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What's going on, folks. It's Jeff here. I wanted to let you
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know we've recorded this Opposition Territory podcast on Monday, July first, twenty twenty
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four. By the time you hear this, some things may have changed here
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or there, but we hope you enjoy the show. What's up, everybody,
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Welcome to Opposition Territory here at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the
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longest running weekly Phillis sports podcast show in the world. That's right eleven years
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strong. We've got a great discussion coming for you here about the Buffalo Bills.
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What is this team going to be doing in the AFC this coming season.
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It's been an interesting offseason for the Buffalo Bills. They've got a lot
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of moving parts. They got a young defense that we're gonna be talking about
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in just a bit with our guests. So why don't we just get right
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to it to get into the Buffalo Bills and what we are going to be
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seeing from this team this coming season. They're gonna be a very interesting team
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to follow, for sure. We've got our good friend of the podcast,
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Sarah Larson. Sarah, thanks so much for joining us this week on Opposition
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Territory. Here, thank you. Yeah, yeah, I know it's it's
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been fun the last couple of times, so look forward to it. Absolutely,
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it's been a lot of fun. Look, before we get into the
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topics, before we get into some bills talk here, where can folks find
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you on the interwebs out there? Because I know you've got a lot of
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things going on. Where can folks find you out there? Yeah? Well,
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on Twitter is probably the most popular spot. A lot of people follow
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me at Sarah s R A Underscore Larson l E R s O N.
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That's where most of it is and a lot of really exciting news coming out
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over the next couple of weeks. So definitely follow me and see where we're
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all. You know, where we're all headed. Sounds good, sounds good.
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Well, Sarah, let's get into this Buffalo Bills team, what we're
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gonna be seeing this coming season. But well, actually first I really kind
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of want to go back to last season in a way. Whenever we have
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our Opposition Territory podcast here, we kind of like to reflect on whether it's
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the off season, the previous season, to see where teams are at as
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they're moving forward here. I remember the last time you were on the show.
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I think it was last November, right before the Eagles Bills game in
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phil You did our Opposition Territory pod, then our preview game show, and
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you were at that game. You traveled down to the Link. Yes,
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the Eagles did beat the Bills thirty seven to thirty four in over time.
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And what an incredible game in so many ways, not necessarily from the game
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itself, but because of what resulted for both teams in subsequent weeks. The
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Eagles absolutely fell off a cliff down the stretch. They were horrendous. Meanwhile,
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the Bills rallied. The Bills didn't lose another game until the game against
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Kansas City and the playoffs, where I think they lost by maybe three points.
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I think, yeah, missfield goal, Yep, Yes, that's what
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it was. And I guess when you reflect on that Eagles Bills game last
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year year when you were at the Link, what did that mean to the
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team, to the Bill's fan base, and consequently how did it transform the
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latter part of the season, even though the Bills didn't get to the Super
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Bowl, Like, what did that game actually mean last season? Is it
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propelled them to a very successful latter part of twenty twenty three. Yeah,
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I you know, did not appreciate that game as much as you did probably
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well, yeah, there were some interesting calls, yes, Yeah, the
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rain was atrocious. The officiating was pretty atrocious. I think that, as
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as Bill's fans have probably stated since the nineties, it's always been Buffalo against
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the world, I think that game kind of made the team feel like it
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was them against the world. Ye it kind of turned on a switch for
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them. We had had so many injuries throughout the season, catastrophic injuries,
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season ending injury, you know, injuries. So I kind of feel like
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that that's what they felt like. It was, you know, the Bills
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again the world, and it propelled them to, like, like you said,
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go on this winning streak for the Eagles. I joked a little bit
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on Twitter, not your guys's expense as much as as I, you know,
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I did say the Bills broke the Eagles, and ironically, I know
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you guys won, but I think there was so much trauma from from all
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the calls and all the focus on the calls and that game and you guys
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actually were getting beat bad. Now you came back and you know, the
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rain was played some of a part of it. The Calls played some part
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of it, but the Bills played you know, they they beat themselves in
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so many categories of that game. But yeah, so I joked about it
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a little bit on on Twitter, but I think that in the in the
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long run, I actually don't like winning out like that so much at the
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end of the season because it does you know, we talked about streaks a
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little bit earlier, about my traveling streak. Yeah, it's a lot of
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pressure, it is. It puts that you know, oh, we've won
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six games in a row, seven games in a row. Now we're in
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the playoffs and it's win or go home, right, So it's a lot
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of pressure. I think. So I kind of like getting that, unless
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obviously you need the win in order to make it into the playoffs. But
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I kind of liked that, you know, getting that one of those losses
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out last couple of weeks of the season. But you know, like you
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said, at one point we were looking at whether or not we were going
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to be the seventh seed, and winning out we ended up being the second
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seed. So it was a big, you know, big turnaround towards the
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end of the season. Yeah, the Bills definitely started to break. I
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looked at that Bills game and reflecting on it, it was kind of like
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taking a board, a wooden board, and you just start breaking it.
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You hear the cracks, you hear the cracks in the board. And that's
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consequently the following week against the forty nine, the forty nine ers just took
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that board and completely broke it, threw it on the ground, stomped on
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it. That was the Eagles season right there in a nutshell. So all
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right, well, Sarah, good reflections on last year. Let's talk about
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this coming season, and we're going to see from the Bills a lot has
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been made of a team that has really gone through some changes, whether it's
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online from various analysts. Look, they've lost wide receiver Stefan Diggs, Gabe
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Davis, center Mitch Morse, safety Jordan Poyer, cornerback to Davius White,
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and others as well. It's going to be a younger team for sure here
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in twenty twenty four in various ways. The vibe again from various Ana analysts
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and this team is that they could potentially be taking a step back this season.
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I mean, I think that's been that vibe and that feeling from the
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sports football NFL community in general. I'm wondering what's the vibe from the fan
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base from Bill's Nation about where this team is truly at and if they are
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you know, possibly looking at possibly quote regressing in the twenty twenty four season.
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What are your thoughts here. I I kind of hate the narrative coming
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out of you know, the sports analysis and commentators, uh, the way
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that they've been this offseason. Yes, we have lost so many you know,
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integral parts of the team. I'm not I'm not gonna downplay that at
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all. I think that you want to make me emotional because yeah, no,
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I mean Jordan Poyer, Micah Hyde, Todavious White, Trey. Trey
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was one of my favorite favorite personalities on that team, so, you know,
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and I know Jordan Poyer's family personally, so like losing him and especially
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to the Dolphins that you know, that definitely hurt. But you know,
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I definitely feel like we needed to get younger at some of the areas I
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feel like we got beat at sometimes, you know, and I'm not saying
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that age definitely factors into speed because you know, obviously you have some very
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fast wide receivers like type kill who's approaching thirty, if not already thirty.
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So it definitely, you know, affects what people's perception is. Well,
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the other part of that is we were kind of going into salary cap hell
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a little bit, so we definitely had to get rid of some of these
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guys. So I get where the national media is taking us. But at
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the same time, I believe we have the second best quarterback in the NFL
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so with Josh Allen. So I believe that no matter what, this is
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a winning football team. I think that trying to figure it out is going
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to be their biggest thing to overcome. The youth on the team is doesn't
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necessarily equate to to immaturity. That we have some very young, but very
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mature guys on the team. I think that between Josh Allen and James Cook,
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our offense is going to be different, but uh still good. And
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I think that a lot of people forget that James Cook he had the sixth
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most I want to fifth or sixth most all purpose large yards yeah last year.
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And that's not just for running backs, that's all you know, that's
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overall. Yeah, So you know a lot of people haven't really put any
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true respect on his name as a as a running back. So I look
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forward to to seeing how they're gonna have it all play out. I think
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daland KKD is gonna be even better this year. Yeah yeah, I mean,
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like I said, it definitely makes me upset that we lost so many
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of those players that kind of pull on your heartstrings a little bit. Stuff
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on Diggs is my favorite player, so losing him was definitely, uh,
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definitely hard, and I was in my feelings for probably a couple of weeks.
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But I'm looking forward to it. I think this offense can be interesting.
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Kean Coleman's going to be an interesting rookie and clear Shaquille Less this year
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stepped up and I believe he became wide receiver to last year, and I
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think that he's going to continue to progress this year as well. Gabe Davis
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certainly dropped off from a wide receiver perspectives, as many know. And you
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know, Bill's Nation wasn't necessarily I think the big the biggest fan of the
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fan base, you know. But it's interesting how you mentioned the offense here
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and the direction they're going to be going in. You mentioned Dalton Kincaid,
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and I do wonder from an offensive perspective, how much of this Bill's offense
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is actually going to be put on Kincaid's shoulders, Sarah, because you know,
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from a receiving standpoint, I mean, yes, you mentioned Shakur as
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well, but it doesn't appear that there's necessarily gonna be any wide receivers breaking
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in the NFL records this year, which leads me to believe they're going to
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be leaning a lot on Dalton Kincaid, especially in the receiving aspect of things.
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Perhaps James Cook as well. As you were mentioning, I don't know
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what are your thoughts on how the receiving corps itself is potential going to perform
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this season. It's gonna be different, Like you mentioned, how do you
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see it all playing out in the end? Yeah, I actually don't think
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we're going to have a clear and obvious wide receiver one. And I'm not
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talking you know your ex and your Z you know receivers in the position they
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play. I'm talking like targets where we'll have, you know, the first
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option. I think that everyone on the on the team is going to probably
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average about five targets a game. I shouldn't say everyone on the team.
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You have you know, uh Kincaid, Samuels, you have Shakir and then
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you have Coleman I. You know, I honestly think that those four will
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probably get five targets a game guaranteed, Like that's that's how it's gonna happen.
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And then you've got to split between James Cook and Ray Davis. Ray
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Davis is our rookie running back that we just got. They both have really
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good hands. Now, people pick on on Cook a little bit because he
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had a couple blow drops last year, but those few drops that he had,
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the reason why everybody you know makes it such a big deal is because
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it was in big time, you know, big moments. But he actually
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does have good hands. He worked on that a lot last year and it
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can it came about. We saw, you know, he had like four
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or five hundred yards receiving last year as a running back. So I think
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between him and Ray Davis they'll probably share another five targets. So that puts
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the you know, Josh Allen around twenty five targets. I think he's the
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best between twenty five and thirty two. Ish. I don't like it when
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he throws forty times a game, so I you know, I kind of
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broke it down more analytically. That's how I always do everything, is I'm
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like, okay, well, then the next five to seven passes will be
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with whoever's you know working you know, working out well that game. So
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if you have one person who has been consistent, has you know, made
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the difficult catches, has you know, been getting any kind of separation throughout
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the game, I think that that's going to be different weekend and week out.
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I think that there's gonna be mismatches. And that's kind of the beauty.
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And it's hard for me to say the word beauty and saying without stuff
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on Diggs on the team, but that's kind of the beauty of not having
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Josh Allen being so in his own head of this ball needs to go to
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Stephan Diggs first, or he needs to be my first option. And if
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not, then try to check it down because if he's always constantly thinking that
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way and that quick progression that you have, and once you snap the ball,
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he's that's why it takes off and has to run or that's why he
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would get, you know, get a sack, or that's why he's forcing
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it into somebody and getting an interception. So I think this year it's gonna
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be that little bit of pressure of why aren't you throwing the ball to me?
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Why is the ball not coming to me? Is going to be removed.
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So I think that that's actually gonna take less pressure off of Josh,
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make him more accurate and more consistent, and kind of make the ride receivers
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have a little bit more fun too, because whoever's performing better is gonna get
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more of the targets. That's kind of how I envisioned the offense this year.
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Whether or not Joe Brady sees the same thing, I don't know,
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but I really do think that, you know, we'll be running the ball
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as well, so I you know, I think that we're gonna miss Stefan
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Diggs, and I think Kinkaid's going to have a huge part of that offense.
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I think the person who's gonna see a lot less of those targets will
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be uh Dlson Knox. I think he's gonna have you know, he's gonna
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be out there probably blocking a little bit more than he's going to be receiving.
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You mentioned, you know, the beauty kind of of the unknown in
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a way. And you know that. Let's shift over now to the defensive
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side of things here, because I think in the NFL in general, when
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teams go through changes, the beauty of the unknown is something that's fascinating because
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it's not only for the fan base, you know, there's an excite that
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builds be you know, for various fan bases, but the teams that are
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playing against that unknown, it makes it that much more interesting. I mean,
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this Bill's defense is going to look a lot younger, especially with some
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of the new draft talent as well. And look, I could have missed
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it, Sarah, but I still don't think Sean McDermott has decided who's going
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to be calling the defensive plays this year, whether it's him or a defensive
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coordinator. Yeah, Boby Babbage, I'll probably I should say, it's probably
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gonna get worked out in training camp. But I'm wondering what are your thoughts
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on not only what's going to be new and younger in terms of this defense
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and how that may play out, but who may be calling the shots here.
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Again, the beauty of the unknown. I wonder if it is going
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to be a beautiful thing here for the for Bill's nation or if there's some
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trepidation here, what are your thoughts. Well, I'm actually very happy that
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Babbage is the defensive coordinator, just to take that pressure off of McDermott trying
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to do the weekly stuff as long, you know, of being head coach
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and trying to be the defensive coordinator and get everything ready. I think that,
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you know, just taking that pressure off of him is going to be
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is going to be a lot better than it was last year. I think
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also that Sean McDermott did state that he will give Babbage the opportunity during training
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camp and during preseason to call plays, So if he does well, we
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might see him calling plays week one. I think that that leash will be
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very short. McDermott is a very controlled human being, like he not that
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he needs to be in control, but if he doesn't, he doesn't,
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in my opinion, have a space to allow for too much failure. I
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know that sounds terrible, but I mean we've seen him bench rookies for a
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fumble or get mad at a wide receiver for a drop and now they're on
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the sideline for a while. Especially when we're in that situation, that sitution
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a situation with within a game that if we could have won because of a
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different call or something and he would have made a different call. I think
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he'll he would, he'll he's going to rain in that that that leash really
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soon if he is to give Babbage the control early. Now, I think
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that there's also the opportunity where he'll go into the season calling plays himself,
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giving Babbage the opportunity to to do all the preparation for the week and everything
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else, and then games were potentially ahead by a lot, saying okay,
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you know, let's see what you would do to finish out this game and
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close out the game, and and kind of slowly start to give him control.
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So we'll see how that works out. But he did publicly state that
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he's going to give Babbage that that opportunity during camp and during preseason to to
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see how he does. So. I think the defense is intriguing. I'm
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definitely I'm glad we've gotten younger. I'm gonna miss some of the guys,
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I really am, But I think that overall we've gotten better on the line.
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I really do think that our defensive line has gotten better. Uh So
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I'm looking forward to seeing how they all kind of meshed together to together.
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I think we have the best nickel corner in the league. Are two cornerbacks,
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uh minus Trade White. Now I still think we're we have We have
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quite a bit of depth there at corner as well, So I'm I'm definitely
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looking forward to all of that. I don't know how elm is gonna perform
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or whether or not he'll even make the team. I do think he'll make
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the team, but most people are saying he might not. But a season
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pretty much where he didn't play last year at all, So I look forward
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to seeing what he can do to back up at corner. So it is
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a little concerning this year to not know. It's the unknown, like you
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were saying, But I do think that we have a great young linebacker corps,
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and our defensive tackles I think are beasts. So we'll see how they
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all mesh together. Well, you talked about the concerns here, and we
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got a two part question for you here as we're moving along with the discussion
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before we get to our our last topic as well, concerns where you have
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the most concern and concerns that are the least of your concern Moving into this
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season. Let's start off where you are least concerned on the team. I
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have a feeling I may know what this aspect of the team is, but
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where are you least concerned when it comes to the Buffalo Bills this coming season.
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Yeah, Josh Allen and James Cook. I'm gonna throw them in there
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as a pair. I'm least concerned and about them. I think that they're
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gonna, you know, they're gonna be where the offense kind of uh kind
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of moves through them throughout the year. And I'm also a lot more confident
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in Joe Brady this year. He was kind of thrown into the mix last
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year halfway through the season that you know, a lot of people you talked
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about the Philadelphia game, a lot of people kind of stated that that's where,
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you know, he came into play. After that game, we won
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out and he was there, but our offense looked very different. I actually
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think her offense kind of started looking worse. But that's also, of course,
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we have a brand new coordinator, you know, out there trying to
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call plays and kind of trying to mesh and gel with with Josh and the
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rest of the team. So I think that this year, especially with the
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whole off season and training camp and everything. I have no concerns about Josh
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and James Cook, and definitely a lot more confident with Joe Brady, So
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I'm looking forward to seeing how he kind of makes everything come together this year.
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On the flip side, where do you have the most concern when it
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comes to this Bills team heading into this season? I would imagine it may
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be on the defensive side of things. Well, I'm actually gonna cut this
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in half. I'm going to cut this in half offensively. My biggest concern
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is we only have one returning wide receiver. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
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say because Kincaid's technically a tight end. We only have one returning wide receiver,
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which is Khalil Khalil Shakir, So he is the only person that Josh
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has really played with much of anything. Shorter was a rookie last year,
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but he was on IR the whole year, so we don't even know if
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Justin Short is gonna make this team or if he's going to have any significant
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contribution. So we have mvs Chase, Claypool, mccollins, Curtis, Samuel,
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all of these people are very intriguing ideas at wide receiver, and I
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don't know if there's I mean, we'll probably keep six, maybe possibly seven
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wide receivers this year, so it'll be interesting to see who makes the team.
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Who's meshing with Josh really well. Chase Claypool and you know in MVS
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UH could both come out and have killer seasons. You know, this is
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kind of make a break for both of them, whether or not they're going
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to get a real contract again, you know, moving forward, because they've
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both kind of fallen off. You know, MVS has the best of like
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the best quarterbacks. He's worked with Rogers, he's worked with, Uh,
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Patrick Mahomes that was working with Josh. It's crazy. So I hope,
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like the in my mind, I'm like, this guy could really have,
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uh, you know, a good future. Chase Claypool when he was with
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Pittsburgh, I was like, this guy is huge, He's a beast.
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He could do this. And then obviously they've had the turnaround at quarterback over
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the last couple of years and he just hasn't been able to perform. And
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then last year he was just all over the place, team to team to
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team. So he's he's actually been ironically the most out of all of the
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all the training camp and not training camp, excuse me, all of the
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mandatory you know, mini camps and all the camps that they've had. Most
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people that have been able to to get in and see it have said that
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Chase Claypool has kind of been the most consistent wide receiver. So, I
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mean, no one's even talking about him, really, We've been talking about
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Curtis Samuels and Kean Coleman, and you know, I think Shakir is going
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to be that little bit of a dark horse coming in. He did really
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well last year and I think as long as he gets the targets, he's
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going to do well again this year. So that was offensively. Defensively,
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I'm gonna say our safeties. I mean, Taylor rap Is is good.
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He did, he did very well last year. Mike Mike Edwards, we
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got him from Kansas City. I'm looking forward to seeing how he he does.
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But behind him is a rookie cole Bishop not too much. Yeah,
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yeah, not at all. And then behind tailor rep Is cam Lewis,
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who he's had. He's had his moments, but he's also got burnt quite
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a bit. So we all love him on the team. I don't want
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to say it like that, we all love him on the team. We
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just don't want him to need to start, you know. And then we
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have DeMar Hamlin, which is you know, you love him, you love
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him and what he's went through. But then people who will not concerned physically.
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I am not concerned with his physical health whatsoever at all anymore. I
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believe and I've seen him work out. I believe he's fully healthy. My
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concern is even beef. I don't I don't want to talk too negatively about
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about the man because he's a sweetheart. But my concern is even before or
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the injury, he wasn't quite up to par to play, you know,
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to fill in if if he needed to play consistent downs. Now he had
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spurts where he did really well at times, but consistently long term, so
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that depth isn't there at safety. So I'm a little I am a little
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concerned. We do have about ten million dollars in cap space. Definitely need
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to bring some into obvious brings some into the season. You got to pay
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for a practice squad and all that stuff. But that might be something that
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they're kind of waiting for training camp to see where we need that additional depth
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before we go and spend more money. All right, very good again,
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folks, We're talking to Sarah Larson at Sarah Underscore Larson on the Twitter slash
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x. Give her a follow, she is a great, great follow.
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And our final segment here before I have to let you go, Sarah,
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gonna give you a few categories here. We like to do this every now
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and then on our Opposition Territory PODCAS and if you can just give me a
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player that comes to mind in a brief reason why that player comes to mind
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this coming season, I think it'll be fun here. Who needs to be
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the Who's gonna be the comeback kid for the Bills this season? Who's the
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comeback kid? Comeback kid? I'm gonna have to say Matt Milano. Yeah,
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he went down on mid season and well a little bit a little bit
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earlier than mid season, I think it was week five, and uh he
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was he was playing really well up until that point. So I'm gonna say
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Matt Milano. All right, sounds good. Who's the Buffalo bill player that
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needs to bounce back this season? Who needs to bounce von Miller von Miller.
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There you go. That's that seems obvious. Yeah, that's easy one,
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all right. And as we're moving along, here a couple more the
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rising Star, who do you see is the rising star and the Buffalo Bills
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this coming season. Well, I'm gonna try to I would. I would
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have probably screamed out Kean Coleman, but he is a rookie, so he's
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not really we don't know what he's gonna be yet. So I'm gonna split
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this one between Dalton Kinkaid, which we've talked about quite a bit, and
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Khalier Shakir because I think Khalier Shakir was the rising star last year, but
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I think he's even gonna take a step further this year. And Dalton Kinkaid,
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you know, had a little bit of those those freshman wrote woes the
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bookie rose towards the end of the season. I think that he'll he'll shake
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that, you know, playing more game. You know, he got used
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to having all those games under his belt. So I think that they're both
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gonna kind of establish a name for themselves this year. I like those uh.
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I like those guys in terms of the uh who is going to be
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the rising star for sure, and finally the dark horse m v P.
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You know, we get We talked about Josh Allen's amazing quarterback. Aside from
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him, though, who do you think the dark horse m VP for this
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team could be this coming year? I'm gonna say James Cook. I think
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yeah, I think that Joe Brady is going to try to get us more
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into a running game. When we have a running game that's flowing, we
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Josh Allen looks better as a quarterback number one and I we just we gel
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better and everything starts to click. I think that we get the running game
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going every game early, it's going to have a huge effect on the rest
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of the team. Now, well, the rest of the NFL notice him
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the same way as they did that. You know, no one noticed him
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this year. He was just like I said, I fit or six all
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purpose yards leader in the in the NFL. And most people are like James
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Coke is trash when you talk about him, you know, externally, you
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know he's not. Yeah, he's not going to have the same name as
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some of the you know, top you know, three, four or five
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running backs in the NFL. But I do think that as a team MVP.
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He can kind of emerge, as you know, the dark horse one
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obviously behind Josh. All right, very very good again, folks. Sarah
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Larson at Sarah Underscore Larsen on the Twitter slash x Sarah, it was great
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talking to you. Sixty two straight Buffalo Bills games. Keep it going strong,
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my friend. I'd love to talk to you at some point down the
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road. All right, sounds good. That's gonna do it for us here
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