 This is a lot of fun. My first time, any advice on how to handle all of this hoopla with fans here at camp? No, but carry a Sharpie with you, I'm sure. But it's just great. It's a college atmosphere. They give the tickets away, but you have to have a ticket. So because they got a capacity and they reach capacity, they won't let anybody else in. So the team's dynamite. They're an easy crew to cheer for. People love them. The team loves each other. It's just a great vibe here. Even so, I've been in the building at One Bill's Driveover in Buffalo. I've been there since 1986 in one way, shape, or form. Wow. And I've said this on our show too. It's extremely well run. It's an extremely well run organization. And so the results are in the team. And there's no guarantees. Never says you're gonna win a game, but they're winning a lot of games. They're winning a lot of games. You want them to win that big game and that leads to that next big game. Or just at least one more game, right? Just one more. We just want a little bit of improvement here. Now, every camp I'm going to, I'm picking a happy camper, like somebody that I'm really looking at. And it's Daphne Diggs, because it seems like he's happy. I hope so. I know the national media maybe was trying to draw some connections or some storylines after that playoff loss last year. But here's what he said a few days ago. He told the media, I feel I'm in a great space, a great place. I'm loved and I'm appreciated. At the end of the day, that's all I want. So he's too good, too likable of a character and too great of a wide receiver to have anything else with these 1,200, 1,400 yard seasons to go on. Yeah, he wears his emotions on his sleeve. And he does ride a little bit of a roller coaster. You know, I think he was on a low. When he was leaving Minnesota, everybody had this idea that he was irretrievable in Minnesota. I'm sure Steph and Kirk Cousins, they could have made it work with him in Minnesota easily because he's that kind of guy. He's ready to hug it out, you know, or have a hard conversation. Like they did at minicamp this year. He likes that, I think. I think that having conversations with the guys around him, knowing exactly what they're having and being heard. And I think that says, speaks to what he said. He knows he's loved and appreciated. He, you know, he also has a voice, right? And they made him a team captain. That was a big deal for him. He takes it really seriously. And I think he really relishes the fact that there is a head coach here and a quarterback and teammates who will sit down and listen to what he has to say. And that means a lot to him. And then there's what he does on the field. I don't know how he sort of gets swept out of that conversation of number one ride receivers. Of course, with what he did with Kirk Cousins in Minnesota, but as he pulled up the numbers here, he put up 100 catches in every single one of his seasons as a bill. No one caught more balls than him over that span. He's ranked top five in yards and touchdowns during that time as well. He's been a truly brilliant player, a consistent player, an option for Josh Young who has him, hopefully has a deep threat. And Gabe Davis, who's now healthy, coming off the injury, he's going to be a more consistent deep threat option. And then you've got this Kinkade kid who can hopefully be the security blanket that Beasley was for that time. Yeah, but still the centerpiece is Steph. He's a dude, right? I mean, he can go. And they can try and take him away, but they'll find, Josh will find a way to get him open, get him the right matchup. The offense seems to be extremely versatile. Kinkade, like you mentioned, and James Cook are going to get into that mix. Everybody that's going to be on the field and one of those five offensive positions that are eligible are going to be a guy that Josh can go to in a matchup. They're going to be really flexible. They can go two tight ends, one tight end. They can go four wides. They got some guys that can work in the slot. They got to keep Steph happy, it sounds like. Happy and healthy as well. Steph is going to be happy. I think he's going to be really happy. They're going to be really hard to beat again this year. When your team's winning, whether you catch one ball or no balls or 20 balls, you're really happy because that's, you know, these guys invest a lot into it. And it's about us, not me. And Steph is one of those guys as well. He's a we guy, not a me guy. And I think that's where, you know, the rhetoric has come from. In fact, I think he's trying to be a listen, what are we all going to do here? And he wants to try to get some answers. So I think he gets a bad rap sometimes because he does stand up and say, what about it? But man, I think that team loves that about him. I think they really do love that about him. Well, they love it also by not really going for any of these wide receivers that were up. That's how the team shows that Steph is that guy. De'Andre Hopkins was available. Some people out there do think it was a myth that this team didn't go insecure, that elite wide receiver into this offense. But no, Steph is their guy. And if he's happy, he's heard it sounds like, and he's healthy, then maybe they can go all the way. So that's, yeah. I think you're right. Not only did they not go out and get a De'Andre Hopkins, there's only three in a room that's usually eight or 10 guys deep. They only brought three guys back from last year's wide receiver room. You know, Steph Diggs, Gabe Davis, and Khalil Shakir. Everybody else is new. Sherfield, Hardy, and they got a bunch, and all the other new guys they brought in, they're all like six, they all brought in big dudes. So they had a concerted effort. They rinsed that room out and brought in some fresh legs and some fresh guys. And Steph's a huge part of it. And I think you see them out there talking to those guys, they're coming together. You know, I have high hopes. In fact, I probably have higher hopes for that room this year than I did last year. And Gabe Davis is just a part of it. What's your favorite, you look back at all the years. What was it, 13, 14 years normally? 13 years, 13 training camps? Yeah. What was the best memory from your favorite one? Ha, ha, ha. Well, we were on the forefront of this, you know, kind of the lighter schedule. When Marv Lee was coaching, we'd have that morning, we had two a days. The sound's grueling. We'd have a morning practice. We'd go out and grab a sandwich, go down and play a quick nine holes of golf, come back in the afternoon, do a hard practice in the afternoon, then go back and play the back nine in the afternoon. The best memory I have is when the guys started chirping about their golf game during stretch. And all of a sudden we got this bet being put down, this bet being put down, this bet being put down. All of a sudden Bruce Smith has to go out and break 90 at that course. And there's money on it, right? So he's got to go break 90 because he started chirping. So all these guys are in on it. So this is some serious cash on this. We go out. What does that mean, like hundreds of thousands? No, not hundreds of thousands, no. This is the late 80s, early 90s. So it's a different world financially. But, so we're going to go out there. There's 14 golf carts out there. Well, there's only one set of clubs. There's all these guys that they're watching every shot he took, the entire 18 holes. And on the last hole, if he pars it, he wins. If he bogies it, he pushes it. And if he doubles it, he loses. It's a par five. He's got his third shot. The crucial shot of the entire thing is his third shot. And he's got to get it on a two putt to par to win. My boy sticks it to like four and a half feet and he wins the bet. So it's pretty big. But that's nothing about football. That's one of the fun things. Well, listen, maybe these football players, these Vaughn Millers, these Quinn and Williams who want to be the Bruce Smith, maybe you got to go golfing in the middle of training camp. It was a different thing. And I think our sports science people, our guy Rusty Jones back in the day was on the forefront of it and he had a coaching staff. And it wasn't easy back then to get the team to listen and say, listen, you need to tone it back with these guys and make them fresh and keep it like they're doing now. You're going to have less guys injured in camp. We're going to lose fewer guys to injuries. We're going to have everybody fresh and ready at the beginning of the season. And it worked for us. And it seems to be working for a lot of teams now, whether they like it or not, because everybody's kind of forced into it now. We talked earlier about the hype around this Buffalo team sort of evading it this year. Do you think that's a good thing? Nobody's complaining about it. I mean, it certainly is a thing that you got to deal with every day. And here where there's so much accessibility with the media and all of us kind of stand around on the sidelines watching practice, the fans, the national media, the last thing you want to do is have one more thing to discuss about how is your favorite. And they dealt with it last year, no question about it. Got off to a good start. I mean, they had a phenomenal regular season and they handled it extremely well, but it was an extra thing. And in a season that turned out the way it did, they didn't need an extra thing. And I don't think we have that, we don't have footage unfortunately, but I think they took footage of Von Miller. He's not dressed to practice. He's of course working his way back from injury. He was on the sideline, but he's hitting this dummy. Do we have this footage of him? What do you make of Von Miller? Obviously he's a huge key through Davis-White as well, but we got to get Von to Von Forum for this team to win that Super Bowl, I think, and improve this defense. How's he looking and what are your thoughts? I wish I was in good shape as Von Miller is now in the bed. He's close. I think he's getting close. They're, you know, week one is not off the table. I think there's probably some milestones they want him to get through before he comes back and actually starts practicing. I'll say this. Knowing what I know about this team and how they work things, they'll be putting the brakes. They won't put him out on the field until he's 100% until they believe, until the medical people believe he's 100%, and they won't let him play even if he feels like he wants to try it and like working slow. But we will have a ramp up period. We'll get an inkling of when it's gonna be well before he does show up. So if it's gonna be week one, we're gonna know two weeks at least before that game kicks off. If Von's gonna be, I have a shot at playing. Leslie Frazier, the exit, Sean McDermott taking over. What do you think the biggest differences are going to be? That remains to be seen. It's a good question. Sean has a reputation for being very more aggressive than Leslie did. Leslie, their defense was as solid as a rock. Top five defense virtually every year that Leslie was here. They were hard to move the ball on, but they were rarely spectacular, you know? And I think a lot of people, you know, we're always trying to fix what's not broken and the defense was not broken. But if you're gonna do that, you wish maybe more turnovers, more splash plays, more tipped interceptions, you know, that kind of thing. You'd like to be, you'd like to have your pass rush show up in the stat, but instead of being just a top 10 sack team, where you sneak in there at the end to be up there, a team that's like, wow, how many sacks are we gonna get today? Kind of thing. I think that's what people would like to see more. Their defense was more than solid. It was an elite defense statistically throughout Leslie Frazier's time here. He's great, but it never, it never really felt like, hey, we didn't get a splash. You know, there's no splash play that changed the course. Does Sean have that in him? We'll see. I think you gotta roll the dice once in a while to get those kind of plays. Now, certainly this team was, when they're loaded and healthy, they've got some star players that could go out and do that and dominate and like take over a game. But as the season wears on, teams have a plan against that and they can cope with it and it gets harder and harder to do as the season wears on. You lose guys or guys are in and out of the lineup. So, but I think for a coaching staff like McDermott, I think he'll roll the dice a little bit more and say, listen, they gotta deal with us on this play. On this third and medium, we're gonna make them make a decision real quick because we're gonna put some pressure on them. So I think that'll happen more often than it did with Leslie, but the results are yet to be seen because I think that's a big unknown. I mean, all teams have optimism. Is this, are there any challenges that you're sort of looking to see solved out here on the field over the next couple of days or early into the pre-season things that you have questions about? The backfield, of course, certainly won. People want Dalvin to come and join his brother and all of that with the running back, but they seem to be okay with the committee and their cook seems to be doing really well. But Tabie is worry. Damien Harris and James Cook, I think they're really happy with those guys. The middle linebacker competition. I think they're treating the middle linebacker competition like the rest of the league is treating the running back room. Wow. It's important, but to step back from an elite middle linebacker to a good middle linebacker is noticeable maybe to guys who study film, but not to the naked eye. You're gonna be happy with the guy they put in there. And they've got some guys in there. I think they have a lot of faith in. Plus, I think the guys behind Tremaine Edmonds, who was here last year. Right, it's a whole new film. As good as they could have ever been. They ain't taken the field with Tremaine Edmonds on the team. So they could be a lot better than people might give them credit for. I'm not saying they are, we'll find out. But even if they were, you'd never know because they couldn't get on the field. So we'll see who can take control of that. I think they're treating that a little bit like one of those things. We'll pay for good players, but elite is a little bit too pricey for us because we don't think the production of an elite linebacker is higher than a good linebacker enough to pay them the elite money. I have this theory that the entire AFC NFL really is sort of over the Jets in the off-season hoopla. Do you get that sentiment as a former bill and as someone who's so close to the team? Yeah, I don't think the bills, Patriots or the Dolphins, I don't think the rest of the AFCs can afford to be over the Jets. I think they're real. There ain't no question about it. Aaron can play and that roster with the quarterbacks they had last year gave the bills all they wanted. So yeah, it's justified. Just like it was justified for the bills last year. The bills went 13 and three last year as being that favorite, that hyped up team. They lost three games by a total of eight points and they gave one to the Vikings. So they were, that could be the Jets this year, but I think if they get out there and they get out to that fast start and particularly with the schedule rotation that the AFC East has with each other and the NFC East and the AFC West. Yeah, so if we're assessing threats here, who's, where have the Jets moved when it comes in the world of where the Chiefs sit, where the Bengals sit, in a brutal game last year that I hate to bring up here today, we're gonna bring it back. Unlike last year, I think when you're talking about the AFC, you're talking about the bills, but you're talking about the bills and the Jets and the bills and the Dolphins and the Patriots are waiting to see. I think they're the team that is off the radar, but the Jets, Dolphins and Bills, I think they're looking at each other like, like that Spider-Man thing. They're all pointing to the other two, right? They're like, you know, they're there. I think the Jets are in the conversation. I wouldn't be shocked if all three of those teams make a playoff run, you know, a couple of wild cards and the division thing. I don't think it's gonna be possible for an AFC East team, even this team, if they're playing their best, I don't think it's gonna be possible for those teams to get the one seed, because they're just gonna beat each other up to it. I think somebody like Baltimore may be able to get it done. Cincinnati may be able to get it done. But I think it'll probably be from the West. It all matters, week one, week one Jets. All those, I mean, it's all gonna have to work itself out. I don't think that games, I don't think, I, that's a tough game. That game at MetLife? Yes, on 9-11 with Aaron. Oh man. Yeah, it's gonna be electric. It'll be amazing. Now, last question for you. The Buffalo Bills, I don't know if it's, we'll make it to the Super Bowl or we'll win the Super Bowl. Let's say we'll win. The Buffalo Bills will win the Super Bowl if what? I think only if they stay healthy. If they stay healthy, they're hard to beat anyway. If they stay healthy and can play like they did last year, the first month and a half of the season before, you know, week three, they had five defensive starters off the field already. Yeah, unbelievable. So if they stay healthy, there is no stopping them. There is no stopping them. And as far as Josh Allen, his main theme that you'd like to bestow upon him going into this next year? Take the check down, bro. Just. Can Kate it, bro? Just take the check down. Get it to Can Kate, bro? Stay on the field, just stay on the field. I told him, it's like playing his golf game. Take the eight, take the eight off the page. Just take this little one over here so you don't take the eight over here, right? Don't take the triple bogey. Just, you know, give yourself a chance all the way down the field. Stay on the field as much as you can. They were second in the league in drops last year. They were second in the league in turnovers. Those aren't all Josh. They've turned, the interceptions are, but the fumbles and the drops are not, in my opinion. If they can cut all those out, man, this is a tough team. I mean, they're, they're, they're hard, man. They're a hard crew to get off the field. They're a hard team to beat. If the bills play their best and you play your best, the best you can hope for is a coin flip. I love that. If the bills play their best and you don't, you're done. Tasker. So. Well said. There you go.