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Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase are joined by Buffalo Bills long snapper Reid Ferguson to highlight his event this Saturday that is to support the local veterans in the area. After the guys hear all about the event, they turn to the Bills themselves and discuss all the latest. They dive into what’s changed with the new Special Teams Coordinator Jeff Rodgers, Tyler Bass’s success coming back this year, and more!
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00:008 0 3 0 5 50 your phone number joining us on the western hotline longest tenured bill
00:04long snapper reed ferguson reed good morning it's jeremy and joe thanks for taking some time today
00:09hey good morning fellas thanks for having me on i appreciate it we want to talk to you a little
00:13bit about uh you know what's going on with the football team but also we know you've got a big
00:16event coming up in a couple days tell us what's going on on saturday yeah so saturday uh hosting
00:22an event down in orchard park at first line brewing um right outside the village got our
00:27sixth annual uh thank a vet barbecue just um it's a fun day we set up a few years back
00:34uh got some good chefs coming out smoking some good barbecue first line serving up some
00:38uh some ice cold beer so uh just a day to uh come out and visit um hang out uh
00:44have some good
00:45conversations and um just uh give a nice firm handshake to the uh the local veterans that
00:51um have served our country so sixth annual what made you get this started
00:57um right uh well like 2020 was the first year that we did it uh but it was kind of
01:01like
01:02yeah it was kind of weird because of all the covet stuff going on but um that was kind of
01:07the first
01:07time that i uh was able to go to first line and kind of host and just uh you know
01:12kind of pay it
01:13forward a little bit for uh some of those veterans that wanted to come through and say hello
01:18um and then uh after kind of the some of the protocols got lifted uh we were able to mix
01:24in
01:24some some more food and drink and and some bigger crowds so um it's been it's been a great showing
01:30the
01:30last uh last couple years and we're looking forward to saturday and there's a beer release also coming
01:34up saturday yeah there's a uh so first line is doing a special beer release they had uh they hosted
01:41a big group of veterans uh local buffalo veterans down i think maybe a week or two ago and did
01:47a
01:47brew day with them um and then all of the so that beer they'll they will release at the uh
01:54event on
01:54saturday and uh the can will actually have all of the names of the veterans that helped um helped with
02:01that brew day so pretty cool um you know just a little uh easter egg i guess by uh first
02:09line
02:09brewing so um yeah that'll that'll be released on on saturday the event will be four from four to seven
02:15on saturday uh afternoon how's your grilling going these days right you're you're a proud
02:20member of grills mafia bi-week bring you to uh to the smoker what have you been doing
02:25absolutely um just a little you know a little bit here and there kind of i try to do a
02:29brisket
02:30um at least once a year uh pulled pork is is one of the family favorites because it's
02:35uh pretty versatile you can kind of you can do some you can pull it chop it up salads uh
02:40pulled pork
02:41tacos sandwiches kind of whatever you want so uh my my little girls love uh when i do smash burgers
02:47so that's uh that's almost a weekly thing for us as well too is there a smoking meat contingent within
02:53the team i mean we'll talk golf all the time and who's the best this and who's the best that
02:57does the grills mafia extend into the locker room there there definitely is um i think got you
03:04know i've definitely had guys uh come up to me in the last couple years hey you know what grill
03:08should
03:09i buy you know ask me for tips and tricks here and there but uh i do i do like
03:14the like to have
03:15guys over and and uh you know show them show them the way every now and then reed we've got
03:20our
03:20family chili cook-off at the next uh bills game the dolphins game we're doing a family chili cook-off
03:25is there a uh you win any of those like cook-offs where uh it's your competition take home a
03:30prize
03:31i have not personally entered into any our uh barbecue company here in buffalo q42 we host
03:38competitions throughout the year so we've been a part of them um but uh i may i did not know
03:43about
03:43the chili cook-off i may have to enter my wife's uh she she actually just made some for dinner
03:48last
03:49night and she's uh she's pretty proud of her recipes so may have to uh may have to sign her
03:54up is
03:55there anyone else in the locker room that's competitive with you with uh smoking meat
03:58are you a distant you know runaway number one i don't know um i i don't know i i would
04:04say i'm
04:04you know not toot my own horn probably number one uh i know uh you know a lot of people
04:10love
04:11conor mcgovern's pizza so i would say he's you know we're probably uh neck and neck there
04:16reed ferguson joining us reed how about uh the team this year you're gonna do special teams
04:20coordinator right like there have been a you know some changes to the coaching staff um you know
04:25you you are in the same spot you've been in for many many years as the longest
04:29tenured member of the team what for you is different about this year if anything
04:34yeah uh yeah so on your first point jeff uh coach jeff rogers he's been uh amazing coming in year
04:40one
04:41um the guys love playing for him he's brought some great scheme stuff to uh to the team uh bringing
04:47over his guy greg dorch too has done a great job for us as well so um i think you
04:52know he he's uh he
04:53just you know has a real clear plan for us each and every week um easy to execute and uh
05:00and you know
05:01just i guess really uh fine tunes the the details each and every week is what i would say about
05:07coach
05:08rogers but uh he's been a great addition uh to the organization and we've really enjoyed uh learning
05:13from him and having him here obviously um i you know i i don't know it's been it's obviously been
05:20a really fun season so far i think joe coach coach brady's done a great job um you know putting
05:26his own
05:27stamp um on the buffalo bills organization and um i think that you know the guys um he has the
05:34ear of
05:35everybody in the locker room so uh we uh you know we're we're enjoying the ride um the bye week
05:40was it
05:41was a nice reset um sunday was a good win to get and uh we're certainly looking for looking forward
05:47to monday night in minnesota reed do you have any insight for us on the season that tyler bass is
05:52having like missed all last year the the previous season we had seen him there were some struggles
05:57and then camp was weird like following that there was never another kicker on the roster but i know he
06:02was working like you know kind of privately we hadn't got a look at it and now he's made every
06:07field
06:08goal this season like what have you seen from him and i guess like confidence wise it has to be
06:14as high as it's ever been given that again he hasn't missed a kick yet absolutely um yeah great
06:19question you know watching tyler kind of uh kind of do you know over last year you know ending the
06:28i
06:28guess it was the 20 the 24 season um and then last year in training camp uh with the injury
06:35and then
06:35kind of missing the whole year it it was um it's been extremely fascinating for me to watch
06:40kind of him watch his uh i don't know if you want to call it a redemption arc but um
06:46i guess a
06:47redemption arc for you know for his career sitting out a season which is um you know not typically
06:53something that you see at this level of uh of professional sports is seeing a guy basically you
06:58know sit out a year and then come back and perform uh really at the high level that he's performing
07:03at
07:03so it's really a testament to him he has you know i've watched him for the last year and a
07:08half he's
07:09put in all the work uh physically mentally um he's been in the building all the time working on his
07:14craft and you could tell last year just he was around he was in our meetings you know he he
07:20was
07:20with us all season um and you could just tell how much he you know it was eating at him
07:26not being able
07:26to be out here and competing with us um you know i think he you know matt prater was here
07:32for us all
07:33last year did a great job for us i think what he learned from prater last year on and off
07:38the field
07:40um was really good for him uh you know a lot really on the on the mental side of his
07:45approach to the
07:46game and i think you're you're really seeing a lot of that come to fruition this season he's had a
07:51great start to the season and i would like to give also a special shout out to tommy doman um
07:57our
07:57rookie punter who has really uh dialed in you know he he came in a really good holder i think
08:03he uh he
08:04has gotten better as our work has continued with myself and tyler bass through uh really throughout
08:10otas and throughout uh training camp reed maybe a dumb question here about like grass versus turf but
08:15like for you for you guys for the for your setup i mean of course switching to grass this year
08:19and
08:19also the new stadium like wind confusion and all that how much time was there spent on maybe
08:25learning the intricacies of the new house yeah uh yeah good question um it really uh just took us a
08:34few i guess a few visits over there you know we had a couple of those uh practices during training
08:39camp a couple of open practices um and then obviously a couple preseason games and now a couple
08:44regular season games and uh we try to get over there as much as possible during the week especially
08:49if we're playing at home um just to try and get a feel for uh the wind you know the
08:54the wind
08:55patterns in the stadium um and then uh you know as you mentioned the grass versus turf debate so
09:03um you know we feel like we're in a good spot um i think once they you know once they
09:09uh rethought of
09:11the grass it's been amazing so far uh throughout the first you know couple games that we've been on it
09:16so
09:16um testament to the grounds crew uh for you know really setting us up for success and um you know
09:24it's you know like i said it really only took uh a few times of us getting over there to
09:29kind of get
09:30our bearings uh but we feel like we've got a good a good setup on it now are you still
09:35watching the
09:36premier league absolutely who's your team again he's chelsea chelsea right you're a chelsea fan
09:43what's the right punishment for manchester city we'll get your take on this and then we'll get
09:46you out of here perfect question uh yeah fantastic question um i mean honestly uh points deduction
09:54should definitely be um at the top of the list um you know i don't really know about the monetary
10:02aspect of it because they can really pay any fine that they want with the owners that they have
10:07though you know whether that's a drop in the bucket to them or not but i think the real way
10:13that you that you're going to hurt them for what they've done is uh points deduction and or uh some
10:19sort of relegation so um yeah we'll see i mean i hope something comes of it uh because we've been
10:25hearing about it for i don't know three or four years now it seems like yeah the the other part
10:30of
10:30it is if they get their title stripped which yeah that's different there but that is one thing i
10:37feel like it's kind of the same thing as reggie bush's heisman you know you could take it away
10:42yeah but it was still celebrated and they you know they they already celebrated and kind of did the
10:48whole thing already so it's like if you take it away you know people are going to say well we
10:53are you
10:54know we already kind of saw him lift the trophy i guess but right i see where he's coming from
10:58well the event again reed ferguson joining us in the western hotline saturday coming up this
11:04saturday at first line brewing thank yvette barbecue from four to seven uh free beer and
11:09barbecue to all veterans on behalf of reed a beer release lots going on you mentioned if you're
11:14someone that's into smoking meat there's going to be stuff to get there supplies and all that
11:18so uh reed thanks for the time good luck with the event and uh we'll talk soon sounds good thank
11:24you fellas appreciate it thanks reed reed ferguson i remember him as a chelsea fan we talked on the
11:28sidelines once a training camp a while back about premier league stuff i was just looking they
11:34wouldn't chelsea would not get any more titles if uh city got uh got stripped it would be three for
11:39united three for liverpool and two for arsenal contra the thank of that barbecue four to seven
11:45saturday first line brewing if you want to head there that's at uh 4906 south buffalo street in
11:50orchard park 80305 50 how do you like uh this is again just a a random observation if you want
12:00a
12:01receiver everybody out there trying to talk me into it if i'm gonna which i'm sure is very difficult
12:07all right right if you want a receiver uh is there a better idea than ad mitchell
12:16is there a better idea than ad mitchell of the jets you want a jets receiver you can't get
12:20garrett wilson without two firsts and the jets taking a 59 million dollar cap it how about
12:25how about a guy in the key on coleman draft class who is a downfield threat gets open
12:30has uh a great separation score he gets open like it's crazy that was the story in indy he got
12:38thrown
12:38into the sauce garter trade yep and the reviews in new york are like this dude gets open all the
12:42time
12:42there's a there's a clip circulating away watching the break it's like a minute and a half
12:46of him just cooking the raiders all day last week what he has that the bills had maybe in josh
12:54palmer but maybe mitchell would be better at this oh yeah he puts fear into defensive backs they're
12:59gonna that he's gonna run by them right just you want a jets receiver maybe maybe maybe shift your
13:06focus to 80 mitchell that's not that bad of an idea cheap money you might have to pay the jets
13:12it's in division maybe in division they wouldn't trade you garrett wilson maybe they would trade
13:16you 80 mitchell on the third year of a four-year deal probably not though didn't the colts only
13:20get rid of him because he dropped a football at the one yard line that might be right he was
13:24seems like a bit of an overreaction they also might have done it because they think there's
13:28redundancy between him and alec pierce okay sure yes that's right maybe that's that's a good but
13:3580 mitchell i mean if i'm the jets he's cheap for two more years i'm not trading i agree with
13:41that i just think if you're if you want to get a receiver you know it's an idea that would
13:48maybe help your offense i bet though it's more likely that in the next year like deadline less
13:56likely maybe offseason if the jets are going to trade a receiver i think wilson's the one
14:00because wilson is the one that has all of the scar tissue of losing already that would force his way
14:05out mitchell that mitchell might think i'll get paid here this is working living in new york like
14:11he he might i don't know he's not going to cost what garrett wilson costs i wouldn't think so so
14:17if i were the jets i would just hang on to all three of those receivers draft a quarterback and
14:22hopefully i have a great offense for a few years could they also i've never had could they also try
14:25to trade for lamar could they try to trade for herbert they could but see lamar is one of the
14:31we did
14:32this the other day right there's like six players and nine players in the league that have a no
14:35trade clause yeah lamar gets to decide where he goes and i would be stunned if he decided jets
14:40knee-jerk reaction well price included who'd be the better offseason idea for a team i think this
14:47is obviously i was gonna say lamar or herbert yesterday we talked with mike florio about a
14:52couple different i would if you're herbert you cannot go to new york no you need to go to a
14:56competent organization no not even that you gotta go you gotta go somewhere they don't pay much
15:00attention to you because he's the darling kind of guy of film and all that and he is not he's
15:07putting together his worst season ever with the chargers who are i know it's la haven't won yet
15:12right not the same he if if he get if herbert got moved to a franchise where everybody looked at
15:18him
15:18as the hope i feel like the world would crumble on him but that's i need it sure i i
15:23think though if
15:24you're him i need to i need to get my career going in the right direction again like i you
15:31know what
15:31like if if stafford retired and i could go to the rams guess what i'm gonna be in the limelight
15:35but oh
15:36i get sean mcveigh i'll take that if i'm sean mcveigh would i want somebody else i don't know like
15:41would you rather go with ty simpson herbert is just so much reputation and all hat no cattle
15:48well it's a lot of stats and a lot of numbers so i like years ago and now it's just
15:53well how come
15:54none of it ever works i don't know i'd be i'd be worried about herbert two years ago he had
15:5823
15:59touchdowns and three interceptions and 4 000 yards like it's not that and then through four
16:03interceptions at a playoff game statistically this is his first bad season 23 touchdowns and three
16:08picks is a season where you just avoid turnovers 23 is not a big number
16:14yeah what year is that why why are they why were his numbers down that it was 230 yards per
16:19game
16:19that was also pretty low okay you're a game manager that's a tie rod season complimentary i i just think
16:27there is a talent level there that if you got him if you got him what caleb williams has right
16:33now
16:33with ben johnson or you got him what what mcveigh does or what shanahan does like somebody like
16:38that doesn't have to be like the top top guy but give me an offense and an infrastructure that can
16:44get the most out and be the next stafford stafford going to a coach like that and like bam he's
16:50a
16:50hall of fame quarterback now like that that's what i would be looking for if i were him on my
16:55next stop
16:55and i don't think i'm getting that with the jets 8030550 give us a ring on the bills if you
16:59want on
16:59the cj garner johnson release do you think they'll make a move for safety any other ideas we got it's
17:04trade deadline week see if there's some uh trades coming down the pike in the next couple days
17:09because uh the deadline is less than a week away you be one last night in overtime we're going to
17:14check in with brad and see how that game went and talk to him about uh you know whatever comes
17:17up
17:17and joe marino of the lockdown bills podcast at nine here on wgr
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