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Speaker 1: Hey, good Monday afternoon to everybody. Chris Brown here along

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Speaker 1: with Steve Tasker. I'm filling in for a vacationing John Murphy.

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Speaker 1: As you see a snow covered New Era field here

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park for our viewing audience on MSG to

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Speaker 1: our listening audience on w GR, we assure you the

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Speaker 1: field is snow covered. Yeah, there's snow going back. It is,

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Speaker 1: by the way, January twenty seventh. Yeah, So a good

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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon to all of you. And unfortunately a lot

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Speaker 1: of what many of us were dealing with over the

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Speaker 1: course of the weekend was clearly overshadowed come the middle

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Speaker 1: of the day on Sunday when the news of Kobe

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Speaker 1: by any and all news sources, and it kind of

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Speaker 1: Sunday that he had tragically passed in a helica your

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Speaker 1: accident in California, along with his daughter and some fellow coaches,

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Speaker 1: other parents to other young girls as well who were

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Speaker 1: teammates of his daughter, along with the pilot. So that's

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Speaker 1: a knock you right out of your chair kind of

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Speaker 1: news item that comes across the ticker or wherever you

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Speaker 1: may have seen it, and it's hard not to be

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Speaker 1: impacted by that, And we will obviously discuss it in

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Speaker 1: a various amount of ways today. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: have had twenty four hours now to kind of process

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Speaker 1: this in their own way, and everybody does process these

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Speaker 1: things differently, But we don't want to ignore it because

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Speaker 1: the magnitude of it, I think is worth addressing, and

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Speaker 1: we're going to kind of try to handle it in

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Speaker 1: a couple of different ways today as people try to

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Speaker 1: make sense of what was a senseless accident to many people,

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Speaker 1: at least as far as I'm concerned. When you hear

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Speaker 1: about how foggy the conditions were, how the control tower

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Speaker 1: told the pilot you can go, but you're going at

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Speaker 1: your own risk, and you know they decided to go anyway.

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Speaker 1: The peculiar nature of the final movements of that helicopter

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Speaker 1: the conditions. So it's just I think it's still hard

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Speaker 1: for a lot of people to wrap their head around

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Speaker 1: it because those are as unexpected as it gets those

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Speaker 1: kinds of events. Yeah, I mean we'd be more than

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Speaker 1: willing to. I know, there's a lot of people have

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Speaker 1: a lot on their mind when stuff like this happens.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's obviously, unfortunately a list of great people

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Speaker 1: Payne Stewart, Dale, Earnhard, all these guys, these people that

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Speaker 1: have been who great athletes and great performers that have

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Speaker 1: passed away tragically too early in life. Kobe Bryant like that,

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Speaker 1: if any of you have any you can call us

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Speaker 1: and you can talk to us about it. We're not

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Speaker 1: going to spend all day on at all. I think

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Speaker 1: it's pretty much present on everybody's mind. Kind of trivializes

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Speaker 1: everything else we talk about on a day to day

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Speaker 1: basis when you talk about the great people, and I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about this a lot. You know, these guys

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Speaker 1: guys like Kobe Bryant, like Lebron James, like Michael Jordan,

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Speaker 1: and others you can name like Pat Tillman and Payne Stewart. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're great. Part of why they're great athletes

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Speaker 1: is because they're great human beings and the athletic part

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Speaker 1: Certainly Kobe who is an Oscar winning short filmmaker, you know.

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Speaker 1: And there's a Payne Stewart who had left a legacy

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Speaker 1: of behind him, uh, Pat Tillman and the sacrifice he

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Speaker 1: You know, we are going to keep going. And um

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Speaker 1: and people handle it in different ways, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we welcome you to, uh, you know, share your thoughts

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Speaker 1: or maybe share how this may have reminded you of,

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Speaker 1: We'll listen to all of that. Um. You know, if

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Speaker 1: Steve said, we don't want to make the whole show

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Speaker 1: back to you the sports fan. That could be you know,

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Speaker 1: therapeutic in some ways for some people. But as Steve mentioned,

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Speaker 1: even though the Senior Bowl doesn't seem like a topic

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Speaker 1: my colleagues, and you know, there are some encouraging senior

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Speaker 1: prospects down there that give me hope that the Bills

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Speaker 1: are going to have multiple opportunities, along with the thirty

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Speaker 1: be positional holes for this roster. And we will get

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Speaker 1: into that. The Pro Bowl, oh, by the way, also

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Speaker 1: think because of the brutal nature of the sport doesn't

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Speaker 1: regular season or a playoff game. But still, in all

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Speaker 1: there were three Bills players participating, and Andre Roberts had

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Speaker 1: himself a day, didn't light up the scoreboard per se,

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Speaker 1: forward three to four and maybe even five Bills players

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Speaker 1: some of these young players on this roster continue to

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Speaker 1: elevate their personal game to get that kind of recognition. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the names, you know them as you win games and

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Speaker 1: do it consistently. If the Bills could put another together,

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Speaker 1: And that's where you kind of get into the Pro

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Speaker 1: when you start doing it consistently year in year out,

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Speaker 1: Bills players, more Bills players than you have in past years,

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowls. This year was Tremaine Edmonds, Tredavious White,

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Speaker 1: is I was just talking to the Instigators after their

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Speaker 1: The All Star Game was this last week. The NHL

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Speaker 1: The NFL Pro Bowl was Sunday. Yeah, and they are

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Speaker 1: They don't have to prove it, and they don't have

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Speaker 1: I've long been a proponent of the league, the NFL

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Speaker 1: you know, their US's mind that we're all flawed, like

430
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Speaker 1: all these athletes and all all great people and even

431
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: not so great people are flawed, but they all bring

432
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: you know, an era of or an air of presence

433
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Speaker 1: about him. We all have memories that are linked to

434
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Speaker 1: these people and at times in our lives and feelings

435
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: that we had and things that we you know, always

436
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: go back, and particularly with athletes, and like Kobe Bryant

437
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: is a perfect example, you go back and you think

438
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 1: about him when he was at his best. You know,

439
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 1: that takes you right back to the moments when you

440
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 1: saw him with the trophy and the moments we saw

441
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Speaker 1: on the basketball court where you know, he just mesmerized you.

442
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: He was like an assassin. Like I mean, like Michael Jordan,

443
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: like and like today like Lebron James, like these guys

444
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 1: today that can do it, and guys on the football

445
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: field in today's game that that can do the guys

446
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna see this next week in the Super Bowl

447
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: who were at the peak of their at their game,

448
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: the Pat mahomes, Lamar Jackson's and the guys he saw

449
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Speaker 1: yesterday in the Pro Bowl. There's these athletes everywhere, and

450
00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: then you see guys who do it a little they

451
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: are a little different, you know, like Pat Tillman, a

452
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: guy who walked away from all of this for something

453
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Speaker 1: he believed in that was greater. And that's the kind

454
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Speaker 1: of that's kind of the spark of that greatness. I'm

455
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: talking about all these people we see the Roberto Clemente

456
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Speaker 1: who was lost in a plane small plane crash, who

457
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: was doing the hurricane if you're living eight to a

458
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: hurricane relief in Nicaragua. I mean, you know, these people

459
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 1: are greater than their athletic prowess, and you know, you

460
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: get a chance to a glimpse of that, and some

461
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Speaker 1: of them in after they're gone. Certainly in Pat Tillman's

462
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Speaker 1: case and in Roberto Clemente's case, Uh, we only found

463
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Speaker 1: out about Payne Stewart and the good things that he

464
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Speaker 1: had done after he was gone. Uh. You know, it's

465
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Speaker 1: just one thing after another that you know, it puts

466
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Speaker 1: it in perspective for you about there. You know, Yeah,

467
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: they they're all flawed, but man, you can you know,

468
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: you talk about a double edged sword as flawed as

469
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Speaker 1: some of them are, how great of some of the

470
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Speaker 1: things that they did and the contributions they made and

471
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Speaker 1: the inspiration they provided for so many millions of people,

472
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: not just in America but all around the world. In

473
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Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant's Taste, yeah, eight oh three five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. If you want

475
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Speaker 1: to weigh in and just maybe describe the impact that

476
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Speaker 1: news had on you yesterday, whether it took you back

477
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Speaker 1: to a time maybe in your younger years where you

478
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 1: had a sports idle that maybe you lost or that

479
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: was taken from this earth far too soon. You know,

480
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: you can weigh in on that, and well, we're happy

481
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Speaker 1: to discuss it with you. I think what what was

482
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Speaker 1: missing for me yesterday was, you know, I was already

483
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Speaker 1: a full grown adult in watching Kobe Bryant's entire NBA career,

484
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Speaker 1: and so for me, that childhood innocence and attachment to

485
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Speaker 1: a player that was that good or that I had

486
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Speaker 1: a special affinity for wasn't there. Like I said, I

487
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: certainly respected the player that he was and what he

488
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Speaker 1: meant to the league, but I didn't have that child

489
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Speaker 1: eildhood affinity. You know, that innocence where you're just like,

490
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he's awesome. I love that guy, he's

491
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Speaker 1: my favorite player. That kind of thing that wasn't there

492
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Speaker 1: for me with him, And so I was trying to

493
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Speaker 1: process and understand his impact because he didn't have that

494
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Speaker 1: impact for me individually. And I saw it with my

495
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Speaker 1: fifteen year old son, who was, you know, kind of

496
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: broken up about it, and I said, well, why, you know,

497
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: why was it that way? And he just said he was.

498
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 1: He was the model athlete for us, whether he's hitting

499
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Speaker 1: free throws at the free throw line with a torn

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Speaker 1: achilles which happened late in his career. If you remember,

501
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: he tour as Achilles's trying to drive to the basket.

502
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: He got fouled on the play. He knew he tore

503
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Speaker 1: as Achilles, and he's like, no, I'm still going to

504
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: shoot these free throws, you know, even though I know

505
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: I've got a torn achilles here to just an unrelenting

506
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Speaker 1: work ethic where I'm not going to get out worked

507
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: by anybody. No one's gonna want it more than me,

508
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Speaker 1: even though he was blessed with such God given talent.

509
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: I think that was the example that he said that

510
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Speaker 1: if you really want to excel as an athlete, this

511
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: is what it's going to take, even if you are

512
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: blessed with ridiculous ability. And I think that's the that's

513
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: the model athlete that he was for so many people.

514
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Speaker 1: And I think he probably, whether he knew it or not,

515
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: raised the game of a lot of the professional basketball

516
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: players you see now that maybe reached, maybe reached heights

517
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Speaker 1: they would not have reached had it not been for

518
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: his example. There's been a number of them who have

519
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: pointed to his calling them out and being right about it. Yeah,

520
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: to open their eyes to like, I really got to

521
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: examine my right any kind of thing. Yeah, And I've

522
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: said this a ton, not just about well, not about athletes,

523
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: but mostly about football players. But it also applies to

524
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 1: obviously guys like Kobe Bryant. They are different in their mentality.

525
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant was you know, you can I don't want

526
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Speaker 1: to just take it the way I mean exaggeratedly committed,

527
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he was truck committed and you

528
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: can screwed a little too tight. U. Michael Jordan's same thing.

529
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen other football players. There's Jerry Rice's

530
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: of the world and these guys, they're really truly great players,

531
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: Walter Payton's you know, these you know, guys that are

532
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: just wired differently and it is a key to their success.

533
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: And obviously they're gifted with a lot of physical ability,

534
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: particularly in the NBA realms where you get these guys

535
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: that are you know, they have to be a certain

536
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: stature just to get in the doorway. But they're also

537
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: gifted with a commitment that is mind boggling. When when

538
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: so much success, so much material wealth, so much notoriety,

539
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: so much prestige is just peeped onto them because of

540
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: their ability to play basketball, it doesn't affect them and

541
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: their commitment to being better basketball players. And that's really

542
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: the thing that is amazing to a lot of people.

543
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: No matter how much how many trophies, how much money,

544
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: how much prestige, and how much accolades, and you know,

545
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: how big a rock star they got to be, they

546
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: were still ultimately they were committed to being a better

547
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: basketball player every weekend, week out. And that's the thing

548
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: that a lot of people forget about those guys like that.

549
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: And I think that's the one thing that you know,

550
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: when they hang up those shoes and go to a

551
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: different thing and they start to be committed to that,

552
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: how great they are at other things. And that's that's

553
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: a really unique ability. That is the thing, much more

554
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: so than their athletic accomplishments. That's the thing that sets

555
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Speaker 1: them apart. Eight oh three five fifty to number two

556
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,479
Speaker 1: call one eight fifty two five fifty. We do have

557
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: to step aside for a quick break, but we will

558
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: get to your phone calls on the other side. So

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Speaker 1: Harvey and California, Jeff and Springville, hang on, We'll get

560
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: to you on the other side. This is One Bill's

561
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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

562
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

563
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: with you as we discuss a bunch of topics. But

564
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: chief on the board is kind of processing the Kobe

565
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: Bryant passing and where it's compartmentalized in your processing of

566
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: those events yesterday, whether it reminded you of a sports

567
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: figure that you idolized in your younger years or whether

568
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: he was your guy. We're taking your calls at eight

569
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Speaker 1: o three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty and as promised, we are going to go

571
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Speaker 1: back to the phones and we're gonna lead off today

572
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Speaker 1: with Harvey in California. So Harvey, thanks for joining the show.

573
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: What do you have for us today? Thank you very much.

574
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: I'm a transplanted Buffalo guy, been a Bills fan since

575
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: forty six, not eighteen, forty six, nineteen and Steve I

576
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you for the pleasure of watching

577
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: you play. It was great, Thanks Harvey. It's fun for

578
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: me too. Well what else you got. Well, the years

579
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: I grew up, Tom Harmon was a big, big favorite

580
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: of ours, and I remember when he crashed in the jungle.

581
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: It was in the paper and they hadn't found him

582
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: for a couple of days, and it was almost about

583
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: as universal as Colby. I don't think quite as because

584
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: you know, the warriors were on him, people were dying,

585
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: but it sure had an effect on us young guys.

586
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: I mean I was about eleven or twelve years old

587
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: at the time, and of course, you know, heroes die

588
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: highs and so it really affected us. And then we

589
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: found out he was safe, and you saw the newsreel

590
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: of him on some kind of a cart carried through

591
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: the jungle, you know, And so he had quite a career.

592
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: Then he moved out here became a sports announcer, and

593
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: his son Mark did quite well. But it was fun

594
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: watching him as a young man. He was a good

595
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: football player. I enjoyed it. Yeah, Heisman Tisman trophy, right exactly. Yeah,

596
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: but that Yeah, thank you for the call there, Harvey.

597
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Uh, yeah, I mean that's why I

598
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: was saying, like, there's probably people from older sets here

599
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: that maybe didn't quite resonate with the impact of Kobe's

600
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: passing as much as others, but it certainly reminded them

601
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: of sports figures from their time. And for people who

602
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: didn't know who Tom Harmon was, he was college football

603
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: player at Michigan. He won the Heisman Trophy I think

604
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: in the late thirties, early forties. And then I guess

605
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: that I was unaware of this plane crash that he

606
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: was a People just assumed he had passed, but he didn't.

607
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: He survived the crash and he didn't pass until he

608
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: was seventy years old. But obviously that news probably gripped

609
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: a good portion of America at that time, knowing how

610
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: big the Heisman Trophy was in the thirties and forties,

611
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: and he was bigger than the NFL. He was born

612
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: in fifty three, so it was, Oh, do I have

613
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: the wrong guy? Then, I don't know, Maybe I was

614
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: thinking of Thomas Hartman. Yes, I might have the wrong

615
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: guy too, Yeah, because he had played at Michigan in

616
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Speaker 1: the late thirties early forties, won the Heisman Trophy, and

617
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: then he actually served in World War Two, came back

618
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: and he was a pilot in the war, so hearing

619
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Speaker 1: that he was flying a plane was not surprising. But

620
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: after the war, yeah, he had gone down as a

621
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Speaker 1: as a World War two pilot and they thought he

622
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: had passed, but he survived that and then played for

623
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Speaker 1: the La Rams and then got into sports broadcasting. As

624
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: Harvey had mentioned. But you know, the thought of losing

625
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, you see those old newsreels in the movie theaters,

626
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: and you know, nobody knew what had happened to him.

627
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: So I went on to have a football career in

628
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: broadcasting career. So it's interesting how events like the tragic

629
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: one yesterday with Kobe Bryant kind of sparks memories of,

630
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: you know, either sports idols of you know, your younger

631
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: years or something like that. And that's why I kind

632
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: of wanted to see where people were at with some

633
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Speaker 1: of this. We'll go back to the phones. Let's go

634
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Speaker 1: to Jeff in Springville. Jeff, you're on here on one

635
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Speaker 1: Bill's Live with Steve and Chris. Thanks for joining us.

636
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: Not a problem, gentlemen. Thanks for having me. The name

637
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: that comes to mind for me and it wasn't necessarily

638
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: a huge fan of mine, but more some of my

639
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: fathers and other guys of that generation as Dale Earnhardt,

640
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: and I think he's probably had the biggest impact that

641
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: I can relate to with the whole Kobe saying, you know,

642
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: completely different fan base, but still the same type of

643
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: media coverage. And at the time, you know, I can

644
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: remember watching that race with my dad and his friends

645
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: and having a little party and everybody having a great

646
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: time and all of a sudden everybody turning to a

647
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: somber event in grown men crying, and I didn't understand

648
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: it at the time. Now, that was the first thing

649
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: I thought about was when I heard about Kobe, as wow,

650
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: that's that's huge, um. And it's sad, you know, to

651
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: think about not only Kobe but his daughter too and

652
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: what that family is going through. It's just it's difficult. Well,

653
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: it's horrific, no question about and Dale Earnhardt was particularly

654
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: horrific because it happened in front of a you know,

655
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: a couple one hundred thousand people and a live television

656
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: and broadcast, and then we didn't find out till after

657
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: we knew he was hurt. We didn't know how badly,

658
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: and of course he he passed and it was carried live.

659
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 1: It was I think it was a singularly telling event

660
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: in American history when you've got somebody like that who

661
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: is such an an iconic figure. He was championship. He

662
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: was forty nine when it happened, and it happened right

663
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 1: in front of all of us. And I think that,

664
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: sadly is what makes that maybe one of the most

665
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: unique passings of a sports figure ever, because it happened

666
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: in the actual arena in which he competed, you know,

667
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you can find too

668
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: many of those. And I've seen football players paralyzed on

669
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: the field, you know, in a horrible, horrible fashion, but

670
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: you know, to actually, you know, eventually lose your life

671
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: and the arena in which you compete, It is just

672
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: so rare and awful. And we're not here to compare

673
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: and contrast say one was more tragic or more meaningful

674
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: the other. Everybody's Each of these people because of their

675
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: level of celebrity and notoriety and the greatness of their

676
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: athletic or whatever accomplishments we're talking about, you know, they're

677
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: all unique and they have great meaning to different people

678
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: across the country. We'll get a ton of calls here

679
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: now from people who, you know, want to chime in

680
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,479
Speaker 1: on this because so many of these athletes and I've

681
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: I've had firsthand knowledge, I mean, and we had that

682
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: instance this last training camp where you know, the family

683
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,919
Speaker 1: named their son after me. Yeah, you know me these

684
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: and I'm just I was a special teams player on

685
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 1: a you know, in another sport twenty years ago. So

686
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: you you get these guys like Kobe Bryant, and they

687
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: really affect the way people live their lives. They are

688
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,919
Speaker 1: inspiring to people, and they change the way people make

689
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: decisions in their life. And they have a chance to

690
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: talk to these people, and so these guys really do have,

691
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, an effect, and it's a different effect for all.

692
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: I mean, we just made a quick list and there's

693
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: a there's articles out today about other athletes who have

694
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: expired and for the reasons they're they're all tragic and

695
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: and a lot of them are particularly maddeningly meaningless in

696
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: the way they passed away. You know, like a guy

697
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: like Lenn Bias, who had such a gush. Yeah. See,

698
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: now that's right in my Wheelhouse as he you know,

699
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: as young, you know, as a teenage kid. And I

700
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: was excited to see this guy playing the NBA and

701
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: think about second pick in the draft, think about Junior

702
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: say out, yeah, the way it ended for him after

703
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: he would had expired. There's a ton of guy, even

704
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: our grandparents and Luke Garrig, who nobody knew what Luke

705
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: Garrig's disease was, right, and to see him pass away

706
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: at the age of what he was thirty seven when

707
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: he passed. Um, it's just list goes on and on

708
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: and on, and we're getting we're getting calls here all

709
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: these people who are affected by the inspiration. And I

710
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: guess that's the best part of what athletics, a pro

711
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: athletic can do for so many people who watch and

712
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: follow it is it's inspiring and it's an example of

713
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: a better way to live your life or a you know,

714
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: a better way to feel about your own life. And

715
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: when you see these guys play, Let's go to Dan

716
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: in Denver, who's been waiting patiently. Here. Dan, you're on

717
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live. What do you have for us? Yeah,

718
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: just briefly on the Kovie thing, because I know that's

719
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: your main topic. Um, I'd also like to comment on

720
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: the Pull Bowl. So I'm very sorry for the loss

721
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: to that family. And it's especially as daughter. My God,

722
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: such a young girl and everybody else who was on

723
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: that helicopter. You'll shouldn't die that young, Thank reminds me

724
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: of and I know he's not as young, but you

725
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: played with him, Steve is Kent Hall, and you know

726
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: that was that was really too bad. I would have

727
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: liked to have seen him in the Hall of Fame

728
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: before hear me out on the Pro Bowl for a second.

729
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: Everybody is sick and tired of watching them not go

730
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: full go right, and you know, and like you said, Steve,

731
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: it started changing for you even back then, and it

732
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: totally makes sense. And there's really nothing they can do

733
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna make it better. And the only thing that

734
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I think would be better, and I think

735
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: that they would go full board is converted to a

736
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: flag game. Seriously, he really can't get hurt other than

737
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: pulling a handstring, which heals fast. And these skill players

738
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: would go full speed and it would be a lot

739
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: of fun to see them. And there's a lot of

740
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: strategy in that. I coached my boys for seven years

741
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: and an ultra competitive flag league down here, and um

742
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: man I had I had a playbook that was like

743
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: two hundred pages thick, and we I mean we scouted,

744
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: we rerecruited, we did all that kind of stuff and

745
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: it was it was a fun time. And I'd love

746
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: to see these guys get out there and just go

747
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: nuts and all of these kind of creative plays you

748
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: can do with flag. That's my point. I know most

749
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: people are gonna say, oh, no way, but you know what,

750
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: They're not gonna play tough anyway on a tackle game.

751
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: Boy bothered. Yeah, there's got to be a different thing

752
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: you can do. And I agree with you, Dan, They've

753
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: got to do something else. It's not really a football

754
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: game and why And it's hard to watch when you

755
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: take the physicality all the way out of it and

756
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: the competitiveness. I would you know, a flag football game

757
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: is suggestion, but it's interesting. Point of it is, the

758
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: point of it is you'd like to see him do

759
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: something other than what they're doing, whatever it is. I

760
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: don't know if a flag football game is the answer.

761
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: I'll listen to it. I'll listen to it, but I

762
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: don't know how it would change things, and I don't

763
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,919
Speaker 1: know that it would be safer, because, believe me, when

764
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: the big guys turn it up all the way, it

765
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: becomes more than flag football game. So they'd be it

766
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: would be a risk that it'd be interesting to see

767
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: if they would even entertain that remotely, because you know

768
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: that the NFL does support NFL flag I mean, they

769
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: have a flag football program, but to incorporate it into

770
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: the actual product that generates these billions of dollars, I

771
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm I don't know if we're ever

772
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: going to see that, but I think the point is

773
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: something you'd like to see, something, something different, something different.

774
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't know that a flag football games the answer,

775
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: but I think the fact that everybody's suggesting stuff means

776
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: they want something, something better than what they're watching, right exactly, Yeah,

777
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: no question about it. Eight oh three five fifty one

778
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty To get on board,

779
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: to let us know how you were impacted by the

780
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: tragic news of Kobe Bryant's passing and whether it reminded

781
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: you of some sports title of your youth that was

782
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: taken from this earth far too soon. We'll continue to

783
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: take your calls, Jeff and Depew. You're leading us off

784
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: on the other side of the break, Steve task or

785
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: Chris Brown with you here until three. It's One Bills

786
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio,

787
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on One Bill's

788
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: Live on a Monday afternoon, filling in for the vacationing

789
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy. Maddy glab will be in here to host

790
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: or the co host with Steve tomorrow, and then I'll

791
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: be back on Wednesday and Thursday as we round out

792
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: the week. We should mention because I didn't mention this.

793
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: At the top of the show. We will have former

794
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: NFL defensive tackle Brian Young, a Pro Football Hall of

795
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 1: Fame finalist, on the show in our two o'clock hour,

796
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: who's going to discuss a host of topics, including the

797
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: upcoming Super Bowl matchup between his forty nine Ers and

798
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and also being a Pro Football Hall of

799
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: Fame finalist that's kind of a big deal. And we

800
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: may talk to him a little bit about Ed Oliver.

801
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: Because Brian Young was known as somewhat of an undersized

802
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: defense I tackle himself and be interesting to get his

803
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: thoughts for what he plays about ten careers all for

804
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, won Super Bowl twenty nine, was

805
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: a part of that team, and also today, but just

806
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of go back in I I

807
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 1: want to find something out about him. Today's his birthday.

808
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 1: Oh no, kid y, Yeah, so he's coming on with

809
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: us today. Wow. How nice of him. I think he's

810
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: he's forty seven years forty eight years old today and

811
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: he decided he'd come on with us. That's great. So

812
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: Bryant young gonna come on. He was one of the

813
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: championship members of the Super Bowl twenty nine San Francisco

814
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. But here in the first hour of

815
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: the show, we are discussing an offshoot somewhat of you know,

816
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and whether or not

817
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: that spark memories for you of a sports idol that

818
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: maybe you felt was gone too soon, that you idolize

819
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,240
Speaker 1: maybe in some of your younger years, or if Kobe

820
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: Bryant was in fact your guy. You know, we're welcoming

821
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: you to weigh in on that as well, and the

822
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: kind of impact he had on you as you grew

823
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 1: up as a kid, or maybe as a young youth athlete.

824
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: We'll take all of those comments at eight o three

825
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: five fifty, so we'll go back to the phones and

826
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Speaker 1: we'll start with jeff In depew So, Jeff, welcome to

827
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: the show. What do you have for us? Well, I

828
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 1: understand what Kolby because I remember Thurnamo Munson die in Earnhardt,

829
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: Payne Stewart. Yeah, right, actually got to go to Pebble Beach.

830
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: I didn't play it, but I was on the course

831
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: and I told my significant other, I says that when

832
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: he passed away, when they had the next tournaments there,

833
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: all the golfers lined up on the eighteenth sandtrap and

834
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: did a shot into the ocean, and it was very

835
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: very you know, touching, right, It's just it's terrible. I mean,

836
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: if I remember right, one of his fellow golfers even

837
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: got all dressed up in the get up that Payne

838
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: Stewart wore, you know, the knickers and the plus four

839
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: and the and the cap and they had the whole.

840
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: That's right, thank you for that. But yeah, no, Jeff,

841
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: you're right, and uh it is just uh it just

842
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: you see these seismic, tragic type events like this with

843
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant yesterday, and you can't help but think of

844
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: something similar from maybe your youth, if you're an older

845
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: person or if you're a young kid, this thing grips

846
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: you maybe for the first time. Um, you know, for

847
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: my fifteen year old boy, it was the first time

848
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: he kind of experienced something like this with some sports

849
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: figure that he idolized and respected, and it was a

850
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: tough day for him yesterday. I was I was actually

851
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: a little surprised by how much it did impact him,

852
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: but it did, unquestionably. He needed some time in his

853
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: room by himself to kind of process all of this.

854
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: And then I talked to him a little bit about

855
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: him again this morning, and he just said, Dad, he

856
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: was the model athlete man for for kids like me,

857
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 1: just doing extra, always doing more, not being out worked

858
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: by anybody, whether it was ractic a game, an All

859
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: Star game, sandlot game, whatever it was, you know, he was.

860
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: He was pushing into the max every single time, even

861
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: though he was so physically gifted. One thing about the

862
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: about Kobe Bryant is because he kind of transcended basketball.

863
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,760
Speaker 1: He was a worldwide celebrity. When you start thinking about

864
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: in in those terms, you bring other people into the

865
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: into the equation of it, like like John Lennon getting

866
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 1: shot uh in New York, you know, like Princess Diana

867
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: dying in a car crash suddenly, uh, you know, and

868
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,959
Speaker 1: you can argue it's on that level with it. It's yeah,

869
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: he's a kid like Kobe Bryant, he grew up in Italy,

870
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: had a kind of a worldview that was different than

871
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: most NBA players. Both multiple languages. He right, he was

872
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: his lights were on h He had a worldview that

873
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: was much wider ranging than most Americans. And because of

874
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: his you know, his time of living abroad. So you know,

875
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: you mix all that together and it raises the type

876
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: the type of you know, person that you think of

877
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: like that, you start thinking about people like other than

878
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: athletes that have passed away all too soon and uh

879
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: uh and Kobe Bryant and particularly now when and in

880
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 1: this I think it's a little bit everything considered. It

881
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: happened in the news spread so quickly because of the

882
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: culture and age in which we live now with electronic

883
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: media and social media, and how everybody found out about

884
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: it almost simultaneously. Uh. In comparatively speaking as to when,

885
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: like when Lou Garrick died, or when Roberto Clemente went

886
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: down in a plane crash and sat read about it too,

887
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: or you found out a week later. Everybody finds out

888
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: everything now, and that's why it hits us all at

889
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: the same time, and we kind of we can kind

890
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: of process it together, right And I think that's something

891
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: that we will get into the second hour of the

892
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: program here, because I think while there are a lot

893
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: of examples, many of which Steve outlined, you can even

894
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: talk about Walter Payton, who I think everybody and that

895
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 1: was my favorite football player growing up, and I think

896
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: everybody would agree he was taken from us too soon

897
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: at age forty five with bile duct cancer, you know,

898
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: which was contracted for, you know, whatever reason. But a

899
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: lot of people feel it was due to a lot

900
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: of the painkillers that he took to drag himself out

901
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: on the fielding shit every week. They felt it was

902
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,240
Speaker 1: exacerbated by that. You can run down the list. Reggie

903
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: White is another example, but I think for Kobe Bryant,

904
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: you can make the argument that this is the first

905
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: true global superstar that was taken too early, even though

906
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 1: his career was over. You know, some of the people

907
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: we've mentioned certainly had high notoriety and high visibility in

908
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: this country. And we'll get into this in the next hour,

909
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: but I think Kobe Bryant, you could make the argument,

910
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: is the true global superstar to be taken from us

911
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: too soon. But we did want to touch on and

912
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: we will get into more of the tweet sheet next hour,

913
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: but I did want to read at least one here.

914
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: And the tweet sheet, as you know, brought to you

915
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official moving company of the

916
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, because some people were chiming in on Twitter,

917
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: and you're welcome to do so at one Bills Live.

918
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: And this one from Brian Yesterday's news brought me back

919
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: to the depth of Princess Diana a global celebrity but

920
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 1: also meant so much to a certain area like Kobe

921
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: did to LA and the US, and that kind of

922
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: touched on what you were getting at, Steve. Kobe Bryant, Yes,

923
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: is a giant figure in the United States, but it

924
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: goes beyond the borders of this country in a big way,

925
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: not only because basketball kind of became a global sport

926
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: in the nineties and the turn of the century, but

927
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: because he was a global personality, you know, and we

928
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: can discuss this more next hour, but that's really who

929
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: he was. I mean, recognized in a multitude of countries,

930
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: respected in a multitude of countries because basketball is played

931
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,399
Speaker 1: around the world quite frankly, and so we'll get into

932
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: that in the next hour. And if you want to

933
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: weigh in on that and just the notoriety and the

934
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: magnitude of the personality to Kobe Bryant was and how

935
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: far that stretched across you know, international boarders, feel free

936
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: to do that. Eight oh three five fifty the number

937
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: to get on board one eight eight eight five fifty

938
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: two five fifty. We'll take a break here at the

939
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: top of the hour, but be back with more of

940
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: that and the global presence that Kobe Bryant's image had

941
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 1: and how really this is a first for losing a

942
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 1: person this early that had that kind of global reach.

943
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Chris Brown here with you on one Bills

944
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio

945
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: COLOILS Radio Network Sports Update. You're a sports update from

946
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his thirteen

947
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: year old daughter Gianna among the several people killed yesterday

948
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: and the helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, LA County Sheriff

949
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: stayed in a news conference there were no survivors and

950
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: according to the flight manifest, there were nine people on board. Bryant,

951
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: an eighteen time All Star with the Lakers and eligible

952
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 1: for the Basketball Hall of Fame this year, won five

953
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: NBA titles in his time with the Lakers, as well

954
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 1: as two Olympic gold medals with the United States. Now

955
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: fourth behind Lebron James on the NBA all time scoring

956
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: list with almost thirty four thousand career points. Also won

957
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: two NBA Finals MVP awards in the regular season MVP

958
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. It has been reported that

959
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: the Browns are hiring Eagles Vice President of Football Operations

960
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: Andrew Berry as their GM and executive vice president. Barry

961
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: was the Browns VP of Player, Person and l from

962
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen. Barry, just thirty two years old,

963
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: will be the youngest GM in the NFL. The AFC

964
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 1: defeated the NFC thirty eight thirty three in the twenty

965
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: twenty edition of the Pro Bowl at Camping World Stadium

966
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 1: in Orlando Bill's wide receiver Andrea Roberts had two catches

967
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: for thirty yards and a touchdown, and cornerback Tredavious White

968
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: had one pass breakup along with two tackles. Sabers back

969
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 1: practicing preparing for their first game after the All Star break,

970
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo hosting the Senators tomorrow at seven pm. Jeff Skinner

971
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: resumed practices with the team yesterday and according to coach

972
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 1: Ralph Krueger, will play tomorrow against Ottawa. Sabers also recalled

973
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: defenseman Lawrence Pilot from the Rochester Americans. Pilot is fourth

974
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: in Amrick's team, scoring twenty two points in thirty games played.

975
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: He's also appeared in six NHL games for the Sabers

976
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: this season. And the Toronto Raptors beat the San Antonio

977
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: Spurs yesterday one one oh six. Both teams collaborated on

978
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: a touching true to Kobe Bryant at the beginning of

979
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,280
Speaker 1: the game, each team dribbling out their twenty four second

980
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: shot clock for a shot clock violation to remember Bryant,

981
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: who wore jersey number twenty four. And they're not the

982
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 1: only couple of teams that did that. The Knicks did

983
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: that with the Nets last night. I know, the Hawks

984
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: took an eight second violation just with Trey Young holding

985
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: onto the ball, and then the other team did that

986
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:24,399
Speaker 1: as well, So that was kind of widespread that ran

987
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: rampant across the league last night in the games that

988
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: were on the schedule. And we are talking Kobe Bryant

989
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,879
Speaker 1: at eight oh three five fifty one, eight eight five

990
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 1: fifty two, five fifty. We're kind of asking fans if

991
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: you were directly impacted by this because Kobe was your guy,

992
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: or if it reminded you of a sports idol of

993
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,760
Speaker 1: your youth that was taken from you in tragic fashion

994
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: or far too early. And you know, we ran down

995
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: the list of a bunch of people, and we even

996
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: get to some of the others. I mean, I remember

997
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 1: just covering the NFL the passing of Sean Taylor due

998
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: to an act of violence at his own home when

999
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: there was a home invasion in his own house and

1000
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,240
Speaker 1: he was just twenty four years old. And I remember

1001
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: the Bills were playing the Washington Redskins, the team that

1002
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,280
Speaker 1: Sean Taylor player played for the very next week, and

1003
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: that game was on the road in Washington, and needless

1004
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: to say, there were a lot of heavy hearts in

1005
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 1: that building on that day. So yeah, it was you.

1006
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people. Jerome Brown, the defensive

1007
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles on that great Buddy Ryan

1008
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: defense in Philadelphia, he got in a car accident on

1009
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: the heels and making two Pro Bowls, died at the

1010
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: age of twenty seven. We mentioned Reggie White only forty

1011
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: three years old, sleep apnea complications of all things. So

1012
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: and then I mentioned in the last segment Walter Payton,

1013
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 1: who had the bile duct cancer, died at just forty

1014
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: five years old. Tony Gwynn, eight time batting champ in

1015
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, played his entire career for the San

1016
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: Diego Padres, died at age fifty four. So I mean

1017
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: there's there. Unfortunately, are far too many examples. Yeah, there's

1018
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: another one from way back, and this was before everybody,

1019
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: you know, everybody now runs to stay in shape. Steve

1020
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: Prefontaine twenty four, who was one of the guys who

1021
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: kind of put running on the map for everybody, not

1022
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: just great track stars, but before Nike and before all

1023
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: the running craze hit. Steve Prefontaine died at age twenty

1024
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:32,799
Speaker 1: four Olympic running. So um, there's a long list. I mean,

1025
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: I mean that we're never gonna get away from it. Yeah,

1026
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: and it's uh and it you know, it does put

1027
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: things in perspective. Yeah, sports become a little bit less

1028
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: important to us, um when life, when you talk about

1029
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,280
Speaker 1: life and death and the results of the games are different.

1030
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 1: But it is also that vehicle by which we got

1031
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: to know all these great people. And it's one of

1032
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 1: the things. It's the vehicle by which you know, you're

1033
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,760
Speaker 1: inspired by Thurman Munson. You remember the moment you found

1034
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: out he was gone, and others around the country who

1035
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: were inspired by Kobe Bryant finding out and you remember

1036
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: what he meant to you and why. And that's the

1037
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: thing that sets these people apart. And even though you

1038
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: were saying that events like this trivialized sports, I think

1039
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: it also reminds us of the impact that sports can

1040
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: have on people. When these sports figures are taken from us,

1041
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: you know, at a premature or an untimely age, I

1042
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:35,320
Speaker 1: think it re emphasizes just the hold that sports and

1043
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: competition has on people and how yeah, they do have

1044
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,760
Speaker 1: their favorites and do follow specific athletes in specific sports,

1045
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: because they mean that much to them. But as we

1046
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: discussed at the tail end of last segment, I think

1047
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: what makes Kobe Bryant different Despite all the people that

1048
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: we've listed here, and there have been several, unfortunately too many,

1049
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: I think you can make the argument that Kobe Bryant

1050
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: is the first example of an athlete being taken from

1051
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: from US way too soon that was on a global stage,

1052
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: a global superstar athlete that was lost too soon in

1053
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: his life. And the reason why he's global is is

1054
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, tenfold really when you think about it, because

1055
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: as a as a young kid, he's spent a good

1056
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: portion of his childhood in Europe because his dad, who

1057
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: was a professional basketball player first in the NBA, lengthened

1058
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: his career by going to play overseas in Europe. He

1059
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: first played in the Italian League in Italy and then

1060
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: later played in Spain, and of course Kobe and his

1061
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: mother went along with him, and you know, he grew

1062
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: he learned Italian and Italy, learned Spanish in Spain, developed

1063
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: an affinity for soccer as a young kid. Grown up

1064
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: actually played soccer in addition to basketball, and so you know,

1065
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: he was a guy that was a major soccer fan.

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Speaker 1: I think he reached his reach, kind of touched the

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Speaker 1: professional league's overseas. And because the NBA became a true

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00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 1: global sport, which was which kind of used the NBA

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00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: Dream Team in the ninety two Olympics as the springboard

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00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: for that, they truly became a global entity in the

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00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: NBA became something that was followed around the world. That's

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00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: why even yesterday you saw some of the examples globally

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00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: that we did from professional athletes in other sports in

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00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: other parts of the globe. I mean today Rayal Madrid

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00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: in the Spanish league La Liga. Sergio Ramos, who was

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00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: a world class player, wore Kobe Bryant's team USA Jersey

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Speaker 1: to their training session today were it to practice today,

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00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: and our MSG viewers are seeing the circle of silence

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00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: that they had for a minute to honor Kobe Bryant.

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Speaker 1: There we're talking about a professional soccer team in Spain,

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00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, this wasn't even his favorite

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00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: team growing up. His favorite team was Barcelona and Naymar,

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00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: who is a well known Brazilian soccer star who plays

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00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: in Europe in the French League for Paris Saint German

1085
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: used to play for Barcelona and had run into Kobe

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00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: Bryant several times because in the offseason Kobe Bryant would

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00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: go back to Spain and take in games and watch them.

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00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 1: And after he scored on a penalty kick yesterday, he

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00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: went up to the camera and did a little two

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00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: four with his two hands for Kobe Bryant's number twenty four.

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00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: So just another guy and another example. We're talking about

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00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: a Brazilian soccer star paying tribute to an NBA basketball player.

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00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: So to see that, I think re emphasizes just how

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00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: far the global reach was of Kobe Bryant. Yea. And

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00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: it's and it's so much different these days because because

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00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: of the media, you can reach out and watch other sports.

1097
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 1: Now you can get soccer games in the United Know,

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01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: when when I was growing up, you couldn't. It's basically, boy,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't pay to watch, right you just it was.

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Speaker 1: It's a whole different world now, and it's become very

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Speaker 1: very small and accessible. When news like this hits, or

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Speaker 1: when great things like this, and when players put together

1103
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Speaker 1: careers like that, when when Jack Nicholas did it, you know,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of a bunch of old white executives and

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01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: country clubs knew about it, right, It was on, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you'd see it once a month, you'd get a blur.

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01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: But like Jack Nicholas wins again right now, Tiger Woods

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01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: doesn't year two thousand. It the whole sport explodes all

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Speaker 1: over the planet. Um. And whatever you think about Tiger

1110
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: Woods wondering at the end, that's the world we live in.

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01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: You know, all about Tiger and all his ups and

1112
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: downs and problems and its successes and you know everything instantly. Yeah,

1113
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 1: and it's all part of what makes it the planet

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01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: so small. Now we're all in it together and we

1115
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: can keep track of it, you know, and we're it's

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01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: you can't escape it, yeah, you know. And it's not

1117
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: that you want to escape, but you know, the globe

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01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: has become so small electronically that you got a Brazilian

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Speaker 1: soccer player paying tribute to an NBA player just hours

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Speaker 1: after at hours after it happened. Yeah, and the same day, right,

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01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: And we saw what happened at the Pro Bowl too.

1122
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 1: A lot of those Pro Bowl players yesterday in the

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Speaker 1: game found out on their way out of the locker

1124
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Speaker 1: room to the field for the start of the game,

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Speaker 1: and then shortly thereafter there was you know, a tribute

1126
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Speaker 1: on the scoreboard. I think it was after the second quarter.

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Speaker 1: They had a moment of silence at halftime, and then

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Speaker 1: you saw some of the players, you know, doing his

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Speaker 1: jab step step back fade away jumper after a defensive

1130
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Speaker 1: play was made. So just the reach though that Brian had,

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01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 1: I think was larger than maybe any other athlete of renown,

1132
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Speaker 1: you know that was taken from this earth too soon

1133
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Speaker 1: due to a tragic accident. But let's go back to

1134
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Speaker 1: the fall owns eight O three five fifty one, eight

1135
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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty will lead off with Dan

1136
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 1: in East Otto, Dan, what do you have for us today? Oh?

1137
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: I had sermoned months that he was my idol as

1138
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 1: a catcher and as a kid, and he argued in

1139
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: assessma after he wanted in an MV as an MVP

1140
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:22,439
Speaker 1: even All Star Games right crashed into the cloud. Yeah,

1141
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 1: and I remember that vividly too. Dan. I was just

1142
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,439
Speaker 1: seven years old when it happened, but I remember picking

1143
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: up the newspaper and seeing it for the first time,

1144
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: and uh, it was it was shocking for me because

1145
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 1: I really, you know, at age seven, how much how

1146
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: often do you experience death? Hopefully not very often, So

1147
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: to read that was just I was speechless. I just

1148
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: I couldn't read fast enough to find out more about

1149
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: what happened. And the saddest part about that one is

1150
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: the reason he had the plane was because his family

1151
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: lived in the Cleveland area, Canton Akron area of Ohio.

1152
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: And obviously he's playing for the Yankees in New York

1153
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: and his family stayed back in Ohio, and he had

1154
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: the plane and got his pilot's license so he could

1155
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: fly back and see his family when he had a

1156
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: day or two off in between games. It was just

1157
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: his way to get back quick see his family and

1158
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: then get back on his own time. And for that

1159
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: to happen, knowing what his intentions were kind of makes

1160
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: it all the more tragic when you think about it.

1161
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's any question that what happened

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01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: with Kobe Bryant yesterday so stirred up some memories in

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01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 1: people of maybe some of their sports titles in their youth,

1164
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: and you know who they may have lost due to

1165
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: tragic circumstances, whether it's Roberto Clemente or Walter Payton or whoever.

1166
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Speaker 1: Eight oh, three five fifty, let's go to Brady and Blaisdell. Brady,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us here on the show today? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just want to mention Steve mentioned Steve Prefontaine. Yeah,

1169
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: Steve Fontaine, right, Yeah, the Great Oregon just from Brunner,

1170
01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: I was a Cowarde runner back and myself and I

1171
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 1: can remember that was forty five years aglf. I can

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01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 1: still remember that so vividly. And I know that people

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01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: are talking about Kobe Bryant and House will always be remembered.

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01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:16,920
Speaker 1: And I think Steeply Fintaine is maybe it's famous forty

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01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: five years later than he is today. So you know,

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01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be said about how attached people

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Speaker 1: were to these athletes. Yeah, you're right, and it's uh

1178
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: and like you, you're you. You still recount You've done

1179
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: it a couple of times already today. The Thurman Months's

1180
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 1: story for you is big and you remember moments in

1181
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 1: your life because of and for you it is because

1182
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: of the loss of it. But I think most of us,

1183
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 1: and this is why the Kobe Bryant tragedy and the

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01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 1: tragedy of the rest of the people on that helicopter

1185
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: is that man it just doesn't seem fair, you know,

1186
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem right, and especially the young guys,

1187
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: it's senseless. And that's never, I mean never. And somehow

1188
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: we're all kind of okay. And I heard somebody earlier today,

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Speaker 1: you know, we we've we've had a chance to watch

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Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali age. Uh, we've seen Bill Russell age gracefully

1191
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 1: and be you know, and become uh, these elder statesmen, um,

1192
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: and somehow it seems like we're kind of okay prepared

1193
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: for those guys to just say, yeah, Willie Mays, these

1194
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: guys that have lived and got a chance to see

1195
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 1: their grandchildren and great grandchildren and to beat older guys

1196
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 1: and watch the game that they loved and advanced, to

1197
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 1: watch it, watch it progress and and uh and blossom

1198
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 1: into whatever it has become in their in their old age.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we we seem you know, okay with that.

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01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: But to have these young people and in the case

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01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: of Thurman Munson who is still just a couple of

1202
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: years removed from an MVP, still playing, uh, guys like

1203
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 1: Hank Gathers who died on the Hortum Dale Earnhardt who

1204
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: died on the track. Um, there you know in these

1205
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: cases it's almost exaggerated to how unfair it seems that

1206
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: they're all taken so so soon. And you always think it,

1207
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 1: and I know everybody does it where you kind of

1208
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: look at the people around you and you kind of

1209
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: reach out and say, hey, I just want to let

1210
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: you know if something I love you man, you know

1211
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yea um and I one of their callers,

1212
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Speaker 1: bless his heart, called in and remember our friend, my

1213
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: friend Kent Hull. Yeah, you miss you miss opportunities to

1214
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: let them know how much they meant to you, let

1215
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: them know the inspiration they cut in some certain cases.

1216
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Kobe Bryant saw this in certain points.

1217
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: How many people he did inspire. People love to see

1218
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 1: the guy. They wanted to see him, and he offered

1219
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: a lot of things. You can see it now on

1220
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: social media where he was on talk shows and in

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Speaker 1: interviews and some of the things he said. One of

1222
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Speaker 1: the most tragic things that you know, he was on

1223
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Kimmel and was spoke about his daughter who

1224
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Speaker 1: was in the helicopter with him yesterday and how she

1225
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: was and it was just gut wrenching to hear, heartbreaking

1226
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: to hear how affectionate he was and the kind of

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Speaker 1: fiery spirit she had as his daughter, and and and

1228
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: to see that all snuffed out is the really difficult

1229
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: thing for the rest of us out here and in

1230
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: the world. Living is just it just is not fair.

1231
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: But you know, life isn't that way. It definitely isn't,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. Tweetchee brought to you by Corrigan

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Speaker 1: promise we get to more of these and you can

1235
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 1: weigh in as well at one Bills Live. But from

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Speaker 1: Kasey McCann, helicopter cratches remind me of Stevie ray Vaughn

1237
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 1: thirty five, just starting to peak as a musician. For

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01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: those that don't know, Stevie ray Vaughn was a budding

1239
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: blues guitarist in Texas, kind of credited with developing some

1240
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: of the Texas blues sound. And uh, you know, was

1241
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: just starting to peak as a musician, as Casey said,

1242
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 1: And yes, was in a helicopter crash as well. And

1243
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: you know thirty five is that's not very fair either,

1244
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: And yeah, I was wondering if people were going to

1245
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: chime in with musicians because we all know there have

1246
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: been a whole host of them that have you know,

1247
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: died in plane crashes and tragic accidents like that, because

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Speaker 1: you know, you're traveling all the time as a musician,

1249
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: so that risk, I guess is always out there, even

1250
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 1: as safe as it is to fly. It just seems

1251
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 1: invariably back to musicians Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper

1252
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:37,599
Speaker 1: who passed him. This is also the sense of shock

1253
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: and loss consuming thoughts the next day. Reminds me of

1254
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: when we lost John Lennon. This from David, you mentioned

1255
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Speaker 1: John Lynn when that was a violent act by you know,

1256
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Speaker 1: you know, a crazy person and outside Central Park, and

1257
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: it was that's obviously as senseless as it gets, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know it's yeah, tragic, it's just tragic. And you

1259
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 1: talk about and you know, obviously musicians like John Lennon

1260
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: and stuff are like athletes in some ways because they

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01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: do inspire people YEA noting with their songs and their

1262
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: prowess as a musician, but there there were their lyrics

1263
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 1: and the life that they lead, and the same thing

1264
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: with the athletes. DK Hammer as one of our other

1265
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: tweeters here and said Hank Geathers was a big one

1266
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: for me. You mentioned this, Steve. He died on the court.

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01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,799
Speaker 1: He had a hard rhythmia, and this was a problem

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01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 1: that had been discovered prior to that tragic incident that

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01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 1: happened right on the basketball court. And you know, I

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01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: don't I'm not going to remember all the details, but

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Speaker 1: I know that Hank still wanted to play. I think

1272
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 1: he just thought he was an invincible guy. And you know,

1273
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Speaker 1: when you're a college athlete, you feel that way in

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01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: many ways, and so I think he just said I'm

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Speaker 1: playing sure, And unfortunately, the hard rhythmia it took his life.

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Speaker 1: And I remember that year because it was nineteen ninety,

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01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:04,120
Speaker 1: was the eighty nine ninety season, and he played for

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01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 1: Loyola Marymount and that was a team coached by Paul

1279
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 1: Westhead at the time, and they were running gun. The

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01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: whole philosophy behind that team was get a shot up

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01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: every six seconds after we have possession. And they were

1282
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 1: a running gun team. They were super entertaining to watch.

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01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 1: They scored a ton of points. They'd be up in

1284
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: the nineties and the hundreds in a forty minute basketball game,

1285
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 1: and it was fun to watch. And I still remember

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01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 1: the tournament that year because the team advanced to the

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01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: tournament even without Hank, and Bo Kimball, who was his

1288
01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 1: best friend on the team, to pay tribute to him,

1289
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: shot a free throw with his left hand because Hank

1290
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:41,560
Speaker 1: was lefty, and Bo Kimball shot a free throw with

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01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 1: his left hand and made it. And I still remember

1292
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 1: that being giant news, you know. And it was an

1293
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: emotional tournament run for that team, obviously, as they were

1294
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: trying to take up for their falling teammate. But yeah,

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01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:56,800
Speaker 1: I remember that one vividly as well. There's just unfortunately

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01:10:56,880 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: too many of these examples to count, and you wish

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01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:03,600
Speaker 1: there were fewer of them, but it is what it is.

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01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: Last tweet here from Robert. We all knew it was coming,

1299
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: but Ralph Wilson's passing was hard to get through. Yeah,

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01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: I think, you know, as Steve mentioned, you kind of

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01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: want to see some of these athletes enjoy their retirement,

1302
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: live a full life, see their grandchildren, etc. Etc. And

1303
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:22,680
Speaker 1: mister Wilson obviously had an opportunity to do that. But

1304
01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 1: even so, when you are a beloved figure, even when

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01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 1: it is you're time to go, it's still not easy

1306
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 1: on the people that are left behind. Yeah, and that's

1307
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: that held so much potential for the effect of the

1308
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: people that you know, you talk about Kobere and one

1309
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 1: of the other people who chimed in said it was

1310
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,639
Speaker 1: about a kind of Kobe was important to the United

1311
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: States and a basketball and then a little bit like

1312
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: Princess Diana was important to the Great Britain and but

1313
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:54,600
Speaker 1: she was an international star as well. Certainly, Ralph was

1314
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: important to the people here in Western New York more

1315
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: so than any place else as for his effect, and

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01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: when he was gone, they knew that something near and

1317
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: new or everybody this the team was in its presence

1318
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: here in this city was was jeopardized. And there was

1319
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: as much of that going around as anything. Although when

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01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: I was here and and certainly it's true, Ralph was

1321
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: was talked about as though he was a member of

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01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: everybody's family. I mean, he didn't even say who. You

1323
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 1: didn't say Ralph Wilson, you said Ralph, He's the only

1324
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,759
Speaker 1: guy that right. I mean, he was like everybody's friend

1325
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 1: or buddy or brother or uncle, Grandpa. Ralph. He was

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01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 1: a member of everybody's family. And that's how he was

1327
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: referred to. So when he when he did pass. It

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01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: was it was a monstrous news story here in Buffalo.

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01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:45,760
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we do have to take a break here,

1330
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we're gonna lighten the mood

1331
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 1: a little bit. We're gonna talk a little Senior Bowl.

1332
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: I was down there last week and Steve was keeping

1333
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 1: an eye on it and near to the ground as well.

1334
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 1: So we'll kind of put a bow on the Senior

1335
01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: Bowl which took place on Saturday. But an interesting look

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01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: at some senior prospects, see what the options could be

1337
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills going forward. So we'll get into that.

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Speaker 1: On the other side. This is One Bills Live from

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01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

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01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:24,560
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

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01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 1: here on a Monday afternoon, time to talk Senior Bowls. Steve,

1342
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 1: as we put a bow on that. The game was

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01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 1: played last Saturday, over the weekend, after a full week

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01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: of practices down in Mobile, and you know, I gotta

1345
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:43,679
Speaker 1: say I came away from those practice sessions. I didn't

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01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 1: stay down there for the game. I came away from

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01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:50,680
Speaker 1: those practice sessions feeling very encouraged about their being options

1348
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: for the Bills at one of their need positions in particular,

1349
01:13:56,040 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: and that being wide receiver. Now, granted, these are only

1350
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:05,320
Speaker 1: the senior prospects that we're talking about at the Senior Bowl. Obviously,

1351
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: there are some highly touted prospects that exist, you know,

1352
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: that are junior eligibles who just declared in the last

1353
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But there will be seniors that will

1354
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: be factoring into the equation, maybe not necessarily in round one,

1355
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 1: but on day two and certainly on day three, who

1356
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 1: I think can contribute relatively early in their careers. So

1357
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 1: there were some encouraging sides. I gotta tell you, Steve,

1358
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: the size bunch of them that is available at the

1359
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 1: wide receiver position in this draft, knowing that the Bills

1360
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: need some size at the position. Who it is unbelievable

1361
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:47,720
Speaker 1: to me in this day and age the fluidity with

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01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: which these six five and six six receivers can move.

1363
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 1: Now just you know, you get those taller receivers sometimes

1364
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: they're a little stiff. You know, they're just not fluid

1365
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: getting in their breaks. They can't drop their weight effectively,

1366
01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 1: a hard time exploding right too long? Yeah, and that

1367
01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying all of the big guys were

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01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:12,040
Speaker 1: like this, But man, there are just some athletic freaks

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01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 1: at the position who are just towering on the field

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01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: and yet can still maneuver like like a receiver, you know,

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01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: much more diminutive in size. It's it's really amazing where

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01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: the athleticism has gone just in the last ten twelve

1373
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,720
Speaker 1: years alone, and there is now there's some guys in

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01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: this list or the list of these receivers, there are

1375
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: some smaller, like five ten guys that are you know,

1376
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: the fast kind of scatback guys. But really, the thing

1377
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: that has caught a lot of scouts and and personnel

1378
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: evaluators in the big picture is just what you said.

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01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: Not only are there bigger guys, there's a lot of bigger,

1380
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: faster wide receivers, young wide receivers coming out, and especially

1381
01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:57,680
Speaker 1: in the senior brother's probably some juniors out there that

1382
01:15:57,680 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: the exact same way that you know, weren't even in

1383
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 1: this game. It's a long list of wide receivers that

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01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 1: are going to be available. They're big and athletic, and

1385
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:09,759
Speaker 1: that's going to be a matchup problem for NFL defenders

1386
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 1: and that and so here's the thing. The Bills pick

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01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: at twenty two. But the word has it. I mean

1388
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: these guys might they're gonna string it out. I mean

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01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 1: you may be able to stop not pick one at

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01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: twenty two, maybe not even pick one, and the other

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01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: pick is twenty two fifty four eighty six. You may

1392
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:30,920
Speaker 1: be able to get all the way to those fifty

1393
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:33,679
Speaker 1: four eighty six picks and still get a really quality

1394
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 1: wide out. I think you can absolutely do that, right So,

1395
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: and our thought is that we've been talking about this

1396
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: all the time about the Bills situation here. They have

1397
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:43,680
Speaker 1: no seventh round picks, but they've got five in the

1398
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 1: fifth and sixth round two and the fifth, three and

1399
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 1: the sixth, and there's plenty of capital there for the

1400
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 1: Bills to move up or down, particularly in the second

1401
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: third round. And it's interesting that you mentioned that, because

1402
01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: that's the very question that I asked Brandon being last week.

1403
01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: I said, you got a nine draft picks at your

1404
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 1: disposal here, and you've got a pretty good looking roster already. Granted,

1405
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: there's gonna be turnover, as we always see every year

1406
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:12,839
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but can you really see nine draft choices,

1407
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 1: especially as you mentioned Steve, five of which are in

1408
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: the sixth or fifth and sixth rounds. Are all five

1409
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 1: of those players going to be good enough to make

1410
01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,839
Speaker 1: this roster? I don't know. So now, as a general manager,

1411
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: you've got to make the assessment, and maybe in pretty

1412
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: short order here to determine, maybe I have to part

1413
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 1: with some of these later round picks to trade up

1414
01:17:36,479 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: for a stronger player earlier in the draft to make

1415
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: sure I get a surefire guy that I know is

1416
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 1: going to make my roster rather than just draft Were

1417
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 1: you guys in the sixth round? We're gonna be talking

1418
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: about my roster's too good. We're gonna be talking about

1419
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: this for the next couple of months up until the drafts.

1420
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 1: Here's the question, Brownie, and I said it last week

1421
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: when Murph was in here. It's arrogant and misguided to

1422
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: think you're gonna pick better than every body else, Like

1423
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:03,600
Speaker 1: you're nine picks throughout the first six rounds are going

1424
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 1: to be better than everybody else who's ability to pick

1425
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 1: nine picks who can contribute to your roster. But you

1426
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: are going to get some hits, and you're the percentage

1427
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: of hits you get are probably gonna be the exact

1428
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: same as the percentage of hits somebody else gets with nine.

1429
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:20,679
Speaker 1: But if you're talking about nine picks through six rounds,

1430
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 1: or maybe five picks through four rounds, what's your percentage

1431
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: go to. You may still get only three contributors out

1432
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 1: of that, but you hit on a higher percentage of

1433
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 1: the picks you make, right, So instead of getting three

1434
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:38,679
Speaker 1: out of nine, you can get three out of four

1435
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. Or maybe you get four

1436
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: out of four and what you've traded away can either

1437
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: be a used for more draft capital in the future,

1438
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: or who knows, maybe you can acquire a player or

1439
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: make a trade for a player that was drafted that

1440
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: you just missed out on and say, hey, give me

1441
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: that guy and I'll give you these two picks. Because

1442
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 1: we've seen that too. I mean, you can go all

1443
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 1: the way back to the Eli Manning Philip Rivers trade.

1444
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm getting at. So I think, yeah,

1445
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: there's no way nine draft picks are making this roster

1446
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: next year. I just don't see you think that. But

1447
01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: we've got guys like think about this. You've got Matt

1448
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 1: Milano on the squad fifth round draft, right, do you

1449
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 1: still just say, listen, we're gonna take we're gonna pick

1450
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:23,599
Speaker 1: all nine guys athletically we think in the top six

1451
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:26,519
Speaker 1: rounds are still gonna be available guys who are athletic

1452
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:30,080
Speaker 1: enough to contribute athletically. Whether they're polished enough or skilled enough,

1453
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,599
Speaker 1: we don't know. But do you take as many picks

1454
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 1: as you get, knowing that the percentage you're gonna say,

1455
01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna get more contributors from the more picks, or

1456
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: do you trade up and get better athletes and just

1457
01:19:41,840 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: hope that they're not guys who can't make it? You

1458
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, for whatever reason, because the statistics

1459
01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: say the percentages are what they're gonna make are what

1460
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:52,320
Speaker 1: they are. Yeah, And the only reason a lot of

1461
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 1: people will give you this thing, the only reason all

1462
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:56,679
Speaker 1: the first, second, third rounders make the teams, it's because

1463
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: they got a first, second, and third round pick attached

1464
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 1: to their name. Yeah, yes, that's you know what I mean.

1465
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: I would agree that's true to some degree. Absolutely. Yeah,

1466
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:09,479
Speaker 1: I'm inclined to work to get the sure fire things.

1467
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:12,560
Speaker 1: I hate using draft capital that isn't going to have

1468
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: a payoff, Like I don't want to draft a sixth

1469
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 1: round guy, even if he's a nice player. If he's

1470
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: not good enough to make your team, well, then you're

1471
01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: not using that sixth round pick to its maximum value.

1472
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: Use it as currency for something else that can help

1473
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: your roster. If you're sitting there, I mean, these guys

1474
01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: are gonna put their board up. And I don't know

1475
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 1: how many fans are aware of this, but just because

1476
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: there's three hundred and fifty players in the draft pool,

1477
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean three hundred and fifty players are getting

1478
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 1: drafted and on draft boards for respective teams. There have

1479
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:46,960
Speaker 1: been years where there's only one hundred and fifteen players

1480
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 1: that even make their round one through seven board. One

1481
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen players and you got two hundred and

1482
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: fifty three picks total in the league. So think, do

1483
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:59,240
Speaker 1: the math. You're gonna be ninety players short if their

1484
01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: board looks any thing like yours. So you know that

1485
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:07,519
Speaker 1: right there might be a determining factor saying well, because

1486
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:09,320
Speaker 1: I asked. When I asked Brandon being about that, he

1487
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 1: mentioned that. He said, look, as you know, we will

1488
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: finalize our board here in January and February before we

1489
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: go to the combine, and then we'll tie up loose

1490
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,360
Speaker 1: ends to our interviews that this that and the other

1491
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: get the medicals. But the biggest thing is they will determine,

1492
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:30,280
Speaker 1: or will have determined, how many prospects they believe are

1493
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:34,599
Speaker 1: even draft worthy. And that number might only be one

1494
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five guys or one hundred and fifty guys,

1495
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: and so there's a good chance a lot of those

1496
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 1: names are going to be gone before you even get

1497
01:21:41,560 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 1: to the seventh round. And so if you've got three

1498
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: six round picks, not only might you not have a

1499
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:50,600
Speaker 1: draftable person. I mean, it's all the more reason to

1500
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:54,560
Speaker 1: move those picks for future currency or whatever else you

1501
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: find that can help, you know, increase the talent level

1502
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: of your roster. I just don't see any sense in

1503
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:03,080
Speaker 1: using all three of your six round picks if you

1504
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: know for sure that all three of them are going

1505
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 1: to have a major uphill battle to make your roster

1506
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 1: and probably won't unless you have some rash of injuries

1507
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,720
Speaker 1: at a position. So use it for something else to

1508
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 1: help build your roster. I think that's what I kind

1509
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,120
Speaker 1: of saying. What did you notice how we talked about

1510
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. They're deep, they're big, they're long. What

1511
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: other so you've got and let's just go down the

1512
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: list of needs. And here's how I see it. For

1513
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 1: the Bills. It's it's wide receiver, it's edge rusher, defensive line,

1514
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:34,800
Speaker 1: and then maybe you go to maybe you go to

1515
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:39,920
Speaker 1: offensive line, bolsterring or linebacker for Nair, replacement for Lorenzo, right,

1516
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: And then I go all, after all that's said and done,

1517
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: next place I go is, let's get another corner, you know,

1518
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:49,640
Speaker 1: I mean Turnavius, you get more coverage back. Yeah, I

1519
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: mean I don't. I don't think you're far off with

1520
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 1: all of those at all. Right, So so you got

1521
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, just go to edge rusher. Next, what

1522
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 1: about how's that crop of it? Wouldn't Plus the Bills

1523
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 1: are playing the four three now, right, So it was okay,

1524
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 1: um at the Senior Bowl, and I was trying not

1525
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:13,160
Speaker 1: to have my assessment of what was there skewed because

1526
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: here was here was the issue at play at the

1527
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, Steve. You had one or two really good

1528
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:25,559
Speaker 1: offensive tackles. University of Houston tackle Josh Jones is really good.

1529
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: He's probably cemented himself as a late first round pick

1530
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: after the week he had down there. And there was

1531
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 1: one other tackle whose name is escaping me right now.

1532
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 1: That was down there as well that you know will

1533
01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 1: be drafted. But the vast majority of offensive tackles were

1534
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 1: not great down there, and so I was trying to

1535
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 1: put that into the equation when I was evaluating these

1536
01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:53,160
Speaker 1: ends and these guys rushing off the edge, and yeah,

1537
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go back and look at some

1538
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: of the college tape for some of these kind minds

1539
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 1: of players. The guy that was most interesting to me

1540
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: was the Josh huge kid from Michigan only because of

1541
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: his stature. He's an undersized player, but he was up

1542
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 1: on the line a lot for Michigan, came off the

1543
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: edge in their three four scheme and had a good

1544
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:21,560
Speaker 1: deal of success. The problem for him was the scouts

1545
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,599
Speaker 1: and the teams asked to see him drop into coverage

1546
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:27,600
Speaker 1: true too, as more of a true linebacker, and he

1547
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 1: struggled with that. So I think what he did, unfortunately,

1548
01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: based on how we fared there, was kind of pigeonholed

1549
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,720
Speaker 1: himself into a kind of specialty rusher because of his

1550
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 1: lack of size. Now, because of his size, he can

1551
01:24:41,880 --> 01:24:43,600
Speaker 1: dip under that shoulder of the tackle and he just

1552
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 1: gets around the corner like a piece of cake. But

1553
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 1: I think he's going to have to diversify his pass

1554
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: rushing repertoire, and he's gonna have to get better dropping

1555
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:55,599
Speaker 1: into coverage because otherwise he's going to be ruled out

1556
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:59,440
Speaker 1: by a lot of teams because of his positional limitations

1557
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 1: quite frankly, and he's probably gonna have to prove he

1558
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 1: can hold up in the run game too. If he's

1559
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 1: under size edge, you're gonna have to set the edge

1560
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 1: of a defense against a six eight three twenty pound

1561
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 1: offensive time. Yeah. Now, the Utah kid Bradley, and I

1562
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 1: a the thing that impressed me about him was his

1563
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 1: hand usage. He's got very advanced hand technique for a

1564
01:25:20,280 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 1: college player. Now, he is a little bit stiff, he's

1565
01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 1: kind of a straight line guy, but his hand technique

1566
01:25:27,439 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: is very good. He will win in the NFL sometimes

1567
01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 1: just because of his hand technique. But again, another guy

1568
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:37,760
Speaker 1: that's got to diversify his pass rush repertoire. Now, he

1569
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 1: took over the game in the third quarter in the

1570
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl on Saturday. I think he had two or

1571
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: three sacks or at least two sacks and a quarterback

1572
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:49,920
Speaker 1: hit and kind of took over the game. Defensively, but again,

1573
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,639
Speaker 1: he was not going against one of the better tackles

1574
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: there at the Senior Bowl, And so he's saying, is

1575
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 1: this really going to happen in the NFL? I don't

1576
01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 1: think so. And so you try to just say, well,

1577
01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, good on him for making those plays, but

1578
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 1: who's he going against here? And I think that just

1579
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:06,679
Speaker 1: really had to be waited into the equation for all

1580
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:09,000
Speaker 1: of the pass rushers that week. Even so, I mean,

1581
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 1: a guy like a Nia who's six four sixty three

1582
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: and a half two sixties, got good size, and if

1583
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: and he plays that well at the Senior Bowl, even

1584
01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: if he wasn't going against quality, you're not gonna get

1585
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 1: him at fifty four, right, Probably you gotta get him two,

1586
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: or trade back and get him at thirty five. He's

1587
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:30,799
Speaker 1: probably gonna fit in there somewhere between thirty and fifty,

1588
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 1: and then maybe you can get an extra second or three,

1589
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: four or four. The one player that intrigued me due

1590
01:26:35,320 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 1: to positional versatility was the Wisconsin linebacker Zach Bond. Now again,

1591
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:42,080
Speaker 1: they played into three four. He lined up as an

1592
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 1: outside linebacker up on the line, and he played largely

1593
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:48,679
Speaker 1: on the strong side, but he also rushed the passers.

1594
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 1: So I was thinking in my head, oh, let me

1595
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,640
Speaker 1: talk to this kid this week and see what he

1596
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:55,560
Speaker 1: thinks about kind of playing a dual role, which is

1597
01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:57,639
Speaker 1: kind of what Lorenzo played here. You know, he played

1598
01:26:57,680 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: strong sidebacker and then you know in a pass rush

1599
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,640
Speaker 1: package for the Bills as well. It'd be great if

1600
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 1: the Bills can find somebody that could do both of

1601
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 1: those things all over again, just plug and play. And

1602
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 1: so talking to Bond leading up to the week of practices,

1603
01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:14,200
Speaker 1: he said, well, I've actually asked the coaches because I said,

1604
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 1: how are you in coverage? He weren't asked to do

1605
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 1: that a whole lot. He did some, and he said, well,

1606
01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:21,799
Speaker 1: I actually asked the coaches to play week side linebacker.

1607
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: I want to show that I can play in space more,

1608
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: cover more and do all those things. He did. Okay.

1609
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 1: I don't say, let let the world on fire, but

1610
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:33,800
Speaker 1: he did. Okay to at least I think warrant more

1611
01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 1: consideration for having a dual type role as a linebacker slash,

1612
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:42,000
Speaker 1: you know, pass rush package rusher. So he was a

1613
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:44,439
Speaker 1: guy that caught my eye and I want to I'm

1614
01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:48,599
Speaker 1: eager to watch more tape on him and see if

1615
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: that's a guy that legitimately could be a dual type

1616
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: role player at the linebacker position. When I got to

1617
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: ask you about it, he may have may or may

1618
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 1: not know. This guy, Terrell Lewis from Alabama six five

1619
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,240
Speaker 1: and a half to sixty. I mean, this is a

1620
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 1: guy is a little bit like Daryl J. Bam Johnson.

1621
01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:08,640
Speaker 1: And he's a big, long kid, right, I mean, and

1622
01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 1: he's probably more athletic, a little bit more athletic than

1623
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:13,720
Speaker 1: Darryl Is. Daryl's a little stiff, which you know, you

1624
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:16,599
Speaker 1: kind of expect for a taller, longer player. They don't

1625
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 1: bend as well. This kid bends better. I mean in

1626
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: Alabama product. The thing that's hurting him is his injury history.

1627
01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:26,839
Speaker 1: Each of the last couple of years, seventeen and eighteen

1628
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 1: seasons where ended prematurely due to injury, and so you

1629
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 1: look at his resume, it's like, well he only had

1630
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:35,519
Speaker 1: six sackses here, what the heck is going on? I

1631
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:38,759
Speaker 1: think in the right scheme he could be a dangerous player.

1632
01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:40,960
Speaker 1: But I think that injury history is going to give

1633
01:28:41,040 --> 01:28:43,240
Speaker 1: some teams some pause, and I think it's going to

1634
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 1: cost him. Who knows how many picks in the draft

1635
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: and ultimately is wallet as well. But I think he's

1636
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 1: going to be in the league, he's going to play.

1637
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:53,800
Speaker 1: How effective he's going to be, I think could be

1638
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 1: predicated on the scheme that he's in. We can get

1639
01:28:57,560 --> 01:28:59,680
Speaker 1: more to this. Yeah, we do have to take a

1640
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:01,479
Speaker 1: break here, but we will be back with more. We'll

1641
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:03,960
Speaker 1: kind of wrap up our thoughts on the Senior Bowl

1642
01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live and One Bill's Drive. This

1643
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

1644
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:24,840
Speaker 1: Chris Brown along with See Tasker here on a Monday afternoon,

1645
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: and we're discussing Senior Bowl here as we close out

1646
01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:31,600
Speaker 1: the second hour of the program. Coming up on the

1647
01:29:31,680 --> 01:29:35,760
Speaker 1: other side, we'll be former Niners defensive tackle Brian Young,

1648
01:29:35,880 --> 01:29:39,679
Speaker 1: current Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist and probably resident

1649
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:44,640
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers router for this week's Super Bowl. This

1650
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,000
Speaker 1: this Senior Bowl, we're talking about, you know, the edge

1651
01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 1: rushers and Emily got to any of the offensive lineman

1652
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:52,400
Speaker 1: yet or anything like that. What I wanted to ask

1653
01:29:52,400 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 1: you about what's and I know people it goes off

1654
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:58,320
Speaker 1: the radar a little bit, but who's the best corner

1655
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:01,920
Speaker 1: there a couple of them that were really good. It

1656
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:05,680
Speaker 1: was the cornerback position was probably the weakest really at

1657
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl of all the positions, so the best

1658
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 1: corner that was going to be there was going to

1659
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:16,040
Speaker 1: be LSU corner Christian Fulton. He pulled out. Monday morning.

1660
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:21,759
Speaker 1: We are going down to the convention Center to interview players.

1661
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: It's media access time. They bring him down. They bring

1662
01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 1: the South roster down first, and then the North roster

1663
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:30,080
Speaker 1: ten forty five, you get an hour, get an hour,

1664
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:32,599
Speaker 1: ten forty five to eleven forty five, talk to whoever's there,

1665
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 1: and then eleven forty five to twelve forty five you

1666
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 1: talk to the other roster, whoever's there, and you just

1667
01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:38,000
Speaker 1: kind of pick him off. It's a free for all.

1668
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:44,479
Speaker 1: And as the South team is walking in, word comes

1669
01:30:44,560 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 1: down that Fulton has pulled out of the Senior Bowl.

1670
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be practicing, not gonna be playing. I

1671
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:52,519
Speaker 1: don't know if he stayed to interview with teams. I

1672
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:56,120
Speaker 1: would assume that he did, but pulled out. And after

1673
01:30:56,240 --> 01:30:59,080
Speaker 1: that happened, I was like, Wow, we're getting pretty thin

1674
01:30:59,240 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 1: here at corner. There aren't a lot of guys that

1675
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 1: are really going to turn a lot of heads, and

1676
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think now if there was anybody that

1677
01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:12,519
Speaker 1: impressed me with the way that they played, and no

1678
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:15,679
Speaker 1: one is truly coming to mind. I like the safety

1679
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: kid from Lenora, Ryan the Division two player. He had

1680
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:22,759
Speaker 1: a good week, but the best players in the secondary

1681
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: were at the safety position. Troy Prye, junior from Notre

1682
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 1: Dame had a really good week. He's a former track kid.

1683
01:31:28,760 --> 01:31:32,920
Speaker 1: I mean, runs like a deer, good instincts, even did

1684
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:34,600
Speaker 1: well in the one on one drills. You know, you

1685
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:38,680
Speaker 1: think about the one on one pass drills and for safeties,

1686
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:40,920
Speaker 1: I mean you want to talk about being put behind

1687
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:44,240
Speaker 1: the eight ball. I mean you're playing in the middle

1688
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:46,439
Speaker 1: of the field most of the year for your college career,

1689
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:48,120
Speaker 1: and then you come to the senior ball it's like, yeah,

1690
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 1: you got one on one with this receiver here, and

1691
01:31:50,439 --> 01:31:52,880
Speaker 1: it's just like, you know, they probably haven't played a

1692
01:31:52,920 --> 01:31:55,840
Speaker 1: whole lot in But he was fine. He did well

1693
01:31:56,040 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: in the one on one situations, and I think he

1694
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:00,920
Speaker 1: really kind of helped his stock through the course of

1695
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 1: the week. But cornerback was the weakest position by far,

1696
01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 1: which again had me thinking, you know, I'm watching these

1697
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:10,120
Speaker 1: one on ones. I'm watching these passing drills and I'm like, oh,

1698
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 1: I really like this receiver. Oh he's going against that guy, right,

1699
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: is this like, is this going to be an accurate

1700
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:17,040
Speaker 1: assessment of what this kid can do and how well

1701
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:19,200
Speaker 1: he can separate? And so there are a lot of

1702
01:32:19,240 --> 01:32:21,559
Speaker 1: these receivers that I gotta go watch, you know, they're

1703
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 1: real college tape on you know, because of that very reason.

1704
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: I need to see them against better competition in their

1705
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 1: own conferences than what they had to offer at the

1706
01:32:31,280 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, because it was pretty thin. I mean, Fulton,

1707
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:36,519
Speaker 1: by many accounts, is the second best cornerback in this

1708
01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:39,600
Speaker 1: entire draft class. But it wouldn't surprise me if the

1709
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 1: agent looked at the rest of the corners at the

1710
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and said, yeah, you don't really need to

1711
01:32:43,080 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 1: be here, right, because he's going to be probably a

1712
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:49,519
Speaker 1: late first round pick at worst, because the only guy

1713
01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:52,519
Speaker 1: that's considered better than him is the Ohio State junior

1714
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:55,439
Speaker 1: who's coming out, Jeff Okuda is considered the best corner

1715
01:32:55,479 --> 01:32:57,880
Speaker 1: in the draft. This kid's Fulton is considered number two.

1716
01:32:58,479 --> 01:33:01,599
Speaker 1: So his agents probably like, yeah, let's not risk injury here,

1717
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: Let's just wait for the combine right, But the receivers,

1718
01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I was making a point of paying close

1719
01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:11,479
Speaker 1: attention to the receivers and for me, the Notre Dame kid,

1720
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:15,519
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool is an athletic freak six four two twenty

1721
01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 1: nine basketball background, and you can see it just in

1722
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:21,400
Speaker 1: the way he moves with his feet. He's really good,

1723
01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:25,960
Speaker 1: just outleaps people for the football, you know, jump ball

1724
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:28,799
Speaker 1: is it's like he's getting a rebound off the backboard.

1725
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:31,720
Speaker 1: It's just it's insane. But the fluidity, I know, I

1726
01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: mentioned that, you know at the bottom of the hour here.

1727
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:38,200
Speaker 1: The fluid way in which he effortlessly moves in and

1728
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:40,600
Speaker 1: out of routes is just impressive to see for a

1729
01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:44,519
Speaker 1: player his size. Michael Pittman, junior from USC another tall,

1730
01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 1: but more lanky, not as thickly built as Claypool, moves

1731
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:53,519
Speaker 1: really well. I just don't know how he's gonna fare

1732
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:56,560
Speaker 1: against the more physical corners in the NFL. He's just

1733
01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:00,760
Speaker 1: not as sturdily built as Chase Claypool is. But I

1734
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 1: liked some of the things that he did. And then

1735
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:08,840
Speaker 1: some of the smaller guys Okay Van Jefferson, Florida receiver

1736
01:34:09,640 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 1: Son of Sean Jefferson, former NFL receiver. You want to

1737
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 1: talk about a guy who is polished with his route

1738
01:34:16,280 --> 01:34:20,280
Speaker 1: running in his feet, Van Jefferson was that for me.

1739
01:34:20,479 --> 01:34:23,519
Speaker 1: He was the best route running receiver on the South

1740
01:34:23,680 --> 01:34:26,760
Speaker 1: roster by far. I mean it wasn't even close, and

1741
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:29,600
Speaker 1: he was getting consistent separation because of it in a

1742
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:32,280
Speaker 1: lot of the drills. And then the other receivers I

1743
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 1: liked were James Prochet from SMU good explosion off the line.

1744
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:39,720
Speaker 1: He's got that short area quickness. He's only about five

1745
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 1: to eleven six feet tall, but he can shake people.

1746
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:47,519
Speaker 1: He's like a trademark slot guy. Just give him a

1747
01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:49,200
Speaker 1: two way go and he's gonna get open for you.

1748
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:53,479
Speaker 1: It should not be an issue. And then the last

1749
01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 1: guy for me, Antonio Gandy Golden, another giant kid six

1750
01:34:57,640 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: four went to Liberty got better as the week went on.

1751
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:05,960
Speaker 1: You could tell Steve the first day he was shaking

1752
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 1: like a leaf. He was so nervous and it was

1753
01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:11,400
Speaker 1: impact that he was fighting the ball. He was fighting

1754
01:35:11,439 --> 01:35:13,320
Speaker 1: the ball. But then Wednesday got a little bit better,

1755
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:16,080
Speaker 1: Thursday a little better, and then in the game he

1756
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 1: made some plays. Big kid that can go up and

1757
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:21,479
Speaker 1: get the football three consecutive thousand yards seasons at Liberty,

1758
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:24,640
Speaker 1: including a thirteen hundred yards season last year. He just

1759
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:27,639
Speaker 1: makes plays and he's got gigantic hands. He has got

1760
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:29,760
Speaker 1: strong hands. That's why I was so surprised that first

1761
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 1: day he was fighting the ball so much. But like

1762
01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:34,400
Speaker 1: I said, I got better as the week went on.

1763
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: So hopefully he gets a shot. It'll be fun to

1764
01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:37,840
Speaker 1: see these guys in the combines see what their their

1765
01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: raw numbers are. Oh, I mean, some of these guys

1766
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:42,960
Speaker 1: are going to run fast times. They're saying it's the

1767
01:35:43,040 --> 01:35:45,720
Speaker 1: deepest wide receiver class in years. I mean, they're even

1768
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: going back to the twenty fourteen class with Odell Beckham

1769
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:51,120
Speaker 1: Junior and Sammy Watkins, and those guys are saying it

1770
01:35:51,160 --> 01:35:52,840
Speaker 1: might even be better than that group. So we'll see.

1771
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:54,799
Speaker 1: It's gonna be something. The Bills will have an opportunity

1772
01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:56,680
Speaker 1: to get someone in rounds one, two, three or four,

1773
01:35:56,800 --> 01:35:58,120
Speaker 1: whatever they want to do, and they'll be able to

1774
01:35:58,160 --> 01:36:00,320
Speaker 1: help early. All right, we're at the top of the hour.

1775
01:36:00,360 --> 01:36:02,519
Speaker 1: We got to take a break. But we've got defensive tackle.

1776
01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:06,160
Speaker 1: Former Niners defensive tackle Briant Young, currently a Pro Football

1777
01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame finalist set to join us on the

1778
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:11,920
Speaker 1: other side talk about the Super Bowl with his forty

1779
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:14,439
Speaker 1: nine Ers team in there, among a host of other things.

1780
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,280
Speaker 1: Join us for that, Steve Tasker, Chris Brown. One Bills

1781
01:36:17,320 --> 01:36:20,000
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio

1782
01:36:29,160 --> 01:36:34,760
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Update. You're a Sports update from

1783
01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:37,639
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his thirteen

1784
01:36:37,720 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 1: year old daughter Gianna among the several people killed yesterday

1785
01:36:40,479 --> 01:36:44,719
Speaker 1: in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. Los Angeles County

1786
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:47,520
Speaker 1: sheriff stated in a news conference there were no survivors

1787
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:51,000
Speaker 1: and according to the flight manifest, nine people on board

1788
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 1: in the helicopter. Bryant, as you know, an eighteen time

1789
01:36:54,520 --> 01:36:57,280
Speaker 1: All Star with the Lakers and eligible for the Basketball

1790
01:36:57,320 --> 01:37:00,439
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame this year. One five NBA titles in

1791
01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:02,679
Speaker 1: his time with the Lakers, as well as two Olympic

1792
01:37:02,760 --> 01:37:06,400
Speaker 1: gold medals with the US, now fourth behind Lebron James

1793
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:09,680
Speaker 1: on the NBA all time scoring list. Bryan won two

1794
01:37:09,800 --> 01:37:13,400
Speaker 1: NBA Finals MVPs and a regular season MVP in two

1795
01:37:13,479 --> 01:37:17,519
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. It is being reported that the Browns

1796
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:21,880
Speaker 1: are hiring Eagles vice President of Football Operations Andrew Berry

1797
01:37:21,920 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 1: as their general manager and executive vice president. Barry was

1798
01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:28,879
Speaker 1: the Browns Vice president of player Personnel from twenty sixteen

1799
01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:31,200
Speaker 1: to twenty eighteen. Barry, at thirty two, will be the

1800
01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 1: youngest GM in the NFL. The AFC defeated the NFC

1801
01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:37,880
Speaker 1: thirty eight, thirty three and the twenty twenty Pro Bowl

1802
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 1: at Camping World Stadium in Orlando on Sunday. Bill's wide

1803
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:43,559
Speaker 1: receiver Andre Roberts had a pair of catches for thirty

1804
01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:47,240
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. Cornerbacktor Davious White had a pass

1805
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:50,800
Speaker 1: breakup and two tackles. And the Sabers are back practicing

1806
01:37:50,920 --> 01:37:53,559
Speaker 1: preparing for their first game after the All Star break.

1807
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:57,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo hosts the Senators tomorrow at seven pm. Good news here.

1808
01:37:57,560 --> 01:38:01,920
Speaker 1: Jeff Skinner resumed practices with the team yesterday and according

1809
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:05,839
Speaker 1: to coach Ralph Krueger, he will play tomorrow against Ottawa.

1810
01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:09,960
Speaker 1: The Sabers also recall defenseman Lawrence Pilot from the Amirics.

1811
01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:12,560
Speaker 1: Pilot is fourth in Amirck's team scoring this season with

1812
01:38:12,640 --> 01:38:15,600
Speaker 1: twenty two points in thirty games. He's also appeared in

1813
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:19,400
Speaker 1: six games for the Sabers this season that is your

1814
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:23,000
Speaker 1: sports update here from One Bill's Drive, Chris Brown, Steve

1815
01:38:23,080 --> 01:38:25,720
Speaker 1: Tasker with you and joining us on the line right

1816
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:31,400
Speaker 1: now is One Bryant Young, former forty Niners defensive tackle,

1817
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:34,960
Speaker 1: a Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist for the Class

1818
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, and a former defensive line coach for

1819
01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:41,400
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Brian, Thanks for joining us, and I

1820
01:38:41,439 --> 01:38:42,920
Speaker 1: guess the first thing I need to say to you

1821
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:45,720
Speaker 1: is happy birthday. How nice are you to join us

1822
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:48,920
Speaker 1: on your birthday? Of all days? How you doing? I'm

1823
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:51,679
Speaker 1: doing great, guys, Thanks for having me on. Who would

1824
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:54,439
Speaker 1: have known. I mean, it just happened to work out

1825
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 1: that way. So you know, birthdays about giving back and

1826
01:38:58,360 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 1: giving away, so I just it's not about me receiving anything.

1827
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:06,000
Speaker 1: So it's it's just another day that I celebrate life,

1828
01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:09,160
Speaker 1: you know. So it's awesome to turn forty eight. It's easier.

1829
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 1: It's nice you say that, and we all kind of

1830
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:13,320
Speaker 1: feel that way. Any any not that we're going to

1831
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:14,640
Speaker 1: get in this too much with you, I guess I

1832
01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:17,200
Speaker 1: should give you an opportunity to address that. Kobe Bryant

1833
01:39:17,280 --> 01:39:19,960
Speaker 1: to death and how fragile life is? This your birthday

1834
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:22,000
Speaker 1: kind of gives you pause and makes it a little

1835
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:27,439
Speaker 1: deeper meaning for you to be thankful, right, absolutely, I definitely, Uh,

1836
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:31,560
Speaker 1: I've been pausing all day and just reflecting on just

1837
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:36,480
Speaker 1: the brevity of life and the unexpected death of individuals.

1838
01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:38,880
Speaker 1: And life is never promised. The next day has never

1839
01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 1: promised no one, and so it makes you just think

1840
01:39:42,240 --> 01:39:46,759
Speaker 1: about appreciating the people around you and loving those around

1841
01:39:46,800 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 1: you well, and forgiving others and moving forward, and you

1842
01:39:50,479 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 1: think about just uh, you know, having a great camaraderie

1843
01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:56,840
Speaker 1: with people that are in your circle. And so I

1844
01:39:57,040 --> 01:39:59,719
Speaker 1: understand that, you know, for for me losing a child

1845
01:40:00,240 --> 01:40:03,240
Speaker 1: a few years aback, just having to walk him through

1846
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:06,519
Speaker 1: it and uh, you know, his journey was a little longer.

1847
01:40:06,600 --> 01:40:08,680
Speaker 1: But now you talking about something that happened all of

1848
01:40:08,720 --> 01:40:12,040
Speaker 1: a sudden. It's it's really tragic news. And I could

1849
01:40:12,080 --> 01:40:16,120
Speaker 1: definitely identify with the loss of him and what his

1850
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:18,600
Speaker 1: family is going through, and just the tragic news of this,

1851
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:20,960
Speaker 1: it hits us all. I mean, he's a guy that's

1852
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 1: been an awesome sports figure and he's touched a lot

1853
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: of different areas in life, and he's done so much

1854
01:40:27,280 --> 01:40:30,240
Speaker 1: for the game of basketball and he will be missed sorely.

1855
01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:33,600
Speaker 1: We're talking with Bryant Young, fourteen year defensive tackle for

1856
01:40:33,680 --> 01:40:36,760
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ers, all fourteen years in

1857
01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:39,759
Speaker 1: the NFL with the forty nineties. He's also a semi

1858
01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:42,880
Speaker 1: finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was

1859
01:40:42,920 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 1: also a member of the Super Bowl champion forty nine

1860
01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:47,680
Speaker 1: Ers team that won Super Bowl twenty nine. Bryant, let

1861
01:40:47,720 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 1: me ask you, what do you remember most about that

1862
01:40:51,479 --> 01:40:56,280
Speaker 1: championship in Super Bowl twenty nine? You know what it was.

1863
01:40:56,760 --> 01:40:59,800
Speaker 1: It was that year just leading up to it. I mean,

1864
01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:01,720
Speaker 1: we went through some ebbs and flows during the year.

1865
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:05,679
Speaker 1: Then we finally hit our groove. I remember playing against Detroit.

1866
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:07,880
Speaker 1: You know, we just had to come, you know, come

1867
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 1: to Jesus sort of speak moment where we had we're

1868
01:41:11,200 --> 01:41:13,880
Speaker 1: behind and and we had to make a stance and

1869
01:41:14,000 --> 01:41:15,960
Speaker 1: we turn it around that game, and then we went

1870
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,040
Speaker 1: on the ten game win streak, and so we're in

1871
01:41:18,080 --> 01:41:20,479
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in Miami. I just remember that week

1872
01:41:20,560 --> 01:41:24,080
Speaker 1: of just complete focus. You know, there's so much distractions

1873
01:41:24,160 --> 01:41:27,360
Speaker 1: going around that week and you just have to remain focused.

1874
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:29,599
Speaker 1: You know, family is going to be in town and whatnot,

1875
01:41:29,680 --> 01:41:31,360
Speaker 1: and you want to do something to spend time with

1876
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:33,479
Speaker 1: them and maybe hit an event or two and then

1877
01:41:33,520 --> 01:41:35,280
Speaker 1: you got to shut it down and remain focused. But

1878
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:38,439
Speaker 1: those practice moments, those other times where you lock in

1879
01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:41,559
Speaker 1: and you just avoid the distractions and put it out

1880
01:41:41,560 --> 01:41:43,840
Speaker 1: of your mind and focus on what's important, you know,

1881
01:41:44,120 --> 01:41:47,200
Speaker 1: understanding what's what's important in terms of the goal that's

1882
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:49,479
Speaker 1: at hand to win the Super Bowl. So, um, I

1883
01:41:49,560 --> 01:41:53,880
Speaker 1: remember practices were just they're fun, they were relaxed, they

1884
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:58,879
Speaker 1: were they're intentional, um and there was complete focused by everybody.

1885
01:41:58,960 --> 01:42:01,040
Speaker 1: So it was it was a pretty cool, awesome time

1886
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:04,240
Speaker 1: to have a chance to play the Pro Bowl and

1887
01:42:04,280 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the Super Bowl and uh and and win

1888
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 1: it as well. So Bryant, now that your forty nine

1889
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:12,400
Speaker 1: ers team is back in the big show here, a

1890
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:16,439
Speaker 1: lot of people have tried to draw some parallels to

1891
01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:19,280
Speaker 1: your team, you know, back in Super Bowl twenty nine

1892
01:42:19,320 --> 01:42:22,160
Speaker 1: to that of this year's edition, to the forty nine ers.

1893
01:42:22,720 --> 01:42:26,320
Speaker 1: Do you do you see any striking similarities between those

1894
01:42:26,400 --> 01:42:30,160
Speaker 1: two clubs. You know what, It's hard to compare, you know,

1895
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:33,080
Speaker 1: because we're playing a different eras and things are a

1896
01:42:33,120 --> 01:42:36,400
Speaker 1: little bit different, the games a little bit different, but

1897
01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 1: it's still football. And so our identity was so much different. Uh,

1898
01:42:40,640 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 1: you know, great offense, great defense, special teams. Was playing

1899
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:46,680
Speaker 1: really well. And when you look at this team, I

1900
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:49,439
Speaker 1: think the one thing they understand it is that they

1901
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 1: know how to win and win, to make the right right,

1902
01:42:53,400 --> 01:42:56,479
Speaker 1: the right play and winning those big moments. It's not

1903
01:42:56,600 --> 01:43:01,000
Speaker 1: about I think they understand it having a confidence to win,

1904
01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:04,320
Speaker 1: but just going out there and executing the game plan.

1905
01:43:04,920 --> 01:43:06,800
Speaker 1: And so the parallels that I see is that they

1906
01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:09,200
Speaker 1: got a really good defense, they got a really good offense,

1907
01:43:09,720 --> 01:43:12,760
Speaker 1: and they're special teams. They make a difference in the game.

1908
01:43:13,200 --> 01:43:15,479
Speaker 1: And so if you draw parallels on that, I mean

1909
01:43:15,600 --> 01:43:18,880
Speaker 1: that's those are the similarities there, just in terms of

1910
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:22,280
Speaker 1: understanding the trenches are important. They play well up front

1911
01:43:22,360 --> 01:43:24,040
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, and they got a

1912
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:27,360
Speaker 1: good quarterback who could manage the game and put them

1913
01:43:27,400 --> 01:43:31,840
Speaker 1: in position to win. Yeah. Bryant Young, former defensive tackle

1914
01:43:31,880 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 1: for fourteen years with the San Francisco forty nine is

1915
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:37,280
Speaker 1: you're fresh off a tenure as the defensive line coach

1916
01:43:37,360 --> 01:43:40,519
Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Falcons. I want to ask you about

1917
01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:43,000
Speaker 1: as you see your forty nine ers, the team you

1918
01:43:43,080 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 1: played so well for for so long go into the

1919
01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:50,160
Speaker 1: game against this Kansas City Chiefs offense that they're defensive

1920
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:54,599
Speaker 1: coordinator Robert Sala says, they're a little like an Olympic

1921
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:57,599
Speaker 1: team and they have so much speed. What is your

1922
01:43:57,640 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 1: plan if you're a defensive line coach or defensive coach

1923
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:03,040
Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers headed into Miami to play

1924
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:06,479
Speaker 1: this Chiefs team With all of that, well, I could

1925
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:10,200
Speaker 1: tell you Sali has been doing a terrific job thus

1926
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 1: far this season, just the journey up until this point

1927
01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:14,960
Speaker 1: and watching him how he's orchestrated and made the right

1928
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 1: plays or called the right plays during the course of

1929
01:44:17,479 --> 01:44:22,679
Speaker 1: the season. They have gas at receiver there is extremely fast.

1930
01:44:22,760 --> 01:44:26,400
Speaker 1: They have a really mobile quarterback, as we know, very

1931
01:44:26,439 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 1: athletic and who's mature beyond his years in terms of

1932
01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:31,800
Speaker 1: the plays that he make. Um But the thing that

1933
01:44:32,040 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 1: they have to do is understand that, you know, he's

1934
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:36,920
Speaker 1: a guy that will scramble in trying to extend plays

1935
01:44:36,920 --> 01:44:38,360
Speaker 1: with his leg. To have to do a great job

1936
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:40,840
Speaker 1: on the edges, keeping them in the pocket, pushing the

1937
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:43,320
Speaker 1: pocket in the middle as well, and keeping them confined

1938
01:44:43,360 --> 01:44:46,920
Speaker 1: and don't let them get outside. And so there are

1939
01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:50,360
Speaker 1: times there's going to be those those second play moments

1940
01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:53,360
Speaker 1: or two play moments when the secondary has to extend

1941
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 1: coverage when he if he does get out the pocket,

1942
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:59,200
Speaker 1: and that's to hang with their receiver because he'll live

1943
01:44:59,240 --> 01:45:00,800
Speaker 1: and try and make a play down the field. So

1944
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:03,880
Speaker 1: just understanding that there's gonna be some two play mentality moments,

1945
01:45:04,720 --> 01:45:07,400
Speaker 1: you have to understand those and just make sure they

1946
01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:11,040
Speaker 1: played the last second and if they get a chance

1947
01:45:11,080 --> 01:45:14,120
Speaker 1: to get a shot on within the rules. I sat

1948
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:17,160
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, you know, get those hits, those sacks,

1949
01:45:17,760 --> 01:45:20,800
Speaker 1: getting off the spot, you know, uh pressures, those are

1950
01:45:20,840 --> 01:45:23,800
Speaker 1: all important. Those tickets toll on in the game. So

1951
01:45:23,960 --> 01:45:27,479
Speaker 1: I think just plan sound and be married. Coverage and

1952
01:45:28,120 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 1: the rush has to be married, and I think they'll

1953
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:33,240
Speaker 1: do a good job of that. Is it strange for

1954
01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:37,200
Speaker 1: you at all, Brian, to see Mike Shanahan's son coaching

1955
01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:38,680
Speaker 1: this team. I mean, I know he's in his third

1956
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:40,560
Speaker 1: season already, so it's not like you just got on

1957
01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:42,800
Speaker 1: the scene. But I have to imagine that, you know,

1958
01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:46,920
Speaker 1: knowing Mike Shanahan was eroroc at the time, back when

1959
01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 1: you were playing that you had to cross paths with

1960
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:52,080
Speaker 1: with Kyle as a little kid, and to see him

1961
01:45:52,120 --> 01:45:53,920
Speaker 1: coaching this team as the head coach. Now, is that

1962
01:45:54,000 --> 01:45:58,000
Speaker 1: strike you was strange at all? It does. I remember

1963
01:45:58,320 --> 01:46:01,479
Speaker 1: Kyle running around as a ball boy and practices and

1964
01:46:01,760 --> 01:46:03,640
Speaker 1: you know, whenever he is out there for short and

1965
01:46:03,680 --> 01:46:06,559
Speaker 1: training camp, but sometimes in the mini camps, and uh,

1966
01:46:07,280 --> 01:46:09,960
Speaker 1: it's kind of kind of funny. It's almost like a story,

1967
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:13,280
Speaker 1: like a movie. And to see this kid running around

1968
01:46:13,320 --> 01:46:15,280
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden have this dream and

1969
01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: then watch the maturation process for him to end up

1970
01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:21,000
Speaker 1: where he is and be the forty nine head coach

1971
01:46:21,240 --> 01:46:23,679
Speaker 1: and the doing and doing the job that he's doing,

1972
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:26,320
Speaker 1: It's it's a story in itself. I mean, it's awesome.

1973
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:29,840
Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. He's a brilliant coach and that's

1974
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:32,880
Speaker 1: done some great things and and I'm I'm behind him

1975
01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:34,960
Speaker 1: hoping that it goes well for him. On Sunday, I

1976
01:46:35,080 --> 01:46:37,240
Speaker 1: have to ask you this, Brian. You you played your

1977
01:46:37,400 --> 01:46:40,160
Speaker 1: entire career for the forty nine ers, but the forty

1978
01:46:40,240 --> 01:46:43,920
Speaker 1: nine ers acquired d Ford this past offseason. He seems

1979
01:46:43,960 --> 01:46:46,519
Speaker 1: to be rejuvenated. Can you relate to guys that maybe

1980
01:46:46,560 --> 01:46:49,439
Speaker 1: with a change of atmosphere or change of setting kind

1981
01:46:49,479 --> 01:46:53,120
Speaker 1: of getting a second gas tank, so to speaker, a

1982
01:46:53,200 --> 01:46:56,479
Speaker 1: second tank of gas to extend their career, maybe refurbish

1983
01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:59,040
Speaker 1: their career, like it seems d Ford has done in

1984
01:46:59,040 --> 01:47:03,400
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Yeah. Absolutely, I think you know, for him,

1985
01:47:03,479 --> 01:47:05,920
Speaker 1: you know, watching him in Kansas City, Uh, you know,

1986
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:08,160
Speaker 1: he maybe didn't start off as fast, but you saw

1987
01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:11,479
Speaker 1: him kind of making progress and developing as a rusher

1988
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:15,920
Speaker 1: and so um, you know, year about the last year

1989
01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:18,800
Speaker 1: and the year before that, he became you know, a

1990
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:23,200
Speaker 1: pretty effective rusher. And then he comes over here and uh, man,

1991
01:47:23,280 --> 01:47:26,280
Speaker 1: he's an asset. He's a piece, a major piece to

1992
01:47:26,360 --> 01:47:28,760
Speaker 1: the puzzle. And when he went down it kind of

1993
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:30,439
Speaker 1: hurd him a little bit. But to see him come

1994
01:47:30,479 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 1: back healthy and to make some plays that he's made

1995
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: in the last game, Uh, it's pretty awesome. He's a

1996
01:47:36,479 --> 01:47:39,880
Speaker 1: he's a great, great add to our team and he's

1997
01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:42,360
Speaker 1: done the phenomenal job. He has speed on the edge.

1998
01:47:42,400 --> 01:47:44,880
Speaker 1: He can you know, get on the guard and make

1999
01:47:44,960 --> 01:47:47,519
Speaker 1: him miss and get some pressure or sack on the quarterback.

2000
01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:50,120
Speaker 1: And he's just a great asset and pick up to

2001
01:47:50,200 --> 01:47:53,840
Speaker 1: have um going into this Sunday's game. So as big

2002
01:47:53,880 --> 01:47:55,599
Speaker 1: a week as it is for the forty nine ers.

2003
01:47:55,680 --> 01:47:57,640
Speaker 1: It's obviously a big week for you too, being a

2004
01:47:57,680 --> 01:48:00,760
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist, So some things to

2005
01:48:00,880 --> 01:48:02,720
Speaker 1: think about this week. How are you going to kind

2006
01:48:02,760 --> 01:48:05,599
Speaker 1: of try to keep your emotions in check as as

2007
01:48:05,640 --> 01:48:08,560
Speaker 1: you get closer and closer to the weekend. You know,

2008
01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:12,439
Speaker 1: I'm standing humble. First. I'm very humbled to one be

2009
01:48:12,680 --> 01:48:15,320
Speaker 1: nominated and then to move and be in this spot

2010
01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:18,439
Speaker 1: where I am. It's it's it's just awesome. I'm trying

2011
01:48:18,439 --> 01:48:21,320
Speaker 1: to keep it all in perspective and understand. You know,

2012
01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:23,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of great guys that have played this

2013
01:48:23,240 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: game who haven't been in there, and there's some guys

2014
01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:27,559
Speaker 1: who are still and the guys that have come before

2015
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:30,559
Speaker 1: me who are in there. And so I'm very very humbled,

2016
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:34,240
Speaker 1: and I'm enjoying the process, and there's this one step

2017
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:37,200
Speaker 1: closer to being enshrined, and so if it happens, I'll

2018
01:48:37,200 --> 01:48:40,560
Speaker 1: be elated and be excited, and if it doesn't, you know,

2019
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 1: maybe it's just not my time. Are you going to

2020
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:47,599
Speaker 1: go to Miami? Absolutely? Yeah. So we'll be down there

2021
01:48:47,680 --> 01:48:52,160
Speaker 1: in Miami, and they have some events playing through the

2022
01:48:52,240 --> 01:48:55,759
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and leading up to it. So Thursday

2023
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:59,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying Thursday, Friday, then Saturday. You know, they make

2024
01:49:00,479 --> 01:49:02,680
Speaker 1: the selection and I think at the NFL Honors is

2025
01:49:02,760 --> 01:49:07,120
Speaker 1: that's when they present the twenty twenty class at that

2026
01:49:07,439 --> 01:49:11,639
Speaker 1: NFL Honors. Uh deal there, last one I've got sorry,

2027
01:49:11,800 --> 01:49:15,200
Speaker 1: go ahead, finish up. No, just saying so it's uh

2028
01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:17,439
Speaker 1: so emotions, you know, trying to keep them in check

2029
01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:20,400
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, but it'll be a fun time.

2030
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:24,120
Speaker 1: Last one I had for you, Bryant, was your jersey number.

2031
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:26,680
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's being warned by a rookie by the

2032
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:29,960
Speaker 1: name of Bosa. Uh did anybody consult you on that?

2033
01:49:30,360 --> 01:49:33,400
Speaker 1: Or was he just handed that one and people told

2034
01:49:33,439 --> 01:49:36,560
Speaker 1: him go get him? Uh? You know what I was

2035
01:49:36,800 --> 01:49:39,680
Speaker 1: I was asked before when they had a lot of

2036
01:49:39,800 --> 01:49:42,880
Speaker 1: numbers and they're trying to, you know, uh bring some

2037
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:45,479
Speaker 1: guys in for tryouts, and then they're they're kind of

2038
01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:49,200
Speaker 1: running out of numbers. And I was asked previously, Uh,

2039
01:49:49,560 --> 01:49:52,640
Speaker 1: what I mind allowing my jersey to be warned? And

2040
01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:56,200
Speaker 1: I had no problem with that, and you know, it's

2041
01:49:56,240 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 1: a number, and um, you know, I thought, you know,

2042
01:49:59,560 --> 01:50:02,240
Speaker 1: I remember back in college when I War ninety seven,

2043
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:05,559
Speaker 1: Lou Holtz had this poster in our locker it said,

2044
01:50:07,600 --> 01:50:10,160
Speaker 1: pay homets to the number you have, but make it great,

2045
01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:12,840
Speaker 1: leave it better than you found it. And so I

2046
01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:15,400
Speaker 1: did that in college, I thought, and then moved on

2047
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 1: and was able to play with in ninety seven and

2048
01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:21,960
Speaker 1: always remembered, you know, make it, make it better than

2049
01:50:22,040 --> 01:50:24,720
Speaker 1: you left it. And so I think Nick has doing

2050
01:50:24,760 --> 01:50:28,000
Speaker 1: a great job. He represents the number well, and understand

2051
01:50:28,040 --> 01:50:30,479
Speaker 1: he wore that number as well, so you know it's

2052
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:34,120
Speaker 1: a number, and you know, hopefully people remember for who

2053
01:50:34,200 --> 01:50:36,760
Speaker 1: you are as opposed to just put placing you with

2054
01:50:36,880 --> 01:50:40,800
Speaker 1: the number and remember you as the person. Brian Young

2055
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:43,840
Speaker 1: fourteen years defensive tackle over the San Francisco forty nine

2056
01:50:43,880 --> 01:50:46,479
Speaker 1: ers from Notre Dame University was an all decade member

2057
01:50:46,920 --> 01:50:49,360
Speaker 1: of the nineteen nineties in the National Football League, a

2058
01:50:49,400 --> 01:50:51,720
Speaker 1: member of the Super Bowl twenty nine champion forty nine ers,

2059
01:50:51,800 --> 01:50:55,080
Speaker 1: four time Pro Bowler into this week is a finalist

2060
01:50:55,160 --> 01:50:58,599
Speaker 1: for the Modern Era of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Bryant,

2061
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 1: Happy birthday and thank thank you so much for joining us.

2062
01:51:01,160 --> 01:51:03,320
Speaker 1: It means a lot to us. A good luck this week,

2063
01:51:03,439 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: good luck this week, take care all right, good to

2064
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:09,519
Speaker 1: talk to Brian. You know, yeah, I know, man, he's

2065
01:51:09,560 --> 01:51:11,919
Speaker 1: got a lot going on this week. It's got a birthday,

2066
01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:14,559
Speaker 1: might be going into the Hall of Fame. Just that's

2067
01:51:14,560 --> 01:51:16,400
Speaker 1: a pretty big week. Good for him. It is a

2068
01:51:16,479 --> 01:51:18,920
Speaker 1: pretty big week. Yeah, that's good. That is awesome. And

2069
01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:21,560
Speaker 1: he really you talk about a guy think about this,

2070
01:51:22,080 --> 01:51:23,840
Speaker 1: you know, you know how you know, defensive lineman, they

2071
01:51:23,920 --> 01:51:27,360
Speaker 1: bang around all the time he played for season, I know,

2072
01:51:27,840 --> 01:51:30,080
Speaker 1: and that was at a time defensive line. And that

2073
01:51:30,200 --> 01:51:32,360
Speaker 1: was at a time where I mean he was in

2074
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:36,200
Speaker 1: that he was in the middle of that heated Dallas

2075
01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:39,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys San Francisco forty nine ers rival, remember, I mean,

2076
01:51:39,240 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: that's when it was at its peak, at its peak,

2077
01:51:41,960 --> 01:51:45,160
Speaker 1: and he was just grinding every Oh man, I mean

2078
01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:50,080
Speaker 1: that's when the NFC really kind of they had the

2079
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:52,400
Speaker 1: cream of the crop and then there was this middle

2080
01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:54,800
Speaker 1: pack of teams and the Niners and the Cowboys were

2081
01:51:54,840 --> 01:51:56,360
Speaker 1: the cream of the crop back. Yeah, And that was

2082
01:51:56,439 --> 01:51:58,760
Speaker 1: the Super Bowls twenty nine was right after the Bills

2083
01:51:58,800 --> 01:52:01,799
Speaker 1: finished their front of four Super Bowls. The San Diego

2084
01:52:01,960 --> 01:52:06,240
Speaker 1: Chargers went to their Super Bowl UH that year with

2085
01:52:06,840 --> 01:52:09,920
Speaker 1: um and Stan Humphries. That's right, Stan Humphries and the

2086
01:52:10,000 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 1: coach was, Oh, guys, it was a college coach from

2087
01:52:14,640 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 1: the Georgia Tech guy Bobby Ross. Bobby Ross, the great guy.

2088
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:20,639
Speaker 1: And they went and and got thumped by Steve Young

2089
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:23,040
Speaker 1: and the San Francisco forty nine or Steve Young six

2090
01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:27,160
Speaker 1: touchdown pass, and uh, it was a great Super Bowl.

2091
01:52:27,920 --> 01:52:30,400
Speaker 1: Brian he was Wow. What a phenomenal I know, I

2092
01:52:30,520 --> 01:52:33,439
Speaker 1: remember Brian Young in college because the grown up in

2093
01:52:33,439 --> 01:52:36,000
Speaker 1: the New York metropolitan area there isn't really a college

2094
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:38,920
Speaker 1: football team to kind of cling to. And Notre Dame

2095
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:41,160
Speaker 1: was on every week. You know, they already had their

2096
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:45,200
Speaker 1: national TV deal, so you'd watch them every week on Saturdays.

2097
01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:47,880
Speaker 1: And that was the Lou Holtz era. I mean they

2098
01:52:47,920 --> 01:52:51,920
Speaker 1: were crushing people. Yeah, and he was, oh man, he

2099
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:55,640
Speaker 1: was dominant inside. He was a beast. And I you know,

2100
01:52:56,040 --> 01:52:58,160
Speaker 1: to see him have a fourteen year NFL career after

2101
01:52:58,200 --> 01:52:59,960
Speaker 1: seeing what he did in college, I guess I wasn't

2102
01:53:02,520 --> 01:53:04,880
Speaker 1: he was in the national Yeah, I mean that's impressive.

2103
01:53:05,120 --> 01:53:08,360
Speaker 1: It's really that's an impressive run, especially at a position

2104
01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:10,960
Speaker 1: as punishing as that. So good to talk to him

2105
01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:12,920
Speaker 1: and we wish him the best of luck this week.

2106
01:53:12,960 --> 01:53:16,000
Speaker 1: Hopefully he gets the right kind of phone call on

2107
01:53:16,320 --> 01:53:19,000
Speaker 1: I think it's on Saturday where they let everybody know, right,

2108
01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:21,000
Speaker 1: and then yeah, it sounds like there's some sort of

2109
01:53:21,040 --> 01:53:23,880
Speaker 1: event and they do and I think they, um, they

2110
01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:26,240
Speaker 1: have all the guys that are there. What I understand

2111
01:53:26,280 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: they put him in hotel rooms and then uh, Baker comes,

2112
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Speaker 1: the big David Baker comes knocking on the door. And

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01:53:33,840 --> 01:53:35,519
Speaker 1: when if you open the door and you see a

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01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:38,000
Speaker 1: big guy there, it's good news. So that's the good thing.

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01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, we I mean, it's it's a good list

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01:53:40,840 --> 01:53:44,080
Speaker 1: of finalists this year. I mean, that's a tough it

2117
01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:46,160
Speaker 1: always is. It's a great list. I'm going to be

2118
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:47,960
Speaker 1: fun to watch. But yeah, to be a modern era

2119
01:53:48,080 --> 01:53:52,120
Speaker 1: finalist that says something about especially at defensive tackle. I

2120
01:53:52,200 --> 01:53:55,160
Speaker 1: think it's a lot easier for some of those, you know,

2121
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:58,920
Speaker 1: offensive skill position players that their careers are easier to

2122
01:53:59,040 --> 01:54:02,320
Speaker 1: measure because of the statistics that come with their positions.

2123
01:54:03,080 --> 01:54:05,600
Speaker 1: So for a defensive tackle, you know, to be on

2124
01:54:05,760 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 1: this list as a modern era finalist, I mean, kudos

2125
01:54:08,439 --> 01:54:11,679
Speaker 1: to him just to get this far. So we're talking

2126
01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:14,400
Speaker 1: about a bunch of stuff football related, and we're ramping

2127
01:54:14,520 --> 01:54:16,360
Speaker 1: up to the Super Bowl as well. I thought It

2128
01:54:16,439 --> 01:54:23,560
Speaker 1: was interesting that he mentioned what his strategy would be

2129
01:54:23,680 --> 01:54:28,040
Speaker 1: for Mahomes because with the speed that you asked him

2130
01:54:28,080 --> 01:54:30,840
Speaker 1: about that the Chiefs have outside, you know, they got

2131
01:54:30,880 --> 01:54:34,120
Speaker 1: like a four by one hundred relay team. You say

2132
01:54:34,160 --> 01:54:36,480
Speaker 1: to yourself inherently, well, man, they got to get to

2133
01:54:36,520 --> 01:54:39,560
Speaker 1: Mahomes fast. But then at the same time you're like, well,

2134
01:54:39,640 --> 01:54:41,600
Speaker 1: Mahomes can extend plays too, and do you want to

2135
01:54:41,680 --> 01:54:45,200
Speaker 1: let him out of the pocket? And so which quarterback

2136
01:54:45,240 --> 01:54:47,000
Speaker 1: do you want to turn him into the one that's

2137
01:54:47,000 --> 01:54:50,600
Speaker 1: scrambling around extending plays and making plays up in the dirt,

2138
01:54:51,080 --> 01:54:52,520
Speaker 1: or do you want to stick him in the pocket

2139
01:54:52,600 --> 01:54:55,040
Speaker 1: and say, let's see you beat us there, because we

2140
01:54:55,160 --> 01:54:57,000
Speaker 1: think we've got the corners that can hold it down

2141
01:54:57,040 --> 01:54:59,600
Speaker 1: on the back end. It's gonna be really interesting strategy

2142
01:55:00,040 --> 01:55:02,600
Speaker 1: to see how they handle a guy that's one year

2143
01:55:02,680 --> 01:55:04,720
Speaker 1: removed from me in the NFL MVP. Well over the

2144
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:07,880
Speaker 1: course of what sixty five or sixty five to seventy

2145
01:55:07,920 --> 01:55:10,240
Speaker 1: five offensive places, Joe have You know, Mahomes is going

2146
01:55:10,280 --> 01:55:12,520
Speaker 1: to get off the page once in a while. But

2147
01:55:12,640 --> 01:55:14,120
Speaker 1: I think you want to make sure you give your

2148
01:55:14,160 --> 01:55:16,160
Speaker 1: scheme a chance to work and your players a chance

2149
01:55:16,200 --> 01:55:18,320
Speaker 1: to work. Once he goes off the page, then it

2150
01:55:18,400 --> 01:55:22,040
Speaker 1: becomes street football and there's real he usually wins. Yeah,

2151
01:55:22,040 --> 01:55:25,280
Speaker 1: there's no plan for that, and uh, that's hard to

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01:55:25,320 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 1: scheme up. That's hard to scheme up. So I'm kind

2153
01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:29,280
Speaker 1: of wondering, you know, how do you what do you

2154
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:31,560
Speaker 1: tell Nick Bosa, what do you tell D four? You know,

2155
01:55:31,680 --> 01:55:34,280
Speaker 1: be disciplined in your rush lanes. Don't leave escape lanes

2156
01:55:34,400 --> 01:55:38,280
Speaker 1: underneath you. You know, just kind of slowly squeeze the

2157
01:55:38,320 --> 01:55:41,720
Speaker 1: pocket down. I mean, you can't have a wild up

2158
01:55:41,800 --> 01:55:43,720
Speaker 1: the field rush. You'll just step under it. And now

2159
01:55:43,800 --> 01:55:47,040
Speaker 1: he's got an escape route and now he's out extending plays.

2160
01:55:47,080 --> 01:55:50,200
Speaker 1: And that's that's an issue because he can run for four.

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01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:51,720
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw him against the what did he

2162
01:55:51,800 --> 01:55:55,080
Speaker 1: run twenty eight yards? Thirty yards for a touchdown down

2163
01:55:55,120 --> 01:55:58,520
Speaker 1: the sideline. He just broke one tackle behind the line

2164
01:55:58,520 --> 01:56:00,280
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, shook at a guy with a with a

2165
01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:02,840
Speaker 1: head fake, and then went in and shrugged off a

2166
01:56:02,920 --> 01:56:05,120
Speaker 1: tackle inside the five and bowled in. I mean that

2167
01:56:06,600 --> 01:56:08,680
Speaker 1: it's hard to defend, you know, when you've got a

2168
01:56:08,760 --> 01:56:11,560
Speaker 1: running these guys that are play running back and can

2169
01:56:11,600 --> 01:56:14,560
Speaker 1: out run most of the defenders and then they can

2170
01:56:14,600 --> 01:56:16,920
Speaker 1: also throw it from the pocket. That's a crushing weapon.

2171
01:56:17,080 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 1: I thought he would find some more parallels between his

2172
01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:22,480
Speaker 1: Niners team and this one, because you look at some

2173
01:56:22,560 --> 01:56:25,680
Speaker 1: of the things that are similar with these two teams

2174
01:56:25,840 --> 01:56:28,080
Speaker 1: just in terms of how they were built. You know,

2175
01:56:28,160 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 1: you had Garoppolo sitting behind Brady up in New England

2176
01:56:31,200 --> 01:56:33,320
Speaker 1: and then he gets traded to the Niners. And you

2177
01:56:33,400 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 1: had Steve Young sitting behind Joe Montana before he took

2178
01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:38,080
Speaker 1: over and went to the Super Bowl and won it

2179
01:56:38,160 --> 01:56:41,280
Speaker 1: with this Niners team that Brian Young played on. Both

2180
01:56:41,360 --> 01:56:44,400
Speaker 1: teams were thirteen and three in the regular season and

2181
01:56:44,640 --> 01:56:47,800
Speaker 1: each of them beat a sixth seed to get to

2182
01:56:47,880 --> 01:56:51,040
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl win the championship game. Yeah, so, I

2183
01:56:51,120 --> 01:56:54,120
Speaker 1: mean there are some interesting fun facts in there. I

2184
01:56:54,160 --> 01:56:56,320
Speaker 1: don't know if that means, you know, the Niners are

2185
01:56:56,360 --> 01:56:59,040
Speaker 1: destined to win the Super Bowl. Well, they've been fifty

2186
01:56:59,080 --> 01:57:01,520
Speaker 1: four of these so far. Are well in the run up,

2187
01:57:01,560 --> 01:57:03,400
Speaker 1: there's been fifty four run ups and the fifty fourth

2188
01:57:03,480 --> 01:57:05,680
Speaker 1: game is coming up, and that's you just know that

2189
01:57:05,760 --> 01:57:07,680
Speaker 1: there's there's gonna be a lot of similarities and you're

2190
01:57:07,720 --> 01:57:09,720
Speaker 1: starting to get the chance, like like this when the

2191
01:57:09,760 --> 01:57:13,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs are going back to their h what third super Bowl,

2192
01:57:13,640 --> 01:57:16,080
Speaker 1: but it's the first one in exactly fifty years. They

2193
01:57:16,120 --> 01:57:18,200
Speaker 1: were in Super Bow, they won Super Bowl four, and

2194
01:57:18,320 --> 01:57:20,960
Speaker 1: now they're back in super Bowl fifty four and h

2195
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:23,800
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, I've always been an AFC guy.

2196
01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:28,240
Speaker 1: I always root for the AFC. But man, that Niners

2197
01:57:28,320 --> 01:57:31,920
Speaker 1: defense is scary. It's great defense, really really good defense,

2198
01:57:32,360 --> 01:57:36,040
Speaker 1: athletic in front to back. I mean, they got people

2199
01:57:36,080 --> 01:57:39,400
Speaker 1: at every level. M Richard Sherman in the back, the

2200
01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:42,640
Speaker 1: right mix of veteran guys and you know, older players.

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01:57:42,880 --> 01:57:45,080
Speaker 1: They've got an innovative offensive coordinate who happens to be

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01:57:45,120 --> 01:57:47,600
Speaker 1: their head coach, who might have very aggressive, might have

2203
01:57:47,640 --> 01:57:49,880
Speaker 1: the best run game scheme in football. I think the

2204
01:57:49,920 --> 01:57:51,480
Speaker 1: thing about this too, And I talked to Murph about

2205
01:57:51,480 --> 01:57:53,280
Speaker 1: this last week. One of the things I've seen, even

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01:57:53,360 --> 01:57:56,320
Speaker 1: in the run up to this game and this season,

2207
01:57:56,440 --> 01:57:59,280
Speaker 1: I saw it. You noticed it every so often all

2208
01:57:59,320 --> 01:58:01,000
Speaker 1: the way back. You can go back as far as

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01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:02,640
Speaker 1: you want, but I'll give you a couple of recent examples.

2210
01:58:02,720 --> 01:58:04,960
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcons getting up twenty eight to three on

2211
01:58:05,000 --> 01:58:08,440
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots and just not keeping their foot

2212
01:58:08,480 --> 01:58:11,120
Speaker 1: on the gas. The Philadelphias stopped running the ball to

2213
01:58:11,520 --> 01:58:15,040
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles really keeping their foot on the gas

2214
01:58:15,160 --> 01:58:18,600
Speaker 1: and beating that same New England team in this last

2215
01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:21,120
Speaker 1: championship game in Kansas City. I really felt like that

2216
01:58:21,280 --> 01:58:24,240
Speaker 1: game only got close for Kansas City when they let

2217
01:58:24,320 --> 01:58:26,040
Speaker 1: up in the second half, when they kind of took

2218
01:58:26,080 --> 01:58:27,480
Speaker 1: a deep breath and said the end that they're not

2219
01:58:27,560 --> 01:58:30,040
Speaker 1: going to beat us, and they got within a score.

2220
01:58:30,240 --> 01:58:32,720
Speaker 1: It wasn't really that close, but it seemed like there

2221
01:58:32,840 --> 01:58:35,160
Speaker 1: was that air of where the Chiefs kind of stood

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01:58:35,240 --> 01:58:37,960
Speaker 1: up and stretched for a minute, you know, during the battle,

2223
01:58:38,360 --> 01:58:41,360
Speaker 1: and it cost him a little bit. So I think

2224
01:58:41,400 --> 01:58:45,160
Speaker 1: it's really the Green Bay game was never close, and

2225
01:58:45,240 --> 01:58:47,440
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things. The reason I

2226
01:58:47,560 --> 01:58:51,080
Speaker 1: got talking about this Kyle Shanahan is he is a

2227
01:58:51,240 --> 01:58:55,280
Speaker 1: gas pedal guy. It's always on the floor. It doesn't

2228
01:58:55,280 --> 01:58:57,760
Speaker 1: matter if it's you know, ten to seven or one

2229
01:58:57,840 --> 01:59:00,240
Speaker 1: hundred to seven. He's gonna keep trying to when I

2230
01:59:00,280 --> 01:59:02,040
Speaker 1: think you've got to do that, and why you wouldn't

2231
01:59:02,040 --> 01:59:04,560
Speaker 1: do that in the ultimate game is mind blowing to me.

2232
01:59:04,760 --> 01:59:06,360
Speaker 1: I mean, all the work you put in to get

2233
01:59:06,480 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: this far, this is not the time to be a conservative,

2234
01:59:09,160 --> 01:59:12,080
Speaker 1: you've got to you know, whether it's Sean Payton, you know,

2235
01:59:12,160 --> 01:59:13,960
Speaker 1: in that Super Bowl and oh nine with the on

2236
01:59:14,080 --> 01:59:18,400
Speaker 1: site the third quarter, and that's the kind of things

2237
01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:20,400
Speaker 1: that sometimes you've got to do. You got to let

2238
01:59:20,440 --> 01:59:23,720
Speaker 1: it all hang out, because you got to be brave

2239
01:59:23,880 --> 01:59:26,720
Speaker 1: sometimes to you know, take a chance when you think

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01:59:27,200 --> 01:59:29,200
Speaker 1: the odds are in your favor to make good on

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01:59:29,320 --> 01:59:32,200
Speaker 1: that chance. The team you're playing at this level of

2242
01:59:32,240 --> 01:59:35,440
Speaker 1: the NFL is always good enough to take advantage of

2243
01:59:35,520 --> 01:59:38,080
Speaker 1: you no matter what you do. And if you and

2244
01:59:38,320 --> 01:59:40,840
Speaker 1: I saw it in that Super Bowl where the lights

2245
01:59:40,880 --> 01:59:44,680
Speaker 1: went out, super Bowl forty seven Niners Ravens. The lights

2246
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 1: went out. The Ravens had an enormous league and all

2247
01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:50,200
Speaker 1: they wanted was for that game to end so they

2248
01:59:50,240 --> 01:59:55,320
Speaker 1: could be world champions. The Niners were tremendously talented and desperate,

2249
01:59:55,760 --> 01:59:58,400
Speaker 1: so they put those things together and they're just flatting

2250
01:59:58,440 --> 02:00:00,680
Speaker 1: it fly and it's you know, so they're back in

2251
02:00:00,760 --> 02:00:02,280
Speaker 1: it with a chance to get a two point to

2252
02:00:02,400 --> 02:00:04,680
Speaker 1: tie it to you know, to come all the way back,

2253
02:00:05,120 --> 02:00:08,480
Speaker 1: and it was amazing because that's all it takes. Even

2254
02:00:08,520 --> 02:00:11,880
Speaker 1: a great team like that World Championship Ravens team was

2255
02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:13,920
Speaker 1: all it took was for them. They're like, you know,

2256
02:00:13,960 --> 02:00:15,560
Speaker 1: I just wish this game would get over and that's it.

2257
02:00:15,640 --> 02:00:20,480
Speaker 1: Boom boom boom. Right they get scored on. It's hard

2258
02:00:20,560 --> 02:00:22,360
Speaker 1: to keep your foot on the pedal when you can

2259
02:00:22,400 --> 02:00:25,320
Speaker 1: see the end of the track coming. But you gotta

2260
02:00:25,320 --> 02:00:26,640
Speaker 1: do it in this game, and I think I think

2261
02:00:26,720 --> 02:00:29,600
Speaker 1: Shanahan shows a pension to do that, and maybe that's

2262
02:00:29,640 --> 02:00:31,400
Speaker 1: one of the things why Andy Reid hasn't gotten that

2263
02:00:31,480 --> 02:00:34,400
Speaker 1: far yet. Yep, that's that's a very good point. I

2264
02:00:34,640 --> 02:00:36,400
Speaker 1: gotta believe he's gonna be letting it all hang out

2265
02:00:36,480 --> 02:00:39,320
Speaker 1: this time. I mean, second kick at the cat after

2266
02:00:39,440 --> 02:00:42,000
Speaker 1: going back to Super Bowl thirty nine. He's been when

2267
02:00:42,000 --> 02:00:44,720
Speaker 1: he was with the Eagles, been a lot of championship games.

2268
02:00:44,960 --> 02:00:47,360
Speaker 1: He's been in one super Bowl, and I you know,

2269
02:00:47,480 --> 02:00:50,160
Speaker 1: I just think you really have to stay ultra aggressive

2270
02:00:50,160 --> 02:00:53,000
Speaker 1: all and even offensively. As we get closer and closer

2271
02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:54,880
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, we'll be breaking it down more

2272
02:00:54,920 --> 02:00:56,680
Speaker 1: and more on the show this week, But for now,

2273
02:00:56,760 --> 02:00:59,320
Speaker 1: we take a break and on the other side, a

2274
02:00:59,360 --> 02:01:02,680
Speaker 1: little NFL true false, Steve are gonna We're gonna bounce

2275
02:01:02,760 --> 02:01:04,120
Speaker 1: that off. You didn't see what you think We've got

2276
02:01:04,160 --> 02:01:06,360
Speaker 1: a couple of good ones on the docket, so stay

2277
02:01:06,440 --> 02:01:08,720
Speaker 1: tuned for that. NFL true false. On the other side,

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02:01:08,760 --> 02:01:11,360
Speaker 1: when we come back One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

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02:01:26,840 --> 02:01:29,600
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Maddie Glab will be

2281
02:01:29,680 --> 02:01:32,120
Speaker 1: in here with Steve tomorrow. I'll be back Wednesday, Thursday,

2282
02:01:32,200 --> 02:01:34,440
Speaker 1: before Maddie closes out the week on Friday here on

2283
02:01:34,520 --> 02:01:36,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Week, and we'll be talking more about the

2284
02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:39,120
Speaker 1: Big Game, obviously as we get closer to it. But

2285
02:01:39,280 --> 02:01:42,600
Speaker 1: some news you and Maddie's regular responsibilities are getting in

2286
02:01:42,640 --> 02:01:45,760
Speaker 1: the way of my job. Yeah, it's funny all week

2287
02:01:45,800 --> 02:01:47,880
Speaker 1: if you guys keep my questions, who's doing our job

2288
02:01:47,960 --> 02:01:52,960
Speaker 1: while we're in here? How about that? Nothing your inboxes?

2289
02:01:53,440 --> 02:01:56,040
Speaker 1: That's right. So the news, some NFL news did come

2290
02:01:56,120 --> 02:01:59,320
Speaker 1: down the line during the break here. U Jay Glazer

2291
02:01:59,440 --> 02:02:03,360
Speaker 1: from Fox Sports is reporting that the Los Angeles Chargers

2292
02:02:03,400 --> 02:02:06,880
Speaker 1: have officially decided to part ways with Philip Rivers after

2293
02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:10,680
Speaker 1: sixteen seasons. So he is going to be a free

2294
02:02:10,760 --> 02:02:15,080
Speaker 1: agent this spring. Whether he decides ultimately to continue his

2295
02:02:15,160 --> 02:02:18,800
Speaker 1: playing career, I guess is up to him. But this

2296
02:02:19,000 --> 02:02:21,879
Speaker 1: is certainly gonna open up an interesting free agent scenario.

2297
02:02:22,040 --> 02:02:24,720
Speaker 1: Here is Steve and Philip Rivers is just going to

2298
02:02:24,760 --> 02:02:27,200
Speaker 1: be the first piece of that free agent quarterback puzzle.

2299
02:02:27,800 --> 02:02:30,960
Speaker 1: Where do you think he's most likely to end up?

2300
02:02:31,040 --> 02:02:32,880
Speaker 1: Knowing he's not going to be back with the Chargers

2301
02:02:33,000 --> 02:02:35,880
Speaker 1: if he wants to play, and it means at all costs,

2302
02:02:35,960 --> 02:02:38,400
Speaker 1: like he'll go anywhere. You know, any team that's out

2303
02:02:38,480 --> 02:02:43,040
Speaker 1: there that wants him. There's a couple of them. First

2304
02:02:43,600 --> 02:02:48,280
Speaker 1: is Indianapolis. I'm Frank Wrychch, a friend of mine. Frank

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Speaker 1: Wrych coached Philip Rivers for a couple of years in

2306
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:53,640
Speaker 1: San Diego and has the highest regard for him and

2307
02:02:53,720 --> 02:02:58,160
Speaker 1: had some success with him and knows him, and I

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02:02:58,280 --> 02:03:01,120
Speaker 1: think Philip Rivers would respond who coming back and playing

2309
02:03:01,160 --> 02:03:05,080
Speaker 1: for Frank? Another one Tampa Bay. With what's going on

2310
02:03:05,200 --> 02:03:07,400
Speaker 1: with Jamis Winston and the things that they've got in

2311
02:03:07,520 --> 02:03:10,960
Speaker 1: place already there, a plug and play guy like Philip

2312
02:03:11,080 --> 02:03:13,520
Speaker 1: Rivers could really help them in his ability to sling

2313
02:03:13,600 --> 02:03:16,880
Speaker 1: the ball and not turn it over and they don't

2314
02:03:16,880 --> 02:03:18,640
Speaker 1: have to worry about whether in either of those two

2315
02:03:18,680 --> 02:03:22,000
Speaker 1: plays that's right, and it would be a normal kind

2316
02:03:22,080 --> 02:03:25,720
Speaker 1: of transition. Now Philip Rivers has nine children, he and

2317
02:03:25,800 --> 02:03:30,480
Speaker 1: his wife. It would be, you know, a move of

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02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:33,280
Speaker 1: biblical proportions in that household. I mean right, I mean

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02:03:33,320 --> 02:03:35,760
Speaker 1: you you'd be bringing them. I was thinking aliens one

2320
02:03:35,800 --> 02:03:37,960
Speaker 1: more for a starting lineup in the football team, you

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Speaker 1: know think I mean so it's uh yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that's my best guests. It would be Indianapolis or Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: H there are other plays. I mean the guy, I

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Speaker 1: think the guy can still play. Obviously, he's not one

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Speaker 1: of the athletic kind of quarterbacks you've got. He's not

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Speaker 1: a Lamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes, he's not a Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: He's not one of those young guys who's I'm not

2328
02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:03,000
Speaker 1: running all over the joint to Shaun Watson. But the

2329
02:04:03,080 --> 02:04:06,320
Speaker 1: guy can sling it. And he's got a vast, vast

2330
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Speaker 1: a depth of knowledge about the NFL and reading defenses. Yeah,

2331
02:04:10,120 --> 02:04:12,880
Speaker 1: no question about it. It's going to be interesting to

2332
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Speaker 1: see and he's not going to be the only player.

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Speaker 1: Does he want to play in this thing? And of

2334
02:04:16,960 --> 02:04:20,280
Speaker 1: course this is already sparking people to comment, well, Braidy

2335
02:04:20,320 --> 02:04:24,640
Speaker 1: to the Chargers, mark it down, it's interesting that, you know,

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Speaker 1: there could be a very interesting domino effect though with

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Speaker 1: some of these older quarterbacks and where they go and

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Speaker 1: who fills the void from where they are leaving, most

2339
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:37,440
Speaker 1: notably the LA Chargers here. So we'll see where it

2340
02:04:37,520 --> 02:04:41,160
Speaker 1: goes in the off season. But the Chargers have reportedly

2341
02:04:41,320 --> 02:04:44,160
Speaker 1: decided they are moving on from Philip Rivers and he

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02:04:44,200 --> 02:04:48,360
Speaker 1: will enter free agency for the highest bidder, presumably if

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02:04:48,400 --> 02:04:50,480
Speaker 1: he even still wants to play. There are some guys,

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02:04:50,560 --> 02:04:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you think too, Drew Brees is going to

2345
02:04:52,680 --> 02:04:56,240
Speaker 1: be a free agent, right, is he? Well, yes, and

2346
02:04:56,360 --> 02:04:58,640
Speaker 1: he's deciding right now whether he still wants to play.

2347
02:04:58,720 --> 02:05:01,320
Speaker 1: The assumption is he does, he'll be back in New

2348
02:05:01,440 --> 02:05:03,120
Speaker 1: or If he wants to play and he doesn't want

2349
02:05:03,120 --> 02:05:05,720
Speaker 1: to play in New Orleans, does he go back to

2350
02:05:05,800 --> 02:05:09,879
Speaker 1: San Diego to cap office. Look at you, well, LA technically,

2351
02:05:09,960 --> 02:05:12,360
Speaker 1: but yes, yeah, you got me. Yeah, that'd be kind

2352
02:05:12,400 --> 02:05:14,880
Speaker 1: of a that'd be interesting. But a lot of people

2353
02:05:14,960 --> 02:05:18,960
Speaker 1: have made the supposition that it'll be Brady going to

2354
02:05:19,040 --> 02:05:21,840
Speaker 1: the LA Chargers, you know, sell his TV twelve brand

2355
02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:24,920
Speaker 1: out in his native California, you know, all of that stuff,

2356
02:05:25,040 --> 02:05:28,240
Speaker 1: and play with what is a very talented roster. Do

2357
02:05:28,280 --> 02:05:31,200
Speaker 1: you want to talk about attractive place to go? Look

2358
02:05:31,240 --> 02:05:32,880
Speaker 1: at all the weapons you'd have around you as a

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02:05:32,960 --> 02:05:37,240
Speaker 1: quarterback with that La Charger's roster. I mean, that's a

2360
02:05:37,320 --> 02:05:40,280
Speaker 1: pretty good group when you think about it. So it's

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02:05:40,280 --> 02:05:42,600
Speaker 1: a very attractive place for they could have done this year.

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Speaker 1: Then if they were that, well that's another topic for

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Speaker 1: another day. Time for NFL True fall Steve, Are you ready?

2364
02:05:49,960 --> 02:05:52,720
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Yancy's Fancy New York's artists in

2365
02:05:52,880 --> 02:05:56,720
Speaker 1: Cheese NFL true false number one? Are you ready? I

2366
02:05:56,800 --> 02:05:59,320
Speaker 1: think I am ready. Okay, here we go. The Steelers

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02:05:59,480 --> 02:06:04,320
Speaker 1: shouldn't not ignore drafting a quarterback in the twenty twenty draft.

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02:06:04,360 --> 02:06:07,400
Speaker 1: I love double negatives. Don't you should not ignore? Yeah,

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02:06:08,240 --> 02:06:10,440
Speaker 1: so the Steelers should draft a quarterback in the twenty

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02:06:10,520 --> 02:06:14,720
Speaker 1: twenty draft. What say you? True or false? I'll say yeah,

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02:06:14,880 --> 02:06:17,360
Speaker 1: I think you need to. And I didn't see too

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02:06:17,480 --> 02:06:20,440
Speaker 1: much from the two guys you had behind Ben definitely

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02:06:20,560 --> 02:06:24,680
Speaker 1: this year. And you're gonna and this has crummy quarterback

2374
02:06:24,800 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 1: draft after the very top and they're not up there. Well,

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02:06:27,600 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be down there. They're not gonna be

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02:06:29,680 --> 02:06:32,960
Speaker 1: able tanking for anybody to next year. They're not gonna

2377
02:06:33,080 --> 02:06:37,280
Speaker 1: they're they're not a tanking organization. UM get while we

2378
02:06:37,320 --> 02:06:42,160
Speaker 1: getting is good. Even if Ben comes back and gets

2379
02:06:42,240 --> 02:06:44,720
Speaker 1: hurt again, you're gonna find out to try and find

2380
02:06:44,760 --> 02:06:47,040
Speaker 1: out about this guy, the guy you draft. I don't

2381
02:06:47,040 --> 02:06:48,400
Speaker 1: think there's anything wrong with You don't have to get

2382
02:06:48,400 --> 02:06:49,840
Speaker 1: a guy first round, you don't have to get a

2383
02:06:49,840 --> 02:06:51,480
Speaker 1: guy in the second round. You have to trade up

2384
02:06:51,520 --> 02:06:53,040
Speaker 1: to get a guy at the top of the draft,

2385
02:06:53,560 --> 02:06:59,080
Speaker 1: find somebody and start looking looking guys over or because yeah,

2386
02:06:59,680 --> 02:07:01,400
Speaker 1: you're not gonna touch the free agent market. You're not

2387
02:07:01,400 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 1: gonna bring a guy like Rivers or Breeze or any

2388
02:07:03,240 --> 02:07:04,680
Speaker 1: of those guys in because they won't be able to

2389
02:07:04,720 --> 02:07:09,560
Speaker 1: beat Ban out in Pittsburgh. So you don't want to

2390
02:07:09,560 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 1: start that controversy. But you do want to have some

2391
02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:15,440
Speaker 1: guys on the on the back burner. So yeah, you

2392
02:07:15,480 --> 02:07:17,560
Speaker 1: got to start picking guys and he and they've been

2393
02:07:17,640 --> 02:07:21,480
Speaker 1: doing it. I mean that Mason Rudolph h that Duck

2394
02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:23,800
Speaker 1: in this year they were down to their fourth guy.

2395
02:07:23,840 --> 02:07:26,560
Speaker 1: Duck was their fourth guy. They drafted Josh Dobbs. Josh

2396
02:07:26,600 --> 02:07:30,640
Speaker 1: God traded him away, So they've got they've been doing

2397
02:07:30,680 --> 02:07:32,200
Speaker 1: it and I think it's the smart move to do.

2398
02:07:32,280 --> 02:07:34,160
Speaker 1: I've been doing it late later in the draft. Mason

2399
02:07:34,240 --> 02:07:36,240
Speaker 1: Rudolph is a third round pick, so that's probably the

2400
02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:39,960
Speaker 1: highest pick they've invested in a in a quarterback since

2401
02:07:40,080 --> 02:07:43,960
Speaker 1: drafting Roethlisberger eleventh overall in two thousand and four. So

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02:07:44,240 --> 02:07:46,280
Speaker 1: i'd get a feel for what Ben's doing in the

2403
02:07:46,360 --> 02:07:48,480
Speaker 1: OTAs and see see how he's doing. If he's looking

2404
02:07:48,520 --> 02:07:50,640
Speaker 1: good looking like the old guy, I would, you know,

2405
02:07:50,840 --> 02:07:53,080
Speaker 1: not put it. I wouldn't waste one of the top

2406
02:07:53,200 --> 02:07:55,520
Speaker 1: draft picks bore. Well, that's the problem otias is after

2407
02:07:55,600 --> 02:07:59,200
Speaker 1: the draft. Yeah, I get it, it's true. I think it.

2408
02:07:59,280 --> 02:08:02,000
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be predicated on how long the

2409
02:08:02,120 --> 02:08:07,120
Speaker 1: Steelers believe that Roethlisberger can conceivably play. The injury last

2410
02:08:07,200 --> 02:08:11,000
Speaker 1: year has obviously given them pause. You know, even if

2411
02:08:11,000 --> 02:08:12,880
Speaker 1: he comes back healthy next year, what's to say that

2412
02:08:12,960 --> 02:08:15,280
Speaker 1: doesn't happen again with some other part of his body?

2413
02:08:15,400 --> 02:08:17,920
Speaker 1: Is his body breaking down? I guess is the hard

2414
02:08:18,040 --> 02:08:20,680
Speaker 1: question they're asking themselves. Is he going to play one

2415
02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:22,680
Speaker 1: more year? Can he play two more years? If they

2416
02:08:22,720 --> 02:08:24,480
Speaker 1: only think they're gonna get one more good year out

2417
02:08:24,480 --> 02:08:27,360
Speaker 1: of him, they darn well, better draft somebody and hope

2418
02:08:27,400 --> 02:08:29,440
Speaker 1: they hit on him. But even if it's two, it

2419
02:08:29,520 --> 02:08:33,160
Speaker 1: gives that the guy you draft, if he's the right guy, yeah, great,

2420
02:08:33,440 --> 02:08:37,200
Speaker 1: he gets time to incubate. If he's not, you can

2421
02:08:37,360 --> 02:08:39,920
Speaker 1: kick him to the curb like you and get another one.

2422
02:08:40,000 --> 02:08:41,920
Speaker 1: So you got to start looking. And because I am

2423
02:08:41,960 --> 02:08:45,320
Speaker 1: a proponent of drafting a quarterback every year, right, in

2424
02:08:45,520 --> 02:08:48,520
Speaker 1: every draft, no matter what your situation as a quarterback,

2425
02:08:48,920 --> 02:08:52,040
Speaker 1: I would say, true, they should not ignore drafting a

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02:08:52,120 --> 02:08:54,560
Speaker 1: quarterback in twenty twenty. So I am on board with you.

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02:08:54,920 --> 02:09:01,040
Speaker 1: Number two NFL true falls Steve Right. Super Bowl win

2428
02:09:02,520 --> 02:09:06,240
Speaker 1: would make the forty nine ers turnaround the greatest in

2429
02:09:06,600 --> 02:09:12,680
Speaker 1: NFL history. True or false? Well, my problem is, I

2430
02:09:12,720 --> 02:09:14,640
Speaker 1: don't know if there's any been one better. I don't

2431
02:09:14,640 --> 02:09:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know who turned it around that fast.

2432
02:09:16,840 --> 02:09:18,440
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you what three what were they three

2433
02:09:18,480 --> 02:09:22,840
Speaker 1: and thirteen last year? Top pick of the draft? They were?

2434
02:09:23,240 --> 02:09:24,840
Speaker 1: I want to say they were four and twelve, Is

2435
02:09:24,880 --> 02:09:27,280
Speaker 1: that right? No? Maybe three and thirteen and go to

2436
02:09:27,440 --> 02:09:29,600
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, flip it around and win the Super Bowl?

2437
02:09:29,840 --> 02:09:31,640
Speaker 1: Might I'd have to say it's got to be in

2438
02:09:31,680 --> 02:09:33,720
Speaker 1: the conversation. I say true, not to mention the fact

2439
02:09:33,760 --> 02:09:37,360
Speaker 1: that they've had four ten lost seasons or more in

2440
02:09:37,440 --> 02:09:40,640
Speaker 1: a row, and then all of a sudden, wham bam,

2441
02:09:40,800 --> 02:09:45,320
Speaker 1: we're in the super Bowl. And now let's not dismiss

2442
02:09:45,480 --> 02:09:50,880
Speaker 1: this fact. Losing Jimmy Garoppolo to a season ending injury

2443
02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:54,680
Speaker 1: last year is the sole reason they're in position to

2444
02:09:54,760 --> 02:09:58,840
Speaker 1: draft Nick Bosa last spring. I mean, let's not make

2445
02:09:58,880 --> 02:10:01,560
Speaker 1: any bones about that. You know, you lose your starting

2446
02:10:01,640 --> 02:10:04,160
Speaker 1: quarterback if the team goes down the drain four and twelve.

2447
02:10:04,160 --> 02:10:05,720
Speaker 1: I thought they were four and twelve. So the team

2448
02:10:05,800 --> 02:10:08,160
Speaker 1: goes down the drain, they're four and twelve. The reward

2449
02:10:08,320 --> 02:10:11,000
Speaker 1: is they get Nick Bosa, Nick freakin Bosa, I mean,

2450
02:10:11,160 --> 02:10:14,480
Speaker 1: the best pass rusher in the draft class to book

2451
02:10:14,560 --> 02:10:16,600
Speaker 1: end with d Ford. But you you made all of

2452
02:10:16,640 --> 02:10:19,640
Speaker 1: those moves, you know, John Lynch, the GM made all

2453
02:10:19,680 --> 02:10:22,560
Speaker 1: of those moves with his front office and personnel department.

2454
02:10:23,040 --> 02:10:26,160
Speaker 1: So I say, good on you, guys. I say true, Yes,

2455
02:10:26,240 --> 02:10:29,240
Speaker 1: it's true to go from a twelve lost team to

2456
02:10:29,320 --> 02:10:32,360
Speaker 1: a super Bowl winner. I mean, usually those things happen

2457
02:10:32,440 --> 02:10:34,520
Speaker 1: in stages, right, Steve, You've seen this like you see

2458
02:10:34,560 --> 02:10:36,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, right, here and right now. You get to

2459
02:10:36,440 --> 02:10:39,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs, one year, you miss, you get back, you

2460
02:10:39,240 --> 02:10:41,120
Speaker 1: don't win the game. Maybe you get back next year

2461
02:10:41,120 --> 02:10:43,040
Speaker 1: and you win. Look at the Houston Texans. They made

2462
02:10:43,080 --> 02:10:45,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year, they lose, They get back to

2463
02:10:45,440 --> 02:10:47,800
Speaker 1: the playoffs. This year, they win a game, they advance around,

2464
02:10:48,160 --> 02:10:49,960
Speaker 1: but then they lose. In the next route. You know,

2465
02:10:50,040 --> 02:10:53,640
Speaker 1: where do they go next year? Usually see that playoffs

2466
02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:58,040
Speaker 1: success in incremental steps, not twelve lost team number super

2467
02:10:58,080 --> 02:11:01,560
Speaker 1: Bowl winner, number one seat. Yeah, so yeah, I would

2468
02:11:01,600 --> 02:11:04,440
Speaker 1: have to say true. I'd say true all right, last

2469
02:11:04,480 --> 02:11:09,160
Speaker 1: one NFL True false. Fitting into a new offensive system

2470
02:11:09,720 --> 02:11:12,160
Speaker 1: will be a challenge for Tom Brady when we already

2471
02:11:12,240 --> 02:11:14,600
Speaker 1: touched on this a little bit because with the Philip

2472
02:11:14,720 --> 02:11:17,120
Speaker 1: Rivers news that he is not going to be back

2473
02:11:17,160 --> 02:11:20,880
Speaker 1: with the Chargers means he'll be somewhere else. What about

2474
02:11:20,920 --> 02:11:25,080
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? If he has to learn a new offensive system,

2475
02:11:25,440 --> 02:11:28,840
Speaker 1: it'll be a challenge for him. True or false? Well, challenge, yes,

2476
02:11:29,400 --> 02:11:33,160
Speaker 1: but insurmountable. He'll get bad. I mean, come on, man, Okay,

2477
02:11:33,320 --> 02:11:36,200
Speaker 1: that's his he's the Brady Act. That's his things, right.

2478
02:11:36,280 --> 02:11:38,839
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, He's been running the same system

2479
02:11:38,960 --> 02:11:42,720
Speaker 1: for the last twenty years. Be all right, So what

2480
02:11:42,880 --> 02:11:44,800
Speaker 1: what do you think is the learning curve there after

2481
02:11:44,960 --> 02:11:50,480
Speaker 1: being entrenched in a system that long. At'll take him

2482
02:11:50,480 --> 02:11:52,400
Speaker 1: a little bit, right, Yeah, I don't. I have a

2483
02:11:52,440 --> 02:11:54,960
Speaker 1: hard time seeing that happen. I just think it's all

2484
02:11:55,040 --> 02:11:58,000
Speaker 1: posturing for a better contract with New England. He'll put

2485
02:11:58,120 --> 02:12:00,880
Speaker 1: rake them over the coals, they'll pay up and he'll there. Okay,

2486
02:12:01,480 --> 02:12:03,960
Speaker 1: so you're going with true he can handle it and

2487
02:12:04,080 --> 02:12:07,120
Speaker 1: I will too, all right. That is NFL True Falls,

2488
02:12:07,160 --> 02:12:09,600
Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancy's Fancy New York's Artists and Cheese.

2489
02:12:09,680 --> 02:12:11,600
Speaker 1: One more segment to go is Steve and I have

2490
02:12:11,720 --> 02:12:14,960
Speaker 1: to figure out what we have learned from today's show.

2491
02:12:15,280 --> 02:12:17,640
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for that. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you

2492
02:12:17,800 --> 02:12:20,800
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

2493
02:12:20,840 --> 02:12:34,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio back on One Bills Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker.

2494
02:12:34,800 --> 02:12:37,040
Speaker 1: One last segment here before the end of the show,

2495
02:12:37,960 --> 02:12:39,400
Speaker 1: and we're a little tight on time, but I do

2496
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:43,760
Speaker 1: have to tell you, Steve this quarterback situation with what's

2497
02:12:43,760 --> 02:12:45,720
Speaker 1: going on here. At first, you have Andrew Luck retire

2498
02:12:45,840 --> 02:12:48,840
Speaker 1: during the season. Now we know Philip Rivers reportedly is

2499
02:12:48,880 --> 02:12:50,360
Speaker 1: not going to be back with the Chargers. He's going

2500
02:12:50,400 --> 02:12:53,000
Speaker 1: to be a free agent. Drew Brees is mulling retirement.

2501
02:12:53,040 --> 02:12:56,080
Speaker 1: Where's Brady landing? Yeah, could be a lot of a

2502
02:12:56,160 --> 02:12:58,720
Speaker 1: lot of turmoil at the quarterback position. There's a lot

2503
02:12:58,760 --> 02:13:00,320
Speaker 1: of guys that are gonna be up for apps, a

2504
02:13:00,360 --> 02:13:02,040
Speaker 1: lot of spots that are going to be interesting, and

2505
02:13:02,080 --> 02:13:06,720
Speaker 1: a lot of players who you've always wondered, particularly at

2506
02:13:06,760 --> 02:13:09,200
Speaker 1: some point in their career. I wonder what they look

2507
02:13:09,240 --> 02:13:10,960
Speaker 1: like in our uniform, you know what I mean? Yeah,

2508
02:13:11,040 --> 02:13:12,920
Speaker 1: And you're gonna get a chance to see it maybe.

2509
02:13:14,360 --> 02:13:16,120
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be up to them where they want

2510
02:13:16,160 --> 02:13:17,720
Speaker 1: to keep playing, and if they want to keep playing

2511
02:13:17,760 --> 02:13:20,280
Speaker 1: for somebody other than who they've maybe won a world

2512
02:13:20,360 --> 02:13:24,600
Speaker 1: championship with. I just think with the Charger seat now vacant,

2513
02:13:25,400 --> 02:13:29,080
Speaker 1: it may invite somebody like Brady to think a little

2514
02:13:29,160 --> 02:13:33,200
Speaker 1: differently about what he might want to do and surround

2515
02:13:33,280 --> 02:13:36,680
Speaker 1: himself with some really good talent. It'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see for sure. Production assistance George Blass, Jeff Colton, at,

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Speaker 1: Tom Holland or Kelly Rue, JJ Trito, Kevin Card, James Roebel.

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Speaker 1: Your producer is Jay Harris, Steve will be in that chair.

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Speaker 1: Maddie glab will be in this chair tomorrow for Chris Brown.

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