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Speaker 1: all right, Welcome to an action pack Thursday edition of

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, Holy

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Speaker 1: social media batman. Um. It's been a busier day than

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Speaker 1: McDermott was forced to answer questions about the vaccination issue

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Speaker 1: there are reports by the Washington Post and other publications

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Speaker 1: still at an eighty percent vaccination rate. The Bills are

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Speaker 1: rate in the entire league. Every the other twenty eight

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Speaker 1: teams or ninety percent or above. And he was asked

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Speaker 1: if he feels that puts the team at a competitive disadvantage,

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Speaker 1: And he knows what that means, and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. And while he's probably not

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Speaker 1: happy about it, as he stated there, he has to

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Speaker 1: respect the personal decisions of the players who choose not

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Speaker 1: he get vaccinated. So there's no I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know any other way a head coach is

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Speaker 1: supposed to slice that up. Yeah, I really don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's he's he's it's out of his hands really, basically,

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Speaker 1: he can't force those guys to do that. And and

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Speaker 1: and he has said he as I said earlier, he

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Speaker 1: said it was constant the education process for his players

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Speaker 1: and giving him facts and figures and all of the

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Speaker 1: things that they know, Um, from the science standpoint, it's

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Speaker 1: all this constant. Yeah, bombard him with it. Yeah, Because

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Speaker 1: he was asked, like, what is the level of education

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Speaker 1: that your players had, he said, he didn't even let

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Speaker 1: the question finish. He's like, it's been constant, constant, Like

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Speaker 1: it is unending, unyielding. Anytime there is any new information,

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Speaker 1: the team is providing it to the players to keep

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Speaker 1: them on the cutting edge of what is going on

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Speaker 1: with this virus. And you know, the directions and the

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Speaker 1: guidelines being put forth by federal organizations, the Center for

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Speaker 1: Disease Control, the Department of Health, everybody under the sun

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Speaker 1: that is an expert in this field. That information is

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Speaker 1: being communicated almost as soon as it comes out to

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Speaker 1: the players on this roster. So the team and the

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Speaker 1: organization has done everything in their power to keep the

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Speaker 1: players on the cutting edge of where things stand with

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Speaker 1: this pandemic. On a much lighter note, coach McDermott addressed

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Speaker 1: the playing time for the starters for this preseason finale

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Speaker 1: against the Packers on Saturday. Here's how coach McDermott laid

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Speaker 1: that out. Yeah, I'll just give you overall playtime for

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Speaker 1: everyone's sake. You know, some of the starters won't play,

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Speaker 1: some will play, a majority will play. It'll be anywhere

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Speaker 1: from you know, one play and this is not a

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Speaker 1: cop out. I'm just trying to give you my mindset

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Speaker 1: right now. One play to they'll come out of the

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Speaker 1: locker room at half and give and give it a

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Speaker 1: series after half there in the third quarter where that

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Speaker 1: This be a thirty minute longer press conference here, So

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Speaker 1: I'll just feel it out. I think it's the best

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Speaker 1: way to give it to you guys right now. So

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Speaker 1: coach is going to go on feel with how long

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Speaker 1: some of those starters play, which basically means, let's just say, hypothetically,

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Speaker 1: drive of the game and bleed eight minutes off the clock.

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Speaker 1: That might be enough to see Josh Allen and he

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Speaker 1: might be done for the rest of the day at

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Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, but of course that also means the

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Speaker 1: first team defense would get less time on the field

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Speaker 1: as a result in the first quarter, So some of

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Speaker 1: them may play later into the second quarter because of

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Speaker 1: the lack of time they got in the first quarters.

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Speaker 1: So the flow of the game will probably influence some

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Speaker 1: of the decisions that are made on how long some

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Speaker 1: can bet though some of them. He said you're going

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Speaker 1: to play past halftime, I'd like to I'd be interested

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Speaker 1: to see if that's Josh Sanders digs all those guys maybe,

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Speaker 1: I mean they haven't played at all, and normally in

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Speaker 1: finger quotes, normally this is the game they would do

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Speaker 1: exactly that. All the starters would play past halftime, to

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Speaker 1: get them used to coming in and out a halftime,

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Speaker 1: going in at halftime, making a few adjustments, talking things

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Speaker 1: over about what's going well, what's not working, and making

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Speaker 1: into the second half. It's really good to acclimate them

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Speaker 1: back into that mindset, into that routine, and to remind

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Speaker 1: them of how it works and feels before the regular

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Speaker 1: season stars, and you still have two weeks, so if

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Speaker 1: somebody tweaks an ankle or bends a finger or whatever,

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Speaker 1: they still got a chance to Yeah, heal up in

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Speaker 1: plenty of time for the opener. So, besides Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: which Bills starter are you most interested in seeing in

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Speaker 1: Saturday's preseason game and tell us why. You can hit

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Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: or you can give us a phone call eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty It's you and us with open phones for

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Speaker 1: the first two hours of the show today. We do

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Speaker 1: have Packers Beat reporter Pete Daharty joining us in the

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Speaker 1: third hour the show to bring us up to speed

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Speaker 1: on what's going on in Green Bay. And then in

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Speaker 1: the final half hour of the program about two hours

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Speaker 1: from now, the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate Plenty to

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Speaker 1: come here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, we'll be

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Speaker 1: back in a moment. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker. In case you were wondering, McKenzie

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Speaker 1: and Coleby easily not the only players fined by the

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Speaker 1: league for violating the league's COVID nineteen policies. They have

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Speaker 1: fined twenty five total players for either failing to wear

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Speaker 1: to determine which players have been in close contact with

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Speaker 1: each other. That's according to NFL Networks Tom Pella Sero.

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Speaker 1: So that's where that is at. But what we want

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Speaker 1: to know from you is, besides Josh Allen, which Bill's

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Speaker 1: starter are you most interested to see in Saturday's preseason game.

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Speaker 1: As you well know, the bulk of the starters on

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Speaker 1: this roster have not taken the field for a preseason

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Speaker 1: game as of yet. It looks like a good number, coach,

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Speaker 1: that a majority of them will play on Saturday against

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Speaker 1: the Packers. So who's at the top of your list

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Speaker 1: that you'd like to get a look at before we

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Speaker 1: reach the regular season? Besides Josh, of course, I'd love

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Speaker 1: it if like twenty two of them showed up, you know,

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Speaker 1: all starting eleven on defense and Johnson, Poyer and Hyde, Tredavius,

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace and then Starloutula Ed Oliver, take Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: Addison guys we haven't seen, and then on offense, the

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Speaker 1: same thing. I'd like Diggs, Beasley, Sanders Davis, Singletary, Alan

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Speaker 1: Knox and the two tackles. Yeah, I mean, we've seen

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Speaker 1: Knox in the preseason, We've seen Singletary, We've now seen

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Speaker 1: Zack Moss, We've seen Gabriel Davis. It's really the older

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Speaker 1: veterans that we really haven't seen much of. Maybe Feliciano,

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Speaker 1: who has played in the preseason. Dawkins played last week,

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Speaker 1: as we know, as he's trying to come back from

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Speaker 1: his battle with COVID and trying to get himself back

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Speaker 1: into game shape, so he got some time on the

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Speaker 1: field last week. But Darryl Williams is a player we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen. I don't believe we've seen Mitch Morse and

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Speaker 1: a bunch of the players you ran down, Hughes, Addison,

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Speaker 1: you know those veteran players. Star of course, Tredavious. I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen player Hide. Haven't seen those guys, Edmunds, Milano,

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Speaker 1: haven't seen them. So there are a lot of players

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Speaker 1: to choose from here that you want to get a

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Speaker 1: look at before the regular season gets underway. So let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. Eight three five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Also, you can

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Speaker 1: hit us up on the tweet sheet at one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live and we go there and leading us off on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, which is always is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Seth says, Maine and Milano meaning Tremaine

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Speaker 1: and Milano. When those dudes are on it, the whole

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Speaker 1: team plays better. I want to see those guys fly

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Speaker 1: around for a few series like they're ready to go

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Speaker 1: win a championship this year. Those guys and seventeen are

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Speaker 1: more mature, poised for huge seasons LFG Buffalo. I can't

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Speaker 1: say what that stands for. Yeah, yeah, let's go. I

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Speaker 1: could only guess. Yeah. Talking about Josh Allen, Milano and

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds, you know Edmonds and Josh have been kind

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Speaker 1: of linked together since they were drafting the first round together,

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Speaker 1: and now Josh has signed his extension. Tremaine has not,

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Speaker 1: although it seems right it picked up his option. It

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Speaker 1: seems fairly obvious that he's going to be around from

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Speaker 1: foreseeable future. Milano signed an extension. I haven't seen those

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Speaker 1: guys play. Uh yeah, I think it's I think for me,

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Speaker 1: I anticipate defensive starters to go and go a little longer,

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Speaker 1: and go harder or more likely than it is a

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Speaker 1: offensive guys, where is where is the law of diminishing

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Speaker 1: returns for you? In terms of playing time? Obviously, anybody

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Speaker 1: can get hurt on any play, right, But where do

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Speaker 1: you feel you're pushing the risk factor a little bit

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Speaker 1: after two? No, I don't know that there's a raised

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Speaker 1: risk factor anytime. I think you raised the risk factor

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Speaker 1: when you don't tell him exactly how long they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be in there. You gotta to me, you got to

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Speaker 1: use the clock, not the number of plays or how

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Speaker 1: it's going or how many how it feels, or how

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Speaker 1: many series it goes. You gotta say, listen, if there's

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Speaker 1: if it's the second quarter and there's more than five

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Speaker 1: minutes left in the second quarter, you're gonna be playing.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if it's I don't care. If it's

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Speaker 1: you know, five h one on the clock and there's

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Speaker 1: a turnover, you're going back out. Yeah, So you gotta

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Speaker 1: tell them specifically so they can go in there and

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Speaker 1: they can get their mind around it. And if they

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Speaker 1: look up there, they got a yes or no. They

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Speaker 1: don't have to, like say, wonder, walk up and sidle

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Speaker 1: up to the coach and let him see you before

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Speaker 1: he says, oh yeah, by the way, you're not in right,

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Speaker 1: and now you're looking to see if you are in.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to. You can't live like that. That's

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Speaker 1: when guys go out there saying, oh, I gotta be

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Speaker 1: ready to go out, I gotta I gotta go SA

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Speaker 1: grab his helmet and runs out there because he's nobody

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Speaker 1: told him he was not out there. That uncertainty, to me,

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Speaker 1: is the most dangerous part of it. I just wonder

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Speaker 1: what level of anxiety this news has put on the

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Speaker 1: Bills fan base, because when we were reporting in each

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Speaker 1: of the first two preseason games that Josh wasn't playing,

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Speaker 1: We're getting emojis sent us on social media with hands clapping, applause,

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Speaker 1: high fives, thumbs up. People were all for um not

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Speaker 1: playing the first two preseason games. Now some starters could

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Speaker 1: play up to a half. How do you feel now?

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Speaker 1: And that doesn't It doesn't bother me. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You can't run from injuries. They're just a part of

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Speaker 1: the game. But listen, I think they're playing a really

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Speaker 1: good organization on opening day. You better be ready. You

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Speaker 1: had better be ready or you're gonna lose. That's a fact.

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Speaker 1: So get ready. And if it means playing over halftime,

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Speaker 1: through the halftime, and coming out in the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: then do that. It won't matter if you don't play.

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Speaker 1: If you don't play him and they're not ready, you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna win. And then who cares if the guy's

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Speaker 1: healthy or not. You're not gonna win games. So get

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Speaker 1: them ready. And if it means playing him in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: they play him. That's what you're paying him for there,

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Speaker 1: all right. They've been playing since they were six years old.

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Speaker 1: Let him go. You can worry about it. You know

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Speaker 1: that's a concern, but it's no greater concern now than

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Speaker 1: it is later on in the season. It's the same risk.

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Speaker 1: So go out there and let him play. Take your lumps.

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Speaker 1: You got two weeks to get healthy. That's an eternity

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Speaker 1: at this in this day and age. They'll be all right.

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Speaker 1: You might just don't worry about all that other stuff.

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00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,919
Speaker 1: You don't. You can't worry about it. Just go play

641
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: and get ready and take what comes. Here is an

642
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: interesting scenario. Dean tweets in I'd like to see the

643
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 1: Bills plan at one technique, especially if Butler can go. Butler,

644
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: I believe is recovered from his concussion, because I did

645
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: not see him on the injury list yesterday. Will get

646
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: an updated injury list today in terms of who is

647
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: not participating in practice. So Butler is available. The people

648
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: that aren't are Harrison Phillips, potentially Star Latoulae if his

649
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: five days are not up and he does not test

650
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: negative one or the other. And then beyond that, Steve

651
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: treyvon Hester is dealing with a back injury, another guy

652
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: who's lined up at the one technique at times. So

653
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: now now you're reduced to just a defensive tackle Joey

654
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: Ivy who they just signed, Brandon Bryant, Ed Oliver, and

655
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: Justin Zimmer. That's all you got left to get through

656
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 1: a whole preseason game. And you certainly don't want to

657
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: play Oliver a lot in the last preseason game. He's

658
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: had a healthy amount of playing time through the first

659
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: two games, right, and he's certainly not a one technique game.

660
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: No he's not. So no, he's not, and Zimmer isn't

661
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: for that matter, really, because he's a little undersized. He

662
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: may have to line up there sometimes just because a

663
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: lack of bodies, right, Because you know, some people were asking, well,

664
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Speaker 1: why are they signing these people so late in the

665
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,240
Speaker 1: game here in the PREVIOUW because because they need players

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00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: to play, right, Well, they got twelve guys on the

667
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: injured list. Yeah, they they signed Joey Ivy yesterday. Okay,

668
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: he's a DT. Hey, yep, here you go. Yeah, and

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00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: he's played in the league, so there you go. I

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00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: don't know. Jack on the tweet sheet says, this makes

671
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: me nervous. The injury bug and COVID protocols are really

672
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: affecting the roster. I don't want anyone else hurt for nothing,

673
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: So I guess if I have to pick, I want

674
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: to see more of the singletary Moss battle to see

675
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: who can take the lead, especially behind the number one

676
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: OH line. I think that is you know, if you're

677
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,439
Speaker 1: not going to pick a player, how does that first

678
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: team OH line function? And does the run game look

679
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: to be more functional and consistent than we saw last year.

680
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: This is probably the first litmus test, even though it

681
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: is a preseason game. I want to know who those

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00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: five guys are well, that's the other top I'm I mean,

683
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: is it there's still a three way set, a three

684
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: man guard battle. I think the tackles are pretty much set.

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00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 1: I think we can maybe Well Brown's injured, so he's

686
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: not even in the equation, that's true. Yeah, that's the

687
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Speaker 1: three I mean, if if there was going to be

688
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: a change and you know, you've got this thing going

689
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Speaker 1: on at guard between Feliciano Ford and Butcker is, is

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00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams in that mix? Because Spencer Brown has played

691
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: so well at tackle. Now you've got a guard that

692
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: was playing right tackle can move down inside back to

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Speaker 1: where he played most of his time. I mean, he's

694
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: got some options there now Spencer Brown's not hurt. But

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Speaker 1: I want to know, you know who the five guys are? Yeah,

696
00:40:58,280 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: you know who are they and where are they playing?

697
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: We may not know until next week. Yeah, you might

698
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: not known, might not know until open longer first snap.

699
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot that can come out of

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00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: this game knowing the starters are now playing, and we're

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Speaker 1: here to discuss that with you. Eight three five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight fifty two five fifty besides Josh Allen, which bills

703
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: starter are you most interested to see in Saturday's pre

704
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: season finale. Steve and I back in a second here

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Speaker 1: on one Bill's line presented by Collat of Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, Steve, We'll get back to

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00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: our Twitter conversation in just a second. Um, we all

708
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Speaker 1: know that perhaps one of the most pinful Super Bowls

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Speaker 1: in which the Bills did not participate, that was painful

710
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: for Bills fans to watch was the Patriots successful comeback

711
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Speaker 1: from a twenty eight to three deficit to beat the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Wouldn't you chalk that one up? I mean,

713
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: did that one not make you sick? It's got to

714
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: be top five? May I. I was very close to

715
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 1: losing the chili that I had made and eight during

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00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: the first half. Watching the second half of that's got

717
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: to be tough. It's up there. Uh. There's this from

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Speaker 1: CBS Sports John Breach. Apparently, Malcolm Butler, who was famous

719
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Speaker 1: for making a key interception against the Seahawks to help

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Speaker 1: the Patriots win a Super Bowl, was also on the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty one Patriots team that came back to

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Speaker 1: beat the Falcons. He is now in Arizona as as

723
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Speaker 1: a cornerback on the Cardinals. One of his new teammates

724
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Speaker 1: is Robert Alford, who was a cornerback for the Atlanta

725
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Speaker 1: Alkins when they went to the Super Bowl to play

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. So they squared off in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So Malcolm Butler in an interview was asked, Hey, you

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00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: know Robert Alford to your teammate, Now, have you ever

729
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: brought up the Super Bowl to him since you've been here?

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler opens with this. I talked to him about it.

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00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: I asked him if he wanted his ring back. How

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00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: about that for an opening line. Um, locker rooms are

733
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: tough man, anyway, he said, here's the better part of

734
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: the story. Though. Steve Butler says he told me a story.

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Speaker 1: He said he was in the locker room at halftime.

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Speaker 1: They're in the Falcons locker room. Okay, they're up twenty

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00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: one to three at twenty one three and a half.

738
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: The lead balloon to twenty eight to three in early

739
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Speaker 1: in the third quarter. I believe he told me a story.

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Speaker 1: He said he was in the locker room at halftime,

741
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: and he was about to pop a bottle and things

742
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: like that. It was so funny, and then we came

743
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: back and beat them. So apparently Robert Alford, his description

744
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: of the locker room for Atlanta at halftime was they

745
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: were celebrating, already, dancing around, whooping it up. So Butler says,

746
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: I'm just imagining him at halftime. Robert's a funny guy.

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00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of energy. He tells a lot

748
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: of jokes. And he told me at halftime they were

749
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: in there dancing and who raying, and then we came

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00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: back and beat them. So I think that was pretty fun.

751
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that's pretty delicious? Steve at halftime celebrating

752
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: in a Super Bowl? You've been in a few of these.

753
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: Could you imagine doing that kind of tough? I can't

754
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: imagine that. It's kind of tough. I gotta believe the

755
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: nerves are still your nerves are still fraught with anxiety,

756
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: like whether you're up or down. Like if you're down

757
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: at halftime, you're like, all right, bes, this is what

758
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: we got to do in the second half. You know,

759
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: we got two quarters left to make this thing right.

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00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: Or if you got the lead, like all right, let's

761
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: just keep adding points. Isn't there any veteran lead your

762
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: ship in that room? Let's go. We're gonna Hey, let's go.

763
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: Let's even so even the worst half, the coach you

764
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: could have even said, hey, let's really put the gas

765
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: pedal to the metal, let's really light them up the

766
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: second half. Let's go. Let's you know, let's put it in.

767
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: A team that's won four of these already, let's make

768
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: a statement, let's go. Let's That is stunning to me.

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00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: The result is more easily explained. Oh yeah, right, Well,

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00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I I've I've been on one of them.

771
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: I was in that comeback game and which got worse

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00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: before it got better after halftime. It comes down to

773
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: that one team. It's not just one team that comes back.

774
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just about the one team that

775
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: comes back. It's about the team that's in the lead

776
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: shutting it off and not being able to turn it

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00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: back on. Looks like they shut it off at halftime.

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00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: That's right, and that's the Falcons also only ran the

779
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: ball five times when they had a twenty five point lead.

780
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: They ran the ball five times the rest of the game. Yeah,

781
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: that's cray, that's crazy. See. And you know, in the

782
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: in the Houston comeback game, the tennis, the Oilers They

783
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: didn't shut it off until after Bubba McDowell ran in

784
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: a pick six right after halftime. Yeah, thirty five to three.

785
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 1: At that point, it was like thirty seconds into the

786
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Speaker 1: second half. Not even then they shut it off. It's

787
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: thirty five to three. Let's let's get out because it

788
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: was a playoff game. Let's get out of here healthy.

789
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: Let's think about the Let's think about the way the

790
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: divisional round of the playoffs. You know, and I G

791
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: I totally get it. I mean that this is different.

792
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: This is the last game of the year. I know.

793
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: But but that my point is, they shut it off.

794
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: So the Falcons shut it off. The Patriots don't. And

795
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: when you get to that level, the Super Bowl in particular,

796
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,399
Speaker 1: and the wild card round in what I'm talking about,

797
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: you're they're two pretty good teams. Same thing happened in

798
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,320
Speaker 1: the lights out of Super Bowl forty two. The lights

799
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: go out early in the third quarter, and Baltimore hasn't

800
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: end enormous lead over to San Francisco, and that all

801
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: the Baltimore is the other way, right, wasn't san Francisco out? No, no, no, no,

802
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: And and Baltimore just wanted that game to end because

803
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: they were gonna be world champions. They just get out

804
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: of this game and they they kind of shut it

805
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: off for a while or they lost whatever mojo they

806
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: had and San Francisco came storm out here. My point is,

807
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: you're against a really good football team. If you shut

808
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: it off at all, those teams are gonna light you

809
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 1: up quick. A playoff team in the NFL, they're gonna

810
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: run it up in a in a big hurry. That's

811
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Speaker 1: what the Patriots did, That's what the Bills did in

812
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: that game, and that's you know, that's what happened in

813
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: the Niners. I just don't understand, Baltimore. I don't understand

814
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Speaker 1: how that level of complacency happens in the biggest game

815
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Speaker 1: of your life. For those guys like Matt Ryan and

816
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: those that's the biggest game of your life. I'll say this,

817
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: how do you not sit there in the locker room

818
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 1: and say, finish all You're saying the whole fifteen minutes

819
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: you're in there, Finish the job. Finish the job, Finish

820
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: the job. That's all I'd be running through my head.

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Speaker 1: Here's why, and this is why football is different than

822
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: every other sport. When you're in there every play in

823
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: an NFL game, every game you have, you pour your

824
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: heart and soul and guts into it. You're invested physically, spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, everything.

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00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: So you get to that and it and that level

826
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: of tension and effort is difficult to maintain. And when

827
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: you get to a point where you can just take

828
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: a breath, you do it. And in these cases we're

829
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: talking about, so you suggest they can take almost involuntary Yeah,

830
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: it's hard, yeah, almost, it's almost. You take that breathing,

831
00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 1: you're so desperate to just take a minute and sit

832
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: back in your chair or on the you know what

833
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: I mean. And then the other team, and that's all there.

834
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: That's all the difference there is sometimes and that's it.

835
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it goes the other way and

836
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 1: it's hard, and then all of a sudden, oh wait,

837
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: wait wait, we gotta turn it back on. That's really

838
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: difficult to do. I think that's the most underrated part

839
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: of it. So once you turn it off, getting fifty

840
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: three other guys or forty seven or forty eight on

841
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: game day, getting those guys to click it back on

842
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: and some and a lot of time most times, or

843
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be talking about. Most times you can click

844
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 1: it on enough to make one more play that says okay,

845
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: finally right. And the problem is the Bubba McDowell case

846
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: and the Bill's Greatest comeback game, he makes that play,

847
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: it's too early. They turn it off that now it's

848
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 1: thirty five three. Let's shut it down. Let's too early

849
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: for that. And once you shut it down against a

850
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: really good team, like a playoff team, it's gonna get

851
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: close quick. Same thing happened to the Patriots and the Falcons.

852
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: Once that team goes all right, you know what, the

853
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: twenty eight to three, let's just get home and celebrate.

854
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: It's too early, yeah, you know, and it's just and

855
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: once you do that, and let's face it, in the

856
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,479
Speaker 1: Patriots game, in the Bills game, in that Super Bowl

857
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about in Baltimore, Baltimore, are they need

858
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: them play? They got it. The guy returned to punt

859
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. So all you the's one more play,

860
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 1: so you think, somebody as we'll get it. Sometimes somebody

861
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: will make a play here in a minute, you know,

862
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: it quickly turns to is somebody gonna make a play? Right?

863
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:34,439
Speaker 1: And then right right, it's that gonna happen. It better

864
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: happened now, Yeah, it's getting a little it's somebody gonna

865
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: do that, or and it doesn't even it's so unlikely

866
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: that sometimes you don't have to make a play the

867
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: other team. Oh they coughed it up. We got a

868
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: bagats of games over. We'd never had to do anything more. Right,

869
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: that it's so hard to win that you think it's even.

870
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: It's even if I don't try, it's impossible for them

871
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,839
Speaker 1: to win, right. But at the same time, I think

872
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: that's part and parcel what's made the Patriots is such

873
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: a successful franchise for so long because Belichick does not

874
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: allow his team to mail it in even when they're

875
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: up comfortably, you know what I mean. I think he

876
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: might be one of the best coaches at keeping his

877
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: players from taking their foot off the gas. Now, you

878
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,479
Speaker 1: can make the argument last year in Week sixteen playing

879
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 1: the Bills, they probably uh dialed it back a little

880
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: bit when the game was decided. But they're not. They're

881
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: not a kind of organization that no days off. Yeah,

882
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: it's true, but that my point to begin this discussion.

883
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: My point was this, you're so desperate, yeah, to take

884
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: a breather. Yeah, because you were, You're on it, your

885
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: teammates are on it. You don't you don't laugh, you

886
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: don't joke. It's serious. You have fun. It's it's you know,

887
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: because you like doing it. But you just want a

888
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: chance to just like, oh gosh, wow, you know, and

889
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: and and it goes, it goes the other way, and

890
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: really really quickly, we have to take a break here.

891
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to hear from a

892
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 1: couple of Bills players who are addressing the media after practice,

893
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: as it's already overshorter practice here. Later in the week,

894
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 1: it'll be linebacker Andre Smith, who has had a hell

895
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: of a preseason. We'll hear from him and from one

896
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: Seran Neil, the Swiss Army Knife on defense in the secondary.

897
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: Liarty has to say also, both of those gentlemen coming

898
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: up next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health,

899
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has

900
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: been all over the field. Kind of unique. He was

901
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role players for you, Steve, Steve

902
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strated fere of normalcy,

903
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: all right, Ready to go our number two here on

904
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: a Thursday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, one Bills Live and

905
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: as we told you, a couple of players addressing the

906
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: media after practice which is done for the day today,

907
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: and one of them is linebacker Andre Smith, who is

908
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: having a heck of a training camp. In a preseason,

909
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: he has been a ubiquitous presence on the defensive side

910
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 1: of the ball, showing tremendous lateral range, more than I

911
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: even knew that he had. So let's go now to

912
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:39,479
Speaker 1: one Andre Smith addressing the media. You know, your special teams,

913
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: that's one of your main roles, but you're also really

914
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: trying to carve out a niche for yourself on defensive

915
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: show how valuable you are. Yeah, I mean, of course,

916
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: you know, I like to play linebacker. I have a

917
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: joke in the season like, yeah, I kind of don't

918
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 1: play linebacker anymore. I'm a specialists. But you know, you know, obviously,

919
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: like I want to prove that, you know, I kind

920
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: of long in the league, not only as you know,

921
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 1: special teams guy, but as a defensive player. You know,

922
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 1: someone that can actually one day, you know, be a

923
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,959
Speaker 1: starter in this league. Um. So yeah, honestly, just trying

924
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: to show that and understanding that I have to display

925
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: what I could do in preseason in order to make

926
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:19,359
Speaker 1: the team as well. So um, just trying to uh,

927
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, make the team and really just display to

928
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: the world that, you know, my abilities and I could be,

929
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: you know, a player one day. You really much at

930
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 1: all since the trade happened to bring you here, Like,

931
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: what was that like for you? It was it was crazy,

932
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions. Um, yeah, you know, I just

933
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: thought it was kind of over. Uh it's my first time.

934
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: But I mean soon after teams would call in my

935
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 1: agent and stuff, so that was, you know, very relieving.

936
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: But I'd say, you know, there's a lot of emotions, um,

937
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: and a lot of like feeling a sense of like

938
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: failure and everything like that. Um. But honestly, you know,

939
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: when I got the call about like the bill and

940
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: how they wanted this whole situation to go, I was like,

941
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: you know, that's different, very different both Falo's very different,

942
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: you know. But I was just more sort of the

943
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: fact that they wanted me so bad that they didn't

944
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: want me to go through like the whole wire wave

945
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: of a wire deal and um, you know, instead traded

946
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 1: for me and um, you know, and finessed it in

947
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: a way. So, uh yeah, I'm grateful to be here.

948
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: But it was a lot of emotions, a lot of

949
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: sense of failure and everything. So uh, you know, get

950
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: getting here and be able to kind of you know,

951
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,720
Speaker 1: earn my way back onto the field. It was very rewarding.

952
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly consistency. So you know, after after the

953
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: first game, I told myself, I was just like, you know,

954
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: anybody could do it once. You know, once it's good,

955
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: but to do it consistently over and over and over

956
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,280
Speaker 1: again is kind of what what you need in the NFL.

957
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: Uh So to be a consistent playmaker, you have to

958
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: do it kind of every game you're out there. So

959
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: that's really all the mindset behind is is Okay, anybody

960
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: can do it once, to do it again. And so

961
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: going into this last preseason game is if I'm on defense,

962
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: if I'm on special teams, is once again proved to

963
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: the world and to the team what I can do

964
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: when um, you know, do my best to make plays.

965
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: Really the death threats and I hope you tear your

966
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: acls and crazy stuff like that. So that's really why

967
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: I said that, But it was just funny to kind

968
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: of just be on internet trolling, you know, giving people

969
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: a little takes their own medicine. Uh so yeah, I

970
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: mean that's really all. It was just fun, just social

971
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: media fun. I don't take it too seriously. The quality

972
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: doubt that you're seeing in front of you on the

973
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: defensive wine, is that surprised you? First team, second team whatever? Yeah, no,

974
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me. Uh. Coach Washington, you know, he

975
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: was my DC in Carolina, and I know how how

976
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: strong he likes his d lines to be, like all

977
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: the rotations, so not just the first four, but the

978
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: second four and even you know, the third four. So

979
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, just knowing the kind of reputation that

980
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: coach Wash has, I'm not really surprised. Um, he's a

981
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: great defensive line coach. You have great players, um the one, two,

982
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: and three defensive line. So I mean it just makes

983
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: my job easier. So I really appreciate coach watching his

984
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: uh teachings and you know, making sure that you can

985
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: stay clean and make plays. So yeah, I it's very

986
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: nice to have that here in Buffalo. It makes it

987
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: very easy. And these preseason games for sure. Andrew about

988
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: the finding guy from the league for not wearing a mask,

989
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: and um, there's been a lot of social media discussion

990
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: about that today. Forget about what side of the issue

991
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: anybody's on, it's your concerning the locker room that these

992
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: protocols or these things that you guys have to do

993
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: are going to be a problem for a team that

994
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: has a legit Super Bowl chance. Um, well, I honestly

995
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: didn't know he made that tweet. Uh, that's that's interesting, Uh,

996
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: kind of cool, kind of funny. But no, so I

997
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: don't think it'll really be that big of a factor.

998
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: I think, you know, the thing that's most important is

999
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: we don't want, you know, anyone to obviously lose like

1000
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: fifteen uh fifteen thousand dollars or you know, have to

1001
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: miss five games for contact tracing or anything like that.

1002
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't think it'll affect us as

1003
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: far as winning games or like really be that big

1004
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: of a distraction because we're such a focused team. You know,

1005
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: we have great leaders, great vests, and so I don't

1006
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 1: think any of that like little stuff will really throw

1007
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: us off because when it comes down to business, we

1008
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: show up to work and perform. But the thing about

1009
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: the point where these people can't play these positions and

1010
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: their stars. You don't see that at all as possibly

1011
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: be a Coaly can't play in Isaiah can't play because

1012
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: they're continue getting fine for the mass and then it

1013
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: goes into a thing especially like that. Um wow, yeah,

1014
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: that's a good question, honestly. Yeah, Like I'm not really

1015
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: sure about all that. I kind of like just stay

1016
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 1: in the present. But I see what you're saying though,

1017
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: But I didn't know that even suspicions could be given out.

1018
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, all I can say is I just

1019
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: hope that they do the best to just you know,

1020
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: follow the rules and you know, not hurt their pockets

1021
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: and not hurt like their chance of playing or anything.

1022
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: But you know, I definitely understand, understand and respect their

1023
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: positions as far as like the vaccine and everything. So yeah,

1024
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's not too much I can say on that.

1025
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll affect us that much. Buffalo is different.

1026
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: Why buffaloes are secret. You know, we have like the

1027
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: little banner and everything, like you would never expect Buffalo

1028
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: to kind of like when I first got up here,

1029
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: it just it's just not the most appelling place, right

1030
00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: And so when you get up here, you're like, Wow,

1031
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: this is actually, you know, pretty nice. You know, you like,

1032
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: the weather's not all that bad until about you know, November,

1033
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: and so like today, you know, it's a nice hot

1034
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: day kind of like what I'm used to. So yeah,

1035
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: I think it's just surprising, and like the facilities are nice,

1036
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: and just honestly just the team as well. It's like

1037
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 1: just refreshing to be around these guys. Like they're really

1038
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: like an ego free locker room. Everyone talks to everyone.

1039
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: It's not like no, I'm bigger than you, you know,

1040
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: anything like that. So I think, you know, along with

1041
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: just the actual location and like the players of Buffalo,

1042
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: I think that's what's really like the secret of Buffalo

1043
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: that while we're so good that you want to roll

1044
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: at linebacker, and the kind of spoke to how import

1045
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: preseason games are for that. So could you put in

1046
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: the words just in terms of having an opportunity being

1047
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: linebacker but also having an opportunity to make this fifty

1048
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: yer man rosters, just how important this last preseason game

1049
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: is for that? Yeah, I mean it's super important. Um,

1050
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, finishing is a big deal of what we do.

1051
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: So honestly just going out and competing to the best

1052
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: and continue to you know, prove that I belong in

1053
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: the in on the fifty three, you know, So just

1054
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: really going out on this third preseason game and finishing

1055
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: playing well, you know, making sure do my assignments, going

1056
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: hard on special teams and you know, just getting to

1057
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 1: the ball, trying to create plays and you know, giving

1058
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: the coaches some comfort and trusting me that you know,

1059
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: if anything happened, you know, especially a guess with all

1060
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 1: this COVID stuff and you know, guys missing games and

1061
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: obviously the game of football brings injuries. You know that

1062
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: I could be a person that they plug in, um,

1063
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: and then you know they just kind of have complete comfort.

1064
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: So just continue to prove, like like if it was

1065
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: a regular season game and I had to play that, okay, Um,

1066
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: you know they respect me, they trust me, and you

1067
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: know they you know, have a great deal of you know,

1068
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: respect for putting me out there. So Andre Smith looking

1069
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: to make that next step steve from just being a

1070
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: dependable special teams player to a guy getting time on

1071
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: defense as a linebacker. And I think he's made a

1072
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: compelling case for himself through the first two games with

1073
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: his play on defense, I think, no question I can

1074
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: really relate to him. He says, you know, once the

1075
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: season starts, I don't play its linebacker. Now I kind

1076
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: of know what he means. I played wide receiver six

1077
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: days a week. But the problem was we played on

1078
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: the seventh day, right, So I never got a chance

1079
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: to play wide receiver in the game. So I get it.

1080
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: But you contribute anyway you can, and you make yourself

1081
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: as valuable as you can. Like we've been talking about

1082
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: the versatility he is, he's had a fense. When he

1083
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: got in the game in Detroit, he dominated defensively. He

1084
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: was everywhere everywhere. I mean I was. I was shocked.

1085
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: And that's what you got to do, particularly as a guy,

1086
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: a guy in his position. It's gonna be hard. It

1087
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: would be, in my opinion, virtually impossible to get Milano

1088
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 1: and Tremaine Edmonds out of the lineup. In a true competition,

1089
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: he might be one of the first guys off the bench. Yeah.

1090
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: And given the fact that Milano has had bouts of

1091
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: health issues, you know, broke you know, legs and whatever, hamstrings,

1092
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: and he had a broken leg his rookie year, all

1093
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: of that he's got. You gotta have a guy. I'm

1094
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: just I'm just gonna put this out there. We know

1095
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: Madakavich is gonna be on the roster because of his

1096
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,919
Speaker 1: special Team's prowess. He's also capable of playing the mic.

1097
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: Beyond Matakavich, Edmonds and Milano, I think the two linebackers

1098
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: who have performed the best thus far through training camp

1099
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: in the preseason are Andre Smith and Joe Giles Harris. Yeah,

1100
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: and I don't even think it's close. I would agree

1101
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: Joe Giles Harris showed a lot of speed and athleticism

1102
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: in his time in Detroit, and he's a veteran player.

1103
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: And I would say, you're looking for guys who know

1104
01:03:57,840 --> 01:03:59,919
Speaker 1: how to be professionals. You can tell you just listen.

1105
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: Just listening to Andrea Smith talk right there. You know

1106
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: he knows. I mean his lights are on right. I mean,

1107
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: that guy knows what's going on and knows how to

1108
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: survive and carve out a niche for himself on this roster,

1109
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: which I think he's done a really good job of

1110
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: doing it. It's really hard for us to see what

1111
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: everybody else has shown because a lot of these guys

1112
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: haven't played Melano hasn't played, Tremaine Edmonds hasn't played. You

1113
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 1: you gotta go searching for opportunities to evaluate the other guys.

1114
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: The coaches are doing that every day and we don't

1115
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 1: get a chance to do that. So what we've seen,

1116
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 1: no question, Andre Smith and Joe Giles Harris have been

1117
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: just fantastic, which kind of leaves Tyrell Dodson, who was

1118
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: on this roster last year, and Mark hill Lee and

1119
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: maybe even A. J. Klein in a little bit of

1120
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 1: limbo here, because I think it's I feel safe in

1121
01:04:56,280 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: saying Giles Harris and Andre Smith have done more than

1122
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: any of those other three linebackers. Now, in all fairness,

1123
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: A J. Klein has not gotten on the field in

1124
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: the preseason, and Mark hell Lee was on the COVID

1125
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 1: reserve list. Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna be technical

1126
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: about it, I mean he's done. They've done more than

1127
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: than Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano in can you know

1128
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: what I mean? So because those nobody's but in the

1129
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: preseason game, in the preseason games. Yeah, so that's it's

1130
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,920
Speaker 1: not so much what we can see, which is that

1131
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: if Andre Smith and Joe Giles Harris aren't on the

1132
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, they'll probably be on the Detroit Lions or

1133
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:39,439
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears roster, right, or the Houston Texans roster. They're

1134
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 1: gonna be some wars um because they've played really well.

1135
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,200
Speaker 1: That's but it's all the stuff we don't know about

1136
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: everybody else that that limits us from making a pronouncement.

1137
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: I know we've talked about this a little bit, but

1138
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: linebacker is one of those positions that could be victimized

1139
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: due to the depth of talent at defensive end. If

1140
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: you carry it extra there, you're gonna have to cut

1141
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: somewhere else, and linebacker might be one of those spots.

1142
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 1: Knowing the Bills largely playing nickel personnel with only two

1143
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: linebackers on the field, they did that at a clip

1144
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 1: in ninety one percent last year, the highest in the

1145
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: league by far, right, So if those are their intentions

1146
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: going forward again this year to play it at that rate,

1147
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 1: because in years prior it was only about seventy four

1148
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: seventy five percent, which is still a fat percentage, and

1149
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: it is your most popular defensive front. You wonder if

1150
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 1: maybe they keep only five instead of six to accommodate

1151
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: the depth of talent at defensive end. Yeah, last year

1152
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: you couldn't get them out of You couldn't get them

1153
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: out of Nickel with a crowbar. I mean, they just

1154
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: doggedly played it. They did play a little bit of

1155
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: bass when they played Baltimore in the playoffs in New England,

1156
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: a little bit two New England with Cam, but other

1157
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 1: than that, man, they was almost impossible to get him

1158
01:06:58,200 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: out of that. And I think some of it had

1159
01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: maybe as you say, two years ago and three years

1160
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: ago they were like what seven what was it, seventy

1161
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: five or seventy five, something like that. In one of

1162
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: the reasons they and this is the complimentary football thing again,

1163
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 1: one of the reasons they probably got it, didn't get

1164
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 1: out of it more than that this year when they

1165
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: weren't they were way above seventy four seventy five percent,

1166
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:21,919
Speaker 1: was because Josh and the offense were lightening people up. Yeah,

1167
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 1: people had to keep up so they didn't get a

1168
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 1: chance to buckle down and you know, put a fullback

1169
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: on the field or two tight ends on the field

1170
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: and start grinding it out or they were going to

1171
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 1: get left behind. They will be interesting to see if

1172
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 1: the Bills are in some more tight games this year,

1173
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 1: how much does there nickel defense come down in terms

1174
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 1: of percentage? Because, yeah, you make a good point. There

1175
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 1: are a lot of teams that were in past mode

1176
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,280
Speaker 1: neither because they were so far behind. Look at the

1177
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:52,959
Speaker 1: Rams game, I mean I remember it was the Rams

1178
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: are an eleven personnel team all the time anyway, and

1179
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 1: the Bills were lightening them up. Same thing with Seattle.

1180
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: The Bills jumped out big on those guys. Um they

1181
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 1: just kept happening, and you know the teams had to respond,

1182
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: and they just did it by saying, listen, we gotta

1183
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 1: keep up with these guys. Yeah, because particularly and I

1184
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: and I want to go down this rabbit hole too.

1185
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 1: For when you're standing, I was there in the stadium

1186
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,720
Speaker 1: watching these games. I know people see him on TV.

1187
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: It's even different on when you're live. The Bills were

1188
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: scoring early in these games, and it's like like the

1189
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, the La Rams, these teams, they're like, we

1190
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: have we haven't even got a chance to stop them yet.

1191
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't even put it. We haven't even

1192
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: We're not even a speed bump right now. So you

1193
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: better you better score some while we figure this out.

1194
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 1: I mean, we may get it later in the game,

1195
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: but right now we can't stop these guys at all.

1196
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: We can't even make They're not even a hiccup. So

1197
01:08:56,720 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: you better, you know, you better start slinging it. It

1198
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 1: was that kind of atmosphere early in these games was

1199
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 1: and that's right, it was crazy. Yeah. The only reason

1200
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the Jets Week one kept it

1201
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: a little closer because Josh himself fumbled twice going in, yeah,

1202
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: down deep in their end twice, and missed a touchdown

1203
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 1: throw to John Brown in the end zone. So, I

1204
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: mean there the Bills stopped themselves three times and we're

1205
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:33,160
Speaker 1: only up what seventeen? Yeah, I mean they those guys

1206
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: over there are panicking. Yeah, because there are no answers,

1207
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: no good ones. I have never It was unbelievable. So

1208
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: you'll talk about a team like the defensive Cordiners again, right,

1209
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: I got nothing? Yeah, I got nothing. The Denver game

1210
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:53,960
Speaker 1: sticks out. I mean they were down on the goal

1211
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:56,720
Speaker 1: line and got flagged for penalties three plays in a row,

1212
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: and you can audibly hear Josh on the television saying,

1213
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 1: how many more times do we have to score here?

1214
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:05,600
Speaker 1: Right before he counts he kept friendly goes in and

1215
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 1: Vic Fangi is over there throwing his arms up in

1216
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: the air locking what are we gonna do? And I

1217
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,919
Speaker 1: remember this too, and that's Vick Fanjie and Robert Salas

1218
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 1: on a Monday night football game. They show him on

1219
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: the sidelines, were lit shorthanded too, with a mask on,

1220
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: and he's like, he looks like Shanahan going I don't

1221
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 1: know what else. He's like a gunfighter and he got

1222
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: no bullets. Yeah, he's looking to Shanahan like, I don't

1223
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 1: know what else you want me to do. All that

1224
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: stuff was askew last year, and it comes down to

1225
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: what the complimentary football we're talking about. Do the Bills

1226
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:38,680
Speaker 1: have the luxury because of Josh and the guys on

1227
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 1: offense to make some different decisions defensively with their roster.

1228
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: Can they keep fewer linebackers knowing it's all about their

1229
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: dbs in the pass rush because teams aren't gonna be

1230
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: running the ball, you know what I mean? If you

1231
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: stop them up because they're up, they gotta get some chunks.

1232
01:10:55,200 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: So it's that's a they could have done it last year,

1233
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 1: but who knew? But Steve still like you're now you're

1234
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: asking the coaching staff to predict how the season's gonna

1235
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: play out. That's a weighty decision that's made largely on supposition,

1236
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 1: not hard facts. So what do you think the likelihood

1237
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: is they go that route? I think it's pretty likely. Yeah,

1238
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: just think about it. The Bills, Oh hell, look at

1239
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: the Bears game. They're deep, right the deep, They're deep

1240
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 1: in the backst the Bills. They lit the Bears up

1241
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 1: with with mister Bisky. You know they don't even need

1242
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 1: lighter fluid, mister Bisky, Jake Kumerow, Gabriel Davis, Isaiah MCKENSI McKenzie. Yeah,

1243
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do when he put Cole Beasley,

1244
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: Steph Digs, and Emmanuel Sanders out there and a starting

1245
01:11:55,160 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: offensive line that that And I get it as a

1246
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: preseason game, and the Bears had their own issues and

1247
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: that didn't have anything to do with their real roster. Whatever.

1248
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: We can say whatever you want, but I'm telling you what,

1249
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: this team's got another gear that they haven't even they

1250
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: haven't even thought about yet. Yeah, in this preseason and

1251
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: last year, they showed it and I still think they've

1252
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 1: got it. I think they got a chance to be better,

1253
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this too. They're gonna be better

1254
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: defensively upfront, which means more third and longs instead of

1255
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 1: third and shorts like they got last year. It's gonna

1256
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: be third and third and seven, third and nine, not

1257
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,640
Speaker 1: third and two, third and three as often as it

1258
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 1: was a year ago. Yeah, this is a team that's got,

1259
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: that is poised. It is poised for a real breakout

1260
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 1: break time for us. Here when we come back, we

1261
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 1: will hear from one siran Neil, who has had a

1262
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: very interesting training camp in preseason. And it's another player

1263
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 1: much like Andre Smith, who is looking to become more

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Speaker 1: than just as special team's core player. We'll hear from

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Speaker 1: Saran when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Collat of Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker. It

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Speaker 1: appears that the Patriots, who already traded running back Sony

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01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: Michelle to the Rams, are not done swapping for talent.

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Speaker 1: According to NFL Network Scene and Rappaport, the Ravens are

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Speaker 1: close to trading fifth round pick cornerback Sean Waite, the

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Speaker 1: former Ohio State standout, to the Patriots, So we'll wait

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Speaker 1: and see if in fact that comes to pass. I

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01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 1: don't recall seeing anywhere that the Patriots lost a corner

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Speaker 1: to injury or something where they're shorthanded, but we'll have

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01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 1: to see where that goes. It's interesting to me that

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01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: they're looking to add young corners right now. We know

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Speaker 1: that Stefan Gilmour is in the last year of his deal.

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Speaker 1: This will lead to people wondering, hey, if you're adding

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Speaker 1: a corner, does that mean you're subtracting one and some

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01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 1: other deal? What's going on there? So we'll see if

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01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 1: where there's smoke, there's truly fire. But looks like the

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01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: Patriots are trying to land cornerback Sean Wade, a fifth

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01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: round pick for the Ravens this year, so we'll see

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Speaker 1: where that goes. As reports continue on that developing story,

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Speaker 1: we did want to pass along to you one Saran Neil,

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01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: who addressed the media after practice today, much like Andre Smith,

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01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 1: another player looking to expand his role on this roster

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Speaker 1: to more than just that of special teams. Here is Saran.

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Speaker 1: How much does that maybe give me comments or even

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01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:52,600
Speaker 1: you know, make you feel like, Wow, I've earned the

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01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:57,120
Speaker 1: respect of these guys as well. It pushes me or whatever,

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01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 1: because I know I make mistakes just like everybody else

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01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: make mistakes. But they look at me one of those

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01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 1: guys that you can do anything if you just put

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01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: your mind to it or whatever. So whenever you know,

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01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: my numbers called, or when my numbers not called, you know,

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,200
Speaker 1: or I'm just playing special teams or whatever it is,

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01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: I just try to do my part, and you know,

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01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: do my best at doing that, living up that. Oh,

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01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 1: always live up to that. It ain't even a trial

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01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 1: about that one. Uh, I know what's that task now,

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01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,120
Speaker 1: I know what's at stake here, you know, especially with

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01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: the guys up at the top of the office and

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01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 1: with the expectations for me, and I try to live

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01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,560
Speaker 1: up to the expectation, just like the guys that you

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01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 1: know that's on this roster as well. You're like this sermon,

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01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: Knight for the of the secondary. You can do it all.

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01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 1: We've seen you play safety early on, but in the

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01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: box you play slot, not even outside. Is there a

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01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: place where you feel most comfortable and what you're doing?

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01:15:51,360 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: Oh a strict question, yeah, but actually I'm actually loving

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01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:04,680
Speaker 1: every position. I'm not gonna say just one because I'm

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01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:07,680
Speaker 1: asked to getting pretty comfortable at corner as well. You know,

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01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 1: I have a couple of hiccups here and there. But

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01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:12,479
Speaker 1: just like you know, Trey White talking to me all

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01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 1: the time, he's like, you know, he's the top corner

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01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: in this league, and he give up passes, he give

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01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: up touchdowns. So you know, just listening to that from

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01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: that guy, you know, it's really pushes me even harder, like, Okay,

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01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: you messed up on that rep. What you're gonna do

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01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:29,720
Speaker 1: on the next rep. Don't make the same mistakes. So

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01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: that's what I do as I go on the field.

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01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, all right, rand go do what

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01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: you do. Go to do what you do, make plays,

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01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: And that's what I do. Will it be if at

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01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:42,799
Speaker 1: all this year to think about this last year your contract?

1328
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:44,599
Speaker 1: You want to show what you can do play defense?

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01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:46,600
Speaker 1: Do you want to get on the field and that capacity?

1330
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: Knowing that I don't really too much were about the

1331
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: contract thing. I let that handle itself. You know. I

1332
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:54,560
Speaker 1: just do what I can do and handle what I

1333
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:57,000
Speaker 1: can handle, and control what I control on my part,

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01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 1: because if I don't do my part, that part not

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01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 1: gonna come. What I'm saying, so, just like everything else

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01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: that they throw at me, you know, I just control

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01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 1: and do what I do. So those guys can, you know,

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01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: be happy with the results. When we asked about you

1339
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:16,360
Speaker 1: to other players and to Leslie Fraser, a lot of

1340
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: people have stud you know, of course you're just you

1341
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: have athleticism that other players don't have. But they also

1342
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 1: have spoken to the way that you've grown since coming

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01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 1: in the bill. So how you think you've grown and

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01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: evolved as a player since coming to Buffalo Home. Yes,

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01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 1: that's that's a good one. The coaching stuff, think I'm

1346
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 1: invincible like JV the Corners coach. You told him, Yes,

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01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:39,560
Speaker 1: that was like, coach, what if I came up to

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01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 1: you and I told you I was tired? He was like,

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01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:43,640
Speaker 1: I turned my back on you or whatever You're like

1350
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 1: because I know you can do it or whatever. So

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01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 1: just just that thing apart, you know, I just actually

1352
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: love it or whatever is staying healthy and just throwing

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01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:57,639
Speaker 1: everything to my best ability, and those guys just saying

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01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 1: that about me or whatever really makes me believe that

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01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: they trust me now and definitely growing into this role

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01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: of whatever I gotta do to help my team. That's

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01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:13,439
Speaker 1: just what it is, you know, So the mature parts

1358
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 1: definitely comes along with the game from year one to

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Speaker 1: year now. It's just like I see things that I

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01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 1: didn't used to see. I treat my body differently, the

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01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: eating part. I eat a coach birthday or there. But

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01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, as athletes, we burn you know, food pretty fast.

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01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:32,160
Speaker 1: But like being mature in this game, it goes a

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01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: long way or whatever. And I try to tell something

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01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 1: young guys that when they come in, you know, they

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01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 1: get upset when the coach get on to them, or

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01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 1: they feel like certain things ain't going their way, so

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01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: they hold their head down. But like stamps all over

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01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 1: this building or whatever, it's a process and you know

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01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,680
Speaker 1: that's that's what it is. You just gotta it's a

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01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 1: love hate thing, but you gotta love at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day. If you're gonna stand in this league

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01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:56,559
Speaker 1: and you can't think about the bad things, you think

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01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: about the bad things, you're not gonna do your job.

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01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:00,439
Speaker 1: So that's why I try to tell every they have

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01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: that problem. And it's a great thing with me that

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01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: I have grown in mature to that point too, where

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01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 1: certain things gonna go bad and certain things gonna go good.

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01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: But don't listen to either one of them. Focus on

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01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,680
Speaker 1: that moment. How do you think this preseason has been

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01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,719
Speaker 1: valuable to you? These last two preseason games, It's definitely

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01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:23,320
Speaker 1: been a battle. Uh, you know, first preseason game, you

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01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: know here, in the second preseason game here and that.

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01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 1: But that's part of it. You know, different rules, It's

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01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: just part of the learning curve. You know. I know,

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01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna make a mistake here and there,

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01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: but I know what's at State doing the same thing.

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01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: I know what's the situation, and I know what's going on.

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01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,240
Speaker 1: But I feel like it's a process still in that.

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01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: You know, you get into your first preseason game, you're

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01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: not the rest off. You're getting your second preseason game.

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01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: You're doing a little bit better, you're a third preseason game.

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01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: But all this is just a build up into the

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01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 1: first season, into the rest of the season. You know everything,

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01:19:54,320 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: it's a process. Just keep climbing mistakes. Do you notice

1396
01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: any difference of just having three games to do it

1397
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 1: now or free you or for the team just towards everything. Nah,

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01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna even say nothing's about the numbers, because

1399
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 1: like you know, the rest of the guys are asking me.

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01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:15,599
Speaker 1: I haven't been all over the field. So the thing

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01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: is for me, it's being in shape. You know. I

1402
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: know I'm not to you know, run down on kickoff,

1403
01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 1: do my thing on there and wherever they throw me

1404
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:27,560
Speaker 1: at on defense. It is what it is. But you know,

1405
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:32,240
Speaker 1: and during this process it's just like you know, stay

1406
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:34,679
Speaker 1: on top of it or that making stakes move forward.

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01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 1: That's how I look at it. I don't see Dame

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: Jackson grow as a player from your wife tremendously, tremendously,

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01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 1: And you know, that's one thing that the guys do

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01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 1: a good job at the top officer. They're bringing guys

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01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 1: like him, you know, and a young guy like him,

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01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: you know, he pretty athletic too or whatever, but he's

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01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:58,599
Speaker 1: grown tremendously and understanding the ins and outs the defense

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01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:02,040
Speaker 1: and knowing what it's hell. And you know, but like

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01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 1: I say, you know, everybody's got that dame where they

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01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: are to really doomed. But he's one of the guys everybody,

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01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:12,360
Speaker 1: you know, coming along in the defense. So some positive

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01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:15,719
Speaker 1: words there for Dane Jackson from his teammates Saran Neil

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01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:18,639
Speaker 1: and Suran. I think trying to keep it as simple

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01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 1: as possible when you're being asked to man a couple

1421
01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:25,400
Speaker 1: of different defensive roles and you really haven't had a

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01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:27,919
Speaker 1: lot of time on the job. At this level on defense,

1423
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: your head can be swimming pretty fast. Now. I know,

1424
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: within the scope of Leslie Fraser and Coach mcdermot's defense,

1425
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: there are a lot of base rules you can turn

1426
01:21:37,120 --> 01:21:40,479
Speaker 1: to even when you're not one hundred percent sure what

1427
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:44,400
Speaker 1: you're looking at from an offense. You know, kind of

1428
01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 1: fallback options if you will. I mean, Saran is as

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01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 1: honest as they come. He has said, hey, look, I've

1430
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: had a couple of hiccups, had a few mistakes, but

1431
01:21:57,040 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: this is a guy that just tell him what all right,

1432
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:03,080
Speaker 1: what I gotta do? Okay, let's go. And those are

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01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:05,200
Speaker 1: guys that can hang around as long as they can

1434
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:08,080
Speaker 1: execute enough of the tie. Well, he's athletic enough to

1435
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: overcome some mental mistakes too, and to be a step

1436
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:13,600
Speaker 1: late here means he can. He can. He's got a

1437
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 1: burst to get back into the play, that kind of stuff.

1438
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: But nothing gets you on the bench faster than mental mistakes,

1439
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: and the more prevalent they are, the faster you and

1440
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 1: the further way you get from the field. Coaches put

1441
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:39,720
Speaker 1: guys out there they trust. I mean, perfect example is

1442
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace. They trust the guy, They try to upgrade

1443
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: him constantly. They can't get rid of him because they

1444
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: trust him too much. And nobody else has earned trust

1445
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:49,760
Speaker 1: equal to that. Who's a better athlete or a better

1446
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 1: corner And they've had and lots of guys have had

1447
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:57,760
Speaker 1: shots at it. So that's the caveat that goes with

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01:22:57,880 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: all of this. You can be as good athlete as

1449
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:00,800
Speaker 1: you want, but if the so just can't trust you,

1450
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: you're going to do something else. While Saran was talking,

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01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 1: I tried to find further clarity on why the Patriots

1452
01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: would be looking to acquire a cornerback, as NFL Networks

1453
01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:17,640
Speaker 1: he and RAP reporters reporting that the Ravens are in

1454
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:21,240
Speaker 1: the process of trading fifth round pick cornerback Sean Wade

1455
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 1: to New England, and Ben Volan, who is the Patriots

1456
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:32,679
Speaker 1: beat reporter an NFL writer for Boston Globe, has tweeted

1457
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:36,640
Speaker 1: that the fact that the Patriots are trading for a

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01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 1: six foot one cornerback could be an ominous sign with

1459
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 1: respect to Stefan Gilmour, knowing he's still on the pup list.

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01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 1: I forgot he did go on the PUP list. So

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01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:51,760
Speaker 1: when you see a team acquiring a player at the

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01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: same position, you wonder if what's keeping him on the

1463
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:58,720
Speaker 1: physically unable to perform list is worse than initially anticipated.

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01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:01,280
Speaker 1: So well, keep an eye on that to see where

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Speaker 1: that goes. Not that it's really going to impact the

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Speaker 1: Bills in any way because the Bills don't play the

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01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: Patriot's still week twelve, I think, so I'm gonna play

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01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 1: him until they get to December, right, So it's probably

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01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 1: immaterial as it pertains to the Bills, but still interesting. Nonetheless, yeah,

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01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: that it's probably about numbers. It's a lot like the

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01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: Bills signing guys off the street now when they got

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Speaker 1: guys on COVID, but saying hid, how long is how

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01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: long is Steph gonna be out? Steph Gilm, We're gonna

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01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:32,000
Speaker 1: be out, and Bill we'll get You know what brings

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01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:33,680
Speaker 1: somebody in. Let's trade for him and if he's a

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01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: fifth rounder, maybe we've got something here. Let's let's take

1477
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: a flyer on the guy and give up something for him.

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01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:41,080
Speaker 1: We like the guy in college. If he's available, let's

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01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 1: get him, particularly if the Baltimore Ravens are gonna cut

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Speaker 1: him or put him on their practice squad anyway. Yeah,

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01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 1: So some interesting things going on around the league with

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01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: respect to rosters as teams try to formulate exactly how

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01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: things are going to shape up position by position, maybe

1484
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:01,519
Speaker 1: after two preseason games and probably the better part of

1485
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:06,639
Speaker 1: three weeks of training camp, you know, they're saying, Okay,

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01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 1: we may need an extra corner here, or we need

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01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle, or we need a wide receiver. And

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01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: we've seen a couple of trades here. The Rams obviously

1489
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: needed a running back after losing Cam Akers to a

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01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: season ending achilles injury. So teams are making some moves

1491
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:24,120
Speaker 1: here in advance of the formulation of the fifty three

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Speaker 1: man roster. Do you think that's predicated largely Steve on

1493
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: wanting to get to a player that they believe can

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01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: help them first, because really, in the grand scheme of things,

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01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 1: not a lot has been offered in return in a

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01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: lot of these trades. The Michelle thing is a little

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01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:40,680
Speaker 1: bit different, Sony, Michelle traded for a six and a

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01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:46,759
Speaker 1: four right Beyond that, it's a lot of conditional picks. Yeah, Michelle.

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01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: The other deal Michelle is playing running back. I mean

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01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:52,640
Speaker 1: the shelf life is not what it once was, and

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01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: so you feel like you're only going to get what

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01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:58,599
Speaker 1: three more years out of him tops and the six

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01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 1: and a four, it's a pretty good return. You're right.

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01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 1: I think most of this has to do with thinking

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01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 1: you had a guy that you could have drafted, could

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01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: have signed as a rookie free agent, where somebody who

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01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 1: was on the free agent market, somebody at a certain

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01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:16,559
Speaker 1: level that you had your eye on, and through your

1509
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 1: film study and your knowledge about what's going on with

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01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 1: that other team, they're probably not going to have a

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01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:23,840
Speaker 1: use for him, and he'll be available, and you think

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01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:25,719
Speaker 1: he's better in your system than he is in theirs.

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01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:29,680
Speaker 1: It's pretty specific. Yeah, and you see, you know, that's

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01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:33,080
Speaker 1: why you see targeted, targeted trades for guys that you know,

1515
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:34,400
Speaker 1: none of them a lot of us don't know. Now,

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01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle's different, but you know this corner from Baltimore

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01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:45,160
Speaker 1: and other players you like. Okay, Um, there does seem

1518
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:48,240
Speaker 1: to be a willingness though in the in this point

1519
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 1: in NFL history, not like when I was around, trades

1520
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:56,519
Speaker 1: are more prevalent, more prevalent. I think it kind of

1521
01:26:56,600 --> 01:26:59,880
Speaker 1: came in with that new generation of young general man

1522
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: managers coming into the league um or rising to that status.

1523
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:08,479
Speaker 1: And Brandon Bean's in that group. I mean he just

1524
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: is as Tom tolesco in LA It's it's Ballard. Yeah.

1525
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:18,040
Speaker 1: All these guys, they don't sit, they don't stand still,

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01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:22,160
Speaker 1: They cry and fixed problems. Right, That's I think it's

1527
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:25,120
Speaker 1: a good place to be. Break time for us here,

1528
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:29,679
Speaker 1: But more of our discussion on what starting player besides

1529
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen are you most interested in seeing in Saturday's

1530
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 1: preseason finale after coach McDermott announced that most players, the

1531
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:42,240
Speaker 1: majority of the starters will play on Saturday against the Packers.

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01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: Taking your phone calls at eight three five fifty or

1533
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 1: your comments on the tweetchet at One Bills Live, Steve

1534
01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:49,680
Speaker 1: and I back in a second stay where you are

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01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:09,280
Speaker 1: you on a Thursday. Plenty more coming at you in

1537
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 1: the third hour of the program, including from the Green

1538
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 1: Bay Press Gazette Packer's columnist Pete Daugherty, and then in

1539
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 1: the final half hour of the show, the latest installment

1540
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:27,160
Speaker 1: of Tasker's teammate see how Quick on the draw Steve

1541
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: is This time as we play that at the bottom

1542
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:32,640
Speaker 1: of the hour, wanted to get to more of your

1543
01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet where we were asking you,

1544
01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:38,639
Speaker 1: besides Josh Allen, which Bills started? Are you most interested

1545
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: to see in Saturday's preseason game. After coach McDermott confirmed

1546
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: today that the majority of starters will play against the

1547
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:50,920
Speaker 1: Packers on Saturday, with varying degrees of playing time, Tiffany says,

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01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:54,280
Speaker 1: I'm hoping to see Motor keep making plays. He's looked

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01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: good so far. In my opinion is best season is

1550
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: a head and all the work he put in during

1551
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 1: the offseason will pay off with a breakout year. I'll

1552
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 1: say this, I agree, i'd I'd like to know, um,

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01:29:09,160 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 1: if they're gonna have an RB one or are they

1554
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:16,639
Speaker 1: gonna have an RB committee. I know they're gonna rotate, yeah,

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01:29:17,479 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 1: but Singletary has shown has shown up, Ye has shown up,

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01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:28,880
Speaker 1: and I agree with her. I think, Um, I'm excited

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01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:32,240
Speaker 1: to see him carry the ball more consistently. Yeah. Um,

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01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:34,639
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna I don't think they're gonna

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01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:40,880
Speaker 1: run it all that much, but he's I don't know.

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01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 1: I well, there's always so much you can do but

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01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: in this offense. But this run against the path of

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01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:49,800
Speaker 1: the Bears, and you said it, I mean a poor

1563
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:51,880
Speaker 1: job of tackling. But he has always been one of

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01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:56,680
Speaker 1: those guys that's very elusive, and I'll be interesting to

1565
01:29:56,760 --> 01:30:00,960
Speaker 1: see if he's the guy given what teams know about

1566
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:04,320
Speaker 1: this offense. You know, if teams don't try and force

1567
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:06,880
Speaker 1: the Bills into giving him the ball rather than throwing

1568
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 1: it the way the Bills did with Mahomes last year

1569
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:10,800
Speaker 1: on Monday Night. I know you and I have talked

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01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 1: about this third year players on this roster who need

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01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: to make a bigger impact going forward. I know your

1572
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:19,960
Speaker 1: money's on Dawson Knox. You obviously I've had Oliver in

1573
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:23,200
Speaker 1: that equation. My guy is Singletary. I think he can

1574
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:26,920
Speaker 1: be a bigger impact player for this team this year.

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01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:29,400
Speaker 1: That's where if you ask me which third year player

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01:30:29,439 --> 01:30:33,200
Speaker 1: I'm putting my money on, it's Motor. That's just where

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01:30:33,240 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 1: I'm at with it. I think even if they only

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01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:38,759
Speaker 1: run it fifteen times a game, I think he's gonna

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01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:41,040
Speaker 1: have more opportunity than anybody else than any other third

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01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:44,760
Speaker 1: year player save maybe at Oliver. Ed might get more snaps. Yeah,

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01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: but I'm with you. Put the ball in his hands

1582
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:50,759
Speaker 1: probably a little more this year and we'll see what happens.

1583
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:53,720
Speaker 1: And I think I think defenses will look to try

1584
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:55,840
Speaker 1: and entice the Bills into keeping the ball on the

1585
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 1: ground a little more than they did a year ago.

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01:30:58,000 --> 01:30:59,599
Speaker 1: Nick on the tweet sheet says, I want to see

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01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: as much of are starting D line as possible. We

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01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:04,479
Speaker 1: have been getting great pressure on the quarterback so far

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01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 1: with mostly rookies and backups. I'm hoping our starting D

1590
01:31:07,560 --> 01:31:11,719
Speaker 1: line will look just as good. We haven't seen Hughes

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01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:15,360
Speaker 1: and Addison, yeah, or Star or Star, and he's still

1592
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: a question mark for Saturday being on the COVID reserve list.

1593
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:23,479
Speaker 1: But yeah, the young guns have looked good. That's three

1594
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:25,240
Speaker 1: guys at the top of the rotation that we haven't

1595
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 1: even hadn't even stepped on the field yet. And he's right.

1596
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,599
Speaker 1: The pass rush and the defensive line have looked extremely productive.

1597
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: I want to see that. I want to see those

1598
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:40,400
Speaker 1: guys go. Yeah, Veto says, let Josh Allen take one series,

1599
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: since we really don't need to see any offensive starters.

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01:31:43,680 --> 01:31:45,880
Speaker 1: They got out to a quick start last year with

1601
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:48,639
Speaker 1: zero preseason. For me, it's all about the defensive line,

1602
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 1: in which young guys will be able to help out

1603
01:31:50,400 --> 01:31:53,920
Speaker 1: leader in the season, if not sooner. Meanwhile, Nathan says,

1604
01:31:54,479 --> 01:31:57,479
Speaker 1: definitely our d line. I'm very excited to see where

1605
01:31:57,479 --> 01:32:00,360
Speaker 1: the rookies line up, whether they start or not. Now,

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01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:02,280
Speaker 1: I was waiting for this. It took all the way

1607
01:32:02,320 --> 01:32:06,839
Speaker 1: down to Anthony Steve number eight. Emmanuel Sanders is definitely

1608
01:32:06,920 --> 01:32:09,000
Speaker 1: a player I want to see play with Alan. He's

1609
01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 1: really the only new addition to the offense. I'm surprised

1610
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 1: somebody didn't name him sooner. Yeah, he's the He's the guy.

1611
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:20,880
Speaker 1: This offense was so prolipic last year. I want to

1612
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:22,840
Speaker 1: see what this guy can do. And it's been made

1613
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: too that Brandon Bean was trying to get him before,

1614
01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:28,320
Speaker 1: Brandon being two years ago before he got John Brown.

1615
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:30,720
Speaker 1: At the same time he got John Brown, he was

1616
01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 1: trying to get Emmanuel Sanders and he finally gets him

1617
01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 1: three years later. That's pretty interesting to me. He's a receiver,

1618
01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:42,719
Speaker 1: Sanders is that's a little bit more like Stefan Diggs

1619
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 1: than John Brown was like Stefon Diggs. They're both get

1620
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:48,840
Speaker 1: open guys rather than I'm gonna outrun you guys and

1621
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: that combination could be extremely effective. And I think, like

1622
01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 1: we saw last year, this is gonna be a combination

1623
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: that is going to be really difficult to get off

1624
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:06,559
Speaker 1: the field on third down if they decide to air

1625
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:11,080
Speaker 1: it out, which they did a lot of last year. Yeah,

1626
01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:17,360
Speaker 1: they just continually converted third downs last year, and it

1627
01:33:17,520 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: was amazing. It was really amazing. Max on the tweet

1628
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:23,599
Speaker 1: sheet says, I want to see who if they start

1629
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:25,439
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. I think there might be a

1630
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:29,880
Speaker 1: surprise in that group. He says. You still have a

1631
01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:32,679
Speaker 1: guard competition going on right now. Three guys for two spots.

1632
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:35,639
Speaker 1: The five we thought we were going to get last year,

1633
01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:39,639
Speaker 1: let's go over it again. Dion Dawkins, Cody Ford, Mitch Morse,

1634
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:43,960
Speaker 1: John Feliciano, and Darryl Williams never took the field. It'll

1635
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:45,720
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if when they line up this year,

1636
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 1: if those five guys are still is that the best

1637
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: five combination this year? I don't know. With three draft

1638
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:55,160
Speaker 1: picks and a bunch of free agents that they brought

1639
01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 1: in to compete, will those guys still be the best

1640
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 1: five and we'll be at the same spots. Will Cody

1641
01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 1: Ford switch guard spots? Will feliciana move over on the

1642
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:07,479
Speaker 1: other left. You know these trade plat spots on the guards,

1643
01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 1: all of that. I'm with him, I'm not. I don't

1644
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 1: think that's been chiseled into granite. Those starting five guys yet,

1645
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 1: break time for us here. When we come back, we'll

1646
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:25,360
Speaker 1: be talking with Pete Daugherty. He is the NFL and

1647
01:34:25,640 --> 01:34:29,639
Speaker 1: Packers columnist for the Green Bay Press Cauzette. We're gonna

1648
01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:31,639
Speaker 1: get an update on just what the Packers are looking

1649
01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 1: at as they approach this preseason finale with the Bills

1650
01:34:34,320 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kellid to Health,

1651
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:56,320
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

1652
01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:58,680
Speaker 1: been all over the field. Kind of unique. He was

1653
01:34:58,760 --> 01:35:04,559
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for Steve. Steve a blimp.

1654
01:35:05,360 --> 01:35:08,479
Speaker 1: We're not even in the straged beer of normalcy here,

1655
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 1: all right. Welcome to our number three one Bills Live.

1656
01:35:15,240 --> 01:35:19,160
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and please to be

1657
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:22,360
Speaker 1: joined at this time by Packers column This for the

1658
01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:25,599
Speaker 1: Green Bay Presscazette also does some writing for the USA

1659
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:28,840
Speaker 1: Today Network out of Wisconsin. It is one Pete Doherty

1660
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 1: joining us covered the Packers for a long time Pete. First,

1661
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:37,240
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Second, what are we looking at

1662
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:41,919
Speaker 1: in terms of playing time for said starters for the Packers.

1663
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting to see one Aaron Rodgers on the

1664
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 1: field playing or taking snaps. But where are we looking

1665
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:49,880
Speaker 1: at with the balance of the starting lineups on either

1666
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:53,000
Speaker 1: side of the ball here going into this one? Yeah,

1667
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:56,560
Speaker 1: looking like pretty much nothing. I think they had thirty

1668
01:35:56,600 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 1: one guys scratched in the open and I think it

1669
01:36:01,240 --> 01:36:05,640
Speaker 1: was thirty two last week. So you know, maybe one

1670
01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:07,680
Speaker 1: or two starters who need who are really young and

1671
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:11,200
Speaker 1: need some work. Otherwise it's it's gonna be all twos

1672
01:36:11,200 --> 01:36:13,840
Speaker 1: and threes. I think soothing like Jordan Love is probably

1673
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:17,400
Speaker 1: gonna play, so he'll play, I don't know into the

1674
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:20,040
Speaker 1: third quarter they said the first half for sure, and

1675
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:22,040
Speaker 1: maybe into the third quarter and then Kurt Banker it'll

1676
01:36:22,320 --> 01:36:25,280
Speaker 1: close it out at quarterback. What do you think Jordan

1677
01:36:25,360 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 1: Love has looked like during training camp as he has

1678
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:33,840
Speaker 1: he impressed at all? How is his progress? Yeah, I'm

1679
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:37,040
Speaker 1: sure you probably saw this over year time in the league.

1680
01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:40,520
Speaker 1: Stevie's uh, just I mean it's just been wildly inconsistent.

1681
01:36:40,760 --> 01:36:44,240
Speaker 1: They'll be and it's all in one practice, he'll have

1682
01:36:44,320 --> 01:36:46,599
Speaker 1: a checkdown or a swing pass and he'll just miss

1683
01:36:46,640 --> 01:36:50,880
Speaker 1: the guy throw the bomb, the dirt, whatever, and he'll

1684
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 1: just drop a really nice time on a circle route outside,

1685
01:36:54,360 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, down the sidelines to the tight end, or

1686
01:36:57,280 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 1: he'll zip one a you know, kind of a deeper

1687
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 1: route and he'll put an some nice zip on it

1688
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 1: and completed. It's just been really up and down. That's

1689
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:06,439
Speaker 1: the way he played in the preseason opener. He didn't

1690
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: play last week because he had a shoulder injury. So

1691
01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 1: that's been the story of his camp. I mean, you see,

1692
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:16,280
Speaker 1: you do see plays where there's the ability where you go, okay,

1693
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 1: this is why they picked down. But you know, is

1694
01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:21,560
Speaker 1: he going to be any good or not? You know,

1695
01:37:21,680 --> 01:37:23,720
Speaker 1: it's just there's just no way I can tell you

1696
01:37:23,880 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: right now. So is there has I'm sure he's been asked,

1697
01:37:28,240 --> 01:37:31,680
Speaker 1: is anything lingering from the shoulder injury that he's you

1698
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:33,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not going to make an excuse, I know,

1699
01:37:33,840 --> 01:37:37,599
Speaker 1: but anything lingering with regard to the shoulder injury as

1700
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:40,600
Speaker 1: he has described it. You know, this is one of

1701
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 1: the downfall that the bad things about not having an

1702
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:47,920
Speaker 1: open locker room is I haven't had a chance to

1703
01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:50,080
Speaker 1: talk to him because we're not allowed in the locker

1704
01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:52,680
Speaker 1: room and they haven't made him available on zoom, so

1705
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 1: he hasn't said anything. They pay Monday and Tuesday. Monday

1706
01:37:57,720 --> 01:38:02,040
Speaker 1: through really like Lee didn't do any team. Tuesday, he

1707
01:38:02,160 --> 01:38:04,439
Speaker 1: threw more and did more team than they were off Wednesday,

1708
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:09,240
Speaker 1: and today he did a lot and you know, seemed

1709
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 1: to be throwing the ball fine, So he seems to

1710
01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:13,839
Speaker 1: be okay. So as long as he doesn't come swor tomorrow,

1711
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,000
Speaker 1: I think all things are going for him. What about

1712
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:20,839
Speaker 1: the receiving corps, I mean Devin Funchi's season ending injury.

1713
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:24,679
Speaker 1: He's been gone for quite some time now. It's gonna

1714
01:38:24,680 --> 01:38:26,760
Speaker 1: be a second year, full year out or third full

1715
01:38:26,840 --> 01:38:29,679
Speaker 1: year out if he doesn't come back. So what about

1716
01:38:29,720 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 1: the core from top to bottom of their wide receivers

1717
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 1: and the weapons that Aaron Rodgers are gonna play with

1718
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:37,200
Speaker 1: when the seasons kicks off. Yeah, I'm not so sure

1719
01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:39,360
Speaker 1: Funchs was gonna make it anyway. I think the trade

1720
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:44,559
Speaker 1: for Randall Cobb really hurt him. Either way. They're actually

1721
01:38:45,400 --> 01:38:48,879
Speaker 1: they've really gotten some improvement from within. Marquez Velde Scantling,

1722
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 1: He's now in his fourth year. He's a tall speed guy.

1723
01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,200
Speaker 1: They I mean pier speed guy four three seven, I

1724
01:38:54,280 --> 01:38:56,920
Speaker 1: think he ran fourth three five something like that at

1725
01:38:56,920 --> 01:39:00,400
Speaker 1: the combine. A lot of drop problems early in his career.

1726
01:39:00,479 --> 01:39:03,200
Speaker 1: This year he's catching. He's had a couple drafts, but

1727
01:39:03,280 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 1: he's just he's becoming proficient at all the possession type

1728
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:10,760
Speaker 1: stuff besides the deep ball stuff. I think in fact,

1729
01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:13,600
Speaker 1: when they go on there two minute, he's on the

1730
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:16,760
Speaker 1: field now where he wasn't doing that last year. So

1731
01:39:16,920 --> 01:39:19,000
Speaker 1: he's improved a lot. Adams is, you know, one of

1732
01:39:19,040 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 1: the top what three receivers in the league probably, and

1733
01:39:23,560 --> 01:39:27,080
Speaker 1: Alan Wizard's a pretty decent you know, he's the three

1734
01:39:27,160 --> 01:39:30,559
Speaker 1: slash four type quality guy. He and Funchius were actually

1735
01:39:30,960 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 1: a little redundant. They're basically the same, the same body types,

1736
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 1: and Lazard is younger. And then they drafted to Samari

1737
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:39,680
Speaker 1: Rodgers who had had a touchdown catch today in the

1738
01:39:39,760 --> 01:39:42,679
Speaker 1: red zone drill um that took him in the third round,

1739
01:39:42,720 --> 01:39:44,160
Speaker 1: and he's going to be you know, the slot guy

1740
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 1: is important in this offense because they like to do

1741
01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:49,040
Speaker 1: a lot of the fake jet motion. They actually don't

1742
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:51,479
Speaker 1: hand it off very often on it, but just running

1743
01:39:51,520 --> 01:39:53,760
Speaker 1: that action keeps the backside of the defense on us.

1744
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:56,599
Speaker 1: I think they have more ability in the receiving corps

1745
01:39:56,720 --> 01:39:59,400
Speaker 1: than people think. He also got front Tonyan's a really

1746
01:39:59,400 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: good tight end intends last year and Aaron Jones is

1747
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:05,360
Speaker 1: you know one of those you know six or seven

1748
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 1: backs in the league or maybe more than that who

1749
01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: are really good receivers besides being running backs, so you

1750
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:16,280
Speaker 1: know their their receiving cord. I think it was really

1751
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:18,160
Speaker 1: downgraded last year. I think a lot of people thought

1752
01:40:18,240 --> 01:40:20,720
Speaker 1: less of it than it really was. Well when you

1753
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 1: look at the totality with the tight end, with the

1754
01:40:23,479 --> 01:40:25,679
Speaker 1: running back, I mean, the other number one scoring offense

1755
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:27,160
Speaker 1: last year, so it couldn't have been that bad. And

1756
01:40:27,479 --> 01:40:31,240
Speaker 1: it's improved this year for sure. And then speaking of

1757
01:40:31,320 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 1: draft choices, Pete, as you know Corey Linsley is in

1758
01:40:35,400 --> 01:40:39,360
Speaker 1: LA with the Chargers. Now what about Josh Myers. How

1759
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:42,760
Speaker 1: is that relationship going, you know, quarterback center exchange. How

1760
01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:44,680
Speaker 1: is Aaron adjusting to him? Is he is he going

1761
01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:47,479
Speaker 1: to be the starter? I guess is the question. Yeah,

1762
01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 1: He's been starters since the day he walked down in

1763
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: the practice field for OTAs he looks he looks like

1764
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:55,960
Speaker 1: an NFL player. He looks like a guy who's played

1765
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:57,679
Speaker 1: in the league for a couple of years now. Rogers

1766
01:40:58,160 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: has jumped him a few times in practice for one

1767
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:02,639
Speaker 1: he's made mistakes. In fact, today he jumped all over

1768
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:06,040
Speaker 1: him because he was he just missed a snap. They

1769
01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:09,640
Speaker 1: had made an adjustment the line, and Myers changed the

1770
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:13,000
Speaker 1: cadence to himself but to nobody else, and so he

1771
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:14,840
Speaker 1: didn't snap the ball and he's supposed to, and Rodgers

1772
01:41:14,960 --> 01:41:16,760
Speaker 1: really lit into him for about just you know, a

1773
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:19,840
Speaker 1: couple of seconds, and then afterwards, Rodgers just talked today

1774
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,599
Speaker 1: and you know, he's thinks so that those aren't necessarily

1775
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:25,519
Speaker 1: bad things, because they need to find out those mistakes

1776
01:41:25,600 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 1: now better than in practice than in a game. Lindsley

1777
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:33,439
Speaker 1: started as a rookie. This guy looks just as good

1778
01:41:33,520 --> 01:41:36,000
Speaker 1: as at least as Lindsley was his rookie year. So

1779
01:41:36,080 --> 01:41:37,920
Speaker 1: I think they'll be fine at that position. They'll be

1780
01:41:37,960 --> 01:41:42,080
Speaker 1: a couple of mistakes here and there over seventeen seventeen games,

1781
01:41:42,200 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 1: but you know, it looks like a pretty solid pick.

1782
01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:49,920
Speaker 1: Some teams. I think some you know, the draft crews

1783
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:51,960
Speaker 1: thought that they reached taking him in the second round.

1784
01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:54,640
Speaker 1: But it's early, but at least as of right now,

1785
01:41:54,680 --> 01:41:56,640
Speaker 1: it's looking like that was a decent fact. Where's the

1786
01:41:56,680 --> 01:42:02,519
Speaker 1: biggest question mark on the roster? Inside linebacker? Probably, um,

1787
01:42:03,120 --> 01:42:05,400
Speaker 1: you know Dvandary Campbell's actually they signed him. He was

1788
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,880
Speaker 1: with the Falcons all those years and they signed him late,

1789
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: like in June, and he's going to be their dimebacker

1790
01:42:11,479 --> 01:42:14,840
Speaker 1: and he's in the nickel and bass. Chris Barnes is

1791
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 1: an underrapted guy who last year was a starter. You know,

1792
01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:19,479
Speaker 1: they're doing okay. They just don't have a lot of

1793
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:23,080
Speaker 1: depth there, and they certainly don't have you know, there's

1794
01:42:23,120 --> 01:42:25,759
Speaker 1: these handful of teams that have these just stud inside

1795
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:28,800
Speaker 1: linebackers who are you know, great players. You know, camp

1796
01:42:28,880 --> 01:42:31,719
Speaker 1: as the obvious example of that. The EPI Packers want

1797
01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:34,639
Speaker 1: to have anything like that, so it's there. It's probably

1798
01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:37,880
Speaker 1: their their weakest position would be inside linebacker. And then Pete,

1799
01:42:37,960 --> 01:42:41,599
Speaker 1: What is the severity of the injury for Zadarius Smith,

1800
01:42:41,680 --> 01:42:44,719
Speaker 1: because as I understand it, he's still not practicing, probably

1801
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:47,920
Speaker 1: not gonna play in this game either, right, Oh yeah,

1802
01:42:48,040 --> 01:42:50,599
Speaker 1: he's he hasn't he's practiced once off camp. He came back.

1803
01:42:50,640 --> 01:42:52,760
Speaker 1: I think it was for just one day and then

1804
01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:54,760
Speaker 1: didn't practice the next day and hasn't sense. And that

1805
01:42:54,880 --> 01:42:56,240
Speaker 1: was like a week or a week and a half ago,

1806
01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:01,120
Speaker 1: and just a couple of days ago. Matt Laflora said, it's,

1807
01:43:01,320 --> 01:43:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, not a given that he'll be running for

1808
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:07,640
Speaker 1: the openers. So this is not a small injury. And

1809
01:43:07,840 --> 01:43:10,160
Speaker 1: losing him would be huges because he's by far their

1810
01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:13,840
Speaker 1: best rusher and they've got they've got three pretty solid

1811
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 1: outside outside linebackers who had good rushers with him in

1812
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:21,360
Speaker 1: Preston Smith and Rashaun Gary and after that they got nothing.

1813
01:43:21,680 --> 01:43:24,200
Speaker 1: So an injury to any one of those guys is

1814
01:43:24,240 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 1: a big deal. And Sadarius Smith is you know, by

1815
01:43:27,560 --> 01:43:30,120
Speaker 1: far their best rusher. Yeah, it's going to be a

1816
01:43:30,160 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 1: pretty good defense this year. It's tough to see him

1817
01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:35,120
Speaker 1: doing it without that guy in the field a lot.

1818
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:37,679
Speaker 1: So what is the injury and what do you think?

1819
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:40,559
Speaker 1: How serious do you think this could be? I mean,

1820
01:43:40,600 --> 01:43:42,840
Speaker 1: he's missed a ton of time already. Are we talking

1821
01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 1: like pup after the roster is set, so he's out

1822
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:49,000
Speaker 1: for like at least the first six seven weeks? Like

1823
01:43:49,080 --> 01:43:52,280
Speaker 1: what are we looking at? Well, it's a back injury,

1824
01:43:52,360 --> 01:43:54,320
Speaker 1: and he did. He was on the non football injury

1825
01:43:54,400 --> 01:43:56,519
Speaker 1: list to start camp, which many didn't pass the physical,

1826
01:43:56,640 --> 01:43:59,479
Speaker 1: but once they practiced him, he can't go on PUP now,

1827
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:01,280
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have to write him on the fifty

1828
01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:04,439
Speaker 1: three and they just, uh, you know, you know it

1829
01:44:04,640 --> 01:44:08,000
Speaker 1: is you can't you can't trust the injury information that's

1830
01:44:08,040 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 1: made available to you in this league from the teams.

1831
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:12,200
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they're telling you the truth, maybe they're not,

1832
01:44:12,520 --> 01:44:14,680
Speaker 1: and they're just not saying much other than it's a

1833
01:44:14,760 --> 01:44:17,640
Speaker 1: back injury, and they're not it's shaky or it's it's

1834
01:44:17,720 --> 01:44:20,560
Speaker 1: uncertain whether he'll be ready for the opener um. So

1835
01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 1: we don't know any of the details of the injury,

1836
01:44:23,280 --> 01:44:25,760
Speaker 1: and I really can't tell you anything more than that.

1837
01:44:25,920 --> 01:44:29,000
Speaker 1: But you know, back injuries, they really, you know, they

1838
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: don't go away. They manage them or manage them. They

1839
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:34,080
Speaker 1: are just and all of a sudden, you're better. So

1840
01:44:34,920 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: this could probably end up being, you know, an issue

1841
01:44:37,479 --> 01:44:39,479
Speaker 1: for the guy all season. So when this, with this

1842
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:42,320
Speaker 1: game on the horizon a couple of days away, you've

1843
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:44,640
Speaker 1: got you know, Jordan Love's gonna probably take a lot

1844
01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:47,080
Speaker 1: of the snaps You've also got two other guys on

1845
01:44:47,200 --> 01:44:50,320
Speaker 1: your roster, Kurt Bennett and Jack Dola Gala, which is

1846
01:44:50,560 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 1: a Western New York guy, Dola Gala, as you signed

1847
01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 1: for depth. Are we going to see any of these guys?

1848
01:44:55,280 --> 01:44:58,800
Speaker 1: And and what has been the story with Bennett's He's

1849
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 1: been pretty entertaining, I guess to watch. Yeah, Baker has

1850
01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:08,519
Speaker 1: played really well. He played he started last week and

1851
01:45:08,560 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 1: actually because he got a lot of snaps during the

1852
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:13,760
Speaker 1: practice week because Love was out, he played a lot.

1853
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:15,560
Speaker 1: You know, he played well, and I'm sure all the

1854
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: practice he got helped there. He's just gotten up a

1855
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:23,320
Speaker 1: swashbuckling guy who he lets it rip. And you know,

1856
01:45:23,400 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 1: he moved the ball last week, at least the first half.

1857
01:45:25,439 --> 01:45:28,920
Speaker 1: He threw a pick in the second half, so he's

1858
01:45:28,960 --> 01:45:32,519
Speaker 1: gonna he'll be in second. Last week, Dola Gala played

1859
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:35,479
Speaker 1: I think the last series of the game. I think

1860
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:38,800
Speaker 1: he might have thrown one pass he gets. I don't

1861
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,040
Speaker 1: know if he's gotten any snaps in practice. Maybe last

1862
01:45:41,080 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 1: game must have. Last week he must have gotten a couple.

1863
01:45:43,320 --> 01:45:45,439
Speaker 1: I don't think this week he got any eleven on

1864
01:45:45,560 --> 01:45:50,559
Speaker 1: eleven snaps him in just because Love hurt his arm

1865
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: and they needed, you know, a guy for practice. He's

1866
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 1: the I think he's the tallest quarterback who's been here.

1867
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 1: I've been covering the team since ninety three. This guy's

1868
01:45:58,479 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 1: six seven or eight, and I don't all but there's

1869
01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:02,040
Speaker 1: been a I don't. I think he might be the

1870
01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:04,880
Speaker 1: tallest quarterback he's here. You can see he's got armed talent,

1871
01:46:05,760 --> 01:46:08,639
Speaker 1: but it's just, you know, it's really tough. You really

1872
01:46:08,680 --> 01:46:10,360
Speaker 1: got to get your foot in the door in this

1873
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:12,479
Speaker 1: league to have a chance to make it. And he's

1874
01:46:12,920 --> 01:46:14,720
Speaker 1: still given it a shot to be in number three

1875
01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:18,040
Speaker 1: and maybe holding up on somebody's practice squad. I would

1876
01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:20,320
Speaker 1: think the chances here are pretty slamming West. The Packers

1877
01:46:20,400 --> 01:46:22,680
Speaker 1: cut Banker to put him on the practice squad, and

1878
01:46:22,760 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 1: somebody else claimed him. Yeah. Talking to Pete Doherty, Packers

1879
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:30,599
Speaker 1: reporter for the Green Bay Press, his head and Pete

1880
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:32,600
Speaker 1: looks like Jake Kumero has got a good shot to

1881
01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:36,160
Speaker 1: stick on this roster despite it being very deep at

1882
01:46:36,200 --> 01:46:39,560
Speaker 1: wide receiver. I don't need to tell you what his

1883
01:46:39,640 --> 01:46:43,040
Speaker 1: skill set is since you saw him firsthand. Is there

1884
01:46:43,120 --> 01:46:46,720
Speaker 1: still any buzz up there about Jake or is it

1885
01:46:46,880 --> 01:46:51,400
Speaker 1: just in Aaron Rodgers mentions at this point. Oh yeah,

1886
01:46:51,439 --> 01:46:53,200
Speaker 1: it's just Darren Rodgers. But so there was a funny

1887
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:55,920
Speaker 1: moment in a press conference I think it was last

1888
01:46:55,960 --> 01:46:59,200
Speaker 1: week because Rogers was talking up one of the backup

1889
01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:01,840
Speaker 1: tight ends, the fourth or fifth tight end. Cafusi is

1890
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:04,600
Speaker 1: the guy's name, and the reporter has him. Well, I

1891
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:06,640
Speaker 1: can't say. I can't wait to see how Kfusi does

1892
01:47:06,680 --> 01:47:09,120
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. But anyway, and so it was pretty funny

1893
01:47:09,160 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 1: because obviously, you know, yeah, you know Rogers beat the

1894
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 1: Packers was that he talked up Kumaro the day before

1895
01:47:14,880 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 1: it cuts about how much he liked him, and then

1896
01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:18,439
Speaker 1: he turned around and cut him the next day. Um,

1897
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:22,200
Speaker 1: but he is, you know, he's Rogers really liked that

1898
01:47:22,320 --> 01:47:24,680
Speaker 1: he was always where he was supposed to be when

1899
01:47:24,720 --> 01:47:26,840
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be there. That's what Rogers always

1900
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:30,720
Speaker 1: always loved about that guy. Yeah, and um, you may

1901
01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:33,559
Speaker 1: want to pass this along. They're calling him touchdown Jesus here,

1902
01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:38,320
Speaker 1: so he's got really long Yeah, well it's take it's stuck.

1903
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:40,559
Speaker 1: So it's they're they're calling him that here as well,

1904
01:47:40,680 --> 01:47:43,719
Speaker 1: so you can pass that along. The nickname is alive

1905
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:47,840
Speaker 1: and well, what is the what is the expectation. I

1906
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:51,200
Speaker 1: mean this, you know, Packers have been in the NFC

1907
01:47:51,360 --> 01:47:53,640
Speaker 1: Championship Game a couple of years straight, you had the

1908
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:56,840
Speaker 1: reigning MVP. The expectations have got to be through the roof.

1909
01:47:56,920 --> 01:47:59,800
Speaker 1: What does it feel like in Green Bay about the

1910
01:47:59,840 --> 01:48:02,559
Speaker 1: windows staying open? About Rogers? I mean a lot has

1911
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:04,320
Speaker 1: been said this may be his last year as a

1912
01:48:04,400 --> 01:48:08,880
Speaker 1: Packer and all the offseason drama. What or the expectations

1913
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:12,080
Speaker 1: associated with this? And if the team does go well,

1914
01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:14,120
Speaker 1: if they do go to the NFC Championship Game, if

1915
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 1: they do make a Super Bowl appearance, does all of

1916
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:20,920
Speaker 1: that change? Yeah, that's you know, and that's what we're

1917
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:24,280
Speaker 1: all thinking about and wondering. And you're right, the expectations

1918
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:27,639
Speaker 1: are super high. I mean it's kind of super Bowl

1919
01:48:27,760 --> 01:48:30,000
Speaker 1: or bust. I mean that's a you know, that's a

1920
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:31,400
Speaker 1: tough way to go in this league. As you know,

1921
01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:33,080
Speaker 1: so much can happen. You can have a really good

1922
01:48:33,120 --> 01:48:36,280
Speaker 1: team and it still doesn't happen for you. But this

1923
01:48:36,560 --> 01:48:38,840
Speaker 1: very well could be rogers last year. If you're betting

1924
01:48:38,880 --> 01:48:41,960
Speaker 1: on it, you'd bet heavily it is Rogers last season.

1925
01:48:42,080 --> 01:48:45,120
Speaker 1: Here now, if they win the Super Bowl, I wonder

1926
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:47,680
Speaker 1: the same thing. Would he view it as they've got

1927
01:48:47,720 --> 01:48:49,640
Speaker 1: a really good team, they could do this again. He

1928
01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:52,200
Speaker 1: knows the system grade he gets along with the coach grade,

1929
01:48:52,760 --> 01:48:55,600
Speaker 1: you know, try to win one or two more. That

1930
01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:58,639
Speaker 1: could be one possibility. The other is he still really

1931
01:48:58,720 --> 01:49:01,280
Speaker 1: wants out and to going to and maybe even win

1932
01:49:01,360 --> 01:49:04,280
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl would be the perfect way to say, Okay,

1933
01:49:04,360 --> 01:49:06,559
Speaker 1: I've done everything for you, Now let me go play

1934
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:08,720
Speaker 1: where I want to play. I could see it cut

1935
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:12,519
Speaker 1: in both ways. If I don't putting odds on it.

1936
01:49:12,640 --> 01:49:17,160
Speaker 1: Right now, you've got I'm thinking eighty twenty that he's gone, Jill,

1937
01:49:17,240 --> 01:49:19,840
Speaker 1: And just the twenty is, like you said, you know,

1938
01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:24,320
Speaker 1: you never know what could change over the next six months,

1939
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:28,320
Speaker 1: and these NFL seasons, you know, with how much changes

1940
01:49:28,360 --> 01:49:30,400
Speaker 1: with everybody, each team. I mean, they're kind of like

1941
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:33,320
Speaker 1: dog here. So the world could look a lot different

1942
01:49:33,400 --> 01:49:36,240
Speaker 1: for him and the Packers in February than it does

1943
01:49:36,360 --> 01:49:38,679
Speaker 1: right now. And I realized last one for me, Pete,

1944
01:49:38,680 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 1: and I realized it's probably is in headline news. But

1945
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:43,320
Speaker 1: what were what were the early returns from the fan

1946
01:49:43,439 --> 01:49:48,719
Speaker 1: base on the retro all green fifties s throwback jerseys.

1947
01:49:49,920 --> 01:49:51,560
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't get a good feel for it

1948
01:49:51,600 --> 01:49:56,120
Speaker 1: other than a little Twitter reaction, and it seemed okay. Um,

1949
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:59,160
Speaker 1: I fix some people like the the old navy blue

1950
01:49:59,600 --> 01:50:03,439
Speaker 1: Packer from the thirties and forties uniforms better. Um. I

1951
01:50:03,479 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: don't know what you guys thought of him. I was

1952
01:50:05,400 --> 01:50:08,320
Speaker 1: lukewarm on him at best. It reminded me of the

1953
01:50:08,400 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 1: Oregon Ducks. I think it's the plain yellow helmet that

1954
01:50:12,400 --> 01:50:15,120
Speaker 1: started throwing me. But I saw I saw the image

1955
01:50:15,120 --> 01:50:17,000
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh Oregon Ducks, Like, oh no,

1956
01:50:17,120 --> 01:50:23,280
Speaker 1: that's the Packers retro jersey. Yeah, the all green top

1957
01:50:23,320 --> 01:50:26,280
Speaker 1: and bottom. I don't know, it just doesn't knock me out.

1958
01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:28,200
Speaker 1: You know, that's kind of a funny story because, uh,

1959
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:32,200
Speaker 1: you know Curly Lambeau, who obviously you know, found in

1960
01:50:32,280 --> 01:50:36,000
Speaker 1: the team. He when when he wasn't working for the Packers,

1961
01:50:36,560 --> 01:50:41,040
Speaker 1: he was also a salesman at Hambard Ashery in Green Bay.

1962
01:50:41,479 --> 01:50:45,000
Speaker 1: He was a super stylish guy, big ladies man all that.

1963
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:48,120
Speaker 1: So he his uniforms he adopted. He went to notre

1964
01:50:48,200 --> 01:50:50,439
Speaker 1: name for a year, those old uniforms with the noted

1965
01:50:50,520 --> 01:50:54,760
Speaker 1: name uniforms. Lobarti came over and uh basically gave him

1966
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:57,200
Speaker 1: the uniforms they have now and LOBARTI was colored one

1967
01:50:57,280 --> 01:51:04,639
Speaker 1: him perfect. Take that as you will. Pete's great time

1968
01:51:04,720 --> 01:51:06,240
Speaker 1: to We appreciate it. Are you going to make the

1969
01:51:06,280 --> 01:51:09,840
Speaker 1: trip to Buffalo this weekend? I am not. We're just

1970
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:13,040
Speaker 1: sending one to the preseason games. Then it's then we're

1971
01:51:13,080 --> 01:51:15,599
Speaker 1: getting after it for the regular season after spending all

1972
01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:18,160
Speaker 1: last season at home. Right, all right, man, thank you,

1973
01:51:18,320 --> 01:51:20,400
Speaker 1: thanks for spending some time with us. We appreciated. Good

1974
01:51:20,439 --> 01:51:23,600
Speaker 1: luck this season to you and the Packers. Thank you

1975
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,200
Speaker 1: for having me, guys. All right. That's Pete Doherty, Packers

1976
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:28,880
Speaker 1: reporter for the Green Bay Press Gazette, also does some

1977
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:31,880
Speaker 1: work for USA Today. Guy's been doing a long time.

1978
01:51:32,240 --> 01:51:34,840
Speaker 1: It's been plugged in on the Packers forever. So just

1979
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:36,680
Speaker 1: the guy you want to get a hold of to

1980
01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:40,240
Speaker 1: get an idea. Probably not a lot of starters for

1981
01:51:40,439 --> 01:51:42,240
Speaker 1: Green Bay in this game. Looks like they're just going

1982
01:51:42,280 --> 01:51:45,479
Speaker 1: to bypass it completely, which runs in star contrast to

1983
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:48,120
Speaker 1: what coach McDermott has decided for his team. An interesting too,

1984
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:50,000
Speaker 1: because this is a team with it has, you know,

1985
01:51:50,160 --> 01:51:53,040
Speaker 1: obviously sky high expectations there. They've been in the NFC

1986
01:51:53,200 --> 01:51:55,559
Speaker 1: Championship game for two straight years. They got the reigning MVP,

1987
01:51:55,600 --> 01:51:59,000
Speaker 1: as I said, you know, as I asked him, and

1988
01:51:59,240 --> 01:52:02,439
Speaker 1: they've got a quarterback who's pretty impatient to have things

1989
01:52:02,560 --> 01:52:06,599
Speaker 1: go well around him. With the front office, with all

1990
01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:10,800
Speaker 1: of that stuff, there's some tension in that building to

1991
01:52:10,960 --> 01:52:14,280
Speaker 1: take that team to another level. Certainly, Rogers has done

1992
01:52:14,400 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 1: his part, and he put the pressure on publicly, put

1993
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:20,000
Speaker 1: the pressure on the rest of the organization to match him.

1994
01:52:20,479 --> 01:52:22,560
Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting to see how that tension and

1995
01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:26,640
Speaker 1: how that plays out on the field. I wouldn't be

1996
01:52:26,720 --> 01:52:30,479
Speaker 1: surprised at all. You know, they're gonna win that division.

1997
01:52:30,760 --> 01:52:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nobody else's gonna nobody's gonna win that

1998
01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:37,320
Speaker 1: division except Green Bay, Minnesota, Detroit. We've seen Detroit and

1999
01:52:37,479 --> 01:52:43,120
Speaker 1: Chicago they're a mess. And Minnesota, Okay, maybe they split

2000
01:52:43,200 --> 01:52:46,120
Speaker 1: with Green Bay. Yeah, they don't have to overachieve to

2001
01:52:48,080 --> 01:52:50,280
Speaker 1: so that you know that it's a cakewalk for them

2002
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:52,040
Speaker 1: all the way through that division. So they're in the

2003
01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:55,479
Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs, and with Rogers in a one

2004
01:52:55,600 --> 01:52:57,720
Speaker 1: game series against some most other teams, he's gonna have

2005
01:52:57,800 --> 01:52:59,880
Speaker 1: pretty good outing on you. So you got to come

2006
01:53:00,040 --> 01:53:02,040
Speaker 1: to play and you gotta show up big and that's

2007
01:53:02,360 --> 01:53:05,920
Speaker 1: kind of been their modus opera endi over the Aaron Rodgers' career.

2008
01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:10,599
Speaker 1: You're they're gonna only rarely, did you know? Chicago strung

2009
01:53:10,680 --> 01:53:13,240
Speaker 1: together at twelve and four year once with mister Rubisky

2010
01:53:13,240 --> 01:53:15,960
Speaker 1: in his rookie year, and then they're back to mediocrity.

2011
01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:19,639
Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions are the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFC,

2012
01:53:21,520 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 1: and Minnesota can't can't do Kirk Cousins. There's no match

2013
01:53:26,240 --> 01:53:30,360
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers. So they you know, they kind of

2014
01:53:30,400 --> 01:53:32,920
Speaker 1: walk through that thing every year, you know, from the

2015
01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:35,280
Speaker 1: outside looking in, I mean, that's uh, it was a

2016
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,880
Speaker 1: little bit like the New England Patriots of the two

2017
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:41,760
Speaker 1: thousands and well, you know, Bills couldn't get like and

2018
01:53:41,840 --> 01:53:43,400
Speaker 1: the Jets couldn't get out of their way, and the

2019
01:53:43,439 --> 01:53:46,880
Speaker 1: Dolphins couldn't find their quarterback either. It's you know, it's

2020
01:53:47,280 --> 01:53:49,320
Speaker 1: you get these teams that get hit these runs, and

2021
01:53:49,479 --> 01:53:51,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot of not just great players like Aaron

2022
01:53:51,439 --> 01:53:53,720
Speaker 1: Rodgers is a great player, but there's a lot of

2023
01:53:53,800 --> 01:53:55,599
Speaker 1: things that come together for them in order to put

2024
01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:59,240
Speaker 1: together a long, long run of opportunities. And it looks

2025
01:53:59,280 --> 01:54:01,000
Speaker 1: like Green Bay one is coming to an end. Yeah,

2026
01:54:01,040 --> 01:54:03,840
Speaker 1: they don't have Asa Darius Smith on that defense this year.

2027
01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:08,479
Speaker 1: That's a big loss. I mean, the Smith and Smith

2028
01:54:08,560 --> 01:54:13,200
Speaker 1: combination was really good for their pass rush. It is

2029
01:54:13,760 --> 01:54:17,800
Speaker 1: their best one back. Injuries are not good for That's

2030
01:54:17,840 --> 01:54:21,960
Speaker 1: just it is hard to keep it together. When you

2031
01:54:22,040 --> 01:54:24,320
Speaker 1: get a good team, it is hard to hang in

2032
01:54:24,439 --> 01:54:27,080
Speaker 1: there together and come back year after year and be

2033
01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:31,439
Speaker 1: really really good. Yeah, that's a bad injury for them.

2034
01:54:31,479 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 1: If it lingers beyond Week one and further into the

2035
01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:37,560
Speaker 1: regular season, for sure. Let's get back to the tweet

2036
01:54:37,600 --> 01:54:40,680
Speaker 1: sheet where we were asking you, besides Josh Allen, what

2037
01:54:40,960 --> 01:54:44,600
Speaker 1: is the one starter you're most interested in seeing in

2038
01:54:44,720 --> 01:54:47,880
Speaker 1: the preseason finale on Saturday? Knowing head coach Sean McDermott

2039
01:54:47,880 --> 01:54:51,360
Speaker 1: said the majority of starters will play in this game

2040
01:54:51,520 --> 01:54:54,920
Speaker 1: on Saturday. JT says, I want to see Jerry get going,

2041
01:54:55,360 --> 01:54:58,240
Speaker 1: and I always enjoy watching Levi ball out. He plays

2042
01:54:58,280 --> 01:55:01,240
Speaker 1: like his hair is on fire out there. Also interested

2043
01:55:01,240 --> 01:55:03,680
Speaker 1: in seeing Feliciano run over their D line. He's one

2044
01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:05,840
Speaker 1: dude I wouldn't want to get into it with. I

2045
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:08,960
Speaker 1: can't wait to see Milano out there after his new contract.

2046
01:55:10,680 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 1: All good choices, certainly more than one narrow it down there,

2047
01:55:16,960 --> 01:55:19,760
Speaker 1: and then Dave says, looking to see who starts at

2048
01:55:19,880 --> 01:55:23,160
Speaker 1: CB two, also just looking to see the offense in general,

2049
01:55:23,240 --> 01:55:25,720
Speaker 1: see how these guys are clicking go bills. Yeah, the

2050
01:55:25,800 --> 01:55:28,160
Speaker 1: CB two thing is interesting because I think a lot

2051
01:55:28,200 --> 01:55:30,520
Speaker 1: of us were of the opinion that that thing was

2052
01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:32,920
Speaker 1: a done deal. Lucille, it's going to be Levi Wallace.

2053
01:55:33,320 --> 01:55:36,960
Speaker 1: Problem is Levi is dealing with a hip injury right now.

2054
01:55:37,400 --> 01:55:39,320
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons. It is the reason he

2055
01:55:39,400 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 1: missed last week's preseason game against Chicago. So the door

2056
01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:45,320
Speaker 1: has been left open a crack for Dane Jackson at

2057
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:48,960
Speaker 1: this point. And Leslie Frazier earlier this week called the

2058
01:55:49,000 --> 01:55:51,960
Speaker 1: competition neck and neck, which I think was a little

2059
01:55:52,000 --> 01:55:54,400
Speaker 1: tighter than most people would have viewed that competition to

2060
01:55:54,480 --> 01:55:56,440
Speaker 1: this point, neck and neck was a little and plus

2061
01:55:56,600 --> 01:55:58,560
Speaker 1: now he goes neck and neck and Levi Walla is

2062
01:55:58,600 --> 01:56:01,200
Speaker 1: still not on the field or one hundred percent. So

2063
01:56:03,640 --> 01:56:05,520
Speaker 1: Dan Jackson's got to be looking at this game like saying,

2064
01:56:05,560 --> 01:56:07,800
Speaker 1: to listen, I got I got this kind of thing right,

2065
01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:11,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna show him. But you're right, they

2066
01:56:12,120 --> 01:56:16,760
Speaker 1: brought in a lot of competition, like McLeod Jackson, Wild Goose,

2067
01:56:17,000 --> 01:56:21,640
Speaker 1: Wild Goose, Cam Lewis, all these guys are out there

2068
01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:26,320
Speaker 1: and they all see it as an opportunity. But you know,

2069
01:56:26,440 --> 01:56:29,640
Speaker 1: lee By Walls still sitting there. Yeah, and I don't

2070
01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:32,240
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be rushing him back in any way,

2071
01:56:32,280 --> 01:56:34,600
Speaker 1: shape or form. Did not practice yesterday. I'll get the

2072
01:56:34,640 --> 01:56:38,680
Speaker 1: full practice work up here in the next break to

2073
01:56:38,720 --> 01:56:41,520
Speaker 1: see if there are any updates on that front, knowing

2074
01:56:41,600 --> 01:56:45,000
Speaker 1: practice is done for the day already today. But yeah,

2075
01:56:45,160 --> 01:56:48,640
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan Jackson shows out in this game, and

2076
01:56:48,840 --> 01:56:51,160
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace is still not right. I mean, you got

2077
01:56:51,200 --> 01:56:53,440
Speaker 1: two weeks before the regular season. I mean, hopefully he's

2078
01:56:53,520 --> 01:56:57,680
Speaker 1: right by then. Hip injury. I mean, we don't know

2079
01:56:57,760 --> 01:56:59,320
Speaker 1: the nature of it. Could be anything. Could be a

2080
01:56:59,440 --> 01:57:01,400
Speaker 1: hip pointer, it could be a hip flexor it could

2081
01:57:01,400 --> 01:57:02,880
Speaker 1: be a you know, you don't know what it is.

2082
01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:05,040
Speaker 1: Dan Jackson though it was one of those guys, and

2083
01:57:05,160 --> 01:57:07,880
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I'm very intrigued to watch him play

2084
01:57:07,960 --> 01:57:10,040
Speaker 1: and play a lot to see you get a feel

2085
01:57:10,160 --> 01:57:12,240
Speaker 1: for what he's doing out there and get some targets

2086
01:57:12,280 --> 01:57:15,280
Speaker 1: and have the quarterback throw at him to see if

2087
01:57:15,320 --> 01:57:17,960
Speaker 1: he can rise to the occasion. He seemed to be

2088
01:57:18,280 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 1: really he seemed to be a playmaker. Last year he

2089
01:57:23,400 --> 01:57:27,080
Speaker 1: flashed a lot, but I didn't see him enough snaps

2090
01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:30,760
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, he's a steady player, you know, and

2091
01:57:30,920 --> 01:57:33,280
Speaker 1: once you've we've seen him in practice, be a little

2092
01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:35,160
Speaker 1: bit up and down where he gets dropped off at

2093
01:57:35,160 --> 01:57:36,680
Speaker 1: the top of a route and he's not around when

2094
01:57:36,720 --> 01:57:38,240
Speaker 1: the guy makes the catch and he's supposed to be

2095
01:57:38,360 --> 01:57:40,760
Speaker 1: right there, that kind of thing. So I want to

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01:57:40,800 --> 01:57:43,760
Speaker 1: see I'm I'm with that guy. I want to see this.

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01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:45,560
Speaker 1: I want to see the defense play I play a

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01:57:45,600 --> 01:57:49,440
Speaker 1: little more, and particularly the defensive backfield. Yeah, so that's

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01:57:49,600 --> 01:57:51,840
Speaker 1: pretty much the size of it. Heading into Saturday. You

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01:57:51,960 --> 01:57:54,720
Speaker 1: will see starters with varying degrees of playing time, but

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01:57:54,880 --> 01:57:59,120
Speaker 1: Josh will start the game. So yeah, some things to

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01:57:59,240 --> 01:58:01,960
Speaker 1: certainly keep an I on this coming Saturday against the Packers.

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01:58:02,040 --> 01:58:04,800
Speaker 1: More than maybe we all anticipated. Quite frankly, Josh play.

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01:58:04,840 --> 01:58:07,480
Speaker 1: You can probably get a ticket to this one. Still. Yeah,

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01:58:07,520 --> 01:58:08,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to come out and see Josh and this

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01:58:09,200 --> 01:58:11,320
Speaker 1: offense play. Once you get to the regular season, that

2107
01:58:11,400 --> 01:58:14,320
Speaker 1: might be another conversation. Yeah, we have to take a

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01:58:14,400 --> 01:58:17,480
Speaker 1: break here because when we return, it is the latest

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Speaker 1: installment of Tasker's Teammate can Steve guests from the clues.

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01:58:23,360 --> 01:58:27,880
Speaker 1: Given which former teammate we are describing, We'll find out next.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live, presented by Collid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, and it is that time in

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01:58:47,240 --> 01:58:52,040
Speaker 1: the show for Taskers Teammate brought to you by Wegman's

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Speaker 1: Meals to Go Delicious Meals Delivered. Download the Wegman's app today, Steve,

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01:58:59,360 --> 01:59:02,000
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I am? I am so ready. Here

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01:59:02,080 --> 01:59:06,200
Speaker 1: we go. Clue number one. Born in nineteen sixty four.

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01:59:06,280 --> 01:59:10,440
Speaker 1: I was a three sport athlete in high school football, basketball,

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01:59:10,880 --> 01:59:15,440
Speaker 1: and track. My exploits earned me a one double A

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01:59:15,640 --> 01:59:19,840
Speaker 1: scholarship in the Midwest, but I would ultimately transfer to

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01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:29,080
Speaker 1: another school before my college career was over. No, I

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01:59:29,200 --> 01:59:33,560
Speaker 1: have no idea. Everybody's a three sport athlete. Come on,

2123
01:59:33,880 --> 01:59:37,600
Speaker 1: not everybody? Everybody all right? Here is clue number two.

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01:59:37,840 --> 01:59:41,160
Speaker 1: The year I was drafted, I was Buffalo's first pick,

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01:59:41,840 --> 01:59:45,480
Speaker 1: but I was not taken in the first round. Don beebe,

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01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:48,120
Speaker 1: you got it. I was worried it was going to

2127
01:59:48,200 --> 01:59:49,960
Speaker 1: be too much of a giveaway, but there it is.

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01:59:50,080 --> 01:59:53,200
Speaker 1: Don Babe is correct, and we have John on the

2129
01:59:53,280 --> 01:59:55,760
Speaker 1: line beebs this year. Yeah, we got Beabs on the phone,

2130
01:59:57,000 --> 01:59:59,320
Speaker 1: are you man? He predicted it was going to be fast.

2131
02:00:00,200 --> 02:00:02,800
Speaker 1: I told him, Seve, I told Chris and the gang there.

2132
02:00:02,800 --> 02:00:04,600
Speaker 1: I said, if he doesn't get it within the first

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02:00:04,640 --> 02:00:08,120
Speaker 1: a second, I said, I'm hanging up and I'll say this. Yeah,

2134
02:00:08,480 --> 02:00:10,640
Speaker 1: I'll say this. But when he as soon as I said,

2135
02:00:10,720 --> 02:00:13,680
Speaker 1: go on, and I thought about somebody who transferred from

2136
02:00:13,720 --> 02:00:16,520
Speaker 1: one school to another, I knew your name popped into

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02:00:16,600 --> 02:00:18,600
Speaker 1: my mind and then yeah, I got it quick. Then

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02:00:19,080 --> 02:00:20,760
Speaker 1: now he said he knows me too. Well, you know

2139
02:00:21,040 --> 02:00:23,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it, that's right. And it proved to

2140
02:00:23,560 --> 02:00:26,240
Speaker 1: be a problem I was doing. I was looking up

2141
02:00:26,280 --> 02:00:28,240
Speaker 1: some stuff on you don because you know, I was

2142
02:00:28,280 --> 02:00:30,320
Speaker 1: trying to find some kind of cryptic clue that he

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02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:34,480
Speaker 1: might not be aware of. Yeah, state college athlete of

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02:00:34,600 --> 02:00:39,000
Speaker 1: the year in Nebraska. Well it's Nebraska, so let's let's

2145
02:00:39,040 --> 02:00:41,640
Speaker 1: not get too excited. There So no offense to Nebraska.

2146
02:00:41,720 --> 02:00:45,720
Speaker 1: But it's not like it's New York. Right. Well, okay, still,

2147
02:00:45,800 --> 02:00:47,520
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty cool. I only went there for

2148
02:00:47,600 --> 02:00:50,320
Speaker 1: one year for God's sake, So that that's true. So

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02:00:50,600 --> 02:00:54,920
Speaker 1: I was the Nebraska state athlete. Yeah, but you ran

2150
02:00:55,000 --> 02:00:58,160
Speaker 1: track there also, right? I did? I ran indoor track.

2151
02:00:58,160 --> 02:01:00,320
Speaker 1: I didn't run outdoor because of a draft. Let me

2152
02:01:00,360 --> 02:01:02,760
Speaker 1: ask let me ask you this. Now that you're now

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02:01:02,840 --> 02:01:06,440
Speaker 1: that you're a head coach, do you get after the

2154
02:01:06,560 --> 02:01:09,160
Speaker 1: media when they call you Don by your first team

2155
02:01:10,840 --> 02:01:17,680
Speaker 1: like Dion Sanders did? No? I mean that, I'm not

2156
02:01:17,760 --> 02:01:19,960
Speaker 1: even sure what that was. I would I would have

2157
02:01:20,520 --> 02:01:23,840
Speaker 1: I'd have called you if that would have happened to you. Well,

2158
02:01:24,080 --> 02:01:26,120
Speaker 1: you knew I wouldn't do that. That's right, That's right.

2159
02:01:26,240 --> 02:01:28,440
Speaker 1: How is how how is the team looks? Call me

2160
02:01:28,520 --> 02:01:31,760
Speaker 1: bebes Huh? I expect him to call me bebes man,

2161
02:01:31,960 --> 02:01:35,400
Speaker 1: call me beebes. How's our team looking? So we're gonna

2162
02:01:35,400 --> 02:01:37,520
Speaker 1: find out real quick, guys. I mean Week one, we

2163
02:01:37,680 --> 02:01:41,920
Speaker 1: play the team that got third the nation, uh last year,

2164
02:01:42,120 --> 02:01:44,200
Speaker 1: and then we week two we play the number one

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Speaker 1: team in the nation. So we're gonna find out real

2166
02:01:46,160 --> 02:01:49,320
Speaker 1: quick how good we are. I think we're good, but hey,

2167
02:01:49,880 --> 02:01:53,480
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Yeah. And for those that don't know, uh,

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Speaker 1: Don is the head football coach at Aurora, Right, I

2169
02:01:57,480 --> 02:02:02,560
Speaker 1: am at Aurora University. Correct, So, uh, what what has

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Speaker 1: been your son's feelings about training camp this year? Obviously

2171
02:02:06,920 --> 02:02:08,560
Speaker 1: he's been on the roster a little bit. Here. Is

2172
02:02:08,600 --> 02:02:11,360
Speaker 1: he feeling good? Uh? Things are playing out well for

2173
02:02:11,480 --> 02:02:14,920
Speaker 1: him again this year. Yeah, he feels great. Um, it's

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02:02:15,040 --> 02:02:19,400
Speaker 1: it's literally you know, and Steve knows. Chad's story is

2175
02:02:19,560 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, pretty good that he went ten years in

2176
02:02:22,080 --> 02:02:24,120
Speaker 1: a row from his sophomoreyere in high school all the

2177
02:02:24,120 --> 02:02:26,920
Speaker 1: way up until his second year in the league. Ten

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02:02:27,000 --> 02:02:29,960
Speaker 1: years in a row with reconstructive surgery or season injury

2179
02:02:30,280 --> 02:02:33,640
Speaker 1: ending injury. Wow. And to be where he is today

2180
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:37,480
Speaker 1: is an absolute miracle from the Lord. And so last

2181
02:02:37,600 --> 02:02:40,400
Speaker 1: year was his first year that he went injury free,

2182
02:02:40,480 --> 02:02:43,120
Speaker 1: and then this year he's had a phenomenal camp. His

2183
02:02:43,280 --> 02:02:45,760
Speaker 1: wife is a nutritionalist and big that has got him

2184
02:02:45,800 --> 02:02:49,480
Speaker 1: doing some awesome stuff and he has never felt better.

2185
02:02:49,640 --> 02:02:51,920
Speaker 1: So what is his body five percentage? Like three percent?

2186
02:02:52,080 --> 02:02:56,120
Speaker 1: Now it's the high fours? Yea high, which that's about

2187
02:02:56,200 --> 02:02:58,600
Speaker 1: I think what Steve and I were when you know

2188
02:02:58,640 --> 02:03:01,240
Speaker 1: when we played as well. Yeah I had Yeah I

2189
02:03:02,200 --> 02:03:04,000
Speaker 1: did get lower than that. I got down into the

2190
02:03:04,040 --> 02:03:06,520
Speaker 1: threes once, but I didn't like it very much. It

2191
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:09,520
Speaker 1: didn't feel right to me. Yeah, me, neither. I liked

2192
02:03:09,560 --> 02:03:11,720
Speaker 1: that four and a half to five. Yeah, exactly exactly.

2193
02:03:11,760 --> 02:03:13,760
Speaker 1: It's amazing you can tell of difference. What happens when

2194
02:03:13,800 --> 02:03:15,879
Speaker 1: you get too low? What's the what are the negatives

2195
02:03:15,920 --> 02:03:21,560
Speaker 1: you lose? For me, I lost flexibility and suppleness. Yeah, well,

2196
02:03:21,600 --> 02:03:23,600
Speaker 1: the thing is you're you're When you get a leaner mass,

2197
02:03:23,640 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 1: you can't hold the water as well either, And so

2198
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:27,560
Speaker 1: I used to get hamstring issues and that was part

2199
02:03:27,600 --> 02:03:30,320
Speaker 1: of my reasons. I couldn't hold the water right. A

2200
02:03:30,440 --> 02:03:33,000
Speaker 1: fattier muscle can hold that water longer, and so I

2201
02:03:33,160 --> 02:03:35,160
Speaker 1: was getting too low and russy. Jones now was way

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02:03:35,160 --> 02:03:36,880
Speaker 1: ahead of his time. I mean literally way ahead of

2203
02:03:36,920 --> 02:03:40,240
Speaker 1: his time. You'll take you a long time to get

2204
02:03:40,280 --> 02:03:43,840
Speaker 1: stretched out when you were lean. You know. That's very interesting. Yeah,

2205
02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:46,080
Speaker 1: take forever to get warmed up. I didn't know. I know,

2206
02:03:46,200 --> 02:03:48,120
Speaker 1: you only wanted to get so low. I just never

2207
02:03:48,240 --> 02:03:53,120
Speaker 1: knew the negative repercussions are getting too low. So so

2208
02:03:53,280 --> 02:03:58,000
Speaker 1: now last time Buffalo beabs. It's been a while Steve um,

2209
02:03:58,480 --> 02:04:00,040
Speaker 1: you know, with the whole COVID thing. I mean, but

2210
02:04:00,120 --> 02:04:03,320
Speaker 1: he's going anywhere. But uh it's it's been a couple

2211
02:04:03,320 --> 02:04:07,400
Speaker 1: of years, three years. I was talking to Jeremy Uh yesterday, gollye,

2212
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:09,120
Speaker 1: I need to get back. I haven't been back there

2213
02:04:09,120 --> 02:04:12,160
Speaker 1: in so long. It just feels like I've missed home.

2214
02:04:12,520 --> 02:04:14,720
Speaker 1: You know, That's what kind of feels like. I'll say this, Uh,

2215
02:04:15,560 --> 02:04:18,160
Speaker 1: you'll interest We talked about it here on the show already,

2216
02:04:18,200 --> 02:04:20,480
Speaker 1: but I had. I was in Chicago with the Buffalo

2217
02:04:20,560 --> 02:04:22,680
Speaker 1: Bills this last weekend for the Bearest Bills game, and

2218
02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:25,640
Speaker 1: Friday night I had dinner with Marvin fran Um. It

2219
02:04:25,800 --> 02:04:28,440
Speaker 1: was great. He had said that you guys do that

2220
02:04:28,560 --> 02:04:30,640
Speaker 1: once in a while, right, we do. Yeah, we try

2221
02:04:30,680 --> 02:04:32,320
Speaker 1: to get down there once a year. I mean obviously

2222
02:04:32,360 --> 02:04:34,200
Speaker 1: with COVID, I mean we didn't want to get coach

2223
02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:36,720
Speaker 1: out and that stuff. You know, so, but you know,

2224
02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:38,920
Speaker 1: before that we were dying. I would go down there

2225
02:04:38,960 --> 02:04:41,080
Speaker 1: at least once a year and we'd meet up at

2226
02:04:41,120 --> 02:04:43,800
Speaker 1: Harry's and have dinner. And he came to, you know,

2227
02:04:43,880 --> 02:04:45,760
Speaker 1: our first home coming here when I was coach here

2228
02:04:45,760 --> 02:04:49,280
Speaker 1: in nineteen and did the pregame speech and coin flip

2229
02:04:49,400 --> 02:04:52,320
Speaker 1: and yeah, so you know, being that he's close, I mean,

2230
02:04:52,360 --> 02:04:56,080
Speaker 1: he's such a I mean he's an icon person, he's

2231
02:04:56,080 --> 02:05:00,040
Speaker 1: a national treasure. Yeah, he realized I'm a national treasure U. So,

2232
02:05:00,520 --> 02:05:05,720
Speaker 1: so down, what is what did you take from Marv

2233
02:05:06,360 --> 02:05:09,480
Speaker 1: from the coaching aspect that you feel you've incorporated into

2234
02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:15,000
Speaker 1: your coaching style if at all? Well, a lot. I'll

2235
02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:18,280
Speaker 1: be honest. First of all, I am. I am a

2236
02:05:18,400 --> 02:05:22,000
Speaker 1: smart enough person to learn from people much smarter than I.

2237
02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:25,959
Speaker 1: And Marv was that person in a lot of respects

2238
02:05:26,040 --> 02:05:28,320
Speaker 1: and how to handle a team, you know, just be

2239
02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 1: a humble guy, um and and know full well how

2240
02:05:33,680 --> 02:05:37,600
Speaker 1: to push the right buttons at the right time to motivate. Uh.

2241
02:05:37,800 --> 02:05:39,720
Speaker 1: You know, for example, we're getting our tales were up

2242
02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:42,560
Speaker 1: twenty eight to three. Well, who who's going to say

2243
02:05:42,600 --> 02:05:45,880
Speaker 1: the right thing? Then Marv says to Frank, I mean

2244
02:05:45,920 --> 02:05:48,120
Speaker 1: who does that right? I mean most coaches come in

2245
02:05:48,200 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 1: and scream and yell. And that wasn't Marb at all.

2246
02:05:51,160 --> 02:05:56,320
Speaker 1: That was Darryl And And so you know, Marv just

2247
02:05:56,520 --> 02:05:59,760
Speaker 1: he had a way about him that you just respected,

2248
02:06:00,880 --> 02:06:03,000
Speaker 1: that you loved playing for the guy. And at that

2249
02:06:03,200 --> 02:06:08,080
Speaker 1: level that's not so common, let's say, um so it

2250
02:06:08,200 --> 02:06:10,200
Speaker 1: was it was more like, believe it or not, this

2251
02:06:10,280 --> 02:06:11,600
Speaker 1: is kind of strange, but it was more like a

2252
02:06:11,760 --> 02:06:15,240
Speaker 1: college relationship your college coach, or high school relationship with

2253
02:06:15,240 --> 02:06:18,200
Speaker 1: your high school coach college coach. That's what Marv had

2254
02:06:18,200 --> 02:06:20,800
Speaker 1: at the professional level. I mean, guys just loved him

2255
02:06:20,840 --> 02:06:22,640
Speaker 1: like he was just you know, like he was the

2256
02:06:22,760 --> 02:06:25,720
Speaker 1: father figure, you know. So do you strive to kind

2257
02:06:25,760 --> 02:06:29,040
Speaker 1: of capture that with your players? Yes, absolutely, It's all

2258
02:06:29,080 --> 02:06:33,240
Speaker 1: about relationships. I'm a firm believer whatever you do, especially

2259
02:06:33,280 --> 02:06:35,440
Speaker 1: when you're doing with a team concept. I got one

2260
02:06:35,520 --> 02:06:39,160
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy guys that these these guys are looking

2261
02:06:39,160 --> 02:06:40,760
Speaker 1: at me every day, and I got to love every

2262
02:06:40,840 --> 02:06:43,120
Speaker 1: one of them every day, or at least get to

2263
02:06:43,400 --> 02:06:45,840
Speaker 1: them within a couple of day period. I just put

2264
02:06:45,920 --> 02:06:47,440
Speaker 1: my arm around him or just say a word to

2265
02:06:47,520 --> 02:06:51,240
Speaker 1: him and be kind and coach him. Yes, okay, just

2266
02:06:51,400 --> 02:06:54,680
Speaker 1: be kind and coaching coaching, you know, instead of yelling

2267
02:06:54,720 --> 02:06:57,680
Speaker 1: and scream. It's just not my style. M I'm going

2268
02:06:57,760 --> 02:06:59,760
Speaker 1: to coach him, and our staff coaches him. But we

2269
02:07:00,480 --> 02:07:03,120
Speaker 1: we do it kind of like Marv's way and just

2270
02:07:03,280 --> 02:07:07,080
Speaker 1: a very respectful way and treat you like a professional.

2271
02:07:07,200 --> 02:07:09,960
Speaker 1: And that's the way I treat these kids. What's the

2272
02:07:10,040 --> 02:07:11,880
Speaker 1: size of your staff, how many assistant coaches you have.

2273
02:07:12,840 --> 02:07:17,720
Speaker 1: We got eleven, including twelve including me. So it's it's

2274
02:07:17,760 --> 02:07:21,080
Speaker 1: big enough to handle it. But yet it's it's difficult.

2275
02:07:21,640 --> 02:07:24,240
Speaker 1: I was always told I was always told this, you know,

2276
02:07:24,400 --> 02:07:26,840
Speaker 1: from guys like you know, be it Frank or Andy Reid.

2277
02:07:26,920 --> 02:07:29,960
Speaker 1: And then at the other side of it, you know

2278
02:07:30,040 --> 02:07:32,839
Speaker 1: high school coaches is that are friends or Division one coaches.

2279
02:07:33,120 --> 02:07:34,680
Speaker 1: They said, the worst job you can have as a

2280
02:07:34,760 --> 02:07:36,760
Speaker 1: head coach at D three because you gotta do everything.

2281
02:07:36,800 --> 02:07:38,800
Speaker 1: You gotta wear every hat, you gotta you know, there's

2282
02:07:38,840 --> 02:07:41,120
Speaker 1: no budget to buy anything or anything of that nature. Right,

2283
02:07:41,200 --> 02:07:43,240
Speaker 1: But I'd be honestly, I have found a niche that

2284
02:07:43,320 --> 02:07:47,120
Speaker 1: I absolutely love. I love it here. I love this

2285
02:07:47,360 --> 02:07:51,120
Speaker 1: level of guys because they're extremely passionate. They have to

2286
02:07:51,200 --> 02:07:53,600
Speaker 1: have jobs, they have to get good grades. They I

2287
02:07:53,640 --> 02:07:56,160
Speaker 1: mean it's like, you know Division one, the kids are

2288
02:07:56,240 --> 02:07:58,760
Speaker 1: kind of pampered, right, Yeah, you just go to practice,

2289
02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:01,240
Speaker 1: you know, and they fed all the time and get

2290
02:08:01,400 --> 02:08:03,440
Speaker 1: things handed to them. Especially now, I mean kids are

2291
02:08:03,440 --> 02:08:07,440
Speaker 1: getting paid all the time. Um. But I just love

2292
02:08:07,520 --> 02:08:09,880
Speaker 1: this level of an athlete. They're really passionate about what

2293
02:08:09,960 --> 02:08:12,720
Speaker 1: they do. Has anything changed with you with the new

2294
02:08:12,840 --> 02:08:15,280
Speaker 1: NCA rulings, the ni on name and image and likeness.

2295
02:08:15,760 --> 02:08:19,160
Speaker 1: Has that gotten down to you guys at all? Yeah,

2296
02:08:19,160 --> 02:08:23,320
Speaker 1: it has. Um, you know, you know, listen, wherever somebody

2297
02:08:23,360 --> 02:08:25,360
Speaker 1: that thinks they can make a buck, especially when they

2298
02:08:25,400 --> 02:08:28,320
Speaker 1: got to pay for their college, well they're gonna do

2299
02:08:28,400 --> 02:08:31,000
Speaker 1: eevery they can to try to make money. So yeah,

2300
02:08:31,080 --> 02:08:33,200
Speaker 1: we've had to form a committee. One of our coaches

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Speaker 1: is kind of the head of that that thing and

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Speaker 1: just making sure our guys do the right thing and

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Speaker 1: represent who we are as or university football. We're not

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Speaker 1: going to go out there and pedal beer commercials and

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Speaker 1: you know, you know them talking about things that this

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Speaker 1: is not who we are. So we do have we

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Speaker 1: do have stuff at this level. Well, John, listen, we

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on with us and making this interesting.

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Speaker 1: We knew it was going to be over quick, so

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Speaker 1: thanks for playing along with this here. Um, we have

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Speaker 1: to give him. We have to throw him a softball

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Speaker 1: every once in a while. So yeah, I thought it

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Speaker 1: was very good right here in from me. Man, we'll

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Speaker 1: touch it soon, all right, seb We'll see a buddy

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Speaker 1: take take care of Thanks Don all right, Don Beebe,

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Speaker 1: former Bills wide receiver your tasker's teammate this week. That

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Speaker 1: was like, that was a gift wrapped tasker's teammate for you. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because that's probably one of the that's probably one of

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Speaker 1: the teammates you've had in your thirteen year career with

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Speaker 1: the Bills that you probably spent the most time with. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's in the top five, right. He was

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Speaker 1: in the room with me for from eighty eight nine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's and I was Yeah, and he was a receiver,

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Speaker 1: so we were in meetings together all the time, and

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Speaker 1: you know, of course, yeah, we hung out and played

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Speaker 1: golf together and all that. So, um, yeah, I knew

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Speaker 1: a lot about him. Plus he's he I went out

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Speaker 1: to call Nebraska four five, six times for his little

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Speaker 1: golf tournament at Adrin State. So I found out a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff about him from family and Frans, former teammates,

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02:10:05,880 --> 02:10:08,720
Speaker 1: all that stuff too. So yeah, we're we go back aways.

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Speaker 1: I know he was downplaying it, but I don't care.

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Speaker 1: You're the state athlete of the year in any state.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what the population is. State college athlete,

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Speaker 1: state college athlete of the year at Shadrin State. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're in the state of Nebraska. Hello, yeah, like corn

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Speaker 1: Huskers everybody, because he did football and indoor track. He

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Speaker 1: ran the sixty sixteen meter dash, did it at six

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Speaker 1: point two three seconds. That was as fast as time

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Speaker 1: in the sixty. That's fast. I was moving. Babes was fast.

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Speaker 1: He ran like what four three five right four three something? Uh?

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Speaker 1: In the in the combine. I wasn't at the combine.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you got one of those small

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Speaker 1: school guys that Bill Pollion's crew park coach Nick nikola

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02:10:55,200 --> 02:10:57,280
Speaker 1: who's one of the if not the best coach I

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Speaker 1: ever played under. Nick Nikolau. He told the story about

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Speaker 1: going out to Shattern State and looking at Don Beebe

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Speaker 1: and he got out there and you know, you never

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Speaker 1: see these guys. He never, you know, didn't see him.

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Speaker 1: He went out there, so he was out. He shows

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Speaker 1: up and he's sitting in the coaches officide and the

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Speaker 1: coach goes there. There he is right there and he

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Speaker 1: goes and Nick's like, oh, he's a he's a white kid.

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Speaker 1: I got you, okay, right fine. He didn't know he was.

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Speaker 1: He didn't even know he's black or white, or tall

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Speaker 1: or skinny. He didn't even know what the kid looked

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Speaker 1: like hurple. He goes out there and Nick says, listen,

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Speaker 1: I will not He wouldn't be he wouldn't be fooled.

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02:11:30,560 --> 02:11:36,360
Speaker 1: So Nick brought brings his own tape measure and puts

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Speaker 1: a stake in the ground and make sure it's the

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Speaker 1: forty yards himself, because what you'll do is the guy

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Speaker 1: who puts a cone down on the fourty and then walks,

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02:11:43,200 --> 02:11:44,880
Speaker 1: he turns his back. He moved the cone on a

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Speaker 1: yard or two, and you're, you know, your first your

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Speaker 1: first round draft pick, all of a sudden, and he

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Speaker 1: put it in and backed it up and without taking

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Speaker 1: his eyes off it and time Beebes and Beebes ran

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Speaker 1: he's low four threes. And I remember Nick saying this too,

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Speaker 1: that when they called him, when Beebes was on the

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Speaker 1: board at that draft, he was gonna be our first pick.

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Speaker 1: We're in the second round because we trade round. Third round, okay,

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Speaker 1: third round, first pick Bennett trade. The reason why Nick said,

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Speaker 1: you're crazy if you don't take him. H how about that?

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Speaker 1: And that's you know, so Bebes comes to Buffalo, and that,

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Speaker 1: my friends, is the rest of the story. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the way I heard it, all right, sounds good to me, Steve,

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Speaker 1: and I to close it up next here on One

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

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Speaker 1: what have we learned from today's show, Steve, I think

2380
02:12:53,600 --> 02:12:56,280
Speaker 1: it's pretty safe to say we've learned that head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean mcjeermt is frustrated by the teams low vaccination rate

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Speaker 1: by league standards. Anyway, they've got about eighty percent vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: and we didn't really discuss this. That number could drop

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Speaker 1: with the roster cuts coming down the pike, because logic

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02:13:14,440 --> 02:13:17,000
Speaker 1: would say players on the back end of the roster

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Speaker 1: probably did get vaccinated so as not to potentially jeopardize

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Speaker 1: their chance to make the roster, even though coach McDermott

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Speaker 1: said today that vaccination status will not be a factor

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Speaker 1: in making roster decisions, right, and that makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna say, yeah, we're gonna cut

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Speaker 1: guys based on their vaccination because most of the guys

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Speaker 1: that aren't vacsed our guys that are pretty secure in

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Speaker 1: their spot on the roster. And you're right that the

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Speaker 1: ratios for unvacxed players are going to go up because

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Speaker 1: every guy they release over the next two weeks. Is

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Speaker 1: going to be most of the vaccin Yeah, virtually without exception,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see. It's He also admitted that they are

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Speaker 1: at a competitive disadvantage because of their low questionation rate,

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Speaker 1: with twenty eight other teams in the league at ninety

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Speaker 1: percent or higher, including the Chiefs among others. That's where

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Speaker 1: they're at, there's no question about it. Some good news

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Speaker 1: elsewhere on the preseason game front, Matt Barkley is going

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Speaker 1: to start a quarterback for the Titans on Saturday. It's

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02:14:16,120 --> 02:14:19,080
Speaker 1: probably due in part to Ryan Tannehill being on the

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Speaker 1: COVID reserve list, among others. Tomorrow's show, Matti Glab in

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Speaker 1: this chair for me as I got to take a

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Speaker 1: daughter to college. Steve will be here as well, along

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Speaker 1: with plenty of stuff to get you ready, including Cynthia Freeland,

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Speaker 1: the sideline reporter for their preseason broadcasts,