaker 1: And and you always see it at Saint John Fisher

2146
01:50:31,479 --> 01:50:35,080
Speaker 1: during a regular year. You know, the whole list of

2147
01:50:35,320 --> 01:50:39,720
Speaker 1: national reporters just trapes us through Rochester one after the other,

2148
01:50:39,760 --> 01:50:41,000
Speaker 1: and we get a chance to say how we always

2149
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:43,120
Speaker 1: have him on the show. Actually too, we didn't get

2150
01:50:43,160 --> 01:50:44,879
Speaker 1: a chance to do that this year. The most interesting

2151
01:50:45,040 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 1: thing that I think he was talking about was something

2152
01:50:47,320 --> 01:50:50,479
Speaker 1: that crossed my mind right after all the opt outs

2153
01:50:50,520 --> 01:50:53,920
Speaker 1: happened for the Patriots. They got eight player opt outs.

2154
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: I mean, their defense is a shell of what it

2155
01:50:57,120 --> 01:51:00,680
Speaker 1: once was. It was due to free agent departures and

2156
01:51:00,840 --> 01:51:05,240
Speaker 1: the COVID opt outs. And after all that happened, I

2157
01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:07,760
Speaker 1: had this thought in my head where I was saying

2158
01:51:07,760 --> 01:51:11,040
Speaker 1: to myself, Man, the Bill's toughest division game might be

2159
01:51:11,120 --> 01:51:14,760
Speaker 1: Miami this year. It might be tougher than the Patriots game,

2160
01:51:15,080 --> 01:51:18,439
Speaker 1: because you know, as Pete said, and I agree, I

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01:51:18,560 --> 01:51:22,439
Speaker 1: think Brian Flores and Chris Greer. The GM are building

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01:51:22,479 --> 01:51:27,360
Speaker 1: it the right way. They're just a little bit further

2163
01:51:27,479 --> 01:51:31,639
Speaker 1: behind the Bills in their build of their roster. They're

2164
01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:34,680
Speaker 1: not there yet. I think they feel they will be

2165
01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:38,439
Speaker 1: next year at this time to really be a more

2166
01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:41,240
Speaker 1: competitive team and go for a playoff, you know, try

2167
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:44,280
Speaker 1: to reach the playoffs this year and year too. Even

2168
01:51:44,320 --> 01:51:47,600
Speaker 1: though they might not get there, they're gonna be a

2169
01:51:47,680 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 1: tough out. I mean, as far as this division goes,

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01:51:51,520 --> 01:51:53,759
Speaker 1: they might be the second best team in the division

2171
01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:55,120
Speaker 1: by the time we get to the end of the year.

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01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 1: I know the quarterback thing has to come into focus there,

2173
01:51:58,000 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: but Cam's not a sure thing and a Alichick system either.

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01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:03,839
Speaker 1: Well think about it, though, If Cam's not the quarterback

2175
01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:06,679
Speaker 1: in New England, the guy that got's better than Cam Newton,

2176
01:52:08,520 --> 01:52:12,040
Speaker 1: So you can take that for what it's worth there.

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Speaker 1: I just think there's too much to fix there. New

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01:52:14,760 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 1: England's not going away. I'm not saying they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: a three and thirteen team, but I just there's too

2180
01:52:22,520 --> 01:52:25,040
Speaker 1: much to fix there. Man, there's a lot of I mean,

2181
01:52:25,439 --> 01:52:28,840
Speaker 1: I just see Belichick just pulling out two by fours

2182
01:52:28,880 --> 01:52:32,479
Speaker 1: and just hammering things back up on the wall. I mean,

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01:52:32,520 --> 01:52:35,759
Speaker 1: there's just so much that you gotta make up four. Listen.

2184
01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:41,599
Speaker 1: I I they people were talking like they stunk last year.

2185
01:52:41,680 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 1: They had Tom Brady's washed up, they got no help

2186
01:52:43,840 --> 01:52:48,240
Speaker 1: their receivers or a mess. They won twelve games, right,

2187
01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:50,880
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of those youters, though, are

2188
01:52:50,920 --> 01:52:52,639
Speaker 1: clinging to the fact that they were four and four

2189
01:52:52,720 --> 01:52:54,479
Speaker 1: over the last eight weeks. Now, that was with a

2190
01:52:54,560 --> 01:52:58,000
Speaker 1: decimated receiving corps. You know, Mohammed Sanu was out, Edelman

2191
01:52:58,120 --> 01:53:02,680
Speaker 1: was playing on one leg. Bills were one in four, right,

2192
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:05,800
Speaker 1: But I think that's where the doubts came from. And

2193
01:53:05,840 --> 01:53:08,680
Speaker 1: then Brady left that's crazy, which is a seismic thing.

2194
01:53:09,120 --> 01:53:12,960
Speaker 1: And then three of their starting linebackers left via free agency,

2195
01:53:13,080 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 1: and now you've got more players leaving via the opt out.

2196
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:18,680
Speaker 1: And I think they're just saying, well, if there's ever

2197
01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:20,880
Speaker 1: a time to kick dirt on the Patriots, I'm going

2198
01:53:20,920 --> 01:53:22,720
Speaker 1: to do it now. Now they might be wrong in

2199
01:53:22,840 --> 01:53:25,360
Speaker 1: doing that, but there's a part of me that wonders

2200
01:53:25,439 --> 01:53:29,600
Speaker 1: if this Dolphins team, you know, enters this you know,

2201
01:53:29,760 --> 01:53:32,080
Speaker 1: phase two of their build and they have somewhat of

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01:53:32,120 --> 01:53:38,000
Speaker 1: a maturation process, they could be stingy. This year. Absolutely,

2203
01:53:38,040 --> 01:53:40,920
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins are going to be better. But

2204
01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this, the Patriots stunk last year. They

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01:53:45,400 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 1: won twelve games. That's the standard that they're at. Yeah,

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01:53:48,400 --> 01:53:51,240
Speaker 1: I didn't say they stunt. Somebody did. That's a person.

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01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 1: It's a little hyperbole and it's a little I'm exaggerating

2208
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:56,760
Speaker 1: to make a point. But they were Nobody was talking

2209
01:53:56,800 --> 01:53:59,080
Speaker 1: about them. They were eight No last year to start

2210
01:53:59,160 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 1: the season, right, and they couldn't get out of their

2211
01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:05,840
Speaker 1: own way offensively. I mean, they're going to figure it

2212
01:54:05,880 --> 01:54:08,160
Speaker 1: out over there and they're gonna be really tough to be.

2213
01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:10,320
Speaker 1: Where do you think their defense is going to rank

2214
01:54:10,439 --> 01:54:14,120
Speaker 1: this year? They were number one last year. I mean

2215
01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:18,080
Speaker 1: they're missing probably upwards of five or six starters from

2216
01:54:18,120 --> 01:54:23,360
Speaker 1: an eleven man group. Well, they'll be in the top half,

2217
01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:26,040
Speaker 1: without question. They'll be top half, a topick. I'll say this,

2218
01:54:26,160 --> 01:54:29,240
Speaker 1: maybe top ten. Here's the thing about Belichick, if you

2219
01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:31,880
Speaker 1: ask special it'll be better than twenty teams in the NFL.

2220
01:54:32,280 --> 01:54:36,480
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about Belichick. Historically he didn't give a

2221
01:54:36,640 --> 01:54:39,320
Speaker 1: hoot about where they finish in total defense. Oh that's

2222
01:54:39,360 --> 01:54:41,800
Speaker 1: exactly right. But if you look at where they are

2223
01:54:42,040 --> 01:54:45,640
Speaker 1: in red zone defense and in points allowed it's allowed,

2224
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:49,800
Speaker 1: they are almost always in the top ten. Almost it's

2225
01:54:49,840 --> 01:54:53,000
Speaker 1: allowed every year now it's allowed. An offense that can

2226
01:54:53,040 --> 01:54:54,760
Speaker 1: put points on the board and can stay on the

2227
01:54:54,800 --> 01:54:57,600
Speaker 1: field certainly helps in that regard, And that might be

2228
01:54:57,720 --> 01:55:01,000
Speaker 1: a different animal this year for them. That might not

2229
01:55:01,080 --> 01:55:03,240
Speaker 1: be an offense that stays on the field enough. But

2230
01:55:03,480 --> 01:55:05,240
Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you. I think they are

2231
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:08,360
Speaker 1: gonna try to pound the ball and slow the game

2232
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 1: down and grind it out, have Cam run and do

2233
01:55:12,760 --> 01:55:17,240
Speaker 1: more of that so that their defense isn't overburdened. Yeah,

2234
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:19,560
Speaker 1: they'll they'll figure out. They're gonna look completely different, There's

2235
01:55:19,600 --> 01:55:21,440
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. They're gonna be a completely different

2236
01:55:21,480 --> 01:55:23,440
Speaker 1: kind of ball club than we saw them end up

2237
01:55:23,480 --> 01:55:26,320
Speaker 1: the season this last year and even begin the season

2238
01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:29,040
Speaker 1: this last year. They're gonna be completely different. And I

2239
01:55:29,120 --> 01:55:31,840
Speaker 1: think it plays right into their hands of their creativity

2240
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:35,880
Speaker 1: and their innovativeness and their willingness to do things that

2241
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:40,680
Speaker 1: are different. It plays right into whoever they play on

2242
01:55:40,800 --> 01:55:43,720
Speaker 1: opening Day won't recognize that club when it comes. They

2243
01:55:43,760 --> 01:55:46,240
Speaker 1: may as well be wearing pink jerseys, because that's how

2244
01:55:46,280 --> 01:55:48,840
Speaker 1: different they're gonna look. When they take the fields opening,

2245
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:52,200
Speaker 1: just the name plates on the back of the jerseys alone. Yeah,

2246
01:55:52,240 --> 01:55:55,960
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna look like a completely different team.

2247
01:55:56,000 --> 01:55:58,760
Speaker 1: They're gonna look completely different, but they'll win games that way.

2248
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:00,840
Speaker 1: They're figured out and they'll win games that way because

2249
01:56:00,840 --> 01:56:03,960
Speaker 1: they that has been their hallmark throughout the twenty year

2250
01:56:04,080 --> 01:56:06,240
Speaker 1: run of Bill Belichick and the nine Super Bowls and

2251
01:56:06,320 --> 01:56:08,960
Speaker 1: the six wins. They on a week to week basis,

2252
01:56:09,040 --> 01:56:12,920
Speaker 1: they can change their identity and they've had six months

2253
01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:15,320
Speaker 1: or eight months to do that. Now, under the under

2254
01:56:15,400 --> 01:56:18,760
Speaker 1: closed doors and undercovers, what do you think they're gonna

2255
01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:22,080
Speaker 1: come out and look pretty competitive right from the get go.

2256
01:56:22,200 --> 01:56:24,480
Speaker 1: I bet you that's what I think. I'm not counting

2257
01:56:24,520 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: them out. They're right fair enough. I mean, I'm not

2258
01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:29,200
Speaker 1: saying I'm counting them out. I just I just wonder

2259
01:56:29,240 --> 01:56:30,560
Speaker 1: if we get to the end of the season and

2260
01:56:30,640 --> 01:56:33,440
Speaker 1: we say, wow, you know, the Dolphins really came on

2261
01:56:33,600 --> 01:56:36,440
Speaker 1: this year. They're not there yet, but they took a step.

2262
01:56:36,680 --> 01:56:38,560
Speaker 1: They took a step this year. They were pretty stingy.

2263
01:56:38,600 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 1: They were a tough they were a tough battle the

2264
01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:43,600
Speaker 1: whole way through. I do agree with our guest Pete Prisco, though,

2265
01:56:44,720 --> 01:56:46,560
Speaker 1: I think, and I've talked to people in Miami and

2266
01:56:46,600 --> 01:56:48,839
Speaker 1: we have you know, we have guests on like Armando Saugero,

2267
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:52,000
Speaker 1: he comes on in once in a while. A lot

2268
01:56:52,040 --> 01:56:54,280
Speaker 1: of people in South Florida think that's the guy that

2269
01:56:54,440 --> 01:56:56,560
Speaker 1: Brian Flores is the guy. They got a lot of

2270
01:56:56,600 --> 01:56:59,120
Speaker 1: faith in him. He's their version of their Sean McDermott.

2271
01:56:59,160 --> 01:57:02,080
Speaker 1: He's a leader, he's got a good head on his shoulders.

2272
01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:04,800
Speaker 1: The players play hard for him. He can push the

2273
01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:07,360
Speaker 1: right buttons and set the right tone on the locker room.

2274
01:57:08,200 --> 01:57:11,640
Speaker 1: And now too, a little bit of addition by subtraction,

2275
01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:14,480
Speaker 1: like the Bills went through with Sean McDermott early on,

2276
01:57:15,360 --> 01:57:18,000
Speaker 1: and they're they're gonna they're gonna take a leap forward

2277
01:57:18,040 --> 01:57:19,440
Speaker 1: this show. I'm kind of with you on that, and

2278
01:57:19,480 --> 01:57:21,760
Speaker 1: I think it's because of Brian Flores in a fact,

2279
01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:24,040
Speaker 1: And I don't know how, you know, I don't I

2280
01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:25,880
Speaker 1: don't have my finger on the pole of them. Like

2281
01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:28,760
Speaker 1: I kind of watched these guys. I haven't seen them

2282
01:57:28,840 --> 01:57:32,320
Speaker 1: go outside the lines of their plan. You know, they're

2283
01:57:32,360 --> 01:57:35,360
Speaker 1: not going out and signing and got way to a

2284
01:57:35,400 --> 01:57:37,720
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollar contractor you know, they're not doing

2285
01:57:37,760 --> 01:57:40,040
Speaker 1: that stuff. But the guy we're looking at right there

2286
01:57:40,080 --> 01:57:42,000
Speaker 1: on the screen, Brian Flores, has earned a lot of

2287
01:57:42,040 --> 01:57:45,880
Speaker 1: respect from people who watch that team pretty closely. When

2288
01:57:46,040 --> 01:57:48,280
Speaker 1: we come back, it is that time in the show

2289
01:57:49,040 --> 01:57:53,640
Speaker 1: to answer true or false NFL true false. With myself

2290
01:57:53,720 --> 01:57:56,600
Speaker 1: and Steve coming up on the other side of the break,

2291
01:57:56,800 --> 01:57:59,360
Speaker 1: we'll take another look at the tweet sheet to see

2292
01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:02,120
Speaker 1: where you came down on how you think NFL teams

2293
01:58:02,160 --> 01:58:04,800
Speaker 1: will react around the league that haven't made their plans

2294
01:58:04,880 --> 01:58:07,360
Speaker 1: known on whether they'll be fans in the stands after

2295
01:58:07,400 --> 01:58:10,040
Speaker 1: the Chiefs announced we're filling it to twenty two percent

2296
01:58:10,160 --> 01:58:13,240
Speaker 1: capacity for the regular season, It's all come in your way.

2297
01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:15,640
Speaker 1: Next here on one Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health,

2298
01:58:15,720 --> 01:58:29,640
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio backing on one Bills Live

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01:58:29,760 --> 01:58:32,960
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, motoring through the final

2300
01:58:33,040 --> 01:58:37,000
Speaker 1: half hour of the show and Twitter question of the

2301
01:58:37,080 --> 01:58:43,440
Speaker 1: day has received a relatively balanced response for the most part, Steve,

2302
01:58:43,960 --> 01:58:46,160
Speaker 1: we know the Chiefs are hosting fans at twenty two

2303
01:58:46,160 --> 01:58:49,680
Speaker 1: percent capacity at Arrowhead this season. They announced that late yesterday.

2304
01:58:50,400 --> 01:58:52,480
Speaker 1: How do we think other clubs will react, Will they

2305
01:58:52,520 --> 01:58:55,280
Speaker 1: seek their own approvals for fans and seats. Will they

2306
01:58:55,320 --> 01:58:58,120
Speaker 1: wait and see how it plays out, Will they scrap

2307
01:58:58,200 --> 01:59:00,200
Speaker 1: the whole thing and say it's not worth the risk

2308
01:59:00,240 --> 01:59:02,240
Speaker 1: to have fans in the stands? And you can see

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01:59:02,280 --> 01:59:06,400
Speaker 1: the balance there for the most part. I mean seeking

2310
01:59:06,440 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: their own approvals is number one. And I think that's

2311
01:59:09,200 --> 01:59:12,960
Speaker 1: rooted in the belief that teams are going to try

2312
01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:15,360
Speaker 1: to recoup as much revenue as they can and the

2313
01:59:15,480 --> 01:59:18,800
Speaker 1: more fans having fans as opposed to not having fans

2314
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:22,360
Speaker 1: helps do that. Yeah, and we're twenty twenty two days,

2315
01:59:22,440 --> 01:59:25,960
Speaker 1: twenty four days away from twenty five days away from

2316
01:59:26,360 --> 01:59:31,280
Speaker 1: opening day, and New York has gotten to the point

2317
01:59:31,360 --> 01:59:34,560
Speaker 1: where the number, all the statistics are trending in the

2318
01:59:34,680 --> 01:59:38,320
Speaker 1: right direction and all that, And is it going to

2319
01:59:38,400 --> 01:59:40,960
Speaker 1: be good enough by then that they want to roll

2320
01:59:41,080 --> 01:59:43,840
Speaker 1: the dice like that. I don't know if I can

2321
01:59:43,880 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 1: see the governor doing that, but that's what it's coming

2322
01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:49,160
Speaker 1: down to. And if they are, if they are willing

2323
01:59:49,200 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 1: to do that, you know that the people going to

2324
01:59:50,760 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: that game are going to be the ones that have

2325
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 1: decided I'm going to take the risk, and the team

2326
01:59:56,000 --> 01:59:58,280
Speaker 1: is going to have a ton of protocols in place.

2327
01:59:58,600 --> 02:00:02,480
Speaker 1: It's going to be very different and all of that.

2328
02:00:02,920 --> 02:00:07,920
Speaker 1: But aside from all of that, the season's gonna happen,

2329
02:00:08,240 --> 02:00:12,200
Speaker 1: and we're getting close. We're getting closer. Now, we're three weeks,

2330
02:00:12,320 --> 02:00:16,480
Speaker 1: three and a half weeks out, and it's well, Thursday

2331
02:00:16,600 --> 02:00:19,960
Speaker 1: is the day. So it's twenty two days away, twenty

2332
02:00:19,960 --> 02:00:25,800
Speaker 1: two days from the opener. Yeah, Texans at Kansas City, right,

2333
02:00:26,320 --> 02:00:29,240
Speaker 1: we're closing in. Yeah, So let's take another look at

2334
02:00:29,280 --> 02:00:30,720
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet to see what you have to think

2335
02:00:30,720 --> 02:00:33,400
Speaker 1: about that. Brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

2336
02:00:33,480 --> 02:00:36,320
Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and this

2337
02:00:36,480 --> 02:00:38,960
Speaker 1: one from Jack. He said, we still have almost a month.

2338
02:00:39,760 --> 02:00:42,560
Speaker 1: Let's see where we're at on September first, and let

2339
02:00:42,640 --> 02:00:45,600
Speaker 1: each team in their locality or state decide. In the

2340
02:00:45,720 --> 02:00:49,120
Speaker 1: digital age, it's not an issue with fans finding out

2341
02:00:49,240 --> 02:00:51,600
Speaker 1: or getting their tickets. I feel we could put twenty

2342
02:00:51,640 --> 02:00:53,440
Speaker 1: two to twenty five percent in the stadium and be

2343
02:00:53,560 --> 02:00:55,560
Speaker 1: okay for now. But if New York State says no,

2344
02:00:56,280 --> 02:01:02,840
Speaker 1: then we wait. Yeah, makes sense, but I think if

2345
02:01:03,840 --> 02:01:06,640
Speaker 1: if fans could get in there for the opener, it'd

2346
02:01:06,640 --> 02:01:08,760
Speaker 1: be a lot happier, even if it's just a stattering

2347
02:01:08,800 --> 02:01:13,280
Speaker 1: of fans. Yeah, if you want to open up an

2348
02:01:13,280 --> 02:01:16,960
Speaker 1: open seating set wherever you want go, they do that too.

2349
02:01:17,040 --> 02:01:19,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you get your you'd get that crowd in

2350
02:01:19,200 --> 02:01:21,160
Speaker 1: there as well. Can't You're not gonna if you're gonna

2351
02:01:21,200 --> 02:01:24,640
Speaker 1: have that if the stadium is open. Here's what it

2352
02:01:24,680 --> 02:01:26,280
Speaker 1: comes down to. And people don't like to hear it,

2353
02:01:26,440 --> 02:01:28,400
Speaker 1: but there's got to be an adult in the room

2354
02:01:28,440 --> 02:01:30,760
Speaker 1: saying listen, you can't do this, this, this, and this,

2355
02:01:31,720 --> 02:01:34,360
Speaker 1: And they don't like being told that. People like to

2356
02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:36,160
Speaker 1: do what they want to do. And I get it.

2357
02:01:36,520 --> 02:01:39,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the United States. It's not any

2358
02:01:39,120 --> 02:01:44,520
Speaker 1: place else. We do what we want and only under

2359
02:01:44,560 --> 02:01:47,160
Speaker 1: certain rules and rigs will this happen. So you gotta

2360
02:01:47,160 --> 02:01:49,840
Speaker 1: be willing to live with that. And whether you like

2361
02:01:50,000 --> 02:01:53,200
Speaker 1: it or not, it's what it's gonna be. There's too

2362
02:01:53,360 --> 02:01:56,600
Speaker 1: much money at stake, and I hate to say that,

2363
02:01:57,440 --> 02:01:59,600
Speaker 1: and sometimes you get into that thing where well, yeah,

2364
02:01:59,640 --> 02:02:04,120
Speaker 1: there's an but you know it's money. They wouldn't if

2365
02:02:04,160 --> 02:02:05,640
Speaker 1: they didn't. If it wasn't about the money, they just

2366
02:02:05,760 --> 02:02:10,120
Speaker 1: close it down, play the games with no fans. They

2367
02:02:10,160 --> 02:02:13,280
Speaker 1: wouldn't this. It would go the way of college football.

2368
02:02:14,080 --> 02:02:17,080
Speaker 1: But that's what it is, and it's it's an industry,

2369
02:02:17,760 --> 02:02:19,920
Speaker 1: and it's a big one, and they don't shut it

2370
02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:22,240
Speaker 1: down for just anything. So they're gonna keep it rolling.

2371
02:02:22,240 --> 02:02:23,880
Speaker 1: They're gonna max it out as much as they can,

2372
02:02:24,160 --> 02:02:27,000
Speaker 1: and if people will be there, people will show up.

2373
02:02:27,040 --> 02:02:30,400
Speaker 1: But there's gotta be there's gonna be some an adult

2374
02:02:30,440 --> 02:02:32,120
Speaker 1: in the room that says, wait a minute, just hold

2375
02:02:32,200 --> 02:02:35,360
Speaker 1: on now, and that's right now, that adults tell him

2376
02:02:35,400 --> 02:02:37,760
Speaker 1: you can't have anybody in there. Yeah, this one from

2377
02:02:37,800 --> 02:02:40,040
Speaker 1: Mike on the tweet sheet, I think twenty two is

2378
02:02:40,120 --> 02:02:44,000
Speaker 1: good and safe and all suites should be open. I

2379
02:02:44,040 --> 02:02:46,200
Speaker 1: don't know if he means open for business to fill

2380
02:02:46,920 --> 02:02:50,200
Speaker 1: or open air as in open the windows, now, open

2381
02:02:50,280 --> 02:02:52,200
Speaker 1: for business, I would think I think that's where I

2382
02:02:52,240 --> 02:02:55,240
Speaker 1: read it, and does that in the suits should be open?

2383
02:02:55,360 --> 02:02:57,360
Speaker 1: Plus twenty two percent of what's left? Is that what

2384
02:02:57,440 --> 02:03:01,160
Speaker 1: he's saying, Well, he's saying and twenty two percent I'm

2385
02:03:01,160 --> 02:03:04,360
Speaker 1: guessing in the regular stands and all the suites. Yeah,

2386
02:03:04,640 --> 02:03:07,080
Speaker 1: which the problem how do you get everybody in there

2387
02:03:07,120 --> 02:03:08,680
Speaker 1: without getting them close to each other? And how do

2388
02:03:08,720 --> 02:03:10,120
Speaker 1: you get them out of there without getting you have

2389
02:03:10,240 --> 02:03:12,120
Speaker 1: to be sitting in there. It's like you talk about

2390
02:03:12,160 --> 02:03:15,480
Speaker 1: parking a lot, getting traffic getting out of there, Yet

2391
02:03:15,600 --> 02:03:17,600
Speaker 1: your seats gonna be You're gonna have to stagger it.

2392
02:03:18,120 --> 02:03:20,520
Speaker 1: That's just the way it's got to be. So if

2393
02:03:20,560 --> 02:03:22,320
Speaker 1: you're one of those people that like to leave earlier,

2394
02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:25,360
Speaker 1: you may not be able to. Um, you know, I

2395
02:03:25,440 --> 02:03:27,080
Speaker 1: want to beat the traffic. I don't know if that's

2396
02:03:27,120 --> 02:03:29,040
Speaker 1: going to happen. And here's another one from Bill's fan

2397
02:03:29,120 --> 02:03:31,520
Speaker 1: twelve eighty three, who just echoes exactly what I just said.

2398
02:03:31,680 --> 02:03:33,320
Speaker 1: It's all about the money, So I think teams will

2399
02:03:33,360 --> 02:03:35,560
Speaker 1: attempt to get their own approvals. I don't see it

2400
02:03:35,640 --> 02:03:39,160
Speaker 1: as too big an issue as long as people in

2401
02:03:39,360 --> 02:03:42,320
Speaker 1: each stadium and each stadium is following proper protocols. But

2402
02:03:42,360 --> 02:03:45,360
Speaker 1: if you've been to restaurants, you'll see some doing great

2403
02:03:45,480 --> 02:03:50,280
Speaker 1: jobs where others just scare me. Think of that. I

2404
02:03:50,400 --> 02:03:53,360
Speaker 1: think of Bill Stadium as one big restaurant. Well, you know,

2405
02:03:53,600 --> 02:03:57,320
Speaker 1: those are the variables that you're contending with here. You're

2406
02:03:57,360 --> 02:04:01,000
Speaker 1: contending with the variables of what you're state and locality

2407
02:04:02,440 --> 02:04:06,000
Speaker 1: situation is. In terms of the infection rate, You're dealing

2408
02:04:06,080 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: with the variables of the cross section of your fan base,

2409
02:04:11,320 --> 02:04:13,520
Speaker 1: and how everybody there is not the same I think

2410
02:04:13,560 --> 02:04:17,440
Speaker 1: that's safe to say. And then the size of your

2411
02:04:17,800 --> 02:04:22,080
Speaker 1: building and the support you're going to get from the

2412
02:04:22,200 --> 02:04:25,200
Speaker 1: local authorities with ingress and egress and all that stuff.

2413
02:04:25,240 --> 02:04:27,200
Speaker 1: Along with a countless number of ushers, you're going to

2414
02:04:27,280 --> 02:04:31,720
Speaker 1: have literally shepherding people in and out of your building.

2415
02:04:33,120 --> 02:04:35,440
Speaker 1: Temperature checks at the gate while they're taking your ticket,

2416
02:04:35,480 --> 02:04:38,160
Speaker 1: they're checking your temperature. I mean, there's a lot to do,

2417
02:04:38,440 --> 02:04:41,880
Speaker 1: but you better bet dollars to donuts. A lot of

2418
02:04:41,920 --> 02:04:43,840
Speaker 1: these teams already have plans in place and they're just

2419
02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 1: waiting for the green light. Right, multiple plans in place

2420
02:04:47,080 --> 02:04:50,640
Speaker 1: with contingencies for whatever percentage you throw on it. From

2421
02:04:50,680 --> 02:04:53,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo Wing where this is interesting too and brings up

2422
02:04:53,240 --> 02:04:55,440
Speaker 1: a good point about how the ever changing landscape that

2423
02:04:55,560 --> 02:04:58,200
Speaker 1: dictates this. Cuomo seems to be pro sports in Western

2424
02:04:58,240 --> 02:05:02,839
Speaker 1: New York, so he mail in house as in gems,

2425
02:05:03,640 --> 02:05:07,400
Speaker 1: everyone stays within their pods, wears masks, food delivered to

2426
02:05:07,440 --> 02:05:09,920
Speaker 1: your pods, so only you can leave to you can

2427
02:05:10,000 --> 02:05:12,440
Speaker 1: only leave your seat to go to the bathroom. Only

2428
02:05:12,480 --> 02:05:15,080
Speaker 1: sell tickets to people who live in Western New York

2429
02:05:15,840 --> 02:05:20,800
Speaker 1: or non quarantine states. No resale of tickets. Once you've

2430
02:05:20,880 --> 02:05:24,280
Speaker 1: got it, you've got to use the ticket. Interesting concept there,

2431
02:05:24,360 --> 02:05:27,480
Speaker 1: because you know, the secondary ticket market is as always

2432
02:05:28,520 --> 02:05:31,520
Speaker 1: has become. How you police that huge industry? Yeah, I

2433
02:05:31,560 --> 02:05:33,640
Speaker 1: don't know how you police that though, like too, and

2434
02:05:34,160 --> 02:05:36,880
Speaker 1: like the guy that's buying the tickets might be from

2435
02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:39,640
Speaker 1: Western New York, but well, who's to say you can't

2436
02:05:39,640 --> 02:05:41,320
Speaker 1: go turn around and sell them somewhere. You got to

2437
02:05:41,320 --> 02:05:43,400
Speaker 1: have your ticket and your driver's license and a form

2438
02:05:43,440 --> 02:05:45,480
Speaker 1: of ID. Put a name on the ticket, Yeah, put

2439
02:05:45,520 --> 02:05:48,600
Speaker 1: a name on the ticket, or just look at the

2440
02:05:48,880 --> 02:05:52,240
Speaker 1: zip code on the driver's license if it's the same guy, Yeah,

2441
02:05:52,320 --> 02:05:54,520
Speaker 1: you know, and say, okay, you're from your you're from

2442
02:05:54,560 --> 02:05:57,840
Speaker 1: a one four zip code. You're okay, go ahead, you know.

2443
02:05:58,120 --> 02:06:02,320
Speaker 1: So Yeah, but that then you've got to allow for

2444
02:06:02,600 --> 02:06:05,400
Speaker 1: three times as long to get into the stadium with

2445
02:06:05,600 --> 02:06:10,400
Speaker 1: a third as many people. That's a little tedious. Yeah,

2446
02:06:10,440 --> 02:06:13,720
Speaker 1: it's it's right. I think it's doable though, and with

2447
02:06:14,120 --> 02:06:17,520
Speaker 1: as well as the league is doing right now, and

2448
02:06:17,640 --> 02:06:20,000
Speaker 1: obviously New York State's doing well, so you would hope

2449
02:06:20,040 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 1: that the governor would take a long look at it

2450
02:06:25,000 --> 02:06:29,120
Speaker 1: and say, you know, I mean, as the one person

2451
02:06:29,160 --> 02:06:31,839
Speaker 1: on the tweet she'd mentioned he has been pro sports.

2452
02:06:31,920 --> 02:06:34,200
Speaker 1: He said, I want the Bills to play football. Well,

2453
02:06:34,240 --> 02:06:36,800
Speaker 1: now there looks like they're gonna play football. So the

2454
02:06:36,880 --> 02:06:40,280
Speaker 1: next logical step is who's gonna watch Who's gonna watch? Ye?

2455
02:06:40,520 --> 02:06:42,800
Speaker 1: And do you want to do you want to take

2456
02:06:42,880 --> 02:06:44,800
Speaker 1: that step? I'm hoping he can be convinced to do

2457
02:06:44,920 --> 02:06:46,880
Speaker 1: that for the sake of the Bills fans. Even if

2458
02:06:46,920 --> 02:06:49,560
Speaker 1: it's just twenty to twenty five percent capacity, it's one

2459
02:06:49,600 --> 02:06:51,160
Speaker 1: better than no fans. One thing we wanted to show

2460
02:06:51,320 --> 02:06:53,400
Speaker 1: the fans on MSG get a chance to see it.

2461
02:06:53,960 --> 02:06:56,000
Speaker 1: You know, the fans are gonna be wearing masks. Some

2462
02:06:56,040 --> 02:06:57,840
Speaker 1: of the players are gonna be wearing masks. It made

2463
02:06:57,840 --> 02:07:00,320
Speaker 1: a big deal about these plastic full face masks, those

2464
02:07:00,360 --> 02:07:02,640
Speaker 1: around the mouth. Jerry Hughes is gonna wear a full

2465
02:07:02,680 --> 02:07:04,720
Speaker 1: face mask with around his mouth and around his face.

2466
02:07:04,760 --> 02:07:06,560
Speaker 1: They came out with a picture of what that looks like.

2467
02:07:07,440 --> 02:07:09,560
Speaker 1: This is a picture of Jerry Hugh's actual helmet that

2468
02:07:09,640 --> 02:07:11,280
Speaker 1: the people on himis g are getting to look at

2469
02:07:11,400 --> 02:07:14,480
Speaker 1: right now. To me, it's got It looks like the

2470
02:07:14,600 --> 02:07:18,320
Speaker 1: bottom half is a see through whiffleball. Just open up

2471
02:07:18,320 --> 02:07:21,160
Speaker 1: a whiffleball, and that's what the slots look like. Those slots, though,

2472
02:07:21,200 --> 02:07:25,160
Speaker 1: are staggered, so there's a front row of slots and

2473
02:07:25,240 --> 02:07:27,320
Speaker 1: then there's a second row of slots behind those that

2474
02:07:27,440 --> 02:07:30,840
Speaker 1: don't line up. They're staggered, so they're you know, they

2475
02:07:30,880 --> 02:07:33,320
Speaker 1: don't You can't go straight can't stick your finger and yeah,

2476
02:07:33,360 --> 02:07:36,480
Speaker 1: you can't go straight through. And that's obviously to prevent

2477
02:07:37,360 --> 02:07:40,960
Speaker 1: droplets from the player wearing it from getting out and

2478
02:07:41,600 --> 02:07:44,600
Speaker 1: vice versa, somebody else is from getting in. And it's

2479
02:07:44,640 --> 02:07:46,960
Speaker 1: clear plastic. It kind of goes around the face mask,

2480
02:07:47,400 --> 02:07:50,680
Speaker 1: so you know, the inside of the face mask. So

2481
02:07:50,840 --> 02:07:53,360
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. I wonder the big one

2482
02:07:53,400 --> 02:07:56,040
Speaker 1: that I wonder about his quarterbacks. They're gonna be shouting

2483
02:07:56,120 --> 02:07:59,280
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, right and they've said shouting,

2484
02:08:00,280 --> 02:08:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, increases the distance of droplets, singing, shouting those things.

2485
02:08:05,040 --> 02:08:07,800
Speaker 1: So you wonder if they're gonna feel compelled to wear

2486
02:08:07,920 --> 02:08:11,040
Speaker 1: one of those, and will they be able to communicate,

2487
02:08:11,840 --> 02:08:15,440
Speaker 1: you know, can they communicate with that um double edged sword.

2488
02:08:15,480 --> 02:08:17,760
Speaker 1: There's nobody actively there's nobody that drowned it out. If

2489
02:08:17,760 --> 02:08:19,560
Speaker 1: there's fewer people in the stands, maybe it's not a

2490
02:08:19,600 --> 02:08:23,120
Speaker 1: concern at all. I can't sit an have twenty two capacity.

2491
02:08:23,160 --> 02:08:25,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, it's it's a

2492
02:08:25,960 --> 02:08:28,800
Speaker 1: it's a key element to this whole thing is And

2493
02:08:30,440 --> 02:08:35,360
Speaker 1: if these teams get to the stadiums, I'm not really

2494
02:08:35,360 --> 02:08:37,160
Speaker 1: worried about him catching it from each other. They got

2495
02:08:37,240 --> 02:08:39,840
Speaker 1: twelve guys league wide that have tested pot. They're getting

2496
02:08:39,840 --> 02:08:44,000
Speaker 1: tested every single day, So if they can get to

2497
02:08:44,040 --> 02:08:45,960
Speaker 1: the games and get to the site of the stadium,

2498
02:08:45,960 --> 02:08:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they're gonna be virus free. So I'm

2499
02:08:50,080 --> 02:08:52,400
Speaker 1: not really you know, getting on the field and having

2500
02:08:52,440 --> 02:08:55,000
Speaker 1: a mask with this guy and that guy. Because listen,

2501
02:08:55,080 --> 02:08:57,200
Speaker 1: if if you're going again, if Jerry Hughes is going

2502
02:08:57,240 --> 02:08:59,400
Speaker 1: against a left tackle all day, all day, all day,

2503
02:08:59,440 --> 02:09:01,360
Speaker 1: all day, and that left tackle test positive, whether the

2504
02:09:01,440 --> 02:09:05,320
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes got a mask or not, he's exposed. Yeah,

2505
02:09:06,600 --> 02:09:08,600
Speaker 1: you're just in too close proxies. Even if the left

2506
02:09:08,640 --> 02:09:10,680
Speaker 1: tackles got the mask, Even if the left tackles got

2507
02:09:10,720 --> 02:09:12,240
Speaker 1: the mask, they both have the masks. Yeah, I mean

2508
02:09:13,600 --> 02:09:16,680
Speaker 1: they're both exposed. They're you know, one's exposed to the other.

2509
02:09:16,760 --> 02:09:18,480
Speaker 1: Which everyone has it, you know what I mean. So

2510
02:09:18,600 --> 02:09:22,000
Speaker 1: it's not escaping it if somebody's got it like that.

2511
02:09:22,200 --> 02:09:26,680
Speaker 1: But they're getting tested every day. So and those numbers

2512
02:09:26,720 --> 02:09:28,880
Speaker 1: are minuscule. Twelve guys on the list. I think it's

2513
02:09:28,920 --> 02:09:30,640
Speaker 1: eleven now. One of them got cleared. I think somebody

2514
02:09:30,680 --> 02:09:32,760
Speaker 1: got cleared today, so it might be down to eleven now.

2515
02:09:32,920 --> 02:09:36,920
Speaker 1: So just bravo to the NFL teams the way they've

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Speaker 1: been policing themselves through the course of training camp. We

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Speaker 1: know that these sports largely self police. Yes, it's all.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna say. We know that these

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Speaker 1: sports are different. The NHL is bubbled up in two places,

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Speaker 1: the NBA's bubbled up all in one place, and Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball is not bubbled and has had a couple

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Speaker 1: and they struggle. I think the very nature of the

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Speaker 1: sport and the nature of how at this point of

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Speaker 1: the season both sports are run. Baseballs on the road constantly,

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Speaker 1: they're traveling, they're playing, they're in hotels, they're they're jumping

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Speaker 1: around the country all the time. At least in a

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Speaker 1: normal year. Football they don't. And I think those subtle differences,

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Speaker 1: as we've seen, if you wear a mask, at least

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Speaker 1: you're not going to spread it to everybody. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you wash your hands with all these precautions so

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Speaker 1: they work, they work, and the protocols they put in place,

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Speaker 1: and the way the team is structured, the way that

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Speaker 1: the mentality of the players, the team thing makes a

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Speaker 1: big difference for these guys. I think that's given football

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Speaker 1: kind of an edge up. Of course, we could not

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Speaker 1: possibly be earlier in the process of seeing this thing work,

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Speaker 1: but so it may blow up in their face still,

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Speaker 1: but for right now looks pretty good. One segment to

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Speaker 1: go on the show as we step aside now, but

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with what we have learned from today's

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Speaker 1: show that's coming your way next. Here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, this is Buffalo Bills Radio Time

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Speaker 1: for what have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks,

2544
02:11:21,200 --> 02:11:25,640
Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: We had one senior NFL writer from CBS Sports, Pete Prisco,

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Speaker 1: on the show today. It's been high on the Bills

2547
02:11:33,680 --> 02:11:37,440
Speaker 1: all off season and since we last spoke to him,

2548
02:11:37,480 --> 02:11:41,640
Speaker 1: we hadn't discussed the Sean McDermott contract extension, which came

2549
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Speaker 1: down from between the time we last spoke to Pete

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Speaker 1: and we had him on today and we asked him

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Speaker 1: what that meant for the locker room and the franchise

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Speaker 1: going forward. We'll tell you what they think about him,

2553
02:11:54,480 --> 02:11:57,120
Speaker 1: and rightfully so. I think Shawn's one of the more

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Speaker 1: underrated coaches in the NFL. And I think that group

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02:11:59,600 --> 02:12:01,920
Speaker 1: of there done a heck of a job. And I

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Speaker 1: told you on that at the combine and said, you're last.

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Speaker 1: Last year at the combine, he said, your team has

2558
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Speaker 1: taken on your quitey, tough personality and the way they

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02:12:10,360 --> 02:12:12,480
Speaker 1: play you can see that, and that's to sign a

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Speaker 1: respect for a football coach. I'm a big believer in

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Speaker 1: the build that. I'm a big believer with what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: And I think Sean is an underrated coach. Why not

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Speaker 1: lock him up and makes all of sense in the world,

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to argue. I mean, the proofs in

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Speaker 1: the pudding, and you know he would listen to the

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Speaker 1: players and how they revere him. It's not surprising at all.

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Speaker 1: One thing we should mention Steve tom Flores, former backup

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the Bills in the AFL days and obviously

2569
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Speaker 1: Raiders two time Super Bowl winning head coach has made

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Speaker 1: it to the finalist list among the Seniors Committee for

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Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so congrats to him.

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Speaker 1: Good for him. He's quite the gentleman. He's a great guy.

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Speaker 1: He does He's flown under the radar a lot. He

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Speaker 1: does radio. He does radio for the Raiders, or did

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Speaker 1: up until the year or two ago. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: if I don't know who's doing a radio this year.

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Speaker 1: But just a wonderful gentleman, a great guy to talk to,

2578
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Speaker 1: good friends with our own Paul McGuire here Western New York.

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Speaker 1: Those two guys are really get those two in a room.

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Speaker 1: They've been close for a long time. So good for

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Speaker 1: Ron Flores. He's yeah, and it will be an expanded class,

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Speaker 1: but the thing got delayed due to COVID, so think

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Speaker 1: about how big that it's going to be next year

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Speaker 1: when they get that set up. We're about out of

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Speaker 1: time here today, but be sure to join Steve and

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Speaker 1: I here tomorrow, same bad time, same bad channel, noon

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Speaker 1: to three, and we'll have more on training camp developments,

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Speaker 1: along with NFL news and notes and some stuff for

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Speaker 1: you to chew on. As always. In the Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: for Steve Tasker I'm Chris Brown. We'll catch up with

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio