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This is One Bill's Live,

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presented by Calledlida Health.

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Welcome into a Monday edition

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of One Bill's Live. Mattie Glab alongside

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of Steve Tasker, We hope you guys

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had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.

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As we are one hundred days

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away from the twenty twenty

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four NFL season kicking

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off, OTAs are underway,

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it is time to prepare, Steve,

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can you believe it's one hundred days away?

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Uh?

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That got me hundred

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days. That's awesome. Yeah,

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Yeah, we're gonna we got a lot to do though, Oh my gosh,

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we got training camp preseason.

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There's still a lot to check off the boxes. So

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we got a little break coming up to ahead

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of the true season beginning

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for this team.

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OTA's underway.

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Like we said, the Bills were back out there

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for practices today. We heard from

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offensive coordinator Joe Brady earlier

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this afternoon, and after practice we

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will hear from some of the players, which we will air

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later on in the show, probably the two o'clock

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hour. But I wanted to ask

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you how your Memorial Day weekend was. Because

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we had Friday and Monday

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often to do anything fun.

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The rare four day weekend. It was good. I

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loved the free time. It felt like a long time because

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you know, when you get in that grind of every day, having

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a couple of extra days where it's not just

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a weekend. It was nice. The

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weather was a little up and down this weekend,

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but I managed to, you know, get a little golf in, get

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some stuff done around the house. Very

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nice. It was good. I think the

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best part about it was that

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it was just had you know, like on

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I think it was Saturday. Yeah,

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it's on Saturday. I was thinking,

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now, I don't know, you know, because you feel like

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you just had two days off, you feel like, wow, what's

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tomorrow? Not only tomorrow, but the next day. It

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really felt like a long weekend, and I was really

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thankful for that.

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Yeah, that was great.

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I did all kinds of stuff. It was you know, it

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was nice, just the extra time just to

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not have.

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To get a long weekend.

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You feel like you can get stuff done on your to

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do list, and you can feel like you can relax

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and enjoy it as much some fun.

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That's why I love a long weekend.

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I had a birthday weekend, so that was fun. When to

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Toronto for an overnight. I love going

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to cities and trying new food, trying

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new restaurants, new drink spots, and

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love just getting.

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To walk around.

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So Toronto is one of my favorite spots to

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go to since it's.

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Just a quick drive away.

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And I get to rob on Memorial

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Day weekend every year because my birthday usually

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falls on it. But I

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also get to call

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Fourth of July weekend because that's my wedding anniversary.

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That's good.

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I love the long weekend. Yeah, celebration.

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So every time you have, like your birthday and your

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anniversary is always a long week Oh that's smart

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move by you. I thought I was smart.

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I married my wife on her birthday so

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I can remember it easier.

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Yeah, and double presence for her, the.

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Double presence exactly, which I'm

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all about. So yeah, that's it's a good move.

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But the long weekend. I

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can't remember a weekend

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that felt so long as this one

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did.

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It did feel long.

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It really felt because we were We've been

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grinding over since the draft and free agency

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and you know, OTAs

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and all this stuff's going on, and

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you know, because people can't believe we do

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this radio show for the football team, even out of season.

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Right, So we're here and to have a long weekend.

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Now we've taken time off, but I took like one day

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here and one day there, same with you, right

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man. To get all these days off in a row. It literally

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felt like a two week vacation.

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Good refresher.

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It was nice. I hope everybody else had.

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A mini camp and OTAs.

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I hope all of you out there had a nice chance to

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recharge your batteries before we head into

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the hard summer months.

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Yeah, so we've got a Twitter topic

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for you guys today, What new wrinkle

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do you want to see in the Bills offense?

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If you want to answer that, go ahead and tweet

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at us, or you can give us call it eight oh three

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five point fifty because the phone lines are open

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for you to discuss what you think

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you want to see out of this Bill's offense in

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the twenty twenty fourth season.

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And Steve, speaking of so.

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Much going on right now in the

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off season, we are in OTA's mandatory

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mini camp is coming.

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Up mid June.

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Next year may not look exactly

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like this, and that's because the NFL

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Players Association is considering wanting

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to change the off season workout program

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so the nflpa's working to finalize

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a proposal to overhaul the offseason,

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starting as soon as twenty twenty five.

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They would eliminate voluntary on field

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work in the spring in favor

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of having a longer training camp

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ramp up, with players reporting

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in mid June to early July. According

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to NFL network insider Tom Pelisero,

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he reported this on Tuesday morning.

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A formal proposal of this is expected

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this summer. NFLPA

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has had new leadership since July twenty

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twenty three, and what they have

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done is try to get feedback

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from players on adjusting

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the off season schedule. Do you like how

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it is right now? Do you like the OTAs?

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Do you like the workouts in April? Do you

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like the mandatory mini camp in June? And

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then do like taking a six week break

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and coming back for training camp? Or should

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we change it up a little bit? And it seems

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like the majority is

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supporting these changes, Pelisero.

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The NFLPA has consulted medical

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and performance experts to create

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a solution for reducing injuries

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and maximizing players recovery time. Under

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the potential proposal, virtual classroom

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work would still be permitted in

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the spring, but no practices until

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camp. So this change

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that could take place this next

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off season could also be partially

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due to wanting to have a longer

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off season to recover from injuries

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that happen late in the season in January

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or into the playoffs late January

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into the super Bowl in February. Think

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about it, Guys come back for workouts in April

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for teams that are going deep into the playoffs

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and making it to the super Bowl. That's

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really not much time off on your body.

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And a lot of the times guys are already

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working out on their own end

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of February early April before

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they head back to their

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respective teams to work out

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together. In April, they come

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back and forth, and then in May, hey, we're

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already into Ota. So while

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they do get a.

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A month off a month.

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Time, it's not that much

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time off before you're starting to

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get back into football shape.

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Yeah, I think the players would

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go for this because they The worst

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part about if you know this, I mean all of us have

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done this. If you have two weeks of vacation and

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you get three here, two

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there, four there, and another

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couple over here and you split it up, it's

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it's not it doesn't feel like a vacation. But if

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you get all that time off at once, it's a lot

7:35

better because then these guys can can actually

7:37

go do something. And I

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and I say that because I

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think the players are behind this because they want total

7:44

hands off from

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the clubs from like the

7:49

super Bowl all the way

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to training camp. They don't want to see anybody.

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Now, if you want to take all this ota and

7:56

mini camp stuff and add it onto the front of training

7:58

camp, that's even better because that gives

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us, That gives us all the way from

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February all the way through to July

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away do whatever we want. Certainly

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guys will come in and they'll touch base and all that, but they

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don't have to. They can just leave. They

8:13

can go live in you know, they can go

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live in Europe,

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or they can live in South America, or they can live in Mexico.

8:20

They can have a place in Hawaii. They can go go do

8:22

stuff, and some of them and not

8:25

for nothing. Some of these guys want to

8:27

have other interests like these start businesses and stuff

8:29

like for their post football

8:31

lives. They can get that done in a span

8:34

of months, whereas they can't go in and out

8:36

and in and out, in and out and be as effective and their

8:38

families as well. You know, they can leave,

8:41

their families, can go to their off

8:43

season home and their kids can get in the second half

8:45

of second semester of school there and

8:48

they won't be tied to being in Buffalo throughout

8:51

the school year. Certain

8:55

that's for older players, obviously. I

8:57

think the players are all about this. Players

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want their free time quantified

9:03

and chunked. They don't want it

9:05

sprinkled over the offseason. They want big,

9:08

long windows where they can go and do things

9:10

and be away and take a break.

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And I think the league is doing this. We've

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talked about this and kind of tongue

9:17

in cheek talking about the Tasker Plan. I think

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they're moving towards it. They're gonna have eighteen game regular

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season. There's just no way around

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it. They're gonna have that, and it's gonna be sooner rather

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than later. And that

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just means they can start training camp a little

9:31

earlier, knock off one of

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the preseason games. Actually, with

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an eighteen game schedule, in two preseason games,

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everything is exactly the same. It's

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exactly the same as it has been. You just start

9:42

training camp, you know

9:44

when you need to for that opening weekend

9:46

right after Labor Day. It's

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coming. It's gonna come full circle as

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it really is, and the players just want to

9:54

say in it and then they'll get it. I mean that the legal

9:57

I think the league will as long as everybody, all the

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teams do the same thing, the league will

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bend to the players wishes in this regard. They

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do not care they're not making any money off of.

10:05

This could also be used as a negotiating

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tactic for an eighteen game season.

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Players say, hey, we're not signing off on this until

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we also get our new off season

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plan.

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That's exactly right. You give us

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this, We'll give you eighteen games if you give us our off

10:20

season back and that, and it'll happen.

10:22

It makes a lot of sense. And because

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from the owner's standpoint,

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what do they care? And everybody's

10:31

going to be doing the same thing in the off season anyway, the

10:33

game's not going to be affected by

10:35

it. Let them have their off

10:37

season. It's always been coaches

10:39

and the coaching staffs who

10:42

say, we listen, if I can get these guys in here a little

10:44

earlier, we can get a head start

10:46

and.

10:46

We can I want to see my players.

10:48

And you know, they kind of sell this thing like we can win

10:50

games in September by doing

10:53

this in May, and players have always

10:55

been rolling their eyes at that, right.

10:57

So yeah, to that point, though,

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is it more effective to have

11:03

guys here from

11:06

maybe end of June to early July on

11:08

through the season beginning where

11:10

you're getting them a few times a week

11:13

consistently rather than, Oh,

11:16

you're back in April and then you go home

11:18

for a little bit, and then you're back in May, and then

11:20

you go home for a little bit, and then you're

11:22

back in June, and then you.

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Have six weeks off.

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And in that six week time period where

11:27

these guys are not in the building, how

11:30

much, especially for new players

11:32

or players learning a new playbook, how

11:34

much of that is forgotten

11:36

a little bit when you want

11:38

to focus on your family in that six week time

11:41

period because you're getting ready for a

11:43

new season and that's the last

11:45

bit of time you get to soak up truly

11:47

with your family. And

11:50

how much within that six week time period do

11:53

you get back out of football shape

11:55

if you're traveling and if you're doing things

11:58

that you know.

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Somebody with a family.

12:01

Would do, Whether it's one of the things that happen.

12:03

Taking your kids places, vacationing, you're

12:05

not as focused on football. So is

12:08

it just better for the coaching staff

12:10

then to say, see it at

12:12

the end of the season and then we'll

12:14

see you back here in June, where

12:17

you're going to get consistent time with me

12:19

and we're not going to go back and forth, back and forth

12:21

and then have to rehash these

12:23

plays that you should know because we've gone

12:26

over them already, but you had a six

12:28

week break and now we have to kind of start

12:30

from square one.

12:31

Absolutely, and it's true. But here's the thing

12:33

as well. If we've learned

12:35

anything over the past five or six years since twenty

12:37

twenty, is that we can do a lot of things online that

12:39

we couldn't do before. The technology

12:42

is there now, that's true. They'll have

12:44

remote meetings, they can install plays and stuff.

12:46

You can't really be

12:48

there and practice it together, but certainly

12:51

you can get their minds around what they know. But

12:56

one of the key parts

12:58

about this is the players want them that off

13:00

season expanded as much as they

13:02

can. The coaches

13:05

obviously want it contracted. And

13:08

let me just say this, it's my belief ownership

13:11

They could not possibly care less. They

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could not possibly care less when

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you show up, get training

13:18

camp, get these preseason, let's get this game. This season

13:20

kicked off because it's the season where the

13:22

owners make money. They make money on

13:25

games and TV rights. They don't make anything

13:27

on OTA's and mini camps. Now, if

13:29

that changes, maybe

13:32

we'll have a different conversation. But

13:35

that's the way it's gonna be. So the owners could not

13:37

possibly care less about giving them players. Yeah,

13:39

give them a couple extra weeks in the off season. Yeah, sure,

13:42

and the coaching staff will get what about the decision

13:44

to shut up? Give it to them because we're gonna get

13:46

an eighteen game schedule out of it. You

13:48

know, we're gonna get a ton of more money. You

13:51

know it's gonna happen. There's nobody

13:55

who cares more about the off season than

13:57

the players because it's an off

13:59

season. Coaches, they're

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trying to get a headstart on everybody. If they're able

14:04

to get the guys in, they know that there is some benefit

14:06

from it, even if it's a six week increments. But

14:09

if you everybody starts is a total

14:11

blackout. You know, no income,

14:14

no interaction, no

14:16

coaching, no on field. No, none of that stuff

14:18

all the way until like July fifteenth

14:21

or July first or whatever. As

14:25

long as everybody's on that page, the coach will be let's

14:27

go, we'll figure it out, and they'll go from

14:29

there. That

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that to me, This to me is a no brainer. It's

14:34

a no brainer. The Players

14:37

Association will put it together a nice

14:40

PowerPoint presentation. They'll

14:43

give it to the owners, and the owners will the owners

14:45

will pretend to listen, and

14:47

then they'll say, yeah, that sounds

14:49

really great, guys, except we need eighteen game

14:51

schedule, and the and the players you will

14:53

say okay, if you take one of the preseason games

14:56

off and we only have two preseason games, the unals will

14:58

say okay, now, the presto change o. It's it

15:00

just seems too easy to me. And I know

15:03

there's like nine thousand things that I don't know about

15:05

that are gonna have to be considered. But

15:07

man, oh man, in the big picture, the

15:09

Players Union is striking the exact

15:12

right time to make sure this happens because of the eighteen

15:14

game carrot that is there for the owners.

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If something like this happens, the

15:19

only thing that I would think would

15:21

stay as is in the offseason

15:24

in terms of players coming in

15:26

for something would be rookie mini camp. I

15:28

could still I could see rookie minni camp still

15:31

being two weeks or

15:33

a week right after the draft, so you can

15:35

at least get the rookies in here

15:37

for a couple of days and then you truly

15:39

break.

15:40

It could be that, or it could be that the rookies

15:42

come in five days before the vetans

15:45

in July. You can do that any time. The building's

15:47

not just you know, it's not going to appear out of nothing.

15:50

It's here, have it whenever you want. But

15:52

you could have the rookies come in a week two

15:54

weeks before the

15:57

regular the veterans coaching

15:59

staff gets their hands on them, starts running

16:01

them through some stuff, and and and no holds

16:03

barred, let them put them in pads, all that stuff. I don't care.

16:06

Get them out there, do whatever you want

16:09

for two weeks. But the ramp up once the

16:11

veterans get there needs to be gradual and

16:14

and in such a way as to do everything

16:16

they can to make sure nobody goes overboard.

16:19

And all of a sudden, you got six guys with hamstrings

16:22

or three guys with a knee blown knees

16:25

or four broken ankles, all that

16:27

stuff that happens in a training camp when guys start

16:29

to go too fast and these

16:31

guys are going a little slower and this guy's going

16:33

a little too fast and those guys are going faster

16:35

pace than these guys as and

16:38

that clash between that gets guys

16:40

hurt. You got to bring them along

16:42

all along slow and

16:44

that's the whole point of the exercise. And

16:47

that's where injury prevention

16:49

and all that sports science that

16:52

has been accumulated over the decades

16:54

comes into play because they

16:57

know they've seen it, you know, for

16:59

one hundred years in the NFL, why

17:01

guys get hurt, and what time of

17:04

year they get hurt, what's going on when they get

17:06

hurt. They've got all that data and

17:09

you got to put it to use.

17:11

Now, you played with teams

17:13

and played in the NFL during a time where training

17:15

camp seemed like it was three months long

17:18

and you had like a basic full

17:20

season of preseason games before you had

17:22

your regular season. Does

17:25

this proposal have any shades

17:27

of what you guys went through where

17:30

training camp was a lot longer. Now, I know two a

17:32

days is not going to be part of it. I know you're not going to be

17:34

putting the pads on really early, but

17:37

is this reminiscent of your playing days

17:39

and what the offseason looked like for you guys?

17:42

And because of that, could

17:44

you see there being any pushback maybe after

17:46

a couple of years and it's like, Oh, this is too

17:49

much, this is too condensed, this

17:51

is too much work that we're doing in a

17:53

two month period to get ready for the season.

17:55

It's interesting because we never really had many

17:58

We did have OTAs and many camps, and they they

18:00

started to get designated

18:02

as different things after the CBA,

18:04

after the nineteen the

18:07

eighty seven players strike, things

18:10

started to get designated a little differently, where there's OTAs

18:13

or mini camps now. There was a difference

18:16

also when I first came into the league, there

18:18

was when teams could only bring eighty

18:20

five or ninety guys to training camp. Before

18:23

that it had been one hundred and ten. It was limitless,

18:25

you bring two hundred guys if you wanted to, and teams

18:28

brought well over one hundred players to training

18:30

camp because for a while they had

18:33

had six preseason games. So

18:37

you know, then when I came in, it was four preseason

18:39

games, and that seemed like a

18:42

long time to be playing games

18:45

on top of two a day practices in

18:48

full gear pads, tackling

18:50

the whole thing. It was really brutal.

18:53

And

18:56

then players

18:58

started in the steroid era. Hit players

19:00

started to get bigger, heavier,

19:03

faster, which meant more velocity

19:06

and more momentum and more chance

19:08

for injury because you had to be of a certain body

19:11

typed to even withstand the collisions.

19:15

So that started to

19:17

get guys hurt quick. So

19:19

some guys were on steroids, some guys weren't, and

19:22

you could tell the wane. You could tell the difference, And so

19:25

that evolved the game very quickly in the offseason,

19:27

and team starts saying who whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

19:29

whoo. You know something's going on

19:31

here, and so they they

19:33

reacted to that in the in the coming years.

19:36

This is it's. It really evolved

19:39

fast. After the eighty seven players

19:41

strike and the players union

19:44

decertified, came back, and when the league got free

19:46

agency and you started having co mingling

19:49

of off seasons and players from other teams saying,

19:51

hey, this is wrong, you guys can't

19:53

do it like this, and this guy can't you know and

19:55

say, well, we used to do it like this over at this other

19:57

team, and they were going, oh, my gosh, that's brilliant. And

20:00

so they started cross pollinating players'

20:03

opinions to other teams,

20:05

and the Union got even more

20:08

well informed about what players really wanted

20:10

in the discrepancies between teams because

20:12

it was all very very

20:15

secretive back in the day. It

20:17

was all esoteric. It was all a mystery of what

20:19

other teams did because it was all this, you know. And

20:22

so now that it's kind of all opened up,

20:25

they can they can you

20:27

know, standardize

20:30

what's going on way more effectively than

20:32

they could in the past. And I think it's the league is

20:34

better for it, no question. Took

20:37

a while to get there. So yeah, this

20:40

this is something that has

20:42

been in brewing for a long time, and

20:45

the preseason and the offseason has always

20:48

been maybe

20:50

the last bastion of player opinion

20:53

of where it really mattered. Because

20:57

we've seen it today where Jamar Chase

20:59

and t Higgs they show up

21:02

they're like, you know what, I'm no, I

21:04

don't care, I ain't doing it.

21:06

And there's older players, veteran players

21:09

in the NFL who believe I'll

21:11

show up during training camp when it

21:13

matters to me. If I've been on a team

21:15

four five plus years and there

21:17

hasn't been a change at OC or DC,

21:20

and I truly believe that I can

21:22

get.

21:22

Into football shape on my own.

21:24

I don't need to be here for OTA's, I don't need

21:26

to be here for mini camp. I can show up

21:29

for training camp and get myself ready

21:31

in that time period.

21:32

Hey, these guys got a life, and they also

21:34

have outside business dealings because

21:36

they're making so much money doing it. And I know

21:39

it's a two age sword. If they're paying them all

21:41

this money, they should be able to tell them when to be

21:43

in there. Okay, there is some of that, no

21:45

question. But because they're paying them all this

21:47

money, these guys have got responsibilities that go

21:49

beyond themselves. I mean they got now, they've got employees,

21:53

you know, they got they got their own businesses

21:55

they're trying to maintain and want

21:57

to and want to propagate after they're done playing

22:00

football. You know, like

22:02

Omaha Productions, you know, with Peyton

22:04

and Eli manning those it's a it's

22:06

a huge business endeavor and they're guys like

22:09

that all over. They

22:12

want to do that and

22:14

there's the problem is

22:16

when the league says, hey, we're paying you all this money,

22:19

we want you in here, and we want you to do

22:21

this, the players are like, we'll listen.

22:24

They've got the other edge of that is listen, we'll come

22:26

in. But what are you gonna do when I blow

22:28

my knee and you're paying me twenty million dollars

22:30

and I'm sitting

22:33

you know, because it's a real thing. It's

22:35

a real thing. I

22:39

just think the easier they take it on these

22:41

players, the longer time than it is a risk, the

22:43

longer time they give them the players off, the more

22:45

chances you're gonna get guys, not a lot, but

22:49

guys who do eat

22:51

chips and play video games

22:54

all off season, right, and they're gonna show

22:56

up fifty pounds overweight and they're gonna eat themselves

22:58

out of lead. But those are guys you know, you got to know before

23:01

you hire him that that might happen. Ye, it

23:05

works both those ways. It's a

23:08

and I get it too. And I've you

23:11

see a guy making fifteen million dollars

23:13

a year, life changing money for one year

23:15

of work, it's hard

23:18

to have sympathy for him. Wanting from

23:21

February till July off

23:25

it. I get it, you know that. I mean,

23:27

come on, bro, they're paying you fifteen

23:29

million dollars. Show up for work, you

23:32

know, because listen to all of us. You

23:35

know, you go get coffee

23:37

that that same little little

23:39

guy or that little girl is behind that window of Tim

23:42

Hortons. Every day they show up for work and they ain't making

23:44

fifteen million bucks. You know, show up

23:46

for work. There's a lot of that, and

23:48

it may come to the point where and

23:51

I listen, if we're paying you this

23:55

this place is like this place. I say, this place, this

23:57

building. Why isn't the Buffalo

23:59

Bills train, any facility open three

24:01

hundred and sixty five days a year and these guys

24:03

in here all day, every day

24:05

getting better together. It's

24:10

nothing more than tradition. There's

24:13

no there's no reasons set if I'm paying you for

24:15

if I'm paying you Josh Allen forty two million dollars,

24:17

if I'm paying you nine hundred thousand dollars,

24:20

You're gonna be here and you're gonna be here every day. You

24:23

know, there's a little bit of that in there. You

24:25

know that, because think about it, there's no other there's

24:27

no industry other than athletics where

24:29

just because we're not playing games, we turn

24:32

you loose so you can go do whatever you want take the

24:34

money with you.

24:36

Yep, there's something in that different

24:39

league nowadays, with the science

24:41

and research that's been put into

24:44

players, the wear and tear on bodies,

24:47

and how much time is truly needed

24:50

in the off season to rest,

24:53

reset and get your body

24:56

ready to get.

25:00

To have to deal with.

25:01

The wear and tear of an NFL

25:03

season getting tackled.

25:07

It's different going through.

25:08

Stretches of three

25:10

games and twelve days weather

25:13

cold weather, hot weather.

25:15

Think about this too. It's so difficult and

25:17

this is a real thing and I and I witnessed

25:20

it in my own career with other guys,

25:22

and you get

25:25

to a point it's the league asks

25:27

everything of you. You've got to pour

25:30

your whole emotional preparation

25:32

and your whole heart and soul, and you really

25:34

treat games like their life and death, even though

25:36

they're usually not. Most

25:41

teams have mental health officers

25:43

on staff now, people who because

25:46

they know it's hard. It's

25:50

hard to give yourself up like that physically. You

25:52

know you're gonna get hurt, you know you're

25:54

gonna it's gonna hurt. You know, you're gonna be uncomfortable.

25:57

You know that you play

26:00

the game and you know that you're friends guys that you

26:02

love and respect. This big family

26:04

atmosphere that we feel like we have and in locker

26:06

rooms and healthy locker rooms, that's exactly what it

26:08

is. You feel a real sense of camaraderie

26:12

and brotherhood and you

26:14

really it

26:16

really lays a big burden on

26:18

you when you know you're not one hundred percent

26:20

physically and you feel like you have to

26:22

be. And

26:27

because of that, guys

26:30

fly away in the off season, they go

26:33

far far away. They can't.

26:35

They just need a break there

26:37

is that is a real thing. And you know and

26:40

these mental you know doctor Lex,

26:43

you know doctor Dez, doctor

26:45

Dez in the in the building. I

26:47

mean they're patrolling all and they're watching people

26:50

all the time, making sure nobody's you

26:53

know, showing signs of being

26:55

too much for them. And I think it's a good

26:57

thing, but it's real because this is

26:59

it is a game that choose you

27:01

up. So it's so

27:04

this off season rest and this

27:06

limited off season and then you know, getting

27:09

it all and just going one hundred miles an hour in July. There's

27:13

pluses and minuses, but

27:15

you can I can see both sides of the coin.

27:18

And you can always go back.

27:19

You know, if you test out this new model

27:21

over the next couple of years and it doesn't

27:23

work.

27:23

Out, hey you shift it back.

27:25

The off season can be tinkered with, it

27:27

can be adjusted, and

27:30

you're not gonna You're not gonna

27:33

have to suffer too much. You're not missing

27:36

out on things from readjusting an off

27:38

season to hey, let's let's stack

27:40

everything in June and July versus across

27:43

April and May and June.

27:45

So right, if this is if.

27:48

The players believe that this will help them

27:50

when it comes to getting

27:52

ready for an NFL season and being

27:55

healthy and staying healthier,

27:57

I'm all for it because I believe players safety

27:59

and play your health is should be at the

28:01

top of the list.

28:04

For NFL owners, we're.

28:05

Talking about March, April, May

28:07

and June, and for some players it's February,

28:09

March, April, May and June. So

28:12

it goes from four to five months

28:14

completely off or sporadic

28:17

visits where you're on off, on off

28:19

and travel and travel and traveling. Yeah,

28:23

I don't I don't know that it'll ever get to the point where

28:25

I was mentioning where it's going to be. The guy's

28:27

going to be here, and if you're a Buffalo bill, you live

28:29

in Buffalo for your entirety of your career. You never leave

28:31

anywhere else.

28:32

I don't think that's going to happen.

28:33

As long way off. But yeah,

28:36

I think the only reason it is that way is just because

28:38

of the tradition and the fact that, yeah,

28:42

it would be just as costly to have

28:44

them in here working every day as it would be during season.

28:46

You know, where you feed them and you do all that stuff and

28:48

the staff, and if they were here.

28:49

That twenty four to seven, they'd be asking

28:52

for more money.

28:55

They would, Yeah, for sure, Well the and

28:58

the money is going to be there. Yeah,

29:01

they're not. They're not going broke.

29:04

We'll see. It's interesting though,

29:06

that the league continues to evolve and

29:08

these big things are big. The

29:11

players union and the owners, you know, getting together.

29:13

That's that's Glacier type

29:15

stuff moving. I mean, that's big things.

29:17

And people care.

29:18

I mean, we just spent thirty minutes talking about an

29:20

off season change.

29:21

The NFL is mega,

29:24

it is.

29:25

Huge, But this is for an

29:27

old player like me. I get it, man.

29:29

This is this is This

29:31

is like earth shaking kind of

29:33

foundational differences.

29:35

It affects our off season two, Yeah, it does

29:37

does.

29:38

We're gonna take a break, but when we return, we're

29:40

gonna air some Joe Brady

29:43

sound from earlier today. He spoke with media

29:46

about the offense, some new pieces,

29:48

and what he's expecting out of

29:50

the Bills in.

29:51

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29:52

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30:12

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30:14

We've got a Twitter topic for

30:16

you today. What new wrinkle do you want

30:18

to see in the Bill's offense this

30:20

season? You can tweet at us or give

30:23

us a call at eighth three, five point

30:25

fifty. We will be reading off some of those

30:27

answers later on in the show. We'll also

30:29

hear from Don't Kincaid and I

30:31

Believe Kaloshakir, who are addressing

30:34

the media right now after Ota

30:36

practice. We also wanted to get

30:38

to Joe Brady because he spoke

30:40

to the media earlier this afternoon,

30:42

so we have a couple soundbites that we pulled

30:44

that we wanted.

30:45

To discuss with all of you.

30:47

So first SoundBite, he talked

30:50

about having an entire off

30:52

season to prepare for

30:55

this season and getting to put the

30:57

Joe Brady wrinkle on the offense.

30:59

So here's what Joe Brady said

31:01

about having a whole off season to

31:04

really tweak this offense into what he

31:06

wants it to become.

31:08

You know, only time will tell. Look

31:10

at the end of the day, Uh, this

31:13

is Josh Allen's offense, right, Like,

31:15

you're gonna you're gonna put together the offense around the guys

31:17

that you got. So for us to just say,

31:19

hey, we're just gonna scrap everything and uh,

31:22

you know everything was broken, that wasn't the case, right,

31:24

and so you know there'll be some elements

31:26

of things that I believe in, but uh, it's

31:29

more of like, tell me who we have on our football team and the

31:31

guys and what they can do well, and we're gonna We're gonna.

31:33

Do that, all

31:35

right.

31:35

That was Joe Brady on what he envisions

31:38

for the offense, having a full off

31:40

season to put

31:42

his own touch on it. And one thing that

31:44

I really liked about what he said

31:46

there was the fact that, hey, this

31:49

is not Joe Brady's offense. This is

31:51

Josh Allen's offense, and I

31:53

want to also implement

31:56

player strengths within this offense. It

31:58

seems like he is the type of

32:00

offensive coordinator that is truly

32:02

taking feedback from his players

32:05

and truly wants to hear their

32:07

ideas of what you want

32:10

something to look like. You hear about offensive

32:12

coordinators being player coaches, but

32:15

I really believe this is true with Joe

32:17

Brady in that he wants to hear

32:20

from other players and he wants to build

32:22

an offense that supports

32:25

what players want to do.

32:26

Yeah, and he kind of said the quiet

32:29

part out loud, where you know, offensive coordinators

32:31

around the league will tell you know, he's the offensive coordinator's

32:33

my offense doing the quarterbacks,

32:35

particularly the Josh Allen level

32:37

of quarterbacking, it's their offense.

32:40

And when you get into meetings

32:43

and you get into installing stuff and you

32:45

get into what the quarterback likes to run,

32:47

the offensive coordinator starts to get to know

32:49

that extremely well. And I've heard countless

32:52

conversations from elite quarterbacks

32:56

and guys who've been around those guys

33:00

tell you how those dynamics go quarterback.

33:02

It used to quarterbacks coach is

33:04

the guy who goes from the quarterback

33:07

to the offensive coordinator and says, I

33:09

don't like that, that, that, and that. Get it

33:11

out. So the

33:13

quarterback doesn't have to go to the coordinator

33:15

himself. Uh, that's the coordinator.

33:18

The quarterback coach then goes from the coordinator

33:21

to the to the elite

33:23

quarterback and says, listen, man, we

33:25

got to have this in because here's what they're doing. We

33:28

need this and this and this, and then that conversation

33:30

goes on. It's an argument going

33:32

on between elite quarterbacks and offensive coordinators

33:35

that the quarterbacks coach has to facilitate.

33:37

And I say argument, you know, kind of that's

33:39

a little exaggeration, but quarterbacks

33:42

don't like to run certain stuff, and

33:44

they all have this kind of attitude like

33:46

I ain't gonna run it. And famously,

33:49

the famous one I heard about John

33:51

Elway in the court in the in the Super Bowl,

33:53

the one where he gets cartwheeled and spin

33:56

wheeled when he's going in When they win the Super Bowl against

33:58

I think it's Green Bay or maybe it's their second

34:00

Super Bowl, and I can't remember who they played maybe it was,

34:03

I don't know who was, but John Elway famously

34:05

takes that ball, drops back and takes the ball around

34:07

the end ties to dive for the first

34:10

down and then gets cartwheeled.

34:14

He told them during the week, Mike Shanahan,

34:16

he said, if you call that, I'm not gonna run it,

34:19

meaning he's not gonna throw that pass. And

34:22

in the game he didn't. He took off

34:24

and ran and now he got the first down. But

34:26

he took the hit to do it because he wouldn't

34:29

throw that pass because and he told

34:31

them all week he wouldn't have. So that kind of story goes

34:33

on all the time. I've heard stuff about

34:35

what Peyton Manning used to do to Tom Moore, the

34:37

conversations they had, you

34:40

know. So it goes on at Jim Kelly and

34:42

Ted Marchibroda and Jim Kelly

34:44

and Jim Schaffner and Tom Bresnahan,

34:47

Dan Marino, Jim

34:51

Dan Fouts throughout.

34:53

The age is the quarterback. The

34:57

offense looks like the quarterback wants it to look,

35:00

and the coordinator's job is to give that

35:02

guy concepts that he likes with

35:04

some creativity added some wrinkles

35:06

that the defense isn't ready for That's

35:09

the real challenge of it. Now. Certainly a guy

35:11

like Brian Dayball. When you get a guy like Josh in

35:14

he can bring Josh up and he can kind of facilitate

35:17

Josh's growth and then and they become

35:19

really close because of that, and it's

35:21

a different kind of dynamic

35:24

there at times. But sooner or later, the

35:26

quarterbacks gonna say, dude, no, I ain't running

35:28

that, you know. And

35:31

that's where that's where, you know, when a quarterback kind

35:33

of gets his feet under him like Josh, and you grow to

35:35

the point where you can say no, you know, so

35:38

you know he's Joe Brady said

35:41

this is Josh's offense. He's

35:44

probably right kind

35:47

of saying that. But no

35:49

question, Josh has got Joe Brady

35:51

does a ton of work that Josh Allen

35:53

benefits from and it's a it's a mutual relationship.

35:58

He is, Yeah, he has got a lot of new

36:00

pieces this year. I don't know that he knows

36:02

or Josh knows, exactly what they want this offense

36:04

to look like or what it could look like more

36:07

accurately. I think it's fascinating

36:10

though, to think about the dynamics that are

36:12

going to go on with they got all new players, new skill

36:14

sets, and how do Josh's

36:17

likes and dislikes fit in with that.

36:19

Joe Brady also said, this is the time

36:21

to experiment with some of these things.

36:23

This is the time for guys to come forward

36:25

and say, hey, let's run this, or I

36:27

think I do this really well.

36:29

How can we fit this into the

36:31

playbook?

36:32

Because you're not playing games

36:34

right now, this is the time to build things

36:37

up. This is the time to put the puzzle pieces

36:39

together. Joe Brady also

36:41

said, I want guys to come

36:43

forward now because I want

36:46

it to be easier in the offseason

36:48

when we maybe go through a slump and

36:50

things maybe aren't working like they used

36:52

to work. I want guys to feel comfortable

36:55

coming to me when things are tough, when

36:58

the losses might happen. I

37:00

want them to be able to say,

37:03

hey, how about we switch this up, how about

37:05

we do this differently. So he's

37:07

laying the groundwork now to

37:09

leave that door open throughout the entire

37:11

season, which I thought was really cool

37:13

to.

37:14

Hear from an offensive coordinator.

37:15

Joe Brady also spoke about the adjustments

37:18

that this offense is going to have to make without

37:21

a player like Stefan Diggson.

37:22

In so you don't

37:24

just sit there and just say you're just going to replace a player,

37:27

replace a scheme or you

37:29

know, targets like you know, every year is going to be different.

37:31

And to me, it's the biggest thing is just as

37:33

you're going into it is all right,

37:35

hey, what do these wide receivers do well? And

37:38

let's find ways to put

37:40

them in those positions. And right now we have a lot of newness

37:42

in that receiver room and there's so much

37:44

good and so much excitement with it. And so I

37:46

think it's important for us to not sit

37:48

there and focus necessarily on like, man, we have to

37:50

replace this, We have to replace this more so as like,

37:53

hey, you know what every game is, every season is gonna be different

37:55

than numbers are never going to be the exact same, and let's

37:57

just figure out how we can get our players in the best position

38:00

success.

38:01

I love that it adds on to what we were

38:03

discussing. You've got a new

38:05

wide receiver room full of so

38:07

many new faces. It's

38:10

gonna look a lot different this season without

38:13

your number one wide receiver that

38:15

you had for the last four seasons.

38:17

You take that out of the equation and

38:19

things have to change, Things have to shift.

38:22

Yes, Khalil Shakir is still around,

38:25

but it's going to look different

38:27

in how the ball is distributed. It's going

38:29

to look different in the players that are deployed.

38:32

We saw Dalton Kinkaid in his rookie

38:34

season. What does it look like in year

38:36

two for that tight end? What does it look

38:39

like for Khalil Shakir after he had

38:42

a great finish to last season,

38:44

He's still a player who's early

38:46

in his NFL career. Joe

38:48

Brady also said, I love the juice

38:51

about the wide receiver room right now because

38:53

of the way they go about working, the way

38:55

they go about practicing. There

38:57

is no guy who's at the top of the

39:00

list the wide.

39:01

Receiver one right now.

39:02

So everybody, I believe is pushing

39:04

each other and is working together to

39:07

get the best out of each

39:09

other, get the best out of the guy next to you, so

39:12

that you can come into Week

39:14

one feeling like, Wow, we really

39:16

pushed each other this offseason, and now look

39:19

at how we're performing on the field against other teams.

39:21

That's right. When guys leave like Steph

39:23

Diggs, Gabe Davis and as much as

39:25

you love and respect him, and much as they played really

39:28

well for your team, but at the moment they're off your

39:30

team, they're irrelevant. It's

39:32

not about replacing them. It's

39:34

not about you know, it's about doing

39:37

what you did when they were on the team. You make

39:39

them as good as you can make them, and

39:41

that's now you make the other guys who are

39:43

or there, Curtis, Samuel Khalil, Shakir,

39:46

Dalton Kincaid, Kean Coleman, you

39:48

know, Mac Hollins, you go down

39:50

the list. You're trying to make your

39:53

offense as good as these guys are,

39:55

as good as you can make them. Give them a chance,

39:57

to them a chance to

39:59

flourish. Let's promote

40:01

these guys and their talents. It's it's about

40:03

turning your eyes on what you have in the room

40:06

and maximizing it. And

40:09

that's what it is. It's it ceases

40:11

to be even the statistics

40:13

from last year are irrelevant.

40:16

You're trying to get as good as you can be, as successful,

40:19

as successful as you can be. Each and every

40:21

week and every day you're out there, you're trying to get better

40:23

and explore new ideas and new concepts

40:26

and try to get these guys to show different skill

40:28

sets and then put them on display

40:31

on game day. It has nothing to do

40:33

with Steph Diggs and Gabe Davis. For

40:36

as much as as great a players as they

40:38

are, they're irrelevant. Now. The

40:41

guys in the room are who's important.

40:44

And you know that's what Joe Brady said. He said, We're

40:46

gonna find out what these guys do, and we're gonna maximize

40:48

these guys. And with

40:51

the athletes and the size and the skill

40:53

sets that have already been displayed in other places

40:56

and around the league, there's

40:58

plenty in that room that can be exploited

41:01

and win a lot of games and give Josh

41:03

Allen all the tools he needs. And that's where the focus

41:05

is. Certainly, you can look at statistics

41:07

and transpose them onto these guys. We were doing that

41:09

with Chris Trpasso where he said, you know

41:12

Cole Beasley, John Brown, Steph

41:14

Diggs when they the first year they came to Buffalo

41:17

with Josh Allen, they all had career years.

41:19

That may happen with Keon. It's gonna happen with

41:21

Keon Coleman because his his first year, but it may happen

41:23

with Mac Hollins. May happen with

41:26

Curtis Samuel, It may happen

41:28

with Khalil Shakir now that he's gonna be on the field

41:31

presumably every down.

41:34

That's where they're at. It's about going forward

41:36

with what you've got rather than trying to replace

41:38

what you used to have, because it can do whatever

41:41

you want with the guys you have. It doesn't have to

41:43

look like it used to all

41:45

right.

41:45

That was the sound from Bill's offensive

41:47

coordinator Joe Brady discussing

41:49

the offense ahead of the twenty twenty

41:51

four season. How it may look a little

41:54

bit different without some pieces

41:56

like Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis.

41:58

But that doesn't mean it's gonna be bad.

42:00

You know.

42:00

Sometimes change is good for the

42:02

Bills, and we'll see if this change is exactly

42:05

what they need. As Josh Allen approaches

42:07

his seventh NFL season, break

42:10

time for us. When we return, we'll get to the tweet

42:12

sheet and answer some calls. Stick

42:14

with us here on One Bill's Live, or presented by Clydehealth

42:16

on Buffalo Bills Radio.

42:34

We're back here on One Bill's Live.

42:35

Maty Glab alongside of Steve Tasker

42:38

and We've got a couple of people who've been hanging on the

42:40

phone line, so let's go right over to

42:42

them. Butch joins

42:44

us on the show from the east side. Butch, how are you doing?

42:47

First of all, I want to just say, I hope you guys

42:49

had a outstanding holidays.

42:51

Even though you guys didn't invite me to put a cook

42:54

out at that house, that's okay though. I'm

42:58

doing great, and I hope you guys are doing greatest well, a great

43:00

show as usual. I love w G.

43:02

I love the MSG and the fans. You guys definitely

43:04

know I love you guys. Are I just want to just

43:07

a couple of things I want to say before I get to the topic.

43:10

Uh, this is really for the fans and

43:13

you as well. This past holiday, I

43:15

happen to go down on Main Street, uh

43:18

to the anchor barn and I'm not going to use

43:20

the name, and I think I'm literally giving a privacy.

43:25

Hello.

43:25

But we lost, but I guess we lost.

43:27

But right before before

43:30

the four got good.

43:33

Oh, well, but calls back if you can. We've

43:35

got a short segment, so we'll try.

43:36

And get to you.

43:37

Let's see see him call

43:40

right back. Butch, are you on with us?

43:42

Are you there?

43:43

Yeah?

43:44

Now?

43:45

So much real quick.

43:48

A couple of things to say. One, I'm not I

43:50

was at I went to went an anchor

43:52

by this past weekend, and I

43:54

was a receiver that was a former Buffalo

43:56

Gills receiver along I'm with the current receiver and

43:59

along with some family. But I didn't know the receiver

44:01

had family in Buffalo. I'm gonna beave this prictic to this

44:03

family alone. But anyway, I was sitting

44:05

there, ordered around that simple round, you know, ship

44:08

at the bar, and I was just talking about the season

44:11

and the receiver. The current receiver

44:15

says that tell the fans

44:17

in Buffalo, New York, as long as Josh

44:19

Allen is here, they would

44:21

have a problem getting a wide

44:23

receiver to play with.

44:25

This guy. They gave him a nickname.

44:28

They called him like the like the candy bar.

44:30

Pay Day.

44:31

They called him pay Day and I said,

44:36

oh.

44:36

No, Butcher's gone again.

44:41

Are you still are you still there?

44:43

We can hear you.

44:45

They called Josh, So they called Josh Payday.

44:48

Keep going.

44:49

They called him Payday And I said, why do you guys

44:51

call him pay Day? And he says, because he

44:53

says a lot of the receivers they sit in the NFL.

44:55

Now, he says, all the teachers

44:57

that whether they whether they tell you or not, watches

45:00

this guy, and their agents watches

45:02

this guy. And they said that they ever get

45:04

an opportunity to play with them,

45:06

they guarantee to get a second PAYO or third

45:08

pay. And he says, he says, so they

45:11

call him his nickname like the candy bar. It's

45:13

payday, And I says, wow, really

45:15

said yeah, really said listen, he says, Tell

45:17

the fans in western New York and he says they be you

45:19

know, they watch social media as well, and he

45:22

says that you know, people have been complaining about

45:24

you know, Buffalo doesn't have anybody. He said,

45:26

the receivers that we have now are going

45:28

to find people are going to find out that

45:31

they look forward to playing, uh

45:34

for this guy in the Buffalo Bills because

45:36

of the Josh Allen. He says, people don't

45:38

really know how fortunate it is to have a

45:40

quarterback and this guy plays for a top

45:42

team. You know, hey, he doesn't have a job, he doesn't have a Josh

45:44

Holler. But it was it was very I was very atrigued

45:46

that he really said that anyway, I just want

45:49

to just say that. And then when you guys interviewed Joe

45:51

Brady and Brady's clip came off.

45:54

Uh, I really understand about

45:56

how like you just said Maddie and Steve that the

45:58

offense is not gonna be bad, It's going.

45:59

To be good.

46:00

And this goes to my second part about your question

46:03

of what new wrinkles I want. If you put

46:05

the wrinkles up bubble screens, screams

46:08

uh, one, two, three out of his hands,

46:11

and you will have no problem.

46:13

You'll have no problem. I think the office would be good. And also

46:16

the piggyback off what the player said. He says,

46:18

just tell the office that we tell the GM

46:21

every year. Just keep drafting offensive linement. He

46:23

says, that's all you're gonna need as long as that guy's playing

46:25

quarterback. Maybe I'm sorry for the mix up

46:27

on the phone. I don't know what was going on. It's raining outside

46:29

maybyway. I love you guys, I love the mischief, I

46:32

love W g R. Matt E, Steve,

46:34

you know, semi regards to Chris and the

46:36

rest of the guys and all the fans out there,

46:38

I hope you guys are happy and love

46:40

you said, everyone is thank you so much for taking my car.

46:42

Thank you, I appreciate it.

46:44

But is

46:48

that a new wrinkle you'd like to see in the.

46:50

R problem with that they we

46:52

we have long been absent

46:55

of a of a classic finger

46:58

quotes, classic screen game where

47:00

the quarterback drops back and it looks like the pass

47:02

rush is gonna crush him, but he drops

47:04

it right over the top of the defensive lineman who rushing

47:07

him and the offensive lineman or ahead of the running back and they

47:09

take off down the field. They've never really

47:11

gotten that with Josh. One reason I think

47:13

is because of Josh himself and the way teams play

47:15

him. They got a spy, and

47:17

that spy sees a screen because

47:20

he stays back behind the pass rush

47:23

but still up kind of where he's watching Josh.

47:25

When you've got a spy on a quarterback or somebody

47:28

who's assigned to guard him,

47:31

kind of the screen game is

47:33

out the window. You can't do it

47:36

because the guy who's garden Josh sees it

47:38

and is all over it. So that

47:41

has always been a problem for the Bills because of

47:43

who the kind of quarterback Josh is. Now.

47:45

The timing stuff that take

47:47

the snap, drop back three steps and

47:50

zing the balls gonna a lah the Miami Dolphins

47:52

with Tua where the ball's got to come out fast

47:54

because well, for different reasons

47:57

in Miami rather than here in Buffalo. That's an

47:59

excellent way to go as well, because it does

48:01

force the defense to you

48:05

know, they're not going to sack him, which they're not

48:07

really sacking him anyway. Uh,

48:09

But that timing stuff is

48:12

a great way to make a law. It's a long handoff

48:14

kind of easy throws balls

48:17

out of his hand, never takes a hit, easy

48:20

quick gain and if you've got run after catch

48:22

guys, yards after catch yet, guys,

48:25

it's a great offense to run and

48:28

it keeps your quarterbacks punishment to a minimum.

48:30

So that's a good way to, you know, to preserve Josh's

48:32

health. For a guy who's that

48:35

that big a part of your offense, that's

48:39

all well and good wrinkle Those would be great wrinkles,

48:42

But I still think the bulk of your offense

48:44

is going to be Josh Allen doing what he does, dropping

48:46

back and throwing it.

48:48

Yeah, mixing up the pace of an offense

48:50

I think bodes well

48:52

for trying to

48:54

trump a defense and and get a defense

48:57

on their on their heels, not knowing

48:59

what to do. You

49:02

also wear out a defense. If you're playing a little

49:04

bit faster, you wear out a defense

49:06

a lot quicker. If you're playing one

49:08

two three, throw the ball, one two three, throw the

49:10

ball, one two three, throw the ball, and you're moving

49:13

down the field at a high

49:15

pace. Yeah, I like that, but

49:17

I like mixing it up a little bit.

49:19

At the current point of In this

49:21

current point of history where we're at with the NFL,

49:24

the no huddle quick

49:26

paced offense is different than

49:29

it was when back when Jim Kelly and Thurman

49:31

Thomas made it famous because

49:33

defenses now are so complex

49:36

and so polished that

49:39

they still have the ability to run different

49:41

defenses even at a breakneck pace.

49:44

And back in

49:46

the day when the no huddle k gun thing

49:48

was going on, it simplified

49:51

defenses where they didn't make

49:53

complicated check calls or check

49:56

packages. They did

49:58

the same thing overall because we the Bills,

50:00

Jim Kelly, Thurman Tummins was just lined up in the same

50:02

way, same formation every time, either

50:04

right or left. But it's the same formation. Now

50:08

you go fast paced and if you can line

50:11

up in different formations and all that and go

50:13

fast. It

50:16

may have a place, but defenses aren't

50:18

going to get more simple. They're going to be able

50:20

to communicate a defensive call in during

50:23

that time. It's

50:25

a different brand of offense.

50:27

So yes, I like I think that's a great

50:30

changing the pace of the offense is a great way

50:33

to a great wrinkle to

50:35

add. So I like that, But it's it's different

50:37

these days than it was in the past.

50:39

And we've seen this team change

50:41

the pace of how the game is played,

50:44

especially in the beginning of the game when

50:47

they try to go a little bit hurry up

50:49

offense to get into things to settle

50:51

in. We've seen Josh

50:54

perform very well in the beginning of

50:56

a game when you are going a little bit

50:58

faster. I remember Ken

51:00

Dorsey doing that a couple times. It

51:03

was I think for the first time. Maybe

51:05

it was in the beginning of the game, and then the next game they

51:07

did it at the end of the game, and then the

51:10

following week they brought it up again. But

51:12

I know it's something that you can't do every

51:14

single game because opponents are different, the

51:16

defenses you're playing are different. Some

51:18

defenses may be able to adjust to something

51:21

like that a lot easier and be able

51:23

to tee off against an offense who

51:26

who has a fast paced way

51:28

about things. But we have seen

51:30

Josh Allen have success in playing

51:33

that type of pace and playing a little bit more

51:35

of a hurry up offense. We've got to take

51:37

a break, but when we return, we're gone it to the tweet

51:39

sheet. What new wrinkle do you want to see

51:42

in the Bills offense? Give us

51:44

a call here at a three to five point fifty

51:46

or tweet at us. We will also be

51:48

hearing from Dalt, Kan Kaid and Khalil Shakir.

51:51

Coming up next on One Bill's Live presented

51:53

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52:36

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52:39

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52:42

Welcome into a Tuesday edition of

52:44

One Bill's Live. Our number two on

52:46

deck Matty Glab alongside of Steve Tasker

52:49

fill in for Chris Brown for

52:51

the next week and a half. I want

52:53

to say we've got a Twitter topic

52:56

for you guys today. Our question of

52:58

the day is what new wrinkle do you want to say see

53:00

in the Bills offense? If you haven't had

53:02

an answer to that, you can call us at eight

53:04

oh three oh five point.

53:05

Fifty or tweet at us.

53:07

We want to go over to the phone lines because Jim

53:09

from South Buffalo is on with

53:12

us.

53:12

Jim, how are you doing?

53:14

Oh? Thank you very much. I thought i'd be a hope.

53:17

I'd be out hope for a little while. My

53:19

question is, I don't know how much

53:22

Steve knows much about Summer

53:25

Football League, but

53:28

my question is as

53:32

not any chance we can give a couple of players in

53:34

that league from the training

53:38

we see that this guy is doing good or that

53:40

guy, can we pick anybody up from

53:42

them?

53:43

From the UFL?

53:43

Oh? Yeah, do you have anybody in mind?

53:46

Well, no, not, I have to stop in my head because

53:50

because you guys already have ninety people

53:52

already, so I really didn't think it

53:54

was possible, and their league already started,

53:57

but there was a couple of players.

54:00

Yeah, if the guy is if

54:02

the Bills have a roster spot and

54:04

the guys available, yeah, I think they can sign him

54:06

right away from the UFL. I think the UFL and the

54:09

XFL are

54:11

the say in the same boat. If the guy gets

54:14

signed to an NFL contract, I think he leaves

54:16

immediately or can leave immediately, which

54:19

is also why it's kind

54:21

of hard to find a guy from those leaks. If one

54:23

pops his head up and there's somebody with a roster spot,

54:25

they'll grab him. But yes, I think

54:27

those guys are are fully in

54:31

the pool of players that can be picked up

54:33

by an NFL team if they have

54:35

a roster spot.

54:38

Jim, thanks for the question, appreciate it.

54:41

The UFL is getting more pub these days,

54:43

you know UFL and XFL. There

54:46

are some former NFL players that are

54:48

playing in the UFL now and who knows.

54:52

It's a great place to scout players. Is

54:54

it a popular thing that happens No? Does

54:56

that change over time?

54:59

Possibly?

54:59

I think if you were to ask scouts

55:01

and coaches, they

55:03

would love to have some sort of farm system

55:06

where they could go to grab

55:08

players. They have that in the MLB, they

55:10

have that in other leagues. You

55:12

have the G League, in the NBA, the

55:14

NHL has a boatload of players you

55:17

can get playing in different leagues AHL

55:20

and you don't see.

55:21

That really in the NFL.

55:23

And one reason could be is because it's

55:26

hard to find that

55:29

many players that also have

55:32

NFL caliber bur to them that they

55:35

can just go from one league to the other league,

55:37

But yeah, I think it would make things a little

55:39

bit easier.

55:41

You also just have so many.

55:42

Good players coming out of college football every

55:44

single year, and it's a little bit different in

55:47

that in the NFL, you got a guy coming

55:49

out of college football, he could be the starting quarterback

55:51

the next season. You don't see that as

55:54

much in different leagues. In the MLB

55:56

and the NHL. It takes a few years sometimes

55:58

for guys.

55:59

Yeah, and it's

56:01

a relatively I

56:04

guess, a relatively small pool of players

56:06

who have shown enough that

56:09

they can come in and you know, the top

56:11

of the NFL draft out of college. I mean you're

56:13

talking about guys who are all virtually the same age,

56:15

within or two years, certainly

56:17

within three years of each other, with rare

56:20

exception. And

56:23

that's the pool of players that there is in the NFL.

56:26

That's it. Plus, I was

56:28

told one at one point by NFL executives

56:31

that they keep track of like twelve

56:34

hundred guys who are fresh out of the National

56:36

Football League, as well as six to eight

56:38

hundred guys who are not yet

56:40

old enough to be in the league. That means all the college

56:43

players. So they

56:45

keep track of about three thousand players

56:48

in addition to the two

56:50

thousand players that are in the league.

56:54

So there's a lot of guys to keep track of and

56:58

to escalate or to you know, to

57:00

distill yourself to the top of that broth

57:03

of all these guys. You

57:06

got to do some things in a football

57:08

league, in football games, or

57:11

be set aside athletically to a certain extent

57:14

that you don't have to know as much football as anybody

57:16

else because you're such a great athlete. They'll plug

57:18

you in and you'll be able to your athleticism

57:20

will cover for your mistakes. Those

57:23

guys are extremely rare. Yeah,

57:26

that this you

57:29

know, this pool of player

57:31

there's not that big a pool of players. I heard

57:33

one executive, a high

57:35

level person in the ownership

57:37

level of the NFL, said that their stuff

57:39

told them that there's just not enough players

57:41

on the planet who can play

57:44

so that the league could expand to Europe.

57:46

There's just not that many guys who can play, So

57:50

the whole league would be bad

57:52

foot sprinkled bad football players

57:55

around. They'd be too few of good players

57:57

sprinkled over, too many teams with

58:00

bad players in them. Uh, they

58:02

just don't feel like the league

58:04

would be as good because the

58:06

only place you can get players from is the United States

58:10

at the current moment. Certainly you can find a guy like

58:12

you know, well, like you know, the rugby

58:14

player we've got right, and

58:17

the rugby player we got last, the running

58:20

back and I can't think of his.

58:22

On the roster on the defense.

58:24

They're just it's just not that many

58:27

guys. So you

58:29

have these leagues like the UFL and the

58:32

XFL, and these guys are

58:34

trying to make themselves valuable enough to

58:36

get a look. But

58:39

the league kind of look is looking at itself

58:41

going. The thing that's holding it back from expansion

58:44

are enough good players to go around.

58:46

It's not easy.

58:47

So you know, you have the ufls they're playing

58:49

football, and it looks a lot like the United States.

58:51

It looks like the NFL at least

58:53

you know x's and o's wise. Same

58:56

thing with Canada. It's a little bit different game, but very

58:58

much similar to football. You can have

59:01

Canadian guys come down here and be successful. There's

59:04

just not enough good players to

59:06

expand the NFL any further than where

59:08

it is right at the moment, or at least that's the

59:10

belief we've been told.

59:12

We had a few players speak to the media

59:14

earlier today following practice wide

59:16

receiver Kol Shakir and tight end Dunkin

59:19

Kaid. So let's get over to some of that right

59:21

now and hear from Dalton Kinkaid.

59:23

Last week, Josh talked a little bit about the

59:26

group as a whole, pass catchers

59:29

kind of the mentality inside that room being that

59:32

sometimes you're just gonna have to take the bus ticket and

59:34

rod Ward for their team. What do you

59:36

get the sense of, like just start the mentality

59:38

inside of other uh?

59:40

You know, just a lot of selfless guys. Obviously,

59:43

that room looks a lot different from last year,

59:46

and I feel like that transition has gone really well in

59:49

terms of, you know, those guys blending in

59:51

and messing good with the group of guys we have

59:53

here and the culture all

59:55

that.

59:56

How do you feel about having the focus

1:00:00

on you a little bit more now that Takes is gone,

1:00:02

Dave Davis is gone, You come back as

1:00:04

kind of the guy from UH.

1:00:08

I mean, I feel like we have quite a bit of

1:00:10

weapons on offense. I wouldn't per se I'm

1:00:12

the guy and the

1:00:14

offense is just gonna go through so many people

1:00:16

this year that it's gonna help

1:00:18

everybody out. You know, we're gonna open everybody up,

1:00:20

and with Josh back there, he's gonna

1:00:22

get everybody the ball. So I

1:00:25

think definitely

1:00:27

a couple more targets this year, which which will be nice.

1:00:30

But our room looks good

1:00:33

and the the weapons we have an offense is pretty

1:00:35

cool.

1:00:36

I know it's really early, but.

1:00:39

Based on what Joe did for November

1:00:42

on with the offense to what is

1:00:44

just looking like now, can

1:00:46

you give us maybe a organization of some

1:00:48

of the things that maybe have changed a

1:00:50

little bit since now he's took over.

1:00:53

Joe's been awesome in terms

1:00:56

of his his mentality

1:00:58

and his energy every day. Ah,

1:01:00

it's contagious, which uh you know

1:01:03

as an offense as a whole, I think we all feel

1:01:05

that, especially come out in practice.

1:01:07

But uh,

1:01:10

the playbooks changed.

1:01:11

Uh.

1:01:12

I wouldn't say a ton, but there's

1:01:14

there's a lot of changes in tweaks we've made from

1:01:16

last year. So I think the

1:01:18

creativity and kind of freedom he

1:01:20

has right now in terms of just testing things

1:01:22

out, especially in OTAs, is

1:01:25

super helpful. Uh, just with

1:01:27

our playbook. So I think he's

1:01:30

he's getting a lot more comfortable as an offensive

1:01:32

coordinator. And in terms of playing uh calm

1:01:34

plays and you know, creating a playbook around

1:01:37

us.

1:01:39

What would you say in

1:01:41

year two physically, has

1:01:43

there been you know, what is your emphasis

1:01:46

been on? Because lack last offseason, you're

1:01:48

training for the draft, the draft happens.

1:01:50

It's just roller coaster.

1:01:52

You don't really so now after year one you

1:01:54

can really you know, how would you say, is

1:01:56

there any much of a change.

1:01:58

Some guys changed there, you know, make movements

1:02:00

physically in your gym?

1:02:02

Yeah, I mean last offseason I

1:02:04

didn't really get to train much until I got here

1:02:06

for OTAs because I was hurt. So

1:02:09

it I don't want to say it's been more

1:02:12

fun, but just being able to participate

1:02:14

in workouts and stuff, you know, uh,

1:02:17

February March. As opposed to last year when

1:02:19

I'm just sitting there kind of watching everybody work out and I'm

1:02:21

doing my rehab, I

1:02:23

feel a lot better. And especially

1:02:25

being back here with and strength

1:02:27

staff, it's fun.

1:02:30

You know, we compete in the weight room, we're competing

1:02:32

out here, and as

1:02:34

a competitive person, it's it's fun to be surrounded

1:02:36

by people who were pushing to be better. But

1:02:40

I definitely think there's a difference

1:02:43

in terms of last year in this year.

1:02:46

Josh is waving right now, I can see,

1:02:48

but yeah, point,

1:02:50

I.

1:02:51

Mean, are you have you put

1:02:53

you know, higher goals up there for like, you know

1:02:55

whatever the main.

1:02:57

Yeah, I mean that was a big empasis for me this the

1:03:00

off season was getting stronger and faster in

1:03:04

changing terms of my diet, focusing

1:03:06

on that as well. So especially

1:03:09

being back in Buffalo working

1:03:11

with Lady, but being

1:03:13

in the weight room a lot more was something I wanted

1:03:16

to focus on this offseason.

1:03:17

Stay in Buffalo the whole off season or

1:03:19

did you go to a couple of places and training

1:03:21

like what was that line?

1:03:22

Yeah, I was out in California training.

1:03:24

So yeah, when.

1:03:26

You met with Brandon Sean at the end of

1:03:28

the season and kind of put together your off season

1:03:30

planned. Obviously strength beings something

1:03:32

you want to add from a skill set perspective,

1:03:35

like what what have you focused on this offseason?

1:03:37

Maybe trying to take a jump in a certain

1:03:39

area.

1:03:39

Of your game. Press was a big

1:03:41

one for me. Press and man getting

1:03:44

better in those facets of the game, especially

1:03:47

you know, guys coming up and try to press you slowly

1:03:50

off and kind of throw off your rhythm and routes.

1:03:52

So that was the biggest emphasis for me, besides

1:03:55

lifting weights and getting stronger.

1:03:58

Weight wise, what you are you going to target

1:04:00

about the same weight for this

1:04:02

season is last year.

1:04:03

I'd like I like to coming a little bit heavier, especially camp.

1:04:07

I feel like most everybody loses some weight

1:04:09

at camp, So coming in a little bit heavier camp

1:04:11

is a big one for me. Uh,

1:04:17

last year, I'd

1:04:19

have I'd have to talk to Siano and check, but I

1:04:22

was definitely lighter last year as opposed to what I'll be at

1:04:24

this year.

1:04:26

It's about how many weapons you guys

1:04:28

have in this offense.

1:04:29

How do you.

1:04:29

Balance embracing

1:04:31

that with also being like maybe

1:04:34

a leader first round draft pick that wants

1:04:36

the ball. How do you kind of find

1:04:38

the middle ground of you know, asserting

1:04:40

yourself in the offense but also playing that

1:04:43

that team hole.

1:04:44

Yeah, I mean, I think it's just the culture

1:04:46

of this team is a lot of selfless guys who just kind of

1:04:48

want to win. So that comes with

1:04:51

you know, doing whatever is asked

1:04:53

of you to help the team win.

1:04:56

All Right.

1:04:56

That was tight end Donga Caid, who

1:04:58

approaches his second and NFL season,

1:05:00

had a great rookie season and I think a

1:05:02

lot of us are expecting more out

1:05:05

of him in his second NFL

1:05:07

season. He was asked about that and asked about

1:05:09

the wide receivers room and this offense

1:05:12

under a new offensive coordator and Joe

1:05:14

Brady. He said it's not entirely

1:05:16

new, but he said there are a lot of new

1:05:19

pieces to the offense, which

1:05:22

he spoke about the creativity within it and this

1:05:24

is the time to try out new things,

1:05:26

which I think is great to hear.

1:05:28

I mean, we've heard a lot of Hey, this is Josh

1:05:31

Allen's offense. Not a lot is

1:05:33

going to change, but it is nice to

1:05:35

hear from Dalton k and Kaida, a player within

1:05:37

this offense, that hey, there are some

1:05:39

tweaks to it, and we're working through that stuff

1:05:41

right now.

1:05:42

It's going to be really interesting to see because

1:05:45

I there's no question there's

1:05:47

enough physical talent in the room to accomplish

1:05:50

all the hopes and dreams they have, but

1:05:53

we have no idea what that will look like with this

1:05:55

group. It's

1:05:58

rare and I don't know. If there's no other team in the league, well,

1:06:01

maybe there's a couple who lost both

1:06:03

the number one and number two wideouts in

1:06:05

the offseason, I think

1:06:07

the Bills would probably be the only one, particularly

1:06:10

with a quarterback who's elite. Maybe

1:06:12

Baltimore lost a couple of guys.

1:06:14

Certainly Obj's not there this year. But

1:06:18

this is a this is a group a wide

1:06:20

receiver room who's got a lot of size, a lot

1:06:22

of speed, and some chops. And I

1:06:25

put Kincaid and Shakir probably

1:06:28

at the top of the list of the guys that you can

1:06:30

trust to be NFL players because we've seen him

1:06:32

do it in this offense with this quarterback in this in

1:06:34

this room. But Curtis, Samuel

1:06:39

mccolland, yeah,

1:06:42

mvs. These guys are like, man, let's

1:06:45

go. I mean, this guy's

1:06:47

throwing us the ball. Let's get me on the field.

1:06:50

I think it's going to be a lot of fun to

1:06:52

see this offense take the field.

1:06:56

And like you said, we had our good

1:06:58

friend Butch called the show and say, you know, just

1:07:01

wide receivers will line up to play with this guy. Just

1:07:04

draft offensive lineman. That's all you're gonna need because

1:07:06

all the skilled guys will line up to get it in Buffalo

1:07:08

to play with Josh. That's pretty

1:07:10

good advice. As

1:07:13

we've seen, we'll

1:07:15

see if but we'll see if it comes

1:07:18

to fruition. But there's no question this offense is

1:07:20

gonna be athletic

1:07:22

and fast on the outside, we'll.

1:07:24

See Dunt Kinkaid described the wide

1:07:27

receivers room as selfless.

1:07:29

We've heard other players and coaches

1:07:31

describe it as a room where

1:07:34

everybody is trying to get better. Everybody's

1:07:36

trying to work together, and

1:07:38

I think that will translate into watching

1:07:41

an offense that is a lot of fun. Joe

1:07:43

Brady said, everybody is going

1:07:46

to eat.

1:07:46

On this offense.

1:07:48

We may not see a number one weapon,

1:07:51

but that may be entirely okay.

1:07:54

If you have ten weapons

1:07:56

you can deploy at different times

1:07:59

where you you are able to throw

1:08:01

defenses off and it's harder

1:08:04

to scheme for because you're not scheming for

1:08:06

just one number one guy and a

1:08:08

couple others. You may be scheming

1:08:10

for eight players who you

1:08:13

have to account for that can be used in different

1:08:15

ways. And you have some new

1:08:17

guys a part of this group that you don't

1:08:19

have tape on them in a Bill's uniform.

1:08:22

All this can really benefit this team

1:08:24

in the twenty twenty four season break

1:08:27

time for us when we return, we are going

1:08:29

to air a Khalil Shakir

1:08:31

interview from earlier this afternoon. Khalil

1:08:33

spoke to the media right after OTA

1:08:36

practice wrapped up, so we'll get that to you after

1:08:38

this break. On One Bill's Live or presented by Colidah

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1:08:57

Welcome Back into One Bill

1:09:00

was live about thirty minutes left

1:09:02

in the show. The Bills had OTA practice

1:09:05

today and a couple of players

1:09:07

spoke after practice. Don Kinkaid

1:09:09

was one of them. Khalil Shakir was

1:09:11

the other. So let's get over to Khalil Shakir's

1:09:14

press conference right now.

1:09:16

It's funny. It's like every year is I

1:09:18

mean changing everybody's new

1:09:20

people, old people, and I

1:09:23

mean this this year. The receiver

1:09:25

room obviously is like completely different, but I

1:09:27

mean everybody vibes, and I mean in my head, it's

1:09:29

like, I mean, trying to help as

1:09:31

much as I can so we can all get on the same pages.

1:09:34

And what Josh is thinking as well is huge,

1:09:37

So just the communication part. But I guess it's it's

1:09:39

it's pretty cool.

1:09:41

He thought about the fact that like Steph

1:09:43

had I don't know, one hundred and

1:09:45

fifty targets, maybe more than

1:09:47

they had, and you know, Gabe

1:09:49

had another fear. So that's like two hundred

1:09:52

passes meet because somewhere else. Yeah,

1:09:55

are you willing to take some of those up?

1:09:58

Well?

1:09:58

Of course, of course if those come out. I've

1:10:00

always been a guy that's just do

1:10:03

my job and and do what I'm supposed

1:10:06

to do, uh, the correct way, the way they're teaching

1:10:08

it, the way we're doing it in preparation, and

1:10:10

then everything else will fall into place. So for

1:10:12

me, it's just always been if I got to go

1:10:14

in there and block fifty times, going there and block fifty times,

1:10:16

if I got to go in there and run a route, run

1:10:19

a go rounte and run off fifty times, I'm gonna do it. I'm

1:10:21

I'm huge, And what goes around comes around.

1:10:24

But it's still really early.

1:10:25

But you sense a difference in what Joe

1:10:28

Brady did last year coming

1:10:30

in as coordinator and what.

1:10:31

He wants to do this year.

1:10:33

Does it seem a lot different to you?

1:10:35

Not?

1:10:35

Not as much, I mean as far as

1:10:37

Joe as as a person. I mean, he's his energy

1:10:40

is insane. He brings the energy every day. He was

1:10:42

doing that when he took over last

1:10:44

year as well, just the

1:10:47

the preparation and the approach that we're all doing

1:10:50

is the same thing. And he's a guy that's just you

1:10:52

know, very he understands, you know, he understands,

1:10:54

especially from a receiver standpoint, just

1:10:57

everything that's getting put in, everything that we're doing, everything

1:10:59

that we're trying to accomplish.

1:11:01

So he's just you know, leading the show right now and

1:11:03

making sure that we're all kind of working together

1:11:05

to get on the same page. And I wouldn't say

1:11:07

it's that much different from you know, when he took

1:11:10

over, but in.

1:11:11

Terms that's in terms of him the

1:11:13

offense itself, does it seem or

1:11:15

is that what you say is the offensive self?

1:11:17

Yeah, I would say when he took over.

1:11:18

I mean obviously, I mean it was great when

1:11:20

he when he took over, and how things

1:11:23

that direction we headed after he took over. And

1:11:25

I think it's just building on top of that. So not much

1:11:28

is is too different.

1:11:30

Yards after catch is always an emphasis, and

1:11:32

it was last year you guys did improve your

1:11:34

yards after catch and you know totals do

1:11:36

you you know, what is

1:11:38

your attitude for that in the offseason,

1:11:42

Like now, can.

1:11:43

You how do you prove

1:11:45

how do you improve that personally.

1:11:48

I mean yards after catch. It's it's weird

1:11:50

right now because we're not we're not in paths, we're not hitting, we're

1:11:52

not tackling. But I think it's

1:11:54

more of just a mentality of when

1:11:57

you catch the ball right now, working up field, whether the

1:11:59

dude tag off on you right away or not, it's

1:12:02

just putting in your brain that when you catch the ball and you're gonna

1:12:04

make a move, do that now.

1:12:06

So then when the pads get put on, it's just like it's

1:12:08

just it just happens, you know. So it's

1:12:11

a little funky, but at the same time, it's you

1:12:13

catch the ball and the defense is getting worked from that as well.

1:12:15

It's no matter what you catch the ball, you get tagged, you

1:12:17

still get a little burst up field, and the rest

1:12:19

of the defense is gonna you know, pursue and and you

1:12:22

know tag off as well. So we're all getting work in that

1:12:24

manner. But it's definitely a little

1:12:26

tricky, but it's I think it's more of a mentality

1:12:28

for sure.

1:12:29

Strength and conditioning element,

1:12:32

like what part of your body you can

1:12:34

like enhance to improve

1:12:36

that or what do you think about that?

1:12:38

Uh?

1:12:39

Yeah, I mean obviously getting bigger and stronger.

1:12:41

I mean obviously running through arm tackles.

1:12:44

You know, when you're trending the weight room for you

1:12:46

know, whenever you start training, you're trying to build more

1:12:48

muscles so you can run through arm tackles. Uh should

1:12:50

even run through guys who if

1:12:53

you just got to run through somebody face, you know, I

1:12:55

would say it's more just getting bigger,

1:12:57

faster, stronger and all of those things.

1:12:59

Are you know in the weight room?

1:13:01

Well, last year, did you did you sets

1:13:04

that there was an urgency

1:13:07

or a need to get football and.

1:13:08

Stuff on, Like it's been a while

1:13:10

to talk about how they had to feed him to keep

1:13:13

him afy iMedia out or whatever it was. As

1:13:15

a player, did you feel the sense that, yeah,

1:13:18

we need to get him ten targets a game over time?

1:13:21

I mean, I mean, I think when you have a guy like Steph,

1:13:23

obviously he's he's uh one

1:13:26

of the best receivers in the league, you know, so yeah,

1:13:29

it's like, okay, yeah, let's try and give him the ball. But

1:13:31

I think it's there's a certain point where it's like, you

1:13:34

know, I think it all works together for spreading

1:13:36

the ball around, right, you know, because then that gets

1:13:38

him open, or that gets something that gets me open, that gets somebody

1:13:41

else open. I wouldn't say it's like

1:13:43

a you know, we need to get him the ball. But at

1:13:45

the same time he's great.

1:13:47

So when

1:13:49

Joe Joe today said in this offense,

1:13:52

everybody can everybody's gonna meet him, it

1:13:55

sounds like something that maybe he said in the meeting

1:13:58

room too. Yeah.

1:13:59

No, that's a that's a mentality where Hills

1:14:01

tell us all the time, everybody eats, and that's you

1:14:04

know, whether you're running a certain route, you gotta go and

1:14:06

you got to clear for your buddy who's coming to run an hour

1:14:08

out whatever it is. You

1:14:10

know, like I said before, what goes around comes

1:14:12

around. If you got to sit there and run to go fifty times,

1:14:15

do it full speed fifty times, you know, than that fifty

1:14:17

first time, it might be you running that out and somebody else is

1:14:20

clearing the ball for you. You know, So it's

1:14:22

you know, it's more of mentality. It's like we're all working together

1:14:24

to make sure that that play works and that

1:14:27

you know, you just keep building off of that.

1:14:29

Different Is that different from last year? And in

1:14:31

some ways because you know, with the

1:14:33

focus on Diggs. When when you have

1:14:36

this kind of a grouping of receivers,

1:14:39

I'm not gonna rate it, but when you have what do you do when

1:14:41

it lacks that digs person?

1:14:43

Is that is that an important focus?

1:14:45

Perhaps?

1:14:46

Yeah?

1:14:46

I mean, like I said before, it's it's really

1:14:48

right now. Our mentality as a receiver room is,

1:14:51

you know, we're kind of trying to learn. Everybody's trying to learn

1:14:53

every different spot so we can play fast

1:14:55

and not have to think about it. And

1:14:57

like I said, if you got to if you're playing Z and

1:15:00

you got to run a go so the f can get open, it's got

1:15:02

you gotta do it. Then five plays later it'll probably flip

1:15:04

flop, you know. So I definitely

1:15:06

think us trying to spread and and

1:15:08

and spread the ball and get everybody

1:15:10

up and get everybody involved just for

1:15:13

allows for us to have so much more targets,

1:15:15

you know, and as a group, if we all know what

1:15:17

we're doing. I

1:15:20

mean, he's an animal, just

1:15:22

his his mentality starts with his mentality.

1:15:24

Every time he touches the field like he's he's on

1:15:26

go mo, like he's ready to go. He's

1:15:28

made some crazy catches, run

1:15:30

some really good routes.

1:15:32

Uh.

1:15:32

Great, great dude, Like

1:15:34

I said, brings the energy every single day.

1:15:37

Love the dude.

1:15:38

So then do you feel that guys

1:15:40

are with you know Brady and just

1:15:42

uh you know, first fool season as OC with

1:15:44

a bunch.

1:15:45

Of new guys, you receive Yeah,

1:15:47

I mean I think it's going great. I think everybody settling

1:15:49

just fine. I think with Joe Brady, he's,

1:15:51

like I said, just his his energy and and how likable

1:15:54

he is as a as a guy and a coach, and

1:15:56

his mentality towards football on his love for the game.

1:15:59

When you're a new guy and you come in, it's like

1:16:01

you hit the jackpot, Like he's he's a great dude, great

1:16:03

coach, and you want to work hard for

1:16:05

him.

1:16:05

So, well, you have to take more of a

1:16:08

leadership role this year because there might be guys

1:16:10

in that room that have more NFL experience, but

1:16:12

you have the most Bills.

1:16:13

Experience in that room.

1:16:14

Do you have to be more of a leader that well?

1:16:16

Yeah, I mean I've always looked at it as I'm

1:16:19

not much of a vocal guy, but

1:16:21

when we touch the field, I'm a show by example. When we're

1:16:23

in the weight room, I'm the show by example. Anybody comes

1:16:25

in with a question, I got the answer. If I don't got

1:16:28

the answer, I'm gonna go get it for them.

1:16:30

Been working on being a little bit more vocal, but

1:16:33

with staying true to myself and who I am.

1:16:35

But I would just say the main thing of my leadership

1:16:38

is by example for sure.

1:16:39

How was coached interview? You

1:16:42

know demeanor been into his second

1:16:44

year and now that.

1:16:44

You know you have a bradum.

1:16:45

See, yeah, coach Henry is awesome.

1:16:49

Just with him being here his

1:16:51

second year and working. I

1:16:53

mean it's a whole new room, so it's like he's

1:16:55

it's kind of a restart as well. But

1:16:58

I mean his his mentality towards the game and towards

1:17:01

being a wide out. The influence

1:17:03

that has on us to get open and to be dogs

1:17:05

when we touch the field, like that starts with him

1:17:07

and he and he shows up every day and make sure that we

1:17:10

have that mentality when we step on to the field. If not,

1:17:12

he corrects us and make sure that we're you

1:17:15

know, in our best shape possible to make plays.

1:17:17

I know he's in a different room, in the tight end room.

1:17:19

But Dalton Kincaid, how much have you seen him

1:17:21

grow from his first year to this year. What

1:17:24

you've seen so far from many officers.

1:17:25

Yeah, I mean he's he's amazing. Just his

1:17:27

his feel for the game and

1:17:30

even in the run game of just him

1:17:32

making blocks and just the Sometimes

1:17:34

the transition can be a little tricky from college to the NFL,

1:17:37

and he stepped right into the in the fire and

1:17:39

and what's going crazy and dealt with it

1:17:41

like a professional's He's a true professional

1:17:43

for sure. Building great dude, great

1:17:46

dude, funny guy like

1:17:48

staff fun but also knows when when the flip switch

1:17:50

and turn it on when it's go time. So he's great.

1:17:53

I guess there's gonna be a lot of staff questions between

1:17:55

now in September, so let's throw another one out

1:17:57

there. So I like his practice approach,

1:18:00

you know, like he took every

1:18:02

practice intense, you know,

1:18:04

like I'm I'm trying now,

1:18:07

you're you're like

1:18:09

some of these not many people were around for that

1:18:11

last week, you know, like how do you

1:18:13

who takes over that or do.

1:18:16

You need somebody to kind of not

1:18:19

be like him? You be yourself.

1:18:21

But to bring that practice mentality.

1:18:25

I think we all learned that we're all professionals. I think we

1:18:27

all understand the important of practice, of practice

1:18:29

in the reps that we get in making

1:18:32

the most of them, and the preparation as

1:18:34

well. I would say, really, you know, Mac

1:18:36

is a guy who brings crazy juice

1:18:38

every single day. But other

1:18:40

than that, I think we're all kind of collectively as a

1:18:42

group getting each other going. Obviously,

1:18:45

it was very visible with Steph last year when he would

1:18:47

step on step onto the practice field and running

1:18:49

from drow to drill and just his uh,

1:18:51

how how intense he was and how ready

1:18:54

he was every time he touched the practice field. I think

1:18:56

now it's more of like, like I said, we're all professionals and

1:18:58

we all kind of know that right

1:19:00

here, right now, this practice is the most important

1:19:02

thing, and we have to make sure that we take every every rep.

1:19:04

Series the Pittsburgh

1:19:07

the Pittsburgh touchdown?

1:19:08

Was that?

1:19:09

Do you feel that as a statement play

1:19:11

for you?

1:19:13

Honestly, man, I was just playing football. It's

1:19:15

funny people are like, how did you how do you do that or

1:19:17

how did you do that? And for me, I mean

1:19:19

caught the ball and just reacted and just played ball.

1:19:22

It's it's kind of hard to I

1:19:24

wouldn't say it was just like a statement thing. But

1:19:26

I think it definitely was showed a lot of my capabilities

1:19:29

and what I can do.

1:19:30

You mentioned that it's good, like he is really

1:19:32

vocal.

1:19:33

He seems to get.

1:19:34

Brice a lot of teams like anyone.

1:19:36

Yeah, I mean Mac is great. I mean ever since he's

1:19:38

gotten to the building, he's been a guy that's been

1:19:41

upstairs talking to the coaches, making sure that you know

1:19:43

every single play, every you know, run play, whatever

1:19:46

it is, is very detailed and

1:19:48

uh, like I said, when he steps onto that field, he's

1:19:50

like on go moding. I think in our receiver room

1:19:52

right now, he's probably he's probably the most vocal one,

1:19:54

just just bringing energy, bringing the juice,

1:19:58

you know, talking trash whatever it is.

1:19:59

Man, he's right all right.

1:20:01

That was Bill's wide receiver Khalil Shakir

1:20:04

after practice today, speaking a lot about

1:20:06

the wide receivers room and his role

1:20:08

in it after he had a standout

1:20:11

second season with the Buffalo

1:20:13

Bills, especially toward.

1:20:15

The end of the season.

1:20:16

He came on strong in the second

1:20:18

half of last season and into

1:20:20

the playoffs and was a big impact player

1:20:23

with someone who Josh Allen

1:20:25

could trust and go to when

1:20:28

the injury started to happen, and when

1:20:30

we saw Stefan Diggs his

1:20:32

production fall off a little bit toward the end

1:20:35

of the season, someone like Khalil Shakir

1:20:37

was able to step up and take

1:20:39

advantage of the opportunities that were

1:20:41

given to him. I believe this

1:20:43

season, in his third year in the

1:20:45

NFL, there's more expectations on

1:20:47

what he can do this year with

1:20:50

what he can do against great competition.

1:20:53

We saw what he did against the Steelers

1:20:55

and against the Chiefs. This is somebody

1:20:57

who I believe Joe Bray

1:21:00

and Sean McDermott and Josh Allen expect,

1:21:03

Hey, you were going to be a go to guy

1:21:05

within this offense.

1:21:07

Yeah, this is a guy who really spread his wings

1:21:09

when Joe Brady took over the offense.

1:21:11

And here's the thing too, we all

1:21:13

feel it Diggs

1:21:15

has gone, gave Davis has gone. Shakirs

1:21:18

there played well in this offense.

1:21:20

Took him a while, you know, it took him halfway

1:21:22

through his second year to be a regular part

1:21:25

of this offense and a new coordinator, but

1:21:29

he's the really the guy people look to as

1:21:31

a kind of a security blanket. We

1:21:33

feel like, okay, at least there's one guy who

1:21:36

Josh knows, one guy

1:21:38

who you know knows what's going on this run

1:21:41

that we're watching here, the touchdown against

1:21:43

Pittsburgh. It was an elite play. There's just no two

1:21:45

ways about it. For a slot receiver

1:21:47

to come out and do what he did on that play, break

1:21:49

a tackle, reversus field, come in

1:21:51

and give up a stab move in

1:21:54

between the hash marks. When you're

1:21:57

you're in that crossing route, I think to go

1:21:59

back across with all the

1:22:01

big bodies down inside, and then to

1:22:03

give a jab step move and to get into

1:22:06

the end zone. It really was an elite

1:22:08

play. He came on this last

1:22:10

offseason and was a difference maker

1:22:12

for this club in those six games,

1:22:15

you know, the regular season after they lost

1:22:17

the overtime game to Philly, the five remaining

1:22:19

games they had to win, and then they did, and

1:22:22

he was a big part of it. There's

1:22:25

a big we all sense that there's this big

1:22:28

void because we haven't seen anybody out

1:22:30

there lined up. When you start seeing guys

1:22:32

lined up out there and see him be a productive

1:22:34

then you'll think, okay, we do have eleven guys

1:22:37

out there right now. Shakir

1:22:39

and Kincada, the only two guys we can recognize because

1:22:41

we haven't seen anybody line up, So

1:22:45

those targets they're not going to have. You

1:22:48

know, this morning, South

1:22:50

asked, you know about the targets. You know, there's over three

1:22:52

hundred targets that walked out the door with Sherfield,

1:22:55

Gabe Davis, Steph Diggs,

1:22:58

and you know, you know

1:23:00

Deontay Hardy. All those targets are

1:23:02

all gone. So there's over three hundred targets walked

1:23:04

out the door. There's still gonna be three

1:23:06

hundred targets out there. They're gonna throw them to somebody

1:23:09

whoever's lined up out there, and it's

1:23:12

up to Josh and Joe Brady to

1:23:14

make sure the guys that they're thrown to can catch it

1:23:16

and are open it.

1:23:19

Yeah, and this is something that's gonna

1:23:21

take longer for us, the media

1:23:23

and national people who

1:23:25

cover the game and our fans to get on board

1:23:28

with than it does for the players. The players

1:23:30

are already on board with the new

1:23:32

tactics of how this offense

1:23:34

is going to operate, and all these targets

1:23:37

walking out the door in Stefan

1:23:39

Diggs, Gabe Davis, Trent Sherfield,

1:23:41

and Deontay Hardy.

1:23:43

They have worked through that, they

1:23:45

have walked through it, and now it is time

1:23:47

to prepare for the upcoming season.

1:23:49

US.

1:23:49

The media and the fans are still talking

1:23:52

about the fact that the guys, these guys are

1:23:54

not a part of the team anymore, when

1:23:56

in reality, it's it's

1:23:58

in the past. For the players inside

1:24:01

of this building, they're not worried about

1:24:03

the guys not here anymore.

1:24:04

They're worried about what can we do

1:24:07

to.

1:24:07

Get this team over the hump and

1:24:09

they're going to make it through the playoffs and get

1:24:12

to the super Bowl. What can we do Looking

1:24:14

at each other inside of the meeting rooms,

1:24:16

it doesn't matter who's not here anymore. It

1:24:18

matters who is here.

1:24:20

Yeah, they can get it done. And that's what they're

1:24:22

going to teach themselves and prove to each

1:24:24

other over the next three months that yeah,

1:24:27

they're gonna like this group. And it'll

1:24:30

take the fans a little bit to get used to that. But

1:24:33

when they start seeing these guys come out and unfurrol

1:24:36

this offense, and you know, with Josh pulling

1:24:38

the trigger, this an offense

1:24:40

you're gonna be able to get behind and it's going to start to feel

1:24:42

more normal. We'll

1:24:45

see. But Shaker's

1:24:48

right, he's really

1:24:50

the only guy standing from

1:24:52

the receiver room who caught a

1:24:54

pass last year. Brownie has famously said

1:24:56

at time and time again, there's only one guy who's ever

1:24:58

caught a pass with Josh from Josh in the

1:25:00

wide receiver room at Shakiir. So

1:25:03

we're all kind of desperately grasping and

1:25:06

hoping Shakir has a breakout year.

1:25:08

But I think there's

1:25:11

a lot of guys in that room who are going to have breakout

1:25:13

years this year because we've seen it before

1:25:15

with new receivers on this team who come from

1:25:18

quarterback X to quarterback

1:25:20

JA seventeen.

1:25:22

Mccollins has not played with a quarterback

1:25:24

like Josh Allen yet. Curtis Samuel

1:25:26

had Cam Newton for a couple years

1:25:28

in his final NFL seasons,

1:25:31

had I think one good solid year

1:25:33

with Cam Newton, but aside from that, has

1:25:35

not played with a quarterback

1:25:37

like Josh Allen. So you're getting two

1:25:39

receivers who have a good makeup

1:25:41

in what they can put on the field. You've got a tall

1:25:43

player in mac collins and you've got

1:25:46

a shifty guy in Curtis Samuel. You pair

1:25:48

that with Josh Allen, you're probably

1:25:50

gonna get some career numbers out of these

1:25:52

guys this season. I definitely

1:25:54

believe that is something that is capable

1:25:57

of happening.

1:25:58

Yeah, there's a lot of potential there, no question, And

1:26:00

because it's potential, it just means it's

1:26:02

not proven yet. And these guys

1:26:04

are going to go out and attempt to do that

1:26:06

not only to you know, Bills fans, but

1:26:08

also to themselves and each other in the room.

1:26:11

So it's going to be a fun preseason. I

1:26:13

think it's going to be intriguing. I think you're going to get

1:26:15

some mileage out of the fact that teams don't know what this offense

1:26:17

is going to look like, and in the early days of the season, if

1:26:20

they can execute it,

1:26:22

it's going to give them a great deal of benefit.

1:26:24

It's always an advantage, especially when you're going

1:26:26

to play a hard schedule in the first

1:26:28

half of your season. You're going to have to have yourselves

1:26:30

figured out ahead of Week six,

1:26:33

knowing that the first few weeks of

1:26:35

the season are against teams

1:26:37

that could give you a little bit of a

1:26:40

tougher time compared to the rest of the season.

1:26:42

Break time for us. But when we come back, we're

1:26:44

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1:26:46

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1:26:49

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1:26:51

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the Buffalo Bills, and Tom

1:27:23

says, we did not run the RB screen

1:27:26

play very much, if at all, and

1:27:29

the usage of tight ends in this offense is

1:27:31

going to be crazy this year. Can ca can line

1:27:33

up anywhere, slot, split, etc.

1:27:37

Running back screen you already commented

1:27:39

on it. Do you believe it can work in this

1:27:41

offense knowing that you have Josh

1:27:43

Allen as your quarterback or do you think that kind of

1:27:46

limits the ability to do something as.

1:27:47

Hard because defenses played Josh Allen

1:27:50

a little differently than they play every other quarterback,

1:27:52

and because of that, it gives them

1:27:54

the Because here's the thing, Josh is the

1:27:56

hardest quarterback. Even statistics will tell

1:27:58

you Josh is the hardest quarterback the league to sack

1:28:01

for obvious reasons. First of all, he's as

1:28:03

big and strong as most defensive

1:28:05

linemen who are trying to tackle him anyway. He

1:28:07

can certainly outrun almost all of

1:28:09

them, so they have a hard time sacking

1:28:11

him anyway because of his athleticism, his size,

1:28:13

and his arm strength. Secondly,

1:28:16

so they because they can't sack him even

1:28:18

if they get a free rusher, so

1:28:20

they kind of rush him with their antenna

1:28:23

up, trying to bat pass this down, trying to keep him

1:28:25

in, trying to make him beat them from the pocket. At least

1:28:27

he won't run off if we keep him

1:28:29

in the pocket. That in and of itself

1:28:32

crushes your ability to running

1:28:34

back screens. So for all

1:28:36

of those, for those reasons is and that it's

1:28:39

gonna be hard while Josh Allen's your quarterback because

1:28:41

defenses are defending him and

1:28:43

at the same time of defending him, it kind of takes the running

1:28:46

back screen game out of the equation. They

1:28:48

can still run bubble screens the White House and all

1:28:50

of that.

1:28:51

Yes, we've seen bubble screens before.

1:28:53

Out of this team, So.

1:28:53

Maybe it's more of a usage of something like that

1:28:56

if running back screens just aren't something

1:28:58

that's going to be so too.

1:29:00

He's right the

1:29:03

tight ends in this offense. I'm you got

1:29:05

to be high on him. We've got good ones. Knox and

1:29:07

Kincaid are really good. Knocks isn't as

1:29:10

readily available outside the numbers

1:29:12

as Kincaid is. But the fact

1:29:14

that you got one of those guys plus a guy who's

1:29:16

really good down inside, yeah,

1:29:19

that causes some matchup problems for a lot of defense.

1:29:21

Not all of them, but certainly for a good handful.

1:29:23

We might see a little bit more of that this upcoming

1:29:25

season. Knowing that Don Kincaid has a year

1:29:27

of NFL experience under his belt,

1:29:30

he'll be able to do a little bit more within this offense.

1:29:32

One more before we go, mister Ian says more

1:29:34

effective plays on third and short.

1:29:37

At times last year, I felt more confident in third

1:29:39

and ten being converted rather than third

1:29:41

and two.

1:29:43

Right, that's true, I get

1:29:45

it. But this team

1:29:47

still converts more third downs than anybody in the league.

1:29:50

They make more first downs than anybody in the league.

1:29:53

They're still going to be able.

1:29:54

To do that yep, all right, thanks

1:29:56

for joining the show today. From Steve

1:29:59

Tasker, I'm Mattie gleas up tomorrow. You're gonna

1:30:01

have Christ.

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