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Speaker 1: This this One Bill's Live, presented by Calllida Health. All Right,

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

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Speaker 1: MADDI glad with you and coming off a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a break here myself. We all had Juneteenth off

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Speaker 1: and Friday. I also took Monday for some other obligations

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Speaker 1: and Maddie's coming off vacation, full blown vacation. Yeah, time

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Speaker 1: zone change vacation. Good time though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great time.

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Speaker 3: I went to Italy, spent a week there, did some

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Speaker 3: major cities and had a great time. You can't complain

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Speaker 3: about anything when you're in Italy, between the food, the sites,

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Speaker 3: the things that you can see, the pasta, the gelato.

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Speaker 2: I could go on. It was incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we did gelato every night the last time we

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Speaker 1: were there, every night, And I'm not lying.

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Speaker 3: The best part is you eat all this pasta, you

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Speaker 3: eat all this gelato, tarmasou, you name it, and you

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Speaker 3: come back. You step on the scale because you walked

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Speaker 3: so much all week, you maintain the same weight or

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Speaker 3: you might.

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Speaker 2: Even lose a few paras.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and the food is cleaner there. They have

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Speaker 1: much stricter food regulations than we do here in the States. Like,

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Speaker 1: for example, you can't get like a diet soda over there.

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Speaker 1: They don't exist, they won't sell it because of all

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Speaker 1: the wonderful things that are in those beverages. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I also feel like when you eat over there, you

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Speaker 1: don't feel as bloated when you're done.

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Speaker 2: Nope.

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Speaker 3: Right, I never felt crazy full after a meal. Right,

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Speaker 3: It was nice to eat some pasta and eat a

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Speaker 3: couple other things and then leave dinner and not feel like, man,

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Speaker 3: I gotta go take a nap here or I need

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Speaker 3: to sit down for a number two hours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that is probably the one thing that we

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Speaker 1: don't have in this country is walkable cities. Like New

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Speaker 1: York City is a walkable city, but you really gotta

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Speaker 1: I mean there are sometimes you gotta walk a long

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Speaker 1: most people just jump on the subway or you know,

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Speaker 1: take a cab or whatever. And Buffalo is a very

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Speaker 1: driving commuter like city. If you're downtown and you live downtown,

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Speaker 1: you could walk around. But that's just about every city

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Speaker 1: in Italy and most of Europe for that matter, and

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Speaker 1: people walk everywhere or ride a bike. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: in the big cities like Rome, you got the vespas,

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Speaker 1: I think it makes a difference because you can walk

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Speaker 1: off half your dinner by the time you get back

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Speaker 3: That's one of the best parts about going to Europe

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Speaker 3: in my opinion, is being able to walk everywhere. It's

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Speaker 3: so different, like you said, from life in the States.

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Speaker 3: I love being able to walk from point A to

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Speaker 3: point B to point C. And it's just it's great

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Speaker 3: physical activity. A lot of people over there don't even

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Speaker 3: work out because they walk so much.

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Speaker 1: How hot was it over there? Because it got really

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Speaker 1: hot here this past week. So was it just as

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Speaker 1: hot over there or even hotter?

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Speaker 3: It was in the nineties every day and we averaged

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Speaker 3: seven to ten miles walking per day, coming wedding bullets

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Speaker 1: Well right, yeah, you don't want to go on an

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Speaker 1: excursion and need to bring an extra shirt. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: not ideal, but yeah, that is hot. Even in Venice

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Speaker 3: But Venice it was maybe one of the days it

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Speaker 1: Still Okay, Well, yeah, so you came back to it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it, but in like

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Speaker 1: Like outdoor activities, you know, kids, summer camps, things like that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah heat, yeah, and it looks like it's going

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Speaker 1: I saw Rochester supposed to break a hundred today. Whoa.

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Speaker 1: So for our listeners in Rochester, get a handheld fan

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Speaker 1: to have blowing on you all day long.

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Speaker 3: Let's hope it's not that hot for training camp.

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Speaker 1: Find some shade, find some ac yeah, because it's going

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Speaker 1: cold days. So I will never I will never turn

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Speaker 1: cold anytime, So you will never hear me complain that

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Speaker 1: it is too hot, even though ninety something is pretty toasty.

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Speaker 1: So we're dealing with it. We're dealing with it. We'll

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Speaker 1: for summer, so now that it's finally here, far be

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Speaker 1: We do have some Bill's notes for you, and obviously

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Speaker 1: we'll get to around the NFL as we always do.

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Speaker 1: But the Bill's notes of interest here concern Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: who recently did an interview with SI dot com, and

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Speaker 1: much of it surrounded his recent ad deal with a

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Speaker 1: sleep aid supplement, So you kind of wonder what was

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Speaker 1: at play there. Well, I'll do the interview if I

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Speaker 1: can talk about my new product that I'm supporting here,

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Speaker 1: But in any event, there were some interesting comments that

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Speaker 1: he made. He was asked about Stefan Diggs coming back

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Speaker 1: to the division with New England and Drake May. He

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Speaker 1: was also asked about Keon Coleman characterizing his rookie season

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Speaker 1: as trash. That was Keon's description, and I was I

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Speaker 1: was encouraged by what he had said about Keon specifically

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Speaker 1: because he was The first part was he said because

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Speaker 1: they asked him, what are your expectations for Keon? And

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Speaker 1: he said, I wouldn't say I expect anything out of him. Now,

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Speaker 1: there are a multitude of ways that we could interpret this.

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Speaker 1: The way tell me how you feel after I interpreted

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Speaker 1: as I'm not putting any expectations on my guys. They

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Speaker 1: pushed themselves enough, they are internally self motivated, So far

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Speaker 1: be it from me to put expectations on him or

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Speaker 1: because I see how they work every day. So to me,

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Speaker 1: that's him just kind of being a good teammate, because

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Speaker 1: the last thing you want to do with a guy

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Speaker 1: second season, right, Like, that's kind of how I interpreted it.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't sound like Josh Allen at all to put

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Speaker 3: an expectation on somebody, especially in their second season coming

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Speaker 3: I took it exactly as that, but I thought of

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Speaker 3: offensive coordinator Joe Brady immediately because Brady said that in

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Speaker 3: a press conference earlier this spring when speaking to media.

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Speaker 3: I can't remember which player he was asked about, but

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Speaker 3: he basically responded saying the same thing. I'm not putting

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Speaker 3: do something like that. Our guys are already motivated enough

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh said. All I can say is he's one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent taking this serious. Talking about Keon still, he's

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Speaker 1: bigger right now, he's faster, he's stronger, he understands the

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Speaker 1: playbook better. I think we're talking more. We're still conversing

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Speaker 1: about how we can be better where certain balls will

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Speaker 1: be thrown. But again, he's a stud and I've said

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Speaker 1: this for a long time. That's why I wanted him.

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Speaker 1: That is a big statement right there, because when Brandon

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Speaker 1: twenty four, a year ago, he basically said Josh liked

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Speaker 1: him as a player too, and this pretty much confirms that,

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Speaker 1: not that he would say anything else, but I thought

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Speaker 1: it was notable that he mentioned it here again in

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Speaker 1: I think that going out there and playing the way

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Speaker 1: The more that we can make sure we're on the

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Speaker 1: on and off the field grow. And I know you

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Speaker 1: saw more of the spring practices than I did, because

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Speaker 1: I was usually in here doing the show during the practices,

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Speaker 1: But I did see a couple of occasions, particularly in

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Speaker 1: a red zone period, where they where he Josh and

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Speaker 1: then there was a fade ball, and right after the play,

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Speaker 1: Josh is ten yards downfield catching up with Kean as

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Speaker 1: I remember, you know, he goes and taps him up,

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Speaker 1: So even on successful plays, there's a conversation and dialogue there,

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Speaker 1: Josh is making a point of seeking him out for

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Speaker 1: feedback from him, from instruction from Josh to Keon in

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Speaker 1: terms of hey, you know, maybe on that play, if

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Speaker 1: Now I can read him better because I know what

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Speaker 3: Sean McDermott also pointed out Keon Coleman's maturity when talking

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Speaker 3: about how the player is approaching his second season in

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Speaker 3: just having conversations with him during springball, you could tell

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Speaker 3: that and is ready for his second year. The anxiety

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Speaker 3: about your first NFL season, understanding a playbook getting with

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Speaker 3: a new quarterback and offensive coordinator that is gone, he

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Speaker 3: obviously is so hungry to have a better season this

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Speaker 3: just like Josh Allen wrote in this article or said

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Speaker 3: in this article, Keon Coleman looks bait.

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Speaker 2: You can tell. And he's doing a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Events around Buffalo in this period that all the players

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Speaker 3: at home training. Coleman is doing camps here. He's doing

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Speaker 3: other things here. You know what that means. He's in

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Speaker 3: the building working out, and that means a lot for

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Speaker 1: And he's not alone. There's a handful of other guys

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Speaker 1: that have chosen to stay here for the five week

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Speaker 1: period between mandatory mini camp and the start of training camp,

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Speaker 1: choosing to work out here in the Bills facility and

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Speaker 1: staying in Buffalo for all intents and purposes. The other

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Speaker 1: receiver he was asked about is in New England now,

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs back in the division. Josh was asked what

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Speaker 1: does he bring to the table for a young quarterback

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Speaker 1: like Drake may knowing Josh experienced the very same thing

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Speaker 1: and they've been able to do that for the most part.

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Speaker 1: As we know, Tomlin's never had a losing season, So

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Speaker 1: where they go after this year is going to be

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Speaker 1: very interesting. Not to mention the fact that the TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt thing is still out there because he wants an

439
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Speaker 1: improved contract after the deal signed by Miles Garrett in

440
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Speaker 1: the same division, So that's going to be topic number

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Speaker 1: one at training camp, especially if he is a hold in.

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Speaker 1: The Athletic is reporting that the Kansas City Chiefs intend

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Speaker 1: to push the ball down the field more to increase

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Speaker 1: their explosive play total in twenty twenty five. According to

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Speaker 1: the report, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid made a point

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Speaker 1: of it all spring for the Chiefs to get back

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Speaker 1: to pushing the ball deep down the field. Since twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, Patrick Mahomes has ranked twenty first or lower

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Speaker 1: and average depth of target. In his MVP season of

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, he was sixth in the league in that category,

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Speaker 1: had over five thousand yards passing fifty touchdowns, twelve picks,

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Speaker 1: and won the MVP. So the Chiefs hope the return

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Speaker 1: of Hollywood Brown, a healthy Hollywood Brown, and a second

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Speaker 1: year of work for Xavier Worthy will lead to more

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Speaker 1: explosive plays this season. We'll see because more. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the whole reason that people started playing top down

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Speaker 1: defense against the Chiefs after his MVP season in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: They were tired of getting beaten over the top time

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Speaker 1: and time and time again, so they just said, let's

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Speaker 1: keep it all in front of us, and that kind

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Speaker 1: of limited the explosive play abilities of the Chiefs. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing that's interesting to me. I understand why they

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Speaker 1: want to do it, but they also have to have

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Speaker 1: the confidence that their protection is going to hold up

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Speaker 1: long enough to do that. So you're putting an awful

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Speaker 1: lot of confidence in their draft choice Josh Simmons and

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Speaker 1: in the free agent pickup Jaylon Moore to man those

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Speaker 1: tackle positions capably. And let's not forget too that you

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Speaker 1: also lost your all pro left guard Joe Tooney, who's

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Speaker 1: now playing in Chicago after the trade. So you must

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Speaker 1: have really liked what you saw in the spring to

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Speaker 1: just universally say we're going to push the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field more and what that translates into, I'll be

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Speaker 1: very interested to see does that mean two more big

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Speaker 1: plays a game or are we talking a half a dozen?

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Speaker 1: Because there's a big difference there, and I'm I'm not

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Speaker 1: convinced yet that their offensive line is going to be

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Speaker 1: good enough to fulfill that wish.

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Speaker 3: And Simmons is a draft pick who is coming off

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Speaker 3: of an injury. I know, I know that the reports

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Speaker 3: out there have been good that he's going to be

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Speaker 3: ready to go for training camp. But these are projections,

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Speaker 3: and this is a rookie like double, let's double project

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Speaker 3: what he's going to do.

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Speaker 2: It starts with your.

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Speaker 3: Offensive line, and I'm not one certain on what their

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Speaker 3: offensive line is going to be to start the season sactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's going to be a step back from

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Speaker 1: what you had at left guard because you had one

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Speaker 1: of the best left guards in football in Tuney. So

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Speaker 1: whoever ends up there, because there's going to be a

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Speaker 1: competition there. From what I understand in training camp, whoever

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Speaker 1: ends up there is going to be a step down

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Speaker 1: from what you had, and that person is going to

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Speaker 1: potentially be playing next to a rookie on his left.

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Speaker 1: That's your whole left side of it. Like, it's not

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Speaker 1: just gonna all fit together, you know, neatly comfortably off

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Speaker 1: we go. I think it's gonna take a little bit

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Speaker 1: of time. That's why it's kind of a shame that

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Speaker 1: the Bills don't play them until week nine, but because

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Speaker 1: by that time they'll probably have their ducks in a

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Speaker 1: row and be a little bit better on the offensive

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Speaker 1: side of the ball. We have to finish up around

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Speaker 1: the NFL when we come back, because we have to

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Speaker 1: take a break here. We also have our topic of

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Speaker 1: discussion for you. We'll get to that when we return.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Back here on a Tuesday edition of

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Maddy lab with you, and

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Speaker 1: just wrapping up around the NFL here presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: Ravens QB. Lamar Jackson is taking a out of Josh

512
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Speaker 1: Allen's book in an effort to help Baltimore get over

513
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: the same playoff hump the Bills are trying to scale.

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Speaker 1: According to his teammates, biggest difference they've seen has been

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Speaker 1: with his leadership. He's communicating more with teammates on the field,

516
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Speaker 1: wants to set up more meetings with players beyond the

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Speaker 1: ones with coaches. One of his teammates, a Flower, said

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Speaker 1: he wants to do a lot more personal stuff with us,

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Speaker 1: just to get that team camaraderie on a good level,

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Speaker 1: and Jackson said quote, I feel like just bonding with

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Speaker 1: my guys will help us out a lot more on

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Speaker 1: the field, picking each other's brains, being around each other

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Speaker 1: a lot more. We'll probably know what one of us

524
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Speaker 1: is thinking ahead we're on the field and something's going on.

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Speaker 1: They already know what I'm thinking, so I don't have

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Speaker 1: to say too much. The interesting thing with these comments,

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Speaker 1: Maddie is I have a hard time not thinking to myself,

528
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Speaker 1: shouldn't that have been happening from the time he moved

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Speaker 1: into the starting lineup, Like why now are you suddenly

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Speaker 1: realizing in your eighth season, ninth season that like this

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Speaker 1: is something you need to do. It's just very plexing

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Speaker 1: to me, especially with another franchise who does a lot

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Speaker 1: of things the right way like this is this was

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Speaker 1: like startling for me to hear, Like how come that

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Speaker 1: hadn't happened already.

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Speaker 3: And the fact that he's saying it now publicly. If

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Speaker 3: I were, I don't to be doing this in your

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Speaker 3: eighth NFL season and be owning up to saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: I'm i'm I want to spend more time with my teammates.

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Speaker 3: The camaraderie off the field is going to help us

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Speaker 3: on the field. I would almost be embarrassed to admit

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Speaker 3: that I'm just starting to do this at this point

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Speaker 3: my NFL career.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because because it's now, it's got me thinking, like,

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Speaker 1: off the field, is he a recluse? Like does he

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Speaker 1: not engage with anybody? Does he go home and play

547
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Speaker 1: video games? Or like, what is what is he doing

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Speaker 1: as the quarterback and leader of this football team? Does

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Speaker 1: that just non existent off the field? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: guess it is to a certainly to a lesser degree

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Speaker 1: than what we know Josh does here who can't spend

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Speaker 1: enough time with his teammates? And you know, I understand

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Speaker 1: for some one like Josh it comes very naturally to him.

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Speaker 1: He's he doesn't force anything, He's just naturally engage an

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Speaker 1: engaging personality and a lot of fun. And maybe that's

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Speaker 1: harder for Lamar. I don't know, but it seems as

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Speaker 1: though it wasn't something that he organically thought would be

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Speaker 1: good for the success of his football team. And now

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Speaker 1: in year eight, I guess after seeing other people like

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Speaker 1: Josh do it with a great degree of success, he

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Speaker 1: feels it's necessary to do now. It's just it's like,

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Speaker 1: where have you been, Lamar?

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Speaker 3: I need a survey done by all starting quarterbacks to

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Speaker 3: see where these quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: Land on this matter.

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Speaker 3: Is this something that's split fifty to fifty? Is it

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Speaker 3: very common to do? Because there's something in Buffalo that

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Speaker 3: isn't in every other NFL city, And it's.

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Speaker 2: The Buffalo effect.

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Speaker 3: It's the fact that we live in a smaller city.

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Speaker 3: There's a million things to do. You're not living this

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Speaker 3: lavish high life. You're not on the oh like near

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Speaker 3: the ocean. You're not in this huge city where you

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Speaker 3: have a bunch of other things you can do, other

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Speaker 3: people you can meet like you are with your teammates.

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Speaker 3: Those are your friends. Those guys are your family members.

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Speaker 3: And in your free time, what else is there to do?

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Speaker 3: You hang out with them?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: And I think to dovetail off your point in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: it's a twenty minute city, and most of the players

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Speaker 1: live in the south towns, some a couple a handful

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Speaker 1: live in the city, but even then you're still twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes away, where if you're the La Rams, you might

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Speaker 1: have a teammate that lives an hour and a half

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Speaker 1: away exactly. So hanging out is not really convenient, and

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Speaker 1: so because of that, it doesn't happen, right, So that

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Speaker 1: is another advantage that you have here in Buffalo. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to speak to any knowledge of how

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Speaker 1: the municipality of Greater Baltimore is laid out, but I

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Speaker 1: would imagine guys are a little bit more spread out

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Speaker 1: in that city in terms of where they in comparison

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo anyway, So it is an inherent advantage, I

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Speaker 1: will admit that. But yeah, it's perplexing to see a

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Speaker 1: player of this caliber, with this much cachet, not only

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Speaker 1: in his own locker room but around the NFL, who's

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Speaker 1: won two MVPs, to not engage in that kind of

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Speaker 1: behavior as the quarterback of an NFL team. It's just

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Speaker 1: it struck me as strange, especially in this day and age.

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Speaker 1: One of the most popular NFL training camp topics will

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Speaker 1: be who will emerge as the Week one starter at

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the Browns. Well, maybe it's not interesting to everybody,

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Speaker 1: but it will certainly be interesting in Cleveland. They currently

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Speaker 1: have a four man competition as we know, Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 1: Canny pick At, Dylan Gabriel, Schudur Sanders. In the opinion

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Speaker 1: of one Cleveland wide receiver, it'll be someone who most

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Speaker 1: have not picked as the Week one forecasted starter. Many

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Speaker 1: believe it'll be veteran Joe Flacco, especially since he helped

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Speaker 1: Cleveland get to the playoffs just two years ago and

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Speaker 1: winning comeback Player of the Year honors, but Brown's wide

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Speaker 1: receiver Deontae Johnson specs it will be Kenny Pickett as

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Speaker 1: the Week one starter. Johnson said, quote, I think they

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Speaker 1: are going to roll with Kenny for right now, and

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Speaker 1: when he appeared on a podcast there in Cleveland, So

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Speaker 1: now knowing that Johnson has only been there for a

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Speaker 1: month and a half, it's really hard for me anyway,

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Speaker 1: Maddy to put a lot of stock in Deontay Johnson's opinion.

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Speaker 1: He's been around these guys for five weeks, yeah, seven

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Speaker 1: practices like that's picket. It's gotta be him week one guaranteed,

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Speaker 1: get ready for it, The Pickett Show's coming to Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: I was like, Eh, I don't know if I'm ready

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Speaker 1: to stamp that yet.

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Speaker 3: The quote is interesting, though, because it's not like Deontay

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Speaker 3: Johnson is saying, I really like what Kenny Pickett did

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Speaker 3: in the month that I was here. I believe he's

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Speaker 3: got a great chance to be the starting quarterback. He said,

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Speaker 3: I think they will roll with him coaches, which kind

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Speaker 3: of makes it seem like maybe he knows something that

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Speaker 3: we don't know, or maybe he's seen things that we haven't.

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Speaker 1: And then he finished it with for right.

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Speaker 2: Now, for right now, I want okay, Week.

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Speaker 1: One, Week two?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, week three?

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Speaker 1: How far are we going now?

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Speaker 3: I want to go back and read what reporters out

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Speaker 3: of Pittsburgh were saying about mandatory mini camp and OTAs

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Speaker 3: and if they were splitting reps because I can't recall

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Speaker 3: off the top of my head who was doing what

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Speaker 3: in terms of taking reps at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: So I found that to be a very interesting comment

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Speaker 1: from Deontay Johnson not in the building very long, So

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Speaker 1: maybe he's clueless, Lou, I don't know, true, but that

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Speaker 1: was an interesting comment and the way he said it,

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Speaker 1: they're going to roll with Pickett for right now. How

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Speaker 1: long is right now? It doesn't seem to have a

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Speaker 1: long shelf life. I'm thinking like a couple of games,

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Speaker 1: maybe three, maybe four, until one of the rookie kids

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Speaker 1: emerges or something. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Here's another question on this topic. How many starting quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: are we going to.

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Speaker 1: See, oh, through the course of the year. The hell

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Speaker 1: they had four last year, it could very well happen again.

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Speaker 1: And the GM Andrew Berry, he was asked during OTA's

654
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Speaker 1: could you see yourself carrying four quarterbacks on the active roster?

655
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Speaker 1: And he said yes, He said absolutely yes, And I

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Speaker 1: was like, wow, but when you've made the draft investments

657
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Speaker 1: that you have in two of those players, you can't

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Speaker 1: leave one on a practice squad. Well, I guess you

659
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Speaker 1: could put one on the practice squad and protect him

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Speaker 1: every week. Yes, but yeah, I mean you really okay, Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the Browns are good enough to

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Speaker 1: keep four quarterbacks on the active roster and rob from

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Speaker 1: other positions and make those weaker, because whoever's not playing

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks sitting and watching, they're not helping you on the field.

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Speaker 2: They're not playing defense.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean unless you want to, you know,

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Speaker 1: line up Shador at corner. Yeah. So yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be very curious to see how they put their fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster together, knowing the quarterback conundrum that they

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Speaker 1: currently have. All Right, So that's around the NFL presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, the official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Question on the table for you today, besides Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: what other part of the bills makes you sleep easy

674
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Speaker 1: at night? In preparation for the twenty twenty five season,

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Speaker 1: I thought we'd play off of Josh's recent endorsement of

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Speaker 1: a sleep aid and have a little fun with this. So,

677
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Speaker 1: besides Josh Allen, what other parts of the bills makes

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Speaker 1: you sleep easy at night? Eight oh three zero five

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Speaker 1: point fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty the numbers to jump on board with us. Don't

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Speaker 1: have time to give us a call, that's not a problem.

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Speaker 1: You can hit us up on the tweetsheet at one

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Speaker 1: bill's live to me, there's one that jumps out immediately,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be surprised if if you had the

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Speaker 1: same thing. Offensive line like, this is like the deepest,

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Speaker 1: most rock solid offensive line I've seen, maybe in my

687
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Speaker 1: time covering this team, which is more than twenty years now,

688
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Speaker 1: which is scary to say. But they've had good offensive

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Speaker 1: lines over the years, some that have led the league

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Speaker 1: in rushing, you know, and done other great things as well.

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Speaker 1: But I mean left to right, it's a really good group.

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Speaker 1: And you can argue you have four capable backups who

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Speaker 1: I think on about ten to twelve other teams would start.

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Speaker 1: So that's what makes me sleep easy at night. Besides

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen with respect to the Bills team, I have

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Speaker 1: other things on my list, but that was at the

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Speaker 1: tippy top.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they allowed just fourteen sacks last season, which

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Speaker 3: was the least in the NFL. And the group, I

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Speaker 3: think as they get closer and tighter and spend more

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Speaker 3: years together, it just gets better. And a lot of

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Speaker 3: that comes from our offensive line coach and Aaron Kromer.

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Speaker 3: The way that he coaches. You talk to some of

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Speaker 3: our offensive linemen and they say the way that he

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Speaker 3: coaches just just so different than what they've had anywhere else,

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Speaker 3: including other NFL teams, because of the details that he gives.

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Speaker 3: But it's specific to your position and how you play,

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Speaker 3: how your body type is made up. So I'm really

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Speaker 3: excited to see the offensive line again this season and

710
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Speaker 3: see how they can kind of level up this year

711
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: being back together again. For me, I would say it's

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Speaker 3: having Joe Brady and Bobby Babbage back in the building

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Speaker 3: for another season.

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Speaker 2: Just knowing what those two did in.

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Speaker 3: Their first year as full year as Buffalo's offensive coordinator

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Speaker 3: and defensive coordinator. We saw Buffalo's defense rank top three

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Speaker 3: in takeaways. That was really their identity this past season

718
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Speaker 3: because you didn't get that pass rush that a lot

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Speaker 3: of us were hoping for. Well, look at what they

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Speaker 3: did this offseason. They go and add Joey Bosa, some

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Speaker 3: other free agent pieces, and they draft some huge mammoth

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Speaker 3: defensive lineman and I'm excited to see how those players

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Speaker 3: get brought into the fold as well as a cornerback

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Speaker 3: in Maxwell Hairston. Bobby Babbage is in his second year now,

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Speaker 3: he knows what to expect. There's not going to be

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Speaker 3: the surprises that he had his first year. And then

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Speaker 3: with Brady, it's taking a step forward within this offense

728
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Speaker 3: that ranked top five, top ten in so many statistical categories.

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Speaker 3: Brady is an offensive coordinator who is all about getting

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Speaker 3: with his players on what do you like? What works?

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Speaker 3: What do you think we run well? What's something new

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Speaker 3: that you want to try? That dialogue in a second

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Speaker 3: season together, I think will fare well once week one begins.

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Speaker 1: You tell us what you think besides Josh Allen, what

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Speaker 1: other part of the bills makes you sleep easy at night?

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three zero five fifty one, eight of eight

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Speaker 1: five point fifty two five fifty got open line through

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Speaker 1: you there? But we lead off today with Diane and

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Speaker 1: cheek Towaga. What's up, Diane?

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm sleeping better at night now that James Cook

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Speaker 6: has showed up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, very happy to see him at mandatory mini camp. Yes,

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Speaker 1: what do you like most? What do you like most

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Speaker 1: about what he brings to the offense, Diane?

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Speaker 6: He's so small and fast.

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Speaker 7: It's just amazing to watch him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He gets through some tight spaces lickety split, don't he?

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Speaker 7: Yes, he does.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's a good one, Diane. I'll give you

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Speaker 1: that because there was a lot of angst this offseason,

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Speaker 1: right like is he gonna show up? Is he not

752
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Speaker 1: going to show up? He's under contract, is he gonna

753
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Speaker 1: be here? And you know, blow and behold. There he

754
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Speaker 1: is at mandatory mini camp and all indications are he's

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Speaker 1: going to be there for the start of training camp

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Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, I could see. Yeah, And look,

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Speaker 1: I know this is my opinion, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm alone in this. I think he's the second most

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Speaker 1: dynamic player on offense for this football team, next to Josh.

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Speaker 1: I truly believe that, just with everything that he can

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Speaker 1: do on a football field. So yeah, hopefully all goes smoothly,

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Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe by the time we get to

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Speaker 1: the end of August early September, maybe something can be

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Speaker 1: worked out on an extension that would make it even better,

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Speaker 1: that would make it even more motivated going into the season.

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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I'm happy James Cook has been back

767
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Speaker 3: in the building. You speak about the angst and everybody

768
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Speaker 3: worried on the outside, but I think a lot of

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Speaker 3: us on the inside new Cook was going to be

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Speaker 3: here eventually, whether it was going to be mandatory mini

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Speaker 3: camp or training camp, he was bound to show up.

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Speaker 3: We know, it's whether you're playing for all of the NFL,

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Speaker 3: the other thirty one teams to try and show them

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Speaker 3: what you can do, or whether you're playing to try

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Speaker 3: to get a new contract here, which I mean fingers

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Speaker 3: crossed that happens at some point, maybe even like you said,

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Speaker 3: I had a training camp. But I think what we

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Speaker 3: heard from James Cook when he spoke to media during

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Speaker 3: OTA's I think said a lot about his maturity and

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Speaker 3: kind of where he stood on why it's important for

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Speaker 3: him to be in the building and the type of

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Speaker 3: leader that he believes that he is, which is he's

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Speaker 3: still a younger player. But to hear him say I'm

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Speaker 3: a leader, I need to lead by example. I'm here

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Speaker 3: because I want to win a Super Bowl and I

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Speaker 3: care about my teammates, things that you would think are true.

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Speaker 2: But to hear him say that.

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Speaker 3: I guess, Yeah, it's said a lot about who he

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Speaker 3: is and his goals for this season. So I was

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Speaker 3: proud to hear that from him. And he practiced every

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Speaker 3: single day. Look, you can show up and you don't

792
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Speaker 3: have to practice, but he showed up and he practiced.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I think the main concern out

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Speaker 1: there was not only him not showing up, but things

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Speaker 1: turning acrimonious or adversarial. I think that was a concern

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Speaker 1: on a lot of fans' minds as well, and it

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Speaker 1: seems as though the relationship there is still very healthy.

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Speaker 1: Got to take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: Gary on a cell will lead us off as we

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Speaker 1: are asking you, besides Josh Allen, what other part of

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Speaker 1: the bills makes you sleep easy at night? Ato three

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Speaker 1: five fifty more of your phone calls next year? On

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Besides Josh Allen, what other part of the bills makes

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Speaker 1: you sleep easy at night? Chris Brown MADDI glad with

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Speaker 1: you here on a Tuesday edition of One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: Ato three five fifty the number to jump on board

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Speaker 1: with us. Right back to the phones we go and

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Speaker 1: to Gary on a sell. What do you got for us? Gary?

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Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I I'll doing good. It's clearly off with

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Speaker 8: the line. Yeah, that's what all the money's at. And

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Speaker 8: he's They're just as important to me as Josh is,

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Speaker 8: because without then he can't be Josh. And those running

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Speaker 8: backs can't get to the holes. They're amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are very good. And you know, I think

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Speaker 1: there was a healthy respect and thanks for the call, Gary.

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Speaker 1: I think there was a healthy respect Maddy gained this

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Speaker 1: year for what they are capable of now in the

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Speaker 1: run game, and it forced defenses to play Buffalo's passing

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Speaker 1: attack differently because they had to commit more to defenders

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Speaker 1: in the box. And I wonder when, I'm wondering when

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Speaker 1: the shift is going to happen, because look, every defense

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Speaker 1: in the league is still terrified of Josh and what

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Speaker 1: he can do throwing the football, but it's hard to

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Speaker 1: ignore James Cook coming off back to back one thousand

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Speaker 1: yard seasons and a run game. You know that was

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Speaker 1: pretty productive for them. I mean, this was the only

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Speaker 1: team in the history of the league to score thirty

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns thirty passing touchdowns. That carries weight around the league,

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Speaker 1: and so defensive coordinators are more mindful than ever of

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Speaker 1: how good this offensive line is in the run game.

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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the switch to flip where the door

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Speaker 1: is left open for Josh to exploit defenses for big plays.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that happens this year. We'll see if it

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Speaker 1: reaches critical mass.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you think about what Buffalo did on the ground

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Speaker 3: last year. Ninth in terms of what they averaged in

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Speaker 3: rushing yards per game around one thirty. And to do

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Speaker 3: that and to score thirty rushing touchdowns. You wonder now

840
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Speaker 3: this season, how much how many stacked boxes do they

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Speaker 3: see because of James Cook, because of the offensive line,

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Speaker 3: Ray Davis, Ty Johnson. Does it change compared to how

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Speaker 3: much they saw last year when you were really just

844
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Speaker 3: putting it out there showing, hey, look we can do this,

845
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Speaker 3: and we're going to do it because you give us

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Speaker 3: light boxes because you're scared of Josh Allen and his arm.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna, like you said, it's got to level out

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Speaker 3: at some point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the Bills at by the end of the

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Speaker 1: season ran at fifty one percent of the time through

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Speaker 1: at forty nine percent of the time, which was an

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Speaker 1: indication that teams weren't defenses weren't willing to stack the

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Speaker 1: box because they were still terrified of Josh. So when

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Speaker 1: does that flip. I'm very curious to see if it

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Speaker 1: happens this season. Let's go to Mark in Buffalo next.

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Speaker 1: What's up? Mark?

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 7: Guys? All right? Today? Good again? Like Gary just said, overwhelmingly,

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Speaker 7: it's obviously the offensive line, but I mean the offensive

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Speaker 7: line if if you like football, watch football, and understand football.

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Speaker 7: The offensive line is always the driving force in the

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Speaker 7: heart of a football team. It was in our Super

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Speaker 7: Bowl years and it has been since we became good again.

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Speaker 7: But for me, the thing that makes me sleep as

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Speaker 7: a Bills fans sleep well at night is Brandon being

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Speaker 7: Brandon Bean is approaching Bill Pollion's status in my mind.

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Speaker 7: I'm sixty six years old. I've been a Bills fan

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Speaker 7: since stayed one when they became an NFL franchise in

869
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Speaker 7: nineteen seventy, and I challenge a Bills fan to look

870
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 7: at the history of our team from that point to

871
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 7: current and how many dark years we had from nineteen

872
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 7: seventy till now, and how many times we seem to

873
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 7: have gms that we're at war with our first round

874
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 7: pick and not signing guys, and the down years we

875
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 7: had and I'm not trying to be a down year.

876
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 7: That's why I enjoy where we're at right now. And

877
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 7: that's also why I appreciate the mindset of Brandon being

878
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 7: with We're going to try and win now, but I'm

879
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 7: always looking in the future. I want to stay on

880
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 7: top all the time, and he seems to be able

881
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 7: to do that every season. He never compromises the future

882
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 7: with the team he puts on the field today, and

883
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 7: that's that is an amazing skill. And it tests to

884
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 7: the fact that he's always tinkering with the roster. He

885
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 7: never feels like he's done. Sometimes he makes move on

886
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 7: the practice squad, unsigned picks, things like unside drafts guys,

887
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 7: things that sometimes we think is inconsequential. But he's always

888
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 7: trying to make the roster better, not only from the

889
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 7: top of the roster, but all the way through the bottom.

890
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Speaker 7: So I appreciate Brandon so much and as long as

891
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Speaker 7: he's there, we got a chance. Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks Mark, that's a that's a good one.

893
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Speaker 1: And I agree with anything and everything that you just said.

894
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Speaker 1: And I think not to indicate that Brandon is not

895
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Speaker 1: talented in his own right, but the fact that he

896
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: and his head coach are in lockstep in terms of

897
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: what this roster should look like, be and perform like

898
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: I think only helps. And yes, Poleon and Levy are

899
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: probably the best GM head coach combination. And since I

900
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: mean well, I should say Bean and McDermott are the

901
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: best head coach GM combination since Pollon and Levy and

902
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: the reason they were so Part of the reason they

903
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: were so successful is because they were in lockstep on

904
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Speaker 1: what the roster should look like. And that's a key

905
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 1: component to having a perennially successful team. Obviously have to

906
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: draft well. Also, players have to have the right mindset.

907
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: There has to be a good culture. The Bills have

908
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: all of those things and Brandon Bean, yes, is a

909
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: cornerstone part of that.

910
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Speaker 3: We've seen it go south for other teams too, when

911
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 3: you have a GM and a head coach who maybe

912
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 3: weren't hired around the same time and don't see eye

913
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Speaker 3: to eye on things, and the relationship runs sour, which

914
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,439
Speaker 3: impacts the product on the field. What Brandon Bean does

915
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 3: is he can project these guys and the best part

916
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 3: is bringing them to Buffalo. Then they get to the

917
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 3: coaching staff and you see how good our coaching staff

918
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Speaker 3: is at developing these players into who they believe they

919
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Speaker 3: can be in Buffalo's system.

920
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Speaker 2: They've done that. They've done a great job with that.

921
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Speaker 3: With so many different draft picks, from your high draft

922
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Speaker 3: picks to your sixth and seventh rounders to some of

923
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Speaker 3: your undrafted players who have found a home on this

924
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 3: team for several seasons. It's one of my favorite parts

925
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Speaker 3: about how this whole operation has worked over the last

926
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Speaker 3: eight seasons.

927
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Speaker 1: Got to take a break here as we are up

928
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Speaker 1: against the top of the hour. But when we come back,

929
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Speaker 1: our number two is going to begin with Fox Sports

930
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Speaker 1: NFL reporter Ben Arthur going to join us to discuss

931
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Speaker 1: some of the things happening around the league, including how's

932
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: that number one pick in the draft performing for the

933
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. You spend some time covering the Titans. We'll

934
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: catch up with him on cam Ward and what he

935
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,760
Speaker 1: is looking at entering his first season in the NFL,

936
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Speaker 1: among other things. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

937
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: Colid of Health.

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Speaker 9: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: This this One Bills Live presented by called lighta Health.

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Speaker 1: All right, our number two on a Tuesday. Here Chris Brown,

941
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: Matty Lab with you here on One Bill's Live and

942
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: joining us now Fox Sports NFL reporter Ben Arthur joining us. Uh,

943
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna kind of whip around the league a little bit,

944
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: but we're also gonna kind of check in on the

945
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Speaker 1: development prospects of one cam Ward. The number one pick

946
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Speaker 1: in the draft is Ben spends a little time around

947
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Speaker 1: the Titans. So Ben, first of all, thanks for the time. Uh. Second,

948
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Speaker 1: I really liked your one word to describe every NFL

949
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: team write up that you had on Fox sports dot com.

950
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: The description for the Bills I thought was on point vital.

951
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: I also looked just out of curiosity at the other

952
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: AFC East teams, and you know, to no surprise, you

953
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: had the Patriots as ascending. I think that's one hundred

954
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: percent accurate with Rabel, you know, in charge there now,

955
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: and for the Jets rebuilding obvious, but the Dolphins won.

956
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if everybody was gonna see it the

957
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Speaker 1: same way I did, but you seem to see it

958
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Speaker 1: the same way I do, because I think the Dolphins

959
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: are one of the top three teams to implode this

960
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: season around the league, and you had uncertainty for them.

961
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Speaker 1: So two part question, the reason you chose vital for

962
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: the Bills and uncertainty for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 5: Vital for the Bills just because of the stakes, right,

964
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 5: like you have. We know what this team is at

965
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 5: this point, the way they've been constructed, the level that

966
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Speaker 5: Josh Allen is playing at, obviously coming off of the

967
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,439
Speaker 5: MVP this past season, and seems year and year out

968
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 5: they're unable to get over that last hurtle right to

969
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Speaker 5: get to the Super Bowl. Obviously, the Chiefs have usually

970
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 5: been the team for them that they can't seem to

971
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Speaker 5: get over it. And so you have this window of

972
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Speaker 5: opportunity with Josh playing at this level, with the way

973
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 5: the team is currently constructed, to finally break through that,

974
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 5: to get through the glass ceiling, so to speak, and

975
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 5: these opportunities can these opportunities open and close very quickly

976
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 5: in the NFL, I mean, things change so quickly just

977
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 5: from year to year. And so I think for me

978
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 5: that was that was actually one of the easiest ones

979
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Speaker 5: for me just in terms of going through that one

980
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 5: word process for each of the teams, just because of

981
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 5: the stakes for the Bills and so that in my head,

982
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 5: that made a lot of sense to me.

983
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then uncertainty for the Dolphins, like there's a

984
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: lot that I mean, they got financial cap issues. They

985
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: probably have too much money in the wrong players. That's

986
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: bad enough. And then you hear about how even though

987
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: he tried to find players who were late to meetings

988
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: last year, it didn't change the behavior. And now all

989
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: of a sudden they're gonna be all, you know, walking

990
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: the line in one off season without a lot of

991
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: internal locker leadership. I just don't see it.

992
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just seems like there are so many unclear variables, right,

993
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 5: Like you with some of the things that have come out,

994
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,840
Speaker 5: you wonder about just the tone that is being set

995
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 5: from like coaching and just from a front office standpoint.

996
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 5: And then just with uncertain I thought a lot about

997
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 5: just their secondary and how influx, particularly the corners are

998
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 5: just gonna be. Right, you have Jalen Ramsey who's clearly

999
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 5: out the door. The Dolphins have publicly said that they're

1000
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 5: trying to ship him out of town. And then the

1001
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 5: reports I've seen on the ground for my friends in

1002
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 5: Miami about just how poorly the corners are looking in

1003
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 5: in practices during the offseason program. And I know the

1004
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 5: Dolphins have some talent at receiver like Jalen Wattle and

1005
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 5: Tyreek Hill, but that's certainly a concern as well. I

1006
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 5: know that they've had issues in the trenches as well,

1007
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 5: offensive line, defensive line.

1008
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 4: There. Yeah, there are just so many variables.

1009
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 5: And then on top of that the whole Tua thing, right, like,

1010
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 5: is he gonna like, I feel like every year you

1011
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 5: kind of go in not sure, like, Okay, is he

1012
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 5: gonna be available for all seventeen games? Is he gonna

1013
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 5: be kind of playing at that high level? And so

1014
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 5: I think there's just so many variables with them that

1015
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 5: it's hard to really get a good gauge on them.

1016
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 5: And so I think that was another case where the

1017
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 5: word uncertainty that was kind of an easy word for me,

1018
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:08,959
Speaker 5: just in terms of the Dolphins, just because of where

1019
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 5: they're at heading into the next season.

1020
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 3: I wonder what type of team Buffalo is going to

1021
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 3: face in the Dolphins when they see them the first time,

1022
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 3: which will be Week three on Thursday Night Football. Getting

1023
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 3: back to the Bills, what was the biggest storyline that

1024
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 3: you followed this offseason during OTAs or mandatory mini camp

1025
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 3: for Buffalo?

1026
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 5: For Buffalo, I think the biggest one just from a

1027
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 5: national perspective, right, I think just the whole James Cook situation,

1028
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 5: like his whole contract deal.

1029
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 4: With the other members of his draft.

1030
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:49,439
Speaker 5: Class all getting the contract extensions right and him kind

1031
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 5: of being the last man standing, so to speak, having

1032
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,319
Speaker 5: just a massive year for them. We know how big

1033
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 5: of a part he isn't in the run game, just

1034
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 5: in coordination with Josh Allen, everything that they try to

1035
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 5: do on the ground. And so I think just monitoring

1036
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 5: that just from a national perspective has kind of stood

1037
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 5: out to me. And then I think this is probably

1038
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 5: more of a minor note too, but just to talk

1039
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 5: about how they don't really seem to have like a

1040
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 5: number one receiver, I think the GM kind of came

1041
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 5: at some radio hosts if I recall in the Buffalo area,

1042
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 5: just kind of about that whole narrative, which which I

1043
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 5: thought was just fascinating because they do have it, they

1044
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 5: don't really need like a what like a whether it's

1045
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 5: a Devonte Adams or a Tyreek kill Jamar Chase. Like

1046
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 5: how they've been doing it offensively just in terms of

1047
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,439
Speaker 5: the passing game has seemed to work out for them.

1048
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 5: And then you think the guys that they do have,

1049
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 5: they should continue to take that next step too. I

1050
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 5: think Kean Coleman is a guy who could continue to

1051
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 5: ascend Khalil Shakir on those guys who got a new

1052
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,720
Speaker 5: deal will continue to ascend it. And so I thought

1053
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 5: that was more of a footnote to me. But yeah,

1054
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 5: I think overall from a national perspective, the whole James

1055
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 5: Cook situation, him kind of seeking that new deal as

1056
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 5: what stood out to Yeah.

1057
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: I mean as soon as they traded away Stefan Diggs

1058
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: last offseason, I feel like this front office, in the

1059
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: personnel department, along with the coaches, made a philosophical shift

1060
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: that we are going to operate in the passing game

1061
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: without a number one because we think with a collection

1062
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 1: of very good receivers were more difficult to defend. We'll

1063
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: see if it gets them to the promised Land ultimately.

1064
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: This season, the Titans, you know, for the second time

1065
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: in three years, are going with a rookie first round pick,

1066
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: or not first round pick, but a rookie at quarterback.

1067
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: It was Will Levis a couple of years ago, now

1068
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: it's cam Ward. Why do they believe it will be

1069
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: different this time around and more successful? Yeah?

1070
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 5: I think with cam Ward and just speaking on what

1071
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 5: I've seen right, I was at every single Titans offseason practice,

1072
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:10,720
Speaker 5: and the confidence he has is kind of what stood

1073
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 5: out to me from the jump. I mean, his willingness

1074
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 5: to jaw at like guys like Jeffrey Simmons, who's one

1075
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 5: of the best players in the NFL, certainly one of

1076
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 5: the best d tackles, but them chirping back and forth,

1077
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 5: the trash talk. Him being able to compartmentalize mistakes, right, Like,

1078
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 5: that's so important with quarterbacks, right Like, if you have

1079
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 5: a mistake and interception, bad ball, miscommunication with your target,

1080
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 5: it's so important to be able to regroup and deliver

1081
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 5: the next play, right you have to have a was

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Speaker 5: what is it like a fast be able to get

1083
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 5: over bad things quickly? And just in the short sample

1084
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 5: size we've seen, right, and there's still a lot to

1085
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 5: go in terms of training camp and actual games, but

1086
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 5: his ability to move past mistakes very quickly really jumped

1087
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 5: out to me. And then you just see the talent

1088
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 5: like some of the some of the wow throws he had,

1089
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 5: some of the side arm stuff, like his ability to

1090
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 5: throw from different armsloughts is kind of well noted, kind

1091
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 5: of by the scouting community. But yeah, I think there

1092
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 5: are so many things to like with Cam and his

1093
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 5: mindset and him getting to the Titans facility at five

1094
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 5: am and going through film sessions at five am with

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00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 5: some of the other rookie receivers. I think he's already

1096
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 5: earned a lot of trust in the Titans locker room

1097
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 5: and the Titans offensive coordinator Nicholes talked about how cam

1098
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 5: sort of gives them an edge that they didn't maybe

1099
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Speaker 5: have in previous years. Kind of going back to my

1100
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 5: point about him his willingness to chirp at veteran guys

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00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 5: on the defensive side of the ball. He doesn't really

1102
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 5: seem to back down from anyone. And those are things

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00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 5: very early on that have kind of jumped out to me.

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Speaker 2: One thing we saw early on with Josh Allen's.

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00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 3: Career was that you go through your rookie year, you

1106
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 3: assess what you have, what you might need on offense

1107
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 3: going into year two, and Brandon Bean Buffalo's GM was

1108
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 3: very very certain about, Hey, we need to load up

1109
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 3: our offense. We need to put playmakers around Josh Allen

1110
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 3: so we can make sure this quarterback succeeds in this

1111
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 3: system with the offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: Cam Ward is a rookie.

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00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 3: You look at the Titans and what they have on offense,

1114
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 3: there's not too many big names.

1115
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 2: You've got a Tony Pollard, you've.

1116
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 3: Got a Calvin Ridley, But who is cam Ward going

1117
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 3: to rely on within this offense in his first year?

1118
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question, and it is something I

1119
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 5: have a little bit bits of concern about. Like that

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00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 5: group on paper really doesn't jump out.

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00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 4: I think it's kind of average.

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00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 5: It's kind of like what I think of what Jaden

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Speaker 5: Daniels in Washington had to deal with just in terms

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01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 5: of receiving cores and o line. Honestly, like kind of

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Speaker 5: somewhat average. And so I think it's going to be

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Speaker 5: a case where cam Ward we're gonna have to see,

1127
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 5: like his ability to maybe elevate some of the guys

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Speaker 5: around him that the Titans, to their credit, they have

1129
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 5: done a lot of work up front on that offensive line.

1130
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Speaker 5: Their pass protection has been awful for years. It's still

1131
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 5: maybe not great at least on paper, but you can

1132
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 5: certainly see the improvements they've made. They've brought in a

1133
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 5: legit left tackle and Dan Moore, who's with the Steelers

1134
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Speaker 5: the past several years.

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Speaker 4: They moved J. C.

1136
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 5: Latham, the first round pick from twenty twenty four, back

1137
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 5: to his natural spot at right tackle. And then just

1138
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 5: in terms of the pass catchers outside of Calvin Ridley,

1139
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 5: Tyler Lockett is one of the best receivers in Seahawks history.

1140
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 5: They were able to get him on a one year deal.

1141
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 5: I think he's going to be able to help a

1142
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 5: lot in terms of letting Cam know what receivers like

1143
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 5: and whatnot. They have some good young tight ends Chigakoon

1144
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 5: Quo gunner Helm from the University of Texas, rookie fourth

1145
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 5: round pick who he's already developed a really strong connection with,

1146
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 5: and someone that Cams name dropped several times during his

1147
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 5: availability during the off season program. And so it's gonna

1148
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 5: be kind of a group effort, right, I don't think

1149
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 5: apart from like Calvin Ridley, like you said, Tony Pollard,

1150
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 5: those are the biggest names to a national audience. But

1151
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 5: I think everyone is going to have to elevate their

1152
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 5: play around him, and I think the Titans, given the

1153
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 5: constraints that they've had, I think they have made a

1154
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 5: lot of strides to make this a respectable, respectable supporting

1155
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 5: cast around your number one overall pick.

1156
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: Ben, Thanks very much for the time. We appreciate you

1157
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: sharing some of your time with us here in the offseason.

1158
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: Enjoy the rest of your summer because we'll all be

1159
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: back at it before we know it, so enjoy it.

1160
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 1: And thanks definitely.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys so much for having sure.

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Speaker 1: That's Fox Sports NFL reporter Ben Arthur kind of bringing

1163
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: us up to speed on some of the goings on

1164
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Speaker 1: with cam Ward. It's it's interesting that he's a supremely

1165
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: confident player there, John with a ten year veteran defensive

1166
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: tackle who has been to like five Pro Bowls. I

1167
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: remember George Pickens was doing that as a rookie in

1168
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh against you know, guys like Minka Fitzpatrick. And sometimes

1169
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: you will hear coaches tell you or tell media members

1170
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: like if I have a player that doesn't believe he's

1171
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: the best in the NFL at his position, whatever, I

1172
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: don't know that I want him on my roster. You

1173
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: want somebody that is supremely confident in their abilities, because

1174
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 1: that is oftentimes what can carry them. Everybody has a

1175
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: baseline of athletic ability at this level. We all know

1176
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: that because you're not getting drafted unless you do. But

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Speaker 1: then that has to be coupled with a resolute confidence

1178
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 1: in oneself and a coach. If a coach doesn't believe

1179
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 1: that that player believes in himself, I think he feels

1180
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,959
Speaker 1: that his job is much harder in terms of making

1181
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: them into a player that's going to be able to

1182
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: contribute consistently to their football team. So just interesting to

1183
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: see that that's cam Ward is readily it's readily apparent

1184
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 1: that he is supremely confident in his own abilities. So

1185
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: we'll see how far that takes him here in his

1186
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: rookie season.

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01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:31,919
Speaker 3: Definitely, I think everything that we heard coming out of

1188
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 3: the scouting combine about cam Ward and then beyond that,

1189
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 3: all the positive things that the media was being fed

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01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 3: and kind of getting to learn who he was as

1191
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 3: a person as a quarterback. The confidence that he's now

1192
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 3: showing during OTA's and mandatory mini camp. He's going to

1193
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 3: have a lot of fans in the NFL, even beyond

1194
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 3: the Titans, if he continues to carry himself this way.

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01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. We got to get back

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01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: to the phones, though, because we are talking to you

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01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: about this Bills team from this perspective. Besides Josh Allen,

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01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: what part of the Bills makes you sleep easy at night?

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three oh five point fifty one eight eight

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01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty that's the number to

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01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: join us, and waiting patiently has been Corey in Arkansas.

1202
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: So let's go there. Now, what do you got for us. Cory,

1203
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 10: I'd have to say one group. I mean, you guys

1205
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 10: already mentioned that offensive line. I'd probably say the running

1206
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 10: backs group, and if not them, the wide receiver corps.

1207
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Speaker 1: Okay, what do you like? I get the running back

1208
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: room because you got three guys that kind of proved

1209
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: themselves last year. What is it about the receiving corps

1210
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: that has you, you know, breathing easy, because we know

1211
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:42,760
Speaker 1: there are some members of the Bills fan base that

1212
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: may not quite feel that way.

1213
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Speaker 10: Well, I mean, I look at I mean, we've patched

1214
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 10: you here for a little while, you know, Calman's dontos.

1215
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 10: Second year, we picked up some you know, free agents

1216
01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 10: that haven't really gotten a chance so to show themselves,

1217
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 10: you know. And I just think with who we picked

1218
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 10: up in free agency, I think we got a good

1219
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 10: mix of guys and I think they fit this offense

1220
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 10: very well.

1221
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good answer, Cory, Thank you for giving it.

1222
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: Appreciate the phone call. Running back Room. Yeah, I mean

1223
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:20,440
Speaker 1: when you think about it, people are like, well, why

1224
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: doesn't James Cook gets what he feels he deserves. I

1225
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: think it's because of how strong the running back room

1226
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 1: is and knowing that the other two guys, Ray Davis

1227
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: and Ty Johnson chiefly are gonna have roles within the

1228
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: scope of this offense. I mean, Ty Johnson is this

1229
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: team's third down back, like James Cook would come off

1230
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: the field on third down because Ty Johnson was so

1231
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: good in pass protection and in you know, helping to

1232
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: make plays on that money down. Now could that shift

1233
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: and change this year, I'm sure it could. But Ray

1234
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: Davis is another year wiser and made some contributions. I

1235
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: think we all remember the game he had against the

1236
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 1: Jets in Week six when Cook was injured and he

1237
01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: had to start in his place, and he set the

1238
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: tone right from the jump. They ran eight of the

1239
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 1: first nine plays and I still remember him pancaking Sauce

1240
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: Gardner on the way into the end zone against the

1241
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: Jets back in Week six. So you have a running

1242
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: back room that's not only deep, but I think proved

1243
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 1: itself from guy number one through guy number three. And

1244
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: that's a rare thing to have. From top to bottom

1245
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 1: in your running back room. You have players that are

1246
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: capable all around the league at the running back position.

1247
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: But I think this coaching staff firmly knows what they

1248
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: have in each of those players in that room.

1249
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 3: Ty Johnson averaged fifteen point eight yards per reception this

1250
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 3: past season. He was not just a playmaker on the ground.

1251
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 3: He was a playmaker when it came to catching passes

1252
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 3: from Josh Allen eighteen of them for two hundred and

1253
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 3: eighty four yards. Also three touchdowns receiving touchdowns out of

1254
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 3: Johnson as well, and Ray Davis showed that he can

1255
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 3: be an important piece to this offense. Had a playoff

1256
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 3: time as well. He was a productive player on offense,

1257
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 3: and I would expect those two players will take a

1258
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 3: step forward and how they're used in this offense this season.

1259
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 3: I know this is not Ty Johnson's second year with

1260
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 3: this team, it's going to be his third season.

1261
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 2: But you get guys like this who.

1262
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 3: Fit so well together and they offer different things, and

1263
01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 3: you're gonna tweak it, You're gonna move it around a

1264
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 3: little bit to continue to be multiple on offense and

1265
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 3: throw off the defense that you're.

1266
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 2: About to play.

1267
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 3: James Cook was incredible for this team last year, sixteen

1268
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns. Yes, he's gonna continue to do that. But

1269
01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 3: I think Ray Davis and Ty Johnson are also gonna

1270
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 3: continue to be really great pieces for this offense.

1271
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know I said O line was at

1272
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: the top of my list. Right behind it, I had

1273
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: run game, which is also a little bit of a

1274
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: nod to the offensive line, but I think, much like

1275
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: Corey said, it's a nod to the running backs that

1276
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: you have on this roster one through three. So yeah,

1277
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: and look, Darrnton Evans is back to try to challenge

1278
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 1: for a role on this roster. He's tried multiple times

1279
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:10,000
Speaker 1: to make the fifty three man squad. He actually got

1280
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 1: picked up by the Bears a couple of years ago

1281
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 1: and was on their active roster when he didn't make

1282
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 1: this squad despite a strong preseason. So we'll see if

1283
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,600
Speaker 1: the third time is the charm for Darrnton Evans to

1284
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: crack the roster somehow, some way. But I think it's

1285
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,520
Speaker 1: going to be supremely difficult for him, even as talented

1286
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 1: as he is. Do you know what I put third

1287
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: on my list, Manny, the starting linebackers Terrel Bernard and

1288
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:37,480
Speaker 1: Matt Milano. I mean, I know there was some trepidation

1289
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:41,560
Speaker 1: earlier this offseason about the depth that sits behind them,

1290
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: but if you know you have Terrel Bernard and Matt

1291
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,719
Speaker 1: Malano on the field at the second level of your defense.

1292
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping pretty good, Like I know those two guys

1293
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: are in the lineup and healthy, and that's worth mentioning

1294
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: because that has not been the case for the majority

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Speaker 1: of the last two seasons due to Milano's injury history, respectively.

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Speaker 1: But you have those two guys in the lineup, I

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Speaker 1: feel pretty good about them making a lot of plays

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 3: And hopefully we get those two together through the entire season,

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Speaker 3: the majority of the season, because I don't think we've

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Speaker 3: seen those two together being like as good as you

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Speaker 3: can be. I think with having Milano and Bernard playing

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Speaker 3: off of each other together for another season. Yes, Matt

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Speaker 3: Milano came back last year and we saw a few

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Speaker 3: games out of him, but Bernard and Milano are such

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Speaker 3: smart players, they've been in this season, this system for

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Speaker 3: multiple years now. To get them next to each other

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Speaker 3: and healthy, I think we're gonna see a lot of

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Speaker 3: good things come from that. And then you speak about

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Speaker 3: a backup in Dorian Williams, like what they are so

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Speaker 3: blessed to have those three in those positions.

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Speaker 1: Right and not just there because that's another thing that

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Speaker 1: I had on my list that has me sleeping easy

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Speaker 1: at night about this Bill's roster. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: it is when we return here on One Bill's Live,

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

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Speaker 1: back here on One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Matty Glad

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Speaker 1: with you on a Tuesday and discussing with you besides

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, what other part of the Bills makes you

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Speaker 1: sleep easy at night. We've had some interesting contributions thus far,

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Speaker 1: and we encourage more at eight oh three, oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty one eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty those

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Speaker 1: the numbers to join us, and we do have open

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Speaker 1: lines for you. Also can take your comments on the

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Speaker 1: tweetsheet at One Bill's Live on X. But there was

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Speaker 1: one other area that I wanted to mention that is

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Speaker 1: making me sleep easy, and that is I believe that

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Speaker 1: this roster has some of the best stop gap answers

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Speaker 1: depth wise at many positions in the event of injury,

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Speaker 1: and I kind of tried to work my way down

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Speaker 1: the roster to see where they have some of those

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Speaker 1: stop gap players who in the event of injury can

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Speaker 1: step into the starting lineup and the drop off is minimal.

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Speaker 1: And I think if somebody like Elijah Moore at the

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Speaker 1: receiver position, if Khalil Shakier, God Forbid, gets nicked up,

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Speaker 1: can't play a couple of games, Elijah Moore has almost

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Speaker 1: the identical skill set and is faster on the stop one,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good guy you get to turn to

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Speaker 1: if Shakiir is going to miss a couple of games

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Speaker 1: with a bad ankle or something. So I look at that.

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Speaker 1: To me, that's an upgrade from what they've previously had

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Speaker 1: at the position cornerback. If Max Harriston fulfills I think

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Speaker 1: expectations and is a starter from week one, having Trey

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01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: White in reserve is a lot better than what they

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Speaker 1: had in reserve last season. And I mean you can

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Speaker 1: go down the list. If Cole Bishop wins the starting

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Speaker 1: job at safety and now Hamlin is your reserve safety

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Speaker 1: after all the time on the field that he got

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Speaker 1: last year, you're leveling up there. In terms of your

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Speaker 1: plugin player Edge rusher Dt, we know the depth that's

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Speaker 1: been added there, and even on the old line, as

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Speaker 1: we've already talked about, Vandamark Grabil Anderson Van Pran Granger.

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Speaker 1: I mean, those are four backups that might start elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: So to me, the roster is deeper from a pure

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Speaker 1: talent perspective than I think it even was last year

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Speaker 1: at at a number of positions.

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Speaker 3: We had a caller call in earlier to speak about

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Speaker 3: what general manager Brandon Bean has done and why Bean

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Speaker 3: and his assembling of this roster every year makes him

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Speaker 3: sleep well at night. The caller sleep well at night. Well,

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Speaker 3: Bean has done an incredible job I think in the

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Speaker 3: last few off seasons of assessing what they have at

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Speaker 3: each position, which, yes, that is your job, but not

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Speaker 3: just adding to say, hey, we need a start here,

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Speaker 3: let's fill in this role, but making sure that you

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Speaker 3: have backups, viable options at every single position, because we

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Speaker 3: have seen the Bills dig into that every single year.

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Speaker 3: Last year it was on defense, they were three deep.

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Speaker 3: Those players were starting in some position groups. When you

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Speaker 3: look at the secondary last season, when you look at

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Speaker 3: what linebacker, what Buffalo needed in their linebacking corps. In

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Speaker 3: the last two seasons, you were reaching deep down into

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Speaker 3: who's available, who can play, and sometimes those weaknesses were

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Speaker 3: exposed because you were three deep at a position group.

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Speaker 2: This off season, I think.

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Speaker 3: They have reloaded in a lot of those areas to

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Speaker 3: make sure if we go two deep or three deep,

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Speaker 3: we are in a good spot and we can contend

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Speaker 3: with whoever we're playing that Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know people feel good about Dorian Williams

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Speaker 1: has an option off the bench, you know, if Milano

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Speaker 1: gets injured. And I think while they're encouraged by the

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Speaker 1: growth of players like Baylon Spector and Joey and Dreesen

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Speaker 1: and Edie Ulafotio, you know, Shaq Thompson is here as

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Speaker 1: a veteran option for a reason. And look, we have

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01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,759
Speaker 1: to see how his recovery from the ruptured achilles turns

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Speaker 1: out before we can stamp him as a veteran option

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Speaker 1: on the roster. But man, if he is cleared and

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01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:21,760
Speaker 1: good to go, I mean that is a ten year

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01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:24,200
Speaker 1: veteran that knows how to play middle linebacker and week

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01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 1: side linebacker in this system. Again, you're leveling up the

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Speaker 1: depth of your roster. But let's get back to the phones.

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Speaker 1: At eight oh three h five point fifty one eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: five point fifty two, five point fifty and to Dennis

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina, what's up, Dennis?

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Speaker 6: Hey, watch up? Chris come back and Maddie come back

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01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:46,559
Speaker 6: to uh work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Hey, So I'm really feel comfortable about the running backs

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01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 6: because they're offering something different to the table, and they don't.

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Speaker 6: They don't me. So everybody says some goodself about James Brown.

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Speaker 4: I'm bad.

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01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:13,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, James Cook, Yeah, I got cha. No, Dennis, You're

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 1: not alone in that line of thinking. We've had some

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01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: other callers say running back room is what makes them

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01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: sleep easy at night. I think there was a stretch

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Speaker 1: of time here, Maddie where people felt that the production

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01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: of the offense rested solely on Josh Allen's arm and

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01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: the running back and the running game was almost an

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Speaker 1: afterthought outside of Josh running himself. And I think that

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Speaker 1: has shifted and changed considerably with the additions of Ty Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Ray Davis, and James Cook. Like all three of those guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, James Cook, we know is kind of the

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Speaker 1: primary player there, but they've all helped change that conversation

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01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 1: where it isn't all on Josh anymore. And it's not

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01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,679
Speaker 1: just Bills fans that see that now. It's the rest

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01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 1: of the country at large that sees this team on

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01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 1: national TV. In so many primetime games. It's like, Oh,

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01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 1: those guys can really run the ball. It's not just

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Speaker 1: all Josh on.

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Speaker 3: Offense and James Cook wanting a new contract. We talked

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01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 3: to Ben Arthur earlier in this show and I asked him,

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Speaker 3: what was the biggest storyline you follow the fact that

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Speaker 3: the James Cook conversation about wanting a new contract was

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01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 3: so national means that Buffalo's run game is an important

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01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:24,599
Speaker 3: part to their offense. And if you're so good at something,

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01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:27,680
Speaker 3: you can't look away from it. And that's how they

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01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:30,679
Speaker 3: have developed what they have in this offense is these

1429
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,760
Speaker 3: guys go out there and they show Joe Brady, look

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01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 3: at what we can do, and Joe Brady puts it

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01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,720
Speaker 3: into how he wants the offense to work, the mastermind

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01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 3: that he is, and it's something that's going to be

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01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 3: a part of Buffalo's offense. I think back to like

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Speaker 3: the Devin Singletary days where Josh Allen is earlier on

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01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 3: in his career and yes, you are still figuring out, Okay,

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Speaker 3: how is this going to work? When do we kind

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01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 3: of pull the reins on letting Josh Allen run all

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01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:01,599
Speaker 3: the time versus letting other people do that. Because you're

1439
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 3: going to have to do that at some point if

1440
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 3: you want this quarterback to have a long NFL life

1441
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:12,480
Speaker 3: and to see how it's changed and shifted and evolved

1442
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 3: to where it's at now. You spoke about the percentages

1443
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 3: fifty one percent running the football toward the end of

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01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 3: the season. It is very different than how it used

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01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 3: to be in Josh's first, second, third, and fourth season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go to the tweet sheets. See what you

1447
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 1: have to say over there. Tweet sheet brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Corgan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

1449
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:36,639
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Where Connor says, there are two things

1450
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: that make me sleep easy at night. One offensive line

1451
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: coach Aaron Kromer. I know the old line has two

1452
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 1: pending free agents and Torrents will be up for a

1453
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: contract after this season. Chromer has shown that it doesn't

1454
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 1: matter who plays on the old line, they will be great.

1455
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Speaker 1: Number two Shakir He is a catching machine and for

1456
01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: me has become the new Beasley. Yeah, that's that's a

1457
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 1: good point, because I think there was about a two

1458
01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:09,360
Speaker 1: year stretch where that underneath security blanket that Josh relied

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01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:12,639
Speaker 1: upon so much. Who was Cole Beasley, you know, from

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01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:16,559
Speaker 1: like twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one. In twenty two

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01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 1: and twenty three, it wasn't really there and it was

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01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 1: so absent that they actually called Beasley back at the

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01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: end of the twenty three season, it said, help us

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01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 1: out because their underneath game was so lacking. And then

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01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: fortunately Shakir matured into that in his second season and

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01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:35,160
Speaker 1: really took off last year after his you know, in

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01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: his third season, and now you have that as a

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01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,879
Speaker 1: as a competent and productive part, actually the most productive

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01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: part of the passing game right now. That is subject

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Speaker 1: to change based on the emergence of Keon Coleman in

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Speaker 1: year two and maybe a re emergence of Dalton Kincaid,

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01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: so we'll have to see. But yes, I think that's

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Speaker 1: a very good way to describe it. That component of

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Speaker 1: this passing game is back now with a young player

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01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:02,200
Speaker 1: who I think is still ascending.

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01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 3: Shakira is definitely still a sending and like we talked

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01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,919
Speaker 3: about with Buffalo having options, multiple options at the same position,

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01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 3: if Khalil Shakiro goes down, I feel, like you said,

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01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 3: I feel so good about what Buffalo has and Elijah

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01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:17,640
Speaker 3: Moore and don't concaid to be able to run some

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01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 3: of those routes, even in a Curtis Samuel to be

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01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 3: able to take over in certain ways in terms of

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01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 3: being used in the flats and such. Khalil Shakir, It's

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01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 3: going to be so exciting to see how he grows

1485
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 3: within this offense this season, because I think there's a

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01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 3: lot more to come for a player like that. I

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01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:39,799
Speaker 3: think he's still, in Sean McDermott terms, humble and hungry

1488
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:42,360
Speaker 3: about what he's doing and still has a lot to

1489
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:46,400
Speaker 3: prove as an NFL player a part of Buffalo's offense.

1490
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 3: But it's not just Khalil Shakir who can do that.

1491
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,719
Speaker 3: You've got several players on this roster who can also

1492
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 3: fill in in that role. And maybe we'll even see

1493
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 3: that this offseason as and going into the season as

1494
01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:59,960
Speaker 3: Buffalo begins to add new wrinkles to their offense.

1495
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:02,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why, you know, when I was talking

1496
01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: about the depth of the roster, You've got a guy

1497
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:08,639
Speaker 1: that can play in the other slot. If you want

1498
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 1: to go four wide and you take a tight end

1499
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:13,280
Speaker 1: off the field, you can put Shaki on one side,

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Speaker 1: Elijah Moore on the other you know in the two

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01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: slot spots. Best of luck with that, like you know,

1502
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: like where's the screen going and who's running it? And

1503
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: because Elijah Moore with four to three five speed, you know,

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01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 1: we were just showing our MSG viewers some of those

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01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:33,599
Speaker 1: screenplays to Shakir. Now put a guy on the field

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Speaker 1: that's even faster and getting through those blocks and cracks

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01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: even faster. There might be more yards after the catch

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01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:41,880
Speaker 1: if more is on the field. So just something to

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01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 1: think about going forward from Swice is nice O line

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01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 1: continuity and coaching for sure, but the D line additions

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01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:52,360
Speaker 1: have me feeling better than ever about the unit in

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01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: the McDermott era. Influx of youth, hopefully a consistently healthy

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01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: Bosa and Hoyt at some point should be the recipe

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Speaker 1: for a group that takes over games. I had that

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01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:05,240
Speaker 1: on my list depth of the D line as something

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01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: that's making me sleep easier. It's not something that we

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01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:12,479
Speaker 1: know for sure yet, right, but the potential of what

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01:21:12,600 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: it could be I think has people excited about this

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01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: defensive line in a way that they probably haven't been before.

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Speaker 1: Arguably in the entire McDermott era.

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Speaker 3: I agree because going into an off season in the

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01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 3: Sean McDermott era, where you're reloading in certain position groups

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01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 3: and you're you're adding new people to the defense and

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01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 3: defensive line and offensive line. Because it's such a big

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01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 3: position group, you can carry so many people on the

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01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 3: roster during the off season, so you're going to reload

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01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,799
Speaker 3: in both of those areas. But usually it's been Okay,

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01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 3: we're gonna we might draft a guy, and we're gonna

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01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:50,400
Speaker 3: add a guy or two in free agency, and we

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01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 3: might have three new options on the defensive line. No,

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01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 3: this off season, it was like, let's have three new

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01:21:56,760 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 3: options in the draft, and let's go add like four

1533
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 3: more options in free agency to the defensive line. So

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01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:06,719
Speaker 3: you're not just going into the season with three new options.

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01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 3: You're going into the season with like six to seven

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01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:11,800
Speaker 3: new players on that defensive line. We don't know how

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01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 3: it's going to shake out when it comes time to

1538
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 3: cut the roster, but it's a complete revamp. Yes, you're

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01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:22,080
Speaker 3: going to have some of those same players that we

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01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:24,719
Speaker 3: have had in the past seasons, like a Greg Russo

1541
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 3: and an At Oliver and a day Kwon Jones. You're

1542
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:30,519
Speaker 3: gonna have those guys there in an AJ Ebanessa. But

1543
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:34,080
Speaker 3: it's so nice to see an influx.

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01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 2: Of youth at that position group.

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01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 3: That is why so many people are really excited about

1546
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:38,719
Speaker 3: what's going to happen.

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01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know some people might have some reservations

1548
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: about pulling all of that newness together in one unit,

1549
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:47,280
Speaker 1: But I think this coaching staff has kind of proven

1550
01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 1: over the years, whether the turnover is twenty five percent

1551
01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: thirty five percent, because it was high last year, maybe

1552
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: the highest turnover on the roster in terms of new

1553
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: players to the roster than we've seen in the entire

1554
01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:00,640
Speaker 1: McDermott era. They capably pulled it together last year and

1555
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: made it all work to the tune of a thirteen

1556
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: win season. Believer on the tweets sheet is kind of

1557
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 1: in line with Maddie's feelings about what makes them sleep

1558
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: easy at night. Coaching staff, I'm not sure we recognize

1559
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: what this staff has done enough. Other teams have stacked

1560
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 1: teams and don't win as consistently as we have under

1561
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 1: McDermott and his staff. I think there is a portion

1562
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: of the Bills fan base out there that feels that

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01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:28,240
Speaker 1: they've done more with less. I think most Bills fans

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01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: would admit the Eagles have a better roster top to

1565
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 1: bottom of elite caliber talent. Baltimore Ravens probably have a

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01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: roster with more elite caliber talent than that of the Bills.

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01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: And yet the Bills, you know, are a team that

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01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 1: is consistently putting up double digit win seasons and advancing

1569
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: and winning at least one playoff game each of the

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01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: last five years. There is something to be said about that,

1571
01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,080
Speaker 1: and that you probably look to the coaching staff as

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01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: to why the.

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01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 3: Coaches do such a great job of getting that buy in.

1574
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,759
Speaker 3: That's not something you have at every single NFL team.

1575
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,880
Speaker 3: You tell the players and you show them, this is

1576
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 3: what we're about on offense. This is what we're about

1577
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:11,760
Speaker 3: on defense. This is our expectations out of you, and

1578
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 3: they the players, follow in lockstep. Yes, we are on

1579
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 3: board with this. Yes, we are going to give you

1580
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 3: one hundred and ten percent every single day. And you

1581
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:24,680
Speaker 3: see that in the fourth quarter when a game is

1582
01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:27,759
Speaker 3: on the line, or when you have a backup playing

1583
01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 3: in a position they don't normally do, and you see

1584
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 3: them perform beyond expectations.

1585
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, there's one aspect of that coaching that hasn't

1586
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 1: been mentioned, yet I am going to mention it next

1587
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 1: because I think it is important and it's making me

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01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:45,160
Speaker 1: sleep easier. I'll tell you what that is when we

1589
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

1590
01:24:47,840 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, back here on One

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01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:08,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. One final segment to go, Chris Brown, Maddi

1592
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 1: lab with you, and I mentioned that there was one

1593
01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 1: other area that has me sleeping easier at night about

1594
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 1: this Bill's team, and it's the fact that you have

1595
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 1: an experienced special teams coordinator on this coaching staff. It's

1596
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 1: the first time since twenty eighteen that the Bills have

1597
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:31,959
Speaker 1: a special teams coordinator with prior NFL special teams coordinator experience,

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01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: not to mention the fact that even his assistant has

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01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: special teams coaching experience in the league, or at least

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01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 1: coaching experience in the league. So the fact that you

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01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 1: have two coaches running that phase of this team that

1602
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: I believe can scheme and come up with game plans

1603
01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: to help give this team an edge on game days,

1604
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,320
Speaker 1: I think is invaluable and has me breathing a lot

1605
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 1: easier about that phase of the game. It's not like

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01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: they didn't have talented players on the special teams unit

1607
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 1: over the years in the McDermott era, I just didn't

1608
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: always feel like they were put in the best position

1609
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: to succeed, for the team to make a game changing play.

1610
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, over the last couple of years, we've seen

1611
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 1: miscues and mishaps, whether it's a blocked kick in the

1612
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:29,000
Speaker 1: playoff game against Pittsburgh and Sam Martin goes running and

1613
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: pulls his hamstring trying to get the ball, or the

1614
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: twelve men on the field game against Denver, which is

1615
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: the last time the Bills have lost a game at home.

1616
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:40,519
Speaker 1: I mean, think about that. And then even the Rams game,

1617
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:43,080
Speaker 1: like the end of the game, there's seven seconds left

1618
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,360
Speaker 1: and Codrington doesn't get the memo that, no matter what,

1619
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:48,240
Speaker 1: you have to feel the ball because we're going to

1620
01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: be out of time, and he lets it bounce in

1621
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: the end zone and the game's over. So knowing you've

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01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: got an experienced guy in that chair now who's not

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01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 1: gonna let those kinds of things fall through the cracks,

1624
01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:02,839
Speaker 1: I think again makes this team better and yet another

1625
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: area going into this season.

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01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 3: Tabor's been a special teams coordinator for the Bears. The

1627
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:11,919
Speaker 3: Browns and the Panthers. So has had stops at multiple

1628
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 3: teams where you pick up a bunch of knowledge and

1629
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 3: was not coaching last season, so got to watch all

1630
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 3: of these new rules in the dynamic kickoff take place,

1631
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 3: and then you get your own ideas on Okay, here's

1632
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 3: how these teams did it, this is how I want

1633
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:30,639
Speaker 3: to do it. This is how I want to implement this.

1634
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:35,160
Speaker 3: I think it's going to help Buffalo a lot to

1635
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:38,920
Speaker 3: have somebody like that helping them on special teams. It

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01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:41,960
Speaker 3: is a phase of the game where a lot of

1637
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:46,520
Speaker 3: people may dismiss it, but in tight games in the playoffs,

1638
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 3: it means so much to be able to flip the

1639
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,160
Speaker 3: field or have a game changing play.

1640
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:55,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the assistant special teams coaches Turner West, and

1641
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:58,679
Speaker 1: he's been a special teams coordinator at the college level

1642
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,800
Speaker 1: at Georgia's other most recently, but he does have time

1643
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 1: as an assistant in the NFL as well. So just

1644
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 1: having those two men running special teams as me sleeping

1645
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:13,000
Speaker 1: easier at night as well. A final thought on the

1646
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 1: tweet sheet comes from Vote Quimby says, got to be

1647
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: the old line you return five starters to a large

1648
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:22,439
Speaker 1: line that provided excellent protection and open holes and also

1649
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:26,960
Speaker 1: has solid depth. Makes me feel at least with that group.

1650
01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:30,640
Speaker 1: Dawkins and Brown are a top five offensive tackle tandem.

1651
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 1: Torrance is a monster at guard, and McGovern made the

1652
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:39,599
Speaker 1: transition to the pivot even nastier for this team up front.

1653
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: You know, not a lot was said last year about that, Maddie,

1654
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:44,880
Speaker 1: And you know, an offensive lineman will tell you that's

1655
01:28:44,920 --> 01:28:47,599
Speaker 1: always a good thing when nobody's talking about me. But

1656
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: you remember how concerned people were at this time last

1657
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:52,679
Speaker 1: year about Connor McGovern going from left guard to center.

1658
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:56,400
Speaker 1: And I don't know if we witnessed a smoother transition

1659
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:58,080
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, And sometimes it was.

1660
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:00,600
Speaker 3: Like nobody ever talked about it after he showed in

1661
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 3: the first few weeks I can do this. He had

1662
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 3: experience in college, and it was good to see him

1663
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:07,320
Speaker 3: get back to doing it the right way.

1664
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul on the tweets, he'd said, I see steady

1665
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:13,439
Speaker 1: improvement in the offense each year. I'll sleep easier when

1666
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 1: I see it from the defense. Fair enough, Nate says,

1667
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 1: offensive line run game, Khalil Shakir, tight end room, hope

1668
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 1: on the D line, Bernard and Dorian Williams. Development boy,

1669
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:23,640
Speaker 1: that's a lot to sleep on.

1670
01:29:24,640 --> 01:29:25,320
Speaker 2: Sleeping good.

1671
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:28,639
Speaker 1: Nate's sleeping really well. And finally, let Gino Cook says

1672
01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:32,839
Speaker 1: our kickoff and punt returners. Yeah right, see again, stopgap measures.

1673
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 1: You're even deeper there now. We all liked what we

1674
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 1: saw from Codrington. You got another proven returner in Laviska Chenault.

1675
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:42,080
Speaker 1: Be an interesting competition. Maddie, thanks for your help today.

1676
01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow with another edition AD one. We will

1677
01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:56,160
Speaker 1: see you on Wednesday.