OBL 5/27: Landon Jackson's Excitement For The Defense, Albert Breer Goes Around The NFL
Maddy Glab and Steve Tasker detailed the latest news and notes from One Bills Drive as the team had the day off today to participate in the third annual community takeover. They went around the NFL and asked the listeners what was your favorite interaction with a Bills player? Sports Illustrated Senior NFL Reporter Albert Breer joined the show to discuss the possibility of the NFL adding an 18th game, Aaron Rodgers and Matthew Stafford's continued careers, and the latest with the Vikings GM search. Finally, Bills DE Landon Jackson joined the show to discuss bulking up this offseason, his excitement in returning to action after having his rookie campaign cut short, and his fit in the new defensive scheme led by DC Jim Leonhard.
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Speaker 1: Love you. All boys were today Brook He is a
Speaker 1: feast for the Capitol Fie. The fun is in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: Looks down the sideline.
Speaker 3: He's got kick Kade.
Speaker 4: For a twenty three yard touchdown and it's intercepted.
Speaker 1: Jumping over the air is Bedford.
Speaker 5: This is One Bill's Live.
Speaker 6: A Happy Wednesday to you, Maddi Glab and Steve Tasker
Speaker 6: here on One Bill's Live Live from the Bills Store.
Speaker 6: If you're around the area, come on over, hang out
Speaker 6: with us, ask a question. We want to hear from
Speaker 6: you on the show. Today. The sun is shining, It's
Speaker 6: a wonderful day, and it's Community Day today for the
Speaker 6: Buffalo Bills. Bill's head coach Joe Brady and several players
Speaker 6: are going to be a cross Western New York today
Speaker 6: as they visit eight different local schools and participate in
Speaker 6: a bunch of different things from field days to parades
Speaker 6: to activities. They're going to do it all this afternoon.
Speaker 6: It's their third annual Community Day. I love that the
Speaker 6: Bills spend time during OTA's giving back to Western New York.
Speaker 1: It's very nice. It's a very aproposed that you're in
Speaker 1: you and I are in our little two shirts here
Speaker 1: and you're saying, been by the way, everybody out there,
Speaker 1: this is Maddie Glab's birthday today, so everybody, let's give
Speaker 1: it around the studio.
Speaker 7: Audience.
Speaker 6: Very nice, so happy with twenty one today.
Speaker 1: Glad you're a part of the team. Mad girl. It's
Speaker 1: it's been great and I'm I we hope you have
Speaker 1: a fantastic day.
Speaker 6: The way I want to stand it anywhere else we
Speaker 6: get to hang out today, task.
Speaker 1: For how fun come on commun Yes, that's nice of
Speaker 1: you to say, but I know better. This spectacular outside.
Speaker 1: The stadium's taking shape. They're almost getting to the point
Speaker 1: where they're starting to clean up. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: They're starting to Their concrete is going in like crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing's growing fast. It's a beautiful day
Speaker 1: out there, and Community take All day, Community Takeover Day,
Speaker 1: and Maddie's birthday day.
Speaker 6: It's a Funday. It's Wednesday. It's nice outside. I hope
Speaker 6: everybody gets outside, gets to enjoy this weather that we
Speaker 6: have today and throughout the rest of the week. You
Speaker 6: look across the street you speak about the concrete going in,
Speaker 6: there's like trees laying on the road that are about
Speaker 6: to go in and be planted. It's awesome to see
Speaker 6: some of the finishing touches on this stadium as they
Speaker 6: get set to open. We're like T minus a couple
Speaker 6: of months. We were talking about it yesterday and Tasker,
Speaker 6: I want to know from you. You know, guys, guys
Speaker 6: love construction. When when you walk by a construction site,
Speaker 6: you sometimes see like a little boy just like, oh
Speaker 6: my gosh.
Speaker 1: Look at these.
Speaker 6: Okay, you want to do?
Speaker 1: I want to dig. I want a big get that
Speaker 1: big arm. Yeah, or go over here and tear it
Speaker 1: down like behind us that one of those big jackhammer thing.
Speaker 6: So did they give you your name? Did they give
Speaker 6: you your name?
Speaker 1: I have not got it yet. They'll tell me. But
Speaker 1: they did offer all the guys that are still around
Speaker 1: that have their name on the Wall of Fame, they
Speaker 1: offered them the letters from their wall. Well, you know
Speaker 1: they're eighteen inches to I mean they're you know, they're big,
Speaker 1: and you got their numbers. They're nice, But what am
Speaker 1: I going to do with them?
Speaker 6: You got room hanging out somewhere, well, hanging up right
Speaker 6: right when you drive up your driveway.
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, the grandkids also, you know, got DIBs on
Speaker 1: you know, their initials or whatever. So I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I asked, I put it out. They said, hey, would
Speaker 1: you like the letters of your name? And I was,
Speaker 1: I kind of I rolled it and I put it out.
Speaker 1: I you know, a family, everybody's got a family text
Speaker 1: all the family, right, So I put it out there
Speaker 1: in the family, Hey, what about it? Here's what the
Speaker 1: blah blah. And of course they're all like, going, yeah,
Speaker 1: get them, what do you kid? Yeah, for sure, I'm like,
Speaker 1: because they don't. They're not in their house, right, They're
Speaker 1: not in their attic or wherever these things are and
Speaker 1: end up, which is the attic is where they're gonna
Speaker 1: end up, you know it is. But so I said, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take.
Speaker 6: Them one day. I want to go shopping in Steve
Speaker 6: Tasker's attic. There's a lot of good stuff up there.
Speaker 1: Well, there's stuff up there. I don't know how good
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, it's in the attic for a reason, Maddie.
Speaker 1: I do have yeah, I do have a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, third third grade you know, third grade Greg
Speaker 1: Trophy and all that kind of stuff, and all my
Speaker 1: kids stuff is up there. But I do have Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of old trading cards that we got.
Speaker 1: They'd give all the players Pro Bowl trading sets, you know,
Speaker 1: and they give us, you know, game programs. I've got.
Speaker 1: I got Sports SI Illustrated that I was on the
Speaker 1: cover of.
Speaker 6: I Got very Cool, No big deal, you know, lots.
Speaker 1: Of stuff like that. But I what's going to be
Speaker 1: up there is those letters on the wall. Yes, those
Speaker 1: will be stacked somewhere hidden in the recesses of my attic.
Speaker 1: There's no place you can put them. Yeah, where am
Speaker 1: I gonna put them on my mailbox?
Speaker 6: Exactly? I have a mailbox, ascide, I'm on over everybody
Speaker 6: Steve Pasker's house this way.
Speaker 1: But I have to have a container, you know. My
Speaker 1: mailbox would look like it like a container on one
Speaker 1: of those container ships. That's how big it it'd have
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 6: It would have to be huge. So I know you
Speaker 6: could buy they like offered on I can't remember what
Speaker 6: the website was, but you could buy stuff from former
Speaker 6: Highmark Stadium. And one day I get back home from
Speaker 6: work and my husband is on the website and oh
Speaker 6: my gosh, what are we about to do? We we
Speaker 6: live in an apartment. We don't even live in a house.
Speaker 6: And he's like, oh yeah, I want to get some
Speaker 6: stadium seating. I'm like, and it's gonna go where like
Speaker 6: you could get one for and I'm I don't know
Speaker 6: if these prices are right, but it's like you could
Speaker 6: get one for one fifty or you could get four
Speaker 6: for six hundred. I think I'm gonna get four for
Speaker 6: six hundred. I'm like, what, I guess? So why not.
Speaker 1: Some people? There as some bills fans out there that
Speaker 1: they got some real, some real baggage that is attached
Speaker 1: to this where they sat and the seats that they
Speaker 1: were in and the things that they went through. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm no different. I got stuff like that
Speaker 1: too there. But like I say, I'm you know, I
Speaker 1: never sat in a seat in the stadium, right, I'm
Speaker 1: like I said, I watched a game from the stands
Speaker 1: like twice I was up sitting next to you in
Speaker 1: the radio booth, or I was in the broadcast booth,
Speaker 1: or I was on the sidelines. I never watched from
Speaker 1: a seat. So yeah, it's not my thing. The only thing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only thing you'd get is what you know, there's
Speaker 1: like nine thousand TVs in there. You always use an
Speaker 1: extra TV, right, I'll take it to TV. But no,
Speaker 1: there's yeah, not for me.
Speaker 6: So now we have to figure out where we're going
Speaker 6: to store these four seats.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do with those?
Speaker 6: That's a great question because.
Speaker 1: They're not little. No, they've got them in the bill store.
Speaker 1: We've been in the bill store now for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: They've got I guess you can buy them here now
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, but or maybe there's these are
Speaker 1: just you can like go over and see them. What
Speaker 1: they're gonna look like when you get them in your
Speaker 1: you have no room for You don't have room for that.
Speaker 1: I don't have room. I got a big house, there's
Speaker 1: five kids, and it's all empty. Now I don't have
Speaker 1: room for those.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be knocking on your doors in hey, can
Speaker 6: you store these?
Speaker 1: Put these? Put these in your living somewhereyard. But I
Speaker 1: know this though, that in the new stadium, it's kind
Speaker 1: of nice. There's man, they didn't miss anything in this
Speaker 1: new stadium. Everything's in there. There's a spot where right
Speaker 1: behind the Legends Deck or whatever it's called, where there's
Speaker 1: a stage up behind one of the gold posts they've
Speaker 1: got behind the stage and around and it's a little
Speaker 1: wall in behind the wall in the concourse are old
Speaker 1: high mark seat eats, seats and you know, the bleachers
Speaker 1: the bench to take like pictures of what it used
Speaker 1: to be like and what you know, what it was
Speaker 1: like and and all that stuff. So that's kind of neat.
Speaker 6: That is neat, and that's my husband. My husband was
Speaker 6: debating do we get bleeded like the bleacher benches or
Speaker 6: do we get actual seats, And thankfully we went with
Speaker 6: the seats, because I don't know what you're gonna do
Speaker 6: with like a bench, a metal bench.
Speaker 1: If you can get a metal bench. See I could
Speaker 1: use a metal if.
Speaker 6: You have one. That's great for you.
Speaker 1: But just not right. You put out the yard. The
Speaker 1: thing's metal, it's not. It's fine. Put it out in
Speaker 1: the yard and you can have it like around you know,
Speaker 1: whatever where you sit. Everybody's got benches in their yard
Speaker 1: if their yard is big enough, right, you gotta have
Speaker 1: a place where you go out and sit in the
Speaker 1: trees or whatever I got. I could do that.
Speaker 6: May get into a swing swinging bench. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's even better. I like where your heads.
Speaker 6: It's like fun but yeah, so you.
Speaker 1: Really it sounds so awesome and romantic to say, I'm
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna get the seats we sat
Speaker 1: in for thirty five years or fifteen years or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the seats where we sat when I
Speaker 1: proposed to you, or you know, where we had our
Speaker 1: first day, you know, because you we hear all these stories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's it's dozens and dozens of people who you know,
Speaker 1: set their whole relationship up at the Bills game. So
Speaker 1: I get that, and it sounds romantic until you bring
Speaker 1: the thing home and it's in the back of a
Speaker 1: pickup and he's like, yeah, where we were we could
Speaker 1: put it here. That doesn't really work. But what about here?
Speaker 1: That's not gonna work. You're not putting it there. That
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It's hard, man. You gotta have the
Speaker 1: right spot.
Speaker 6: You definitely have to garage alas. I'm sure there's lots
Speaker 6: of Bills fans with these good problems who bought stuff
Speaker 6: from former high Mark Stadium for the memories.
Speaker 1: And former high Mark was awesome, and I and I
Speaker 1: still people, you know, we've been in here for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks now and more and more people are
Speaker 1: coming in to see the show and and they're getting
Speaker 1: this chance to look at that, not just the new
Speaker 1: high Mark, but the former high Man. The former high
Speaker 1: Mark is.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: You gotta like it's it's tough to see.
Speaker 6: Yeah, fans are kind of split on how they.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it with it, but it is. It's startling.
Speaker 1: It's striking to see, you know. And it really every
Speaker 1: time I look at it or or see it or
Speaker 1: you know, go over there and look, it's like, I
Speaker 1: just get sad, you know. I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's rough, But I get it too. I'm good
Speaker 1: with it because I've seen this place. It's going to
Speaker 1: be great. I'm excited about the team and and so
Speaker 1: it's easy for me to but I do have to
Speaker 1: deliberately like look away, wow, you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: that place was home for.
Speaker 6: For almost four decades for me, more than fifty years.
Speaker 1: Almost four it was here for I was here since yeah,
Speaker 1: forty years, nineteen eighty six, and so in November it'll
Speaker 1: be forty years exactly that I've been in town. So wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a big part of you know, my
Speaker 1: life here obviously. So yeah, we see so many people
Speaker 1: coming in here and they're just like me. They're looking
Speaker 1: like and it's like people come in and put their
Speaker 1: hand over their mouth.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's like paying your respects hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it'll be right. We'll all be all right.
Speaker 6: We'll all be all right. I find myself walking by
Speaker 6: there and seeing the demolition and thinking to myself, well,
Speaker 6: did I enjoy it enough that last that last home
Speaker 6: game that we got did I do Did I do
Speaker 6: my due diligence of what you know, saying bye and
Speaker 6: and really taking it all? And I think I did.
Speaker 6: But then when you see something being demolished over time,
Speaker 6: you're just reminded of, Oh, should I have gone over
Speaker 6: there one more time? Should I have said bye to
Speaker 6: it one more time?
Speaker 1: It's like former High Market. Yes, it's a it was
Speaker 1: a special place for a ton of people and had
Speaker 1: a couple, had a bunch of AFC championship games.
Speaker 6: In it, Hm, couple that sent you to the super Bowl? Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I think two the.
Speaker 1: Team never won a championship in there. Maybe this one
Speaker 1: will be different.
Speaker 6: Maybe it'll be different.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be different.
Speaker 6: Maybe you gotta move across the street for that to happen. Go,
Speaker 6: let's do it. We have a packed show today on
Speaker 6: One Bills Live. And because it's Community Day and the
Speaker 6: Bills are out in the community visiting several different schools,
Speaker 6: we thought we'd have fun with a question today. It's
Speaker 6: not really related to the x's and o's of football
Speaker 6: by any means, but we want to know what your
Speaker 6: favorite interaction with a Bills player was. I know a
Speaker 6: lot of people live in the area and you come
Speaker 6: across players out in the wild and you get to
Speaker 6: say hi to them, get to know them, or you
Speaker 6: live next to a Bills player, or you had a
Speaker 6: great interaction after a game. We want to know about it,
Speaker 6: so tweet at us and we're gonna be reading off
Speaker 6: your responses throughout the show. We also have Albert Breer
Speaker 6: from Sports Illustrated coming up at one thirty to talk
Speaker 6: a bunch of different NFL related topics as a senior
Speaker 6: NFL reporter for SI. And at two thirty, we're gonna
Speaker 6: hear from our defensive lineman Landon Jackson, who's been talked
Speaker 6: about a lot over the last week because he spoke
Speaker 6: to media last week after OTAs. And then Jim Leonard,
Speaker 6: defensive coordinator spoke about Landon Jackson at length yesterday and
Speaker 6: kind of his fit within Buffalo's new defense and why
Speaker 6: he feels like this new defense is going to be
Speaker 6: so good for Landon Jackson. We're also going to hear
Speaker 6: from other players because lots of players spoke with media yesterday,
Speaker 6: so we'll have you listening to that throughout today's show.
Speaker 1: We thought it's interesting because Buffalo's and we all know
Speaker 1: how unique our city is and their relationship with the
Speaker 1: Bills and their sports teams and the Sabers just having
Speaker 1: the end to their season in a game seven. We
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good because most people in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: because of the way this city is, the way the
Speaker 1: fans are, the way the players are, I think there
Speaker 1: are more human interactions than most places than most other cities.
Speaker 1: Not all of them, maybe, but most other cities. I
Speaker 1: think fans and Bill's players interact a little bit more
Speaker 1: than they do in other cities around the NFL. So
Speaker 1: we figured, and I thought, we thought, because of the
Speaker 1: community takeover today, we'd hear from you about you know
Speaker 1: this is and we've got people you know, my vintage
Speaker 1: or even older who have had interactions with you know,
Speaker 1: with Jack Kemp back in the day, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to hear your stories about interactions
Speaker 1: you've had with players over the years. Hopefully the good one.
Speaker 1: We want to hear the good ones. We don't want
Speaker 1: to hear the I don't want to hear of you
Speaker 1: call up and tell you what a bad guy I've
Speaker 1: been when you met me. Okay, I'm sure it's happened.
Speaker 1: A number of times.
Speaker 6: I met that Steve Tasker and he was a donkey.
Speaker 1: Tasker's a donkey anyway. Buffalo's a unique town, it's a
Speaker 1: unique city. It's a relation, it's a great relationship with
Speaker 1: its team, and we want to hear your stories about
Speaker 1: when you've met your favorite players or somebody didn't know.
Speaker 6: And I think I would speak for the both of
Speaker 6: us when we say this, it's been so fun to
Speaker 6: get to know Bill's mafia in the community. When people
Speaker 6: come up to you and introduce themselves and say hello
Speaker 6: and say that they enjoy listening to one Bill's Live
Speaker 6: or enjoy the content that we produce and put out
Speaker 6: on Buffalo bills dot com. That's one of the favorite
Speaker 6: parts about this job is just hearing about how passionate
Speaker 6: are fan base is and getting those interactions outside of
Speaker 6: the building. It's it's amazing. It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 6: And it's been awesome to be here at the Bill
Speaker 6: Story because we have a lot of people who who
Speaker 6: come and ask questions or who come and say hi
Speaker 6: or say hey, we're in town and we wanted to
Speaker 6: see the new stadium and we walked in here and
Speaker 6: we saw the show was going on, so we we
Speaker 6: had to go say hi to Steve Tasker. It's been great.
Speaker 1: We got somebody from Joppa, Missouri show up today say hello.
Speaker 1: Took some pictures and he listens to the show. He
Speaker 1: says he listened to it every day and if I
Speaker 1: don't get it live, I watch it a recorder. Watch
Speaker 1: the pot amazing. Wow. Okay. We had a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. I know people remember this. We had a
Speaker 1: couple from New Zealand and the lady who was in
Speaker 1: New Zealand recognized Brownie and I Wow, She's, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you guys are doing the show here. I'm like, what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so really cool. So if if you have an interaction
Speaker 1: that you want to share with us, we'd love to
Speaker 1: hear about it something that major day or major birthday,
Speaker 1: yeah or whatever.
Speaker 6: So we had a boy here yesterday who it was
Speaker 6: his birthday road trip from Florida, and he got to
Speaker 6: choose birthday party or road trip, and he chose road
Speaker 6: trip to Buffalo to go visit the home of his
Speaker 6: favorite team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so cool. Mom and his two brothers came
Speaker 1: with him, the four of them. They show up here
Speaker 1: and they taking pictures love online. He's he's a sports kid,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 6: He's just stats, all about the status.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you know, and I know I've met a
Speaker 1: number of people who who have kids who know all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I mean, they just it's you know, they
Speaker 1: are those you know, kind of savant kids who are geniuses.
Speaker 1: They can remember stats and plays and things about the game.
Speaker 1: That's what this kid was. And yeah, he right, and
Speaker 1: so he you know these I want a road trip
Speaker 1: to Buffalo from Florida. But we had a couple there's
Speaker 1: another group, a man and his wife from Florida up
Speaker 1: here there at trapesing through the bills store from they
Speaker 1: originally from Jamestown, got of stopped by the bill store
Speaker 1: before they had that.
Speaker 6: Come on down and hang out. Yeah, lots of stuff
Speaker 6: going on in the NFL today, So let's get to
Speaker 6: our around the NFL's segment.
Speaker 1: UH.
Speaker 6: Eight teams are starting OTA's today. Those teams are Patriots, Jets, Texans, Commanders, Bears, Lions, Saints,
Speaker 6: and forty nine. So seems like most, if not all
Speaker 6: teams are have started OTAs. Buffalo's got mandatory mini camp
Speaker 6: coming up in just a few weeks. It's crazy how
Speaker 6: fast the offseason training flies by. I feel like just
Speaker 6: yesterday it was the end of April and guys were
Speaker 6: coming back here to begin workouts, and now we are
Speaker 6: already nearing mandatory mini camp, which for the Bills is
Speaker 6: set June ninth through eleventh. Safety got paid yesterday. Five
Speaker 6: time Pro Bowler safety Derwin James is now the highest
Speaker 6: paid safety four the second time in his career after
Speaker 6: agreeing to a three year, seventy five point six million
Speaker 6: dollar extension. It's twenty five point two million per year
Speaker 6: that includes fifty seven and a half million guaranteed. Now,
Speaker 6: Derwin James had three interceptions, seven passes defense, two sacks,
Speaker 6: eight quarterbacks quarterback hits last year, and that's twelve interceptions
Speaker 6: in his seven seasons. It's good on him for making
Speaker 6: that money and resetting the safety market.
Speaker 1: He's a player, and uh it'll be Uh. The numbers
Speaker 1: go do nothing but go up. And it's all intertwined.
Speaker 1: We talk so much about how the salary cap went
Speaker 1: up over three hundred million dollars this year. Salaries are escalating.
Speaker 1: You've got more international games they're talking about now, and
Speaker 1: we've got more on this eighteen game schedule that's coming out.
Speaker 1: Its amazing this The game continues to grow. And I
Speaker 1: think the only worry is, and maybe maybe you don't
Speaker 1: feel this way, the only worry is is it growing
Speaker 1: a little too fast?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: Is it? You know what I mean? Are they going
Speaker 1: to grow so fast and you know, and take all
Speaker 1: this growth and the income and the money and the
Speaker 1: whole thing, and are they going to get themselves into
Speaker 1: a spot where they overextend or make a mistake or overexposure,
Speaker 1: or make a fundamental mistake that hurts him in the
Speaker 1: long run. Maybe it has. We haven't seen evidence of it,
Speaker 1: because as I said that the league is growing. They
Speaker 1: can't miss almost double digit percentages every year. And that's alarming,
Speaker 1: not alarming, it's just astonishing.
Speaker 6: We've seen how fans will watch NFL games on Monday,
Speaker 6: on Wednesday, on Thursday, on Friday, does Saturday. It does
Speaker 6: not matter when the game is played. Jason Kelce like
Speaker 6: a week ago, talked about how football's take being taken
Speaker 6: away from being on Sundays and the tradition of Sundays.
Speaker 6: Does that as a former player, does that? Do you
Speaker 6: feel that at all? Or you like whatever? Football can
Speaker 6: be played any day of the week because it's one
Speaker 6: of the biggest leagues in the world.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting question because you know, back in the
Speaker 1: fifties there was a thing called Friday Night Fights and
Speaker 1: it was a boxing match every Friday night, and it
Speaker 1: was big, at least before social media, and it was
Speaker 1: new you know, Horse and Buggy right, almost not quite,
Speaker 1: but you know, in terms of media, we're still in
Speaker 1: the printing papers and stuff and it over exposure, heard
Speaker 1: it and some other problems as well. But football, when
Speaker 1: I grew up, we didn't have a choice. It was
Speaker 1: Remember there was only three stations on television, there was
Speaker 1: no there was no content to take. So it was
Speaker 1: a ritual of Sunday afternoon one o'clock, four o'clock and
Speaker 1: that was it. It was in my lifetime that it
Speaker 1: was like, they're going to play on Monday night? What
Speaker 1: what are they doing? You know? And that was obviously
Speaker 1: an enormous, enormous success. I get the tradition of the
Speaker 1: Sunday one o'clock game and how cool it is to
Speaker 1: have that kind of ritual in everybody's lives, and you know,
Speaker 1: the whole nation's schedule sometimes goes around certain things like that, right.
Speaker 1: I don't think the culture that we're in now in
Speaker 1: the US is a point where that tradition is as
Speaker 1: ingrained as it has been. So I don't think that's
Speaker 1: I get the comfort of ritual, you know where you
Speaker 1: know you do it this. You know, we're at Sunday one,
Speaker 1: we're gonna eat, we're gonna eat dinner at Gramma's and
Speaker 1: we're gonna watch the game, you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's as much of a need
Speaker 1: for that or an appetite for that as there has
Speaker 1: been in the past. Everything people take in now is
Speaker 1: almost is always appointment viewing, or it's not appointment, it's
Speaker 1: only the live stuff is only a point, you know,
Speaker 1: or it's you know, I can watch it when I want.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back, you know what, I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: season four Game of Thrones again. I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 1: you can do it whenever you want everything. So it's
Speaker 1: a different world. That's the real question. What's it gonna be?
Speaker 1: You know what do people how do people want to
Speaker 1: ingest it, you know, to take the league? And I
Speaker 1: don't know that, and I don't know that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that the league is very sensitive to problems that viewers have.
Speaker 1: Certainly that the streaming services now they're part of it
Speaker 1: instead of traditional broadcast media. That's been an issue. But
Speaker 1: people are getting over it, you know, pretty quick.
Speaker 6: The NFL is a booming business and nothing is stopping
Speaker 6: that boom. We're going to talk to Albert Breer later
Speaker 6: on the show at one thirty about the eighteen game
Speaker 6: schedule kind of what he thinks of it, because there
Speaker 6: has yet to be a Super Bowl date determined for
Speaker 6: the twenty twenty eight Super Bowl that would be Super
Speaker 6: Bowl sixty two, so the door is open. How open
Speaker 6: is it to getting an eighteen game schedule in the
Speaker 6: twenty twenty seven season. We're going to take a break
Speaker 6: a little bit early here so we can make sure
Speaker 6: we have room for everything else later in the show.
Speaker 6: So stick with us here on One Bill's Life. Look
Speaker 6: back to One Bill's Live. It's time out Now it's
Speaker 6: the week seventh High schools Black Football Coaches of the
Speaker 6: These coaches are recognized not only for their efforts on
Speaker 6: the field, put off the field as well. Congratulations to
Speaker 6: Buffalo Region winner Joe Locatta from Williamsville, South Penfield's Cody
Speaker 6: Foster from the Rochester Region and Fayetteville Manlius's head coach
Speaker 6: Ryan Aldrich was named from the Syracuse region. Coaches honored
Speaker 6: will receive one thousand dollars for their teams. The Coach
Speaker 6: of the Year finalists will be announced later in the summer.
Speaker 6: We will have Albert Breer from si joining us at
Speaker 6: one forty. So before Albert joins us, we'll go back
Speaker 6: to around the NFL and talk a little bit more
Speaker 6: about some news in the NFL. Today, Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Speaker 6: Mahomes returned to the field for the first time since
Speaker 6: tearing his ACL and LCL in the middle of December.
Speaker 6: The extent of his participation was not revealed because the
Speaker 6: session was closed to media. Chiefs social team posted a
Speaker 6: video of Patrick Mahomes making a throw with a brace
Speaker 6: on his left knee. Their first open practice is tomorrow,
Speaker 6: so the extent to which Mahomes is practicing will be
Speaker 6: revealed tomorrow. During that practice. Mahomes wants to be on
Speaker 6: the field for that week one Monday night football game
Speaker 6: against Denver, and the team is starting to feel optimistic
Speaker 6: that that can happen. Are you optimistic?
Speaker 1: Yeah, his knee will probably And I'm come on, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm no doctor. This is pure conjecture. But all my
Speaker 1: experience and the guys I've spoken with and knee surgeries
Speaker 1: I've had, and all the conversations I've had with guys
Speaker 1: who have had ACLS, not a C L L c LS.
Speaker 1: It's the anterior cruciant ligament is the A c L,
Speaker 1: and the lateral collateral ligament is the A C is
Speaker 1: the L c L, and it's on the outside of
Speaker 1: your knee. The A c L goes from the top
Speaker 1: front of your thigh bone or the bottom of your
Speaker 1: thigh bone, through the knee and to the back of
Speaker 1: your calf bone. Yeah, the knee will be repaired and
Speaker 1: it'll be solid, but it ain't gonna feel right to him.
Speaker 1: I don't think. It'll feel pretty close, and he'll be
Speaker 1: and he'll have done enough to run around stuff, but
Speaker 1: he won't feel normal exactly. Now. The doctors will tell
Speaker 1: you he's not gonna he's not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: hurt it himself by doing whatever he wants. But he's
Speaker 1: gonna be playing the football game and there's gonna be
Speaker 1: eleven guys who would like to break his legs, let
Speaker 1: alone tackle him. So he'll be able to do what
Speaker 1: he can do without himself hurting it, and it won't
Speaker 1: be more susceptible to being injured than it would have
Speaker 1: normally if it had never been injured. That's usually where
Speaker 1: you get to after eight or nine months, right, But
Speaker 1: it doesn't.
Speaker 6: Feel normal, especially for guys who haven't had injuries like
Speaker 6: this before. The getting back to being on the field
Speaker 6: and practicing. A big part of it is just feeling
Speaker 6: out what a brace feels like on your knee and
Speaker 6: getting comfortable practicing with a big brace on your knee.
Speaker 6: It's not easy at first.
Speaker 1: He'll tinker around with the brace, get it fitted properly,
Speaker 1: Tape it here, not tape it there, Strap it a
Speaker 1: little tighter here, a little looser there, he'll be able
Speaker 1: to work with it and get used to what that's like.
Speaker 1: It'll take some getting used to, no question about it.
Speaker 1: The brace itself will. But it to me hearing this
Speaker 1: and he's out there throwing the football around doing whatever
Speaker 1: in a close practice, I just I'd almost like bet
Speaker 1: my rent money that he's going to play in Week one.
Speaker 6: It's also about feeling confident in that knee and that
Speaker 6: leg after undergoing a procedure like that, which my mind
Speaker 6: kind of goes to. You know, Patrick Mahomes and Josh
Speaker 6: Allen are these ultra talented quarterbacks. We've seen Josh play
Speaker 6: through injury and we learned about the foot injury after
Speaker 6: the season and to the extent of what that was
Speaker 6: for Josh Allen, and he's a goliath playing through something
Speaker 6: like that, And I kind of look at Mahomes and
Speaker 6: Alan the same in that way, knowing that Mahomes is
Speaker 6: gonna be okay out there, like yeah, he's he's a
Speaker 6: confident player. He's one of the best.
Speaker 1: And players that are wired like Josh, like Pat Mahomes
Speaker 1: and some of these other guys, it's they just go
Speaker 1: out there, tell it it's okay. If they play if
Speaker 1: they want to, they're gonna play exactly, no matter how
Speaker 1: bad it hurts, no matter what hoops they have to
Speaker 1: jump through, no matter they have to change their grip
Speaker 1: on the football, if they have to wear a certain
Speaker 1: insert in their shoe, if they have to have a
Speaker 1: great tape job, if they have to take a shot
Speaker 1: to take the edge off the pain. That whatever they
Speaker 1: feel like they need to do to get on the field,
Speaker 1: they will do, and they won't bad an eye about it.
Speaker 1: My home strikes me as that kind of guy. Josh
Speaker 1: does too, and there are other guys all over the
Speaker 1: league who are the same way. So when you put
Speaker 1: it in that kind of perspective and the timeline you're
Speaker 1: looking at another four months, I just shrugged my shoulders
Speaker 1: and just say you can expect to see Mahomes out
Speaker 1: there on a Monday night football game. And I I
Speaker 1: would say they've already had conversations with Pat about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that any of this stuff
Speaker 1: I'm conjecturing, but they've probably asked Pat what a month
Speaker 1: ago before they release the schedule, They're not put and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs on Monday Night football. I open the season
Speaker 1: if if Pat Mahomes isn't going to be there. If
Speaker 1: Mahomes is going to be there, and if somebody talks
Speaker 1: to Pat and he says, what do you think are
Speaker 1: you gonna get given it? He goes, I'm going the
Speaker 1: first chance I'm on the field, I am on the field,
Speaker 1: and if i'm and I'm going to be there, And
Speaker 1: the doctors saying, yeah, given normals rehabbing, if he doesn't
Speaker 1: have any setbacks, he'll be ready to go. He's not
Speaker 1: going to feel right, but he'll be ready to play
Speaker 1: and all that, and but Homes going, that's all I
Speaker 1: need to hear. I'm going to be there. Put him
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football Week one.
Speaker 6: They also have a really early by, which means you
Speaker 6: start the season. Mahomes starts the season and then he
Speaker 6: gets a he gets an early break, right, they.
Speaker 1: Get after four games Broncos, Colts, Dolphins, Raiders, and they're
Speaker 1: on a buy. So, yeah, yeah, Mahomes is going to
Speaker 1: be there. I just I'm just shrugging my shoulders and
Speaker 1: shaking my head, saying, yeah, he's I think he's gonna play. Yeah.
Speaker 6: They don't play the Bills until November twenties sixth.
Speaker 1: It'll be the first game. He's out of the brace too.
Speaker 1: Of course, big I'm sorry, I'm tezing for us, but seriously,
Speaker 1: the first time Pat Mahomes is now the Bills come
Speaker 1: into town. Oh my gosh, that's the way it works
Speaker 1: for us. Right, he'll be great.
Speaker 6: All right. We got to take a break because coming
Speaker 6: up next Sports Illustrated Albert Breer joins the show. Senior
Speaker 6: NFL reporter joining us next on One Bills Live. Welcome
Speaker 6: back to One Bills Live. We are now excited to
Speaker 6: be joined by senior writer for the NFL for Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 6: It's Albert Breer who's joining the show right now. Albert,
Speaker 6: thanks for taking the time to hang out with us
Speaker 6: on a Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, guys, I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: We want to go around the NFL with you and
Speaker 6: talk about some of this biggest storylines that have been
Speaker 6: happening as of late. And we started the show talking
Speaker 6: about just the expansion of the NFL and just how
Speaker 6: we're seeing games be played on every weekday it seems
Speaker 6: like nowadays, and the talk of an eighteen game schedule,
Speaker 6: and PFT reported a couple days ago that the owners
Speaker 6: have now met twice about expanding the games to eighteen
Speaker 6: and there hasn't been a date yet set for the
Speaker 6: twenty twenty eight Super Bowl. So it seems like a
Speaker 6: door is open. But how open is that door? What
Speaker 6: are you hearing about eighteen games for twenty twenty seven?
Speaker 2: Well at clocks ticking, you know.
Speaker 4: And one thing that you know, I think is interesting
Speaker 4: about it is you know where the host city stands,
Speaker 4: and I think for Atlanta it's been difficult not having
Speaker 4: a date as we get closer to the game. The
Speaker 4: reason why is you got a block off a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks to be begin with, both for the week
Speaker 4: of the super Bowl and contingencies. And so if you
Speaker 4: don't know the date, that means you're blocking off more weeks,
Speaker 4: which means more convention space, more hotel space, more of
Speaker 4: everything is blocked off, and that makes it harder for
Speaker 4: a city to do business. So I think Atlanta has
Speaker 4: been frustrated with this for over a year now. You know,
Speaker 4: of course, they want to host the Super Bowl, so
Speaker 4: it's not gonna cause them to pull out or anything
Speaker 4: like that, but you know, it is definitely you know,
Speaker 4: a piece of the puzzle here, And why would the
Speaker 4: NFL do that. Well, the NFL would do that because
Speaker 4: they're looking at the idea of expanding the regular season,
Speaker 4: which makes.
Speaker 2: The date of the Super Bowl uncertain.
Speaker 4: I did ask Peter O'Reilly, who's the head of events
Speaker 4: for the NFL, a couple months ago, like what is
Speaker 4: the drop dead to set an actual date for the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl? And his answer was the beginning of the
Speaker 4: season before, So that would be the beginning of this
Speaker 4: season that they would have to set a date. So
Speaker 4: the closer that we get to Week one, the less
Speaker 4: likely it is that we be going to eighteen games
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: But it's coming.
Speaker 4: And I put it in the same category as you know,
Speaker 4: the NFL going back to Los Angeles with not but
Speaker 4: one but two teams going to seventeen games in the
Speaker 4: first place, expanding the playoffs, and of course all the
Speaker 4: focus internationally like all this is about adding inventory and
Speaker 4: having more inventory to work with and more inventory to sell.
Speaker 4: It's about money, you know, and so they would like
Speaker 4: to get that pushed across the goal line as fas
Speaker 4: as soon as they can. Some of the you know,
Speaker 4: the the the issues that the NFLPA has had has
Speaker 4: held that up because they need sign off.
Speaker 2: From the union.
Speaker 3: But I do think eventually they're going they're gonna get there.
Speaker 1: What is the bargaining chip that the union? I mean,
Speaker 1: it may seem so simple, It might be just money.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to up the percentage that the
Speaker 1: players get as a salar recap perhaps, But what other
Speaker 1: chips are there on the table that could be traded
Speaker 1: back and forth between the NFL and the players union?
Speaker 1: Abou Okay, we're gonna go to eighteen game schedules. What
Speaker 1: do the players need for us to make it happen
Speaker 1: or what will have what will make it possible for
Speaker 1: the players just to rubber stamp it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this is just me personally, But like
Speaker 4: I think one thing that people lose sight of when
Speaker 4: you know, we're talking about these things is the effect
Speaker 4: that they have on guys careers.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, it's hard. It was hard to
Speaker 2: make it for.
Speaker 4: A sixteen game regular season, the same way it's hard
Speaker 4: to make it through a seventeen game regular season now
Speaker 4: without suffering a major injury or having some sort of
Speaker 4: issue that's gonna affect you long term. Right, So it's
Speaker 4: difficult to make it out of a single season. That way,
Speaker 4: as it stands right now, to become an unrestricted.
Speaker 3: Free agent, you have to make it through four seasons.
Speaker 4: Now some guys, of course, the guys go in the
Speaker 4: first round team might have a little more control than that.
Speaker 2: Some guys contracts run out before that.
Speaker 4: If you're an undrafted free agent, you know you can
Speaker 4: you can do a deal that's up after three years,
Speaker 4: which you know allows you to hit restrictive free agency.
Speaker 4: But to be an unrestrict free agent, you have to
Speaker 4: hit four years, which means when it was sixteen games,
Speaker 4: you had to get through sixty four games to.
Speaker 3: Make it unrestrict free agency. In the current system, you've.
Speaker 4: Got to get to sixty eight games, and in an
Speaker 4: eighteen game format you would have to make it through
Speaker 4: seventy two games. That's a lot of football games to
Speaker 4: make it through to get the sort of big second
Speaker 4: payday that all players are looking for. So that's where
Speaker 4: I would start if I were at the Union, I
Speaker 4: would say, you guys have to loosen the reins on
Speaker 4: us and allow for us to find ways to make
Speaker 4: it to the second contract faster. And maybe that means
Speaker 4: also loosening the reins on some of the things that
Speaker 4: allow the teams to control players. Whether it's the RFA tenders,
Speaker 4: whether it's the franchise tags, that transition tags. There are
Speaker 4: a million different ways that the owners can restrict movement.
Speaker 4: And so I think if I were, you know, if
Speaker 4: I was leading the players Union, I would say more
Speaker 4: guys getting paid means.
Speaker 3: There's more factors that are pushing the market forward, which.
Speaker 4: Winds up benefit a lot more guys. The issue with
Speaker 4: things like this in the past have been that the
Speaker 4: age of the guys who are running the union generally
Speaker 4: they're on the older side. And so is that eighth, ninth,
Speaker 4: tenth year guy going to make his concessions to benefit
Speaker 4: second and third year guys.
Speaker 2: That's the question.
Speaker 4: But I think the logical place to start with this
Speaker 4: would be with loosening some of the reins on some
Speaker 4: of the controls that the owners have over the players.
Speaker 1: And what about also roster sizes. I mean, more games,
Speaker 1: spread the spread the workload a little thinner, maybe fifty
Speaker 1: guys on game day that are available, so you could
Speaker 1: spread out the snaps to on both sides of the
Speaker 1: ball to make you know, just to put less of
Speaker 1: a wear and tear on a guy's snap to snap.
Speaker 1: Just more jobs for the union, bigger rosters, lighter workload
Speaker 1: during the week, easier to recover because there's more guys
Speaker 1: to practice, more guys to run through. All of that
Speaker 1: stuff seems would seem to be an obvious, uh chip
Speaker 1: for the Union to play as well.
Speaker 4: I'd say it would help logistically and making all of
Speaker 4: this work. Of course, you know, if you're creating more depth,
Speaker 4: then you're gonna have more flexibility to make it through,
Speaker 4: you know, injury situations you have. I mean, on top
Speaker 4: of it being more games, like guys are constantly getting
Speaker 4: bigger and stronger and faster. The game isn't getting a
Speaker 4: whole lot less violent. You have some of the some
Speaker 4: of some some some different categories of hits.
Speaker 2: That aren't legal anymore.
Speaker 4: But like the bigger and faster guys get, the stronger
Speaker 4: guys get more violent, the collisions are going to be.
Speaker 4: So that's something that's just like a constant over time.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, having expanded rosters, expanded practice squad
Speaker 4: helps you manage all of that.
Speaker 2: But that cuts both ways too.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're a guy who's in the league
Speaker 4: right now and you're looking at and you're saying, okay, well,
Speaker 4: instead of like this pie that we have, like this
Speaker 4: amount of money that we have that's split up all
Speaker 4: between all of us. Instead of that being cut fifty
Speaker 4: three ways, now it's being cut fifty eight ways, or
Speaker 4: it's being cut sixty ways. That could wind up affecting
Speaker 4: you in an adverse way. So with all those things,
Speaker 4: I think there are some complications. So it is something
Speaker 4: to consider when you're talking about the management of the
Speaker 4: rosters and everything else. But I'm not sure that that's
Speaker 4: something that the players would look at as a benefit
Speaker 4: to them.
Speaker 2: I think that's something that.
Speaker 4: The owners would negotiate with the players for the great
Speaker 4: or good to the game, more so than something the
Speaker 4: players would win in a negotiation.
Speaker 6: One player who won't see an eighteen game schedule is
Speaker 6: quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who just got signed by the Steelers
Speaker 6: as of late a one year deal. People thought something
Speaker 6: like that would happen with the Steelers and Rogers makes
Speaker 6: it official now. He did also make it official that
Speaker 6: I'm out after this year. I am tiring him announcing
Speaker 6: that before the season begins. What does that do for Rogers?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I I don't know that it really
Speaker 3: changes much, you know.
Speaker 4: I know the Steelers were going in with the assumption
Speaker 4: that if he did come back in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 4: it would be, you know, the last time, and I
Speaker 4: think that that's been kind of how everybody's been operating
Speaker 4: up until now, Maddie. So I don't know that it
Speaker 4: really changes much other than you know, I think after games,
Speaker 4: he's going to get guys he's played against, guys he's
Speaker 4: played with coming up to him, telling him it was
Speaker 4: an honor to play with you, all of that stuff.
Speaker 3: But I think that probably would have happened anyway, you know.
Speaker 4: So honestly, I think it makes it more interesting for
Speaker 4: us because now he can definitively call it a farewell tour,
Speaker 4: and you know, maybe it means, you know, in Minnesota
Speaker 4: or Detroit or Chicago, maybe there's a little something extra,
Speaker 4: you know, with the teams that he's rivalries with. But functionally,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure it does much more than I give
Speaker 4: him the peace of mind. I suppose that that, Yeah, like,
Speaker 4: I don't have a decision to make after this year.
Speaker 4: I can go out and enjoy this year for what
Speaker 4: it is, and then you know, I'm gonna move on
Speaker 4: with my life.
Speaker 1: Well, heaven forbid, he pops and Achilles and is out
Speaker 1: after four plays and we never get to see it, right,
Speaker 1: So you don't everybody wants to go out on their
Speaker 1: own terms until you have to go out, and you
Speaker 1: don't have a choice, right, And so it's good that
Speaker 1: he knows that in his own mind. We've we've watched
Speaker 1: him progress through his career and we'll see where it ends.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you as well about the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: They're starting to they're trying to find a GM and
Speaker 1: it seems to be taking a minute. Yeah, why.
Speaker 2: Because they don't have competition? I think will be the
Speaker 2: main thing. You know a lot of times it drives
Speaker 2: these things.
Speaker 3: When they're done in January.
Speaker 4: Is that like I know that if I'm going and
Speaker 4: I have five candidates and there are three other teams
Speaker 4: looking for a GM, that there's the possibility that I
Speaker 4: lose one of those candidates because their process is moving
Speaker 4: faster than ours, and that doesn't exist right now. So
Speaker 4: it's given the Viking some flexibility. There are also some
Speaker 4: quirks in the calendar. So they really got this started,
Speaker 4: you know, two weeks ago with all the zooms that
Speaker 4: they did, and then last week you were going into
Speaker 4: a holiday and there was an owner's meeting, and at
Speaker 4: the owner's meeting, Minneapolis was awarded the twenty twenty eight draft.
Speaker 4: So you know, everyone involved with ownership, city officials, everybody
Speaker 4: was part of that last week, and so I think
Speaker 4: it did give them a chance to take a natural
Speaker 4: break in the process and digest everything and move into
Speaker 4: this week. And so they did have Rob Brazinski and
Speaker 4: Terrence Gray in yesterday.
Speaker 2: I believe it's Reid.
Speaker 4: Burkhardt and Nolan Teasley from the Broncos and Seahawks prospectively today.
Speaker 2: Then they'll have John McKay tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And I'm show us some interest to people in Buffalo
Speaker 4: because of Terrence Gray's involvement. Obviously, he's one of the
Speaker 4: guys you know that has experienced in that Minnesota building,
Speaker 4: and he and Reid Burkhardt worked together there for a
Speaker 4: bunch of years.
Speaker 2: And we're with Rob Brazinski.
Speaker 4: So three of the five know each other and have
Speaker 4: a ton of experience having been there, and then you know,
Speaker 4: they get the chance to know Teasily and McKay a
Speaker 4: little bit better. My sense is that they're going to
Speaker 4: you know, wrap things up tomorrow and then Friday meet
Speaker 4: on it and maybe they make an offer on Friday.
Speaker 4: Maybe they give themselves the weekend to think about it.
Speaker 4: But the reason there's been no rush here again, like
Speaker 4: part of it's that quirk in the calendar, but another
Speaker 4: piece of it is that there's no real competition. I'd
Speaker 4: say the one reason you would want to get it
Speaker 4: done now is you probably want to give the new
Speaker 4: GM a chance to come in and familiar familiarize himself
Speaker 4: with the building, with the players, with the staff in
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks that you have before the summer break,
Speaker 4: so you know, then when you get to training camp,
Speaker 4: you can hit the ground running.
Speaker 6: I know the Bills would hate to lose a guy
Speaker 6: like Terrence Gray, but also at the same time cheering
Speaker 6: for him to, you know, increase whatever he can within
Speaker 6: his career. I know GM is something that he's been
Speaker 6: working for and has done a fantastic job here in Buffalo.
Speaker 6: Jumping back into other quarterback news, the Rams and Matthew
Speaker 6: Stafford agreed on a one year, fifty five million dollar extension.
Speaker 6: Stafford led the NFL with forty six touchdowns last season
Speaker 6: to just eight interceptions, had a fantastic season, a career
Speaker 6: high for him last year, and you know in his
Speaker 6: what seventeenth year in the league. When you see the
Speaker 6: Rams agree to an extension like this but also draft
Speaker 6: Tye Simpson in the latest NFL draft, how do you
Speaker 6: first see the Rams finishing things up with a quarterback
Speaker 6: like Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 4: Well, I think like a piece of it is obviously
Speaker 4: you're setting yourself up, so you know, it does give
Speaker 4: them some runway, and they found a quarterback they really liked.
Speaker 4: And whether you agree with the assessment of ty Simpson
Speaker 4: or not, like I would say, it's a good thing
Speaker 4: that you get this taken care of before Matthew Stafford
Speaker 4: drives off into the sunset.
Speaker 3: In that like, you're not pigeonholed into a single year.
Speaker 2: Where you have to solve the quarterback question.
Speaker 4: I also think, and this is an important piece of it,
Speaker 4: because they don't need to worry now about getting a
Speaker 4: quarterback in twenty seven or twenty eight.
Speaker 3: They can actually be aggressive with their picks going forward.
Speaker 4: So in the next week, in the next month, before
Speaker 4: the trade deadline, whatever it is, they can take their
Speaker 4: picks and turn them into a veteran player. So a
Speaker 4: lot of people looked at this and said, this isn't
Speaker 4: really a win now move. That player isn't going to
Speaker 4: help Matthew Stafford. I actually argue the opposite that, like,
Speaker 4: by getting the quarterback question taken care of now and
Speaker 4: trading your other first round pick for Trent McDuffie, you've
Speaker 4: freed yourself to do something else and to make another
Speaker 4: move potentially between now and the trade deadline that could
Speaker 4: wind up helping your team in a very big way.
Speaker 4: So I think all the way around, it serves the
Speaker 4: team's future. I think, you know, depending on who becomes available,
Speaker 4: you know, over the next few weeks and months, you know,
Speaker 4: it also could wind up helping you in the present
Speaker 4: quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we talk about We just spoke about Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and him coming here saying this is his final year,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford after eleven great years in Detroit, now he's
Speaker 1: spent six in LA Tom Brady played into his forties,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees played for nineteen years, Peyton Manning played for
Speaker 1: seventeen years. I mean, is it are we going? Are
Speaker 1: we going to see more and more quarterbacks with the
Speaker 1: ability to play into their early forties, mid forties, whatever,
Speaker 1: Guys like Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes, Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: these guys with the added protections they've given quarterbacks these days,
Speaker 1: with the way their offenses are run, we're seeing more
Speaker 1: and more guys play deeper and deeper into their thirties
Speaker 1: and forties and early forties. Do you think that'll continue?
Speaker 1: Is that a trend or are we just seeing an
Speaker 1: old time class of quarterbacks or an era of QB play.
Speaker 2: No, I think it can.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it all depends on the individual's
Speaker 4: desire to keep going. It's a big commitment to play
Speaker 4: an NFL season, especially at that position. You know, you're
Speaker 4: as you get older, it gets harder, not easier, to
Speaker 4: get yourself physically in a spot where you can endure
Speaker 4: an NFL season.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I think it takes a guy who.
Speaker 4: Really genuinely loves football to play that long, you know,
Speaker 4: because of all the things you have to do that
Speaker 4: no one ever sees to be in position to play
Speaker 4: at that level of the sport. I'd actually a lot
Speaker 4: of things you said, like there are more protections that helps,
Speaker 4: for sure. Offenses are more quarterback friendly. In a lot
Speaker 4: of case, offenses are built to get the ball out
Speaker 4: of a quarterback's hand now where maybe he's taking on
Speaker 4: less damage.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Again, you combine that with the rules and they're more
Speaker 4: well protected protected than they ever have been. And then
Speaker 4: of course there's been advances in strength and conditioning in
Speaker 4: all those different areas that allow these guys to go
Speaker 4: longer in general.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting I would say, like this is
Speaker 4: case by case though, because like I think guys have
Speaker 4: the tools now to make it further, but it really
Speaker 4: kind of comes down to what each individual guy wants
Speaker 4: to do, you know. And so Brady had said very
Speaker 4: early on, like I want to play until I'm forty five,
Speaker 4: and lo and behold like he made it to forty five.
Speaker 4: You know, I think there are other cases where guys
Speaker 4: probably didn't envision themselves playing that long, but then they did.
Speaker 4: And I think Aaron Rodgers would be in that category.
Speaker 4: Where do I think he thought like he was going
Speaker 4: to play, you know, up until you know, again his
Speaker 4: forty third birthday, I doubt that was part of his plan.
Speaker 2: But you know, as you get older, it's all right, well, like.
Speaker 4: Once I'm done doing this, I never get to do
Speaker 4: it again. It's not basketball, it's not baseball. I can't
Speaker 4: go play in some adult league. Like once I'm done,
Speaker 4: I'm done. And so, you know, I think that's kind
Speaker 4: of what gets some of these guys that may be
Speaker 4: planned on play until they're thirty six, thirty seven, thirty eight,
Speaker 4: where they say to.
Speaker 3: Themselves, well, hell, I really want to keep going.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: You see it with Joe Flacco, Like Joe Flacco, he
Speaker 4: like and he tells you he said, I think I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be able to throw football till I'm fifty, you know,
Speaker 4: and so like he still loves it, so he keeps going.
Speaker 3: So I think it, you know, whether it's part of
Speaker 3: some grand plan or not.
Speaker 4: Like I do think the guys have the option to
Speaker 4: play that game longer because of some of the things
Speaker 4: structurally that will that have happened within the sport, you know.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I think what ends up happening
Speaker 2: with a lot of them is, you know, to play that.
Speaker 4: Position, you really do have to love this sport, and
Speaker 4: a lot of these guys get to well, you know,
Speaker 4: what they would have thought would have been the finish line,
Speaker 4: say to themselves you know what, I'll give it one more,
Speaker 4: and I'll give it one more, and I'll give it
Speaker 4: one more, and.
Speaker 3: Then before you know it, they're playing at forty or
Speaker 3: forty one years old.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean with Matthew Stafford hitting a career high
Speaker 6: seventeen years in at thirty eight, it's like, why stop now?
Speaker 6: And I know Josh Allen just hit the number thirty
Speaker 6: and Bill's fans are thankfully feeling like, Okay, we got
Speaker 6: a lot left in the tank with Josh Allen as
Speaker 6: long as he continues to be healthy and the team
Speaker 6: continues to put a good offensive line in front of him.
Speaker 6: But Albert, thank you so much for the time. We
Speaker 6: appreciate you hopping on the show.
Speaker 2: Happy to be home, thanks for having me guys.
Speaker 6: All Right, that was senior NFL reporter for Sports Illustrated
Speaker 6: Albert Breer joining us on One Bill's Live. We got
Speaker 6: to take a break because when we return, we go
Speaker 6: some players sound from yesterday's Ota practice that we want
Speaker 6: to run and discuss, So we'll have that next on
Speaker 6: One Bill's Live.
Speaker 5: Look, you boys, we're not there what today?
Speaker 1: He is a feast for the Capitol Fie. The coup
Speaker 1: is in the kitchen.
Speaker 8: Looks now the sideline, he's got kickad.
Speaker 4: For a twenty three yard touchdown and it's intercepted.
Speaker 1: Jumping under the air is bad for.
Speaker 5: These One Bill's Live.
Speaker 6: Are number two of one Bills Live on a Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 6: We just had senior NFL reporter from Sports Illustrated, Albert
Speaker 6: Breer joined the show talk a lot about eighteen game schedule,
Speaker 6: when that's gonna happen, as well as some quarterback news,
Speaker 6: and coming up at two thirty, we're gonna have Landon
Speaker 6: Jackson join the show. Who's on his way back from
Speaker 6: the community takeover. Several players went all across Western New
Speaker 6: York to eight different schools, including head coach Joe Brady,
Speaker 6: so they're on their way back right now. We'll talk
Speaker 6: to him shortly, but before we talk to land and
Speaker 6: we also want to hear from players who spoke yesterday
Speaker 6: after the OTA practice. So let's start things off by
Speaker 6: hearing from defensive tackle Ed Oliver.
Speaker 9: Not necessarily, I mean, because I kind of don't think
Speaker 9: about it like that, because he and I are coming there.
Speaker 5: A yeah, I used to be in the league, but.
Speaker 9: I guess he can have a different uh maybe a
Speaker 9: different approach because he was in our seats at one time.
Speaker 5: So maybe that's why he's a little more calm. So
Speaker 5: I don't know. He said, oh, go ahead.
Speaker 10: He's usually the word free him uh huh for you,
Speaker 10: so that he believes that the scheme is gonna allow
Speaker 10: you to play with more freedom, right, do you feel that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, I know it sounds cliche, but
Speaker 9: if he turned on the tape, the guy they had
Speaker 9: in Denmer was pretty good, uh so, and he looks
Speaker 9: like he's playing pretty s pretty free. So hopefully I
Speaker 9: can have that same success, you know, in the same system.
Speaker 10: So is that exciting for you?
Speaker 5: That idea? That definitely exciting. Definitely, I don't know. I
Speaker 5: just can't wait. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 5: to say. Besides that, he used the.
Speaker 11: Word disruptive, which has to be a fun word for
Speaker 11: a defensive line, nor sacks or whatever it is that
Speaker 11: you have to do.
Speaker 5: Right, What does disruptive? How do you picture being disruptive?
Speaker 9: Disruptive was getting at the quarterback, messing up time and
Speaker 9: you know, causing disruption, you know, in the backfield, making
Speaker 9: plays tigeros TfL's quarterback hits anything, that the offense would
Speaker 9: h uh deem ass hey block this guy? So anything
Speaker 9: that gets them off schedule a disruptive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, do be a frustrating season for you? Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: definitely went through.
Speaker 10: Is that behind you now? And how did you process
Speaker 10: all that?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: I mean it was it was hard.
Speaker 9: It was different. I think that's the first time. I ha,
Speaker 9: I had two surgeries in one year. M let alone
Speaker 9: only had one surgery before the end, and having two
Speaker 9: in one year really three?
Speaker 5: And man, I don't know. I'm just happy to be healthy.
Speaker 2: So what about how it and how you you got hurt?
Speaker 11: How you were playing when you got hurt? Is what
Speaker 11: I'm trying to spit out here, is that, Uh, how
Speaker 11: did you handle being sh on the shelf when you
Speaker 11: were playing so well?
Speaker 5: It sucks. It definitely does suck. But I mean you
Speaker 5: st you started questioning yourself why.
Speaker 9: I mean, and you know, you go through the pity
Speaker 9: party and all that, you know, typical athlete thing.
Speaker 5: Why.
Speaker 9: I mean, what, Hey, I'm healthy and I don't wanna
Speaker 9: think about that. So hey, I'm thankful for my health
Speaker 9: that I got nine. So hey, maybe this year'll be different.
Speaker 1: Are you in a good spot now?
Speaker 6: Like fully best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm I'm fully one hundred percent ready to go.
Speaker 11: So could you I know that it's it's voluntary, so
Speaker 11: not pasting judgment, but could you be out there now
Speaker 11: if you wanted to?
Speaker 5: Or what's the read?
Speaker 2: Why aren't are you?
Speaker 5: I guess so I guess I could. Are they just
Speaker 5: taking it slow?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I got a little oops oops, But it's fine.
Speaker 9: Like I said, I'm still healthy and I'm still here
Speaker 9: and I could I probably could go if I wanted to,
Speaker 9: But I mean, yeah, what's the point of going now
Speaker 9: and potentially, you know, versus laid in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: When I really need to be on go. So I
Speaker 5: think that's just kind of approach right now.
Speaker 2: How would you spell oop?
Speaker 5: Oop? So that way we know I love oops oops,
Speaker 5: I don't know oos oops sometimes you do some.
Speaker 9: Yeah that's because I'm from down south, so you know, our.
Speaker 5: Lingo is a little different. You know, we use a
Speaker 5: lot of different you know words.
Speaker 1: Would how would you.
Speaker 10: If you how would you define oops?
Speaker 5: Oops? If you could?
Speaker 9: Uh, if you was walking out that door and tripped
Speaker 9: a little bit, you had a little oops oops.
Speaker 5: Yeah you didn't fall, but you had a little almost
Speaker 5: oop oop.
Speaker 11: Okay, how much transitions just for you after so many
Speaker 11: years in the old defense now moving into something different, and.
Speaker 5: It's like, uh, I don't even know.
Speaker 9: I guess maybe I don't know because everything I know
Speaker 9: and come to know you just yeah, throw all that out.
Speaker 5: This is this is the new.
Speaker 9: I guess, like a breakup kind of. I guess I
Speaker 9: don't know everything you did in the last relationship. Yeah,
Speaker 9: throw that all that away. That's a whole other person,
Speaker 9: whole nother you know, so you gotta relearn and and
Speaker 9: it's fun. It's different. You know, change is always hard,
Speaker 9: but sometimes.
Speaker 5: Change is good. So I don't know, I just look
Speaker 5: at it with that kind of optimism and just let
Speaker 5: it out.
Speaker 8: Like getting to know Joe Brady better, you know.
Speaker 9: You know, me and Joe kind of had a different relationship.
Speaker 9: I always thought Joe was the coolest white boy ever met.
Speaker 9: You know, he rocked the tape of Fade, you know,
Speaker 9: so we be there getting a haircut.
Speaker 5: Man, it's smooth white boy right there. You know, he
Speaker 5: got it cut going and everything. So not like he
Speaker 5: a head coach.
Speaker 9: But I still see like Joe Brady the cool, you know,
Speaker 9: laid back, you know, real reserve kind of well, I
Speaker 9: wouldn't say reserved, but you know, just cool cat, you know, so,
Speaker 9: I don't know, he's still a cool cat to me.
Speaker 5: Do you feel that.
Speaker 11: When you look back on last year and how things
Speaker 11: were going right in that stage of your career, experience,
Speaker 11: your age, that I think you were figuring things out
Speaker 11: at a different level.
Speaker 1: I'm playing the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can carry you on, man.
Speaker 9: I was so comfortable last year, like, and I think
Speaker 9: you could just tell through the frem like I was
Speaker 9: just super comfortable, Like I knew exactly. Like I said,
Speaker 9: you've been in the defense for so long. I know
Speaker 9: the calls off the back of my hand. When it's
Speaker 9: coming in. It's not even so the call is behind me.
Speaker 9: I'm looking at the offense and what they got going on,
Speaker 9: and like I was playing so fast. But we'll get
Speaker 9: back to that point again, because I mean, it's just
Speaker 9: a call. Once you got the cars down, padded, get
Speaker 9: the repetition, and then I'm back to let me check
Speaker 9: out the offense.
Speaker 5: I can play faster, all right.
Speaker 6: That was Bill's defensive tackle At Oliver, who spoke with
Speaker 6: media after yesterday's Ota practice. Now, Oliver hasn't been involved
Speaker 6: on the field in any practices yet and clarified to
Speaker 6: how ed Oliver clarifies as to why he's not on
Speaker 6: the field yet. He said he's one hundred percent ready
Speaker 6: to go and said, well, I guess I could be
Speaker 6: on the field if I needed to, but I had
Speaker 6: a little oops oops and reporters said, can you tell
Speaker 6: us what an oops oops is? He's like, oh, walking
Speaker 6: out the door and you trip. So good to know
Speaker 6: that Oliver believes he's in a good place. Had a
Speaker 6: bummer of a season last year because man, he started
Speaker 6: out hot coming back from that hamstring injury that put
Speaker 6: him out for I want to say it was four
Speaker 6: games in the beginning of the season and then yep,
Speaker 6: four games he was on the inactive list due to
Speaker 6: that hamstring injury, and then came back and had two
Speaker 6: games where he had a sack in each game, had
Speaker 6: three sacks and three games and then tore his bicep,
Speaker 6: and Oliver said, I just don't I don't even want
Speaker 6: to think about what I had to go through last year.
Speaker 6: I just want to think about what can happen this
Speaker 6: year and maybe things will be different. It was also
Speaker 6: great to hear him talk about the excitement for Jim
Speaker 6: Leonard and his scheme and referenced you know, the Denver
Speaker 6: defensive line they're pretty good. They had some awesome opportunities
Speaker 6: in there, and I'm excited for what that could mean
Speaker 6: for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems as though Ed, it's one of those
Speaker 1: guys you can and you can understand why they were,
Speaker 1: you know, once again last year they were on the
Speaker 1: cusp of doing something they hadn't done and just came
Speaker 1: up that much short. And he think a guy like
Speaker 1: Ed would think, Man, I could have made a different
Speaker 1: I could have made a difference if I'd have had
Speaker 1: another eight games, you know that I didn't have to
Speaker 1: sit on the sidelines for If I wouldn't have gotten injured,
Speaker 1: it would have been a much different season. If Mike
Speaker 1: hoy would have been in there with me, if all
Speaker 1: the ifs that players you know, put themselves through, all
Speaker 1: of that stuff is in edge. And so he's coming
Speaker 1: back now like this new defense it is let's go,
Speaker 1: you know, that kind of attitude of of just let's
Speaker 1: get started, really impatience with getting back into it. And
Speaker 1: he's doing what he's told, staying off then and his
Speaker 1: oops oops. I mean it could have been he had
Speaker 1: stiffness in his in his shoulder or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: when he was when he was training to get ready
Speaker 1: to play or whatever, and they say, you know what,
Speaker 1: just sit down. That kind of stuff happens all the time,
Speaker 1: particularly in this building when they do take cut such
Speaker 1: good care of their players. So yeah, Ed, I mean Ed,
Speaker 1: Mike Hoyt and some of these guys who you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer, Curtis Samuel, These guys coming back say man,
Speaker 1: I want to bet on the field and stay on
Speaker 1: the field. I think most of a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys are in that boat. It was they got so
Speaker 1: many real contributors hurt last year for extended periods, and
Speaker 1: it was it had to be really frustrating for all
Speaker 1: those guys.
Speaker 6: And Ed's been around, he's been in the building working,
Speaker 6: and it's been good to see him back. I remember
Speaker 6: the first time I saw him back in the building,
Speaker 6: it was like, Ed, Oh my gosh, I'm so happy
Speaker 6: you're back. It's good to see you. He had a
Speaker 6: smile on his face. Big fan of Ed Oliver and
Speaker 6: hope he does great things for this defense. In twenty
Speaker 6: twenty six, younger defensive player cornerback Maxwell Harriston also spoke
Speaker 6: to media yesterday, so let's hear what he had to say.
Speaker 8: Like, what's your reaction then, what has your relationship been
Speaker 8: like with IGB since he's come here?
Speaker 12: My reaction is, you know, welcome, let's work. And honestly,
Speaker 12: since he's down here, man, it's been good. We've gotten along,
Speaker 12: you know, we study together, work tech together. I always
Speaker 12: just try to give them little pointers that I learned
Speaker 12: from Tran c B from last year, and honestly too,
Speaker 12: just playing in the NFL game, Like it's different coming
Speaker 12: from college. So he's been adjusted, well, he's understanding of
Speaker 12: the playbook and he had a pick today, man, So
Speaker 12: it's good to see that man chased him down in
Speaker 12: the end, zon Max.
Speaker 13: How big of a difference is it just being in
Speaker 13: year two and having a full NFL offseason.
Speaker 12: For you, honestly, it felt like a lot different, Like
Speaker 12: you know, going into the off season having some freedom
Speaker 12: like it felt good. But honestly too, just coming back here,
Speaker 12: you know, feeling more mature, feeling like I got a
Speaker 12: better understanding than I did last year, and honestly just
Speaker 12: taking the confidence, taking the comfortability going in a year
Speaker 12: two and just you know, just trying to press it.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest jump you want to make and going
Speaker 1: into year two, I want to play a full season.
Speaker 12: I want to be out there with the guys doing
Speaker 12: my job and the players will find me.
Speaker 7: He said, you like what Jim's been cooking up? What
Speaker 7: has it been about his personality and taking over this
Speaker 7: defense that you know, it's really kind of worked.
Speaker 12: Well with you just picking his head, Like Jim is
Speaker 12: like super smart, you know, one of the smartest guys
Speaker 12: I've talked to when it comes to like, you know,
Speaker 12: just planning and seeing stuff and breaking down blitzes, breaking
Speaker 12: down coverages and honestly, I just you know, you got
Speaker 12: to go out there and get the reps against the
Speaker 12: offense and stuff. But everything we've been laying down like
Speaker 12: it looks good.
Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 12: I'm excited to just keep going out there and playing
Speaker 12: fast in this defense.
Speaker 15: What's his personality? Like this way, we haven't really heard
Speaker 15: from him that much, but what's his personality?
Speaker 12: He's cool, man, Jay, He's a he's a little he's
Speaker 12: a geek with this football stuff. Man, Like he a
Speaker 12: genius man, but he cool. He say jokes, you know,
Speaker 12: he joking on him a little bit. But Jim's cool
Speaker 12: man about his business.
Speaker 16: Called him a silent assassin last week.
Speaker 1: That's good. I like that. That fits, Yeah, that fits.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah yeah. You know he'll say a little joke.
Speaker 12: You kind of be like, oh that was Jim, so okay,
Speaker 12: signing assassin there.
Speaker 5: I like that. If your going up against a guy
Speaker 5: like DJ Morton practice, I like that.
Speaker 12: As soon as we got him, I was like, oh, yeah, them,
Speaker 12: Rep's gonna be good because that's Iron Sharpen and Iron.
Speaker 12: You know, DJ's a guy where I know I can
Speaker 12: get better fro him. I know you can get better
Speaker 12: for me. So we're just gonna go at it, man,
Speaker 12: and by the time this season come, man, it's gonna
Speaker 12: it's up.
Speaker 14: Speaking of jokes, C J. Gardner Johnson's in the secondary
Speaker 14: with you guys. Is what has been like being team
Speaker 14: with him?
Speaker 12: Man boy got a lot of energy. It's good though,
Speaker 12: because he bring it out all of us as well. Uh,
Speaker 12: someone that he gonna come in practice, he gonna you're
Speaker 12: gonna hear him, You're gonna talk.
Speaker 1: That's good because you.
Speaker 12: Know, I dB, you gotta have that confidence, you gotta
Speaker 12: have that swagger. So you know, he's been a great addition,
Speaker 12: and he's gonna keep turning up.
Speaker 1: You've gone against Kean a lot in practice. Where is
Speaker 1: his game at right now?
Speaker 12: And he just getting better, just trending in the right direction. Uh,
Speaker 12: Keana guy, that's my guy, bro. He goes through a
Speaker 12: lot of stuff he don't deserve. And just to see
Speaker 12: him continue to come out here and practice hard and
Speaker 12: do his thing like it's good to see for and
Speaker 12: I can't wait to see him take off this year next.
Speaker 10: I came over a little lad, so I'm sur if
Speaker 10: you're asked, but you know they added IGB to the
Speaker 10: the secondary with the second round pick. What was your
Speaker 10: reaction and what's it been.
Speaker 1: Like getting to know him?
Speaker 12: I was just saying that, you know, when I when
Speaker 12: I seen him get drafted and I was excited. I
Speaker 12: was that's coming, let's work. We're getting young in the
Speaker 12: secondary and he's came in here. He just made a
Speaker 12: play today and he's fitting in with.
Speaker 6: All right. That was cornerback Maxwell Harriston, who sets playing
Speaker 6: his second NFL season this year, and good to see
Speaker 6: him out on the field healthy with enthusiasm. He was
Speaker 6: asked about what's your goal for this year and Harrison said,
Speaker 6: I want to play and I NFL season. We heard
Speaker 6: defensive coordinator Jim Leonard talk about Harrison yesterday and Leonard
Speaker 6: referenced the speed that Harriston has and said, you know,
Speaker 6: I watched him in college. He was one of the
Speaker 6: best cornerbacks in that draft class. It was the fastest
Speaker 6: guy out there. And I'm excited to use him in
Speaker 6: this defense. And you can just hear how excited Harrison
Speaker 6: is to play in what he's learned about Jim Leonard's defense.
Speaker 1: You and I were in the building and we get
Speaker 1: a chance to interact and watch these guys, and most
Speaker 1: Bills fans don't get a chance to hear Max speak
Speaker 1: or any of these rookies speak all that often. But
Speaker 1: to me, like listening to Max just in that interview,
Speaker 1: I can just feel the different attitude and mindset he
Speaker 1: has coming into his second year that he didn't all
Speaker 1: the stuff he's found out that he feels good about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even though it was a rough year injury wise
Speaker 1: and all that, but coming back and coming into OTAs
Speaker 1: and all that. Now in his second year, I had
Speaker 1: one of the best coaches I ever had was a
Speaker 1: guy named Nick Nikolau. He was an absolutely outstanding teacher,
Speaker 1: one of the great assistant coaches I ever had the
Speaker 1: pleasure of being around. And he said, listen, guys, here's
Speaker 1: what and he had, you know, we're all it's the
Speaker 1: training camp atmosphere. And he got like three or four
Speaker 1: rookies in the room. And I'm sitting in there with
Speaker 1: two Hall of Famers and James Lofton and Andre Reid
Speaker 1: and beebes is. You know, we got all these, all
Speaker 1: these these guys And Nick draws a picture of a
Speaker 1: guy's head. He's a profile head, just to rued himentary head,
Speaker 1: and he says, this is a rookie. And if you're
Speaker 1: a rookie, he goes, he takes the dry rears and
Speaker 1: he scratches a little scratch in the guy's brain area
Speaker 1: of his head. Every rookie gets this little inflammation up here.
Speaker 1: They just don't know what's going on. Yeah, And they
Speaker 1: think they know, they hope they know, but they don't
Speaker 1: until they go around and they see another group of
Speaker 1: rookies come in get drafted and they're like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: that was me, that was that's it, that's me that
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's not it's not that much. And
Speaker 1: then the and he races it and that you're second here,
Speaker 1: that all goes away. That's where Max is. He's he
Speaker 1: is just a completely different dude mentally than he was
Speaker 1: a year ago. And I think it's just natural progression
Speaker 1: of an NFL player when you come back, you've seen
Speaker 1: a whole calendar year and you see a guy a
Speaker 1: pretty league Max. He sees obg come in, igb obg
Speaker 1: ibgb come in, and it's like, oh my gosh, that's it.
Speaker 6: That's me.
Speaker 1: That's exactly me a year ago. Oh man, I can
Speaker 1: help this guy, let me, you know. And and that's
Speaker 1: kind of the way they're wired. You can really tell Max.
Speaker 1: It's just it's like a guy going he's all nervous
Speaker 1: and everything, and you know, it's it a rookie, and
Speaker 1: then he comes in. It's like this, he just oh,
Speaker 1: I see, you know, they can just relax and start
Speaker 1: to do the stuff that's really important instead of worrying
Speaker 1: about stuff that they don't know about. Max Harrison. That
Speaker 1: just that interview that we just saw, that SoundBite we
Speaker 1: just saw illustrates that to me in a real way.
Speaker 1: I've seen it for years. I experienced it and it's
Speaker 1: always interesting to see that phenomenon take shape where a
Speaker 1: guy comes in and all of a sudden he realizes
Speaker 1: he's been around the block.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he knows about it, and he's like, Okay, ain't
Speaker 6: no thing. I know what's required me. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 6: I got my confidence going for me in years.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It sounds like a little thing, but it really can.
Speaker 1: It changes everything. Yeah, it really changes everything. In Max's
Speaker 1: you know, his little interview, there was evidence of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely more relaxed. He missed the first six games
Speaker 6: of the season on IR and then was inactive for
Speaker 6: the two playoff games. So we hope he's healthy throughout
Speaker 6: the entirety of the twenty twenty six season. New player
Speaker 6: who spoke to media yesterday that is wide receiver Dj Moore.
Speaker 6: He spoke briefly last week and looked at one of
Speaker 6: our PR representatives and said, I'm not doing this again
Speaker 6: and kind of laughed while he spoke to media yesterday.
Speaker 6: So let's hear what Dj Moore had to say.
Speaker 8: What a month plus now in the books here? You know,
Speaker 8: how do you feel your chemistry is developing with Josh?
Speaker 14: That's going good. I mean it's gonna be perfect later on,
Speaker 14: but right now it's still growing pains.
Speaker 8: You have experience, learning new quarterbacks, learning new teams. What
Speaker 8: do you take from that, What's what's the key or
Speaker 8: what's what are some keys to developing that quickly?
Speaker 14: Just being yourself and then coming in, putting the work
Speaker 14: in and studying the playbook. Right now, that's what I'm doing,
Speaker 14: and I'm getting to know the guys.
Speaker 13: What has your impression been of the guys that you've
Speaker 13: met so far?
Speaker 14: Everybody's been lovely there, friendly, like everybody gets along. So
Speaker 14: it's amazing to see.
Speaker 13: What are your thoughts on just how Joe Brady, how
Speaker 13: his offense operates, and just what you've learned about his
Speaker 13: style so far?
Speaker 14: The style here with Bill's Joe, it's just trying to
Speaker 14: get the ball uh and as many playmaker's hands as possible.
Speaker 5: And that's what it has been so far.
Speaker 13: You've played with him before, Just what's it like to
Speaker 13: to continue that evolution of your career with him.
Speaker 14: I gotta I gotta catch back up to him. He
Speaker 14: won a lot more games than I have since since Carolina,
Speaker 14: and his offense has evolved into what it is today.
Speaker 5: Both sides of the ball.
Speaker 11: They celebrate, you know, defense celebrates when they make a playoffense,
Speaker 11: you know the same thing. Is that important to establish
Speaker 11: that that kind of camaraderie and celebratory attitude even though
Speaker 11: it's so early, and you.
Speaker 14: Know, yeah, because it's gonna make practice fun, it's gonna
Speaker 14: make the games even funner. It's gonna make the hard
Speaker 14: times fun because everybody is just happy that that's something
Speaker 14: big happening to a touchdown or interception.
Speaker 8: What do you see different from Joe in the head
Speaker 8: coaching role than role.
Speaker 14: He's all over the place with the defense, offense, special
Speaker 14: teams like he he's with everybody, and uh, that's amazing
Speaker 14: to see.
Speaker 8: What's something that maybe didn't expect with Josh that you've got, Uh.
Speaker 5: Just how fast he.
Speaker 14: Can just dial it up throughout the weekend, pick up
Speaker 14: new things that and we talk about it and just
Speaker 14: go out there and do it. How fast he just
Speaker 14: picks up on it.
Speaker 13: You've been highly regarded as a you know leader past places, Carolina, Chicago.
Speaker 13: Just how do you and new environments establish that leadership role.
Speaker 14: I really just be myself, That's all it is to it,
Speaker 14: and then everybody just gravitates towards me and we just
Speaker 14: go from there.
Speaker 6: That was newest wide receiver DJ Moore, who spoke to
Speaker 6: media yesterday talking about how his new quarterback picks up
Speaker 6: on stuff pretty quickly and is able to see a concept,
Speaker 6: dream something up, go to the practice field and execute
Speaker 6: it with whoever he's throwing the football to. Also, DJ
Speaker 6: Moore says that he's been having a good time in
Speaker 6: Buffalos at his time here has just been lovely, lovely.
Speaker 6: Everybody's been lovely. When he spoke last week, which I
Speaker 6: don't think we had a camera on this sound but
Speaker 6: I was there with my phone recording audio, he said,
Speaker 6: this is the tightest NFL locker room I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: The reporter goes why, and he says, well, there's not
Speaker 6: a lot to do in Buffalo. We just hang out
Speaker 6: with each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like DJs, Well that's true. We noticed the same
Speaker 1: thing when I was playing, and at that time we started,
Speaker 1: it was you got a guy like Josh and we
Speaker 1: had Jim Kelly and Bruce and all these guys. We
Speaker 1: had some superstar and we had a Derman Thomas who's
Speaker 1: breaking Jim Brown's records and stuff. So we had some
Speaker 1: guys and The thing that's different about Buffalo, we said
Speaker 1: it a lot over the years, is that you know
Speaker 1: everybody on the team. Whether you live in Amherst or
Speaker 1: Williamsville or down in Orchard Park or Easter Roar or
Speaker 1: West Seneca or one of these towns, you're only fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes apart from any of the guys. You go to
Speaker 1: LA you might live ninety minutes from one of your
Speaker 1: teammates or a bunch of your teammates. You never see him.
Speaker 1: And Josh has been good about it, just like Jim was.
Speaker 1: He's bringing the guys in, putting his arm, come my place.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing will go. And you know Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern and his pizza parties and stuff. Guys do hang
Speaker 1: out together. They do fraternize a lot away from the field.
Speaker 1: That is important in building a team and a camaraderie
Speaker 1: and a trust where you play hard for guys that
Speaker 1: you know and that you understand, you know that you
Speaker 1: know them really well, you're their friends. It's hard to
Speaker 1: just conjure that up out of the blue, but spending
Speaker 1: time away from the field and hanging out and getting
Speaker 1: to know guys a lot helps in that a great deal.
Speaker 1: And Buffalo's perfectly matched for that. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Another wide receiver who will hear from is Skyler Bell,
Speaker 6: the new rookie. Let's hear what he had to say.
Speaker 6: After yesterday's practice.
Speaker 7: I had a chance to talk to Khalil a little
Speaker 7: bit and ask him about you, and he said, a
Speaker 7: couple of days ago, you said, well did it take
Speaker 7: to learn in NFL playbook? Chuck Goldin said that You're
Speaker 7: gonna be just fine. So how has it been kind
Speaker 7: of ingesting all the pages.
Speaker 1: Of an NFL playbook?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's tough.
Speaker 7: It's for sure different than college.
Speaker 16: A lot of different verbiage, different just words terms super long.
Speaker 5: But you gotta lock in.
Speaker 16: You gotta know what you're looking for and know what
Speaker 16: you're trying to hear and then go execute. You know,
Speaker 16: if that's been great in my room, helping me whenever
Speaker 16: I need help and just you know, getting me along.
Speaker 8: What about adjusting the quarterback like Josh Allen, What's what's
Speaker 8: that process been like?
Speaker 16: Just I feel like just making sure I'm where he
Speaker 16: needs me to be. You know, it's no different from
Speaker 16: when the Vets are running routes to when I run routes,
Speaker 16: so that his timing doesn't change, his rhythm doesn't change.
Speaker 16: He can get the ball out on time and on target.
Speaker 16: You know, I got to get used to how you
Speaker 16: know how fast that is that ball coming. But other
Speaker 16: than that, man, we're gonna keep working.
Speaker 15: You know, Jim Leonards obviously, what's it like seeing him
Speaker 15: here and just the environment in the atmosphere and what
Speaker 15: do you have you told anyone just about him and
Speaker 15: his personality?
Speaker 16: Yeah, Coach Leonard's my dog Man's that's a great, great dude.
Speaker 5: I love him to death.
Speaker 16: He's done a lot for me and I'm glad to
Speaker 16: be in the same building as him again.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 16: I think he's gonna he's gonna do a great job
Speaker 16: as the DC here. Already know he's giving us tough,
Speaker 16: tough looks, already getting the guys going.
Speaker 1: So he's great.
Speaker 16: He knows ball, he's a football junkie. He's been in
Speaker 16: the league, he's he's done at the highest level. So
Speaker 16: I think having him here is great for us.
Speaker 15: Or would you call him a quiet assassin? Do you
Speaker 15: feel like that kind of fence?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that sounds just about right.
Speaker 16: He's been like that though, even since when I first
Speaker 16: got to collegey he doesn't talk too much unless you
Speaker 16: know needs to something needs to be said. But you
Speaker 16: know he knows ball, and if you go up and
Speaker 16: talk to me about ball, talk to you about it
Speaker 16: for hours. So you know, I'm glad to have him here.
Speaker 7: What about are you able to play free?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I know obviously the playbook is something you're still digesting
Speaker 8: and figuring out. But are you able to feel like
Speaker 8: yourself out there at all?
Speaker 7: Here through these four few weeks.
Speaker 16: I'm getting there for sure, and better than what I
Speaker 16: was my first got out here the first week. Players
Speaker 16: are starting to come a little bit fast. I'm starting
Speaker 16: to know what I have and starting to play a
Speaker 16: little bit faster now. I just want to make sure
Speaker 16: that I could go out there with no thoughts and
Speaker 16: just go out and you know, be me in the
Speaker 16: same media you know that got me.
Speaker 6: That's Skyler Bell detailing what life looks like as an
Speaker 6: NFL rookie, saying that it's a lot to take in,
Speaker 6: it's a lot to learn, but he feels like he's
Speaker 6: already in a better place than he was for Rookie
Speaker 6: Mini Camp just a couple of weeks ago. And it's
Speaker 6: always great to hear when rookies talk about NFL vets
Speaker 6: helping them out. I think this is a locker room
Speaker 6: and a culture where rookies come in and while it's
Speaker 6: intimidating to be around players who have played in the
Speaker 6: league for ten years, those vets extend their hand and say, hey,
Speaker 6: what do you need? How can I help you? And
Speaker 6: they don't make the rookies feel isolated or feel like
Speaker 6: they can't talk to the older guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's always a team building exercise way back in
Speaker 1: the day when they'd have rookie shows and all these
Speaker 1: kind of stuff and things, these stuff that can acclimate
Speaker 1: the rookies. You know, they got to carry the bags
Speaker 1: and carry the back. That kind of stuff's kind of
Speaker 1: if they've evolved away from it now as these guys
Speaker 1: come in and and there are better ways to incorporate
Speaker 1: them into the locker room culture and and the bills
Speaker 1: are you know, certainly good at doing that. You know,
Speaker 1: Scott or Bell seems to have. You can tell by
Speaker 1: the interview he's emotionally mature, you know, ready to kind
Speaker 1: of step into that role. And that's that's good to see.
Speaker 1: It'll be it'll be fun to watch this wide receiver
Speaker 1: room because there's so much conversation about that position With
Speaker 1: the Bills. It's always uh fun to watch that group
Speaker 1: take shape. And this is gonna be no different. This
Speaker 1: this training camp is going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I think I think we're gonna see a lot of things,
Speaker 1: good things from Josh in this training camp, in this offense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm excited for it. You add a couple of
Speaker 6: different wide receivers in the off season, like DJ Moore,
Speaker 6: you go grab a player like Skyler Bell who can
Speaker 6: add different dimensions to your offense. Isn't just a slot receiver.
Speaker 6: Can be more than that. And that's one reason why
Speaker 6: Buffalo wanted to draft him was just because of his
Speaker 6: versatility and production. He put up big time numbers in
Speaker 6: college and the Bills hope that he can do that
Speaker 6: now on an NFL roster. We're going to take a
Speaker 6: break because when we return, defensive lineman Landon Jackson joins
Speaker 6: the show. Next on What Bill's Life. Welcome back to
Speaker 6: One Bill's Live to finish off our show today, We're
Speaker 6: excited to be joined by Bill's defensive end Landon Jackson,
Speaker 6: who joins us now landon What's Up? My Man?
Speaker 7: All r y'all doing. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks for being on. We heard you are fresh
Speaker 6: off the bus from the community over day. Where'd you go?
Speaker 6: How was it?
Speaker 5: What did you do?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think the school went to his Northwood. We
Speaker 17: just had like a little kind of field day in
Speaker 17: their gym, met with some kids, just kind of talked
Speaker 17: with them, signed some autographs, you know, all the fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Who else was with you? And what size of
Speaker 1: the group did the bill send over?
Speaker 7: Really? The whole teams and stuff today everybody just went
Speaker 7: to different school.
Speaker 17: But in my group, I want to say there was
Speaker 17: like ten to fifteen of us, Max Fideria Mathis, I
Speaker 17: think who else?
Speaker 7: Travis was there, Frank Gore was with us. Really just
Speaker 7: a big group.
Speaker 6: Nice. Sounds like a great group of guys.
Speaker 1: You've been a subject of a lot of conversation this
Speaker 1: year because of your transformation. You're weighing like what twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five pounds more than you did a year ago.
Speaker 1: And you also said something interesting. I've seen other guy
Speaker 1: say this too, but you said, it's really easy for
Speaker 1: you to kind of go up and down with if
Speaker 1: they tell you to come in a few pounds or
Speaker 1: more or twenty five pounds heavier. You've been able to
Speaker 1: do that over the course of your career, and it's
Speaker 1: happened a couple different times. I think, didn't you play
Speaker 1: heavier in college and then lighter here in your first
Speaker 1: year with Buffalo, now you're going back to heavier or
Speaker 1: did I have that mixed up? How does that work?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean happened a lot throughout college. You know,
Speaker 7: I came off a knee injury at LSU when I transferred,
Speaker 7: lost a lot of weight.
Speaker 17: Then going to my junior year put weight back on,
Speaker 17: and that's kind of whenever I took off my junior
Speaker 17: year at Arkansas, when I got the weight back up,
Speaker 17: and then getting here, throughout the draft prep and like
Speaker 17: all the Combine and Senior Bowl and all that kind
Speaker 17: of made that decision to get lighter for that don't
Speaker 17: know if that was the best decision. I don't know
Speaker 17: if it was not, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 17: at this point, I just feel like it it makes
Speaker 17: a lot more sense to really get that weight back
Speaker 17: on and play it a weight that I feel confident
Speaker 17: playing at. Allows me to play a lot more free
Speaker 17: when I'm not worried about if I can hold a
Speaker 17: double team at a certain being too light, this and that.
Speaker 17: So I'm really excited about this coming year and being
Speaker 17: able to play at the weight that I feel comfortable
Speaker 17: playing at.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you said when you spoke to media
Speaker 6: last week that two eighty five is what you'd like
Speaker 6: to play at this season, and it was fun to
Speaker 6: hear both you and Jim Leonard talk about, you know,
Speaker 6: the defensive jargon for this season, like what you'll be
Speaker 6: playing in in this new three four scheme, feeling comfortable
Speaker 6: at four I and then playing tight heavy five techniques
Speaker 6: something that you did at Arkansas. And Jim Lader spoke
Speaker 6: about watching you in college and being really excited for
Speaker 6: what that's going to be in Buffalo's defense this season.
Speaker 6: For fans who are like four I five tech, how
Speaker 6: what do you boil it down to when you're talking
Speaker 6: about what you're comfortable in in this new defense.
Speaker 17: My goal is really just to be as versatile as possible,
Speaker 17: to be able to do all of it, you know,
Speaker 17: so rather than if I have to slide in and
Speaker 17: even play some nose or something, you know, be able
Speaker 17: to do that. If I if guys go down and
Speaker 17: I have to move outside backer for a game or something,
Speaker 17: just be able to do all of it. And I
Speaker 17: don't feel like I could play as much outside if
Speaker 17: I did get heavier and go into like the three hundreds.
Speaker 17: But then at the same time, I definitely couldn't play
Speaker 17: a heavy five or the four eye at two sixty,
Speaker 17: you know. So I feel like this game fits me great.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: It's it's what I exceled at in college what got
Speaker 7: me to this point.
Speaker 17: So basically, I just feel like, if if it wasn't broke,
Speaker 17: don't try to change it, you know, So basically just
Speaker 17: get that way back to where it was in college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you said that you played this where you
Speaker 1: played in this defensive scheme in college at Arkansas. Then
Speaker 1: you kind of took a year where you were in
Speaker 1: a different scheme last year, your rookie year here in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Now you're back into it. As it started to has
Speaker 1: it started to feel like old hat? I mean, are
Speaker 1: you starting to say, oh, yeah, okay, I you know,
Speaker 1: is that is that starting to happen?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 17: We haven't got pads on yet or anything, but just
Speaker 17: from walkthroughs and then our OTAs and everything, definitely feeling
Speaker 17: a lot more powerful, definitely filling back to how I
Speaker 17: felt in college, like real comfortable in this game.
Speaker 7: So overall, I feel like it's going to be a
Speaker 7: much better year for me.
Speaker 17: I feel like it's I'm really going to excel in
Speaker 17: this defense and really excited to see where it goes.
Speaker 6: I mean, how exciting for a young player like yourself.
Speaker 6: Last season doesn't go how you wanted it to due
Speaker 6: to injuries. You play in just a few games. You
Speaker 6: get in this new defense, new head coach comes in,
Speaker 6: new defensive coordinator, and you learn, man, we're switching to
Speaker 6: this defense that I thrive in. And I can't wait
Speaker 6: to see what it looks like. I can't wait to
Speaker 6: see what the defense as a whole looks like once
Speaker 6: you guys get into it. Really, when the season begins
Speaker 6: in September, when you think about Buffalo's defense under Jim Leonard,
Speaker 6: what are a few words that describe what you guys
Speaker 6: are going to be doing?
Speaker 17: In my opinion, Aggressive for sure. I feel we're gonna
Speaker 17: get after the quarterback. Let our really talented dbs cover
Speaker 17: back there, and I mean get after the quarterback. We're
Speaker 17: gonna the biggest change in this defense we're definitely gonna
Speaker 17: have to. We're definitely gonna stop the run a lot
Speaker 17: better than we did in previous years. I feel like
Speaker 17: that's probably the biggest thing we're making an emphasis on
Speaker 17: right now, is being able to stop the run and
Speaker 17: be be the top team in the league at stopping
Speaker 17: the run. So that's probably the biggest thing that I've
Speaker 17: I'm really focusing on, is being able to dominate the
Speaker 17: run and then whenever's time you get after the quarterback
Speaker 17: to get back there.
Speaker 1: Well, I know, congratulations are in order. I know you came, man,
Speaker 1: you were drafted, and you were married, and then you've
Speaker 1: shared just last week that you and your wife welcomed
Speaker 1: your first baby April third. What are the details here?
Speaker 1: What do we need to know?
Speaker 7: Man? It's been great. You know, she she's been sleeping good,
Speaker 7: everything's been going good.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: So wife's been.
Speaker 17: Doing great at home with her and everything, taking care
Speaker 17: of her. And I mean, it's a it's all a blessing.
Speaker 1: Give me an idea, because I unlike you, I'm I
Speaker 1: being married gives you a little bit more of a
Speaker 1: tethered off the field life and a little bit more foundational,
Speaker 1: a little bit slower pace. The baby certainly changes things.
Speaker 1: Give me an idea of how you feel, because I'm
Speaker 1: sure you do feeling that having your wife with you,
Speaker 1: having the new baby is more. It's probably helpful for
Speaker 1: your football career, slowing your off the field responsibilities down.
Speaker 1: Having that priority aside from football gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a calm base to build your foundation
Speaker 1: for your career on. Give us an idea to share
Speaker 1: with us your thoughts about having a family now as
Speaker 1: such a young player in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Really, the biggest thing is, man, it it makes you
Speaker 7: want to go hard for them.
Speaker 17: You're playing for something more than yourself and at the
Speaker 17: end of the day, everything I'm doing here is to
Speaker 17: be able to provide for my daughter and my wife
Speaker 17: and be able to be the best husband possible. And
Speaker 17: I feel like I'm selling my family short if I
Speaker 17: come in here and I'm slacking off or I'm not
Speaker 17: giving given my all. So that's probably the biggest thing
Speaker 17: that it changes. It just in my opinion, makes you
Speaker 17: go harder. I mean and not saying guys who don't
Speaker 17: have that aren't going hard, but it's something you don't
Speaker 17: It's a feeling you don't really know until you're in
Speaker 17: that situation. So I know, I got a little girl
Speaker 17: relying on me and my wife relying on me, So
Speaker 17: makes me go ten times harder and just make sure
Speaker 17: I'm gonna give this thing all.
Speaker 6: I got, Landing. We're so happy for you, and we're
Speaker 6: so excited that you're back in uniform, feeling healthy and
Speaker 6: ready to go in this defense. We're both heering for you,
Speaker 6: and I really can't wait to watch you this season.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, all right, thanks for joining us
Speaker 6: on one Bills Live. That was Landon Jackson, Buffalo's defensive
Speaker 6: end who is pumped about this new defense under Jim
Speaker 6: Leonard and playing four I five tech. And what that
Speaker 6: boils down to is, you know you'll you'll see him
Speaker 6: more on the interior kick out side sometimes. But Jim
Speaker 6: Leonard kind of went through some football one oh one
Speaker 6: with us yesterday and saying, you know, our our outside
Speaker 6: linebackers think of those as our edge rushers. Yes, Landon
Speaker 6: Jackson is listed as a defensive end, but our outside
Speaker 6: linebackers are more of our edge rushers within this defense.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 1: And I spent my whole career here in Buffalo watching
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith play defensive end in a three four and
Speaker 1: you got two hundred sacks doing that over the course
Speaker 1: of his career. So you can be pretty productive in there.
Speaker 1: You know, you got good guys around you. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. So yeah, Landa Jackson taking another step this season.
Speaker 6: And wait, we got to take a break because when
Speaker 6: we return closing things up here on One Bill's Live.
Speaker 6: All right, we're back here on One Bill's Live. We
Speaker 6: had an awesome question today we didn't even get to
Speaker 6: because the show was so packed. That was what was
Speaker 6: your favorite fan reaction with a Bill's Player. Since we
Speaker 6: have about a minute left, let's read a couple. Scott says,
Speaker 6: about eight years ago, my father passed away, took my
Speaker 6: mom on a road trip to Buffalo from Rochester, took
Speaker 6: her to meet Lorenzo Alexander. He hugged my mom and
Speaker 6: told her he was sorry for her loss. I'm forever
Speaker 6: indebted to him. Love to hear that. Another one. Meeting
Speaker 6: Steve Tasker with Bill's Foot in the November twenty eighteen
Speaker 6: amazing race game we played. Steve was so down to
Speaker 6: earth and just a real duture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys. It ended up The race was at
Speaker 1: the in the obviously in the floor of former high
Speaker 1: Mark and these two guys. Look at these two guys, Oscar, you.
Speaker 6: Didn't dress up for the excasions.
Speaker 1: I had a Bill's logos thing. It was cold, Can
Speaker 1: I say? Yeah? And I didn't. I wasn't in the
Speaker 1: race either. I was just kind of like waving as
Speaker 1: them as they crossed the finish line. I think, I
Speaker 1: think I remember that. So yeah, it's been eight years ago,
Speaker 1: so yeah, a couple of good guys. It was fun.
Speaker 1: That was a fun day.
Speaker 6: Bergermeister says, I'll say it was John Fina, but nothing
Speaker 6: more than just the magic of meeting a hero as
Speaker 6: a little kid. That's so true. I'm sure so many
Speaker 6: people feel that way. Chris has met Keith Ellison at
Speaker 6: a bar in LA told him I was a big
Speaker 6: Bills fan. He offered to buy my next drink, and
Speaker 6: then I deserved it. Love it. That's going to do
Speaker 6: it for us. On One Bill's Live, we are back
Speaker 6: tomorrow from one to three. Chris Brown is back as well.