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Inside The Charge: Ray Davis Talks Year 2, Kicking an Extra Point and Cooking! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another season of the Inside the Charge podcast. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: We're back. Football is here. This year, We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be joined by so many different players on the Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bill squad. In our first episode, we've got second year
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  Speaker 1: running back Ray Davis joining the show. Ray talks about
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  Speaker 1: going from a running back to a kicker this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: how exciting that was for him, what he's expecting in
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  Speaker 1: his second season after having six touchdowns during his rookie year.
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  Speaker 1: We also dive into his love for cooking, some things
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  Speaker 1: that have worked for him in the kitchen and some
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  Speaker 1: things that haven't worked as well, and we dive into
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  Speaker 1: the trip that our Bill's content team took home with
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  Speaker 1: Ray to California to discuss his upbringing and the Ray
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  Speaker 1: Davis story. Ray talks about what he learned from that experience.
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  Speaker 1: We also have Ray's big brother from the Big Brother's
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  Speaker 1: Big Sisters program, Patrick Dowley, joining us. Patrick talks about
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  Speaker 1: his excitement for Ray's second year in the NFL and
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  Speaker 1: also discusses his relationship with Ray and his thoughts about
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  Speaker 1: Ray taking over as kicker during the Giants preseason game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fun episode and there's a lot more to come.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Ray, thanks for taking the time to sit down with
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  Speaker 1: us ahead of a really exciting game on Sunday Night
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  Speaker 1: Football This season kicks off on a huge stage for
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  Speaker 1: you guys. When does the excitement set in for Ray Davis?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Probably like right before kickoff. I think it's like the
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  Speaker 3: calm before the storm. I'm just taking it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: minute by minute, hour by hour, and I think right
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  Speaker 3: when the kickoff comes in, it'd be like, holy you know, Holy.
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  Speaker 4: Moly, this is real good.
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  Speaker 1: You get the rush of energy right before kick You're like,
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  Speaker 1: let's do this thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get you hit that smelling salt, and then you're
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  Speaker 3: ready to hit the field.
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  Speaker 1: Hit the smelling salt. That's Ray Davis's secret sauce to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for the game. Where you had six total
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in your rookie season, a productive year for you.
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  Speaker 1: What energy are you bringing into year two.
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  Speaker 3: To could just continue to be me, you know and
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  Speaker 3: continue to just have fun. And I think all the
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  Speaker 3: little mental mistakes I was making as a rookie, I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to fix those things and just embrace my role
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  Speaker 3: and go out there and show year or two that
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  Speaker 3: I can continue to stack days and stack games.
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  Speaker 1: You said, continue to have fun. How do you define
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  Speaker 1: fun on the football field?
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  Speaker 3: Just understanding there's gonna be bad plays and you just
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  Speaker 3: can't hold yourself down and dwell on that play.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta have fun.
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  Speaker 3: You're in the NFL and get to play in front
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  Speaker 3: of thousands of fans and and just to be able
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  Speaker 3: to live a dream that most people love to live.
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  Speaker 4: So I gotta be able to have fun with and
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  Speaker 4: smile through all the chaos.
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  Speaker 1: We see you smile a lot out there, so it
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  Speaker 1: looks like you're having fun. Offensive coordinator Joe Brady said,
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  Speaker 1: You've done a great job of growing in the offense
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  Speaker 1: this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: How does that transformation happen?
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  Speaker 4: It was really just get in the playbook and understanding that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when me and Joe talk, it was, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw a lot on your play Let's see
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  Speaker 3: how much you can handle when that all throughout the
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  Speaker 3: summer just stuck in my brain. Let's make sure I'm
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  Speaker 3: dialing on pass protection, make sure I'm downing on my runs,
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  Speaker 3: my reads, and then you know, when the camp comes,
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  Speaker 3: it's about showing him.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to lab.
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  Speaker 3: I got to work everything you told me to get
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  Speaker 3: better at I promise you I got better.
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  Speaker 1: At Why does the sinker swim mentality work for you?
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  Speaker 4: That's life. That's always just been my whole life.
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  Speaker 3: Sink or swim, right, you know, we gotta when you're
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  Speaker 3: back against the wall, you're gonna photo or you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: go out there and do what you gotta do.
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  Speaker 4: So I apply that and everything that I do, And like.
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  Speaker 3: Even when I'm cooking, it's like a sinker swim, Like
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  Speaker 3: either this food's gonna taste good, it's gonna taste bad.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what are we cooking now?
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  Speaker 4: The basics still the basics.
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  Speaker 3: I'm working my way up a little bit, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'll look at stuff on TikTok and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: let's try that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know if it tastes good.
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  Speaker 2: Or not, But what's swimming? What's doing well in the kitchen?
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  Speaker 2: And what sunk the season?
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  Speaker 4: The biggest thing was, you know, me and DC. DC
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  Speaker 4: does Fat Boy Fridays.
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  Speaker 3: I do Big Back Thursdays, and so we collabed and
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  Speaker 3: we made these up buffalo chicken tacos off of TikTok.
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  Speaker 3: I saw and I sent it to him, and that
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  Speaker 3: was swimming in the deep man and in the shallow
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  Speaker 3: wind it did perfect.
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  Speaker 4: And then the sinking probably was the ranch that I made.
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  Speaker 4: It was not good.
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  Speaker 2: The ranch from scratch.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's a big step to be like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna try cooking and I'm gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: make ranch from scratch.
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  Speaker 4: It was a big sink.
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  Speaker 1: It's scrolling through TikTok something that you like to do
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  Speaker 1: just to relax at the end.
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  Speaker 4: Of the day, mostly just for food.
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  Speaker 3: Like I'll try to find stuff here in Buffalo if
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  Speaker 3: I see some like foodie people from Buffalo, or I'll
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  Speaker 3: just look at recipes and I'll send it over to
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  Speaker 3: DC and I'm like, yo, maybe we should do this.
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  Speaker 4: But outside, I just like looking at the sky.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a go to meal that you have
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  Speaker 1: for yourself to reward yourself after a big game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out, Lucia's got to get me a wagu
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  Speaker 3: steak at Lucia's. Oh, that's just definitely the celebration of.
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  Speaker 4: Meal right there.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Your game has been described in so many different ways
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  Speaker 1: through just your rookie season. It's Ray Davis is a bulldozer.
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  Speaker 1: Ray Davis is a hand he's a ball of nails.
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  Speaker 1: What's been your favorite way that you've heard your game
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  Speaker 1: described ball of.
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  Speaker 4: Nails is a new one for me. I've never heard
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  Speaker 4: that one.
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  Speaker 3: I get it a lot, you know, I get a
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  Speaker 3: bowling ball, I get just a big old rock, like
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  Speaker 3: I've got it all.
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  Speaker 4: You know, not school and everything. But I just try
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  Speaker 4: to tell people, man, just call me versatile.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I got to just be this big bulldozer kind of back,
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  Speaker 3: like I could do it all. So Ken, I just
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  Speaker 3: prefer people to just call me a versatile back.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, versatile back. You heard it here first on Inside
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  Speaker 1: the Charge. Speaking of versus versatile, you showed that this
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  Speaker 1: offseason with your leg You're not just a running back, Ray,
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  Speaker 1: you are also a kicker. You got to kick an
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  Speaker 1: extra point in the preseason game against the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: I heard.
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  Speaker 1: The process leading up to this was a quick stop
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  Speaker 1: at Dick's Sporting Goods to buy the cleats.
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  Speaker 2: Take me through it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, shout out to our equipment staff. Once
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  Speaker 3: we found out that it was a possibility. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I talked to Spence, talk to Jeff and Scobes, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, we might need a cleat I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a cleat.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to need a cleat, And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: do you guys have a ten and a half, And
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  Speaker 3: sadly Tea Bats doesn't wear the same size as me,
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  Speaker 3: so he didn have an extra shoe. And so they
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  Speaker 3: made the runover the Dick Sporting Good and they were
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  Speaker 3: able to get the cleat. And we just knew that
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  Speaker 3: cleat was going to mean something special once we're able
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  Speaker 3: to kick it.
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  Speaker 4: Kick the kick the ball in the field goal. So
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  Speaker 4: I have the cleat framed in my house.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't framed it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, one for one field go to tenth.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, maybe two for two in the future, one day,
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  Speaker 1: maybe next season. Over retiring, okay, retiring because you want
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  Speaker 1: to retire one hundred percent field goal, make extra point,
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  Speaker 1: make percentage.
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  Speaker 2: I I want to go down.
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  Speaker 3: As the greatest kicker of all time. Guarantee you and
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  Speaker 3: I will be the greatest care of all time. No
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  Speaker 3: one's one for one like.
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  Speaker 1: Me, No one's one for one like Ray Davis. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you go out there to kick the extra point and
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott detailed we want to try this because he's
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  Speaker 1: our emergency kicker, and we need to go through everything
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  Speaker 1: that happens leading up to Okay, Ray needs to change
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  Speaker 1: his shoe in like thirty seconds when you get out
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  Speaker 1: on the field. Were there any nerves in that moment
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  Speaker 1: of all eyes are on me right now?
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  Speaker 3: So the funny thing is on the sideline tape comes
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  Speaker 3: up and he's like, you're gonna kick the next field, Gode.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, cool, and then I'm like, oh, wait,
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  Speaker 3: we're about to score. So we Dawson scores and I'm
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  Speaker 3: like kicking off the shoe tape, just trying to grab
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  Speaker 3: this shoe. I'm like, no, no, no, I got it. I
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  Speaker 3: kick it off. We thought the shoe on. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: even fully on if anybody see, it was a kind
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  Speaker 3: of halfway off my foot. And I remember d Doc
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  Speaker 3: coming back and setting up and he's like, yo, we
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  Speaker 3: got ten seconds, and I'm like, oh, I can't even
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  Speaker 3: go through my steps.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know what's gonna happen. And then
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  Speaker 4: I just decided to go, whoa secret swim, Let's let's
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  Speaker 4: let's hope I make it. And I made it.
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  Speaker 3: And we looked at each other, at me and Brad,
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  Speaker 3: and we go holy, I made it. So it was
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  Speaker 3: a shocking wasn't nervous.
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  Speaker 1: But I was like, I made it though, I mean
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  Speaker 1: to have the shoe half on, to not go through
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  Speaker 1: your walk up process to kicking that ball.
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  Speaker 2: Total athlete right there.
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  Speaker 1: What was the best comment you heard once you came
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  Speaker 1: back to the bench.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, everybody expected me to make it.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a lot of comments, but you know, my
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  Speaker 3: running backs, Tie and Diev was just like they was
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  Speaker 3: just pumping me up and hyping me up.
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  Speaker 4: So it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: One of the best storylines this offseason was the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the Bills drafted a couple of Kentucky guys. You
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  Speaker 1: are a Kentucky man yourself. Dean Walker gets added to
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  Speaker 1: the roster Maxwell Harriston as well. What did the Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: boys do in their free time here in Buffalo?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Max is probably always at barbell I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: that for sure. Dion's sitting at home probably, and me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just sitting at home. But we got a chance
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  Speaker 3: to all hang out. You know, Max was living with
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  Speaker 3: me first first couple of weeks he was here, so
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  Speaker 3: we got to be around each other a bunch and
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  Speaker 3: got to explore Buffalo and saying with Dion. I was
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  Speaker 3: just in Kentucky with Dion at the game, so we
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  Speaker 3: got the hang out a little bit too. But also
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  Speaker 3: another fun fact, another one of my teammates is here,
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  Speaker 3: Sam Franklin.
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  Speaker 2: We were at it true.
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  Speaker 4: We were at temple together. So I'm three teammates.
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  Speaker 2: People hear that.
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  Speaker 1: Ray Davis is in Buffalo, and people come flocking. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: I want to play with my college teammate again.
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  Speaker 4: You watch out, Josh Allen. I'm here the.
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  Speaker 2: Ray Davis Show.
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  Speaker 1: Literally how neat is it to go back to a
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  Speaker 1: school like Kentucky where you've had a year in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Now you come back to a different home in Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: and you get to see everybody and kind of soak
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  Speaker 1: it all in.
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  Speaker 4: I got a lot of love for everybody over at Kentucky.
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  Speaker 4: You know that one year I had with them was
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  Speaker 4: something special.
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  Speaker 3: And the relationships that I gain and the resources that
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  Speaker 3: I was able to gain, I mean they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be lifelong relationships.
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  Speaker 4: And both of my sisters actually go to school in Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: So it gives me another reason to go back a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of times to be able to spend time with them,
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  Speaker 3: but to be in a place where I call home
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  Speaker 3: and somewhere that I know that I'm going to always
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  Speaker 3: be loved and trusted. It's a place that I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 3: It's also going to be a place that I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to always want to be around.
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  Speaker 1: Ray, you have an incredible story. It's one of perseverance.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of sink or swim. As we've already talked
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  Speaker 1: about in this episode, our videographers and of our content
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  Speaker 1: team got to go home with you to California to
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  Speaker 1: cover your story and your upbringing. What was something that
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  Speaker 1: you learned about yourself again after kind of detailing how
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  Speaker 1: Ray Davis came to be, I just.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of learned like like I made it, Like I
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  Speaker 3: made it out of this environment, Like I really got
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  Speaker 3: to go back home after not being there for so
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  Speaker 3: long and not being able to take them around, like
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  Speaker 3: friends that I grew up with, or not being able
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  Speaker 3: to take the crew around, just a lot of places
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  Speaker 3: that I've really experienced, but it was because people were
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  Speaker 3: no longer there. Those are bad moments, So it was
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  Speaker 3: one of those, like I made it. I'm blessed to
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  Speaker 3: be where I'm at, but I'm glad to be able
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  Speaker 3: to bring a light onto my hometown and to show
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  Speaker 3: like there was a struggle, like life wasn't perfect right,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm in this situation him because of all the
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  Speaker 3: child and tribulations I faced, and to be able to
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  Speaker 3: take the crew back and show them, hey, it wasn't easy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but every pitch stop I went through, I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad I'm here now.
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  Speaker 1: To watch you smile through it all. To have the
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  Speaker 1: personality you do is incredible. Everybody should take a look
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  Speaker 1: at the episode if they haven't yet, It's on Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bills dot com. And your big brother You're You're huge
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  Speaker 1: into the Big Brother's Big Sisters program. Your big brother
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  Speaker 1: Patrick is going to join us later on this episode.
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  Speaker 2: Got any questions we should ask Patrick?
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  Speaker 3: Ask him if he still thinks he could beat me
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  Speaker 3: in a race. Okay, I think he'll stand on that.
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  Speaker 3: But I didn't even know that, so that's pretty sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna interview him in about thirty minutes here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh shoot, that's cool. Man, Tell him I missed him.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't talked to him in a minute. I'm so
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  Speaker 3: busy with camp. But he knows I got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of love for him. I'm excited to get Peter and
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  Speaker 3: Miles to a game.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Thanks for sitting down with us, Ray,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: We just had an incredible interview with Ray Davis, and
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  Speaker 1: now I'm so excited to have Patrick Dowly join the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows Ray more than most people.
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  Speaker 1: In Buffalo, and Ray is so special to you because
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  Speaker 1: Ray was your little brother. You guys are involved in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Brother's Big Sisters program in San Francisco and
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  Speaker 1: got matched up up with each other more than fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. We all saw the Beyond Blooe and Red
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  Speaker 1: episode that went out this off season where Ray goes
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  Speaker 1: home and details his story. Patrick, you were a big
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  Speaker 1: part of that video that came out. Is so inspiring
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  Speaker 1: to see what Ray has done and just to see
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  Speaker 1: how successful he has been in such a short amount
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  Speaker 1: of time in the NFL. But first, for you, what
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  Speaker 1: was it like getting to meet Ray for the first time?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, I think you know, in mind boggling.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're coming on into eighteen years now since
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  Speaker 5: we first met, which is just unbelievable. I think both
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  Speaker 5: he and I would probably share that sentiment. Time flies
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  Speaker 5: and you're having fun. But look, getting involved in Big
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  Speaker 5: Brothers Big Sisters was sort of a whimsical decision for me.
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  Speaker 5: It was, you know, based on a desire to give back,
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  Speaker 5: to try and have an impact on a child's life. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: had no idea who I was going to meet, who
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  Speaker 5: was going to be paired with. And yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we've we've talked about it a little bit in the
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  Speaker 5: in our in our documentary that we made, but just
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  Speaker 5: you know, like I was sitting in a boys and
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  Speaker 5: girls club in the tender Lloyd in San Francisco and
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  Speaker 5: in walks a little kid eight years old, big old
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  Speaker 5: smiles on his face, you know, his crazy green eyes
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  Speaker 5: that I think everybody's uh, you know aware of, and
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  Speaker 5: just a funny, precocious, great kid that I really hit
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  Speaker 5: it off. You know, we hit it off of media.
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  Speaker 5: I'm I've always been a big sports fan. He's obviously
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  Speaker 5: a big sports fan, and it was just a very easy,
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  Speaker 5: smooth introduction, which neither of us had any idea where
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  Speaker 5: it was going to go. But you know, here we
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  Speaker 5: are talking today, and you know, there's been you know
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  Speaker 5: a lot of a lot of coverage about what about
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  Speaker 5: our match and our relationship, and you know it just
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  Speaker 5: continues to this day. It's it's a it's a relationship
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  Speaker 5: born or a friendship born on trust and and you know,
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  Speaker 5: being there for each each other.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are eighteen years later.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a friend of eighteen years or more,
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  Speaker 1: I think you have a friend for life. That's a
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  Speaker 1: meaningful friendship. When you go that long, you look back
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  Speaker 1: on life and say, man, this person has.
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  Speaker 2: Been in my life for more than fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: You spoke about Ray's smile, and that's something that if
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: you're around Ray in the building, if you have an
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: interaction with Ray at a game. Ray Davis has this
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: smile that just illuminates a room. It's easy to feel
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: the warmth coming off of him. In some of your
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: first interactions with Ray, when did you know how great
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Ray's heart was?
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's something that, as you mentioned, he
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: wears his heart on his sleeve. It's easy to tell
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: that there's a beautiful heart inside of this person. And
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: that was clear even then. And like I mentioned before,
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: I had no idea the background. I had no idea
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: the story. I had no idea what I was walking into.
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: But I guess you know, I I live life by
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: the mantra of always giving everybody the benefit of the doubt.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: And you know, trust everybody until they give you a
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: reason to not trust them. And Ray has never once
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: given me a reason to not trust him. And I
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: think that, you know, his ability to trust me early
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: on was incredibly impressive, you know now that I and
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: we know the story, the backstory. The fact that he
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: was willing to open up, the fact that he was
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: willing to trust me so quickly, really, you know, says
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: a lot about him. You know, he was looking for
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: somebody to you know, not necessarily help him out, but
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: just sort of be a friend and be somebody that
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: he could trust. And I, you know, but you know,
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: I provided that for him. And I didn't even know
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: I was doing it, frankly, but you know, that's my nature,
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: and you know, his his his natural demeanor, my natural
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: demeanor or a great fit. So it was it was
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: pretty obvious. And then, you know, during our first couple
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: of outings, you know, we went to a we went
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: to a baseball game, We would go get a bite
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: to eat or something like that. Just smooth and easy, right,
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: We're both fairly easy, you know, we're both very easy
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: going people. But you know that again, you know, our
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: natural our natures just sort of blended in a nice way.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Getting to see Ray graduate high school, his success in
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: college football playing for SEC schools. Now seeing what he's
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: done in just one year in the NFL. How has
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: watching his growth and upbringing over the last several years
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: changed you and your family for the better?
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: I mean in unbelievable ways. You know, I met Ray
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: when I was still a bachelor. I've you know, since
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: gotten married since had two beautiful boys, Peter and Miles.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: You know, but watching Ray and bringing, you know, being
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: raised big through his childhood and through my bachelorhood was
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: an unbelievable preparation for what marriage, family, life, raising children
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: is going.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: To be like.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Right, Ray, like every other kid on earth, has had
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: ups and downs, right you know, despite his his background
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: being a little bit tougher than or being a lot
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: tougher than most other people's, he had the normal ups
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: and downs that you could expect. Now, you know, there
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: were definitely times where I was scratching my head and saying,
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: is college in the future here? You know, I don't know,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: But like he got through high school and he graduated
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: from phenomenal high schools. He got into college, you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: graduated from Vanderbilt, an unbelievable university down in the in
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: the SEC. He made it to the NFL. All of
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: these things were just a testament to who this guy
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: is and really provided me and now my wife and
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: my kids an example of what fortitude and what drive
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: and what grit can actually get you. So you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: to to summarize quickly, he's been an unbelievable inspiration to
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: me and my family throughout his entire journey.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: It's so cool.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And when you watch the Bills documentary, the Beyond Blue
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and Red episode about Ray Davis, there's this line that
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you have where you're recalling the game that Ray had
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: against Kentucky or when he was playing for Kentucky against Florida.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I should say where Ray goes off for four touchdowns
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and you say, that's when I knew Sundays were coming.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Now that Sundays are here, what's been your favorite part
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: about watching Ray Davis in the league.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, just seeing him in the league from from
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: my perspective is unbelievable. Right, this is somebody I know
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: incredibly well, right, But I think the more the cooler
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: aspect of is watching my kids watch him play and
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: just seeing that, you know, in it there. My boys
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: are nine and seven. They love Ray. They've met him
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: multiple times. They have a friend that's in the NFL.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: You know, they are literally jumping up and down every
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: time he touches the ball, every time he scores a touchdown.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: It's unbelievable. Now, if I had to come up with
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: one like seminal memory we did last year against the
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Jets Monday night football, James was hurt. Ray got the
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: start he had, you know, Josh had this rollout to
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: the right sort of hail Mary pass, you know, fifty
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: something yards.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I was talking to Ram like, what happened on a thing?
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: He's like, I completely lost it in the light. It
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: hit me right in the middle of the chest pat
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: and I kind of had to catch it in my
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: lap before I went down. I mean, it was just,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: you know, for me, an unbelievable play. And again, like
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: I said, kids jumping up and down, screaming, just such
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: a cool experience. You know, we see him run a lot,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: but to see him catch long range passes as well unreal.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's when Ray showed off his versatility to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the world.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm more than a running back.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Look how I can help Josh Allen in this element
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: of the game. Ray also got to show the world
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: this offseason, Hey, if you need me to be a kicker,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I can be your kicker. He did it in the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: preseason game against the Giants, kicked an extra point successfully.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Was incredible to watch him change out his shoe was
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: that quickly. How surprised were you to see, Oh, there
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: goes Ray Davis now turning into a kicker.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: It's a funny story. I'm not at all surprised. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: the reason is I I played rugby when I was young,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: and I was the goalkicker on my rugby team. So
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: I used to take Ray out to Stanford in other
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: places and teach him how to kick rugby balls, which
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: is a similar sort of But you know, so, no,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: I would never ever claim responsibility for any of his
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: athletic ability, but you know, I think, you know, I
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: used to talk to him a lot about that, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: you know, I think, so it doesn't surprise me. And
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: I knew that he could do this, and he's obviously
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: got some pretty powerful legs behind underneath him, So not
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: at all surprised to see him kick, and I would
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: love to see him get the opportunity in the regular.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Season, right, speaking of athletic ability, I said, Ray, what
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: question do we have to ask Patrick? And he said,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: ask Patrick if he thinks I can still if he
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: thinks he can still beat me in a race, What's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: what's the decision here?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: So this has been a long running joke, and I've
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: always always messed them that I could always beat him
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: and always beat him, And unfortunately I just had my
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: fiftieth birthday, so I think now my hamstrings would probably explode.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: If you're up the police, I've given I got to
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: hang him up right, So it's time and uh, I will,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: with pride and honor hand the crowd over hand the
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: crown over to Ray.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Is the fastest guy.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: In our right, Ray the fastest guy in the relationship here.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Ray's going to have an exciting year ahead of him
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: second year in the NFL. One of our offensive One
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of our coaches on offense, Joe Brady, our offensive coordinator, said,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Raised done a great job of understanding this offense during
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the off season. What are you expecting from Ray in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: year two?
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I'm expecting more of the same. You know, I was
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: delighted to see James re sign. You know, it's great
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: to have such a great leader in front of him
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: and somebody that he can sort of emulate and learn from.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: And Ray is you know, to his credit, he's a
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: great learner. He watches what's going on around him and
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: he picks it up and he learned, and you know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: like like you'r oc said, you know, he learns these offenses.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: But what I also expect is when Ray does get
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: his opportunities, expect fireworks. I from every time every Pop
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Warner I watched him every Pop Warner game, every high
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: school game, every college game. Just hold your breath when
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: he gets the ball, because he's going to do something insane.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: So I expect more of the same and a similar,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: if not higher touchdown count.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I love that hold your breath and expect fireworks. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: think that's a great way to describe Ray Davis's game
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: because it is so fun watching him with the ball
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: in his hands.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: He's such a bruiser out there.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You know it might be small, but like watch out,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: he's going to barrel through a defensive line. I know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: big brothers, big Sisters is so near and dear to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: your heart, both you and Ray. How are you guys
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: continuing on with your relationship with that organization?
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, we are both very, very committed to this.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: We've done a number of activities around, you know, for
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: the Big Brothers, including he was inducted into the Big
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Brothers Big Sisters Hall of Fame over the summer. He
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: was unfortunately a camp but I had the opportunity to
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: fly out to Philadelphia accept that award for him, which
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: was one of the great honors of my life, to
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: see him or you know, to represent him on the
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: big stage out there, and then moving forward a new
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: piece of news. As of yesterday, I haven't even told
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Ray this, but I have had the honor of being
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: elected to the board of directors for the Big Brothers
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Big Sisters Chapter in the San Francisco Bay area. So
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I will be taking sort of, you know, a leading
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: role and trying to continue to grow this organization, create matches,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: create opportunities for these kids, and encourage more bigs to
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: come out and sign up. There are a list of
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: kids out there waiting to be matched up with the
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Big It doesn't take much to be a big, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: the impact you can have on a little's life is unbelievable.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: So I'm really honored to be elected to that board
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: and really looking forward to giving back in a really
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: meaningful way to try and continue what Ray and I
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: have and recreate what Ray and I got.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: To do together.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: That's really awesome and congratulations, so cool to hear. One
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: of my favorite things about getting to learn about some
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of our new players when they get drafted or brought
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to Buffalo is the causes that come along with them,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: what they are so close to, what they love to
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: do in their free time, how they love to help
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: whatever community they're a part of, whether that be in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Buffalo or in San Francisco. It's awesome to see these
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: players get this huge stage and then use that huge
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: stage for good in our world. And it's been great
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to see what Ray's done with it already and partnering
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: with you in that way.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: And more to come. We are both very committed to
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: continuing our involvement here, so really welcome.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: More to come.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Well, Patrick, thank you so much for taking the time
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to join us on this episode of Inside the Charge.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: An exciting season ahead for the Buffalo Bills and Ray Davis.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: We cannot wait.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Indeed we too. Go Ray and Go Bills.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ray and Go Bills. Thanks Bat.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for tuning into the first episode
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of the Inside the Charge podcast for the twenty twenty
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: five NFL season. There's so much more to come. We're
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: diving into so many stories that our players have and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: learning about who they are without the football helmet on.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I'm excited for you guys to join us as we
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: continue throughout the season.