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Speaker 1: of One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker here along with my

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Speaker 1: co host for the day, Eric Would, former center of

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Speaker 1: home down in Louisville, Kentucky, Ewood. How are you, man,

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you on the show. I'm doing great.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you. I wish I could

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Speaker 1: it's great to be on with you today. You're like

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Speaker 1: through tomorrow. Morning. So this was an absolutely perfect day

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of stuff to talk about. One

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Speaker 1: don't know if you heard about this scrimmage yesterday down

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Speaker 1: God assuming that there's nothing from a health standpoint or

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Speaker 1: Stephen unbelievable professional, had some great years with the Bills.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of the reason we were able

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Speaker 1: Hopefully he lands on his feet somewhere, but this is

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Speaker 1: We have sound bites from Brian day Ball and Leslie Frasier,

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Speaker 1: Special treat for me anyway, is that Jim Kelly, hall

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Speaker 1: need to be sympathetic and understand that you may not

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Speaker 1: fully understand the other side, but when you have to

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Speaker 1: your point, when you have love for a brother of

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Speaker 1: a different race, and you you sense anybody hurting, you know,

433
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Speaker 1: you know, as as a whole, we're called to carry

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Speaker 1: each other's burdens. And if I truly care about my

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00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 1: black brothers that I played football with, that used to

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Speaker 1: come to holidays at our family's house in Buffalo, if

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Speaker 1: I truly care about them and something is truly burdening them,

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Speaker 1: then I need to open my awareness to try and

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Speaker 1: understand the best I can and try and use my

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Speaker 1: platform the best I can to help them. Because there

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Speaker 1: is obvious hurt in the black community right now that

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Speaker 1: that goes without saying. And when there's that much hurt,

443
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Speaker 1: there needs to be something done. And these I keep

444
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: mentioning these tragedies, but like, there needs to be something

445
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Speaker 1: done because you're not bringing people back to life. You

446
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 1: can't make it okay. But what's what's the greater good

447
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Speaker 1: that will come from all this? And it needs to

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Speaker 1: be actionable steps. Yeah, and that brings me to what

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Speaker 1: the bill had to say. Kim and Terry Pegoula put

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Speaker 1: out a statement and it kind of has along the

451
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Speaker 1: lines of what you and I are just talking about.

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Speaker 1: And here's what Kim and Terry said. We applaud the

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Speaker 1: athletes who have taken a stand this week and all

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Speaker 1: the athletes who have spoken out against racial injustice. The

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Speaker 1: sports community has the power to lead the discussion and

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Speaker 1: effect change. We remain committed with players, coaches, and staff

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Speaker 1: in our dedication to eradicating racism and inequality. This is

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Speaker 1: bigger than sports. Kim and Terry Pegoula and I know

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Speaker 1: you know teams put out these statements, and I will

460
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Speaker 1: tell you this from personal experience. This isn't just a

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Speaker 1: statement on a page inside this building one Bill's drive.

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Speaker 1: It's real. They continually reach out to their employees to

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Speaker 1: network and to put their arms have everybody put their

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Speaker 1: arms around each other and get to a level of

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Speaker 1: understanding so that they can have real conversations. And I

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Speaker 1: had the same thing with Lejay Doozable yesterday. It's hard conversations,

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Speaker 1: particularly for you and me as white guys, to you know,

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Speaker 1: to sit back and realize that we have not been

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Speaker 1: treated or had the same things happen to us that

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Speaker 1: our friends have had just because we are white. And

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Speaker 1: it's and then you try and rationalize it away and said, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe it was because of this, or maybe because it

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Speaker 1: was that, and you get down to it, it's just

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Speaker 1: not true. That's not the reason. The reason is because

475
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Speaker 1: they're black. That's in it. You can whitewash it. You

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Speaker 1: I hate to say that word. I'm you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: you hate to put rose colored glasses on or rationalize it,

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Speaker 1: or blame the blame the black community for these problems

479
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Speaker 1: or whatever, blame whatever you want to blame. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: at the core of it. There's nothing other than racism.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's intentional or vindictive or malicious, it's still different

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Speaker 1: for one set of people than it is for another.

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Speaker 1: And it's not fair, and that's the that's the real

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Speaker 1: issue that you know, you got to get to the

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Speaker 1: heart of. And it's really uncomfortable for for a lot

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Speaker 1: of people to have these conversations. It's exhausting and at

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Speaker 1: times I know this too. I've had these difficult conversations

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Speaker 1: with members of my family. It sometimes you get into

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Speaker 1: a place where it's hopeless because it seems so big.

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Speaker 1: And I hope we never get to the point where

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Speaker 1: we're all hopeless. Yeah, you're exactly right, and you made

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Speaker 1: a number of phenomenal points there, and when you said

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Speaker 1: it's difficult to speak on this, it becomes uncomfortable. And

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Speaker 1: part of the uncomfort for two white guys on TV

495
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Speaker 1: and radio right now talking about this is you could

496
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Speaker 1: miss speak, and you could ask any of a number

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Speaker 1: of former teammates and friends we have that are black

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Speaker 1: that would say, of course, these guys aren't racist. But

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Speaker 1: if you miss speak in one way, you're labeled that forever.

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Speaker 1: And I think because of that, as a white man,

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00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: you just got to be really careful with what you say,

502
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: and you always should, but it becomes really difficult to

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Speaker 1: navigate in public settings. Um. You know, I was with

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Speaker 1: a former Ubel basketball player last night having a beer

505
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Speaker 1: and we were having conversations on these matters because in

506
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: Louisville it is affecting us with the Brianna Taylor stuff,

507
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: like it's affecting our city. Our businesses are just fleeing

508
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: downtown as fast as possible right now the Kentucky Derby

509
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 1: because the coronavirus and potential protests have canceled all fans

510
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Speaker 1: at the Kentucky Derby next week. In this Brianna Taylor stuff.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they just thought, if they let

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Speaker 1: it go on long enough, that people would forget, but

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00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 1: no one is forgetting, right, and so it's it's been

514
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: now months and it's not going away, and which is good.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't need to go away. It's perfect that it's

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00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: still ongoing, but man, do something. And so I was

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Speaker 1: having a conversation with someone last night, but you could

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00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 1: be so much more open and fluid and over a

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00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,719
Speaker 1: beer and a private conversation, right exactly, well, you and me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I listen, I am. I totally agree that,

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Speaker 1: because I'm the biggest idiot in the world, and I'll

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Speaker 1: say something not out of but just out of ignorance,

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Speaker 1: out and just kind of flinging through work, which is

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Speaker 1: the most dangerous thing. I gotta live Mike in front

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Speaker 1: of me, and I got everybody listening to Western New York,

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00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: you know there, and for me to see I could say, listen,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the first time I said something stupid.

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Speaker 1: But you don't do it intentionally. But that's the kind

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Speaker 1: of fear that guys like you and me have. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to offend anybody, but I'm trying to make

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Speaker 1: a point about the way I see it, which may

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Speaker 1: be ignorant. I don't know, because it's not a it's

533
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Speaker 1: not the thing that hits you and I in the

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Speaker 1: face every time we leave the house. I don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about my seventeen year old kid driving his

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Speaker 1: car to the store. Um, because he's a white kid,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So, yeah, you and I,

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00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: you and I see things differently and we say so

539
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: we speak sometimes out of just trying to be genuine

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Speaker 1: and to come across as from the wrong place. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned the Bugulah's earlier and how in that

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Speaker 1: intentional they are through this time. I remember back to

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Speaker 1: the protests and the kneeling in twenty seventeen, my last

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Speaker 1: season in the NFL, when that all came about. The

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Speaker 1: Bugoulahs did not run away from it. They came into

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Speaker 1: a team meeting on Saturday. We called an early team

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Speaker 1: meeting so we could still do our football stuff. Afterwards.

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Speaker 1: We ended up spending three hours in discussion with the

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Speaker 1: team because we were going to try and do a

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Speaker 1: unified statement. And you know what we came to after

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Speaker 1: three hours. There's guys that will not kneel because out

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00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: of ignorance or whatever it was. We you know, some

553
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: guys didn't feel right doing it. Some people thought they

554
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: would offend their family, whatever it may be. There was

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00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: black guys that didn't want to stand up in lock arms.

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00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: They wanted to kneel, and you know what we did.

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00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: We just said, you know what, we all love each other,

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00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: we all respect each other. You can do whatever you want.

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00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: And how strong is it to say you can kneel.

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00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: I'll stand up on my hand on you. You know.

561
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna go and go out and fight and

562
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: play football game together, and we're gonna go and have

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Speaker 1: fun afterwards. And that's what we're gonna do tomorrow, and

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00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna go out and win. And we did. We

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00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: beat the Broncos. And I felt like we were so

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Speaker 1: unified and we didn't even have a unified message. We

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00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: didn't link arms, we didn't kneel. Everybody did something. Everyone

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00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: did whatever they wanted. And you know what, that was

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Speaker 1: completely fine. And you know what the Pogula said, because

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Speaker 1: it was at that time when you had guys neil,

571
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: you immediately lost sponsors, you lost fans, you had booing.

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00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: And the Pogula said, actually that sounds great, because we

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00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: support you guys in any way that you that in

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Speaker 1: causes that are pertinent to you. And then they put

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Speaker 1: their money where their mouth is and they supported them

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Speaker 1: throughout the community. And that was in a room, that

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Speaker 1: team meeting is with guys who love and respect each other.

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Speaker 1: It's a hard conversation if even in that room, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like you're doing it with strangers

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Speaker 1: on social media with a fake name, like you know

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00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: so many thousands of people do in this country. You're

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00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: in a room with guys you love and respect, and

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00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: you can't agree on that there. It's really really difficult

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00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: conversation to have. And it's so for the regular you know,

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00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: citizenry out there who's doing it with whatever, Charlie on

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00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: the street or whatever, even in their own families. They're

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00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: gonna be people. My family disagrees politically, you know. I

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00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: mean my kids have different political views than I do,

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00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: and I have different political views than my folks did.

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Speaker 1: So even it's a hard conversation, we gotta and we

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00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: gotta be willing to sit down and just get through

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Speaker 1: it together and try and come to an agreement, even

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00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: if it is agreeing to disagree, but loving each other

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00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: in spite of it. I think that's maybe the key

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00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: thing to it as well. Steve Tasker, Eric Wood here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live. We're gonna take a break coming

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00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: up right after this. We're gonna get back and listen

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo Bill's defensive coordinator that you just spoke about,

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier. We've got some soundbites from him coming up.

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Speaker 1: Maddie Glabbed, Steve Young, Jim Kelly coming up on this

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Speaker 1: program as well. One Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one of

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Speaker 1: those lives. To teacher Eric Wood here from One Bill's Drive,

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Speaker 1: I am and he's down to Louisville, and uh, I

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Speaker 1: guess they're the hurricane's gonna hit you tonight. You said

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get some rain tonight. It'll probably be just

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00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 1: rained by the time it gets up to Louisville, right,

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Speaker 1: heavy rain maybe, so maybe we won't hit by anything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't get hit by anything too tough. Um coming

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Speaker 1: up this way through the hurricane. We we get um

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Speaker 1: occasional tornado this part of the country. Um, I guess

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00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: every every part of the country's got their mess. Like

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, it's the lake effects, snow in Louisville, maybe

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Speaker 1: some high winds. Actually part of part of the crappy

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Speaker 1: thing of Louisville is you get these miserably hot humid

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Speaker 1: summers and cold winners. It's like you get, you get

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Speaker 1: four seasons, which is great. Um, but if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have cold winners, you'd like to not have such scorching

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Speaker 1: hot summers. Yeah, you say, you get an occaional tornado.

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Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in Kansas, right would I

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Speaker 1: grew up You're talking more than occasional there. I grew

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Speaker 1: up right in the hurricane out, I mean the tornado alley.

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Speaker 1: I've seen more than my share of tornadoes live and

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Speaker 1: in person. It's yeah, it's that's zero fun. But I

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Speaker 1: also know this too. You're living in Louisville, not for

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Speaker 1: another you know our youngest you know, I'm Jake. Jake

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Speaker 1: lives in Louisville now, So I've got skin in the

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00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: game down there now. So that my son, I got

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Speaker 1: to make sure he actually called me this morning, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know and stuff. So yeah, he'll be getting the

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Speaker 1: same whether you are here pretty soon, I'm sure. So

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Speaker 1: we have a SoundBite we're gonna get to in a

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Speaker 1: minute from Leslie Frasier. We also put out the mailbag,

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Speaker 1: the Friday mail Bag. We're gonna get questions from listeners,

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Speaker 1: uh Eric about well, about a wide variety of subjects.

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Speaker 1: We don't really tell them what to ask about, so

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get a ton of questions from listeners about

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00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: different things. We've already notified every everybody that Stephen house God,

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Speaker 1: the long time kicker and for the last three years

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00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills and before that for the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: They released him yesterday after uh the scrimmage yesterday. Lachlan Edwards,

642
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: the punder they signed just last week. His workout is

643
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: over as well. They released him as well. Later in

644
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: the program, Steve Young and Jim Kelly, the two quarterbacks,

645
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: and the No Punk Game are coming on with us

646
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: at one o'clock. Mattie Glab's gonna come on with us.

647
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna she's gonna give us some updates about, oh,

648
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: just the player's reaction to what's going on around the country,

649
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: but also some training camp awards, who's who's been playing well,

650
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: who's been the MVP, some prizing rookies. She's been watching

651
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: about as much practice as any member of the media

652
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: has been able to, and she's gonna give us her

653
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: thoughts about the roster and stuff going on. So for

654
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: right now, it's just it's me and you kind of

655
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: bringing this thing all the way till three o'clock. And

656
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 1: we had the conversation the first half hour of the show,

657
00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: Eric about you know that social justice that is has

658
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: been you know, brought to the forefront of the political

659
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: landscape over the last four months five months, with with

660
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: the tragedies and the unjust shootings of the citizens of

661
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: the of our country. It was there issues like that

662
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: during your play Now you're fairly recently, you've been out

663
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: a couple of years, and I've been out Gush a

664
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: couple of decades. Were there issues like this that raised

665
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: their heads during your playing time? Do you remember the

666
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: hard conversations you had with members of your teammates where

667
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't this big a deal to the

668
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: larger area of society, or at least it wasn't on

669
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: the political landscape then, but it was an issue in

670
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: our locker rooms because it's where, like I said, it's

671
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: the great the best breeding ground of conversations between white

672
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: guys and black guys. Yeah, you know, I mentioned earlier

673
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: in the show that my last career was, or my

674
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: last season in the NFL was the Kneeling year when

675
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick started that, so there was there was some

676
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: conversations that came from that. There was a lot of

677
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: eye opening that came from all of that, And you know,

678
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: there would generally be conversations had on these topics, but

679
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: nothing really a strong until twenty seventeen. And at that

680
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: point we had such a mature team. We could talk

681
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: about that. We had phenomenal leaders in that locker room

682
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: with Kyle Williams and Lorenzo Alexander to kind of navigate through,

683
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: you know, any team meetings that came from that time,

684
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,280
Speaker 1: I will say, you know, you get introduced to things

685
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: by having black friends and teammates. And if one thing

686
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: I have been enlightened on since all this came about,

687
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: because I could sit here and be all high and

688
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: mighty and say, man, come to one of our Christmases

689
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, come to our Thanksgiving and we had half

690
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: of the people that were black. It was awesome, people

691
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: from different parts of the country. We got all these

692
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: different types of food. It was incredible. I could I

693
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: could sit there and say that, but I've been enlightened

694
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: by my black brothers that that are athletes, that they

695
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 1: get treated even at a better level because of their

696
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: athletes status and that. And that's even since I was

697
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: a kid, all all of my friends that were black

698
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: were from sports. We all played sports together as a kid,

699
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: all my buddies did. And then through high school college

700
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: you hang out with athletes, you know, and they get

701
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: treated at a different standard. And that's that's where I

702
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: almost fell blind to it. And I'm sure he'd be

703
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: comfortable with me telling the story because there was truly

704
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 1: nothing that was done wrong but me and Dion Dawkins.

705
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: Dion was driving me one night in Buffalo after a game.

706
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: You guys can do the math. Dion is a is

707
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: a non drinker, and so Dion was driving us being

708
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: responsible and Dion was driving a nice SUV with ten

709
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: and windows. We got pulled over in downtown Buffalo. He

710
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: immediately rolled down all of his windows, put his hands

711
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: on the steering wheel. The cop came up and it

712
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: was really polite and said, hey, great game earlier, guys,

713
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: you all get home safe tonight. You know, it was late.

714
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: We were coming from the casino and when we pulled away,

715
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: Dion said, I'm telling you, if you guys weren't all

716
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: in the car, that would not have gone the same way.

717
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: I said, I'll come on, Dean, they would have recognized

718
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: you this and I said, probably not. And it's a

719
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: it's a much more tense situation when it's not dion

720
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: three wide offensive alignment and one other black offensive alignment

721
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: in a car. It's it's a different situation. And that

722
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: was eye opening to me at the time, and that

723
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: was that was the only time I've ever even been

724
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: in a scenario like that, and I had to be

725
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: informed like, that's that's not usually how it goes when

726
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: you get pulled over. That's exactly right. And we've got

727
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, defensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills, who happens

728
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: to be a black man, and he is tasked with

729
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: leading these guys in these turbulent times. And he was asked,

730
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: you know, how do you keep your guys focused during

731
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: a time when there's so many more important things than

732
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 1: football going on around them. And here's what the Bills

733
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator said about that, Well, this is not an

734
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: easy time to be be focused, you know, no matter

735
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: who you are in the United States, it's a challenging time.

736
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: But our guys are really trying to do their jobs

737
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: and stay committed to what we're trying to get accomplished

738
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 1: each and every day, and they really handle things extremely well.

739
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: And hopefully we can stay focused on what we have

740
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: to get done. But you can't ignore, you know, what's

741
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: going on in our country, you know, putting our head

742
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: in the saying and pretending like the world is not

743
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: going on. Well aware of what's happening. And at the

744
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: same time we walk into this building, we know we

745
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: have a job to do, and you know we have

746
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: to focus and concentrate on what we have to get done. Yeah. Absolutely,

747
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: And just to chime in on yesterday's scrimmage, how impressed

748
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: were you your defense yesterday? Yeah, you know I was

749
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: that are really good job and those other guys you're

750
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: trying to get ready for September thirteenth. Really pleased with

751
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: the way that they performed and how hard they worked.

752
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: You know, we've got a lot of work to do

753
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: leading up to September thirteen, but you can see that

754
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: some of the things we've been working on, they're helping

755
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: us to come together as a group. You can see

756
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: the chemistry and the camaraderie we've been trying to build

757
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: because we were so separate or so long, just trying

758
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: to coming together and be unified. So that was encouraging,

759
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: and we just got to keep building on a few

760
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: little things and we should be ready ready to go

761
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: by time we get to September thirteen. Yes, sir, appreciate

762
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: the time, and good thank you High Coach Alcapato Wjrgot

763
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: to see I hope you're doing well. Good morning, say

764
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: thank you. Um. You know you have a very versatile

765
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: defensive line. Obviously we know that from the guys you

766
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,959
Speaker 1: brought in, so you know they've played inside, they played

767
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: outside three four or four three things like that. As

768
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, how nice is that you can have

769
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: a playbook to do things, But also, just as at

770
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: general philosophy, you have to be careful sometimes not to

771
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: kind of overdo it and just kind of stick with

772
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: what you do best, so to speak. Yeah, that's a

773
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 1: great point. You know, you can have all these toys

774
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: that you can play with. Man, you gotta find something

775
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: you can be good at. And we have some things

776
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: that we've been pretty good in the past. And if

777
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: you want to add a few wrinkles, you know you

778
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: want to do that, But you don't get away from

779
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 1: what has helped you to be successful, and we're fortunate

780
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: to have a flexibility in our line that you mentioned.

781
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we have some tenants that

782
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: we believe in and we want to make sure that

783
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: we're good at those and maybe add a few wrinkles

784
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: here and there. Thanks coach, I always appreciate your time. Thanks. Hey,

785
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: coach Frazier. What have you learned about your defense through

786
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: this training camp so far? More automatically? Well, every day

787
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: has been a day of learning where you know, things

788
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: are not normal as we all know. So every time

789
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: you come into building and every time you walk on

790
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: a practice field, you're getting a few other few nuggets

791
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: along the way. And one of the things that sticks

792
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: out to me about our group we needed to find

793
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: out who our leaders, who we're going to be going

794
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: into the season. And as I mentioned to Mark, just

795
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: seeing Mario Addison step up and provide some leadership boards.

796
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,439
Speaker 1: Losing Lorenzo, as you know, Mattie, that was a big

797
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: piece from a leadership standpoint, and that was one of

798
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: the things that's been going through my mind. Who's gonna

799
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: help feel that board in that absence of a guy

800
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: like Lorenzo And similar to what happened when Kyward retire,

801
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 1: and so having Jerry Hughes along with Mario and seeing

802
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: how Tremaine has really matured in that role. That's probably

803
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: been the thing that I've been learning about our defense

804
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 1: as much as to exit and O's because that's a

805
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: big deal. You know, where's your leadership going to come from?

806
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: And can't always come from coaches because when you're in

807
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: the heat the battle and you're on not feel need

808
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 1: somebody to take charge. And so to see what Mario brings,

809
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: to see what Tremaine is doing, to take a look

810
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: at what Jerry Hughes is doing, that's been really encouraging,

811
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: along with Michael and Jordan, for you as well. Do

812
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: you think that leadership between Mario and Jerry is even

813
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: bigger because of that connection they had previously to the

814
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:03,439
Speaker 1: Bills playing the Colts together. Yeah, that may have something

815
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: to do with it their history, that's possible, but I

816
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: also think it's because of who they are as people.

817
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: I think that's got a big part of it as well.

818
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: Thanks coach, Hey Leslie, John Scott, good morning. Good morning, John.

819
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 1: Wanted to ask you how big of a swing has

820
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: Josh Norman's injury been to that competition between him and

821
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace. Yeah, I mean that's a that's that's that's

822
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: one of the tough ones there, because John, we're really

823
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: looking forward to those competitive practices between those two and

824
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: it really felt like that would really be good for

825
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: our defense to have that competition going day in and

826
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: day out. And with Josh's injury, you know, that's kind

827
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: of been put on the shelf. But now and hopefully

828
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: we'll get him back prior to the Jets game and

829
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: play enough time to get some practice in. But Levi

830
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: is doing a really good job, and if Josh doesn't

831
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: make it back, we feel very confident that that Levi

832
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: can can do the job. But we're gonna have to

833
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: make a decision whenever Josh comes back, one of those

834
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: guys would have to start. Unfortunately, you don't get the

835
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: rep with Josh to really evaluate him properly. And then

836
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: from a defensive coordinator standpoint, us in the stands, we

837
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: saw Josh yesterday and he looked to be dealing. I

838
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: understand it was against the second team, but even when

839
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 1: he's going up against the ones in practice. From your

840
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: spot as a defensive coordinator, how have you seen him

841
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 1: grow and how is he different this camp than you've

842
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: seen the previous two years. The thing that I noticed,

843
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: and I was expus yesterday in one of our staff mutes,

844
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: and the thing I've noticed is the decision making is

845
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: so it's it's what you thought it would be going

846
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: to his third season. He's grown so much in that area,

847
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: protecting the football and making good decisions, you know, whether

848
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: it take the ball down the field or take a

849
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: check down, or should I throw it away versus taking

850
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: a sat. I mean that that's a big part of

851
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: quarterback playing. And you know, we're trying so hard defense

852
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: to create negative plays and he's making good decisions which

853
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: makes it hard for us to create negative plays. So

854
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: that's one of the things I've seen from a gross standpoint,

855
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: and kudos to him and the offensive coach instead. That

856
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: was Leslie Frasier, defensive coordinator, with his media time. I

857
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: believe this was yesterday or maybe it perhaps it was

858
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: this morning. I think it was this morning, and you

859
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: know you mentioned it, Eric, you can tell as a

860
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: duck you don't get to be a defensive coordinator, and

861
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: certainly Leslie Frasier has been a head coach as well

862
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: for a time here in the National Football League. You

863
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: can tell the kind of kind of quality guy he

864
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: is and why his side of the ball has been

865
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: rock solid for the years he's been coordinator. Yeah, absolutely,

866
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: he's He's one of the most consistent people on a

867
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: day to day basis I've ever been around. Uh Sean

868
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: McDermott as well. It's it's not surprised that they work

869
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: so well together. But Leslie Frasier is a fun nominal leader,

870
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: does an excellent job with that defense in getting them

871
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: to fly around in the football, which isn't always easy

872
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: to get eleven guys on defense to fly around in

873
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: the football. You have to truly appreciate your defensive coordinator

874
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: and love them. Yeah, that worth Eric Wood, Steve Tasker

875
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: here in One Bills Love. We're gonna take a quick break.

876
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back. Maddie Glabs coming on at one o'clock.

877
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Speaker 1: We'll come back and talk a little bit more about

878
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Speaker 1: what Leslie Fraser just said on One Bill's Live. Right

879
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: after this, we're presented by Kalid to Health with Buffalo

880
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio from the Seneca One Studios. Nothing comes close.

881
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's live Steve Tasker, Eric Wood

882
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: with you here till three o'clock coming up at the

883
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: top of the hour and just a couple of minutes,

884
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: Maddie Glabs going to come on with us and give

885
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: us her run down a training camp, give out some

886
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 1: awards for the people who she thinks have been great

887
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: during training camp. We just got off with listening to

888
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser in his media time this morning with the

889
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: Western New York meeting. We both think, you know, he's

890
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: he absolutely stands out in a crowd with the way

891
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: he handles himself and the things that he says. But Eric,

892
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: I think the Bill's defense this year, and I watched

893
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: a little bit of the scrimmage yesterday, this defense was

894
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: a top three defense last year. It was like number one,

895
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: two or three. And points allowed for the season. I

896
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: think was number two and points allowed for the season

897
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: they gave They were impossible to throw the football against.

898
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: And I think they're going to be better this year.

899
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: I think they're really going to be better. Yeah, I

900
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: definitely think they could be I think I think defensive

901
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: line depth now is a huge reason for that. They

902
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: went out and picked up some key free agents in

903
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: Butler and Jefferson. You get another year of experience with

904
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: your all star linebacker in the middle, your Pro Bowl

905
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: linebacker Tremaine Edmonds. He's a year older in a good way.

906
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: You're talking about he's now twenty two or twenty three

907
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: as opposed to twenty. And you know you have superstars

908
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: across the board when you look at Tradeabus White, um,

909
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: and then the combination of Micah Hi Jordan Paul you're

910
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: on the back end, they're absolutely phenomenal at disguising coverages.

911
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: You get another year of them working together. What more

912
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: can they do from a coverage disguis standpoint? Um, And

913
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: the fact that they're interchangeable makes it so difficult for

914
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: opposing offenses And um, yeah, could they be better? Absolutely?

915
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: And and a lot of it comes, um comes from

916
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: staying healthy. They were able to stay healthy at a

917
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: number of key positions last year. That helped losing Harrison

918
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: Phillips last year hurt in the run game for a

919
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: few weeks, and that's probably why I believe they ended

920
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: up the year tenth overall against the run, maybe twelfth.

921
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: And I think a reason for that was You're you

922
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: were relying on Harrison Phillips for a lot of your

923
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: run stuffing and you lose him and it took them

924
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: allowed to regain their footing in that aspect, But they

925
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 1: could absolutely be better. You know, you got everybody coming back. Um.

926
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Speaker 1: You look at um offenses that they'll be facing that

927
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Speaker 1: have new coordinators down in Miami, new coordinator you have, um,

928
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, a new system in New England. All those

929
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: teams missing OTA's that's that's tough and so um. With

930
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: no preseason games, I think the Bills should be able

931
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: to start the season, especially on defense with so many

932
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: returning players, with so many players with so much experience, Uh,

933
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: they should be able to start off hot. And then

934
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: and then the other cornerback spot was a topic of

935
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: discussion all last year that were rotating Kevin Johnson and

936
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: Leviy Wallace. Now you had Josh Norman to the mix.

937
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: But but everybody's been complimentary of le By Wallace so

938
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: far this training camp. How does that cornerback battle play out?

939
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: Can Josh Norman regain some of the momentum he had

940
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: coming out of Carolina when he went to Washington playing

941
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: under Sean McDermott man that that could just be a

942
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: whole new element to this Bill's Defense. You know, and

943
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you we've got a ton of people. We

944
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 1: opened up a on Twitter, we opened up our mail

945
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: bag and said, if you've got a question, throw it

946
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 1: in there. We're getting inundated with a ton of great questions.

947
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to those a little bit later in

948
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: the show. Maddie Glab's coming up. Right after the break,

949
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break right here, coming back, Maddie

950
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 1: Glabs gonna come on with us, talk about her insights

951
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: into training camp, give out some awards for guys who

952
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: have played well in training camp. We'll get to the

953
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: mail bag. Brian dave Ball offensive coordinators coming up in

954
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: two Hall of Fame quarterbacks Jim Kelly and Steve Young

955
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: coming on in the two o'clock hour one Bill's Live,

956
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

957
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: to one of those lives. Steve Tasker and Eric Wood

958
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: with you till three o'clock. We're about to welcome on

959
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab to the program. But before we do, we've

960
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: got a little bit of breaking news. Hi, Maddie. By

961
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: the way, We've got a little bit of breaking news.

962
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: The Bills have signed a cornerback, a corner backs six

963
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen pound guy. His name is Brian Allen.

964
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, spent a couple

965
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: of years with them, seventeen and eighteen with the Steelers.

966
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: Last year he was on the practice squad for the Seahawks.

967
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: He's out of Utah University. Third year in the National

968
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: Football League. Been in sixteen career games, mainly appearing on

969
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: special teams. Spend some time on the Steelers active roster

970
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: and on the practice squad of both them, and of

971
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: course last year, like I said, with the Seahawks, Brian

972
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,919
Speaker 1: Allen the newest member of the Buffalo Bills. Sixty three

973
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen pound cornerback now signed with the

974
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And we do that on the cusp of

975
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: Maddie glab coming on one Bills Live, Mattie Eric woodstep tasker.

976
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,959
Speaker 1: How are you doing? How's it going for you? Good?

977
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: I'm working from home today. It's a Friday. The Bills

978
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: had walked through today, so we were not able to

979
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: go watch, so might as well work from home. Tomorrow's

980
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: the player's day off, and then they will be back

981
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: for practice on Sunday, so we'll definitely have quite a

982
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: bit of practice coverage coming for you guys on Sunday.

983
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: Yesterday was the scrimmage, so of course still lots to

984
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: talk about there as we're two weeks away from week one.

985
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Yeah, and you've watched about as

986
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: much practice as any media member because you know, none

987
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: of them nobody gets to watch a lot of it.

988
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: But what have you been your what are your impressions?

989
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: We've got you know, don't get too deep into it

990
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: because we've got you know, other stuff coming up in

991
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: a minute, But what did you think about this? And

992
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 1: the players and coaches have had to be distracted about

993
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 1: what's going on around the country. How big an issue

994
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: has that been? Have you seen in your ramifications of

995
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: the social injustice has been going on. I'm not sure

996
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: if it's been a distraction that affects, you know, every

997
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: every snap or every single rep that they take, although

998
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: I do think it's a really great distraction. At the

999
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: same time, I asked coach McDermott about why it's important

1000
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: to have something like this, the social injustices, the racial

1001
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: injustices that we see in this world, why it's important

1002
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: to come into the locker room and disrupt a day

1003
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: to day practice schedule. He usually doesn't like outside noise,

1004
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: of course, coming into the locker room, but this is

1005
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: something that's important to have in your locker room. These

1006
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: are conversations that are important to have. He said that

1007
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: the team was able to get together and talk quite

1008
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: a bit about Jacob Blake and just the latest in

1009
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: systemic racism that we see every single day, and there

1010
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: were some constructive things I think that came out of

1011
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: that team meeting with which essentially made it feel okay

1012
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: to go to practice and scrimmage yesterday. Based on what

1013
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Leslie Fraser said today to the media, he

1014
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: said it was because of those conversations that they felt, okay,

1015
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: we can go to work on Thursday and we can

1016
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,919
Speaker 1: have a scrimmage. But I think it's something that's very

1017
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,720
Speaker 1: much so a part of the day to day conversations

1018
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: with them, as it is with everyone in our lives

1019
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: right now, trying to fight this, trying to end systemic

1020
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: racism and every day, and quite a few of the

1021
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: players said they want to work to find a way

1022
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: to impact the community of buffalo. They just haven't found

1023
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: or pinpointed exactly what that is yet. So I'll be

1024
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing, you know, what they decide they

1025
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 1: want to help out with in the community or do

1026
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: in the community. I think it's important to remember too,

1027
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,760
Speaker 1: they decided, you know, they were going to practice yesterday.

1028
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: There's been nine teams that have canceled practice. They did

1029
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,479
Speaker 1: have a team meeting. They had a long conversation about

1030
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: the things that we're going on, and they decided they're

1031
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: going to go out and practice. They had a major

1032
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: scrimmage yesterday and they knowing what I know about Sean McDermott,

1033
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:49,919
Speaker 1: this will be used as a positive for his team.

1034
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,240
Speaker 1: He'll use it as a bonding thing. They'll come together

1035
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: a little bit stronger for this. And I thought when

1036
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: I watched the scrimmage, the part of scrimmage that I

1037
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: watched yesterday, this group that seems like they're hitting on

1038
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: all cylinders together emotionally and on the field as well.

1039
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: What were your impressions of the scrimmage. I thought it

1040
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: was a good scrimmage. I thought it was a really

1041
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: productive scrimmage. Josh Allen had a great day. I know,

1042
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: it's just a scrimmage, So how much can you really

1043
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: base off of that. But it's better than Josh, you know,

1044
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: playing awful in a scrimmage. He played very well for

1045
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: my account. He completed thirty three or forty five passes,

1046
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: which is a seventy three percent completion rate, had two

1047
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns, one rushing touchdown, in one interception to Surrand Neil.

1048
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: That pass bounced off the fingertips of Gabriel Davis into

1049
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: Surrand Neil's hands. But it was also a very windy

1050
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,920
Speaker 1: day in Bills Stadium, and this is what offensive coordinator

1051
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: Brian dave All just said. It was that it was

1052
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: important that we threw the ball forty five times because

1053
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: it was so windy. And that's something that's really important

1054
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: to work on, especially in the stadium when you get

1055
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: those type of crosswinds with some of the new receivers,

1056
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: with some of the new offensive skill players coming into

1057
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: this team, when it gets cold, when it gets wendy,

1058
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: that's a tough place to play. And to see Josh

1059
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: hit on seventy three percent of his passes going up

1060
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: against a tough defense, going up against when yeah, you

1061
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: look back at that performance and you think, okay, Yeah,

1062
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: this guy is making the strides that he needs to

1063
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: make in year three, frequently consistently connecting with those receivers

1064
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Speaker 1: in Cole Beasley, John Brown, Gabriel Davis, Andre Roberts, Isaiah McKenzie. Now,

1065
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs did not practice yesterday due to low back soreness,

1066
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: so hopefully he's back in the fold by Sunday. Yeah,

1067
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: and a lot of other stuff going on yesterday as well.

1068
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: I mean the team scrimmage. You've been watching practice. As

1069
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: we go along, we're gonna bring back something that we've

1070
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 1: been we have had, not had for a long time,

1071
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: the re emergence of the Maddies, the Maddie Awards for

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00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 1: training camp. We we dug it up there. It is

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00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: hyping in the crowd noise, just like the NFL may

1074
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: be forced to do this year with no fans in

1075
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: the stands. Matt the Maddies have more fans, or just

1076
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: as many fans as any NFL team in the coming out. Okay,

1077
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: all right, so here we go. All right, Mattie, give

1078
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: us your give us your Maddie Awards. What's first step?

1079
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: What's the first award? All right, let's go with the

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00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: offensive MVP first, and I'm sure this is not a

1081
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: shock to anyone. So offensive MVP, I'm going to give

1082
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: it to Stefan Diggs. Yes, like I said, we didn't

1083
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: see him yesterday in the scrimmage, but I would have

1084
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: loved to see him yesterday in the scrimmage because he

1085
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: would have further shown why he is such an important

1086
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: piece to this offense. This season, pretty much any past

1087
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: that was thrown his way, he made a catch for it,

1088
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: or at least fought hard to make a catch for

1089
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: every single ball that was thrown his way. He's six

1090
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: feet he plays like he's six three. This is a

1091
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: guy who had back to back one thousand yards seasons.

1092
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: Knows how to get into the end zone. That's something

1093
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: that this team really wanted going into the twenty twenty

1094
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: season was scoring more points. They ranked towards the bottom

1095
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL when it came to that, and they

1096
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: need to improve on that for this season. I think

1097
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is going to be an essential piece to

1098
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: that puzzle of figuring out how you can get into

1099
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: the end zone more. Josh Allen said his timing with

1100
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,959
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is getting there. It's going to improve once

1101
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: the two to start to sit down and watch film together.

1102
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: Not sure if they have started that yet, but as

1103
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 1: of last week, he said, that's something that's in the

1104
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: horizon for those two. But to see their connection already,

1105
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: just based on the last two weeks of training camp

1106
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 1: practices that we've seen, it seems pretty good. It seems

1107
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: like they've got it down and to think about how

1108
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: it can only get better. I'm really excited because they've

1109
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: made some great plays together, connecting on some awesome passes

1110
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: throughout the last two weeks. That's great news, Maddie after

1111
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: giving up a first rounder for him, that's great news

1112
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: that he comes in and immediately camp offensive MVP, Who

1113
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: are you giving on the defensive side of the ball?

1114
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: Defensive side of the ball. It's tough because I think

1115
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: the defensive line has really had a great training camp,

1116
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 1: and I think my eyes go to the defensive line

1117
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: just because that's a position group on defense that definitely

1118
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,959
Speaker 1: added the most new players. And when you're speaking about

1119
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: new players, I'll give it to Mario Addison just because

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Speaker 1: of the leadership that he's going to bring to the

1121
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: team as a whole, as well as the defensive line

1122
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: room and his skill set. This is someone who overlast

1123
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: four years, we've seen him rack up thirty nine sacks,

1124
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: I believe, and to be in your thirties and still

1125
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: having that production based on what is old in the NFL.

1126
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: I'll say that in quotation marks because Lorenzo Alexander got

1127
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: on me for calling Mario old and Mario calling himself old.

1128
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: But I think he's going to be an important part

1129
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: to this defensive line and how they want to shift

1130
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: and change and move and affect the quarterback. He's got

1131
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:21,479
Speaker 1: some great pass rush technique in him. I think he's

1132
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: going to be important on the inside, important on the outside,

1133
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: wherever they choose to put him. He's going to be

1134
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: really great part to this defense that wants to be

1135
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: a top three defense again this season. They don't want

1136
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: to go back from where they were last season. They

1137
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: only want to go forward. And I think another important

1138
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: part of that is adding defensive line coach Eric Washington

1139
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: to the team. He's someone who has a existing connection

1140
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:55,120
Speaker 1: with Mario prior to the Bills because they were both

1141
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers at the same time. All Right,

1142
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: So we've got the offensive MVP of Steph Diggs we've

1143
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: got the defensive MVP of Mario Addison. Who's the most

1144
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: improved player on your Mattie Awards list? Most improved, I'll

1145
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: give that to Sir Josh Allen. There are so many

1146
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: things that people you know would say Josh needs to

1147
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: do this. Josh needs to do that. He needs to

1148
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: work on the deep ball. He needs to be more consistent,

1149
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 1: he needs to know the playbook better. After his second

1150
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 1: season in the NFL and even after his first season, honestly,

1151
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: we saw him make really great strides when it came

1152
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: to decision making, when it came to less interceptions, when

1153
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: it came to the playbook. I think when we look

1154
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: at year three for this quarterback, I have high hopes

1155
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: for what and how he can deliver to this offense.

1156
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: Connecting on several passes throughout practices, even in the scrimmage,

1157
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: his timing, his chemistry with those receivers looks so great.

1158
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: And they're doing this against a top three defense. I

1159
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: know I say this quite frequently, but the fact that

1160
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: they look this good against this talented of a defense

1161
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: has to say something for when they hit the ground

1162
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 1: on Week one, going up against the Jets and some

1163
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: other talented defense is as well that they'll face in

1164
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: the weeks to come once the season gets rolling. But Josh,

1165
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 1: from a deep ball perspective, from a technique perspective, from

1166
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: a connection perspective, I think you can look at him

1167
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: and see that he's made strides in the right direction

1168
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: for all of that. Now, Brian day Ball said today,

1169
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: my confidence in Josh Allen is never going to waiver.

1170
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 1: But there is still a lot that he can improve

1171
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: on and still a lot that he can get better at. So,

1172
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: of course, every single day is a new day for Josh.

1173
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 1: Every single day. He wants to get better. He's said

1174
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: multiple times. Some days are great days for me. Some

1175
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: days are not so great days for me. It just

1176
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: depends on how the balls coming off my hands and

1177
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: getting into those receivers hands. So I expect a lot

1178
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: out of this guy this season based on what he's shown,

1179
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: based on how his teammates have talked about him, and

1180
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,280
Speaker 1: based on how the coaching staff has talked about him.

1181
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: That's awesome news for the Bills that he has been

1182
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 1: so improved in training camp. Scary for the rest of

1183
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: the league. In my opinion, If you get improved play

1184
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 1: a quarterback upon with this defense and all of the

1185
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: weapons that you have. Who's been the offensive rookie of

1186
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 1: training camp for you? I'm sure you guys already know

1187
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: this one, because this player has been talked about so

1188
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: much throughout training camp. It has to be Gabriel Davis,

1189
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: the UCF product getting drafted in the fourth round. This

1190
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 1: was a wide receiver draft that people said was so

1191
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: deep and you could get a good ride receiver through

1192
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,440
Speaker 1: the third round. Now they find Gabriel Davis in the

1193
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 1: fourth round, which I am not surprised that they found

1194
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: him because Brandon and his scouts are so good at

1195
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: their jobs that he scored twenty three touchdowns during his

1196
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 1: time at UCF, got into the record books for a

1197
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: few different things. His average per reception I think was

1198
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: around sixteen point one yards per catch for his career

1199
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: at UCF. This is someone who wants to know the

1200
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: entire routree, wants to play every single position at receiver,

1201
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: is willing to do that, has a confidence about himself,

1202
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: I think coming into this training camp, just how he's

1203
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: shown that he knows the playbook to his fellow teammates

1204
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:40,440
Speaker 1: has been impressive as well. Isaiah Hodgens said that he

1205
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: and Gabriel Davis worked on note cards together with this

1206
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: offense because it was a tough one to get down.

1207
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: And John Brown had had quite a few things to

1208
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: say about the rookie receivers and that they're helping the

1209
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 1: veterans learn this offense. So a lot of good things

1210
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: have come out of camp when it comes two players

1211
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: talking about Davis and the other rookies, but man, Gabriel

1212
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: Davis has had some great catches throughout camp, and anytime

1213
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 1: there is a tough ball that comes his way, whether

1214
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: he is being tightly covered or whether it's a tough

1215
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 1: catch to make, he does everything he can to make

1216
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 1: that catch. And I think that's one thing that the

1217
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: Bill's coaching staff loves about him is his body and

1218
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: his effort and his physicality when he's on the field

1219
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: where one Bills live with Maddie glab talking about the

1220
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: Bills training camp standouts. We've got the offensive and defensive MVP.

1221
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: Most improved offensive rookie. Okay, who's the defensive rookie that

1222
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: stood out to you, Maddie? Defensive rookie. There's not too

1223
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: many defensive rookies that we drafted this year, so I'll

1224
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: give it to aj Epanessa. I think when he came

1225
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 1: into this team, he was tasked with something that's not

1226
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: the easiest thing to do. Eric Washington and Leslie Fraser

1227
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: asked him, you need to learn all four positions on

1228
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: this defensive line, and as a rookie who played in

1229
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:12,920
Speaker 1: a different defense, your eyes may be quite wide coming

1230
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: into this team with the task as tall as that.

1231
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: But he has a great room to lean on full

1232
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: of veteran defensive lineman that has have played for so

1233
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 1: much time and have a great amount of experience in

1234
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: the NFL. And there's been flashes from him during this

1235
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 1: training camp, whether it's rushing the passer, whether it's things

1236
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 1: that he's done in O line, D line individual drills,

1237
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: blowing past a couple offensive lineman. I like his size,

1238
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:48,080
Speaker 1: I like his speed in the combine. People said he's

1239
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 1: not the fastest. He's not the fastest, but I think

1240
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: how he comes off the line of this line of

1241
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 1: scrimmage with his physicality is something that's going to be

1242
01:06:57,040 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 1: great for this team. And I think they'll find a

1243
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 1: way to you use him in certain packages this year. Yeah,

1244
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: there's not many times we're going to ask aja to

1245
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: run a forty yard dash during a play. It's a

1246
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 1: short burst and that has been impressive to me as

1247
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 1: well from the clips I've seen of him through training

1248
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: camp as well as his college film. And then last

1249
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 1: one for me, who's been the biggest camp surprise for you, Bettie?

1250
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: This one's a little tough. There's two guys that I

1251
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: think are worthy of this award, and the first one

1252
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: is a rookie and it's Tyler Bass, the kicker. They

1253
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: drafted him because of what they saw out of him

1254
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 1: in the Senior Bowl. Everybody was talking about this kid's

1255
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:46,479
Speaker 1: strong leg and how he can make these long long

1256
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: field goals and that he would go and put it

1257
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 1: on social media too, about making you know, sixty yard

1258
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 1: field goals and things like that, and I think all

1259
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 1: of us were thinking, Okay, let's just wait and see

1260
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 1: until he gets to camp so he can actually proved this.

1261
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: And also, it's not easy to kick in Buffalo again

1262
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: with the weather and the wind, that's something that's tough

1263
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,680
Speaker 1: to do. But he's shown time and time again that

1264
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 1: he's a talented kicker. Yesterday during training camp, let me

1265
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: check my notes, he had a make and a miss,

1266
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: so He missed at fifty five yard field goal yesterday

1267
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: during the scrimmage portion and made a forty one yard

1268
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 1: field goal during the scrimmage portion. Made two extra points

1269
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 1: as well. The day before that, he was seven for

1270
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: seven when it came to field goals. So this is

1271
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: this is someone who I think can help on this team.

1272
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: Of course, we saw Stephen Hauschk was released yesterday. Hate

1273
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: to see him leave, But a rookie like this comes

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Speaker 1: in and I think with his strength and with his

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Speaker 1: leg he can do some great things with this offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no question about quickly. Isaiah McKenzie. This is someone who's

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Speaker 1: who's been on the team last season and he's your

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01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,720
Speaker 1: gadget typewide receiver, he's your jet sweep guy. But when

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Speaker 1: he's been fed the ball in training camp, he's made

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Speaker 1: quite a few catches and really his showcase his speed.

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Speaker 1: Brian dave Ball talked about isa McKenzie to Get today,

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01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: called him an energizer. Bunny said he's always on the

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Speaker 1: go and is someone who's going to find a role

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Speaker 1: for himself in that wide receiving room. Yeah, there's no

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Speaker 1: question every team wants a guy who's dynamite with a

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Speaker 1: ball in his hands, isah mckenzis. He certainly falls into

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Speaker 1: that into that category if they can get him the

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Speaker 1: ball somehow, some way. That's when you see the other

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator kind of hold his breath and say, oh

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01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: my gosh, somebody get him. And also, I will say

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Speaker 1: it's impressive for Tyler bast to come in and beat

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Speaker 1: out a kicker with the credentials of Stephen Houshka. I

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01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 1: know that Stephen Houshka has you know, has been in

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Speaker 1: the league thirteen years going into his third teenth year.

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01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: But there's no question it's hard to beat out a

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Speaker 1: guy with the track record of Steven Haushka. And hats

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Speaker 1: off to Tyler Bass for at least for the moment

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Speaker 1: getting that done. Now, the last one I add for you, Mattie,

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Speaker 1: who's a comeback player of the Year. I mean, there's

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01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:19,639
Speaker 1: so many things that happened during during a season where guys,

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01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: you know, struggle at times during a season, then they

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Speaker 1: come back and you know who has shown this year

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01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: to have bounced back from maybe what was a subpar

1304
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 1: last year, or an injury riddle last year, or what

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01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:35,640
Speaker 1: have you. My best comeback for training camp has to

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01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:40,440
Speaker 1: be Harrison Phillips. I think his presence on the defensive

1307
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: line was missed to his personality, his work ethic. He

1308
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: tore that ACL last season, I think in the second

1309
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: or third game of the season and missed the rest

1310
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: of the season, unfortunately, after having a really productive first season,

1311
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: and now he comes back to the team completely held

1312
01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: during training camp and in the strides that he went

1313
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 1: through this off season in particular to make sure he

1314
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 1: was where he needed to be to where he could

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01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 1: come to training camp and hit the ground run and

1316
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: was crazy. I remember him talking about being at home

1317
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:21,000
Speaker 1: during quarantine and trying to be on FaceTime with a

1318
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: coach and with a person from the training staff to

1319
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:28,640
Speaker 1: make sure what he was doing was correct. And he

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01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,679
Speaker 1: said his girlfriend would would take video of him doing

1321
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 1: certain exercises or certain drills and then she would send

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01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: it off to a coach and to a training staff

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01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,759
Speaker 1: member and they would look at it and give him feedback.

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01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:44,719
Speaker 1: So you know, doing that every single day is not easy.

1325
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: In doing it with a smile on your face is

1326
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 1: not easy either. And when he spoke to the media

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01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: about being back in practices at training camp, I mean

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01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:56,920
Speaker 1: you could just see how happy he was that he

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01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,640
Speaker 1: had finally made it, and I think a lot of

1330
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 1: his teammates are really pumped that he's back on the

1331
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 1: line as well, because he's another young defensive lineman who

1332
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 1: can add depth to the defensive line, which is something

1333
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: that they certainly need with the way that they want

1334
01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 1: to play these defensive linemen. Maddie, Thanks, it's great having

1335
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: you on. I'm glad we had your eyes and ears

1336
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 1: out at the practice yesterday and throughout camp. Thanks for

1337
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 1: doing that for us and the Mattie Awards. Uh, this

1338
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: is that was a good group right there. I will

1339
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 1: hope that it is the precursor to a fantastic season.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Maddie, No problem, guys, good to chat again. All right,

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01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab coming on One Bill's Live. We're gonna be back.

1342
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break and come back. Brian Dabele

1343
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators, got a few things to say. We're also

1344
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:42,719
Speaker 1: going to open up the fan mail bag. Also, Jim Kelly,

1345
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: Steve Young coming up later in the program. One Bill's

1346
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Grain Deal.

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01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 1: Welcome back to one of those lives. Thanks to Mattie

1348
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: glad for coming in last half hour giving us her

1349
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: Mattie Awards for Training Bills Training Camp. You can go

1350
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: back and listen to that on the podcast at the

1351
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot com or the Bills app or at

1352
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 1: Spotify and on all the podcast platforms that the Bills use.

1353
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: It would. We're gonna open up the fan mail bag now.

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01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Brian Dabole sound on in a minute too,

1355
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:25,720
Speaker 1: but we're gonna open up the fan mail bag. We

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01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 1: got people sitting and send tons of questions. We put

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01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 1: it out there to you are loyal listeners about questions

1358
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: you might have for Eric Wood or me. And hear

1359
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:38,639
Speaker 1: the first batch that we're gonna get to this from Justin. Justin, Eric,

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01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: what wings do you like best? Drums or flat? Drums?

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01:13:44,360 --> 01:13:47,719
Speaker 1: Are flat? I mean appreciate. I appreciate them both. If

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Speaker 1: I had to choose one, maybe drums, Maybe you get

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01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: a little bit more meat there, but I appreciate them both.

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01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 1: I don't discriminate. I don't I don't order all of

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Speaker 1: one or the other one. I would rings. How about you, Steve, Yeah,

1366
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,720
Speaker 1: same with you. I don't order him special, but I

1367
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 1: like flats better. I like flats better there. They seem

1368
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 1: to be crunchier a little bit for me. I like

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01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: the you know, just I like them better. What can

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Speaker 1: I say, Mack call me crazy? Uh? They dipped good too, Okay.

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01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: So from Max, that's good. You don't really you like

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01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:19,719
Speaker 1: them both, right? I mean you're like you're an offensive

1373
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: lineman too. By the way, So I for nothing, I

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01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: popped up your bio just so I didn't make any

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01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: like to like say you were a nineteen year VET

1376
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 1: when you're only nine year vet. That kind of thing. Bro,

1377
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: you gotta update your bio on Wikipedia. They still got

1378
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,599
Speaker 1: you like three fourteen, you're looking like a chubby little

1379
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:39,720
Speaker 1: sixth grader on those biopicks you got. You know, that's

1380
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: that's perfect, that's all good. I owned that I got.

1381
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: I got paid to be fat for a long time

1382
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 1: and I'm cool with that. Yeah. I was like, wow,

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01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's not the guy that No, it is him,

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01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah. I was laughing at because we all

1385
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:54,560
Speaker 1: have those pictures from our past that you know, the

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01:14:54,880 --> 01:15:00,160
Speaker 1: that are different and you guys exactly right. So you

1387
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: got you're right. You gotta own it, Okay. From Max,

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01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:05,200
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis has been the training camp surprise. Does that

1389
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 1: transfer into a substantial role with a healthy amount of

1390
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 1: playing time of this season or is it likely not

1391
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: to A lot of mouths mouths to feed, would like

1392
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: to hear your opinion. That's interesting too from Max and Eric.

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01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: I'll get your take on it. What do you think

1394
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 1: you got? You got Stefan Diggs, you got Cole Beasley,

1395
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 1: you got John Brown, and this Gabe Davis as well

1396
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: as we don't know. Everybody says he's playing great. Awesome,

1397
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:30,479
Speaker 1: that's awesome. We've seen other rookies play great and then

1398
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:32,840
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they're covering kicks for seventeen weeks.

1399
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:36,680
Speaker 1: What how big of a role is it even possible

1400
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 1: for Gabe Davis to carve out on an offense that

1401
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: likes to run three wides not four? Yeah? I think

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01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:46,640
Speaker 1: I think right now where you're sitting, you you have

1403
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: your three started receivers in place, with your slop being

1404
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and John Brown and Diggs on the outside.

1405
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:55,839
Speaker 1: Where this is great as it provides you incredible depth

1406
01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 1: behind those guys, and you always want to hit on

1407
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:01,640
Speaker 1: your draft picks and this just it appears at this

1408
01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 1: point another great draft pick by the Buffalo Bills and

1409
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,639
Speaker 1: Brandon being in his staff, it just seems like another one.

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01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 1: What's his role early on? I don't know. Maybe they

1411
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: get to some more for wide receiver sets simply because

1412
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:18,839
Speaker 1: you have for true receivers you like. I love Isaiah

1413
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: McKenzie's game. I think there's still a role for him,

1414
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 1: a role for Andre Roberts and are they traditional receiver

1415
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:29,640
Speaker 1: roles sometimes? But I love when isa McKenzie last year

1416
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 1: would be implemented in the Jet sweep, whether he got

1417
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: it or it was simply a faith that's really tough

1418
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 1: for a defense to manage. In my isamh. McKenzie can

1419
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:42,719
Speaker 1: be a good slot receiver, probably not elite slot receiver

1420
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 1: in this league, but he is elite with the ball

1421
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 1: in his hands. He makes guys miss, he makes plays.

1422
01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: You saw him really open up the Titans game the

1423
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: Titans game last year with a long run, so I

1424
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: guess it was a catch. I think it was a shovel.

1425
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:00,200
Speaker 1: But I think they all have roles. What that role

1426
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,639
Speaker 1: looks like with Gabriel Davis is tough to see now,

1427
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 1: but with any injuries, I think you have a guy,

1428
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 1: you have a ton of confidence and at this point

1429
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: to step in and make some place for you. Yeah,

1430
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: that's right. He does give you good depth, no question

1431
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 1: if he's if he's that kind of guy. But here's

1432
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:16,840
Speaker 1: the thing, if he does somehow, if he does get

1433
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: his way onto the field, so all of a sudden,

1434
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna run four wides because do you

1435
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 1: know how good that guy's got play in practice all

1436
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: the time? To get a coach NFL coaching staff to

1437
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 1: alter what they're showing, Josh Allen, what they're showing this

1438
01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:35,679
Speaker 1: offensive line, the protection schemes, they have to incorporate the people.

1439
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 1: They gotta take Dawson Knox or Devin Singletary or Zach

1440
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 1: somebody's got to come off the field. You can't just

1441
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: put an extra guy out there. Do you know how

1442
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 1: good a rookie whiteout has to play For a coaching

1443
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:51,000
Speaker 1: staff to say, you know what, let's throw that let's

1444
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 1: throw that eleven personnel away and let's go ten personnel,

1445
01:17:56,200 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: you know you gotta be like, wow, right, yeah, that's

1446
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:05,599
Speaker 1: a great point. But that's something you could do in

1447
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 1: year three with an offensive coordinator. And this is where

1448
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,559
Speaker 1: it benefits the Bills right now that they're not starting

1449
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: from scratch again with a new offensive coordinator. Like so

1450
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:16,799
Speaker 1: many teams are in this league, you can simply add

1451
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: to what you got because you have so many returning

1452
01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 1: starters from last year. But I do see your point.

1453
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 1: He is going to have to play extremely well, especially

1454
01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 1: in big moments of games. But is there a role

1455
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: with him within this team. It sure looks like it

1456
01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: because as soon as to find Diggs couldn't practice, it

1457
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: appears like he was the next man up in that

1458
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 1: receiver room to replace him on the outside. Right, And

1459
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:43,639
Speaker 1: think about this too, it would be that if he's

1460
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: playing good enough, you say, okay, we're not afraid to

1461
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 1: put him in the on the field. I'm not gonna

1462
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,120
Speaker 1: sit down John Brown or Cole Beasley or Steph Diggs

1463
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 1: of course, to get Gabe Davis on the field. But

1464
01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:57,679
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, how about this no preseason games.

1465
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:01,759
Speaker 1: Let's I'm this is me talking. I haven't seen this happening,

1466
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 1: and I'm just saying it might may be a good

1467
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:06,760
Speaker 1: idea to say, well, you know what, we don't know

1468
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: what the Jets are gonna do defensively, Let's have a

1469
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 1: four wide receiver set up and ready for Week one

1470
01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: and if it comes the right moment, let's let's throw

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01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 1: it out there, see if we can make some hay

1472
01:19:18,240 --> 01:19:19,600
Speaker 1: with it, See if they have a see if we

1473
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: can get a matchup we like. Also, what if we're,

1474
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 1: for instance, if the Bills are two touchdown lead in

1475
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: the second half, or what if you get to that

1476
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 1: you throw that four wide receiver set out there and

1477
01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now Miami's got to get ready

1478
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:34,920
Speaker 1: for that the next week. It's all the first time

1479
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:38,479
Speaker 1: anybody's gonna see this stuff, so there's gonna be a

1480
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:41,200
Speaker 1: little of that going on. I would think, not only

1481
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 1: do you have every single solitary personnel combination you can

1482
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 1: think of ready to kind of go, but you also

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01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 1: kind of want to show all of them to hamstring

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01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: the other team's ability to key on what you really

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01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:56,559
Speaker 1: want to do against them. Am I right? Yeah, you're

1486
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 1: exactly right. And as soon as you said, maybe you're

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01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,759
Speaker 1: up by two scores and you put something on film

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01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 1: that someone has to prepare for. We used to have

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01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: this rule and we'd be watching New England film of

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01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,840
Speaker 1: their blitzes and we'd watch so at the beginning of

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01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:10,840
Speaker 1: each clip. When you're watching film in the meeting room,

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01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 1: it'll say the situation because a lot of them are

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01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: cut ups. So you're not watching a game in chron

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01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 1: and launch order. You're watching cutups. Maybe it's third and

1495
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 1: three to seven, third and eight plus, whatever it may be,

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01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 1: and you're trying to find tendencies. Well, we would find

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01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,720
Speaker 1: this one random blitz by the Patriots, and then you

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01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 1: got to prepare for it and all that. And I'd

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01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 1: say back up real quick, look at the score. It

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01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:36,200
Speaker 1: would always be them up by two or three scores

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01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:38,439
Speaker 1: second half of a game. Will they do something that

1502
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,760
Speaker 1: wasn't even structurally sound just so you have to get

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01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: it on film, just so you have to prepare all

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01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: week for it, And so we would. You know, you

1505
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:47,840
Speaker 1: would always have to be conscientious that offenses do it

1506
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 1: as well. You put in a package, you put in

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01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 1: a formation, whatever it may be. That was the old

1508
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: wildcat philosophy with Rex Ryan. A lot of times. Yes

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01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:58,759
Speaker 1: he liked the wildcat. He also knew as a defensive

1510
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 1: coordinator that when it team runs a good amount of wildcat,

1511
01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: you have to spend a majority, not a majority, a

1512
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: significant portion of practice throughout the week to prepare for it. Well,

1513
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:11,599
Speaker 1: now you're not prepared for the rest of the offense.

1514
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:14,640
Speaker 1: You're worried about this goofy formation. It's easy for the

1515
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 1: offensive run because you're simply just napping to the running

1516
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:19,599
Speaker 1: back and you put the quarterback and receiver and you're

1517
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:23,879
Speaker 1: calling the same plays, the same terminology, same blocking schemes.

1518
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:26,720
Speaker 1: But the defense has to now prepared for that same philosophy.

1519
01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 1: Great points, du Yeah, it's exactly right, and I think

1520
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a ton of gamesmanship in Week one

1521
01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 1: or two of the NFL season coming up this season.

1522
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: I think Sean McDermott told us there's a ton of

1523
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:39,640
Speaker 1: apprehension on a normal year, even after you see him

1524
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: for four weeks on preseason film, there's a lot of

1525
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:45,120
Speaker 1: apprehension about what they're gonna look like on opening Day,

1526
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 1: and now with the lockdown on the media content and

1527
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 1: what people are allowed and not to allowed to report on,

1528
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be an absolute It's going to be

1529
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: the Wild West on Week one of the regular season.

1530
01:21:57,360 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: I just know it. It's gonna be crazy. I'm thinking

1531
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 1: about it makes me sick to my stomach, you know,

1532
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:04,720
Speaker 1: in apprehension about what's going to happen. So because you

1533
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 1: know somebody's gonna get something. Floki. Yeah. I think about

1534
01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:10,679
Speaker 1: how the Bills started the season last year against the Jets.

1535
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:14,640
Speaker 1: They run their normal offense all through the preseason and

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01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,600
Speaker 1: they come out of the Jets against the Jets in

1537
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel. So you got pat to Markov on

1538
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 1: the field as the fullback, two wide receivers in the

1539
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: running back, in the tight end. You bring out twenty

1540
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 1: one personnel and shift to empty set a five wide look.

1541
01:22:29,160 --> 01:22:31,679
Speaker 1: You shift to that three times in a row, going

1542
01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:34,680
Speaker 1: no huddle. You pick up all their defensive checks at

1543
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 1: that point, because now when you shift, it's a road game,

1544
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 1: you're at the Jets. They have to signal all of

1545
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,479
Speaker 1: their checks because you just went to five wide. Now

1546
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:45,599
Speaker 1: you pick up on all those. Now, Josh Allen has

1547
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: a way better picture of the coveragees he's going to

1548
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 1: see throughout the game. Sometimes you just get lined up

1549
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 1: and when they think you're gonna shift out of it,

1550
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 1: then you run a quick hitting run play and they

1551
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 1: start the season like that. What's it look like in

1552
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:02,600
Speaker 1: twenty twenty when you have all these new offensive coordinators

1553
01:23:02,600 --> 01:23:06,439
Speaker 1: throughout the NFL and and you have no film on them.

1554
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:10,080
Speaker 1: It's crazy I I can't get over the fact most

1555
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: people don't give it that much thought. I'm thinking it

1556
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 1: is gonna be absolutely off the hook everywhere in the NFL.

1557
01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 1: Every single game is gonna be like what what are you?

1558
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: What is that? You know it's gonna happen. I know

1559
01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 1: it is. Um Yeah, excited? Week two? Yeah? Get week two?

1560
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 1: Gets c chan Galilee. What he's gonna do coming out

1561
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 1: of You know, he's been out of football for a

1562
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: few years and now you get him coming in as

1563
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator down in Miami, so he's still got

1564
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 1: fits or maybe it's too uh, but they had some

1565
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,200
Speaker 1: pretty good success last year, and I know from talking

1566
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 1: to Fits he really liked their offensive coordinator last year

1567
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:47,720
Speaker 1: and a lot of stuff they were doing. And that

1568
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: was the first time he had ever been in that

1569
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:55,439
Speaker 1: New England Josh McDaniel's type offense, that Chad o'sheay was

1570
01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 1: down there running. Now are there? Does Fits have any

1571
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: say in this Chan Gailey offense? I want to call

1572
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:03,960
Speaker 1: it Chan Gailey two point zero with Fits, but I

1573
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:05,960
Speaker 1: guess he had them with the Jets too, so it's

1574
01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 1: three point zero. But it's you know, it's it's little

1575
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 1: things like that this year. That are fascinating to me. Yep,

1576
01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: that's it, Steve task rack word. One more question from

1577
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:15,800
Speaker 1: the mail back. We got a ton of these and

1578
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:17,599
Speaker 1: we're gonna get one more of a squeezing one more

1579
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:19,559
Speaker 1: before the break. This is from Jackie says, now that

1580
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: the kicking battle is quote unquote resolved, do you have

1581
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: any concerns about fielding a rookie kicker? Remember when they

1582
01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:28,920
Speaker 1: cut Steve Christie and they kept Jake arians Arians was brutal.

1583
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: I don't want the season derailed by an inexperienced kicker.

1584
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 1: His talent isn't in question, It's more about consistency at

1585
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:38,599
Speaker 1: the NFL Later, at the NFL level, What do you think,

1586
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 1: Eric about keeping a kick you drafted him, it's got

1587
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 1: a huge leg. What about your feelings about going into

1588
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:48,800
Speaker 1: a season with a rookie kicker, particularly one who's never

1589
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:52,760
Speaker 1: kicked in an NFL game. Yeah. For a team like

1590
01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: the Bills that has so many returning starters, so much

1591
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: returning scheme, they're one of the most predictable teams of

1592
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:01,880
Speaker 1: what they'll look like, how consistent they'll be week in

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01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 1: a week out, I would assume. Now you bring in

1594
01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:07,719
Speaker 1: a rookie kicker. Could it derail everything? I see Jack's

1595
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:10,440
Speaker 1: point exactly here. It was one of my biggest concerns

1596
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: with moving on from Stephen Houshkill, where maybe his legs

1597
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 1: wearing down a little bit, maybe he can't put every

1598
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:17,639
Speaker 1: kick out of the back of the end zone, maybe

1599
01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: he's not as accurate from fifty plus anymore. But man,

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01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 1: you know what you're getting on Sundays from Steve. Is

1601
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass going to be an improvement? I sure hope. So,

1602
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: I sure hope they have the confidence in them just

1603
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:32,639
Speaker 1: maybe stick through some early season struggles if he has any.

1604
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:35,800
Speaker 1: But you know, I have faith in Brandon being that

1605
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:38,240
Speaker 1: he's not going to make a hasty decision at kicker

1606
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: to save a few dollars against the salary cap. I

1607
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 1: say few. It's easy to say few when you're talking

1608
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:46,799
Speaker 1: about a hundred and eighty million dollars salary cap at times,

1609
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: but you know, you save cap money. But I don't

1610
01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:53,719
Speaker 1: think that's the reason they got rid of Stephen Houshka.

1611
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of confidence Tyler Bass, which

1612
01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: is a great sign. I agree with you. If you're

1613
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to make a lot of tough decisions this year.

1614
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:03,160
Speaker 1: It's not just about your rookie kickers and keeping him

1615
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 1: over of a long time veteran guy. You're having to

1616
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 1: make decisions on rookies and guys who are on the

1617
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:11,439
Speaker 1: bubble and players who you've had for a couple of

1618
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 1: years who maybe now are getting outshined by a younger player.

1619
01:26:15,520 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: And you have no preseason games to go by, you

1620
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:19,559
Speaker 1: have none of that stuff to go by. You're just

1621
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to make the decisions with them information at hand. Yeah,

1622
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 1: and luckily for kickers you're getting you can run some

1623
01:26:28,240 --> 01:26:30,880
Speaker 1: live reps now, and you're they're gonna see what they

1624
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: see on Sundays. Essentially, you know, it's not like it's

1625
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: sped up at other positions. You're not looking at a

1626
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: receiver saying, hey, can he when the lights come on?

1627
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 1: Can he truly separate? Or is this just practice? You're

1628
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: still kicking a football. Maybe I'm making it seem making

1629
01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:48,760
Speaker 1: special team semisier than the one than they are. I

1630
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 1: don't want to offend any special teamers out there in

1631
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:54,560
Speaker 1: special team land, like yourself, cr in the path acapees

1632
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 1: and all that, But essentially they're kicking a ball in Sundays,

1633
01:26:57,760 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: and you could get a pretty good indication that throughout practice.

1634
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Eric Wood coming back. Hey, we're gonna take

1635
01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:06,280
Speaker 1: a quick break here. We've got Brian Dable soundbites, Steve,

1636
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 1: Steve Young, and Jim Kelly coming up at the two

1637
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,920
Speaker 1: o'clock hour. Brian Dable soundbites and more of the mail

1638
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:15,200
Speaker 1: bag coming up after this one live It's gonna buy

1639
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:29,920
Speaker 1: Collid to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to

1640
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: one of those lives. Steve Tasker, Eric Would here till

1641
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 1: three o'clock. Coming up at the two o'clock hour, Jim Kelly,

1642
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 1: Steve Young coming at you about the No Punt Game,

1643
01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:40,720
Speaker 1: the game that took release back in nineteen ninety two.

1644
01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:43,240
Speaker 1: We are going down the list of of our mail

1645
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: bag now. I gotta I gotta admit, Bills fans may

1646
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 1: be aware of this, but Brian Dable comes from the

1647
01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:54,720
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick school of coaching, and he's been around the

1648
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: block of a number of times. I mean, he played it.

1649
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: He coached right before he came to Buffalo's in Alabama,

1650
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: won the national championship and all of that. And uh

1651
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 1: so we were gonna bring you sound bites from his

1652
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:10,559
Speaker 1: post practice but he sounds. Yeah, he didn't give us anything,

1653
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:12,720
Speaker 1: so none of it's interesting, So we're gonna get it.

1654
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna skip it. So it was like, yeah, okay,

1655
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 1: we're doing good that kind of stuff. It's like, so

1656
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:21,760
Speaker 1: we're just gonna stick with the mail bag. We didn't

1657
01:28:21,760 --> 01:28:24,599
Speaker 1: get any good sound from Brian Dable, so we're gonna

1658
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:27,479
Speaker 1: we're gonna stick with you. Your questions to Eric Wood

1659
01:28:27,479 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 1: and myself Steve Tasker here on One Bill's Live mail Bag.

1660
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:32,519
Speaker 1: Here we go from p W chef, here we go.

1661
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:34,519
Speaker 1: How impactful will it be for the players not to

1662
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 1: have fans in the stands this season? Also, how much

1663
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 1: will it impact the players, especially the rookies, to not

1664
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to play in any preseason games. All right, first,

1665
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: let's take the fan question first. He would I it's

1666
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: a difference, There's no question about it, particularly in a

1667
01:28:50,400 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 1: town like Buffalo. Now, the rookies won't know any better,

1668
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:59,680
Speaker 1: but it's it's a difference maker, I think in Buffalo. Absolutely,

1669
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 1: you're talking about one of the best home field advantages

1670
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You're talking about cold December games that

1671
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:09,320
Speaker 1: you know you walk into the stadium and it's you know,

1672
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:13,040
Speaker 1: you're maybe your juices aren't flowing yet, the weather is terrible,

1673
01:29:13,080 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: and you walk out in front of seventy some thousand

1674
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:19,679
Speaker 1: screaming Bills fans, you drive in through the tailgates. That

1675
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 1: that impacts you as a player, That gets you going. Now,

1676
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: these guys are going to get used to performing in

1677
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,120
Speaker 1: front of no fans. Is you are very limited fans

1678
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:32,800
Speaker 1: And we heard Sean McDermott say this week it's ridiculous

1679
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 1: that they say it's fair for some stadiums to have

1680
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 1: fans and some not. And where it stands right now,

1681
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:41,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo can have zero fans, and so that that will

1682
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 1: be impactful. Where I do like this team is I

1683
01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: think it benefits players that are mature that come out

1684
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:52,360
Speaker 1: every day and handle their business, that are pros because

1685
01:29:52,400 --> 01:29:55,400
Speaker 1: those guys have already made habits and they don't that

1686
01:29:55,560 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 1: mean that they don't rise to occasions they're going crazy

1687
01:30:04,160 --> 01:30:08,120
Speaker 1: out in the control room. Oh, I see my battery died.

1688
01:30:09,439 --> 01:30:13,640
Speaker 1: Go ahead, he would go ahead, okay, But it benefits

1689
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:17,040
Speaker 1: those that are mature, that are professionals, and that's what

1690
01:30:17,160 --> 01:30:20,000
Speaker 1: this team for the Bills is made up of those

1691
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:22,400
Speaker 1: guys have made habits on the day to day basis

1692
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:28,759
Speaker 1: that will make them push through the lack of fans

1693
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 1: in the stadium. All right, hold on now, as Jay

1694
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 1: Jay Harrison gonna is going to change the battery out

1695
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:38,040
Speaker 1: of my iob so I can actually hear what you're saying.

1696
01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:40,240
Speaker 1: I know I kind of interrupt you. I apologize for that.

1697
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:42,840
Speaker 1: One of the things we're talking about too, is the

1698
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 1: second question is and I heard Bill Belichick this morning

1699
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: live with the New England Media saying, listen, the players

1700
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:51,360
Speaker 1: got to bring their own energy down. They can't feed

1701
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: off the fans. And there's something to be said for that.

1702
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:55,599
Speaker 1: You just bring your own energy. You feed off each other.

1703
01:30:55,920 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 1: It is a different way of doing it, but it's

1704
01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:01,000
Speaker 1: gonna suck a little something next out of the players

1705
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:03,679
Speaker 1: to have to bring that energy there themselves, to get,

1706
01:31:03,960 --> 01:31:07,360
Speaker 1: you know, motivated and bring it for themselves, because there's

1707
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:10,800
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. You know, You're right. The fans energize you,

1708
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:15,519
Speaker 1: they really do. You've got to energize yourself now, and

1709
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 1: that's a difference. Yeah, And that's where having a motivation

1710
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:22,880
Speaker 1: do I need to do sign language with James very fast?

1711
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 1: It's like a NASCAR just as I compliment the production

1712
01:31:26,360 --> 01:31:29,479
Speaker 1: team to start the show. Now, now I'll give him

1713
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:34,320
Speaker 1: some green bizing good one. Yeah, no, um, yeah, this

1714
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:38,760
Speaker 1: is having vocal leaders on your team, having a motivational

1715
01:31:38,800 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 1: head coach can be more important than it usually is.

1716
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:45,640
Speaker 1: We talked earlier in the show about Marvel Leave's pregame

1717
01:31:45,720 --> 01:31:49,160
Speaker 1: speech for the Oakland game was simply the nothing needs

1718
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,479
Speaker 1: to be said. Well maybe this year there is some

1719
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 1: things that need to be said. It needs to be

1720
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 1: said throughout the game to keep your energy up, to

1721
01:31:55,360 --> 01:31:57,760
Speaker 1: keep your juices flowing, to keep your adrenaline at a

1722
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,800
Speaker 1: high enough spot, or you can go bang into someone

1723
01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 1: and play this physical game for seventy plus plays on

1724
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:07,320
Speaker 1: a Sunday afternoon. So yes, I think it impacts it

1725
01:32:07,560 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: in a lot of these guys. Even coming from high school.

1726
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 1: You think about how many of these guys come from Florida, Texas, Ohio, California.

1727
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:16,840
Speaker 1: Where you're playing in front of twenty thousand people in

1728
01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: high school. Then you go to these big colleges. Now

1729
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:22,639
Speaker 1: for the first time since you were probably in Little League,

1730
01:32:22,680 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 1: you're playing in front of you know, a quiet crowd. Yeah,

1731
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 1: your parents and your grandparents, right. I mean, that's the

1732
01:32:28,400 --> 01:32:30,840
Speaker 1: only people are gonna watch, and even now they're not

1733
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 1: going to be there. And also the last thing, no

1734
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:37,559
Speaker 1: preseason games. How apprehensive as a coaching staff are you

1735
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:41,080
Speaker 1: to just, you know, throw your rookie out there, no

1736
01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:45,240
Speaker 1: matter what position he plays, into an environment he's never

1737
01:32:45,240 --> 01:32:47,600
Speaker 1: seen before, to speed he's never seen before, with the

1738
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:51,519
Speaker 1: intensity of an NFL game, real quick before we break. Yeah,

1739
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:53,799
Speaker 1: you know, I always said it goes from a different

1740
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 1: speed from training camp practice to the preseason to the

1741
01:32:57,360 --> 01:33:00,679
Speaker 1: regular season. And you're skipping that that middle step. Hopefully

1742
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:02,920
Speaker 1: there's not injuries that come from that. Hopefully it's not

1743
01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:05,680
Speaker 1: a sloppy product. I'm sure you know, there's gonna be

1744
01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:07,920
Speaker 1: some kinks to work out. I know that personally. I

1745
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:10,920
Speaker 1: always did something dumb on film during the preseason, and

1746
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:13,280
Speaker 1: I thank god it was a preseason game and not

1747
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:16,040
Speaker 1: a regular season game. Whether it was slipping in shoes

1748
01:33:16,080 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: that I was trying out that year, or a botched snap,

1749
01:33:19,439 --> 01:33:21,639
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. If I was ever trying something

1750
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 1: I was gonna do in the preseason, and I was

1751
01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:25,920
Speaker 1: extremely thankful it wasn't a regular season game when that happened.

1752
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:28,800
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna take a break. Steve Tasker, Eric

1753
01:33:28,840 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 1: Wood here with you till three o'clock. Coming up just

1754
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 1: after this break, Steve Young Jim Kelly, the two Hall

1755
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterbacks, coming on to talk about the No

1756
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:38,000
Speaker 1: Punt Game nineteen ninety two. Coming up after the break.

1757
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Clyde to Health from Buffalo

1758
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,519
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio, and we are broadcasting live from the Seneca Studios.

1759
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 1: Nothing else comes close. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

1760
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and Eric Wood along with you till three

1761
01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:03,280
Speaker 1: o'clock hour. We are pleased to be joined right now

1762
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:06,760
Speaker 1: by a couple of special guests, guys who I've been

1763
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:09,040
Speaker 1: acquainted with for quite some time. Of course, Jim Kelly,

1764
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. I

1765
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,040
Speaker 1: played with him for a long time. And I've run

1766
01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:16,400
Speaker 1: across paths and cross paths with Steve Young as well

1767
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:19,599
Speaker 1: in my broadcast days with CBS uh he of course

1768
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:22,799
Speaker 1: in the broadcast industry as well. Steve Young, Jim Kelly, guys,

1769
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 1: thank you so much for honoring us with your presence.

1770
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 1: It's great to see you guys. Look great Steve out

1771
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:30,439
Speaker 1: in California. How are you doing out there everything okay

1772
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:32,960
Speaker 1: during the pandemic? Good doing good. Good to see Jimmy

1773
01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 1: on the on the video here and love him and

1774
01:34:36,240 --> 01:34:39,280
Speaker 1: you guys like, I'm so grateful you picked a loss

1775
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:41,599
Speaker 1: for me to come on and talk about. It's really

1776
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:44,200
Speaker 1: it's super exciting. I can't wait to tell you how

1777
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:48,320
Speaker 1: great the loss was for us. Okay, just so you know,

1778
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:50,720
Speaker 1: but wonderful to see you guys and kind of go

1779
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:53,240
Speaker 1: through some some fun history. Well, let me just say this,

1780
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 1: you should have played better, Steve. You only threw for

1781
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:58,519
Speaker 1: four hundred and forty nine yards and three t ds

1782
01:34:58,600 --> 01:35:01,559
Speaker 1: and you were you know, only twenty six to thirty

1783
01:35:01,560 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 1: seven as well. Is an off day for you, right,

1784
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 1: I guarantee you see that. We you know, I was

1785
01:35:07,520 --> 01:35:10,439
Speaker 1: replacing Joe that day, and I'm sure after the game,

1786
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone said, well Joe would have been five

1787
01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:17,679
Speaker 1: hundred six hundred. That's the world we live in, Steve.

1788
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:20,320
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, you know you think you think back, now,

1789
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:23,320
Speaker 1: there's been three games of that type of no punt

1790
01:35:23,360 --> 01:35:27,160
Speaker 1: games since that game in nineteen ninety two, but up

1791
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:29,880
Speaker 1: to that point that had never happened. Now, one of

1792
01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:31,800
Speaker 1: the reasons is that both of you guys made sure

1793
01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:34,559
Speaker 1: it happened by throwing an interception. So we really never

1794
01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:38,800
Speaker 1: got to the fourth down in those series. But what

1795
01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:41,040
Speaker 1: if you can eat her? And I'll start with you, Jim,

1796
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:44,759
Speaker 1: during that game, could you guys feel it was different?

1797
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: Start with you, Jim. Could you feel that was a

1798
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:48,760
Speaker 1: wild game that was going to be that way from

1799
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:52,000
Speaker 1: the start to finish? No, I really didn't. I knew

1800
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:54,120
Speaker 1: it was shouldn't be a good game. I knew that

1801
01:35:54,240 --> 01:35:56,800
Speaker 1: with our offense way we've been playing, I knew her

1802
01:35:56,880 --> 01:36:00,599
Speaker 1: to do well. Um, but when you play at an

1803
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 1: opposing teams field with the fans, you never know how

1804
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:06,680
Speaker 1: it's going to go. And I know that a lot

1805
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:08,559
Speaker 1: of times. I'd go into a lot of games. I'm

1806
01:36:08,560 --> 01:36:11,519
Speaker 1: sure Steve will say the same thing, where at times

1807
01:36:11,760 --> 01:36:15,679
Speaker 1: the defenses will not allow you to throw the deep ball.

1808
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:18,479
Speaker 1: They will have quarter role with help behind them, and

1809
01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:21,839
Speaker 1: when you have James Lofton, Andre Reid and done Beebe,

1810
01:36:22,920 --> 01:36:25,360
Speaker 1: you know what, I probably would do the same thing.

1811
01:36:25,479 --> 01:36:28,880
Speaker 1: But I think they may be underestimated a little bit.

1812
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 1: Pete Metz Lars are tight ends who had a big game,

1813
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:35,600
Speaker 1: but overall it turned out to be a one that

1814
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:37,679
Speaker 1: you know, we had to come back to. I think

1815
01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:41,639
Speaker 1: from what I recollect halftime, you guys are up maybe

1816
01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:45,320
Speaker 1: two touched on drivals. Yes, and Steve, you're right, I mean,

1817
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:47,160
Speaker 1: what kind of game was this for you? Because, as

1818
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:49,920
Speaker 1: you said, you took over for Montana in this game,

1819
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:52,040
Speaker 1: and that was at a time when you just had

1820
01:36:52,080 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 1: to you had to be just begging to get on

1821
01:36:54,360 --> 01:36:56,519
Speaker 1: the field for any reason. Of course he was injured here.

1822
01:36:56,800 --> 01:36:58,920
Speaker 1: But to go out and have that kind of success

1823
01:36:59,360 --> 01:37:01,840
Speaker 1: after a game like that, did you like, hey, come on, man,

1824
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:04,800
Speaker 1: you gotta let me play. Uh. And not only that,

1825
01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 1: but just you know, that was an ongoing drama. And

1826
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 1: maybe in my own mind, but you know, for for sure, uh,

1827
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:16,400
Speaker 1: and I you know, it was a great opportunity. Um

1828
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 1: uh we had a great team, uh, you know. And

1829
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:23,160
Speaker 1: and and to have no punts and be the first

1830
01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:25,559
Speaker 1: one to ever do it probably made sense because the

1831
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:28,760
Speaker 1: game was was tougher, tighter. I mean, to have it

1832
01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: happened three times since then does make sense to me

1833
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:35,640
Speaker 1: because the you know, the league's rules have changed. Uh,

1834
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:38,160
Speaker 1: the game has become more college like in a sense,

1835
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:40,519
Speaker 1: they don't have the players and the coaches can't be

1836
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 1: together nearly as much. Um, and so yeah, that makes

1837
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,599
Speaker 1: more sense to me today, but back in nineteen ninety

1838
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:49,080
Speaker 1: two to have that, that's a that's an amazing uh

1839
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 1: uh moment. Uh. And it really goes to the offenses.

1840
01:37:54,120 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 1: It goes to how we really were two very good,

1841
01:37:57,520 --> 01:37:59,760
Speaker 1: good defenses as well as we moved out throughout the

1842
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:01,640
Speaker 1: I think both teams went to the championship game, and

1843
01:38:01,680 --> 01:38:03,599
Speaker 1: I think it builds with the Super Bowl. We ended

1844
01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:06,519
Speaker 1: up getting beat by by the Cowboys in the championship game,

1845
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:11,000
Speaker 1: but uh, no question that both offenses were I don't know,

1846
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:13,599
Speaker 1: two of the three or four best in the league. Yeah,

1847
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:15,200
Speaker 1: no question about it. And both of you guys on

1848
01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:17,479
Speaker 1: Jim you threw for four hundred and three yards, Steve

1849
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:20,200
Speaker 1: you threw for four forty nine. You both had three touchdowns.

1850
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:22,400
Speaker 1: You both threw, like I said, the one interception. Leave

1851
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:24,120
Speaker 1: that to a special team's guy to point that out.

1852
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:26,880
Speaker 1: But this was a game, and it's and in that

1853
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 1: era and the forty nine ers getting back to Super

1854
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:32,599
Speaker 1: Bowl form, and Steve you would indeed win a Super Bowl,

1855
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:34,920
Speaker 1: and then in the next two or three years after that,

1856
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 1: Jim you would go to this Super Bowl and you'd

1857
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:40,000
Speaker 1: been to two, you go to two after this one.

1858
01:38:41,040 --> 01:38:45,800
Speaker 1: Those two teams never met in a Super Bowl. And

1859
01:38:46,000 --> 01:38:48,160
Speaker 1: if it would have been a game like that, you

1860
01:38:48,280 --> 01:38:50,960
Speaker 1: might have really re established, I mean, set a new

1861
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:53,280
Speaker 1: standard for what a championship game might have looked like,

1862
01:38:53,320 --> 01:38:57,800
Speaker 1: because that seemed that day with no punch that so

1863
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:01,559
Speaker 1: you know, right you're headed. I know that's where you're headed.

1864
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:04,639
Speaker 1: But we ended up losing the championship game to Dallas.

1865
01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:07,479
Speaker 1: Uh and uh that was the that was the Dallas

1866
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:09,479
Speaker 1: is you know, that was when they were just coming on.

1867
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:12,040
Speaker 1: And even Troy Aikman after the game said, we didn't

1868
01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 1: expect to have this kind of mediorc rise. And so

1869
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:17,479
Speaker 1: you know, I of all the games in my life

1870
01:39:17,520 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 1: that you had to remind me of, it's no one

1871
01:39:19,479 --> 01:39:21,120
Speaker 1: that I throw up in my mouth every time I

1872
01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:23,400
Speaker 1: think about it, you know, just the ninety two championship game.

1873
01:39:23,680 --> 01:39:25,880
Speaker 1: I blew it. I could have been to the Super

1874
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:28,920
Speaker 1: Bowl with Jim and Jim I apologize, I you know,

1875
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 1: I just I screwed it up. Yeah, noah, we buy

1876
01:39:31,360 --> 01:39:34,880
Speaker 1: to one one right, that's right, based on this game,

1877
01:39:35,240 --> 01:39:39,880
Speaker 1: based on this game, right, right. I went to find

1878
01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:42,240
Speaker 1: out what I was gonna wear for this. The first

1879
01:39:42,280 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 1: thing I saw I should have brought either was a hoodie.

1880
01:39:45,200 --> 01:39:49,160
Speaker 1: They had Buffalo bills and they had using gamblers on

1881
01:39:49,240 --> 01:39:51,960
Speaker 1: this Ones were number twelve and me and you have

1882
01:39:52,080 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 1: been in two battles. One when we played the usflum

1883
01:39:56,320 --> 01:39:58,880
Speaker 1: against each other and then of course, uh the No

1884
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:01,519
Speaker 1: Punt Game or two the most sunning football games you

1885
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:05,719
Speaker 1: could ever watch, So those were those were both pretty cool.

1886
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:08,880
Speaker 1: I know every time we played it was nuts. Steve

1887
01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:12,160
Speaker 1: Tasker hosting Steve Young and also Jim Kelly, two guys

1888
01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:14,439
Speaker 1: who were the quarterbacks of the No Punt Game. That

1889
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:16,479
Speaker 1: game is going to air. It's gonna be re aired

1890
01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:19,160
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo and Rochester and Rochester and w r

1891
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:22,960
Speaker 1: OCTV and Rochester and w IVB TV here in Buffalo

1892
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:25,599
Speaker 1: Sunday at three o'clock. They're gonna re show that game.

1893
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:28,880
Speaker 1: You got to know, it's a classic game. When you

1894
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 1: know twenty some odd years twenty eight years later, they

1895
01:40:32,400 --> 01:40:35,880
Speaker 1: want people still want to see that game happen. It's

1896
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:38,840
Speaker 1: way distant in the past, but man oh man, it

1897
01:40:38,920 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 1: still holds water. It's gonna make you feel really good

1898
01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 1: about your careers and about the teams you were on. Well,

1899
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:49,040
Speaker 1: I gotta say, Steve, one thing that people don't realize

1900
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:50,800
Speaker 1: maybe I've forgotten and they're going to see it when

1901
01:40:50,800 --> 01:40:54,479
Speaker 1: they do the replay Mike coo for attempts to forty

1902
01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:57,400
Speaker 1: five yard field goal with no time left to tie

1903
01:40:57,439 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah. I mean, so you know, I could

1904
01:40:59,640 --> 01:41:02,400
Speaker 1: have been, well, no punt game that goes into overtime.

1905
01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: So I was really bummed that way. Don't get a

1906
01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:06,120
Speaker 1: chance to get an overtime that day. Yeah, it was

1907
01:41:06,160 --> 01:41:08,400
Speaker 1: a It was a game that seesaw. The second half

1908
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: of that game was a spectacular game. The Bills kind

1909
01:41:12,520 --> 01:41:15,120
Speaker 1: of climbed back into it. You guys kind of asserted yourself.

1910
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:16,760
Speaker 1: And I think one of the things that I like

1911
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:20,720
Speaker 1: about it not for nothing Steve Young. It was an

1912
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:26,439
Speaker 1: old Candlestick and that's that's pretty cool. Yeah, you know,

1913
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:30,720
Speaker 1: Candlestick had its own strange ambiance. I mean, kind of

1914
01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:35,400
Speaker 1: like RFK Stadium older. The field was always kind of muggy,

1915
01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:37,160
Speaker 1: you know, even on a nice day like this, it

1916
01:41:37,200 --> 01:41:40,000
Speaker 1: was kind of soggy and different. And the fans were

1917
01:41:40,120 --> 01:41:43,759
Speaker 1: super comfortable. I mean they've been going there for years

1918
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:46,080
Speaker 1: and it just had so many great games big games.

1919
01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 1: Every time we played it felt like it was you know,

1920
01:41:49,880 --> 01:41:52,240
Speaker 1: playoffs or championship kind of games. And so this game,

1921
01:41:52,600 --> 01:41:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, going back to those moments at Candlestick Park,

1922
01:41:55,120 --> 01:41:57,639
Speaker 1: the fact that Candlesticks Park is no longer. I mean

1923
01:41:57,640 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: you drive by one on one where you to be,

1924
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 1: it's gone. And so to have those kind of reminiscences,

1925
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:06,799
Speaker 1: it's tough that it's not there anymore, because it almost

1926
01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:10,280
Speaker 1: feels like, unless we didn't have these replays, you'd almost

1927
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:13,519
Speaker 1: forget that it was there. And Jim, what do you

1928
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:15,599
Speaker 1: what are some of the things you remember about this game?

1929
01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:17,800
Speaker 1: And we watched I know, Thurman had a tremendous game.

1930
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:19,679
Speaker 1: It was a big part of the offense, the engine

1931
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:22,040
Speaker 1: that ran that, and you were and you were calling

1932
01:42:22,080 --> 01:42:23,920
Speaker 1: your own plays at this time, this was well into

1933
01:42:23,920 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: the days of the K gun, no huddle. What do

1934
01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 1: you remember, if anything, about the details of this game.

1935
01:42:30,800 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: I remember when we went into the locker room and

1936
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:38,120
Speaker 1: I just remember this that about Mark and you know

1937
01:42:38,280 --> 01:42:42,080
Speaker 1: Steve um Marv doesn't get mad very often, but he was.

1938
01:42:42,800 --> 01:42:46,000
Speaker 1: He raised his voice nor in halftime, and I knew

1939
01:42:46,320 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 1: from that point on that, especially on the defensive side,

1940
01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:52,320
Speaker 1: that we don't we have to play better in order

1941
01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: to be able to come back. And I knew we

1942
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:57,679
Speaker 1: were just gonna be the typical offense we'd always work,

1943
01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:00,680
Speaker 1: but we needed both sides of the football stuff up

1944
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:04,400
Speaker 1: and make some plays. And never thought that we would

1945
01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 1: go through a whole game and not even punt, So

1946
01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:11,240
Speaker 1: that was pretty amazing in itself. But we're gonna going

1947
01:43:11,320 --> 01:43:14,040
Speaker 1: in that their offense is pretty good. Whether it was

1948
01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:16,960
Speaker 1: Steve Young or whether it was Joe Montana, and I've

1949
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:19,720
Speaker 1: had battle judge I said before was Steve and I

1950
01:43:19,800 --> 01:43:22,240
Speaker 1: knew what type of quarterback he was. You not only

1951
01:43:22,280 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, but his legs were just like

1952
01:43:25,080 --> 01:43:28,160
Speaker 1: some of the guys that you see nowadays making big

1953
01:43:28,200 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 1: plays running. So we're just gonna have to keep firing away.

1954
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:34,960
Speaker 1: And like I think, I can't remember who said that

1955
01:43:35,439 --> 01:43:37,960
Speaker 1: whoever happened the team with the ball last was going

1956
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:40,360
Speaker 1: to win the game. Well, it wasn't quite like that,

1957
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:44,120
Speaker 1: because he brought up the Misfield Walden game mob, which

1958
01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:47,320
Speaker 1: would totally put us where we needed to be. But

1959
01:43:47,640 --> 01:43:50,920
Speaker 1: the thing is, I remember last home of class plays

1960
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:53,640
Speaker 1: of the game, um not going through the uprights and

1961
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: illusion that one not just not a good feeling both

1962
01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:01,240
Speaker 1: of us. Yeah, tell you this, and Steve Young, you

1963
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:03,599
Speaker 1: can take this as a as a sign of respect.

1964
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:06,360
Speaker 1: I had great seats for this game, by the way,

1965
01:44:06,400 --> 01:44:08,559
Speaker 1: I was standing on the sidelines right next to Marv right,

1966
01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 1: so I didn't actually get a chance to play at all.

1967
01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:15,080
Speaker 1: But I do remember this. We knelt down after the

1968
01:44:15,160 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 1: kick went wide. We had to kneel down at the

1969
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 1: end of the game. And I'm the guy that comes

1970
01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:23,519
Speaker 1: on as a safety for the kneel down and sticking

1971
01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:26,720
Speaker 1: my head in that huddle. I've never seen Jim Kelly, Kent,

1972
01:44:26,840 --> 01:44:30,720
Speaker 1: holl Thurman, Thomas. They were giddy with how excited they

1973
01:44:30,720 --> 01:44:33,679
Speaker 1: were to have won that game because we knew how

1974
01:44:33,720 --> 01:44:36,240
Speaker 1: good the Niners were and if we could beat them

1975
01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:37,680
Speaker 1: on the road, we were going to be a really

1976
01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:39,840
Speaker 1: good football team as an early in the season game

1977
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 1: as well. And so it hats off to you guys,

1978
01:44:43,040 --> 01:44:45,559
Speaker 1: because we knew it was a big game for us

1979
01:44:45,560 --> 01:44:47,639
Speaker 1: to beat a team like you guys in your home building.

1980
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:50,000
Speaker 1: And they were those even all those old grizzled Hall

1981
01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:55,080
Speaker 1: of famers were all giddy with excitement over that win. Well,

1982
01:44:55,360 --> 01:44:57,760
Speaker 1: I mean I and for good reason, both of us

1983
01:44:57,800 --> 01:44:59,920
Speaker 1: I mean we would both go on to the champ

1984
01:45:00,320 --> 01:45:02,040
Speaker 1: ground and then you guys obviously went to the Super Bowl.

1985
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:05,519
Speaker 1: So you know, and I don't know that. I guess

1986
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,960
Speaker 1: we are before Uh and I guess more than anything

1987
01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:11,000
Speaker 1: if you, if you these are the kind of games

1988
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:13,719
Speaker 1: that you wished would have been in December or even

1989
01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:16,760
Speaker 1: in a playoff game. Uh and uh, too bad it

1990
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:19,960
Speaker 1: didn't happen again. So playing Jim was always fireworks. As

1991
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:23,439
Speaker 1: Jim said, I will say that, Uh, you know, when

1992
01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:26,200
Speaker 1: we did play the Houston Gamblers in La Express, Jim

1993
01:45:26,240 --> 01:45:28,840
Speaker 1: will tell you that you should go don't sleep on

1994
01:45:28,880 --> 01:45:32,240
Speaker 1: the USFL. We had good football. Gary Zimmerman was my

1995
01:45:32,280 --> 01:45:34,360
Speaker 1: offensive tackle. He's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

1996
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:37,759
Speaker 1: Jim had a great team and the football was solid football.

1997
01:45:37,800 --> 01:45:40,240
Speaker 1: So if you get if this isn't enough to watch

1998
01:45:40,280 --> 01:45:42,679
Speaker 1: this game, going and dig up on YouTube, the old

1999
01:45:42,720 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 1: Gambler expressed, Jim Kelly Steve Young matchup, then you get

2000
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:52,479
Speaker 1: a double double dip. Yeah, yeah, team ready to play off.

2001
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 1: When we played AFT there, I think they named it

2002
01:45:55,000 --> 01:45:57,439
Speaker 1: the greatest game that no one saw. That was like

2003
01:45:57,560 --> 01:46:00,240
Speaker 1: what the Dobbs and people were gaming. The Hall of

2004
01:46:00,320 --> 01:46:02,680
Speaker 1: Seam and I think you guys were beating us like

2005
01:46:02,760 --> 01:46:05,559
Speaker 1: thirty five thirteen or something like that would wind up

2006
01:46:05,560 --> 01:46:08,280
Speaker 1: coming back in the fourth quarter. But you know, I

2007
01:46:08,320 --> 01:46:14,240
Speaker 1: had those literally called the Masketeers, were very five foot nine,

2008
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:17,400
Speaker 1: but they ran like a fourth, three oh of them.

2009
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:21,160
Speaker 1: So I was pretty blessed to have throughout my career

2010
01:46:21,200 --> 01:46:24,400
Speaker 1: as well as you get Steve great players around me.

2011
01:46:24,479 --> 01:46:26,880
Speaker 1: I mean Buffalo of course, and you know two Hall

2012
01:46:26,880 --> 01:46:30,200
Speaker 1: of famers often and Andre Reid, but I had Ken

2013
01:46:30,280 --> 01:46:32,839
Speaker 1: Hall and from me who wind up being my center

2014
01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:36,479
Speaker 1: for every snap I had in Buffalo. He also was

2015
01:46:36,560 --> 01:46:40,840
Speaker 1: going to be my center when the Houston Gambler's merged

2016
01:46:40,880 --> 01:46:44,800
Speaker 1: with the New Jersey Generals. And that in itself with

2017
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:49,160
Speaker 1: herschel Walker in my backfield owned by Donald Trump, oh

2018
01:46:49,200 --> 01:46:52,800
Speaker 1: my gosh, that was pretty well. Yeah, he hadn't tried

2019
01:46:52,800 --> 01:46:54,400
Speaker 1: to go to the fall. We still have a league.

2020
01:46:54,400 --> 01:46:57,080
Speaker 1: So let me let me tell you something, you guys,

2021
01:46:57,600 --> 01:47:01,400
Speaker 1: that's enough. That's for another day. We sound like that

2022
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:03,880
Speaker 1: coach call me about the fact that we only had

2023
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:06,280
Speaker 1: a thousand people in the LA Coliseum and was it

2024
01:47:06,400 --> 01:47:09,880
Speaker 1: like to play in the silence because they're gonna play

2025
01:47:09,920 --> 01:47:12,120
Speaker 1: in front of no fans? This year, and so he

2026
01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 1: actually called me and said, hey, so, what are the

2027
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:18,000
Speaker 1: dynamics of having no one in the how's that going

2028
01:47:18,080 --> 01:47:20,600
Speaker 1: to feel? I said, look, you got to move the

2029
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 1: huddle back because people can hear what you're saying. You

2030
01:47:23,840 --> 01:47:26,640
Speaker 1: have to whisper. Oh my god, everyone's listening to the

2031
01:47:26,680 --> 01:47:29,719
Speaker 1: play call. Steve Taskarlar with Steve Young and Jim Kelly

2032
01:47:29,720 --> 01:47:32,000
Speaker 1: were reminiscing about how old we are as we go

2033
01:47:32,040 --> 01:47:34,479
Speaker 1: back to the USFL. Day's so fun to listen to

2034
01:47:34,520 --> 01:47:37,200
Speaker 1: you guys. Now, both of you went on to become

2035
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 1: have great careers before and after this this no punt game.

2036
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:43,800
Speaker 1: You went onto the Hall of Fame. H Steve Young,

2037
01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:46,439
Speaker 1: he went on to win a Super Bowl. Jim, you

2038
01:47:46,560 --> 01:47:48,559
Speaker 1: did something that nobody else did, your quarterback to team

2039
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:51,000
Speaker 1: before straight Super Bowls. You both went on to the

2040
01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:53,439
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And now you've got these foundations that

2041
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:55,519
Speaker 1: you can Jim Kelly, Kelly for kids. You've been giving

2042
01:47:55,520 --> 01:47:58,160
Speaker 1: back to the Buffalo region for decades. Everybody here in

2043
01:47:58,200 --> 01:48:01,640
Speaker 1: Western New York knows that Steve Young, you're kind of

2044
01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:03,559
Speaker 1: doing the same thing even on a larger scale. You've

2045
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:09,240
Speaker 1: teamed up with your former teammate Reggie. I'm Reggie um Um.

2046
01:48:09,360 --> 01:48:13,360
Speaker 1: Jerry Rice, Jerry Rice in the eight to eighty Legends, Yeah,

2047
01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:15,439
Speaker 1: I do. I have heard. In fact, I told a

2048
01:48:15,439 --> 01:48:17,160
Speaker 1: story about him the other day, but I can't repeat it.

2049
01:48:17,240 --> 01:48:21,639
Speaker 1: So eight to eighty Legends zone and you're going into everything,

2050
01:48:21,880 --> 01:48:25,439
Speaker 1: You're going into every NFL city and helping kids to

2051
01:48:25,479 --> 01:48:28,960
Speaker 1: kind of level the playing field for for E games

2052
01:48:29,240 --> 01:48:32,000
Speaker 1: and it's amazing that not everybody can be a professional

2053
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:34,479
Speaker 1: football player. We have We have the for a Young Foundation,

2054
01:48:34,560 --> 01:48:37,439
Speaker 1: which Jim we probably I think we started about the

2055
01:48:37,439 --> 01:48:39,360
Speaker 1: same time, and so we've been at pecking away at

2056
01:48:39,360 --> 01:48:41,920
Speaker 1: it for for decades, as you've mentioned, and you know,

2057
01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:45,160
Speaker 1: we're one of the top children's charities and charity navigator,

2058
01:48:45,240 --> 01:48:47,320
Speaker 1: and it really goes to a lot of the people

2059
01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:49,240
Speaker 1: that work for the for the Foundation, and it's a

2060
01:48:49,240 --> 01:48:51,519
Speaker 1: good it's a good group. And then underneath it, we

2061
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:54,080
Speaker 1: do eight to eighty zones and that's uh kind of

2062
01:48:54,080 --> 01:48:56,519
Speaker 1: goes back to Jerry to me, you know, throwing touch

2063
01:48:56,560 --> 01:48:59,360
Speaker 1: outs to Jerry and we've done him a number of cities,

2064
01:48:59,760 --> 01:49:02,920
Speaker 1: and it really and those are technology centers. Inside of

2065
01:49:03,160 --> 01:49:05,400
Speaker 1: some are boys and girls clubs, some of them are

2066
01:49:05,800 --> 01:49:08,720
Speaker 1: kind of a charter school summer inside. You know, it's

2067
01:49:08,760 --> 01:49:12,200
Speaker 1: like wherever there is a need in an inner city

2068
01:49:12,520 --> 01:49:15,120
Speaker 1: where the level the playing field is not level, and

2069
01:49:15,240 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 1: the idea is to go in and try to provide

2070
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:22,040
Speaker 1: some technology and some hardware and some opportunity to kind

2071
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 1: of give kids that don't have the opportunity or equal

2072
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:28,760
Speaker 1: opportunity to try to level that playing field and technology.

2073
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 1: And so we've kind of used our Silicon Valley roots

2074
01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:33,200
Speaker 1: to do that, and so eight to eighties zones we've

2075
01:49:33,240 --> 01:49:35,880
Speaker 1: been doing for quite a while. And I appreciate mentioned that. Steve. Yeah,

2076
01:49:35,920 --> 01:49:38,479
Speaker 1: it's a fantastic idea. You and Jerry Rice as well.

2077
01:49:38,760 --> 01:49:40,760
Speaker 1: Jerry read the story I told was not what it

2078
01:49:40,800 --> 01:49:43,559
Speaker 1: sounded like. He was actually in a conversation with my mom.

2079
01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:47,320
Speaker 1: So now my Jerry Rice is my mom's second favorite

2080
01:49:47,600 --> 01:49:50,599
Speaker 1: football player next to me. So I'm I'm a he's

2081
01:49:50,680 --> 01:49:53,240
Speaker 1: a very close second, actually a little too close. So

2082
01:49:53,280 --> 01:49:55,840
Speaker 1: that was the story I told about it. So, and Jim,

2083
01:49:55,880 --> 01:49:59,519
Speaker 1: you've been in and around Buffalo obviously since since nineteen

2084
01:49:59,520 --> 01:50:01,960
Speaker 1: eighty six, you distributed over five million dollars more one

2085
01:50:02,040 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 1: hundred local charities, Cradle Beach Camp, Kids Escaping Drugs, of course,

2086
01:50:05,800 --> 01:50:08,920
Speaker 1: our friend Ilio de Poulo scholarship fund Hunters Hope of course,

2087
01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:14,160
Speaker 1: named after your son Hunter. Both of you guys are exemplary,

2088
01:50:14,600 --> 01:50:18,920
Speaker 1: exemplary examples of what professional athletes can do, not only

2089
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:20,880
Speaker 1: on the field, but after your careers. I can't tell

2090
01:50:20,920 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: you how what an honor it is to have you

2091
01:50:22,400 --> 01:50:24,719
Speaker 1: guys on today. And I can't wait to see this game.

2092
01:50:25,080 --> 01:50:27,439
Speaker 1: I know I'll catch myself as the camera pans across

2093
01:50:27,439 --> 01:50:30,000
Speaker 1: the sidelines. I'll be standing next to Marv because it

2094
01:50:30,120 --> 01:50:33,760
Speaker 1: made me look tall. But I can't wait to see it.

2095
01:50:33,840 --> 01:50:37,160
Speaker 1: You guys, congratulations on and thanks for coming on today.

2096
01:50:37,720 --> 01:50:41,479
Speaker 1: You bet Jimbo love you guys, love it too. But

2097
01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:44,599
Speaker 1: we're all we're all in it together. And that's one

2098
01:50:44,640 --> 01:50:46,559
Speaker 1: great thing about the NFL, what it's done for my

2099
01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:48,760
Speaker 1: life is just so many great relationships in both of

2100
01:50:48,760 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 1: you through the years, and it's fun to just reminisce

2101
01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:54,280
Speaker 1: for a minute and recognize, you know, a really fun

2102
01:50:54,360 --> 01:50:56,920
Speaker 1: moment in time in this game, but beyond that, just

2103
01:50:57,120 --> 01:51:00,320
Speaker 1: great friendships and in relationships. Appreciate you guys in the

2104
01:51:00,439 --> 01:51:03,360
Speaker 1: best part by all of us, even Steve making a

2105
01:51:03,560 --> 01:51:05,519
Speaker 1: gift for sure kids out there and that's what we

2106
01:51:05,640 --> 01:51:08,160
Speaker 1: always do and that's what we always will do. So

2107
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Speaker 1: take care, DoD, bless you and uh chev y'all talk

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Speaker 1: to you. Everybody, all right, take care of Jam. I'll

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Speaker 1: see you in a while. Take care, Bud, Hey you guys, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Hall of Fame Quarterbacks on to

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Speaker 1: reminisce about the No Punt Game. It's gonna be aired

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Speaker 1: on w r OCTV and Rochester and w IVB here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo at Sunday, three o'clock in the afternoon. That

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Speaker 1: is presented by Connors and Ferriss that game, So tune

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Speaker 1: in and see some good football from a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Eric Wood coming back right after the break.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One of Bills Live

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Speaker 1: Deep Past along with Eric Wood. Like our thanks to

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly and Steve Young for coming up and spending

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01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:02,360
Speaker 1: a little time with us. And we've been going through

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Speaker 1: some soundbites from Leslie Frazier. We had Maddie Glabon giving

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Speaker 1: out her Maddie Awards. You can go back and listen

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01:52:08,320 --> 01:52:11,120
Speaker 1: to listen to any or all of the show on

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Speaker 1: the podcast, on the Buffalo Bills app or at Buffalo

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01:52:14,160 --> 01:52:15,920
Speaker 1: bills dot com. You can go back and listen to

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Speaker 1: any part of the show you want to. Uh. We're

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Speaker 1: also I want to go back and get back into

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Speaker 1: the fan mail bag because we're getting a ton of questions.

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Speaker 1: Particularly I guess it's pretty predictable. I guess at this

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01:52:29,720 --> 01:52:32,000
Speaker 1: time of year, there's a lot of questions that fans

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Speaker 1: have about what's coming down the pipe, Eric, and what

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01:52:35,080 --> 01:52:37,080
Speaker 1: we've seen, what we what we won't see, and what

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen yet as in no preseason games from

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Speaker 1: Tiffany on the In the mail bag, she says this, Eric,

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Speaker 1: as one of the all time impactful leaders of the Bills,

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01:52:47,479 --> 01:52:50,880
Speaker 1: how would you use your platform to positively help move

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01:52:50,920 --> 01:52:53,599
Speaker 1: the team and the community forward through the social unrest

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01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:58,760
Speaker 1: that is currently dividing our country. What would you do? Eric? Yeah,

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01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:01,760
Speaker 1: if I was still a part of the team, what

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01:53:01,800 --> 01:53:04,720
Speaker 1: I would be doing is trying to reach out to

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01:53:04,920 --> 01:53:07,760
Speaker 1: my black teammates and see where they want me to

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01:53:07,800 --> 01:53:11,400
Speaker 1: assist them how, you know, I want to know how

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01:53:11,439 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: they feel like we could make a big impact in Buffalo.

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01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:16,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's through the education system. I

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01:53:16,880 --> 01:53:19,960
Speaker 1: don't know exactly where that is. I don't know if

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01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:26,560
Speaker 1: that's trying to improve police relations, inform policemen of concerns

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01:53:26,600 --> 01:53:29,760
Speaker 1: that black people have, and get a dialogue created. There's

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Speaker 1: a number of different ways that these players can do it. Now.

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Speaker 1: The issue we have right now is it's COVID times

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01:53:35,439 --> 01:53:38,720
Speaker 1: and the NFL is not in a bubble, and so

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01:53:38,760 --> 01:53:40,600
Speaker 1: one of the keys is is not a lot of

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01:53:40,640 --> 01:53:44,400
Speaker 1: interaction outside of the building. So where a lot of

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01:53:44,439 --> 01:53:48,559
Speaker 1: these guys are generally doing hospital visits, community events, those

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01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:50,479
Speaker 1: are in large gonna be canceled this year because you

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01:53:50,520 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta stay healthy to play this season, and

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01:53:55,000 --> 01:53:59,599
Speaker 1: ultimately you don't want to infect the team and staff

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01:53:59,640 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 1: or whatever. Maybe as a US citizen, as a as

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01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:05,320
Speaker 1: a functioning member of society right now, that your role

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01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 1: and so that it makes it a little tougher to

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Speaker 1: navigate right now. Yeah, and certainly the problem is you

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01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:13,040
Speaker 1: don't want it to go away. If the pandemic goes

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01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:15,200
Speaker 1: away in six months or four months or whatever, you

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01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: don't you want to make sure that this is fresh.

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Speaker 1: On your money, you can go back out and begin that.

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Speaker 1: And my advice I think if I was in the

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Speaker 1: inside a locker room and thinking back to the way

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Speaker 1: I was, do you can do whatever, you can do

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Speaker 1: it alone, do it do something, but it's better to

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Speaker 1: do it together. And like you said, you'd get you

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Speaker 1: with your teammates, say what can we do together? And

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Speaker 1: certainly it's not what we could do normally without a

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Speaker 1: pandemic around it surrounding us. But we can do something.

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Speaker 1: We can collaborate on social media, we can whatever whatever

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Speaker 1: we can think of. And I'm sure these guys and

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01:54:49,680 --> 01:54:52,560
Speaker 1: their lights are on there's and they've been exposed to

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Speaker 1: as much as this as we have. They probably got

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Speaker 1: great ideas about how to interact with the community on

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Speaker 1: whatever social media platform they can, or even out and

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01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:03,720
Speaker 1: about in whatever socially distanced way they can. But certainly

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01:55:03,800 --> 01:55:06,800
Speaker 1: they all these efforts are hampered by the pandemic. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the most frustrating aspects of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. Now, when you've got something you really feel

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01:55:12,960 --> 01:55:14,560
Speaker 1: like you need to go out and be active about

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01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:20,640
Speaker 1: and bring some awareness to you can't because of the virus,

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Speaker 1: And that I think is the most frustrating part of

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Speaker 1: all of it. And well, we'll see though hopefully we'll

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Speaker 1: be on the back side of this and we can

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Speaker 1: continue to think about it going forward. Last one from

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Speaker 1: this mailbag sheet, Let's go this from Jeff. If I'm

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott, I use the current state of pro sports

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Speaker 1: and politics in America to bring my team closer together

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01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:45,040
Speaker 1: so they can be loyal to each other through the

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Speaker 1: toughest environments imaginable. How does he accomplish that? And that's

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Speaker 1: a good that's a good question because that's exactly the

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Speaker 1: way he's thinking. I would think, Eric, Yeah, absolutely, And

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Speaker 1: even before any issues arose in twenty seventeen with the

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Speaker 1: kneeling or this so Rose, Sean McDermott's goal from the

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Speaker 1: second he walked in the building was to get us

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Speaker 1: all closer. So you do that by learning about your teammates.

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Speaker 1: He would have guys get up in the front of

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Speaker 1: the room and tell their story, and guys that we're

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Speaker 1: in maybe a different position group than me, Guys that

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Speaker 1: I don't interact with a whole lot on a day

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Speaker 1: to day basis. All of a sudden, I knew a

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Speaker 1: whole lot about them. I knew how to approach them

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Speaker 1: in the hallway and say, hey, how's your girlfriend doing,

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01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:28,080
Speaker 1: your wife doing? You know, whatever it may be. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for you now, I

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Speaker 1: know your story, I know what you overcame. Man. Now

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Speaker 1: I have so much more respect for you. And now

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Speaker 1: on Sundays we go out and we play tighter, tighter

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Speaker 1: as a team. We all want to perform well because

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Speaker 1: of our respect for each other, respect for the coaches.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's done that since day one, and

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Speaker 1: I truly can't imagine he would do anything different right now,

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Speaker 1: and I know through the off season they were even

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Speaker 1: doing a number of things through their zoom calls to

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Speaker 1: address things that were going on out in the community.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, and you gotta stay in tune with

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Speaker 1: everybody in the locker room. And that's what a coach

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Speaker 1: doesn't They say. You know, they've got their hand on

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01:57:07,960 --> 01:57:10,520
Speaker 1: their finger on the pulse of the team, and you

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01:57:10,560 --> 01:57:13,320
Speaker 1: don't get that without being a guy. And he said it,

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01:57:13,360 --> 01:57:15,440
Speaker 1: he guess the door is always open. He not only

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Speaker 1: does is the coach's door always open. He's always out

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Speaker 1: of his door going out and talking to his players.

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Speaker 1: I know some of the best college coaches I've been around,

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Speaker 1: and I know this too, Jim Trussell when he was

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Speaker 1: at Ohio State, and maybe the new guy does this too,

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Speaker 1: and or the guys who've been there in Ohio States

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Speaker 1: since Jim Trussell. His office was right beside the locker room.

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Speaker 1: I mean the office with all the game balls and

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Speaker 1: the paraphernalia and the huge office that was all decked out.

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Speaker 1: It was literally twenty five feet from the everyday locker

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Speaker 1: room of the players with the door open. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of the atmosphere you need as a leader. You gotta have.

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Speaker 1: You got to be in the locker room. You gotta

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Speaker 1: know what they're talking about, know who talks to who,

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Speaker 1: You know why they talk to each other, no, why

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Speaker 1: these guys like each other, and why some guys are

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01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:05,160
Speaker 1: hard to get along with. That is what a coach

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01:58:05,240 --> 01:58:07,000
Speaker 1: does to have his finger on the pulse of his

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01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 1: football team. And Sean McDermott he has made deliberate, calculated

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Speaker 1: efforts towards making sure his players not only feel that

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Speaker 1: from him, but feel it from each other. And I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the things why this roster eric

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01:58:24,320 --> 01:58:27,480
Speaker 1: always under Sean McDermott, has been a little better than

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01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:31,920
Speaker 1: the some of its parts. Oh absolutely, And you look

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Speaker 1: at our twenty seventeen team that broke the playoff drought.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't the most talented Bill's team I played on

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Speaker 1: throughout my career, but we played together. We were able

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01:58:40,640 --> 01:58:43,320
Speaker 1: to bounce back from adversity, bounce back from the worst

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01:58:43,400 --> 01:58:47,560
Speaker 1: three games stretch in Bill's history, from a point from

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Speaker 1: a point differential standpoint, which I actually got to inform

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott of on my podcast when he came on.

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Speaker 1: But we were able to rebound from that because of

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Speaker 1: how tight we were as a team in our relationship

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01:59:00,880 --> 01:59:03,200
Speaker 1: with coach McDermott. You know, he didn't come in yelling

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01:59:03,200 --> 01:59:05,600
Speaker 1: and screaming at us through that three game stretch. Now,

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01:59:05,640 --> 01:59:09,280
Speaker 1: it also wasn't sunshine and rainbows. You know, we had

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Speaker 1: a mutual respect with him. And I think I think

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Speaker 1: anytime you're you're a coach of an NFL team, and

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01:59:14,200 --> 01:59:16,680
Speaker 1: you know this from experienced dou Steve, you have a

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01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:20,920
Speaker 1: group of grown men, and so you need to treat

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Speaker 1: them with respect. And he definitely does that. He does

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01:59:24,080 --> 01:59:27,920
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job of being intentional with names of family

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Speaker 1: members so he can find some common grounds so that

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Speaker 1: when he asks you about your wife or your kids

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01:59:33,480 --> 01:59:36,400
Speaker 1: by their first names, you think, Wow, I don't care

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01:59:36,400 --> 01:59:38,520
Speaker 1: if he just looked up some notes before we had

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01:59:38,520 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 1: a conversation. He's intentional about the way he interacts with

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Speaker 1: the players, and they respond so well because of it.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. It's it's comforting to know. I

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01:59:48,280 --> 01:59:50,920
Speaker 1: think in a year where there's a pandemic and continuity's

2276
01:59:50,960 --> 01:59:53,000
Speaker 1: going to be so good for some teams who have

2277
01:59:53,160 --> 01:59:56,000
Speaker 1: it going forward. The Bills are in that exact spot

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01:59:56,480 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 1: where you would like them to be. Not only is

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Speaker 1: their head coach back and has been there for three years,

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02:00:00,520 --> 02:00:02,640
Speaker 1: both coordinators have been there for three years. You got

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Speaker 1: position coaches, you got staff members. They've got a program,

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02:00:06,040 --> 02:00:08,600
Speaker 1: an offense in place, a defensive philosophy in place. They've

2283
02:00:08,640 --> 02:00:14,800
Speaker 1: got players who are veteran foundational players now that have

2284
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Speaker 1: grown up only with Sean McDermott as their NFL head coach.

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Speaker 1: That means something, I think, don't you agree, Eric? If

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Speaker 1: you if you're a guy, then and this is the

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Speaker 1: only way you know and you're seeing success under this way,

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02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:32,000
Speaker 1: it kind of gets chiseled into you like stone, right,

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02:00:32,040 --> 02:00:34,040
Speaker 1: I mean, because when it works and it's the first

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02:00:34,120 --> 02:00:36,600
Speaker 1: and only place you've been and it seems so good,

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02:00:36,640 --> 02:00:39,360
Speaker 1: and the locker room is so together. Don't you believe

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02:00:39,480 --> 02:00:42,600
Speaker 1: that if any of these twenty twenty Buffalo Bills come

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02:00:42,600 --> 02:00:44,560
Speaker 1: out of this and be going to the coaching realms

2294
02:00:44,800 --> 02:00:47,360
Speaker 1: or the coaching ranks, aren't they going to be exact

2295
02:00:47,480 --> 02:00:50,240
Speaker 1: trying to be exactly like Sean McDermott run their program

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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, And I don't know why you wouldn't

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02:00:53,400 --> 02:00:56,360
Speaker 1: in today's society. The way he treats players is exactly

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02:00:56,400 --> 02:01:00,680
Speaker 1: the way you should treat guys nowadays. And goner a

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02:01:00,720 --> 02:01:03,800
Speaker 1: little bit of the days of the Paul Bear Bryant.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's less and less Bill Belichick's around the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and when guys leave Bill Belichick's tree coaching tree, you

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Speaker 1: see that they don't necessarily have a lot of success

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Speaker 1: on their own because they're trying to implement the put

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Speaker 1: the thumb on you. You know, you act a certain way,

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02:01:22,160 --> 02:01:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to respect that, you know, fit in

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02:01:25,080 --> 02:01:28,600
Speaker 1: line or get out like that doesn't work. Nowadays, people,

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Speaker 1: young young men have much more of a voice, and

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott does just a phenomenal job of navigating all

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Speaker 1: of that and he sticks to his values, he sticks

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Speaker 1: to his process, his championship caliber, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 1: He just sticks to a day in a day out,

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Speaker 1: and it gets implemented in you and he sees results

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Speaker 1: because of it. Yeah, and it's not to say that

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick hasn't been successful doing it the way he's

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Speaker 1: done it, because he's been wildly successful. But he has

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Speaker 1: run a number of people through that organization and if

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Speaker 1: you don't have the right mindset, and players have come

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Speaker 1: out of there and saying, listen, this ain't for everybody,

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Speaker 1: and he finds out if it's for you, if you

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Speaker 1: can hang in there, you can stay. But now that

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Speaker 1: they've had the success that they've had and he's intrenched there,

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Speaker 1: he gets to make those kind of calls and he

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Speaker 1: doesn't ever have to go outside the lines of his

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Speaker 1: own program. And you see so many young head coaches

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Speaker 1: who maybe struggle for a year and they say, well,

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Speaker 1: if I had this one more player, you know, well,

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Speaker 1: let's get this guy. He doesn't really fit, but he's

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Speaker 1: a kind of good player, and you know, he might

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Speaker 1: help us put a shit over the you know, they

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Speaker 1: kind of deviate from what they believe to be true,

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Speaker 1: and they do it mostly, you know, to kind of

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Speaker 1: save their job if they think they got to have

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Speaker 1: some quick success. They don't get they don't know if

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Speaker 1: they've got quite this support of their ownership, and so

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Speaker 1: you see him kind of deviate from it and it

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Speaker 1: never works out for them. And now a guy like

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Speaker 1: Belichick and now Sean McDermott, Mike Tomlin, John Harball, the

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Speaker 1: guys around the league who've been around for quite a while.

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Speaker 1: Those guys probably longer than Sean McDermott, even they don't

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02:02:56,200 --> 02:02:59,440
Speaker 1: have to deviate from their plan because they have had

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Speaker 1: success and the players understand to a greater degree. I

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02:03:04,080 --> 02:03:07,840
Speaker 1: think that they've got to fit in. Yeah, definitely. And

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Speaker 1: when I made those comments about Belichick, I firmly believe

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Speaker 1: he's the greatest head coach of all time. I mean,

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02:03:13,840 --> 02:03:15,760
Speaker 1: I played against him. I know how tough it was

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02:03:15,800 --> 02:03:19,000
Speaker 1: to always prepare for his defenses, his offenses. His teams

2347
02:03:19,000 --> 02:03:21,760
Speaker 1: are so sound, they don't beat themselves. What better compliment

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02:03:21,800 --> 02:03:24,360
Speaker 1: could you give a head coach than their team is

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02:03:24,760 --> 02:03:28,600
Speaker 1: always well coached, always makes it hard on the opposing

2350
02:03:28,880 --> 02:03:30,840
Speaker 1: team as far as the scheme goes, and then they

2351
02:03:30,880 --> 02:03:34,480
Speaker 1: don't beat themselves. That's that's great coaching, right. But it

2352
02:03:34,520 --> 02:03:38,960
Speaker 1: took him, you know, he had a failed coaching job

2353
02:03:39,240 --> 02:03:42,520
Speaker 1: before the New England Patriots. He learned, he learned what

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Speaker 1: he wanted to do. He he's becoming. And to me,

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Speaker 1: this has been my opinion of coaches throughout my entire

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Speaker 1: playing career. Just be true to who you are. Be yourself,

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02:03:53,560 --> 02:03:56,200
Speaker 1: don't be phony. Just be yourself and guys will respect

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Speaker 1: to you. If that's being a players coach and high

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Speaker 1: five and the fist bump like some coaches do, now

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02:04:01,520 --> 02:04:05,440
Speaker 1: that's fine. If it's you know, Doug Moron, maybe it

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02:04:05,520 --> 02:04:06,880
Speaker 1: is a good example of a guy who was a

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Speaker 1: little bit tougher on the players. But just be true

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Speaker 1: to yourself. It be that same person every day and

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Speaker 1: guys will respect you. Yeah, you hear that so much.

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Speaker 1: Be the same person every day and it's it seems

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Speaker 1: to have served Sean McDermott. Well, we got one more

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Speaker 1: thing we want to do before we go to the break,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if you're ready for it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if Jay sent you these or not. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do some NFL true false. Are you ready? You

2371
02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:28,040
Speaker 1: know what I mean when I say NFL true false,

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Speaker 1: Yes all right, NFL. True false. Brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy, Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and Cheesey NFL.

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Speaker 1: True false. Number one Eric woodstef task, are you ready?

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02:04:38,240 --> 02:04:44,720
Speaker 1: League wide attendance policy is absolutely fair? True or false false.

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Speaker 1: You know, I heard Sean mcdermotts say it the other day.

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Speaker 1: It's it's tough right now to say some fans are

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02:04:51,000 --> 02:04:53,640
Speaker 1: gonna have some stadiums are gonna have fans in the stands.

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02:04:53,680 --> 02:04:56,080
Speaker 1: That creates a home field advantage that others will not.

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02:04:56,280 --> 02:04:59,400
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it is fair. Maybe the opposite would be,

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02:04:59,480 --> 02:05:01,080
Speaker 1: you know the bill there used to playing in front

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02:05:01,080 --> 02:05:03,520
Speaker 1: of no fans, and when an opposing team comes in

2383
02:05:03,560 --> 02:05:07,160
Speaker 1: that hasn't done it yet, maybe it'll be different from them,

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02:05:07,160 --> 02:05:08,720
Speaker 1: maybe to be tough for them. But I think false

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02:05:08,760 --> 02:05:12,680
Speaker 1: here I would say fair or not. It's as fair

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Speaker 1: as it has always been. Some teams have great home

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02:05:16,400 --> 02:05:19,000
Speaker 1: field advantages. Their stadiums are set up for Seattle has

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Speaker 1: built here. They built their stadium and expressly to focus

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02:05:22,040 --> 02:05:24,839
Speaker 1: the sound back down onto the field. You've got dome stadiums.

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02:05:24,840 --> 02:05:27,960
Speaker 1: You've got stadiums in Dallas that are ninety thousand. You've

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02:05:28,000 --> 02:05:31,200
Speaker 1: got some in Jacksonville where they actually had to put

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02:05:31,240 --> 02:05:33,840
Speaker 1: tarps over the set seats because they couldn't sell the seats.

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Speaker 1: So it's as fair as it's always been. Until they

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02:05:36,680 --> 02:05:38,280
Speaker 1: get to a point where they can say you can

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02:05:38,320 --> 02:05:42,640
Speaker 1: have you know, fifty thousand people at the game and

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Speaker 1: that's it in any way, shape or form, then it's

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Speaker 1: going to be fair. Until then, every stadium is different,

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02:05:48,680 --> 02:05:51,760
Speaker 1: it's set up different, it sounds different, the crowds are different,

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02:05:52,560 --> 02:05:56,800
Speaker 1: and so it's never been fair. So to say that

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Speaker 1: it's not fair now is redundant because it's never been

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02:06:00,840 --> 02:06:04,520
Speaker 1: that fair. Buffalo has a football only stadium that seats

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02:06:04,520 --> 02:06:07,800
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand. It's an advantage, no question about it.

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02:06:08,240 --> 02:06:10,880
Speaker 1: This last three years, the San Diego Chargers have had

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Speaker 1: a twenty five thousand seat stadium that was full of

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Speaker 1: their opponent's fans. That's Does that seem fair to that? No,

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02:06:18,360 --> 02:06:20,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's not fair to those players either. So

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02:06:20,080 --> 02:06:23,520
Speaker 1: it's never been fair. So it's hard for me to

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02:06:23,560 --> 02:06:26,880
Speaker 1: get my mind around saying we should change it. I'll

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02:06:26,880 --> 02:06:29,360
Speaker 1: make it fair now, I get it. It's a big

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02:06:29,400 --> 02:06:32,879
Speaker 1: disadvantage for teams like Buffalo, like for Kansas City, Denver, Seattle.

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02:06:34,440 --> 02:06:36,760
Speaker 1: But it's been unfair in their in their favor. And

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02:06:36,840 --> 02:06:38,760
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. I do think a lot

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02:06:38,800 --> 02:06:40,440
Speaker 1: of teams are overlooking the fact that it's going to

2414
02:06:40,520 --> 02:06:43,680
Speaker 1: be way easier to play on the road this year

2415
02:06:43,880 --> 02:06:45,760
Speaker 1: than it ever has been in the NFL, and that

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02:06:45,840 --> 02:06:48,720
Speaker 1: may change things as well. So I'm gonna say, yeah,

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02:06:49,080 --> 02:06:51,560
Speaker 1: since it hasn't been fair before, it's the same fairness

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02:06:51,600 --> 02:06:54,200
Speaker 1: as it's always been. That's mine. So I would say, no,

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02:06:54,280 --> 02:06:58,040
Speaker 1: it's not fair, that's true. It's a false statement. The

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Speaker 1: League White Attendants politicy is absolute fair. It's not. So

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02:07:01,320 --> 02:07:04,920
Speaker 1: it's false. But it's never been fair because never. No

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02:07:05,040 --> 02:07:10,760
Speaker 1: stadium's exactly alike, Okay, NFL true false. Number two, no fan. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard the kickers say this,

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02:07:12,320 --> 02:07:15,840
Speaker 1: but here's it is League wy No fans will have

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02:07:15,880 --> 02:07:19,600
Speaker 1: a major impact on the kicking game. In twenty twenty,

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02:07:19,640 --> 02:07:21,280
Speaker 1: there was a kicker and I can't remember the team

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02:07:21,280 --> 02:07:23,120
Speaker 1: he was from, he said, when fans are in the

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02:07:23,200 --> 02:07:26,600
Speaker 1: stands Robbie Gold, he said, it muffles the wind whipping

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Speaker 1: around the stadium. When there's bodies in the seats. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going I say, no, No, fans are not

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02:07:35,760 --> 02:07:37,720
Speaker 1: going to have a major impact on the kicking game

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02:07:37,760 --> 02:07:43,040
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. I think he's I think he's fabricating it. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll go opposite. I'll say true kickers are such head

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02:07:45,800 --> 02:07:49,760
Speaker 1: cases that yes, probably best with them because you know,

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02:07:49,840 --> 02:07:52,040
Speaker 1: for the longest time they've done all their vie. And

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Speaker 1: I'm making references to Stephen Houshkin is visualization exercise, of

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Speaker 1: which I love. I'm a huge proponent of visualization exercises

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02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:03,800
Speaker 1: for athletes people in general. But they've envisioned. Now they're

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02:08:03,800 --> 02:08:07,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to envision a different uh you know, visual

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02:08:07,400 --> 02:08:11,400
Speaker 1: on their head of no fans, and I'm sure the

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02:08:11,480 --> 02:08:14,880
Speaker 1: kickers will be blaming it. Yeah, you're right, it will

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02:08:14,920 --> 02:08:19,240
Speaker 1: be different for that fact, but only mentally. I don't

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02:08:19,240 --> 02:08:20,760
Speaker 1: think it's gonna make a difference with the wind. I

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02:08:20,760 --> 02:08:23,440
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna make a difference. I think it'll

2445
02:08:23,440 --> 02:08:28,520
Speaker 1: be even better for the road visiting teams, m the punts. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I say absolutely not. I think that's false. That's such

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02:08:31,480 --> 02:08:34,800
Speaker 1: a kicker, that's such a kickers analysis right to say

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Speaker 1: that the fans are going to affect the wind. That is,

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02:08:38,640 --> 02:08:41,160
Speaker 1: only the kickers are thinking that. I'm totally with you

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02:08:41,160 --> 02:08:43,040
Speaker 1: on now one, all right, last NFL true false hit

2451
02:08:43,080 --> 02:08:45,640
Speaker 1: here It is the NFL cannot afford a pause in

2452
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Speaker 1: their season due to Corona Violis virus, like the NFL

2453
02:08:49,320 --> 02:08:52,520
Speaker 1: and the NHL and the NBA. Head the NFL cannot

2454
02:08:52,560 --> 02:08:56,400
Speaker 1: afford to pause in their season like the NBA and NHL.

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02:08:56,840 --> 02:09:01,120
Speaker 1: True or false it, I'll say false. It depends on

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02:09:01,160 --> 02:09:04,320
Speaker 1: the time. But you know, with this pandemic, we don't

2457
02:09:04,360 --> 02:09:06,240
Speaker 1: know how the season is going to play out. If

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02:09:06,240 --> 02:09:09,880
Speaker 1: it requires a couple week pause, if it requires a

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02:09:09,920 --> 02:09:12,520
Speaker 1: pause for one organization, I think I think to be

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02:09:12,600 --> 02:09:15,160
Speaker 1: realistic and say we're gonna definitely have a season with

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02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:17,720
Speaker 1: playoffs in a super Bowl, you have to be flexible

2462
02:09:17,880 --> 02:09:20,320
Speaker 1: to the opportunity of it. Now, we've also heard that

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02:09:20,360 --> 02:09:24,200
Speaker 1: the NFL has reserved Tampa Stadium for the three weekends

2464
02:09:24,240 --> 02:09:27,800
Speaker 1: after the scheduled Super Bowl, so they could pause it

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02:09:27,880 --> 02:09:29,960
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and still have the available

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02:09:30,320 --> 02:09:34,360
Speaker 1: stadium in that city in Tampa to run the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl in. But I think can't afford a pause in

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02:09:38,160 --> 02:09:42,200
Speaker 1: their season. I think they probably could get it done.

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02:09:42,840 --> 02:09:44,480
Speaker 1: I think they could probably do it. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to they're gonna pause for three months.

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02:09:46,680 --> 02:09:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't think that can happen. But a pause maybe

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02:09:49,640 --> 02:09:52,360
Speaker 1: maybe for a week, maybe for a bye week, maybe

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02:09:52,360 --> 02:09:54,440
Speaker 1: for even two weeks, maybe a two week quarantine for

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02:09:54,480 --> 02:09:57,320
Speaker 1: the entire league, and then pick it up again. I

2475
02:09:57,360 --> 02:09:59,560
Speaker 1: think they could do that in some way, shape or form. Now,

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02:09:59,600 --> 02:10:02,200
Speaker 1: the schedule would be a nightmare, and the tie breakers

2477
02:10:02,200 --> 02:10:06,960
Speaker 1: would become a nightmare, but he would nobody cares. Just

2478
02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:08,640
Speaker 1: take the two weeks off and come back and play

2479
02:10:08,720 --> 02:10:10,960
Speaker 1: and we'll figure it out at the end. Right, So

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02:10:11,080 --> 02:10:13,360
Speaker 1: I think that's the Just win your games and you

2481
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:16,320
Speaker 1: got a chance. There'll be seven teams in each conference

2482
02:10:16,360 --> 02:10:18,400
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs this year. I think that makes

2483
02:10:18,680 --> 02:10:22,480
Speaker 1: for some problems solved. And I think, yeah, they could

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02:10:22,480 --> 02:10:26,320
Speaker 1: afford to have a short pause, a short break, but

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02:10:26,480 --> 02:10:28,280
Speaker 1: not a two or three month break. So I'm gonna

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02:10:28,280 --> 02:10:30,160
Speaker 1: say false to that. I think they could afford to

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02:10:30,160 --> 02:10:32,880
Speaker 1: do it for a week or two. Heck yeah, it would.

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02:10:32,920 --> 02:10:35,640
Speaker 1: It would probably do everybody's bodies a little bit better

2489
02:10:36,600 --> 02:10:39,920
Speaker 1: from a rundown standpoint, and all that as well. Exactly,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's NFL True false. Brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Yancy's Fancy New York's Artist and Che's Eric Woods, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker coming back after the break. Buffalo Bills Radio broadcasting

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Speaker 1: the official construction rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We

2496
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Speaker 1: had a lot going on. Hard to choose what to

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Speaker 1: tell you about what we learned today, but we had

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Speaker 1: Mattie glab on. She came on, gave his her Mattie

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Speaker 1: Awards for training camp. We had soundbites from Leslie Frazier

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Speaker 1: on how he was keeping his team and his guys

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Speaker 1: focused with all that's going on around them in the

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Speaker 1: society and keeping them focused on getting better. We took

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Speaker 1: a ton of questions from you our fans on our

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Speaker 1: mail bag. We also had Steve Young, Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: quarterback along with Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly on

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Speaker 1: to talk about the No Punt Game that is being

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Speaker 1: aired on w ROCTV in Rochester and w IVB TV

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo Sunday at three pm. You can catch that

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Speaker 1: that's presented by Connors and Ferris. If you want to

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to any of that stuff, especially you,

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Speaker 1: Eric would, you can do it on the Bills app,

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Speaker 1: parts the show you can catch on Bill's YouTube as well. Eric,

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Speaker 1: great show today. We had a lot going on, a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun talking about everything going on, had a

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Speaker 1: nice conversation about Sean McDermot his philosophy about coaching. A

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Speaker 1: lot to be optimistic about. And we're getting close to

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Speaker 1: the to the really kickoff of the twenty twenty NFL season. Yeah,

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02:12:19,320 --> 02:12:22,360
Speaker 1: for sure, And with the lack of media coverage around

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Speaker 1: these training camps right now and the no preseason games,

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Speaker 1: it was great getting that insight for Maddie who's had

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Speaker 1: as much access to practices as anybody has, so for

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Speaker 1: her to be able to give up some insight, and

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Speaker 1: you know, to the camp surprise of Isaiah McKenzie. You know,

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Speaker 1: for me, that's something I didn't know coming into today,

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Speaker 1: and and then for me coming on the show. I'm

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Speaker 1: not in Buffalo right now, I'm not at practice, But

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Speaker 1: where I can provide some perspective is knowing how Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott navigates these situations we're living in right now with

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Speaker 1: the the Ray Injustice, how he's dealing with the coronavirus

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Speaker 1: and all that's going on is truly he's using this

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Speaker 1: time to unify the team. And I can guarantee you

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Speaker 1: that the Bills also signed a cornerback today, Brian Allen.

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Speaker 1: He's a third year player out of Utah. He's six three,

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Speaker 1: two fifteen. He's a big corner and he's been with

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks last year on their practice squad. The two

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Speaker 1: years before that, he was on and off the Steelers

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Speaker 1: practice squad and also played in sixteen games over the

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Speaker 1: course of those two years for the Steeler. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Eric Wood, thanks so much for joining us everybody. I

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Speaker 1: also want to say a special thank you to Jay Harris,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Colton, At, Kelly Rude, Thomas Honder. This has been

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Speaker 1: an incredible week here on One Bills Live. And our

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Speaker 1: boy Chris Brown's going to be back with us on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Good to have him back as well. Steve Tasker, Eric Wood,

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, Thanks so much for joining us everybody.

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