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Inside The Charge: Inside Micah Hyde's decision to return to Bills, Josh Allen's growth, and more! · Inside the Charge

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Speaker 1: Welcome into this week's episode of Inside the Charge. I'm
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Speaker 1: Maddi Glabin, and today's episode will be joined by Bill's
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Speaker 1: safety Micah Hyde, who's now back on the team after
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Speaker 1: becoming a free agent last season. He hadn't stepped foot
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Speaker 1: in this building since last January. Now he's back as
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Speaker 1: a practice squad player. Micah talks about being on the
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Speaker 1: practice squad for the first time in his twelve year
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Speaker 1: career as an NFL player. He also gets into what
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Speaker 1: it's like being back with so many of his best
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Speaker 1: friends and why this place just feels like home. Mike
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Speaker 1: also talks about the season that Josh Allen is having
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Speaker 1: and why he thinks it's just different here for this
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Speaker 1: team this season. It's an episode you don't want to miss. Micah,
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Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking the time to sit down
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Speaker 1: and chat about being back in Buffalo. We're so excited
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Speaker 1: to have you back here. Why could you not stay
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Speaker 1: away from this place for too long?
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Speaker 2: Why could not? Why could I not? You know, I
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Speaker 2: thought I was going to I thought, you know, it
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Speaker 2: was it was all good.
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Speaker 3: And I was going to watch the games from San Diego,
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Speaker 3: from the from from you know, the beginning of the
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Speaker 3: season until till the end, but uh, you know, we
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Speaker 3: were hoping that we would possibly get a call, and
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Speaker 3: funny enough, a couple of weeks ago we did.
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Speaker 2: And you know, our immediate reaction was, we're good. We're good.
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Speaker 3: Let's you know, it's sunny and seventy five, the kids
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Speaker 3: on a routine, We're in a routine, we're having fun.
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Speaker 3: We got some things playing for the rest of the year.
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Speaker 3: And then we came to our senses and we're like, look,
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Speaker 3: this is a hell of an opportunity, and there's no
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Speaker 3: place like Buffalo.
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Speaker 2: Why not.
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Speaker 3: You know, we still have our house, we can get
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Speaker 3: settled in a couple of days, and you know, why
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Speaker 3: not why not spend this this time and and Christmas time?
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Speaker 3: And very good football team, a lot of guys I
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Speaker 3: know around here, and a lot of respect. So we
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Speaker 3: decided to come back, and it was the one of
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Speaker 3: the best decisions we've made.
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Speaker 1: So you play here for seventh seven years, now you're
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Speaker 1: in your eighth season. You are away from this place
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Speaker 1: for more than six months. What's the best part about
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Speaker 1: being back?
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Speaker 2: The best part about being back? I mean people say this.
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Speaker 3: All the time, but it really is like a family
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Speaker 3: you know, I can I step in here and you know,
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Speaker 3: just whether if it's the people in the cafeteria, the janitors,
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Speaker 3: the staff all around the building, the trainers, the strength staff,
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Speaker 3: you know, equipment staff, whoever it is, you know, you
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Speaker 3: guys with media and stuff. You know, I just think
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Speaker 3: throughout the years we've developed such good relationships that you know,
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Speaker 3: we're just I'm happy to see everybody. I love what
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Speaker 3: I do coming to work every day, and you know
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Speaker 3: I have a different role right now, and I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to help. Honestly, I'm trying to help everybody. I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to help you know, if if you need any tips
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Speaker 3: on how to improve your job, hey, I'm that guy,
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Speaker 3: you know. So I'm trying to to give everybody some
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Speaker 3: some confidence and boost everybody because I know that you know,
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Speaker 3: it's it's snowing outside right now, and I know for
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Speaker 3: some guys it's been a long season, and you know,
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Speaker 3: I've been through this and the kind of that mental grind.
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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm here to Uh.
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Speaker 3: I was here to try to bring some sunshine, but
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Speaker 3: that didn't that didn't happen snow.
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Speaker 1: The real question, though, Micah, is what is what is
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Speaker 1: your wife love most about being back.
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Speaker 2: She just loves she loves this place. She loves this place.
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Speaker 2: I love this place, but she like beyond it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because outside of this building, you know, where she's
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Speaker 3: been at home, and she's just developed her own relationships
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Speaker 3: with throughout the community, with people that she'll see every day,
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Speaker 3: whether if it's going to get her clothes tailored or
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Speaker 3: stop them by this restaurant or stop them by this shop.
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Speaker 2: Like they all know her. She knows them.
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Speaker 3: And so it's just like that family atmosphere and this
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Speaker 3: you know, it's a great place for to raise a family.
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Speaker 2: You know, the kids are going to school.
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Speaker 3: And you know, we never have to worry about, you know,
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Speaker 3: any other craziness going on. It just feels like a
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Speaker 3: small town, small wooden, Midwest town.
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Speaker 2: And that's what you get in Buffalo, New York.
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Speaker 1: You were here for so long that I feel like
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Speaker 1: if people just glanced at you in the last two weeks,
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Speaker 1: they might have thought, oh, Mike has always been here.
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Speaker 4: This is MICA's eighth season. He never left.
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Speaker 1: Did you fool anybody by coming back and somebody walking
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Speaker 1: by you and having to do a double take?
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Speaker 3: Like everybody year back, everybody the first couple of days
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Speaker 3: I was back like because nobody knew. Nobody knew because
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Speaker 3: you know, I spoke to to being and like I said,
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Speaker 3: we were going back forth for a couple of days.
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Speaker 3: I had a conversation with with uh with Sean and
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Speaker 3: you know, still was kind of undecided, and so we
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Speaker 3: kind of kept it under rept because you know, being
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Speaker 3: hit me up during the bye, but we really didn't
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Speaker 3: decide until after.
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Speaker 2: So we didn't I didn't want to be a distraction.
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Speaker 3: You know, they were getting ready for the forty nine
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Speaker 3: ers and they ended up you know, whooping whooping them,
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Speaker 3: and so didn't want to be a distraction.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I have anybody hear about it.
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Speaker 3: So when I came into the building for the first day,
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Speaker 3: nobody knew except for being in Sean and obviously my
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Speaker 3: wife and my family and stuff. But so I walked
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Speaker 3: in just cold call, just hey, what's up? And they're like, Hi, wait,
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Speaker 3: what what? Like what are you doing back? And I
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Speaker 3: still think some coaches and some players are like like
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Speaker 3: what are you doing here?
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Speaker 2: Like what do you like are you playing this week?
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Speaker 2: Like what? Like what's going on?
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Speaker 3: And so it's still a little bit of confusion, But
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Speaker 3: like I said, I'm here to help any way I can.
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Speaker 1: Who had the best reaction about you being back in
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Speaker 1: the building.
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Speaker 2: The best reaction.
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Speaker 3: There was a there was a few guys that that
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Speaker 3: i'll I'll hulk on. The linebacker coach he looked at
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Speaker 3: me as and just looked in my eyes and said
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Speaker 3: straight up.
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Speaker 2: Like what are you what are you doing here? I
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Speaker 2: was like, you lost?
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Speaker 3: It was like what do you mean? I like, I'm
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Speaker 3: here to help. Like He's like like no, like what
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Speaker 3: are you doing? He made it sound like I had
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Speaker 3: to leave. Like I was just like relaxed, man, I'm
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Speaker 3: here to like, I'm here to to see what I
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Speaker 3: can do to help. And so that was a good reaction.
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Speaker 3: But there was a lot of people, you know, with
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Speaker 3: with whatever it was in the cafeterias. If I walked in
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Speaker 3: and you know, I love I love all them up there,
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Speaker 3: they're they're amazing people, and you know, they always bring
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Speaker 3: a lot of energy in the morning and.
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Speaker 2: And stuff like. That's when I walked in. That was
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Speaker 2: was pretty cool. And then that's just that's the type
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Speaker 2: of family atmosphere that this building has.
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Speaker 1: Being away from this Sport since January of last year.
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Speaker 4: Do you have a new.
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Speaker 1: Appreciation for this team or for the league now that
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Speaker 1: you're coming back.
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Speaker 2: For sure?
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Speaker 3: For sure personally, you know, not really talking football and
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Speaker 3: being in the meetings and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: I I I was at I was at home in
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Speaker 3: San Diego, like watching as a fan because I'm watching
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Speaker 3: on TV and I don't have the actual film that
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Speaker 3: the team watches, so like I I have to see
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Speaker 3: what people see. I have to listen to what the
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Speaker 3: commentators are saying. So I was really just a fan
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Speaker 3: and then coming back in here, it just it was
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Speaker 3: really a just it's just a blessing. It's a blessing
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Speaker 3: really to be a part of this team and just
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Speaker 3: the amount of success that this team has had this year.
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Speaker 3: And you know, for being to even call and be like, hey,
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Speaker 3: we want you to be a part of it. Like
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Speaker 3: who was I to be like, Nah, I'm good. Like
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Speaker 3: it's two months and you know, I get to come
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Speaker 3: here and work out practice, you know, see what I
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Speaker 3: can do to once again help this team. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean that was just it was it was a
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Speaker 3: it was a no brainer.
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Speaker 1: I guess in the end, you spent more than half
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Speaker 1: of the season watching this team from California, experiencing it
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Speaker 1: as a fan.
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Speaker 4: What is Mike A. Hyde like As a fan?
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Speaker 3: I was I was watching every game. I was watching
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Speaker 3: every try to watch every single play. And you know
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Speaker 3: out there the night games, which you know the Bills
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Speaker 3: had a bunch of primetime games.
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Speaker 2: Was eight o'clock here by five o'clock there.
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Speaker 3: The kids don't go to sleep, you know, they're not
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Speaker 3: eating dinner and to sleep to about six thirty seven,
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Speaker 3: seven thirty. So the games will be on and they're
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Speaker 3: like still run around the house and I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: watch it for the TV. And a man is making
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Speaker 3: dinner and I'm like, yo, like who's watching the kids?
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Speaker 3: Like I can't watch the kids, like you're making dinner.
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Speaker 3: I'm watching this game.
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Speaker 4: Got a job right now.
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Speaker 3: Somebody has to watch the kids. So I was taking
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Speaker 3: a little heat every now and then for watching the games.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I was trying to watch every single play.
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Speaker 3: I was a fan. I was rooted for everybody was
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Speaker 3: you know, I didn't want to be that like clingy,
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Speaker 3: like clingy ex girlfriend.
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Speaker 2: That's like, hey, good game. Hard not be I mean
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Speaker 2: I did a few times. I did a few times.
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Speaker 3: I'd text, you know, whether it's the coaches or players
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Speaker 3: or whatever and say hey, like keep it up, good game.
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Speaker 3: Just trying to motivate, trying to give confidence from whatever,
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Speaker 3: three thousand miles away, whatever the mileage is.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I was. I was a huge fan.
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Speaker 1: Who are some guys that have impressed you this season
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Speaker 1: as you've watched this season unfold?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Man, I think each and every guy I could probably
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Speaker 3: say something about.
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Speaker 2: You know, I just from seeing it on TV, seeing it.
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Speaker 3: From that perspective and then coming in this locker room
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Speaker 3: and actually knowing the guys.
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Speaker 2: It was cool.
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Speaker 3: It's cool to really to see the growth, you know,
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Speaker 3: whether if it's Tarn becoming a leader more Lano.
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Speaker 2: Becoming a leader more more vocal.
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Speaker 3: TV has always been a leader, but stepping up that
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Speaker 3: role with with you know, myself and Poe and some
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Speaker 3: other guys gone big, Greg, you know, making plays is
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Speaker 3: you know, just what Josh is able to do is
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Speaker 3: just stupid.
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Speaker 2: Like that guy.
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Speaker 3: Man, Like even watching him on TV, I don't think
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Speaker 3: I realized like the amount of stuff that he that
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Speaker 3: he does.
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Speaker 2: It's it's truly, it's truly remarkable. And so.
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Speaker 3: I can probably go up and down the lineup with
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Speaker 3: guys and even with coaches.
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Speaker 2: Like just hearing hearing Sean's.
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Speaker 3: Message throughout the last couple of weeks and how confident
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Speaker 3: he is in his guys and and in this team,
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Speaker 3: and not saying he wasn't in the past, but it's
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Speaker 3: just a different feel this this place is it's a
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Speaker 3: different feel as far as like you know, people are coming,
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Speaker 3: they're working, and you know, it's kind of just like,
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Speaker 3: let's come in, get our job and win and go
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Speaker 3: about it the right way.
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Speaker 1: Over the last three games, Josh Allen has fourteen total touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: more than a thousand yards of offense, no turnovers, no sacks.
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Speaker 1: Are we watching an historic season from the quarterback position?
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Speaker 2: For sure?
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Speaker 3: The conversations that even I've had with him over the
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Speaker 3: last year, it just seems different.
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Speaker 2: And you can.
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Speaker 3: Tell, you know, he's He's always been a hell of
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Speaker 3: a football player and a great person, but I think
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Speaker 3: that his match rate did like the maturation process for him.
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Speaker 3: It's really it's really showing right now like he's just
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Speaker 3: taken every game for what it is.
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Speaker 2: For sure, historic season. You know, I can.
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Speaker 3: Compare this to some some of the games that you know,
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Speaker 3: when I was in Green Bay Aaron and his prime
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Speaker 3: just like and I'm not comparing the two, I'm just
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Speaker 3: comparing the situation and the games. Like you just knew
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Speaker 3: when you sat down on the bench as a defensive player,
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Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, we don't have to get up for
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Speaker 3: like at least eight minutes of like actual game time
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Speaker 3: unless they go and just have a long play and
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Speaker 3: score in like three plays. So it just seems like
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Speaker 3: that same thing. And I make sure to be proud
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Speaker 3: of him man, because he's he's has a lot on
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Speaker 3: his shoulders he's had for a long time being a
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Speaker 3: starting the quarterback in this league, but also just out
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Speaker 3: everyone puts a lot of pressure on him, and that
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Speaker 3: I think that maturation process has gotten him to a
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Speaker 3: point where he really doesn't care about.
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Speaker 2: What everyone else thinks.
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Speaker 3: He wants to play well for his guys and he
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Speaker 3: wants to have fun doing it, and that's that's all
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Speaker 3: he cares about.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned some of the defensive players who have stepped up.
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Speaker 1: Matt Milano, one of our linebackers, and then our nickel
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Speaker 1: cornerback Tarren Johnson. You and Jordan Poyer leave this team
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Speaker 1: last year after being two safeties who were here for
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Speaker 1: seven seasons, you guys combined for thirty eight interceptions all
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Speaker 1: Pro seasons, Pro Bowl seasons.
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Speaker 4: Leadership walks out the door.
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Speaker 1: How have you seen those two step up in leadership
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Speaker 1: roles now that you're back on the field.
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Speaker 3: Well, when all this was happening before the season even started,
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Speaker 3: you know, like in my mind, I'm like good, like good,
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Speaker 3: like this is gonna make other guys step up.
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Speaker 2: And I think sometimes.
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Speaker 3: Some people get like worried about change and like scary.
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Speaker 3: It is scary, but it's it's a part of the game,
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Speaker 3: Like it's a part of you know, I see, I
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Speaker 3: see kind of where a GM would want to make
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Speaker 3: some decisions. Obviously you're gonna, you know, lose some of
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Speaker 3: the leadership side, but you're going to gain some and
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Speaker 3: in some other areas.
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Speaker 2: So so so change is good.
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Speaker 3: But to answer your question, to see those guys, you know,
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Speaker 3: step up and and bring other guys along with them,
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Speaker 3: And I think that's just like a total team effort
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Speaker 3: with the offensive society of the special teams in the
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Speaker 3: defense just having their own.
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Speaker 2: Guys that are able to step up.
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Speaker 3: And I'm proud of them. I'm I'm I was already
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Speaker 3: proud of them, you know, going before the season even
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Speaker 3: st but you know, I feel like that, Uh, I
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Speaker 3: feel like that proud uncle. That's just you know, uh,
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Speaker 3: watching film and in meetings and stuff, just trying to
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Speaker 3: help and and keep their confidence up.
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Speaker 2: And I'm just proud of them.
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Speaker 4: Tarn always has jokes for you.
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Speaker 1: Is it hard to say that Terren's doing a great
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Speaker 1: job as a leader this season, knowing how many jokes
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Speaker 1: he probably had for you when you walked through these doors.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, but I'm not
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Speaker 3: gonna tell him. I'm proud of him because he's a
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Speaker 3: little brother, like, you know, well fortunate enough to all
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Speaker 3: make you know, good money and playing in this league,
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Speaker 3: and he just.
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Speaker 2: Always asks me for a ride.
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Speaker 3: And I'm just like, dude, like I just got back
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Speaker 3: into town, Like what have you been doing all season?
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Speaker 2: Have you been asking other people for rides all season?
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Speaker 4: You know, that's just he doesn't want to drive to
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Speaker 4: the facility.
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Speaker 2: He's a little brother.
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Speaker 3: No, he will drive to the facility, but like going
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Speaker 3: to the away games and airport and stuff like, he
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Speaker 3: just he's my little brother.
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Speaker 2: So that's just that's tea. I'll never I'll never miss
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Speaker 2: having to give Taran a ryde, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: The Bills have a new defensive coordinator this year, and
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Speaker 1: Bobby Babbach. He was someone who was your position group
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Speaker 1: coach for some time and then also coach the linebackers.
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Speaker 1: What have you seen from his first year as a
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 2: Guys are hungry.
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Speaker 3: I feel like when you're when you're able to watch
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Speaker 3: a game, like I said on TV and see guys
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Speaker 3: getting to the football and gang tackle and you know
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Speaker 3: the takeaway margin is is.
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Speaker 2: You know, remarkable plus eighteen eighteen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just what what this defense has been able to do.
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Speaker 3: And I know, you know, there's been a few hiccups
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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, playing not making excuses, playing a
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Speaker 3: really good rams offense with a veteran quarterback that knew
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Speaker 3: exactly what we were doing the whole time, Playing a
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Speaker 3: very good lines offense with a very good like just
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Speaker 3: skill positions and the quarterback very experience, and you know
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Speaker 3: is in the MVP race also. So to see what
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Speaker 3: this team has done this whole season with a couple
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Speaker 3: hiccups these last couple of games, it's just it's it's amazing.
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Speaker 3: I think that's an indication of what Bobby and Sean
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Speaker 3: has been able to do around here for many, many years.
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Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna we're gonna have some hiccups, We're
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Speaker 3: gonna have some games where we just felt like we
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Speaker 3: just laid an egg. That's part of the NFL, And
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Speaker 3: like I said, I'm not making enough excuses. But at
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Speaker 3: the same time, you have different type of offenses each
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Speaker 3: and every week, and if you do have similar offenses,
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Speaker 3: then they're trying to see what you did well or
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Speaker 3: bad and execute against you that way. So it's a
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Speaker 3: chess match. And I'm proud of what Bobby has been
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Speaker 3: able to do this season and what he's going to
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Speaker 3: continue to do for this team.
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Speaker 1: You've been mentioning I came here to help. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to see how I can help at the end of
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Speaker 1: the regular season as we push into the playoffs. Mikey,
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Speaker 1: you were drafted by the Packers in twenty thirteen in
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Speaker 1: the fifth round. Have you ever been on the practice
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Speaker 1: squad before?
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Speaker 2: Never? Never?
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Speaker 3: And this was a This was a different role for me,
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Speaker 3: and I think that was I think that's why I
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Speaker 3: was going back, Like when I tell you, I was
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Speaker 3: going back and forth when Being called, like, I was
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Speaker 3: obviously happy he called, but at the same time, it
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Speaker 3: was immediately like, you know, in order to play this game,
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Speaker 3: you gotta have.
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Speaker 2: An ego and to play at a high level, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you have to have an ego.
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Speaker 3: You have to be you have to see yourself as
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Speaker 3: as an alpha male and as somebody that's going And
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Speaker 3: that's that's why I feel like I've been so successful
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Speaker 3: in this league is you know, I go out there
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Speaker 3: each and every game and I know I'm gonna make plays,
16:33
Speaker 3: and I have that confidence I'm gonna make plays. So
16:35
Speaker 3: when I got that phone call from Being, it was like, hey,
16:37
Speaker 3: you can come, but it's practice squad and and and
16:41
Speaker 3: I get it how hard practice squad guys work and
16:44
Speaker 3: all that type of stuff.
16:44
Speaker 2: But for me, I was just like, man, I played eleven.
16:47
Speaker 4: You're two time all pro.
16:48
Speaker 1: I don't need to do that pro bowler sixteen interceptions
16:51
Speaker 1: while you were here.
16:52
Speaker 3: So that's why I was battling that, like I don't
16:55
Speaker 3: need to do I don't need to do it, And
16:56
Speaker 3: it was my ego. It was it was my ego,
16:58
Speaker 3: like you don't don't need to do that. But after
17:02
Speaker 3: a couple of days of sleeping on it, I literally
17:03
Speaker 3: just breathe a little bit. I stepped back, and I
17:06
Speaker 3: was like, once again, they didn't need to call me.
17:09
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's not about the money. It's about
17:13
Speaker 3: like me coming here and trying to see what the
17:15
Speaker 3: goal has always been, to get this team to win
17:16
Speaker 3: a championship, to get this community a championship, and so
17:19
Speaker 3: if I'm able to be a part of that, then
17:22
Speaker 3: that's my role. Like I don't care about anything else.
17:24
Speaker 3: So it was new to me. I was battling that
17:27
Speaker 3: that mental game for sure. But once I wrapped my
17:31
Speaker 3: head around decision and we got back in Buffalo and
17:33
Speaker 3: seeing everybody's reaction and walking through the locker room and
17:35
Speaker 3: seeing all you guys, once again, one of the best decisions.
17:39
Speaker 2: I've ever made.
17:40
Speaker 1: The goal is to win this team a championship. The
17:43
Speaker 1: group is eleven and three right now, how's that goal coming?
17:48
Speaker 2: It is coming very good.
17:50
Speaker 3: And I think that even though it you know, it's
17:54
Speaker 3: been fourteen games, it's still a long season. It's still
17:58
Speaker 3: a very long season. And I say that because game
18:00
Speaker 3: is still you got to focus on this one game
18:02
Speaker 3: and then once you get in the playoffs, anything can
18:04
Speaker 3: happen you see each and every year. So this is
18:07
Speaker 3: that time where you got to really dial in, have
18:09
Speaker 3: that you know, have that laser focus. And it seems
18:13
Speaker 3: like these these next three weeks being in the league
18:15
Speaker 3: for a while, these next three leaks are gonna be
18:17
Speaker 3: some long weeks, and you got to be able to
18:19
Speaker 3: have that constant focus each and every day. And I
18:22
Speaker 3: feel like, if this team is able to do that,
18:23
Speaker 3: then give gives us a very good job.
18:26
Speaker 1: You've been through many long seasons. This is year number
18:29
Speaker 1: twelve for you. What type of advice are you giving
18:32
Speaker 1: these younger players who are hitting that rookie wall or
18:37
Speaker 1: are experiencing it's December.
18:39
Speaker 4: It's cold as heck outside.
18:41
Speaker 1: We got to go out there and practice.
18:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my advice to to not just the
18:47
Speaker 3: young guys, but everybody in here is and everybody watching
18:51
Speaker 3: on TV and everyone that's going to listen to this, Like,
18:54
Speaker 3: there's no guarantee that this football team in the next
18:59
Speaker 3: ten year years will be eleven and three. You know, like,
19:02
Speaker 3: there's no there's no guarantee. And so you know, I'm
19:04
Speaker 3: sitting at home and I'm thinking, like, man, I never
19:06
Speaker 3: got a shot to play in the Super Bowl. I
19:08
Speaker 3: never got past the championship game. I was there three times.
19:11
Speaker 3: I never got to play in a super Bowl. Like
19:13
Speaker 3: it's it's crazy because you know, I've been to the
19:15
Speaker 3: playoffs every year but two. And so my advice to
19:19
Speaker 3: everybody is like, cherish this moment, Live in this moment
19:22
Speaker 3: because you never know if you'll be able to get
19:24
Speaker 3: have it back and not. It's not to not to
19:28
Speaker 3: stress about it, but just to cherish it and have
19:32
Speaker 3: that laser focus and know that each game is just
19:34
Speaker 3: try to continue to get better and hopefully in February
19:38
Speaker 3: we're holding it up.
19:39
Speaker 4: I hope so too.
19:40
Speaker 1: I believe in you guys. I believe in this group.
19:41
Speaker 1: I think you being back here is an awesome help.
19:45
Speaker 1: The dB Dinners. You guys have these dB Dinners every
19:48
Speaker 1: single week. Part of me thought, Micah and Jordan aren't
19:52
Speaker 1: here anymore. What's gonna happen to these position group dinners.
19:56
Speaker 1: You guys were such a big part of that equation.
19:59
Speaker 1: Well they went on, Yeah, they're still happening as they should.
20:03
Speaker 4: As they should.
20:04
Speaker 1: Mike is added back into the equation. Are the guys
20:07
Speaker 1: happy they to have you back at.
20:09
Speaker 4: The dinner table?
20:10
Speaker 3: They try to pull a fast making you pay, they
20:12
Speaker 3: tried to make They said anybody new has to pay
20:14
Speaker 3: for the whole.
20:15
Speaker 4: Dinner, Like you're a new player now practice.
20:19
Speaker 2: I'm not buying that.
20:20
Speaker 3: And in the past, in the past, if you're on
20:23
Speaker 3: practice squad, you don't have to pay, so like that's
20:27
Speaker 3: that's the rules. But then they said, well we changed
20:30
Speaker 3: rules since you guys Leftah, but yeah, I didn't. I
20:32
Speaker 3: didn't have to pay. Someone else had to pay the
20:34
Speaker 3: other day because they were late. And so but I
20:37
Speaker 3: think that what we've been able to establish here with
20:39
Speaker 3: the dB dinners, with the White Elephant, Christmas Gives, the
20:44
Speaker 3: Christmas Exchange, the Christmas Party, the Halloween parties that we've
20:48
Speaker 3: thrown around here for a long time. I feel like
20:50
Speaker 3: with those being like the foundation pieces within this organization is.
20:54
Speaker 2: What keeps this team going.
20:55
Speaker 3: And and I feel like, you know, that's a that's
20:58
Speaker 3: a good reflection as to why this team is doing
21:00
Speaker 3: so well.
21:01
Speaker 1: So you spoke about all of the things that this
21:03
Speaker 1: team has created since twenty seventeen, the group dinners, the
21:07
Speaker 1: gift exchanges, the parties you set that you started that
21:12
Speaker 1: along with Jordan Poyer.
21:15
Speaker 4: You left this team.
21:16
Speaker 1: Now you're back. Is it interesting to walk back in
21:19
Speaker 1: and see how that is still all good and well?
21:22
Speaker 2: For sure? For sure, I gotta give I gotta give props.
21:24
Speaker 3: To to the williams Is because they're the ones that
21:29
Speaker 3: handed the Christmas party off to us when we when
21:33
Speaker 3: after they left here.
21:34
Speaker 2: But the dinners and stuff like that.
21:36
Speaker 3: Kirk Coleman came in from from Carolina and he really
21:39
Speaker 3: he really to the next level.
21:41
Speaker 2: But yeah, we've just.
21:44
Speaker 3: We've we've developed those things throughout the year and it's
21:46
Speaker 3: been cool to come back in and see what they
21:49
Speaker 3: are continuing to do and the new things that you
21:51
Speaker 3: know that this team is established. So once again, I'm
21:56
Speaker 3: like a proud uncle walking around here.
21:58
Speaker 2: And I'm happy. I'm happy here every day.
22:00
Speaker 3: Even though the snow's coming down, it's still it's still sun,
22:04
Speaker 3: Sonny and seventy five in my world going on in
22:07
Speaker 3: my head because I wake up extremely blessed and I
22:10
Speaker 3: know that if this team was when this team it
22:15
Speaker 3: finally gets it done, it's gonna be uh, it's gonna
22:18
Speaker 3: be pretty pretty exciting for this community.
22:20
Speaker 1: And we're glad you can belong for the ride, because
22:23
Speaker 1: this place does not it's not the same without you Micah,
22:26
Speaker 1: and it just feels right when you're in the building.
22:27
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
22:29
Speaker 4: All right, thanks for sitting down with us. Appreciate the time.