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Peter King with NBC Sports here at Buffalo Bills, training camp
and I'm joined by Josh Allen and Josh. I wonder I saw
a quote from you
a few weeks ago that talked about people coming up to you
and say man what a great game you guys played against Kansas
City, how exciting it was and
you said me to, they realize we lost. Yeah. And that game still
hurts. Does it still hurt?
Yeah, absolutely.
Again there's there's ways that we could have found a way to
win that game and it is what it is and we're going to learn
from it. But yeah, that's something that that's our last
game. That's,
you know, we always want to end the season on a wind and
unfortunately there's 31 teams that don't do that,
you know, in terms of winning the Super Bowl and
and whatnot. But again you know will learn from it will be
better from it. It's going to fuel us.
And I know a lot of guys on the team
most everybody that was here last year feels the same way.
At least you helped get
a dumb rule change.
Hi, I didn't do anything for that. They
again, I would people want to talk about me trying like I was
completely fine with it, you know. That's, that's how
the rules been written. I think it, you know, it obviously happened
to Kansas City
the year before that they won the Super Bowl
doing I got the ball and ever get back so
you know at that point I understood it is what it is and
I'm not complaining about it but it will be nice you know
forever in that position again to get the ball back. Yeah,
so What did you do this? Offseason to become a better
player to improve your game if anything.
Yeah. I mean again,
the first part of the offseason was very,
very heavy and Recovery letting my body kind of, heal up and
took a lot of dings last year and understanding where I can
be better. And in that process not taking hits not taking
useless hits getting out of bounds sliding.
So in terms of just watching film and understanding what,
like I said, When the decision is to maybe put the shoulder
down or to slide or get out of bounds. So
I think that's one aspect that I've
started looking at incorporating in kind of my plan
because again the best abilities availability and
I want to be available for this team and be on the field and
secondly just again watching film understanding defense is
a little better
you know having my eyes and better spots during
during our concepts are Zone Concepts, picking guys and
really flown off of what they're doing. You know I have
had a lot of conversations with door. And Palmer had a really
good conversation actually, Tony Romo, not too long ago, at
the American Century. And just in terms of things, I can look
at
where my I should be in certain Concepts. So,
yeah, that's, that's a couple ways. Palmer's been a big help.
Yeah, that's an easy. Is like my big brother right there.
Yeah, he's been awesome.
I want to ask you. I was at the Patriots playoff game and
I don't know that I've ever seen a team or maybe a quarterback
play, a more Flawless game especially
against Quality opponent. When you look back at that day, at
that night,
what do you think of
It was pretty cold, huh? Yeah, it was, it was very cold.
Again, guys executed at a high level, you know. It took
offensive defensive side of the ball. Took our special teams to
you talk about taking the win out of sales, Micah hide
running over there and picking that ball off in the endzone.
They were putting together a nice little drive there to kind
of
Bring It Back in trade it and relay after our first drive and
I think that's the play. Like just took the wind. Like
I said, took the wind out of the sails and allowed us to go out
there and kind of play
free. Understand that our defense
You know, I was going to make some plays this game so
you know that was a fun game. It was a good game.
One that a lot of bills fans are going to talk about for
a long time but in terms of what we're doing it was it was to
the next week and that's kind of how we are now.
In the offseason.
I saw you
being very supportive in your community when the tragedy at
the top Supermarket happened and you really kind of emerged
as a leader in that whole move. So what was it about that
that made? You want to go out there
and kind of comfort those people?
Yeah, and I think if you look at it, you know, as a team as
a whole,
you know, coach McDermott, kind of Raise your hands. If anybody
wants to
go out there and show support
there was not a single hand down, everybody in our team
that was at OTAs. You saw Stefon Diggs fly in
that day just to be there. So we support for the community,
you know, it's something that's still, it's still just feels
very, very wrong. Feels very weird. But again, to have and
share that experience, show our support for the community
and we got to continue to find ways to not. Let it just be
like a one-off thing. You know, we want to continue to show
that we support.
Port this community, you know, from all of Western New York
and I think, you know, brought the community closer together.
We had Micah hides, charity, softball game, the next day.
So again
it it's still again within lock them. It's still tough. I know
in the community still tough,
you know. And we're still talking about ways of which we
can help
last thing.
When you look at the Great Expectations that this team
has,
can that be a distraction do? Care
that everybody on. God's green earth is picking me to win
the Super Bowl. Does any of that stuff matter to you?
None of that stuff matters to anybody on this team.
Our expectations
are, are where they need to be, you know, we're going into this
season as every season, as every team should is our plan.
Our goal is to win the Super Bowl. You
fan to plow, you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
So our plan again putting our standard
and playoff caliber coach McDermott talks about it all the time
again. Just coming out here working try to be the best
best version of ourselves each and every day in order to try
to achieve our goal and that's to win the Super Bowl. So
our expectations are higher than what anybody else can put
on us. And we're going to stick to that.
Is it kind of interesting when you come out to practice?
People are screaming at you. It's sort of reminds me when
I was a kid of how they scream for the Beatles.
You know, when they came to the United States,
how do you, how do you,
how do you think of that? Now, that like, for you?
There's one memory in my mind that, like,
as you say, Beatles, we just clinched a playoff berth
against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and we landed
at the airport at the airport at 2:00 in the morning, 30
degrees. And there was thousands of people there, and
it was literally like it. I felt like a rock star getting
off. Like
the little plane. I put my fingers up
and everybody just went crazy. So,
no, the support here in Western New York,
you know, we're excited to be back here in Rochester area
allowing some of these fans who may not get to get to Buffalo
all that much. Much get to come out here, show their support.
And again, I try to go out there. I try to sign for
the kids, and I remember being that kid. So make sure that I give
a high-five away.
Something, did you get a big autograph when you were a kid?
So, there's a really cool story. I don't, I don't know if
he Minds me telling the story, but
I was a big Giants fan. Big Giants, 49ers Warriors fan, and
I went to a Giants game. I got a Buster Posey. Ball, he came,
he signed,
and I was so excited. I went to grab the ball in my finger,
swipe across the name so it had like streak marks any Barely
make out, but I still put up in my room.
I ended up going to
my agency in Nashville, CA and I actually talked to his agent
and I told him that story and a week later, I've got a bat
signed by Buster
Posey. So Buster. Thank you. Big fan obviously. And that was
pretty cool. So
that was probably my biggest one.
We had a Jerry Rice ball.
I think we had a Steve Young ball at one point
so it was, it was pretty cool, you know? And again,
I remember being that kid, wanting the autographs looking
up to guys in my position. So it's the least I can do to
waive highfive fist bump. Maybe sign, little something here
that I can't sign and everybody's, but I tried to
Josh, Anna would have a great year. Thanks a lot. Yeah,
well
for NBC Sports bills camp. This is Peter King.
All the best to you. You still got it. Yeah, we got it. Thank
you.