Full Transcript for Micah Hyde on the Bills' Defense, CJ Gardner-Johnson & Josh Allen

00:03:05.699 --> 00:03:07.939 Because it's not, I mean, we could poke all we 78 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:11.080 want at the DBs, but the linebackers have been extremely 79 00:03:11.139 --> 00:03:12.460 susceptible to the pass as well. 80 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:14.419 Yeah, I mean, it's both parties, right? 81 00:03:14.460 --> 00:03:16.219 Like, you know, you saw what two weeks ago the 82 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.620 Rams kind of just had their way, play-acting pass, throwing 83 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:22.180 stuff over the middle, deep overs, seven routes, stuff like that, right? And, 84 00:03:22.539 --> 00:03:25.960 you know, when you get in the game, and really 85 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.050 it starts that week of practice, right? Like, you know 86 00:03:28.189 --> 00:03:31.129 what they're running on, you know, the scheme they're running 87 00:03:31.289 --> 00:03:32.569 or the routes that they're running. 88 00:03:32.409 --> 00:03:33.210 On offense, right? 89 00:03:33.229 --> 00:03:37.930 And that's when all the conversation starts, right? From the 90 00:03:37.990 --> 00:03:41.090 day one, you go into the meetings, you already watch film. 91 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.180 you know, of, of who you're going to be playing. 92 00:03:43.219 --> 00:03:43.360 Right. 93 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:45.039 So now the coaches are giving you kind of the 94 00:03:45.060 --> 00:03:47.879 game plan when you, when you step in on, on Wednesday. 95 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:48.259 Right. 96 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.810 And so that's when that conversation starts is how you, 97 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:51.969 how you're matching up these routes. 98 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.009 What, you know, what calls are you making? How are 99 00:03:54.030 --> 00:03:55.710 you discussing, Hey, how do you see this? That type 100 00:03:55.729 --> 00:03:55.949 of thing. 101 00:03:55.969 --> 00:03:58.090 And so, you know, I just think that the communication 102 00:03:58.150 --> 00:03:59.789 has to get better. It has to get better. And 103 00:04:00.189 --> 00:04:02.250 you can't have guys, you know, 20 yards on the 104 00:04:02.270 --> 00:04:04.449 field that are, that are wide open. You can't have 105 00:04:04.490 --> 00:04:07.110 guys taking the top off the defense, you know, in a, 106 00:04:07.210 --> 00:04:10.009 in a, I think it was last night in the, 107 00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:13.159 or yesterday in the fourth quarter, um, that up 10 108 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.080 in the fourth and late in the fourth. And you 109 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:17.519 give up a 50 yard bomb over top. Like that's, 110 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:19.639 that's stuff that just can't happen. That's, that's how you 111 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:22.139 lose ball games. And, and fortunate enough, they, they were 112 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:22.750 able to win that. 113 00:04:22.810 --> 00:04:23.050 Right. 114 00:04:23.170 --> 00:04:25.410 You know, kudos to the offense was able to put 115 00:04:25.449 --> 00:04:27.990 up points and continue to do that. Hopefully continue to 116 00:04:28.029 --> 00:04:30.069 do that, but you can't always rely on that. You're 117 00:04:30.089 --> 00:04:31.470 going to have to find a way to get stops. And, 118 00:04:31.970 --> 00:04:33.870 and those are the things that beat you along with 119 00:04:34.430 --> 00:04:35.769 the penalties that they've had. Right. 120 00:04:35.850 --> 00:04:40.060 And it's just been tough. No doubt. We say all this. 121 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:44.879 This is a group that's got three new starters out 122 00:04:44.899 --> 00:04:47.699 there when you look at either IGB or Harrison, C.J. 123 00:04:47.740 --> 00:04:48.610 Gardner-Johnson, D. 124 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.779 Alford in the slot. You've got Christian Benford returning. You 125 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.079 have Cole Bishop returning. So you've got three of five 126 00:04:55.139 --> 00:04:58.670 new guys back there, one of the youngest defenses overall 127 00:04:58.750 --> 00:04:59.470 in the NFL. 128 00:04:59.730 --> 00:04:59.949 Correct. 129 00:05:00.290 --> 00:05:02.529 Is there hope that with the amount of youth that's 130 00:05:02.550 --> 00:05:05.990 starting to get playing time, even a Kilgore yesterday– and 131 00:05:06.009 --> 00:05:07.920 you've got some of these younger guys playing more and more, 132 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:10.699 is there hope that as the season goes on, you know, 133 00:05:10.779 --> 00:05:13.959 Kilgore now knows, and I know he knows already, but 134 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:15.519 this is a dude who played a lot of nickel 135 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:17.740 in college, and so he's playing safety and he gets 136 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:19.920 the top taken off over the top at the end 137 00:05:19.939 --> 00:05:23.139 of the game. Is there hope that as these lessons 138 00:05:23.180 --> 00:05:27.100 continue to come, you eliminate them, and by the end 139 00:05:27.139 --> 00:05:30.939 of the season, this is a secondary that can be 140 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:32.129 a whole lot better than they are right now? 141 00:05:32.389 --> 00:05:34.350 I mean, you would hope, right? Like that's, that's, that's 142 00:05:34.410 --> 00:05:37.230 my understanding of this thing, right? Like that's where I'm at, 143 00:05:37.269 --> 00:05:40.209 where I'm like, Hey, you know, everybody just relax, everybody 144 00:05:40.250 --> 00:05:40.629 calm down. 145 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:41.899 There's going to be these growing pains. 146 00:05:42.180 --> 00:05:44.120 Number one, when you have, when you have young corners 147 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.600 and you know, young secondary players alone, like you're going 148 00:05:47.660 --> 00:05:50.699 to have growing pains playing corner in the national football 149 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.879 league is, is one of the hardest things to do 150 00:05:53.939 --> 00:05:54.379 in sports. 151 00:05:54.620 --> 00:05:54.839 Right. 152 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.819 And so, you know, you like, I knew that

was 153 00:05:57.850 --> 00:06:01.069 going to happen coming into it. I didn't think that the, the, the, 154 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.740 I guess with Cole being out there and CB being 155 00:06:04.779 --> 00:06:08.300 out there, I felt like there would be more cohesiveness 156 00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:10.939 even with just them two, even though there's three new 157 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.000 guys stepping in. But you want to think that each 158 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.699 and every week they are making mistakes, but the thing 159 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:18.660 I've always learned is don't make the same mistake twice. 160 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.800 That's a coach's nightmare. If you've got a player that 161 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:23.639 continues to make the same mistake and he's not learning 162 00:06:23.689 --> 00:06:27.189 from those things, then you can't play him. And so 163 00:06:27.209 --> 00:06:30.050 they've got to continue to grow out there and evolve 164 00:06:30.089 --> 00:06:33.399 and get better. but just do not mess up on 165 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.560 those same things that you talked about in week two 166 00:06:36.610 --> 00:06:37.509 and then showing up again in week 10. 167 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:39.850 You can't have that. No doubt, no doubt. 168 00:06:40.870 --> 00:06:43.589 Do you think there's any shot that we get another 169 00:06:44.269 --> 00:06:46.629 Micah Hyde or Jordan Poirier called to the practice squad 170 00:06:46.649 --> 00:06:46.949 this year? 171 00:06:47.910 --> 00:06:50.389 No, not with me. I'm going to tell you right now, 172 00:06:50.410 --> 00:06:52.360 not with me. Ewood, I'm chilling, man. I got a 173 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:54.279 lot of stuff going on in here. I got a six-month-old. 174 00:06:54.779 --> 00:06:56.639 I will not be making that trip back to Western 175 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.399 New York to be playing. Now I plan on going 176 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.040 back to, you know, legend of the game and doing 177 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:04.620 all types of things and seeing the new stadium, but 178 00:07:04.779 --> 00:07:07.100 not to put on that jersey. But, you know, hey, 179 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:10.300 give that call to Jay Poe. You know, I know 180 00:07:10.339 --> 00:07:12.670 he's doing some things too, but he might go down there. 181 00:07:12.750 --> 00:07:15.110 He might be able to go up to Western New York. 182 00:07:14.949 --> 00:07:19.569 And to Buffalo and, you know, share his mentorship or leadership, 183 00:07:19.589 --> 00:07:20.189 whatever you want to say. 184 00:07:20.629 --> 00:07:21.949 How weird was it for you? 185 00:07:21.970 --> 00:07:23.889 Because it was weird for me, but he came in 186 00:07:23.930 --> 00:07:26.750 the year after I got there. So I've covered him 187 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.500 for a long time, but I've seen him in the 188 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:29.420 Bills uniform so often. 189 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:30.139 Much. 190 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.439 How, how weird was it seeing Taron Johnson, your boy 191 00:07:32.459 --> 00:07:35.079 who you played countless snaps with in a Raiders uniform 192 00:07:35.100 --> 00:07:36.180 yesterday playing against the bills? 193 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:37.620 Yeah, it was wild. It was wild. 194 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:39.870 You know, I was watching, I'm just like, wow, like 195 00:07:39.949 --> 00:07:41.790 it's crazy how things, how things shake out. 196 00:07:41.829 --> 00:07:42.009 Right. 197 00:07:42.050 --> 00:07:45.430 Because, you know, I played a bunch of ball with Taron, 198 00:07:45.470 --> 00:07:47.910 love him, love his family. Um, you know, they, they 199 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:50.500 made that trip to Vegas over the off season. I 200 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:51.899 was able to talk to him a few times about 201 00:07:51.939 --> 00:07:54.319 that experience and what, you know, how it was going 202 00:07:54.339 --> 00:07:57.019 down and, um you know just how he is as 203 00:07:57.050 --> 00:07:59.189 a person right like how is it living in vegas 204 00:07:59.209 --> 00:08:01.009 how is it you know how's the family doing how 205 00:08:01.110 --> 00:08:03.050 all this type of things and then see him you 206 00:08:03.069 --> 00:08:05.509 know playing against his former team i know for me 207 00:08:05.589 --> 00:08:08.129 like he would that was difficult bro like you were 208 00:08:08.149 --> 00:08:10.490 in buffalo your whole career right yep yeah so for 209 00:08:10.529 --> 00:08:13.250 me like when i when i went to buffalo went 210 00:08:13.290 --> 00:08:14.910 back to play green bay i ended up getting hurt 211 00:08:14.930 --> 00:08:17.189 and damn like a couple snaps in the game so 212 00:08:17.269 --> 00:08:19.129 that was pissed about that but like it was super 213 00:08:19.170 --> 00:08:21.319 weird because you know all you know you know, all 214 00:08:21.339 --> 00:08:23.579 the players, you know, all the staff, everybody's buttering you 215 00:08:23.620 --> 00:08:25.259 up for the game and telling you how good you've 216 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.139 been playing and, you know, all this type of stuff, 217 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.180 but you got to have that mindset. Like, I don't 218 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:30.480 care what you guys are saying. I need to go 219 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:31.459 out here and play my game. 220 00:08:31.500 --> 00:08:31.699 Right. 221 00:08:31.779 --> 00:08:34.600 So, and then even playing against guys that are my friends, 222 00:08:34.850 --> 00:08:37.529 if I was playing against a receiver, you know, that I, 223 00:08:37.730 --> 00:08:39.570 that in the off season, we, we hang out. We, 224 00:08:39.590 --> 00:08:41.350 you know, I, I went to, maybe I went to 225 00:08:41.389 --> 00:08:44.029 college with, or whatever I played with in, in green Bay. 226 00:08:44.409 --> 00:08:46.509 It was always difficult for me. So I asked Taryn 227 00:08:46.529 --> 00:08:48.230 after the game yesterday, like, how

was that? And he's like, 228 00:08:48.250 --> 00:08:49.889 you know, everybody was showing love and doing all that 229 00:08:49.909 --> 00:08:52.789 type of stuff. But, It was always real hard for me. 230 00:08:52.830 --> 00:08:55.750 I don't know about you, but it's just a totally 231 00:08:55.769 --> 00:08:58.110 different mindset from the offseason to actually playing against somebody. 232 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.860 For me, the hardest thing was when I really liked 233 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.440 the nose guard I was going up against. And the 234 00:09:04.500 --> 00:09:06.960 best example I'll give, so I'm originally from Cincinnati. I 235 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:08.639 go to a lot of charity events up there still 236 00:09:08.740 --> 00:09:10.659 and whatnot. Domita Pecco is a guy who I spent 237 00:09:10.700 --> 00:09:12.919 a lot of time with. He's one of the nicest 238 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.950 people in the world regardless. But then when you get 239 00:09:15.970 --> 00:09:18.210 to know him, You know, right before the first play 240 00:09:18.230 --> 00:09:20.570 of the game. Not like pre-warm-ups and all that. Right 241 00:09:20.590 --> 00:09:22.409 before the first play of the game. Hey, how's the 242 00:09:22.460 --> 00:09:23.049 family doing? 243 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:23.740 Oh, bro. 244 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:27.000 All love, man. Let's have a great day. Hey, let's go. 245 00:09:27.059 --> 00:09:31.700 Let's compete. It's hard. It's hard. Like, I want to 246 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:34.360 hate that nose guard. I want to embarrass him. Yes. 247 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:35.799 I want both of those. 248 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:37.399 I don't want to know his family. I don't want 249 00:09:37.419 --> 00:09:40.259 to think about that type of stuff. Like, it's kill 250 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:41.950 or be killed mentality out there. 251 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.830 No doubt. And so, those were always the toughest ones 252 00:09:44.870 --> 00:09:45.669 for me. Or even. 253 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.620 I mean, hell, my rookie year, I do the Joe 254 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.259 Theismann leg break. A former college teammate of mine who 255 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.889 I was close with was who dove for Ryan Fitzpatrick, 256 00:09:53.950 --> 00:09:56.169 misses him, dives right through the side of my leg. 257 00:09:56.590 --> 00:09:59.200 He's crying before I do, and he talked about like 258 00:09:59.220 --> 00:10:01.200 how tough it was for him to continue playing that 259 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.779 game after I get carted off in an ambulance and 260 00:10:03.820 --> 00:10:06.279 he's the reason why and obviously it wasn't intentional but 261 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.799 yeah yeah that's that's an underlying thing in the league 262 00:10:08.820 --> 00:10:11.440 where it's like man it's fun to go out and 263 00:10:11.460 --> 00:10:14.299 compete against dudes you hate and you know at the 264 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.799 end of the

game we're gonna dap each other up 265 00:10:17.269 --> 00:10:19.850 and I hope you leave the game healthy as well. 266 00:10:19.669 --> 00:10:21.320 But I'm trying to embarrass you. 267 00:10:21.629 --> 00:10:23.559 Yeah, even fans, like, after the game, right, where they see, like, 268 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.820 swapping jerseys and stuff, like, why are they so buddy-buddy 269 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:28.299 and hugging and doing all that? 270 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.419 Because, like, that's my best friend in the offseason. 271 00:10:30.740 --> 00:10:32.610 Yeah. He just so happens to be on our rival 272 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.029 football team. Like, I can't, you know, there's nothing I 273 00:10:35.070 --> 00:10:36.110 can do. That's out of my control. 274 00:10:36.330 --> 00:10:38.009 One of my. 275 00:10:37.950 --> 00:10:41.289 Best friends, Brenno Giacomini, I think you all overlapped at 276 00:10:41.649 --> 00:10:43.950 maybe for a minute in Green Bay. Who was this? 277 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.320 Brenno Giacomini. No, no, I never met him. 278 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:46.860 Okay. Okay. 279 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.279 So he must have– he got drafted to Green Bay. 280 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:51.960 He must have left for Seattle right before you got there. 281 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.299 And then he was with the Jets after Seattle, and 282 00:10:55.340 --> 00:10:57.519 we lose to the Jets at the Jets, and he 283 00:10:57.539 --> 00:10:59.549 wanted to do a jersey swap with me after the game. 284 00:10:59.570 --> 00:11:01.490 And I was like, no, we'll do this in the offseason, 285 00:11:01.509 --> 00:11:03.529 but I'm not walking back in the locker room with 286 00:11:03.610 --> 00:11:06.610 your jersey like after we just lost a game. 287 00:11:06.809 --> 00:11:10.470 Was I on that team? Was it the 2018 Jets? 288 00:11:11.220 --> 00:11:14.519 No, this would have been 15– this was probably right 289 00:11:14.539 --> 00:11:16.419 before you got there when he was with the Jets 290 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:17.899 because– I don't think. 291 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.500 It was the 2017 game. Yeah, 2017 game. Remember we 292 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.460 got whooped up there? They were dancing on us. Oh, dude, 293 00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:24.120 that was awful. 294 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:29.240 Yeah, they had the whole stadium playing music, and their 295 00:11:29.259 --> 00:11:30.370 whole team is dancing. 296 00:11:30.419 --> 00:11:33.149 That's a terrible feeling. Yeah, we remembered that the whole 297 00:11:33.169 --> 00:11:34.009 time we were in Buffalo. 298 00:11:34.970 --> 00:11:36.669 If you haven't already, you have to check out my 299 00:11:36.730 --> 00:11:39.750 friends over at Azuna Fresh. 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Gardner-Johnson 311 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:12.220 ejection and the spitting incident with Brock Bowers yesterday? 312 00:12:12.389 --> 00:12:15.269 I was, I was alive on the, the, on post podcast. 313 00:12:15.289 --> 00:12:17.970 We were watching the game and, you know, there was 314 00:12:18.009 --> 00:12:20.289 a flag, didn't know what happened. It looked like he 315 00:12:20.330 --> 00:12:21.700 just like might've said something to somebody. 316 00:12:21.740 --> 00:12:25.279 Right. And then, uh, he runs his mouth the whole game. Yeah. Yeah. 317 00:12:25.299 --> 00:12:25.519 Yeah. 318 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.059 Which is, that's, that's normal. Right. 319 00:12:27.139 --> 00:12:30.360 And, um, you know, I, I, uh, saw the replay 320 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:31.740 and I'm like, Oh, he spit on something like that. 321 00:12:32.299 --> 00:12:34.580 You know, he would like that. That's like a, that's 322 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.419 something that even at a young age, right. When you 323 00:12:36.460 --> 00:12:38.580 put that helmet on, like, that's just something you don't do. 324 00:12:38.620 --> 00:12:39.279 It's disgusting. 325 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.059 And so, you know, I think, what was it, last 326 00:12:42.100 --> 00:12:44.500 year or two years ago, the opening game, was it 327 00:12:45.100 --> 00:12:48.480 Carter for the Eagles? Did that to Dak Prescott, right, 328 00:12:48.500 --> 00:12:49.639 and got ejected. 329 00:12:49.659 --> 00:12:51.100 Yeah, it was like the first play of the game 330 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.220 or something. First play of the game, yeah, and that happened, right? 331 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:55.460 So, like, you see that going on in the NFL, 332 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:57.509 but you think, like, there's no way that's going to 333 00:12:57.539 --> 00:12:59.669 happen again. And then, you know, it does, and it's like, 334 00:12:59.690 --> 00:13:02.730 come on, guys, like, we can't have that. So it's frustrating, right, because, 335 00:13:02.750 --> 00:13:05.759 you know, even talking to Poe, like, you know, when 336 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:07.840 it comes to the secondary that, you know, something that 337 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:09.779 we've been able to do over those years is like 338 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:11.820 to set a standard,

right? And there's still some guys 339 00:13:11.860 --> 00:13:13.899 with CB and, you know, we were both there with 340 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:17.179 Cole and, you know, a few other guys that really 341 00:13:17.259 --> 00:13:19.940 understand the standard of playing in that Buffalo Bill secondary. 342 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.019 And it's just not, you know, it's not showing that. 343 00:13:24.210 --> 00:13:26.570 And then when you have someone that's spitting on somebody 344 00:13:26.590 --> 00:13:28.509 else and getting ejected, like that's like something that is 345 00:13:28.529 --> 00:13:30.870 just so bizarre to me that would have never happened 346 00:13:31.429 --> 00:13:34.730 you know, from any of us just understanding how that 347 00:13:34.750 --> 00:13:36.590 would hurt your football team, right? How that would hurt 348 00:13:36.610 --> 00:13:39.049 the defense, how that would hurt, you know, the secondary 349 00:13:39.070 --> 00:13:41.820 and stuff like that. So it's frustrating. Hopefully he can, 350 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:46.639 you know, put that behind him and learn from the situation. 351 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.600 I know that he's a very emotional football player, right? 352 00:13:49.620 --> 00:13:50.820 Like it's cool to see. 353 00:13:51.139 --> 00:13:52.159 I don't know how the hell he does it. 354 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:53.480 I was at the LA game and I was watching 355 00:13:53.500 --> 00:13:55.600 him live and like just to watch him on the sideline, 356 00:13:55.620 --> 00:13:58.480 that dude has a bizarre amount of energy. I don't 357 00:13:58.500 --> 00:14:00.200 know how he saves it, you know, go out there 358 00:14:00.220 --> 00:14:04.289 and play, but Hopefully he can channel it into frustration 359 00:14:05.470 --> 00:14:06.629 and go out there and play better. 360 00:14:07.769 --> 00:14:08.090 No doubt. 361 00:14:08.450 --> 00:14:11.580 And I almost feel like right now, and who knows 362 00:14:11.620 --> 00:14:14.100 what happens if there is an additional suspension, if the health, 363 00:14:14.139 --> 00:14:16.220 the bills do something, if they bench him, you know, 364 00:14:16.419 --> 00:14:17.120 we don't know what's. 365 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:17.559 Going to happen. 366 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.419 He put out an apology last night on social media, 367 00:14:20.470 --> 00:14:23.289 which is the right thing to do. But I feel 368 00:14:23.309 --> 00:14:25.509 like this is a major torn turning point in the 369 00:14:25.549 --> 00:14:28.279 season for him. Like There's a reason he's been on 370 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.440 so many teams recently is because he. 371 00:14:30.419 --> 00:14:31.559 Wears out his welcome quick. 372 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.399 He has a chance right now to say and do 373 00:14:34.419 --> 00:14:37.299 the right things, put his head down, keep his mouth 374 00:14:37.340 --> 00:14:40.120 shut for a little bit, because even coming out of 375 00:14:40.139 --> 00:14:42.980 the Patriots game, it's like, bro, you're just giving. 376 00:14:42.740 --> 00:14:45.620 More bulletin board material. You're talking about some dude. 377 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.950 You're basically revealing that you didn't know who one of 378 00:14:49.990 --> 00:14:51.490 the receivers were that was going to play when you 379 00:14:51.529 --> 00:14:53.570 said he was a practice squad elevation. He's never been 380 00:14:53.610 --> 00:14:54.830 a practice squad elevation player. 381 00:14:55.669 --> 00:14:56.289 In his career. 382 00:14:56.350 --> 00:14:58.450 He made the team last year, and this is his 383 00:14:58.490 --> 00:15:01.210 second year. And so you put all that out there, 384 00:15:01.370 --> 00:15:04.330 then you do this, and it just seems like this 385 00:15:04.389 --> 00:15:06.690 is a pivotal point right now where if he can 386 00:15:06.750 --> 00:15:08.830 say and do the right things coming out of the bye, 387 00:15:09.809 --> 00:15:12.509 everyone will be like, look, he had a rough start 388 00:15:12.549 --> 00:15:14.750 to his career in Buffalo, and look, he turned it around. 389 00:15:14.789 --> 00:15:17.240 He became a playmaker for the Bills, and he became 390 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:20.750 a veteran in that group, which we needed him to be. Instead, 391 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.220 right now, that's not how anyone sees him. But I 392 00:15:23.259 --> 00:15:25.679 truly do think this could be a turning point for him. 393 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.440 But it's going one way or the other quick to 394 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:30.259 where it wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't on the 395 00:15:30.340 --> 00:15:33.080 team at the end of the season if he stays 396 00:15:33.100 --> 00:15:35.480 down this path. But you also have the opportunity to 397 00:15:35.500 --> 00:15:38.460 go the exact opposite direction. And obviously, I hope that's 398 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:38.940 where it goes. 399 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:40.179 Yeah, I agree. I agree. 400 00:15:40.220 --> 00:15:43.440 And, Ewood, you know, we've been in a locker room 401 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:44.799 with some characters. 402 00:15:46.740 --> 00:15:47.659 When I got there in 17, oh, my God. 403 00:15:49.830 --> 00:15:55.389 You guys already had some characters on that Bills team. But, no, 404 00:15:55.409 --> 00:15:58.080 I think what it comes down to, number one, is 405 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.299 once you get through this bye, just doing the right things. 406 00:16:01.419 --> 00:16:03.399 But at the end of the day, you've got to 407 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:03.940 play well. 408 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:06.820 Because no organization is going to put up with what's 409 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:10.059 going on, getting ejected, and the things that you're saying 410 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:11.799 to the media and all that if you're not playing well. 411 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.120 You've got to go out there. 412 00:16:13.830 --> 00:16:16.450 A lot of teams, a lot of organizations around

the league, 413 00:16:16.470 --> 00:16:19.809 they'll ignore all that stuff. if you're out there balling 414 00:16:20.029 --> 00:16:22.070 and you're making plays and helping them win the games, right? 415 00:16:22.110 --> 00:16:23.820 But if you're not doing that or you're getting ejected 416 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:25.919 and you're not able to be on the field, they're 417 00:16:25.940 --> 00:16:28.840 going to make some moves. So, listen, you know Bean. 418 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:33.399 You know the Bills organization. They're not about any of that. 419 00:16:33.539 --> 00:16:37.480 That's not what Joe Brady is preaching and stuff. They 420 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.279 need leaders in the secondary right now. With the way 421 00:16:40.299 --> 00:16:43.139 that they're playing, the leadership is the number one thing 422 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.220 that they need. And so I'm curious to see what 423 00:16:46.779 --> 00:16:47.519 comes of that for sure. 424 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.779 This Bill's offense, highest scoring offense in the league right now. 425 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:55.139 They're on an absolute tear. From a defender's perspective, like 426 00:16:55.179 --> 00:16:57.320 you're prepping to play this Bill's offense. 427 00:16:57.919 --> 00:16:58.700 Where are you starting? 428 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:00.559 Are you starting with, hey, Josh Allen might be the 429 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:02.940 best player on the planet. We got to shut his 430 00:17:02.980 --> 00:17:04.549 legs down. We don't want to take the top off 431 00:17:04.569 --> 00:17:07.750 the defense, make all these throws. You also have one 432 00:17:07.769 --> 00:17:09.789 of the most productive running games in the league with 433 00:17:09.809 --> 00:17:11.910 James Cook. And if they get that running game going, 434 00:17:11.950 --> 00:17:14.049 it opens up everything else. So do you say, okay, 435 00:17:14.089 --> 00:17:16.960 maybe we try and take away the run. and we'll 436 00:17:16.980 --> 00:17:19.559 deal with the past. Like as a defender, how are 437 00:17:19.579 --> 00:17:22.180 you looking at this Bill's offense trying to take something away? 438 00:17:23.349 --> 00:17:25.529 Well, I mean, you have to start by talking about 439 00:17:25.549 --> 00:17:29.450 Josh and everything that he presents, right? Just everything you mentioned, 440 00:17:29.490 --> 00:17:32.829 his arm, his legs. I mean, really his insight, right? 441 00:17:32.890 --> 00:17:35.630 He's a general out there. He's getting, you know, Joe 442 00:17:35.650 --> 00:17:39.039 Brady's a genius calling plays and Josh is making those 443 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:40.839 adjustments to get them into the right call and stuff 444 00:17:40.859 --> 00:17:41.279 like that, right? 445 00:17:41.299 --> 00:17:42.299 So you got to start off with Josh. 446 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:46.329 But I think since day one playing football and playing 447 00:17:46.710 --> 00:17:48.869 and playing on defense, it stopped the run,

right? 448 00:17:48.930 --> 00:17:50.049 Because you can't. 449 00:17:49.849 --> 00:17:53.329 Give Josh that, that run game. And then also allow 450 00:17:53.369 --> 00:17:56.910 him to, to play action off of that or, you know, 451 00:17:56.970 --> 00:17:59.119 draw back off of that. And, and this is going 452 00:17:59.130 --> 00:18:01.099 to be a nightmare for, for, for the defense, which is, 453 00:18:01.380 --> 00:18:02.859 you can already see in the, in the past couple 454 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.759 of weeks, it has been. So I think it's stopping 455 00:18:05.779 --> 00:18:08.700 the run and then trying to manage Josh, keep him, 456 00:18:09.339 --> 00:18:11.779 keep him in that, keep him in that pocket because 457 00:18:11.859 --> 00:18:13.809 once he gets out, it's over with. And, and, And 458 00:18:13.849 --> 00:18:16.039 I was talking about this on the Buffalo Pulse podcast 459 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:21.619 last week. Spying him isn't really beneficial to you because 460 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.700 they do have weapons on the outside, but then also 461 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.700 who are you going to spy him with? Not a 462 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:27.440 defensive lineman. It didn't work. 463 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:29.009 With Landman last week in the middle of the field 464 00:18:29.049 --> 00:18:29.589 for the Rams. 465 00:18:29.910 --> 00:18:32.390 Yeah, you can try a linebacker, but it has to 466 00:18:32.430 --> 00:18:35.460 be a special guy. It has to be And I 467 00:18:35.500 --> 00:18:38.039 brought up the name Fred Warner. Those type of guys 468 00:18:38.099 --> 00:18:40.740 are able to spy and be able to get him down. 469 00:18:41.019 --> 00:18:42.819 And I felt like Bolton did a good job for 470 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.220 the Chiefs. Not one of the top linebackers. He was 471 00:18:45.289 --> 00:18:47.150 just so fast and physical. 472 00:18:47.509 --> 00:18:51.730 Exactly. He could match athleticism with you. Exactly. And then 473 00:18:51.950 --> 00:18:53.289 sometimes the safety is too small. 474 00:18:53.490 --> 00:18:57.730 So I think when it comes to, if I'm drawing 475 00:18:57.769 --> 00:19:01.240 it up against the Buffalo Bills offense, stopping the run, 476 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.940 And I need, you know, depending on who I have 477 00:19:03.980 --> 00:19:06.980 on the outside, corners and safety-wise to be able to 478 00:19:07.009 --> 00:19:09.130 match up against some of these weapons because they do 479 00:19:09.190 --> 00:19:11.119 have plenty of them. They only have DJ Morin right now. And, 480 00:19:11.710 --> 00:19:14.049 you know, you see Keon coming alive, which I love 481 00:19:14.069 --> 00:19:16.950 to see. You know what I'm saying? That was my 482 00:19:16.990 --> 00:19:19.710 pick at the beginning of the season to have a 483 00:19:19.750 --> 00:19:21.450 breakout year and hopefully continues on with that. 484 00:19:21.529 --> 00:19:22.869 I saw you put that out there, so I'll give 485 00:19:22.890 --> 00:19:24.509 you the credit on that one. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, man. 486 00:19:24.549 --> 00:19:25.029 I appreciate that. 487 00:19:25.069 --> 00:19:26.869 Mine was Greg Rousseau, which is looking pretty good as well. 488 00:19:26.910 --> 00:19:29.009 There you go. So, hey, we're both doing good. 489 00:19:29.029 --> 00:19:31.769 Maybe we should– We need to, you know, keep talking 490 00:19:31.789 --> 00:19:33.529 about this stuff because, you know, we're right and we're 491 00:19:33.549 --> 00:19:36.769 putting it in the air. But, you know, Kincaid, obviously, 492 00:19:36.809 --> 00:19:38.549 just the weapons that they have, right? You've got to 493 00:19:38.589 --> 00:19:43.089 somehow be able to match those guys up and pivotal 494 00:19:43.210 --> 00:19:46.049 downs and pivotal situations and then, you know, be able 495 00:19:46.089 --> 00:19:47.049 to get some eyes on Josh. 496 00:19:47.529 --> 00:19:47.730 Yep. 497 00:19:47.910 --> 00:19:50.359 And then take some chances at turnovers. and that's where 498 00:19:50.380 --> 00:19:53.359 you're seeing james cook there's times where he's getting more 499 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:55.920 yards per carry because guys are going for the swipe 500 00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:59.690 and they're going for the punch but they've been successful 501 00:19:59.690 --> 00:20:02.710 11 fumbles since the start of 2025 most of the 502 00:20:02.750 --> 00:20:05.990 league that's been well documented when you look at james 503 00:20:06.029 --> 00:20:09.299 cook and the is there anything from a defender's perspective 504 00:20:09.339 --> 00:20:12.160 that you're seeing like, Ooh, he's presenting opportunities or is 505 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:14.759 it simply like teams are coming in? Like we have 506 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:17.180 to try to steal a possession against this bills team. 507 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:18.980 So we're just going to keep punching at it. And 508 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:21.269 if we land to a game, it's worth it. 509 00:20:21.710 --> 00:20:23.269 You got to steal possession away from Josh. 510 00:20:23.549 --> 00:20:23.769 Yep. 511 00:20:24.069 --> 00:20:25.789 And if you can, if you can do that, then it's, 512 00:20:26.329 --> 00:20:26.910 it's huge. Yeah. 513 00:20:27.309 --> 00:20:30.630 You know, for, for defensive player watching the film on 514 00:20:30.670 --> 00:20:33.750 their run game on James cook, that's all you're thinking about. 515 00:20:33.769 --> 00:20:35.769 That's all any team is talking about this week, right? 516 00:20:35.789 --> 00:20:39.319 Because it's, you know, it's forcing Josh into error throws. 517 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:41.960 And when that happens, you have to capitalize on it. 518 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:44.380 It can't be drops. It can't be anything like that, right? 519 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.900 What game was it where it was dropped in the Houston? 520 00:20:48.049 --> 00:20:49.160 First game of the year, right? 521 00:20:49.289 -->

00:20:50.680 Yeah, last or at the end. 522 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:53.269 Yeah, like those are the plays you have to make 523 00:20:53.329 --> 00:20:55.950 against Josh Allen or else what you saw, I think, 524 00:20:55.970 --> 00:20:57.109 is going to go down in the score and win 525 00:20:57.130 --> 00:20:59.490 the game off of that. So, number one, the error 526 00:20:59.549 --> 00:21:01.589 throws or anything like that to put Josh in position. But, yeah, 527 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:04.150 they're watching tons of– they're watching each and every one 528 00:21:04.170 --> 00:21:07.500 of James Cook's fumbles. over the last couple years, every 529 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:09.660 single one of them. And they're seeing how that happened. 530 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.170 Was it all punches? Was it getting the ball away 531 00:21:12.190 --> 00:21:16.549 from his body and someone coming from behind? So every 532 00:21:16.569 --> 00:21:20.450 day in practice, you're doing that. And he's going to continue. 533 00:21:20.730 --> 00:21:22.450 We have a saying as a defensive player, once a fumbler, 534 00:21:22.509 --> 00:21:26.799 always a fumbler. That's a real thing. And so he's 535 00:21:26.819 --> 00:21:29.859 going to continue to get just haymakers thrown at him 536 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.440 until he just doesn't fumble anymore. 537 00:21:32.539 --> 00:21:34.359 And even then, he's going to get it, right? That's 538 00:21:34.380 --> 00:21:35.160 the life of a running back. 539 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:38.299 Yeah, and I thought yesterday he did a great job 540 00:21:38.339 --> 00:21:40.819 of keeping two ends of the football, sometimes almost a 541 00:21:40.819 --> 00:21:42.559 little too good of a job. But you go into 542 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:44.140 that game like, I can't put one on the ground, 543 00:21:44.180 --> 00:21:46.319 and I know it. And so maybe you left a 544 00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:48.019 few yards on the table, but you were going to 545 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:51.480 keep that ball secure. From my perspective, watching a lot 546 00:21:51.500 --> 00:21:55.200 of his fumbles, it's never the guy he's anticipating contact 547 00:21:55.259 --> 00:21:58.619 with or trying to make– well, it's generally a dude 548 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:01.220 who's getting blocked, and he thinks he's blowing by him. 549 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:04.960 and someone just reaches out. Like, that's how Landman got 550 00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:06.779 him twice. He was getting blocked by Olam, and he 551 00:22:06.819 --> 00:22:10.900 just threw a hand out there. And so, you know, look, 552 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:12.859 and that's me watching from the booth and. 553 00:22:13.069 --> 00:22:14.609 Watching some clips afterwards. 554 00:22:15.390 --> 00:22:17.509 And I'm sure they told him, like, hey, you almost 555 00:22:17.549 --> 00:22:20.269 have to be a little bit more anticipatory that it's 556 00:22:20.329 --> 00:22:22.829 not the guys that necessarily you see that are

getting you. 557 00:22:23.049 --> 00:22:26.230 It's the defensive linemen or linebackers that are engaged in blocks, 558 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:28.440 and you think you're running by them, but they can 559 00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:30.579 still take a swipe in those instances, even if they 560 00:22:30.619 --> 00:22:31.500 can't bring you to the ground. 561 00:22:31.750 --> 00:22:32.670 Exactly. Exactly. 562 00:22:32.690 --> 00:22:35.230 So, you know, James is watching those. He's watching those 563 00:22:35.250 --> 00:22:37.839 same things. He's getting his coaching on it, too. So 564 00:22:38.130 --> 00:22:39.059 I love the way he runs the. 565 00:22:39.019 --> 00:22:39.539 Football, man. 566 00:22:39.579 --> 00:22:43.299 That dude is poetry in motion. He's so patient when 567 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:46.019 he hits it. It's like his center of gravity. It's 568 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:48.140 like low center of gravity, and it just stays here 569 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.970 the entire time. Huge fan of Jimbo, man. And, you know, 570 00:22:52.450 --> 00:22:55.150 like he said last week, see me on Sunday, baby. 571 00:22:56.089 --> 00:22:57.609 I'll make adjustments. I'm going to go out there and 572 00:22:57.630 --> 00:22:58.109 make plays. 573 00:22:58.150 --> 00:22:59.890 So, you know, he's one of those guys that, like, 574 00:23:00.579 --> 00:23:02.640 Just being in the locker room with him, he doesn't 575 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:05.299 say much. Much doesn't need to be said to him. 576 00:23:05.619 --> 00:23:07.460 Just go ahead and give him the rock on Sunday. 577 00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:10.380 And he's happy. We're all happy. We're winning games. So 578 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:11.319 continue on with that. 579 00:23:11.740 --> 00:23:14.539 Yeah, those are good teammates to have. You don't need 580 00:23:14.579 --> 00:23:16.660 a ton of big personalities in the locker room. Guys 581 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.269 like James Cook, you're like, give me a whole bunch 582 00:23:19.309 --> 00:23:20.990 of James Cooks out there where I know he's going 583 00:23:21.009 --> 00:23:21.430 to show up. 584 00:23:21.450 --> 00:23:23.529 He brings it every week. 585 00:23:23.589 --> 00:23:26.410 There's never a game where I'm like, ooh, James Cook 586 00:23:26.470 --> 00:23:27.529 isn't running that hard right now. 587 00:23:27.549 --> 00:23:27.950 Never. Never. 588 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:30.869 That'll never happen. That's not him. 589 00:23:30.890 --> 00:23:33.970 Yeah, that's definitely not him. And so, you know, I 590 00:23:34.009 --> 00:23:36.369 know he, I guarantee he's probably frustrated about those fumbles, 591 00:23:36.410 --> 00:23:38.869 but he's going to move on and do what he does. 592 00:23:39.089 --> 00:23:40.599 Let's take a quick break to hear about our friends 593 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:42.730 over at Dano's. 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We've got the trade deadline coming 605 00:24:13.269 --> 00:24:16.109 up on November 10th. Is there anyone out there in 606 00:24:16.150 --> 00:24:18.009 particular where you're saying, man, I'd like to see the 607 00:24:18.049 --> 00:24:20.890 bills go after this guy or this position group to 608 00:24:20.930 --> 00:24:23.170 try and help them out for this next stretch of 609 00:24:23.190 --> 00:24:23.549 the season? 610 00:24:23.910 --> 00:24:26.470 I mean, we, we spoke already about the DBs, right? 611 00:24:26.630 --> 00:24:29.170 You know, I know that being has to be filling 612 00:24:29.190 --> 00:24:31.630 some conversations about that, right? Like there's, it's, it's a 613 00:24:31.670 --> 00:24:36.910 huge concern. You know, we talked about, you know, CJ 614 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:39.880 and his antics and stuff that, you know, on and 615 00:24:40.019 --> 00:24:45.079 off the field, you know, it's, it's not like they, 616 00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:48.779 they didn't, you know, come out of free agency and, and, and, 617 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:51.400 and back up the Brinks truck for, you know, for, 618 00:24:51.500 --> 00:24:52.019 for CJ. 619 00:24:52.099 --> 00:24:52.299 Right. 620 00:24:52.420 --> 00:24:55.140 And, and, and, and I'm saying that because I want 621 00:24:55.180 --> 00:24:58.200 CJ to be a great player for this defense. But 622 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:01.400 if you're talking about a concern area, you've got to 623 00:25:01.420 --> 00:25:03.609 bring up the secondary. And so, you know, I bet 624 00:25:03.650 --> 00:25:06.029 you beans having those conversations, it wouldn't be a bad 625 00:25:06.049 --> 00:25:07.529 thing to, to bring in somebody. 626 00:25:07.569 --> 00:25:08.910 I don't have a name, right. 627 00:25:08.930 --> 00:25:12.119 If you look at the, The teams that are winless 628 00:25:12.259 --> 00:25:15.140 or seem right now like they're not going to the playoffs, 629 00:25:15.180 --> 00:25:18.940 you got who? You got the Chargers. They have a 630 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.799 very good safety, but are you going to want to 631 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:25.509 pay that amount? Probably not. You got the– think

about 632 00:25:25.549 --> 00:25:28.450 other safeties or whatever around the league that are not 633 00:25:28.549 --> 00:25:34.329 on very favorable teams right now. Buda Baker, another guy, 634 00:25:34.609 --> 00:25:36.130 makes a lot of money. 635 00:25:36.549 --> 00:25:38.089 I mean, I don't know. 636 00:25:38.130 --> 00:25:40.940 There's some older guys, some veteran guys that you could 637 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:44.079 bring in, and I'm sure Bean's having those conversations. 638 00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:46.000 I just don't have an exact name off the top 639 00:25:46.019 --> 00:25:47.279 of my head. No, I'm with you. 640 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:51.769 I think safety would make sense, especially with the amount 641 00:25:51.789 --> 00:25:53.869 of dime defense that we run. I mean, we put 642 00:25:53.910 --> 00:25:56.910 DeMar out there. We play with three safeties so much. 643 00:25:56.970 --> 00:25:59.529 It's not like you're saying, okay, Cole or CJ's got 644 00:25:59.549 --> 00:26:01.730 to get benched if we bring in this dude immediately. 645 00:26:02.089 --> 00:26:06.779 It's getting more veteran stud bodies out there in the 646 00:26:06.819 --> 00:26:07.759 defensive backfield. 647 00:26:07.779 --> 00:26:11.279 And you can never have too many quarters. Correct. Corners, 648 00:26:11.779 --> 00:26:13.519 that position, dude, someone gets hurt. 649 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:15.900 It's like you've got to start the year with six 650 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:17.200 solid guys, it seems like. 651 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:21.180 And they all play. So that's another group. Right. 652 00:26:21.619 --> 00:26:23.900 And as we saw in the playoffs last year and 653 00:26:24.009 --> 00:26:27.369 many other times, you start getting injuries, that's the dude. 654 00:26:27.410 --> 00:26:29.289 We're going after him immediately. Every time. 655 00:26:29.369 --> 00:26:31.410 And we've seen some big-time plays get hit on us 656 00:26:31.430 --> 00:26:34.450 in the playoffs when we've seen– injuries at the cornerback position. 657 00:26:34.470 --> 00:26:35.210 All right. 658 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:36.920 This is a kind of a look around the league, 659 00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:40.240 but I just got to ask you, there's two big 660 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:42.880 surprises to me right now. The Vikings at five and O, 661 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:45.319 especially as their offense has been. And then the Rams 662 00:26:45.380 --> 00:26:46.839 at two and four, which one of those is a 663 00:26:46.859 --> 00:26:47.960 bigger surprise to you right now? 664 00:26:48.289 --> 00:26:50.890 I mean, you got to go Rams, right? Because all 665 00:26:50.910 --> 00:26:53.549 of the, you know, it's so wild. 666 00:26:53.569 --> 00:26:56.009 You would, is the media beginning of the season, you know, 667 00:26:56.029 --> 00:26:58.640 there's a trade like miles Garrett, which got to give 668 00:26:58.660 --> 00:27:01.039 the credit there right like defensive player of the year 669 00:27:01.059 --> 00:27:02.880 you know one of the best ends to ever play 670 00:27:02.900 --> 00:27:05.779 the game um Aaron Donald coming back all the hype 671 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:10.059 around them um you know but you know we've always 672 00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:11.759 talked about you know in the locker room like you 673 00:27:11.779 --> 00:27:14.079 still have to play the football games and injuries are 674 00:27:14.099 --> 00:27:17.240 a huge factor like you know you you just never 675 00:27:17.299 --> 00:27:19.420 know what's going to happen on paper it looks it 676 00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:22.160 looks amazing and you know you got you got uh 677 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:24.849 this guy here this guy there they're making this much 678 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:26.619 making that much but you have to go out there 679 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:28.450 and play the game and then you know, what you 680 00:27:28.470 --> 00:27:30.130 saw last week, the bills go in there and get 681 00:27:30.150 --> 00:27:31.869 a victory. And they lost this week to the Cardinals 682 00:27:31.910 --> 00:27:34.799 kind of maybe even having that hangover, you know, the, 683 00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:37.230 the hangover effect of them thinking they should have won 684 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:39.680 last week and then going in playing, playing Arizona. So 685 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:43.160 I think that's the, the, the bigger, the bigger news 686 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:45.160 right now, Minnesota being five and I was pretty big 687 00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:45.480 as well. 688 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.420 Um, you know, they, they escaped a, a rainy. 689 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:53.940 Game, uh, uh, Caleb Williams, uh, hamstring game, um, that I, 690 00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:57.339 I thought for sure Chicago was going to pull away with, but, um, 691 00:27:58.119 --> 00:27:58.730 you know, just didn't. 692 00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:00.700 So I think, I think that the bigger news for 693 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:02.720 me would be the Rams. Yeah, I agree with that. 694 00:28:02.740 --> 00:28:03.119 All right. 695 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.160 Last one for me. Tell me, tell me how your hide. 696 00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:07.980 So Mary's doing for those watching on YouTube. You can 697 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:08.900 see he's rocking the hat. 698 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:09.920 Yeah. 699 00:28:10.099 --> 00:28:13.380 Mike has got him a THC drink that I say 700 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:15.329 the wood family, me and my wife are a fan of. 701 00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:19.619 Yeah, man. It's going good, man. Thank you. Number one, man. 702 00:28:19.660 --> 00:28:21.549 Thank you for the support, bro. Like that means a lot. 703 00:28:22.009 --> 00:28:23.869 Anybody that, you know, if you have a small business 704 00:28:23.910 --> 00:28:26.920 out there, anybody that orders, um, you know, from your 705 00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:29.660 small business, you're just forever grateful and, and, you know, 706 00:28:29.680

--> 00:28:31.609 that are showing support to, to what you're doing. 707 00:28:31.619 --> 00:28:33.369 So number one, I had to tell you, you know, 708 00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:34.829 live on air. Thank you so much for that. 709 00:28:34.869 --> 00:28:37.029 But, you know, it's going, it's going good, man. I, 710 00:28:37.049 --> 00:28:39.690 you know, we have our repeat customers, um, right now 711 00:28:39.730 --> 00:28:41.509 that are continuing to come back and that's, that's, what's 712 00:28:41.529 --> 00:28:43.990 cool to see, right? That you're, you're kind of, um, 713 00:28:44.309 --> 00:28:47.589 you know, engaging with these people and, and, you know, you're, 714 00:28:47.769 --> 00:28:49.970 you're getting feedback from them and you're trying to fix, 715 00:28:50.009 --> 00:28:52.369 you know, all the, all the things, all the mistakes 716 00:28:52.430 --> 00:28:55.130 and stuff that happens when it comes to shipping and, and, and, 717 00:28:55.660 --> 00:28:56.640 you know, all those types of things. 718 00:28:56.680 --> 00:28:59.660 So I'm learning, I'm learning a lot. It's fun. 719 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.299 We're in New York state dispensaries now. So, you know, 720 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.099 that's where people can get it. If they're, you know, 721 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:05.869 Western New York and stuff like that, we're in like 722 00:29:06.190 --> 00:29:09.650 almost 30, 30 dispensaries up in Buffalo. 723 00:29:09.690 --> 00:29:12.230 So, you know, that's, it's just been fun, man. 724 00:29:12.369 --> 00:29:15.089 And I'm learning each and every day, like I said, 725 00:29:15.170 --> 00:29:18.240 and hopefully people continue to, to purchase and buy it and, 726 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:19.109 and love on it. 727 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:19.819 Yeah. 728 00:29:19.940 --> 00:29:21.799 And it's fun to be a part of a team again, 729 00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:25.250 you know, it's like, yeah, You got a different team now, 730 00:29:25.329 --> 00:29:29.259 but you still get to worry about getting better every day. 731 00:29:29.539 --> 00:29:31.400 And how can we all work together? How can we 732 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:34.000 get this done and problem solve and all that? It's 733 00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:36.170 almost like being in another locker room again. So I'm 734 00:29:36.210 --> 00:29:36.700 happy for you. 735 00:29:36.730 --> 00:29:38.450 I'm glad it's going well, bro. Thank you. 736 00:29:38.470 --> 00:29:41.150 Means a lot absolutely thank you for the time micah 737 00:29:41.529 --> 00:29:45.109 enjoy uh i say enjoy the bye week but uh 738 00:29:45.190 --> 00:29:47.619 enjoy some time off this weekend not stressing about bills 739 00:29:47.650 --> 00:29:50.380 football yeah yeah yeah keep enjoying that time with the 740 00:29:50.420 --> 00:29:51.180 family brother. 741 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:53.779 Man look you go you go uh hit them straight 742 00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:57.190 have a have a blast maybe uh Have a few 743 00:29:57.250 --> 00:30:00.019 drinks for me. I'll be here with the kids and 744 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:04.559 a six-month-year-old and trying to figure out that situation in itself. 745 00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:06.809 But, yeah, you would keep up a good job, man. 746 00:30:06.829 --> 00:30:09.420 We'll talk soon. Yep, all up, brother. Appreciate you.