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Speaker 1: Today. Welcome back to the show, John Murphy with special guests,

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Speaker 1: surprise guests. Really, we have a couple of new guests here.

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Speaker 1: We don't have Steve Tasker, he's he's away, he is

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Speaker 1: out for a week and a half. But we do

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Speaker 1: have a couple of special guests who surprised me by

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Speaker 1: walking in right after the mini camp session. Head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermot. You used to see him here on the show,

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Speaker 1: coach stopping by. Good to be here with you next

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Speaker 1: to him. Head coach Reggie Witherspoon, the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Kennisius College Golden Griffins basketball Griffs. Reggie, good to

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Speaker 1: have you here. Thanks for having me, Marv Good. Good

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Speaker 1: to have a little hope talk on the show for

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Speaker 1: a change. I am a season ticket holder for Knisia's

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Speaker 1: basketball coach. I am a big fan, Red you know,

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Speaker 1: I got great seats too. You don't pay attention to me.

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Speaker 1: You're you're like I am two rows behind the visitors bench.

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Speaker 1: You're the heckler when a situation calls for it. I

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Speaker 1: left the other coach. Now I got to start paying

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Speaker 1: more attention to him because he could probably give us

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Speaker 1: a little insight to you know what they're doing right

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Speaker 1: time outse Maybe just take take a glance over, friend.

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Speaker 1: I'm there to help. Friend. I used to do that

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Speaker 1: for Joe Mhollack Niagara. I would sit behind the visitors

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Speaker 1: bench and work them a little bit. Is that? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'll do it for you. I'll do it for you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you coming by. What'll bring you out here? Regie? Well,

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Speaker 1: I just came out to see Sean and see see

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Speaker 1: the bills. You know, it's that's great. It's always great

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Speaker 1: to be able to do that. What do you think

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Speaker 1: of practice? I loved it. I love the pace of it,

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Speaker 1: the rhythm of it, how fast it went, you know,

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Speaker 1: was organized. I loved it. I really did appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: You're coaching Reggie at Kenisius in college basketball. You're coaching eighteen,

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty one, twenty two year olds. You obviously indoors basketball.

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Speaker 1: But what can you take from watching an NFL football

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Speaker 1: practice that might help you set up a basketball py

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Speaker 1: The organization of it. First, you know, I told you

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Speaker 1: this before, Sean. It's amazing how you get that many

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Speaker 1: You know, we try to get fifteen guys to move

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Speaker 1: you know, aligned correctly. I mean that's something. How do

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Speaker 1: you do that, Chun? Where did you learn to do that? Oh? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know I was I kind of cut my teeth

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Speaker 1: his uh the efficiency really of his practices and the

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Speaker 1: flow and the pace, the tempo. Uh. You know, we

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Speaker 1: we can and make them most of our time. So

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Speaker 1: and I think our players appreciate that. It keeps them

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Speaker 1: off their feet as much as possible. And and we

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Speaker 1: you know, I tell them, we'll take care of you.

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Speaker 1: But when we work, when we cross over that line

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Speaker 1: of time, the work, Chun. When you when new guys

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Speaker 1: them up to speed on how you practice and how

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Speaker 1: do you do what happens? Is their position coach, tell

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Speaker 1: them this is what we'll be ready for. There's an adjustment.

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Speaker 1: Let's just call you know, there's an adjustment period um

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Speaker 1: and for some more than others, right, Uh, probably no

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Speaker 1: different for you, coach, when you're bringing a young player

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Speaker 1: time to time we'll film some of our habits that

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Speaker 1: of what and what we expect and how we want

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Speaker 1: things done, because when you do the little things right,

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Speaker 1: the big things are that much easier. It's important to note, Reggie,

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Speaker 1: you're a lifelong Western New Yorker and a Bills fan, right,

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Speaker 1: and you have a connection. Your daughter has a job

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Speaker 1: and and so it was exciting. Last year was just thrilling. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to learn from watching him and his staff and what again,

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Speaker 1: they've been able to establish the standard which they expect

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Speaker 1: what I do. Reggie back for two years now as

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Speaker 1: the head coach of kinisius, what have you got? Like

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Speaker 1: thirty five forty wins over the two years? So we're

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Speaker 1: Did you exceed your expectations? You know, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: goals off short term and you know, long term, striving

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Speaker 1: to get to a point where we could s okay,

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Speaker 1: we're we could be a regular season championship. Now. I

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Speaker 1: But everything we're doing, we're trying to build to that.

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Speaker 1: But I never thought, Okay, we're gonna have this many

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Speaker 1: I just thought, we gotta get a staff and build

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Speaker 1: and who's coming in this year for the Griffs, Well,

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Speaker 1: we lost Jermaine Crumpton, who had a great year from

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Speaker 1: And I was listening to Sean how how how quickly

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Speaker 1: It's funny. We had Chris in practice and I was

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Speaker 1: asking Chris, do you think Jermaine could? And he said

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Speaker 1: He never played in Carolina. Yeah, that's right, never played

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Speaker 1: That's a heck of a temperament to be able to

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Speaker 1: Reggie Witherspoon. The coach of the Griffs Kenesius Basketball Seawan McDermot.

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Speaker 1: This year, I got a couple of football questions for you,

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Speaker 1: coach at the end of mini camp. How did it go?

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Speaker 1: What's your assessment? What's your kind of overview of what

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Speaker 1: to move the needle a little bit this offseason. You know,

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Speaker 1: certainly we've I would say two thirds of our team

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Speaker 1: let's say what I can't say enough about the effort,

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Speaker 1: the focus, the time, the commitment of our players this

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Speaker 1: really starts with our staff right with everyone in this building.

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Speaker 1: It's been a real team effort since day one when

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Speaker 1: to where their head and to this off sea. The

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Speaker 1: attendance was strong, right, I know, these last three days mandatory,

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Speaker 1: Also credit to the player driven leadership, in fact, by

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Speaker 1: to be in Buffalo. Coach Sean, you've been asked a

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Speaker 1: lot about your quarterback picture already this spring, and you

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Speaker 1: Where does it stand right now, a depth chart, rep chart,

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Speaker 1: all three, all three young men have worked extremely hard.

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Speaker 1: They're active learners and and UM, they're really excited to

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Speaker 1: grow and they love to take coaching. UM their leaders

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Speaker 1: in their own respective ways. UM. You know, as I've

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Speaker 1: said before, AJ and Nate are working with the ones

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Speaker 1: I don't expect you to lay it out for us,

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Speaker 1: but it sounds like, and I think you've said you

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Speaker 1: do have a plan right for the reps a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna what you've done so far, and what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do in this summer at camp. We do

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Speaker 1: have a plant. Would you like to lay it out?

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Speaker 1: You need any audio vidual? No, But I mean there's

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Speaker 1: you have something in mind, how much work you want

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Speaker 1: to get these guys? We do, we do, and uh,

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