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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live, presented by called Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to One Bill's Live here on a Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: As we are still obviously standing by awaiting positive updates

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Speaker 1: ONTOMR Hamlin's health, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and

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Speaker 1: there are updates. They're very vague in nature, but they

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Speaker 1: are positive and that is what is encouraging. Before we

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Speaker 1: get into that, I know that you know, Marty and

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Speaker 1: Duffer just completed their show, Sabers Live, but you want

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Speaker 1: to talk about an uplifting night that the Sabers provided

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Speaker 1: for people in Western New York. Bravo to the Sabers

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Speaker 1: five four and overtime over the Washington Capitals. And it

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Speaker 1: was very hard not to get a little choked up

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Speaker 1: seeing the players walking in with those number three shirts

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Speaker 1: on their way into the locker room before the game

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Speaker 1: last night, offering their support to Damar Hamlin and in

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Speaker 1: turn to the Bills, knowing what the players here are

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Speaker 1: of support from them. Obviously, there's been some support from

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Speaker 1: around the NFL as well. Every NFL team adopted the

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Speaker 1: avatar of prayers for Damar on their respective team Twitter

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Speaker 1: handles and I believe on their Instagram pages as well.

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Speaker 1: Just to see the entire league come together on tomorrow's behalf,

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Speaker 1: I just have to say, for me, is a very

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Speaker 1: uplifting thing to see. I can only imagine what it's

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Speaker 1: like for the players and coaches here at one Bill's Drive. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was, it was. It was a welcome distraction for

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Speaker 1: me last night watching the Sabers play and then to

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Speaker 1: see you know, three on three hockey Taylor H. Thompson's

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Speaker 1: January third, it's thirtieth goal. Yeah, it's not coincidence. It's

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Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty amazing. I was. It was hard for me,

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Speaker 1: moment last night. That was pretty special. And I you know,

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Speaker 1: thanks to the Sabers guys for doing all that. That

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Speaker 1: We'll get into this too, Brownie that they're not the

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Speaker 1: only professional sports team who is remember is thinking about tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I mean every single you mentioned, every single NFL team,

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Speaker 1: we got some guys that are hurting. You know, nobody's

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Speaker 1: admired Dan Campbell's ability to get the you know, get

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Speaker 1: Speaking of prayers, Jill Kelly, the wife of Jim Kelly,

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Speaker 1: the Bills, incidentally, are conducting just to walk through today.

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Speaker 1: There is no meat availability for them or for their

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Speaker 1: ifs ends or what fours about what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: with the fact that there is a game in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League schedule, it didn't happen or it didn't finish.

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Speaker 1: I just let them figure it out and we'll take

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Speaker 1: it as it comes. Because for most Bills fans, I

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Speaker 1: heard this on social media. I've talked to other people

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Speaker 1: who cares the Bills. I take a loss, give the

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Speaker 1: Bengals a win, make it a tie, give give the

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Speaker 1: Bills a win, whatever it is, or you know, go down,

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Speaker 1: or just make it the game go away. Different scenarios

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Speaker 1: about Okay, so the Chiefs get kind of awarded the

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Speaker 1: number one seed, and maybe they just make it so

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Speaker 1: that if the Bills and the Chiefs make it to

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Speaker 1: the championship, game or the Bills Chiefs or Bengals and

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Speaker 1: Bills and Bengals and whatever the games that are neutral

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Speaker 1: site that kind of thing. Who cares. Yeah, it's all

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Speaker 1: ridiculous to even conjure up that stuff. So, yeah, what

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00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: that game means. Obviously the reason we all were watching

447
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: it was because it was such a big game, and

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Speaker 1: to have something dwarf that game like it has, you

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00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 1: got to be sensitive to that. So you know, let's

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Speaker 1: just you know, push that aside, kind of trudge along

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Speaker 1: and appreciate that the fact that this is something that

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Speaker 1: the league has kind of it's Monday night. It stopped,

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Speaker 1: and that's hard to do to the National Football League,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate their willingness to do that, and all

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Speaker 1: the outpouring of concern or respect and support that the

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Speaker 1: entire league across the across the board has given to

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Speaker 1: Damar and the Bills and how they've kind of come

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Speaker 1: together at this time. Certainly, nothing's going to grind it

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Speaker 1: to a halt, except that it already did for a minute.

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Speaker 1: But the inertia is going to take over, and the

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00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: clock is still ticking on a season. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean now that we're getting some positive albeit preliminary

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Speaker 1: positive signs for about DeMar's condition. You know, we'll see

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Speaker 1: begrudgingly about what happens in the days to come. We

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Speaker 1: will take a break here because when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll be joined in studio by former Bills safety Koi Wire,

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Speaker 1: CNN anchor, and we'll get some thoughts from him as

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Speaker 1: he can relate to this kind of a situation as

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Speaker 1: a player. He was on this team's roster when the

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Speaker 1: Kevin Evert incident happened back in two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 1: He'll join us next here on One Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you and joined in studio now by former Bills defensive

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Speaker 1: back and current CNN correspondent Koi Wire. Cooy, good to

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Speaker 1: have you here. Before we get started, the Bills have

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Speaker 1: issued an updated statement, so I wanted to get that

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Speaker 1: pulled up here. The update from the Bills is as follows.

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Speaker 1: Can we put that up guys, because I don't have

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Speaker 1: it in front of me right now. Do you have

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Speaker 1: the statement? Give us one second? Oh? Here it is.

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Speaker 1: I've got it. Damar remains in the ICU in critical condition,

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00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: with signs of improvement noted yesterday and overnight. He is

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Speaker 1: expected to remain under intensive care as his healthcare team

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Speaker 1: continues to monitor and treat him. So that is the update,

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Speaker 1: which I think to a great degree is what a

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Speaker 1: lot of what we already knew, but it's just kind

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Speaker 1: of confirming it at the team level. So we appreciate

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Speaker 1: that update. And again, as more updates become available, we'll

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Speaker 1: provide them along to you. Okay, now, Coy, good to

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Speaker 1: have you. Good to see it been a while. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're kind of doing your thing down in Atlanta. But

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Speaker 1: this is this one obviously hits different, this latest. You know,

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Speaker 1: injuries happen every week in the NFL. This one hits different.

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Speaker 1: It's one that is not all too different from the

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Speaker 1: one you and your teammates had to go through in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, opening kickoff second half. I believe

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Speaker 1: you were on the kickoff unit yourself, so you're out

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Speaker 1: there on the field on that play, opening kickoff second half.

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Speaker 1: I hate to bring up a terrible subject, but we're

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Speaker 1: trying to all deal with this and process this in

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Speaker 1: our own way. What can you take from that that

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00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: you feel applies here from a player perspective, I was

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Speaker 1: trying to watch the game, enjoy the game. I stand

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Speaker 1: when I watched Bill's games, and when I saw that

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Speaker 1: happen to Damar, I fell down to the side of

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Speaker 1: my couch and I had a lot of emotions rushed back,

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Speaker 1: you know, seeing the ambulance, seeing the players, the tears,

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Speaker 1: the huddle on Ben did knee Sam prayers I did

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Speaker 1: have in these emotions flooding back from being on the

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Speaker 1: field when Kevin Everett suffered his paralysis, when I was

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Speaker 1: in college at Stanford University, or running back Carry Carter,

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Speaker 1: who would go on to play in the NFL as well,

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Speaker 1: he had a collision with the University of Washington's safety

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Speaker 1: Curtis Williams. Curtis was paralyzed from the neck down. Eighteen

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Speaker 1: months later he passed away from complications due to that paralysis.

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Speaker 1: In each of those occasions, at some point, you know,

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Speaker 1: the whistles blew. They told us to buckle up and

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Speaker 1: get back out there and play on. That's just the

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Speaker 1: way it was, you know, And you get hardened too

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Speaker 1: those things. You're taught to live in this world where

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Speaker 1: it's a next play, next snap mentality, whether you drop

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Speaker 1: a pass or you fumble a ball. That's how you

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Speaker 1: have to be to be able to succeed moving forward.

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Speaker 1: You can't let negativity haunt you, and so you become callous,

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Speaker 1: you become hardened to humanity, right to what's right. My wife,

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Speaker 1: you know, we were talking about this, and she says

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Speaker 1: she was in the stadium that day too, when Kevin

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Speaker 1: Ever got injured, and she said, how were we living

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Speaker 1: in a world where it was okay to just tell

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Speaker 1: everyone to go play after this tragic incident. She didn't

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Speaker 1: understand that. She didn't come from a sports family, of sports,

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Speaker 1: any sort of knowledge of sport culture. So I had

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Speaker 1: to explain to her back then, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: just the way it is. You know, when someone gets injured,

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Speaker 1: you say your prayers and you play on them. She

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Speaker 1: did not understand. And I think it was a powerful moment,

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Speaker 1: an unprecedented moment when the NFL, and specifically the two

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Speaker 1: coaches involved Sean Taylor, Sean excuse me, Zach Taylor. Zach

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Speaker 1: Taylor and Sean McDermott. You know, they what they did,

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Speaker 1: It cannot be overstated how powerful that decision was. They

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00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: were told by Troy Vincent of the NFL to go

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Speaker 1: and to their locker and assess the situation, and when

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Speaker 1: they saw those faces and saw that trauma in the

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Speaker 1: eyes of the guys in front of them, they determined

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't have to go back out there. I think

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Speaker 1: that's a paradigm shift in the way it's always been

548
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,959
Speaker 1: is starting to change. You know, maybe in the past

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Speaker 1: players safety first, health is important we care about maybe

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Speaker 1: those words have seemed to ring a bit hollow in

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Speaker 1: the past, but this was different, and I think the

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Speaker 1: ripple effects this is going to have everyone else in

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Speaker 1: the NFL was watching, College coaches were watching, youth level coaches,

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Speaker 1: parents were watching, and they're gonna start to understand that

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00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: this really wasn't right the way things used to be right.

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Speaker 1: So I think that if there's any sort of silver

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00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: lining in this, of course, the ultimate joy will come

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Speaker 1: when we know that DeMars is back to a full

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Speaker 1: and hopefully speedy recovery. But that is one thing that

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Speaker 1: we can take from this. We sometimes learn through adversity,

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Speaker 1: and often through adversity some sort of positive that can

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Speaker 1: come from it, and I think that was huge. I

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00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: think that is a big moment in sport, and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lasting effect. Yeah, And that's one of

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00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: the things that was missing from this scenario was that

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Speaker 1: Damorrow never you know, he never came out of it,

567
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Speaker 1: never got even in Kevin when he kind of he

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Speaker 1: gave it. No, he was paralyzed, right, So he was

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Speaker 1: doing anything that was something that we always looked for, right,

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Speaker 1: And and this is the first in you're right, this

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Speaker 1: is the first time it was a little bit like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we ain't going on, we can't go on. And the

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00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: league you know, backed him up and said, yeah, yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: And because they Troy Vincent and really good dude former

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Speaker 1: Bill kind of a leader type mentality where the generals

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Speaker 1: and those guys up at the top of the food

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Speaker 1: chain listened to the people who had their feet on

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Speaker 1: the ground, Zach Taylor and Sean McDermott and those guys,

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Speaker 1: and the official Sean Smith was there and they said, listen,

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Speaker 1: this isn't right. Yeah. Former player was the perfect person

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Speaker 1: to have in that position from the league standpoint. He

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Speaker 1: I was on the midnight conference call that night of

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Speaker 1: the game where he explained their emergency action plan and

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Speaker 1: he's talking with Commissioner Goodell. He's on the phone with

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Speaker 1: the head official, in communication with the two head coaches,

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Speaker 1: and he was certainly part of steering them in that direction.

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Speaker 1: So and and it also is of note that just

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago when you look at to a

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00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: tongue of Biloa multiple concussions this year, and he played

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Speaker 1: in a game and they didn't even know he had

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Speaker 1: a concussion in the most recent instance, and it was

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Speaker 1: his coach who the next day in film says, two,

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Speaker 1: are you okay? Yeah, I think you should go see

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Speaker 1: the doctor. That's a big change, right, That's a big change,

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00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: even of a self. So we're seeing that this culture

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Speaker 1: is starting to morph into to a better place that

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00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: will ultimately put players health and safety first. So it's

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00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: a bit of positive we can take from it. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about this because we know that this game is

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00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: not going to be resumed at the very least this week.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of open ended and a little ambiguous, but

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00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: we understand it's hard to come up with hard and

603
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: fast answers in a situation like this while the season

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00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: is still ongoing. So it now, at least as far

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Speaker 1: as the coaches are concerned, as far as the players

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00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: are concerned, it's on to week eighteen. Your team had

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00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: to and you didn't really learn until the next day

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Speaker 1: that it was literally life and death for Kevin in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven until the next day doctor Cappuccino

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Speaker 1: had the press conference. He was not optimistic that Kevin

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Speaker 1: would ever walk again in the immediate aftermath of his

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Speaker 1: emergency care. And you guys had to get ready for

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Speaker 1: a game the next week. How did you guys compartmentalize

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Speaker 1: all of that, pull together as a team and play

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Speaker 1: a football game. And even when you did and you

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Speaker 1: took the field, was it different. Well, I will say this,

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of us knew during that game

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Speaker 1: that it was very serious. We saw his body convulsing, yeah,

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Speaker 1: struggling to breathe, yeah, And so it was tough to

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Speaker 1: continue on that game. And then after that game, I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to go and hug my wife and hug

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Speaker 1: my parents and tell them I love them, and and

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Speaker 1: you know, you have this this nauseated feeling about you,

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Speaker 1: an empty feeling. It was really difficult. And so now

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the guys today. Of course they're not

626
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Speaker 1: They're having some meetings, they're trying with heavy hearts to

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Speaker 1: get back to work. They're going to have a walk through.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to have your typical practice that you'd

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Speaker 1: go out there and this would be the most intense

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Speaker 1: practice of the week to get ready for the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be here at home. This is a

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00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: playoff implications on the line. How are they How are

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00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: they going to be themselves? I don't think they are,

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00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: but you know, as the elite athletes that they are,

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00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: they will try to find not what to fight for,

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00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,720
Speaker 1: but who right. They're going to make this all about Damar,

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00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: and so that's how you do it. You play for

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00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: something bigger than yourself. This isn't about me and how

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00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: many tackles I get this game. I'm doing this for Damar.

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00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: I'm doing this for Kevin Everett. I'm doing you know.

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Speaker 1: So that's in my experience in the locker rooms I've

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Speaker 1: been a part of. That's those are the conversations you have.

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Speaker 1: And I'm told that the leaders are in their leading

644
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: right now in that sort of manner. We've got great

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Speaker 1: leadership from top all the way down through to that

646
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Speaker 1: locker room. So I think that if anything, team can

647
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: pull through this it will be the Buffalo Bills. We've

648
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 1: seen that time and time again. They understand that it's

649
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: also not just about Damar, It's about all of them

650
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Speaker 1: out there, Bills Nation. I go to Japan to cover

651
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,479
Speaker 1: a story and I have people coming up to me saying,

652
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: go Bills. That's how powerful this organization, these teams are.

653
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: And they know they're playing for all of their hope.

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00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: They know that they're the glimmer of hope that they

655
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: need after the racist mass shooting seven months ago, after

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Speaker 1: the storm that took the lives of dozens of people

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Speaker 1: in this community. That's who they're playing for too. And

658
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: then this. The thing that hit a lot of people

659
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Speaker 1: about this was because it was unprecedented. It was different.

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Speaker 1: This injury did de more Hamlin seemed different because the

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00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: tackle seemed innocuous by n by NFL standards of this

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Speaker 1: day and age, and he was okay for a split

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Speaker 1: second and not and the frantic nature with which they

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Speaker 1: had to revive him on the field, and it and

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Speaker 1: the reaction of his teammates who came around and walked,

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Speaker 1: you know, and shielded the public's eye of what was

667
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: happening to their teammate. All of this stuff was different,

668
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: and even now we seemed kind of um, kind of

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Speaker 1: treading water in that we're not familiar with the way

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Speaker 1: it happened. I think the like Zach Taylor and the

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Speaker 1: moments we just saw in the start of this segment,

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Speaker 1: and the way Sean McDermott reacted in this is to

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Speaker 1: how thankful and why players rallied toward leadership in head

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Speaker 1: coaching positions, and why it's so important to have someone

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Speaker 1: who's gonna say this is how it's gonna be. Guys

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00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: in a moment when you don't know how to feel,

677
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do, Leadership is what gets us

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Speaker 1: all through. How thankful we are to have a guy

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Speaker 1: like Sean McDermott who is a strong leader, and a

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Speaker 1: guy like Zach Taylor who has also exhibited strong leadership skills,

681
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins of the world, and even the Mike McCarthy's

682
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: down in Dallas who today stood up Dan Campbell in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: These head coaches, Mike McDaniel addressing the media today, You've

684
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Speaker 1: got to have guys who, even if they have never

685
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: been through this before, are strong enough to say, here's

686
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Speaker 1: what I think we should do, and here's why, and

687
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: to have the cachet to have men like you Steph

688
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: Diggs and Josh Allen get in behind him and say, yeah,

689
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. Let's go and join forces. So it's

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Speaker 1: part of the reason guys like you, guys like me,

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Speaker 1: we're willing to take the risks inherent in the game

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Speaker 1: that we've just witnessed. We were willing to play the game,

693
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Speaker 1: wanted to play the game, enjoyed playing the game, and

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Speaker 1: we're willing to take those risks. Is because of the

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Speaker 1: benefits of being around men like that, accomplishing things that

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Speaker 1: teams accomplished together, winning games together, being part of a

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Speaker 1: group that accomplishes that together, having guys working towards something together,

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Speaker 1: with men that you love and respect. It's those risks

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Speaker 1: that seemed crazy in moments like this most guys you me,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for you. The risk was

701
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Speaker 1: absolutely worth it well and for the benefits that we've

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Speaker 1: gotten throughout our entire lives because of it. And I

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00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: covered Coy's entire career at least here in Buffalo. And

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Speaker 1: there was a time where you had to deal with

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Speaker 1: that personally. I remember when your head was in a

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Speaker 1: halo brace yea. How much did that impact your perspective

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Speaker 1: with respect to this game. I mean, you had an injury,

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00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: a serious injury neck right, like, yeah, you know, we're

709
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: playing Jacksonville. I was asked to play linebacker that game

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00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: at two hundred and nothing pounds and this big old

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00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: lineman pulling guard came around and hit me, and my

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00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: whole right arm went um. I knew something was off

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00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: and ended up having titanium plate and for screws put

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Speaker 1: in my neck. That was the end of my career

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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo eventually. So I've you know, from an

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Speaker 1: injury standpoint, I know how scary that is. And so

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Speaker 1: I certainly was thinking of Damar and what's going on

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Speaker 1: through his mind. I was so happy that his mom

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Speaker 1: was able to be there with him in that moment,

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Speaker 1: she was able to get into that ambulance with him immediately,

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Speaker 1: because that had to be a bit of comfort for him,

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Speaker 1: but also for her. You could imagine if you're this

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Speaker 1: happened to your son and you weren't able to be

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Speaker 1: there and to hold to hold him. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's really emotional stuff, and it is a reality

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Speaker 1: of the game. I do think somehow some way. The

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00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: game continues to get safer over the years. It's so

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00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: much safer now than from when we played and from

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00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: when you covered so many years ago, and that's such

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Speaker 1: a positive sign, and there's still progress being made. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't trade it either for anything in the world. I

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Speaker 1: am who I am today because of this sport, because

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Speaker 1: of the bonds that were formed with so many great leaders.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, Steve, it's such a good point. I

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Speaker 1: think that Sean McDermott and Zach Taylor are going to

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Speaker 1: be looked at two people who spearheaded a new movement

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Speaker 1: and a new way of thinking in regards to players

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Speaker 1: health and safety. They were not afraid to smash the

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Speaker 1: status quo. That's what great leaders do, no matter what

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Speaker 1: has always been done, no matter what the norm has been,

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Speaker 1: You're willing to do something bold, brazen, something that you

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Speaker 1: know what, you might get in trouble for or be

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Speaker 1: found upon in the grand scheme of things. They did

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Speaker 1: the right When you look back, it's hard to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing, yeah, because it's going against a current

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Speaker 1: that has not been showed that way. So when they

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Speaker 1: finally doing it, and that was why I brought up

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Speaker 1: with my wife mentioned to me, why why were we

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Speaker 1: living in a world where that was okay? Right? They

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00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: did the right thing, and it makes sense when you

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00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: have people go ahead and do it, and but it

752
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,919
Speaker 1: takes people like that too again, smash the status quo,

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00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: change the narrative, and really put into action what has

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00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: been a lot of words about making players safety more

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00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: important and the important thing. They made it the important thing.

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Speaker 1: We're unfortunately at a time here, Coy, but thanks for

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00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: stopping by, and I'll I'll just be very frank. Coy

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00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: comes in here and I haven't seen him in ten

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Speaker 1: years or something. I mean, like I said, I covered

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Speaker 1: his whole career. He obviously knows Steve really well. He

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00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: didn't come in here and give us a handshake. He

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00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: gives us a hug. I'm just gonna say it was

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00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: great because we're all dealing with it, you know, and

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00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: we're removed from it to some degree. We're not in

765
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: the locker room, we're not coaching that team, but we

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00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: feel it just as much. So really appreciate it. Great

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00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: to see you, and I know you'll paint this story

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Speaker 1: in a proper light for CNN, as you do a

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Speaker 1: lot of the other stories that you do for that. Now,

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm here to let the world know more

771
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: about this place. The people of this place is special

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Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for you. You know, you give

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00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: this name, this team, this brand so much to be

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00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: prideful about and the way you represent this organization, this team,

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00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: these people the way they deserve to be. Thanks. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate to see you. Man. We're gonna take a break here,

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Speaker 1: be back with your phone calls. Next on One Bill's Live,

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

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Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker,

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00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,280
Speaker 1: our thanks again to koy Wire for stopping in really

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Speaker 1: lending some value perspective to what the players are going

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00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: through at this point in time. After seeing a teammate

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Speaker 1: go down like that, coy and his Builts teammates back

784
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven obviously went through a similar situation,

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00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: a life and death situation with a teammate in Kevin Everett,

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Speaker 1: and the biggest difference was as fans, while we all

787
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Speaker 1: recognize and media members, we all recognized it as a

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Speaker 1: serious situation when it happened on the field. Watching Kevin

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Speaker 1: Everett's body struggle for air as he was immediately paralyzed

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Speaker 1: from the neck down. The aftermath was even more jarring

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00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: when we realized there was a real chance that the

792
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: man would never walk again, and that really quick thinking

793
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: and life saving measures were taken to just keep him alive. Yeah,

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00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: they did some and they listen to Kevin everting as well.

795
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Speaker 1: There was some controversial treatments they used that were cutting

796
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: edge that turned out to be now standard protocols. And

797
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: Andy Cappuccino gave him the cold IV that dropped his

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Speaker 1: body weight and cut down on the information. There's no

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Speaker 1: spinal cord. Of the spinal cord, there was no swelling

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Speaker 1: and because the swelling would crimp the spinal cord and

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Speaker 1: cause it to be more damaged. They're quick thinking and

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00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: their courageous decision to do that back then when it

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Speaker 1: wasn't done that much. You know, Now Kevin Everett's walking

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00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: around so and having a normal life. Obviously his football

805
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: career was over, but just being able to have a

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Speaker 1: normal life was a victory an enormous as an enormous plus. So, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that these guys, that all these people and you

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Speaker 1: said you were there at the in the stadium the

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Speaker 1: other night where somebody yelled for the defibrillator and they

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Speaker 1: had it there in seconds. Yeah, I didn't realize what

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Speaker 1: they were calling for immediately, But when I saw the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals team member of either the medical staff or

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Speaker 1: athletic training staff sprinting onto the field with that thing,

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Speaker 1: I recognized what it was right away. We could not

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Speaker 1: tell whether they were actually using it, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: know if they called for it as a just in

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Speaker 1: case or if they knew immediately they needed it when

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Speaker 1: I was watching it in real time. But as soon

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Speaker 1: as I saw that thing getting carried onto the field,

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00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: I knew immediately what it was because we have one

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Speaker 1: just outside the cafeteria on the second floor of our building.

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Speaker 1: It's just an ad It's got a handle on it,

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Speaker 1: so you can run with that thing. And they were

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Speaker 1: bringing the paddles out because literally seconds counted, because every

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Speaker 1: second that passed was another second that oxygen was not

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Speaker 1: going to Damar Hamlin's brain. So their immediacy in recognizing

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Speaker 1: the situation, springing into action and executing in a way

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Speaker 1: that emergency medical technicians need to maybe the difference between

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Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin coming out of this in a positive light

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Speaker 1: more than anything else, or thanks again to the first

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Speaker 1: responders because they were a plus. And we just heard

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor earlier this hour, the head coach the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: addressing the media today. Speaking today, it's interesting now because

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Speaker 1: because on a Wednesday, the league has and notably the

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Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriots are not having a media day

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Speaker 1: today for this reason, the Bills are given their their

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Speaker 1: players a day away from the open locker room and

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Speaker 1: having the media come in, and the league has agreed

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Speaker 1: to follow suit with the page and the Patriots get

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Speaker 1: the same thing. But there is media going on all

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Speaker 1: around the league, NFL, the Jeff Miller of the NFL

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00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: and Troy Vincent have been doing. Jeff Miller is the

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Speaker 1: senior vice president of Health, Health and Safety and Safety

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Speaker 1: and so he's being obviously these guys are making themselves

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Speaker 1: available to the media today. Jeff Miller said that the

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Speaker 1: least conversations about whether this Bill's Bengals game is you know,

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Speaker 1: they haven't decided anything yet. The discussions about what it

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Speaker 1: is and the ramifications and the ripple effects of that

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Speaker 1: game not happening or being talked through even now and

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Speaker 1: h you know, and Troy Vincent as well has been

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Speaker 1: part of those conversations, and uh, he is, you know,

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Speaker 1: going to reiterate too that. Um, you know they've that

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Speaker 1: they've begun those conversations now and you know they'll get

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Speaker 1: to that in due course. They haven't decided on what

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Speaker 1: happens with the Bills Bengals game. I don't at this

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Speaker 1: point of the season. It's hard to imagine them playing

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Speaker 1: that game. I think you just wipe that game off

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Speaker 1: the schedule. And and there's been a were We've been

859
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Speaker 1: talking about this a lot off the air. The most

860
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Speaker 1: fair thing that I've thought about that I've heard is

861
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Speaker 1: that if something happens where Cincinnati's in, because now the

862
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Speaker 1: Bills in Cincinnati probably can't get the one seed, well

863
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: they can, but they would need Kansas, Kansas's got to

864
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Speaker 1: lose when so the onus goes from Bills winning out

865
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Speaker 1: to Kansas City winning out and they get the AFC champion,

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Speaker 1: they get home field and the bye week throughout the playoffs.

867
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Speaker 1: And there's some interesting things. And the Bills, you know,

868
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: it's second secondary in their concerns that if the Bills

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Speaker 1: made it to the AFC championship game against the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: or the Bengals made it to the championship game against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, or the Bills made it the AFC Championship

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Speaker 1: game against the Bengals, that maybe that AFC Championship game

873
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Speaker 1: amongst those teams would be at a neutral site. Right.

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Speaker 1: Football Talk was suggesting that today. I think that's a

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00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: great idea. That's a great suggestion, but I think it

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00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: should only extend to those three teams, since they're the

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Speaker 1: ones with the chants going into Monday Night's game of

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Speaker 1: getting it, that makes some sense to me. Um don't

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00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: know where that would game would be, and and you know,

880
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: certainly it doesn't address anything about the bye week that

881
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,760
Speaker 1: Kansas City would get that the Bills and the Bengals

882
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: would not have a chance at now. But that's nice.

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00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: That would be a nice gesture towards Damar Hamlin and

884
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: what happened to him and the Bills and the and

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00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: the Bengals. It's also a long way off. They've got

886
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: more immediate concerns, namely what to do with this postponed game,

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00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: And as Steve mentioned, NFL Executive price president Jeff Miller

888
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: said that conversation about what we do with that game

889
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: has begun, so when it is resolved and decided upon

890
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,439
Speaker 1: is a complete other story. We know it's not being

891
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: resumed at any point this week. It's on to week eighteen.

892
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Speaker 1: We will take a break, be back with much more,

893
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Speaker 1: including your phone calls at eight oh three fifty one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty So if you're

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Speaker 1: on hold, please wait. We will get to you in

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Speaker 1: the second hour of One Bill's Live presented by a

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Speaker 1: Lot of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. This is One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by called Light of Health. All right,

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00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: welcome back for our number two of one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Passer with you here on this Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: If you're just joining us just to provide some updates.

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00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 1: Number one, the Bills are just having a walkthrough practice today.

903
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: There is no media availability, as is usually the case

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Speaker 1: on media day Wednesdays. That has been pushed back to Thursday,

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Speaker 1: not only for the Bills, but for their opponent this week,

906
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, who will not have any media

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00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: availability there until tomorrow as well. There was an update

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00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 1: from the team within the hour. The Bills put out

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Speaker 1: a brief update on what is going on concerning Damar's condition.

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Speaker 1: It said Damar remains in the ICU and critical condition,

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00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: with signs of improvement noted yesterday and overnight. He is

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Speaker 1: expected to remain under intensive care as his healthcare team

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Speaker 1: continues to monitor and treat him. So that's where that stands.

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Speaker 1: Our thanks once again to former Bill safety Koy Wire,

915
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Speaker 1: who was here with us in studio. Lent some player

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Speaker 1: perspective to how you deal with a teammate going down

917
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Speaker 1: with a life threatening injury, and he experienced that because

918
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: he was on this Bill's roster when Kevin Everett went

919
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: down in the home opener while covering a second half

920
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 1: kickoff and severely injured his spinal cord, but fortunately recovered

921
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Speaker 1: and was able to walk and carry on a natural life. Again.

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Speaker 1: We're certainly hoping for the same outcome for DeMar Hamlin,

923
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Speaker 1: who remains at UC Medical Center. The people in the league,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's surprising because DeMar Hamlin was, you know,

925
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: he's a backup safety until Michae Hyde went down. Now

926
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Speaker 1: he has been a starter all season since Week two

927
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Speaker 1: or week three actually for the Bills, and you know

928
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Speaker 1: he's got people who know him pitt Is. You know,

929
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Speaker 1: he went to pitt and he Pittsburgh's home and he

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00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: has been a huge pit supporter and a Pittsburgh fan,

931
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Speaker 1: not the Steelers, but the city. He's been a Pittsburgh

932
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Speaker 1: guy his whole life grew up down there. DeMar Hamlin,

933
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Speaker 1: his high school teammate. Hurt Hinish of the Defense of

934
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Speaker 1: the Texans. Houston Texans was asked about his relationship with

935
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Speaker 1: DeMar and everybody, you know, it's just a great guy. Um,

936
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Speaker 1: he has and obviously it's a different situation, but everybody

937
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: who has crossed paths with him have come out and

938
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Speaker 1: just been so supportive and illustrative of how wonderful a

939
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Speaker 1: person Damar was. And we've got the stuff on our

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Speaker 1: on our Twitter account of his his interview coming him here,

941
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Speaker 1: um and what he spoke to us about. Um, yeah,

942
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: we talked to him and certainly any player would have

943
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Speaker 1: gotten a ton of support, but the kind of player

944
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Speaker 1: DeMar has been, and you know from Mike Tomlin's remarks

945
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Speaker 1: last yesterday about how he's known him since he was twelve,

946
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Speaker 1: he's been in and around the you know, he's a

947
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh kid. Uh. To his high school teammates, to his

948
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Speaker 1: teammates here in Buffalo. It's been really really amazing to

949
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Speaker 1: see what happens when a great human being has this

950
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Speaker 1: happened to him, and people rally around him. And kudos

951
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: to all his friends and everybody who has come out

952
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: and support of it. And I just wanted fun I

953
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Speaker 1: just want to say this real quick, just once again

954
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: about koy Wire and you know, him taking the time

955
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Speaker 1: while he's here on assignment for CNN to stop in

956
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Speaker 1: the studio and kind of share some perspective with us

957
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Speaker 1: from a player perspective again, having gone through an incident

958
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Speaker 1: where there's a life and death situation on the field

959
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: with a teammate, and how you kind of shift your

960
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: perspective and try to get back on the field again.

961
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 1: I know that those Bills teams from his era and

962
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 1: from some of the other players era of the early

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Speaker 1: two thousands and the twenty tens, they didn't win a

964
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Speaker 1: whole lot of games. There's a lot of good people

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Speaker 1: that came through that locker room in that time period,

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Speaker 1: and I consider myself fortunate to know a lot of

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Speaker 1: those guys, even though they did not have a lot

968
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: of success on the field, A lot of good people

969
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: came through that locker room over the years, and and

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00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: Coy is a shining example. Yeah, we uh DeMars. We

971
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Speaker 1: get like Jimmy Morrissey, who is the center for the

972
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, he was a teammate, a college teammate, a

973
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Speaker 1: pit of DeMar, and he says, DeMars a hero in Pittsburgh.

974
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: So he always has been. And that's a for a

975
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Speaker 1: guy who's not even as a he's not even a

976
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: vested player in the NFL. That was brought up to two.

977
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: We're getting word now that was brought up to Troy Vincent,

978
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: and Troy Vince said, listen, he's not a vested player,

979
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: but he's gonna get taken care of. The league's going

980
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: to give him everything heeds going forward. And I can

981
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: promise you that. Our owner Terry Pagoula basically told you

982
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: you see medical center, whatever is necessary, just do it. Yeah,

983
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: it'll be handled right. So it's you know, it's the

984
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: league is really rallying in this, and it's going to

985
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: be interesting, I think in the coming weeks, months, years,

986
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: because I can't believe it's not going to happen. The

987
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: changes that are going to happen in the NFL and

988
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: how they do think coy was pretty a student pointing

989
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: that out. A paradigm shift in injuries of this nature,

990
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: how they're handled in game, what they do for the

991
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: other players that are left quite literally left behind on

992
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: the sidelines. You're gonna ask them to continue to play.

993
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. That's a paradigm shift. Coaches being hyper aware

994
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 1: about concussions, like Mike McDaniel on Monday in film going

995
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: over the game with Tua and looking into some of

996
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: his interceptions and then looking at him for explanation and saying,

997
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: go down the hall, go go to the athletic trainers

998
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: and our medical team, and go get screened for a

999
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: concussion because I think you might have had one. Again,

1000
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: that's a just being aware of that in the moment

1001
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: when he's doing his job on a daily basis. And

1002
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: I'll say this too. You can criticize the NFL for

1003
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: a lot of things, and I'll say it again, I've

1004
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: said it a ton. They get most of these issues,

1005
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: if not every single one of them. Right. The only

1006
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: criticism I can say you can level at them is

1007
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: it takes them too long to get there, no question,

1008
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: but they get almost every issue that faces them correct

1009
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: or they're moving in that direction. It's going to be

1010
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: really interesting to see from this point on because you'll

1011
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: see it again. We will see it again, because it's

1012
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: just the nature of the game. Another game that will

1013
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: where coaches will say, you know what, we're unwilling to

1014
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: continue after what happened. Yeah, it'll happen again. It may

1015
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: be another five or two. It was in two thousand

1016
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Speaker 1: and seven that Kevin Everett thing happened. There have been

1017
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: instances since then. Y, but it will happen again, and

1018
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: so the league will put into place protocols and it will.

1019
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: And I say this, people say, wow, there's the league

1020
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: is so soft. You know what, They're not soft. They're smarter.

1021
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: They're not softer, they're smarter. And that's the thing that's

1022
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: the most important thing. Learn how to improve your practices

1023
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: coming out of something like this. And I'll say this,

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01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: you can say what you want about you get to

1025
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: all these guys where you get the bad call on

1026
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: ruffing the course, it seems ridiculous talking about, but it's true.

1027
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: You get these people who complain about a bad roughing

1028
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: the passer call or a bad helmet to helmet hit,

1029
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: and they eject the guy, or the guy is in

1030
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol or there's a penalty, And people are

1031
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: like going, I don't know, the league is soft. They're

1032
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: not soft, they're smart. Because I'll be the first thing,

1033
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: we were idiots back when I played in certain areas.

1034
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 1: Comparatively speaking, now they're idiots. We were idiot. We didn't

1035
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, it just wasn't done. Now it's just smarter

1036
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: to do it this way. Because I'll say this, you're

1037
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: telling me the league is less big now than it

1038
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: was then. Yeah, this league does nothing but grow because

1039
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: they do things smart well and their profile is larger,

1040
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: so it's even more important for them to have to

1041
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: set the right example. Yeah, player health. I agree, And

1042
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: there's issues that they're facing that they haven't gotten right

1043
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: just yet. And but you know what, they wear it

1044
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: on their sleeve. They get away with nothing because they're

1045
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: under such scrutiny every day, every every practice, and like

1046
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: this week, it's a big deal that there's no media

1047
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: here present here at one Bills Drive. Media is here

1048
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: all the time, holding the league, the teams and the executives,

1049
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: the coaches, the gems all accountable for all the stuff

1050
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 1: they do and all the stuff they say, They don't

1051
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 1: escape any of that stuff, so it really leads them

1052
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: to getting it right. Now. It does take some time

1053
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: sometimes for them to get it right, but they do.

1054
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: Ye even in the twenty minutes too long. It took

1055
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: them the other night to cancel the game. They got

1056
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: it right. Yeah, they got it right. Let's get to

1057
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: the phones where people have been waiting patiently at eight

1058
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Speaker 1: o three five fifty eight fifty two five fifty, and

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Speaker 1: we lead off with Kip in South Buffalo. What do

1060
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: you have for his? Kip, you're on one Bill's life.

1061
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Speaker 1: What I've got for you, gentlemen this afternoon is just

1062
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: to let you know. I grew up in Michigan, but

1063
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Speaker 1: I've been mafia forever. In fact, I watched Pete Metzelar's

1064
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Speaker 1: play high school football. He was a little brother. I'm

1065
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: a guy that's been a friend of mine all those years.

1066
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: But I've lived all over the country before I moved

1067
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: here to Buffalo seven years ago, and in the twelve

1068
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: hours after that happened universally from friends in Detroit, New Orleans,

1069
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: notably where I lived for a decade and a half, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver,

1070
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: friends have gotten a hold of me to say we're

1071
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: praying for that young man and what does Buffalo need. Universally,

1072
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: people have our back and they've said, how's Buffalo doing.

1073
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: You guys have had it rough since May. How are

1074
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: you doing? And I said, we're tired of being tough

1075
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: and resilient. We're tired of it. Well, that's awesome, kid,

1076
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 1: thanks for that. I appreciate that. And I'll say this,

1077
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 1: Brownie and I've been talking about it as well. The

1078
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: people in our building. We're not Brownie and me, Maddie,

1079
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: none of us are doing outside media appearance and we're not.

1080
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm not going on the fan, I'm not going on

1081
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: TSN in Toronto. I'm not going on you know, all

1082
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: the Sirius XM all of that stuff. Brownie, your phone's

1083
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 1: been blowing up as well too. We're just not doing

1084
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 1: that this week or for the time being. But our

1085
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 1: phones have been blowing up for thirty six forty eight

1086
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: hours like nobody's business, not only with people who want

1087
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 1: to talk to us on the air about what happened

1088
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: to tomorrow, but also my friend, I'm getting calls and

1089
01:03:55,880 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: reaching out from yeah, tons of people and who I

1090
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: know and who know me about how are you doing? Yeah,

1091
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: because they know we know Damar and it's been that's

1092
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 1: been that way for all of us. So, Kip, thanks

1093
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: from South Buffalo. Thanks for that phone. I'm glad that

1094
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: it's not just me and Brownie. Yeah, well said, let's

1095
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 1: get back to the phones and we go to Mark

1096
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 1: in Stockton next. What do you have for us? Mark?

1097
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 1: Here on one Bill's life. Hey, guys, I'm praying for

1098
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 1: tomorrow and his family and everybody that knows them. Yeah. Thanks.

1099
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 1: Everybody was a winner that night because teams, the players,

1100
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: the medical staff, the fans, the city of Cincinnati, the

1101
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo fans, across the nation. Everybody was pulling for this guy.

1102
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: Even now there, you've got two teams, they're definitely going

1103
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Why don't you just give them both

1104
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: at w because everybody was a winner who were still winners.

1105
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: Let them meet the playoffs. Yeah. I understand where you're

1106
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: coming from, Mark, I really do. And it's I think

1107
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 1: the spirit of your idea here is good, and I'm

1108
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:15,439
Speaker 1: sorry I gotta let you go. We got other people waiting.

1109
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: I think the spirit of what you're suggesting, the intentions

1110
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 1: are good. The problem is that impacts other teams negatively,

1111
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: and a team like Baltimore, for example, which has a

1112
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: chance to still win the AFC North, you just hand

1113
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: the Bengals a win that goes away for the Baltimore

1114
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 1: Ravens because then they can't catch Cincinnati and that's not

1115
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 1: going to sit well with them because there are playoff

1116
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,439
Speaker 1: seeds at stake. And while I would be the first

1117
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 1: to agree with you that none of that matters when

1118
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: you're dealing with the life and death of a human

1119
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: being who's DeMar Hamlin, there are things at work there

1120
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: that may rub some people the wrong way, right or wrong.

1121
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: And I think that's why the league is wrestling right

1122
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 1: now with what to do with this unfinished game, because

1123
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: there there are ripple effects from the outcome of that

1124
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: game that affect other teams, namely anybody in the top

1125
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: in the running for the top three. A playoff AFC

1126
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: playoff seatings the Baltimore Ravens, who are still in the

1127
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,600
Speaker 1: running for an AFC North Division title, which affords them

1128
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 1: a home playoff game rather than having to play on

1129
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 1: the road. And should these things matter, They shouldn't in

1130
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, but it's it's easy to

1131
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 1: say that. I think it's harder to convince people of that,

1132
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: and and that's unfortunate. But that's where we see. I

1133
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 1: love where your heart's at. Yeah, it's great, it's great,

1134
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: and yeah, I get it, it's a great it would

1135
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: be a great gesture. Um, but I'm I'm kind of

1136
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 1: with Brownie Will just I think it's better to leave

1137
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: it unplayed then gift somebody, uh something. Neither one of

1138
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: these things that neither of these teams earned, you know. Um,

1139
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: and I think too both clubs, particularly the Bills, because

1140
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 1: of how much they love DeMar. It's irrelevant the Bills

1141
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: have been going on the road to the playoffs, they've

1142
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: gotten home playoff games. Feels like they've been on the

1143
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: road all season right this year. That feels like the

1144
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 1: Bills have not had like they've had like two home games, right. Um,

1145
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: So I think the Bills are like gonna shrug their

1146
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: shoulders and says, who do we play next? You know

1147
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: kind of thing. When this as soon as they get

1148
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: their mind around DeMar and they and they know that

1149
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: DeMar's out of danger. Um, when that happens, then they'll

1150
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 1: be able to get their eyes forward. But I love

1151
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 1: where your heart's at. Mark. It's a great gesture, but

1152
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't think it's realistic. Yeah. There

1153
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 1: are more up dates coming from Troy Vincent, the executive

1154
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: vice president of football Operations. He is doing a national

1155
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 1: conference call about the unfinished game between the Bills and

1156
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Where they go from here and on options

1157
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: for resuming the Bills Bengals game or adjusting playoff seatings.

1158
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent says, quote, everything is being considered. They'll lean

1159
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: on the guiding principles from COVID, including the value of

1160
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: winning and winning percentage. It's their job now to give

1161
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 1: the commissioner those suggestions if the game is never resumed.

1162
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 1: So that's where things stand at the league level right now.

1163
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: They are combing through any and all possible situations, which

1164
01:08:56,360 --> 01:09:00,839
Speaker 1: includes finding a time to resume the game, not resuming

1165
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 1: the game at all, and then the repercussions from that

1166
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:07,679
Speaker 1: decision if the game is not resumed. How our playoff

1167
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:10,680
Speaker 1: seating is determined, What is the fairest way to do that,

1168
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:14,599
Speaker 1: How they deal with it? Whose seated? Where is it

1169
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 1: based on winning percentage? Is it based on other factors?

1170
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: How does head to head come into play. How do

1171
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 1: the tiebreakers come into play when you have a team

1172
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: of a conference record of eight and two as opposed

1173
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 1: to another team of the conference record of eight and three,

1174
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: because they've played one more game than the Bills or

1175
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: the Bengals. So these are all things they're going to

1176
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 1: have to work their way through and then present the

1177
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:38,520
Speaker 1: commissioner with a series of options, and then the commissioner

1178
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: is going to obviously make the ultimate decision on that front,

1179
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: and they're going to have to do it in short

1180
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 1: order because Week eighteen is coming up fast and then

1181
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs are coming up right after that. I think

1182
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: it's interesting, and you know, going down this road you

1183
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: think about it was a great suggestion about neutral site,

1184
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: because the difference is this that somebody's going to get

1185
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 1: a bye week. That's the only difference. Because other than that,

1186
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 1: then you could make a case for any game playoff

1187
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: game outside the division championships. The wildcard round could certainly

1188
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:13,799
Speaker 1: be played at home. The Chiefs, the Bills, the Bengals

1189
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:18,679
Speaker 1: could be played in their own stadiums, and you could

1190
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: also if it wasn't a head to head, you could

1191
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: give the Baltimore Ravens or the wild card team, if

1192
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: it's the Bengals, a home game as well, somehow, some

1193
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: way or any of those games could be played at

1194
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 1: neutral sites. So outside of the bye week, the neutral

1195
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 1: site game is a really interesting phenomenon that you could

1196
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 1: throw into this, so that anybody who had a chance

1197
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: to get a home playoff game, who was deprived of

1198
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: it because of the Bills Bengals outcome or lack thereof,

1199
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 1: could get a neutral site game rather than a home

1200
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: game or a road game. That's a possibility, but there's

1201
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:01,200
Speaker 1: you know, as you can see, and we've talked about this,

1202
01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 1: we went we all lived through this during the COVID

1203
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty of how it was going to

1204
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 1: happen if an all the Monday they had a game

1205
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:11,560
Speaker 1: on every single night of the week during that season someplace.

1206
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 1: So the flexibility is there, if not the desire, and

1207
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 1: you know, you go back, you fall back on all

1208
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: of that stuff. It's it's it's good preparation for this,

1209
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: but it doesn't make it any easier to figure out, yeah,

1210
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:33,879
Speaker 1: without a spreadsheet. As Steve mentioned, some former pit players

1211
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: who play for the Houston Texans had some comments on

1212
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: Tamar Hamlin, the person knowing him as a friend and

1213
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 1: teammate all positive. Obviously, the Houston Texans, we should also mention,

1214
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:48,679
Speaker 1: contributed ten thousand dollars to DeMar Hamlin's go funding page

1215
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: earlier today, and just to provide more perspective on how

1216
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 1: DeMar Hamlin's situation has drawn the attention of the entire league.

1217
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 1: A coaching staff that is familiar with Damar, the New

1218
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:10,920
Speaker 1: York Giants coaching staff provided recognition of DeMar Hamlin demonstrated

1219
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: support for DeMar Hamlin today. Head coach Brian Dable of

1220
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 1: the New York Giants wore a hat today that not

1221
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: only had the New York Giants logo on it, but

1222
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:24,719
Speaker 1: the number three in honor of Damar Hamlin obviously him.

1223
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: Offensive line coach Bobby Johnson in New York, along with

1224
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:33,680
Speaker 1: Shay Tierney, the quarterbacks coach. They all came from the

1225
01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo coaching staff of Sean McDermott and went over to

1226
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 1: coach the New York Giants this past offseason. They obviously

1227
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:41,800
Speaker 1: know DeMar. They were here for his rookie season. They

1228
01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: were around him every day, so it was nice to

1229
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 1: see their support for Damar Hamlin as well. In the

1230
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:54,799
Speaker 1: wake of his horrific cardiac event. So it's touched everybody

1231
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 1: in the league, front to back, back and forth, sideways,

1232
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: from one coach to the other. It is. It is

1233
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:07,599
Speaker 1: league wide being felt, and where the league goes from

1234
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 1: here will be very telling in the coming days as

1235
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: they all prepare whether they're ready for it or not.

1236
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 1: Week eighteen and some pretty important games with respect to

1237
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:24,719
Speaker 1: playoff implications, division titles, playoff seatings. They all will be carrying,

1238
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: what many of them will be carrying, major weight as

1239
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: far as that is concerned. But I have to believe

1240
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:34,479
Speaker 1: every last one of the men who will take the

1241
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: field this week, whether they play for the Bills, the Patriots,

1242
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,240
Speaker 1: or one of the other thirty teams in the NFL,

1243
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: it is going to feel different stepping out onto the

1244
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: field this week. There's just there's no way around that, right,

1245
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 1: No way around Yeah. I mean, it's it's a it's

1246
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 1: a conundrum, but I think it's one I think all

1247
01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 1: of us. It's going to be hard to complain about

1248
01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:01,799
Speaker 1: the outcome knowing, you know, how this happened. So whatever

1249
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: the league decides, they'll try and be as fair as possible.

1250
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 1: There will be some teams that will be will have

1251
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 1: will have a legitimate complaint about not being able to

1252
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:18,639
Speaker 1: overcome a disadvantage they're going to be presented with by

1253
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: playing a game or with a win or a loss.

1254
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 1: That's that's going to be an interesting kind of you

1255
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:34,559
Speaker 1: could there's there's a zillion ways to slice this. You

1256
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,879
Speaker 1: could make the Week eighteen game for Cincinnati and Buffalo,

1257
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: because they're against division opponents, make it count for win

1258
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 1: if the if Cincinnati wins, that means they win both

1259
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 1: Bills game and hand the Baltimore game. And if they

1260
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:49,200
Speaker 1: and if the Bills win against the Patriots, they win

1261
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: both the Bills game and the Cincinnati game, or vice versa.

1262
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 1: If they lose, they lose both. You know that kind

1263
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 1: of thing. Both teams are in the playoffs no matter what,

1264
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: and that Week eighteen game, you could make it doubly

1265
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 1: important or whatever. There is more comment coming from Troy

1266
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: Vincent NFL Networks Judy Batista, who's clearly on the conference

1267
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:13,799
Speaker 1: call with the Executive vice president of Football Operations Troy Vincent.

1268
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent said the Pats Bills game is on as

1269
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 1: scheduled for Sunday, but Troy Vincent did not rule out

1270
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:29,679
Speaker 1: moving that game, said, the conversation has not been had,

1271
01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 1: but all conversations with the Bills to this point have

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Speaker 1: been about DeMar and the wellbeing of the players and

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Speaker 1: the staff. Now, the wellbeing of the players and the

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01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:44,559
Speaker 1: staff obviously includes playing in an upcoming football game. So

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01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,679
Speaker 1: I think that's why Troy Vincent is not ruling it out.

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01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: But obviously, if you move another game while you still

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01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: have a week seventeen game to address, that only complicates

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01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 1: and muddies the waters all the more as to how

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01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 1: how you come up with a reasonable solution with the

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01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 1: game that's been suspended indefinitely. We will take a break here.

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01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:12,680
Speaker 1: When we come back. More of your phone calls, so

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01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:15,519
Speaker 1: we'll address those at eight oh three, five fifty one,

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01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: eight eight, five fifty two, five fifty plenty more coming

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Speaker 1: up next here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to one

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01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:41,640
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on

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01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. The news on Damar Hamlet is encouraging, but

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01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,640
Speaker 1: he's still in the ICU at the University of Cincinnati

1289
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: Medical Center, and you know, all indications are we take

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01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 1: it minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day,

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01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:02,600
Speaker 1: and hope we continue to hear positive news out of Cincinnati.

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01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 1: We go back to the phones at eight oh three,

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01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: five fifty eight fifty two, five fifty and we go

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Speaker 1: to Rick in Buffalo next Rick, You're on one bills Live.

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01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Hey, guys? I thought

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01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,640
Speaker 1: Bulldog brought up a great point yesterday and that was

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01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: how much resolve does this team have left in the tank?

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01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 1: And I think asking this team and I hope the

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01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: NFL considers the psychological and mental aspect of this and

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01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,720
Speaker 1: sending that team back to Cincinnati, you know, with such

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01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: a traumatic incident and not having them think about what

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01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:39,680
Speaker 1: happened at the fifty yard line and being able to

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01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: mentally play a game in that environment again, I mean

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01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 1: think about it. I mean it started off with Kim,

1305
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: you know, and then Dame Jackson with the cervical injury.

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01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:53,719
Speaker 1: You know, three games in twelve days, we lose Mica,

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01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: we lose Von the weather component, and you know, the

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01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: tragedy that happened within the community, and now Damar. I

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01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: mean it's just I mentally, I can't I just can't

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01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 1: wrap my head around the amount of adversity that this

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01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: team has gone through this year. And I came away

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01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: from that Cincinnati game thinking to myself, I just all

1313
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: I thought about is the number one seed and the

1314
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 1: playoffs and winning a super Bowl, And from the moment

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01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 1: that happened, it just kind of like all went away.

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01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 1: It was like the weirdest feeling ever. And I'm still

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01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:30,400
Speaker 1: feeling like I'm not really sure what I expect out

1318
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: of this season. And you know, I just it just

1319
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 1: says so much about the coaches and the men on

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01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: this team, the women on the staff as well as

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01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:42,639
Speaker 1: the men. I just this organization is incredible, as community

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01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: is incredible, and I just I don't know, I just

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01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 1: don't know how they're doing it. Yeah. Yeah, you think

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01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: back to May, to May fourteenth incident, the racial shooting,

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01:18:55,840 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: mass shooting that happened. All that's happened since then. One

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01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:05,600
Speaker 1: of their own also, you know, um the DeMar you

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01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: know DeMar Um Dane. You know, we didn't even he

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01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: didn't even I mean mentioned a lot of it, but

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01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:19,920
Speaker 1: he even mentioned the relocated game, about that we've had

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01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: two storms Christmas on the road, um, not getting home

1331
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: until three in the afternoon. The games that you've had

1332
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: like like what one Sunday one o'clock game or two

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01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 1: You've only had six home games because of you know,

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01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 1: relocations and night games and Thanksgiving games. One of our

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01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:47,960
Speaker 1: early earlier callers pointed it out, you know, he said

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01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 1: he got a call from a friend who said he

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01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 1: commended the Western New York community for being resilient, and

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01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 1: the next thing he said, yeah, that's all well and good,

1339
01:19:56,240 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 1: he goes, but he get tired of being resilient sometimes. Yeah, yeah,

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01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 1: it's it's difficult and there's a lot in there. But

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01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:09,639
Speaker 1: here's the here's one thing I know. I mean, when

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01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: these guys get back in the saddle mentally, when Demark

1343
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:17,760
Speaker 1: comes out of the woods, when they get reassurances that

1344
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: he's going to be back with them at some point,

1345
01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 1: maybe not to play, but certainly to be their friend again,

1346
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 1: then they'll be able to get their mind around it

1347
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 1: and they'll use it as fuel all the stuff we've

1348
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 1: been talking about. They will part of what it means

1349
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:37,839
Speaker 1: to be a football player and in a team sport,

1350
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:42,320
Speaker 1: and it's sometimes it's the absolute best thing ever is

1351
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: for having to have motivation and reason to rally around

1352
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: each other. It's an awesome spot to be in. That's

1353
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: why teams do it so much. It's it feeds what

1354
01:20:57,320 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: people like the Bills, and guys like the Bill and

1355
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:04,600
Speaker 1: all the people in the building. It feeds something that

1356
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: we're all hungry for, and that's a cause greater than ourselves.

1357
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:12,519
Speaker 1: So if they can get to that point, I have

1358
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:16,160
Speaker 1: no doubt they'll be able to rally and bring something

1359
01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: to the table in the games that they have remaining

1360
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 1: whenever they happen, playoff games, regular season games, whatever, the

1361
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 1: Cincinnati game, all of that stuff. Yeah, it's it's been

1362
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: a rough year for all of us here in Buffalo.

1363
01:21:30,479 --> 01:21:32,680
Speaker 1: We've had it's been a roller coaster of a year,

1364
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 1: and now this twenty twenty three is now starting out

1365
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 1: like that. Right, Let's let's have some I have complete

1366
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 1: and utter faith in these guys, this team, this leadership,

1367
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 1: this coaching staff, this ownership group in this building that

1368
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:57,800
Speaker 1: if they haven't already, they will and continue to make

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01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,960
Speaker 1: us all very very proud of them. I am total

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01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: faith in their ability to do that and their desire

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01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:05,760
Speaker 1: to do that, and I can't wait to watch them

1372
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, let's get back to the phones and

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01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,560
Speaker 1: we go to ed in Niagara Falls. Next, what do

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01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:14,679
Speaker 1: you have for us? Ed? You're on one Bills live. Hi, guys,

1375
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: it's nice talking. Our prayers go out to the team

1376
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: to demorrow players. So we just an organization. And what

1377
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: was said earlier, I think Mark said about the Cincinnati

1378
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: fans and organization really a class acts. Yeah, And my

1379
01:22:33,439 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: my thing I wanted to say was nobody's really talking

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01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: about Sunday as far as if Kansas City loses and

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01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 1: the Bills win, all this is mute, right, correct? I mean,

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01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: so I would think that's the first thing they should

1383
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: do is let the games play, see what happens. And then,

1384
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: like you guys were talking about, the league works things

1385
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: out pretty good and they could come up with a

1386
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 1: situation like two wins if you win, two losses if

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01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 1: you're losing. That would really steve what you said would

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01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: satisfy that. But I would think the higher powers are

1389
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:17,200
Speaker 1: much wiser than we and me. So I just leave

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01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,679
Speaker 1: it at Dad, thank you for your call, taking my call?

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01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 1: All right? Thanks? Ye, I appreciate it. And it even

1392
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:25,799
Speaker 1: at this point seems secondary, you know, the wins losses

1393
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:27,960
Speaker 1: and how it plays out, because both the Bengals and

1394
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: the Bills are already in the playoffs. Certainly divisioned title

1395
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 1: is on the line for the Bengals. Still, we'll see,

1396
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:40,760
Speaker 1: and the one seat as well. It will. Yeah, all

1397
01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:43,599
Speaker 1: of that stuff now and in retrospect seems just a

1398
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: little bit trivial compared to where we've been at in

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01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 1: the last four y eight hours. But I'm I'm kind

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01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: of with you, Ed, Let's play these games in week

1401
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: eighteen and then, you know, let's revisit it then, which

1402
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: is the way the league may go as well. We'll see.

1403
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 1: There's still Thursday and Friday for them to discuss and

1404
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: capitulate what they want to execute and what they feel

1405
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 1: is the fairest thing to do for all parties involved.

1406
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:12,760
Speaker 1: Not just the Bills, the Bengals, and the Chiefs. There

1407
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: are other teams impacted by this, like the Ravens, who

1408
01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: still have the division in play for themselves as well,

1409
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:22,639
Speaker 1: because they already have a head to head victory against

1410
01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:26,759
Speaker 1: Cincinnati they win on Sunday or Saturday, I can't remember

1411
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:30,559
Speaker 1: when that game is. Now they have the season sweep

1412
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 1: of their division rival Bengals, and they win the division

1413
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: and there's I'm sure they're pretty creative people at the

1414
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:42,600
Speaker 1: league office too. I mean, they're every suggestion that you

1415
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,479
Speaker 1: can throw out on social media. They've probably thought about, Like,

1416
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 1: instead of having the one seed, which is in doubt

1417
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: and all that, let's put eight teams in the playoffs

1418
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 1: and have all four teams play on wild card weekend

1419
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: and put an extra team in. You know, let's take

1420
01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:58,559
Speaker 1: away the advantage that the one seed would have given

1421
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:05,599
Speaker 1: somebody and just leave them take it away um or

1422
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 1: some other way, give three teams that you know, you

1423
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:15,520
Speaker 1: know what I mean, whatever, or all of those scenarios

1424
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:20,440
Speaker 1: have been discussed and will be discussed by the league.

1425
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: The tie breakers and all of that stuff that goes

1426
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,920
Speaker 1: into the mix will also be brought out, and so

1427
01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:29,639
Speaker 1: they'll they'll do whatever they think as fair. But let's

1428
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 1: let's let's face it, it is not going to be

1429
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:37,839
Speaker 1: one hundred percent fair for everybody. It will never be ideal.

1430
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 1: Let's just get our minds around that right now. It

1431
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:44,640
Speaker 1: will never be ideal. But I think it's gonna be

1432
01:25:44,680 --> 01:25:46,840
Speaker 1: something we're all gonna live with whether we like it

1433
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: or not. We're gonna live with it because that's the

1434
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: way they got to do something. Yes, And so if

1435
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 1: it's not ideal, you know what, shrug your shoulders and say,

1436
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 1: let's just play. That's what the that's what the coaches

1437
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,759
Speaker 1: and players will do on all the teams, and they'll

1438
01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: be thankful for the opportunity. Yeah, so let's all be

1439
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:04,760
Speaker 1: kind of get on board with that. It's just it's

1440
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:08,400
Speaker 1: just an impossible scenario right now. Yeah, Uh, let's quickly.

1441
01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a break here. Dennis in North Tiawanda,

1442
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 1: hang on. We'll get to you in the final segment

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01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: when we return. Here on One Bills Live presented by

1444
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 1: Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back

1445
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,760
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1446
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:43,040
Speaker 1: as we continue to uh keep high spirits and prayers

1447
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: rolling for Damar Hamlin Bill safety. Let's get back to

1448
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:50,160
Speaker 1: the phones though, and we go as promise to Dennis

1449
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,600
Speaker 1: in North Tannawanda. What you got first? Dennis here on

1450
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:55,960
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Hey, gentlemen, thanks for having me. I

1451
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: just want to light target starting we experience this year

1452
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:03,320
Speaker 1: with amar Ar to mar Sorry re going to a

1453
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 1: Bill's game pulling into our I do have to preface

1454
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 1: this by saying, my wife is the God to be

1455
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: the biggest bull stand there as she follows all the

1456
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 1: players their spouses on Twitter. So we were pulling up

1457
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 1: to next in line. The hand or took it over,

1458
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:23,479
Speaker 1: and the lady stopped us and walked over to what

1459
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: was next to us to empty limo and buses only line,

1460
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: and a cart pulled out. So her and a guy

1461
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:33,200
Speaker 1: that was standing by a golf cart walked over to

1462
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:36,599
Speaker 1: this car and they rolled the window down. So all

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01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:38,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden, my wife's looking over in the thrin

1464
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: just started cracking up. The two workers and the guy

1465
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:44,439
Speaker 1: in the car. My wife's thought, oh my god, that's

1466
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:47,599
Speaker 1: Ham one. That's hamlone, that's Ham one. So Season one

1467
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:50,320
Speaker 1: in her window down't going hi hi, hi hi, And

1468
01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, head down, like he's going to pick your

1469
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:55,720
Speaker 1: a nut. So he looked over and gave her a

1470
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 1: little way the wink of smile, and I said, if

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01:27:59,439 --> 01:28:02,839
Speaker 1: that's not a players goes, I recognize that smile anywhere.

1472
01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:06,080
Speaker 1: It is a beautiful smile. So the girl the current

1473
01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 1: got in front of him and they took them somewhere,

1474
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:10,720
Speaker 1: he thought, And the girls come over and she goes

1475
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:13,840
Speaker 1: with a camera and the girl goes, yeah, he thought

1476
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 1: he was pulling into the player's arm, and my is

1477
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:21,680
Speaker 1: do think she got away from the pope. And it

1478
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:27,160
Speaker 1: dawned on me after the horrific injury that it's a

1479
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:32,599
Speaker 1: real relationship more you know, varying degrees with certain fans, Right,

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Speaker 1: It's like a real relationship these fans have with these players. Yeah,

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01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:41,719
Speaker 1: and it had heard of our obviously prayers up. Yeah

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01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: from us. I don't need to still a lighthearted story

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01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:49,679
Speaker 1: just to last. Yeah. And I'll tell you this, and

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01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dennis. I'll tell you this one thing. One

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01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: of the things that has made me want to live

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01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:57,680
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo is the fact that I'm not a

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01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 1: football player or celebrity, and that I'm part of everybody's family.

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01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: That's the way people treat NFL players and Buffalo bills here.

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01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: You're not football royalty or any of that stuff. Your

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01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,759
Speaker 1: family and that's why it's a special place. Stay strong,

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01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:14,599
Speaker 1: everybody out there, continue to send the prayers tomorrow Hamlin's way,

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01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:17,760
Speaker 1: in the way of his family. They do help Steve

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01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 1: and I back tomorrow at one o'clock. We'll see on Thursday.