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Speaker 1: and we wanted to kind of include you in on it.

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Speaker 1: Which offensive position needs to be evaluated the most during

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Speaker 1: the rest of this preseason choices are there for you

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Speaker 1: at one Bill's Live. You can give us a call

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Speaker 1: eight oh three, oh five fifty one, eight eight five

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

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Speaker 1: as we ask you, which offensive position needs to be

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Speaker 1: evaluated the most for the rest of this preseason. Some

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Speaker 1: position that you're still not feeling good about. Hey, this

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Speaker 1: is nailed down. Here's our starter, here's our number two,

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Speaker 1: and I even like the number three guy. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's great. Yeah, we're all good there, man, I feel great.

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Speaker 1: So here are your choices offensive line, running back, tight end,

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Speaker 1: or the final spots at receiver eight oh three five

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Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight five fifty two, five fifty. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: if you have another position group that you still believe

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Speaker 1: the jury is out on and you need to do

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Speaker 1: some more evaluation on, let us know. Yeah, right now,

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Speaker 1: where do you? Yeah, the voting has the offensive line. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's thirty seven percent. That's a bit. It's a

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Speaker 1: big lead by the offensive line twenty seven percent, tight

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Speaker 1: end twenty percent or nineteen percent running back, and then

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Speaker 1: wide receiver it's sixteen. It's pretty close. Everybody's getting a

447
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Speaker 1: fair share of votes, but I'm with them. Line. You

448
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: got eleven guys on offense, five of them are O line.

449
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: If those guys are working, your efficiency is way high.

450
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Speaker 1: You're running game better, your quarterbacks a better quarterback, everything's better.

451
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Speaker 1: But I think we have a pretty good handle on

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Speaker 1: who the top six or seven linemen on this roster are.

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Speaker 1: Let me say that will factor into a potential starting

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Speaker 1: five come week one. Right, I'm not saying anything about

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Speaker 1: anything because I don't know, but here's what I see.

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Speaker 1: You had a good offensive line last year, you got

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Speaker 1: the FC Championship game, didn't run the ball as effectively

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Speaker 1: as you wanted to, And to me, that's the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: You come into this offseason. You resign those guys. That's

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Speaker 1: great as all good. You draft three guys, right, you

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Speaker 1: draft three guys on the offensive. You're not trying to

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Speaker 1: waste any draft picks. So two guys in the top

463
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Speaker 1: four picks. That tells me something. That tells me something,

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Speaker 1: just like the defensive line. That tells me something about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. What does it tell you they're willing

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Speaker 1: to make changes if lighting a fire under somebody, or

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Speaker 1: they want to upgrade. Now they always want to upgrade.

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Speaker 1: I mean that goes what they're saying, but they are

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Speaker 1: not standing pat they know. None of those five guys

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Speaker 1: that played last year are like you're plugging in. They

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Speaker 1: might do it in practice because they know the plays

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Speaker 1: and all that, but these young guys are getting looked

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Speaker 1: at with an eye towards getting them on the field

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Speaker 1: and getting the best five guys on the field. So

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Speaker 1: to me, that's where it begins. They brought at one

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00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: point sixteen guys on this roster were offensive lineman. Now

477
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Speaker 1: they've cut five of them or four of them. But

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that is a big number, a big

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Speaker 1: number to mine, to me, So that's that's why I

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Speaker 1: go with the majority on this Twitter poll. I come

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Speaker 1: down on the tight end position. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: position that is very much in a state of flux

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Speaker 1: due in part two injuries. Jacob Hollister missed the better

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Speaker 1: part of the first two weeks of camp with a

485
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Speaker 1: back injury. Now Tommy Sweeney is out with a foot injury,

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Speaker 1: and so what we have is a position that has

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Speaker 1: not had the necessary availability, and so you have a

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Speaker 1: situation there where behind Dawson Knox, it's a little muddled

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Speaker 1: right now. Not to mention the fact that you have young,

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Speaker 1: unproven players like Bug Howard, Quentin Morris, Nate Becker has

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Speaker 1: been on the practice squad a couple of years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at at that position. And does

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Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam factor in there as a fullback slash tight end?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but you got to really evaluate that

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Speaker 1: tight end position, Steve, because to this point, no one

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Speaker 1: behind Dawson Knox has separated themselves to the point where

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Speaker 1: you can definitively say, oh, that guy's the number two

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Speaker 1: tight end. Done deal, Lucille. No one's done that. No

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Speaker 1: one has done that through training camp to this in

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Speaker 1: my estimation, I mean, Sweeney was having a nice camp,

501
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Speaker 1: but now he's out of the lineup and who knows

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Speaker 1: how long he'll be got Yeah, and you look at

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Speaker 1: the depth chart. Howard's not even enlisted on the depth

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Speaker 1: chart for this game. Yeah, I think he was. I

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Speaker 1: think he was. That's an oversight more than a yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. But you know, they got five guys

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Speaker 1: and we you and I get it. This this offense

508
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: was about Josh and about Diggs, and about Beasley, about

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis, John Brown last year, Emmanuel Sanders, I get that.

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Speaker 1: But man, oh man, it is hard to think of

511
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Speaker 1: a position group that is more off the radar for

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Speaker 1: most Bills fans than than the tight end group, particularly

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Speaker 1: for an offense this potent. I'm not saying those guys

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Speaker 1: can't play. I'm just saying that Gabe Davis bursts onto

515
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Speaker 1: the field last year because he was ready quick, and

516
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Speaker 1: they just said, listen, people aren't going to see doing this,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. And they were successful doing they just

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Speaker 1: did more of it, and like I said, they didn't

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Speaker 1: run the ball. Well. Man, you know, the tight end

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00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: on this team is your third slash, fourth slash, fifth option.

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Speaker 1: That's a hard place to thrive. But I think, no

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Speaker 1: matter what the state of your offense is, you generally

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Speaker 1: need more than one on your roster. So who's the two,

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Speaker 1: who's the three? I mean, you're at least keeping three,

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Speaker 1: I would think, And I think to this point it's

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Speaker 1: been difficult for anyone to separate themselves as to clearly

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Speaker 1: defined number two. I thought Tommy Sweeney was well on

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Speaker 1: his way to doing that, but now he is sidelined

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Speaker 1: and that could hurt him in the race to be

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Speaker 1: the number two tight end on this roster. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think we should dismiss the possibility of some kind

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Speaker 1: of roster acquisition if they don't feel they're getting what

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Speaker 1: they need from a number two tight end. If Dawson

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Speaker 1: Knox is going to serve as a primary pass receiver,

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Speaker 1: do they need to fill the role that was previously

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Speaker 1: occupied by Lee Smith or has someone here shown the

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Speaker 1: ability to capably fill it. I'm not certain that's happened either,

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Speaker 1: So that's why I came down on tight end. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about this more when we come back, because

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Speaker 1: we do have to take a break here, and we

541
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Speaker 1: also have an injury update from the Jets, who are

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Speaker 1: in their second day of scrimmage practice with the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers up in Green Bay joint practices with Green

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Speaker 1: Bay ahead of their preseason game. One of their defensive

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Speaker 1: players has gone down with an injury. Will update that

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Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Okay, so to update

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Speaker 1: you on the New York Jets injury at their joint

549
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Speaker 1: practice with the Green Bay Packers. Their free agent pass

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Speaker 1: rushing acquisition, Carl Lawson has been carted off with a

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Speaker 1: leg injury. Severity of that is not known at this time,

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Speaker 1: but obviously that is cause for concern anytime they have

553
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: the card come out for you, so that that is

554
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Speaker 1: not good for the Jets, and that is the risk

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Speaker 1: that you take when you enter into joint practices like

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Speaker 1: this because you're going against another team. There are agreements

557
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Speaker 1: between the coaching staffs as to how far you're going

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Speaker 1: to push the level of intensity. It is going to

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00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: fall short of a game in an effort to keep

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Speaker 1: people healthy. But when you got two teams straining and

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Speaker 1: fighting and scrapping against each other in the high intensity

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00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: environment of the six seven seconds of a play, things

563
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Speaker 1: can happen. And apparently it did again if you're just

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Speaker 1: joining us. Jets pass rusher Carl Lawson carted off with

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Speaker 1: a leg injury in Green Bay at their joint practices,

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Speaker 1: so certainly not a good sign there. Matt Brita, who

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Speaker 1: is meeting with the Bills media after practice today, has

568
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Speaker 1: a doozy of a quote and we'll probably rerack it

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Speaker 1: here shortly, but when asked about Mitch Trubisky, Brita said, quote,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for him to go back to Chicago and

571
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: show them they made a mistake. End quote that get

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Speaker 1: you jacked up, Steve for your dream of seeing Trubisky

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Speaker 1: throw for three hundred and eighty yards. Bro, you don't

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Speaker 1: set your boy up for failure. Oh no, you don't,

575
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Speaker 1: like you know, keep it under wraps. Don't talk smack

576
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: before you know. Wait, can't like because listen, the Bears

577
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: don't want a part of Mitch Trbisky coming in lighten

578
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: them up anymore than you know, right they want. They

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Speaker 1: don't want it to happen as much as the Bills

580
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: fans would love it. So listen, you know, yeah, I mean,

581
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Speaker 1: I know we've been having the conversations here in Buffalo,

582
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Speaker 1: but you don't tell that to the media because that

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00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: right now, as soon as that was out of his mouth,

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00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: it was into Chicago paper, it was on the Chicago

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Speaker 1: Bears website, it was public knowledge in Chicago as soon

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00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: as it was out of his mouth. Okay, well that's

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00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: there now, you don't do that. That's well, he's messing

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Speaker 1: with my plans. What I'm saying it is yeah, oh yeah,

589
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: national writers are already retweeting it. Here he goes boom, well,

590
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: mushroom cloud right there, right into the right into my plan.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, so hopefully for Carl Lawson's sake, it's not

592
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Speaker 1: a serious injury. So yeah, that stinks. Um, Carl Lawson

593
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Speaker 1: is a good player and he and you know the Jets, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. And that's another reason joint practices can

595
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: escalate sometimes get out of hand quicker than the game

596
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 1: will because nobody cares if you get a fifteen yard

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00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: penalty in practice. Right, you can taunt all you want

598
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: in practice. We already had one report of an official

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Speaker 1: who's helped working the practice throwing a flag for taunting.

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Speaker 1: And it was in the Carolina Baltimore joint practices. Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson got picked off Caroline's sideline, went crazy, one of

602
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Speaker 1: the dbs for Carolina punted the ball. They where everybody's

603
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: going crazy, and the official through a flag for taunting.

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00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: So but that, you know, it goes up, the intensity

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00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 1: goes up, and yeah, forget about getting hurt in the

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Speaker 1: preseason game and getting hurt in practice. Right, Oh my gosh,

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00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: that stinks. It's not good, that's for sure. Eight oh

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

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

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Speaker 1: we're asking you which offensive position needs to be evaluated

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Speaker 1: the most during the rest of the preseason, some position

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00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: that you feel hasn't shown itself top to bottom in

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Speaker 1: terms of helping you evaluate and decide on a pecking

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Speaker 1: order at the position. Steve was with the majority of

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Speaker 1: the voters so far, saying, offensive line. I believe it's

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Speaker 1: the tight end position due in part to guys that

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Speaker 1: have missed time with injury. Just haven't seen enough of

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00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: people to this point. We did want to get also

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Speaker 1: to some comments by head coach Sean McDermott, who addressed

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Speaker 1: the media prior to practice today. It was there that

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Speaker 1: he informed us that Josh Allen will not be playing

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Speaker 1: on Saturday in the preseason game against Chicago, along with

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Speaker 1: what he termed a number of other starters. He also

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Speaker 1: talked about evaluating the roster with the changes here in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. We're going to continue to take it one

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Speaker 1: week at a time because of the you know, newness

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Speaker 1: of the way the preseason's kind of been shaped here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna just continue to evaluate it when week at

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Speaker 1: a time, so we'll see what next week breaks. So

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott was responding to a question of whether or not.

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Speaker 1: Josh and the starters who are not playing this week,

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Speaker 1: we'll see anytime next week. And that decision, as he stated,

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Speaker 1: there has not yet been made. They are still evaluating

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Speaker 1: whether or not they will take the field. Yeah, coach,

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00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: it's a fluid situation. I mean ten things could change

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Speaker 1: between now and Monday, let alone next weekend. Or maybe

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Speaker 1: there is some spotty performance in practice next week and

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Speaker 1: they feel the best way to course correct that is

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Speaker 1: to throw them into a more of a live setting.

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Speaker 1: And maybe they say, well, maybe if we get them

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Speaker 1: three or four series in a real gamelike environment, you know,

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Speaker 1: they'll perform better or more consistently. Let's get it. Let's

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Speaker 1: throw him into a real environment and see if it

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Speaker 1: gets it better. We were talking about this, you know,

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Speaker 1: before the show came on, and the control whom we

646
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Speaker 1: were saying, you know, it's kind of been one of

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Speaker 1: the ongoing stories of training him. Josh has played really well,

648
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: practiced very well, look sharp, you look clean from day

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Speaker 1: one on and certainly there have been really really really

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Speaker 1: good days and they've been gay days have just been

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Speaker 1: really good. But he's been really good all the time.

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Speaker 1: If but do you need to get a look at

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Speaker 1: that at game speed, you need him on the field

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Speaker 1: with guys who are actually trying to you know, who

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Speaker 1: can take him to the ground, who can hit him,

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Speaker 1: who can get in his way, knockdown passes, all of that.

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Speaker 1: Do you need to get him in that situation again

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Speaker 1: before you feel like he's ready? Does he feel like that?

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Speaker 1: I think that's a question I still has to be answered.

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Speaker 1: Coach McDermott, as we know, had Luke Keikley, his former

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Speaker 1: linebacker in Carolina, in here for about three days of

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Speaker 1: practice this week, and coach was asked, since this was

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Speaker 1: the first time he was speaking this week, he was

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Speaker 1: asked about the reasons behind having Luke Keikley here at

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Speaker 1: practice helping the linebackers. It was phenomenal to have Luke here.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's very close with quite a few of

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Speaker 1: our players as well as our staff from his time

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Speaker 1: in Caroline obviously, so just tremendous amount of respect for Luke.

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Speaker 1: And not only on the field obviously people see that,

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Speaker 1: but off the field in particular and who he is

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Speaker 1: as a person, where he carries himself, and so he

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Speaker 1: was a great addition to us in our environment the

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Speaker 1: last few days. And I don't know about you, Steve,

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Speaker 1: but there was a lot of time that he spent

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Speaker 1: in the ear of Tremaine Edmonds. There was a lot

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Speaker 1: of interaction conversation. Even when Edmonds was off on the

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Speaker 1: side during a drill or subed doubt during a team segment,

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Speaker 1: Keikley was right there talking to him and Tremaine, to

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Speaker 1: his credit, was you know, returning that conversation, asking questions

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Speaker 1: and making comments as well. And it's it's that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff when you're talking to a guy who was

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Speaker 1: as cerebral a player as Keikley was, you know, they

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Speaker 1: are getting into the deep, deep nuances of playing that

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Speaker 1: position in this system. It's one of the interesting things

685
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Speaker 1: when you play in a position like middle linebacker and

686
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Speaker 1: your job is to make sure everything's covered. You got

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Speaker 1: the front in sync with the with the back end

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Speaker 1: of the defense, and everything's you know, lined up. What

689
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Speaker 1: the things and what people don't realize is defenders guys

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Speaker 1: like Keithley, Tremaine Edmonds, you know, CJ. Moseley go down

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Speaker 1: the list of great inside linebackers and great defensive players.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that they do is it's not

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Speaker 1: so much about saying, oh, I think they're gonna do this,

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Speaker 1: and I think the offense is gonna run this play.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna run that play. It's when they

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Speaker 1: get into certain formations. It's as much about what you

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Speaker 1: know they're not gonna do. So it narrowly, you know,

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Speaker 1: you cut the cut the possibilities in half and you

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Speaker 1: throw some stuff away in your mind. It's like, okay

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Speaker 1: that that I don't have to worry about this, and

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Speaker 1: it narrows the field. And getting yourself into a frame

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Speaker 1: of mind where you can push away possibilities will not happen,

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00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: or that you believe will not happen, you can It

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Speaker 1: starts to get to a finer point how fast you

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Speaker 1: can decide what they really are going to run as

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Speaker 1: soon as the ball is snapped. And that's what Keikley

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Speaker 1: did so well. That's what a lot of great defenders

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Speaker 1: have done, is their ability to weed out what is

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Speaker 1: not a possibility that they're going to have to defend

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Speaker 1: and hone in on what they really know. This offense

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Speaker 1: that they're facing likes to do. Break time here for us,

712
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Speaker 1: but when we come back. Coach McDermott addresses the harrowing

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Speaker 1: experience that Dion Dawkins had in his battle with COVID.

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Speaker 1: Coach McDermott wagh's in on that, as well as the

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Speaker 1: return of Zach Moss, who will play in Saturday's preseason

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Speaker 1: game against the Bears. That's coming up next here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Welcome Back. Got some more comments from coach

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Speaker 1: McDermot to pass along to you from his press conference

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Speaker 1: this morning when he addressed the media prior to practice,

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Speaker 1: and one of them deals with the harrowing situation that

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Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins experienced in his battle with COVID. As he

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Speaker 1: laid out earlier this week, he had gotten his second

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Speaker 1: vaccination shot, but has not been two weeks removed from

725
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Speaker 1: that second shot, therefore was not fully vaccinated contracts COVID

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Speaker 1: tests positive and then experiences all the symptoms, as he described,

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Speaker 1: loss of taste and smell, body aches, sore throat, all

728
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Speaker 1: the stuff that accompanies it, difficulty breathing, and had to

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Speaker 1: be hospitalized for four days at Buffalo General and then

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Speaker 1: eventually started to climb out of it, thankfully, but said

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Speaker 1: he had some very low moments where he was wondering

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Speaker 1: if he was even gonna make it. So here is

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott's first comments since Dion Dawkins explained just exactly

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Speaker 1: what he went through. You know, it's a very it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a very real situation, right and just because

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Speaker 1: he's a professional athlete, that doesn't mean that you can't

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Speaker 1: catch COVID right and and and have it as bad

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Speaker 1: as he had it with the symptoms that he had.

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Speaker 1: So U I was very aware of the situation, and

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Speaker 1: our training staff and doctors did a great job of

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Speaker 1: keeping me in the loop. Never want to see anyone

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Speaker 1: go through that, especially to that extent. So it's very real,

743
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Speaker 1: um dean, As I know he documented, I believe it

744
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Speaker 1: was yesterday or the day before. Um so, I mean,

745
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Speaker 1: I think it's just we just get these constant little

746
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Speaker 1: nudges of reminders of how how real this thing is

747
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Speaker 1: and and uh, just to continue to follow all the

748
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Speaker 1: protocols from a football only perspective. You mentioned that he

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Speaker 1: had a long road back. I think that was about

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Speaker 1: a week ago. How much progress has he made in

751
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Speaker 1: a week and learned the plans for him in terms

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Speaker 1: of playing in this game where the next year season, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he has made a significant progress. He's had a great

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00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: attitude since coming back. I think he missed it right.

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00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: I think I saw where he said he was, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously in the hospital and we were out here practicing,

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Speaker 1: and so to hear him say that, I think really

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Speaker 1: speaks to how much he loves being out here with

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Speaker 1: his teammates. So he's made great strides. He will play

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Speaker 1: in the game. How much remains to be seen. So

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Speaker 1: there it is, Dion will play on Saturday. How much

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Speaker 1: is still up in the air. Probably had something to

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Speaker 1: do with how he came through practice today and he

764
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Speaker 1: you know, he's been getting team reps this week, so

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Speaker 1: he's on the road back, and he told us earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week he feels there is enough time between

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Speaker 1: now and the opener to get his conditioning where it

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Speaker 1: needs to be to get through an entire game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it makes good sense, and it's yeah, it's nice to

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Speaker 1: see him bounce back. Well, I say so quickly. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how long it's been, you know what the

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Speaker 1: bounce back has been like. But for us, it seems like, okay,

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Speaker 1: he didn't play last week, he's going to try and

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00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: get a few snaps this week. It seems like he's

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Speaker 1: rebounding and and you know, I mean, we all know

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Speaker 1: Dion Doc is one of the most fun loving guys

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Speaker 1: on the roster. He's always smiling. It's fun to listen

778
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 1: to him do interviews. He's yeah, he's upbeat all the time.

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00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: And you know, they've got that thing, the shnowman. So

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00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: it's great to see him back in there and easy

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00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,439
Speaker 1: got to cheer for. We'll see how how it goes

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Speaker 1: from here on out. Coach McDermott also addressed the return

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Speaker 1: of Zach Moss. He missed the preseason game against the

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Speaker 1: Lions last week due to a hamstring injury, but did

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Speaker 1: get back into the practice fold this week. So here

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Speaker 1: is coach McDermott on Zach Moss's outlook for the Chicago game.

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Speaker 1: Taking it one week at a time and just trying

788
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: to there's so many within that running back position. We've

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Speaker 1: got some injuries, so you know, it's how much can

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Speaker 1: do we want? How much of a load do we

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Speaker 1: want to put on each guy. Zach in this case

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Speaker 1: just coming back off the injuries. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: listened to our trainers and they feel like he's in

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Speaker 1: a good, good enough spot he's had a good couple

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Speaker 1: of days here, so we'll just see how much how

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Speaker 1: many reps we want to give him, And again, the

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Speaker 1: flow of the game sometimes dictates that. So, Steve, we

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Speaker 1: know that Antonio Williams has been sidelined with an injury,

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Speaker 1: and we know that Christian Wade has been sidelined with

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Speaker 1: an injury, so that knocks them down. Counting Taiwan Jones

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Speaker 1: to four running backs. We saw this team run twice

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Speaker 1: as much as they threw in preseason game number one.

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Speaker 1: Knowing the injury situation at the position and knowing how

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Speaker 1: they probably don't want to give Zach Moss too much work,

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Speaker 1: just kind of ease him back in the prospect, is there, Steve,

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Speaker 1: for Mitchell Trubiscy to be throwing a whole lot more?

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Speaker 1: And he did last week. I'm just trying to push

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00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 1: your narrative here. So you've got and you got, you know,

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00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: Matt Brida talking smack about how they're going to prove

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Speaker 1: that Chicago made him a say, okay, all right, does

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Speaker 1: he know something we don't know? Must know something you

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm telling you Mitch Trubisky is gonna light

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Speaker 1: him up. No, but it does make some sense. Although

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Speaker 1: in a game like this, depending on what with everything

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Speaker 1: being so fluid, you still got Christian Wade who has

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00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: not seen the field and won't see the field this week.

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Speaker 1: You've got Zach Moss just getting on the field this week,

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Speaker 1: and Devin Singletary and Matt Brida, those two guys are

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00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: gonna want to take some reps. So you got three

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Speaker 1: guys plus Zach Moss wanting to get his evaluation, and

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Speaker 1: then next week you hope that Christian Wade can get

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Speaker 1: on the field and then you got him to evaluate.

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Speaker 1: So there's no reason to think they're not going to

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Speaker 1: find a reason to hand it off and give Zach

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Speaker 1: Moss a yeoman's share of the work Saturday to see

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Speaker 1: how his preseason goes. They gave a lot of work

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Speaker 1: to Devin Singletary this past week, Matt Breeda this past week,

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Speaker 1: put Mount Moss into that mix. You know, that's a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys you want to see run the football

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Speaker 1: behind a lot of offensive linemen you're trying to evaluate

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Speaker 1: in the run game. So you know you can we

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Speaker 1: can say we want to make, you know, make fun

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Speaker 1: of this trabisky back to Chicago game. All we want

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Speaker 1: but they still got work to do with their run

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Speaker 1: game and their evaluation of the guys in that game.

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Speaker 1: Our work is done here for this segment, but when

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Speaker 1: we return, we will be hearing from two Bills players

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Speaker 1: who addressed the media after practice. It is Jacob Collister,

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Speaker 1: one of their newest tight ends on the roster, and

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Speaker 1: the aforementioned Matt Breeda. We will hear from both of

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Speaker 1: those players when we return for our number two. 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 Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has been

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Speaker 1: all over the field. Kind of unique. He was kind

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Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you. Steve, Steve a blimp.

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Speaker 1: We're not even in the straded bear of normalcy here

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Speaker 1: we are our number two on a Thursday, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Another day of practice in the

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Speaker 1: books for the Bills as they close in on their

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Speaker 1: second preseason contest in Chicago against the Bears on Saturday

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Speaker 1: at one pm, a game day like kickoff one day afternoon,

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Speaker 1: very unusual for the preseason, but the Bill's home preseason

853
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Speaker 1: game will also kick off at one pm a week

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Speaker 1: from Saturday, so kind of cool deal there, and we

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Speaker 1: wanted to pay along a couple of players who addressed

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Speaker 1: the media today. First on the list here is running

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Speaker 1: back Matt Brita, who addressed the media a short time ago.

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Speaker 1: You know, we talked to you a couple of months

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Speaker 1: ago after you signed, and obviously a lot of excitement

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Speaker 1: you've You've had a chance now to really get a

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Speaker 1: ton of work and get up to speed on everything.

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Speaker 1: How are things going and how have you found yourself

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Speaker 1: to be a fit? You know with this group and

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Speaker 1: in this offense, things are going good. You know. Um,

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Speaker 1: I liked this team a lot. Uh lines me. It

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Speaker 1: reminds me a lot when I was in the same

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Speaker 1: fran How how close to guys are. Um, they definitely

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Speaker 1: need what it takes to you know, win a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So that's the reason why I'm here. Everything is gen

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Speaker 1: and well, me and the running back groups. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're all together and like I said a bit before

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Speaker 1: I got here, UM, a big thing is not being

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Speaker 1: selfish and knowing on the team self shut out and

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Speaker 1: no one's worried about touchdowns or catches or how man interceptions.

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Speaker 1: I get everyone once wants to win. So we got

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Speaker 1: a good team. One of you bring something different to

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Speaker 1: the table, whether it's you were Moss or Singletary, each

878
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Speaker 1: one of you had different strengths. How much is that

879
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Speaker 1: going to help? Is you guys promich of these games.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna help a lot. You know. When you got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that could do to give different

882
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Speaker 1: things and they're good at a bunch of different things.

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Speaker 1: That helps a team out a lot of different areas. Um,

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Speaker 1: because you could put us out wide, you could put

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Speaker 1: us in the backfield, put us a receiver, tight end,

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Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that. I'm just gonna help the

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Speaker 1: team a lot. So Um, Like I said, we got

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Speaker 1: a great room and I'm excited for this year back

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Speaker 1: out there. Oh it's huge. I mean he's one of

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Speaker 1: the big leaders on the team. You know. Um, he's

891
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Speaker 1: a guy that gets it done day in and day out.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think the little online guys they

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Speaker 1: look up to him, the younger guys, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: happy to he's back out here and he's healthy. We're

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Speaker 1: being one of the older guys in the room, only

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Speaker 1: twenty six and then you guys are Frondy or both

897
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Speaker 1: twenty three. Yeah, it is I mean I came in

898
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Speaker 1: and they were like, one day we're in the weight

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Speaker 1: room and they're like, what music to listen to. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't care, like but they're like, oh, you want

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Speaker 1: the older guys. So it's weird to me because you know,

902
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Speaker 1: I'm only twenty six, I'm only going on my fifth year.

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Speaker 1: But you know, um, it's a cool thing though, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I can give those other guys experience, um that

905
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Speaker 1: are you know, younger than me, and just help every

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Speaker 1: one on the team out. And like I said, I've

907
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Speaker 1: been to a super Bowl, so I know what a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl team looks like. So you think I'm a

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Speaker 1: veteran coming in and coaching of the players towards the

910
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Speaker 1: end of their career. But that's not the case for you,

911
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 1: is it? The drive? Is that the fighter there maybe

912
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Speaker 1: with the younger guys just kind of like reading night everything.

913
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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. Um. You know I came in this league undrafted,

914
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Speaker 1: so you know, I'm alway gonna have that chip on

915
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Speaker 1: my shoulder no matter where I go, no matter what

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Speaker 1: year I am. And it's just awesome because you know

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Speaker 1: those guys making me better every day. Um, to compete

918
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Speaker 1: and get better in my craft and you know, I

919
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Speaker 1: learned some things from those guys, you know, and I've

920
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Speaker 1: been in the year longer than they have. Um, so

921
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Speaker 1: you know we help both each other out. Had the

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Speaker 1: chance to play with mind risk he might have been

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Speaker 1: in practice when Ben your impressions with him as a quarterback, Um,

924
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Speaker 1: he's a great leader, gets in the huddle. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: he makes sure we're all the same page, we know

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Speaker 1: what we're doing, and um, you know he's got that quality, um,

927
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Speaker 1: the effect. You know, a lot of I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people you know may hate on him for

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Speaker 1: you know Chicago there, I don't matter. He's here now

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Speaker 1: and he's doing a great job. So I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to playing with him this year. You know, I'm going

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Speaker 1: back to Chicago. I know it's just you know, preseason game,

933
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Speaker 1: but you know, what are your thoughts on that? And

934
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Speaker 1: I'll have he's gonna start. I'm excited for him, you know,

935
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Speaker 1: to go out there, you know, and you know, show

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Speaker 1: the organization that they made a mistake. You know, he's

937
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Speaker 1: a great quarterback and uh, like I said, he belongs

938
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Great offensive coordinators, great offensive minds. What's special

939
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Speaker 1: about Brian Day Bill? Uh? Man, I think just the

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Speaker 1: way he is, you know with the guys. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: we feel like anyone can go and ask him any question.

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Speaker 1: You know. Um, he's there for not on the field,

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Speaker 1: but also off the field. And just the way he

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Speaker 1: schemes up things and thinks a different ways to get

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Speaker 1: guys in space. Um. I think one day, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a great head coach when he gets

947
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Speaker 1: an opportunity. So UM, you know he's got a number

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Speaker 1: of respect for him. They going back to to Mench

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Speaker 1: for a second. You know how he talked about how

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Speaker 1: he's embracing his role here with the Bills. How have

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Speaker 1: you seen him, uh, really embraced that role as the

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Speaker 1: backup quarterback great. Like I said, he's um in here

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Speaker 1: day in and day out, putting in the work, UM,

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Speaker 1: helping coach the young guys you know, how to get better. Um.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, I think he's just embracing it

956
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Speaker 1: because you know, it's a long season. You know, you

957
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Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen, so he's always staying ready

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Speaker 1: for whatever happens. And UM, you know, I think the

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Speaker 1: whole teams will be comfortable with him being in there.

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Speaker 1: You know, starting on Saturday, and you guys get see

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Speaker 1: what he gets to do. Pretty they're coming in. I

962
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Speaker 1: hope I'm caught up by now. Nah. Now, I'm very

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Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with it now. Definitely going through OTA's um

964
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm able to pick up things pretty quick.

965
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Speaker 1: And you know, definitely with Josh, Mitch, Web, Jake, all

966
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Speaker 1: those guys, you know, just making it so much more

967
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Speaker 1: easier for us at running back. So I'm very cut up.

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Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable, and I'm ready for the season. It

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Speaker 1: seems like it's gonna be running backs by game plan

970
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Speaker 1: or whether you want to call it by committee or

971
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Speaker 1: something like that. Is it tough to be that home

972
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Speaker 1: run hitter to be ready on the sidelines to break

973
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Speaker 1: one at any moment, almost like a pinch hitter in baseball?

974
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Speaker 1: Is that How difficult is that? Uh? It's not. I mean,

975
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Speaker 1: if it's your job, at your job, you know what

976
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Speaker 1: I mean is what we get paid to do. So uh,

977
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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, you got to embrace your

978
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Speaker 1: role whatever it is. You know, you can't be one

979
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Speaker 1: of those guys who wants thirty carries the game and

980
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Speaker 1: be selfish because you can do that. Que and all

981
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Speaker 1: the awards, but then to day, we all want to

982
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Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl, right, So, UM, as long as

983
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Speaker 1: we have guys that are not selfish on the team,

984
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Speaker 1: that are willing to go out there and just work

985
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Speaker 1: hard every day and win, we'll get the goal accomplished

986
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Speaker 1: and our teams like that. So excited you to some

987
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: of these younger guys for season games. I know they

988
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: were probably really important to you when you were in

989
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: your first or second year in this league, just making

990
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Speaker 1: a name for yourself and how you did with the

991
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers, Um, what's your message to them this year,

992
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Speaker 1: especially with it being one less than everybody's use. Never

993
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Speaker 1: forget when I came in, Um, you know one of

994
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Speaker 1: the guys, a Tim Hotower, you know, he's running back

995
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Speaker 1: on me and he told me, you know, you can't

996
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Speaker 1: control you know anything that if they're gonna cut you,

997
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep you. So the biggest thing can just

998
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: go out there and play football. You know, we've been

999
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Speaker 1: doing our whole lives since we were young, and it's

1000
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Speaker 1: the same thing now. You know, game's a little faster,

1001
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Speaker 1: but you'll get adjusted to that. So there's gone play.

1002
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Speaker 1: You know, give your best effort and whatever happens happens.

1003
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Speaker 1: You know, it only takes one team in this league,

1004
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: the starty two teams only takes one. So whatever team

1005
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Speaker 1: bleedsing you, you know, just run with it. We talked

1006
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Speaker 1: a little bit about how this team feels like the

1007
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Speaker 1: super Bowl team to you. What are some of the

1008
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Speaker 1: other qualities that you think this team has that can

1009
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Speaker 1: really make them make the whole run. The toughness. You know,

1010
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: guys are willing to play hurt out here, and I've

1011
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: seen that day in and day out. You know, um

1012
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Speaker 1: that you know what, they have a little pool or

1013
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: they have this, they have that. You know, guys want

1014
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Speaker 1: to be out there. I want to play. They're not

1015
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Speaker 1: just you know, on the sideline, you know, wanting to

1016
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Speaker 1: rest for twelve weeks and you know just hopefully hope

1017
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Speaker 1: for the best. You know, they won't be out there

1018
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Speaker 1: and play. So I think you need that too. You've

1019
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Speaker 1: got a lot of runs. The other night, you've been

1020
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Speaker 1: camp getting a lot of a lot of work. Has

1021
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Speaker 1: there been like an interior offensive lineman that you know

1022
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Speaker 1: has made a block or done something in front of you?

1023
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Speaker 1: They were like, man, that was that's pretty awesome. I

1024
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: think all those guys, man, um, give all the whole

1025
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Speaker 1: on line credit. You know, without them, you know, we

1026
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do nothing this eleven man game.

1027
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Speaker 1: So um, you know, as much as a running back,

1028
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Speaker 1: you know does a running you guys, give us all

1029
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Speaker 1: a credit the online um does it every day in practice.

1030
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Speaker 1: That's the reason why we can make those big runs.

1031
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Speaker 1: So all those guys, that's a smart running back. Crediting

1032
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Speaker 1: all of the offensive lineman for their work not only

1033
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Speaker 1: in training camp, but in that first preseason game as well.

1034
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Speaker 1: And I gotta say Breta demonstrated an ability to catch

1035
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Speaker 1: out of the backfield that was noteworthy. I think in

1036
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Speaker 1: the first preseason game, we've heard Brian Dable rave about

1037
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Speaker 1: the juice that he brings to that position because he

1038
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Speaker 1: has he has a skill that nobody else in that

1039
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Speaker 1: group really has, and that is breakaway speed, game breaking

1040
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Speaker 1: type speed where if he gets to the second level

1041
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Speaker 1: and nobody gets a hand on him, nobody might be

1042
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Speaker 1: catching that guy. You got to get there though, I mean,

1043
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Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, he can he can have that

1044
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Speaker 1: speed and stuff. He's got to be able to get there. Uh,

1045
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Speaker 1: certainly it's on a little bit of the play calling

1046
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Speaker 1: and the offensive and the play calling and the opportunity

1047
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Speaker 1: and the way they use him to find him those areas.

1048
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Speaker 1: But he's also got to you know, he's got a

1049
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Speaker 1: pass pro. He's got to catch the ball, he's got

1050
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Speaker 1: to get open, he's got to run with it and

1051
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: get yards after contact. He's got to do all that stuff.

1052
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Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of players with a lot of

1053
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Speaker 1: physical gifts, particularly at that position, who you know, couldn't

1054
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Speaker 1: put it all together. And for whatever reason, Matt Breed

1055
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Speaker 1: is on his third NFL team. There's a reason for that.

1056
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Speaker 1: Whatever it may be. It may be unjustified, maybe bad luck,

1057
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Speaker 1: maybe just subjective coaches opinions, but he's got to prove

1058
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: it here and he's going to get the chance right

1059
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: And I think we should take note that the last

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00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: time he was in a committee backfield, and all indications

1061
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: are this is heading that way here in Buffalo to

1062
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,439
Speaker 1: be a committee backfield, he averaged over five yards to carry.

1063
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: So if the Bills can get that out of him,

1064
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: that's a win, especially for a guy that you know

1065
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: they plucked out a free agency at an affordable price.

1066
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: You get over five yards to carry from that guy,

1067
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: that's a win as far as I see it. The

1068
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: other player that spoke to the media after practice today

1069
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: was tight end Jacob Hollister. He had missed a good

1070
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: portion of time early in camp due to a back

1071
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 1: injury suffered in practice, came back last week, played in

1072
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: the game last week, and is just getting his legs

1073
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: back under him again now. So here is Jacob Hollister

1074
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,959
Speaker 1: addressing the media after practice today. How do you feel

1075
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: you're acclimating the things? Obviously had a little stub back

1076
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: there early and now getting back in the flow. I

1077
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: feel really good. I feel like coming in this spring

1078
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: was great. You know. Obviously last year with COVID going

1079
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: on everything, we couldn't couldn't be there in the spring.

1080
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: So coming out here and having a chance to come

1081
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: out here for a couple of weeks before we had

1082
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: that break was awesome. What about the camp to work

1083
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: with vist Risky, played him in practice? Just what are

1084
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: your impressions of catching passage from He's a baller. You

1085
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: can tell that he studies a lot. I knew the

1086
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: playbook just right off the bat um. He's just done

1087
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: incredible job. So it's great to have him here. He'll

1088
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: never admit to it, but you know, going back to

1089
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: Chicago tomorrow, maybe he has a little bit of significance.

1090
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: Has that about a topic of discussion at all the months?

1091
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: Guess not for us now. I mean it's like you said,

1092
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, when you play for any team going back

1093
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: from me, Seattle, the Patriots, stuff like that, I think

1094
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: that you get a little bit excited to go play him.

1095
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: But we haven't talked about it at all. I think that. Uh,

1096
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: but of course he wants to go back there and

1097
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: ball out in his home stadium preseason games instead of

1098
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: four Now, how much he said change things now as

1099
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: far as what you're doing to get ready and just everything,

1100
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: how much? I don't think it feels much different, honestly. Um,

1101
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: you know, last year obviously we had no no preseason games,

1102
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: so we were just doing scrimmages instead of, um, instead

1103
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: of the games. But I think it feels good to

1104
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 1: go against you know, other guys rather than hitting the

1105
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: same same dudes every single every single days. Been like

1106
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: being with Josh again for for this far. I mean,

1107
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: you guys have had you know, a couple months together

1108
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 1: and the whole game. It's been awesome. Man. Josh Is

1109
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: He's just that guy who has uh has ice and

1110
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 1: his veins. Um. Obviously seeing him get that get that

1111
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: contract was just a huge blessing. There's just nobody that

1112
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: deserves it more than he does. So I'm just happy

1113
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: for him, his family and it's just good to be

1114
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: back here with him. Or do you think this opportunity

1115
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: for you as in the second preseason game that you

1116
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: guys are going to have against the Bears, for me

1117
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: individually or just as a whole individually and then as

1118
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: a whole as well. I don't think any time to

1119
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 1: go out there and um, you know, especially being on

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01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: new team, it's my third team. Um, so just having

1121
01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 1: a chance to you know, run through the offense, get

1122
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: more comfortable with it is big um. Us as a team,

1123
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,479
Speaker 1: I think that uh, you know, going against a team

1124
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: that's as good as the Bears are, it's just a

1125
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:09,919
Speaker 1: great opportunity. So, um, you know, their front seven's really

1126
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: good and we're excited to be out there. Feelings they

1127
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: get a roster that especially in the offense where there

1128
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,440
Speaker 1: were so many pieces coming back and you are one

1129
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: of the few new guys. What has it been like

1130
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: trying to sell where maybe some of the guys are

1131
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: already got that head start on you. Yeah, I think, uh,

1132
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of where I've been at my

1133
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: whole career is coming into a situation where there's a

1134
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 1: lot of guys. You know, I was Patriots, Seahawks, you know,

1135
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: they were all similar situations. Um, so you really just

1136
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 1: got to come in and try to contribute however you

1137
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: can and then build your role, um, just for as

1138
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: much as they want to use you, and just try

1139
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: to get a bigger and bigger role. So, um, it's

1140
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: been great. And the great thing about that as you

1141
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: learned from the guys who have been here, who've been

1142
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: doing it for a long time. So it's been awesome.

1143
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 1: It's a great quarterback in Seattle. Now you've got two

1144
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: guys who can use their brains, they can use their arms,

1145
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: they can use their legs. Are they where there's similarities

1146
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: and difference between the two. The thing that I've noted

1147
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: because I've been around some really good quarterbacks is the competitiveness,

1148
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: I think is the thing that I see most similar

1149
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: in all of them. When you see him every single day,

1150
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: you know, Josh is the type of guy that loves

1151
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: to have a good time. He's laughing, but you see

1152
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: the second that he puts that helmet on and he's

1153
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: ready to go, and um, you know, he's pissed off

1154
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: every single time that we don't make a play and

1155
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: get a first down whatever it is. So I think

1156
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: that's the thing that I've seen that's the most similar

1157
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: between all the quarterbacks I've been around, because I've been

1158
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: super blessed to be around some great ones. There's the

1159
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: competitiveness offense down like you had mentioned, Is there a

1160
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 1: difference in camp practices versus a preseason game in your

1161
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: mind of understanding it better or working through it in

1162
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: practices versus a game. I don't think it feels too

1163
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: much different, you know for me. You know, obviously that

1164
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: level of competition goes up because you're going against different guys.

1165
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: You know, when you're going against your own team, you're

1166
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: really competitive, but at the same time, you're not trying

1167
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: to you know, put in the ground and stuff like

1168
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: that because they're your guys. But I think it feels

1169
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: real similar. And you know this, going into my fifth year,

1170
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,919
Speaker 1: I really try to make the games and practice feel

1171
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: the same, all right. That's Jacob Hollister, former college teammate

1172
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen now back with him here in Buffalo

1173
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 1: and here to get some work, more work in the

1174
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: game against Chicago. Has also had a lot of time

1175
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: on the field with Mitchell Trubisky and impressed with him.

1176
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: So he's a guy that's in this mix here that

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01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: I feel is kind of important. There is I think

1178
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: a lot more evaluation that has to be done at

1179
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: the tight end position on this roster, Steve, and that

1180
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: would be my choice for our Twitter poll today, because

1181
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 1: you've got some unproven players, you have some new arrivals

1182
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: like Hollister, and I think behind Dawson Knox, it's a

1183
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: muddled group right now. Nobody has really separated themselves. And

1184
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: that might happen this week, could happen next week, could

1185
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: happen in the last preseason game, but no one has

1186
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 1: yet to separate them and say, hey, I'm the second guy.

1187
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: That's right. Not that they've had that much of an

1188
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: opportunity yet one preseason game, but there's a lot of

1189
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: practices we've seen, and I think how difficult would it

1190
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: be for a tight end to break into the top

1191
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: two options on any given play, Maybe in the red

1192
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: zone you'd get that once in a while, if you're

1193
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 1: gonna go a heavy personnel or thirteen personnel, but or

1194
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: twenty three personnel rather, you might, you know, get yourself

1195
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: into the top options of this offense. But I don't

1196
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: know that you know, any tight end, as good as

1197
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: they play in this preseason is going to change the

1198
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: crux to where this offense goes through. With Josh Allen

1199
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 1: the wide receiver corps, you'd love the chance to but

1200
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: it's up to Dawson Knox and Hollister Becker, you name it, Sweeney.

1201
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 1: These guys are gonna have to be so good as

1202
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 1: to catch the coach's eye on film when they're not

1203
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: getting thrown the ball, so they can say, well, if

1204
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: he's getting open on that play, let's give him a

1205
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 1: shot at a better play. That's how that happens. Right

1206
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: when you start having some success, you start getting more opportunities.

1207
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 1: And none of these guys have really forged a spot

1208
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 1: for themselves above the number three option. And I think

1209
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: if you look at the other positions among the choices

1210
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll final spots at wide receiver, those

1211
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 1: have been kind of nailed down. Isaiah McKenzie had another

1212
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:30,200
Speaker 1: strong day today and I think he's locked down, you know,

1213
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: one of the back end spots. I'm assuming that the

1214
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: Bills are going to keep six like they did last year,

1215
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: and so the top four are probably locks Diggs, Beasley, Sanders,

1216
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: and Davis. And I think McKenzie has done plenty in

1217
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:49,680
Speaker 1: this camp, certainly more than a lot of other guys,

1218
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: to solidify himself not only at receiver but as the

1219
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:56,240
Speaker 1: return man as well, as we heard you know, coach

1220
01:06:56,280 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: Farwell talk about last week. So I think he's in

1221
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: the driver's seat for one of the last receiver spots.

1222
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 1: And I think nobody is outperformed Jake Kumero on the

1223
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 1: back half of the roster, and so those are probably

1224
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:14,919
Speaker 1: the guys unless something dramatic changes in the preseason game

1225
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 1: Saturday and practice next week in the final preseason game,

1226
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's going to be able to

1227
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 1: outpace mackenzie and kumro. We've watched some of most of

1228
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: the practices out here, not all of them, not one

1229
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: hundred percent of every practice at all by any stretch,

1230
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 1: and I'm sure none of the other media members have either,

1231
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:39,400
Speaker 1: And I've seen it happen that there are guys on

1232
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: an NFL roster during training camp that when the final

1233
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: cuts come, are surprised. Roster makes you know, you can

1234
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:53,439
Speaker 1: go down the lists, particularly a wide receiver and pick

1235
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: a guy out, a guy like a guy like Lance Lenore.

1236
01:07:57,880 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: You and I have seen, well he's played well, haven't

1237
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: him that much, But in the reps he's in, Yeah, okay,

1238
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: he looks good to me. He could be one of

1239
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 1: those guys that, like, you know what, we need him

1240
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 1: and his spot in his ability to play the slot

1241
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 1: more than we need Jake Kumero and all of a sudden,

1242
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: Kumeros in the practice squad and Lenore's on the active roster.

1243
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:21,719
Speaker 1: Stuff like that happens where it's a positional skill set

1244
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 1: that you like this guy over that guy because you

1245
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 1: think you can use him more. But that doesn't mean

1246
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 1: you don't like a guy like Kumar. And I'm just

1247
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: using that as a as an example. But right now,

1248
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: I mean, all signs are pointing towards it, and you're right,

1249
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot of preseason. We've got two games left,

1250
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: most of the preseasons left to be played, so we'll

1251
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: let it play out. But the evaluations are still there,

1252
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: and I still think it's I still think it's the

1253
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: offensive line that's the most important offensively. Yeah, and I

1254
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:54,360
Speaker 1: get that. I just think that they have a group

1255
01:08:54,360 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: of seven guys, maybe eight, but I think seven that

1256
01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 1: they believe will. Of this group of seven, five of

1257
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:09,639
Speaker 1: them will be our starting group in some combination or another.

1258
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,799
Speaker 1: And I don't think that adventures outside that group of seven.

1259
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: I suppose it's subject to change, but I don't see

1260
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: I really I think something dramatic has to happen for

1261
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:28,759
Speaker 1: that to change. I think there are probably seven guys

1262
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 1: that are in the running to start on the offensive

1263
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: line here, and that's it. The only yeah, and the

1264
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,719
Speaker 1: only thing that could change that on the offensive line,

1265
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 1: or the wide receiver spot, running back, tight end, you

1266
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Speaker 1: name it, whatever position group you want to pick out,

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01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 1: even on the defensive side, would be an unexpected absence

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01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: by one of the players because he got a twisted

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01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,640
Speaker 1: a like a hamstring, like the Zach Moss thing or

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01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 1: the Christian Wade thing, one of these things were even

1271
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: the Dion Dawkins COVID case where the guy's out for

1272
01:09:55,960 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: a week, somebody gets some extra reps and does really well,

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01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 1: and the guy that looked to be getting that spot

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01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: gets healthy again, or gets back on the field and

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01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 1: doesn't show up. He fades. We've also seen guys who

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01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 1: have great starts to training camp and his training camp

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01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 1: wears on, they fade consistently. They just go downhill and

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01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: they never get back to that level they where they

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01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: were early in camp. So there is a long way

1280
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: to go before these final cuts have to be made,

1281
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 1: and anything could happen and has happened in the past.

1282
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: But as it sits right now and this point of

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01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: training camp twenty twenty one, the numbers are what they are,

1284
01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 1: and you're right. I think it's Mackenzie and Kumerou behind

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01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 1: the top four guys. Interesting thing here on social media,

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01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: it looks like Leshawn McCoy has been asked if the

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01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: Bills are going, where the Bills are going to rank

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01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: in the AFC, and whether he thinks Josh can win MVP,

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01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: And basically Leshawn responded to what I'm assuming as a

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01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: Bills fan, and Leshawn said Bills will be in the

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01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 1: top two in the AFC this year, not sure about

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01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: their record, and he also said that he believes let

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01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 1: me see what the reply is here, hold on, I

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01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 1: lost it. I think he said he believes, Yeah, Division champs,

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01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 1: top two in the AFC. Not sure about their exact record.

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01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 1: Then he was asked for an MVP prediction, and let

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01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 1: me see where this is on my scroll. Here he said,

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01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:36,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo added some backs, so that should take some carries.

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Speaker 1: But I think Singletary has a solid year. Wouldn't call

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01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:43,600
Speaker 1: it a breakout year. And then he was asked and

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01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 1: he said, Josh Allen. Dang it, my scroll keeps updating.

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01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:53,759
Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, he says. He says, Josh Allen

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01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: for sure, top three MVP runner, and I think he

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01:11:56,760 --> 01:12:00,519
Speaker 1: wins it this year. My little my little big rich brother,

1305
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 1: my little big rich brother. He's calling Josh Allen, so

1306
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: he thinks, yeah, he thinks Josh is who he is,

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01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 1: who he was last year, and he's going to continue

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01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: with that kind of play. If he does, he will

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01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: be in the conversation seasons like Josh had last year

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01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: don't happen very often. Even though Aaron Rodgers had a

1311
01:12:16,479 --> 01:12:19,799
Speaker 1: better one last year than Josh did with touchdowns and stuff,

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: Josh was in that conversation. He's going to continue to

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01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:26,600
Speaker 1: play like that. In my estimation, that's who he is.

1314
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 1: And we watched him play, and he did it through

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01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:31,839
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks of the regular season and two playoff games

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01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: and we three playoff games. He is that guy. That's

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01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 1: who he's going to continue to be. That doesn't mean

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01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:38,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna win every game, doesn't mean he's not gonna

1319
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 1: get beat by two touchdowns by good Chiefs team, doesn't

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01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:45,240
Speaker 1: mean he's gonna you know, you know, win nineteen super Bowls.

1321
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, the Guy's gonna be in that

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01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: conversation because that's kind of player he is. That's who

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01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: he proved he was last year through seventeen weeks of

1324
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: this that wasn't an up and down year at all

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01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: for him. It was it was a rising ascendency. He

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01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 1: got better from Week one when he hung up all

1327
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: those points and turned it over twice earlier against the

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01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: Jets Jets, and got better and better throughout that year

1329
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: on his way to a runner up MVP. The Guy.

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01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: The guy is that guy, and his stats may take

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01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:15,360
Speaker 1: a step back or whatever, but he's gonna play like

1332
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: that guy. Defenses may focus on him and do things

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01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 1: to take it or make it harder on him. He

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01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 1: may not have forty six touchdowns this year or fifty

1335
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year, but he's gonna be that guy. Don't

1336
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:28,520
Speaker 1: forget Pat Mahomes won the MVP through for fifty touchdowns

1337
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 1: or he was the MVP for fifty touchdowns. The next

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01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:32,680
Speaker 1: year he threw for twenty six and they won the

1339
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:35,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. After the year he was the MVP of

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01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: the league. He threw half the touchdowns but won the

1341
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. That's the kind of guy Josh is gonna be.

1342
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: It may be a tougher year statistically for him, but

1343
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: he's the guy. So it's you know, he's not gonna

1344
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:54,559
Speaker 1: be one of those roller coaster guys. He's not gonna

1345
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:58,200
Speaker 1: be a Jamis Winston where he throws thirty picks. You know,

1346
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 1: He's is who he is and teams are gonna have

1347
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 1: to deal with him. So I think Lashawn McCoy is

1348
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:08,720
Speaker 1: probably right. How about Lashawn McCoy as an analyst here,

1349
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he did have the opportunity to play with

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01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: him in twenty eighteen and did think he had a

1351
01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 1: lot of promise. So he hit the mark on that.

1352
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 1: And he says the Bills will be in the top

1353
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: two in the AFC this year, not sure about the record,

1354
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 1: and believes that Singletary will have a more productive year

1355
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:30,920
Speaker 1: this year, and he believes Josh Allen will win the MVP.

1356
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 1: So making friends in Buffalo all over again. Way to go,

1357
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: shade building bridges, Way to go shading. Yeah, I remember

1358
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,040
Speaker 1: he was high on Josh when he came here. You

1359
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:45,560
Speaker 1: can say I was a teammate. He didn't want to,

1360
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: but it's easy to come back to it now and

1361
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: say I told you right. Okay, we have to take

1362
01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: a break here. There is an update on Jets Pass

1363
01:14:56,560 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: rusher Carl Lawson, and needless to say, it doesn't sound promising.

1364
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: We'll get into the details of that when we come

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01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 1: back here on One Bill's Live, presented by Klota Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. All Right, we are back

1367
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 1: and there's some news to report on the joint practices

1368
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 1: front taking place in a couple of places around the league.

1369
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 1: Miami's in some joint practices with the Falcons, Titans are

1370
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:37,719
Speaker 1: in some joint practices with the Bucks, and the Jets

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01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:42,679
Speaker 1: are in some joint practices with the Green Bay Packers,

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01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 1: who the Bills will face next week. We mentioned earlier

1373
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: in the show that Jets Pass rusher Carl Lawson was

1374
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: carted off the practice field. There has been some updates

1375
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 1: to the original reports. NFL Network Scene and Rappaport is

1376
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: reporting that Austin suffered a lower leg injury at practice

1377
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 1: and he's having an MRI on his achilles. If it

1378
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,800
Speaker 1: is torn, we know his season is over before it

1379
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 1: even begins. Mike Garifolo followed up with I was told

1380
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:20,719
Speaker 1: Lawson reported feeling a pop. The Jets for now are

1381
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: holding their breath. This was one of their big free

1382
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:26,720
Speaker 1: agent acquisitions, steve to improve their pass rush. Yet three year,

1383
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:29,920
Speaker 1: forty five million dollars, dear, and they need the guy

1384
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: to show up. I mean, right, so it's not money

1385
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: well spent if he's on the sidelines for an entire year.

1386
01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:42,759
Speaker 1: Down in Miami, Calvin Ridley is making Miami defensive backs

1387
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: look stupid. He's turning them inside out. I've seen a

1388
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: couple of the highlighted routes and they are one on ones.

1389
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 1: They're not team segments of practice as you would imagine.

1390
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 1: They're probably not shooting during that. He's turning some people

1391
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: inside out down there. It is gruff going. Yeah, I

1392
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 1: saw a couple of the route. I mean, the route

1393
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 1: concept really isn't fair. The receiver has access to the

1394
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: entire half of the end zone, so you know, and

1395
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:12,400
Speaker 1: it's an unlimited timed play. The one that's been that's

1396
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:14,479
Speaker 1: been shown out there is this one that the MSG

1397
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:16,640
Speaker 1: viewers are seeing. If you look at the count on

1398
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:22,040
Speaker 1: the video, it takes the ball to six almost six

1399
01:17:22,080 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 1: and a half seven seconds to get there. So the

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01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: dB and in places that, yeah, exactly, the ball's got

1401
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: to be gone now or the quarterbacks on the ground

1402
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: and now it's just yeah. I mean, as a guy

1403
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: who did that a lot played one on one in practice,

1404
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: Nobody on either side is really excited about that play, right.

1405
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: That's that's one of the media guys who I don't

1406
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 1: know in this case. I think it was, what is

1407
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,559
Speaker 1: Albert Breer or somebody I don't want to mishandling mine.

1408
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: He's don't last. Yeah, it's like he's like, wow, look

1409
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,560
Speaker 1: at this, this is unbelievable. I'm like, what are you

1410
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:54,920
Speaker 1: talking about? Give the guys six days to get open. Yeah,

1411
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: my my ninety year old dad could get open on

1412
01:17:57,120 --> 01:18:02,040
Speaker 1: a guy. So calm down. There's a nice route. Pump

1413
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: the brakes that that is one where the quarterback says,

1414
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 1: go out and get open. And the guy takes all

1415
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 1: the time he needs to get open and with all

1416
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: the field he has, it is disposed to get open. Yeah,

1417
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: that's Meanwhile, that's a media guy who's never played right

1418
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: getting excited. Titans beat reporter to Ron Davenport, who we've

1419
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: had on this show, is tweeting some of the comments

1420
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:25,639
Speaker 1: from Titans head coach Mike Vrabel after their practice joint

1421
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:30,679
Speaker 1: practice against the Buccaneers. Mike Vrabel says today's practice sucked.

1422
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 1: Taking a page out of the Jim Mora playbook there,

1423
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,200
Speaker 1: felt they didn't do well on offense and struggled some

1424
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 1: on defense. Quote I'm sure there were some good things,

1425
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: but just not enough end quote Right, Remember Jim Mora,

1426
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:52,560
Speaker 1: second half sucked. I couldn't do diddley pooh, diddley pooh.

1427
01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: D missed Jim Mora. This came out too while within

1428
01:18:57,320 --> 01:18:59,640
Speaker 1: the last I don't know a day or so. The

1429
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 1: wash Shington football team is coming down with some finalists,

1430
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:07,479
Speaker 1: eight finalists for their name. They're going to change their name, right, well,

1431
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 1: maybe one of the finalists is Washington football team. That's

1432
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 1: what they may go on into the future. As the

1433
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:20,599
Speaker 1: other seven finalists are as follows in alphabetical order, is Armada,

1434
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 1: the Washington Armada, the Washington Brigade, the Washington Commanders, the

1435
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: Washington Washington Defenders, the Washington Presidents, the Washington Okay, I

1436
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: don't laugh, the Washington red Hogs. Is that an homage

1437
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 1: to the old because there's no other excuse. And the

1438
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 1: seventh one, other than the Washington football team, is the

1439
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 1: Washington Red Wolves. Yeah. I heard that that the red

1440
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 1: Wolf is like native to that or used to be

1441
01:19:53,960 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: native to that area. Yeah, yeah, twelve hundreds probably. U. Yeah,

1442
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: I thought I thought Red Tails was gonna be a finalist.

1443
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: Here's a problem in honor of the word. Has it

1444
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: that there's a gentleman I don't know his name. I

1445
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 1: don't know who it is, the veracity of the report.

1446
01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 1: There's a guy who like five or ten years ago

1447
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:21,640
Speaker 1: saw this coming and trademarked the Red Tails Commandos that

1448
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: a lot of names that were obvious. Look he and

1449
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 1: he's got the copyrights to those names, all right, and

1450
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 1: so and he's hold him ransom for a big number.

1451
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 1: Which ones do you like? I like the Commanders. That's

1452
01:20:43,040 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: not bad, I do. I gotta say this. I don't

1453
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:49,680
Speaker 1: know what it is. I'm not a huge fan of

1454
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 1: singular plural names. Do you know what I mean? Like

1455
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: the brigade or do you know what I'm saying, Like

1456
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:59,360
Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic. I don't like those, the Miami Heat

1457
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: I don't know the name, what the word is, but yes,

1458
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:05,880
Speaker 1: you're right. I like red Wolves. I like commanders defenders. No,

1459
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:09,720
Speaker 1: I mean you got you know? Yeah right, so Brigade,

1460
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a hard pass on the Red Hogs.

1461
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:15,040
Speaker 1: The Red Hogs, I'm a hard pass the Red Wolves.

1462
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,680
Speaker 1: I don't like Armada. I like the Red Wolves. I

1463
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 1: don't like Armada, the Brigade, I kind of I can

1464
01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: live with um presidents. No, no um for commanders. What's

1465
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 1: your logo? General MacArthur and aviators in a general's hat

1466
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 1: corn cob pipe? Yeah, maybe corn cob pipe with the

1467
01:21:37,120 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: MacArthur family. See if he could use his likeness on

1468
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: the side of the helmet good red Wolves I like,

1469
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 1: I like, you know, I like animal mascots. Red Wolves

1470
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: would give you a lot to work with. For sure.

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01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: They wouldn't really offend anybody there. They could keep their

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Speaker 1: anthem it uhould be hailed to the rail to the

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01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:00,680
Speaker 1: red Wolves Hail to the red Wolves. You could kind

1474
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:05,879
Speaker 1: of keep it flowing. Yeah, can't do braves on the warpath.

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01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 1: I think no. I think if you go presidents, they

1476
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,719
Speaker 1: could play the one that they play for the Hail

1477
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:13,680
Speaker 1: to the Chief. They could hail to the chief when

1478
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: they come out, or the commanders for that matter, I

1479
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:21,439
Speaker 1: can play that also, Commander in chief. Yeah, I mean,

1480
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: I get I get Presidents. I get it. I think

1481
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:26,639
Speaker 1: I think, let's if we go from worst to first.

1482
01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: It might be easier if you're gonna if I kind

1483
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 1: of like the Washington football team. I don't have a

1484
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: problem with it. I didn't. I get it. It's a

1485
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 1: little bit bland. It's like he gave up, you know

1486
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: what I mean, the Washington football team. We know what

1487
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,120
Speaker 1: sport they play. Can we really need to call him

1488
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:46,920
Speaker 1: the Washington football team? You gave up there? All right?

1489
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 1: That's a gift. That's a that's a white your your

1490
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: logo should be a white flag. If that's your team name.

1491
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,800
Speaker 1: All right, I'll give you. I get I surrender Washington's

1492
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 1: foot to take that one off the field, because it's

1493
01:22:56,520 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: already there. Let's say I think the worst one is Armada. Yeah,

1494
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't. Second one is presidents. I don't like. Red

1495
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,759
Speaker 1: Hogs is at the bottom. Defenders. I don't like red Hogs.

1496
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: I don't like brigade, Commanders, red Wolves, I don't I

1497
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: think I don't like commanders. No, I like Brigade and

1498
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 1: red Wolves best. I'm kind of Commanders and red Wolves.

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01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 1: Those are at the top of my list. Red Hogs

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01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:27,639
Speaker 1: is a hard No defenders, that's like an XFL name, right.

1501
01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 1: The Brigade is the same thing too. It's like, is

1502
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:37,000
Speaker 1: like hit over the head obvious. You're better than that, right, right? Yeah,

1503
01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:40,360
Speaker 1: so I would go Commanders or red Wolves. Again, I'm

1504
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 1: against those singular plurals like Armada and brigade. That's when

1505
01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: you're trying too hard. The Washington football team, you're not

1506
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:54,720
Speaker 1: trying so but that, like I said, there was a

1507
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 1: i'd heard. You know, some of these names have been

1508
01:23:56,920 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: copyrighted by people trying to get out ahead of it.

1509
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: So they you know, they want to pay somebody twenty

1510
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:03,200
Speaker 1: million dollars for the right, you know what I mean.

1511
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:07,599
Speaker 1: It's like throwing money away. Make him, make Daniel Snyder

1512
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: pay it, right, Come on, nobody's nobody's got any sympathy

1513
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: for it, but that's probably what it is. He's like, no,

1514
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Yeah, so there you God did

1515
01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 1: say when that decision is coming down twenty twenty two

1516
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:25,640
Speaker 1: or not? Say? Says you just no, I'm curious to

1517
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: know when that's going to be finalized. I have not

1518
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: that is not available. Says it's down to The Washington

1519
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,800
Speaker 1: football team has reportedly narrowed their list of potential names

1520
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:43,639
Speaker 1: down to three options for the team's making the brand series.

1521
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: Their finalists come from these eight that we just mentioned.

1522
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 1: But oh so they're down to three already. They're just

1523
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: not telling you who goes how we are out of

1524
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,880
Speaker 1: that eight right exactly? So okay, I don't know what

1525
01:24:55,880 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: do you do. You'll go down to your local OTB

1526
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:00,160
Speaker 1: and get in on a prop bet of a which

1527
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: one which three? It is? Is that why they do that?

1528
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't know? Could be we should also pass along.

1529
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: Jets Packers joined practices. Wide receiver Denzel Mims limped off

1530
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: the field with a trainer at their practice session up

1531
01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:21,639
Speaker 1: there in Green Bay today, So not a good day

1532
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:25,719
Speaker 1: for the Jets. Lawson feared to have an achilles injury,

1533
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: which could cost him the season. Denzel mims limping off

1534
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: the field. That's not good man. When it rains, it

1535
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: pours sometimes. Fortunately it's raining for the Jets. And we

1536
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:42,080
Speaker 1: had this conversation earlier and before we go to break

1537
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:45,160
Speaker 1: just it's just what we talked about when these teams

1538
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: start to get together and like the Packers are having

1539
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 1: practices with what is it the Jets this week? Is

1540
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,720
Speaker 1: that who where they're at Packers and Jets? Yes, and

1541
01:25:58,439 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 1: you know they're in Green Bay. The intensity just goes

1542
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 1: through the roof, particularly when you get into competitive you know,

1543
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:07,679
Speaker 1: it's not just running against seven on seven and stuff

1544
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:09,280
Speaker 1: like that. When you start to bang heads and go

1545
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 1: maybe a live period. Guys are asking things of their

1546
01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 1: bodies they don't haven't been asked to give yet this

1547
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:19,479
Speaker 1: season in practice, and they do it not wanting to

1548
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 1: get embarrassed, trying to get trying to impress coaches, trying

1549
01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 1: to impress their opponents as well, trying to make a

1550
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:29,439
Speaker 1: name for themselves, both young and old. Guest Carl Lawson's

1551
01:26:29,479 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: a veteran and you know, go out and you know,

1552
01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:36,639
Speaker 1: stuff starts breaking. It's tough, man, It's really hard. Plus

1553
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: like you just said, it's one of the great mystery.

1554
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 1: I get these sports scientists in there. It's one of

1555
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: the reasons the Bills have remained healthy because they kind

1556
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: of stay out in front of it. You get these

1557
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: these GPS, little chips that these guys wear in their

1558
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,679
Speaker 1: in their pads that tells you how fast they're running,

1559
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:55,280
Speaker 1: how far they've run, their level of intensity. Even that

1560
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 1: doesn't give you quite enough information to get to a

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01:26:57,439 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: point where you can stop these guys from going too far.

1562
01:27:00,479 --> 01:27:04,120
Speaker 1: It's tough. It's an impossibility at this point. Break time

1563
01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 1: for us here. When Steve and I come back, we'll

1564
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,479
Speaker 1: get to your thoughts on the tweet sheet as we

1565
01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 1: are asking you what position group still needs more evaluation

1566
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:18,200
Speaker 1: for the rest of the Bills preseason. You let us

1567
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: know or give us a call. Eight oh three five

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01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:23,920
Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty back

1569
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:41,320
Speaker 1: in a second here on One Bills Live. Welcome back,

1570
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve task a review dive

1571
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:47,639
Speaker 1: to get to the tweet sheet which offensive position needs

1572
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:50,320
Speaker 1: to be evaluated the most during this preseason tweet sheet

1573
01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

1574
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Jack starts us off

1575
01:27:57,120 --> 01:28:00,120
Speaker 1: by saying, need to work out the best starting five

1576
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 1: and the best backups on the old line. I think

1577
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 1: they'll keep nine this year, but with Dawkins COVID affecting

1578
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: availability and Morse's concussion history, they need to make sure

1579
01:28:10,439 --> 01:28:14,120
Speaker 1: they have capable guys to step in Aside from Feliciano,

1580
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:21,120
Speaker 1: the other guard is a question that's pretty on point.

1581
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:25,360
Speaker 1: You're right, and I agree, you got to find the

1582
01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:28,800
Speaker 1: best guys. Dawkins is a question mark at the time,

1583
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 1: at the current point, depending on how he bounces back,

1584
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:34,680
Speaker 1: although it yeah he's gonna if he's good enough to

1585
01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: play a few snaps. Who that will increase as time

1586
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:41,759
Speaker 1: goes on. Mitch Morse, Yes, the concussion history is a concern,

1587
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: and Feliciano maybe I think I'm more I'm more apt

1588
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:52,400
Speaker 1: to say Darryl Williams is a more of a solid

1589
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 1: bet to be on the front offensive line than either

1590
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 1: of the two guards were from a year ago, either

1591
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,000
Speaker 1: of the three or four year guards that we saw

1592
01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 1: play from a year ago. Ford, Feliciano, Bates, Butcker go

1593
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 1: down the list, Um, all of those guys, I think

1594
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 1: those are the two spots that are really up for

1595
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 1: a question mark and what happens if if they think

1596
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:17,960
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown all of a sudden is a viable option

1597
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:20,639
Speaker 1: at right tackle and Darryl Williams, who has played very

1598
01:29:20,640 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 1: well for this team, kicks down inside where he played

1599
01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:27,000
Speaker 1: most of his career in Carolina and now meaning guard.

1600
01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 1: So that's the possibility if Spencer Brown takes quality, meaningful

1601
01:29:32,360 --> 01:29:36,400
Speaker 1: reps and plays well. Jack Anderson don't know about him

1602
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:40,840
Speaker 1: yet as an interior offensive lineman. Boil the same thing?

1603
01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:43,640
Speaker 1: Maybe is he Stricklent Doyle? Why do I keep doing that?

1604
01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, you want to boil him up or

1605
01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:48,320
Speaker 1: something again, Tommy Doyle, who I've done that the entire

1606
01:29:48,320 --> 01:29:52,640
Speaker 1: show today, Tommy Doyle, who has who has you know?

1607
01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 1: Played tackle? And it's another six eight guy? Hard to

1608
01:29:56,520 --> 01:30:00,439
Speaker 1: see him moving down inside, but who knows? So all

1609
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 1: of that, you know, goes into the mix and I

1610
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:07,200
Speaker 1: don't know, you know what that looks like when it's

1611
01:30:07,200 --> 01:30:11,840
Speaker 1: stirred up. So I still maintain they have a pretty

1612
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:15,360
Speaker 1: good handle on seven guys that I have the best

1613
01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 1: chance of factoring into being one of the top five

1614
01:30:20,160 --> 01:30:24,559
Speaker 1: and starting. Yeah, I think there are other considerations beyond that,

1615
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: But I don't think they will viably contend. I think

1616
01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:32,639
Speaker 1: they know they've probably got seven guys they can get

1617
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:37,360
Speaker 1: by with. But they didn't sign any of the two,

1618
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 1: either of the two offensive lineman Feliciano or Darryl Williams.

1619
01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:44,519
Speaker 1: They didn't sign either one of those guys to blockbuster deals,

1620
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:50,240
Speaker 1: and they drafted three of them. That says, well to me,

1621
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:55,920
Speaker 1: that's an open that's open competition. So you're anticipating change, yes,

1622
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 1: I am. But you're anticipating change at the start of

1623
01:30:59,840 --> 01:31:03,600
Speaker 1: this season. Yeah. I mean they got a month to

1624
01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:05,760
Speaker 1: get ready. They have three preseason games. I know, if

1625
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:09,680
Speaker 1: it's enough time, with what's at stake this season to

1626
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:15,680
Speaker 1: potentially insert three young players into a lineup. I not

1627
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 1: week one. You want to talk to me about Week

1628
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:23,839
Speaker 1: ten or eleven. Somebody's coming on, somebody's performing admirably, somebody

1629
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: looks more ready than they did in training camp. All right,

1630
01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:29,760
Speaker 1: Maybe that's that seems like a big guy, he's playing good,

1631
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:33,799
Speaker 1: he's playing good. Well, Yeah, I just I And sometimes

1632
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: it's not about that guy in particular, it's about him

1633
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:37,880
Speaker 1: and the other guy. How the other guys playing yea,

1634
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:41,040
Speaker 1: how he looks, and what you know about him. I

1635
01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:44,880
Speaker 1: think the only draft choice that has a even a

1636
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 1: look at it is probably Brown. It's probably the only

1637
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:51,479
Speaker 1: guy that he's even has a look at it um

1638
01:31:51,520 --> 01:31:54,960
Speaker 1: at least at the outset of the season. Veto on

1639
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, I feel we need to have

1640
01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:59,439
Speaker 1: a breakout year from Knox or we should start thinking

1641
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:03,559
Speaker 1: about the position options moving forward. Although it is not

1642
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,360
Speaker 1: the most critical position for our offense, it poses the

1643
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:09,960
Speaker 1: most questions for me. And I'm in that boat. I'm

1644
01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:14,439
Speaker 1: with you, Vito, because after Knox, who still has stuff

1645
01:32:14,479 --> 01:32:17,519
Speaker 1: to prove in his own right this season, it's it's

1646
01:32:17,520 --> 01:32:23,200
Speaker 1: a pretty muddled group with unproven players, guys coming back

1647
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 1: after missing all of last season, Sweeney who is now

1648
01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:31,040
Speaker 1: out with a foot problem, and then Hollister who is

1649
01:32:31,120 --> 01:32:33,120
Speaker 1: just now back in the fold after being out with

1650
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:36,920
Speaker 1: a back injury. You're I'm with you. You're not anywhere

1651
01:32:37,040 --> 01:32:39,240
Speaker 1: right now. I'm that position. There's a lot that has

1652
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:42,759
Speaker 1: to be figured out there. Yeah, I mean you've got Becker,

1653
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:49,840
Speaker 1: Quentin Morris and bug Bug Howard. Okay, those it's their

1654
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 1: chance because the guy's up that we just mentioned there,

1655
01:32:53,120 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 1: you know, Knox is and I don't think Knox is

1656
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:58,960
Speaker 1: going anywhere. No, no, but there's some space. I mean,

1657
01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Go with one tight end? No,

1658
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 1: they gotta have, you know, three at least three on

1659
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: the rod minimum, think unless they feel like they're gonna

1660
01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: go three tights and put an offensive lineman. You know,

1661
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:11,519
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Spencer Brown's you're extra tight end

1662
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 1: because he played it in college or high school. I mean,

1663
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,080
Speaker 1: you know they're athletic enough to do it, but you know,

1664
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:21,160
Speaker 1: you know that's spot play. I mean, so you know

1665
01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 1: somebody's got to do it. I mean that that's where

1666
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:26,679
Speaker 1: we're at right now. You got all these guys nicked

1667
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:30,639
Speaker 1: up one after the other once sick, foot injury, back injury,

1668
01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:36,400
Speaker 1: and knocks. So somebody's got to be there. Gillian's been

1669
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 1: there yea, and now Reggie is not back to wearing

1670
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: a forties number. So not You're right, I think that

1671
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:48,240
Speaker 1: that group is up for grabs. It's muddled at best.

1672
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 1: Seth on the tweet, Chet says, final wide receiver spots

1673
01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:54,240
Speaker 1: for me. Gotta find out which one of those guys

1674
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: can contribute the most. Sounds like Kummero is leading the

1675
01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:59,559
Speaker 1: pack for the sixth spot, but Stevenson could prove worthy too.

1676
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 1: Do they keep seven if he continues to stand out?

1677
01:34:02,439 --> 01:34:05,479
Speaker 1: I'd like to see another versatile guy on the squad, right,

1678
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any harm in putting a seventh

1679
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:12,559
Speaker 1: receiver on your practice squad. As a matter of fact,

1680
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:15,400
Speaker 1: the sixteen player practice squad, I would anticipate they have

1681
01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 1: two receivers on the practice squad, maybe even three, and

1682
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 1: keep six on the active roster. I did some research

1683
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 1: yesterday and there were seven teams in the NFL that

1684
01:34:28,560 --> 01:34:32,200
Speaker 1: had seven receivers on their active roster last year, which

1685
01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:35,479
Speaker 1: was more than I anticipated. Half the league had six,

1686
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 1: and then nine teams had five. Do you remember any

1687
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:41,840
Speaker 1: of the seven teams had seven? Of them stand out

1688
01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:43,479
Speaker 1: in any way shape or four. I wrote it down.

1689
01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:49,040
Speaker 1: Minnesota had seven, which is surprising because they were a

1690
01:34:49,080 --> 01:34:56,320
Speaker 1: run first offense. Chicago had seven, Washington had seven, the

1691
01:34:56,439 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 1: Jets had seven, The Dolphins you're playing in had seven,

1692
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:03,000
Speaker 1: playing into what I said at the top of the show,

1693
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:06,439
Speaker 1: and the Texans and Cincinnati had seven. You're playing right

1694
01:35:06,439 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 1: into what I said at the top of the show

1695
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:11,800
Speaker 1: about cornerback two. The Bills may keep extra corners because

1696
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:15,680
Speaker 1: they're worried about having a guy that can play. All

1697
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:19,599
Speaker 1: those teams you mentioned were like, who, yeah, what two

1698
01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:21,720
Speaker 1: of them are in their division? They got to have

1699
01:35:21,720 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: as many guys they can because of the guys they

1700
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: have have limited skill sets and they need guys to play. Yeah,

1701
01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 1: they need guys to fill different aspects of their offense.

1702
01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:32,200
Speaker 1: So they'll put this guy there to run this concept,

1703
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 1: a different guy at there to run this concept. You know,

1704
01:35:34,280 --> 01:35:36,519
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. A cornerback, you do the same thing.

1705
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:39,680
Speaker 1: So they basically have the opposite of position flexibility. Is

1706
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:41,640
Speaker 1: that what you're telling exactly? They become predict when this

1707
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 1: guy's out there. They ain't running that coverage that kind

1708
01:35:44,240 --> 01:35:45,680
Speaker 1: of thing if it was a cornerback too. So that's

1709
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: exactly what I was saying at the top of the show.

1710
01:35:48,120 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 1: When you know which position group, and I think that's

1711
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 1: one of the things you see with those teams right there. Well,

1712
01:35:56,280 --> 01:35:58,280
Speaker 1: that's why we're such a killer combination, Steve. We bring

1713
01:35:58,280 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 1: it all full circle here on the show, and we

1714
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 1: did it in two hours instead of three. Get dizzy,

1715
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:05,400
Speaker 1: well sometimes, but we don't fall down. We keep on trucking.

1716
01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:07,719
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here when we return

1717
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:11,120
Speaker 1: more of your comments on the tweet sheet as we

1718
01:36:11,200 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 1: find out what you believe to be the offensive position

1719
01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:18,040
Speaker 1: that needs to be evaluated the most. With what we

1720
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:21,520
Speaker 1: have left in terms of time here in the preseason.

1721
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 1: Have some good contributions already. We welcome yours, either on

1722
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet or on the phones. Eight oh three

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01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 1: five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two, five fifty

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01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 1: Back in a moment here on one Bills Live presented

1725
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:52,240
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Had

1726
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:55,759
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field,

1727
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:57,479
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1728
01:36:57,560 --> 01:37:03,920
Speaker 1: player for you. Steel Steve a blimp. We're not even

1729
01:37:03,920 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: in the straged bear of normalcy. There we go our

1730
01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 1: number three on a Thursday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

1731
01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:19,519
Speaker 1: Another day of practice in the books. Heard from Jacob Hollister.

1732
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:25,080
Speaker 1: Also heard from Matt Brida. Some comments from coach McDermott, who,

1733
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 1: among his comments said, Zach Moss will play, Josh Allen

1734
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:32,560
Speaker 1: will not, number of starters will not play in Saturday's

1735
01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:36,840
Speaker 1: preseason game against the Bears. Mitchell Trubisky will start a

1736
01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 1: quarterback against his former team, the team that drafted him

1737
01:37:40,160 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 1: second overall and traded up a spot to do so.

1738
01:37:45,280 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how the preseason game number two

1739
01:37:48,760 --> 01:37:52,040
Speaker 1: is shaping up. Steve will be in the air tomorrow

1740
01:37:52,120 --> 01:37:54,639
Speaker 1: at this time and see he travels there get ready

1741
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:57,799
Speaker 1: for the preseason broadcast with his broadcast partner Andrew Cantalot

1742
01:37:57,920 --> 01:38:01,320
Speaker 1: did the show from Detroit last week because of the timing,

1743
01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:03,519
Speaker 1: I can't even do that, that's right. So Maddie Glad

1744
01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:05,760
Speaker 1: will be sitting in your chair tomorrow to help me out,

1745
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:08,600
Speaker 1: not physically sitting in the chair. She will be on

1746
01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:12,160
Speaker 1: Zoom and she'll be joining me to do Friday show

1747
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:15,000
Speaker 1: when we open up the ilbil fan mailback so looking

1748
01:38:15,040 --> 01:38:18,760
Speaker 1: forward to that. Had a couple of responses Steve to

1749
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:23,679
Speaker 1: the final eight names in the running for the new

1750
01:38:23,760 --> 01:38:27,679
Speaker 1: name for the Washington football team. Rusty likes red Hogs.

1751
01:38:27,720 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 1: He thinks it's great, feels the original Red Wolves is okay.

1752
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:36,280
Speaker 1: He wishes they would have considered the Potomics or Federals,

1753
01:38:36,920 --> 01:38:41,960
Speaker 1: though I believe this may be trademarked already, so I

1754
01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:44,679
Speaker 1: don't know if the Potomas would have worked because it's

1755
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:48,960
Speaker 1: probably too closely related to Native Americans, that is it

1756
01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:53,479
Speaker 1: is a Native American tribe term, I believe. So that's

1757
01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:56,759
Speaker 1: probably a little too close to the problem that previously existed.

1758
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:00,920
Speaker 1: So I don't see them going down that road. Federals

1759
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:03,840
Speaker 1: is interesting, Um, it doesn't really have a whole lot

1760
01:39:03,840 --> 01:39:07,160
Speaker 1: of pop to it. I will say, yeah, yeah, I

1761
01:39:07,160 --> 01:39:08,840
Speaker 1: don't know, what are you gonna do. It's all gonna

1762
01:39:08,840 --> 01:39:11,479
Speaker 1: sound it's all gonna sound foreign and strange until we

1763
01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:15,840
Speaker 1: get used to it. I like that they're probably going

1764
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: to move away from just calling them the football team.

1765
01:39:19,560 --> 01:39:22,519
Speaker 1: That's a little hard to get your mind around. But

1766
01:39:24,800 --> 01:39:28,040
Speaker 1: we'll get used to it. Our our grand kids will

1767
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:32,160
Speaker 1: never know anything different, right, just like the New York

1768
01:39:32,600 --> 01:39:35,800
Speaker 1: Jets used to be the New York Titans, correct, right?

1769
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:39,839
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Tennessee was the Oilers. They were the Oilers

1770
01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 1: for a year. Yeah, Tennessee Oilers. Yea. So played at

1771
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:48,840
Speaker 1: the Liberty Bowl. Oh, I know, the Bills played. They

1772
01:39:48,880 --> 01:39:51,640
Speaker 1: beat us the Tennessee Oilers that year. They beat us

1773
01:39:51,640 --> 01:39:54,000
Speaker 1: in ninety seven and there was a little bruhaha in

1774
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:56,720
Speaker 1: the locker room after two in our locker room? Oh yeah,

1775
01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:59,639
Speaker 1: was there. John Butler was not happy. I don't remember

1776
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: with the offensive play calling, and instead of going after

1777
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 1: Dan Henning, I believe he went answered Schaffner I remember right.

1778
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:13,840
Speaker 1: And we in the media were waiting to get into

1779
01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:16,880
Speaker 1: the locker room, which was I mean, the Liberty Bowl

1780
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: is an old building. Oh my gosh, steel door locker

1781
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:25,640
Speaker 1: room right in the tunnel area, and we could audibly

1782
01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 1: hear John Butler, who when he was angry, had a

1783
01:40:29,120 --> 01:40:33,840
Speaker 1: booming voice clearly through a steel door. We heard him yelling.

1784
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:36,439
Speaker 1: We didn't know who he was yelling at. But it

1785
01:40:36,479 --> 01:40:39,479
Speaker 1: wasn't good because the Bills lost a game they probably

1786
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:43,960
Speaker 1: should have won that week. Steve McNair carried them on

1787
01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:48,360
Speaker 1: his back to win, and the Bills had some turnovers,

1788
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 1: if I remember right. So that was that. That was

1789
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:56,720
Speaker 1: a great road trip though, wasn't this barbecue and all that? Yeah,

1790
01:40:57,000 --> 01:41:00,720
Speaker 1: great road trip. I went to Graceland, I think with

1791
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:03,720
Speaker 1: Vick Carucci and the late Alan Wilson. I've been in Graceland.

1792
01:41:03,800 --> 01:41:08,040
Speaker 1: Went to Graceland. Experience that you have you seen it lately? No,

1793
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:10,120
Speaker 1: that was the last, the one and only time I

1794
01:41:10,160 --> 01:41:14,840
Speaker 1: had got the property across the road and put huge

1795
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:18,879
Speaker 1: buildings up so that you go and it's all on display,

1796
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:23,880
Speaker 1: so like you walk through this huge warehouse. It's it's unbelievable.

1797
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:27,080
Speaker 1: But I did that and then went to Beal Street

1798
01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:32,559
Speaker 1: that night, right, and had barbecue, Yeah at BB King's place.

1799
01:41:34,040 --> 01:41:36,120
Speaker 1: No BB King that night, which would have made it

1800
01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 1: out of the world road trip. But yeah, it was

1801
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:41,720
Speaker 1: a good time. Band went on at nine. It was good.

1802
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:43,720
Speaker 1: We had good seats. How did we get on? How

1803
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:46,960
Speaker 1: we gonna? Oh, team name, team names so our Yeah,

1804
01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:49,720
Speaker 1: our grandkids or kids will never know anything different that.

1805
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:52,200
Speaker 1: Why when is this going to be announced? That's what

1806
01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:56,000
Speaker 1: I want to know. Is this gonna be for next year? No,

1807
01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're not saying or they haven't said

1808
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:01,760
Speaker 1: that I've seen. But I'm trying to find out when

1809
01:42:01,760 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: the Washington football team is going to settle on one

1810
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:06,160
Speaker 1: of the three finalists, which we don't even know. The

1811
01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:09,479
Speaker 1: three finalists are out of the eight they told us, right,

1812
01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:11,639
Speaker 1: because that list of eight that you gave is now

1813
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 1: down to three. We will will we be? Will we

1814
01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:18,720
Speaker 1: be playing them next next year? Will it be the

1815
01:42:18,920 --> 01:42:22,040
Speaker 1: NFC East or the NFC West? Now the NFC South,

1816
01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:26,439
Speaker 1: It's either would it be we played the North? Wind

1817
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:28,559
Speaker 1: we play it might be the North turn right, Yeah,

1818
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 1: because we played the Yeah, we played the two years ago.

1819
01:42:32,439 --> 01:42:35,479
Speaker 1: You played in Thing in Dallas and then you played

1820
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 1: in Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be the It'll

1821
01:42:41,360 --> 01:42:44,439
Speaker 1: be the North next year. Okay. For the Washington football team,

1822
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,320
Speaker 1: the new name and logo will be revealed in early

1823
01:42:47,520 --> 01:42:51,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. The team will retain the traditional burgundy

1824
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:55,840
Speaker 1: and gold colors. So alright, absoliciting fan feedback for a

1825
01:42:55,880 --> 01:42:58,760
Speaker 1: potential name change. It'll be after, Well, it might not

1826
01:42:58,800 --> 01:43:04,200
Speaker 1: be at it might be super Bowl week, early thunder.

1827
01:43:05,360 --> 01:43:09,800
Speaker 1: Typical move, well, pr move, it is what it is. Yeah,

1828
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:11,720
Speaker 1: let's get back to the tweet sheet where we have

1829
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:15,760
Speaker 1: been asking you which offensive position needs to be evaluated

1830
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:18,719
Speaker 1: the most during this preseason. We are up to Chris

1831
01:43:18,720 --> 01:43:21,840
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, who says, I say running back

1832
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:24,679
Speaker 1: an offensive line. I want to see how Zach Moss

1833
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:27,000
Speaker 1: looks coming back off that hamstring injury. I also want

1834
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:29,600
Speaker 1: to see how Dion Dawkins looks coming back after his

1835
01:43:29,720 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 1: battle from COVID. Yeah. I mean for Dawkins, it sounds

1836
01:43:33,320 --> 01:43:35,240
Speaker 1: like it's a conditioning thing. Maybe it is a little

1837
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:37,599
Speaker 1: bit of a strength thing since he lost sixteen pounds.

1838
01:43:38,240 --> 01:43:41,040
Speaker 1: Moss will play on Saturday, according to coach McDermott. So

1839
01:43:41,080 --> 01:43:43,880
Speaker 1: you'll get your wish you're there. But what about that group,

1840
01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:48,120
Speaker 1: the running back group. I think we feel pretty comfortable

1841
01:43:48,120 --> 01:43:53,680
Speaker 1: in believing that Moss, Singletary and Brita are probably on

1842
01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:56,800
Speaker 1: this roster. When it gets down to fifty three, you're

1843
01:43:56,840 --> 01:44:00,880
Speaker 1: anticipating that Taiwan Jones will be on the roster. He's

1844
01:44:00,960 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 1: technically a running back, but a core special teamer, so

1845
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:05,559
Speaker 1: you would anticipate he would be on the roster as

1846
01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:09,720
Speaker 1: the fourth back, which may leave Antonio Williams and or

1847
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 1: Christian Wade on the practice squad. I don't know if

1848
01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:20,120
Speaker 1: any further evaluation is going to help the cause or

1849
01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:22,599
Speaker 1: hurt the cause of any of those players I mentioned.

1850
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:25,040
Speaker 1: Reggie gilliam is a bit of a wild card in

1851
01:44:25,080 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 1: the mix because he has been playing fullback. He's listed

1852
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:32,920
Speaker 1: as a fullback, So where does he factor in, if

1853
01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 1: at all? That's probably the only major question you're asking

1854
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:41,599
Speaker 1: yourself at the running back position. Yeah, yeah, that I

1855
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:45,320
Speaker 1: think is a real gray area in the roster running

1856
01:44:45,360 --> 01:44:48,880
Speaker 1: back slash tight end. You know they're going to keep

1857
01:44:48,920 --> 01:44:50,760
Speaker 1: as many wide receivers as they think they need to

1858
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:53,080
Speaker 1: get through the season and probably hide one or two

1859
01:44:53,080 --> 01:44:56,880
Speaker 1: extras because they're that kind of depth. Tight End is

1860
01:44:56,880 --> 01:44:59,439
Speaker 1: a real question mark about who's going to be on

1861
01:44:59,479 --> 01:45:05,040
Speaker 1: the rod. They've had so many injuries and Knox is

1862
01:45:05,040 --> 01:45:08,280
Speaker 1: really the only guy that stood there the entire preseason,

1863
01:45:08,280 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 1: had been there. But you can't have just one. Yeah,

1864
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 1: so I think that's a real question mark. They're running

1865
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: back slash tight end spot with Gilliam being one or

1866
01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 1: the other. You know, what are you looking at there?

1867
01:45:22,080 --> 01:45:24,639
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know what we haven't talked about.

1868
01:45:24,680 --> 01:45:26,479
Speaker 1: What about quarterback? I think we know who the one

1869
01:45:26,479 --> 01:45:29,360
Speaker 1: and the two are. Last year, this team kept two

1870
01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:33,880
Speaker 1: quarterbacks on their expanded practice squad in Davis Webb and

1871
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:41,439
Speaker 1: Jake from From serving as the emergency marooned quarterback. He

1872
01:45:41,600 --> 01:45:46,839
Speaker 1: was out on an island for COVID the designated survivor

1873
01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:50,599
Speaker 1: if you will? Do they do that again? Do they

1874
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:55,920
Speaker 1: put both quarterbacks on the practice squad and only keep

1875
01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:59,760
Speaker 1: two in Alan and TRUBISKI? I think they could do that.

1876
01:45:59,880 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 1: I think they keep only two on the active roster

1877
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,920
Speaker 1: in Alan and Trubisky. But how many do they keep

1878
01:46:06,960 --> 01:46:08,680
Speaker 1: on the practice one? One or two? Do you think?

1879
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 1: Probably one? Yeah, and which one is your one, I

1880
01:46:19,080 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 1: don't know, doesn't matter. I mean, well down to that guy,

1881
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:24,519
Speaker 1: you're not trying. I think we're talking about positions that

1882
01:46:24,600 --> 01:46:28,360
Speaker 1: need further evaluation, to further evaluation probably for us, that

1883
01:46:28,439 --> 01:46:31,920
Speaker 1: sure certainly does. I think Davis Webb is probably the

1884
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:34,840
Speaker 1: guy I key because he's closer in in you know

1885
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:38,800
Speaker 1: statue the other two. Yeah, he's a term strength. And

1886
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:40,600
Speaker 1: I'll say this too, not for I said it a

1887
01:46:40,600 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 1: bunch the night of the game against Detroit and since then.

1888
01:46:44,320 --> 01:46:47,200
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with his poise and his decisions

1889
01:46:47,439 --> 01:46:50,160
Speaker 1: as you're making was very good. So I sharp tack, yes,

1890
01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:55,080
Speaker 1: and he went to cal right his ability just to

1891
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 1: keep a play alive, make the right decision. He got

1892
01:46:57,360 --> 01:46:59,639
Speaker 1: cold for an intentional grounding, but once again, I think

1893
01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:04,479
Speaker 1: that's one half his fault. Had a nice throwaway during

1894
01:47:04,520 --> 01:47:08,559
Speaker 1: the game, a couple of nice runs from the quarterback spot,

1895
01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:11,040
Speaker 1: and he looked athletic doing it. He's not a nifty

1896
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 1: back and forth, but he's got some wheels and his

1897
01:47:14,439 --> 01:47:16,439
Speaker 1: arm strength, I mean, he's got a pro arm. It's

1898
01:47:16,479 --> 01:47:20,559
Speaker 1: not a Josh Allen arm, but he can make every throw.

1899
01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:28,160
Speaker 1: And his his presence in the quarterback room. I think

1900
01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:31,280
Speaker 1: it's probably as valuable as Jake From could be. So

1901
01:47:32,800 --> 01:47:35,599
Speaker 1: right now, that's who where I'm leaning. And I think

1902
01:47:35,600 --> 01:47:37,200
Speaker 1: it was probably backed up by the fact that he

1903
01:47:37,240 --> 01:47:39,200
Speaker 1: went in first and then Jake From came in, and

1904
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:42,599
Speaker 1: that Detroit came after Drabisky left. Now, if that changes

1905
01:47:42,640 --> 01:47:46,559
Speaker 1: this week, we'll see. So I'm yeah, I'm right now

1906
01:47:46,560 --> 01:47:49,880
Speaker 1: if that's if I'm if I'm cornered and got to

1907
01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:53,080
Speaker 1: make that call, that's who I'm calling. It's Davis Webb. Right.

1908
01:47:53,240 --> 01:47:55,799
Speaker 1: So he finished up at CAL, only played one season

1909
01:47:55,840 --> 01:47:59,600
Speaker 1: there as a graduate charanser from Texas Tech because that

1910
01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:03,439
Speaker 1: Tech his tech. In his three seasons, he had ninety

1911
01:48:03,479 --> 01:48:07,360
Speaker 1: eight hundred passing yards eighty three touchdowns in thirty five

1912
01:48:07,479 --> 01:48:12,480
Speaker 1: games and twenty six starts, and then played his graduate

1913
01:48:12,520 --> 01:48:18,600
Speaker 1: transfer year at CAL. And let's see here, completed a

1914
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:20,320
Speaker 1: little over sixty one and a a half percent of his

1915
01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:23,080
Speaker 1: passes for almost forty three hundred yards, thirty seven touchdowns,

1916
01:48:23,080 --> 01:48:28,000
Speaker 1: twelve picks, one thirty five passer rating, ranked among the

1917
01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:31,559
Speaker 1: nation's leaders in nearly every passing category, including passing yards

1918
01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:35,759
Speaker 1: per game, pass attempts, completion. Now that's the air raid offense,

1919
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:38,880
Speaker 1: so his numbers are going to be high, but still

1920
01:48:38,880 --> 01:48:41,439
Speaker 1: at all there it is, and as we know, he

1921
01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:45,679
Speaker 1: was the third round pick of the Giants, so take

1922
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:49,479
Speaker 1: it for what it's worth. I mean, Frama's a fifth

1923
01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:52,920
Speaker 1: round pick here, has been in some gigantic games in

1924
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:55,720
Speaker 1: the SEC over the course of his career, played with

1925
01:48:55,760 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 1: some really good players down there at Georgia. I wonder

1926
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:03,240
Speaker 1: if maybe they do keep both guys on the practice squad.

1927
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:08,439
Speaker 1: You have sixteen spots to use, so you can afford

1928
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:14,160
Speaker 1: to be you can afford to keep a luxury player,

1929
01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:17,599
Speaker 1: so to speak. Right, so keeping an extra quarterback would

1930
01:49:17,640 --> 01:49:22,360
Speaker 1: be a luxury, especially if you're going four of the

1931
01:49:22,400 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 1: teams in the league. Last year, eighteen teams in the

1932
01:49:26,439 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: league kept three quarterbacks on their active roster. Fourteen, including

1933
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,559
Speaker 1: the Bills, kept just two on their active roster. So

1934
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:38,599
Speaker 1: something to think about the active roster. The really difference

1935
01:49:38,680 --> 01:49:42,080
Speaker 1: there is that you don't want to get caught not

1936
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:45,720
Speaker 1: being able to finish the game. Both guys get hurt

1937
01:49:45,800 --> 01:49:47,800
Speaker 1: not meeting. Neither one of them has to be serious,

1938
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,280
Speaker 1: but you've got to get through a bunch of plays,

1939
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 1: maybe without a guy who's called to play in the cuddle,

1940
01:49:55,680 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 1: and that's not anywhere you want to be. You can't

1941
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:01,080
Speaker 1: win a game like that. Having said that, I said

1942
01:50:01,080 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 1: I mentioned at a little bit ago the Bills did

1943
01:50:03,160 --> 01:50:06,639
Speaker 1: it in the snow game against the Colts three years ago. Well,

1944
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 1: actually it's five years ago now, four or five years ago.

1945
01:50:11,280 --> 01:50:15,760
Speaker 1: But you can't. So that's the real that's the only issue. Um,

1946
01:50:15,840 --> 01:50:21,639
Speaker 1: you only need one quarterback to play theoretically, so why

1947
01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:27,439
Speaker 1: keep four? Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, maybe you

1948
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 1: keep those two because you're anticipating that come this time

1949
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:33,599
Speaker 1: next year you're not going to have Mitchell Trubisky. Does

1950
01:50:33,640 --> 01:50:36,120
Speaker 1: that prompt you to use those two and this? Or

1951
01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:38,040
Speaker 1: you're just gonna try to upgrade again next off. It's

1952
01:50:38,080 --> 01:50:40,160
Speaker 1: given us some if you give it some deeper thought,

1953
01:50:40,240 --> 01:50:43,360
Speaker 1: here's here's what you're looking at. It's and it sounds counterintuitive.

1954
01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:46,759
Speaker 1: If you've got a really good football team, two's plenty.

1955
01:50:48,439 --> 01:50:50,920
Speaker 1: If you're not very good, you might need more because

1956
01:50:50,920 --> 01:50:53,599
Speaker 1: your quarterbacks are gonna take a pounding. That's what happened

1957
01:50:53,600 --> 01:50:55,800
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills under Rex Ryan. That's what happened

1958
01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:58,559
Speaker 1: the way they were with Sean mcdermot's first year. Here,

1959
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:00,800
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley comes in off the street. They got to

1960
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:04,679
Speaker 1: start him because they were bad. They were a bad

1961
01:51:04,720 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: football team and they couldn't protect the guy with a

1962
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:09,760
Speaker 1: running game or an offensive line or play calling. There

1963
01:51:09,800 --> 01:51:13,160
Speaker 1: was there was no help. Right, So a bad football team,

1964
01:51:13,160 --> 01:51:16,120
Speaker 1: you might want to keep three quarterbacks on your active

1965
01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:18,719
Speaker 1: roster because those guys are going to take a pounding.

1966
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:21,599
Speaker 1: If you got a really good club, like a Kansas

1967
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:24,400
Speaker 1: City of Buffalo, a Tampa Bay of a Green Bay,

1968
01:51:24,479 --> 01:51:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, you know you don't need that because your

1969
01:51:27,880 --> 01:51:31,080
Speaker 1: offensive line is deep, it's gifted, you got a running

1970
01:51:31,120 --> 01:51:33,360
Speaker 1: game that can go, and your defense is solid. I mean,

1971
01:51:33,400 --> 01:51:35,840
Speaker 1: so the quarterback's not going to be under that kind

1972
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:42,200
Speaker 1: of pressure. You know too physically you know they're gonna

1973
01:51:42,200 --> 01:51:44,880
Speaker 1: be able to protect him. So the better your team is,

1974
01:51:44,920 --> 01:51:47,960
Speaker 1: the less quarterbacks you need. But the better your team is,

1975
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:51,000
Speaker 1: the more you gotta win now because it's your chance. Right.

1976
01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 1: But functionally speaking, when you know, when you got a

1977
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:57,280
Speaker 1: good team, you can protect the guy and your number

1978
01:51:57,280 --> 01:51:59,200
Speaker 1: two comes in, you can do it with play calling,

1979
01:51:59,240 --> 01:52:01,880
Speaker 1: you can do it with running game that's good, you

1980
01:52:01,920 --> 01:52:04,519
Speaker 1: know all that stuff. So it's a little counterintuitive, but

1981
01:52:04,560 --> 01:52:06,960
Speaker 1: I think you know the more thought you give it,

1982
01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 1: it makes some sense. Dave on the tweet sheet says,

1983
01:52:10,360 --> 01:52:13,200
Speaker 1: I think we know who the starters are for all positions.

1984
01:52:13,720 --> 01:52:16,439
Speaker 1: I think they need to evaluate the backup offensive lineman,

1985
01:52:16,800 --> 01:52:19,599
Speaker 1: who's going to have the most flexibility, and that final

1986
01:52:19,680 --> 01:52:23,600
Speaker 1: wide receiver spot, who is it going to be. I

1987
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:27,679
Speaker 1: think if they're keeping six, it's Kumero. If they somehow

1988
01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:30,280
Speaker 1: find their way to keeping seven, well, then I think

1989
01:52:30,320 --> 01:52:35,200
Speaker 1: that opens up a greater discussion on who the seventh

1990
01:52:35,320 --> 01:52:39,440
Speaker 1: is because now you're getting into guys like Stevenson, Hodgens

1991
01:52:39,880 --> 01:52:43,679
Speaker 1: and Lenore. That's probably who you're talking about. If you

1992
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:47,160
Speaker 1: say we're keeping seven, we need seven guys ready to run,

1993
01:52:47,240 --> 01:52:50,519
Speaker 1: ready to roll, keep seven on the roster, which seven

1994
01:52:50,600 --> 01:52:54,160
Speaker 1: NFL teams did last year. The problem, and the part

1995
01:52:54,200 --> 01:52:56,400
Speaker 1: that's really really difficult for you and I to sit

1996
01:52:56,439 --> 01:52:59,120
Speaker 1: here and evaluate, and the fans too, the listeners as well,

1997
01:52:59,400 --> 01:53:02,639
Speaker 1: is that to squad is the great equalizer. You can

1998
01:53:02,720 --> 01:53:06,280
Speaker 1: hide guys out there, and especially when it's bumped up

1999
01:53:06,280 --> 01:53:08,840
Speaker 1: to sixty right and Brandon Bean and I mean they're

2000
01:53:08,880 --> 01:53:11,200
Speaker 1: looking around and they know what other teams are looking for,

2001
01:53:11,320 --> 01:53:14,000
Speaker 1: and they can say listen, there is nobody. Nobody's gonna

2002
01:53:14,040 --> 01:53:19,120
Speaker 1: touch Tommy Sweeney, or nobody's gonna touch Reggie Gillimer, nobody's

2003
01:53:19,160 --> 01:53:22,880
Speaker 1: gonna touch even Marquee Stevenson. You know, we got guys.

2004
01:53:23,040 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: We can hide these guys. Nobody's gonna touch them. Um,

2005
01:53:26,800 --> 01:53:28,200
Speaker 1: but there's a couple of guys we want to put

2006
01:53:28,200 --> 01:53:30,280
Speaker 1: out there. They're gonna have to protect. Or there's a

2007
01:53:30,280 --> 01:53:32,080
Speaker 1: couple of guys that if we put out there, they're

2008
01:53:32,080 --> 01:53:33,760
Speaker 1: gonna look, we're gonna lose. So we'll put them on

2009
01:53:33,760 --> 01:53:36,599
Speaker 1: the active roster knowing that we're gonna you know, they

2010
01:53:36,600 --> 01:53:39,280
Speaker 1: can cover kicks or whatever, or it's a better way

2011
01:53:39,320 --> 01:53:41,920
Speaker 1: to hang on to them. We're just talking. We're talking

2012
01:53:41,960 --> 01:53:48,040
Speaker 1: to about what a total five guys, seven guys maybe

2013
01:53:48,640 --> 01:53:51,920
Speaker 1: across all positions on out of the out of the

2014
01:53:52,280 --> 01:53:55,360
Speaker 1: sixty seven or sixty nine guys that are gonna be available,

2015
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:57,840
Speaker 1: fifty three on the regular roster and sixteen on the

2016
01:53:58,439 --> 01:54:02,360
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. So you're talking about the bottom

2017
01:54:03,120 --> 01:54:06,479
Speaker 1: five guys of that, Yeah, that you may risk or

2018
01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:09,720
Speaker 1: may think like, uh, you know, we might lose him

2019
01:54:09,800 --> 01:54:11,800
Speaker 1: or not want to, or we'll put him on the

2020
01:54:11,800 --> 01:54:13,719
Speaker 1: active roster and put this other guy out there because

2021
01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:15,680
Speaker 1: nobody will want him that kind of thing. There's a

2022
01:54:15,680 --> 01:54:17,720
Speaker 1: little bit of that going on every year, and it's

2023
01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:20,800
Speaker 1: impossible for us to sit here and just watch half

2024
01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:22,840
Speaker 1: or three quarters of practice and get a feel for

2025
01:54:22,880 --> 01:54:25,200
Speaker 1: who that might be because I don't have a feel

2026
01:54:25,200 --> 01:54:27,720
Speaker 1: for what other teams are looking for or what they

2027
01:54:27,800 --> 01:54:30,960
Speaker 1: might perceive one of those guys is up, you know,

2028
01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:36,400
Speaker 1: top end to be. Yeah, Max on the tweet sheet says,

2029
01:54:36,440 --> 01:54:39,360
Speaker 1: I'll say final spots at wide receiver, reason being I

2030
01:54:39,360 --> 01:54:41,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't want that job. There's going to be a few

2031
01:54:41,720 --> 01:54:44,160
Speaker 1: really tough cuts made there. I wouldn't want to be

2032
01:54:44,160 --> 01:54:46,160
Speaker 1: the one making those decisions. So that's a spot that

2033
01:54:46,200 --> 01:54:49,200
Speaker 1: needs to be evaluated very closely because another team will

2034
01:54:49,240 --> 01:54:55,080
Speaker 1: pick up our cuts. Yeah, I mean, you do expose

2035
01:54:55,120 --> 01:54:58,000
Speaker 1: him to waivers for twenty four hours if if there's

2036
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:00,160
Speaker 1: a spot, I mean, we've seen Brandon Bean do this.

2037
01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:03,720
Speaker 1: If there's a spot where they think they got an

2038
01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 1: extra guy or two that can play that they really

2039
01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:08,520
Speaker 1: think is good enough to make it and they're really

2040
01:55:08,560 --> 01:55:10,440
Speaker 1: having a hard time with it, that's when he picks

2041
01:55:10,480 --> 01:55:13,640
Speaker 1: up the phone and says, Hey Chicago, Hey Green Bay,

2042
01:55:13,640 --> 01:55:15,640
Speaker 1: Hey Detroit, you saw this guy play against you. We

2043
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:17,680
Speaker 1: think he's pretty good. You want him? And what do

2044
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:20,480
Speaker 1: you give us for him? Yeah? We think your guy's

2045
01:55:20,560 --> 01:55:23,880
Speaker 1: stink and I'm sure you agree. So we got a

2046
01:55:23,880 --> 01:55:26,920
Speaker 1: guy that's better that kind of thing. Wow, Right, So

2047
01:55:27,040 --> 01:55:30,800
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know if that conversation goes exactly like that,

2048
01:55:31,600 --> 01:55:33,600
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's what you're saying. You go around the

2049
01:55:33,640 --> 01:55:37,560
Speaker 1: league and you say, yeah, these and there's ongoing conversations

2050
01:55:37,600 --> 01:55:39,400
Speaker 1: all the time with these guys. So you've probably had

2051
01:55:39,440 --> 01:55:43,840
Speaker 1: some groundwork and you've fleshed those conversations out and find

2052
01:55:43,880 --> 01:55:47,600
Speaker 1: out what they think. And so if if there are

2053
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:53,400
Speaker 1: is or are position groups that the Bills do have

2054
01:55:53,440 --> 01:55:55,760
Speaker 1: an extra couple of guys who they can't find a

2055
01:55:55,800 --> 01:56:00,360
Speaker 1: spot for or feel like they can hide. Yeah, up

2056
01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:04,040
Speaker 1: the phone, so we'll see. Yeah, break time for us

2057
01:56:04,080 --> 01:56:07,320
Speaker 1: here because when we come back. It is the latest

2058
01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:12,520
Speaker 1: installment of Tasker's Teammate Can Steve guests based on a

2059
01:56:12,600 --> 01:56:16,320
Speaker 1: series of vague and cryptic clues from me which former

2060
01:56:16,360 --> 01:56:20,400
Speaker 1: teammate of his we are describing. We'll see how Steve

2061
01:56:20,440 --> 01:56:23,120
Speaker 1: does next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health.

2062
01:56:23,240 --> 01:56:39,240
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, the ladies and gentlemen. It's

2063
01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:42,640
Speaker 1: that time of the show, the most anticipated segment of

2064
01:56:42,680 --> 01:56:47,800
Speaker 1: the week. It is the latest installment of Taskers Teammates,

2065
01:56:48,560 --> 01:56:52,920
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2066
01:56:53,200 --> 01:56:59,080
Speaker 1: Download the Wagman's App today. Steve, are you ready? Okay?

2067
01:56:59,160 --> 01:57:05,160
Speaker 1: Let's goal Kay Clue number one. Born in nineteen sixty

2068
01:57:05,200 --> 01:57:09,040
Speaker 1: eight in the Pacific Northwest. I was a track athlete

2069
01:57:09,040 --> 01:57:11,760
Speaker 1: and soccer player in high school before some of my

2070
01:57:11,840 --> 01:57:15,080
Speaker 1: fellow students encouraged me to play football my junior year.

2071
01:57:15,640 --> 01:57:18,440
Speaker 1: I did enough in my final two years of high

2072
01:57:18,440 --> 01:57:21,960
Speaker 1: school to spark some one double A schools to recruit

2073
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:29,360
Speaker 1: me to play college football. Soccer player and track athlete

2074
01:57:29,560 --> 01:57:40,839
Speaker 1: track Pacific Northwest. Yes, James Lofton, it is not James Lofton.

2075
01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:45,760
Speaker 1: Clue number two. By my sophomore year in college, I

2076
01:57:45,840 --> 01:57:48,880
Speaker 1: earned All American honors when I ranked third in the

2077
01:57:48,960 --> 01:57:53,400
Speaker 1: country in the one double A ranks with seven interceptions.

2078
01:57:53,520 --> 01:57:57,040
Speaker 1: That was followed by second team All Big Sky Conference

2079
01:57:57,080 --> 01:58:03,960
Speaker 1: honors my junior and senior season. So you know what

2080
01:58:04,040 --> 01:58:07,360
Speaker 1: side of the ball this player's on now, Chris Hale,

2081
01:58:07,880 --> 01:58:11,720
Speaker 1: it is not Chris Hale clue number three in my

2082
01:58:11,800 --> 01:58:15,120
Speaker 1: list out. My accomplishments in college were enough to make

2083
01:58:15,160 --> 01:58:19,040
Speaker 1: me a seventh round draft choice of the Bills in

2084
01:58:19,280 --> 01:58:36,880
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. Oh it's not not Al Edwards. No, no,

2085
01:58:36,920 --> 01:58:46,360
Speaker 1: you know it's not Scott Norwood. Not Scott Norwood told

2086
01:58:46,360 --> 01:58:48,240
Speaker 1: you interceptions. So you know what side of the ball

2087
01:58:48,280 --> 01:58:58,280
Speaker 1: they're on. Oh gosh, Pacific Northwest one double a college school.

2088
01:58:59,240 --> 01:59:02,800
Speaker 1: I'm running down everything. I get. Gorty loch Bomb, Gordy Lockbomb.

2089
01:59:02,960 --> 01:59:06,600
Speaker 1: What who? I didn't even know who that is? Yeah,

2090
01:59:08,840 --> 01:59:13,360
Speaker 1: Kurt Schultz, Kurt Schultz, it is Steve Casker. Ha ha,

2091
01:59:14,440 --> 01:59:16,880
Speaker 1: look at that. It rang the bell all of a sudden,

2092
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:22,120
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, out of nowhere. Awesome, we have Kurt

2093
01:59:22,160 --> 01:59:26,520
Speaker 1: on the line here. Well, I got you. Gordy lock Bomb.

2094
01:59:26,680 --> 01:59:30,880
Speaker 1: Who the hell is that? Do you know who that is? Hey?

2095
01:59:30,880 --> 01:59:33,560
Speaker 1: Come on, Gordy Lockbomb, third in the Heisman Trophy balloting,

2096
01:59:33,840 --> 01:59:36,840
Speaker 1: running back out of hord Across. Well I feel good

2097
01:59:36,840 --> 01:59:39,640
Speaker 1: about that. Then Holy Cross is about as far as

2098
01:59:39,640 --> 01:59:42,920
Speaker 1: you can get from the Pacific Northwest. Steven's in Massachusetts.

2099
01:59:43,960 --> 01:59:46,200
Speaker 1: You didn't didn't go to he didn't go to college.

2100
01:59:46,200 --> 01:59:50,240
Speaker 1: In the Pacific, Northwest Washington, Eastern Washington. I was Eastern

2101
01:59:50,240 --> 01:59:54,200
Speaker 1: Miss Eastern Washington University. Did they have the red field

2102
01:59:54,240 --> 02:00:01,280
Speaker 1: when you played there? They did not? Okay, just green stuff. Okay, Chulzie,

2103
02:00:01,360 --> 02:00:04,040
Speaker 1: good to see you, man. We we haven't played golf

2104
02:00:04,040 --> 02:00:08,360
Speaker 1: in a while. We haven't played golf in a while. No,

2105
02:00:08,520 --> 02:00:12,000
Speaker 1: we have not. And Kurt still plays a little bit

2106
02:00:12,040 --> 02:00:14,720
Speaker 1: of soccer here and there. Do you play soccer still?

2107
02:00:15,280 --> 02:00:18,400
Speaker 1: I I yeah, I think I'm addicted to it. Yeah.

2108
02:00:19,080 --> 02:00:23,760
Speaker 1: I had my first knee surgery last last fall, so

2109
02:00:23,880 --> 02:00:26,760
Speaker 1: hopefully I can continue to do it. But yeah, I

2110
02:00:26,760 --> 02:00:29,160
Speaker 1: mean I love it, great sport. You had your first

2111
02:00:29,240 --> 02:00:33,600
Speaker 1: knee surgery last fall. Yeah, not me, I had. Yeah.

2112
02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:37,000
Speaker 1: I think once I turned fifty everything went south. Yeah,

2113
02:00:37,000 --> 02:00:39,280
Speaker 1: I had my last. I had my last knee surgery

2114
02:00:39,400 --> 02:00:47,880
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight, So good luck catching up done. Yeah,

2115
02:00:47,960 --> 02:00:51,720
Speaker 1: that was right. So Kurt, as you know, steve full

2116
02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:55,200
Speaker 1: time starter in his fourth season in ninety five, six

2117
02:00:55,240 --> 02:00:57,280
Speaker 1: picks that year, which I think led the team if

2118
02:00:57,280 --> 02:01:01,320
Speaker 1: I remember right. Um starts seventy games over the next

2119
02:01:01,320 --> 02:01:05,880
Speaker 1: five years, including the starting safety on the number one

2120
02:01:05,960 --> 02:01:10,760
Speaker 1: defense team in ninety nine. Under two I'll say this. Um,

2121
02:01:10,840 --> 02:01:12,400
Speaker 1: you know what, I remember the pick that I remember

2122
02:01:12,400 --> 02:01:18,520
Speaker 1: the most nineteen ninety five Week one, I guess the

2123
02:01:18,560 --> 02:01:22,680
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. Frank was playing quarterback, right picked Frank Raikoff

2124
02:01:24,320 --> 02:01:26,640
Speaker 1: picked frank Off, and you ran it in right. It

2125
02:01:26,680 --> 02:01:29,520
Speaker 1: was pick six I did. Yeah, it was like twenty

2126
02:01:29,520 --> 02:01:32,160
Speaker 1: seven yards and oh my, it was my first interception

2127
02:01:32,200 --> 02:01:35,160
Speaker 1: against Frank. And it was I think it was a

2128
02:01:35,240 --> 02:01:39,280
Speaker 1: third down cane down, um and kind of like as

2129
02:01:39,320 --> 02:01:43,080
Speaker 1: a robber position, and yeah, it was yeah, off to

2130
02:01:43,120 --> 02:01:45,720
Speaker 1: the races. Yeah, so that's the one I remember. So

2131
02:01:45,880 --> 02:01:47,520
Speaker 1: that's good. It's your first one. That's I'm glad I

2132
02:01:47,560 --> 02:01:50,360
Speaker 1: remember that. And then you finished You finished up in Detroit.

2133
02:01:50,480 --> 02:01:53,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you signed a nice free agent contract. Um

2134
02:01:54,960 --> 02:01:58,760
Speaker 1: what were I mean? Were you Were you even contemplating

2135
02:01:58,840 --> 02:02:00,800
Speaker 1: like how much longer you were going to play by

2136
02:02:00,800 --> 02:02:04,880
Speaker 1: the time you got to Detroit or you know, not

2137
02:02:04,880 --> 02:02:07,680
Speaker 1: not necessarily. I think I signed like a five year

2138
02:02:07,720 --> 02:02:10,000
Speaker 1: deal knowing that it's probably just a two or three

2139
02:02:10,080 --> 02:02:13,360
Speaker 1: year deal anyway. Um, but no, I yeah, you know,

2140
02:02:13,440 --> 02:02:15,800
Speaker 1: I I was a little bit older. Um came in.

2141
02:02:15,880 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: It's a little bit older because I was a fifth

2142
02:02:17,360 --> 02:02:21,080
Speaker 1: fifth year senior and uh no, Detroit was Detroit was great.

2143
02:02:21,160 --> 02:02:22,880
Speaker 1: It was a little bit of a lateral move kind

2144
02:02:22,880 --> 02:02:26,080
Speaker 1: of same similar town, and it was had a great

2145
02:02:26,080 --> 02:02:29,480
Speaker 1: experience every year. But that lasted just two years and

2146
02:02:29,480 --> 02:02:32,160
Speaker 1: and then I hung it up. What was what was?

2147
02:02:32,200 --> 02:02:35,760
Speaker 1: I gotta put on my soccer cleats. Yeah, that's right. Um,

2148
02:02:36,160 --> 02:02:39,040
Speaker 1: I gotta know what it was, because I think there

2149
02:02:39,040 --> 02:02:41,360
Speaker 1: are a lot of Bills fans now that don't really

2150
02:02:41,640 --> 02:02:45,120
Speaker 1: know too much about how good that defense was in

2151
02:02:45,160 --> 02:02:47,160
Speaker 1: the late nineties. There. You know, you had Ted and

2152
02:02:47,200 --> 02:02:50,720
Speaker 1: Bruce and Phil upfront, and you know Holisek was in there.

2153
02:02:50,800 --> 02:02:53,840
Speaker 1: You got Sam Coward, you know, added to the mix.

2154
02:02:54,560 --> 02:02:58,880
Speaker 1: Um Antoine was playing court. I mean you had some guys, man, Um,

2155
02:02:59,480 --> 02:03:02,520
Speaker 1: what was it? Williams up the medal? I mean and

2156
02:03:02,640 --> 02:03:03,960
Speaker 1: he at the time, I think he was even a

2157
02:03:04,000 --> 02:03:06,840
Speaker 1: backup and he was I mean it was we had

2158
02:03:06,960 --> 02:03:09,440
Speaker 1: such a defensive who is your who's your coach? Safety?

2159
02:03:09,400 --> 02:03:11,280
Speaker 1: You know, you have a great defensive line, You're gonna

2160
02:03:11,280 --> 02:03:15,520
Speaker 1: have a great defensive back room. Was Hank still back

2161
02:03:15,520 --> 02:03:18,760
Speaker 1: there with you, Henry Jones? He was still your soul? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

2162
02:03:19,480 --> 02:03:22,920
Speaker 1: he was right. I think I played with Hank the

2163
02:03:23,040 --> 02:03:25,840
Speaker 1: entire eight years. I was there, right, So what was

2164
02:03:25,880 --> 02:03:28,240
Speaker 1: it like playing on that defense with I mean, you

2165
02:03:28,280 --> 02:03:30,360
Speaker 1: had a view of everything from back there, man, So

2166
02:03:31,520 --> 02:03:34,320
Speaker 1: it was awesome. Yeah, I mean tech Certrall did a

2167
02:03:34,360 --> 02:03:39,080
Speaker 1: great job of crawling everybody together. We did. It was

2168
02:03:39,320 --> 02:03:43,880
Speaker 1: a stack defense, but it wasn't. We didn't you know,

2169
02:03:43,920 --> 02:03:47,240
Speaker 1: the scheme wise, we just it was. It was basic schemes.

2170
02:03:47,280 --> 02:03:49,760
Speaker 1: And really it started up front, right, I mean the

2171
02:03:49,800 --> 02:03:52,600
Speaker 1: defensive line, which is so strong that it made easier

2172
02:03:52,640 --> 02:03:55,360
Speaker 1: for the linebackers to get open. And clearly, you know,

2173
02:03:55,400 --> 02:03:58,080
Speaker 1: they didn't have much time to get a quarterback didn't

2174
02:03:58,080 --> 02:03:59,360
Speaker 1: have much time to get rid of the ball, so

2175
02:03:59,480 --> 02:04:01,960
Speaker 1: invariably you're gonna get picks and you know it's gonna

2176
02:04:01,960 --> 02:04:04,680
Speaker 1: be disruptive. So I mean, I that defensive line was

2177
02:04:04,720 --> 02:04:07,240
Speaker 1: just phenomenal. So you remember, Yeah, you mentioned some of

2178
02:04:07,240 --> 02:04:08,520
Speaker 1: the great guys on it. I was going to ask

2179
02:04:08,520 --> 02:04:10,000
Speaker 1: you about a guy a lot of people don't know.

2180
02:04:10,160 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: We've had him on the show a number of times.

2181
02:04:11,880 --> 02:04:13,920
Speaker 1: He's kind of a fixture. He played he won a

2182
02:04:13,960 --> 02:04:17,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl with New England. Ted Washington was one of

2183
02:04:17,480 --> 02:04:20,440
Speaker 1: maybe one of the all time great defensive tackles ever

2184
02:04:20,520 --> 02:04:22,280
Speaker 1: who it kind of under the radar for a lot

2185
02:04:22,320 --> 02:04:24,920
Speaker 1: of people. Tell us about those guys up front, not

2186
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:27,960
Speaker 1: just Bruce, but also Ted and also and Pat Williams

2187
02:04:27,960 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 1: and Phil and Phil. Yeah, well I tell you with

2188
02:04:31,680 --> 02:04:34,120
Speaker 1: Phil in there, and you know, Ted was just such

2189
02:04:34,160 --> 02:04:37,560
Speaker 1: a huge man. I mean he would literally plug the hole.

2190
02:04:37,600 --> 02:04:39,000
Speaker 1: What do you make a lot of tackles? No, but

2191
02:04:39,080 --> 02:04:41,720
Speaker 1: he took up two three guys and so that you

2192
02:04:41,840 --> 02:04:44,280
Speaker 1: invariably you're gonna get a linebacker that's free, you're gonna

2193
02:04:44,320 --> 02:04:46,920
Speaker 1: get another d lineman that's free. And you know, Pat

2194
02:04:46,960 --> 02:04:50,000
Speaker 1: at the time was just he was super disruptive. So

2195
02:04:50,040 --> 02:04:52,440
Speaker 1: it was just a great combination. I mean, Phil Hanson

2196
02:04:52,600 --> 02:04:55,560
Speaker 1: is just a beast. You know. Obviously Bruce is Bruce

2197
02:04:55,600 --> 02:04:58,560
Speaker 1: and he's just phenomenal. So it really I would say,

2198
02:04:58,680 --> 02:05:02,080
Speaker 1: right up the middle, Ted at the anchor. I mean,

2199
02:05:02,400 --> 02:05:05,760
Speaker 1: it's nobody wanted to play us, right. Yeah. You couldn't

2200
02:05:05,840 --> 02:05:08,760
Speaker 1: run the ball, I know it was at all. Yeah

2201
02:05:08,800 --> 02:05:11,200
Speaker 1: you had you couldn't run it up between the tackles

2202
02:05:11,240 --> 02:05:14,120
Speaker 1: because Ted would you know, just slide the whole mass

2203
02:05:14,120 --> 02:05:16,160
Speaker 1: over towards the pole. And the guy was, you know,

2204
02:05:16,200 --> 02:05:18,480
Speaker 1: bouncing around looking for someplace to run. Yeah. Yeah, and

2205
02:05:18,480 --> 02:05:21,120
Speaker 1: then you had Hollisecond Coward behind those guys and it's

2206
02:05:21,160 --> 02:05:22,920
Speaker 1: like they would just clean everything else. It's a lot

2207
02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:25,160
Speaker 1: of fun. I think Sam Rogers, right, he was the

2208
02:05:25,240 --> 02:05:28,880
Speaker 1: Sam Yeah, if I remember right, I'm trying to remember.

2209
02:05:28,960 --> 02:05:32,520
Speaker 1: And Marlow was the dimebacker. I think when you guys

2210
02:05:32,560 --> 02:05:36,040
Speaker 1: went to dime, Marlow Perry would come on the Ted

2211
02:05:36,080 --> 02:05:38,720
Speaker 1: did a great job of crowling everybody together and we

2212
02:05:38,720 --> 02:05:42,320
Speaker 1: we all just loved playing for Technatral and it it

2213
02:05:42,360 --> 02:05:44,280
Speaker 1: was it was a that was a great season. Yeah.

2214
02:05:44,320 --> 02:05:46,720
Speaker 1: And then I I mean, I knew you were in

2215
02:05:47,040 --> 02:05:51,200
Speaker 1: the financial advisor business post playing career, but I didn't

2216
02:05:51,240 --> 02:05:53,800
Speaker 1: know it was spawned by like you were a big

2217
02:05:53,840 --> 02:05:56,240
Speaker 1: math kid coming out of high school. Right, didn't you

2218
02:05:56,320 --> 02:05:59,240
Speaker 1: major in accounting or something too at school? Or I did? Yeah,

2219
02:05:59,280 --> 02:06:05,280
Speaker 1: accounting with major, and um yeah I love numbers. So yeah,

2220
02:06:05,320 --> 02:06:08,080
Speaker 1: that was my focus. And so yeah, I'm still at

2221
02:06:08,080 --> 02:06:11,000
Speaker 1: it with Merrill Lynch and things are going well awesome.

2222
02:06:11,360 --> 02:06:13,360
Speaker 1: That's good, hey man, thanks for coming on. It's great

2223
02:06:13,360 --> 02:06:18,200
Speaker 1: seeing you. Absolutely to see Steve. Yeah, I'm surprised now,

2224
02:06:18,240 --> 02:06:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised it took me that how many clues

2225
02:06:20,120 --> 02:06:22,800
Speaker 1: did it take me more. That's not bad. That's like

2226
02:06:22,840 --> 02:06:26,080
Speaker 1: my average. I think it was the lot. Who was it? Lockbomb?

2227
02:06:26,120 --> 02:06:29,040
Speaker 1: Who the hell did you say, Gordy Lockbomb? That sounds

2228
02:06:29,080 --> 02:06:31,560
Speaker 1: like a hockey name, not a football name. I can't

2229
02:06:31,600 --> 02:06:34,400
Speaker 1: believe you don't know who Gordy Lockbomb? I really I've

2230
02:06:34,440 --> 02:06:36,080
Speaker 1: never heard that name in my life. You could have

2231
02:06:36,120 --> 02:06:38,040
Speaker 1: knocked me over with a feather of that one. Okay,

2232
02:06:38,240 --> 02:06:40,160
Speaker 1: Well he never played for us. He was only a

2233
02:06:40,240 --> 02:06:42,960
Speaker 1: training camp guy running out. Okay, all right, well you're

2234
02:06:43,000 --> 02:06:47,800
Speaker 1: in that conversation, Choltzi. Thanks man, Thanks Kurt for the time.

2235
02:06:47,840 --> 02:06:50,520
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. He jumping on joining us. All right, that's

2236
02:06:50,600 --> 02:06:54,320
Speaker 1: Kurt Schultz, former Bills safety. That's great. Stu played here

2237
02:06:54,320 --> 02:06:57,520
Speaker 1: for eight seasons and racked up a lot of numbers. Man,

2238
02:06:57,840 --> 02:07:00,640
Speaker 1: you want to talk about some of his career stats.

2239
02:07:01,560 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 1: He put up a lot of numbers. That's a I mean,

2240
02:07:04,000 --> 02:07:06,840
Speaker 1: you want to go all time seventh round picks for

2241
02:07:06,840 --> 02:07:10,480
Speaker 1: the Bills. He's right up there. It's like him, Stevie Johnson,

2242
02:07:11,080 --> 02:07:13,720
Speaker 1: maybe a couple others. You think about it too. He's

2243
02:07:13,760 --> 02:07:15,920
Speaker 1: also one of those guys. It took him four years

2244
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:19,240
Speaker 1: to become a true full starter. So you know, he

2245
02:07:19,640 --> 02:07:22,880
Speaker 1: was one of those survivor hang in there guys for

2246
02:07:23,080 --> 02:07:26,360
Speaker 1: four full years. Takes a long time to get on

2247
02:07:26,400 --> 02:07:29,040
Speaker 1: the field, and he sure enough did he and he

2248
02:07:29,120 --> 02:07:31,919
Speaker 1: put together a very nice ten year career for Buffalo,

2249
02:07:31,960 --> 02:07:34,880
Speaker 1: for Buffalo and Detroit last year Detroit. Hey, that's what

2250
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:37,520
Speaker 1: he was. He was a hitter. He's good size too,

2251
02:07:37,560 --> 02:07:40,120
Speaker 1: He's five eleven six foot and uh, you know he's

2252
02:07:40,320 --> 02:07:43,040
Speaker 1: and he was a strong, strong dude. So I'm playing

2253
02:07:43,040 --> 02:07:45,960
Speaker 1: back there with Henry. Freed him up. Henry was, you know,

2254
02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:49,520
Speaker 1: a safety. Henry Jones was safety, good enough to play corner,

2255
02:07:50,080 --> 02:07:54,760
Speaker 1: and you know he There was a point early on

2256
02:07:54,800 --> 02:07:58,240
Speaker 1: when Henry I asked Frank Rich this is early when

2257
02:07:58,280 --> 02:08:00,360
Speaker 1: her Henry was like first or second year player, and

2258
02:08:00,400 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 1: I said, of all the guys on the field right now,

2259
02:08:02,160 --> 02:08:04,680
Speaker 1: who's going to play the longest? And both of us

2260
02:08:04,680 --> 02:08:07,200
Speaker 1: thought it would be Henry Jones. That's how good Henry was.

2261
02:08:07,560 --> 02:08:10,960
Speaker 1: And Scholtzi right there with him that those there are

2262
02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:13,080
Speaker 1: some great, great players on that deal. Now, I was

2263
02:08:13,120 --> 02:08:14,800
Speaker 1: out of the league by the by the time that

2264
02:08:14,880 --> 02:08:17,320
Speaker 1: defense in the ninety eight ninety nine seasons came into

2265
02:08:17,320 --> 02:08:19,600
Speaker 1: its own. But man oh Man what a group they had.

2266
02:08:19,680 --> 02:08:21,600
Speaker 1: So in those five years that he started, he had

2267
02:08:21,640 --> 02:08:26,560
Speaker 1: twenty one interceptions. I mean that's production, man, Like that

2268
02:08:26,680 --> 02:08:30,440
Speaker 1: is production. And that ninety nine defense like that's that

2269
02:08:30,560 --> 02:08:33,760
Speaker 1: was probably my third year cover in the team. And

2270
02:08:34,040 --> 02:08:37,440
Speaker 1: that group was ridiculous, Like it was just I mean

2271
02:08:37,480 --> 02:08:40,840
Speaker 1: that the number of players they had on that team,

2272
02:08:41,320 --> 02:08:44,760
Speaker 1: right on that starting group and then even the backups.

2273
02:08:44,800 --> 02:08:48,000
Speaker 1: Pat Williams was he he was undrafted, right Pat Williams, Yes,

2274
02:08:48,280 --> 02:08:54,520
Speaker 1: and he he was a phenomenal player. It's like, I

2275
02:08:54,560 --> 02:08:59,040
Speaker 1: don't know how he got through the draft process, Yeah,

2276
02:08:59,160 --> 02:09:01,240
Speaker 1: without getting picked up by somebody. Ended up playing in

2277
02:09:01,320 --> 02:09:03,600
Speaker 1: long time in Minnesota and playing very well up there.

2278
02:09:03,680 --> 02:09:07,960
Speaker 1: So in that three four front, you had Bruce, Ted

2279
02:09:08,200 --> 02:09:11,520
Speaker 1: and Phil. Those are your starting three. And then Catrelle

2280
02:09:11,600 --> 02:09:14,160
Speaker 1: and Wade came up with this thing that they called

2281
02:09:14,360 --> 02:09:18,000
Speaker 1: the package, and that's when they would put Pat and

2282
02:09:18,840 --> 02:09:23,160
Speaker 1: Ted on the field at the same time. And I

2283
02:09:23,160 --> 02:09:25,040
Speaker 1: think it was still a thirty front. I don't know

2284
02:09:25,080 --> 02:09:27,480
Speaker 1: who it's subbed out there. Maybe it was Bruce on

2285
02:09:27,480 --> 02:09:31,920
Speaker 1: an obvious rundown or something. Probably Phil. In any event,

2286
02:09:32,520 --> 02:09:36,480
Speaker 1: so Pat Williams is a sub Okay, that's first second,

2287
02:09:37,120 --> 02:09:40,280
Speaker 1: you had your four linebackers. You had Sam Rodgers as

2288
02:09:40,320 --> 02:09:43,080
Speaker 1: the Sam backer, and then you had Coward and Hollisec

2289
02:09:43,160 --> 02:09:46,640
Speaker 1: in the middle, and gave Northern on the other side,

2290
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:49,560
Speaker 1: who was an athlete. And then in the back you

2291
02:09:49,600 --> 02:09:55,120
Speaker 1: had Thomas Smith and Antoine on the corners, and then

2292
02:09:55,200 --> 02:09:58,600
Speaker 1: Henry and Kurt at safe. I mean that's a starting

2293
02:09:58,600 --> 02:10:02,640
Speaker 1: eleven boy man. Yeah, that's yeah. They had it going

2294
02:10:03,520 --> 02:10:06,680
Speaker 1: that guys for whatever reason. And who knows him he

2295
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:08,800
Speaker 1: hit on some draft pick, particularly like a seventh round

2296
02:10:08,840 --> 02:10:11,880
Speaker 1: er like Schultze's playing Henry Jones, the first round draft pick.

2297
02:10:12,200 --> 02:10:14,280
Speaker 1: Ted Washington was a first round draft pick that San

2298
02:10:14,320 --> 02:10:17,520
Speaker 1: Francisco had lost faith and he had an injury and

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Speaker 1: he and he kept trying to play through it. And

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Speaker 1: the reason he went from San Francisco and came to

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's because Wade was coaching in San fran Wade Phillips

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Speaker 1: and brought him to Buffalo because he said, listen, he

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Speaker 1: didn't he wasn't playing that well for him in San

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Speaker 1: Francisco ever, being a first round draft pick. But he

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Speaker 1: was hurt and he always tried to show up for me,

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Speaker 1: So let's bring him in. So they brought him in

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Speaker 1: of course. You know, for my money, Teddy Ted Washington

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Speaker 1: is a Hall of Famer. Yeah, oh, I would say

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Speaker 1: that he's a Hall of famer. Um, opposing offense is

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Speaker 1: converted third downs thirty one percent of the time against

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Speaker 1: that defense. That's hard to score point because very often

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Speaker 1: it was third and nine if you go to three.

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Speaker 1: If you go three third downs in a drive one,

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Speaker 1: you know, you only convert one of them, so you

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Speaker 1: don't even get to three. You couldn't. I'm telling you, man,

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Speaker 1: you could not run on that defense. That is still

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Speaker 1: the best Bill's defense I've seen with my own ice.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of three and ounce on that They were.

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Speaker 1: They were something else man. Yeah. Um, I was trying

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Speaker 1: to look up some of the other numbers here to

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Speaker 1: see where they finished up, because I think rushing wise,

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Speaker 1: I think they might have had the number one run

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Speaker 1: defense in addition to being the number one overall defense.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was a ridiculous group. It really was

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Speaker 1: opponents rushing total. Oh yeah, here it is. They gave

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Speaker 1: up eighty five yards rushing a game in a in

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Speaker 1: an era where everybody was still running the ball. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm on, man, that's just ridiculous. They were good. Man,

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Speaker 1: There's there was some moments eleven and five that year,

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Speaker 1: and they were winning games thirteen to ten, like Flutie

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Speaker 1: was the quarterback, and they weren't racking up a ton

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Speaker 1: of points. I mean, they were winning games thirteen ten,

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Speaker 1: sixteen thirteen. Their defense carried them to eleven and five

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Speaker 1: that year. Yeah, and I feel comfortable saying that because

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Speaker 1: I watched it all. Break time here when we come back,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I close it up with what have we

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Speaker 1: learned here? On One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. What have we learned from today's show?

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. Well, I learned who Gordy

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Speaker 1: Lockbaum was. That's what I learned on today's show. Who

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Speaker 1: was an American college football player, a two way player,

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Speaker 1: played on our fence in defense for Holy Cross and

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Speaker 1: was a Heisman Trophy finalist twice. And here's what I

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Speaker 1: learned today that teams are now full in full array

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Speaker 1: of joint practices and guys are going down like flies. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was not good today. A number of players around

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Speaker 1: the national Football League went down, had to leave practice,

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Speaker 1: some with minor, not threatening injuries, a couple of them

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Speaker 1: with some serious stuff that you got to watch out for.

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Speaker 1: And we're sorry to hear to Carl Lawson being one

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Speaker 1: of them for the Jets. So full swing camp closed down.

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Speaker 1: Technically for the Bills, they're still in full go. It's

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Speaker 1: there's no difference for them. It's just nobody's allowed to

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Speaker 1: go in and watch them. Same with the other time

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Speaker 1: with the other teams around the league. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: starting to get serious now with injuries. The joint practices

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Speaker 1: are in full swing. It's picking up the pace, and

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Speaker 1: the season is just it's inching closer and closer. You

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Speaker 1: wonder if what we've seen in these joint practices will

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Speaker 1: dissuade coaches from turning to those as a means of

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the regular season. In the future, might

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Speaker 1: be less joint practices and eventually probably less preseason games

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Speaker 1: as well. Steve's on the road tomorrow, headed to Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Mandy glab in that chair tomorrow, Join us then here

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Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live