1 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields, 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: player for you, Stave of a literally Steve a blimp. 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: We're not even in the strategy of normalcy here there. 5 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: We got a Friday Hua, it's one bills live training camp, 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: pressing forward as we are close to putting a bow 7 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: on week two already of camp. Yeah, and the first 8 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: preseason game a week away. Look out everybody way one 9 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: week and about what's eight hours? Seven hours? Yeah, yeah, 10 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: give or take. So it's a heavy red zone period today. Man, 11 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: they ran about twenty five snaps in the red zone. 12 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: That was a long period. Yeah, they did. It was 13 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: good though, pretty productive defense. Yeah, I don't know. I 14 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: just I think the defense is going to take a 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: step forward this year. I think I think the d 16 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: lines are really gonna help. I think it's really gonna 17 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: be better. I hope. I think so. The proof will 18 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: be in the pudding, and we'll probably get a better 19 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: sense of it once we do see them in preseason games. 20 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: Something we were not afforded in trying to gauge where 21 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: this team was at last season at this time. I 22 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 1: don't know, it's I think here's the thing. Some people 23 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: are saying, I didn't miss the preseason last year. I 24 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: was fine without it. Meanwhile, there's other people like, I 25 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: don't care what kind of football is. Just give it. 26 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: Tell me I need it. Just give me something. I 27 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: don't care third stringers put them out there for three quarters. 28 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: Just give me something. Did you see the Pittsburgh Dallas 29 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: game last night? It was kind of like that, Yeah, 30 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: a little bit. It was a little As a matter 31 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: of personal taste, I'll say yeah, yeah, And I will 32 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: tell you that our podcast one Bill's Light, which is 33 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: an alternate Bills discussion space where we discuss different topics, 34 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: this week we will be discussing how much do you 35 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: play the cornerstone pieces on this roster in the preseason, 36 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: if at all? So be sure to check out that 37 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: debate when our podcast episode drops later this afternoon. Big 38 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: show today. As we know every Friday, the OBL Friday 39 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: fan Mailbag is open. Submit your questions at your leisure 40 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: and we will do our best to answer as many 41 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: as possible. We also have the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate. 42 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: We got a good one this week. Man, I am 43 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: pumped for this one. Not for nothing, but Daryl Talleys 44 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: in town. He is, Yeah, he's out watching practice bit 45 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: doing some stuff. He is in town watching taking in 46 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: the action. I'm seeing and I texted with him this morning, 47 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: but I haven't seen him though. Yeah, I didn't see 48 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: him out there, so maybe he's a little late to 49 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: the show. Who knows. We also have in the second 50 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,119 Speaker 1: hour of our show, about fifty five minutes from now 51 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: one Jordan Palmer joining us the offseason quarterback coach for 52 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: one Josh Allen. There have actually been more than one 53 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: or two write ups on some of the things that 54 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: Josh worked on with Jordan this summer before the OTAs 55 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: and then after minicamp for four weeks, and the technology 56 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: that they've married in with the training is I mean, 57 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: it's it's cutting edge stuff. So we look forward to 58 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: always have a good conversation with Jordan. Be good to 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: get him back on the show again today, So we 60 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: look forward to that conversation. Bill's fans like hearing from 61 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: him because he's one of Josh's biggest orders and he's 62 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: got hands you know, he's got hands on coaching him 63 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: every offseason, and he's kind of behind the curtain of 64 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: all the things that Josh has done to get better, 65 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: and it's fun to hear him talk and to hear 66 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: him speak about a guy he's coaching and how and 67 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: how and the evidence is tangible. I mean, we all 68 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: see it. So it's fun to get Jordan Palmer's take 69 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: on Josh and what he expects. He's already said, you know, 70 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: Josh should be he you know, he expects Josh to 71 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: be over seventy percent completions this year. That's a big number. 72 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: That is a fat number, as we as we discussed 73 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: on our podcast last week. Yeah, there's only seventeen seasons 74 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: in which a quarterback only seventeen times as a quarterback 75 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: had a completion percentage of seventy percent higher. Drew Brees 76 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: has seven of them. So there's really only you know, 77 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: ten other quarterbacks that have ever done it, right, you know, 78 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: so we'll see. I think he came close last year, 79 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: sixty nine point two. Right, it's gonna happen, and I 80 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: think when it does happen, it'll probably start happening more regularly. 81 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: It's not going to be the unicorn season for these 82 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: guys that it normally was. I think you'll see, like 83 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: like when guys. There was about five years ago when 84 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: when Eli Manning was still in the league and he 85 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: was just shy of five thousand, but there were four 86 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: guys over five thousand, and it used to be nobody 87 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: went over five thousand, and then in that one season 88 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:25,679 Speaker 1: you had five guys do it. I think that's gonna 89 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: be the way that you go with this seventy percent completion. 90 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: There'll be a season where three or four guys do it, 91 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: and this may be it, this may be it. The 92 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: extra game means more attempts, and the more attempts you have, 93 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: the harder it is to keep that number up there. 94 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: But it is a throwing league. Further and further down that, 95 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: I don't think anybody will debate that. NFL News and Notes, 96 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: Steve Man, there's some interesting stuff out here. Did you 97 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: see Kirk Cousins press conference, who you want to talk 98 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: about social media blowback? Good grief? Yeah, he said, hey, 99 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be filing the protocols to a t. But 100 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: then you know when the media asked him, well, what 101 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: about getting vaccinated since you just missed the last five days, 102 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: and uh, he said, I'm following the protocols to a t. 103 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: The other things a personal decision, which it is, But 104 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: I don't think the fans up in Minnesota were too 105 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: keen on him not trying to take some steps to 106 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: avoid such a pitfall again because just but he didn't 107 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: even get COVID. He was just a close contact to 108 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: Kellen Mond, the backup who did test positive, and he 109 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: had to miss five days because of that. So it's, uh, 110 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: it's gonna be different for every guy in the league. 111 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: That is, yeah, I mean that is crystal clear to 112 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 1: just about everybody who's kind of witnessing these daily goings 113 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: on with the COVID issues. So and it will continue 114 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: to be an issue, I think, Yeah, there's you're not 115 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: gonna write the league as a whole is over ninety percent. Yeah, 116 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: but even with that, like player of ability is, I 117 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: think it's still going to be an issue through the 118 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: course of the season here unless they, you know, can 119 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: somehow fix that. And we know the Players Association is 120 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: already sent a memo to the league saying they want 121 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: daily testing for everyone, including vaccinated players. You're gonna have 122 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: the odd breakthrough infection because like you said that, the 123 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: vaccine is like what ninety five and change percent effects 124 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: effective So that means for every hundred people, five of 125 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: them are going to have a breakthrough or if they 126 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: get exposed to that, yeah, five of them could get 127 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: a breakthrough infection. So you know, in a league of 128 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: two thousand players and probably another what five hundred coaches 129 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: and another five hundred or thousand staff who are in 130 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: close proximity, you're gonna have some breakthrough infection Like Frank Reich, 131 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: you know how to breakthrough infection, all that kind of stuff. 132 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: You know, it's and that will kick in the protocol, 133 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: so they can't even if they get to a one 134 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: hundred percent vaccination, you're still gonna have COVID outbreaks because 135 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: of this five percent thing, just by statistical analysis alone 136 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: could But nevertheless, if you're not vaccinated, man, it's a 137 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: big dent and you run the risk of missing a 138 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: longer period of time exactly where you have to be 139 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: isolated from work, your teammates, etc. That's the thing I'm 140 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: talking strictly from a competitive advantage standpoint here, and preparing 141 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: for games and being available for games, that's what I'm 142 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: talking about. Yea. We talked late in the yesterday's show 143 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: Steve about people leaving the raiders, both in the front 144 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: office and yeah, you know, coaches and such. It's could 145 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: be construed as a rash. Right. Well, if that's the case, 146 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: then the Giants are experience experiencing a rash of retirements. 147 00:08:55,320 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: Another player has decided, you know what, this whole Giants 148 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: way of doing things isn't for me. So Zach Fulton 149 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: is the third Giants player to retire this week, three 150 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: guys in four days. Steve Now Fulton apparently was family 151 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: and health related, and that's according to Joe Judge, the 152 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: head coach, when he was asked about it. But you're 153 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: talking Fulton, Todd Davis, Joe Looney and Kelvin Benjamin, guys 154 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: who have all hung it up and said, yeah, I'm 155 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: good this. I gotta believe there's got to be an 156 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: element of, yeah, this guy's old school and the way 157 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: he wants to run things here. My body's not up 158 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: to this. I'm I'm going to step aside here in 159 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: exit stage left. Thanks very much. Yeah, you know Fulton, 160 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: one of the other guys who retired, he signed a 161 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: one year deal and they yeah, you can get you 162 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: can kind of when you hear them talk about it. Um, 163 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: both guys just sound weary, you know. Yeah, and I 164 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: don't think they're alone either, right. Um. It's funny too 165 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: because you used to hear about how brutal training camps were, 166 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: and everybody's got stories about how tough camps were, and 167 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, even my my first year, I was with 168 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers and it was you know, it was 169 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: like two and a half it like two full weeks 170 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: of two days in West Texas, and it was a 171 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: kind of a break. The veterans were like, hey, this 172 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: isn't as bad as last year. I go, what are 173 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: you talking about? Maybe, Yeah, last year there were we 174 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: had two weeks, six twelve days in a row that 175 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: were over one hundred degrees out here, and ten of 176 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: them were over one hundred and ten. It wasn't that 177 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: bad my rookie year, but there was still you know, 178 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: ninety guys in camps something like that. They it was 179 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: the first year where they had reduced the number of 180 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: guys you could have in training camp and they still 181 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: went hard. You know, two weeks, two days every day. Yeah, 182 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: it was hard. Now it's a practice in a walkthrough, Yeah, 183 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: it was hard. And we'd have a you'd have a 184 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: walk through and a practice and then an afternoon practice, 185 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: UM meetings at night. And I'll say this though, at 186 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: night you went to bed and slept. Oh yeah, I 187 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: mean were you ready for the next you were done? 188 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: And uh. And it was just that way, and nobody 189 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: knew any better, nobody knew any different. And that's the 190 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: way it was. UM. And I'm not saying that these 191 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: guys are retiring because camp was too hard or anything 192 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: like that, or they didn't want it or whatever. But 193 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: you get to a point where you can't dredge up 194 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: the passion for it and it's not fun. You don't 195 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: want to be there. And for some of these guys, 196 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything about them something that like the 197 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: money is not worth it, they don't need the money. Um. 198 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: They say, you know what, I'm done, and then just 199 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: walk off into the sunset. It's happening a lot more 200 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: often these days than it has in the past. Yeah, 201 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: even in this day and age where everybody's like pointing, 202 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: like like I just did, like tell a story how 203 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: tough it used to be? And yeah, back in my day, 204 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: right like I just did, you're telling the story about 205 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: how tough it used to be. And these guys are 206 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: you know. I'll tell you we had leather helmets and 207 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: the only difference, you know is the guys would get 208 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: close to training camp and they knew it was coming, 209 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: they would retire before camp ever started. They were kind 210 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: of doing, I can't do it, I can't do it, 211 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: and that you know, And that was for a tenth 212 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: of the money. Right. In other NFL news, Lamar Jackson 213 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: not present at Friday's training camp practice. It is now 214 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: two full weeks of camp that Lamar Jackson has missed 215 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: since testing positive for COVID in late July. You have 216 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: to sit out at least ten days after your positive 217 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: test and then you have to have negative tests and 218 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: apparently that has not come to pass for Lamar Jackson, 219 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: who will remind you also missed a regular season game 220 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: last year when he tested positive for COVID. So all 221 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: signs are that he should be able to play come 222 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: week one, which is what five weeks away of give 223 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: or take. But two weeks of training camp with your 224 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: franchise quarterback isolated or silent, my gosh, it's not ideal. 225 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: That is not good. It's not ideal, and especially with 226 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: the new pieces they have there. Now you know, Sammy 227 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: Watkins and the receiver they drafted from Minnesota. I'm not 228 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: gonna remember the kid's name. They got guys that need 229 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: to blend with him. Get some timing in the pass. Again, 230 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,719 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that can't be accomplished, maybe in the 231 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: span of a week, but you'd certainly like to feel 232 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: the executions a lot tighter. If you get a full 233 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: training camp together, right, and you you've missed half of it. 234 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: You missed half a training camp. That's not good. I'm sorry. 235 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: And that's he's isolated too. I mean he's positively he 236 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: can't even be in the building hanging around. It's all 237 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: zoom and remote learning for him. No reps, no practice time, 238 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: nothing on the field. Um yeah, well he is a 239 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: former MVP, so he's it's not one of the guys 240 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: you have to worry about being sharp himself. And he said, 241 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: you know, he need reps from the files of bad 242 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: to worse Steve Foxes Fox Sports Jake Laser is reporting 243 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: the Texans still believe Deshaun Watson is going to want 244 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: to end up playing for them this year, and they 245 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: are not returning calls to teams interested in a trade. 246 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: Can somebody insert the image of an ostrich with its 247 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: head in the sand, because that is what the Houston 248 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: Texans are right now. Yeah, I don't. I haven't heard. 249 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: What are they doing. I haven't heard from DeShawn in 250 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: a while. I don't think he will. Last I heard 251 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: he was really angry at him and maybe his off 252 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: the field problems which are yet to be resolved and 253 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: unbelievably numerous. Guy, I don't he may say, you know what, 254 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: I'd better be keep my mouth shutting, just play if 255 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: they'll have me. He may do that. I don't. I 256 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: don't see him getting there. I don't know. It's I 257 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: don't see him get This is the stuff that he's 258 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: accused of by twenty two different people is pretty a 259 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: whole other subject is pretty cringe worthy and at least cringeworthy. 260 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: And if I'm him, I'm doing I'm keeping I'm yeah, 261 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: I am. You could argue the charges alone might be 262 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: enough motivation to just stay out of the way, you know, right, 263 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: just stay in the background. He's only at camps. How 264 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: is he gonna find every day? How is he gonna 265 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: how is he gonna concentrate on playing football with all 266 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: that going on? Whereas yea, his past is coming back 267 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: to crush his future. I don't know. That's and it's 268 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: it's amazing too. As for as much as this started 269 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: out with all the bluster and the back and forth 270 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: between lawyers, that it's gone silent um and they haven't 271 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: heard from the commissioner nothing. He's not even on a list, 272 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: which is amazing to me. But yeah, I he's to me, 273 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: he seems further away from playing than at any point 274 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: in this last offseason. He's only you know, I mean, 275 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: it would you want to like leave the country, well, 276 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: go somewhere else with those charges, I don't know that 277 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: they can. Well, yeah, that's a good point. Um, we'll 278 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: see where it goes. I'm not anticipating too many twists 279 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: and turns in that one. There's no I don't think 280 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: there's any way he puts a Texans helmet on ever 281 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: again in again, that is a dead end street right there. 282 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: Like twists, I don't know how they can get around 283 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: to even thinking that way, I mean, unless they feel 284 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: they've made some kind of progress in repairing the relationship. 285 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: But I just I think that ship is sailed, I 286 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: really do. I don't think they're coming back from that 287 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson as a Houston Texan. I just don't 288 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: think it's coming anytime soon. I don't know we'll see it. 289 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: Is obil fan Friday Mailbag, so we want to answer 290 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: your questions and knowing how full our schedule is today, 291 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: we'll try to get to some here and brought to you, 292 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: as always by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving 293 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. First question comes from Rick, 294 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: who says, first off, outstanding interview with Hall of Fame 295 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,719 Speaker 1: Director David Baker earlier this week. Really enjoyed it. So 296 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: with the door apparently closed on zach Ertz, might there 297 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: be another tight end who could be available via trade? 298 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: Who would be an upgrade? Cameron Brake, OJ Howard, Jack 299 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: Doyle question Mark. I think for the right price, you 300 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,239 Speaker 1: could probably get somebody. I just don't know that that 301 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: happens now. I think this is a coaching staff in 302 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: a personnel department that's going to want to see these 303 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: guys in preseason games before they feel they have to 304 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: make a call like that, and so I think the 305 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: guys on the roster for now we'll get the benefit 306 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: of the doubt, and if they feel they are missing 307 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: something in a year where they are clearly going for it, 308 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: then a move I think could be made. Right. The 309 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: biggest problem with Earth's is the price tag. I mean, 310 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: he's on the hook for eight and a quarter million, 311 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,239 Speaker 1: so yeah, sure of getting Philadelphia to pay for more 312 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: than half of that. He's not a very attractive trade 313 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: commodity for the Bills or maybe any other team you 314 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: stook out. Reggie Gilliam, Dawson Knox, and Tommy Sweeney along 315 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: with Becker Nate Becker, all those guys are like on 316 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: their rookie deals, yeah, and or rookie free agent deals, 317 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: and that is a cheap positional budget item. You got 318 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: Hollister there. Hollister Morris is the undrafted rookie. So yeah. 319 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: So I don't think I think they're gonna go to 320 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: the season with these guys. I think they've they've got 321 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: some faith in Knox. They've seen what he can do. 322 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: At least they know what his floor is. I wouldn't. 323 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: And every time Dawson Knox bobbles or drops a pass, 324 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: it's a it's a news story because that's been his 325 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: bugaboo since he got here. Although I thought he was 326 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: way better last year, especially at the end of last year. 327 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 1: Last year his buggaboo was getting on the field because 328 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: of COVID and a calf injury that held him up 329 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: this year. I'm still holding out hope for him to 330 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: have any breakout, breakout season. So and yeah, you've been 331 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: talking about him for a while. Ye see, we'll see. 332 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: Maybe he's not the guy, maybe he's not going to 333 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: do it, but I'm still holding out hope that he 334 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: is the guy, and I think that they see something 335 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: in him, which is why they haven't made a move. Yeah, 336 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 1: I think they're hoping for the same thing because I 337 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: think they know in some capacity they're going to need 338 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 1: an answer at that position, and he's the most athletic answer, 339 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: at least right now. So I think it's a wait 340 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: and see proposition. Though, to answer your question, Rick from Dom, 341 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 1: do you think Isaiah McKenzie is a lock to make 342 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: the roster? Yes? Where are you on that man? Yeah, 343 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: I think he is. I think he is. Two weeks 344 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: of camp or whatever weeks of camp eight days a prize. Yes, 345 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,399 Speaker 1: he's performed admirably. I think he's done a good job 346 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: also serving as an understudy. You know, you know below 347 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 1: the top group that everybody knows about and contributes. And 348 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: I still think there are a package of plays that 349 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: Brian Table would like to continue to utilize him. Not 350 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: to mention the fact that we heard Heath Farwell just 351 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: yesterday state that McKenzie is in the driver's seat to 352 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: be the primary return man. So yes, yes, Tom, he 353 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 1: is a lock to make the roster unless something catastrophic 354 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: happens for him in terms of performance number one and 355 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: somebody else takes the bull by the horns and lights 356 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,719 Speaker 1: it up. In the preseason on returns, Tiffany asks Robert 357 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 1: Sala appears to be a solid hire for the Jets. 358 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: How long do you think before they become a playoff contender? 359 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: I think the earliest they could flirt with it is 360 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: probably twenty twenty two, but that's assuming they make all 361 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: the right moves again next off season, they properly develop 362 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: Zach Wilson so he's making demonstrative improvement week by week 363 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: this year so he can use it as a springboard 364 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: for next year. But even then, I don't know if 365 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: there's enough It might it might take till twenty three, 366 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: and that's assuming they make all the right moves and 367 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: I'm with Tiffany, Salo's not going to be the problem 368 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: in New York. No, it's gonna be Zach Wilson. That 369 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: might be the best coach they've hired since Herman Edwards 370 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: Endomer and ownership and you know the GM ownership. You 371 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 1: know how that's going to play out. If if Salo 372 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: gets to run his program and pick the guys he 373 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: wants and the type of guys he wants, and they 374 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: scout it the right way, the Jets will be fine. 375 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: But it's not about Sala. It's about Zach Wilson and 376 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: whether the Jets, either the higher ups above Salo or whatever, 377 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: if they support him. Because I'm with Tiffany, I think 378 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: Robert Salo is a guy that can really coach, and 379 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 1: I think he's the right guy for him, a great leader. 380 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: Guys will rally around him. I think it comes down 381 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: to the guys they've already picked. If Zach Wilson's the guy, 382 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: they got a chance. I don't know if you saw 383 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: Robert Sala's press conference. I believe it was yesterday, So 384 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: some of the New York media asked him in reference, 385 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: you know, loosely referencing Joe Judge head coach of the 386 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: Giants and his tactics and his way of leading and 387 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: coaching that team, making them run a hundred yard Gasser 388 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: is not happy with the hundred yard Gasser performance and 389 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: then making them do push ups on the goal line 390 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: and solid essentially said, uh, yeah, I don't. I don't 391 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: do it that way. That's that's not the way I coached. 392 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, deal with grown men, right, um 393 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: so if you can't, yeah right, I mean, yeah, they're 394 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: already I'm telling you, man, the New York media, the 395 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: Sharks are already circling Joe Judge and he hadn't even 396 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: gotten too week one yet, just because I mean, I 397 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: know that he's been there for a while, and every 398 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 1: his first year there was like that is you know, 399 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: he just he hasn't changed, and now they had this 400 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: big regression and regression we're now it's like that. It 401 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: seems like even worse than it was his first year 402 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: almost you know where you hear you got a big 403 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: brawl there and had had trouble breaking it up. That's that, 404 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: to me, is a sign of a team that is 405 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: under some pressure. And certainly there are guys who perform 406 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: well under pressure. And if you want to find out 407 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: about some guy, put them under some pressures. See how 408 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: they react. Maybe you find out something about them. But 409 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: I don't know if if if guy, A lot of 410 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: guys want to live like that day to day, I 411 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: don't think. So you can pick a moment and put 412 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: me under some pressure. Is a field goal kicker, is 413 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 1: an offensive line and get me a one on one 414 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: thing where everybody's whatever, put me in a game. But 415 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: that atmosphere becomes counterproductive for guys pretty quickly. Yeah, especially 416 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 1: when their bodies feel like garbage afterwards the next day, 417 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: and then they well, then yeah, not only is the 418 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 1: physical risk and the physical taxation, but also you're sitting 419 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: there and you got to do it again today, That's 420 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: what I mean. And it's a cumulative and you start 421 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: to weigh the odds of actually getting through this thing healthy, 422 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: and you start playing for you start in just go 423 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: into survival mode rather than winning mode, and then you're 424 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: you're so worn down by week one, the thought of 425 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: week eight, let alone week seventeen, when you're playing an 426 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: extra game. Who yeah, a space, it's a tough place 427 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: to be. We'll get to more of your mail bag questions. Shortly, 428 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: we have to take a break here because when we 429 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: come back, one aj Epinessa is addressing the media. We 430 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: are going to bring you his press conference coming up 431 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 1: after the break. You're on one Bills Live presented by 432 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back here 433 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: on a Friday, one Bills Live. Two of training camp 434 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 1: almost in the books. Want to remind you there is 435 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: an open practice tomorrow, the return of the Blue and 436 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: Red practice in the stadium on Saturday. If you want 437 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 1: to check to see if you can still get a 438 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 1: general admission ticket. The tickets are complimentary, but you do 439 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: need one to enter. You can go to Buffalo bills 440 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: dot com slash training Camp to see if any are 441 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: still available. Time now for us, though, to go to 442 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: the press conference station where aj Epinessa addressed the media 443 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: after practice today. Here is the second year defensive end. 444 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to the two rooks after here. Just 445 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: give us your impression of how things seem to be 446 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: fitting in with those guys and how they're you know, 447 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: acclimating to the NFL. I mean, these guys they came 448 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: right in and just I mean molded with the group 449 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: super like extremely well. I mean, and they have the gifts, 450 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: I mean, just such natural gifts. When it comes to Greg, 451 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: I mean I saw Marios. I mean it's true, just 452 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: as length, his size and boogie his athleticism and being 453 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: as big as he is, he moves so well. But 454 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 1: when it comes to personality wise, they fit right in 455 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 1: with the group and the D line. They molded perfectly, 456 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: and they missed right away and JA needed their shoes 457 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: a year ago. But having a very very different offseason, 458 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: this is your first real goal around, right with midiicamps 459 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: and OTAs. How does that feel and how has that 460 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: affected you coming into this training dision? I mean, I 461 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: feel definitely a little more comfortable coming into this training camp. 462 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 1: Last year, they just kind of tossed you in and 463 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: training camp lasted a couple weeks and then it was 464 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: straight into the season. And then I mean having OTAs 465 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: and rookie MIDI camp and all that stuff. Being able 466 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: to be in the building early, to start those relationships 467 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 1: early is something that I definitely missed out on. But 468 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: being able to be here and see it this second year, 469 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: it's it's something that I wish I could have had, 470 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: But I'm definitely benefiting from this season so far. We 471 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 1: talked to you last year about finding the right weight 472 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: and how you know, a weird offseason last year affected everybody. 473 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: Are you where are you? You? Two fifty two fifty two? 474 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: What I'm gonna around two fifty five right now and 475 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: I'm still looking to get up closer to around two sixty, 476 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: but that that's come along really well. And then being 477 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 1: here this whole off season really benefited me. Being here 478 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,439 Speaker 1: with Siano um and a bunch of other guys that 479 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: came back and lifted, So that's something that really helped 480 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: me and with my body weight as well. Yeah, for sure, Sean, 481 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: the ad mention of the tag you spent here this 482 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: offseason entirely, you know, up to you your own decision 483 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: to do that. Can you just talk a little bit 484 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: about what went into that decision to stick around here? Um, 485 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: it was really my friend of mine was just so 486 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: that the coach you could see that I'm here working. Um, 487 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: it's my first off season. I had a lot of 488 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: the Vets got their own routines where they go to 489 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: different facilities they go and they have their own training facilities. 490 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: But for me, my first off season, I wanted to 491 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: be here in person because I know I knew all 492 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: the games I had to make, and being here and 493 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: having the coaches see me in the weight room, seeing 494 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: me gradually gaining the weight and see me putting the 495 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: work in with something that I wanted to coach McDermott 496 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: being in Siano all of them to see firsthand that 497 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: I'm here doing it in front of them throughout this 498 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: off season. Who have you leaned on the most for advice? Um, 499 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: I mean, we got a room full of great bets 500 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: when it comes to Mario, Jerry Um and then I 501 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: mean even when it came back to Trent and now 502 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: that we added Fa and a big Vern, all those guys, 503 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: I mean they're just great, great leaders and great example 504 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: setters for the young guys like me and the two 505 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: rookies and even the other guys. The length of all 506 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: you guys put together really helped this defense up front. 507 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: When it comes to passing lays, batty balls. I mean, 508 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: when it comes to length, that's something that you can't teach. 509 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: Length that's just like a natural uh attribute, And I 510 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: mean being able to use your length, use it kind 511 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,239 Speaker 1: of as like a measuring stick and being able to 512 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: keep your distance but also still be aggressive and um, 513 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: I mean it's just a huge benefit for us to 514 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: be able to bat down the balls, like you said, 515 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: to put pressure on the quarterback note only being in 516 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: his face, but being on the line as well, um 517 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: and blocking them down. Hey day, with the work that 518 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: you did this off season with the strength staff and 519 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: you know now just being hearing your second camp as 520 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: a Buffalo, I mean, Mario Addison said it when he 521 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: was set in the media, AJ is ready. So how 522 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: do you feel ready this season? How do you feel 523 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: different now in your second training camp than you did 524 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: last year? Um, I definitely feel more comfortable with the 525 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 1: playbook and then just kind of like being able to 526 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: know where I'm supposed to line. I've know where I'm 527 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: supposed to be when it comes to stuff like that, 528 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: So that's kind of coming second nature. And then the 529 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: training I definitely feel quicker, faster, stronger, and um, the 530 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: benefits from the weight room and all this stuff like 531 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: that and adding the weight definitely helps with my game. 532 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: And so that's some stuff that we were really aiming 533 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 1: for this offseason and some things that I kind of 534 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: got done and I'm really proud of being able to 535 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: do that. What was your reaction name here when they 536 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: when they drafted defensive ends in the first two rounds, 537 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: because obviously that impacts you they play your same position. Yeah, 538 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: when when I first saw it, I was kind of happy. 539 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it adds a competition, you know, and I 540 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: mean competition forre his excellence. I've said that before, and 541 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: it just whenever I saw. I knew Carlos before before 542 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: he got drafted. We had talked a little bit on 543 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: social media as just two d Nsum and then Gregg 544 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: when we had when we added both of them, I 545 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: just thought, Wow, this is gonna be a great opportunity 546 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: to show, like to improve with them there to help 547 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: push me along as well, because we got two vests, 548 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: we got two young guys now and um, those are 549 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,239 Speaker 1: just things that really push you to want to keep 550 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: getting better every day. More compressions of Fabada, just being 551 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: around him for the last eight practices now in training camp. 552 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: That's a big dude. That's that's the first thing out 553 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: that I was like, dam, that's a big ass do 554 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: But I mean for as big as he is, he 555 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: moves so well, he's funny, I mean, and he plays hard. 556 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: That guys all work, and I mean you can see it. 557 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: I mean when it comes just to his physique, he's 558 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: all work. He takes that so seriously. He takes the 559 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: playbook seriously, um, and he's willing to help out all 560 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: his teammates's he's given advice, he's he's taking advice from 561 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: other guys, and he's he's he's a great teammate. And 562 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: that's something I think he lives by playing football most 563 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: of your life, he hasn't, right, Just could you just 564 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: maybe quantify what he's been able to do in such 565 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: a short period of time to get the year. It's 566 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: I mean impressive to say the least. Is just the 567 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: fact that he can get into the NFL, um and 568 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: then to be able to play at such a high 569 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: level and to have success at such a high level. 570 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: I mean that's just I mean, it's it's really just 571 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: unheard of to be where he's from, him to do 572 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: what he's done. Um, it's a crazy story. And um, 573 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: I mean it's just like I said, it's just impressive 574 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: to say the least. But yet I've gone I'm going 575 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: against Spencer Brown in college. Um so him and uh Tommy, 576 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 1: I played both against both of them in college and 577 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 1: so I mean, uh, it's great. Those guys are big, 578 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: they're fast, athletic, and I mean for being so big, 579 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: their feet moved so well and they're they're always there. 580 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: So it's it's great competition every single day. And um, 581 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: iron sharpens iron. That's that's one of those things. And 582 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: I mean it's just this how it's going every day. 583 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: Watch out for this season. What does it like to 584 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: have a guy that has so much experience? UM? I mean, 585 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: it's just a blessing to be in this position, to 586 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: have veterans like Mario and Jerry Um and to be 587 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: um held in such high guard by those guys confidence 588 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: that they have in me. Um, it just really drives 589 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: me to want to keep getting better UM and to 590 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: prove and to prove myself if when people like that 591 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: put expectations on you, to UM to prove that you 592 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: can live up to those expectations. Personality feel like there's character. 593 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a lot of personalizing it. But I 594 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: mean the one guy I think you guys would love 595 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: to talk to is Mike Love. That is funny. He's 596 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: always getting a good mood, he's always smiling, he comes 597 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: with that juice every day. UM. And Mike just you know, 598 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: he's always walking up with a smile on his face, 599 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: and that's a big impact, I think on everybody in 600 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: the room. The training, you mentioned the weight and the 601 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: specific target, but did you have other tangible goals you 602 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: were trying to hit. Um. Honestly, going into the offseason, 603 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: it was as simple, it's just got to get my 604 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: weight up, getting my weight up, get bigger, faster, stronger. UM. 605 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: I didn't really honestly set any numbers goals other than 606 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: with the weight, UM, but just to improve myself, to 607 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: to kind of feel that that your body getting stronger 608 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,959 Speaker 1: and to I could definitely feel get twitch here, um. 609 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: And I mean the more you spend, the more time 610 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: you spend the way room, you can obviously tell the 611 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: results because the weight numbers are going up, the times 612 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: are going up whenever you're running the sprints and everything. 613 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,279 Speaker 1: And UM, I could definitely just feel it whenever I'm 614 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 1: just jumping, whenever I'm sprinting. It's just it was a 615 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: big difference, and I was really pleased with how it went. 616 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,239 Speaker 1: The defensive line was without Star last season. I know 617 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: you don't you haven't played with Star yet, But how 618 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: are you because of what he means to the defensive 619 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 1: line by playing with him, and just based off of 620 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 1: what everyone has said to UM, I mean Star is 621 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,359 Speaker 1: a beast just I mean he just holds it down 622 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: in the middle. I mean in the way he does 623 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,399 Speaker 1: it is with such grace and I mean he's it's 624 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: like he's done it a million times before, which he 625 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: really has. And I mean it's it's second nature to 626 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: him to watch him work to do it so easily, 627 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: but also with such a high motor and with such intensity. 628 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,840 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's great to have someone like that 629 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: on your line that you can rely on, especially when 630 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: it comes to hold in those devil teams and I 631 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: mean that's the dirty work down inside. Get a chance 632 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: to seeing you. Last season, there was no they're almost 633 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,959 Speaker 1: like almost become like almost And because there was really 634 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,840 Speaker 1: no focus, there was no we couldn't do stories on you. 635 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: Do you feel that you need to step up or 636 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: something to prove in some ways because just because of 637 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,399 Speaker 1: how strange last year was, Um, I would say there's 638 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: always something to prove. I mean, in my mindset, I'm 639 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: always trying to get better and always trying to um 640 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: to to take that next step. UM. But when it 641 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: comes to proving something to somebody, I don't think there's 642 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: anything to prove to anybody. UM. And just to come 643 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: and just I mean, like do the work every single 644 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: day and then it'll show for itself. And what are 645 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: the discussions like with the Strange staff in figuring out 646 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 1: with your frame you could you know you could do 647 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: down There's a lot of different ways. Um yeah, UM, 648 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 1: I mean we haven't really discussed more than just kind 649 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: of getting to where I'm at right now, UM and 650 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 1: taking those those baby little steps and just gradually building 651 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: it up um and coming along. But um uh it's 652 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: we were starting with getting about the two fifty five 653 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 1: um and now the goals around two sixty and then 654 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,319 Speaker 1: just trying to maintain it, just to keep it on, UM. 655 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 1: Don't don't shed it during the season, because once that 656 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 1: season starts going on, it's a long season. Um. Sometimes 657 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,040 Speaker 1: the body weights start to dwindle and so UM that's 658 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: something that the next goal is to make sure to 659 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 1: keep them on, make sure it sticks. All the changes 660 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: that putin since Iowa and then Spencer in time he 661 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: kind of taken the whole take that Oh, Yeah. No. 662 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 1: Whenever I said hi to him for the first time, 663 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, you're a lot skinnier. You were all like, oh, yeah, 664 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: I know, I've definitely lost some weight, but uh, it 665 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:48,160 Speaker 1: was good to see those guys. All right. That's aj Epanessa, 666 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,920 Speaker 1: addressing the media after practice today, says he feels twitchier 667 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 1: Steve with all the work that he put in this 668 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,959 Speaker 1: offseason with the Bills strength and conditioning staff, chiefly since 669 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,919 Speaker 1: he spent almost the entire offseason here in Buffalo with 670 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,359 Speaker 1: them working on getting his body composition right. Said he's 671 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,959 Speaker 1: at two fifty five now, wants to get to two 672 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,439 Speaker 1: sixty and then most importantly, keep that weight on his frame, 673 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 1: something he had trouble with last year, which kind of 674 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 1: put him behind the eight ball and compromised his playing time. Yeah, 675 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: it was a little bit of a yo. Yo. We 676 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,760 Speaker 1: see his in form last year because of his weight. 677 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: You and I we both noticed it immediately when they 678 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:30,799 Speaker 1: came out of training camp. When he came back to 679 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: training camp and whatever we saw him, I was like, wow, 680 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 1: he looks different. He was thirty pounds he dropped, and 681 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,799 Speaker 1: even on a six five frame, that shows up and 682 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: he didn't look the same, and I think he had 683 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 1: troubled his body and his game had trouble adjusting to 684 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 1: the different weight, and he was inactive for the first 685 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 1: couple of weeks. We'll see if that changes this year. 686 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: Certainly he's gotten good reviews this far in training camp, 687 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: but I still think there's a little bit of an 688 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: adjustment period going on with aj as to what weight 689 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: he wants to get out and you know, if he 690 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 1: it's a little concerning to me. The training camps a 691 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: week ind and he's still not at the weight he 692 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,879 Speaker 1: wants to be at. I don't know whether he showed up, well, yeah, 693 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,800 Speaker 1: I'm the right weight and dropped it, or whether he 694 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,359 Speaker 1: still hasn't gotten there yet. Guys in that boat, they're 695 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,880 Speaker 1: eating like ten thousand calories a day, right pretty much, 696 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,879 Speaker 1: especially once you get the training camp, because you're burning 697 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,600 Speaker 1: a lot of that. Eat what it takes. Yeah, I 698 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 1: mean you wake up, I mean you gotta eat the 699 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,799 Speaker 1: right stuff. You wake up at three am and have 700 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,879 Speaker 1: something you know, I mean, you do that, and that's 701 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: what these guys do. But it being here for as 702 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,880 Speaker 1: long as he was in the off season, what are 703 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,400 Speaker 1: you doing? Yeah, you're kind of hoping he was there already, right, 704 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,800 Speaker 1: and we were getting nothing but rave reviews from Leslie 705 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 1: Frazier back in June when he was talking about how 706 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,120 Speaker 1: Aj kind of redefined his body composition successfully. I'll say this, 707 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,359 Speaker 1: We're a week into camp and maybe he's it's been 708 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:51,960 Speaker 1: hard to keep some of that weight on. Maybe he 709 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,640 Speaker 1: was at two sixty and now he's at two fifty 710 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,959 Speaker 1: five after eight practice. If he's if he's too sick, 711 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,760 Speaker 1: if he's let's face it, we're talking about one percent 712 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 1: of his weight, right, So it's making it what you will. Yeah, 713 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,279 Speaker 1: but in an ideal world, he wants to be a 714 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 1: two sixty, which is still twenty pounds lighter than he 715 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,359 Speaker 1: played at Iowa. He was a training that's right. Well. 716 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 1: I mean you even heard him say when Spencer Brown 717 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: and Tommy Doyle saw him for the first time because 718 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,680 Speaker 1: they had played against him in college, right, they's like, wow, 719 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:22,400 Speaker 1: you're you're skinny. Yeah. Um, So they see the difference. 720 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,400 Speaker 1: But hopefully with all the work he put in this offseason, 721 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,439 Speaker 1: you know, there is something that sticks on his frame, 722 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: and some guys have more trouble with that than others 723 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: either because you know they've got a hyperactive metabolism, or 724 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: they just they just burn calories sitting on the couch. 725 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,919 Speaker 1: Sometimes there's some people that just have high metabolism rates 726 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,000 Speaker 1: and weally hard, especially when you're young. You know, well, right, 727 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,279 Speaker 1: a metabolism like a humming bird. We know that, UM, 728 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,719 Speaker 1: because we're on the other side of around UM. But 729 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to Here's the thing. If 730 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,040 Speaker 1: the guy's productive on the field, I don't care what 731 00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,279 Speaker 1: he weighs. I don't care what he looks like. I 732 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:00,520 Speaker 1: don't care what he look like in the mirror. I 733 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,120 Speaker 1: don't care what his body composition is or whatever. But 734 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 1: you've got a lot of people in the building that 735 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:12,319 Speaker 1: know what the optimal you know, BMI is, body mass 736 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,600 Speaker 1: index is, and they know what you know, how strong 737 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,839 Speaker 1: you should be and what you should be doing when 738 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: they try and get you there to help you and 739 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,759 Speaker 1: if you have if you struggle to get there like okay, 740 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 1: particularly during training camp. But you know, we'll see. I mean, 741 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,360 Speaker 1: he's got it's surprising to me to hear him, you know, 742 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,399 Speaker 1: talk about all the you know, the weight issues, which 743 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 1: it was a huge issue I think for him last year. 744 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,799 Speaker 1: To still have that hanging around, maybe it'll follow him 745 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,279 Speaker 1: his whole career. I don't know. I know, when you 746 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 1: start to play well and you're a guy that gets 747 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 1: ten sacks a year, nobody really says anything about what 748 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,800 Speaker 1: you weigh. Yeah, they don't care. Right right now, they're saying, 749 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: what's the problem, Why aren't you getting ten sacks a year? Yeah, 750 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,360 Speaker 1: we have to take a break here. Some more NFL 751 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,480 Speaker 1: news and notes to pass along to you, including the 752 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,799 Speaker 1: latest wide receiver in the league to ask for a 753 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,839 Speaker 1: trade after not being happy with his playing time through 754 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,719 Speaker 1: the course of training camp. We'll tell you who that 755 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,320 Speaker 1: is when we return here on One Bills Live, presented 756 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One 757 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and as 758 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:33,120 Speaker 1: we said at the break, there is another wide receiver 759 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,000 Speaker 1: in the league, Steve, that has asked his team for 760 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,439 Speaker 1: a trade, and it's the team that the Bills will 761 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:45,160 Speaker 1: be playing in Week one. Steelers wide receiver James Washington, 762 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:49,000 Speaker 1: a former second round pick in twenty eighteen, has told 763 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 1: the Steelers he'd like to be traded based on his 764 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,120 Speaker 1: limited playtime last season and thus far this preseason. The 765 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:02,680 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Game yesterday. Adam Schefter is reporting that, 766 00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:07,120 Speaker 1: by the way, yeah that why not played three has 767 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 1: played three years for the Steelers. Has appeared in forty 768 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,000 Speaker 1: five games, made twenty three starts, so has started about 769 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,920 Speaker 1: half the time. And his best season was in twenty nineteen, 770 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: when he had forty four receptions for seven hundred thirty 771 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,000 Speaker 1: five yards and three touchdowns. That's the year before Chase 772 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: Claypool arrived. So things did change last year in terms 773 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: of his usage once Chase Claypool got on the scene. 774 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,120 Speaker 1: They've struggled in recent years to get their offense exactly 775 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:41,280 Speaker 1: right the way they wanted it. Since they since Levion 776 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 1: Bell wanted out, since Antonio Brown wanted out, since they 777 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,000 Speaker 1: you know all that. I mean, it's been one guy 778 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,880 Speaker 1: after another, and I you know, maybe you can point 779 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,239 Speaker 1: your finger at the quarterback and say, Ben Roethlisberger is 780 00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,359 Speaker 1: not making it easier, or maybe these guys don't like him, 781 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,880 Speaker 1: or whatever is bet and ends doing it, he's not 782 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: easy to work with, whatever, Or maybe it's the rotation 783 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:08,840 Speaker 1: of offensive coordinators they have on a regular basis. Who knows, 784 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,080 Speaker 1: but it's been a while since the Pittsburgh Steelers are 785 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,560 Speaker 1: ringing people up on the scoreboard. Dez Brian is apparently 786 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,480 Speaker 1: a big proponent of James Washington's skills, because he has 787 00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,480 Speaker 1: since tweeted, if you are a team and want a 788 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,000 Speaker 1: top tier wide receiver, trade for James Washington dot dot 789 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 1: thank me later. Des Bryant putting that out there, So 790 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:35,520 Speaker 1: okay for whatever that's worth. Other stuff that is going 791 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 1: on around the league, Sean McVeigh covers a topic that 792 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,880 Speaker 1: we will be discussing on our podcast, which the episode 793 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,160 Speaker 1: comes out later this afternoon. How much did the cornerstone 794 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:52,479 Speaker 1: players for the Bills play in the preseason if at all. 795 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:57,680 Speaker 1: Sean McVeagh has already unequivocally decided on how much Matthew 796 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:02,799 Speaker 1: Stafford is playing in the preseason. Not at all, he said, 797 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,840 Speaker 1: as long as I am here, As long as I 798 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,960 Speaker 1: am here, Matthew Stafford will never play in the preseason. 799 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:18,800 Speaker 1: Never read my lips. Never with a capital end forever. 800 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,200 Speaker 1: There are some I mean, we saw it last night. 801 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,239 Speaker 1: There were some starters that were held out of the 802 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,040 Speaker 1: game for the Cowboys, Dak Prescott due to an injury 803 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,319 Speaker 1: he's recovering from, but Ezekiel Elliott was not active, along 804 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:38,240 Speaker 1: with a few others, and apparently he basically said, here's 805 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 1: his direct quote in an interview with Doug Gottlieb, there 806 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,840 Speaker 1: is zero chance you'll ever see Matthew Stafford take a 807 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,759 Speaker 1: snap in the preseason for the Rams. As long as 808 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,839 Speaker 1: I'm the coach, that will never happen. So he's not 809 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,680 Speaker 1: going to play. That's why it's important for us to 810 00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: try to get competitive opportunities against some of these other 811 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:59,080 Speaker 1: teams in practice settings. Practicing against the Cowboys this Saturday 812 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,040 Speaker 1: will get the Raiders twice. So he set up joint 813 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,759 Speaker 1: practices where you can control the environment a little bit 814 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,879 Speaker 1: better than in a preseason game where maybe you talk 815 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,840 Speaker 1: to Raiders head coach John Gruden or you know, you 816 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,320 Speaker 1: talk to the Cowboys and be like, hey, nobody's touching 817 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,520 Speaker 1: quarterbacks no matter what R and I or you're a guy, right, Yeah, 818 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,000 Speaker 1: that's yeah, par for the course. It makes a lot 819 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,840 Speaker 1: of sense. And more and more, it's you were leaning. 820 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,680 Speaker 1: You can see it coming these coaches who were doing that. 821 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,000 Speaker 1: You got Matthew Stafford, brand new team coming in with 822 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,359 Speaker 1: with high expectations. He's not He's not even gonna take 823 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:40,400 Speaker 1: a snap in the preseason house. It so we're like 824 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,000 Speaker 1: a half a step. No, we're not even a half 825 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,920 Speaker 1: a step away. We're a crack in the sidewalk away 826 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:53,040 Speaker 1: from eighteen game regular season, two preseason games. Let's go. 827 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 1: I mean, you don't need all this. They proved it 828 00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,440 Speaker 1: last year. And I don't want to be this union 829 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 1: guy that sad out of all this stuff. It's not 830 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:06,120 Speaker 1: they do need some, but let them let them, let 831 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,680 Speaker 1: them formulate it on their own. I think the one 832 00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:10,520 Speaker 1: thing you do need, you need young players in a 833 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,160 Speaker 1: game setting, like a preseason game like you saw last 834 00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,000 Speaker 1: night with the Steelers and the Cowboys. There's a ton 835 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,160 Speaker 1: of guys out there nobody had heard about and didn't 836 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,839 Speaker 1: know it, and like always, you get media people who 837 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:26,080 Speaker 1: chime in with some idiotic these guys are horrible there, 838 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,560 Speaker 1: they stink, Get them off my screen, get you know 839 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,719 Speaker 1: they're they're gonna get cut, and all that idiotic stuff 840 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,640 Speaker 1: that they say. You always get that. But it's important 841 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: for those guys because that's really huge because nobody's ever 842 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,319 Speaker 1: seen him do that at this level. Matt Stafford we've 843 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,600 Speaker 1: seen ten years. If we got a decade behind him, yeah, 844 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,040 Speaker 1: he didn't need I don't need Josh Allen. Same thing. 845 00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,480 Speaker 1: I was watching highlights of him throwing touchdown passes to 846 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,240 Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson on NFL Network. They were running like Calvin 847 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,480 Speaker 1: Johnson's Hall of Fame induction reel. Yeah, and there's Stafford. 848 00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 1: So I think you leave it up to the football 849 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,920 Speaker 1: people to say, here, here's what we really need for 850 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,799 Speaker 1: the preseason. Let's do it like this. Give them one 851 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 1: preseason game, you know, and then turn them loose. Give 852 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,040 Speaker 1: him a couple of scrimmages, controlled scrimmages, turn them loose, 853 00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,200 Speaker 1: give them preseason games. We can all get ready and 854 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,799 Speaker 1: then blast off. I like that. Yeah, we don't have 855 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,240 Speaker 1: a sound effects library yet, they're ready, So Steve often 856 00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:30,440 Speaker 1: takes care of that for us. Yeah, let the football 857 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,480 Speaker 1: guys decide what they want to do and get ready. 858 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,719 Speaker 1: If they want a game, like there's three teams, they're like, 859 00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 1: there's five teams over here. They need they want four 860 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,960 Speaker 1: preseason games, Fine, they can play each other. Knock yourself out, 861 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,080 Speaker 1: knock yourselves out over here. These guys don't want any 862 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: preseason games or scrimmages. We'll do it all ourselves. You're 863 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,239 Speaker 1: never gonna see us until opening weekend. It's all going 864 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,719 Speaker 1: to be close to the vest. We're gonna do it 865 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,880 Speaker 1: all on our own, the New England's of the world, 866 00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,120 Speaker 1: right and the Tom Coughlins of the world. And then 867 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,160 Speaker 1: you got everybody else like, yeah, well, let's get a 868 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,160 Speaker 1: couple of scrimmages in. We'll get to get going. Let's 869 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,920 Speaker 1: let's get it going. Let's have one game so we 870 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,759 Speaker 1: can get back into the game. Management, clock, management, time out. 871 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,799 Speaker 1: It's that kind of thing. Get the officials a little 872 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:11,920 Speaker 1: chance to get up on their feet. Okay, here we go. 873 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,239 Speaker 1: You know, just let them pick pick the way they 874 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,440 Speaker 1: want to get ready for it. Yep, we have to 875 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:23,759 Speaker 1: take a break. But ESPN's Chris Mortenson is reporting that 876 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,120 Speaker 1: the Bills have agreed to a six year contract extension 877 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,640 Speaker 1: with Josh Allen. Contract details to come, he says, but 878 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,080 Speaker 1: needless to say the money is significant. That it is. 879 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,839 Speaker 1: ESPN's Chris Mortenson say it again, reporting that Josh Allen 880 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,520 Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills have agreed to a six year 881 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:46,000 Speaker 1: contract twenty seven from Chris Mortenson. Ye, all right, so 882 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,879 Speaker 1: there's that. There's that. We'll see where it goes. Interestingly enough, 883 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,040 Speaker 1: we'll be speaking with Jordan Palmer in the next hour 884 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,840 Speaker 1: of our show as he is basically Josh Allen's quarterback 885 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,920 Speaker 1: tutor UH each and every summer and has been instrumental 886 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,560 Speaker 1: in helping Josh reach the level of play we have 887 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,680 Speaker 1: witnessed not only last year, but in the strides he 888 00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,759 Speaker 1: made in the years prior. So we will talk to 889 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,640 Speaker 1: Jordan next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. 890 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:31,759 Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who 891 00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,319 Speaker 1: has been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He 892 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,480 Speaker 1: was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, 893 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:43,920 Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratiphere of normalcy. 894 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to our number two of the program here on 895 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,640 Speaker 1: a Friday, Chris Brown, Steve task your One Bills Live. 896 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,040 Speaker 1: That is the name of the program, and it is 897 00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,719 Speaker 1: now official. The team has confirmed that Josh Allen has 898 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:03,640 Speaker 1: signed a contract extension six years in length and runs 899 00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:08,880 Speaker 1: through twenty twenty eight. In terms of numbers, Adam Schefter 900 00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,640 Speaker 1: is already reporting the compensation. He's saying it is a 901 00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,320 Speaker 1: deal worth two hundred and fifty eight million dollars, including 902 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:20,120 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million guaranteed. I think we knew 903 00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,319 Speaker 1: the money was going to be big and confirmed. It 904 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,799 Speaker 1: is if Adam Schefter is reporting is on the mark, 905 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,920 Speaker 1: and usually it is. And joining us now is someone 906 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,480 Speaker 1: who has been instrumental in getting Josh Allen to a 907 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,719 Speaker 1: level of play that would earn him a contract of 908 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,120 Speaker 1: this size. So I think this guy deserves at least 909 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,200 Speaker 1: a stake dinner from Josh. It is Jordan Palmer joining 910 00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,560 Speaker 1: us on the line, the man who works with Josh 911 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:49,279 Speaker 1: each and every summer on the intricacies and nuances of 912 00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,920 Speaker 1: his game. Jordan, your time. It couldn't be better. How 913 00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:54,040 Speaker 1: does that feel? That's got to kind of make you 914 00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,520 Speaker 1: a happy guy, knowing you know you had a hand 915 00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:00,799 Speaker 1: in that to some degree. Right, Well, it's funny. I 916 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,680 Speaker 1: was wondering why you guys relate to the call. It 917 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,359 Speaker 1: looks like there's a deal done. I go, all right, 918 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,480 Speaker 1: well that's a good excuse that one works. Um, No, 919 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,600 Speaker 1: couldn't be couldn't be happier for him and his family. 920 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,719 Speaker 1: And you know, I look at this through a couple 921 00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,000 Speaker 1: of perspectives. One, I've spent a lot of time with him. Um, 922 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,160 Speaker 1: you know, as as the player coach relationship, there's also 923 00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,160 Speaker 1: just the relationship we have as he's like a little 924 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,480 Speaker 1: brother to meeting his family. UM. And then also you know, 925 00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,520 Speaker 1: I was the little brother of a guy who was 926 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,960 Speaker 1: drafted number one, signed the biggest deal in league history 927 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,680 Speaker 1: at that point, and was in the room when my 928 00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,239 Speaker 1: brother signed his first big contract extension with the Cincinnati Bengal. 929 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,399 Speaker 1: So I also see it from that perspective of the family. UM, 930 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,200 Speaker 1: and so just couldn't be happier all the way around. 931 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,480 Speaker 1: And you know, I'll be honest with you. You see 932 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,120 Speaker 1: you see players. We see it all the time every sport. 933 00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,200 Speaker 1: You see a player signed a massive deal where they're 934 00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,400 Speaker 1: gonna get a ton of money. But I don't know 935 00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,359 Speaker 1: about that team, and I don't really know about that organization, 936 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,400 Speaker 1: and I don't know how good that team's really gonna 937 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,840 Speaker 1: be because all the holes everywhere else. I think the 938 00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,319 Speaker 1: real story here is not the deal that they just 939 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,080 Speaker 1: got in place Brandon Bean and Josh and the agents 940 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,920 Speaker 1: that were involved. But this team is really good and 941 00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,440 Speaker 1: better than they were last year, and this is not 942 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,520 Speaker 1: some situation where they just paid a player and can't 943 00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,080 Speaker 1: afford to do anything else. I think this is the 944 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,719 Speaker 1: hottest team in the NFL, with pieces that are just 945 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,080 Speaker 1: continue to get addressed on all three phases of the game. 946 00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,080 Speaker 1: It's so easy for fans to sit out, say one 947 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,000 Speaker 1: hundred fifty million bucks guaranteed two hundred fifty eight million overall, 948 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,319 Speaker 1: it's average like forty three million bucks a year. But 949 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,960 Speaker 1: what they forget and is we've talked about it, and 950 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:44,160 Speaker 1: even we forget sometimes how hard he worked to make 951 00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:48,280 Speaker 1: it happen, not just at Wyoming, not just at community college, 952 00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,479 Speaker 1: not going to just going to quarterback camps, but once 953 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,360 Speaker 1: he had signed a deal that now he's guaranteed twenty 954 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,080 Speaker 1: three million on the old deal, but now he's signed 955 00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,480 Speaker 1: this deal. The hard work that he put in year 956 00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,279 Speaker 1: after year year, you saw it firsthand and you helped 957 00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,480 Speaker 1: him get there. What you know, talk a little bit 958 00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:10,160 Speaker 1: about how far he came from being you know, top 959 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,719 Speaker 1: fifteen pick with some elite traits physically to being a 960 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:17,840 Speaker 1: quarterback that's in the MVP conversation. Well, there's just so 961 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,920 Speaker 1: many ways. There's so many different periods throughout his career 962 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,920 Speaker 1: where early on he could have given up when he 963 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,320 Speaker 1: wasn't having success, and then as he started to have success, 964 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,399 Speaker 1: you know, really college and then the draft, and then 965 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,560 Speaker 1: you know he's a seventh pick in the draft, multimillionaire, 966 00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,319 Speaker 1: young twenty something year over the last few years. There's 967 00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,800 Speaker 1: a lot of times when it was difficult where you 968 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:40,560 Speaker 1: could have quit, and then there's a lot of times 969 00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,440 Speaker 1: when he had success where he could have got complacent. 970 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:44,960 Speaker 1: And you know, I grew up in a household where 971 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:49,000 Speaker 1: my father talked about complacency, breeds failure, getting comfortable, feeling 972 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,839 Speaker 1: like you've arrived, taking your foot off the gas, whatever 973 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,879 Speaker 1: you want to call it. As soon as you start 974 00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,840 Speaker 1: to do that, you're you're heading towards failure and not 975 00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,160 Speaker 1: completing what you set out to do. And so I 976 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,799 Speaker 1: look at it as a kid who fought through all 977 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,440 Speaker 1: those times when he could have given up. You know, 978 00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,040 Speaker 1: he emailed over sent out over a thousand emails just 979 00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,640 Speaker 1: begging colleges to give him a chance, and all of 980 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:11,600 Speaker 1: them said no. Went to a very small junior college 981 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,960 Speaker 1: we all know the story reading junior college, and then 982 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,480 Speaker 1: went to Laramie, Wyoming. Plenty of opportunities there to hang 983 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,080 Speaker 1: him up, or switch to baseball or start working on 984 00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,360 Speaker 1: the farm. He never did that. And then once he 985 00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,400 Speaker 1: got drafted and became a multi millionaire and had some success, 986 00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,200 Speaker 1: plenty of opportunities to take a step back and enjoy 987 00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:33,719 Speaker 1: it and not put it in the work and not 988 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,640 Speaker 1: keep that same aggressive competitive mentality that he has, and 989 00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,080 Speaker 1: he just never did it either. And you can give 990 00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:40,320 Speaker 1: him all the money in the world right now, you 991 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,520 Speaker 1: could have given him five hundred million dollars as signing, 992 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:47,000 Speaker 1: and that it's not gonna change how he's going to 993 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,399 Speaker 1: go about this season and what his goals are to 994 00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,040 Speaker 1: bring a Super Bowl back to Buffalo. Jordan, I want 995 00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:53,840 Speaker 1: to kind of get in the nuts and bolts. We 996 00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,960 Speaker 1: actually had Bruce Feldman on the show last week, and 997 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,560 Speaker 1: I know he kind of spent some time with you 998 00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:01,280 Speaker 1: guys out at your QB summit, and he was actually 999 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:05,360 Speaker 1: looking to do a story on the Cincinnati quarterback in 1000 00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,520 Speaker 1: college that's working with you, and instead he gravitated to 1001 00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,720 Speaker 1: doing a whole piece on Joe Burrow and Josh because 1002 00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,839 Speaker 1: he was kind of fascinated I think by how advanced 1003 00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,680 Speaker 1: your teachings are and how you marry it with the 1004 00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:21,680 Speaker 1: technology that you use as well. What were some of 1005 00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:25,000 Speaker 1: the new elements that maybe you brought to some of 1006 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,279 Speaker 1: the work you did with Josh. I read about some 1007 00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:28,920 Speaker 1: of the things and we talked to Bruce about this 1008 00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,960 Speaker 1: as well. You had their feet on like foot sensors 1009 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,440 Speaker 1: as well to see where the body was, you know, 1010 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,520 Speaker 1: balanced on the you know, balls and the feet, the 1011 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,279 Speaker 1: whole foot, all of that stuff. Maybe just for the 1012 00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:42,520 Speaker 1: layman like us. Explain the purpose of some of those 1013 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,400 Speaker 1: new elements you brought to some of the teachings this 1014 00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,480 Speaker 1: summer with those guys. Yeah, you got to connect the 1015 00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,839 Speaker 1: stock valve to the rotary cable and then carry the denominator, 1016 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:57,360 Speaker 1: I wondered out. So, really the technology side of what 1017 00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:59,680 Speaker 1: I've been look, I trained players who are the best 1018 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:01,040 Speaker 1: of what they do in the world, that are trying 1019 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,680 Speaker 1: to figure out ways to get better. And I feel 1020 00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,919 Speaker 1: like I'm just a quarterback coach who's trying to get 1021 00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,120 Speaker 1: better at serving these guys. So every year and we 1022 00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:10,920 Speaker 1: would get talking three years from now, we'll probably be 1023 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,600 Speaker 1: talking about something different than I'm up to. The reality 1024 00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:15,319 Speaker 1: is is that I have the same goals as these 1025 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,120 Speaker 1: guys that they want to win Super Bowls and I 1026 00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,160 Speaker 1: want to be positioned to help them win Super Bowls. 1027 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,319 Speaker 1: And so for me, the technology side of how I 1028 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,680 Speaker 1: continue to evolve and incorporate that, it's it's less about. 1029 00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,280 Speaker 1: It's not a computer where you could download new software 1030 00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,000 Speaker 1: and your computer is better now. It's really just helps 1031 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,080 Speaker 1: to tell the story of what's happening where somebody could 1032 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:37,440 Speaker 1: be losing efficiency by something that they're doing. And then 1033 00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,440 Speaker 1: the other thing that technology allows us to do is 1034 00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,480 Speaker 1: the frames per second that my eye can see versus 1035 00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,120 Speaker 1: what a really really high end piece of equipment can 1036 00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,960 Speaker 1: see allows us to get better answers of what's happening. 1037 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,480 Speaker 1: And so put rap it all up, the technology side 1038 00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:54,920 Speaker 1: of what I've incorporated into working with my players is 1039 00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,840 Speaker 1: to help me better understand what they're doing, to explain 1040 00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,120 Speaker 1: it to them in a way that hits their brain 1041 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,640 Speaker 1: because everybody learns differently. And then we can build a 1042 00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:06,560 Speaker 1: protocol of what they should be doing on a regular 1043 00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,840 Speaker 1: basis to make that bad habit feel terrible and the 1044 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,239 Speaker 1: new way of movement feel comfortable. And you know that 1045 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,360 Speaker 1: that's really Josh is, you know, as a poster boy 1046 00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,120 Speaker 1: for it, just because of the mechanical changes that he's 1047 00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,600 Speaker 1: made since coming out of college. But I also would 1048 00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:24,800 Speaker 1: say this to you guys before too my name gets 1049 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,000 Speaker 1: lumped him with Josh way more than it should. I mean, 1050 00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,600 Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey is his quarterback coach. Brian Dable is his 1051 00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:31,840 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. And those guys are the ones who were 1052 00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:35,000 Speaker 1: with him all the time developing him. And it's one 1053 00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,560 Speaker 1: thing to I work with guys on the driving range, 1054 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,120 Speaker 1: right where we've all got showed up in the driving 1055 00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,400 Speaker 1: range and felt really good walking to that first tee 1056 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,400 Speaker 1: box and it did not know the way that we intended. 1057 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,920 Speaker 1: And then we've all had crappy time on the driving 1058 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,360 Speaker 1: range and it worked out on the course. So you know, 1059 00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,720 Speaker 1: I really am more on the driving range helping guys. 1060 00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,640 Speaker 1: But you know it's Ken Dorsey, it's even the quarterbacks 1061 00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,560 Speaker 1: that have been in that room. You know Davis Webb, 1062 00:57:58,560 --> 00:57:59,920 Speaker 1: and I know Matt Barkley when he was there, all 1063 00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:02,480 Speaker 1: the guys, and Mitch sounds like he's been an incredible 1064 00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,560 Speaker 1: resource for Josh. It's really some of those parts in 1065 00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:09,040 Speaker 1: Buffalo that deserve all the credit, and in terms of 1066 00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,840 Speaker 1: Josh's development after Josh who put in all the work 1067 00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,440 Speaker 1: and is the one who's constantly seeking ways to improve. 1068 00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,640 Speaker 1: So you've seen more, probably more quarterback play and coached 1069 00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,640 Speaker 1: a lot of guys more so than most guys have. 1070 00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,640 Speaker 1: I mean most coaches get their crew of guys and 1071 00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,600 Speaker 1: they've got him for a couple of years and they 1072 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,959 Speaker 1: move on. They moved through slow. You, on the other hand, 1073 00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,720 Speaker 1: you get you get young quarterbacks, you get guys that 1074 00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,200 Speaker 1: are established, and you get guys that are improving. You 1075 00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,480 Speaker 1: get guys at all levels. And you've also had a 1076 00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,720 Speaker 1: vast experience as a player yourself, and also your brother Carson, 1077 00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:41,600 Speaker 1: who when he came out, you know, before all this 1078 00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:46,040 Speaker 1: guru stuff was a thing, Carson was probably considered the 1079 00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,960 Speaker 1: most technically sound quarterback around. He was you know, that 1080 00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,320 Speaker 1: was his thing, right, So put into context Josh now 1081 00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,840 Speaker 1: as a quarterback to worries he just signed this big deal. Okay, 1082 00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:57,920 Speaker 1: he's he's kind of accomplished something now that he's kind 1083 00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,240 Speaker 1: of an established guy with expectations at the highest level. 1084 00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,640 Speaker 1: Put him into context with guys like that you've seen, 1085 00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,480 Speaker 1: like Jordan Paul, like like Carson and some of the 1086 00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,880 Speaker 1: guys you've played with. Where does Josh fit in with 1087 00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,120 Speaker 1: all of that? Right? Where he is now? Where's his 1088 00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:17,400 Speaker 1: you know, where's he headed? And have we seen maybe 1089 00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,560 Speaker 1: a quarterback position that may go places where nobody's ever 1090 00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,919 Speaker 1: seen before in the coming years, Not so much with Josh, 1091 00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:29,880 Speaker 1: but with anybody, Yeah, well one the position has changed, right, 1092 00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:33,200 Speaker 1: So the quarterbacks ability. I've been saying this for ten 1093 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,320 Speaker 1: years now that the future of the position is the 1094 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,840 Speaker 1: quarterbacks ability to create time and space. Now, being really 1095 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,160 Speaker 1: fast and getting outside of the defensive end and running 1096 00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,200 Speaker 1: is one way to create time and space. But Tom 1097 00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,520 Speaker 1: Brady does a great job of sliding at the right 1098 00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,760 Speaker 1: time to the right place to create time in space. 1099 00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:52,000 Speaker 1: But either way, it's the future defensive linemen. Every year 1100 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:53,520 Speaker 1: you look at the draft get a little bit taller, 1101 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,520 Speaker 1: a little bit faster, a little bit longer, and that 1102 00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,280 Speaker 1: position continues to get more and more athletic. And at 1103 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:03,440 Speaker 1: the young level, you know, everybody's running the same systems 1104 01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,080 Speaker 1: in high school and college now where it's get the 1105 01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,200 Speaker 1: ball out quick, they're not really running the ball a 1106 01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:10,440 Speaker 1: whole lot, and so pass rushers rushed the pastor more. So. 1107 01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,960 Speaker 1: I just think in general the position is going to 1108 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,480 Speaker 1: get more athletic. The big tall guy who can't run 1109 01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:17,880 Speaker 1: at all, I can't move, who has a rocket arm, 1110 01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:19,880 Speaker 1: I just we're gonna see. I think we're gonna see 1111 01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,400 Speaker 1: fewer and fewer of those guys go get drafted high. 1112 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,320 Speaker 1: What josh Is and I made this comment. I think 1113 01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,160 Speaker 1: it was in Sports Illustrated, and I got feedback on 1114 01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,200 Speaker 1: both sides of it. Is. I said, look, I think 1115 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,840 Speaker 1: he's the most talented, physically talented player to ever play 1116 01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:36,200 Speaker 1: the position. And I understand how bold of a statement 1117 01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,919 Speaker 1: that is. And what I followed up with, which didn't 1118 01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,120 Speaker 1: make the article, was, so, let's come up with a list, 1119 01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:42,919 Speaker 1: and I'm happy to have a conversation about each guy, 1120 01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,280 Speaker 1: because you know, at six five, two fifty whatever, he 1121 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:49,200 Speaker 1: is arguably the strongest arm in the league and yet 1122 01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,360 Speaker 1: one of the most dynamic runners in the league. And 1123 01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:54,800 Speaker 1: so he's got the size of this guy, the speed 1124 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,600 Speaker 1: of that guy. There are fast guys who can't run 1125 01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,000 Speaker 1: that great, and there are guys who aren't that fast. 1126 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,360 Speaker 1: Asked who are really good runners. Blake Bortles ran a 1127 01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:05,960 Speaker 1: four nine at the combine and led all quarterbacks in 1128 01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,120 Speaker 1: rushing his first two years in the NFL. So there's 1129 01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:11,920 Speaker 1: those guys that can run without the speed and vice versa. 1130 01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:13,840 Speaker 1: And then there's guys that have big arms but can't 1131 01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:15,840 Speaker 1: really control it underneath. And so I just look from 1132 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,280 Speaker 1: a physical standpoint and I go come up with the 1133 01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,200 Speaker 1: list of five or six of the most physically talented guys, 1134 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:23,640 Speaker 1: and I think if you really think about it, probably 1135 01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,360 Speaker 1: agree with me at the end. And so Josh is 1136 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,680 Speaker 1: I think it's kind of hard to replicate him because 1137 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,160 Speaker 1: you've got to be big, strong and fast, and those 1138 01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:35,400 Speaker 1: guys aren't just all over the place. But I think 1139 01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,000 Speaker 1: Josh's very unique in that from that standpoint, and then 1140 01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,080 Speaker 1: the second thing I'll say about Josh's He's a point 1141 01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:44,560 Speaker 1: in your career which is about as fun as it gets, 1142 01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:48,680 Speaker 1: and that is where you've got realistic goals, like realistic 1143 01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,360 Speaker 1: attainable goals. I'm not saying these are his goals, but 1144 01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:54,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying these these would be realistic outcomes for the year. 1145 01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:57,680 Speaker 1: Is League MVP and Super Bowl MVP. You know, we 1146 01:01:57,720 --> 01:01:59,640 Speaker 1: can all say, you know, you can be any quarterback 1147 01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:00,960 Speaker 1: in the leagu You can say that's the goal for 1148 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,120 Speaker 1: the year. The reality is a very very small number 1149 01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,360 Speaker 1: of people actually get to have that as a realistic goal. 1150 01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:08,600 Speaker 1: And so he just got the biggest deal in the 1151 01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,160 Speaker 1: league and he's setting into a season where as good 1152 01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,560 Speaker 1: as they were last year, I think they've improved across 1153 01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:19,400 Speaker 1: the board, and he's got realistic goals of winning a 1154 01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:23,120 Speaker 1: Super Bowl and being the best player on the planet. Jordan, 1155 01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,920 Speaker 1: I know we had you on the show last fall 1156 01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:30,120 Speaker 1: when he was truly taking off, and as impressed as 1157 01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,120 Speaker 1: we all were were all the things and the giant 1158 01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,240 Speaker 1: jumps that a lot of his statistical categories made. I mean, 1159 01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,240 Speaker 1: he rewrote the single season record book for the Bills, 1160 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,360 Speaker 1: and they've got a Hall of Fame quarterback that played 1161 01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:42,000 Speaker 1: for this team whose name I don't need to reveal 1162 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,520 Speaker 1: to you. But all of that aside, you told us 1163 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,080 Speaker 1: he's a guy that really has no ceiling if he 1164 01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,680 Speaker 1: continues to apply himself each and every off season the 1165 01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,040 Speaker 1: way he has with you and on his own time 1166 01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:59,360 Speaker 1: for that matter. So we had Bruce Feldman on here, 1167 01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:02,200 Speaker 1: who had a full, full on bromance after watching Josh 1168 01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:04,400 Speaker 1: work with you and saying he thinks he could get 1169 01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,240 Speaker 1: to seventy two to seventy five percent completion somewhere in 1170 01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,080 Speaker 1: there this year. We've looked it up. I mean, and 1171 01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,520 Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you, Jordan, that's pretty rare air. 1172 01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:15,400 Speaker 1: I mean, Drew Brees has seven of the seventeen single 1173 01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,960 Speaker 1: seasons with seventy percent completion or more. There aren't many 1174 01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:23,640 Speaker 1: Josh almost got there last year. You're saying he's got 1175 01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,760 Speaker 1: no ceiling. You're saying you're expecting him to have an 1176 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,960 Speaker 1: even better year this year. Obviously, circumstances can change week 1177 01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,080 Speaker 1: to week in the NFL, we know that, But realistically, 1178 01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:37,160 Speaker 1: where is Josh's completion percentage this year if all these 1179 01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:41,800 Speaker 1: improvements come to fruition, Well, let's just I definitely don't 1180 01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,800 Speaker 1: want to throw out a number, but let's just let 1181 01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:45,240 Speaker 1: me get a build a case as to why it 1182 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,360 Speaker 1: should be high. He went into last year as good 1183 01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,920 Speaker 1: as stuff on Diggs was and is as much chemistry 1184 01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,760 Speaker 1: as those two guys had together. They did not throw 1185 01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:55,480 Speaker 1: a pass other than a couple of days in Miami 1186 01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,600 Speaker 1: in the offseason, didn't know each other, got to had 1187 01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:01,840 Speaker 1: to develop a relationship, both the personal relationship and the 1188 01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:05,479 Speaker 1: playing relationship. Really had to develop that during training camp 1189 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,600 Speaker 1: in the season, right, not in the offseason. So they're 1190 01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:12,200 Speaker 1: heading into this season in a joke completely different place 1191 01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,040 Speaker 1: with the relationship again on the field and off the field. Right. 1192 01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,760 Speaker 1: And then you look at and I love smokey. Smokey 1193 01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:21,320 Speaker 1: John Brown played for my brother with my brother in Arizona. 1194 01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:25,040 Speaker 1: Known him since his rookie year. But I really feel 1195 01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:28,200 Speaker 1: like that other position has been upgraded. One by Isaiah 1196 01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:30,880 Speaker 1: continuing to get better and getting reps now and having 1197 01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,240 Speaker 1: a season under his belt, but also just bringing in 1198 01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:37,360 Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders and what he brings. Guys been around a championship, 1199 01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:41,080 Speaker 1: Guys played with some of the great quarterbacks, playing great systems, 1200 01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,720 Speaker 1: and so I think on offense they've upgraded. And then 1201 01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:47,840 Speaker 1: obviously with the pass rush position, so with getting off 1202 01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:49,800 Speaker 1: the field on third down, maybe they get a hand 1203 01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,360 Speaker 1: if they get four or five more sacks, that's potentially 1204 01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,520 Speaker 1: had a couple more series. So you upgrade at the 1205 01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:59,440 Speaker 1: receiver position, You upgrade the chemistry between that guy right there, 1206 01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:03,160 Speaker 1: number four and that guy right there, number seventeen. You 1207 01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:07,040 Speaker 1: get more opportunities on offense by increasing by in theory, 1208 01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:10,760 Speaker 1: by upgrading the pass rush and the defense in general. 1209 01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:15,880 Speaker 1: And then just the idea that last year I know 1210 01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:17,959 Speaker 1: they thought, probably thought they were going to be really 1211 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:20,880 Speaker 1: good on offense. But the way that you can design 1212 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,080 Speaker 1: and scheme and what Brian Dabele can do in an 1213 01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:27,760 Speaker 1: offseason this offseason, one with all the OTAs in practice, 1214 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,520 Speaker 1: and two knowing what your quarterbacks literally capable of is 1215 01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,000 Speaker 1: different than I think where they were last year. You know, 1216 01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:36,640 Speaker 1: Josh was coming off of whatever is completion presented us 1217 01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,840 Speaker 1: fifty something percent. There was high expectations that last year 1218 01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,200 Speaker 1: would go well, but you got COVID, you got no 1219 01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,080 Speaker 1: crowd noise, you got like just all of that stuff 1220 01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,400 Speaker 1: where I look at it and I go, well, I 1221 01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:51,040 Speaker 1: think he'd probably be better in every category across the 1222 01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,560 Speaker 1: board this year. What can we expect now, we've seen 1223 01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:57,760 Speaker 1: it before where a guy has a breakout season, even 1224 01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:00,480 Speaker 1: Mahomes running through for fifty touchdowns was the VP. Then 1225 01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,640 Speaker 1: the next year he throws for twenty six. They still 1226 01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,400 Speaker 1: get deep into the playoffs. In fact, the next year, 1227 01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:09,040 Speaker 1: you know, they win the Super Bowl. What will defenses 1228 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,680 Speaker 1: do in response to what the Bills bring up and 1229 01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,760 Speaker 1: what they brought offensively last year. What's the first thing 1230 01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:19,160 Speaker 1: the defenses tend to do when they're facing a quarterback 1231 01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:21,720 Speaker 1: that's like this ultimate weapon where he can outrun most 1232 01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:24,160 Speaker 1: of the guys on your defense and he can throw 1233 01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,120 Speaker 1: it like Josh can throw it. What what's the response 1234 01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:31,440 Speaker 1: generally speaking to an offense like the one the Bills 1235 01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:35,760 Speaker 1: put put out their last year. Well, I'd be surprised 1236 01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:38,720 Speaker 1: if defensive coordinators are gonna go, here's start off the 1237 01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:41,160 Speaker 1: meetings with saying, here's how we're going to stop these guys. 1238 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:43,560 Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I think the way that 1239 01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:45,240 Speaker 1: teams are going to have to play the Bills this 1240 01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:46,760 Speaker 1: year is they are going to have to score in 1241 01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:48,720 Speaker 1: the red zone their own offense, and they're gonna have 1242 01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:50,480 Speaker 1: to put points on the board when they have a 1243 01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,800 Speaker 1: chance to because you're not going to stop this offense 1244 01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,760 Speaker 1: because they're not built on running the ball on first 1245 01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:59,520 Speaker 1: and second down and throwing it on third. You just 1246 01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,800 Speaker 1: look at some their ability to get the ball out 1247 01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:06,160 Speaker 1: of his hands quickly. The Quick Game, the screen game 1248 01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,200 Speaker 1: came on last year. I think back to I think 1249 01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:12,760 Speaker 1: it was Week four Miami. They had a big play action. 1250 01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:15,720 Speaker 1: They're four minute, I think they were up up eight, 1251 01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:18,040 Speaker 1: eight points something like that, and in a situation where 1252 01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,040 Speaker 1: you want to run the ball just to kind of 1253 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,760 Speaker 1: lead out the clock, and Brian Dable dials up a 1254 01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,160 Speaker 1: big play action post over the top and Josh kind 1255 01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:29,600 Speaker 1: of misses John Brown. The next play, they come right 1256 01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,200 Speaker 1: back to the same thing and they hit it for 1257 01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:35,400 Speaker 1: a basically to seal the game. When you have like 1258 01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:39,000 Speaker 1: an unpredictable offensive coordinator like that, who's not afraid to 1259 01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,600 Speaker 1: dial anything up that he thinks makes sense at that time. 1260 01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:43,760 Speaker 1: You got a quarterback who doesn't turn it over a lot, 1261 01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:46,720 Speaker 1: and you got an offense who's doesn't rely on the 1262 01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:49,280 Speaker 1: run game to get the game going, but can absolutely 1263 01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:52,880 Speaker 1: run the ball when needed. I'm not really sure. I'm 1264 01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:54,680 Speaker 1: not a defensive coordinator. I'm not really sure what you 1265 01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,760 Speaker 1: do going into that. You certainly can't leave Steph Diggs 1266 01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,640 Speaker 1: by himself, and then you've got us Knox and these 1267 01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:04,160 Speaker 1: other pieces that if needed, can step in and make 1268 01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,000 Speaker 1: a big impact in a game. Cole Beasley's I think 1269 01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,960 Speaker 1: probably the best slot in the league. We have all 1270 01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:11,640 Speaker 1: those pieces. I think the only thing you can do 1271 01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:15,120 Speaker 1: as another as an opponent is try and outscore the Bills. Jordan. 1272 01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:18,160 Speaker 1: We know that because Josh has said it. Among the 1273 01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,400 Speaker 1: things on his to do list was to kind of 1274 01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:24,800 Speaker 1: nail down better consistency on what he described as the 1275 01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:28,120 Speaker 1: incutting routes. It seems as though those frustrated him at 1276 01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,599 Speaker 1: times in terms of his own play and consistency. I'm 1277 01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:35,040 Speaker 1: sure there isn't like a hard and fast, well, this 1278 01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:36,559 Speaker 1: is what we do to fix it. There are different 1279 01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,360 Speaker 1: things that you guys probably ran through to try to 1280 01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,200 Speaker 1: address those as best as possible. My question to you 1281 01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:45,400 Speaker 1: is how did he feel about making that a more 1282 01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,280 Speaker 1: consistent part of his game when he left you, you know, 1283 01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:52,680 Speaker 1: and headed to training camp. So what we kind of 1284 01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:54,880 Speaker 1: do is I like to start off, whether it's him 1285 01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:56,400 Speaker 1: or Burrow or a lot of these other guys, is 1286 01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:58,920 Speaker 1: we look at hey, pull up some clips of some 1287 01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,360 Speaker 1: things that it just felt off, whether it was a 1288 01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:03,760 Speaker 1: great throw but it didn't feel right, or it was 1289 01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:05,920 Speaker 1: a miss, and then we try and come to a 1290 01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:11,320 Speaker 1: common denominator what physiologically, what's happening there? And so really 1291 01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:14,360 Speaker 1: common when guys based off the drop, when they take 1292 01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,040 Speaker 1: a hitch, they move in a way that causes this 1293 01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,200 Speaker 1: front shoulder to tilt up. And when that front shoulder 1294 01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:21,240 Speaker 1: tilts up, and now you're going to try and layer 1295 01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:23,519 Speaker 1: one to a spot, it's really hard to do that 1296 01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:27,160 Speaker 1: really consistently. These guys can all, especially Josh, he can 1297 01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,599 Speaker 1: make any throw at any time. But what we're trying 1298 01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:31,040 Speaker 1: to do is go one hundred for one hundred on 1299 01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,960 Speaker 1: everything right, get to a point in theory where it's 1300 01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,559 Speaker 1: always the same outcome. Maybe I just move differently, but 1301 01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:40,760 Speaker 1: I can always replicate the same pattern. And so we're 1302 01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:42,920 Speaker 1: able to do is figure out what in his drop 1303 01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:45,040 Speaker 1: was causing him to get to a place where when 1304 01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:47,479 Speaker 1: he got to throw that ball, that shoulder tilted up 1305 01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,160 Speaker 1: a little bit. And so we figure out what exactly 1306 01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:53,080 Speaker 1: is happening there, give him a new kind of pattern. 1307 01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,280 Speaker 1: How do we kind of have a process for changing 1308 01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,719 Speaker 1: things mechanically. One we learned the new pattern and execute 1309 01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,800 Speaker 1: it correctly to then you add resistance to it, whether 1310 01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,639 Speaker 1: it's a band of bells, I'm pushing an applying pressure. 1311 01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:07,400 Speaker 1: And then three you train it for speed. Now you 1312 01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:09,400 Speaker 1: can move faster, and then fourth you get ready for 1313 01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:11,439 Speaker 1: competition with it, And now we see is it a 1314 01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:13,960 Speaker 1: reaction and does it happen automatically? That's kind of the 1315 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,439 Speaker 1: process that I go through with guys. So really, simply, 1316 01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,639 Speaker 1: he had one area of his game and that was it. 1317 01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:20,439 Speaker 1: And I wouldn't have said it if he didn't. But 1318 01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:22,760 Speaker 1: if that's the area that he mentioned, that's the thing 1319 01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,800 Speaker 1: that we want to focus on. We come up with 1320 01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:27,720 Speaker 1: a new movement pattern, apply resistance, train for speed, and 1321 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:30,080 Speaker 1: now he's ready for competition. And now He's got all 1322 01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:33,439 Speaker 1: the training camp to get to a point where how 1323 01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:35,680 Speaker 1: does he do that the way that he wants to, 1324 01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:38,160 Speaker 1: the way that we talked about without everythinking about it, 1325 01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,160 Speaker 1: how does it become muscle memory? And just and I 1326 01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,559 Speaker 1: realize different parts of the intricacies of the game take 1327 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,639 Speaker 1: a different number of reps, but in general, are we 1328 01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:51,000 Speaker 1: talking five hundred reps to get that motor memory? Were 1329 01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:55,200 Speaker 1: talking ten thousand? Like what is what's a realistic range 1330 01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:59,400 Speaker 1: to really reprogram some of the things we've seen Josh 1331 01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:02,960 Speaker 1: reprogram him in his game and his throwing motion. Well, 1332 01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,120 Speaker 1: it totally varies on the guide and it varies on 1333 01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:11,760 Speaker 1: how a permanent of a habit that was. Right. So 1334 01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,200 Speaker 1: I trained my brother in the last three years of 1335 01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:17,360 Speaker 1: his career, treated him like a client, flew out Arizona 1336 01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:20,519 Speaker 1: and trained him he was thirty six years old. Some 1337 01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:23,040 Speaker 1: of the things that we worked on were really really 1338 01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,400 Speaker 1: hard to adjust that little tiny, simple thing that a 1339 01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:29,160 Speaker 1: twelve year old might fix like that, just because the 1340 01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:30,559 Speaker 1: twelve year old, it's not it's not a pattern. Yet 1341 01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,080 Speaker 1: he hitted him playing fullard early and so it's a 1342 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:36,000 Speaker 1: little bit that varies and depends, you know, the Josh 1343 01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,200 Speaker 1: on college the way that he played the game, bouncing 1344 01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,840 Speaker 1: on his toes with a narrow base, which is the 1345 01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:44,320 Speaker 1: opposite of how he plays now. I thought it would 1346 01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:48,320 Speaker 1: take a couple of years, but he just that isolated 1347 01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:51,640 Speaker 1: thing was was better his rookie year. You know it 1348 01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:53,960 Speaker 1: already kind of. It only took one offseason. So what 1349 01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:56,800 Speaker 1: I say to make a mechanical change, a major one, 1350 01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,320 Speaker 1: to change muscle memory, you gotta be two things. One 1351 01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:02,240 Speaker 1: you've got to be all in on the right plan. 1352 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,599 Speaker 1: You can't be half in on the right plan, and 1353 01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,679 Speaker 1: you can't be all in on the wrong plan, Okay. 1354 01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:10,040 Speaker 1: And two you've got to be athletic enough to learn 1355 01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:13,280 Speaker 1: the new movement. And athleticism in this case is less 1356 01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:16,040 Speaker 1: about forty yard dash or how explosive somebody is. It's 1357 01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,080 Speaker 1: way more about the mind body connection that they have. 1358 01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:21,519 Speaker 1: So if I say, all right, leave that left foot 1359 01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:23,160 Speaker 1: in the ground when you hitch pull that right foot 1360 01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,040 Speaker 1: back underneath you, do you feel that in your left 1361 01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,840 Speaker 1: adductor the inside part of your left leg, A really 1362 01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:32,400 Speaker 1: athletic person with really good mind body connection can feel that. 1363 01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:36,200 Speaker 1: Somebody without that mind body connection, Really, what do you 1364 01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,920 Speaker 1: mean my leg? And I don't. It's just harder to 1365 01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:41,960 Speaker 1: help that person make a change really quickly. Josh is 1366 01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:46,200 Speaker 1: incredibly athletic when it comes to mind body connection, so 1367 01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,840 Speaker 1: Josh can get a little bit more aggressive than some 1368 01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:52,360 Speaker 1: other guys can and in terms of what they want 1369 01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,920 Speaker 1: to work on and what they want to address, even 1370 01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:57,920 Speaker 1: in a short amount of time, because of he's all 1371 01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:02,320 Speaker 1: in and between Ken Dorsey and everything they do there, 1372 01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:05,240 Speaker 1: and then Josh and his working relationship on the right plan, 1373 01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:08,000 Speaker 1: and then he's incredibly athletic in terms of the mind 1374 01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:11,200 Speaker 1: body connection. So U this is a safe bet if 1375 01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:14,200 Speaker 1: you're the Pagoula family and Brandon being because this is 1376 01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:16,280 Speaker 1: a guy who's just gonna always try and figure out 1377 01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:19,000 Speaker 1: a thing to get better at, and he'll be able 1378 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:22,040 Speaker 1: to do that really quickly. And I intend on continuing 1379 01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,040 Speaker 1: to help him find those things in my time with 1380 01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:27,240 Speaker 1: him for as long as I ha me fascinating. Yeah, 1381 01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:30,200 Speaker 1: we've had the last one from me. We've everybody saw. 1382 01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:33,720 Speaker 1: I mean, you could be the most casual fan ever 1383 01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,720 Speaker 1: and see the vast improvement he made last year. The 1384 01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:39,360 Speaker 1: different kind of quarterback he was, didn't run that much, 1385 01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:42,200 Speaker 1: his arm did the work for him. He slid he 1386 01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:44,559 Speaker 1: bought some time and showed his athleticism, but they didn't 1387 01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:47,080 Speaker 1: call as many runs from him. They just let him 1388 01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:50,200 Speaker 1: make decisions and he did it. What if if Josh 1389 01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:53,360 Speaker 1: comes in and improves and shows the improvement you've worked 1390 01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:56,679 Speaker 1: on him with that you're hoping for, what tangibly will 1391 01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:59,040 Speaker 1: some cat will? Will there be enough improvement that a 1392 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:01,800 Speaker 1: casual fans like, Wow, he's even better this year. What 1393 01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:06,040 Speaker 1: will we see if that's the case. I don't know. 1394 01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:07,439 Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll be able to see it 1395 01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:09,160 Speaker 1: like that. You know, the Washington over the course of 1396 01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,160 Speaker 1: the season. If somebody jumps up four percent in completion percentage, 1397 01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,200 Speaker 1: that's a massive jump, but it wouldn't show yet. Right. 1398 01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:17,519 Speaker 1: It's like I see my kids every day. They look 1399 01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:19,320 Speaker 1: the same to me, but my parents haven't seen them 1400 01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:21,040 Speaker 1: in three weeks. They go, oh my gosh, they look 1401 01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:24,599 Speaker 1: so different, like they've grown so much since I've seen 1402 01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:26,640 Speaker 1: them last. So I don't know what the casual fan 1403 01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:28,200 Speaker 1: will be able to see. But what they're gonna see 1404 01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:30,479 Speaker 1: is a guy that I think all we've talked about 1405 01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:34,720 Speaker 1: so far is physical stuff. Today, I actually think the 1406 01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,920 Speaker 1: biggest jump is going to be for him is going 1407 01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:41,080 Speaker 1: to be and how he manages situations. That's the evolution 1408 01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:44,400 Speaker 1: of these young quarterbacks is go from figuring out ways 1409 01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:48,080 Speaker 1: to win games and then go towards making phenomenal decisions 1410 01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:50,320 Speaker 1: at all the key points in the games at the end. 1411 01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:53,680 Speaker 1: And Josh is so competitive that he wants to make 1412 01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,280 Speaker 1: a play every single time. The evolution of his game 1413 01:14:56,280 --> 01:15:01,679 Speaker 1: as he transitions from starter to MVP caliber franchise guy, 1414 01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,320 Speaker 1: and then as he transitions into champion, whether it's this 1415 01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:08,240 Speaker 1: year sometime in the next few years, as he transitions 1416 01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:12,200 Speaker 1: into champion, it'll be less about making physical adjustments to 1417 01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:15,559 Speaker 1: his game and it'll be more about going one hundred 1418 01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:20,080 Speaker 1: for one hundred, unhandling really complex, tough emotional situations the 1419 01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:22,800 Speaker 1: last three or four minutes of these big games. That'll 1420 01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:25,519 Speaker 1: be the evolution of him as a player. And I 1421 01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,719 Speaker 1: can't think of a better staff of guys between Ken Dorsey, 1422 01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,880 Speaker 1: Brian Dable, Coach McDermott to help the evolution of that. 1423 01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:34,840 Speaker 1: And I can talk to him about it from here, 1424 01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:36,400 Speaker 1: but it's those guys that are going to help him 1425 01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:39,000 Speaker 1: make that transition, and that'll be I think the difference 1426 01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:41,360 Speaker 1: to in this team winning how many Super Bowls they 1427 01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:43,559 Speaker 1: win here over the course of this contract will be 1428 01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:45,639 Speaker 1: Josh's evolution on that side of the game, and I'd 1429 01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:48,360 Speaker 1: place a heavy bet on it that he does that. Jordan, 1430 01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:50,360 Speaker 1: I'm glad the timing worked out as well as it 1431 01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:52,360 Speaker 1: did today for you to join us here on a 1432 01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:54,720 Speaker 1: early special day for Josh. I know you're happy for 1433 01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,800 Speaker 1: him having him as your client. Let me know if 1434 01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:01,080 Speaker 1: you need us to pass along your stay preference, whether 1435 01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:04,640 Speaker 1: it's Delmonico, Bonan Ribby, whatever it is, because at the 1436 01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:06,720 Speaker 1: very least Iosia stake dinner for some of the work 1437 01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:08,479 Speaker 1: he's done with him, it's been It's been great to 1438 01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:11,320 Speaker 1: see him evolved and become such a franchise guy for 1439 01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:14,719 Speaker 1: this team. Thanks Jordan. Yeah, I want to. I definitely 1440 01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:16,000 Speaker 1: want to make it out to a hung game this 1441 01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:17,680 Speaker 1: year and there's fans back in the stands. I need 1442 01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:21,240 Speaker 1: to go. I need to go visit Bills Mafia for sure. Yeah, 1443 01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,360 Speaker 1: that sounds good. We'd be happy to have you. Thanks 1444 01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:27,240 Speaker 1: Jordan for the time. As always, we appreciate it. Thanks guys, 1445 01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:30,960 Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer joining us on the heels of the announcement 1446 01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:34,720 Speaker 1: Josh Allen signing a six year contract extension with the 1447 01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:39,719 Speaker 1: Bills that runs through twenty twenty eight. So knowing that 1448 01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:42,640 Speaker 1: and we don't know the full terms and everything and 1449 01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:44,559 Speaker 1: how it all works. I'm sure Brandon Bean, if he's 1450 01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,400 Speaker 1: made available to the media, will shed some light on 1451 01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:49,760 Speaker 1: the contract. But we knew he had the last year 1452 01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:54,080 Speaker 1: steve of his rookie deal this year, along with the 1453 01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:57,240 Speaker 1: fifty yeer option next year that the Bills picked up 1454 01:16:57,320 --> 01:17:00,160 Speaker 1: in May. And now there's six years on top of that, 1455 01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:03,360 Speaker 1: so maybe the existing deal is still in effect and 1456 01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:05,880 Speaker 1: they just tacked on six more years. Will know more 1457 01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:08,840 Speaker 1: in the coming days, but certainly exciting news for the 1458 01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:12,759 Speaker 1: entire Bill's nation. Bill's Mafia is doing backflips on social 1459 01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,920 Speaker 1: media right now. Is yeah, somebody said this is from 1460 01:17:16,439 --> 01:17:19,559 Speaker 1: its it kicks in. He plays his fifth year rookie 1461 01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,360 Speaker 1: deal in his fifth year option year, which is a 1462 01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:24,400 Speaker 1: guaranteed twenty three million because of multiple problems, so it 1463 01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:26,439 Speaker 1: looks like year four and year five remain the same. 1464 01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:28,439 Speaker 1: They've just tacked six years on the back end of that. 1465 01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:31,679 Speaker 1: This totals eight years two hundred and eighty seven point 1466 01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,479 Speaker 1: nine for Josh if you count year four and year 1467 01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:37,200 Speaker 1: five into the six year extension right, So it's yeah, 1468 01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,760 Speaker 1: it's almost two hundred and ninety million, one hundred and 1469 01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,479 Speaker 1: fifty of it, a little over half guaranteed, and it 1470 01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:45,640 Speaker 1: goes through twenty twenty eight. Like the sound of that, 1471 01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:49,639 Speaker 1: don't you that's being reported here. Whatever it is in concrete, 1472 01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:53,360 Speaker 1: it's he's locked up. They got the contract done. Here 1473 01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:56,120 Speaker 1: we go. Good job Brandon, Bean and Jim Overdoorph and 1474 01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:57,840 Speaker 1: Kevin me Agang, the whole crew up there in the 1475 01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:00,120 Speaker 1: front office. You bet the boys in the locker room 1476 01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:02,360 Speaker 1: are giving it to him pretty good right now. Oh yeah, 1477 01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:04,719 Speaker 1: he's buying dinner for the whole roster. I think tonight 1478 01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:07,880 Speaker 1: or sometime this weekend. Knowing what I know by him, 1479 01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,360 Speaker 1: he probably ordered it before they found out. Probably didn't, 1480 01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,799 Speaker 1: you know, you're right good, So congrats to Josh. Congrats 1481 01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:15,360 Speaker 1: to the Bill's front office on a job well done. 1482 01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:18,000 Speaker 1: We will step aside here. When we come back. It's 1483 01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,559 Speaker 1: time for tasker's teammate. We put the screws to Steve 1484 01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:24,040 Speaker 1: to see if he can guess which teammate we are describing. 1485 01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,360 Speaker 1: Next here on One Bills Live, presented by Collide to Health, 1486 01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:39,920 Speaker 1: it's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live. 1487 01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,720 Speaker 1: It is that time in the show where we put 1488 01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:46,120 Speaker 1: the screws to Steve and challenge his memory. It is 1489 01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:50,840 Speaker 1: Tasker's teammate. Brought to you by Wegman's Meals to Go 1490 01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:55,120 Speaker 1: Delicious Meals Delivered download the Wegman's App. Today, we're short 1491 01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:56,960 Speaker 1: on time, Steve, so we gotta get rolling here. Are 1492 01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:02,560 Speaker 1: you ready? No Clue number one Born in Millbrook, Alabama. 1493 01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:06,920 Speaker 1: I played high school football only in my senior year. 1494 01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:12,920 Speaker 1: After graduating, I worked in a factory before enrolling at 1495 01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:16,200 Speaker 1: East Mississippi Junior College for my first two years of 1496 01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:28,760 Speaker 1: college ball factory, East Mississippi Junior College. Yeah, come on, 1497 01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:31,599 Speaker 1: he's JUCO guy, just like you. I know there's more 1498 01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:34,240 Speaker 1: than you think. I don't know. I can't get out 1499 01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:39,240 Speaker 1: of clue number two. After earning JUCO All American honors 1500 01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:42,120 Speaker 1: at East Mississippi, I played my final two years at 1501 01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:45,800 Speaker 1: this conference USA school, where I set school records for 1502 01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:51,040 Speaker 1: longest touchdown and most touchdowns in a game with six. 1503 01:19:57,080 --> 01:20:01,680 Speaker 1: Russell Copman it is not Russell Copeman. Al Edwards, it 1504 01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:06,080 Speaker 1: is not Al Edwards. Clue number three. I was a 1505 01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:10,160 Speaker 1: teammate of Steve's for just one season, but did play 1506 01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,240 Speaker 1: four years for the Bills before I was signed by 1507 01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:18,920 Speaker 1: a division rival in free agency. Once with one year 1508 01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:24,519 Speaker 1: with me, that means probably ninety seven or four years 1509 01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:34,599 Speaker 1: with the Bills, one year with you. Gosh, next clue, Yeah, 1510 01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:38,439 Speaker 1: alrightywa go clue number four. I would win the Super 1511 01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:41,760 Speaker 1: Bowl two times in the three years I spent with 1512 01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:45,400 Speaker 1: my second NFL club before playing for three different teams 1513 01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:49,560 Speaker 1: in my final three seasons in the From Mike Lodish, No, 1514 01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:55,960 Speaker 1: not Mikelodush, No, Denver, they are ruthless with that buzz Enver, 1515 01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:02,559 Speaker 1: it is Denverse guy to give no. Remember he was 1516 01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:06,040 Speaker 1: your teammate for one season, but he played four seasons 1517 01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:12,240 Speaker 1: for the Bills before leaving in free us and he 1518 01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:17,120 Speaker 1: won two Super Bowls with that second team, and then 1519 01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:19,479 Speaker 1: he played for three different teams in his final three 1520 01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:30,479 Speaker 1: years in the NFL. Would be like in three four? 1521 01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:33,439 Speaker 1: Who won? Oh? Hold on, I gotta tell you. Watching 1522 01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:37,200 Speaker 1: the wheels turn in Steve's brain, it's gotta be is 1523 01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:45,639 Speaker 1: a picnic. I'm gonna help you out. It's not a receiver, 1524 01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:47,960 Speaker 1: because I sense that you feel like, nah, I get you. 1525 01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:56,680 Speaker 1: It's man, who would I'm thinking it might have been 1526 01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:58,360 Speaker 1: as somebody who went to the Patriots, and I can't 1527 01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:01,200 Speaker 1: think that is that would be correct. And I can't 1528 01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:05,040 Speaker 1: think of who would be. Fred Smerliss, not fred Smerless. 1529 01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:11,080 Speaker 1: It's an offensive player, you know, he had those touchdowns. Oh, 1530 01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:18,799 Speaker 1: it's right, and not a receiver. Jay Riemersman, not Jerry Rumersmar. 1531 01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:21,960 Speaker 1: I'll give you another clue. All told, I had ten 1532 01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:25,200 Speaker 1: seasons in the NFL and rushed for more than sixty 1533 01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:33,519 Speaker 1: eight hundred yards and fifty four touchdowns. So the Twins 1534 01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:38,360 Speaker 1: man Antoine Smith is correct. Steve, well done, and we 1535 01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:42,400 Speaker 1: got Antoine on right now, Universe, the pride of the 1536 01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:46,080 Speaker 1: University of Houston. Antwine Smith on the line? Antwine? Are 1537 01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:49,160 Speaker 1: you doing, man? What I'm doing? All right? How you doing? 1538 01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:57,320 Speaker 1: East Mississippi Junior College got me, man, Yeah, I was. 1539 01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:04,479 Speaker 1: I was a Dodge City commit college guy myself. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 1540 01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:09,280 Speaker 1: We stumped him. Good Antoine. Um, I know that. I remember, 1541 01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:11,120 Speaker 1: like when they drafted you in the first round in 1542 01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:13,679 Speaker 1: ninety seven, there was a whole big story about how 1543 01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:17,640 Speaker 1: you went to work after high school. Um, you know 1544 01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:22,519 Speaker 1: you were kind of doing that to help the family, right, Yeah? Well, um, 1545 01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:26,320 Speaker 1: actually nice of high school acts to have to the 1546 01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:29,360 Speaker 1: universal of did a little time enough to take him? 1547 01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:33,679 Speaker 1: My mother and grandfather said, so they raised in effectory 1548 01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:37,280 Speaker 1: for three years. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and we and you. 1549 01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,040 Speaker 1: I was I was shocked to find out that we 1550 01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:43,920 Speaker 1: were only teammates for one year. But it was because 1551 01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:47,559 Speaker 1: I left, It wasn't because he left. Yeah, I retired. Yeah, 1552 01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:49,680 Speaker 1: and uh and you went and won the couple of 1553 01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:52,519 Speaker 1: world championships with the Patriots. And and what do you 1554 01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:56,280 Speaker 1: remember about going from Buffalo to the same division going 1555 01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,719 Speaker 1: to the Patriots? What was that transition like and compare 1556 01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:06,640 Speaker 1: your experiences of both places. That transition was um me 1557 01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:09,120 Speaker 1: having something to prove that I still complayed this game 1558 01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:12,080 Speaker 1: even though also leaves by Buffalo picked up by the 1559 01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,759 Speaker 1: league that I want to prove to Buffalo and basically 1560 01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:17,120 Speaker 1: the NFL that I still complayed this game of given 1561 01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:20,639 Speaker 1: the opportunity. So going to New England was a big 1562 01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:25,400 Speaker 1: shot below Chick and totally different from Mom and Waves, 1563 01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:29,559 Speaker 1: totally different type of coaches, RD nose and everything. So 1564 01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:32,760 Speaker 1: those the coaches my person went there, and I know 1565 01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:35,519 Speaker 1: there is I don't know if we have the footage. 1566 01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:38,760 Speaker 1: Maybe NFL Films does but you're like famously known for 1567 01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:41,160 Speaker 1: being the first guy running onto the field after Viny 1568 01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:45,720 Speaker 1: Terry hit the kick uh to beat the Rams? Uh? 1569 01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:48,360 Speaker 1: Were you like dead? Said, I'm getting out there. I'm 1570 01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:51,200 Speaker 1: I'm getting on the pile first. Like what do you 1571 01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:55,880 Speaker 1: remember that whole situation. Yeah, I'm behind the kick, so 1572 01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:58,960 Speaker 1: I'm as the bull is I see a chevel. I'm like, 1573 01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:00,800 Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm schooling on the field, trying to 1574 01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:02,639 Speaker 1: get MC good look to make sure that it goes 1575 01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,559 Speaker 1: through the upright. And when it goes through the upright, 1576 01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:06,960 Speaker 1: I just lost him. I just ran on the field 1577 01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:08,840 Speaker 1: high kicking from all I was like, man, I'm a 1578 01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:11,720 Speaker 1: world champion. Yeah. That and that had to be quite 1579 01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:14,280 Speaker 1: the moment for you. And you know, you went on. 1580 01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:16,080 Speaker 1: You played ten years in the league, You had a 1581 01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:19,080 Speaker 1: you had a really productive years, you know years in 1582 01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:21,479 Speaker 1: the league, ten years as a running back in the 1583 01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:25,799 Speaker 1: National Football League. What advice do you give young players 1584 01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:29,439 Speaker 1: for you know, having a career like that. That's hard 1585 01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:33,400 Speaker 1: to do with that position. Yeah, you know, I got 1586 01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:35,040 Speaker 1: a late start at that thing. You know, I was 1587 01:25:35,040 --> 01:25:37,760 Speaker 1: twenty five as a rookie and they played two years 1588 01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:40,000 Speaker 1: on the top of that. But it's all about this, 1589 01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:43,600 Speaker 1: you know. Me. I never had a mother had a 1590 01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:46,000 Speaker 1: major andrew, so I wasn't blessed. You know, to take 1591 01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:49,000 Speaker 1: care of your body and you know, breake hard and 1592 01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:51,560 Speaker 1: somebody gonna give you a chance. You can have to 1593 01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,559 Speaker 1: keep plugging and keep waiting. Just keep that positive driving, 1594 01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:57,439 Speaker 1: you know. The main thing, like I said, it's staying 1595 01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:01,920 Speaker 1: healthy and never really had a major injuries. Alright, and 1596 01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:03,800 Speaker 1: then Antoine, what are you doing to keep busy? Now? 1597 01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:08,280 Speaker 1: My man? What are you doing? Actually? Man? You know 1598 01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:11,320 Speaker 1: I got a food trailer that I were called Country 1599 01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:14,320 Speaker 1: Boys Cooking that me and my brother and a few 1600 01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:17,120 Speaker 1: of my cousins got together and um, you know I 1601 01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:20,000 Speaker 1: came up with so I worked at um five days 1602 01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:23,400 Speaker 1: out the week. All right, nice? Does that? I gotta 1603 01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:25,040 Speaker 1: tell you, I am a fan of barbecue. Does that 1604 01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:29,280 Speaker 1: involve burn ends in any way, shape or form? Yes, sir, 1605 01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:33,920 Speaker 1: all right, that's barbecue. Nice? When when's the next time 1606 01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:36,679 Speaker 1: making me hungry? Ever? Do you ever come back to Buffalo? 1607 01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:40,280 Speaker 1: When's the next time you're gonna be in town? I'm 1608 01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:41,680 Speaker 1: gonna try to get up till the game? Is you 1609 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:45,720 Speaker 1: all right? Oh? My way to Buffalo today? Oh there 1610 01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:48,759 Speaker 1: you go. All right, nice, all right, well, we're safe travels. 1611 01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:50,519 Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you up here because it's 1612 01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:54,280 Speaker 1: been a minute. And uh, I'm telling you, man, you 1613 01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:56,120 Speaker 1: you were playing for this team right when I kind 1614 01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:59,360 Speaker 1: of started covering this team. So I remember you well, Twine, 1615 01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:02,200 Speaker 1: And I mean I just remember him running over people, 1616 01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:08,160 Speaker 1: that's all I remember. Antoine's great, it's great to see. 1617 01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,360 Speaker 1: I'm glad you're coming back in town. Hopefully he crossed 1618 01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:13,600 Speaker 1: pass in person. Good good for you and to travel safe. Okay, 1619 01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:16,960 Speaker 1: all right, thank you guys. All right, man, that's Antoine Smith, 1620 01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:22,040 Speaker 1: the latest Tasker's teammate. Um. That guy first of all, 1621 01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:23,679 Speaker 1: as he said, he came in the league at age 1622 01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:25,559 Speaker 1: twenty five because after high school he worked two or 1623 01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:27,880 Speaker 1: three years in a factory before even going to college. 1624 01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:30,400 Speaker 1: He said, he passed up. He had a scholarship to 1625 01:27:30,439 --> 01:27:33,760 Speaker 1: Auburn and he didn't go because he had to help 1626 01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:37,400 Speaker 1: his grandmother and who raised him, you know, and support her. Yeah, 1627 01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:39,760 Speaker 1: and then went to junior college and then Houston and 1628 01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:42,800 Speaker 1: then turned it into an NFL career. But that guy 1629 01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,240 Speaker 1: was yoked up. He was like six three, two thirty two, 1630 01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:49,680 Speaker 1: and he could move. He was a very He was 1631 01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:52,439 Speaker 1: a fast player, wasn't that wasn't a jitterbug fast. He 1632 01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:55,000 Speaker 1: was around the end out run some people fast, and 1633 01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:58,000 Speaker 1: he was big. Oh my good, big big, and and 1634 01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:01,120 Speaker 1: uh that's you know that. He's right. If you're that 1635 01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:03,720 Speaker 1: big and that powerful and you avoid big injuries and 1636 01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:07,719 Speaker 1: you're that fast, you're a problem. You're a real problem. 1637 01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:11,600 Speaker 1: He put together a tremendous career in the NFL. And 1638 01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:13,040 Speaker 1: good for him. It's good to see. I'm glad to 1639 01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:15,040 Speaker 1: hear he's coming back to Buffalo this. Yeah, good for him. 1640 01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,760 Speaker 1: Yeah he'll be up here, so yeah, good to see him. 1641 01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:20,120 Speaker 1: And yeah, I think the only injury he ever really 1642 01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:22,960 Speaker 1: dealt with was turf toe on that old Bill's turf, 1643 01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:26,400 Speaker 1: and he had issues with that. But beyond that, he 1644 01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:31,479 Speaker 1: was remarkably healthy for a physical running back. Was good 1645 01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:34,200 Speaker 1: to see him and talk to him. So latest Taskers Team, 1646 01:28:34,200 --> 01:28:36,439 Speaker 1: Ain't that was fun? Brought to you by Wegman's Meals 1647 01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:38,240 Speaker 1: to Go Break Time for Steve and I back with 1648 01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:42,920 Speaker 1: more on the Josh Allen contract extension and more of 1649 01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:46,960 Speaker 1: your questions as the Friday ob L Fan mail bag 1650 01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,640 Speaker 1: is open. Back in a second here on one Bill's Live, 1651 01:28:49,680 --> 01:29:02,920 Speaker 1: presented by Kalid of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome 1652 01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:06,840 Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker who 1653 01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:14,360 Speaker 1: likes being him. So, the contract extension is done. If 1654 01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:17,519 Speaker 1: you are just joining us. It was made official just 1655 01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:22,040 Speaker 1: about an hour ago. Josh Allen signs a contract extension 1656 01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:27,760 Speaker 1: that runs through twenty twenty eight. People, it's a six 1657 01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,680 Speaker 1: year extension, and if you're doing math, you know that 1658 01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:34,120 Speaker 1: it's eight years. Knowing he's signed through twenty twenty eight. 1659 01:29:35,160 --> 01:29:37,800 Speaker 1: So and we are just assuming here because we have 1660 01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:41,040 Speaker 1: not seen any kind of contract language whatsoever. I'm assuming 1661 01:29:41,080 --> 01:29:43,880 Speaker 1: it'll trickle out in the next few days, but I 1662 01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,680 Speaker 1: think it's pretty safe to assume knowing it runs through 1663 01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:48,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, and it's been called a six year 1664 01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:54,080 Speaker 1: contract extension that year, four this year, and the fifty 1665 01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:56,840 Speaker 1: year option next year in which he was guaranteed twenty 1666 01:29:56,880 --> 01:30:01,840 Speaker 1: three million dollars are probably day as is for the 1667 01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:04,439 Speaker 1: most part. I'm sure the bonus money that goes into 1668 01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:08,759 Speaker 1: his pocket might be tacked on, but in the grand 1669 01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:12,880 Speaker 1: scheme of things, it's a six year extension tacked onto 1670 01:30:12,920 --> 01:30:16,639 Speaker 1: the back of the fifty year option for twenty twenty two, 1671 01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:20,000 Speaker 1: So it's in essence an eight year which is why 1672 01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:23,400 Speaker 1: it runs through twenty twenty eight. Chris Morton those he 1673 01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:26,519 Speaker 1: reported this first, and also he reported that Josh was 1674 01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:28,280 Speaker 1: a way. He got up between three and four am. 1675 01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,160 Speaker 1: They got him up at three between three and four 1676 01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:33,000 Speaker 1: am this morning. Josh did and found out that they 1677 01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:35,680 Speaker 1: were about to sign this contract, and it was just 1678 01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:37,960 Speaker 1: find a little language. So he goes out in practices 1679 01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:41,840 Speaker 1: today and then after practice sits down. How the hell 1680 01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:43,960 Speaker 1: did he sit on that the whole practice? He didn't 1681 01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:47,280 Speaker 1: tell a soul. You don't think he like whispered it 1682 01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:53,799 Speaker 1: to Digs or somebody. Wow, Well, you know the guy's 1683 01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:55,599 Speaker 1: good at keeping a secret if he pulled that off. 1684 01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:58,559 Speaker 1: So of course it's in the Yeah, there's a lot 1685 01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:02,360 Speaker 1: of there's a lot. There's nothing I have on social 1686 01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:05,200 Speaker 1: media on Twitter. There's nothing else in my entire timeline 1687 01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:12,160 Speaker 1: step stuff about Josh. Everybody. He's trending on Twitter right now. Yeah, yeah, 1688 01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:17,080 Speaker 1: he's trending other quarterback news around the league elsewhere. In 1689 01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,640 Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen draft class. Lamar Jackson has come off 1690 01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:22,639 Speaker 1: the COVID reserve list just activated by the Ravens now, 1691 01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:25,439 Speaker 1: so after missing two weeks of training camp, looks like 1692 01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,280 Speaker 1: he'll be back on the field as early as tomorrow. 1693 01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:33,360 Speaker 1: For them, the deal Steve averages out to about forty 1694 01:31:33,439 --> 01:31:36,800 Speaker 1: three million a year, which is right in the range 1695 01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:38,640 Speaker 1: where we thought it might be. I thought I'd be like, 1696 01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:40,720 Speaker 1: you know, somewhere around forty two a year, and there 1697 01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:43,400 Speaker 1: you are forty three. The guarantee is the big thing. 1698 01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:45,320 Speaker 1: We talked about that too. I said, you can structure 1699 01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:47,519 Speaker 1: it anyway you want, and they pushed it off two years. 1700 01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:50,280 Speaker 1: They're going to finish his rookie contract, so they really 1701 01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:52,640 Speaker 1: don't you know, he really doesn't see a bulk of 1702 01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:56,000 Speaker 1: this until for a couple of years. But it's the 1703 01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:58,760 Speaker 1: largest guaranteed amount of any player in NFL history, one 1704 01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:01,960 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars. It's bigger than Pat Mahomes 1705 01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:09,599 Speaker 1: guarantees on the deal he signed. M Yeah, that's significant. Yeah, 1706 01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:12,320 Speaker 1: that's that's nice. I'm that's nothing to sneeze. That's why. 1707 01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:14,920 Speaker 1: That's why a guy like Yeah, that's why Josh says, yeah, 1708 01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:16,200 Speaker 1: you can push it off for a couple of years. 1709 01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:18,439 Speaker 1: I'm getting it anyway. Yeah, just make sure I get 1710 01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:20,639 Speaker 1: a big chunk of it guaranteed, and he's getting more 1711 01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:25,040 Speaker 1: than half of this deal guarantee, so um good on 1712 01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:27,400 Speaker 1: the bills. You figured that the structure would be something 1713 01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:29,760 Speaker 1: that made sense for both sides, and certainly makes sense 1714 01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:32,320 Speaker 1: for the bills because they're not depending on what he 1715 01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:34,479 Speaker 1: gets to sign it, or if there is anything, or 1716 01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:37,080 Speaker 1: if there's a delayed bonus or whatever sooner or later, 1717 01:32:37,120 --> 01:32:39,599 Speaker 1: he's gonna get one hundred and fifty million. But how 1718 01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:43,000 Speaker 1: that structured will help the bills. The big deals, the 1719 01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:46,160 Speaker 1: TV deals don't kick in till twenty twenty three, which 1720 01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:48,720 Speaker 1: is when this deal, the extension, the first year of 1721 01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:53,000 Speaker 1: it comes into effect as well. So yeah, makes a 1722 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:55,559 Speaker 1: lot of sense. Let us know how you feel about it. 1723 01:32:55,600 --> 01:32:57,519 Speaker 1: Eight oh three oh five fifty, although I've got a 1724 01:32:57,520 --> 01:33:00,400 Speaker 1: pretty good guess one eight eight five fifty two fifty 1725 01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:01,960 Speaker 1: open line for you there if you want to jump 1726 01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:04,320 Speaker 1: on board. Let us know what the news of the 1727 01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:07,960 Speaker 1: Josh Allen contract extension has done for you as a 1728 01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:14,840 Speaker 1: Bill's fan eight oh three five fifty. I think in 1729 01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:19,160 Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, most people in Bill's Nation, 1730 01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:23,200 Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia around Western New York, just based on all 1731 01:33:23,360 --> 01:33:26,479 Speaker 1: of the comments coming from both Brandon Bean and Josh 1732 01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:30,320 Speaker 1: Allen and Sean McDermott was this is going to get done, 1733 01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:34,200 Speaker 1: you know, in due course. The only question was when 1734 01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:36,639 Speaker 1: there was never a question of if it would happen. 1735 01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:39,519 Speaker 1: It was going to happen. We just nobody knew the 1736 01:33:39,560 --> 01:33:41,960 Speaker 1: timeline as to when things were going to come together 1737 01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:44,240 Speaker 1: and both sides were going to find the common ground 1738 01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:48,160 Speaker 1: necessary to get it done. But here we are. And 1739 01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:50,479 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Steve, but I think this 1740 01:33:50,600 --> 01:33:53,640 Speaker 1: is I don't think Josh Allen would have made it 1741 01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:57,479 Speaker 1: any kind of burden that he would shoulder because I 1742 01:33:57,479 --> 01:33:59,280 Speaker 1: think he knew if he did, it would take away 1743 01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:00,920 Speaker 1: from his play on the field, and that's the last 1744 01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:02,840 Speaker 1: thing that he wants to do, knowing the competitor that 1745 01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:07,679 Speaker 1: he is. But the fact that it is done, everybody 1746 01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:10,800 Speaker 1: can just focus on football now, whether it's Brandon being 1747 01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,360 Speaker 1: in his personnel department focusing on how do I make 1748 01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:17,160 Speaker 1: this team better? Or Josh Allen on the field saying 1749 01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:20,000 Speaker 1: how do I execute at the highest level possible each 1750 01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:22,200 Speaker 1: and every time I step between the lines. Right, And 1751 01:34:22,240 --> 01:34:25,680 Speaker 1: that's that's where everybody wants him to be. That's you know, 1752 01:34:25,840 --> 01:34:28,040 Speaker 1: and you're right it was. It was when not if 1753 01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:32,200 Speaker 1: what it looked like was you know, laid out, kept 1754 01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:33,920 Speaker 1: us all curious. It's what I was going to look 1755 01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:36,439 Speaker 1: like when it would kick in. Um. I think it's 1756 01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:39,240 Speaker 1: really telling that the team's got him for eight years. 1757 01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:44,479 Speaker 1: But it's a big number, no question. UM, Josh doesn't 1758 01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:48,240 Speaker 1: have to don't he doesn't have to be embarrassed. He 1759 01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:50,040 Speaker 1: signed a bad deal for him. He got a higher 1760 01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:52,880 Speaker 1: guaranteed money, got higher guaranteed mainy than anybody in the 1761 01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:56,320 Speaker 1: history of the league. Good for him. Bill's mafia is 1762 01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:59,960 Speaker 1: going crazy over it, of course. Um. And that's one 1763 01:35:00,200 --> 01:35:02,160 Speaker 1: less thing we've got on our plate to deal with 1764 01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:07,920 Speaker 1: before the start of this season. And like clockwork, this 1765 01:35:07,960 --> 01:35:11,200 Speaker 1: club has removed barriers towards them and their ultimate prize, 1766 01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:14,240 Speaker 1: which is the Super Bowl. They get a deep talented roster. 1767 01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:16,439 Speaker 1: We just had Jordan Poor Uran I would encourage everybody 1768 01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:20,439 Speaker 1: go back Palmer, Jordan Palmer on just a last hour, 1769 01:35:20,680 --> 01:35:25,920 Speaker 1: last hour, and he when he first came on, he said, Man, 1770 01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:30,080 Speaker 1: this team, this is it. Man, this is a window 1771 01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:32,200 Speaker 1: that is this is a team that's in the conversation 1772 01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:34,519 Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl championship this year. You can say 1773 01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:36,200 Speaker 1: what you want, no question, they're in there with a 1774 01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:38,080 Speaker 1: couple of other teams, a handful of other teams if 1775 01:35:38,120 --> 01:35:40,000 Speaker 1: you want to go that high. But the Bills are 1776 01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:42,880 Speaker 1: in the thick of it, and getting this out of 1777 01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:44,960 Speaker 1: the way shows that their window is going to remain 1778 01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:48,479 Speaker 1: open at the quarterback spot for wins for a long 1779 01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:51,599 Speaker 1: time to come right. And I think the other most 1780 01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:55,880 Speaker 1: telling thing that Jordan Palmer shared with us was quarterbacks 1781 01:35:55,920 --> 01:35:58,479 Speaker 1: around the league have goals every year, you know, winning 1782 01:35:58,520 --> 01:36:01,080 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, meeting the Super Bowl MVP. And while 1783 01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:04,040 Speaker 1: that's all well and good, realistically they're only about a 1784 01:36:04,080 --> 01:36:07,439 Speaker 1: handful of guys who genuinely have a shot at that. 1785 01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:10,360 Speaker 1: Josh Allen's one of them. As he does, I don't 1786 01:36:10,360 --> 01:36:12,439 Speaker 1: think there's any question about that. I have to go 1787 01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:14,360 Speaker 1: along with that. We have to take a break here 1788 01:36:14,680 --> 01:36:17,919 Speaker 1: when we come back. Your reactions to the contract extension 1789 01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:21,479 Speaker 1: signed by Josh Allen. He is guaranteed to be your 1790 01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:25,560 Speaker 1: quarterback for the next eight seasons? Has Zak grab you 1791 01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:28,400 Speaker 1: let us know at eighth three five fifty one eight 1792 01:36:28,479 --> 01:36:31,879 Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty more of your questions 1793 01:36:31,880 --> 01:36:35,840 Speaker 1: as well answered from the obl fan Friday mail bag. 1794 01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:37,599 Speaker 1: We'll get to those when we return here on one 1795 01:36:37,640 --> 01:36:55,400 Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio 1796 01:36:56,200 --> 01:36:59,960 Speaker 1: at a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field, 1797 01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:02,080 Speaker 1: Honny Unique. He was kind of a dual role player 1798 01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:08,320 Speaker 1: for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in the 1799 01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:31,439 Speaker 1: stratoire of normalcy. Josh's gonna throw it looks looks fired 1800 01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:36,320 Speaker 1: into the end zone. Touchdown, touchdown? Are you Leava hitting me? 1801 01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:41,400 Speaker 1: Josh fires one cut my step on digs at the 1802 01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:49,479 Speaker 1: thirty five touchdown, Buffalo. That's too easy. Pressure gets away 1803 01:37:49,520 --> 01:37:52,400 Speaker 1: from it. Now he fired and it is a Buffalo touchdown. 1804 01:37:53,240 --> 01:37:55,519 Speaker 1: That was a play by Josh Ellen. He shrugged off 1805 01:37:55,560 --> 01:38:01,200 Speaker 1: the pressure he is in touchdown. Hello, what a well 1806 01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:11,000 Speaker 1: execute to play that one. Where's a little Josh Allen 1807 01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:15,559 Speaker 1: hype video for our MSG viewers and for our radio listeners. 1808 01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:17,240 Speaker 1: Will describe it as best as we can. A bunch 1809 01:38:17,280 --> 01:38:21,520 Speaker 1: of highlights followed by an image that says contract extension. 1810 01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,200 Speaker 1: It is done. Holy crap. It's a good day to 1811 01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:27,799 Speaker 1: be a Bills fan. Yeah, big day. We have felt 1812 01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:31,960 Speaker 1: that it might happen this preseason. I thought it might 1813 01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:34,479 Speaker 1: be another week or two before we got there. But 1814 01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:38,720 Speaker 1: here we are and Josh Allen signed through twenty twenty eight. 1815 01:38:39,439 --> 01:38:41,960 Speaker 1: It is a great day to be a Bills fans. 1816 01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:44,559 Speaker 1: It's one of those great days before because when you've 1817 01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:46,760 Speaker 1: had some success, as the Bills have playoffs three out 1818 01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:48,880 Speaker 1: of the last four years, made the conference championship game 1819 01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:55,600 Speaker 1: a year ago, there is still the expectancy of of 1820 01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:58,240 Speaker 1: better things on the future. As good as they have played, 1821 01:38:58,320 --> 01:39:00,519 Speaker 1: as good as they were a year ago, there's still 1822 01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:06,000 Speaker 1: that delicious feeling of, you know, better things on the horizon. 1823 01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:08,400 Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun to be here and to 1824 01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:12,120 Speaker 1: signing a guy that has had the success and and 1825 01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:16,080 Speaker 1: we've all been through with everything he's done as Josh Allen, 1826 01:39:16,120 --> 01:39:18,880 Speaker 1: and signing an extension, it's really really fun. Feels very 1827 01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:21,960 Speaker 1: good for Bill's fans today, no question. So let us 1828 01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:24,800 Speaker 1: know how the contract extension grabs you. Eight oh three 1829 01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:28,080 Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five 1830 01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:30,479 Speaker 1: fifty the number to get on board and tell us 1831 01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:33,880 Speaker 1: you're over the moon about this thing. So we uh, 1832 01:39:34,240 --> 01:39:37,799 Speaker 1: we press forward while we await your calls and comments. 1833 01:39:38,439 --> 01:39:41,960 Speaker 1: At eight fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty. 1834 01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:45,320 Speaker 1: The OBIHL fan Friday mail bag is also open, as 1835 01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:51,240 Speaker 1: it is every week on this show, and Nick chimes 1836 01:39:51,280 --> 01:39:53,640 Speaker 1: in with this one Steve. He says, some of the 1837 01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:56,680 Speaker 1: field goal kicks in the Steelers Cowboys game, we're atrocious 1838 01:39:56,760 --> 01:39:59,400 Speaker 1: last night. Why is it so hard for teams to 1839 01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:03,320 Speaker 1: find kicker who are consistent and reliable? With billions of 1840 01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:06,640 Speaker 1: people on earth, shouldn't we be able to find at 1841 01:40:06,720 --> 01:40:13,479 Speaker 1: least thirty two competent kickers we the goodes are playing soccer? Yeah, 1842 01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:17,280 Speaker 1: probably a good number of them. Yeah, there's actually a 1843 01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:19,439 Speaker 1: player in the English Premier League, Steve, by the name 1844 01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:21,880 Speaker 1: of Harry Kane, one of the best strikers in the world, 1845 01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:25,679 Speaker 1: plays for the English national team, also plays for Tottenham Hotspur, 1846 01:40:26,360 --> 01:40:29,200 Speaker 1: which is the team that I root for, And he 1847 01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:32,479 Speaker 1: has said he's a huge NFL fan, by the way, 1848 01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:34,840 Speaker 1: and said at some point he would like to try 1849 01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,960 Speaker 1: to be a kicker in the NFL, So be interesting 1850 01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:41,599 Speaker 1: to see that happen. We know a lot of soccer players, 1851 01:40:42,600 --> 01:40:45,200 Speaker 1: you know. The advent of the soccer style kicker came 1852 01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:48,000 Speaker 1: in actually here in Buffalo with Pete Gogolak. He was 1853 01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:51,160 Speaker 1: one of the first soccer style kickers in NFL history. 1854 01:40:51,160 --> 01:40:56,360 Speaker 1: And played for the Bills, so they've only been around 1855 01:40:56,400 --> 01:40:59,479 Speaker 1: for about fifty years in the NFL, and yet there 1856 01:40:59,479 --> 01:41:02,720 Speaker 1: are times where NFL fans scratched their head and say, 1857 01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:06,719 Speaker 1: why the heck can we not get a competent kicker 1858 01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:09,599 Speaker 1: for our football team? Now, I believe I didn't watch 1859 01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:11,320 Speaker 1: much of the game last night. I don't know if 1860 01:41:11,360 --> 01:41:14,880 Speaker 1: you did. There weren't There were some backup kickers that 1861 01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:18,240 Speaker 1: I understand were used in the game at points. You know, 1862 01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:22,880 Speaker 1: competition guys so to speak, that are pushing the incumbents. 1863 01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:25,240 Speaker 1: So maybe that's what you were witnessing a little bit 1864 01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:28,680 Speaker 1: on the Dallas game was so wide. Yeah, but I 1865 01:41:28,720 --> 01:41:32,320 Speaker 1: will say this, the success rate of kickers in this 1866 01:41:32,439 --> 01:41:37,519 Speaker 1: league over the last twenty years has jumped dramatically. I mean, 1867 01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:42,559 Speaker 1: Steve Christie is the highest scoring player in Bill's history 1868 01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:46,920 Speaker 1: and was a huge clutch kicker in this league, but 1869 01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:50,519 Speaker 1: I think his career percentage was somewhere between seventy five 1870 01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:53,280 Speaker 1: and seventy eight percent if I have it right, And 1871 01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:58,280 Speaker 1: most kickers for their career are in the eighties. Now. Yeah, yeah, 1872 01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:01,360 Speaker 1: the numbers keep edging up, just like they do for punters. Yes, 1873 01:42:01,520 --> 01:42:04,080 Speaker 1: I told you the Holy grail when I was playing 1874 01:42:04,120 --> 01:42:09,000 Speaker 1: back in the eighties nineties was forty yards net punting. 1875 01:42:09,280 --> 01:42:14,200 Speaker 1: Nobody'd ever done it. And then finally one guy, then 1876 01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:16,519 Speaker 1: a couple of guys. Now it's half the league. It's 1877 01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:19,160 Speaker 1: half the league. Yet, like there's sixteen kickers that average 1878 01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:22,000 Speaker 1: forty yards and that punting. Yeah, every year now it's done. 1879 01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:23,880 Speaker 1: That's and the same thing is happening with the with 1880 01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:28,759 Speaker 1: the kickers. Um, it's just it's that it's just inching inching, 1881 01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:32,160 Speaker 1: inching up and um. And also too, they're getting better 1882 01:42:32,200 --> 01:42:35,200 Speaker 1: from longer distances. Um, a couple of there's a couple 1883 01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:37,400 Speaker 1: of things that are that are Everything contributes to it 1884 01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:39,920 Speaker 1: because everybody's trying to get better. The holders are get 1885 01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:42,320 Speaker 1: a better, the snappers are getting better, the protection schemes 1886 01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:45,400 Speaker 1: are getting better, the techniques are getting better. They work 1887 01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:49,840 Speaker 1: on it, they have better coaching. Everything gets better. But 1888 01:42:49,960 --> 01:42:53,840 Speaker 1: also they're getting better from longer distances. So yeah, yeah, 1889 01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:56,160 Speaker 1: that's not gonna stop. Let's go to the phones at 1890 01:42:56,200 --> 01:42:58,559 Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty to see how you 1891 01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:01,840 Speaker 1: feel about the Josh Allen contract extension. Undoubtedly a lot 1892 01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:05,599 Speaker 1: of people are shooting off fireworks or throwing one back 1893 01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:09,479 Speaker 1: in some way, shape or celebratory form. So we go 1894 01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:11,800 Speaker 1: to the phones and leading us off there is Bob 1895 01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:13,439 Speaker 1: in Hamburg. Bob, what do you have for us? You're 1896 01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:20,080 Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Absolutely awesome, you know. I think 1897 01:43:20,080 --> 01:43:25,160 Speaker 1: it looks great for the Bills. But I guess the 1898 01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:28,519 Speaker 1: one question they have is, well, Lamar Jackson's up for 1899 01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:32,680 Speaker 1: his contract. How much more money is he going to 1900 01:43:32,800 --> 01:43:37,280 Speaker 1: get to Josh Shallen and is he worth it? Yeah, 1901 01:43:37,360 --> 01:43:39,840 Speaker 1: I think that's a valid question, Bob. I think that 1902 01:43:39,960 --> 01:43:43,439 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is somewhat of a unique case because I 1903 01:43:43,479 --> 01:43:47,080 Speaker 1: don't think it's any secret that their offense is a 1904 01:43:47,080 --> 01:43:51,439 Speaker 1: little bit more unique to fit Lamar and his skill 1905 01:43:51,479 --> 01:43:55,320 Speaker 1: set than most other offenses in the league, which you 1906 01:43:55,560 --> 01:44:00,360 Speaker 1: rest on the passing game far more than ball More's 1907 01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:03,559 Speaker 1: offense does. Now we've heard that Greg Roman, the offensive 1908 01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:07,320 Speaker 1: coordinated for the Ravens, does want to diversify the offense 1909 01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:12,519 Speaker 1: a little bit more, hopefully rely on more passing than running, 1910 01:44:12,600 --> 01:44:14,840 Speaker 1: although I think we would all agree that's what Lamar 1911 01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:19,479 Speaker 1: does best. But they added Rashad Bateman. They added Sammy 1912 01:44:19,520 --> 01:44:22,120 Speaker 1: Watkins in free agency, so one of their first round 1913 01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:24,799 Speaker 1: picks was a receiver. They picked up a name receiver 1914 01:44:24,880 --> 01:44:28,040 Speaker 1: in free agency to pair with Hollywood Brown, to pair 1915 01:44:28,120 --> 01:44:33,160 Speaker 1: with Andrews the tight end. So they're adding weapons in 1916 01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:36,040 Speaker 1: the hopes that they can be a more productive passing 1917 01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:37,600 Speaker 1: offense as well. A lot of that is going to 1918 01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:41,520 Speaker 1: hinge on Lamar, who has shown that it is difficult 1919 01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:45,559 Speaker 1: for him to throw outside the numbers deep down the field. 1920 01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:49,120 Speaker 1: So where does it go from here? I don't know, 1921 01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:52,759 Speaker 1: but I think that is a unique contract negotiation, Steve, 1922 01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:54,599 Speaker 1: one that I don't know if you can base on 1923 01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:56,880 Speaker 1: any other contract that came before him. Well, all we 1924 01:44:56,880 --> 01:44:59,160 Speaker 1: can do is compare the numbers when we see him, 1925 01:44:59,240 --> 01:45:02,679 Speaker 1: but we also, with our naked eye compare the players 1926 01:45:02,680 --> 01:45:05,639 Speaker 1: on the field. They're different. You would think the contracts 1927 01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:09,280 Speaker 1: would be a little different, except that, you know, Lamar's 1928 01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:11,280 Speaker 1: got an MVP under his belt arm he can kind 1929 01:45:11,280 --> 01:45:15,439 Speaker 1: of wave that around in front of Josh can wave 1930 01:45:15,479 --> 01:45:17,519 Speaker 1: around the fact that he beat Lamar in the playoffs 1931 01:45:17,720 --> 01:45:22,840 Speaker 1: in the division round. He's Josh has continued to get 1932 01:45:22,880 --> 01:45:26,679 Speaker 1: better and Lamar had that quote unquote regression last year 1933 01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:30,200 Speaker 1: where their offense wasn't what it was the year before. 1934 01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:33,479 Speaker 1: Their regular season wasn't as good as it was when 1935 01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:36,760 Speaker 1: he was an MVP. Lamar's and a Unicorn. There's no 1936 01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:40,920 Speaker 1: doubt about it. There's only one of him, and the 1937 01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:45,439 Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens have him. What that contract looks like is 1938 01:45:45,600 --> 01:45:48,120 Speaker 1: gonna be really interesting. Yeah, but I don't know if 1939 01:45:48,160 --> 01:45:51,280 Speaker 1: if I'm Lamar Jackson, I'm sitting there going, you can't 1940 01:45:51,280 --> 01:45:54,280 Speaker 1: give me less than that guy. He will say that 1941 01:45:54,320 --> 01:45:56,680 Speaker 1: because he's gonna wave the MVP trophy here, that's right, 1942 01:45:57,720 --> 01:46:00,720 Speaker 1: And I don't know how. I don't know how they 1943 01:46:01,200 --> 01:46:03,240 Speaker 1: how they work that. I mean, I think his career 1944 01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:06,040 Speaker 1: passer rating is actually higher than Josh's because it's such 1945 01:46:06,040 --> 01:46:08,360 Speaker 1: a fast start that his career got off to, not 1946 01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:10,720 Speaker 1: to mention the fact he throws a lot less than 1947 01:46:10,840 --> 01:46:14,080 Speaker 1: Josh does, so it's easier to keep a high career 1948 01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:17,800 Speaker 1: passer rating when you're only throwing twenty five to twenty 1949 01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:20,360 Speaker 1: eight times a game and Josh is throwing forty five 1950 01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:23,559 Speaker 1: times a game. I mean, it adds up. So I 1951 01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:26,559 Speaker 1: think there. I think that Baltimore has to be a 1952 01:46:26,600 --> 01:46:30,720 Speaker 1: little creative and unique in the way they structure his 1953 01:46:30,800 --> 01:46:34,360 Speaker 1: contract just because of the different player that he is 1954 01:46:34,439 --> 01:46:38,080 Speaker 1: in comparison to the other quarterbacks who follow the more 1955 01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:43,880 Speaker 1: conventional passing predominantly route. That's just not Lamar. So it 1956 01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:46,719 Speaker 1: might take longer for them to figure that out because 1957 01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:51,320 Speaker 1: of that very fact. So we'll have to see. Maybe 1958 01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:53,360 Speaker 1: we're all just glad Josh's has done right well. The 1959 01:46:53,439 --> 01:46:56,599 Speaker 1: number that goes with this one is forty three million 1960 01:46:56,640 --> 01:47:00,519 Speaker 1: a year, right, A average annual that's average annual income 1961 01:47:00,720 --> 01:47:03,200 Speaker 1: after if he reaches the very end of this contract, 1962 01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:06,640 Speaker 1: that's what he's gonna get. And that's the number that 1963 01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:11,320 Speaker 1: you kind of hold Lamar's contract up to in the 1964 01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:15,240 Speaker 1: same prism. Now you can't now Lamar, can, I mean, 1965 01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:17,559 Speaker 1: the Ravens can say, Lamar, you're not gonna get what 1966 01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:21,280 Speaker 1: Mahomes got at fifty million a year or forty five 1967 01:47:21,320 --> 01:47:28,040 Speaker 1: a year, and so you're gonna be somewhere below Pat 1968 01:47:28,040 --> 01:47:31,639 Speaker 1: Mahomes and above Josh Allen or at least the same 1969 01:47:31,680 --> 01:47:35,000 Speaker 1: as Josh Allen. You'd be hard pressed to sell me 1970 01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:39,280 Speaker 1: that Lamar deserves less than Josh. Yeah, and I think 1971 01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:43,320 Speaker 1: that MVP it's not nothing, even though it was two 1972 01:47:43,360 --> 01:47:47,600 Speaker 1: years ago. That's not an easy thing to win. The 1973 01:47:47,720 --> 01:47:49,760 Speaker 1: year he won it, the team went fourteen and two, 1974 01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,400 Speaker 1: and he was the quintessential reason why. I don't think 1975 01:47:52,400 --> 01:47:56,280 Speaker 1: anybody would debate that. What does he have? One playoff 1976 01:47:56,360 --> 01:48:02,559 Speaker 1: victory though two that's the one thing that probably works 1977 01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:08,479 Speaker 1: against him. Right, So how much? Probably not all that much. 1978 01:48:08,560 --> 01:48:10,880 Speaker 1: I mean, Baltimore has hitched their wagon to him. It's 1979 01:48:10,920 --> 01:48:13,320 Speaker 1: gonna get done, much like it did here in Buffalo 1980 01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:16,000 Speaker 1: with Josh. But they may have to get a little 1981 01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:19,320 Speaker 1: clever with how it's structured and that kind of stuff. 1982 01:48:19,520 --> 01:48:23,400 Speaker 1: Maybe building incentives with respect to the passing game. So 1983 01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:26,840 Speaker 1: if he is more proficient passing going forward here in 1984 01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:30,080 Speaker 1: his career, he'll get rewarded for that. For instance, if 1985 01:48:30,120 --> 01:48:33,599 Speaker 1: they gave him a contract exactly the same size as Josh, 1986 01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:36,000 Speaker 1: reportedly two hundred fifty eight million over six years, and 1987 01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:40,400 Speaker 1: it kicks in after the rookie contract, Okay, so it 1988 01:48:40,640 --> 01:48:42,880 Speaker 1: kicks in twenty twenty three. Instead of giving him one 1989 01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:45,320 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million, maybe they guarantee him two hundred 1990 01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:47,760 Speaker 1: million of it. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So 1991 01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:51,000 Speaker 1: that gives him the feather in his cap of being 1992 01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:53,240 Speaker 1: guaranteed more money than him even though it was a 1993 01:48:53,320 --> 01:48:56,920 Speaker 1: commensurate contract. All of that stuff goes into the mix, 1994 01:48:58,240 --> 01:48:59,680 Speaker 1: and you know, I don't want to see him so 1995 01:48:59,680 --> 01:49:02,640 Speaker 1: super official is that you know, my number's got to 1996 01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:05,000 Speaker 1: be better than your number kind of thing. But yeah, 1997 01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:07,360 Speaker 1: there is something to it, and that's what agents fight for, 1998 01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:12,640 Speaker 1: that's what negotiations are all about. He has more for 1999 01:49:12,680 --> 01:49:14,160 Speaker 1: a lot of people. He has more m O in 2000 01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:17,479 Speaker 1: the negotiations than Josh Allen did. So we'll see if 2001 01:49:17,520 --> 01:49:20,200 Speaker 1: he can leverage that into more money. I would imagine 2002 01:49:20,240 --> 01:49:23,479 Speaker 1: he might. I would imagine he might. Yeah, let's go 2003 01:49:23,520 --> 01:49:26,559 Speaker 1: back to the phones. We go to Kyle in Albany. Kyle, 2004 01:49:26,600 --> 01:49:28,000 Speaker 1: welcome to the show. What do you have for us? 2005 01:49:29,080 --> 01:49:34,280 Speaker 1: Happy Friday, guys, Happy Friday? Indeed? Yeah, So what does 2006 01:49:34,280 --> 01:49:36,080 Speaker 1: this mean for me? It means that my four year 2007 01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:38,479 Speaker 1: old son, my two year old son, my three week 2008 01:49:38,520 --> 01:49:41,360 Speaker 1: old son has something to look forward to doing the future, 2009 01:49:41,439 --> 01:49:46,639 Speaker 1: which is absolutely amazing. Wow, you've been busy, Kyle, I have, 2010 01:49:46,720 --> 01:49:50,519 Speaker 1: I have beautiful and prosper But the other thing too 2011 01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:52,600 Speaker 1: is I think Aaron Rodgers said this the other a 2012 01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:55,639 Speaker 1: couple of weeks. So it shows everybody, buffalos, we're here 2013 01:49:55,640 --> 01:49:58,000 Speaker 1: for business. Come on in, you want to play with Josh. 2014 01:49:58,080 --> 01:50:00,599 Speaker 1: He's gonna be here for a while, gonna be here 2015 01:50:00,640 --> 01:50:02,960 Speaker 1: for a while. But a quick question to you guys, 2016 01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:05,840 Speaker 1: do you think this contract means we might not run 2017 01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:08,720 Speaker 1: the ball as much on say, fourth and goal on 2018 01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:10,680 Speaker 1: the two yard line with Josh Allen. Do you think 2019 01:50:10,720 --> 01:50:12,240 Speaker 1: it means we're gonna lean on a running game of 2020 01:50:12,280 --> 01:50:14,760 Speaker 1: it more to try to, like you, shelter him from 2021 01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:16,800 Speaker 1: big hits. You know what do you guys think about that? 2022 01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:19,960 Speaker 1: I don't think it changes anything. I think they're gonna 2023 01:50:20,080 --> 01:50:22,400 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do exactly what they did last year. 2024 01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:24,960 Speaker 1: They're gonna be unpredictable. When there's an opening for him 2025 01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:28,120 Speaker 1: to be running the football, They'll do it when there's 2026 01:50:30,040 --> 01:50:33,720 Speaker 1: If they if they run the ball better, fine, I 2027 01:50:33,760 --> 01:50:36,599 Speaker 1: think they're probably gonna lean towards throwing it more rather 2028 01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,799 Speaker 1: than running it more, even if their running game becomes 2029 01:50:39,800 --> 01:50:43,840 Speaker 1: more dependable than it was a year ago. No, I 2030 01:50:43,840 --> 01:50:47,719 Speaker 1: don't think this changes anything about the way they attack 2031 01:50:47,760 --> 01:50:50,759 Speaker 1: a defense or play football on the field. Not nothing. 2032 01:50:51,160 --> 01:50:52,920 Speaker 1: I think it just frees him up. They know the 2033 01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:55,080 Speaker 1: guy's there and he's gonna be there for a while. 2034 01:50:57,200 --> 01:50:59,120 Speaker 1: Thanks very much for the call, Kyle. We appreciate it. 2035 01:50:59,160 --> 01:51:00,960 Speaker 1: Good luck with those y'all bucks you got in the house. 2036 01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,479 Speaker 1: You're gonna be busy man four two in three weeks. 2037 01:51:03,680 --> 01:51:08,040 Speaker 1: Who they're playing zone defense in that house? Good luck man. 2038 01:51:08,439 --> 01:51:11,599 Speaker 1: You know what it's like four year five we're boys 2039 01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:15,320 Speaker 1: all in a row. It's you're gonna be moving. Yeah, 2040 01:51:15,479 --> 01:51:20,519 Speaker 1: you are gonna be moving. Steve, something that I that 2041 01:51:20,560 --> 01:51:24,479 Speaker 1: we haven't discussed yet with respect to the contract. I 2042 01:51:24,520 --> 01:51:26,479 Speaker 1: think it was if it proves to be the case 2043 01:51:26,560 --> 01:51:31,679 Speaker 1: that his rookie contract remains intact for the most part 2044 01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:35,439 Speaker 1: last year, the rookie deal this year, fifty year option, 2045 01:51:35,479 --> 01:51:38,519 Speaker 1: next year, a twenty three million guaranteed, and then the 2046 01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:41,640 Speaker 1: majority of the big money in the extension kicks in 2047 01:51:41,640 --> 01:51:45,200 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. Good on the front office, Jim Overdoor, 2048 01:51:45,200 --> 01:51:48,840 Speaker 1: if Kevin Meegank and Brandon Bean for structuring it that way, 2049 01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:51,760 Speaker 1: because what happens in twenty twenty three, that's when the 2050 01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:54,360 Speaker 1: new media deals kick in and the cap is expected 2051 01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:59,320 Speaker 1: to take a giant jump. Perfect timing with where you 2052 01:51:59,400 --> 01:52:03,040 Speaker 1: have this engine kicking in, you had a still let's 2053 01:52:03,040 --> 01:52:05,280 Speaker 1: not forget you still have a restrictive cap this year 2054 01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:11,960 Speaker 1: and even the cap next year, as Brandon being said 2055 01:52:12,280 --> 01:52:15,879 Speaker 1: on w g R earlier this week, they're only expecting 2056 01:52:15,920 --> 01:52:18,120 Speaker 1: it to be around two hundred million. That's still a 2057 01:52:18,200 --> 01:52:21,640 Speaker 1: twenty million dollars shortfall from where it was anticipated to be. 2058 01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:27,040 Speaker 1: So to tack this extension onto the end of the 2059 01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:31,080 Speaker 1: rookie deal, including the fifth year option, when the media 2060 01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:35,120 Speaker 1: deal money is supposed to elevate the cap more in 2061 01:52:35,200 --> 01:52:38,200 Speaker 1: line with where it was projected to be. I think 2062 01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:42,920 Speaker 1: it makes it far easier. Not going to say it's easy, 2063 01:52:43,439 --> 01:52:47,240 Speaker 1: but it's less daunting for the Bills in their front 2064 01:52:47,280 --> 01:52:50,599 Speaker 1: office to get other people signed, whether it's free agents, 2065 01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:53,559 Speaker 1: their own guys that they want back on a second contract, 2066 01:52:53,600 --> 01:52:58,760 Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds, for example, getting Stefan Diggs deal maybe reworked. 2067 01:52:58,840 --> 01:53:01,439 Speaker 1: If he has another productive season like last year, you're 2068 01:53:01,479 --> 01:53:05,519 Speaker 1: gonna have to do it. So positioning the extension to 2069 01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:08,920 Speaker 1: kick in when the media deals are expected to elevate 2070 01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:13,880 Speaker 1: the salary cap limit, I think helps his team enormously. Yeah, 2071 01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:17,760 Speaker 1: and think about this, I mean they've only got you know, 2072 01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:23,479 Speaker 1: they don't have that many guys under contract in twenty 2073 01:53:23,520 --> 01:53:26,519 Speaker 1: twenty three, they got ninety three. Now in twenty twenty one, 2074 01:53:26,560 --> 01:53:29,240 Speaker 1: they'll have fifty four under contract. That their extend their 2075 01:53:29,280 --> 01:53:31,280 Speaker 1: contracts go into next year, whether they're on the team 2076 01:53:31,320 --> 01:53:33,960 Speaker 1: or not. They've got fifty four guys signed up to 2077 01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:38,160 Speaker 1: be on the team in twenty twenty two. Only thirty 2078 01:53:38,160 --> 01:53:40,439 Speaker 1: one guys are signed up for twenty twenty three. So 2079 01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:42,599 Speaker 1: the further out you get, even to twenty twenty three, 2080 01:53:42,640 --> 01:53:45,040 Speaker 1: you get few and three contracts that reached that far. Yeah, 2081 01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:48,360 Speaker 1: so they've got plenty of space out there to start 2082 01:53:48,439 --> 01:53:52,400 Speaker 1: manipulating it, even now, even with this Josh Allen extension, 2083 01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:59,000 Speaker 1: so they'll, you know, they have enough room to get 2084 01:53:59,040 --> 01:54:01,919 Speaker 1: under it and get it ready to accommodate a big 2085 01:54:02,080 --> 01:54:06,479 Speaker 1: number like Josh might get in this contract. So you know, 2086 01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:09,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, then when they got thirteen guys under 2087 01:54:09,960 --> 01:54:15,960 Speaker 1: contract in twenty twenty five, they've got three, So the 2088 01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:18,679 Speaker 1: numbers go down in the number of contracts they've already extended. 2089 01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:21,479 Speaker 1: So they'll probably continue to do what they have done. 2090 01:54:21,520 --> 01:54:26,160 Speaker 1: They'll sign guys like John Feliciano, guys like Daryl Williams, 2091 01:54:26,160 --> 01:54:28,639 Speaker 1: guys like even like Matt Milano and those guys. They'll 2092 01:54:28,680 --> 01:54:31,160 Speaker 1: they'll sign them to two year or three year deals 2093 01:54:31,200 --> 01:54:32,680 Speaker 1: and a lot of but a lot of guys they're 2094 01:54:32,680 --> 01:54:35,480 Speaker 1: signed a one year prove it Yeah, a lot of 2095 01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:38,480 Speaker 1: guys and if they play well and do it they're 2096 01:54:38,480 --> 01:54:40,080 Speaker 1: supposed to, then they get a two year or three 2097 01:54:40,120 --> 01:54:43,120 Speaker 1: year extension. But everybody else, you know, they're on a 2098 01:54:43,160 --> 01:54:45,800 Speaker 1: short term deal and they that gives them flexibility going 2099 01:54:45,800 --> 01:54:49,080 Speaker 1: forward to try to paint the picture more effectively in 2100 01:54:49,120 --> 01:54:53,360 Speaker 1: the locker room with news like this. What was your 2101 01:54:53,480 --> 01:55:03,840 Speaker 1: locker room like when in nineteen ninety Jim signs a 2102 01:55:03,920 --> 01:55:08,160 Speaker 1: seven year contract extension for like twenty something million dollars. Man, 2103 01:55:08,240 --> 01:55:11,200 Speaker 1: that happened thirty years ago. What was the locker room 2104 01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:13,400 Speaker 1: like when that news kind of came down? Um? I 2105 01:55:13,440 --> 01:55:15,640 Speaker 1: think it happened in the offseason though, or it didn't. Yeah, 2106 01:55:15,800 --> 01:55:18,120 Speaker 1: so nobody was in the locker room, right, that that 2107 01:55:18,240 --> 01:55:21,840 Speaker 1: changes everything? Yeah, you guys didn't have cell phones to 2108 01:55:21,880 --> 01:55:24,480 Speaker 1: text each other. Whoa you know? Right, you hear about 2109 01:55:24,800 --> 01:55:26,880 Speaker 1: last night and then you know, we get back. It 2110 01:55:26,920 --> 01:55:28,600 Speaker 1: would have been when you get back to training camp. 2111 01:55:28,600 --> 01:55:32,800 Speaker 1: It would have been different had it been yeah happened 2112 01:55:32,880 --> 01:55:35,440 Speaker 1: and you know, but just knowing that guy, that guy, 2113 01:55:35,560 --> 01:55:37,920 Speaker 1: but we was locked up, right, What does that do 2114 01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:40,480 Speaker 1: for the psyche of a team that was already good 2115 01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:44,160 Speaker 1: just like this team? Um? For me, I think it 2116 01:55:44,160 --> 01:55:46,520 Speaker 1: would have been for me. I don't know about anybody else, 2117 01:55:46,560 --> 01:55:49,680 Speaker 1: it would have been, like you know what, I'm I'm 2118 01:55:49,680 --> 01:55:52,120 Speaker 1: glad because that guy gives us a chance. Yeah, you know, 2119 01:55:52,160 --> 01:55:54,880 Speaker 1: we got a chance with him. Plus we just got 2120 01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:57,560 Speaker 1: off our first super Bowl, right or we're headed towards 2121 01:55:57,560 --> 01:56:00,760 Speaker 1: our first super Bowl? And I can't remember was it 2122 01:56:00,840 --> 01:56:03,880 Speaker 1: during Yeah it was, it was. It was eight March 2123 01:56:04,160 --> 01:56:07,280 Speaker 1: April nineteen ninety, right, So when Jim signed this, I 2124 01:56:07,320 --> 01:56:09,080 Speaker 1: think it was a six year contract. It was before 2125 01:56:09,080 --> 01:56:11,000 Speaker 1: they went we went to the first Super Bowl, Yeah, 2126 01:56:11,520 --> 01:56:13,920 Speaker 1: which was January at ninety one. Oh. I like the 2127 01:56:14,040 --> 01:56:18,760 Speaker 1: I like the foreshadowing there, Steve. I like the foreshadowing there. 2128 01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:23,400 Speaker 1: Six year extension. Excuse me? Did we just say that 2129 01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:28,120 Speaker 1: six year extension in nineteen ninety for Jim Kelly? What 2130 01:56:28,200 --> 01:56:33,200 Speaker 1: happened that year we went to Super Bowl? Yeah? Yeah, Yeah. 2131 01:56:33,240 --> 01:56:36,360 Speaker 1: Here we are at some thirty years later, and wow, 2132 01:56:36,440 --> 01:56:39,200 Speaker 1: when you look at that, it's a six year contract extension. 2133 01:56:41,600 --> 01:56:44,640 Speaker 1: I wonder what could happen now? Yeah, I'm not going there. 2134 01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:48,760 Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not either, But never Weekend Dream. It does 2135 01:56:48,880 --> 01:56:53,400 Speaker 1: give you the sense that that everybody knew it. That 2136 01:56:53,440 --> 01:56:56,280 Speaker 1: guy gives us a chance and he's gonna be here. 2137 01:56:56,280 --> 01:56:58,560 Speaker 1: So that's kind of cool. That's kind of cool, and 2138 01:56:58,600 --> 01:57:01,200 Speaker 1: it does. It isn't entice, There's no question about it. 2139 01:57:02,360 --> 01:57:04,800 Speaker 1: Because when you think about when the automatical thing will, 2140 01:57:04,800 --> 01:57:08,080 Speaker 1: where else would I play? You think you want that 2141 01:57:08,080 --> 01:57:10,440 Speaker 1: guy over this one? I don't think so. Yeah, you 2142 01:57:10,480 --> 01:57:12,720 Speaker 1: know what I mean, there's it's a short list, right, 2143 01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:18,800 Speaker 1: it's a short list, and yeah, it's it's a big deal. 2144 01:57:18,880 --> 01:57:23,320 Speaker 1: And as one of our callers astutely pointed out, knowing 2145 01:57:23,360 --> 01:57:25,920 Speaker 1: this guy is locked up here for the better part 2146 01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:30,600 Speaker 1: of the next eight seasons, free agent recruiting just got 2147 01:57:30,640 --> 01:57:34,120 Speaker 1: a whole lot easier too for the franchise, Right, yeah, 2148 01:57:34,160 --> 01:57:37,160 Speaker 1: I would say so. Well, Aaron Rodgers claimed that he's 2149 01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:39,080 Speaker 1: you know, he's the reason guy's signed in Green Bay. 2150 01:57:39,120 --> 01:57:40,960 Speaker 1: There's nothing, no other reason you want. It comes to 2151 01:57:40,960 --> 01:57:43,120 Speaker 1: play with him. You know, you want to play football 2152 01:57:43,160 --> 01:57:47,040 Speaker 1: with him. You think about the allure of Josh Allen, 2153 01:57:47,160 --> 01:57:51,480 Speaker 1: think about Kansas City and Pat Mahomes, it's the same thing. Yeah, 2154 01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:54,120 Speaker 1: you got that marquee guy that takes snaps every game. 2155 01:57:54,560 --> 01:57:57,760 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, you know what, there's an outside shot 2156 01:57:57,760 --> 01:57:59,640 Speaker 1: if I play this right, I can win a championship 2157 01:58:00,120 --> 01:58:04,160 Speaker 1: that guy and with that crew. So yes, there's absolutely 2158 01:58:04,160 --> 01:58:07,520 Speaker 1: that out there. Absolutely yeah, I don't think there's any question. 2159 01:58:07,800 --> 01:58:09,280 Speaker 1: Plus the fact that we've talked about it over the 2160 01:58:09,360 --> 01:58:11,560 Speaker 1: last couple of years, every guy that leaves here for 2161 01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:15,760 Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're hard pressed to say anything bad about 2162 01:58:15,760 --> 01:58:19,520 Speaker 1: this place, and they say nothing but glowing reports about 2163 01:58:19,520 --> 01:58:21,880 Speaker 1: how it is inside this building particular. Forget about the 2164 01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:24,920 Speaker 1: city at large, which has always been a pleasant surprise 2165 01:58:24,960 --> 01:58:29,600 Speaker 1: to whoever's moved here. Usually the building itself and the 2166 01:58:29,600 --> 01:58:32,720 Speaker 1: culture they built in the team has been is stellar. 2167 01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:36,800 Speaker 1: I think guys really thrive here. You got guys like 2168 01:58:36,920 --> 01:58:39,160 Speaker 1: not even reaching free eight, wanting to reach free agency. 2169 01:58:39,160 --> 01:58:40,600 Speaker 1: They're just they forget it. I don't want to go 2170 01:58:40,600 --> 01:58:44,120 Speaker 1: anywhere else. I want to stay here. That's big, really big. 2171 01:58:46,800 --> 01:58:50,840 Speaker 1: It's huge. I think it's huge. I agree, So it is. 2172 01:58:51,080 --> 01:58:55,400 Speaker 1: This helps with Josh. Yeah, it is done. The contract 2173 01:58:55,440 --> 01:59:00,200 Speaker 1: extension has happened for Josh Allen signing through twenty twenty eight. 2174 01:59:01,800 --> 01:59:05,200 Speaker 1: I don't even think I've said that here yet. You know, 2175 01:59:05,280 --> 01:59:07,760 Speaker 1: when you think about years off in the future, you 2176 01:59:07,840 --> 01:59:09,880 Speaker 1: might think, oh, yeah, you know, next year in twenty 2177 01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:11,720 Speaker 1: twenty two, I'll do this. You know A B and 2178 01:59:11,840 --> 01:59:13,760 Speaker 1: C or you know we got this. We're hoping to 2179 01:59:13,800 --> 01:59:16,920 Speaker 1: take this trip in twenty twenty two. Nobody's saying twenty 2180 01:59:16,960 --> 01:59:19,920 Speaker 1: twenty eight right now. Think about that for a second. 2181 01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:25,400 Speaker 1: That's eight years away. Don't say that, Steve, God, you 2182 01:59:25,440 --> 01:59:29,240 Speaker 1: are so self deprecating. I mean, sometimes it's funny, but 2183 01:59:29,440 --> 01:59:33,320 Speaker 1: I'm pushing. I'm pushing seventy in eight years. Maybe I'm 2184 01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:35,480 Speaker 1: pushing seven. Maybe a little ear. You're closing in on 2185 01:59:35,640 --> 01:59:39,120 Speaker 1: I'm closing in, closing in. I give it. We are 2186 01:59:39,120 --> 01:59:41,320 Speaker 1: going to take a break here. We'll talk more about 2187 01:59:41,320 --> 01:59:44,520 Speaker 1: the Josh Allen contract extension when we return, and also 2188 01:59:44,520 --> 01:59:47,920 Speaker 1: answer a few more questions in that obl fan Friday 2189 01:59:48,080 --> 01:59:50,960 Speaker 1: mail bag from you. Stay tuned. More of that to 2190 01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:53,240 Speaker 1: come here on One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, 2191 01:59:53,320 --> 02:00:08,240 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bills Live. Chris Brown, 2192 02:00:08,320 --> 02:00:10,640 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you final half hour the show on 2193 02:00:10,680 --> 02:00:15,040 Speaker 1: a very happy Friday for Bills fans, as Josh Allen 2194 02:00:15,200 --> 02:00:18,080 Speaker 1: has been locked up with a six year contract extension 2195 02:00:18,120 --> 02:00:22,480 Speaker 1: that has him under contract through the twenty twenty eighth season. 2196 02:00:22,640 --> 02:00:29,800 Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler was tweeting earlier from ESPN and said, what 2197 02:00:29,960 --> 02:00:33,960 Speaker 1: helped Bills facilitate the Josh Allen deal. The team knew 2198 02:00:34,000 --> 02:00:36,320 Speaker 1: for a while that Allen was willing to go longer 2199 02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:39,320 Speaker 1: on the number of years, not Mahomes level long, but 2200 02:00:39,440 --> 02:00:41,960 Speaker 1: enough to keep the team or enough to help the 2201 02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:45,560 Speaker 1: team continue to build around him with cap maneuvering. And 2202 02:00:45,800 --> 02:00:48,440 Speaker 1: that's what I was getting at with the six year extension. 2203 02:00:48,640 --> 02:00:51,720 Speaker 1: We know he's under contract for eight more years. They 2204 02:00:51,800 --> 02:00:56,160 Speaker 1: tacked six years on, presumably to the end of his 2205 02:00:56,240 --> 02:00:58,920 Speaker 1: rookie deal, which basically is the fourth year of his 2206 02:00:59,000 --> 02:01:01,840 Speaker 1: rookie deal this year, the fifth year option next year 2207 02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:05,720 Speaker 1: guarantee twenty three million dollars, and then a six year 2208 02:01:05,760 --> 02:01:08,640 Speaker 1: extension tacked onto the back of that, which carries through 2209 02:01:08,680 --> 02:01:13,920 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eighth season. And that's important because the 2210 02:01:14,040 --> 02:01:17,800 Speaker 1: giant money probably doesn't kick in until the new media 2211 02:01:17,880 --> 02:01:22,400 Speaker 1: deals between the league and the broadcast networks elevate the 2212 02:01:22,440 --> 02:01:25,480 Speaker 1: salary cap in twenty twenty three. That's been the projection 2213 02:01:25,520 --> 02:01:27,760 Speaker 1: all along. Yeah, how much it goes up remains to 2214 02:01:27,760 --> 02:01:29,720 Speaker 1: be seen, because they do put a limit on how 2215 02:01:29,800 --> 02:01:32,040 Speaker 1: much it will go up, because if you're going to 2216 02:01:32,120 --> 02:01:35,360 Speaker 1: let it go up in these years, you also run 2217 02:01:35,400 --> 02:01:37,000 Speaker 1: the risk of like they did last year, of letting 2218 02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:39,320 Speaker 1: it go down. They put a floor on a last year, 2219 02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:43,440 Speaker 1: and the league took it on the chin hard and 2220 02:01:43,520 --> 02:01:48,240 Speaker 1: their bottom line, and they're gonna get that back, guy, 2221 02:01:48,320 --> 02:01:51,680 Speaker 1: So it'll go up slower. To keep it from going 2222 02:01:51,720 --> 02:01:57,360 Speaker 1: down and bottoming out. The league put a floor on it, 2223 02:01:57,800 --> 02:02:00,360 Speaker 1: footed the bill for the difference, and then I'll get 2224 02:02:00,360 --> 02:02:02,160 Speaker 1: it back as soon as they can. When they went 2225 02:02:02,280 --> 02:02:04,320 Speaker 1: out of the Caps headed back up. It won't go up, 2226 02:02:04,560 --> 02:02:06,920 Speaker 1: it won't skyrocket like we think it might in twenty 2227 02:02:06,960 --> 02:02:08,640 Speaker 1: twenty three, but it will go up. There's no question 2228 02:02:08,640 --> 02:02:11,960 Speaker 1: about Yeah, no question about it. I think I was 2229 02:02:12,040 --> 02:02:14,720 Speaker 1: laughing because we come back from the weekend started like 2230 02:02:14,760 --> 02:02:17,400 Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes ago. After it came out the the 2231 02:02:17,400 --> 02:02:20,240 Speaker 1: announcement came out at like two o'clock. It came out 2232 02:02:20,280 --> 02:02:23,000 Speaker 1: of one o'clock. Yes, right, it came out at one o'clock. 2233 02:02:23,360 --> 02:02:27,600 Speaker 1: And yeah, the weekend just kicked right off right about there. 2234 02:02:27,600 --> 02:02:30,800 Speaker 1: For Bill's Mafia. Everywhere, it's um it's a party on 2235 02:02:30,880 --> 02:02:35,160 Speaker 1: social media, right, it really is. It's it's huge. It's 2236 02:02:35,160 --> 02:02:40,240 Speaker 1: a huge. It's a significant day because it had to come. 2237 02:02:40,440 --> 02:02:43,680 Speaker 1: You knew it was gonna come. That's a contract and 2238 02:02:43,760 --> 02:02:48,320 Speaker 1: a player and a situation that every franchise in the 2239 02:02:48,440 --> 02:02:51,720 Speaker 1: league would love that. You gotta have that guy signed up. 2240 02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:54,480 Speaker 1: All the teams that are elite and headed towards the 2241 02:02:54,520 --> 02:02:57,280 Speaker 1: playoffs and have Super Bowl aspirations have a guy like that. 2242 02:02:57,520 --> 02:03:00,840 Speaker 1: And they got him tied up, and the Bills did it. Today. 2243 02:03:02,720 --> 02:03:04,960 Speaker 1: Josh Allen got an extension. They're tacking it on. It's 2244 02:03:05,000 --> 02:03:09,160 Speaker 1: an eight year total years and I'm I'll say, right now, 2245 02:03:09,240 --> 02:03:11,200 Speaker 1: forty three million at the end of this contract. It's 2246 02:03:11,200 --> 02:03:14,240 Speaker 1: going to be Wow. Really, that's pretty good. Yeah. One 2247 02:03:14,280 --> 02:03:20,560 Speaker 1: of my favorite Twitter handles is Bill's Mafia of Kazakh Sun. 2248 02:03:21,320 --> 02:03:25,960 Speaker 1: They basically write everything in Russian, but I will translate 2249 02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:30,200 Speaker 1: for you. Their latest tweet in the Russian language, The 2250 02:03:30,360 --> 02:03:33,760 Speaker 1: Mighty Josh Allen is a grizzly Bear and is currently 2251 02:03:33,800 --> 02:03:36,640 Speaker 1: the richest man in the world. He can afford a 2252 02:03:36,680 --> 02:03:40,400 Speaker 1: new TV, any car he wants to drive, and he 2253 02:03:40,440 --> 02:03:48,280 Speaker 1: can upgrade all the windows in his house to glass. Ah. 2254 02:03:48,280 --> 02:03:52,120 Speaker 1: That is so entertaining. Yeah, I love Bill. It's funny 2255 02:03:52,160 --> 02:03:54,560 Speaker 1: too because this is It's also a day when Bill's 2256 02:03:54,560 --> 02:03:56,520 Speaker 1: mafia revel in the fact that they can rub the 2257 02:03:56,560 --> 02:03:59,480 Speaker 1: noses of all the doubters and the rub it right 2258 02:03:59,520 --> 02:04:01,960 Speaker 1: in their faces once again, as they did all of 2259 02:04:02,040 --> 02:04:04,160 Speaker 1: last year. You got in deep into the playoffs and 2260 02:04:04,880 --> 02:04:08,240 Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia were going back and digging up old takes 2261 02:04:08,280 --> 02:04:11,320 Speaker 1: about how bad a draft pick Josh Allen was. And 2262 02:04:11,360 --> 02:04:14,400 Speaker 1: you know, the punchline to the jokes was Josh Allen 2263 02:04:14,440 --> 02:04:16,800 Speaker 1: and he was terrible. He was always going to be terrible, 2264 02:04:16,800 --> 02:04:20,280 Speaker 1: and you were crazy to think anything else. Man, oh man. 2265 02:04:20,360 --> 02:04:25,400 Speaker 1: The mafia was absolutely relentless in their pursuit of all 2266 02:04:25,440 --> 02:04:30,120 Speaker 1: those old criticisms of Josh's game. And man, they beat 2267 02:04:30,160 --> 02:04:34,160 Speaker 1: people to death with their own words. Right again. Isn't 2268 02:04:34,160 --> 02:04:37,040 Speaker 1: it nice for a Bills fan if they happened to 2269 02:04:37,080 --> 02:04:41,000 Speaker 1: be somewhat interactive or I don't want to say friendly 2270 02:04:41,040 --> 02:04:44,040 Speaker 1: that might be too strong, somewhat interactive with a Patriots 2271 02:04:44,040 --> 02:04:47,280 Speaker 1: fan just to be able in passing or maybe on 2272 02:04:47,640 --> 02:04:50,000 Speaker 1: text to be like, have fun with our guy for 2273 02:04:50,040 --> 02:04:54,120 Speaker 1: the next eight years. Yeah. I actually saw a tweet today, Steve, 2274 02:04:54,160 --> 02:04:57,200 Speaker 1: You know how he was talking now about how the 2275 02:04:57,280 --> 02:05:01,360 Speaker 1: Bills versus the Dolphins is now the Who's your Daddy? Game? 2276 02:05:01,640 --> 02:05:04,839 Speaker 1: Ye for the Bills, because Josh Allen basically owns the Dolphins. 2277 02:05:05,160 --> 02:05:09,839 Speaker 1: There was a tweet with an image of a person 2278 02:05:11,320 --> 02:05:15,120 Speaker 1: feeding a baby bottle to a dolphin, and they put 2279 02:05:15,200 --> 02:05:21,880 Speaker 1: Josh Allen's face one who's your daddy? Oh my god? 2280 02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:25,160 Speaker 1: It was great. Ah. I was just soaking it up 2281 02:05:25,200 --> 02:05:28,440 Speaker 1: like a sponge. It had of all that We've been 2282 02:05:28,480 --> 02:05:31,600 Speaker 1: waiting for this, right how long I did the statue 2283 02:05:31,640 --> 02:05:33,520 Speaker 1: that I was looking soak it up. The top five 2284 02:05:33,600 --> 02:05:36,240 Speaker 1: defenses in the league, the Bills played them over the 2285 02:05:36,280 --> 02:05:39,640 Speaker 1: course of seven games last year. The New England Patriots 2286 02:05:39,640 --> 02:05:43,560 Speaker 1: were top five defense, the Miami Dolphins were top five defense, 2287 02:05:45,160 --> 02:05:49,120 Speaker 1: The Rams were top five defense. Baltimore was a top 2288 02:05:49,120 --> 02:05:54,640 Speaker 1: five defense. In Indianapolis was a top five defense. Not 2289 02:05:54,680 --> 02:05:57,720 Speaker 1: the Chiefs. What did I say, the Chiefs? No, let 2290 02:05:57,720 --> 02:05:59,600 Speaker 1: me see, I'll tell you who you did. You were 2291 02:05:59,640 --> 02:06:02,040 Speaker 1: a crunch numbers yesterday. You were hard at were top 2292 02:06:02,080 --> 02:06:06,960 Speaker 1: five defenses. Points allowed defense was La, Rams, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Miami, 2293 02:06:07,000 --> 02:06:09,160 Speaker 1: New England. Buffalo played all five of those teams last 2294 02:06:09,240 --> 02:06:11,240 Speaker 1: years over the course of seven games, a couple of 2295 02:06:11,280 --> 02:06:14,200 Speaker 1: them twice, Miami in New England twice, of course, and 2296 02:06:14,240 --> 02:06:15,760 Speaker 1: the only reason I bring that up was because the 2297 02:06:15,840 --> 02:06:20,240 Speaker 1: Bills were seven and oh in those games, not bad Josh. 2298 02:06:20,360 --> 02:06:24,400 Speaker 1: Josh was one hundred fifty one to two twenty seven 2299 02:06:24,440 --> 02:06:28,480 Speaker 1: for sixty six percent, eighteen tds, three interceptions, and I 2300 02:06:28,520 --> 02:06:30,400 Speaker 1: was I was just thinking, okay through he only threw 2301 02:06:30,440 --> 02:06:32,960 Speaker 1: for two hundred and six yards against Baltimore in the playoffs. 2302 02:06:33,920 --> 02:06:36,879 Speaker 1: He threw for two thirty eight against Pittsburgh. Pretty good defenses, 2303 02:06:36,920 --> 02:06:40,560 Speaker 1: he guess. He threw for six hundred and thirty nine 2304 02:06:40,680 --> 02:06:45,360 Speaker 1: yards against Miami in two games and he only played 2305 02:06:45,400 --> 02:06:49,000 Speaker 1: six quarters. He didn't even play eight quarters. Steve. He 2306 02:06:49,240 --> 02:06:55,200 Speaker 1: absolutely beat them like a drum, like a mule. Yeah. Well, 2307 02:06:55,200 --> 02:06:57,840 Speaker 1: oh that's why I've that's why I've dubbed it the 2308 02:06:57,880 --> 02:07:00,600 Speaker 1: Who's Your Daddy Game? I mean through really seven touchdowns 2309 02:07:00,600 --> 02:07:03,920 Speaker 1: in one interception against the Miami Dolphins last year in 2310 02:07:03,960 --> 02:07:10,040 Speaker 1: those games, and there's just they've got to be thinking 2311 02:07:10,480 --> 02:07:13,000 Speaker 1: that ain't gonna be good. Yeah, two games he had 2312 02:07:13,040 --> 02:07:18,840 Speaker 1: seven touchdowns in a pick. It's delicious. It all tastes 2313 02:07:18,880 --> 02:07:21,840 Speaker 1: good today. Oh my gosh. It's just like I say, 2314 02:07:21,960 --> 02:07:24,520 Speaker 1: just push it into your face like chocolate pudding. It 2315 02:07:24,520 --> 02:07:27,200 Speaker 1: just rub your face all in and just numb numb. 2316 02:07:29,120 --> 02:07:31,480 Speaker 1: Let's in the interest of service get a couple more 2317 02:07:31,560 --> 02:07:34,800 Speaker 1: questions answered out of the obl fan Friday mailbag, and 2318 02:07:34,960 --> 02:07:37,240 Speaker 1: Rachel asks, do you think the Bills will play their 2319 02:07:37,240 --> 02:07:40,280 Speaker 1: starters the longest in the third preseason game like usual 2320 02:07:40,800 --> 02:07:42,920 Speaker 1: or will that be moved up to the second game 2321 02:07:43,240 --> 02:07:46,840 Speaker 1: since there's only three preseason games this year. That's a 2322 02:07:46,840 --> 02:07:50,240 Speaker 1: good question, Rachel, Yeah, I believe this. I think it 2323 02:07:50,280 --> 02:07:53,600 Speaker 1: will hold to form because of the length of time 2324 02:07:53,800 --> 02:07:59,160 Speaker 1: between the third preseason game and Week one, there is 2325 02:07:59,200 --> 02:08:01,640 Speaker 1: an extended period of time. It used to be about 2326 02:08:01,680 --> 02:08:07,200 Speaker 1: ten days. Now it's like now it's like two weeks. Yeah, 2327 02:08:07,600 --> 02:08:11,240 Speaker 1: I think I'm not saying every NFL team will do 2328 02:08:11,280 --> 02:08:14,440 Speaker 1: it that way. I'm sure some may choose to say, yes, 2329 02:08:14,560 --> 02:08:19,080 Speaker 1: let's continue to save the last preseason game for, you know, 2330 02:08:19,120 --> 02:08:21,600 Speaker 1: the guys fighting for roster spots to get the most 2331 02:08:21,920 --> 02:08:26,320 Speaker 1: extensive action. I could see some teams taking that approach 2332 02:08:26,320 --> 02:08:28,520 Speaker 1: and saying, let's use the second preseason game for the 2333 02:08:28,520 --> 02:08:31,680 Speaker 1: big dress rehearsal. The problem with that, though, is now 2334 02:08:31,720 --> 02:08:34,600 Speaker 1: you're three weeks removed from the regular season, and I 2335 02:08:34,600 --> 02:08:36,880 Speaker 1: think there will be some coaches who fear that's too 2336 02:08:36,920 --> 02:08:40,600 Speaker 1: long a layoff from something that's as close as possible 2337 02:08:40,640 --> 02:08:43,920 Speaker 1: to regular season level football and speed and all of 2338 02:08:43,920 --> 02:08:46,120 Speaker 1: that stuff. We take three weeks off, that's too long. 2339 02:08:46,880 --> 02:08:49,400 Speaker 1: So I think the vast majority of NFL teams and 2340 02:08:49,560 --> 02:08:53,000 Speaker 1: coaches will choose to have the final dress rehearsal still 2341 02:08:53,400 --> 02:08:56,480 Speaker 1: in the third preseason game, because you're still two weeks 2342 02:08:56,480 --> 02:08:59,000 Speaker 1: removed from regular season football, right. You don't want to 2343 02:08:59,040 --> 02:09:01,200 Speaker 1: go much further than that, right. And the reason they 2344 02:09:01,280 --> 02:09:04,560 Speaker 1: say two weeks is because two weeks as an eternity 2345 02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:06,400 Speaker 1: once you get into the grind of the regular season 2346 02:09:06,400 --> 02:09:08,280 Speaker 1: and you get into training camp and all that, two 2347 02:09:08,320 --> 02:09:12,000 Speaker 1: weeks is forever, and it seems like there's plenty of 2348 02:09:12,080 --> 02:09:14,000 Speaker 1: time for a guy to get if he tweaks an ankle, 2349 02:09:14,560 --> 02:09:17,640 Speaker 1: if he you know, pops a hammy, you know, or 2350 02:09:17,840 --> 02:09:20,440 Speaker 1: pulls a calf muscle, two weeks is enough time to 2351 02:09:20,440 --> 02:09:22,320 Speaker 1: get him back on the field ready for week one. 2352 02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:28,800 Speaker 1: And then you start, I think, and for me, I 2353 02:09:28,880 --> 02:09:32,480 Speaker 1: don't know, I can be I could be talked into 2354 02:09:32,640 --> 02:09:35,600 Speaker 1: letting Josh Allen play the entire game, or more most 2355 02:09:35,600 --> 02:09:37,920 Speaker 1: of the game, you know, through halftime in the third 2356 02:09:38,040 --> 02:09:42,040 Speaker 1: quarter in Chicago for the second preseason game, go Detroit, Chicago, 2357 02:09:42,040 --> 02:09:45,440 Speaker 1: then home against Green Bay. I could That's fine with me. 2358 02:09:45,440 --> 02:09:47,480 Speaker 1: If you're gonna let him play, let him play in Chicago, 2359 02:09:47,520 --> 02:09:50,320 Speaker 1: then you know, play him for his series in against 2360 02:09:50,400 --> 02:09:54,720 Speaker 1: Green Bay at home, but then sit him down. That's enough. 2361 02:09:54,840 --> 02:09:59,520 Speaker 1: And the plus that's a long time between whatever may happen, 2362 02:09:59,720 --> 02:10:01,600 Speaker 1: you know, playing two and a half quarters of a 2363 02:10:01,680 --> 02:10:05,560 Speaker 1: game until the next one. Either way, I think you're safe. 2364 02:10:07,160 --> 02:10:10,360 Speaker 1: But Sean McDermott has never shied away against given guy 2365 02:10:10,360 --> 02:10:13,400 Speaker 1: a chance to play. He played way way more than 2366 02:10:13,440 --> 02:10:15,880 Speaker 1: anybody thought he would in Week seventeen last year, in 2367 02:10:15,880 --> 02:10:18,840 Speaker 1: a game that meant nothing to the team. He played 2368 02:10:18,880 --> 02:10:22,920 Speaker 1: past halftime or at least till halftime right, which was 2369 02:10:23,040 --> 02:10:27,640 Speaker 1: way way more than what people thought he would. But 2370 02:10:27,680 --> 02:10:29,760 Speaker 1: Sean McDermott was like, listen, that's it's what we pay 2371 02:10:29,840 --> 02:10:31,240 Speaker 1: him to do, it's what he's good at. Let's let 2372 02:10:31,320 --> 02:10:33,400 Speaker 1: him go, let's turn it loot. We have nothing to fear. 2373 02:10:34,240 --> 02:10:36,160 Speaker 1: Let's let him play and stay sharp. And they did. 2374 02:10:36,200 --> 02:10:39,640 Speaker 1: They played very well and they won two playoff games. 2375 02:10:42,160 --> 02:10:44,360 Speaker 1: I have a hard time thinking a preseason game giving 2376 02:10:44,440 --> 02:10:46,920 Speaker 1: him an extra time and get given him that second 2377 02:10:46,920 --> 02:10:49,960 Speaker 1: preseason game rather than the third one, and given him 2378 02:10:50,000 --> 02:10:53,640 Speaker 1: extra five or six days of rest or at least, 2379 02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:56,520 Speaker 1: you know, non contact. At least he'd be practicing every day. 2380 02:10:56,560 --> 02:10:58,400 Speaker 1: I mean, and you can give him a series or 2381 02:10:58,400 --> 02:11:00,560 Speaker 1: two in the fourth, third preseason game. But I would 2382 02:11:00,560 --> 02:11:03,960 Speaker 1: do it a week early and say here you go, 2383 02:11:04,120 --> 02:11:09,040 Speaker 1: because then the final preseason game is the third one, 2384 02:11:09,800 --> 02:11:12,440 Speaker 1: and it's before you have to make all those final cuts. 2385 02:11:12,840 --> 02:11:15,440 Speaker 1: Then give that last game to all the young guys, 2386 02:11:15,480 --> 02:11:17,200 Speaker 1: all the guys that are the bubble guys that you 2387 02:11:17,440 --> 02:11:20,440 Speaker 1: gotta find out about, you want to know. And the 2388 02:11:20,480 --> 02:11:24,960 Speaker 1: statement is clear, last preseason game, it's your last chance. 2389 02:11:25,520 --> 02:11:27,280 Speaker 1: If you're gonna have last preseason game, well you're only 2390 02:11:27,320 --> 02:11:30,760 Speaker 1: gonna get a series. Well, yeah, I think for the 2391 02:11:30,800 --> 02:11:33,240 Speaker 1: other guys on the team, the third preseason game should 2392 02:11:33,240 --> 02:11:37,560 Speaker 1: be open to the quote finger quotes other guys. Yeah, 2393 02:11:37,600 --> 02:11:40,080 Speaker 1: it's just gonna be tough because you make the dress 2394 02:11:40,080 --> 02:11:42,640 Speaker 1: rehearsal three weeks before the regular season opener. Is that 2395 02:11:42,680 --> 02:11:45,600 Speaker 1: too big a time frame, you know, too big a 2396 02:11:45,640 --> 02:11:48,200 Speaker 1: gap between playing and not playing. I don't know, not 2397 02:11:48,240 --> 02:11:50,800 Speaker 1: to me. Allright, break time for us, Steve and I 2398 02:11:50,840 --> 02:11:53,120 Speaker 1: close it up on this happy Friday with the Josh 2399 02:11:53,160 --> 02:11:58,480 Speaker 1: Allen contract extension done Like dinner back in a second. 2400 02:11:58,480 --> 02:12:00,440 Speaker 1: Here on one Bills Live, presented by to help It's 2401 02:12:00,440 --> 02:12:16,920 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned from today's show, 2402 02:12:17,160 --> 02:12:20,200 Speaker 1: brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental 2403 02:12:20,280 --> 02:12:23,440 Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. What we learned The quarterback 2404 02:12:23,520 --> 02:12:26,280 Speaker 1: position is solidified for the better part of the next 2405 02:12:26,880 --> 02:12:31,880 Speaker 1: eight years. That sounds so good to say it, doesn't 2406 02:12:31,920 --> 02:12:35,240 Speaker 1: it time? I hope we're here for all of that. 2407 02:12:35,240 --> 02:12:39,320 Speaker 1: That'd be nice. Good Good on General manager Brandon Bean 2408 02:12:39,440 --> 02:12:44,920 Speaker 1: and Kevin Meegank and Jim overdoorfho. Probably h worked awfully 2409 02:12:44,920 --> 02:12:48,160 Speaker 1: hard on getting that deal done and finding enough common 2410 02:12:48,200 --> 02:12:51,280 Speaker 1: ground to strike a deal with Josh's representatives. So good 2411 02:12:51,280 --> 02:12:54,240 Speaker 1: on those guys. Crack yourself a beer. You guys earned 2412 02:12:54,240 --> 02:12:57,240 Speaker 1: it this weekend, didn't they. We'll get a bone in 2413 02:12:57,320 --> 02:13:03,680 Speaker 1: Ribbyer Delmonica. I'm sure. I'm sure they had a little 2414 02:13:04,920 --> 02:13:07,680 Speaker 1: it's a it's heavy lift, a little private contract suffle, 2415 02:13:07,720 --> 02:13:11,440 Speaker 1: and a little little bro hug over that one. Yeah, 2416 02:13:11,440 --> 02:13:13,800 Speaker 1: that's nice. Much like at the conclusion of the draft, 2417 02:13:13,840 --> 02:13:17,720 Speaker 1: you know your crack open a few. There's another appropriate 2418 02:13:17,760 --> 02:13:20,040 Speaker 1: weekend to do. So the underlying thing about this is this, 2419 02:13:21,560 --> 02:13:25,800 Speaker 1: you know that on a different level of the professionalism 2420 02:13:25,800 --> 02:13:27,600 Speaker 1: and the signing, the dotted line and the numbers and 2421 02:13:27,640 --> 02:13:30,080 Speaker 1: the thing that these guys are all pulled in the 2422 02:13:30,120 --> 02:13:32,520 Speaker 1: same direction and they're in it together. And I think 2423 02:13:32,560 --> 02:13:34,440 Speaker 1: they've said those exact words to each other. They were 2424 02:13:34,440 --> 02:13:36,480 Speaker 1: in this together, let's go, let's do this, and they 2425 02:13:36,600 --> 02:13:39,440 Speaker 1: they have a camaraderie and a friendship that goes beyond 2426 02:13:39,480 --> 02:13:42,120 Speaker 1: the numbers. That's pretty cool. And now that the extension 2427 02:13:42,240 --> 02:13:48,120 Speaker 1: is done, it is one hundred percent go time. Enjoy 2428 02:13:48,200 --> 02:13:50,880 Speaker 1: the weekend everybody, especially those of you going to practice 2429 02:13:50,880 --> 02:13:53,160 Speaker 1: tomorrow at the Stadium, Buffalo bills dot com s last 2430 02:13:53,160 --> 02:13:56,360 Speaker 1: training camp, and listen to our one Bills Life podcast, 2431 02:13:56,440 --> 02:13:59,600 Speaker 1: which drops this afternoon. We'll have the Jordan Palmer interview. 2432 02:14:00,040 --> 02:14:09,640 Speaker 1: Don't miss it. M HM