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Speaker 1: Glab alongside wgr's Bills Beat reporter and sideline reporter Sal

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Speaker 1: last year Obviously that didn't work out. They beat the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs in the regular season on Sunday night, and they

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Speaker 1: looked like they had a path to that, but then

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Speaker 1: the next week they lost the Tennessee and they were

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Speaker 1: kind of like right there all year, and you didn't

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Speaker 1: know where it was going to wind up. Obviously, the

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Speaker 1: Bills wind up having to go to Kansas City once

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Speaker 1: again after the Chiefs resurgence as the season went on,

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Speaker 1: and you'd really love that game to be in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: You'd love that game just like the AFC Championship would

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Speaker 1: have been if they would have closed out the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: And how much have we heard Brandon being talk about

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Speaker 1: you when you ask him about goals or when you

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Speaker 1: ask him about the playoffs. The number one thing is

444
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Speaker 1: we need to have the road to the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: run through Buffalo. That is us putting ourselves in the

446
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Speaker 1: best position possible to getting to the super Bowl. They've

447
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Speaker 1: been close, but they have never been that number one

448
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Speaker 1: seed where the super Bowl, at least in the last

449
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Speaker 1: couple of seasons, where the super Bowl, the road to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl runs through Buffalo and high Mark Stadium.

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Speaker 1: And I will tell you, as someone who grew up

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Speaker 1: during the Super Bowl years here in Buffalo. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: get a number one seede because you're talented, you're a

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Speaker 1: great team, and obviously that helps you, and you know,

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Speaker 1: just on the field the matchup. But Maddie, I'm telling

456
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Speaker 1: you this, the other team, it becomes up here, It

457
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Speaker 1: becomes mental. They got to go to Buffalo in January.

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Speaker 1: They got to go to Buffalo to play in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I think even when they step off the plane and

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Speaker 1: they're in Buffalo and they know that, it's just it's

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Speaker 1: something about having to come here and play and the

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Speaker 1: thought of it. I think that already puts you at

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Speaker 1: a mental disadvantage. And that's why it's an advantage for

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Speaker 1: the Bills, you know, to have that particular situation. And look,

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Speaker 1: that's not to discount the other AFC teams, right, we know.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of that, by the way, three of these

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Speaker 1: contracts I wrote down Burrow Herbert, what are they gonna

468
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Speaker 1: cost next year? My gosh, these guys are they just

469
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Speaker 1: completed their second year the NFL. The CBA says you

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Speaker 1: cannot negotiate until after your third year, so they can't yet,

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Speaker 1: they can't get ahead of it yet. But next year

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Speaker 1: that's right. So they have to wait another year before

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Speaker 1: they can even go to their teams and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we want another deal, a new deal before a fourth

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Speaker 1: season like Josh did. Essentially, right, what does that look

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Speaker 1: like for these guys? Cheez, I can't even fathom what

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Speaker 1: the price they will be. It's a price they will

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Speaker 1: be because they've done the last two seasons. Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: He already might be. And it changes so quickly. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the money in the NFL, and we know the cap

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Speaker 1: number is going to go up over the next next

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Speaker 1: couple of seasons and maybe even jump a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: I know Brandon Bean has talked about, hey, we're still

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Speaker 1: experiencing the effects of COVID nineteen in terms of paying guys,

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Speaker 1: in terms of what we can afford. We're still looking

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Speaker 1: forward to that number jumping up there twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So maybe it is not too terrible.

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Speaker 1: But when you think putting, when you think about putting

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Speaker 1: a cost in a number, next two players like Justin

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Speaker 1: Herbert and Joe Burrow, um, it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: really big number. And Brandon Bean is going to be

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Speaker 1: happy that Josh Allen is locked up for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 1: Because when you're thinking about a third contract for players

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Speaker 1: like Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, who knows what their

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Speaker 1: careers will look like when when you're starting when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about negotiating another contract for those guys. But if

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Speaker 1: they're still playing at a high level, that money is

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Speaker 1: going to be ridiculous. And we know the money right now,

499
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Speaker 1: what the salary Kepleak you said, is already kind of skyrocketing.

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Speaker 1: They have a new TV deals that are in place

501
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Speaker 1: now that are going to make that go up even higher.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Bill's roster here and I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: about you know, yes, they have some decisions next year.

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Speaker 1: They have some guys that will be on exploring contracts.

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Speaker 1: You have that every year. But one of the one

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Speaker 1: of the amazing things Brandon Bean has been able to

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Speaker 1: do as the general manager of this football team is

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Speaker 1: not only have they built a terrific roster, they've locked

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Speaker 1: up their core for quite a while. I mean next year,

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox as of right now, is going to be

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Speaker 1: a free agent. Right He's playing out the last year

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Speaker 1: of his deal. Devin Singletary on offense, you're really looking

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Speaker 1: that's kind of it. I'm looking at the other guys defensively,

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Speaker 1: there's a few guys Tremaine Edmunds obviously going to the

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Speaker 1: fifth year, Jordan Poor you're going to the final year

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Speaker 1: of his contract. When you look on offense, Josh is

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Speaker 1: locked up. We step on Diggs, Gabriel Davis or a

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Speaker 1: cup more years. Isaiah McKenzie signs a two year deal,

519
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins is locked up, Mitch Moore signs the extension.

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Speaker 1: This core on offense is going to be together for

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Speaker 1: a while. They've done a really good job of making

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Speaker 1: sure that they can kind of keep the train running,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, because they have talented players. They built

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Speaker 1: it the way they wanted to build it. Now it's

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00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,679
Speaker 1: about the financial certainty that you have going forward and

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Speaker 1: making sure you can keep your young guys locked up.

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Speaker 1: And what does Brandon say all the time, we want

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Speaker 1: to draft, develop and resign our own, which you think

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Speaker 1: about that, and it's worked out for the Bills so far,

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Speaker 1: and they have retained that core and they will have

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Speaker 1: that core for years to come. But with how much

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Speaker 1: players in positions are worth now, you wonder if that's

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Speaker 1: still going to be the case. In five years down

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Speaker 1: the road if you truly can still draft, develop, and

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Speaker 1: resign guys based on how much certain players in certain

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Speaker 1: positions are going to cost you. While the Bills found

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Speaker 1: out how much that costs this year by having to

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Speaker 1: get Von Miller, a premier edge rusher, that is a

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Speaker 1: premium position in the NFL. It's much like quarterback. You're

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Speaker 1: paying a ton of money for it. And they found

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Speaker 1: out at wide receiver right now, quarterback, edge rusher, wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: probably left tackle. I think those are the ones that

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's kind of really having to pony up for.

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Speaker 1: I take a look down the road, I look at

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Speaker 1: next year and I think, Okay, Dawson Knox. Today, the

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Speaker 1: Mimi Dolphins, we're having some media availability. They get to

547
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Speaker 1: start a week early because they have a new coach,

548
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Speaker 1: Mike Kiseki got the franchise tag and he's talking about it.

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Speaker 1: And I will tell you, as of right now, at

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Speaker 1: least you know the franchise tag for tight ends, it

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Speaker 1: has not skyrocketed the top end of the tight end market.

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Speaker 1: Has it got there? So you wonder do the Bills

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Speaker 1: do something with tight with Dawson Knox before the season starts.

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Speaker 1: So how does that look because I think right now,

555
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Speaker 1: at least you look at the tight end market, it

556
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Speaker 1: hasn't ballooned, it hasn't skyrocketed. But that might be one

557
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Speaker 1: of those potential positions where in two years from now

558
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: we're talking a little bit differently. Yeah, and corners too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you need you need really good corners in

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Speaker 1: the NFL today to stop the pass and to stop

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Speaker 1: those wide receivers. It'll be interesting to see what it

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Speaker 1: looks like for the Bills in a couple of years

563
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Speaker 1: when you need to start paying more guys. One thing

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Speaker 1: that is for certain is there's going to have to

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Speaker 1: be players on the team every single year that are

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Speaker 1: willing to take a pay cut or willing not to

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Speaker 1: get paid as much who maybe aren't in those premier

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Speaker 1: positions because you can't afford everybody for maybe what they

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Speaker 1: want to be worth. You know, it's I'm glad you

570
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Speaker 1: brought that up because a year ago Mitch Morris took

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Speaker 1: basically took a pay cut, restructures contract a bit, and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of us, me included, assumed he's

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Speaker 1: here for one more year. It made it easier to

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Speaker 1: get out of they basically know that Mitch Morrise. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you know, yes he did that. That's nice, But I

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Speaker 1: don't expect him to be on the roster in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Well, here we are a year later. Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morse had a great season last year. He was terrific

579
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Speaker 1: last year, and he played himself into a contract extension.

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Speaker 1: It's not even it's the total opposite of they're gonna

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Speaker 1: move off him. They're gonna keep them for a few

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Speaker 1: more years. Can you believe, by the way, Mitch Morreson

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Speaker 1: only twenty nine years old. No, Mitch Moore only twenty

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Speaker 1: nine years old. Him and I went to school together

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Speaker 1: at Massoo, So I know I know Mitch Morse very well.

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Speaker 1: And when he talks about being old, he's only twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: He talks about being old. I'm like, Mitch, do not

588
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: say those words, because then you're making me feel old.

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00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, we had classes together. That's amazing. Yeah, covered

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Speaker 1: him when he was in college. So it's funny how

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Speaker 1: people wind up at the same place together, you know,

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Speaker 1: six years, eight years after graduating. Fan. Yeah, he is

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00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: a he is. He's an older soul, I guess, but

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Speaker 1: he's a young guy. Sol at twenty nine. Now he's

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00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: locked up. But it's a it's a great point you

596
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: make about guys take a pick up sometimes, Hey, you

597
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: know what, you do it because you see the benefit.

598
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: You bet on yourself. Mitch Moore's bet on himself last year.

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Speaker 1: That's what he did and it wound up working out

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Speaker 1: and now the bills are better for it. And I

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00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: think some of these players may have to make the

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Speaker 1: decision of am I willing to take a little bit

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Speaker 1: less but be on a team that could go to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl, be on a team that has a

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Speaker 1: great culture, a great locker room, great coaches, a great

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Speaker 1: family environment, or do I want to get paid the

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Speaker 1: extra whatever you name the price by being on a

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Speaker 1: team that maybe there isn't a hope for the playoffs

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Speaker 1: or the super Bowl. And that's what each player has

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Speaker 1: to reason with. Another reason why I think Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: is one of the best gms in the NFL is

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Speaker 1: because he puts a price that a player is worth

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Speaker 1: and he stands by that. That's right. I agree with that.

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Speaker 1: They have a value. They play their value, and that's

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna say, Hey, this is where we value that.

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Speaker 1: If good for you, if you can get something from

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Speaker 1: somewhere else. It's not like, you know, it's not like

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Speaker 1: we don't you know, don't value at all, or don't

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Speaker 1: believe in you. It's just this is our value for

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Speaker 1: what we need, and if you can find that somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: good for you. And sometimes people say okay, I'll try

622
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: and they can't, so they come back to the bills

623
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: and sometimes they find it somewhere else, and guys respect

624
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: that when gms are open and honest, whether it's a

625
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: number that's less than they want to see or more

626
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: than they were expecting to see, that's what makes him

627
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: such a good GM. And the math that goes into

628
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: all of this trying to figure out how do we

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Speaker 1: stay under or at the cap number, how do we

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00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: make this all happen With the amount of extensions that

631
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: we've seen, big extensions, big numbers, big name players on

632
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Speaker 1: this team that we'll see start to go into effect

633
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: over the next couple of years. You gotta you gotta

634
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: make that number correct every every single year, and it

635
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: takes probably a lot of minds to be able to

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00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: do that. But one way that you do that successfully

637
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: is by saying, two players, this is the value we

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00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: have on you. I'm sorry, we can't give you any

639
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: more because we are paying so many other players too.

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Speaker 1: And you want to win, right championships, You've got to

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00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: have good players on your team to win a super Bowl,

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00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: and the and the Bills are in that position right now.

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00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: I look at the roster, look at how much this

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Speaker 1: team has changed from twenty nineteen, from from making it

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs and losing that first game, to then

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Speaker 1: winning games in the playoffs, um to adding a pass

647
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Speaker 1: rusher like Von Miller, and to adding players then draft

648
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Speaker 1: like Gabriel Davis, who people didn't value as much as

649
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills did, so he dropped in the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to be that next guy? Maybe that comes

651
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Speaker 1: out of this year's draft, whether it be in the

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Speaker 1: first round or the third round. Greg russo excited to

653
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Speaker 1: see what he does this season. Isaiah McKenzie. Can he

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Speaker 1: fill in that slot role that Cole Beasley held for

655
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Speaker 1: a few years. So much to talk about here with

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Speaker 1: this team, so much to look forward to that they're

657
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Speaker 1: just in such a great position. As we approach voluntary

658
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Speaker 1: workouts on April nineteenth, guys will start to come back

659
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Speaker 1: to one Bill's drive less than a week, less than

660
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Speaker 1: a week, were six days away, and football's back. They'll

661
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Speaker 1: be here be voluntary workouts, voluntary offseason workouts. Three very

662
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Speaker 1: keywords all in their voluntary. Voluntary, Voluntary is obviously the

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Speaker 1: off season, and it's just working out. We're not going

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Speaker 1: to see a lot of football stuff at all, but

665
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Speaker 1: very three very important words in there. Yeah, but fun

666
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Speaker 1: to see faces come back here. Who knows if everybody

667
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Speaker 1: will be there. I expect a big bunch to be there,

668
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Speaker 1: because that's just how this team operates. They like to

669
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Speaker 1: do things together. They like to be present. The veterans

670
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: on this team are really great at getting everybody to

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Speaker 1: show up. Last year, I think back to voluntary offseason workouts,

672
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Speaker 1: there were a lot of teams who still were like,

673
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Speaker 1: you know what, we're good. We're still in these COVID times.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to all report for voluntary workouts. But

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Speaker 1: the Bills had one of the best attendance numbers. I

676
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: remember that from last season, almost every guy was in

677
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: the building ready to go for voluntary offseason workout. So

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Speaker 1: I would expect something similar here as we approach April nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: All right, break time for us when we come back,

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll dip into the Twitter conversation. Give you the

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Speaker 1: names that we think guys that we want to see

682
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: breakout on offense this season. Give us a call, who

683
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Speaker 1: do you want to break out on offense this season?

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty one Bills Live is presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalidah Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Folk meac into

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live Matti Glab alongside Sal Capaccio and I

687
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Speaker 1: didn't add in our first segment, but wanted to let

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Speaker 1: you guys know. Coming up at two o'clock, we are

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Speaker 1: going to have NFL network analytics expert Cynthia Freeland on

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Speaker 1: with us. She had a mocked draft come out. She

691
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Speaker 1: really likes the interior offensive lineman in this year's NFL draft.

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Speaker 1: I'll have a story coming out the week before the

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Speaker 1: draft where I talked to her, so I'll have a

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Speaker 1: bunch of quotes from her and there, and she detailed

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Speaker 1: why she thinks an interior offensive lineman is right for

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Speaker 1: the Bills at number twenty five if the Bills are

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Speaker 1: thinking they want to go offensive line. So I'm sure

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Speaker 1: she's going to get into that. We talked a little

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Speaker 1: bit about interior offensive line yesterday, she really likes Zion

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Speaker 1: Johnson for the Bills. Yeah, I wonder about the Bills

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Speaker 1: on the interior, because you know, they do have their

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Speaker 1: starting five we think penciled. Then maybe if you want

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Speaker 1: to say Ryan Bates is going to compete there, I

704
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Speaker 1: think Roger Staffelds probably said at one of the guard

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Speaker 1: spots they do need depth. Usually, if you're going to

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Speaker 1: go that early on the draft and the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: you're expecting someone maybe to step right in and start.

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Speaker 1: Although it's not an easy transition, there's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: So I wonder if the Bills would go that route.

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Speaker 1: Certainly I there's someone there they value that highly. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't completely dismiss the point, but it seems like the

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Speaker 1: way Brandon Bean likes to draft, maybe that's in an

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Speaker 1: area that he would rather address maybe later in the draft.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's another veteran free agent. They've done that over

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Speaker 1: the last few years. They've brought in guys. Brian Winters

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Speaker 1: comes to mind. They've had some guys that they brought

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Speaker 1: in as veteran free agents. So that's it as well.

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Speaker 1: So I'm curious to what Sitthia thinks about that and

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Speaker 1: some of these guys because it is a position much

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Speaker 1: like running back. To me that I think the Bills

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Speaker 1: will add. They will draft someone in the draft. The

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Speaker 1: question is when they draft them. Yeah, when and where?

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Speaker 1: What does the first round look like leading up to

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Speaker 1: that pick number twenty five? What happens with the cornerbacks,

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Speaker 1: the wide receivers, the edge rushers to maybe affect that

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Speaker 1: number twenty five picks. So many different scenarios you can

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Speaker 1: run through. I know the scouting department is doing that

728
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Speaker 1: right now, is they're working toward the NFL Draft at

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Speaker 1: the end of April. They do so many different mock

730
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Speaker 1: drafts themselves themselves. They have their big draft board that

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Speaker 1: they rate players. You know, there's a first round grade

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Speaker 1: on this guy. We have a second round grade on

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Speaker 1: on this many players, third round grade on on this

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Speaker 1: many players. So who knows how many first round graded

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Speaker 1: players there are for them and if anybody is going

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Speaker 1: to be left, that's a first round graded player once

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Speaker 1: they get to their pick at twenty five. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: funny you mentioned that about how they do their own

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Speaker 1: mock draft. You know, here we are the we're fans

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Speaker 1: and media, and you know you can dig into it

741
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Speaker 1: you do your own mock draft. People say it's a

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Speaker 1: waste of time or whatever. It's obviously not a waste

743
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Speaker 1: of time for these teams who have everything and their

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Speaker 1: jobs and their livelihoods invested because they do it. Teams

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Speaker 1: do it. Brandon Bean will actually have some of his

746
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Speaker 1: own staff members do their own mock drafts. They'll put

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Speaker 1: it together, they'll go through this exercise a few different times.

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Speaker 1: And on top of that, what he does is, and

749
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Speaker 1: he's spoken on this multiple times, he has different members

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Speaker 1: of his front office kind of be the GM of

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Speaker 1: certain teams. Like Maddie, you're in charge of all the teams,

752
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Speaker 1: and let's say maybe he doesn't like the NFC North, right,

753
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Speaker 1: So then Maddie, you're in charge of kind of knowing

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Speaker 1: that roster inside now and then saying, Okay, this is

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Speaker 1: where I think they're probably going to go in the draft,

756
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Speaker 1: and then you put that all together so you can

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Speaker 1: get maybe more of an outlook in a perspective to

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Speaker 1: be better prepared on how the draft is going to

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Speaker 1: fall in that particular night. I think it's fascinating how

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean has kind of set that all up in

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Speaker 1: really in a lot of ways, it's like us, it's

762
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: like fans, it's like media, it's what we do. The

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Speaker 1: difference is this is their livelihood. They're chasing championships. This

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Speaker 1: is what they do for a living, and how it

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Speaker 1: matters to them. Yeah, they work long and hard with

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Speaker 1: prep for the NFL Draft. I can imagine it's it's

767
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Speaker 1: really hard to probably turn off the preparation leading up

768
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Speaker 1: to the NFL Draft because at some point the night

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Speaker 1: before the first round, you gotta turn it off. You

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Speaker 1: gotta be done with it. You got to feel like

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00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: you're at a good point, or the day of, since

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00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: the draft is at night, you gotta be good enough

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Speaker 1: with it to just all right the chips. Let them

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Speaker 1: fall how they're gonna fall. Here. We've we've done all

775
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Speaker 1: of our prep. We've done through we've gone through several

776
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Speaker 1: different mock drafts. But I know right now is it's

777
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Speaker 1: it's go time for them. They're doing a lot of

778
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Speaker 1: prep as to what the first round, the second round,

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Speaker 1: the third round, what it could look like, how it

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Speaker 1: could unfold. But we've got a Twitter conversation today or

781
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Speaker 1: Twitter question is who is the one Bill's offensive player

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Speaker 1: you want to have a breakout season in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: We've got Dave from Florida, who's hanging on the phone lines. Dave,

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Speaker 1: you're on with us? Who do you think is going

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Speaker 1: to have a breakout season on offense? Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say hello to Saal over there, Hi, and Maddie,

787
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Speaker 1: what's up? Look? You look good? You too look good

788
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Speaker 1: up there? Nothing against Steve and Chris. But who the hair,

789
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Speaker 1: isn't it it's your hair over here, isn't it that? Hey? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I planned to a good you everywhere? All right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I like this OJ Howard. I think he's got some

792
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Speaker 1: something for us. O J. Howard, you know. And I

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Speaker 1: want to see Gabriel Davis have a breakout year and

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Speaker 1: I just breakout game. And that's what I got. Thanks Dave.

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Speaker 1: You know Oward we both talked about him a little

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Speaker 1: bit off air because he do you remember when he

797
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: came out he was so highly touted, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I love the guy. Twenty seventeen, that tight end class

799
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Speaker 1: was good, That whole draft was good. That's the Tree

800
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Speaker 1: Davious White draft. That's the Bills trading down right. Um.

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Speaker 1: He has not quite put it all together in a season.

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00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: Some injuries have been, you know, problematic for him. I think,

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Speaker 1: David spot On, I think if if O J. Howard,

804
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Speaker 1: like OJ Howard has yet to have that breakout year,

805
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: he could be in line for a breakout year depending

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Speaker 1: how the Bills use him, and would be fantastic for this. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was the National Championship Offensive MVP in

808
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. He had five receptions for two hundred and

809
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Speaker 1: eight yards and two touchdowns in Alabama's victory over Clemson

810
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Speaker 1: there in that National Championship win. So this is somebody

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Speaker 1: who's put together good numbers at the college level and

812
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Speaker 1: has compete with some of the best. I mean, you

813
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Speaker 1: go to Alabama, you play in the SEC, You're playing

814
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Speaker 1: against good teams almost every single week, every other week.

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Speaker 1: He had six hundred yards in twenty fifteen, almost six

816
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Speaker 1: hundred receiving yards in twenty sixteen, So his stats aren't

817
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Speaker 1: like eye popping. But this is someone who produced a

818
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Speaker 1: lot for the Alabama college football team. So it'll be

819
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Speaker 1: interesting to see what he's going to do with the

820
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, what his what his role is on this team,

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Speaker 1: what he's been told already, How camp goes for him,

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Speaker 1: how OTAs go for him. It'll take some learning as well,

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Speaker 1: but I think this is a player that has a

824
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: lot of potential that we haven't seen him break out

825
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Speaker 1: yet in the NFL. Like you said, so, I'm a

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Speaker 1: fan of Oj Howard and it'll be really intriguing to

827
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Speaker 1: see how the Bills use two tight ends Dawson Knox

828
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Speaker 1: and Oj Howard. How often are they going to be

829
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Speaker 1: on the field together? How are they going to mix

830
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Speaker 1: and match that combination? Will there be two tight ends

831
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Speaker 1: sets quite a bit? Does Ken Dorsey want that in

832
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Speaker 1: his offense? What will look like? So? I think this

833
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 1: is when you can kind of be, you know, the

834
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Speaker 1: creator and create different ways and how you want to

835
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Speaker 1: see this Buffalo Bill's offense look like in twenty twenty two,

836
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Speaker 1: because just like the NFL Draft, the possibilities are endless

837
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Speaker 1: for who's available at number twenty five, possibilities are endless

838
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: for how this offense could look similar or different for

839
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Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, we talked the other day, and I

840
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: think it's worth mentioning that there's a lot of maybe

841
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Speaker 1: clues at the are gonna be running more two tight

842
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: end sets this year? You know we'll see that instead

843
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: of going out and getting maybe a third wide receiver

844
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Speaker 1: for you to see they targeted a second tight end,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jay Howard, maybe he takes the place of

846
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: more so like a third wide receiver. Now, great, they

847
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: still have obviously four dynamic wide receivers and very good

848
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: and step one Days and Gabriel Davis, Jamison crowd are

849
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Speaker 1: now and along with Isaiah McKenzie. But you're gonna hear

850
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Speaker 1: a lot of talk about twelve personnel personnel, right and

851
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: sometimes maybe our sometimes listeners don't know. So let me

852
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Speaker 1: just explain it break down all right. First number is

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Speaker 1: number of running backs on the field during the play.

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Speaker 1: Second number is number of tight ends on the field

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Speaker 1: during the play. You can have only five eligible players

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Speaker 1: counting receivers, tight ends and running backs. So you add

857
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Speaker 1: those two and that's how many receivers. So in that

858
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,959
Speaker 1: case will be one twelve personnel, one running back, two

859
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: tight ends, and that leaves and that leaves two more receivers, right,

860
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Speaker 1: so that equals five. If you have one running back,

861
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: one tight end, eleven, it's three receivers. That's more of

862
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: a spread offense, which the Bills ran a lot at

863
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: eleven personnel. That's exactly right, So when we say twelve personnel,

864
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: what we're talking about is one running back, two tight ends.

865
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Speaker 1: I think we'll be talking more about twelve personnel as

866
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Speaker 1: this season goes on. It just feels to me, like Maddie,

867
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: that's been the design getting Oj Howard. And by the way,

868
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Speaker 1: Dave brings up Gabriel Davis, I agree. He's had breakout games. Obviously,

869
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: the playoff game was a record. He had a breakout

870
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: half of a season two years ago, and again last

871
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: year hasn't put that complete breakout full season either. One

872
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: of these players would be amazing if the Bills could

873
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: have that type of season from them. But I do

874
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Speaker 1: expect Oj Howard to have a role on this team,

875
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to We're going to see

876
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: more twelve personnel than we have in the past. And

877
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: what happens on defense, I mean twelve personnel, what you're

878
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: doing is you're putting a bigger body on the field,

879
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: so the defense has to get bigger as well. So

880
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: this could be a chess match thing here as we're

881
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: talking about different defenses that the Bills are going half

882
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: to face. Why twelve personnel might be a good thing

883
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: for the Bills to get into a lot to talk

884
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: about there with you know, what do the defenses look

885
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: like in the AFC East? Does twelve personnel? Is that

886
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: a good thing for the Bills to get into maybe

887
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: with the type of defenses that are that they're going

888
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: to face, that could help them win. They talk about

889
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: it all the time when they're one on one matchups. Yeah,

890
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: and I know we gotta take a time out, but

891
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: we could talk about how you know, this wide receiver

892
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: cord itself is very interesting because you do have you

893
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: do Steff on Dates, you still have Gabriel Davis, you

894
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: still have Isai mckenns. You add Javison Crowder kind of

895
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: becomes a replacement for Cole Beasley. Right. This is a

896
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: group that when I put together recently a you know

897
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: which position groups I feel most confident and least confident

898
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: Right now, I put them pretty low. Even with all

899
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: those guys, because this roster is so good, and because

900
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 1: even tight end you get a guy like oj Howard,

901
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: I still think there's room to add one more wide

902
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 1: receiver on this team on the outside. And that's why

903
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: we talk about receiver maybe at twenty five who exciting

904
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: that would be fun to have a wide receiver coming

905
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: off the board at number twenty five. Break time for us.

906
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere when we come back. Cynthia Freeland from

907
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: NFL Network, She's coming up at two o'clock, so make

908
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Speaker 1: sure you guys are sticking around to hear from Cynthia.

909
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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live is presented by Kalidah Health on Buffalo

910
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back into One Bills Live. Mattie Glab

911
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: with Sal Capaccio, got Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network coming

912
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: on at two o'clock with us, But we wanted to

913
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: use this segment to talk about the smack talk that's

914
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: going on in the NFL world of things, the Baker

915
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: Mayfield situation. Where is he going to play, what's going

916
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: on with him. He's not happy with the Browns. He

917
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: went on the Yah Neva No podcast and said, I

918
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: feel disrespected one hundred percent. I was told one thing

919
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,919
Speaker 1: and they completely did another. Yeah. And by the way

920
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: he said at the end of this, I've had four

921
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: different head coaches and four years a bunch of different coordinators.

922
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: He's wrong about that, right. I always say, Maddie that

923
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: you know Josh is Josh because he's obviously super talented,

924
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 1: but he also went to a situation where the Bills

925
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: understood from the beginning he needs no chaos. He needs

926
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: structure around him, and that's not what Baker had. But

927
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: Baker can be his own worst enemy as well. You

928
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: throw that personality on top of the chaos, you get

929
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: the combustibility that is Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns

930
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: in that situation, and obviously it's gone off the rails.

931
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: He also said on this particular podcast something to the

932
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: effect of, I would like to go into somebody's cubicle

933
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 1: and boo them at work, watch them basically crumble, And

934
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: I think that's funny. And like, sometimes I think, like

935
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: I'm on the radio, you're on the radio. Sometimes we

936
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: get people like you know, tweeting us people things or whatever.

937
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: We get some Look, we're not like the athletes who

938
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: get it a lot. I'm not gonna put us in

939
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: that boat, but we get that sometimes and sometimes, and

940
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: it's sometimes it's something as small as you know, you

941
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: made a mistake. Don't you talk for a living? And

942
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I would like to follow you around at

943
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: work and every time you make a mistake and just

944
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: point it out. Like it happens. I'm sorry, I'm human, right,

945
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 1: So I get how you can that sentiment, right, But

946
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, he just Adida Kika Wabbla, you know who

947
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: she is. She was headed on my radio show a

948
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and she was great when she

949
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 1: spoke about this. She said, Look, I'm the same way

950
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: she said, I take everything personally. Baker takes everything personally.

951
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: He wears it on his sleeve. And now a lot

952
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: of this stuff is starting to come out. So apparently

953
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: he's on this podcast. Like you said, you never know

954
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: and you Never Know podcast people are talking about it

955
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: right now, and Baker Mayfield is kind of opening up

956
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Brown situation. The crazy part

957
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: is we still do not know where he's going to

958
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: be playing next year exactly. He had to quote another

959
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: one that said, I'm just looking for stabilization. I have

960
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 1: no clue where I'm going, but I'm not nervous because

961
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: I've gone through a lot of stuff in the past

962
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: few years. I mean, raise your hand. If you thought

963
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,439
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield would have a home by now, the hand

964
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: is raised high. I thought this would have been sorted

965
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 1: out like a month ago. So it's wild to watch

966
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: how all this hunt is unfolded into. Now watch Baker

967
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 1: kind of let us peek behind the curtain and him

968
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: tell us that he's not happy with how all this

969
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: came together and that according to him, the Brown said

970
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: one thing, but this is how it actually played out.

971
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: But in terms of being on Baker's side of things,

972
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: I totally get having the revolving door at offensive coordinator

973
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: and head coach. Like you said, Josh Allen is the

974
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: quarterback that he is today. I think he would have

975
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: been a great quarterback no matter what, but maybe it

976
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 1: would have taken a longer time because he had Brian

977
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: day Ball as an offensive coordinator since day one when

978
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:44,959
Speaker 1: he was the starter. You need stability when you are

979
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: transitioning from the college game to the NFL game. It

980
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 1: is not an easy transition for NFL quarterbacks for many

981
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: position groups to make. It takes time to learn, It

982
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: takes time to grow and develop, and when you are

983
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: introducing different NFL offenses, huge chapter books that these guys

984
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: have to learn, the plays, have to learn, the calls,

985
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: have to learn, the style, the cadence of things. It

986
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: doesn't happen overnight and we're near doing that to somebody

987
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: who's also trying to learn NFL defenses and is just

988
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: trying to learn the game itself as a new NFL player,

989
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: that's definitely going to stump their growth. And Maddie, he's

990
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: been in the league four years and it's still important

991
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: to the Bills. That's why they elevated Ken Dorsey. That's

992
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: why they didn't want somebody from the outside. That's why

993
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: they wanted to keep stability in structure in Josh Allen's

994
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: football life because they did not want to go And

995
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: we've heard Sean mcder and Brandon Mean speak about about

996
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: this that you know, if you can maintain that structure,

997
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: that stability, something Josh is comfortable with, it's so important

998
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: in the quarterback room. You've got to get that room right.

999
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: So it's not just when you make that transition, which

1000
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: is vitally important, or through the first couple of years,

1001
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 1: which is vitally important. Four years into his NFL career,

1002
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: the Bills are still making sure or Josh Allen feels

1003
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: comfortable with the people around him. Yeah, we'll see what

1004
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: happens for Bake or Mayfield. Where is he gonna go?

1005
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: Where is he gonna play. How much longer does this

1006
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: go on? I have I don't have the idea the

1007
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: answers to any of these questions, but interesting to follow.

1008
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: Interesting comments there from Baker explaining he's not really happy

1009
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: with how that situation played out. We're gonna take a

1010
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: break when we come back. NFL Network Cynthia Freeland joins

1011
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: us here on One Bills Live. We're presented by Clyde

1012
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:45,919
Speaker 1: Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Had a stove taster who

1013
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: has spread all all river fields. Kind of unique. He

1014
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: was kind of a dual role player. Steve Steve a blimp.

1015
00:48:55,200 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: We're not even in the threaded fear of normalcy. Welcome

1016
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: into One Bills Live. Mattie glab and Sal Capaccio hanging

1017
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: out in for Steve Tasker and Chris Brown as there

1018
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: on vacation. I'm a little bit jealous, but it's been

1019
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: fun to fill in for the week. We've been talking

1020
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: about what this defense looks like, what the offense looks like,

1021
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: breakout players that we want to see on offense and

1022
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: on defense, a lot of NFL draft talk. We've had

1023
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: some people on to help out with some of that

1024
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: draft talk. We had Bruce Feldman on with Us yesterday.

1025
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: He talked about his Freaks List, which is a really

1026
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: fun list to read about guys who think he thinks

1027
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: have those crazy physical traits in this year's draft class.

1028
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: He does it every year. He also did it last year.

1029
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown was on the Freaks List. His teammate Trevor Penning,

1030
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: another Northern Iowa guy, He's on that list. He's supposed

1031
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 1: to be a first round pick in this year's NFL draft,

1032
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: another offensive tackle. But when you think about the NFL

1033
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,240
Speaker 1: Draft and the different players that Brandon Bean has drafted

1034
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: since coming to Buffalo, a lot of guys that have

1035
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: been drafteds have those crazy physical traits. Yeah, I'm sorry,

1036
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: you know, I think the Bills basically I was caught

1037
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,439
Speaker 1: up and reading something here as you were talking about

1038
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: right there about this, but the Bills basically have basically

1039
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: drafted guys with those kind of high ceilings. If you will,

1040
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, Greg Russo comes to mind. Greg Russo has

1041
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: a high ceiling for the traits that he has. Spencer

1042
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: Brown has the traits. And I try to remember that,

1043
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: I've said to myself for the last eleven months, Mattie

1044
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 1: keeps remember that, remember that when it comes to draft.

1045
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: Remember about the traits. Remember that they basically like to

1046
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,320
Speaker 1: draft guys that have these high ceilings and these high traits,

1047
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: and you know, they're long, and they're athletic, and they

1048
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: test really well. So I think the Bills value that

1049
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: even over production. You know, you have guys that produce,

1050
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: but they don't have all those traits necessarily. I think

1051
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: the Bills say, we're gonna tap into those guys and

1052
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna produce for us. Josh Allen had a super

1053
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: high ceiling, according to Brandon Bean in the scouting department,

1054
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: where they've turned on to tape and looked at what

1055
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: he could offer, whether it be watching games, whether it

1056
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: be his interviews that he did with the Buffalo Bills.

1057
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: He had a high ceiling and he has met that.

1058
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: I don't think he's reached his ceiling yet, but it's

1059
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: been wild to see what Josh Allen has done since

1060
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 1: being drafted by the Buffalo Bills. We have another person

1061
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: with us to help us talk about the upcoming NFL draft.

1062
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: NFL network analytics expert Cynthia Freeland joins us. She was

1063
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: also on the sidelines for the Buffalo Bills. She was

1064
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 1: the Bills preseason sideline reporter this past year. We hope

1065
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: she's on with us again this season. But Cynthia, such

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Speaker 1: a wonderful time to have you on with us. We

1067
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: love when you get to do stuff with us, and

1068
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,240
Speaker 1: we love following what you do with the NFL network.

1069
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: I know you've had quite a busy schedule doing path

1070
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: to the Draft and all of that, so I'm sure

1071
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: they're the papers and all the notes are just scattered

1072
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: about as you prepare for the draft. Good thing you

1073
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: can't see my desk facing the other because it is messy,

1074
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: and free agency kept me very busy. So then of

1075
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 1: course that bleeds over into what happens with the draft

1076
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: and draft prep, and now eight teams picking at least

1077
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: one time, not more than one time, is making things crazy.

1078
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: But it's a lot of fun. I love it. Yeah,

1079
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun as preparation begins for the

1080
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: teams and for people like you. You had a mock

1081
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: draft come out, and it's wild because there's no quarterbacks

1082
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: going in the first round according to your mock draft.

1083
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: How did that come together and why did you decide?

1084
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: You know, these quarterbacks they can maybe wait till round two.

1085
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 1: Teams could wait to grab them in the second round. Well,

1086
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 1: first and foremost, we kind of agree with my editor

1087
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: that I can't make a bunch of trades because I

1088
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: would love to optimize the higher draft for every pick

1089
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 1: to be traded, because that's just the way I think,

1090
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: But it would be too crazy from an editor, So

1091
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: we make no trades allowed. That's the first rule. And

1092
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: then the second rule is we only look at wins

1093
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: that would happen in the twenty twenty two seasons, so

1094
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,879
Speaker 1: it doesn't take into account a lot of long term

1095
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: help because then you can map that kind of analysis

1096
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: against how you would think of a quarterback, so you

1097
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: can say, Okay, are these quarterbacks worth giving up this

1098
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: many wins this year for example or not? Right. So

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00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: the reason that there are no quarterbacks in my first

1100
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: round is none of my quarterbacks in my evaluation to

1101
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks would determine a first round grade on the

1102
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: teams that are picking, given that there's no trades all out,

1103
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: because there's also some good quarterbacks in the ether that

1104
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: could be traded from teams like I'm looking at you,

1105
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, And then what's going on with Jimmy Garoppolo yeah.

1106
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean you've really brought your analytics expertise to the

1107
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: draft when you do this, right, said yea, which is

1108
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: really cool. By the way, Great to see you, and

1109
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: I love sharing the sideline with you so we can

1110
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: again you know, but you know, you've brought your analytics

1111
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: expertise into the draft, which is super cool. I think

1112
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: it's kind of something that people really love to do

1113
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: the draft. Something people love to do the analytics, and

1114
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: they intersectory here what you don't see very often. Yeah,

1115
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: and it's cool because a lot of the things that

1116
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: we're able to do now is to look at, you know,

1117
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: what is the projected draft range for a player like

1118
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: and what you know, how does that work, Like what's

1119
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: the likelihood that player X will be available at pick

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00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: twenty five or at pick you know what in your

1121
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: second and third and fourth round. So that's kind of

1122
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: fun stuff that we can use the numbers and a

1123
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: historical model of where are the people who are after

1124
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: actually put you know, filling out the card and saying

1125
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: this is the draft pick where they were actually drafting

1126
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: in the past. So you can say, like, what's the

1127
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: chances we get this corner at twenty five or so

1128
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: we move up or down, etc. So it's what it's

1129
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: to approximate what happens really in actual teams in their

1130
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: front offices as the draft process is unfolding. I love

1131
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 1: that so many different things to think about in terms

1132
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: of how you look at the NFL draft, whether it's

1133
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: the player's production at their college level level, or whether

1134
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: it's what that team needs from a player and what

1135
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: position For the Buffalo Bills. Number twenty five, you have

1136
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: Zion Johnson being drafted by the Buffalo Bills. Tell us

1137
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: about Zion Johnson and why you think he's a good

1138
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: fit with the Bills. Well, Bills have gotten some good

1139
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: notes from Boston College people. I mean me, Matt Milano,

1140
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: Matt Milano, Matt Milano anyway. So but ultimately I think

1141
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: the value of interior offensive lineman especially, You've got to

1142
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: remember you have to compete in the most difficult conference.

1143
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: The AFC compared to the NFC is just very, very different.

1144
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: Like you could put the Bills in the NFC and

1145
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 1: we're just like, okay, well, like Super Bowl run is

1146
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: like the AFC is a gauntlet, and then you have

1147
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: to look at their schedule and you have to look

1148
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: at their opponents and what this division. So shoring up

1149
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 1: that interior offensive line is a really key place of development,

1150
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: a really key area where you've got a mobile quarterback,

1151
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: you've got all these different options that you've se what

1152
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: we've seen a very past heavy offense, especially on first down.

1153
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: So what what are you going to do to create

1154
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: the most amount of security for the offense that you

1155
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: want to run? And maybe it's not sexy to some people,

1156
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: but offensive lineman, I mean, who's they always say, like

1157
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: the tight ends the best friend of the quarterback. The

1158
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: I guess Stefan Diggs is the best friend of your quarterback.

1159
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,879
Speaker 1: But ultimately, I think you'd have to say your old

1160
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 1: line is pretty much everyone's best friend. Everyone's happy when

1161
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: you have a really good old line. So when you

1162
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: do this exercise, you don't have the quarterbacks because of

1163
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: how you explain it through analytically, But how does the

1164
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: offensive linefall overall? Like how do you view that group

1165
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: and how it pertains to the winds and the analytics

1166
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: part of it, Because it's interesting that you don't have

1167
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, but you do at least have one offensive

1168
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: lineman because you're the Bills taking one at twenty five. Yeah,

1169
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: so there's a number of good tackles and interior offensive

1170
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: lineman in his draft. You know, I have this one

1171
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: actually a little bit switched because I think Evan Neil

1172
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: is slightly ahead of Ikey. Okay, we're really just like

1173
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: splitting hairs here. But ultimately, Tyler Linderbaum, I know, a

1174
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 1: center isn't as far as positional value one of those

1175
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: things that people are like, oh, we need to go

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00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: get a center, but he is exceptional, would make a

1177
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: big difference. Kenyan Green, Zion Sehnson, and of course even

1178
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,399
Speaker 1: down to Bernard Raymond if you his Central Michigan film,

1179
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: and that's not a big school, and I understand he

1180
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: and Trevor Penny did not play the same caliber of

1181
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: offense as O, say Evan Neil at Alabama, but ultimately

1182
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: you're seeing some birth there that's really important. So this

1183
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: is a really strong O line class, and I think

1184
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: both Ikey and Neil, even Charles cross rather are going

1185
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: to be guys who are going to step in day

1186
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: one and just make a monstrous difference for their team.

1187
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: All of these guys listened on the screen right now,

1188
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: really really nice, and any team that gets someone's going

1189
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: to be happy, even if it doesn't sound so sexy

1190
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: and be like we drafted like a three hundred and

1191
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: fifty pound man. Yes you need that, Yes, do that.

1192
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: Another popular position for the Bills at number twenty five

1193
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: has been cornerback because we know Tredevius White is rehabbing

1194
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: from that ACL injury. The Bills don't have Levi Wallace anymore.

1195
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: They do have Dane Jackson, so I think he has

1196
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: some potential there. But do they bring in somebody to

1197
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: compete for that starting spot alongside Tredevious White. So we've

1198
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: seen a lot of mock drafts at also have corners,

1199
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: but you never know when the run on corners could start.

1200
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: Who knows if there's gonna be any corners available by

1201
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: the time the Buffalo Buffalo Bill's draft at number twenty five.

1202
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: So where do you see some of these top corners

1203
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: going off the board at. You know, it's funny because

1204
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: as you talk about positional value right like people say

1205
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: a quarterback, then you talk pass rush or left tackle.

1206
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: Then you talk wide receiver in corner, and those two

1207
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: things wide receiver in corner can be flipped four or

1208
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,439
Speaker 1: five for each one, which means once there's a run

1209
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: on one. So if it starts with a wide out run,

1210
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: then you can probably get more wide outs being taken

1211
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: in the first duck. You start with a mod Gardner

1212
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: or Derek Stingley too early, then you're gonna get that

1213
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: run that's coming down of these corners. Now a lot

1214
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: of these guys, Sauce Gardner is really really fun to watch.

1215
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: You look at Derek Stingley, it's it's interesting because his

1216
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen film is incredible, Like if he could have

1217
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: been drafted that year, he would be the number one

1218
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: corner take it, but it kind of fell off in

1219
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: the past two seasons, so there's some question there. Whereas

1220
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: a mod Gardner right now seems to be everyone's number one,

1221
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: I really I would probably flip maybe Andrew Booth just

1222
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: slightly ahead of Trent mcduffee. But now again we're potato potato.

1223
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: But until there's there's a pretty big line right there

1224
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: after Kayer Alam from Florida, and then you know, Roger

1225
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: McCreery goes down kind of a little bit. More so

1226
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: when I look to see, when I look to see

1227
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 1: kind of what's going on here, you could easily get

1228
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: one of these to circle those top five, those top

1229
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: five that you had on that list, and a lot

1230
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 1: of them would fit really well. Andrew Booth might be

1231
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: a nice little a nice little fit for for the

1232
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 1: Bills and what you're trying to do. And by the way,

1233
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: every team should look at the two safeties that you

1234
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: have and say, no matter what, because of that two

1235
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: safety set and the two safeties that the Bills are

1236
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: really just rolling out with, that has so much more

1237
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: value if you look to see the types of AFC

1238
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that you're going to be facing. So those two

1239
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: safety sets means that you could take a more athletic

1240
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: but more develop mental quarter met meaning a quarter that's

1241
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: more lower on that list, and they could develop really,

1242
00:59:58,040 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: really strongly. And of course that would mean you know,

1243
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: you have little asteris there because we kind of need

1244
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: that guy Tredavious White to be healthy for that to

1245
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: be the case. But if he is healthy and he

1246
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: is able to come out there, then you could roll

1247
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: with them more physically. You talked about freaks being you know,

1248
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: some Brandon being likes these traits, or you get a

1249
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: guy with good traits, it's a little more rat and

1250
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: you have those two safeties, you're in great shape. Yeah,

1251
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: and that's why a guy like Daxton Hill is also

1252
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: in the mix. I think because he's so versatile, you

1253
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: get step right in. You could kind of move them around.

1254
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: And let's let's face it, CYNTHI, the Bills are pretty

1255
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: much a ready made defense, except for maybe a question

1256
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: at that number two spot. They believe in Dane Jackson

1257
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: very much, so we'll see, you know how that plays out.

1258
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: But the Bills also love versatility and really the way

1259
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: football is played today, I asked Leslie Frasier position list,

1260
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: it's almost like positionless players on defense, which is amazing.

1261
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: The more you can do, the better off you are,

1262
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: and the more options you give teams and they're going

1263
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 1: to be attracted to that. Yeah, it's interesting because the

1264
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: position list is good. But you can't have too many

1265
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: position lists, right, Like, you have to have like a

1266
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: number that are like doing their things so that it

1267
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: all fits. Because if you go back and a really

1268
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,439
Speaker 1: good example, if you're like you're looking for too many

1269
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: position list players were taking too long. It's about learning curve,

1270
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: and you do not have a long rope to have

1271
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: a learning curve in your conference, in your division, because

1272
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: those games are all they all matter. This isn't the

1273
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: NFC people, but I'm saying, if you go watch the

1274
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense, when you see Buddha Baker along with Isaiah Simmons,

1275
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons position list, Buddha Baker exceptional and position list,

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Speaker 1: but it's taken a little bit of a time for

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Speaker 1: them to gel together. When we look at wide receivers,

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01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: everybody is saying also, the first round has a lot

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Speaker 1: of depth for wide receivers. Again, with the cornerbacks, you

1280
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: could flip those two. Like you said, maybe maybe the

1281
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: run on wide receivers starts before the run on corners.

1282
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 1: Why could Garrett Wilson out of Ohio State be the

1283
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Speaker 1: first wide receiver taken in the NFL draft. You have

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Speaker 1: the Jets selecting him with the tenth overall pick. Garrett

1285
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: Wilson is an incredible route runner. So I love the

1286
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Speaker 1: combine because who doesn't love like all these metrics. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, to me, the more

1288
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: predictive stuff, and it has bared out through the data,

1289
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: is when you see what happens when they're in pads,

1290
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: not running in straight lines and not practicing like the

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01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: drill itself, right, So when you look at Garrett Wilson,

1292
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: who is forty, is incredible. When you see him on

1293
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: the field, the speed translates, but it also translates into

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01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: crisp route running. He is where his quarterback expected him

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01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: to be, very reliably at a very high rate, in

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Speaker 1: fact the highest rate. And I will say Jamison Williams,

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Speaker 1: who's out of Alabama but tore his had an injury

1298
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: in the National Championship Game towards ACL so he is

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Speaker 1: also a very crispy route runner. But him and Garrett

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01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 1: Wilson are one and one A and Garrett Wilson, we'll

1301
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 1: be ready to go day one. Yeah, it'll be exciting

1302
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 1: to see where these wide receivers go. Garrett Wilson, Drake London,

1303
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:49,439
Speaker 1: I mean, Jamison Williams. It's interesting to watch him jump

1304
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 1: up the draftboard because a lot of people mocked him

1305
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills when some of those first mock

1306
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: drafts started to come out, And now it seems like

1307
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: he's been jumping up to like the teens, which is

1308
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: where he could go. What would you say is another

1309
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: surprising element in your mock draft that you've released. You know, look,

1310
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: first of all I want, Like I was, I was

1311
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: allowed to create a fake scenario on Paths to the draft,

1312
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: and I was like, what if we gave Josh Allen

1313
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: also Jamie fimillions, and like I'm like, this is fantasy football,

1314
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 1: Like like it's a video game at that point with

1315
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: all those different options. Yes, but I don't think he's

1316
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna be available anymore. One surprising thing for the wide

1317
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: receivers in my mock draft is probably I think I'm

1318
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: higher on Traylon Burks most. I think he got a

1319
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: little dinged at the combine because his forty time was

1320
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: a bit slow or a police they perceived it to

1321
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: be slow. And I think he's spent twenty six on

1322
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 1: this rank right here. But go watch the film on

1323
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: Traylon Burks, and he is nasty, especially in the red area.

1324
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Speaker 1: And I don't care about his four or five seven.

1325
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: I'm the analytics person telling you that his on field

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01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: speed with the pads and against the other players is

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Speaker 1: worth saying, don't worry about whatever that forty time was, Like,

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Speaker 1: just dismiss that and move on, because his actual game

1329
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: footage is really strong and he's incredibly quick and twitchy

1330
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: in the red area. Which is where you need him

1331
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: to do that to be able to break open from

1332
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Speaker 1: defenders that are trying to stop him. You see, this

1333
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,479
Speaker 1: is that sideline thing we got going on, Treylon Burks.

1334
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:18,479
Speaker 1: I'm right here with you, Cynthians. Here's the other reason

1335
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: I love what you're saying about him. I also think

1336
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: he's a great fit for what the Bills want and need.

1337
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: Right now, let's remember how this off how this offseason

1338
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: has gone for the Bills. They targeted JD. McKissick, they

1339
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: thought they had him, didn't get them. They get Duke Johnson.

1340
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: They're looking for someone to put the ball in their

1341
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: hands out of the backfield, and Traylon Burks, even though

1342
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: he's a wide receiver, he's kind of Deebo Samuel Light

1343
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: coming into the NFL. Right, you can give him the ball.

1344
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: He can do a lot of things. Six three, two

1345
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: twenty five. He's a beast. I think he fits perfectly

1346
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 1: into what the Bills want to take their offense to

1347
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: the next level. Yeah again, throw out that forty time

1348
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: because it's just it's fun. But it's not super predictive, right,

1349
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: like at all, Like very very little predictive. You to

1350
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: that Cindia. When you look at the AFC East, I mean,

1351
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills got better, but you know, the Miami

1352
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: Dolphins got a big name in Tyreek Hill. Who knows

1353
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: how this whole scenario is going to play out. Is

1354
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: it going to help Tuah? What is ta going to

1355
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: look like with some more pieces on that offense. It

1356
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 1: seems like they have something that they could put together

1357
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 1: a new coach. Still a lot of newness there in

1358
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: the AFC East with teams rebuilding, with the Jets still

1359
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 1: trying to do a rebuild. So do you think the

1360
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: Dolphins are trying to win now with Tyreek Hill or

1361
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 1: do you look at that scenario in that situation more

1362
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 1: is like maybe this is going to take a couple

1363
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,000
Speaker 1: years or this is what we need for us to

1364
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: see if Tua is the real deal at quarterback. I

1365
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: like the strategy of taking a big swing in your

1366
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: first season if you're a coach, because obviously, like Chris Greer,

1367
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: their GM has been there for a very long time

1368
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: and coach has got to come in and say, this

1369
01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: is my plan and this is what we're doing. Because

1370
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Speaker 1: you do get at least you know, typically you get

1371
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: a little bit more rope if it is your first year.

1372
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: So I don't know what will happen with Tuah. I

1373
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: can see a scenario where I mean, you got to

1374
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: turn Armstead. That's a pretty huge left tackle acquisition. You

1375
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: got Tyrene Hill, You've got a lot of pieces. You

1376
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: resigned your corner like, there's a lot of pieces there

1377
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: that would suggest a win. Now, now there are some

1378
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and some quarterbacks with familiarity that that coach might

1379
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: know Jimmy Garoppolo that if you brought him in. Remember

1380
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 1: the season doesn't start tomorrow. We got some time left.

1381
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: So I think that one's one to watch because while

1382
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: I think it's smart to take the big swing while

1383
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 1: you're in your first season, maybe he wants to win now.

1384
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: Maybe they think that that, maybe they think their best

1385
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that would be a one year flyer.

1386
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: If Jimmy Garoppolo is healthy, which seems to be the

1387
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: question mark here, you know, with that scheme familiarity, because

1388
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: we don't know with you a to the deep passing,

1389
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,200
Speaker 1: he hasn't taken many deep attempts. We don't know if

1390
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: he can really exploit the talent that they brought in

1391
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: from Tyreek Hill. Skill set. Because we haven't seen him

1392
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: do it doesn't mean he can't. We just haven't seen it.

1393
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: The resume reel, the highlight reel does not show that.

1394
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,160
Speaker 1: So I'm I don't know, I'm interested to see. I'm look,

1395
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 1: I'll give to a credit for being an adult because

1396
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: his career has started off in a wonky way and

1397
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 1: he's been seems to be handling it well. But if

1398
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: they decide they want to win now and not give

1399
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 1: to any rope, they could easily go out there, grab

1400
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo and you know, try to that might be

1401
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 1: the best chance they have to do that if they

1402
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: think twenty twenty two is this season. I think a

1403
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:27,480
Speaker 1: lot of people think the Dolphins have surpassed the Patriots.

1404
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 1: Maybe the Patriots now seems like they've kind of target

1405
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: some guys they don't get them right. I mean, it's

1406
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 1: different now without Tom Brady, the way they seemed to

1407
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 1: try to operate here, and we saw what the Bills

1408
01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: did to them here in the wildcard game, just behind

1409
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: where we're sitting here in Orchard Park. What about the

1410
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 1: Patriots and where they are right now, the development of

1411
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: Mac Jones, it seems like they're still searching for and

1412
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: even though they got Davonte Parker, maybe need more weapons

1413
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 1: to add to that offense. Yeah, that's that didn't like

1414
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,439
Speaker 1: impress me. I was like, right, why are you letting

1415
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 1: jac Jackson go? Like what's that about? Like jac Jackson's awesome,

1416
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,439
Speaker 1: Like what are you doing with that? But I think

1417
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots are, you know, like you have to give

1418
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: them the benefit of the doubt because they have managed

1419
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 1: to exceed our expectations. Right, I don't know what's going

1420
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: on with their defense. There's a lot of pieces that

1421
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,280
Speaker 1: are left unsigned, and there are only so many draft picks,

1422
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: and by the way, draft picks don't always pan out,

1423
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: so I'm not entirely sure what to expect from them.

1424
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: Yet it does not seem like like they are not

1425
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 1: this scary threat, Like if I are in the a

1426
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:25,840
Speaker 1: FCUS and it's like, Okay, which team didn't get better?

1427
01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 1: You know, like all the SCUS teams, Like I think

1428
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:30,719
Speaker 1: the Chiefs should be worried because every other AFCUS team

1429
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: just got so much better. But I'm not worried about

1430
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: them in that same way because when you look to

1431
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 1: see mac Jones will need now you know, he had

1432
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: some benefits to having Josh McDaniel teach him what to do.

1433
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: He's not there anymore. Who is Bill Belichick gonna come

1434
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 1: and suddenly become this offensive guru and like figure this out?

1435
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 1: Like I know he's a great guru, don't get me wrong,

1436
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 1: but it's I have known him to be more of

1437
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:56,720
Speaker 1: a you know, an actual head coach, not sitting there

1438
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:59,679
Speaker 1: sitting in the quarterback room hammering Mac Jones on what's

1439
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: going on. Right, So it's going to be interesting to

1440
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: see how it pans out. But you can you gotta

1441
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 1: give respect or respect is due, and he's obviously the coach,

1442
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,840
Speaker 1: so that is that. You can never you can never

1443
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 1: underestimate a Bill Belichick led team. But the pieces do

1444
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 1: not suggest something that's scary, and especially with a wide

1445
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 1: receiver situation being what it is, I'm not their wide

1446
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 1: receivers don't inspire fear. And again, it is a long

1447
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 1: free agency process, so there are still some names out

1448
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:30,639
Speaker 1: that they could go grab, but right now I don't.

1449
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: I'm confused at what I'm looking at. Let's round it

1450
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: out with the Jets. I mean, they have the fourth

1451
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 1: overall pick and the tenth overall pick in the first round.

1452
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: In the NFL draft, they can get two really good

1453
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 1: players who do make an impact in their first feard.

1454
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 1: Now you said, you know, draft picks don't always pan out,

1455
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: but you would hope that first round picks pan out,

1456
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 1: especially first round picks who are in those top ten

1457
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: that top ten number. There. How many drafts are the

1458
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: Jets away from actually being able to compete and putting

1459
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 1: something together. McKay Beckton is another name who's drafted very high,

1460
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: who should maybe be healthy and have an impact on

1461
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 1: that team. Where where do the Jets sit in all

1462
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: of this and will they ever be able to compete?

1463
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 1: The biggest question mark I have for the Jets right

1464
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: now is all about their quarterback, because you took a

1465
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 1: big swing on a guy last season, and whether or

1466
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: not the big ticket McKay Beckton, it's a great nickname,

1467
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 1: by the way, whether or not Kai Beckton is healthy,

1468
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 1: whether or not you know all these are they gonna

1469
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: get one of these top wide receivers. Are they gonna

1470
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,639
Speaker 1: they need corners, They need receivers. There's a number of things.

1471
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: Their defensive front is probably the strength of their team,

1472
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: so they maybe don't need that, but they could always

1473
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:43,479
Speaker 1: add a pass rusher because you always need to. But

1474
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 1: ultimately they have some options with the created what they've

1475
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: created with their draft equity, and they did do a

1476
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: nice job of drafting last season, but in their later rounds,

1477
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: like they got Michael Carter for what felt like a

1478
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 1: steel great, that's a running back there. It's not high

1479
01:10:56,840 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: positional value. But you gotta figure out Zach Wilson. All

1480
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 1: rest on the arm of their quarterback. Is he going

1481
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: to pan out or is this not going to be

1482
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: something that was the right selection that there's no position

1483
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: that matters more. There's no position that has more value,

1484
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: and it's the one that if you get it wrong,

1485
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 1: it will punish you the most. So in my the

1486
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 1: sure draft all the other ancillary players you want and

1487
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 1: set this guy up for success. But at the end

1488
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: of the day, is Zach Wilson going to be a

1489
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: top pick or is it not the right direction? And

1490
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: do they have to start again? Because that takes a

1491
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: long time to recreate all of the team, to make

1492
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 1: all of these college players coming into the NFL work

1493
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:40,760
Speaker 1: a new quarterback takes a long time. You get they're

1494
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: not plug and play. We all know that. You know

1495
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: there's development, there's surrounding the right pieces that it's an

1496
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,760
Speaker 1: entire strategy, right, So, I don't know if I don't

1497
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: know what happens with Zach Wilson. I saw a lot

1498
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: of injuries, and now we gotta gotta see what I

1499
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 1: think we'll get a better chance to see what are

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01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 1: we looking at this season? Yeah? How many years does

1501
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: it take to for the Jets to truly understand, Okay,

1502
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,720
Speaker 1: this is what we have in Zach Wilson. Is it

1503
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: gonna be two more years, is it going to be

1504
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 1: three years? What type of peak do we get at

1505
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson this season? Hopefully the Jets start to know

1506
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:15,719
Speaker 1: what type of quarterback he is in the twenty twenty

1507
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 1: two season. But Cynthia's thank you so much for joining

1508
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: us here on One Bill's Live Today. Always love your

1509
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 1: draft insight and what you have to say, whether it

1510
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: be with the AFC East or the AFC as a

1511
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 1: whole um much appreciated. If I were, thank you so

1512
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: much for having me. But if I were man like,

1513
01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is smart to come back to the NFC

1514
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: this season, especially with Devon and Adams no longer in

1515
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 1: Green Bay. He's like, Okay, I just have to get

1516
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 1: through the rams, which is a big deal because they

1517
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:46,839
Speaker 1: just want a super Bowl. But like other than that, Okay,

1518
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: maybe Aaron Rodgers, right, that's it, that's it, I mean,

1519
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 1: but Aaron Rodgers right, that's right. It's incredible the way

1520
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: this whole thing has changed. But hey, we're in a

1521
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:58,920
Speaker 1: good spot here. For how many For many many years, Cynthia,

1522
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 1: we sat here thinking about quarterback quarterback every single year.

1523
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: We do not have to worry about that here in

1524
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo anymore. Nope, nope, you got the quarterback. It makes

1525
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: your life a lot easier when you get quarterback. Right,

1526
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,920
Speaker 1: Tell every other team that they know, go get the

1527
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: right quarterback. Make them look like Josh Allen. Maybe that's

1528
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 1: not possible for every team, but I'm sure that's what

1529
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: every team is looking for, is a QB like Josh Allen,

1530
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:25,680
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, the group that is

1531
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: the new QB AFC. All right, thanks by guy Heavy

1532
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: Draft Week. Yes, yes you too, you too? All right?

1533
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 1: That's Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network. She's an analytics expert

1534
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: with NFL Network. Love reading her stuff, Love reading the

1535
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: models that she puts together. How her and her team

1536
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: can think about so many different things and have it

1537
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 1: come together in a digestible piece or article for people

1538
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 1: and fans to read. We're talking about and she's talking

1539
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: about how the Patriots have this whole thing going out

1540
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: of their coaching staff, like who's calling the plays? What's

1541
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 1: Belichick doing right? And look, I've said before, and I

1542
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: know it sounds, you know, like I'm crazy pants to

1543
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:11,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people, because you know, you bring it

1544
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:12,640
Speaker 1: up and you think I'm not. I'm not saying that

1545
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's a horrible coach by no. By no means

1546
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 1: he's the most accomplished coach in NFL history. But I

1547
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: do think it's worth pointing out one of my favorite

1548
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: stats that I came across that after doing some research,

1549
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,599
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick without Tom Brady's a starting quarterbacks coach one

1550
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:29,679
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty games, He's seventy one and seventy nine.

1551
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 1: Do you know this exact same record as the Miami

1552
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 1: Dolphins over the LAS one hundred and fifty games seventy

1553
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 1: one and seventy nine. Miami Dolphins over the LAS one

1554
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty regular season games is seventy one or

1555
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 1: seventy one and seventy nine. Bill Belichick throughout his career

1556
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:45,479
Speaker 1: without Tom Brady is seventy one and seventy nine. That

1557
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: is very interesting. It's been really weird to watch the

1558
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: Patriots this offseason. I mean, they they they threw all

1559
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:57,599
Speaker 1: the money at free agency last year and they've been

1560
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:00,600
Speaker 1: pretty quiet this year. Probably be because they don't have

1561
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 1: all the money to spend like they did last year.

1562
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: But who knows what the Patriots will look like this season.

1563
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: The AFC East a lot of questions. There not a

1564
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:12,400
Speaker 1: lot of questions for the Buffalo Bills. We are sitting

1565
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:14,960
Speaker 1: pretty as we look at all the other teams. Break

1566
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 1: time for us. Don't go anywhere. One Bills Live will

1567
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 1: be right back. We are presented by Kalidah Health on

1568
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:36,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. We're back here on One Bills Live.

1569
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,879
Speaker 1: Mattie glab and Sal Capaccio. We've got our Twitter question

1570
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:43,679
Speaker 1: of the day. It's which offensive player do you want

1571
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 1: to break out in twenty twenty two for the Buffalo Bills.

1572
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,360
Speaker 1: We talked about defensive players we wanted to see have

1573
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: a great season this year, but we haven't talked offensive

1574
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 1: players yet. This week, Sal, is there anybody that's at

1575
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 1: the top of your list, and why are they there? Yeah, Actually,

1576
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many options here, and we've gotten

1577
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 1: a lot of great responses on Twitter for people who

1578
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: want to say, you know, I mean, you can go

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01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: down the list right. Somebody called him and said, Gabe

1580
01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: Davis hasn't had that breakout year, Isaam McKenzie could have

1581
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 1: a breakout year if you want to go wide receiver.

1582
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:17,680
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. I thought he had a really nice, you know,

1583
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: back end, but I'm gonna go with the big guys

1584
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,600
Speaker 1: up front because I think after what we saw in

1585
01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: year one where we saw some potential, if they can

1586
01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: get a breakout year from Spencer Brown at right tackle,

1587
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: I think that would be amazing for this offense. I

1588
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: think we'd open up a lot of options and be

1589
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 1: comfortable with knowing that you have two if you want

1590
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 1: maybe franchise tackles going forward in a left tackle and

1591
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 1: Deon Dawkins and a right tackle and Spencer Brown, And

1592
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 1: even if he's not quite to the level of Deon Dawkins,

1593
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: if he could just become solid and every day reliable,

1594
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 1: because I think he had some struggles in the playoffs

1595
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 1: a bit. I think, you know, once he faced some

1596
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 1: teams that had a little bit more talent, once he

1597
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 1: faced some teams that you know saw him on film

1598
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, it was a bit of a struggle

1599
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,759
Speaker 1: at times for him. He still he still handled himself

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01:16:57,760 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: well throughout most of the year. But if you can

1601
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 1: at Spencer Brown on the right side to be consistent

1602
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 1: and I play to play game to game basis, I

1603
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 1: think that would be a huge, huge benefit for this team.

1604
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: I'd love to see him have a breakout year. Yeah,

1605
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 1: he was asked to do a lot in his rookie year,

1606
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 1: and I don't know if I mean you're expecting that,

1607
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 1: but that's kind of just how the chips fell for

1608
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's offensive line, Spencer Brown was asked to

1609
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 1: step up, and he did in a lot of different ways.

1610
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:26,800
Speaker 1: I think it was great that he did get that

1611
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: opportunity in his rookie season because it just means that

1612
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 1: he can get better more quickly rather than sitting on

1613
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: the bench his rookie year and really having his first

1614
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:38,679
Speaker 1: year of play in his second season as an NFL player,

1615
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:41,200
Speaker 1: I think that's going to help him. My name is

1616
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:43,439
Speaker 1: a guy that I am a huge fan of. And

1617
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: would have hate to have seen him gone to another

1618
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: team this season because he was a free agent. Isaiah McKenzie,

1619
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. He is a ball of energy and

1620
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: such a joy to be around. He does a lot

1621
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 1: of stuff with us on the meeting a side of

1622
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: things and is always happy to do a lot of

1623
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:04,639
Speaker 1: things with us. He's actually going to be a part

1624
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 1: of the embedded one of the embedded episodes that we

1625
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: have coming out. So excited to see what that's gonna

1626
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: look like. Guys like Gabriel Davis and Devin Singletary are

1627
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: going to be a part of that episode, so keep

1628
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 1: your eyes out for that. But I want Isaiah McKenzie

1629
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:22,640
Speaker 1: to have a breakout season. He surely has had a

1630
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: few breakout games where he has had a big impact

1631
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 1: and is a big reason why the Bills won some

1632
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 1: games last year. But I want to see him put

1633
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: it together, just like I said with aj Epenessa, I

1634
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:36,559
Speaker 1: want to see him be consistent in twenty twenty two,

1635
01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 1: string together multiple games, string together a season where he

1636
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: is an important piece to the offense. I mean, Cole

1637
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,640
Speaker 1: Beasley is not on the team anymore. You need a

1638
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 1: slot receiver. Janison Crowder is also on the roster. Who's

1639
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 1: going to play that role there? Are they gonna split time?

1640
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be one guy over another. I'm sure

1641
01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,840
Speaker 1: we'll see that reveal itself during training camp when the

1642
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:03,800
Speaker 1: competition heats up. But I think he's somebody who could

1643
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 1: be that new security blanket for Josh Allen. You need

1644
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 1: a slot receiver who can produce in this offense. For

1645
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen to do Josh Allen things where he airs

1646
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: the ball out where he finds guys like Stefan Diggs

1647
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:19,879
Speaker 1: and Gabriel Davis. You need an Isaiah McKenzie at Jamison

1648
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: Crowder in your offense who can be that dump off

1649
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 1: target like I've talked about with some of the running

1650
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:27,719
Speaker 1: backs in the offense as well. I think slot receiver

1651
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:30,559
Speaker 1: is super important to the Bill's offense. I think Isaiah

1652
01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 1: McKenzie can be that answer there. He had a couple

1653
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: of really good games in twenty twenty and twenty nineteen

1654
01:19:36,479 --> 01:19:39,840
Speaker 1: when he was given that opportunity. He wasn't given that

1655
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:42,680
Speaker 1: opportunity at every single game, but maybe this year he

1656
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: does get more of those opportunities where he can prove that, hey,

1657
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:49,559
Speaker 1: you want me here in this slot receiver role because

1658
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: I can catch the ball, I have really good twitch,

1659
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:56,839
Speaker 1: I'm a good route runner, and I have elite speed.

1660
01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:59,760
Speaker 1: He is a fast receiver. Yeah. He had a really

1661
01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: nice game last year filling in for Cole Beasley the

1662
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,200
Speaker 1: day after Christmas in New England. He obviously had that

1663
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: monster game where he just is all over the fieldmaking

1664
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: catches left and right, acrobatics, circus catches, doing a great job.

1665
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 1: We know they liked him. Use him in the run

1666
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:13,879
Speaker 1: game sometime. He's a returner. He had a nice playoff

1667
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 1: as well. What here's another reason why to piggyback of you.

1668
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it as well. I'd love it Frisaiah.

1669
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: I think Isaiah would. He's taken the road less traveled,

1670
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: let's say in the NFL, right, And I think it

1671
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:28,080
Speaker 1: every time. He said to kind of fight for his spot,

1672
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 1: fight for a new contract, fight to be on a roster,

1673
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: fight to stay get back in the lineup. Remember last

1674
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: year he wasn't in the line up for a while.

1675
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: He was he had a healthy scratch essentially after the

1676
01:20:36,439 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 1: fumble against the Colts. He earned his way back into

1677
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:41,439
Speaker 1: the lineup. He did great things for this team. He

1678
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:44,120
Speaker 1: signs back on not a one year deal, a two

1679
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 1: year deal, which I like to see that. I think

1680
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 1: the means the team is showing a little faith in him.

1681
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:49,679
Speaker 1: He's saying, I want to be in Buffalo. I would

1682
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:52,720
Speaker 1: like it Forrisaiah McKenzie. And he brings energy, he brings juice,

1683
01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 1: he brings entertainment. Every locker room needs a guy like

1684
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie, right, I mean every locker room needs someone

1685
01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 1: who's going to keep it a little bit light, who's

1686
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:03,759
Speaker 1: gonna be entertaining, who's gonna keep guys on their toes.

1687
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:05,880
Speaker 1: And we know he's a professional how he goes about

1688
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: his business as well. Yeah, he definitely is so fun

1689
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:11,800
Speaker 1: to be around. He's one of the louder players on

1690
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 1: the team. I talked about Tredavious White yesterday. I could

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01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,559
Speaker 1: hear him yelling down the hallway, a happy yell. Of course,

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01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:20,719
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie is like that, and he's an important piece

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01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 1: to the locker room. I think he adds a lot

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01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: to the culture. Let's get into the tweet sheet, see

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01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: who some of our fans think they want to have

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01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: a breakout season on offense in twenty twenty two. Our

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet is brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems,

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01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:37,880
Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. And

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Speaker 1: we'll go with our first answer from Justin. He says Motor,

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01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:45,040
Speaker 1: he can be fantastic behind a solid OH line. We

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01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:48,679
Speaker 1: saw Motor breakout last season in a couple of games,

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01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: maybe not truly have a breakout season. So I think

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01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: that's why Motor is a good answer here. When that

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01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: offensive line started to have some consistency last year, Devin

1705
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,720
Speaker 1: Singletary's no numbers went up. And I've talked about this

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01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: before on the show, but when you look at rushing yards,

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01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 1: the numbers of rushing yards for teams, I think in

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01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 1: weeks fourteen through eighteen last season, the Bills I want

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01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 1: to say, were number two or at least top three

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01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:18,799
Speaker 1: in terms of rushing yards per game what they were averaging.

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Speaker 1: And Devin Singletary was a big reason why the Bills

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01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 1: saw some success in their rushing offense. Yeah, last year,

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01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, it really started at

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01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: the halftime of the Tampa Bay game. They come out,

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01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,040
Speaker 1: they were down big. Obviously, they had a huge comeback

1716
01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: and seemed like the team really kind of focused on

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01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: making Devin Singletary even done. Sean McDermot doesn't like to

1718
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:38,679
Speaker 1: say a lead back or number one back. He obviously

1719
01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:40,719
Speaker 1: took over the backfield of the main role. You know, however,

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01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 1: you want to terminology that you want to use there,

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01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: and I think that that could be something that could

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01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:49,000
Speaker 1: springboard him into his season here. And look, he's also

1723
01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 1: he's a guy we talked earlier, he's going into the

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01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:52,479
Speaker 1: final year of his contract. He'd loved to put up

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01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: a really nice season as well, because he'd like to

1726
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: get to that second contract is the last year of

1727
01:22:57,120 --> 01:22:59,320
Speaker 1: his rookie contract. You know, whether that's what Buffalo or

1728
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:01,599
Speaker 1: someone else what He's gonna want to put as much

1729
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,200
Speaker 1: as he can on film as well. He wants to win,

1730
01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that, but he knows that this

1731
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:07,720
Speaker 1: is a big year for his career as well. I

1732
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: think he had a touchdown in like six straight or

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01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 1: five straight games. He had a touchdown. His final four

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01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:16,719
Speaker 1: weeks of the regular season in twenty twenty one looked

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01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:19,599
Speaker 1: like this. Eighty six rushing yards, thirty nine rushing yards,

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01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten rushing yards, eighty eight rushing yards.

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01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:26,639
Speaker 1: So definitely putting together good numbers there as they ended

1738
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:30,640
Speaker 1: the regular season in twenty twenty one, Andrew says he

1739
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:34,679
Speaker 1: wants to see a full season of playoff Gabe Davis

1740
01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 1: also see more productive pressure from the d line, So,

1741
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 1: adding on to yesterday's conversation, but a second person who

1742
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:45,800
Speaker 1: wants to see Gabe Davis have a breakout season four

1743
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: touchdowns in that one playoff game, I'm sure we would

1744
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:52,839
Speaker 1: love to see that from Gabriel Davis throughout an entire season.

1745
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: I definitely think he's gonna get an uptick in his

1746
01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 1: role this year based on what we saw from him

1747
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 1: to end the twenty twenty one year, wouldn't you say

1748
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:04,679
Speaker 1: so as well? No doubt about it. And I think,

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01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:06,600
Speaker 1: you know, with the loss of Emmanuel Sanders, well I

1750
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 1: shouldn't say that. We don't know what Immanuel Sands is

1751
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:09,760
Speaker 1: doing it, but it doesn't appear he's gonna be on

1752
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,640
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, but he obviously hasn't signed anywhere. We

1753
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna still play football, but it

1754
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 1: appears as though it's going to be you know, Steven

1755
01:24:16,439 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 1: Days and Gabriel Davis as the one two punch outside

1756
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: if you will, that's going to give Gabriel Davis a

1757
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:25,599
Speaker 1: more opportunity. Yes, when he played, he was very good.

1758
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:27,200
Speaker 1: You go back to even the year before that, the

1759
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,920
Speaker 1: year before that, in twenty twenty, Gabriel Davis had a

1760
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: similar breakout second half. It didn't translate into a whole

1761
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but the same kind of thing happened

1762
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:38,560
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. He was sharing time with m

1763
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders. And look, I also say I think Gabriel

1764
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: Davis was suffering a little bit from that ankle injury

1765
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: early on. I don't. I think. I think there's no

1766
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: doubt that as the season went on, it probably hampered

1767
01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:48,920
Speaker 1: him more than what we knew, right, And as he

1768
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: got healthy, as he went out there, as the second

1769
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:54,679
Speaker 1: half went on, you could see that his explosiveness became

1770
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 1: more of an issue more, it benefited it more. You

1771
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: could see that coming out a little bit more. And

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01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 1: his route running what we saw and again do against

1773
01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City and some of those routes were remaining. Oh

1774
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,599
Speaker 1: my gosh. Yeah, I think he has such a high ceiling,

1775
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: Like we talk about with Josh Allen, I think he

1776
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:09,880
Speaker 1: has such a high ceiling at the NFL level. We'll

1777
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:12,760
Speaker 1: read one more before we go to break. Rick says,

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01:25:12,840 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 1: I hope after this year Knox is held in the

1779
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: upper echelon of tight ends. Do we think Dawson Knox

1780
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: had a breakout year last year? Do you think this

1781
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 1: year could be even more? Well, look, I think you

1782
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 1: had a breakout year last year. But if you want

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01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 1: to add more and say, like, yeah, he can go,

1784
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: he can go to the next level, I'd love to

1785
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 1: see it. Dawson is still growing. Dawson Knox is a

1786
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: player who came into this league incredibly raw. Let's remember

1787
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 1: he went to college as a quarterback. He did not

1788
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: even switch positions until first or second year in college.

1789
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:43,000
Speaker 1: And on top of that, when he comes out of college,

1790
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:46,120
Speaker 1: you know he goes to Mississippi. He has remember A J.

1791
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 1: Brown and DK Metcalf on the same team taking balls. Yeah,

1792
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: he didn't have a huge body of work when you

1793
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: look at his stats at Old Miss, but he has

1794
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:55,640
Speaker 1: that makeup. He's six to four, he's two hundred and

1795
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:58,439
Speaker 1: fifty four pounds. He's what you dream of for an

1796
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: NFL tight end in terms of what they look like.

1797
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:05,160
Speaker 1: And last year we know he's talked about almost every

1798
01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 1: off season. The hand eye coordination has been so big

1799
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: for him, and I think he's really really worked on

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01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 1: that and taking it to the next level this season.

1801
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:18,680
Speaker 1: We saw what happens this season, who knows. I mean

1802
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 1: when we were doing locker room clean out day, which

1803
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: is one of my least favorite days because all the

1804
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:27,680
Speaker 1: guys are in terrible moods for great reason, and a

1805
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: lot of us were as well, because it means the

1806
01:26:29,479 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 1: Bills season is over and the guys are going home

1807
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: for the off season. I asked Dawson Knox what he

1808
01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 1: was going to do in the off season, you know,

1809
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 1: what's the plan to take your game to the next level,

1810
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 1: And he said he was going to do much of

1811
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: the same like he did the previous offseason because he

1812
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: thought that paid off for him. And I think it

1813
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:46,920
Speaker 1: really paid off for him in terms of how he

1814
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 1: produced and how he helped the offense. In twenty twenty one,

1815
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: four years at ole Miss, only thirty nine catches. He

1816
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 1: did not catch a pass until his junior year at

1817
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 1: ole Miss, and then last year, I would say, yes,

1818
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: a breakout year. Forty nine catches, five or eighty seven

1819
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 1: yards and nine touchdowns down, But there's still more there

1820
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:04,960
Speaker 1: with Dawson Knox. I think for a lot more. There's

1821
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:07,000
Speaker 1: more in the tank and it could look really cool

1822
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,720
Speaker 1: next to O Jay Howard, some twelve personnel like we

1823
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 1: talked about earlier in the show. Don't go anywhere. We're

1824
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 1: gonna be right back, So stick with us here on

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01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. We're presented by Kalidah Health on Buffalo

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01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. We're back here on One Bills Live. Thanks

1827
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: for hanging out with us throughout the week. We appreciate

1828
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:33,559
Speaker 1: the calls, the tweets, all of that. One more day

1829
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 1: of Maddie and Sal tomorrow Thursday, one to three. You

1830
01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:42,679
Speaker 1: can catch us here. We had our Twitter question of

1831
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: who on offense do we want to have a breakout season.

1832
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 1: I said that I wanted Isaiah McKenzie to have a

1833
01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: breakout season. You said, Spencer Brown. We saw some Gabe

1834
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 1: Davis answers, We saw some Devin Single, Terry O J. Howard.

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01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 1: You know who I think is a sneaking who? Cody four? Yeah?

1836
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 1: I like it. What's the potential there with Cody Ford?

1837
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:08,920
Speaker 1: Does he get some opportunity in training camp? Does he

1838
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 1: earn his way into receiving some reps, whether it be

1839
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:17,160
Speaker 1: starting or coming in to fill in for somebody during

1840
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:19,600
Speaker 1: the season. I think the story on him is not

1841
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 1: finished yet. I'm interested interested to see what Cody Ford

1842
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: does this year with a new offensive line coach, and

1843
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: I think that's the key. I think Aaron Kromer is

1844
01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:31,719
Speaker 1: a guy that could really tap into him. So obviously

1845
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: it hasn't gone as well as everybody would hope for

1846
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: Cody Ford when he was made a second round pick

1847
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 1: just a few years ago. When he's going to the

1848
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:39,599
Speaker 1: final year of his rookie contract, he's still on the roster,

1849
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:41,760
Speaker 1: and I think this team really wants to see if

1850
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:43,240
Speaker 1: it can work and wants it to work with Aaron

1851
01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:46,560
Speaker 1: Kromer obviously hopefully putting him in the right position. Yeah,

1852
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:49,559
Speaker 1: really interesting to see what Aaron Kromler will do to

1853
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line, how he can help what it looks

1854
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:56,559
Speaker 1: like in this twenty twenty two season. That is a

1855
01:28:56,560 --> 01:29:00,559
Speaker 1: couple months away, almost right around the corner, as the

1856
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 1: guys come back for voluntary workouts, We're seeing a bunch

1857
01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: of guys work out together. That's been fun. Shack Lawson

1858
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:10,320
Speaker 1: and Dion Dawkins are working out together in Florida, per

1859
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:13,599
Speaker 1: their Instagram. We'll see you guys tomorrow back here on

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01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: one Bills Live