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Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the

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Speaker 1: field and evenique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

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Speaker 1: the strated beer of normalcy here. Welcome to One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live Chris Brown. Steve Tasker, who is in a far

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Speaker 1: greater mood on the heels of a burrito downing. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you this man is very easy to please. You

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Speaker 1: put a burrito in front of this man, his whole

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Speaker 1: mood changes. I'm a simple traveler making my way in

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Speaker 1: the long into the universe, humble pilgrim. He has that

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Speaker 1: thing in his usual four minute time span. Was good.

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Speaker 1: It's nothing short of impressive. People. I've got to tell you,

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Speaker 1: we have to get Steve when the pandemic is over,

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Speaker 1: into a competitive eating contest, because I think I can

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Speaker 1: eat one. You could do Damn, I don't have the

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Speaker 1: capacity though. It's not like I can eat like ten

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Speaker 1: burritos and ten bitts. The thing is, you eat so

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Speaker 1: fast that I don't think you would realize when you

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Speaker 1: were full. So to be able to push through that threshold, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a valuable asset for a competitive eater to have

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Speaker 1: it does take my body and the you know, the

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Speaker 1: dopamine to kick in after a long time after it's

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Speaker 1: easy for me to get uncomfortably full. It happens quick. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I told you too. I I came in. I'm a

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Speaker 1: pretty good mood this morning because I had to spit

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Speaker 1: sitting there. Yeah, my wife, I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: like my wife. You know, we do a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff online, pay bills and stuff. Everybody does, right, It's

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Speaker 1: easier occasionally though we don't. We got something was not

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Speaker 1: set up for or whatever. We gotta we gotta build

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Speaker 1: from the easy pass people m okay New York, New York,

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Speaker 1: paid by mail toll or something like that, right, dot com,

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Speaker 1: dot gov whatever, and got to build. It was like

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Speaker 1: six dollars and twenty eight cents. My son, who's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a dressing Ohio, lives in lives in Louisville, Louisville. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: and he made a trip back and you know they

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Speaker 1: caught him on camera, sent the bill to us six bucks, right,

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Speaker 1: six dollars and change. So I you know I've got

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Speaker 1: the thing in the company prints your checks, right, I

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Speaker 1: don't write him by hand. I print him right. So

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Speaker 1: it goes up into whatever. So I print the check,

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Speaker 1: shoving the sign it, shoving the envelope away. It goes

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Speaker 1: a week. Couple of weeks later, which is today, my

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Speaker 1: wife goes, we got a bookkeeping problem. I got what's up?

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Speaker 1: She she goes and she's over there, and she goes

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Speaker 1: back and gets a copy of the check that I

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Speaker 1: printed to pay this six dollars and change bill. Picture

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Speaker 1: an extra zero and no point I ever paid this

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Speaker 1: bill by six thousand dollars or five thousand nine. It

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Speaker 1: was six thousand plus. It was like just over six grand.

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Speaker 1: I overpaid this. I wrote the check. Sign. She's got

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Speaker 1: a picture of the check. That's a bad time to

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Speaker 1: have an extra zero in there. I got. I got

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Speaker 1: no defense, right, it's me. So I'm like, like two

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Speaker 1: seconds later, I'm on the I'm looking I got the bill,

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Speaker 1: like I'm like, dudd, I'm on the phone, and I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: this is this is New York state. I'm calling right,

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Speaker 1: this is the I got no shot. I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have to drive for a thousand years to pay

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Speaker 1: this to get my money, driving a loop around right,

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Speaker 1: so I'm thinking this ain't gonna go well. So I navigate.

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Speaker 1: You know, press if you want to do this, press

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Speaker 1: one if you want to do that, Press two if

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Speaker 1: you want to do this other thing, Press three if

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Speaker 1: you want to do this other thing. So I press nine.

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Speaker 1: Coop by the fine, So I press nine. I'm thinking this,

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Speaker 1: you know, call times, you're you know, you're we're experiencing

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Speaker 1: higher than volume, right, okay, always higher than somebody almost

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Speaker 1: immediately picks up lady named Barbara. She goes hello, and

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm calling him, you know. She was, what,

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Speaker 1: give me the license plate number? And I got the bill,

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Speaker 1: so I at first I think she's like my license

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Speaker 1: number and my sons my driver's license number. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: my what what number do you need? She was the

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Speaker 1: license plate number the car. I go, oh, and it

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Speaker 1: and she goes, okay, thank you, and she goes, oh,

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Speaker 1: you overpaid Jez, And I go, can you guess why

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Speaker 1: I thought perhaps you might need it quicker, you know,

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Speaker 1: the pace. She ses, it'll be a day or a

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Speaker 1: couple of days, but we're gonna give you back the money,

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Speaker 1: no question problem. I'm like, I seriously. She goes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: she goes. She goes not. I go, is there anything

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Speaker 1: else you need for me? She goes, no, it should

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Speaker 1: be I'm like, so I could find out money, right,

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Speaker 1: catastrophe averted? Can you match? What would your wife? Well,

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Speaker 1: if you puked up six grand when you didn't know

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Speaker 1: you did that, Um, I'd probably be deaf in one

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Speaker 1: ear from the shouting. Oh the stink guy? I got right,

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Speaker 1: because you know, there's no I have no defense, complete idiot.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even look at that, you know you. All

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Speaker 1: I know is my account would have been overdrawn. I

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Speaker 1: don't have that much money in my account. Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: that makes bro yea, me and you both, and I

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Speaker 1: get she doesn't online. I get in there one time

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Speaker 1: and I I puke it up like that. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe maybe that's a strategy. If I screw that

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Speaker 1: up so bad, he'll take it over. It's one last

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Speaker 1: thing on my plate. I was I'd like to say

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Speaker 1: that was my plan. It was not, as you were

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Speaker 1: telling me this story. I got this image in my

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Speaker 1: head of the people at the office at Easy Pass

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Speaker 1: buying themselves like a lavish lunch spread with your extra funds. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're catering today for lunch. This jack wagon. Steve Taskers

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Speaker 1: paid six grabbed on his toe bill. What an idiot

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Speaker 1: on a six dollartra sound cream for the burritos. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a whole spread in about an hour. We

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Speaker 1: already catered. Here's what happened. It was six dollars and

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Speaker 1: and I don't know how it happened. The check was

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Speaker 1: at the end. It was in the hundreds column, right

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Speaker 1: so a six thousand and twenty eight dollars that I like.

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Speaker 1: So basically, Steve, instead of pressing the period button, you

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Speaker 1: pressed a zero apparently somehow, among other things among not

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Speaker 1: even like looking at the check when it well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it out? Yeah, right, like due had you had two

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Speaker 1: cracks at correcting that. Yeah, that's a that's a signal

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Speaker 1: at them, that is, that is a signal at the

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Speaker 1: erical error with a capital C. I cannot be trusted

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Speaker 1: with a six dollar bill. I cannot be trusted. Oh

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Speaker 1: that's a sad realistic story. That's a sad realization. Reimbursed you.

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering how long you and your family, of which

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people with vehicles, would be

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Speaker 1: able to drive free across this country. Whatever state had

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Speaker 1: an easy pass right, you can go anywhere. I would

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Speaker 1: expect it, Thank god, I would expect to thank you

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Speaker 1: note from at least the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, if

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Speaker 1: not Andrew Cromo himself. Like I say, thank you, mister Jasker.

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Speaker 1: We need more citizens like you with humble appreciation and

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Speaker 1: heartil thanks. We thank you for your donation. To the highway.

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Speaker 1: We will personally repave your driveway right, among other things,

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Speaker 1: as a sign of our appreciation. Oh my gosh, that

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Speaker 1: is great. That's not I'm still I'm I'm even now

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Speaker 1: you're getting first even now, I'm still I'm still living

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Speaker 1: on the grace of the of the postal service. Because

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Speaker 1: you mentioned my driveway, my mailbox got taken out again.

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Speaker 1: Oh right, so now I'm no, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: it was, snow plower or not. No, it wasn't a

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Speaker 1: snowplow because it was my neighbor goes, Hey, I picked

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Speaker 1: up your mail for you. I go, she goes, because

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Speaker 1: it was scattered all over right, because your mailbox and

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Speaker 1: your mail was scattered across the street. It's like, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh. So and it wasn't like there was no

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Speaker 1: snow that. It was just somebody again, somebody taking a

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Speaker 1: turn to a little too fast and just hit it

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Speaker 1: with a car. You think, dude, it's the fourth time.

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Speaker 1: How sharp return is your street? Well, it's not the

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Speaker 1: sharp turn of it. I think it's the it's the

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Speaker 1: unexpected little bit of it. Plus it's the speed with

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Speaker 1: which people like to take it, rather than it's like

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Speaker 1: It's not blind, but when they come around it, I

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Speaker 1: think they hit the gas a little bit and then yeah, everything,

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Speaker 1: it's not it's not like the fourth time this has happened. Wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a big truck swow. But those guys, yeah snow plow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so these guys come through and every winter I hold

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Speaker 1: my breath. Liked plays it, so I've had to replace

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Speaker 1: it twice. And the town's pretty good about you know,

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Speaker 1: might only reimburst you up to a certain dollar level,

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Speaker 1: right if their plow truck takes mailbox on that. But

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Speaker 1: the first time had happened, took out mine, my neighbors,

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Speaker 1: and the neighbor after that, like three in a row,

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Speaker 1: bang bang bang, like you gotta there's gotta be a

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Speaker 1: course correction there. Some dude come on like three in

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Speaker 1: a row. This is like, yeah, why did you wake

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Speaker 1: a row. Either that or somebody ticked him off. His

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Speaker 1: give ahoot gage was busted. Yeah, I mean my mailbox

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Speaker 1: See here's the thing too, I was, you know, and

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Speaker 1: now you you start to after the second or third

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Speaker 1: now mine the fourth time, you start to think about revenge.

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Speaker 1: You know, like I'm gonna go out there and put

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Speaker 1: in an eight inch steel pipe with concrete in it,

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Speaker 1: eight feet deep. Eight let's see with a concrete base.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see him clip that one off. You know.

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Speaker 1: But but at least this next time, I think, what

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is put it on the other side

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Speaker 1: of my driveway so they give a little like another

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Speaker 1: fifteen feet of correction. Yeah yeah, but I gotta think too,

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Speaker 1: man didn't do some damage. I mean, what are they driving? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's surprising. Four times, just yeah, and now it's a victim.

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Speaker 1: Is our only threat is the snow plow in the winter,

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Speaker 1: That's it? Yeah? Um, I mean I did then I did.

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Speaker 1: I mean I went the measurements and everything. I put

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Speaker 1: now I'm running I'm running out of places to dig

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Speaker 1: a new post hole because you know, I can't put

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Speaker 1: a couple hours from wherever you're at, you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: working out anyway. Yeah, I think there's a lot of

426
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: a lot of space for both sides to negotiate some

427
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: common ground. To me, so we'll wait and see where

428
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Speaker 1: that lands. They got to come to some kind of

429
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Speaker 1: an agreement before you get to April nineteenth, So I

430
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: would imagine it's coming down the pike here sooner rather

431
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: than later. And then the Bills news as we know,

432
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: they signed free agent offensive tackle Bobby Hart to a

433
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: one year deal yesterday. Been a starter in Cincinnati the

434
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: last few years, had some struggles last year, as did

435
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Speaker 1: most of that offensive line, and it was part of

436
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Speaker 1: the reason why Joe Burrow didn't finish the season ultimately

437
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: toward ACL he took a pounding last year. A lot

438
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: of their offensive lineman struggled there, seemed to struggle and snatty.

439
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, when you see that across the board,

440
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: what does that saydia, I don't I think he had

441
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: a coaching Yeah, yeah, and that says something about him.

442
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: I mean, if they've got an offensive line that's struck, now,

443
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: certainly they might not have any good players. And Bobby

444
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 1: hardmay come in here and he may not, you know,

445
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: even be able to compete for a spot. But if

446
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 1: you've got a bunch of guys who have some physical

447
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 1: gifts and they're not working well together as a group,

448
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 1: even though they've got some high, high draft picks in there,

449
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: and I don't know that the Cincinnati Bengals did. I

450
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 1: think they've lost they lost their first round or two

451
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: years ago, to an injury and he was out all

452
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: that year. But I you know, it's a shared responsibility,

453
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,199
Speaker 1: and that's what the Bills are hoping for. If they

454
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: were looking at him and and you can watch the

455
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 1: guy play and it's like, I don't know what what's

456
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: he doing here? You know, I don't he's not showing

457
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: much technique and all that and that. You know, you

458
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: gotta lay that on some coaches, and maybe the guy's

459
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: not not coachable. I get all that, but I know this,

460
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: and I've said it a ton NFL coaches believe they

461
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: can fix guy. Yeah, So if you get a guy

462
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: that's got some physical abilities, they'll say, oh I can

463
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: I can help I can work with him well. And

464
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,120
Speaker 1: the Bills wear that on their sleeve, you know, they say,

465
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: we will help you be the best version of yourself.

466
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: So we'll see what they can do with Bobby Hart

467
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: and whether he can be, you know, one of the

468
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: fifty three men on this roster. I still firmly believe

469
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: they're going to draft at tackle pretty soon. Now. There

470
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: was a report yesterday that the Bills were hosting free

471
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: agent linebacker Tyrrell Adams on a visit. Now there are

472
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: reports that he has in fact signed a one year

473
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,959
Speaker 1: deal out there. Aaron Wilson, who covers the Texans and

474
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 1: Tyrell Adams, is a former Houston Texan, was a starter

475
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: for them last year. Prior to that, had been a backup.

476
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: Also played with the Raiders organization at the beginning of

477
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Speaker 1: his career. So this is, you know, a guy that

478
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: you know. If the reports are accurate, it's probably going

479
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: to help this team from a depth perspective. Knowing that

480
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: the Bills more often than not just have two linebackers

481
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: on the field in the form of Edmonds and Milano, yep,

482
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: and they have lost one linebacker from their contingent from

483
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 1: last season, del Sean Phillips was waived in January. He

484
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: has since signed with the Giants. I believe in free agency,

485
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: so they're looking to, you know, fill the back end

486
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: to that depth chart with players because they're a little

487
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: thin in terms of depth the linebacker positions. So get

488
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: a former starter coming in here, that's pretty darn good.

489
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: So we'll wait until there's official confirmation from the team

490
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: on that. So that's the report right now. Linebacker Tyrrell Adams,

491
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: free agent from Houston, reportedly going to sign a one

492
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: year contract with the Bills. As Buffalo continues to work

493
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: on the roster, still a lot of open spots to

494
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: get up to ninety. Here's Steve in the off season,

495
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: so plenty of room to add. I just wonder, you know,

496
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: money wise, how else it is right now? None of

497
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: these guys are going to break to time. No they're not.

498
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: So now they walk in sign as many of these

499
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 1: guys as they want um and not even go plus

500
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: or minus on the cap. Yeah, we are going to

501
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: take a break here because when we come back, we'll

502
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: be talking to another new Buffalo Bill running back Matt

503
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: Brita will be joining us when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

506
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, waiting to get Matt Brita on.

507
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: We're trying to get in touch with them at this

508
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: point in time. Wanted to bring this one to your attention, Steve.

509
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: So you know NBA teams, NHL teams are traveling, you know,

510
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: by air this time of year, Baseball teams will be

511
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,959
Speaker 1: doing the same. And the not too distant future is

512
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: the season's almost underway. Um, the Utah Jazz plane. Steve,

513
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: was it a charter, Yeah, had to be rerouted. The

514
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: other day hit a flock of birds shortly after takeoff

515
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: and had to be rerouted. There are there were images

516
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: of the nose of the plane which made initial contact.

517
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: The reason this is spatters on it and everything. Yeah.

518
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: The reason this is this is when birds hit planes,

519
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound well. It's like plane versus birds. Plane wins. Well,

520
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: not necessarily, because if enough of those birds sucked into

521
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: the jet engine they get into the jets turbine, you'll

522
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: lose an engine. Right. Um, we all know the miracle

523
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: on the Hudson River with Sully Sullenburger. He lost both engines.

524
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: There's a glide into the Hudson River for a water land.

525
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I'm looking at the picture now. How

526
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: big was this bird? Was it a terror actor? He

527
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: was a flock of birds. They didn't hit just one.

528
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: Thing's got like a three foot There's a lot of

529
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: dane on it. Yeah, it's that's probably bigger than three feet. Steve,

530
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: looking at the nose of the plane, they hit about

531
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: ten of them. I would guess they hit roddan something

532
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: of that story Rodan, you know that, Yeah, that King

533
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: Kong and yeah until that. So how that's no wonder

534
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: it made the news. So I'm gonna tell you, Steve,

535
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: in all the years of traveling with the Bills, this

536
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: happened to us. Once we're flying into Green Bay and

537
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: we're on final approach, not final approach, but we're descending,

538
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: we're coming down and I'm in I'm in an aisle seat,

539
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: so I can't see outside of it. But all of

540
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: a sudden we hear boomoo. I was like that a

541
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: place didn't shake or anything, but it was a loud noise.

542
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: So I'm looking my coworking Ham like what the heck

543
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: was that? And he's looking out the window. He's like,

544
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: I think we might have hit some birds. Said why,

545
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: he goes, there's a lot of feathers out there. I

546
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: was like, oh boy, So now I'm thinking, okay, nothing

547
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: seemed different about the plane. Plane made the landing. You know,

548
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: we're fine. We get off the plane and as you know,

549
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: very often when you get off the team plane, you

550
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: walk on the tarmac. You don't go down the geatway

551
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: like you do in an airport. They bring you get

552
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: off you go down a staircase you're on the tarmac,

553
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: and then you get on the buses and you go

554
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: to the house they pull up for people who don't know,

555
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: they pull the buses right out to the plane out

556
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: on a big park like the parking lot there for

557
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: the planes, and we just walk across the parking lot

558
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: and climb on the buses and no fuss, no muss.

559
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: So we get off the plane and we have to

560
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: walk around the front of the plane to get to

561
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: the buses. And so we're all I'm like, you know,

562
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, they're pointing, like I'm not off the

563
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: I'm coming down the stair See all these guys pointing

564
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 1: at the front of the plane. So you look at

565
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: the front of the plane. The nose of the plane

566
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: is indented. What do you got a dent? Like we

567
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: hit this flock square and I gotta believe maybe even

568
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: head on, like you know, like the via the flock

569
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: came straight at the nose like it was a game

570
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: of chicken with a couple of chicken then, and so

571
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: they dented the plane. Yeah, and it was just there

572
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: was blood everywhere. So we're on the bus going to

573
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Speaker 1: the hotel, and the guy that runs the chargers for

574
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: the charter company. He travels with the team, you know, bills.

575
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: So he's right, he's on the bus and he's two

576
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: seats away from me. I'm like, hey, is everything all right,

577
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: you know with the plane. He's like, well, he goes,

578
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: it got a little sketchy there for a second. I

579
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: said why. He said, well, they took out one of

580
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Speaker 1: our engines. So all the birds that hit the front

581
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: slid off the front to one side, right into the

582
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: engine turbine shut it down. He goes, yeah, we were

583
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: down to one engine for the last twenty minutes of

584
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: the flight. I said, well, you could fly on one engine.

585
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, but you got a plan ahead. I said,

586
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: what do you mean. He goes, well, we were looking

587
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: for farm fields in case we had to land early.

588
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, I didn't need to know that.

589
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for getting this in. Appreciate that. Appreciate but it

590
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: happens more than you think that. That's an enormous staying

591
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: on that plane for the Utah Jazz. Let's not forget this, okay, birds,

592
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: there are a lot of feathers, every hollow bones, every

593
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: ounce of everything else is fluid pretty much for lack

594
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: of a better term. And yeah, yeah, that's h that

595
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: can get dicey sometimes. Yeah, there's tons of the I've

596
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: got tons of stories in my recesses of my mind

597
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: from flights and planes and things that happened on those

598
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: charter flights. It's not all of them are pretty like that,

599
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: but or not that that one was. But yeah, that's

600
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: that's amazing that that doesn't happen more off. I guess

601
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: it does happen more often than you think. But yeah,

602
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: why don't they do something about that? Well, how are

603
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: you going to control where birds are gonna fly? Yeah,

604
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: but I mean puts like you know, put like a

605
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: cow catcher. Well something, I'm sorry, I'm just I have

606
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: an image in my head. But look at that. They

607
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: got the thing ripped off the paint job of that

608
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: the panel. Oh my, oh that's yeah, that's turned into

609
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: the right there, that's yeah, I mean that, what do

610
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: you do? I mean playing ahead landing in a farm field.

611
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: I do wonder why they don't put a screen over

612
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: the engine, right, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it doesn't

613
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: have to be like a cow catcher on a locomotive,

614
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: like a pointed screen. It's got to be some kind

615
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: of shepherd the stuff around the engine to deflect it something.

616
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not believing me. I'm not an aviation

617
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: engineer or anything close to it. Because if you did that,

618
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: I wonder if you if you need enough airflow coming

619
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: through the engine compartment and if if a screen would

620
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: restrict it too much. But come on, you gotta figure

621
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: that out. Come on, I would think so, because even

622
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: if it could, you could just deflect you know, most

623
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: of it, so that if it did go, you know,

624
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: enough to shut the engine down, would not get through

625
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: the turbine. Yeah, you know what I mean, Yeah, they gotta. Yeah,

626
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: it happens enough where I would think they would try

627
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: to rectify that. Look at us trying to solve the

628
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: world's problems here, we're yeah, we're all over the map.

629
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Speaker 1: We are far from being eminently qualified for such decisions.

630
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: But still we'll still take a shot at it. Uh.

631
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: We're talking about the most underrated moves that Brandon Bean

632
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott have pulled off here in the roster

633
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: build of the bills here over the last four years.

634
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: We wanted to leave it to you instead of giving

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Speaker 1: you choices, so you could come come to us with

636
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Speaker 1: what you think has been some of the more underrated

637
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: parts of the roster build here. Obviously, the trade up

638
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: to get Josh Allen is a major cornerstone of the

639
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: decision making and the roster building here. Similarly, the Stefon

640
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: Diggs trade last year a gigantic headline type move that

641
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: paid huge dividends for this football team. There's been a

642
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: lot of under the radar that simes that this front

643
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: office is made right. And that's I mean, they're not

644
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: all going to be home runs. Even some of the

645
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: free agents that they signed have been just okay or

646
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 1: maybe not at all. Think about this. They resigned Quentin

647
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: Spain after a nice year. He had two games into

648
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: the season, he was benched five games and he's gone.

649
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: But by the same token, like they signed Daryl Williams

650
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 1: to a one year deal last year. Guy became their

651
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: starting right now to stabilize that position after it was

652
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: a platoon position the year before, and now he's locked

653
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: in there for the next three seasons. Yeah, yeah, that's big.

654
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: That's an underrated move, you know, Like, yeah, I want

655
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: to know which ones of those. Certainly, as we get

656
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: into the future and we got further and further away

657
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: from those early moves that they made. All of them

658
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: looked like, hey, they were great smart movie. But back

659
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: at the time, like for instance, the first couple of

660
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: moves they made in free agency they signed Micah Hyde

661
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: and Jordan Poor, everybody's it was a yawner. Well, yeah,

662
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: they were an household name, Yeah, exactly, and they were

663
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: safeties and they signed them to long term cons four

664
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: year they were big deals, and everybody was like, they're

665
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: not corners. I mean, you know what they get. You know,

666
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: they just didn't. It didn't register. And all of the

667
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: those guys are like like on the on the last

668
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: four years, Poorer and Hyde maybe on the mount rushmore

669
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: of this team over the last four years. You know

670
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: what I mean, they're cornerstone players. I think you can

671
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: make that argument, right, I mean those guys were what

672
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: were where would the defense be without them? They're playmakers.

673
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: They they get guys lined up right, Yeah, I'm I'm

674
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: all about it. And that when it happened, like I said,

675
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: people were like, Okay, you know Jordan Poys with Cleveland,

676
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: he's with you know, Micah Hyde was with Green Bay.

677
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: How good can he be they're letting them go, letting

678
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 1: them walk that kind of thing, And certainly the Bills

679
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: signed them both to long term deals, which was a

680
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 1: huge commitment right out of the gate, both of them.

681
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: If it was possible for them to overplay those contracts

682
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: at least in the in the importance they've been to

683
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: this squad, those two guys might be prime candidates for it.

684
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: They've been, They've been fantastic, and that that would, to

685
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: me at the time it was done, would be a

686
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: highly over underrated signing, an underrated move by Bean and McDermott, right,

687
00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: And I think you also have to look at the

688
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: value of the culture build and how that has benefited

689
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: them in the roster build. At least we're seeing that

690
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: seeing more evidence of it now. And I guess what

691
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: I mean by that, Steve, is you look at the

692
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: ability to resign John Feliciano and Daryl Williams. They did

693
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: it at probably below market value cost for the team,

694
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: because what did they say after they signed, I wanted

695
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: to be back in Buffalo, and so I don't know

696
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: if you want to go so far as to say

697
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: it was a hometown discount, but they admittedly took less

698
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: to come back to the Bills. That's because you've built

699
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: a winning organization here in three to four years time.

700
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: So now you've got an attractive place where players want

701
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: to play, want to be have fun coming to work

702
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: every day. You say, well, where does that make a difference.

703
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: I think it makes a difference in the win loss column.

704
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: But I think it also makes a difference in being

705
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 1: able to keep a roster together that you're happy with.

706
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: And I think it was instrumental in helping Brandon being

707
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: and some of the contract negotiators like Jim overdoorf and

708
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: Kevin me Gang to get some of these deals done

709
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: at what looks like, at least on the surface, a

710
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: relatively fiscally responsible long term contract for both Williams and

711
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: for Feliciano to get him back in the fold. Right. Yeah,

712
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: they continue, and I think that the hard part of it.

713
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: And we've seen other teams do it. The Rams did it.

714
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: Sean McVay comes in, Boom, they're in the super Bowl.

715
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: Other teams get immediate benefit out of some changes that

716
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: they make, and you know, but maintaining it has been

717
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: the crucial element that's been different and hopefully is different

718
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: for this club because you see teams like Pittsburgh and

719
00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: Baltimore who are constantly at the top of the New England,

720
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: constantly at the top of the conference up until this

721
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: last year. You know, there are teams that seem to

722
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: get it and stay there. Seattle Seahawks a great example.

723
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: They've been they've been good at that and of course

724
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: they've got Russell Wilson. But along with Pete Carroll, something

725
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: happens and we can ask Bill Poling about it. See

726
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: what he says when he comes on the show. It

727
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: to you know after in the third hour. But what

728
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: is it? And how many things have to align for

729
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: you to be able to maintain after you get a

730
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: really good year and you hit it out of the park.

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00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the Look at the Chicago Bears.

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00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: They had it and they lost it. They can't get

733
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: it back, you know, which is Philadelphia Eagles. They had

734
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: it and they lost it and they can't get it back.

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00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: And that's what Brandon Being subscribes to. A year over

736
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: year competitiveness, you know, being a perennial playoff contender, championship contender, etc.

737
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 1: And hopefully they can sustain what they've built here going forward.

738
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,280
Speaker 1: And I think by keeping a lot of the pieces

739
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: in the same places, they give themselves a very good

740
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: chance to do that. We need to take a break,

741
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 1: but when we come back, your comments on the tweet

742
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 1: sheet about what you think are the most underrated parts

743
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: of the roster build by Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott.

744
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: More of your comments are up next here on One

745
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio,

746
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: the more NFL News and Notes. The Sean Watson's attorney

747
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: has now issued a press release with what he says

748
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: are eighteen massage therapists who support Watson. There are samples

749
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: out there in cyberspace if you care to read them,

750
00:42:54,120 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: but this is obviously Watson's camp trying to refute the

751
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: lawsuits filed by I think it's nineteen total women now

752
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: by using people from the same profession to say he

753
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: was fine with me. I don't know that. How does

754
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: that erase what these women? I don't know. I don't.

755
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: I don't know about that as a defense. Is that

756
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: a no attorney? But it makes me want to wash

757
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: my hands again? Yeah, I don't. I don't know if

758
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: that's holding much water for me. I get it. I

759
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: get I get the strategy. It undermines the credibility even

760
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: of the other nineteen or whatever does it? Though? Why

761
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: does if they're going to say he does it all

762
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: the time, or if it's a serial thing, Well what

763
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: what's if it's if he does it all the time

764
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: or if he does whatever, If you're accusing him he

765
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 1: must do it with everybody? Well, here's just he doesn't.

766
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: So what are you talking about? So it's that kind

767
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: of strategy. But the whole thing isn't Yeah, it's getting

768
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: it's not good and even and you know what, and

769
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: I understand it's a it's a profession that you kind

770
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: of have to kind of sign up for. You know,

771
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: you got an know what you're signing up for. But

772
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: these lawyers, I mean they are how do you how

773
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: do you keep your integrity and your credibility when you

774
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: have to defend either side of this? I mean, it's

775
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:14,439
Speaker 1: just a sordid affair, you know. And and both those

776
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: guys are coming off like a little just barely below

777
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: they're below ambulance chasers. I just the thing that doesn't

778
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: give me a good feeling is just knowing this is

779
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: probably going to get worse before before we get to

780
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: a point where it's resolved. And here's this thing. It's

781
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: so bad. It's so bad because the NFL gets so

782
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,760
Speaker 1: much attention. It's players and its stars get so much attention.

783
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: When something of this magnitude and importance happens, whether it's

784
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: ugly or not. We're guys like you. We're subjected to it.

785
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: We gotta fall. It's like job description. Address it and

786
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: it's like it is not the fun part of what

787
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: we do. It's yeah, yeah, we'll address it more when

788
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: we get USA Today NFL columns Jared Bell on with

789
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: us because this is very quickly for people like Jared

790
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: Bell taking center stage on the NFL news landscape, for

791
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: national guys like him. There is some positive news on

792
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: the player front. Seattle Seahawks giving wide receiver Tyler Lockett

793
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: four year deal Steve Worth just over sixty nine million

794
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: dollars on an extension including thirty seven million guarantee. That's

795
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: a little over seventeen a year, about seventeen three a year, so,

796
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: and Lockett's been a producer. I don't think there's any

797
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: question about that. Him and dk metcalv have been the

798
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: two go two guys up there in their passing game.

799
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: So good for him. We'll have to see where, you know,

800
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: he comes down in the pecking order of top paid

801
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver, Like, I gotta believe that puts him in

802
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: the top maybe top maybe top ten. I'll have to look,

803
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: maybe top ten. And then there are important pro days

804
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 1: going on at a couple of SEC schools, both Florida

805
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: and LSU, holding their pro days today. The top three

806
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: receivers from LSU's program, including Jamar Chase, they all ran

807
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: four three eight today, all of them over six foot,

808
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: you know, all of about two ten, two fifteen at least,

809
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: if not more. All of them run for three eight.

810
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: Must be nice when you've got a recruiting base. Is

811
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: it Like, it's unbelievable, all three of them. It's like

812
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: most schools. It's even a lot of SEC school Steve

813
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: like they've got one or two dreet guys with draftable grades. Wow,

814
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: this guy's our cream of the crop. Here. He runs

815
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: a four three five and he's grab blah blah blah,

816
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: jumps through the roofus and the other Oh, we had

817
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: this other guy. He'll be a Day three pick. We're

818
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: excited about him too. Just they got three guys clocking

819
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 1: in a fourth. Right now, you're looking at edge at

820
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 1: ozer On, You're going ed, How the hell did you? Why? Why?

821
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: Why don't you holding the trophy? Yeah? What are you doing?

822
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: At Florida? Obviously the main attraction there the tight end

823
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, who many field could be off the board

824
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: in the top five selections, even if the first four

825
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: selections or quarterbacks. He is that gifted. This is a

826
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 1: physical freak for sure. Supposedly ran there's no official time yet,

827
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: but he ran in the four fours on both of

828
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: his forty times at his pro day to day. Also

829
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: not forgetting Notre Dames having their Pro day. Yes they are, so,

830
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 1: yes they are. And that's where they've got that linebacker

831
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: that I've got a man crush on, Jeremiah Owusu Koramoa,

832
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: who is probably coming off the board in the first

833
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: fifteen picks. So we shall see as the Pro day

834
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: circuit rolls on, and it carries far more important Steve

835
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: than it has in recent years since there was no combine.

836
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: As you know, this is the only and probably the

837
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: last face to face opportunities for al clubs with their

838
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: scouts or their coaches, or their coordinators or their gms

839
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: to get up close and personal with these college players

840
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: before the draft. We have to take a break, but

841
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: when we return it is USA Today NFL column is

842
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: Jarrett Bell joining us. He'll talk to us about some

843
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: of the most recent NFL developments, where the NFL offseason

844
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: programs for the thirty two teams is headed, with the

845
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: negotiations between the league and the players Association, among other topics,

846
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Speaker 1: including how he thinks the Bills did in this free

847
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: agency period. Jarrett Bell next here on One Bill's Live

848
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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Collow Bills

849
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Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Date, your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

850
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: The Bills now have two signings in the last two

851
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: days in free agency. Yesterday was offensive tackle Bobby Hart

852
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: signing a one year d D the former starter from Cincinnati.

853
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: Today it's linebacker Tyrrell Adams, who was a starter in

854
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: Houston last season. Commencing with the upcoming twenty twenty one campaign,

855
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 1: the NFL expanding its regular season to seventeen games. NFL

856
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: owners voted in approval of the change yesterday at the

857
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: annual league meeting. Each club will now take part in

858
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: an additional AFC versus NFC game based on division standings

859
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: from the prior season, a rotation with home games starting

860
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: with the AFC hosting in twenty twenty one. This means

861
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: the Bills will host Washington in their additional game this fall.

862
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: Preseason schedule now just three games per team. Also, each

863
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: team will play in at least one international game once

864
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: every eight years per the new enhanced schedule beginning in

865
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. NFL's international expansion plans a significant part

866
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: of Tuesday's league meetings, and games appear to be coming

867
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Speaker 1: to Germany and South America. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned

868
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: both of those locations on a conference call yesterday. The

869
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Speaker 1: most likely South American country to host an NFL game

870
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: would be Brazil, NFL making plans to open its stadiums

871
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: to full capacity for this coming season. Speaking to reporters Tuesday,

872
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: Goodell said, quote, all of us in the NFL want

873
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: to see every one of our fans back. Football is

874
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: simply not the same without fans, and we expect to

875
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: have full stadiums in the upcoming season. End quote. And

876
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: the Sabers finish off their two games set with the

877
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: Flyers tonight a Keybank Center, Flyers one Monday Night's game

878
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: forty three and overtime. Dylan Cousins remains day to day

879
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: with an upper body injury. Face off set for seven

880
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: thirty pm. That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

881
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steve Tasker here for our number two of

882
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: a Wednesday edition of One Bills Live. And joining us

883
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: on the line right now is USA Today NFL columnist

884
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: Jared Bell, And Jared, thanks for giving us some time here.

885
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: Some NFL meetings are wrapping up, and we know you

886
00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: had an ear to the ground on all of the

887
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: goings on there. First of all, how you doing, you

888
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:03,959
Speaker 1: and your family doing well here? We're trying to climb

889
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,240
Speaker 1: out of this pandemic. You guys all right, Yeah, everything

890
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: is cool, man. UM, praise God for that. UM. It

891
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: has definitely been an ordeal for all of us. UM.

892
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: You know, one way or another, it's hard to believe

893
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: that it's been like a year since, uh, you know,

894
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: the pandemic really struck. So UM gives you a lot

895
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: to be thankful for and a lot to reflect about. Hey,

896
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:33,720
Speaker 1: my last my last COVID shot. UM, and not shot.

897
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: The test actually was in Buffalo. Oh, then I came

898
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: for the Ravens play Ravens Bills playoff game. You had

899
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: to get clear before I got it. Yeah, I got

900
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 1: tested last week. She says, have you ever done this before?

901
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: And I said, uh, yeah, about nine gazillion times? So

902
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: go ahead, right, So yeah, I'm glad that's kind of

903
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: getting behind us. But talk about now as the league

904
00:51:55,600 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: starts to grind forward, you know, seventeen games some other thing,

905
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: the off seasons coming up? What do you think and

906
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: the league is now the owners are meeting about their

907
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: issues and I've hurt as well. They're having conversations with

908
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: the players union about what this offseason is going to

909
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: look like. What do you think the first story is,

910
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: or the first change, or the first news we're gonna

911
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: hear out of all of this is going to be. Yeah, Well,

912
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: on top of yesterday, and since we were just talking

913
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: about the pandemic, I think it's you know, it's appropriate

914
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,359
Speaker 1: to say that, you know, Goodell's statement about having full

915
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: stadiums this year, it's significant because at least it's telling

916
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: you on the record what they're expecting to do after

917
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: last year. And I think the NFL Draft. The fact

918
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: that the league announced last week that it's going to

919
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: have the draft in Cleveland. It's going to expect tens

920
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: of thousands of fans, no exact number yet, but the

921
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: fact that they are looking to stage a large outdoor

922
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: event was kind of the you know, the telltale sign

923
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: that they wanted to go forward when you got to

924
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: the regular season in terms of having the stadiums full.

925
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: So Goodell reiterated that yesterday as far as the off season, yeah,

926
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: that's that's the next shoe to drop, really, and so

927
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: the league and the union agreed that they're going to

928
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: open OTA's the first phase on April nineteenth. Now after that,

929
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: there's still a question and you know, you know how

930
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: it is for veteran players, OTAs are voluntary, but then again,

931
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: you know, if you're trying to make a team, it

932
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: may not be voluntary. So there's always that. But mandatory

933
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: mini camps, how much time they will actually spend on

934
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: the field in OTA's and oh, by the way, how

935
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: much players will be required to participate in zoom meetings.

936
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: It sign of the times, right, Well, that's one of

937
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,439
Speaker 1: the things that they're going to try to iron out

938
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: as they continue to discuss this over the next ten

939
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: days or so. So Jared, I mean, we know where

940
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: the players union stands on that they'd prefer to do

941
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: as much virtual as possible. That's that much is known.

942
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: I would have to imagine that coaches would like to

943
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: get at least somewhere close to where they used to

944
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: be with the offseason programs to feel as prepared as

945
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: possible for a season. But knowing you know, you have

946
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:26,240
Speaker 1: connections with ownership, where does ownership stand on that, because

947
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: that really doesn't impact their bottom line per se and

948
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: after last year going fully virtual and the season kind

949
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: of going off with just a few hiccups concerning COVID,

950
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: I'm curious if the owners are going to really stump

951
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 1: for the coaches to get players back in the building

952
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: and more importantly, back on the field for things like

953
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: OTA practices in a June mini camp. Yeah, you know,

954
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: great points for sure. And I think going back to

955
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and when Roger Goodell had his press

956
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: conference a few days before the game, I mean, he

957
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: talked about the desire to get back to off seasons

958
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: as we know them, So I think that kind of

959
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: represents where the owners stand on this philosophically, but this

960
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: is the fact that they've been talking about it, and

961
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: you know what, it's in the CBA. If the NFL

962
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 1: wanted to tomorrow say this is what we're going to do,

963
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: they can do it per the terms of the CBA.

964
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: But the NFL in recent years really has tried to

965
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: cooperate with the union or try to involve the union

966
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 1: in some of these decisions. And I think that's been

967
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: a good thing just in terms of the collaboration that

968
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: they've had on some of these things. And maybe that's

969
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: one reason why we got the CBA done last year

970
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: without a lockout. But point being, they've done a lot

971
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: of these things, and we saw it last year during

972
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: the pandemic when they did the mini CBA within the pandemic,

973
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: that they're working with the union on this. And you

974
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: mentioned the union's position. I think the union's position really

975
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: is like, let's just have no offseason, right, But that's

976
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: not realistic, and so you try to find a happy medium.

977
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: I was talking to one NFL coach recently and he

978
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: told me that if it was up to him, he

979
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't really sweat having the OTAs as we've known them

980
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: in terms of all of the workouts, you know, let

981
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:25,919
Speaker 1: guys have the building available and open that can come

982
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: in and work out, because for the players, a lot

983
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: of times when they're not at the facilities, they're working

984
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: out and they're paying trainers and Arizona and Florida and

985
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: wherever they go. So there is a benefit to players,

986
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: especially younger players who don't have all the finances that

987
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: some of the established veterans have to have a place

988
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: to come and be able to work out and get

989
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: them get a meal, that sort of thing. So I

990
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: think there's some sentiment around the league, Yes, we want

991
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: to have our facilities open for players to work out. Now,

992
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: how much you do on the field, I think that's

993
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: really the crux because another thing that happens every offseason

994
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: somebody gets hurt and OTA's and it's a real serious

995
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: season ending injury. I mean, we've seen that, you know,

996
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: I'm saying that happens with every team and so many players.

997
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: But that's one of the storylines that pops up from

998
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: time to time during these OTAs. Because you're on the field,

999
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: you're competing, and you know you're you're playing a physical sport,

1000
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: and injuries happen so I think that's the big fear

1001
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: and one of the reasons why a GM talking about

1002
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: someone else I spoke to recently told me he's not

1003
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: really on board with having OTAs as extensive as they've

1004
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: had them in the past. So I think these are

1005
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: some of the issues that are on the table being discussed,

1006
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: and it may be a situation where we don't see

1007
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: as many OTA practices as we've had. But again, you

1008
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: can find a range of opinions on that, and you

1009
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: always have been it because you know, be mindful that

1010
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: some teams have been fined over the years for doing

1011
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: too much at an OTA, so um, they've they've got

1012
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: to come to some kind of agreement here in the

1013
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: coming days. There's an enormous gray area because and now

1014
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:16,439
Speaker 1: you've got an experiments, let's call it, on the other

1015
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: end of it, where last season they couldn't do any

1016
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: of that stuff and the season went off pretty well.

1017
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: I mean, the football was right, The football was great,

1018
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: and although I think some of the some of the

1019
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: officiating and the way they did things and the shortcuts

1020
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: they took to officiating kind of smooth the way for

1021
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,439
Speaker 1: the games not to be herkey jury, like they weren't

1022
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: calling holding, and they weren't. They spotted the ball on

1023
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: the yard line almost all the time. They didn't kind

1024
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: of got Yeah, they were eyeballing a lot of times.

1025
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, the games flowed and the and the players

1026
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: played extremely well. Certainly defenses took a while to acclimate,

1027
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,439
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of evidence that says you don't

1028
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 1: need to see these guys until July, but to put

1029
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: on a really good league in the fall. On the

1030
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: other hand, if I'm owning the team and I'm paying

1031
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: the guys eight figures, they can show up to work

1032
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: for me whenever I say, you know, I mean, I

1033
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: don't know. If I'm paying you ten million bucks, Yeah,

1034
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna show up to work Monday through Friday in March, April,

1035
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: and May, because I'm paying you ten million bucks for

1036
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: the privilege. So there's a little bit of that going

1037
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,479
Speaker 1: on as well. But the football end of it, there's

1038
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that they have an excuse anymore to

1039
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: say we gotta have you in here. Yeah, at a

1040
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: great point, Steve, because that's really the message that JC Tretter,

1041
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns censor, who is the president of the

1042
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: NFL Pa. That's kind of been the basis of his

1043
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: argument that hey, we've shown that you can still have

1044
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: a good product. Hey, and I go back far enough

1045
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: in this U in this temistry, Steve, I started in

1046
00:59:55,080 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: the eighties, he too. Yeah, yeah, you didn't had offseason

1047
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: job hundred yeah, uys in training camp? Yeah, two days

1048
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: for three weeks. Yeah yeah, yeah. But I mean but

1049
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: the guys would come in, I think for one mini camp,

1050
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: but they were they would also be around during the

1051
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 1: offseason for the scenario I described earlier where they would

1052
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: be able to come in and work out of the

1053
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: facility and then they go work their job somewhere. So

1054
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: I think those are some of the realities of what

1055
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: can happen. But here's the thing, the reason why I

1056
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: think they will definitely have some form of it's the

1057
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Speaker 1: younger developmental players. So the veteran players, you know, and

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01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are separate category because they're running the offense and

1059
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: they do so much in terms of formulating, you know,

1060
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: the strategies and how you implement that. But you think

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01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: about the younger guys, who are you know, one, two,

1062
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: three years in the league and they're trying to you know,

1063
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: stick on the roster because we see so much turnover

1064
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: in the roster anyway, from year to year, maybe thirty

1065
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: percent of the roster is changed. At the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the roster, Well, those guys really need to work any offseason,

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Speaker 1: and even especially like the rookies coming in and learning

1068
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: new techniques and trying to you know, acclimate themselves to

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01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: the NFL level. So there is value there for players

1070
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: and coaches. But I think he separated when you start

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01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: talking about established players who don't need it. Now to

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Speaker 1: your point about paying a guy ten million dollars, yeah,

1073
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: I get that, but I think really there's got to

1074
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 1: be something in there for a recovery time besides this

1075
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: the six weeks. And my thought was this, if you've

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01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,439
Speaker 1: got a teams that are the due demand, it would

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01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: be a free agent enticement. Say, for instance, a Buffalo

1078
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: team always gives their guys six months with no touch,

1079
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: you're out, whereas somebody like in New England or Miami, whatever,

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01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: they got you in the building, you're there every day

1081
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: in the offseason. So if you're free agent, you're thinking, man,

1082
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: I want six months of free time, and it will

1083
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: be part of your program to entice players with free time.

1084
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: In the off season and maybe a zoom meeting once

1085
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,919
Speaker 1: a week kind of thing. So I thought it would

1086
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: be one more way in a league where every team

1087
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,440
Speaker 1: is kind of the same for these teams to differentiate

1088
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: themselves and maybe gain an advantage in some way, shape

1089
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: or form. Yeah, that's a great point. And I had

1090
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: one coach put that to me almost exactly like that.

1091
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: You probably were talking to him because, as he said, Hey,

1092
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: people like our program because of the way that we

1093
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: run our off season, and so yeah, that's a real

1094
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: significant thing for players. But again, I just reiterate there's

1095
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:43,920
Speaker 1: just a difference between established players and younger players in

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01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: terms of what the need is for offseason work. Late

1097
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: last week, Jared and we're talking to Jared Bell, NFL

1098
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: columnists for USA Today. Late last week, obviously, the forty

1099
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 1: nine ers made seismic waves in the draft with the

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01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 1: move from twelve up to three. And I don't know

1101
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: if Steve and I were talking about it late last week, saying, man,

1102
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 1: they gave up a lot to go up nine spots,

1103
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: and it harkened us back to the move that Brandon

1104
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: being made in the twenty eighteen draft. He went from

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01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: twelve to seven which granted isn't three, it's not the

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01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: top five. But he only gave up his pick at twelve,

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01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: a couple of twos, and I think A four didn't

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01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: give up any additional ones. And here are the forty

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01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 1: nine ers given up two more ones on top of

1110
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: their pick at twelve to go up nine spots. What

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01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: in the world has happened to the value of the

1112
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: top twelve picks in the draft? Because it just seemed

1113
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 1: like a king's ransom to get up there. Yeah, and

1114
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: you know, you think back to I think the RG

1115
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: three deal that Washington made was you know, multiple number

1116
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: one picks. I mean that is the going rate sometimes, right,

1117
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: and this year it was definitely the going rate. Because

1118
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:02,920
Speaker 1: everybody thinks that this crop of quarterbacks is so special

1119
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: that you'll have five of them in the top ten picks. Say,

1120
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Speaker 1: and you know how it is, man, We'll come back

1121
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 1: here in five years, maybe even three years and say,

1122
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: WHOA what were they thinking? Because it's such a crap shoot.

1123
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Speaker 1: They always talk about the draft being a crap shoot,

1124
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: but especially when you talk about quarterbacks and you talk

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01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: about what you give up, as you pointed to get

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Speaker 1: into these positions. So you think about the Rams a

1127
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 1: few years ago, moving up, giving up a bunch of

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Speaker 1: picks to get Jared Goff right, and then the second

1129
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Speaker 1: pick was Carson Wentz and Dak Prescott, by the way,

1130
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: was drafted in the fourth round that year, and Prescott's

1131
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: got the forty million dollars deal, and Golf and Wins

1132
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: we're both traded this offseason. I mean, it's crazy. And

1133
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying that Golf and went to a

1134
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: busts at this point, but they add been traded. So

1135
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: when you talk about building your franchise around somebody that

1136
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: you've invested so heavily into, yeah, it's it's phenomenal when

1137
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: you think think of that. And then you can go

1138
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 1: to the situation with Mitch Traubisky because the forty nine ers,

1139
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: and this is John Lynch when he first started on

1140
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: the job, they swung that trade with Chicago to allow

1141
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: the Bears to move one spot to get mister Trubisky.

1142
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: And that was the year Deshan Watson and Patrick Mahomes

1143
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: and yeah, look at what's all happened. Then. So let's

1144
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: let's take that a step further, Jarrett, because they move

1145
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: up from twelve to three and there's this undercurrent of Oh,

1146
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:44,479
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Mac Jones. He's a fit for Kyle

1147
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,439
Speaker 1: Shanahan offense, and Steve and I are looking at each other, going,

1148
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: Mac Jones, this guy was They're talking about him being

1149
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: available with the fifteenth pick for New England and now

1150
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: he's in the top three, Like, what the hell happened here?

1151
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: You're not moving up there to get a guy with

1152
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: no elite physical traits? Are you? You're going to get

1153
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 1: Justin Fields or Trey Lance? You're getting You're looking for

1154
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 1: an athletic phenom at three, aren't you? I think so too.

1155
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 1: And the fact that the forty nine ers went to

1156
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,440
Speaker 1: go to Alabama's pro day the next day, I have

1157
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: to press right, yeah, right, we're in the smoke Screen season, right, yeah, yeah,

1158
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: so I'm not buying that one. And and yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: with you, Chris, it's got to be Fields when you

1160
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: talk about what you're moving up to try to get,

1161
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 1: or even Trey Lance if you liked him so much better,

1162
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 1: because yeah, it just wouldn't make sense to move that

1163
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: high and give up that much for Mac Jones. And

1164
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 1: mac Jones might be another Matt Ryan type of guy

1165
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: for Kyle Shanahan, right, but but he is definitely in

1166
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: that mode versus you know, some of the other quarterbacks

1167
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:58,560
Speaker 1: that we've seen come along. So uh yeah, smoke screen season.

1168
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 1: And the one thing that Kyle Shanahan said the other

1169
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: day on the press conference, I was on that Zoom

1170
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 1: call too, and um, you know, he talked about the

1171
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: fact that they are going to have another opportunity at

1172
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 1: Justin Fields to see him. Uh person, he's gonna throw

1173
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: a second time, right, yeah, exactly. So um, in terms

1174
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,439
Speaker 1: of the timing for when they decided to go see

1175
01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: Mac versus Justin, I think that was part of it

1176
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 1: as well. But nothing like a good smoke screen. And

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Speaker 1: Shanahan also said that, you know, Jimmy Garoppolo wasn't all

1178
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: that happy with that trade up because because he can

1179
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: see the writing on the wall just like the three

1180
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: of us can. How do you think that goes down?

1181
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 1: And because Garoppolo's contract is not a safety net in

1182
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form, for him, Yeah, no, And

1183
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 1: you know what, here's the thing. I started thinking about

1184
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: that because there's still a couple more years for Garoppolo

1185
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: under on the contract. I think it's two, it might

1186
01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: be three. So in in salary cap you know parlance,

1187
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: if you will, they can work with that. And remember

1188
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 1: this cap is going up a lot more, okay, over

1189
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 1: the next three years or so, so they can stomach

1190
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:15,919
Speaker 1: it from that standpoint for definitely and obviously this year

1191
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: and then maybe even next year in terms of if

1192
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: you if you don't have the young guy ready at

1193
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 1: that point. But it is interesting because if you get

1194
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 1: the young guy and he turns out to be a

1195
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: great player, then you're going to save So I see

1196
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: the decision really young Garoppolo coming down in a couple

1197
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:40,719
Speaker 1: of years to tell you, So, I think they've got

1198
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: They've got this year and next year to really um,

1199
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: you know, deal with that contract, and then after that

1200
01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:51,880
Speaker 1: they'll have a little amount of time and how much

1201
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: cap dollars they would have to eat if they get

1202
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: let go Jimmy Garoppolo. But in the meantime, if the

1203
01:08:57,120 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 1: cap is going up and you got a young quarterback

1204
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 1: playing on the rookie contract, that's going to give you

1205
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: a benefit you know inherently just because of that, then

1206
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: you can do this. But in terms of Garoppolo and

1207
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: you know his reaction to the deal, I mean, you

1208
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: can't blame him just because he's a competitor. He's playing

1209
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 1: and he's played well when he's been healthy, but we

1210
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: all know um and even before he got there, you

1211
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 1: think about that, that was kind of the big question, was,

1212
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:29,639
Speaker 1: you know, is he going to be healthy reliably right?

1213
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 1: And so you look at Tom Brady and all the

1214
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 1: greatness that he's had over the years, and he's had that.

1215
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 1: He had that one year where he got his you know,

1216
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 1: he injured his knee and missed most of the year,

1217
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 1: but otherwise his durability has been just you know, off

1218
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: the chart. But that's that's so rare, especially for that position.

1219
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: Your guy in Buffalo has got the makings of holding

1220
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 1: up too, but you know, not the Jensum or anything

1221
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: like that. But it's still sometimes you can just be

1222
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 1: the biggest stud and just playing that position, there's this

1223
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: inherent risk. But in San Francisco's case, I think, yeah,

1224
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 1: if you're gonna make the move now, you still have time.

1225
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 1: You can you know, work that deal with Garoppolo's contract

1226
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 1: and have a couple of years to be able to

1227
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 1: do it. Last one for me, Jared, I know you've

1228
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 1: recently had a piece on the Saints and where they

1229
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: go at quarterback going forward. Obviously they have Hill and

1230
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,680
Speaker 1: Winston on the roster, but no Drew Brees is going

1231
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: to change the complexion of that entire division, let alone

1232
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: the Saints. The Bills have the Saints on the schedule

1233
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 1: this year. So that's why I'm asking this one. You

1234
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:40,959
Speaker 1: said it's going to test the Saints creative mojo. Exactly

1235
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: what do you mean by that? Because you know just

1236
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: what you said about Drew Brees. It has been Drew Brees,

1237
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: Sean Payton and that system in place for so long,

1238
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: right we're talking fifteen years and so now and even

1239
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 1: though pay has done things like with Taysom Hill, who

1240
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 1: I think is just this phenomenal talent as we all

1241
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: probably do, the way that they've been able to use him,

1242
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 1: um that they've shown a great deal of creativity just

1243
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 1: to get him in the flow and get impact for him.

1244
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 1: And so that has been that. But now I think

1245
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: even if you pick Jamie, if you pick Jameis Winston

1246
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 1: as a starter, well you're still going to have to

1247
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: do something with Taysom Hill. You can't just let him

1248
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: sit there. If Taysom Hill is the starter, then you're

1249
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 1: going to have to do more to create your offense

1250
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: around him and his skill set. And and so I

1251
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 1: think it's a real tricky thing because say Taysom Hill

1252
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: is the guy, and you build this offense and then

1253
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 1: something happens to Taysom Hill and Winston has to play.

1254
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: You may have to, you know, just really you know,

1255
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 1: reconfigure your offense around Winston. So it's not it's it's

1256
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: almost like it's not, you know, one offense and both

1257
01:11:57,040 --> 01:11:59,639
Speaker 1: guys play it the same way. And you know, when

1258
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:02,720
Speaker 1: I talk Sean Payton about it, he pretty much acknowledged that,

1259
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 1: and he said that he, as we build this offense,

1260
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: it will be built, you know, based on the guy

1261
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:12,759
Speaker 1: who wins the job, and you know, for their sake,

1262
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:15,840
Speaker 1: better sooner than later to have a decision on where

1263
01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 1: you're going. But that's the kind of tallenge that they

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Speaker 1: have as opposed to all of these years saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees is our offense and anything we add on

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Speaker 1: top of it is just in addition to what we

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Speaker 1: do as a base offense. So it's going to test them.

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Speaker 1: And then you know Carmichael, Pete Carmichael, who for many

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Speaker 1: years was the offensive cording. I mean I'm sorry. Yeah, Lombardi,

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coaches moved on to the Chargers, so they've

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Speaker 1: got they've got some you know, some creative things that

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Speaker 1: are going to challenge them. Well, last one for me,

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Speaker 1: we're kind of we're kind of about all about the

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Speaker 1: Bills here and we watch what goes on in the division.

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Speaker 1: What do you think and what's your first reaction to

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Speaker 1: way Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots handle their

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Speaker 1: free agency with signing Cam Cam Newton just before it started,

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Speaker 1: and the four really four main guys, two tight ends,

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Speaker 1: two white House that they brought back, plus all the

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Speaker 1: recent signings from guys who had left New England and

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Speaker 1: now are coming back. What are your thoughts on where

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots sit after free agency? Yeah, I

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01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 1: mean they're they're better, They're going to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: more competitive, I think. But the way I look at

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Speaker 1: it right now, Buffalo is still a team to be

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Speaker 1: and and you know, and that's with all due respects

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Speaker 1: to everything the Patriots have done. Now we can always

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Speaker 1: look at free agency and say, you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: hit or miss thing with a lot of players, but

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Speaker 1: and it is because some you know, players have to

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Speaker 1: come from different systems and fit in and all that.

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Speaker 1: But at least the Patriots have more talent than they had, right,

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Speaker 1: So how it offits and you know Belichick can make

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Speaker 1: it offit so that remains to be seen. But the

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Speaker 1: one person that they don't have coming back is Time Brady, right,

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Speaker 1: And so you know a lot of this still it's

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Speaker 1: on Cam Newton. Now, Cam Newton is going to be

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Speaker 1: surrounded by a better cast. He's got speed at receivers,

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Speaker 1: he's got two tight ends. We'll see if the offensive

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Speaker 1: line can can be consistent the defense, but so he's

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Speaker 1: got all this stuff around him that's going to be better.

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Speaker 1: And that's for any quarterback anywhere. You want to have

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Speaker 1: a great supporting cast. So now I think so much

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Speaker 1: of this is going to come down to whether or

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Speaker 1: not Cam Newton can be a lot better than he

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Speaker 1: was last year. Because the one thing that I thought

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Speaker 1: about the Patriots last year is that they had four

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Speaker 1: or five games that they lost that they were in

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Speaker 1: position to win and they didn't get it done in

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Speaker 1: crunch time. And some of that fell directly on Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: And those were the games that Tom Brady would have won.

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Speaker 1: For you know, most of them, right, and so I

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Speaker 1: think that just kind of illustrates, you know, the difference

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Speaker 1: between going thirteen and three or even eleven and five

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Speaker 1: versus eight and eight. Okay, so they're gonna need to

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01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: see more and better from Cam Newton. But at least

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Speaker 1: he has more weapons around him. Now let's see if

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Speaker 1: he can take his game up to another level. And

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Speaker 1: that's something you know, essentially you think about Cam Newton

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Speaker 1: was an MVP at one point, but he fell off,

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Speaker 1: and now he's trying to get back, if not at

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Speaker 1: MVP level, at least two, you know, dominant quarterback level. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was rough last year. I mean, it wasn't the

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Speaker 1: receivers that made him throw, you know, fifty nine footers

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01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:37,599
Speaker 1: bouncing him off the ground in front of receivers. He's

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Speaker 1: really gotta get back to playmaking status if that offense

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Speaker 1: is going to go anywhere. But we're at a time. Jared,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much for giving us some of yours. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, always appreciate the expertise and insight. Now I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. I have a good one say too.

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Speaker 1: That's Jared l national columnist for the NFL. For US

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Speaker 1: A two day and we didn't even get into the

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson stuff. But you know what, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's a thing I want to really dive deep

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01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 1: into until there's more clarity on it. And it's troubling.

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01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,360
Speaker 1: It is troubling stuff. But it's interesting that he thinks

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01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 1: a better surrounding cast is going to help Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: I believe it'll help him, sure, but he's the trigger man,

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01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: like he's got to make it happen. And I can't

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Speaker 1: get those bounce passes out of my head from last season.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how it's suddenly gonna flip on its

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Speaker 1: head and be dramatically better. I mean, yes, he will

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01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: have easier throws to make with the tight ends in

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01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. He can throw it there,

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01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:39,120
Speaker 1: so that will help him inherently, I mean just logically thinking.

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01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,759
Speaker 1: But getting it outside the numbers was a major issue

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01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 1: for him last He couldn't do it. Yeah, the ball

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01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:47,720
Speaker 1: does not come out of his hands the way it

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01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:53,640
Speaker 1: once did. And even I just I'm with you. He

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01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 1: made some bad throws last year, and throws where he

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01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: was not hurried and throws it you would You've seen

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01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: him and tons of other quarterbacks just you know, you

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01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 1: make it, the ball comes out, and he would release

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01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 1: that ball and it would not come out the way

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Speaker 1: he expected it to come out. And that's a that's troubling. Well.

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Speaker 1: And I think people have thought of him for so

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01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 1: long as this physical Adonis, because he is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know you've stood next to him. I've stood on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines like ten yards away from him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he looks like he's chiseled at a granite. He's at

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Speaker 1: six five and insane muscle definition for a person with long,

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Speaker 1: you know, muscle fibers. It's it's not right. And I

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Speaker 1: think he's long been thought of this physical Adonis for

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01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 1: so long that I don't know if people have come

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01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,840
Speaker 1: to the realization that, well, maybe he just can't do

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Speaker 1: it physically anymore, which sounds insane standing there looking at him,

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Speaker 1: But after we saw what we saw last year, I'm wondering,

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Speaker 1: I really am. And he's had multiple surgeries, let's not

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01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: forget that, for feet and for shoulders, and it adds up,

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Speaker 1: it has a cumulative effect. The reality is this all

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Speaker 1: these guys, it's everybody. The reality is this. When you

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Speaker 1: play the in the NFL for a time, any period

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Speaker 1: ten years for him ten years. Of course, guys like

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Speaker 1: Brady and and you know whatever, and all these young

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Speaker 1: guys we're talking about running these four three is coming

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01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:21,360
Speaker 1: out of college. And listen, not Tyreek Hill. He's not

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Speaker 1: going to run a four three for his entire life

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01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: or four two whatever whatever. You know, when he's ten

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01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:30,920
Speaker 1: years into his career, he'll be fast, but he's not

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01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 1: gonna be four two fast. He'll be miles on the tires.

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Speaker 1: That's just the way it works, because the physical the

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01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: accumulation of physical punishment just doesn't go away. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Edelman's another example. That guy's got. He's running bone on

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01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 1: bone on one of his knees. It's doesn't work at

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01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: age thirty five. It hurts. The game hurts, and these

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01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,360
Speaker 1: guys deal with it. Cam Newton, and you think about

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01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: the shots he took in the physicality he played with

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01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,760
Speaker 1: as big and as strong and as tough as he is,

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01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:01,560
Speaker 1: you know, it hurts. Hurts, man, And you know you

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01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 1: don't work the same way when you're thirty five you

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01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:08,080
Speaker 1: did when you were twenty five. So yeah, to see

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton in the shape that he is, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise you, but he's you know, he's one

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Speaker 1: of the opponents that Father time is kind of getting

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Speaker 1: the best of break time for us. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll get your thoughts on the tweet sheet. As we've

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Speaker 1: been talking today about the most underrated moves made by

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01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 1: Brandon being in Sean McDermott in this roster build. We

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Speaker 1: got some good answers on the tweet sheet. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to those when we return here. On One Bill's Live,

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01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back

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01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:51,680
Speaker 1: in One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you.

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Speaker 1: Some more NFL news coming down. NFL Networks Tom Pella

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01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 1: Sero tweeting that the NFL just sent a memo to

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01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: clubs saying they should prepare to conduct meetings virtually when

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01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 1: the offseason program begins April nineteenth, but don't anticipate another

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Speaker 1: all virtual workout program like twenty twenty. According to sources,

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Speaker 1: translation get ready to see players on the field this spring.

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Speaker 1: The memo also says teams should procure sufficient COVID testing

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Speaker 1: supplies before April nineteenth, while also saying protocols will be

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Speaker 1: amended in the coming months to eliminate a number of

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Speaker 1: significant restrictions for vaccinated individuals, including daily testing. Now, as

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Speaker 1: we know, Steve, vaccines have not been mandated by the league,

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01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 1: but they will certainly carry a bunch of incentives because

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Speaker 1: in the memo it also said it has also anticipated

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Speaker 1: that clubs that achieve a certain rate of vaccination among

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Speaker 1: its tiered staff and players may be permitted to relax

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01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 1: restrictions that apply to meetings, meal time, and the use

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01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 1: of locker rooms. So they're not gonna tell people what

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01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 1: to do. But you'll be in better shape if you do.

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01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 1: If everybody gets vaccinated, you don't have any COVID restrictions

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Speaker 1: in your building. That that's incentive enough. But this, uh

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Speaker 1: and I was telling you as we were off to

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Speaker 1: break this April nineteenth. You know, you think about why

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Speaker 1: they do? You know why April? Why not you know,

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01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 1: June or July? Why not leave it away? Here's why

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Speaker 1: April nineteen, two weeks before or at ten days before

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Speaker 1: the draft. What they do is they go out, they

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Speaker 1: send their scouts out, their gems, their coaching staff out,

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01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 1: and they look at all these pro days. They look

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01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 1: at this stuff. They start scouting. They're looking at film.

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Speaker 1: They're watching these guys play who are they're gonna who

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01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 1: are gonna be in the draft, and then they say, Okay,

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01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:42,280
Speaker 1: we got all these guys. These guys look pretty good.

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Speaker 1: What about this goal? Are you know what? Right before

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01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: the draft, let's get one good look at our players

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01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: to remember what we have right now. That's what this

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Speaker 1: April nineteenth thing is. Now, it was the meetings are

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01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: all going to be virtual, but they're all and they're

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01:21:55,520 --> 01:21:57,599
Speaker 1: also still discussing what they can do on the field.

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01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:01,759
Speaker 1: In years past, when it was quote unquote normal, they'd

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01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: be on the field running around. It wasn't that way

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01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 1: last year, and this year it looks like it's gonna be.

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01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: Meetings are gonna be virtual, and they're still talking about Yeah,

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01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:12,760
Speaker 1: they may they may get a chance to get on

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01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 1: the field and do some you know, I think that's may.

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01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 1: They may be able to do some gym classes or something,

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01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, like nothing. But in the years past, that's

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Speaker 1: what that was all about. They want to get one

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01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:28,559
Speaker 1: last look at who they've got before they hit the draft.

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01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 1: They've got all this stuff in the haze in the

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01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 1: barn with a college player evaluations. Now they come back,

1453
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:38,520
Speaker 1: they get one last look at their guys to refresh

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01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: their roster and see what they got, even the new

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01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: guys especially, and then they go to the draft and saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's where we here's what we're looking at. And that's

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Speaker 1: that's why this happens in April. The other interesting thing

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01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:56,280
Speaker 1: is with no combine, there's no wholesale medical examination of

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Speaker 1: the balance of players upwards of three hundred for the

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01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: teams to make use of and file away. And they've

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Speaker 1: had to do a lot of that legwork at Pro

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Speaker 1: Days and such, or certain or they've pooled resources and

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Speaker 1: certain teams that have been able to do medical evaluations

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01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:18,639
Speaker 1: on certain players they send them to the other clubs.

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Speaker 1: There have been some arrangements made. But now and again

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Speaker 1: this is Tom Pellisero reporting this. We know in April

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Speaker 1: they usually have those medical rechecks in Indianapolis, so players

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01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 1: at the combine they got red flagged for something, they

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01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 1: will circle back bring them back to Indianapolis in April

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Speaker 1: for a medical recheck. They are conducting a medical recheck

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Speaker 1: with about one hundred and fifty NFL draft prospects who

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Speaker 1: will be in Indianapolis next weekend for in person medical evals.

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Speaker 1: A shorter list than normally examined at the combine, but

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Speaker 1: it's expected to include all projected round one to Round

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Speaker 1: three picks, plus other flagged individuals that happened during pro

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Speaker 1: day visits. So they're doing whatever they can to cover

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Speaker 1: as many bases as they can before the draft, despite

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. So interesting and it's yeah, and because think

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Speaker 1: about it, what there's no other reason for them to

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Speaker 1: have an April get together except to get to evaluate

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Speaker 1: the guys they've got before they draft new ones. And

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Speaker 1: you know they you know, the Bills signed their guide

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Speaker 1: Tyrrell today, Tyrell Adams Adams and uh yeah, so doing that,

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Speaker 1: there's just nothing, Yeah, Terrell Adams. They there's some of

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Speaker 1: these guys aren't even gonna make it to camp. They're

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Speaker 1: just not there. She's gonna be They're gonna run out.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna see if they they can at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the roster of the new signs and like, I

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Speaker 1: like this guy even better, Okay, that guy's gone, You're in.

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Speaker 1: And they go to training camp like that. They'll keep

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Speaker 1: changing the roster even after the draft, signing rookie free

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Speaker 1: agents all of that stuff. Um, and this so this

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Speaker 1: I get it may good sense, but in the big

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Speaker 1: scheme of things, I mean, what are you doing. They

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Speaker 1: don't need to talk to these guys. They don't need to.

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Speaker 1: They don't need Josh Allen to come back for a

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Speaker 1: week on April nineteenth. Yeah, they don't need Devin Singletary

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Speaker 1: or Zach Moss to come back for it. What are

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Speaker 1: you doing? You know, that's what the Union's saying. You

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Speaker 1: don't need these guys. You got another got made June

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Speaker 1: and July before you even think about getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the season. Why you gotta have these guys back? Intend

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And so this is this

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01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:37,519
Speaker 1: god hearkens back to when it was all done with

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01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:42,720
Speaker 1: pencils and eracers instead of laser beams and computers. So

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01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: you know it's the Union's got a point when they say, bro,

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Speaker 1: come on, break time for us. I promise we'll get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet when we return. Your comments on

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Speaker 1: the most underrated part of the roster build under Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermot. Got some good responses here. Promise

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Speaker 1: we'll get to them when we return. You're on one

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Speaker 1: bills Live, presented by a Lot of Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio, what's the most underrated part of the roster build?

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Speaker 1: Under Brandon being a showmencernment? Let us know at one

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Speaker 1: Bills live on the tweet sheet, which is where we

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Speaker 1: go now. Brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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

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01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: us off today, says nothing. We were underrated and underdogs

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01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: for a while the last couple of years. That's why

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Speaker 1: we are who we are today, one of the best

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Speaker 1: teams in the NFL. We've got a smart gm, smarthead coach,

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Speaker 1: two guys that wanted to build and believe in this franchise,

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Speaker 1: and we have built a culture no other team has.

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Speaker 1: I think there are some healthy cultures elsewhere in the league.

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Speaker 1: But I get what he's saying. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he understood the question fully. You know, what's the most

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01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 1: underrated part of the roster build? And he didn't think

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Speaker 1: there was anything that was underrated. UM. I think there

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01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,680
Speaker 1: are some parts of this roster build that don't get

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Speaker 1: enough credit. UM. The willingness to trade up time and

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Speaker 1: again to get some player you covet that you believe

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01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:21,200
Speaker 1: is sliding. I mean, whether you're talking I mean, listen

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Speaker 1: to this list, Steve Okay. In terms of trade upskay

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01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:33,920
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, Josh Allen, Tremaine, Edmonds, Dawson Knox, Cody Ford.

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Speaker 1: I think no down down, which was before being got

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Speaker 1: on board. Those are all the trade ups that I believe.

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Speaker 1: That's all of them. It's an impressive group. I mean that.

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01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 1: I think one of the things about this question most

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01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 1: underrated part of the roster build. It almost comes down

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01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 1: to you have to kind of peel away the results

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01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,280
Speaker 1: of what's really underrated. The under rated part is the discipline.

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Speaker 1: They have never to go off course they haven't. They didn't.

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01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:06,800
Speaker 1: They kicked the tires on everything. But they didn't pay

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01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:08,719
Speaker 1: the money for Levion Bill, they didn't pay the money

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01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 1: for Antonio Brady even offer right, and they didn't overpay

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01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 1: for J. J. Watt j Arizona card right. They you know,

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01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 1: they looked into all of those things, um and didn't

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Speaker 1: pull the trigger. When it's too rich, it's too rich.

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Speaker 1: When it's too much, it's too much. And when they

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01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:32,800
Speaker 1: do pull the trigger, they rarely get it wrong. Put

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01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 1: on the like on those trade ups you just said,

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01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:39,720
Speaker 1: you know, they rarely get that wrong and I think

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01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:42,519
Speaker 1: the most underrated thing is the thing that we don't

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01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: talk about too much. It's the discipline they have not

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01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:49,160
Speaker 1: to go off course, stick to the vision how many times.

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01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:51,200
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the jet because they can be tempting.

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01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:53,639
Speaker 1: You know, you get hyper competitive. You see some other

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01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:56,559
Speaker 1: team doing something, and then you're tempted to do something.

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01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get our guy, We're gonna get it,

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01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 1: and you veer off court. Yeah, you get you put

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01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:05,439
Speaker 1: yourself into problems. JJ Watt's never gonna earn fifteen million

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01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:08,760
Speaker 1: dollars production wise. Yeah, he's gonna earn it because he

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01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:12,000
Speaker 1: signed the contract. But he's not gonna outplay that contract. No,

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Speaker 1: there's no way, not at age thirty two, with his

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01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 1: injury history, there's no way. Tiffany on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: says in my opinion, adding Trubisky was genius not too

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01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 1: long ago, he was the second overall selection in the draft.

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Speaker 1: If the Bills can find a way to get his

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01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:29,759
Speaker 1: confidence back, they'll have a solid backup option behind Josh

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01:29:29,760 --> 01:29:31,720
Speaker 1: and a potential trade asset for a team in need

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01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,960
Speaker 1: of a quarterback. Now, I don't know that you need

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01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 1: to get his confidence back. This guy completed sixty seven

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01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 1: percent of his past his last season, when he was

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01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:42,679
Speaker 1: finally healthy again after a partially torn laborim in twenty nineteen,

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01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:46,640
Speaker 1: that he played through sixteen touchdowns, eight picks, and a

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Speaker 1: passer rating of almost ninety four. And as we said

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Speaker 1: on the show yesterday, Steve Guy went eight games over

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Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty starts for the Bears. The Bears,

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Speaker 1: they're the only team in the league who in their

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01:30:01,640 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 1: history does not have a four thousand yard thrower, never

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Speaker 1: not one. So I would agree it's an underrated signing.

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01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: I just don't know if you need to get his

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01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:13,479
Speaker 1: confidence back. I think he had a decent season last year.

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Speaker 1: I really do. I don't know. With you, I'm with you,

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01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:24,480
Speaker 1: I underrated. I don't know, because it'll only be underrated

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01:30:24,560 --> 01:30:27,240
Speaker 1: now if he comes in and knocks it out of

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01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:30,120
Speaker 1: the park when you need him to. Unexpected might be

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01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:32,360
Speaker 1: a better description, which you hope he never never, You

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01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:35,120
Speaker 1: hope he never sees the light of day. I did

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Speaker 1: see a report out there where Trubisky said he would

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Speaker 1: have been interested if the Denver Broncos gave him a

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01:30:44,560 --> 01:30:47,840
Speaker 1: call to compete for the starting job. You know, Withdrew Locke,

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01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:51,320
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio's up there. He was in Chicago previously as

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01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:54,960
Speaker 1: the DC. You know, Mitchell knows him. He would have

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01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:58,800
Speaker 1: been excited to do that. Denver never called, Okay, there

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01:30:58,880 --> 01:31:01,320
Speaker 1: must be something there. Ever, call see there's got to

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01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 1: be something there that we don't see. Look, the guy

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01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:06,360
Speaker 1: doesn't have a rocket arm. It's not an elite arm.

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01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:10,439
Speaker 1: It's an about average arm. But I think his physical

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01:31:10,479 --> 01:31:13,679
Speaker 1: skill set is more closely aligned with that of Josh Allen,

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01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:15,800
Speaker 1: where if God forbid, he's got to play a couple

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01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 1: of games, you don't have to revamp your entire offense

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01:31:19,120 --> 01:31:21,360
Speaker 1: to fit the backup. You don't. You may do most

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01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:23,200
Speaker 1: of what Josh. Yeah, you may not even have to,

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01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:25,720
Speaker 1: not to the change level, but you may not even

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01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:29,439
Speaker 1: have to change your play calls right and for the

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01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:32,400
Speaker 1: and to Tiffany, you know, use him as a trade

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01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:34,160
Speaker 1: asset for another team in need of a quarterback and

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01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:36,320
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. He's got a one year deal. Yeah,

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01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get a chance to trade him. Rusty

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01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:42,519
Speaker 1: says the most underrated is their ability to identify and

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Speaker 1: keep the key parts of the core here White, Dawkins, Milano, Hide, Poyer,

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01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:53,880
Speaker 1: Hughes and hopefully seventeen and fourteen, while adding role players

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01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:56,320
Speaker 1: on short term deals who often want to stay here

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01:31:56,320 --> 01:32:01,679
Speaker 1: and hopefully contribute to continued and long term success. That's true.

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01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:04,960
Speaker 1: That's a good summation. I think. Yeah, from Rusty getting

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01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:09,800
Speaker 1: getting key players to buy in and notes and something

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01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:11,439
Speaker 1: from a lot of them not to test the free

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01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 1: agent waters just signed because they want to be here

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01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:18,679
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. That's that is really underrated. I might agree

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01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 1: with this one. I might agree with this one because

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01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:23,040
Speaker 1: that's that's hard to do. When you get a guy

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01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:24,920
Speaker 1: that comes up wanted to play football all his life,

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01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:26,519
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's gotta and he's got a chance,

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01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 1: like Matt Milano to hit a financial, absolute financial home run.

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Speaker 1: You're talking over the course of a four year deal

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01:32:34,160 --> 01:32:36,960
Speaker 1: he signed for what was it, what was an average

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01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:39,360
Speaker 1: of his deal? We're talking about, Yeah, Matt Milano his

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01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 1: average deal with his fourty eight forty four forty four

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01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:48,720
Speaker 1: eleven million a year. You're talking over the course that deal.

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01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:50,320
Speaker 1: If you to hit a home run and signed for

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01:32:50,320 --> 01:32:54,080
Speaker 1: fourteen year, you're talking like twelve extra million bucks on

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01:32:54,120 --> 01:32:55,800
Speaker 1: that contract. If he sees all of it now, he

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01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 1: might not have with another team. But that's always the case.

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01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:00,280
Speaker 1: He might not see it for the Buffalo, but be

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01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:02,720
Speaker 1: willing to say no, I'm good because I want to

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01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: stay here. You you can't put a price on yeah.

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01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:10,120
Speaker 1: And you think, because I remember these days, we're not

1639
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 1: terribly far removed from them. But there was a time

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01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:15,439
Speaker 1: here in free agency where the Bills had to throw

1641
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:18,760
Speaker 1: money at people and grossly overpay just to get them here.

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01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 1: I mean Derek Dockery fifty six million dollars for an

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01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 1: average guard. You know. Um, they had to overpay for

1644
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:30,559
Speaker 1: a ton of guys on the free agent market just

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01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 1: to be a competitive team. Again, but that costs them

1646
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:35,519
Speaker 1: on the back end because then with some of the

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01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:38,200
Speaker 1: young players they had in the pipeline who did look promising,

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01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:40,559
Speaker 1: they couldn't hold on to them because they couldn't compete

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01:33:40,560 --> 01:33:44,680
Speaker 1: for their financially. Pat Williams perfect example. You know, you

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01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:47,679
Speaker 1: spend all this free agent money to stock the roster

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01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 1: to get a guy like Techio Spikes, to get a

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01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 1: Sam Adams to Mario william Well, yeah, later down the line,

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01:33:53,840 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 1: Mario Williams, right, But then but then you can't keep

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01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 1: a player like Nate Clements. You can't keep a player

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01:34:00,439 --> 01:34:03,160
Speaker 1: like Pat Williams. You can't hold on to the youth

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01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:05,360
Speaker 1: that's going to play for you a lot longer if

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01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:07,600
Speaker 1: you can hold on to them. Now. You've got a

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01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 1: situation here where the roster is so strong, the culture

1659
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: is so good that you have your core players coming

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01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:16,920
Speaker 1: back at a little bit less than market value, and

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Speaker 1: you've got your free agent players that you brought in

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01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:22,519
Speaker 1: as young vets that are older vets now that want

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01:34:22,520 --> 01:34:25,840
Speaker 1: to stay and see the thing through. You can't you

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01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 1: can't beat that. Ye can't beat that, especially after we

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01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:32,000
Speaker 1: bore witness to the other end of the spectrum right

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01:34:32,040 --> 01:34:34,000
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo for the better part of ten or

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01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 1: twelve years. Break time for us when we come back.

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Speaker 1: More of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and about

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01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:45,759
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. Hall of Fame General Manager Bill Polian joining

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Speaker 1: us about twenty after the hour, about twenty minutes from

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Speaker 1: now to talk about Marv Leavies CFL Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: candidacy among the offseason dealings of the Buffalo Bills, and

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Speaker 1: what do he thinks to that we're back in a moment.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network Sports Date your

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Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. For the second time

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Speaker 1: in two days, the Bills have added a player in

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Speaker 1: free agency. Yesterday, it was offensive tackle Bobby Hart, signing

1679
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:30,760
Speaker 1: a one year deal, a former starter for the Cincinnati

1680
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:35,200
Speaker 1: Bengals at right tackle. Today it's linebacker Tyrrell Adams, a

1681
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:39,160
Speaker 1: starter for Houston last season. Commencing with the upcoming twenty

1682
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 1: twenty one campaign, NFL expanding its regular season to seventeen

1683
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 1: games per team. NFL owners voted in approval to change

1684
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:48,240
Speaker 1: that on Tuesday at the annual league meetings. Each club

1685
01:35:48,280 --> 01:35:51,559
Speaker 1: now takes part in an additional AFC versus NFC game

1686
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:55,400
Speaker 1: based on division standings from the prior season. A rotation

1687
01:35:55,439 --> 01:35:58,280
Speaker 1: with home games begins with the AFC hosting in twenty

1688
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:01,360
Speaker 1: twenty one, the NFC in twenty two, so the Bills

1689
01:36:01,400 --> 01:36:06,559
Speaker 1: will host Washington this season in their additional game. NFL's

1690
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 1: international expansion plans a part of Tuesday's league's meetings. League

1691
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:13,439
Speaker 1: meetings and games appear to be coming to Germany and

1692
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:16,920
Speaker 1: South America. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned both Germany and

1693
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:19,759
Speaker 1: South America on a conference call yesterday, the most likely

1694
01:36:20,160 --> 01:36:24,599
Speaker 1: South American destination Brazil. The NFL making plans to open

1695
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:27,400
Speaker 1: its stadiums to full capacity for the twenty twenty one season.

1696
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:30,600
Speaker 1: Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Goodell said, all of us in

1697
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:32,800
Speaker 1: the NFL want to see every one of our fans back.

1698
01:36:32,840 --> 01:36:36,040
Speaker 1: Football is simply not the same without fans, and we

1699
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:39,840
Speaker 1: expect to have full stadiums in the upcoming season. And

1700
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:44,879
Speaker 1: NFL Network reporter Tom Pella Sero reporting that while the

1701
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:48,559
Speaker 1: first part of NFL offseason programs will be all virtual

1702
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:52,880
Speaker 1: beginning April nineteenth, it looks as though there will be

1703
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:55,840
Speaker 1: players on the field at some point later in the

1704
01:36:55,920 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 1: spring as part of NFL offseason programs. Will await further details. Finally,

1705
01:37:01,280 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 1: the Sabers finish off their two games set with the

1706
01:37:03,320 --> 01:37:05,680
Speaker 1: Flyers tonight at the Key Bank Center Flyers one, four,

1707
01:37:05,800 --> 01:37:08,920
Speaker 1: three and overtime on Monday. Dylan Cousins, still day to

1708
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:11,639
Speaker 1: day with an upper body injury, face off for tonight's

1709
01:37:11,640 --> 01:37:15,759
Speaker 1: game Set four seven thirty. That is your sports update

1710
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:18,559
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1711
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,880
Speaker 1: our number three of the program. About fifteen minutes away

1712
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:26,040
Speaker 1: from talking with Hall of Fame General manager Bill Polian,

1713
01:37:26,080 --> 01:37:28,679
Speaker 1: who's going to be joining us at about oh about

1714
01:37:28,720 --> 01:37:32,479
Speaker 1: thirteen fifteen minutes from now. In the meantime, we're taking

1715
01:37:32,479 --> 01:37:36,559
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the most underrated moves in this roster

1716
01:37:36,720 --> 01:37:41,280
Speaker 1: build by Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott, And we go

1717
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:44,720
Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet and there we have Charlie

1718
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:49,280
Speaker 1: who says the underrated part is intelligence. I think we're

1719
01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:51,560
Speaker 1: all aware of the world class character work, ethic and

1720
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:54,200
Speaker 1: dedication on this roster, but all the players i've heard

1721
01:37:54,240 --> 01:37:58,040
Speaker 1: speaking interviews on this show and elsewhere, intellect and eloquence

1722
01:37:58,479 --> 01:38:03,960
Speaker 1: stands out pass a close second. These guys freaking love football.

1723
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:11,599
Speaker 1: That's the st Yeah, that's that's I don't know. And

1724
01:38:11,680 --> 01:38:13,880
Speaker 1: here's one of the reasons I don't bring it up

1725
01:38:13,920 --> 01:38:15,880
Speaker 1: more than I do, because I don't know the inner

1726
01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:19,200
Speaker 1: workings and I haven't heard of the conversations. Certainly it's

1727
01:38:19,240 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 1: obvious from you know, from what we've seen and and

1728
01:38:23,120 --> 01:38:26,800
Speaker 1: also what you know, what Charlie there says about the

1729
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:29,880
Speaker 1: intelligence and the character and all the other stuff. Um,

1730
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 1: I don't know the I know it's there for all

1731
01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:36,559
Speaker 1: these guys. I don't know how many many times they've

1732
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:39,760
Speaker 1: said this guy, we'd love to have it, now, you

1733
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:41,559
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I've never I don't know how

1734
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:44,840
Speaker 1: many times they've been tempted to deviate from that, but

1735
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:47,760
Speaker 1: they don't do it very often if they do, and

1736
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:51,720
Speaker 1: I certainly don't know which guy they're talking about in

1737
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:55,120
Speaker 1: that respect, So I would say, yeah, it's very underrated,

1738
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:58,800
Speaker 1: because I would say, but I don't know how many

1739
01:38:58,800 --> 01:39:01,000
Speaker 1: times that that's come into play where they've said no

1740
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 1: to a guy strictly because of his character or his

1741
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:09,040
Speaker 1: intellect or any of the other tangible stuff. I'm reminded

1742
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:13,519
Speaker 1: of a famous quote by one Bill Parcels, who in

1743
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:16,120
Speaker 1: his first year coaching the Jets, which I want to

1744
01:39:16,120 --> 01:39:21,400
Speaker 1: say was ninety seven, they were struggling through a two

1745
01:39:21,479 --> 01:39:25,760
Speaker 1: or three game losing streak and there were some bone

1746
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:29,439
Speaker 1: headed plays being committed in critical moments by players on

1747
01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:36,200
Speaker 1: that roster, and Parcels, in a postgame press conference goes

1748
01:39:36,280 --> 01:39:41,200
Speaker 1: into this probably two minute soliloquy on how important it

1749
01:39:41,280 --> 01:39:43,960
Speaker 1: is to have players who know how to make the

1750
01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 1: right decisions at the critical moments of games, and he said,

1751
01:39:48,080 --> 01:39:51,479
Speaker 1: we continue to have problems in that area. So one

1752
01:39:51,479 --> 01:39:55,400
Speaker 1: of the reporters follows up and says, well, why does

1753
01:39:55,439 --> 01:39:58,360
Speaker 1: that continue to happen? And he says, because you got

1754
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:02,720
Speaker 1: dumb guys playing in the game. Just flat out said it.

1755
01:40:02,920 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 1: Dumb guys, Um, And you say to yourself, okay, well,

1756
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 1: where does that really surface and does it really cost

1757
01:40:09,280 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: you football games? I will point you back to the

1758
01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:15,519
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts playoff game against the Bills. Do you remember

1759
01:40:15,560 --> 01:40:19,040
Speaker 1: when the Bills lined up on fourth down? Everybody knew

1760
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:20,800
Speaker 1: they were going to call a time out. They were

1761
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 1: not running to play. They got al Kadeen Muhammad to

1762
01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:28,000
Speaker 1: jump off sides, got a fresh set of downs, put

1763
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:30,360
Speaker 1: points on the board. What was what was the final

1764
01:40:30,400 --> 01:40:34,680
Speaker 1: point differential in that game? Steve uh six three three?

1765
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:38,040
Speaker 1: It was twenty seven and came down to a Hail

1766
01:40:38,080 --> 01:40:40,880
Speaker 1: Mary at the end. Exactly right. Dumb players, according to

1767
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:46,480
Speaker 1: Bill Parcels, get you beat, there you go. So intelligence

1768
01:40:46,520 --> 01:40:48,680
Speaker 1: does count and I think it is underrated. So I

1769
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:55,799
Speaker 1: agree with Charlie. How about that? Um? Garrett says, the secondary,

1770
01:40:55,920 --> 01:40:58,280
Speaker 1: we have the best safety duo and hide and poyer

1771
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:02,559
Speaker 1: Trent What Trent Trey White is a shutdown corner. Whoever

1772
01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:04,599
Speaker 1: plays on the other side is always ready to make

1773
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:06,760
Speaker 1: a play. If we could just bolster the front four

1774
01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:09,120
Speaker 1: to help them out by creating pressure, could have a

1775
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:13,840
Speaker 1: top three defense. So he thinks the secondaries underrated. I

1776
01:41:13,920 --> 01:41:15,920
Speaker 1: think the secondary's got its fair share of credit here,

1777
01:41:15,960 --> 01:41:17,960
Speaker 1: don't you. Yeah, we talked about it. I thought talking

1778
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:19,800
Speaker 1: about him, I thought top him up. I thought the

1779
01:41:19,800 --> 01:41:22,120
Speaker 1: most one of the most underrated moves that they made

1780
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:24,920
Speaker 1: personnel wise was in the early going when they signed

1781
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:27,000
Speaker 1: Poyer and Hide early and they signed to long term

1782
01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:28,679
Speaker 1: deals in it. And it was like, and I said,

1783
01:41:28,720 --> 01:41:30,599
Speaker 1: I mentioned it, it was a yawner, like, who are

1784
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:33,880
Speaker 1: these guys? Okay, fine safeties? They're not you know, they're not.

1785
01:41:34,479 --> 01:41:38,720
Speaker 1: They're not locked down corners. Why And it was a

1786
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:40,600
Speaker 1: defensive coach who did it. So I'm like, I don't know.

1787
01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:42,200
Speaker 1: I kind of gave him the benefit of that. I

1788
01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:45,639
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, yeah, coach McDermott was the safety once himself, right,

1789
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 1: So you'd like to think he could identify how in

1790
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 1: his defense and that's it. He's a defensive coordinator League,

1791
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: that's why. That's how he became a head coach. He

1792
01:41:54,280 --> 01:41:56,280
Speaker 1: was a quality defensive coordinator. Who thinks those guys are

1793
01:41:56,280 --> 01:42:00,360
Speaker 1: pretty important. I was like, Okay, good, prove it to me,

1794
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:04,719
Speaker 1: you know, and they did. Um, those guys turned into

1795
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:07,200
Speaker 1: two pillars of the defense, you know. They those guys

1796
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 1: are foundational and yeah, so that I agree. I think

1797
01:42:13,040 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: those guys are. We've given those guys a lot of

1798
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:19,880
Speaker 1: credit and I can continue to They deserve it from

1799
01:42:19,960 --> 01:42:26,000
Speaker 1: mark cap management value signings with the ability to get

1800
01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:30,800
Speaker 1: out of the contract down the road if necessary. Now,

1801
01:42:30,840 --> 01:42:32,800
Speaker 1: I will say there's a lot to be said for

1802
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:36,200
Speaker 1: fiscal responsibility, and we know that that is one of

1803
01:42:36,240 --> 01:42:40,799
Speaker 1: the tenants of Brandon Bean's construction project here to remain

1804
01:42:41,400 --> 01:42:45,080
Speaker 1: cap strong, as he puts it, right. And they had

1805
01:42:45,120 --> 01:42:47,240
Speaker 1: to bite the bullet in twenty eighteen and clean up

1806
01:42:47,240 --> 01:42:52,240
Speaker 1: the cat mess from the previous regime. So yeah, they

1807
01:42:52,320 --> 01:42:55,559
Speaker 1: bit the bullet that one year and then have made

1808
01:42:55,640 --> 01:43:00,719
Speaker 1: no bones about never going back to that universe again. Yeah,

1809
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:03,360
Speaker 1: and they hedged a little bit this year. Well yeah,

1810
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:05,639
Speaker 1: but that because of the restrictive cap. Because the cap

1811
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:07,960
Speaker 1: dropped and it was thirty million dollars below where they

1812
01:43:07,960 --> 01:43:10,880
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be, um, and or twenty two

1813
01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:13,120
Speaker 1: and a half million below where they thought it was

1814
01:43:13,120 --> 01:43:15,839
Speaker 1: going to be. That's a huge difference so that everybody

1815
01:43:15,880 --> 01:43:18,960
Speaker 1: can made some concessions this year under the current under

1816
01:43:18,960 --> 01:43:24,479
Speaker 1: the you know the constraints. But that's it's true. I

1817
01:43:24,520 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 1: think good teams manage the cap better than bad teams,

1818
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:31,040
Speaker 1: and they do it year after year after year after year.

1819
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:35,280
Speaker 1: Certainly we see other teams are around the league, you know,

1820
01:43:35,439 --> 01:43:42,120
Speaker 1: as for instance, the LA Rams. Their position is pay

1821
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:44,599
Speaker 1: the guys and push it down the road. We'll figure

1822
01:43:44,600 --> 01:43:47,120
Speaker 1: it out later. Steelers did the same thing. We'll deal it,

1823
01:43:47,120 --> 01:43:48,640
Speaker 1: we'll deal with it later. They had one hundred and

1824
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:50,360
Speaker 1: the seas one hundred and thirty eight or one hundred

1825
01:43:50,360 --> 01:43:53,200
Speaker 1: and forty million dollars cap last year or a payroll

1826
01:43:53,280 --> 01:43:58,640
Speaker 1: last year. That's amazing, that's amazing. I don't even know

1827
01:43:58,760 --> 01:44:02,679
Speaker 1: that that would have been league goal under a regular cap.

1828
01:44:03,120 --> 01:44:05,240
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Well, you got the Saints

1829
01:44:05,240 --> 01:44:09,559
Speaker 1: signing guys with fictitious years at the end of their contract.

1830
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:12,679
Speaker 1: They're avoidable, they're all avoidable. They're essentially one year deals

1831
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:15,840
Speaker 1: with four years avoidable years on the back end so

1832
01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:18,080
Speaker 1: they can amortize the bonus money. What they do is

1833
01:44:18,080 --> 01:44:20,120
Speaker 1: they give them bone. They give them everything up front

1834
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:23,120
Speaker 1: on a five year deal for the same money they

1835
01:44:23,120 --> 01:44:25,680
Speaker 1: were going to get for this one year. Yeah, just

1836
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:28,479
Speaker 1: to spread the money, Just to spread the money out, Steve,

1837
01:44:28,520 --> 01:44:30,559
Speaker 1: you'll enjoy this. This doesn't have anything to do with

1838
01:44:30,560 --> 01:44:32,519
Speaker 1: our Twitter question, but it is a response that you

1839
01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 1: will enjoy from Troy regarding Steve's easy Pass incident. Hey, guys,

1840
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:40,000
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I took my kids out

1841
01:44:40,040 --> 01:44:42,440
Speaker 1: for breakfast and the bill came to twenty four dollars.

1842
01:44:42,479 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 1: The server accidentally put in twenty four hundred. Took a

1843
01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:48,759
Speaker 1: week to get those funds back, twenty four hundred dollars

1844
01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 1: for pancakes and bacon. That wasn't even his fault. Yeah,

1845
01:44:54,520 --> 01:44:56,920
Speaker 1: the server runs up twenty four hundred on the card.

1846
01:44:58,240 --> 01:44:59,920
Speaker 1: You gotta read the car. You gotta read the take

1847
01:45:00,120 --> 01:45:02,160
Speaker 1: when he brings it back, though, I mean, that's this

1848
01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:05,120
Speaker 1: is true, that that is very true. His mistake was

1849
01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:08,800
Speaker 1: exactly the same as mine. He signed off on it. Yeah,

1850
01:45:08,840 --> 01:45:15,559
Speaker 1: proofread right. So that's I get it. That's a lot

1851
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,040
Speaker 1: of money for some pancakes and bacon. It's a big tab.

1852
01:45:18,439 --> 01:45:20,679
Speaker 1: He could eat free at that place for probably four

1853
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:23,559
Speaker 1: years till the next day he comes back and says,

1854
01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:28,240
Speaker 1: we don't know you. Yeah, that was funny. Yeah, all right,

1855
01:45:28,280 --> 01:45:30,880
Speaker 1: break time for us when we return. It is the

1856
01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:33,879
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame General Manager joining us One Bill Polian,

1857
01:45:33,960 --> 01:45:36,679
Speaker 1: Bill's Wall of Famer back with us when we return

1858
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:39,000
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's

1859
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:54,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio blogging back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

1860
01:45:54,880 --> 01:45:57,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here our number three of the

1861
01:45:57,000 --> 01:46:01,599
Speaker 1: show and joining us now is Bill's Wall of Famer,

1862
01:46:02,120 --> 01:46:05,559
Speaker 1: a Pro Football Hall of Fame Hall of Famer. It

1863
01:46:05,720 --> 01:46:07,719
Speaker 1: is the former GM of the Bills and a couple

1864
01:46:07,760 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 1: of other teams by the name of the Carolina Panthers

1865
01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:12,600
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis Colts in the NFL ranks. He is a

1866
01:46:12,640 --> 01:46:17,479
Speaker 1: Competition Committee veteran. I lived on the Competition Committee. Steve.

1867
01:46:17,800 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 1: It is one Bill Polian joining us here on the show.

1868
01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:23,639
Speaker 1: And Bill, I know we were talking to you during

1869
01:46:23,640 --> 01:46:25,320
Speaker 1: the break, so we're glad you and your family are

1870
01:46:25,320 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 1: well during the pandemic. First things first, one of the

1871
01:46:30,280 --> 01:46:33,559
Speaker 1: main reasons we've got you on the show is one

1872
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:37,000
Speaker 1: of your former co workers in a multitude of places

1873
01:46:37,120 --> 01:46:41,720
Speaker 1: including Montreal. One, Marv Levy, Hall of Famer himself, is

1874
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:46,280
Speaker 1: up for candidacy for the CFL Hall of Fame, and

1875
01:46:46,320 --> 01:46:49,040
Speaker 1: I guess that's coming down next week. Obviously, you spend

1876
01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:50,600
Speaker 1: a good deal of time with him up there. I

1877
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:53,519
Speaker 1: think you guys want a couple of great cups. What

1878
01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:58,759
Speaker 1: do you feel should put him firmly in the running

1879
01:46:59,200 --> 01:47:03,759
Speaker 1: for Hall of Fame credentials up there north of the border. Well,

1880
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:07,600
Speaker 1: first of all, he's my mentor. I mean, he's the

1881
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:10,639
Speaker 1: guy that that created me. There would be no Bill

1882
01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:14,760
Speaker 1: Polly and football if that weren't from our believing. But

1883
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:19,920
Speaker 1: above and beyond that, he won. He went to three

1884
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:23,200
Speaker 1: Gray Cups in five years as coach of the Alouetz

1885
01:47:24,520 --> 01:47:31,080
Speaker 1: resuscitated a franchise that had been down and by any measure,

1886
01:47:32,320 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: you know, people are shocked when when we talk about

1887
01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:39,040
Speaker 1: this as GM, I'm amazed he wasn't in the CFL

1888
01:47:39,120 --> 01:47:43,679
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame sooner. Well, he wasn't, and so it's

1889
01:47:43,680 --> 01:47:46,960
Speaker 1: time to rectify that. But I think more important than that,

1890
01:47:48,520 --> 01:47:52,680
Speaker 1: when he came to Buffalo, we began to build a

1891
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:56,599
Speaker 1: fan base in Canada, and by the time Steve finished playing,

1892
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:01,280
Speaker 1: twenty percent of our fan base was from southern Ontario.

1893
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:07,599
Speaker 1: And when you think of the effect Marv had on

1894
01:48:07,640 --> 01:48:13,200
Speaker 1: those people in Canada and all of the tremendous um

1895
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:17,120
Speaker 1: publicity and positive publicity that he always generated for the

1896
01:48:17,160 --> 01:48:22,240
Speaker 1: Alouettes and for the Cflum he really did more as

1897
01:48:22,320 --> 01:48:28,720
Speaker 1: coach of the Bills to publicize and and and uh

1898
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:34,599
Speaker 1: make the CFL of viable league in people's minds uh

1899
01:48:35,080 --> 01:48:37,040
Speaker 1: than he then he really ever did his coach of

1900
01:48:37,080 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: the Alouettes. So the CFL has benefited all these years

1901
01:48:41,680 --> 01:48:46,920
Speaker 1: because everyone always identifies him as a big success in

1902
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 1: the CFL. So that to me is reasoning alone for

1903
01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:54,840
Speaker 1: him to be in. Aside from that stellar record, he's

1904
01:48:54,880 --> 01:48:58,880
Speaker 1: done much more for the CFL than it ever did

1905
01:48:58,920 --> 01:49:01,840
Speaker 1: for him. Signed from to be honest, for all the

1906
01:49:01,880 --> 01:49:04,760
Speaker 1: great contributions he's made both to that league into ours.

1907
01:49:04,920 --> 01:49:07,040
Speaker 1: I've also said this, and I said it when he

1908
01:49:07,080 --> 01:49:09,760
Speaker 1: went into Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, uh,

1909
01:49:09,800 --> 01:49:11,680
Speaker 1: and also on the Wall of Fame whenever I get

1910
01:49:11,680 --> 01:49:14,200
Speaker 1: asked about him, I and you alluded to it. He

1911
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:17,000
Speaker 1: was your mentor. And I continue to think about things

1912
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:20,560
Speaker 1: that I you know, that I learned from him, and Ah,

1913
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:24,160
Speaker 1: if there's any hall of fame that Marv is a

1914
01:49:24,320 --> 01:49:27,800
Speaker 1: up for, he should be in. And I said, if

1915
01:49:27,840 --> 01:49:29,639
Speaker 1: there was a Hall of Fame for the human race,

1916
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:31,960
Speaker 1: Marv would be in the roading for that right. So

1917
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. I mean, his

1918
01:49:36,479 --> 01:49:40,479
Speaker 1: his qualifications is a two time head coach, plus I

1919
01:49:40,520 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 1: think not only did he do it here in Buffalo,

1920
01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:46,760
Speaker 1: but also in Montreal, taking a team from where it

1921
01:49:46,840 --> 01:49:49,240
Speaker 1: was when they took over and to where it got to.

1922
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:55,280
Speaker 1: That's that's the real you know, that's where the rubber

1923
01:49:55,320 --> 01:49:58,559
Speaker 1: meets of the road, and and his his credentials in

1924
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:02,960
Speaker 1: that arena are impeccable. Well, not only that, he brings

1925
01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:06,559
Speaker 1: such a class to any organization he's associated with, and

1926
01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:10,280
Speaker 1: that's far in a way as Steve you alluded to it,

1927
01:50:11,439 --> 01:50:15,200
Speaker 1: or anyone who he's touched throughout the years, and his

1928
01:50:15,280 --> 01:50:20,679
Speaker 1: coaching profession always admires him. Most of us can quote

1929
01:50:20,760 --> 01:50:24,400
Speaker 1: him chapter and verse so much later in our lives

1930
01:50:24,600 --> 01:50:28,080
Speaker 1: because we've never forgotten the lessons that he's taught us.

1931
01:50:28,520 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 1: He's by far the greatest teacher I've ever been around.

1932
01:50:31,680 --> 01:50:35,800
Speaker 1: He's affected lives positively wherever he's been. And if that

1933
01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:38,240
Speaker 1: isn't a qualification for the Hall of Fame, I don't

1934
01:50:38,280 --> 01:50:40,760
Speaker 1: know what it is. Certainly a qualification for the Human

1935
01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:42,439
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. You gotta get working on that. Steve

1936
01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:46,160
Speaker 1: so Bill, you know you always refer to him as

1937
01:50:46,160 --> 01:50:49,240
Speaker 1: a mentor. But I'm curious, like, what do you feel

1938
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:53,320
Speaker 1: are the pillars of the the mentor mentee relationship that

1939
01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:56,680
Speaker 1: you took from Marv? If there are a couple of

1940
01:50:57,160 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 1: high points that you know come to the forefront of

1941
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:03,639
Speaker 1: your brain when when you think about the number one

1942
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:06,559
Speaker 1: or two things that stick with you from your time

1943
01:51:06,560 --> 01:51:09,320
Speaker 1: with Marv that you feel have benefited you time and again.

1944
01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:13,760
Speaker 1: It's hard to enumerate them because, as I've always said,

1945
01:51:13,800 --> 01:51:17,479
Speaker 1: and I said in my Hall of Fame acceptance speech,

1946
01:51:18,439 --> 01:51:21,559
Speaker 1: that all of what I know about pro football and

1947
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 1: most of what I know about life worth knowing, I

1948
01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:28,639
Speaker 1: learned from our league. So there's a there's a great

1949
01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:33,919
Speaker 1: deal of it. Having said that, I think the accent

1950
01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 1: on character that everybody in the organization needs to have

1951
01:51:39,400 --> 01:51:43,120
Speaker 1: the right character and the right set of values. And

1952
01:51:43,160 --> 01:51:52,160
Speaker 1: then his ability to reach people via good example, positive teaching,

1953
01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:59,360
Speaker 1: the positive reinforcement on a continual basis, and it's positive

1954
01:51:59,400 --> 01:52:05,639
Speaker 1: outlook on life. Um, you know there's always tomorrow. Things

1955
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:09,880
Speaker 1: are going to look better. Keep working, keep grinding all

1956
01:52:09,920 --> 01:52:13,559
Speaker 1: of those things, are you know, part and parcel of

1957
01:52:13,640 --> 01:52:17,800
Speaker 1: who he is and and and what he made us into. Um,

1958
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:20,559
Speaker 1: so those would be those would be the high spots

1959
01:52:21,320 --> 01:52:23,880
Speaker 1: we I had. We had as a guest on the

1960
01:52:23,880 --> 01:52:26,080
Speaker 1: show a few weeks ago, Tony Dungee, who I know

1961
01:52:26,280 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 1: that you also have a great deal of respect for

1962
01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:31,720
Speaker 1: and worked with. And I asked him a question I'm

1963
01:52:31,720 --> 01:52:34,240
Speaker 1: gonna ask you now he was a head coach, you

1964
01:52:34,280 --> 01:52:36,439
Speaker 1: were general manager, and also you were general manager for

1965
01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:40,720
Speaker 1: Marv as well. How important is it to have and

1966
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:45,560
Speaker 1: what kind of relationship is necessary to being a successful

1967
01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:48,680
Speaker 1: GM head coach combination in the National Football League And

1968
01:52:48,680 --> 01:52:53,200
Speaker 1: has it changed? No, it hasn't changed one iota, not

1969
01:52:53,360 --> 01:52:56,080
Speaker 1: since I became the GM in Buffalo and eighty six

1970
01:52:56,720 --> 01:53:02,080
Speaker 1: through today. It's still the same process winning And margaused

1971
01:53:02,120 --> 01:53:05,560
Speaker 1: to say winning simple, but it isn't easy. And you

1972
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:09,519
Speaker 1: have to have good players and you have to coach

1973
01:53:09,600 --> 01:53:11,479
Speaker 1: them well. The GM has to find the player in

1974
01:53:11,520 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: the scouting staff has to find the players, and coaches

1975
01:53:14,080 --> 01:53:17,240
Speaker 1: have to coach them well. And both the GM and

1976
01:53:17,280 --> 01:53:20,240
Speaker 1: the head coach have to be on the same page.

1977
01:53:20,560 --> 01:53:23,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a great story and every every word

1978
01:53:23,080 --> 01:53:26,400
Speaker 1: of this is true. It's almost like I remember it

1979
01:53:26,560 --> 01:53:30,679
Speaker 1: verbatim as though it was yesterday, not however long ago.

1980
01:53:30,720 --> 01:53:34,000
Speaker 1: It was twenty years or so. I was talking with

1981
01:53:34,120 --> 01:53:37,639
Speaker 1: Tony about joining the Colts just after you've been let

1982
01:53:37,680 --> 01:53:41,000
Speaker 1: go by Tampa Bay and I and we had a

1983
01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:44,400
Speaker 1: long conversation. He said, it's around eight hours. To me,

1984
01:53:44,479 --> 01:53:47,439
Speaker 1: it seemed less. But when you're talking, Baud, what the heck? Right?

1985
01:53:50,320 --> 01:53:53,519
Speaker 1: But anyway, I said to him, take me from day

1986
01:53:53,520 --> 01:53:55,680
Speaker 1: one of training camp through the Super Bowl? How do

1987
01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:58,519
Speaker 1: you how are you going to prepare the team? What

1988
01:53:58,600 --> 01:54:00,800
Speaker 1: do you think the emphasis sort of and so forth

1989
01:54:00,800 --> 01:54:05,360
Speaker 1: and song very detailed question. And he began to answer

1990
01:54:05,400 --> 01:54:08,719
Speaker 1: and about three paragraphs and he stopped and he said,

1991
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:14,800
Speaker 1: you're you're Did I say something funny? And I said no, why?

1992
01:54:14,840 --> 01:54:17,080
Speaker 1: And he said, well, you're smiling and nodding your head.

1993
01:54:17,080 --> 01:54:20,120
Speaker 1: I said, oh, I apologize. I've heard this all before,

1994
01:54:20,280 --> 01:54:25,280
Speaker 1: verbatim from Coach Levy. It's exactly the same approach. They're

1995
01:54:25,280 --> 01:54:29,599
Speaker 1: two p's in the same pot. And and and yes,

1996
01:54:29,720 --> 01:54:31,599
Speaker 1: so far as I know, and so far as any

1997
01:54:31,600 --> 01:54:35,400
Speaker 1: of us can tell other than Tony Marv trying to

1998
01:54:35,400 --> 01:54:38,960
Speaker 1: recruit Tony to play for the Alouettes is the only

1999
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:43,920
Speaker 1: connection they've ever had. But they're they're identical in terms

2000
01:54:43,960 --> 01:54:47,120
Speaker 1: of their approach. Well, go ahead, I'm sorry, we're talking

2001
01:54:47,120 --> 01:54:49,560
Speaker 1: about six time NFL Executive of the Year Bill Polian

2002
01:54:49,920 --> 01:54:53,640
Speaker 1: and Bill. With that in mind, I know a lot

2003
01:54:53,640 --> 01:54:57,640
Speaker 1: of people have already said here in Buffalo that this,

2004
01:54:57,640 --> 01:55:00,280
Speaker 1: this combination of Brandon Bean and Sean mcdurham, it is

2005
01:55:00,320 --> 01:55:03,120
Speaker 1: probably the closest thing to a general manager and a

2006
01:55:03,200 --> 01:55:07,320
Speaker 1: head coach being in lockstep. Since you and Marv we're

2007
01:55:07,400 --> 01:55:12,560
Speaker 1: running things here in Buffalo. Viewing it from afar, of course,

2008
01:55:13,080 --> 01:55:16,919
Speaker 1: what are the most appealing things that you see about

2009
01:55:16,960 --> 01:55:21,600
Speaker 1: this current combination that Buffalo has working for them. Well,

2010
01:55:21,640 --> 01:55:24,120
Speaker 1: Brandon's a lot more, a lot smarter than I was.

2011
01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:30,560
Speaker 1: But but other than that, I think that's absolutely correct.

2012
01:55:32,080 --> 01:55:34,920
Speaker 1: First of all, they share a common view of how

2013
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:37,680
Speaker 1: the team should be built, and how it should play,

2014
01:55:37,680 --> 01:55:40,640
Speaker 1: and how it should look, and what kind of people

2015
01:55:40,680 --> 01:55:44,640
Speaker 1: they want on the team. They never stray from that blueprint.

2016
01:55:45,520 --> 01:55:50,840
Speaker 1: Sean I said this after his first year. I didn't

2017
01:55:50,880 --> 01:55:53,480
Speaker 1: want to put, you know, a lot of pressure on him,

2018
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:55,960
Speaker 1: but he reminded me so much of Mark that it

2019
01:55:56,040 --> 01:56:00,880
Speaker 1: was uncanny. His approach to things, the way he outlines things,

2020
01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:02,640
Speaker 1: the way he talks to the press, the way he

2021
01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:05,960
Speaker 1: talks to the team, the way he conducts himself on

2022
01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:09,960
Speaker 1: game day, the way he manages the game on game day.

2023
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:14,640
Speaker 1: It's all very familiar to me. And in talking with

2024
01:56:15,200 --> 01:56:19,440
Speaker 1: Brandon and getting to know him, you know, their approaches

2025
01:56:19,600 --> 01:56:24,720
Speaker 1: is very very similar to ours, very similar right down

2026
01:56:24,720 --> 01:56:26,680
Speaker 1: to the kind of people that they want on the team.

2027
01:56:26,800 --> 01:56:28,680
Speaker 1: When I see them make a move, I just nod

2028
01:56:28,760 --> 01:56:31,480
Speaker 1: my head and say, Okay, I understand why they're doing that,

2029
01:56:32,920 --> 01:56:36,240
Speaker 1: whether it's an acquisition or letting somebody go. It's all

2030
01:56:36,280 --> 01:56:39,720
Speaker 1: a function of staying with the blueprint, which is based

2031
01:56:39,960 --> 01:56:44,640
Speaker 1: entirely on you know, people of character, who want to

2032
01:56:44,680 --> 01:56:47,400
Speaker 1: work hard, who want to win, who believe in team,

2033
01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:51,040
Speaker 1: and who play smart. And that's the kind of football

2034
01:56:51,080 --> 01:56:54,800
Speaker 1: team they have. And if you don't have that alignment

2035
01:56:55,560 --> 01:56:59,360
Speaker 1: of philosophy between the GM and the head coach, it's

2036
01:56:59,480 --> 01:57:02,840
Speaker 1: very hard to succeed. Well, we've we've heard also about

2037
01:57:02,960 --> 01:57:06,600
Speaker 1: you've been a part of the competition committee at length

2038
01:57:06,640 --> 01:57:09,680
Speaker 1: and for many years and have been with different organizations

2039
01:57:09,680 --> 01:57:12,080
Speaker 1: and watched the league, and we've heard you say, just

2040
01:57:12,120 --> 01:57:14,520
Speaker 1: in the last couple of minutes, how alike, how many

2041
01:57:14,560 --> 01:57:18,320
Speaker 1: things are similar today that they were, you know thirty

2042
01:57:18,400 --> 01:57:20,760
Speaker 1: years ago when the Bills were doing their thing in

2043
01:57:21,040 --> 01:57:25,440
Speaker 1: the nineties. What has changed for you? You know, what's

2044
01:57:25,440 --> 01:57:27,560
Speaker 1: the biggest change in the league now? I know it

2045
01:57:27,640 --> 01:57:30,280
Speaker 1: changes a little bit every year, so it more evolves

2046
01:57:30,360 --> 01:57:33,240
Speaker 1: rather than changes. But as you look at it now

2047
01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:37,240
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, just after a pandemic year, what

2048
01:57:37,320 --> 01:57:41,080
Speaker 1: do you think is the big change now that maybe

2049
01:57:41,360 --> 01:57:46,160
Speaker 1: forges a change and a transformation in the future. Well,

2050
01:57:46,280 --> 01:57:50,080
Speaker 1: the big change came in in ninety three with free agency,

2051
01:57:50,840 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 1: because it allowed much more player movement than we had

2052
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:58,839
Speaker 1: in the past. When when you came in at twenty

2053
01:57:58,840 --> 01:58:01,200
Speaker 1: one or twenty two, how old you were at the time.

2054
01:58:02,400 --> 01:58:07,280
Speaker 1: You know, you grew up with us, you know, the

2055
01:58:07,360 --> 01:58:11,000
Speaker 1: kids were born. We were all one happy family. And

2056
01:58:11,080 --> 01:58:13,800
Speaker 1: when it was time for you to retire, or time

2057
01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:16,320
Speaker 1: for me to leave, or time for Martha leave, you know,

2058
01:58:16,360 --> 01:58:19,160
Speaker 1: we'd had a relationship that lasted for a long long

2059
01:58:19,240 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 1: time and last until this day. That's changed. The money

2060
01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:29,000
Speaker 1: is obviously much much greater, and so when it is

2061
01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:34,000
Speaker 1: at large, there is a inordinate focus are more focused

2062
01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:35,520
Speaker 1: on it than it was in the past. But the

2063
01:58:35,600 --> 01:58:40,800
Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is that the really good teams

2064
01:58:42,440 --> 01:58:49,400
Speaker 1: all look and act and focus on the same things.

2065
01:58:50,560 --> 01:58:57,120
Speaker 1: There is no internal dissension. There's a real relationship between

2066
01:58:57,120 --> 01:58:59,760
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the players, and in many cases

2067
01:58:59,760 --> 01:59:05,520
Speaker 1: are real relationship between the front office and the players. Um. Yeah,

2068
01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:08,360
Speaker 1: the game has changed. We now go fifty three and

2069
01:59:08,400 --> 01:59:13,400
Speaker 1: a third yard why yards wide? And the running quarterback

2070
01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:16,480
Speaker 1: or the moving quarterback, if you will, is much more

2071
01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:19,600
Speaker 1: in vogue than it really was. Only Elway and you

2072
01:59:19,640 --> 01:59:24,320
Speaker 1: are in my day, uh, Steve, But that's that's the

2073
01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:29,640
Speaker 1: game is always evolving. UM. That's normal. UM. I think

2074
01:59:29,680 --> 01:59:34,600
Speaker 1: it's surprisingly given the amount of money um that's involved

2075
01:59:34,640 --> 01:59:40,600
Speaker 1: in in pro football today, it is surprisingly similar to

2076
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 1: to what it was like back in our day. That

2077
01:59:43,360 --> 01:59:45,920
Speaker 1: the basics remain the same. You know, you have to

2078
01:59:46,000 --> 01:59:48,320
Speaker 1: be you can't be dumb and you can't be dirty.

2079
01:59:48,360 --> 01:59:51,440
Speaker 1: You gotta play smart, you gotta you have to take

2080
01:59:51,440 --> 01:59:54,400
Speaker 1: care of the football. Um. You have to be able

2081
01:59:54,440 --> 01:59:57,160
Speaker 1: to move the ball. You have to play defense above all.

2082
01:59:57,600 --> 02:00:01,480
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl was one Tom Brady played a nice game,

2083
02:00:01,600 --> 02:00:04,000
Speaker 1: but the Super Bowl was won by the Tampa Bay

2084
02:00:04,200 --> 02:00:08,320
Speaker 1: Bucks defense right as it most always is, and so

2085
02:00:09,680 --> 02:00:12,440
Speaker 1: I think what Paul Brown used to call the eternal

2086
02:00:12,600 --> 02:00:16,920
Speaker 1: verities still remain the same. That the package is wrapped

2087
02:00:16,960 --> 02:00:22,440
Speaker 1: in changes and the and the amount of money obviously

2088
02:00:22,520 --> 02:00:27,680
Speaker 1: has changed greatly, but I think you know, at its core,

2089
02:00:28,560 --> 02:00:31,600
Speaker 1: it's stilled the same game. Bill Having said in the

2090
02:00:31,640 --> 02:00:33,960
Speaker 1: general manager's chair for as long as you did with

2091
02:00:34,160 --> 02:00:36,320
Speaker 1: three different franchises, I wanted to get your take on

2092
02:00:36,360 --> 02:00:38,960
Speaker 1: this because if there is one thing from the from

2093
02:00:38,960 --> 02:00:41,960
Speaker 1: the front office chair that seems to have changed. Not

2094
02:00:42,000 --> 02:00:43,760
Speaker 1: to dismiss the fact that you pulled off one of

2095
02:00:43,760 --> 02:00:46,880
Speaker 1: the biggest trades in league in league history, certainly team history,

2096
02:00:46,920 --> 02:00:49,320
Speaker 1: with the Cornelius Benette deal, but it just seems like

2097
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Speaker 1: there is a greater propensity to trade significant assets in

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Speaker 1: this league. And obviously we're witnessing that this offseason with

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Speaker 1: quarterback swaps and such. But it just seems like this

2100
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Speaker 1: new wave of general managers is more apt to trade players,

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Speaker 1: and the currency by which it moves back and forth

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Speaker 1: across the league just seems to be more prevalent than

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Speaker 1: it was, you know, when you were running football teams.

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious for your take on why you think

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Speaker 1: that is, Well, first of all, I'm not sure it's

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Speaker 1: entirely true when you when you when you add it

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Speaker 1: up every year about who moves and who doesn't, as

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Speaker 1: opposed to rumors about movement trades. You know, in baseball

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Speaker 1: you have the hot stove league, right, there's nothing to do,

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02:01:37,440 --> 02:01:40,040
Speaker 1: and that that of what they're to dream up trades,

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Speaker 1: and so a lot of that happens in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson hasn't moved, Jimmy Garoppolo hasn't moved. We Destaun

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Speaker 1: Watson hasn't moved. Those are all the big stories of

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Speaker 1: the off season. So that that's one thing. The second

2115
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Speaker 1: is there's so much more media to talk about these

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02:01:58,920 --> 02:02:02,360
Speaker 1: things and in some cases dripping them up, that it

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02:02:02,440 --> 02:02:06,760
Speaker 1: seems as though there's there's there's always churned. UM. There

2118
02:02:06,840 --> 02:02:11,040
Speaker 1: have always been big trades, and they most typically revolve

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Speaker 1: around high draft choices because those are the premium picks

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Speaker 1: where you get the players that change franchises and change careers. UM.

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Speaker 1: And so this recent trade with San Francisco is um

2122
02:02:27,640 --> 02:02:30,200
Speaker 1: is proof of that. Now we don't know which quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: they're going to take, but they're going to take one

2124
02:02:31,880 --> 02:02:35,600
Speaker 1: that's for sure, and that's going to cause a ripple

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Speaker 1: effect either now or at the end of next year.

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Speaker 1: I suspect that at the end of next year with

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo going somewhere. Um so that's a little different, but

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Speaker 1: not much. You know, when you think about the Cornelia

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02:02:47,680 --> 02:02:52,520
Speaker 1: has beenetrade, it was a slew of draft choices for

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02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:56,720
Speaker 1: the running back going from the Rams to the Colts

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02:02:56,880 --> 02:03:01,000
Speaker 1: and and Greg Bell going to the Rams. By the

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02:03:01,040 --> 02:03:03,960
Speaker 1: way in Indiana. I once referred to it in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: when I was working for the cult syst the corner

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02:03:05,920 --> 02:03:10,080
Speaker 1: has penetrade, and I was immediately corrected by any number

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Speaker 1: of people who said, it's the Eric dicercent trade. It's

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Speaker 1: all which officer you're sitting in. I think, right, but great,

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02:03:24,320 --> 02:03:28,360
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's I don't think there's always

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Speaker 1: movement with premier draft choices. The one thing that's changed

2139
02:03:32,520 --> 02:03:35,880
Speaker 1: is the tanking. I mean that didn't exist years ago.

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02:03:35,920 --> 02:03:38,560
Speaker 1: In fact that it's only it's only recent and that's

2141
02:03:38,560 --> 02:03:44,480
Speaker 1: a function of analytics. People who I believe, incorrectly and

2142
02:03:44,600 --> 02:03:50,480
Speaker 1: without any validity, believe that if you if you accumulate

2143
02:03:50,560 --> 02:03:53,880
Speaker 1: a slew of choices somehow or other, you'll get smart

2144
02:03:53,920 --> 02:03:57,720
Speaker 1: about who you draft. It doesn't work that way, and

2145
02:03:57,920 --> 02:04:00,720
Speaker 1: history shows you that it doesn't. But it's a that's

2146
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:02,720
Speaker 1: the new track. The only reason and the only reason

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Speaker 1: I brought up that trade conversation bill was because, and

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02:04:05,880 --> 02:04:08,480
Speaker 1: these stand out as examples, you used to only see

2149
02:04:08,640 --> 02:04:13,160
Speaker 1: potential franchise quarterbacks changed teams at the tail end of

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Speaker 1: their careers. Joe Montana, for example, or on draft weekend,

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02:04:17,800 --> 02:04:23,120
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, stuff like that, John Elway, things

2152
02:04:23,160 --> 02:04:26,480
Speaker 1: like that. Now you're seeing Matthew Stafford going to one place,

2153
02:04:26,600 --> 02:04:29,040
Speaker 1: Jared Goff going the other. Here's Carson Wentz going to

2154
02:04:29,120 --> 02:04:33,040
Speaker 1: India after the relationship deteriorated. I just don't recall off

2155
02:04:33,040 --> 02:04:34,480
Speaker 1: the top of my head too many of those. I'm

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02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:36,560
Speaker 1: sure you're probably gonna give me about seven examples of

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02:04:36,640 --> 02:04:38,800
Speaker 1: when those happened when you were at GM. But that's

2158
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Speaker 1: why it seemed different to me. Well, Vince Farrgum always won.

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02:04:42,720 --> 02:04:46,000
Speaker 1: He was still that time left on his career and

2160
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Speaker 1: his contract when he came to us. That's when it

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02:04:48,200 --> 02:04:51,440
Speaker 1: comes to mind right away. Pus Joe Ferguson left here

2162
02:04:51,520 --> 02:04:54,360
Speaker 1: when it came in. That was a little bit like

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02:04:55,520 --> 02:04:59,560
Speaker 1: just a little like like GoF and Stafford and one

2164
02:04:59,560 --> 02:05:01,440
Speaker 1: of the I want to ask you this as well

2165
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Speaker 1: as you know, you were a guy the guy who

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02:05:06,160 --> 02:05:09,720
Speaker 1: signed Jim Kelly um after he took off and went

2167
02:05:09,760 --> 02:05:12,080
Speaker 1: to the USFL, so you have you've got all kinds

2168
02:05:12,080 --> 02:05:15,680
Speaker 1: of experience dealing with USFL, World Football League, NFL Europe.

2169
02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:18,280
Speaker 1: All of those were very, very different. The CFL, of course,

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02:05:18,520 --> 02:05:21,920
Speaker 1: has always been around what you know, what kind of

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02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:24,920
Speaker 1: pressure is there for team, and how important you saw.

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02:05:25,360 --> 02:05:27,640
Speaker 1: You know, the Bills draft Josh Allen and develop him

2173
02:05:27,680 --> 02:05:29,800
Speaker 1: over the course of three years, and in this day

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Speaker 1: and age, taken two years, and then in your third

2175
02:05:32,120 --> 02:05:34,600
Speaker 1: year getting it taken two years to develop a quarterback

2176
02:05:34,800 --> 02:05:40,240
Speaker 1: seems like infinite patience, whereas back in the day, you know,

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Speaker 1: you had to wait two years even to sign the

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Speaker 1: guy that you drafted. So give us some insight into

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Speaker 1: your mind about those situations. You're you're you're one hundred

2180
02:05:51,760 --> 02:05:55,000
Speaker 1: percent correct. The only thing that's changed in terms of

2181
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Speaker 1: quarterback development is the impatience of the media and the fans.

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02:06:00,880 --> 02:06:04,200
Speaker 1: A quarterback, no matter who he is, whether it's Peyton

2183
02:06:04,200 --> 02:06:10,800
Speaker 1: Manning or Jim Kelly, whomever, doesn't matter, John Elway, it

2184
02:06:10,840 --> 02:06:16,680
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It takes them three years in your system

2185
02:06:17,280 --> 02:06:21,760
Speaker 1: to learn how to play the right way, to run

2186
02:06:21,800 --> 02:06:25,640
Speaker 1: a team, to understand how to manipulate a defense, to

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Speaker 1: manage the game, to do all the things that it

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Speaker 1: takes to win in the National Football League. What's changed today?

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Speaker 1: Number One, they're like and we were seeing it in

2190
02:06:37,160 --> 02:06:41,280
Speaker 1: every draft in the last four years. They're NBA one

2191
02:06:41,320 --> 02:06:47,120
Speaker 1: and done. They're just prospects. They got big arms. That's

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Speaker 1: what Josh was coming in and it took him three

2193
02:06:50,160 --> 02:06:53,920
Speaker 1: years to learn as it should happen. That's what it takes.

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Speaker 1: That hasn't changed. What's changed is the anointing, undrafting, the expectations,

2195
02:07:03,440 --> 02:07:06,560
Speaker 1: and then when the guy in his rookie year makes

2196
02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:12,000
Speaker 1: rookie mistakes, WHOA, he might be a bust. And then

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Speaker 1: in the second year when he struggles a little bit

2198
02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:17,160
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you know, man Ory, not of Kurk,

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Speaker 1: It's get him out of town. He's not the guy.

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02:07:20,520 --> 02:07:23,919
Speaker 1: He's not good enough. And Donald is a prime example

2201
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Speaker 1: of that. We don't know whether Donald can play or not.

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Speaker 1: The poor guy has been hurt for a fair amount

2203
02:07:29,680 --> 02:07:31,760
Speaker 1: of time, and then on top of it, he has

2204
02:07:31,800 --> 02:07:35,360
Speaker 1: nobody to play with. You know, he has no talent

2205
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Speaker 1: surrounding him, so we don't know whether whether he's good, bad,

2206
02:07:39,080 --> 02:07:42,320
Speaker 1: or in different. The fact of the matter is that

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Speaker 1: they may sweep him out of town go in a

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Speaker 1: different direction. That that's media anointing in the first instance,

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Speaker 1: when it should never happen. And second of all, it's

2210
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Speaker 1: the impatience of the media and the fans for the

2211
02:07:58,960 --> 02:08:03,400
Speaker 1: guy to become Patrick Mahomes overnight. Patrick Mahomes, by the way,

2212
02:08:03,400 --> 02:08:08,440
Speaker 1: he sat for one full year. One full year, so

2213
02:08:09,760 --> 02:08:16,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't change. The landscape, hasn't changed, the atmosphere surrounding.

2214
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Speaker 1: It happens. And I hesitate to do this, but you

2215
02:08:21,920 --> 02:08:24,920
Speaker 1: have to in order to make the point. Poor Mitchell Trubisky,

2216
02:08:25,400 --> 02:08:29,080
Speaker 1: I mean, welcome to Buffalo. You're in heaven man. You

2217
02:08:29,160 --> 02:08:31,440
Speaker 1: get a chance to be in an offense that fits

2218
02:08:32,080 --> 02:08:37,600
Speaker 1: fits his skill set, and he gets a chance to

2219
02:08:37,720 --> 02:08:40,560
Speaker 1: learn behind Josh and be coached by a great coaching

2220
02:08:40,600 --> 02:08:43,480
Speaker 1: staff will know how to use him. It's the ideal

2221
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Speaker 1: place for him. It's a matchmate in heaven. And he

2222
02:08:46,440 --> 02:08:49,440
Speaker 1: ought to thank his lucky star said that the Bills

2223
02:08:49,480 --> 02:08:53,680
Speaker 1: wanted it, but he had no chance coming to Chicago.

2224
02:08:53,880 --> 02:08:57,400
Speaker 1: Zero chance. He played thirteen games in college. How could

2225
02:08:57,440 --> 02:09:00,400
Speaker 1: you expect to put him in a game and and

2226
02:09:00,400 --> 02:09:03,880
Speaker 1: and allow them to play at the level that was

2227
02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:11,040
Speaker 1: there was even commensurate with professionality in the NFL, It doesn't.

2228
02:09:11,320 --> 02:09:14,960
Speaker 1: It's not possible. They're asking far too much to the guy.

2229
02:09:15,160 --> 02:09:19,760
Speaker 1: And because this is not the correct statistic, but it's

2230
02:09:19,760 --> 02:09:22,839
Speaker 1: in the ballpark. There have been fifty five Super Bowls,

2231
02:09:22,960 --> 02:09:26,920
Speaker 1: over forty of them have been won by quarterbacks that

2232
02:09:26,960 --> 02:09:30,080
Speaker 1: we would consider Hall of famers or potential Hall of famers.

2233
02:09:31,200 --> 02:09:36,560
Speaker 1: So everybody knowing that says, boy, we got to get one.

2234
02:09:37,240 --> 02:09:39,920
Speaker 1: So now it looks as though the first four picks

2235
02:09:39,920 --> 02:09:44,280
Speaker 1: in the draft, certainly three maybe four, will be quarterbacks,

2236
02:09:44,320 --> 02:09:47,720
Speaker 1: and they'll be drafted way higher than they would have

2237
02:09:48,360 --> 02:09:52,040
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six, way, you know, just because why

2238
02:09:52,080 --> 02:09:55,600
Speaker 1: because you need one. That doesn't mean that they're going

2239
02:09:55,640 --> 02:09:58,680
Speaker 1: to succeed. In fact, that this is an accurate statistic,

2240
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Speaker 1: fifty of all first round of quarterbacks fit right. Yeah,

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02:10:04,400 --> 02:10:06,480
Speaker 1: that's a fact, but it's part of the reason that

2242
02:10:06,520 --> 02:10:09,040
Speaker 1: Bill's talking about. You don't give the guy enough time,

2243
02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:11,240
Speaker 1: you don't build it around him, and then you say

2244
02:10:11,280 --> 02:10:13,440
Speaker 1: he's a bust and media pressures you to do that

2245
02:10:13,560 --> 02:10:15,120
Speaker 1: last one. Here for me, Bill, because we only got

2246
02:10:15,120 --> 02:10:17,320
Speaker 1: about a minute left, and we appreciate the time. I

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02:10:17,400 --> 02:10:19,320
Speaker 1: wanted to get your take on this one as well.

2248
02:10:19,600 --> 02:10:24,160
Speaker 1: The Bills have proposed a thing to the Competition Committee.

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02:10:24,200 --> 02:10:27,720
Speaker 1: I think it's going before ownership that in May, presumably

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Speaker 1: that will ask about enacting a hiring practice for head

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02:10:33,560 --> 02:10:36,040
Speaker 1: coaches and any position coaches for that matter who would

2252
02:10:36,040 --> 02:10:37,760
Speaker 1: be in line for a promotion with a new team,

2253
02:10:38,200 --> 02:10:42,720
Speaker 1: to not allow interviews until after the championship games and

2254
02:10:42,760 --> 02:10:45,720
Speaker 1: not allow any hirings of any kind, including head coaches

2255
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Speaker 1: until after the Super Bowl. Having sat in a GM

2256
02:10:48,760 --> 02:10:50,880
Speaker 1: chair and when you've had to make a change, wanting

2257
02:10:50,880 --> 02:10:54,879
Speaker 1: to do it probably yesterday, can you see this gaining

2258
02:10:54,920 --> 02:10:57,960
Speaker 1: any kind of traction and telling owners you gotta wait

2259
02:10:58,000 --> 02:10:59,760
Speaker 1: till after the Super Bowl to get your new guy

2260
02:10:59,800 --> 02:11:03,960
Speaker 1: in and started. First of all, I'm one hundred percent

2261
02:11:04,160 --> 02:11:08,160
Speaker 1: in favor of it. It wouldn't hurt a thing, but

2262
02:11:08,280 --> 02:11:10,960
Speaker 1: I doubt that it will pass because the change of

2263
02:11:11,040 --> 02:11:16,520
Speaker 1: this type is viewed as competitive, and owners and GMS

2264
02:11:16,520 --> 02:11:20,400
Speaker 1: are so competitive and so jealous of their abilities to

2265
02:11:20,440 --> 02:11:23,760
Speaker 1: go out and find the right guy that I doubt

2266
02:11:23,800 --> 02:11:27,080
Speaker 1: that it will get, you know, the number of votes

2267
02:11:27,240 --> 02:11:30,720
Speaker 1: necessary to pass, But I think it's a great, great idea,

2268
02:11:31,120 --> 02:11:33,160
Speaker 1: would be good for the game, it will be good

2269
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:38,200
Speaker 1: for minority coaches. There's nothing wrong with it, Absolutely nothing

2270
02:11:38,200 --> 02:11:41,400
Speaker 1: wrong with it. You have to put some teeth into it, obviously,

2271
02:11:41,440 --> 02:11:43,760
Speaker 1: which the League office I'm sure is not thrilled about.

2272
02:11:44,160 --> 02:11:47,920
Speaker 1: But it's a great idea. With the fact that we're

2273
02:11:47,960 --> 02:11:51,520
Speaker 1: talking about it is a good thing because over time

2274
02:11:52,280 --> 02:11:54,480
Speaker 1: people tend to think about it and then say, you

2275
02:11:54,520 --> 02:11:57,600
Speaker 1: know what, that's not a bad idea, and pretty soon

2276
02:11:57,920 --> 02:12:02,760
Speaker 1: it becomes mainstream. So good for mister and missus Pagola

2277
02:12:02,800 --> 02:12:06,720
Speaker 1: and the Bills for putting it up there, and hopefully

2278
02:12:06,760 --> 02:12:09,520
Speaker 1: it'll gain some traction. Bill, thanks so much. Great scene.

2279
02:12:09,520 --> 02:12:12,360
Speaker 1: You're my friend, and hopefully we'll have you back again sometime.

2280
02:12:13,520 --> 02:12:17,040
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, buddy, Thank your best, everybody in Buffalo Banks.

2281
02:12:17,040 --> 02:12:19,480
Speaker 1: That's Bill Polian, Hall of Famer. We have to take

2282
02:12:19,520 --> 02:12:21,160
Speaker 1: a break, Steve and I to close things up when

2283
02:12:21,200 --> 02:12:35,800
Speaker 1: we come back here on one Bill's Live. What have

2284
02:12:35,920 --> 02:12:39,320
Speaker 1: we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

2285
02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:43,880
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills tell you talked

2286
02:12:43,880 --> 02:12:45,840
Speaker 1: to Bill Polian for twenty minutes, you'll learn a lot.

2287
02:12:46,960 --> 02:12:51,360
Speaker 1: Just guys, font I know information. It's just really amazing.

2288
02:12:51,360 --> 02:12:53,720
Speaker 1: It's so and you know, we love it because we

2289
02:12:53,760 --> 02:12:56,680
Speaker 1: were big. We're neck deep in football every day. But

2290
02:12:56,760 --> 02:12:58,440
Speaker 1: then you talk to him and it's like, yay, that's

2291
02:12:58,480 --> 02:13:01,400
Speaker 1: why I love it. That right there, why I love it. Yeah,

2292
02:13:01,480 --> 02:13:04,320
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad. I got his take on the

2293
02:13:04,360 --> 02:13:08,040
Speaker 1: Bill's proposal. He likes it, yeah, and thinks it has

2294
02:13:08,080 --> 02:13:10,440
Speaker 1: some merit. I do agree with him that I think

2295
02:13:10,440 --> 02:13:13,400
Speaker 1: it would give more opportunities to some minority candidates, which

2296
02:13:13,880 --> 02:13:16,040
Speaker 1: is a train that the league is trying to drive,

2297
02:13:17,480 --> 02:13:19,520
Speaker 1: not with as much success as they like. You wonder

2298
02:13:19,560 --> 02:13:23,160
Speaker 1: if a proposal like that could change that course for

2299
02:13:23,240 --> 02:13:25,120
Speaker 1: the league. He likes it. He doesn't think it'll pass

2300
02:13:25,200 --> 02:13:28,880
Speaker 1: this year, but you know, as we've seen a lot

2301
02:13:28,960 --> 02:13:31,800
Speaker 1: of the proposals of the Competition Committee brings to ownership,

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02:13:32,080 --> 02:13:35,000
Speaker 1: doesn't always pass the first year, the second year, sometimes

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02:13:35,000 --> 02:13:37,480
Speaker 1: even the third years, but when owners have time to

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Speaker 1: think about things, they eventually passed. Why I think it

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Speaker 1: might have a chance this year is because in a

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Speaker 1: vacuum now that everybody's got all settled and stuff. They'll say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, it makes a lot of sense, because

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Speaker 1: what are we gonna use if we get If the

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Speaker 1: guys are a coach for fifteen years, What do I

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Speaker 1: care about the first three weeks being late? You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I think that's got a chance to fly.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm on Veyk for the next week. Maddie glab

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Speaker 1: will be into to fill in for me with Steve

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Speaker 1: armand Del Salgaro and Great Cosell on tomorrow here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live