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Speaker 1: they did put together the sixteen play drive that got him.

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Speaker 1: Then they had six plays eight plays in one play.

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Speaker 1: The Bills defense did a nice job throughout the night,

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Speaker 1: with the exception of two nice drive. Actually three and

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Speaker 1: eight play drives usually pretty good. But a sixteen playing

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Speaker 1: and eighteen play drive throughout the night as old they

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Speaker 1: got gave up. It's pretty good play. Thought Andre Smith

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Speaker 1: and Joe Giles. Harris stood out among the linebackers. They

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Speaker 1: were everywhere, and as you mentioned, Harris and Phillips I

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Speaker 1: thought had a nice day against the run, and as

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Speaker 1: we mentioned, also got a little bit of a push

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Speaker 1: in the pocket. So yeah, but we want to know

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Speaker 1: what your takeaways are from the bills first preseason game

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Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty one eighty to eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. We are going to get

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Speaker 1: to some of coach Frazier's comments when we come back

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Speaker 1: from break, but we have a little more time here.

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Speaker 1: So did you have any standout performers per se Steve

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Speaker 1: that you said, Wow, that guy really helped himself in

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00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 1: the game on Friday. Yeah, a couple of linebackers, Joe Giles,

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00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: Harris and Andre Smith played really well in the second

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Speaker 1: half of that game. They were everywhere. Andre Smith was everywhere,

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Speaker 1: and so was Joe Giles Harris. I thought those guys

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Speaker 1: defensively jumped out to me and played really, really well.

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Speaker 1: Andre Smith was a sideline to sideline player in that game.

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Speaker 1: He was yeah, he looked yeah. And Joe Giles Harris

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Speaker 1: I thought showed his anticipation skills as a veteran player.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Leslie Fraser told us this

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Speaker 1: morning there was a period in the game where they

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Speaker 1: lost all helmet communication and on the fly they had

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Speaker 1: to go to hand signals because I think it was

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Speaker 1: at a time where Detroit was going hurry up, two

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Speaker 1: minute drill or whatever. And he said, Giles Harris handled

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Speaker 1: it like a pro, completely unflustered, just took to the

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Speaker 1: hand signals, got everybody lined up. And that's half the

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Speaker 1: battle in these preseason games. You know, you're talking Steve

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Speaker 1: about how the quarterbacks you thought availed themselves quite well

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Speaker 1: in the game on Friday, and I would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: But job one, it's just functionality, getting in and out

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Speaker 1: of the huddle, getting to the line of scrimmage, you know,

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Speaker 1: with plenty of time on the play clock, so you

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Speaker 1: can look over the defense, getting the snap, knowing which

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Speaker 1: way to turn whatever it is. Counting eleven guys in

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Speaker 1: the huddle, I saw from doing that, he's one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's counting them all up. Make sure they

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Speaker 1: don't have too many men on the field. And defensively,

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Speaker 1: it's the same thing for those linebackers. I gotta get

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Speaker 1: everybody lined up. You know, if they switch the strength

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Speaker 1: of the front. You got to switch those guys around,

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Speaker 1: people are in motion, you're passing people off if it's

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Speaker 1: his own coverage, all of that stuff. It sounds simple,

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Speaker 1: but in the first preseason game it's a little helter

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Speaker 1: skelter sometimes. And I thought, you know, front to back,

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Speaker 1: back to front, offense, defense, special teams. There were very

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Speaker 1: few mental errors. It's a it's a real sign of

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Speaker 1: how far this team has come under Sean McDermott and

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Speaker 1: where their roster sits right now, even even your backup

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Speaker 1: linebackers or you know, or pulling that stuff off because

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Speaker 1: that's hard to do and think about think about as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team where you know, you're

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Speaker 1: you're you're basically looking at the bottom half of your

487
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Speaker 1: roster saying, hey, can you can you hang in there

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Speaker 1: with these guys on here? And not only did they,

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Speaker 1: they did it with flying colors the other night. You're right,

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly the preseason is a time where you're trying

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Speaker 1: to prove yourself as a player and all that, and

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Speaker 1: it's highly underrated for most just to be there mentally

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Speaker 1: and to get guys lined up. You can imagine as

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Speaker 1: a most people can imagine if you're a defender, you're

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Speaker 1: all react, particularly before the ball is snapped. You have

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Speaker 1: to make sure and a middle linebacker and the safeties

497
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Speaker 1: have to make sure there's a guy covering every every

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Speaker 1: eligible receiver, and you know, a guy knows he's got

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Speaker 1: that guy. The Bills, I thought, played a lot of

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Speaker 1: man coverage in the first half the other night, a

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Speaker 1: lot more than they normally would because there's you know,

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Speaker 1: they want you want to see what a guy can

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Speaker 1: do man, cause he match up can he do it physically?

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Speaker 1: So they do a lot of things differently. We talked

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Speaker 1: about the but the offense running the football all the

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Speaker 1: time in the first first half of the game. Same

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Speaker 1: thing on defense. They played a lot more man than

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Speaker 1: they would normally in a game, and it was up

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Speaker 1: to those linebackers and corners to get everybody covered up.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, when you lose communication and you have

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Speaker 1: to improvise, Yeah, that's it speaks a lot to the

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Speaker 1: experience and the cool headedness of those guys. So you know,

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Speaker 1: the game it had its share of lulls, as preseason

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Speaker 1: games do. I think that's safe to say. But I

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Speaker 1: liked what we saw at a Devin singletary. I thought

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Speaker 1: he was elusive, which has always been a calling card

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Speaker 1: for him. But I thought he was explosive too, So

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Speaker 1: he got a little more work than maybe anticipated with

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Speaker 1: Zach Moss being down with a hamstring strain. Zach Moss

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Speaker 1: incidentally back at practice today. So yeah, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of things to like. We want to know what you liked.

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three h five fifty one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty the number to get on board.

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Speaker 1: What was your biggest takeaway from the Bill's first preseason game?

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna go to the tweet sheet, which is

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Speaker 1: where we usually start. Brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

527
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and

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Speaker 1: leading us off today is Jack, who says impressed with

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Speaker 1: Webb's poise in the offense and athleticism. I thought he

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Speaker 1: was just a pocket passer, and more than once he

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Speaker 1: escaped pressure and made something happen with his legs. If

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Speaker 1: they hold on to him, he'll be a nice number

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Speaker 1: two in the future. Also was happy with Rousseau's play.

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Speaker 1: His size and athleticism were on display. Let's go back

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Speaker 1: to Davis Webb for a second. Here, Steve, he touched

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00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: on it already, but he's got that third and ten

537
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: drops back, rolls out, realizes he has no one and

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Speaker 1: he has a ton of green grass in front of him,

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Speaker 1: and picks up the first down with a thirteen yard

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Speaker 1: run to keep the drive alive. I mean, that was

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Speaker 1: just one of the good decisions that he made. He'd

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Speaker 1: take a hit. He didn't take a hit at the

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Speaker 1: end of that. Did he run out of bounds? No.

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Speaker 1: I think he either ran out of bounds or lunged

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Speaker 1: to the ground or something. It was a really sharp play,

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Speaker 1: did a couple of times, and he had a couple

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Speaker 1: of throwaways that were really good. He got called on

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Speaker 1: an on an intentional grounding on a screen pass and

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Speaker 1: I thought I put that actually on Breeda because Breeda

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Speaker 1: turned up the field to try and get it open,

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Speaker 1: and you know, Webb didn't have any place to run to.

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Speaker 1: He had to get rid of it, and Breeda ran

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Speaker 1: out of the area where Webb tried to throw it

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Speaker 1: and it didn't get back to the line of scrimage,

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Speaker 1: and it didn't get back line of scrims because he's

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Speaker 1: under duress. You're supposed to be under duress in a

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00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: screen pass, but Breeda's got to kind of stay in

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Speaker 1: that vicinity. And in fact, in that case, on a

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Speaker 1: screen pass, you almost run to the quarterback rather than

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Speaker 1: the open area, just for that exact reason. But you know,

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Speaker 1: he got called for that. There were a couple of

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Speaker 1: you know, penalties, I think were the big if you

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Speaker 1: were looking for something that was a downer about the

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Speaker 1: evening the bills, a penalty getting penalized as much as

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Speaker 1: they did was a bad one, and Webb got one

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Speaker 1: of those. But man, oh man, a couple of his

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Speaker 1: throwaways and the way he moved in the pocket and

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Speaker 1: the runs of you, as you said, many spoke volumes

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Speaker 1: about how well he played. I thought, yeah, I thought

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Speaker 1: he he performed quite well. And another guy that I

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Speaker 1: thought stood out and we can get to this in

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Speaker 1: the next segment a little bit more. But Matt Breeder

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Speaker 1: ran tough in between the tackles, made a nice catch

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Speaker 1: ale on the sideline. I think he showed his adept

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Speaker 1: ability to you know, be a receiving option out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield. So I thought Breeda showed well in the

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Speaker 1: game on Friday as well. I thought he showed hey,

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Speaker 1: like I'm a capable veteran. I'm pretty versatile. I can

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Speaker 1: do a lot of things for you. I thought that

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Speaker 1: was on display there. His run before Singletary's touchdown catch

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Speaker 1: really kind of set things up. That was a straight

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Speaker 1: ahead run for eight yards, and then they run the

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Speaker 1: play action on the next play and you know, Webb

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Speaker 1: rolls out and he's got Singletary wide open all by himself. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I thought Singletary showed up big for the Bills in

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Speaker 1: that game, and and so did Breeda. I thought those

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00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: guys because you knew they were gonna have yeoman's duty,

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Speaker 1: because you know, the couple of running backs were hurt,

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00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: they ended up, you know, with one hundred and fourteen

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Speaker 1: yards rushing on the night. And so it's you know,

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Speaker 1: figures figures in eight for forty two for Singletary, for

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Speaker 1: ten for twenty seven for Brita, and Webb had two

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Speaker 1: for twenty six. Running game was there. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was it was good enough. I mean, but you're right,

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Speaker 1: I do I like Brita. You know, he's got that

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Speaker 1: extra gear, and but I think Singletary was maybe the

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Speaker 1: best running back in the game. Yeah, no, I would

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Speaker 1: agree with that. And I think motor looked more like

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Speaker 1: he did in his rookie year than he did last year,

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Speaker 1: more elusive, more explosive, more decisive with where he was

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Speaker 1: running with the football. We have to take a break here,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll get more of your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet. We'll also hear from defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Leslie Frazier, who addressed the media this morning prior

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Speaker 1: to today's practice. We'll hear from the DC next here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio all right, Time to get to some

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Speaker 1: comments from Bill's defensive coordinator Leslie Frasier were addressed the

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Speaker 1: media this morning prior to practice. Second time coach Frasier

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Speaker 1: is addressing the media during training camp, and coach not

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Speaker 1: surprisingly was asked about where star Latou Lala is in

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00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: his return to football after choosing to opt out last year.

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Speaker 1: He did not play in Friday's preseason games, so coach

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Speaker 1: Frasier was asked, well, he had been off for a year,

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Speaker 1: what was the reasoning behind not even having him dress

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Speaker 1: and getting used to real football again. Here's coach Frasier

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Speaker 1: on that subject. Some of why he didn't play in

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Speaker 1: that ball game. Is some of the good things we've

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Speaker 1: seen him practice. That was enough that we've seen to

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Speaker 1: tell us it wasn't necessary to put him out there

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Speaker 1: in that ball game, that we could wait another week

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Speaker 1: and continue to evaluate some of other players who wanted

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Speaker 1: to be able to see. So he's had a really

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00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: good camp. You know, we were all wondering what it

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Speaker 1: would be be like when we got him back, and boy,

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Speaker 1: he's been a bright light for us in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways. So we still got some work ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: You know, he'll get a chance to get some work

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Speaker 1: this week and maybe in the third preseason game as well.

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Speaker 1: But up to this point, he's been a big boost

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Speaker 1: to our defensive line. So it sounds as though it's

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00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: trending in the direction of Star getting some action this

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Speaker 1: week against the Bears. We'll see if that comes to pass,

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Speaker 1: at the very least by the third preseason game. I

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Speaker 1: think to a certain degree, Steve, you know, starters, they

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Speaker 1: might be taken on a case by case basis here

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Speaker 1: by the coaching staff in terms of playing time in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. It's not like, yeah, we're throwing all the

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Speaker 1: starters in this week. I think it's gonna be They're

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Speaker 1: gonna pick and choose some guys this week and then

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Speaker 1: I think the lot of them we'll be out there

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00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: next week. Yeah, that's I think that's exactly what they're doing.

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00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we said it earlier. They'll probably

644
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: have a plan in place, but every guy will be

645
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: evaluated what is ready to go through the course of

646
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: this week all the way through the course of this week.

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Speaker 1: Every day is different during training camp. It's not like

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Speaker 1: it was, you know, two decades you go three decades ago,

649
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Speaker 1: when you're going two days all this time and these

650
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: guys are getting beat up. It's sometimes more subtled. And

651
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Speaker 1: let's face it, every guy's different. Steph Diggs probably doesn't

652
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: need work on his out route, you know, so if

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Speaker 1: if you have reason to hold him out, I would

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Speaker 1: say there are certain guys that are a little bit

655
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Speaker 1: they're a little bit more cautious with if there are

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Speaker 1: players further down the line, on the bottom half of

657
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Speaker 1: the roster where you're you got some question marks about

658
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: you got to figure out a way to answer those

659
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Speaker 1: questions and the the only way to do is on the field,

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00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: right and and you heard coach Fraser say it right there.

661
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: It gave by by sitting guys like Star who showed

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00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: us in practice he's gonna be fine. It allowed them

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00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: and afforded them the opportunity to look at guys on

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Speaker 1: the back half of their roster for far more snaps

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Speaker 1: in the game on Friday than maybe they normally would have.

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Speaker 1: The real question is how bad is Steph diggsny Are

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Speaker 1: they hold them out because they're cautious or are they

668
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: hold them out because it's not right? Same thing with

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Speaker 1: every other guy who's not there. How bad is Dion

670
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: Dawkins and his post COVID recovery? How you know? That's

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Speaker 1: the question. Are these guys gonna Are we gonna see

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Speaker 1: them at all? If you see them at all, they're

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. They're not gonna play anybody in this

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00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: preseason of that stature unless they're one hundred percent. So

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00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: if they're not, and even if they're, even if they

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00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: could be, but they haven't not you know whatever, they

677
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: haven't had enough practice, They don't get enough reps. Like

678
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Speaker 1: if Steph Diggs is absolutely positively healthy on Friday, finally

679
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna play in the game the next day

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Speaker 1: because he hasn't practiced. That kind of stuff goes on.

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Speaker 1: But the question isn't are they going to play all

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Speaker 1: their starters or the question is the guys who they're

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00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: not playing. Is it strictly a coach's decision like it

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Speaker 1: seems to be with Josh and guys like that, or

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00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: is it something like Diggs where you got a guy

686
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Speaker 1: who's not practicing. You got like Deon Dawkins who's not practicing.

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00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: You know, how bad is that? That's the real question

688
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: of this preseason. Yeah, the good news is Deon Dawkins

689
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: was in the practice setting today, did get some team

690
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: reps as he rotated in, so that was good to see.

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Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier in the show, Stefan Diggs did

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Speaker 1: not practice today, still dealing with that knee ailment, and

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Speaker 1: basically coach was asked about Steph yesterday prior to their

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Speaker 1: short afternoon practice and he said Steph is still down

695
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Speaker 1: at this point, and somebody followed up, I think, and

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Speaker 1: asked if they could clarify whether diggs injury could extend

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Speaker 1: into the regular their season, and coach's answer was, quote,

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Speaker 1: not at this point, as far as I am aware.

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Speaker 1: At this point, that's not a no, so we'll have

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Speaker 1: to see where it goes going forward, but it depends

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Speaker 1: and how He was not out there again today. Right,

702
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Speaker 1: it's not one of those things that's you know, that

703
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be hiding anything. It's just about how

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Speaker 1: good step feels day to day. He didn't say day

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Speaker 1: to day, but you know, well, he was asked is

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Speaker 1: this going to linger into the regular season, and he

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Speaker 1: said not at this point as far as I'm aware,

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Speaker 1: So it all depends on the improvement digs can get.

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Speaker 1: Coach was also asked about the percent of bills getting

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Speaker 1: vaccinated and whether that number has gone up. First day

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Speaker 1: of training camp, Brandon, being the general manager, said eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of the players were on the core on the

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Speaker 1: path of getting fully vaccinated, which means eighty percent had

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Speaker 1: received at least one vaccination dose. So coach McDermott was

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Speaker 1: asked for an update on that by the media yesterday

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Speaker 1: and he said, I think it moved a little bit

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Speaker 1: since we've opened camp. That's about where we are, so

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Speaker 1: maybe a small uptick interest rates. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: want to talk about math, but if they cut five

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Speaker 1: guys be considered those guys on the bubble. Probably all

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Speaker 1: vaccinated or if that drops their ratio. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, And there's no debating this because

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Speaker 1: coaches have said as much. If you can carry on

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Speaker 1: day to day operations as a normal football club does

725
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: without pandemic restrictions or unvaccinated restrictions, you are at a

726
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: competitive advantage players. Players have admitted to that. Coaches have

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Speaker 1: set confirmed that. So hopefully they can get to the

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Speaker 1: level they need to to conduct business as usual. I

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Speaker 1: don't know definitively if they are there yet. I would

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Speaker 1: guess they are not, because I would think if they were.

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Speaker 1: A coach McDermott would confirm that when he's asked a

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Speaker 1: question like that, like, hey, we're good to go where

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Speaker 1: business as usual? I think you would be shouting that

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Speaker 1: from the rooftops. He'd be so happy if that came

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Speaker 1: to pass. So that that was an interesting comment from

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. When he spoke to the media on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Coach Frasier was also asked for an update on the

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Speaker 1: cornerback to competition between Levi Wallace and Dane Jackson. Levi

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Speaker 1: with another good performance Friday night, and we can discuss

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Speaker 1: that after we hear from coach Frasier on where that

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Speaker 1: position battle stands. You know, we still have more views

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00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: that we need and I think this game against Chicago

743
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: will help us with that. We feel really good about

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00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: where Dane is, We feel good about where Levi is,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we still want to make sure we

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Speaker 1: have good quality depth at that corner spot. But Levi

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00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: has had a terrific camp. Dane has done some good

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00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: things as well, but we need to continue this process.

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Speaker 1: So not finalized by any means. And Levi did it

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Speaker 1: again Friday night, that pass break up in the end

751
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: zone that looked like an easy play. It was not.

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Speaker 1: That is a y difficult play because I thought and

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Speaker 1: Coach Fraser talked about it too. He thought it was

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00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: a fantastic play in the end zone because the quarterback

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Speaker 1: had very good ball location on that throw where it

756
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Speaker 1: looked at the outset like the ball was only in

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Speaker 1: a place where the receiver could make a play on

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Speaker 1: the ball, and somehow Levi got there and knocked the

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Speaker 1: ball down. There's a lot in that play that you

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Speaker 1: can talk about because they had it. It was a

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00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 1: little bit of an ISO play one on one, no question,

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Speaker 1: and the receiver had all kinds of space. He had

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Speaker 1: the whole half of that field outside the outside the

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00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: hash marks to work by himself with Levi. He couldn't

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Speaker 1: get loose. And we spoke to Sean McDermott about the

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Speaker 1: cornerback the second cornerback battle between Levi Wallace and Dane

767
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Speaker 1: Jackson and Rashad wild Goose, all those guys over there,

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Speaker 1: cam Lewis, and he said, we'd made the decision, told

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Speaker 1: the players that all these guys are gonna sit for

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Speaker 1: this preseason game. We go out there for our mock

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Speaker 1: game on Friday, you know where they it's not a

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Speaker 1: mock game. They don't play, but they say, okay, who's

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Speaker 1: the starting offense for this game. It's not Josh, but

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Speaker 1: the starting offense. So you know, Trubisky runs out there

775
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Speaker 1: with those guys you know, and the defense walk through

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Speaker 1: substitution drill and here's how this game is gonna go,

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Speaker 1: all right, So they got their their depth charts all

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Speaker 1: lined up with all the guys that aren't playing over

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Speaker 1: there on the knee. So Sean mcdermot's out there standing

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Speaker 1: in the back of the defense and number one defense

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00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: comes out and all those guys aren't there. Nobody's out there,

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Speaker 1: but you know what, he goes He's there. He is.

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Speaker 1: Levi's out there. I mean he's a starter for three

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Speaker 1: years starter and he's out there. And interestingly enough, and

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Speaker 1: we've talked to Levi a ton, you know it. Levi's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with it because I welcome this is me.

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Speaker 1: You need me to show you, I'll show you. I'm here.

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Speaker 1: I'm And Sean was kind of poignant in his reference

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Speaker 1: to it. He goes here, he is man, there he

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00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: is again. You know, he may be playing, but he's

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Speaker 1: the guy playing and it he you could sense the

792
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: admiration in his voice. And as for as much as

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Speaker 1: they brought guys in to try and replace Levi Wallace,

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Speaker 1: and here it is preseason game number one, the most

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Speaker 1: inconsequential game of any season. Levi's out there and he's

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Speaker 1: making a giant and he's standing there ready to play.

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Speaker 1: And that's a one point game. At the end of it,

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Speaker 1: he stopped a touchdown. Yeah. So yeah, you can say

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Speaker 1: we've had the conversation and I've been on this. I

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Speaker 1: have said this a zillion different ways, and I'll say

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Speaker 1: it again. Have you got somebody better that's fine, but

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Speaker 1: you haven't found him yet. And it's been four years

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Speaker 1: going on four years, so you can say what you want,

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Speaker 1: but you've got to tip your hat to Levi Wallace

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Speaker 1: and he showed you again in that play why he's

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Speaker 1: hard to get off the field. Break time for us here.

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Speaker 1: We've got one more common coming your way from Coach

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Speaker 1: Fraser on one of the standouts defensively and Friday's game

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Speaker 1: against the Lions will tell you who that is, as

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Speaker 1: will Coach Frasier when we return here on One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: So we wanted to get one more comment from coach

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Speaker 1: Frasier passed along to you. Chris Brown, Steve taskerre here

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Speaker 1: with you on One Bills Live on a Monday, and

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Speaker 1: it was on one of the standouts from Friday night's game.

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Speaker 1: That is linebacker Andre Smith, the player the Bills acquired

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Speaker 1: from Carolina last year. Served a major role on special

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00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: teams last season. But I thought performed very well in

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Speaker 1: the game Friday night. And I know I'm not alone

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Speaker 1: in that thinking, but Coach Frasier certainly appreciated the versatility

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Speaker 1: of Andre Smith too. He explains here. With Andrea, it's

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Speaker 1: about his not what only what he does on defense,

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Speaker 1: but special teams as well. He's one of our core guys.

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Speaker 1: Some of the would have mentioned with Darryl who when

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Speaker 1: you when you're a backup linebacker, you need to be

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Speaker 1: good on special teams, and he is. He's one of

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Speaker 1: our top guys, and that that that phase of the game,

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Speaker 1: as we all know, is so so important. And your

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Speaker 1: linebackers and your secondary and a lot of your defenders

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Speaker 1: are the guys that make your your special teams really good.

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Speaker 1: And Andrea is one of those guys. And that's kind

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Speaker 1: of what really piqued our interest. His production on special teams,

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00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: but also his flexibility, which you saw on display in

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Speaker 1: our preseason game, being able to play a little bit inside,

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Speaker 1: play a little bit outside, good on third down. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, guy who got in the game against New

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Speaker 1: England a year ago when we had injuries and played

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Speaker 1: really well for us. So you know, he's a guy

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Speaker 1: you feel good about. We get injuries, he can step

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Speaker 1: in and play. So there's a guy that's a core

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Speaker 1: of special team, or Darryl Johnson is a core special

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Speaker 1: team or that coach Frasier reference today as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're giving themselves inside track to make the roster because

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Speaker 1: of that fact. If you're a you're not just on

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Speaker 1: special teams, you are a Corps special teamer. He Farwell

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00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 1: is pounding the table for you to be on the roster.

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Speaker 1: That's right. And it don't think it doesn't mean anything

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Speaker 1: when he got a coordinator jumping up, standing up on

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Speaker 1: the table saying he's got to have you. And then

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Speaker 1: to go out and have a game like he did

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Speaker 1: last night, like we're talking about where he was just

852
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: it seemed like every stop that was made in the

853
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: second half, he was a part of it. Him and

854
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: Joe Giles Harris were a part of that. I mean,

855
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 1: he just right where he was supposed to be. I mean,

856
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 1: you know now he probably won't play in another preseason

857
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: game because he's valuable, you know. I mean I was

858
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: just impressed with the ground that he covered. I didn't

859
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: realize he had that range, you know, sidelines to sideline.

860
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's running down backs in the flat

861
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: that are coming out of the backfield for a catch,

862
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: beating him to the corner. I mean that's not easy

863
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, he was all over it. And good

864
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 1: in coverage. He played a really good, solid tackler. Yeah,

865
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: he had a re really good game. In fact, he

866
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: might have been the defensive MVP of that game. Um,

867
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: so that's how good he was, particularly in the second

868
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: half of that game, and the game was in doubt,

869
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: and yeah, so it's you can count on him being

870
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: in the mix come regular season. The other question that

871
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,959
Speaker 1: I actually asked Coach Fraser today was how they're going

872
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: to find a happy balance come fifty three man roster time.

873
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: Where because I said, look, you've got a multitude of

874
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: defensive ends with position flexibility, and while that's all well

875
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: and good, you know you still need defensive tackles with

876
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: some beef to do the dirty work and stop the

877
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: run and to win on goal line defense, right you

878
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,959
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Or short yardage? And I said,

879
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: how are you going to weigh position flexibility knowing you

880
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: have a guy that can fill multiple roles but at

881
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: the same time might not be exactly what you need

882
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: on every down at defensive tackle. And he said, it

883
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: is a challenge. He said, I don't see it as

884
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: a problem. It's a good dilemma, but it's a factor.

885
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: And you know, you because people are like, oh, Daryl Johnson,

886
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: what are you doing with him? That guy's a core

887
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: special teamer. He's probably somehow, some way gonna be on

888
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: this roster if he farwell wants him right. But then

889
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: you've got guys like Rousseau and bash him who have

890
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: positioned flexibility, can kick down inside. Epanessa can do it

891
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: as well, so can fa Obada. The problem is when

892
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: you say you can kick down inside, that means they

893
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: can go down in there and rush the passer from inside.

894
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you necessarily want them on shore yard

895
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: is in goal line. Down inside, it's more of a yeah,

896
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: let's rush the passer with four defensive ends and some

897
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: couple of them can go down inside and still rush

898
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: on guards and in the traffic in the inside where

899
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: there's not much space. That doesn't mean you want him

900
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: to play there on a first and ten coming out

901
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: of their own come out of the apost. But the flexibility, yeah,

902
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: and or maybe they can finish a game inside there,

903
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: um if somebody goes down with a tweaked ankle late

904
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: or whatever. But the simple fact of the matter is

905
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: you're and you said it. When push comes to shove,

906
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 1: it's better to be big when push comes to shove. Yeah,

907
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: because you get an anchor against a shove. I just

908
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: think it's an interesting argument only because of all of

909
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: the emphasis that this team has put, both in their

910
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: words and in their actions in addressing their pass rush.

911
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: How much does that carry the day when there is

912
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: fifty three men to be on a roster and you

913
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 1: want to make sure you haven't What do they say

914
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: all the time, you never have enough pass rushers? Right now?

915
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: I know you could probably put a couple on the

916
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: practice squad and cover yourself that way, they're not go

917
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: with you when it's a passing league. More and more so,

918
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: I wonder how the balance may or may not shift.

919
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: You've got between defensive tackle and defensive end this year.

920
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 1: You gotta have three or four guys, gotta be four

921
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: at least they're big, I mean big, big Starlo two

922
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: Leal big. Harrison phillips Is is right in case there.

923
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: Yeah he's three oh eight. You know, Vernon Butler. Vernon

924
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: Butler's a three thirty guy. He's got a chance. Yeah,

925
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: he's two ninety five, three oh five somewhere in there.

926
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: Those guys are you know, they're technicians and so when

927
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: you get on and Ed Oliver is what two eighty

928
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: five to ninety on a good day. So though you

929
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 1: know he's one of your yes, he's full time yet

930
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: so you gotta have some guys that when the garden

931
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 1: center come out and try and move you, they're trying

932
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: to push a tree stump. You just can't do it.

933
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: Not a tree, right, Yeah, they're trying to push a

934
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 1: tree stump, not rule, not roll a big rock. Right.

935
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: So that's the difference. And you've got it's still a

936
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: big man's game. I've set it a ton You win

937
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: up front. That means you got to be big and strong.

938
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: Now everything else outside of that is I'm dravy. I'm

939
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: just gonna be very interested to see where the dividing

940
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: line is, Like, are they only keeping two big defensive tackles?

941
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: Are they only keeping three because as one and he's

942
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: not a big he's not a big one. So are

943
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: you keeping three big guys? And now you've got four total,

944
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: which means you probably only have room for five ends

945
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: at the most. I mean you can get to five

946
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: really fast on this roster. Addison Hughes, Rousseau, bash him,

947
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: Darryl Johnson FA I mean, you're already at six. You're

948
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: already at six and fa ol Bata is a big dude,

949
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: but he's an athlete. He's not a heavy dude. Yeah,

950
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: it's a problem. And I for me, I mean, I

951
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: mean you'd say it's a gonna take you gonna keep ten.

952
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: So ten of your twenty five is it? Maybe at

953
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: the best day, maybe twenty three defenders on your roster

954
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: or defensive lineman that and then you have what ten dbs,

955
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: nine probably nine at least, right five linebackers. I think

956
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: linebackers are going to pay the price for the only

957
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: play two of them, right, but you need some for

958
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: special teams. Don't have to tell you that. The other

959
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: two would have to be special teamers. And about two

960
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: or three of your your defensive backs would two And

961
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: you got Darryl Johnson who can play it. So okay,

962
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: you only you don't need eleven core special teamers, about

963
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: five or six you've been six. Yeah, you gotta have

964
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: six and then sprinkle in some athletes around them who

965
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: can do like one, you can do kickoff return and

966
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: that's it, or punt team and that's it. You know,

967
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: you gotta have six guys that are like punt punt return, kickoff,

968
00:50:56,160 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: kickoff return all the time, and can go so and

969
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,280
Speaker 1: three of those gotta be guys that the other team's

970
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: contemplating double team in them. Yeah, I just think it's

971
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: gonna be very compelling when they have to get down

972
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: to fifty three. Steve, with all the stuff that they

973
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 1: have said and done to improve their pass rush off

974
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 1: the edge and guys with position flexibility, how does that

975
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: change the dynamic of the d N to DT numbers

976
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: on the final defensive line. I am super intrigued to

977
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: see how that all plays out. Sean mcderma said it,

978
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: he goes, I like fresh legs out there. I like

979
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: fresh guys off the edge. They rotated on the second series.

980
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: I know, and I mean I know it's a preseason

981
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: three and out and then they three and out again,

982
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: new guys without the starters active for the most part.

983
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm with you all that is that is

984
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 1: the thing I am most interested. It's a fun place

985
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: to be because they got a lot of guys that

986
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: can really play. Yeah, and you got to choose. So

987
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: there you go. Break time for us here when we

988
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: come back. Speaking of defensive lineman, one star lotulele or lotulele.

989
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: We'll be addressing the media. We are going to bring

990
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: you his comments next here on One Bills Live, presented

991
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a

992
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields. Kind

993
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: of unique. He was kind of a dual role player

994
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: for you state Steve a blimp. We're not even in

995
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: the strated bere of normalcy. Our number two coming at

996
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: you One Bills Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, and another

997
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: week of training camp practice begins. Players have wrapped up

998
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: their activities out on the field today, a couple of

999
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: more days of training camp practice before it flips over

1000
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: into what is considered regular season mode. And uh obviously

1001
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: another preseason game coming up this weekend as the Bills

1002
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: travel to Chicago to tagan the Bears and h hopefully

1003
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: we don't hear that godforsaken song after they score points.

1004
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: Bear Down Chicago Bears like nineteen it's like pre World

1005
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: War two and they still play all the old people

1006
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: that make fun of the shout song here, all the

1007
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: old and nothing on the Bear Down Chicago Bears. All

1008
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 1: the originals have that hail to the Washington football team. Uh,

1009
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: bear down, Chicago Bears. The Giants have one, the Lions

1010
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: have the Lions have who else has got? Philli's got one?

1011
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: Um every all the old you know, original and then

1012
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: there's the Dolphins. Who still there's from the Oilers. I

1013
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 1: think it's a reverse, is it? I thought the Oilers

1014
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: had it for they're the same. Yeah, they came in

1015
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 1: the same. Oilers came in before the Dolphins, didn't they

1016
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 1: They did? Yeah, I love you Blue Um Houston Oilers

1017
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: Houston h Yes, and there was Miami Dolphins. It's the

1018
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: exact same song. They flipped the name. Oh my gosh,

1019
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,879
Speaker 1: I thought it was vice versa up with just because

1020
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,760
Speaker 1: that's kind of the way the Oilers needs to be run.

1021
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 1: Um well wow, yeah, they all have a song like that.

1022
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: Some of them are better than others, most of them

1023
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: are poor. I will just say true personal opinions where

1024
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: it goes though, Yeah, you're right, bar down, no, let no,

1025
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: we don't want to hear that. So hopefully the Bills

1026
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: can pitch a shut out and we don't have to

1027
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: hear that annoying song. Uh. While we await the comments

1028
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: of one Star Latoula, who is scheduled to address the

1029
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 1: media this afternoon. We check back on the tweet sheet

1030
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: to see what your biggest takeaway from the Bills preseason

1031
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,760
Speaker 1: went over the Lions was from last week, and Steve says,

1032
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway has to do with the culture within

1033
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: the locker room. This is a team, whether it's preseason

1034
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: or regular season, whether it's starters or the bottom of

1035
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: the roster, they all expect to win. The confidence and

1036
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: intensity to get that done was definitely visible Friday night.

1037
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question that if there's one

1038
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 1: coach McDermot does a lot of things well, but if

1039
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: there's one thing that he does exceptionally well is has

1040
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: his team ready. And I guess what I mean by

1041
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: that is not necessarily assignment and all of that that's

1042
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 1: expected of you as a professional, but the way he

1043
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: is able to get his team to play with an edge.

1044
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: There's an intensity to the way they play every single

1045
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: snap and often it doesn't matter what the score is

1046
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: on the board, whether they could be up twenty, down twenty.

1047
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: If you watch that team play and you don't have

1048
00:55:56,040 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: you don't have a visual line to the scoreboard, you

1049
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: would be very hard in trying to guess what the

1050
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: score is by the way the team is playing. That's right,

1051
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: that's the way it should be. And he and she's

1052
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: read that some this guy, Steve, he says, you know,

1053
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: you could tell it's been one of the hallmarks of

1054
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: this club since night twenty seventeen. Yeah, and it hasn't changed.

1055
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: It's just the you know thing has changed is now

1056
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 1: the fact that they got a really good team here

1057
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: is an example of the strength of that locker room.

1058
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: As Steve was saying on the tweet sheet, Davis Webb

1059
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: is being interviewed after the game in the postgame media

1060
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: room and somebody had observed him talking to Josh in

1061
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: between his series and he said, you know what were

1062
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: you talking to Josh about? Where You're trying to get

1063
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: his thoughts on what he was seeing, you know what

1064
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: have you? And he's like, no, he said. I basically

1065
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: went up to him and asked him, Hey, are you bored?

1066
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: And Josh said no, He goes, this is awesome. I

1067
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: love watching you guys play. This is great. Like, is

1068
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 1: that the perfect thing for a starter to say to

1069
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: a reserve player on the roster. I don't know if

1070
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: you could come up with a better response than that.

1071
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: That is, like, I am enjoying watching you play because

1072
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: I know seventeen weeks out of the season, God will

1073
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,959
Speaker 1: and I'm healthy for all of them. You're watching me play,

1074
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: so the least I can do is return the favor here.

1075
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: And I'm having a hell of a lot of fun

1076
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: over here watching you play. There is nothing better you

1077
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: can tell. I used to say, I used to tell

1078
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: my kids that I can't wait to see you play.

1079
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: It's empowering at the same time, and it shows a

1080
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: level of commitment to them, you know, Josh, the commitment

1081
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: to them. It's a great it's a great line. He's right,

1082
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: that's exactly the thing you should say. And I'm you'd

1083
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: be hard pressed to find anybody else who's sharp enough

1084
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: to come up with an answer like that. That's that's

1085
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: next level. Make you imagine you're a what if you're

1086
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: Jake from you haven't played in a game at this

1087
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: level And you go up to Josh Allen, who almost

1088
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: won the MVP last year, and he said, I am

1089
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: having that hell of a time over here watching you play.

1090
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: Tell me that doesn't like make you feel ten feet

1091
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 1: tall for the next five minutes, that's right, and it's awesome,

1092
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's as part of why it's an

1093
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: easy team to root forward. It's part of the reason

1094
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: why it's fun to watch them play. It's part of

1095
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: the reason why you see them on the field celebrating

1096
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: with each other. It's just coming into this season after

1097
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: what I witnessed last year in the radio booth, doing

1098
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: all of their games, watching every snap over and over

1099
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: again too, going back and watching them on game pass,

1100
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: it is hard to think of a way this team

1101
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: would play better than it did a year ago. On

1102
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: a week to week basis. During the regular season, they

1103
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: were thirteen and three and we're a a prayer a

1104
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: prayer away from fourteen and two. It's a hard week

1105
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: to league to win in. But I would say this,

1106
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: if there is a percentage point or two that they

1107
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: where they can improve, they are striving to get there,

1108
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: and it's just it's just a great atmosphere for that

1109
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: to happen. So it's it's a fun team to be around.

1110
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: It's it's a fun team to watch play. Even in

1111
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: the preseason, of course, we were all starved up until

1112
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: you know, Friday night for all of us to see

1113
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: him play. I've got some thoughts about this preseason game

1114
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: that I don't know whether I should even talk about

1115
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: him or what. But I'll say this and I won't

1116
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: maybe I won't bring it up again. Think about this

1117
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: and when Kyle Williams ended his career, you know here

1118
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Remember they gave him the ball on a

1119
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: on a goal line stand. He busts in for the

1120
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: end zone. It was a great celebration. It's a pretty

1121
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: cool moment. Think about this the next the next one,

1122
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: the next year. They gave him a pass in his

1123
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: last game. He was a past reception, they gave him that.

1124
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: So they tend to do that for these guys. They

1125
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: give him a carrot. Like Jake Kumereau gets in against Denver,

1126
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: catches a touchdown pass. Duke Williams gets on the field

1127
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: because he's been working hard and catches the game winner

1128
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 1: against Tennessee two years ago. So they reward guys for

1129
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: what they have done and meant to the organization and

1130
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: the work they put in. Think about this preseason game.

1131
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: Mitch Drubisky is going back to Chicago. If if you

1132
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: think they were gonna give the starters a quarter, don't

1133
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: you think this coaching staff might put Mitch Trubisky out

1134
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 1: there with Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley, Manuel Sanders, Gabriel Davis,

1135
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: the offensive line, Devin Singletary and then go carve him right,

1136
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: and then tell coach tells Brian Daves, give him some weapon,

1137
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: give him some plays, let him go. You know, that's

1138
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: the kind of thing to give out Mitch Trubisky. Two series,

1139
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, eighty five yards, goes eight for

1140
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: ten over two series and gets two touched down passes,

1141
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: and goes over and sits down and watches the rest

1142
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: of there, or gives them the whole half. I don't

1143
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 1: care that I could see this right. That's what I'm

1144
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: thinking about. The Chicago Bears with the number two overall

1145
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: pick who now plays for the Buffalo Bills, is a

1146
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: backup going in there and carving those guys up. It

1147
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,919
Speaker 1: would add a level of intrigue to the game for sure.

1148
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 1: You know that the Bears media is going to be

1149
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: talking about it big time. Just carve them up. I mean,

1150
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: I know they're in justin fields, La La Land after

1151
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: last weekend, but let's see what it will be a

1152
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: TOI and to tell rit Leslie Fraser going there, whatever happens,

1153
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: make sure their quarterback looks horrible. Do you think they

1154
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: really go to those lengths. I don't know. And it's

1155
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: not it's not really that far out of the way.

1156
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 1: Probably not. It's not that far off the path you're

1157
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: down anyway. Well, I'm just thinking about like keeping everything

1158
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: close to the vest. Yeah, And what you're doing is

1159
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: teap Keeping everything close to vest is play selection give

1160
01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, all you're talking about is like twenty plays

1161
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: both on offense, ten on offense, ten on defense. And

1162
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: I you know, I just I could just sit here

1163
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: for a quiet minute and think, you know what, that

1164
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: would be, right, I could see them doing that. That

1165
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: would just you know, let's go right yeah, and that

1166
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: let's think about the message that sends your locker room

1167
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: that you're coaching. Now, he knows our guys, and let's

1168
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: and he's for us. You know. I just think that

1169
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 1: just elevates the emotional content of that entire organization. Even

1170
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: if they don't get on the field. You think Josh

1171
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: Allen wouldn't be over there. It's just like quivering inside

1172
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: for for Trubisky to do that. So I'm just ste

1173
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: setting the storylines for the week. I am just all

1174
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: about it. I was thinking about it. I was thinking

1175
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: about it on Saturday night. Revenge is a dish best

1176
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: served cool. Can you hear John best served chilling, Mitchell

1177
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: Trubisky and Soldier Field. I can hear him. I'm so

1178
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: with it. Seth on the tweet sheet his biggest takeaway.

1179
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: Stevenson can play. I thought he looked better on returns

1180
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: than Mackenzie did and he made the clutch catch to

1181
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: get into field goal range. Let's see him with the

1182
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: ones if any of the top guys aren't in there

1183
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: this week. But also, Tyler bass is money good for

1184
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: him to have that type of kick early on. So yeah, yeah,

1185
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 1: he had a long distance kick. You know what Stevenson

1186
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:33,480
Speaker 1: did at the end of the game. You know, granted

1187
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: it's against third stringers, but he play had to be

1188
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 1: made catching it from Jake from And what is every

1189
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:43,919
Speaker 1: defender trying to do at that stage of the game,

1190
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 1: not let anyone get behind them. I haven't somehow speedy

1191
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: Stevenson did. I haven't checked. I don't. I'd like to

1192
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 1: know the status of that dB, whether he's still on

1193
01:03:54,480 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: the Lions. You cannot recognition of time. You cannot let

1194
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:05,439
Speaker 1: that guy get over the top, and Speedy did got

1195
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: the step came in. It was just well placed ball

1196
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: too and that was the game. That was the game.

1197
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this too, not for nothing, Tyler

1198
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: Bass first game, first moment of real live action with

1199
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: a new holder. Hawk. Yeah, so the guy it was money.

1200
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you and I said this, I gave

1201
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: him a shout out. And the MSG viewers are seeing

1202
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: the final winning kick. Hawk puts it down and read

1203
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: ferguson the snap, the laces are already forward perfect, had

1204
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: an eighth of a turn rotation to get those laces

1205
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: exactly perfect. And that's that's a long snapper. That's pretty good.

1206
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: He did have one small snaffoo in the ensuing squib kick,

1207
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:50,439
Speaker 1: and I know you addressed this on the telecast, Steve. Yeah,

1208
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: he just explained because he tried to squib kick it

1209
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: and one of the up men was able to field

1210
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: it at near their own forty yard line, which is

1211
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: not what you're looking for, were there. Yeah, he scribbed

1212
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: it through, which is the play because the balls bouncing

1213
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 1: around it messes it totally blows the timing of any

1214
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: return they may get. You don't want to give up

1215
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 1: a touchdown. You don't want to kick it out of bounds.

1216
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,120
Speaker 1: You gotta make him field it. But to do that,

1217
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 1: you want him to feel it deep, like on their

1218
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 1: five yard line, after it bounces around for a little while. Well,

1219
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: Tyler kicked it and he didn't put enough velocity on

1220
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: it because the guy actually handled it pretty clearly trapped

1221
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: it and then you know, got on it and the

1222
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: fuel position was already had. They only needed like fifteen

1223
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: twenty yards to get into field goal range, and they

1224
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: had fourteen seconds or so to do. Yeah, they had.

1225
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 1: He had his own forty You figure you gotta get

1226
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:44,600
Speaker 1: to the how many how many minutes were left when

1227
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass kicked that four seconds? Oh? The field goal

1228
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: with the end when they had, Yeah, it was like

1229
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: a minute. It might have been like I think it

1230
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: was under a minute. Yeah, but that's enough. You know,

1231
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: you get three plays off, that's plenty of time, or

1232
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: two or three or four plays run an out play

1233
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: and that's you know, you can't let that happen. And

1234
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: on the possession chart, the kick came with one t

1235
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:15,440
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a minute, okay, fifteen seconds? Yeah, uhdown that

1236
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds left, and all they needed was like one

1237
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: play and they had three timeouts, So you get one

1238
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 1: play and they could try a fifty five yard or

1239
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: they may hit it. They got it at their own

1240
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: forty one yard line. For that last drive, start at

1241
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 1: the Lions right, and they need they would need to

1242
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 1: get it to the forty the opposite forty, so nineteen yards.

1243
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 1: They'd need a nineteen yard play, and they had three

1244
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: timeouts to get it, so you could run two plays

1245
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: there and maybe get that. Now. The Lions just rolled over.

1246
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't do anything, so it didn't matter.

1247
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: But that's the only that's the only false move the

1248
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:51,480
Speaker 1: Bills had. So I'm curious, are there certain looks that

1249
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: a kick return unit can give you in a squib

1250
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: kick situation that would prompt you to change the way

1251
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: you kick it? Another word, they got a wall of

1252
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: players here. I don't know if I can squib it

1253
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: through this group. Maybe I should pop it up over

1254
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: them short right and not even there. I'm asking is

1255
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 1: their decision making to be made there is my question.

1256
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 1: You've got different case. You can depending on what your

1257
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: kicker wants to know, what you've practiced, but you you'd

1258
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: rather have nobody feel the kick and have him running around.

1259
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: They're trying to catch it. So that's why you squib it.

1260
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 1: You get it on the ground early and the ball,

1261
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, this just end. The ball's not round, so

1262
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna bounce funkily. Is that a word funkily? It

1263
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: definitely is not, all right, So it's it's gonna bounce

1264
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 1: in a funky way. And so that's what you want.

1265
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: But if you hit it and it doesn't have any

1266
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 1: velocity and you get a bad hop or for the

1267
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: kicking team, a bad hop, which means it pops up

1268
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: in the air, you just you catch it, you know,

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01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: and you just and you can run run it back

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01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: or whatever. So the velocity is the thing that I

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01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: had a problem with the other night, because if you

1272
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: hit that hot that guy tries to trap it, it

1273
01:07:58,160 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 1: pops off his leg. Man, you get the ball back

1274
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: and then you just kneel down. Games over. So that's

1275
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 1: the only thing that was a problem the other night.

1276
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna do what you said, yeah, you've

1277
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 1: seen kick they call it a pooch kick over the

1278
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 1: front line. I have long wondered why special teams coaches

1279
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: don't have their kickout. Maybe they do kickoff guy work

1280
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,240
Speaker 1: on a variety of kicks. I've always thought a kick

1281
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: that bangs about six feet in the air and his

1282
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: knuckling is an impossibility to field cleanly. And in certain situations,

1283
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: like I said, when the ball gets on the ground

1284
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:34,679
Speaker 1: and guys are running around back, they're trying to corral

1285
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: it like it's a you know, like it's a frightened cat,

1286
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,720
Speaker 1: you know it. You can't return a ball like that.

1287
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 1: You're never gonna get a touchdown return like that if

1288
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: you if your coverage team is on its mark. I mean,

1289
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: it's just because nobody can block for the guys. They

1290
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: don't know where he is, they don't know when that

1291
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: because it's all about timing. When the blocks hit and

1292
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: the return guy hits just after the blocks take place,

1293
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: there's always a gap there that if he hits at

1294
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 1: the right time, he can hit it full speed and

1295
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 1: that leads to big returns. So all this stuff goes

1296
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,400
Speaker 1: into the mix. And I've always thought that a kicker

1297
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 1: should have a hot line driver about just over everybody's head.

1298
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:12,720
Speaker 1: Where it's knuckling, it never comes down, or you don't

1299
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 1: know where it's going to come down, she'd have one

1300
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: a grounder that comes through hot. You should have a

1301
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 1: pooch kick out to the sidelines. Your kickoff should be

1302
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:20,680
Speaker 1: just kick it out of the end zone. And then

1303
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,719
Speaker 1: you should have a high hang time kick that drops

1304
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: outside the numbers inside the five yard line so the

1305
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: guy's pinned in a corner and you can do it there.

1306
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 1: So all that stuff should be on a menu for

1307
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 1: an NFL kicker. And well, that night, the other night

1308
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: in Detroit, that's the one false step. I thought. Then

1309
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 1: that's it's a small one. Believe me, you can live

1310
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 1: with that with a lead in fifteen seconds left, right,

1311
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: He knew it too, come into the side that he

1312
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: was not happy with himself. Yeah, and that's the reason

1313
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 1: you gotta get it through there. But with and I'll

1314
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: say this to his defense, it's hard because it's not

1315
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: like it used to be. Back in mind, you had

1316
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:00,960
Speaker 1: only five guys up there, so it's easy to get

1317
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 1: through that first line. They're ten yards. I just hit

1318
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,559
Speaker 1: it between them. But yeah, you got eight guys up there,

1319
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 1: and there seems to be like and they're on different levels.

1320
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: So it's it's a little bit, you know more, it's

1321
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 1: a more difficult kick to find a place. I don't

1322
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: know if you saw this, Steve. Over the course of

1323
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: the weekend a lot of preseason games, some teams are

1324
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: feeling pretty good about themselves after one preseason game. The

1325
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: Jets are among them. After getting some encouraging signs from

1326
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson. I guess the offensive line performed well and

1327
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:42,640
Speaker 1: the defense didn't do too bad either. So Jets linebackers

1328
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 1: c J. Mosley was one of the quotes of the

1329
01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:51,959
Speaker 1: week in Peter King's Football Morning in America column today,

1330
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: and c J. Mosley said the following Steve quote. If

1331
01:10:57,280 --> 01:11:00,280
Speaker 1: people are sleeping on the Jets, if they they have

1332
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: that same mentality, you're going to get your bleep blown out.

1333
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: So CJ, who has not played for each of the

1334
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: last two seasons. Twenty nineteen lost a groin injury, and

1335
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: last year I think he was an opt out. He's

1336
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 1: back in the middle of that Jets defense. And while

1337
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:24,599
Speaker 1: I think Robert sala is doing a bang up job

1338
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 1: and actually sounds a lot like Sean McDermott did on

1339
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: his way in the door in twenty seventeen here in Buffalo,

1340
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if people are ready to stand up

1341
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:37,720
Speaker 1: and say, hey, we gotta gotta look out for this

1342
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:41,640
Speaker 1: Jets team. They might sneak up and bite us. I

1343
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: think the proof will be in the pudding there completely

1344
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: because this is a team over the last four years

1345
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: that's averaged four and a half wins a season. Okay,

1346
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 1: he should feel that way. That's what players are supposed

1347
01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: to do, guess and I don't. And you know, they're

1348
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:03,799
Speaker 1: playing the Minnesota Vikings in the preseason and Zach Wills

1349
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: they played, they played the Giants of the Vikings. I'm

1350
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:12,879
Speaker 1: sorry the Giants. They played the Giants in the preseason. Um, okay,

1351
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:16,760
Speaker 1: here's a question for you regarding this Jets Giants game.

1352
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: The Giants did not play Daniel Jones. And I understand

1353
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,799
Speaker 1: there are teams that are not playing their starting quarterbacks.

1354
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo did it, The Chargers did it with Justin Herbert

1355
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: Brady played a series for the Bucks. Mames, no playing Rogers.

1356
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: No right, Daniel Jones. You're the head coach there in

1357
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: New York, Steve, do you play Daniel Jones in the

1358
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: first preseason game. I'm leaning towards yes. I don't know.

1359
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 1: It depends, it depends on what they know. I don't know,

1360
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: I don't watch Daniel Jones very much, so it's up.

1361
01:12:56,640 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 1: I would trust those guys too, But Joe Judge not

1362
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 1: playing Daniel Jones. I just think they gotta a pretty

1363
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: big hill to climb, and I think they gotta they're

1364
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 1: not as if they're not as right developed in the

1365
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: up the hills. Yeah, with their development as a team,

1366
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: as an offense, as a defense. I always it's a

1367
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 1: lot of work to be Here's the problem with New York,

1368
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:25,600
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Giants, both everything you do and

1369
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 1: everything they do. You when you're out outside like here

1370
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, when you look at the Giants and what

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01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: they do and the Jets do everything that they do

1372
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: and the diseases they make, you almost automatically put it

1373
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: through a prism of how it will be perceived by

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01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: their media. So if Joe Judge throws Daniel Jones in there,

1375
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 1: and then you got Aaron Rodgers doesn't play, Josh Allen,

1376
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 1: doesn't play all these none, nobody else, Nobody plays their

1377
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 1: really good quarterbacks, and you play yours. The media says

1378
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 1: you don't trust him, you don't have full faith in him,

1379
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,600
Speaker 1: you think he's got things to do. You got a

1380
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: debt that I and then you know, and then how

1381
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 1: he plays is almost secondary to the fact that he

1382
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 1: actually did. I think when you don't play him in

1383
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 1: that game, it diffuses that and the media can say, Okay,

1384
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: they've got faith in him, he must be looking good

1385
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 1: in practice. It gives less fodder for the battle that

1386
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 1: those coaches fight every week with the New York media

1387
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 1: about what's how it's perceived with their quarterback, particularly in

1388
01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones's mind or in his case, because it's been

1389
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:32,679
Speaker 1: widely touted as this is a must prove it breakthrough

1390
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 1: year for Daniel Jones. They you know, this is the

1391
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,479
Speaker 1: year they got to see it, right. I was thinking

1392
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:40,840
Speaker 1: to get him as ready as possible right now. His

1393
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 1: offensive line his little suspect. So maybe that's why I

1394
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:46,320
Speaker 1: didn't play him. They don't trust their offensive line yet

1395
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,560
Speaker 1: in preseason game one. Yeah, maybe that's that. Maybe the

1396
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: motivation that may be it. But I don't think it's

1397
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: a question. He's the guy. No, I'm not. I'm not

1398
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: questioning that. And I don't know sa Quan didn't play right,

1399
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: don't believe so now so he only just came back

1400
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,400
Speaker 1: to practice this yeah, So I'm yeah, I don't have

1401
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:08,439
Speaker 1: a problem with that. I I'm kind of with you

1402
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: on that if Yeah, yeah, I'm a little surprised that

1403
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: he doesn't want the reps or need the reps. Maybe

1404
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: I tend to trust the coaching staffs at this for

1405
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 1: these decisions. But yeah, on the outside looking and I'm

1406
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 1: surprised he didn't play. But when when you think out

1407
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 1: it through that prism that I just described, maybe they

1408
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 1: shouldn't want to deal with but you don't trust him,

1409
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:36,679
Speaker 1: or he's not ready? Why is he not as important

1410
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:38,759
Speaker 1: to your team as Josh Allen is to the bills

1411
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:41,000
Speaker 1: or what have you? All the way down the line,

1412
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 1: all those questions. So maybe they did it too so

1413
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: they didn't have to deal with that. It's hard to say,

1414
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: but it was peculiar. I saw that. I was like, oh, really,

1415
01:15:52,479 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 1: I just I see him as a quarterback that needs

1416
01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: more seasoning, more time on the job, and could probably

1417
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: benefit from any rep he yets. But maybe they clearly

1418
01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 1: feel he is at a different place in his development

1419
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 1: than that. We have to take a break here when

1420
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:08,840
Speaker 1: we come back. More of your thoughts on the tweet sheet,

1421
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:11,519
Speaker 1: maybe a little what's for lunch and we'll check and

1422
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 1: see if we have Star Latula, who was scheduled to

1423
01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: address the media today. We'll be back in a second

1424
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:20,439
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by kalat To Health.

1425
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, back here on One

1426
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, Great Costell

1427
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: coming your way in about twenty some odd minutes. As

1428
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 1: he was doing a lot of film review that's really

1429
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: all he does, just to ask his wife, and he

1430
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: asked us to give him some players to grade off

1431
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: of film from the preseason game between the Bills and

1432
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:00,120
Speaker 1: the Line. So we passed along some names where and

1433
01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:02,680
Speaker 1: go over those with him in the third hour of

1434
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 1: our program about twenty twenty three minutes away, So stay

1435
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: tuned for that. In the meantime, though, we do want

1436
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:12,600
Speaker 1: to get more of your thoughts on your biggest takeaways

1437
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:16,080
Speaker 1: from Friday's game, and Bill on the tweet sheet says,

1438
01:17:16,160 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see Jake from play the next game.

1439
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,759
Speaker 1: The talk is that they'll give him second team reps

1440
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: because the third team old line didn't give him enough time.

1441
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:31,680
Speaker 1: What do we think of that? I don't know how

1442
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 1: likely that is, Yeah, I don't I don't know where

1443
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 1: he heard that. I don't either, but I, yeah, I

1444
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: don't know how it rotates is going to change, and

1445
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 1: the rotation is not going to be based on Jake From,

1446
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 1: I don't think. And third offensive line, and they may

1447
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: switch it up between Davis Webb and Jake From. Maybe

1448
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:55,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it that way, But it has nothing to

1449
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 1: do with yeah whatever, Yeah, they may, they may. Yeah,

1450
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see him play. You're right,

1451
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: I don't get this thing about the offensive line not

1452
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: giving him time. I didn't get that idea. I thought

1453
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,639
Speaker 1: web Brand a little bit more for his life than

1454
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: From did. But and I it's hard for me to

1455
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: go back and think. But I didn't keep track of

1456
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: the rotation of offensive line and who played with who either,

1457
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:21,640
Speaker 1: So maybe you did. I don't know, but you know,

1458
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:23,680
Speaker 1: you gotta play with who we're out there with. So

1459
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: Jake From is he's gonna see more reps, no question.

1460
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: Neither one of those guys. Neither one of those guys

1461
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 1: did anything to hurt their case. One thing I noticed

1462
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: about From was, you know, we've seen him throw out

1463
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 1: here in training camp every day, and there are times

1464
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: where the zip on the ball isn't on a level

1465
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:47,640
Speaker 1: with even day of his Web or Mitchell Trubisky. Arm

1466
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: strength is not one of his high end strengths of

1467
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: his game. But I gotta say in the game, his

1468
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 1: passes looked to have a little more zip on him.

1469
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just the adrenaline or maybe

1470
01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: what's going, but he had a little more zip on

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01:19:02,200 --> 01:19:04,840
Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, they looked, Yeah, he looked like a

1472
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,679
Speaker 1: pro quarter. I gotta say, he looked like a pro

1473
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 1: and they're you know, he's standing next to Josh, you know,

1474
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: and he looks like a sixth grade here's sixth grader

1475
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 1: who got in on a day pass, you know, because

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01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: he's you know so. But he did quit himself really

1477
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 1: well in that game, right, and he does have really

1478
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 1: good anticipation as well. So the ball comes out on

1479
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 1: time and gets there. So he you it's now you

1480
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 1: see why the guy got drafted. He's got something there is.

1481
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: He is not just an afterthought. He's he can play.

1482
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: So you know, he's on a team with a number

1483
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 1: two overall pick and a number what's Jaster Josh was

1484
01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:51,680
Speaker 1: seventh overall and two guys that have elite traits physically

1485
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:54,759
Speaker 1: so he's never gonna look like he owns the joint.

1486
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:58,479
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, he can look himself in the

1487
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: mirror after that game say, yeah, played pretty darn well.

1488
01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: And I thought coach McDermott was banging on with his

1489
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: comments when he was asked, Hey, you know, Jake from

1490
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 1: has never played a game in the NFL, didn't even

1491
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:11,800
Speaker 1: play in a preseason last year, and he goes out

1492
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 1: and does that, and I thought coach encapsulated it perfectly.

1493
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: He's done this before. I mean, this guy played at

1494
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:22,639
Speaker 1: the highest level of college football. You can imagine He's

1495
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 1: played in SEC championship games. I mean, you want to

1496
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: talk about pressure, try playing in Atlanta for the University

1497
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 1: of Georgia in the SEC title game against Alabama, you

1498
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, that's probably a bigger game,

1499
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 1: certainly a bigger game than he just played in last Friday.

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01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:45,840
Speaker 1: That's right. That's small potatoes compared to that playing playing

1501
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 1: against a bunch of guys he's gonna see in the

1502
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:53,000
Speaker 1: league anyway, So that was no big deal that it

1503
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: was nice. It's probably felt good for him because, let's

1504
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 1: face it, these guys were in purgatory for sixteen months.

1505
01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: I mean they were, they were in a dark place.

1506
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: Makes it easy to love the game again, and so

1507
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: good for them hanging in there and going through what

1508
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 1: they went through last year. Davis Webb and particularly Jake

1509
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: From standing off to the side by himself, not you know,

1510
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 1: being in the back of a huge conference room by himself.

1511
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:19,599
Speaker 1: It's like I said last week, it's like the kid

1512
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: that gets put in a corner and yeah for misbehaving,

1513
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:24,559
Speaker 1: and yes, it's like he was just like he was

1514
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: on double secret probation, you know, I mean, he just

1515
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: was treated differently all of that. It's just and to

1516
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: go through that while the team's having such such success

1517
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 1: and it's kind of being a part of it but

1518
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:41,840
Speaker 1: not being a part of it, you know. Um, then

1519
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: to come out and actually get to take the field

1520
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: and throw some passes and call some plays in the

1521
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: huddle and have the guys watching yet it's just it's

1522
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: just huge. It's just huge. I h I kind of

1523
01:21:55,040 --> 01:22:00,719
Speaker 1: come away from that thinking about that. Now. Jake From

1524
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: could probably come up with about twelve games that we're

1525
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 1: more important, more pressure packed than the last two minutes

1526
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 1: of that game without even blinking. His entire college career,

1527
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 1: every time he took the field, he had more fans

1528
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:17,200
Speaker 1: in the stands, you know, and they were they were louder.

1529
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah he was. He was like

1530
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:25,839
Speaker 1: the designated survivor last week hear Did you ever see that?

1531
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:30,200
Speaker 1: That's who he was. Um, we'll just kind of shuttle

1532
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: you away over here while everybody else is doing whatever

1533
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 1: to Lieutenant Governor, I mean, we are going to take

1534
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: a break here because we'll have an opportunity to bring

1535
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:44,679
Speaker 1: Star Latulale to you when we return, So we'll break

1536
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: here early so we can get the full comments from

1537
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: one Star Latula out to you next Here on One

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01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:53,639
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Mills Live. First broad Steve Tasker,

1540
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: I stand corrected. We have found out that funkily, a

1541
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:14,600
Speaker 1: word used earlier this hour by one Stephen Tasker, is

1542
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:18,679
Speaker 1: in fact a word um to do in a funky manner.

1543
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 1: It's an adverb. Uh. It didn't sound like a word

1544
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: in the slightest but there it is. What is in

1545
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: the scrabbled dictionary. It's worth nineteen points than you. That's

1546
01:23:28,040 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: not even counting like a good thing. Or a double letters,

1547
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 1: I would be all over. Yeah. I love the people

1548
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,600
Speaker 1: that use three letters, you know, and they get like

1549
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:45,880
Speaker 1: a ridiculous number of points like abs. You know. It's yeah,

1550
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 1: it's like that was that wasn't a word. Like fifty

1551
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 1: years ago, nobody called him your abs, you know it's abstominals. Yeah, yes,

1552
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:56,680
Speaker 1: But now they use traps. Yeah, wow, traps are It's

1553
01:23:56,680 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: a different word. Uh. In any event, funkily is a word.

1554
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:04,639
Speaker 1: We will duly note that going forward here on the show,

1555
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:06,800
Speaker 1: as we try to be as upstanding with the English

1556
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:11,920
Speaker 1: language as possible. But we move now to one Star Latulala,

1557
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 1: who has addressed the media today following practice. I think

1558
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,639
Speaker 1: he spoke to the media once before at the outset

1559
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: of training camp, but did not play in the preseason

1560
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:24,640
Speaker 1: game last weekend, although Leslie Frasier, as we heard on

1561
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 1: this show today, is considering getting him on the field

1562
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:30,879
Speaker 1: this week in Chicago. That is still to be determined,

1563
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 1: but it is a consideration. Here now is Star Latulala,

1564
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,760
Speaker 1: the young guys, Coach Washington and Jock, they've done a

1565
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: great job and get them ready for you know, not

1566
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:44,560
Speaker 1: only preseason, before the season coming up. We got a

1567
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: lot of talent in the room, a lot of good

1568
01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: mix of young guys, guys that are run in the middle,

1569
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:51,240
Speaker 1: and some older guys. So I'm excited to see how

1570
01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:55,400
Speaker 1: the season goes and more we're able to do. Prepare yourself.

1571
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 1: Do you need a lot of reps in preseason games

1572
01:24:57,880 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 1: to get yourself prepared to what do you need to

1573
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:05,280
Speaker 1: have yourself right? I mean, I've played, for the most

1574
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:08,320
Speaker 1: part in every preseason game throughout my career. There's been

1575
01:25:08,320 --> 01:25:09,880
Speaker 1: a couple of games that I've sat out of, but

1576
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I absolutely need to take a

1577
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: bunch of reps. I'd like to have some reps in

1578
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:20,839
Speaker 1: the preseason, but I don't feel that, you know, overload

1579
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 1: of reps is necessary. So was that new for you

1580
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 1: then on Friday night? Like I said, I've sat out

1581
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: maybe one or two games before, but you know, it's

1582
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 1: not something that I'm usually doing. I spoke earlier and

1583
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: said that it was based on the work that you've

1584
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:37,439
Speaker 1: done in practice. Why they felt comfortable, like in a

1585
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:40,680
Speaker 1: good way of course, meaning that do you feel like

1586
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 1: given the time that you had off last year? I

1587
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:44,680
Speaker 1: know you were here from Mini camp, but did you

1588
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 1: do you feel like you've hit the ground running and

1589
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 1: are where you expected to be at this point. I'm

1590
01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: not you know, overly confident and you know, super happy

1591
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 1: with it, But I'm not. I'm I'm okay right now

1592
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:01,639
Speaker 1: with where I'm at. I feel like these next two

1593
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:04,200
Speaker 1: weeks to two games and then you know that a

1594
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:06,680
Speaker 1: couple of days I'll be I'll be ready to go.

1595
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 1: So what are some of the things you're still I

1596
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 1: guess climbing up hill trying to get back after a

1597
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 1: year off. Yeah, it's tough. Sitting out a year. It's hard.

1598
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:17,600
Speaker 1: I mean, playing a year and then you'd have that

1599
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:19,799
Speaker 1: offseason and come back. You can never really be prepared

1600
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,040
Speaker 1: for you you can run, and you can lift, and

1601
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: you can train yourself, but you don't really you can't

1602
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 1: really train yourself a football unless you're playing football. So

1603
01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: taking a year off from that, you know, trying to

1604
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 1: get my legs back under me as fall as running

1605
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:34,800
Speaker 1: around um, you know for those six seven, eight seconds

1606
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: all out and then you take a little break and

1607
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:39,640
Speaker 1: then you know it's you can't really stimulate football. So

1608
01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 1: just getting that opportunity and being back into it, you know,

1609
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:46,000
Speaker 1: get my legs back under me. Stuff, like that the physicality.

1610
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: Even Josh mentioned he'll do whatever the coaches saying. But

1611
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 1: your body getting a couple of heads at least in

1612
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:54,640
Speaker 1: the preseason, Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I mean it helps you.

1613
01:26:55,920 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: Training camp, we're in full pads most of the time

1614
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 1: and we're banging. But you know, until you get that

1615
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: real rep against someone else, so you're actually trying to

1616
01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 1: make a play on and they're trying to you know,

1617
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:07,720
Speaker 1: actually real. Um, you need that. I think you really

1618
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 1: you need that before the regular season starts. Before I mean,

1619
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: you haven't had that yet, you know. Is there maybe

1620
01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: more I'm always nervous before games, so it'll never I

1621
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:19,919
Speaker 1: don't think that will ever change. I feel more unrest

1622
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:25,400
Speaker 1: when I'm not nervous. Different this year, maybe you feel

1623
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 1: maybe fresher love just because you had last year to

1624
01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: kind of loves. Um. You know, my body definitely feels

1625
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:36,640
Speaker 1: like I didn't play a whole season, you know. But um,

1626
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:38,920
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like once you get into the

1627
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: later years of your career, I don't think you can

1628
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:47,320
Speaker 1: never card yourself really fresh. What is it do you

1629
01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 1: provide for him, maybe on the field and off the field,

1630
01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:53,760
Speaker 1: that you guys that's pretty well. Yeah, Um, I mean

1631
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: in the locker room, me and Harry right next to

1632
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 1: each other. Um, we provide similar things on the field,

1633
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 1: and we bounced the years off of each other. We

1634
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 1: talk about plays, we talk about sometimes we just talk about,

1635
01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, regular life. So just just having to be

1636
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:09,639
Speaker 1: there and talk to each other and just ignoy each

1637
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:12,559
Speaker 1: other of the company. That's that's pretty much it. We

1638
01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: touched on your weight mini camp. He said, you were

1639
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,760
Speaker 1: a little under but nothing too clastic. Where are you

1640
01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:20,759
Speaker 1: right now this morning? I was around three h nine,

1641
01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 1: so about three ten. I usually come into the season

1642
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 1: around I usually come in lighter, but I wanted to

1643
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 1: come in, you know, heavier to kind of protect myself.

1644
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:30,200
Speaker 1: I didn't want to come in super light after taking

1645
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: off a year and then get thrown around by all

1646
01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 1: these guys. So I mean, I came in a little

1647
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:36,599
Speaker 1: bit heavier than I usually do. But I'm around three

1648
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: three o eight. That's used my playing ways around three

1649
01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:41,799
Speaker 1: o eight to three ten, maybe through twelve, So anywhere

1650
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 1: and there, I'm good. That wasn't your position group, But

1651
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 1: Luke Keikley was here kind of ye with linebackers. What

1652
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:49,160
Speaker 1: was it kind of like being around him? It was

1653
01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:51,680
Speaker 1: great to see Luke Man. I love Luke. That's my guy. Um.

1654
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 1: You know, spent first five years of my career with

1655
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: Luke and his great experience. I feel like he's you know,

1656
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:00,679
Speaker 1: hopefully I believe he'll be in the Hall of Fame

1657
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:03,360
Speaker 1: one day. So having that opportunity to play with like

1658
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,599
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer behind you, it's awesome. And then

1659
01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: just the kind of person he is. He's a great guy.

1660
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:10,400
Speaker 1: You know, he was a great leader. Oh, I think

1661
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:13,080
Speaker 1: you can teach some of the younger linebackers, like a

1662
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 1: Tremaine and yeah, I think he's a great source for

1663
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 1: Tremaine and you know, even Matt you know, they're both

1664
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 1: Boston College guys. And but really, anybody in that room

1665
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:23,680
Speaker 1: can learn so much from Luke. You know, how to

1666
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:26,080
Speaker 1: be professional, how to be great at his position, you know,

1667
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: technique things. He's such a smart player, how he saw

1668
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 1: the field, how he saw plays, you know what he saw.

1669
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:33,840
Speaker 1: I think they can learn. There's I think these guys

1670
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,240
Speaker 1: they're little spoiled having Luke in there, man, and so

1671
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:38,840
Speaker 1: I'd take advantage of it. I was anybody in that room.

1672
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:42,479
Speaker 1: All mentioned earlier, Harrison mentioning how happy he was the

1673
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 1: heavy back. But I feel like it's been every defensive

1674
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 1: player that's sat where you are right now have all

1675
01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:50,559
Speaker 1: commented on the impact that you have and how you

1676
01:29:50,600 --> 01:29:54,760
Speaker 1: make their lives easier. To know your teammates are saying

1677
01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: that about you and that they're happy to see you,

1678
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 1: happy to know what you can do for this defense.

1679
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: Just what's your reaction to how they've sort of embraced

1680
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:03,439
Speaker 1: having you back. Yeah, it's great, man, It's great to

1681
01:30:03,439 --> 01:30:05,840
Speaker 1: be back. Like I said, I enjoy being around these guys.

1682
01:30:06,280 --> 01:30:08,320
Speaker 1: This is a special group of guys, especially on the

1683
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:10,479
Speaker 1: defensive side where I spend most of my time. You know,

1684
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:12,600
Speaker 1: I locker rooms a great group of guys. But on

1685
01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:15,679
Speaker 1: the defense, you know, there's like I said, all around

1686
01:30:15,680 --> 01:30:17,800
Speaker 1: there's a good mix of younger middle guys and then

1687
01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: older guys. So I mean, we spend time together on

1688
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: the field, but also we do stuff to get off

1689
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 1: the field. And it's you know, I'm not I'm here's

1690
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: your guy who likes to stay home, but being here

1691
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 1: being around these guys, you know, I'll get out sometimes

1692
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: and go out and hang out with them, spend some

1693
01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:33,719
Speaker 1: time with them, and it's They're just a great group

1694
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:35,439
Speaker 1: of guys, it's it's a good guys to be around.

1695
01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:37,040
Speaker 1: You know, you want you want to do your best

1696
01:30:37,040 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 1: for guys like that, Guys that you like being around,

1697
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 1: Guys that you respect and stuff like that. So you

1698
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:43,639
Speaker 1: want to go out there and play your best for them.

1699
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 1: As a veteran, what's been your message in regards to

1700
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:53,400
Speaker 1: the opportunity at hand this season and understanding you've been

1701
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:57,880
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl and you don't necessarily know how

1702
01:30:57,920 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 1: easy or if you'll ever get back there. Knowing that

1703
01:31:00,080 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 1: talent on this team, I know a man you will

1704
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 1: set it and giving him a message, But but how

1705
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:06,800
Speaker 1: do you look at this season in regards to it's

1706
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 1: maybe your best shot or one of your last. Yeah,

1707
01:31:09,120 --> 01:31:11,160
Speaker 1: the time is now. I mean you can never there's

1708
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL, there's never a next year. You know

1709
01:31:14,479 --> 01:31:16,640
Speaker 1: we have next year. There's you can never think like that.

1710
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: So the time is now. For the young guys that

1711
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:20,639
Speaker 1: we've brought in, you know, we try to get to them,

1712
01:31:21,200 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 1: getting the playbook, understand what your role is, Understand what

1713
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:25,639
Speaker 1: your job is, the same thing for everybody on the team,

1714
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 1: but especially getting everybody on board, because like I said,

1715
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,040
Speaker 1: the time is now. You can never say, especially in

1716
01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:32,439
Speaker 1: the NFL, you can never say, you know, we got

1717
01:31:32,479 --> 01:31:34,639
Speaker 1: next year, we got next year. You never know who

1718
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 1: you'll bring, who you'll bring in, who's leaving, who's staying,

1719
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,639
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So, um, you know the time is now.

1720
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:44,559
Speaker 1: So that's Charlato Lay who said he's come into camp

1721
01:31:44,600 --> 01:31:46,400
Speaker 1: a little bit heavier to kind of protect his own

1722
01:31:46,439 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: body against the wear and tear that his position demands,

1723
01:31:49,520 --> 01:31:51,479
Speaker 1: especially with the off time that he had said his

1724
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:55,639
Speaker 1: body feels like he hasn't played in a year, which

1725
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 1: I think he viewsed as a good thing. You know.

1726
01:31:58,160 --> 01:32:02,080
Speaker 1: He doesn't feel all beat up and sore, so yeah,

1727
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 1: and doesn't mind doing the dirty work as we have

1728
01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:07,759
Speaker 1: seen here in the past few seasons. So no question

1729
01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:10,920
Speaker 1: they missed him last year. And sometimes you never know,

1730
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 1: I mean we I think we have yet to see it.

1731
01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:17,080
Speaker 1: You never know, because it's easy enough for a team

1732
01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:19,720
Speaker 1: who struggles or you know, like last year, earlier in

1733
01:32:19,720 --> 01:32:23,360
Speaker 1: the season, the Bills run defense struggled, and and it's

1734
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:26,800
Speaker 1: easy to think that by having Starlot to Lelay in

1735
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 1: the lineup that is somehow there's some magic wand that

1736
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:31,200
Speaker 1: you wave and all of a sudden everything's going to

1737
01:32:31,240 --> 01:32:33,559
Speaker 1: be fixed. I don't know that it's that simple, but

1738
01:32:33,800 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any you know, it's no coincidence

1739
01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:40,000
Speaker 1: that a lot of guys missed that guy, not only

1740
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:42,200
Speaker 1: off the field, but certainly on the field and when

1741
01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:44,320
Speaker 1: he opted out. I mean, this is the guy's a

1742
01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 1: former first round pick and he's played like it. Oh yeah,

1743
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:54,479
Speaker 1: so yeah they missed him. What that looks like when

1744
01:32:54,479 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 1: he's on the field, and how much it affects the

1745
01:32:57,760 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: guys around him, you know, we'll see, we'll see if

1746
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:05,960
Speaker 1: this defense gets a lot better this year. Certainly you

1747
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:08,559
Speaker 1: can look to have him. I mean, you talk about

1748
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:10,840
Speaker 1: we're going all around around, how many guys are going

1749
01:33:10,880 --> 01:33:13,880
Speaker 1: to keep, they're keeping that guy, Yes, and that's one

1750
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:18,240
Speaker 1: less guy that there's room four on that rotation. You

1751
01:33:18,280 --> 01:33:22,760
Speaker 1: better believe they're hoping that guy helps improve the consistency

1752
01:33:22,800 --> 01:33:26,360
Speaker 1: of play of Ed Oliver, who is likely going to

1753
01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:28,360
Speaker 1: be lined up next to him a good deal of

1754
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 1: the time. And hopefully Star is occupying two people so

1755
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,479
Speaker 1: Ed can just deal with a one on one being

1756
01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 1: the undersized guy penetrating type that he is, So hopefully

1757
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:42,320
Speaker 1: that comes to pass and Ed is more productive as

1758
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:45,120
Speaker 1: a result. Not that star is going to be a

1759
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 1: numbers guys. He's never going to rank high in any

1760
01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:50,680
Speaker 1: of the numbers because his job is just tie two

1761
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 1: people up, keep them occupied so that the penetrators and

1762
01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:58,719
Speaker 1: the faster guys off the edge can get advantageous matchups

1763
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:01,479
Speaker 1: and make plays. Um. He really is a dirty work

1764
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:03,640
Speaker 1: player in every sense of the word. We have to

1765
01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:06,679
Speaker 1: take a break here, but when we come back, it's

1766
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 1: the return of NFL Film Senior producer Greg co Sell,

1767
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:13,880
Speaker 1: who has chopped up the tape on the Bills and

1768
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:17,240
Speaker 1: the Lions, left, right and Senate. He's gonna tell us

1769
01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 1: who looked good when we return here. On One Bill's

1770
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:41,800
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Had

1771
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:45,360
Speaker 1: a Steve Tester who has been all over the fields

1772
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:47,040
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1773
01:34:47,120 --> 01:34:53,600
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

1774
01:34:53,640 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 1: the stragedyre of normalcy here. We are our number three

1775
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 1: on a Monday, and it's a good day. Steve, you

1776
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 1: want to know why it's a good day. Why is

1777
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:09,280
Speaker 1: it a good day? Because senior producer from NFL Films

1778
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 1: and co hosts of ESPN's NFL Matchup show. Greg Kosell

1779
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:16,880
Speaker 1: is back. You know, football is is right on the

1780
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:19,800
Speaker 1: cusp of returning. It is a good when you see

1781
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:22,559
Speaker 1: this mug show up on the screen for our MSG viewers,

1782
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:26,639
Speaker 1: and it is a mug. Greg. How are you doing? Man?

1783
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:30,360
Speaker 1: It's good to see you. I know it's a football's back.

1784
01:35:30,400 --> 01:35:33,840
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited for this season. I have all my

1785
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:38,599
Speaker 1: bold definitive statements ready after one preseason weeks. It's funny

1786
01:35:38,640 --> 01:35:41,120
Speaker 1: because I know you thought you're you're loving this because

1787
01:35:41,120 --> 01:35:43,120
Speaker 1: we give you. We said, here's a list of like

1788
01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:44,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to it's a ten guys, eight guys.

1789
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:47,880
Speaker 1: Watch these guys and give us your vibe. That is

1790
01:35:47,920 --> 01:35:50,320
Speaker 1: like your wheelhouse, right did you? That is that like

1791
01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 1: a gift that we gave to you work to do? Yeah? Well,

1792
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, needless to say, Steve, And I hope I'm not,

1793
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,519
Speaker 1: you know, saying anything wrong here, But I can't watch

1794
01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:02,519
Speaker 1: all these preseason games every snap. It's just it's not

1795
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:07,840
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Oh yeah, nobody's blaming you right there with you,

1796
01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:12,599
Speaker 1: bro Sleeve. I'm watching one. Yeah, But with that in mind,

1797
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:15,800
Speaker 1: why don't we dive right in here? I don't know

1798
01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 1: if there were any overarching thoughts that you took away

1799
01:36:20,280 --> 01:36:23,640
Speaker 1: from the Bill's first preseason game against the Lions. But

1800
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:26,400
Speaker 1: if there are, why don't you take a swing here

1801
01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 1: and just maybe take give us some of your maybe

1802
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:34,559
Speaker 1: concrete impressions that you feel comfortable weighing in on. I

1803
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:37,160
Speaker 1: know it's only one preseason game, it's not real football,

1804
01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:40,080
Speaker 1: but was there anything you took away from it that

1805
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 1: made you feel favorably about some aspects of the Bills play? Well,

1806
01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:46,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think you're starting with the rookies because look,

1807
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:49,439
Speaker 1: we know what they're trying to do with the defensive front.

1808
01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:51,960
Speaker 1: And by the way, I actually this summer, believe it

1809
01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:54,120
Speaker 1: or not, maybe we can get into this another time.

1810
01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 1: I watched every Bill's defense third down snap from last year,

1811
01:36:59,320 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 1: so I did at this summer, and they're actually much

1812
01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 1: more multiple and much more aggressive with pressure than people

1813
01:37:05,120 --> 01:37:08,920
Speaker 1: probably think. But anyway, you know, obviously I was interested

1814
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 1: in seeing Epanessa, second year player. I was interested in

1815
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:15,759
Speaker 1: seeing Rousseau and Basham, two first year players, because obviously

1816
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:17,800
Speaker 1: they put a lot of draft capital in the last

1817
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: two years into this defensive front. And while they are

1818
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:24,599
Speaker 1: more aggressive than many might think based on what Sean

1819
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 1: McDermot and Leslie Frasier have done throughout their careers. I

1820
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:30,360
Speaker 1: think we all know that they would like to be

1821
01:37:30,439 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: able to generate meaningful pressure from there down four. So

1822
01:37:34,520 --> 01:37:38,040
Speaker 1: obviously I focused my attention on that, and I was

1823
01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:41,760
Speaker 1: interested to see Rousseau given that I thought two years

1824
01:37:41,800 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 1: ago in twenty nineteen, the last time he played in college,

1825
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:47,559
Speaker 1: that he did a lot of his work when he

1826
01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:51,320
Speaker 1: was reduced inside, either as a d tackle or as

1827
01:37:51,360 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 1: a zero technique had up on the center, And obviously

1828
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 1: he played all his snaps in this game outside, and

1829
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:02,840
Speaker 1: I thought his first two edge pass rushes were really intriguing.

1830
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:06,759
Speaker 1: One with speed to power he immediately jarred Penny Sewell

1831
01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:10,519
Speaker 1: on his first pass rush, and then he had an

1832
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 1: inside arms stab on a second pass rush which did

1833
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:17,320
Speaker 1: jars Sewell as well. So I thought those were two

1834
01:38:17,400 --> 01:38:21,640
Speaker 1: really positive pass rushes for Rousseau on the outside in

1835
01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:25,599
Speaker 1: a wide nine alignment, going against a guy that and

1836
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this as a joke. I've heard people

1837
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: I in respect say this, going against a tackle who

1838
01:38:31,400 --> 01:38:33,280
Speaker 1: many think will be a Hall of Fame player when

1839
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:35,479
Speaker 1: his career is over. So I thought that was a

1840
01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:38,800
Speaker 1: real positive sign. Yeah, and when Rousseau, you know, he

1841
01:38:38,880 --> 01:38:41,920
Speaker 1: got the sack. Actually, and I thought, even when we

1842
01:38:41,920 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 1: were doing the game live, the inside rush by Harrison

1843
01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:49,280
Speaker 1: Phillips is really what caused it. Rousseau. Now, and the

1844
01:38:49,360 --> 01:38:52,080
Speaker 1: length he showed, I mean, his length reaching around Sewell

1845
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 1: to get there was really the difference. But that was

1846
01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:58,719
Speaker 1: really a combination rush that ended up in a sack

1847
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 1: for Rousseau. But Harrison Phillips flashed on that play right

1848
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:04,040
Speaker 1: there on the inside on the guard one on one.

1849
01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:08,160
Speaker 1: But Rousseau's length is really a weapon that here, even

1850
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:10,640
Speaker 1: at this early stage, seems to he seems to be

1851
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:14,160
Speaker 1: able to exploit. Yeah, And as you know, Steve, that's

1852
01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:16,200
Speaker 1: a trade. You know, people are always looking at what

1853
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:18,800
Speaker 1: they think of as athletic traits, you know, quickness, that

1854
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:22,600
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But length at any position really in

1855
01:39:22,640 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 1: football is a trade, just like size is a trade

1856
01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:29,519
Speaker 1: for a quarterback. There's a difference between you know, Josh

1857
01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:32,240
Speaker 1: Allen and Baker Mayfield. Six five two forty is a

1858
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:36,120
Speaker 1: traite and Rousseau he is a really long player. You're

1859
01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:38,800
Speaker 1: a one hundred percent right. He jarred Sewell on that

1860
01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:41,719
Speaker 1: first rush with speed to power, but then his length

1861
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:44,639
Speaker 1: and his reach really allowed him to kind of clear

1862
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:47,680
Speaker 1: that arc and he got credit for the sack. But

1863
01:39:47,720 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 1: you're right, Phillips kind of forced Goff, who obviously is

1864
01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:53,760
Speaker 1: not a second reaction mover, forced Golf to kind of

1865
01:39:53,800 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 1: have to, you know, go down. But I'm really anxious

1866
01:39:57,320 --> 01:40:02,360
Speaker 1: to see Rousseau continue to develop because I wasn't sure

1867
01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:05,840
Speaker 1: watching his college tape. Obviously he opted out in twenty twenty,

1868
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: but I wasn't sure watching his college tape in twenty nineteen.

1869
01:40:09,320 --> 01:40:12,600
Speaker 1: If you could be a truly dominant edge player, and

1870
01:40:13,080 --> 01:40:15,880
Speaker 1: obviously they're starting him there and we'll find out. I

1871
01:40:15,920 --> 01:40:17,720
Speaker 1: got to ask you this, if people always ask me

1872
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:20,200
Speaker 1: what I think, and for a comparison for a guy

1873
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:22,680
Speaker 1: who's really good with his kind of link, you'd think

1874
01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:24,640
Speaker 1: of a guy like and you you make this comparison

1875
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:27,879
Speaker 1: because I watched him Jason Taylor of the Miami Dolphins,

1876
01:40:28,400 --> 01:40:30,680
Speaker 1: long guy with great reach, and he you know, he

1877
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:34,000
Speaker 1: played with great leverage. Is that like maybe the top

1878
01:40:34,160 --> 01:40:37,840
Speaker 1: end for a guy like Russo, Well, if that's the

1879
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:41,040
Speaker 1: top end, it would be pretty good, right Ia that yeah, exactly,

1880
01:40:41,280 --> 01:40:43,160
Speaker 1: I mean the guys in the Hall of Fame. But yeah,

1881
01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 1: the guy's in the Hall of Fame, right, I think

1882
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:48,559
Speaker 1: they'd be okay. Bill's leffew would be okay with that.

1883
01:40:50,240 --> 01:40:54,360
Speaker 1: But you know, yes, And and the thing about Rousseau

1884
01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:57,479
Speaker 1: at second sack or that second rutch that I mentioned,

1885
01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:00,240
Speaker 1: it wasn't a sack I found really interesting because it

1886
01:41:00,280 --> 01:41:02,720
Speaker 1: was that one arm stab where you used that inside

1887
01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:06,320
Speaker 1: arm And if you're proactive with that stab and can

1888
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:10,400
Speaker 1: get your hand inside the pass rusher before he can

1889
01:41:10,479 --> 01:41:14,080
Speaker 1: strike you, that's really good because then that length is

1890
01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:17,160
Speaker 1: a factor and the key for Rousseau because he's not

1891
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:20,639
Speaker 1: he's not twitchy or sudden in his movement the way

1892
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:22,599
Speaker 1: we think of like the von Miller's of the world.

1893
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:27,120
Speaker 1: But he needs to really be able to use that

1894
01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:29,960
Speaker 1: reach in length Steve, as you talked about. And if

1895
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:33,280
Speaker 1: he can really do that with hand usage, then you

1896
01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:35,639
Speaker 1: have something. So that's why I thought those first two

1897
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:37,320
Speaker 1: and there's the first one and then he got credit

1898
01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:41,320
Speaker 1: for on the sack. You know, that's really important to

1899
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:43,760
Speaker 1: see because I think that's the way he's going to

1900
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:47,080
Speaker 1: have to play to be an effective edge pass rusher. Meanwhile,

1901
01:41:47,160 --> 01:41:51,120
Speaker 1: aj who's no shorty himself at six six, gets credited

1902
01:41:51,120 --> 01:41:53,719
Speaker 1: with a quarterback hit in the game. You know, got

1903
01:41:53,800 --> 01:41:57,600
Speaker 1: close on a few occasions, but everybody remembers when he

1904
01:41:57,800 --> 01:42:00,920
Speaker 1: made contact on the quarterback who somehow got the ball

1905
01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:04,640
Speaker 1: out for a one yard game for a completion, and

1906
01:42:04,760 --> 01:42:07,080
Speaker 1: Rousseau was not far behind on that play as well

1907
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. But maybe just give us

1908
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 1: your thoughts on a Ja's game. Yeah, he's in some

1909
01:42:12,920 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 1: ways similar in the sense that he's not a sudden, explosive,

1910
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:22,200
Speaker 1: twitching mover, but he's got good quickness again using his hands.

1911
01:42:22,240 --> 01:42:25,400
Speaker 1: That needs to be the foundation of his game, being

1912
01:42:25,439 --> 01:42:29,479
Speaker 1: able to playoff leverage, being able to playoff contact. You know,

1913
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:32,040
Speaker 1: I think guys who are not truly been the edge

1914
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:35,240
Speaker 1: guys and I wouldn't call Epanessa that guy. They need

1915
01:42:35,280 --> 01:42:38,040
Speaker 1: to be able to playoff contact. And there's a feel

1916
01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:39,640
Speaker 1: for that. Now you can teach some of that, but

1917
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:42,639
Speaker 1: there's also a feel and I think that's what we

1918
01:42:42,680 --> 01:42:45,320
Speaker 1: want to see developed with Epanessa, to see if he

1919
01:42:45,360 --> 01:42:50,200
Speaker 1: can become that guy, because he's another guy with tremendous length. Yeah,

1920
01:42:50,240 --> 01:42:54,360
Speaker 1: and Epinezza obviously coming into his second year, kind of

1921
01:42:54,439 --> 01:42:58,320
Speaker 1: battled with his weight. Do you still see him even

1922
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:00,320
Speaker 1: if he's down to you know where he is now

1923
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:03,120
Speaker 1: right around or just hovering around two sixty as a

1924
01:43:03,160 --> 01:43:07,719
Speaker 1: guy that could reduce down inside I do. I thought

1925
01:43:07,720 --> 01:43:09,599
Speaker 1: of him that way when he came out of Iowa, Steve.

1926
01:43:09,680 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 1: And we'll see what they do because obviously what they

1927
01:43:12,360 --> 01:43:14,960
Speaker 1: did in this game, and again it's the first preseason game,

1928
01:43:15,040 --> 01:43:17,240
Speaker 1: so we don't know what that means for when it's

1929
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 1: week one and they're playing Pittsburgh. But they reduced Basham,

1930
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:24,759
Speaker 1: they reduced Obada. I mean, we'll see how they see

1931
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:28,919
Speaker 1: Epanessa as we go forward. So because I thought Carlos

1932
01:43:28,960 --> 01:43:32,400
Speaker 1: Basham coming out of Wake Forest, I thought he was

1933
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:35,360
Speaker 1: a classic example of a guy who in your sub

1934
01:43:35,479 --> 01:43:38,920
Speaker 1: front could be reduced and they did some of that

1935
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:42,200
Speaker 1: obviously with him in this game, and we'll see how

1936
01:43:42,280 --> 01:43:44,040
Speaker 1: much they continue to do that through the next two

1937
01:43:44,120 --> 01:43:47,799
Speaker 1: preseason games. Yeah, they ran like a turbo package there

1938
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:49,719
Speaker 1: in two minute drill at the end of the game,

1939
01:43:50,120 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 1: and then they sebbed the guy out and put Phillips

1940
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:53,840
Speaker 1: back in because I think they were worried they might

1941
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 1: get victimized with a draw play or something and didn't

1942
01:43:57,320 --> 01:43:59,280
Speaker 1: want to give up the yardage. But it looks like

1943
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:01,679
Speaker 1: they have some kind of turbo package with four ends

1944
01:44:01,680 --> 01:44:05,360
Speaker 1: in there, with two of them obviously reduced down, but

1945
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:08,360
Speaker 1: bash him. Yeah, they've they moved him around in the game,

1946
01:44:08,400 --> 01:44:11,600
Speaker 1: and I don't think that surprised anybody necessarily, and I

1947
01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:14,160
Speaker 1: guess he did that, you know, for a good deal

1948
01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:19,080
Speaker 1: at Wake as well in college. How do you evaluate

1949
01:44:19,200 --> 01:44:22,200
Speaker 1: him outside versus inside? And again, I know it's a

1950
01:44:22,280 --> 01:44:25,000
Speaker 1: very small sample size here with the bills, but how

1951
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:30,320
Speaker 1: do you kind of judge what he feels more comfortable doing? Well,

1952
01:44:30,320 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: that's hard. I don't. I can't speak to what he

1953
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:35,640
Speaker 1: feels more comfortable doing, obviously, as you know. But you know,

1954
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:38,559
Speaker 1: I just look back at my at my evaluation of

1955
01:44:38,640 --> 01:44:41,320
Speaker 1: him coming out of Wake, and I actually watched him

1956
01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:45,280
Speaker 1: in both twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, and I made

1957
01:44:45,320 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 1: the point that I thought he had the look and

1958
01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:50,520
Speaker 1: feel of a strong side d N and not necessarily

1959
01:44:50,560 --> 01:44:54,080
Speaker 1: an open side edge rusher. And I said that my

1960
01:44:54,160 --> 01:44:56,519
Speaker 1: sense was you can move him inside at dtackle and

1961
01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:59,599
Speaker 1: sub fronts unless you rushed the quarterback matched against guards

1962
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:03,559
Speaker 1: and sent He's got size, he's got length, he's got

1963
01:45:03,720 --> 01:45:08,719
Speaker 1: plus quickness, not explosiveness, plus quickness again, hand usage becomes

1964
01:45:08,720 --> 01:45:12,519
Speaker 1: a major factor for him, the ability to win using

1965
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:15,960
Speaker 1: leverage and playing off contact. But I think that you

1966
01:45:16,040 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: will see him, just my sense, you will see him

1967
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 1: getting more snaps inside in the subfront. Yeah, let's stick

1968
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,080
Speaker 1: with the big guys on the other side. Cody Ford's

1969
01:45:25,080 --> 01:45:27,719
Speaker 1: coming off an injury from a year ago. Jerry rehab.

1970
01:45:27,720 --> 01:45:31,000
Speaker 1: They got an injury, Yeah, and he's got He's moved

1971
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:33,479
Speaker 1: back to the right side on the offensive line with

1972
01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:36,760
Speaker 1: the right guard. Give us your feelings about how he

1973
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:40,080
Speaker 1: played in limited snaps that he got in there. He

1974
01:45:40,280 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 1: played the whole first half thirty four snaps. I thought

1975
01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:45,240
Speaker 1: he was really good as a run blocker Steve both

1976
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:47,840
Speaker 1: on base and drive blocks, and really good as a

1977
01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:50,599
Speaker 1: puller in the gap scheme run game. I mean, there

1978
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:53,080
Speaker 1: was one play where he just took the linebacker alexand

1979
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:55,840
Speaker 1: Zelonei to the ground on a shotgun power run. I

1980
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 1: think that might have been on the first possession they

1981
01:45:59,320 --> 01:46:01,400
Speaker 1: ran what we call wham trap and he was the

1982
01:46:01,439 --> 01:46:05,160
Speaker 1: trapper blocking the one technique. I thought he showed good

1983
01:46:05,200 --> 01:46:07,680
Speaker 1: mobility working to the second level when he was on

1984
01:46:07,720 --> 01:46:11,800
Speaker 1: the backside of outside his own runs. And the thing

1985
01:46:11,800 --> 01:46:14,360
Speaker 1: that really stood out to me and you love this

1986
01:46:14,439 --> 01:46:17,719
Speaker 1: and hopefully this stays. This is probably in his DNA anyway,

1987
01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:20,280
Speaker 1: I thought that he played with a competitive edge in

1988
01:46:20,320 --> 01:46:22,599
Speaker 1: the run game, and you like those guys on your

1989
01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:25,080
Speaker 1: Owle line. Look, we know, look, they can't ran the

1990
01:46:25,120 --> 01:46:27,320
Speaker 1: ball in this game, but we know when Josh Allen plays,

1991
01:46:27,320 --> 01:46:29,400
Speaker 1: this team will be a passing team. But we know

1992
01:46:29,479 --> 01:46:31,960
Speaker 1: they want to be more efficient running the ball. It's

1993
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:33,800
Speaker 1: not a question of volume. They're not all of a

1994
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:37,000
Speaker 1: sudden going to become the Tennessee Titans, but they want

1995
01:46:37,000 --> 01:46:39,680
Speaker 1: to be more efficient and effective when they do run it.

1996
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:43,400
Speaker 1: And Ford plays with a little bit of a competitive

1997
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:46,240
Speaker 1: edge that you like to see from an offensive lineman

1998
01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:49,080
Speaker 1: in the run game. Yeah, And speaking of that, Brian

1999
01:46:49,160 --> 01:46:51,719
Speaker 1: Dable eight of his first ten play calls or run plays,

2000
01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:54,560
Speaker 1: I think they were twenty one runs eleven passes in

2001
01:46:54,600 --> 01:46:57,960
Speaker 1: the first half. Yea. And as you stated, they're not

2002
01:46:58,000 --> 01:46:59,600
Speaker 1: going to be doing that in the regular season, but

2003
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 1: it looked like the run game was a focus. So

2004
01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:05,480
Speaker 1: with that in mind, just your thoughts on Devin Singletary,

2005
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:10,400
Speaker 1: who Greg worked a lot in this offseason with a

2006
01:47:10,520 --> 01:47:14,040
Speaker 1: speed coach, Nick Hicks, down in Florida to try to

2007
01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:19,120
Speaker 1: increase his time speed as well as his explosiveness. I

2008
01:47:19,160 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw a difference here in are

2009
01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:23,639
Speaker 1: limited sample size from what he looked like a year ago,

2010
01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:27,280
Speaker 1: but just give us your general thoughts on Devin Well.

2011
01:47:27,280 --> 01:47:29,760
Speaker 1: I thought Chrissy looked quick. I mean, I thought that

2012
01:47:29,840 --> 01:47:33,040
Speaker 1: he looked laterally quick, and to me, that's more important

2013
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:36,120
Speaker 1: than just straight line speed. I mean, it's always great

2014
01:47:36,120 --> 01:47:37,880
Speaker 1: to be able to run fest in a straight line,

2015
01:47:38,320 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 1: you know, But I thought he looked laterally quick, and

2016
01:47:42,360 --> 01:47:44,519
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that you look for

2017
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:47,879
Speaker 1: with a back, and especially I think in this offense

2018
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:50,280
Speaker 1: where he will get a lot of inside runs, I

2019
01:47:50,320 --> 01:47:54,440
Speaker 1: think you're looking for traffic bursts, you're looking for re acceleration,

2020
01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:57,960
Speaker 1: You're looking for those kinds of things, and that comes

2021
01:47:57,360 --> 01:48:01,519
Speaker 1: from quickness, stop and start quickness. And that's one area

2022
01:48:01,520 --> 01:48:04,080
Speaker 1: in which I thought he looked pretty good. So we'll

2023
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:06,760
Speaker 1: see as it continues. But they clearly wanted to give

2024
01:48:06,840 --> 01:48:09,439
Speaker 1: him some work in this game because I don't know

2025
01:48:09,479 --> 01:48:11,559
Speaker 1: what his exact stats were, but I remember at one

2026
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:14,600
Speaker 1: point early he had nine carries, so I think he

2027
01:48:14,640 --> 01:48:16,160
Speaker 1: had a few more than that, but he had nine

2028
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:19,200
Speaker 1: early in the game. Right, and and he did. He

2029
01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: got it. He got the bulk of the work. Um,

2030
01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, running the football. I think he had I

2031
01:48:23,680 --> 01:48:26,400
Speaker 1: don't know. Zack Moss had a hamstring so he didn't play.

2032
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:28,439
Speaker 1: So one thing, I want to stay on the offensive

2033
01:48:28,439 --> 01:48:30,240
Speaker 1: side of the ball. And I said this after the game.

2034
01:48:30,280 --> 01:48:34,040
Speaker 1: And I thought the quarterback position was probably one of

2035
01:48:34,040 --> 01:48:36,760
Speaker 1: the highlights for the team the way. Uh not only

2036
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:39,200
Speaker 1: risky only threw the ball twice and he handed it

2037
01:48:39,280 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 1: off all night when he was in there. But I

2038
01:48:41,160 --> 01:48:46,320
Speaker 1: thought Jacob from and Davis Webb, Webb in particular, showed

2039
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:49,800
Speaker 1: some poise um in some pretty tough spots. What do

2040
01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:51,320
Speaker 1: you think of those two quarters? And I know they're

2041
01:48:51,880 --> 01:48:53,680
Speaker 1: none of the season. Is not going to hinge on

2042
01:48:53,720 --> 01:48:56,639
Speaker 1: the way those guys play in the preseason owl, But

2043
01:48:56,680 --> 01:49:00,559
Speaker 1: what do you think of those? Yeah, the right, So

2044
01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:04,639
Speaker 1: give us your thoughts about that. Yeah, it's interesting. Webb

2045
01:49:04,680 --> 01:49:07,000
Speaker 1: has been around a bit. I was wrong on Webb.

2046
01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:08,799
Speaker 1: I thought he had a chance coming out of college

2047
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:11,599
Speaker 1: and he's now with his what third or fourth team,

2048
01:49:12,080 --> 01:49:14,680
Speaker 1: And even if he makes the Bills, he'll make it

2049
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: as the third quarterback, not number two. You know, I'll

2050
01:49:20,439 --> 01:49:22,600
Speaker 1: tell you what struck me Steve watching this game, and

2051
01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 1: I think that he's a little antsy with his feet,

2052
01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:29,840
Speaker 1: and I think he was inaccurate on some throws, some

2053
01:49:29,960 --> 01:49:32,639
Speaker 1: that would ended up being completions. But I just think

2054
01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:35,320
Speaker 1: he's a little unsettled, and I don't remember him always

2055
01:49:35,400 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 1: being that way, but he did grow up in the

2056
01:49:37,840 --> 01:49:40,599
Speaker 1: air raid offense, and often quarterbacks in the air raid

2057
01:49:41,240 --> 01:49:45,000
Speaker 1: struggle with that at times. I think. From on the

2058
01:49:45,040 --> 01:49:49,000
Speaker 1: other hand, everybody knows what Jake from is. He's just

2059
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:52,439
Speaker 1: his arm is probably average, could you could even say

2060
01:49:52,479 --> 01:49:56,000
Speaker 1: it maybe below average? You know, he did very well

2061
01:49:56,000 --> 01:49:58,679
Speaker 1: in college in the SEC in a run first offense

2062
01:49:58,960 --> 01:50:02,719
Speaker 1: where everything was really well defined for him. He obviously

2063
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:05,400
Speaker 1: made the one great throw on fourth and ten to Stevenson.

2064
01:50:05,439 --> 01:50:08,040
Speaker 1: It was a go route and Stevenson got over the

2065
01:50:08,040 --> 01:50:10,320
Speaker 1: top of the corner. I beat him off the line

2066
01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:13,479
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and there's the throw right there. You know,

2067
01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:17,640
Speaker 1: that was his best throw. But it's I guess, a

2068
01:50:17,720 --> 01:50:20,000
Speaker 1: battle for number three. What is your sense you guys

2069
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:22,000
Speaker 1: are at least there. What is your sense of it

2070
01:50:22,080 --> 01:50:24,680
Speaker 1: up to this point? Yeah, I mean I think they

2071
01:50:24,800 --> 01:50:27,200
Speaker 1: keep two on the roster, which is obviously Alan and

2072
01:50:27,280 --> 01:50:31,439
Speaker 1: Trubisky and then provided these expanded practice squad rules are

2073
01:50:31,439 --> 01:50:35,680
Speaker 1: good to go. I mean, I keep at least one.

2074
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,280
Speaker 1: It's early. I mean I think from showed them something

2075
01:50:39,320 --> 01:50:41,599
Speaker 1: with the two minute drill at the end. You know,

2076
01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:45,160
Speaker 1: I know he's going against third stringers, but be interesting

2077
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:47,679
Speaker 1: to see going forward what kind of situations they decided

2078
01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:50,400
Speaker 1: to put him in. I mean, as coach McDermott said

2079
01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:54,519
Speaker 1: after the game on Friday, that's small potatoes compared to

2080
01:50:54,520 --> 01:50:57,080
Speaker 1: the pressure packed games he's probably played in in college

2081
01:50:57,080 --> 01:51:00,960
Speaker 1: at Georgia. Right an SEC title game again Alabama with

2082
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,320
Speaker 1: about twelve NFL players on the other side of the

2083
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:06,320
Speaker 1: football might be more pressure packed than the situation he

2084
01:51:06,360 --> 01:51:09,760
Speaker 1: saw himself in Friday night. In the two will be fair,

2085
01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:12,639
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm curious too as we go forward,

2086
01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:16,120
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll be discussing this maybe next week. Is

2087
01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:18,960
Speaker 1: I think they've got to give Trubisky some drop backs

2088
01:51:19,080 --> 01:51:23,000
Speaker 1: because look, nobody wants to see. And I'm just talking

2089
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:25,760
Speaker 1: about Bills fans. I'm talking about NFL fans because, as

2090
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:27,479
Speaker 1: you guys know from what I said this summer, I

2091
01:51:27,479 --> 01:51:30,920
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen is one of the most intriguing quarterbacks

2092
01:51:30,920 --> 01:51:33,800
Speaker 1: that I've ever watched and evaluated doing this for a

2093
01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:37,120
Speaker 1: long time, and no one hopes that he misses a game,

2094
01:51:37,240 --> 01:51:39,800
Speaker 1: much less a snap. But you've got to find out

2095
01:51:39,800 --> 01:51:42,880
Speaker 1: if if Mitchell Trubisky can run this offense at game

2096
01:51:42,920 --> 01:51:45,960
Speaker 1: teenpo Steve Steve already has him trying to light up

2097
01:51:45,960 --> 01:51:47,920
Speaker 1: the Bears this week. He thinks Gable's going to give

2098
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:49,519
Speaker 1: him the keys to the car and he's gonna light

2099
01:51:49,600 --> 01:51:52,439
Speaker 1: up his former team in the preseason game. And maybe

2100
01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:54,840
Speaker 1: that's true, you know, but I mean, regardless of who

2101
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:58,240
Speaker 1: they're playing. I mean, obviously that's a good storyline for

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Speaker 1: everybody to talk and write about. But when you guys

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Speaker 1: agree that you have to give him a chance to

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Speaker 1: get absolutely, I'll say this, So for the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: you know, Risy's going to be the number two because

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Speaker 1: he's because he's because of his traits and because of

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Speaker 1: what they've seen. I'll say this, though, Greg about from

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Speaker 1: and Webb the third quarterback for the Bills, is not

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Speaker 1: so much about how well they can play, but I

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Speaker 1: think it has more to do with what they bring

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Speaker 1: to the table in order to get Josh ready to play.

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Speaker 1: So Richmond Webb, Richmond Davis Webb is one of the

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Speaker 1: guys who you know, he wants to be a coach.

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Speaker 1: He's got a voice in the offense, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: and I think he's got the trust of Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and and I think from probably has earned a little

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Speaker 1: bit of cache as well for what he went through

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Speaker 1: last year's the emergency quarterback. So but I think in

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Speaker 1: the evaluation process, I don't think the club could care

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Speaker 1: less about how these guys play, but how they fit

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Speaker 1: in with Josh and their ability to help him get ready.

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Speaker 1: And that's I think that's fair, Steve, because as you

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Speaker 1: well know, everybody talks about the quarterback room and that's very,

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Speaker 1: very important. But on the other hand, I do think,

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Speaker 1: like I said, we hope that it doesn't come to

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Speaker 1: this ever this season, but you still, you know, if

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Speaker 1: Trubisky has to play, this team is a good football

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Speaker 1: team and whoever is playing quarterback, and as I said,

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Speaker 1: it'd better be Josh Allen. But if it's not, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a good team and you need Trubisky to

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Speaker 1: be ready to go out there and run an offense

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Speaker 1: that they don't have to dramatically change one last guy

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Speaker 1: to throw at you. For me, here, Greg, and it's

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Speaker 1: f a Obada has time in the league, still young

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Speaker 1: in football, as we know. You know, coming from England,

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Speaker 1: I know the coaching staff here knows he has the

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Speaker 1: physical traits to rush the passer. I think their concerns

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Speaker 1: lie in his ability to read the run, set the

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Speaker 1: edge and do the right things there. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know what did he show you on Friday well, and

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Speaker 1: he may not need to do that, Chris, based on

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Speaker 1: who they have on their d line, right, he may

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Speaker 1: be a guy that can play in your sub fronts

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Speaker 1: because obviously he got snaps at the wide nine d

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Speaker 1: n he got snaps at three technique and four eye inside.

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Speaker 1: He even had some snaps as a one technique in

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Speaker 1: the sub nickel. So he may be a guy that

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Speaker 1: you don't see play in their base defense, in which

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Speaker 1: case he's not really going to have to spend a

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Speaker 1: lot of time as an edge setter in the run game.

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Speaker 1: But I think he's an athletic kid, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's still really growing as a football player, so he

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Speaker 1: could well end up just being a sub nickel front player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: last one for me. We saw this preseason game and

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Speaker 1: all the teams kind of unfurled these rookie quarterbacks. He

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Speaker 1: had Mac Jones, Zach Wilson justin fields. Let's start with

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01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:52,600
Speaker 1: the AFC's Mac Jones took a number of snaps for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. What was he up against and how they look? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't ask him to do a lot. There

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Speaker 1: was a lot of quick game, there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of underneath routes. They did give him no huddle to

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Speaker 1: start the third quarter with snaps of empty I would

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01:55:08,920 --> 01:55:11,839
Speaker 1: say that if you're just looking at what the tape showed,

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Speaker 1: he showed the ability to function effectively within the structure

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Speaker 1: of the past game. I think he must see things

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Speaker 1: a little quicker and play a little faster mentally, and

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01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:22,880
Speaker 1: that's to be expected. It's his first time in an

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Speaker 1: NFL game, and I know he's in the SEC, but

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Speaker 1: it's still the NFL and it's still different. And but

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Speaker 1: he was fine. Uh you know, look, you guys know

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Speaker 1: everybody makes so much of these these games. But he'll learn,

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Speaker 1: you know, It'll be interesting to see how that quarterback competition,

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Speaker 1: I assume it's a competition, how that plays out, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think it is. And then Zach Wilson, you know, again,

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Speaker 1: they didn't ask him to do a whole lot either.

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Speaker 1: The arm talent is obvious, but what did you see

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Speaker 1: beyond that? Yeah, it's funny you say that because I

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Speaker 1: made the note they had like quick feed on his

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Speaker 1: dropped and set live loose arm with an easy delivery

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Speaker 1: and good velocity, very comfortable with play action boot. He's

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Speaker 1: an easy thrower on the run. You'll see a lot

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Speaker 1: of that with the Jets passing game. Plus they have um,

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Speaker 1: Michael la Floor, who's mate la Floor's brother, who came

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Speaker 1: from San Francisco, and that's what they do. They do

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Speaker 1: a lot of play action boot and that fits Wilson

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Speaker 1: extremely well. Um you could see his easy movement and

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Speaker 1: overawfu loticism and that and that loose arm, which, by

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Speaker 1: the way, we knew all this going in. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like with with Justin Fields and people were talking about, wow,

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Speaker 1: look he's mobile. We kind of knew that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's not that to me, that's not a scoop, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields in Chicago seemed to quit himself extremely well.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are going to see that team this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Are what can we expect from that guy? Yeah? It Fields?

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Speaker 1: The thing that stood out to me with Fields was

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Speaker 1: I thought he looked incredibly poised and composed and dreamely

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Speaker 1: comfortable in the way in which he played. He showed

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Speaker 1: some subtle pocket movement. As we say, he's a very

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Speaker 1: very good athlete. I thought his ball placement was pretty

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Speaker 1: consistently precise, and that was a good sign. The Dolphins

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Speaker 1: showed him some man coverage, including one robber, some zone

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Speaker 1: coverage including Cover two, so they did show him some things,

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Speaker 1: and I thought that he was very kind of comfortable

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Speaker 1: and relaxed and how he performed, So it was a

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Speaker 1: positive performance for justin Fields. And then real quick, Greg,

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Speaker 1: a guy in your backyard right now who is from

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Speaker 1: this neck of the woods as a former UB quarterback

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Speaker 1: and was even here in a camp at quarterback now

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Speaker 1: trying to shift to tight end. Yeah, for the Eagles

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Speaker 1: Tyree Jackson. I know there's obvious veterans at that position,

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Speaker 1: so it's an uphill climb. But what have been the

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Speaker 1: early returns on him. I've been out just to practice twice,

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Speaker 1: but from people I've spoken to, they say he's had

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Speaker 1: a good camp and there's some are again it's early,

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Speaker 1: but some are saying that is there a Logan Thomas

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Speaker 1: comparison potentially to be made because Logan Thomas obviously a

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Speaker 1: quarterback in Virginia Tech, drafted as a quarterback and has

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Speaker 1: made the transition with Washington to being a quality NFL

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Speaker 1: tight end. And you can see this catch right here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you didn't know that that was Tyree Jackson,

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Speaker 1: you would just say that's a tight end making a catch.

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Speaker 1: So again, it's too early to make a big, blanket,

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Speaker 1: definitive statement, but everything I've heard and what I saw

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Speaker 1: in that preseason game, albeit a very small sample, indicates

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Speaker 1: there may be something there. Yeah, maybe he's practice squad

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01:58:41,080 --> 01:58:43,879
Speaker 1: and get some time to develop. It'll be very interesting,

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Speaker 1: especially since he was here to develop as a quarterback

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Speaker 1: now transitioning to tight end. Logan Thomas made the change

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Speaker 1: to tight end here in Buffalo for a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: and now he's enjoying it in Washington. Greg, we appreciate

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Speaker 1: it's great to see you again. Thanks for doing all

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01:58:57,960 --> 01:59:01,480
Speaker 1: the work that we don't really like to do in Washington. Him, well, Steve,

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01:59:01,840 --> 01:59:03,600
Speaker 1: you want me to give you some homework for next week?

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Speaker 1: Or not? Probably not save it. He'll go play golf.

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01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 1: Instead give it to Chris. Give my work to Chris. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks dude, Thanks Greig. We'll catch up with you, all right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys. All right, that's great. Co sal Senior producer

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Speaker 1: NFL Films grinding on the tape in August, watched all

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Speaker 1: he told us we went on that before we went on,

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Speaker 1: he watched every third down clip of the Bills Defense

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01:59:26,760 --> 01:59:29,400
Speaker 1: over the summer from last that was that was his.

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01:59:29,640 --> 01:59:31,960
Speaker 1: So you know how people summer vacation, You know how

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01:59:32,040 --> 01:59:34,440
Speaker 1: people go on vacation and they're like, oh, I got

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Speaker 1: this book for a summer reading project. That's his summer

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01:59:37,640 --> 01:59:43,080
Speaker 1: reading project. He watches every third down of Bills Defense

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01:59:43,120 --> 01:59:46,080
Speaker 1: last year. I did that just for kicks and giggles. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a problem. That's that's an issue. Man. Why that's

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Speaker 1: a dark room that he's living in. Yeah, that's one

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Speaker 1: more reason to turn the light out and just yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: But it makes him interesting, which is why we've got

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Speaker 1: him on the show. He knows what, he knows what

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01:59:59,600 --> 02:00:02,680
Speaker 1: he's talking about. His player evaluations are. They're organic too,

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't like taking account scheme or any of

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Speaker 1: that stuff. He just says, this is this guy's skill. Set.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they're using him or why they're

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Speaker 1: not using him this way where this is what this

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Speaker 1: guy does and what he does well, and he's got

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Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, as you know from watching him

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Speaker 1: on our show, he's got an incredible backlog of knowledge

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Speaker 1: about other guys he has seen do stuff. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: cool break time for us here. But when we return

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Speaker 1: some of your final thoughts on the tweet sheet in

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Speaker 1: terms of your biggest takeaways from the Bills preseason opener,

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Speaker 1: and then maybe a little time for some NFL true false.

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Speaker 1: We'll have all of that when we were We return

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Colloid of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio man. Welcome back, final half hour

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Speaker 1: of the show. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here

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Speaker 1: on a Monday, One Bills Live. After training camp was

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Speaker 1: back in full form for its final week. Before the

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Speaker 1: team flips the script and heads over to quote unquote

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Speaker 1: regular season type football. I mean really nothing changes except

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Speaker 1: the designation quite frankly, um, but yeah, training camp is

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Speaker 1: usually wrapping up around this week, so yeah, they'll just different.

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Speaker 1: We're here One Bill's Drive, so it's just it just

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Speaker 1: feels different. I don't know. Is it usually I thought

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Speaker 1: after the second preseason game. Yeah, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: thought they do the second preseason game and then that

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Speaker 1: week after they rap camp, then the second priest after

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Speaker 1: the sum week ahead of time when they leave for

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Speaker 1: the third preseason game. If it's a road game or whatever,

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Speaker 1: that's it camps over. Yeah, I got you. Which it is.

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Speaker 1: It is a road game, right, um so yeah, and

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Speaker 1: practice tomorrow in the stadium, so that'll be cool. It'll

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Speaker 1: be empty. Well it's not an open practice, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: to the stadium. Yeah. In any event, we wanted to

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Speaker 1: get some of your final thoughts from the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: Biggest takeaways from the game, and who are we up

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Speaker 1: to here? I gotta see we're up to Tiffany who

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Speaker 1: said I thought Harrison Phillips had a positive impact on

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Speaker 1: the defense. He was a big part of the Greg

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Speaker 1: Russo sack got a solid push up the middle, disrupting

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Speaker 1: the play. Andre Smith was phenomenal playing sideline to sideline,

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Speaker 1: making several key tackles. I used that exact description. He

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Speaker 1: was sideline to sideline and he was Harrison Phillips had

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Speaker 1: a good game. I agree with both points. Those are

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Speaker 1: good points. And yeah, Harrison Phillips really made the Russo

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Speaker 1: sack and did it. It was textbook the technique he used.

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Speaker 1: He banged in the offensive line, pushed the offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: got him on his heels, and the offensive lineman gathered

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Speaker 1: to kind of try and anchor. He pulled him forward

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Speaker 1: and swum over the top and came in walking in

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Speaker 1: free on the quarterback. And it was a perfectly executed,

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Speaker 1: tech book move on a push pull bull rush and

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Speaker 1: just ended up standing right beside the quarterback and the

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Speaker 1: quarterback actually turned away from him. Rousseau gets the hand

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Speaker 1: on him, he gets the sack. It was and that

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Speaker 1: Oliver wasn't far behind either, that's right, So they they

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Speaker 1: got pressure really at Oliver actually is the only one

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Speaker 1: that ended up actually on top of the guy. And

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02:03:21,480 --> 02:03:24,280
Speaker 1: it was really a nice pass rush because it happened fast.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you need. We've said it a ton

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Speaker 1: their search and Greg greg Cosell said at last segment,

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Speaker 1: what you really need is to get quick, steady pressure

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Speaker 1: with just four guys. If you can do that, you're

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02:03:40,560 --> 02:03:42,880
Speaker 1: gonna win a ton of a football games. If this

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Speaker 1: defense can commit seven people to coverage. Are you kidding me? Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: forget it, It's it's over dune deal Lucille, Harris and

2319
02:03:50,560 --> 02:03:55,760
Speaker 1: Phillips Steve. I think people forget twenty nineteen. He was

2320
02:03:55,960 --> 02:03:59,760
Speaker 1: just coming into his own and playing better and better,

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02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:04,040
Speaker 1: and then Week three comes he tears his ACL seasons

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02:04:04,080 --> 02:04:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, down the toilet for him, and then he

2323
02:04:06,680 --> 02:04:11,360
Speaker 1: spends most of next offseason rehabbing both knees because he

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02:04:11,400 --> 02:04:13,760
Speaker 1: had to, yeah, because he had to take something from

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Speaker 1: one knee to repair the other knee. And so last

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02:04:18,280 --> 02:04:20,760
Speaker 1: year was all about focusing on getting his knees right

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02:04:20,880 --> 02:04:23,800
Speaker 1: just to play. And he said a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago that this offseason he could actually just focus on

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Speaker 1: getting stronger and putting on some lean muscle mass. It

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02:04:34,280 --> 02:04:38,920
Speaker 1: wasn't all about a rehab, which is all day every

2331
02:04:39,000 --> 02:04:41,480
Speaker 1: day when you're coming off a major injury like he was,

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02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:44,160
Speaker 1: and you can't focus on all of the things that

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Speaker 1: make you a better player. You're just trying to get

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02:04:46,600 --> 02:04:49,959
Speaker 1: your leg right so you can play. And there's a difference,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully what we saw Friday are signs of things

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Speaker 1: to come, because if he can kind of round back

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02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:01,960
Speaker 1: into that kind of form, they're gonna have somebody that

2338
02:05:02,000 --> 02:05:05,720
Speaker 1: can rotate in and make a difference. So hopefully that's

2339
02:05:05,960 --> 02:05:08,400
Speaker 1: just a sign of things to come. Matt on the

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02:05:08,400 --> 02:05:12,360
Speaker 1: tweet sheet says Rousseau and Obada are ready for game action.

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02:05:12,480 --> 02:05:14,839
Speaker 1: I expect to see a healthy dose of both of them,

2342
02:05:14,880 --> 02:05:18,080
Speaker 1: even if neither is officially deemed a starter come opening day.

2343
02:05:18,360 --> 02:05:21,360
Speaker 1: Fraser must be excited about his shiny new toys. I

2344
02:05:21,440 --> 02:05:25,600
Speaker 1: also thought Hamlin and Stevenson looked better than I expected.

2345
02:05:25,680 --> 02:05:28,240
Speaker 1: Let's talk about those two sixth round pick Steve. We

2346
02:05:28,320 --> 02:05:30,200
Speaker 1: know Stevenson made the big play at the end, but

2347
02:05:30,200 --> 02:05:33,400
Speaker 1: he made a couple other plays too. I think he's

2348
02:05:33,480 --> 02:05:38,280
Speaker 1: deceptively sneak up on you fast for DBS to handle.

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02:05:39,680 --> 02:05:43,480
Speaker 1: I was trying to watch him individually, and it just

2350
02:05:43,600 --> 02:05:48,840
Speaker 1: looks like he forces DBS into decisions prematurely. He gets

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02:05:48,920 --> 02:05:51,640
Speaker 1: up on their toes faster than I think they anticipate.

2352
02:05:52,040 --> 02:05:53,720
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he's there and you better make

2353
02:05:53,760 --> 02:05:56,480
Speaker 1: a decision or he's behind you, as the dB found

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02:05:56,480 --> 02:05:58,360
Speaker 1: out at the end of the game Friday. Right now,

2355
02:05:58,800 --> 02:06:01,080
Speaker 1: I know an excuse usable for a dB to let

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02:06:01,160 --> 02:06:03,400
Speaker 1: him get behind him. You gotta be backpedaling, bailing out

2357
02:06:03,400 --> 02:06:05,520
Speaker 1: of there. But Stevenson did a nice job getting up

2358
02:06:05,520 --> 02:06:07,040
Speaker 1: and I think one of the things I noticed too

2359
02:06:07,120 --> 02:06:09,480
Speaker 1: was he got the step on the guy and then

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02:06:09,520 --> 02:06:11,480
Speaker 1: tried to cut him off, stepping in front of the guy,

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02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:15,280
Speaker 1: which is a perfect technique. And the return game as well,

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02:06:15,320 --> 02:06:20,720
Speaker 1: I thought he looked confident. It's it's in the NFL,

2363
02:06:20,760 --> 02:06:23,440
Speaker 1: and even at the college level and every level, it's

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02:06:23,520 --> 02:06:25,840
Speaker 1: best to be really decisive, and I like the way

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02:06:25,880 --> 02:06:29,520
Speaker 1: he came in and went straight up the field, picked

2366
02:06:29,520 --> 02:06:32,680
Speaker 1: his spots and got the yardage coming to him. And

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02:06:33,120 --> 02:06:35,680
Speaker 1: certainly he didn't, you know, snap off a long one,

2368
02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:39,120
Speaker 1: but he looked decisive and he looked confident, and that

2369
02:06:39,280 --> 02:06:41,400
Speaker 1: to me is as big a plus as anything. You're

2370
02:06:41,440 --> 02:06:44,640
Speaker 1: not going to return every kickoff for a touchdown, but

2371
02:06:44,720 --> 02:06:46,520
Speaker 1: when you get all the yardage that is there to

2372
02:06:46,560 --> 02:06:48,960
Speaker 1: be gotten, I think that's that's key well. And he

2373
02:06:49,120 --> 02:06:54,080
Speaker 1: is the opposite of what Isaiah McKenzie is, who is there,

2374
02:06:54,120 --> 02:06:57,960
Speaker 1: shaky out of your shoes, jitterbug guy. Stop start, get

2375
02:06:58,000 --> 02:07:00,880
Speaker 1: up to full speed quickly. Steve Vincent is more of

2376
02:07:00,920 --> 02:07:04,280
Speaker 1: a straight line speed guy, and his return style is

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02:07:04,320 --> 02:07:08,840
Speaker 1: one cut and go more often than not, because if

2378
02:07:08,840 --> 02:07:12,160
Speaker 1: he starts going east west, he's not gonna get anything.

2379
02:07:12,160 --> 02:07:14,360
Speaker 1: And he knows that he's self aware enough to know

2380
02:07:14,400 --> 02:07:18,640
Speaker 1: what his strengths are and he focuses on those. And

2381
02:07:19,320 --> 02:07:21,440
Speaker 1: there was a guy who was a very successful kickoff

2382
02:07:21,440 --> 02:07:23,400
Speaker 1: returner here who had a one cut and got style,

2383
02:07:23,440 --> 02:07:27,360
Speaker 1: by the name of Terrence McGhee. So that style can

2384
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:31,200
Speaker 1: work if your blocking scheme is right and you read

2385
02:07:31,240 --> 02:07:34,720
Speaker 1: him correctly. We'll see where it goes for the rest

2386
02:07:34,760 --> 02:07:39,600
Speaker 1: of the preseason, because as he farwell said, Isaiah McKenzie's

2387
02:07:39,640 --> 02:07:42,400
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat for that competition. But I'm interested

2388
02:07:42,440 --> 02:07:48,040
Speaker 1: to see what more Stevenson can do on returns. JT.

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02:07:48,240 --> 02:07:50,720
Speaker 1: On the tweet sheet, Josh Thomas had a great game.

2390
02:07:51,040 --> 02:07:53,400
Speaker 1: He was a tackling machine along with hamlin I was

2391
02:07:53,480 --> 02:07:57,320
Speaker 1: very impressed to see Ruteau Rousseau burn Sewell. Also, Williams

2392
02:07:57,400 --> 02:08:00,240
Speaker 1: ran the ball strong, so did Motor. Kind of disappointed

2393
02:08:00,280 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 1: in the Goose, but I'm sure he'll bring it soon.

2394
02:08:02,640 --> 02:08:06,160
Speaker 1: I was most impressed with Stevenson, though. What about hamlin

2395
02:08:06,600 --> 02:08:09,560
Speaker 1: Um and Josh Thomas, two safeties who are in direct

2396
02:08:09,600 --> 02:08:14,480
Speaker 1: competition with one another to a certain extent, Thomas, I

2397
02:08:14,560 --> 02:08:16,800
Speaker 1: thought played a huge role in the run game. He

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02:08:16,920 --> 02:08:19,080
Speaker 1: was a guy I had on our list on Buffalo

2399
02:08:19,080 --> 02:08:23,280
Speaker 1: Bills dot com players to watch in this first preseason game,

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02:08:23,280 --> 02:08:25,800
Speaker 1: and I thought he showed up in the runfront big time. Yeah.

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02:08:25,840 --> 02:08:27,840
Speaker 1: They I thought so too. And we mentioned on the

2402
02:08:27,840 --> 02:08:30,320
Speaker 1: broadcast that the safeties were up up in the box,

2403
02:08:30,360 --> 02:08:32,720
Speaker 1: coming up making tackles. And that's what you're supposed to do.

2404
02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:36,160
Speaker 1: If if you've got seven guys, six guys in the

2405
02:08:36,280 --> 02:08:40,160
Speaker 1: in the run fit with you know mostly it would

2406
02:08:40,200 --> 02:08:44,040
Speaker 1: you know would be uh Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano

2407
02:08:44,080 --> 02:08:46,920
Speaker 1: in the normal defense, and then you walk a safety up,

2408
02:08:46,920 --> 02:08:48,640
Speaker 1: it's either poor your or a hide. Well, when you

2409
02:08:48,640 --> 02:08:53,120
Speaker 1: get these guys in there, and Hamlin and and Josh Thomas,

2410
02:08:53,680 --> 02:08:56,400
Speaker 1: it was their job and it fell to them. I

2411
02:08:56,400 --> 02:08:59,400
Speaker 1: thought they were very willing. I thought they were physical enough,

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02:08:59,440 --> 02:09:01,920
Speaker 1: they were shoe were tacklers. And I've said it a

2413
02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:05,160
Speaker 1: ton too, and it's the truth. The best defenses in

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02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:08,400
Speaker 1: the NFL, when one guy is able to get to

2415
02:09:08,400 --> 02:09:11,640
Speaker 1: the ball, he makes the tackle. First guy to the

2416
02:09:11,640 --> 02:09:14,680
Speaker 1: ball makes the tackle. There's no broken tackles or yards

2417
02:09:14,680 --> 02:09:17,560
Speaker 1: after contacting. That the best defense is in the NFL.

2418
02:09:18,240 --> 02:09:21,400
Speaker 1: Everybody on the defense can tackle and there's no broken tackles,

2419
02:09:21,760 --> 02:09:23,440
Speaker 1: and you saw a lot of that. I was really

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Speaker 1: impressed by that alone, with those two young safeties that

2421
02:09:27,080 --> 02:09:29,960
Speaker 1: came in there, because they you know, when they got there,

2422
02:09:30,000 --> 02:09:33,320
Speaker 1: the play was over. Leslie Frasier said today when he

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02:09:33,360 --> 02:09:37,520
Speaker 1: was asked about Josh Thomas, he said that in the

2424
02:09:37,560 --> 02:09:42,680
Speaker 1: early stages of training camp, he was joking with Josh Thomas, saying, Oh,

2425
02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:44,800
Speaker 1: you're looking good now, but when the pads go on,

2426
02:09:45,120 --> 02:09:48,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna disappear, like just egging him on a little bit, right,

2427
02:09:48,720 --> 02:09:52,920
Speaker 1: And this is an example of a veteran coach knowing

2428
02:09:52,960 --> 02:09:57,000
Speaker 1: how to push buttons, because coach Frasier got exactly what

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02:09:57,080 --> 02:09:59,440
Speaker 1: he wanted out at Josh Thomas on Friday night, and

2430
02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:02,680
Speaker 1: he was half to see it. But I thought that

2431
02:10:02,800 --> 02:10:06,360
Speaker 1: was very interesting that that was the approach he decided

2432
02:10:06,400 --> 02:10:09,800
Speaker 1: to take with Josh Thomas. And I think he's got

2433
02:10:09,880 --> 02:10:12,960
Speaker 1: a shot at the fourth safety role because he does

2434
02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:16,200
Speaker 1: play on special teams, and I think he's probably going

2435
02:10:16,280 --> 02:10:19,400
Speaker 1: to be in direct competition with Damar Hamlin, the sixth

2436
02:10:19,480 --> 02:10:24,720
Speaker 1: round pick, and you know, probably Jaquan Johnson as well.

2437
02:10:25,400 --> 02:10:29,400
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a very interesting choice to

2438
02:10:29,520 --> 02:10:34,320
Speaker 1: be made for that fourth safety spot if Josh Thomas

2439
02:10:34,400 --> 02:10:37,120
Speaker 1: keeps playing that way. Because he is an athlete, he

2440
02:10:37,280 --> 02:10:40,680
Speaker 1: brings size to that position at two o eight, So

2441
02:10:41,720 --> 02:10:45,320
Speaker 1: if he can demonstrate the versatility to maybe play just

2442
02:10:45,480 --> 02:10:48,400
Speaker 1: as soundly and coverage in addition to his aggressiveness in

2443
02:10:48,440 --> 02:10:51,920
Speaker 1: the run front, he's got a shot. I think he's

2444
02:10:51,960 --> 02:10:55,000
Speaker 1: got a shot. They've got six guys on the roster

2445
02:10:55,160 --> 02:10:58,520
Speaker 1: night now listed to strictly safeties, and it's poor yr

2446
02:10:58,600 --> 02:11:01,640
Speaker 1: and Hide, Damar Hamlin's Quon Johnson, Josh Thomas, and then

2447
02:11:01,760 --> 02:11:03,640
Speaker 1: Terek Thompson is also on that end, who is a

2448
02:11:03,720 --> 02:11:06,880
Speaker 1: very opportunistic safety that signed as an undrafted rookie this

2449
02:11:06,960 --> 02:11:09,240
Speaker 1: year out of San Diego State. He at thirty one

2450
02:11:09,800 --> 02:11:12,880
Speaker 1: turnovers in his college career, right, and so it'll be

2451
02:11:12,920 --> 02:11:17,080
Speaker 1: interesting to see. I think you can count on well

2452
02:11:17,200 --> 02:11:20,839
Speaker 1: eight at least defensive backs, which means there's four safeties,

2453
02:11:20,880 --> 02:11:24,200
Speaker 1: four corners. But if you play three corners all the time,

2454
02:11:25,640 --> 02:11:27,120
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you can't go with just

2455
02:11:27,200 --> 02:11:30,880
Speaker 1: four corners. Yeah, so we'll see break time for us here.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I close it up with what we have

2457
02:11:32,920 --> 02:11:35,600
Speaker 1: learned from today's show. Stay tuned for that. We're back

2458
02:11:35,640 --> 02:11:50,680
Speaker 1: in a second here on One Bill's Live. What have

2459
02:11:50,800 --> 02:11:54,120
Speaker 1: we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

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02:11:54,160 --> 02:11:58,200
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We learned the

2461
02:11:58,200 --> 02:12:00,560
Speaker 1: Bills aren't going to be shy about moving people around

2462
02:12:00,560 --> 02:12:03,040
Speaker 1: on that defensive line. Steve and I were kind of

2463
02:12:03,040 --> 02:12:06,800
Speaker 1: almost laughing, like they didn't have the starters playing no Jerry,

2464
02:12:06,840 --> 02:12:13,520
Speaker 1: no Mario, no Star. And then second series there's a

2465
02:12:13,520 --> 02:12:16,160
Speaker 1: whole new slower guys out there. It's they're gonna move

2466
02:12:16,240 --> 02:12:18,520
Speaker 1: him around. We heard Greg address it talking. He was

2467
02:12:18,560 --> 02:12:21,440
Speaker 1: talking about Basham and a bunch of guys playing three

2468
02:12:21,520 --> 02:12:23,680
Speaker 1: four different lines. It's like you take all ten guys,

2469
02:12:23,840 --> 02:12:25,800
Speaker 1: you don't even you don't you just throw their names

2470
02:12:25,800 --> 02:12:27,960
Speaker 1: into a blender and turn it on. You throw the

2471
02:12:28,040 --> 02:12:30,120
Speaker 1: letters in their names and throw it into a blender.

2472
02:12:30,280 --> 02:12:32,560
Speaker 1: It's like you can't even tell who's playing, what position,

2473
02:12:33,320 --> 02:12:36,880
Speaker 1: what side they're on. It's it's it's a mix, and

2474
02:12:36,960 --> 02:12:38,840
Speaker 1: I mean a mix in the greatest sense of the word.

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02:12:38,840 --> 02:12:41,480
Speaker 1: It's really interesting. What do you think it says about

2476
02:12:41,600 --> 02:12:45,360
Speaker 1: faopots football? I Q as a young player in football

2477
02:12:45,960 --> 02:12:50,720
Speaker 1: playing end three four, I all in the course of

2478
02:12:50,720 --> 02:12:54,040
Speaker 1: a game on Friday last week. Yeah, it's yeah, his

2479
02:12:54,240 --> 02:12:56,080
Speaker 1: lights are on. I mean, somebody's home there. He knows

2480
02:12:56,080 --> 02:12:57,640
Speaker 1: what you're not putting him in all those spots if

2481
02:12:57,640 --> 02:12:59,440
Speaker 1: you don't trust him, right, Yeah, they trust him and

2482
02:12:59,480 --> 02:13:01,880
Speaker 1: he's and let's face it too, he's a blank slate.

2483
02:13:02,040 --> 02:13:04,840
Speaker 1: So for all he knows, everybody should be doing this right.

2484
02:13:04,920 --> 02:13:09,200
Speaker 1: So he's played very well. He's got all the tools.

2485
02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:12,520
Speaker 1: He's big, strong athletic and he's so eager to learn.

2486
02:13:14,360 --> 02:13:16,880
Speaker 1: Leslie said, or actually he was, Sean McDermott said, Listen,

2487
02:13:16,880 --> 02:13:19,640
Speaker 1: the guy shows up early, works, he shows on the

2488
02:13:19,640 --> 02:13:22,960
Speaker 1: practice field early. He works really hard, he stays late

2489
02:13:23,200 --> 02:13:26,560
Speaker 1: and works really hard. It's hard not to root for

2490
02:13:26,600 --> 02:13:28,720
Speaker 1: a guy like that, and certainly it's hard not to

2491
02:13:28,760 --> 02:13:32,040
Speaker 1: improve if you are that guy working that hard. Yeah,

2492
02:13:32,160 --> 02:13:35,720
Speaker 1: we have more bills training camp to bring your away

2493
02:13:35,800 --> 02:13:41,120
Speaker 1: tomorrow as we will cover it all in depth again,

2494
02:13:42,080 --> 02:13:45,800
Speaker 1: more players sound. We'll probably hear from another coach who knows.

2495
02:13:45,840 --> 02:13:48,760
Speaker 1: Maybe Brian Dable will be available the day after coach

2496
02:13:48,800 --> 02:13:51,040
Speaker 1: Frasier was available. We'll wait and see, but we'll have

2497
02:13:51,120 --> 02:13:54,360
Speaker 1: it here for you. Whatever it is in total and

2498
02:13:54,440 --> 02:13:57,240
Speaker 1: Funkily is a real word it is. You can look

2499
02:13:57,280 --> 02:14:04,480
Speaker 1: it up. We'll see you tomorrow. Was Bes to be

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Speaker 1: on