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Speaker 1: in the strated beer of normalcy. All right. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday edition of One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Things are just getting under way here at the Indiana

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Speaker 1: We will be bringing you our own head coach Sean

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Speaker 1: the Indiana Convention Center. We got things set up here

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Speaker 1: after a long drive last night. Steve Yeoman's work on

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Speaker 1: just in the play, but also in the guy's running it.

429
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Speaker 1: Time to double dip with head coach and GM. We

430
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Speaker 1: just heard from head coach Sean McDermott. Now GM Brandon

431
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: Bean is up at the podium addressing questions from the media.

432
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: We haven't talked you since tors he was promoted. Just

433
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: the reasoning behind that, the you know, obviously keeping some

434
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: continuity and what can you bring to the table. Yeah,

435
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: I mean Ken, we we've shown I've known him for

436
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: a long time, so we had that that camaraderie going in.

437
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,919
Speaker 1: We definitely interviewed some other guys and just got some

438
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: different perspectives. But in the end, you know, just being

439
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: able to keep so many things the same for Josh.

440
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked about it before. Part of

441
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 1: our plan South when we got started was continuity for

442
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: Josh from the coaching staff, the organization, the plays, the protections.

443
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: Even though we got a you know, a new aligned coach,

444
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 1: we don't have to change all the protections. You know,

445
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 1: He's coming in to kind of learn our system. The

446
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: more we can keep the same for Josh, the easier

447
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 1: it will be to assimilate. Ken's going to have his

448
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 1: own you know nuances everybody does to how they do things,

449
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,679
Speaker 1: but a lot will be the same. And we just

450
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: felt in the end that was the most important. What

451
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: about with Joe Brady, what what was the connection with him?

452
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: And UM, you have to get him up to speed.

453
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: I guess yeah. I mean, this is not an offense

454
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: that Joe uh, you know, has run before. But Joe's

455
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: a bright mind. Heard very good things about him obviously,

456
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: great history in college and uh with Carolina his first year,

457
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: they did some really good things. Um, you know, I

458
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: don't know what happened specifically. We didn't get into a

459
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: lot of that in the process, but um, you know,

460
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: being around him for the last few weeks, he's a

461
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 1: very humble for the guy, for someone who's had his success,

462
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: very humble, wants to come learn new ways. And then

463
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: I know, you know, Ken Dorsey's gonna ask Joe, hey,

464
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,199
Speaker 1: how do you see things? What's what's the way you

465
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 1: guys you know called this or a way to beat

466
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: this coverage or anything that's going on. So um, it's

467
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: always good to have familiarity, but it's all it's always

468
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 1: good to challenge and bring bring new ideas as well.

469
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: And that was part of the you know, the thought

470
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: with with bringing Joe, was it for him and do

471
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: you think to be around you guys as a team

472
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: and what sort of improvement did you see? You know,

473
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: nothing but positive about Mitch. He's just um man, He's

474
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: a marry your daughter type of guy. Just shows up

475
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: every day, smile on his face, works hard, you know,

476
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: for his ups and downs in Chicago, never said a

477
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: negative word about anything. And you know, I've been around

478
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 1: players when they've come from a stop that didn't go

479
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: as well and they can't help themselves. Man, I like

480
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: this place better because y'all do this and that. And

481
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: Mitch never, I mean, he's such a prom you know.

482
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 1: I was curious, you know, I talked to Josh a

483
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 1: little bit as we were closing on the deal, just saying, hey,

484
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: this may happen, making sure there was nothing I was

485
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: unaware of that they would have a relationship, which there wasn't.

486
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: And you know, Mitch just came in with you know,

487
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: open arms, open eyes, learned our system, you know, with

488
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,959
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey, Brian Dable and Josh, and was really just

489
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: a great caddy the whole year, was ready if his

490
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: number was called. You know, Fortunately Josh stayed healthy, but um,

491
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: I got nothing but positive things for him, and I

492
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: feel sure he's going to get, you know, a good

493
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: opportunity to at least compete for a starting job this

494
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: year he does just what makes them ready for that?

495
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: What's that? Just if he does get an opportunity, what

496
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: makes him ready for that? What do you think? Do

497
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: you see that growth in his name? Yeah? I mean

498
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: if you look at his career history in Chicago, they

499
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs. They won a lot of games.

500
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: When you compare it to young quarterbacks starting as a rookie,

501
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he was drafted highly, and uh, in fairness,

502
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it happens because he was

503
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: drafted so highly and above some of the guys he was.

504
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: He was always being compared to them and just you know,

505
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: was never gonna be able to live up to some

506
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: of the things that you know, Mahomes, Watson some of

507
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: those guys did. But he's a really good quarterback and

508
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: I think he'll have a good opportunity if he does.

509
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: I mean, is it pretty much a given you're gonna

510
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: have to find somebody with experience to add to the room.

511
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean, regardless of what happens in the draft. I mean,

512
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: do you want a guy who's never started game starting?

513
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: You know, I want Peyton Manning or something like that,

514
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: if you got a mark. But uh, in all seriousness, yeah,

515
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean that's an important position. We know, the quarterback

516
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: position is uh the ultimate you know, in all sports.

517
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: So uh, it'll be our job to find a suitable replacement,

518
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: assuming you know, we're not able to get Mitch back.

519
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's we're gonna look high and low. We'll

520
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: look in free agency, we could trade, we could draft,

521
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: we could do all the you know, all the above,

522
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: but what we definitely need to find that piece because

523
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: we know how Josh plays, and as much as I

524
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: always want Josh to get down h Josh sometimes sees

525
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: the play all the way through and and it's a

526
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: it's a seventeen game season, So we'll definitely have to

527
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: find the right answer there. Yes, they see, Um, it's

528
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: good to be back here and not on zoom first off,

529
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: but um, you know it's great last night we were

530
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: able to do interviews in person and you know, get

531
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: to meet some of these guys and kind of feel

532
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: their personality through the night, and you know, there's a

533
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: lot of you know, I think there's a lot of depth.

534
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's the top guys that people

535
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: are gonna you know sometimes in years past, especially you know,

536
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: maybe at the quarterback position. But I do think there's

537
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: a lot of depth in this draft. And I think

538
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: the mid rounds, you know, once you get out around one,

539
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: you know, two, three, four, maybe even five, I think

540
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some good value. Levi is obviously an

541
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent, obviously with your Davis's injury, how much

542
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: does that make cornerback a necessity in this draft? Yeah,

543
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not necessarily the draft or free

544
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: but we definitely have to look at that. You know,

545
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: Levi as a free agent, as you said Trace coming

546
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: off the ACL he's he's you know, on schedule, doing

547
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: a great job. He's there every day working hard, compete

548
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: in the way you guys see him compete in practice.

549
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: But we'll definitely monitor Levi's situation and we'll look for

550
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: depth free agency if we lose them, but we'll look

551
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: for it anyway. We're always looking for competition. And then

552
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, we're definitely going to evaluate the corners here

553
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: and try and get to know them through this process.

554
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: Has been a lot of preview picks at the defensive

555
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: line over the last couple of years, and you might

556
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: even need to acquire some defensive linement again this year.

557
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: Is it ever in the back of your mind that, hey,

558
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: we just spent a lot of picks on defensive line

559
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to another draft, or is it completely Hey,

560
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: new year, doesn't matter what happened the year before. When

561
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: it comes to draft strategies and things like that. Yeah.

562
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I've just I've been raised and it's just

563
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: always been my thought as I've studied teams that you've

564
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: got to be good up front both sides of the ball,

565
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: and you know, you got to have a quarterback. The

566
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: next thing you gotta do is you got to get

567
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: the other team's quarterback down. And so it's a position

568
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: every year, whether it's again free agency, the draft trades.

569
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: I think you got to look and be as strong

570
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: as you can. I mean, we were pretty deep this year,

571
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: but we ran into issues with COVID and some knicks

572
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: here and there, so you know, we do have some

573
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: guys that are unrestricted and that you know, we'll see

574
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: if we can get some back, but either way, we'll

575
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: definitely look to add there. You sent any momentum amongst

576
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: people inside the league about changing to overtime rules for

577
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: this coming season. I do think there will be some changes.

578
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: I think there's I don't know how many proposals. A

579
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: GM and I laughed at the Senior Bowl there was

580
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty two different proposals. But you know, we definitely,

581
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: you know, put our stamp on one, and you know,

582
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: ours just going to be more without getting into detail more.

583
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: Instead of one position and then you get the other position.

584
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: Is a time you know, similar to you know in

585
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: basketball you play five minutes baseball, both teams get you know,

586
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: the top half the bottom half. So a time limit

587
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about postseason only to play it out

588
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: and that way, both teams will definitely have a chance

589
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: and maybe even more than one possession. Well you got

590
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: player safety. And so it's a seventeen game season. You know,

591
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: I personally don't think ties in the regular season are

592
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: as big of a deal. But in postseason, you've worked

593
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: that long. You've played a seventeen game season. You've been

594
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: working since April or may. You know, everything on the line,

595
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: you know, a coin toss or here there. I just

596
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: I think let's play it out and you know, a

597
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: certain amount of time. That's our opinion. I don't know

598
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: that that'll be the final you know, result in March

599
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: at the owners meetings, but I think there's gonna be

600
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: some good proposals and hopefully it at least comes to

601
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: a point where both teams get get an opportunity is unscheduled,

602
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: But conservatively, what does that look like for you guys,

603
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: Like where what are you kind of targeting. We're not

604
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: targeting anything. I mean, he'll have markers Joe with the trainers.

605
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: You know, tre Davis is gonna want to participate in June.

606
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll have to hold him back from himself.

607
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: But you know, well, we're not going to put a

608
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: timestamp on it. Just it's it's really hard to do that.

609
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to put the pressure of him. I've

610
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: seen it where guys I'm not they start press pressing

611
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: too hard to get out there when they're not ready.

612
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: So we'll just we'll follow the doctors and and and

613
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: are all of our trainers and and we'll follow their

614
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: advice and when they say he's ready to go, we'll

615
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: get him out there. That that position has any residual

616
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: effect with the torn ACL no, not really. I mean

617
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: we our docs feel very confident that as long as

618
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: he does the process. A lot of it is how

619
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: you're built. Um, you know a lot of times the

620
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: better the athlete, the quicker you can overcome that. And

621
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: so you know, Tredavious is obviously a tremendous athlete, and

622
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: we feel that will help him, you know, through the process. Yeah,

623
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: the guyants there's telling a lot of people from the

624
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: Bills organization. This obviousne what do you make of a

625
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: of all them stealing all your guys. We're going to

626
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: find a way to steal some of those back. Uh,

627
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: Now those are those are really good people. And again

628
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: it's a it's bittersweet. Um, you know, we're gonna miss

629
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: him personally and professionally, but wish him nothing but the best.

630
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: And I'm confident you know that they'll you know, they'll

631
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: do a really good job, you know for the Giants,

632
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I'm glad it's not in the division.

633
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's in the NFC, you know, AFC, And

634
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll we'll share ideas as we kind of

635
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: you know, move along in whatever process, free agency, the draft,

636
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: pre who knows, maybe preseason whatever. Remember you saying you

637
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: were still trying to kind of sort things out with

638
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,879
Speaker 1: your staff and who who fits in? Where you any

639
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: any closer to that as far as our staff, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. You know, the first thing was

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Speaker 1: getting our coaching staff settled with the changes there, you know,

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Speaker 1: with Ken Dorsey and Joe Brady and all those guys.

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Speaker 1: But um, we're just gonna ride out our staff until

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Speaker 1: the draft, and then once that's over, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the end of the personnel season anyway, And at that

646
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Speaker 1: point I'll have a clearer picture what i want to do,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look at various ways, but we'll adjust

648
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Speaker 1: it at that point. But right now, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: everybody's kind of pitched in to take over the various

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Speaker 1: roles that Joe did for us, and we'll just ride

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Speaker 1: that out until, you know, till early May when the

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Speaker 1: draft's over. You notice the last five years, are there

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Speaker 1: certain positions that lead to sort of longer discussions or

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Speaker 1: more disagreement based from you to one of your other

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Speaker 1: colleagues in the building, Like, can you just noticed that

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Speaker 1: certain positions tend to be, you know, gather a wider

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Speaker 1: variety of opinions or is it kind of depending year

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Speaker 1: to year quarterback? Yeah, I mean it really is. I

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Speaker 1: mean I go back to the year we were in

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Speaker 1: that process, there was a lot of ideas, a lot

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Speaker 1: of thoughts side. You know, they come in all different size,

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Speaker 1: shapes and different systems. I think that's the most argued

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Speaker 1: about position and probably always it always will be, And

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Speaker 1: I think in that draft, if you had five different

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Speaker 1: teams drafting number one, you might have had three different players,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe four that were drafted. Everybody kind of

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Speaker 1: had the guy they fell in love with, and luckily

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Speaker 1: for us, our guy fell to seven. Allowed you it's

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Speaker 1: still aggressive that year, and that's kind of like you,

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Speaker 1: you know, you had a plan stuck to what you

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Speaker 1: got that two guys you were looking for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: What sort of gave you the comfort knowing that we

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Speaker 1: can make this two aggressive moves up in the first round, Yerk,

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Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, for us, it was conviction,

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Speaker 1: and it was going through the process, doing the work

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Speaker 1: in the fall, and I knew if I was going

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Speaker 1: to be standing here five years later that I had

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Speaker 1: to get that position right. And so it was really

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Speaker 1: back to the trades, you know, when we moved on

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Speaker 1: from Sammy Watkins and you know Marcel, Darius and Darby

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Speaker 1: and several of those guys. Was to prepare ourselves no

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Speaker 1: matter where we finished, that we could go get the

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Speaker 1: quarterback or quarterbacks that we that we wanted to know

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Speaker 1: we fought fit Buffalo and what we were going to build.

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Speaker 1: And so we had the conviction there that let's just

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Speaker 1: get ourselves in position. We were at twenty one, and

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Speaker 1: as I was talking to people in the top ten,

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Speaker 1: nobody wanted to go down to twenty one. So the

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Speaker 1: next thing was how do I get closer? And we

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Speaker 1: were able to work that deal. Ot was sensy to

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Speaker 1: get to twelve. At that point people started entertaining, moving

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Speaker 1: from four to twelve, five to twelve, ultimately seven to twelve. Question, police,

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Speaker 1: last quarters, Can you give us a couple of reasons

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Speaker 1: why so many college receivers come out now and can

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Speaker 1: make the instant impact of the NFL. Why is that

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Speaker 1: position so much better today than it was maybe in

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Speaker 1: years past. Yeah, I think the seven on sevens and

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Speaker 1: all the passing academies. I mean there's if you go

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Speaker 1: to watch a junior high and maybe even below that,

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Speaker 1: you got to watch a junior high football game, they're

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Speaker 1: running the spread system. And again there's so many various

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Speaker 1: passing camps seven on sevens. You see them. We do

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Speaker 1: want to at our stadium where some of the high

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Speaker 1: school guys are there playing. So I just think the

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Speaker 1: passing game is it's it used to be when I played,

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Speaker 1: and we all played, were you know, if you threw

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Speaker 1: the ball three times a game, and in middle school

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Speaker 1: you threw it a lot. And now they hardly run

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Speaker 1: the ball. Most of them are throwing it. So I

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Speaker 1: just think players are, you know, and there's more receivers

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Speaker 1: being developed. There's not two receivers now there's three and

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Speaker 1: four wide, so more are getting the opportunity to do that,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's why. So thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. All right, that's Bills GM Brandon being addressing

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Speaker 1: the media here at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Plenty for us to react to, and we'll do that

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Speaker 1: after we take this quick break. Our thanks to those

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Speaker 1: of you watching on our streaming channels on the Bills

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Speaker 1: social media network. We remind you you can watch our

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Speaker 1: show here, One Bills Live Monday to Friday on MSG.

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Speaker 1: Break time for us, but we're back to react to

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Speaker 1: some of Brandon Bean's comments. Next here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Klot of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bills Live, coming to you from Indianapolis, Indiana,

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Speaker 1: the site of the NFL Scouting Combine twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Just heard Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: addressing the media. Will have him on in the second

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Speaker 1: hour of the show with us here one on one

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Speaker 1: to ask him some other questions that weren't asked with

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Speaker 1: the media, but Steve Mitch Drubisky was a popular topic there.

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Speaker 1: Coach did say, Coach McDermott first, and then Brandon being

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Speaker 1: after that. They think it's unrealistic that he'll be back

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Speaker 1: with the Bills because this is a guy that's going

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Speaker 1: to be in demand and he's buzzing up and down

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Speaker 1: the social media channels today. A lot of people that

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Speaker 1: are here at the combine covering the event saying that, hey,

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Speaker 1: a buzz name here isn't any quarterback prospect. It's Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Trubisky who looks like he is going to have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity somewhere to at least have a chance to start.

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Speaker 1: And obviously Coach McDermott and Brandon Bean couldn't say nicer

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Speaker 1: things about him. Yeah, and I think it's interesting too,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of teams and I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'll just give Mitch credit either. He

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Speaker 1: had the foresight to see the quarterback class of the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two in NCAA coming out and known it

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Speaker 1: was going to be a lighter class than has been

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Speaker 1: in a couple of years, or at least his agent

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Speaker 1: or at least his agent did. It is a class

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Speaker 1: where if Mitch Drubisky was in this class, he's the

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Speaker 1: best guy there and he's available, and you can grab

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Speaker 1: him just by asking him to come over and sign

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Speaker 1: with you. That's the thing, and that is the best

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Speaker 1: thing for Mitch Drubisky. He's going to get a chance

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Speaker 1: to pick, to cherry pick the best opportunity out there.

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Speaker 1: And that goes from Tampa Bay to Washington to you

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Speaker 1: name it. And Joe Shane and Brian day Baller in

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Speaker 1: New York and they have not made a decision on

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones's fifth year option yet. Yeah, Joe Shane just

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Speaker 1: said that to the media here that they have not

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Speaker 1: yet made a decision on whether or not to pick

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Speaker 1: up Daniel jones fifth year option. That decision has to

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Speaker 1: come by early May at the latest. You have to

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Speaker 1: believe they at least want to survey the free agent

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Speaker 1: quarterback landscape to see if they can do better than

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. Right, So, with all of that, and that's

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Speaker 1: not just us you and me talking the media here,

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Speaker 1: we're in media row, and the social media train is

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Speaker 1: all over this because this is big. Now. Certainly you've

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Speaker 1: got Russ Wilson, Aaron Rodgers drama that is self induced,

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Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray drama that is self induced. To Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady retirement. But even if you're interested in one of

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Speaker 1: those guys, that comes with compensation, right, and Washington is

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Speaker 1: out there looking for a quarterback, Carolina seems to be

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Speaker 1: looking for a quarterback. Denver is always looking for a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: There are there and this is the guy and it

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Speaker 1: looks like our own Buffalo Bill. We claim him now,

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Speaker 1: we our own Mitch Trubisky is the hottest quarterback commodity

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Speaker 1: on the market right at the current time that you

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Speaker 1: can just go out and just buy without giving draft

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Speaker 1: picks up or anything. That's right today, that's Tuesday of

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Speaker 1: the of the NFL combined twenty twenty two. Mitch Trubisky's

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Speaker 1: the story right, and I think he will remain such

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Speaker 1: as long as you have a situation here where you

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Speaker 1: have a quarterback class that is whole hum well at

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Speaker 1: the very best you've got, you certainly have a supream

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Speaker 1: physical talent and Malik Willis the kid out of Liberty,

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Speaker 1: but he's very up and down, very raw. Now some

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Speaker 1: people say, well Patrick Mahomes was too, He was very

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Speaker 1: up and down. So maybe you have something there. And

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Speaker 1: if I'm one of these NFL teams, Steve, these other

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Speaker 1: guys don't wow me. Kenny Pickett probably has the highest

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Speaker 1: floor and might be the most NFL ready as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: but how far does he take your football team? Malik

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Speaker 1: Willis is probably the guy you take a swing at

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Speaker 1: because at least he has the chance to be great

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Speaker 1: because of the elite physical trait. Though, is you need

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Speaker 1: He needs to just state for a year like like

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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes did in The Perfect In a Perfect world, right,

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Speaker 1: I just pictured him in a cocoon there. Basically, he

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Speaker 1: needs to be on a pro roster watching things a

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Speaker 1: little bit like Lamar Jackson was with Joe Flacco. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little bit, and obviously like Pat Mahomes was with

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Speaker 1: Um Smith. Um. So some of these guys need the

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Speaker 1: perfect situation. We've seen that before Josh came in. It

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00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: wasn't perfect when he got here. He got thrown in

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Speaker 1: quicker than they wanted him to, and he struggled for

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Speaker 1: a year, but they built it well around him. But

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Speaker 1: then they went for a second year and got him

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Speaker 1: an offensive line. Things started to go from there and

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Speaker 1: he was in the playoffs his second year, even though

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Speaker 1: he was far from a finished product like he is now.

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Speaker 1: I think this quarterback class and this combine, when you

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Speaker 1: look at these quarterbacks, there's so many teams, as per usual,

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Speaker 1: that are looking for a guy. Even if these quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: can't play, they're gonna get drafted higher than they think

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Speaker 1: they should. They always get inflated. Their value always gets

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Speaker 1: inflated come draft day, especially for those teams that absolutely

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Speaker 1: have to have one break. Time for us. Here, Steve

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Speaker 1: and I back with more live from the NFL Comby

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Speaker 1: next you're on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right back here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, coming to you live from the NFL Scouting

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Speaker 1: Combine in Indianapolis. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and

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Speaker 1: second hour of the show. As a reminder, we will

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Speaker 1: have GM Brandon being here as well as head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott before we are off the year at three pm.

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Speaker 1: Other things that I found interesting from Brandon that he

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Speaker 1: carried live here on one Bills Live Aaron Cromer, new

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Speaker 1: offensive line coach, and we'll be asking coach McDermott, how

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Speaker 1: does that blend kind of come together. New coordinator, new

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach, new o line coach, how do they fit

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Speaker 1: it all together? Brandon being kind of shed some light

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Speaker 1: on that, basically saying he's going to have to learn

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Speaker 1: our protections. We don't want to change everything for Josh

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Speaker 1: to learn. That's on the coaches to know what's been

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Speaker 1: going on here to a certain degree. Well, one of

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Speaker 1: the things about learning protecting, what he's really saying is

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Speaker 1: learning the words that describe our protections. There's only five guys,

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Speaker 1: there's only so many protections you can have. There's only

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Speaker 1: so many permutations. Everybody's got him. What he has to

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Speaker 1: do is learn the verbiage what we call this protection,

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Speaker 1: and why you go to this and why do you

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Speaker 1: do this? That's what they're talking about. Certainly, once Chromer

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Speaker 1: gets into the building, he can start to say, I

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Speaker 1: like this protection, but let's tweak it in this manner,

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Speaker 1: and I want to add this to instead of doing

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Speaker 1: this in this situation, Let's try this. Coach it this way.

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Speaker 1: I want to try this because this technique will give

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Speaker 1: our guy a better chance to win one on one

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Speaker 1: than needing help, you know that kind of he'll bring

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Speaker 1: his new technique. I think the scheme, and I think

853
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: also the thing that and we'll ask Sean McDermot about it.

854
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: Different guys see it different and they bring different ideas.

855
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: And that's the best part of having a coaching staff.

856
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: That's good. You really don't everybody gets really upset and

857
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: they kind of like start wringing their hands when they say, well,

858
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: these guys don't really agree on this. Yeah, that's not

859
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: a bad thing. You need somebody to say, well, wait

860
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You know,

861
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: you need somebody say wait no, no, no, how about this,

862
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: look at this and this and take this into consideration

863
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: because this is important too. You need some guys in

864
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: there that see it differently, and new new guys on

865
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: the roster or on the coaching staff will do that.

866
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: It will change it, it'll evolve as it does. But

867
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: there's no question these guys will be working for the

868
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: same goal and they'll have they'll be start pulling the

869
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: same direction, even if they see things differently. The newness

870
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: of it brings variety. Yeah, you don't want yes, Matt,

871
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: and want people that bring a discerning opinion. And sometimes

872
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: it has merit, and sometimes enough merit to the point

873
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: where maybe you do tweak something a little bit different

874
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: from the way maybe you have done it. And I

875
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: think coach McDermott addressed that up on the podium as

876
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: well when he was addressing the media, essentially saying change

877
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: can be good and maybe this fresh new outlook on

878
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: offense can be a beneficial thing to push them even

879
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: further forward from where they've been the last couple of years.

880
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: It's been pretty darn good, you know, leading scoring team

881
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: in league, top three scoring team last year. The thing

882
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: that I found interesting, Steve, and maybe it's because we

883
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: were privy to the previous edition of Aaron Kromer as

884
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: an offensive line coach here in Buffalo. This team led

885
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 1: the league in rushing offense when Aaron Cromer was last

886
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: here in the two years he served on the Bill's

887
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: staff under Rex Ryan obviously, with LaShaun McCoy and a

888
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: really good offensive line headed up by Eric Wood and

889
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: Richie incognito. Now what are we here? From coach McDermott

890
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: at the podium and from Brandon Bean, we wanted an

891
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: experienced offensive line coach that knew how to protect the quarterback.

892
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: So I think that speaks to Aaron Cromer's full body

893
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: of work and shows how well rounded he is as

894
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,720
Speaker 1: an offensive line coach. Because here's a guy who's proven

895
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: his chops here in Buffalo alone as a run scheme guy.

896
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: As an offensive line coach. Sean McDermott hired him because

897
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: he trusts him to have guys ready to protect the passer.

898
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: And most importantly, I think I think steve to bring

899
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: young guys along to be proven pass protectors like Spencer Brown,

900
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: like Tommy Doyle. Right, Yeah, it's They're never They're never

901
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: gonna get far away from the development aspect of it.

902
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: Because this is a team. You know, they continue to

903
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: refurbish the roster. One of the side by products of

904
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: the way Brandon Being and Sean McDermot have done this

905
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: is keeping guys a motivated and one is providing for

906
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: their families. Like all of us doing our own jobs,

907
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: you want to you want to do your job well

908
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: enough to keep it their ability to get guys to

909
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: play on short term contracts, or pick the right guys

910
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: to extend because they know that they're going to have

911
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: a fire lit under them, or give guys a ton

912
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: of guys one year proven deals. That keeps those guys

913
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: playing hard. That's one, and but a by product of

914
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: that is they're always trying. They always you know, they're

915
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 1: refurbishing the roster. They've got guys that are got sixteen

916
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: guys this year are expiring contracts. They got to replace

917
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: those guys with new guys. And that means you gotta

918
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: have a coach who can teach it and everything and

919
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 1: get guys to play better and better and better throughout

920
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: their career. You said the thing about you know you

921
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 1: don't want yes men. No, you don't want yesmen. What

922
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: you want are smart teachers, not yes men, but smart teachers.

923
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: And those guys come in all shapes and sizes, and

924
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: Chromer has a reputation of being one of those guys

925
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: as well as guys that can offer a dose of

926
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: creativity when it's warranted. I mean, there's only so long

927
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: that a scheme can be successful without certain tweaks to

928
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 1: keep it unpredictable because once you put it on film,

929
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: there are thirty one other coordinators looking at how do

930
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: we defeat that, how do we neutralize that? So change,

931
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: as coach McDermott said up on the podium, can be

932
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: a good thing going forward for this offense to tweak

933
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: it just enough to maybe take it over the top.

934
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: The level of thought that goes into the schemes and

935
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: the and the play calling and the calling of defenses

936
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: that in the NFL is it's unbelievable because what they'll

937
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: they'll dissect what your rules are and then use those

938
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:02,760
Speaker 1: rules against you with a defensive call. Whereas the harder

939
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: you play, the worst it'll get for you. So you

940
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: really have to have the the versatility and the flexibility

941
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 1: to do something different that takes advantage of what they're

942
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: doing to you, because they'll use your technique and your

943
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: rules in your offense against you. So if if you

944
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: always step down to this in this situation, you got

945
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: to step down, that's your job, Well they'll do it

946
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: so they count on you stepping down and use it

947
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: against you. That kind of stuff as the kind of

948
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: level of thinking you're you're talking about, and you've got

949
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: to have guys who are creative enough to stay out

950
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: ahead of that a step or two. Yeah, Bryan Dable

951
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: was the last coordinator here that spent a little time

952
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: in the college game. The Bills have another dose of

953
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: that now on the offensive side of the football with

954
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: Joe Brady just two years are removed from being a

955
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: coordinator at LSU. So staying current with some of the

956
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: developing trends at the college level which eventually migrate to

957
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: the pro level, I think will also help going forward.

958
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: Break time for us here when we come back for

959
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: our number two live from the NFL Combine, we will

960
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: have GM Brandon Bean here in the second hour of

961
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: the show. So stay right where you are. Steve and

962
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: I are back in a moment here on one Bills Live,

963
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:23,959
Speaker 1: presented by Collide to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at

964
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field.

965
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

966
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: pleasure for you, state Lily, Steve a blimp. We're not

967
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 1: even in the strated here of normalcy alright, our number

968
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: two here at the NFL Combine on one Bills Live,

969
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: coming to you live from Indianapolis. Time now for us

970
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: to turn to head coach Sean McDermott, who joined Steve

971
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: and I here for our number two coach. It is

972
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 1: good to see you and actually sitting next to you.

973
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: I don't I got tired of seeing you on the screen.

974
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,439
Speaker 1: I mean it was good to be able to talk

975
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: to you that way, but this is far better. It

976
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: is very nice to have you here sitting next to

977
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 1: us on the show. Ye, how you doing. I'm great,

978
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: great to be here and uh in Indianapolis and get

979
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: this combine kicked off, came in yesterday at a good

980
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: trip and um, you know so we're ready to roll here.

981
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: We got offseason took off really quick. Day ball's gone.

982
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: Now he's a head coach and the Giants. You had

983
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,720
Speaker 1: to make some shuffling. It just that's the way it works. Yeah,

984
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: how do you Because you're really you've been really good

985
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: from day one of building a team. The guys on

986
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: the team, the guys that are the players, the fifty

987
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: three men rosters has been cohesive and a lot of

988
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: love and respect in the locker room. How do you

989
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: do that with your new coaching staff and you know

990
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 1: the fact that you have to tweak it a little

991
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: bit all the time. Yeah, you know, first and foremost,

992
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,919
Speaker 1: like let's let's give credit where credits to day Bill.

993
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: All the all the coaches and staff that moved on,

994
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: you know, are accomplishing some of their career goals also,

995
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: so that comes that's a result of winning of winning games, right,

996
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: and so happy for them and their families. And it

997
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 1: wasn't just Able Joe Shane um so so others as well. UM.

998
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: But it left a lot of voids on our staff

999
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: as many as I've ever been around in one offseason.

1000
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: But sometimes change is good, right, and sometimes you come

1001
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: with new They come with new ideas, a fresh outlook,

1002
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: perspective on things. And boy, it took us a long

1003
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: time to get the guys and and in the positions

1004
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: we we hired him for um so really an exhaustive search,

1005
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: did our due diligence feel really good about it, um

1006
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: And again just that fresh perspective I think will be

1007
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: good for us. Two of the new coordinators were internal promotions,

1008
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: you know, in Ken Dorsey and Matthew Smiley in in

1009
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: what ways coach because you know, Ken Dorsey is not

1010
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: Brian Dable and vice versa. Every coach is different in

1011
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: what ways might the offense unfold differently, if at all

1012
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: under coach Dorsey. Well, he's gonna put his own signature

1013
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: on it. Um. You know, certainly, there's a lot that

1014
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: we want to carry over because of the success we've had,

1015
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: the success in particular that Josh Josh has had and

1016
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: his comfort level with Doris was a big part of

1017
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: this decision. But there's also another level that you're always

1018
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 1: trying to get to as a as a team, as

1019
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: an offense in this case specifically, and I'm anxious to

1020
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: see where that leads us this offseason with with Ken

1021
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 1: Dorsey's leadership, but also some of the new pieces we

1022
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: added amongst the coaching staff alongside of Ken Dorsey as well.

1023
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,240
Speaker 1: I know that you said it was an exhaustive search,

1024
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: but it must be a little bit rewarding and perhaps

1025
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,839
Speaker 1: maybe a part of your overall message that you did

1026
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 1: promote from within a couple of those spots you let

1027
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: guys you earned it. They you've seen their sacrifice, you've

1028
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: seen their production. It means something to this organization and

1029
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: probably do you personally. It's your philosophy that you want

1030
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: the guys that did it under you to reap rewards

1031
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: and have your program repwards for it. Yeah, you want

1032
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. That's that's one of

1033
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: the primary goals of hiring, is that you can promote

1034
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: from within for a lot of reasons, not only because

1035
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: it helps morale, but it also helps just in terms

1036
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: of the investment a club makes into a staff member,

1037
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: a young staff member, to watch them grow develop and

1038
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: now they have to do their part. Also, you know,

1039
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: we don't just hand things out, but those you know,

1040
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: Jimmy Salgado promoted from within, Matt Smiley promoted from within.

1041
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: Ken Dorris, as we already talked about, promoted from within.

1042
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good that comes with that as well,

1043
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 1: and it happened for me. And there's nothing more you

1044
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: want to do as a head coach than to be

1045
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: able to do that every offseason if it presents itself. So, coach,

1046
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 1: you mentioned you have some new additions to the staff

1047
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: that you have to kind of ingratiate into the process,

1048
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: so to speak. Maybe take us inside how that manifests

1049
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: itself through the course of an off season. I guess

1050
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at is Aaron Cromer's a new addition.

1051
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: Offensive line coach Joe Brady as quarterbacks coach? How do

1052
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: they work with Ken Dorsey to kind of blend all

1053
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:07,959
Speaker 1: of their coaching expertise together, so you've got a well

1054
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 1: oiled scheme to present to the players when they are

1055
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: back on the field in May. Yeah, and that's and that,

1056
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: Chris is one of the unique challenges that you have

1057
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: when you hire a new staff and then also when

1058
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 1: you have a new coordinator. So you've got a new

1059
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: leader on the team within the team on the offensive

1060
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: side in this case, and he has new pieces. It's

1061
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: not like he was promoted from within and everyone around

1062
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,959
Speaker 1: him was still the same around him. So so now

1063
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: what what has to happen is coach Dorsey leads his

1064
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: team and they kind of put things in a chronological

1065
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: order of Hey, let's tackle this thing in this order,

1066
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: like we're gonna I'm gonna get everybody on the same

1067
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: page with what we do, and then let's get into

1068
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,919
Speaker 1: the ideas that they bring to the table after that,

1069
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: because again, we've done a lot of good things offensively,

1070
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: but then there also are some things that you can

1071
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,240
Speaker 1: you can always improve as you go. And how healthy

1072
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: is that give and take? The dialogue in the room

1073
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: amongst those guys. I mean, obviously Ken Dorsey is leading that,

1074
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: but you know he's he's taking input, right, there's given

1075
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: take there. Yeah, and that's that's part of why you

1076
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: make the higher It's not just hey, this this coach

1077
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: is gonna I think project to a great play caller.

1078
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: But there's leadership parts of that of that move as well.

1079
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: There's managerial parts of that move. There's there's chemistry that

1080
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: are parts. So there's a lot that goes into it.

1081
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: And you now, this is Coach Dorsey's first time. You know,

1082
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: we've all had our first time in a leadership role,

1083
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: and I can tell you you're better with experience and

1084
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: no matter how prepared you are, and and so I

1085
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: love the fact that Coach Dorsey has taken taken a

1086
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: very humble approach to it. He listens to Coach Cromer,

1087
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: he listens to his staff because they are bringing different

1088
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: ideas from places they've been and in fact it may

1089
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 1: be better than what we're doing. And doing that it

1090
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: fosters good collaboration communication naturally, and then doesn't matter whose

1091
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: idea it is, at the end of the day, you

1092
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: go with the best idea. So you did promote these

1093
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: coaches from within. And I'll just say it this way.

1094
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: You promoted another guy from within. You gave Josh a

1095
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: kind of a voice in this offensive coordinator. So he's

1096
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, he said who you want? Yeah, you know,

1097
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: or at least you said, what's your opinion? And he

1098
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: gave Ken Dorsey as his approval. And I think I

1099
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: want to get your thought about the benefit of not

1100
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: only given Josh a voice, which he's earned, I guess right.

1101
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an elite quarterback in the league and

1102
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: he deserves to note wanted more about the offense, but

1103
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,439
Speaker 1: secondly too, it gives him some ownership now he needs

1104
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey to be successful. There's a lot in that

1105
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: that promotion from within, and I think given Josh a voice,

1106
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: is it heads off some of the things you've seen

1107
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: around the league in Green Bay, you've seen it in Seattle,

1108
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: You've seen it in now in Arizona with their quarterbacks.

1109
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: Given him a voice this young and his early in

1110
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: his career at the time where you've extended him. Now

1111
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: he's going to be here long term. What's that say

1112
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: about the atmosphere inside the building? And yeah, I mean

1113
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: Josh's Josh specifically Josh to that point has grown and

1114
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds on the field. Yes, everyone sees that

1115
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: off the field as well, And that's the part to

1116
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: me that's one of the more exciting parts of our

1117
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: team is not that he wasn't a leader before, but

1118
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: the way he led this football team down the stretch,

1119
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: in particular, the lessons the team learned through the season

1120
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: we just went through will help our younger ish leadership

1121
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: group really really lead the team going forward, Josh being

1122
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: a huge part of that leadership group. And you're right,

1123
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: the ownership. Giving Josh the ownership because he has earned it,

1124
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: I think is critical. You watch around the league, you'll

1125
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: learn how things are evolving right around the league in

1126
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: that In that sense, So and at the end of

1127
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: the day, I wanted Josh to be extremely comfortable with

1128
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: who we put in that chair, and I could tell

1129
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: you he is comfortable and look, things are going to

1130
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: be have to be you know, worked out as as

1131
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: Ken and Josh develop that relationship as it relates to

1132
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: the play calling relationship and because it is different than

1133
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 1: being the quarterback coach. And I can tell you going

1134
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: through it on the defensive side for the first time,

1135
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: as a coordinator, it's different, and so it's going to

1136
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: take both of those two being willing to communicate and

1137
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: listen and just again do the best thing for the

1138
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: team at the end of the day. And I trust

1139
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: that they will coach. I know. Brandon back in his

1140
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: season rap up press conference, was asked about Tremaine his

1141
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: responsibilities within the scope of the defense. Steve and I

1142
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: very often on this show have to come to the

1143
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: defense of Tremaine Edmonds. I don't know why, but we do.

1144
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: I don't know that we always do a great job,

1145
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: which is why I'm going to ask you this question,

1146
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: because it seems to me that there's a portion of

1147
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: the Bills fan base that is looking for something that

1148
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: I can't quite put my finger on with regard to

1149
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: his play. And I know there are times where you

1150
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: can see Tremaine and again, this is an untrained eye

1151
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: watching this where he might have two gaps that he's

1152
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 1: got to choose and a split second to make a

1153
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: play and he doesn't want to cheat one way or

1154
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: the other otherwise it's a big play. And I don't

1155
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: know the scope of the defense and how it specifically

1156
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: works for him. But what Brandon said was he's got

1157
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: a lot on his plate, which we all understand, calling

1158
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: the defense. Is there a way for you to maybe

1159
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: pull some responsibility from him to maybe maximize what he

1160
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: can do on the field for you? Is there a

1161
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: way to devise that within scheme? Well, I think you

1162
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: always look at that. Excuse me, Chris, you always look

1163
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 1: at that for every player every offseason. How can we

1164
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 1: take what seems complex and make it simple? That's what

1165
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: coaches we are tasked with, right, you as a coach,

1166
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: I know you coach as well, and myself as a coach. Right,

1167
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 1: so you try and take what seems complex and simplify

1168
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: it so that it's execute executable, right, executable in a

1169
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: fast way on the field. Because the position Tremaine Emmons plays,

1170
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: things happen fast. And when you're two and a half

1171
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 1: to four yards away from the line of script, the

1172
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: closer you get to the line of scrimmage, the faster

1173
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:19,479
Speaker 1: things happen. And so whether it's run game, pass game,

1174
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 1: he does have a lot on his play calling the defense,

1175
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: leading the defense. I love the progress he made this

1176
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: this past season. When you look at the passing game,

1177
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: he was more productive in terms of matching the routes

1178
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: um and so he continues to grow and he is

1179
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: still a young player. It's hard hard to believe that

1180
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: in year four, right, but he is still growing and

1181
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: he's only going to get better. And so I'm excited

1182
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: to see him come back this this offseason and in

1183
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: the year he's going to have going forward and quickly coached.

1184
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: Just the free agent destination that Buffalo is, You've sold it.

1185
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: The test of the team is speaks for itself. But quickly,

1186
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: what's then the feedback that you've gotten over the last

1187
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: couple of years from free agents as to what makes

1188
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo so attractive? We know what it is. I'm curious

1189
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: what the players are saying to you when they consider Buffalo. Yeah,

1190
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: it's a great question, Chris. You know, coming to Buffalo

1191
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, a lot of it was new for me.

1192
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: It hadn't played coming from another team, hadn't played the Bills,

1193
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, being in the NFC up to that point

1194
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: in my career. Sat down with this man beside both

1195
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: of us right here and some of his teammates, and

1196
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: got a pretty good feel for what this place really is,

1197
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, at its heart, at its core. And then

1198
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: I would constantly hear this thing of hey, Buffalo is

1199
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: our secret, you know, you know that type of that

1200
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: type of you see it on T shirts, right, print

1201
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: it on T shirts. We one of our goals was

1202
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 1: to make the Bills again relevant to the point that

1203
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: people wanted to come here, they wanted to play, they

1204
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:03,919
Speaker 1: wanted to play for the Bills, and I think that's

1205
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: huge and we've done that and it's but it's also

1206
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: been because of the people, Like people want to come

1207
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: and play alongside of Josh Allen, people want to come

1208
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: and play alongside of the Tremaine Emmonds, the Micah Hides,

1209
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 1: they want Stefan Diggs. I mean, I could go on

1210
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 1: probably half of our roster, you know. And it's that's

1211
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: really who helps build the culture. And I think that's

1212
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: that's that's an added component to where we are now

1213
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years versus where we were

1214
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: when we came in, and that just makes life all

1215
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,480
Speaker 1: that much easier. Coach, thanks for stopping by. It's great

1216
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: seen you again. Enjoy the combine. I appreciate it and

1217
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: look forward to uh spending some time here and I'll

1218
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:47,479
Speaker 1: see you guys Sunday. Right you're here through Sunday. We're

1219
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:52,439
Speaker 1: on the road and we're driving back. Just get no problem, thanks, coach.

1220
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: All right, that's head coach Sean McDermott here on one

1221
01:04:57,880 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: Bills Live, kind enough to give us some of his

1222
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:01,479
Speaker 1: I'm here and what's going to be a very busy

1223
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: week for him. Brandon being the personnel staff, the coaching staff,

1224
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: the scouting staff hard at work from now until basically Monday.

1225
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: I believe when the workouts finish in terms of on

1226
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 1: field stuff, that the interviews have already begun. You heard

1227
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: coach McDermott and Brandon being both at the podium say

1228
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: they've already sat down with some players in this year's

1229
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 1: draft class as the interviews begin as soon as players

1230
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: hit the ground here in Indie. And that's as we

1231
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: have said on this show that in the medical probably

1232
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: the two most important things that they pull out of

1233
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: this absolutely and it's you can imagine for a culture

1234
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: like Sean mc dermott and Brandon being have put together

1235
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. You know the kind of guys that they've

1236
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: drafted with, Tredavious Wife, Tremaine Edmonds, Stefan Diggs, Josh Allen.

1237
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 1: You get down the list of the guys and what

1238
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: they mean, how they communicate, and how what kind of

1239
01:05:53,320 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: leaders they are. It's you know, it's import to find

1240
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 1: out that these are those kind of guys, all these guys,

1241
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: which ones they are, which ones are they? Which ones

1242
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 1: do we really want? And so they got to sit

1243
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: down and talk with him. It has gotten to be

1244
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: the reason these interviews and has take place at all,

1245
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: and certainly it's become league wide that it's important part

1246
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: of the process. I found Coach's answer on how they

1247
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 1: blend those new coaches on the staff together through the

1248
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: course of an offseason to come down on the same

1249
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: page with respect to the scheme. And while it is

1250
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:41,439
Speaker 1: unquestionably going to be Ken Dorsey's ship to steer, it's

1251
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: clear that coach McDermott wanted a proven veteran as an

1252
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: offensive line coach, and Aaron Cromer got that wanted a

1253
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: cutting edge guy to be in the room as well.

1254
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: I would argue that that's probably Joe Brady due to,

1255
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 1: you know, the time that he had at LSU in

1256
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 1: the college game, and then he's got a couple of

1257
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: years under his belt in Carolina. For whatever reason, things

1258
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: didn't work out there, But you've got a guy who

1259
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:06,800
Speaker 1: has called plays, so that's what you're working with there.

1260
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 1: I think it's a good group. Now it all just

1261
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: has to fit together, and people have to understand their

1262
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 1: roles and when to chime in and maybe offer something

1263
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: different to pull this scheme together in a way that

1264
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 1: we haven't seen before. It will be a different iteration

1265
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: of what we've seen this offense over the past four

1266
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,919
Speaker 1: years under Dable, and it may be something that even

1267
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,080
Speaker 1: a casual fan will be able to discern. You know,

1268
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: but I think more than more oft than not because

1269
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: you've got a guy like Josh Adam playing such a

1270
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: big role in it. You've got, by all accounts, a

1271
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: really smart guy in Ken Dorsey who actually played the

1272
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: position at a high level call in these plays. It

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Speaker 1: is going to be different. I'm sure that when Josh

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Speaker 1: goes into the first month the season looks back of

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Speaker 1: where they were a year ago, as good as they

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Speaker 1: were at the end of this last season, he'll say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is better and he can he'll have a vision

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01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: for what it's going to look like going forward. Plus,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, these coaches spend a lot of time,

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01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 1: all these staffs here, all thirties, two teams spent a

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01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:11,360
Speaker 1: lot of time thinking about without really being able to know,

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01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: thinking about what it's going to look like as it

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01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: evolves into the future, the rules, the way they're going

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01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 1: to call it, the league's direction, you know, because it

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Speaker 1: didn't just all of a sudden. They didn't wake up

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Speaker 1: overnight and say, hey, everybody's you're gonna have to score

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01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: thirty points to win or you're not gonna win. It

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01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 1: didn't get to this point overnight, and they want to

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Speaker 1: see where it's going and get out in front of it.

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Speaker 1: Question I want to pose to you, you went through this.

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Speaker 1: You had a very successful and beloved offensive coordinator in

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Speaker 1: Ted march A Broda who obviously moved on head coach

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis right here of the Colts. He left the

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01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: Bills to go be a head coach. You had to

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01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:50,639
Speaker 1: go through this transition. Maybe tell us how do players

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Speaker 1: in the room adjust, react and go forward when there's

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Speaker 1: a new guy calling the shocks. Well, say, it was

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01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: a struggle for that team back then. Um there was

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Speaker 1: we're think regular season and uh yeah, I think it

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Speaker 1: was Tom brasenahand coming in. Uh Nick Nikolau took off

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01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 1: and went with Teddy to become his offensive coordinator in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: So we had a group of guys that came in

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Speaker 1: and they said their philosophy was, we're not going to

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01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 1: do too much after the snap, but we're going to

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01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:29,679
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time pre snap because teams, because

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01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: of our no huddle look teams. You know, once they

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01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: got lined up, they felt pretty comfortable they could defend us,

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01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: and they because they kind of got a handle on

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Speaker 1: what we were doing. The problem we really wanted to

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Speaker 1: give them was pre snap shifts, motions, changing the of

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01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:45,720
Speaker 1: the of the strength of formation and that kind of thing.

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01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: That transition didn't go very well. It really didn't go

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Speaker 1: They'd put it in in one preseason one, uh not preseason,

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01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: but offseason minicamp. We went through it, ran through it.

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Speaker 1: Guys were doing it, and it and it. It was

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01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:03,559
Speaker 1: difficult transition and for that reason, they didn't do too

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01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: much of it. It didn't go well. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's and that's also one of the problems that happened

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01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: when you know, they changed offensive coordinators again after the

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Speaker 1: ninety five season ninety six, when Dan Henning came in

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01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:18,600
Speaker 1: and started to call the plays. And then it was

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Speaker 1: Joe Pendry, you know, as after after I was gone,

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01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 1: a couple of old school guys a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: if there is a lesson to take, particularly from the

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01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 1: Marja Broda to bres and a hand shift and what

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01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 1: you experience there, what would be your suggestion or advice

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01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: to the players in this locker room as they make

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01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 1: the change from Brian Dabele to Ken Doran, because you know,

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:47,760
Speaker 1: thinks they're going to be different in some way, shape

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01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: or form. I've said it a ton I'll say it again.

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01:10:52,320 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 1: These guys aren't going to decide what they're going to run.

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01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 1: They're not going to decide what people are going to

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01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: be on the field. They're not going to decide what

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01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 1: the concepts are going to have as many concepts at

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01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 1: their fingers. All these guys have got have got experience

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01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:08,799
Speaker 1: and knowledge of zone blocking schemes, pinch and pull, power runs,

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01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:12,680
Speaker 1: belly plays, you know, the vertical passing game, the horizontal,

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Speaker 1: the timing game, you know whatever, all these different philosophies

1339
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:17,800
Speaker 1: of offense. They've got them all experiencing all of them,

1340
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: I seeing it, and can get their hands on those concepts.

1341
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 1: What they need to do is draft these guys, Sign

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01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: these guys, find out who's on your team, and let

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01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: them do what they do best, whatever that may be.

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01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: Ask this guy to do what he does best and

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01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: a lot because you want versatile athletes who can do

1346
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: a lot of things well, so you don't have to

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01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: change personnel every time you want to throw it, and

1348
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: change personnel again every time you want to run it.

1349
01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:44,439
Speaker 1: So what they will do is get into training camp.

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01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: Let Josh start throw into these guys, watch what they do,

1351
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: get feedback from the defensive side of the ball, say hey,

1352
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:52,559
Speaker 1: who runs this rail? And they go this almost when

1353
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: you got these guys on the field, wow, you're a handful.

1354
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 1: You should do more of that. That's where your offense

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01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,160
Speaker 1: goes very good. We have to take a break here

1356
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:02,320
Speaker 1: because when we come back, it'll be Bill's general manager

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01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean joining us. Coming up next here on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live Live from the NFL Combine, presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back

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01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live here live at the NFL Scouting

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01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 1: Combine and Indie and holy cow, there's somebody sitting next

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01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 1: to us. This hasn't happened in a while. We just

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01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: had coach McDermott here. Now we got GM Brandon being

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01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 1: joining us, and I gotta tell you, just like I

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01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 1: told Sean Brandon, it's just nice to have people next

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01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: to us again, no masks on, We're face to face,

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01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: We're not talking through a screen. This is great. How

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01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 1: are you doing? Oh? I love it? I you know,

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01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 1: I've learned things in the Zoom world that I will

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01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,600
Speaker 1: take and use here there. But there's nothing better. You know,

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01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 1: last night, doing an interview, checking a young man's hand,

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Speaker 1: looking him in the eye, and just being able to

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01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 1: talk and read the body, Lane Whage, feel the personality.

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01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 1: You know sometimes Gal grab the clicker in there. If

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01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,559
Speaker 1: we're watching film, you can you know, they just they're

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01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 1: into it, you know what I mean. You just you

1377
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 1: can't do that in the Zoom world. There's can we

1378
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,639
Speaker 1: learn about the players, sure, but there's nothing better uh

1379
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 1: than that impersonability. And so I'm looking you know, we

1380
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:13,439
Speaker 1: did set you know, four or five last night, and

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01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 1: we got more tonight and you've got to You've got

1382
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,719
Speaker 1: a long listening and the week's just getting started. But um,

1383
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: it is going to be a different kind of draft.

1384
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 1: You're drafting low. You know, twenty five, which is you

1385
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 1: know you want to be thirty two. Yeah, but by

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01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 1: the same token, we you're gonna have I guess, nine

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01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 1: picks in this Yeah. So you got to know all

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01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 1: these guys all the way from top to bottom. There's

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01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:35,759
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty five guys here. How many interviews

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01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: are you going to do? Best case scenario? Yeah, Well,

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01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: so they let each team get forty five formals, but

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01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: we also, uh, they have what's called the informal session.

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01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: And so last night when we had some coaches and

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01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: scouts that didn't have to be in the formals, they

1395
01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: were down at a different level, grabbing as many guys.

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01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:57,600
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's speech, yeah exactly. Oh, you got a

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01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: guy waiting, and as soon as you know the New

1398
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,519
Speaker 1: York Jets are done with him, you grab your scouter.

1399
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,840
Speaker 1: Coach grabs him and says, all right, come over here,

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01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: give me ten to fifteen minutes and tell me a

1401
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: little bit of this talk ball, you know, try and

1402
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 1: get to fill their personality and then what they know

1403
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: and can they learn. Teach them a few things, see

1404
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 1: what they learn, just anything that we still need to

1405
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,599
Speaker 1: gather a lot of the information that we have now

1406
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:22,800
Speaker 1: is what we've been told, you know, a scout or

1407
01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 1: whatever in the fall about this player in his career,

1408
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: but we've never actually got to engage with the player,

1409
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: especially the underclassman. We did sum at the Senior Bowl.

1410
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 1: But this is an even better setting. You you know,

1411
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 1: with the NFL schedule pushed back a whole week because

1412
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 1: of the extra game this year, this has really compressed

1413
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: the combine up against free agency. You guys are gonna

1414
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: get out of here, and you know you're gonna be

1415
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: ten days away from from free agency starting. So with

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01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 1: that in mind, I know, the last couple of years

1417
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: you've worked to create cap space through various means. Last year,

1418
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 1: we know there was a restricted cap or the previous

1419
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 1: year and stuff. This year more back to where you

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01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: probably it would be. So how much work do you

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01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 1: feel you have in front of you, Brandon, to create

1422
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 1: the cap space cap space you feel you need to

1423
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 1: complete your to do list in free agency? Yeah? I

1424
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,280
Speaker 1: mean it's it's we're glad to see it increasing this

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01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 1: year and not decreasing, but honestly, Chris, it's still lower

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01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 1: than what it would have been. If you think about,

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01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years ago we were at

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01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: one ninety eight. It would at that point would have

1429
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,800
Speaker 1: probably gone to two to eight, two ten, you know,

1430
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:29,639
Speaker 1: we would have been well and I would guess two

1431
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 1: twenty five by now. So it's gonna be a multi

1432
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 1: year process to truly recover. And so I think last

1433
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:40,560
Speaker 1: year you saw more teams. I haven't really done it

1434
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: in my past much year of restructuring deals. That's probably

1435
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:48,679
Speaker 1: not totally out yet. And even though not that I'll

1436
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 1: never do it, but it's something you you know, the

1437
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:53,639
Speaker 1: less you have to do it, the stronger you can

1438
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,679
Speaker 1: keep your your cap options where you're just not forced

1439
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 1: to keep a guy because he's more expensive to cut

1440
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 1: than to keep. So we still have to work our way.

1441
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:06,640
Speaker 1: We've got moves where we've had some some discussions. Uh,

1442
01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: we'll have some more discussions and then hopefully you know,

1443
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 1: by mid late next week and we get back, we'll

1444
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:14,760
Speaker 1: start making some moves to to get our cap where

1445
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 1: we need it so that we can you know, have

1446
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,719
Speaker 1: the the AMMO or the resources to sign some guys

1447
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:22,040
Speaker 1: in free agency. Some of it could be resigning our

1448
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:25,200
Speaker 1: own but also um, you know other you know, guys

1449
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 1: from other teams, give us a little insight into the

1450
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 1: process you went through, you know, refurbishing your coaching staff.

1451
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 1: You know, day Ball's gone now, Joe Shane, you know

1452
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:35,200
Speaker 1: your your guy that's in your hip pocket for a

1453
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: couple of years, Um it's gone now as well. You

1454
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 1: had to refurbish your whole your staff on your side

1455
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 1: and also Sean's. And I know you had a voice

1456
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: probably in Sean's choices, although I guess maybe it's his

1457
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: call ultimately, but you guys are you had a lot

1458
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 1: of work to do this offseason before you could even

1459
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: start thinking about who you were going to draft. Yeah,

1460
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:56,000
Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, Sean and I do a great

1461
01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:58,680
Speaker 1: job of We both bounce off each other, Neither one

1462
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 1: of us, whether it's you know, a trainer, a coach,

1463
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 1: a scout, whatever it is. We you know, we just

1464
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 1: both have been around it. We've both seen it. So uh,

1465
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: we work in concert on all those and and yeah,

1466
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:12,679
Speaker 1: it's definitely um from the you know, first things first,

1467
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 1: let's get our coaching staff settled, um, you know, which

1468
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 1: which we did took some time. You know, ultimately we're

1469
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 1: able to promote some guys from within, you know, in

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey and you know at the OC and Matt

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: Smiley at the special teams and then filled in you

1472
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:28,920
Speaker 1: know Joe Brady, you know who I had not been around.

1473
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:31,519
Speaker 1: Joe had heard great things about from people that knew

1474
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:33,600
Speaker 1: him at college, people that knew him when he was

1475
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 1: in New Orleans on Sean Payton's staff before he went

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01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: to LSU. And then um, I came from Carolina. I

1477
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: had heard really good things from him there. I know

1478
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: it didn't it didn't go well for that organization this year,

1479
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: but UH felt like, um, you know, really wasn't on

1480
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:50,719
Speaker 1: Joe and and so he's a bright young mind, um

1481
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: and that has not been in this system. But Ken

1482
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: Dorsey had not been in this system. He kind of

1483
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: learned it and he'll put his own tweaks on it.

1484
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 1: You know, everybody kind of tweaks how they do things.

1485
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: But you know it will allow us to have the

1486
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 1: continuity for Josh and our offense as they come back.

1487
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:10,439
Speaker 1: And Aaron Kromer, you know who second time around as

1488
01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:13,439
Speaker 1: a Buffalo bill, but you know Kromer and you know

1489
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: Ryan Windell we have on staff. You know, Ryan has

1490
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:18,920
Speaker 1: been kind of working with him and Dorsey blending in

1491
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:20,840
Speaker 1: what the protection calls will be so we're just kind

1492
01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:24,759
Speaker 1: of getting all that stuff. But continuity and keeping things

1493
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 1: as similar for Josh and this offense is the goal.

1494
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: And so even though we've lost a lot of people,

1495
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: I don't feel a lot's gonna change, you know, for

1496
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:36,640
Speaker 1: Josh for the most part. Yeah, flipping it over to

1497
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball brand And I know

1498
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: in your season rap up press conference's said I'm gonna

1499
01:18:40,400 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: probably be taking a look at defense here first. And

1500
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: from a sheer numbers standpoint, that makes sense to me.

1501
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at your unrestricted free agents. You've

1502
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:51,520
Speaker 1: got six seven guys on expiring contracts on your defensive

1503
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 1: line alone. From a sheer numbers standpoint, how urgent a

1504
01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 1: situation is that to address? And would you consider Harris

1505
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 1: and Phillips as top priority based on his age entering

1506
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:04,360
Speaker 1: the prime of his career in the production he gave

1507
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:06,760
Speaker 1: you at the end of last year. Yeah, I mean, uh,

1508
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: we you know, we love Harry and you know I've

1509
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: always said we love to draft, develop and resigned, so

1510
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: you know we were able to do that with Saran

1511
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:18,719
Speaker 1: uh last week. But uh, you know, Harrison's hit free agency,

1512
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:20,680
Speaker 1: and you know, I think his guys want to get

1513
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 1: a good feel for his for his value and and

1514
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: he's earned that right and so we'll we'll stay in

1515
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:27,760
Speaker 1: touch with them, and um, we would would we love

1516
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: to have him back? Yes, of course, we love Harry.

1517
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: We're proud of the development he's made. He's had a

1518
01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 1: couple of injuries along the way, and um, even this

1519
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:36,600
Speaker 1: year he got hurt in Chicago preseason game when he

1520
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:38,680
Speaker 1: was he was starting to take a step up, and

1521
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,679
Speaker 1: that kind of derailed him for a little bit. But uh,

1522
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: you know when Zimmer went out with the ACL, I

1523
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: thought Harrison really was ready to roll and and kind

1524
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 1: of did a nice job, you know the second half

1525
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,559
Speaker 1: of the year and Star hit COVID, so uh, he

1526
01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 1: and Ed settled in nice. So you know, the the

1527
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 1: D line though as a whole, Chris and you know,

1528
01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: we we definitely you know how important that is to me. Um,

1529
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta have a quarterback, but you also

1530
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 1: got to have the guys to get after the opposing

1531
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: team's quarterback. And if we're gonna get where we need

1532
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:09,479
Speaker 1: to get to to beat some of these top quarterbacks

1533
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:11,720
Speaker 1: in the AFC, we got to be strong up there.

1534
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: And you saw that in our draft last year and

1535
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: again every year. Even if we didn't have three or

1536
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 1: four unrestrict free agents in there, I'd still be looking,

1537
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:21,559
Speaker 1: are there chances to upgrade it? You know, where do

1538
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: we do it? And I think it's just an area.

1539
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:26,639
Speaker 1: You never say, oh, I'm never gonna relax and say, ah,

1540
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 1: we got the d line settled. We run them in waves,

1541
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 1: and unless I got eight Pro bowlers, I'm not relaxing

1542
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 1: right Well, say what is your priority this year? I

1543
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: mean you're going and I know that you've said in

1544
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 1: the past, and it's a common philosophy around the league

1545
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: in free agency, if you have you want the money

1546
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: to spend, obviously to fill in all the holes in

1547
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,000
Speaker 1: your roster so that when the draft comes, you picked

1548
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: the best guy, whatever position, the guy's going to have

1549
01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 1: the greatest pro career on the board, that's the guy

1550
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: you want. Ye doesn't always work that way because as

1551
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: everybody else is on the same same plan. Give us

1552
01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: an idea of your philosophy, Like one step past that

1553
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 1: we've seen you in the last two or three drafts.

1554
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: You're getting guys that look like pro football players. I

1555
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: mean you got Rousseau, you got you know, spencer football

1556
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: player or something that look like yeah yeah, um yeah,

1557
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:16,519
Speaker 1: and and Tremaine Edmonds and Josh these guys with elite

1558
01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:19,920
Speaker 1: physical traits. It seems to be a thing. Um and

1559
01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: at Oliver an explosive you know athlete. The guys up

1560
01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: front and I and I've told Brownie this a lot

1561
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 1: the guys athletes you can you can harvest those guys

1562
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:36,000
Speaker 1: like wheat. Yeah, the rare ones, the big, huge, big

1563
01:21:36,040 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 1: athletes are like redwoods. Those aren't those aren't as those

1564
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:40,680
Speaker 1: aren't as prominent. You got to find those guys in

1565
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 1: the draft. Is that kind of true when you look

1566
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: at the philosophy or your draft. Yeah, I mean we're

1567
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: always looking for you know, we put prototype size and

1568
01:21:47,960 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: speed and measurements UM on all our positions and what

1569
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: we're looking for, and we also do it. What's what's

1570
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 1: the what's the average you know, starting center look like

1571
01:21:57,560 --> 01:21:58,880
Speaker 1: in the league. You know, let's look and what are

1572
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 1: their grades? And and just just don't look at the bills.

1573
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: What does the average defensive end look like in a

1574
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 1: four three and a defensive tackle? You know what the

1575
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:11,679
Speaker 1: guys with ten plus sacks? What are there meant? You're

1576
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:13,680
Speaker 1: just trying to look at all the things, and so

1577
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: you're putting that in UM, but everything else has got

1578
01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:19,760
Speaker 1: to be there, the intangibles, the work habits, you know,

1579
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:22,720
Speaker 1: success where they have they had success at the college level,

1580
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 1: if you're talking about a draft, if you're talking about

1581
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: free agency, what has been their success level at the pros?

1582
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: And UM, I would love for them all to come

1583
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:32,599
Speaker 1: out looking like Greg Rousseau, Tremaine, Edmunds, Josh Allen. Those

1584
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:37,240
Speaker 1: prototype when they match up with the mental, the pro habits,

1585
01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: the intangibles, and they can play that position. Those are

1586
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: some of the easier ones to make. It's it's the exceptions.

1587
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: And in some ways you mentioned ed ed in his

1588
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 1: own right is a little bit of exception. Isn't because

1589
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: he's undersized, doesn't have the length, But then maybe you

1590
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 1: would want but guess what he does. Similar to you

1591
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: know how Kyle Williams was not meant you know, look

1592
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 1: how long Kyle, with thirteen years, so smart, so instinctive,

1593
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:06,880
Speaker 1: get off, could read what the guys were doing. You know, Kyle.

1594
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 1: I was talking to Kyle one time and he was

1595
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 1: just talking about one of the things he learned as

1596
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: he grew is just how that guard would just set snap.

1597
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,720
Speaker 1: He kind of knew whether he was pulling, whether he

1598
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 1: was getting in a pass set, or whether he was

1599
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: about to come off and knock him in the mouth.

1600
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:22,439
Speaker 1: And just little things like that, and those are the

1601
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: things that Ed is picking up and growing in. Edge

1602
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: unique explosiveness that you mentioned. His quick twitch allow him

1603
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 1: to succeed and overcome the lack of height and length

1604
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 1: that we cherish when we're looking for guys. This is

1605
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: also a week where sometimes you do get some time

1606
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 1: with player agents for some of your own free agents

1607
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:48,599
Speaker 1: and stuff. Any dialogue with the Isaiah mackenzie camp, Yeah,

1608
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:51,760
Speaker 1: I mean we definitely have talked to in some form

1609
01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:55,080
Speaker 1: or fashion with pretty much all of our free agent

1610
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 1: guys of hey, let's stay in touch. You know some

1611
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:02,560
Speaker 1: maybe we've talked about, you know, number of years or

1612
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 1: proposal or anything like that, you know, And that's how

1613
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: it got started with Surran. And sometimes you get someone

1614
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: who's ready to act. Now you know, we know what

1615
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: we want, we know we want. You know, Suran was

1616
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 1: very clear, if you guys can get in the right

1617
01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 1: ballpark and we worked it out, I'm ready to try

1618
01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: and get it done. Some guys, you know, Chris. They

1619
01:24:21,080 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: want to say, hey, let me just fill out the

1620
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: market a little bit. Let me see, let me make

1621
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 1: sure if you think I'm in this area. Um, I

1622
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:30,640
Speaker 1: just want to make sure you're right. You know what

1623
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: I mean? Before they really it really is about as

1624
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:37,760
Speaker 1: a former player. It's really about knowing how much the

1625
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 1: league respects you that way. What does everybody think? I

1626
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,600
Speaker 1: know you guys like me, what does everybody else? Is

1627
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:44,640
Speaker 1: there somebody out there who loves me? Yeah, that's the

1628
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 1: exact kind of thing I want to I just want

1629
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:50,080
Speaker 1: to feel what, you know, the the amount of respect

1630
01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: I have in the NFL. I want to find out

1631
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:56,360
Speaker 1: because particularly guys like Surran Neil Um it's surprised me.

1632
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: It really is, you know, a testament to you guys.

1633
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: He didn't want to find out how much other people

1634
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: like me got. You know, guy's lining three guys. They

1635
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:06,040
Speaker 1: also got in the right ballpark, right. That was a

1636
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 1: nice contract for Serena if you know, if he really

1637
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: wanted to see what he was worth, you know, that

1638
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: would have been a guy who who would have had

1639
01:25:12,479 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 1: that itch to say, listen, I can't I can't I

1640
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,320
Speaker 1: don't get I don't get recognized by the Pro Bowl,

1641
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: don't get recognized by All Pro And I'm kind of

1642
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:20,880
Speaker 1: I want to find out that those kind of curiosity

1643
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 1: things are sometimes what makes a guy go out into

1644
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 1: free agencies say I just want to see what they think. Yeah, no,

1645
01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: I think it definitely is like, listen, you've got agents,

1646
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 1: you've got family, you've got all sorts of people in

1647
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 1: your ear. Well, this player got this. Why aren't you

1648
01:25:33,120 --> 01:25:35,840
Speaker 1: right here? And so, yeah, you're right. All it takes

1649
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:39,639
Speaker 1: is one team that maybe thirty of us say this

1650
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 1: is a five million dollar player, but one team says, man,

1651
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:45,920
Speaker 1: if I had player X, you know, I'll pay him

1652
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:48,360
Speaker 1: seven and a half to eight a year. And they

1653
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: find that team and so you know, I get it. Uh,

1654
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 1: you know it's I don't want someone signing who feels

1655
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: like it's they're not getting the fairest deal that they

1656
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: can get. That's that's not a good thing either. You know,

1657
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:02,840
Speaker 1: you don't really win by oh man, we host him over,

1658
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:05,639
Speaker 1: we got him on some bad deal, because guess what,

1659
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna be upset. They really are, and a month

1660
01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: from now or two months from now, and they're gonna

1661
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: be calling you back saying, hey, you guys got me

1662
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:15,640
Speaker 1: at a week moment or I fired my agent. He

1663
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: never should have agreed to that last one real quick,

1664
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 1: because we've gotta get going here, because we know you've

1665
01:26:19,920 --> 01:26:24,680
Speaker 1: got other obligations. Draft appears to be flushed with pass rushers,

1666
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: even at the very top of this draft. What other

1667
01:26:27,040 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 1: positions offer good depth this year? You know, I think

1668
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:33,080
Speaker 1: there's a lot. To be honest with you, I don't

1669
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:37,679
Speaker 1: see this draft having those that everybody fighting to get

1670
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:41,480
Speaker 1: in the top five, top six, like the Chase Youngs,

1671
01:26:41,479 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 1: the Miles Garrett, you know, or some of these top

1672
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have gone. I don't see that. But what

1673
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 1: I do see is depth, And I think, you know,

1674
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:52,639
Speaker 1: are you going to get a player? You may get

1675
01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: a player at let's say we're at twenty five that

1676
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: some people may have at twelve and vice versa. I

1677
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be it's gonna be more. What's your flavor?

1678
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 1: What are you looking for as you build your team?

1679
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Rousseau a year ago. At

1680
01:27:06,439 --> 01:27:09,080
Speaker 1: this time, a lot of people had him higher. He

1681
01:27:09,120 --> 01:27:12,599
Speaker 1: didn't test as well on his pro day he set

1682
01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:15,639
Speaker 1: out for COVID. Various things happen to why guys, Faull.

1683
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:18,360
Speaker 1: We're just looking for the best football players. And um,

1684
01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 1: I do think there's there's multiple positions, you know, I

1685
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 1: think there's depth at corner. I think there's depth at

1686
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:27,960
Speaker 1: O line. I think there's depth in various positions of

1687
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:29,519
Speaker 1: the D line, whether you're looking for four to three

1688
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 1: or some three four guys. So receivers every year, yeah,

1689
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 1: that's an annual thing now with all the passing academy

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01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 1: seven on sevens, um, I definitely think there's gonna be receivers.

1691
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: There's some tight ends as well in this draft. And

1692
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:43,599
Speaker 1: it seems though this is the theme of the else

1693
01:27:43,680 --> 01:27:46,000
Speaker 1: the last one for you. Speed seems to be something

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01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 1: that you know, you're always looking at the teams that

1695
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 1: they got to get teams. Look how we're gonna beat

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01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 1: you guys the Bills and you're thinking, how we're gonna

1697
01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:54,559
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs. Stay ahead up with the Bengals and

1698
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:56,320
Speaker 1: who's gonna you know, the Chargers are on their way

1699
01:27:56,400 --> 01:28:00,080
Speaker 1: up yet all this stuff and it looks like, you know,

1700
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: if you want to have a chance of beating a

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01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 1: team like Kansas City Wall, you know, I thought you

1702
01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:06,759
Speaker 1: were good enough beat him, and you're in this AFC

1703
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: Championship game, let alone this last time. Yeah, so, um,

1704
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 1: what about you know, putting more speed on the field

1705
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 1: at different positions and some of the other things that

1706
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 1: maybe you're putting on a higher premium because you know

1707
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: you're you're this close. Yeah, I mean, listen, we're always

1708
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:22,639
Speaker 1: looking for speech, Steve, you know that it's important. Um.

1709
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:25,040
Speaker 1: And they you know when you talk about a Tyreek

1710
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 1: Hill that you know, he's he's a he's a he's

1711
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,800
Speaker 1: a unicorn from a speed standpoint. It's uh, it's hard

1712
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:34,479
Speaker 1: to find that from from that standpoint. But um, over overall,

1713
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna look for good football players and uh,

1714
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:39,840
Speaker 1: anytime we can find one of those four or three guys,

1715
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:42,479
Speaker 1: we'll sign them up. Yeah. Thanks for the time as always, Branding,

1716
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,439
Speaker 1: good luck getting your work on this week. Appreciate it

1717
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:47,439
Speaker 1: you guys. That's Bills GM Brandon being joining us here

1718
01:28:47,479 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. We will take a break, Steve

1719
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: and I back to close it up next we'll see

1720
01:28:51,680 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 1: in a second. All right, welcome back. We are here

1721
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 1: live at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Chris Brown,

1722
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, and that was a lot today and there'll

1723
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 1: be a lot more tomorrow. We are jam packed all week,

1724
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 1: so don't go anywhere between the hours of one and three.

1725
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:16,720
Speaker 1: The rest of the week, we were gonna have a

1726
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:19,600
Speaker 1: ton of people for you and Steve. You know, the

1727
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 1: biggest thing coming out of today. I feel good about

1728
01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:25,800
Speaker 1: how this blend is going to go, especially on the

1729
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 1: offense with the new state they put to get. They

1730
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: put in a lot of work to get it right.

1731
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 1: They got brought in guys they really liked the type

1732
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 1: of guys they wanted. They had, They had a profile

1733
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:34,600
Speaker 1: for the kind of coaches they wanted to bring in,

1734
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: and they filled all those spots with guys that really

1735
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 1: really had the credentials to fit right where they wanted

1736
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:41,800
Speaker 1: to fit. So we'll see, as we said, jam pack

1737
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:45,960
Speaker 1: show coming your way tomorrow. NFL on CBS is Charles Davis,

1738
01:29:46,320 --> 01:29:50,120
Speaker 1: Colts head coach Frank Reich and Washington Commander's head coach

1739
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera, two guys on the competition committee. We'll talk

1740
01:29:53,520 --> 01:30:01,560
Speaker 1: to them tomorrow. See at one