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Speaker 1: Well, hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pot on,
Thanks for telling a friend. How are we feeling? Today?
Started out gloomy the day we're taping this, and then
the sun came out, so hopefully that's an omen for
good things to come. Yesterday I asked Greg Connor to
join me to talk Buffalo bills. And one of the reasons, Greg,
was you popped in my mind a neighbor had I
hope you don't mind me saying this had a maserati delivered,
and I go it, yeah all every time I see you.
Anytime I see a maserati, I always sing Joe Walsh's
song Life's Been Good my Maserati does one eighty five. Yeah.
But before we get into the bill stuff, I hope
I'm not getting too deep or even too personal on
some things. But I know you had another loss in
your family recently. My condolences for that, and I know
that you lost your dad years ago. I got to
tell you, man, I've been having a day today, you
know what I'm saying, Like, I've been having a fucking day,
like just sad, and I can't figure out why. And
I go, yeah, I think I know why. It's just
and the only reason I bring it up. I think
it's something that's never really talked about, especially by dudes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know Dad.
Speaker 4: My dad's identical twin.
Speaker 3: My uncle George passed away a couple of weeks ago,
and we just had the service this past weekend. My
dad passed away twenty five years ago. And you know,
I think I had mentioned to you one time after
your dad had passed away, that it doesn't go away.
Life fills into gaps, but there are moments and there
are times where it just reaches up and just kind
of kind of smashed a little bit. And for me,
for me, those times are often when I would turn
to him, when I would reach out to him, they
you know, whether it be something with my kids that
you know, I would look for guidance for, if it
was something that work, I just wanted to bitch to somebody.
Speaker 4: About that, Nobody would you know that I.
Speaker 3: Could do that and you would understand where I was
coming from, and you know, just even dealing with some
family things, it's, uh, those are the days for me,
in the moments where you know, you just get reminded
that he's not a phone.
Speaker 1: Call away, right, And I think for me it's the uh,
you know, even the academic stuff going back to school
now and I had to write a reflection paper and
I'm like, I probably would have sent it to him
to get his opinion, although he would take over, which
is always it would always annoy me. But at the
same time, it was like I would bounce those ideas
or those because you know, a lot of what I'm
doing is actually philosophically based. I mean, if you go
through you know, the mental health counseling stuff, there's a
lot of Nietzschee and others. And I was like, God,
I just wish he was there, and it just it Boy,
was like a little I don't want to say a
gut punch today, but a little bit of a ooh
and uh uh, Yeah, it just was weird. And I thought, man,
there's not many people that I think ever talk about that.
And I don't know how you. I don't know how
you deal with it. I think the best way to
deal with anything as I get older is to just
recognize the emotion that's there, sit with it, let it pass,
don't react to it, don't overreact to it, you know,
no matter what it is. And uh and and you know,
allow yourself to maybe be sad or enjoy the memory,
you know, or try to enjoy the memory.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I always try to keep my dad in the
top of my mind and talk about him all the time.
It helps me, and it keeps him close and it
keeps the memory going.
Speaker 4: And but yeah, it's it's good to recognize it, you know,
and and not to and to remember I am who
I am today because of him. Yeah, and a lot
of other people I've unfortunately lost.
Speaker 3: Recently, Jennifer lost her grandmother who was one hundred years old,
like three weeks ago. She was just a treasure She
was just this wonderful, sweet kind person, and you know,
I'll always remember that and I try to be that
way myself because of her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is interesting when you see people who had
such an impact and you go, boy, that was the
way to live. That's the way to do it. That's
the way. All right, Onto the uh, the subject at hand,
the Buffalo Bills. I mean, there were people saying that
they thought they would drop this game as well, and
I was not one of them. I happened to be
at some online yesterday's seeing some people can't saying that
it was a second there a second half team, don't
worry about this, someone asking if they should bet. I'm
thinking they just did not look like they had their
shit together.
Speaker 3: So as we talk about mental health. When I woke
up this morning, Bill, yeah, I had to say to myself,
I'm gonna have a good day.
Speaker 4: Okay, today is going to be a good day.
Speaker 3: I had to say it, and I said it to
myself like five times until I convinced myself that I
was going to have a good day because last night's
performance put me in a really bad mood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I greg. I did not watch the fourth
quarter and I did not read purposely anything today because
I knew I'd be talking to you, and I knew
you would have some really great, insightful thoughts on this,
and I didn't want them to be I don't know,
I wanted to come at it fresh, but I I
just even feel like, offensively, what's going on with Coleman.
He can't get separation. The guy had It's like, come.
Speaker 3: On, well for me this game that I thought the
Bills were going to win this game. I thought that
the Patriots game was a scare for me before they
played the game, just because of their the Patriots and
Rabel's got a familiarity with the Bills.
Speaker 4: And he's beating the Bills with the with the with Tennessee.
Speaker 3: This game, I thought, I knew, I knew the Falcons
had a good defense. I knew the Falcons rushed the
quarterback and blitzed, you know, for the defense going into
this game than than than any other team in the NFL.
I thought that Joe Brady was going to be better
prepared with an offensive scheme and play calling that the
Bills wouldn't have been on their heels and then forced
Josh to make the decisions that he made.
Speaker 1: Where do we see things or like in your opinion
from here? And I know you you sort of mentioned this,
but it dropped out because do they have a is
there a buy next week?
Speaker 4: Yeah? This week?
Speaker 3: Their next game is in Carolina on October twenty six?
Speaker 4: Okay, so next week they have a.
Speaker 3: Bye and then they travel to Carolina to play on Sunday,
October twenty six.
Speaker 4: Which is Buffalo South.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, spending some time down there in North Carolina.
This is the Bill's Panthers game is gonna is the
hottest ticket in North Carolina in twenty twenty five, including
when UNC played Duke and basketball. It's it's all the rade.
And now the Carolina Panthers are playing playing.
Speaker 1: Decent football, but that does seem like a winnable game
for them. And then it's on to Kansas City. Correct
where Kansas City comes to Buffalo?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, on all accounts, you would
have you would have thought that this would be a
nice warm up game for Buffalo. The Panthers game would
be a nice warm up game before Kansas City came
into town. You know, we might have one lost underneath
our belt, having two now.
Speaker 4: Now going to Carolina.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say it's a must win because
it's early in the season, but it's a must win.
Offense has to get some mojo. The only scored fourteen points.
I mean, you're not gonna win games in the NFL
scoring fourteen points. We turn the ball over three times
against the Patriots, You're not gonna win. Turn the ball
over three times. We turn the ball over twice last night,
and we only score fourteen points. There's not a chance
you can't even beat the Jets doing that.
Speaker 1: Ah maybe, Oh no, So I mean your gut feeling
on the rest of the season, things that are correctable.
A bye week kind of coming at the right time,
possibly coming off a loss, maybe it helps you regroup.
I do worry about I do worry about kind of
their the head, you know what I mean, the mental
space that they're in. Just that, h here we go again.
And I don't know with professional act leads, and certainly
they have you know, sports psychologists and things to get
them through all that. But it's something where I feel
like this break is a maybe coming at the right time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're only as good as your last performance.
And you know, I always would want to be going
into going into a break with positivity, positive thoughts, positive
positive outcomes.
Speaker 4: You know, it does give.
Speaker 3: I think the positive of this is giving the team
some adversity and some humility, which if you build on
it and you grow from it, you're going to be better.
Speaker 4: You're going to be stronger, you know.
Speaker 3: I think every manager, every coaches, the ones that are
the best, take the talent they have, and they put
the talent in the best positions possible to be successful.
I have not necessarily seen that with respect to the
offense as much this year as I had in years past.
Speaker 4: Now can you say, how can.
Speaker 3: Joe Brady, you know, forget so much or become so
dumb from one year to the next. And a lot
of it, truly is the talent that he has around him.
Is he not calling the plays? Is he not putting
the people that are their talent wise in the right positions?
Because if that's the case, then that's a Brandon Dean
and a McDermott decision making thing in terms of assessment
of talent.
Speaker 1: How many of us, though, have been in that situation
where you start to question things in your own head
and you do you underperform right, because you're now almost
blocking instead of just being in the zone or in
the flow. And that's a problem. And I would think
for Josh it's it's got to be a huge head game.
Right now. The guy is in more commercials than I've
ever seen. It's got to be a head game for
him where the popularity has risen that now it isn't
just a team expectation, it's a Josh expectation. And that's
got to be really hard because I don't think that
that's necessarily like an ego thing where you would go, ah,
he's got a huge ego. He's like, no, this is
like a there's a great there's a huge expectation, not
of just this team, but of me to deliver this team.
Speaker 4: We're one hundred percent. But that jobs, I mean, that's
who he is.
Speaker 3: That's what's so redeeming and endearing about him is that
he actually cares. I mean, I right now, he's beating
himself up. He's beat himself up because he feels like
he let his team down. But this is the type
of guy, as a person of who he is.
Speaker 4: He's feeling away because he feels like he's let me down.
He feels like he's let you down. He feels like
he's let the entire community of.
Speaker 3: The Bill's Mafia down. And that is what, unfortunately, begins
to weigh on you. And then you start thinking, and
then bad thoughts get in your head, and then bad
things happen. Look, the power of your mind is so
critical and so important in terms of outcomes.
Speaker 4: If you think positive.
Speaker 3: League and you and and and golf is one of
these things. You don't think about the pond that's in
front of you. You think about you just think about
the green. The more you think about the bond the pond,
the more you're going in the pod. Yeah, this team's
tradition has been about getting so close and failing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: One of the reason the why I think people are
so critical of Nick Dermott is because he's gotten close
and he's failed. Look, Bill, we spent twenty years in
utter chaos of mediocrity that we couldn't even make the playoffs, right,
and now we make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Now expectations changed, Yes, you know, there you go.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, Mike Tomlin has not had a losing
record in what twenty years or fifteen years or something
with the Steelers and now look at him.
Speaker 4: Now they're four and one right.
Speaker 3: You know it's like I don't think Mike tom I
think Mike Tomlin's.
Speaker 4: And he's won a Super Bowl. Yes, you know.
Speaker 3: So for McDermott to answer your question after a long diatroc,
I still confidence in McDermott. I still think McDermott is
a good coach. I do think McDermott will win a
Super Bowl. I just hope he does it with the
Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: I hope he does it with the Buffalo Bills as well.
I think that well said Greg always well said, Hey,
you bring the dog.
Speaker 2: To the office.
Speaker 1: Look at the dog back there. Oh both of them.
Speaker 4: Wow, they didn't even make a peep and I got octs.
Speaker 1: That's lovely. All right, Well, thank you Greg for your time.
I appreciate it. And uh go Bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, sorry about any drops now we'll make it
working there.
Speaker 4: I apologize for that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's always great to talk to you can't
wait to uh to get back in the studio and
see it. And by the way, your intro, the intro
into your podcast is my favorite of all time.
Speaker 4: And because I actually live my life, try to live
my life, that way. Yeah, you know, life gives you
a lemon, throw a little back in it and uh
and that's a good day.
Speaker 1: That's right, exactly, that is exactly right. And Kevin wrote
that one actually, so God hats off to Kevin.
Speaker 4: I'm glad he finally wrote something that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right for Greg Connors, for the dogs wait.
Speaker 4: Oxen who Oxen GG?
Speaker 1: For oxen GG. I'm Bill Moran. Thank you Greg. We'll
see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We hold to you. Didn't know what to do.
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