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Speaker 1: Oh, a great time. Watch Steve plaster to the backs,

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Speaker 1: time backs, time backs down, that's not a time. Welcome, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to winds Live, John. If you Steve Tanks, you're

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Speaker 1: company on this Tuesday afternoon, cloudy skies, cold, champered jures it.

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Speaker 1: What's sunny earlier today? But I don't have any sun

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Speaker 1: right now in after park, Steve, what about you down

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Speaker 1: the road three and a half out away, I'm only

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Speaker 1: partly cloudy. It's good here. It's mostly cloudy like chili. Chili.

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Speaker 1: It is chili. It is chili. It's gonna be high

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Speaker 1: of what fifty today? Maybe's gonna be nice tomorrow, gues

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be nice tomorrow. Right, it's gonna be better tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: holding out hope. Yeah, I'm gonna have to do something

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Speaker 1: tomorrow if it's You know how much different this whole

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Speaker 1: quarantine would be. I'm not whining, but you know, if

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Speaker 1: we didn't, if we had decent weather, if we had

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't bother me half as much. Right, we could

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Speaker 1: going out, walking around, you go to park, you keep

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Speaker 1: interesting Just watching the governmental leaders mark calling cards Governor

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Speaker 1: I mean, the governor's a statewide shutdown order ends Friday.

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Speaker 1: And how it affects the NFL is still up in

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Speaker 1: He's got a pretty interesting scenario, no fans allowed. What

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Speaker 1: There's nothing official obviously from the Bills or anybody else

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Speaker 1: Baseball has a plan. Owners have a plan to open

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Speaker 1: on that offensive line. So I don't know, and believe me,

425
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Speaker 1: when Richie went off the rails, he went off the

426
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Speaker 1: rails far right, do you mean? And he got a yeah.

427
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Speaker 1: It was abrupt. It wasn't like maybe for him, it

428
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Speaker 1: was an escalation. One thing, ever, but it seemed for

429
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 1: all of us it was like boom, oh my gosh,

430
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Speaker 1: Richie's over there, what's he doing? You know? Um? And

431
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,960
Speaker 1: that's you know that it's too bad, but also too Richie.

432
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 1: It was a little different with Richie because Richie said, listen,

433
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm killed him dying, my back hurts or whatever,

434
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Speaker 1: I'm retiring. He Richie called it quits and he got started. Yeah. Yeah,

435
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 1: So there's all of that as well. So it was

436
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 1: all those factors factor into these players, who they have great,

437
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: great talent, but they all come from everywhere, and I

438
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 1: mean everywhere from now. They're coming from different countries, different

439
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Speaker 1: cultural backgrounds, differently you know, West Coast, East Coast, North South, um,

440
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Speaker 1: big time schools, small time schools, historically black colleges and

441
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Speaker 1: universities to uh, you know too Ivy League guys. It's

442
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Speaker 1: it runs the whole gamut and the whole spectrum of

443
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Speaker 1: where these guys come from, and each of them brings

444
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Speaker 1: their own issues, their own family problems, their own family baggage,

445
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Speaker 1: and their own family benefits. You know, guys who have

446
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Speaker 1: strong support systems, who are you know, who aren't making

447
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 1: demands on them off the field. So, I mean, you

448
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: can look at us from players. It's it's been well documented.

449
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers family and were as strange or have been

450
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Speaker 1: a strange for at least a while. I don't know

451
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Speaker 1: how their situation is now, but they were estranged. So

452
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Speaker 1: every guy carries that with him and they got to

453
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Speaker 1: deal with it in their professional life, just like everybody,

454
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Speaker 1: whether you're an accountant, the lawyer, doctor or fireman or whatever.

455
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Speaker 1: You know, our family we carried around with us, and

456
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 1: these guys do too. Strikes me it's kind of the

457
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Speaker 1: essence of player personnel work of drafting and recruiting free

458
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Speaker 1: agents and maybe the hardest thing they do. Maybe it's

459
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Speaker 1: a better discussion. It would be good for a Sean

460
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Speaker 1: but also for Brandon Bean and his staff. You know,

461
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Speaker 1: it's just it's what it's all about. Yeah, anybody can

462
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Speaker 1: look at a guy, look at a forty yard dashtime,

463
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 1: could the leap being ability, look at the physical traits,

464
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Speaker 1: But how do you really look at a person and

465
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Speaker 1: figure out if they're gonna if they're gonna be okay

466
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: with your group, they're gonna fit in with your group anyway.

467
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Speaker 1: It's a good article. We'll talk with Tyler Dunn about it.

468
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Speaker 1: Bleach your report, Sammy Watkins with Tyler Dunn. We'll talk

469
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Speaker 1: to him about it at two o'clock today. Got a

470
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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today, Steve, and I'm proud to say that

471
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Speaker 1: I think our producer Jay Harris would tell you. It's

472
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Speaker 1: the result of a post that is up on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: bills dot com. I wrote it over the weekend, and

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Speaker 1: it basically is kind of a termination of a lot

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Speaker 1: of guests on our show over the last couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks of tremendous expectations for the Bills. Right. It started

477
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Speaker 1: with you know, it started with mel kiper Junior saying

478
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Speaker 1: twelve win team. You know, hate Frisco chimed in as well, Yeah,

479
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Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty amazing. Twelve win team, mel kiper Pete.

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Speaker 1: Frisco says the Bills are He thought they were gonna

481
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Speaker 1: win the division last year. Got us thinking about this.

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Speaker 1: Why why is it that national expectations are so high

483
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Speaker 1: for the Bills this year in twenty twenty. What do

484
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Speaker 1: you think it is? Let's take some calls on this

485
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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty toll free from Outside Buffalo

486
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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty Pete Prisco,

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Speaker 1: mel Kuiper, Mike Clay of ESPN, several others talking about

488
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Speaker 1: how things are just looking up for Buffalo, and I

489
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Speaker 1: wonder just what got that going? Why it is such

490
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Speaker 1: a you know, it's like a forest fire. Now everybody

491
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Speaker 1: thinks the Bills are really good national attention on a

492
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Speaker 1: twenty five year high. Why do you think that is?

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Speaker 1: Is it a because naturally because the additions have been

494
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Speaker 1: made to the roster Stefan Gilmour ajp and sa Zach Moss, etc.

495
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Speaker 1: Is that why expectations are so much higher? Is it

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Speaker 1: be the chemistry and culture set up by Brandon Bean

497
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Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott. Mel Kiper kind of talked about that

498
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Speaker 1: without prompting. You know, usually we'll say what if, we

499
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Speaker 1: will say Bill's got a good culture, right, No, u

500
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Speaker 1: Kuiper says, the thing that impresses me about the Bills

501
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Speaker 1: is near chemistry. They're all about the team being successful.

502
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Speaker 1: Is that why expectations is so are so high? Is

503
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Speaker 1: it last year's success? Let's face it, they won ten games,

504
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Speaker 1: went to the wildcard round, two playoff appearances the last

505
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Speaker 1: three years? Or is it d the AFC East Patriots

506
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Speaker 1: we're talking about coming back to the Bills, and there's

507
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Speaker 1: now competitive balance in the AFC East. Many people we've

508
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Speaker 1: talked to over the last few weeks site that is

509
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Speaker 1: a reason got a red hat Twitter posting two hundred

510
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Speaker 1: ninety two votes. Still room for plenty of votes, but

511
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Speaker 1: it's close. Twenty nine percent of respondents saying last year's

512
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Speaker 1: success ten wins last year is a reason why expectations

513
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Speaker 1: are higher this year. And equally, twenty nine percent say

514
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Speaker 1: the competitive balance in the AFC East is the reason

515
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Speaker 1: why expectations are higher. Twenty six percent right behind him

516
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Speaker 1: say the chemistry and culture set up by Brandon Bean

517
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Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott is the reason. Sixteen percent say it's

518
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Speaker 1: additions to the roster. That's interesting. You know the Bills

519
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: have fortified their roster, right Stefan Diggs. All those free agents,

520
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Speaker 1: nine free agents, they signed, many of them on defense,

521
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Speaker 1: a pretty good draft, AJP and SA, Zach Moss, etc.

522
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Speaker 1: And yet only sixteen percent of I respond and say

523
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Speaker 1: that's why the expectations are higher. Give us a call

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Speaker 1: to discuss eight O three five fifty toll free one

525
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty Why are

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Speaker 1: the national expectations so much higher than they were last

527
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Speaker 1: year for the Buffalo Bills? Why? Look, we think pretty

528
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Speaker 1: highly them them. We're right here in Buffalo, Steve and

529
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Speaker 1: I worked right for the team. But trying to figure

530
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Speaker 1: out why national observers think so much of the Bills,

531
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Speaker 1: I find an interesting questions. Steven, I think it's interesting

532
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Speaker 1: that the additions to the roster personnel additions is trailing

533
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Speaker 1: last place. People think that's not the reason why the

534
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: expectations are higher. Not Look, all of these are reasons.

535
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Speaker 1: I guess we're looking for the number one. We have

536
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Speaker 1: a lot of questions like that, But additions to the

537
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 1: roster is in last place. I find that interesting. People.

538
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Speaker 1: I think there's more than just the talent they've added.

539
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Speaker 1: I think so, and I get it. A lot of

540
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Speaker 1: people think it's it's just a natural step that you're

541
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Speaker 1: gonna take from last year. You win ten games last year,

542
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Speaker 1: this year, you should win at least ten games because

543
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: you haven't lost any key players. It's not like he

544
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: got raided by free agency, lost a couple of key players,

545
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: but you seem to have replaced those guys pretty readily,

546
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: maybe even gotten better in those spots. The strength of

547
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: your team should be intact and maybe even better. Your

548
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: offense the places where you were you couldn't store so

549
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: you didn't score enough points. Last year you got better.

550
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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm surprised, you know that it's not the

551
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: changes that have been made this year to a team

552
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: that was like last year. That isn't the thing that

553
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: makes the expectations high. They were okay last year. Remember

554
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Speaker 1: I don't know what was the expectation last year, six

555
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: and a half was the over under. Yeah, now you

556
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: and I we're not right because you and I had

557
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: much higher expectations in that right. But nationally I think

558
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: sometimes Pete, you know, I don't want to say lazy.

559
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: They just look as they won ten games and they're

560
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: gonna get better. The quarterbacks getting better, Yeah, that probably

561
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: will be pretty good. And that's kind of that kind

562
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: of that mentality, just like, yeah, they'll probably get better

563
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: this year, be better. I don't know. For me, I

564
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: think I said, I said, additions to the roster. I

565
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: take their present their present capabilities for granted, I guess,

566
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Speaker 1: and I think the additions to the roster, both in

567
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: free agency and the draft, are going to push them

568
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: over the top and put them into that category where

569
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Speaker 1: they're contendered late in the season. So that's where I voted,

570
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Speaker 1: and I'm I'm in the minority compared you know, compared

571
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Speaker 1: to everybody else. You know what I like in the

572
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: twenty six percent sites chemistry and culture. And here's the

573
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Speaker 1: thing that didn't just happen in the last three or

574
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: four months here, right, That's been going on for three

575
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: or four years here now and if and again we're

576
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Speaker 1: talking about national perception of the Bills, it's become a

577
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: parent I think to national observers that there's something special

578
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: going on here in Buffalo, and it is a chemistry

579
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: thing and a culture thing. Hey, they're doing things differently

580
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Mel Kiper said, it a team that place

581
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: for each other, a team that seems to care for

582
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: each other a great deal as opposed to individual And

583
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: that's not the way it is around the NFL in

584
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: many places. Is not the way it was here for

585
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: many years, maybe during the semi watchings years, that wasn't

586
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: the way it was. And I think there's a there's

587
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: a national perception that is probably just getting you know,

588
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: getting more and more strong this offseason. That being and

589
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: McDermott have built a different culture here, a different chemistry here,

590
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: and the fact that twenty six percent of our respondents

591
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: think that's the reason why national expectations are higher. That

592
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: means a lot to way. I'm not saying I would

593
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: vote for that, but I do think there's an emerging

594
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: appreciation for the culture and chemistry the bills have set

595
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: up here and it didn't just happen since last season

596
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: end of January fourth either. I would be interested in

597
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: where are voters place The continuity of all this is

598
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: that the culture is that is that where the culture

599
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: kind of comes in? Chemistry? Culture, Is that the continuity

600
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: that goes along with it? Or is it last year's

601
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: success that comes in as the continuity for this year's success,

602
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: Because continuity, we've thought, and I agree with you, it

603
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: goes in there somewhere, right, Yeah, the continuity they've got

604
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: by the same head coach, same coordinators, same quarterback, same

605
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: key players returning, same kind of core leadership with the

606
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: exception of Lorenzwi Alexander. You know, all of that is

607
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: that chemistry culture by bringing being to McDermott. Or is

608
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: that a situation where it's last year's success that is

609
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: gonna continue on this year and have a hangover effect

610
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Um. I don't know where that goes,

611
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: but I certainly think that's another option that people have.

612
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: We didn't give them another option because of the competitive

613
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Speaker 1: balance in the AFC East choice. And I think a

614
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: lot of people think, Hey, the division's changed. Our team

615
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: hasn't changed as much as the division has. And that's

616
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: you can make a really valid argument for that, right Murphy.

617
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills, even if the Bills stay the same,

618
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: they're still better than the Jets, still better than Miami,

619
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Speaker 1: and now they're they've gained on the England Patriots. There's

620
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: that argument to be made, and that's an oversimplification of it,

621
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Speaker 1: but that's it, right, yep. And we're talking about again.

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Speaker 1: I understanding. I want to talk to fans about it,

623
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Speaker 1: and I hope we get a few calls because I

624
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,719
Speaker 1: think this is a topic that will be better off

625
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: discussed as opposed to just voted on. But we're talking

626
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Speaker 1: about national perception. There's no question from all the folks

627
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Speaker 1: we talked on this show that the national perception that

628
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills is much higher. The expectation level is

629
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Speaker 1: much higher. We're asking you, what change those perceptions? Why

630
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Speaker 1: are the expectations so high? Give us a call to

631
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Speaker 1: discuss eight three five fifty outside Buffalo Towell three eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty, Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Vote in the Twitter ball, send in something for the

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Speaker 1: tweet seet. We'll look at that as well. We're just

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Speaker 1: getting going here. It's One Goes Live presented Mike A

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Speaker 1: Lot of Health. We're on the radio only today. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. One Goes on, John Worth,

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Speaker 1: you seem task you're getting things going on this Tuesday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Here three Tyler Dun coming up the two we had one.

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Speaker 1: I just want to mention this uh Bill's dynasty seven

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Speaker 1: one six tweets and I can't wait to listen to

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00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: Tyler Dunn on Sammy. I'm getting so irritated with John

643
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: Murphy trying to make Sammy sound like some awful guy.

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00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make him sound like an awful guy.

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Speaker 1: I read the article and thought, what a weird guy,

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00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: weird off the charts, weird he I can understand. I

647
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: can't believe he lasted seven months here? Did I make

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00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: him sound like he's an awful guy. Steve, Well, we're yeah.

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00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: Read the article. Yeah, I'm sure that I'm I'm Sammy.

650
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: Even in the article said he wants to eat and

651
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: he's trying to put out positive I guess he calls

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00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: it positive energy light, you know, not dark. I mean

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00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 1: he's just uh okay. So yeah, I don't even want

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Speaker 1: to I can't even do it justice, No, neither cannot.

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Speaker 1: You read the article and my impression was, Wow, that

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Speaker 1: guy is his Yeah, off the charts and he's a

657
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: little out there. Now. I wouldn't want him around my team.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying is awful. I would venture to

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Speaker 1: say his worldview comes from a way different spot than

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00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: most of our listeners, a way different spot. And it's

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Speaker 1: enlightening to read that article to find out why it

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Speaker 1: didn't work out here, because it becomes painfully obvious why.

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Speaker 1: And studn't make him a bad guy. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't make him a bad guy. He was just

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Speaker 1: in a place that was very different and hard to

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Speaker 1: be successful. What he was going through and where he

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00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: was so and he admits it, so he's doesn't make

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Speaker 1: him a bad guy, but it does bring bring clarity

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Speaker 1: to a pretty prominent draft pick that was a central

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Speaker 1: figure of a lot of conversation here in Buffalo for

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Speaker 1: a few years. Yeah, and I'm not saying he's a

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Speaker 1: bad guy. I am saying I'm glad he's not on

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Speaker 1: this team. He has he has no place on this team,

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Speaker 1: that's all. Yeah, he would have a hard time fitting

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Speaker 1: in on this team even today. A tie back of

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Speaker 1: the day, Why Why Why are the national expectations higher

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Speaker 1: for the Bills this year in twenty twenty. It's a

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Speaker 1: post an article that I wrote at Buffalo bills dot com.

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Speaker 1: You can read that if you'd like it, kind of

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00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: details of the folks have been coming on our show

681
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: talking about how good they expect the Bills to be.

682
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Speaker 1: But tell us why you think it is? Eight three

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Speaker 1: fifty to three one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. We'll start with the phones, Michael and Marilla. Hello, Michael,

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Speaker 1: you're in the air. Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. How's it

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Speaker 1: going great? Good? Can't wait to read that Tyler Kann

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Speaker 1: article number one, but number two, I think you guys

688
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: were doing a pretty good job. I think a big

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00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: reason for the way that the Bills are going to

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Speaker 1: prospefully perform. This year has got to start with Brandon

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Speaker 1: being and Sean McDermott at the top. Um, you're here

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Speaker 1: at all the time. You know, the good teams that

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00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: are sunceting, they keep their offensive and defensive coordinators around. UM,

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Speaker 1: they build that continuity and from the get goal. That's

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Speaker 1: what That's what these guys have done. And you know,

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00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: you get a Stefon Diggs and guys like that, but

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Speaker 1: you don't get them guys without being in McDermott, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and those guys up there, So kudos to being

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Speaker 1: a McDermott, you know, for me number one to get

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00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: them where they're at today and just to build that

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Speaker 1: culture and keep the continuity and you know, getting the

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Speaker 1: guys we need building through the draft. They've gone great

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Speaker 1: in the draft too, So that's you know, that's where

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Speaker 1: i'd like to say. Anyway, Yeah, and Michael, I agree

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Speaker 1: with that, and I want to hear Steve on this.

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Speaker 1: I also think there's a we're talking about the perception,

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00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: and the perception around the league is coming around to

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00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: that fact like, oh, these guys being in McDermott, know

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, know what they want, know what kind

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Speaker 1: of culture and chemistry they want to establish and they're

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00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: doing that, don't you think, Steve. I think they see

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00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: this team has been on a path for three years.

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00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: Nothing has derailed them so far. They suffered through a

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00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: rough season last year, not last or two years ago,

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Speaker 1: that they got through. People who really dove deep saw

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00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: that their offensive line was struggling mightily, and they had

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00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. They their defense was okay, but they

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00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: struggled on offense, and then you know, they kind of

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Speaker 1: worked on it, fixed it. It came around in a

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Speaker 1: big way, led to ten wins. And there's no reason,

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00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: nothing that people have seen so far would cause you

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Speaker 1: to get off that train, right. I mean, it looks

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Speaker 1: like it's going to be the same team this year.

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Speaker 1: They're difficult to beat. You're not running off and leaving

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00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: them because of the quality of their defense and their offense.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, looks like, wow, that they got

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Speaker 1: some guys right, So all those things put together. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can put Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott over the

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Speaker 1: top of all of that, but those and they're the

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Speaker 1: reasons all these other good things are in place, right.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, they've got they picked the roster. They've established

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Speaker 1: the culture, they've made difficult decisions, they have not gone

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Speaker 1: outside the lines. They've stayed financially responsible and gotten the

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Speaker 1: team in order in house. I mean, they've done everything

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Speaker 1: right and they haven't deviated. So there's really nothing there

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Speaker 1: that says, okay, now that rule run the bills had

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Speaker 1: is over. You know. So I think people just think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna keep on keeping on. Some of them will

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00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: be lazy and just say that's the whay it works.

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Speaker 1: But you and I, I mean, we know then and

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Speaker 1: bolts of it. Man, this thing looks it looks really solid.

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Speaker 1: I guess for a lack of you know, it looks sustainable.

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Speaker 1: It looks like it's not going away. It looks like

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00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: it's not changing and only getting better. Certainly they'll take

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Speaker 1: a step back at some point and maybe maybe this

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Speaker 1: rough schedule be that. But man, oh man, this looks

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Speaker 1: like a really solid organization who's doing it right and

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Speaker 1: sustaining it going forward. Take a call here from Tony

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Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Hello, Tony, around the air, Welcome, How are

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Speaker 1: you guys doing good? I guess I'm a little on

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00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: the other side with this nurse. You know, Sammy came

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00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: out to say that this was going on. Before this

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00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,280
Speaker 1: even happened, the only thing we had issues with Sammy

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00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: Watkins was being healthy. So now that he stepped forward

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Speaker 1: and said this is what was going on, now we

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Speaker 1: want to pass judgment on him and say how he's

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00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: a cancer and I wouldn't want him on my team.

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00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: And then you hadn't call on cancer. Did you read

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00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: the article, Tony No, I just oh, turned on the

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Speaker 1: radio to listen to you eyes and Facebook, and I'm

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00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: saying what people are saying on Facebook. I think, oh, well,

762
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: right here, here's the thing. Wait, mane, let me finish, Tony. Um.

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Speaker 1: I read the article and the Bleacher Report dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I never called him in cancer. All I'm saying is

765
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: he doesn't fit and it's clear why. And I used

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Speaker 1: to think that why is Sammy not here? Mostly because

767
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: he couldn't stay healthy and I was okay with that,

768
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: and he couldn't when he was here in Buffalo. Having

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Speaker 1: read this article this morning, now I'm thinking it wasn't

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Speaker 1: just health, it was his whole approach. It was his

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00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: whole mindset. That's why he's not here. That's what I think,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tony. Tony's not, and we're just kind of and

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Speaker 1: Tony something. Most of the stuff we're saying here um

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Speaker 1: is also corroborated by by Sammy's own words. In the article.

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Speaker 1: He admits that he say he says he got Steve

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Speaker 1: Tony's own words. He's Tony, and Tony be quiet for

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Speaker 1: a second, Steve wants then you'll get a chance. Please, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm Tony Tony. Sammy said in the article multiple night

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Speaker 1: he got drunk every night of the season. He was

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00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: drunk every single night. He didn't take care of his body,

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Speaker 1: and he admits that most of the problems he had

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00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: with injuries were because his body was a wreck because

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Speaker 1: he wasn't in because he was drinking every night. That's

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00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: only part of it. Then, and then when the culture

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00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: changed and Sean McDermott came in, they started making demands

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Speaker 1: of him. He was in no position to come through

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Speaker 1: for them because of where he had been with Doug

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Speaker 1: Marone and the and the group that was there before him.

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Speaker 1: He was in no shape to make that transition. And

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00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 1: some of it had to do with him drinking every night,

791
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: and a lot of more of it had to do

792
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: with where his family was down in Florida and those

793
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: situations they were in. So it's not that Sammy was

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00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: a bad guy or a cancer, but he was in

795
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: no shape mentally or physically, or emotionally or spiritually to

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Speaker 1: be a professional athlete. And it showed and McDermott recognized it.

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00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: That's what Murph and I are referring to. But the

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Speaker 1: thing what I'm saying is, at least he came out

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Speaker 1: and brought this out hisself, Okay, so then don't pass

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Speaker 1: judgment on a Once he came out and admitted this,

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00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: we should probably be saying, you know what, you're standing

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00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: up getting your life together now, young man, and you're

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00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: you're working towards to be the best person you could

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00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: be as an NFL player, but but mostly as a person.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I'm Tony, and that's right where

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Speaker 1: you know where you got to read the article, Tony,

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Speaker 1: because I wish I could say that, But having read

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Speaker 1: Tyler Dunn's article this morning, it's impossible for me to say, uh,

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Speaker 1: you're you're better off now, Sammy, you got your life together.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound to me, Steve, and I'm not passing judgment,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't sound to me like he's got his

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00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: life together, does it? You read the articles. Here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: Sammy's not a bad guy, and he may be in

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Speaker 1: a better spot now. Certainly he's trying to be a

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00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: better professional athlete. And the fact that he's hanging in

816
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: there in Kansas City, they that culture there and the

817
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: place he's at in his personal life is more conducive

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Speaker 1: to him being successful. There's no question about it. I

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00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: don't I'm not saying Sammy was ever a bad guy,

820
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 1: but he wasn't ready to be a contributor here in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo because of his personal life and because he where

822
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: he was. He may be he's obviously in a better

823
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: spot now because he is on the Kansas City Chiefs

824
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: and he's playing well for them. So no question. But

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00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: don't don't say bring that on the show. What's that?

826
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Speaker 1: Why don't you guys invite Sammy to come on the

827
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: show to talk. I don't feel come on, but that's yeah,

828
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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. Love to that

829
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: would be. That might be a fun thing to do.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. What kind of free pass are

831
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Speaker 1: you gonna get him? Give him for the way he

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00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: was in Buffalo? A self admittedly, it's not giving him

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00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: a free pass. And that's what I mean. He admitted this.

834
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Speaker 1: Nobody ever said anything about this about Sammy Watkins before

835
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,919
Speaker 1: this came out, but he brought it out. Now it's

836
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: that old murphing. You did say I wouldn't want him

837
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: on the team. That's right, I would not, But were

838
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: not this? What were you saying? Sammy was just? Sammy

839
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: was good. He just didn't want to be here. Um,

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00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: there's a little and there's more to it than that, Tony.

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00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. It's Bleacher report dot Com.

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00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: It's Tyler donne Um. You should read the article. Yeah,

843
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: it's a long article. And he didn't. Yeah, Sammy didn't

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Speaker 1: want to be here and he didn't fit here. He

845
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Speaker 1: went to a place, and don't forget, he didn't just

846
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: go to Kansas City and things took off. He went

847
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Rams and been about a half

848
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: a season there before they kicked him to the curb too.

849
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: They didn't want to sign him back either. Thanks for

850
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: it took me a while, Sammy, And I'm not I'm

851
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: not down on Tony. I'm sorry, I'm not. We're all

852
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: here at past judgment on Sammy. But it is what

853
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: it is. And if you're and I'm not judging it,

854
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: but that it's what Sammy said about himself and the

855
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: reality of the situation. Whether it's flattering or not, it's true.

856
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: And you know, Sammy may have a good heart, but

857
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: his actions didn't match that all the time. As a

858
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill, that's all I'm saying. Take a break and

859
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: then we're back. One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health.

860
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show. Jentler,

861
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: if he's seen Kansker one goes live here until three,

862
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: Gonna talk with Blaine Bishop, one time Tennessee Titans, Houston

863
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: Oilers player defensive back, right defensive back. Yeah, he's gonna say.

864
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: He's on the Titans radio network. That's coming up at

865
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: one o'clock a little with after one to talk about

866
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: the Titans Bills played them. What October fourth, I want

867
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: to say, No, October eleven. Hey, we got two different

868
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: lines of thought coming here. Why our national expectations higher

869
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: for the Bills this year than seemingly at any time

870
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: maybe twenty five years since the Super Bowl era. Got

871
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: any thoughts on that? We got a couple of suggestions

872
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll. We'd love to hear your thoughts

873
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: on that and number two, I guess it's a topic now.

874
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, our guest at two o'clock, M Tyler Dunn

875
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: wrote an amazing I think it's an amazing, long detailed

876
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: story after a long interview. Where did they do the interview?

877
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: It was like in New Orleans bar. I guess it

878
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: was a joint or something. Yeah, it was in a

879
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 1: restaurant in New Orleans. I don't know where they mentioned it. Yeah,

880
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: at any rate, Um, just amazing stuff from Sammy. Yeah,

881
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: he admitted to drinking too much when he was in

882
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo and not being focused. But beyond that, I think, Uh,

883
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: I've said it. I'll say it again. I don't think

884
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: I would want him on my team if I were

885
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,879
Speaker 1: the Bills or the Chiefs. But there he is. Let's

886
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: take some phone calls on both of these topics, if

887
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: you'd like, go to Mario in Buffalo. Hello, Mario, you're

888
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: on the air. Hey, thanks for having me. Gentlemen, sure

889
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: listening to them. You know I'm at work listening to

890
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: you guys and h serge. You mentioned the scene, Sammy

891
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: Watkins interview, and I think listening to Tony, I guess

892
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: he got me to call just to him react. I

893
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: was a big, big, semi watchins fan. I was excited

894
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: when they drafted him. A lot of people talked about

895
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, wasting, you know, drafting, moving up to get

896
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: them I wanted. I was happy with his here. I

897
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: gave him every benefit of the doubt when he was here. Yeah,

898
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: I noticed he couldn't stay on the field at the

899
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: same time after and I did not read the article,

900
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: did not listen to him. But if you guys are

901
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: if what you're saying is accurate, I don't want him

902
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: on my team. I wouldn't want him on my team either.

903
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: And that's not Cassie, you know, you know, judgment on him.

904
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:41,240
Speaker 1: It's just look, the owners, the general managers, the players,

905
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: your teammates. They expect a lot out of you. They

906
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: expect it's a brotherhood. They expect you to take care

907
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: of your body, coming in, do what you're supposed to do. Okay,

908
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: you're immature. You gotta issue, you gotta say something to somebody.

909
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: They'll help you. And then that's when people have your back.

910
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: When you go from franchise, the franchise the franchise and

911
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: you're still basically kind of doing it. Nobody wants you

912
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: go get your life together, come back and will support you.

913
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: But it's not about you judging Sammy Watkins. It's hey,

914
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: I don't want him on my team. He's not helping me,

915
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with that. So just you know, just

916
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: respond to Tony. It's you can't mix your heart with

917
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: your head. Yeah, you can cheer for Sammy. I mean,

918
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: nobody wants to see the guy fail or want to

919
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: see his life go down the train. But he was

920
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: not in a place in Buffalo in his personal life

921
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 1: and in his and his mindset and his professional walk

922
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: that he was going to be successful. He was no

923
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: place to be successful in Buffalo because of his contributing

924
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: to his off the field Activity's contributed to his injuries,

925
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: tongue on the field because he wasn't in good shape,

926
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to stay healthy. That that was an

927
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 1: absolute contributor to his lack of being able to stay

928
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: on the field. Was his inability to step away from

929
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: drinking whatever contribution you can, you've got to because he

930
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: admits to it. So all of that mixed in with

931
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 1: his personal life that was not in a good place.

932
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's I don't know if anybody could have

933
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: been successful in that environment, let alone Sammy Watkins or

934
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: any other Hall of Famer and that I played with.

935
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: It would have been hard for anybody to be successful

936
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: like that. You played with the Chris Carter. You didn't

937
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: play with Chris Carter, but you played when Chris Carter played,

938
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: great Hall of Fame player. His life was a mess,

939
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: his coat cut him, gets to life. It's more important

940
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: that you get your life together than you know. You

941
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: out here playing with us and you're a mess. So

942
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: you know, as far as the Buffalo Bills and the media,

943
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: you know, being positive on them, it's one of those years,

944
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: the span of years where something drastic hasn't happened, something

945
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: chaotic hasn't happened, and the wheels just didn't fall off.

946
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: Every time we do something positive in the past, something

947
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: would happen, an injury, someone would get fired, someone would

948
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: you know, we'd pick up in free agent to see

949
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: they wouldn't pan out. None of that's happening. Everything positive

950
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: is happening. So I mean, you do that in a

951
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 1: couple of years, you hit the playoffs. You're going to

952
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: continue to continue to win and continue to get good,

953
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: good reviews. All right, thanks Mario. On one more call

954
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: here Jake in Rochester. Hello, Jake, you're on the air.

955
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Follow us? Thank you for having

956
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: me on my first off place things. I love the

957
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: both of you guys. I followed your career for a

958
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: long time, Steve and John. I love that you know

959
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: that your takes on a lot of the things that

960
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: you talked about. I love you guys optimism every year.

961
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: So I really look forward to listening to these guys

962
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: just as a build and someone in my forties who's

963
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: grown up, you know, in the era that Pasca played

964
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: in at the same time doing what's everything that's happening

965
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: from none until now us. It's great to talk to people,

966
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: listening to people have optimism. You're in in ye out yea.

967
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: Thank you. In terms of the Twitter question, I would

968
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: have to say that, you know, kind of backing up

969
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: with a color said a few moments ago, which respect

970
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: to going from the top down, I would say that

971
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: as someone who has um bet in this field as

972
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: coached and um you know, has been a fan, a

973
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: lifelong fan of the Bills US. It's their approach. They

974
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: have a very systematic approach that they talk about producting

975
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: the process. But anybody who's worked in a system where

976
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: to organize and manage people and lead people the processes

977
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: everything and establishing a climate and culture and initial parts

978
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: of that process by setting up expectations, having high standards,

979
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: really searched the tone and how people will leave moving forward.

980
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: And I really believe that that was you know, sometimes

981
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: is mocked in some areas initially in this process by

982
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: some people, but I think fans are finally starting to

983
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,760
Speaker 1: see and buying into what where that kind of story

984
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: We are now now, yeah, you're right, Jake. We're almost

985
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: out of time of this hour, but you're right, And

986
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: it's it's leadership, it's be on our list. Chemistry and

987
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: the culture is set up by being a McDermott, and

988
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: Jake made a good point Steve Um two years ago.

989
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: Um the chemistry culture argument for the Bills was mocked locally.

990
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: People said, doesn't culture doesn't matter. They lucked out, won

991
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: nine games, Cincinnati had to help him get in the playoffs.

992
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: Culture means nothing. You gotta get more players. Well, okay,

993
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 1: you do have to get players. But culture is important

994
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: to the point where it is recognized by national observers,

995
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: and that's what our poll is about today. National observers

996
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: point to that, some of them as the reason why

997
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: the bill's expectations are so high this year because of

998
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: the culture and chemistry set up by being in McDermott,

999
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:30,320
Speaker 1: no question, and it's real and the process that everybody,

1000
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is, what it does is it

1001
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: sets up guidelines for every day, you got to do this,

1002
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: this and this, and here's the thing, and we've been

1003
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: talking about Sammy Watkins. Sammy Watkins could not live up

1004
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: to that process. He couldn't get treatment every day. He

1005
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 1: didn't live up to what the process demands of each

1006
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: individual player in order to the for the whole group

1007
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: to thrive. And that's why guys like Sammy Watkins and

1008
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: other guys that you can name that have been lego,

1009
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: that's why they aren't there. They couldn't get into the

1010
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: process and adhere to the process because of their personal lives,

1011
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: because of their beliefs, because their attitude, because of whatever

1012
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: you can say, they were gonna do it. So they

1013
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 1: aren't here anymore. And maybe it wasn't a conscious decision.

1014
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: Maybe it was something that you know, a problem they've

1015
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: got personally or whatever, but that those are the reasons

1016
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: why when you get to the process, it's a way

1017
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: of making sure guys are worthy of being part of

1018
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: the team as much as it is helping the team win. Yep,

1019
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: all right, we have a good first hour. I thought

1020
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that our set. I want to do another

1021
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: couple of today. Let's do it. I'm all in Murph. Next,

1022
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere. Next hour, Blaine Bishop, Tennessee Titans.

1023
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: The Bills play in October eleventh. Might as well get

1024
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,479
Speaker 1: an early sky and report on the Titans. That's coming

1025
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: up next one Bills Lide presented by the Lot of

1026
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 1: Health Radio Only. Today's Steams at Home. I'm at home.

1027
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Live. The Arizona Cardinals say

1028
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: a pretty good first round draft Isaiah Simmons, a linebacker

1029
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: from Clemson. He's going to play a linebacker. The Cardinals

1030
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: say he was the eighth overall pick. Many spent hours

1031
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: of airtime debating his best position will fit at the

1032
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: NFL level, But the Cardinals trust their instructs. They'll say.

1033
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: They say Simmons plays linebacker one position nets all the

1034
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins quarterback two with Tago Violoa is the leading

1035
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: jersey seller in the NFL. According to NFL Shop Jersey Sales,

1036
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 1: which is tracked by Fanatics, Tago Violoa is aqua number

1037
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: one jersey, selling faster than any other in the NFL,

1038
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 1: and the white version of that jersey ranked second, ahead

1039
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady's new shirts, which come in places three

1040
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: through five. Major League Baseball owners have approved a proposal

1041
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: that Commissioner Rob Manfred presents to the players today. It's

1042
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: a return to play scenario that aims to have baseball

1043
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: back in home stadiums by early July. The meeting between

1044
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: MLB and the MLB Players Association will set the stage

1045
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: for what both parties expect to be a contentious negotiation.

1046
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball could benefit long term for me in

1047
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: the first American team sport to return amid the coronavirus pandemic.

1048
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: The logistics of starting the season remain convoluted and requires

1049
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: some players support. Money is at the heart of the return,

1050
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: and the ability to strike that financial deal couldn't mean

1051
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: the difference between a baseball season and one that is canceled.

1052
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: The American Hockey League has canceled the remainder of its season,

1053
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: including the playoffs. The decision follows a vote by the

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Speaker 1: league's board of governors. Friday Ahl, the NHL's top minor

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00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 1: league affiliate. It followed the NHL's decision to suspend play

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Speaker 1: on March twelfth. And they are not coming back this year.

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Speaker 1: And there you go. That is the update from one

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00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,720
Speaker 1: of Bill's Live John Murphy's team task here a pretty

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00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: good first hour. Ready to start our number two for

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Speaker 1: us right now and joining us on the line Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans radio analysts pregame postgame work there. Co host of

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Speaker 1: radio show ten forty Radio in Nashville, played ten seasons

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00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: in the NFL for the Oilers and the Titans as

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00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: a safety, four time Pro Bowl appearance, four times a

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl player, h Round pick at Houston in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety three. Happy to have blamed Bishop by the Land,

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00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: but us blamed John Murphy and Steve Tasker up here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Thanks coming on. We appreciate it. Thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: John and Steve Man appreciate you guys having me on. Man, Hey,

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00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: how's it going down there in Nashville And how the

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00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: Titans getting through the quarantine and the pandemic and everything

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00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: going on right now. Well, the city is doing pretty well.

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00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the state kind of gradually starting

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00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: to open up twenty some of the restaurants and things

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00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: of that nature. So slowly, but surely we're trying to

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00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: get to, you know, position where everybody's feel uncomfortable by.

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00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: But as far as the Titans, uh, naturally, uh, you know,

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00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: they're doing their their zoom meetings even with the new additions,

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00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: at least the draft picks anyway, so they're kind of

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00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:50,359
Speaker 1: moving forward as you probably maybe Chiney campings j Lie.

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00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I don't know what they're thinking,

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00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: but they're still trying to mentally prepare just like everyone else.

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Speaker 1: Hey blame, thanks for coming on. Give us a little

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00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: synopsis or just an overview outside the pandemic and all

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00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: the stuff that we've had to work around this offseason.

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00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: Give us a little overview of the Tennessee offseason. Who

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00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 1: they lose, who they gained the extensions, talk about Derrick

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00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: Henry and Ryan Tannehill, those kind of things. Gets an

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00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: overview of what's happened with the Titans since last they're

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00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: great playoff run this last year. Yeah, what a great,

1091
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: awesome run. I was, man, I thought they had a

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00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: shot out of going to the Super Bowls. It's like

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00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: we did in two thousand. But of course they came

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00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: up a little sharp. But we could start with the

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00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 1: guys they lost there with big names, and just today,

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00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: Logan Ryns had a one year deal. It's it's reported

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00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: that with the Jets, and then Conklin naturally signed with

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00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: the Browns with a huge deal. Right tackle played throughout

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Speaker 1: the whole season, Pro Bowl or All Pro season years

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00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: before that, but he was in his final year of

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00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: his fifth year deal and he got paid. And then

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00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 1: naturally they franchised Derrick Henry the King and Kenny Hill

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00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: got the mega deal like all the quarterbacks do when

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00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: you have an exceptional season. And he played well from

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00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: the day he got into the you know, in the

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00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 1: starting lineup, even temporarily against Denver, all the way through

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Speaker 1: the season. Was pretty fascinating to watch. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: you look back on the twenty nineteen season, Blane, and

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00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: let's face it, we're talking to you today because the

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Speaker 1: Bills had to Tennessee again this year. Sunday October eleventh.

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00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 1: Last year, it was earlier, a little a week earlier

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Speaker 1: in October. I wonder how much how big was that

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00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo game. Yes, the Bills won, but the Titans kind

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00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: of went back to the drawing board after they game,

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00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: didn't They switched quarterbacks, made a lot of changes right

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00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: after losing the Buffalo in early October. Yeah, well it

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00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 1: was the Denver game actually the next game that Tannehill

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00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: got in. I guess maybe third quarter. It was later

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00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: and Marcus wasn't playing for very well. But naturally, you

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Speaker 1: guys in your defense, which is phenomenal, and I really

1121
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,240
Speaker 1: hit pains me that you guys are on the schedule

1122
00:56:54,320 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: again because your defense is pretty exceptional. Year offense continues

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00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: to grow, the quarterbacks getting better each and every year. Man,

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00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna be a Danish team, a team

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00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: that I think, uh could do some serious damage. And

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00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people aren't talking about you guys,

1127
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: but if you're guys who know football, they know the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are the real deal and the Texas and

1129
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: fortunes that they they got by you guys in the

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00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: first round of playoffs. So it's gonna be a big game.

1131
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: They gotta have to play their best and that may

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00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: not even be get enough to beat you guys. You

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00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: guys are a pretty good team. Underrated here, Yeah, I

1134
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: think blame we hear in Buffalo felt like we had

1135
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: a really good grip on who Ryan Tannehill was. He

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00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: played for the Dolphins for you know, all those years,

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00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: and the Bills played him twice a year. When he

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00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: got to Tennessee and started playing in the second half

1139
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: of that season, it was not the same Ryan Tannehill

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00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: that had been playing all those years in Miami. What

1141
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: happened to him? What's your what's your best take on

1142
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: why Ryan Tannehill looked completely different as a Titan than

1143
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: he did as a Dolphin. Well, it's funny you say that,

1144
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: because everybody was just the same base up. What he did,

1145
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, nasty with the Dolphins, and I said, hey man,

1146
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: it's hard to start in the nas Football League at

1147
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: Steve could tell you, you know, Steve could say you

1148
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: know it for six years, and he was injured one

1149
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: of those years. So uh, you know, it's just uh.

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00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: I think he got into a rhythm from day one

1151
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: that he got to camp. I think you saw immediately

1152
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: that He had a bigger arm than Marcus Mariota, he

1153
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: had more touch, he had more accuracy, and I think

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00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: you could see it instantly. He was running with the twos.

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00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: So that's probably why he had a good rapport with

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00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: A J. Brown because they were practicing with each other

1157
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: every day. And next year, know Ajia Brown became the starter,

1158
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: then why he's out the starting The nay guy, you know,

1159
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: got into a rhythm because they had been doing the

1160
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: same things at practice, and I think he was just

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00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: waiting his turn in the opportunity. And I actually was

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00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: really big and high on on ten hill because I

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00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: don't I know, in this league, when you get an opportunity,

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00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: you s got that long and have at least the

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00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:56,959
Speaker 1: solid let's say, career as a starter at quarterback not great,

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Speaker 1: but there was a lot of other things around him

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00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: that wasn't great. And I saw a lot of potential immediately,

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00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: and you know, people laughed at me, and I think

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00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: the Titans actually got the last laugh. And I said,

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Speaker 1: if Tanneil gets in there, and I think he throws

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00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: on the rhythm, he's very accurate and he changed plays.

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Speaker 1: His leadership skills compared to Marcus, you know, you love

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00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: Marcus a death, but he took leadership that this was

1174
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: you know, this was his offense, and he made checks

1175
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: and got him out of bad plays into good plays.

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Speaker 1: And then his accuracy throughout the whole time, which I

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Speaker 1: didn't know he could maintain, he did. So it's gonna

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00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: be interesting. He can't duplicate what he did last season.

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00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: That I don't think he can do that. But if

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00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: you get somewhere in between what he was as the

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00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: Dolphins and what he did last year, I think the

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00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: Titan fan base will be pretty happy. Live on the

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00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: line with Blaine Bishop, Titans radio analysts, Farmer or Titans

1184
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Speaker 1: and oiler safety. How about this, Can Derrick Henry duplicate

1185
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: what he did last year in from fifteen hundred yards,

1186
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: got a lot of carries, came out sometimes on third downs.

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Speaker 1: You wonder if he isn't every you know can handle

1188
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: him every down, can handle as many carries as they

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00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: want to give him a set. But Kenny duplicator come

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Speaker 1: close to what he did this past year. I think

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01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: if this is in the top five, I think he will.

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Speaker 1: I think this is the way the office is built.

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01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: But they they better be prepared for you know, maybe

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01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: passing the ball a little bit more instead of riding

1195
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: you know, the King Henry as I call him, because

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01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: he's a hard guy to tackle and then he has

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Speaker 1: breakaway speed and there's some limitation to his game. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's why they kind of hesitant trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out on a long term deal with the franchise

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Speaker 1: tack because he's not Christian mccaffy. He's not a you know,

1201
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: impacting the game in the passing game as well as

1202
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 1: the running game. Now you can catch a screen and

1203
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: do those things, but I'm talking about Marshall Folk, Christian mccaffy,

1204
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: those type of players that can they run routes like

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver, and he is not that. He's the

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Speaker 1: big I'm carrying the load. You stop me, and I'm

1207
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: gonna impose my will uh and uh, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: see where read at the end of the end of

1209
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: the game and he imposes will. He did it last season,

1210
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Speaker 1: been number one in the league and then the last

1211
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Speaker 1: six games the last season. Now to spread it. I

1212
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Speaker 1: think he can do it for two or three more years.

1213
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that because his first

1214
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Speaker 1: two seasons he backed up to Marco Murray it had

1215
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Speaker 1: pretty much no carries, so it'll be interesting to see

1216
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Speaker 1: if his body says too when I think that's that's

1217
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: why they drafted a safety net and a rookie are

1218
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: running back in the third round. That's in between the

1219
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 1: tackles as well as a pass receiver, but nowhere near

1220
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Speaker 1: as good as Derrick Henry running the football. And I

1221
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: don't know if too many are just running in between

1222
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: the tackles. Yeah, the Titans third round picked Derrington Evans

1223
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: from Appalachian State. I wonder about he's actually a local guy,

1224
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: a Buffalo area product. David Flewellen didn't play much last

1225
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: year with an injury. Is he okay to come back?

1226
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: Does he have a role to play in that running

1227
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 1: game up there? Do you think? Yeah, it's gonna be tough.

1228
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: I love Lewellen. I think the injury bug two years

1229
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: in a role may cast them. Is gonna in to

1230
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: see because they end up picking up a younger kid

1231
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: blasting game off the practice. But I don't want to

1232
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: say from the vikings and he showed that he could

1233
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: do because they moved through well into fullback last year

1234
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: and he got hurt so early. You never got to

1235
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: see him because the guy's got some ability uh and

1236
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: catching the ball as well as blocking, kind of like

1237
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: an h back guy. And so he's gonna have to

1238
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: fight for roster spot, I believe this season. But they

1239
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: liked him a lot. Blake, You're your schedule starts. It's

1240
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: pretty stout schedule up front. You got you go to Denver,

1241
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: then you come home for Jacksonville, and then you've got Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Houston.

1242
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: You got a tough stretch right there. Now that's just

1243
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: before your by. I guess after Buffalo you go on

1244
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: the by and you come back for the Houston Texans.

1245
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 1: Getting off to a fast start. Sounds like a great

1246
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: idea might be a little more difficult this year, even

1247
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: more difficult than maybe that was last year. Yeah, you know,

1248
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: it's funny. You know a lot of you know, people

1249
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: are looking at their schedule, you know, the experts, I

1250
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: guess and saying, oh man, they got one of the users, Kevin.

1251
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: I'll go, I don't. I don't see any of these schedule.

1252
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 1: I see a very difficult schedule. When I right off

1253
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: the bat, I go, oh if I was just guessing,

1254
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: not knowing everybody's team really yet, not even playing preseason.

1255
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: Go a, let's about nine maybe ten wins that you

1256
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: can't think you're gonna come back and just gonna be

1257
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: the same team you were in the playoffs. You gotta

1258
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: look at the whole body of work with what they

1259
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: did all season, and I'm go, man, this is a

1260
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: tough schedule. And I actually have a losing to you guys.

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01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys got they can't, they can't, they

1262
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: can't find a way to beat you guys. So I

1263
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: think you guys are gonna win you guys division, and

1264
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 1: I and I I think it's gonna be a tough one.

1265
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to squeak out some really close games

1266
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to do it not just through

1267
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 1: with Derek Henry Tannehill is gonna have to throw them

1268
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 1: till some wins, deeble early or the guy to have

1269
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: plenty of time to study this offense now, uh and

1270
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: figure out a way how they're gonna stop there carry

1271
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: if they're gonna have to, you know, sell the farm

1272
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: and put nine guys in the box. Everybody else who's

1273
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 1: gonna be man to man, and that's that's how it's

1274
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: gonna be. So they're gonna force the Titans to throw

1275
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: the football and beat them that way. They blame where

1276
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: the Titans ever really involved with Tom Brady. We heard

1277
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: a lot about the Rabel Brady connection when when Brady

1278
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 1: was a free agent. You think that was real, Yes,

1279
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: I really do. They will probably never say it was.

1280
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: I think it wasn't. I think it was more so

1281
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: they didn't get him because of timing. He didn't have to,

1282
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: you know, declare he was a free agent to a Wednesday.

1283
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 1: Free agency started on Monday, and they were afraid that

1284
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: they would lose Tannehill. They liked what Tanny Hill did,

1285
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but you don't pass up Tom Brady.

1286
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 1: They could not wait two days to see if they

1287
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: would lose Tannehill. And it was worth it. It was

1288
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: the right play. It was the right move because I

1289
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: don't think they were sure they could get Tom Brady.

1290
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady probably told him I'm not sure

1291
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: in my decision and I'm gonna wait till Wednesday, and

1292
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 1: they said, well, we have to move forward. What's Mike

1293
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: Rabel's message been to Titans fans this season is he

1294
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: has he h You know, I'm not promised, you know,

1295
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: to get back to where they were a year ago.

1296
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: But what's he feel about where this team is headed?

1297
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: How are they doing with the cap and and you

1298
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: know kind of going forward it There's no question I

1299
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 1: was really impressed with Rabel and his leadership skills and

1300
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 1: he got the most out of this team down the stretch.

1301
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 1: What's the take and what's his message been this offseason? Well,

1302
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 1: I haven't heard him say anything about this off season,

1303
01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: but I would say why not us? And well, why

1304
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: not us going to the Super Bowl? I mean, I

1305
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: think that's the type of guy. Is his leadership You're right,

1306
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: see is impeccable. He's done an exceptions job and a

1307
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: first year head coach. Second season, it's now vrabel team.

1308
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: About halfway through you realize now this is a vrable

1309
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: team because they started winning games and close games and

1310
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: it was tough, hard nose, disciplined football nowhere around it

1311
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: and didn't make a lot of mistakes and they can

1312
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: they show consistency. I think that's what you're looking for

1313
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 1: when you're coaching. That's all on the coaching staff. You

1314
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: know sometimes uh, you know they get off to a

1315
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: small start with pass you know, coaching staff and He's like, man,

1316
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 1: why they get off to a slow star. They'd be

1317
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: like up and down roller coaster ride every other game.

1318
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: Like Dan nows, they look like world beaters. You know,

1319
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 1: they look great. That's one thing that happened with Rabel

1320
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 1: now because you know this season, past season of Rabels

1321
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 1: team is that they were consistent throughout and they were

1322
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: tough and hard knows and they would discipline. So I

1323
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 1: think that's his uh, you know, pedigree of who he

1324
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: is as a player and as a person and as

1325
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 1: a coach. And I think that's the reason is that

1326
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 1: when they go out there and play football. Hey, Blene,

1327
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: I wonder I'm going to ask you about another local

1328
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: product here. And he's only a punter, but Brett Kern,

1329
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: only a putter, is probably one of the most underrated

1330
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: weapons the Titans have, right I mean, he's a really

1331
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: he might be the best punter in the game right now. Yeah,

1332
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: I would say he's the best in the businessman. And

1333
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: I've seen him just kind of grow over these last

1334
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: three years becoming elite. He was really good before that,

1335
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: but I mean he's he's taking his game. I mean

1336
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: I would literally I hate to say this because you know,

1337
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: but the kicking game, and Brent Kerrn won maybe a

1338
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 1: couple of games. I mean he was pinning guys back

1339
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 1: when we were already on the twenty and he kicked

1340
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 1: that thing all the way over their head and is

1341
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 1: bouncing around. The guy has to pick it up, and

1342
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: then they come down there and cover them. Then next

1343
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 1: you know, the field position has changed, and then go

1344
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 1: three and out and boom we had to fifty and

1345
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,959
Speaker 1: now you know, two first downs we were in field

1346
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: goal range. I mean he was a weapon. Uh Yeah,

1347
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: Brent Kerry's having a phenomenal three year stretch here. I

1348
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: think it's pretty impressive. Yeah, the Titans did draft a

1349
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: corner in the second round. They added Jonathan Joseph in

1350
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 1: free agency. I know that they lost Logan Ryan. What

1351
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: about their secondary and the guys you played safety and

1352
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 1: played it extremely well for that franchise. How does that

1353
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: sit right now? And the overall state of their defense

1354
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:36,000
Speaker 1: With the departure of Logan Ryan, I think it'll be okay.

1355
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: They'll miss his leadership and his versatility, and so it's

1356
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see who plays that slot because

1357
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler usually plays out wider. Dorry Jackson who's a

1358
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 1: phenomenal young, talented They picked up his fifth rougher option,

1359
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: but he's kind of a smaller guy. Then you got

1360
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: the Folding kid that they just drafted from LSU in

1361
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 1: the second round. And don't be surprised if you know,

1362
01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: you have the Hooker kid that they had two years

1363
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: go from safety from Iowa, as well as the Jackson

1364
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,320
Speaker 1: kid from Marshall they just drafted in the last round.

1365
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: I like his skill set because he played corner most

1366
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: of his career and then the senior year, being a

1367
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,480
Speaker 1: team guy, moved to safety, so he had some of

1368
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 1: that slot material type. You know, he can bled, he

1369
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: can cover, Uh you know, he can you know, play

1370
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 1: his zone, go back and play safety's you know, versatile player.

1371
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 1: Uh and uh you know that's some bettering back. I

1372
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 1: was with Joseph in case some guys go down. So

1373
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 1: I think they're preparing for the transition to uh, you know,

1374
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 1: being able to do the same things they did last year.

1375
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: I think the hugest transition guys is uh, hassle, this

1376
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,799
Speaker 1: is going to be the DC with Dean P's uh retiring.

1377
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: It's going to be an adjustment. Sure, they'll do some

1378
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: a lot of other things they did last year because

1379
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 1: Rabel had his hands all in it. But deanps did

1380
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: an exceptional job and play calling, and they're gonna have

1381
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 1: to get adjusted to a new DC right now, there

1382
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 1: is no title to a DC. Rabel and Hassle's going

1383
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 1: to be the guys actually over over it all. Talking

1384
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: about Blaine Bishop, Titans radio analysts played ten seasons in

1385
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 1: the NFL with that franchise, including Blaine. And you know

1386
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 1: the Bills were talking to you because the Bills played

1387
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: their Sunday October eleventh this year. But when they played,

1388
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 1: there's no doubt will be a couple of references probably

1389
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: video highlights of a game that you played in back

1390
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 1: on January eighth, two thousand. Uh, the Music City Miracle

1391
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 1: home run throwback got seven tackles in that game. You

1392
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: were you were getting around the field pretty good that day.

1393
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, well, well, I don't know you guys. Uh,

1394
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 1: you know, he guys have a tough, you know, tough

1395
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 1: team even back then. Uh, who was I was just

1396
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: happy in a late I don't know how these I

1397
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 1: was happy. And later that duck flute was not playing,

1398
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: because you watched the tape, he was just magical. He

1399
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,080
Speaker 1: didn't talk about the hide and what the roles he

1400
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 1: can make and not make and all this, but he

1401
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: was a winner. So when they got Robs off and

1402
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 1: nothing against him, had a big arm, but guess what,

1403
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,599
Speaker 1: we knew where he would be X marks the spot.

1404
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: So defensively we felt like, Okay, now we can get

1405
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: after the quarterback because we know where he's gonna be.

1406
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 1: Even though he had a big arm and a stronger arm,

1407
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: we felt confident. We played against him when he was

1408
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: with the Jaguars, so we felt like we knew him

1409
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: pretty well. So we felt once they did that, then

1410
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 1: we had a better shot of win, at least defensively.

1411
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that I've seen now

1412
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and it's it's been this way forever.

1413
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: Defensive coordinators constantly talk about it and use the safety

1414
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 1: You know it as well. You love a team and

1415
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 1: offense to play an offense that is predictable, it's the

1416
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 1: off the play off, the page plays that crushed you.

1417
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 1: And that's what Flutie was so good at. That's what

1418
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 1: that's what brought Ben Roethlisberger to a couple of Super Bowls.

1419
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: He would just kind of hang onto the ball until

1420
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: everything fell apart and then make a throw. You know,

1421
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: players like that are the great unknown, and that's really

1422
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 1: as a defender, that's always been the trump card. Correct

1423
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:54,760
Speaker 1: it is, Oh, no doubt about it. I get jilled

1424
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 1: on when you just said that, because man, he just

1425
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 1: it was good nightmare. You're out there, companies, guys, it's

1426
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 1: hard to come he guys the fastest ec you know, strong,

1427
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 1: big athletic. Then all of a sudden, guy quarterback starts, Oh,

1428
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:06,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run the ball, and then you got they

1429
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 1: run a right up to the back. I mean, these

1430
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 1: guys are just as fast as the receivers these days.

1431
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:14,600
Speaker 1: So it's uh, man, yeah, I was elated. And you know,

1432
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: Flue's a spect he was. He was a special player,

1433
01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:20,680
Speaker 1: uh to me from my point of view, and he

1434
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: would cause problems consistently. You just didn't know what you're

1435
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: gonna get. Then you were debating, oh should I come up?

1436
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: Should I stay back? And then you start saying we

1437
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: blitzing me gets outside of the pocket, and everybody's slaying

1438
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,679
Speaker 1: in the man they run with their backs. They don't

1439
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: know where he's at. There's so many factors to go

1440
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 1: into that, and I think you're absolutely right. So I

1441
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: think you guys did us a solid. I know those

1442
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: you know, the throwback and everything else, but I think

1443
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:46,560
Speaker 1: that definitely helped us, uh win that game. Outside of

1444
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: that play, and blame Josh Allen can run a little

1445
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: bit too, you know, maybe he'll want to run a

1446
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 1: little bit October eleventh time. No, no, tell him to

1447
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:56,840
Speaker 1: stand about. He's got big and can run. I mean, man,

1448
01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,640
Speaker 1: that's why I said the big. You guys got a

1449
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: really a good team. Uh. And I don't I don't

1450
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: say that a lot about it, you know when I'm

1451
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: on these phone calls, but man, every time we played

1452
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: the building, I do the pre outcome. Man, this team

1453
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 1: has for whatever reason, the Titans can't get past him.

1454
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: And it's their defense, their defense. I mean, you know

1455
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: McDermott was there with me and Philly when I finished

1456
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: up my career, so him and Rivera were there, and man,

1457
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: mister Johnson the late grade and Dave Johns. So yeah,

1458
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: it's just those guys that they played well in their

1459
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:30,519
Speaker 1: discipline as well. I'm kind of like you blame both

1460
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 1: you and I were both I was five nine. I

1461
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:35,280
Speaker 1: think you were five nine as well. And I always

1462
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: used to laugh all these guys walking around and there

1463
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: were six six six, you know, six four or six

1464
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: five six six running around, and I used to tease

1465
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: him if I was built like Tim, I would still

1466
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: about it. Then you see guys like Cam Newtons, like

1467
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, guys like Ben Roethlisberger. Those guys are like

1468
01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:59,600
Speaker 1: the ultimate weapon. They're big, fast and strong, and you

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Speaker 1: and I are running out there, They're like, we're five

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Speaker 1: eight five nine trying to play with them. Sometimes it

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01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 1: doesn't seem fair. Well, you know that that's why they

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Speaker 1: get the big bucket. That's why they you know, going

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01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,520
Speaker 1: in the first routes man, you know, these big sentimens

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Speaker 1: of men who uh, you know, can run just as

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Speaker 1: fast as us. It's pretty pretty impressive. And that's all

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Speaker 1: those guys are having long, you know, hall of fame

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01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: type career. So but uh, we definitely held our own

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Speaker 1: Steve Man, you know, for the for the five nine

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Speaker 1: crew man, we gave him my best, That's what I

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Speaker 1: can think. Yeah, it's fun, wallet lasted. Thanks appreciate it, Blae,

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01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:43,479
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on, appreciate any time. Thank you. Ten

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Speaker 1: seasons in the NFL. Four Pro Bowls. Blane Bishop plan

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01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: safety for the Oilers and the Tennessee Titans. He's now

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01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:51,880
Speaker 1: a radio analyst part of their pregame coverage. You'll be

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01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: there October eleventh that Tennessee. He sounds like he has

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01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: more than adequate respect for the Buffalo Bills. Not that

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01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: you have to have it when you come out with us,

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01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:04,639
Speaker 1: but that's interesting, you know, he's I'm surprised he sees

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01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: I'm surprised, and it's kind of fun to hear about it.

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01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: He was really obviously impressed with the Bills defense, and

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01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,680
Speaker 1: I think a guy like him probably would be the

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01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: way the Bills play. It's not a spectacular defense, but

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01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: man oh man, it's like it's like playing against a

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01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 1: stone wall. It just doesn't give. It's hard to move

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01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: the football on him, hard to score points. And I

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01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: think for a defender like him to come on and

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Speaker 1: recognize that and hear the genuine respect in his voice

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01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 1: was kind of cool to hear. Yeah, Blaine Bishop, we

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Speaker 1: thank him for joining us. Hey our Twitter poll today

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Speaker 1: and we've heard it again from Blamee Bishop. National expectations

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01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:41,960
Speaker 1: are high for the Buffalo Bills. Why are they so high?

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01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: Give us a call. Well, we check the Twitter pole.

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01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 1: A very close race on the Twitter poll, but we

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01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the phone lines as well.

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01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo

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01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: one eight five fifty two five fifty We got. We've

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01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: got Tyler Dunn coming up a two to talk about

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01:14:57,080 --> 01:15:00,040
Speaker 1: his interview with Sammy Watkins. Pretty amazing, So anything I

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01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: want to talk about his fair game. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: it's One Bill's Live, presented by to Lot of Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live.

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01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker. Are you there, Steve? You look

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01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: like you're there? You are? How's that you look good?

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01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 1: Steve and I are working on Skype and we're in

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01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:23,439
Speaker 1: Skype contact. Just a little inside baseball here with our

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01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris, who sends the audio signal to UH

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01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 1: Intercom Radio. That's why we're up on your radio. UM,

1518
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,760
Speaker 1: So someday we ended a more inside baseball. We had

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01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:36,560
Speaker 1: a brief, short discussion about returning to television someday in

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01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 1: the future. I don't know when, back on MSG, maybe

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01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks away. What do you think, Steve,

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01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: UH sound like a little bit more in a couple

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01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, before before the summer and before the

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Speaker 1: season starts, we'll be back on the air. I think,

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Speaker 1: don't you think I think it? I think so. I

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Speaker 1: think I think we're gonna make it. We'll be ah May, June, July, yeah,

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01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: maybe for sure, but by late July August will be on, right,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. That's it's got to be at

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Speaker 1: least that much. I was hoping for some time in

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01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: June though. Yeah, we could, but I don't think it

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01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 1: will be the first couple of weeks. It might be

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Speaker 1: the second half of June. And now that's only if

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Speaker 1: you know. I'd smell a bet. I'm gonna bet we're

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01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: gonna have a wager off the air. I fear about

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Speaker 1: when we're getting back on the air. Yeah, all right, okay,

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01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:29,800
Speaker 1: everybody cares whether we have a gentleman's wager. Hey, our

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01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 1: quarter pole today, and I wrote about it on our website,

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01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:36,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com. The amazing string of expectations for

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01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: the Bills this year, one after another. Guest even blame

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Speaker 1: Bishop a minute ago. National and attention on the Bills.

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01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: It seems like it's done an all time high, maybe

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01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 1: the most since it's been since the Super Bowl era era.

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01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: Why are the national expectations higher for the Bills this year?

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01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:52,880
Speaker 1: What do you think? On Twitter? We've got five hundred

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01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 1: seventy five votes in so far, very very close balloting

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01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:58,840
Speaker 1: most of our most but not by much. Twenty nine

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01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: percent of respond didn't say it because of last year's success,

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01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:05,679
Speaker 1: winning ten games playoff Burke last year, but twenty seven

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01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 1: percent say it's because the AFC East is kind of

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01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:11,040
Speaker 1: coming back to the Bills. There's competitive balance in the division,

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01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: and twenty six percent say it's because of the chemistry

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01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:16,840
Speaker 1: and culture set up by Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott.

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01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:19,680
Speaker 1: Only eighteen percent say it's because of additions to the

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01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:23,720
Speaker 1: roster stunning eight oh three five fifty toll free from

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Speaker 1: outside Buffalo one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, why are the national expectation so much higher

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01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 1: for the Bills? What's so funny? See? Well, stunning was

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01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm stunning with only eighteen percent say

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01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 1: it has something to do with the people leave at it.

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Speaker 1: I get it, But those other choices are really good

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01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: ones too. I mean, this culture and this team and

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01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: this program seems really solid moving forward. It seems sustainable,

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01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 1: well fought out, and well executed. And last year the

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01:17:54,120 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: team won ten games, and there's no reason to think

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01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: they're going to take a step backwards this year. Unmost,

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01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: like we said, you look at the schedule and say, well,

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01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 1: this is a more difficult schedule. So the team may

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01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: be better, but their schedule is going to be more difficult.

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Speaker 1: They've got more winning teams on it, particularly in the

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01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 1: first half of the season. Of course, the other thing

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Speaker 1: that we've been talking about all offseason is Tom Brady's

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01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: out of the division. New England Patriots lost a ton

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01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 1: of guys that were really huge contributors to a twelve

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01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: win season for them last year, and they've got a

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01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: guy that has taken like six snaps as a pro

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01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 1: set to be their starter at quarterback. They don't look

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01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: like the same team. So and the Dolphins had a

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01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:39,160
Speaker 1: long way to go. The Jets certainly seem to have

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01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: gotten better, but they're a team that the Bills, in

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01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,479
Speaker 1: my opinion, would have swept last year had the last

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01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: game mattered. So yeah, there's a lot of reasons, and

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Speaker 1: all of these reasons that you know, the roster, the

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Speaker 1: additions to the roster, the chemistry, last year's success, and

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Speaker 1: the division. All these things are positives in the bill's favor.

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Speaker 1: And maybe it's a mixture of all of them, but

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Speaker 1: you can make as certainly make a case for each

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Speaker 1: one of them being the reason that people around the

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01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: country are going, Eh, Buffalo bills are gonna be pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's take a few call on this. Shamus and Amherst

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Speaker 1: is on the air. Hello, Shamus, Welcome to the show.

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01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:16,479
Speaker 1: Hi Murph. I'm actually thinking about your tone about the

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01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 1: Watkins article because I did read it and I'm a

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01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: mentally ulic and I really didn't like your tone, and

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01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:22,599
Speaker 1: that really hurt. I hope I don't think you were

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01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: talking about Robin Water that way. Huh So, I hope

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01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 1: you're happy. Five. I am happy. Thank you. It's a

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01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: little bit about it's a little bit of a drive by. Yeah, well,

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01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: especially since he told the call smaner he was talking

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01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: about something else. UM, I don't care if you like

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01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: my tone. That's my tone. My tone is Sammy Watkins

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01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: looks like he's unreliable. Let me say that. And in

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01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: the article it's still unreliable. That's my tone. Like it

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01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 1: or not, that's my tone. Um, do I need to

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01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:52,320
Speaker 1: say more? Steve? I don't know. Im I getting at

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01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: a digging a hole. It's pretty cool. I would invite

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01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: people to read the article and the income and then

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01:19:57,040 --> 01:20:00,479
Speaker 1: and I don't know whether the caller was because of

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01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: his tone, was saying that Sammy Watkins is is mentally ill. Yeah.

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01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: I didn't say that either or not. We never mentioned that.

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01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. I mean, I just

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01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:13,479
Speaker 1: but obviously the caller might think so after reading the article.

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01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:15,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. He seemed to identify with it, right.

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01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 1: I didn't say any mental illness. I said he's not

1614
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: the kind of guy I would want on my team

1615
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,680
Speaker 1: because he seemed unpredictable, a little bit out there when

1616
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,920
Speaker 1: it came to some of his thoughts. That listen. It

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01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:29,760
Speaker 1: is not it is not a flattering article, although it doesn't.

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01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 1: It's not a hatchet job, no, um. But it gives

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01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 1: you some insight as to Sammy watkins point of view

1620
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 1: in the world and where he's been, where he's at,

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01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:41,800
Speaker 1: and where he's headed. And it's pretty insightful. H Tyler

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01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:45,240
Speaker 1: Dune did a really nice job and I think Sammy

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01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: is I think Sammy's probably fine with it. Yeah, I'll

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01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 1: be very honest with you. So there it is. I

1625
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: it's It's one of the most revealing articles I've read

1626
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 1: about a player in a long time, personally and behind

1627
01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:01,640
Speaker 1: the scenes away from football, and I would recommend it

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01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:04,000
Speaker 1: to all our listeners to go back and give you

1629
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: an idea of what maybe some of the some of

1630
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:08,680
Speaker 1: the demons these guys deal with away from football that

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01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 1: makes them successful or unsuccessful. Tyler Dunn's gonna join us

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01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:14,759
Speaker 1: too to talk about that article and about other issues

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01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,240
Speaker 1: that he's written about recently. Looking forward to that. Here

1634
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,760
Speaker 1: is Brand in Rochester. Hello, Brand, you're on the air,

1635
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:23,080
Speaker 1: Hey guys. One of the things I noticed about a

1636
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: lot of Bill stands is when a player leaves, they

1637
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: almost like have to find a reason to not like

1638
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 1: him anymore. Wilson mcgaey, a lot of fans will like him,

1639
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: and I understand he said some stuff about the city

1640
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 1: of Buffalo, but at the end of the day, he

1641
01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: was a great player when his here, Marshawn Wentz got

1642
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:39,600
Speaker 1: in trouble, got hit rid of him. He was a

1643
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,759
Speaker 1: great player when he was here. Stepan Gilmore has his haters.

1644
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 1: He was Defensive Player of the Year last year in

1645
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:47,840
Speaker 1: the entire league. He was a good player. But the

1646
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:50,360
Speaker 1: fans will like him. And as far as Watkins, he's

1647
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: probably gonna get the same treatment now. But here's my

1648
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: thing on Watkins. I understand the article what he said.

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01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,240
Speaker 1: It doesn't look good. But at the end of the day,

1650
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: when he was here with Kyle Orton the quarterback, he

1651
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: did have a thousand yards season that year. Another year

1652
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 1: when Tyrod made the Pro Bowl, they led the league

1653
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 1: in forty yard bombs for touchdowns. He was productive when

1654
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 1: he was healthy. Here was he a great player? Brand

1655
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:14,840
Speaker 1: you're saying that he was great. I don't think he was. No, no, no,

1656
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he was. He was a good player.

1657
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: He was a good player when he went to the

1658
01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:23,560
Speaker 1: Rams his first year, I specifically watched their games to

1659
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:25,719
Speaker 1: see how he's gonna play, and I saw him tracking

1660
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,680
Speaker 1: balls in double coverage and playing hard and coming down

1661
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:30,680
Speaker 1: with balls and thinking in my head, why did we

1662
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: let him go? Because honestly, the year we played Jackson

1663
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:36,720
Speaker 1: Go in the playoffs, it's Watkins is on this team

1664
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 1: with Tyrod Taylor. I think we score at least one

1665
01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:41,800
Speaker 1: touchdown in that game, and we may have advanced. This

1666
01:22:42,080 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 1: regime has done a really good job, but they've been

1667
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,840
Speaker 1: trying to replace Sammy and Woods since they got here

1668
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:49,880
Speaker 1: and they yet to do it up until maybe now

1669
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 1: with step On Diggs, and we'll find out and see

1670
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:53,960
Speaker 1: what happens from there. And another thing is this more

1671
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 1: point I want to make. I like McDean, I like

1672
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: what they're doing, but at the end of the day,

1673
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: we have another playoff team added into the league now

1674
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: where it's gonna be easier to get in the playoffs,

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01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 1: and you don't have New England on your schedule twice

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01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: a year with Brady, and that's gonna make it easier

1677
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: for these guys to look like they finally got us

1678
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: over the hump and making the playoffs having better records,

1679
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 1: whereas the other coaches we've had the past decade, they

1680
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:20,840
Speaker 1: didn't have that. They had Brady with New England and

1681
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: they had the one less playoff team. So you know,

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01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:24,759
Speaker 1: I don't know if these guys to get too much credit,

1683
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 1: but they can only do what they can do when

1684
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 1: they got here, and you play the games on your schedule,

1685
01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:31,040
Speaker 1: and that's not the that let me just slow you down,

1686
01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 1: brand I want to get Steve on this too. They

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01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs with Brady in the division two

1688
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: of the last three years. All right, so they have

1689
01:23:37,479 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 1: done that. What the six against New England? Well yeah,

1690
01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 1: keep playing, go ahead, Steve. What do you got to say, Well,

1691
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: you can say what you want about it being easier

1692
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:50,479
Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs. That does that put more

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01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: that must put more pressure on the McDermott and being

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01:23:54,160 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: to make it in the playoffs since it's easier. And

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01:23:56,560 --> 01:23:58,559
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. You go back and look over

1696
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:02,439
Speaker 1: the last decade, not a single one of those ten

1697
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: years before McDermott and being got here, would the Bills

1698
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs it had if it had been

1699
01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 1: in expanded playoffs. In short, they weren't even close. Under

1700
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:15,800
Speaker 1: all those other guys that you seem to have fond

1701
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 1: memories for so but with radio, but with radiot the

1702
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 1: home the Bill started off on two pretty much every year.

1703
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 1: And these guys haven't beat New England yet, they've been

1704
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:28,160
Speaker 1: owing two past three years. I'm just saying we had

1705
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 1: beating everybody else. If you've if you watched a couple

1706
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,280
Speaker 1: of those replay games, I watched the two Monday nighters

1707
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,639
Speaker 1: and the heartbreaking losses. They were um and I've heard

1708
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 1: people say we had bad rosters. We may have a

1709
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 1: lot of good players on our team. We didn't have

1710
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,720
Speaker 1: deep rosters, but we had some good players on our

1711
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 1: team when you watch some of those games, and for

1712
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:48,160
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they couldn't get it done. But we'll see

1713
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 1: what happens. Hopefully we could start beating New England and uh,

1714
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: you know, start and start fresh from the past decade

1715
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 1: or yeah, there's a lot of men there's That's kind

1716
01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 1: of where our Twitter polls about. It's about a lot

1717
01:24:57,800 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: of it is about hope, and a lot of it

1718
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:02,840
Speaker 1: is about optim and about having a real reason to

1719
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: cheer for the team out than the fact that it's

1720
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:09,360
Speaker 1: your team, the team inside the locker room, the roster,

1721
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, what they've put together over the last

1722
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:14,320
Speaker 1: three years. There's a lot of reasons to be more

1723
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: than just hopeful. And today's Twitter poll is about perception,

1724
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: not reality, but national perception. We'll talk more about this

1725
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 1: when we come back. It's One Bill's Live presented by

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01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome Back. It's

1727
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live A very lively show today. John Murphy,

1728
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:38,120
Speaker 1: Steam Cancer coming in until three o'clock. Tyler Done from

1729
01:25:38,160 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: bleacher Report coming up a little bit after two. Let's

1730
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:43,080
Speaker 1: get in another phone call here. We're talking a little

1731
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: bit about Tyler Dunn's article about Sammy Watkins on Bleacher Report.

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01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:48,840
Speaker 1: Eric's on the line in Toronto. Hello, Eric Ahead, you're

1733
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:51,599
Speaker 1: on the air. Hey guys, thanks for taking my call.

1734
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 1: I love the show. I got up this morning and

1735
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: check my website and bleacher Report is always there. So

1736
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: I have read the article and it was was kind

1737
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: of surprised about the depth and openness of the article

1738
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:06,559
Speaker 1: and what drew me to it initially was the words

1739
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:10,440
Speaker 1: depression and anxiety. And I think there's a bigger discussion

1740
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 1: here when an athlete like this is so open and

1741
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: have this type of interview to talk about maybe the

1742
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:21,439
Speaker 1: elephant in the room. I mean, there's clearly some emotional issues.

1743
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,880
Speaker 1: And as a Bills fan, we wanted to win and

1744
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: we wanted to perform, but clearly you've got a young

1745
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 1: guy working for an organization who's in some trouble here,

1746
01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:34,439
Speaker 1: whether it's depression and anxiety, clearly some addiction issues with

1747
01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:37,200
Speaker 1: the way he was drinking. And I think there could

1748
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:39,799
Speaker 1: be a bigger discussion that maybe we can have around

1749
01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:43,600
Speaker 1: what responsibility does the nfl PA help to help a

1750
01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:46,240
Speaker 1: guy like this? How do the bill step in? Because

1751
01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:48,920
Speaker 1: this is a problem that can affect a law firm,

1752
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 1: an accounting firm. Employees show up. But there's clearly this

1753
01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:55,240
Speaker 1: isn't a guy just being a bad guy. I mean,

1754
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:57,720
Speaker 1: there's clearly some issues, whether it's the way he grew up,

1755
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 1: whether it's a physical issue with him. And maybe there's

1756
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:07,200
Speaker 1: some sensitivity we can add, but I think this is

1757
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,759
Speaker 1: part of a much bigger discussion NFL playing pro football

1758
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:13,240
Speaker 1: is a tough way to make a living. I can

1759
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:15,599
Speaker 1: only imagine. I mean, Steve can talk to that more.

1760
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 1: And but there's some stuff going on here. And this

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01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 1: is a guy whether he reaches out for help or

1762
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: and I hope that we take the article of maybe

1763
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 1: that step towards reaching out for help and then he'll

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01:27:26,760 --> 01:27:29,320
Speaker 1: get the help he needs, because he clearly physically gifted.

1765
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:32,679
Speaker 1: But there's a lot more to being a successful human

1766
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:35,280
Speaker 1: being than just being physically gifted. So I just want

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01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: to open the concept that maybe there is a bigger

1768
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 1: discussion to be had here. Yeah, and Eric, is a

1769
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 1: good point. And I'll tell you one thing that has

1770
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 1: been a constant during my career as a player, and

1771
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: since I've left the league, even it continues to be

1772
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 1: a constant, and that is a player can only be

1773
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 1: helped when he wants to be helped. Sure, and it

1774
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: goes not only for his mental health, but his physical health,

1775
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:09,280
Speaker 1: for his professional commitment to his personal life, and either

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01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:14,479
Speaker 1: whether he's physically or physically hurt or injured, or mentally

1777
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 1: hurt or injured, or any other or any other condition

1778
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: you can name, you can only help people when they

1779
01:28:22,080 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: want to be helped, and that will and always will

1780
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:31,200
Speaker 1: be the great limiting factor for football teams, for accounting firms,

1781
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:34,840
Speaker 1: for law firms, and whatever other business you mentioned in

1782
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:37,559
Speaker 1: a hundred others. You can only help a guy when

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01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:39,719
Speaker 1: he wants to be hurt or he wants to be helped,

1784
01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:42,880
Speaker 1: and when he admits that he needs it. So that

1785
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:48,280
Speaker 1: above everything else is you know, kind of is a constant.

1786
01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:52,400
Speaker 1: That's a good point, Eric, That's a really good point.

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01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: And you know, people have accused me today and I

1788
01:28:56,520 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: got steve to some extent of what not being sympathetic Sammy,

1789
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:02,920
Speaker 1: And I'm not calling him mentally ill. I'm not calling

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01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: him a bad guy. I am saying I don't know

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01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:06,479
Speaker 1: if that's the kind of guy I would want on

1792
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 1: my team. But you're right, Eric, you bring up the

1793
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 1: kind of the missing point. The other part of it is, well,

1794
01:29:11,240 --> 01:29:13,080
Speaker 1: why don't you want him on his team? Maybe he

1795
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 1: needs more help, and maybe the NFL and I'm guilty

1796
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 1: of this probably, and maybe the NFL is in general

1797
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 1: guilty of walking away from guys instead of helping him.

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01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 1: And by the way, maybe many other professions are as well.

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01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:26,320
Speaker 1: Do By the way, I think that's you know, I mean,

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01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:29,240
Speaker 1: these guys sacrifice a lot and they get well paid

1801
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: to do it. No no arguments there. But you know,

1802
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 1: if it's a family member, if it's a close friend,

1803
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:36,760
Speaker 1: do you reach out? Do you think do you do

1804
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: something from you know, we should wait for people to come,

1805
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:41,400
Speaker 1: but we all know a lot of people don't come

1806
01:29:41,439 --> 01:29:44,160
Speaker 1: for help till they hit rock bottom, and sometimes then

1807
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:46,960
Speaker 1: it's too late. So you know, you know, whether you're

1808
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: a good teammate. You know what constitutes a leader on

1809
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:52,839
Speaker 1: a team? Does a leader look out for someone in trouble,

1810
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:55,920
Speaker 1: maybe take them aside and maybe have those conversations, maybe

1811
01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:58,719
Speaker 1: do a little mentoring. I think I think it works

1812
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: best when someone knows. But most if you're suffering like this,

1813
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:04,000
Speaker 1: my suspicion is you don't realize you're hitting the rock

1814
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: bottom or how self destructive you're being. So I think

1815
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of work to do. And I know

1816
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:12,320
Speaker 1: there's counseling programs coming out of the NFL in terms

1817
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:15,640
Speaker 1: of drinking and drugs and education, but boy, boy, this

1818
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:18,439
Speaker 1: is a it's so complex, and whether leaders have to

1819
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:20,760
Speaker 1: step in the dressing room and help a guy who's

1820
01:30:20,800 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 1: obviously struggling. Teammates had to know he was struggling like

1821
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,719
Speaker 1: this and drinking like this and not fit to practice

1822
01:30:26,840 --> 01:30:30,040
Speaker 1: and all other stuff, and I think we got to

1823
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 1: be careful. I know he couldn't. He wasn't a good teammate,

1824
01:30:35,280 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 1: and God knows, he certainly hasn't hit the potential we

1825
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:39,800
Speaker 1: all thought he would, probably because a lot of this.

1826
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: But you know, I think there's a bigger picture as

1827
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:46,680
Speaker 1: a human more than the football player. And that's just

1828
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:48,200
Speaker 1: kind of the point I want to raise. I've been

1829
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 1: listening to you guys a lot today and it's been

1830
01:30:51,040 --> 01:30:54,080
Speaker 1: a spirited conversation and I think the word sense it is.

1831
01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:55,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the right word. I just

1832
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:58,720
Speaker 1: think it's a much more complex problem. If this was

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01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:01,640
Speaker 1: a family member, a close friend, and we were in

1834
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 1: there and we saw him in this type of trouble

1835
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 1: and paining, I think we'd be trying to reach out

1836
01:31:06,439 --> 01:31:08,280
Speaker 1: and help and maybe he did in to maybe push

1837
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:11,360
Speaker 1: people away. Who would ever know. But kudos to Tyler

1838
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:16,599
Speaker 1: forgetting this Yeah, famine getting this up because oh sorry,

1839
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:19,400
Speaker 1: we launched. Eric. You're making great points, so really good poys.

1840
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,559
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that if you read this article,

1841
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:24,439
Speaker 1: Murph and I have and I and I guess Eric

1842
01:31:24,520 --> 01:31:26,920
Speaker 1: has as well. It's obvious too Sammy doesn't think he

1843
01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: needs help. He thinks he's kind of back on track

1844
01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: and got his life together. I mean, this is a

1845
01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:35,200
Speaker 1: guy who's moving along through life and it's not on

1846
01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:38,240
Speaker 1: his radar that he has anything left to do except

1847
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:40,760
Speaker 1: to go ahead and live his life. And the fact

1848
01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 1: that this kind of topic pops up will give you

1849
01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:46,679
Speaker 1: the gist of how in depth and while this article

1850
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:50,880
Speaker 1: can be at times, it's it's an amazing insight into

1851
01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:55,200
Speaker 1: the mindset of an NFL player who who helped his

1852
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:59,000
Speaker 1: team win the Super Bowl this last January or February.

1853
01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:04,519
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, because the thing is that he's right,

1854
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: and it's what I said just a moment ago. You

1855
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:09,640
Speaker 1: can't help them anybody if they don't want help or

1856
01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:13,240
Speaker 1: don't think they need it. And that's always been the

1857
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:17,160
Speaker 1: obstacle for the NFL, even when it was did have

1858
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:19,000
Speaker 1: his heart in the right place for its players and

1859
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 1: want to help them. Protecting them from themself is maybe

1860
01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:26,439
Speaker 1: the biggest obstacle of ball. Guy wrote this article. Tyler

1861
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:29,160
Speaker 1: Dunn sat down with Sammy Watkins. He's gonna join us

1862
01:32:29,240 --> 01:32:31,080
Speaker 1: next on the show when we come back. Come on

1863
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:33,559
Speaker 1: back for that One Bill's Line presented by allat of Health.

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01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:36,920
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Got the update from One

1865
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:39,320
Speaker 1: Bill's Live or the NFL kind of quiet today. The

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01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals have said that as AA Simmons, their first

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01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:44,640
Speaker 1: round pick eight Oberall's gonna play the linebacker. That's it,

1868
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 1: just linebacker. The buzz around Simmons going into the draft

1869
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:51,799
Speaker 1: was that he could play linebackers, safety, almost anywhere on defense,

1870
01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:54,439
Speaker 1: but the Cardinals say they're trusting their instincts. He will

1871
01:32:54,479 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: play in just one position, linebacker, when he lines up

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01:32:57,280 --> 01:33:00,760
Speaker 1: with them. The Miami Dolphins first round pit quarterback to a.

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01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:04,040
Speaker 1: Tago Violoa is the leading jersey seller in the NFL.

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01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:07,679
Speaker 1: According to NFL Shop Jersey sales tracked by Fanatics, Tago

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01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:11,479
Speaker 1: Violoa's Aqua number one jersey, selling faster than any other

1876
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:15,000
Speaker 1: shirt in the NFL, the white version running second, ahead

1877
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady's new shirts, which come in places three

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01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 1: through five, with Deputer alterning the Trio. Tagovoloa, like many

1879
01:33:23,240 --> 01:33:25,479
Speaker 1: draft picks, comes with renewed hopes and dreams of an

1880
01:33:25,600 --> 01:33:28,439
Speaker 1: entire Miami fan base. Miami has not had reason for

1881
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:31,080
Speaker 1: such excitement at quarterback since the days of Dan Marino.

1882
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:34,920
Speaker 1: Baseball Major League owners have approved a plan that Commissioner

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Speaker 1: Ron Benfred will present the players today, a return to

1884
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Speaker 1: play scenario that aims to have baseball back in home

1885
01:33:41,200 --> 01:33:44,240
Speaker 1: stadiums by early July. The meeting today will set the

1886
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 1: stage for what both parties expect to be a contentious negotiation.

1887
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:50,559
Speaker 1: Money is at the heart of the return. The ability

1888
01:33:50,600 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: to strike a financial deal couldn't mean the difference between

1889
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 1: a baseball season and one that is canceled. And the

1890
01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,479
Speaker 1: American Hockey League has decided to cancel the remainder of

1891
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:01,799
Speaker 1: it's and it sees and including the playoffs. That follows

1892
01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 1: a vote by the league's Board of governors Friday. The

1893
01:34:04,160 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: AHL is the league driven by gate revenue, and unlike

1894
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:10,679
Speaker 1: the NHL, does not get significant revenue from television contracts.

1895
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:13,000
Speaker 1: This will be the first time since the AHL was

1896
01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:17,280
Speaker 1: formed in nineteen thirty seven that the Calder Cup will

1897
01:34:17,400 --> 01:34:19,840
Speaker 1: not be awarded. And there you go. That is the

1898
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Speaker 1: update from One Bills Live. John Murphy Steve Tasker here

1899
01:34:23,320 --> 01:34:26,679
Speaker 1: for one more hour today talking about a lot about

1900
01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 1: the expectation level for the Buffalo Bills, which seems to

1901
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:32,599
Speaker 1: be through the roof when it comes to national observers.

1902
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:34,800
Speaker 1: And we got off on a tangent today about Sammy

1903
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:39,080
Speaker 1: Watkins thanks to an article in Bleacher Report today, What's

1904
01:34:39,160 --> 01:34:44,560
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins Believes? Good Evil, demons, aliens, psychic superpowers, and

1905
01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: a war on your mental written by our good friend

1906
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Speaker 1: Tyler Dunn. Bleacher Report NFL features writer, former Bills beat

1907
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 1: reporter for the Buffalo News, former Packers beat reporter for

1908
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:57,320
Speaker 1: the Buffalo for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Tyler Dunn is

1909
01:34:57,360 --> 01:34:58,960
Speaker 1: live on the line with his Tyler. Hello, how are

1910
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 1: you day? Murph. Good to be back, Man, Thank thanks

1911
01:35:02,360 --> 01:35:04,280
Speaker 1: a lot for having me Amon talked to you in

1912
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Speaker 1: a while. I want to pay you a compliment and

1913
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:09,120
Speaker 1: ask you how you do this. Our producer, Jay Harris,

1914
01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:12,519
Speaker 1: we're talking about lining you up earlier today and Jay said,

1915
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 1: in reference here you're Sammy Watkins article. He said, Tyler

1916
01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:18,920
Speaker 1: really does get the best out of these guys, and

1917
01:35:19,080 --> 01:35:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean that too. How do you do that, Tyler

1918
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:22,840
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. You're always getting guys to go

1919
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:25,120
Speaker 1: deeper than than I knew it was possible to go

1920
01:35:25,320 --> 01:35:29,040
Speaker 1: with writers sometimes? Well, Man, Well, thanks a lot, Jay,

1921
01:35:29,120 --> 01:35:31,400
Speaker 1: that's very nice of you to say. Uh. I just

1922
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:35,799
Speaker 1: think it's, you know, having conversations with guys instead of interviews,

1923
01:35:35,880 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's not treating them like sources.

1924
01:35:40,040 --> 01:35:44,280
Speaker 1: It's talking to human beings. And Sammy Watkins our relationship

1925
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:46,400
Speaker 1: kind of goes back a bit. You know that you

1926
01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:50,360
Speaker 1: mentioned the Buffalo News and covered the team that wild

1927
01:35:50,640 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen season, which, looking back, oh my god, I

1928
01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:55,120
Speaker 1: mean that you can make a thirty for thirty or

1929
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: ten part doc out of Rex Ryan's first year. There

1930
01:35:58,040 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: was something crazy every day. The first time that I

1931
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 1: met Sami was when you know, he demanded the ball

1932
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:05,839
Speaker 1: time times the game, told the Bill they're making themselves

1933
01:36:05,920 --> 01:36:08,559
Speaker 1: look bad, They're making him look bad, and it really

1934
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 1: put the heat on him. He wasn't very happy, you

1935
01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:13,640
Speaker 1: know when those words were put on a screen at

1936
01:36:13,680 --> 01:36:15,720
Speaker 1: the time, and you know it took the Twitter told

1937
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:17,720
Speaker 1: me to grow up and it was. It's funny after

1938
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 1: seeing him every time since, he kind of said, yeah,

1939
01:36:19,960 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm really glad I said that I

1940
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:23,880
Speaker 1: ended up getting the ball after the catch. So we

1941
01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:27,120
Speaker 1: just kind of kept in touch, kept the relationship going.

1942
01:36:27,280 --> 01:36:29,800
Speaker 1: Um saw him in LA when he was with the Rams.

1943
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 1: We caught up then, but nothing is deep as this.

1944
01:36:32,479 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 1: I think that when I saw him at the Super

1945
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 1: Bowl in Miami that week, just just kind of making

1946
01:36:37,560 --> 01:36:40,280
Speaker 1: small talk, he said that he wanted to connect in

1947
01:36:40,360 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 1: the off season, that he felt an energy, a vibe

1948
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:45,240
Speaker 1: that he needed to get things kind of off his

1949
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 1: chest and let people know the full story and what

1950
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 1: led him to this point. So that's what we did.

1951
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:53,559
Speaker 1: You know, a few weeks after that, just got dinner

1952
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 1: down in Orlando, just outside of Orlando with her Darden

1953
01:36:56,560 --> 01:37:01,160
Speaker 1: and talked for five hours and him what was the

1954
01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:04,880
Speaker 1: total vibe of this, this conversation. It's a wide ranging article.

1955
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:06,840
Speaker 1: You must have spoken with him for quite some time

1956
01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:08,960
Speaker 1: and you and you mentioned and kind of laughingly during

1957
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: the article that he won't shut up, and it's and

1958
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:14,040
Speaker 1: it kind of this conversation must have gone on and on.

1959
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:17,480
Speaker 1: What was his overall you know, how would you characterize

1960
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:23,280
Speaker 1: this interview? Um in real time? It was pretty fascinating,

1961
01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:27,680
Speaker 1: to be honest, because you know, as as ridiculous and

1962
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:31,040
Speaker 1: crazy as some of this stuff sounds, and and you know,

1963
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:34,200
Speaker 1: I think trying to decipher what's what's real and what's

1964
01:37:34,280 --> 01:37:36,759
Speaker 1: not real here is isn't the point? I mean, he believes,

1965
01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: he believes in this all and has led him to this,

1966
01:37:40,040 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: this really good place he is at in life. I mean,

1967
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: he can kind of make you believe at times. I mean,

1968
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm thinking back to a kind

1969
01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:49,519
Speaker 1: of slights my head open in a basketball game playing

1970
01:37:49,520 --> 01:37:51,559
Speaker 1: for Elcabill. I mean, that's so out of body. It's

1971
01:37:51,760 --> 01:37:53,879
Speaker 1: like I was like cooling that body from the outside,

1972
01:37:53,920 --> 01:37:56,080
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Sandy, what are you doing to me here? Man?

1973
01:37:56,200 --> 01:37:58,760
Speaker 1: Like I believe this oute of body's feeling you've got

1974
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: going on so he has an effect. I mean, you know,

1975
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:04,240
Speaker 1: that's why I felt and Davis kind of said, look,

1976
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:07,880
Speaker 1: we said, we talked about teleportation. Davis a receiver for

1977
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:11,000
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and uh and that's when Sandy Time has said, yeah,

1978
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:14,439
Speaker 1: he's seen somebody teleport, he's seen spaceships, he's been he's

1979
01:38:14,439 --> 01:38:17,920
Speaker 1: an alien. So he has this effect where it's it

1980
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 1: can be very playful and fun, but he does believe

1981
01:38:21,920 --> 01:38:24,800
Speaker 1: this stuff because he knows what would led to this point.

1982
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:27,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he was, as we wrote, in a really

1983
01:38:27,360 --> 01:38:30,600
Speaker 1: really bad place in Buffalo. I didn't really realize it

1984
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:32,320
Speaker 1: at the time. I mean to hear things here and there,

1985
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:35,880
Speaker 1: but I mean drinking every night, uh, smoke, and being

1986
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:38,640
Speaker 1: very frustrated with his role all the stuff with a

1987
01:38:38,680 --> 01:38:41,639
Speaker 1: step brother being involved in a RICO investigation down in Florida.

1988
01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 1: I mean, he leaves, so he's paying a million dollars

1989
01:38:44,439 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 1: to the bombs. He's he's paying for lawyers. I mean,

1990
01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:49,120
Speaker 1: it was he was. He was a mess. So he

1991
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:52,000
Speaker 1: just started researching and trying to find his purpose in

1992
01:38:52,120 --> 01:38:55,080
Speaker 1: life and why he even here on the planet. And

1993
01:38:55,240 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 1: you got to this point. It's Tyler Dunn Bleacher Report features, right,

1994
01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 1: he wrote what Sammy Watkins believes an article posted today

1995
01:39:03,240 --> 01:39:06,960
Speaker 1: it's kind of take over our show today today quite frankly, Tyler,

1996
01:39:08,080 --> 01:39:11,800
Speaker 1: I'm interested. Before I read this, I guess I would

1997
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:16,120
Speaker 1: have expressed, h wow, Sean McDermot could only last seven

1998
01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:19,519
Speaker 1: months with Sammy Watkins. Having read it, Having read the

1999
01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:22,519
Speaker 1: article this morning, I'm thinking, wow, how did Sammy Watkins last,

2000
01:39:22,760 --> 01:39:26,080
Speaker 1: you know, last seven months with Sean McDermot. The two

2001
01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:31,080
Speaker 1: scene like polar opposites temperamentally, don't they Yeah? Not a fit,

2002
01:39:31,400 --> 01:39:35,880
Speaker 1: not a fit there. Sammy Watkins says he kind of

2003
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:38,960
Speaker 1: felt it right awaying that was right when he was

2004
01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:42,880
Speaker 1: kind of going through this disawakening and as he describes,

2005
01:39:43,720 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 1: being conscious of the good and bad entities, spirits that

2006
01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:51,400
Speaker 1: float through us all the time and essentially control all

2007
01:39:51,479 --> 01:39:54,760
Speaker 1: of life where there are no accidents, and knowing when

2008
01:39:54,840 --> 01:39:57,400
Speaker 1: there's the bad energy and deflecting it, excepting the goods,

2009
01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:00,560
Speaker 1: spreading the good. So at that time he just that

2010
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:03,880
Speaker 1: a coach coming in that was was face it, very

2011
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:08,600
Speaker 1: very different than Rex Ryan and wanted to instill his process,

2012
01:40:08,880 --> 01:40:12,840
Speaker 1: his foundation on discipline. It wasn't a fit. I mean,

2013
01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:16,640
Speaker 1: he really believed that McDermott was testing him, pushing him,

2014
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:18,760
Speaker 1: and he wanted out. He said he didn't ask for

2015
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:21,680
Speaker 1: a trade, but that he was praying for one, and

2016
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:23,720
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. He was he was dangled in

2017
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: that preseason game against Minnesota, basically the Bills showing the

2018
01:40:27,280 --> 01:40:29,680
Speaker 1: whole NFL that Sammy Watkins has healthy, the foot's good,

2019
01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:31,640
Speaker 1: and boom he was gone. So I'm not a good

2020
01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:33,840
Speaker 1: I'll say this though, Like as we talked through March,

2021
01:40:35,160 --> 01:40:38,280
Speaker 1: he said that the Bills were interested and he had

2022
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:40,320
Speaker 1: been talking to the Bills about coming back here and

2023
01:40:40,439 --> 01:40:43,519
Speaker 1: before they traded for Steponds, and that he texted him.

2024
01:40:43,560 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 1: I was like, I mean, could could you make that

2025
01:40:44,880 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: work with a coach who obviously didn't necessarily dive with

2026
01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:51,479
Speaker 1: before And he said absolutely that the place he's at

2027
01:40:51,520 --> 01:40:55,400
Speaker 1: in life and his words dealing with all energies, all

2028
01:40:55,520 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 1: entity set, he would have made it work. So obviously

2029
01:40:58,520 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 1: the Bills traded for Stefon Diggs and they went that route.

2030
01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 1: But well, that was kind of interesting that, yeah, he

2031
01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: actually thought about coming back here. We've had callers come

2032
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: on and Murph and I have done our best to

2033
01:41:09,520 --> 01:41:12,799
Speaker 1: relay the gist of the article and and how strange.

2034
01:41:12,840 --> 01:41:15,720
Speaker 1: Some of it sounds. How do you think Sammy will

2035
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:19,120
Speaker 1: view this article? So when when people read this um

2036
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,479
Speaker 1: and and hear what Murph and I are saying, how

2037
01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:24,680
Speaker 1: do you think Sammy's gonna feel about this article? He's

2038
01:41:24,680 --> 01:41:26,120
Speaker 1: gonna be okay with it? Has he read it? Do

2039
01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:27,519
Speaker 1: you know that he's ready? Do you send him a

2040
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:30,840
Speaker 1: copy of it? Ah? Yeah, yes he has. And I

2041
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: think the Sammy Watkins is just in a place in

2042
01:41:34,280 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 1: life where you know he it's therapeutic for any player,

2043
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:41,000
Speaker 1: I think, to kind of get stuff off your chest.

2044
01:41:41,120 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean when you go through what he's been through

2045
01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:47,120
Speaker 1: on the field, off the field, everything, it can kind

2046
01:41:47,160 --> 01:41:49,360
Speaker 1: of help to just let folks know. I mean, he

2047
01:41:50,240 --> 01:41:52,920
Speaker 1: he said that back in January and Miami, like he

2048
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:55,320
Speaker 1: wanted to let folks know kind of how far he's come.

2049
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 1: And you know, with that in a conversation, you're gonna

2050
01:41:59,560 --> 01:42:01,760
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some raw detail. You're gonna get raw

2051
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:05,240
Speaker 1: just stuffed that. Yeah, you put it on a screen

2052
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:07,200
Speaker 1: and it's like whoa to a lot of people. You know.

2053
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 1: I think that was a reaction from folks like, oh

2054
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:14,720
Speaker 1: my gosh, like he he's manifesting dreams into reality he is.

2055
01:42:14,960 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 1: He thinks his soul jumped into another player for a touchdown.

2056
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:21,599
Speaker 1: But like, I think that the reaction that he's getting

2057
01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:23,920
Speaker 1: it I'm seeing as well as you know, he can

2058
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:25,800
Speaker 1: help a lot of people. I think that everybody in

2059
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:30,000
Speaker 1: life deals with demons to some extent. You know, whether

2060
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: it's trauma, you've been through, a drinking problem, anything at all.

2061
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:37,599
Speaker 1: We all go through stuff. And as he said, hit

2062
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:39,799
Speaker 1: all his stuff just kind of struck at once in Buffalo.

2063
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:42,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you couldn't you couldn't pay pain a worse situation.

2064
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:45,679
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of itself induced obviously, but everything

2065
01:42:45,760 --> 01:42:48,800
Speaker 1: struck at once, and he somehow got through that. I

2066
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:50,559
Speaker 1: think the folks that are able to kind of get

2067
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:52,799
Speaker 1: to the end of the story can kind of grasp

2068
01:42:52,920 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 1: that and the reactions as man like, yes, many I

2069
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:59,679
Speaker 1: get it. I mean as odd and strange and weird

2070
01:42:59,720 --> 01:43:01,800
Speaker 1: as I see, knew a lot of people. He can

2071
01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:04,080
Speaker 1: kind of relate to a lot of people, especially right

2072
01:43:04,120 --> 01:43:07,120
Speaker 1: now with what we're going through as a country. Yea,

2073
01:43:07,200 --> 01:43:09,920
Speaker 1: Tyler gotta I gotta say, I don't get it, though,

2074
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:11,600
Speaker 1: And when I hear you say that Sammy's in a

2075
01:43:11,680 --> 01:43:14,240
Speaker 1: good place and having read that article. I'm thinking, I

2076
01:43:14,240 --> 01:43:15,800
Speaker 1: don't know if he's in a good place. If I'm

2077
01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:18,680
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, I don't know if I'm comfortable

2078
01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:21,240
Speaker 1: with where Sammy the place at Sammy's in right now.

2079
01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:26,360
Speaker 1: What do you think they I would think that this

2080
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily headline news to Andy Reid in the Kansas

2081
01:43:31,120 --> 01:43:35,320
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. I mean, they know more than me, more

2082
01:43:35,360 --> 01:43:37,680
Speaker 1: than you, more than anybody who reads the story. They

2083
01:43:37,760 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 1: know who Sammy watching is this. I mean he's in

2084
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:42,599
Speaker 1: that team meeting, leaning back, stretching his neck, and Andy

2085
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:46,080
Speaker 1: Reid's telling him, Sammy, what talk to your people? They're

2086
01:43:46,120 --> 01:43:49,960
Speaker 1: visiting me in my sleep, you know, you know Neptune, Saturn, Mars,

2087
01:43:49,960 --> 01:43:52,760
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So, I mean that's kind of I mean,

2088
01:43:52,840 --> 01:43:54,960
Speaker 1: I've learned a lot about Andy reads or Sammy watch,

2089
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:58,639
Speaker 1: and it's remarkable the relationship that they've cultivated and how

2090
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:01,400
Speaker 1: tight they are. Andy Reeve throw all the ups and

2091
01:44:01,439 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: downs last season when Sammy basically disappeared from the offense,

2092
01:44:04,479 --> 01:44:07,640
Speaker 1: Andrey's telling him, look, you we're gonna need you. I mean,

2093
01:44:07,720 --> 01:44:10,439
Speaker 1: you're a star. Your time is gonna come low and

2094
01:44:10,520 --> 01:44:12,960
Speaker 1: behold he wins in the anc championship game in the

2095
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:16,799
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, So I think they get the weirdness. Nicole Hardman,

2096
01:44:16,840 --> 01:44:20,320
Speaker 1: Felton Davis, all the teammates that that are around him

2097
01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:22,200
Speaker 1: in that locker room. I mean, they're seeing this, They're

2098
01:44:22,240 --> 01:44:25,320
Speaker 1: hearing this every day. A lot believe a lot don't

2099
01:44:25,320 --> 01:44:28,559
Speaker 1: believe Sammy Watkins, and Sammy Watkins he's one of a kind.

2100
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:32,080
Speaker 1: So I just think that they, more than any of us,

2101
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:36,560
Speaker 1: know the essence of who he is. Last one for

2102
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:38,400
Speaker 1: me before we move on to some stuff around the

2103
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:41,599
Speaker 1: National Football League, Tyler is at this Sammy Watkins did.

2104
01:44:41,680 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 1: You're right, He's in a good place now. I mean,

2105
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:45,360
Speaker 1: the guy just won the AFC Championship for his team.

2106
01:44:45,439 --> 01:44:48,160
Speaker 1: He's just caught a critical class and the Super Bowl

2107
01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 1: that allowed his team to win it. He's should be

2108
01:44:51,479 --> 01:44:53,800
Speaker 1: in one of the happiest moments of his life. But

2109
01:44:54,120 --> 01:44:57,800
Speaker 1: what will happen if the rest of his career doesn't

2110
01:44:57,800 --> 01:45:00,559
Speaker 1: go as planning? Do you have confidence that Sammy's adjust

2111
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:03,000
Speaker 1: if he doesn't play another eight years, win two more

2112
01:45:03,040 --> 01:45:05,719
Speaker 1: Super Bowls and get a gold jacket like you mentioned

2113
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,760
Speaker 1: in the article, Yeah, I mean that that remains gonna

2114
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:11,599
Speaker 1: be seeing stude. That's a great point. I think we're

2115
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:13,080
Speaker 1: gonna find out. I mean, he kind of put the

2116
01:45:13,160 --> 01:45:15,760
Speaker 1: onus on his shoulders with that contract. After we talked,

2117
01:45:15,800 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: I was convinced, like there's no way that he's going

2118
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:20,000
Speaker 1: to go back to the Chiefs. I mean, this isn't

2119
01:45:20,160 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 1: this isn't a fit. He's unhappy with this role, unhappy

2120
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,240
Speaker 1: with where the contract situation is. It sounded like a

2121
01:45:25,280 --> 01:45:28,280
Speaker 1: chief storm budget and you know, obviously had a big number.

2122
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 1: He wasn't a free agent, but he kind of was.

2123
01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:31,400
Speaker 1: You know, he had a big number that the Chiefs

2124
01:45:31,439 --> 01:45:34,479
Speaker 1: didn't want to pay. And and really over time, it's true.

2125
01:45:34,479 --> 01:45:35,920
Speaker 1: I mean he talked to Andy Reid, he had a

2126
01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:38,080
Speaker 1: long talk with him about his role, about the future,

2127
01:45:38,439 --> 01:45:40,680
Speaker 1: and just realized, I'll put this on me, you know,

2128
01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:43,200
Speaker 1: make it incentive, lady. If I hit the numbers I

2129
01:45:43,320 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 1: believe I can hit, I'll get the money I believe

2130
01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:48,559
Speaker 1: I deserve. That's what he did. They've got a lot

2131
01:45:48,600 --> 01:45:51,720
Speaker 1: of weapons, Tyree Hills, Travis Kelsey, they just drafted a

2132
01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:54,160
Speaker 1: running back. I mean, they're gonna use him, so you

2133
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be moments where he does disappear. I

2134
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:00,639
Speaker 1: will say this, I don't think he was a problem

2135
01:46:00,800 --> 01:46:02,840
Speaker 1: last years. As bad as things were, and as honest

2136
01:46:02,880 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 1: as he was about it, he wasn't demanding the ball

2137
01:46:05,960 --> 01:46:08,080
Speaker 1: ten times a game like he wasn't Buffalo. He was,

2138
01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:11,600
Speaker 1: unbelievably just supportive of the hardness of the world and

2139
01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:15,280
Speaker 1: the DeMarcus Robinsons of the world, and eventually things kind

2140
01:46:15,320 --> 01:46:18,000
Speaker 1: of came around. So, to be honest, I don't know

2141
01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:19,600
Speaker 1: the answer to that question. I mean, it remains to

2142
01:46:19,680 --> 01:46:21,400
Speaker 1: be seen. He's got a one year left in Kansas

2143
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:24,560
Speaker 1: City and he's putting it on himself. Ty, I just

2144
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:26,920
Speaker 1: have one Sammy Watkins question left and then we'll get

2145
01:46:26,920 --> 01:46:30,280
Speaker 1: to the rest of the league. But m and he didn't.

2146
01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:33,479
Speaker 1: He didn't demand this. But for what the Bills had

2147
01:46:33,560 --> 01:46:36,280
Speaker 1: to give up to get Sammy Watkins, what he has paid,

2148
01:46:36,439 --> 01:46:38,479
Speaker 1: what he was paid when he left the Buffalo Bills,

2149
01:46:38,520 --> 01:46:40,240
Speaker 1: what Kansas City paid him a couple of years ago.

2150
01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 1: Is it too much to say that he's come up short.

2151
01:46:43,240 --> 01:46:45,760
Speaker 1: I think he has in terms of production, right, He's

2152
01:46:45,800 --> 01:46:48,800
Speaker 1: not equal the kind of play I guess, at least

2153
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:51,040
Speaker 1: in terms of publicity that he got when he came

2154
01:46:51,080 --> 01:46:54,240
Speaker 1: on a Clemson. Has he well, I mean, he won

2155
01:46:54,320 --> 01:46:56,559
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl and then he made define him play

2156
01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:58,680
Speaker 1: in that super Boy. I guess you look at it

2157
01:46:58,720 --> 01:47:00,680
Speaker 1: through that lens, you could say asolutely, I mean, what

2158
01:47:00,720 --> 01:47:02,479
Speaker 1: else would you want out of the guy? But I

2159
01:47:02,560 --> 01:47:05,839
Speaker 1: mean there's like a hundred catches and ten or fifteen

2160
01:47:05,880 --> 01:47:09,200
Speaker 1: touchdowns after I'd want no doubt. I mean, yeah, that's

2161
01:47:09,240 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 1: what they expected when they gave up everything they did

2162
01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:14,639
Speaker 1: for Sammy Walkers. They expected a hundred catches, they expected twelve,

2163
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:17,160
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred yards. And I just think it's kind of

2164
01:47:17,160 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 1: a cautionary tale, like you better know. Well, first of all,

2165
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:23,120
Speaker 1: the injuries were a huge factor, and as he said himself,

2166
01:47:23,160 --> 01:47:24,960
Speaker 1: he blames he blames himself for a lot of that.

2167
01:47:25,479 --> 01:47:29,040
Speaker 1: But they really convinced themselves that EJ. Manuel was a

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01:47:29,120 --> 01:47:34,240
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback and built around the quarterback with Sammy Watkins,

2169
01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 1: with Robert Woods, with the new offensive line all that,

2170
01:47:37,160 --> 01:47:39,240
Speaker 1: and it turns out that, you know, Manuel isn't any good.

2171
01:47:39,400 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 1: So right, I'm not saying Josh Allen do is EJ.

2172
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:44,880
Speaker 1: Manuel by any means, but they obviously able to believe

2173
01:47:44,920 --> 01:47:47,000
Speaker 1: in Josh Allen with the way they've gone about this

2174
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:48,760
Speaker 1: off season, the Bills that is, I mean, they They've

2175
01:47:48,760 --> 01:47:50,360
Speaker 1: surrounded him with the weapons, and I think it just

2176
01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:53,639
Speaker 1: kind of heightened the pressure and the need for Allan

2177
01:47:53,680 --> 01:47:56,360
Speaker 1: to deliver this season with what Brandon Being and Sean

2178
01:47:56,439 --> 01:48:00,000
Speaker 1: McDermott have done. One of the things we've talked about

2179
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:04,040
Speaker 1: as Sammy watches he moved away from Buffalo, other players

2180
01:48:04,080 --> 01:48:07,559
Speaker 1: have dentals move around the foot National Football League. Ty

2181
01:48:07,680 --> 01:48:10,439
Speaker 1: Rod Taylor in his tenth NFL season, he might be

2182
01:48:10,600 --> 01:48:13,479
Speaker 1: ready to take over the new quarterback movement in LA

2183
01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:16,160
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. He's he thinks he can do everything

2184
01:48:16,280 --> 01:48:18,400
Speaker 1: that these other guys can do, the younger guys can

2185
01:48:18,479 --> 01:48:22,400
Speaker 1: do as the timing right for Tyrod Taylor to finally

2186
01:48:22,439 --> 01:48:24,680
Speaker 1: become the quarterback everybody thought he was or are we

2187
01:48:24,800 --> 01:48:28,160
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo kind of right about him? You know,

2188
01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:31,080
Speaker 1: And that's what's wild is here in Buffalo you can

2189
01:48:31,120 --> 01:48:34,519
Speaker 1: almost make a really convincing argument one way or another.

2190
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:37,599
Speaker 1: You can say Tyrod Taylor is what he is. He's

2191
01:48:37,640 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 1: overly protective of the football, pretty athletic, but you know

2192
01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:43,240
Speaker 1: he's not gonna throw a receiver over. He's not gonna

2193
01:48:43,240 --> 01:48:46,120
Speaker 1: be anticipatory. He had his chance, it didn't work out,

2194
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 1: you know. End at the drought great or you can say,

2195
01:48:49,280 --> 01:48:52,320
Speaker 1: well wait a minute here, like all the weapons around him,

2196
01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:53,760
Speaker 1: we just talked about one of them who was hurt

2197
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:56,960
Speaker 1: half the time, weren't always on the field. By the

2198
01:48:57,080 --> 01:48:59,320
Speaker 1: end of his tenure in Buffalo, he's playing an offense

2199
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:01,559
Speaker 1: that Doug and for his skill set with Rick Rick

2200
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:05,200
Speaker 1: Jennison and forced him to kind of play in the pocket. Meanwhile,

2201
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:08,600
Speaker 1: he's throwing to Zay Jones, Deontay Thompson, Andre Holmes, what

2202
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:12,040
Speaker 1: was left of Calvin Benjamin not exactly a murderer's row

2203
01:49:12,120 --> 01:49:15,040
Speaker 1: of pass catchers, and and gets what He went in

2204
01:49:15,120 --> 01:49:16,640
Speaker 1: and six as a starter that year and they went

2205
01:49:16,680 --> 01:49:18,960
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. So maybe the time is right. He

2206
01:49:19,040 --> 01:49:21,400
Speaker 1: believes the time is right that he can do the

2207
01:49:21,479 --> 01:49:24,320
Speaker 1: kind of things Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson and

2208
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:28,519
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray are doing with RPOs, with being creative outside

2209
01:49:28,520 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 1: of the pocket, with improvising kind of put into the

2210
01:49:31,160 --> 01:49:33,960
Speaker 1: game plan. And he's had those exact conversations with the

2211
01:49:34,040 --> 01:49:37,160
Speaker 1: coaches all off season. Oh, by the way, he's got Keenan,

2212
01:49:37,200 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 1: Allen Hunter, Henry Austin Ekeler, and a revamped offensive line,

2213
01:49:41,400 --> 01:49:43,880
Speaker 1: So you can make that case too, and that holy

2214
01:49:43,960 --> 01:49:46,640
Speaker 1: cow at age thirty, maybe he blows up like we

2215
01:49:46,880 --> 01:49:49,920
Speaker 1: being quarterbacks too in a second or third act with teams.

2216
01:49:50,760 --> 01:49:53,920
Speaker 1: Tyrod's got the faith and confidence of his head coach.

2217
01:49:53,960 --> 01:49:55,439
Speaker 1: It's got to mean a lot to him going into

2218
01:49:55,439 --> 01:49:59,040
Speaker 1: the chair. I would think, yeah, he does. Anthony Lynn

2219
01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:03,000
Speaker 1: been pro Tyrod Taylor for a long long time. I mean,

2220
01:50:03,040 --> 01:50:06,599
Speaker 1: obviously he was his offensive coordinator in Buffalo, which yeah,

2221
01:50:06,600 --> 01:50:08,800
Speaker 1: I mean he was running Greg Roman's offense. It was

2222
01:50:08,920 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 1: kind of right before you know, Lamar Jackson really changed

2223
01:50:12,520 --> 01:50:15,640
Speaker 1: how we view our pos I think, and letting a

2224
01:50:15,720 --> 01:50:19,000
Speaker 1: quarterback be uber mobile and do everything that he can do.

2225
01:50:19,160 --> 01:50:21,559
Speaker 1: So that the timing was just a little off there,

2226
01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:25,320
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor believes. But now in La almost says San

2227
01:50:25,360 --> 01:50:28,000
Speaker 1: Diego in La together again. It sounds like they've just

2228
01:50:28,080 --> 01:50:31,240
Speaker 1: been having that continuous conversation back and forth. I mean,

2229
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:34,640
Speaker 1: lind said that Tyrod Taylor as a starter of the

2230
01:50:34,720 --> 01:50:36,519
Speaker 1: day he signed him as a backup. They they view

2231
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:40,200
Speaker 1: him as that. They also distracted Justin Herbert. So you've

2232
01:50:40,200 --> 01:50:42,599
Speaker 1: got a sixth overall pick. He lays it down his sack.

2233
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,000
Speaker 1: I think if it's up to Lynn, that six overall

2234
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:47,000
Speaker 1: pick doesn't play at all this year, but it remains

2235
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:51,040
Speaker 1: to be seen. Do you think that the Baltimore Ravens,

2236
01:50:51,160 --> 01:50:53,360
Speaker 1: who were the number one seed in the AFC playoffs

2237
01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:56,759
Speaker 1: this last year were the huge surprise Lamar Jackson MVP.

2238
01:50:57,600 --> 01:51:00,519
Speaker 1: Can they keep that kind of offense going? Are people

2239
01:51:00,600 --> 01:51:03,280
Speaker 1: gonna catch up to them? They seem to run a

2240
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:05,519
Speaker 1: different type of offense than anybody else in the league.

2241
01:51:05,800 --> 01:51:07,680
Speaker 1: They got a little mileage out of that and the

2242
01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:11,160
Speaker 1: unexpected nature of its success. Can they keep it going

2243
01:51:11,280 --> 01:51:14,719
Speaker 1: the exact same way they did a year ago? Probably?

2244
01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 1: I mean everybody adapts a right, I mean a whole

2245
01:51:17,160 --> 01:51:20,280
Speaker 1: offseason and not the second whole off season of figuring

2246
01:51:20,280 --> 01:51:22,559
Speaker 1: out how to play Lamar Jackson's it's gonna help teams.

2247
01:51:22,600 --> 01:51:24,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he put up good numbers in

2248
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:27,280
Speaker 1: that playoff game, but I mean that was a lot

2249
01:51:27,320 --> 01:51:30,760
Speaker 1: of empty empty yardage there at the Tennessee Titans. They

2250
01:51:30,840 --> 01:51:33,400
Speaker 1: made him pass the ball, they gotta leave. They forced

2251
01:51:33,479 --> 01:51:36,680
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson played from behind, and Logan Ryan told me

2252
01:51:36,760 --> 01:51:38,640
Speaker 1: after that game in the locker room that it was

2253
01:51:38,680 --> 01:51:41,600
Speaker 1: like playing Engage eight on Madden, where you basically just

2254
01:51:41,760 --> 01:51:44,800
Speaker 1: blitz everybody force from the throw and he couldn't. So

2255
01:51:44,920 --> 01:51:46,840
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what they're gonna do. And that's where

2256
01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown steps in. I mean, they have a receiver

2257
01:51:49,200 --> 01:51:52,680
Speaker 1: now who theoretically should take advantage of those one on

2258
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:55,760
Speaker 1: one matchups. He played on one good foot basically all

2259
01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:58,439
Speaker 1: last year that Liz frank Is behind him. He had

2260
01:51:58,479 --> 01:52:01,519
Speaker 1: the screws removed. And now when teams do what Titans did,

2261
01:52:02,200 --> 01:52:04,759
Speaker 1: the Ravens believe, all right, we'll just we'll just go downtown.

2262
01:52:04,920 --> 01:52:07,400
Speaker 1: We'll just have Lamar Jackson throw it deep to somebody

2263
01:52:07,439 --> 01:52:11,360
Speaker 1: with four two speeds. We're with the Tyler Dunn from

2264
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:14,439
Speaker 1: bleacher Report. Tyler, any thoughts on the Bills offseason? And

2265
01:52:14,520 --> 01:52:17,000
Speaker 1: maybe I know you cover the league in general. Are

2266
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:19,759
Speaker 1: there any Bills games or any Bills players you're particularly

2267
01:52:19,840 --> 01:52:23,280
Speaker 1: interested in following this year or covering? Man? I don't,

2268
01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:25,800
Speaker 1: of course, you know, leave it to the football guys

2269
01:52:25,880 --> 01:52:28,920
Speaker 1: that right. When the Buffalo Bills are a legitball contender,

2270
01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:30,960
Speaker 1: we don't know when we're gonna get football, right. I mean,

2271
01:52:31,040 --> 01:52:35,160
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable, but I mean they've got reasons to be

2272
01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:38,519
Speaker 1: that optimistic. I mean, man, I don't know where you

2273
01:52:38,680 --> 01:52:41,600
Speaker 1: really find the weaknesses on their roster right now. That

2274
01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:44,800
Speaker 1: the defense was fantastic last year, I mean they're only

2275
01:52:44,840 --> 01:52:47,639
Speaker 1: going to be better another year in that system. Stefon

2276
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:49,760
Speaker 1: Diggs is as good as it gets at receiver. I

2277
01:52:49,840 --> 01:52:52,040
Speaker 1: mean John Brown now isn't going to get doubled. He'll

2278
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:53,920
Speaker 1: be one on one. You got cold beas we still

2279
01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:57,120
Speaker 1: underneath and get drafted another running back too. So a

2280
01:52:57,200 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 1: lot of love. I mean, like we said, it all

2281
01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:01,120
Speaker 1: comes down to Josh Allen does a lot of things

2282
01:53:01,240 --> 01:53:04,479
Speaker 1: really really well. I mean he's an absolute gamer. He

2283
01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:07,880
Speaker 1: also finished last in completion percentage and in the bottom

2284
01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:10,320
Speaker 1: and passer rating and needs to and he's improved. I

2285
01:53:10,320 --> 01:53:12,439
Speaker 1: mean that the agual question, can you improve accuracy? I

2286
01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:16,439
Speaker 1: mean Bills hope. So, Tyler, we've got this question. We've

2287
01:53:16,479 --> 01:53:19,320
Speaker 1: had guys like you on over the last few weeks,

2288
01:53:19,360 --> 01:53:22,000
Speaker 1: and there are higher expectations for the Bills as a team,

2289
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:25,040
Speaker 1: and we're asking the question of our listeners, why are

2290
01:53:25,080 --> 01:53:27,880
Speaker 1: the national expectations higher for the Bills in twenty twenty

2291
01:53:27,880 --> 01:53:31,400
Speaker 1: And we gave him some choices, and is it a

2292
01:53:31,920 --> 01:53:34,120
Speaker 1: the additions to the roster, the new guys coming on

2293
01:53:34,720 --> 01:53:37,400
Speaker 1: be the chemistry and culture set up by Brandon being

2294
01:53:37,479 --> 01:53:40,720
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott c Is it just a succession of last

2295
01:53:40,800 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 1: year's success or d Is it because the AFC East

2296
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:46,760
Speaker 1: has changed with the departure of Tom Brady. If you

2297
01:53:46,800 --> 01:53:49,400
Speaker 1: could choose one of those, why are the expectations higher

2298
01:53:49,439 --> 01:53:53,000
Speaker 1: for Bills? Is there one that's more important than the others? Man,

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Speaker 1: that's a great question, because I mean, as great as

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01:53:56,200 --> 01:53:59,479
Speaker 1: as Brandon being then as as GM and just kind

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Speaker 1: of returning everything to normal sees. I mean, they have

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Speaker 1: a real hierarchy with a lot of really smart personnel guys,

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01:54:05,400 --> 01:54:08,160
Speaker 1: a lot of really smart scouts that could be gms elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is no knock on the Bills, but

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Speaker 1: I mean it's got to be the fact that Tom

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01:54:12,080 --> 01:54:14,679
Speaker 1: Brady isn't in the division and the Patriots, at least

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01:54:14,720 --> 01:54:18,439
Speaker 1: on paper, aren't the invincible Patriots of years past. That

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Speaker 1: we don't know if Jert Stidham is an NFL starting

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Speaker 1: caliber quarterback yet. So I think that, more than anything,

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Speaker 1: is why the Bills are I mean, really, we've been

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01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:30,320
Speaker 1: saying this for how long, guys, where you always think

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01:54:30,360 --> 01:54:32,480
Speaker 1: this is the year the Patriots are going to take

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Speaker 1: a step back. I mean, this year it feels real

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Speaker 1: just because Tom Brady isn't there. Yeah, that's been my life. Thanks. Hey, Tyler,

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Speaker 1: thanks for this great article What Sammy Watkins Believes on

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01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:47,920
Speaker 1: Bleacher Report. I advise everybody to look it up. It

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Speaker 1: basically and made our show today our discussion about this.

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01:54:51,480 --> 01:54:54,760
Speaker 1: You must your baby you were just the last time

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01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:56,800
Speaker 1: I had young I think you were expecting or maybe

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01:54:56,840 --> 01:54:58,840
Speaker 1: just had Your baby must be what six months old?

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Speaker 1: By nown Tyler? Oh, Jim math is impeccable. Yes, six

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Speaker 1: months exactly. Uh, she's she's doing fantastic. Um, it's been obvious.

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01:55:09,360 --> 01:55:11,480
Speaker 1: We just we just started seeing our family from Mother's

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01:55:11,560 --> 01:55:13,320
Speaker 1: Day with which was great. But yeah, I'm locked down

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Speaker 1: for two months. The uh, the four of us with

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Speaker 1: the dog included. Um, it's been been great just watching

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01:55:18,640 --> 01:55:22,120
Speaker 1: her grow and jibber jabber and so close to crawling

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01:55:22,160 --> 01:55:25,040
Speaker 1: all over the place. Man, there's nothing like it. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Tyler's great having you on. Thanks and be safe and

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01:55:27,440 --> 01:55:29,520
Speaker 1: keep your family healthy and well. Thanks for coming on.

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01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:32,320
Speaker 1: You've got it guys. Thanks so much for having me.

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01:55:32,360 --> 01:55:35,680
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thanks Tyler Dunn, Bleacher Report NFL

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01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:39,040
Speaker 1: Features writer. You gotta read this what Sammy Watkins believes.

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01:55:39,400 --> 01:55:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, Stevens it okay for me to dispute,

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01:55:42,600 --> 01:55:45,360
Speaker 1: to maybe disagree that Sammy's in a good place. You

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01:55:45,400 --> 01:55:47,080
Speaker 1: have to look on your face when to ask that question,

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01:55:47,120 --> 01:55:49,000
Speaker 1: like you couldn't believe. I don't see how that's a

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01:55:49,040 --> 01:55:51,560
Speaker 1: good place to be, actually, But maybe I'm wrong, Maybe

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01:55:51,560 --> 01:55:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm all depends on where he was before, you know, yeah,

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01:55:55,640 --> 01:55:59,080
Speaker 1: compared to where he was before it is, you know, yeah,

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01:55:59,200 --> 01:56:05,040
Speaker 1: you gotta This article is at times almost confusing in

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01:56:05,280 --> 01:56:07,880
Speaker 1: what it tries to relate about what Sammy believes and

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01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:12,200
Speaker 1: and Sammy, you're gonna think about it. Sammy is three

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01:56:12,320 --> 01:56:15,440
Speaker 1: or four months removed from being a key contributor to

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01:56:15,520 --> 01:56:18,920
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl winning football team who had not won

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01:56:18,960 --> 01:56:21,880
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl for fifty years. It was an absolute

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01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:24,840
Speaker 1: tremendous run by them, and he was a big part

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01:56:24,880 --> 01:56:27,000
Speaker 1: of it. So he's a he is on a real

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01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:29,160
Speaker 1: high for his life right now. You know, this is

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01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:32,720
Speaker 1: and you know, for all the things that he's gone

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01:56:32,760 --> 01:56:35,520
Speaker 1: through and the twist and turns that his career has taken,

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01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:37,520
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any place other than this that

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01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:40,480
Speaker 1: he's been in a better place. Right at least professionally

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01:56:41,040 --> 01:56:43,120
Speaker 1: and certainly with the stuff that happened with his family

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01:56:43,280 --> 01:56:45,640
Speaker 1: during the article a year's past when he was in Buffalo,

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01:56:46,040 --> 01:56:48,800
Speaker 1: that seems to be a thing of the past as well.

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01:56:48,920 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think for the time being, just if

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01:56:52,600 --> 01:56:56,560
Speaker 1: it's if it's a good place. You can question how

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01:56:56,640 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: bad the rest of it has been before this, but

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01:56:59,520 --> 01:57:01,840
Speaker 1: this is the best of what that was, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right. I'll give you that. We can talk more

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01:57:04,360 --> 01:57:06,600
Speaker 1: about Sammy Watkins when we come back after the break.

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Speaker 1: We can talk about our Twitter poll today. Why are

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01:57:09,480 --> 01:57:12,560
Speaker 1: the national expectations higher this year for the Bills? What

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01:57:12,760 --> 01:57:14,600
Speaker 1: is it? We'll check the Twitter poll. We'll take your

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Speaker 1: phone calls eight oh three h five fifty and outside

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Speaker 1: Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

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Speaker 1: We continue on One DOES Live presented by Collada Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, got a little

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01:57:32,760 --> 01:57:34,320
Speaker 1: ways to go here on the show One Bills Live

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01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:37,120
Speaker 1: presented by Collada Health. John Murphy was Steve Taser going

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01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:39,840
Speaker 1: to three o'clock today. Our thanks to Tyler Gunn from

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01:57:39,880 --> 01:57:44,920
Speaker 1: Bleacher Report. Really good article. What Sammy Watkins believes? Okay,

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01:57:45,320 --> 01:57:51,080
Speaker 1: I read it, and if Sammy believes it. Okay, our

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01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:53,440
Speaker 1: Twitter poll today we had a great response to six

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty votes. Why are the national expectations higher for

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01:57:57,320 --> 01:57:59,800
Speaker 1: the Bills this year? Is it because well, most of

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01:57:59,800 --> 01:58:02,160
Speaker 1: you think. Twenty nine percent say it's last year's success

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01:58:02,320 --> 01:58:05,560
Speaker 1: ten win season. Twenty seven percent say it's the chemistry

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01:58:05,920 --> 01:58:09,120
Speaker 1: and culture is set up by Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott.

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01:58:09,440 --> 01:58:12,800
Speaker 1: Twenty six percent say it's the competitive balance in the

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01:58:12,920 --> 01:58:15,280
Speaker 1: AFC East, the Patriots coming back to the pack. An

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01:58:15,320 --> 01:58:18,080
Speaker 1: eighteen percent say it's the additions they've made to the roster.

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01:58:18,520 --> 01:58:20,480
Speaker 1: That's about as close as you can get on our

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01:58:20,520 --> 01:58:22,720
Speaker 1: Twitter pole, Steve right over the years. That's about the closest.

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Speaker 1: That's a top five Twitter poll all time. Right, there's five. Yeah,

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01:58:27,600 --> 01:58:31,720
Speaker 1: that's a good one, um, because they are compelling reasons

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01:58:31,800 --> 01:58:33,440
Speaker 1: for all of those. I think if the fifth one

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01:58:33,480 --> 01:58:35,200
Speaker 1: we're there, you could you know, it's like the old

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Speaker 1: community multiple choice questions, all of the above, Yeah, you

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01:58:41,200 --> 01:58:43,520
Speaker 1: could put that in and you know, you get a

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01:58:43,600 --> 01:58:46,480
Speaker 1: confluence of all four of those factors into what the

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01:58:46,560 --> 01:58:49,200
Speaker 1: Bills are doing in the situation they find themselves now,

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01:58:49,240 --> 01:58:51,320
Speaker 1: and it's hard not to be really optimistic about what

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01:58:51,360 --> 01:58:55,040
Speaker 1: they're going to do this season, and uh so, I'm

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01:58:55,760 --> 01:58:58,360
Speaker 1: obviously you know, we asked people to pick one of

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01:58:58,400 --> 01:59:00,520
Speaker 1: those four which one is the most import and it's

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01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:04,040
Speaker 1: hard to do. It really is hard to do. We

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Speaker 1: have the tweet sheets some responses to this on the

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01:59:06,320 --> 01:59:09,760
Speaker 1: tweet sheep Rocky by Corgan Moving Systems, the official moves

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01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:12,240
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Nick says, in my opinion, it

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01:59:12,440 --> 01:59:14,800
Speaker 1: is all of the above. Also, each time the Bills

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01:59:14,840 --> 01:59:17,240
Speaker 1: were on national TV, they did very well and looked good.

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01:59:17,840 --> 01:59:20,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was very good and that competitive eds he

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01:59:20,160 --> 01:59:23,440
Speaker 1: showed in Dallas I believe got people's attention. If he

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01:59:23,520 --> 01:59:25,320
Speaker 1: takes the next step, the Bills will be hard to beat.

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01:59:25,840 --> 01:59:30,160
Speaker 1: Nick is right about that. The Bills maybe their signature

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01:59:30,200 --> 01:59:33,480
Speaker 1: performance in twenty nineteen once Thanksgiving Day the biggest audience,

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01:59:33,600 --> 01:59:36,920
Speaker 1: and you know for Thanksgiving in what several years they

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01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:38,600
Speaker 1: played last year? Right, a lot of people saw that

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01:59:38,720 --> 01:59:42,040
Speaker 1: game and just played pretty well in it and made

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01:59:42,040 --> 01:59:44,560
Speaker 1: a couple of plays, particularly the one you always think

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01:59:44,600 --> 01:59:46,960
Speaker 1: of when you think back that Thanksgiving Dame is only

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01:59:47,040 --> 01:59:49,880
Speaker 1: one play and it's the fourth down pickup when there's

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01:59:49,920 --> 01:59:52,840
Speaker 1: a quarterback sneak he fumbled the ball, picked it up

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01:59:53,000 --> 01:59:56,400
Speaker 1: and bowled his way for the first down, crucial first

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01:59:56,440 --> 01:59:59,840
Speaker 1: half play when they're closing out the half. And even

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo said it in the broadcast. He said that,

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Speaker 1: right there is why this team plays well around this guy,

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02:00:07,400 --> 02:00:10,360
Speaker 1: um if. And it was the true when I played.

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02:00:10,400 --> 02:00:12,480
Speaker 1: It's true and other team, great teams that I've seen

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02:00:12,600 --> 02:00:17,720
Speaker 1: play when you're when you're marquee guys, when you're Hall

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02:00:17,760 --> 02:00:20,800
Speaker 1: of Fame type guys, when you're when your lead dogs,

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02:00:21,440 --> 02:00:25,480
Speaker 1: do something gritty and tough nosed and hard nosed and

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02:00:25,520 --> 02:00:28,920
Speaker 1: make a play like that, everybody says, man, me too,

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02:00:29,760 --> 02:00:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that too. I'm gonna play like that too.

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Speaker 1: And it was I think it was evident in that game,

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02:00:35,920 --> 02:00:38,680
Speaker 1: um that that's why that team forget about Josh's numbers.

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02:00:39,160 --> 02:00:43,280
Speaker 1: He brings something to that team that nobody else could.

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02:00:43,760 --> 02:00:46,360
Speaker 1: And that's why people like you and I are so

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02:00:46,520 --> 02:00:49,360
Speaker 1: optimistic about his future and why Bills fans are optimistic

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02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:51,880
Speaker 1: about his future and why why? And and I think

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02:00:51,960 --> 02:00:54,600
Speaker 1: because other people don't see it. Why they look at

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02:00:54,640 --> 02:00:56,400
Speaker 1: the stuff that he's not so good ATVing to say

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02:00:56,440 --> 02:01:00,680
Speaker 1: that he's not gonna make it guys, you're crazy. He's polarizing,

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02:01:01,160 --> 02:01:06,120
Speaker 1: and but in moments like that, I think Bills fans

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02:01:06,160 --> 02:01:09,120
Speaker 1: win the argument. Yeah, you make a really good point too. Um.

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Speaker 1: When you look at Josh numbers, you don't see a

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02:01:12,160 --> 02:01:14,560
Speaker 1: lot of what is included in his game, you know

2440
02:01:14,600 --> 02:01:16,120
Speaker 1: what I mean? And maybe the fact that we see

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02:01:16,160 --> 02:01:18,720
Speaker 1: every game and every play, it's like, Okay, yeah, I

2442
02:01:18,880 --> 02:01:21,280
Speaker 1: realized he missed a lot of deep passes downfield. I

2443
02:01:21,440 --> 02:01:23,600
Speaker 1: get it. I get it. He's not the most accurate thrower.

2444
02:01:23,680 --> 02:01:26,400
Speaker 1: I understand that what you have fifty eight percent complete

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02:01:26,440 --> 02:01:29,840
Speaker 1: your percentage is past year? Is that what he was eight?

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02:01:30,040 --> 02:01:32,040
Speaker 1: I get it. That's not good enough. But then you

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02:01:32,120 --> 02:01:35,200
Speaker 1: see plays like that that quarterback sneak in the Dallas game,

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02:01:35,240 --> 02:01:37,200
Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, I get it. I can see where

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02:01:37,280 --> 02:01:40,040
Speaker 1: they can win with this guy. And that's what outsiders

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02:01:40,080 --> 02:01:43,000
Speaker 1: who don't watch the Bills as much, that's what they get.

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02:01:43,080 --> 02:01:45,480
Speaker 1: They look at those numbers and say, what everybody's raving

2452
02:01:45,480 --> 02:01:48,800
Speaker 1: about this quarterback with fifty eight percent completion percentage, Look

2453
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:53,000
Speaker 1: at all these incompletions downfield. Yeah, you can watch those

2454
02:01:53,040 --> 02:01:55,120
Speaker 1: games and I've seen guys, Peter people put it down

2455
02:01:55,160 --> 02:01:56,840
Speaker 1: on Twitter where they'll have like six or eight or

2456
02:01:56,880 --> 02:02:00,160
Speaker 1: ten a bunch of plays where Josh throws it. It's like, well,

2457
02:02:00,280 --> 02:02:02,800
Speaker 1: you know who's he throwing too? It was a hord.

2458
02:02:02,840 --> 02:02:04,400
Speaker 1: What's he doing here? Why didn't he hit that past?

2459
02:02:04,440 --> 02:02:06,640
Speaker 1: What's you know? He misses a lot of plays. And

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02:02:06,680 --> 02:02:09,360
Speaker 1: we've talked about his efficiency and how this offense would

2461
02:02:09,360 --> 02:02:11,600
Speaker 1: be unbelievable if he was more efficient as a quarterback.

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02:02:12,080 --> 02:02:14,560
Speaker 1: But you know, it's those plays, and it's the plays

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02:02:14,600 --> 02:02:17,800
Speaker 1: like we're one that we're describing. Not only is a

2464
02:02:17,880 --> 02:02:19,960
Speaker 1: good play helps the team win. It was a crucial

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02:02:20,040 --> 02:02:23,200
Speaker 1: situation where he made the day. He won the play,

2466
02:02:24,400 --> 02:02:27,360
Speaker 1: but it also the way it happened is he it

2467
02:02:27,520 --> 02:02:31,680
Speaker 1: elevates all forty six other guys that are in uniform.

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02:02:32,160 --> 02:02:36,160
Speaker 1: They rise up because of plays like that, and the

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02:02:36,240 --> 02:02:38,800
Speaker 1: way he takes responsibility and the way he acknowledges that

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02:02:38,880 --> 02:02:40,040
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of work to do, and the

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02:02:40,080 --> 02:02:42,640
Speaker 1: way he acknowledges his shortcomings. He acknowledges that he's got

2472
02:02:42,720 --> 02:02:45,920
Speaker 1: to play better, that he should have won the game

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02:02:46,000 --> 02:02:48,000
Speaker 1: for the team, and because he didn't play well, they

2474
02:02:48,040 --> 02:02:50,240
Speaker 1: weren't in position to win the game. The way he

2475
02:02:50,320 --> 02:02:53,280
Speaker 1: acknowledged and takes ownership of his shortcomings as a quarterback,

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02:02:53,640 --> 02:02:57,520
Speaker 1: goes a long way in the locker room. So it's

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02:02:58,080 --> 02:03:03,400
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's one of those situations where people

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02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:05,040
Speaker 1: like you and I'm Bills fans got a lot of

2479
02:03:05,080 --> 02:03:07,920
Speaker 1: optimism about where he could take this squad and while

2480
02:03:07,960 --> 02:03:10,840
Speaker 1: people outside are thinking, I don't see it. I just

2481
02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:13,640
Speaker 1: don't see it. Hey, you want more from the tweets,

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02:03:14,160 --> 02:03:17,720
Speaker 1: Jeffany says this wire national expectations higher for the Bills

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02:03:17,760 --> 02:03:21,640
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Tiffy says chemistry, culture, and continuity will

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02:03:21,680 --> 02:03:23,960
Speaker 1: serve the team well in twenty twenty. Each sure doesn't

2485
02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:26,040
Speaker 1: hurt that they also have a bunch of talents and

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02:03:26,080 --> 02:03:28,680
Speaker 1: hard working players and coaches that have gone all in

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02:03:28,800 --> 02:03:31,800
Speaker 1: with coach McDermott's message. I have faith that they will

2488
02:03:31,880 --> 02:03:35,800
Speaker 1: find their way to the top of the AFC East. Yeah,

2489
02:03:35,920 --> 02:03:38,720
Speaker 1: well there you go. And chemistry and culture, I guess,

2490
02:03:38,760 --> 02:03:42,200
Speaker 1: is what Tiffany picks, and it does change. There's a

2491
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:44,800
Speaker 1: couple of factors that are outside the Bills control this year.

2492
02:03:45,320 --> 02:03:48,480
Speaker 1: One is that the Patriots seem to be a different

2493
02:03:49,280 --> 02:03:51,320
Speaker 1: team coming into this year than they've been in the

2494
02:03:51,400 --> 02:03:54,760
Speaker 1: last twenty years Without Tom Brady. And another thing is

2495
02:03:54,840 --> 02:03:58,520
Speaker 1: that the expansion of the playoffs. One of our callers said,

2496
02:03:58,520 --> 02:04:01,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be easier to get in the playoffs this

2497
02:04:02,080 --> 02:04:04,440
Speaker 1: year then it has been ever before, because there's gonna

2498
02:04:04,440 --> 02:04:07,280
Speaker 1: be a seventh team in every in each conference that

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02:04:07,440 --> 02:04:13,320
Speaker 1: gets in. That's huge. Um. All that stuff together makes

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02:04:13,320 --> 02:04:15,280
Speaker 1: you think like that the Bills are going to be

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02:04:15,480 --> 02:04:17,800
Speaker 1: in the conversation when the playoffs roll around. It'll be

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02:04:17,840 --> 02:04:20,520
Speaker 1: interesting to see what the seed will be if and

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02:04:20,640 --> 02:04:22,920
Speaker 1: if if, if in fact they can win enough games

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02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:25,480
Speaker 1: to get there. Let's take a phone call here. Let's

2505
02:04:25,480 --> 02:04:27,840
Speaker 1: take a phone call here from Randy in Denver, Oh. Randy,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air, gentlemen, Good afternoon, right, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to talk about I think that the national

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02:04:36,640 --> 02:04:39,800
Speaker 1: perception that the Bills should be so improved is it's farranted,

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Speaker 1: and you know, because of you know, Brady leaving and

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Speaker 1: the Bills improvement and the coach and the GM and

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Speaker 1: all that. But I just caution also that like I

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Speaker 1: hear a lot of young fans, I'm about your age, John,

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Speaker 1: and I hear a lot of young fans all like

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Speaker 1: slam dunk in fixing oh in the division or you know, yeah,

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02:04:57,680 --> 02:05:00,240
Speaker 1: it could easily there there might be the best. See

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02:05:00,280 --> 02:05:02,160
Speaker 1: they could easily be three and three in the division,

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Speaker 1: Miami's improvement. Look how they finished up last year, that

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02:05:05,160 --> 02:05:07,880
Speaker 1: Jets were seven and two. At the end. Bill Belichick

2519
02:05:07,960 --> 02:05:11,000
Speaker 1: isn't going to give in to anybody, So I caution

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02:05:11,120 --> 02:05:13,400
Speaker 1: young fans to be careful. That doesn't mean that Bills

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02:05:13,440 --> 02:05:15,560
Speaker 1: can't win ten even if they only go three and three.

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Speaker 1: But you know the national perception, look what we did

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Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns last year. And then I had

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Speaker 1: a comment on Sammy if I could. Yeah, just let

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Speaker 1: me get to your first point though, because Randy and

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Speaker 1: I get what you mean by cautioning young fans. You

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02:05:29,520 --> 02:05:31,960
Speaker 1: know what I cautioned fans young and old oftentimes. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if if the message ever gets across.

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02:05:34,160 --> 02:05:36,520
Speaker 1: I don't have all the answers, but I do think

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02:05:37,480 --> 02:05:40,560
Speaker 1: the margin of difference between good teams and so called

2531
02:05:40,640 --> 02:05:43,280
Speaker 1: bad teams in the league is much closer than people know.

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02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:46,680
Speaker 1: It's not college football. The difference between the the you know,

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Speaker 1: the the Jets with their want six seven wins and

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02:05:49,400 --> 02:05:52,600
Speaker 1: the Bills with their ten wins last year, it's very small,

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Speaker 1: very small. Difference, and that's the only thing I would say,

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Speaker 1: But go ahead, get another point. I agree, And then

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02:05:58,000 --> 02:06:02,280
Speaker 1: on Sammy, I choose. You know, I hope, I hope

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Speaker 1: he's okay. I I don't like to down people when

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02:06:05,480 --> 02:06:07,560
Speaker 1: they leave the Bills. You know that I have an

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02:06:07,600 --> 02:06:12,240
Speaker 1: infection first step on and even Marcel. But Sammy when

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02:06:12,320 --> 02:06:14,640
Speaker 1: he was there, you know when I didn't read the article,

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02:06:14,680 --> 02:06:17,080
Speaker 1: but just hearing about it to see how much trouble

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02:06:17,120 --> 02:06:19,000
Speaker 1: and what he was going through from what I hear,

2544
02:06:19,360 --> 02:06:23,160
Speaker 1: to think about the excitement, like with an average quarterback

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02:06:23,280 --> 02:06:26,440
Speaker 1: like Kyle Orton to win that Vikings game, or with

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02:06:27,280 --> 02:06:29,880
Speaker 1: ty Rode to like light Darrell read this up, just

2547
02:06:30,040 --> 02:06:33,000
Speaker 1: smoke him and even dropped one. He even fumbled one

2548
02:06:33,040 --> 02:06:35,040
Speaker 1: ball would have been another TV or the the can't

2549
02:06:36,160 --> 02:06:38,640
Speaker 1: left Ryan, and then they didn't throw it to him again.

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02:06:39,080 --> 02:06:42,640
Speaker 1: So I too, like remember him for the guy was great.

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02:06:42,720 --> 02:06:45,280
Speaker 1: It's sad that he is in our star receiver because

2552
02:06:45,320 --> 02:06:48,000
Speaker 1: he is a great talent. So I wish the best

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02:06:48,080 --> 02:06:51,280
Speaker 1: for him. And I just one more thing, the Everson

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02:06:51,360 --> 02:06:54,000
Speaker 1: Griffin is a man or a logan. Ryan. I want

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02:06:54,080 --> 02:06:56,560
Speaker 1: the Bills to go and pick up a player like that.

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02:06:56,720 --> 02:06:58,320
Speaker 1: You just put him over the top. If you read

2557
02:06:58,480 --> 02:07:00,480
Speaker 1: like Tom Pella Sero had a piece way back in

2558
02:07:00,520 --> 02:07:03,480
Speaker 1: April about this guy, and he had a lot of trouble.

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02:07:03,920 --> 02:07:06,320
Speaker 1: If you go back and read it, he sounds like

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02:07:06,400 --> 02:07:08,280
Speaker 1: a guy that would just fit so well with the

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02:07:08,360 --> 02:07:11,200
Speaker 1: Bills and with McDermott. You know, a second chance. And

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02:07:11,680 --> 02:07:14,920
Speaker 1: he's so uber talented compared to like he has in

2563
02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:17,680
Speaker 1: the same time in the league as say Addison or

2564
02:07:17,800 --> 02:07:20,760
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes. He has fifty percent more production. If you

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02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:23,040
Speaker 1: added him to the Bills, took away Trent Murphy because

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02:07:23,080 --> 02:07:25,960
Speaker 1: everyone says we're going to which I don't want to

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02:07:26,000 --> 02:07:28,120
Speaker 1: get rid of our depth. But if you were gonna

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02:07:28,560 --> 02:07:31,040
Speaker 1: get rid of your depth, go get a guy like that,

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02:07:31,160 --> 02:07:33,160
Speaker 1: and get rid of Trent Murphy and add a guy

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02:07:33,280 --> 02:07:36,040
Speaker 1: like Logan Ryan. I believe the Tennessee corner, and let's

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Speaker 1: put it over the top. Because Josh is gonna be good.

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Speaker 1: If our defense is just awesome, well, let's go win

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, all right, I hear you, Randy. Yeah,

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02:07:44,520 --> 02:07:47,360
Speaker 1: they're already sorry, Randy, but they've already lost their opportunity

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02:07:47,400 --> 02:07:49,440
Speaker 1: to get Logan Ryan because he signed a one year

2576
02:07:49,480 --> 02:07:53,160
Speaker 1: deal with the Jets and that what we said earlier

2577
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Speaker 1: than the show. Did that come across, Yeah, he did.

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02:07:55,240 --> 02:07:56,760
Speaker 1: He signed a one year deal with the Jets. So

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02:07:56,920 --> 02:07:58,640
Speaker 1: we can't get a guy like Logan Ryan. But I

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02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:04,360
Speaker 1: hear you, and don't think that the Bills haven't, you know,

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02:08:04,520 --> 02:08:07,520
Speaker 1: shaken the bushes trying to shake out all the really

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02:08:07,600 --> 02:08:09,920
Speaker 1: good and gifted players that might fit on this roster,

2583
02:08:10,280 --> 02:08:13,720
Speaker 1: on rosters and off rosters, free agents and players under

2584
02:08:13,720 --> 02:08:16,280
Speaker 1: contract with other teams. They've got some room to go

2585
02:08:16,360 --> 02:08:18,720
Speaker 1: out and get a guy if if, if there's a

2586
02:08:18,760 --> 02:08:21,760
Speaker 1: guy out there, and if they're so desired to trade him,

2587
02:08:22,160 --> 02:08:25,680
Speaker 1: but trade for him, but you know they don't. It's

2588
02:08:25,680 --> 02:08:27,280
Speaker 1: got to be for the right price and all that.

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02:08:27,400 --> 02:08:29,720
Speaker 1: But the one thing we've learned about this GM and

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02:08:29,800 --> 02:08:33,200
Speaker 1: head coach, just because the guys on another team doesn't

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02:08:33,240 --> 02:08:34,840
Speaker 1: mean they haven't kicked the tires to see if they

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02:08:34,880 --> 02:08:37,880
Speaker 1: could get him, if he would be the final piece

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02:08:37,920 --> 02:08:41,760
Speaker 1: to the puzzles. So I kind of agree with a

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02:08:41,800 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: lot of what Randy said there from Denver. He's it's

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02:08:44,560 --> 02:08:46,200
Speaker 1: got a good handle on it. I would say this

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02:08:46,240 --> 02:08:49,160
Speaker 1: about well Randy said too, and I guess just trying

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02:08:49,200 --> 02:08:52,920
Speaker 1: to clarify what was said about Sammy Watkins. Look, and

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Speaker 1: I let me see if you jump in, if you

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Speaker 1: if I'm misstating. I don't think either one of us

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Speaker 1: said Sammy watch I know neither one of us said

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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins was mentally ill, none of us. Neither of

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Speaker 1: us said he was a cancer for any roster. What

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02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:06,840
Speaker 1: I said, and you can jump in or see, But

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02:09:06,960 --> 02:09:09,720
Speaker 1: what I said was he wouldn't fit on this Bill's roster,

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Speaker 1: not with what they put together, number one, number two.

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Speaker 1: They're probably more than a couple of rosters in the

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Speaker 1: NFL where he would not fit because of the instability

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Speaker 1: shown in this interview with Tyler Dunn. It was an

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Speaker 1: amazing interview what Sammy Watkins believes on Bleacher Report amazing,

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Speaker 1: an amazing insight into where Sammy's head is at right now.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know that. It sounds like he's in

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Speaker 1: a good place. I mean, yeah, he big contributions to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, got a Super Bowl ring. Now, that's good.

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Speaker 1: Good for him. I never disliked Sammy Watkins, but I'm

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Speaker 1: glad the Bills are dumb with them. I'm glad they

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Speaker 1: moved on. That's all I was saying, Steve, do you

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Speaker 1: want well. I think the point is for when he

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Speaker 1: was a Buffalo Bill. My point was his personal life

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Speaker 1: and his professional life. His professional attitude wasn't in a

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Speaker 1: position where he could have possibly been successful. The team

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Speaker 1: wasn't in the right spot, the coaching staff wasn't in

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02:09:58,400 --> 02:10:00,520
Speaker 1: the right spot any one of the three head coaches

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Speaker 1: he had, and he certainly wasn't right in his personal

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Speaker 1: life for his professional life. So it was a you know,

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Speaker 1: it was just not conducive to Sammy Watkins being successful

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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Now, after a few years, a handful

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Speaker 1: of years and a time in LA where they were

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Speaker 1: gonna sign him and he got out bit by the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and he went to Kansas City. He's in a

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Speaker 1: different spot now. He's got a he got a fresh

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Speaker 1: start with a head coach who gets him a little better,

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Speaker 1: and he's had some success with that team, and the

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Speaker 1: team won the Super Bowl. So everybody on that roster

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Speaker 1: now is in a good spot. That's they got to

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Speaker 1: feel like they're as good as they've ever been and

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Speaker 1: whether it lasts is going to be the question. I

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Speaker 1: brought that up with Tyler Dunn. If Sammy Watkins doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a good year if he doesn't have the kind

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Speaker 1: of career he stated in this article that he was

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Speaker 1: gonna have. Is he still going to be in a

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Speaker 1: good spot. I don't know. Okay, we're gonna break and

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Speaker 1: we had blamed Bishop on former oilers in Tennessee Titans safety.

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Speaker 1: He's now part of the Tennessee Titans radio crew, and

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Speaker 1: he talked about the Titans quarterback Bryan Tannehill what's expected

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Speaker 1: from him this year? And I saw a lot and

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Speaker 1: I saw a lot of potential immediately, and you know,

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Speaker 1: people laughed at me, and I think the Titans actually

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Speaker 1: shot the last laugh. And I said, if Tannehill gets

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Speaker 1: in there, I think he throws on the rhythm. He's

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Speaker 1: very accurate, and he changed plays. His leadership skills compared

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Speaker 1: to Marcus. You know, you love Marcus the Deaf, but

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Speaker 1: he took winnership that this was you know, this was

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Speaker 1: his offense. And he made checks and got him out

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Speaker 1: of bad plays into good plays. And then his accuracy

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Speaker 1: throughout the whole time, which I didn't know he could maintain.

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Speaker 1: He did, so it's going to be interesting. He can't

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Speaker 1: duplicate what he did last year. I don't think he

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Speaker 1: can do that. But if you get somewhere in between

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Speaker 1: what he was at the Dolphins and what he did

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Speaker 1: last year, I think the Titan fan base will be

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Speaker 1: pretty happy. Lane Bishop from the Tennessee Titans our Twitter

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Speaker 1: pull today. National expectations clearly higher for the Bills this year.

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Speaker 1: We gotta post up about it on Buffalo bills dot com.

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Speaker 1: Why is that very close? Voting? Thirty percent say it's

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Speaker 1: because last year's success, twenty seven percent say it's because

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Speaker 1: of the chemistry and culture set up by being in McDermott,

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Speaker 1: and just twenty five percent say it's a competitive balance

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East. I'm shocked by that. Steve is

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Speaker 1: very close. There's a lot of good reasons to be optimistic.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if any of them are coming true. But

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Speaker 1: it's a good show. Today. It was fun to hear

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