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Speaker 1: Oh, a great time watched Steve Tasper Goods Down Down Time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Thursday edition of One Bill's Live Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker along with Maddi Glab We're here till three o'clock today.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. We've got John Breach coming on

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Speaker 1: from CBS Sports. He's a writer, has a list of

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Speaker 1: articles he writes for them. We've got some sound bites

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Speaker 1: from Tremaine Edmonds. There's lots of stuff going on around

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. There's also a series of articles

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Speaker 1: on one Bills on Buffalo Bills website about you know,

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Speaker 1: camp countdown. They always do this stuff. Maddie and first

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Speaker 1: of all, welcome in and I'm sorry we missed you yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a good day? Productive day yesterday? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was pretty productive. We had a taping with some

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Speaker 1: pretty important people on the Sabers and the Bills side

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Speaker 1: of things. So that will get released hopefully in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. So it's a fun project we've

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Speaker 1: you know, as we're in this time of no sports.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited for it to get released and it

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Speaker 1: should be some fun content to look forward to in

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Speaker 1: the next month. So yeah, and we're not allowed to

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Speaker 1: like talk about it, right because it's been very huch a,

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Speaker 1: very very cloak and dagger kind of stuff. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to give us

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Speaker 1: something that we can all look forward to. Awesome, that's great. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're back today. We had a good day

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Speaker 1: yesterday with with my son Luke. Had a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about there as well. We got today. We've got us.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be you and me till three o'clock. We've

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Speaker 1: got this our big boy Jay Harris came up with

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Speaker 1: a nice uh Twitter poll and it actually was me,

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Speaker 1: wasn't it. It was my idea you were coming up

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Speaker 1: with you. He came up to two team efforts. I've

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Speaker 1: a different one. And my idea was Jay's idea was

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Speaker 1: a good one too. It's like, who's gonna like start

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Speaker 1: at right corner opposite Tredavious White, which is you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a menu of guys, right, But I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, with no preseason all that, let's go which

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Speaker 1: position group would be affected at most. If there's going

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Speaker 1: I think it could. I think there's some positions on

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Speaker 1: this team that have quite a few new faces and

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Speaker 1: they would benefit by going up against someone other than

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Speaker 1: their teammates. Now, preseason games were used to seeing, you know,

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Speaker 1: But if there was a preseason game one or two

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Speaker 1: this season, whatever they decide, you have to kind of

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Speaker 1: the third quarter. Usually you see I mean, Alan takes

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Speaker 1: probably a couple reps and gets off the field. But

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Speaker 1: the guys who you really need to see how they're

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Speaker 1: And I think some positions where there's those question marks

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Speaker 1: we're not sure what the preseason is going to look like. Still,

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Speaker 1: the NFLPA and the NFL have yet to agree on

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Speaker 1: And I said, what are they what's there to talk about?

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Speaker 1: What if the league you said, hey, we're starting up,

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Speaker 1: what we're I don't know why they're negotiating. The league

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Speaker 1: players are scheduled to come in July twenty eight. They've

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Speaker 1: They want to compress the preseason into a couple of games,

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Speaker 1: tell you what. The one thing that hasn't changed. It

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Speaker 1: yeah it's too hot, but yeah it's better. It's better

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Speaker 1: it was a light switch this year. Man, the hot

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Speaker 1: forty eight day training camp and a shorter preseason, which

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Speaker 1: And the players wanted to report when they usually report

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Speaker 1: But this, you know, it's going to start as soon

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Speaker 1: next year or the year after giving it to them

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Speaker 1: down the road. The players obviously said no way. They

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Speaker 1: kind of right, players, No freaking way are they gonna

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Speaker 1: say yes to that? There is no way. That's why

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Speaker 1: the NFLPA told the NFL to kick rocks. That's not

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Speaker 1: gonna work. Try again. That's exactly right. You're you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna it's not gonna happen. And I get it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's you know, they're trying to

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Speaker 1: make it work financially. This year. The players are saying, listen,

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Speaker 1: it's been working in your favor for like ten decades,

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Speaker 1: bro s Leeves. You know. I mean, there might have

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Speaker 1: been some years in the twenties or whatever or whenever

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Speaker 1: that you know, you guys might have struggled with how

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Speaker 1: this thing was gonna work. But you ain't struggling now.

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Speaker 1: So don't think you're gonna kick kick the thing down

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Speaker 1: to kick this down the road. And another thing I

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Speaker 1: thought of yesterday, think about this, Maddie for the players,

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Speaker 1: And I know that there's a certain segment of players

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Speaker 1: that would be hurt if the salary cap went down

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Speaker 1: or dropped, but I think as a whole, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know, and I'm just I'm I don't know. Here's

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Speaker 1: my thought. What if the salary cap did drop by

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Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty million dollars next year, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it would be in the player's best interests most of

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Speaker 1: the players to worry about that, because if there's some

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Speaker 1: players with some bad contracts and team guys are making

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Speaker 1: a lot of money and teams are forced to restructure

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Speaker 1: their contracts or just out and out release a number

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Speaker 1: of guys across the league. You know, say that of

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Speaker 1: the nineteen hundred guys or two thousand, Say there's two

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Speaker 1: thousand guys in the league, what if they had to

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Speaker 1: release and make free agents out of five hundred of them. Well,

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Speaker 1: being a free agent for most of these guys is

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Speaker 1: exactly what they'd like to be. It's a chance to

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Speaker 1: do it. And plus with the with the contract that

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes signed just two days ago, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of it sets a precedent for guys

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Speaker 1: signing deals that are in the first two or three

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Speaker 1: years very team friendly. So they can sign a deal

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Speaker 1: where they're not taking a lot of the money right

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Speaker 1: up front, but in two or three years down the

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Speaker 1: road when the cap salary cap bounces back and then

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Speaker 1: they get the bulk of their money and there's some

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Speaker 1: guarantees or whatever you have inside the contract. So I

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Speaker 1: think having the salary cap go down may give a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys a chance to reset their career financially

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Speaker 1: and get and get on top of it even in

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Speaker 1: a bigger way. I think I think that could work.

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Speaker 1: But also, if the salary cap goes down, you might

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Speaker 1: have a lot of these older vets as free agents

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Speaker 1: who can't get picked back up. That maybe the new

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Speaker 1: thing where all these older players are now available because

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Speaker 1: they've been released, and a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: their careers end because of this, because they may only

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Speaker 1: have a year two or three left in the tank,

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Speaker 1: and because they can't be afforded and they're looked at, Oh,

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Speaker 1: your your trajectory isn't as high as a rookie. We're

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Speaker 1: done with you. Yeah. Maybe maybe. But then two, if

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Speaker 1: they're in a contract, If if it's like that for them,

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Speaker 1: the other team, the team should probably be happy they

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Speaker 1: got a chance to get rid of them too. If

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Speaker 1: they can't be productive, you don't want to just hang

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Speaker 1: on to them either. So I don't know, I just

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Speaker 1: think there's I think it's a great way to I

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Speaker 1: don't know, to use the word cleanse the finances of

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Speaker 1: the league by dropping the salary cap. A little bit

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Speaker 1: and giving everybody a chance to get reset and you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, get another two or three years out where

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Speaker 1: they have to kind of be responsible financially. I think

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Speaker 1: it would probably be good for the league, and I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of players would benefit from it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what It'll be interesting to see how that

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Speaker 1: works out if indeed the cap does reduce next year.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Maddie Glab on One Deals Live. We've got

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Speaker 1: John Breach coming up at the top of the hour,

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Speaker 1: CBS sports writer and a lot more to time. Talk

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Speaker 1: about which position group has affected the most by limited

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Speaker 1: or no preseason games. Will take your calls after the break.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Maddie Glab on One Bills Live, presided presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One of Bills Live. Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab. Maddie, we

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Speaker 1: got this Twitter question and it's we're getting like a

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Speaker 1: ton of responses from and we asked it, and it

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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense because of this preseason and

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Speaker 1: we don't know what it's going to look like. We

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Speaker 1: all think it's going to look way different than it

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Speaker 1: has and it's going to be fewer games, and the

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Speaker 1: question was which position group is going to be affected

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Speaker 1: the most or limited by limited or no preseason games.

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Speaker 1: So you know, without that many practices, without many games,

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Speaker 1: which position group on the Bills team is gonna be

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Speaker 1: the most affected. We're getting a ton of responses and

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, let's go tweet sheet brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment movers of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. From Bills and Mets fans, Maddie says,

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Speaker 1: they always say that wide receivers and qbs need reps

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Speaker 1: together to be in sync. Being in sync and being

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Speaker 1: in game shape will be among the greatest challenges early

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Speaker 1: this season. I think for me, Maddie, I was thinking

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Speaker 1: that because we saw those guys working out together, I

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Speaker 1: kind of pushed after the back burner. Yeah, there wide

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Speaker 1: receivers and quarterbacks. Once they get on the field together,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get as many reps in as they need.

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Speaker 1: And I think after practices, whenever camp starts, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: see Josh Allen and those wide receivers on the field

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Speaker 1: long after practice ends because they know that they need

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Speaker 1: to make up for lost time. And they already did

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Speaker 1: that when they got together in Florida about a month

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Speaker 1: ago at the end of May. I believe it was

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Speaker 1: so their reps will probably not be as in sync

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Speaker 1: as they would have been if we would have had

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Speaker 1: many camp and all of that, But I believe Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen and Stefan Diggs are going to give it their

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Speaker 1: all to make it as close to as it would

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Speaker 1: have been if you had many camps. But I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Josh is going to need to connect with his wide

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Speaker 1: receivers to score more points of this season, which is

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Speaker 1: what this team needs to do in twenty twenty. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I mean, we gave them some

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Speaker 1: choices from the wide receivers, the D line, and the

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Speaker 1: O line. My take on it was the D line.

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Speaker 1: They got a lot of new faces. They lost two

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Speaker 1: they lost two major players in Shack Lawson and Jordan Phillips,

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Speaker 1: and they have a new D line coach, and they've

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Speaker 1: got to be good. They've got to be good up

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Speaker 1: front to keep the quality of the defense the way

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Speaker 1: it is. And the fact they got a new coach,

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Speaker 1: they got a couple of new players and a new

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Speaker 1: draft pick, and they have one guy on there. That's

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Speaker 1: a you know, that's a major player in Ed Oliver

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Speaker 1: who only has one year under his belt. And Jordan

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Speaker 1: Phillips another major player who didn't play at all last year.

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Speaker 1: I'm not Jordan Phillips. Harrison Phillips. Harrison Phillips didn't play

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Speaker 1: at all last year because you know, he got hurt

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Speaker 1: in Week three and was done for the year. So

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Speaker 1: they got a lot of moving parts on the D line.

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Speaker 1: Now the O line, they got all those guys coming back.

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Speaker 1: You know, everybody's in the whole room is back, and

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Speaker 1: you know, they got a couple of guys who they're

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Speaker 1: sprinkling and think they can get some competition, and they do.

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Speaker 1: They are going to have to get ironed out on

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Speaker 1: the right side, whether Cody four is going to be

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Speaker 1: a guard tackle. But all those guys, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: like family already. Yeah, they had they had an entire

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Speaker 1: year together, and I know a year is not a

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Speaker 1: long time in terms of an offensive line in chemistry,

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Speaker 1: So this year is only going to get better. But

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Speaker 1: I think the offensive line last year when players got

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Speaker 1: hurt and they had to rotate. When Mitch Morse went

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Speaker 1: out for a game at center, we saw people shift

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Speaker 1: in and they didn't miss a beat. So I feel

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Speaker 1: very confident in this offensive line. I would have to

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Speaker 1: agree with you. I think it's defensive line not only

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Speaker 1: because there's new faces, but Vernon Butler and Mario Addison

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Speaker 1: are going from a three four to a four to three.

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Speaker 1: That may take a hot second to get used to

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Speaker 1: playing in a four to three again. The new defensive

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Speaker 1: line coach, Eric Washington, He's coming over from the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: So it's nice that Vernon Butler and Mario Addison are

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Speaker 1: going to be with their defensive line coach from last season.

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Speaker 1: That's definitely a benefit. But I also think about with

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Speaker 1: the new faces and how this defensive line rotates. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is like sometimes it looks like a hockey change

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Speaker 1: in ships. They are bringing new bodies on the field constantly,

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Speaker 1: and this game is one in the trenches. We hear

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Speaker 1: that all the time. So this d line needs to

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Speaker 1: be sure in the way that they're rotating. They need

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Speaker 1: to understand what each other's jobs are, and they want

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Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback more. They want to put

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Speaker 1: more pressure on the quarterback this season. They had forty

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Speaker 1: four sacks last season, which ranked twelfth in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The league leaders where the Steelers with fifty four. So

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this group that needs to iron everything

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Speaker 1: out before Week one. I'm confident they will, but I

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Speaker 1: think a preseason game could really help this group, right,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna need and plus, it's gonna be no

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Speaker 1: matter what you think or how good they play or

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Speaker 1: how you know hard they work at it, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be socially distancing all week. They're gonna be meeting in

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Speaker 1: a room that's four times the size of the one

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Speaker 1: they normally meet in. They're gonna be you know, they've

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Speaker 1: got all these other distractions that you know, the face masks,

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Speaker 1: the hand washing, the people around them that you know

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Speaker 1: that people they're not even gonna be able to interact

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Speaker 1: with on the team. All of that stuff is going

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Speaker 1: to be so different. It's all going to be a

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Speaker 1: very huge, a huge distraction. But let mean, talking about football,

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Speaker 1: the defense is this and this is what has happened

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Speaker 1: in a trend that has happened over the last decade

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Speaker 1: of football that I've noticed all the way back into

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Speaker 1: let's say, the first time I really got into it

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Speaker 1: was when the Seattle Seahawks had the legion of boom

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Speaker 1: in their defense. They and they had a defense that maybe,

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Speaker 1: well not maybe, in my opinion, was the greatest performance

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Speaker 1: by a defense in a Super Bowl of any in

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Speaker 1: the history of the game because of the way they

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Speaker 1: handled Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos. Now the Denver

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Speaker 1: Broncos and Peyton Manning that year had the greatest offensive

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Speaker 1: season of any offense in the history of the league

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Speaker 1: up at that time. They were a juggernaut. Peyton Manning

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Speaker 1: was throwing it, they were scoring points, they were efficient,

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Speaker 1: they didn't drop the ball, all that stuff, and the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks crushed them, crushed them in the Super Bowl. It

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Speaker 1: was not even competitive. And there was one reason why

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Speaker 1: it was because the Seahawks got quick pressure on Peyton Manning.

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Speaker 1: They got quick pressure on the quarter back with just

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Speaker 1: four guys. And that's what the Bills want to do.

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Speaker 1: They want to send four. They don't want to send

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Speaker 1: more than four because you look at these offenses and

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Speaker 1: how they spread the ball out. Now, you can't be

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Speaker 1: sending five or six people at the quarterback repeatedly, that's right.

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Speaker 1: So the moment you can, when it makes sense for you,

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Speaker 1: but you pick that time, but you don't have to.

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Speaker 1: And so the Seahawks were such and it happens in

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Speaker 1: these other good the really good defenses. The Bears of

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Speaker 1: two years ago, they were really good because they got

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Speaker 1: quick pressure with four guys. That translates to the back

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Speaker 1: end of the defense where there's no passing lanes. There's

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Speaker 1: just more people back there for the quarterback to sort through,

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Speaker 1: and they can do all sort of intricate disguises and games,

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Speaker 1: and the moment the quarterback takes an extra quarter of

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Speaker 1: a second to siphon or to decipher what's going on,

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Speaker 1: it's too late. He's down because the pressure is there.

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Speaker 1: That's why these four three defenses can work. Is when

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Speaker 1: you get quick pressure with four guys on occasion or consistently,

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Speaker 1: it's impossible to move the ball on it's just impossible

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Speaker 1: to throw. And that's the you know, the NFL. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I think the bill, it's what I'm looking at.

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Speaker 1: Why it's so important, why this defense has been good,

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Speaker 1: it's because of Tredavious White, the opposite cornerback, tarn Johnson

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Speaker 1: on the slot and the course poor year and hide

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Speaker 1: in the safety that back end has been stellar. If

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Speaker 1: you can give them some help by cutting off two

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Speaker 1: and a half tenths of average time or a tenth

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Speaker 1: and a half of average time where the quarterback has

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Speaker 1: to throw, that's exponentially in your favor, particularly with that secondary.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's where we're headed with this defense.

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Speaker 1: I think that's always been what this defense has pointed towards.

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Speaker 1: And you know, they try and keep it going, finding

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Speaker 1: new combinations, running fresh bodies onto the field because an

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Speaker 1: offensive you know, now the Bills did it a couple

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Speaker 1: of a little bit last year, but you know this, Maddie,

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00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: you don't rotate five offensive linemen and to keep them fresh.

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Speaker 1: Heck no, that is not a thing that it can't

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Speaker 1: be done right. So if you can get fresh pass rushers,

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Speaker 1: it makes a difference later in games. And that's that's

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Speaker 1: where the Bills are. And you know, they've got a

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Speaker 1: new defensive line coach, Eric Washington, and these guys have

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Speaker 1: got to get acclimated to him. So here's another one

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Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet. The position group affected the most

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Speaker 1: by limited or no preseason game from Tiffany, She says,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, it's the offensive line with the potential

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Speaker 1: of a limited preseason games, the starting five will have

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Speaker 1: less time to get in sync with one another and

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Speaker 1: especially with the right tackle job. But for Grabs, those

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Speaker 1: reps are important for Cody Ford to lock down the

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Speaker 1: job over some established veterans. I will say this and

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Speaker 1: for all we've been talking about the D line, and

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Speaker 1: I do think they're going to be more impacted than

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Speaker 1: the O line is. I've said this a lot. The

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Speaker 1: entire football team hinges on how good your offensive line is.

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Speaker 1: The entire team does. If your offensive line is dominant,

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Speaker 1: it is a ripple effect like no other position group

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Speaker 1: on your team. It crosses over into the defense. Its

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00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 1: effectiveness crosses over and helps the defense. It certainly helps

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Speaker 1: your quarterback, and it obviously helps your running backs in

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Speaker 1: the running game. I just think every the heartbeat of

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Speaker 1: your team and your roster is your offensive line. So

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Speaker 1: I get what Tiffany says in her in her thing,

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Speaker 1: I just don't know that they'll be as impacted as

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Speaker 1: the defensive line this year. Yeah, I completely agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't have a good offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and you don't have an offensive line that can protect

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, you really honestly have nothing because you have

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Speaker 1: to score points to win a game. A game can't

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Speaker 1: be zero to zero, so you have to get into

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Speaker 1: the end zone and your offensive line is a crucial

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Speaker 1: part in helping you do that. I do think, like

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Speaker 1: you said, they have to get the right side of

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Speaker 1: the offensive line iron out. You have to find a

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Speaker 1: place for Cody Ford. Now. I know he rotated right

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Speaker 1: guard right tackle last year and tie and Secki helped

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Speaker 1: with that right tackle position. But Tie and Secky was

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Speaker 1: hurt for five games out of the season due that

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Speaker 1: ankle injury. So it'll be interesting to see if they

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Speaker 1: continue to rotate Cody Ford because he is versatile like that.

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Speaker 1: But does it help Cody to rotate. I would think

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Speaker 1: that you want to be in one position so you

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Speaker 1: can figure that out and excel in that one position.

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Speaker 1: And as a rookie's it was probably tough for him

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Speaker 1: to go from right guard right tackle. Yes, it's the

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Speaker 1: same side of the field, so your job isn't too

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Speaker 1: too different and you're seeing things the same way. But

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Speaker 1: as a rookie, that's not easy to do going up

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Speaker 1: against some really really talented defensive ends as well as

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Speaker 1: some really talented tackles as well, well this and while

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Speaker 1: we were talking, and we started the show by talking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Ivy League, how they showed some leadership

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Speaker 1: in March Madness and back in the early days, the

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Speaker 1: beginning days of this pandemic, how the Ivy League said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, We're not going to play March Madness.

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Speaker 1: And of course soon it became evident that everybody should

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Speaker 1: follow suit and they did. This just came over the

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Speaker 1: wire as well by Matt Johnson on NCAA Football. Texas,

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Speaker 1: think about this. The State of Texas is going to

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Speaker 1: cancel high school football. I did see that this morning.

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Speaker 1: That's State of Texas canceling high school football. That all

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Speaker 1: those who don't know, Texas high school football is huge.

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Speaker 1: It is enormous. Texas high school football is sometimes bigger

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Speaker 1: than college football in that state. Yeah. Well, it's the

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Speaker 1: heart and soul of it. It's quoted in I'm quoting

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Speaker 1: this article. While football itself is widely popular across the country,

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Speaker 1: high school football is the heart and soul of Texas.

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Speaker 1: Between the sold out crowds in massive stadiums and the

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Speaker 1: incredible support from commun unities, it is the lifeblood for

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Speaker 1: many areas in the state. A decision to cancel the

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Speaker 1: entire high school football season would carry devastating impact for

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Speaker 1: thousands of student athletes and could be crushing for countless

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Speaker 1: high schools. It would also deliver a major blow for

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Speaker 1: the collegiate level, greatly impacting recruiting. That is a big

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Speaker 1: deal in Texas. And Texas remember just a month ago

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Speaker 1: that the governor was saying, listen, will allow fifty percent

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Speaker 1: capacity in our stadiums, And now they're canceling the season.

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Speaker 1: Are we just stink at group discipline? Can't do it,

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Speaker 1: We can't do it their own thing. You can't be

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Speaker 1: told what to do here. I know, and I get

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00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: it because listen not for the wrong reasons. Let me

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00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: just say it this way. I don't I try the

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00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: best way to diplomatically put this. I almost wear that

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Speaker 1: as a badge of honor for our country, because it

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Speaker 1: is so ingrained in us that we are so have

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Speaker 1: such freedoms, both culturally, socially and with the laws of

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Speaker 1: the land to do what we want whenever we want.

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Speaker 1: We bristle at the slightest hint of restrictions of our freedoms.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's something that while in this case

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Speaker 1: and this pandemic makes us look kind of whatever, you know,

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Speaker 1: like slackers, whatever however you want to put it. That's

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Speaker 1: not who we are. We should stink at this, and

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Speaker 1: we do. And it's and for whatever you say, for

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Speaker 1: what you want, I'm not. I'm not going out. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to. I'm not in a soap box or anything.

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of making an observation that, you know what,

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Speaker 1: if there's something we should stink at, it's being reined

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Speaker 1: in as Americans. And this pandemic has been the ultimate

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Speaker 1: you know, pullback on the rains by the cowboy on

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Speaker 1: the horse, right. I mean, it's like whoa and and

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Speaker 1: and we just won't have it, you know, to a

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Speaker 1: much and to our detriment in this case, maybe that's

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Speaker 1: a wake up call for all of us to know

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Speaker 1: that we are being reined in for good reason and

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Speaker 1: for our health and safety. Maybe that's the way they

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Speaker 1: should have followed and have been able to flatten the

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Speaker 1: curve because they've been strict and their people have listened.

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Speaker 1: Who's done that, who's flattened it like that? Who'd you say?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, A lot of European country, European I get it,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, maybe that's the way that maybe it was

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Speaker 1: framed wrongly. Maybe they just said, you know, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: wear masks. You gotta wear masks to keep from doing

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Speaker 1: this and that to keep it. What they should have

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00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: done was framing in such a way as to make

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Speaker 1: it look like we were exercising a freedom, you know,

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Speaker 1: like saying, listen, for the sake of the people around us,

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Speaker 1: or because we're free to do anything, we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: the right thing, you know, and flatten this curve. Or

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Speaker 1: they should have said, America, let's let's put it on.

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Speaker 1: Let's win this battle. Let's flatten the curve better than

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Speaker 1: any of even the smaller countries. Right, maybe make it

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00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: a competition. We'll try at that. Right, we'll work at that.

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Speaker 1: Get on the team, and let's you know, we got

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Speaker 1: to flatten the curve better than h you know, like

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Speaker 1: the Italians did, or better than you know whatever Spain. Right.

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Speaker 1: They totally botched it in their in their pregame preparation

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Speaker 1: for the American people by by by saying it was

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Speaker 1: gonna limit us. They should have said it was you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean, they gotta give us, They gotta

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00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: sell it better, right, because We do not take to being,

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Speaker 1: you know, stapled down. Oh well, we gotta break, We

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Speaker 1: gotta break. All right, Matty, we'll be back. We've got

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Speaker 1: a lot more to talk about John Breach coming up

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Speaker 1: at the top of the our CBS Sports Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: Mattie Glab on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: Steve task along with Maddie Glab We're here till three o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Right at the top of the air, and just a

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Speaker 1: few minutes, we're gonna have John Breach on from CBS Sports.

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Speaker 1: He's been with CBS Sports for two thousand and eleven.

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Speaker 1: He also hosts the Pick six podcast. We're gonna ask

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Speaker 1: him about a ton of stuff that's going on around

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. And the NFL has come out

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Speaker 1: with their protocols about a little bit more about what

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Speaker 1: game they might look like, and it's got some of

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Speaker 1: us chuckling about how weird it's gonna be because it

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Speaker 1: likes everybody on the sideline who's a player and a

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Speaker 1: coach is gonna look like normal. Everybody else on the

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Speaker 1: sideline's gotta have a mask. On, and if there are

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Speaker 1: fans in the stands, the fans got to wear masks

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Speaker 1: in the stands. So it's gonna be weird. And then

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Speaker 1: after the final whistle blows. We were talking about this earlier,

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Speaker 1: Maddie players can shake hands. They can't shake hands. Players

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Speaker 1: can't shake hands. They can't go talk to their body.

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Speaker 1: They can't go hug their brother that they've been trained

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Speaker 1: like tremade Edmunds. They play the Steelers. He can't go

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Speaker 1: hug his other his brothers. Nope, you know, can't do it.

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Speaker 1: Can't trade jersey, they can't trade jersey. They can't like

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Speaker 1: take their jersey off and throw it to the other.

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Speaker 1: Sweat on each other for three hours. They can slobber

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Speaker 1: on each other for three hours. These offensive linemen grabbing

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Speaker 1: each other by the armpit, you know, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just what are they gonna do. They're gonna have the

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Speaker 1: referee is gonna give hand sanitizer the players in each huddle,

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Speaker 1: so after every play, they're gonna sanitize their hands. Come on,

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Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be weird. It's gonna be really weird.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be ordinary in any way. Since anything,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be so different and difference not gonna feel

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Speaker 1: like normal. I got that's that's, that's it. All I

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Speaker 1: can say is the best thing about today is that

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Speaker 1: we're one day closer to seeing what it is actually

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Speaker 1: gonna look like. Hopefully, uh hopefully. Steve Tasker Maddi Glab

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Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, John Breach, CBS Sports to

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Speaker 1: the Pick six Podcast, One Bills Live presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health. I'm Buffalo Bills Radio for a great tackle

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Speaker 1: by Steve Tasker, Pick to b done, Basta backs, dost

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Speaker 1: stop time. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Maddie Glab here till three o'clock. We are pleased to

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Speaker 1: be joining on the line now by a CBS sports writer.

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Speaker 1: He's been with CBS Sports since twenty eleven. He also

852
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: hosts the PI Pick six podcast. John Breaks John, Steve Tasker,

853
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Speaker 1: Maddie Glab here in Buffalo. Thanks so much for being here.

854
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Speaker 1: First thing I got to ask you is how are

855
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: you holding up under the pandemic? How are you and

856
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: your family doing? Are you well? I am doing well.

857
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: I've actually been quarantined with a baby for the past

858
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: three months, so it's been an interesting experience. To say

859
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 1: the least, I feel your pain. I had three grand

860
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 1: kids during the pandemic, so I'm kind of on the

861
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: same program. What which brings us to the question of

862
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: how this is all maybe gonna end or maybe help

863
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: us to move through all of this. The NFL, they're

864
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: grinding towards a season that's kind of bearing down on

865
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Speaker 1: all of us. They intend probably to give players a

866
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: chance to opt out of the season. How many players

867
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: do you really think will say, you know what, I'm

868
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 1: not gonna play. I mean, that's a great question, because

869
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions that would come with if

870
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,720
Speaker 1: you have this option to sit out for the entire season,

871
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't get paid. I don't think

872
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna see that's gonna cut down on a number

873
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: of players, is what the contracts start tolling, and then

874
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: they don't have to worry about anything until twenty twenty one.

875
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: So I think those questions have to be answered. But

876
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: I do think that we would see players sit out.

877
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: We've seen it in the NBA, We've seen it in

878
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. So you're gonna have some players, maybe

879
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: they have a family member who has some sort of

880
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: pre existing condition. Maybe they have apparent somebody that they

881
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: don't want to be around. If if they're going to

882
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: be around coronavirus, you know, if they could possibly come

883
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: down with it. And then the question is, you know

884
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: what if a quarterback, starting quarterback decides he doesn't want

885
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: to play, or a big time offensive linemen. So some

886
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: teams could be a bigger disadvantage than other teams. So

887
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: given the players, if they have the option to sit

888
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: out the season, that will definitely make things interesting. The

889
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: nfl PA in the NFL right now are talking about

890
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: preseason one of the things they seem to not be

891
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: able to agree on as of right now, going from

892
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: four games to two to now, we're not sure how

893
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 1: many preseason games there will be aside from revenue loss,

894
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: What can we see as being some of the biggest

895
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 1: impacts if there is no preseason before this season begins. Yeah,

896
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: I think the biggest impact is probably on the bottom

897
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: of the roster, because that's where you know, weeks of

898
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: the preseason, Week one of the preseason, those are generally

899
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: where you're looking at guys forty through fifty three and saying, hey,

900
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: this is filling out the rest of our depth chart.

901
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: These are our returners, These are our special teams players.

902
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: These are guys that do play important roles on the team.

903
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: They may not be have a big name Mike Patrick

904
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Speaker 1: Mahomes or Russell Wilson, the Lamar Jackson, but we want

905
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Speaker 1: to see these guys playing a game situation. It's now

906
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: if you take those preseason games out. Now you have

907
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: to figure this out in practice. And sure that can

908
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: be done, but it is a lot easier for the

909
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: coaches to evaluate players when you see him in a

910
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: game situation. So I think the biggest part would be

911
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster and trying to get that

912
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: figured out. We're talking with John Breach of CBS Sports. John,

913
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: is there a big name player, a star player, a

914
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: superstar that you can think of now that you could think, man,

915
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Speaker 1: he may not play. Is there is anybody on your

916
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: list that or has anybody come out and said on

917
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: social media or anything of that nature that said, listen,

918
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: I'm not playing. Are we to that point yet? I

919
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: don't think we are to that point just yet, but

920
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Speaker 1: I think there have definitely been some interesting comments. For instance,

921
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Speaker 1: J J. Watt said yesterday he did an interview with

922
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Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk, and he basically said that if the

923
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: NFL requires players to wear a face shield, so basically

924
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: a longer visor to prevent germs from spouting out out

925
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: of their face mask. He said if they if that

926
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: is required, that he might not play this season because

927
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: he can't breathe well playing with a face shield, you know.

928
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: And this isn't the same as wearing a mask out

929
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: in public. These guys are moving a high motor for

930
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: four straight quarters and if you can't breathe, well, that's

931
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt how you play. And then, you know,

932
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: with a couple of rules that are coming out right now,

933
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Speaker 1: I think Tom Fella Sero from NFL Media just said

934
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Speaker 1: that players aren't going to be allowed to exchange jerseys

935
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: at the end of game, and when you do handshakes,

936
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: those won't happen. But you have to be six feet

937
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: apart from your opponent at the end of game to

938
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Speaker 1: say a good game. And we have players like Deshaun

939
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: Watson saying, well, you know, if we can't do something

940
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: as simple as that, why are we been playing at all?

941
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: So there are some big name players that are asking questions.

942
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: I don't think the NFL has the answer to yet,

943
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: and maybe we could see some of these players end

944
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: up sitting out the season if they don't like the

945
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,959
Speaker 1: answers that the NFL gives. With players possibly sitting out

946
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: and with talk of preseason and there's been talk of

947
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: also thirty five percent of their salaries being held in

948
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: an escrow, what's the beef and where could this end up,

949
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: knowing possible decreases in cap, maybe an option moving forward. Yeah,

950
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: that's the crazy thing is that we're literally three weeks

951
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 1: away from the start training camp and it seems like

952
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: there's so many questions that have yet to be answered. Me.

953
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: The players want nothing to do with putting thirty five

954
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 1: percent of their salary in escrow, and I don't think

955
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: that's written in the collective bargain agreement. So the NFL

956
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: is going to have to figure out a way to

957
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: negotiate to make that happen and say, hey, look, if

958
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 1: you guys don't do this and revenues go way down,

959
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: the salary cap is going to take a huge hit

960
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. So we need to all work

961
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: together to make sure that doesn't happen. But the NFL

962
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: is really gonna have to convince the NFLPA to do

963
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: and accept all these changes. And right now it just

964
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: seems like the players, it seems like they don't want

965
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: to play any preseason games. They don't want to do

966
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: put thirty five percent of their checks in escrow, and

967
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,280
Speaker 1: so a lot of these recommendations we're hearing from the NFL,

968
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: it just seems like the NFLPA is against them. So again,

969
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: you know, three weeks the training camp and the two

970
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: sides seem like they're at odds. Still, what kind of

971
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: what kind of leverage do the players have? I mean,

972
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: if the league says, hey, we're going to go on

973
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: as normal, it's written in the CBA, that kind of

974
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: puts it back on the players. So any concession the

975
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: league makes, particularly with cutting US preseason games in half already,

976
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: why would the players object to that? And what leverage

977
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: do they have If the league just says, forget it,

978
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: we're doing it and it's doing me a little different.

979
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: But as long as the schedule stays the same, you

980
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I mean, why what leverage did

981
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: the players have? No, that's a fantastic question. I think

982
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: the leverage the players have is to basically make the

983
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: NFL look like a bunch of monsters and say, hey, look,

984
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: there's a global pandemic going on. You can't make us

985
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: show up for work and risk our health so you

986
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: can make money. So I think it would kind of

987
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: be the players really would make the NFL look like

988
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: bad guys. I think that's all they have going for

989
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: them right now, and say, hey, look, we're all going

990
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: to put our foot down and we're not going to play.

991
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: But for that to happen, the players would have to

992
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: be on the same page. Because if you have fifty

993
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: percent of players who will play in fifty percent who won't, well,

994
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: I think the NFL will just move forward with the

995
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: fifty percent who are in and go find some other

996
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: players because there are plenty of people out there who

997
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: would be more than willing to play in the NFL.

998
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 1: If given the shot, How could the NFL look like monsters?

999
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: Would they give the players that option to just sit out?

1000
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: I mean, now they listen, it's your choice to come

1001
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: in and play. We're gonna have the season that tends

1002
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: to let the NFL off the hook to some extent,

1003
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Yeah, it does that. I think just kind

1004
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: of that's how the NFL. The players would spin it

1005
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: that the NFL's the bad guys here. They're saying, yes,

1006
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 1: we can sit out, but they're also telling us. You know,

1007
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: the left hand is saying, yeah, you can sit out,

1008
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: but the right hand is saying, but we really expect

1009
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: you to play because we're not going to change anything

1010
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: up just because there's a global pandemic. We're doing businesses normal,

1011
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: and you know, the players will probably say, hey, look,

1012
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: no one else is doing that. The NBA is not

1013
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: doing it, major League Baseball is not doing it. Everybody

1014
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: has all these safety protocols. So I just think that

1015
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: they would spin it that way, even though the NFL

1016
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: would obviously point out, hey, look we'll give you guys

1017
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: an option to sit out. But yeah, that's why it's

1018
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a bunch of spin here to see who

1019
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: can make the other side look worse. It seems like

1020
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: all these conversations between the NFLPA and the NFL starts

1021
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: to get a little bit more heated once the talk

1022
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: of money got involved in salary cap and holding a

1023
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: percent in escrow. We saw what happened with the MLB

1024
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: and how they couldn't figure things out for quite some time.

1025
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: If agreements can't be made, do you see training camping

1026
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 1: push back at all, or at least the reporting day

1027
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: of training camp being pushed back if these two sides

1028
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: can't come to an agreement, I think I would say

1029
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,879
Speaker 1: I'm about eighty percent sure that training camp is going

1030
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: to stick because I think that, well, the one thing

1031
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,879
Speaker 1: that the NFL and the NFLPA both want to see

1032
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: is what's going to happen when we have these large

1033
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: groups in place, Because they'll come up with all these

1034
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: protocols and all these rules, but no one knows, how

1035
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, is any of this is going to stop

1036
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: the spread of the virus if there's ninety players together

1037
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 1: at training camp or eighty or sixty or whatever the

1038
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: number ends up being. So they just need to get

1039
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: a feel for what is going to happen. So maybe

1040
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: they go for the first week and they reevaluate and

1041
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: they say, all right, this isn't working, but this is working.

1042
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: But I do think that the teams will will report

1043
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: on time, just so both sides can get an idea

1044
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: of how things will work going forward. We could see

1045
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: a lot of adjustments by these teams, particularly in the

1046
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: protocols on game day and I think one of the

1047
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,919
Speaker 1: things the league, and I think rightfully so is trying

1048
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: to do is play it pre season game or two

1049
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: to figure out how it's going to work on game

1050
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: day with testing with protocols and all of that. And

1051
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: we've also heard that there's some teams that are considering

1052
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: if the league will allow them to travel on the

1053
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,359
Speaker 1: same day as the game so that they can take

1054
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: the hotel stay out of the equation completely. Do you

1055
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: think we can see something in that drastic Yeah. I

1056
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: absolutely do think we'll see something like that. There are

1057
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that don't take long flights, you know,

1058
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: Chicago to Detroit or most of the divisional games aren't

1059
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: too far. We're pretty easy to do same day and

1060
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: obviously if you're doing a same day flight, there are

1061
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: some risks if you hit bad weather or your flight

1062
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: gets delayed because of mechanical issue, that could really throw

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Speaker 1: a wrench into things because you have to start the

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Speaker 1: game on time. So I do think there are some

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Speaker 1: issues that would have to be figured out before more

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Speaker 1: teams would look into traveling on the same day, But

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Speaker 1: I absolutely think that's something that will end up being

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Speaker 1: done by multiple teams, just because most teams are so closely,

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Speaker 1: you know, unless you're Seattle, which is out in the

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Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. As far as geographically speaking, I think

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Speaker 1: most teams, at least on the East Coast and Midwest

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Speaker 1: could pull off doing a same you know, leaving Sunday

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Speaker 1: morning for the game and then flying back Sunday night. Now,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these protocols are coming down from the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and every team is following these NFL protocols. One thing

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Speaker 1: the NFL has said is is on your state to

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Speaker 1: decide is capacity of stadiums. And we've seen over the

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Speaker 1: last day and a half some of these teams have announced, okay,

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Speaker 1: we can have fourteen thousand fans in the stadium or

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Speaker 1: this percent will be allowed in the stadiums. Fans probably

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Speaker 1: will have to wear masks. Now, some teams have already

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00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: announced that fans will have to wear masks. But could

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00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: you see the NFL forcing waivers on fans needing to

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00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: sign a liability waiver in order to attend games. I

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Speaker 1: could see. I think that's going to be something that

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00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 1: will be decided closer to the season. And as he

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Speaker 1: was saying that it's important to play these preseason games,

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Speaker 1: just to see how things shape out and shake out

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Speaker 1: and what happens. And I think that's one reason you

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Speaker 1: need to do it, because you need to know should

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Speaker 1: fans even be there and at what capacity? And I

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00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: do think that you know, the NFL will have the

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Speaker 1: advantage of a couple of weeks of the Major League

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00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: Baseball season of NBA season, and if coronavirus spreads in

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00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: the NBA bubbles, then they have to either say, hey, look,

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00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: if we send fans, this could get ugly. So either

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00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: are gonna say no fans or they're gonna have to

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00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: sign this liability waiver. But I absolutely could see the

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Speaker 1: NFL making the waiver happens, because they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be facing a bunch of lawsuits because fans catch coronavirus

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Speaker 1: at the game. We're talking to John Bridge of John

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Speaker 1: Breach of CBS Sports and the Pick six podcast. John,

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Speaker 1: something else that happened this week was the Patrick Mahomes deal,

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Speaker 1: a ten year deal. You wrote a nice article on

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00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: CBS Sports about other players. There weren't that many NFL

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00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: football players that have signed ten year deals, most notably

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Speaker 1: all of them were quarterbacks. Of course, give us a

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00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 1: little synopsis of how these deals tend to work out,

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00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: yeah and shut. It has been horrible for every team

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00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: that has done it. So it's kind of a unique

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00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: situation here, obviously with Patrick Mahomes because these young He's

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Speaker 1: already got an NFL n d P under his belt

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Speaker 1: and that Super Bowl win. But you look at these

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Speaker 1: guys who have gotten a ten year contract. True, Bledso

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Speaker 1: got his in March two thousand and one with the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and he was out within twelve months, you know, because

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Speaker 1: he got injured. Tom Brady took over, so that ten

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Speaker 1: year deal out the window. You know, obviously went to

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00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo following the New England you know, injury, and then

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Speaker 1: Brent Farve, we know how that ended, didn't end so

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Speaker 1: well for him. Packers straight to him away, Aaron Rodgers

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00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: all of a sudden starting and then you know, Michael

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Speaker 1: Vick took the NFL by storm for a few years,

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Speaker 1: got his ten year deal in December two thousand and four,

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Speaker 1: and then was in jail three years later. So it's

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Speaker 1: been all these situations have somehow ended up kind of weirdly. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think that is going to be

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Speaker 1: the issue with Mahomes, but I think what this says.

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Speaker 1: The moral here is that there is some risk when

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Speaker 1: you sign a player to a ten year extension, which

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Speaker 1: is why I do think we don't see player or

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Speaker 1: team signed players the ten year extensions very often. What

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Speaker 1: is your radar saying about Patrick Mahomes? Though he we've

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Speaker 1: seen how talented he has been in just a few

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Speaker 1: short years of his time in the league. Do you

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Speaker 1: think this is the first ten year deal that could

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Speaker 1: actually work? Oh? Yeah, absolutely. I think Mahomes has proven

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01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: you know, he's only been a starter for two years.

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Speaker 1: He's got a Super Bowl MVP under his belt, He's

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01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: got NFL MVP under his belt, So you know, I

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01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: think when all is said and done, he could potentially

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Speaker 1: end up being the best quarterback in NFL history from

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Speaker 1: a talent standpoint. And you know, if he's twelve more

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01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: years with Andy Reid, because that's how long this contract goes,

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01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: he might win three or four more Super Bowls and

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01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: there's outside chance they could catch fellowchick and Brady. So

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Speaker 1: I do think that this is one that could absolutely

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Speaker 1: work out. The only things that I think could derail

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01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 1: this is possibly injuries. You know, we saw Mahomes get

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Speaker 1: injured last year. It's not easy to stay healthy at quarterback.

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01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: To sell Brady miss an entire season in two thousand

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01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: and eight, and I think Philip Rivers and Eli Manning

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01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: and Brett Farve are the only guys that just started

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01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: every single season of their career and played more than

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. So as long as Mahomes can stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: I think this will be a smart investment for the Chiefs. Yeah,

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01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 1: he looked back also that looking at those guys who

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Speaker 1: have signed ten year deals, and how unusual it is

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Speaker 1: that those contracts are kind of a unicorn in in

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Speaker 1: that league, right, Except that he looked back. Steve Young

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Speaker 1: signed a deal remember with the USFL for a forty

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Speaker 1: three years. Do you remember that contract? And he agreed

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01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 1: to have it paid out over forty three year contract

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01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: with the USFL team way back in the day. Stuff

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Speaker 1: like this doesn't happen very often. You talk about the

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Speaker 1: Bobby Benia contract in Major League Baseball. It's a little

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Speaker 1: bit different when you talk about football because of the

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Speaker 1: longevity or the short lived nature of the career. Do

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Speaker 1: you have any, off the top of your head, any

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Speaker 1: other contracts that are kind of weird like like this.

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Speaker 1: Mahomes deal, like the Steve Young deal in the USFL,

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Speaker 1: like the Bobby Benia deal in Major League Baseball. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do have one. So it's funny that Lee Steinberg,

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Speaker 1: who was Patrick Mahomes's agent, was actually Steve Young's agents

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Speaker 1: for that uss L deal, and I think he tweeted

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Speaker 1: out a little fact about it on Twitter. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Steve Young signed a forty three year, forty million

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Speaker 1: dollar deal, and of course that was the USFL. They

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01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 1: were trying to steal NFL players, so they were just

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Speaker 1: throwing money to try and get guys not to play

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Speaker 1: in the NFL until Obviously that worked with Steve Young

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Speaker 1: because he played with the LA Express until the league

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01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: went out of business. But I think one very interesting

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Speaker 1: one because we don't see like that in Steve Young's

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01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: contract involved an annuity that was going to pay him

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Speaker 1: after his career was over, because obviously he wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to play forty three years. But the one NFL deal

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Speaker 1: was actually Brian Bodsworth. He signed a rookie contract I

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Speaker 1: think in nineteen eighty six or eighty seven, and it

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Speaker 1: was a ten year deal. I think he's still the

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Speaker 1: only rookie in NFL history that has signed a ten

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Speaker 1: year deal, and then the contract was also going to

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Speaker 1: play him a couple of years after that in the

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Speaker 1: form of annuity. But then, you know what, Bodsworth, like

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Speaker 1: the other guys on these ten year lists, just didn't

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Speaker 1: work out. I think his career ended in eighty nine

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Speaker 1: or ninety due to injuries, and then I think he

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Speaker 1: ended up getting an insurance payment because his contract was insured.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, that contract did not work out.

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Speaker 1: So ten year deals not a good idea based on

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Speaker 1: NFL history. Let's keep going with the number ten. You

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Speaker 1: ranked the top ten coaching matchups for the twenty twenty season,

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Speaker 1: and number ten for you was Sean McVeigh against Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott when the Rams come to the Bills in Week three.

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Speaker 1: What about those coaches strikes you as being a pretty

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01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: good matchup. Yeah, I'm actually really excited for that when

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Speaker 1: we get the Battle of the Shans. Well, Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: has obviously proven that he's one of the top coaches

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. I mean I would if I was

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Speaker 1: making a top ten list, I would probably have him

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Speaker 1: in the ninth or ten spot because he's been that good.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you go without any playoff first for

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Speaker 1: from his twenty years and you're talking he gets them

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Speaker 1: there two times in three seasons. He's built this great defense,

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Speaker 1: they're slowly building a better offense, and so this is

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Speaker 1: such a good team. And Sean mcdermot's such a good

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Speaker 1: defensive mind, but I want to see him match wits

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Speaker 1: with a brilliant offensive mind like Sean McVay. I think

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Speaker 1: the Rams went through They had a few struggles last year,

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Speaker 1: but I think it was because they just never knew

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Speaker 1: what they had in Todd Gurley, the arthritis, the ten nitis,

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01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, if it was flaring up, they were switching

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Speaker 1: their game plan. So I just think they never got going.

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Speaker 1: And so I think now that mc is going to

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01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: know what he has going in the season, that we

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01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 1: should see the exciting Ram's offense that we saw in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and two eighteen. So I think, yeah, McDermott's

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Speaker 1: defensive mind versus mcphay's offensive mind, I think that's a

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Speaker 1: much must watch game coming up this season. He had

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Speaker 1: a great stat about Cam Newton. Now we've all been

1231
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: talking about here, particularly here in Buffalo in the AFC East,

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Speaker 1: about Cam Newton going to the Patriots, and he said

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Speaker 1: this had a crazy stat that the last quarterback that

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Speaker 1: was not drafted by the Patriots to start a game

1235
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Speaker 1: was in nineteen ninety three Scott Sequels. That is a

1236
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Speaker 1: long stretch. If Cam Newton indeed starts for the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: how do you think that's going to go. I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to go better than probably most people think.

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Speaker 1: I think there's you know, obviously there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: questions about Newton and whether or not he can stay

1241
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,439
Speaker 1: healthy in his playing style. But I think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: fit in well because if the Patriots have proved one thing,

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01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: it's just that they can adapt to anyone's talent. You know,

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01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: when Tom Brady was suspended, they came in with Jimmy Garoppolo,

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01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: he went to and oh and then when he got hurt,

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01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 1: they brought into Koby Bercette, who has a completely different

1247
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: skill set from Garoppolo or Brady, and they won a

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01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: game with Jacoby Barsette. So, and now you're talking about

1249
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: a super athlete like Cam Newton, And obviously I don't

1250
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: think any of any of us know how healthy Cam is.

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01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: Is he one hundred percent? Is the eighty percent? I

1252
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: don't know, but I do think if he is one

1253
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: hundred percent that that definitely changes the tone of the

1254
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,479
Speaker 1: conversation in the AFC East. If you would have asked

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Speaker 1: me three weeks ago before the Cam signing, I would

1256
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 1: have said the Bills are the easy felt that the

1257
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: Bills are the easy favorite in the division. But with

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01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: Cam in there feels more like a coin toss to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about that, the addition of

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton. I mean, Bills fans were all happy and

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01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: we didn't know what we could expect from Jared Sidham. Yeah.

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01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: The Patriots have said a lot of great things about

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01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 1: how they trust Jared Sidham and think he can be

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01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 1: the future there for the Patriots. But you throw Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton into the equation. Is a quarterback like that, If

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Speaker 1: he's healthy, let's say, enough to take the Bills out

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01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 1: of the conversation of being the favorites to win the

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Speaker 1: AFC East. I think it might be. I think those

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01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: odds in Vegas might flip by the time the season

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Speaker 1: starts once people get a chance to see Cam Newton

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Speaker 1: on the field in training camp, because we'll know whether

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Speaker 1: he's healthy or not. If he's out there and he's

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy. I think, you know, the Patriots

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Speaker 1: probably might end up as the favorite by the time

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Speaker 1: the season starts. But I think one big reason that

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Speaker 1: that could happen is that it hasn't necessarily even been

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. Why the Bills had struggled against the Patriots

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Speaker 1: basically for the past fifteen years, it's that their offense

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Speaker 1: hasn't been able to score on the Patriots defense, which

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Speaker 1: is all Belichick. He's just been kind of outsmarting whatever

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Speaker 1: the Bills do on offense. And then the other thing

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Speaker 1: is that the Cam Newton signing kind of brings an

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Speaker 1: element of surprise that the Patriots haven't had in twenty years.

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Speaker 1: You know, when Brady was a quarterback, you knew you

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Speaker 1: were getting You might not be able to stop it,

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Speaker 1: but you're being the short passes is occasionally deep. He

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Speaker 1: loves to flip it off to the running back. With

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Speaker 1: Cam new nobody has any idea what the Patriots offense

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Speaker 1: is going to look like. So for the first time

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Speaker 1: in two decades, they're gonna go through the first few

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Speaker 1: weeks of the season and be able to surprise teams

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Speaker 1: with what they're going to do on offense. John, thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming on. We appreciate you taking some time with us,

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Speaker 1: and we hope you stay well during the pandemic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no problem. Thanks for any guys. You guys stay safe.

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Speaker 1: John Breach, CBS Sports since twenty eleven, also hosts the

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Speaker 1: Pick six podcast. Steve Tasker Mattie Glab will be back

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Speaker 1: after the break. Which position group will be impacted the

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Speaker 1: most by lack of or no preseason games? One Bills

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Speaker 1: Lives presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live Steve Tasker Maddie Glab here

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Speaker 1: till three o'clock. What position group will be most impacted

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Speaker 1: by little or no preseason games? We put that up

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Speaker 1: to you. You can call us at eight oh three

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Speaker 1: Fifte're gonna have ton of responses. Maddie. You just go

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Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet brought to us by Corrigan

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Speaker 1: Who's next on the tweet sheet? Mad My guy Ronnie

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Speaker 1: is next. He says timing is vital in the passing game,

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Speaker 1: and new faces with limited time, it'll make it difficult

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Speaker 1: to establish that timing and chemistry, Ronnie, you are right.

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Speaker 1: And one thing that's interesting about what he said is

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Speaker 1: also what Sean McDermott admitted, which usually Sean McDermott doesn't

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Speaker 1: like to give you specifics about anything. If you ask

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Speaker 1: Sean what needs to improve, he will say all areas

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Speaker 1: need to improve. He's not going to give you a

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Speaker 1: specific but he did offer up that he not was

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Speaker 1: too worried, but that the passing game was the thing

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Speaker 1: that may take the biggest hit due to no mini camps.

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Speaker 1: So Brian Ball also agreed with that. So this coaching

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Speaker 1: staff wants to make sure that's gonna be okay before

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Speaker 1: at the start of the season. It's something that you

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Speaker 1: definitely it hurts a little bit not having those three

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Speaker 1: or four mini camps that you banked on having Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen be able to work with Steph Diggs. So that's

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Speaker 1: a very important part of the conversation. It was important

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Speaker 1: last season trying to make sure that Josh Allen could

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Speaker 1: time it up with Cole Beasley and John Brown and

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox. Those guys had their first year together last year.

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Speaker 1: It took them well into the season I think to

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Speaker 1: really feel like they clicked it'll be better this year.

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Speaker 1: But now you add Steph Diggs into the equation, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna take time for that to feel natural,

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Speaker 1: especially for a young quarterback. Yeah, we talked about it too.

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Speaker 1: You and I both thought it would be the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: There's so many there's a new faces over there, they

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Speaker 1: lost a couple of faces, and they've got a new

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Speaker 1: coach on that side of the ball. Plus it's it's

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Speaker 1: part of a defense that they need to be good.

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Speaker 1: I think you can make a case though, for the

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Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball because it's the one place

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Speaker 1: where we know that this team needs to improve. They

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Speaker 1: got to score more points. That's why they brought in

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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs that side of the ball. Probably given the

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Speaker 1: production or the comparison of production from one side of

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Speaker 1: the ball or the other, they need more work. So

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Speaker 1: a lack of preseason just translates into not getting enough

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01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 1: to get as good as they need to be to

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Speaker 1: improve from last season. But I still think. I still

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Speaker 1: think with a new coach and new players, there's more

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Speaker 1: of that going on with the d line than there

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Speaker 1: is in the passing game. And plus, like so many people,

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Speaker 1: when I start seeing these guys working out together in

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Speaker 1: the offseason, I think, Okay, they're getting it done. So

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to make some progress that we

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Speaker 1: don't get a watch in training camp, but it's already

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Speaker 1: taken place. Also from John on the tweet sheet, offensive

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Speaker 1: line bringing back all our starters is great, but they

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01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,920
Speaker 1: still have a lot of work to do well. And

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Speaker 1: that was one of our other choices, the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and and there is some question marks, mostly for me,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know how you feel about this, Maddie,

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Speaker 1: but it centers around Cody Ford and where they're gonna

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Speaker 1: put him guard or tackle. They placed him a tackle

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Speaker 1: a lot last year. The offensive line, I'm strictly from

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Speaker 1: the big picture standpoint, wasn't as good. The offense didn't

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Speaker 1: score as many touchdowns with Cody Ford at right tackles

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Speaker 1: that did with Ty and a Secket at right tackle.

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Speaker 1: That's a problem. Not that it's not that he Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford needs to come off the field, but he needs

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Speaker 1: to play guard as to the tackle or you need

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Speaker 1: to upgrade at that spot. And they brought in competition

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Speaker 1: to do that. But how good is that competition going

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Speaker 1: to be when they don't get a play and Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford started his college career at right guard at Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: and and people do say he has more of a

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Speaker 1: body to play right guard than right tackle. This probably

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Speaker 1: would have looked different if ty and Secky didn't miss

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Speaker 1: six games last season. Let's not forget that if he was.

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Speaker 1: If ty and Secky was healthy for all those six

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Speaker 1: games that he missed, you might have seen that that

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Speaker 1: change by the end of the season to where Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford was playing right guard more than right tackle and

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Speaker 1: ty and Secki was was your right tackle? That could

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Speaker 1: have been answered maybe at the end of last season,

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Speaker 1: which is where ty and Secki was missing those games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's right, and they've got to here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I think they would love to have the same five

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Speaker 1: guys line up in the same same five spots every

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Speaker 1: down of the season and be dominant. I think there's

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Speaker 1: going to be some competition there. I think they're looking.

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Speaker 1: They brought some guys in to not just add depth,

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Speaker 1: but also make it tough for these guys to keep

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Speaker 1: their jobs. I mean, that's the that's their job as

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Speaker 1: a coaching staff, as a personnel staff, as a general manager.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean's bringing in better guys and trying to do

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Speaker 1: that every year, and not only better guys, but guys

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Speaker 1: who are better and are getting paid less. You know,

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Speaker 1: all that goes into the basket. So uh, it's it's

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Speaker 1: interesting about you know, this competition. We're going to see

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Speaker 1: it offensive line because they do have to work so

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01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:07,680
Speaker 1: well and so closely together, and you know, with the

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Speaker 1: and when you balance that with a wide receiver tight end.

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Speaker 1: Most of this does center around the offensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. And from Jack on the tweet, Hed also

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Speaker 1: says one position group that's going to be impacted by

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Speaker 1: the lack of or shortened preseason is the wide receiver

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Speaker 1: and tight ending. I know they've been working with Josh

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Speaker 1: and Florida, but they still need to be with the

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Speaker 1: coaches to get the playbook down and see live bullets

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Speaker 1: and to develop chemistry. And here's where he makes a

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Speaker 1: really good point. Digs with a few rookies mixed in

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Speaker 1: with Brown and Beasley and McKenzie all fighting for maybe

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Speaker 1: six spots. It's a great battle in training camp that

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Speaker 1: we will never get to see. And that's part of

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Speaker 1: it too. We all kind of want to watch this,

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Speaker 1: right we all the part of the fun of Actually,

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Speaker 1: the whole fun of training camp is making picking the

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Speaker 1: roster yourself. No, I don't even care about the preseason, right,

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Speaker 1: we all suffered through the season games, right. I want

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Speaker 1: to watch training camp practice. I want to see who's

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Speaker 1: playing better, and I want to see, you know, who's

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Speaker 1: gonna be on my team that I pick. That's where

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Speaker 1: all fans do, right, I mean that's part that's the

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Speaker 1: fun of training camp. You get to pick your own

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Speaker 1: roster and see how it stacks up with the guys

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Speaker 1: when they actually do it. And He's right, that wide

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01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 1: receiver room is going to be a crowded room. It's

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01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: not going to be easy to make it in there

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Speaker 1: because you have three players who are secure in Cole Beasley,

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01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:33,879
Speaker 1: John Brown, Steph Diggs. There's Isaiah McKenzie, There's Andre Roberts,

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Speaker 1: There's Duke Williams, There's Ray Ray McLeod, There's Robert Foster.

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Speaker 1: And then there's Gabe Davis and Isaiah Hodgins, those two

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Speaker 1: players that we drafted this season that have a height

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Speaker 1: advantage that a lot of these wide receivers on the

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Speaker 1: roster don't have. With the exception of Duke Williams. Duke

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Speaker 1: Williams is sixty three. He was the only six three

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Speaker 1: wide receiver on this roster. Last year you had Gabe

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Speaker 1: Davis and Isaiah Hodgins into the conversation. Hodgens is sixty three,

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis is six two. Those guys have an advantage

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Speaker 1: that a lot of the wide receivers don't. And that's

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Speaker 1: one thing that was talked about last season, was needing

1443
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:11,640
Speaker 1: some height in the red zone. Yes, you get that

1444
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: with tight ends, but wide receivers often run a lot

1445
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 1: better routes than a tight end. Right, all right, one

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Speaker 1: last one from the tweet sheet, and it'll bring us

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Speaker 1: into what we're gonna do next. From Brian. He says,

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Speaker 1: it's running back all day, Christian Wade. A phenomenon is

1449
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: at a question question mark. What's Zach Moss's early development?

1450
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: Like who can pass protect? Who's number one, who's number two,

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01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 1: who's number three? Is it by committee? How is this

1452
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: has the scheme evolved? Game speed, learning, curve? All these

1453
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Speaker 1: questions are up in the air. This from Brian, and

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Speaker 1: you wrote a nice article on Buffalo bills dot com

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Speaker 1: about Devin Singletary and three big reasons why he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a better player this year than he was last year.

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Speaker 1: In fact, why he's going to be a really good

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Speaker 1: player in twenty twenty, even better than he was at

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Speaker 1: times last year. Yeah, I mean, I think there's just

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Speaker 1: the obvious things that you get out of the way

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Speaker 1: right away with a player entering year two in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and Steve you can talk to this because you played

1463
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. There's an element of the game slowing down.

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01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,600
Speaker 1: There's an element of you not needing to focus so

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Speaker 1: much on learning the playbook and the xes and os

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Speaker 1: to where you can just react rather than have to

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01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: think through things as the play is going on. There's

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Speaker 1: the chemistry factor. He's going to have better chemistry with

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Speaker 1: how his offensive line moves and where the holes have been.

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Speaker 1: And he's going to have better chemistry with this quarterback

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, which he was introduced into that passing game

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Speaker 1: last season. That was a big question of Ken Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary catch the ball. Well, he answered that question this

1474
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: past year. And then there's the growth factor with what

1475
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:54,560
Speaker 1: he showed and the potential that he had in his

1476
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 1: first year has to make you think that this running

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01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:00,760
Speaker 1: back has a very high ceiling in the league and

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Speaker 1: that he can have a nice long career. He led

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Speaker 1: rookies with yards per attempt last season, averaging five point

1480
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Speaker 1: one yards per attempt, led all rookie running backs lead

1481
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Speaker 1: averaging five point one yards per attempt. That's up there.

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Speaker 1: That was up there with some of the best in

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Speaker 1: the league right now. So the fact that he was

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Speaker 1: able to do that missed three games. He only had

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Speaker 1: seven hundred seventy five rushing yards, but that number is

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01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna go up. The touchdown number is gonna go up.

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Speaker 1: I gotta believe the receptions are gonna go up because

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01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: he proved that he can catch the ball, and that's

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Speaker 1: another wrinkle in the offense. You want to be able

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01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:46,840
Speaker 1: to do as much as you can to move the

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01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 1: ball down the field, and he's proven that he can

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Speaker 1: do more than one thing. And he's an elusive running back.

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01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: He finds those holes. He's hard to bring down. He

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01:18:57,560 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: may not be like a Zach Moss that is going

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01:18:59,920 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: to ground it and pound it, but he's tough to

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01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:04,360
Speaker 1: take down it at a lot of times. And I

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01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: think as the season went on, he broke off some

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01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: runs where you looked at him and you were like,

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01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we have this guy on our team.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for more of what he's going to

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01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: be able to show this season. Yeah, I agree with you.

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01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:22,680
Speaker 1: And one of the things about Devin, you know, we

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01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:24,680
Speaker 1: noticed this when we had him on the show and

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01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 1: we see him around all the time. He's like five

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01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: to seven. He's not big. And I think one of

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01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 1: the things that team's attempt to do is to get

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01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 1: him isoed in in pass pro. And I think knowing

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01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: that Brian day Ball was able to either a release

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01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 1: him into the pattern so if if he got out,

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01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: they had to cover him, so that would take one

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01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:50,519
Speaker 1: guy out of the pass rush, and they had to

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01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:52,320
Speaker 1: make sure that he did. Now that, I think this

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01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: year he's gonna be more He's gonna be more technique sound,

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01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 1: He's gonna be able to step up. And the thing

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01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:59,160
Speaker 1: about it is, if you're a smaller guy like like

1516
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: I was as well, if you go meet the guy

1517
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: where he's at rather than wait for him to get

1518
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:06,680
Speaker 1: closer to the quarterback, it's a much It gives you

1519
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: much more time to handle him in passport. And I

1520
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 1: think that's one of the things that Singletary can do

1521
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 1: as he grows into that into that system and into

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01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:19,400
Speaker 1: that into that running back number one running back mode.

1523
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:22,160
Speaker 1: I think he's he's gonna be really good and with

1524
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands. We all saw it last year.

1525
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: I mean one of the runs he made in that

1526
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:28,920
Speaker 1: Houston playoff game, they had two guys right there in

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01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 1: the open field. He stepped out of both of them

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01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: and got the first down. An unbelievable run, and it's

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01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 1: exactly what he's able to do. He stops and goes.

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:40,000
Speaker 1: Remember the run in Pittsburgh on the Sunday night game

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01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 1: where he stopped, backed up and then almost got into

1532
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,240
Speaker 1: the end zone on that run. It was it was

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01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: a phenomenal run. The stuff he learned from Frank Gore

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01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 1: last year, and I know the fans were disappointed maybe

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01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 1: later in the season, the second half of the season,

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01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:59,320
Speaker 1: with you know, Frank Gore's limitations physically off the field.

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01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 1: Frank Or set a precedent and in a way of

1538
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 1: doing business for Devin Singletary that I think he's gonna

1539
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:07,640
Speaker 1: get a lot of mileage out of. I think he

1540
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: learned from a Hall of famer how to prepare like

1541
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: a Hall of famer, and that's huge for a young

1542
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: player coming up and getting ready. That's one of the

1543
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:18,720
Speaker 1: things that Sean McDermott always likes, and I like your

1544
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 1: in your article where the last thing he said he's

1545
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: got that it factor. When a game wasn't tight, in

1546
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:29,360
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh night game, in the game where they had

1547
01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: to clinch a playoff spot, in the playoff game, in

1548
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,560
Speaker 1: these games where there was some meaning there, in the

1549
01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:40,639
Speaker 1: Dallas game, all this stuff, he showed up. He showed

1550
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: up big, and I love that about him when when

1551
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: the game is pressure pack, when there's some moments that

1552
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:49,640
Speaker 1: you need somebody to make a play, they had no

1553
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:54,320
Speaker 1: issues given him the ball and he came through like gangbusters.

1554
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 1: I mean, it was great. So I think that in

1555
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: factor is really a thing, and sometimes that's hard for

1556
01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 1: AI to do in his first season, is to show

1557
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 1: up in those really tough games. I mean, we saw

1558
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: how it's on the other side of the ball, but

1559
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,600
Speaker 1: we saw how it took half a season for Ed

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01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: Oliver to get into it. He really shined in that

1561
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: Cowboys game where he had two sacks, But Devin Singletary

1562
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:19,920
Speaker 1: was you could count on him from week one to

1563
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:22,320
Speaker 1: week sixteen with what he could offer when he was

1564
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 1: healthy and on the field against the Texans, he had

1565
01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:27,799
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty four yards from scrimmage, an average

1566
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: twelve point seven yards per reception for a running back.

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01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:34,880
Speaker 1: That's really great. And the fact that what you said

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01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:38,240
Speaker 1: about him being able to get all this information from

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01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, guess what he's going to do this year.

1570
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:43,240
Speaker 1: He's going to pass it on to Zack Moss, and

1571
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:46,360
Speaker 1: Zack Moss is going to benefit from that information. So

1572
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:48,560
Speaker 1: I think you're looking at a running back room that

1573
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 1: can really be a difference maker and a game changer

1574
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 1: this season, even when you may think this team is

1575
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: going to be a pass heavy team with the addition

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01:22:57,920 --> 01:23:00,639
Speaker 1: of Stefan Diggs. If you can have just as talented

1577
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: as as a rushing part of your offense, you're looking

1578
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: pretty good right Camp countdown. Look for the articles coming

1579
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: out day by day is that as training camp presents

1580
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:15,680
Speaker 1: itself and gets closer and closer, we are getting more

1581
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: and more info and insight from Maddie and Chris Brown

1582
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:20,840
Speaker 1: about what's going to going on and what we can

1583
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:23,240
Speaker 1: look for. One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. Call

1584
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 1: us or tweet at US eight or three oh five

1585
01:23:25,479 --> 01:23:29,360
Speaker 1: fifty or at one Bills Live. What position group is

1586
01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:33,799
Speaker 1: going to be most impacted by limited or no preseason games?

1587
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 1: Call us One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health and

1588
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steeve

1589
01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: Tasker Maddie glab here till three o'clock. We got a

1590
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:57,400
Speaker 1: lot going on. We've a lot of stuff going on

1591
01:23:57,439 --> 01:23:58,840
Speaker 1: in the league. And one of the things that's been

1592
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:04,200
Speaker 1: hanging around for years that we never thought was gonna

1593
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 1: be resolved was one of the teams, The Washington team

1594
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: was being pressured to change its name, and it looks

1595
01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 1: like it might work. It looks like the team is

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01:24:18,080 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 1: really definitely is going to change its name to something.

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01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 1: Don't know what it's gonna be. They're gonna lose the

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01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: Native American connotation to their written name. They're gonna try

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01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 1: and be respectful of Native Americans and change the name

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01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 1: to something that is more suitable. They got a ton

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01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 1: of people with voices on this. I think a lot

1602
01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 1: of it. H don't know what it's going to be.

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01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 1: The head coach, Ron Rivera has said he's excited about

1604
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 1: the change. The team's expected to change its name and

1605
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:53,679
Speaker 1: stop using any Native American imagery in their logos before

1606
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: playing another game. But players are gonna they'll probably be

1607
01:24:56,360 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 1: the same jerseys and the same colors and all of that.

1608
01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:03,240
Speaker 1: But there probably will be a new name for the

1609
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:08,280
Speaker 1: Washington team, which is pretty significant, I think. Yeah. I mean,

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01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:13,440
Speaker 1: people have talked about this name with a negative connotation

1611
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:18,200
Speaker 1: tied to it, the word redskins, for a long time,

1612
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:23,120
Speaker 1: and Native American groups have reached out to them and

1613
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:25,439
Speaker 1: let them know that, hey, this is not a nice

1614
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: name in our culture and you should not have this name.

1615
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 1: And it looks like it's finally going to change, and

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01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:37,599
Speaker 1: I think this is awesome. Nobody should feel targeted by

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01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: a team name. I think a team name should lift

1618
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:44,760
Speaker 1: others up, not bring people down by any means. So

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01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that that's going to happen. I'm

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01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: glad to hear that Ron Rivera is excited about it

1621
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:54,679
Speaker 1: and wants to get it to happen before the season begins.

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01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: It'll be really interesting to see what name they land

1623
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 1: on and who the decision makers are in choosing that name.

1624
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:03,439
Speaker 1: Do the players have a say, is it just the

1625
01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:06,200
Speaker 1: front office. It'd be kind of cool if the fans

1626
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 1: had to say too. If you put like a Twitter

1627
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,759
Speaker 1: poll out to see, Okay, these are the four names

1628
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:12,920
Speaker 1: that we really like. We're gonna let you what the

1629
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:15,800
Speaker 1: fans decide. But I do like that they're sticking with

1630
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 1: the colors because a lot of fans already have those

1631
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 1: colors in their closet, and so to stick with those

1632
01:26:22,479 --> 01:26:25,640
Speaker 1: colors I think is good. Although it does, say, yep,

1633
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 1: pretty good for your next couple of birthdays, you know,

1634
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 1: when you have to get a new jersey or new

1635
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 1: colors and all of that. You know, it makes great,

1636
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 1: great gift ideas for people when they have to get

1637
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: new colors. But I'm no, I'm glad with you. I'm

1638
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,799
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm glad they're keeping the golden burgundy

1639
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: of the old team. I played against that team in

1640
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, and they played in a number of

1641
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. They're a storied franchise, no question about it.

1642
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what there's I don't think it's

1643
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: it's no small thing. It's no small thing for them

1644
01:26:55,479 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 1: to change that name. And I think it's the right

1645
01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 1: thing to do, and I think it's high time they

1646
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: did it. I think of doing it for the right reasons,

1647
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: and I am I can't wait to hear what they're

1648
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 1: gonna be called, because this is more news to talk

1649
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 1: about too. While we're playing no football, we get to

1650
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 1: talk about a new team name. So when that gets announced,

1651
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:15,560
Speaker 1: I mean, that's going to be another topic of conversation

1652
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: that we can have and though a lot of people

1653
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:22,519
Speaker 1: can have. I mean with the last time, did you

1654
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:26,599
Speaker 1: hear any options? I've seen a couple names on Twitter.

1655
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if those are actual names. It can't

1656
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 1: be accurate because it is on Twitter, but um, the

1657
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 1: same by the same token. I heard one called red Tails.

1658
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? Did you hear another one? I

1659
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,840
Speaker 1: haven't heard another? What's another one I've I've seen the

1660
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:46,639
Speaker 1: word warriors have been thrown around a couple of times. Okay,

1661
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:50,599
Speaker 1: I kind of like that, WW the Washington Warriors. Yeah,

1662
01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: a little alliteration there, I like it. Anything else have

1663
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: you heard? I mean I could think of like I heard,

1664
01:27:56,080 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 1: you could have been the Washington Americans, you know, all

1665
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:03,200
Speaker 1: of that stuff, like they got the Washington Capitals, the

1666
01:28:03,280 --> 01:28:09,519
Speaker 1: Washington Americans. Um, yeah, I don't know. That's it's interesting

1667
01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:14,000
Speaker 1: because they gotta you know, you can bet that you know,

1668
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: they want it to be some you know, like most

1669
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: American teams want to do. They wanted to have some

1670
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:22,600
Speaker 1: sort of you know, like kind of inspiring maybe you know,

1671
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 1: kind of like combative, combative kind of feel to it,

1672
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 1: you know, right, so some sort of adventurous, combative you know,

1673
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, something like because they know

1674
01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a conflict. This is gonna be a

1675
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: team and they're gonna be playing in competition, so it's

1676
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 1: got to be a competitive name, right, You're not gonna

1677
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:41,640
Speaker 1: be It's not like a you know, the the Washington

1678
01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 1: Sunflowers or you know the Washington you know whatever white

1679
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 1: clouds or something like that. You know, it's they're gonna

1680
01:28:48,439 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 1: have to want You're gonna want it to be like

1681
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 1: the Lightning Bolts, like the San Diego Chargers or you know,

1682
01:28:54,479 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: or maybe just follow us. They could just follow suit

1683
01:28:57,280 --> 01:29:00,599
Speaker 1: with Minor league baseball. Minor league baseball has some wild names.

1684
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:05,360
Speaker 1: I mean, there's like the Jumbo shrim There's the Nuts. Yes,

1685
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 1: there's some Economilwake Wisconsin. The five ohs. Right that was

1686
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 1: like Hawaii five oh remember that show five ohs, and

1687
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:20,719
Speaker 1: so you know it was there's a yeah, Minor league

1688
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:24,000
Speaker 1: baseball is the best for for nicknames. No quite the

1689
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:26,640
Speaker 1: mud Hens. Yeah, so it could be you know, they

1690
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 1: could do something like that. Uh. And even so, even

1691
01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:32,560
Speaker 1: in recent times, you've had teams like the in the

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Speaker 1: NBA with the Toronto Raptors, who knew what before the

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01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 1: movie Jurassic Park came out, nobody even knew what a

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01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 1: Raptor was, right, and then it's like, wow, I want

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01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: my team to be named that. You know, so it

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01:29:45,640 --> 01:29:49,680
Speaker 1: could be something as as current as that, but I

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01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 1: think it's got to be something timeless, something, and I

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01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 1: would go for something unique because the Warriors, I mean,

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01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:59,200
Speaker 1: you got the Golden State Warriors, that's true. So I

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01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:01,960
Speaker 1: I would want it to be my own. You know,

1701
01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:06,720
Speaker 1: you're very own. So I don't know, gosh yeah, And

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01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:08,680
Speaker 1: I don't want it to be one of those I

1703
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:10,040
Speaker 1: don't want it to be one of those names that

1704
01:30:10,120 --> 01:30:12,760
Speaker 1: doesn't have it. It's not a thing. It's an adjective, right,

1705
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:17,720
Speaker 1: like like the force, right, or you know what I mean.

1706
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: I think if you want it to be your own,

1707
01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: and you want it to be unique, then you run

1708
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,120
Speaker 1: the risk of it being a very odd name that

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01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:29,040
Speaker 1: people may not like or gravitate too, by the well,

1710
01:30:29,200 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: by the same token. I don't care. It's not my team,

1711
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 1: so they can call with it, right. I just want

1712
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:36,519
Speaker 1: to get it right when I say it. If I

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01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 1: have to say it on the air, right, that's all right.

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01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:41,240
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Manny Glab coming up at the top of

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01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 1: the air. We're going to ask you some more about

1716
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:46,520
Speaker 1: the position group affected most by limited or no preseasons.

1717
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:49,000
Speaker 1: We also have NFL true false and what we learned

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01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:51,839
Speaker 1: coming up. This is One Bill's Live presented by Kalida

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01:30:51,920 --> 01:31:15,160
Speaker 1: Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh good time, Text, Welcome

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01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:17,000
Speaker 1: back to our number three of One Bills Lives. Tea

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01:31:17,040 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 1: task along with Matty Glad. We're here for one more hour.

1722
01:31:19,200 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 1: You can give us a call if you wanted, eight

1723
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:22,479
Speaker 1: to three oh five fifty. Tell us what you think

1724
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:24,680
Speaker 1: the position group who's going to be most affected by

1725
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:27,360
Speaker 1: little or no preseason will be on the Buffalo Bills.

1726
01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:30,080
Speaker 1: It's D line, O line, running backs, or somebody else

1727
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:32,479
Speaker 1: you can pick. We're asking you to call us or

1728
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 1: tweet at us at One Bills Live. Mattie. We also

1729
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:38,760
Speaker 1: had with the Bills roster in the shape that it's in.

1730
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:41,040
Speaker 1: They're starting to get a lot of national attention, and

1731
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:44,160
Speaker 1: one of their great players, Tremaine Edmunds, young linebacker, was

1732
01:31:44,200 --> 01:31:46,799
Speaker 1: on the NFL network and he was on the program

1733
01:31:47,080 --> 01:31:50,600
Speaker 1: NFL Now, and he was on just yesterday and he

1734
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,920
Speaker 1: discussed a ton of stuff. We got some soundbites from him,

1735
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:57,240
Speaker 1: and they asked him first of course, on the uncertainty

1736
01:31:57,240 --> 01:32:00,240
Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty season and what his reaction has

1737
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:02,920
Speaker 1: been to the weird offseason it has. And this is

1738
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: Tremaine Dedmond on an NFL network. We play a sport

1739
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:08,360
Speaker 1: we like to you know, have a lot of structure

1740
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:10,160
Speaker 1: and you know, right now it's a lot of uncertainty

1741
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 1: in the air, and you know, guys don't really know

1742
01:32:12,680 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 1: what to expect in the upcoming weeks. But I think

1743
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:17,240
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is just to keep our head down

1744
01:32:17,320 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 1: and you know, just continue to work and continue to

1745
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:22,920
Speaker 1: give ourselves the best opportunity to be successful. And I

1746
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:24,720
Speaker 1: mean things not going to be easy with turning back

1747
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:26,760
Speaker 1: to work, but you know, every team has put at

1748
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:29,120
Speaker 1: the same circumstance and you know, we just have to

1749
01:32:29,200 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: do our best job to you know, build our team,

1750
01:32:32,120 --> 01:32:35,320
Speaker 1: you know, and unique ways. You know, everybody this is

1751
01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:38,519
Speaker 1: everybody's first time going through something like this. So biggest thing,

1752
01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 1: man is just to stay together and you know, build

1753
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 1: team chemistry. You know, in ways that we knew how

1754
01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:46,679
Speaker 1: you know Tremaine, Yet whenever you hear him speak, Maddie,

1755
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: I just never not impressed. I mean, his light, you know,

1756
01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:53,200
Speaker 1: his lights are on. He's got he's got a great,

1757
01:32:53,240 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 1: genuine heart. You can tell when he talks, he's telling

1758
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: you the truth is, he knows it. And it's just

1759
01:32:57,479 --> 01:32:59,800
Speaker 1: fun to listen to him and to be around him.

1760
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:02,439
Speaker 1: And and that's why the guy's really that's why he's

1761
01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 1: a team leader. Yeah, and he's starting to use his

1762
01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:08,840
Speaker 1: voice more and more. I mean, Tremaine is known as

1763
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:12,120
Speaker 1: more of a quiet guy, at least around the media.

1764
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:14,840
Speaker 1: I'm sure with his teammates, who's comfortable around it's a

1765
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:18,400
Speaker 1: different story. But he's not the most vocal when it

1766
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:22,280
Speaker 1: comes to us, and he's not like a Tredavious White

1767
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 1: in that he's joking around and is loud and things

1768
01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:27,840
Speaker 1: like that. But he's turned into quite a bit of

1769
01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:30,360
Speaker 1: a leader over the last year and that's only gonna

1770
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:36,880
Speaker 1: become heightened this year with Lorenzo's Lorenzo Alexander's retirement, and

1771
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 1: it's fun to see him take this on and really

1772
01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:45,639
Speaker 1: grow into not a veteran, but a bigger, bigger leader

1773
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:49,760
Speaker 1: on this team at the age of twenty two years young.

1774
01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 1: The more I think about it, that's amazing. He seems

1775
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: he is a veteran, right, I mean, you look at

1776
01:33:56,400 --> 01:34:00,720
Speaker 1: him now, he's like he's like a fixture, right, you

1777
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:03,080
Speaker 1: stick him in. He's the middle linebacker the Buffalo Bills.

1778
01:34:03,120 --> 01:34:05,320
Speaker 1: He's that big, rangy guy looks like it looks like

1779
01:34:05,439 --> 01:34:07,880
Speaker 1: an enormous praying maddess out there. He covered, you know

1780
01:34:07,920 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: what I mean, He's just so long. He's got that

1781
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:12,400
Speaker 1: look about and he cut, he runs. You know, he's

1782
01:34:12,400 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 1: just this huge guy. He's always in the middle of everything.

1783
01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:17,240
Speaker 1: He's the tallest guy in the field every play, and

1784
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:19,320
Speaker 1: he just has been. It's like he's been there for

1785
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 1: a decade and he's like twenty two. He just turned

1786
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:26,920
Speaker 1: twenty two, and yeah and so and then when you

1787
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 1: hear him talking, he's got that thing and I don't

1788
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:30,960
Speaker 1: know what it means, but it says something to me

1789
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:32,720
Speaker 1: when people say he's one of those guys with an

1790
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:36,000
Speaker 1: old soul. Yes, he seems like he's this is like

1791
01:34:36,160 --> 01:34:39,600
Speaker 1: his he's two hundred years old. When he talks, you know,

1792
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 1: he just he says only what's necessary, but it carries

1793
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:45,360
Speaker 1: great weight when he says it. I think that really

1794
01:34:45,400 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 1: translates well, translates well to his friends. He was on

1795
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:51,240
Speaker 1: NFL Network yesterday on the show NFL Now. They asked

1796
01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:54,519
Speaker 1: him also about particularly as a young guy when yester

1797
01:34:54,680 --> 01:34:56,320
Speaker 1: this last year, he was in his second year as

1798
01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 1: the starting middle linebacker, and they asked him about what

1799
01:34:59,479 --> 01:35:01,679
Speaker 1: it meant for Tom Brady to be in the out

1800
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 1: of the division and what it was like to play

1801
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:07,280
Speaker 1: against him as a young player. No question, Tremaine had

1802
01:35:07,360 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 1: great respect for what Tom Brody Brady brought to the

1803
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:12,280
Speaker 1: landscape and how it was to play against him for

1804
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:15,600
Speaker 1: the first time. I've always took game, every game, you know,

1805
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:17,840
Speaker 1: one at a time. You know, no matter who we playing, man,

1806
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:20,000
Speaker 1: We're in the NFL, so everybody's gonna be good. But

1807
01:35:20,520 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of the greatest players in the world.

1808
01:35:22,439 --> 01:35:24,639
Speaker 1: Let's not get that wrong. But you know I've had,

1809
01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:27,240
Speaker 1: you know, my very first time playing against him, I

1810
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:29,800
Speaker 1: was excited, man, And you know, just having that opportunity

1811
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:31,320
Speaker 1: to be on the same field as him, and you know,

1812
01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: competing against one of the best in the league once

1813
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:36,080
Speaker 1: one of the best evers. I mean, you know it's

1814
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 1: the league is it's you. You have to show up

1815
01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:40,160
Speaker 1: every week, you know, no matter who you playing, and

1816
01:35:40,439 --> 01:35:42,599
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna be faced with different challenges this year,

1817
01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:45,760
Speaker 1: and you know a lot of different things don't come

1818
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:47,680
Speaker 1: out way. We play a lot of different teams this year.

1819
01:35:47,800 --> 01:35:49,560
Speaker 1: So you know, no matter who you play, man, you

1820
01:35:49,600 --> 01:35:51,479
Speaker 1: got to approach it the same way. You gotta have

1821
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:55,479
Speaker 1: that mindset to dominate each and every game. How weird

1822
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:59,040
Speaker 1: would it be to get on in the NFL football field,

1823
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:01,599
Speaker 1: achieve your life long dream of making an NFL team,

1824
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: being a top draft pick and having a career ahead

1825
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:05,880
Speaker 1: of you, and walking out of the tunnel knowing that

1826
01:36:05,920 --> 01:36:07,599
Speaker 1: you're going to play against a guy that has been

1827
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:10,679
Speaker 1: playing in the Pro football, in pro football as long

1828
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: as you've been alive. Brady, he was, He was the

1829
01:36:16,280 --> 01:36:20,080
Speaker 1: he was the year the year Todavis was born, Brady

1830
01:36:20,160 --> 01:36:24,799
Speaker 1: was quarterback in the Patriots. That's crazy to think about

1831
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:28,200
Speaker 1: that he has existed in the NFL and has been

1832
01:36:28,320 --> 01:36:30,720
Speaker 1: that much of a force and a threat for that

1833
01:36:30,920 --> 01:36:34,000
Speaker 1: long and that guy's like Tremaine, who are younger grew

1834
01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:37,280
Speaker 1: up watching Tom Brady, knowing how talented he was, and

1835
01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:40,720
Speaker 1: then getting the opportunity to play against someone who you

1836
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: watch as being so successful in such a big face

1837
01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 1: of the league. I mean, that's a big moment for

1838
01:36:48,439 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: a young player going out there and getting to line

1839
01:36:51,240 --> 01:36:56,240
Speaker 1: up against someone like Tom Brady, right, I think, and

1840
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 1: I could relate to it. I mean I went through

1841
01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:02,960
Speaker 1: the same thing when the very just a quick story aside,

1842
01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:06,680
Speaker 1: I understand what Tremaine said because when when I was

1843
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:09,400
Speaker 1: a rookie in the National Football League, the very first

1844
01:37:09,520 --> 01:37:11,360
Speaker 1: game I ever suited up for was the Hall of

1845
01:37:11,439 --> 01:37:13,519
Speaker 1: Fame game in Canton, Ohio. I was remember the Houston

1846
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:17,400
Speaker 1: Oilers and we were playing the New York Giants with

1847
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:21,320
Speaker 1: Bill Parcels and that crew. Right, So, I'm We're out

1848
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:24,280
Speaker 1: there and stretch and the Giants come out of their

1849
01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 1: locker room, and who's the first guy in line for

1850
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:30,120
Speaker 1: them leading them? They come out in single file, one

1851
01:37:30,160 --> 01:37:32,080
Speaker 1: app They've run all the way down the sideline, one

1852
01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:34,240
Speaker 1: after the other, right in in a single line, you know,

1853
01:37:34,320 --> 01:37:38,040
Speaker 1: like in a you know, and the first guy in

1854
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: their line is Lawrence Taylor, and I had seen it

1855
01:37:42,320 --> 01:37:44,360
Speaker 1: was just his second year in the league coming up, right,

1856
01:37:44,400 --> 01:37:46,080
Speaker 1: he had been the eighty four Rookie of the Year

1857
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he was very young in his career.

1858
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 1: Might have been his rookie year the year before, but whatever,

1859
01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 1: I knew who he was, right, And I had seen

1860
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:57,320
Speaker 1: him play on Monday Night Football, and I saw him,

1861
01:37:57,720 --> 01:37:59,439
Speaker 1: you know, come out and pick off a pass on

1862
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:01,759
Speaker 1: the five yard line and run at ninety five yards

1863
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:03,880
Speaker 1: for a touchdown and outrun everybody on the field. And

1864
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:05,760
Speaker 1: I was like, man, and I knew what kind of

1865
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:08,640
Speaker 1: athlete he was and how great a player he was,

1866
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:12,120
Speaker 1: and how dominant he was. And he runs past me,

1867
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:18,080
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, I'm way too little to be here,

1868
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 1: because I don't think I can outrun that guy. And

1869
01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:27,120
Speaker 1: he could. He could literally lift his foot and put

1870
01:38:27,160 --> 01:38:29,640
Speaker 1: it on top of my head and squash me. I

1871
01:38:30,160 --> 01:38:32,160
Speaker 1: am way too little to be playing in this game.

1872
01:38:32,560 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 1: And to you know, you go out there and take it,

1873
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 1: take the field with legendary players, it's pretty intimidating for

1874
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:41,000
Speaker 1: young guys. And I know, so I know it must

1875
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:42,600
Speaker 1: have been like that for Tremaine. Walking out on the

1876
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:46,120
Speaker 1: field with Tom Brady as a middle linebacker, and you're

1877
01:38:46,160 --> 01:38:48,960
Speaker 1: and think about what he does, what Tremaine does. He

1878
01:38:49,160 --> 01:38:53,200
Speaker 1: lines up and he's eight or ten feet away from

1879
01:38:53,240 --> 01:38:55,559
Speaker 1: Tom Brady looking right in his face, and Brady's looking

1880
01:38:55,640 --> 01:39:00,360
Speaker 1: right at him every snap. That's pretty intense him and

1881
01:39:00,479 --> 01:39:03,400
Speaker 1: dating right for a young guy. One game that I

1882
01:39:03,640 --> 01:39:06,800
Speaker 1: think about from this past year for the Bills that

1883
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:10,240
Speaker 1: was probably similar for another player, not Tremaine Edmonds, but

1884
01:39:10,439 --> 01:39:14,560
Speaker 1: for Devin Singletary to play with Frank Gore against Adrian

1885
01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:18,479
Speaker 1: Peterson when the Bills and the Redskins played this past year.

1886
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember seeing those pictures of them on

1887
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,680
Speaker 1: the field doing a jersey exchange afterwards, and it was like,

1888
01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:30,760
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this many rushing yards combined in each

1889
01:39:30,800 --> 01:39:34,200
Speaker 1: of their careers, and here's Devin Singletary, who could be

1890
01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:37,040
Speaker 1: the next guy to do something like that. Is getting

1891
01:39:37,080 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 1: to play with some great players that have made their

1892
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:45,800
Speaker 1: marks on the NFL. Yeah, and a lot of it

1893
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:47,639
Speaker 1: goes to the fact that they played a long time

1894
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:49,960
Speaker 1: and they kind of got yards that way. But let

1895
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:51,960
Speaker 1: me tell you something. When you talk around players, and

1896
01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:55,400
Speaker 1: I'm one of them, I hold this opinion, like most

1897
01:39:55,520 --> 01:39:59,519
Speaker 1: players do. The thing that players respect the most about

1898
01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 1: other players is their ability to play for a long time.

1899
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Speaker 1: It's one of the things that garners a lot of

1900
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Speaker 1: respect because as you get deeper into your career, you

1901
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:11,960
Speaker 1: realize how much more difficult it is to keep playing.

1902
01:40:12,920 --> 01:40:15,800
Speaker 1: Your body breaks down. It's harder to train, it's harder

1903
01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:18,320
Speaker 1: to keep the passion, to dredge up the passion in

1904
01:40:18,439 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 1: April and may to get in shape or to stay

1905
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:24,680
Speaker 1: in shape and march in April. It's harder to overcome

1906
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:28,639
Speaker 1: the knicks and the cut so that you get from

1907
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:31,720
Speaker 1: playing pro football, and the baggage you carry around in

1908
01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:35,080
Speaker 1: your orthopedic file that you have to deal with, you

1909
01:40:35,160 --> 01:40:36,960
Speaker 1: know for the rest of your life and certainly during

1910
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Speaker 1: your career. And so when guys see players like Al

1911
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Speaker 1: Gore and Al Gore, like Frank Gore and Adrian Peterson

1912
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Speaker 1: and Tom Brady. Joe Thomas was another one, Jackie Slater.

1913
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Speaker 1: You can go down the list of guys who played long.

1914
01:40:52,439 --> 01:40:54,880
Speaker 1: George Blanda played for twenty five seasons. I mean that

1915
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:58,679
Speaker 1: there are guys who that is one thing that players

1916
01:40:59,479 --> 01:41:04,040
Speaker 1: really really take notice of is their ability to stay

1917
01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 1: with it for year after year after year, long after

1918
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Speaker 1: Other guys that they played with earlier in their career

1919
01:41:10,240 --> 01:41:13,720
Speaker 1: have gone on to other things, and it's so for

1920
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Speaker 1: Frank Gore and Adrian Peterson and Brady Too and guys

1921
01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:23,120
Speaker 1: like that. It's it's a real testament. Like Larry Fitzgerald

1922
01:41:24,680 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 1: playing in it going into his sixteenth or seventeenth year.

1923
01:41:28,200 --> 01:41:30,320
Speaker 1: That is the one thing that across the board for

1924
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Speaker 1: most players in the National Football League, garners a ton

1925
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:37,559
Speaker 1: of respect and admiration. So I'm I was really happy

1926
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:40,400
Speaker 1: that Buffalo Bills fans got a chance to witness Frank

1927
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Speaker 1: Gore play in a Bill's uniform. And I think Devin Singletary,

1928
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:46,720
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, we'll look back on

1929
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Speaker 1: it as a privilege as well. Steve Tasker Matti glab

1930
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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, we got another SoundBite from

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds. The reason we got we were on Tremaine

1932
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Speaker 1: Edmonds and we were talking about his appearance on NFL

1933
01:42:00,400 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 1: Now on NFL Network just yesterday. Now, one of the

1934
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Speaker 1: things that has happened, and Mattie, we have you and

1935
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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time talking about the social

1936
01:42:08,520 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 1: justice movement that we've witnessed over the last three or

1937
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:13,880
Speaker 1: four months with the death of George Floyd and the

1938
01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:17,439
Speaker 1: protests around the country that that moved you and I

1939
01:42:17,680 --> 01:42:20,960
Speaker 1: a great deal. Tremaine was asked about that yesterday, on

1940
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:23,720
Speaker 1: the importance of doing work in the community, giving back

1941
01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:26,120
Speaker 1: to the people, not only here in Western New York,

1942
01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:28,040
Speaker 1: but also where he lives and where he grew up

1943
01:42:28,080 --> 01:42:30,599
Speaker 1: in Virginia. And here's what Tremaine said about community work.

1944
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Speaker 1: Between him and his brothers and my family and I,

1945
01:42:33,479 --> 01:42:36,080
Speaker 1: you know, would big on giving back. You know, I

1946
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:37,640
Speaker 1: don't know if you can see my chain man or

1947
01:42:37,720 --> 01:42:39,680
Speaker 1: my shirt right there in the video, you know, we

1948
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 1: my brand is three E Boys Man, And you know

1949
01:42:42,240 --> 01:42:44,200
Speaker 1: that's pretty much what I foundation is about. It is

1950
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:47,479
Speaker 1: giving back to the community, you know, helping the kids

1951
01:42:47,600 --> 01:42:49,759
Speaker 1: in the city, Helping the kids it's around the area,

1952
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:52,360
Speaker 1: you know, get through things that you know they may

1953
01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:55,040
Speaker 1: can't get through by theirselves. And you know, just giving back,

1954
01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 1: you know, just showing up to different events, just being

1955
01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:00,200
Speaker 1: that positive role model that people can look up too

1956
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:02,679
Speaker 1: and that people cannoxt questions to it. That's always free

1957
01:43:02,680 --> 01:43:05,200
Speaker 1: and always open, and I mean that's you know, that's

1958
01:43:05,200 --> 01:43:06,400
Speaker 1: the one thing that we did. We did a lot

1959
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:08,760
Speaker 1: of other things, you know, during this pandemic and just

1960
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:11,559
Speaker 1: trying to find ways that we can reach different people

1961
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:14,559
Speaker 1: and you know, m be a positive impact for different people.

1962
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Speaker 1: One of the things that the league does, the NFLPA does,

1963
01:43:18,479 --> 01:43:21,400
Speaker 1: and the and the Retired Players Association does is um

1964
01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:25,599
Speaker 1: they they keep these guys connected, not only the current players,

1965
01:43:25,680 --> 01:43:27,600
Speaker 1: but also the older guys too that you know they

1966
01:43:27,680 --> 01:43:30,000
Speaker 1: can they work and do work in the community. And

1967
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Speaker 1: one of the things that they changed a number of

1968
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:36,760
Speaker 1: years ago is they started calling the NFL legends community.

1969
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:40,559
Speaker 1: And I was always looking at like, guys, I mean,

1970
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:42,720
Speaker 1: I'm not even a legend in my own house, right,

1971
01:43:42,760 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm taking the garbage out, So I mean,

1972
01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:47,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, I really have a hard time wearing

1973
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Speaker 1: a shirt, a T shirt or pull it with the

1974
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Speaker 1: words legend community on it, right, And they go listen,

1975
01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:56,559
Speaker 1: they listen. Most of these guys, all these guys who

1976
01:43:56,680 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: get into the league, you go back to their high

1977
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 1: school or college or whatever, their legendary figures for the

1978
01:44:02,640 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 1: young athletes coming up and I and I the more

1979
01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:06,960
Speaker 1: I thought about it, the more I realized it's really true.

1980
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Speaker 1: And you get a guy like Tremaine Edmonds and his

1981
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Speaker 1: three two brothers and his father Farrell, who I played

1982
01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:15,720
Speaker 1: against and with. They really do become legendary figures for

1983
01:44:15,800 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 1: the kids who come up through that school system where

1984
01:44:18,320 --> 01:44:20,640
Speaker 1: they were and like and particularly when you like in

1985
01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 1: Virginia where Tremaine and his two brothers live and train

1986
01:44:24,520 --> 01:44:27,960
Speaker 1: and grew up, they're back there and they really do

1987
01:44:28,120 --> 01:44:31,240
Speaker 1: become legendary figures. And that and to hear Tremaine about

1988
01:44:31,240 --> 01:44:33,280
Speaker 1: the work he and his brothers are doing there even

1989
01:44:33,400 --> 01:44:35,719
Speaker 1: now as their young players still playing in the league

1990
01:44:36,200 --> 01:44:40,960
Speaker 1: is pretty inspiring. Steve, you are a legend. So I'm not.

1991
01:44:42,240 --> 01:44:44,880
Speaker 1: It's so funny, I really do. I struggled with it.

1992
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Speaker 1: I do. I wouldn't wear the stuff for a long time.

1993
01:44:47,720 --> 01:44:50,639
Speaker 1: I'm started to now, but I for a long time

1994
01:44:50,680 --> 01:44:52,559
Speaker 1: I didn't. I would not wear it because I really

1995
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:56,000
Speaker 1: felt like like a pig. But you know, when I

1996
01:44:56,120 --> 01:44:58,120
Speaker 1: hear guys like Tremaine talk, I'm like, you know that

1997
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Speaker 1: guy deserves it, you know, he really do. I do

1998
01:45:01,800 --> 01:45:04,920
Speaker 1: love that Tremaine is back at his home with his

1999
01:45:05,120 --> 01:45:07,760
Speaker 1: brothers giving back to that community, because there's so many

2000
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:12,040
Speaker 1: people who idolize you when you come out of that community,

2001
01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 1: when you make a name for yourself, and when you

2002
01:45:15,040 --> 01:45:18,040
Speaker 1: get to say your hometown as where you came from,

2003
01:45:18,120 --> 01:45:20,840
Speaker 1: there's there's a point of pride with that, and a

2004
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:23,559
Speaker 1: lot of people who live there also share that pride.

2005
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:27,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, Tremaine Edmonds came from this town, and so

2006
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:30,320
Speaker 1: I love to hear that he's helping his community at home.

2007
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:33,120
Speaker 1: And one of the biggest surprises for me, at least,

2008
01:45:33,200 --> 01:45:36,280
Speaker 1: moving from college football to the NFL was how much

2009
01:45:36,400 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 1: these guys are in the community on a week to

2010
01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:42,160
Speaker 1: week basis. I mean, in college football, yes, they totally

2011
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 1: did volunteer in the community. But in the NFL, every

2012
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:48,879
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, there were players doing something in our community.

2013
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:51,840
Speaker 1: And our community relations team did a great job of

2014
01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:55,800
Speaker 1: pairing our players to different organizations in different causes and

2015
01:45:55,920 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 1: things like that. I mean, it seems like almost every

2016
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:03,280
Speaker 1: game has a cause, whether it's cancer or honoring the military.

2017
01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:07,559
Speaker 1: So many great things that the players do to give

2018
01:46:07,680 --> 01:46:12,000
Speaker 1: back on a weekly basis when they are such busy people,

2019
01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:16,720
Speaker 1: but understand the importance of pouring into the place where

2020
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:20,360
Speaker 1: your feet are. Steve Tasker, Mattie Glad we're talking about

2021
01:46:20,360 --> 01:46:23,080
Speaker 1: Tremade Damons. He's made an appearance on NFL Network's NFL

2022
01:46:23,240 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 1: Now just yesterday and discussed a whole ton of topics.

2023
01:46:26,360 --> 01:46:28,519
Speaker 1: We gave you some bites of that. If you missed

2024
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:30,120
Speaker 1: some of it, you can come back and walk. Listen

2025
01:46:30,200 --> 01:46:32,320
Speaker 1: to us on the Buffalo bills dot Com or the

2026
01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:35,040
Speaker 1: Bills app. You can get us on Spotify, Google Play,

2027
01:46:35,080 --> 01:46:37,679
Speaker 1: and Apple podcasts as well. Steve Tasker and Mattie glab

2028
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:40,040
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live. We asked you the question

2029
01:46:40,160 --> 01:46:44,240
Speaker 1: today to you our listeners, and of course obviously you're

2030
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:49,760
Speaker 1: all Bills fans. I would guess, but which position group

2031
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:52,240
Speaker 1: would be affected the most if there's limited or no

2032
01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:54,920
Speaker 1: preseason games? And why do you think that? Fifty seven

2033
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 1: percent of you think it's the wide receiver group that

2034
01:46:57,560 --> 01:47:01,479
Speaker 1: is being affected by no preseason games, fifteen percent says

2035
01:47:01,560 --> 01:47:04,759
Speaker 1: the defensive line, twelve percent of you says the cornerback position,

2036
01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:07,880
Speaker 1: and sixteen percent of you have something else, the rare,

2037
01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:12,599
Speaker 1: the rare other category. Mattie takes second place today after

2038
01:47:12,680 --> 01:47:15,240
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. I think you and I we didn't.

2039
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:19,040
Speaker 1: While we do acknowledge the importance that practice and reps

2040
01:47:19,200 --> 01:47:22,439
Speaker 1: have for wide receivers and tight ends and the passing game,

2041
01:47:22,520 --> 01:47:26,400
Speaker 1: we both thought because we've seen those guys working out together,

2042
01:47:26,720 --> 01:47:30,680
Speaker 1: because we've seen them taken reps, and we got an

2043
01:47:30,760 --> 01:47:34,040
Speaker 1: idea from Josh Allen about how intricate those reps were

2044
01:47:34,120 --> 01:47:37,120
Speaker 1: about the verbiage and the play calls and getting everything

2045
01:47:37,160 --> 01:47:39,200
Speaker 1: in with Brian dave Ball being involved in all the

2046
01:47:39,240 --> 01:47:42,360
Speaker 1: electronics that they used to make it happen. I kind

2047
01:47:42,400 --> 01:47:44,160
Speaker 1: of felt like felt like those guys were ahead of

2048
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 1: the curve in that respect. So to me, it came

2049
01:47:48,120 --> 01:47:51,200
Speaker 1: down to the new faces, how many new guys were

2050
01:47:51,400 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 1: not so familiar with the system and who had new coaches,

2051
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:56,680
Speaker 1: and that fell on the defensive line for me. But

2052
01:47:56,840 --> 01:47:58,640
Speaker 1: you can, if anybody else wants to get in on it,

2053
01:47:58,720 --> 01:48:01,000
Speaker 1: you can you eight oh three fifty one eighty eight,

2054
01:48:01,080 --> 01:48:03,799
Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty You can call or tweet

2055
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:05,800
Speaker 1: at us and Maddie and I will take your phone

2056
01:48:05,800 --> 01:48:07,720
Speaker 1: calls right now until the bottom of the hour maybe.

2057
01:48:07,800 --> 01:48:11,360
Speaker 1: But I'm still hanging on the defensive line, Maddie. I

2058
01:48:11,439 --> 01:48:14,640
Speaker 1: think new faces and new players are always making the

2059
01:48:14,720 --> 01:48:18,439
Speaker 1: toughest adjustment. Yeah, I completely agree with you. I think

2060
01:48:18,479 --> 01:48:20,880
Speaker 1: it's a defensive line. I think that's where the new

2061
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:23,800
Speaker 1: faces are, That's where the new position coaches, and that's

2062
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:28,479
Speaker 1: a position group that changes a lot throughout the game,

2063
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:32,560
Speaker 1: and even down by down, I mean, Josh Allen is

2064
01:48:32,640 --> 01:48:35,120
Speaker 1: going to be the quarterback. Steph Diggs is going to

2065
01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:38,639
Speaker 1: play a bulk of the snaps at wide receiver, as

2066
01:48:38,760 --> 01:48:43,040
Speaker 1: well as Cole Beasley and John Brown. But that defensive line, yeah,

2067
01:48:43,040 --> 01:48:45,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna have your core group before, but that core

2068
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:48,040
Speaker 1: group before could change from down to down and depending

2069
01:48:48,080 --> 01:48:50,920
Speaker 1: on what type of offensive line and offense you're going

2070
01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:54,840
Speaker 1: up against. But Jerry from the tweet sheet says he

2071
01:48:54,960 --> 01:48:58,200
Speaker 1: thinks it's going to be linebackers. He says other groups

2072
01:48:58,240 --> 01:49:01,639
Speaker 1: have worked together for the most part now with loebing

2073
01:49:01,760 --> 01:49:05,879
Speaker 1: Gung who can fill that role and work with Tremaine

2074
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:10,280
Speaker 1: and Molano. True, here's the other thing. A lot of

2075
01:49:10,360 --> 01:49:13,040
Speaker 1: the times they're playing with the nickel and they only

2076
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:17,880
Speaker 1: have two linebackers in the game. So yeah, Tremaine, I think, No,

2077
01:49:18,160 --> 01:49:22,840
Speaker 1: Lorenzo played forty percent of the defensive snaps of the snaps,

2078
01:49:22,880 --> 01:49:24,599
Speaker 1: so he's less than half of the snaps on defense

2079
01:49:24,680 --> 01:49:28,519
Speaker 1: that he was out there for. Uh, certainly, I think

2080
01:49:28,600 --> 01:49:31,400
Speaker 1: most of what they'll miss about Lorenzo had to do

2081
01:49:31,520 --> 01:49:33,840
Speaker 1: with locker room and off the field and in the

2082
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:36,439
Speaker 1: meeting when they're trying to learn things and Lorenzo was there,

2083
01:49:36,479 --> 01:49:38,600
Speaker 1: and you know, you know Lorenzo as well as I do.

2084
01:49:38,760 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 1: He's he's a kind of guy that is there for

2085
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: his teammates and has a wealth of knowledge that he

2086
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:45,799
Speaker 1: can impart to them. So that's what they'll miss from Lorenzo.

2087
01:49:46,040 --> 01:49:50,439
Speaker 1: But once they get on the field, I think they'll

2088
01:49:50,920 --> 01:49:54,840
Speaker 1: they'll be you know, they'll be okay when they get

2089
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:58,040
Speaker 1: on the field because you know Lorenzo, you know, his

2090
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:02,439
Speaker 1: presence was more about hi it was and knowledge than

2091
01:50:02,479 --> 01:50:04,400
Speaker 1: it was about the production on the field that they

2092
01:50:04,800 --> 01:50:07,800
Speaker 1: can't replace. It will be interesting, though, to see how

2093
01:50:07,880 --> 01:50:10,880
Speaker 1: aj Klein fits into all of this and what his

2094
01:50:11,040 --> 01:50:13,240
Speaker 1: snap count is going to be. Is it going to

2095
01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:16,400
Speaker 1: be in the forty percent er the fifty percent. Very

2096
01:50:16,479 --> 01:50:19,000
Speaker 1: interested to see what type of impact he can make

2097
01:50:19,080 --> 01:50:22,000
Speaker 1: on this team. Coming from the Saints, did spend some

2098
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:25,080
Speaker 1: time with the Panthers, so he has that connection to

2099
01:50:25,240 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean. He's known as being a

2100
01:50:29,200 --> 01:50:32,280
Speaker 1: tough player and one thing that is on his side

2101
01:50:32,360 --> 01:50:36,000
Speaker 1: that Leslie Fraser loves is the versatility aspect he can

2102
01:50:36,080 --> 01:50:38,720
Speaker 1: play every single physician at linebacker, So he's going to

2103
01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:41,200
Speaker 1: be someone that's going to be able to plug in

2104
01:50:41,320 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 1: play whenever need be. Yeah. And also from the tweet

2105
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:49,479
Speaker 1: sheet from Adam, he said, I said other I think

2106
01:50:49,520 --> 01:50:52,880
Speaker 1: there's a lack of veteran leadership in the running back room.

2107
01:50:53,360 --> 01:50:56,160
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones is the oldest guy in the room along

2108
01:50:56,240 --> 01:50:59,400
Speaker 1: with DeMarco, but will likely play as a special teamer.

2109
01:50:59,520 --> 01:51:04,200
Speaker 1: It might be nice to see a battle between Moss, Yeldon, Wade,

2110
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:08,639
Speaker 1: and Perry for motors backup. There is gonna be something

2111
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:11,680
Speaker 1: going on in the running back room. Christian Wade is

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01:51:11,680 --> 01:51:14,120
Speaker 1: a great story and was a great story last year.

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01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:17,040
Speaker 1: T J. Yelden is somebody I think a lot of

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01:51:17,040 --> 01:51:19,759
Speaker 1: people forget about because he didn't see so many reps

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01:51:19,880 --> 01:51:22,960
Speaker 1: last year. Maybe they think he's just, you know, he's

2116
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:26,559
Speaker 1: a throw in. I think they really they like his leadership.

2117
01:51:26,640 --> 01:51:28,920
Speaker 1: I think he's the right kind of temperament for this team.

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01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:32,120
Speaker 1: I think his DNA is exactly what McDermott likes as well.

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01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:35,040
Speaker 1: Christian Wade is somebody. How can you not root for

2120
01:51:35,120 --> 01:51:38,840
Speaker 1: the guy, right? I mean you just really want to

2121
01:51:38,880 --> 01:51:42,439
Speaker 1: see him play and play well, But Devin Singletary and

2122
01:51:42,520 --> 01:51:44,879
Speaker 1: Zach Moss. Those are gonna be the two lead cows,

2123
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:50,040
Speaker 1: you know, the bell cows of the backfield and the

2124
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:53,519
Speaker 1: rest of it. You know, for most people, I'm thinking,

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01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:55,360
Speaker 1: I don't if those two are the only guys that

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01:51:55,439 --> 01:51:56,840
Speaker 1: carry in the ball, and they may get through the

2127
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 1: whole season, they're fine. We're gonna be fine with those

2128
01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:01,840
Speaker 1: two guys. The rest of it has to do with

2129
01:52:01,960 --> 01:52:05,240
Speaker 1: other roles and special teams and that kind of thing.

2130
01:52:05,360 --> 01:52:08,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, there is a lack of veteran leadership. I

2131
01:52:09,080 --> 01:52:12,720
Speaker 1: think when you look back at last year, I mean

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01:52:12,760 --> 01:52:14,960
Speaker 1: it was obvious that Frank Gore I filled that role,

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01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:18,560
Speaker 1: but I think Chris de Marco is a guy that

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01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:21,320
Speaker 1: the team lead leans on a lot for that as well.

2135
01:52:21,400 --> 01:52:22,880
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons he's been a

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01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:25,679
Speaker 1: part of this roster for a couple of years. Definitely.

2137
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:29,479
Speaker 1: I mean, Pat de Marco was not a captain last year,

2138
01:52:29,560 --> 01:52:31,599
Speaker 1: but I believe the year before was a team captain.

2139
01:52:31,640 --> 01:52:35,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he's looked at highly on this team and

2140
01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:38,040
Speaker 1: somebody who's led in a lot of different ways, and

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01:52:38,160 --> 01:52:41,120
Speaker 1: it is involved with the NFLPA and a lot of

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01:52:41,160 --> 01:52:45,439
Speaker 1: other different organizations. When it comes to the bills or

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01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:48,360
Speaker 1: the NFL, So he's going to be someone who's going

2144
01:52:48,400 --> 01:52:50,080
Speaker 1: to be able to help out in that room as

2145
01:52:50,120 --> 01:52:53,160
Speaker 1: well as in the locker room from a veteran leadership standpoint.

2146
01:52:53,240 --> 01:52:56,080
Speaker 1: But it'll be intriguing to see if t J. Yelden

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01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:58,960
Speaker 1: is used at all on the field this year. I

2148
01:52:59,160 --> 01:53:02,320
Speaker 1: think in the way that Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean

2149
01:53:02,360 --> 01:53:05,960
Speaker 1: talk about TJ. Yelden, they hold him to a high standard.

2150
01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:10,120
Speaker 1: When people asked about t J. Yelden, I think they

2151
01:53:10,280 --> 01:53:14,840
Speaker 1: like what he can provide, and it'll be interesting to

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01:53:15,040 --> 01:53:17,600
Speaker 1: see if he's used at all. I mean, I know

2153
01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:21,000
Speaker 1: all eyes are on Devin Singletary and Zach Moss, but

2154
01:53:21,400 --> 01:53:24,160
Speaker 1: due to TJ. Yelden's size, you can use him in

2155
01:53:24,240 --> 01:53:27,160
Speaker 1: different ways to where Zach Moss and Devin Singletary can't

2156
01:53:27,200 --> 01:53:30,479
Speaker 1: be used that way. Zach Moss and Devin Singletary are smaller.

2157
01:53:30,760 --> 01:53:32,880
Speaker 1: T J. Yelden is someone who provides a little bit

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01:53:32,880 --> 01:53:35,920
Speaker 1: of size. Yeah, you're right. Pat DeMarco I called him

2159
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:39,040
Speaker 1: Chris DeMarco, who's a PGA golfer. So Pat DeMarco is

2160
01:53:39,200 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 1: he's an older guy, and I think that's one of

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01:53:40,760 --> 01:53:43,479
Speaker 1: the reasons Sean McDermott brought him in was his veteran leadership.

2162
01:53:43,560 --> 01:53:45,680
Speaker 1: TJ Yelden with a DNA he's got. I think it's

2163
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:47,519
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun group, but we're not gonna get

2164
01:53:47,560 --> 01:53:49,680
Speaker 1: to watch him in the preseason, so we all kind

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01:53:49,720 --> 01:53:52,240
Speaker 1: of got to live with that fact these days. Steve Tasker,

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01:53:52,520 --> 01:53:55,160
Speaker 1: Mattie Glab Here until three o'clock one Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Collide Health. Coming up, what do we learn and

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Speaker 1: maybe NFL true falls if we can it around to

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01:54:00,600 --> 01:54:02,760
Speaker 1: that One of Bill's Life presented by Kalida Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to fund Bill's Live. Steve

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01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:19,439
Speaker 1: passed along with Maddie Glab at his time. Now, thanks

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01:54:19,439 --> 01:54:21,679
Speaker 1: for your responses. Though we got a ton of response

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01:54:21,760 --> 01:54:24,400
Speaker 1: to our Twitter poll of which position group will be

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01:54:24,479 --> 01:54:27,960
Speaker 1: impacted most by little or no preseason games. We continue

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01:54:27,960 --> 01:54:30,000
Speaker 1: to get feedback on that. Now, though, we're going to

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01:54:30,080 --> 01:54:33,400
Speaker 1: turn our attention to NFL True False, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Yancey's Fancy Yancey's Fancy New York's Artists and Cheese.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to read that verbatim, because I could

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Speaker 1: never get that right. Okay, here we go. Ready, Maddie,

2180
01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:48,560
Speaker 1: I'm ready. Let's all right, here we go NFL true false.

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01:54:48,760 --> 01:54:53,879
Speaker 1: Number one Randy Moss would have caught thirty touchdown passes

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01:54:53,920 --> 01:54:57,480
Speaker 1: if Patrick Mahomes with pat If he had Patrick Mahomes

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01:54:57,520 --> 01:55:00,520
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, he would have caught thirty touchdown Now

2184
01:55:00,560 --> 01:55:02,480
Speaker 1: he has the record for the most TDS receptions in

2185
01:55:02,520 --> 01:55:07,240
Speaker 1: the season with twenty three, right, do you think you

2186
01:55:07,240 --> 01:55:09,800
Speaker 1: would have caught thirty touchdowns? Do you think that's possible.

2187
01:55:10,440 --> 01:55:15,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Randy Moss is really, really, really talented, but

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01:55:16,160 --> 01:55:18,760
Speaker 1: I think of Patrick Mahomes and his style and the

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01:55:18,880 --> 01:55:24,040
Speaker 1: way that that Chief's offense operates, and he likes to

2190
01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 1: spread the ball out to different types of people. He

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01:55:27,280 --> 01:55:30,440
Speaker 1: doesn't have his number one guy, and maybe that's because

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01:55:31,080 --> 01:55:34,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a number one guy. But Travis Kelsey

2193
01:55:34,680 --> 01:55:36,720
Speaker 1: one of the best tight ends in the league right now.

2194
01:55:37,320 --> 01:55:39,920
Speaker 1: He didn't have twenty touchdowns last year. And I know

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01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:42,440
Speaker 1: it's a different position, but I'm not sure with that

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01:55:42,600 --> 01:55:45,880
Speaker 1: offense that he would have thirty touchdowns just because of

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01:55:45,960 --> 01:55:48,440
Speaker 1: how many different players they use in that offense. And

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01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:51,640
Speaker 1: I think that's what makes Patrick Mahomes so talented in

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01:55:51,720 --> 01:55:55,120
Speaker 1: that offense so great is their ability to pretty much

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01:55:55,160 --> 01:56:00,480
Speaker 1: throw anybody in there and make them successful. Yeah, it's

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01:56:00,560 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: more about if it's Randy Moss and nobody else, maybe

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01:56:04,680 --> 01:56:06,320
Speaker 1: you got a chance. But if it's Randy Moss on

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01:56:06,360 --> 01:56:11,080
Speaker 1: the chiefs Anna happened. Um, it was Randy Moss and

2204
01:56:11,160 --> 01:56:14,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady And I think he had like Wes Welker

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01:56:14,120 --> 01:56:17,800
Speaker 1: or somebody in that on that offense as well. But

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01:56:18,240 --> 01:56:22,520
Speaker 1: you know, that offense in OH seven was unbelievable. And

2207
01:56:22,720 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: in that offense, and I listen, I like Patrick Mahomes too,

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01:56:27,240 --> 01:56:31,960
Speaker 1: I do, but he did have Tom Brady right this

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01:56:32,120 --> 01:56:35,040
Speaker 1: just in I mean, Tom's pretty good too, right, So

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01:56:35,520 --> 01:56:39,200
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that, you know, I'm all of a sudden

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01:56:39,240 --> 01:56:41,840
Speaker 1: you have throw Tom Brady and OH seven under the

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01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 1: bus and say Pat Mahomes would be better. I don't know,

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01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm I'm having a hard time getting to that point, right,

2214
01:56:49,480 --> 01:56:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say, really, I'm really gonna have

2215
01:56:51,640 --> 01:56:54,440
Speaker 1: to say false on that one. So I'm Randy Moss is.

2216
01:56:54,920 --> 01:56:58,880
Speaker 1: He's tremendous and he's he's a great dude too, But yeah,

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01:56:58,920 --> 01:57:01,920
Speaker 1: I think he's just I think he's just waxing poetic

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01:57:02,360 --> 01:57:04,400
Speaker 1: for me, all right, NFL. That's that's why we both

2219
01:57:04,440 --> 01:57:09,520
Speaker 1: think that's false NFL true false. Number two offenses should

2220
01:57:09,640 --> 01:57:13,840
Speaker 1: stop trying to use the gold line, the goal line

2221
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:17,600
Speaker 1: fade pass. You know what I'm talking about. You're down close,

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01:57:18,480 --> 01:57:20,840
Speaker 1: quarterback takes a one or two step drop and just

2223
01:57:21,200 --> 01:57:23,640
Speaker 1: throws it really really high to the far corner of

2224
01:57:23,680 --> 01:57:26,160
Speaker 1: the end zone, and your big, tall wide receiver goes up,

2225
01:57:26,240 --> 01:57:30,480
Speaker 1: grabs it, pulls it down touchdown. Only here's the thing,

2226
01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:33,680
Speaker 1: here's the analytics of it. Thirteen point five percent of

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01:57:33,720 --> 01:57:38,840
Speaker 1: those were caught for touchdowns. In twenty nineteen, thirteen point

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01:57:38,960 --> 01:57:44,200
Speaker 1: five percent were caught. Yeah, so I'm I'm thinking that's

2229
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:47,480
Speaker 1: it should be a decoy round. I'm I'm I'm for it.

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01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:50,080
Speaker 1: If you got a guy that's like like that. Yeah,

2231
01:57:50,520 --> 01:57:53,120
Speaker 1: it's more. It's not about just being tall either. If

2232
01:57:53,200 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 1: it was, you would see you know, the Patriots or

2233
01:57:56,120 --> 01:57:58,440
Speaker 1: the Bills or whoever, they just stick a tight end

2234
01:57:58,480 --> 01:58:02,000
Speaker 1: out there, big tall tight end and do it. But

2235
01:58:02,240 --> 01:58:04,120
Speaker 1: there's more to it than that. It's a hard route

2236
01:58:04,160 --> 01:58:09,320
Speaker 1: to execute. Watching it, I love watching it when it works.

2237
01:58:09,720 --> 01:58:13,240
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing like watching a successful fade if

2238
01:58:13,240 --> 01:58:19,440
Speaker 1: that's your team. Yeah, pretty right. But if it's successful

2239
01:58:19,520 --> 01:58:24,080
Speaker 1: just thirteen point five percent of the time, then yeah,

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01:58:24,280 --> 01:58:27,360
Speaker 1: maybe you do away with it as much as some

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01:58:27,640 --> 01:58:29,640
Speaker 1: teams have used it in the past. But you have

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01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:33,040
Speaker 1: if you have that talented receiver who's pretty good on

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01:58:33,160 --> 01:58:38,160
Speaker 1: a fade, then use it, right, I'm with you. You

2244
01:58:38,240 --> 01:58:40,360
Speaker 1: can try it. And I think it has to do

2245
01:58:40,480 --> 01:58:45,360
Speaker 1: too for me. If if they're if their tallest dB

2246
01:58:45,640 --> 01:58:48,320
Speaker 1: is five ten, five to eleven and you've got three

2247
01:58:48,440 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 1: wideouts that are all six three, six, four, six five,

2248
01:58:51,200 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: you know you got to give it a shot, right,

2249
01:58:54,520 --> 01:58:57,440
Speaker 1: especially if it's like first down, because then if it

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01:58:57,520 --> 01:58:59,880
Speaker 1: doesn't work, oh yeah, do something else. So I'm I'm

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01:59:00,480 --> 01:59:02,480
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that you know you don't stop, I mean,

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01:59:02,480 --> 01:59:05,840
Speaker 1: because you know there are other routes you can run,

2253
01:59:05,920 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: but you gotta have that in your repertoire. So I'm

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01:59:08,760 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying, no, that's false. You gotta use it, and

2255
01:59:11,240 --> 01:59:13,360
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta make sure they know you've got it.

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01:59:13,680 --> 01:59:15,520
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say false to that was you agree

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01:59:15,520 --> 01:59:18,080
Speaker 1: with me? You false to? All? Right? Here we go

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01:59:19,480 --> 01:59:23,720
Speaker 1: last one true NFL true false Number three the Broncos

2259
01:59:23,960 --> 01:59:27,560
Speaker 1: versus the Patriots. You know when Tom Brady and Peyton

2260
01:59:27,640 --> 01:59:31,000
Speaker 1: Manning here in this last decade was the biggest rivalry

2261
01:59:31,080 --> 01:59:34,080
Speaker 1: of the two thousand and tens From two thou two nineteen,

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01:59:35,280 --> 01:59:39,080
Speaker 1: Patriots Bronchos was the biggest rivalry. True false. Now, some

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01:59:39,200 --> 01:59:42,040
Speaker 1: others that were mentioned were the Seahawks Niners, which, by

2264
01:59:42,080 --> 01:59:46,040
Speaker 1: the way, this last year was a phenomenal, phenomenal series

2265
01:59:46,040 --> 01:59:48,960
Speaker 1: of games between those two teams. There was also the

2266
01:59:49,120 --> 01:59:54,160
Speaker 1: Ravens Steelers and the Ravens and Patriots, and of course

2267
01:59:54,240 --> 01:59:56,800
Speaker 1: also the Cowboys and the Packers were were in that

2268
01:59:56,920 --> 01:59:58,680
Speaker 1: as well. Now, are you gonna chime in with your

2269
01:59:58,760 --> 02:00:05,160
Speaker 1: Packers Bears thing you always do or yeah? All right?

2270
02:00:05,200 --> 02:00:07,840
Speaker 1: So what's so the Broncos Patriots were the biggest rivals

2271
02:00:07,880 --> 02:00:11,440
Speaker 1: of the twenty tens? Truth false? I mean, you have

2272
02:00:11,600 --> 02:00:14,320
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and you have Peyton Manning. Those are two

2273
02:00:14,600 --> 02:00:17,800
Speaker 1: of the biggest names in the NFL during that time.

2274
02:00:18,600 --> 02:00:23,280
Speaker 1: Tom Brady still playing in the NFL, So yeah, I mean,

2275
02:00:23,360 --> 02:00:25,880
Speaker 1: that was some great football during those years, getting to

2276
02:00:25,920 --> 02:00:29,360
Speaker 1: watch those two go up against each other. Right, I've

2277
02:00:29,400 --> 02:00:32,920
Speaker 1: seen some a couple of times. I forgive me for

2278
02:00:33,120 --> 02:00:36,800
Speaker 1: not remembering the years. I think it was before twenty

2279
02:00:36,920 --> 02:00:38,640
Speaker 1: and ten but it's one of the great rival Resira

2280
02:00:38,720 --> 02:00:42,919
Speaker 1: witnessed is a broadcaster. Was the rivalry between the Baltimore

2281
02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:47,120
Speaker 1: Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers with Ray Lewis, Ben Roethlisberger,

2282
02:00:48,240 --> 02:00:55,120
Speaker 1: Joe with Joe Flacco, all of those guys. That was

2283
02:00:55,400 --> 02:00:58,840
Speaker 1: a rivalry that I thought was they met twice in

2284
02:00:58,920 --> 02:01:01,520
Speaker 1: a row in the championship game, I believe, or it

2285
02:01:01,640 --> 02:01:04,440
Speaker 1: makes maybe the divisional round of the playoffs nink, it

2286
02:01:04,520 --> 02:01:06,400
Speaker 1: was the championship game. Yeah, I think it was a

2287
02:01:06,480 --> 02:01:10,320
Speaker 1: championship game. That rivalry is unbelieving. It still goes on,

2288
02:01:10,520 --> 02:01:12,040
Speaker 1: and I think one of the things that makes a

2289
02:01:12,120 --> 02:01:16,280
Speaker 1: rivalry relevant is meaningful games and also the frequency of

2290
02:01:16,360 --> 02:01:18,720
Speaker 1: the times you get to see them play in those

2291
02:01:18,840 --> 02:01:21,000
Speaker 1: meaningful games. And I think the Steelers Ravens are the

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02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:23,000
Speaker 1: two thousand and tens have been. Were one of the

2293
02:01:23,080 --> 02:01:27,000
Speaker 1: team two teams that had a lot to play for perennially,

2294
02:01:27,680 --> 02:01:30,640
Speaker 1: and they had to play through each other to get

2295
02:01:30,680 --> 02:01:34,080
Speaker 1: to the next step. Son, I'm gonna say Steelers Ravens

2296
02:01:34,200 --> 02:01:38,360
Speaker 1: because I like the divisional aspect of it. Now, certainly

2297
02:01:38,400 --> 02:01:41,840
Speaker 1: every team's got a team they hate, but for the

2298
02:01:41,880 --> 02:01:43,640
Speaker 1: stretch of the two thousand and tens. A lot of

2299
02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:47,880
Speaker 1: years the Steelers and the Ravens were in it because

2300
02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:50,040
Speaker 1: they were in there with the Cincinnati Bengals who can't

2301
02:01:50,040 --> 02:01:52,000
Speaker 1: get out of their own way and the Cleve Browns

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02:01:52,240 --> 02:01:54,040
Speaker 1: who can't get out of their own way. So it's

2303
02:01:54,040 --> 02:01:56,400
Speaker 1: a two team race every year in that division, and

2304
02:01:56,480 --> 02:01:58,280
Speaker 1: it came down to the Ravens and the Steelers. And

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02:01:58,360 --> 02:02:02,640
Speaker 1: that's why I think that rivalry was was really maybe

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02:02:02,680 --> 02:02:06,200
Speaker 1: the best one of that decade. Okay, I'm gonna say

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02:02:06,600 --> 02:02:10,320
Speaker 1: good argument. I'm saying falls. Okay, I'm miss staying through

2308
02:02:10,520 --> 02:02:13,000
Speaker 1: just because of the quarterback duel. Do you remember that

2309
02:02:13,160 --> 02:02:15,440
Speaker 1: article when we like a couple of weeks ago we

2310
02:02:15,520 --> 02:02:18,960
Speaker 1: were doing true falls in. One of the points was

2311
02:02:19,040 --> 02:02:23,440
Speaker 1: that the AFC North was the toughest division in the

2312
02:02:23,640 --> 02:02:27,440
Speaker 1: NFL this year or something like that. Yes, and whatnot.

2313
02:02:27,480 --> 02:02:31,720
Speaker 1: It wasn't the AFC North, it was the NFC West.

2314
02:02:31,920 --> 02:02:34,400
Speaker 1: We both thought it was the NFC West, right, Yeah,

2315
02:02:34,520 --> 02:02:38,760
Speaker 1: they said that the AFC North was the toughest division. No, No,

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02:02:38,840 --> 02:02:41,280
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Well, Cleveland Brown You know, Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: got a lot of talent. We've all seen it. We

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Speaker 1: saw it last year. There were huge expectations and they

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Speaker 1: fell down. Now this year, they still got a lot

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Speaker 1: of talent, but now they got a new head coach again,

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Speaker 1: and and there's no offseason. Nobody's even met their players yet.

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Speaker 1: So I don't even know that there's some Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: who could pick their coach out of a line they named.

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Speaker 1: They they may not even know what the guy looks like.

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Speaker 1: It's that that's how distant the guys have been. So

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking the Browns are still gonna be a year

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Speaker 1: away and then there's gonna be a question is where

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Speaker 1: they can hold it together that along with the talent

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Speaker 1: they've got on their roster. So I'm the Browns. And

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati had the number one pick of the draft. They

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Speaker 1: stink again, so they have a You can't have a

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Speaker 1: good division when half the division stinks. So yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: not doing that. I don't. I don't think they can

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Speaker 1: go there. And I think you got to look at

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Speaker 1: a division like the NFC West with the Rams who

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Speaker 1: were in the Super Bowl two years ago, the Niners

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Speaker 1: who were in the Super Bowl this last February, and

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Speaker 1: Seattle who is always in the playoffs and competitive and

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Speaker 1: winning big games and now you've got Arizona as well,

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Speaker 1: with one more year with Kyler Murray and a new

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Speaker 1: head coach, and they're kind of getting it together. They

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Speaker 1: got some guys too, So that to me is a

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Speaker 1: really competitive division, not just with each other, but for

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Speaker 1: anybody else, like the AFC East, who's got to play

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Speaker 1: that division this year out of conference. So I think

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Speaker 1: the NFC West is I think far and away the

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Speaker 1: toughest division in football right now. You can make a

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Speaker 1: case for the NFC South with the quarterbacks involved except

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Speaker 1: for Carolina. Well, you've got Tom Brady, you got Drew Brees,

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Speaker 1: and you got Matt Ryan. That's pretty good roster right there.

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Speaker 1: West is by far the scariest. Though to me, I

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Speaker 1: think so too. I'm I'm totally with you on that,

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Speaker 1: totally with you, all right. That's NFL true false, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Yancy's Fantasy, New York's artist, and she's

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Speaker 1: good job, Maddie. We agreed on all three of them.

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Speaker 1: You were you were correct again, Steve Tasker, Madilad. We're

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Speaker 1: here till the top of the hour. If you want

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Speaker 1: in on it, give us a CALLIDATO three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty or tweet at us which position group final chance,

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Speaker 1: Which position group is going to be impacted most by

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Speaker 1: the lack or of or no preseason games. One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health on Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: in the program John Beach of CBS. John Breach of

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Speaker 1: CBS sports on players concerned with the twenty twenty season,

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Speaker 1: and this is what he had to say on various

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Speaker 1: players contemplating opting out. J. J. Watt said yesterday, if

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Speaker 1: the NFL requires players to wear a face shield, so

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Speaker 1: basically a longer visor to prevent germs from spouting out

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Speaker 1: out of their face mask, he said, if they if

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Speaker 1: that is required, that he might not play this season

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Speaker 1: because he can't breathe well playing with a face shield,

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Speaker 1: you know, And this isn't the same as wearing a

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Speaker 1: mask out in public. These guys are moving a high

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02:05:54,600 --> 02:05:57,480
Speaker 1: motor for four straight quarters and if you can't breathe, well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's gonna hurt how you play. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: with a couple of rules that are coming out right now,

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Speaker 1: I think Tom Bella Sero from NFL Media just said

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Speaker 1: that players aren't going to be allowed to exchange jerseys

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02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:11,680
Speaker 1: at the end of game, and when you do handshakes,

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02:06:11,720 --> 02:06:13,680
Speaker 1: those won't happen. But you have to be sixty depart

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02:06:13,800 --> 02:06:16,560
Speaker 1: from your opponent at the end of the game to

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Speaker 1: say a good game. And do we have players like

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson saying, well, you know, if we can't do

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Speaker 1: something as simple as that, why are we even playing

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Speaker 1: at all? So there are some big game players that

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Speaker 1: are asking questions I don't think the NFL has the

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Speaker 1: answer to yet, And maybe we could see some of

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Speaker 1: these players end up sitting out the season if they

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Speaker 1: don't like the answers that the NFL gives. That was

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Speaker 1: John Breaching, CBS Sports on with Us today. If you

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Speaker 1: miss any part of the show, you can catch us

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot com or the Buffalo Bills app, Spotify,

2395
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Speaker 1: Google Play, all those Apple podcasts. Maddie, we also had

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Speaker 1: and if they want to go back. Jermaine Edmonds had

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Speaker 1: a lot to say on this show today. He wasn't

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Speaker 1: a guess. We got some soundclips from him, a lot

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Speaker 1: of good stuff. And whenever you hear players talk like

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Speaker 1: he was talking, it's fun to think about the season

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02:06:59,520 --> 02:07:02,520
Speaker 1: bearing down out on us. Yeah, I'm happy he's a

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02:07:02,560 --> 02:07:04,760
Speaker 1: guy that's on our team. The way that he's grown

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02:07:04,840 --> 02:07:07,480
Speaker 1: in the last two years, enters his third season in

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02:07:07,560 --> 02:07:11,160
Speaker 1: the league, a lot of expectations for him. He's garnering

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Speaker 1: more attention league wide than he did in his first

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Speaker 1: two seasons. So, I mean again, it just goes back

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Speaker 1: to the DNA and the culture of this team. It's

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Speaker 1: filled with truly talented players, but even better humans at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day. Yeah, And we also had

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll of which position group will be affected

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Speaker 1: the most by the lack of or no preseason games.

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Speaker 1: Fifty seven percent of you said it's the wide receiver group.

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Speaker 1: You got to get those guys in. Seventeen percent had

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Speaker 1: something other than what we offered. Defensive line and cornerback.

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Speaker 1: It was wide receivers and seventeen percent said somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Defensive line had fifteen percent, cornerbacks had twelve percent. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, everybody, Thanks for chiming in giving us

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Speaker 1: your feedback. We've got a lot of stuff going on tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Eric Would, the radio analyst for the broadcast game day,

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Speaker 1: is gonna be with us, Mattie, You're gonna be back

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Speaker 1: with us. You're gonna do anything cool tonight. I mean

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do skydiving or anything like that. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I'm going skydiving in a half an hour.

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Speaker 1: Here is just the life. No, not at all. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go he more word. Get ready for the show tomorrow,

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02:08:19,960 --> 02:08:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, just regular things. Maybe go on a run.

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Speaker 1: I'm hosting a Zoom meeting for some West Coast people.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing that, and I might go. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: hit some golf balls right now, though, I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: that out of my system. So mad girl. Great seeing y'all.

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Speaker 1: See it tomorrow. Be here at noon. The rest of

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Speaker 1: you join us as well, anytime between noon and three

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Speaker 1: or for all of it. Steve Task or Mattie Glab

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Kalidah Health. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you tomorrow on Buffalo Bill's Radio.