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Speaker 1: from what he's obviously wanted to do in his first

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Speaker 1: few years in the NFL. So I want to see

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Speaker 1: him have a healthy chance at earning a spot on

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Speaker 1: the field, whether it's rotational or whether it's a starting role.

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Speaker 1: Starting role I think would be pretty tough to earn

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Speaker 1: on this roster based on what we have right now,

433
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Speaker 1: but I would love to see him be healthy this year,

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Speaker 1: make the final fifty three and have some sort of

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Speaker 1: a role. I'm cheered for him because I like the guy.

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Speaker 1: He's been fun to get to know, and it's been

437
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: a bummer to see him be hurt quite a bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I also forgot Greg Van Roten, who signed laden

439
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Speaker 1: free agency veteran guard formerly of the Jets, also in

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Speaker 1: the mix. So it's pretty stacked behind that first group

441
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Speaker 1: of linemen. So whether you're keeping nine or you're keeping ten,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about position flexibility helping players a lot. And yes,

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00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: as a rookie. We saw Cody Ford play some tackle,

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Speaker 1: then he moved inside to guard. Whether they still believe

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00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: he could be a guard tackle flex player, I don't know.

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00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 1: That's probably a good question that we should ask Sean

447
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 1: McDermot or Brandon Bean, because almost everyone else that they

448
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: have signed, Greg Man's has position flex, Kessin Berry has

449
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: position flex. Not sure about Van Roten. I think he's

450
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Speaker 1: mostly been a guard. I'll have to check into his

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Speaker 1: history to see if he's played some tackle, But a

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Speaker 1: lot of these guys have played multiple positions. To me

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Speaker 1: that in an even situation, you know, if Cody Ford's

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Speaker 1: camp is just as good as Greg Man's camp, and

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Speaker 1: Man's can play two positions, and they only see Ford

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Speaker 1: as a guard that can tip the scales in favor

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Speaker 1: of one over the other. Yeah, And I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: think back to, Okay, when Cody Ford was healthy and

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Speaker 1: when they were trying to figure out, you know, what's

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Speaker 1: the right spot for him. Is he going to be

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Speaker 1: a guard in the NFL? He's he going to be

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Speaker 1: a tackle and they're rotating him back and forth and

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Speaker 1: in and out, and then it kind of transitioned into Okay,

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Speaker 1: we want to find one spot for Cody Ford. We

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Speaker 1: don't want him to be rotating in and out so

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Speaker 1: he can really get a feel for the position. But

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if that has changed once

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Speaker 1: he's back. Yeah, and I think everybody's rooting for Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford to kind of bounce back and be the player

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Speaker 1: that I think everybody thought he could be. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens. We'll see where it goes. And yes,

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Speaker 1: it unquestionably is a gigantic camp for him. Back to

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Speaker 1: the mail bag and Daniel asks, how many old linemen

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Speaker 1: and D lineman do you think will be on the

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Speaker 1: fifty three? Why don't I take the D lineman? You

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Speaker 1: take the old lineman. You tell me how many old

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Speaker 1: lineman you think I'll go D line here? I am

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Speaker 1: going to say nine defensive linemen. I think we keep

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Speaker 1: ten last year. I'm trying to remember we kept double digits.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was ten or eleven. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's right, it was fat. But then didn't the number

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Speaker 1: come down after the first couple of weeks? It didn't

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Speaker 1: stay I want to for some reason, I'm thinking it

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Speaker 1: didn't stay that way? Was there an injury designation too?

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Speaker 1: I can't remember. I'm inclined to say nine, five ends,

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Speaker 1: four dts because I think with your expanded practice squad,

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Speaker 1: you can just stash yeah people there. So I am

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Speaker 1: going to say nine defensive lineman, five defensive ends, four

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Speaker 1: defensive tackles. And the reason I go lighter at the

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Speaker 1: defensive tackle position is because you have players that can

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Speaker 1: kick down inside on passing downs like Greg Russo and

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Speaker 1: Shack Lawson if he's able to make the roster. What

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Speaker 1: about offensive Linemanny, I would say defensive line would where

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Speaker 1: you would maybe keep more players. So if you're going

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Speaker 1: to say nine on defensive line, I would probably say

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Speaker 1: nine or ten on offensive line too. I wouldn't go

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Speaker 1: more than that. I think, similar to what you said

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Speaker 1: with the practice squad, how you can get guys on

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Speaker 1: and off of it, I think it would be easy

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Speaker 1: to keep nine into your job. Maybe they would keep

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Speaker 1: one more this year compared to last year because of

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Speaker 1: the volume of players that they did sign in the

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Speaker 1: off season. I wonder if they do keep an extra

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Speaker 1: guy just because they signed so many guys this offseason

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Speaker 1: to the offensive line. I don't know if that also

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Speaker 1: is kind of a tip of the hat to how

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Speaker 1: this offensive line may look a little bit different this

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Speaker 1: year in terms of rotating or in terms of blocking schemes,

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Speaker 1: you name it, with our new offensive line coach, Aaron Kromer.

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Speaker 1: So maybe they keep one more guy because of that,

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Speaker 1: because you have a new offensive line coach, because you

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Speaker 1: may have some new blocking schemes that you're going to

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Speaker 1: fold in, and you think an extra guy is going

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Speaker 1: to help you there. Yeah, possible. I believe they kept

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Speaker 1: ten offensive linemen last year. I think that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: And part of the reason was because of the game

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Speaker 1: day roster's designation, you could ay an extra active player

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Speaker 1: provided it was an eighth offensive lineman, And so I

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Speaker 1: think that prompted a lot of teams to carry one

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Speaker 1: extra lineman to boot knowing there was an extra player

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Speaker 1: they could dress on game day provided it was an

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Speaker 1: eighth offensive lineman. So yeah, I would guess ten and

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Speaker 1: nine would probably be where we'd have an eleven defensive line. Okay, interesting, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm trying to think like that was when

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Speaker 1: they announced the fifty three, though I didn't. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if the number changed now. Sometimes it does three, right,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it does shift and change by the time you

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Speaker 1: get to the first game. But yeah, that is interesting

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Speaker 1: for sure. We have to take a break here, callers

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Speaker 1: at eight oh three oh five fifty and one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five two five fifty. Hang tight. We're opening up

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Speaker 1: the phone lines for the Friday fan mail bag next

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Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live, presented by Kloid of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, here, we are on

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Speaker 1: a Bills Friday fan mail bag day, and we're getting

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Speaker 1: right to the phones here at eight three five fifty

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Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Open line

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Speaker 1: for you there. But we lead off today with Dennis

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Speaker 1: in Blaisdell. Dennis, what do you have for us? You're

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. Yes, good afternoon. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: speak about the offensive side of the ball the most,

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Speaker 1: and that you have a new offensive coordinator in Dorsey.

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00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,479
Speaker 1: Now as a quarterback, he had up and down career,

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Speaker 1: but with a brand new quarterback end here, if he's

545
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: not on the same page as as Josh Allen, then

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have problems. And that's that's gonna be the

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00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: biggest question they have. They have to really, people don't

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Speaker 1: realize how they an offensive coordinator and a quarterback has

549
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Speaker 1: to Joe. They have to almost have the same set

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00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: of eyes on and off the field, in the training

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00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: room and everything. So I think that's going to be

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00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: the key to the offense, key to the defense. Signed player.

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Speaker 1: We're already down white one man likes a heck of

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00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: a difference. We've seen the difference in Kansas City. They

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00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: played their hearts out. Story they lost, but that's the

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Speaker 1: way it is. Great show this morning. They talked about

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Speaker 1: no contact in preseason. This is football. Is still football.

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00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: We have enough of that in the in the Pro

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00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: Bowl game. It's ridiculous. Have a great day, all right, Thanks, Yes, um,

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. I will say Ken Dorsey isn't new to

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Speaker 1: the team. He's been the quarterbacks coach for the last

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00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: three seasons, so he has worked very closely with Josh

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00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: Alleny to the last three years as his quarter backs coach.

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Speaker 1: He's been in every film room with him for the

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Speaker 1: better part of the last three years. He has been

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Speaker 1: the man on the sidelines on game days talking to

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Speaker 1: Josh when Brian Dable as the play caller, was up

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Speaker 1: in the coaches booth. So they have a very strong

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Speaker 1: working relationship already. So I'm not worried about that in

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Speaker 1: the least in terms of them being on the same page.

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Speaker 1: And one thing that was really discussed over OTAs and

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Speaker 1: mandatory Mini camp was, you know, talking through the headset, communication, verbalizing,

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Speaker 1: verbalizing things, how that's going to sound. Josh, you know,

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Speaker 1: talked about it's going to be interesting and new to

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Speaker 1: listen to a new voice. I really want to get

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Speaker 1: comfortable with that and the cadence of how he speaks

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Speaker 1: and how he calls play. So I think that's the

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Speaker 1: thing that is probably not probably was missing, and that's

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Speaker 1: what they worked on a lot during OTAs and mandatory

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Speaker 1: Mini Camp. And if you looked over at those two

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Speaker 1: really at any point in a practice when they were

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Speaker 1: near each other, there was a lot of discussion, a

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Speaker 1: lot of communication. Not saying that this is any different

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Speaker 1: than how it has been in the past since Ken

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00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: Dorsey was his quarterbacks coach for a few seasons. But

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Speaker 1: the thing that they're going to have to perfect is

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Speaker 1: the verbalizing, is the communication, is the cadence, Josh Allen

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00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: getting used to that, Ken Dorsey also getting used to that.

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00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: And then with respect to the lack of contact and

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Speaker 1: training camp, unfortunately, Dennis. That's collectively bargained by the Players

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00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: Union in terms of when they are allowed to put

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Speaker 1: pads on, which pretty much isn't for the whole first

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Speaker 1: week of camp. They can only go five days and

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Speaker 1: then they have a mandatory day off. These elements of

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00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: training camp now, they have all been collectively bargained by

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Speaker 1: the Players Association. I understand you know, you say it's football,

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00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 1: and it is, but the Players Association has gotten some

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Speaker 1: things that they have wanted to preserve the players care

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00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: years longer by taking hits off their bodies, and it

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00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: seems as though the league and its ownership is fine

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Speaker 1: doing that in the training camp setting in OTAs in

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Speaker 1: mini camp. I mean I was covering this team a

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00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: long time ago. They had pads on and OTAs they

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Speaker 1: had pads on in mini camp. Mini caamp was three

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00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: hard days of work and full contact before the new

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Speaker 1: CBA came in in twenty eleven and then subsequent ones

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Speaker 1: after that. So it's all geared towards prolonging players careers,

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00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: keeping players healthier through the course of the offseason so

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Speaker 1: they're ready for the regular season. Let's go back to

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Speaker 1: the phones and we go to Joe in Buffalo next.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, first, Joe, are you there? Yeah, go ahead, Joe, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I would like to know why the Buffalo Bills doesn't

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Speaker 1: wear they read helpmets anymore? Okayalid question, I get it.

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Speaker 1: I've actually seen a lot on social media, Manny about this.

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00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: Fans are pining. They want them to bring up back

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Speaker 1: for the old red helmets of the eighties and nineties

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00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: and even the early two thousands. And I get it.

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Speaker 1: It's cool helmet, always has been. And I see people

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Speaker 1: like putting red helmets on pictures of Josh all the

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00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: time on social media. It's pretty funny. People are getting

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Speaker 1: pretty creative with it. We have not heard hide nor

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Speaker 1: hair of any I don't know they could really starting

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Speaker 1: a red helmorrow or the next day. If they're going

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Speaker 1: to do an alternate helmet, I have no idea. Yeah

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00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: we have. We have heard no rumblings of anything about

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00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: that in any capacity. So because of that, I would

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00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: be inclined to think that is not on the table.

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Speaker 1: But stranger things have happened. I really don't know what

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Speaker 1: direction that's going to go. What I do know, though,

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Speaker 1: is when you want to do something like that, for example,

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Speaker 1: the Jets black helmet that they just unveiled on social

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Speaker 1: media today. That's a two year process. You have to

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00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: put in a request to the league, Hey, we have

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00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: an alternate jersey, helmet, etc. That we want to utilize

635
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: in this season, and you have to start the process

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Speaker 1: two years in advance to get approval of not only

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00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: changing the helmet or the jersey, but also the design

638
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: has to be approved by the league, etc. Etc. So

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Speaker 1: it's not just like hey, let's make some black helmet

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Speaker 1: or like hey, let's just slap a red helmet on

641
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: out there. It takes a lot more red tape to

642
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: get it done at the league level and get it approved.

643
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:42,439
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm just we had not heard

644
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: of anything about this in terms of the planning stages

645
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: required to get something like that through. So if somebody

646
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: pinned me down and said what do you think, I

647
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: would say probably not. But you just never know. Maybe

648
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: they've kept it under lock and key tremendously and we don't.

649
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: We just don't know anything. Back to the phones though,

650
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: and to Adam in Rochester next, what do you got

651
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: for us? Adam? Hi, Brownie, I just wanted to let

652
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: you know you guys made a comment that said, you're

653
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: not selling helmets to fans, and I want to tell you,

654
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: guys are completely wrong with that. Riddell has been making

655
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: licensed variations of every team's helmets for years, and folks

656
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: like me, folks like any of the collectors. I'm a

657
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: big collector on Facebook. A lot of people listening might

658
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: recognizing my name is Adam Gobill's blossom on there. But

659
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: I collect hundreds of mini helmets and full size helmets

660
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: that are signed by players that are just different variations,

661
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: and they're thirsty for alternate so that the comment of

662
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: you're not selling to fans is one hundred percent in correct.

663
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: Some fans only collection is helmets and alternate style helmets

664
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: and things like that. And furthermore, Riddell last year released

665
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: the red version of the new helmet, so I think

666
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a tease to what is

667
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: probably hopefully going to be released as a helmet this year. Yeah,

668
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll have to see as far as this

669
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: year goes. I would tend to put you though not.

670
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of you're collecting Adam, I would

671
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: put you not in the mainstream majority of the general fan.

672
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 1: The general fan wants a jersey general fan wants a hat.

673
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: Are their collectors out there of helmets absolutely, people like you, Yes,

674
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: they're out there. And for the people that want autographs, yes,

675
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 1: many helmets are popular, I get it. I still wouldn't.

676
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: I don't think helmets touched jerseys in terms of sales.

677
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: They don't come close. So because why because you get

678
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: a helmet and it sits on your shelf. And I

679
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,959
Speaker 1: think fans want a jersey they can wear to the game,

680
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: and that's why jerseys far outpays helmets. So maybe we

681
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: misspoke to a certain extent, but I thought what I

682
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: said wasn't market helmets like you do jerseys because they

683
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 1: just don't sell as many of them. Not to mention

684
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: the fact it's a lot cheaper to produce a jersey

685
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: than it is to produce a helmet. I know they

686
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,439
Speaker 1: have a partner in Rudel that does all that, but

687
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: I would say for the mainstream fan, it's about the

688
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: jerseys more than it is about the helmets. I'm not

689
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: saying there isn't a pocket of you that don't exist.

690
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: You're a proof of it. But I just don't think

691
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: your numbers come close to what the number of people

692
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: that buy jerseys are and I think that's the point

693
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: we were trying to make. Let's go to I think

694
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: this is Lynn on a cell. Then what do you

695
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Yeah, hi, Chris,

696
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: you were saying you wouldn't mind seeing red jerseys with

697
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: white pants. Yeah, unfortunately it's not allowed it. Whatever color

698
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: you here for your jersey for Color Rush can not

699
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: be worn with any other color, right, I know that,

700
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: but I still doesn't mean I don't want to see it.

701
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: I want to see a red jersey with white pants.

702
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: It could be really cool. Yeah, it would, But unfortunately,

703
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: I wonder if we can get past what was deemed

704
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: the color Rush thing and just say, hey, what would

705
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: look cool this week and just go red? Because I

706
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: think red jersey white pants would be killer. I don't.

707
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I just actually Josh told

708
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 1: me that he would have liked red jersey with white

709
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: pants when he didn't get his wish either. Yeah. So yeah,

710
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I appreciate you're passing that along to us,

711
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: but yeah, we knew that. That's why you've always seen

712
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: the all reds, because it's the color Rush uniform. But

713
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: I just think with a red jersey in between a

714
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: white helmet and white pants and then red socks on

715
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: the bottom. That would just pop. I'm for it. They've

716
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: been you would think by now, color rush jerseys you

717
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: can just throw on into the rotation and do whatever

718
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: you want, combo how you want to come. That's what

719
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: I was kind of getting at there. I would really

720
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: hope they would kind of clear the deck for that.

721
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean, God, you got players wearing almost any number

722
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 1: under the sun. Now, what's the difference if you wear

723
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: white pants with the red jersey instead of the red pants.

724
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: I don't think you're really screwing anybody up with that.

725
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but we're taking

726
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls next and as it is

727
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: obil fan Friday mail Bag, so more of your questions

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00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: coming up next here on One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalaida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, right back

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00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: to the phones we go here on the Friday mail

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00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: Bag here on One Bills Live, and we go to

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Speaker 1: Brian and Buffalo next. What do you got for us? Brian?

733
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: You're One Bills Live. Hey, how are you doing good?

734
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: So listen, I I'm looking I'm a long time Bills

735
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: guy from Beck and Joe Ferguson days, I love listen

736
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: to you guys on the radio, you and you know

737
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: and Maddie, and when Tasker's on is great fun. But

738
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking yards after catch. I thought that Bill struggled

739
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: at that last year. Then I heard a stat that

740
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: said they were dead last. And I think with a

741
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: a little bit more speed on the offense, and mind

742
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: me was saffold with a guy like Cook who can

743
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: get out and break loose a little more. With an

744
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: option of having a couple of tight ends and busting

745
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: guys out, maybe getting single theory get loose a little more,

746
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: I think they can pick up their yards after catch

747
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: the significant amount. I think that would be a big

748
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: part of making that offense click even that much more.

749
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: And it saves Josh for having a you know, he

750
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: doesn't have to fling the ball down the field all

751
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: the time, but it will open up so that, you know,

752
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: when you got to wear about yards after catch, all

753
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're getting single coverage out on the

754
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: ends and then you got some big numbers possible there.

755
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: So just to wonder what you were thinking, Yeah, Maddie,

756
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: you want to take that first there. Yeah, we talked

757
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: about yards after catch a little bit yesterday when we

758
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: were discussing you know what player on offense could be

759
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: the difference maker in twenty twenty two, and jameson Crowder

760
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people chose him, A lot of people

761
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: chose James Cook and reasons being is they could help

762
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: with that yards after catch and really be a vital

763
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: player play a big role on this offense next season.

764
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: But I thought the point that you made about yards

765
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: after catch and really Ken Dorsey's hand in helping the

766
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: offense with spacing was a really good point to make

767
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: because you can talk about having and wanting more yards

768
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: after catch and Josh Allen can work at it and

769
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: get better at it, which, like you said yesterday, anything

770
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: that he's worked on, we've seen him improve the season

771
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: after and I totally believe in that. But the spacing

772
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: that goes into yards after catch and being able to

773
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: pick up two, three, four yards five yards after the catch,

774
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: it's easier said than done in a way that the

775
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: field needs to look. Yeah, because everything's tight out there.

776
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: Just to ask any receiver, they'll tell you space is

777
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: at a premium, and especially when you're down on the

778
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: red zone and there's literally no space, you're not looking

779
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: for yards after the catch down there, obviously, but between

780
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: the twenties it is still a challenge. And if there's

781
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: a way that Dorsey can facilitate more space for the

782
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 1: main targets to get more yards after the catches, made

783
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: all the better. And if memory serves, the Bills were

784
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: thirtieth in yards after the catch in twenty twenty. They

785
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: got a little bit better last year they were ranked

786
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: twentieth in yards after the catch, but that's still bottom

787
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: third of the league, and we know they want to

788
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: get better in that area, as they do in all areas.

789
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: We wanted to pass this along because the Track and

790
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: Field Championships are going on out in Oregon and there

791
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: was a record broken that stood for thirty years, the

792
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: two hundred meter American record previously held by Michael Johnson,

793
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: who was big in the ninety six Olympics. As you know,

794
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: he had the gold Nike shoes and everything. Well, that

795
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: was beaten by Noah Lyles yesterday who in just two

796
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 1: hundred meters blew away the field. He is like five

797
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: yards clear of everyone in just two hundred meters and

798
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: I've got to say this in a race. Look, I

799
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,479
Speaker 1: know you and I did a little high school track

800
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: in our time. By no means are we no. You know,

801
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: we're strict amateurs in track knowledge. But all I know

802
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,439
Speaker 1: is this, a two hundred meter race is not very long,

803
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,959
Speaker 1: and he's racing against the other best two hundred meters

804
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: sprinters in the world, and he just smoked them by

805
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: five yards in a two hundred meter race. You know

806
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: how hard it is to get that amount of separation

807
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: in nineteen seconds? Nineteen three one was his time. That's insane.

808
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: You break that down to a one hundred. How fast

809
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: you're running a one hundred in and he didn't even

810
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: look tired after that. I don't know if I could

811
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: run a one hundred and nineteen point three second. Yeah,

812
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: this guy's doing two hundred. But I mean he comes

813
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,919
Speaker 1: off that turn and it looks like he's shot out

814
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: of a cannon and everybody, I mean, these other guys

815
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: are moving and it's just like it's kind of like

816
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: some of those you saying bolt races, you know, when

817
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: he's that much further ahead of everybody, I mean, he

818
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: is crushing it. Crusin Dan, it was a hell of

819
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: a race that like there are And I don't know

820
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: about you, Maddie, be Like when I watched the Summer Olympics,

821
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it was because I grew up

822
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: watching Carl Lewis, you know, eighty four, eighty eight Olympics,

823
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: and he was amazing. I don't know. I just I'm

824
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: fascinated by how fast people can run. It's amazing and

825
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: I am glued when you see races like this, And man,

826
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how it feels when you do all

827
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: that training for all those weeks and months and years

828
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: and you run your best race in a final. That's

829
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: just got to be you know what I mean. It's

830
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: like hitting a Grand Slam or it's like you know

831
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: what I mean, you get a hold of one, you

832
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: can relate to that, you paint softball, you get a

833
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: hold of one. It just feels so damn good. I

834
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: gotta imagine that's what it feels. That's what it felt

835
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: like for Noah Lisles yesterday running that two hundred and

836
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: how all that work. I mean, there are a few

837
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: sports that come down to you put in a year's

838
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: worth of work into something that lasts nineteen seconds. Well, yeah, right.

839
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: I mean that's the other thing too. It's over like

840
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 1: in the snap of a finger. But so many over

841
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: the years, if you watch enough track, you see so

842
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: many things go wrong. You know, you bad start out

843
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: of the block, or you you hit a hurdle, you know,

844
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: with your heel or your foot and it slows you

845
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 1: down and you lose by a tenth of a second,

846
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,959
Speaker 1: like all those kinds of pitfalls. Can or God forbid

847
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: you pull a muscle because you're running your absolute fastest.

848
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: You're pushing your body to the absolute limit to run

849
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: your best race in a final and break an American

850
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: record that stood for thirty years. Man, hats off to you,

851
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: Noah Lisles fantastic race yesterday. I was impressed. Color me impressed.

852
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: That stadium is really cool there too. In Oregon. I

853
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: guess Nike put like two hundred seven five million dollars

854
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: up to renovate the thing. And they say there's a

855
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: section at the end of the hurdle race where the

856
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: contour of the of the seating kind of lifts the

857
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 1: viewer up, so they almost feel like the hurdlers are

858
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: going to like run into them at the end of

859
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: the race. That's it's like a visual um illusion almost

860
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: that they create over there with the way they have

861
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: the contours of the seats. I don't know. I gotta

862
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: get out there at some point. That might have to

863
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: go on my bucket list just to watch, Like even

864
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: the US Track and Field Championships that usually happen out

865
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: there in California somewhere. I gotta get there. I gotta

866
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: watch it. It's just fascinating to watch athletes of that caliber,

867
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: just amazing. Where what do you think that was the

868
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: first time you watch that race? The first I purposely

869
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: didn't want you to see. Type it up and look

870
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: at it. Amazing. I think races are fun to watch.

871
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: Two Summer Olympics, I'm all down for that. Working at

872
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: the University of Tennessee, we had a couple athletes that

873
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: were on our track and field teams. Oh yeah, there's

874
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: that have been in the Olympics and have done great

875
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: for the universe. See, it was always fun to watch

876
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: track meets and stuff at the university. I would go

877
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,439
Speaker 1: up and send the stands and cheer on our guys

878
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: and watch girls. Um so, I'm I can never run

879
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: that fast. I'm way too short. My legs props to

880
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: the people who can do it. Man great, It's fun

881
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: to watch, no doubt about it. All right, we got

882
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 1: to take a break here. Second hour of the show.

883
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: More of your phone calls, so those are you holding

884
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Speaker 1: at eight oh three, five fifty. We are here to

885
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: answer your questions on the Friday fan mail Bag. More

886
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: answers to come for you here on one Bill's Live,

887
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo. Bill's Radio had

888
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Speaker 1: a steep tasker who has been all over her fields.

889
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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

890
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: player for you see about safe a blimp. We're not

891
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:10,959
Speaker 1: even in the thread of normalcy. Hey, Bill's Mafia Maddi

892
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: glab here alongside Bill's Insider Chris Brown, and we are

893
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: counting down to training camp. We can't believe week one

894
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: is just a couple months away. We're looking at some

895
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: of the biggest storylines and one of them is definitely

896
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: a big question for this team super Bowl or bus

897
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: And we're not going to relive at all because we

898
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: know those memories are still haunting us a little bit

899
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: from what happened last season, but the Bill suffered that

900
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: heartbreaking loss, overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs forty

901
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: two to thirty six in the divisional round. And thankfully

902
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: there's new overtime rules this season, and hopefully that loss

903
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: won't honus for too much longer. Because of how successful

904
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: this group was last year, let's take a look at

905
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. There's big expectations for this team because

906
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: of what they did last season. So first off, explain

907
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: why these expectations keep getting higher and higher for this team. Well,

908
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: I think it's because a lot of people on the

909
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: outside looking in saw a football team that was clearly

910
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,720
Speaker 1: playing it's best football at the end of the season.

911
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 1: They were a healthy team, and I don't think there

912
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: was any other team playing more consistently than them. It's

913
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: just they were victimized by an overtime situation on a

914
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: coin flip and then didn't have a defense to stop

915
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: them at the most crucial time of the game. But

916
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: I think dollars to donuts, most people felt, hey, that

917
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: was the best team in football last year. They just

918
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: ran into an unfortunate set of circumstances. That's number one.

919
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 1: Number two, the roster, you could argue, was even stronger

920
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: than the one they put together last year. They addressed

921
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 1: one of the few weaknesses on the team, the pass rush,

922
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: bike getting one of the best pass rushers of a

923
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: generation in von Miller. And they fortified their defensive interior

924
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: with players that you could argue or even more athletic

925
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: and more playmaking in nature than the ones they had

926
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: last season. So those are just two small reasons not

927
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: to mention their top two draft choices, and kye Elan

928
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: and James Cook, we're expecting to be on the field early.

929
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: One thing that plays into potential and expectations of a

930
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 1: team is who's on their schedule and who's in their conference.

931
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: With the way that it's stacked, do you think the

932
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: Bills have the opportunity at the number one seed? Because

933
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: this is something we've heard general manager Brandon Bean and

934
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott talk about. You know, number one is being

935
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 1: that number one steed having the playoffs run through Buffalo.

936
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: So with the way that you look at the schedule,

937
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: with the way the teams are competing in the conference,

938
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: or that we anticipate these teams will compete in the

939
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: conference this season, do you think the opportunity is on

940
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: the table and on the ta and for the taking yeah,

941
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: I think the opportunity is most certainly there. The first

942
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: seven games are a bear. That's going to be a

943
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: tough stretch right from the jump. You got Rams, Titans, Ravens, Steelers, Browns, Packers,

944
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: They're all mashed in there. In the first seven games.

945
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: You come out at five and two or even four

946
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: and three, which I know sounds strange to build. Hey,

947
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: I thought, come on, when I'm running the table, what's

948
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: going on now? I mean, you come out of that

949
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: gauntlet four and three, five and two, you really are

950
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: sitting pretty on the back half of your schedule because

951
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: it gets considerably easier after that. That's number one, so

952
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: that you get over that hump, you're in really good shape.

953
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: But their division is still one that's in transition, Maddie,

954
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: The Dolphins, the Jets, and the Patriots, they're just not

955
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: in Buffalo's class. You could argue Miami has closed the gap,

956
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: but they're still not there yet. The Jets are still rebuilding,

957
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: even though they did some nice things in the offseason.

958
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:35,919
Speaker 1: So the Bills should win the division. So that's step

959
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: number one. But yes, you've got a racked up wins

960
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: when you can get them, particularly against AFC opponents, and

961
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: it looks like the Titans have slid back to the pack.

962
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: The Steelers have a muddled quarterback situation. Case is in

963
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: a loaded division where they're gonna probably beat up on

964
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:53,959
Speaker 1: each other a lot, and you can argue they've taken

965
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: a step back by trading away Tyreek Hill. So there

966
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: are a lot of reasons to believe the Bills could

967
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: very well put themselves in the driver's seat this year

968
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: for the postseason. Yeah, it's just tough to look at

969
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: those first six seven games and think, how do they

970
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: make it out of this alive? Because every team needs

971
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of that warm up, but they're not

972
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:16,919
Speaker 1: going to get that warm up, And maybe this team

973
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: doesn't even need a warm up because of how many

974
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 1: seasons several guys have been together and the added firepower

975
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: and players like von Miller. So we'll have to see

976
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 1: how they start in those first few weeks. But as

977
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: we consider all of this and put it all together,

978
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: do we think this is a super Bowl caliber team

979
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two with the pieces they have and

980
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: the schedule that they're going to play. Yeah, I mean,

981
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: you gotta play who you gotta play. It's what are

982
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: you made of And I think this is a roster,

983
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: as we said, it's probably even stronger than the one

984
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: they had last year. I think it's deeper, and I

985
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: think it's more talented, particularly in their defensive front. And

986
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: then you look at how they've retooled their offensive line.

987
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: I think they've made a point to be little bit

988
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 1: more mobile. I think new offensive line coach Aaron Crohmer

989
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: is going to want to employ different blocking schemes through

990
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: the course of the season, maybe from a week to

991
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: week basis. So you need some players that have some

992
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: mobilities so you can execute more stuff out on the

993
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: edges where you can take advantage of the speed that

994
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,479
Speaker 1: you now have on the offensive side of the ball.

995
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: And I think, also, Maddie, this is a team that

996
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: has been battle tested. They've had to endure some very

997
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: hard playoff lessons each of the last three seasons, as

998
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: we have witnessed, and I think because of that, there

999
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: is an added motivation, a bigger chip on your shoulder,

1000
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: whatever cliche you want to use. There is a burning

1001
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,919
Speaker 1: desire to finally get over the hump. So you roll

1002
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: that into all the talent they can put out there

1003
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: on the field. Yes, Yes, they're a super Bowl caliber team. Yeah,

1004
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: I have no problems saying that. I expect this team

1005
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: to be in the super Bowl in the twenty twenty

1006
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: two season. They know what it's like to be in

1007
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: those big games. Like you said, they've suffered those losses

1008
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: in every year. That chip keeps getting bigger and they

1009
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: and after the last few seasons, I think super Bowl

1010
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: is just the natural next step. It's a little crazy

1011
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: to say natural next step, but they've been there, they've

1012
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: done that. They haven't been to the super Bowl yet,

1013
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: and I think that's that's how this team can take

1014
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: the next step. And I think a lot of us

1015
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: are expecting that for the Bills this season. All right,

1016
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: for more videos and content as we continue to count

1017
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: down to Bills training camp in Rochester. Head to Buffalo

1018
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 1: Bills dot Com for Chris Brown, I'm Maddie glab all right,

1019
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: So that's super Bowl or bust for the Bills. That

1020
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: was kind of Maddie and my look at it, and

1021
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys are hopeful that it looks all

1022
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: good and things come down Rosie once the regular season

1023
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: gets under way. But for now, we do want to

1024
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: get back to the phone calls at eight oh three

1025
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two, five fifty

1026
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: as the Friday fanmail bag is open. Any and all

1027
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: questions you have on the bills, you'll league at large,

1028
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: fire away and waiting patiently has been Jim in Penfield, Jim,

1029
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey,

1030
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: Chris Eddie, I'm glad to see you guys. My thing

1031
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: is on Deshaun Watson. This crap fest that's going on.

1032
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: Supposedly the arbitrator is going to decide this, but all

1033
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: of a sudden we're hearing about a possible six or

1034
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: eight week suspension. My opinion is that if this happens,

1035
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: the reason that's happening is because the Browns management has

1036
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: gotten involved and they don't want to lose money. Because

1037
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: who's going to lose money if he doesn't play? They are,

1038
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: He's guaranteed his money. They are not. That's my opinion,

1039
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: And I'll hang up and I'll let you guys have

1040
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: free run with it. Take you take care, okay. Yeah.

1041
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: It's interesting that you say that, Jim, because the way

1042
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 1: the Browns structured Deshaun Watson's contract, he was only going

1043
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: to make a million dollars this year. So of that

1044
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty and a two hundred and thirty

1045
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: million dollar contract, he was only set to make a

1046
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 1: million dollars this year. And the reason they did that

1047
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: is because they were anticipating a suspension of some kind.

1048
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: So they said, look, let's backload the contract, so if

1049
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: you are suspended this year, you don't lose much money.

1050
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: The Browns, quite frankly, once they committed two hundred and

1051
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars to Deshaun Watson, it was overset and done.

1052
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: As far as the money they were going to lose,

1053
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: they're going to lose it, whether they're paying him or not.

1054
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: So Watson, the way the contract was structured certainly favors

1055
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: him keeping almost all of that money. Assuming a suspension

1056
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: doesn't linger into next year. I don't think any of

1057
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: us are anticipating that. Yeah, I don't think we anticipate

1058
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: next year. The Browns are smart for structuring the deal

1059
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: that way. It'll just be interesting to see how all

1060
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: of this unfolds, what the suspension looks like, if it's

1061
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: going to be six or eight, if it's going to

1062
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: be the entire season, what else plays out over the

1063
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: course of the next couple of months. It's been a

1064
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Speaker 1: sticky and icky situation. I have a lot of things

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Speaker 1: to say about it, but I'm just really interested to

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Speaker 1: see what happens, what the NFL does with Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: and his suspension. See And that's the thing that I

1068
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: think it's lost on some fans because since the new

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01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:31,959
Speaker 1: CBA in twenty twenty one, Commissioner Goodell is no longer judge,

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Speaker 1: jury and executioner of league suspensions. The Players Association and

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01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: the league agreed that in disciplinary situations like this, there

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Speaker 1: would be an independent arbitrator that would hear the Players

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01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: Association side representing Watson, and they would hear the league side,

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01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: represented by attorneys, and then an independent arbitrator would make

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Speaker 1: their ruling levia suspension. That is how it's going here.

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Speaker 1: It's not the league or the commissioner deciding what Watson's

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01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: punishment is. It's an independent arbitrator. And some of the

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Speaker 1: latest reports are that Sue Robinson, who is that arbitrator,

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Speaker 1: is not levying a decision yet because some are speculating

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Speaker 1: they're trying to get the two sides to reach a settlement.

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Speaker 1: The thing that worries me about a settlement is it's

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01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: usually going to be less than what we all think

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01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: it should be. That's my concern. And I think if

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01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: it's even if it's eight games, to me, that's not enough.

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01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: If it's less than that, the optics are awful. Awful,

1086
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 1: like to say, you're, you know, all about equity and

1087
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 1: inclusion and all that stuff and empowering women in this league,

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01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: when someone like this who's accused of what he is

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Speaker 1: against women and his suspension is minimal, I got a

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01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: problem with that. I do. So it's going to be

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Speaker 1: very interesting to see what the punishment ultimately is, or

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01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: if there is a settlement before a punishment is Levy,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones and to Alan and Lancaster. Next, Alan,

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01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: would you have for us here on one bills Live? Yeah, Hid, Chris,

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01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. I'm calling in regard to

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01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: a thought. I have an idea for an offensive set

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01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: up to the bills that you want to Obviously, we

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01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: want to confuse the defenses, and one way thought that

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01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 1: I had of how to do that is to have

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01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: one set up in which we use all smaller, quick

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01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: guys who are able to get separation namely five guys,

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Speaker 1: namely Mackenzie Diggs, James Cook, Crowd, and Tavon Austin. And

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01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: the idea would be that that Josh is going to

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01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: be able to get the ball out very quickly with

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01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: these five guys going out, because somebody's going to get

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01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: separation quickly, and it would be it would be something

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01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: that all defenses would have to prepare for. Even if

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01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: the Bills decide to only only use it once or

1109
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: twice a game, you force a defense to try to

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01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 1: use it. The Bills could also take advantage of something

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01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: like this if they had they were playing a team

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Speaker 1: that was putting tremendous defensive rush on Josh. That they

1113
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,439
Speaker 1: could use this kind of a set up to get

1114
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: the ball out very quickly could not be danger Josh.

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01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 1: So I wanted to know what your thoughts were about that.

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01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 1: You want to take a stab at that first there, Manny.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Allen. Yeah, I mean, if you

1118
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: look back to what the Buffalo Bills had on offense,

1119
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about some close to that, Sean McDermott

1120
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: would say kind of poke fun added, you know, he

1121
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: called the wide receivers for a couple seasons the Smurfs

1122
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 1: because they were all smaller and faster. So the Bills

1123
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: have been there, done that, maybe not in the way

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01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: that you're explaining of how you would deploy these guys

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Speaker 1: with with the skill sets that they do have. Um.

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01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to see five wide

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01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 1: of every single small guy on our offense, but I

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01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: do think you will see things that look like that.

1129
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: Because you have the weapons, you have the versatility, you

1130
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 1: might as well use it. So I could definitely see

1131
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 1: and we've seen it before. I could see Digs Mackenzie

1132
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: and Tavon of Tavon Austin. We'll see if he makes

1133
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: the roster folded in there as well. UM, Jameson Crowder sure.

1134
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're all going to be on

1135
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: the field at the same time though, Yeah. I the

1136
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,919
Speaker 1: thing the part of this, based on what Alan said,

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01:05:55,960 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: that fascinates me is the dynamic and the interplay between

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01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey and head coach Sean McDermott, because I think

1139
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: we saw last year Week one against the Steelers, Brian

1140
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 1: Dabeles game plan was to spread the field. They were

1141
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 1: going four wide empty backfield and the Steelers had answers

1142
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: for it, and it didn't work and they lost the game.

1143
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: And after that there wasn't a game plan really for

1144
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: the rest of the year, with the exception of times

1145
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: when they were down by a lot and just had

1146
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 1: to start throwing the football and spread the field out.

1147
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 1: In those situations where their defined game plan was let's

1148
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: just spread it out and throw it all over the field,

1149
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 1: it went away after Week one, and I have to

1150
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: believe that coach McDermott had some input on that. So

1151
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 1: how does that interplay work between coach Dorsey and coach

1152
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 1: McDermott this year? If a certain given week comes up

1153
01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 1: and there is a given opponent where which Dorsey says,

1154
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: we spread these guys out with our small, quick guys,

1155
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: and we have them they don't have any answers for us.

1156
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 1: Does coach McDermott review the film and sign off on it,

1157
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: or does he say, you know what, I'm not going

1158
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: aerial assault, let's just throw it, throw it, throw it.

1159
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: I think we saw there was a dedicated commitment down

1160
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: the stretch last season to the run game. It produced results,

1161
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: and I think you could argue the Bills were playing

1162
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,959
Speaker 1: the best football in the entire league at the right

1163
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: time the end of the season, and that's why they

1164
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: whooped up on the Patriots in that first round of

1165
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They were playing sound, all around football. They're

1166
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 1: still a throwing team. But while Alan it sounds great

1167
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: and it's super attractive, it sounds fantastic. I'd love to

1168
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 1: watch it. I don't know if it's something they can

1169
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: rely upon each and every week. Could it be a

1170
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 1: package in a given game plan, Sure could be. It's

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01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: also not like the spread it out football is some

1172
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: super new term that defenses have no idea how to

1173
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: work with or what to do or what to throw

1174
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 1: on the field to combat a spread it out offense.

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01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 1: Spread it out offenses are well known in the league.

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01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 1: They've been around, you know, the quarterbacks that like to

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Speaker 1: do that, and defenses have now adjusted to the point

1178
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:29,719
Speaker 1: where you can't necessarily spread it out like that too

1179
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: often anymore, because defenses have been able to adjust and

1180
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: teams have been able to draft players to stop offenses,

1181
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: like the Buffalo Bills and like the Kansas City Chiefs.

1182
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: So that's why you need to have a run game

1183
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,799
Speaker 1: in there. You need to have something different in there, because,

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01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:50,760
Speaker 1: like you said, it would be great to spread it

1185
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:54,360
Speaker 1: out every single play, but based on how defenses look

1186
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: now and what they can look like now and what

1187
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:59,679
Speaker 1: they can do, you can't simply do that every single

1188
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 1: Yeah and I and to Allen's point, more often than not,

1189
01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:07,959
Speaker 1: teams can't go four and five deep with elite coverage

1190
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: players in their secondary. So if you feel you have

1191
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:15,839
Speaker 1: elite separators of the smaller and quicker variety, I suppose

1192
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: you could have a given advantage in a given week

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01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 1: and you know, deploy that kind of approach that you're suggesting. Allen.

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01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:26,240
Speaker 1: I just don't know that it's going to exist with

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01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: the frequency that at least you sounded like you were

1196
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: hoping for. But I think it's something that's in coach

1197
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: Dorsey's toolbox. How much he uses it remains to be seen.

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01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:38,599
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jim in Florida and X, Jim, you're

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Speaker 1: on one bills live. What do you got a guy? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I want to thank you for Chris

1201
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: for putting on some information about I was the track

1202
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 1: and field coach. If don't you stay for twenty five years,

1203
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:56,679
Speaker 1: real appreciate the meets a great eight and the concern

1204
01:09:56,760 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 1: I have the Bills this year is replacing b because

1205
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:10,720
Speaker 1: our third donald long situations. Yes, yeah, Jim, Sorry, you're

1206
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: you're breaking up a bit, but I got the gist

1207
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:15,120
Speaker 1: of what you're after there. You're you're worried about replacing

1208
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. And as Maddie and I were discussing on

1209
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 1: the show yesterday, I don't think you have to worry

1210
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: if there is any role maybe on offense or defense,

1211
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: maybe on the entire team. If there is any role

1212
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: that I am not concerned about, it's the slot receiver

1213
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:37,919
Speaker 1: role previously held by Cole Beasley because they have Jamison Crowder. Yeah, definitely.

1214
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: And the caller alluded to or what he was saying

1215
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 1: at the end there before he broke up was the

1216
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: third and long situations that he was worried about that

1217
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley picked up a lot of the time when

1218
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 1: the Bills were in when the Bills were in trouble

1219
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: and needed to convert on third and long. But you

1220
01:10:55,200 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 1: look up Jamison Crowder's um average yards per catch. I

1221
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: looked that up yesterday because I was a little bit curious.

1222
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:05,560
Speaker 1: Over the years that he's been in the league, his

1223
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: yards per catch average is higher than Cole Beasley's I

1224
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,160
Speaker 1: think last year he was down a little bit at

1225
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: eight points something, but there's been years where he was

1226
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,720
Speaker 1: averaging twelve yards to catch eleven yards a catch. I

1227
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 1: think he stays around. If you're to calculate his average,

1228
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: I would say it's around eleven yards per catch. To

1229
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 1: have that in the slot. To have somebody like that,

1230
01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 1: I think is going to help Josh Allen out a lot.

1231
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 1: You talk about the third and long situations, you want

1232
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: a guy who's averaging that yards per catch wise to

1233
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 1: be able to help your team convert in those types

1234
01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: of situations down in distance things like that. He's not

1235
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: a new kid on the block either. This is a

1236
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 1: player who's been around. He was the guy in the

1237
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: Jets offense for multiple seasons. I think in twenty nineteen

1238
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 1: he had over eight hundred receiving yards, had a big

1239
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: load in terms of what he was doing on that offense.

1240
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: He's not going to be the guy in the Bill's

1241
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 1: offense because they have so many different guys that they

1242
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: can go to and look to. So I'm excited to

1243
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: see how they throw him in the fold there. We

1244
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: know the slot is an important position for Josh Allen

1245
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,639
Speaker 1: and what he likes to do, though, I think Cole

1246
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:21,679
Speaker 1: Beasley's role was largely as a safety valve because Josh

1247
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: was confident that Cole was going to find where the

1248
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 1: void in the defense was. He's a former high school quarterback.

1249
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: He was really keen on where the space was, where

1250
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:34,400
Speaker 1: to sit down, where to find the voids in the defense,

1251
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: and Josh trusted him. I think Crowder's got the same

1252
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,719
Speaker 1: knack for finding space and knowing where to sit down

1253
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: in his zone. Call knows how to get separation against man,

1254
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: and because of that, I'm pretty optimistic that by the

1255
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:52,519
Speaker 1: end of this season, the second most targeted receiver after

1256
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:55,080
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is going to be Jamison Crowder. Just because

1257
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 1: the routes he's going to be running are shorter. It

1258
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 1: leads to more high percentage throws, more completions, and so

1259
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:03,879
Speaker 1: I think his numbers are going to be pretty comparable

1260
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: to what Beasley's were. And in Beasley's three years here,

1261
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 1: he was the number two targeted receiver to Stefon Diggs

1262
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: and John Brown. So I expect much of the same

1263
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:16,639
Speaker 1: for Jamison Crowder this year. Just because of the way

1264
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: the offense has functioned the last two years in particular,

1265
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: and knowing Josh looks for that slot receiver to help

1266
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: him convert because it enables him to get the ball

1267
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,680
Speaker 1: out fast. It enables him to move the sticks and

1268
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: stay on the field. So I think Crowder can have it.

1269
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:36,639
Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned it yesterday, Maddie. Every season of

1270
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:40,840
Speaker 1: his eight seasons in which Jamison Crowder has played, if

1271
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: he plays in twelve games or more, he has put

1272
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 1: up at least fifty receptions. The only season he did

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Speaker 1: not put up fifty receptions was back in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: his last season with Washington, where he was injured and

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Speaker 1: played in only nine games that year. Other than that,

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Speaker 1: he's played in twelve games or more. Every season he's

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Speaker 1: had over fifty receptions. He's going to produce in this offense.

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Speaker 1: Think about that he produced in Washington and he produced

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Speaker 1: with the Jets. Yeah, student's gonna light it up here.

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Speaker 1: I think I think he's gonna light it up, no

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Speaker 1: question about it. All Right, we gotta take a break here.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get to more questions in

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Speaker 1: the obil fan Friday mail bag that we have to answer.

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Speaker 1: If we have time, we'll rattle off a little NFL

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Speaker 1: true false as well. Here next on One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Some

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01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 1: people will have to leave the facility to ease their mind.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have to come to the facility sometimes.

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Speaker 1: He's mine. I'm extremely ready to get back to just

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01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:55,280
Speaker 1: being football and being the best quarterback and teammate that

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Speaker 1: I can be for the Buffalo Bills. You know, you

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01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 1: want to be able to kind of throw all the

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01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: paint on the palet over the course of the spring

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Speaker 1: and then really start to chisel it down so that

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01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:13,639
Speaker 1: when you come back for training camp you've got a good,

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01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: defined and clear plan as to how you want to

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01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: attack things. Listen to me, and listen to me. Only

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Speaker 1: today I started to day we need to work. What

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01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: don't they want to blacking football kid? Water shower for

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01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:29,679
Speaker 1: the guys are playing football and I like the extra step.

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Speaker 1: So here a fifth Ah, That's all I got. One

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Speaker 1: way together, everyone a choose more team. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: a trailer for the latest embedded Is Josh Allen a

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01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: dork or whatever? Together? Everyone together, everyone achieves more team. Yeah,

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01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 1: he's a He's a lovable dork, but he's a dork. Um,

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Speaker 1: and we already heard Dawson Knox in the comment he

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01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 1: made about Josh being basically a twelve year old every

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Speaker 1: day of the week. But yes, I did watch the

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Speaker 1: latest embedded episode, which is out and available for you

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Speaker 1: on the Bills YouTube channel get Out. It's also up

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Speaker 1: there's a link on Buffalo bills dot com as well,

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Speaker 1: and it covers the majority of the off season since

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Speaker 1: the players came back in the spring. So there's a

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Speaker 1: nice little piece on when von Miller took the young

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Speaker 1: defensive ends up to his Pass Rush Summit in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: There's coverage of that in there, along with Micah Hides

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Speaker 1: charity softball game, as well as some other stuff from

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Speaker 1: OTA's and mini camp guys just messing around with each other.

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Speaker 1: So oh and it also had Isaiah McKenzie's appearance on

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Speaker 1: America's Got Talent when he was with the players Squire,

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Speaker 1: So there's some good stuff in there. Good behind this

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Speaker 1: is the off season for these guys. It feels like

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Speaker 1: it flew by. I say this every year, but I

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Speaker 1: feel like it was a role yesterday when the guys

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Speaker 1: were just reporting back for workouts and then OTAs and

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Speaker 1: camps everywhere really cool to see a lot of our

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Speaker 1: players head out to Von Miller's camp out in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: I think those guys took a lot from it. I

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Speaker 1: also think, yes, they have been with Von Miller at

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Speaker 1: OTAs and mini camp because he was around for some

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Speaker 1: of that. But I think it's different when you take

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Speaker 1: those guys off of the Bill's practice field or out

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Speaker 1: of Orchard Park and into Vegas where not that coaches

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Speaker 1: our problem or anything, but just where they can be

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Speaker 1: together with just Vaughan and some of the younger guys

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Speaker 1: one and one. Von doesn't feel like he's maybe needing

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Speaker 1: to pick everything up on the playbook because this guy

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Speaker 1: is learning a new defense while he's also teaching a

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Speaker 1: lot of younger players. So really cool that they could

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Speaker 1: go out to Vegas and do that with Von. What

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Speaker 1: the younger guys have said about Von, I mean they've

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Speaker 1: asked about what he's taught them, what it's been like

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01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: to practice with a guy like Von Miller, and they've

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Speaker 1: all had really great things to say about the amazing,

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Speaker 1: amazing pass rusher or that the Buffalo Bill's got so

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Speaker 1: check out embedded. Oh yeah, there was also a Dion

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Speaker 1: Dawkins charity function you're playing cornhole together. Some of the

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Speaker 1: trash talking there was pretty good too, So I check

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Speaker 1: it out embedded. I went to that cornhole tournament. I

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Speaker 1: played in it. It was raining. I played one game

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Speaker 1: and we lost twenty two to nothing. Oh my lord,

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Speaker 1: or twenty one nothing, whatever, you have to score, but

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Speaker 1: we didn't get we didn't get a point. Wow, it

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01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: was terrible. I was like hitting people next to me.

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Speaker 1: I was not from a softball background. You were in

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Speaker 1: a picture though, Yeah, cornhole bags. I say bags, but

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Speaker 1: because I'm thinking of the underhand toss like that would

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Speaker 1: be right. I was not a culture. I was not

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Speaker 1: a picture. I am a terrible, terrible cornhole player. If

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Speaker 1: you need somebody to play cornhole with, you do not

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Speaker 1: ask me, because I will lose the game for you.

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Speaker 1: So check it out if you get a chance. Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills embedded coming together. It pretty much chronicles the entire offseason.

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the phones, though, as the mail

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Speaker 1: bag is open and we're here to answer your questions.

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Speaker 1: So here next we have who do we have here?

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Speaker 1: We got John on a seale. I believe John. What

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? Year on one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: is this John. Oh is it Jack? I'm sorry, it's Jack. Okay, Yeah, guys,

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Speaker 1: what do you expect from the preseason games when we

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Speaker 1: get to them. Do you think Dorsey is going to

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Speaker 1: go vanilla and just to go for execution of plays

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Speaker 1: that the other teams have all seen before, or do

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Speaker 1: you think they might throw a bunch of personnel sets

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Speaker 1: in there and some things that you know, we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: expect to see in the regular season, just to give

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Speaker 1: them something to think about. Yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting question, Jack,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for the phone call. I would say this

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Speaker 1: based on what Ken Dorsey has said. The vast majority

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Speaker 1: of the scheme remains in place. The protections are essentially

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Speaker 1: the same, the terminology is the same. So knowing that

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Speaker 1: and the fact that we're pretty much going into like

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Speaker 1: year four or five of this offense, I would say

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Speaker 1: that there aren't too many secrets in terms of what

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Speaker 1: the base stuff is that the Bills run, So I

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01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:39,840
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to be as concerned keeping it

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Speaker 1: all close to the vest I certainly believe if they're

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Speaker 1: going to deploy personnel in a different way, they're not

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Speaker 1: going to be revealing that. You know, if they're going

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Speaker 1: to go five wide, or they're going to line up

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Speaker 1: James Cook outside, or they're gonna put move Jamison. Crowd

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Speaker 1: are all over the place. They're not going to be

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Speaker 1: revealing things like that. But I think some of the

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Speaker 1: base stuff that their offense has done that they want

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Speaker 1: tied up in a bow for the regular season. They

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Speaker 1: want to rep it in a game like setting. So

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Speaker 1: there will be some of that, But any of the

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Speaker 1: new wrinkles that coach Dorsey has, we ain't seeing that

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Speaker 1: until it counts staying in the back pocket. One thing

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Speaker 1: that I'm interested to see though, because Ken Dorsey did

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Speaker 1: talk about this, is choosing where he's going to be

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Speaker 1: calling the game from below or up high. So that'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see, whether you're watching the game at

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Speaker 1: home or whether you're at the field to see. All Right,

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Speaker 1: is Ken Dorsey on the sidelines tonight? Is he up

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Speaker 1: in the box tonight? You've got a few preseason games

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Speaker 1: to work with. Does he rotate every game? He'll try both,

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Speaker 1: So he'll try both for sure. Yeah. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we're going to see anything crazy out of the offense

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Speaker 1: from preseason because it's preseason. But I think one thing

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Speaker 1: that's going to be new to watch is where is

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey and what does he feel comfortable doing? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go to Matt in Rochester next. What do you

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Speaker 1: have first? Matt? Hey, you guys doing the show. I

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Speaker 1: love it. Thanks. The question is, uh, do you think

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Speaker 1: Van Miller is gonna break Willie McGinnis postseason record? I

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Speaker 1: think he needs five and a half to tie it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think six would actually break it. Mm nah, you

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Speaker 1: know what I am not. M that's a good one. Matt,

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Speaker 1: that's a good one. I'm oh, that's because it's right

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Speaker 1: on the line. Yeah, he's capable. Right. But here's the thing, Maddie.

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Speaker 1: If the Bills get the number one seed, that's one

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Speaker 1: less playoff game that they would be playing. I believe

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Speaker 1: he had four sacks in the postseason last year. Did

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Speaker 1: the Rams have the number one seed? They did not, right,

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Speaker 1: did they? I don't think they gotta go look up

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Speaker 1: look up the nf NFC standings from last year. At

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Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. I can't remember if

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Speaker 1: they were the top seed. So he had four sacks

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Speaker 1: if I remember right, in the postseason last year, and

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Speaker 1: I believe Matt's that he needs five and a half

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Speaker 1: five and a half to break the postseason sack record.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's juicy. So if they play divisional round, Championship round,

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, that's three games to get five and a

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Speaker 1: half sacks. He could do it. The Packers had the

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Speaker 1: one sea Yeah, the Rams actually had the four. So

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Speaker 1: he had four sacks in four postseason games last year.

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Speaker 1: Could he get five and a half. I think it's possible.

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Speaker 1: But if the Bills are the number one seed, it's

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Speaker 1: harder because it's one fewer game to work with, one

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Speaker 1: less game to work with, So that could make it

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Speaker 1: a bit of a taller task. I wouldn't put it

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Speaker 1: past him. I think Miller, you know what I mean? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: best pass rusher of a generation. So yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: believe if Matt's aware of it, I'm pretty sure i

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Speaker 1: Von's aware of it. No another another record to put

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Speaker 1: on the list. Yeah. Oh, I like that. I like

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Speaker 1: that he's got that motivation. It seems like he likes

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Speaker 1: breaking records, doing different things. I mean, what player would

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Speaker 1: wouldn't like that. But he's talked about winning another super

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Speaker 1: Bowl with a different team, winning three super Bowls with

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Speaker 1: three different teams, So I think Von Miller is up

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Speaker 1: to date on some of this stuff, and probably maybe

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Speaker 1: he has it a wall somewhere in his phone somewhere,

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Speaker 1: But I think he wants to accomplish anything and everything

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Speaker 1: that he can and is excited to be on this

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Speaker 1: team potentially do some of that with the Bills. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Herb from the mailbag asked, do either of you think

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray has earned the extension that the Cardinals gave him.

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Speaker 1: I say no. He's a top fifteen QB, not in

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Speaker 1: that top of the quarterback chart, so he doesn't believe

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Speaker 1: that the money fits the talent level of Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: The thing that rubs me the wrong way about Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray is I don't, at least from people I've spoken

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Speaker 1: to in the league, people that cover that team, he's

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01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: not a team guy. He's a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: me guy. So from a leadership perspective, that would sour

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Speaker 1: me a little bit. He is ultra talented. There is

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Speaker 1: no debating that whatsoever he is undersized. He's not lacking

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Speaker 1: an arm strength. We know that durability, though, could be

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Speaker 1: a concern. So I'm curious to see how he performs

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Speaker 1: now that he's gotten paid. You know, he's he's got

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Speaker 1: the bag. How does he play now? Does it change?

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Speaker 1: Does he elevate his game or does he take his

1475
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:52,200
Speaker 1: foot off the gas. Be very interesting to see what

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01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 1: his play on the field looks like now that he's

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01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 1: gotten paid. Yeah, was he deserving of an extension, of course.

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Speaker 1: I think you watch what a player does after they

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Speaker 1: get that extension to see if they've actually earned that extension.

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Speaker 1: We saw it Dion Dawkins did. He had a great

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Speaker 1: year last year, started off the season a little bit

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Speaker 1: rough because of COVID, but then really really had an

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Speaker 1: amazing year. We'll see what Kyler Murray does. It's also

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Speaker 1: hard with these quarterbacks who are wanting extensions, needing extensions

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Speaker 1: and are the next in line with what the quarterback

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Speaker 1: market looks like right now. Well, the money just keeps going,

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Speaker 1: it keeps going up, and as a head coach, you're

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Speaker 1: trying to do right by your team. As an agent,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to do right by the player that you're representing.

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Speaker 1: It would be hard for Kyler Murray to sign an

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Speaker 1: extension to have a look a lot different than other

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks who have recently gotten an extension. And that's the thing,

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Speaker 1: Like you say, you think he's the top fifteen quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The problem is the Cardinals Um is a franchise quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and his agent says, well, if you think he's a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, we're not taking fifteenth best quarterback money. You're

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Speaker 1: adding your mind. Every quarterback just backs up to bring

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Speaker 1: Struck and says, load it up. I'm the next guy

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Speaker 1: to get paid, and they usually get top five money.

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Speaker 1: And that's probably just gonna keep on happening for all

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Speaker 1: the franchise guys out there. Break time for us when

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Speaker 1: we come back. What chances does cam Lewis have of

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Speaker 1: making a dent in this Bill's roster. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the next questions we'll be trying to answer here on

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, last couple of

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Speaker 1: items from the mail bag. Jack asked, what chances does

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Speaker 1: cam Lewis, the ub kid have to make the fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster. He's gotten on the roster the last

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Speaker 1: two years, played well in spots, but never out of camp.

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Speaker 1: With Trey recovering, there are spots available for guys with experience,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of people are fighting for one or

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Speaker 1: two spots. You're right about that, Jack, I think cam

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Speaker 1: Lewis has a chance to make the roster again. Fourth

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Speaker 1: year player, he's been largely the backup to Terryn Johnson

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Speaker 1: in the slot. I think he's an ideal candidate for that. Again,

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Speaker 1: we'll see where it goes. Maddie. You're going to take

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Speaker 1: this one from Gabe. Is part of the reason Gabe

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Speaker 1: Davis has gotten so many touchdowns relative to his total

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Speaker 1: number of times targeted because he's been under the radar

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Speaker 1: of opposing defenses. Should we expect him to draw better

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Speaker 1: coverage this year and maybe not be a shoe in

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Speaker 1: to break out? I still think he's poised for a

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Speaker 1: breakout season. I mean, Gabe Davis did do a lot

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Speaker 1: of things last year, but I think the load that

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Speaker 1: he's going to get this year is going to be

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Speaker 1: definitely an uptick from last year. So I would expect

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Speaker 1: him to do much of the same, but maybe do

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. He broke out at the end

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Speaker 1: of last season, had some great games, but I expect

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Speaker 1: to see consistency this year, which I would still call

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Speaker 1: breakout year for him. Yeah, I think if I have

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Speaker 1: this right, he has fourteen touchdowns and seventy career receptions,

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Speaker 1: and he had three touchdowns called back on penalty in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, so think about that. He could had ten

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Speaker 1: touchdowns his rookie year. That's pretty sick. He will be

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Speaker 1: under the microscope a little bit more this year by

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Speaker 1: opposing defenses. I don't think there's any question about that,

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Speaker 1: but again, tough to guard. I'm gonna reference Jamison Crowder.

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to be drawing some attention inside

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Speaker 1: that should hopefully help him and digs outside. Next week

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Speaker 1: we are at training camp and listen to this. On Monday,

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Speaker 1: we're going noon to three an extra hour of one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. We'll see at camp at Saint John Fisher