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Inside the Charge: Khalil Shakir Talks Joe Brady Hire, Offseason Life & More! · Inside the Charge

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Speaker 1: What's up everybody, Maddi glab here. It's been a super
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Speaker 1: busy week at One Bill's Drive as the Bills announced
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Speaker 1: their new head coach, Joe Brady, So we had to
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Speaker 1: call an emergency podcast and I had to invite someone
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Speaker 1: who knows Joe very well. Bill's wide receiver, Khalil Shakir Khalil,
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Speaker 1: thanks for hopping on the pod with us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: All right. I know you're not in Buffalo. Where are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm in California soaking up the sun.
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Speaker 1: We're buried under like three and a half feet of
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Speaker 1: snow and you are soaking up the sun. You made
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Speaker 1: the right decision.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I checked my home cameras every single day and
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Speaker 2: just look at the snow from a distance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just chuckle and say ha ha. They have
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Speaker 1: to deal with it. I don't How long do you
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Speaker 1: take to relax and reset before you get back into
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Speaker 1: your training mode.
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Speaker 2: It kind of depends. I kind of gauge it off
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Speaker 2: of how my body feels whenever season is over. Uh So,
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Speaker 2: I think I usually around two to three weeks of
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Speaker 2: just relaxing, kicking my feet up, hanging out with family
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Speaker 2: and enjoying time with them and stuff like that, and
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Speaker 2: then I'll get back into lifting and all that not
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Speaker 2: too long after that.
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Speaker 1: So and hanging out with a new daughter. You had
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Speaker 1: a baby born in the middle of the season. How
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Speaker 1: does it feel to finally be a dad?
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Speaker 2: Khalil, Yeah, it's awesome. It's fun just seeing like the
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Speaker 2: little things that that little new things that she does
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Speaker 2: every single day, as well as family meeting her as well,
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Speaker 2: and just it's been fun. It's been really fun. She's
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Speaker 2: been great. She's starting to smile and like I said,
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Speaker 2: just do little things. I just my heart, my heart aches,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's great.
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Speaker 1: I love that. Well, we're glad you get time with
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Speaker 1: family and friends and time to relax before getting back
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Speaker 1: into it. I know everybody's kind of different. How are
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Speaker 1: you feeling after the season? Where's the body at? Do
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Speaker 1: you feel like you you finished on a good note
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Speaker 1: and feel like you can just take a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks and get back into it.
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Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I mean we kind of got a little
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Speaker 2: beat up. Yeah, still kind of in the process of
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Speaker 2: just just get my legs back under myself. As my
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Speaker 2: dog and he starts squeaking to it. Sorry, about that.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it always just like I said, it just
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Speaker 2: depends on the year. The body. This year, you know,
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Speaker 2: kind of took took some some hits and stuff like that,
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Speaker 2: and we're we're just now, what do we two weeks out?
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Speaker 1: Yeah about that, it's crazy two weeks out. It feels
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Speaker 1: like three months and it feels like two days at
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Speaker 1: the same time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So we're just not starting to feel
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Speaker 2: like our normal selves again. So we're getting there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad you're starting to feel like your normal self.
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Speaker 1: Looking back on the season, col a tough finish, but
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Speaker 1: still a lot to be grateful for. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: guys want a playoff game. You finish as the fourth
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Speaker 1: best offense, averaging over twenty eight points per game. What
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Speaker 1: are you most proud of when you look back on
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say just our grit, Like the way
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Speaker 2: we were able to just keep our head down and
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Speaker 2: just finish games. You know, there's a lot of times
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Speaker 2: we're playing from behind, and obviously, you know, we wish
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Speaker 2: we would have got out to a faster start, but
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Speaker 2: our ability to finish the games and come back from
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Speaker 2: you know, you know, two touchdown, two three touchdowns, whatever
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Speaker 2: it is, and win those games. Those moments in the
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Speaker 2: locker rooms after are something that I'll never forget. So
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Speaker 2: just how we were able to just just grind things out.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunate ending to the season and that you don't
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Speaker 1: make it to the super Bowl. But also you part
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Speaker 1: ways with former head coach Sean McDermott. I know he
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Speaker 1: brought a lot to Buffalo in terms of building an
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Speaker 1: incredible culture here and I know a lot of that
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Speaker 1: will stick around the Bills. Do introduce a new head
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Speaker 1: coach who's a familiar face to you because because he's
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Speaker 1: been your offensive coordinator the last two and a half years,
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Speaker 1: you know him through meetings, you know who through practices.
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Speaker 1: Who is Joe Brady to you? Khalil?
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Speaker 2: Joe Brady to me? Is uh the man who helped
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Speaker 2: my career take off when when he took over, I
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Speaker 2: think his very first game calling uh as as though
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Speaker 2: see it was my first one of the yard game,
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Speaker 2: I believe so, man, he's just somebody who the moment
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Speaker 2: from the moment he took over and started calling plays
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Speaker 2: and stuff like that, he just kind of put his
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Speaker 2: belief in me and Uh, I think I went from
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Speaker 2: one week to where I felt like I was like
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Speaker 2: kind of just you know, maybe run blocking Tim toon me,
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Speaker 2: hey be ready to roll next week and wait what
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Speaker 2: you know, like and had to lock in real quick
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Speaker 2: and get things going. And it's funny. It's you know,
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Speaker 2: I've always believed that I've had the ability to do
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Speaker 2: you know, good things in the league, but he's the
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Speaker 2: man that helped me, you know, truly believe them put
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Speaker 2: it into action. So I really ship with him a
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Speaker 2: special and I'm just I'm super happy for him and
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Speaker 2: this family.
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Speaker 1: What exactly about your game do you think Joe Brady elevated?
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Speaker 2: I think, uh, confidence. I think he just instilled a
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Speaker 2: whole bunch of confidence within me to go out there
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Speaker 2: and you know, make these plays and break tackles and
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Speaker 2: do all these crazy things. I think for him just
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Speaker 2: telling me every single week, uh, you know, just to
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Speaker 2: be at my best and to I remember I asked
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Speaker 2: him before playoffs, without getting too personalized, before playoffs, I said, hey,
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Speaker 2: what do you need from me moving forward? And he
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Speaker 2: told me to get out your head and just be yourself.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's just just just so special coming
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Speaker 2: from a from a coach because as a player, we
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Speaker 2: go through so many things mentally throughout the whole year,
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Speaker 2: and it can be a mental grind and for a
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Speaker 2: coach to have that belief in you and to look
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Speaker 2: in your face to say, just be you all we
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Speaker 2: need and he says all the time, He's like, all
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Speaker 2: we need Koalose Skar to be is to be Kalose Sker,
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Speaker 2: and that's special to me.
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Speaker 1: Joe Brady says that in press conferences all the time too,
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Speaker 1: when he's asked about any player and what that player
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Speaker 1: needs to do, his response is quickly that player just
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Speaker 1: needs to be himself and that is good enough for us.
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Speaker 1: That player, whoever he's speaking about, has enough pressure on himself.
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Speaker 1: I don't need to put any more pressure on him.
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Speaker 1: And Kalil, based on that response that you had, it
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Speaker 1: seems like, you know, it's a vulnerable place to be
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Speaker 1: to go up to an offensive coordinator and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: what do you need from me in this situation in
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Speaker 1: this game, And to feel comfortable enough to go up
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Speaker 1: to Brady and do that speaks to the relationship that
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Speaker 1: you have with him. I know he's all about player relationships.
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Speaker 1: How has that really helped you grow in your belief
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Speaker 1: of him.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it just elevates not only you know,
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Speaker 2: just me as a person, but my role in the
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Speaker 2: offense as well him. You know, keeping an open door
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Speaker 2: and it's one thing for a coach to say their
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Speaker 2: doors open, for players to actually go up there and
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Speaker 2: talk to them about things speaks volumes to not only
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Speaker 2: that the coach that he is, but the man that
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Speaker 2: he is as well. So I think you know, from
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Speaker 2: the moment he took over, he just kind of not
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Speaker 2: just me through everybody was just I think it's just
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Speaker 2: his vibe. Just it's just the way that he is,
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Speaker 2: the way that he is on the field, the energy
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Speaker 2: that he brings, you know, the way he leaves our meetings.
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Speaker 2: You can just tell he's a guy that wants what's
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Speaker 2: best for everybody, of course on the field, but off
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Speaker 2: the field as well. When the coach cares about your
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Speaker 2: family too and how things are going at home, it
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Speaker 2: makes you want to just just grind that much harder
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Speaker 2: for that person. So man overall, I mean, Joe, Joe's awesome.
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Speaker 2: He's great.
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Speaker 1: Joe also brings the juice. He has a lot of energy,
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Speaker 1: and it's easy to see that on the field and
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Speaker 1: end games. When is Joe Brady at his highest?
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Speaker 2: It's hard to pick a day. I mean, the dude
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Speaker 2: has unlimited juice. It's crazy practice starts, he's going game days,
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Speaker 2: he's fired up. It's it's kind of hard to sit
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Speaker 2: here and say when when is he had his best one.
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Speaker 2: I feel like every day he's at his best no
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Speaker 2: matter what we're doing, and it's it's tough for somebody
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Speaker 2: to keep that same energy twenty four to seven throughout
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Speaker 2: the whole season. He does that, and it's actually special.
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Speaker 1: Today is Joe Brady's introductory press conference he'll sign his contract.
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Speaker 1: He walked in the building this morning at four thirty am.
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Speaker 1: Are you surprised? No?
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Speaker 2: He also had shorts and a T shirt on. From
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Speaker 2: what I've seen, that's Joe. I mean, I think it's
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Speaker 2: actually I can't pinpoint a time where I saw him
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Speaker 2: wearing pants this year walking into a game or practices
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Speaker 2: or whatever. He for sure always has shorts on, and
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Speaker 2: this morning threw in his twist with the just wearing
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Speaker 2: the T shirt as well. So I mean, I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be surprised if he did his press confidence in that.
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Speaker 1: I know, you gotta believe he's gonna be in a
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Speaker 1: suit because it's it's the environment for that. But do
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Speaker 1: you think Joe Brady could rock like a short pant suit,
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Speaker 1: you know, where you have the top and then you
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Speaker 1: have the bottom and the bottom are just some like
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Speaker 1: nice pant trousers.
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Speaker 2: That'd be a cool introduction he had the full suit on,
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Speaker 2: then rip the things off in the shorts, rip the
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Speaker 2: arms off. Yeah, I think he definitely could rock that
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Speaker 2: for sure, but I would I would have. I think
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Speaker 2: he's gonna pull out the suit and pull off a
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Speaker 2: fresh new look.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it makes sense. You spoke about how Joe
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Speaker 1: Brady has energy in every situation, in every scenario, regardless
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Speaker 1: if it's meetings, a practice, or a game. What is
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Speaker 1: Joe Brady's demeanor during meetings?
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Speaker 2: Cool, collected and it really doesn't matter, you know, win
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Speaker 2: or loss, Joe Joe's the same. And I think that's
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Speaker 2: that speaks to us players. You know, he's never coming
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Speaker 2: in there screaming, yelling at us. You know, we're all
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Speaker 2: players that you know at the level where we realize
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Speaker 2: when stuff needs to change and stuff needs to get fixed.
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Speaker 2: And Joe for sure make sure that he points out
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Speaker 2: the little things that we need to start doing better.
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Speaker 2: But he's never coming in there and holler, and you know,
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Speaker 2: he keeps a calm, cool, collected vibe and you know,
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Speaker 2: just kind of points out what we know, what we
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Speaker 2: need to do, especially even in halftimes we need to
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Speaker 2: make adjustments. I actually don't think I've ever heard him
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Speaker 2: yell wow, So he kind of just, uh, he points
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Speaker 2: out what we need to fix. And I think it's
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Speaker 2: a respect thing to where he lets us know and
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Speaker 2: we know what we got to do, and it's kind
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Speaker 2: of just like a head nod and we know it
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Speaker 2: needs to be fixed.
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Speaker 1: Why is the calm, cool, collected vibe and not yelling,
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Speaker 1: not jumping down your throat well received by the team.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I just feel like that's
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Speaker 2: just the guy that he is and we feed off
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Speaker 2: of that. Well, it's kind of hard to playing. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: maybe sometimes you know players are are you know, need
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Speaker 2: to be yelled at sometimes, But I think the guys
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Speaker 2: that we have on this team, like I said, it's
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Speaker 2: more of a respect things where he comes in calm,
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Speaker 2: so that's what needs to be done, and we give
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Speaker 2: him ahead nod and we go fix it. I think
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Speaker 2: that's I've said it a thousand times, but it comes
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Speaker 2: down to just respect, and we have a lot of
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Speaker 2: respect for him as a man and as a coach.
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Speaker 1: I know you guys also have a lot of respect
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Speaker 1: for Joe Brady because of the open door policy that
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Speaker 1: you spoke about, the ability to go to Joe if
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Speaker 1: you feel passionate about a certain play and to know
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Speaker 1: that Joe Brady is going to listen to what you
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Speaker 1: have to say and possibly implement it in the offense
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Speaker 1: at some point in the season. Why is that unique
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Speaker 1: for you as a player.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think we all have our ideas
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Speaker 2: and play calling and stuff that we may think would work,
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Speaker 2: or you know, stuff that needs to be fixed, stuff
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Speaker 2: that we're doing great. I think any time there is
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Speaker 2: you know, that open dialogue and everybody feels like they
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Speaker 2: can go up there talk to him, it only helps.
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Speaker 2: It only helps. I don't think it can it can
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Speaker 2: hurt by any means. And Joe's gonna shoot it real
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Speaker 2: with you. You know, if he agrees, he'll agree with you,
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Speaker 2: and if he if he doesn't, you know, talk things out.
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Speaker 2: And like I said, that comes in when he took
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Speaker 2: over just his his vibe and the way he talked
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Speaker 2: to us that led to a player's film, like they
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Speaker 2: can go up there and talk to him. And like
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Speaker 2: I said before, it's huge when we feel like we
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Speaker 2: can go out there and voice our opinions and have
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Speaker 2: a comfortable conversation without you know, there being any yelling
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Speaker 2: or arguing or anything like that. So I said, Joe
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Speaker 2: does a great job of managing that.
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Speaker 1: All. You know Joe Brady more than most do. You
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Speaker 1: know the culture in Buffalo. You know your quarterback really well.
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Speaker 1: And Josh Allen, what makes Joe Brady the right next
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Speaker 1: fit for what you have going on right now with
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Speaker 1: the Bills.
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Speaker 2: I've said a lot a lot of great things about him,
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Speaker 2: and he's just a dog. I think his mentality matches
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Speaker 2: with US players. He wants to win so so bad.
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Speaker 2: He does everything the right way. He makes sure that
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Speaker 2: we're all comfortable with, you know, the game plan going
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Speaker 2: into that week, and like I said, the respecting he
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Speaker 2: just he has a lot of respect for US players.
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Speaker 2: And then it's obviously we have a lot of respect
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Speaker 2: for him. But he's a guy that's just gonna put
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Speaker 2: his head down and coach to the best of his ability,
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Speaker 2: and then after every practice, after every game, you're never
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Speaker 2: gonna feel like Joe didn't do nothing. He's going to
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Speaker 2: make sure that he does everything that he can to
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Speaker 2: make sure we win games, and everything that he can
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Speaker 2: to make sure that US players are taken care of
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Speaker 2: healthy going into games. Man, I can go on and on.
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Speaker 2: I love the dude and family, man, and I'm excited
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Speaker 2: to see what's in store for the future.
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Speaker 1: Under Joe Brady. Buffalo's offense since twenty twenty four has
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Speaker 1: averaged about thirty points per game. So where does the
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Speaker 1: offense grow from here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think obviously with that, we just
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Speaker 2: work on cleaning up some of the little details that
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Speaker 2: we need to fix. But overall, I mean, I think
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Speaker 2: it's the if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right.
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Speaker 2: I think we need to obviously do a few things better.
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Speaker 2: And I think that just comes down to, like our
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Speaker 2: fundamentals and techniques, and you know, when when you get
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Speaker 2: tired and as the season goes on longer, you have
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Speaker 2: to really lean on those fundamentals and technique and Joe's
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Speaker 2: going to do a great job to make sure that
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Speaker 2: we stay on that throughout the whole season.
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Speaker 1: Now that Joe Brady is the head coach, he's over
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Speaker 1: the offense, the defense, special teams. Like I've said multiple times,
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Speaker 1: you know him better than so many people in this building.
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Speaker 1: Why will he be a good fit for the defense
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Speaker 1: as well?
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Speaker 2: Man, the juice that he brings to the offense, and
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Speaker 2: the vibe and the calm, cool, collected vibe that he
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Speaker 2: brings to us every single days now just going to
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Speaker 2: be spread out amongst the whole team, you know. So
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Speaker 2: it's going to fall over onto the defense and fall
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Speaker 2: over into special teams. And you know, I think having
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Speaker 2: that vibe throughout a whole building, throughout all three phases,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be hard to come to work and not
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Speaker 2: have a smile on your face. I Mean, I know
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Speaker 2: a lot of the defensive guys know him as well,
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Speaker 2: but to now have him kind of overlooking all that
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Speaker 2: they're gonna truly feel the impact that he has.
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Speaker 1: I love that. Did you know he started his coaching
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Speaker 1: career as a linebackers coach at William and Mary.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know he was a linebacker's coach, but I
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Speaker 2: knew he's at WIM and Mary. We had a lot
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Speaker 2: of women and Mary, So.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, so he's got he's got a little defensive background.
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Speaker 1: Even though he played wide receiver in college, guys started
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Speaker 1: out on the defensive side of the ball. So you
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Speaker 1: know he's been he's been there a little bit. Joe
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Speaker 1: Brady walked into the building this morning in shorts. It
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Speaker 1: is snowing outside, is colder than cold. What's your take
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Speaker 1: about how he's chronically inshorts.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it's. It's not for the cameras
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Speaker 2: or anything. Because he does it every single day. That's
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Speaker 2: that's Joe. Now. I don't have the exact answer as
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Speaker 2: to why he does it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, has anybody ever asked him like, okay, why why
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Speaker 1: why do you do this every day?
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Speaker 2: I've never thought the question him. I just maybe it's
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Speaker 2: it's his theme. So I just let it be and
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Speaker 2: it is what it is.
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Speaker 1: What it's what makes Joe Joe. Yeah, definitely, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: like it. Okay, last question, you got any good stories
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Speaker 1: about Joe Brady from any meetings, from practices, any funny
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Speaker 1: jokes they could share with a class Klill.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I'm trying to think here.
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Speaker 1: That speaks to his personality, maybe how he's calm, cool,
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Speaker 1: collected a little bit funny.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean, I don't know if it's it would
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Speaker 2: be funny or I think just to speak more on
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Speaker 2: who he is as a as a person. I remember
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Speaker 2: the whole no shoes things.
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Speaker 1: Going on around here, Yea and Max.
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Speaker 2: Joe loves to support his players, so he had no
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Speaker 2: shoes on for a while. And then again, it's not
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Speaker 2: a funny store, maybe one that people are interested in,
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Speaker 2: but he was rocking to those shoes for a while
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Speaker 2: as well, and that just shows to the type of
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Speaker 2: man that he is that he's gonna supports players.
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Speaker 1: I love that. That's a great way to end things. Khalil,
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Speaker 1: thanks for coming on to tell us all about Joe Brady.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard not to watch this and not
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Speaker 1: feel pumped about everything going on. So hopefully when our
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Speaker 1: fans check this out, they feel really excited about what
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Speaker 1: Buffalo has in the upcoming season in Joe Brady and
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Speaker 1: all the wonderful players like you who are going to
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Speaker 1: be back in the building soon enough. But we hope
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Speaker 1: you enjoy a couple months away from this place because
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Speaker 1: you deserve it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, Yah for having me