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Speaker 1: These One Bills Live presented by Called Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: All alrighty, then, welcome to a Wednesday edition of One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you a lot

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Speaker 1: to discuss today, not only as it pertains to the

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Speaker 1: Bills in their offseason plans going forward, but around the

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Speaker 1: NFL as well as we close in on Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty seven this weekend. But before we get into that,

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Speaker 1: we've got some free agency discussions to undertake here, and

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Speaker 1: in the second hour of the show, we're actually gonna

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Speaker 1: kind of get a little bit of a four one

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Speaker 1: one on some of the Senior Bowl talent that was

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Speaker 1: on display last week from the executive director of the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, Jim Nagee. And there's an interesting draft history

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Speaker 1: But we'll get into all of that in the second

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Speaker 1: hour the show. Here in the first hour, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about a bunch of stuff, and the Derek Carr stuff.

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Speaker 1: To me, you know, visiting the Saints and I realize

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Speaker 1: nothing's imminent down there. This is just a look see

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Speaker 1: kind of deal because Derek Carr has this no trade

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Speaker 1: clause in his contract and he has to go kind

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Speaker 1: of kick the tires on any perspective team that the

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Speaker 1: Raiders might trade him to. And the clock is ticking. Here,

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Speaker 1: we're a week away from a forty million dollar guarantee

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Speaker 1: kicking in for his contract, whether he's playing for the

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Speaker 1: Raiders or somebody else. So he's going to a team

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Speaker 1: that is six gazillion dollars over the gold Again, it's

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Speaker 1: just a look. See he's kicking the tires. And if

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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Carr, I'm saying no to the Saints. I

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Speaker 1: don't care if Dennis Allen is there, and you know

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Speaker 1: you had him as head coach as a rookie with

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Speaker 1: Oakland back then, because who the hell is gonna be

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Speaker 1: lining up for them? I mean, Steve, they're not only

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Speaker 1: fifty seven million dollars over the cap. That's the least

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Speaker 1: of their problems. They can't. They're at a point now

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Speaker 1: where they kick the can down the road every single year.

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Speaker 1: And it's to the point now where it's almost become

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Speaker 1: proof that the cap isn't real. You can keep just

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Speaker 1: pushing money into the future. But I think you're getting

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Speaker 1: to a point here where I mean, you can restructure

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Speaker 1: contracts and probably save sixty to seventy million and get under.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of cutting players, the cap hits that

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Speaker 1: you incur dead cap when you cut players. The Saints

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Speaker 1: right now, and I'm gonna credit the proper people here

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Speaker 1: over thecap dot Com put out this interesting thread on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: They outline which teams have the least cap flexibility when

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Speaker 1: it comes to cutting player contracts off their roster to

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Speaker 1: try to generate cap savings. In terms of cap room

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Speaker 1: that can be created by cutting players, the Saints are

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Speaker 1: in the fourth worst position in the NFL. If they

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Speaker 1: cut every player with a positive net cap savings every

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Speaker 1: possible option, they only generate twenty three million in cap

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Speaker 1: savings and they're fifty seven over. So they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to restructure a boatload of contracts to save more money

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Speaker 1: just to get under. Forget about having money to sign people.

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Speaker 1: And Derek Carr, if you sign him, you're immediately gonna

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Speaker 1: have to redo his deal to make it fit. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a veritable mess. It is. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: why they're entertaining. That's why Sean mcpayton left. He could

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Speaker 1: see it coming, Sean mcpayton. Sean mcpayton, Sean Payton left.

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Speaker 1: Now he's a Denver. Took a year. I said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, we had a good run. I got to

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Speaker 1: the back twice by two different miracle plays that kept

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it off. I'm gonna go because you

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Speaker 1: know he's I took a year off. That's right. There

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Speaker 1: know why you wouldn't restructure to stay in Buffalo and

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Speaker 1: on an isolation retreat that includes four nights of complete darkness.

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Speaker 1: Rogers gave no indication of his football plans on the

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Speaker 1: pad mcafe showed this week, where he's a weekly makes

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Speaker 1: a weekly appearance, he said, retiring is on the table,

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Speaker 1: Playing for the Packers is on the table. Playing elsewhere

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Speaker 1: this yesterday in our office. Brownie came up. Brownie, he's

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Speaker 1: the relationship that Nate Hackett claims to have had with

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Speaker 1: fifty years of quarterback purgatory that's being nice, right, that's generous, Steve.

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Speaker 1: It's been abysmal. I'm just saying this again. I've said

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Speaker 1: it a bunch of Aaron Rodgers is like a He's

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Speaker 1: But blackness, darkness with no light is it's hard. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's hard. So all of that goes into that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: good for him. Let him do it. And he's making

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Speaker 1: He didn't have Who's he going to bounce these ideas

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Speaker 1: made a pilot cash. Does he demand a trade? Does

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Speaker 1: would all you know, deduce. But it's fun to see.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's some schools to have like one guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, Miami University of Miami has two. That's a

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Speaker 1: surprise to me. They've had a bunch of coaching changes

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Speaker 1: the last few years, and I think that kind of

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Speaker 1: compromises your recruiting efforts. You know, unless the new guy

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Speaker 1: coming in the door can really recruit the heck out

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Speaker 1: of people. It's tough. I mean it's tough. So yeah.

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Speaker 1: And but the other schools that you mentioned with a

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Speaker 1: lot of representatives, they're also in the SEC right. That's

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Speaker 1: it's nuts, yea. They just completely corner the market on

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Speaker 1: the top of the heap. You know that the high

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Speaker 1: schools around this country have to offer. It's crazy. But

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Speaker 1: nothing has changed in that regard. I mean, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have some big ten schools Michigan, Ohio State's got a

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Speaker 1: good list. Yes, you know, they're gonna have a host

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Speaker 1: of players there. But even Ohio State has eight, which

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Speaker 1: isn't a ton. So, yeah, Oklahoma usually does pretty well.

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Speaker 1: I think they have seven. Oregon has six, Penn State

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Speaker 1: has seven. Yeah, Oklahoma's got seven. Yeah, there's some guys.

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Speaker 1: Michigan's got a ton to Penn State's got seven or eight,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's got six. You know, so there's some of these

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Speaker 1: are surprising. Two and the amount of guys they have.

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Speaker 1: It's fun to look at because and I was complaining

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Speaker 1: to my co host here today about having to learn

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Speaker 1: the names of these guys and who and kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of do a deep dive on each

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Speaker 1: of them, knowing that I will never utter their word

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Speaker 1: and their name ever again after you know, it's if

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Speaker 1: they didn't get picked by the bills, you gotta flush

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Speaker 1: them out of your head by like may second. Yes,

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Speaker 1: because we got other things we need to talk about.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's it is an exciting thing. It always

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Speaker 1: takes me back to when I was coming out and

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Speaker 1: thinking about getting drafted, what it meant to me and

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Speaker 1: these young guys. And I'll tell you what it's. It's

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Speaker 1: an enormous and enormous dream that these guys are chasing,

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Speaker 1: these young kids are chasing, and you'd look at it's

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Speaker 1: and everything's different than it was you know that has

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Speaker 1: been in the past because of the transfer portal for

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00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: these guys, some of them have been to two or

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Speaker 1: three different schools to play, trying to find a way

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Speaker 1: to get on the field to begin with, and then

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Speaker 1: to navigate all of that and to come out on

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Speaker 1: the other end trying to get drafted in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's an odyssey. It's an odyssey, and it I think

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Speaker 1: in a lot of times it makes these kids in

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Speaker 1: some ways a little bit more mature and in other

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Speaker 1: ways a little bit more jaded to come out maybe

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, I was, you know, most of

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Speaker 1: the guys I got drafted with, even the guys the

475
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Speaker 1: higher ups were like just starry eyed, just so it

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Speaker 1: was so awesome to be thought of in that regard

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Speaker 1: by the NFL. And I think nowadays guys are like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I figured i'd go about here, you know, or whatever,

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Speaker 1: I should have gotten picked earlier, or you know that

480
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Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's it's a different world now, but

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Speaker 1: it's still a huge dream that these guys are chasing.

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Speaker 1: And the combine is the second to last step in

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Speaker 1: that pre draft process, with pro days being the last

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Speaker 1: step or even thirty visits if you're one of the

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Speaker 1: thirty invited by an NFL club. The one surprise school,

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Speaker 1: and maybe it's not a surprise in light of the

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Speaker 1: season they had TCU nine players going to the Combine

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Speaker 1: from TCU. That's a great showing for them. We are

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Speaker 1: talking Bills though, today, and we are asking you on

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll what Bills free agent will be the

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Speaker 1: easiest to replace someone who if they do not come

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Speaker 1: back and are not resigned. You're not in a full

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Speaker 1: blown panic. You actually think, Okay, we should be able

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Speaker 1: to find a capable replacement. You let us know at

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00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: eight oh three, five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty the number to get on board, and we'll

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Speaker 1: start taking your phone calls when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you. And we know that the Bills are going

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Speaker 1: to have twenty two unrestricted free agents when we get

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Speaker 1: to March fifteenth, unless Summer resigned prior to that date,

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Speaker 1: and with all of that anticipated turnover, you know inevitably

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Speaker 1: some are not going to be back on the roster

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, especially knowing Buffalo's tight cap situation.

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Speaker 1: So what Bills free agent do you believe will be

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Speaker 1: the easiest to replace a player who if they do

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Speaker 1: not return, doesn't throw you into an outright panic and

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Speaker 1: explain why eight oh three oh five fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty the number to get

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Speaker 1: on board. And we lead off with the phones and baton.

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Speaker 1: Lead off for us today is Mark in Jersey City.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for his? Mark? Here? On one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, Good afternoon, gentlemen. I'm gonna go lohang fu

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Speaker 1: Roger Saffls. He for a team that passes the ball

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Speaker 1: as much as the Bills do. I mean, he was

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00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: not a good at that he would I mean it

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Speaker 1: was either a holding penalty. What was it that game

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Speaker 1: that he had like two penalties in a row set

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Speaker 1: them back. It was it was just, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: it drove me nuts. And yeah, he's an easy guys.

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Speaker 1: Steve mentioned a young player, Cody Mock. I could just

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Speaker 1: definitely see them going old line in the first time

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Speaker 1: because these versus only could play a bunch of positions

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Speaker 1: and they need some nasty up there. I mean old

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Speaker 1: guys that need those maintenance days. I think this team

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Speaker 1: needs them to freshen up a little bit. So I

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Speaker 1: think he's the easiest ad, the easiest delete and six

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Speaker 1: in my opinion. Yeah, And I know some people will

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Speaker 1: go down the list of free agents and they'll pick,

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Speaker 1: you know, like Tommy Doyle who didn't play this year,

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. He's easily well okay, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get it. But yeah, Saffold is a guy who was

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Speaker 1: on the field for almost one hundred percent of the

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Speaker 1: offensive snaps, if not all of them, and you'll have

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Speaker 1: to find somebody who can hang in there. He's a

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Speaker 1: thirteen year vet who you kind of know how his

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Speaker 1: ceiling is and you know where his floor is and

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Speaker 1: if you want the floor to be high or like

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Speaker 1: you say, Mark, I get it. And maybe you can

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Speaker 1: draft a young kid who who can do that. I

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Speaker 1: you know, Brownie are going round and round about guys.

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Speaker 1: We've you know, got a crush on who's gonna who,

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Speaker 1: but you don't know who's going to be available at

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Speaker 1: number twenty seven and at number and fifty two. I

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Speaker 1: think it is the other pick. I'm not sure at

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Speaker 1: forty it's twenty seven and sixty. Is it sixty? I

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Speaker 1: was earlier than that. Maybe it is, Maybe it's fifty

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Speaker 1: four two. I don't know, But anyway, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: map that out. Who's gonna be available at that spot?

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this, I've got it written on the

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Speaker 1: whiteboard in an office, the bill's draft traits. So if

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Speaker 1: you want to find a guy that they're gonna get where,

554
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a ton of guys available that are

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Speaker 1: all kind of equal. Maybe not. They're gonna draft the

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Speaker 1: guy that's bigger and stronger and faster. That's my nine.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna pick at fifty nine. So and I've been

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Speaker 1: going down the list, and I'm thinking an interior offensive

559
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Speaker 1: lineman just like you are, for the first round pick.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see. But Saffled, you're right, that's kind of

561
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Speaker 1: the type of player worth asking about. Is it gonna

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Speaker 1: be Termaine Edmonds or Jordan Poyer or you know, Roger Saffold,

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletarry, some of these guys that are up, who's

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Speaker 1: going to be a definite replacement? You know, I think

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Speaker 1: they'd love to keep all four of them. But you're right, Saffold,

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Speaker 1: the guy who took one hundred percent of the snaps,

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Speaker 1: and at the end, the offensive line seemed to be

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Speaker 1: trending down, not trending up. Yeah, And if you remember

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Speaker 1: last year during free agency, when Saffold signed rather early

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Speaker 1: in the process, the general consensus on the signing, and

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Speaker 1: I think Brandon Bean even mentioned this, was that they

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Speaker 1: saw him as a guy that could help them in

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Speaker 1: the run front. They still were satisfied with his movement skills,

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Speaker 1: even though he was a twelve year veteran at the

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Speaker 1: time when they signed him, and I think they genuinely

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Speaker 1: thought he'd help them win the battle at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage when they're trying to fire off and get

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Speaker 1: some traction in the run game. And while the team

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Speaker 1: did finish as a top ten rushing offense, I just

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Speaker 1: didn't get the sense that people were pointing to the

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Speaker 1: offensive line as the primary reason why. People obviously gravitate

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Speaker 1: to Josh and his exploits as a runner, which a

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Speaker 1: lot of times are on extended plays, broken plays, you know,

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Speaker 1: where he's just making something happen. That's not to say

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Speaker 1: there weren't design runs, but I think we can all

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Speaker 1: agree there were far fewer of them for him this

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Speaker 1: season than we had seen in the past, and so

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00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: because of that, it's very hard to just hand out

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Speaker 1: the credit to the guys upfront. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: they didn't do well blocking in the run game. There

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00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: were certainly examples of that through the course of the season.

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Speaker 1: I guess my point is Staffold was brought in here,

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Speaker 1: I think with the primary thought like, hey, here's a

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Speaker 1: guy that can help us win at the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage in the run front, and I don't know that

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Speaker 1: he met every expectation in that area. So I kind

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Speaker 1: of understand where Mark's coming from as well. And I'll

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Speaker 1: say this too, and I know we're a kind of

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00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: recency biased here because of the way the season ended.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, I don't know, given now, it's different

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Speaker 1: because given the financial constraints we're talking about it being

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00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: over the cap and all of that stuff. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be too sure that the Bills feel like they need

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Speaker 1: to transform themselves. They're thirteen and three and they were

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00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: scoring points and their defense was good, and you can say,

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00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: you know, against really good teams, the Bills defense didn't

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00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: play well. You know, that's well that's kind of the

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00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: way good defenses do in the league. They don't play

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Speaker 1: all that well against really great offense is because of

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Speaker 1: the way the game's called. Even in the game against

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati this last January, when the Bills got beat twenty

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Speaker 1: seven seventeen, the Bengals scored exactly at their season average.

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Speaker 1: Exactly at their season average, they were twenty six and

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Speaker 1: point something. In twenty six points and change on average

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Speaker 1: during the regular season, they scored twenty seven. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's a defense that's fallen down. The offense was

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Speaker 1: scoring twenty eight and change for the season and they

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Speaker 1: scored ten. That's the problem, at least in that one

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Speaker 1: single game. Now, certainly there are times during the regular

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Speaker 1: season where the offense was on fire, but that's where

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Speaker 1: you're at. You can't I don't want to overreact to

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Speaker 1: any one game, even if it is the last game

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Speaker 1: of the season, right, So I don't. My point is this,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you're going to see a transformational

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00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: roster this offseason, and I don't think all the guys

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Speaker 1: that people are kind of a little bit discussed or

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Speaker 1: disappointed in on the whole are as bad as we

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Speaker 1: might look. At them being at this point, what Bills

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Speaker 1: free agent do you see as the easiest to replace?

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Speaker 1: You know they're not bringing all twenty two back if

631
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Speaker 1: someone heads elsewhere? What player might not throw you into

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Speaker 1: a panic because you believe the Bills will be to

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Speaker 1: find a capable replacement eight h three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Back to

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Speaker 1: the phones we go, and to Tom and Rochester. What

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Speaker 1: do you got for his tim You're on one Bill's Live. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: I think this is an Actually for me, it's an

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Speaker 1: easy question. And I just talked to your screener and

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Speaker 1: he thinks Dane Jackson is a free agent. I wasn't sure,

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Speaker 1: but if Dane Jackson is a free agent, he's far

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Speaker 1: and away the easiest to replaced, not because he's bad,

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Speaker 1: but because they got two guys you know that are

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Speaker 1: are capable starters in the NFL basically sitting on the bench.

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Speaker 1: And so I think Dane Jackson is easily the would

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Speaker 1: be easily the guy easily is most easily replaced. All right,

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Speaker 1: he is a restricted free agent, just so everybody knows.

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Speaker 1: So I would anticipate knowing the cost constraints for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: they'll bring him back on a one year qualifying offer,

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Speaker 1: which is what you do with restricted free agents. Are

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Speaker 1: pretty affordable money. If I remember seeing it, I think

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Speaker 1: it's like four point two for corners at restrict. It

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Speaker 1: might the numbers may have gone up a little bit

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Speaker 1: for this coming year, but to me, he's affordable labor,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills are gonna be looking for that at

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Speaker 1: just about every position on the roster, not only just

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Speaker 1: with a draft class, but with other guys that you

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Speaker 1: can bring back in an affordable number. And you could

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Speaker 1: do that with Dane Jackson, and quite frankly, I think

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Speaker 1: if Kayre Elam takes another step, Dane Jackson is your

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Speaker 1: corner that's on the bench that comes in in case

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Speaker 1: of injury, you know, behind Tredavious White and Kayer Elam

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Speaker 1: and tarn Johnson in the slot, all things considered, So

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Speaker 1: to sign a guy at an affordable price at a

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Speaker 1: premium position, who probably if your first round picks, makes

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Speaker 1: the necessary steps in the offseason. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: any reason to think that Elam won't. He's already being

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Speaker 1: replaced anyway, at least as I see the only quite

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Speaker 1: even if he's not starting like he like you say,

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Speaker 1: if Christian Benford and Kayer Elam emerge and there they'd

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Speaker 1: rotate in and out with Trdavious White seeing us out.

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Speaker 1: We all expect Rdavis to be better and better as

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Speaker 1: this offseason goes on and get into next year more

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Speaker 1: like he was in twenty twenty. All of those things considered,

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Speaker 1: you still need guys ready to play. And even if

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Speaker 1: Dan Jackson turns into a depth piece, still a pretty

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Speaker 1: good depth piece. It's got experience in the defense, experience

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Speaker 1: starting the moment, whatever moment you put him in is

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Speaker 1: not going to be too big for him. So I'm yes,

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Speaker 1: you could probably replace him, particularly if he's not going

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Speaker 1: to start. It's I don't know how easy it will

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Speaker 1: be to find a guy who is well is as

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Speaker 1: well versed or as is or could be or will

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Speaker 1: be as effective as Dan Jackson has been. Even if

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Speaker 1: you're not happy with the production he's put on the

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Speaker 1: field so far, hard to find somebody to replace him

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Speaker 1: as a backup that's going to be better than that. Right,

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Speaker 1: let's go to the twe each sheet in terms of

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Speaker 1: what bill free agent you think will be the easiest

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Speaker 1: to replace tweech sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. And

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Speaker 1: Phil leads us off, and he says Saffold a good guy,

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Speaker 1: but easier to replace. And you know, if you just

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Speaker 1: look alone at all of the free agent signings the

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Speaker 1: Bills have made at the guard position, signing people to

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Speaker 1: one year contracts, two year contracts over the last several years,

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Speaker 1: it's a long list of guys. I mean, just last

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Speaker 1: offseason alone, you had Greg Mann's, Roger Saffold, Greg Van Roten.

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Speaker 1: I mean, run down the list that was one off season.

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Speaker 1: The year before that, it was Darryl Williams, John Feliciano.

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Speaker 1: And you know, so interior lineman aren't terribly hard to

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Speaker 1: come by. I think the key, as Steve pointed out,

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Speaker 1: is whether or not you are convinced it's a definitive

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Speaker 1: upgrade over a veteran player, where you know, definitively where

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Speaker 1: the floor is on that player's ability. Are you better

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Speaker 1: than that? Do you want to bank on potential? Here's

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Speaker 1: the other thing. You're in a win now mode as

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Speaker 1: a football team. Do you want to bank on potential

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Speaker 1: and hope that guy gets good enough to surpass what

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Speaker 1: Saffold gives you. Now, are you banking on that and

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Speaker 1: the coaching of you know, Aaron Cromer to make him better,

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Speaker 1: or are you just gonna say, you know what, we're

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Speaker 1: probably just best served to bring Saffold back on another

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Speaker 1: one year deal. Yeah, that's the big dilemma. And that's

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Speaker 1: part of the projection business that the front office is in. Right,

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Speaker 1: And so even if you don't bring Saffold back and

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Speaker 1: you draft somebody like everybody, this kid Cody Mock, that's

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Speaker 1: everybody's enamored labor of the month, right, or anybody else,

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Speaker 1: is that even if he starts out and he's you

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Speaker 1: would think he probably unless you get him in the

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Speaker 1: first round and he drops and he's one of these

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Speaker 1: guys that's got all kinds of tools, Maybe he will,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be hard to think that a guy

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Speaker 1: is going to come in, even if he's playing guard,

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Speaker 1: to play as well as a veteran of his the

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Speaker 1: tenure that Saffold has. But that's not really the question.

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Speaker 1: The question is knowing that your team's good enough and

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna stink when he's out there. He may

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Speaker 1: struggle a little bit, but he's gonna hold his own.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna get better and better week by weeks, so

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Speaker 1: that at the end of the year he is playing

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Speaker 1: well above the level that you would have gotten out

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Speaker 1: of a guy like Saffold or guy like like Bucker

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Speaker 1: or Bates. Are you gonna have the list of guys

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Speaker 1: you know, Feliciano, all the guards we've had. Is he

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Speaker 1: gonna be way ahead of those guys by the end

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Speaker 1: of his first year when you really need him in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and all of a sudden you're playing against

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Speaker 1: these really good guys. Now he can do more than

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Speaker 1: hold his own. That's what you're talking about. These guys

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Speaker 1: can get good fast when they're playing every day, when

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Speaker 1: they're not worried about anything other than football. They don't

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Speaker 1: have to go to college classes where they don't have

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Speaker 1: to do all this other stuff, and they can start

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Speaker 1: focusing on and getting some pro coaching and get into

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Speaker 1: an offense and get talk to guys who have done

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Speaker 1: it for a long time, and they just get better.

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Speaker 1: So that's what you're kind of talking about. You can

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Speaker 1: live with a guy who has a tough first month

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Speaker 1: of the regular season in his rookie year, but then

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Speaker 1: he starts to like, oh, now he's holding his own

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And then by the middle of the scene,

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Speaker 1: by the bye week, he's like, wow, he did good

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Speaker 1: in those last couple of games. And he comes back

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Speaker 1: after the bye takes another step and it's like, wow, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we can run behind this guy. Now he's starting to

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Speaker 1: he's seeing it a little better now, and then by

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, it's like, let's roll. So

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Speaker 1: that is kind of what you're asked to do as

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Speaker 1: well as a coaching staff and a scouting staff and

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Speaker 1: in training camp, and when you look at these guys

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Speaker 1: in the eye when you sit down with him in

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Speaker 1: these interviews, you try and find that stuff out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the roll of the dice. Break time for us

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Speaker 1: here when we come back, more of your phone calls

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Speaker 1: and more of your thoughts on the tweet sheet. What

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Speaker 1: Bills free agent do you think will be easiest to replace?

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Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you after this break here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: First Brown Steve Tasker with you closing out our number

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Speaker 1: one here with some of your thoughts on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: As we've been asking you today, what Bill's free agent

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Speaker 1: do you believe will be the easiest to replace? Uncle

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Speaker 1: Lando chimes in with Poyer. The chemistry is definitely something

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Speaker 1: that will never be recreated. But a decent cover safety

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Speaker 1: can replace Poyer, even though I want him to be

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Speaker 1: a lifer. So it sounds like Uncle Lando is conflicted.

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Speaker 1: I would disagree that he's one of the easiest to replace.

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Speaker 1: You even mentioned Uncle Lando the chemistry that he and

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Speaker 1: Micah Hide have had. But all good things must come

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Speaker 1: to an end, and knowing the cap constraints of this team,

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Speaker 1: investing giant money in a thirty two year old safety

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Speaker 1: as good as Poyer is just doesn't seem to make

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Speaker 1: the best fiscal sense, and replacing him is not going

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Speaker 1: to be easy. There are some good safety prospects in

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Speaker 1: the draft. Maybe you want to go with a veteran,

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Speaker 1: but it's not the thing. The problem with safety, Steve

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Speaker 1: is it's not just Poyer, it's Hamlin, whose future playing

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Speaker 1: career is completely up in the air right and Jaquan

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Speaker 1: Johnson is also a free agent, as is Dean Marlowe.

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Speaker 1: So it's Micah Hyde and nobody and nobody because I

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Speaker 1: think Cam Lewis is even a restricted free agent, so

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Speaker 1: it's Micah Hyde and nobody else. Like the cupboard is bare,

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Speaker 1: So safety is a very sneaky major need here for

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Speaker 1: this team. Positionally this offseason they are threadbare thin back there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Mike is coming back off you know, a herniated

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Speaker 1: disc and he's and he's in the last year of

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Speaker 1: his contract, so you you probably not only have to

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Speaker 1: sign one, You've got a draft one maybe and pick

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Speaker 1: up another as an undrafted rookie. I would love to

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Speaker 1: see them sign two safeties that we don't know in

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Speaker 1: free agency like they did with Poor year in high

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Speaker 1: five six years right, right. I welcome that kind of

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Speaker 1: right because they remember that was what they did. They

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Speaker 1: signed Micah Hyde and Jordan Poor like the same day

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Speaker 1: or a day party to good money conference yea, to

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Speaker 1: like five million pop for guys that were relatively unknown, right,

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Speaker 1: And it turns out it was the move of the franchise.

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Speaker 1: I think during that time he said, you know, you

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Speaker 1: can make a case it was the most underrated move

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Speaker 1: they ever made. Boyer is an unknown signed for four

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Speaker 1: years seventeen million pop Hyde had a little bit more

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Speaker 1: of a track record, played on a successful team with

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Speaker 1: the Packers, and he went six years, thirty million, like

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Speaker 1: just out of the shoot coming in here in twenty seventeen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that, and everybody's like that defensive head coach mentalent

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Speaker 1: as it. They were all talking, we're all talking about it, right,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, it turns out, you know, after one year,

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Speaker 1: even every coach in the league, like Bill Belichick, stand

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Speaker 1: and those guys are unbelievable. Yeah, you know, the two

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Speaker 1: of them out there is killing us. We can't we

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Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing. So it's it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: So I'd like to see him do that again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: noa on the tweet sheets, says saff Old Singletary. And

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Speaker 1: then maybe Poyer. Poyer is good, but there are some

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Speaker 1: great options at safety in the twenty twenty three draft.

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Speaker 1: And he's going to be thirty two years old, all right,

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Speaker 1: So we covered the Poyer angle, we covered the saff

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Speaker 1: Old angle. Let's talk Singletary. Contract is up. Still a

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Speaker 1: young player. Is he a player with elite physical traits? No,

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Speaker 1: but he's a reliable player. But he's playing at a

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Speaker 1: position where you know, as much as I like Devon,

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Speaker 1: it's a dime a dozen position. I mean, think about this, Steve,

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Speaker 1: and I know we've mentioned this on the show. Their

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Speaker 1: undrafted rookie running back last year was the flavor of

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Speaker 1: the month during the preseason. Raheem blackshear he didn't make

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Speaker 1: the team, but go look at his production down in

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Speaker 1: Carolina in a committee backfield with the Panthers at the

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Speaker 1: end into the year. He was playing quality ball down there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's an undrafted rookie. It's a tough call. And

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, most people are of that mind. They're

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Speaker 1: laying I don't know, I think we could do better

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Speaker 1: physically than Devin Singletary. Compared Devin Singletary's play at running

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Speaker 1: back to Roger Saffold's play at guard, I mean the

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Speaker 1: same was he given? Was he better? Certainly he got

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Speaker 1: more opportunity because he got handed the ball a lot

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Speaker 1: and he was on the field and he was doing

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. But is you know, overall you look

849
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: around the National Football League, was Devin Singletary a better

850
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: running back than Roger Saffold was a left guard? And

851
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: everybody's like, you know, throwing Roger Saffold under the bus

852
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: and okay, but this is these are still two guys

853
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: who were contributors, major contributors on a team that was

854
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: you know, thirteen and three and the two seed in

855
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: the conference. You don't know how much that's gonna you

856
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: don't know how much that is a part of all that. Yeah,

857
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: you know, and any changes you make could either you know,

858
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: take you a notch up or notch down closer to

859
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: you know, fourteen and three or twelve and twelve and

860
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: five five, So we'll see, I don't you know. Um,

861
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: it's hard. You can't really do. That's why it's hard

862
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: to evaluate guys and cross over like that. You know,

863
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: is he a better running back than Saffold as an

864
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: offensive lineman? I don't know. I think a lot of

865
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: people think they're pretty close. Yeah, And I think the

866
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: tricky part here is Singletary was technically quote unquote the

867
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: primary back in a committee backfield because he had the

868
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: longest track record and I think the coaching staff trusted

869
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,439
Speaker 1: him the most. But next year you could totally see

870
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: James Cook ascending into the primary role with Hines is

871
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: his you know, one, A or two. So now all

872
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: you need is to put a three in there, and

873
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: that could be an undrafted rookie, and I think that's

874
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: why some people see singletary as replaceable. We got to

875
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: take a break here because our number two is going

876
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: to begin with the executive director of the Senior Bowl,

877
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: Jim Naggy, gonna join us to talk about some of

878
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: those prospects that performed in that game last week and

879
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: how things might look for Buffalo in terms of options

880
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: at pick twenty seven. Jim Naggi coming up next year

881
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Calli to Health. It's

882
00:50:13,280 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, the One Bill's Live presented by called

883
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: Light to Health. All right, welcome to our number two

884
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: here on Wednesday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Please

885
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: to be joined now by the executive director of the

886
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, who pulled off another star studded event just

887
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: last week and can actually breathe a little bit now,

888
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 1: so he was kind enough to give us a little

889
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: bit of his time. It's Jim Nagy joining us. Jim,

890
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: have you had the big collective exhale because we know

891
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: this is a heavy lift for you and your crew

892
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: down there. Yeah, Chris Steve, thanks for having me out.

893
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: We have we're starting to exhale. You know, everyone asked

894
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: me during the week when you get to do that.

895
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: They think it's like when we get to game day,

896
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 1: but it's it's not until all hundred and twenty five

897
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 1: guys are on a plane and out of here safely

898
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: you can exhale. So no, we're We've done some debrief

899
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 1: meetings here on Monday, high level stuff, just going over

900
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: the week, and you know, now it's just I'm getting

901
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: I'm getting hand cramps. I've got a lot of thank

902
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: you Nights, thank you notes to write this week. So

903
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: we're we're still getting some stuff done, but definitely on

904
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 1: the definitely on the decompression mode. And it's interesting, but

905
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: we were looking at this in the history of the

906
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl with with our own franchise, the Buffalo Bills.

907
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: Over the last since twenty seventeen, this new with Sean

908
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 1: McDermott's head coach, twenty three players have come through the

909
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl that hast have ended up through the draft

910
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 1: or undrafted free agents as Buffalo Bills. Twenty three over

911
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: the last you know, five years, this will be the

912
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: sixth year. Is do you have any idea about whether

913
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: that's average for most NFL teams or is do the

914
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: Bills kind of do that as a general rule? Trying

915
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: to do the math in my head that that seems

916
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: about average. You know, like last year we had we

917
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: had five teams take six players out of the game.

918
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: We had five teams take five players out of the game.

919
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, that seems about average. But you know, they've

920
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:00,760
Speaker 1: done really well in the defensive backfield like Ron Johnson

921
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: and the guy over my shoulder here over there tread honestly,

922
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,439
Speaker 1: Tomar Hamlin and guys like that. It seems like they've

923
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of dbs. But I know in the

924
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: last couple of years like Boogie Basham and they've gotten

925
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: some good ones. And obviously the QB is a big

926
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 1: part of what they're doing. Yeah, Siran Neil and Levi

927
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: Wallace two other dbs that they got out of the

928
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl also. Um So, offensive line is an area

929
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: that is of concern to Bills fans. I don't know

930
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: if I know another fan base that talks as much

931
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: about offensive line play as Bills fans up here. They're

932
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: pretty well educated and they want some upgrades. And you

933
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: were not short of old line talent at the Senior Bowl.

934
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: In fact, there were some days where they just flat

935
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: out dominated in the practice sessions. Well, I mean they

936
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: even had three guys sitting on a bench together. I

937
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: think it was Oh Cyrus, Torrence, Darnell Wright, and there

938
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: was one other fellaw next to him. I might have

939
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: been Bergeron or Mark I can't remember. And I'm like, Wow,

940
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good trio that a lot of NFL

941
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 1: teams would take. In a second, what do you make

942
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: of the group you had this year overall? And what

943
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: you say? It's one of the better ones that you've

944
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 1: had since you've been executive director. Well, I'll start by

945
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: saying this. I think the Bills fan base isn't alone

946
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: just paying attention to Twitter. I think every fan base

947
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: in the league wants better offensive line play. And I

948
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: do think that's why a lot of these guys are

949
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: gonna get I wouldn't say overdrafted, but maybe pushed a

950
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: little bit. I think teams are going to really emphasize

951
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: offensive line in the first three rounds. That's where you're

952
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: getting a lot of your immediate starters from. So we

953
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,760
Speaker 1: had a lot of those guys. I expect the majority

954
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: of our offensive line crew, which was twenty two to

955
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 1: twenty four guys. I think we brought in twenty four.

956
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: I think we ended with twenty two or twenty one.

957
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: I think those guys are mostly going to be off

958
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: the board in those first three or four rounds. Yeah,

959
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: a lot of guys I don't know about. You know,

960
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: we've had some really good offensive line classes. The first

961
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: year we were here, we had we had ten first

962
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: round picks. I believe six of them were offensive linemen.

963
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: So that's really a that's really a position group that's

964
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: been it's been one of strength and and you rattled

965
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: off some of the names. Cody Mauk from North Dakota State, UM,

966
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: Cyrus Towards from Florida, Jalen Duncan from Maryland, UM. You know,

967
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: a couple of the right tackles, Darnell Right from Tennessee,

968
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,479
Speaker 1: Duan Jones from Ohio State. I mean, I think there's

969
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: there could be five, six, seven of these guys going

970
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: in the first round this year. Have you gotten it?

971
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: And you said you were doing some wrap up meetings,

972
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: some kind of in you know, wrap up kind of

973
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: overall encompassing, you know, rehash of the week, did you

974
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: and how much did you feed get feedback from the

975
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: coaches who handled this, the clubs, you know, the players.

976
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: How what kind of feedback did you get from the

977
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: head coaches involved. Yeah, you know, that was a new

978
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: format for us. We've we've had the full coaching staff

979
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: for seventy three years. So when that was thrown at

980
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: us this summer that we were going to have a

981
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: collection of assistance, you know, that took me back a

982
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: little bit. But you know what, after going through the

983
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: week with those guys as it worked great. Um, it

984
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: was awesome, and most importantly, I think it was great

985
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: for our players. Rather than be exposed to just two

986
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: teams behind the scenes all week, they were exposed to

987
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: sixteen non playoff teams. And again we haven't done a

988
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: deep dive into the detailed stuff. I think I tried

989
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: to speak to each one of them individually before they

990
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:22,879
Speaker 1: left Mobilan on Sunday morning, just thanking them for being

991
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: a big part of our week and then telling them

992
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 1: I'll welcome any feedback. Obviously, you're not going to go

993
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: through this for the first time and not have any

994
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 1: bumps or things we can do better. So yeah, I

995
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: think you know, And again the overwhelming response was, Jim,

996
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: this was a great week, incredible. They enjoyed just the

997
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: camaraderie and learning from each other. A lot of these

998
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: guys have only worked on one or two staffs that

999
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: are really network and be open at different schemes and

1000
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: philosophies and values. I think that was a great thing

1001
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: for our coaches, But no, we have to do that

1002
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 1: more formally as we worked through the next couple of weeks.

1003
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: One position group that looks to be particularly strong this year,

1004
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: according to the Draftnicks, is the tight end spot. Some

1005
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: people are projecting as many as five could go on

1006
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: the top fifty, which you know is not commonplace for

1007
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: that position, although maybe it's drifting that way. With how

1008
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: many more pass catching tight ends seemed to be cropping

1009
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: up in the college ranks. You had one who probably

1010
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: will go in the top fifty, and Luke Musgrave at

1011
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: Oregon State. I don't even know if I call him

1012
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: a tight end. I mean he's like a tight receiver, Jim,

1013
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's because he's Jersey number eighty eight,

1014
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: but I watch him run and I kind of see

1015
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki all over again, I don't know what you

1016
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: think about him. Yeah, you're right about the speed factor,

1017
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: and that showed up during the week. The guy can

1018
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: can really get down the seam. You made a bunch

1019
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: of big plays down the field during the week, and

1020
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: he was a guy that needed a big week. He

1021
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: only played in two games this year for Oregon State,

1022
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: was injured, and the guys up on the Beaver staff

1023
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: thin because guy could run on the high four fours,

1024
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,439
Speaker 1: and based off what it looked like on the field,

1025
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: I wouldn't rule that out. He's definitely gonna be a

1026
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: four or five guy, which at six six, two hundred

1027
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: and sixty pounds, that is a big man moving. So yeah,

1028
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: he's I think he's safely gonna be a top fifty pick.

1029
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: We had another guy, Dalton Kincaid, was gonna come play

1030
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: in the game who had accepted an invite from Utah

1031
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: in an injury in the very last game of the

1032
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: season for the Utes and he couldn't could move forward

1033
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: with the draft process. But I think Dalton's gonna You know,

1034
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: Dalton could be a first round pick. Luke Mike two.

1035
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: I think both those guys are safe. So if you

1036
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: need a tight end. Need I know Knox has been

1037
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: a great player up there. Uh, you know, Tommy Sweeney

1038
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,959
Speaker 1: and Quentin Morris our senior Bowl of lums depth depth

1039
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 1: level guys for you. I think Q made a big

1040
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: jump for you guys talking to the guys on the stage.

1041
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you're looking for one, it's certainly a

1042
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: good year to need one and give us an idea

1043
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: of the But because there's always buzz going on, there's people,

1044
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: I mean, these practices are attended with a lot of

1045
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: interest by teams around the NFL. They they're more interested

1046
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: really in the practices than they are even in watching

1047
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: these guys play in the game. It's just a great

1048
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: way to get really close to these guys who created it.

1049
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: Give me a handful of guys who created a lot

1050
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: of buzz that surprised the coaching status and the people

1051
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: who were watching practice weekend, week out. Yeah, you know,

1052
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: there's a number of those guys. And I actually saw

1053
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: a Brandon Beam down on the field a couple of times.

1054
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: He was right up in the middle of it. So

1055
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 1: Bill's fans would hopefully he'd be glad to hear that

1056
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: that their GM was he you know, was down field level,

1057
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: really trying to take it all in. You know, a

1058
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 1: couple of guys that stand out was the guy that

1059
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: we brought up last, you know, the week before from

1060
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: the NFLPA game, a linebacker safety hybrid player from Sacramento State,

1061
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: Marte Mapu. He's only you know, he's sixty three, two

1062
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pounds, but he hits like a ton

1063
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: of bricks. This guy's got a lot of pop in

1064
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: his body for someone that size, he hits like a

1065
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: much bigger man. And in the nine on seven periods

1066
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 1: he really stood out. You know. He had a couple

1067
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: of really strong days and then got hurt and I

1068
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: couldn't play in the game. But but for a small

1069
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: school guy, he certainly generated a lot of buzz. And

1070
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cheat on young, gonna peak above the the

1071
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: computer here and uh, you know, just look up, look

1072
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: up at the board and cheat a little bit. But

1073
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: you know, I ain't running back. Taj Spears was the

1074
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: guy that we had it as a day two player. UM.

1075
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if like the draft knicks or you know,

1076
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: people outside the league did, but but Taj was our

1077
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: overall practice player of the week. UM. And that was

1078
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: voted on by thirty two league execs. I pulled one

1079
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: guy from every club and he was kind of the

1080
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: overwhelming pick at that position. So Taj had is kind

1081
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: of coming out party at the Cotton Bowl against USC

1082
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 1: with five touchdowns, and he really followed it up this

1083
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: week with an last week with an unbelievable week here

1084
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: in Mobile. Um. You know, big play guy, big play

1085
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: open field space player. Um, you get him to the

1086
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 1: second level and he's gonna he's gonna make it a

1087
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 1: lot happen. So those two guys stick out, But there

1088
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: was I mean, we could kind of go on and on.

1089
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,439
Speaker 1: There's a lot of players that you know, Kate came

1090
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: in maybe a little bit under the radar that certainly

1091
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: leaving Mobile aren't under the radar anymore. Yeah, And you know,

1092
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: the for the Bills, I think the fans their focus

1093
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: is and we got to go all in on offense.

1094
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: More weapons for Josh, get him a better line and

1095
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: all of this. And Steve and I were just talking

1096
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: about this last segment. Kind of a hidden positional need

1097
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: of pretty significant importance is the safety spot. With Poyer

1098
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: being a free agent, DeMar Hamlin's future playing career up

1099
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: in the air, and then Jaquan Johnson and Dean Marlowe,

1100
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: the veteran safety also free agents. I mean it's basically

1101
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde and the rest of the cupboard is bear.

1102
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: Chris Smith is a guy we saw an awful lot

1103
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: on national TV, you know, you know, with the SEC

1104
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: being on CBS every weekend and playing for a high

1105
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: profile team like Georgia. What kind of week did he

1106
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: have and what do you think is his appeal? You

1107
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: know for NFL scouts. Yeah, Chris had a great year.

1108
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: Chris is one of Yeah, he was eligible for the

1109
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl last year. He was a guy that exercised

1110
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: that extra COVID year, went back to school and I'm

1111
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: glad he did. He got you know, last year he

1112
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: kind of fell a little bit below the line for

1113
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: our game. We had him in like the sixth round

1114
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: a year ago, and you know, like digging into a

1115
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: little more with Chris in the in the coaching step

1116
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: in Georgia. He finally got healthy, He had a healthy offseason.

1117
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: He was bothered with an injury in twenty twenty one,

1118
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 1: and not only did he look like a different player,

1119
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 1: he almost looked like a different athlete this year and

1120
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 1: I think you can attribute that to the health factor.

1121
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 1: He looked quick or he looked more explosive. He was

1122
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: covering more ground, he was making more plays. Before this

1123
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: year he kind of looked like that cerebral guy, which

1124
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: he is very cerebral. Really had he I know, he

1125
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: did a great job in the interviews talking to teams,

1126
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: but he looked like one of those guys that just

1127
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 1: put him in the rights, put himself in the right

1128
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: spot to make plays. And this year he was actually

1129
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: getting off the spot and making plays, if that makes sense.

1130
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, he had a great week downe here. Jamie

1131
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: Robinson from Florida State is another guy that I think

1132
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: is going to be a Day two player. I think

1133
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: Chris will go on Day two somewhere. I think those

1134
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: guys plug in his starters. J L. Skinner from Boise

1135
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: State a little different physical package at six three hundred

1136
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: and ten pounds then those other guys. But but again

1137
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: JL was practice player of the week at the dB

1138
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: spot for his team and now he had a great week.

1139
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: So there's certainly it's a pretty good safety class if

1140
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: you need one as well. There's you know, there's some

1141
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: starters to be had in that group. If you if

1142
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose as much as it sounds like you

1143
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: might lose, there's some answers in this draft. Yeah. One

1144
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: of the things that's been true of the draft over

1145
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: the last three or four years has been full of

1146
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: top quality first round wide receivers. It's been, and this

1147
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: year not so much. There are some guys out there,

1148
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: of course, but there are fewer and far between, rather

1149
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: than guys you could get that are Day one starters,

1150
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: even in the high second round, that kind of thing.

1151
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: In the third round, guys who are difference makers have

1152
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: been found because of the wide receiver group has been

1153
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,960
Speaker 1: so deep. This year is kind of a little bit

1154
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: different than that. Starts with a guy like Rashi Rice

1155
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: from SMU. Guys like that who showed up and give

1156
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 1: us a little synopsis to the wide receiver group. Yeah,

1157
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: I mean there's good players to be found all the

1158
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: way through. I mean, if you scout him right, some

1159
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: of these guys get really undervalued in the draft process.

1160
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: I think Khalil Shakier from that you guys got last year,

1161
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: and I think the fifth round. I mean, you know,

1162
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: talking to the guys up there, they're excited about what

1163
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:17,959
Speaker 1: what he's going to be in year two, so there's

1164
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: talent to be found. Rushie Rice is a really good player.

1165
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: U He's big, he's he's you know, makes a lot

1166
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: of contested plays. He's got quickness, he's got run after

1167
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 1: the catch. He had a good week. Jaden Reid from

1168
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: Michigan State was was maybe the most dynamic receiver that

1169
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: we had during the week. But you know, just in

1170
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 1: terms of off the line releases getting open, he had

1171
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: a great week. Tank Dell from Houston a really another

1172
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: dynamic slot player. Um, you know it's I think this.

1173
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 1: I think this wide receiver class is getting undervalued. There's

1174
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: some good ones, and I think I think in that

1175
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: third fourth round mix, you're gonna see some guys like

1176
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: a Terry McLaurin a couple of years ago from the

1177
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: Commanders whatever that was four years ago. Now think that

1178
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: might have been my first Senior Bowl. You know, Terry

1179
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: win the third and now look at him. I think

1180
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a couple of guys in this class

1181
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: that when it's all said and done, are going to

1182
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: elevate and be really good starters. Do you think that

1183
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: and maybe just put your old NFL scout hat back

1184
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: on for a second. Do you think part of the

1185
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: reason why we may see some receivers undervalued is because,

1186
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: let's face it, the NFL has been spoiled the last

1187
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: few years with like some true alpha male no doubter,

1188
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, top half of the first round receivers the

1189
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 1: last three or four years. And while they might not

1190
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 1: be in as plentiful supply this year, you're certainly gonna

1191
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: be able people that can help you sooner rather than later.

1192
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:45,000
Speaker 1: What is there some phenomenon we're not aware of that?

1193
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:46,919
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you, as a former scout can shed

1194
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 1: some light on as to why that may or may

1195
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:50,919
Speaker 1: not happen in terms of undervaluing some of the guys

1196
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 1: in this year's class. Well, first of all, I never

1197
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: take up my NFL scout again, right right, that's a

1198
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: permanent ext year. I you know, I still approach this

1199
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: job just like I did when I was in the league.

1200
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: But you know, I do think more of these The

1201
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: good thing for the NFL teams is you're seeing more

1202
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: immediate dividends at the wide receiver position. I know, Steve,

1203
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: when you played, it took guys two or three years

1204
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 1: to get up to speed. You might not get anything

1205
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: out of them. You know, they might have to come

1206
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 1: in and play special teams for a couple of years,

1207
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: you know, and be your be your understudy on teams

1208
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 1: before they really broke through. And now we're seeing a

1209
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 1: lot of guys come in right away and have big

1210
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:31,440
Speaker 1: contributions at the wide receiver spot. And I think that's

1211
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: attribute to do a lot of things. I think the

1212
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: NFL's adapted. They're pulling up concepts from college. I think

1213
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 1: that you know, the proliferation of seven on seven can help.

1214
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're you're gonna see more guys transition quickly.

1215
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 1: And there are there's gonna be a bunch of guys

1216
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 1: that right now people are talking about in that fourth

1217
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: fifth round area that are going to step in and

1218
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 1: be really good players, you know, like just out of

1219
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 1: our game last year. Look what Look what Christian Watson

1220
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: did the second half of the year for the Green

1221
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. And now and I know Christian thirty fourth.

1222
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: We're all you kind of expect that production out of

1223
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: a high draft pick, but um, you know, there's there,

1224
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: there's good players to be had outside of the first round.

1225
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 1: You don't have to take a receiver in the top

1226
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,440
Speaker 1: twenty picks to get to get good production out of them.

1227
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 1: So you've been on this end of the college draft

1228
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: for a long time now scouting guys and now running

1229
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: this Senior Bowl and seeing these guys come through, and

1230
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:22,160
Speaker 1: you've been a scout and now you're talking to these guys.

1231
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: What is it the same as it's always been? I

1232
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: mean to evaluate these guys, How has it changed? And

1233
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: are they getting any better at it? Um? In terms

1234
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: of the players, Yeah, I think I think all these

1235
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: guys are getting bigger, faster, stronger. And I've been doing

1236
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: this uh gosh, it's about twenty five years now, um,

1237
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 1: dating myself, but yeah, they're at every position now, these

1238
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: guys every year. You know, you maybe don't notice it

1239
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: year from year, but if you just think about what

1240
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 1: guys looked like five years ago or ten years ago,

1241
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: I think that all the training they're doing now in

1242
01:07:56,760 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: the off season and nutrition and um, it's a little

1243
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: bit of the Tom Brady effact, you know. I think

1244
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: that the TV twelve factor look at you know, when

1245
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: you played Steve, a lot of guys you know, felt

1246
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: like they were towards the end in the early thirties,

1247
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: you know, and when and that that's when, that's when

1248
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: it was over for him. And that's why it's funny.

1249
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: You see, you see the reaction, um, you know, around

1250
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: the draft time when some of these you know, quote

1251
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: unquote older prospects, you know, the twenty four year olds

1252
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 1: and twenty five year olds. Well, if you're playing now

1253
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: in your you know, mid thirties and you're gaining a

1254
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: couple of years on the back end of your career,

1255
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: who cares if you're a couple of years older. And

1256
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we're only seeing that because of

1257
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: the you know, the extra COVID year and whatnot. But

1258
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 1: but no, I think these players are getting better every year.

1259
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 1: They're just the training, the nutrition that it's it's all

1260
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:45,719
Speaker 1: making for a for a better football player. Now, last

1261
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 1: one I've got for you, Jim. I know I already

1262
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:49,799
Speaker 1: mentioned that a lot of people are of the opinion

1263
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 1: the tight end class is a strong one this year.

1264
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:54,240
Speaker 1: Two position groups that are even getting more hype than

1265
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 1: the tight ends is corner and edge rusher. Are you

1266
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: seeing the same kind of death that some of these

1267
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: other you know, draft experts are seeing at those two positions.

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Speaker 1: Certainly the edge category, we we thought coming into the week.

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Speaker 1: When I was asked before the game, what I thought

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Speaker 1: our best positions were, I thought running back, UM, in

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Speaker 1: the edge crew, we're we're our strongest positions, and that

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Speaker 1: that held true to form. You know, in the edge group,

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01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 1: you got guys like Keyon White from Georgia Tech. Looks

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01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: like he's a first round lock now he had a

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Speaker 1: really good week. Derek Hall from Auburn had a monster

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Speaker 1: week and he looks sounds like he's going to be

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Speaker 1: a first round pick. UM. So that group was really strong.

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Speaker 1: But the group that really surprised me was was our

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01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 1: corner class coming into the Coming into the game, we

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01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: had a lot of a lot of grades in that

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01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, early day three, fourth roundish area, and then

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01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: you just saw guys take off and we had a

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01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: bigger group. It's a longer group. Darius Rush from South Carolina,

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01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 1: big long body, Julius Brents from Kansas State, um Bos,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Johnson from Virginia. We had some big corners really

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01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 1: step up and play big. And you look at the

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01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl this week. You know, Joshua Williams was in

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01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 1: the game last year from Fayetteville State. The Chiefs picked

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01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: him in the fourth round, and then they waited all

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01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,719
Speaker 1: the way to the seventh to get a guy Jalen

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Speaker 1: Watson from Washington State. Those will be the starting two

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01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: corners in the Super Bowl this weekend, and they got

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01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: They got him in the fourth and seventh round. Same

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01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: body types, big six, one six, two, guys with long arms.

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01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: A lot of the guys that have a similar body type.

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Speaker 1: We're guys that showed up during our week last week

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Speaker 1: here Atmobile. Jim's great talking to you. Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We'll look forward to seeing it at the combine when

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Speaker 1: we run cross paths. Great guys, thanks for having me

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01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 1: back on. I'll see an indie all right, thanks again.

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Speaker 1: That's Jim Naggy, executive director of the Senior Bowl, and

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01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: he's kind of get the early look see at everybody

1303
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 1: because he's he's scouting these guys just to set up

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01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: invites to the Senior Bowl. So before we even lay

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01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:54,160
Speaker 1: eyes on him at the Senior Bowl, this guy's like

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01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 1: watched him and his staff have watched tape on a

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01:10:57,720 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: on a bunch of them, you know, all of them,

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01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty plus guys over the course of

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01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:07,599
Speaker 1: you know, October November December. So you know, the guy's

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01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 1: got an early look at a lot of the guys

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01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: that he thinks are fits. Naturally, he's looking for senior

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01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:17,560
Speaker 1: eligible players for the Senior Bowl, duh. But still in

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01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 1: all he's watching an awful lot of tape. That's why

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Speaker 1: he's saying I never take my scouting hat off, because

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01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: he's kind of doing the same thing he did when

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01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: he was a scout. He's just doing it for a

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01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: showcase game. Now, Yeah, that's yeah, and it's they do nothing.

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01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why it's a career where you just

1319
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 1: gotta be comfortable living in a hotel. I mean, you're

1320
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: just traveling everywhere. And he imagine what Jim Nagie's doing.

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01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 1: He's got to go to college games to see guys

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01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:44,760
Speaker 1: in person. He's gonna watch film too, but you see

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01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: him in person where they look like what kind of

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01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 1: athlete are they? Do? They stand out on that field

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01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: and you can he get him? Then you got to

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01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:51,439
Speaker 1: reach out to him and see if they want to

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01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: play and if they do, great, If they don't, well

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01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 1: you gotta find somebody to fill that spot. It's you

1329
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: talk about a guy going from Alabama, Georgia and all

1330
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: those schools all the way down to you know, Fayetteville

1331
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 1: State exactly exactly. But Josh Williams from Fayetteville State, who

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01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 1: was in the Senior Bowl last year, fourth round pick

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01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs, is going to start in the Super

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01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:17,679
Speaker 1: Bowl on Sunday. Yeah, at corner like it can happen.

1335
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 1: It really can't. That elevator is the express elevator right there.

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you go to the top room. I think,

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01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta give it to the Chiefs, I

1338
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 1: really do, because they had to sacrifice high priced players

1339
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:33,720
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball this passed offseason

1340
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: for the sake of revamping their receiving corps. They throw

1341
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:39,599
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill overboard because he was going to cost too

1342
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: much money and it was too much money to invest,

1343
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:44,640
Speaker 1: in their mind in one player, and they spread that

1344
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 1: money out over a group of players at the receiver

1345
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,800
Speaker 1: position power in numbers there, and they said, we're not

1346
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:52,479
Speaker 1: going to resign Tyrann Matthew, We're not going to resign

1347
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: starting corner char Various Ward. And I think they had

1348
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: let Bashad Breland go the previous year. And you think

1349
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:01,560
Speaker 1: about the decis Daniel Suru sit out the door. You

1350
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: think about the decision they made up their wide receiver

1351
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 1: corps Tyreek Hills getting thirty million dollars from the Dolphins,

1352
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: they're paying the Chiefs are paying twenty one million for

1353
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: like five guys total for this year. For this year.

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01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 1: They made it work. And on the defensive side, kudos

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01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 1: to their defensive staff, Steve Spagnola and the crew. They

1356
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 1: got two rookies ready to play right away. And kudos

1357
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 1: to their scouting staff. I mean, they brought in guys

1358
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: that they thought could be quick on the uptake and

1359
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: step in and play a major role, and they did that.

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01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 1: They did that, and there, I mean, corner is an

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01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 1: important spot. And they got a guy in the fourth

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01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 1: and the seventh round starting for them, and I mean,

1363
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 1: are they excelling. I don't know if you want to

1364
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 1: go that far, but they're holding it down. And they

1365
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 1: got a pass rush on the front end to help

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01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 1: him out. So you know, Williams is in the right

1367
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 1: place at the right time and the AFC title game

1368
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 1: gets to pick off a deflected pass. It was a

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01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,800
Speaker 1: huge play that pretty much ended the threat that since

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01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:02,719
Speaker 1: an he was posing to climb back into that football game. Yeah,

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01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:08,000
Speaker 1: and it works, you know, and certainly the Chiefs are

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01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: doing it in a way. You know, you set it

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01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:12,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of times. The Bills are a little bit

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01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 1: like behind the build that tuld, Yeah, the build. The

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01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: Bills got their quarterback a year behind, signed him to

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01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: an extension a year behind, that kind of thing, and

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01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: just kind of that's where they're at. Certainly they've risen

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01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,600
Speaker 1: to heights of the Bills that are only aspiring to

1379
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: right now. You gotta get back to the the FC Championship game.

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01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 1: You gotta play well on that day and get to

1381
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and play well on that day. And

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01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 1: the Bills have yet to do that, but they are.

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01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 1: You know, you're talking about an eyebrow away, an eye

1384
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 1: lash away, and that's that's as close as they are.

1385
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: All these teams, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Buffalo, Philly, San Francisco,

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01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: you go down the list, there's only through the end

1387
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 1: of this regular season you could see the difference in

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01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 1: the teams at the top of both conferences. Yeah, you

1389
01:14:57,240 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: mentioned ray Shi Rice to him from SMU, I like

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01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: that guy six to two h three. You go watch

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01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:06,880
Speaker 1: his tape and Jim mentioned it. The thing that stands

1392
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:10,639
Speaker 1: out about his game contested catches left and right. I mean,

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01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:17,000
Speaker 1: that guy is out jumping the defender and winning time

1394
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 1: and time and time. And you might say, well, hold on,

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01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: can he not get separation? What's the problem. That's not

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01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: all of his catches, but there are more than you're

1397
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 1: used to seeing on a college tape from that guy,

1398
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 1: and he just bodies people out and makes the catch.

1399
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: So interesting prospect, and I'm curious to see where he's

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01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: gonna go. He might be like an early day two guy.

1401
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:41,680
Speaker 1: But as Jim said himself, you don't necessarily have to

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01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:43,599
Speaker 1: get that receiver in round one to get a guy

1403
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:45,639
Speaker 1: that's gonna be able to help you sooner rather than later.

1404
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: In this year's draft class, you may not have the

1405
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: alpha males like the Garrett Wilsons, you know, the Jamison

1406
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,640
Speaker 1: Williams and those guys, but you're gonna have guys that

1407
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: can help you right away. And the Bills, fortunately for them,

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01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:58,800
Speaker 1: they don't need a number one. They need a number

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01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: two that you can count on weekend, week out. You

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01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:03,799
Speaker 1: might be able to find that in round two or three. Yeah,

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: and they need somebody to help. Somebody can get open

1412
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: to somebody that the defense has to worry about to

1413
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:14,599
Speaker 1: a certain degree, if not a lot. So I think

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01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a guy if they do take a

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01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,280
Speaker 1: receiver in the one, first or second round. Brownie, I

1416
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: think you can bet that when you look at him

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01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:26,760
Speaker 1: on paper, he's gonna he's at least gonna look the part.

1418
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:29,639
Speaker 1: He's gonna have some traits. We gotta take a break here,

1419
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 1: but when we come back, more of your thoughts on

1420
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet and more of your phone calls as

1421
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 1: we talk Bill's free agent list and who you think

1422
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: might be the easiest for Buffalo to replace, knowing they

1423
01:16:41,040 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: can't bring all twenty two back in the fold. We're

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01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:45,840
Speaker 1: back in a moment here on One Bill's Live. Stay

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01:16:45,840 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 1: tune all right, welcome back to One Bill Live. Chris Brown,

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01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and we got to get back

1427
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:08,040
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet here as we are getting your

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01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:12,519
Speaker 1: thoughts on the bills free agents most easily replaced. In

1429
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: your mind, guys that if they have to be replaced,

1430
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 1: you're not in a veritable panic as to how the

1431
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 1: roster's going to look without them. We should mention that

1432
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:24,800
Speaker 1: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made his State of the League

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01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: address at the Super Bowl as he does every Super

1434
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 1: Bowl Week, and he talked about more flexible scheduling, no

1435
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:36,599
Speaker 1: longer just for Sunday night games, but that Monday night

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01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 1: games will be flexed as well going forward, and that

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,839
Speaker 1: it's not out of the realm of possibility that Thursday

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01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 1: night games may be flexed at some point in the future.

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01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: Does that mean they're just going to flex him away?

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01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: Because I'd be happy if they did that. I'm not

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01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: a huge fan of Thursday night football. No, that ain't

1442
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 1: going anywhere, bro, well, not with the Amazon deal anywhere.

1443
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Do you think that Goodell threw that

1444
01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: out there? Like and not today, but eventually Thursday night

1445
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: football could be flex Two? Do you think that's done

1446
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 1: to appease Jeff Bezos and the Amazon people after a

1447
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: horrible slate of Thursday night games this year? Do you

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01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:23,599
Speaker 1: remember the Thursday night games we watched this year? Holy,

1449
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:26,839
Speaker 1: they were bad. They were bad, and they were awful,

1450
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:29,640
Speaker 1: and I was disappointed in the broadcast as much as

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01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 1: I was in them in the I mean, you got

1452
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:34,839
Speaker 1: to you gotta bring something to the It's an NFL

1453
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 1: game and it's the best league in the On the planet,

1454
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:40,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's the most watched television show in the

1455
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:43,759
Speaker 1: you know, in the country, all the time, every week,

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01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: and it's the appeal at the call. Yeah, come on, yeah,

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01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:48,960
Speaker 1: they were with you, and I get it. They were

1458
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: bad games, bad matchups, bad games, bad play. Okay, they

1459
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: were really bad some of them. Um, I've never been

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01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 1: a I've never been a sympathetic listener to a guy

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01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 1: who's as well, is a bad game that call? I'm

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01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: not with you, I'm not about that. I am with

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01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 1: you on that. And so because you have a job

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01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: to do too, yes, and so having said that, yes,

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01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:11,760
Speaker 1: that's only a matter of time, Thursday Night football will

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01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:13,799
Speaker 1: get flexed. Well, Bezos is like I paid a billion

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01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,479
Speaker 1: for this. Well, I'll tell you he's all right with it,

1468
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:19,759
Speaker 1: because even the first first week alone they got umpteen

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01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 1: million new subscribe in the league is going to give

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01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: them I can't remember if it's this coming season or

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. They're getting a Black Friday game. Well there,

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01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,559
Speaker 1: because obviously they make a ton of money on Black

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01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 1: Friday on Amazon and now they're going to stick a

1474
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:40,599
Speaker 1: game on there too to draw even more eyeballs. Holy yeah, Amazon,

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01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 1: could I think Amazon probably couldn't be happier with the

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Speaker 1: early returns, particularly given the fact that the product wasn't

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01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:49,760
Speaker 1: what they thought it would be or as good as

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01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 1: it could be, and they still had the viewership that

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01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: they did. Yeah, I think they're fine. But the League

1480
01:19:56,560 --> 01:20:01,680
Speaker 1: has always been a really, really, really good partner to

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01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: work with these broadcast companies. The other interesting note that

1482
01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell brought up concussions went up in number, but

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01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: he said the reason why that happened primarily was due

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01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: to a broader, more conservative definition of what a concussion is. So,

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01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: in other words, independent neurological consultants, medical officials on the sideline.

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01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: Maybe it was not a true to form concussion in

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01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 1: the traditional sense, but it was enough to pull a

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01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: player off the field, put him in concussion protocol that

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01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: goes towards the total for the season. Yeah, and I'll say,

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01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: still think we're one short from week three, but that's

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01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: just me. I did notice a number of players, more

1492
01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: players than I have ever noticed before, pointed off the

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01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:53,920
Speaker 1: field by the officials by this and say that Jeddy

1494
01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 1: Bridgewater in New York, Right, he didn't even have one, right,

1495
01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:59,639
Speaker 1: but there's they're checking them out. Yeah, they're checking them out.

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01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: They got they evaluated a ton more guys this year,

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01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 1: and as you would expect, they caught a few that

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01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: might have gone under the radar in years prior, so

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01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 1: that would elevate the number somewhat as well. I don't

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01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 1: think there's anything inherent about the game that's different this

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01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:15,679
Speaker 1: year as to why the yeah, concussions went up. Most

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01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: of them come on special teams, plays on punt coverage.

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01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:26,240
Speaker 1: But you would assume, probably rightfully so in this case,

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01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:30,679
Speaker 1: that because they broadened the definition and they started pointing

1505
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:34,200
Speaker 1: guys out for less and less symptoms or less and

1506
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:37,560
Speaker 1: less reasons, well and you get more. It prompted more evaluations.

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01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:40,680
Speaker 1: So you're gonna find more concussions when you have more evaluation.

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01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: And I'll say this too, I'm not saying this that

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01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:50,280
Speaker 1: they should catch all of them, you know, and that's yeah,

1510
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:52,080
Speaker 1: going forward, they're going to try and do that. Well,

1511
01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna layer their approach, you know, with more and

1512
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: more layers. Think of it like it's the old Swiss

1513
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 1: cheese philosophy. If you keep stacking slices of Swiss cheese,

1514
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 1: eventually all the holes are going to be gone because

1515
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:05,920
Speaker 1: all the layers are going to cover up all the holes.

1516
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:09,280
Speaker 1: And that's what you're trying to do with concussion protocol

1517
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:11,719
Speaker 1: and concussion evaluation, and the league each year is getting

1518
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 1: a little bit better at it. You're such a foodie,

1519
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 1: but yes, it works though. That's correct. And I'll say

1520
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: this too, even the casual fan, if you've been watching

1521
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: the league for even a handfull of year, like five years,

1522
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:28,040
Speaker 1: you've noticed a vast array of new type of helmets

1523
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:30,919
Speaker 1: that guys are wearing. They're all different kinds now totally,

1524
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: and they all they're looking weirder and different and funky

1525
01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:37,479
Speaker 1: shapes and all that. There's a ton of that going on,

1526
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: and that's all players safety. So the kudos of the

1527
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 1: league for doing that, and I gotta say kudos to

1528
01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:46,200
Speaker 1: them for being as transparent as they are and addressing

1529
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 1: it full front, you know, just saying, hey, you know,

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01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: we had more concussions this year. What Bills free agent

1531
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 1: will be the easiest to replace in your mind? You know,

1532
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: not all twenty two are coming back. So if you've

1533
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: got a player in mind that you think the Bills

1534
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:02,680
Speaker 1: are capable of replacing without losing much in terms of

1535
01:23:02,720 --> 01:23:04,200
Speaker 1: talent on the field. You let us know at eight

1536
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:06,320
Speaker 1: O three five fifty, we go back to the phones

1537
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:09,439
Speaker 1: and to Mark in West Seneca. What do you got

1538
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: for his Mark? Here on one Bill's Live, Ahi, Guys.

1539
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: As far as letting a guy go that can be replaced,

1540
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:21,679
Speaker 1: I'm gonna not go a free agent. I think it's

1541
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: time to move on from at Oliverer. Okay. I don't

1542
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:28,360
Speaker 1: believe the money he's going to command, even with his

1543
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:32,040
Speaker 1: fifth year option this year, is worth it anymore. And

1544
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:34,639
Speaker 1: we can't continue to have a guy that highly drafted

1545
01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:38,720
Speaker 1: to be such a detriment in the run game. So

1546
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:41,479
Speaker 1: that's where I would go with that. Okay, So his

1547
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:44,840
Speaker 1: number at ten point seven, you would want to I'm

1548
01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:46,439
Speaker 1: guessing you want to trade him so you can at

1549
01:23:46,479 --> 01:23:50,320
Speaker 1: least get something in return. Exactly, We'll use that money

1550
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Even if I'm not the biggest Edmunds fan,

1551
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 1: but if we needed to use that money to keep Edmunds,

1552
01:23:56,360 --> 01:23:59,760
Speaker 1: then I'd be for that. Okay. But yeah, I just

1553
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: think they need to be more formidable at defensive tackle.

1554
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 1: So and the reason I called though, was listening to

1555
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,559
Speaker 1: the gentleman from the Senior Bowl um and he mentioned

1556
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: and I missed the guy's name, the hybrid linebacker safety

1557
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: kind of guy. Yeah. Yeah, When he mentioned that kid,

1558
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,240
Speaker 1: it came to my mind that I was thinking, if

1559
01:24:25,240 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: the Bills do end up letting Edmonds walk, is there

1560
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:32,360
Speaker 1: any do you guys think? First of all, is Milano?

1561
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:35,600
Speaker 1: Is he capable of moving into the middle? And with

1562
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,599
Speaker 1: the Bills ever considered about drafting a kid like that,

1563
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:43,120
Speaker 1: putting in Milano's place and letting Milano play in the middle.

1564
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 1: Is something like that could be done? And the real

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01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:49,680
Speaker 1: quick after listening to everything he said about draft picks, uh,

1566
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm more convinced first round offensive line, second and third

1567
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:59,320
Speaker 1: wide receiver, safety however falls out, whoever's a better value

1568
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:01,759
Speaker 1: at east spot, and then I come back with another

1569
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,599
Speaker 1: offensive lineman in a fourth round. That's my opinion. Yeah,

1570
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 1: thanks guys, I'll listen all right, Thanks Mark, good call.

1571
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,559
Speaker 1: I don't hate your draft preferences. I think, as we

1572
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 1: all know, the draft rarely falls in a way that

1573
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 1: caters value wise to your positional needs. And we also

1574
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 1: have to do the wait and see, namely, wait and

1575
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:26,200
Speaker 1: see what Brandon being and his pro personnel staff does

1576
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: in free agency. First, where Brandon has made no secret

1577
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,040
Speaker 1: of the fact that he tries to fill as many

1578
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:37,120
Speaker 1: positional holes as possible going into the draft with free

1579
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 1: agency so as to afford them the freedom to go

1580
01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:44,120
Speaker 1: best player available. In most cases, the problem with moving

1581
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: Milano down inside is twofold one like, for instance, they

1582
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 1: drafted Terrell Bernard last year, and he and Milano both

1583
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:55,759
Speaker 1: instinctive players. Terrell Bernard is an inside linebacker like Tremaine Edmonds,

1584
01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:58,840
Speaker 1: but completely different. He's physically smaller and faster and all

1585
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff and instinct whereas Tremaine Edmonds is

1586
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 1: this big, huge physical presence who is really mechanical, and

1587
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 1: what he's doing is less instinctive. Um if you put, say,

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01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 1: for instance, Terrell Bernard evolves into them, you're starting middle

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01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:15,800
Speaker 1: linebacker and Matt Malone's out there, You've got two guys

1590
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 1: that weigh less than two thirty trying to stop the run.

1591
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:21,800
Speaker 1: In the NFL, that's hard, especially if you're playing a

1592
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:23,640
Speaker 1: team like New England twice a year right with a

1593
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty pound running back. That's that puts

1594
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: you in a tough spot physically, unless you've got four

1595
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 1: massive defensive tackles up front who can soak up bottoms.

1596
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 1: Maybe you got a chance so maybe yeah, we gotta

1597
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 1: take a break here. Some final thoughts on the Tweetchee.

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Speaker 1: When we return here on One Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right back,

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve tasks here

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01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: and we have a number of people that take in

1602
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:09,559
Speaker 1: the show every day, either on radio or on MSG

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01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:12,720
Speaker 1: our television network. Thanks for doing it. We have some

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01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: special viewers West Steve. Yeah, Derby cans is my dad

1605
01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 1: Gordon is in the hospital. I want to say him

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01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:21,720
Speaker 1: Dad and my brother Keith with him. Um watching the

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01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,720
Speaker 1: listening to the show on the app, and uh, I

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01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: want to say, get will soon pomps. I'm all thinking

1609
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:30,400
Speaker 1: about you, love you been doing well out there in Derby.

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01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:33,480
Speaker 1: We get we get people listening from all over and today.

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01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:36,559
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's for usual that they'd listen

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01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 1: to the show. I'd like to say they're like every

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01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 1: day listeners every single days. Interrupt. Yes, Um, we are

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01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:49,680
Speaker 1: their total darkness. We're their isolation retreat for them after

1615
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:53,960
Speaker 1: they hear me, after you hear us, but yeah equivalent, yes, good, Well,

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01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:56,599
Speaker 1: get well soon, Dad, I appreciate you and Keith, you two.

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01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: It's good. Good to see you guys. I'll be out

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01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:00,719
Speaker 1: there soon. I'm sure, I'm sure to see you. Yeah.

1619
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 1: So if we put a if we put a bow

1620
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 1: on this, I would say that, you know, who's replaceable

1621
01:28:07,880 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 1: really isn't a choice in some cases based on cost

1622
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 1: of a free agent. So really, the Bills are going

1623
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 1: to play the hand they're dealt, you know, based on

1624
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 1: dollars and cents, their cap situation and everything else. And

1625
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 1: hopefully free agency will fill some of the holes that

1626
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 1: are inevitably created due to some people perhaps perhaps getting

1627
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 1: priced right out of the Bills price range. Yeah, and

1628
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:34,560
Speaker 1: it's sure, I'm sure that it's gonna be one of

1629
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:37,400
Speaker 1: those places where there's gonna be some surprises, but there's

1630
01:28:37,439 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: also going to be some that are inevitabilities as well,

1631
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 1: and you know, we don't know who they're going to

1632
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:45,680
Speaker 1: be until until you see it. But position has a

1633
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:47,599
Speaker 1: lot to do with it. The value around the League

1634
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 1: of has a lot to do with it, and some

1635
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,720
Speaker 1: teams value positions more so than the Bills would, and

1636
01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: the Bills value more than other teams would and that

1637
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:58,639
Speaker 1: gets put into the mix as well. Yeah, that's why

1638
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:02,800
Speaker 1: you kind of wonder or where it's gonna shake out.

1639
01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 1: I mean you already hear rumblings out there about teams

1640
01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:08,519
Speaker 1: that might be interested in some of Buffalo's free age. Yeah,

1641
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:12,120
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds gets a lot of play, Yeah, because teams

1642
01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:15,040
Speaker 1: don't like to play offense against him. You know, the

1643
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 1: guy is just this huge presidence in space. Yeah, it's

1644
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,000
Speaker 1: like this huge shadow that comes over your offense. You

1645
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta throw it a round guy or under

1646
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 1: the guy, or I gotta deal with that guy. And

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01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 1: you don't want to try to throw over him. And

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01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:28,639
Speaker 1: you can't even get to the sideline before he does. Right.

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01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: So a lot of teams covet somebody like Tremaine, and

1650
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:34,639
Speaker 1: Bill's fans have always been polarized by him. So it's

1651
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:37,280
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see how that shakes out. That'll

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01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 1: do it for us today for this Wednesday edition of

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01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:43,160
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. We will be back tomorrow, where our

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01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: featured guest will be ESPN's Sam Acho. He'll talk to

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01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:49,760
Speaker 1: us about the super Bowl. He's also got a new

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01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 1: book coming out. We'll talk to him about that tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you Folks at one pm.